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minerals and destroy its capacity unused in Ethiopia. Our governto produce food. British scientist ment has retired at least 22.5 and author C. P. Snow is quoted million ·acres into the soil bank, and former Agriculture Secretary 'in a recent article as saying: "We shall, in the rich coun-', Clifford Hardin reported that the ,tries, be surrounded by a'· sea of government may have' to spend famine. Many millions of people, $2 billion in 1972 to head off are going to starve. We shall see surpluses in'. corn ana other· . them doing so on our television grains. . Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wysets." (Time, Sept. 13, 1971) An Anchor oj the Soul, Sure and Firm-Sf. Paul. Commenting on this array of oming, North and South Dakota bleak forecasts, Time noted in each have a population of less a cover article a few years ago: than a milHion people. In CaliFan River, Mass., Thurs.,· February 24, 1972 "The only safe generalization fornia, almost half of the 20 about long range population pre- million people live in four counPRICE 10~ I 16, 1'IIio..III1II O. 8 . V O. © 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per year dictions is that they have always ties. A news report last August revealed that Australia,. which proved wrong." is as large as the United States, So there is another side to this has a population equal to the issue which somewhat reduces· state of Ohio. Huge land areas the impact of the .strident such as Mindanao in the Philipprophecies of ~oom. Little em- , pines are uncultivated. phasis, for -instance, .is given to Dr. Colin Clark, one of the. the fact that 70 per cent of the world's great economists, served people in the United States live VATICAN CITY (NC) - The resulting have not been for the a' number of years as direc~ for on 2 per cent of the land. The present crisis over the identity better, includ,jng those who want tor of the Economics Research Amazon Basin in Brazil is 1/20th of the Catholic priest can be an- to throw off "every clerical or Institute ·at Oxford. He recently of he land sufface of the earth swered with three words, Pope ~eligious distinction ... ,in short and is still virgin soil. There are published a book entitled, "PopPaul VI told an audience of to laicize themselves" so as to 180 milHon acres of some of the ulation Growth and Land Use." Roman priests. Turn to Page Six world's most· fertile soil lying It is his contention that if we • Talking to the assembled pas-' take wiorld resources of ·arable tors and Lenten preachers of land at 4 billion acres, this Rome, the Pope said th!Lt the would feed 47 bill-ion people. . identity of priests and their role Henrick S. Houthakker, a in the Church can be answered member of President Nixon's with the words that they are Raymond E. Lambert, Sr. mem: ish and also holds the office of portunity to work with the Council of. Economic Advisers, • "chosen", "disciples" and "apos- ber of St. Mary's parish, North vice( president of his parish's priests and my fellow Catholics said recently at American Unitles." Attleboro, will serve as Diocesan council board., He is a partner and our non-Catholic friends of versity that he saw little reason Without dismissing the present Lay Chairman of the 1972 Cath- in the Lambert Engineering Co. the Appeal. This is the Bishop's to expect overpopulation around ~ uproar over the priestly identity olic Charities Appeal. in Attleboro and treasurer of the second Appeal and it is the the world. To this he added the crisis, he said: "The difficult peThe appointment of the prom- Lamb~rt Engraving Co., Inc. and thirty-first annual call for char- comment that population control riod which we are going through inent Attleboro area Catholic Lambert Anodizing Co., Inc. also ity in the Appeal's history. I ·as a means of development was has brought even into our house layman was a!1nounced today by in Att!l~boro. am looking forward with enthus- a simple-minded idea. A similar its aggressive overflow, which is the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Mr. Lambert is rrial'l'ied to'tlie iasm to assure a bigger and bet- observation was made last Sepprovidential in some aspects and S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. This former Marion Yvonne Santoro, ter'1972 Catholic Charities Ap- tember by Ben Wattenberg, a dangerous and nega1tive in is the thirty-first annual Appeal a native of Franklin, Mass. She peal for the benefit of the agen- demography expert and former others." and it is Bishop Cronin's second was educated at Franklin High cies of the Appeal. With God's .member of' the White House The Pope granted that many year as honorary chairman of the School and Wilfred Academy. help and with the untiring ef- staff. He stated: "There is no priests today are questioning Appeal. They are the parents of twelve . forts of everyone in the southTum to Page Three their traditional role in the eastern area of the state, Bishop children, all living at home. Mr. Lambert, a native of AtChurch and are being "almost Following notification of his Cronin will be able to continue canonically mumified by our tleboro, attended public schools to in his native city. A conyert selection by Bishop Cronin, Mr. the works of charity, mercy and crystaIlized mentality and tradiRoman Catholicism in 1949, the Lambert, in a telephone conver- social service to all, regardless . tional attitudes." ~'an 1972 Catholic Charities Appeal sation with Rev. Msgr. Anthony of color or creed. (' ·He noted that ,the Va:tican The Special Gifts phase of the is a past president and M. Gomes, dioc.esan director of chairman i Counoil· of 1962-65 had called for changes in ecclesiastical life presently treasurer of the confer- the Appeal, said: "I am happy Appeal will be from April 24 to The National Assembly of and that some of the changes ence of the Society of St. Vin- to serve as chairman. I am grate- May 6. The Parish campaign will Women Religious' will make. cent de Paul of St. Mary's par- ful to Bishop Cronin for the op- be conducted from May 7-17. plans for a Fall River chapter at' I:t a meeting to be held at 2:30 Sun,@ day afternoon, March 12 at 570 if" Rock Street, Fall River. Contact person for the Fall River diocese with the national organization is 'Sister Barbara Scully, who' may ERLANGER (NC)-Three diobe reached at the aibove address. ceses in the Church province of Fall River Sisters held a preLouisville may end up five years liminary meeting earlier this from now with 90 fewer priests month at which Sister Madonna than they had at the end of 1971, Moran, R.S.M., New England co.. according to a report, here in ordinator for NAWR, explained Kentucky by priests' senates. activities of the organization. The ,report was a major item Among New England proon the agenda of the third annugrams are research on the minisal meeting of the senates of try and the ecclesiaI woman be- . priests of the dioceses in Louising carried out by Boston NAWR " ville province. members; the involvement of The report's projection was women In pastoral commissions that the Louisville archdiocese in Manchester, N. H.; and study " may have 39 fewer priests ac.li in Providence as to the inclusion tively engaged in the ministry by of nuns in team ministries. ~ the end of 1976. By the same A member of the administradate the Covington diocese may tion of Mt. St. Mary College, have 40 fewer priests and the Hooksett, N. H., Sister Madonna 1 Nashville diocese 10 fewer. encouraged Fall River Sisters to / The basis for the projected destudy the needs of their diocese clines was a survey made by and to consider ways of making each of the priests' senates on themselves heard in decisions the status of priest personnel in affecting their communities, five dioceses over the past five parishes and apostolates. APPEAL CHAIRMAN AND FAMILY: Front: James 10, Frances 7, Mr. and Mrs. '. years. No projections were made NAWR -is a committee of the for the dioceses of Owensboro, Lambert, Paul 11, Christine 9, and Kathleen 4. Rear: Patricia 16, John 14, Mary 21, Ray- Conference of Major Superiors r Turn to Pa~e Three Qf Women. mond, Jr., 19, Anne 17, Joseph 15, and Pet~r 13...
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BY BISHOP JOHNR. QUINN
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Three Words.A'nswer, Priesthood Crisis .
(NC News 'Service) . There is probably .no 'panic ·.like a fire. The blaze begins. The firemen are called. Sirens shriek as fire trucks race· down the street. Alarmed drivers jerk out ·of the way. Doors fling open and huddled groups become crowds of onlookers. Emotion is instant, intense and absorbing. The panic of a fire, however, · 'is mild compared to the hysteria .now raging on the subject of population control. . . The ·.most dismal and horrify· ing predictions have been made by some impressive sources. Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford has saId that if something dramatic isn't done 'immediately there is no hope that civilization will last (Time, Sept. 13, 1971). It is said that the present world poupulation is 3.7 bill'ion and that in ·another 30 years it will be 7 billion. A book by Fairfield Os· 'born, "Our Plundered Planet", predicts that mankind will ulti· mately denude the earth of its
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Three Dioceses To Face Critical Priest Shortage
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