02.17.72

Must Educate Religion Trend

The ANCHOR Fall

Renewed interest in "religion" in all its forms has given a great impetus to personal feelings rather than actual divine 'revelation and authoritative pro'nouncements of the' Church.

From "Jesus Christ, Superstar" to the latest secret reading of a constellation from ultra-serious Jesus Freaks to forest-hidden communes, religion is again being emphasized.

An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul But the religion gradually floating to the top of man's "strange" activities is all too River, Mass., Thurs., February 17, 1972 often intermingled with the personal, the individualistic, the PRICE 10~ good feeling involved.

6, .~o. 7 © 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per year Religion today, as Pope Paul , VI told ~ recent audience, can also become "superfluous, oldfashioned and boring," For feelings change all too quickly.

"To be a Christian today," the .! :Pope expl;J.ined, "it is necessary to want to be Christian." Man's '! faith, the, difficult demands of I that faith, the personal morality ! 'that flows from that faith must ,not- only be chosen by man but must also be well related to definite facts - unchangeahle and undevaluatable facts.'

Tjle knowledge and, constant 'relation to such facts is the busoiness of Catholic education. The Catholic Press is a valuable means to pursue this education.

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OPENING RITE OF LENT: Rev. Sebastian Slesinski, OFM. Conv., pastor of Holy Rosary Church, Taun'ton, ~is­ tributes ashes to parishioners on the opening day of Len~.

Left to right: Anne Cote, Andrew Polanski and Barbara Machnik. '

pastoral means to such an edu- as an expressed confession of the faith and a lively interest to cation.

The subscriptions to The share and apply that faith.

To have The Anchor in each Anchor then must be seen not home is a great step in that dias a simple business endeavor,' not as a quota to be fulfilled but rection; to place The Anchor in all places of meeting and waiting is an attempt at education.

Parishes can do both.

Subscriptions filtering in thus far from parishes of the diocese are encouraging. But numberseven increasing numbers-is not enough. A strong personal conviction of the faith, a will to know the faith better, an ,eagerness to share the faith must be at the basis of the subscription. . drive.

The force of the great golden idols of the Nile, the carefully cultured groves of the Palestinian hills, the architecturally, perfect temples of Greece, the all inclusiveness god-for-each-thing devotion of the Romans were just not strong enough to sustain man's thirst for God. The message of the persecuted Apostles of the Early Church stressed rather, the facts revealed, man's unity to fellow Tum to Page Six

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Vatican Congregation Says Religious Habit Requi,red

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Religious congregations may not abolish the religous habit or leave its use to the judgment of Lenten PenQnce indivdual Sisters, accordhig to Bishop Cronin 'urges all to fol- the Vatican congregation in low the ~enten directives as re- charge of Religious. cotded in the Pastoral Statement In a letter to Cardinal John of the National Conference of Krol of Philadelphia, president Catholic Bishops in the United of the National Conference of States issued in November 1966. Catholic Bishops, Archbishop " . . .we declare that the Luigi Raimondi, apostolic delegate in the United States stated: , obligation both to fast and ab"Under date of Jan. 22, 1972, stain from meat . . . still binds the Sacred Congregation for Relion Ash Wednesday and Good gious and Secular Institutes Friday." states that i'ts informaUop from " . . . we preserve for our. various countries indicates that dioceses the tradition of abstin- Religous, men 'and women, in. ence from meat on each of the ever increasing numbers, are abandoning the religious habit Fridays of Lent." and also any distinctive external Voluntary fast and abstinence, sign. as well as other specific works of , "The Holy See has many repenance and charity, are strongly quests for information about its recommended for Fridays and thought on the subject. It thereother days of Lent. fore considers it opportune to express belf, and your eminence

Use lent to Conform Self to Christ which have been either directly revealed by ,God or taught authoritatively by the Magisterium of the Church.

February 8, 1972

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My dearly beloved in Christ,

We are witnessing the appalling lack of respect for value of human ,life as is evidenced by the spread of . We are about to, ?egin the Sea~on of Lent. In th~", the' practice of abQrtion in our own country and through~ hfe ?f the Church, thIS annlfal penod of pray.erfuL re~. ,,~ui the world; A w(?al~ening of the sanctity of married life flectron an~ penance can be pmper~y co~p~red to ,a 'r~-· is being fostered through an insidious propagandistic preptreat. In pomt .of fact; from most. ancumt tlmes"the,.C~ur~h aration of society for the acceptance, if not the faciliha~ used th~ tIme of L,ent to. remmd h,ersons and daughter.s" tation of, divorce. Moral norms ,in regard to the proper the passmg~ature of. hfe on earth an~ of the ,~eces,., use of the God-given sexual faculty are literally being Slty of ,conformmg our hves to Jesus Chnst, who 1$ nO,t", ignored in. favor of personal ple:asure or gain. " ...'. ' only our Model, but also the very Source of the grace, ' ' . . we need to le.ad our spiritual lives in conformity with, the " The llst of moral dIs affhctmg socIety today, my dearwill of the Master. ' , ' . ,ly' belo~ed, ~s unfortunately le~gthy. .1 need. not remi~d you There exists today, and we dare not ignore it" much' that t~IS sltuatlOnnot only Isa dlstressmg fl~untmg ~f less deny it, a moral indifferentism and a strong tendency' the ~dl. of God, b/-lt, a;lso a ca~se of the softemng ?f the toward the denial of an objective moral order. The con- ,,,!oral f~~re 9f m.en t?day whIch cannot but end m the venience of the individual as perceived by the personhirit- ,w~~~e.mng ofsqclety Itself· -Tum to Page Two , self seems to override in many instances the,~thical norr:ns ", :'" .' " ' th~

may wish to make the following known to the members of the episcopal conference."

The congregation's statement, which Cardinal Krol has furwarded to all American bishops, notes: "First of all, it is appropriate to state again that the religious habit has been considered by the Second Vatican Council as a ~ign of consecration for those who have embraced in a public way the state of perfection of the ,evangelical counsels. '~oreover, this concept '. has , also been confirmed by the' recent apostolic exhortation of His Holiness, 'Evangelica Testificatio.'

"Nevertheless, religous institutes, in their general chapters, may, and in some cases ought to, modify the traditional habit in accord with practical requirements and the needs of hygiene, but they may not aholish it altogether or leave it to the judgment of individual Sisters.

"The basic criterion to be observed is that the habit predesribed by religious institutes, even as modifed and simplified, should be such that it distinguishes the religous person who wears it. , "On the other hand, purely secular· clothes, without any Turn to Page Six

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Bishop to Visit Espirito Santo B'ishop Cronin will be celebrant of the 9:45 Mass on Sunday morning in Espirito Santo Church, Alden Street, Fall River.

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THE ANCHOR-:-Diocese ,of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 17, 1972

Discovers Old Episcopal Ties

Conform -Self To Christ Continued from Page One Lent, then, provides us with the opportunity to reflect on how each of us ~orifqrms his own life t6 the Will of God. It likewise affords us the possibility of, doing penance for faults and sins, committed and of proposing forcef.ully to rectify this c~nditibn; for the fUture .. ' ' , Recognizing our weak~ess as'humans,yet relying on :th,egrace of God, we can prpfitably' make dse' of Le.nt to put ourselves more dire'ctly in ':the path of ,eternal salva" tion; Perhaps that, above 'all, is the valuable aspect of Lent. l,t makes us meditqte on the fact. that this life on . earth will one day surc!ly end, but a 1 new ute will be' giyen Which, if we are properly prepared,: will be one of eternal bliss before the throne of God.. ' . It behooves us, therefore; during Lent' to die in Christ, so that' we may live with him in glory. 1 urge everyone to profit spiritually 'from the period: of Lent by making it , .an 'occasion', for self-examination, personal prayer, acts of mortification and penance, and a deeper. participation in I the rich liturgy ,of this holy season, ' ~OINT MEETING OF' SERRANS: Dr. Robert T. DelanWith prayerful best wishes, 1 remain ey, ljJSN, center,.a natiye of Fall River, briefs the presi-' .

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the Fall' River and New 'Bedford Serra Clubs on dentsI of , , ,. his evening's topic, "The Church in the Modern World," priorl to the joint meeting of the two clubs· on Thursday '~ ,.i1,~ night',. Left: John J. Sullivan, president of Fall.River Serra fJ~ ,"!. ' Bishop of Fall River ,and Maurice .F. Downey. NeW Bedford, president, right.

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'Prelates ·Urge 'Generosity "For Negro-Indian Missions The Archbishops of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York have sent a joint letter to all the dioceses of the United States urging support for the Negro and Indian missions in our states. ,Th,e special appeal will be made in all the parishes of the Diocese of Fall River this Sunday, 'Feb. 20. ' The text of the letter follows: Dearly Beloved in ,Christ: The deep concern of the' Church for the spirtual welfare of ,the Negroes and Indians is evident in decrees issued as much as 130 years ago in the BaUimore Councils. That con'cern is clearly evident in a generous missionary apostolate, which today involves more than 1,000' priests, for a ratio of priests to people which is unsurpassed in the total Catholic population.

Such intensive care is prompted by the example of Our Lord who was particularly attentive to the disadvantaged. The Church deeply aware of the spiritual needs -of the hundreds of thousands of Negroes and Indians ,is unceasing in her efforts to ofifer.to them the Word of God and the, Bread of Life and to as-

Necrology FEB. 19 Rev.' Andrew' J. Brady, 1885, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River.

Rev. Leopold jeurissen, SS.CC., J953, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fairhaven.

FEB. 20 Rev. James H. Fogarty, 1922, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River.

FEB. 22 Rt. Rev. Jovite Chagnon, 1954, Founde'r, St. Joseph, New Bedford. ."...lI"Ullm"mU"""""'I1I1'n""""""'''''''''''''''lllll1lllt"mnr''''''II1'11I11.._ THE ANCHOR Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River. Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall' River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid $4.00 per year.

sist them in attaining a better life in time and in eternity.

To continue and expand this missionary effort, a collection is taken up annually in every parish for the poor, small and struggHng N,egro and' Indian mission churches and schools. Most of these are in the' South and in 'the barren West, where economic opportunities are Iimjted and 'standards ,of living are low. The devoted priests and' Sisters, who serve in these areas, share, the poverty, Of those whom they serve, arid depend on the annual collection to continue their missionary apostolate.

The proceeds of the annual collection are used exclusively for miss,ionary work, and only in areas which require assistance for continuance. The apostolate has been faithful. Last year more than 8,500 Negroes and 800 In .. dians entered the true fold of Chris't. Today, there are 900,000 Negroes and- 140,000 Indians who share our Catholic faith.

Though ,the. progress is encouraging, there are still 21 million Negroes I apd 350 thousand 'Indians who are outside the true fold of Christ.

Today, we 'urgently appeal for prayers that God's blessings may continue' upon this apostolate. . We also appeal for generous cont!1butions recalling the words of Tobias: "If you have much, gjve abupdantly; if you have little, take. care even so to bestow willingly a little" (4,9).

or· Lawre1').ce Cardinal Shehan, ArchbishoP of Baltimore.

John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia. >i< Terence Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of New York >i<

, Acceptanc~, The. h~ppiness of this life depends ,leSs on what befalls you than the :way in which you take it.

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Live'ly Towln Bethlehem Sho'ws Signs of Vigorous I . Economic: Development

MAMI (NC)-There were more firsts than one' in the life of Bishop Rene 1;1,' Gracidaon the day he was ordained here as Miami's new' au,!:i1iary bishop and given his mfter, ring and crozier. ' ' .. ,More th.an· two~do'zen bishop.s and a,rchbishops joined Cardinal John Dearden' of Detroit, principal consecrator, and Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miam( at ~he ceremonies Jan. 25 in the cathedral. , Then, at a dinner following the episcopal, ordination, he met for ,the first time his father's sister '~ne of two relatives who traveled .fro'm 'Mexico City to take part in the big day. ' Bishop Gracida's aunt, Mar· garita Mendez Gra'cida, was giv: en a papal medal three years ago for 50 years of service with Catholic Charities in the Mexico City archdiocese. .

She informed her nephew that he is the 'second bishQp in the family in the past century. The first 'was Bishop Fermin Mar· quez Carrizosa, who served the Oaxaca diocese in Mexico from 1815 to 1945. A great uncle was chancellor and vicar, general there for 30 years early this cen'tury.

The new Miami auxiliary also learned th~t two relatives of Mrs. Mendez Gracida's husband are currently bishops-Bishop Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca and Bishop Manual' Perez Gii y Gonzales of Mexicali.

Bishop Gracida, 48, who had launched' himself on a ,career as an architect before' e~tering the/ priesthood, expressed thanks that pope Paul had raised him to episcopal rank. He called the pontiff "a greatly misunderstood Pope" who will go down in Church history as having reigned illustriously· during ,a most difficult period.

BETHLEHEM (NC)-This city changed but little during the where ~ Christ was born and British mandate. The policies of where I the- Shepherds adored Kings Abdullah and Hussein of Him tqday is a lively town show- Jordan also did not favor ecoing signs of vigorous economic nomic development of the area. development. .

Swift Response.

Tog~ther with 'the two 'adjaThese conditions' encouraged cent t6wnships of Beit Jalla and BeitSahur it numbers about large-scale emigration, Many 40,0001 inhabitants, about 55 per BethlehemitE~s left for North and cent of them Christians and the South America, to seek their fortunes in the New World. The rest ~ostly Moslems.

Twepty-one churches and 12 number of these emigrants and monasteries serve the religious , t~eir immediate offspring is now needs lof the Christian commu- estimated at more than 100,000., When Isra.eli military occupanity. Itt the best known of these church~s, a large silver star tion authorities first suggested- Superiors Comme'nd , marks the spot where Christ was immediately after the 1967 ArabI born, and a mar:ble manger rep- Israeli Six Day War-that eco- Vocation Directors resents!1 the wooden one in whic:h nomic development was in order, NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The He lay as an infant almost 2,000 and that Israel, would be pre- national executive board of the pared to help, the response was Conference of Major Superiors years dgo. ' Much of the Catholic activity swift. Unemployment was vir- of Men said the work of encourin the 'area centers on the Sile- tually eliminated, and new con- aging vocations is one of the sian n10nastery at Beit JaIla, structiqn has reached unprece- most pressing and chaUenging ' founded, in 1863, with its Of- dented levels. in the Church today. phanag~, technical school, theoThe board made its statement Ten residential buildings now logical seminary and extensive are under construction, as well in recognition of the work done ' farm.' . as 15 st9res, a motion picture by vocation directors across the There has ·been a great deal of theater (the town's third), a large country in encouraging vocaeconomic development in the new restaurant and an addition , tions to the priesthood, brotherarea in: the past three to four to the/local girls' high school. hood and sisterhood. years. [There are more than 300 The ,board att~ibuted the drop An important Catholic educaindustrial and craft enterprises, tional institution, the Ephpheta in vocations "principally to the employing more than 7,000 per- Paul VI Institute for deaf mutes ,cultural revolution that is gripsons in: the manufacture of gift- was completed last fall and fin- ping America, especially young ware, garments, cigarettes, edi- ishing touches are now being put America." ble <:iil;!. furniture and building on the Ecumenical Institute for PaSsionist Father Paul Boyle, materials.

Advanced Theological Studies, presiderit of the confer:ence, ,praised "the valiant efforts of .

A CCOI''d'mg' ,to one est1mate, just north of the city. our vocation' directors in times, more' than 2,000 knitting ma, that have been thankless but chines~re at work in Bethlehem , I ' Recall Nazi' Era which, in signifcant quarters, are and he~ two neighboring town: .

VATICAN CITY (NC)-For begining to show sure signs of ships. Twerity garages have attracted I numerous customers, the Vatican's .daily newspaper, hope." from Jerusalem and other Israeli word from West Germany of towns, Jnd ahout 3,500 construc- moves to legalize abortion and tion and industrial workers trav~ sterilization brought back echoes el eve& morning to jobs in of Nazi Gernlany. With unconInc. cealed pride the Vatican paper, Israel.

Things were not always as L'Osservatore Romano recalled Funeral Service prosperdus. In the last decades its own opposition to Nazi EdwardF. Carney of Ottodtan rule, wliich ended in "methods and practices that re549 County Street 1918, th~t declining empire's in.. vealed a paganism which in New Bedford 999-6222 f1uence I resulted in economic: those times was. openly proServing the area since 1921 stagnati6n - a state of affairs fessed."

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President 'U rged To Intercede For Jews

tHE ANCHORThurs., Feb. 17, 1972

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NEW YORK (NC)-The American Jewish Congress is assisting MARYKNOLL (NC) - Amerin a nationwide petition camican foreign policy has often paign to urge President Nixon to failed to nurture in other counintercede on behalf of Soviet tries the "self-evident" truths Jews during his visit to the Soproclaimed in the U. S. Declaraviet Union. tion of Independence, Catholic The AJC made an appeal on missonaries serving in 18 foreign its "hot line" to get one million nations said· here. signatures by April 30. The "hot "The United States has played line" .is a recorded telephone a unique part in the history of message installed in New York, world ,dilevelopment, especially Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, in terms of wealth and technolCleveland, Newark and St. Louis. ogy" says the "Declaration of The petition campaign is being Concerned Missioners" approved conducted by the National Conunanimously at a recent Mission ference on Sov,iet Jewry, the Institute here. major coordinating agency for "However, we note with sadthe Jewish community in the ness that we as North AmerUnited States on the plight of icans have many times failed to Soviet Jews. The American Jewrecognize that in our foreign polish Congress is a constituent icy, whether in the political, ecomember of the conference. nomic, religious or social spheres, The petition urges the Presiwe have not fostered what we dent to take advantage of his have held to be 'self-evident' in meeting in May. with Soviet our o·wn Declaration."

AREA DIRECTORS OF CATHOLIC CHARITY APPEAL: In preparation for the 31st Premier Alexei Kosygin 'and Citing the portion of the U. S. Communist party chief .Leonid Appeal scheduled for this Spring, area directors meet with Bishop Cronin to discuss Declaration which says aN men Brezhnev to "help. redeem Soviet mechanics, theme and procedures of the drive. Seated: Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, are created equal and "endowed Jews, thuS fulfilling the hopes of diocesan director of the Appeal; Bishop Cronin; Rev. Roger L. Gagne, St. Theresa's, So. by their Creator with certain unmillions of Americans who have Attleboro. Standing: Rev. Bento R. Fraga, St. Joseph's, Taunton; Rev. John Andrews, St. alienable rights," the missioners labored on their behalf." It Margaret's Buzzards Bay; Rev. Roger D. Leduc, St. Joseph'S, New Bedford. noted that "every man is our declares: fellowman, regardless of geoOppressed Minority graphical and cultural boundaries."

"We respectfully petition you "How long can we tolerate a on behalf of three million Soviet WASHINGTON (NC)-A NaFather Burke said the empha- specialized professional activi-' world situation where threeJews. We urge you to be their advocate and to convey to Soviet tional Congress on the 'Word of sis at the cpngress will be on the ties in the light of the present fourths of the world population produoes onlly 18 per cent of the leaders the concern of millions GOd, intended to stimulate re- Bible as the source of the faith crisis in faitil."

The seven topical areas will world's wealth; where richer of Amerioons, and people of good newed interest and excitement experience, and he explained: will everywhere, over an op- in preaching, is under planning "The thrust will be toward a be: preaching and liturgy, countries use 94 per cent of the theology of biblical. preaching, preaching and the Bible, preach- world's raw materials; where pressed minority which faces here for next September.

Sponsored by Catholic Uni- that is, a preaching which comes ing and the priestly ministry, world mHtary outlays are more discrimination, and is prevented from perpetuating its history, its versity of America, the congress not just from human rhetoric, missionary preaching, preaching than 14 times the expenditures culture and its ancient heritage. . will meet in the National Shrine however, delightful or socially and ecumenism, preaching and for international development?"

"Nearly 40 of its finest young of the Immaculate Conception: at useful that might be, but from religious education, and preach- the missioners asked.

J?eople- are' in Soviet p1"ison the edge of the campus from' the revealed truths deeply ex- ing and communications. camps because they sought to Sept. 5-7. Scores of bishops, re- perienced as personal truths by The National Congress on the' Press Convention . live as Jews, while others seek- ligous-order superiors, seminary the preacher."

Word of God has been given an The Dominican, noting that initial grant of $5,000 to help Slated· for Canada ing to emigrate are harassed. If rectors, theologians, teachers some succeed in departing it is diocesan officials, priests and Pope Paul has often remarked .undelwrite expenses by Serra NEW YORK (NC) - For the only after months of struggle laity are expected to attend. about a current crisis of faith,' International, a Catholic laity first time, the Catholic Press and of deprivation."

"On the indivdual level for the said that seven conferences on group that promotes vocations. Association, the Associated proiest and dayman, it will mean specialized areas will be part of The planners hope for other Church Press and the Canadian the Sunday sermon will be a re- the congress, so that partici- contributions.

Church Press will combine their Catholic Politicians newed source of growth for our pants can explore in detail "the All of the almost 300 bishops annual conventions in a four-day spiritual lives," said Dominican relationship of preaching to their in the nation have been invited, congress.

Oppose Nixon Plan and many have already accepted The CPA announced here that SAIGON (NC) - A group of Father John Burke, director of enthusiastically, said Father the congress, May 8 to 11 in Catholic politicians headed by the Institute for Pastoral Com- CCD Schedules Burke.

Banff National Park, Alberta, the chairman of the South Viet- municaton and Liturgical CeleAmong those serving on the Canada, will be the first Internamese Senate, Nguyen Van bration at Catholic University, Summer Workshop Huyen; have declared their oppo- and coordinator of the congress.

WASHINGTON (Nt) - Direc- planning committee with him are national ReIigious Press Conventors, coordinators and' teachers Catholic University's president, tion ever held in North America. sition to President Nixon's eightThe congress is expected to point peace plan because they of religious education from Dr. Clarence C. Wilton; ArchRegrets Episode said it violates South Vietnam's across the country' will attend bishop Philip Hannan of New attract several hundred Catholic constitution and lacks National On Comedy Show a Confraternity of Christian Orleans; retired Archbishop Ful- and Protestant press executives Assembly approval.

NEW YORK (NC)-Television Doctr.ine workshop planned here ton J. Sheen; Bishop James W. from the United States and CanMalone of Youngstown, Ohio; ada, the CPA said.

Called the Party for the Col- comic Dick Van Dyke has ex- for this Summer.

Business, advertising and cirlective Advancement of the pressed regrets over an episode Theme of the 13th annual Auxiliary Bishop Edward J. HerrPeople, the group includes the in his comedy series in which a workshop, to be held June 8-16 mann of Washington; and Bishop culation workshop sessions are majority of Catholic members nun and a pries't renounced their at Catholic University of Amer- Joseph L. Bernardin, general sec- now being planned in detail, it of the National Assembly. celibacy to run away and get ica, is "Coming to Grips with the retary of the U. S. Catholic Con- was announced by James A. Bible." . ference of Catholic Bishops.

Doyle, CPA executive director.

Although there are only about married.

Spokesmen for the National two million Catholics in South Van Dyke said he· received Vietnam's population of 18 mil- "thousands and thousands" of· Center of Religous Educationlion, Catholics hold about half letters from Catholics against OCD, the church office here is COIning ••• the seats in the 60-member Sen- the episode, whi~h was broad- which is co-sponsoroing the workshop along with the uniate and a considerable number in cast last Nov. 13.

Feature The Day by giving the 137-member House of RepreThe actor made his remarks versity, .said the session would attempt to implement. a recomsentatives. South Vietnamese on the David Frost television "The Home Book of Irish Humor" President Nguyen Van Thieu is show here. "Never in my life," .mendation of the Vatican's n~ General Catechetical Directory. a Catholic. said Van Dyke, "in all lPY years The Nixon offer provided for of television did I receive such The directory calls for the To a Friend a presidential election in South reaction -to a program." "professional biblical formation Vietnam within six months of an Van Dyke said, "I stand cor- of all teachers of religion." or agreement between the warring rected. At a time when the CathPastoral in character, the parties. The election would be olic Church is in much agony workshop will emphasize quesGive yourself a Gift organized and run by an inde- because of so many nuns and tions and problems in the Bible pendent body representing all priests giving up their celibacy, thy catechists everywhere. A spepolitcal forces in South Vietnam. it (the subject) was not a good cial feature will be lectures and ORDER FROM THE ANCHOR All political forces in South Viet- thing to do, particularly on a discussions by leading Scripture P. O. ·Box 7 Fall River, Mass. nam, including the Communists, comedy show. I frankly regret scholars and practical demonwould be able to participate in it, even though there was no strations on different academic Price - $6.89 the election, which would be un- feeling that we had done a bad and adult levels by experienced catechists. thing at the time." der international supervision.

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Position on War .Statement Is Qualified Three bishops whose position on the war in Vietnam I fully share agreed in a recent interview with the editors

of the National Catholic Reporter that the November;, 1971 statement of the American Hierarchy on the War, tho~gh slow in coming,. represented " ' ' ", , a "breakthrough~' inthe :U:~..,. ~ions: about our .getti~g involve,d . b' h ,. f th ir'rela- ,In the war" PresIdent Roosevelt s .IS o~s Vl~WO e , .' ,'Position on, this matter ,to the tlOnship WIth the ,govern- contrary notwithstanding. lth'X8l:W'iil'tim((t'i'i:~~mUE~

, The Cardinal 'further rep,orted that Pope ipius XII's numerous statements in favor ,of, reestabBy lishing peace in, Europe influenced American' Catholics to MSGR. urge their government not to prolong the. war but to work inGEORG.E G. stead for 'a negotiated settlement between the warring nations and HIGGINS for ,the, freedom and indepen-, dence' 'of, all the peoples in~t~@J::*;tf.~:mr@f~::.:1*~~ valved. . ment. By this trey meant-in The Delegate' said that the the wo'rds of one of the three, ,American bishops had refrained, Auxiliary Bishop John Dough- in 'general, from making a decla· crty of New~rk-that the Amer- . ration on the war and "that those SISTtER COACH: Sister Mary' William directs her team at St. Adalbert's, NC Photo. ican bishops emerged from a who did speak to the' issue-the I .

Catholic community which had Cardinal Archbishop of Boston a history' of "unquestioned com- and the Archbishops of Dubuque, pliance with governmental poli~, Baltimore and Cincinnati-came cies ,on questions of war and, out strongly against intervention I \ ~ , peace." and this in open defiance of the The enthusiastic, five-month'BUFFALp (NC)-In this day teams, currently eompeting in the This is a familiar point of Roosevelt Administration.

Parochial ,School. Athletic Asso- old team consists of Michael of e:lCpanqing ap.osto,lates for view. Though accurate enough' 'In addition" the' Delegate Szpara, George Gala~ka, ChrisSisters, .wl).y ,not a nun basket- ciation's basketball program: as a general statement, it needs noted, a riumber of Catholic topher Gorka, Patrick Zalewski, ball coach? to be qualifed to, a certain ex-, journals and reviews made no ,John McManus, Chester Kor"I enjoyl seeing children playtent,at least in the ,case of the secret of th~ir "isolationist" senTheology School czak, Jeff Witulski, James Boring basketball and all group S~ond World War. ,timents-for example, "The Witkowski, John Chodkowski, Mark 'sports," said .

Felician Sister Ratings Q&.est,ioned t An important segment of the ness", (Dubuque), the "Brooklyn Dauman, Keith Missel, Tony Mary William, 'a teacher at St. NEW YORK (NC) - Twenty-, official record on the attitude of 'Tablet", "]1he Catholic Review" Batycki, Nicholas· Gervase and Adalbert's grad~ school here. four institutions of higher eduAmerican' Catholics 'in general (Baltimore),' the Jesuit weekly Rudy Pikuzinski.

"It's playing toward a common cation 'whose graduate religion and the American hierarchy in "America", and the Paulist , good in which they,depend upon programs came off second best "The'most challenging part of I . , particular with regard to our in- monthly, "The Catholic World." one another." " in a nationawide apPraisal were my 'coaching is to watch how volvemeot' in that gl'obal' con"' Sister, Mary ; William . has [giveri 'ach;lnce' to talk "b'ack. boys respond' to:a Sister ,who, is flict was made available in 1969 Bishop 1J urley's Speech co~ched ~ !14-merpber, ,team of They spoke' in the annual theo- also' a .coach;" ' Sister, Mary' Wilin a volume published by the , ' The isol~tionism of those sixth, seventh and eighth grad- logical, education issue of the liams said. "I think they 'see Vatican Press under the title "Le, "Catholics who opposed Presiers since, ~ept~mber. She is the Saint Siege et ,Ia Guerra Mon- ' dent RooseVelt's interventionist 'only nun among coaches of 123 Christian Century, an ecumen- ,me first as a coach, somepne who's trying to help tl)em ica'l' religious weekly. diale, Juillet 1941-0ctobre 1942", policy took' on different forms At issue was the widely publi- achieve that common gOil1-yic("The Holy See and the World, and stemmed from a variety of cized Welch Report, sponsored tory-and second as a ,Sister."

War, July 1941-0ctober 1942). different sources. The point is, people claiI:ned to be shocked 'or by the American Council" of 'Unq, u"estionin g .Compliance' however, that for whatever rea- even scandalized that a bishop Learned Societies, which rated Athletics have always intersons-good, bad or indifferentested, Sister Mary, who enjoys Given'the key position of 'the the 'position 'of a large segment should have made a public state- the graduate programs in reli- swimming, baseball and tennis, ment in fa~or of war. gion in the 24 institut-ions as less United States in world affairs, 'of the Catholic population and as well as ba'sketbal1. ,She even than adequate. ' Oppose~' Administration it is not surprising that a sub- of the Catholic hierarchy was Included were four Roman took judo lessons for a year bestantial number of the docu- not one of unquestioning comThe Delegate !lso ,reported Catholic schools: the Catholic fore entering th~ convent. ments published in this indis- pliance with, but, to the con- that he had not found a single "I like coaching, but this isn't pensable reference wode were trary, one of open opposition to ,member of! the American hier- University of America,< Washingaddressed to and from the Apos- President Roosevelt's interven- archy who ihad praised or even ton, D. C., Fordham University, my first season as a coach beNew York; St. Louis University, cause I instigated and coached tolic Delegation in Washington. tionist policy. justified the speech.

St. Louis, whose programs were two other teams," the nun' A careful reading of these' No one, of course, knew this 'To keep the record straight, Vatican-Washington letters, ca- ,better than :the president him- Jet me say tpat as a young priest ,rated "marginal," and, the grinned. blegrams, and memoranda indi- self, and to say that he was studying in Washington at the Aquinas 'Institute School of About five years ago, she , I • Theology, Dubuque, Iowa, which cates that, at. least' in the case deeply concerned about it would time, I strongly supported BIshop coached a girls' basketball team, was rated as, "initdequate." of. the Second World War, it is be putting it very mildly. and later a boys' baseball team.

Hurley's p~sition on the war. ,In his controversial report, isnot entirely accurate to saY that The extremely critical reaction ,Again, how~ver, that's beside the "Parents claimed they were the position of the American 'to a pro-interventionist speech point of th~ present discussion. sued la!!t October, Dr. Claude Catholic community and the made by the late Bishop Joseph To repeat. what. was said above, Welch suggested that graduate too busy, too involved in oth~r American hierarchy was one of Hurley of St.' Augustine, Florida the only point is that, for better study programs rated marginal activities," Sister Mary William "uIl;questioning compliance with ---'the first statement of its kind or for worse; the position of a 'or inadequate should be phased said, '''so I accepted all three coaching positions." governmental polices 00 war and made by an American bishop- large percerltage of the Catholic out. peace." clearly indicates that Roosevelt's laity and thle Catholic Hierarchy To the contrary, these docu- concern aboot Catholic opposito, the titne of our actual enments provide ample evidence tion to his policies was well trance into; t~e se<:?nd ~orld tha't, during the crucial period founded.: Bishop Hurley, who ¥lar was' almost dIametrIcally under discuss·ion' (1942-1942), ,ha~ , prev,iously , served in 'the ,opposed to, ~hat of the Roosevelt President Roosevelt's policy of Vatican diplomatic corps, gave Administration. , 'preparing the nation, gradually a' dramatic radio address in I don't knbw what that proves, ,'-but iIlexorably, for 'all-out in-' 'which he unequivocallyadvo- if anything! but at ,the very volvement in the war received cated U. S. intervention in the least it would seem to suggest The Highest Savings Dwi'dends very 'lit~le support, and a good war. He said that the onlyques- that our cur~ent impatience with deal of outright opposition-in tion was one of timing and that the slowne~s of the American Allowed by Law identifiably Catholic circles. this should ~e left to the judg- 'bishops' to d~c1are themselves on 5 114% - Regular Savings ment of the President.. " Vietnam sh6uldn~t lead us into Serious Reservations To' say uhat the roof fell in' on 'the trap of ~,aying without quali5, ~% ,- 90 Day Notice The 't!len Apostolic Delegate Bishop Hurley because of this fication t,hatl AlperiCan Catholics '5 %% ,- Term Deposit Certificates, 1 yr. to the United States" Cardinal rather sensational speech would have always blindly followed the 6% -- Term Deposit Certificates, 2-3 yrs.

Cicognani, was reporting accu- 'be 'an ,understatement.' 'Cardi- 'lead of the, American governrately, I think, when he told the ,nal Cicognani,' in reporting' to ment in' matters of war and Bank bi' mail' - it costs you nothing ,Holy See in a document dated Rome' on the in'cident, said that . peace. The t-ecqrd will nol' sup.' : September 1, .1942: that' a"sub~ , ',the reaction of the Catholic com~ port,such. a Isweeping sta.tement stantial ,number' of ,AmeriCan 'munity·:toHurl~y's speech was "at least in Ithe case' of World " 307 MAIN sr., SOUTH YARMOUTH" MASS. 02864 ' 'Catholics had seriou~" reser\ta- 'most unfaVorable and that many War II.. .! ..

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Creative S'ervices Division, Formed WASHINGTON (NC)-A new which can provide broad-based division of the U. S. Catholic creative and production support Conference department of com- to serve high priority programs , munications went into operation of the conference," Bishop Bernardin said.

Feb. 1.

Headquartered in New York The general secretary noted City, the USCC division for cre- that the communications departative services will implement the' ment "made a vital contribupromotion needs of the confer- tion" to the success of the U. S. ence, according to Bishop Joseph Bishops' self-help anti-poverty L. Bernardin, conference general effort, 'the campaign for Human Development. This contribution secretary.

"The conference has become "pointed up the need for further aware of a need to develop developing a promotion capacity within the department of wm- within the conference," Bishop munications a promotion agency Bernardin said.

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FALL RIVERITE AT PRESENTATION: Paul H. LaMontagne, formerly of Fall River, High Secretary of the Catholic Order of Foresters, right, was present when Foresters presented a check for $5,000.00 to Cardinal Cody for Chicago seminarians. Also present were: Richard T. Tobin, chairman of the Board of the fraternal life insurance society, left, and Lou~s E. Caron, second right, High Chief Ranger.

Defends Differing Views on Vietnam PORTLAND, Ore. (NC)-Archbishop Robert J. Dwyer of Portland, Oregon, questioned the reasoning of theologians who oppose war under any conditions.

He said he disagrees with' those who say that the war in Southeast Asia .from the. beginninghas been unjust and immoral, although he called it ."a dreadful ordeal for all concerned.

In a letter to the archdiocese printed in the Catholic Sentinel the archbishop said it was not his purpose to take a stand one way or another on the premise that was in modern times is totally inhuman and therefore immoral.

But, he said, it is the business of everyone to bring pressures of religion, of political influence and social opinion on anyone who would allow a war "to drift on uselessly and insanely." !Following is th~ text of the letter: One prayer, one hope, unites . us all, that the nightmare of war may speedily' pass away and peace with its hiessings be restored to our unhappy world.

Anyone who would wish for war in our times, or who would do anything to prolong it without utter need, would be selfconfessed as an enemy of man- . kind. Anyone who .would not la100r within his competence to' bring about peace among the nations and the races, would fail in his humanism; and if he is a Christian, in his commitment to the Prince of Peace. It is our business, our common task, to do all in our power to bring the pressures of religion, of political influence, and, of social opinion, to bear upon those, if there are· such, who would needlessly extend the scene of war or allow it to drift on uselessly and insanely.

Two Arms On ,ihis we are a'greed. Where we differ-and differ as Christians-is in two' areas. The first. covers the moot question of a

just war.

Traditionally, in Catholic and Christian thought, it has been accepted that under certain precise conditions war could be justifed, .even though it might .not be recommended.

These call for a just cause, Le., national self-defense against unwarranted aggression; the exhaustion of all means short of the al1bitrament of arms to settle the issue; action by the responsible political authority, with reasonable hope of victory; and the employment of means and weapons which are not selfdefeating, that is, those consistent with the preservation of civilization and the protection of the i~nocent. In recent times, particularly since the First and Second World Wars of this century, a good many theologians, Catholic and Protestant, have come to question the value and validity of these' conditions, on the basic premise that'war in modern terms is totally inhuman and therefore immoral.

May Differ Admittedly; 'there is strong temptation to endorse this view.

But· it is not my purpose now either to advocate or oppose it.

I simply wish to state that while it has many eloquent and convinced supporters, it has not thus far influenced the Church as our official teacher to .dis~ avow her traditional doctrine, that under specifc conditions war may be justified and therefor is not necessarily immoral.

-It follows, then, that those who oppose war under any and all conditions, who assert that it is everywhere and always immoral, are taking a step beyond the present Catholic position. This is not to say that they may not be right; it is only to point out that there are two opinions open to Christians, and that to claim that one is the sole option for a follower of Christ is going beyond what, is warranted. In other wQrds, on this issue, pending its solution, Christians may differ.

The second area includes the specifc question of the War in Southeast Asia. By common, even universal agreement, it is a dreadful ordeal for all concerned, and its prolongation a cruel extension of human anguish. But the claim, now being put forth widely, and representing perhaps a growing sentiment among Americans, that the war is, and from the beginning has been, un1ust and immoral, is very much in. dispute. It.is a point u'J}On which good men, honest observers, conscientious reporters, reliable historians, have differed and do now. It is not my intention as your archbishop to argue the question or to engage in any sort of polemics on the score, but only to underline the fact that Christians, in good conscience, may support either view. I am fully aware that there are other churchmen, even Catholic bishops, who think otherwise and have publicly condemned both war in general and the war in Vietnam, specifically, as immoral.

I cannot do this, nor can I approve any pulpit advocacy in . this archdiocese which would present one side or the other as the only legitimate Catholic position. And I am in good company; our Holy Father, Pope Paul, ardent though he is for peace, tireless in his efforts to bring -it about, has conspicuously refrained using such words as unjust and immoral.

Pope's Words Let us pray and work for peace, yes, with all our intelligence and strength, relying on God~s Igra'Ce to SUpply for our wea~ness. But let us do so with clear recognition that where men may differ honestly and honorably, and where the only competent moral authority given us, our Mother the Church, has not pronounced the final word, we do well to avoid those extremisms of position which can only harm, rather than serve, the cause of peace.

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But it still shocks to read in print, the beginning of the campaign for euthanasia.

Last Monday's The New York Times carried, on its, editorial page, an article favoring the legalization of vol;:. untary euthanasia written by O. Ruth Russell, professor , emeritus of psychology at Western Maryland University.

The, article itself was a mixed~up affair. The professor objects to the use of heroic means to ;prolong life. This \. is in agreement, with the conditions laid down years ago by the late Pope Pius XII who advised that 'extraordinary means need not be taken to prolong life as these really amount to just a -prolongation of the dying process. But 'the professor also takes off on what 's~e calls the right to die.

She overlooks the fact that person'~ rights over himself are not absolute. He is restrained 'by the fact th'at ,he is a creation of God. How he uses himself-his mind, his body, his talents a'nd abilities-is a matter of accountI ability with God. And certainly he has no' right to opt :. :.::"'. ~'.~'" ,:::' . .. for suicide, to terminate' his own life,~ as if this were his concern only and had no relevance to his creator.

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VAnCA~ CITY (NC) - The Alessandrini said that "last I ' I k th f t th t peaceful protest march staged Sunday's demonstration is perh .

Th e woe h I approac simp y over 00 s e ac a in Newry hlas the hallmark of a haps a' more decisive victory God is the creator and author of life, that man's rights significant ~ictory for the Cath- than a. battle fought and won over himself are limited, that a person Who is old qr sick olic minority in Northern Ire- with the force of· arms." He' or disabled is not something distasteful: to be gotten rid land.

I added: "The Beifast government of as an embarrassment to the human race. And, the An edito~iaJ. in :L'Osservatore and especially"the London govwhole approach certainly opens the door. t,o the 'Il~f'LsteP7 della Dombnica, the Vatican ernmentwill have to draw their i t . conclusions, urged on also by , if the' person is unable' to choose euthanasia for himself, wee kl y, h al'1' ed t'h e "peacef u ou, come of thJ march,' held to pro- la,rge sectors of pU!blic opinio.n in or unwilling to' do so, then does so~eone. step in arid'make ' test the irrtprisonment, without Bri~ain aqd in maLny other coun· the choice ,for him. r '. " trial -forsu~pected, terrorists as tries."

The whole thing is disturbing~ But it' shoulq not come, w'ell as the Ikilling of 13 persons The editorial concluded: as a surprise. The legalization of abortion opened the in Londoll.derry a week earlier, "The crisis of the past few . " , y e a r s , the sorrowful episodes door. If a. human life at any stage of its development ·is "Thanks be to God there were and the' bloodshed that marked subJ'ect to killing for any' reas'on, then this is a log'ical not the iricidents that many , .. feared ~fterl the tragiC preceding :it have brought back to mind, a and frightening and revolting development.

Sunday at Londonderry," wrote iPast history whieh people now But is will be written about and C\dvocated more Frederico Alessandrini, .assistant ,:anrlot be made to. forget. The , ,path ahead may not tie a, silort and more as time goes .on. editor of L'Osservatore Romano, '

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m'en \vito "~ith 'difficulty, joy, persistence and imagin~tion.live those facts revealed is important to true religon today. .

Such a personal unity and the degree of that unity is daily known and evaluated in the ,Catholics Press. The Anchor attempts to do ,it for individuals living in Southeastern Massachu· setts.

Man's egocentric attitude today is' a fa~t of the modern world. Religon can be presented. the Pope emphasized, in terms of the eternal salvation offered by the Christian faith.

"Does not present-day theology gravitate toward the, center of interest, the supreme human interest-the salvation of man, the salvation of the world" he asked.

The Pope concluded 'by saying that it is right to "view religion from this visual aspect of .human utility" because "God is blessedness. God is our blessedness, God loves us and has been so concerned with us that He made Himself' our brother in ' Christ and indeed our Savior."

The Pope added: "We are in the sphere of love if we enter the sphere of faith. There has been much talk of love when preaching Christian devotion.

But we have perhaps not always realized, and, have not made others realize, how enchanting 'is the discovery of God's love for us, and how it penetrates and 'Pushes against the thresholeJ of our desires and sorrows to make us f~el again the need and the happiness of being ,Christians; that is, true men, men 'who have been saved."

This The Anclior attempts to do here. Subscription Sunday was last Sunday. There is still time to "want to be Christian" by choosing the means to learn better weekly and to support the' diocesan 'apostolate that at-' tempts to share the faith..' '

the Vatican idaily, and also head .'orie, there may be other troubles. . 'lBut Newry and the loud voice of the Vatitan Press' office. oUS j , raised in this smal.l Irish town on . The editorial s~id that ~'those' Feb. (i, 1972, mark the beginning Continued from Page One .

Once in a while the, propaganaa merchants' get in Northerrt. Ireland who are of'a new, irreversible course."· . . Ins t h ave . recogn'izable "exterior sign, can · . ' t!..t d lscnmma crossed up. ,. eu aga .1. • th'· e' f' I m rch be permitted, for particular reah Just recently there have been all sorts of dire warn- sonown uy I elr p a,ce u a ' Newry that they have under. Self":Love . iSons, by the competent superiors iogs that the day will' come when people in the woi-Id stood how Isterile . the illusion,S~lf.love.is cunning, it pushes to those Sisters to whom the use' will be standing on, top of one' another; so populous will that force and violence are the and in.sinuates itself into every- of the religious habit would con· the human race be. And the sure-fire cure is trotted out...;.. ways to jus'tice. 'That way only thing, }Vhile making us believe: 'stitute an impediment or obstacle sterilization anti-conception inJ'ections and so forth leads to other, p~rhaps even it is not ~here ,at alL . ' in the normalexereise of activi,'. . , ' '. " . greater, injJstices." . . ; . ',' -St. Francis· de Sales ties' which should be undertaken Of course, thiS pr~pa~anda ch?oses. ~.9. l~~ore . ~hefac~ " . ',' .. ,'. "'\ . :. .... " '. ' , . ... in certain' circumstances.

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Church Cautiously Supporting Allende Government' PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The Catholic Church in Chile is cautiously 'supporting President Salvadore Allende~s Marxist government in hopes that it will fulfHl his promise to help the country's masses, especially the poor, a Chilean priest-sociologist said here. "'fhere are some Christians who feel after serious study and analysis that they must add their efforts to those' ideologies that o拢fer an alternative to capitalism, 'that is to say, to one of the diverse types of socialism," said Father Renata Poblete, director of Centro Bellarmino,a Chilean center for social action and research: The Jesuit said that none of the existing forms of socialism completely satisfy Christians, but he added that in Chile today,

"they feel that nothing路is gained by lamenting over the past and that the urgency of the moment does not permit them to cross their arms and wait for the best possible ideology."

Father Poblete, on a speaking engagement at St. Joseph's College here, came to, the United .states to attend the annual meeting of the Catholic InterAmerican Cooperation Program in Washington, D. C. At St. Joseph's he addressed himself to two topics: "A Sociologist's View of Social Change Under Marxism" and "Religion and Social Revolution in ChIle." Fears of Chaos' ,Chile is the first coun.try in the western hemisphere to elect a Marxist government, into office.

Discussing Allende's Popular Unity government, Father Poblete said its programs, induding the nationalization of various industries, "have been taking tplace without suppression of freedom, with no control of the press, with normal congressional activity and with a normal exercise of congressional control over the executive branch of the government."

He agreed that the fears of economic and political chaos are not without some foundation because of the novelty of Chile's political experiment.

He said, however, that "the conviction continues to grow that the capitalist system is not the solution to the necessity of scaling the abyss separating the underdeveloped from the developed nations."

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PAINTING OF POPE PAUL VI: Symbolism: The Mystical Theology of the Papacy. The Pope's face, stylized but numistakable, stares down from the painting while above him the great Baldachhino of St. Peter's Basilica and the majestic dome above. Pope Paul observed that the painting might at first sight appear di~concerting, but upon study seems to symbolize a mystical theology of the Papacy.

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Schedu'le Discussion of School Aid At ConstitutionaI Convention HBLENA (NC) - The bat,tIe over government aid to parochial schools was expected to 'come to a boil again -in Montana as 100 delegates to the state constitutional convention gathered here in mid-January.

The convention, which', may last up to three 'months, started Jam. 17, a decade after discontent over a vaTiety of constitutional ailments helped Montanans to decide that constitutional revamping is necessary.

Montaina is one of the exceptions in the list of many states that now provide parochial schools with aid, such as busing, textbooks, hot lunches, and health care.

Part of the reason is the rather strict language of the state's 82-year-old constitut'ion, which fOl'lbids public aid "directly or indirectly" to c4urch schools.

Request Rejected The Montana Catholic' Conference plans to ask the convention for a change based on the broader provisions of the U. S. 'Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pro'hibiting the free exercise thereof."

The federal Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court prohibits "unsound entanglement" of Church and State, but the Montana constitution is even stricter and denies possible federal benefits to children of the' state, the Catholic Confer'enC'e dec1ares.

The Montana Association of NonllubHc Schools, which includes Catholics and Lutherans, asked the 1969 Montana Legis~ature to appropriate $3 million ' for parochial aid.

The r~quest was rejected.

Shortly after that the Catholic high school in Helena' and Catholic elementary schools in Butte announced plans to close.

Another major attempt in Montana to gain parochial aid also occuTred in 1969 when Deer Lodge County approved a levy proV'iding public funds for salaries for lay teachers at a Catholic high school in Anaconda.

Choice of Items The State Supreme Court ruled the levy contrary to the U. S. Constitution, under the recent U. S. Supreme Court decision which ruled out aid programs in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. ' Convention delegates apparently can choose between two items in the controversy: Retain a restrictive provision ruling out all parochial aid, or, Adopt a broad provision which wouldpel'lmit limited, indirect aid. ' About 25 of the 100 convention delegates are Catholics.

Most of the Catholil; lltudents in the state attend Catholic schools.

More than 8,700 students, almost five per cent of the state's enrollment, attend the 11 high schools and 31 elementary schools operated by the Catholic Church.

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Needless to say, the next day I arrived at school with much thinner eyebrows.,..--especially in the center, 'and where my enthusiasm .had !gotten the better of me and I had ended up with a clean path of sk,in.

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Most of ,us a:lso remember . I with 'amusement our first, attempts at' make"up. My father RODERICK ,finally gave his consent for me I to wear a little makeup after he viewed my attempts to cover up Zeal of Columban Priest from Chicago Said miss, is now going . my adolescent skin with talcum .~ Saves ·Life of Phmppine Lab,orer through 'a stage wl:tere she pre- powder. I must have. looked ljke I a reject from, Ii cjrcus.

ISABELA (MNB)~You can aIThe story doesn't stop there. fers to read a book filled with Don't you remember the beer by the set of his jaw With the left-over funds, Father most tell beauty hints than any other form of literature, school work in- you set your hair with, the that ColJmban' Father Tom Tom, who ,took over as pastor cluded. Her beauty rituals often vinegar you used to rinse it, and Shaughnessy of. Chicago is 11 of the parish when Father Cullen became ill, obtained drugs that add a very comical air to our the countless lemons you stubborn than.

And it's j a good thing that he, saved over 50 tubercular pahouse.' For example, the other squeezed t~ lighten the 'horrible . " tients from almost certain death. evening she arrived at dinner shade 'you had been~ born with. is.

When H~imegildo Frates first And 60 of the poorest famili~s with her face covered with a Ii-lave you forgotten the adver-. dripping sticky, substance (in tised remedies for aU the faults met the young missioner, he here obtained new roofs on theIr fact, it was so drippy that the you, felt you· had (dry skin, oily faced almost certain death from huts.

More important, Father Tom only way she reached the table ,skin, acne, fat legs, .thin legs, gangrene. 9ne glance at Herm's without leaving a trail behind etc.) and how each time the badly swollen foot told the priest now has two self-help projects her was to hold a paper towel mailman brought one of these that the 'P~in pills in the youth'!; underway to help the hundreds of teenagers in the area who ,under her chin as she glided "miracle" products, ' you just hand woul? do' little good. knew that this one was it-the from bathroom to tahJe).

Herm ne~ded to go to the hos- have no jobs-sind ,no hope ,of 16-day or 14-day plan that piltal immediately. But Father finding one.

Honey Facial couldn't help but work. .

Vocatiorllal Plan Tom knew! he couldn't afford it "What in the world have One of the books that my ... As a "tao", a day laborer on you got on your' face?" asked young budding beauty has a sugar pl~ntation, Herm made After buying and borrowing her father. When she answered, latched on to is "Beauty Is No only four pesos a day, and just some sewing machineS, he hired "Honey," we all did a double Big Deal" by Donna Lawson and enough ricb for his family costs a tailor to teach the girls to sew, I take. I wasn't too upset by the Jean Conlon published by Ber- , most of th,t.

So far over 50· have graduated fact that she had used the last nard Geis Associates. This There's no welfare here, no and are now earning a living, . of 'my kitchen supply of the charming little book is reaBy Medicaid, ho workmen's com- and 27 more are currently engolden liquid for her facial, but written by the "with -it" young pensation. fr'hough the hospitals rolled in the free course. when she also revealed she had for the potential bloomers and do what charity they can, they The young Columban also used Melissa's toothbrush to ap- even I found it fascinating read- aren't able Ito care for the overply it~that was a bit too much. ing-jampacked with some very whelming number of poor who started . a . small factory to I'm sure if any of us mothers good ideas (excluding that honey need their ~ervices just as much make senilas (sandals). He now has 11 young men, including thought a bit about our own ,one). as Herm.

Herm, employed, and local "growing-up," we would rememStubborn housewives, who help sell the ber .with a grin some of the But the jmissionary was too senilas, can now afford to buy equally idotic things that we did. ,Catholics, Protestants When I was about 10 or 11 I Campaign for Decency stubborn to let Herm go off to a. little fish or meat to go with their rice. remember being quite concerned GLASGOW (NC) - The Cath- die painfully in his bamboo hut. becaus~ ,I felt my eyebrows reA native of Chicago, Father olic 'bishops of Scotland have With the help of the pastor, Michael CuI- Shaugh1'lessy attended St. Ger,pledged the,ir support to a cam- Columban Father I . f or "decency orgamze . d by len, he founl d a Chinese surgeon trude's, Lourdes. and St. JeUr'ges Missionaries palgn the Church of Scotland (Presby- to care f9 r the" youth, and rome's. schools there. After Trust New Churches terian), the country's largest de_friends in the U. S. offered to studying at various. Columban seminaries, he was orained in pay the ho,Splital bill. , SYDNEY , (NC) - Missionar,ies' nomination. I, , 1966, and came to the Philip, , For two iong months, Herm's should not ,want to impose' their Petitions calling for governideas and methods on the people ment action' against. the commer- desperate fight for Ijfe went on. pines the following year. they go to serve, the s~cretary cial exploitation 0 f sex and the Finally he won the battle-but of the Vatican Congregation for puhlic portlfayal of violen~e and he lost his i leg. The missioners obtained crhtches for him, and the 'Evangelization of People.s 'brutality are 'being circulated later an artificial leg, which he's told Australia's, first National throughout. ~cotland and are, ' .I ONE STOP Mission Conference here. available for isignatures at Cath- now so adept at using that he's SHOPPING C'ENTER The Vatican oUicial, Arch- olic parishes.' e\ren playin~ basketball. ' bishop Sergio Pignedoli, said.. Th~ petition says: I • Television '. Grocery that missionaries should· trust "Being concerned about the Stresses ,Importance • Appliances Furniture' the new churches in mission effect on society - particularly I, .104 Allen St., New Bedford lands and the spirit that inspires on the young-of (a) the increas-Of Religlous Problems 997-9354 them. . ing commercial exploitation of WASHINGTON (NC) - The · .

The' arChbishop said that it is sex; (b) the public portrayal of . world is h~aded for glorious wrong to hide behind the argli- intimate or unnatural sexual be- times by the end of the 20th ment that the new churches are ,havior, and violence and brutal- century if it overcomes its reli~'immature" and need direction 'ity, we the 'undersigned call upon gious proble~s, an institute difrom an outsider. . Her Majesty's government: (1) rector said here.

"The biggest single' problem "The best way to keep a new to note the cQncern of the public' Est. 11!97 chu'rch immature is to baby ,it," about this matter; (2) to ensure . facing us isi meaning a~d purhe said, "But the best way to' that the law as regards obscenity pose," Herntan Kahn told about Builders Supplies insure its rapid growth to matur- .stops this public affront and. is 1,500 corpor~tion executives and 2343 Purchclse Street ity is to give it the responsibility so designed as to be an effective others attending the first White New Bedford for it,s own affairs and then to. ipstrument for the maintenance House Conference.' on .theJlndus-.... ' "," , ",9'9'6-5~~6'1 ": " trust·-it-:-.,.,.·-;.::::··-:.:·-:·- :-.:'-.-.-~-.- 6f ptiblic-decency:'" - ~- . ,,- . ······ ..Yrial World. I ~ I MARILYN

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NEW YORK (NC)-A 41~year· old Dominican nun has been named . by' Cardinal Terence Cooke to head the New York archdiocesan school system, the first woman ever appointed to such a post in any -of the na" tion's dioceses.

"Why not a woman, )f quali· fied?" remarked Sister Elinor Rita Ford when she 'talked withNC News after her appointment as superintendent of schools was announced. "We never found the necessity for women's lib in our office." , Sister Elinor assumes her new post on Feb. 22, succ~'eding Msgr. Edward M. Connors as..the ' archdiocesan official responsible for 314 elementary and high schools with 184,000 students Msgr. Connors, who held' the job for three years, was ass~gned to a pastorate in suburban Hartsdale, N. Y. , "I wouldn't have taken the job if I thought it meant presiding over the demise of the Catholic schools," she told the New York Times when the newspaper asked her what ~he believes the future holds for' New York's parochial schools.

A teacher for 14 years in archdiocesan schools, specializing in mathematics, Sister Elinor .' was associate superintenden't during the 1970-197i academic year. She left that job to become the second-highest member' of her order, the Sisters of' St. Dominic, at Blauvelt, N. Y. She continued meanwhile as a ~on­ sultant with the archdiocesan , school system. .

Sister Elinor' was graduat~d from a Dominican-run high school in the Bronx in 1947 and joined the order in 1949. She earned a bachelor's degree and' two master's degrees from Ford. ham University. She, has nearly completed a disser,tation :for' 'a doctorate from Columbia University's Teachers' College, where she did her work on the gr~wth of logical thinking in ,childfen.

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We have been plagued with "the virus" every winter.

For variety, I call it upset stomach, intestinal flu, or lower abdominal infection. It seems uncouth to say, "He's' been upchucking for two days straight." With eight' kids in the house, this c~n be quite a siege. By now it's · went back to school. Before I worked out to a pattern, and · got the last of them out the door, one of the boys from the I can predict its course..One early shift phoned. He . didn't

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doesn't feel well in the evening.

Next morning, she's sick. Two days later, she's recovered, and back to ~chool. But the school is going to call by 11 AM. Another one is sick. Next day, two more have it. Within three days, four more have it.

F·ive clays later, six more have it. '(We' don't have that many kids .... they pass it around a second time.)

We hit a record duration several years ago. One quiet, early October evening, my parents were having dinner with us. My father commented, "It's hectic with all the children all day long.

But at least when they go to bed at n.ight, you are finished till morning."

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No Sleep .... ,'.; That night one was sick to his stomach ... and spread the germs lavishly on the whole gang. We went from October to March without a -full night's sleep. Someone was sick every single night; most nights two were sick. We even had a recordbreaking four ... all at the same time. And two of them were still in cribs, unable to make a dive for the bathroom. .

By four AM. of that memorable night, I had used every sheet, blanket, bedspread, and towel. The last kid that needed . fresh bedding got covered with the mats from the bathroom . floor!

Now that they are a' little older, they should be less susceptible. But the other day, the youngest woke at two in the morning. There wasn't much sleep, for her or me, from then until six AM. when it was too late to try any more.

Two days later, she recovered ... right on the pattern, an'd

Philadelphia Catholics Asked to Aid Victims PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Pastors In the Philadelphia archdiocese were asked "to encourage the manifestation of Christlike charity" for the "victims of the trials and tragedies in Northern.

Ireland."

Pastors were a'uthorized to receive contributions for those who have suffered from the conflict in Northern Ireland. The contributions will be forwarded

by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia to Cardinal William Conway of Armagh, primate of All Ireland.

·feel well. Could I come and get him?

Unfortunately, I wouldn't have the car for several hours.

I told 'him to go to the nurse, explain the problem, and see if he could sleep till I could come.

I got the others off to elementary school. They were gone less than an hour, when their school nurse called. One of the girls hadn't made it through morning prayers. I explained ·why I could not come. Could she be put to sleep on the couch in the office?

Lunch time, one of the girls came home ... green. She didn't go back. .

Before two o'clock, the third school called ...

I eventually got the car,' had them' all gathered; home, and dining on ginger ale. and jello.

Didn't Cr.re Three days later I was so sick CHILDREN MEET THEIR' BISHOP: Bishop Cronin chats informally with students I didn't care wha~ happened. By at Mt. St. Joseph's School, Fall River during his first visitation to the school staffed by noon I couldn't stay on my feet.

Sisters of Charity of Qu~bec, commonly known as the Grey Nuns..

It was time they learned to shift If they couldn't for themselves. make dinner, they could eat cold cereal.

I never did find out what they ate. I didn't want to think about: NEW DELHI (NC)-Two mil- _trench the Pakistan army had were' all killed fo~ their trouble. food ... much less talk about it. lion refugees from East Pakistan used as. cpmmunication between Hand-to-hand fighting took The difficult part. was that by villages. Concrete bunkers sur- place at Monpura for four hours have now returned from -India to the time I got sick, they had' all round the village, most of. them and the area was still littered recovered, were feeling fine, and . their new homeland, BanglCldesh, underground. In one village a with shoes and blood-stained to face the devastations caused had forgotten. tank was kept underground and clothing. Skulls and bones lie by the 14-day war.

Eight millon I was buried under six blan- . never' got into action. in the fields and a heavy stench kets, blue from the chills, and others are preparing to cross the Blood of Thousands hangs over the many ponds surgreen from the virus, .when one border.

Father Marcus Marandi and of them tip-toed into my room, The visitors were told that the rounding the village in which ignored my feigning sleep, and -four Indian nuns who ac::om- villagers who, under duress, had hodies were d1.!mped.

"You can imagine my feelings with his sweaty little pneumatic panied some refugees reported built the bunkers for the army that Bangladesh will need masas I stepped over the relics of fist, shook my shoulder. my countrymen who had died "Hey, Mom. Did you forget sive assistance in reconstrucAgreement Reached for their country," said one nun. you were going to drive the kids tion.

The team visted Hilli, scene of to the track meet?"

"The people who ran away -the fierce fighting in mid-De- On Monastery JERUSALEM (NC) - An out- from this village are returning cember, and found many 'hand-!Iess .and legless victims of mine of-court a·greement that Israeli and resettling," she added.

Closeness to Church explosions, both soldiers and authorities will resen to the "They have nothing to live on, Councils Increases Vatican a monastery acquired the fields are unsafe forcultivacivilans. tion, though the miltary are Working together on common An off·icer guide pointed out more than a year ago has conprojects, sharing ideas and sit- a truck loaded with landmines cluded a dispute that reached working hard to detect the reo the highest levels at the Vatican maining mines. These fields have ting together as members of dug up at Bogra viilage. drunk the blood of thousands of and in Israel's capital. state and local councils has been The danger from concealed soldiers. War is evil; what a a growing occurre'nce in recent The Vatican will now buy years for the Catholic Church mines, however, does not deter those parts of the former Notre life!" refugees froOm returning to their and the Anglican, Orthodox and Dame monastery that were sold homes.

Protestant Churches. hy the Assumptionist IFathers to "As you approach the border a subsidiary of the Jewish NaRoman Catholic dioceses now BEFORE YOU the roads are crowded with tional Fund, which intended to belong to councils or conferences BUY-TRY of churches in 14 states. Arizona, people on foot, carrying t)1.eir 'Use them for student housing, · Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Ibelongings in bundles'," one of The function of the Jewish NaMaryland, Nevada, New Mexico, the nuns said. "Bullock cars tional Fund, set up in 1901, is to North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, loaded with rice 'are lined up for acquire land and hold it in trust Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and miles waiting to' enter the new as the inalienable property of the OLDSMOBILE nation. It almost looks ·like a Jewish people.

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A spokesman at the Vatican 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven .

"As we crossed the railway said:' "So far as the Holy See is joined church councils in three metropolitan areas. of the United line marking the ·border between concerned, the controvery is r States-Kansas City, Pittsburgh -India and Bangladesh we could over. The question has been resee only demolished tin-roofed and Coluinbus, Ohio. In additon, - solved satisfactorily."

Catholic parishes belong to be- Ihouses .with' gaping shell holes tween 70 and 100 local church and p,ock-marked by. bullets." councils in the natiort.

Areas adjacent to the road $5,000 Or More At the national level, official were pitted by heavy shelling, On Equity In Your Home delegates and observers from she said, and everywhere the Y M U Th M . b b f ou ay se e oney Catholicism have attended major Immense am 00 groves, a eaH. Y Wi h owever ou s. assemblies of other Christian ture of Bangladesh, were del churches and bodies, and vice stroyed oOr deliberately cut down FINANCIAL versa. Several Catholic priests to eliminate cover for the SERVICES and nuns hold full-time positions enemy.

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New Bedford Parish Plans, Neu'J' Type '

"Of Educati~n to, Sat'e Sch(Jlo[

Will the "Alternate School" be the key to success to keep the doors of St. Anne's School open in New Bedford for the school year starting September 1972?

This is the hope of the parish school board and members of St. Anne's parish.

,FORT WORTH (NC)-Political commentator Father Daniel Lyons complained that a recent ecumenical peace gathering in Kansas' City was one-sided and offered militant anti-Communists The plan calls for a change no chance to speak.

"The leftists have shown ,their from the traditional type of edutrue colors," said Father Lyons in cation to one of unstructured the Feb. 6 issue of the National classes. Under the new system , Catholic Register, published here. there will be. three class groupThe three-day ecumenical peace ings: kindergarten thru 3rd witness last month brought to- grade, the fourth and fifth gether more than 600 Protestants grades' will make up the second and Catholics, )ncluding dozens group and the 'sixth thru eighth of bishops. and hundreds" of" will comprise the last group. The .clergy of many faiths" to explore open classroom concept will be used in the alternate' school. ways that the churches might help stop the Vietnam war.

The theory behind this type of The Jesuit priest, a consistent teaching ,is that learning can be critic of ,anti-war activists, said it enjoyable and it tends to make was a farce for the peace meet- the student inquisitive. ing to invite pacifist Brazilian The success 'of the "Alternate Archbishop Helder Camara as -, School" lies in the fact that the the main speaker and not aliow nine ,teachers that make up the the' uninvited Father Raymond staff will have individual teaching de Jaegher, who spent 10 of his commitments for the three years, 35 Asian· missonary years in an'd more than that this type of Vietnam, to give a five-minute school and teaching is of the scholarly address. individuals own choice. The 'Simplistic Outlook' teaching ,:staff will be made up Father de Jaegher was sent to as follows-three Sisters from -the Kansas City meeting by the the Holy Cross Order, three nuns Register, politcally conservative from the, Religious Sisters of weekly to which both priests Mercy, one male lay teacher and contribute their opinions. two female lay teachers. Sister, .Father Lyons said that Arch- Therese Fortin, C.S.C. will be the principal. ' bishop Camara knows nothing I about Vietnam, has a pietistic.

Mrs. Humberto Cruz,chairand simplistic outlook, and was man of the parish board of ~du­ made the central speaker among cation is', the motivating force 100 persons who spoke because behind the new school, and ,says he could be counted on "to that unless an enrollment of 270' preach non-violence against pupils is attained the school will Communist aggression." have to close its doors. However, He added that Father de no one seems to be talking about Jaegher, by contrast, "Rnows ,closing, everyone is so. optimistic more about the situation in Viet- that plans are being made for nam than all 100 put together." the continued operation of St. 'He also faulted the meeting for Anne's School which is located not inviting any Vietnamese at 116 Ruth, Street, New BedCatholic bishops. ford. This is the only New BedConcluded Father Lyons: "It turned out as it was planned: Pledges Continued a stop-the-war rally."

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI pledged his continuing support to the United Nations ROME (NC)-An Italian week- during an audience with the ly newsmagazilJe has reported world organization's new secre,that the Vatican, at the instiga- tary general,. Kurf Waldheim. tion of the United Nations secWaldheim, accompanied by a retary general, is taking an ac- , srpall ,staff, visited Pope Paul tive role in diplomatic efforts to Feb. 6 after' meeting in Rome reopen th~ Suez Canal. with Ainbassador Gunnar V.' The report was published by Jarring,' the UN's speCial delePanorama. A Vatican press gate appointed to deal with the spokesman said the details of Middle East situation. No details the story were based on "mere of the conversation between the conjecture formulated by poorly Pope ,and the UN diplomat were' informed people and totally released but it was understood with()u,t foundation." they ,discussed a wide range of Federico Alessandrini, Vatican international prpblems. . press officer, said it was not true, After the private conversaas reported by Panorama, that tions, Pope Paul told Waldheim papal secretary of state Cardinal and his aides that both "your J~an yillotgave U.N. Secretary ,Genet:al Xurt Waldheim a series efforts and ours" aim toward of documents summarizing Vati- ,"the profound 'desire of all mankind' :...... pe'ace!" He also' noted can efforts -in the Suez situation that both the UN and the Caththe night before Waldheim visited Pope Piml VI officially in , olic Church are dedicated to the "defense 'of." ~e rights of man, the Vatican; 'of the rights of human groups , The magazine also linked the and especially of ethnic minori- ' January sur.prise trip of under- ties.'" secretary of state Archbishop Giovanni Benelli ,to Jerusalem 'Patience' with, the same speculation. Panoram.a said' the Pope, during the All things come to him who Feb. 6 audience, discussed Vati- waits-provided he knows what can efforts with Waldheim. he is waiti,ng for. ~Wilson

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,Mrs. Iiumberto Cruz, chairman, parish school board, ·and Mrs. l\1i1ton C. Athaide, a visitor finalize plans for New Bedfor~'s novel school project. ' . i ~\ ford pa~ochial school undertaking this type of education and it. has the 1pproval of the diocesan superintJndent of schools.

I In order to attract parents and , acq.uaint! them with the benefits of' the ','Alternate School", St. Anne's is having "Open HOllse" Monday thru Friday Feb. 14 thru 18, fromI8-11 A.M. and 1-2 P.M. Regist~ation is open to children of ~ll faiths, and religious

instruction is optional. There are not~parish, city or town, or diocesan boundaries, anyone may register. In fact the school has had.inquiries from the Greater New Bedford area. The last day to register is Feb. 25, the tuition will be $225 annually per pupil. Paofishioners of St. Anne's will be subsidized $100 per child. .

Mrs. Cruz stated that parent involvement is a major factor in I the success of the school curriculum. The parents now teach the students courses in' carpentry, cooking, drama and typing. AcI ' WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardi- cording to Mrs. Cruz there is a. nal ,Patritk O'Boyle, with Wash- veat deal of interest being ington ~rchdiocesan chancery' ;hown by teachers outside of aides and French Embassy offi- New Bedford and many inquiries cials withessing the 'honor, was have been received in regard to made a tommander of the Na- the "Alternate School." The tional Ot-der of the Legion of pupils of the school have shown a great deal of enthusiasm to Honor. I President Georges Pompidou keep the school open 'by devotof Franc~ nominated the cardinal ing ,their spare time to distrib-' for the ~ward, the highest that uting fIyers to homes and .passi . th e Frenqh ,~overnment can gIve ing them out at the super an indiv,idual, as a long-time markets. friend and 'benefactor of the French 'p~ople. . .

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Ambas~ador Charles Lucet placed the ribbon and medal around the cardinal's neck in' ceremonies at the city's catheI dral.

Design~tion as a Legion of I Honor commander was actually for Cardinal a prortiotion O'Boyle.IHe was' named an officer of the order in 1948, when he hecame the f.irst resident archbishop of Washington, D. C.

He had !just finished serving in New York' for a number of years as director of war relief services for .what Ilis now called Catholic Rehef SeJ'Vices. The Legion citation given him then' was for his "eminent' services in the field of relief and reconstruction and for bene~olent interest in the French cause." !

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Postal Decision Amazes CPA WASHJNGTON (NC) - The head of tlhe Catholic Press Association (CPA) has expresed amazement over a U. S: postal off,icial's preliminary' approval of postage increases affecting diocesan newspapers and other non-profit mailers. . J,ames A. Doyle, CPA executive director, said, religious press representatives "will me~t' next week to' plan our next step, which, will almost certainly include fHing objections to ¢is recommendation and possibly oral arguments before the (Postal Rate) Commission beginning March 15."

In an "initial decision" issued Feb. 3, chief postal hearing ex~ aminer Seymour Wenner said that with a few revisions,' the rates and fees recommended by the U. S. Postal Service "constitute a fai<r and equitable schedule" of revenues.

Doyle said the CPA is "amazed that the hearing examiner has apparently recommended everytlhing in second class the ,Postal Service asked for . . ."

Diocesan newspapers fan under· the'isecond class non-profit maHing category.

Thell'ates the Postal Serv.ice proposed will eventually eqUlil 100 per cent of the costs of handling nonprofit, mail, but a preferential rate was maintained by not forcing them to contribute to overhead costs, as first class and other regular mail categories do. .

Doyle said the CPA is disappointed that the :preliminary approval "includes the onerous per-piece surcharge for the struggling nonprofit press."

That part of the ,proposal means that after. a 10-year phase-in period, second ,class nonprofit mailers will have to pay a surchlWge of L5 ce'nts for every piece of mail they send.

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Predicts Demise Of Parish School In Next Decade NEW YORK (NC)-The demise of parochial school education in New York in the next decade was predicted here.

The New York State commission on the quality, cost and financing of elementary and secondary school education made - the prediction during a press conference. The commission released the latest chapter of a report dealing with racia[ and ethnic school integration and financial aid to nonpubHc schools.

The commission is informaUy~ known as the Fleischmann Commission, after its chairman Manly Fleischmann, a Buffalo, N.Y. lawyer.

According to the report public funds and tax revenues 'are not to be used to support st1,1dents at nonpublic schools.

Its recommendation against additionad, nonpublic school aid was accompanied by projections which indicated that nonpwblic school enrollments will continue to decline during this decade.

'Very Prejudiced' The predicted decline in Catholic sohool enrollment was attributed to "falling birth rates and changing parental tastes, even if anticipated state aid were provided at a Ilevel which would eliminate the need for all tuition payments."

Msgr. Joseph T. O'Keefe, secretary for educat:ion fo'r the New York archdiocese, viewed the Fleischmann opinion as "doctrinaire and very prejudiced."

"We (the parochial schools) are here and alive; we will stay alive; we are not going to give up 150 years of history because of any prediction of Mr. Fleischmann and the anti-aid commissioners."

Msgr. O'Keefe criticized the Fleischmann report as being "composed of people main1y from from the academic worldnot from the people and not being alert to what the people are really thinking.

"The good wm of the people will keep the Catholic schools open."

In January, a federal court ruled unconstitutional a state law appropriating up to $33 million annually for nonpublic schools; a second state law ap.. propriating $28 million annually is the subject of a federal court suit.

New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and legislative leaders have expressed their intention of devising an alternative plan to provide assistance to these schools, which enroll some 800,-, 000 students. Eighty-iive per cent of these students attend Catholic schools.

In addition to its reliance on Ohurch-state separation" the 'commission's recommendation is based on the U. S. Supreme Court decision llast June outlawing some forms of government aid to non-pubHc schools. The commission argued that the principles underlying a court,imposed ban on direct aid to schools would also prohibit financial assistance to students or to their parents.

Financial assistance in the form of either vouchers or tax credits had been suggested by various sources as a means of assisting non-public education.

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'Wr~:~~" LEADERSHIP ROUSES INTEREST: Classes prepared by Mrs. Paul Westlund, center standing, as CCD Coordinator and volu nteer aid Linda Larkin, a Mansfield High School sophomore, must be most interesting as even a fourth grader forgets the Bruins for the moment.

Sparkling, Energetic Mrs.' Westlund Plans CCD Program for St. Mary's, Mansfield three years in Norton after she finished college.

She became religious educaSparkle, energy, and ehthusi- 'lion coordinator last' year, after asm-that's what. is evidently having taught at St. Mary's for needed to coordinate an active nine years and been slightly acCCD program such as exists at tive previously in Lowell, her naSt. Mary's Parish, Mansfield, and tive city, and in Norton. She had that's what Mrs. Paul Westlund, just attended a course at Stoneonly religious education lay co- hill College given 'by Sister Alice ordinator in the Diocese has O'Brien and Sister' Martha Wora-plenty. deman in the new experienceMrs. Westlund carries out a oTiented program of religious weekly schedule that would tire education. most people just thinking about.

"Obviously the Baltimore CatMonday afternoons and evenings, echism method has become unTuesday afternoons and eve- satisfactory," she explained. nings, and Saturday mornings "Things are in transit in', the are spent at the Catechetical world and in the Church, so we Center, the former St. Mary's had to figure out some means to Church in the center of Mans- reconcile the old and the new. field. Thursday afternoons she Mr. and Mrs. David Hutleston leads a Brownie troop and every and I worked up the program other Friday she attends reli- we're using now, subject matter, gious education coordinator techniques and all. meetings in Fall River.

"Then the Huttlestons moved "Oh, yes," Mrs. Westlund to Minnesota, and that left me!" laughed, "I have Wednesday s~e laughed. afternoons off, although often _ Wednesday evenings, include at- < No Smcll Task Coordinating St. Mary's protendance at a Cub Pack meeting." gram is no small task. There are All these activities are worked 1200 students involved and 125 around caring for her home, her ·teachers and helpers. Assisting husband and three children, and Mrs. Westlund are coordinators the hours she must spend at for individual grade levels: Mrs. home, doing paper work and Stephen Conroy for grade 5; planning for the OeD program. Mrs. Joseph Devlin for grade 6; Fmnily First Mrs. Stanley Murray, second and "The family must come first, third grades; Miss Kathleen however," she said. "I love to Flynn, seventh and eighth grades; ,go skating with the children, and and Mrs. Joel Squier, fourth other Winters when there's been grade. more snow we've done a lot of "My main job·perhaps is trainsledding together. We all also ing the'teachers," she explained, enjoy bowling." "trying to make them comfortHer Spring activities also in- able in what they're doing and clude the children, Paul, 10, showing them how to make use Susan, 8, and Stephen, 6. She's of their particular skills and an active member of the Little abilities. If a teacher can use League Mothers' Auxiliary and what she does well, she can concoach of the Auxiliary softball centrate on the children more." team. "Those are all fun things," She and Father Thomas Rita, she added. "I really enjoy them." associate pastor, meet with the Added to her !llready busy teachers once a month, "perhaps week lately was three weeks of to preview audiovisual aids or to substitute teaching as a mathe- give questions and summaries of matics teacher at Mansfield lessons coming up," Mrs. WestHigh Schoo!. "I must admit that lund added. "Sometimes we rather tighteined up my sched- point out particular points in ule," Mrs. Westlund said, "but "lessons and present a couple of it was really fun." ways to do it-how to attack Mrs. Westlund, a Wheaton that particular subject."

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school students presents special problems since there is no textbook. "We try to emphasize social problems and personal growth," the coordinator said.

High school students meet every other week, and on the alternate weeks Mrs. Westlund meets with the teachers to go over the coming week.

Wonderful People ".I'm there during the classes to see that everything is running smoothly," she added. "I like to teach myself once in a while.

You, know plans on paper can look so nice and not work out that way at all in practice. Fortunately, we have wonderful and reliable people helping us, 125 of them, teachers, substitutes, telephoners, attendance takers, typists."

"In between, of course, there is a lot of paper work at home," said the busy lady. "I keep track of registration, attendance, lesson plans, schedules. I need to know what's doing in every class."

Religious education coordinator and homemaker, .Mrs. Westlund even seems to have energy left over for whatever else might come up. She explains it simply: "[ guess I'm just one of those people who get involved!"

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TOKYO (NC)-Father Joseph Spae, founder and director of the Oriens Institute for Religious Research here, has left Japan a,fter 32 years to work in Rome as a special representative for ecumenical matters of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission.

Belgian-born Father Spae, 58, a member of the Immaculate Heart of MaTy Mission Society (Scheut Fathers), was co-founder of the Ecumenical Association here.

He is the author of several books and has written many articles for various publications and for NC News.

Ordained in 1936, he served as a missionary first in China and then came to Japan in 1939.

He studied at Otani University and Kyoto Imperial University.

After internment during World War II in Kobe, he went to the United States and earned a doctorate in Far-Eastern languages , and philosaphy at Columbia University, New York.

Explains Canada's Trade Policies NOTRE DAME (NC) - Canada's trade relationship with the United States remains a sensitive issue, a Canadian legislator told an audience at the University of Notre Dame., Paul Martin, leader of the government in the Canadian Senate and former secretary of state for external affairs, also defended his country's attempted detente with Russia and China. / On U. S.-eanadian trade relationships, Martin said the Canadian government wants to put an end to the growing dependence on trade that Canada has with the United States.

"We invest relatively more heavily in your country than you do in ours," Martin said.

"Yet our investments have given us control of practically nothing in the United States. You control large sections of our mining, petrochemical and even manufactur.ing industries, and 82 per cent of foreign investment in Canada is American."

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VAToICAN CIlY (NC)-Ukrai"There are canonical, hist6rnian-rite Cardinal Josip Slipyi, iCl\I, spiritual and pastoral reacitizen of the Soviet .Union, for. sons, wpich, unfortunately, do 18 years a defiant guest of So- not at present allow us to satisfy viet labor camps and for nine' the wishes of the Catholic .Probably no TV character in recent memory provokes years a difficult guest of Vatican Ukrainian hierarchy,'~ he wcote as much discussion as Archie Bunker. Those talking about City; is 80 today.

Cardinal Slipyi last July 7. . the show dpn't always agree; however. Everybody loves Eighty years, a critical age in In brief, the Pope pointed out Archie~unker but nobo~y wants to identify with himthe life of any man, is a cut-off that a Ukrainian patriarch could '. a rather curious result .of .. age in the life of a cardinal. not exercise his authority within the most': popular TV show fession .and C,ommunion every Under a rule Pope Paul VI put . Ukrainia. (The Catholic Ukraiinto effect last year, no octoge" ..nian phurch is' outlawed in the this year. One .controversial week.. Now they don't practice nariim cardinal can take parti.n Soviet Union, and Cardinal faith atal!. What·did we question centers. on whether ,their do wrol')g?" . the election of a. Pope,. nor. can Slipyi is exiled from the Soviet' the show promotes' or retards ' " Or,'the letter' 1 just received . he continue to function within' -Union.) And if he exercises' his racial harmony. Everyone has from an' anguished mother, "My the Roman Cufi,i, the Church's powers outside his own ecclesian opinion about its effect but son writes he is a Jesus freak. central administrative officer. astical territory-which the Pope no one seems to have any: facts, Just what ~is a jesus freak? Is U he were only a cardinal, this said Calion Law at present for- . , rl!l€"M·+,·'·mmrm'··H·.~;~lli· it Catholic?" might be the end of the road for bids - what is to stop other The . uncomfortable truth is the indomitable Catholic preiate 'Catholic patriarchs from seeking that our.Church hasn't produce.d who withstood ncot only the'· the same privilege? any more answers to the growBy rigors of Siberian prisons but the . " But the Pope had another coning problems of ,Jiving in a tech-.. bla.ndishments of Soviet officials, sider~tion, one that has received nological society than· society' DOLORES! who-it is often said-promised less attention in pro-patriarchal .has. We could 'have ant.icipated him preferential treatment if publications. the ,Mikes. and Glorias but· the CURRAN on~y he would abandon his aile"We. must also," he· said, ',i. ,Archies . in, 'our Ghurch ''l!ren't giance tq the Vatican. '''carefully consider the possible , .about to .listen . to them. We' l Cardinal is not, however, the consequences for Ukrainian, \ could have utilized our Ediths as it I of' his titles.

Cardinal Catholics who, still compelled to proudest CARDINAL SLIPYI l . 'ibn.,'dges-I·il :ourwidening gaps' bu't· I . .gmR""'~·. is a title he shares with more silence because' of -fidelity to ,so there's no po.int in my addi'ilg . our· ·celibate Arc~ies' either thaln a hundred others. What is' their faith; live in regions where off uni.que in' the Catholic Church is at present the lawfulness of the . .to the '~gnotanceby 'discussing .. stifled' them 'or" wrote them as hopeless instead· ofeducating his title of archbishop-major, and Ukraininail church is not recogthat question. . " . .

U's' on a second controversial them and the' .marrjed Atchies Ca:rdinal Slipyi is holding on to. . nized." ' . question that I want to speak.···sim~)y .didn't take. enou.gh. inter-' . that title-and to' the functions, Here the Pope was referring to '. ",SAN JOSE (NC).- Although ,rights, privileges and powers' it the Soviet Ukraine, whose ComIs Archie Bunker for reali' Some'- 'est III the' problem u~tll It was 'hisorganiza.tiop receiyed $40,000 cari-ies with it. .munist masters have forced the claim that his character and too late. from the U. bishops' antiaibsorption not only of, the Ukral· . those of Edith, Gloria and MeatCopped Out ·poverty . Campaign for Human.

Asarchbishop-ma.lorof Lvov, nian Catholic Church but also of head are too exaggerated to be Our Cathoii~;'Mj.kes arid Glo-' Development; Ia barrio activist in the Sqviet Un'ion, he is a the Ukrainian Orthodox ChlJrch taken seriously. I disagree; . rias copped out, to·o. Instead of here does not think the churches leader· of· Ukrainian-rite Catho- into the Russian OrthOdox I know there are Archie Bunk'staying in and fighting" for a are doing enqugh to aid poor lics everywhere. By the nature Church. ers ,in the Catholic Church. I · Mexican-Americans. of Soviet policy, of Ukrainian hear from them weekly, "It's Church which was every hi.t as . "The church'today. is insignifi- history ana of the' dispersion of much theirs as Archie's, they Jewish-Communist writers like shrugged it off as being too cent,"· commented Jack Ybarra, at least a million Ukrainians out- Release Successor you that are turning our Church' much work, automaticallY will- head of theCohfederacion de La side of the Ukraine (a ~oviet re- From Soviet Prison Protestant. I know because I : ing ,it to the Archies.

Raza Unida. ·...~t's not. supposed public), he is also in some sense ROME (NC)-Archbishop Vasil was a convert and I know how 'have' made it a leader of Ukrainians" everyI .

The future? Well, if we keep to be, but mEm Velechkovsky, a Ukrainian Rebad the Protestants are. Why where, whatever tl,leir r'eligious that way."

I demptorist who· served as Cardi· don't you get out of the Church going the same road at the same He said that Chicanos (Mexi- persuasion. nal Josip Slipyi's successor in and join them? And take thpse pace, the destination is fairly . can-Americans) are overwhelmBy the 'same tokE;n he is the Lvov, was released from a threemodern nuns and priests with predictable: The Archies will die. ingly Catholic~' but that ~'the most likely candidate for the year prison sentence in the SoSo will the Ediths.

The Mikes you." and Glor-ias will reject their God people feel that the Church is an title of patriarch of the Ukrai- viet Union and. allowed to leave Bewildered Peacemakers along with their Church because irrelevant structure. And no- nians should such a Catholic ,the country. He was expected to We also have Ediths, the be- they equate the two. And then body wants to waste trying to .patriarchate be established. That come to Rome. is the biggest reason why Cardiwildered peacemakers who lack they will' wonder how to teach make it more irelevant."

According to reports reaching Ybarra heades a coalition of nal Slipyi - at an age when the absolute opinions of the their own children moral behere, Archbishop Velechkovsky, many churchmen slip into retire67 community ~rganizations here havior, ,goodness' vs. eviI and a Archie's -but somehow possess who was ordained a bishop sean' ,insight and optimism that choice between the two, respon- made up of poor Mexican-Amer- ment and fade into anonymity- cretly, has been visiting his sister remains one of the world's most icans.

He said ithe group. formed have held us together loosely. sibility to God and to' one anin Zagreb, capital of the Cro. My letters. from our Ediths go other, peace arid the necessity in 1969, promo~es better housing . prominent, active and contro- atian region of Yugoslavia. versial churchmen. and hea'ith care and equal opporlike this,"I really don't under- of acting onva~ues.

On his release from prison stand all the changes but it To nationalists among the And their' cli,ildren, Archie's tunities hi ed~cation, criminal seems to me there must be a: .grandchildren? Web, who would ~ustke, proceedings and public Ukrainians, a nation as numer- Jan. 28, a· month short of his reason for them or we wouldn't have guessed th~y would be dis- transportation'. II ous as the Italians or the three-year . sentence, he was have them. .J remember a lot of covering Jesus again? On the French but which has never given a visa valid for one year. ,I .

The 68-year-old archbishop people complaining about· the ibasis of this surprisng turn of.. had its own state, a patriarch Human Life Absurd means I. . old Church, too." magnetic pole of nation~ was reported to be in weak events, I guess the future isn't · I don't hear from the Mikes predictable at all. In the end, Without ~nstitu.ions hood. To Ukrainians chafing un- health.

It . w~s not yet known who and Glorias because they aren't only God knows how' he will GENEVA (NC) - Those who der the yoke of the halted Soviets, readng the Catholic press. We move his Church. And,' after all,' claim that the institutional and worse still (for soine) under succeeded Archbishop Velechknow they're out there, though, it's aU in his fa,mily. ch.urch is "so bad that .it is not the yoke of the Muscovites, a kovsky in the administration of I because we hear the cries from 'worth bothering about deny the patria,rch means a rallying point the outlawed archdiocese of Lvov. their parents, "Our kids don't . ?ec~ssi~y arid ii?escapability of for the entire people. go .to Mass any more. We "sent Catholic P:ersonne'l msbtutlons," said the editor of 'Why does the Vatican refuse .,them through parochial schools Dir~ctory Published' Lutheran Wc;irl~, the quarterly to 'create a patriarchate or even and saw that they went to con. WASHINGTON. (NC)-A new of the Lutheran""World Federa- to extend the authority of the .1 archbishop-major beyond the diretory 'of communications offi- tion.

"Much of. ,the present anti- ?oundaries of hi,~ ChuI:ch 'provcial.s ,in the na~ion's Catholic dioHeads Committee DRY CLEANING !twaddle," said 'mce of Lvov?, . .' ceses is now available from the institutional On Adult Education National Catholit Office for In- Editor Dr. La Vern . AND FUR STORAGE K. Grosc, "is Pope Paul' gave the official" 34-44 Cohannet St., Taunton more rhetorict , than reality. answer last Summer in a reply ALBANY (NC) ~ Mary Reed formation here. , Whittenton Branch Store Newland, writer and lecturer on The 1972" directory' contains Human life is just nofpossible . to a. petition for the creation of 334 Bay Street, across from catechetics,' has 'been named names, addresses and telephone without institutional forms and a patriarchate from the Ukrai. chairman of the committee on numbers of communications and ~rganizations." : . nian-rite bishops.'. .

- Fire Station Tel. 822-6161 adult and home religous educa- information directors, as well as , In his editor'ial, however, he tion for the Albany diocese. radio and television officials in also, stressed tHeI need for instiMrs. Newland will concentrate 162 U. S. dioceses. tutional openness to change.

AnLEBORCt'S , I on assisting parents in the reliRussell Shaw, NCOI head, ~'TIle triumphalism, the selfILeading Garden Cente; giqus education of their children. called the updated directory "an preservation in' terms of brick She is an advocate of the theory . extremely valuab'le reference and mortar and qf private pasthat religious' education is tool for anyone in' the church toral kin1gdoms. the attempts to based around family life. communications busines~, or any manipulate imdbe served rather South Main & Wall Sis. , She is the author of eight one who needs to reach the men than serve-all :these are abuses books, a frequent lecturer on men and women in the' front and retrogressive of what the family life, scripture and the lit- Hnes of diocesan communica- function of Go~'s people is," he 222-0234 urgy. tions." said.

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Dad Discovers Kids' Play· To Win,· Not· Exercise

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick In 9rder to cut down on the turmoil in our two 'youngest children's rooms (Jason and Melissa'share a bedroom upstairs) we rearranged our basement room as a game room. This sounds impressive but it means only that we took most of the old furniture out of the room and· re- shoes are, he finds his sweater without any friendly persuasion, placed it with all of the he has his coat, hat, and mittens games which were normal- on before his sisters have even

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Now they. are strewn in the basement room.

In 'the room now are a smaIl ping pong table and a European soccer game that we bought for Jason for Christmas, as weIl as a number of games the children received for Christmas. THe' ·children h!lve 'been playing ping pong for quite some time and really enjoy it. What I am fascinated by is the degree to, which they compete with each other.

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They play ping pong as if they were competing for a gold medal in the Olympic, games. A missed shot results in loud groans and shouts of disgust. After a defeat -the loser: throws down, the paddle and storms out of the basement. Winners emerge in a cloud of pride that is only shaken by defeat in the next game. Never do the children play merely for the fun of playing and getting some exercise, rather they play to build their egos.

As I lo~k back on my own childhood; I realize that I was just as competitive. A game of stickbaH or baseball had to be won. One did not play to lose.

This' is quite different in other cultures, but there is no ,question that our society spawns competition and that this -is part of the American nature, for better or worse.

So our game room has become more .of a wa'r room than a game roo'm, with Ja.son leading the competitive attacks 'on any and all comers. Unfortunately he is only ·six years old and hardly a match for his two older sisters.

He manages' to beat me consistently at most games because I fe~1 I have to salvage his pride, but the girls· can'not bring themselves to be defeated by a six-' year-old.

In the Kitchen ''I'll set the table for Mom," stated my six-year-old whose only dealing with the table up to now has been to put up a fuss when he was called to dinner because he. was watching TV. Nowhere h,e was offering to help. This first venture in "a job for Jason" has led in the past week or so to a series of helpful jobs that my son has accomplished. Suddenly he arrives, fUlly dressed, on the first call in the' morning. Amazingly en'ough he knows where his

Priests Refuse ROCHESTER (NC)-Priests of the Roc~ester diocese rejected 'by almost a two-to-one margin a proposal to join the National . Federation of Priests Councils..

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN' A Winter Carnival dance in the church hall' is planned for 8 to midnight Saturday, Feb. 26 by the Couples Club. Mr. arid Mrs.. Anthony_Greco and Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Brazil are co-chairmen. Music will be by the Joe Ponte Orchestra, ar: , . rangements for a buffet are in I , charge of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gerwato:wski, and Mr. and Mrs. NEWSMAKER: George I E. Reedy, former Press Sec- Custodio Marshall will handle retary to' President Lyndon decorations. Tickets are available from all ,club members.

The mother of a boy can vollch for the fact-that the terbe dean of the rible twos 1;>ecomes the temper- Johnson filled three that turn into the Marquette University's colfrantic fours, which preclude the lege of journalism. NC Phot:o fierce fives.!' Therefore I find it by Lou Eanarale. hard to believe that my son h a s . t ' _ become such a model child but as they sai "don't look a gift horse in the mouth," so I'll just enjoy his new found concern until the surprising sevens come DUBLIN: (NC).,-In a room in along. a smart hqtel just outside DubOne reason for the sudden lin, a 'group of Irish nuns passed growing up, of Jason could ·be around a pipeful of marijuana, . his new-found interest in read- sniffing it 'cautiously. ·lng. Last year at'Sister Ann's he .

I The nuns, however, were not did a great job of learning to attending d pot party; they were read but this year he has sud- attending 'a special instruction denly,become a hook addict. session organized by the Irish This wouldn't be quite so sur- Health Department to inform prising if the books that he's teachers a,~out the growing probbeen enjoying weren't Melissa's lem of dru,g, a,buse in'schools. fifth grade ones, and this of course results in an argument The session was organized as because it's always the one that. part of a police offensive against she was reading.. a rising wave of illicit drug use So to those mothers who think in Ireland.-Police·spokesmen said ,that boy' of theirs wiii ~ever out-. that ever-ip.creasing supplies of grow his temp~t tantrums· and LSD are coming into the cOllnhis 'demands-have hope. If my try, often smuggled in bizarre ways. . charming young tyrant could be- and imaginative [ come a considerate little man, The smugglers' latest triclt, there'shope:for anyone, and to a Drug Squad offi.cers at the semmother. thete are always days inar said, 'is to hide' extremely when Peck's bad boy is a charm- tiny "micro dots" of LSD in er. prayerbooks mailed from En.. Even though I'm not an adva- gland to ,fictitious priests at 'cate of quickie meals and short- Irish addresses. cut recipes, there are days when The offic;ers also said increasit's either. that or the nearest ing quantities of heroin are aI'.chicken tak~-out. This dessert is' riving. A ybar ago, heroin addiceasy to. pre,pare and yet r.ich tion' was !almost non-existent enough not to let on it's a time here; the" s¢ven or so registered saver. addicts at that time had picked Raspberry Meringue Cake up the h~bit abroad, and no · II" k known sources of regular supI pkg. w h lte or ye· ow ca e plies existed in Ireland. Now mix there are more than 30 register2 pkgs. (10 oz. each) frozen , ed heroin addicts and police fear raspberries , that the d~ug may be available Y2 cup sugar on the stre,ets.

I 2 Tablespoons cornstarch Dash salt 1 packet meringue mix Denies lKnowledge I' 1) Prepare and bake cake ac-, Accord cording to directions for two 8 Of Polish I VATICAI)l CITY (NC) - The inch layers.

2) While cake bakes, prepare , Vatican is publicly non-commitsauce. Thaw' raspberries and tal a'bout reports that it has drain, reserving juice. 'Combine reached agrbement with Commusugar, cornstarch and salt in nist Poland: over the 'administramedium-sized' saucepan; gradu- tion of didceses in the former ally add raspberry juice. Cook German territories of western : over medium heat, stirring con- Poland. stantly, until mixture thickens "We hare. no information and boils 2 minutes. Remove about it,". said the press' office from heat; stir in - raspberr,ies; here.

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ST. STANISLAlIS,' FALL,RIVER The Women's Guild will sponsor a one-day trip to New York on Saturday, April 8. 'Departure time is' 6 o'clock: in the morning from tjle parish center and return time ·will· be 8 in the evening.

Reservations may be made by calling 5-7784.

.ST. MICHAEL, OCEAN GROVE A committee preparing a bOOklet in commemoration of the . 50th anniversary of the parish requests past and present parishioners, to contribute any facts, anecdotes or other material rela· tiye to parish history. They may contact Edmund Banville, pub· Iicity chairman of the' committee.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The Women's Guild will sponsor a whist party at 8 on Saturday night, Feb. 19. Prizes may. be left at the rectory.

The High Schooi Association will c'onduct its second meeting on Friday night; Feb. 18 at 7:30 in the school hall. Mr. Sherry of the S.R.A. Company will explain testing results and grading.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Knights of the Altar will con·duct a cake sale Saturday and · Sunday, March 11 and 12.

The CYO will sponsor a fash·' ion show at 7:30 Sunday night, Feb. 20 at White's restaurant.

The Holy Na!11e Society an· nounces a giant penny' sale to be held in the church hall ~t 2 Sunday afternoon, Feb. 27.

ST. JOSEPH, FALL RIVER OCD classes for junior high school students will meet at 3 this afternoon in the rectory basement instead of the school. ST. MICHAEL, The parish is in. need of a· FALL RIVER Scoutmaster and assistant ScoutRev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, master for its Boy Scout troop. Diocesan DireCtor of the Family Volunteers should contact the Life Bureau, will conduct two . rectory. conferences on family life on Sunday, Feb. 20 and Sunday, 19. The first session will March Newark_ TE~achers deal witli Uie tc)plc""Parentsand Hold ISick.~ln' Child Relationship from BirthNEWARK (NC)-Members of to Puberty," while the March the Lay Faculty A.ssociation here discussion will consider "Par· instituted a job action in a con- ents and Young Adult-Teenagers' tinuing contract dispute with the Relationship...

Newark archdiocese. ·,The conferences will start at On the first day of the job ·7:30 in the evening and will action which found teachers conclude with discussions. calling in siek, classes' were seriRefreshments will be served ously hampered' at two of the 13 and there will be no charge. regional high schools in the archdiocese and a third school' ST. MARGARET, closed for the day.

BUZZARDS BAY Msgr. William Daly, archdioSS. Margaret-Mary Guild of cesan superintendent of, schools, Buzzards Bay· and Onset will. ,said the form of the job action sponsor a public 'whist at 1:30 had come as a surprise, hut he Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 23 said that if sick calls continued, in the CCD Center on South all schools would nevertheless Bouleva,rd, Onset. Mrs. Roderick remain open.

MacGinnis, chairman, announces The Lay ,Faculty Association, ·that refreshments will be served headed by :Paul Kraivanger, an and prizes awarded. Proceeds English teacher at Paramus will benefit guild charities.

Catholic High Sc:lhool, claims a membership of :!75. According to Msgr. Daly, this membership -;:i"':"'H""T"~""• rlpp : is concentrated in nine schools. : l"llIIIOrrlS There are 175 lay teachers who do not belong to the association, , J. TESER, Prop. , and 170 Religious teachers.

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were associates of Gailego, celebrated Mass the day before the anniversary of Torrigas' mi'1itary coup. The government interpreted the service as a pOlitical protest and notified the priests that they were to be expelled.

The bishops raised such a strong objection that the government backed down. But Father Gallego's disappearance remains unexplained.

Father Joseph Umphries hasn't done anything "wrong." He just happens tQ be high school prindpal in the diocese of a courageous bishop.

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Loan to Church For Housing LISBON (NC)-The Portuguese government has loaned Portuguese Caritas-a branch of Caritas Internationalis,' the international Catholic charities organization-$2.1 million for a housing project in which the eventual owners will construct the homes themsellves.

In the project, architects, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, plasterers, etc., are advising and teaching the future owners,

Desmond, Gallego and Umphries are not names, in the starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys. But they are involved in a contest of superpowers: Church and State.

All three men are Catholic priests; and each has felt the impact of all his government's displeasure. Father mands to import a team of investigators.

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The owner..:builders will pay a reasonable rent for the first few years to cover the cost' of materials, after whiCh the house will belong to them.

The housing projects will include social, child·care and health centers, . as well as schools, churches and other public services.

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"No Longer A Child" will be the theme of a workshop given black South African resealement

by Mr. Ernest Nedder, a religious camps. Desmond strikes at one consultant from' the W. C. Brown No Longer Tolerable of the national myths in racist Company sponsored by the CCD South Africa-that the benefits Bishop Carroll Dozier of Office of the Diocese of Fall If you were to ask me just what the Society for the Proof South Afrka's expanding Memphis, in his 1971 Christmas River. pagation of the Faith does for the missionary work of the economy he'lp blacks as well as message, said that America's All 7th- 8th- and 9th Grade Church, just what it does with the offerings you send in love, whites. ' continued involvement in the Teachers are urged to attend a three-part answer would come your way.

In Desmond's analysis, "reset- Southeast Asia war "is no longer this workshop to be held from In the first place, the Society's help guarantees the tlement" is shown as a fraud, in tolerable for a Christian." He 7:30-9:30 on Thursday night, Feb. PRESENCE of the Church in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and to a which bl~ck women, l:hildren pledged his support, "for any 24 at 'Bishop Connolly High lesser extent, in Latin America. To be sure, the presence of and elderly who cannot provide young man of draft age who re- School, Eisbree Street, Fall River. the Church depends on the action of the Holy Spirit on people cheap labor are discarded in dis- fuses to serve in the military beThe objective of' this work(people ARE the Church), and not on dollars and cents and tant reserves to rot and die. cause he conscientiously obshop will be to present a develmaterial supplies, but I speak in a human way with the limitSuch an expose of apartheid jects." In. establishing diocesan ' ations of human speech. policies was intolerable to the programs to implement his ideas, opmental context for the religious education of the junior Every year, through your goodness, the Society for the Progovernment. he said there may be some "who high school student based on the pagation of the Faith injects an amount of assistance into the No Church may not understand what we psychological and 'theological as- life-channels of the Church wherever it is poor. And it is this One morning last June, the are doing." pects of development at that age help which sustains, feeds and supports our missionary personnel; Minister of Justice' placed Father Apparently there were some level. it is this help which assures their on-going presence. For if the Desmond under house arrest. who understood it well.. Less Church is 'not first present ina place, it cannot teach, heal, feed, All those interested, in attendA,ccc;>rd!~gto)~ou~h ~fri.ca·?!a';Vs~, than a-week 'after' Dozier's anthe Minister need not publicly nouncement, the Memphis draft ing the above, are welcome. save and serve.

Secondly, your offerings are making possible the formation divuige the 'reasons for such board reclassified Father Um- There is no admission charge. and ~aining of the future personnel of the Church. Allover actions. Thi:; means that Des- phries from 4-D, a clergyman's what we call the missionary world, young men and women mond is confined for five years exemption, to I-A, immediately are answering the call of the Lord in amazing numbers. They to Johannesburg and prohibited available for induction. The • are intelligent, hardworking, highly motivated; and-so very from attending any s,ociaI or board said it redassifed Father important-they are native to the peoples they will "me day political gathering, or" visiting Umphries, because his activities IS . serve as sisters, brothers, and priests. any black, colored or' Asian dis- were primarily educational rathBROOKLYN (NC) - A three. And lastlY, whenever emergencies occur, whenever new apostricts of the city. Ori weekends, er than redigious, and that it was year leadership training program he ,is confined to his house, "a coincidence" that. the deci- for laymen in' Spanish-speaking tolic opportunities present themselves, whenever there is the chance which prevents his attending sion was announced shortly after 'parishes has been announced by to plant the Church in new places, It is to the Society for the church on Sundays. the pastoral letter. ' . Bishop Francis J. Mugavero of Propagation of the Faith that the Mission C;:hurch. in Africa, Asia, and Oceania turns. Each year chapels are provided, schools are Archbishop Denis Hurley of Brooklyn.'

DUl"ban, South Mrica, a sharp The DeputYI>irector of the" begun, dispensaries are st~rted-all because you help! critic of his gover!lment's poli- State Selective Service said: "I'm The lay leaders. V'('ill be trained This is not a haphazard and helter-skelter type of aldcies, caBs these methods "rem- sorry this happened ... We're to assist priests serving some insofar as it can be when funds are never sufficient and .-redniscent of the Gestapo and not ahout to draft him." Um- 600,000 Spanish-sp~aking Cathquests overwhelming, it is a planned. orderly and efficient Communist secret police." The 'phries is 29, and the board is not olics by und~taking such reliuse of your alms where they are most needed to serve the fact remains, however that ta'king men older than 26. Um- gious tasks as distr~buting Holy poor Church in the service of the poor of. the world.

Father Desmond, for the next Phries is "safe," at least for'th'e Communion at Mass and to the Since its'small beginning 150 years ago,' the Society has five years at least, is virtually time being.

Isick and conducting small group grown worldwide. Its presence in the Church has helped to make nonexistent. discussions on how to live the the Church's presence in the world a reality beyond what staFather Hector Gallego is dead. Prelate Question~ Gospel. tistics or words could ever tell. And in those 150 years, it has When candidates finish the been the sacrifices of concerned individuals like you that have At least, he's been missing since' 'last June. His fr,iends think he's Reasoning on War three-year training period, they made that presence possible! . been murdered. Gallego's error, PORTLAND (NC)--':Archbishop , will be eligible, if they wish, to Please join with us this year as we commemorate our '!ike Desmond's, appears to be Robert J. Dwyer of Portlarid has apply'for places in a formal perl50th Annjversary, by continuing to help your Church's misthat he put into. practice the question'ed the reasonirig 'of theo-' manen( ,diaconateprogram for sionaries even, more. There are many ways: a Gift Annuity prosocial message of the Church.

Ilogians who oppose. war under the Spanish-speaking. vides a continuous typl' of aid; remembering th~ Society in ' ' According to Father John H. Gallego, V'('8,S a pastor in one any conditions. your will is a memorial to you for the future; while your of the poorest parts of Panama.'

The Oregon 'prelate said he O'Brien, diifE!'ctor of the Spanishspecnal,. sacrifice RIGHT NOW is a beautiful way to ,thank' God Encouraged by his bishop, Mar-: disagrees with those who say speaking Apostolate of the dio~or ,the presence of the' Church in your life. . cus McGrath,' Ga.llego became an, that the war in Southeast Asia cese, the need for' lay 'leadens is' Please attach your gift to this column and send it to me today. enthusiastic'promQter of social f'rom, the beginning has been un- acute. In nearly 70 parishes, he and 'e'cb'rtol:riic" developnfEmt pro- jus.t and immoral, although he. noted, Mass is offered in Spanish , ~,~""'-""-,-------,----------------------~--SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society' ~ grams for tlie~·poor.::The success ,called it "a dreadful ordeal for at least once on Sundays. : for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column ~ of stich' plaM is' .virtually always all concerned."

Father Bryan' J. Karvelis, ad- _ and send your offering to Most Reverend 'Edward T. , a threat. t9~t!le local.power.,elite.

In' a ,I,~tter to the, archdiocese O'Meara, National Director, Dept. C;., 366 Fifth Ave, New : Refuses Demands printed in the Catholic Sentinel' ministrator of Transfiguration : York, N.Y. 10001 or directly to your local Diocesan Director. : '. It was only the beginning the archbishop said it was not: parish, where ten men are en-, : when they ,'set fire ;to his house' his, purpose to' take a stand one, rolled in' the program, S'aid the : The Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine ~ in the Spring Of last year. In -- way' or another' on 'the premise, presence of the Church can be : j.

368 North Main Street ., : June, two men claiming to be that war in modern times is to" extended to small. groups with ~ Fail River, Massac,husetts, 02720 . ~~ government agents "arrested~'~" tally inhuman and therefore im-.i the,' help of 'laymen. The ratio ~~ ~ · h G 11 • b I between the number of priests ~ " ~ Falt er a ego. He hasn teen mora.,·., " . , ;. ~ NAME : , : : , , ,............................... ~ seen since.. 'Generai '~T6.ITigas"" But,' he ..said,if. is the business: and people "becomes greater ~ ~ ~ ~ dictator of Panama, 'assured the 'of everyone to bting pressures or; every day," pesaid. : ADDRESS , : ; :.................................. : hishops and the public., that' the religion,. of political influenCe ",Diocesan officials could not ~ ~ government had, nothing to do .' and 'sOcial opinion on anyone. say whether the program wo~ld _CITY :..' , " STATE ,: :, ZIP............ ~~ w.ith the affair; however, he per- who would allow a war "~o.drift arso include women' leaders in : .\_. ~ ..~lt1r-.12 i,.~~ I (. ,,' - ·, ••• 1:,.. ""j~ I. ,.v",'1. ..H,:J $I51s 'in ~f(J's1ng lM "'biSIr(j1j~' de:'" "dn uselessly and' ins'rmety:'" IJ. Ideal' 'congte'g'atlons:"'~' :~" _ " ,.J'!i~".~~~~r"7f~l,..~r".'~ ,· ~~.,;J ., -....! ,'fil,,!.l1e ..1 "

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The patient was in her sixties, a dying individual. "When the "shOUld draw primarily upon the lovely but frightened lady gasp- Christian, in his passage from scriptures, by meditatirig' on ing for bteath with eyes which this life, is strengthened by the those parts which speak of the clearly spbke of th~ terrible fear <body: and blood of Christ, he mystery of human suffering in she felt. I Tubes carried life- has in it the, pledge of re'surrec- Christ and in hi~ works or by sustaining: oxygen into, her siek- tion which the Lord' promised: using prayers drawn from the ly lungs ,'fhile a tearful husband 'He who' feeds on my flesh and psalms and other parts of the held his wife's hand and tried to drinks my blood has life eternal Bible." help ,in some way this anxious and I will raise him up on the I would, like once a'gain to rec" woman, a:beloved companion for last day'.", ommend a little booklet "Fear ~ over 30 years.

A wide and ,flexible variety of Not, I am With You", coinpiled Before ,;Vatican II we rushed texts; In addition to many scrip- by the National Association of l', to give s,uch persons the "last tural selections, the restored rit- Catholic Chaplains and published t' rites"; in I recent years we em- ' ual' includes optional prayers by Alba House on Staten Island. ployed the same basic ritual but lot co~,tains nearly 100 biblical termed this sacrament instead riilllHlgI::mHi@:"im.@t#i(~'-...._ . ' " passages rel'ating to sickness and the "anoirtting of the sick"; soon; death with a thematic index plus thanks to: a November decision many prayers for the sick and By we wiIl use the revised "Rites dying. A handy item to 'have for for the Sitk" issued provisionalthe hospital ,and home. ly by the fHoly See. There are a , FR.' 'JOSEPH M.i A reminder of faith's impornumber of new developments in tance in this' anointing rite. "The , CHAMPLIN this reformed text. , sick man will be saved, by a , statement ' A clearer of the faith that looks back to the sac, sacrament's purpose. Its "pmper llW.l~t:gt&'illH,,1*illl:*ID,m;;;., rifice of the cross (which is the grace.... gives strength to the .-,- ~~' " and blessings designed for the source of the sacrament's power) sick person. This grace endows I special - circumstances of sick and looks ahead to the Kingdom, him withl God-given peace of recipients. For example, it offers' to come (which is pledged in the soul to b,e1ar his SUffering: It also formulas "when the iIlness is a sacraments.)"

My fearful friend in the hospieffects the forgiveness of his result, of advanced age, when sins, if thjs is necessary. And, if, the 'sick person is in great dan- tal was comforted by the anointGod so. wills, the sacramental ing I admininstered and the 'anointing !can even effect a'total gel', for those about to, die." prayers recited by her side that restoration of physical health." .

Bible Readings , Saturday afternoon. - But I think A change in the anointing proP>. recommendation that we 'she and her worried husband cedure. "The celebration of this' : make greater u~;eof the Bible in JWould have been strengthened ,sacramen~ consists :especially in oaring spiritua'1ly for ,the sick. even' more if I had followed the DRUG PROBLEM: Does American Society ask "who' the laying on of pands by the PraYE:rs of and for the infirm' new ceremony. ....... are 'the young facing the drug problem and what is So- 'presbyters of the Church, their ciety doing about it?" Montage of, pills being removed' offering the prayer of faith and the anointing of the sick with oil , from bottle before eyes of a child. , sanctified I by God's blessing." " "The sacrament is normally

BY RUSSELL SHAW country. This does not suggest I anything 'abqut the relative conferred by anointing the sick Yesterday evening I enjoyed the young drug user. Sometime "Modern man beats ,a ,path merits (if that is the word) of person on' the forehead and on a pleasant evening with a friend even physical barriers of separathe hands, The words are divided from the cocktail party to medheroin addiction as compared so that the first part is said of mine who recently returned tion are imposed by outraged icine chest, from corner pub to with ,from a 'ye'ar or two in Vietnam. and/or fifightened parents or alcohol addiction. 'It does while the l forehead, is anointed, He is an offker in the U. S. teachers. street pusher.': .

The author of those words was suggest that a view of the drug,' the latter I part while the hands Army, with broad e~perience as problem' which leaves socially . are anoin~ed'." , Age of Chemicals ArchQishop ,Humberto Medeiros acceptable a counselor. In f'act much of his drugs like alcohol out of Boston. His astringent. com- ' of the picture is hopelessly shortYet, as he pointed out, our .j Formula ~ime ,in Vietnam was spent in, 'ment, in, a pastoral letter on, sighted and thereby certain to whole culture is permeated with trying to cop~ with the spiralling A different "form" or fordrug abuse issued at Easter last produce inadequate explanations the use of chemicals to control mula for I the actual ~nointiilg~ 'llibuse of drugs among the men our' feelings. Several hours of year sketched the outline,s of and solutions. in our armed forces.

"Through i this ,~oly anointing one of the most serious problems watching TV ads is enough to It is true nevertheless that and his great love and kindness, Knowing his professional com- convince one of the all-pervasivein American society. certain drugs-marijuana, LSD, Drugs. Drug abuse. For most heroin, etC.-do play a special may the Lord fill you with the petence and experience, I asked ness of chemical means of power ot Ihis Holy Spirit. In his him about the drug' problem 'COping with reality. We have ~mer,icans the words suggest exrole in today's "youth culture." periences-and people........beyond Drug ~se has become a frighten- ,goodness kay he ease your sufpills for headaches and insomthe ambit of their ,own lives. ing part of the phenomenon ,of fering an~d extend his saving nia, chemicals to control perspiration, nervous indigestion, Teeriage protestors smoking pot youthful protest, the drop-out grace to you, freed from all the By and cop.ception.Ready at hand at an anti-war rally. Hippies on syndrome, the repudi'ation' of power of !sin."

A beautiful section on the 'are pills, drops or sprays to an LSD trip. Inner-city addicts middle-class, over-30 values. But FR.. CARL J. -help us cope with every feeling using heroin. All deplorable-and' while the drugs young people use mystery 6f human sickness, It from extreme depression to unall quite alien,apparently, to may be, symbols of the youth, emphasiz~s'we "should struggle PFEIFER, S,J. ' against ad sickness and carefully bounded exhilaration. the average American. ' , culture, the fact that they use seek • thE1I blessing of good My friend's point was not that The facts are different. ,This is drugs at all is depresssingly cona: drug-qriented culture and ,sistent .with the' overall drug health, 'so that we can fulthese chemical aids to physical country. The reason the Average 'orientation of American' society. fil1 QUI' tqle in human society." and emotional control are bad, At ,the, same moment it recog- among young people. As the but that they occupy a American does not th'h'lk of himnizes thatl for the sick Christian father of five growing young- prominent place in our culture. It : lEscapism " self and his friends as being per. disease, illness and death which sters, and as a dedicated Cath- is not surprising or alien that inWhy do Americans take drugs? sonally involved in the drug problem is that he has conven- , There is no' one answer but a\ can't be avoided have "meaning ,olit' layman, I knew he had a creasing numbers of young peoientlydefined "drug"- to include few basic ,reasons are apparent. ana value Ifor their own salvation , deep personal as well as pro- ple, fora variety of reasons, fessional interest in the educa- turn on to drugs in order to orily things he does not himself Some people, take drugs because and for the world's."

A word! of praise, and encour- tion'al chaIlenge posed by drug cope with feelings of 10neJ.iness, indulge'in-heroin anc;f LSD, for it is the"thing to do in their 'par" example -and to exclude the' tiCular sodal circle, whether that agement, for "doctors and all abuse. depression, "tension, boredom, or 'group; of teenagers among who are d,edicated to helping the drugs he does tise-,...such as al- , is just to have a good time, 'just to He, felt' that the first thing cohol and' tranquilizers.' ,', whom it' I seems' grown~up to sick." "They fulfill the command parents and educators ,needed to feel good. smoke pot ,or a group of middle-. of Christ :to visit the sick" .Our 'do was to keep a bala'nced ,perFor- him a symbol of the interYouth Culture ,,' , aged, executives a,mongWhom ' Lord' implied by those words 'spe¢tive, on the whole situation: relation of so-called drug abuse A study, by ',the New York ,social- drinking' is perceived as that we ('should be . conce~ned 'Many adults, comirig fac'e to face 'and socially acceptable uses of for the 'fhole man and offer Health Services Administration sophistieated. ' with drug abuse for the 'first drugs is the fact that one of the qmcluded that. there may' be as A more: painful problem is both physical re1ief and spiritual time,' regard' it ' as something 'most common drugs abused by . 'many as 300,000 alcoholics iIi posed by people ~ho ,use-and comfort.," j qu,ite alien to normal Atl1erican, GI's in Vi~tnam is a French ,.Ne,,? 'Yor~ ,City alone. By con- ,gen~rally abuse, drugs, because " ; Viaticum life. They tend to be shocked brand of dexedrine,' Obesitol, trast there are' perhaps 250,000 ' they prOVide a'means bfesc,ape.· A recog:lition of Viaticum as 'and' to create it psychological manufactured' for weight control' heroin addicts in, the, entire' Turn to Page Eighteen the "last rites" of the Church for' dis,tance between' themselves' and Turn to Page Eighteen ~

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When you pickup F. J. Sheed's newest book and note that the title is What Difference Does Jesus Make? (Sheed and Ward, ~4 University Place, N.Y., N.Y. 10'003. $6). you can ,be sure, before. reading one line of the text, that ,the answer is not "None," You can be sure of other that "there is nothing in the things as well. One is that heights or depths beyond the secular realm"? Once more, no, the thought and the writing as. the' ideas of Harvey Cox' are stringently handled here: Personal Element By

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will be marvelously clear. An'other is that what is said will be pertinent to contemporary man and contemporary life.' Still another is that a close familiarity with the: Scriptures will be' evidenced.

Nor does reading the book disappoint in. any of these respects. This is vintage Sheed, brisk and invigorating. Its chief concern is to get us to concentrate on the Gospels, to see what is there, who is ther'e.

Mr. Sheed insists that a non~ Gospel Jesus is a mere artifact.

There have been, and are, many such, each manufactured from the rootless musings and the prejudices of its arbitrary fashioner. They have as much value as . a version of the Nebraska footbaM team's 1971 season which totally ignored the record "and relie'd 'soleh, on'freewheeU'iig fantasy.

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Jesus makes is that "he tells us what life is all about, and so makes it possible for Ufi to handle ourselves and our world intelligently." But "the greatest drtiference, the key to all the others as to his own view of reality, is in the God he unveils for us." ,

Father Haering. subscribes to none of the moral fashions of th.e moment; but .asks us to consider the person element in the Gospel, and the fact that in them the law never takes precedence over person with Jesus. "No other book reveals so much about . the truth of personal,ism in action as the Gospels.'"

On a scriptural basis, Father Haering develops the idea of sound Christian morality which does not ignore the person. He makes it obvious that the demands of such a moraHty are strong indeed, explains the motivation and the yield, and calls for a continual conversion on the part of the Christian.

T4is is a rich' and complex book, carefully c.onstructed and argued, persuasive and inviting to a high level of virtue.

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Neither Mr. Sheed nor Father Haering . would have much patience with many statements

by Michael Novak in A!ll the Catholic People (Herder and Herder; 232 Madison Ave., N. Y., N. Y. 10016. $5.95). For one thing, in discussing the Chr,istian WASHINGTON (NC)-Anofreligion Mr. Novak.makes but the ficial Joint study committee, in scantiest reference to the Gos- a report made public here, has pels. For 'another, he ·pronounces endorsed the idea of Roman orthodoxy hateful to him.

Catholic membership in the NaThe theme of his assembled tional Council of Churches but chapters, he says, is "an attempt cautioned that such membership to comprehend the restlessness "will not in' and of itself be a I feel at being horn Catholiq." major ecumenical achievement."

That restlessness would appear The report, summarizing two to have carried him out of the' years of work by 17 representainstitutional Church. tives of the Catholic Church and o8eing Catholic he sees as the National Council, was pubmeaning belonging to a people lished by the U. S. Catholic rather than to a church. Where- Conference here in a 48-page as he gives some resounqing pamphlet.

Morality for Persons wallops to both Catholic conComing at a time when the Another veteran with a new servatives and Catholic liberals, NCe has been seriously re-exambook is Father Bernard Haering. his own position would seem to .ining its own functions and valThe book is Morality is For Per- . be anomalous ,indeed. ues, the report asked two quessons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Counter-Attack tions: whether the NCC or some 19 Union Square, West N. Y., He certainly would not please near equivalent should continue N. Y. 10003. $6.95).

One might suppose from the .Sir Arnold Lunn and Garth Lean, to exist and, if SO,. whether the Catholic Church should be part title that a racUcally new moral- the authors of Christian Counter- of it. ' ity was being here advocated, Attack {Arlington House. $5). o8oth questions the 'committee Sir Arnold is a Catholic; Mr: departing sharp'ly from the tradianswered affirmatively, noting tional one. Such is not the case. Lean, an Anglican. They are that "nearly every argument in equally wroth with what they Rather, . a diiiferent approach favor of the continuance of the to morality is being sketched, consider the spinelessness and NCC (or a comparable succesone which stresses the personal defeatism. of Chdstoians con- Isor) is also an argument for fronted with the challenges of element.

Roman Catholic membership."

Is this a form' of situationeth- the world today. , As expressed in the documents In the first section of their ics? No, the situation ethics of of the. ,second Vatican Council, Joseph Fletcher, for example, are book, the his of our times are the report said: .iRoman Cath'limned; permissiveness, violence '. tellingly criticized by Father olic eeclesiological principles are Haering. Or does the' author and cruelty, the drug. culture, in' substantial accord with the agree with the view that a ma- and so' on. In describing. these, aims and method~ of the NCC." jority vote determines morality? they draw on a great ,many Notes 'Difficulties journaloistic reports and columns Again, no. of opinions.

All in all, a very Properly prepared for, the reIs there sanction of the moralgloomy picture. port said, Catholic membership' .ity deriving:from the assumption Much of the responsibility in .the NCC "might rekindle the , . they fasten on Christians who ecumenical enthusiasm of many Better Parish Life have abdicated .their responsibn- . Roman Catholics, which has GENEVA (NC>-:-Parish life in ity to oppose unreasonable and somewhat subsided since. the' the Evangelical Lutheran Church. ,fmmoral developments. Especial- days of Vatican II" and at the in Hungary'shows a vitality that ly biameworthy is the failure to same time strength'en' the comis' "much Ibetter than in Western make publicly, the strong case· mitment of the presen.t member countries," according to a report for Christian belief and princ;:i- churches of 'the NCC to the.aims of that church's president, Lu-, pie which, -they say, can :easily .and purposes, or. the ecumenical movement::'" ", . thera'1 Bis~op Zoltan Kaldy. be d9ne. .' '"

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But, it added, Catholic participation would become a major .ecumenical a,chievemel}t only "as it rapidly leads to a more concerted action on the part of all the. churches involved, thus bringing the healing power of the gospel to God's pilgrim people and a distraught and divided world.~' The report noted difficulties which must be resolved before Catholic membership becomes possible. Most notable and practical of these, probably, is the question of size. The Catholic Church in the United States has some 48 million members, outnumbering the 42.3 million persons who form the combined memberships of all 33 communions now in the NCC. Since representation in the Council's general assembly and general board is based on the membership of the participating communion, a lopsided situation could develop in which Catholic membership might swamp that of non-Catholics.

Share in Funding To avoid such situation and to keep tke assembly and board to a practical size, the committee recommended the development of new formulas for rep-

resentation and financial support. It suggested as a working principle that the Catholic Church "have not more than a third of the represenatives and not less than a fifth in the top pol~icy-making bodies of the NCC." The question of funding is complicated by the fact that many NeC programs are funded by member churches according to their level of particpation in the programs. Thus, the Catholic share in the $6 million-plus annually allotted to such pro-_ grams would be impossible to estimate without determining how and to what extent the Chu(ch would particpate in various activities.

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Continued from Page Sixteen Reality" is too drab' or too painful or too intractable. Drugs ma1ke it possible to turn one's back, at least temporarily, on facts that cannot be coped with. They During recent years we have had a lot of "non events" ,make it possible to substitllte .iHusion for reality, fantasy for -phenomena which receive vast coveflage in the mass , fact. media but which have no impact on the ~ course of human, Saddest of all are those who affairs. The demonstrations' at the, Chicag() convention ~nd ' take drugs because they no long. : ,l the "conspiracy seven" trial 'er have any choice. Th,e addicts were non events. The media Rece_n~ :r~search indicate~ ,that and the alcoholics. In them the . the 'medIa, mfluence one' kmd ,of more or less agreeable fantasy worked themselves mto. a person--the! upper middle ,class' , has become a nightmare. frenzy about the people m- ' college' educ;ated Republicans.; I What is to be done about the volvedand announced that these ,guess they are welcome to that ' drug problem in American socihappenings were significant 'kind of influence. They probably ety? Many different steps clearly t,:,rning points in American his- 'influence college professors too are needed. Laws must be retory. 'The public Y'awned and -those mo~ naive of ·peopl~ viewed, and probably revised, to changed. but there are not"enough of them" put less emphasis on punishing to make any 'difference. ' , the users of drugs and mOO'e on The media could do we,ll' to rehabilitating' them. Continued, spend some:¢ the time presently research on the effect of ch:ugs, devoted to railing at the govern~ the 'reasons for drug use, and By . ment;s credi'piHty gap to wonder methods of treatment is essenwhy they are no more, belie~ed tial. More programs and faciIi: than the government.

REV. ties for drug users are badly Fill ,Time Space , ' ,needed.

ANDREW M.:[ Challenge What then are we 'to make of GREELEY None of these approaches, the non evertts? They' are enter~ however, goes to the heart of the tainment like everything, else problem. Four young ex-'addicts u@iWllllm:iitWEtIW@ that appears on television-nor indioated what that may be in Mor~ recently, there have been as ,good as "ALl in the Family,'" ,testimony last year before the two non events that directly in- 'Perhaps, but· stiH reasonably President's Commission on Marivalve, the media-the Pentagon diverting. Jack Anderson, Daniel juana and Drug Abuse. Urging Papers and the Anderson papers. Ellsberg, Abpie HoUman, David eUective drug education (and not Columnists and editorial writers Brinkley, the Catholic radicalsjust horror stories) for school scream at each other and at the 'all are broJght to the tube in VIDEOTAPE IMPORTANCE' GROWING:' Edward 'children, they said such propUbH,cab~ut the importance of order to protect us from bore- Becker; of the Community Viideo ,Center of Federal Gity grams must "ask ~em who they these revelations and about how dom during -the six o'clock and College u~es'a portable videotape camera to record events are arid what they are'wor,th, so they make' government in secret 10 o'dack news. they won't be tempted." , imnossible (which is good or bad They are ,not as entertaining during tHe recent CICOP meeting" in Washington. This "Who they are and what they ... but depending on whom you read). as CarroLl O'Connor _ ' then , medium :6f communication is becoming more popular as are worth ..." Tthese may be Daniel Ensberg and Jack Ander- few are. But- they are not really an instrutrtent of social and political reporting. NC Photo. questions to which America's son are damned as selil'-righteous people eithe~; they are -"person- ' I ' OTUg users - and millions of villains and, praised as nob.le' alities" inVOlved in non events , ' f ' , 'other Americans, too":'" do not !that the media crea'tes because have the answers. And that, heroes. And the public yawns someth'ing must fill up, the time again.

Continued from Page Sixteen relationships with parents or more than anything else, may be What do we learn from the :and space available. They have Pentagon Papers? That the no impact on the basic decisions in persons tending toward over- other, ~ign~ic~n~, , respected why they pop pills, smoke pot, ,'I ' ' 'adults. Ll~eWlse" It would seem 'and keep the nation's "liquor American government made in American society (heaven' 'weight. ,'dult E I ' that nothmg has more of a store cash registers jingling. The some serious' miscalculations he1p 'us if !the leaders of the .' A , xamp e " curative effect: 'once 'one' has a, ohallenge to ChristIans, who do about the Vietnam war and did country become like their Ph:O. Wlt.h a ,balanced ,perspectIve drug' probl em. R' k have a vision of man's nature 'd ' th· eJec t"lOn, breanot tell, the public the whole advisers and begin to take the, on 'drugs-not cononmg ell' . ' ff .. h 'and destiny, is clear enough., · I t.t t' t d . ~ mg 0 commUnICatIOn, urts truth 'about the war. Big deal! media seriously). a buse, but ja emp mg, 0 un er more than it heals.

Whether they can communicate ~hey do inot cause war or stand rather than condemn those We needed Ellsberg's happily that vision to others-and therepeace, prosp'erity or depression, Two' college gi.rls, one in the by make a possibly unique conagonized face on TV to tell us victory, or defeat in elections. who have! a' problem: with drugs-parents and teachers are Midwest, the other in the East, tribution to solving the drug ili~ , The best they, can do is maike in ,a better I position to educate confirmed this'insight. From quite crisis-remains to be seen.

Americans Don't Believe some marginal impact-and that the, young I from early years. different environments and wideAnd the Anderson papers sol- usua:lly negative or destructive- BiTst of all such a' perspective 'ly varying experience, b,oth girls Procrastination, emnly assure us that Mr. Kis- on major tr~nds in the country. leads us to: look at ourselves·-- felt that the most important While we ponder when to besinger's public, proclamation of The only one who really takes our own use of alcohol, nicotine, thing adults could do for the , neutrality,in the Indian invasion them seriously are the journal-, and the cqvntless pills ~vailable young drug user (or potential gin it becomes too late to do.

-Quintilian of Pakistan was something less ists, who must take someone for almost ~very ache and pain. user) was to communicate with than a completely a-ecurate state- 'seriously if they are to earn a '.The young I are much more in- genuine understanding. In their ment of American policy. I living, and the tiny s~gment of fluenced by our example than opinion, much of the use of doubt that anyone who regularly the .presum~bl~ well edu-eated hy our ,V-erhal cautions or drugs, beginning already in CHAS~ reads ,tve newspapers had the ': public ~hat l}eheves the TV and •threats. Relaxing with a mar- grade school, arises out of loneslightest doubt about America's press g.wes us news rather than tini is not tiotably different from Iiness, 'boredom, feeling that no obvious sympathy for Pakistan. entertamment. relaxing, w~th marijuana. Such one really cares or understands, understJanding makes possible depression, lack' of challenging Will the revelations of Ellsberg Real Function, and Anderson destroy the cred, the building of bridges with drug things to do in and for the comibillty of the American governAnd of co'urse columnists are , 8!busers. munity, being sated' with matement with-its people? How can entertainers 'too. Once a columSecondly; keeping the drug rial things.

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Says' Missioners Sow Division

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KINSHASA (NC) - The head of the Church of Ghrist in Zaire (formerly the Congo) accused some missionaries of sowing division among African churchmen and called for an extraordinary congress to iron out differences.

Dr. Jean B. Bokeleale, who became head of the Church in Christ, which indude~ 39 Protestant churches and 14 affiliated organizations, in 1970, praised the work of many missionaries but was critical of those he said are dividing Africans.

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton, High Coach

Three New Bedford Schools Qualify for Hoop , Tourney , The city of New Bedford will be well represented

again this year in post-season high school ba~ketball tournaments. Three of the four secondary schools located in the city have already qualified for the Eastern Massachusetts regional tournament and have the opportunity Of ing Holy Family in the South regional playoff. Both. are in digaining a berth in the State vision III which is the smail championships. In aIr prob-.' school bracket. . ability each will enter the' cpmHoly Family, no' stranger to petition as league champion. " tourney co'mpetition, will particiSt. ,Anthony's has already won pate in both the State and Caththe Mayflower League title, olic tournaments. Coach Jack, Holy Family is unbeaten in Nar- , Nobrega's Blue Wave will make ragansett League play and has its tourney start Sunday afterassured itself of the crown, and noon when Class B competition New Bedford needs only one commences at Lawrence Central more win to repeat as Bristol gymnasium in the 39th annual County loop titlist.

New England Catholic BasketCoach Steve McNamara's St. ball Tournament.

The Nobrega coach'ed ParochiAnthony club has a 12-4 re<:ord with three games remaining to als won the Catholic title in 1966 be played. The Saints who com- and 1967. If they can win on pleted Mayflower competition Sunday, the Nobregamen' will with a perfe<:t 8-0 mark, will be advance to the ,B finals on Monin the same bracket as neighbor- day.

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NEUTRALITY: Bishop Cronin, center, avoided all suggestions of strategy to· Jack Curry, left, Bishop Connolly High basketball coach and Jack Nobrega, right, coach at Holy Family High, New Bedford prior to the game betwe~n th~ Cougars and the Parochials.

Perfect Kindness Archbishop Says Hospitals Teach Christ Effectively

CINCINNATI (NC)-Hospitals Durfee and Capeway Conference are sometimes' more effective in champion Barnstable. teaching Christ than churches, In years past Barnstable, as a Auxilary Archibishop Nicholas T. member of the Capeway Confer- Elko of Cincinnati said at the ence, would not compete against rededication of the St. Francis Bristol County League teams in Hospital chapel here. the tourney' unless both adThe archbishop explained that vanced to the state championship round. However, under the hospitals can ,be more effective The Sal Lombardo coached new format individual' schools teachers than churches by pointWhalers enter action this week are classified according to the ing out that "many are carried with an 11-1 league record, two number of boys in grades 10-12 ' into' hospitals who refuse to games ahead of second' place and not as a league member as walk into a church."

Durfee. The only loss suffered was true in the past.

"A hospital staffed by Sisby New Bedford in league play Instead of the old Tech Tour- ters," he continued, "reflects a came at the hands of Bishop ney, Eastern Massachusetts will charity and a merciful kindness Feehan High of Attleboro in the now have six regional tourna- that differ. from routine professecond game of the campaign. ments plus three State divisional sional administration. An agnosNew Bedford will compete in finals. The Mass. Pike divides tic or an atheist who questions division I in the state hoop tour- Eastern Mass. into North and or denies Ghrist cannot question nament. The only other schools South sections. The rest of the or deny the Christ-like charity in the diocese likely to qualify Commonwealth is divided into of tender healing hands." for division I competition are Central and West sectors.

He said that "the non-believer who 'condemns 'God because He Changes Bring New Look to State Play-off permits suffering begins to see The four classes of a year ago should qualify barring a disas- that pain is an integral part of a temporary life which is a prehave been transformed into three trous final week. divisions based on enrollment.

Sandwich overtook Martha's lude to eternal life. All that one Therefore, it is possible that Vineyard in the Cape and Island has to do is look at' a crucifix two teams from the same league League race last week and holds on the wall in a Catholic hospico~ld qualify for the tourney a two' game edge entering the tal and see the answer written and compete in different brack- final stage of the campaign. The on that wall.... The admission ets. league leaders are presently 11-1 ticket to the joyful hallways of heaven is suffering."

Such may be the case with in the circuit and apparently t~urney bound.

Archbishop' Elko tompared Barnstable and Lawrence .High The Cape and Islands League "good Sisters, nurses and docof Falmouth. The Red Raiders, as' stated previouslY, will co~pete consists of the smaller Cape tors" with St. Veronica, because in division 1. If Fah;nouth gains schools. But under the new toura 'berth, which it probably will, nament format schools qualifyN~w Status ing from the loop will have an it will compete in division II. 'opp'ortunity to compete against PEVELY (NC)-The Benedic-.

Holy Family because of its the likes of Holy Family or St. tine monastery of St. Pius X has small enrollment will be in divi- ' Anthony's. It will be interesting been raised to the status of an sion III. But, Somerset although to see how these often negle<:ted independent and autonomous abbehind Holy Family in the Narry clubs fare against well publicized bey, and Father Marcian O'Meara League standing will be in divi- teams. has been elected its first abbot.' sion II if it is to meet the qualiAlso, at a time when the en- St. Pius X Abbey is the daughfying criteria. tire diocese is undergoing a terhouse of Conception Abbey Last year a team had to win change in league structure, it in Conception, Mo. Through its 70 per cent of its games to gain will be interesting to compare the family life center, St. Pius X a tourney berth. This year the fortunes of, various teams as Abbey gives retreats to married percentage has been lowered' to they compete against schools of couples" families and special 65. 'Both Falmouth and Somerset comparable size. groups. \

New Bedford, by virtue of its victory over Durfee High of Fall River last week, needs only one more triumph to retain its Bristol County League crown. The Crimson and White are scheduled to play Taunton and Bishop Stang of Da~tmouth this week.

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"they assuage the face of pain and bring out the trace of divinity of the soul."

And he compared the hospital's volunteers with Simon of Cyrene, who helped Jesus carty His cross. "They, too help busily occupied attendants carry their crosses and assignments, who in turn help the bed-ridden whose arms are extended in suffering."

"A hospital whose emblem is the cross," he said, "is a testing ground for faith-faith of the patient in Christ . . . faith of the healers in their patients' enduring trust in God." Moreover, the hospital offers opportunities far . others to perform corporal works of mercy, he said; "The ways of God are strange," said the archbishopp, "for they bring those to whom· God has been a stranger to a predicament where He is better known and loved.' The sermon preached day and night in hospitaI wards brings about a higher and deeper evaluation of how the heavenly Father accepts not only the cross of His divine Son 'as ,a payment for sins but also of how He is pleased to accept the sacrifices of those who stand under His cross."

In a letter to missionaries in' Zaire he said that the division stems' from those who oppose the Clllrrch of Christ because 'it was organized by Africans and not missionaries.

Dr. Bokeleale said that it is diUicuit for some missionaries to leave Africans "free to think and allow the Holy Spirit free action among Africans as they meditate on the Word of God." The African leader said that the divisions and conflicts and the creation of various sectswhich he blamed on missionaries :..-....is disturbing, not just for the sake of our witness and the effectiveness of our evangelization, but also be<:ause these divisions and conflicts threaten the peace of our country and sow hatred and distrust between citizens of this nation who need love, brotherhood and understanding."

Photo Editor Wins National Citation WASHINGTON (NC) - Frank Hoy, editor of the NC Picture Service, won honorable mention in the feature photo category in the 1972 White House News Photographers Association an· nual competition.

Hoy's award entry, a photo of a black youth in a ghetto, was one of several hundred photos submitted in' the features category by photographers. He joined NC News Service as photo editor two years ago after a long career as a staff photographer of the Washington Post.

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