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WASHINGTON (NC) _ As the national unemployment level took its highest monthly leap in nearly six years, the U.S. bishops' goal of a full employment policy gained new attention. At a recent Washington symposium Sister Nancy Sylvester, an Immaculate Heart of Mary nun, reminded economists and labor experts of the bishops' view that justice demands jobs for those .who seek them. Sister Sylvester, national coor. dinator of Network, a social jus- . tice lobby founded by nuns, quoted the bishops' draft pastoral' on the economy at a meeting spon- , sored by the National Committee for Full Employment. In it, the

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omy" and that current unemployment levels are "morally unaccept-I able." IJ President Reagan has often @ claimed that the United States is 11 enjoying economic recovery, but! . National Urban League President' John Jacob, who joined Sister Sylvester in addressing the Washington meeting, noted that "7 per-' cent unemployment used to be considered a recession - not a recovery." Jacob, whose remarks sounded much like the bishops', defined full· employment as "a decent job at a decent wage for all Americans' who want to work." The bishops stated that "the most urgent priority for domestic economic policy is the creation of. new jobs with adequate pay and decent working conditions. Specifically, in the second draft ofthe pastoral, they recommended "that the fiscal and monetary poliof the nation be coordinated cies . Insuchawaythatfullemployment is the number one goal." According to the bishops, full emp Ioyment d oes not mean no unemp Ioymen t a t a II b ut d oes' mean bl that a lot of people now JO ess would have work. As they explained, "we believe 1 that 6 percent to 7 percent unemployment is neither inevitable nor morally acceptable. While a zero unemployment rate is clearly imposTurn to Page Seven I,

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. By NC News Service Signers of the new ad declared their "solidarity with all Catholics Controversy over Catholic teachh . h f ing and abortion reached a new w oSke,~lg t to . ree speech is under pitch in early March. attac and objected to "reprisals" Dissenters on abortion sought by church authorities against signto shift the question from abortion ers of the first ad. On March 7, in response to itself to authority and free speech in the church, with more than 900 questions about the legitimacy of Catholics taking out a full-page ad Catholic dissent on abortion, Bishto that effect in The New York op James Malone of Youngstown, Times 'March 2. Ohio, President of the National _ Several leading bishops blunt- . Council of -Catholic Bishops, deIy reJecte . d t hat approac h' .. ciared "there is no room for dis, InSIstIng ' . , sent" on the central issue, the t hat t here can be no I egltlmate dlssent from church teaching on the church's moral teaching on the objective moral evil of abortion. question, _ An abortion rights rally in The bishop called abortion a the nation's capital drew an esti- "complex issue" that has legal and mated 85,000 demonstrators, with pastoral dimensions as well. "There Catholic feminist leaders promi- is room for diversity of views on nently featured in the day's events. these other aspects of the abortion The Times ad was a "Declara- question, although even here not ' 0 f S 0 I'd" tlOn I anty" with 97 Cathol- all opinions are valid and acceptaics who had signed a 1984 ad ble," he said. As an example, he asserting that there was more than cit~d as unacceptable the position , Chi' "" at!J IC pOSItIOn one "I' egltlmate ' ~ ~ ~ ~ ortlOn.· ' on t he mora I'Ity 0 fd'Irect a b The new ad declared that Catho- , I10& ' "act Wit 'h'In t h' . h ts an d elr ng

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urge referendum In connection with a Constitutional Convention held Wednesday at Boston Statehouse, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin joined Cardinal Bernard Law and the other bishops of Massachuse.tts in requesting support for a movement to modify a so-called "anti-aid amendment" to the state Constitution. As it stands, Article 46, Section 2 of the Constitution prohibits any form of state aid to private schools, separating church and state more strictly than the U.S. Constitution. The bishops seek to have its wording modified to .permit the state legislature at least to consider and debate forms of possible aid to private education.

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the November ballot, asking voters to signify whether or not they would approve such a modification. Like the other bishops of Masthat "abortion falls outside of law sachusetts, Bishop Cronin wrote and public policy." < to diocesan priests asking them to • Cardinal Bernard F. Law of. urge parishioners to contact state Boston also spoke out against the representatives and senators prior ad during a pastoral visit to Fall to Wed nesday's convention, River March 2 and in a March 7 explaining 'the importance of a column in his archdiocesan newsreferendum. paper, The Pilot. At press time, convention results America and Commonweal, two had not been announced. of the leading U.S, Catholic opinion journals, also joined in the Stand Explained fray. Both attacked the new ad for In .material supplementing creatl'ng "confusl'on" about I'ssues B'IS h op C romn . ,seer I tt an d a Iso too I'mportant for that treatment. . t s, Fa th er R'IC hard W . sen t t 0 pnes "What is at stake here has virtuBeaulieu, diocesan director of ally nothing to do with a right to education, said that the Massafree speech in the First Amend- chusetts Constitution "will not ment sense," Commonweal said. even allow a minimum cooperaAmong signers of the second ad, tion in the area of education, several played a leading role in the cooperation which is allowed by abortion rights rally in Washingfederal guidelines." ton March 9. In states such as .New York, "The Catholl'c Church has made P ' an dOh'10, he sal'd ,at ennsyI vama ,abortion its No. I issue," said least the loan of textbooks is Frances Kissling, executive direcpermitted. ~ tor of Catholics for a Free Chol'ce, "The proposed change would' a signer and coordinator of both not give any money or aid to priNew York Times ads, in an inter- vate schools," continued the direcview befo,re the rally. tor, but "simply modifies the lanTwo Sisters of Notre Dame de guage oft"e 'anti-aid amendment' Namur, Sisters Barbara Ferraro in the Constitution to allow the and Patricia Hussey, spoke at the legislature to consider and debate rally, Both signed both ads in The forms of possible aid. Any such TImes, an d b0 th f ace a th rea t 0 f 1\ a IocatlOn I ' wou Id be. open for pu bTurn to Page Two I Turn to Page Six

a ~ ~ .fl -Pat:rick-Cariieyto-head-1986."Chariiie~.··Ai)peaj. c~ Bishop Daniel A. Cronin today announced appointment of Patrick Carney to head the 1986 Catholic Charities Appeal of the Fall River diocese. A New Bedford native, Carney is now a member of St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth. He ., attended Holy Family grammar

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school, New Bedford, and'Bishop with real estate holdings in New Stang High School, North Dart-- England and nationwide. mouth and hold a bachelor's In his parish, he is Appeal degree in political science from , chairman, a lector and a religious Boston College. education teacher. He is a director Carney is president and founder of the Carney Hospital Foundaof Claremont Financial Services, tion, a member of the Boston ColInc., a real estate development lege Real Estate Professional Commanagement and investment firm mittee, a former trustee of South-

eastern Massachusetts University and a member of the New Bedford Chamber of Commerce and various realtors' associations and historic preservation committees. In 1980, the 1986 CCA chairman received the Young Alumni Achievement Award of Boston College and in 1984 the Outstand-

ing Entrepreneur Award of Southeastern Massachusetts University. He is listed in Outstanding Young Men in America and in Who's Who in America. Carney is married to the former Lillian Brennan, a Fall River native who attended Bishop CasTurn to Page Two


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