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Bishop Wright Insists . . .

Papacy: Social Issues Pioneer NEW YORK (NC)-Through its encyclical, the papacy has been "away out ahead" of the United States on the problems of labor, social questions and peace and war, and, as regards the defense of life and the contraception argument, he believes "they're ahead of us on this too," the National Catholic Office for Bishop John J. Wright of Radio and Television.

Newsmen who put the quesPittsburgh said in a nation-

ally televised interview with tions noted that Bishop Wright _ had a leading role in the preparnewsmen.

Bishop Wright spoke on ation of the ,pastoral letter "Hu.:.

Guideline, a program produced man Life in Our Day," issued by by the National Broadcasting the bishops of the U.S. last NoCompany, in cooperation with Turn to Page Two

Sees End of Catholic Schools in Five Years Unless Major Changes Made Is Catholic education facing extinction?

Unless some changes are made, says R t. Rev. Msgr. John A. Lynch, superinteiHlent of schools of the Burlington, Vt.,·Diocese and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Catholic Educational Association, "I would say five years from now, we couldn't survive." be a critical problem. But this Msgr. Lynch sees three should not take precedence' over primary problems facing the the individual."

Catholic school systemmoney, personnel and philosophy.

He touches on a modern problem first.

"Before Vatican II," he says, "institutions took precedence, We were supposed to sacrifice personal interests for the good of' the institution. Then along came Vatican II that said the individual comes first." .

Since then, he says, many nuns have started taking a new look at ,their vocations.

"They are facing very human problems and the women making these decisions-to leaVe teaching, to leave the convent -are not making them lightly."

As religious leave the teaching field "it poses some very real problems" to school administrators, he admits. "It could well

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Man does not build a better world by plunging into the future with only blind enthusiasm and a frenzied passion to overthrow everything for the sake of change, Pope Paul VI told a general audience.

He said today's generation seems to be "inebriated" by what it mistakenly considers to be progress "and indeed

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collaborates in it with force and enthusiasm, and often without any reserve."

"The past is forgotten, tradition interrupted and habits are abandoned," he said.

There are cases where it is necessary that there be a steady and measured approach in making some transformations, the Pope remarked. But such action is often met with impatience and intolerance, he said.

"And so there is always talk of revolution, and 'protest' is raised in every field, and often neither its moti ve' nor its purpose is justified."

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BISHOP ISSENMANN

WASHINGTON (NC)-Catholic school officials have made plain in a variety of ways they're not kidding when they warn that financial problems may force a widespread shut-down of the nation's parochial schools. There was a time not too long ago when this was seen in some quar- former Catholic school students. ters as an idle boast, aimed Take Illinois for example. A at scaring up some extra recent survey taken among money for a school system Catholic school superintendents that was essentially solvent. But no longer.

A significant number of state . legislators and public school officials have recently shown they take the threat seriously, and have little stomach for the prospect of the nation's public school systems swamped by hordes of

Praises Prudence and 'Courtesy Of Cleueland Police Demeanor

CLEVELAND (NC)-Two Catholic priests were arrested on trespassing charges here after they said an unauthorized Mass in St. John's cathedral, during which they accused Bishop Clarence G. Issenmann of Cleveland of "white racism" and poor administration of the diocese. Arrested were Fathers Bernard Meyer, 31, and Robert Begin, 30, both assistant pastors in the The two priests entered the celebrate their own Mass despite Cleveland diocese, with rec- cathedral shortly before the reg- the protests of Msgr. Francis W. ords of involvement in civil ullirly scheduled 12:30 Sunday Carney of the cathedral. rights and anti-war causes. Mass,yctbmpanied by about 70 Meanwhile, several plainFather Begin is the nephew of Bishop Floyd L. ~egin of Oakland, Calif.

Bishop Issenmann suspended both priests.

Then Msgr. Lynch cites what he feels are the biggest problems to be faced by the -Catholic school system: 1. "Financial resources. I feel we have taxed our people beyond their limit. In Burlington. parishes are spending 50, 60, 85 per cent of their income on parish schools. The Diocese can't help-any Diocese has only what money it takes out of parishes, so it comes in effect out of the same pocketbook." .

2. "Staff is the second problem. A number of sisters today are at least leaving the school system, some are leaving the convent altogether. This is a drain. Concomitantly, we are realizing that Sisters must be paid, too. The day is coming Turn to Page Two

meml5ers of a newly formed organization called Christians Who Care, (CWC), an amalgam of local peace and civil rights groups.

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in the six dioceses of the state found financial problems have forced· the closing of nearly 30 elementary schools and two high schools during the past three years.

At least four more grade and high schools will shult their doors in the next six months, and numerous grade and high schools are in critical financial straits, the superintendents said.

Then there's Missouri. Thc state's Catholic bishops greeted the new year with a soft-spoken but clear warning that Catholic schools can·t go on much longer without help from th~ state.

"The effect of a widespread cutback in education on the part of private agencies is apparent," the bishops said, but they spelled it out anyway. , "As the contribution of the priva.te agency is lost, tax money would be consumed in accepting transfers; public school programs would be crippled; tax moneys for other needs in health and welfare would not be available. The alternative to this is excessive tax increases which Turn to Page Three

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Members of the deacon class who will serve in the Diocese of Fall River ~ill be ordained to the Priesthood by Bishop Connolly at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, May 3 in St. Mary's Cathedral, n;'all River.

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Major Chang1es Necessary

Continued from Page One less "a 'way is found to bring when Sisters 'will have to be . public monies into private Necrology paid on the same scale as a lay schools." teacher."

The problem of continuing the FEB. 9 . 3. "The . complexity of the ·parochial . school systems today Rt. Rev. John J. Kelly, 1963, whole .educational process. To- no lo.nger "is a Catholic problem Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul~ Fall \ day, millions, perhaps billions, -it· is a community one." , GUIDELINE: Bishop John J. Wright of' Pittsburgh (hand on River. are being spent in research on· }'inancially, he says, ".there is .the learning process. This is ·a· limit and I .think we have 'breast), was interviewed on NBC~TV's Guideline program, naFEB. 10 tionally televised. Questioning Bishop Wright is Ralph McGill bound to be reflected in time in· reached the limit."

Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, 1966, (right, back to .camera). NC Photo. all school budgets, public and.

During the last several years, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield. private." enrollment in Catholic schools Msgr. Lynch notes that the has declined.

FEB. 11 United States is the onty nation "In oraer to redu~e class' size Rev. John O'Connell, 1910, in history to declare "every without constructing new bupdContinued' from Page One Wright said he thought that "in Founder, St. John Evangelist, child has a right to equal edu- ings we obviously have had to vember, and the'y asked ques- the case of some, they were dis- Attleboro. cational opportunities-that ,this take in fewer students," he says. tions which tied in with it-on senting to the whole concept of Rev. John J. Sullivan, S.T.L., is not a parental, but Ii social In addition, because of the dissent, contraception, consci- Church. teaching authority.

1961, Lately Pastor, Holy Rosary, responsibility.... limited enrollments possible in _ enti-ous objection and draft, war "I think they were dissenting Fall River.

If the three factors he cited existing school structures, "there and peace. :not only 'on the grounds of their as ~he major problems facing i:; less preaching from the pulpit When one newsman observed testimonY from the field of deCatholic education tod'ay "were these days about the 'obligation' that we have been "deeply inmography and the field of socito remain static, I would say five of parents to send ,their children volved' in Vietnam for five (llogy and from certain cultural Day ·of P'rayer years .,fromrnow we'd be 'out of.' to ~atholico, ,s~hqols .~.b~cause. years," and it w,as, only last Noattitudes with regard to the fambusiness." . there isn't room for every Cath- ·vember;·.'th·at' the ·U:S. bishops.' BY,but.· for .soine, ·'at home· and . ,Feb. 2 - ~oly Name, New ,,' . ~·B~~ .. none. ,~ill s.t~y ~he ·same " d~l~c c.hi~d._~~ \~_ ~es,:,~t,.ina,;~ .p~~-:!, conimented on consCientious obabroad" the· dissent·· was. very:' Bedford: -one or all are gomg to change' ents' are -·sendmg .their children ' 'je·ction.:'16 'serving iii' ~his'war, ". profoundly theological. '." ,', ..

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-and what the resultant mix- to public schools:" ,'Bishop'Wright' said. , ' . ., "I-don't think it, was bound up . 8t. Anthony's Convent, ture will be, no one knows." . Money is the key question to "'1 knqw it.' I think it's late, With contr,aceptionall by' itFall River.

He feels Catholic educators- survival, he feels-at least on a' too.' Peace~'has been my 'thing' self and as a narrow issue, any Feb. 9-0ur Lady of Fatima, as citizens-should "not hide our .temporary basis. for 30 years." more than I think that the Swansea. problems, since they could affect If)t'seems possible to retain 30 Years Behind Pope's affirmation, the Pope's St. Mary, North Attleour communities." On the other only some parochial schools, "Oni'this point, however," he p,hilosophy or, the. Pope's theboro. hand, he does not feel the public "I would say, sacrifice the sec- oontinued, "I d<l have a point o.logy, the Pope s at.tItude toward should be "blackmailed" with on<~ary schools first and retain that I .think'is important to the hfe and toward~lstory can be the threat of closing Catholic the elementary schools-because whole argument to the extent narrowed .. thus tightly or thus schools.

YOiU can run ·three elementary that it involves the papacy, both nllrrowly.

However, he sees dim pros- schools ,for wfiat one secondary on this matter of ,peace and;' for On: Demography pects for continuing the exten- school costs. reasons I suspect will finally in The newsmen had asked how sive Catholic school network un"From a practical viewpoint, fact prove prohetic in the de- the· bishops' ,pastoral squared I would feel that would give the fense of life, also on the matter w,ith demography, with "what best return for. the dollar. of the contraception argument. . the population experts of the 111 Dartmouth St. 993.2921 "From an educational view"The United States Church has world tell us about what the . NEW BEDFORD Continued from Page One poiint, I'd still· feel that way- had a' lag of about 30 years be- world .has ahead in the future," Thomas ''Timmy'' Perry For the sake of novelty beeause. by the time a student hind the papacy on just about arid Bishop Wright turned to Thomas H. Perry reaches high school, we· either every encyclical. The papacy was this. every~hing is questioned and William J. Perry way out ahead of us on prob'''I have a rather serious miseverything must be put into a have him or don't..

With ~he somewhat precarious lems of labor, on problems of sogiying," he said, "not so ~uch . 'state of crisis by these impatient Funeral Directors and pro,spects facing Catholic schools cial questions, on problems of as! an amateur theologian, but ones, the Pope said.

Registered Embalmers The Holy Father asserted that today, Msgr. Lynch still feels peace and war I suspect they're as a reader of history. Demography is a very new science. I man today has gained an aware- establishment of parish school ahead of us on this one, too."

The bishop said he would be tend perhaps, for reasons of ness of the difficulties in his life .boards is important.

"I'd want to. see them even surprised if the bishops' pastoral thEl'ological sensitiveness, to be as as well as the possi·bilities for improvements which can ,be i.f ,the schools were going out of 'had much: effect on dissent in suspicious of the new sciences busIness," he. says, "because this country, "because, as a mat- somewhat as the scientists of introduced.

Air-Conditioned "He is seized by a frenzy, he schools should not just collapse tel' of fact, the pastoral didn't old <lr new tend to be a little is exalted by a fury to over- -there' should ,b,e an. orderly discuss actual dissent in the suspicious of liS thologians in Tel. 998·5855 " United States." some. areas. throw everything (and here we tran.sit~on.'~ FUNERAL HOME have a worldwide protest) in.

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• "It discussed rather" he said .·..There's a whole history of blind belief that a new order ,What would Catholic educa-, ..the theory of theoldgical dis~ conflict between reason and re448 County St. New Bedford (and this is an old world)', a tion's future be if there were no sent in the Church tradition." ligion, between faith and sci( Two Private Parking Areas new world, a kind of rebirth not financial problems? 'Are Catho"We didn't discuss the dissent ence. I'm partiCUlarly suspicious yet properly perceivable, is in- lic schools necessary in the mod- in the United States," he conon the subject of current demogevitably about to dawn." ern world? tinued. "We were aware of that rappy. As I read the Holy FaThe Pope said he would not MHgr. Lynch grins.'

-painfully so, I need hardly say. thers' encycli~al, I picked up oppose protest or a need for re"A good question," he says.

"But the academic point is the what for me m that argument newal which "in certain forms "If we ever rea~hed the point one that we discussed. The right ~as a rather refreshing impresis legitimate and dutiful." where we did not have to worry of dissent and the right of intel- slOn, that he may be a little Inc. But there are some who are about money, the Church would lectual inquiry and academic suspicious, too." . calling for an "impersonal trans- have to evaluate the si.tuation- freedom, and that, I'm afraid, Funeral Service ,. formation of the ecclesiastical decide whether they should be largely in terms of professional Edward F. Carney edif{ce in the forms and spirit kept open -or whether the theology, since there isn't a sim549 County Street of the Protestant reform, the Chur·ch's apostolate should be ilarly _ developed . theology or Pope remarked.

FLORIST New Bedford 999.6222 shiftE,d to another field." canon law or procedure of disInstead they should be adherMeanwhile-he and other su- sent outside the ranks of proOpen Mon. J thru Wed. from Serving the area since 1921 ing to the kind of ·renewal which .perintendents .throughout the fessional theologians. I suspect 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.-Thurs. and was called for in Vatican Coun- country are concerned "- about there will b.e, and there will Fri. from 8 A.M. t6 8 P.M. THE ANCHOR cil II, he said, a renewal of the supp0.rting the schools for a year have to be."

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Praises Police Continued from Page One thedral. Most of the protestors remained. The ca.thedral was locked ,to bar the entry of more persons.

Msgr. Carney said he had requested the presence of the police on the strength of a rumor that some sort of demonstration -had been planned. He said he was concerned for the safety of persons present in the ca.thedral which normally is crowded at the 12:30 Mass.

"The police were extremely efficient, very careful, prudent, and courteous in their handling 'of the situation," Msgr. Carney said later. "There was absolutely no brutality."

About half way through the Mass, the priests read a statement accusing Issenmann of "white racism," favoring wealthy members of the diocese, and mismanagement of diocesan affairs.

Two incidents occurred during the Mass. One was a minor scuffle occasioned, according to Msgr. Carney, by the action of a protestor who pushed a policeman. The other incident took place when Father Begin attempted to break through a line IWhic·h policemen had formed between the sancturay and the body of the church. The priest had been urging persons to receive Communion, saying, "Don't you. want the body of Christ?" and "Take the body of Christ."

Apparently, while attempting to circumvent the police line, Father Begin accidentally dropped some hosts from the paten he held. They were picked up by a priest from the cathedral.

Father Meyer was carried out by police after he, Father Begin, and several of their supporters refused to leave. the ca- . thedral eyen at the completion of Mass. About 20 persons including the priests, were taken to police headquarters. The priests were released on personal bond.

The Cleveland chancery issued a statement which praised the conduct of the police, and defended the closing of the cathedral during .the incident. The statement said the cathedral was closed out of deference to the Holy Eucharist, because the cathedral is a' place dedicated to divine worship, and out of concern for the safety of the con-' gregation and the protest group.

The CWC issued a statement indicting the "leadership of the Catholic diocese" for "misuse of power that causes it to be an agent of oppression and in that respect fraudulent in its claims to be carrying on the work of Jesus Christ."

The statement said the leadership "has allowed the Church to become an agent of the government's propaganda" in respect to the war in Vietnam. It continued: "With respect to race, the leadership is guilty not only of imposing but also of perpetuating white racism.

"We, Christians who care, consider this total situation intolerable, fraudUlent, and unworthy of the name of Christian. We demand that our leadership,/and specifically, Bishop Issenmann, meet with us publicly to discuss" the issues mentioned.

A meeting between Bishop Issenmann and the priests involved in the cathedral incident has been scheduled.

New Coordinator NEW YORK (NC) -Thirt:rtwo year old William J. Wilson has been named to direct the lecture series at the Christopher Center. and also the seminar project. He worked as a staff writer for almost two years in the early 60's.

Father 0'Neill f""'oresees School Boards In All Parisnes • Imminent Future

By Patricia Francis Within the foreseeable future, every parish in the diocese that is operating a parochial school will have a parish school board, elected, not appointed. That was the indication given last week by the Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, diocesan superintendent of schools, during a two-day ~orkshop session on paris h boards of education. The first worksh9P was held at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River and the second at Stang' High School in Dartmouth.

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Fall River Priest Among D'elegates Among delegates to a permanent commission on renewal of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, which met this month at Eymard Preparatory Seminary. Hyde Park, N.Y., was Rev. Ernest Lussier, S.S.S., formerly of Fall Hiver and now a philosophy pJ'Ofessor at Blessed Sacrament Major Seminary in Cleveland.

The meeting studied education and formation of candidates fo:;the congregaUon's priesthood and brotherhood.

Brothers' Status Recommendations included intensification of recruitment for vocations through Cursillo-type retreats. revision of novitiate goals with emphasis on flexibility and pluriformity, and a rethinking of the status of the coadjutor brother.

The meeting brought to a close two years of work in preparation for a provincial chapter to be held in April. The April meeting will be followed in September by a general chapter in Rome, at which i~ is expected that major changes will be made in the Blessed Sacrament r'ule for the first time since the foundation of the congregation.

Participating were pastors and school principals and laymen from various parishes within the diocese.

Guests speakers for ,the various discussion sessions were Father O'Neill, the Rt. Rev. Msgr.

John A. Lynch, superintendent of schools of the Burlington, Vt., Diocese and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Catholic Educational Association; the Rt. Rev. Msgr.

John E. Boyd, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Fall' River, and Delmas DesLandes and Roland Seguin, both members of Sacred Heart School Board in New Bedford, the' first ,parish school board established in the diocese.

Msgr. Lynch, who was Father O'Neill's guest at Stang during the two-day workshop session, discussed "New Patterns for Catholic Education.~' Noting that the Catholic school system as it evolved in the United States is "chaotic," rather standardized, Msgr. Lynch pointed out parochial schools are "an Cont:nued from Page One intermingling" of ecclesiastical would doubtfully be accepted by and educational authorities. the general public."

Because of a split in authority, Better Alternative between t-he bishop who is the The bishops suggested what titular head of the diocesan edseemed to them a better alternaucational system and the relgiEXAMINE SCHOOL BOARD PROGRAM: Rt. Rev. Msqr. John ous communities operating the , E. Boyd; pastor of St. Patrick's, Fall River; Sr. Fleur-Ange Thibault, tive: "cooperative arrangements ·the state and private schools, "the system did n()t CS.C, principal of Sacred Heart Scho'ol, New Bedford; Rev. 'Patrick between agencies in which both would work efficiently," and it was J. O'Neill, Ed.D., diocesan superintendent of school.,s, study the share the cost of education." clear changes were necessary, program that was attended by pastors, principals, directors and This, they said, "would have the he said. members of parish school boards.. at Stang High. twofold effect of tax savings for Today, Msgr. Lynch said, "clerthe state and a continued service gy, religious and lay teaching to the total community on the 'personnel are serving notice to principal, and' the actual opera: "School Boards in Action," were the topics of Father Boyd part of private groups."

Catholic administrators and pol- tion of a school board.

Michigan's former Gov. George and the two members of the icy makers that the old ways "Public school boards inher- Sacred Heart School 'Board.

Romney was still ducking salvos no longer will be tolerated." ited a long list of decisions," he As part of 9" "new look" in said. "We are starting from They discused ,the pitfalls and for his recent parting recommendation, that church schools the parochial school system, scratch, with a fresh slate. the accomplishments of school leave secular education to the Msgr. Lynch feels the establishboards in their two parishes. state, when a special legislative ment of parochial school boards "We can sp'ell out the differoA. sample constitution, present- committee .recommended pasthat give the laity a voice in set- ence between policy making and ting policies is "long overdue." administration of the schools, ed by Father O'Neill, notes that sage of a bill to provide up to a parish board of education $40 million in indirect state aid Even if Catholic schools are with the duties of policy makers "shall be nesponsil)le for all - .lor Michigan's nearly 1,000 0,00,to die because of financial or and administrators spelled out aspects of the formal school pro- public schools. personnel ills, he says, "I feel so they do not conflict." gram of the parish. In the de- . Not only did the legislature ',parish boards are essential-so velopment of its policies, it must seem unimpressed by Romney's that lay people 'have some voice that these follow the in- .recommendation, but a simultain their demise."

Marquette Campaign insure tent and spirit of the policies neous rules change in the House Father O'Neill discussed the laid down for the diocesan sys- of Representatives, raising mem"Establishment of a. School Goal $30 Million tem by the diocesan board of edbership on ,the powerful ApproBoard."

MILWAUKEE (NC) - MarHis discussion 'revolved around quette University he're has an- ucation. It shall have as a most priations Committee from 13 to IS, brightened the outlook for a 'sample constitution, the choice nounced a $30 million fund rais- important duty the implementpassage of the bill. of school board members, rela- ing campaign to further the uni- ing at the local level of policies ,The task of naming the comtionship of a school board to the versity's continuous program of of the dioecsan board." mittee chairman and members parish council, pastor and school physical and academic growth.

In addition, Father O'Neill will fall to an outspoken advostressed the importance of the cate of aid to non public educaFather John P. Raynor, S.J., local parish board in such ,things university president, said the as liaison with appropriate pub- .tion, Democrat William Ryan of Detroit. campaign called Advance: A lic authority,· seeking a better Program. for a Greater Mar- undesrtanding and wider supAim and Try quette, is the second phase of a port of Catholic education within Bishop Cassidy. Council K of massive improvement· project the local community and serving The aim, if reached or not, C of Swansea will hold its an- that began in 1961. At that time, as a local committee in the planmakes great the life. Try to be nual Lenten Family Communion Marquette initiated a $15 million ning and building of new eduShakespeare, leave the rest to Sunday, Feb. 23 at the 8 A.M. capital funds campaign, which cational facilities. fate.-Browning.

Mass in St. Louis de France concluded in 1966, exceeding its Church. goal by nearly $2.5 million, with Breakfast will be served in actual contributions of $17,438,- 1_'IIIIII,~."IIII11I11"III"IIII11"IIII11II11II11""IIII11"""IIII11""""""IIII11I11I11II11""lIIillllll""1II"III"""""""~_~ the council home following Mass, 484, he stated.

Chairman Cyril Amarello of the WINTER STORIE HOURS ~ Father Raynor said the first Catholic Action committee anMon. - Tues. - Wed. - 9-5 nounces. Speaker will be Rev. five-year campaign, called the John Oliveira of St. John of God Greater Marquette Program, Thurs. - Fri. - 9-5:30 was primarily one of building Church.

Sat. 9-5 Grand Knight Arnold Chace development, and the remodelhas Invited all members of the ing and expansion of existing Closed All Day Sunday council to take this opportunity facilities. The current campaign" to fulfill their Easter Duty. while also encompassing physTickets to the breakfast may ical development, is primarily be obtained from Catholic Ac- directed toward improvement of tion comrriitteemen, council of- the university's academic structure, he explained. ficers or at the council office.

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Cites Pre-judice In New York School Crisis

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

NEW YORK (NC) - A task force appointed by New York Mayor John Lindsay to study problems of bigotry in

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL. FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will meet at 8 Monday night, Feb. 3 in the Shamrock Room of the Corky RoVl Club. Miss Jane SullivaIf is a.rrangements chairman.

New York has reported that "an appalling amount of racial prejudice" surfaced during the New York school controversy last Fall.

The nine-member study group OUR LADY OF ANGELS. said that the prejudice was both FALL RIVER black and white, with "a danThe CYO will have a ham gerous component' of antisupper on Saturday night, Feb. Semitism" in the anti-white 1 in the church hall. Members prejudice. It added: "The blackwill entertain with a sing-along white hostility also has a small during the meal. Tickets will be measure of bigotry emanating available at the door. from or directed against Puerto The parish council will meet Ricans." at 7 Sunday night, Feb. 23.

The task force said that the A Mardi Gras will be held school controversy will only be Saturday, Feb. 15. with supper the first instance of black-white served from 6 to a and dancing confrontation unless the city following until midnight. A takes steps to "bind up the planning meeting will take place wounds which have resulted Sunday night, Feb. 2. from the present conflict. and Also on Feb.' 2, the Holy institute procedures which will Rosary Sodality will have a minimize the possibility of simLUNCHEON GUEST: Leo Cardinal Suen'ens of Maline-Brussels, left, was a luncheon guest of Communion breakfast and meetilar destructive conflict in the ing following the 8 o'clock Mass. the· Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, at Lambeth Palace, London, NC Photo. future; both in the public schools and in all other aspects of city HOLY NAME, Hfe." FALL 'RIVER The school problem - which Contemporary music will acclosed public schools in the city . . company the 5 o'clock Mass for three months of the first Sunday evening, Feb. 2. semester-began over a decenWomen's Guild members and tralization controversy, with their friencl.s will view a film All the applicants are married DETROIT (NC) -The U. S. .

In accordance with general Negro 'and Puerto Rican parents on the life of Carmelite nuns opposing the United Federation bishops' commission on the per- legislation on the permanent me.n, 35 :rears of age or older. at 8 Tuesday night, Feb. 4 in In Baltimore, Father George manent diaconate- has approved diaconate, in the motu proprio of Teachers. the school hall.

O'Dea, superior general of the The UFT called a strike when tentatively .. four sites' for the Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, in Josephites, said his order's pro- ST. JOSEPH, the local board of the experi- tra~ning of deacons. Two of addition to the endorsement by gram will draw applicants from FALL RIVER mental Ocean Hill-Brownsville them will be in the Detroit arch- 'the special episcopal committee dioc'ese where about 40 men, '.' on.the.,permanent·diaconate, the . Josephite parishes for training . Cub scouts will serve a meat school district demanded the pie supper frolll 6:30.to 8 Saturtransfer of som~ teachers against including a majority of Negroes, .' trainin'g program mu'st liKewise sessions ori weekends' and. durday· night, Feb.' 1 in the school their will. The union regarded havl~ already applied for ad- ..receive.the-approval of .the locat ing the Summ~r witl\, the aim of creating -d«:!~cons who: function. hall.

Ordinaries involved. such transfers as violations of mis!:ion.

The centers will train men to 'AU .four ~sites also ,require the on a part-time basis.

Newly elected officers of the their professional and contracassume many of the duties of approval of' the local bishops.

"We feel in the areas in which Men's Club, now to be known tual rights. priests, including administering Permission. for the Detroit and we are working, the full-time as Men of St. Joseph's, are John On Both Sides baptism and officiating at mar- Orchard Lake' centers has al- diaconate is something we can't L. Mercer, president; John During the controversy, the riagl~s. Deacons may also read ready been given by Archbishop accomplish," he said, citing Scanlon, vice-president; Francis task force reported, bigotry Scripture at Mass and carry out John F. Dearden of Detroit, ac- economic reasons. and l:ick of W. Dorsey, secretary; Joseph P. erupted on both sides. The propa variety of administrative cording to Father Paul Bigley, educational background among Souza, treasurer. All men over aganda issued by black militants' dUtil!S. assistant to Auxiliary Bishop Josephite parishioners. "We were 21 are urged to join the group. supporting the parents, the The training sites approved by Walter J. Schoenherr of Detroit looking for something geared to Registrations will be accepted study panel said, "reveals a big- the 'commission are: who is a member of the bishops' our parishes." in the rear of the church followotry from black extremists that He said that if 'final approval St. John's University, College- commission. ing all 'Masses Sunday morning, is open, undisguised, nearly ville,. Minn., a Benedictine insticomes, the Josephites might also Feb,2.

Part-Time Basis physical in its intensity-and tution which submitted plans Father Bigley ~aid more than start their program by Fall. far more identifiable than that for a three-year college type 40 men have applied for admitApproval Granted emanating from whites. prog:ram and for 'a part-time . tance to .the training program at Father O'Dea said that if the "On the other hand," the progl~am which would enable Sacred Heart Seminary, which panel report continued, "anti- candidates to prepare for ordi-. is expected to be in operation program proves successful in the Washington-Baltimore area, black bigotry tended to be ex'- . nation in five Summers.'

by Fall. About 30 of these are the order' will probably start a pressed in more sophisticated Walshington, D. C., where the black 'men, he said. The semiand subtle fashion, often com- Josephite Fathers,· an order nary is located in Detroit's inner similar program in other areas On your savings allowed whei'e there are. concentrations municated privately and seldom which has traditionally worked city.

by Federal regulation of Jpsephite parishes. reported, but nonethel~s!; equal- among the Negro community, . TQe order of diaconate had ly evil, corrosive, damaging and will run the program.

• Orthodox Preaches deplorable." . been in disuse in the Church since the ninth century, except In Inner ,City At St. Patrick's Members of the panel inSac!red Heart Seminary in as a step along the path to the cluded Father Leo McLaughlin, INVESTMENT NEW YORK (NC) - Arch- priesthood. The Second Vatican S.J., past president of Fordham Detroit, and S5. Cyril and MethSAVINGS odius Seminary in nearby 01'bishop Iakavos, primate of the Council approved restoring the University; Robert Carter, genGreek Orthodox Church of order and Pope Paul's motu CERTIFICATES eral counsel for the National chard C a k e . ' North and South America, proprio Sacrum Diaconatus 01'Association for the AdvancePer annum, when on deposit sll months or preached the sermon at an ecu- dinUl:n, outlined the requirelonger. Minimum balance $3,000, additions ment of Colored People; and . menical prayer service conIn tnultlples of $1,000. No Notice Required.

Hol:r Cross Brother ments for candidates, described David Dubinsky, honorary presYour funds available when needed. ducted in St. Patrick's cathedral the kind of training, and the ident of the International Ladies Join,s' Agency Staff

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'Accountspayingupto con may perform. well as representatives of other He -was the first Orthodox The National Conference of Earn bonus dividends by saving a fixed New York civic and professional ald Connolly, C.S.C., has joined amount monthly. prelate to preach at St. Patrick's. Catholic Bishops, of which Archthe staff of Catholic Relief Sergroups.

'The service marked the opening bishop Dearden of Detroit is Regular Savings vices here.

He ,came to Vietnam from St. of the worldwide week of president, asked the Holy See Accounts now earn for Christian Unity.

Schedule Clergymen' Edward's University in Austin, Prayer for permission to restore the Old fashioned passbook flexibility. Save any In December, 1967, the arch- permanent diaconate, and this Tex., where he. was provincial amount, any time. bishop participated in 'an OrthoScience Conference administrator for the south west All dividends credited and compounded .appro:val was granted last ~all. quarterly.

Deposit by the 10th of any month, OAK ,RIDGE (NC)-The Oak province of the 'Brothers of Holy _ dox . service at the cathedral earn from the lst. Write or phone for details. ,'memorializing the late Francis Cross..In Vietnam he will work Ridge Associated Universities, in Dividends exempt from state tax. cooperation with the Oak Ridge in the Saigon office' at his spe- Cardinal Spellman. He said then SAFETy-savings insured safe by an agency of the U. S. Government.

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Sincere Thanks Nation~1 Educators Express' Gratitude

,To 'Teacher in White House' WASHINGTON (NC) - Sixty laws dealing with education which were enacted and applied during his term of office are listed and synopsized in a volume which the representatives of two-score organizations have presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson at a White House ceremony here in the nation's capital.

The volume, which bears the title "Teacher in the White House," also carries the President's seal and President Johnson's name on the cover. A brief preface says the administration of President Johnson "is unique in the scope, variety, and longrange importance of legislation on education."

"Because- President Johnson has translated these profound concerns for education into concrete legislative proposals, persuaded the Congress to enact them, and diligently administered them, a representative group from organizations in the education community records in this book its united thanks and appreciation to 'The Teacher in the White House,'" the preface also says.

Msgr. Francis T. Hurley, associate general secretary of the United States Catholic Conference and William R. Consedine.

USCC general counsel. were among those making the presentation.

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MILWAUKEE (NC) - The many and dramatic changes which the Church in this country has undergone during the last decade were reviewed here

by Archbishop William E. Cousins on the tenth anniversary of his installation as head of the Milwaukee archdiocese.

Among the laity today, he said, there is a less passive and more dynamic attitude. At the same time thet:e is a certain impatience among many whose vision might be blurred by the limitations of their specific parish "which conflict with the broader picture" of the Church, he said.

The archbishop said among the clergy today t here is progress in the establishment of collegiality, at least in principle; plus an insistence on the part of priests that authority "be wisely and ,benignly exercised" based on consultations "rather than upon the imposed views of the individual prelates."

An awareness by priests of their "broadening roles" has at the same time evidenced conflicting attitudes, he said, "when an individual priest might think

Stresses Catholic, Orthodlox Bonds VATICAN CITY (NC)-Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople has written Pope Paul VI that the bonds of friendship and accord between their two Churches are stronger than ever, but that there is a need to make these bonds stronger in 1969.

The Patriarch's expression of brotherhood came in a message to the Pope which has just been published in the Vatican City daily, L'Osservatore Romano.

The Patriarch informed the Pope that he was giving thanks to God "for reuniting to an already notable extent that which has divided and for reestablishing charity between us ¢ ... ¢"

of himself as ordained for society in general with, his main interest in the social problems," and fails to see himself as also a channel of divine grace through the administration of sacraments.

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Priest eel ibacy Real Concern Of Bishops UTRECHT (NC)-Though there have been serious discussions concerning modern problems with priestly celibacy, the Dutch Bishops cannot solve such problems of themselves. It is a matter for all the ,Bishops and Pope together to dialogue.

Bernard Cardinal Alfrink stated that the problem "can be solved in a sensible way only in a dialogue with the world's bishops, with .the Pope as the head.

This is not a matter for dialogue of a national hierarchy with Rome. One must see this in a wider perspective. It is a matter of dialogue with the whole world hierarachy ,and the head of the universal world 'hierarchy has a . special position that we all want to respect."

Though the Dutch bishops may have faced or discussed the problems more openly than others ,the Cardinal stated that they cannot in conscience allow married priests to continue in their priestly office. The Church may dispense to continue from his obligation'to celibacy, he explained, but on condition that the priest surrenders his right to exercise priestly office..

Cardinal Alfrink said that the Dutch bishops are prepared to look after the four or five percent of the priests who have left the ministry as well as the 95 per cent who are keeping their vows of celibacy.

racial prejudice have been solved, Archbishop Cousins said at least half of Milwaukee archdiocesan priests'are engaged actively in' groups dedicated to service of minority peoples.

In the area of Catholic schools, Archbishop Cousins reviewed possible solutions, ranging from consolidations of schools to concentrating exclusively on teaching of Catholic doctrine and depending on public schools for non-religious . education.

He stressed no one solution appears to be viable enough to answer the problems in all segments of the archdiocese.

"Unquestionably," he said, "we must ,be brave enough to face the possibility of the complete restructuring of the parish school."

Commenting on the turbu':' lence in the Church, particularly in the last year, ,the 66-year-old prelate said the Church is only reflecting the unrest in society in general.

Community Involvement He itemized: the, attempt of youth ,to create a better world at the risk of law and order; an emerging citizenry opposing vested interests; a generation gap, especially in family life; an individual's desire for independence while still needing guidance.

In all the problem areas, what is increasingly needed, he said, is the "continuing task of establishing communications with all the segments of the diocese."

His own duties a~ archbishop, 'he said, have shifted from more or less exclusively church-type functions to a heavier stress on meetings directed at comJ1\unity inVOlvement, much broader in ~cope and more ecumenical in atmosphere..

Archbishop Cousins is Milwaukee's eighth archbishop. He was installed Jan. 27, 1959, succeeding the late Archbishop (later Cardinal) Albert G. Meyer who had been appointed archbishop of Chicago.

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Solvang the Ills A significant report from the' Council. of Economic Advisors to former President Jrohnson receIved comparatively little publicity but what'it had to say was of the' greatest importance. . .' . .

There' are about 22 mllhon persons m the nation classified as poor. The report says that this poverty could be eliminated in this country in six to eight years. and at a cost of just 5 per cent of the nation's. budget. The amount of $9.7 billion a year could do the Job. . ' This would mean that the many who are not m the poor classification would have to sacrifice ,only a small portion of their increasing income to help those. ,:"hose income is below the poverty level. Some sort of mm~mum income including a negative income tax would be mtroduced. ' Here is a clear attempt to face the poverty probl~m squarely and to face up to the fact that -: as Damel Patrick Moynihan has said - people are poor because they don't have enough mone~. .

Of course along with thIS other measures must be taken. The p;oblems of many people do not. beg!~ and end with income, but with misuse of money, mablhty .to shop, ignorance that makes them a prey and eaSIly victimized. .

So the whole business must be accompanied by a program of education, both formal and on .an adult level and with a saturation approach that wlll touch I and influence the greatest numbers of persons. This is why those sitting behind desks in dassrooms may f~el. at times far removed from the immediate problems of SOCIety but they are' the ones providing the long-range solutions to many of these problems. They are as much, if not more, involved as the social work~r who goes into ~ poor home and wl;itEis a check for emergency grocerIes or washes 'a child's face. The one is doing something' for people, the other is helping people to some day do these same things for themselves. Both apprqaches are needed, but the long-range solutions finds the contribution of the one who is instructing and training charact~r the more vital in the over-all solving of the. nation's social ills.

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It is to be' hoped that the statements, of Roy Wilkins, executive director'.. of ,the NatioI!aL\A~&P~iation for,the Advancement, of Colored People, in ··strongopposition to, the demands of some Negro students for all-black departments on college campuses, will have an impact in the months and years ahead. . ,' Mr. Wilkins called the demands of some "another version of segregation and' Jim Clrow." .

He pointed out, "We must be for change, yes. Reform, yes. Sharp alteration in methods, yes. Acce.I~ration, yes.

But separatism, no." , .~ Mr. 'Wilkins supported the expansion ·of: courses in black studies, but feels that there might be even a legal barrier to the use of tax funds to set up "patently Jim Crow schools." He urged those who opt for separatism to turn aside from this' apartheid and going-it-alone attitude. .

The very pluralism of American society demands that every element respect' every other element and try to work together in the harmony and sincerity of common and full ' " . '.

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All will agree, or should, that a shame on America has been its making its black citizens second-class and separating them from the main-stream of, American gro:wthand progress and accepta.nce. The nation in general is now increasingly aware of this fault and is trying to make corrections. But it would never do for the' Negro himself to. reach out for another kind of separatis'm. He should be aware of ,and proud of his own rich heritage and contributions to the sum total of man's knowledge' and culture. But he, too, is a citizen of one world and of this family of Americans. And' his great contribution can be working within the. family. .

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Some say 'yes' and others say Priests are forming organiza- 'no.' Each man has become an tions to confront their Bishops,' isle to himself and no one is and, the latter,in some instances,' part of the main. are in conflict with other memI Oh, 'liVhere has the spirit gone?

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These problems, and many ri)ore, do exist· in the ,church today. rn'ey must be recognized and ' seen 'in their historic context.

We can no ionger sweep them under the carpet of obilivion, Before any solutions can even be offe'red, we must begin to realize the facts. This is the first step.

Next, w~ must get. together to, solve these problems. No ship can sail unless the entire crew is coordinated and willing to work together. We cannot continue to pull against each other.

We must search out the light of mutual understanding rather than seek the glare of mass news

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LOS ANGELES (NC) - A wayside shrine of Hie Sacred Heart was dedicated at the riotremembered Watts area-at Imperial Highway and Success Avenue across from a public housing project. Photo on page 8.

The anonymously donated shr'ine was blessed ,by James Francis Cardinal McIntyre or Los Angeles. In the sermon Auxiliary Bishop Harold Perry, S.V.D., of New Orleans, compared it to the wayside shrines Which dot European countries.

The Act of Commitment of the community and its families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was recited by a crowd of 400 parishioners and their friends.

It followed the same order of prayer as the ceremony of the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in a family home, Father Francis Larkin, SS.CC., national director of the Enthronement of. the Sacred' Heart movement said.

Bishop Perry said the shrine should be a source of courage to the people of the community.

"We all need the Sacred Heart's blessings on our lives.

The place to start is .in the home," he said. "Let us look'to the Sacred Heart to change the trend in the breakdown in family life. Jesus Himself gave us an example of the esteem in which He holds a' home. He chose a home first, before He established a church. He chose Joseph ; before he chose Peter."

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WILMINGTON (NC)-Within hours of his inauguration, Gov. Russell'W: Peterson of Delaware ordered withdrawal of National' Guard' troops 'fr()m" ihis~ 'city, where they have been stationed since last April.

The troops had been called here by former Gov. Charles L. Terry, Jr., when rioting broke out following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In December, Bishop Thomas J. Mardaga of Wilmington and leaders of five Christian commlinities in the state issued a joint' pastoral letter calling for removal of National Guard patrols from the city.

Atonement friars Open Rome Center ROME (NC) - The Friars of the Atonement have established a new ecumenical center in Rome, the Centro Pro Unione.

The director of the community, whose headquarters are in Garrison, N. Y., Father Theddeus Horgan, S.A. said the new center's purpose is "to providc the various churches and ecumenical organizations, as well as other ecumenical centers around the world, with an opportunity of making themselves known and understood here in Rome."

He described the center as "a. place of ecumenical study, information and, above all"contact." ate a climate in which they can cooperate effectively with onc another. We lT)ust keep in mind our common goals that make us it community. We will either control our own destiny or we will be submerged by the massive forces that would engulf it.

To wish for the good old days of pre-Vatican II is unrealistic and self-destructive. On the Qther hand, to live in 'a dream world of tomorrow is pure fantasy, We must come to grips with today's problems if we wish to be together as one tomorrow.

tH~ ANCHOR-Thurs., Jan. 30, 1969

Tri-Faith Work Plan Succeeds In Chicago

Urges Increase In Home Masses

CHICAGO (NC)-An upswing in the progress of the Tri-Faith Employment Project here has been noted by George Jones, chairman of the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race.

The milk company vice president said: "During 1968, Tri-Faith placed 20,154 unemployed adults in permanent full-time jobs in the Chicago area at an operating cost of $16.37 per placement."

"Compared with 1967, when Tri-Faith made 13,741 placements at an operating cost of $26.09 per placement, 1968 production rose 49 per cent while operating costs dropped 37 per cent," he said.

Stay on Job Jones commend<;ld John Cardinal Cody and other Chicago religious leaders for giving their full support to the program as well as leaders of industry and labor for providing work and training opportunities for TriFaith applicants.

Job stability checks have shown that 67 per cent of all persons placed by Tri-Faith remain on the job.

Cardinal Cody emphasized the close cooperation between all religious organizations and community groups in the Chicago area which developed the program ona city-wide scale.

Dock Worker Project "The important thing about Tri-Faith," Cardinal Cody said, "is that it is people in the community working within their own community to help each other attain the goals of all citizens," While Tri-Faith. is basically a job placement organization, one of the training programs undertaken is the dock worker training program, designed to train 200 under-employed and under-educated men to be dockmen for the Chicago area trucking industry.

Funded by theU. S. Department of Labor, the program is endorsed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, and its' affiliated local union. A truck line serves as industrial sponsor.

Just One Aspect Graduates are fully experienced in loading and unloading vehicles and are completely familiar with, coded routing and loading instructions, as well as bills of lading and manifests.

The dock worker program is just one aspect of the Tri-Faith Employment Project which is sponsored by the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race in cooperation with the Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity.

Drops Court Action Against Priest MADRAS (NC) - The chief minister of Orissa state has said he will drop court proceedings against a Catholic priest and five lay catechistl arrested 01'\' charges of making "illegal conversions."

Chief Minister R.N. Singh Deo made this statement in his reply to a letter from C. Rajagopalachari, leader of Orissa's ruling Swatantra party.

Rajapolachari sent the letter following an interview here in which D.V. D'Monte, president of the Catholic Union of India, expressed the Christian community's concern over the arrests.

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HONOR SUPREME KNIGHT: John W. McDevitt, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. received the emblem of Knight of the Grand Cross in the papal Order of St. Gregory the Great from Archbishop Henry J. O'Brien, apostolic administrator of Hartford. McDevitt was honored for his service to the Knights of Columbus and their devotion to the Holy See. NC Photo.

Illinois Legislature Has School Aid Bill Largest Appropriation Ever Requested CHICAGO (NC)-A bill seeking the largest appropriation ever requested in Illinois for state aid to nonpublic elementary and high school students has been introduced!n the Illinois Legislature in Springfield.

Rep. J. Theodore Meyer of Chicago, author of the bill, rates chances of ,passage' as, "pretty good." He said he would be unwilling to accep,t any amendments to his bill.

"I'm not willing to settle for ·half a loaf. I don't expect any amendments," he said in an interview here.: , The bill requests that parents of nonpublic school students receive the same amount, of state funds appropriated to'individual school districts for their students.

State aid to public schools currently works like this: the state gives a base grant of $47 per public school student. It also gives additional funds ranging from zero to about $300 per pupil, the amount depending upon the extent to which local taxes are exhausted for the support of public schools.

In Chicago,about 55 per cent of ,the money for public schools comes from local property taxes, 26 per cent from state aid and the balance from other sources.

alloted for nonpublic school students.

Meyer has not as yet reported any total appropriations figure.

He s,till is computing figures from each public school district in the state to arrive eventually at the total amount of money needed to aid equally all Illint;>is nonpublic schools.

Asked about roadblocks in the ,way of his bill, Meyer said the biggest will be "competition for the tax dollar." The Legislature, at this juncture, is faced with an inundation of bills asking for financial aid.

Already Endorsed Meyer said he doesn't believe opponents of state aid to nonpublic schools currently have much influence among the Illinois legislators..

He said state aid to private and parochial schools .already has been endorsed, in principle, by both political leaderships in the Legislature and by newly

Overbrook School To Remain Open

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The century-old Overbrook school for girls conducted by the Religious of the. Sa~red Heart of Jesus, will continue operations.

Earlier plans called for closing the school in June.

Alcll All Equally Mother Elizabeth Sweeney, The current estimated cost per provincial, said the decision to pupil in Chicago. public schools continue operation came after is $560. About 25 .per cent of that .adoption of a lay teacher faculty comes from the state, which, plan. The provincial reaffirmed under terms of Meyer's bill, the decision to. close Eden Hall, would mean that $140 would be a sister Sacred Heart academy in nearby Torresdale, in June.

Elizabeth said the plan to Lauds U.S. Church save the Overbrook school was VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope devised hy a committee of parPaul VI, receiving the new Ordi- ents, and calls for an all-lay and administration nary of Saginaw, Mich., Bishop faculty under ultimate provincial counFrancis F. Reh, emphasized the capital importance of Catholi-' cil control.

A shortage of nuns to staff cism for the world. "The fidelity teaching posts was the provinof the Catholic Church in the United States," he said, "will be cial council's original reason for announcing closing of the two helpful to the Church throughschools last December. out the world."

inaugurated Gov. Richard Ogilvie.

Meyer's bill is the only one currently filed asking for state aid for nonpublic school students. He said he anticipates others will be filed, some asking for busing, textbook loans, auxiliary services and money grants of $50 and $100 for grade and high school students.

He sai~ the $50 and $100 money grants suggested by some state aid advocates is not enough to meet the pressing financial needs of nonpublic school education in Illinois at this time to .preserve an al,ternative choice in school systems.

Vocations Increase I n Czechoslovakia BONN (NC) -The number of candidates for the priesthood in Catholic seminaries in Bratislava and Litomerice, Czechoslovakia, is 'double the annual average of the past 10 years, the German Catholic news agency, KNA, reported here.

A total of 412 students are now in the two theological faculties, it said.

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KNA attributed this increase to the improved religious conditions in Czechoslovakia under the liberalized communist regime in that country, which took over the government in 1968 from the former Stalinist-line !eaders.

Attleboro Cursillos A women's Cursillo is in progress at La Salette Center of Christian Living, Attleboro, with Miss Patricia Makin as rectora. A men's Cursillo will be held Thursday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 16, with Richard Steiger~ald as rector. Cursillistas are urged to send palanca to the Cenfer fOT these events and to be present at closing ceremonies.

ROCHESTER (NC) - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester has issued a special report to the diocese urging enlargement of the parish program of home Masses. .

This was the first action by the bishop for home liturgy since his pastoral letter of last August, criticizing "profanations" in some home-made worship rituals.

Bishop Sheen listed in his report the guidelines for such Masses as set forth by the diocesan liturgical commission. The guidelines stress that regular and frequent celebration of home Masses, "always accompanied by adequate instruction," is to be strongly encouraged, especially during Advent and Lent.

The guidelines also point out that home Masses should take place on weekdays only; that they be open to all-non Catholics as well as members of the Church - but that Communion under both kinds .has not been approved by the Holy See. In his report, Bishop said: "The home Mass can convey the personal character of the word taught by the Church as a word of life directed to men's hearts. The more intimate contact between priest and .people ;' ;' * can prepare for a deeper sense of communion with Christ and one another in the celebration of the Eucharist."

Senator Dodd Asks Biafra Cease-Fire HARTFORD (NC)-U. S. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut in a television address here nenewed his urging for an immediate cease-fire in Biafra and launching an emergency food airlift to save the millions of starving in that province.

He called upon the new administration of President Nixon to push for the cease-fire. He said "continuation of this conflict is not in the interests of Nigeria 9r the African community of nations."

"The only nation to benefit from this tragedy is the Soviet Union, the prime supplier of this genocidal war, which is moving to gain a foothold in Africa and a naval presence in the Atlantic Ocean," Dodd said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan.,30, 1969

Expects 1969 ""ill-B,e Year For Skin Care, E)(e Allure

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation awarded a three-year $180.000 grant for professional preparation of Religious and lay teachers in the field of mental retardation education. Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, foundation executive vice president, announced yesterday.

By Marilyn Rode1'ick

Winter is the season that wreaks havoc on our skin.

The north wind's blustery breezes plus the dry air of our centrally ,heated homes dry out all the natural oils. If you have a tendency to enlarged pores, the dryness of your Winter skin appears to exaggerate them. If your skin cians the client has a tape mask is always thirsty for mois- applied that is kept on :for' a 40 hours, during Aure, then the frosty air dries' min,iimum.......of whi<:h time your outer layer of it even more and it becomes skin peels off, then some type

The grant, which matches a sum awarded originally in 1966, underwrites the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Graduate Scholarship Program. administered in collaboration with the special education department of the National Catholic Educational Association· with headquarters here.

flaky and spotty. These skin of (:ellular regeneration takes problems are ,present in every placl~. age bracket but All this takes place during an The Kennedy scholarship prothe y become 11 day stay at a clinic' (they can, gram aims to stimulate recruit.more pronounckeep the facial, most 'of ,us ment of Religious and lay teached when one mothers would settle for just the ers to teach the mentally retardgoes over that 11 days of rest in the clinic). Aced in Catholic special schools 30 line. Take cording to reports, the client and classes, and to promote proheart gals, many emerges with ;1 face at least 15 fessional e x cell e n c e among of the cosmetic years younger than when she teachers already in the field by manufacstart,~d~ helping them work toward adturers are not Another nice factor is that vanced degrees or state certifionly aware of ,only those over, 30 need apply.• cation requirements. these problems (It's about time our generation but are trying got in' on something.) Of course, Billy Graham Preacher to do something , the c,nly drawback is the'price, about them. This new ,breed of, '$1,97l>. I wonder. if' you.; could At Prayer Service make-up e~pert realizes that the peel now and pay.later?

SHRINE' I~ WATTS: Bi'sh'op Harol~' Perry, S.V.D.,' of New WASHINGTON (NC) - The condition of a woman's skin is Year of Skin Orleans, preaches at dedication of a community shrine of the Rev. Billy Graham was 'selected more important than any makeThis looks like the year of the 'Sacr.ed Heart in the Watts district of 'Los Angeles.

Cardinal up she uses to cover it. .to preach at the,,firstof a se~ies skin, and if yours is far f,r.qm' 'Mclnty~e blessed, the' shrine, then the crowd of 400 recited Therefore, they are determined of interdenominational services to start right ,at the base of the ,perfed there does se,em to be', act' of c'ommifment of families and community to Sacred Heart. in th~ East Room of the White h?pe afloat. No mol': ~ill that NC Photo.' Story on Page 6.. make-up, your skin.

House. gIrl <)n the cosmetic, counter ' N~w Collection The White House services will push on the customer the corrE~ct . , ,", probably be frequent, according One cosmetic line has intro- shade of make-up without :10ok,,' ':; to a spokesman for Dr. Graham. duced a new collection called ing to see if the skin underneath and pastors of different denomi"Demi Face Care." There are can b,~helped. .Says Ousted Bridgewater Superintendent nations will be asked to lead two groups, one for normal or At least, that's. what all the them. Worshippers at the first dry skin and the other for oily advertising brochures would Honest Man, 'Understands Boys service were mainly members of skin. Included in the groupings 'have us. believe. 1. certainly, h~pe are a pre-makeup cleanser, an they'r,~ right.

BOS~9N:)(NC)' .,-, A .Rhod(\ 'also lias" warmth and undertne official family. ' under make'-up moisturizer, a It is expected that PresideJ1t Most new cosmetics appearing Island nun testified at a Civil ~. stand~rig' f,or .the' ,boys)n: th'lt. in-... heavy duty cleanser, a pre-sleep on the market are created with .peryice,. c:8mmlss'ion ~ea~ing. stitU~i()n..:i' 1 ' ' / ' ' ' ' :", "l ",Nixon will occasionally attend facial; and a sleep stick to either a particular' ski'n typ~ in rriii'ld here on behalf of the' ousted Mother Suzanne began sum- '~Washington churches. but· he is " moisturize your face or control known to dislike public attention and as an extra bonus many of deputy s~pe~intendent of the' mer teachirlg at the Juvenile the oil.

Center in 1966 with the permisduring worship. Dr. Graham, the really good brands are in- Bridgewater \Mass.) Institute Recently I purchased this pre- troducing allergy-free cosmetics f,or Juvenile Guidance. sion of her superiors. During the who gave a five minute prayer sleep blotter and found that it 'for those of us who find that Motl1er Suzanne, currently asfollowing Winter she correat the inauguration ,ceremony, is works very well to keep oil out regula:r make-ups irritate our signed to the St. 'Clare convent sponded with 72 of the students, an old friend of the Nixon famof your pores while you are skin and that many eye-makeups of the ~eligious of Jesus and who tange from' 13 to 18 years ily. sleeping and during the day. I've bring tears to the eyes instead of Mary in Woonsocket, R.I., has of age. been wearing it under make-up admiring glances. been barred from volunteer In an interview before the and I've found that it stops Taunton Blind teaching at the Bridgewater in-' current controversy, Prencipe make-up from changing color, a stitution along with nine staff described Mother Suzanne as "a Daughters of Isabella enterphenomenon that occurs _~ith Parish Subsidy System members involved in an adminvery effective'worker." tained the Guild for the Blind oily skin. ' istrative controversy.

"The boys saw a different sort at MarJan Manor, Taunton. A Aids Diocesan Schools Scand'inavian girls report, The controversy stems ,from of ,Woman in Mother Suzanne program on Christian Unity was LAFAYETTE (NC)-A parish the ouster of Pasquale Prencipe, though, that snow and cold from the kind to which they presented by' Rev. Brian Harsub'sidY system to bolster the weather have an invigorating tormer deputy superintendent. were accustomed, and they rerington and gifts for the occaeffect on the skin and to prove financial base in meeting rising Prendpe was fired after policy sponded to her," he said. "She sion were donated by Miss their point Scandia Cosmetics costs of Catholic education in disputes with- superintendent seems ito know instinctively how Kathleen Corrigan. Elevel1 guild Company has produced a new the La:Eayette diocese has been William Sears and after he apto handle delinquents." members' were in attendance. line that includes cleaners and established by the diocesan peared 'as a witness for a student aided by 11 Daughters of Isastimulants with the same effect school board. in a suit over allegations that bella.

Beginning with the 1969-70 Dodge City Catholic that the aforementionel elements Sears broke the boy's jaw. The have on the lovely oomplexions school year, the board directed suit was dismissed.

High School to Close that parishes without schools of Scandinavian beauties.

'Prencipe has appealed to the DODGE CITY (NC)-Bishop , make pupil subsidy paYll}ents to commission for reinstatement to If you have the time and the Catholic schools attended by F. Fotst of Dodge City anmoney, there is a complexion his former position. nounced St. Mary of the Plains process that was formerly used/ their parishioners. A scale of $25 "Mr. Prencipe is an honest per pupil in' an elementary man," Mother Suzanne declared High School here will close only by those in the know and next June and that plans to those wtih the dough. It is re- ,school ;and $50 per pupil in a at the hearing. "Mr. Prelicipe is build a new Catholic high school ported that the general public high school was devised. the height of professionalism: He Msgr. Richard Mouton, dioc,in this area have been aban·has been let in on the secret. doned. , Under, the guidance of physi- esan su;~erintendent of schools, said the estimated cost of operBishop Forst made the deciLaymen on University's ating the diocesan school system sion after receiving, a report from an interparochial commitOrganization Buys Plane for 1968-69 '-is $3,100,000 an in- Board of Trustees MIWAUKEE (NC)-Marquette tee which surveyed financial crease of $300,000 over the preFor Biafra Relief Run University here has named a' feasibility of operating the high vious school year.

He said the subsidy system ,29-member board of trustees, school. ' TORONTO (NC) - A Toronto composed of 21 laymen and' eight The geneFal council of the relief organization has expended was· deci ded upon by the board memj)ers of the Society of Jesus. as an equitable means of meetSisters Ilf S1. Joseph of Wichita. $108,000 for 'a Super ConstellaFather John P. Raynor, S.J., ing the rising costs. He alSo said Kan., \vhich had borne full tion to fly food and medicine the same system would be apMarquette president, said the financial responsibilty for S1. 'into Biafra., ' new board will have full legal Mary of the Plains' High School, Canairelief-sponsored by' Ox- plied in cases where a parish authority over all phases of unifam, the Presbyterian church in ,school is overcrowded and studecided to cease operating it versity operations. Since first dents from that parish are sent with the close of the 1967 school Canada and other organizato another parish school. incorporated in 1864, Marquette year. However, it was persuaded tions-will use the big plane to has been under the legal control fly supplies from stockpiles on to continue the school for two of a wholly Jesuit board of trusmore years while the parishes Sao Tome, Portuguese island off Cool and Collected tees. planned an interparochial instithe coast of Guinea.

It is the man who is cool and Father Raynor said the introtution. , The organization plans a 12365 NORTH PIONT STIlET week airlift with the plane mak- collected, who is master of his duction of laymen into the govWith the decision by Bishop countenance, his voice, his ac- erning body of the university is ing two trips every night, carryForst, Catholic secondary educaMEW -.olD tions, his gestures, of every part, an integral .part of Marquette's ing about 44,000 pounds of cargo tion in Dodge City will cease 992·5534 who can work upon others at development as a'Jesuit univereach trip. It will be sold after the with the close of this school his pleasure.-Didero1. sity. year. operation is completed.,

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By Joseph and Ma'l'ilyn Roderick There is something about Winter and children and a small house that's incompatible. 1 sometimes feel that the time from five to eight before the children go to bed iloi the period when parents are most likely to suffer a nervom; . breakdown, a cardiac failure or a case of acute aliena- were pinching), a broken viewtion. There are the day's finder, an application for a charge account (this 1 can do events to be faced, supper in without), a newspaper clipping,

the middle of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (a catastrophe for Jason), homework to be done, piano lessons (the inevitable tear-jerking "I want. to quit" from Melissa), dishes to be washed, baths to be taken and myriad crises to be overcome.

It is at this time that Marilyn and 1 turn to the one room in the house with a lock on it, the bathroom, for a few minutes of peace and quiet. The bathroom is the most appreciated room in" our house. This may strike some of our readers as. an undignified admission, but 1 consider it far superior to an .admission of failure to control three young ehildren.

One Better 1 admit· to being the first to find this refuge from the chil- ' dren, but it didn't take Marilyn, long to fathom my reason for prolonged disappearances from view and she soon began to compete for the privacy behind the locked door. .

She has since done me one better. Somehow she has managed to have her friends call her· the minute the dishes are put away on some very important matter which requires that she retreat to the upstairs phone for an hour or so.

This she usually does with an apt comment 'like "Joe, can you manage to amuse the children while I take the ,phone," as if she has to discuss extremely important business.

Alas, the children are becoming aware of our ruses and are slowly defeating us once again.

Jason is particularly effective as he screams in his three-year old voice while kicking the bathroom door.

The girls are more subtle but equally persistent and my days of one-hour sojourns of reading the New Yorker or the Saturday Review have practically come to an end. ·1 have been sabotaging Marilyn's telephone ruse most effectively by having to go out to get milk,aspirin, or anything else 1 can dI;eam up.

The only thing that enables us to survive without a nervous breakdown is the realization that Spring is not far away and at that time the children will be outside and 1 wouldn't want to miss those glorious moments of quiet after supper.

In the Kitchen 1 have just been gazing with deep longing at some of the magazine pictures of family rooms and dens. Quite marvelously they seem to nave a place for everything and everything seems to be in its place. I do wish they would tell me the secret of their success.

Just before sitting down to type this column 1 did a quick check of the items that have hit my kitchen divider since yesterday. (Unfortunately said divider i's located one step from my back door and it makes the handiest place imaginable to drop things.)

Heading my list was a TV Guide (this does no good here as the TV is in another room and the listing book can never be (ound when anyone wants it), a pail' of earrings (my faull, they

a post card from Grandma in Florida, Grandma's oil bill, a torn piece of calendar, hockey cards, a magazine subscription blank, a piece of string with a toy fish hook on the end, a hair barrette, Catholic Messenger, Jason's wet mittens and the current New Yorker magazine. Now you must admit this does add up to a bit of clutter.

The people that live in the houses that they photograph either have no children, no mail deiiveries or an abundance of drawers into which they can shove aU this trivia. Of course, it's just the time that I dispose of the trivia, before everyone has' inspected it, that i' find I have thrown away something of world-shakillg importance and end up spending the next 20 minutes ,digging in the outside barrels. ' Losing Battle Recently, I have tried to train my family to .put away whatever they bring wiih them through that back door; but up to this moment it's a.losing battle. I've even told Melissa I, can't wait for her to get married so that I can go to visit· her and throw all my clothes on her floor!

Our constant running battle goes something like 'this as I see the door~nob turning, "Hang up your coat, don't· pilt your books on the c.ounter, put them on your desk, don't leave your boots in the middle of the floor."

And on and on and on""" My throat is getting hoarse, my nerves are getting frayed and I think I'm losing the battle; but like the stubborn Irishman 1 am, I won't give up until they hold me down for the coun~ of. ten.

My only hope is, that someday everyone is going to grow up and become concerned about their appearance and the appearance of their home and perhaps then our house too can look a bit like "House and Gardens."

I have looked and looked for a raisin square recipe until one day 1 mentioned it to my mother and she said "Why, your Auntie Flora makes delicious raisin squares. I'll ask her 'fQf the recipe," The results of her phone call follow.

Auntie Flora's Raisin Squares pastry dough (use your favorite recipe, there should be enough to line a square pan and also to top the filling.

1 large box of raisins (about two cups) 2 cups water 1% to 1 % cups of sugar depending on how sweet you want them. % cups sugar .1 Tablespoon lemon juice Ih teaspoon vanilla Ih teaspoon nutmeg 1) Soak raisins a few hours 01' overnight. Drain off water and add two cups of fresh watei' and the sugflr. Stir and bring to ,a bubbling boil.

2) Add the cornstarch (which has been mixed with about one more cup of cold water until smooth, to the raisin mixture and continue cooking over medium heat until it thickens.

3) Remove from heat and add

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Tem'pted to Flee During 'Children's Hour'

NEW SLATE OF OFFICERS: Named to serve as leaders of the Friends of .St. Anne's for the coming year, are: Mrs. Joseph E. Hanify, Jr., treasurer; Mrs: Michael J. McMahon, president, Mr~.

'Paul A. Giroux, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Allen B. Davis, recording. secretary.,

For' Efficiency Plan to Unite Efforts of Cathplic . Agencies for Blind NEW 'YORK (NC)-Increased eiforts to 'unite all Catholic agencies engaged in work for the blind into. a mutually supporting group were discussed here by the executivecommitte~ of the American Federation 'of Catholic Workers for ;the Blind and Visually Handicapped.

Father Patrick O'Shaughnessy, president, said: "A great many of our guilds and organizations have done, and will continue to do, a wonderful job in helping the visually handicapped. However, in order to attain maximum efficiency the federation is planning to publish a directory of services," The directory, it was explained, will list all Catholic groups

Ohio Hospital Appoints Layman Administrator LO R A I N (NC) - Ronald Streem, a layman, has been named the top administrator of St. Joseph Hospital, operated by the Humility of Mary Sisters here, effecti ve March 1.

Sister Bernadette Vetter, general superior of the order, with headquarters in Villia Maria, Pa., said Streem, who now serves in a similar capacity at Grace Hospital, Cleveland, had been administrator at St. Joseph from 1961 to 1965.

Sister Helen Bonham, administrator of' St. Joseph since August, 1967, will become assistant administrator and liaison with the Humili,ty of Mary community board' of trustees. the lemon juice, vanilla and nutmeg, stirring well.

4) Line a square sheet with a thin layer of pastry dough, bringing edges up the sides.

Spoon in filling, cover with top layer of dough, sealing edges.

Prick top of crust for air vents and brush with a beaten egg mixed with about one tablespoon of water.

5) Bake in a 350" oven about 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

in the U.S. and Canada serving the blind. The executive committee agreed such a directory could bring quicker response to requests and eliminate much paper work.

The federation plans to contact" all Catholic groups in the field for a' description of the specific service of each, and insert such listings in the directory.

Father Shaughnessy announced the federation will meet jointly with the American Association of workers for the Blind at a convention in July in Chicago.

Prelate to Supervise CCD Reorganization MILWAUKEE (NC) - Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee has announced he personally will direct complete reorganization of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Program for the entire archdiocese.

Under a new plan, CCD policy for all parishes will be determined by a board of religious education rather than an archdiocesan director, as has been customary in the past, he said. .The board includes two priests, three Sisters and four lay persons representing various interests and experience in CCD work.

There also will be four ex offi'cio members, including the archbishop and' Father Joseph T. Konkel, CCD direct,or since 1962.

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SCHENECTADY (NC)-PClrcnts of student.s at St. Columba's school here have protested a decision of the Alban~' diocese closin'g the school in June. Lack of reasons to explain the closing was cited as the cause of the protests.

Father James A. McManus, pastor of St. Columba's and spokesmen for the diocese, cited crowded classrooms, high costs of rebuilding or modernizing the school, and shortage of Religious teachers as reasons for 'the closing.

Students would be absorbed into two private high schools in Schenectady - Bishop Gibbons, conducted by the Christian Brothers of I reland, and Notre Dame, conducted by the Congregation of Notre Dame nuns. St. Columba's elementary school classes will continue, it was reported.

Mrs. J'ohn Arnell, one of the protesters, said parents are seeking a full explanation for the closing, and do not agree with the reasons given in a notice to parishioners. She said families with children at St. Columba's pay much less in tuition than those whose children attend Bishop Gibbons or Notre Dame, and if St. Columba is closed the children will have to go to public schools.

Tuition at St. Columba's is $120 a family, Mrs. Amell said.

At Bishop Gibbons, for boys 'only, tuition is $300 for the first child and $250 for each succeeding one; at Notre Dame, for girls only, it is $200 and $125.

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CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: Mrs. Burnett Nicholas of No. Attleboro and R,,,v. Richard Cretien of St. George's Parish, Westport, study the meeting's pro!lram. Bishop Connolly addresses the group group on the importance of the exce'ptional child in the mocferil·age. Miss Janelle Sevier, a member of TEC; Rabbi Theodore Gluck of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, New Bedford; and Mrs. George GiHord, of CCD special, education and a mem-

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ber of the Dartm,o.uth public school system, examine the outline of one. of the' the panels. Sr. Martha. OLVM, seated, diocesan CCD supervisor; Miss Jean Sullivan, chairman of CCD's special education in the diocese, and Rev. Joseph L. Powers, diocesan CCD director, check all p'oints of the days program as the conference is abo'ut to open.

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N~W YORK (NC)-Pope Paul VI is sending a personal gift of OTTAWA (NC)-A pilot pro- properly prepared for their po- speaking Canadian Jesuits, obCHICAGO (NC) - John gram for a more sophisticated sitions in advance:' served there is a new emphasis $25,000 to aid Palestinian refugees, Msgr. John'd. Nolan, exec.. More Dialogue in the way authority is exerCardinal Cody of Chicago selection and development of utive secretary of the Catholic cised. It ,now calls for more has .announced plans' for Je~uit superiors is being organ~'So this is not a question of Near East Welfare Association, formation of the Illinois ized at the Jesuit headquarters getting a group 'of men together, dialogue and greater 'use . of 'reported in a television interin Home. committe¢s but people have to' putting them' through a regime-' Catholic Conference, a permaview here.

Organizing the venture is and having, in the resulting learn how to dialogue, how to nent advisory body. which will He also said the Pope expressFather Gordon George, S.J., of be chairmen of committees. . product, a perfect superior.

It replace the Illinois Catholic ed hope for a rapid, just solution Rapid, Changes Ottawa, former. general secre- is aJ:! attempt to see if some proWelfare Committee. to the' refugee plight. tary of the Canadian ~ Catholic cedures can ,be developed which "I think a good name for a Priests and laymen from the 'Pope Paul contributed through Conference.

He plans consider. superior is"enabler,' " he opined. will help men to be better supestate's six dioceses will work "Ap' enabler is one who allows the Pontifical Mission for Paleswith Bishops of the state on an able research before implement- riors and to function with the talents and special qualities tine which he -helped initiate in greater ease in their jobs." ad hoc committee to draw up ing a pilot program.

1949 to aid the first· wave of of others to shine forth and beProperly Prepared Father George, a former prothe charter for the new organrefugees from the Arab-Israeli come productive.

A superior has vincial superior of the Englishization. '.'Very often," Father George war. It has since raised $100 milto ()perate in this way today. He The new conference will fol- said, "superiors are put into must know the inner dynamics lion in relief and services. low the pattern of the United positions of authority without Msgr. Nolan, also .president of of community and his own role States Catholic Conference' in too much notice or ·preparation. the Pontifical Mission, said it as leader, shaper and maintainer. establishing sub-committees to They haven't learned elemenRe~ He should know something too was not the first time Pope Paul provide expert opinion and pro- tary things as how to hold has given personal funds to the about the hazards of not deleWASHINGTON (NC) -Three mote statewide cooperation in an interview or how to develop refugees: gating authority and what delesuch fields as education, labor, a community around them. They U.S. Senate leaders called upon "The varying amounts of his communications, family life, lit- should and could profit by' . President Nixon to give "im- gating means." gifts can almost" be read as meaNo specific time limit has mediate attention" to stepping urgy, human relations and ecu- knowing something about the up U.S. aid to help the starving been set for the training pro-. suring the temperature of the' menism. psychology of personality." refugees crisis. This one, I say gram. .. iIi Biafra.

Wide Experience At times, he added, superiors with some apprehension, is the "There is no sense in preparThe appeals came from SenServinge on the IS-member may have prevented "painful highest ever." committee are Bishop Arthur J. mistakes" if they had been ators Edward M. Kennedy of ing 'Superiors for the present becalJ~e by the time they are preMassachtisetts, Robert C. Byrd O'Neill of Rockford, Bishop pared, the present will be ·past. of West Virginia, and Richard B. William J. McManus and Bishop Chahge is occurring so rapidly ISSI~eS Sl:Ipplement Russell of Georgia.

John L. May. The latter two are that this principle of change ,In a speech on the Senate . auxiliaries of the Chicago archT o Catec h ·Ism floor, Kennedy advocated that must be thoroughly instilled." diocese.

• More Leaders LAFAYETTE (NC)-Increased . Secretary General U Thant of The committee is..made up of W,hatever form the pilot projthe three Bishops, a priest and a understanding of ecumenism by the United Nations call for a layman from each of the Illinois stude'nts in the Lafayette diocese Nigerian-Biafra conference,.con- ect takes, Father George believes that it will be a first step . dioceses and three at-large here in Louisiana is being tending only a cease-fire in civil members. The members-at-large sought by school officials here war would save millions of star- in the preparation of ail religious for positions of leadership. are: Father Gilbert Graham, through a supplement to the di;. ving Biafrans.

"As religious orders and con"I would urge our government O.P., provincial of the Domini- ocesan Catechism on EcumenSouth • Sea Streets to exercise all the power, vigor gregations.grow smaller, as they can Fathers and president of the ism. are doing, then more and more Conference of Major. Superiors. , Th(~ supplement contains ques- and prestiege i'nvested in it by of uS will have to be leaders in of Men; Brother Henry ~ing­ tions based on the diocesan inauguration .of a new PresiTel. 49-81 Hya':lnis kamp, S.M., of Assumption High guidelines for ecumenical af- dent to move to save the lives one way or anther," he observed.

School in East St. Louis; and fairs, drawn up by' the diocesan of innocent people," he said. commission. The Sen. Russell estimated two Mother Mary Elred, provincial ecumtmical superior of the School Sisters suppll~ment, which treats these million Biafrans already have guide:tines, was made available died of starvation and the numof Notre Dame.

Father Thomas B. McDonough, by ,the diocesan education de- ber will more than double "unchaplain of the Newman Center partment, which published the less there Is ,il dramatic breakthrough in international relief 'at the University of Chicago, is catechism two years ago.

Questions in the supplement efforts." the conference executive direcat are concerned with participation He advocated the U.S. develop tor.

by Catholics in non-Catholic . its own humanitarian policy in' servic,es; participation ',by nonthe situation, rather than follow Catholics in Catholic services; the lead of British policies. He True Happiness regulations on mixed marriages; said if America did not develop Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or the S~lcraments of Baptism 'and itsowl1 policies it "certainly did as independence, or as a life Confirmation, and participation not deserve to be considered one 115 WILLIAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. by a non-Catholic clergyman in'-of the leading countries in the that is both agreeable and a Cath.olic wedding ceremony. world." secure.-Aristotle.

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Parent-Educators Plan Blessing

RICHMOND (NC) -The school board of the Richmond diocese charged the state Commission on Constitutional Revision with unfairness for refusing to recommend state aid to students in church-related elementary and high schools.

The board warned in a statement that the commission's position, 'if allowed. to stand; "might well mean the death of Church-related schools."

The constitutional revision commission rejected pleas by supporters of Catholic education to amend the present constitution which prohibits state aid to sectarian schools.

Specifically, ,proponents had appealed for elimination of the word "non-sectarian" in one section of the constit'ution which authorizes state tuition grants to students.

The commission, in turning down this request, said it would be unfortunate if the state issue were to divide Virginians along religious lines.

It claimed that in New York a similar fight over the so-called Blaine Amendment 'had b~en blamed by some for rejection of a proposed new constitution

by New York voters.

But the commission did recommend a change in the Virginia constitutio路n to permit modest state aid to church-affiliated colleges and universities.

This aid would be repayable scholarships to students majoring in education and a state agency to help church-related institutions borrow money for capital improvements.

See Inconsistency The school board said it found the commission's logic puzzling."

"On the one hand, the commission had no qualms in recommending that state aid be made available to sectarian colleges and universities," the board said. "The logic, of the commission says these institutions are educating about onethird of the students enrolled in higher education in the state, thereby relieving the commonwealth's taxpayers of a great burden.

"But what of the thousands of students similarly situated in sectarian elementary and secondary schools, of whom 35,054 are in Catholic schools alone?

Are they of absolutely no interest to the state, despite the fact that they too are relieving the taxpayer of a financial burden amounting to $17 million per year in operating costs alone?'"

The school board appealed to Virginians to work for state aid through the legislature, which must consider the proposed constitutional revisions before the 'charter is submitted to the voters.

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A celebration combining observance of the feasts of the Purification and St. Blaise will bc sponsored at 3 Sunday afternoon, Feb. 2, by the CCD Parent-Educator Committee of St. John of God parish, Somerset. Personal invitations will go to all children enrolled in the Pilrent-Educator parish program since its inception in 1965. All other parishioners and friends from other parishes are urged to attend.

A candlelight procession and throat blessing c:eremony in the church will be conducted by Rev. Bento R. Fraga and a social hour will follow in the parish htili.

DISCUSS AHLEBORO NAZARIETH: Rev. Stepen Smith of Bourne Methodist Church, Mrs. Burnett Nicholas, member of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Attleboro, Bishop Connolly, and Rev. Peter Rizos, St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Fall River, whose wife teaches at Nazareth Hall in Fall River. The group wa's attending a "Union in liturgy" Program for Unity Week.

Bishop Connolly Announces 'Crash Program" For New Nazareth Hall on Feehan Campus , By Pa tricia Francis

The exceptional child was the focal point of a "Union in Liturgy" program conducted last week at Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Participating in the evening session were Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D.; Rabbi Theodore Gluck of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, New Bedford; Rev. Peter Rizos of St. Demetrios' Greek Orthodox Church, ' Fall River; Rev. Stephen Smith of ,Bourne Methodist "genuine kindness," particularly feel that wholeness, joy and life Church; Rev. Richard Chre- toward exceptional children are His will."

But, Father Rizos said, "Our ...

Ch h "who are educable, but not nortien of St. George urc, mally educable; trainable, but Lord Himself taught that there

Westport; Sister Elizabeth Mary, RSM, of St. John's School, Attleboro; and Mrs. Burnett Nicholas of North Attleboro. Guests were welcomed- by Rev. .j'oseph Powers, Diocesan director of 'the Confraternity of Christian Dj:>ctrine, and Miss Jean Sullivan of Buzzards Bay, director of special education in the Diocese.

Students Help Father Powers gave "special thanks to the 52 S tan g students, juniors and seniors, who provide a 1-to-1 ratio of students and teachers in the religious education program conducted for exceptional children at Stang.

"They have a wonderful spirit of cooperation and interest in this program," he said.

The Stang boys and girls assist four master teachers and six adult assistants in preparing the 52 exceptional cliildren for First Communion and Confirmation.

Miss Sullivan told the parents and teachers that "those of us in special education must stop looking at the past with regret or'the future with fear" and, insteaa, must develop an awareness of "now."

Bishop Connolly announc'ed the Diocese's newest school for exceptional children is expected to be open for classes next Fall.

It will be located in Attleboro.

A "crash program" of conDiaconate Beginning struction will be carried out, he Of New Church Era said, with the new building to TALCA (NC)-The ordination be erected on the grounds of of Chile's first deacon was called Bishop Feehan High School. here "the beginning of a new era Construction is expected to take for the Church" in this country. "about nine months."

The new deacon is a married He also noted that another carpenter by the name of Sam- school will be opened in New uel Rebolledo, 50, of the nearby Bedford "as soon as p'eople there town of Viches. show some interest."

Bishop Carlos Gonzalez of Commenting that many of toTalca said of the ordination in" day's problems begin with an the cathedral, attended by 400 over emphasis on "me," he said priests and lay leaderS: "I am it seemed unfortunate that with thinking of a Church of tomor- so many important things to be row with a few priests, many done in the world, so many married deacons and countless people are so selfish. responsible Christians."

He called for a resumption of

not normally trainable."

Not Hate They, he said, "have a love of Go9. that shines out from them. They have no hate, they are not selfish. When you see them, you see them helping one another."

Rabbie Gluck told the audience, "it is a problem living in the world as we find i~ today, a very confusing and mixed-up world.

"Some people feel life is supposed to be a life of pleasurebut the real business of living involves not pleasure, but pain."

The choice, for a hUJ'Van being, he said, "is what kind of pain can we choose for our-" selves."

He cited the pain of the childless couple, or the pain of childbirth. The pain of being hurt by a friend or the pain of living a lonely liie without friendship. In all life, he said, we choose the type of pain we prefer.

Living life, he said, requires that choice be made freely.

He called for "a sensitivity to the need of others, not only our families, but all human beings."

And, he emphasized, "wE;. must be concerned, not only with others, but with ourselves," for, "when we reach the Last Judgment, the most important question we may be asked is, 'Why weren't you the best you were capable of being?'"

Not everyone can be a Solomon or a King David, he said, "but all of us can try to fulfill our potential-whatever it is.

That is what we should try to develop in these children." ,Childlike Quality Father Rizas observed that when heartbreak strikes, many people will say: "Why do things happen as they do'?"

Others, he said, emphasizing that "no one from without can fully understand a parent's heartbreak," will say, "It is God's will."

On the contrilry, he said, "I

can be no Resurrection without a Crucifixion."

Citing the "childlike quality of Christians in the presence of the fatherhood of God," Father Rizos stressed that "parents teach through words and attitudes-and they can either help or stunt the growth of an exceptional child."

Observing that his wife, since she started teaching at Nazareth Hall in Fall River, has been impressed by the "faith and acceptance of God" displayed by the young pupils there, Father Riios said it appears that "faith in Christ opens hearts and minds to the whole outside world," Exceptional children, he路 said, "share God's grace in a measure we 'normal ones' may never experience."

Sister Elizabeth Mary said she felt "the center of any liturgical'life should be Christ Himself."

Family Meal Since a retarded' child "can only draw conclusions from the familiar things around him," she recommended using suclwsimple things as a family meal to introduce the child to the need of Christ in his life.

This, she said, points out in understandable fashion the "social, the unitive and the nutritive" symbolism of the Eucharist.

"The home," she 'stressed, "is the primary and the perfect springboard from which to

bring children into closer contact with Christ."

The Rev. Smith delighted the audience with a story of "Vernon's bus," a vehicle that served both as a means of an exceptional child's getting out into the world and as a center of a community commitment.

"If people do something, about the community in which they live - and the people in the community," he said, "they worship better in church on Sundays."

Father Chretien admitted the need for laymen to become "more involved" in the problem of exceptional children.

"But I feel it is even more the duty of the clergy to become aware of the roles they should play," he said, adding that, too often, the clergy has felt "pity, but not concern."

Father Chretien said that since he has become associated with exceptional children, he has learned they "not only are your children, but ours. They can teach all clergymen about love-because these children are love and can teach us and instruct us in the ways of God." Mrs. Nicholas, the mother of an exceptional child who now is 21 and a full memebr of the family's Jewish congregation in North Attleboro, said all these children "need schooling, need recreation and need 'religious education."

Same Needs She explained how she and her husband began their son's religious education with a "special emphasis on our holydays." Then, she said, "we started taking him into the synagogue for brief periods of time."

An exceptional child, Mrs. Nicholas' said, "has the same wants, the same needs, the same rights" as a so-called normal child, the needs for love and acceptance and education.

Mrs. Nicholas has been active in work of the Retarded Children's Association in the Attleboros - and she obviously has not stopped working.

Following the brief talks, refreshments were served and the group broke liP into small discussion uni ts.

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In two' earlier columns, -looked at changes in agricultural policy-in East Afrka, in Pakistail-whichgive promise of breaking the contemporafydeadlock on the land in developing countr-ie:? This ". deadlock is, quite

simply, a farming system . which does not change and grow.. As a result, it fails to keep food expanding ill

The advocates of land reform want in the main to do wbat was done in ~urope, after 1848, in step with population, it allows Japan after 1870 and belatedly, food imports to increase and after two different ref,orms, in Russia before the first World agricultural exWar. This is to remove the obports to stag-" structions of" feudal ow.nership nate, provides no market for':, and to try to get the land to the men who do the wQrk; on farms local industry, that are large ,enough to be ecoreleases landnomic units, within a framework less peasants to ,of credit and cooperation which cities unpremake" efficiency possible and pared ,to give with enough training-and profi,t them work and ·-to make the new farmers alert is, in general, to their opportunities.' ' ' SUPERIOR GENERAL: Mother at the root of , One can truly say that this is Georgianne Segner, recently growing viothe critical change in modern- elected superior general of the lence and despair all, through the developing ilzation for there is no record of School Sisters of' Notre' Dame, any country making' the change discussed her work for renewworld, Nowhere are the risks inher- to the modern economy based on 01 of the Church's largest group ent in stagnant agriculture !:~vings ~nd t~chnol~gy0 without, of teaching Sisters as she pregreater than in Latin Amer~ca. Just dlscardmg Its feudal f sided at election of her succesIt is an area of immensely rapid straightjacket. " . sor as provincial of the Dallas growth of population. In the, Chilean Land Reform . . f th' 'S' t NC e IS ers.

To remove it is the fundamen~ province 0 mid-sixties, there were some, 240 million Latin Americans. By the tal aim of land reform in one of Photo. year 2,000, there will be over Latin America's most far':'reach700 millions and another 100 ing schemes - in Chile. There million will be added every four President' Eduat:do Frei's re-' or five years. To meet this dizzy- formist government has, after a ing 'expansion, the output of two- year battle in parliamentCLEVELAND (NC)-Tuition 'basic foodstuffs -corn, .rice, where the landed jnterest is beans, wheat,' beef-must more -heavily represented - managed in most of the 35''high schools in 'to pass, a land reform act. The the Cleveland dioc~se' will be than double before 1980. . Yet output at present is not iIi need for it, objectively, cannpt increased by $20 to $100 a. year, fact keeping pace 'with the surge be ,denied. Some 8 per cent' of, ,beginning. 'in the Fall, of 1969. of pop,ulation. Twenty per cent the farmers absorb over 60 pe'r,,' r Most of ,tli~ tuitions will now be of the continent's export earn- cent ,of farm income. Yet, to over, '$300, and seyeral.close 'to. ings are already spent on im- quote President .Frei in his fi,rst $400 a' year~' The'increases are. due mostly porting food, whereas it was a State of the Nation messag~: net exporter of grain before the . "The big landholdings under- 'to the increased cost of paying second World War. To hope to utilize ,the land in a dramatic salaries of iayteachers. double production is thus quite way-possessing 75 per cent of Msgr.', Richard E. McHale, simply unrealistic unless drastic the land, ~ore than 50 per cent Cleveland diocesan school superchanges are made iIi agricultural of the capItal and 40 per cent of intendent, in a letter to all high policy and practice. ,tl~.e manpow.er, they o.nly co~-, school principals and to major tllbute a thIrd of agnculture s superiors of religious communiLand Reform ties staffing schools 'here, stated This is the background ·to the production'" '" *" . In .o~der to end the waste ~nd "all secondary schools are to be discussion of agrarian reform in Latin America. Over most of the mefflclen.cy . of vast extenSIve, self-sustaining and charge the area, the large landowners are underc~pltahzed far~s,. the ~e.:. tuition necessary to support the dominant. About 10 per cent of fcorm alms at eXl?roprlatmg, WIth annu!1-1 operation of the school."

Msgr. McHale said the decision the farmer:s own 90 per cent of property that IS found, to be abandoned or badly managed. was made after a meeting with the land.

On the land thus made ~vail- Bishop Clarence G. Issenmann Over 100,000,000 peasants, a third of .the continent's present able, the local laborers WIll be of Cleveland who said no other population, work in conditions set~l~d at first i? a three-year policy' could 'be adopted because not far removed from serfdom- trammg cooperative (the asenta- there are no diocesan funds to as day laborers, as sharecrop- mie.nto) after ,w~ich they can subsidize high school tuitions.

Bishop Issenmann said parpers, as owners or renters of mi- dE!clde o.n the u~tlmate form of nute fragm,ents of land, many ownershIp. Durmg the three ishes, the only source of such of them still bound, as in Czarist ye'ars, the land reform agency fun'tls have indicated difficulties (COR~) provides .. credit, in- in m~eting their own operating <Rusia, to give specified days of work to their "lord," all of them stl"uctlon, production patterns expenses. and prepares the new farmers virtually living at subsistence fo:r independence. level and' entering neither the 'Thus it 'hopes to provide not Nurses Association market as consumers nor' the only a better 'social base· for State as responsible ,voters. agrarian society but a more effi- Seeks Recognition Critical Change: ciE!nt base as weil. What chance CLEVELAND (NC) - RegisWhile this heavy mass of pov- does it have? tered nurses at ·St. - Vincent erty holds Latin America down Charity Hospital, here have at one end of the spectrum, at V.ocations Decrease, asked the hospital ~o recognize the other, an old feudal tradition the Ohio Nurses Association· as of 'land as a sou'rce 'not produc- Clritical in Mexico their agent in negotiating ,a tion but of status, and 'security MEXICO CITY (NC) - The contract covering wages and prevents the emergence of the Church in Mexico is heading fOJ; working conditions. working landlord. With rare ex- a crisis because of the decline in A majority of the 175 regisceptions, the landholders invest voeations, 'to the priesthood, tered nurses are members of little, spend much and much of Father Jorge Duran of the Mex-' th'e hospital's Professional Practhat abroad. The result is ico City archdiocesan chancery tice Unit, organized some wretched inefficiency. N~arly 50 office said in a report. months ago and now affiliated per cent of the labor force' is tied The report pointed Ol,1t ,that ,with the Cleveland district of to agriculture. It only produces the Mexico City archdiocese, the Ohio Nurses Associatio..n 20 per cent of the continent's with 6.1 million Catholics, has (ONA), goods and services, only 700 diocesan ,priests and Mrs.- Mary Reynolds, chairman 105 seminarians. In addition, of the St. Vincent nurses' unit, there. are 700 Religious priests said "we believe that a contract Two of Kind and: about 200 scholastics. is necessary to assure all emMen who are unhappy, like' Father Duran estimated Mex- ployes job security and unbiased men who sleep badly, are alico's total number, of priests as administration of personnel ways proud of the fact.

10,000 and said this is .too few policies that ultimately will re, --'-Russell. for 45 million people. sult in better patient' care."

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"'Little Things Do Mean A Lot t',

A simple "Thank-you" means so much! A kind gesture of thoughtfulness is sometimes all we need to make our efforts seem worthwhile. In the mission field, where frustration is often a next-,door neighbor, gratefulness is appreciated even more.

The following mission incidents mustrate this kind of thoughtfulness that gives witness' to a truly living' Christianity.

A certain 'woman from the bush 'country in Africa recently walked 40 miles to give a priest 12 oranges. The gift and the journey were signs of her gratitude 'to him for having saved her daughter's life three years before., Father had been out in the bush when he had found the little child. He brought her back to the mission hospital where tlie Sisters diagnosed her malady and operated to relieve a terrible growth on her leg. The woman wished to express her gratitude at once in some tangible way, but she could not because of her poverty. She waited, and three years later, she, proudly walked' 40 miles through the bush' with 12 oranges to, make her thanksgiving to '.the priest. What a truly human, aDd truly Christian respOnse!

In another are~, there was an old priest who, after 38' years 'of missionary work, died, leaving his possessions locked in a safe.

The priests who were in, charge of gathering his belongings thought there must be something tremendously vil1uable in the ,safe, since the old priest had taken such great pains to hide the key.

When they finally found' the' key and opened the safe, they dis'covered, to their surprise, only 'a' $20 bill anc;i a note from their old friend asking that this mon~y be used for refreshments for those who came to his funeral. A small matter, ,perhaps, but 'what consideration thIs old priest had for others!

We can learn much from ·the' example of these two incidents: What· seems'; to be most significant, 'though, is ~the real value in our small acts" of .thoughtfulness and generosity. , Your sacrifice for the missions need not be huge. Your efforts need only be' accompanied by a sincere interest in those YQU are trying to help. In this way, your contribution, whether large or small, will mean so much more to those in the mission lands.

SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column and send your offering to Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara, National Director, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001 or directly to your local Diocesan Director, The Rt. Rev. Msgr.

Raymond T. Considine, 368 North Main Street, Fall River, Massachusetts 02720.

'Da'nger of Closing Discuss Possibility of Amalgamating Monor Seminaries SI,LVER SPRING (NC)-Possibilities of amalgamating minor s~minaries in the United States were discussed by 55 priests from some 30 dioceses and religious communities during a meeting at Holy Trinity Mission Seminary here in Maryland.

The priests, mostly from the eastern U.S., were delegates of bishops and religious superiors invited to attend the open discllssion sponsored by the Missi9nary Servants of the Most H~ly Trinity.

The discussion was' based on four topics: me'aning of the term "amalgamation"; reasons for amalgamation; problems, amalgamation may' entail, and'some cohcrete measures the gr'oup might take. ;', The delegates decided "amalgamation" is a :broad term, indica,Fn.!t every varfetyof cooperation from sharing of personnel and facilties to total fusion of seminaries into one institution, Such terms as collaboration, coalition 'and consortium were used to describe some forms of amalgamation.

Declining Enrollment The priests expressed urgency over the fact that some minor seminaries are in danger of closing due to declining enrollment, economic and manpower problems. Other minor seminaries, now enjoying relative success, must look to the future to guarantee survival and provide structures for real growth and development, the delegates agreed.

The delegates, most of whom are seminary rectors and faculty members, proposed establish'ment of a study-group which would be able eventually to recommend the amalgamation of specific seminaries. Such amalgamations would not only be determined by geographical groupings, but because of some speciali~eci 'services one or the other might offer, the delegates said.

The proposal made it clear the study-group would not be a decision-making body, but would offer an ObjeCtive and professional opinion concerning the options involved in specific cases of amalgamation.

Talented of Fall River to Sparkle At 'Happening' Directed by Head Of Jesus-Mary Gle·e Club Fali River talent will be showcased in a "happening" to be sponsored Sunday, March 2 at Bishop Connolly High School auditorium in Fall River by Jesus-Mary Academy glee club director Sister Denise and other organizers. Titled "HelIo, People of Fall River," the program will pre- terre to Mass. General School Rent representatives of area of Nursing. girls will be smiling high schools and ethnic forCassidy the ·birdie this week as year-

groups.

Prevost High of Fall River is among schools selected by Massachusetts Trades School of Boston to participate in its scholarship program. Prevost will be awarded a $1000 scholarship to be presented to the outstanaing graduate of the '69 class.

Debaters have been active at . Cassidy High In Taunton and Holy Family in New Bedford.

At HF, students participated in the 20th annual Dartmouth College tournament, competing against teams from nine states HF novices won a fourth place trophy, with Francis Clarke and Paul Walsh on the affirmative and Raymond Perry and Joseph Olifierko on -the negative. On the switch-side were Michele Dansereau and Jane Kennedy.

And a certificate. for fC?urth place was awarded to Daniel Dwyer and Karl Fryzel.

Cassidy debaters raised money with a "most successful and enjoyable auction," following which four debate club members participated in a tournament at Holy Cross College. The girls were seniors Kathleen Curley and Jane Masi and sophomores Debra Nunes and Ellen Finnegan.

Another laurel for Kathleen: she . wqO,. J"e . B~~~y,.' C;r9clt~r Homemaker award at Cassidy and now moves to state competition.

College Acceptances

Acceptances, college and otherwise, continue to arrive in senior mailboxes. Among the latest: Theresa Pryslopski, Steven Furtado and Patricia Kirkwood of Holy Family, all accepted at Bridgewater State.

At Prevost: Donald Corriveau, PC; Alan Baptiste, Bridgewater; Maurice Duval, Johnson and Wales; Earle Flynn, PC. At Mt. St. Mary: Mary Crosson, Joan Flanagan, Patricia Golden, Diane Lavoie, Denise Levasseur, Betty Perry, Madeline Rego, Sharon Woyciechowski, to Bridgewater; Mary Crosson, Monica Grace, Maureen Janick, Jane McDonald, Patricia Talbot, to Stonehill.

Cheryl Furtado and Cynthia Camara to URI; Anne Bibeau and Monica Grace to Salve Regina; Carol Costa and Christine Wilding to Northeastern; Christine Talbot to Cardinal Cushing; Cheryl Furtado to RIC; Anna Hefko to Michigan State.

Cathy Michel to Chandler's Business School and Johnson and Wales; Nancy Sullivan to Katharine Gibbs; Suzette San-

Revives Bill WASHINGTON (NC) -Rep. John P. Saylor of Pennsylvania introduced a bill which would empower Congress by a twothirds vote in the Senate and House to override decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court. He Introduced an identical bm at the last session whicRl died. He complained the court "sided with atheism" in its decision several years ago banning prayers in public schools.

book pictures are taken to complete photography for the '69 publication.

And Prevost and Connolly boys enjoyed a joint assembly presented by the: U.S. Navy Band from Newport Naval Station. On the spiritual side, Prevost YCCL members are sponsoring a leadership workshop for Diocesan sodalists at Round Hill Retreat House. Profits from a Winter Carnival recently held at Bishop Stang .High in North Dartmouth are underwriting the project. As for the Prevost sodality, it's ,beginning practice for its third annual Passion Play.

Bamboo Dancing Bamboo dancing is what's new at Cassidy. Under tutelage of Miss Elizabeth Meunier, phys ed instructor, girls are preparing a performance for the'. annual .

Jim-Jam. . .

And' .budding -CassidY: physicists have invited elementary schools of Taunton and Bridgewater-Raynham to attend aseries of lecture-demonstrations the girls are presenting. First in the series will be a lecture on principles of eonservation, deli vered ·by seniors' Mary Mogan and Marie Powers. It'll' take place at 2 Sunday afternoon, Mal,"ch 9 in the <::assid'y auditoriuJ;l1. , " . .. l'-'all .. Ri,v~r.. MOl,lnties·~heard· Dr. John E. Manning and Robert Pearson discuss pre..,natal care' as a means of eliminating birth defects. The appearance of the men was sponsored by the local chapter of the March of Dimes, and foundation literature was distributed to students.

Upcoming at the Mount is a presentation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which will be staged Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 26, 27 and 28 under direction of Sister Mary Ludivine.

College Bowl National Honor Society members at Prevost will sponsor a College Bowl program for area high schools, with Roland Frazier and Paul Berube as chairmen. A run-off competition will be held Sunday, March 9. Also <>n the NHS calendar is a Career Day, which will take place in April in cooperation with Bishop Connolly High School. Some 30 professions will ·be represented on the comprehensive program.

Vivian Charbonneau has been named Hetty Crocker Homemaker from St. Anthony High in New Bedford. Like winners from other Diocesan highs, she'll now compete on the state level.

Dominican Academy Student Government Day delegate from Fall River's Dominican Academy be Virginia Rivard. Alternate will be Debra Lay. DA freshmen entertained prospective students recently, presenting a 'skit, "People Who Need People," and an athletic display.

Also in DA athletic news, a smart grey-blue DA sweatshirt is now available from the Athletic Association.

And DA Folk Club president Paula Labounty announces that a Coffee House program will be presented in the near future by her membership.

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CCD Participates In Workshops Broadening its ecumenical outreach, the Diocesan CCD Center will ·be· among groups participating in two multimedia workshops, one for high school' students, Sunday, Feb. 2 and one for adults Saturday, March 1.

Sunday's program will be held from 2:30 to 8 at Central Congregational Church, Rock and Bank Streets, Fall River.

The afternoon session will include workshops in music, art, sacred dance and films and drama. High school students will . prepare a "worship happening" for presentation to the public at 7 o'clock. This will be a sharing of the experiences evolving FRESHMAN ART. CLASS: Freshman art students at Feehan from the afternoon workshops.

Those attending the entire High, Attleboro. are, from left clockwise, Scott Jacques, Daniel program will bring a box suplanglois, Tom Glynn, Fred Rogive, Tim Zachman, Steve Ferri, per. Beverages will be proJohn Huss. Robert Gammons. vided.

Five-Hour Program The March program will take place from 10 to 3 at Union Methodist Church, 600 Highland Avenue. Fall River. It will in. Father Groppi Criticizes University, clude a .five-hour program of films, records and facilities for Then Walks Out listening, 'displays of art and SP,RINGFIELD (NC) , - The come up to Yellow Spr,ings to posters, filmstrips and curriculum materials. ~rhe Sacred appearance of Father James. talk. I'm sorry, but in conscience Dance Cnoir of the Fan River that is where I am going."

Groppi, the militant black power Congregational Churches will advocate from Milwaukee, may . In a press conference the next. not have led to the agreement day at the University of Dayton, perform and provide instruction between .black shident$ al1d:·offi-.

Father Groppi, asked why he de- in tne use of movement. as a religious experience. cials of Wittenburg university clined to speak' at Wittenberg, A mixed media show by Barry here in Ohio, but it probably will said: be re~embered as the'hlghiight "I did address them, very Megquier of Hingham will of a five-day dispute on the briefly, in a way I thought focus on. how children learn.

"This is not a fixed' program," campus of the Lutheran instituwould have impact." tion.

At Wittenberg, black students say organizers. "Participants Father Groppi, schedule4 to are back in classes following an may stop to listen or preview as speak at Wittenburg bY'the'ui'ii- . agreement between. CBS. and the mood strikes. Many media versity's Newm.ari:cll;l,b, ~.qel~v:," Witfenber:g officials. The agree- are available; none is required."

Especially in vited to attend ereda one-minute critic'ism:· of ment included promises by the the university and then' 'walked university to step up black en- are teachers of children, youth out on a sturined audience of rollment and to his more black advisors, and ministers.

1,000 persons. staff workers and faculty memFather Groppi came to Witbers.

Ask Archdiocese tenberg two days after some 40 A black recruiter will be apblack students-virtually all the pointed and a black social facilDisclose Records students enrolled at the instituity will be provided. The way ST. PAUL (NC) - Two area tion left the university, de'clarwill be clear for ,possible naming organizations have urged offiing they were convinced the deof black cheerleaders. cials of the St. Paul and Minmands of the Concerned Black neapolis archdiocese to disclose Students (CBS) on the campus archdiocesan financial records had been flatly rejected. as as a prelude to a forthcoming The students went to the .ST. STANISLAUS, archdiocesan fund drive.

Afro-American Studies institute The organizations also sugFALL RIVER at Antioch college in nearby gested -that the archdiocese The Men's Club and Women's Yellow Springs.

Guild will co-sponsor, a pre- pledge significant amounts of the funds raised to the poor and 'Legitimate' Demands Lenten Mardi Gras from 8 to oppressed in urB~h areas, rather At Wittenberg, Father Groppi midnight Saturday, Feb. 15 inl the took the podium to say that the parish center. Billy Belina and ,than to the perpetuation of exuniversity was "like most instihis Bel-Aires will play f6r danc- , isting Catholic structures.

Statements concerning the tutions-they do not give moral ing and a Polish-American leadership." He said he had read buffet will be served. Joseph fund dri ve were made by the Associaiion of Christians for the demands of the black stu- Amaral is chairman for the Church R~newal (ACCR) and dents and considered ,them "le- Men's Club and Mrs. Edward

by Christians Concerned (CC). gitimate'" 0:< 01> good" " * healthy."

Piszcz is co-chairman representHe told the audience they should ing the Women's Guild. support the demands. .

"And this is really all I have SACRED HEART, NORTH ATTLEBORO ,to say to you," he concluded. "I have been invited by black stuThroats will be blessed foldents who aren't here tonight to lowing Masses Monday, Feb. 3 Prescriptions called for and at 12:45 in the afternoon. and! delivered A CYO-sponsored CarnyNewman Apostolate LOFT Whist will -be held Saturday, Publishes Directory CHOCOLATES Feb. 22.

6QO Cottage St. 994-7439 WASHINGTON (NC) -,- The The Red Cross bloodmobile 1969 National Newman Apostol- will be at the parish hall MonNew Bedford ate Directory has 1?een publish- day, Feb. 3. ed, listing some 1,200 addresses A Christian Community Hour of schools and universities ar- or ultreya for Cursillistas will ELECTRICAL ranged -by states and dioceses be held at 8 tonight in the Contractors and described as the only di- school hall. rectory giving complete inforStudent members of CYO and mation about campus ministry.

CCD will receive corporate It also lists some 1,435 NewCommunion at a guitar Mass at. man chaplains--4'58 full-time, :5 Sunday alternoon, Feb. 2.

977 part-time--with names and Mass will be followed by a \, addresses by state and alphabet- buffet in the school hall and. a ically; Sisters and Ilymen work- discussion on the "Generation In« in the Newman Apostolate; Gap." names and addresses of the 114 The CCD adult discussion Newman diocesan directors, and group will meet at 8:30 Sunday addresses of university and col- night at the home of Mr. and lege Newman Centers.

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THE ANCHOR"":'Oiocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 30, 1969

Lack Definite Conclusions On Increase in Crimes

Need Defenders Buffalo Bishop McN~lty Says Church Hears Discordant Voices Attacking Authority

By Msgl'. Geo1'ge G. Higgins'

One' of the most widey discussed issues in the recent Presidential campaign was the problem of crime in Amer.ica. Every major candidate addressed himself to this subject and pledged that he would work to reduce crime, and to make our streets safe. The crime issue is immensely dif- prophecy, as more and more ficult and complex to de- people deal with their fear by disengaging themselves from rescribe and analyze. For one sponsible participation in the af-

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thing, as the President's Com:' fairs of society in search of a mission on Law Enforcement private security. and AdminisTo find a middle course be·tration said in tween these dangers, it may be , its report in useful' to look at the, facts about VISITS U. S.: Father Tarcisio 1967, ....."" the incidence and nature of Amaral, C.55.R., superior gen'crime' is not a crime in our spciety, particular- eral of the Redemptori~ts, met single simple ly crime against the person.' more than 2,000 members of phenomeCause for Concern the Congregation from the U.S., non that can be Is crime, particularly crime Canada and Mexico at (] fiveexamined, an~ against the person, increasing? alyzed, and deThe only available statistics say day meeting in Tucson, Ariz., in scribed in one '''Yes.'' According to the annual preparation for the second ses- . piece, It occurs "Uniform Crime Report - 1967" sion of the Redemptorists Genin every part issued by the FBI, over 3.8 mil- eral Chapter to be held in April of the country' lion serious crimes were com- in Rome. NC Phpto. and in every stratum of society. mitted in the U. S.. in 1967, a "Its.practitioners and its victims I6 per cent increase over 1966.

Most of these crimes, however; All'chdiocesan SYII'j(~d are people of all ages, income, and backgrounds. Its trends are were crimes against property Convenes March 30 difficult to ascertain. Its causes (burglary, larceny of $50 and DETROIT (NC)-The Detroit are legion. Its cures are specu- over, auto theft), which totalled Archdiocesan 'synod, under the :3:,307,000 or 87 per cent of the lative and controversial." leadership of Archbishop John Further, crime as a political total.

The crimes that concern F. Dearden, will convene here issue and as an individual concern can be said to involve far America the most, the crimes March 30, Palm Sunday, after more than the phenomenon of that affect their personal safety three years of pre-synodal crime itself. In a broad sense the --murder, forcible rape, robbery, preparation involving hundreds totaled of thousands of people. crime problem is also a matter aggravated 'assault At the same time, Archbishop of fear and anxiety. It is a 494,500, 'or 13 per cent of the Dearden will promulgate the total.

Nevertheless, there is matter of people too anxious synod document-the legislative and fearful to walk the streets c,ause for concern. at night, to frequent their parks, .Since 1960 the rate of crimes act that will shape the future of . to talk to strangers. It is a mat- against. persons per 100,000 per- the ar~hdiocese.

The nine synod topics, correter of people losing a sense of sons has increased 57 per cent personal' security. ' and ,the rate ,of crimes' against spondjng to _the nine areas of property has increased 73 per interest Hi' the archdiocese are: It is a .matter of people trying to ensure and protect cent. Also, studies show that the laity, rellgic,us, clergy, worship, that security by putting addi- ac:tual amount of crime in 'the education, missionary activity, tional locks on the door, buying U. S. - particularly property ,ecumEmical affairs, community guns and (or watchdogs, staying crime-is several times that re- affairs, and administration. The nine ,commissions concerned home at night, taking cabs ported to the police. with these topics have' been rather than walking or using Demand Police Service public transportation, avoiding No one really knows 'why imalyzing the computerizzed restrangers, organizing vigilante crime is increasing. 1n part, the sults of the Speak Up sessions groups, etc. increase of reported crime may that were part of the parish preCorrosive Effect be' the result of changing social synodal preparation plan..

The crime problem is, in expectation's and of the professhort, an anxiety that has a cor- sionalization of the police. rosive effect on the openness, Where once offenses in slum while rural areas have grown the sociability, and the eI,ljoy- ar,cas and segregated ethnic less than two per cent. ,Although no one knows why mt!l)t of American life. minority group districts went "'fhe root ·of this anxiety and unreported by the residents of urbanization increases the crime fear is to be found not only in th~~ area or'were' ignored by the rate, and although rates for vathe facts ab'out the incidence of police, people in these areas now rious crimes differ widely from city to city so that conditions in crime' but more generally in the have a strong feeling of. need seeming uncontrollability of for police I protection and de- a given city cannot be predicted, this urbanization has reevents. . malnd and, increasingly receive sulted in an increased volume The crime issue in this sense nprmal police service, has as much to do with the, trauThe continuing professional- and rate of crime.

Increased Wealth . matic upheaval of race relations, ization of the police, in addition, Affluence: Since 1940 national the riots in the cities and on the probably has resulted in greater campuses, the deliberately. pre- efficiency in detecting crime, wealth (measured ,in constant dollars) has increased fourfold cipitated violence of the politi- more formal actions and records cal extremes of Right and Left, and less informal disposition of - far outstripping population the: assassinations of national individual cases-all of which growth. This increased. affluence leaders and the gap in commu- lead to a greater, amount of means that there are far more r: goods around to be stolen, and nication and understanding ,be- recorded crime. tween the generations as it does Other more substantive fac- also that property may be less with the occurrence of crime ~tors, such 'as the follOWing, have well protected than formerly against persons or property and undoubtedly played a role also: and hence more accessible to theft. the enforcement of, the law.

Urbanization 'Factor Still, the crime information The, crime issue in this sense Age composition of the popu., system is neither accurate is fundamentally an anxiety that lation: A high percentage of all enough nor complete enough, to the social order is dissolving" crime is committed by the 17-24 ' be sure to what extent crime is that events ar~ out of control. age group, Since 1961, due to the increasing, .nor is research into Twofold Danger high postwar birth rate, this age why individuals commit crime The dangers of this fear and group has ·been increasing more or what social conditions foster anxiety are twofold. On the one rapidly than the other groups in crime .extensive enough for any hand, this anxiety can give rise the population.· Thus, even if firm conclusions to be drawn to a call for order, for control the cri":le rate ,were static, ,the, about why crime is increasing. of ·the seeming absurdity and ir- volume of crime could. be exIn President Johnson's movrationality of events, for secur- pected to grow. ,ing farewell address he made ity against unpredictable dariger, Ujrbanization: The volume a'nd the evident point that prime reregardless of the means used. rate of, most major crimes are sponsibility for. the elimination This could end in a totalitarian related to the size· of the, popu- of crime will always rest with or closed society. lation group: The larger the local law enforcement. 'officers.

The danger on the other hand grouping (as in cities), the high- Nevertheless we can only wish is that tne fear that· the social .er the volume and rate of crime. President Nixon well as he ator~er is dissolving can become Since 1930 city population has tempts to fulfill his campaign a saowbcilling, self-fulfilling increased by over 50 per cent, pledges on this issue.

BUFFALO (NC) Bishop James A. McNulty of Buffalo has called upon Catholics to defend. the Church against noisy, discordant voices.

Speaking at installation ceremonies for new officers of the Buffalo Council of Catholic Men, the Bishop said: "The Church today is under attack from enemies without and within."

Far from being anything new, Bishop McNulty declared, this has been typical of the history of the Church. "Her Divine

Founder, Our Blessed Saviour foretold that His Church would be persecuted. 'Today, we hear noisy discordant voices attacking the Church and her authority. We need defenders of the faith both in the quiet of personal lives and in the eloquence of public statements."

Bishop McNulty praised the men's organizations and thanked them for their support' of himself and of Pope Paul in last Summer's controversy over the Pontiff's birth control encyclical Humanae Vitae.

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Now you can have a 'nun of your own'-and share forever in all the good she does.••. Who is she? A healthy wholesome, penniless girl in her teens or early twenties, she dreams of the day she can bring God's love to lepers, orphans, the aging. . . . Help her become a Si,s, ter? To pay all her expenses this year and next she needs only $12.50 a month ($150 a year, $300 altogether). She'll write you to express her thanks, and she'll pray for you at daily , Mass. In just two years you'll have a 'Sister Of ·your'owri~ . . . . We'll send. you herna(l1e p'n . receipt of your first gift. As long as she lives you'll know,you are helping the pitiable people she cares for.... Please write us today so she can begin her training. She prays someone will help.

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Supports Pasto!?o s A~tion lil'iI D~$mis$~1 NEW YORK (NC) Members of St. Mary of the Assumption parish on Staten Island have rallied to the support of their pastor who was involved in the controversial withdrawal of the principal and two other nuns from the parish school.

About 400 parishioners signed a petition backing Msgr. John K. Cleary, the 75-year-old pastor who called for the withdrawal of three nuns after they were accused by parents and the school's assistant principal, Mrs. Patricia E. Sohm, of watering down Catholic doctrine in the school's religion classes.

The nuns are members of the Chicago province of the School Sisters of St. Francis, which issued a statement defending them as degreed and professionally qualified for the subjects which they taught.

Basic Disagreement The statement said the province planned to end its affiliation with the school next June because of a basic disagreement between the nuns and the pastor on the subject of the Church and religious education.

It added that Msgr. Cleary had asked the province not to wait until June to withdraw the Sisters and had ordered them to leave the convent over the Christmas holidays. The principal was replaced by a member of another religious community and lay teachers replaced the other nuns.

Most of the parishion'ers supported the pastor against the dissatisfaction of those who accused' 'hlJh ibi l;ielng' ,fdevoted to "rightwing" causes, Others defended the nuns as "good teachers."

Meanwhile Msgr. Joseph T. Riordan, the district superintendent of Catholic schools, denied that Msgr. Cleary would be retired from his post as a "punitive" action on the part of archdiocesan officials. He said press reports suggesting impending retirement for the pastor were probably correct, but said this was only because of Msgr.

Cleary's age.

The New York archdiocese has establislied 70 as the optional retirement age for pastors and 75 as the mandatory retirement age, and Msgr. Cleary is one of about 20 pastors 'who are affected by the new retirement policy in the current year.

ANCHOR·· 1S Lives of Dedicated Cursillistas, eCD Workers lHE Thurs-., Jan. 30, 1969 Exemplify Ancient Saying, 'Love Serves 3 Fathetr Kernan

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"Love Serves" is' an ancient Christian saying. It's exemplified in the lives of two young, pretty and dedicated members of the .Fall River Diocese. They are Miss Janet Barbelle of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, and Miss Patricia Makin of St. George's, West.port. Both have been involved in Confraternity of Christian Doctrine activities for upward of 10 years and both are deeply committed to the work of the Cursillo movement in the Diocese.

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This weekend they're at La Salette Center of Christian Living in Attleboro, where Pat is in charge of a group of 40 women making a Cursillo-type retreat and Janet is among team members "helping with the program. They look on the Cursillo experience and its follow-up of frequent meetings of those who have made the Cursillo as a means of providing fuel for the Christian life. Although both have been active in CCD for longer than they've been associated with the Cursillo, they feel that one apostolate complements the other.

Pat, a graduate of Holy Family High School in New BedfQl'd and Bridgewater State College, began her CCD career as a teacher at St. Lawrence's parish, New Bedford', later transferring to the catechetical program in her own' parish. She knew of the Cursillo, she said, long befor it came to the Fall River Diocese, when in 1960 she worked as a lay missionary in Arizona under auspices of a program sponsored by Regis College.

Outstanding Men At that time, she said, the Cursillo, Spanish in origin, was known only to Spanish-, Americans, and was offered only to men. She observed, however, that men who'd made it were parish leaders, and when she

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Pat, formerly on the faculty would spread to the East. "I guess r made one of the first 'of Bridgewater State College, is now director of instruction for perceptually handicapped children in the Fall River school system.

Also a teacher is Janet, who teaches ,departmentalized sixth Quebec and the western' provgrade mathematics at Pottersinces, and this is bound to be ville School in Somerset., She is a divisive move." a graduate 'of Sacred Hearts' In a separate statement, the Academy in Fall River and- atInter - Church Committee on tended the College of the Sacred Protestant-Roman Catholic rela- Hearts and Fordham University. tions 'said sending an envoy to She's been teaching CCD classes the. Vatican "would establish in since 1954. ' Canada a new and highly undePat and Janet met, approprisirable principle in the relationately enough, at a CCD institute. ship of church and state, one Both have taught the teachers that the late President john F. at CCD-sponsored courses in ......Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, elementary teaching methods would not introduce in the for catechetics. ,Additionally, Pat United States." has served for seven years on Dipnomatic Act the Diocesan CCD board, and The committee includes repreJanet is a parish council memsentati ves of the AngHcan, Bapber at St. Dominic's. tist, Presbyterian, Christ DisciThey agree that more CCD ples and United Churches and teachers are needed in the Fall the Salvation Army.

River Diocese,' but, warns Janet, External Affairs Minister Mit"if people are forced into teachchell Sharp said that Canadians ing, it's not worth it." However, would regard recognition of the with 44,000 children currently Vatican as a diplomatic and not enrolled in elementary and high a religious act. He drew a paral- school CCD classes, the need for lel between the desire of the instructors is obvious.

Canadian government to recogReason for Involvement nize the Vatican with its expressMaintaining discipline is someed' wish to recogni ~e Red China times a problem in CCD classes, in that both actions would aid admit Janet and Pat, but add the Canadian government. that parish cooperation and Generally it appeared mass media editorial opinion across well-planned programs reduce this factor to a minimum. Also Canada fav.ored the move alld a help, of course, is the knownoted little opp'osition. how acquired at CCD teachers' 'The Holy See has diplomatic courses. Anyone who wants to relations with 67 countries and get involved, they advise, can has 21 apostolic delegates in countries which do not have contact his or her pastor or the Diocesan CCD Center on Highrepresentatives at the Vatican. land Avenue in Fall River.

Why get involved? Pat has the Few With Strength answer to that. "It's to help peoFew men have the strength of ple understand themselves as character to rejoice in a friend's human beings and as members success without a touch of envy. of the body of Christ,"

Holy See-Canada Diplomatic;' .Ti,es Possibility Stirs Controversy

ATTAWA '(NC)~ barrage of criticism by political and religious leaders was aimed at Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau's conduct at the Commonwealth P ri m e Ministers meeting in London, his visit to the Vatican and discussion with Pope Paul VI of establishing Canada-Holy See diplomatic ties.

Robert Stanfi-eld, leader of the op'position Conservative party, said Trudeau's participation .In the London conference amounted to "one big zero." He asserted Trudeau's trip to the Vatican Diocese Completes was a blunder which could "spl·it Canada down the middle."

Up-Dated Census "Never in the history of the JACKSONVILLE BEACH (NC)-An up-dated census has Commonwealth has Can a d a been completed in the St. made a contribution less importAugustine diocese, disclosing a ant and less useful," Stanfield Catholic population of 68,286 said. He added that abstaining from leadership at the conferamong 18,197 Catholic families The census results were an- ence contributed to a weakening nounced by Msgr. James J. of Canada.'

"In another forum the Prime Heslin, pastor of St. Paul's parish here, It was the first dioce- Minister has sought to excuse his san census since reorganization abstention on the grounds he of the Church in Florida last was a new boy. He may be a May, when Pope Paul VI estab- new boy but Canada is not. In lished Miami as an archdiocese any cas~, I have too much reand metropolitan See with the spect for the Prime Minister to new dioceses of St. Pctersburg find him believable in this self, and Orlando, plus St. Augustine, assumed pose as, the il1l~oc·ent as Suffragan Sees. abroad," Stanfield· said.

The census was started in all 'Dr. Robert B. McClure; lay parishes of the diocese last moderator of the largest ProtesOctober. tant denominiltion in Canada, the United Church. opposed the pro'posed appointment of an envoy An Art 1.0 the Vatican.

Nature docs not bestow virDr. McClure said ,one of Cantue; to be good at it is an art. ada's greatest current problems -Seneca, i~ unity, "especially between

Rev. R. Donald Kiernan, iI native of St. Mary's parish, Taunton has been elected President of the Senate of Priests in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia.

Ordained on May 4, 1949 in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Father Kiernan's first assignment was as Assistant Rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah. This was followed by service in Atlanta, Athens, Cedartown and Gainesville, Georgia.

Last August Father Kiernan was named pastor of Atlanta's Church of St. Jude the Apostle, Presently he is a member of the Archdiocesan Board of Consultors, the Archdiocesan Board of Education, and Acting Editor of the Georgia Bulletin, the Archdiocesan weeldy.

CANTON (NC) - Two small liberal arts colleges here-one Catholic, the othe'r Quakerhave joined forces in a joint 'community campaign to raise more than $2 million in capital funds.

Walsh College, operated by the Brothers of Christian Instruction, and Malone College, a Quaker school, will each receive $1.1 million of the goal. This amount, combined with federal funds awarded or anticipated; is expected to enable the two colleges to begin construction of some new ,buildings and renovation of others.

Combined enrollment of the two co-educational colleges is 2,124-three times the total of about a decade- ago when they were founded.

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Deei..ned 1.0 mini~tcr to the nM-dll of !tOula. th. pe3toral appear~ "in an age where que~liotlli conrem.in, the 'charillmatic' and 'imltitulional' elcment.l.ot the Church ~ of moment. at a time W'benthe elt.'lCntiab ot pric.!Itly life and relitrious _.dedication are freely discussed, in lhe),,~ daYII when freedom of oonscience and reliR'i()l.l1l authority cori1e often into c:onvenation."

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CRS Dmrecfror Heads Biafran Airlift Agency NEW YORK (NC)-Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services, has been named presiden't of an interreligious agency formed here to receive aircraft made available by the U. S. government to rush food supplies to starving Biafrans.

Officials of the new agency, called Joint Church Aid-USA, held a conference here at which the main topic of discussion was the C-97 Globemaster transport planes recently acquired from the government to aid the international and ecumenical relief efforts for the blockaded former eastern region of Nigeria.

Bishop Swanstrom said Joint Church aid-USA is a non-profit organization of Catholic and Protestant relief agencies from the United States and Europe.

The organization is receiving financial assistance from the American Jewish community.

Board members, in addition to Bishop Swanstrom, are Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, vice president, and James McCracken of Church World Service.

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William V. Wright of Test Research, a Long Beach, Calif., firm contracted to handle the flying and maintaining of transport planes and the recruitment of crews, briefed church members 011 what the aircraft will mean to the emergency program.

He said acquisition of the four transport planes will enable church groups to nearly double the amount of relief supplies ,being flown into Biafra cach night from the Portuguese island of Sao Tome.

The present aircraft being used are capable of carrying only 10 tons per flight while the C-97 Globemaster can carry between 18 and 20 tons. The new planes are expected to be in operation shortly.

Among those present at the meeting were Father Anthony Byrne, C.S.Sp., director of Caritas Internationalis relief program to Biafra; Msgr.· Peter Kuhn, director of Swiss Caritas; General Ingbar Berg, coordinating manager, Nordchurchaid; Pastor Viggo Mollerup of Denmark, secretary general of Nordchurcaid; Jan Vanhoogstraten, Church World' Service; and Hans .J. Zeiger of Diakonische Werk, a German Protestant relief agency. ~'light

Reports on Church Financi'al Statistics NEW YORK (NC) -A National Council of Churches report on. church financial statistics dis'Closed members of 73 Protestaot denominat.ions in this country gave their churches $3.6 billion' during the 1967 fiscal year and five Canadian denominations received $137 million.

Prepared by Dr. Nordan C. Murphy, the report said comparison with income received in the previous year was virtually impossible because a much smaller number of denominations disclosed total income a year ago.

The report stressed statistics did not include such major groups as the Roman Catholic Church. the Church of Jesus .Jcsus Christ Lattcr Day Saints (Mormons), the Church of Christ Scientist and the Eastern Orthodox bodies.

Greek Orthodox Clergyman at Stang High Gives American Religious History Course

By Patricia Francis

The newest memoer of the Stang High School faculty is finding his approximately 100 senior students "smart and highly intelligent young pepole." However, although he sees them as "highly idealistic," he is irritated by their tendency to "make sweepinggeneralizations they can't substantiate." In other words, says Rev. Constantine Bebis, pastor of St. George Greek Ortnodox Church in New Bedford, "they are typical American young people who have profound problems and questions-they ask for answers bluntly and they want to know."

'Father Bebis, who holds bachelor's degrees in theology and divinity from the former Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theology School in Brookline, with graduate studies at Harvard Divinity School, currently is working for his doctorate in church history from Boston University School of Theology. His three-day-aweek course at the North Dartmouth School, he emphasizes, "is a course in American religi., ous history and thought, not a course in religion."

When he was first engaged for the special program, he admits, "I was tremendously enthusiastic and exhilarated-it seemed 'a chance to transmit to others some of the things I have becn studying for so long."

Purpose of his course, Fa'ther Bebis says, "is to try to present on a secular, intelligent level, the religious aspects of American life in philosophy, culturc and history."

Whether or not people like to admit it, he says, "religion has played-and is playing-an important part in shaping Ameri.can historY." He feels that in order to understand the effect of religion on American history, "you have to understand modern European history, from which so much of our thinking stems."

Status of Religion During the semester course, he hopes "to bring out to my students some of the contemporary problems of religion all of us face today-what is the status of religion today."

His first classes at Stang were "quiet," he. recalls. "After one of the first, a couple of boys came out into the hall with me and asked, 'Are you going to let us ask questions?"

Since then, he says, "they have complete freedom to ask any questions."

What are some of the queries he has faced?

"They question the future of religion in America. They question the sincerity of adults, the need of religious study, whether adults practice what they preach, the values that have been held up to them," As the father of four, Father Bebis admits with a shrug of his shoulders that he has "heard these questions before."

Places Limitation 'On Family Size BOMBAY (NC)-The Mahrashtra government has decided to deny educational concessions to families with more than three children, a move to promote family planning.

Concessions will be withheld in the case of children whose parents do not limit their families to three children or to their present size, if they already have more than three children.

The concessions threatened to be stopped will include grants for books and clothes and tuition grants for children of teachers and those studying in government public schools.

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Warns Ago.inst Easier Divorce ROME (NCl ,·-The Holy See has issued a vciled but unmistakable warning against Italy's pending divorce legislation, and has called on public officials to help preserve family life.

In a message to Italy's Family Front the papal letter. signed

by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State, stated that if certain pending legislation were enacted it would "attack the stability of the family nucleus," The letter did not refer to any specific legislation, but the Italian Parliament has a bill before it which would pcrmit divorce in such cases as insanity of a spouse, a long jail sentencc. or a serious crime against the othcr spouse or their children.

The Pope said "no one is unaware that there are certain provisions which if introduced, would attack the very stability of the family nucleus."

He also spoke of "snares" in the press and entertainment fields where some take it upon themsel ves to be spokesmen for public and private morality.

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Names Two Assistants REV. CONSTANTINE BEBIS Not that he is not touched 9Y them.

"They bring into sharper focus what young people .are'thinking today and what their .questions are," says Father Bebis. "I enjoy it,"

"Some people say this is the age of doubt .My feeling is that doubt is the beginning of faith -what. I would hope to teach my students is to think objectively and evaluate their ideas," Father Bebis, says Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Diocesan superintendent of schools, is believed "the first non-Catholic clergyman to teach on a regular basis in a Diocesan school.

"We feel he has excellent credentials - and an excellent knowledge of the' area in which he is teaching and we feel fortunate to have him."

Despite the fact he is of a different faith than most of his students, Father Bebis says there have been no questions about his religion.

Metropolitan Urges Christian Unity MEM~HIS (NC)-Metropolitan Nikodim, leading Russian Orthodox prelate, paid an unscheduled visit to the National Council of Churches board meet.ing here and issued a ,plea for world peace and Christian unity.

The 39-year-old church leader, chairman of the department of external affairs of the Orthodox Moscow patriarchate, told board mem'bers that the search for world peace and Christian unit.y are crucial tasks.

The NCC board members who represent most of the major Protestant and Orthodox churches in the U. S., gave the Soviet prelate a standing ovation at the close of his speech.

The Metropolitan stopped .in Memphis on his way to a meeting of thc executive committee of the World Council of Churchcs in Tulsa, Okla.

That, to him, is as it should be, since "I'm not teaching a comparative religion course-I am teaching wha,t I hope is an objective course on the history of religion in the United States," His subject is a natural for Father Bebis.

American Church History His particular field of specialization is American Ohurch History-his doctoral dissertation will deal with the Americanization of the Greek Orthodox Church in this country.

Last week, the Notre Dame de Namur Sisters at Stang suggested Father ·Bebis arrange an ecumenical program for a general assembly, as part as the school observance of .Christian Unity Week.

It was no sooner said than done.

"The Rev. John AaUs of First Presbyterian Church read the Old Testament and gave a message, I read the New Testamen.t and spoke 'This Age of Instan,t Communications,' and Father Mike McPartland said a prayer," The ecumenical program was a fitting way for Father Bebis to end his second week at Stangsince ecumenism was the way he started there.

"I heard about .the possibility of teaching from a nun at a meeting of thc Ecumenical Group in New Bedford," he recalls.

Now he has a full time job fielding queries of 'his Stang students during the week.

Does he think he'll survive?

"Surviye?" he asks. "I'm en., joying it!"

DETROIT (NC)-The "growing complexity" of the University of Detroit's operations, plus "heavy emphasis on the longrange, ten-year plan" now being developed caused a division of responsibilities in the office of academic-alairs, Father Malcolm Carron, S.J., president, said.

As a result, he a.ppointed Dr. A. Raymond Baralt, Jr., 50, who has becn vice-president of academic affairs, to the offiCe of vice-president for administration; and Father James V. McGlynn, S.J.. 4!1, graduate school dean. as vice-president of academic affairs.

Dr. BaraH will devote full time to university planning, coordinating and space programs, Father Carron said, while Father McGlynn, who will continue temporarily as graduate school dean, will be responsible for the university's colleges, schools, divisions and libraries.

Father Carron said the future of the university depends on "most effective management of all resources and the most accurate and imaginative planning for the years ahead."

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CHICAGO (NC) - Several the press conference. Father black power advocates crashed John O'Shea, pastor of St. Anne a meeting of '50 inner city priests church, stood up and, in a voice here and demand~d the priests' shaking with emotion, turned to support for a series of bluntly Lockridge, who remained standBy Rt. Rev. Msgr: John S. Kennedy worded proposals, including ing throughout the meeting', and "G~eed '" '" '" That's what makes the world go 'round complete black control of CathL said: "I'm afraid." olic churches and schools in the When Lockridge asked why he '" '" '" It's what makes people' successful. It's what makes inner city. was afraid, the priest replied. some actors stars and the rest just actors. Greed is the Fifteen of the priests later "For all these' years I may h~lVe difference. You have to feel greed." The enunciator of this held a press conference, at the been wrong in my understanding bit of idealism was Lee Shumilitants' urging, and pledged of the black community. But h h t ' ht an d bert, for many years head of be available in key cities. the ,group's support for the deVi en you come ere omg Nothing daunted, the Shu-. mands. frighten me, I don't think i't the largest theatrical emberts pitched a tent which held R. Calvin Lockridge, chairman solves anything." pirein Americi, and an ap- more people than any theatre. of the Black Consortium, a mili,Lockridge told the priest not palling example of his own The tour was a smashing sucb e a f ral. 'd "B u t pu t your b 0 d y tant black power group, took to preachment.

His disedifying cess. Lee. Shubert paid a high l' 'th me, " h e sal'd . . control of the priests' meeting on the me WI' - s tor y, interand feeling trioute to the divine . bl ac k peop Ie and in blunt, often obscene "All of our lives woven wit h.

Sarah: "English she· couldn't d'd 't,h ave th e ng . ht t 0 ques t·Ion language, insisteQ. that black I n those of his talk,' English she couldn't pro. . .m our own . people must have control of w h a t was h appemng brothers Sam nounce', ,but boy, could she . commum·t·les were h their own "black turf." we h a d t 0 and Jake, is count in English!" t l'k .

"Lo Lockridge castigated several ac I e mggers, ck rI'd ge told in The This Shubert kept all business "Th e mos t 'ea h Ith y thO109 'NS pastors present fur not permitsaid.

Brothers Shurecords in his head. And he beDR. ~AMES D. CO LL, th a t WI'11 save thOIS coun t ting use of parish facilities to ry 'IS bert ·by Jerry lieved in keeping all profits in bl k the Concerned Black Catholics ac power.

Stagg (Random his hands, insofar as possible.

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York, N.Y. 10022 ties, the Shuberts were the chief $10). Mr. Stagg's figures in the American theatre, WIN'DSOR (NC)-Dr. James . George W. Clements made a 'Sick Hatred' .I prose style is they tried to see to it that perpastor.

"If I fought and killed men I Support Position had never even met in Korea, never going to be confused with .formers, playwrights, composers, D. Collins, philosophy profesFather Clements is the 36-' and if I feel it takes bloodshed that of Katherine Ann Porter, and other collaborators got _as sor at ·St. Louis University, will receive the 29th annual Chrisyear;-old militant black priest in the streets of Chicago to. make nor is he destined to win any little money as possible: It was probably the extreme tian Culture Award Gold Medal whom John Cardinal Cody deour people free, then let it happriz~s for skiil in coordinating pen." materials and turning out . greed of the Shuberts which at the Univers,~ty of Windsor clined to name pastor of St. Dorothy;s parish despite the uI;g- .

After the meeting broke up, smooth narrative. But there may. hastened the coming of unions· here March 23. . Dr. Collins, who was born in ing of the parish council.. Carpriests expressed varying reacbe justice in rough handling for in the theatre: Actors' Equity, . for example, and the various Holyoke, Mass.,. studied at the· dinal Cody named another black tions to the strong language and a rough subject. priest, <Father Rollins Lambert, pressure tactics of Lockridge.

The Shuberts' story begins in association of writers, compos- Catholic' University of America where he had the highest schoto the post,.but Father Lambert Father O'Sullivan and Father 1882, in Syracuse, N. Y., as a, ers, and other workers.

The Shuberts bitterly and lastic ~vera.ge in th~ history of has' since threatened to resign William Hogan of St. George Jewish peddler named Szemanchurch both insisted that a white ski ushers his wife and six chil- brutally resisted such enter- the umverslty. He did post~doc- unless Father Clements receives a pastorate of his own. priest who becomes upset when 4ren,-lately arrived from Russia, prises, but, powerful· th'ough ' t?ral work ,at Harvard Umverinto their first house in the new they were, they could not. for- slty.

Lockridge accompanied by .addressed in foul language has" world. ever stop the demand for justice.

An expert in the history of several associates, glared angrily no right being in the inner city.

Exploit TaIimt 'modern' philosophy, he is the Another young priest, who Fascinated by Theatre h f b f b oks in at the priests and declared: "Beasked that he no't be I'dentified They had n,O respec t f or t a 1au t or 0 anum er 0 0 fore we leave I)ere tonight, we The Szemanskis became the ent. . They could recognize it, cluding, "The Existentialists," Id l'k t k th by name, disagreed. He said Shuberts, and the whole family . . ' they an, d ' t recen tl y, "Th e E m.er- I wou l e ot now e names ~ "Lockridge's remarks only recould even dIscover It, but mos f th r' our . was soon ,busily engaged in any saw it only' as something which gerice the 'Philosophy of Re- ., °t f os(~ p~s ors - ~Vt lOgO? 'h ) flected a 'sick hatred wh'ich I kind of available' work. Along . '" " ' ur s· In Inner CI y parIS es they were entItled to explOIt to lIg1on. .' . who can't support us" am used to. with a wide rahge of other jobs, their own aggrandizement.

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"But this is not what I came Lee, Sam, and Jake became casThey contributed nOthing to Gold M«;!dal is an ou~growth of IWlt~OUt perquttIng dISCUSSIOn, to the priests' meeting to hear," ually involved with one Syra- the development of the Amer- the Christian Culture Series of L~ckndg~.demanded tha.t all he stated. cuse theatre, at first running ican theatre, but managed to Windsor and D~troit. It will be p.r~ests wJ111ng to support hiS. po"I get enough of that kind of messages, then helping iil the box make a profit from it even as it given. to Dr. C?ll~ns 'as "an o~t'- ~\t~o~o.stand up. All the pnests abuse, which I try to work with' office, and so on. The theatre declined before the progress of, standmg ChristIan humamst, . . . . and cure in my own parish. world fascinated them. :first, talking pictures and, even- who has helped to close the gap , ..;'bl!'I u:sa~:sf~ed,t LOckn~g~ Frr.nkly, ( question whether But that they could ever' be- t all' television. The p'rofit between intelligenCe and ,life." sal.. on, rus you J~S T '-'ckridge is really that concome prominent and powerful u. y ' . standmg up, so put an asterIsk ...." mIght, at the, .end, ,be (,:ommg beside' your name if 0;. 0;. 0;. you'll cerned, really that black, and I in it seemed· utterly unlikely. In from their own ruthless p' ItCh II know he isn't a Catholic." the 1880's and thereafter, the tJnly ,. k t k t b t ·t d'd rea e a enges agree to a statement of support I. f CBC' f Klaw-Erlanger syndicate en- 1,IC e rac e, ,u come 1 Sam Shubert died rather early Government Order *oro;... m a press con erence joyed a virtual monopoly of the Vincentia"s to Meet in the days of the burgeoning business, controlling the New , empire.

"Goddamn, we're gonna take The surviving brothers COCHIN (NC)-A lawsuit has Fall River Particular Council York houses, most of the thea- !~rew more antipathetic to each been filed in the Kerala state some names," he said. "Cody of the Society of St. Vincent de tres across the country,and the other as the years passed and high court here in India chalprobably called you honkies and Paul will meet at 7:30 Tuesday booking situation. No competi- their affairs prospered. lenging a government order dis- told you what to do." night, Feb. 4 at Sacred Heart tion was brooked, and no rivals.

There came a day when they qualiying a bishop from serving 'I'm Afraid' Church. Mass in the church will Beat Syndicate no longer spoke, but began ex- as manager. of any school.

At that point, Father Tracey be followed by a meeting at The lords of the syndicate changing necessary messages The order against Bishop 'O'Sullivan of St. Cyril church Sacred Heart School. Plans for ,were amused by the three short, through intermediaries who had Jerome Fernandes of Quilon was moved that the priests adopt' a the fourth New England reswart young men who assumed to. see to it that such fratElrnal issued by the deputy director of Inqtion supporting the aspirations gional conference of Vincenthe management of a Syracuse endearments as profanity and education following the prel- of CBC and Tom Poindexter, its tians, to be held in Fall River theatre, branched out in the' obscenity in the original utter- ate's refusal'· to reinstate a president, who was also present. in May 'will be discussed. area, then ventured into New ance were eliminated before the teacher suspended from service the motion immediately carried York City in 1900. kernel of content was conveyed. on charges of moral misbehavior \Inanimously by voice vote.

There they were sardonically Crude Reality with a girl pupil.

Lockridge then insisted that permitted to take on the Herald Lee Shubert died in 1954, in The bishop has sought in his illl 50 priests present appear at Square Theatre, which was re- his eighties. His last will and writ petition a court verdict garded as jinxed, since it housed testament was a masterpiece of quashing the disqualification A Reminder nothing but flops. Under Shu- malice, calculated to give prac- and the order to reinstate the J. TESER, Prop. bert management, it began to tically infinite qispleasure and teacher. The court stayed the Honor, glory, praise,' renown RESIDENTIAL house hits.

• trouble 'to his kindred. applicatiOn of the twin orders and fame-each is but an echo, INDUSTRIAL The syndicate people were A family battle ensued, just as pending disposal of the petition. a shade, a dream, a flower that COMMERCIAL astonished. And they continued nasty as the authentic Shubert is blasted with every wind and 253 Cedar St., New Bedford to get surprises. The Shuberts tradition deserved, and considspo'iled with every shower.

993-3222 never fought the syndicate erably more dramatic than any Vietnam 'Prelates -Tasso. openly. They put on a great of the turkeys which the brothIssue Pastoral show of cooperation. el's had served up on the' stage.

SAIGON (NC) - A joint pasIn 'fact, however, they were Some shreds of glamor are shrewdly aping the syndicat~'s retained by the theatre, and toral hitter by South Vietnam's own methods, and eventually each of us remembers moments bishops read in all churches debeat them at their own game. of theatrical greatness 'which plored the breakdown in morals • Savings Bank Life Insurance They, in t1,lrn, became the syndi- cannot be rivalled in any other' caused by the war.

Itaiso stressed the importance cate, and they achieved an even medium (for example, Laurette· • Real Estate Loans tighter monopoly than the T~lylor's magical performance in of the family in Vietnamese .traKlaw-Erlanger people had ever The Glass Menagerie and Paul dition and ·of respect for' women.

• Christmas and , , Vacation Clubs effected.

Scofield's in A Man for All Sea~ It emphasized the importance of • Savings Accounts education in natio~ building.

A characteristic episode in the sons). long battle involves Sarah Bern• 5 Convenient Locations :But underlying the occasional The' letter urged respect for hardt~ T·he Shuberts imported the glints of glamor is the crude and law and order, and also for recelebrated French actress for crass reality of which the Shu- spect by the government for the one of her innumerable farewell berts are typical. For them, the , rights of the individual. It called tours. The syndicate obligingly name of the game was greed, for respect for life, liberty and property. _. arranged that no theatres would and they played it like sharks.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE flV !'(fER J. BARTEK 1\10rtOfl

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John Shock,o of Attleboro

UMass Varsity SW'ing-Man Physical Ed Major Plans Teacher-Coach Career

By Luke Sims

Northern County Schools Eye Titles in Two Loops Coach Phil Norton's Norton High basketeers are out front by a one-half game margin in the early part of the second phase of the Tri-Valley Conference as Oliver Ames of North Easton hopes to make a successful run-to-the-wire ' in the last half of the Hocko- mer Bristol County member mock circuit, also in the which is competing for the first northern section of the dio- time in years in the Hockomock cese. Sporting a 7-2 league court loop, is in the fourth slot mark, and, an 8-3 over-all record, Norton's Lancers are showIng their heels to the competitlon in Division B of the TriValley Conference while Dover paces Division A with a ,perfect record in eight league contests.

Coach Val Muscato's North Easton combine is confronted with a dlffcult although not insurmountable, task In the Hockomock competition. Lodged ':In third place, trailing Sharon and Stoughton, Oliver Ames must overcome a two-game deficit in the remaining league contests.

Sharon and Stoughton are locked-up in a first place league tie with identical 8-1 records while the Muscatomen are 6-3, at this writing.

North Attleboro High, a for-

in the standing, just about out of the pennant race, tied with Foxboro. And, Mansfield High, the other league school located within the confines of the diocesan territorial limits, is seventh behind sixth-place Canton. King Philip Regional of Wrentham and Franklin High firm up the bottom of the present league standing.

Norton's task in its next two outings would appear a little easier than Oliver Ames' In the other circuit. Phil NOl'\ton's pro'teges face Medway at the latter's court tomorrow night and then they play at Blackstone next Tuesday. Medway :Is several places behind Norton while Blackstone is fu'rther down the standing.

Holy Family Is Only All-Winning Club Oliver Ames, on the other " ga!Jle-:whming field ,.goal ..just hand, has a' must game' on tap barely got. into the ;air as the tomorrow night when the North final .buzzer was sounding. So Easton Tigers travel to Stough- frantic and noisy was the finish, ton to clash with the deadlocked that the officials had to call first-place club. And, it goes upon a veteran Fairhaven timewithout saying that Stoughton, keeper 'to determine whether likewise must win to stay the basket counted. Hurt, as it abreast of Sharon and, also, to may the Fairhaven s c h 0 0 1 prevent the determined .rush timer ruled the game-winning of Oliver Ames for the top spot. shot was good to end his team's North Attleboro tomorrow 30-game winning streak in Cape night will be .battling to hold on competition. to fourth place when it vies The Dartmouth squeaker catawith Canton. The Red Rocket- pulted the Big Green into a eers momentarily are tied with four-way race in the Cape comFoxboro for fourth position. petition. And, Fairhaven, ·beFoxboro opposes Mansfield, at cause of its loss, has been comthe latter's court, tomorrow pelled to share first place, as of night. this writing, with Dennis-YarHoly Family High of New mouth and Dartmouth. LawBedford is the only over-all rence High of Falmouth, close undefeated court club' in the on the heels of the league leaddiocesan area as it continues to ers, has a very definite shot at slash the opposition to smither- the pennant.

Cape fans will be talking to eens In the Narragansett League while Durfee High of Fall River themselves if the second half is the only other unbeaten club results are a replay of the first' in league play in the Bristol round. The opening games in the county circuit. second half are scheduled toFairhaven High of the Cape- morrow night when Dartmouth way Conference dropped from travels to Dennis-Yarmouth, the all-winning group when it Fairhaven will be at home to was nosed out in the final sec- Bourne, and, Falmouth journeys ond of play by Dartmouth as the over to Barnstable.

Four-Way Battle in .Capeway Conference The Cape schedule maker can justifiably feel proud in keeping fan interest at ,the highest possible key. The four leading contenders are listed .to play in two of the final season games which means that the title may not be decided until the last night of the season.

Almost everybody but Case High of Swansea looks for Holy Family to continue to set the pace In the Narry circuit. But, Coach Bob Gorman and his Swansea Cardinals are concedIng nothing. Trailing the New Bedford parochials by a single game, Case hopes to climb back into a first place tie with

Coach Jack Nobrega's Whaling City lads a week from tomorrow night. Case Is in agreement with everyone else that the Narry title race has dwindled to a two-club affair.

The Narry contests tomorrow night will see last place Seekonk invading New Bedford to oppose the league leaders at the Kennedy Center, Case travelling to Westport, third-place Old Rochester hosting Msgr. Prevost High of Fall River at Mattapoisett while Dighton-Rehoboth journeys to Somerset.

Durfee, unless catastrophe strikes, appears to be home in the Bristol County league with

John Shockro is in his third year at the University of Masaschusetts and second as a member of the Redmen's varsity basketball squad.

The Attleboro resident is a former high school hoop standout in that city and In less than two seasons proved his worth as a memb'er of the UMASS college squad.

Shockro is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shockro of 51 George Street, Attleboro and is a member of St: John's Parish in that city. He is the younger of two sons and has three younger sisters.

Michael is a graduate of Dean Junior College while Rai Jan and JoAnn are presently students at Thatcher Junior High.

Patricia Lee, youngest of the Shockro family, is a grammar school student.

Although he hasn't scored at a prolific pace this season (1.8 ppg), Head Coach Jack Leaman considers Shockro one of the better defensive players on the roster.

John has seen action in eight of the Redmen's first nine encounters this season and has been used as a swing-man, alternating between the guard and forward slot.

His biggest game this season came in an 80-79 overtime loss to a tough Tennes~ee',lTech team in the annual Evansville Tournament in Indiana.

Trailing by 16 points midway through the second halt the Redmen rallied and eventually tied the game. at the final buzzer in regulation play at 66-66.

John scored a hig basket in the overtime that brought UMASS to within one point (75-74) with one minute lett.

Shockro's efforts when the Redmen used a zone press to get the regulation tie were instrumental in three steals resulting in high praise from his coach.

The 6-2 Shockro suffered an unfortunate injury during the early stages of the 1966-67 season and missed the entire year.

The injury was so serious that it kept him out of school for much of the year as well.

As a freshman he was one of the team's leading scorers as well as defensive aces. His best shot was, and still is, a long outside "Set or jumper.

This season, John is shooting at a 55 per cent clip' from the field as well as the foul line and has pulled down 13 rebounds to rank among the leaders who have seen only limited action.

The figures are considerably better than last year's marks when John boasted a field goal percentage of 40 and a free a three-game lead in the early stages of the second half already underway. New Bedford High will be out to narrow the Fall River club's advantage tomorrow night when the present BCL runners-up meet Coach Tom (Skip) Karam's' pace setters on the latter's court.

Also tomorrow nighit, New Bedford Vocational will play Msgr. Coyle High at Taunton, Bishop Stang will host Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro at Dartmouth and Taunton travels to Attleboro.

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JOHN SHOCKRO throw \ accuracy rate of 50 per cent.

Leaman is hoping that his rugged swing';man can 'regain the shooting form that helped make him one of the brightest freshman prospects ever to grace the UMASS hardwood.

While at Attleboro, John played football and basketball under the watchful eyes and guidance of Jim Cassidy and was

Ask Catholics Back Abortion Bill Veto INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - The Indiana Catholic Conference has urged Catholics to write their state legislators in an effort to block attempts by pro-abortion advocates to pass the vetoed abortion bill.

In its public affairs newsletter, the conference vvarned that the abortion bill, vetoed by Gov. Roger Branigan, may be up !for reconsideration in the near future. The newsletter informed readers that Indiana's House Speaker, Dr. Otis Bowen, has expressed his support for the bill vetoed by the Governor. .The bill, vetoed in the last session of the General Assembly could still become law if a large enough number of legislators OPPOse the Governor's veto.

a member of the Bombardier track team in which he was a high· jumper for Coateh Ray , Charron's squad.

During his senior year, Shockro was awarded the Howard O'Hare Memorial Award as Attleboro's top athletic student and was also tabbed the team's (basketball) most valuable player.

John received the raves of Bristol Count~' League observers who voted him to the AUCounty team during his final basketball season. His fine running maqe him a consistent break-a-way threat on the gridiron.

Shockro is a physical education major and would like to ·be a teacher-coach upon graduation in 1970.

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Church Leaders Score Vandalism In Brooklyn BROOKLYN (NC)-Bishop Francis J. Mugavero of Brooklyn and other religious leaders here issued a joint

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statement condemning recent vandalism in Brooklyn and Long Island as "irresponsible and hateful attempts to hurt our neighbors of whatever faith."

In addition to Bishop, Mugavero, the statement was 'signed

by Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Richard Martin of Long Island; the Rev. Robert W. Howard, president of the Brooklyn division, Protestant Council of the City of New York; and Rabbi Gurt Klappholz, president of the Brooklyn Board ,of Rabbis.

The statement said: "Our religious tradi,tion teaches us that the love of God cannot be separated from the love of our neighbor, nor from respect for our neighbor's person, dignity, feelings and rights. Thus the prophet Micah teaches us: 'This is what the Lord asks of you:' only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6-8).'

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Hateful Attempts "We therefore condemn as contrary to the very heart of our religion, as well as contrary to our American' ,heritage, irresponsible and hateful attempts to hurt our neighbors 'of whatever faith in that which they hold most sacred, their houses of religious worship and study.

"We hope and' pray that no more such attempts will besmirch the good name of our city, and that 'a growing sensitivity to the needs and rights of others will create a spirit of brotherhood that must enrich' us all."

Earlier, Mayor John V. Lind~.ay of New York announced the creation of a special police unit to investigate fires and acts of vandalism in religious institutions. The announcement followed a rash of incidents in synagogues and Jewish community centers at the end of last year.

Lindsay said 32 fires were reported in religioLis institutions last year, 14 in Jewish instHutions. This compared with 27 :eligious institution. fires, eight In Jewish buildings, in 1967.

The mayor said there was no evidence of a city-wide organized effort to desecrate religious buildings.

Youths in Protest At Cardinal's Mass MILAN (NC) -..: Placard-carrying "contestors" invaded St. Ambrose's basilica here during a Mass celebrated by Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua, vicar of Rome.

Shortly after the sermon a group of youths marched to the main altar. One placard they carried said, "Sacraments aren't administered with gold." Another said: "We want a church for the poor."

Local police came to the basiHca and the youths filed out of the church. Cardinal Dell'Acqua continued the Mass without further incident.

Insatiable Desire In men of the highest character, and noblest genius' 'there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power and glory.-Cicero.

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