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SSe Peter and Pau.1 Plans· Dedication of Complex Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will dedicate the SS. Peter and Paul .

Parish complex of church, school and center in Fall River on Sunday, April 27. The dedication Mass will be at 4 p.m. and will be followed by a banquet at 7 p.m. at t....e Coachman Restaurant in Tiverton.

Bishop Cronin will be homilist at the Mass. Rev. Francis M. Coady, pastor and Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, associate, who are gen· eral chairmen of the dedication committee, will be principal concelebrants. They will be joined by many priests.

The combined church choirs are preparing a speCial musical program to be offered at the mass.

Trustees Edward Tyrrell and William Hyland Jr., and wives are co-chairmen of the banquet which will be preceded by a cocktail hour at 6, and followed· by dancing until 1 a.m.

A dedication book will he printed for the occasion. It wil~ contain the history of the parish with photographs, past and present, and the listing of memorial gifts, sponsors and benefactors.

Chairman Mrs. Stanley Janick said the deadline for donations is March 17. They may be sent to Mrs. Janick or the rectory.

Mrs. Janick, also chairman of the non-parish contact committee, reports that efforts of this group are being well received by the business and professional community.

Working hard to round up SS. Peter and Paul School graduates is the alumnae contad committee. Cbairman Mrs. Charles Bell said "we are having difficulty trying to complete the list and would appreciate all the help we can get from parishioners and former parishioners."

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New York Catholic Charities Program for Jobless Expands NEW YORK (NC)-Two New York Catholic Charities programs designed to find jobs for the unemployed have expanded; it was announced here, as state Labor Department statistics indicated that the unemployment rate in the city reached 10.6 per cent in January.

Msgr. James J. Murray executive director of Catholic Charities, announced that the organization's Archdiocesan Vocational Services for those out of work and its Neighborhood Youth Corps for high school dropouts from low-income families have relocated to larger facilities.

Discussing the impact of recessional layoffs on the work force, Msgr. Murray said: "Those requesting job placement aid are not only the unskilled workers who traditionally call upon the vocational services of Catholic Charities. They include rising numbers from management and skilled blue collar 'levels and many have been referred by the New York State

Employment Service ana other state and city agencies." ·Farrell Hopkins, director of both programs, said a key factor this year in opening up work opportunities is job development ,through constant contacts with private sector employers at all management levels.

He explained that the Arch· diocesan Vocational Service seeks to link people 18 years and up with appropriate employment possibilities suited to their schooling, skills and work his,tories. Before making referrals, the service conducts its own interviews and preliminary screenings and counsels individuals regarding job application techniques.

'Placing young people in permanent jobs is the goal of the Neighborhood Youth Corps program. Dealing with academically -and economically disadvantaged boys and girls aged 16 to 20, the Youth Corps activities concentrate on educational improvement and job training.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope -in your hearts. You say: we Paul VI told about 16,000 young . do not want the world as it appeople March 2 that many pears before us. youths who think they are free "A world that offers you the ar~ really enslaved by the will most beautiful, perfected and of a group, a social movement enjoyable fruits of modern civor a "collective rebellion," ilization does not please or satAddressing a Holy Year pil- ify you, even though you can grimage of the Catholic "Gen" easily take advantage of the (standing for "new generation") achievements, comforts and marmovement in S1. Peter's Bas'ilica, vels that modern progress puts the Pope added that youths who at your disposal," choose Christ will remain disThe Pope told the Catholic satisfied with a consumer cul- youths that choosing Christ ture and will reject conformism.

As some youths perched atop the Basilica's confessionals, the Pope said: "How many young people think they are free because they have cast off the habits and the authority of family life, without realizing that they have become enslaved by The second consultation for subjection to the arbitrary the National Catechetical Direc· choice of a group, a social cur- tory is in full gear in the Diorent, a collective rebellion cese of Fall River. Close to forty (Exclamation point)" priests, coordinators, teachers The pilgrims of "Gen" were and parents attended anyone joined in the. Basilica by about of three core meetings held 4,000 others, making it neces- Tuesday, February 25. Directing sary for officials to seal off the the area meetings were Sr. Rita Basilica's huge entranceways.

Pelletier, SSJ, Association DirecThe Pope questioned the tor for Youth, Fall River-New crowd: "What are you seeking? Bedford; Sr. Theresa Sparrow.

You, the young people of the RSM, Coordinator for Youth, present, already have a negative Taunton - Attleboro; and Rev. reply-almost a rebellious replY Michel G. Methot, Associate Director for Adult Education, the Cape. _ Although a general announcement of the meeting had been made, invitations were extended

sets you free from the passive conformism that draws along so many of the young people of our time: conformism to the domination of the thought of others, to currents of fashion in culture and behavior, to the minicry of the masses.

According to the Pope, a sense of "criticism, contestation and even nausea" stops many young people today from following a "materialistic, hedonistic and selfish" culture.

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MARRIOTTSVILLE (NC)-Thc National Catechetical Directory, the permanent diaconate, priest· ly formation programs, the role of women, amnesty, the fooll stamp program, the nation's economy, and the current situa· tion in the Middle East were among concerns that emerged at a meeting of the U.S. bishops' Advisory Council here.

The 60-member council is a representative group of men and women in the U.S. Catholic Church who are invited twice a year to review and comment on the agendas prepared for the meetings of the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCeB) and the Administrative Board of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC).

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to those who had participated as . core group members during the first phase of the national consultation, last Winter.

The responses to the First Draft, now being published in edited form in a Hi-part weekly series in the Anchor, has been encouraging and enlightening.

Among the observations made by those attending the meetings is the positive stress on the need for adult education; the focus on the liturgy; the purpose of catechesis as the worship and communion with God; the importance of the parent in the religious training of the children.

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Area Gi~J Scouts Not Involved In Dispute A controversy, apparently based on the "To Be A Woman" badge program. developed in and for the Philadelphia Girl Scout Council. not by the Girl Scouts of the U. S. A., has been reported between the Diocese of Philadelphia ~ and the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia.

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Broad Range Continued from Page One

~ecollection Day,

The bishops, priests, men and women Religious, and laypersons of the Advisory Council come from every region of the country. Almost every element within the American Church-white, black, Spanish-speaking, Indian, rich, poor, young and old-is represented.

The council's recommendations to the NCCB Administrative Committee and to the USCC Administrative Board normally are not publicized at the time of its meeting, but its viewpoints are often revealed following board or committee decisions.

Diaconate Rite At La Salette As part of the Lenten program of La Salette Shrine, AtlIeboro, a morning of recollection :will be held on Wednesday, March 19, Ute feast of St. Joseph. Conducted by Rev. Ber· nard Bari5, M.S. and Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S., the morning will have "Honesty" as its theme and. will begin at 10 AM. in the People's Chapel. It will conclude with Mass at 12:10 P.M. Two Deacons Also on Man:h 19, at 7:30 P.M. in St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro, Bishop Daniel A Cronin will confer the diaconate on Brother Richard Brochu. M.S. of 'the La Salette Shrine program team and Brother William Drapeau, M.S. of the Center for Christian Living.

All are invited to attend both events.

SSe Peter & Paul Continued from Page One the history committee coordinated by William Tansey.

Father Coady is impressed with the zeal of committee memmers. "They are really working hard to make the dedication program the most memorable event in the annals of the parish," b3 stated. "n won't be their fault if it isn't an outstanding success."

The task of reconstruction is in its final stages, according to foather Tosti. All that remains to be done in the church is the installation .of stations of the cross and 25 stained glass windows, depicting the history of salvation from the Creation to the Second Coming of Christ.

"All who see the new church for the first time just can't believe their eyes," declared Father Tosti. "To say that parishioners are pleased with the transformation is putting it mildly; actually they bubble over with satisfaction."

Teachers and pupils alike are delighted with the new school with all its modern facilities and conveniences. Parents, too, are most enthusiastic about the new "look," says the principal, Sr. Ann Marie, RSM. The exterior of the rectory is now getting a face-lifting, and work is expected to begin soon on a parking area on the site of the parish church destroyed by fire April 10, 1973.

Entrances will be on both Dover and Snell Streets, and the centerpiece will be the cornerstone of the old church.

Father Coady announced that a public open house is planned early in the spring, but no date has been set.

NCD Report Spokesmen said the council heard an explanation of the USCC agenda and of the conference's special projects from Bishop James S. Rausch, NCCBUSCC general secretary.

PASTORAL VISIT: Bishop Cronin is shown greeting parishioners at St. Mary's Church in New Bedford on the occasion of a pastoral visit to that parish. Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, pastor, is at the left and Rev. William W. Norton, assistant, is at 'right.·

Hospital Chaplains' Hold Institute MENLO PARK (NC) - While there is a theology of illness, "a sick person is closer to understanding more accurately, theologically, where he stands in relation to God." This was one of the themes developed by Father Raymond K. Smith at the Pastoral Insti· tute for General Hospital Chaplains at Vallombrosa Retreat Center here in California. Tbe two-week institute is sponsored by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains, United States Catholic Conferenc!!, and drew priests and doctors from all parts of the country.

Father Smith, who is director, department of pastoral care, St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, said illness confronts us with a situation "where human capacities are limited and fragmented by circumstances often beyond personal control."

"It may be that our human task in confronting illness is to realize that illness intensifies the sometimes mysterious relationship between God and His fragmented image on earth," he said.

"Man in this condition becomes aware, sometimes with remarkable clarity, of his earthly imperfectibility and comes intuitively to a conclusion that reason never enabled him to come to even in his healthiest state-that the meaning of his life is that in this moment, where he faces deprivation of wholeness, he is aware that his struggle to make certain of God and salvation is ended. Tbe cross of suffering is lightened enough to reveal that the salvation that is present in

South Easton Necrology MARCH 22 Rev. Joseph A. Martins, 1940, A5sistant, St. John Baptist, New Bedford MARCH 27 Rev. James W. Conlin, 1918, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset Rev. Msgr. Antonio P. Vieira, 1964, Pastor, Mt. Carmel, New Bedford

Holy Cross Church, South Easton, will be the scene at 11 AM. Saturday, March 22 of the ordination of two members of the Eastern Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Rev. Mr. James T. Preskenis, Stough· ton, and Rev. M. Michael B. Sullivan, Port Orchar:i, Wash., will be ordained by Most Rev. Lawrence L. Graner, C.S.C.,· former archbishop of Dacca, Ban· I;ladesh.

his defeat is so free that nothing can prevent him from seeing the Whole even in this fragment.

"This is theologizing, I pre-

Prisoners to Benefit From New Office OAKLAND (NC) - A criminal justice office has heen established in the Oakland diocese to assist persons in custody accused and convicted of violations of crimes.

Some concerns of the new agency will be: -Research into what· the Church can do directly for those in custody, aid for families of victims of crime and studies of the inadequacy of the prison svstern and possibilities for its im· provement.

-Placement of prison chaplains and development of a more complete ministry to those in prisons.

-Consideration of em,ty convents and other surplus buildings for use as "halfway" houses and pre-trial detention facilities. Such facilities, Father Joyce said, need not be operated by the diocese.

-Encourage and define volunteer work in criminal justice programs by the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Black Catholic Caucus and other church 'affiliated groups.

-Recognize specific problems of incarcerated women and their difficulties when returning to the community.

-Encourage employers to hire ex-prisoners and set an example by hiring them in the diocese where possible.

-Work with the pre-trial services co-ordinator in Alameda County and later develop a similar program in Contra Costa County.

-Assist parishes in recruiting qualified volunteers to work in jail programs.

sume, but nl)t one of definition, but rather more of a dynamic response to the natural alternation of striving and relaxing in all life. The certainty of God's love for us is always accompanied by a corresponding effort to feel that one is worthy of it.

"When one loses his weapon in battle, he becomes defenseles:; and looks for protection from other than his accustomed arms. A sick person is closer to understanding more accurately, theologically where he stands in relation to God. He may need reinforcement or clarification of the synthesis of the divine will and his condition."

On the subject of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, Father Smith said it must be realized that "sickness is more than a medical pbenomenon," "The whole person is sick and sickness constitutes a threat to this person's salvation, his life with Christ," he said. "And this is our problem, our responsibility, our purpose in health care.

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The council had invited Sister Mariella Frye, associate director of the National Catechetical Directory project, to report on the consultation now in process for tbe NCD. The Advisory Council has its own ad .hoc committee to keep its members informed on the directory's progress.

Although admitting to "some unevenness" in the various chapters of the first draft of the directory, Sister Frye said it was "actually more like the 15th draft of the first draft," hinting at the amount of work already expended on the project. The bishops of the United States will study the Directory during their Spring regional meetings tb:s year.

TV Mass Camp Fire Girls and leaders of the Greater Fall River Council will participate in the television Mass to be broadcast on WTEV Channel Six at 8:45 a.m.

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Pope Hails 'Profoundly Religious' Michelangelo on Fifth Centenary VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope has left us a more worthy or Paul VI, seated below Michelan- religious example."

The Pope traced Michelange· . gelo's dome in St. Peter's Basilica, praised the great arist 500 lo's history from his birth in years after his birth as a "pro- Caprese in Tuscany to his death in Rome at the age of 89 in his foundly religious" man. , The Pope lauded Michelangelo house near Trajan's Forum. The during his general audience of Pope recalled that another Pope March 5, the day before the Paul-Paul HI-appointed the 500th anniversary of Michelan- artist to be the official painter, sculptor and architect of the geol's birth.

According to Pope Paul, some apostolic palaces at the Vatican.

In 1547, at the age of 72, he experts say that Michelangelo's scultpre, painting and architec- was chosen to succeed Antonio ture "introduced a pagan con- da Sangallo as architect of St. cept into Christian art," while Peter's.

Pope Paul VI mentioned that others maintain that he gave a superbly Christian expression to Michelangelo took the commission "out of obedience and 'for classical pagan art.

"Let us leave to the critics the love of God, without any other task of investigating this and reward.' " The Pope then recounted a coming up with an answer. For us now it is enough to recognize tour of the basilica, given him. the unparalleled greatness of this years ago by Pope Pius XI. artist and to recall that in senti"Pius' XI spoke with praise. ment he was profoundly reli- about the appearance of the cupgious." ola, conceived not only as a As shafts of light beamed great architectural aqd artistic through the dome's large win- . work, but as a. biblical and siprdows, the Pope told groups of itual monument."

Italian pilgrims and tourists: "We give admiration and hon- College Appoints or to the great man, we pray still for his peace and glory, New President consistent with the inheritance NOTRE DAME' (NC) - John of faith and beauty than which, M. Duggan, vice-president for in the realm of art, no one else student affairs at Vassar Coliege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has appointed president of St. Education Materials been Mary's College here.

Freed for Schools Holy Cross Sister Kathleen CINCINNATI (NC)-Education- Anne Nel'ligan, chairman of the al materials valued at· $650,000, corporate board of St. Mary's, requested by Catholic schools in said Dr. Duggan's appointment the Cincinnati area under Ohio's is effective July I, 1975. auxiliary services law, have been He will succeed acting presfreed from a legal logjam. ident William A. Hickey, who Cincinnati City Solicitor will return to his position as Thomas Luebbers had been vice-president for academic afasked by the Cincinnati Public fairs.

School District for an opinion on Dr. Duggan, who is also a whether equipment and supplies professor of psychology at Vasfor industrial arts, home eco- sar, joined that college's adminnomics, husiness education, istration in the winter of 1969 physical education and science after serving as vice-president labs could be included in the of the College Entrance Exam"audio-visual aids category." ination Board for five years.

Luebbers' opinion, in sum- Earlier, he served for four years mary, was that the Cincinnati as assistant dean of freshman at Scr..ool District could purchase . Ya'1e. He also taught at the Uniall of the materials, supplies and versity of Bridgeport, Conn., equipment about which it had and the Canterbury SChool, New Milford, Conn. raised questions.

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Holy Cross Head Is Tauntonite WORCESTER - Michael K. McManus, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. McManus of 505 Bay St., Tautlton, has been elected chairman of the InterHouse Congress at Holy Cross CoHege.

McManus, a junior mathematics major, was chosen by popular vote to head the organization which represents the College's students in matters of llICademic and non-academic policy.

In his new post, McManus said he hopes to alter the present system of student represen~ tation at Holy Cross and create a governing body that is efficient and responsive to student needs.

Besides his responsibilities in student government, McManus is a member of the Holy Cross curriculum committee and has consistently been named to the Dean's List.

The Taunton student is a 1972 graduate of Coyle and Cassidy High SChool in Taunton where he was a student council member and valedictorian of his class.

ART AND REUGION: The use of art for a religious purpose is shown in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel where Michelangelo's Last Judgment dominates the wall behind the altar. NC Photo.

Vatican Diplomats .Try to Ease Church Situation in East Europe VA11lCAN OITY (NC)-Two of the Vatican's top diplomats were in communist-ruled countries of East Europe at the end of February, sounding out how best to improve conditions for Catholics- there.

Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, secretary of the Vatican's Council for Public Affairs of the Church, was in Czechoslovakia.

His task was described to NC News Service by a member of the council as "a last-ditch effort to save the Church in Czechoslovakia." It was a threeday visit.

Archbishop Luigi Poggi was in Poland for a month's visit to as many dioceses as possible, and for direct negotiations with ,government officials. In view is an eventual concordat between the Vatican and Poland's communist government.

In Czechoslovakia, since Soviet tanks crushed Alexander Dubeek's attempt at "communism with a human face" in 1968, the hard-line government which holds power has continued to oppose any relaxation in lhe state's anti-Church attitude. .Of the dozen Czechoslovak dioceses, 10 are without residential bishops and only two of those vacant Sees have apostolic administrators, that is, administrators with formal approval from the Vatican. In addition, there is an apostolic administrator at Trnava but this is not considered a residential See. One Seminary Of the 3,500 priests in the

country more than 500 are impeded by the regime from working as priests. Only one seminary has been permitted to remain open, and that with a restricted, government controlled enrollment. AU Religious houses have been closed.

"My talks with Czech Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chnoupek are not in the nature of negotiations," Archbishop Casaroli told reporters' on landing in Prague Feb. 24.

"But we hope they wiH not prove fruitless."

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI reminded consultors of the Pontifical Commission for Socia'! Communications here of the importance their work has for the Church, and of their responsibility to report news ·objectively.

The 27 consultors' from many nations, many of them working journalists, were at the Vatican for several days of meetings.

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Archbishop Casaroli told collaborators at the Vatican before leaving that his visit could not be considered a continuation of the intermittent talks which had last taken place in Rome in November, breaking down without positive outcome and not even fixing a date for a further meeting.

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Area Girl Scouts Continued from Page One the framework of Girl Scout policy.

"Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Council does not have now, nor does it plan to develop a program similar to the 'To Be A Woman' badge program," said Mrs. Gerrit Sanford, president of :Plymouth Bay. "Our own board of directors makes the decisions as to what special programs shall be offered to meet the needs of the girls within our jurisdiction." ,

Back to Basics There is a movement within the various Protestant communities to get back to basics, to restate and re-examine and reflect upon matters of faith.

The churches have discovered that the social activism of the past several years has called for a more basic foundation than merely the cry for involvement. They see not the de-emphasis on social concern but, rather, a greater emphasis on the things of God, on man and his relationship with God, on the contents of faith, and this will surely bring in its wake a concern for social issues as well.

All this is seen as a reaction-and a welcomed onefrom the "fad" theologies and movem~nts of the 60's. Then people were urged to see God in activity and especially in activity that focused on concern for other people. However worthy the call for coming to the assistance of those in need, it was discovered that this was simply not satisfying, that the soul of man yearned for the vision of God, that consideration for one's neighbor took on validity and was enduring only when seen in the light of man and God. And so now members of various Protestant and Orthodox groups are asking themselves, What do we believe?

They are asking where they stand on faith issues. They are calling for more discussion on God as Creator and Lord, on Jesus Christ as divine, on the basic matters of faith that once were thought to be the province of a few abstruse theologians.

This is an exciting and happy development.

It is one that Catholics must be prepared to discuss with their brothers and sisters of other religious persuasions.

Father Mayhew

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_Work of Re-Living It is not out of place during this week of Lent to ask

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those who have done little to make Lent a time of unusual spiritual effort to reflect and, hopefully, to make a beginning even now. And those who have been living a Lent in-llnion with Christ must be aware that the approach of Easter is ever nearer and holds out the promise of being the crown of their efforts.

REV. JOHN F. MOORE St. William's ChurCh Nothing will be more disappointing than for a person to approach Easter -with the knowledge that it is a single date'on'a calendar but is not making an impact on a life.

The whole period of Lent and Easter is a whole, a re-living in the here and now of the life and suffering and Outside the public library in New Bedford stands the death and redemptive activity of Jesus Christ. famous whaleman statue. Inscribed on the face of the monuUnless there is a re-living of that in union with the . ment is the phrase "a dead whale or a stoved boat." Whaling Lord, Holy Week and Easter are past events recalled rather is a thing of the past and soon the men who 'go down to the than being, as they in realty are, the renewal and application sea in ships will experience How can our aged woodenof the work of salvation. the same fate if someone hulled 75 foot trawlers compete does not come to the aid of with a modern 300 to 500 foot Strengthen the Attack the fishing fleets not only of floating processing plant flying Sale of a record 602.2 billion cigarettes last year in the this area but of the entire the hammer and sickle of RusUnited States points up the fact that people want what they United States. Today's fisherman sia? Day after day, brave men want and seem willing to take great risks for the sake of has found that his boat has been from this area leave port with - stoved in not by the legend of archaic and outmoded equipment their habits. a Moby Dick but by the whale- to face the most modern Soviet The rationale of cigarette smoking is difficult to like appetite of foreign fishing fishing fleet in history. understand. vessels and the complete indifNot only must they compete The introduction of smoke, however controlled and ference of our own government.

It is a sad sight to see the against these odds to seek what flavorful, into sensitive areas of mouth and nose and lungs small, rusting trawler and dra-g- remains of the once plentiful has been discussed by psychologists and sociologists and gers leave our fishing poits food sources of the sea but they other. medical authorities at great length. knowing that in a few hours and also must dq battle on the high From time to time there have been mofilest reductions a few short miles from our seas as Russian ships destroy in the use of cigarettes and among certain groups. But before shores they will be .outclassed, their gear and equipment. As a long the arrow starts to climb again on the charts and outnumbered and outproduced result fewer American boats are by the new giants of the sea willing to leave port, the fishing previous records fall to newly-established ones. that gobble up what was once industry is in decline and a necOnce again the medical and public health officials and one of our most productive essary food source is being dethose interested in the areas of self-control must regroup food sources and industries. pleted. their forces and strengthen their attack on a habit whose Few Really Care consequences are fearsome.

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Yet the greatest tragedy of all in this battle of the seas is that so few really do care. For example, what has the federal government really done to help renew and develop, expand and refurbish the New England fishing fleet?

Very little indeed. In fact it seems to have more interest in protecting the Russian fleet 'than modernizing and updating our own fishing industry.

Outside of mere tokenism, the local elected officials have not used their political influence or

energies in really supporting and it may compete on an equal basis with the governmentsupported fleet of the Soviet Union. < If a few oil men from the south or some farmers in the midwest were in such a predkament the entire congress would be up in arms and rally to their cause. But when New England faces the extinction of one of its basic industries, who cares?

We all should care. One of our national basic food supplies is beng severely threatened and

The Rev. Thomas C. Mayhew, associate pastor of St. Joseph's Church in North Dighton is a member-at-large of the Plymouth Bay Girl Scout Council board of directors. In a letter, dated March 4, to the Senate of Priests of the Diocese of Fall River, Father Mayhew said, "It has been my own experience that the (Plymouth Bay) Council has always been most sensitive to the values, ideals and religious beliefs of all of the girls with whom they deal. I trust that '(no one) will hastily conclude that the situations ... in Philadelphia are valid or pr~sent here. They are not."

The Girl Scout promise, which each member must accept, states, "On my honor, I will try: To serve God, my country and mankind, and to live by the Girl Scout Law." Program materials are periodically updated but the principles and beliefs on which the Girl Scout movement is based, have not changed.

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Schedule Hearing On Bicentennial WASHINGTON (NC) - The second in a series of Churchsponsored Bicentennial hearings will be' conducted in San Antonio, Tex., April 3-5.

"Liberty and Justice for All" is the theme of the Bicentennial program. which began in February with the .first in a series of six bearings to be held during 1975 in various parts of the country.

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renewing our fishing fleet that destroyed by foreign invaders and overkill fishing.

Congress should be encouraged immediately to pass the 200 mile zone proposed for our national territorial waters and the necessary funds to enforce such a move. Nations like Peru are not afraid to take such a step and back it up with corresponding enforcement. ,The national government also should support and encourage the total modernization of the American fishing industry that it may be an equal competitor in international fishing. In addition there must be a corresponding interest in research and conservation efforts of existing sea food sources.

This week the congress has proposed a 3.2 billion foreign aid bill. Why can't some of these monies be used to aid the hardpressed and declining fishing industry? Each and every citizen especially in this area of the nation should actively undertake and endorse every effort to save the American fishing fleet.

Let's not have any more stoved

boats.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican's Congregation, acting on a mandate from Pope Paul VI, has admonished Swiss theologian Father Hans Keung for opinions expressed in his two books "The Church" and "Infallibility? An Inquiry."

The congregation also ordered Father Keung, who teaches theology at Tuebingen University in Germany, to cease teaching such opinions, and the German bishops were requested to see that the true doctrine of the Church is taught in Theology departments, seminaries and other Catholic educational institutions.

The congregation's admonition was signed by its prefect, Cardinal Franjo Seper, and secretary, Archbishop Hamer. It was dated Feb. 15 but was issued through the Vatican press office Feb. 20. .

The congregation's official declaration said: "'In Prof. Hans Keung's abovementioned works, there are expressed the doctrine of the Catholic Church which must be professed by all faithful. We note only the following which stand out, leaving aside for the moment a judgement on some other opinions which Prof.

Keung defends.

"The opinion which places at least in doubt the very dogma of faith of the infallibility of the Church or reduces it to a certain elementary indefectibility of the Church in matters of truth, with the possibility of erring in the pronouncements which the magisterium of the Church in a definitive way teaches to believe, contradicts the doctrine defined by the First Vatican Council and confirmed by the Second Vatican Council.

"Another error which gravely prejudices the doctrine of Prof.

Keung concerns his opinion on the magisterium of the Church.

In reality he does not adhere to general concept of the authentic magisterium by which bis-hops are in the Church 'authentic doctors', that is, invested with the authority of Christ and who preach to the people entrusted

Boy Scouts to Earn Holy Year Patches GREENSBURG (NC) - Boy Scouts in the .Greensburg diocese may now earn a special Holy Year patch, according to the Catholic Committee on Scouting . in the Pennsylvania diocese.

Father Thomas Lukac, diocesan Scout chaplain, said the patch may be won on an individual or troop basis. Requirements are designed to bring Boy Scouts closer to the source of their spiritual life - the Church, Father Lukac said.

Abortion Law Change ROME (NC) - The Constitutional Court of Italy has struck down part of the country's antiabortion law where it fails to provide for cases when pregnancy seriously threatens the mother's physical or mental health.

But the court ruled that the operaNon "would have to be performed in a way in which the life of the fetus would be saved when that is possibl~."

to them the faith to believe in and to follow in daily practice' (Lumen Gentium 25 (the Second Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution" on the Church). That is to say, 'the duty of authentically interpreting the Word of God, written or transmitted, is entrusted solely to the li7ling magisterium of the Church' (Dei Verbum 10) the Vatican Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation."

The "Magisterium" means the Church's teaching authority.

Cannot Be Reconciled The congregation's declaration added: "Even the opinion already insinuated by Prof. Kueng in the book 'The Church' and according to which the Eucharist, at least in cases of necessity, could be validly consecrated by anyone baptized but without sacredotal status, cannot be reconciled with the doctrine of Lateran Council Four and Vatican Two." The congregation then pronounced: "However, notwithstanding the gravity of such opinions, since he himself (Prof. Keung), in his letter of Sept. 4, 1974, does not whoHy exclude being able to succeed, after a due period for deep study, in harmonizing his own opinions with the Church's doctrine of authentic magisterium, this holy congregation, by mandate of the Supreme Pontiff Paul VI, for the time being admonishes Prof. H. Kueng not to continue to teach such opinions and reminds him that ecclesiastical authority has entrusted him with 'the task of teaching holy theology in the spirit of the doctrine of the Church, and not, instead, opinions which destroy this doctrine or put it in doubt."

The congregation's declaration then addressed the bishops in Germany, where Father Kueng teaches theology in Tuebingen University, and others: "The bishops in Germany and in other places where it may be particularly necessary, and especially where the abovementioned opinions have been sustained in theological faculties, seminaries and ,houses of Catholic or priestly instruction, are requested to take care that the faithful are suitably instructed concerning the doctrine of the Church, the declaration 'Mysteriue Ecclesiae' (the Congregation's'Declaration in Defense of the Catholic Doctrine on the Church against Certain Errors of the Present Day) and also concerning the present declaration.

"Priests, preachers of the Gospel, teachers and catechetists who teach Catholic doctrine have the duty to faithfully profess the doctrine of the Church on these problems and to explain it to others."

The Doctrinal Congregaition ended with a hint that further action might be taken against Father Kueng should he fail to heed the warning: "This declaration, which for the moment concludes the action of the Holy Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on this matter, was approved by Pope Paul VI in the audience he gave on Feb. 14, 1975, to the undersigned prefect of this congregation and which he ordered published."

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Congregation Admonishes Swiss Father Hans Keung

Consultation

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r-ll SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: The Holy Redeemer Parish Association of the Sacred Hearts, Chatham, held a special day of recollection on Tuesday, March 4. Patricipants included: (left to right) Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC., pastor; Rev. Roland Bedard, M.S., speaker; Dr. Anne Raleigh McCarthy, association president; Mrs. John F. Henry;chairlady for the day.

Attribute Growth of Philadelphia Vocations to Faith and Prayer :PHILADELPHLA (NC)-Fam路 ilies here still must be living their Catholic faith, and parishes must be praying very hard, according to Father James McGettigan, Philadelphia archdiocesan vocations director.

Why? Because those two elements are. needed to produce the wealth of vocations experienced here, he said.

A total of 216 men and women elected to study to become priests, Brothers and- Sisters during the past academic year, a figure right in line with the numbers over the past several years.

When asked why Philadelphia continues to ,send people into the religious life while many dioceses around the country are confronted with a drop in vocations, Father McGettigan saw several reasons.

"The prayers are there, first of a'll, and that's important.

People get as many priests, Brothers and Sisters as they deserve.

"For a lot of vocations, there has to be a strong parish interest in prayer-there must be a very active prayer me. It's the Lord who chooses priests, you know.

The Lord never had a vocations' director. He never needed one.

All he said was 路'pray.'''

Family Influence A great help, too, is the qual路ity .of the family "Good home life is important." Father McGettigan noted. "The Lord plants the seed for a. vocation in the family. Generally more vocations are going to come from .faith-filled families, people who believe God should be the center of all their activities."

The vocations, however, are coming a little later these days.

Sixty-one young men chose to study for the priesthood or brotherhood, directly from high schOOl in 1973-74, but only 49 decided to seek the religious life

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in the current school year.

The drop, though, is offset by about a 50 per cent increase in both adult and college-graduate vocations.

"I think young people are putting off the decision until later," Father McGettigan explained. "There's such a variety of career choices for young people today, and, unfortunately, many considered the entering of a seminary or convent a final step. It's really just a trial period. But I'm pretty optimistic about the number of collegegraduate and adult vocations."

College Level This past year 45 vocations came from Catholic and secular colleges, and an additional 30 adults (both men and women) began religious Hfe. "The quaoJ:ity of person is good, too," he added. "They're more mature, they've had a lot more and varied experiences, and they're concerned about people. As long as we keep getting people with that attitude, we'll be all right."

Optimistic Along with the age, maturity and quality of persons who have chosen religious life recently, Father McGettigan included as a factor for his optimism the improving prayer movement among young people and the strong retreat movement in archdiocesan high schools.

"There's a basic prayer interest among the young' now, and that's good. They're able to see the positive values of spiritual life and its value to the people of the Church."

Continued from Page One for clear definitions and a glossary of terms used; the elimination of much repetition; an amplified section dealing with rrayer; the need to include the Liturgy of the Hours (Breviary) in any discussion in the teaching of prayer; need for more spc<:ific direction relative to First Penance; a dearer theology of each appraisal of the audience for whom the Directory is intended.

Especially pleasing to those attending tbe Cape meeting was the recognition of a lengthy secLion of Chapter 8 as the recommendation of that group, with much of Father Timothy Goldrick's wording. It is always good to know that one's recommendations can find their way into a national document.

The interest and enthusiasm of those who attended the meetings attest to the spirit of deep interest in religious education among priests, religious teachers and parents in the Diocese. One woman had taken the document Chapter by Chapter, line by line, with specific recommendations made and reasons given for the change.

All recommendations are to be submitted to the Catholic Education Center by March 15.

These will be forwarded to the National Committee for inclusion and consideration in the preparation of the second draft.

Ceases Operations PEOR1A (NC) The J.G. O'Brien Co., here, at one time the largest publisher of church bulletins in the United States, has ceased operations. A company spokesman revealed the tirm has been sold to the J. S. Paluch Co. of Chicago, but. he declined to disclose the selling price. Early in the year, the portion of the O'Brien company that had published parish missalettes was sold to Today's Missal in Portland, Ore., again for an undisclosed sum.

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Fi'rst Nun to Get L'aeta'r,e Medal

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NOTRE DAME-Sister Ann Ida Gannon, B.V.M., president of Mundelein College in Chicago, has been chosen the first nun to receive the Laetare Medal, the University of Notre Dame's highest honor.

The choice of the well-known college administrator, who will retire from Mundelein's presidency this June after 18 years, was announced Saturday (March 8) by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., presidtnt of Notre Dame. "In selecting a distinguished educator such as Sister Ann Ida," Father Hesburgh commented, "we honor a woman whose professional achievement has gone hand-in-hand with her religious commitment and whose life has exemplified the service of women religious to society and to the Church."

Sister Ann Ida joins a list of Laetare Medal winners which includes President John F. Kennedy (1961), Clare Boothe Luce (1957), J. Peter Grace (1967), and Dorothy Day (1972). The medal, which is announced on the fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday in the Catholic liturigcal year), is normally given at Notre Dame's commencement exercises, scheduled this year for May 18.

Next month I'll have been writing this weekly column five years. I wasn't conscious of the time until today, when I went through my weekly routine of conning the kids into doing chores "because Mommy has to write her column."

One of them groaned, "How many of those things a different point of view. One even listed the numbers of the have you written?" I had no canon laws which govern canonidea. Five years, times 52 ization and pointed out my ignoweeks .. : there were over 250!

It put me in a reflective mood.

I started thinking why I write it. /;"

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The first thought was the letters I get. Getting letters from readers has to be what I like most about writing this column.

It doesn't matter if the 'letters agree or disagree with what I said. I'm pleased that someone read what I wrote and was' moved enough to write to me.

Maybe that's some kind of ego trip.

To give you an idea of what my mail is like, let me tell you about the reaction to a column I wrote a few weeks ago suggesting that the process of canonization be speeded up so we get some saints who lived in our lifetime instead of people who died 300 years ago.

Clergy-Lay The reaction was most unusual. It was split a,long, clergy-lay lines. The priests who commented were unanimous in their opinion that I didn't have sufficient respect for the process of canonization. The lay people all thought I had a great idea. It's not unusual for me to draw contrasting views, but I've never had so definite a split between priests and lay people.

The lay people wrote things like: "I'd like a saint who was a secretary." "Can we get a saint who was a data processing worker?" I'm a used car salesman and I've often wondered if anybody achieved Heaven who was in this business. It would fie a comfort to know that someone did." "I'm the loan officer of a bank and I know that the Church once condemned my line of work as' sinful. ..."

But the priests saw it from

Farm Workers Rally In California MODESTO (NC) - More than 10,000 farm workers and their supporters, led by Cesar Chavez, rallied here near the headquar. ters of the E. and J. Gallo Wine Company.

The rally was the culmination of a week-'1ong march of about 1,000 farm workers and their sympathizers, who came from San Francisco, Delano, and Fresno to bolster the United Farm Workers of America's national boycott Qf Gallo products.

rance of those laws. He's right.

I never read canon law.

What surprised me is that a priest exp'ected a housewife to be familiar with canon law. He would not get up in the pulpit on Sunday morning expecting the women in the congregation to know canon law-but he did think I should.

And that's when I realized clearly the difference between my column and most of what appears in the Catholic press.

Most of it (and rightly so) is authoritative teaching which comes from the top down.

Lay Viewpoint But my column is a view from the bottom up. It's 'written at my kitchen table, from my own experience, from my heart ... not from theological or scriptural study. And as such, it is not at all authoritative. But it does offer an honest picture of what things look like to a lay person.

And more important, it gives lay people, especially housewives, an opportunity to write and express ideas of their own.

Lay thought is the reality of religion.

I appreciate the opportunity I've had, writing as a laywoman, in the Catholic press. And I'm especially thankful for your letters, Do you know what those letters really are? The Holy Spirit comes to the leaders of the Church in a special way. But He comes to me in a special way, too - through the letters you have written to me.

I haven't been able to answer all of them ... but I have saved ,them. Just as soon as I finish this column I'm going to spend some time re-reading.

It's not an ego trip. It's letting the Holy Spirit fill me through those letters. With that Spirit I'll start the next five years of writing this column with more enthusiasm than ever.

South Vietnam Catholics Want Van Thieu Ousted ST. LOUIS (NC)-The majority of Ca~olics in South Vietnam support the South Vietnamese government but would like to see its 'leader, President Nguyen Van Thieu, ousted, an exiled former member of the South Vietnamese National Assembly said here.

The exile, Ngo Cong Due, one of only a few Catholic members of the Third Force-a faction supporting neither Thieu nor \he Communists' Provisional Revolutionary Government-and a relative of Archbishop Nguyen Van Bink of Saigon, said Catholics, 12 per cent of the country's 19 million people, can no longer tolerate "Thieu's corrupt government."

BASKETBALL FOR BIRTHRIGHT: The game lasted 72 hours; involved almost 2,000 players; and raised almost $5,000 for Bir:thright, an agency which aids pregnant women and newborn children. It was called the First and Probably the Last Annual Basketball Marathon for Life and was held in 81. Louis. NC Photo.

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Marathon Basketball' Game Played For Birthright ST. Loms (NC)-The score at the final whistle was 3,144 to 3,065.

The game was the First and Probably Last Annual Basketball Marathon for Life, sponsored by a group of energetic St. Louis young people with an assist from the Archdiocesan Pro-Life Committee.

Almost 2,000 players took part in one or another part of the marathon which lasted for 72 'hours. Approximately 3,000 spectators sat in on parts of the marathon and, for those interested in such matters, the sponsors estimate that in the game the ball bounced about 250,000 . times.

More to the point, almost $5,000 was raised for the benefit of Birthright, an agency that assists pregnant women and newborn' babies.

Players in the marathon included state legislators and celebrities from the media, sports and the community. The Marathon included periods in which doctors played lawyers, married couples went against other married couples, college alumni played alumnae, and g~ade school principals tried their skills aga'inst eighth grade boys.

And then there were the teams of kids-from fifth grade girls to college men and women -team after team of kids after kids. There was even one game in which the McCarthy family

(13 children) played the Bucheit family (only seven ohildren.)

St. Louis University undergrad Maggie Hart, who acted as chairman of the event, announced at the end of the marathon that the results would be submitted to the Guinness Book of Sports Records for consideration as the longest game, greatest number of players, and highest scoring basketball game ever. Then she went home to bed.

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Aged Seminary Sale Provokes Controversy ANNECY (NC) - The construction of a new seminary to replace a 17th-century building in this lakeside city in south~ eastern France has divided Catholics of the region for the past two years.

The dispute revolves around management of Church property, priestly formation and the pastoral activity of the Church.

Last October, a petition with 400 signatures was given to Bishop Jean Sauvage of Annecy asking that "no construction be undertaken and that the question of the usefulness of a seminary be seriously examined with all Christians." But the next day construction began.

The petitioners opposed using the money gained from selling the old seminary in build a new one. The new 'building was intended for the formation of the clergy before and after· ordination.

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I've been reading about the slightly longer hemline, I've seen it in the stores, but I hadn't seen it worn until the other evening when I commentated a fashion show and watched the models wear it on the runway. The length is just below the knee and it's really quite flattering and feminine: not cently in an article on the changing role of women and so drastic as the midi, nor so how it's affecting their thoughb revealing (not always for the on fashion, "... it is certain that

For a study of infectious mononucleosis, Miss Denise Jolicoeur, a senior at Bishop Gerradd High School, Fall River, has been named a semifinalist in the New England Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

Miss Jolicoeur, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Normand Jolicoeur of Westp<>rt, submitted a short written summary of her topic in order to qualify as a semifinalist. She will now prepare a second written report and a taped .oral presentation to be used in selection of finalists, who will present their topics in a program at the University of Massachusetts.

Top regional symposium award is $500 towards college expenses of the winner. Aditionally, one finalist will be selected to participate in a national symposium to take place next month.

best) as the mini.

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tive to the pant outfit. For many seasons I have heard women cry that there were no dresses to choose from, nothing but slacks and tops. Finally fashion has heard this cry (or maybe they just got tired of designing pant outfits) and the designers are filling their collections with dresses.

While I and the majority of my readers can't affod designers' clothes, their influence on everything that comes out of 7th Avenue is monumental.

Sleeves may billow in Paris and be overlooked except by those who can buy there, but nevertheless the next year they are seen on the streets of even the most remote hamlet. ..Loose, Bulky

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whether we have a repetition of that 1930's depression, a resurgence of affluence or simply a period of continued 'stagflation,' women will no longer be intimidated or classified by societyor designers. Each will determine her own style. Individual preference will be the rule. If so, women may be said to have been truly liberated from their sartorial past."

Whether Mr. Manchester's predictions will hold can only be proved by time but this season it does seem as if ther€ is n dress for every woman.

Korean Bishop Released From Seoul Prison

Diocese Offers Land For Black Center RICHMOND (NC) - The Diocese of Richmond has offered to donate land in downtown Richmond for a' proposed national black cultural center that would combine the features of a historical archive, a library and a center for the performng arts.

A biracial committee headed

by Dr. Dorothy N. Cowling, vice president for administrative affairs of Virginia Union University here, is looking into the establishment of the center, which, among other things, would serve as a major repository for documents related to black history ·and culture in the United States.

The land, half a city block, is the former site of a nonterritorial black Catholic church, St. Joseph's, and a parochial school that burned three years ago. The church was razed after the parish was closed and its members affiliated with parishes in their neighborhoods.

Some of the dresses this spring are very loose and even bulky. These, I would imagine, would best be worn by the young. When belted, this silhouette is more controlled but it still has a loose shape that many women might find uncomfortable.

One thing I noted in the fashion show the other evening was that there does, finally, seem to Bishop Malone Named be some kind of fashion for everyone from casual teenagers To USCC Committee to lovely, feminine greatgrandWASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop mothers.

James W. Malone of YoungsWilliam Manchester, chiefly town, Ohio, was elected to the known as an author of books Executive Committee of the U.S. with .political settings, stated re- • Catholic Conference (USCC) at a meeting of the conf€rence's Administrative Board here 20 Nonpublic Schools March 5.

The Executive Committee is Share $500,000 Grant ST. PAUL (NC)-All 13 Cath- responsible, at the direction of olic high schools in the St. the president at the USCC, for Paul-Minneapolis Twin City conducting the business of the area, three lutheran' schools conference between meetings of and four other nonpublic schools the Administrative Board. are to share a grant of about It consists of the officers of $500,000 from the Hill Family the conference and one member Foundation. of the Administrative Board In announcing the grant, elected by the board. In addition John Taylor, executive director to Bishop Malone, the current of the St. Paul-based foundation, members of the USCC Executive said the funds will "provide Committee are Archbishop Josome measure of temporary re- seph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, lief until more permanent USCC president; Cardinal John sources of support can be Carberry of St. Louis, vice presfound." ident; Archbishop Thomas A. The foundat·ion, which has '. Donnellan of Atlanta, treasurer; funded several non public school and Bishop James S. Rausch, programs, including one involv- general secretary. ing inner city schools, will give Bishop Malone, 55, was mimed the 13 Catholic schools scholar- auxiliary bishop of Youngstown ship and development grants of in 1960 and head of the diocese up to $386,000. in 1968.

IIIIII!!£ HAPPY 93RD: Members of the Queen's Daughters of

Taunton fete their chaplain, Msgr. Francis J. McKeon, on his 93rd birthday. From left, Mrs. J~mes Blount, organization's treasurer, Msgr. McKeon, Mrs. Francis O'Neill.

'New Era' Cardinal Starts Lay 'Parish Animator' Program in Zaire

SEOUL (NC) - A Catholic bishop whose statements and activities for human rights brought about his trial and imprisonment by the Park Chung Hee regime in Korea was among approximately 156 political prisoners released in mid-February.

Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun of Won Ju celebrated a Mass Feb. 18, three days after his release, in the Seoul cathedral before an overflow congregation.

Bishop Tji, 54, was sentenced in August to a prison term' of 15 years, when a military court found him guilty of inciting to rebellion. His conviction and those of the other released pris· oners was not revoked. Only the sentences were suspended.

It was estimated that another 50 political pl'lisoners sentenced under the virtually unl·imited powers granted to President Park are stilI imprisoned.

Park 'released the prisoners in the wake of a national referendum that gave three-quarters of the votes to support of his regime.

VA11ICAN CITY (NC) - A churches, and has banned all married layman with six chil- Christian t€aching in schools dren has been officially installed including the universities. as the first "parochial animator" Vatican Radio said the ceror parish leader in Zaire, ac- emony "signals a new era in cording to a Vatican Radio the life of the local church of broadcast March 4.

Kinshasha, and should lead He was installed by Cardinal toward an expansion of ChrisJoseph Malula of Kinshasha. tian life enriched by Black AfriThere is no resident priest in the can values and the total dedicaparish. He will be assisted by al tion of the laity."

Vatican ··Radio said that the parish council and by a priest who will be responsible for sev- pastoral plan was conceived by eral similar communities. the cardinal in 1972 and ap'Prior to the installation cer'proved by the Zairean Bishops' emony, Cardinal Malula asked Conference in February of 1973. the solemn consent of the lay The radio added that Cardinal Confessor "animator," known locally as a Malula would install lay "mo"Be a lion in the pulpit, but "mokambi," of his wife and of kambis" in seven other parishes a lamb in the confessional." of the Zairean capital this year. the community as a whole.

-St. Alphonso He then, according to Vatican Radio, bestowed upon him a copy of th€ Gospels, a cross and a special manual for the guidance of "parochial animators."

In Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko has announced a plan Where The to elevate his People's MoveEntire Family ment of the Revolution to the status of a church, and to proCan Dine mote "Mobutism" as a national ancestor-worship church of AfriEconomically can "authenticity." He has taken over all schools, most of which FOR were operated by Christian

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Urges Pervasive Church Influence On Government AUSTIN (NC)-A Baptist layman, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Zollie Steakely, tackled the touchy subject of church-state relations before the Texas Conference of Churches (TCC) general as· sembly here.

The deacon from Austin's First Baptist Church called for a pervasive but very delicate church presence in affairs of state.

Absolute separation of Church and state has long been a hotly defended and often proclaimed tenet of Texas Baptist thinking and the principal battle cry raised by them, particularly in Opposition to such issues as any form of state aid to churchrel'ated elementary and secon· dary schools.

Admitting he was "intimidated" by the subject, Steakley said: "My opinion is that 'the church is neither a disinterested third-party ~pectator in the process of government, nor an active first-party participant; but that it is, or should be, a permeating and overshadowing presence in the counsels and deliberations of government.

Serious Issue "Separation of Church and state does not mean, and has never meant, separation or churchmanship and statesmanship," he said.

'Pressed for an explanation of these statements during a pre-Speech press conference, the judge conceded hesitantly that active lobbying by a church might be justified, but only "if it were a serious and profound moral issue."

He told reporters' that he could not think of an example of such an issue.

"Much has been committed to the church and, to the state," Steakley told TCC representatives at their dinner recognizing, officials of Texas government.

But, he said, the contemporary world has a rigfht to ask more from both church and state.

"Unless ... the church achieves a pervasive presence in the decisions of the state, neither will reach the destiny God intended for both."

Oppose Nomination Of Ambassador WASHINGTON (NC) A Maryknoll missioner based in Venezuela and representing 40 U. S. Christ,ian missioners from seven groups and three churches gave testimony before a Senate committee opposing the nomina.tion of Harry Schlaudeman as U. S. ambassador to Venezuela.

Oppositi'on' to Schlaudeman centers on his service as deputy chief of mission, the secondranking U. S. diplomatic post in any country abroad, in Chile during CIA efforts to "destabilize" the government of the late' Marxist President Salvador Allende.

Earlier, a Maryknoll Sister, Sister Janice McLaughlin, had testified before the same Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing the nomination of Schlaudeman's boss in Chile.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The conflict between the Archdiocesan Depa,rtment of Youth Activities (DYA) and the Girl Scouts of Philadelphia, which has been simmering for more 'than two years, came to a final boil with the archdiocese's decision to withdraw sponsorship of -its 334 Girl Scout troops and form a new affiliation with Camp Foire Girls, Inc. About 8,600 girls (approximately one-fourth of the Girl Scouts in Philadelphia) will be affected by the ,transfer, which becomes effective July 1 according to Father Schmidt. He explained, however, that the transfer would not affect Scout troops under two other local council - Delaware County and Freedom Valley-because negotiations with them are still in progress.

BICENTENNIAL STAMP: A bicentennial stamp commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord will be issued April 19 in those cities where the battles took place on that date 200 years before. The battles were first of the Revolutionary War which led up to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. NC Photo.

Tells Church Take Economics Seriously NEW YORK (NC) - "The Church says it should transcend economics. But the way the Church has dealt with economics has been not to transcend it but to bypass it. And there's a world of difference between the two," a symposium here on corporate responsibility was told by Norman SarameUi, codirector of the Boston Industrial Mission.

The symposium, sponsored by the National Catholic Coalition for Responsible Investment, attracted some 80 provincials, treasurers and financial advisers of Religious communities from nine Eastern states. Several partners in accounting and in-' vestment firms-some of whom are also investment advisers for Religious orders-also attended.

Speaking on 'the role of the assume the best about people's corporation and its influence in motives," Saramelli said that the contemporary world, Sara- chutch groups in particular "tend melli said that the churches sel- to confuse personal attitudes dom "deal with the real prob- with institutional realities. lems, the moral and spiritual di"I for one am completely mensions of economics." bored ad nauseum hearing cor,"Even our theologians talk porate managers tell me that about a political theology," he they're good fathers and good said, "but I haven't yet heard husbands. I don't want to hear anybody talk about· an economic it from them. I want to hear that theology. I think we're going to from their wives and children.... have to develop one.

The point is, he said, that "the "Corporate power in some personal attributes or characterways is dece1)tive in our soci- 'istics of the' manager are really ety," Saramelli continued, "be- irrelevant to the systematic decause we either tend to over- cisions and institutional deciestimate it or underestimate it. sions that are made."

And I think we do mostly the According to Saramelli, comlatter."

Warning of a "tendency in the mitment to social responsibility Christian community to always is a "secondary priority" with most if not ali corporations.

"The goals and o.bjectives of corporations, whether they be 'small or big, is to maximize prof·its, and you do that by minimizing icy Center; Friends of the Earth; costs:" the -International Longsh"oreman's and Warehaousemen's Union.

Coalition on National Priorities Focuses on Economic Situation WASHINGTON (NC)-A coalition of religious, labor, business and civic groups has launched a Council on National Priorities and Resources to focus on the "unprecedented" economic situation facing the United States.

The council's chairman, former Ohio Gov. John Gilligan, said the council will: Gather information on government programs and budgets; Calculate their impact on the federal system; Put the information in usable form and make it available to Congress and the public.

Member organizations are the National Conference of Catholic Charities; Network, an organization of nuns dealing with social justice legislation; the United Church Board of Homeland Ministries; the United Presbyterian Church; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, A;FLCIO; Americans for Democratic .Action; the Environmental Pol-

Also, the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; the National Association of Home Builders; the National Education Association; the National Farmers Union; the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, AFL-CIO; the United Mine Workers of America and the U. S. Conference of Mayors.

Gilligan said the "unprecedented" current economic situation-high unemployment, low productivity and dwindling resources-means that "Americans are going to have to begin facing some very hard choices and making some very difficult decisions which will reflect what kind of people we are, and what kind of society we propose to develop and to protect in the years ahead."

The conflict between the Archdiocese and the Phi'ladelphia Girls Scout Council first erupted into open confrontation in May 1973, when a troop leader revealed that the council had been working, unknown to Catholic leaders, on a new program which it planned to introduce for 12- to 14-year-old Cadette Scouts-a "To Be a Woman" merit badge. Among its requirements were obtaining information on sexual intercourse, rape, pregnancy, birth control and abortion, venereal disease, anl1 menstruation and menopause.

Persecution Drives Indians Into Jungle • PORTO ALEGRE (NC) - A bishop working in the heart of the Amazon territories blames white settlers for driving the Indians out of their lands and into even more remote areas.

Archbishop Joao de Souza Lima of Manaus came to this city to pubHcize Brazil's forthcoming Eucharistic Congress, to be held in his remote diocese in , July. One of the main objectives of the Eucharistic Congress, the bishop said, is to "dramatize the problems of the Amazon and its native people."

"We want the Church to lead the way in the work of integration of the national community," Archbishop De Souza said.

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Seek to Block Child Nutrition Program Cuts WASHINGTON (NC) - Legislation has been introduced in both hou~es of Congress to block $600 million in cuts in child nutrition programs proposed by the Ford Administration.

The cuts were called for as part of a program of replacing existing programs with a block grant of funds to the states to develop their own programs.

The block grant proposal would reduce expenditures for the child nutrition programs from $2.3 billion to $1.7 billion.

Legislation introduced by Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) and Representatives Carl Perkins (D-Ky.) and Albert Quie (RMinn.) extend the programs eliminated in the administration proposal, while calling for a look at needed reforms in the programs.

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, which provides diet supplementation for young children and pregnant and nursing women: 2.5 school lunches for. middleincome children; School milk programs for tens of millions of children; All meals for children at day care and Head Start centers; All school breakfasts, affecting 1.8 million children; Summer feeding program for year-round child care programs; Commodity donations to . schools and other institutions.

Critics of the administration say "speedy action" is needed to extend the programs, especially the summer feeding programs, which need to be planned by early spring.

Strong Support Tht House Education and Labor Committee's subcommittee handling the legislation has backed a bill that would also extend the definition of "schools" receiving aid to include orphanages, residential day-care centers and schools for the handicapped.

The legislation seeking to extend the programs is receiving strong bi-partisan support. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R~Penn.) has co-~ponsored the McGovern bill, and Quie is the ranking minority member of the House Education and Labor Committee.

A Senate source said the administration has been unable to find someone to introduce its block grant proposal, but Agriculture Department officials say the proposal is not yet in finished form.

Sen. McGovern and other Democrats have said Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz ,is responsible for the proposal. Butz has strongly opposed the inclusion of what he calls "welfare" programs such as child nutrition and food stamps in his department.

New Director BOSTON (NC) Attorney Gerald D. D'Avolio has been appointed associate director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference. Before accepting the position of associate director, D'AvoIio had been an assistant attorney general in the state attorney general's office for the past six years in both the criminal and industrial accid~nt divisions.

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Nazareth Halls Sponsor Fundraisers To Benefit' Exceptional Children

By PAT McGOWAN

You pass a retarded child on the street or see it in church and you feel a stab of compassion. But what about all the other moments of that child's life-the times when you, the casual onlooker, don't see him or· her? Those must be lived ,through,hour by hour, for him as for every one of us.

Not hard for the child, perhaps, but often an agony for parents or guardians, looking at that child, wondering what will become of him when family love and care are no longer available to him. And sometimes looking at him with irritation born of the day-to-day weariness of coping with him; an irritation usually mixed with guilt at having such feelings.

In the Fall River diocese the Nazareth Hall schools are part of the answer to such problems.

In operation in FaH River, Hyannis and Attleboro, the schools offer day care to a total of 135 exceptional children.

Parent after parent testifies to the improvement in behavior and abilities of children after even a short period in the structured Nazareth environment; and many also comment in their appreciation of the "breathing spell" they enjoy during the school day for recuperation of their own energies.

"These are good concerned parents or they wouldn't be making the effort to have their children here," commented Sister Maureen Hanley, principal of the Fall River Nazareth.

She said that although the annual Bishop's Ball and the Catholic Charities Appeal make significant contributions to the costs of the schools, and parents also pay tuition where possible, additional help is needed.

This the schools seek to provide themselves with various fundraising activities. On Friday, March 21 the Atdeboro school will hold a banquet as the culmination of a "20-week club," said Sister Maureen Mitchell, its principal. And on Saturday, March 22 a dinner-dance open

to the public is planned by the Friends of Nazareth Hall in Fall River.

"It will take place from 6:30 P.M. to midnight at St. Anne's auditorium," noted Mrs. Louise Boulay of the Fall River fa~ulty.

She displayed with pride a school project the dinner-dance help underwrite. In a prevocational program for children who have achieved their limit in academic subjects, youngsters were fashioning pillow covers and mops, preparing, explained Mrs. Boulay, for possible future employment in state-sponsored sheltered workshops.

Commenting in general on programs for exceptional children, Sister Maureen Hanley ,said recently mandated state programs for special needs children "signalize greater public awareness in this area."

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But she pointed out that "for 17 years Nazareth has had programs and created awareness."

She said that, following. Fall River, the Hyannis facility, directed by Sister Mary Caroline, has been in operation 15 years and the Attleboro school for four.

The Fall River school specializes in mildly retarded and educable children and is also approved under Chapter 766 provisions for emotionally disturbed youngsters.

Moderately retarded children are cared. for in Hyannis and Attleboro, mainly, explained Sister Maureen Mitchell, because the public schools in those areas are not geared to their needs.

'Problems may differ at the three schools but they share the

Former Minister REGENSBURG (NC)-Another former Protestant minister who is married is to be ordained.

Rev. Rudolf Schubach, 43 years of age and a former Lutheran pastor in Brunswick, will be ordained here June 29 by Bishop Rudolf Graber of Regensburg.

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same policies and philosophy, said Sister Maureen Hanley. All are staffed by Sisters of Mercy, who had a head start on empathy with special needs children, . she noted, because most were at one time or another on the staff of St. Vincent's Home in Fall River. Now a residence for emotionally disturbed children, it was originally a home for any child in need of shelter and as such "a good training ground," she said.

The Nazareths are "faith communities," she said, paying tribute to the cooperation existing between them and the homes from which their pupils come.

"The problem itself unites," she commented. "We share the crosses and a,lso the joys of the children."

Nazareth parents participate in informative, social and spiritual activities, she said, and are willing volunteers when it comes to accompanying youngsters to events such as Special Olympics, a nationwide sports program for exceptional children.

"Some of the money we raise goes for motels and meals on such trips," said the Fall River principal.

She said the children of Nazareth shame normal children in their acceptance of each other's handicaps. "There's no ridicule in a sheltered situation."

And she told a story of an attitude that, if widespread, could eradicate racism overnight.

Nazareth had just accepted its first black child and a pupil who, in predominantly white Fall River, had never seen a black, rushed up to her. "Hey, Sister!" he shouted. "Does'n't Billy look beautiful in that color?"

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Upholds Appeal Against f'logging BLOEMFONTEIN (NC) - The appellate division of the Supreme_ Court, South Africa's highest court, upheld unanimouslY the appeal of two bishops to halt the public flogging without trial of political militants in the Ovambu tribal homeland in South West Africa (Namibia).

The two, Bishop Leonard AuaIJ of the .Lutheran Evangelical a Ovanibu-Kavango Church, hlack Namibian, and Anglican Bishop Richard Wood, suffragan bishop of the Damaraland diocese, had appealed against a lower court refusal to restrain the Ovambu tribal authorities from carrying out floggings. South Af· rica now controls South West Africa. called Namibia by the United Nations.

• The appellate division issued an order that the tribal authorities be prohibited from detaining and inflicting punishment on any person because he was, or was. suspected of being, a member of the Southwest Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO), or the opposition Democratic Cooperative Development Party (DEMKOP), botb black organizations.

In 1966, the United Nations revoked the mandate given in 1920 by the League of Nations to South Africa to rule Namibia, about twice the size of California. In 1969, the UN General Assembly condemned South Africa for refusing to permit the UN to take control Qf the territory.

In July 1971, the International Court of Justice (IeJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN, issued an advisory opinion on the legal consequences for states of South Africa's continued presence in Namibia. The ICJ ruled in effect that the South African ma!1date was legally terminated by the UN.

Priests in Politics VA'f,JCAN OITY (NC) - The permanent council of the Portuguese Bishops' Conference has ,asked priests ,in Portugal to abstain from party politics and not to become candidates for any party in forthcoming national elections, according to Vatican Radio.

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Confesses Disappointment In Novels About Knights

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Godparents and members of the confirmation class will rehe~rse at 2 P.M. Sunday, March 16. Confirmation will take place at 7 P.M. Tuesday, April 1.

The Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a spring dance Saturday night, March 22.

Two novels about knights of old and their ladies have' been published recently. They are Great Maria by Cecelia .Holland (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 519 pages. $8.95) and Knight's Acre by Norah Lofts (Doubleday, 277 Park stop, whether loudly or faintly, Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. throughout the book.

253 pages. $6.95). They But just as continual is 'inmust make a grand romantic trigue. Oaths a:re sworn and read, wouldn't ¥ou think? Well, they don't.

The scene of Great Baria is Southern Italy in the 11 th cen-

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tury. The Maria of the title is a young woman whose father, Robert Strongarm, is a petty Norman lord. Robert has a castle of sorts, and from it he sallies forth to rob travelers, pilgrims, shepherds, in fact any· one passing by.

Among the knights in his skimpy train are two brothers, Richard and Roger d'Alene, also Normans. Maria is attracted to Roger but her father arranges her marriage to Richard. Not long after, the old robber is dead, done in by his own knights. Richard assures Maria that he had no part in the deed.

But he profits by it. He makes himself master of the castle and sets ~bout acquiring more and more· power. He enters avidly into the game of violence and trickery being played by many participarits.

Other Norman barons are maneuvering for seizure of one another's holdings. The Saracens have towns and cities and secret fastnesses in the area. They oppose all Christian factions, but slip in and out of alliances with one of another of them as necessity dictates.

Then there is the rivalry between the Pope and the Emperor, both temporal sovereigns whose secular claims clash. The barons find themselves caught in this conflict, and sometimes exploit it to their own profit.

broken. Spies are always skulking about. Betrayal is commonplace. Hardly anyone can be trusted. A dagger may be hid· den in a cloak, a cup of welcoming cheer may be poisoned.

The principal characters all have sonorous titles, but they are not nice people. Nor is their age, even prescinding from its martial savagery, an attractive one.

Knight's Acre I have always enjoyed Norah Lofts' historical novels, but must confess my disappointment in Knight's Acre. It begins well, and continues so for some time, but the denouement overstrains credibility.

The knight in question is an 'Englishman, Sir Godfrey Tallboys (the "Tallboys" undoubtedly of Norman origin'. In 1451, in the reign of Henry VI, Godfrey, aged 35, is at home in England.

Not exactly at home, however, for he has no house of his own.

His older brothers are better off than he (including one, William by name, who is a bishop', and he lives in turn with each.

Hurt in Joust It is to their houses that he takes his much younger brid,e, Sybilla, and as their children are born and grow, the family is always under someone else's roof, and never very welcome.

Godfrey decides to build a house. He has a bit of property and a little ready money. He goes off to tournaments here and there to win prize money.

At this he is quite good, until he is unexpectedly worsted in one joust and invalided.

His house is completed, but its furnishings are spare. An opportunity to improve the family's lot comes when Godfrey is in'vited to go to Spain in a company of knights, to engage is a tournament which will not only provide unusually rich prizes but a handsome guarantee.

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He leaves for Spain. Sybilla has the task of running the Richard D'Alene is a nominal house and eking sustenance from Christian, but in truth an unbe-. the land in his absence. But that Hever. He uses the Church to absence will be brief.

It proves otherwise. The Count his purpose, as when, with cynical shrewdness, he makes anoth- of Escalona has lured the Enger brother, William, a bishop lish knights to Spain not for a simply for the political advan- tournament but for making war upon the kingdom of Zagelah, tage thfs entails.

His wife Maria is a believer. one of the last Moorish strongShe assists at Mass, prays, goes holds in Spain.

But the gullible count has on pilgrimage. But she is no less enamored of power than been gulled. Zagelah falls, not Richard is, and is not above to him, but to another Moorish potentate who has duped the crime when it suits her.

The long narrative unfolds count.

Richard's brutal progress from Godfrey is taken prisoner by knighthood to kingship, and the the Moors, and is in their hands contributions which Maria for the next six years. The hands makes to his ascent. There is a, are not merciful. He is kept at succession of. skirmishes, am- hard labor in a marble quarry.

Eventually and surprisingly, bushes, battles, sieges. The clash of <\rm~ sounds practically non- he is transferred to far easier Brutal Pt:ogress

NAMED: Father Thomas C. Donlan, executive director of Catholic Digest, has been appointed a staff correspondent in the Rome Bureau of NC News Service.

Westminster Choir Gets Lease on Life LONDON (NC)-The professional choir of London's Catholic Westminster cathedral, one of the best known performers of Church music. in the United Kingdom, has been temporarily saved from extinction.

The Church Music Trust, an interdenominational group, has guaranteed the salaries of all seven male singers untH May next year by handing back the cathedral's share of a special appeal to aid London's principal choirs. Colin Mawby, master of music at the cathedral, said he hopes that after that the wh()le funding of Westminster cathedral, including the choir, would have been decided on.

The cathedral authorities, under heavy financial pres~:JIe, with the cathedral itself needing restoration and other essential expenses, had reluctantly de· cided to disband the choir after the Easter services this year.

This had aroused an outcry of regret from national and international musicians and music lovers.

Orator Here comes the orator, with his flood of words, and his drop of reason.

-Franklin work in the garden of a Moorish palace. And his escape from there is engineered by Tana, a young woman of the harem, who accompanies him in a dangerous journey across Moorish territory and into Christian Spain. En route, they fall madly in love.

When, in Sevill, he proposes to leave for England without her, she attempts suicide. She must go home with him, and she does.

Sybilla is there, worn and lamed by toil. She joyfull greets Godfrey and graciously receives Tana. We are told that all three will get on well together. End of story.

Really? One wonders. But one really doesn't care very much, because the novel begins to slump with the escape of Godfrey and Tana. What follows is more silly than substantive. But perhaps the decline began much earlier; so long as the main focus is on Knight's Acre, the house of Godfrey and Sybilla, we are in touch with the sound stuff of re·ality..

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The Leisure Group wiII meet at 2 P.M. Thursday, March 20 in the &Chool hall. Students from Bishop Connolly High School and Sacred Hearts Academy involved in Community Awareness Response Experience, a cemmunity service program, will explain their volunteer participation in projects of such organizations as the Family Service Assn., Romero Aid to the Elderly, St. Vincent's Horne, Nazareth Hall and the Carroll School Annex. Refreshments will be served and all area residents are invited to attend.

The Women's Guild plans a rummage sale Saturday, March 22 and a program at Bernard's Barn, Seekonk, on Tuesday, April 1. Further information on the latter event is available from any board member.

Altar boys will meet in the school at 2:45 this afternoon.

Parishioners are invited to a Mass of Thanksgiving at 5:15 P.M. Monday, March 17, marking the silver jubilee of Sister Anne Marie Sullivan, RSM, daughter of Mrs. Bernard F. Sullivan and the late Bernard F. Sullivan.

The Lowell .State College Concert Choir wiII present a program at 2:45 P.M. Sunday, March 16 in the church. Choir members will also sing at the 11:15 Mass that morning. A coffee hour will follow the afternoon performance and donations of pastry are requested.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FALL RIVER Plans for a dance at 8 P.M. Saturday, April 19 at the church hall will be formulated at the regular meeting of the Council of Catholic Women, set for 7:30 :p.M. Tuesday, March 18. Music for the dance will be by the Jardinieres.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO 'Parents of Cub Pack 4 wiII sponsor a pancakes and sausage breakfast from 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. Sunday, March 16 in the school cafeteria on Hodges Street. Proceeds will benefit both the Cub pack and the parish. Reservations may be made by calling telephone 222-7135 or the rectory, telephone 222-1206.

ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER The next meeting of the parish Council of Catholic Women will take place at 7:30 P.M. Monday, April 7 in the convent.

Rosary Makers meet at .f1:30 P.M. each second Monday, also in the convent. Affiliate council members are invited to attend these sessions.

A cake sale will take place after all· Masses Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. Mrs. Annette Paquette, chairman, asks that donations of baked goods be brought to the convent on Good Friday evening.

ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA A dessert and card party will be held at the open meeting of the Ladies of St. Anne Sodality scheduled for 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, March 19 in the church hall.

Mrs. Georgette Le Comte, chairman, will be aid1ld by a large committee. There will be a prize .for each table.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Knights of the Altar will sponsor a penny sale and raffle at 8 P.M. Saturday, March 15 in the parish hall. Prizes will include food bask1lts, stuffed animals and bottles' of cheer and a money raffle will also be held.

Added attractions will include games and a small fIea market.

ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD "nay of Triumph," a Lenten film in color, wiII be shown at 7:30 P.M. Palm Sunday, March 23 in the school hall. All are invited to view this two-hour inspirational film on the life of Christ.

A retreat for students receiving confirmation will take place from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Saturday, March 22 in the rectory under direction of Rev. Charles Soto, O.F.M. Films and liturgy will be on the day's program.

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ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS A St. Patrick's Day dance and buffet dinner will take place Friday night, March 14 in the parish auditorium on Bridge Road. A happy hour at 7 will be followed by dancing to the music of the Con Coppi Trio from 8 to 1 A.M. The buffet menu will be entirely home cooked by members of the parish's Guild of the Visitation.

Reservations are available from Penny Duffy, telephone 2552245.

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Birthright cit Work 'Has So Much to Offer a Woman,' Says Cincinnati's Oldest Volunteer CINCiNNATI (NC) "You always wonder what is going to happen at the other end of the line when you say, 'Birthright, may I help you?'"

For 68-year-old Mrs. Virginia Duston of Cincinnati, who describes herself as "very likely" Birthright's oldest local volunteer, that wondering comes just about every week.

From Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock until Friday morning at 10 o'clock each week she answers calls on the Birthright line which. is specially hooked up in her home while the organization's office is closed. There she waits for the phone to ring and for the opportunity to offer the woman with a problem pregnancy a listening ear as well as information about how Birthright can help her through the months ahead and can offer alternatives to abortion.

Although she never knows from week to week whether or not the phone will ring at all or just what kind of situation she will encounter, the widow and retired teacher always finds it a positive experience.

"I'm the one that opens the door, that lets them know there is compassion at this end of the line, that no matter what their problem we can work out a solution together."

Mrs. Duston said that she has "nothing but admiration" for the woman who has the strength to phone Birthright and consider going through with her pregnancy under what are often very difficult circumstances.

She calls herself "the first hurdle" encountered by the woman who decides to call Birthright and COnsider the options open to her if she chooses not to have an abortion. That first telephone call is always traumatic for the women, she feels, because it often marks the first time she has faced her pregnancy.

The "No, it can't be happening to me" stage has been passed and the woman has moved to the stage of "I'm going to have to face this and make some decisions," Mrs. Duston said.

A Human Being Rather than using "textbook psychology" in her conversations with the woman who phones, Mrs. Duston said she tries to be nothing more than "a human being ... who is seeking insight into what makes another person think. I try to find her values and be supportive. I try to find out her future goals and, in light of all this, help solve her problem in a way that it will remain solved satisfactorily for the rest of her life."

She said she has no idea how many women have rejected abortion after talking with her, and added that she is- more concerned about the individual woman calling with a need than

Ecumenical Meet ~ OITAWA (NC)-An ecumenical conference for university chaplains wm be held at tne University of Ottawa June 1-6 on the subject "The Liberation Experience and the Process of Higher Educa,tion.

with statistics that indicate to what degree she has been "successfuI." Birthright has so much to offer a womall. she feefs-someone to lean on who will help her through the difficult months; someone to take her to the hospital and even stay with her if necessary; help with a place to live before and even stay with r..;!r if necessary; help with a place to live before and after the baby comes; legal counsel about adoption procedures; a free medical examination; arevolving loan ,fund and financial advice; opportunity for sharing of maternity clothes as well as baby clothing and furniture.

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Board Says Just Treaty With Panama Needed WASHINGTON (NC) - The administrative board of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) has urged the United States and Panama to negotiate a treaty involving the Panama Canal in which "the main benef.its from the canal should accrue to Panama, as a nation with principal control over its natural resources."

The board said that a "fair compensation should accrue to the United States for its investment in Panama."

The board made its appeal in "A Resolution Regarding Panama."

The resolution calls on the United States to approach the Panama Canal issue "with the

same moral sensitivity we would apply to issues of justice within our own society.

"Our national response to the new treaty will be a significant test of that sensitivity," the resolution stated. "Not only the rest of the Americas, but the whole world will be watching."

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The administrative boa;d of the USCC, the civil corporation through which the U. S. bishops work with other Catholics on social, economic, educational and other issues, is composed of 29 bishops, including five of the U. S. cardinals.

At the present time Panama and the United States are negotiating a new treaty concerning

the canal, which might come before the U. S. Senate by this spring. The original treaty, through which the United States assumed virtually sovereign and perpetual control over the heartland of the Panamanian Isthmus,. was signed in 1903.

Since then "this treaty has remained essentially unchanged at the insistence of the more powerful of the two parties," the USCC administrative board said.

The USCC resolution noted that the 1963 papal encyclical Pacem in Terris emphasized, as a basic principle of international justice, the right of every nation to utilize its natural resources for the development of its people.

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ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA The. Men's Club will sponsor "A Lenten Happening"-a truly unique, religious-cultural experience. The concert-to be performed by the Chaminade Ontario Singers - is entitled ."A Child of Our Time." It was composed by Michael Tippett. The performers consist of a 55member chorus, a 25-piece orchestra and interpretive dancers.

Louise Pettit will direct the concert on Palm Sunday, March 23, at 3 P.M. at St. Dominic Center, Rt. 6, Swansea.

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Rise in Food Stamp Cost Is Challenged WASHINGTON (NC) - Three public interest groups have asked a federal district court judge to block a sharp increase in the cost of food stamps approved by the Department of Agriculture.

The department approved, with only slight modification,. a plan to raise the price of food stamps from an average of 23 per cent of net monthly income to 30 per cent of net monthly income.

Modifications in the new plan mean that no one will have to pay more than one dollar less than the value of food stamps obtained. An earlier version of the regulations would have cost individuals' more.

The groups chaUenging the - new regulations, which went into effect March 1, are Consumers Union, the National Council of Senior Citizens and the Philadelphia Welfare Rights Organization.

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Pope Calls Christ Light of World

Praises CHD's 'Poverty In American Democracy' Robert N. Bellah, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is best known for his writings on the relationship between religion and society. His latest book, "The. Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial" (The Seabury Press, N.Y., $7.95), Taken together, Bellah's· new book and CHD's recent study has a direct bearing on the provide ample background ma. theme of the nation's Bicen- terial for those who are disposed tennial, to be observed in 1976.

Professor Bellah urges us to take seriously the, ritual connected with this observance.

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS "Though it can hardly be a holiday of self-congratulation," he says, "it may still be possi ble to use it as an appropriate occasion to rededicate ourselves t6 the task of founding the brotherly] community so long :;ought after in this country."

Two of Bellah's specific recommendations may he of particular interest to those who feel that our Bicentennial observance ought to emphasize our commitment as a nation to freedom, justice and equality for aiL He says. in the first place, that it would be a mistake to think of domestic poverty solely in terms of material want.

Hunger and want are serious evils, of course, and are not to be tolerated in a society com. mitted to social justice. In Bellah's view, however, material want is not' the real reason that poverty is unbearable. "Poverty," he writes, "is a social. and political status involving ... the lack of any powers to assert one's wishes and needs. Poverty is bad mainly because it is a condition of powerlessness, not because, in America at least, it involves stark material want," CHD Monograph

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Secondly, Bellah admonishes our social reformers to think in terms of genuinely American values and attitudes and to avoid using foreign categories to anaylze American society. To do otherwise would be to guarantee isolation and ineffectiveness "even though the economic institutions of the country and its social and cultural life cry out for critical inspection from a radical perspective." He says that the failure of American socialism is instructive in ,this regard.

The Campaign for Human Development (CHD) of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) has just publi~hed-'as its contribution to the Bicentennial observance - a useful monograph, "PQverty in America: A Study of Social Power," which closely parallels Bellah's approach to the aforementioned problems.

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Ito take seriously the ritual connected with the Bicentennial and to use this observance as an occasion to rededicate the nation to the task of founding the hrotherly community we seek, The CHD is an education/action program established by the U. S. bishops in 1969. Their goal is the long-range one of effecting change in those attitudes and behavior which account for the reality of poverty and inequality in our country. By funding "organized groups of white and minority poor," the bishops are seeking "to develop econor.~c strength and political power" among these disadvantaged groups.

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COSGROVE KNIGHTED: John E. Cosgrove, former director of Urban Affairs for the U.S. Catholic Conference, CHD monies (approximately sev- receives Knighthood in the Order,of St. Gregory the Great en million dollars contributed by American Catholics annuaHy)· from Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the are a mere pittance when one USCe. NC Photo. !It goes without saying that,

,considers the vastness and complexity of poverty which traps millions of Americans. More important, therefore, than the money is the Campaign's educational effort to bring about an understanding of unjust conditions and systems which cause and perpetuate poverty in our affluent, technologically sophisticated country.

The bishops stated in their original CHD resolution that "we also believe that this new (funding) effort can lead the people of God to a new knowledge of today's problems, a deeper understanding of the intricate forces that lead to group conflict, and a perception of some new and promising approaches that we might take in promoting a greater spirit of solidarity." CHD's recent study, "'Poverty in American Democracy" is specifically designed to assist Americans of all faiths, but Catholics in particular, to' play a more effective role. It is a compilation of relevant soci;,;l lmd political thought on domestic poverty and the distribution of resources in the U. S.

Subway Accident Distresses Pope

v A11ICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has expressed his sorrow over London's Feb. 28 subway accident in which dozens died.

The papal secretary of state, Cardinal Jean ViUot, telegraphed the Pope's condolences March 3 to Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster.

The telegram read: "Having learned of underground railway disaster at Moorgate, Holy Father invokes eternai rest on those who died and would ask you to convey to the injured and families of victims his deep sympathy and assurance of prayers."

Honored by Pope Former Catholic Conference Official ,Becomes Knight of St. Gregory WASHINGTON (NC) - John E. Cosgrove, long associated with social development activities of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), has been honored

by Pope Paul VI for his work "in matters pertaining to the good of the Church and of Catholic life."

The Pope has made Cosgrove a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Bishop James S. Rausch, USCC general secretary, presented the text of the Pope's citation to Cosgrove at a luncheon ceremony at USCC headquarters here.

The pontifical orders of knighthood are secular orders of merit whose membership de~ends directly on the Pope. First established by Pope Gregory XVI in 1821 to honor citizens of the papal states, the order is conferred on persons distinguished for personal character and reputation, and for notable accom· plishment.

Cosgrove joined the USCC on May 5, 1969, as director of Social Development. He became ~director of Urban Affairs in June 1972, and continued in that post through December of 1974.

From 1967 to 1969, Cosgrove directed the Office of Regional Development Planning of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

From 1961 to 1967 he was assistant director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness in the Executive Office of the President. Previous positions included those of attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor, and assist-

ant director of education for the national AFL-CIO. He worked extensively with interstate commissions of state governors in social and economic development. He was a special project officer in charge of economic development programs for the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the state of Alaska. He had also coordinated implementation of the Alaska Native Hire program and a Bethel, Alaska, housing project.

A native of Keokuk, Iowa. and an honor graduate of the Notre Dame University Law School, Cosgrove was for many years a part-time lecturer in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

In Iowa, he was secretary of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the National Labor· Management Advisory Committee of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Cosgrove, 51, and his wife Katherine are the parents of 10 children.

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Standing at his apartment window above St. Peter's Square, the' Pope told crowds: '''This window of ours is becoming a symbol of our glance out at the world." He said that the world's panorama shows "many different types of events: some distressing, threatening and sad; others consoling, new and promising."

Of aU these events, he said: "Christ is the key to the solution and the fountain of consolation ·and life." More than ever, he said, the world has "a need for Christ, a need for the light of the world."

Among the sad events, thc Pope first spoke of the slaying of a Roman policeman Feb. 22 by post office robbers who shot him and then used him as a shield against police fire.

Then he mention others:: "The argument about abortion, which is not opposed by everyone as it should be, the almost permanent social unrest, new problems of emigration, of recession and inflation, weak voices of peace and new hotbeds of armed conflict. Unfortunately the list goes on and on."

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Christ Is Love

By URBAN STEINMETZ It would be nice if, when we receive the Body and Blood of Christ, we could always feel that we are really a part of that Body. What a sense of joy we would know if we were surrounded by friends!

But how is that possible in a parish amid hundreds of strangers? Of course, it is not possible in the literal sense. There are, perhaps, rare occasions such as the one Father Pfeifer describes. But no one can come to know and understand and love everyone in an average parish. So, unfortunately, the Sunday liturgy is one of the loneliest times in the week for many.

Yet, we are supposed to be a "community of friends." The "Peace of Christ" is meant to be meaningful, but when we greet those nearest us, it tends to be mechanical because we do not know these people and may never see them again.

We cannot make "brothers" of them all, nor could Jesus have a personal friendship with each of the people to whom He

preached. He found a dozen people and called them His Apostles. These were among His very special friends. We can use His method as our model. We, too, can find a like number of people in our parish and go out of our way to spend time with them.

We can talk to them honestly about things that are important to all of us. And finally, we will become friends. Then, when we receive the Body of Christ, it will be "communion."

It is human nature to make friends. No person is sufficient unto himself. Without friendship, we are lonely. Loneliness causes profound unhappiness. We need to love and care about someone; we need someone to love and care about us.

Friendship God made us to His image. He is a love that is unlimited-a love that is enough to go around to each person. He gave us a nature that requires love. Yes, He knows and understands us perfectly. He knows we need other people in times of trouble Turn to Page Fourteen

Ilhe Eucharist as Fountain of Gracel The Eucharist is the sacrament or sign of Christ's covenant of love with His bride the Church, a covenant sealed in His blood of Calvary and shed symbolically and by way of anticipation at the Last Supper.

that without the Eucharist, in which the fdeath of the r,isen Lord is sacramentally proclaimed, there would be no grace of repentance, no grace of Baptism, no grace of reconciliation for those who sin seriously after Baptism.

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True, God could have reconciled the world to Himself without becoming man, without continuing Christ in His Church, without instituting the sacraments, without seeing to it that the Eucharist as the sacrifice of the whole Christ, Head and members, would be that "pure offering" among the Gentiles from the rising of the sun to its setting. (Mal. 1: 11). But God freely willed to do, all of this and to make the Eucharist the effective sign or sacrament of Christ's redemptive death and resurrection. . The Eucharist is then the sacrament or sign of reconciliation, but not in the sense that a person in serious sin is reconciled by receiving Holy Communion.

On this point we must recall that the Eucharist is a sacrificial meal that seals a covenant, first entered into by Baptism and, if violated, renewed by orie repentance and its sacramentPenance (the sacrament of Reconciliation).

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The Eucharist is then the sign of that once and for all sacrifice of Christ on the altar of the cross, a sacrifice which reconciles man with God, "making peace with all things whether on earth or in heaven through the blood of His cross" (Cf. 2 Cor. 5: 18; Col. 1:20).

And yet the men of Jesus time were not in fact reconciled to the Father. They and men before and since had to have the grace of Calvary communicated to them personally.

Leaving aside the mystery of the manner in which the grace of Christ reconciled man to God before Christ's coming, we are assured by the Fathers of Vatican II that in the present arrangement or design of the Father, "it is in the liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, as from a fountain, that grace is channeled to us for the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of God . . ." ("Constitution of the Liturgy," No. 10).

These words of Vatican II open up the startling likelihood, proposed by some theologians,

The Eucharist is a meal of Christian fellowship, if you will, an agape or love feast. It will deepen fellowship, it will foster love, it will strengthen the bond of unity. But the Eucharist was not instituted by Christ as a substitute for Ba!)tism or an optionTurn to Page Fourteen

Our Celebration Is Also Our Proclamation • • •

By REV. ROBERT W. HOVDA Almost all persons who have responded in any way to the Second Vatican Council's call for liturgical renewal are familiar with the phrase that describes the 'Eucharist as the source and summit of Christian life. The trouble is that we in the church are so very accustomed to grand phrases (we like to roll them over our tongues and let them billow from our lips), that meanings sometimes get lost. So we tend to get more attached to particular words than to meanings, and we find ourselves dangerously close to another of the many forms of idolatry.

But this phrase can be so rich, so full of implications for Christian life, that we should try to rescue it from that sort of fate.

Let's look at a few of those implications, with special reference to our liturgy, our public worship. ,First 'of all, the phrase tells us something about liturgy and about the nature of the Eucharist. Like all the sacraments, the Eucharist is not a thing-it is a community action and celebration. A "source" is dynamic, active, creative. A "summit" is climactic. "Of Cr~ristian life" says that both are related to a living reality-a personal, communal existence. THE EUCHARIST IS NOT A THING. It cannot be bought, or sold, or traded, because it is the living acting-out of the faith of an .assembly of believers.

It tells us something, too, about when and where "the Christian life" occurs. It identifies the Christian life, not in terms of "religious" deeds and prayer, but in terms of the daily hours of love and work and play and building a social order. The sources is not the life, nor is the 9ummit the whole life. The Christian life is our full human existence, graced and enlightened and motivated by God's word. This implication 'reminds us of something that Notre Dame's Fr. Burtschaell has written: "Liturgical celebration is the only time in our lives when we are NOT 'working out our salvation.' At all other times, we are."

Lent: Preparation As source, the Eucharist is the climax of Christian initiation -a process in which most of us, tragically, have little experience.

So it is appropriate we should be thinking these thoughts duro ing Lent, the season that prepares for Easter's celebration of the sacraments of initiation - Baptism - Confirmation Eucharist. Lent is the time for sharing a close common life as church, for the renewal and reinitiation of the whole parish, for recharging faith and commitment and servant mission as a covenant community. Lent is the time for an intensive process of experiences of sharing. Then the Eucharist climaxing the sacraments of initiation at Easter

SOURCE OF UNITY: The Eucharist is source as the covenant community's very food and drink-the bread of life and the cup of our salvation. A shut-in in Rochester, N.Y., maintains a contact with his parish community by receiving Communion in his own home from his pastor. will be felt and exoerienced, as well as understood, as source.

Source Again, the Eucharist is source because it is our primary proclamation of God's love and saving work" the pascl al mystery, the mystery of Jesus' dying and being raised to life. Our celebra·

tion is also our proclamation.

And the love, the word that comes to us before we can respond, is clearly source of Christian life.

And obviously the Eucharist is source as the covenant communitv's very food and drinkTurn to Page Fourteen

II Moment of Christian Experience

By REV. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J. I'm thankful for this moment.

I never before realized as I do now that God is with us in the most ordinary experiences of daily life," With these words a middleaged black Carib teacher expressed his feelings during the dialogue homily at Mass in Belize City, Central America. He had been teaching religion for some 27 years. Now, with about 35 other religion teachers, he was participating in a Eucharist celebrating the conclusion of a three-day workshop on religious education.

The teachers sat around a huge table as I celebrated the liturgy. They represented the mixed population of their small Central American country, Belize. There were Caribs, Creoles, Mayan Indians, Mexicans; most were a mixture of various racial strains. Some had ridden over hopelessly rough roads for over eight hours, sitting in the back of pickup trucks. Others had walked an hour or more to participate.

At the Offertory they brought

the bread and wine to me. They also brought a coconut, a grapefruit, and an orange representing the products of their country.

They brought beautiful red and orange flowers that bloom in the villages and bush of Belize. They brought a school book representing their work as teachers in the Belizean towns and villages.

Source and Summit The Mass lasted almost an hour and a half, with many sharing their insights during the homily. There was a sense of purpose, of deep conviction, as their own creative work of the previous workshop sessions was introduced into the liturgy at appropriate moments. That liturgy was a deeply moving experience Turn to Page Fourteen

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The Eucharist as Fountain of Grace Continued from Page Thirteen al means of being reconciled after Baptism to the Father.

Permit me to draw a bold and yet true analogy from the sacrament of marriage, itself a covenant and a symbol of Christ's union with his bride the Church.

The union of bodies, or marriage aCt, does not establish the covenant, nor does it effect a union of heart and mind and soul. Union in the flesh is the expression of a love that is already present. Jt will foster love and strengthen a love relation· ship that is strained. But of itself it will not reconcile a husband or it wife who has violated the covenant or vow of fidelity. The sexual act must wait upon forgiveness and reconciliation. Otherwise the act will be a lie, at most a pallative which heals no wound.

This does not mean that the marriage act is a reward for being a good husband or wife.

Much less is the reception of the Eucharist a reward for being a good Christian. And yet, the ancient Christian couplet, "Sancta sanctis-The Holies for the holy"-encapsules or sums up the warning of the Apostle Paul: "Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup" (1 Cor. 11:27-28).

Reception after Reconciliation The Church is often accused of being overly zealous in excluding serious sinners from Holy Communion. After all Christ welcomed sinners and even dined with them. The comparison is misleading. Jesus ate with sinners but only after they had reo pented, after they had come to believe in Him, after they were reconciled by Him to the Father.

Our Celebration Continued from Page Thirteen the bread of life and the cup of our salvation. It is strength and sustenance, and its sharing is the sacrament of love and unity and peace. It becomes all of these things for us through our good liturgical celebration-not merely because we can know in our heads that it is source in all these ways, but because we can feel it.

Summit The Eucharist is the summit, not only of our prayer life (both private and common prayer), but also of our entire Christian lives as described above. As summit of our prayer life, it means we should have rich experiences of other kinds of liturgical and spontaneous (charismatic) and private prayer. We have a rich tradition of common prayer, to which most of us are still strangers. The Eucharist is a festival and holiday occasion.

As the summit of our whole life, the Eucharist suffers diminishment by the extent to which the lives of all of us'in the assembly are not clear witnesses to the liberation and the solidarity of all people. And the Eucharist is enhanced by the extent to which our daily lives are a force for freedom and for justice. What else dQ we have to bring?

The Church expects the same of those of her members with whom sbe shares the one bread and the one cup.

The Church is also accused of being divisive in excluding from Holy Communion Christians who are not her members. Actually the Church has officially approved the practice under certain conditions of communicating with those of our separated brethren who share our Baptism and our Eucharistic faith, if not our obedience, so long as they give witness by their lives to what the Church regards as the Christian way of life.

To demand less of our separated brethren would be to dis· criminate against our own members and to deny our identity and mission as an effective witness to the world. The Church must depend, if not on all her members, at least on those who are ber communicants, to be a light to the nations. The light must be clear and bright and sharpedged enough to penetrate rather than to mingle with the darkness.

But there is another reason why the Church expects so much of her communicants. Christ is the high priest of our Eucharistic sacrifice and yet our response in love to Christ's covenant renewed in the Mass profoundly affects the salvation of the men of our day. This is why the Church has us pray: "Father, may we celebrate the Eucharist with reverence and love. For as often as we proclaim the death of the Lord you continue His work of redemption who is Lord forever and ever. Amen" (Second Sunday of the Year).

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NEED: We need to love and care about someone; we need someone to love and care about us. Showing his love for his grandfather, Vincent Mulee, 5-year-old John Mancuso of Rochester, N.Y., helps him shave with an electric razor.

Christ Is Love Continued from Page Thirteen -people wbo will listen, understand, support-people we can call friends.

God wants friendship among His people. He wants us to be a real community-a part of the Body of Christ. He sent His divine Son to earth to teach us how to find friendship and keep it. "Be humble. Be patient. Be honest. Always treat everyone as you want to be treated your· self. I gave you Myself in the Eucharist so that you may draw strength through Me. The strength you will find has love as its base. If you partake of the Eucharist banquet, you will

WA'SHINGTON (NC) - When he looked up abortion in the Congressional Record Index, No. XXI, Vol. 120, he found a reference which said "see Birth Control," Sen. James Buckley (Cons.-N. Y.) told his Senate Continued from Page One colleagues. for us all. It helped me experi"While some Americans may ence what the Second Vatican believe that abortion is an ac- Council means by calling the ceptable form of birth control" Eucharist the source and summit he said, "I find .it disturbing th~t of the Church's entire activity. the Congressional Record Index These men and women were should implicitly accept such a experiencing during the Eucharposition. istic celebration a kind of cli"Abortion is the deliberate taking of a human life. The list- max, not only of three days hard work together, but a lifetime of ing of abortion under the general dedicated work as teachers. The title of 'Birth Control' lends to symbols at the Offertory sign ithe practice a kind of respect_fied their lives, not only as ability which it neither deserves teachers, but as Christians in nor should be expected to receive in an official publication Belize, Central America. The bread, fruit, and books repreof :the Congress."

Buckley, who has authored a sented their work, hardshio, and proposed constitutional amend- at times, tears. The wine and ment which would have the ef· flowers suggested something of fect of prohibiting all abortions the rich beauty of the country except those necessary to save and the joys of their lives.

Bringing all this together into a mother's life, said Congress "has made a clear distinction ,a simple, but carefully prepared, between traditional forms of ljturgy, led the Carib man to sh{ire with others: "I never bebirth control and abortion.

The former has always been fore. realized as I do now that funded while funds for abortion God'is with us in the most ordinary experiences of daily life." have been denied."

Buckley said he was "grati- For him and for others who fied" when Senate Rules Com- shared similar thoughts, the Eumittee Chairman Howard Can- charist was a peak moment, a non (D-Nev.), responsible for kind of summit, in wbich all of overall openitions of the Record, life took on more explicit meanagreed to g,ive "abortion" a ing in terms of the presence of God. separate Index heading.

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grow stronger and stronger until, finally, one day you will reach the summit and become one with Me." Community, Eucharist, Communion; why don't you start to build them today? There's a community in your home, in your parish, where you work. They all need building. There are countless people looking for friendship and love. And those strangers who come to Mass each Sunday have come because they, too, are looking for a loving way of life.

Give some of yourself to them.

Superior General To Visit U.S. NEW YORK (NC) - Father Josef Pfab, superior general of the Redemptorists, will arrive here from Rome for an official visit to each of the 51 commu· nities of his order in the eastern and southern United States.

Re<lemptorist spokesmen in Brooklyn said that he is visiting to learn firsthand how Americans are putting into effect the ,order's "charter of renewal" worked out in Rome in 1967 and 1972. The charter will be sent to the Vatican for final approval after Redemptorists in various countries have lived with it for some time.

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ST. LOUIS (NC~Lawyers for Life, a volunteer organization of anti·abortion attorneys here, will seek to file legal briefs in three pending abortion cases.

John J. Donnelly, president of the ~O-member lawyers group, said that getting involved in abortion cases "is one of the main things we're interested in doing" and was one of the motives for organizing lawyers for Life last year.

With permission of the judges involved, Lawyers for Life will file briefs in: -Doe vs. 'Poekler, the ca!le of an unidentified woman asking that abortions be made available at St. Louis City Hospitals.

-Wulff vs. Singleton, the case in which a physician at -Reproductive Health Service, Inc., is asking that Medicaid funds be provided for abortions.

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Danforth, the case challenging the constitutionality of Missou· ri's Abortion Control Law. Donnelly said that, as lawyers concerned with the legal rights of unborn persons, "we feel we have a vital interest in these cases" and' therefore should be permitted to file briefs in the cases.

Students in law schools will be recruited to assist in research· ing and writing the briefs, Donnelly said. Lawyers involved contribute their services without cost, he added.

Test May Include Nonpublic Schools WASHINGTON (NC)-An experiment with the educational voucher concept in East Hartford, Conn., may involve nonpublic schools, including churchrelated ones, an official of the National Institute of Education (NIlE) said here.

"Part of the study is to examine how parochial schools are to be included," said the official, Denis Doyle, assistant director of school finance and management at NIE, a division of the U. S. Department of Health, Ed· ucation and Welfare (HEW).

HEW recently made planning grants of $387,000 to the East Hartford public school district and of $210,000 to a consortium of seven public school districts in New Hampshire, a group that does not include church-related schools.

An educational voucher is a certificate given to parents by a local school district. The parents then choose a school-public, private or church-relatedwhich they consider most appropriate for their child, enroll the child and turn the voucher over to the school.

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Southern Baptist Enjoys Watching Catholics

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By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

SAN DIEGO (NC)-The only Southern Baptist paid to watch Catholics finds his work absorbing.

Schoolboys Prep for Spring While Officials Eye Changes The scholastic schoolboy Winter sports season is officially over for all schools situated within the confines of diocesan territorial limits. The local qualifiers to the state basketball and hockey championship playoffs have been eliminated. Now is the time home court advantages the to reflect upon the events league directors will act on a that have taken place over petition that cal1s for al1 meets the past few months and to to be run on the same course. begin preparations for the busi· cst of the schoolboy sport seasons, the Spring.

Candidates for track, basebal1, golf and tennis began workouts this week. In al1 likelihood it will be a whi·le before outdoor drills commence, but coaches in al1 sp9rts will concentrate on indoor conditioning sessions.

Meanwhile officials of the multi-school Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will meet this week to discuss proposals relating to cross-country, track, basketbaU and hockey.

In order to bring about more equitable conditions in crosscountry and do away with the

Such action would eliminate some of the confusion that has resulted from runners not being familiar with the course they are competing on.

Presently, the 880 yard rel!lY is the accepted event for aU Conference track meets. There is, however, a desire on the part of some coaches to run the mile and 440 yard relays. If league director elect to include either or both of the latter two as mandatory events for league meets, it will mean that all conference teams would participate on a regular basis in events that are run on a state basis in major meets.

Hoop and Hockey Realignments on Agenda While neither of the two proposals mentioned above are likely to involve long heated arguments both of the remaining topics of discussion will. The first cal1s for re-evaluation of the current basketball alginment.

There are 26 schools participating in basketball. Under the present arrangement they are divided into four divisions with six schools in aH divisions except Division II which has eight.

Conference officials will investigate the possibility of aligning the schools into three divisions for next year.

One possible solution could be the formation of two nine team divisions and one eight club bracket. On paper, an action like this would appear better than the four division breakdown. But, in keeping with the written purpose of the circuit, any alignment adopted must provoide for equitable competitive playing conditions.

Many league coaches beHeve that a three divisional alignment will result in the same inequities that exist in the old Bristol County, Capeway and Narragansett league$ before the formation of the new loop. They are quick to point out, that the league was formed to do away with imbalance and if a three brackett proposal is adopted that "we'U be right back where we were four years ago."

On the other hand, if the realignment caUs for three divisions each school will play more league games and competition for the circuit championships should have more fan appeal.

Some scheduling problems will also be eliminated.

There is no doubt there are pros and cons to the new proposal and the existing alignment.

Basketbal1 has been one of the more volatile il\sues since the creation of the Conference. It will be again this week.

Olver Ames Fares Best in Tourney Action The hockey situation wlll be as heavily debated as basketbaU. With more and more schools becoming involved in the program and each desiring to compete on an equitable basis, league officials will be hard pressed to arrive at a two division breakdown that wlll be fair to all members. There are presently three divisions in hockey.

'In the state schoolboy basketball tourney, diocesan clubs did. not fare well in Division I where Durfee High of FaU River was eliminated in the qualifying round and Barnstable in the quarterfinals. The Red Raiders lost to Boston-English who went on to win the divisional crown after beating Dedham in their first game.

Six area schools competed in Division III with Holy Family High of New Bedford advancing the furthest. Coach Jack Nobrega's Blue Wave lost its semifinals contest to Cardinal SpeUman of Brockton. Bristol.JPlymouth Regional of Taunton, Old Rochester from Mattapoisett and Martha's Vineyard lost opening round games while Provincetown and Wareham dropped out of the tourney as a' result of quar· terfinal action.

Oliver Ames High of Easton advanced the furthest of the 13 diocesan qualifiers, but were beaten in the finals of Division n 58-56 by Rockland. The defeat was the first of the campaign for the Hockomock Lea~ue champions'. Bishop Con·

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STANG SKIERS: Faculty members, students and parents enjoyed a week of skiing in the Austrian Alps during the recent school vacation. Photographed at Mutterer AIm skiing area are frym left Rev. Callistus Bamberg, O.F.M., Michael Bolton, Sue Oliveira, David Bolton, Joanne Lentz, Kim Okolski. Father Bamberg and Miss Oliveira are Stang faculty members, David Bolton, father of Michael, was a volunteer ski instructor for the week, and the others are students. Thirty-five were in the Stang group, which spent time at three ski areas.

Newspaper Denies Pope Seeking Soviet Favors 'At All Costs' VATICAN CITY (NC) - Revival of a German author's twoyear-old charge that Pope Paul VI was seeking accommodation with the Soviet Union and Catholic-Orthodox reunification "at aU costs" has drawn an emphatic denial from the Vatican daily news,aper L'Osservatore Romano.

L'Osservatore Romano reported March 5 that the German Catholic news agency RNA referred Feb. 19 to "fairly con· crete 'details' issued by Dr. Reinhard Raffalt," author of a book published in 1973 on Vatican pol· icy, about Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's audience with Pope Paul in February 1974.

The newspaper stressed that Raffalt's book had already been severely criticized by the American Jesuit historian, Father Rob-

noUy High of Fall River, Seekonk and Nauset all lost in the quarterfinals.

-In the hockey tourney Barnstable and Falmouth were beaten in the quarters and all other area competitors were eliminated in qualifying games.

ert Graham, in the Rome Jesuit review Civilta Cattolica of March 16, 1974.

The newspaper concluded: "Apart from the' seriousness, or rather lack, of historical seriousness of such publications, we are in a position to affirm that the revelations made by Raffalt are true in one particaular only: and that is that in February 1974, Minister Gromyko was indeed received by the Pope."

Everything else, L'Osservatore Romano asserted, "is the fruit of fantasy."

Symposium on Life Scheduled April 11 JAMAICA (NC) - "Life: Its Origins and Future" will be the topic of a symposium to be held April 11 and 12 at the Carnegie Endowment International Center, New York City.

The symposium is being sponsored by St. John's University, New York, and will feature a roster of outstanding international scholars in science and philosophy. They will present their views on various aspects of the biological facts of human life.

The calling card of the "Catholic watcher," Dr. C. Brownlow Hastings, describes his job as "research in Catholicism."

In an interview here, where he attended the National Workshop on Christian Unity and the meeting of the Catholic diocesan directors of ecumeni!:>m, Dr. Hastings described his work as an official of the interfaith witness department of the Southern Baptist Convention, a department set up seven years ago to inform Baptists of world reli~ gions.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest non-Catholic Christian denomination in the United States, with more than 12 million members, takes ecu· menism so seriously that Dr. Hastings is the official "Catholic watcher" and compares his work to that of a Glenmary priest who, for Catholics, is the official ",Baptist watcher."

"We have two main areas," he explained. "One to inform Baptists of the beliefs of world religions and the other serving as a catalyst to get Baptists in contact with people of other religions."

Covered Synods In his study of Catholicism he recently completed three months at the Catholic University of America and Georgetown Universitl, both in Washington, D. C., and he attends as many Catholic conferences as possible.

Writing is a major part of his work, as special correspondent for the Baptist Press, and he is proud of his Vatican press credentials. "I covered the '71 and '74 Synods of Bishops," he said.

"In fact in '74 I was the only representative of a Protestant press association from the United States." The Baptist Press serves, by teletype. 39 state Baptist papers, and official institutions.

"The third aspect of my work is' to be a catalyst among Baptists, to arrange conferences and training programs to make them aware of what is happening in contemporary Catholicism.

"We also have a deeper level of interfaith witness through lay associated training, who then Catholicism and catalysts in serve as resource persons in turn'" he added.

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Call Global Food Crisis Challenge To Religion WASHINGTON (NC) - Executive officers of three major religious organizations in the United States have called the global food crisis a challenge that hits Christians and Jew~ "precisely in terms of the faith we confess ... at the Passover Seder or the Eucharistic meal.'· In a common statement issued here and in New York, the three leaders called the food crisis a "compelling" one requiring noL only personal action but an adequate and just response "at the level of public policy."

The three who signed the statement are Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U. S. Catholic ConDr. ference (NCOB-USCC); Claire Randall, general secretary of the National Council of Churches (NeC); and Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive vice pn~sident of the. Synagogue Council of America (SCA).

Pope Deplores Injury to Two Rome Students VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has deplored the violence which brought serious injury to two Catholic students at the University of Rome.

The students were tak'ing part

Feb. 2 in a demonstration organized by a Catholic students' group in preparation for student elections. About 20 rightwing extremists attacked the Catholic Rally.

The Pope's concern was con-' veyed by Cardinal Jean Villot, papal secretary of state, in a telegram to the papal vicar general for Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti. Cardinal Poletti issued a

strongly-worded public condemnaHon shortly after the incident, as did the Vatican City daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Meets Demands Together the three officers make up the Interreligious Committee of General Secretaries (ICGS), which meets periodically to discuss common concerns.

Following a meeting in New York Feb. 26 the three issued their "Statement on the Global Food Crisis" challenging American Christians and Jews to personal "austerity and sharing" and to the development of "u community of conscience supporting a U. S. food policy which meets the demands of national and international justice."

They pledged to "mobilize (he efforts of our Qwn agencies toward motivating a response in personal terms from the religious community."

At the meeting, their first in 1975, the group also elected Dr. Randall chairperson of the ICGS for the year. She succeeds Bishop Rausch, 1974 chairman.

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Rural Life Leaders Visit Red China KANSAS CITY (NC) - The first group of rural life people from the United States permitted to visit Communist China has been organized by Father John Stitz, a Kansas rural life director.

The 17-member group, mainly. farm couples from Kansas, left Kansas City for 15 days in China. Their itinerary includes three of four days each in the Shanghai, Soochow, Nanking, and Peking areas.

Father Stitz, rural life director of the Archdiocese of .Kansas City, Kans., was contacted a year ago and given the opportunity to organize a rural group.

The members applied directly to Peking for permission to visit China and the trip was finally confirmed in September.

"They had inv.ited some farmers to come and visit as long as three years ago," Father Stitz said, "but as far as I know we are the first to respond and b~ accepted from the United States."

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