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THE POOR NEED HELP NOT PITY:. An African mother receives needed vitamins at a CRS-NCWC medical eenter because you were charitable on Laetare Sunday in the past. The annual Bishops' Appeal on Laetare Sunday will take place in all parishes on March 28. NC Photo.
Pope Urges Catholics Help World's Hungry, Homeless NEW YORK (NC)-Pope P·aul VI appealed to U.s. Catholics to assist him in caring for more than a billion persons throughout the world who "are hungry and home less, cold and sick, lacking those basic needs which minister to human dignity and spirit ual growth." The Pope reminded Americans they can aid the gigantic mission of
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WASIDNGTON (NC)-The seven-member Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs took steps here to plunge the u.s. Ca tholic Church intO the mainstream of ecu menical encounter. Under the guidance of Lawrence Oardinal Shehan of Baltimore, the commission briskly advanced. Catholic involvement by approving nearly a dozen ·projects at a one-day session. decided by local episcopal the Canonical Orthodox Bishops At the conclusion of the be authority, unless otherwise pro in the United States. The chair private meeting, Msgr. Wil. vided for by the Bishops' Con man will be Bishop Bernard 1. Ham W. Baum, executive di ference according to its statutes, Flanagan of Worcester, Mass. rector of the Commission, said these actions were taken: Approval of an effort to draw up suggested guidelines for U. S. bishops on matters of common prayer and worship; Establishment of eight sub commissions to. explore the pos sibilities of formal conversations with Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish bodies; Endorsement of a workshop in Boston in June for officials and representatives of dioceses en gaged in ecumenical activities; Approval of a similar work· shop for representatives of the nation's seminaries, perhaps held in conjunction with the Boston meeting; Exploration of a proposed Inter-Confessional Institute for .Ecumenical Research; Agreement to seek the ser vices of clerical and lay experts to assist the work of the bishops, especially in the subcommissions dealing wilth other religious bodies. Msgr. Baum said the course now being steered in ecumenical affairs is. being determined on the local level by individual bishops guided by the Vatican Council's decree on eCUlllenism. This, he said, is in line with the decree which states: "The course to be adopted, with due regard to all the circumstances of time, place and persons, is to
Vocation Masses Vocation Masses will be cel ebrated in the following areas of the Diocese: Monday morning, March 22nd, Notre Dame Church, Fall River at 10. Tuesday morn ing,' March 23rd, also at 10 o'clock: st. Anthony Church, New Bedford and Bishop Stang High 'SChool, No. Dartmouth, Wednesday, March 24th, at 10: St. Mary Church, Taunton and Bishop Feehan High Schoo~ . Attleboro.
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The Orthodox group recently or by the Holy See." . . The Vatican's Secretariat for voted to engage in formal talks. Subcommission for conversa Promoting Christian Un i t l' • tions with the National Council pressed by matters directly re lated ·to the Second Vatican of Churches. The council is the Council's work, has begun con nation's federation of Protestant and Orthodox bodies. Catholic sideration of a directory of ecu menical practices, but has not· 'involvement will be guided by completed it, Msgr. Baum said. Bishop John J. Carberry of La The U. S. ecumenical office, ,fayette, Ind., soon to become launched in January, will draw bishop of Columbus, Ohio. up its own recommendations in · Subcommission to explore the the meantime, Msgr. Baum said, possibility of conversations With and submit them to the nation's the U. S. Conference for the bishops. They will be suggestions World Council of Churches. and not statutes, he emphasized. Bishop Carberry will head also The subcommissions formed this body. Subcommission for talks with by the parent ecumenical unit the Episcopal Church. Bishop include these: Subcommission on dialogue Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas Turn to Page Sixteen with the Standing Conference of
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BISHOP JOSEPH BEGAN:
Crime
Nation to Watch Urges Citizen'
Capital's Fight Solve Country's
Against Crime Crime Problem
WASHINGTON. (NC) This city is to have a special commission on criminal just ice, similar to the President's
WASHINGTON (NC) President Johnson has called upon citizens to interest themselves in the crime.
Commission on Law Enforce ment and Administration of Jus tice, which will be concerned with the crime problem nation
problem in the United States. In a message to Congress an nouncing establishment of • presidential commission to probe "fully and deeply" into the crime situation in the nation, the President said the "starting point" in crime prevention and crime fighting "is the individual citizen." "Law enforcement cannot suc ceed without the sustained-and informed-interest of all citi zens," he said. "The people will get observo ance of the law and enforcement of the law if they want it, insist · upon it, and participate in it," he said. President Johnson e a 11 e d crime "a malignant enemy ia America's midst," and reported ·that the crime rate in this coun- '" had doubled since 1940, and in creased five times as fast as the population since 1958. The message-outlined ways III which the problem might be at · tacked, and the Justice Depart ment began preparation of legis lation .based on the progrllD Tum to Page Seventeen
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This is of particular interest because, since it will deal with a restricted and relatively small area, the District of Columbia commission might well complete its work before the national group makes its "comprehensive report" to the' White House in the Summer of 1966. Presumably both groups will make interim reports as they are able, and this city will be watched for its findings as a tipoff as to what will be found nationally. Turn to Page Sixteen
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for the U. S. Bishops' Relief Fund which will be taken UP. generally, . in Pllrish churches throughout the country on Sun day, March 28. The papal plea was made in • letter to the U. S. archbishops and bishops, released here at headquarters of Catholic Relief Services - National Catholic ~elfare Conference, worldwide agency maintained by Americ81l Catholics. The agency, which gets its principal support from. the Bishops Relief Fund, oper ated a program last year which assisted 40 million needy persona in 73 countries of the world. ''Laetare Sunday will find 1'08 again asking your generous people, themselves also noW' more deeply conscious of the plight of their needy brothenl and sisters of God's great fam ily, to contribute to the Bishops' Relief Fund," Pope Paul said Ir hia letter. Turn to ;l>aie Eighteea
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Club members, the prelate said: "We are finishing off our hospi tal building and the Sisters gave us a list of equipment necessary for beginning. So I am taking the list, which includes labora tory, operating room, X-ray cen tral supply, nursery, delivery . room, etc., dividing it and send· ing copies to people I think might help. I am enclosing the laboratory list for you." Thus the club received its new assignment, the latest of many in its 25 year history of aiding the Bishop. Previous projects have included sending him flour for Mass hosts during World War II and'*the Korean War, and when he was a prisoner in Communist China, investing money in war Turn to Page Eighteen
Irish Vocations Serving Church Around World DUBLIN (NC)-The tiny nation of Ireland, which once sent its sons to convert Britain and much of north ern Europe, still has more thall its share of men and women who leave home to spread the word of God in Africa, Asia-and the United States. The remarkable fact about Irish vocations is not only that there are so many, but that their number has remained so consist ently high. While many counTurn to Page Sixteen