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1lo..I 5 © 1971 The Anchor $4.00 per yoar O PRICE lOft Seek Par.ish Coverage

Reach. ,Parishioners With The Anchor Several pastors today are considering a parish coverage plan as The Anchor prepares for the beginning of its 15th publication year. Home-delivered subscirptions have climbed steadily in the years since this diocesan newspaper began publication in April, 1957.

In a recent interview, Richard M. Guilderson, Jr. a nationally known communications expert, stated "the most expensive and practical way to reach today's parishioners with a regular religious information and education program is through the diocesan newspaper."

On Oct. ,8, 1970, The Anchor introduced the series entitled: "Know Your Faith." In commenting on this innovation, Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Diocesan Director of the Confraternity of Chris·

tian Doctrine, stated, "this weekly program is really a part of a deeper effort at meeting the needs of Christian education today."

In a recent survey, it was found that more than 80 per cent of readers followed "Know Your Faith Series" and that one fifth 'of the readers were under 20 years of age. .

Mr. Guilderson concluded his interview with the observation that "when you consider that it costs more for one lay teacher in a parish school to teach math or Ertglish to a' few students than it does 'to send the diocesan newspaper to every family in the parish, you can see why so many pastors and parish councils are providing this service to all their people."

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Bishop Appoints Pas/tors For Three Parishes: Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin today appointed Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, present pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish

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Appointed as pastors of parishes they are presently administering were: Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira at St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford; Rev.Francis B. Connors at Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville.

The three appointments are effective on Thursday, Feb. II, 1971.

Father Sullivan Born Dec. 12, 1910 in Fall River, Rev. Leo T. Sullivan is the son of the late John and the late Julia (Driscoll) Sullivan.

Aftet: elementary education at St. Mary's Cathedral School aM secondllry studies at B.M.C. Durfee High School, he prepared for the Priesthood at St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md. and St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester, N.Y. He was ordained to the Priest· hood on June 15, 1935 by Most Rev. James E. Cassidy and has Turn to Page Two

IVisibly Authentic l Prie-sts Need of Modern .Church NEW YORK (NC) - A threeday conference on "The COl1version of Religion," which. attracted more than 700 Episcopal priests bent on updating themselves theologically, ended here Jan. 30 with a plea that clergy should show themselves "visibly authentic" in their calling.

The Rev. Robert E. Terwilliger, director of Trinity institute, sponsor of the gathering, told priests at the session that people today "want to know whether we are authentic" and whether they can "discern from us that we are men of God." Too many clergy, he said, have been operating on the premise that "if we conform to the ,world enough, we will minister to men more effectively." This has not produced bigger church attendances. Also, there is a pitfall in being "renewed out of existence....

Dr. Terwilliger's remarks summarized a series of talks by scholars, including two Catholic speakers.

"Like all aspects of human nature, religion is in need of redemption," Dr. Terwilliger said, discussing the conference, held for the second successive year. "This is true of the bizarre new mysticisms which are emerging. It is equally true of the ecclesiastical piety which seems so unreal and boring to millions.

"It is time to think again."

The "rethinking" theme emerged frequently in both the prepared talks and the reactions of clergy paritcipants who discussed Christian transcendence, secular mysticism and "life and death" symbols.

"In the Church, we see a tendency to reduce the church hour to an immediate experience

which, in turn, will payoff in social service afterwards," said Louis Dupre, professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. He urged against using religiou.s symbols "for kicks" to bring about a do-good religious experience among people, instead of having them realize that religious symb.ols mean "a confrontation in faith with the transcendent."

Father .Louis_ Bouyer, French Catholic theologian and liturgical authority who is currently visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence, advised that "the Eucharist is first of all an act of faith. If there is some joy expressed in celebration, it must flow sp.ontaneously. But if you have artificial tricks to produce joy, then that's just silly."

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Divine· Worship Commission Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin today restructured the Diocesan Commissions for Liturgy, Sacred Music, and Sacred Art. He has, in their stead, constituted one single commission: the Commission for Divine Worship.

The new commission is made up of three executive board members, 15 lll!lmbers, 5 consultants. Representatives inch.lde members of the c1ergy,Religious congregations and the laity.

Chairtnl1I1 of the hew Com mis-

sion is Rev. James F. Lyons, pastor of St. Mary Parish, Taunton.

Vice-Chairman is Rev. Msgr.

Reginald M. Barrette, Chancellor and pastor of Notre Dame Parish, Fall River. Secretary is Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, assistant ·pastor of. St. Patrick Parish, Fall River.

The three officers of the commission will also make up its. executive board. .

Gendreau, pastor of St. Jacques Parish, Taunton; Rev. Edward J. Byington, assistant pastor ·of St. John the Evangelist' Parish, Attleboro; Rev. Arthur T. DeMello, assistant pastor of Our Lady of Turn to Page Twelve

Nihe of the regUlar tnembers of the commission are priests; one is a Brother; two are Religious Sisters; three are of the laity. . They are: Rev. Msgr. Alfred J.

The Anchor Ir~prlnts on Page 6 a Fall River Herald News editorial on the Catholic schools crisis.

OFM Shrine Anniversary Most Rev. Daniel. A. Cronin, Bishop of the. Diocese of Fall River, will be principal concelebrant at a Mass of Thanksgiving at 5:15 on Friday evening, Feb. 5 in Our Lady's Chapel to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the dedication of New Bedford's Downtown Service Chapel.

At the invitation of His Excellency, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, at that time Bishop of Turn to Page Two

Catholic Schools Entrance Exams On February 6 All the' Cathoiic high schools in the Diocese of Fall River will conduct Entrance and ..Placement Examinations for new students at 8:30 on Saturday morning, Feb. 6. Students wishing to enter any of these schools next September should report to the schooi of their choice.

With plans for the mergers of the five high schools being finalized, the' Bishop .Gerrard High School in Fall River. will wel'.Turn to Page Two

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Sister Mary Sylvia' Rice New High· School Head Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, D.Ed., St. Mary's Academy for the past Superintendent of Diocesan two years. Sister Sylvia received Schools, has announced the ap- her B.A. from Salve Regina and pointment of Sister Mary Sylvia Turn to Page Three Rice, R.S.M. as principal of Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River.

'The appointment was made after weeks of consultation with faculty members and religious superiors. All present faculty members of Dominican Academy, Jesus Mary Academy and Mount St. Mary Academy received a personal letter from Father O'Neill requesting' information and recommendations for the position. The responses were most gratifying with over 85 per cent of the teachers responding. An overwhelming majority · recommended that Sister Mary · Sylvia be named as principal Qf the new Diocesan Girls 'High School in Fall River:·.·. , Sister Mary Sylv.ia Ric.c is- a' native of Woonsocket,. a member.', of the Study Commission' of th~·· Religious Sisters' of Nfercy, and' 'has served as principal of Mount Sister Mary Sylvia Rice, RSM I

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MENDOZA (NC)-Plans for a new cathedrai that may pay for itself have been approved by Bishop Olimpio Maresma, apostolic administrator of the Mendoza diocese here in Argentina.

The cathedral, to be built in downtown Mendoza on the same, spot as the old one; will be part of an eight-story apartment com'plex. The ground floor 'will house two stores.

DIOCESE 'OF FALL ,RIVER

OFFICIAL APPOINT~ENTS

Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, pasto~. of Im'm~culate Conception' Parish, North Easton, to Holy Name Parish, ~ew. Bedford, as pastor.

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The diocese expects' the new church to pay for itself through rental and sale of the building's 41 units. Any excess revenue will be given to charity, Bishop Olimpio said.

The foundation ,of the old cathedral was weakened ·by· frequent earthquakes, and the buildin~ ,is now considered unsafe.

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Continued from Pag'e O~e ," . \ He has served as assistant passerved in numerous posts throughout the Diocese..He has tor at St. Elizabeth Parish, Fall River; Our Lady' of Mt. Carmel f been pastor of St: Ann Parish, All appointments are effective on Thursday, Fe~b. 11,·1971.

Raynham and Immacul~~e Con- Parish, New Bedford; St. John " the Baptist Parish, New Bedford. ce'ption Parish, North Easton.

Since August 1969" Father FerHe returns to Holy Nam~ Par'ish, New Bedford, where he reira has served as Administrator Bishop ,of Fall River served as assistant pastor for of St. John the Baptist Parish, some 18 years. Father Sullivan .New Bedford. He is also, Notary also was the New Bedford Arf~a and Advocate of the Diocesan Chaplain for the. Boy Scouts; Tribunal.'

New Bedford Area, Director of, Father Connors ' Continued from Page' One The littl~ Chapel. was dedi- th~ . C.Y.O.; Director of the. DiRev. Francis B. Connors, the .

'Fall River, the Franciscan Friars cated to Our Lady under the ocesan Personnel Board. .

I .' , son of the late Francis and the of the Province of the Most title of "Queen of the Franqscan ,·Father Ferreira; late Mary (Minahan) Connors, Holy Name, came to New Bed· Order." was born' in Taunton on May ford to establish a Down Town The new pastor of St. John The Provincial of the Francis14, 1925.

Service Ch'apel. can Friars at that time Very ,the Baptist Parish, New Bedford, After persuing studies at St. It began in a leased building, Rev. Celsus' R. Wheeler, O.F.M., was born in' Provincetown on Mary's' School and Monsignor the Leahy Building, at, 572 in his letter of congratulations .. January 24, 1930. He is the son Pleasant Street, May 22, 1956. to the pion'eer priests at the ,of Geneviev.e (Santos) Ferreira Coyle High School in Taunton, Father Connors continued on to Father David Fleming, O.F.M. Chapel reminded them "on this 'an? the late John Ferreira. the Priesthood ,at St. Charles was the pioneer Rector of this day of dedication, it is our After elementary and second~ew undertaking assisted by prayer that !'1ary will prosper ary education, in Provincetown, College, Catonsville, Md. and St. Rev..Eugene Malek, Q.F.M..' and the efforts ?f' jthe" Fri~r,~ jn,~ t,hi~ Father Ferreira studied for the John's Seminary in Brighton.

Ordained to the Priesthood on' Rev. Philip Lavere, O.F.M. new chapel dedicated to Her. Priesthood at'St. Mary Seminary, June 3, 1950 by Most Rev: James May Our Ladi's Chapel in New St. Mary, Kentucky; St. Mary L. ConnQlly, Father Connors Bedford be a' new mother chapel Seminary, Baltimore, Md. served at St. Kilian Parish, New from which the spirit of St. Most Rev. James L.•Connolly Bedford, and Sacred Heart ParContinued from Page One Francis of Asslsi will reach into ordained Father Ferreira to the come students who were plan. ish, Taunton, before going to ning to attend Jesus-Mary Acad- the offices, the factories, the Priesthood at St. Mary's Cathe· Our Lady of Victory Parish, Cenemy, Dominican Academy and homes, the minds and hearts of terville, as administrator.

Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall the good people of the New The new pastor of the Cape H F Debaters Bedford area."

River. , parish, while he served in Taun- .

Janine Bourassa, and Marsha The Coyle-Cassidy High School There is no doubt that the 'Moses, both seniors at. HolY' ton, also was the C.Y.O. Director in Taunton, preparing for its Friars under the 'inspiration of Family High School, New Bed- of the Taunton' Area; Director first cooed group to formally reg- Our Lady' succeeded in their ford, placed third in a champion- of Pre-Cana Conferences for the ister, will offer the entrance task of bringing God's grace Taunton Area; Chaplain of the ship switch-side debant tournaexamination at the Taunton in- . and blessings to the people of ment at Dartmouth. College last Juvenile Court in Taunton;Cathstitution at Adams and Hamil· the area.

I weekend, competing with teams olic Charities Appeal Director ton Streets, Taunton.

The cornerstone of the present from 68 New England,_ New for the Taunton Area.

In addition to the' foremen- Chapel and Fri~ry at 600 PleasYork and Maryland schools. tioned schools, the following ant Stre'et was: laid and the forWith a record, of 6 wins arid 2 schools will also give examina-, mal blessing of! the new building losses, the Holy Family students took place on Feb. 5, 1961. His tions: . made the cut-offs to become Inc. Attleboro: 'Bishop Feehan High Excellency Most Rev. James L. quarterfinalist's. They defeated School, for boys and girls.

Connolly presided in the pres-Bishop Guertin High ,School of Fall River: Academy of the ence' of a gat~ering of priests Funeral Service Sacred. Hearts, for girls; Bishop ilnd the laity. from the, greater ' New Hampshire, then los~ to ~t.

Edward F. Carney Brendan's of New York in the Conno'ily High School, for b,oys. New Bedford area.

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New Bedford: Holy, Family After the Mass, His Excellency New Bedford 999-6222 High School, boys and girls; St. will greet the P1eople ·who are in Serving the area sfnce 1921 Anthony High School, boys and attendance.

I . ' girls. . All are' cordially invited to No. Dartmouth: Bishop Stang participate in ~his happy occaFunerfld HOllie sion. ,, High School, boys and girls.

550 Locust Street " : The examination and applicaFall River, Mass. tion procedure' will last until 'P'ope Asks, Families about 1 2 : 3 0 . . ' 672-2391 There will be a three dollar" To Defend Rights .Rose E; Sullivan fee, payable at. the time of the VATICAN CITY (NC)-CathJeffrey E. Sullivan examination. olic families h~ve an "inalien'I

Rev. Francis B. Connors, from administrator to pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville.

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, FEB. 10 Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, 1966, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield. , FEB. 11 Rev. John O'Connell, 1910, Founder, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro.

Rev. John J. Sullivan, S.T.L:, 1961, Late Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River.

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Bishop Ordained In Portland

OFFICIAL RESTRUCTURE OF THE DIOCESAN COMMISSIONS FOR LITURGY, MUSIC AND SACRED ART DIOCESAN COMMISSION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP

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A. EXECUTIVE BOARD Rev. James F. Lyons, Chairman, St. Mary's Paris~, Taunton Rev.. Msgr. Reginald M. Barrette, Vice~Chairman, Chancellor of the Diocese of Fall River, Notre Dame Parish, Fall River.

Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, Secretary, St. Patrick's Parish, Fall River.

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Rev. Arthur T. DeMello, Our Lady of Health Parish, Fall River.

Rev. Daniel L. Freitas, Santo Christo ?arish, Fall River.

Rev. Gabriel Healy, SS.CC., Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham.

Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill, St. Paul's Parish, Taunton.

Rev. Donald Paradis, M.S., LaSalette Provincial House, Attleboro.

Rev. John J. Regan, St. Patrick's Parish, Falmouth.

EPISCOPAL ORDINATION: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall,River, is shown imposing hands during ordination to the episcopacy of Most Rev. Edward C. O'Leary, auxiliary Bishop of Portland, Maine, as Portland Ordinary, Most Rev. Peter L. Gerety, watches at right.

Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Diocesan C.C.D. Office, Fall River.

PORTLAND (NC) - A former Maine pastor who only "wanted to be a good priest" was ordained auxiliary bishop of the Portland diocese at Immaculate Conception cathedral here.

"As bishop, I dedicate myself to minister to all," said Bishop Edward C. O'Leary, "to the poor, the sorrowing, the distressed, to youth, to married people, parents, the aged, Religious and to everybody."

"I salute and pledge cooperation to all who share the same Christian faith," the new auxiliary continued, "and to my Jewish brethren with whom we have a common heritage."

Bishop Peter 1.. Gerety of Portland was principal consecra, tor for the ceremony, conducted in English for the first time in the 100-year history of the cathedral.

Co-consecrators were Bishop Bernara J. Flanagan of Worcester and Auxiliary Bishop Lawrence P. Graves of Little Rock, Ark., both long-time friends of the new bishop.

Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston presided and acted as principal celebrant for the Mass of Ordination. Over 1,400 people attended.

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CINCINNATI (NC) - ' Father Vincent J. Della Rocco has been appointed director of the newly established Mission Secretariat Sister Ruth Kindelan, S.U.S.C., Bishop Cassidy Convent, for the Verona Fathers in the Pittsburg Priests Cali for Return Taunton.

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To Simplicity of Christ He will make his headquarters Sister Mary Nathan Doherty, R.S.M., St. Lawrence Conat the community's Sacred Heart PITTSBURGH (NC)-Members the poor cannot accept this intolvent, New Bedford.

Seminary, Forestville, Ohio. He of the Association of Pittsburgh erable distortion of the Gospel. said his work will include planMr. Normand A. Gingras, 258 South Main Str~et, Fall River.

Priests, an alliiance of 75 of the He must join the poor in their ning overseas ne~d projects indiocese's pastors and assistant struggle for dignity. He mllst enAttorne~ Paul M. Rockett, 45 Preston Road, Attleboro. pastors, called for 'a return to courage them to claim what is' volving agricultural, child welfare, maternity centers, dispenthe simplicity of Christ in the rightfully theirs." .

Mrs. Robert E. O'Neill, Mount Vernon Avenue, Hyannissaries, small hospitals and adult Father Donald McIlvane, paslife styles of priests. port. and children leprosy aid proIn an eight-page statement re- tor of St. Richard's church here C. CONSULTANTS leased here, association members and one of the statement's au- grams. pointed out that publicity given thors, told NC News that it Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, St. William's Parish, priests tends to focus on celibacy amounted to "a statement to Fall River, Consultant and Liaison with Diocesan Building and and obedience and ignores Chris- those who want to listen."

Finance Commission. tian simplicity.

Rev. William G. Campbell, St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, Urging priests to reflect in Musical Consultant.

OIL COMPANY their own lives the service of the WEAR poor, the statement added: Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, Chancery Office, Fall River, Shoes That Fit "A priest filled with the spirit Consultant on Ganon Law. "THE FAMILY SHOE STORE" of Christ should consider it his Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Supt., Diocesan School Department, greatest, privilege to serve in a Fall River, Educational Consultant. poor parish. 'Too often in casual South 0 Sea Streets clerical conversation, priests reRev. Kevin F. Tripp, St. Patrick's Parish, Fall River, Litur43 FOURTH STREIET fer to the 'best' parish as that gical Consultant.

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Fall River OS 8-5811 est buildings and the greatest amount of what the world calls 'prestige.'

Bishop of Fall River "This is not to say that the Church should not minister to "THE DIFFERENT 90 DAY ACCOUNT" the middle or upper class ... It is to say very clearly that priests Propose Candidate should see the poorest parish as per annum min. $500. the 'best parish.' It should be the UNITED NATIONS (NC) Continued from Page One No Notice required after 90 Finland, in an unusual move, desire of every priest to' serve a days on withdrawals made with路 poor parish." has proposed Max Jacobson, its an M.A. in Religious Education in 10 days of each interest The statement criticized priests from Providence College. She chief delegate at the United Naperiod. tions, as the next secretary genwho live humbly among the poor has attended Rhode Island Coleral" of the world organization. but remain silent about injuslege, Hampton Institute, FordIMMEDATE INTEREST - COMPOU'NDED QUARTERLY ham University and St. Michael's That proposal followed the an- tices which cause poverty. It (intere:;t exempt from Mass. Income tax) College. She has served as Head nouncement by the present sec- also charged that wealthy people of. the Department of Religion retary general, U Thant of who support such priests with at St. Mary's Academy, Bay Burma, that he has "no inten- conscience money, are "trying to View; president of the Rhode 'tion whatever" of remaining in cleanse themselves of the injus-,,: island Debate League and has office beyond the end of the tices they themselves have creNorth Main' St. 149 GAR Hwy, Rte 6 given in-service courses in Reli- current year, when his term ex- ated."

Fall River Somerset pires.

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When Will, WorldWel,fare ,,'Be Tpk'en' for Gran'ted Any human community survives to a Iconsiderable extent because' of the number' of things its members take for granted. H9w would a modern' democracy contrive. to , carry on if its entire educati~nal system ihad to be remtroduced every year because I .I ' " h h But in our global VII age no one was 'sur,e 'wet er h' h' \" 1 1 l'n'ked bv .., , .

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I. ..', . . pos~· -uniform, rules on· mternational carrierS. 'But "when we By',. come to the, real core of. cqmmuI ",' " ' nity-the central concept of the , BARBARA general welfate---there is not a single policY"rtot,a single obligation, not a single service that WARD year in, yeat out; we accept without afterthoughts, that' we recognize as ~he way in which; as members Of community, "we normally and" ~el(-evident1y must , Just as the human body behave. ; , would be crippled if it had to This is the. si~nifiance of the ":...00& , 'undertake, consciously, all the only major act of polity to KNIGHTS OF ALTAR: New Knights of Altar at St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro, preprocesses of digestion and blood emerge from ,the recent General pare for reception of distinctive cassocks to be worn while serving Mass. With Rev. supply, so every healthy comAssembly, cel~brating the 25th munity simply takes many of its A'1niversarv; I of the United Normand Boulet are, from'left, Richard Crory, 'Donald Courbonne, Robert Figuerado, to most basic need~ absolutely for 'Nations. Perh~ps "act" is too be installed as pages and Michael Rocha, su preme grand knight of o~ganization. granted. People would as soon strong a word: to describe 'what reconsider schools, hospitals and was actuallv onlv a rc;eolution. fire stations as they would naYet, unlike bost U.N. resolutional existence itself. tions, this was passed ,unaniBut the trouble about the mously and : it pledged the wider world community in which wealthy nations ·to the transfer, we have inescapably t~ live, the of one' per ceht .bLtheir gross "I don't-speak directly about There are 55 boys in St. Jo- . ,after covering their, own run, "village world" of planet Earth 'national produbt (the sum of-the' seph's parish, Attleboro; who ning ,expenses. the priesthood to the boys,''' said j .

-,-is that it enjoys none of these goods~ and services -they-produce) 'have no time to get into mis- ,The Knights of the Altar de, Father Boulet. ''I' let them see normal, 'taken-for-granted ser- to the poorer Hmds in the shape chief. They're Knights of the AI- signed their monk-like white for themselves how priests act vices and institutions. of financial re~ources for 'invest- tar and they're kept busy prac- cassocks, which were then made and live by means of visits to Or rather, there seems to, be ment in development over the tically, non-~top by Rev. Nor- by women of the parish, with seminaries, ministers of other . only one international .activity 'next decade. Clearly,' this upani-' - mand ~o~let and a committ~e of the boys making crosses to be faiths and such special privileges which most nations can be,per- mous resolution, if it is observed' 12 parIshIOners led by Leo PIette., wqrn with them. as our coming visit' to A~chpish­ " suaded to accept virtuail~, withop Medeiros.

Last year, for example, the The orgimization is divided in, out question-,-and that is, prep- as a permanent, accepted part area churches ' : to five "groups: grand knights, of normal intetgovernmental beyoungsters visited "Next to saying Mass and ad,aration ,against the day -. when havior, could"b¢'.a first :vital step and syhagogues, made a parent, who wear red cords; knight ministering the sacraments," said war may break out. True, this for~ard, m~king world welfare sc;m retreat at La Sal~t~e Ceilter ._ commanders;. green. cords;, ~he Attleboro priest, "I, feel that need, is legislated for on a na-, an internationa,l fact. ' , ' for.

Christian Living, de~igned knights" blue cords;' and' pages, a priest's main responsibility is "tiona} basis.' Butit.s purpose is Not Yet i Convinced theIr own cassocks and Jacket purple, cords. Apprerltices do not to make sure that there are boys , more t1)an national since, except But .Western' governments, so patches as well as a priest's vest- wear cassocks or, serve' Mass, who will discover and live what in tragic civil W>l.rs, neople do far have done Ino more than ex- ment, made banners, an Advent but are permitted to sit in the God has planned for them; hope, not arm to fight themselves. , pr~ss their willingness -"to try." wreath, ~hristmas c~rds fqr the sanctuary, Each group is headed fully, for some, the priesthood."

Reason for Risk Yet this complete barrenness , Why do they Hesitate? It is not elderly m ~he parIsh and an by a captain' and the chief officer, or supreme grand knight, of our planetary life, this almost' a matter of e~pense. One per outdoor Christmas manger.

That was only part of it:. they is distinguished by a gold cord, total absence of shared services cent of gross inational product The ANCHOR and activities is one of..the per- in most countries is not a fifth saw Red Sox games in Boston The present- supreme 'grand vasive, doom-laden reasons for of wasteful, obsolete arms ex- and Pa~tucket.. had a swim party, knight is Michael Rocha.

• TYPE SET area points New K' ' the risk of wars. an 'insane ,penditure. It is:,not more than a made . several trips to' . mg ht s 0. f th e Alt ar were • PRINTED BY OFFSET way, we take for granted the third of, average annual growth of mterest, served on commIttees 'installed and invested with their, risk of planetary hos-tiiity. But rates. It is a gdpd deal less than to plan small group Masses, held cassocks at a ceremony last • MAILEDwe do not take for granted any a half of what i~ spent each year a father-son outmg and ~ere month and upcoming on the or- BY'. THE I a~o~g mourne.rs at the coffm of ganization's ,agenda this month of the policies which might les- on liquor. is it visit to Archbishop Hum-.

No, the. trut'1 is that govern- Cardmal Cushmg. sen hostility and, -at a deeper level, give us the national hope ments heSItate because they are Design Cassocks berto Medeiros at his episcopal of international peace; not sure. whet~er their .citizens The boys participated in "flea residence in Brighton and' a tour FALL RIVER . Take, for instance, the ~oncept are ~,onvmced. I~f t,~e rightness _market" sales to raise money for and attendance at Mass at St. of "the general welfare:' Except and automatlcness 'of welfare _ new altar candles, cruets and . .John's Seminary, in a few short periods of excep- at the world level.. They do not processional crosses, and as their tional ferocity - for instance, kno~ whether I the~r . peop~e major fund-raising 'effort of the during the onsla'ught, of the in- ~ho mclude the, ChrIStian mmo~- year hel~' a whist' party and dustrial revolution in the first Ity of ~lanet ~arth - see .t?elr gave the parish a gift of $1200 half of the '19th Century-:-it has brother 10 ever~ needy, aspmng, .

Rt. 6 at The Narrows in North \yes!port always been taken for granted troubled, hopeful child of man Urges State Aid that within a genuine commu- -or confine th~ir "normal" obWhere The nity, t,he fortunate, the healthly, ligations to fello~ citizens living, AUSTIN .(NC) - Archbishop the ,vigorous, and the young help with them, in th,e relativeweaIth Francis J. Furey, Texas Catholic' Entire.. Family the aged, fe~ble, the poor, and of Western lands.

Conference board chairman, unCan Dine : the' sick. derscored the need (or state aid Economically , Foreign ,Religious., to non public schools, now in "a Mankind's early tribal communities, carried the, principle to the BOGOTA (NC) ':'""" The contri- life, and death struggle" because point of sharing, everything with butions of foreign priests and , of ,mounting operational :costs.

FOR , the group, whatever the individ-· Religious to the Church in Latin The San' Antonio archbishop is", RESERVATIONS ual contribution.: The sharing, America will bel discussed at an, sued, a statement as the state' . PHONE the responsibility in fact ex- international m~eting in Mexiso legislature indicated a. readiness 675·7185 .presses' the fundamental idea of City Feb. 8-12, i~ was announ'ced to consider - proposed legislation community. ' I here. to provide some form of aid. ~

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AT FOOD SERVICE RETREAT: Brothers, Sisters and rectory housekeepers join in unique retreat for food se-rvice personnel held at Holy Cross Retreat. House, North Easton. At conferences, in left picture, clock) wise from left, Brother Xavier Marion, Franciscan Brothers; Mrs. Therese Pombriant, St.,Philip's Rectory, Auburn, Me.; Si!lter Eugenia, F.M.M.; Rev. William Beston, C.S.C., Holy Cross Vocational Director, North Easton; Sister Madon~a Therese, Educatjonal Directress 'of Food Research Center;

Miss Mary Sullivan, Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton; Sister Olga Rakais, Grey Sisters of Immaculate Conception, Canada; Miss Regina Devalt, St. Peter's parish, Westfield, Mass. In right picture, Sister Eileen Emberely, Presentation Sisters; Brother Tim<)thy Mahoney, Christian Brothers; Brother Joseph Messina, Franciscan 'Brothers; Sister Jeanette Levesque, Daughters of the Holy Spirit; Sister Mabel LaRose, Sisters of the 'Assumption.

Priests' Senate Rect~ry H~usekeepers, ..Rel·igious ,at' Retreat Backs School Aid Geared for Food Service Personnel CORPUS CHRISTI (NC)-The Corpus Christi diocesan Senate "

By MARION 'CURRAN of Priests has given its full support to a bill that would authorAn experiment in communicaize the state to pay part of the tion between lay and religious salaries of lay teachers in nonwas conducted last week at Holy public schools.

Cross Retreat House at StoneWithout passage of the bill, hill College, North Easton and the priests said, "the quality of pronounced an unqualified suceducation will decline." They . cess by all participants. urged citizens to support a bill The occasion was a week-long now before the state' legislature retreat for religious brothers and which would permit non public sisters involved professionally in school aid. food service. the difference in The priests acknowledged that this retreat was that lay rectory the cost of operating n'onpublic housekeepers in the area were ·chools "has mounted so rapidly also invited to participate. ~nrl continues to mount at such "When I arrived, I expect,ed a rapid rate as to threaten their to see all lay people," said Miss anility' to survive." For the first Mary A. Sullivan of Immaculate time non public schools are forced Conception Rectory in Taunton, to ask for some finflncial aid to "SO I was quite fearful when I continue their service, the priest sawall the sisters and brothers. said.

But they accepted us immediateThe Church and the schools ly as people doing similar work are not asking for money 'direct- and having similar problems."

Iv. According to the Senate, "the In no time, all were exchanging proposed legislation would per- recipes and ideas pertinent to mit lay teachers to be paid df- serving food.

Food for Thought rectly for performing services to "Most of these people are the state. namely, teaching mathematics, science, languages, alone in a kitchen all day,'" exphysical education and other plained Sister Madonna Therese, Vocational Directress at the special subjects."

Food Service Institute and' organizer of the retreat. "They Delaware Assembly have little or no communication with others in their same situaPonders Parochiaid tion. This week gave them a WILMINGTON (NC) - A hot chance to get out and share item on the agenda of Delatheir ideas, problems and goals ware's 126th General Assembly with people in the same ·work. is parochiaid - appropriation of There was a comfortableness state money to non public schools. about the group. The' rectory Legislation regarding paro- housekeepers fitted in beautichi{lid is expected to be intro- ,fully." duced early in the assembly session. which opened Jan. 26, acPriest-Pilot Killed cording to a report in The DelBOGOTA (NC) - Colombia's marva Dialog, weekly newspaper first and only priest-pilot, Franof the Wilmington diocese. ciscan Father Gustavo Ramirez, "On the chopping block are at and three' of his companions least four Catholic schools which were killed here when their plane crashed in a heavy storm. will close this year if state aid isn't, arranged," diocesan . school Father Ramirez was chaplain of sunerintendent Father Howard the Colombian air force and held Clark told the Dialog. the rank of lieutenant.

l.egislature Faces School Aid Decision

MONTPELIER (NC) The newly convened session of the Vermont legisiature is about to "I enjoyed every bit of it from were from Massachusetts, Con- decide the fate of a bill asking beginning to end," said Miss necticut, Maine, New Hampshire, $1.2 million in state aid for nonSullivan. "When I go back to New York and Pennsylvania. public schools.

Taunton I'll have a much better Sister Madonna Therese, a SisUp for consideration is a bill . idea of my work. When I talk ter of St. Francj,s, declared her- drafted by a subcommittee of the to these people who have to s~if;nore than pleased both with Burlington diocesan school board serve 150 or more' people at a the turnout and with the result.s.. and scheduled to be introduced time, what I do seems simple "The people who have been here by Rep. Thomas Candon; Demonow. And it was so interesting can't wait to go home and give cratic Minority leader of Rutto learn how to treat people on to others what they have learned. land. He is a member of the dispecial. diets and how to prepare They feel encouraged and ocesan school board and particia lot of frozen foods." strengthened in their work,". she pated in construction of the legTwo other housekeepers, Mrs. added. "Many expect to keep in' islation.

Theresa Penbriant of St. Philip's touch with each other, and when A key section in the bill states Rectory in' Auburn, Maine, and they have to plan a buffet or' a that "education for all children Miss Regina Devalt of'St. Peter's banquet" often very fancy occaof Vermont is the obligation of Rectory in Westfield, Mass., sions, they can exchange ideas all; equal OPp()itunity for all is agreed that perhaps the best and recipes which they have essential." part of the retreat was their, found successful with others in complete acceptance by the the same position." group and its friendinless and "They get so many ideas from helpfulness. each other," said Sister. "It's "It's been a wonderful experithis total sharing in any group, 43 RODNEY FRENCH BLVD. ence for me," said Mrs. Penbri- I think, which is the most fr:uitNEAR COVE RD. NEW BEDFORD ant. "I received so many ideas ful. You just can't help but beAll Your Money Insured Against loss I can really use." come a better person as a reAll Personal loans life Insured Response to the rereat was so sult."

Home Mortgages on Easy Terms Special Deposits DoubJe at Death great, the group had to be split, She will direct five other such Bank in Person or by Mall 30 people going to Round Hill. retreats this year: in Louisiana Welcome Into Dur Credit Union Family Retreat House in South Dart- in February; in Colorado in' Open Dai:y 9 am·2 pm Fri. 6·8 pm mouth. There Sister Ludmilla of April; in Wisconsin in May and -ParkingCincinnati, Ohio, was in charge in Toronto and Cincinnati in CLOSED SATURDAYS of the retreat which was con- August. ducted by Rev. Richard Sullivan, C.S.C.

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Learned More Than Taught Rev. William Heston, C.S.C., Vocational Director for the Holy Cross Fathers, conducted the re. treat on the Stonehill campus.

In Father Beston's opinion, "I learned more, this week than, I taught. This is the first I:etreat I've given for the food service people, and I. found in them a wisdom, a common sense approach to life. Their lives are centered in the kitchen and Ws amazipg how many people come to them with their troublespeople who would be unwilling to speak up to someone else.

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The council, according to a recent letter from the bishop to pastors throughout the diocese, will be comprised of 20 members of the laity_two elected by each deanery March 14-three dioc, esan priests, two Sisters, one Religious priest, one Brother, a member of the Diocesan Catholic Youth Organization and five other members appointed by the bishop: .

The council, the bishop explained, "will serve to coordinate the efforts of the local . parishes and the various diocesan commissions and agencies in the .fields of liturgy. ecumenism, education, family life, sQcial action and all other areas of pastoral 'concern,"

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The Anchor is grateful to the Fall Ri~er' Herald News for permission' to reprint the Ifollowing editorial from the February 1 edition of the Fall Rlver daily' newspaper. :

Having been among the first in the ndtion t~ sound the warning that the Catholic parochial schopl. system was in danger of foundering on financial icebergs, Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill criticism of the "largely negative re~ponse" to the crisis by public school officials cannot be ignored. ,

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Long before the 'nationwide cry of in the' paro" .chial school ranks was raised', the diocesa,n superintendent of schools here was asking for serious! consideration of the problem at the municipal and state govbrnment level.

He offered a shared resources' plan' that SUbSequently was introduced' elsewhere in the state and is operative. Here it was· barred as unconstitutional. How a plan can be' legal in one community in Massachusetts a'nd illegal in another remains a mystery.

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Father O'Neill has not directed' his warnings to public officials alone. He told pastors and religioJsI supervisors • throughout the diocese of the rapidly mounting problem.

With the diocesan board .of education, he fashioned a plan of regional schools for Fall River. It failed 't6 win support among priests and people of parishes whose Ischools were involved. Last week it was abandoned. . .

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I To many wpo have been and still are com&lacent about the closing of these parochial schools;' the acd.on m~ans increased city spending and additional taxe~.For three. diocesan-fif.lanced s;c;,ho()ls ..,a!1d,~h.at Jew parilsh-supported schools survive canna.! accommodate the 'nearly 5,000 pupils now: .getting. th,eir:basic edu,cation ~n parochial schools. These boys and girls will move into an already I crowded public school system.

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VENICE (NC)-A preliminary step toward the possible canonization of the late Pope John' XXIII was, completed 'here with an examination of his life, wor~s and writings by bishops- of the Venice. region. .

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This means facilities, Jore teaching' personnel, more supervisors, more. principals,1 more mainThe' 92 session~ of the inq~iry tenance staffing-all of which adds up to mordexpense and were held in the church of st. in turn to more taxes. I I '

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Archbishop - Albino' .' Luciani, the pr~s~nt patriarch ~of Venice, along with the judges of the inq~iry, signed the findings of the examination, which will be seht to the .. Vatican's Congregation . for. the. Causes of· Saints for fur-~. ther. investigation.

Although ·sentimen.t has. run high fora' speedY canonization of Pope John, the Vatican has repeatedly emphasized that there can be no' short cut's to canonization.

In June, 1966, the Vatican approved the appointment Of Franciscan Father Antonio Cairoli to be postulator, or advocate, for Pope John's beatification cause. : ;' P~p~F~n~IJ~dge

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,After,a.person is beatified' perc mission is 'granted for his public veneration, and he is given the title of Blessed. The Pope is the final judge" of whether or not· a person should be beatified and then finally canonized' 'and included in the list of saints. .

The tomb of Pope John is one of the most frequently visited areas in St. Peter's' Basilica in Rome, Numerous' bunches' of flowers are placed on the tomb' daily~ . 'At- the final' session of the.

Venice inquiry, 'Archbishop Loris Capovilla ofChleti, Italy~ former private s~cretary to Pope John praised' the late Pope for his "serene fa.ith, firm hope and.. unchanging' exercise of charity,': If such qualities' are not' enough to prove that Pope John was, "a faithful disciple of Christ from his early. youth to his death"," life "is an illusion, and that: t~e .goal set by Christ is . unattainable."

Conti,nued from Page One vicar of All Saints Anglican.

Church in London, urged; "We need to recapture that kind of synthesis that we left more than 400 years ago-a synthesis that talks of one world in truly transcendent terms, that knows God both in, through, and beyond the world."

Questioned over coffee-cups between sessions, which' were held at St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's Episcopal School, .c1ergy P'!~t.icipa~ts silid that. w!li.!~rt:ryf EpIscopal Church ehjQyed' if"su(plus'· cif tJ(:~rgy,' a "confusIon' in life style" of priests is widespread, and many are opting against the parish ministry.

The Rev. LJoyd M.etheny of Holy Apostles Episcopal Church; Mitchell, Neb., express'ed the need to be updated; and to maintain dialogue with students from Hiram Scott College near his ranchland parish.

"So often our theological language i$ outdated," observed the Rev: John Crum of CoblE;skill, .

N. Y., . a .community of 4,000, who has _also' been attending a theology course at Our. Lady of .

Angels Catholic Seminary in Albany, N. Y. "One qf the biggest needs in our Church is to translate our theology into contemporary languag·e."

Anchor Drive

Continued from .Page One Parishes. that' approximated complete parish coverage last year are determined more' than ever that they will achieve their objective .. this year. AncI some pastors who have not been as close have told ·our circulation department that they"are entertaining the idea.

One. pastor commented, "the . . best' adult edu'cation program is OFFiqA'L NIEWSPAPEROF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER offered by The Anchor."

Renewal envelopes are in the Published weekly byThe Catholic Pre~s of the Diocese of fall Riv~~ mail for all past subscribers, but . 410 Highland Avenue we urge all families to become . Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 invol·ved in a deeper understand•,ing of their faith and thus envelPUBLISHER . . opes will be available in all Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T,O. . churches on this. Sunday in order GENERAL MANAGER ASST. 'GENERAL MANAGER that complete parish coverage Rev. John P. Driscoll Rev. Msgr. Daniel.F: Shalloo, M:A. will beco~e a reality in the 114 _ parishes in. the diocese. ...,leary Press-fall Riye.r. .• '

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Exaggeration, Caricature Obvious in 'Sandbox Tree'

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Thomas Fleming, who grew up in Jersey City and is a graduate of Fordham, writes works of history and works of fiction. His latest book, The Sandbox Tree (Morrow, 105 Madison; N.Y., N.Y. 10016. $7.95), is labeled "a novel." But in a prologue; Mr. Fleming says that here mer home, and there she meets a lifeguard, Dick Thornhe is "historian writing as handsome ton. He is smitten with her rare novelist (or novelist writing beauty, which, curiously, 'has

as historian)," and that the book is intend'ed especially "for our children, to whom this will be true history." Confusing.

never attracted any young male to her before th,is. Ul\fortunately, he is a Protestant, who no longer believes or practices., Complete Change Back at college for her senior year, Margaret cannot forget' By _Dick nor does he neglect her.

She is being pressed to commit RT. REV. ~ herself to enter a novitiate in a few months, but she hesitates, Fr. Fintan Sheeran,. ~S.CC. MSGR. somehow sadly certain that she JOHN S. will. Meanwhile, ought she not to be doing all she 'can to make KENNEDY a Catholic convert of Dick?

What Margaret finally does "Religious Life Today and Toseems quite unlikely, precisely morrow" is the theme of six Confusing, too, is the asser- on the basis of the character Friday evening ,assemblies to be tion in an epilogue that the his- with which the author has en- conducted by Father Fintan torian-novelist or novelist-histori- dowed her. Again and again she Sheeran, SS.CC.· at Sacred an has "corresponded at length" is shown to be will-less, and to Hearts Academy, 3:ro Main with the characters in the book. ,have her undergo a complete Street, Fairhaven. The first of Does he mean their prototypes? change on the next-to-the-last the six consecutive sessions will page defies belief.

How much in the book is factual be held tomOl:row evening from Beyond Credibility personal history, how much in7 to 8:45.

This arbitrariness on the vention? Mr. Fleming doesn't Father Sheeran, 41, currently author's part characterizes the say. Coy. ' head· of the" Eastern United There is nothing coy about whole book, as does his' constant" ,States Province' of the Sacred his thesis that American 'Catho- failure to resist the temptation Hearts Fathers, is well equipped lics have not been truly Ameri- to exaggerate and caricature. to deal with his subject. He has An example is found in the can until quite recently. He conhad wide experience in the coun· tends that they have been shut passage descirbing a dinner at seling of religious men and up in a claustrophobic Catholic the Connollys' modest home. The 'women. In his own order', he world which denied them the guests are Dick and a foolish and was director of students in obnoxious priest / who has no blessings of American freedom, a major seminaries for' several "blinded world of religion',' glimmer of a redeeming quality. years. He has also been active Mrs. Connolly and the priest are which cut them off from life. bent on driving Dick away once in the retreat, Cursillo and BetNegative Aspects for all. They go about it brutally. ter World Movements, both in He is obviously generalizing But more. brutal' is the author the United Staates' and abroad.

At each assembly, Father will from his own experience, and it himself in insisting on pushing give a talk which will serve as would appear that, in fashioning beyond the bounds of credibility.. his novel, he has ham-handedly The' passage is without nu- a springboard for exchange of . accentuated the negative aspects ance, and so, for the most part, ideas and experience by all presof his own experience in order is the book. This is true, for in- ent. The series is open to all to drive home his thesis. This is stance, of the depiction of the in- religious, priests, brothers and neither good logic nor good art. teraction of politics, piety, and. sisters. Among the themes to be The book's setting is a big larceny in the social milieu be- developed will be a searching of city on the eastern seabord, un- ing treated. Such interaction in the Gospel for' a contemporary named but not unidentifiable. such a milieu is far from unthink- personal and comm.unaLreligious The time is 1948. The characters able and deserves to be castigat- asceticism; "Community in the are almost all of Irish stock. ed. But wild, flailing overstate- Presence of Christ"; a considerRoaring obscenely through the ment is not the way to do the ation of the characteristics and book is James Kilpatrick, chief job; indeed, it is exactly the way dynamics of Christian community in general, 'ana the steps justice of the state supreme not to do the job. toward creation of a Christian court. Nominally and professionPriest and Bishop community. . ally a ~athoHc, he is really a In Priest and Bishop: Biblical A donation of $1.00 for each skeptic. He is also a principal Reflections '(Paulist Press. $1.50), tool of a flagrantly corrupt polit- , the distinguished biblical scholar evening (or $5.50. for the entire ical machine, whose rulers and Father Raymond E. Brown, S.S., series) is requested. Further inmyrmidons are of hi,S own kind. gives us two meaty and timely ,iormation may be obtained by essays on subjects of key impor- . calling 1-617-993-0671, or writ· 'College 'Hellhole' ing Christian Awareness Series, His wife is a pious hag, his tance. The subjects are the Sacred Hearts. Monastery, 3 priesthood and the episcopat,e. mistress a cool, intellectual.

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Questions about both have been 02719. beauty; the former is without a hint of redeeming virtue, the lat- raised in the aftermath of Vatiter without a trace of fault. His can II. The identity of the priest, priestly apostolate of service. son takes after his mother; his his work, his life style, celibacy This includes the &ervice of or-these matters have been end- dinary work, the service of coldaughter resembles her father.

Equal billing with the, judge lessly discussed and debated, as lecting money, the service of must go to Margaret Conf\olly, have the relationship of the 'bish- .prayer, the service of suffering an extraordinary beauty born to ops to the Apostles, the relation- and hardship, the service of a poisonous (but pious, of course) ship of the Pope to the bishops, authoritative correction. ,The essay on bishops brings mother and a spineless father. and the authority of Pope and out well, along with much else, Margaret is a classmate of Faith bishops.

Father Brown searches the the relationship of bishops and Kilpatrick at Mt. St. Monica's College, a mind-stifling life- Gospels, the Epistles, the Act"s of theologians and what the New the Apostles, and much patristic Testament has to .suggest of a denying hellhole.

Margaret's mother and nuns literature, to throw light on such proper ecumenical attitude toand priests keep telling Margaret critical concerns. He succeeds re- ward churches with bishops who that she has a vocation to the markably, and often in. ways have no claims to apostolic sue· religious life. This has been ham- which, to the non·scholar, are cession and churches' without bishops. mered into her for years. Pas- surprising.

Sane Conclusions The book is winning in its sively, she has accepted this as For example, going carefully careful handling of the Scripthe undeniable fact.

But she goes to spend a few through the writings of St. Paul, tures, its sane conclusions, and ' weeks at the Kilpatricks' Sum- he constructs a .picture of the its practicality.

AUSTIN (NC)-An archbishop, an education leader in the Greek Orthodox Church in the U. S. A. and the editor of a new Catholic publishing firm will present major addresses at the second annual Assembly of Representa.tives of the Texas Conference of Churches here March 1-3.

The speakers, Boston Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, the Rev. Dr. Leonidas C. Contos, pres'ident of Hellenic College in Brookline, Mass., and Dr. Philip Scharper, editor of Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., will talk on' some aspect of' the meeting's theme of "Enco.unter-Engage-

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. LONDON (NC)-"Very ,little" . diffe'rences separate the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches 0C1"t1'uL' /2,'f(;OP :/'1(1/( JlJvel' we tiC,prYr OUt' d;~jJ today, Cardinal John Heenan of ,'1'1 tvdb Westminster told an ecumenical meeting here. . f~d JU·v,·C(. NI1.,,{eY':'/ to!-bVLjt ~6uY':b we !'mfJ~Y't Speaking at the first public meeting of, its kind in Britain .'~(r SjJ":L'~( 91i7"rfd~'c yz,(eff,'nA, . between Catholics and Orthodox, ~ Cardinal Heenan said that what does divide the two churches now is historical, "almost en_' tirely in the past.".

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APOSTOLIC BLESSING: Bishop Connolly is the re- is no difficulty at all."

"How very little there is that cipient of -a colored. photo and personal message from the. divides the Orthodox 'Church Holy Father in recognition of his .dedication to the Church. from the Roman Catholic Church,'" he saiq. "How very little indeed. And that little is almost entirely' in the pas~. It is history' which divides us rfither than present theology." .'

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Topstitching will appear 'on should have a sign put, on it: YOtJNG GIRLS ONL'Y. But many, shirtwaisi dresses, and enough of that. we'll save any pantsuits 'will al~o take to the discussion of this style for an- outdoors or nautical look of this fabric, dependin~ on the style other column. of the garment: <i>ne quite strikFirst Signs 'Final preRariltions are under ing . blue denim i sailor suit or Returning to' the rising popu- pant outfit has at wide "anchoPs way for Sunday's Fourth' Annual larity of denim, we see that ,the aweigh", col.lar on an overblouse . Dinner-Darice by the 'Friends of first signs of its popularity will . that is tied with Irhite cord and the Holy Union, be seen in the resort clothes that topstitched in the white.

The benefit is planned. as an I are hitting the market at this expres'sion of interest and' appre1971 may well go down in moment. Also I'd like to remark, ciation for the Sisters of Holy again, that even if you're not fashion history a~ the year that Union and their work iii parishes denim pushed ahy other look leaving nice, dreary. old New and with youth in the schools.

England in February to experi-, right off the rack~, so rememberThe Venus de Milo Restaurant when you bJgin your shopthis ence a stay in balmier climates in Swansea will be the scene -you can still pick up the best ping for Summ~r and Spring I selection of Summer clothes fashions.

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I. Weak, Not Persecuted This new denim explosion is Help Chinese Trappists . ..MEXICO CITY (Nt) - The really dynamite and it will be Church in Cuba is weak . and springing up in everything from With Retreat House HONG· KONG (NC) - An isolated, but it is not '.'a persethe reaJ thing to miracle fabrics, OF an underground that look enough like denim to Indiana-born Baptist minister cuted be its twiil, but they behave has led a group of Kowloon Church," according to .a report Rotary Club mefubers here to published by Mexico's National mu'ch better.

If you'remember back to when help complete a Chinese Trappist Catholic Center for Social Communications. . . :. denim' began ,to be used as a retreat house. ·1 The report, prepared by Co-.· The Rotary Club, about a hundred men, incltiding' Hindus, lambian journalist Manuel Fer, Receive's $1.2 Million: ' Buddhists, Christians and some nandez, said that since Fidel with noreligfon; heard about Castro took over in 1959 the For Pakistan Relief the five-year struggle of the number of priests on the island • VATICAN CITY (NC) - The has declined from 723 to 228,' Vatican has received more than Trappists to corltplete the reone of every 30,000 Cathoiics. treat house at t~eir monastery $1.2 million from dioceses, reliMass attendance has been degious congregations and private complex on windswept Lantau 'clining steadily, the report said. .1 ". individuals to aid the victims 'of Island: The major reason, it expl{lined, the East Pakistan coastal disas"The common denominator of , is the flight of .so many prattiC-' ter.. a cherished tradition of service ing Cathlics to the United States The Holy See's Secretariat of to others," in thei words of the .and other Jlon-communist· coun'State said that the money would minister, the Rev.! Jack Shelby, tries. 'be turned over to Caritas Inter- is . what stirred tHe men to acnationalis, a consortium of, na- tion. He teaches lat the Amertional Catholic relief organiza- ican-operated Baptist College tions. ' here and 'is chairman of the The - secretariat said Caritas Rotarians' community service ClEAN~RS .

Internationalis ih,mediately would' program: .

DRY CLIEANIN~ use $lOO,()OO for the most pressThe' Rotarians donated about a nell ing needs. The Pope had given $12,500 to help the Trappists $200,000 to the 'fund when he c'omplete:'a t\vo"~tory' $62,500 fUR STORAGE visited Dacca, East Pakistan, building th~t h,a~ ~rivate rooms, 34-44 CohCllnnet' Street during his Asian tour last library, dining and conference Taunton 1 822-6161 halls. i .

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The organization also went on record as supporting 'efforts towards Christian unity, .preser- . vation of parochial ·schools and . ,implementation of the directives of-the' Second Vatican Council.

Members were iJrged to write to governments .holding American prisoners of war asking' that names of prisoners be released and that free flow of mail be permitted.•

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Four consecutive raw days in February is enough to discourage anyone ... especially me. Add a pile of soggy coats and mittens, scattered boots, half-filled with melting slush, running noses, fevers, and a 'summeriloving' mother, and you have all the ingredRecognizing the little every ients to make a long winter. day joys leads to seeing deeper But this year things haven't gifts: . looked so bleak. Letters are ... to know it is never too late. still coming from readers in response to "Let's All Count Our Bfessings." Reading these reports of God's goodness has mage me see the light in the gloom of the grayest days. (After all, tulip bulbs have to be chilled in order to bloom in the Spring.)

By MARY CARS~N

Since the letters perked me up, I thnught I'd share some nlore of them with you.

A man from Manhattan sees God in the' many wonderful gifts he's been given. "Faith, the Sacraments, the Mass ... a long life ... speech, memory, understanding, friendships ... just thinking of the many wonderful gifts God has given me seems to increase my love for Him." "It is a lot of work caring for my. 12 childre~,," Writ\3S ,~; mother in New Jersey, "but I wouldn't trade the peace of mind, ·the love and security that goes with it for anything in the world. There are many wonderful things that seem to compensate for all the work and frustrations."

'All He Did Not' In several letters there was tl-Je same deep thought, that is well worth considering. It was put very aptly by a woman from Ohio. "... to thank God very much for ALL that HE did give alld for ALL that He did not!"

So often forgotten, the everyday joys were repeated by readers all over the country: · .. to hear children playing together. · .. to be able to love. · .. to hear someone tell me they love me. · .. to reminisce of lovely memories while gazing into a warm fire on a Winter, night. · .. a wonderful husband. · .. healthy children. · .. parents who worked so hard to provide for us. . · .. the recovery of our child who was so seriously ill. · .. to be surrounded, in a neighborhood with utterly tolerant people. · .. to do the best I can every day in my job as wife and mother. · .. to make a good dinner for the family. · .. my son's safe return from overseas. · .. for 36 happy years of marriage to a man who gave his last 50c for a Christmas gift for me when times were bad financially. · .. to be able to laugh at my mistakes which are sometimes unbelievable and almost unbearable.

· .. to know that money isn't everything, but love is. · .. to be given opportunities one never deemed possible. · .. to know there is always another boat waiting even when you have just missed one. · .. to have been given the gift of Faith. · .. to have received the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit in Confirmation. · .. to be able to receive Communion and become more closely united with every member of the Mystical Body, in a bond greater than blood.

It seems all blessings can be summed up: · .. to be in love with God. Time-Tested Recipe After reading so much encouragement, I was able to look at the grayness of Wint.er in a new light, and discover "Mother Carson's Time-Tested Recipe for Curing the Advanced Stages. of Winteritis."

Take five minutes. Ignore all the nagging little faults that have been irritating you. (If necessary, for three of the five minutes, 'ignore all the nag~ing Big Faults as well.) Consider your children, ·one by one."

Decide on the' most praiseworthy characteristic of each. (On real bad days you'll have to dig deep, but the finest recipes contain the rarest ingredients.) Determine what you love most about your husband.

And lastly, recognize one very good point in yourself. (This may be the most difficult ... and the most worthwhile.), Put them all together and just let them grow for awhile. For just a few min,utes, forget all the things that are troubling you and just bask in the warmth of love.

If that doesn't work, get a good night's sleep, and remember that there are only six more weeks, till Spring!

Nun Appointed Deputy Health Commissioner CLEVELAND (NC)'-Sister M. Ursula Stepsis, former official with the Catholic Hospital Association in St. Louis, has come here as the new deputy health commissioner for administration in the city's Department of Public Health and Welfare.

A long-time nurse, Sister Ursula was administrator of St. Vincent Charity 'Hospital here from 1955-66 before becoming assistant' to the executive director of the association in St. Louis.

She is a Sister of Charity of St. Augustine, but said that no one at City Hall raised any questions about the fact that a nun is holding down a city t job.

"They simply have taken it for granted that I'm there to work," she said. "And I am."

Her work will be primarily with the administrators of various facets of the city health services.

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The so-called loss of a daughter to the convent was considered one of the most terrible things that could happen to atl; African family. ~ If the girl were not yet 21 years old, the district commissioner, especially if he was not a Catholic, would in most cC\ses order the girl to be sent t5ack home if her parents requested this.'

Some of these girls ordered back home would, in order to return to the convent, take a job and give all their savings to their parents to make up for what the parents would have been paid if the girl had been pur' chased as a wife.

The giris' return to the can· vent would then be con<!oned, but not blessed, by the parents.

Years ago, there were few thing more terrible for an, African married couple than to die without leaving a child behind in this life who would remember them and help bring them, through tribal customs and rituals, to the' "home" of those who had died before.

Among Rhodesia's Shona people, there was a' belief similar to the Catholic belief concerning purgatory.

They believed, and some still do today, that when a man died,. his soul would wander in the wilderness alone until it was brought "home" to those who had died before him by his children.

Chldren Important To be without a child was and still is is one of the worst curses to befall a couple. Very few Christian families today are cap-

able of carrying the "cross of childlessness." ., Before the coming of Christian missionaries, if a woman could not bear a child she went \:lack tQ -her' people to '\isk that one of her sisters or a' daughter of 'a brother be given to her husband to bear children for her.

Because of this attitude on life and the importance of what a child meant, and still means, to the Shona people in this life and after death, it is not surprising that pa'rents disapproved of their daughters' entering the convent or their sons' becoming priests.

But the Christian faith is becoming rooted among the African people in this country, and the Feast of the Epiphany has become a special religious holiday because on that day many girls are received into convents.

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African nuns now serve as teachers and nurses, and parents who would nO,t he'ar of their girls' becoming nuns a few years ago are now offering to pay the school fees for their girls who have chosen the religious life.

One African nun-superior explained that parents have had a change of heart because they have seen the great services that the African nuns pmvide for their people. ' They are now convinced, she said, "that entering the convent is as noble as, if not nobler than, getting married."

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Friend-of-Court Briefs Ci.te Free-Choice' School ·Argument

WASHINGTON (NC) - The 1970, educational reform mesfriend-of-the-court briefs filed sage to Congress, especially thc , with the U,S, Supreme Court on President's declaration that: behalf of P~nnsylvania's. "pur"If most or all private schools chase of services" ,program of were to close or' turri public, aid to. non public schools tells a . the added burden on public funds lot about the law' and why it ,by the' end of the 1970s would js important to more than just ' exceed $4 billion per year in opparochial schools.: " erations, with an estimated $5 At least four distinct interest. ~il1ion mor!'! needed for facili· .groups have submitted briefs to ties." tlie high court urging it to up· The briefs of the educational hold the constitutionality of ·.the associations:- including the NaPennsylvania Nonpublic Element· tional Catholic Educational Asary and Secondary Education' sociation; the National AssociaAct (PNE;SEA). . . . tion Qf Independent Schools; the They are: public school dis· National Conference of Yeshiva tricts, including those of Phila- (Jewish dayschool) Principals; delphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, the National AssociaUon of Youngstown and, the state of Christian Schools, and the LuBISHOP GERRARD HIGH 'SCHOOL: Members of the three mergering girls' higq Ohio; ethnic and nationality· theran Education Association schools met this week to discuss activity! programs for the ,~irst year starting in groups, educational organiza- and' of the nationality groups and the federal govern- hammer on' 8" second major September for the Fall River Diocesan H,igh School for Girl~: Clockwise: Sue Emond, tions, ment. ' , ' , ." theme in defense of PNESEA: Jesus-Mary Academy; Ellen Thran, Mt. S:t. Mary's; Jane Rivard, Dominican; Carolyn Statistics underline the inter- the argument that the purchase Arrusa, Mt. St. Mary's; Claudette Levesque, JMA; Janine Gendreau, MSl\:1; Jean est of 'the public school' districts of services act is protecting the values of educational phiralism in .the outcome of the cause.

Cadrin, JMA;. Regin.a Rheault, MSM; D.enise D.ufault, .JMA; Pat Tenczar, JMA. Some 6.4 million children at- and freedom of choice.

The point they make is that tend non public schools in the' nation, about one child in every non public schools are essential 10, In high-population metropol- if there is to be any alternative itan areas, the proportion is far option to a monolithic public greater-34 per cent in Philadel- school system for parents and COl P i ' o g r a m S P h i a , 32 in Chicago-Gary, 29 in pupils, Pittsburgh and St, Louis, 28 in The question they raise is WASHINGTON (NC) ...... The There' were' 968 new candi- of staff members in graduate New York-Newark-Jersey City, whether these schools can afford number of young men studying dates for both the diocesan and theology schools' have doctorate The brief of the Philadelphia to stay in business in significant for the priesthood has beeIT cut Religious priest~ood in ~970, degrees and over 40 per cent school district draws the inevit- nU!T!bers without at least the nearly in half since 1966, accord- compared with 258 new candi- have doctorate degrees and .over able conclusion from these fig- minimal public aid to secular ed. ing'to statistics released by the dates in 1967: I 40.per cent have at least a mas- tires: the continued welI-being . ucation represented by the Penn, Center for Applied Research in The seminary !study, designed tei-'s degree or its equivalent.. of non public schools is important sylvania act. the, Apostolate here. in a directory published annuThe number of master's de-' to the welI-being of American The main brief submitted in "·About 46,000 future priests alIy with the collaboration of the grees held by staff members in education- generalIy. If these behalf of the Pennsylvania nonwere enrolled in U. S. seminaries U. S, Bishops' ICommittee on high school seminaries' exceeds schools were to declin~rseriously public schools ties many of these four years ago, the CARA report Pri~stly Formatidn, also indicates 50, per cent-"a higher' percent- in quality or. numbers, the repoints together and argues that shows. By October ,1970, the trends toward I consolidation, age than in most U. S. high suIting. influx of pupils irito the PNESEA is constitutional. number had' dropped to about professionalism'iiind ecume~ical schools, private or public," the public schools would create an 24,000. programs.; " . , " study says. educational crisis.

The exact 1970 figure. 23.822, II}. 1968, 453 *iesthood trainApproximately one seminary . lPromote, Excellence . reflects a decline in enrollment ing and formation, centers re- facuIty me,mber in, four is a lliy "The school district , , , does at every level from hip,h school ported over 800 programs.. By ma~, according to the study. not have unuseQ excess capacity through gradua,te theology.

Est. 1897 1970, the numbers had been conEcumenical interest in, semi-' ' with which to absorb these po~" A dramatic increase, however, solidated to 3941 institutions re- naries is also indicated in the ~ tential' transferees;". the Phll·· Builders Suppl;e~ was noted in the nu'mber of new porting 555 progrrams. study, which reports over 100 . adelphia brief states. .

2343 Purchase Street sttiden,ts in graduate theology"Its capacity is exceeded-even Ttie quality ofl staffs' teaching ,non-Catholic 'clergyman teachi~g .

New Bedfo'rd those' who decide to begin _ future priests is "high, by any , in U. S. priesthood 'training pro- ' .now,. . ., Thus, Pennsylvania 996·5661 studies for the priesthood after standal'd," according to the grams. .. : , • is preserving definite educational college graduation.'

CARA study, Ne~rly 50 per cent advantages for all Philadelphia school childr~n and preventing ~Ylves cata,strophe for all by promoting excellence"jn -secular' education ' . . in the p;iv~te' and parochial" B. ishops L TV"'· 'T hi· 'TORONTO (NC)'- When Don . schools through' (PNESEA)." earn.' , .-..ews, ec nlques Reid left his fir::;t home Mass, he " The federal government's brief At Workshop. cOlildn't get over it. . . ' raises ~he same iriterest to the , '. , I " . "It was absolutely·,wonderful.; nati~nalleveI:.It quotes at length NEW ORLEANS (NC)-'-News- ,television, a tele~ised news con- We need a sense of, c'o'm'm' unl'ty',' from President Nixon's March 3, . makers .looked' at life from the ference; and a one-minute appeal. ' ., " , . , " . .

I . 'other side of television cameras Among professional experts during tb!'!normal Sun~ay Mass and 'reporters' notebooks when, who talked with,, the' bishops in' church and to achieve th'at we , to· know each " other, "A.. '. fqr the ~second straight year, 'were network television execu- need . h d C h ' I small Mass in someone's home is more t tand~ dozen at ol,lc t~iSh- tives from New I York, govern- 'just the way to statt.. " he said,'. ' communlca.lOns ment and church public informaops s u Ie . Over 35 Years techniques at a five· day work- tion officers, fonner. foreign corReid attended a ho'me Mass in, of Satisfied Service shop at Loyola University. here.. respondents, tcachers of journal- Transfiguration of Our Lord parReg. Master Plumber 7023 The prelates who took part in ism, and religiorl writers from ish, Weston, one of several . JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. the. 1971 Bishops' Communica- daily newspapersJ churches in the Toronto archdio373 New Boston Road 806 NO. MAIN STREET J flCO b sal'd th b' h t . cese to find that home 'Masses tions Institute listened to talks Fall River 678-5677 'Fall River '675.7497 sd e IS ops pu .111 are a perfect way to de,velop parby professional' broadcasters' -and 12 h . . ' . " - our ays ,an, d one evening 'editors, took part 10 panel diS- d . th k h! th' t d ish Unity, , , d "I' " urmg e wor sop, elr s u y Some parishes celebrate Mass CUSSlons, practIce.. IIve d appearh ed u Ie ran .t0 14 h ours. H e ' . . ' sc ~1II111""lIIli"i"II1JIIIIJJIII"IIJIII"lIIl11i""""""I""""III"IIII""I"I""I""IIJIII""""""""""""III.~~ ances on TV 10 c ose -cIrcuIt 'd th b' h ' i k in ,the home for special occa. '~. , studios-and took copious notes sahI e IS ops h' ~nhulary wo.r 1, , . ' ... . s op was more Ig y specIa' sions, while others gather in' on all ·of It to them 10 . gUIde , , .

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In spite of approval and recPra'ctical experience in~luded two purposes in! 'mind," said , five on·camera assignments that Jacobs. "It gives itl:l.em a better ommendations from Archbishop were recorded 'and later cri- administrative sense of the me- Philip Pocock, the idea <lied a tiqued: a one-minute talk, a tele- dia, and it polishe~ and improves quick' death as people asked, vision interview, a message pre- .their own perforrl.ance as com· "Why pother? We have Sunday Mass," pared as a script to be read over municators to the !public."

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OAS Plans to Combat Diplomat Kidnapings in Latin America WASHINGTON (NC) - The Political terrorism is the main Organization of American States motive for the kidnapings. There (OAS) held a late January meet- have been other abductions of ing h,ere to map plans for com- less prominent persons. Underbatting the wave of kidnapings ground leaders know that by threatening the life of a diplomat which has plagued diplomats in Latin America. they can make front page news OAS spokesmen said the or· 'around the world and gain pub: ganization's permanent (political) licity for their cause.

But money also has been a council would meet to determine motive. 'Abductions plus bank the exact date of the meeting.

During 1970, 10 diplomats in robberies add up to a healthy Latin America: fell victims to kid· treasury fol' underground terrorists of both the extreme left or napers.

Half of the kidnaped diplomats right camps.

Both groups have a number of came from the United States. professionals and young students They included Sean M. Holly, labor attache in Guatemala; Lt. from upper class families, a clue Col. Donald Crowley, air attache, to their choice of victims who Dominican Republic; Curtis Cut- seem· wealhty enough to pay.

In the case of U. S. representer, consul, Porto Allegre, Brazil; Dan Mitrione, security advisor, tatives, kidnaping is a form of Montevideo, Uruguay, and radical nationalism.

The problem facing the OAS Claude L. Fly, agricultural con. is what to. do about kidnapings; sultant also in Montevideo.

Mitrione was ki1led. Fly still is also another type of violenceheld. Curtis escaped. The others plane hijacking. were excha,nged for political Political Asylum prisoners.

Brazil thus far has negotiated Other kidnaped diplomats came for the release of victims. Guafrom Japan, Paraguay, Soviet temala refused and German dipRussia, 'Brazil, Switzerland and lomat von Spreti was killed.

West Germany.

Some government officials in Karl von Spreti of West Ger- Washngton have expressed bemany was slain by Guatemalan lief there is no way everyone can guerri1las. Brazil sti1l is negotia- be effectively' protected. Deputy ting for the release of Swiss Am- . U. S. Attorney General Richard bassador Giovanni Enrico Kleindienst told a Congressional ·Bucher. Mrs. Aloyzio Dias Go- committee. "I~ would be better mide, wife of the Brazilian con- to ma,ke one sacrifice. Then there sul in Uruguay, is trying to raise would never be another inci$1 mi1lion to ransom her ·hus- dent. " band.

Argeritina, which initiated the call for the OAS meeting, favors calling on member countries to Parish Schedules curtail political asylum for terMass in Latin rorists released as ransom. One HOUSTON (NC) - A once-a- proposal calls for a joint statemonth Sunday Mass in Latin has ment by OAS members, including been scheduled on an experimen- the United States, flatly assert· tal basis at this Gity's oldest ing that no ransom demands will Catholic church. be honored in any case.

Msgr. Anton J. Frank, pastor, Other countries are cool to the said: "We aren't. trying to turn idea of adopting an inflexible back the clock, but:there is no policy which could claim more ' law against Latin Masses." He' lives. said the 11 A.M. Mass at the church. would be in Latin, but the o,ther ~sevE!n Masses will be BEFO'RE YOU in English. .'

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In a special film made at the ,Vatiean to inaugurate a new series of French TV programs, Pope Paul insisted that "there are values whieh are the cornerstone of civilization. If it is at,tacked, it is 'man himself who is threatened."

Daily we are hearing more and more the'seeininglyinevitable closing of the Cath~lic eleme~tary, schools and we are made',aware of the fact that very' liU,le help can be anticipated from the private sector (>f th~ e'conomy in ' , .! ' " ' , ,keeping the schools open..

We have approached the aIr we bre~the, but aren t we too . t 'h t polluting the rivers and 'streams pom ,were a ~rea many with our demands for washing people shrug their h~ads and' powders that.g~~ our clothes'

He reasserted .the Church's condemnation of alJortion and spanking c1ean:<while at the euthanasia in stark terms: "Just same time fouli~g our' water), las abortion is murder, so is amount of resolutIOn and; I am bottles that we do, not have to' euthanasia." afraid, a great deal of apathy. return to the sto~e but can toss 'FATHER TRIPP MSGR. BARRETIE FATHER LYONS As an educator who ~as had neatly in the rutlbish, and colThis must b~ repeated tireless· the opportu~ity ,to work ,in the 'ored tissues in bu~ bathrooms ly, he said, "against the current, pUblicscho~ls and .has also had that make it 100~ like that picif necessary, of wha,t is thought ham; Rev. Cornelius J: O'Neill, and what is sometimes said some expenence WIth the paro- ture in' House Beautiful (but ,Continued frot;rl 'Page One assistant pastor of St. Paul Par- arou,nd is." chial ,schools, both as profes- whose dyes are hot water sol-' Health Parish, Fall River; Rev. sional and as parent, I decry the uble).

"1 Daniel L.Freitas,. aS$istant pas- ish, Taunton, and chairman of "Any attempt against human H ed W . tor of Santo Christo Parish, Fall the Diocesan Ecumenical Comclosing of the schools on any grounds whatsoever. I personally . e afDln~s , , River. , iife, under any pretext and in mission; Rev. Donalc,l ~aradis" believe that we as <!:~tholics Iromcall.y, the '1ery Items that, ,Rev. Gabriel Healy, SS.CC., M.S., LaSalette Provincial HO,use, " any form," he cautioned, "means should maintain our elementary spell modern ease have turned Sacred Hearts Seminary, Ware- Attleboro; Rev. John J. Regan, disowning one of the essential sShool~ at any cqst. around and are ~ow strangling """";,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,""''''''''''''''1 assistant pastor ,of St: ,Patrick values of our civilization. In the Parish, Falmouth; Rev. Ronald depth of our consciences-each , One Offers Faith,. us. TlhankfuhllYd.mpreh' and "?ore . Y2 teaspoon vanilla . "..' peop e are ee mg t e warnIngs ' f f A. Tosti, Director of Diocesan one of us can feel it-respect for I see very httle dIfference be- that sprang from the lips of ,I cup si ted cake lour ,C.C.D. Office, Fail River. human life asserts itself as an tween the, quality of education Rachel Carson ahd more and 1 Y2 teaspoons baking powaer Members of Religious Com- indispensable a,nd sacred prin, locally. between the pubh.·c and more concf>rned' c,litizens realize,' ,% teaspoon salt .' ..

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I I,,' d 0 ~,o t ,eb ~aroc hJ~,. that all, th.'~ mode, in 'appliances' 1 4 egg whites mentioned above, are: Brother Ile~e th IS.IS th e.1~sue. Ra th er, m~ ar~ worth, naught if we .have After recalling the Secone!

Roger. Millette, F.I.C.,. ~i:shop Vatican Council's insistence on'· major con.c~rn: !s.: that, tlJeone, pOIsoned our' own environment pinch salt Connolly High' School, Fall Riv- absolute respect due to human syst:m. ,qffers "what. the,~"o.t~er by our' gre~d a'rt'dl sel'fishness. ,I ,cup sugar er; Sister Ruth Kindelan, S.U.S. life, Pope P.aul concluded: by. I!S .na,tu~~. ~ann.ot"th~~ IS, ,a The small things that we. as 1 teaspoon vanilla rehgIO~s t~aInmg and,.a b~slc average consumer;s cand,o to 1,4 cup broken walnuts or C., Bishop Cassidy' Convent, :'Brothers and friends who are Taunton; Sister Mary NatJ:ian groundl~g In .the Ca.thohc FaIth. stop this pollutiory will add 'up pecans Doherty, RS.M., St. Lawrence listening to us. This life, 'yo'l,Ir , , I. ~on t beheve thIS was good if we only put our minds to it. for the filling life, the life of your parents, 'of" Convent, New Bedford. traInIng whe~ I was young. Women refusing to buy deterY2 pound dried apricots your children, the life of all men, What ~e rec~lve~ was pure dog- gents with enzyfues' in them 2 cups .water The laity on the commission this fragile life that is so soon m~, mIxed WIth strong. ~os.es of could be the firsrl step on the sugar are: Normand A. Gingras, 258 over, .remains, despite' all the guIlt a.nd ample sup~rstItIOn, and road to a' c1eaner,\world. If you' 1 cup' heavy cream South, Main St., Fall River.' At-, that" ~ ..go, with it,~ : our v~ry 1I!t1e of what w.e', n~w see have any,.doubtsl!~bout::the;dir'C'1 1) Cream togethei',the butter torney'Paui M.:'Rockett, '45 :Pre's- troubles ,... r :.... .• " . " :.! .... our chIldren, learn: ("-s, a result, effe,cts of these enzymes, try, to and Y2 cup sugar until. creamy; . ton Road, Attleboro; Mrs. Robert most precIous good, because It th~ suPP?sed trammg we' ~e- pick up the Janu~ry ,16th issue add the egg yolks, one at a time, E. O'Neill, Mount Vernon Av- is a profession" of faith for all those 'whobelieve in Christ and ce~ved faded to produce or mof New Yorker magazine and beating well after ,each additic;m. enue, ·Hyannisport. to . whom the Gospel shows Add the 1,4 cup milk and add spIre better Catholicism in itself. read the mast stkrtling report Five priest-consultants are al- death only as the passage from T~e home was the key to the on the effects of rlhese enzymes the Y2 teaspoon vanilla. ' so appointed to the new commis- terrestrial to eternal life." , faIth. . that you ' re pro bauJ Iy ever. gomg .

2) S'f I t togeth eT t h e ca k e fl our, sion to supply it with the knowlThe Importance of. the home to see.

I' baking powder and % teaspoon edge and experience they have as is no less central today. Most . alithorities would agree that the' Demandmg that {nanufacturers salt. Add the wet mixture to experts in their own fields. school at best supports'the home make mor~ returnable, bott~es these dry ingredients, mix with Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Conc()uld be another m II b t an electric mixer and beat for and not vice versa. However, the ..". . ,~~. U slgsidine, pastor of St. William Parcombination of a good home and mflcant Imk m a 9ham ~o save at least 2 minutes. ,ish, Fall River. He is a consultant 3) Grease and flour two 9 and liason with the Diocesan a g0q'?' 'school cannot hE;lp but o~r. world. from becom~nK one be successful. " , bIg Junk pIle. I inch cake pans and spread batter Building and Finance CommisMy '~hildren may' be fortunate Ecology ~ins into these pans with spatula. sion. in, the', school' they attend or it In our own area of South- Batter will be very thick and Rev. William G. Campbell, asmay be• typical of the.ne~ trend ,eastern Massachushts ~we were"" will barely cover the bottom of , , ' I sistant pastor of St. Mary's Cain religious training, but they made aware of just how much the pans. Set aside. thedral,Fall River, consultant in 4) Beat until stiff the egg a're far better Christians,; ~oday, effe~t John' D?e cap have on his matters of sacred, music. ' ha~e a ~eeper und~rstan?Ing of envIronment m th T recent case whites with a pinch of salt, gradRev. Thomas .J. Harrington, theIr falt~, a. better ~nowl,e~ge of the Sa~e" Ourl Co~munity ually add 1 cup' sugar and 1 of the ~echanIcs of .theIr relIgIOn group of Tlverton~ R. I. versus . teaspoon vanilla. Beat at least vice-chancellor of the Diocesan and, are on the whole better the Northeast" .Oil Company.' another minute after all the consultant in matters of Canon '*'~-,.".,.~-,.".,.>::-.....~~_...equipped to becom~ Christian When the Northe~st Company sugar has bee added then spread Law. adults than I was at, twice their ~ade plans to build a huge re- ,the meringue on top of the bat. Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Superage. ' . fmerr. on beautiful Moun.t Hope' ter in 'the two pans, just as you intendent of Diocesan -Schools, , .The per~aslVeness. of a,. mutu- Bay m t~e town. ,.of TIVerton, would for a meringue pie, pull- consultant in matters of educaahty of mterest between the ecology mmded cl~,lzens·banded ing up peaks with a spoon. On tion.

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JOY OF LEARNING: Joy of learning is important thing about education, maintains Sister Theresa Fortin, C.S.C., who has developed un~ structured classroom for fifth. through eighth graders at St. Anne's School,

Oppose Changes In French Credo PARIS (NC) - Five prominent French Catholic theologians, all members of the Vatican's theological commission, have protested proposed changes in the French translation of the Credo.

In a letter to the French bishops, the five urged them to refuse replacing the words "Eglise catholique" (Catholic Church) 'in ,the Credo by the words "Eglise universelle" (Universal Church).

The change, they said, "would inevitably give to' the faithful the impression that we are 'no longer confessing our fait'h in in one Church founded by Christ and destined to be the Church in which all Christians are to be one in faith and authentic sacramel)ts as well as in fidelity to legitimate pastors, but only in a vague faith in some invisible Church in which all Christians could remain in spiritual unity despite all their divisions."

The five theologians are Oratoriah Father Louis Bouyer, a liturgy scholar; Dominican Father Yves Congar, a dogmatic theologian; Jesuit Father Henri de Lubac, a dogmatic theologian; Sulpician Father Andre Feuillet, a Scripture sctiolar; and Domin-' ican Father Joseph-Marie Le ~Guillou, an ecumenism expert.

At present, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants in France use different versions of the credo.

Ask Cathol!cs Fight Against Corruption JAKARTA (NC) - The Indonesian bishops have urged Catholics to cooperate in wiping out all forms of corruption in public life.

"We should be always honest in our actions, should not misuse power for our own advantage or for the advancement of a particular' group, and should refuse to deal with those who urge us to act corruptly," the bishops said in a 25-page document titled "Guidelines for Action for Indonesian Catholics."

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New Bedford. Left, she works with Anne Carpenter, sixth grader; center, Ann Marie Ponte, eighth grade, completes art project; right, Lawrence Barb9za, eighth grade, concentrates on English notebook. '

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"We are trying to eliminate the boredom of classroom work for the teacher and pupil by allowing more activity in a freer atmosphere. I have found this more conducive to the 'child's general outlook; he or she is allowed to make, human errors with the knowledge he won't have his head chewed off for so . doing.

You would think, with so much going on in her room, that Sister Theresa Fortin's class at St. Anne's School in New Bedford's South End would be, at first glance, organized confusion.

That's rather a harsh observation; in fact, it's not true. Boys and girls, in groups of from two to six, or even singularly, are do"Tests? They take them when ing different things, setting their own pace and talking while they are ready. they're doing it.

A's Not Important The Holy Cross 'Sister's classes run from 30 minutes to an hour; "I don't flunk anyone who there are four in the morning has tried his best," Sister and three in the afternoon. Her Theresa continued. "It's, so' imclass size, at the fifth through portant how hard the child tries eighth grade levels, averages 22 and how he or she progresses. boys and girls.

That's the important thing, not The central theme behind Sis- whether the report card is ter's endeavor (she's been at it . loaded down with A's. for almost a year). in her. un"Our 'job is not to produce A structured classroom is the joy students, but to develop the of learning. She believes children child's potential, to develop the are naturally inquisitive, and whole person with emphasis on will retain something if they en- the emotional." joy learning it. . Sister moves. quietly around The discipline of the unstruc- her classroom, looking in on tured classroom is self-discipline. this . gr~)Up or that, offering adPupils set goals for themselves vice, encouragement and even and know they must accumulate proJ:l~ing if the child is i~noring a certain amount of knowledge the work with too much freeover a given period of time. -dom.

They decide what they will "Inner discipline is one of the study, at what pace and the time keys, to the joy of learning," Sisthey will be tested. ter Theresa pointed. out.

A txpical test might have a "Most of' the children are so girl taking a spelling test via a pre-occupied I could leave the tape recorder. Another group room and they wouldn't even of five or six sit on mats ar.ound know I was gone. Things would a table discussing an English run smoothly. We have certain project. Two boys are at type- rules such as no yelling or writers; two more work on sci- screaming, running and gumence experiments; six girls are chewing". Of course, some at a tllble making old and new youngsters can't be completely scale-model cities out of sugar free; they need that little attention that comes from any teachcubes and popsicle sticks. _ "Each child makes out his or er. In other words, the children her program by the week, de- of any class all are different. You ciding at what level and speed have to treat them accordingly to,. move," Sister Theresa said. to get' the best out of them.

"They know, Of course, that they What might be good for one don't have to stick strictly to the doesn't necessarily hold true for schedule, but can be flexible in another."

While there is much equipment their thinking and efforts.

in Sister's class, there is a sense that something is being done by each student at his or her own pace.

Mid-term exams are taken'at the' level the child is at at the time of the tests. Sister Theresa;s program generally has met with wholehearted parental support.

But there are 'still those who have to be shown, and that is .something she will do for' any one.

She has meetings with her classes every so often to discuss what has bee"n going on, what can be done and suggestions t() improve the program. " "I'm an activist. I must be on the move, doing something," Sister Theresa related. "I was bored with regular classroom teaching.

Here I feel I'm doing ,what I can do best for the benefit of the most boys and girls in the classes." .

Sister; a native of Manchester, N. H., has been at St. Anne's' for four years. Prior to that, she taught at St. George School in Westport.

Happy Faces The fruits of the labors of this dedicated teacher are visible in the faces of the happy youngsters in her unstructured classroom.

Project CQD, a federally-sponsored project that develops innovative programs in Southeastern Massachusetts; other Fall River Diocesan school officials and people in education in and out of the city have expressed in interest in her project.

Sister Theresa's own philoso-. phies are unmistakably etched in these classes, for she leaves her mark on every group that passes through her doors ..

She has a deep-rooted feeling about the joy of learning and is doing something about it.

Anglican dean of Johannesburg, charged with aiding illegal antigoverntment organizations, .has been released here on $7,000 bail.

The 59-year-old dean, Very Rev. Gonville Aubrey ffrench.Beytagh, was not asked to plead to the charges but was ordered to hand over his British passport.

Feb. 26 is the date set for the trial.

The government charged the dean with helping the African National Congress and the Communist party by having in his 'possession pamphlets telling how t'lr make Molotov cocktails and hand grenades.

Dean ffrench-Beytagh has repeatedly criticized the South African government's apartheid policy of strict racial segregation.

He is in charge of services at Anglica,n St. Mary's cathedral here. The cathedral services and other gatherings are open to both blacks and whites.

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River. hosted 250 sodalists from New Englapd Catholic high schools· last ,Gaudette of Dominican, moderator, Mike Gendreau of Prevost, Pauline Levesque of Dominican, Denise Dupont of Durfee and Brother Theodore ~eekend with activities centering around the theme ~'We Are the Church." Left photo, Connolly Brother'Louis' St. Pierre, FJ.C., Pierre Patry . ..Letendre, president of the union of Christian Life Communities, sponsor"of the Institute. and' jay LaForest of Connolly, Pat Remy of Mt. 51. Mary and Mike Cote ~

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Favors' M.elger· LAFAyETTE (NC)-The Lafayette diocesan school board has' approved 'proposals made by local' biracial groups' to rid the Louisiana diocese of racially identifiable' grade schools by September 1971.

The' plans call for the mergers of formerly' all-black schools with predominantly white schools so fhat children of both races will . be in' all 'grades in all schools: ' Msgr. Richard' Mouton, diocesan schools' superintendent, said the diocese had opened up schools to children of all races in 1965, 'More black, children began' attending predominantly white 'schools, he noted, bllt "by and large white children did not voluntarily go into. predominantly black schools."

Twenty-five diocesan elementary schools.will' be affected by the new plans which, Msgr.

Mouton said, will wipe out all remaining "dual, schooP' situa. tions except 0!1e, "Dual schools" are 'white and black schools with the same grade facilities existing in a neigh!?o.rhood.

News of the llnnounced mergers was received cautiously by a spokesman at the Committee for Integrated Catholic Schools, a group based in Washington, D, C,,' which is backing 18 black parents in a suit they filed last Sumwer against the Lafayette diocesan school' board.'

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KANSAS CITY (NC)-Cathdidates, and one senator has 'alLeaders said there simply was ready cast his hat in,to the ring. not time left at the end of. the olic schools throughout Kansas I '. iast Congress to' compose, differ- were qpen Sunday' with thou· , 'Promised_ Action ,I . sands of students and teachers The 9lst Congress came in for. ences on the bill between the v.oh.~ntarily contribu~ing.a!.".~x~~a a good deal of criticism, for-foot- House' and the Senate. They half-day of classes to the At the same I time, President dragging and inaction. Even its promised promp't action in the school year.

Nixon, beginninJ.the second half leaders 'criticized' it at times. new Congress.

Bishop Ignatius J: Strecker of Most of these leaders are back, of his term as Iour 37th :Chief ,The new Congress can be exExecutive, gives hints of alter- pected to make a particular ef- and have the opportunity to Kansas 'City, speaking for bishing the Adminilltration,s image; , fort for a' better image. Some make good on their word. In- ops of the other three state dio· particularly on the domestic important legislation failed of cidentally three days. before the ceses-Dodge City, Salina and front. -. ' , passage in the last Congress, in~ new Cpngress met, the Senate Wichita - explained the "open .

I As a consequepce, for th~ ·next cluding a bill that included an Committee on the Aging report- house" program, was devised to two years, it will ·be necessary increase in Social Security bene- ed that one out of every four acquaint Kansas legislators and Americans 65 and over lives on the general public with operafor political pU~dits' to watch' fits, which very few oppo~ed. .a poverty-level income. The com· tions of parochial schools. closely both ends. of Pennsyl~ mittee called it a "disgrace". va'nia Avenue, th'e Capitol the Form Organization The archbishop said the paroEast and' the White House to For some time, observers have chial school system, has beell a Of ChicaIl10 Sisters the West. been 'reviewing President Nixon's part of Kansas life for more than SAJ:'l JOSE (NC)-At the re- first two years in office to give 130' years. He emphasized that, In Congress, there promises to be unremitting pressure in both quest of' a ·coalition c of. Chicano' them grades. 'On a general aver- new economic conditions "pose .'

I houses to change the venerable' groups, a Chicano Sisters Organ- age, they seem to have come up a serious threat to the survival practice of awa~ding committee. ization formed here to' provide with the conclusion that there of non public education in Kanchairmanships on the basis "of information and 'education to have been no high peaks and no sas-Catholic, Lutheran and private." . ' seniorit~, ,and in Ithe Senate, ef- parishes and· religious orders particulary lo~ valleys. forts Will continue to do away about;' .the Mexican-American community. with the :filibustJr. . ' Led by' Sister Sandra Price, of The House has lne~ leadE;rship, the convent' of 'the Sisters of including a Speaker. an,d a Ma- Norte Dame of,Namur, the group jority Leader..0Aly somemem- , of about 25 members plans to I . bers stand to be affected, but establish an informational cenDISPENSING OpnCIAN the House will h~vein mind .that' ter on behalf of the" Chicano th~ 1970 Censu~1 makes it cer- movement. ~omplete Optical ~Se~vice / tam that some ltates will lose Sister Price said 'there is a 197 B~nk St. (Corner Purchase) seats and other ~tates. will gain- 'possibility, the organization may them in the 1972 elections.

Fall River Tel. 678-0412 . be designated as a' sub-group migrant ministry office :of the Hours: 9 - 5 Mon. - Fri. Sat. 9 - 2 \no ,in There will '\ . of House mem- of- the Conference of Major Suthe" total number Friday Eves by Appt.

Closed Wed. I . periors of Women. ,In the meanbers. Speaking of the Census,.

I ' . ,time, he~ prganization . is seeka new count, a~ 0f Jan. I, 1971, .

I, ing permission to work through put the U.S. population at 206,I , the San- Francisco archdiocesan 4 5 1,111: I . .

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-Lauds Joe Rauh's Efforts In Area of Social Justice On Saturday evening, Jan. 16, a thousand distinguished Americans-self-styled "liberals", for the most part- , held a gala testimonial dinner in Washington in honor of Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.- lawyer, lobbyist, political activist par excellence and a heck of a nice guy-on the occasion champion of the poor and underof his 60th birthday. It was privileged and I have deep affection for him as a personal a wonderful tribute to a friend.

great human being. Not everyone in Washington agrees with Joe Rauh or is necessarily fond of him, but almost everyone knows who he is.

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When I was asked by those in charge of Rauh's testimonial dinner to say.what I thought about Joe in 路the 'form of a letter-a letter to be presented to him at the dinner as a part of a bound volume of similar letters from 150 of his 'admirers-I wrote to him as follows:

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As Myra McPherson put it in the Washington Post on the morning of Rauh's testimonial dinner, he is known reverently by friends and disdainfully by detractors as "Mr. Liberal:" If you said that about some other people I can think about-including a number of erstwhile liberalsthey would probably resent it very much for, in many circles, the word "liberal" has lost all of its former glow and sheen and is now considered to be an uncomplimentary epithet.

Sincere Compliment That's not so at all in the case of Joe Rauh. He is proud to be known as "Joe Liberal" 'and, believe it or not, is convinced that American liberalism has a solid, future ahead of it.

"Liberalism," he says, "is more ;difficult today but not necessarily less strong."

Ex-Senator Paul Douglas, a good friend of Rauh and one of the grand old men of American politics, feels the same way about the matter. Liberalism, he recently 'observed, is "the predominant American sentiment. I don't know that it's intact, but it's strong ... It defeated Haynes and Carswell."

The fact that Joe Rauh's particular brand of irrepressible liberalism defeated or helped to defeat Haynes and Carswell goes far to explain why some ,of his detrjlctors referred to him disdainfully as Mr. Liberal. On the other hand, when his friends and admirers-and I am one of them-refer to him as Joe Liberal, they mean to pay him a very sincere compliment.'

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"Ever since I read 'The Greening of America,' I have been try~ ing to figure out, in my idle moments, which of my friends and associates belong to 'Consciousness II' and which to 'Consciousness III,' It didn't take me long to decide that most of them belong to the former category, but since you-in spite of your gray hair-are so young of heart and so full of physical and psychological bounce, I felt for a time that I might be able to fit you ' into III.

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Stresses Moral- Aspects of Abortion Agonizing Question for All, Columnist Sciys NEW YORK. (NC)-One of the top religion writers in the country challenges the' argument that physicians should not be reminded of the moral aspects of abortion in a state where abortion has been legalized.

-"What is legal is not necessarily moral," said Louis Cassels, religion writer and a senior editor of United' Press International, in his Jan. 8 weekly column "Religion in America" distributed to more than 1,000 daily newspapers.

Cassels said the destruction of a quickened fetus-one 12 weeks away from birth-may be quite legal in New York and a growing list of other states.

"But this fact," he said, "does not excuse all of .us, in whose names these laws are passed, from facing the agonizing moral

question of who, if anyone, has the right to pass a death sentence on a totally defenseless and totally innocent being who possesses, at least in potential, all of the attributes of human life and personhood."

Cassels said abortion may, under some if not all circumstances, involve the deliberate destruction of bona fide human life.

"The Roman Catholic Church has contended, in its losing battle against liberalized abortion laws, that life begins at the moment of conception, and the termination of pregnancy, even at a very early stage, is morally equivalent to murder," the UPI columnist wrote.

He said Protestant moralists generally reject that view and hold that true human life does

not begin until the fetus quickens, while most Jewish scholars say a fetus is "mere fluid" until 40 days after conception, but after that is at least' a "partial person,", .

Although Jewish teaching condones abortion for "grave reasons" such as to save a mother's life, Cassels noted that "Rabbinic opinion tends to view even a therapeutic abortion as an act of homicide, akin to killing a man in self-defense," "Supporters of unrestricted abortion assert that a fetus should be regarded simply as part of the mother's body until the ,actual moment of birth," he said. "Thus, they say, the mother has the same right to discard an unwanted fetus as she would have t.o get rid of an inflamed appendix or abscessed tooth,"

"The more I thought about the matter, however, the more I became convinced that you are the Consciousness II man par excellence. And Jor this I salute you with admiration and affection, pace Professor Reich. , ",When I saY:. that ~ou are at the very top of my list of, favorite II people, I mean that you represent the liberal tradition in this country at its very bestand I hope that I am not being an old fogey when I add that, in my book, that's a very high compliment indeed. ' Social Conscience "You have forgotten more than most of t.he Consciousness II people"':-who, I gather, have written o~f the liberal tradition as a complete bust-will know about the faults and imperfections of the American system.

Another way of saying the same thing is that your social conscience and your social intelligence are remarkably keen. . "The point is" however, that your determhiation to do something constructive about路 ' the problems', 'which you see all around you-and to do it within the liberal traditio,n .of rational discourse. and 'without fear or favor - is equally keen.' Indeed I would say that there are few in the United States who' have done mOJ;e: than you. have to bridge the gap between American theory and American .'practice in .the whole area of social justice and economic reform.

Joe Rauh has been right on many public issues and wrong on others"':"'but never apathetic or indifferent to any public issue of substantive importance. I know of few men of Joe's generation who have done as much "You were born to be a cruas he has done to advance the sader for justice, freedom, and t:ause of social justice and polit- equality. You have won some of ical equality for all people re- your battles and have lost others gardless of their race or creed -but, to your eternal credit, you or the color of their skin-and have never given up the good fewer still-who have brought fight and have never been temptas much verve and good humor , ed to cop out of the system. For and dogged perserverance to the this 1 admire and respect youstruggle for human rights. and consider it a privilege to I admire him as a tireless, have known you as a personal compassionate, remarkably good- friend over', a long ,period of natured, and utterly fearless years,"

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Bishops, priests and' members collection has spirit described Has it ever struck you as urof religious orders have to de- here, you ha~e 'pure Christian prising that Jesus chose a wedvote a certain amount of time' to riving in opetation.

When you 'ding reception for the first rev, , I ' raising money. Some of them have ,that, , you 'have, the King- elation of who He really was?

I and some of the laity grumble dom of God among you.

John recalls that it was at the about this fact. It is helpful for Example' of Macedonians wedding at Cana in Galilee that 'all concerned to' study chapters The~e chapters showed how Jesus' performed the "first of 8 and 9 in St. Paul's Second Let- Paul stirred the zeal of the his signs" (In 2:11). , / tet to the Corinthiqns.

Co'rinthians f~r the work of Yet· what would be a more . Paul makes no apology for the charity. He appealed' to the 'ex- natural place for Christ to startfact . that he wants to raise ample of the ,Maced0l1ians and His work 'of helping men grasp money among the Corinthian to the examPlr, of Ch~i~t" and' the depth of God's love for man?

Christians for the poor of Jeru- finally he (rankly appealed. to Throughout the, Scriptures the, salem. I think you will agree their' o.wn int~r~st. " ' . 'love of man and woman is recafter, reading th,ese two chapters Paul says .the 'Macedoniaris ognized as the richest'human sign that Paul and the, Christians to' . "were extrerri~iy ,g~heroU:s ',in', .of. the, love' God 'has for man. their giving, eren though they God's loving presence in human were very p09r" (8:2).,' Appar-. life is made knqwn and shared ently it will'always be thus. Car- in 'a privileged way in marital ' . dinal Cushing Had the~ reputation fove, 'By of being the bekt fund-raiser the ~irror of ,Creatiop' FR. WALTER M. Church has'ever known in Amer- " When Goa ,decided ,. on the ica. ~e oftenltold his 'visitors most suitable image of Himself ABBOTT,S.J that by far the greater part of for his newly created world, He the money he ~aised ',came from, created a couple, Ii man and a the poor and, the 'little' 'people woman. "God created man in his of his Archdioc~se of Boston, not ,!m?ge... male and female he whom he wrote. took "it for from the rich:, '\' ,.', created them" (Gen 1:27). Both 'granted that raising money for Notice that P,aul says' the creation stories 'in Genesis culthe poor. was a proper thing to Macedonians considered it a, minate in the creation of man ,'do. The only thing Paul has to privilege to havb "a part in help- and woman who are so united w'ork on here is to get the Corin- ing God's peoplb in Judea (8:4). that "the two of them become thillns to give generously and , He says they ha~ the idea it was one body" (Gen 2:24). ,Together cheerfully: "the one who gives a favor 'given tryem by God that they are to rrii~ror forth the cregladly" (9:6-7). You may remem- they were able to help others. I ative, fruitful love of God as ber the older translation: "God know some of y6u will find ,that they raise families and gradually ,loves a cheerful giver. idea very beautiful and will feel make the world' 'a better. place .

Bread Cast on the Water the addihg of for their children (Gen :28). it is spoiled There is here also the argu- the motive that if one gives gen'The last pages of the Bible FAMILIAR SCENE: Young couple arrives at Church ment that if you give generously erously God' wiill treat one cor- echo the theme of these' first -God will treat you generously, respondingly well. Some say this pages. The Book of Revelation 'for marriage in a scene repeated countless times outside and Paul returns to it:' "God, latter idea, devbloped at some (Apqcalypse) describes the final, every Church in na~ion and-world. who supplies seed for the sower length by pauI'1 is a hold-over full \Inion of God and his' beople / and bread to eat, will also supply, from the more primitive 019 in the heavenly Jerusalem at a new and everlasting covenant or enant." As such, marriage "will you' with all the seed you need Testament spirituality. wedding feast at which'Christ is 'marriage !;lond between himself manifest to all men the Savior's and make it grow to produce a "living presence in the world, a~d Well, just as I often say that _the bridegroom (Rev 21:9, 22:17). and his people (Mt 26:28). rich harvest from your generos- ,th~ prayer of P~tition is not to Between these opening and closSt. Paul distills the, long the genuine nature of the ity. He will always make you f)e despised, since it was en- ing passages of Scripture ahnost Judaeo-Christian tradition in the Church" (Church in Modern rich enough to be generous at dorsed by Christ \himself, so her,e every book of the Bible looks to famous passage' in Ephesians World, 48). . all times, so that many will I say that hoping for favors from the marriage bond, with its joys (5:22-33) where he explicitly reIt s not surprising then that thank 90d for your gifts through God for one's service is not' to and sorrows as the place to learn lates marriage to the mystery of at a wedding Jesus began the us." (9:10-11)be despised but I respected as a the deepest meaning of life with Christ's love' for his Church.

Paul makes no apology for built-in part of pod's plan.

God. What does this all mean in that argument. He pushes right Hosea's Experience Let me, quote here a sentence practical daily life in the sevenon to say that by their generos-' from another 'letter of the New Through the experience of his ties? When a man and woman By ::, ity the Corinthian Christians Testament which we'll study own tra . . th h t enter into a permanent relationwill give proof that they are in- later, the letter to the Hebrews: Hosea d~~~O~:;~~a~~~ m~:t:~~ ~f ship of love in marriage they not FR. CARL J. deed 'endowed with Christian "do not forget t6 do good and God's love for his people. He de- only manifest something of virtues. As a result, "many will to help one andther, for these scribes this love not abstractly, God's own affection for man-' PFEIFER, S.J. give glory to God for your loy- are the sacrific~s that please but in moving poetry. He records kind, but share in that love. alty to the Gospel of ~hrist God" (13:16), wHich means that God's initiative and his people's Every marriage. participates in (9:13) . Finally, those who bene- if you don't forg~t kindness and Io'ving response: "I will allure. God's love for man, for as Jesus fit will pray for their benefactors 'charitY" you will obtain God's her ... and speak to her heart himself made clear, it is God gradual revelation of his affec"with great affection" because of favor.

-I - :.. On that day, says the Lord, who joins a man and woman in tion for man. It would seem to the extraordinary grace God has Discussion Questions she, shall call me 'My husband' " marriage. "Therefore, let no man 'suggest to us that the central shown to the benefactors. Paul separate what Goa has joined" thrust of religious education in 1. Ho\V do c~aPter 8 and 9 (Hos ,2:16-18). ends: Let us thank God for this manifest 'the universal ,charity' ,Isaiah states directly, "He (Mt 19:6), Every 'marriage is a our age needs ,to center ,on impriceless gift'" who has become your husband is sign of the relationship between f proving the quality of married of the' early Chutch?

It has been' well said that life.

2. How do the Scriptures' your maker" (Is 54:5) and later God and man. these two chapters manifest the point out thatgeAerositywill be~dds more poetically: "As a Discussion Questions The Sacrament of Matrimony universal charity of the'primitive rewarded by God? ' young man marrie~ a virgin, celebrates this, relationship and 1. What was the significance C':hurch and the grandeur of 1 your builder shall marry, you; reveals everi more clearly the of the wedding at Cana of GaliPaul's soul.' After nearly two Prog'ram Promotes and as a bridegroom rejoices in depth of God's' involvement lee? ' thousand years a much, more I his bride, so shall your God re- through Christ in the life of his 2.

How does the prophet complicated and sophisticated Minority Hiring joice in you" (Is 62:5)! Jeremiah people, the Church. lVIatrimony Hosea use marriage to describe Church .can do no better 'than LOS ANGELESI (NC)-In less draws on the language of roman- also makes possible a ri.cller parthe early Christians did about than two years ,the number of' tic love in having God say to His ticipation in that involvement. tne love of God for his people? making money grow" when it is Mexican-Americatis employed by people, "With age-Old love I have The Vatican Council II teaches , Press Association given, but that is the only aspect the Los Angeles ,<bounty govern- loved you" (Jer 31:3). that "auth,entic married love is of the thing in which we've ment nearlydoubl~d-from2,100 Jesus and his Apostles knew caught up into divine love and Revises Statistics made progress. to nearly, 4,000. ; these passages well. Jesus uses is ,governed and enriched by NEW YORK CITY (NC) In a very re~.l sense w~ can't a The reason: an "affirmative the same language,calling Him- Christ's redeeming power and Combined circulation of the 124 expect to make more progress. action" program \the county is self the "bridegroom" (Mk 2:19). the saving activity of the diocesan papers listed in the If the, people who' 'give and th'e conducting to inrrease hiring, He describes man's union with Church.~' Marriage is a "reflec- , Catholic Press Association's 1971 I'eople who receive have the skill development and promotion God as a wedding banquet (Mt tion of the loving covenant Catholic Press Directory fell 8.4 spirit described here, and if the of Mexican-Ameritan and other 22:1-4; 25: 1-13), and gives his, uniting Christ with the Church" ' per cent last year, not five per minister of Christ. urging the minority citizens. " body and blood as signs of the ancl "a participation in that cov- cent as earlier reported.

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Priest Says Pulpit B'est Means F'or Reaching Spanish-Speaking SAN FERNANDO (NC) Without hesitation Father Louis Valbuena claims the church an~ the pulpit are the best means for reaching Spanish-speaking ' people.

"Better than television," he emphasizes. "Better than radio or newspapers or any other media."

He made his point one Autumn evening here when the Santa Ana winds were dyilng, but the warmth remained.

Outside old Santa Rosa church a line of more than 200 , nerc;ons chatted, waited patiently They inched to the front door, registered, then got in line again to enter the church through the side door.

This was ·the night for the parish eye clinic sponsored by the parish and the Catholic Welfare Bureau.

Inside was another couple seated in rows of chairs waiting to be routed through for exams.

On hand, were four optometrhts. one hard-working ophthalmologist. one pharmacist, 14 '1l1rses from Holy Cross ,hospital, "nr! a score of young people from the 'Santa Rosa youth club, "ctin~ as interpreters. ' Father Valbuena moved easily among the crowd. Everybody c;nolce to ,him - whether it's "n'uenas . noches, Padre" or "'Ii'va Father. Some older men and women bowed and kissed his hand. an old Mexican custom of respect.

Pulpit Announcements The people have rapport with their nastor.

Here in one night 610 of them came for the free eye clinic, between 6 and 10 P.M. Many more will have to come back when the clinic is repeated; but there wasn't enough time this one night.

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urging me to have a car with loudspeakers go through the neighborhood urging people to come," Father Valbuena recounted.

"I said 'Wait.' Look at this crowd. This is just from a pulpit announcement last Sunday," he added.

"It was this way for our shot clinic. We had over 500 persons turn out-and 120' of them had' never had an immunization of, any kind. Imagine that, 120 who had never had,a shot. There is a county clinic here, but the peopie simply had not gone.

There is ,a breakdown somewhere," he. said, Reaches People "We have had four cancer clinics, ,Nearly 1,000 women in the parish hav'e had PAP tests" the pastor said. "We expect 'a big turnout at our tax' clinic' when we shall help homeowners over 65 to get the tax rebate to which they are entitled. " "Ail of these things," Father Valbuena emphasized, "have' been effective, because the church reaches the 'people, reaches them directly, reaches them through the pulpit."

Pl.lhlir. sc,",onl wl1\cl1t n rs here vountarilv testified to' the truth of this. When the California legislature amended the education code to permit bilingual instruc· tion in public schools, the Los An~eles Citv School dic;trict announced through public media the beginning of a bilingual school in San Fernando Valley.

No results were obtained.

When the project was announced from the pulpit at Santa Rosa Church, 1,000 adults enrolled and persevered in classes at Alemany High School and other valley locales. Since then classes have been started in east Los Angeles and in, Orange County - with Church impetus.

Religious Newswriters Rate Pop'e's Far East Trip 1970 ,Top Story, BOSTON (NC) - Pope Paul VI's trip to the Far East was rated' the No. I news story of 1970 9Y the Religious Newswriters Association, which also voted church financial problems as the most significant development of the year.

The association, composed of writers of religious news for daily newspapers, selected 10 top stories for the year, plus 10.significant developments.

The association members decided the major problem confronting the religious community in 1971 is disenchantment with institutionalism, organization and tradition, and a crumbling of .church structures.

The association reported that 41 per cent of its members responded to the poll.

The exploits of anti-w~r priestbrothers, Fathers Philip and Daniel Berrigan, now imprisoned, was rated the NO.2 news story, while the approval of the Consultation on Church Union plan for union ranked third.

The writers rated the issue of w~men's rights, including ordination, in the church as the second most significant development, and the revolt against traditional formal concepts of religion as third. .

The top 10 news stories were rated in this order:

The Pope's Far East tour; The Berrigan brothers; Approval of the COCU draft plan of union; Death of Boston's Cardinal Richard Cushing and appointment of Archbishop Hlimberto S. Medeiros as his- successor; Maryknoll Bishop James E. Walsh, 79, released from a Red China prison.

Publication of the New American Bible (Roman Catholic) and the New English Bible; The "no" vote in the Michigan referendum on parochial aid; The Episcopal Church's General Convention in Houston; The furor over WCC grants to alleged guerilla groups in southern Africa; Carl Mclntire's "Total Victory Rally" in Washington.

Ranked by significance: the top 10 areas chosen by the newswriters were: Church financial problems; Women's rights in the church, including ordination; The revolt against the traditional formal concepts of religion;, Parochial education; Abortion and birth control.

Churchmen in politics; The charismatic movement (growt~ among evangelicals, fundamentalists, and Pentecostolists); The so-called "social action/spiritual debate; Religious interest in ecology; The churches' attention to domestic poverty:

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Canadian Priests Killed in Coup

lOWA CITY (NC) - Morality and pollution of the environment have the same source in Biblical and Greek traditions, according to Prof. George W. Forell, director of the University of Iowa School of Religion.

The first chapter of Genesis tells believers to "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over ... every living thing, that moves upon the earth."

Forell said that exhortation has 'encouraged men "to exploit nature, which long ago was stripped of holiness, the sacred garment with ~hich paganism and pantheism had protected it."

Mistreat Nature The Greek' tradition of 'despising nature and, building an interio,r life has also contributed to a disregard for the environment, he said in a talk here.

Noting that Bible morality brought many positive contributions to the human condition, Forell said it also brought a tendency to mistreat nature.

"Many people naively believe that the same ruthless drive which conquered the earth will enable us to find new worlds to conquer and to throwaway this, our earth, like an empty beer can," he said.

ROME (NC) - Two Canadian Jeean Paul Demers, 60, from St. Isidore, Quebec, and Father White Fathers were killed and another wounded at Entebbe In- Gerard Perrault, 54, of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. The wounded ternational Airport in Uganda during the coup that overthrew priest is Father Adrien Farmer, the government of President Mil- 56, of Sarsfield, Ontario, who is reported to be in satisfactory ton Obote.

The White Fathers' headquar- condition.. ters here said that the priests Father Demers, in Africa since were at the airport to welcome . 1938, was general bursar for the missionaries arriving from Eu- archdiocese of Kampala, Uganrope or to bid farewell to mis- da's capital. He also served as an sionaries leaving for Europe and agent for RAPTIM, an airline were caught accidentally in a set up to transport missionaries.

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Father Perrault, in Africa NEW YORK CITI (NC)-An The priests killed were Father since 1942, was a professor at a appeal for full and public debate teachers' college in Kampala. of the rejected report of the fed- Father Farmer, in Africa Official Denounces ,eral Commission o'n Obscenity si1'1ce 1911, is a teacher at a and Pornography was issued minor. seminary in the Kampala Dutch I Mini-Popes' here by a coalition of 25 nation- . archdiocese. al organizations, including the AMSTERDAM (NC) - The There are about 60 Canadian Dutch minister of foreign affairs, White Fathers in Uganada, most National Council of Chu'rches.

Joseph M. Luns, a Catholic, de- Cif them from Quebec. nounced what he called' "minipopes" and said that his most depressing experience in 1970 , was the "continuing disintegra. tion" of the Roman Cathoilic Church in the Netherlands. . ONE STOP Luns said it· is depressing to SHOPPING CENTER C8TlES SERVICE see some priests "substitute • Television • Grocery DISTRUBUTORS their own interpretation of the • Appliances • Furniture liturgy and dogma for their obeGasoline 104 Allen St., New Bedford dience to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and Fuel and Range 997-9354 particularly the authority of the Pope." ','We can do without the miniOIL BURNERS ELECTRICAL popes in this country," he said.

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The names of the protesting bishops were not released.

"It 'worries us," they told 'Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez of Madrid, "that in our assemblies we are devotiI1g' more and more time to tem. poral issues, while the many problems of an ecclesiastical nature scarcely receive a serious examination. It appears that the temporal order has been given greater priority."

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Father Raymond Brown· is. o~e of A~etican .Catho- _ licism's !TI0st distinguishedsch~l~rs .. He' ~oe.s·not ,issue eccentric statements, he· does not w.nte colfI?ns, he does not predict the end of. the Church or' th~ .pnesthood, nor . . can he, by the farthest stretch. of the imagination. priesth?od. inv~lves an . undue .

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In a way, I suppose, that's unfortunate because scholars are likely to' get a hearing in the American. Church' at the present time only, if in adddition to their scholarship," they do something Yet ·Father ,Brown de~erves a , hear:ing .for he is the one AmericanCathaJic th.e'l1.0f'!;ca 1 "cho!ar who seems to. hav'e the universal respect 'both of his non-Catholic colleagues in this CO!1ntry and of European theologians.

"His two-volume Anchor commentary .on St. John's gospel is a work of aw'esome scholarship combined with an intelligence and balance that makes the most difficult of Gospels come alive once again.

Hence. it is a red letter day when Father Brown ventures into more popular writing, particularly when he is writing about the priestnood. His book, Priest alld Bi,shop: Biblical Reflections (Paulist Press) is perhaps the best popular discussion of what the New Testament has to say on the priesthood. It will, I suspect, make Father Brown some enemies.

Vocation to Hardships First of all, arguing from the 'New Testament notion of disci. pleship, . Father Brown' 'raises some pertinent - questions about present phenomena in the priesthood, "Perhaps today, because of the shortage of clergy,' we may have to ordain men who are engaged full time in other ,tasks and-devote only one d~y a week to a priestly function (e.g., celecelebrating Mass on Sunday).

But the strength of the Gospel ideal of vocation suggests that such an approach will be considered an exception to the rule of 'a full-time priesthood." (p. 23) But i( is not merely the parttime priesthood that he finds somewhat at odds with the New Testament ideal: He also contends that the New Testament nqtion of discipleship would imply a permanent priesthood. Nor is Father Brown willing to accept on the basis of the New Testament the argument that a lifelong· ,0mmitmentW the

factor in. the Church's' understanding of thel lifetime nature of priestly vodtion. Legitimate as that m'ay be (and who wishes to question the· mercy 'of the Church), one' bust· recognize that' i,n the 'Gos~els the vocation to spedal discipleship is portrayed. precisely I as· a yocation to hardships too severe to be generally accept~ble." (24) .

I ' Ideal of Celibacy' .

I Father Brown not only defends the ideal of ce'ibacy on New Testament grounas, but also sugI' gests the Church: may very well be' within its rights insisting on that ideal for thdse who wish to serve in the pries1thood (although he refuses. to en~er into the disI cussion as to· wpether celibacy · ought to become \optional at the pres'ent time). . ", .. precisely oecause the witness of celibacy ik co'nspicuously lacking in many lother Christian churches, the R'oman Catholic Church has an etumenical duty to. the Gospel. to,-continue to bear an effective witness on' this score. Perhaps this would be possible ~ithout ~ law, but one must admit. that it is the law of priestly celibacy ~hat makE;s it clear that those Iwho' accept :it are doing so fo~ the sake ofChrist and, not simply because they prefer. to !be bachelors.

Some of the forms of optional celibacy being p~oPbsed would· soon lead to obsc~ring the vocational character of celibacy and would reduce it to a' personal idiosyncrasy." (p..\26) . Conservative, Liberal • I Those who dismiss Father Brown. out of handI as a conservative, if not reactionary, would · do well, however, Ito wait until th~y get to the second half of his book where hel asks whether the bishops are the successors · of the apostles. Helrespond~ that they are in some· senSe but scarcely in a sense Iwhich is likely to reassure thos~ bishops who think that for all ~ractical purposes their role i* the Church is the same as the apostles'.

Father .Brown even raises the question as ·to whether "func~ tional apostolicity" Imight not be present in those Protestant churches which do not have bishops.

I One young enthusiast r know expressed the opinidn that Father Brown was a schiiophrenic because he h~d comtiined u a 'conservative" position bn the priesthood with "a. libebi" position on the bishopric. iSuch is the way ideologues thihk: everyon'e else must be an ideologue like themselves.' It neJer occurred to this young persory that wheth. er Father Brown was a liberal I' . or a conservative wlas com.plet~ly irrelevant; the ~eal pomt IS that he is a scholar; Priest and Bishop is a refledtioll of his scholarship. \ I would presumli that Father· Bmwn wonld <eply lho,e who 1

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think him "left",on the' bishopric and "right" on the priesthood that this is a proble1TI that ought' to be taken up not so much with him as with the authors of the New Testament.

Impeded, Maturation ' Discussions are beginning all around the country between priests and bishops in preparation for the Synod next Autumn.

One hopes that Father Brown's booklet will be widely read a!ld that it will be judged on the mer- .its of its argumentation rather than in the grounds cif ideological presuppositions' or personal feelings.

'One is not so sure, however, I . remarked recently ·to a number ,of priests that all the evidence I had seen indicated that priests were no less emotionally mature than anyone else and that their seminary training and celibate state had apparently not impeded their emotional maturation any more than had the education and married state of lay people impeded their maturation.

One cleric replied, "I know that my maturation has been impefJed by the Church and I don't care what the data say." .

It is convenient to rely on . one's own emotions and at the same time have an excellent scapegoat readily available. How much scapegoating a'nd how much serious consideration and scholarship'like Father Brown's will, take place in the dialogue of the· next several months still remains to be seen, One can only hope that Father BrQwn gets the attention that he richly deserves.

Menisters on Spai~ Ask Social Security '. MADRID' (NC) - Representatives of several. Protestant de, nominations have asked that their ministers be included in the social security system set up for priests here.

The program, called Mutual del Clero, is administered by the Catholic bishops, but the Church has petitioned to haye it included in the government's social security program.

The ,Protestant ministers, in a letter to Mutual, said that they felt all legally registered Protestant bodies should have the same rights as Catholics, especially if the government took over the administration of the prQgram.

" NEW ORLEANS (NC) - A communlcati9ns professor called on media personnel' here to exploit changes taking pla~e in . mass' communications for the benefit of the Church and the world, Dr. Martin Maloney, professor of co'mmunications at Nor:thwestern University, said- that "our present world of mass communi. cation will not long remain as it is now. The one stable fact for us is change, rapid, even' rev?lutionary change, We should be prepared, not only to face those changes, but to exploit them." ,Looking to the future, ,he listed' possible changes in. the next 20 years: Present methods of printing and .distributing p'rinted mate'rial may bec'ome obsolete; Radio and television stations and networks may disappear, replaced by wire receiving 'systems for two-way communications; Sys.tems will be developed which store , transmit and scan quantities of information of all kinds, producing a world where all human knowledge will, be available instantly to anyone anywhere.

Status Quo He noted several highly' 'sophisticated devices already' in use, including satellite broadcasting, ~ATV (community antenna television) and systems for information processing and retrieval.

Maloney said most religious communicators have done their part for the status quo.. "Religious propagandists in the international field have not gone beyond the use of the three great classic communications media: the missionary, the printed word in many languages, and the short wave radio."

Radio, Films "In the United States and similar countries, public communication would seem to be in transition. Completely evolutiopary technologies are available now and will undoubtedly force their way int~ practical use." .

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At this writing only one game separates the top three teams in the circuit. With the leaders slated to. meet each other h the closing weeks of the campaign anything is liable to happen.

Coach Sal Lombardo's Crimson and White appeared to be

However, last Friday night the John O'Brien coached Spartans were upended for' the second time this Winter by New Bedford Vocational and again fell a game be h'In d. 'In t h e Ieague standings.

Considering that New Bedford's· only loss iri league play came at the hands of Stang and the Spartans two County defeats were administered by Vocational, tomorrow afternoon's intercity contest between the Whalers and Artisans should be an interesting affair.

Homecourt Ad~antag~ Plus for Durfee Coach Ed Lowney of VocationMeanwhile Durfee, which was al called last week's game with counted out of the' race after Stang "crucial" stating that an- losing to New Bedford and Stang, other defeat would place Voke has been staging a comeback too far behind to catch up: The and is still very much in the same holds true for tomorrow's race. game.

Many observers feel that the New Bedford won the initial Hilltoppers can handle New contest between the two clubs Bedf~rd on their home court. this season by an 83-58 count. ' But, tomorrow. Coach Karam's., However. Stang proved that New boys will have to play dangerredford is not invincible. Plus, ous Attleboro. Admittedly, the this j<; a must game for Voke.

Jewelers have not had a good Bob Desrosiers, Ed Gomes and season. However, Coach Karam Joe Delgardo will carry the ma- recognizes that they can be jor portion of the responsibilfty tough and .is trying to guard. for the Artis3J1s. If they can his charges against sUffering an corne up with another super ef- upset. fort as they did against Stang . Elsewhere, Msgr. Coyle High the championship plot will thick- of Taunton will meet winless Bishop Feehan High in Attleboro. en in the BCL. Stang will play in Taunton Holy Family High of New BedFriday night. The Tigers have ford has virtually wrapped up been playing .500 ball most of the Narragansett League chamthe season, but they can be ex- pionship, but not as easly as tremely tough at home. expected.

Narry Race Now ~or Runner-up Position The Parochials, undefeated through the first half of the campaign, .had to come up with two consecutive all-out efforts to keep their unbeaten record intact. , The Blue Wave won two games last week against their closest rivals by a total of two points, and played 13 quarters in the process.

On' Tuesday Coach Jack No-. brega's club defeated Somerset 45-44. The win was Coach No-

Nobel Peace Prize HAMBURG (NC)-The Chris. tian Democrats in Hamburg have proposed that the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda and Recife, Brazil. Several international groups had recommended the 'archbishop for the 1970 prize.

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A few weeks ago many were ready. to concede the Bristol County League basketball championship to New Bedford High. But, a sudden turn of events h~s cha.nged the picture completely. And, now four clubs are contesting for that coveted title. With only five games remaining on their way to the title until on the schedule, the Whalers Bishop Stang upset th,e I,oop '11 h t h' ld ff 'ff leaders a week ago to move Into WI ave 0 o. 0 Stl a first place tie. . c~allenges from Blshop_ St~ng High of Da~tmouth, Durfee ~Igh

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brega's "200th in his II-year re.ign at Holy Family. Then on Friday it edged Case High of Swansea 72-71.

Coach Bob Gordon's Case Cardinals, defending league champions, were not about to relinquish their title without a fight.

And, fight they did. ' The Cardina,ls battled violently all night long and forceq the Parochials into five overtime periods before losing.' The game will go into Narry annals as one of the greatest ever staged. Perhaps, the greatest.

Holy Family now holds a two game edge over its nearest rival.

Only a major disaster will Pt:event the Blue Wave from winning another crown.

From here on in the Narry fight will be for second place.

Case, Somerset, Bishop Connolly High of Fall River and Seekonk are all in position to finish in the runner-up spot.

Kevin Phelan won'.t win any individual honors on this year's varsity basketball squad, but the steady improvement in his play is all Northeastern University head coach Duke pUkeshire has' asked for.

Phelan, a native of Fall River <\nd graduate of Bishop Stang High School, is one of' seven' sophomores. on the 'Huskies .young 1970-71 roster. This season has been dedicated to a re: building program altho~gh nine' lettermen are returning from last year's team which' managed a 14-8 record. .

Phelan is coming off an im-· pressive freshman' campaign in . which he averaged better than 10 poin!s per game in sparking the young Huskies to a winning recor<:i. .

Standing only 6-3, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Phelan, 189 Highland Avenue, is listed as a guard in this year's team brochure although he spent most of his freshman season battling opposing giants in the front court.

Known for his deadly outside jump shooting and whip-like drives though the key, Phelan was also one of the team's better defensive players a year ago and was considered a strong rebounder despite his "lack" of height.

"He was one of our most consistent players a year ago," said Director of Public Relations Jack Grinold. ' Kevin isn't likely to see much _action during the season but whatever playing time he accumulates is bound to be beneficial in the long run. Much will be expected of him next season when four of the five starters fall victim to graduation.

Phelan got his hardwood baptism under the. watchful eye and

Professors Debate Abortion Issues NOTRE DAME (NC) - Two Notre Dame University faculty members offered sharply differing views on abortion during a televised debate show here, Jan. 24. . Dr. Thomas Poulson, biologist, urged the repeal of all anti-abortion laws, calling them "unconstitutional because they violate medical practice, invade privacy, compel· people to have predictably abnormal children and discriminate against the poor."

Dr. Charles Rice, professor of law, noted that "if an innocent human being can be killed because he is too young, there's no reason why he can't be killed because he's too old or too black or too whatever."

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Phelan is one of three children and a spot in both the Catholic and the youngest of two boys. and Tech Tournaments.

A year later, he led the His brother, Mickey, is a Marine County League in scoring with Corps veteran and his sister 297 points (21.3) per game av- Carline is a housewife in' Calierage) and was the only County fornia.

The Phelans are communicants performer' to top the 20 ppg. of Sacred Heart Parish. plateau.

The most interesting thing' about his achievements during that final year was the fact that CHAS. F. he was forced to play most of the year with a corset which protected a strained back.

Stang failed to make the Tech during Phelan's senior year, but the big center did manage to lead them into the Catholic .

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ST. JOSEPH, THE ANCHORATfLEBORO· . _ _ _T_h.:...:ur.~.day, Feb. 4, ,1971 Philip KracO\yski,. noted sculptor of the. Attleboro area, will be guest speaker land exhibit his works at the open meeting of the Women's IGuild ..... following I .

Publicity chairmen of parish or· the 7:30 Mass on Tuesday night, ganizations are asked to su6mit Feb. 9 in the p~rish hall. " news items for this column to The juhior drop-in cenThe· parish A'nchor, P. O. Box 7,.. fall River ter .f9r 7th, 8t~ and 9th grade 02722. s~udents will r~-open tomorrow ST. GEORGE, nIght· at ,7. N~w membership WESTPORT cards, costing 5,Oc, will be disThe Women's Guild announces tributed and will be valid until a whist party for Saturday night, June. . . \' < Feb. 6 at the school hall on Route 177.

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OUR LADY OF LOURDES, TAUNTON Parishioners will hold their annual ham and bean supper and penny sale Saturday night, Feb. 29 in..the school hall. The supper . will be served from 5:30 to 7, with the penny sale following immediately.

Parishioners are urged to make tjcket returns and prize donations by Wednesday, Feb. 10 in order that the committee may make final arrangement~.

Major prizes to be aWarded include a seven-day Bermuda cruise for -two, a ca~sette tape recorder, an AM-FM radio and a Polaroid camera.'

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ST. JOSEPH, OUR LADY OF THE CAPE, -TAUNTON.. ..,: .-BREWSTER - - - The annual parish penny"'sale The monthly meeti"ng. of the will take' place at 8 P.M. Mon- Women's Guild will take place in day and Tuesday; Feb. 8 and' 9 the church hall at 8 Tuesday' in the school hall on Sheridan evening Feb. 9.

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Holy Name Society, the AssumpThe program will feature a ta Guild and the Mothers' Club. film and talk, on ."What Goes Fifty :home-baked cakes ,will Up,'~ by a prominent heart spebe raffled each night, as well as cialist, in observance of Heart a $25 door prize. Grand prize Month. will be $500 cash. Co-chairmen Refreshments will be served are Manuel Ventura and Mrs. by Mrs. Russell Broadbent and Pauline Ricketts, aided by a Mrs. Frank Foley and their com. large committee. Public ,invited.' mittee.·

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ST. MARY, SO. DARTMOUTH. Mrs. William Martin, chairman of the evening's program, assures all that the business meeting of the Women's Guild planned for 8 o'clock on Tuesday night, Feb. 8 will be brief in order that sufficient time will be given to members to enjoy an evening ·of informal card playing, scrabble and other forms of, entertainment. , Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the evening's program.

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA, NEW BEDFORD The Couples Club will sponsor a cabaret style pop concert at 7 Sunday night, Feb. 7 in the parish halI on Tobey Street. Featured will be the New Bedford - Concert Orchestra; under the direction of Harrie Johnston.

Refreshments will be served dur. ing the' program.

Co-cnairmen Mr. and Mrs: ..-Donald Gaudette. and ,Mr.' and Mrs. Joseph Travers announj:e ,that proceeds will benefit the parish improvement fund. Tickets, are available from them or at the rectory, and reservations may be made by t~lephone.

Tickets will also be on sale at the door.

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,Mrs. Sophie Costa, general chairman, announced that plan,s have been completed for' the' annual Malassada Supper and Penny Sale scheduled for 6:45, 'Saturday night, Feb. 20 in the church hall.

Mrs. Mary Thomas will serve as general chairman of the' kitchen workers. .

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER The postponed Penny Sale of Jan'. 26 has been rescheduled for 7:30 on Tuesday night, Feb. 9 in , in the Cathedral School.

The Mothers' Club is the sponsoring organizatio'1.

Here it is -' Mason's once·a·year store wide clearance to make room for carload purchases of new designs expected soon from the nation's leading furniture factories. Every department is represented with price·slashing reductions - floor samples, discontinued styles, odds and ends, and hun· dreds of one and few-of·a·kind items, Everything must go regardless of cost, . loss or replacement value. Act now while selections are at' a peak and save like you never have before.

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IMMACU!::ATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER ' Theret>-wil! be a public whist party in the parish center at 8 ~aturdai night, Feb. 6.

Lutherans Establish Ecumenical Coundl o.SLO (NC) - An Interchurch Council that aims to develop ecumenical activities and contacts of the Lutheran Church in' Nor~ way has, been set up' by ,that state -supported denomination' here under, the, le~dership of ,B,ishop Fridtjov Birkeli .0f.Oslo., , An "important part of -the rr~~~~I(liF1 - , '. :-, "councWs .w~~k, w-ill,be, to pub.:lish a monthly' ecumenical news' . bulletin in English' and' German.

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ILIVING I\OOM • BEDROOM· DINING, ROOM TABLJES • LAMPS· DESKS· CHAIRS BEDS • BEDDING • OFFICE FURNITURE EVERY DEPrlRTItlENT IS REPRESENTED WITll PRICE-SLASHING REDUCTIONS 1~loor.

Samples • Odds and Ends • Discontinned St,'les.· One and Few of a Kind 'I~ems

PERSONALIZED BUDGET PAYMENTS No Banks or Finance Compan ies To Pay.-

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"Hew Engl~n'd's~a;'gest Fu~n;tu;e' Showroom"