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Changes Await Trans/ation

Penance · Reconciliation for Dynamic Life

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Manag.ement and Ethics PHOENIX (NC)-Top management in business must not only be ethical, but also be perceived as ethical, a Catholic University president said here.

Jesuit Father Raymond Baum· hart, president of Loyola University of Chicago, told Harvard University Business School alumni here that the problem of ethical appearance is one of the prime implications of the Watergate affair.

Father Baumhart, who holds a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business school and has a doctorate in commercial science, emphasized that management has an obligation not to undermine ethical standards by setting unreasonably high sales quotas or other unreasonable goals. A company with "a pirate at the top will tend to have pirates below," the priest said.

Noting that ethics seem to improve as individuals grow older, he recognized that cynics take the view that older men can afford to be ethical.

He advised young professionals, he said, to cultivate the habit

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Although changes in the sacrament of Penance are certain, their effects will not be felt for at least a year and probably longer, ac· cording to Father Thomas Krosnicki, associate director of the bishops' Cgmmittee on the liturgy. .

In a news conference held here to explain the changes in the rites of Penance announced here and at the Vatican Feb. 7, Father Krosnicki said that several times during the week may have to be set aside for reception of the sacrament, not just Saturday night as many church schedules now have it.

The Church and pastors, he added, will have to "do some reconsidering of our past practices." However, he noted that it would be up to local pastors . as to how often they would schedule the new rite.

But before the new rite becomes etfective, he added, it must be translated into English, approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and

then the translation must also be approved by the Vatican. The process will take well over a year and perhaps twd or three, he predicted.

The new norms which change the name of the sacrament to the Sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation, retain individu.al confessions in most cases but provide for communal preparation and thanksgiving. There will be "no unexpected changes in . the communal ce\l~bration of the sacrament in the U. S.," Father Krosnicki said.

The new norms also suggest celebrating the communal aspects of the rite without confession and absolution. These occasions, he said, would be "a way of celebrating certain liturgical seasons ... especially Lent." But, he noted, there. could also be .special pastoral reasons or occasions which would lend themselves to communal pentential celebrations.

The new rite, Father Krosnicki said, "is an invjtation to the Catholic community to place the

Urges Stand Against Abortion

Tentative Date Set for Hearing

Confession Box To Remain WASHINGTON (NC) - It is "completely wrong" to say that confession boxes will be abolished as a result of the new Penance rite, a leading liturgist said here.

According to .Father Frederick McManus, director of the U. S. Bishops' Committee on the liturgy, when the Vatican published the new ritual book for the sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation, on Feb. 7, it "left to ,the decision of the episcopal conferences" what rules would be established for places of confession.

The new rite retained private confession to a priest and individual absolution for the reception of the sacrament, even when Penance takes place in a communal setting. , But the rite did not specifically require the traditional confession box. Rather, it spoke of "places of confession" and said that individual bishops' confer- . ences have the right to deterrhine guidelines for appropriate places of confession in their country.

Father McManus explained that if any changes do take p~ace, they will take a while.

"The Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy will perhaps make recommendations." he said. "The bishops will perhaps vote to accept them. The Vatican will perhaps approve them."

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Senate Approves Religious Plan

I PHILADELPmA. (NC) - Sen.- Americans do n'ot want abortion James ,Buckley of New, York ad- on demand. mitted here that his mail is only "Let us not deceive ourselves," "slightly in favor" of his pro- the senator said. "What is called posed constitutional amendment the 'a'bortion issue' transcends to protect the lives of unborn in· fants, but declared that elected should representatives now "stand up and :be counted" on this .issue.

Referring to the 1973 Supreme WASHINGTON (NC)-March Court abortion decision as slop- 6 and 7 have been set as tentapy in its craftsmanship and ig- tive dllJtes for opening hearings norant of its science, Sen. Buck- on a proposed amendment to the ley said the seven justices who U. S. Constitution which would denied that unborn infants were reverse the 1973 Supreme Court 'persons entitled to constitutional abortion ruling. protection "went athwart the While still trying to reconcile clear intent of the framers of the dates with the schedules of the 14th amendment."

The Conservative· Republican various witnesses, the Senate Buckley told a fund rasing din- subcommittee on constitutional ner for the National Right to Life amendments is planning to hear Committee recently that he is .from Congressiona1 witnesses on Turn to Page )'wo convinced that the "majority of

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those evils associated with abortion. We are indeed concerned with the moral fiber of the country."

He referred to the "new medi-cal ethic" in which "the dignity and sanctity of the person is sacrificed upon the altar of public utility."

He cited examples of physicians who claim that some babies have "deformities non-compatible with human life" and that physicians should make life-death decisions for such infants by either granting or refusing life-sustaining treatment.

"Two or three years is a relatively short period of time when it -comes to amending the Consti· tution," he said, but he pointed out 'that the mass destruction of innocent human tife goes on while . the amendment process works slowly.

At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Fall River Diocese Senate of Priests held Friday, Feb. 8, at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, the assembled priest-senators passed a resolution that was the result of the work of the Committee for Religious of the Senate. The Committee under the joint chairmanship of ,Rev. James Nickel, SS.CC. and Rev. Msgr.

William Thomson presented a plan that would give more equitable distribution of priests belonging to religious communities working in the diocese of Fall River on the Senate.

The proposal reads as follows: "Be it resolved that every religious order/congregation represented by five or more priests in the Diocese elect from its members active in the Diocese one representative to the Senate ·for a term of two years; and that those religous orders/congregations represented by less than five priests in the Diocese elect from their collective membership Turn to Page Two

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 14, 1974

Bishop Grateful/or Prayers I am very grateful to the many priests, religious and lay people of the' Diocese of Fall River for the kind messages, remembrances and visits during my recent hospitali~ation. I am particularly. grateful for the good prayers which so many offered.

Thanks be to God, the operation was completely successful, and 1 look forward to returning soon to a full schedule of activities.

In my gratitude to Almighty God for the wace of good health, I take from' my' recent experience' a special consideration for all who are sick, all who are prevented by illness from full activity; I send them my special blessing, and ask their: good prayers for the prosperity of God's Kingdom in the Diocese of Fall River.

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.Bishop Cronin Recuperating His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, is recuperating at Saint Mary's Cathedral ,Rectory in Fall River from recent surgery. Dr. Thomas B. .Quigley, noted Boston orthopedic surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Harvard University Medical School, removed a torn car-

Seek Rollback Of Fuel Prices PHILADELPHIA (NC) - An. ecumenical group of clergymen has called on federal, state and local politicians to support a rollback to the gasoline and oil prices of Nov. 1 until Congress can verify that "an oil crisis does in fact exist."

Msgr. Frederick .r. Moore, pastor of St. Cecilia Church, said that the action has been taken by the clergymen because "the big oil companies are out to make a fast buck" at the expense , of individuals.

The cost of heating, he said, has doubled for Catholic parishes even though less fuel is being , used. The Catholic archdiocesan purchasing ,group stands to lose something .like $3 to $4 million this year, if the present situation continues, he said.

"Where will the money come from?" Msgr. Moore asked. "Tuitions wHl have to be raised.

Something will have to ,be done."

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ECUMENICAL LITURGY: The profile of Cardinal LeoJoseph Suenens, above, of Malines-Brussels, Belgium, stands out against stained glass windows and a main altar cross at Riverside Church in New York. Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore presided at the liturgy which began with ~ service of the word. The liturgy 'Was held during the second day of a three-day ecumenical institute featuring the cardinal, the Archbishop-of Canterbury and ecumenical Prior Roger Schutz of Taize, France. NC Photo.

'Ecumenism, Charismatic Renewal Most Important, Cardinal Says

NEW YORK (NC)-Ecumen-' And you have here a youth ism and the charismatic renewal which is more future-oriented are the two most _important than past-oriented." movements in the Church today, Asked to comment on the feelaccording to Cardinal Joseph ing that the ecumenical moveContinued from Page One Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels, ment is at a standstill, he replie(j: active in the Diocese one repre- Belgium.

"This is not my feeling at 'all. It sentative to the Senate for a Cardinal Sueriens, a 'champion is true that at the' moment there term of two years: And by this of the ecumenical forces at the are not such sensatonal and. amendment. Article IV, Section Second Vatican Council, was spectacular eveilts as the meet4, P..aragraph 3 of the constitu- here to participate in a seminar ings a few years ago between the tion is hereby rescinded." for Episcopalian bishops at the Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras' The resolution was passed Trinity Institute. and Pope Paul, or of the visit with all senators present in favor The United States is a good 'of (Anglican) Archbishop ~Mi颅 with two ahstentions. Subject to 'location for' ecumenism to grow, chael) Ramsey of Canterbury to ' approval by the Most Reverend he said. "You are free from the Rome. But I strongly believe the Bishop, this change in the consti- obstacle of a long history of ecumenical movement is going tution would augment the pres- mutually inflicted sufferings. on at different levels." ent senate by six members giving Cardinal Suenens compared it religious priests in the diocese" to flying in an airplane. Before , eight members and the diocesan taking off there is much noise priests twenty-four members.

Continued from Page One from the engines. But once in the Marriage Preparation March 6 and .from other wit- air one hears nothing, and the In other' reports, Rev. Edward nesses on March 7. impression of motionlessness Correia reported that a booklet The news of the hearings was arises. was in formation that would be hailed ,by Bishop James s.

But in reality there is motion. of assistance to prie~ts working Rausoh, General 'Secretary of And occasionally the atmospherwith Portuguese speaking peo- the National Conference of Cath- ic depressions which occur make ple in the area of marriage prep- olic Bishops and the U. S. Cath- one very conscious of the flight. aration. Rev; Peter N. Graziano, olic Conference (NCCB-USCC). "And so," Cardinal Suenens said, president of the Senate of priests He called it "a moral imperative "I think we will have incidents told of his meeting with the of the hIghest order" to protect and even documents which are priests of the Taunton area and "the life and well-being of all not pleasing and which may crespoke of their overall impres- human beings, before as well as ate obstacles, but this is not sions of the Senate as being of after birth." stopping. I see not only far away, positive outlook.

The hearings will concern two but the landscape where 'landing Rev. Thomas Lopes, the liaiamendments before the Senate is possible," son of the Fall River Senate with subcommittee: the National Federation of -An amendment introduced Priests' Councils, presented the Penance areas of concern for the forth- last May 31 by Sen. James L. , If Penance is being practiced coming meeting of the House of Buckley (Cons. R.-N. Y.), which as it should be, it is an act of Delegates. Some of the areas in- would outlaw abortions except prayer - positively uniting us volved in discussion included when continuing the pregnancy with the Passion, positively exDistribution of Clergy, a Search would e!ldanger the life of the pressing love, positively surrenand Share Program, Religious mother. dering self.

Van Zeller values in public ~hools, Pastoral -A June 29 proposal by Sen. concern of Catholics divorced Jesse A., Helms (R.-N.C.), which and remarried or desiring remar- gives "equal protection" and riage and the Procedure for the "due process of law" to any selection of Bishops.

Funeral Rome human being, from the moment The next meeting of the Fall of conception.

The' Helms 550 Locust Street, River Senate of Priests will' be amendment路 is ~ identical to that Fall River, Mass. on Friday, March 8, 1974 at the proposed in the House of RepreCatholic Memorial Home in Fall sentatives by Rep. Lawrence 672-2391 River, Mass. at eleven o'clock Hogan (R.-Md.),which has reRose E. Sullivan in the morning. All priests are ceived 'strong backing from Jeffrey E. Sulliva.1, invited to attend. many right-to-life groups.

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DETROIT (NC) - Training Catholic women for leadership roles in the Church and community, and serving as a catalyst for church action.in the secular world will be the goals of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) during 1974.

During the first meeting here of the newly formed executive committee of the NCCW, the members said that the goal of training women for roles of leadership would be implemented by a series of traveling institutes to be held in 15 locations in the nation.' .

The goal of serving as a catalyst for Church action, the committee said, could be implement~d through suggestions developed by ,the NCCW's commissions and communicated to the local level.

Confession" Continued from Page One But in any case, Father McManus said, "what is completely wrong is to say that confession boxes will be abolished. Other, wider possibilities may be opened up '.' . What these will be, it's really hard to say. My guess is that things will be more flexible."

He cited recent guidelines for children's confession which suggested that the place for confession should be open so that there will be less fear, but far enough away from the group (in communal celebrations) to insure privacy.

"On the other hand there are people who Wiant the absolute anonymity of the' confession box," he said. ' The guiding principle for pastoral practice in the United States, he said, will be that "we should try to accommodate the needs of the people."

The Church law, which was codified in 1917 and is now in the process of revision, requires as 'the' normal place for 'confession a confessional with an irremovable grating between confessor and penitent.

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Area Directors Discuss Plans For Appeal The 33rd annual Catholic Charities Appeal will be conducted throughout the diocese of Fall River during April and May. The Appeal will provide funds for the many apostolates of charity, mercy, and social and educational services in the diocese to all people, regardless of race, color and creed.

The mechanics, theme and procedures for launching this spring's Appeal were discussed at a meeting of the area directors with the diocesan director Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of FaIl River, ser路 dng as honorary chairman for the fourth year, will be bhe main speaker at the Appeal kick-off meeting for over 900 members of the clergy, religious and laity of the diocese. The kick-off of the Appeal is Wednesday, April 17 at 8 P.M. at Bishop Connoilly High School in Fall River.

Msgr. Gomes announced plans for the agenda of the kick-off meeting and he stated that the special gift phase of the Appeal WliIl be held from April 22 'to May 4. The parish house-tohouse campaign will be conduoted on Sunday, May 5 from the hours of 12 noon to 3 P.M. The parish level of the Appeal will conclude on Wednesday, May 15.

The area directors will be in charge of special gifts and parishes in their respective sections.

Area direotors present at the planning meeting were: Rev. Justin J. Quinn, St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford; Rev. Bento R. Fraga, Holy Ghost Church路, Attleboro; Rev. John F. Andrews, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis; and Rev. Waiter A. Sullivan, Sacred Heart Church, Taunton. Msgr.

Gomes, Our Lady of the Angels Church, is also area director of the greater FaIl River section.

Shriver to Address Rights Conference NOTRE DAME (NC)-Sargent Shriver, the nation's first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), will discuss executive leadership in two addresses scheduled March 21-22 here.

In his presentations to a civil rights conference, Shriver will discuss strategies planned and executed by the office of the' president in gaining passage of key civil rights legislation and implementation of civil rights policies.

The' conference will mark three significant events: dedication of the newly established Civil Rights Center and Reading Room at the Notre Dame Law School, the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision prohibiting racial segregation in public schools, and the sixth anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Shriver, who was also the first' director of the Peace Corps and the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972, was Notre Dame's commencement speaker and recipient of an honorary doctorate in 1961, recipient of the 1968 Laetare Medal.

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SIX CATHOUC CHARITIES APPEAL DIRECTORS MEET: Area directors of the CCA discussing the mechanics, theme and procedures for this year's drive, are: Rev. Justin J. Quinn, pastor of St. Kilian's, New Bedford Area Director; Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton Area Director; Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes of Our Lady of the Angels, Diocesan and Fall River Area Director; Rev. Bento R. Fraga, assistant pastor of Holy Ghost Parish, Attleboro Area Director. Rev. John F. Andrews of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis, Cape Cod and Islands Director, was not present when the photo was taken.

Monasteries Attracting Vocations LATROBE (!'fC) - "Any monastery with a clearly defined program or ideal tends to attract vooations," according to Abbot Primate ~embert Weakl,and, head of the World Confederation of BenedictInes.

While viSIting S1. Vincent Monastery, where he served as archabbot before going to Rome as abbot pr,imate, Abbot Rembert told the Catholic Accent, the newspaper of the diocese of Greensburg, Pa., that "both con路 servative and liberal monasteries can and are achieving success in 'attracting vocati'Ons." The size of a monastery, he said, has little influence 'On the 'success of attracting vocations.

"The dedsive factor with respect to vocations is whether or not a pa'l'ticular monastery, large or smlfll, liberal or conservative, is doing something significant, something alive," he said. "People like to be where the action is-even if that action is good contemplation."

The attitudes of priests and Religious, he said, Me of prime importance in attracting vocations.

"By that I mean priests and Religious who attmct vocations 'are contented," he explained. . "They're not suffering through crises both personal and vocational; they know who they are and they know what they're doing." , A growing interest id prayer, he noted, has manifested itself 'all over the world in the attractiveness of the Oriental systems of prayer, :jncluding Hinduism and Buddhism, along with a 'sharply 'increased interest in prayer generally. ' "I find this growing interest 'in prayer an important element with respect to vocations," Abhot Rembert explained. "Even the most 'a'Ctive young people considering v:ocations stress the growing importance of prayer.

In my opinion, we can no longer

attract vocations 'simply with an apostolic, activist ideal."

However, the most significant trend today, the abbot said, is the growing importance of the laity, which he attributes to the decline in vocations.

"The laity," he added, "is being called on now to perform many roles once limited to the priesthood, evidenced in the Un'ited States by the increasing number of laymen serving as ministers of the Eucharist."

NEW YORK (NC) - Jesuit Father James A. Janda has been awarded the fifth annual Sarah O'Loughlin Foley Award of $250 for the best poetry appearing in the Jesuit-edited 'America magazine during 1972, the magazine's editors announced.

Father Janda received the award for a group of five poems entitled "To Be Black" which appeared in the issue of April 15, 1972.

He has also published in the University of Illinois' So'wester magazine, the University of Iowa's Poet and Critic and the S1.

Louis University Magazine. He received a first prize for poetry from the Wednesday Club of St. Louis.

Father Janda is now doing parish work in New York City and writing short stories.

The Foley Award was established in 1969 by Dr. William T. Foley in honor of his mother and is awarded, annually.

Re-elect Provincial At Fairhaven FAIRHAVEN (NC) - Father Fintan D. Sheeran has been elected to a second term as provincial at the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, East Coast Province.

The Irish-born provincial, who taught ,in seminaries in the U. S. and Ireland, presided over a restructuring of his order's provincial system. In 1969 Father Sheeran became the first provincial to be chosen by an elective process for the three-year term.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 14, 1974

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The Connolly Players are near· ing completion of their recent theatrical enreavor, "The Mikado," a comic operetta in t·wo acts

by Gilbert and Sullivan. With the aid of the students of -Bishop Gerrard High School, the players have amassed a sizeable chorus of "Gentlemen of Japan" and pert "little maids from school,"

Most newspapers try their very best to give. an accurate portrayal of the news. Understandably, they tend to po~nt up the unusual and the exCiting. That is what sells newspapers. But they usually want to be fa~r and accurate. .

Sometimes they are accused of being biased when it is a matter of things religious. The answer lies in the fact that most reporters are not theologians; there is a timesqueeze between when the story comes in over a national news service and when the paper comes out; there is little time in which to check the story with some knowledgeable soiJrce; sometimes there. is not the' cooperation here that could be wished.

- The result is that at times things religious are distorted.

Here is where the Catholic' press comes in.

Most people are interested in things of religion. The Catholic Church has always made good copy and more than ever in the last decade. So when stories come out about the lCatholic Church, about matters of procedure or clarification of doctrine or further insight into beliefs, there is a desire on the part of people to know what it is all about. The secular, newspaper can be expected to try to do its best b,ut oftentimes, through no one's bad will, there are distortions or over-simplifications or just· plain ' mistakes.

People must turn to the Catholic press to receive the whole story and with ~he right emphasis and conclusions.

Very often these do not make 'as exciting reading as the first shrill shrieks of the daily headlines, but the concern is and must be for accuracy and education. Strong arguments, indeed, for the Catholic press.

Political Campaigning The United States political climate could benefit greatly from the example now being presented by the present campaign activity in Britain that will culminate in general election there the last day of this month.

The campaign is a limited one. The rules for conducting it are strict as far as advertising and other campaign pro. motions. The costs are, then, modest in comparison with .the vast amounts of money spent in the United States.

The United States Senate select committee that is now investigating political campaigning in the United States would do well to take a lesson from the British book. The suggestion that there be a ceiling on contributions made by an individual or group to a political campaign in the United States is of limited value. There will always be those who will be able to skirt the law. But if in addition, to the money limitation there was a limit on the time . spent in an obviously active campaign, then this would scale the campaigning down considerably. Public outrage would preclude the usurping of too much television time for the political race, and a ruler-or yardstick-:-would keep accurate~ track of the amount of newspaper advertising bought and at what price. .

So it would- seem as if both the money spent and the time allotted on political campaigning must come under scrutiny and could profit from the British pattern.

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Vice-Presidlent Supports School Aid, Anti-Abortion Measures GRAND RAPIDS (NC)-VicePresident Gerald Ford said here that he will continue to support

,Directory Group Continues. Work At a meeting held at St. Eliz· abeth's Parish Center, Fall River, the Fall River-New.Bedford area committee on the ~atechetical Directory elected Rev. Pierre Lachance, O.P., of St. Anne's, Fall River, as Chairman and Sister Mary Ellen Mahan, SUSC, of the Academy of the Sacred Hearts, Fall River, as secretary.

This group will study the specific area of Presentation of the Christian Message. The objective of the work is to suggest norms and guidelines for the teaching of reHgion. Using the fonnat of the materials in the General Cat-, echeticar Directory as a basis, the tas~ is now 'to make the material relevant to American Catholics.

The directors of the sub-committees are as follow: Sacraments: Rev. Daniel Freitas, Sister Theresa Croteau, SSJ, Sister Denisita Sullivan, RSM. Paschal Mystery: Rev. Marc Bergeron, Sister Mary E}den Mahan, SUSC, Rev. Francis McManus, SSJ. Content an<l Adaptation: Claire Gossens, Sister Noella Letourneau, OP. . .

Revelation: Rev. John P. Dris-. coli.

Rev. Msgr. Wilfred H. Paradis, National Director of the Project, gave the general background andoutline for the Directory ~hen he talked to the interested par· ticipants at a recent diocesan meeting. Area group meetings have also been held in the Taunton-Attleboro area and the upper and lower Cape areas. Sister Rita Pelletier is coordinating the Fall River-New Bedford area; Sister Theresa Sparrow, the TauntonAttleboro area and Rev. Michel G. Mf;lthot the Cape area.

efforts to win tax aid for nonpublic schools and to pass antiabortion legislat,ion.

In a press conference in his former congress'ional district, Ford said he saw no reason to change his position on school aid and abortion because he had assumed national office. During his 25 years -in Congress, Ford actively encouraged backers of taX help for private schools. He also opposed the liberalized abortion law proposed in Michigan in 1972 and defeated in a voter referendum.

For<l, who was in Grand Rap· ids for a homecoming celebra· tion, said he felt that competition result\ng from a dual school system helps ,both the public school system and education in general.

State Sen. Robert Van<lerLaan, . the Republican nominee to suc· ceed Ford as Fifth District representative in Congress. has also favored tax aid to schools and anti-abortion legislation in the Michigan legislature. ,VanderLaan is not expected to switch his views if elected to Congress Feb. 18.

Among events of the "Welcome' Home" Day' celebration was a Vice-Presidential Layman's Prayer Luncheon attended by about 900 men. Testimony was given' by profiessional football player Norm Evans of the Miami Dolphins and the Vice-President's ' ' son, Michael, a theology student at a Massachusetts seminary.

Ford, an Episcopalian, took. the occasion to comment on the relationship between sports and the values of daily livIng. "There are a multitude of activities where people develop their per· sonal spiritual values.' Athletics is only one of them," saId Ford, once all-Big 10 Conference center at the Univers'ity of Michigan.

"Each of us sets the scale of his or her values through personal experiences," the Vice-Presi· den added. '~For me athletics has be~n one of those experiences,':'

The story revolves around Nanki-poo, the son of "A More Humane Mikado," Emperor of Japan, who goes about disguised as "A Wand'ring Minstrel" in search 'of his beloved Yum·Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko, the "Lord HDgh Executioner" of Titipu who's "Got a Little List" of society offenders. High on his list is Poo·bah, the Lord High Every· thing Else. Love blossoms when "Three Little Maids from School" arrive in town "As Happy Dawns the Wedding Day." Plans are spoiled with the arrival of Katisha, Mikado's assumed "Daugh-' ter-in-Law Elect." Now "Here's a How·De-Do," All is made right by the Mikado himself, when he "Let's the Punishment Fit the Crime," In starriM roles are Edyvard Lambert, Chris White, RaI1l)ara Hamel, Robert Soares, Patricia Tenczar, Ravmond Delisle, Gail DePaola. Paul Levesque and Nancy Dupre.

Orchestration is under the direction of Madeleine Delisle, a music teacher in the Somerset School System who has enga~ed talented musicians from Case and Somerset 'High School. The music is under' the' direction of Mr. Frederick 'Murphy, S.J.who trained the soloists and chorus. ·Performances will 'be on Fri-' day, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Feb. 14. 16, 17, 1974 at .

8:00 in the auditorium of Bishop Connolly High School. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

Management Continued from Page One One of the prime social considera~ions of the next 10 to 15 years, Father Baumhart said, will ,be how much efficiency this country is willing to sacrifice in the n'ame of social responsihility.

Father Baumhart said that an ethical price is one that covers costs and provide a reasonable profit, a profit that is sufficient to make the company's stock competitive with others.

Among the young, there is not a great tendency to switch from the attitu<le of "work hard and make .money" to emphasis on job satisfaction, he said, adding that young people give evidence of "more talk than action" in that regard.

Campaign Accepts Fund Applications , WASHINGTON (NC) - The Campaign for Human Develop· ment (CHD), has announced that applications for 1974 gr~nts will be accepted until Feb. 28.

CHD, the U. S. bishops selfhelp anti-<poverty effort will an· no'unce grant recipients in the fall. Since it was begun four years ago, CHD has collected over $20 minion and funded morf;l than 500' projects.

Asserts Cuban Catholic Religion Highly Personal

THE ANCHORThurs., Feb. 14, 197.4

PANAMA CITY (NC)Churches remain open but religion must remain "highly personal" for Catholics in Cuba, according to a priest who has just returned from a visit to that communist nation.

'Father Carlos M. Ariz, rector of the Catholic University Santa Maria la Antiqua here, said that while "there is a great opportunity for the development of a loyal and exclusively evangelical Church in Cuba," Catholics will "always find serious barriers ,in I ascending to leadership posts. j even if they enthusiastically collaborate with a revolutionary process."

This is logical, the priest said, ~"""\ ...; since "all the government appa, s· ratus is oriented and directed by ~ .~ the Cuban Communist party."

Father Ariz said that "all reliPILGRIM VIRGIN: Rev. Steven Furtado, Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Taunton, leads gions are respected as long as parishioners in veneration of Pilgrim Virgin statue. The statue will travel to churches and they don't 'llssume a counter-revolutionary attitude. All churches homes in Taunton-Attleboro area and was honored at Our Lady of Lourdes as parish remain open and even the big marked its pastronal feast Monday. statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus still stands on I.:a Cabana."

La Cabana is a small mountain overlooking the sea in Havana. .Religion for Catholics is highDUBLIN (NC) - The CatJholy personal and "must limit itself lie bishops have asked the Irish to a deeper understanding of the government for a massive inmystery of faith. This faith is crease in grants for the building purifying and is reduced to its and maintenance of primary most uncontaminated essential: schools. a faith directed exclusively 'for The government minister for the kingdom of God,' " the priest education is expected to make said. .a response soon.

The bishops are seeking grants for building and land purchase Diocese to Produce costs, and the Catholic Primary School Managers' Association, ·NewRadio Program· most· of whose members are parMANCHESTER (NC)-The ofish priests, have applied for a fice of commuuications of the Catholic diocese of Manchester 50 per cent increase 'in school !paintenance grants. is going to write and produce a At present, the government new 15-minute weekly radio propays about 75 per' cent of the gram on religion in the news to be heard on 12 New Hampshide costs of building a new school radio stations starting in Febru- but contributes nothing toward the cost of sites. The cost of ary.

The new program, called Con- sites accounts for about one· tact, will report on major events third of the total cost of a neW in religion" especially in New school.

The present maintenance Hampshire churches. and on the religious dimensions of major grant paid by the government news stories of the day, said amounts to only one-third of Father PhHip P. Bruni, director the running costs of schools in of communications for the dio· some areas and about 50 per. cent throughout the country as cese.

"Contact is not intended as a a whole. platform for the Catholic Priesthood Training Church in New Hampshire," said Father Bruni. "It is designed Are~s Inadequate to inform our people of the reliLONDON (NC) - An English gious eve.'lts in our state, our and' Welsh bishops' commission nation and our world, to enhance and offer perspective to their said the pastoral training now given in seminaries "is good and own faith." of great value to ·the training of future priests" but added that some areas in the training have Arc hd ioceseStarts not been adequately explored, Black Secretariat such as industry, politics, race WASHINGTON (NC)-A black relations and mass media, Price: secretariat, believed to be one The report, by the bi!>hops' of only ·three in the nation, has Commission for Priestly Forma· been established by the Wash- tion, said that priests should be ington archdiocese, which has encouraged to study working one of the largest black Catholic conditions, management techpopu~ations in the n!ltion. niques and trade union organizaThe secretariat, which was ap- tion. proved by Archbishop William "If pr,iests recommend poli:~ical Baum, will have "an advocacy involvement to their people," the role," according to an archdioc- report said, "they ought at least esan .spokesman. . to know something of what they 154 NORTH MAIN ST., FALL RIVER, MASS. The result of a massive arch- are letting them in for." diocesan self-study two years Priests, the report said, must ago, the secretariat will initially have some knowledge and underconsist of an interim board com- standing of the organizations posed of the steering committee that exist to further community members who have been drafting relations and the social problems plans for the secretariat. involved.

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State of Siege LA PAZ (NC)-The Bolivian government, troubled by strikes and by criticism from Catholic bishops, has declared a state of siege to combat an a'1leged guer· rilla movement. . Gen. Hugo Banzer, Bolivian president, said that foreign guerrillas had tried to set up bases in Bolivia to mount attacks on other Latin American nations.

In a radio .and television ,broadcast, Banzer said that the state of siege, which abrogates constitutional law, will give the army the power to crack down on alleged guerrillas. Numerous roundups of political opponents of the regime were reported foHowing the Jan. 28 decree. ·Bolivia was beset by a series of strikes following price in· creases decreed Jan. 21. Labor leaders criticized the government for this as well as for the small salary increases decreed to of.fset the price rises.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 14, 1974

.Kids Want to Impeach Her. Sh,e Knows Nixon's Plight

The Parents' Association of Sacred Hearts Academy, FaII River, will sponsor a Prospect Club dance in the school gymnasium at 8 p.m. SaturdaY,March 2, -with Mr. and Mrs. George Cummings in charge of arrangements.

The parents will hold a penny sale in April, for which arrangements will !be made at the next executive and advisory board meeting, to be held at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 6 at the resi· dence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Le· tendr.e, president couple.

I know very little about politics, but I wouldn't be surprised if President Nixon has great empathy for mothers. I bet if we mothers got together and answered him, he'd endorse laws giving mothers immunity, liberal tax deductions, exemptions from ever are days I'd give a fortune having to testify about any- There if I could just find that little thing, and a blanket permis- card I wrote the next dentist's sion to raid their kids piggy appointment.on. banks.

There's a great similarity in Nixon's situation a.nd that of . being a mother.

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I have another good idea. The government could collect all mothers' grocery lists and compile them into. one all-purpose list available for SOc from the Government Printing Office.

Any mother would send SOc to save all that time writing lists of: t bgs, cerl, brd, jly-grp, mlk, noodls, and green glitter for fairy costume.

The mothers who gave their lists to the government, could claim a tax deduction ... then when all those lists are sold, the government w'ould earn back the . lost taxes. .WOpld Understand The Pr-inting Office might have some doubts that the lists would be of value, but PreSl.ident Nixon would understand the reasoning behind the fact that grocery lists are always forgotten and ~eft home, so it reaUy doesn't matter what they said anyway.

It's somewhat comparable to having printed billions of gas rationing coupons on the same day the fuel companies announc~d there is no crisis.

Financial accountablil'ity -for mothers is complicated. How do ydu recoro these transactions?

"How come you wasted the birthday money Grandma gave me ... on dumb shoes?" "I'll lend $5.00 to get milk and bread, Mom .. and can I borrow the car?"

Few mothers would snoop in their child's diary .. much less pay someone else to do it for them, though I'm sure some would if the family security was threatened.

I think I know just how President Nixon f~els. My chJildren'" just voted 5 to 3 in favor of impeachi':!g their' mother!

Urges Rejection

Of Violent NEW YORK {NC) - "The violent must be rejected, they must become the outcasts of society, and they must be heroes to no man; woman or child, for they spill innocent blood that cries to heaven for vengeance," Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty of Newark said here.

In a sermon at Holy Family Church-established to serve the United Nations community-at a celebration of the World Day of Prayer for Peace, Bishop Dough· erty, chairman of the U.S. Cath· olic Conference Committee on Social Development and World Peace, recalled walking with children in the slums of Belfast "and listening to the words of their anxious mothers, sensing the climate of fear in which a society lives and hesitates to breathe.

"And filled with a sense of righteous wrath I say to myself, we must not only lament the in. discriminate violence, we· must abhor it, and with an overpowering conviction of its non-acceptance, -withdraw support from the violent, support by words, by funds, by shelter."

Look at Nixon's problems with energy. How many mothers ~ave hea~d their kids say: "Why didn't you. know we were running out of peanut 'butter?"

"Why didn't you go to the store sooner?" "There's nothing to , THE CANDY NUN CAN: Sister Agnes Mary, although eat" 92 years old, still makes the rounds of Fitzgerald Mercy Or this variation: "I know Hospital in Darby, Pa., where she is known as "the candy there are cookies around here nun."

Three times a day the candy nun can be counted on someplace,. but you've got them to bring a basket of goodies to every patient in the hospital hidden because you want to make that· ice-box dessert bewho is allowed to have the sweets. But, unlike "The Candy cause your friends are coming Man," celebrated in song, she can't bring the treats to chilto tea. We're starving ... and dren.

Their diets don't allow it. She started the tradition. years you've got cookies." ago after she received a box of candy while a patient .in the Missing Tape hospital. NC Photo. .

Or consider the missing 18 minutes of tape: "Mother . where did you put my shirt ... the one with 'Property of the Green Dev-Dls' stenciled on the Nuns Consecrated to Good of Whole Church, chest?" "Hey, Mom, where are my best jeans ... the ones with Pope Paul Asserts all the patches?" "Where'd n:ty comfortable sneakers go?"

VATICAN CI'IY (NC)-Nuns your boast, your daily sacrifice, These, a mother generally anare consecrated by their voca- . YOUT reward, your crown. There 245 MAIN STREET swers,' "They must be some tion to "the good of the whole is no other reason which has place. Keep looking. Why not Church," Pope Paul VI told thou- led you to give your life to FALMOUTH - 548-1918 tidy your room, and maybe sands of women Religious gath- Chr,ist Jesus, by means of the ARMAND ORTINS, Prop. you'll find them.'" . ered in St. Peter's Basilica, Feb. 2. hands of Mary, than this: to Then there's' the problem of The Pope summoned the serve, to serve souls, to serve ~-'executive privilege. 'lIow come women Religious of Rome to the the Church, the whole Church."

A Lively Nite, Music, Fun, Sing, Dance you're allowed to talk to Grand'basilica to take part in the traThe Pope continued: "We wiH WINDSOR MUSIC 993-6263 ma for a half hour on the .phone, ditional annual presentation of let those who do not know or and we're allowed only five min6 Orchestras Available candles on the Feast of the who forget this reaHty question Preaching Institute utes to talk to our friends?"

Let our Musical Family be Your Host Presentation. your state, criticize it, discuss it The value of Nixon's papers To Sponsor Work~hop Funfilled Happy, Lively Reception For the second year in a row,' and perhaps despise it. But your Special-Music·Routines, Novelties is difficult to determine; a' NEW YORK (NC)-The Word the Pope chose to honor the vocation is in this, entirely in Remember How Music Used to Sound mother's notes are priceless. of God Institute, a group set up 'Church's women Religious 'with this, in this total obligation to Ball Cocktail . to foster renewal of scriptural a speciaiceremony that in the the Church, whether your lives Birthday PARTIES Showers Dance Weddings preaching, is sponsoring an past has been limited to repre- are worked out in the secret and Loses in Tax Protest Holiday Anniversaries Episcopal-Roman Catholic work- sentatives of male Religious crocified life of the cloister or Whispering Trumpet of Art Perry On Abortion Decision shop to e~plore "The Ecumen- . orders, the pastors of Rome and they follow along the innumerTony Rapp- Band of a 1,000 melodies BETHLEHEM (NC)-An Ohio ical Dirmensions of Biblical other clergy. , able roads of charity which you Matt Perry - Windsor Orch.

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Cardinal Paolo Marella, arch- foHow untiringly and in the Shop-Compare-Why Pay More income tax in protest against The workshop, to be held priest of St. Peter:s, Cardinal servke of all human needs." the U. S. Supreme Court's 1973 March 19-21 at the New York Arturo Tabera Arauz, prefect of abortion decision, has found the City headquarters of The the Congregation for Religious.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Ohristophers, will ·survey opporand the c~mons of the four patri· unsympathetic to him. tunities for Inter-faith pastoral archal basHicas of Rome - St. The IRS has ordered with- achievements based on biblical Peter's, St. Paul's Outside the drawal of $490 from the bank preaching. These include interWalls, St. Mary Major's and St. checking account of Brendan denominational parish renewals, John Lateran's-were the only Finnegan, a Richland County pulpit exchanges, joint liturgies men present at the ceremony ROUTE 6--between Fall River and New Bedford farmer who last year filed his of the word, coordinated Bible mentioned by the Pope in his 1972 tax retlirn but withheld study groups and a variety of speech.

One of Southern New El;1gland's Finest Facilities what he ·owed. youth programs.

It was the Sisters' day and the Instead of enclosing a check, Keynote speakers are Bishop Finnegan attached a letter and James W. Malone ,of youngs- Pope said it was an occasion Now Available for some pictures of aborted babies. 'town, Ohio, and Episcopal Bish- that oftfers us reasons for great consolation."

The Pope stressed He told the IRS that he would op Cuthbert KN. Bardsley of withhold his taxes "until our Coventry, England. The work- that "you beloved daughters in government passes and enforces shop is open to 25 selected in- Christ are consecrated to the FOR DETAILS CAU MANAGER-;636-2744 or 999-6984 law to protect the unborn from dividuals from each of the two good of the whole Church!' abortion." communions.

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House Plants Neefd Water, Light, Food to Survive

Offici'ol Sworn In After Crisis

By JOSEPH AND MARILYN RODERICK It is only recently that I have become involved in growing plants in the house so I was not really aware of the interest there is on this subject. Since I have beeI\ writing from my limited knowledge about the subject I have been swamped with calls and questions about what to do giving orders to one of his sisters was trying to save the one 'with such and such a plant, who can of walnut~ to use for cookies where to get seeds, etc. she was going to bake for a paFrankly, I am amazed at the interest and I am equally amazed at the lack of knowledge people have about growing plants. It is almost as if growth were some unfathomable process which has a degree of the miraculous about it.

A little common sense applied to the growth of plants can go a long way toward success. First of aU, keep in mind that the plant needs water, light and food to survive. Each plant will vary in its need for these threl~ basic elements. By observation one can deter-mine some reasonable limits to what is given a plant.. If for instance a plant is grown in full sunlight and it does not do well, shift it to a place where it gets indirect light if it looks dry, wa. ter it, etc.

No Panaceas

By minimal experimentation you should be able to arrive at parameters within which the plant will do reasonably well.

Secondly, remember. that the plant will naturally reproduce itself in some manner. If it reproduces through seeds, to keep the plant in bloom, faded blooms should !be removed to halt seed production and the plant should ,be fed as bloom appears. Feeding should be done on a regular basis and the plant should be observed to determine whether feeding i's !beneficial.

Constant observation and experimentation are the keys to success in growing plants, whether they be grown indoors or out. There are plants that do require special conditions and most people do not have the capabilities for proper growth in their homes, but these are not so abundant as to discourage most home owners. On the whole, those plants found in florist shops can be grown in the home or the florists wouldn't sell them.

The thing is to forget about panaceas. There is no fertilizer that is magical, there is no gimmick that wHl absolutely guarantee success, there are no pots that have a magic formula, nor soils that are infallible. The key element is the grower and his or her powers of observation.

In the Kitchen "Put the' nuts in the cookies for us," said Jason. "The family should come firstl" Jason was

Spanish Catholic Action Names Woman President MADRID (NC)-A woman was appointed president of the Spanish Catholic Action organization for the first time. Miss Pilar Diaz Penalver y Colino was appointed by th~ permanent commission of the Spanish Bishops' Conference during its recent meeting here.

Miss Diaz Penalver was invested in a ceremony presided over by Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Taracon of Madrid.

jama party and he, of course, wanted them for the batch she was making for him.

I think it's safe to say (without bringing all kinds of retribution on my head) that my generation, growing up, did not spend a . great deal of lime in the kitchen.

Our mothers cooked (the majority of them were not working mothers as we are today) and they did not encourage us to bother them in the kitchen.' Perhaps it's our permissive attitude, perhaps it's the fact that so many of us have to have help in the kitchen, but whatever the reason, our children are more apt to feel that the' kitchen is also their domain.

Daily Baking One of my friends at school daily brings us a sampling of cookies that her children have made the previous evening. Her daughter loves cooking, so hardly a day passes by that she doesn't bake something and even the boys in her family get into the act.

The same thing happens in our house. Yesterday it was brownies, today it's cookies. A day home from school means at" least one batch of something in the kitchen. Jason is the only one who doesn't get into the act except for licking the bowl.

While my friend Barbara's daughter is older and more adventurous than my brood (her Christmas 'coffee bread was just elegrant), I do feel that they too will graduate from the basks, with time. And as long as they realize that cooking can be a warm and rewarding experience (pius a good eating one) then I'll overlook the constantly messed-up kitchen and just enjoy that extra batsh of warm cookies.

This is the recipe that gets used more than any other by the younger 'members of the. family.

It's a perfect one to let your youngsters experiment on.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES 2/3 cup white shortening and 2/3 cup margarine or 1 1/3 cup margarine .

1 cup granulated sugar .

1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts 2 6-oz. packages semi-sweet chocolate pieces.

1) Mix thoroughly the shorten.' ing, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.

2) Blend in remaining ingredients.

3) Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Ba'ke 8 to 10 minutes. or until light brown, iil a 375 degree oven.

This makes about 7 dozen cookies at a cost of between $2 and $2.50.

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HAPPY 103: Mrs. Thomas E. Shea, oldest resident at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, will mark her 103rd birthday tomorrow. A longtime member of Holy Name parish, her children include Miss Mona Shea, retired principal of the Highland School, Fall River; Rev. Timothy E. Shea, a.p., director of St. Martin de Porres Guild, New York City; Mrs. William J. Dennis, Tiverton; and John路L. Shea, St. Thomas More parish, Somerset. She has six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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Archbishop Witnesses Covenant Signing

Mother Drexel One Step Closer To Beatification VATICAN CITY (NC) - The beatification process of Mother Katherine Drexel, foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, has complet~j another step here with the approval of her writings by the Vatican Con~ gregation for the Causes of Saints.

Approval of her writings was

Workshop on Religion In Public School WASHINGTON (NC) - The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine's (CCD) National Center of Religious Education and the Catholic University of America here have announced the cosponsorship of a workshop on "Religion and PUblic Education."

The purpose of the workshop, June 16-21, is to raise the awareness of religion and public education among CathoHc religious educators on the parochial, diocesan, state, college and university levels, the CeD said.

The workshop, to be held at Catholic University, will "investigate both the theoretical and practical questions, problems and implications of religion in the public school curriculum," the CCD anounced.

The workshop will be staffed by a team of experts from the Public Education Religion Studies Center, which runs a national research center on religion and public education at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

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NEW YORK (NC)-James R. Dumpson was sworn in here as New York City welfare commissioner despite an earlier religious controversy over his possible appointment.

The controversy started a week earlier when Dumpson revealed that a deputy mayor had told him "certain seotarian groups" had voiced opposition to his appointment to the welfare post.

Both the mayor's office and Dumpson declined to specify which religious groups were lobbying against him. But others speculated that the opposition came from Catholic and Jewish welfare agencies because Dumpson has supported a lawsuit challenging the religious~based system of child placement in New York.

The Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn diocese-whose territory includes part of the city-denied the charges. New York archdiocesan Catholic Charities refused to comment.

necessary to insure purity of doctrine, it is the second step in the process of beatification.

Among her writings which were scrutinized were her spiritual diary, her notes on spiritual exercises and examinations of conscience, and various writings pertaining to the administration of Mother Drexel as the daughter of international. banker Francis Anthony Drexel. During her ministry to the Indians and blacks in America, she spent more than $20 miillion of her own money.

She was born Nov. 26, 1858, in Philtadelphia and died March 3, 1955, in th(! motherhouse of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Cornwells Heights, Pa. Cardinal. John Krol of Philadelphia will be the principal celebrant at a Mass in the Philadelphia cathedral on March 10, the tenth anniversary of the opening of her beatification process.

ALBANY - (NC) Witnessing the signing of a covenant of mutual concerns between a Catholic and a Episcopal parish was one of the highlights of Archbishop Michael Ramsey's visit here.

The purpose of the covenant is to symbolize the grass-roots ecumenism that is essential if unity is to be achieved between the two churches.

Archbishop Ramsey of Canterbury, who is the primate of the Church of England, Episcopal Bishop Allen W. Brown of Albany and Catholic Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of Albany endorsed the covenant.

Pledges made in the covenant include sharing facilities, making all programs available to the other congregation, gathering together periodically for prayer services, working together for social justice, sponsoring joint social events, petitioning God in the liturgies for a reunion of the two churches, praying for each other.

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Mechanical, Synthetic Liturgy "Destroys Purpose of Reform • NEW YORK (NC) - A priest- tronic media 'was limited to the liturgist rapped the "mechanical worship context. and synthetic liturgy" produced "There is no question of the by the use of "film and other value of these media for evanmechanical or electronic media." geliza'tion and education; in these Father John Hugo charged areas the Church shou1d certainthat the intrusion of mechanically make extensive use of them," media into worship destroys the he said. "They may be acceptpurpose of liturgicall reform. able also ,in pareliturgies, espeIt "inhibits, 1f it does not al-' dally as these are employed as together suppress, the immediacy . teach'ing aids." of thrs person1al worship experiThe new Rite of the Mass does. ence and expression . . . it does not forbid the use of electronic ndt and cannot call forth the or mecbanica'1 media, Father spontaneity and exp.ressi~eness Hugo said, but it doe~ not enof those assembled In faIth to vision their use either. worship God," An excep • t'IOn'.IS th . . . he sa'id in an Iarti· R . e dU"ectory c~e In HomJlebc and Pa~tora e- for children's Masses just pub\!cw, a monthly for prIests pub- Iished by .the V'CllJican Congrega.

IIs~ed hereh· I 'f the tion for Divine Worship. With ct':tain preoautions and special The :w o.e re~son "or modern lIturgIcal reform, Father " ' c that is' mechanica'l'd" t d an era care, mUSI Hu~o sal, was ? en I ,roduced" may be used in chilo! lIstless and pasSIve spectatorP , Masses the congregation ship and to transform our assem~dn s , , . blies into tru~y worshipping com-, sal. , munities. If the media now take It also stressed an eXlp'anded over a leading role ·in worship, use of "visual elemen!s" t~ "perthe liturgical reform of Vatican mit children to perceIve. VIsually (Council) II, a thousand years in ~he great deeds. of God 10 creat· coming, will have been undone in i0':l and r.edemPtlo~, and thus ~up- . one generation." port theIr. pray~r. The Vatican Father Hug,o, fonner chainnan congregatIOn dId not, however, of the Pittsburgh diocesan wor- directly comment on ~e u~e of ship commission, stressed that films or slides as pOSSIble VIsual his objection to the use of elec- elements fqr the Mass.

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A QUARTER A LOOK: Dr. Delfin Nada examines a patient in a storefront clinic in New York which offers probably the best bargain in town-a medical examination for a quarter. Capuchin Brother Chris~opher Varley started the lower East Side neighborhood social service organization several years ago. An anti-poverty group called the Northeast Neighborhood Association (NENA) sponsors the health care program. NC Photo

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - A they do not know how to pray Brother Varley's Storefront Clini~ Christian life without prayer is and, in fact, unfortunately, .many Offers Medical Exams for 25c Hke a "blown out candle," Pope pray no longer for formI~~ble Paul VI told a general audience reasons, but for false ones.

NEW YORK {NC) .......; The 200 comprehensive medical care to J n 30 The Pope asked: "Can there Block Stanton Street Association, inner city residents, was set up a S· ~. for the second week be a Christian life wlithQut.pr~y- , a neighborhood social service or- to handle about 10,000 local reson ~~~ I~~bject of prayer, the' er?" And he answered: "~t IS h~e ganization begun several years idents. Instead, some 30 000 peoat the Christian a blown out candle, It IS a lIfe ago by Capuchin Brother Chris- ple, mostly Spanish-speaking, are Pope s t ress ed ,. th hou t l'Ight" G d . h' · h t WI .

Th P e 'Said that despite the topher Varley, offers what must seeking out its services. The staff must both lIsten to .0 '. W IC is another way of 'affu'Ilung the e DP. ' be the best bargain in town- ,includes 12 doctors and other faith and must talk to him, prese~t averSIOn t~. pray~r, he medical eX'aminations for 25 professionals and its doors are .' . ' has dIscerned that there IS benever closed. Said Howard Simw~:Ch IS p~ayer... ing reborn in the heart of the cents.

His . storefront clinic as an mons, their director of social serPrayer IS the first. (halogu~ present generation a need for, an that man can hold With GO.d, orientation and sympathelJic feel- aging tenement across the street vices, "We provide everything the Pope said.."Giv~n t~e eXIst-, ing toward some form of prayer. frOm Our Lady of Sorrows short of major surgery." ence of a relatIonshIp With God, "We are perhaps facing the Church on the lower East Side Simmons pointed out that the which 'is a religion, th~ ~eed to first dawning of a spiritual as- is making ,this possiJjJe through cost fur services at the center address our words t? HIm IS born piration, which, though strange, the efforts of an antipoverty runs from $3 to .$10 and that spontaneously at fmit and then is nevertheless most human. And group called the Northeast Neigh- anyone living :in the area is qualbecomes a duty." in those who have turned their hood Associa1lion (NENA). ified to seek help. "We don't 'ask NENA sponsol'lS a comprehen- too many questions," he said.

Prayer, he said, springs "from steps toward this path of authena' fundamental act of the intel- tic Christ'i'Cln spiritualrity, there sive health care fiacility in an "One of the reasons whv people Iigence, almost as an instinct, al- shines already the dawn of morn- overcrowded five-story tenement. here are afraid to go to the hosmost as an intuitive act," rather ing and spring time light: how Brother Varley's storefront clin- pital is that they arsk too many than, 'as is often affirmed, "from beautiful it is, how true, how ic, t:our block'S from the center, is questions. We ask them their the first satellite clinic of the name and address and we don't sentimental reasons or ignorance wise it is to pray." expanding health care facility, even veritfy that." or self-interest." which is believed to be one of Noting that prayer has disap- ' Fr. McManus Named the few in the narlllon set up with peared from the Jives of many fedenal Funds independent of a modern men, the Pope said: To C. U. Post medical school or a major teach"PeDple do not want to pray, to WASHINGTON (NC) - Father ing hospita1.

Frederick McManus, one of the "We have hospitals in the Name Cardinal Krol nation's experts in liturgy and 'area,"sadd Brother V;arIey as he canon law (the law of the watched Dr. Delfin Rada exam'Prelate of Year' Complete Line PHOENIX (NC), - Cardinal Church), has been named vice ining a patient, ":but 'the people Building Materials John Kool of Philadelphia will provost and dean of graduate don't like them. There's a lot of 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN studies at Catholic University of !superstition here regarding medbe awarded the American PrelAmerica here.

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SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A three-judge federal district court here ruled unc.onstitutional a California law granting tax credits of up to $125 to parents who pay tuition in nonpublic schools.

Joseph McElligott, director of the division of education of the Oalifornia Catholic Conference, said that the decision was disappointing but not unexpected in the light of the U. S. Supreme Court decisions of last June.

He said the California decision was based on the Supreme Court's decision in the Nyquist case, in whkh a New York tax benefit law was ruled unconstitutional. The federal court, here, he said, found the state law unconstitutional because the judges sai.l1 it "essentially only benefits students in sectarian schools."

The law provided tax credits ranging from $25 to $125 per child depending on the parents' income. Parents with incomes over $19,000 a year received no ,benefit. The average ben'efit'per family was $100, McEtlligott said.

Prelates Urge Nuclear Arms Ban SYDNEY (NC) - The Australian bishops have expressed regret that the arms race con· tinued at the expense of development programs and called on all government and citizens whose countries have nuclear weapons to work earnestly for their banning.

"The world's resources," the bishops said, "are needed for more basic and urgent tasks than developing skills and weapons for destruction; the Gospel itself demands this of us. . .

"While we welcome the limitations on the development of atomic weapons which some countries have accepted, we reo gret that research and development associated with atomic weapons is still continuing on a massive scale.

"Because of 'their extraordin. ary destructive power and consequent dangers of their proliferation nuclear weapons should be banned. . . Many nuclear weapons are "aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities" -warfare of this kind was unequivocally condemned by the Second Vatican Council as "a crime against God and man himself,"

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Vatican, Poles Agree to Seek Better Church-State Relations VATICAN CITY (NC)--Agreement to continue negotiations to hring about better relations between Church and state have been reached at Warsaw by rep· resentatives of the Polish communist regime and it top Vatican dip'lomat..

The Vatican published (Feb. 7) the text of a joint communique agreed on in Warsaw on the conclusion of a four·day visit by Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, secretary of the Vatican's Council for the Public Affairs of the Church.

Archbishop Casaroli, who is frequently referred to the Vatican's minister of foreign affairs, is a specialist in negotiations with Eastern European countries.

His presence in Warsaw, together Wlith a group of Vatican offidals, followed a visit last November by Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Stefan Olszowski to the Vatican.

The joint communique described the archbishop's visit with the Po~ish officials as taking place in an "open and cordial atmosphere." The two parties, according to the communique, discussed general problems of world peace and had a useful exchange of their respective points of view on the: Confer-

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has rejected criticisms leveled at the Church's marriage laws by a prominent Italian Catholic lawyer.

The Pope defended Church law in a speech to his annual audience for judges of the Roman Rota, Church high court, and other courts.

Franciscan Urges Minority Voca'tions AUGUSTA (NC)--Special attention must be given to devel-' oping priestly vocations among racial and ethnic minorities and to selecting bishops from among Religious order priests if the clergy is to be effect.ive, Franciscan Father Ivan Rohloff said here.

Addressing the seventh annual meetng of the Atlanta Province Federation of Priests' Councils, Father Rohloff said that "very few members of minority groups enter our seminaries and practically none persevere to ordination."

Under present seminary practice, said Father Rohloff, rector of Assumption Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., minority students must either conform to an alien culture and lose their own cultural identity, or retain their cultural identity at all costs. In the first case, a minority student "may make it through to ordination, but will so have lost his cultural roots that he will be ineffective with his own people, or in the second ca.se, he will leave the seminary because the cultural shock is too great:'

Pastoral Planning JElFFERSON CITY (NC) Bishops and chancellors of all Midwestern dioceses have been invited by the Jefferson City diocese to attend the third Midwest Pastoral Pl,anning Conference here, March 11-12.

Church - State Tension Eases

ence for European Security and Cooperation.

"The Polish government expressed to the Holy See its esteem for its effortS and proofs of good will, seelcing to consolidate (support) of the peaceful coexistence of peoples and of justice in international relations," the communique stated.

It added: "The delegation of the Holy See expressed its appreciation to the Polish government for the constructive contribution of the Polish People's Republic toward normalization of relations in Europe and in favor of world peace."

The communique stated that the "principal problems concerning the religious situation in Poland and the normalization of relations between the state and the Church were ,the object of particularly deep discussions.

"The government of the Polish People's Republic confirmed for its part the desire to continue the discussions with the Holy See as well as with the Polish bishops. 'The Holy See expressed interest in continuation, of dialogue with the Polish People's Republic and the conviction of the usefulness of reciprocal contacts between church and state."

Pope Takes Issue With Criticism Of Church Marriage Legislation The Pope was clearly referring to a speech given at the recent opening of the juridical year of the Rome vicariate's tribunal by Prof. Pietro D'Avack. The professor, who is dean of ecclesiastical law at the University of Rome and former rector of the university, characterized the present Code of Canon Law as being "decrepit, out of date and paradoxically inhuman."

The professor, who is also a lawyer licensed to practice before the Roman Rota, shocked assembled judges and lawyers of the Rome diocesan tribunal by sta'ting that the Church is wrong to claim the primary end of mar· riage ·is the procreation of children. ,In touching on this incident, Pope Paul began his comments by urging his audience to have "trust in the legislation of the Church:' The Pope said that he could not hide the surprise experienced . by himself and others "resulting from some criticisms, excessive in their expression and not al· ways well founded, regarding the present canonical legislation on matrimony, delivered by a very authoritative person in a place and on an occasion which were worthy of a far more reverent and objective language:' "We have just indicated this known episode to you so that you too, since you are experts interested in the matter, may know that we do not share any of the judgments there pronounced on the present discipline of the Church on such an important theme.

"It is true that following the negative comments of the speech there were those that were positive. and of such we take note with loyal recognition. But it seems to us that the value affirmed in these second comments, instead of confirming the first, (negative) one, correct them:'

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MADRID (NC)-A meeting between Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Taracon of Madrid and Carlos Arias Navarro, Spain's new premier, was evidence of the easing of Church-state tensions that has come in the wake of the assassination of former premier, Ad· miral Luis Carrero Blanco.

The weeks prior to the assassination witnessed a deep crisis in Church-state relations, marked by demonstrations, takeovers of religious buildings all over the country, and hunger str.ike by several priests. At the same time Catholic 'bishops, traditionally a mainstay of the regime, became increasingly bitter in their criticism of government policies.

Although no official version of the cardinal's meeting with,Premier Arias was issued, Catholic sources here said that it was "extremely cordial" and that the topics covered were "very im· portant:' The Catholic daily Ya said Church-state tension had eased.

"There is silent' reflection among the more acUve groups within the Church ... and a rethinking of the sources of conflict regard· ing religious and political mat· tel's," the paper said.

QUADRIPLEGIC IS ORDAINED: William E. "Bill" Atkinson talks with Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia from a wheelchair before his ordination, beli,eved to be a first for a quadriplegic. With them is the ordinand's brother, AI, linebacker for the New York Jets football team.

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His family, hospital employes and the Augustinians were named as giving esssential aid during his recovery from the accident. And then there were the 21 seminarians in Atkinson's residence. How many of them lent a hand?

"All 01' them," he replied.

"The guys get me up, put me in 'bed, dress me, feed me."

But he has some degree of mobility thanks to a motorized wheelchair and a van that predates Ironsides:' Through exercise, he retains neck movement, and with the aid of mechanical devices he is able to tYipe.

"Other people have problems that I don't have," Atkinson pointed out. "I look at them and Together . say I'm lucky. Everybody has a Holiness toward God and jus- ()ross to bear. I look at everytice toward men usually go to- body and say that everybody gether.

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VILLANOVA (NC)-Bill Atkinson was ordained by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia eight years after he lost the natural use of his arms and legs in a tobaggan accident.

Father Atkinson, believed to be the first quadriplegic to be ordained in the U. S. and possibly in the world, was ordained ,in St. Alice's Church in suburban Upper Darby before a crowd of 900 people, 150 of whom were fellow Augustinian priests.

In commenting on Atkinson's ordination, Cardinal Krol said, "This is a good day for all of us."

"A lot of people wouldn't let me die," said Atkinson, who had to receive speci~ permission

Ten Commendments Bill Passed ANNAPOLIS (NC)-The Maryland House of Delegates has passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow students or teachers to recite the Ten Commandments from the Bible each day in the public schools.

Passed by a vote of 104 to 8, the bill amends Maryland law regarding school prayer to allow individual teachers and elementary and secondary school students to recite the commandments each morning. Private meditation, Scripture reading and prayer are now permitted in Maryland.

The U. S. Supreme Court ruled offidally sponsored against prayers in public schools in 1962 and 1963. In 1971, the U. S. House of Representatives voted 240-162 in favor of a constitutional amendment that would allow prayer in public schools.

The vote, however, was short of the two-thirds majority necessary for Congress to enact proposed constitutional amendments 'and send them to the states for ratification.

Last September, the 28 bishops on the administrative board of the U. S. 'Catholic Conference called for a constitutional amend· ment permitting prayer and reli· gious instruction in "public institutions, "including public schools.

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Theologian Says Social Justice Key to Youth ROME (NC) - An American lay theologian believed to be the first Catholic layman to teach at Rome's prestigious Gregorian University said he feels that the Church must ",get with it" in pr~aching a consistent social justice or lose today's youth.

Dr. Michael Galligan, whose small stature and 26 years' make, him look more a student than professor, said that kids in the United States 'are not listening to the Christian message" and most show "a profound ignorance that the Church has ever said anything" about justice ,and peace in the world.

He also has some positive ideas on how the Church can become, morellttractive to the young and is teaching those concepts at the Gregorian, the Jesuit-run university St. Ignatius founded over 400 years ago.

Stand With Youth A graduate of the University of San Francisco and the department of religious studies at Yale, the young professor sat among neat stacks of books in his oneroom residence in Rome and con· sidered the question put to him: Where does the Church in the United States stand with youth today?

"One does not like to be a Cassandra," he said, "to predict disaster, but my honest reply is that the Church is in a fairly weak position.

"The irony in that it has the potential of being in a. very strong position."

Galligan said that for his confreres at Yale "the Church was no part of their picture," and for those with Catholic background at USF, the Church was "still fairly weak." . The Church, he said, "will persist, even though it might lose this or that generation,"

Hits Vote on Aid To P'oor Nations

, WASHINGTON (NC) - The general secretary of the U. S. Catholic Conference characterized as "humanly apppalling" and "potentially devastating" the rejection by the House of Representatives vote of a proposed $1.5 biLlion loan to aid the world's poorest nations.

Bishop James S. Rausch said that the vote reflects "the profoun'd malaise wrich presently dominates the American scene" and exposes once again the terrible vulnerability of ·the poor to the actions of the powerful.

The 1.5 billion represented one-third of a $4.5 billion loan promised by the world's richer countries to ·the International Development Association (IDA), an agency which furnishes the 21 poorest countries with lowinterest, long-term loans.

Selecting Bishops CHICAGO (NC)-The National Federation of Priests' Councils has set up a task force which has the assignment of chartering a permanent committee on the selection of bishops. Father Charles E. Ervin .has been assigned to head the task force which will work under the NFPC's Ministry and Priestly Life Committee, of which Father Ervin is a member.

States Still Lack Conscience Clauses

Dorothy Day; Apostle of 'Non- Violence, -

ST. LOUIS (NC)-Thirty-nine states have conscience clauses, the Catholic Hospital Association (CHA) annollnced here in a statement urging the 11 other states to adopt legal provisions to protect those who refuse on the grounds of 'conscience to cooperate in abortion.

A conscience clause generally grants civil and criminal immunity to hospitals, physicians. or employes who do not wish to take part in abortion procedures for moral, ethical or religious reasons.

Conscience clauses already adopted, said a spokesman for the CHA, usually protect institutions as well as individuals, although some states do not permit institutions to ref-use to perform abortions. ,

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Visits Fall River, Speaks of Life Work

BY PAT McGOWAN Dorothy Day, a living legend, spent two days in Fall River recently, attending a noon Mass at St. Mary's Cathedr\ll while in the city and remarking appreciatively on its exquisite rose window.

The 76-year-old co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement seemed tireless in the midst of a lecture to~r taking her to Boston, the Trappist abbey at Spencer, Mass., and Bridgewater State College.

At Bridgewater' she sp'oke to an audience, of faculty members, students and many area subscdbers to the Catholic Worker newspaper who seized the opportunity to see and~ meet her.

Discussing the background that led her to the founding of the Catholic Worker in 1933, Miss Day saDd that as a young girl she worked on a socialist newspaper in New York and "was so hor~ified by what I saw that I decided the only way I could get over my aversion to the living conditions of the poor was to live with them."

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No Baths DOROTHY DAY There were no bathing facilities, she'said, and public showers were half a I mile dista)'lt from mercy in the direct form of pro- was first recommended to the the house. Such showers exist viding beds and food for the Catholic Worker, by Jacques 'today for the poor of New York needy is the Catholic Worker's Maritain," City, she added. philosophical ,stand, always opA nonviolent Gandhian techIn such an abrupt manner, posed to war and totalitarianism. nique followed by the Catholic she said, she was introduced to "We were about the only Worker, said Miss Day, 'is that of the class struggle and to efforts Catholic group that opposed the making no secret of what actions of immjgrants to acculturate Spanish Civil War," recalled are planned. "If we plan to themselves to American ways. ~'Miss Day. march, picket, fast, or whatever, For some time, she said, she we tell the police or other auOver the years, all has not' upheld Communist principles, thorities about it. The peace but friends told her she was too been smooth sailing for the con- movement doesn't resist evil. troversial movement, she said. religious to make a good ComIt's the whole business of acceptmunist, and they were- proved In World War II "a great split" ing the cross. In houses of hosoccurred as many Workers decorrect when in 1927 at age 30 parted from the principles of pitality, you have many opporshe was baptized a Catholic: padfism to join the armed tunities to accept the cross," All'the time she continued to she added. "There's violence all forces. , write for various Socialist pubabout." lications and it was her wrHings Nor did the Catholic Worker that brought her to the attention completely support the controMiss Day said, speaking ironof Peter Maurin, a. French peas- versial actions of the Berrigan ica1'ly, on the same night that ant who had been a Christi,an brothers. "We did not support President Nixon declared in his Brother but who lett his com- their destruction of property be- State of the Union message that munity seeking a way to found cause in the Sermon on the Americans were enjoying the Christian farming cOqlmunes Mount it is said that you don't highest standard of living ever which would support city houses do to others what you wouldn't known, "In my' long lifetiJ;11e of hospitality offering shelter want them to do to you. We be- I've never'seen conditions worse. and food to the needy with the lieve in nonviolence, following So many weLfare programs have directness and simplicity man- the teachings of Gandhi, who been cut out," She said that the dated by the gospels.

Eager Listener In Dorothy Day the French. man found an eager listener and the Catholic Worker movement began to take form, eventually including farms, hospices in cities across the country, many of which are still in operation, and the famous Catholic Worker newspaper which for 40 years has maintained its price of· a penny a copy. " Traditional at the New York Catholic Worker are Friday night meetings, said Miss Day. Over the years hundreds of the famous and obscure have spoken at these forums, exposing then:tselves to a gamut of questioners, ' ranging from the erudite to the alcoholic and emotionally disturbed who form a large proportion of the Worker's guests.

Going hand in hand with practice of the corporal works of

We Must Trust Returning to the subject of nonviolence, Miss Day said that despite the fact that house of hospitality guests are not screened; there has never been anyone hurt at the Catholic Worker. We break windows, not heads. We must trust each other!"

Speaking of the United Farmworkers, whose cause she supports to the exte.nt of going to jail for two weeks last summer after a California demonstration, she said "The farmworkers live under worse conditions than anyone," She appealed to her hearers to boycott grapes, lettuce and non-union approved California wines.

Of her stay in maximum security jail barracks, she said, "The guards were friendly. They were union men themselves," She commented that priests entered the prison weekly to say Mass for the stri'kers and noted that "the present farm worker picture looks '!ike utter defeat but this is a union with a vision of a new way of life."

She summed up her years of witness wJth 'the comment: "Be what you want the other fellow to be," And she demonstmted her commitment to voluntary poverty when she returned from Fall River to New York by bus, the cheapest available transport.

With her she took a paper bag lunch, including a three-day old ,peanut butter sandwich. "It's still edible," she'said.

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Ralph de Toledano, a Washington-based author and syndicated columnist, and Father' Daniel Lyons, S.J., who writes a column out of New York City for Twin Circle and the National Catholic Register, are walking around these days with egg on their faces. . they do not regard support of Maladroitly mixing meta- the Farah strike and boycott as phors after the fashion of "palpably contrary to faith, morMrs. Malaprop, I am afraid als, or simple human decency." that the only way they can wipe it off is to eat a bit of crow in publ,ic.

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In writing about the Farah strike, and particularly about the role Of certain bishops in supporting the Farah boycott, both de Toledano and Lyons have made recent statements which are absolutely incorrrect - irresponsibly so, in my opinion.

For example, In a column dated Dec. 15, De Toledano said, "Monsignor Higgins and the ACW (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) tried desperately to get the National Council (he means Conference) of Catholic Bishops to endorse the boycott of Farah. It was touch and go last month, at the bishops meeting in W8$hington, until. the issue was given some ventilation.

It became apparent then that the case, as lobbied by the Higgins apparat, did not exactly represent the facts, and the bishops backed away from participation in an activity which was so palpably contrary to faith, morals, or simph~ human decency."

No Special Ruling

That statement is completely inaccurate. Neither the ACW nor Msgr. Higgins lobbied "desper· ately" or in any other way to get the NCCB to endorse the Farah boycott. This matter wasn't even on t~e agenda of the bishops meeting, and there was no attempt on anyone's part to get it on the agenda by means of a special l1uling.

The Farah dispute was dis· cussed .briefly at the NCCB meetinging by Bishop Metzg~r of EI Paso, who explained 1.0 the assembly that he felt obliged, as the Oroinary of the diocese in which the Farah strike began, to reply to some of the blatantly anti-union propaganda which had been distributed at the meeting by a public relations firm representing the Farah Company.

In the course of his unscheduled speech, Bishop Metzger reviewed the history of the Farah dispute and told the bishops why he was supporting the workers' cause.

But he did not (and, under the rules of the NCCB), could not ask the assembly to adopt a resolutiop.

The bishops responded with the longest and most enthusiastic round of applause I have ever heard at a meeting of the NCCB. This would seem to suggest that

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shortly aflter the NCCB meeting, the Committee on Social Development and World Peace of the U. S. Catholic Conference, which includes 11 bishops in its membership, issued an official statement in support of the Farah boycott.

SUly Blooper

Since Father Lyons is closer to the ecclesiastical scene than De ToledanQ, he might have been expected to be somewhat more accurate than the latter in his statements. If anything, however, his recklessly careless reo porting makes De Toledano's recent column look good by com· parison. Father Lyons recently stated, for example, that "all of the Catholic bishops who have publicly supported the boycott except Bishop (Carroll) Dozier (of Memphis) have begun to back down from their earlier stands because they are beginning to realize that the workers have been severely hurt and the union has not done all that it should."

A few phone calls would have saved Father Lyons the embarrassment of committing such a silly blooper. In any event, the NC News Service checked Lyons' statement with the partieular bishops in question and learned that ,it is completely false. All of the bishops or their spokesmen contacted denied that they are retreating from their position of backing the Farah workers' strike and national boycott.

It would appear that De Toledano and Father Lyons have not been keeping up with their homework on the Farah controversy. I have almost reached the conclusion that they don't give a tinker's dam about the facts involved. This will be immediately apparent to anyone who reads a 31-page decision on the Farah controversy recently handed down by Walter H. Maloney, Jr., an administrative law judge on the staff of the National Labor Relations Board.'

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Both De Toledano and Lyons would have us believe that the Farah Company is the completely innocent party in its long. standing dispute with the AmalgamatedClothing Wor,kers1Judge Maloney has ruled otherwise with a vengeance. After meticulously reviewing the history of the Farah dispute, he has concluded that the Farah Company is in flagrant violation of the National LaboJ;' Relations Act and has also charged the company with being "contemptuous" of the federal courts.

In the light of all the evidence (none of which has been reported by De Toleclano and Lyons), Judge Maloney felt constrained to excoriate the company in the

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Says Statement on Farah Controversy Incorrect

NAMED: Francis J. Butler has been named executive director of the Bishops' Committee for the Observance of the Centennial. NC Photo.

most blistering language I have ever encountered in a decision of this kind. "To deal effectively and meaningfully with a respondent such as this one," he wrote in his' decision, "the board's creativity will be taxed to the uttermost. Over the past threeand-one-half years, the board and the courts have issued orders and decrees enjoining Farah from engaging in a wide variety of unlawful conduct. This respondent has been repeatedly directed to mend its lawless ways, and yet it continues as if nothing had happened, pursuing its policy of flouting the act (National Labor Relations Act) and trampling on the rights of its employees as if there were no act, no board and no Ten Commandments.

Farah has simply thrown down the gauntlet to this agency and has dared the board to stop it from making the act a dead letter as far as Farah employees are concerned. To carry out the mandate of the act, the remedies recommended and ultimately adopted herein must respond to this challenge."

The remedies recommended by Judge Maloney constitute a major victory for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and a disastrous defeat for the Farah Company.

Boycott Continues The company, under the'terms of the National Labor Relations Act may now appeal Judge Maloney's decision to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington. Presumably the company will do so. This means that the boycott of Farah products will go on. I intend to suppmt this boycott, and if De Toledano and Father Lyons are wondering why, I suggest that they read the complete text of Judge Maloney's decision. The decision is entitled Farah Manufacturing Company, Inc., and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Southwest Regional Joint Board. It is Case No. 23-CA-443~. Copies of the decision may be obtained by writing to the Director of Infor· mation, National Labor Relations Board, 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Wash., D. C. 20570. ( © 1974 NC News Se1'Vice ) ,

ST. JOHN, ATILEBORO At Boy Scout Sunday ceremonies Cub Scout Pack 4, sponsored by the parish, received the Pope Paul VI award for its work in promoting religious pro· grams in Scouting. Individual Parvuli Dei awards were also reo ceived by 22 cubs, including Thomas Blanchard,Daniel Bul· lock, Edward Bullock, Thomas Courchesne, Henry Deslaurier, Donald DesVergnes, Dean Fawcett Jr., Michael Gallant, William Gallant, Scott Hilsman, Steven H)'Iland, Dale Kelleher.

Also, Richard Lincoln, Joseph Nolin, John Reeves, Raymond Smith, David Teixeira, Raymond Tondreau Jr., Keith Trepanier, Michael Turgeon, Denis Wain and Leroy Yarboro.

Leaders who attended a Scouter Developml~nt Program in order to make the pack eligible for the Pope Paul VI Award are George Lincoln, Ben Bilello, Raymond Tondreau Sr. and Anne Hyland.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A DrQP-In Center for parish teenagers will reopen at 7:30 Monday night, Feb. 18 in the school. Registration fee will be $1. Adults interested in aiding the program are asked to contact Jim Gibney, telephone 6752694.

Skiing Club members leave the school yard at 5:30 P.M. each Wednesday. Those planning to attend should call Father Campbell bl}fore 4 P.M. in order that transportation can be arranged.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT A "Sew into Spring" fashion show, featuring styles created and mode:ed by parishioners, will be sponsored by the Women's Guild Friday night, March 29 in the parish hall. Anyone wishing to participate may call Mrs. Evonne Lavoie at telephone 636-8053 for further information.

Teenagers are especially invited to exhibit their talents.

A Las Vegas Night program will take place Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1, with Mrs. Louise Buckley as chairman.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, , SOMERSET Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, vicar general of the diocese, will be honored by parishioners Sunday, March 10 at a testimonial at Venus de Milo restaurant.

Father Mendonca, former pastor of St. John of God, is now pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, New Bedford.

Edward S. Machado has been named general chairman of the testimonial, aided by a large committee. Tickets are now available from all members.

OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE The parish will sponsor a scholarship dance at Osterville Veterans' Hall from 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Saturday, Feb. 23. Music will be by Mike Villani Trio and door prizes will be awarded.

ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA The monthly meeting of Ste. Anne Sodality will be held at 8 P.M. Wednesday, Feb. 20 in the parish hall. Barbara Chadwick will demonstrate crewel work. Admission is free but reservations are necessary and may be made by calling Muriel Patenaude, chairman, at telephone 672·3586 or Cecile Couture, 678-9450.

OUR LADY OF LOURDES, TAUNTON The annual parish ham and bean supper will be held in the school hall at 12 First St. from 1:30 to 7 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 23. Dinner music wil~ follow the supper and the're will be dancing from 9 to midnight. A large arrangements committee is headed

by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mendes, Mr. and Mrs. John Correia and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cardoza.

A pllinning meeting for the event will take place at 7:30 P.M. Monday, Feb. 18 in the rectory basement.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Bingo is played at 7 P.M. each Wednesday in the school.

The Home and School Assn. will meet at 7:30 tonight in the school. Rev. Pierre Lachance, O.P., school director, will spe~k.

The 6:30 P.M. folk Mass Sunday, Feb. 17 will feature the St. Patrick Folk Group of Somerset.

The parish committee will meet in the school at 7:45 P.M. Monday, Feb. 18. The unit plans a Valentine dinner-dance for 7:30 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 23 in the school auditorium.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Ashes will be given out at all Masses on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 27: 7 A.M., 4 P.M. and 7 P.M. A Lenten Mission in Portuguese is scheduled for Sunday, through Saturday, March 3 through 9.

ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD The Ladles Guild will sponsor a whist party for the benefit of the church at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Feb. 23 in the basement of the school at the corner of Earle St. and Ashley Blvd. , Mrs. Theresa Wooley and Mrs. Mamie Farley will serve as cochairladies.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 14, 1974

'Friar Thomas D'Aquino' Achieves Author~s Purpose Are you grousing about not having enough gas to make a trip you had planned? Consider what St. Thomas Aquinas did when, -in '1268, at the age of 44, he was ordered to proceed .from Viterbo in central Italy ~o Paris far north in France. He walked. ih~ whole way. The journey on foot position of no sman importance.

But after some eight or nine took two full months, and years there, he went to Naples was. made in winter. St. to study,the arts and philosophy.

.Thomas was not only a great thinker, he was also a great , walker.

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This improving item I have culled from t:he pages of Friar Thomas D'Aquino: His Life, Thought, and Work by Father James A. Weisheipl, O.P. (Doubleday, 277 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10036. $8.95). March 7, 1974 will be the 700th anniversary of Thomas' death and this book is Father Weisheipl's contribution to a proper celebra, tion of that occasion. ' Would Thomas say to ,him what the Lord is reported, to have said to Thomas, "You have written well of me"? That depends. Certainly this is not a piece of popularization, nor is it a smoothly flowing biography.

It attempts to set the thought of St. Thomas in its true historical context, showing its sources and its development in response to events and needs; its development, too, as the saint's study and reflection deepened. Only the specialist can judge how successful this attempt is, for only the specialist is qualified to evaluate the author's argument.

Disputed Points It also requires a special' knowledge to .follow Father Weiheipl's analysis of .Thomas' principal writings. Such an analysis is presented at that point in the saint's life when one or another of his works was coml'eted p I a~ far from saying that the discussion is totally incomprehensible to the intelligent: reader,. but he will have to work at it.

There is the htatter, again, of detailed treatment of disputed points. Thus, there has long been controversy as to the year of St. Thomas' birth. The various v.iews are set forth' in the text, rather than in the notes, and their rehearsal can be boring. This procedure, is followed in, other instances of disputed data.

The author holds that Thomas was born in 1224 or 1225 in Roccaseca, in' an area now known as the Roman Campagna, but then part of the Kingdom of Sicily. 'His family belonged to the minor nobility and Thomas was one of'many children.

After his fifth birthday, he was placed for schooling in the· Bened.ictine abbey of MOlltecassino. It was expected that he might one day be its abbot, a

And in Naples he met the Dominicans. , Religious Life They were then a new community, attracting many recruits.

Like the' Franciscans, they were mendicants, depending on begging for their sustenance. Thomas was drawn to their plain way of life, and at ·19 he joined them.

His family objected bitterly. The religious me? Well and good, if it meant the Benedictines, but not any order of lowly friars.

The family had him seized, and he was detained at home for a year, possibly longer. Although he was not as brutally used' as' some have contended, strenuous efiforts were made to dissuade . him. He would not be budged.

At last he was freed, headed for Naples, then spent three years in the DominiiCiin house in Paris engaged in private, study.

It is probable that when Albert the Great, the illustrious Dominican master, went to Cologne to teach in 1248, Thomas ~ccompanied him. He studied under Albert for four years, and Albert .qukkly recognized his extraordinary abili.ty.

Basic Framework Ordained a priest in 1250, Thomas returned to Paris in 1252, and it was there and then that his blossoming began. He first lectured, first published in Paris. From the start a distincNve approach was evident. He dwelt on a "dual aspect" of the, flow of all things from God and the return of all things to God." It "was to ,remain a basic, framework for Thomas." ' At the exceptionally early age of 31, he was declared a master o~ sacred t~eology at the Universlty of ParIs.. He then had only 18 years t~ 1JV~, but they were to be relen .ess ~ busy. a.nd wonderlully productIve, dIVIded betwe~n. France and Ita!y. .

HIS was an era of Intense mtellect.ual ferment and rigor~us, sometImes rancorow; theologIcal deb~te. In these he played a leadIng part, save for the ranco~.

He was a path~blazer, and hIS tho~ght .and method would be.of capItal Importance for centurIes to c~me. .. , It IS. surp~slg to learn that ~I­ tho~gh he lIved many years In ParIS, he never learned French.

Also, he had alql~st no Greek, so that he read ~rI~totle a~d the Greek Fa~hers, Im~ensely Jm~ortant to hIS work, In translatIon. Phenomenal Memory His reading was prodigious, as was his writing. He produced more than 40 volumes in fewer than 20 years, with Httle or no repetition. The secret of his originality and freshness was "rethinking every. problem anew, and ,presenting newer and mOre accurate solutions to old problems."

He had the services of several

BIBLE CELEBRATION: Students at Dominican Academy, Fall River, mark Catholic Education Week with Bible celebration, conducted by Sister Annette Fontaine and emphasizing the "Different Where It Counts" theme of the week. Parents were invited to program.

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ST. THERESA, SO. ATTLEBORO The Confraternity of Christian Mothers will sponsor a penny sale from 8 to 10 on Friday and Saturday nights, March 8 and 9.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN The Ladies of the Association ' of the Sacred Hearts will sponsor a "Oily of Recollection"· on Sunday, Feb. 24 in the school hall.

Fr. Thomas Grannell will direct the program that extends from 'I o'clock until 5 and it will include the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. .

Tickets are one dollar and may , be obtained by calling either Mrs. Helen Burke at 996-1789 or Mrs. Joseph Borges at 994-9084.

SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER At Installation ceremonies with Rev. Antonio Tavares, pastor, as guest speaker the Counc,il of Catholic Women returned all Incumbent officers to their positions, including Mrs. Helen L. Oliveira, president; Mrs. Ida Cabral, vice-president; Mrs. Be. atrice C. Cournoyer, secretary; Mrs. Mary Medeiros, secretary; and Mrs. P.aLmira Aguiar, publicity chairman.

The unit will sponsor a cake sale at all Masses the weekend of Feb. 23 and 24. Donations of pastry may he brought to the sales table before any Mass, according to announcement' made

by Mrs. Herculana Raposa and Mrs. Aguiar, co-chairmen.

The next regular meeting is slated for 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, March 12 in the parish hall.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The fourth Minstrel and Variety Show will be held on Friday and Saturday nights, May 10 and 11 In Bishop Feehan High School. A Western theme will permeate the show.

Rehearsals will begin at 7:30 on Sunday night, March 3 and a general meeting will ~e' p~ld at that time. .

Cub Scout Pack 37 'will holtl its Blue and Gold Dinner at 7 o'clock on Sunday evening, Feb. 17 in the parish hall.

SS. PETER AND pAUL, FALL RIVER The Fathers' Club will sponsor a dinner-dance this Saturday at Holy Name School auditorium.

A ibuffet will be served at 7 P.M. followed by dancing.

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He became famous, and his PER ANNUM genius ·was honored by popes and kings. But he remained simple In manner and humble of spirit. He was meticulous about Interest Earned From Day of Deposit to Day of Withdrawal observing his vow of poverty and in peIlforming such duties ALL DEPOSITS INSURED IN FULL as preaching.

Minimum DepDsit $100 Offered an archbishopric, he PAID UP SHARE ACCOUNTS 1 L M.aximum DepDsit $40,000 vigorously refused it, and when , 72 0 Dividends Paid Quarterly and Every IN PASSBOOK FORM told that he would surely receive Dollar Insured in Full a cardinal's hat in recognition of ' No Notice Requ'ired for Withdrawal his services to th~ Church, he insisted that such not be' the case.

Suddenly on December 6, 1273, he stopped work. He may have suffered a physical breakdown.

His secretary would later disclose that Thomas had told him, "All that I have written seems to me like straw compared with what has now been revealed to me." He neither wrote nor taught Main Office: 41 Taunton Green, Taunton, Mass. ~hereafter. ' Branch Office: 1400 F~II River Ave., Seekonk, Mass.

He was ordered to attend the Second Council at Lyons, which Branch Office: 21 North Main St., Attleboro, Mas'S. was to begin in May, 1274. Obed.ient as ever, he set out for France, but on the way he was stricken, went to a Cisterclan''The Bank That Sets The Pace For Progress' monastery, and there died. , t • - • • • • • • • • • . •••..•..• , . . •. •••.•. .« ..•..••

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A group of hiigh school students once asked me to help them learn to pray. They had tried a number of approaches to prayer without much success.

I suggested several more methods of prayer. They were no more successful with my suggesHons than with their previous a'ttempts. But they really wanted to learn to pray. ~['[~I

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Finally, I suggested that they use the daily rtewspaper as a stimulus to prayer. Almost every newspaper every day has pictures and stories about people loving, suffering, marrying, divorcing, warring, making peace, acbing selfishly and selflessly. At least one image or aocount each day may strike a cord in oneself or give rise to a feeling of thanks, sorrow, fear, or love. All these can become food for prayer.

The students found using a newspaper for prayer a helpfully creative technique. They were stimulated from day to day to thank God for some particular good thing or person, to ask His help for someone in need of help, to praise God for his presence and care, to ask his forgiveness for their own and other's sins and failures. . From that experience with prayer; we discovered that the newspaper provided a wealth of material for religious education in general. Magazines, television, and radio were equaHy valuable resources. For example, we set about exploring ads as we reo flected on the purpose of life and true values.

Advertisements proved eminently suitable for such an investigation. Ads are really a kind of mirror reflecting contemporary man's sense of values.

minds? Is depression as acute for them as it may be for their healthy relatives? Who, other than God, really knows or can judge?

Meaning of Sickness In an excellent booklet, "Anointing and the Pastoral Care of the Sick," the U. S. Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy answers these inquiries in part by describing the effects of critica1 sicknsss.

"To put this in other words, what does it mean to be seriously ill? To be sick means bodily pain, psychic depression, isolation from one's profession as well as from normal human society, especiaUy as experienced in the family. To be sick means impatience, sulkiness, an excessive preoccupation with self. To be sick means discouragement or even despair, hardness of heart, spiritual dryness."

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But a new building and modern medical techniques cannot obliterate the fact that these are old, sick persons, people often pathetically disoriented or physically helpless. Some in their 90s ,have minds remarkably alert and interested, but: bodies whioh just can't function well any longer. Boys Town Center Others walk around without Director Named cane or crutch, yet ta'lk about a WASHINGTON (NC) - Dr. world that no longer exists and James P. O'Connor, formerly perhaps never was. vice provost and dean of gradRelatives and friends come uate studies at the Catholic UniREFLECTS SENSE OF VALUES: Advertising is not merely a means of conveying information. It is also a way and go, dutifully visiting their versity of America here, has been beloved, trying to cheer and of persuading people to buy goods and services. It is here . comfort those who once waited appointed director of the new Boys' Town Center for the that abuses can-and do enter the picture. Boys riding on them, who once lived full, Study of Youth Development at double on an expensive bicycle in a poor neighborhood ap- active lives. Many of these caiU- the university, proach the allurements of an instant credit furniture store ers, I am sure, arrive reluctantly, As head of the center, Dr. wondering what to say or do, in Washington, D.C. NC Photo.

O'Connor will be responsible for and leave a bit depressed, knowing that death sometime relative- initial planning, staffing and rethey feel needs and desires, they vestigation interesting. They ly soon will end the patient's . search focus of the new program, can be successful even when kept scrapbooks of ads, together stay at Michaud. which is planned to last 25 years. one perceives their lack of logic: Wlith their own reflections on In announcing the appointHow do these senior citizens Modern advertising is based on life's meaning. They discussed serious studies of human moti- what they were learning from feel themselves about their own ment, Catholic University presvation. More money, time and the ads with what their Chris- condition? Are they aware? Do ident Cla,rence C. Walton said, hard work is expended on the tian tradition taught about man. they exp~rience' mental frustra- "Dr. OConnor's blend of scholaraverage ad than on some text- They compared the values under- tion or physical pain? What ly attributes and. administrative books. Therefore, there is rea- lying the ads w:Ith Christ's thoughts run through their competence will ena-ble him to skillfully direct the new research son to expect that a cross- teaching ahout what is really imcenter for youth development section of successful ads may portant in life. The ads helped Chapel Closed here." well provide insight into what them look more closely at life ADRIAN (NC)-As an energy people today are looking for in lin the light of the Gospel. conserving measure, Lumen life. Ads can image man and his That ex·perience suggests to Chapel, seating about 800 pervalues to himself. me that, at least from time to sons on the campus of Siena . time, as we explore various Heights College here, has been Hidden Motives Co~ So, our class began collecting themes of Christian life, it may closed indefinitely.

Aims of Ads 'Over 35 Years be stimulating to take a serious All services ordinarily schedads that caught their interest. of Satisfied Service At first glance this may seem We set out to discover what look at the ads in newspapers, uled for the chapel have been Reg. Master Plumber 7023 very superficial. A close look at motives were hidden under the magazines and on television. transferred to the 400-seat Holy JOSEPH RAPOSA. JR. the typical ad reveals a kind of images and words. "What does We may from time to time find, Rosary Chapel at the Dominican 806 NO. MAIN STREET as well, that these same sources incredible unreality. Few of us this ad appeal to in man?"

Motherhous(~ in the college comFall River 675·7497 can be a help toward meaningful plex. seriously think that using aceI" "What need does it respond to?" prayer. tain toothpaste or mouthwash "What value does it assume peoLf you would !'ike to test some will dramatically change our per- ple cherish?" "What does it imsona1Wes. Anyone but the most ply about man and his purpose of the posibi1ities and techniques of using ads in religious educahopelessly naive realizes that in life?" there is more to personal relaThe youngsters found the in· tion, you might look at Discovery in Advertising, by Richard J: tionships than using a certain INC. Payne and Robert Heyer (New perfume or hair-oil.

'Prelate of Year' York: Paulist Press, 1969). But Yet, a second glance at ads rePHOENIX (NC)-The "Amer- don't hesitate to just pick up veals that they are geared at people's needs and deep desires. ican Prelate of the Year" award's your dllJily newspaper or turn on Most of us want to be more at- presentation date has been' the television and explore for tractive, to be loved, to feel changed from Feb. 22 to Mar. yourself what the ads suggest secure. It is at people's feIt needs 8, the Polish American Congress about human life and values. that ads lIJim, and they normally of Arizona has announced. The Most of all, try to perceive what respond to these needs not with congress wi'll present the award questions they raise in your own scientific facts or logic, but with to Cardinal John Krol of Phil- mind about what you really are adelphia, president of the Na- looking for in y,our own life, and symbols and images.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thllrs. Feb. 1t 1974

.Accountabillty Req'uires Possibility of Sanctions One of the magic words one hears in t~e Church today is "accou.ntability." We picked it up from the world outside, where by now it doesn't mean anything at all. It doesn't mean much in the Church either, but that doesn't stop it from being used as a substitute for thought and .. Chicago has the enviable distinction of having disposed of a real change. Pastors are ac- mad bishop (a lovely, pathetic, countable to their priests we tragic man) in the middle of the

are to.ld. Bishops are accountable to their pastors. Priests are accountable to their pastors.

Priests accountable to their peo-

last century. It took only. three years.

I would not suggest that there are any such in the Church today. Such a question can best be left to the historians of the future. But the point is that it is practically imposs~ble to impeach By :a bishop; and until everyone is accountable, no one is.

I am not saying that the sancREV. tion should be imposed often.

ANDREW M. On the contrary, the removal of anyone from office-superior, GREELEY pastor, curate, bishop-should be a rare event. But unless it is a ~ possible event you don't have pie. Leaders of religious com- accdountalrfb-<tility, ~nd it is fOOtliSh se eceptlve to pre en d munities are accountable to the < an rest of their members. Parish that ~ou do. . councils are accountable to the ArtIcles of Imp.eachment have rest of the parish. Everyone is been. voted ~gamst only one account8'ble to everyone else.

Ame~lcan presIdent and he was .. . acqu~tted. It's anyone's guess,as.

Mostly this IS all baloney, not I write .this column, whether they will be voted again. (U they to use. harsher language.

AccountabNity, if it means are, I don't think there will be anything at all, means that a an acquittal this time.) But unperson can be removed for doing less the possibility exists on the a bad job. I am hard put to books, as Madison and company think of anyone who has been , quite properly realized, you do' removed in the Church from any not have aocountabHity.

We don't have it in the position of importance.in recent ANOTHER WORLD: Others (old, sick people) walk years for doing a bad job. In- Church. If we want it, all of us around without cane or crutch, yet talk about a world that deed, such a sanction is unthink- will have to pay the price of run- no longer exists and perhaps never was. An old man wanable. For all the talk about ac- ning the risk that those who' are countability you take what you dissatisfied with us will want dersaimlessly in a park in the Midwest. NC Photo. get and like it. our removal. It may not be a A priest is supposed to be ac- ch'ance we ~a.nt to' ta~e. countable to his parish. But Accountabdlty Will come suppo'se he decides to build a eventualrly. But not tomorrow. that regard. It so treats the reContinued from Page Thir-teen huge rectory or a brand new' Or the next day. .

These nursing home patients formed rite historically, theologchurch and gets it by the bishop.

Or even next week. . are, to quote the document, . ~cany, and pastorally that we Suppose then that he goes wildly © 1974, Inter/Syndicate "dangerously iII," even though better understand the ceremony over the budget estimate. Are his their demise may be months or ourselves and thus can help people 8'ble to call him to an Expresses Con"cern )(ears away. They need support others- appreciate the sacrament. accounting, to demand that he and could profit from the revised stop, to insist that he be re- In Controversy rite of anointing for the sick.

Diocese to Honor placed? Not very likely; or if JEFFERSON CITY (NC)-The Sacrament of the Sick they do it wHI be long after the Jef.ferson City diocesan priests' Archbishop Davis That sacra:ment promises to building is finished, the money senate has sent a resolution of ·ALBUQUERQUE (NC)-A Fesspent, the debt piled high. concern to members of the Lut.h- the belie.v:er true heaQing. It may tival Eucharist of Thanksgiving not restore physical health, but ( for the life and ministry of Or take a priest whose S,}n- eran Church, Missouri Synod, in this ritual always brings courage, Arohbishop James Peter Davis day sermons are unintelligible regard to the controversy surpeace and ul)!derstanding to the of Santa Fe, N. M., wiII be celrounding Lutheran Concordia and his work with adolescents affHcted heart of a person who ebrated here by the Episcopal and young people consists most- Seminary. has faith. The cross may nQt diocese of the Rio Grande.

The senate said that as ly of denouncing them. Does this mean that having failed in what "brothers in Jesus Christ" it rec- dislippear; however, it seems In anouncing the celebration, are probably the two most im- ognized the painfulness of the lighter and the infirm stronger. Dean John B. Haverland of St. A Ohristian· can, after anointing, portant tasks most modern parish situation. The priests asked to John's Episcopal Cathedral called priests must take on his people suffer along with the Lutheran more easily take up Je.sus' Arohbishop Davis "one of the burden and follow him. can call him to account and de- Church "in the pilgrim struggle Many Catholics, unfortunately, great ecumenical figures of our mand that he get better or have .that is part of our Christian condition." despite rather extensive preach-. day and our area." his salary cut off? Don't be silly.

Concordia Seminary in St. ing and teaching in recent years Archbishop Davis announced Louis is bei~g boycotted by most on the subject, cling to the "last his retirement recently. No reNot Catholics students and facuity in protest rites" notion about this sacra- placeme~t has yet been named., LONDON (NC) - Twenty per over the firing of Dr. John·Tiejen, ment. For the priest to anoint cent of the teachers in Catholic the school's president. Dr. Teijen means~ for them, death is immischools in England and Wales was accused of false teaching nent. That prospect alone f.rePRINTING are non-Catholic, and the pro- 'and of interpreting the Bible quently frighten and saddens SIN,CE 1898 portion has been rising in recent too liberalIy by a Lutheran both patients in bed and people years, Dr. M.P. Hornsby-Smith, Church-Missouri Synod conven- by their side. Summoning the MAILING lecturer in sociology at Sussex tion last summer. clergy merely intensifies fears SINCE 1941 Unive~sity, told the annual study The faculties of two other St. or sorrow.

WEB OFFSET It seems, therefore, we must . conference of the Catholic Teach- Louis seminaries - Catholic St. , SINCE 1967 erss' Federation. The Catholic Louis Unh:ersity divinity school continue to catechize on the mat,school population, he said, has and Eden Theological Seminary ter 'f.he Study Text II mentioned 'doubled since World War II to of the United Church of Christ in this column (USCC Publicaabout 900,000 students. There -have expressed support of Dr. • tions Office, 1312 Mass. Ave., will have to be accommodations Teijen and other Lutheran pro- N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, for more than a million by the fessors charged with false teach- $1.50 per copy, discount on quan679-5262 ing. tity orders) wiU aid greatly in end of t'hedecade, he added.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (NC) Cardinal Eugenio Araujo de Sales of Rio de Janeiro denounce:d extreme anticommunism and strongly rejected charges of communist inf1ue~ce in the Catholic Church in Latin America.

The cardlinal's statement came after strong attacks were levelled at the Catholic Church by participants in the Second Congress of the Latin American Antic~mmunist Confederation held here Jan. 24-26.

Some 200 delegates met to discuss plans to combat communism and the alleged infiltration of communists among priests and laymen in the Catholic Churcil, which they consider one 'of the major problems in Latin America.

Conservative Archbjshop Proenca Sigaud of Diamantina attended the ·confederation's meeting and decJoared in the key note speech that "since communism ,is a negation of religion, the struggle against it must be considered a religious struggle.

Archbishop Proenca Sigaud was one of the founders of the Catholic right-wing Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property. The organization has moved to fight against communism dn all of Latin America.

Archbishop Proenca Sigaud abandoned it after the organization refused to accept te liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Oardinal De Araujo Sales warned that regarding communism as "all-powerful". would make "the most authentic application of the social doctrine of the Church suspect." He defended those who advocate freedom and the change of unjust· social structures as well as respect for the human l1ights of the people.

He warned that this is not "motive enough for accusations of subservience to communism." .

"The Church rejects atheism, but admits the possibility of a sincere . and prudent dialogue" with communists, Cardinal De Araujo Sales said. "We cannot be instruments of those who spread the fear of the communist threat ... as a means to presewe unjust and unequal pr,ivHeges."

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Old Rochester Retains Title Three Races Still Undecided The tempo of any good story continually builds throughout the narrative, finally reaching the climax or high point shortly before the conclusion. Following the typical storybook pattern, the 26 team Southeastern Massachusetts Conference basketball teams will climax their loop season feated 10-0 record against Division IV opposition. When the tomorrow night with nine circuit realigned the basketball clubs still clinging to their divisions, O1d Rochester was

championship aspiration. Only moved up to Division III. Rochester Regional of Mattapoi,Playing against stronger clubs sett has clinched a title. The did not phase the Bulldogs in the Bulldogs wrapped up their sec- least. They have won eight of ond successive crown last week nine league contests going into when they came from behind to tomorrow's final game with defeat second place Seekonk in Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High a critical Division III game., The in Taunton, good for a first place victory assured the Regionals of finish. both the championship and a The tourney bound Regio:lals post season tournament berth. are led by big Mike Santos, a The Bulldogs have played well strong rebounder and good scorunder pressure all season long. er, and sharpshooter Tim DemLast week's win over Seekonk , ski. John Andrews, Pete Nelson was a fitting ending to another and Fred Door combine well superb campaign for the John with Santos and Demski and Shockro titlists. A year ago the ,play an important role in the Old Shockromen rolled to an unde- Rochester success story.

Whalers and Indians in Drivers' Seat Seekonk and Bourne, both at 5-4, will attempt to hold on tu second place tomorrow when they conclude their seasons 'against Dennis-Yarmouth and Dighton-Rehoboth respectively.

While a relaxed Old Rochester goes through its paces tomorrow, nine other Conference teams will be competing for championship honors in three Divisions.

In Division I Coach Sal Lombardo's New Bedford Whalers will have the opportunity of winning the title. All they have to do is beat Attleboro on the Jewelers homecourt. The Whalers took over sole possession of first place in the large school Division I race last week, when they beat favored Taunton. At the same time, Dul1fee High of Fall River who was tied with both Taunton and New Bedford for the top spot was upended by Barnstable.

A week ago Durfee was in the drivers seat. Now it's New Bedford. Another win for the Crim-

son and White will close the door on both Taunton and Durfee. But, if Attleboro is able to turn the tide on the Whalers and Taunton beats visiting Barnstable while Durfee handles host Bishop Stang of Dartmouth the three will tie for the championship.

Dartmouth, who was favored to win the ten team Division II race appears to be the best bet going into this week's action.

The Indians hold a slim one game advantage over Holy Family High of New Bedford with two games remaining. The Pete Gaudet coached Indians finish the campaign against visiting Fairhaven.

Dartmouth and Holy Family are the only two Division II teams with a chance of quaHfying for the post season tourney.

Whichever wins the crown will qualify automatically, the other must win 65 per cent of its games.

Norton and 'N.B. Yoke Root for Wareham In Division II final games tomorrow Somerset is at Falmouth, Bishop Feehan of Attleboro is in Swansea to play Case High and Bishop Connolly High of Fall River visits Holy Family.

New Bedford Vocational and Norton fans never thought they would see the day when they would root for Wareham. But, the cry in both communities has to be "come on Vikings."

Diman Regional Vocational of Falil River has led Division IV throughout most of the Winter.

Following the Al'tisans victory over Wareham in the last game of the first half, it appeared as though the divisional race would be settled on the final night of the season. It will be, but not ·the way most observers suspected.

Norton who lost three games in their first five league outings has come storming back over the second half. First the Lancers avenged their loss to New Beaford Vocational, then they beat Wareham who had beaten them 'by 30 in their first meeting, then they knocked Diman from the undefeated ranks. Now ~f Wareham can beat Diman, the Lancers with a victory over St. Anthony's, of New Bedford can tie for the crown.

New Bedford Vocational did its share, The Artisans followed Norton's lead and beat the Fall Riverites to set the stage for Wareham.

If Wareham does defeat Diman tomorrow and Norton and Voke both win, all four clubs will tie for the title. No

PARAPLEGIC PRIEST COMPETES: Father Leo Close of New Zealand tosses a javelin during the Fourth British Commonwealth Paraplegic Games at Dunedin, N.Z. Father Close, paralyzed from the waist down since a fall when he was a seminarian, is director of CathoUc education in Dunedin. He has traveled the world with paraplegic teams and in the Commonwealth Games won a bronze medal for the javelin throw, a silver in discus and a bronze in shot put. Father Close is also a religious commentator on local television.

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Membership Drive Marks Anniversary NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The ing Catholics. A Spanish translaHoly Name societies in this coun- tion of "Holy God We Praise Thy try are marking the 700th an- Name" has been made hy a priest niversary of the organization's from a large Chicago Spanishfounding with a membership speaking parish and is being disdrive geared especially to attract tributed to men in other Spanishspeaking parishes in the city. youth participation.

In addition to a membership "Youth Talks to Adults," a seminar program being run by 'drive, the organization will work parish Holy Name groups, is the to reanimate parish societies and vehicle' which Holy Name men promote more spiritual and social hope will draw younger mem- programs, said James T. Banabers. The all-male organization, gan, Holy Name president. A fund founded by Blessed John of Ver- raising campaign is also slated celli, a Dominican monk, hopes Peace to gain a million new members, The Christian has a deep, raising its totals to about six silent, hidden peace, which the million.

In the youth seminar programs world SEles not, like some well a panel of about seven teenagers in a retired and shady place. from different cultures and back- ... What he is when left to himgrounds give short presentations self and to his God, that is his Newman and field questions on topics like true life. communicating with parents, legalization of marijuana, the Church and race relations, vocations and Catholic schools. The only rule in the dicsussions is complete honesty, according to a Holy Name spokesman.

Chicago Holy Name men ,are seeking to attract Spanish-speakone could ask for a better finish to another success~ul Southeastern Massachusetts Basketball Conference season.

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-In a letter marking the anniversary, Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the Church and the nation "have a great need for men who conduct their lives in fidelity to the spirit of this ancient lay confraternity."

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