04.15.71

Charities Appeal Kickoff Stresses People An estimated 900 people, compriSing clergy, religious and laity, attended the Catholic Charities Appeal Kick-off meeting last night at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. Representatives from the 114 parishes of the diocese were present.

His Excellency Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, delivered the main

address at the m'eeting. This was Bishop Cronin',s first a'ppearance at a Kick-Off Meeting. He applauded the priests, religious and laity of the diocese for the success of the Appeal. This is the thirtieth year of the Appeal, dating back to 1942. Bishop Cronin stressed the fact that it is the work of all to serve God and His people. Hence, the funds from the

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Bishop Cronin said: "The work of religion, my work and yours, is to serve God and to serve His people. People need help. The aged must be cared for in dignity and with reverence. The

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The 18th annual convention of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will be held Saturday, April 24 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Mrs. Charles Landry, Diocesan president, will officiate.

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Officers will be elected at a morning business session, followed by a panel on the "Echo" teen-age retreat program, moderated by Rev. Thomas Mayhew.

High school juniors and seniors are invited to attend this' program, slated to begin at II o'clock.

A concelebrated Mass will close the morning agenda, and lunch will follow.

Bishop Cronin will be the featured speaker at the afternoon session of the convention, which annually attracts hundreds of women from all parts' of the Diocese.

"THE CHRONIC SICK MUST BE TENDED IN THEIR SUFFERING WITH REVER-

ENCE": When Bishop Cronin spoke last night at the kick-off of the 31st Annual Catholic Charities Appeal, he was recalling his visit to the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, Fall River, one of t~e 31 agencies supported by the Appeal.

Greater Harm to' Relig'ion Seen in Mail Price Hike WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Post Office Department's proposed second-class rate increases "may do more harm to religious publications" than its efforts to stop the flow of unthe solicited smut through mails will hurt pornographic publications.

The first step would nearly double postage costs-and at the end of 10 years increases would total 750 per cent.

These are some of the comments made by the Catholic press and other publications which would be affected by the proposed rate increases.

The Catholic Press Association, based in New York, and the Associated Church Press which represents a majority of Protestant publications, headquartered in Chicago, have retained legal counsel to protest the proposed rate increases at coming hearings.

Charles 'Emmett Lucey of the Washngton, D. C. law firm of Maguire and Tucker will serve as counsel for the two associations.

James A. Doyle, CPA executive director, said "this is a terribly serious matter" and one that is "potentially dangerous" to the future of all religious publications.

The influential Editor & Publisher magazine contends the planned hike "would make the mailing of newspapers almost prohibitive."

Editorial Research Reports, a newsletter published in Washington, D.C., said the plan calls for "raising the second class rates by 142 per cent over the next five years" plus a one cent hike in air mail rates.

ERA said groups in the pubIishin'g fields which would be affected by the plan are marshalTurn to Page Six

chronic sick must be tended in their suffering' with reverence.

Unwed mothers need a place of peace and help to face what lies before them. Disturbed children need a normal home-like environment to correct twisted emotions and lives. The 'm'entally retarded need their own place of peace and patience and :!oving instruction. Normal developing young men and women need programs and activities to help them mature in every way and with kindly guides to smooth their way. Engaged couples need advice and support as they enter a family life that is being so viciously attacked on so many sides.

"These, my friends, are people.

They are people in need. They are people whom you and I must serve. If they can be served on the streets or in their own homes, then so be it. But if we need buildings and facilities so that we can serve them adequately and better, then this and this alone is the reason that we build and maintain homes for the aged and for the sick, schools for the mentally and emotionally disturbed and retarded, Catholic youth centers and social service agencies."

Dr. David Costa, Jr. of New Bedford, diocesan lay chairman of this year's Appeal, urged all present to help with enthusiasm.

He said: "We begin a new drive with a new leader and guide, His Excellency Bishop Cronin. This is the Bishop's first Appeal, I, as your lay chairman, call upon everyone of you to join together with our new Bishop in the tremendous job of continuing anci maintaining these great institutions. Believe me, the needs keep increasing either in the form of new or expanded facilities or in the rebuilding or remodeling of the old. Good examples of this are the construction of the new St. Vincent's Home in Fall River and the opening of the Turn to Page Two

Theresa Boyaxhiu Special Mother Named for Nobel Prize Gifts· Monday

LONDON (NC)-Mother Teresa Boyaxhiu of Calcutta, the Yugoslav-born foundress of the Missionaries of Charity in India, has been recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize by Malcom Muggeridge, prominent British journalist.

Muggeridge made the suggesThe first phase-Special Gifts tion while, being interviewed on phase - of the annual Catholic' hiS new book, "Something BeauCharities Appeal, now in its 30th tifulfor God," which deals with year of service to the commuthe work of Mother Teresa and nity, begins Monday when 750 the Missionaries of Charity. volunteer special gift solicitors The Missionaries of Charity, will make over 3225 calls to professional, fraternal, business and- founded in 1950, now number industrial people. This phase close to 700 members and serve the poor in most of India's cities will end May I. and also in Tanzania, Ceylon, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Venzeula, Rome and Australia.

S. T, D., commented today, Mother Teresa received the "I thank the solicitors for accepting my invitation to solicit Pope John XXII[ Peace Prize 'funds in this phase of the Ap- from Pope Paul VI on Jan. 6. peal. May God bless you in your Muggeridge said he hopes his untiring efforts in this the thir- book may be used as a recomtieth call for charity, Our friends mendation that Mpther Teresa to be contacted in this ph~se will should receive the Nobel prize. It Turn to Page Two would mean nothing to her per-

sonally, but it docs represent $40,000 free of taxes for her work.

All proceeds from the sale of "Something Beautifui for God" aid the Missionaries of Charity.

A novitiate of the Missionaries of Charity has be~n opened in Southall, a working-class suburb of London. The novices work several days a week among immigrants from Ireland, the West Indies and Pakistan.

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Mother Teresa will send a team of Sisters to work in New York's Harlem ,later this year.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese ,of Fall RivEir-Thurs. Apr. 15, 1971

Charities Appeal Kickoff Continued from Page One new Nazareth Hall School for the exceptional children in Attleboro. Catholic Charities Appeal time should be for all of us a happy and joyful time. 't offers us the opportunity to bring our souls closer to salvation through the performance of good works of cha·rity. 'We do this not only by giving generously to the Appeal but by making the great sacrifice of going t9 the homes of our fellow parishioners seeking their giving' to the 31 agencies Of the Appeal." The Parish house-to-house campaign will be held on Sunday, May 2, when .parish. solicitors will contact fel. low parishioners' between .the hours ·of 12 noon' to 3 P.M; in the 114 parishes of the diocese.

The parish appeal continues to Wednesday, May 12.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, explained the techniqu'es and mechanics of the campaign. He urged the full cooperation' of all ,priests in fulfilling the re'quire-

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The children of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, won the hearts of the large gathering with their entertaining renditions. Coyle High School Band of ,Taunton provided music prior, during and after the meeting: A coffee hour was held and many of the gathering toured Connolly High School to inspect all the facilities of this new school.:

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Dr. David Costa, Jr. of New Bedford, diocsean lay ~hairman for this year's Appeal, said too. day: "I ask all solicitors: to make their calls early. Please make returns to your local headquarters.

Special Gift solicitation will set the barometer for phase two of the Appeal-the parish house-tohouse calls beginning May' 2."

IRISH PRESIDENT AT LOURDES: Irish President, 88-year-old EamonDe yalera walks away· after he attended Mass at the grotto and received Holy Communion from the Bishop of Lourdes, Henry Clement 'Donze. After a sixhour private Easter pilgrimage to th~ grotto Mr. De Valera returned to Dublin. NC Photo.

South' Af'rocan' Methodis't Sees Church-State Fr8ctBon 'Increasing

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, Supports Migrants' , said that "in' behalf of the 31 NEW YORK (NC)-Worsening agencies rendering co"mmunity of the already tense church-state Rnght to Organize LANSING (Nq-The board of services, , earnestly urge the relationships in South Africa directors of the Michigan Cath- business, fraternal,professional was predicted here by the top olic Conference has unanimously , and industry .groups to ;continue' official of a leading Protestant supported the right to collective their generosi ty in an'· increased denomination in that country.

The Rev. Dr. Alex Boraine, 39, bargaining by migrant farm measure this year.': workers.

The five area headquarters in president-elect of the Methodist The board, which includes the the diocese will be open all day Church of South Africa, said bishops of Michigan, acted at to. receive the return!) of the . during a v'isit here that the current impasse between the the request of' a committee. solicitors. churches arid the white minority government "will probably get Bis~op a lot worse" for both Protestants and Catholics.

He linked the current difficul~ev.

Brother William Hart-· Rev. Brother Hartmann a na- ties to the controversy that mann of Holyoke and Rev. tive' of 'Holyoke, is th~ ~on of erupted last Fall when the 'World Brother Robert, Nee of Jamaica Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H'artmann. Council .of Churches gave . Plain, both member of the Fair- After attending Holyoke' schools, through its Program to Combat haven Sacred Hearts Fathers, he studied at St. Anselm's Col- Racism funds to liberation movewill be ordained to the Priest- lege in Manchester, N. H. ,and ments outlawed by the South hood on Saturday afternoon, received a B.A. in Philosophy African regime.

April 17, at one o'clock.

Since that time, Dr. Boraine· from St. Mary's Seminary in said in a news conference here, The priestly' ordination will Baltimore.

After, teaching two years at "the situation between church take place at St.' Mary Church, North Fairhaven. Most Rev. Holyoke Catholic High School, and state has 'become more inJames J. gerrard, Auxiliary he' entered the Sacred Hearts ·tense." .

He acknowledged that there Bishop of Fall River, will be the Novitiate in Wareham' in 1966.

He has since studied theology has always been a great deal of ordaining prelate. at Queen of Peace Mission Sem- friction between church and. inary, Jaffrey Cepter, N. H. and state in South Africa because "a Necrology Washington Theological Coali- great deal of what the 'church stands Tot contradicts governAPRIlL 16 tion, Washington, D. C. Rev.. Arthur E: Langlois, 1928, Following ordination;' Father ,ment policy" of complete segre. on sick leave, Denver, Colorado.' Hartmann will be the Iprincipal gation of races. . celebrant -of a concelebrated Leaders Stand Firmly APRIL 18 . Mass in: Blessed Sacrament More th~lIl 30 clergy and other Rev. Hugh 8; Harrold, 1935,' Church, 'Holyoke, at 3 o'clock church workers have been exPastor, St. Mary, Mansfield.'

Sunday afternoon, April 18. ,pelled by the South African govRt. Rev. John F. 'McKeon, P.R., Rev. Brother Nee was born in ernment since the first of the 1956, Pastor, St. Lawrence, New ' Jamaka, Plain, the - son of Mr. year, Dr. Boraine said. At least Bedford. . .and Mrs. Robert Nee. Following one Catholic priest has been inAPRIL 20 schooling in Jamaica Plain, he studied at St. Mary's, College, ~luded in th~t number, he noted, Rev. Edward ~. Coyle, S.$., Winona, Minn. and received a 1954, St. Mary Seminary, Paca .

B.A. there. He entered the Sacred Maintain Concept Street, Maryland. ; Rev. James E. O'Reilly, 1970, - Hearts Congregation at WareVATICAN CITY (NC)-An inPastor. Emeritus; ,Mt: carmel;' ham, in 1964. He prepared for formed Vatican source said that Seekonk. , t h e priesthood at Jaffrey Center the 1971 Synod of Bishops will and Washington, D. C. where he be told that the traditional conAPRIlL 22 will return following 'ordination cept of celibacy for Latin-rite Rev. Thomas F. Fitzgerald, to continue his M.A., w.ork. priests sh;ould be maintained, 1954, Pastor, St. Mary, Nanfather·Nee will be tl1,e princi- but it will' also be asked for its tucket. . pal celebrant at a concelebrated, adyice for ordaining married Rev. James L. Smith, 1910, Mass at St. Thomas' Aquinas men for priest-scarce areas. The Pastor, , Sacred. Heart, Taunton. Church, Jamaica Plilin, on Sun- source said. that. the official day afternoon at 3.. agenda '~or the month-long ''''''''I''''ll''''''''''''''''''''IIII''''',''I1'''Utl''''''''''''''''''''''''''""''''Il''ltIll"mul,,'',,' Following the ordihat.ion cere- Synod session, which begins THE ANCHOR Sept. 30" is now in the hands of Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River . mony, there will be a public reMass" Published every Thursday at 411i ception at the, Sacred Hearts the bishops' conferences~ The Highland Avenue.' Fall River. Mass. 02722 Academy, Main. Street, Fair- agenda, he said, is "only to' get by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. SUbscription price by mall, postpaid haven. the discuss~~m going.'.", $4.00 per year.

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'" don't' think the situation will improve' any," he predicted. .", can't see the government ba'cking down. , hope the church wiil withstand the intimidation arid ·interference with its work."

He expressed the conviction that, thus far, "there has been no backing down from any of the churches concerned."

Although the Roman Catholic' Church is not a member of the World Council of Churches and is thus not tied to the controversy over· the anti-riiCisrri grants in South Africa, Dr. Boraine said Catholic leaders stand firmly with their Protestant colleagues in the current crisis.

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Discuss Strategy The Methodist leader, who also heads Christian education and youth work for his church, .referred to Archbishop Denis Hurley as "a very close colleague of mine. We meet regularly to wo~k out policy and strategy to stand firm in this."

He said Cardinal Owen McCann of Cape Town met with all the other church leaders in March at a session called to discuss strategy for the churches in dealing with increasing government repression of church efforts to apply the gospel to the South African scen~.

"The government does not recognize that there is such a collision' course between church and state," he said. "Their position is that they take action against individuals:"""that it is not an attack against the church but against individuals.

"B'ut you. can't attack an individual within the church without attacking the church as well, because the very nature of the church is that it's, a corporate body."

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Bishop paniel A. Cronin met 'with the Senate of Priests on Friday, April 2· for their regular April meeting. , Fathers Leo Sullivan and John Moore gave a report on the recent NFPC meeting in Baltimore which they attended. The convention statement - Moment of Truth - dealing with leadership, church structure,. celibacy, human rights and priestly holiness' was distributed to the senators and will soon be sent to each priest of the Diocese.

A report on a March 29 meet. ing held in Boston on the Ministerial Priesthood was given by Father George Coleman. The successful poll of parishes and institutions contributed to a most efficient report, and Bishop Cronin congratulated Father Coleman and the 'committee that had worked with him. .)

The Social Concerns Committee report was given by Father John Moore. The abortion question guidelines will soon be ready and new' publications were pointed out in the area of Conscientious Objection. It was also reported that a bill is now in the legislat~re that would seek to remove seminarians from exemp_, tion status.

May will be the month for a new election for peer group senators and a motion was made requesting.a yearly election of senate officers due to the yearly change in the senate makeup.

Rev. John Driscoll, Chairm~n of the Personnel Board discussed and clarified 'several questions in regard to priest changes.' A policy statement will soon be s~nt to prieSts. Two' 'new members will be elected to the board in August.

An Ad Hoc Committee was formed to prepare and formulate a proposal to be presented by the Priestly Renewal Committee concerning the allotment of time . and funds for the purpose of on.going education to each priest who might request it.

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Dedicate So. End· Youth Center April 19

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Thurs., April 15, 1971

Stang to Present 'Guys and Dolls~

Steven Caron, president of South End Youth Center, 1504 So. Main Street, Fall River, has announced plans for formal dedication of the center. Dr. A. Donald Bourgeois, profe!>sor of law at Ohio University, will be the main speaker at the event scheduled for 2 Monday afternoon, April 19.

Among officials invited to attend are Governor Sargent, U. S. Representative Margaret M. Heckler, U. S. Senator Edward W. Brooke, U. S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, State Representatives Matthew W. Kuss and Carlton Viveiros, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, and Mayor Nicholas Mitchell. Following dedication ceremonies, the center will welcome the public for an open house.

At 8:30 each night tpnight through Sunday the combined music and drama' departments of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will present the" Damon Runyon musical, "Guys and Dolls," under the direction of Gerald Morrissey.

Lead roles are played by Morrissey, Pamela Haran, Stephanie Franco and Charles Swiszcz, supported by dancers and a • chorus as well as several supI' ,., porting chara,~ters.

Sister Marie Gurry, S.N.D. is in charge of music and choreog-' raphy is by Miss Cheryl Grenier.

A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 tonight, prior to the opening performance. Tickets will be available at the door for the production.

The center, opened" in August of 1969, has since then been developing its facilities, sponsoring activities and programs of interest to young adults between 15 and 20 years of age. Governed primarily by the young adults, the center has on its board of directors several inter- . ested adults.

Plan Broadcasts To Red China SYDNEY (NC) - Australians are being asked to cooperate in the plan of Catholic broadcasters in Asia to trahsmit religious radio programs to Red China.

Open to Seniors It sponsors many programs which may .be generally categorized into person~lity development, education and indoor nonathletic recreation. The facility is financed by assistance from Citizens for Citizens, Inc., The United Fund, other private monies, and funds raised by the members themselves. Recently it entered into a cooperative effort with the Massachusetts Senior Citizens Senate, whereby it is open for senior citizens for the early part of each day.

HAPPINESS IS •...MEETING J'HE EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN; During his recent tour of the various institutions in the Diocese, Bishop Cronin's entire countenance lit up with a joy that comes on visiting the exceptional children and coming to the realization that a facility such as Nazareth on the Cape is the result of the generosity of all during the Charities Appeal.

Diocesan Priests Replace Sulpicians

PLYMOUTH (NC) - Diocesan priests will replace Sulpicians at St. John's Seminary here in Michigan, partly because of diDr. Bourgeois, the main speak- minishing numbers in the Suipier for the occasion, and a trial cian order and partly because the lawyer, obtained his law degree two groups approach seminary at the age of 25. Since then he ~ork in different ways.

The ,Ipost-graduate seminary has been involved in the resolution of community problems as has been staffed by Sulpicians, the originator and a Director of whose, special apostolate is sem-.. the St. Louis Model City Agency, inary work, since 1949. As the organizer and executive director ' total number of SUlpicians deof the Governor's Office of creased over the years, the order Human Resources for the State was unable to staff St. John's of Illinois and consultant on fully, and diocesan priests filled urban problems for many city in.

By 1971 the proportion had and state governments. become seven Sulpicians to 13 Entertain BU!iinessmen diocesan priests, six of whom Following the program on were non-residents. About 130 Monday, there will be other spe- graduate seminarians from all cial events during the week. On over the state study at St. John's, Tuesday, the members of the and the five bishops of Michigan, Center will sponsor entertain- including Cardinal John Dearden ment for senior citizens. Plans of Detroit, serve on its board of are also being made to entertain' trustees. area businessmen during the special week.

Happiness Serving on the planning com-. mittee are Caron, Vice-Presidents Ann Tyrrell and Peter Robidoux and Board members Dennis Cartin, Rita Bertoncini, and Rev. Kevin F. Tripp.

Problem of Poor WASHINGTON (NC) - The Conference of Major Superiors of Men will focus on the problem of the poor when they meet in DePere, Wis., June 21-25 for their 14th annual assembly. Special emphasis will be given to the involvement' of Religious in the fields of education, housing and community development.

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The center, of the operation is expected to be the Asian bishops' Radio Veritas in the Philippines.

Australians will be able to cooperate through a newly forme.d branch here of the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television (UNDA).

The Australian branch is called UNDA Oceania.

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Cardinal Seper said that Pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - For Paul had called for new regulathe cardinal charged by Pope One of the most vivid and moving accounts we have Paul VI with safeguarding the tions when he transformed the former Holy Office into the Dochad of everyday life in Nazi Germany is provided by faith, on-the-spot' action by trinal Congregation in 1965.

Christabel Bielenberg' in Ride Out the Dark (Norton,: 55 local bishops is the best way of Cardinal Seper was brought into Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003. $6.95). Mrs. Bielenberg balking error or putting far-out the Vatican in 1968 to preside theological theories, in perspecis of English and Irish anover the Doctrinal Congregation tive. cestry. She passed up .a sent in reports Olb its dwellers' to and its reform.

"The 'bishops must assume ' scholarship to Oxford in the party headquarters.

First St~ge Telephones were tapped. T~ere their own responsibility and 'not early 1930s to study music were informers in every office. leave these matters solely to the "All the early examination, in Germany. There she met One, had' to be cautious even in Holy See," 'Cardinal Franjo Septhe first stage of the investigaPeter Bielenberg, and was mar- casual conversation. Papers ;and . er, prefect of the Doctrinal Contion, is carried out within, the ried to him in 1934. She was in, radio spewed propagiilnda. The gregation, told 'NC News. congregation, internally. This Germany throughout the Hitler plight of the Jews came, poi"By the time a writing has This first stage' includes a deyears, down. fo ,the' end of gnantly home as one was asked come to .our attention and we fense of the author by a quasiWorld War II. defender who strives to show to shelter a fleeing couple for have examined it, discussed it and conferre~ y,.ith the authors, the merits of the author's .a few nights.

I and ·theA- madel a statement on work."

Air Raid Havoc it, people may hav~ forgotten But does it not smack of unBut if existence was punishing all about it.

By CARDINAL SEPER fairness when the author~s debefore the war it became agon"And the damage has already fender is chosen by' the congre- . iZing as the war went on and' de- been done." ' gation rather than by the author RT. REV. the examination' of writings by feat approached. There are, for Cardinal Seper was comment- the Vatican, Cardinal Seper said: himself? instance, graphic descriptions of ing on new regulations governing MS.GR. "The author does not know -he "We must have taken care to the Al1ied air raids, and the the examination of writings by is under examination," Cardinal give the author every opportuJOHN S. havoc they wrought. . his congregation. nity to explain his ideas clearly, Sper said. "Why worry him Mrs. Bielenberg and her Sons KENNEDY The very firs~ of these regula- to defend himself. when the examination of his were more fortunate than most tions provides that writings writings may show that his opin"We want to avoid injustice." in that they spent the latter part "clearly and certainly erroneous" Throughout the conversation, ions do ,not contradict the of the wat in a placid Bl'ack and likely to cause harm be rethe Croatian cardinal spoke with Church's teaching?"

Her husband's family was wel1 . Forest village, Rohrbach. There ferred at once to the local bishthe same calm and decision that Avoids Complications placed and wel1 connected. Many they were kindly treated by the ops and to the author hims~lf. served him when .he adminisSeper said that the , Cardinal of his friends were people in- woman innkeeper and by the Avoid Injustice tered the Zagreb archdiocese defender has usually been chosen ' volved in such opposition to Hit-' simple people of the region.

The regulations were published while his frierid Cardinal Aloy- from among the congregation's ler as there was. Some-took part But always there was the in February, sh,ortly after Pope sius Stepinac was in the hands consultors and that the consultdirectly in the July, 1944, plot thought of the peril in which to kil1 Hitler, which was, of Peter Bielenberg stood, and this Paul 'exhorted the world's bish- of Yugoslavia's communist au- ors include men of various theological tendenCies. course, a failure. Bielenberg ordeal became well nigh intol- ops to take th~ir "personal re- thorities.

He spoke with the same imHe then launched into a critihimself was '. arrested in the erable as the scheme against sponsibility, ab~)Olutely inalienaftermath of. that, and came Hitler failed, Peter was arrested able," in the face of "adventu- perturbable good humor and per- cism of those who speak as if a close to losing his life. and in the hands of the Gestapo, rous hypotheses or opinions that ception that served the Second single, classic theology reigned Vatican Council both in debate in Rome.

The people of this circle could then sent to the concentration disturb faith." I Of the new norms governing and in committee.

"In everyone of the Roman not accept that, once in power, camp at Ravensbrueck. university 'faculties there are Hitler c'ould last very long.

Significant View t.l;leologians of various tendenWhen he precipitated World cies," he observed. ' War II, they expected that deA particularly affecting secWhat approach is ,the congrecisive action against him wouid tion of .the book recounts .,the gation taking when a theologian take place in Germany:, author's long, painful journey. to lE<dIofrolJ' ·5<aJys 5)(!)Vuell' UB'(O(!)PSi Ofi'1l 1P(Ql~«llrfi}(dl does not start off from the clasAtmosphere of Menace the concentration camp to see sic Thomistic base, but has a ~ll'i'lfhefj'leSill'~dl Uri) Rle~OSo«»ll'i'l As he went from success to her probably doomed husband, different philosophical starting success, from enormity to enor- and then her braving the Gesta"When ' visiting Catholic point?

'WUERZBURG (NC) - Soviet po itself in his behalf, a move mity, they experienced some"The tendency here is not iroops stationeq in the former churches, Soviet soldiers behave thing akin to despair. Nothing which succeeded amazingly.: German region' of Silesia now reverently and sometimes can be to make judgeme'nts according Mrs . .Bielenberg tells her story effective' was' ever done to del administered ,by Poland are seen making the· Orthopox sign to this or that theological school, pose, or even to curb, him until exceptional1y well. She has a showing interest in religion, ac- of the cross. but to see whether the ideas are gift for the right· word, 'the picGermany was overrun .by the cording to the; priest-editor of "Religious art stores do a 'boom- in accord with revelation and the and an unusual abi'ltorial detail, Al1ies. the Wuerzburg diocesan weekly, ing business with Soviet visitors Church's Magisterium (teaching Mrs. Bielenberg conveys the ity to communicate feeling. She who maintains I close' contacts 'who buy ali sorts of religious authority). This avoids many , avoids sentimentality, and in the anti-Hitler 'passion in this circle, with Poland. . articles to take home across the complications." and the depresssion into whidl , midst of the grim narrative which border when going 'on leave." there are welcome she unfolds "For many years now, these it was thrown by the refusal of flashes of humor.

Russian military personnel and Msgr. Holzapfel concluded by those in power in Britain and the The sales of heJ:' book will their families have been living saying it is clear that atheist United States to be convinced that there was opposition to Hit- probably not be one-tenth those amid a predominantly Catholic propaganda in the Soviet Union t?

Religious ler within Germany and to af- of Albert Speer's, but hers gives population, and neither the rank has not sunk in very deeply in ford it some recognition and en- a far more significant and mem- and file nor their officers show the souls of the people there.

Teachers orable view of life under Hitler ariy hostility whatever to relicoHragement. in the servke gion," said Msgr. Helmut HolMuch of her book has to do than his does.

Happiness of the C'hurch zapfel. with her husband's comings and Oper~tic World ,"They are respectful to priests Write: Brother GUY, C.F.X. To understand and to be ungoings in connection with oppoJames McCracken is one' of they meet and even express sur- derstood makes our happiness 704 Brusl1 Hill' Road .. sition endeavors, and the atmoMilton, Massachusetts' 02186 sphere of menace in which ,he the stellar tenors in today's op- prise when they find that so on earth.

-German Proverb constantly moved.' Its· shadow eratic world. He is married to many of the priests belong to the younger Polish generation," said fel1 upon her as wel1, and upon Sandra Warfield, a mezzosoprano of lesser celebrity. Msgr. Holzapfel.' their three smal1 sons. , BOut we have read of this kind Together they have produced', a "Since many" of the Soviet of thing pefore, for example, in book which traces one year of women work in offices, they enthe biographies of Dietrich Bon. their life together (1969) and trust the care of their children hoeffer and Adam von· Trott., touches' on much which led up during daytime to 'Polish women Bonhoeffer is' not mentioned in to that year. The book is' called who teach the youngsters cateConducted by RE~ HARRY CAIN, S.J. this present work, but Adam von A Star in the Family (Coward chism and often' have them seMcCann ,& Geoghegan, 200 cretly baptized, even with the Trott is very prominent in it.

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Student Protests Close University students staged a week-long sit-in.

The sit-in began after police arrested two leaders of a protest march in front of the building.

Both university and diocesan authorities protested the presence of the police. Bishop Roque Adames of Santiago de las Caballeros filed a formal complaint with both the local police ancl the chief of the national police to protest their interference in the Catholic university's affairs.

Msgr. Agripino Nunez, rector of the university, said that no one at the school called the police, and that they were not 'vvelcome. on the campus.

The National Association of Laymen is a splinter group of liberal· Catholics. Until now its main noteriety came when its then executive director managed to shout. obscenities at a group of bishops, later justifying his ac'tion as a use of "black language."

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by John Deedy, which concedes that there will probably be State aid and that this will be a tragedy for the Church. Mr. Deedy's argument reaches a level of obscurity seldom matched by anyone in the Catholic school controversy: "For the evidence mounts' that the parochial school may ultimately do to Catholic life in America what secularism, materialism and all secular devils combined could never do: sink the parish financially (large influxes of public funds notwithstanding), fracture further what is left of the cohesion and harmony of the Catholic community, and in the end subvert the fragile chances for renewal and reform of the American Catholic Church." (John Deedy, "Should Catholic Schools Survive'?", The New Republic, March 13, 1971.) .

Peculiar I;.ogic One shakes one's head in disbelief. About the only thing Catholic schools are not blame'd for is the collapse of the New York Mets. Mr. Deedy offers no real evidence for any of this, other than to describe a controversy which "polarized" his parish.

But controversies have been going on about Catholic schools for a century. Mr. Deedy is the first to apply the magic word "polarize" and to suggest that since Catholic schools are· controversial they ought to be closed.

It's a peculiar kind of logic: Seventy-five per cent of the American Catholic population is ill favor of parochial schools (as demonstrated by more than 10 studies over the past two decades), but because 25 per cent is not in favor of them, the schools must be closed lest they "polarize" parishes.

No Alternatives I wonder if Mr. Deedy really thinks that there would not be conflict in the emerging democratic structure of the American parish if the school issue was eliminated. Our separated brothers manage to have endless controversies in their parish counci!s without having to fall back on the school issue.

We are also told that, "No one knows what the results would be if the priorities

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tudes in many' areas might conceivably be different if Catholic parishes interested themselves as much in interracial justice as they do in parochial schools.

Perhaps there could be a qualitatively different Catholic orientation toward peace, toward PAUL THERRIEN poverty, toward a number of neglected concerns."

Mr. Deedy is right No one knows what the results would be. No one even knows that the resources spent on schools would Paul F. Therrien, a high school be available for other activities. and semi-pro football player and.

But the point is that Mr. Deedy•. teacher' of World, Russian and has not suggested what these al- Black History at Msgr. Coyle ternatives ,might be. He has no High School will be the new concrete program with which to coach arid head athletic director replace the schools. of the new Coyle-Cassidy High Again,one must point out School in Taunton. that our separated brothers, who Married to the former Jean lack parochial schools, have not Thornton, the Therriens have produced people more. enlight- two daughters. The new director ened on interracial justice than graduated from New Bedford we have. On the contrary, High School in 1960 and obthere is considerable evidence tained a BA in History at Norththat Catholic education has a eastern University in 1965. strong positive impact on' racial The following year he began attitudes. We must, if Mr. Deedy teaching at Msgr. Coyle High is to be believed, close down School. Besides teaching he also what we 'have with the pious took over positions as line hope that something better coach in football, head freshman might come along. basketball coach and head track But the real problem with Mr. coach.

Deedy's article is that he doesn't He is presently also enrolled address himself to the question at Bridgewater State College of where the biggest drain is in for a Masters in History. 'urban Catholic education. .

Cassidy-Coyle High School The upper-tniddle class schools will take part in Cross Country, can survive if the people in such Basketball, Spring Track, Baseparishes want the schools badly ball, Tennis and Golf. The High . enough. The critical financial School will be in the Bristol problem is in the inner city County League for Varsity and schools, which are subsidized Junior Varsity Sports.

The new high school will use by the Church and which pro-. vide an extremely important and the Middle School facilities (forhighly valued educational alter- . mer Msgr. Coyle High School) native for those black parents for football, baseball and track. who want something more than the custodial care public educaExpress Concern tion often provides.

For U.S. POW's Minimize Dedication HANOVER (NC)-The bish~ps The Church should subsidize such schools, but the costs' of of the Lutheran Church in Gerdoing so without some sort of many have expressed concern State aid are fantastically high. for the plight of U. S. prisoners Does Mr. Deedy think these of war in North Vietnam but schools should be closed too! said they had not decided on And if he is talking about Catho- what they should do about the lic education, why does he not situation.

The German Lutherao bishops mention the service to the· whole society performed by the inner stressed that an appeal to the government of West Germanv city schools?

I am weary of Catholic liber- would be ineffective because it als who ignore or minimize the' does not have diplomatic relagenerosity and dedication of the tions with North Vietnam and is priests and nuns who keep these not a voting member of the schools open at. the cost of United Nations.

They said that efforts by Lugreat sacrififce and heartbreak. theran Church leaders of Africa, 1 am equally tired of those who' use the schools as a scapegoat Asia and. Latin America could for everything that is wrong be effective in implementing international inspc:;ction of prison with the Church.

Finally, I am tired of those camps. whose conviction about their own self-righteousness makes them oblivious to the most elementary facts. If the American Church has troubles - and it does-the schools are hardly to Over 35 Years blame. But what about those of Satisfied Service Catholic intellectuals who are Reg. M~ster Plumber 7023 willing to abandon everything JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. af their own tradition without 806 NO. MAIN STREET bothering to specify nn alternaFall River 675-7497 tive?

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Asserts Priests Oppose Reviving Deacon Program

-- One-by-One Progranl A rising phenomenon of this generation is the increasing number of young persons-some, dropouts from "the system"-who are becoming artisans and craftsm~n, working in leat.her and pottery and jewelry and sandle-m~k­ ing.

For' some of these persons, this is a temporary thing, a dropping out of the present reality of' life for a. wh~le.

For others, it seems to be the beginning of a new means of livelihood, a meager means, at times, but one with co'mpensations. , It is all an' attempt; an honest and praiseworthy 'attempt, to restore the' personal to an impersonal world. .

People are growing increasingly frustrated with things.

They have been promised much by the wonders of sCience and technology.' And now they are beginning to wonder if the price they' are called on to pay for a high standard of living is the tqll of ~mpersonal and depersonalized ac-_ tivity, a working with things without ever introducing the -personal element.' . . , It takes, indeed, much foresight for a factory 'worker or a production-line worker to realize that putting on a. cog' or stamping' out a hole is contributing to his fellow man in a warm and personal way. , .'

For many if not most of these kinds of workers, the connection is never made, and for many workers the job becomes simply' a means of gaining mon'ey so that they may' find with family and friends outside of work the sharing and the relationships that the human spirit craves . ' and needs. .'

Everyone wants creative' activity. and activity that adds in a positive w~y to the well-being·of his fellow man.

That is why one-to-one programs have great appeal.

Into this category surely falls the Catholic Charities Appeal.

It is a program of each person giving to help another person with the'advantage that the impact of many individ~als giving together for specified purposes can and does touch the lives of many other persons'. ' NQt everyone can dr0t? out of the present routine of his life to enter into a o.ne-by-one relationship" w:i.th others. Most people have all they can do ,to try to :,be .. kind 'and' generous with families and frIends. But every person can reach out in a gift of '4is means to 'someone, in need. And he knows that he has benefitted his neighBor. This is creative and' satisfying, as well as .being the sign of faith-a willingness for one of God's children to help. his brother, and sisters in an area where there is a need to be met.

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JACKSON (NC)-An archbishop charged here in Mississippi that priests in the South are in the front ranks of opposition to vival of the lay deacon program. revival of the lay deacon program. . "We've got to have new thinking among our clergy toward the permanent diaconate," said Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of. New 'Orleans at a meeting of representatives of the dioceses in the province of New Orleans here.

"Most of the objections to this program are from priests," he asserted.

His remarks came as delegates waded through a series of com' mittee reports ranging from public relations to resigned priests.

The committee on the permanent diaconate program was the third appointed in recent years to study the pro'blems and make recommendations.

'-'The first two committees did nothing," tl:Je archbishop declared.

Bishop Joseph B. Brunini of Natchez-Jackson, said he had one deacon in Mississippi assigned to a country where there M~mbers. are only 25 Catholics.

"He's doing a good job, but I would like to have one black DENVER (NC) ~ Sister mem- ican Sisters, Sisters whose re- . deacon who could go around the bers of the National Assembiy of newal in their own communities state to identify with the black Women Religious have more on had freed them to .hope and commun'ity," Bishop Brunini their mind that ,just "nunny" dream beyond the frontiers of said. business, said :NAWR' steeri!1g their own communities to action Dismal Prospects committee chairman Sister Ethne in an open Church and world."

Kennedy at the assembly's first "Can we offer visible evidence Father John Newfield, present house of delegates meeting here. that we are a group of women chairman of the committee on , Sister Kenn~dy's statement who are on fire with the Gospel the diaconate, said his group did rang true when over 500 mem- and willing to liv~ out our rad:. nO,t favor relaxing requirements bers, including 153 elected dele-, ical commitment to the Gospel?" for minority groups simply begates, passed action resolutions she asked. cause. they are' minorities.

Delegates passed resolutions on subjects like: racism, war and "There's too much chance of peace and the status of women. urging that women Religious getting screwballs," Father New.Delegate also asked that the work for fair' labor practices; field said. "I think this would National Conference of Catholic recommend withdrawal of Sis- damage the Church rather than Bishops "weigh seriously" a ters from schools they consider help it." statement on the priesthood urg- ·"racist"; be "deeply involved" iJ:l Bishop Brunini said the prosing optional celibacl issued re- problems of war and, peace, and " pects for getting additional black cently by the National Federa- work for "equal 'opportunities priests are dismal. He commenttion of Priests': Councils. for women in all phases of life ed: "[ don't have a single can. Earlier in the convention; an paiticularly in their role in the didate in the seminary at the.

NFPC official read a ··'statement Church." present moment." of solidarity" strongly supportBishop John May of Mobile, ing the' direction of renewal Ala., supported Bishop Brunini's among U. S. women Religious. view declaring: "It's important Sister Kennedy told conven" to have identity in a -.commuContinued from Page One tion delegates that NAWR nity." He pointed out other re"sprang from the vision of Am'er- ing forces to' oppose the inligious faiths have part-time creases !it hearings which the .ministers in small communities, Rates Commission plans yet' there are only a few CathUpholds Maryland's Postal to open in the nation's capital . olic lay deacons. beginning April 19.

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During these days after Easter, the Church urges her children to enjoy the fact of their redemption and their present qlll to live now a resurrected life in union with the , I Risen Christ.

'Mail Price Hike . Just as during Lent she urged sacrifice and a de~th to self in order to make room for the presence of Christ and in order to bend sometimes stubborn wills 'to His will, so now she tells Catholics to enjoy what they have become..

It is not a matter of relaxing spiritual vigilance.

But it is a matter of bringing about a desire to. live a good life by concentrating on the good Lord. While it WASHINGTON '(NC) '- 'The' Po'stpone Hearing is necessary to look at evil to know what to avoid, to see U. S. Supreme Court has upheld its loathsomeness in itself and in its effects on the life Maryland's ban on showing, of The' Postal Rates Commission of one called to be a child of God, there. should be even the Swedish movie, "I Am Curi- postponed the scheduled April 19 hearing until sometime in May , more concentration on what it means to be a son or daugh- aus (Yellow)." , Since the court was dead- or later. The commission said it ter of God, a brother or sister to Jesu's Christ. ' locked 4 to 4 in its decision, it was . swamped with requests The peace arid happiness' of this relationship should issued rIO statem'ent with its from parties wishing to be heard make themselves keenly felt in the lives of those who h~lVe ruling. Justice )Villiam O. Doug- on' the rate hike plan. gone through the sacrifice of Lent with the Lord and, n'ow las caused the impasse by dis-' The commission fixed April 26 qualifying hill!self from the case. ,for a pre-hearing conference and come "to view their' qwn salvation i.n and through Him. The ~ase was taken' to' the Court QY ·Grove Press, Inc., iriJporter and owner 'of American . distribution rights to the film.

Grove challenged Maryland's motion ,picture; censorship, Jaw and sought a ruling that no offiOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER cial anywhere 'may prevent Published weekly, by The ~atholic Press of the Diocese of F,alL River adults from seeing a movie in an 410 Highland Avenue Americap. ~hea~er.

Fall River, Mass.. 02722 675-7151 Maryland Atty. Gen. Francis PUBUSHER . . B. Burch countered with a plea Most ·Re,v. Daniel A. 'l:ronin, ,D.D: .. _S.r.D.' to allow the states to determine GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER f~r themselves \vhat is obscene: I .

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Tri;.Faith Theology School to Open HALIFAX (NC)-Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church theology students will all go to the same school here next year and take the same courses.

The Atlantic School of Theology, first such interdenominational institute in Canada, replaces separate theological programs now being conducted in Nova Scotia' by each faith. The separate schools have shared a wide variety of courses in the past, but maintained separate facilities.

At the new" school, some 60 students-30 United Church, 20 'Anglican and 10 Catholic-will share the sa'me courses, receiving their degrees after three years of study. Representatives of all three faiths, plus several students, will sit on ,the school's gbverningl5oard. '.

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Rev. Joseph L. Powers is the pastor of the new church that will be blessed on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 by Bishop Cronin.

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OnIY.WayofG~tting Styl~s Yau Want Is Hom,e, S~whig , They're claiming that the dress, is returning but you certainly can't prove it by what's in the stores or by the comments Qf area women who have gone out looking for a spring ensemble. "I can't find anything at all that ap-' peals to me and I can't see bUYing just, to buy," said word is that once the heat of one young matron. Another Summer is past, Fall will, see a revival of the interesting femicommented that there were nine dress in a comfortable,

stilI pl~nty of pant suits around, but tliat" dresses were few and far, 'between.

wearable length. ' Everyone's Confused All women: appear to be as confused as I when it comes to what is really in for Summer and Spring "71, because every affair that you attend brings By forth such a rash of different , outfits that it sometimes looks MARILYN like' a costume ball. ' The other evening we were. at RODERICK an affair where' the two out-' standing ensembles were ,an oyster white hot pant' outfit ~nd a stunning midi length dress Coats are attractive, but you worn with flower-strewn boots. need something to wear under Certainly outfits that were' at them other than hot pants. either end of the fashion spectrum! However' in this case both Only Way What truly amazed me when were very, very attractive.

The longer hemlines on day.

I was doing the research for my Easter column was that many time dresses have settled at the of the women who were wearing middle of the knee, or just below something new on this day (and 'the knee, despite the fact ,that lall many hadn't even given a new lengths are being shown. Tne outfit a thought) were sewing late ,Coco Chanel, who changed their own. Again .this seems to . her hemlines, and even her basic be the only way to get what you style very little, during all the want. fashion quandary felt that Today I received an advertise- dresses should flatter women ment from one of the better and more than' any other designBoston stores containing 'the er she tried to rTlake a woman pick of their summer merchan- look her very best. dise, and despite the fact that- Let's hope the. r'-!mor of a re, the pamphlet described over fifty turr~ to ,!he srna~.t looking dress items, there wasn't a dress in ' the lot. , a n d ens~mble becoples a reality. ,

Ads' of metropoiitan stores show quite a few dresses, especially the Pucci wildly printed ty'pe, -·but in this area' they do seem to be few, and, far between. ,There are" ethnic. looks' in quantity; maxi 'cottons, with romantic puffed sleeves and' dirndl skirts. in 'abundance,' but other than. drip-ctr.y knits· ane~citing looking coat and dress ensemble' appears to be an elusive item.

But hope beats strong 'in' the heart of the American female (it would have to in order to' survive the' fashion trauma We' are' , forced', to,' experience) , a'nd:' the

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Set Diaconate' 'Training For latin Americans

,DETROIT .(NC).....,.Latin Americans in Detroit I"\ave been gi.v~n permission to establi'sh a perm~­ n~!1t diacomite, training program beginning, next. SUmmer. , " father Edward J. Baldwin, ar.':;hQ,iocesan' permanent diaconate director, said the Spanishspeaking community will share responsib,ility with thl:l Detroit archdiocese in planning t~e program. , "The Latin American community in the archdiocese is conscious of the fact that there is only one full-blooded Chicano priest working here, and he is from Mexico City," Father aaldwin said.

"They consider this lack of having their own people minister to them an ethnic problem, not a Church problem. As such. they ,feel they can come up with solution via their own diaconate program."

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Th'e new ambassad'or, Rene Rojas Galdames, presented his credentials signed by Chile's .', President Salvador Allende, the" "Archdi9cese Starts . ~ first Marxist to be d,emocratical- - ' , ly elected head of a Latin Immfgratiori ,Service American country. " L O S ANGELES (NC) ~ The The ambassador told the'Pope~ Catholic Welfare Bureau here "Chile :is seeking a new road for has opened a new department of greater social justice" for the immigration ·and citizenship to effective participa'tion Of all seg- assist eligible alie,?s '.in obtain~ ments of the people in the devel- ing, permanent resident status. opment and guidance of the Bishop William R. Johnson~ country, always in respect for bureau director, said four bilin~ the law and with the ,profound ,gual Sisters of a Mexican' reli" conviction 'of the requirements giolls community are staffing the of peace which' are the penna- department which is located nent pillar.s of our institutional downtqwn in the' Catholic charilife." ~ ties center.

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RECEIVE AWARDS: Members of New Bedford CYO Girls' League receive awards at banquet. From left, Mary Beth Mahoney, St. Mary's parish, third place winner; Mary Lou Marks, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, first place; Catherine Maciel, St. Lawrence; second place; Mrs. Beatrice Guillmette, girls' league director.,

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TRENTON (NC) - Gov. William T. Cahill, a Catholic, has promised t6 take a' long hard look at divorce legislation now on his desk as' a result of legislative action. .Opposed ,by the New' Jersey Catholic Conference, organization of the state's bishops, the legislation was amended by the Senate and the Assembly rapidly cOr:Jcurred. in the changes.

Despite the changes, however, opponents Claim that the bill will"transform New Jersey from a': tQugh divorce state-heretofore the only grounds for divorce have . been adultery, extreme cruelty and d'esertion for two years or more - into one in which "trial f!larriages" will become, commonplace.

The reason for the charge is that the bill contains a "no fault" provision enabling the 'courts to grant divorce without a finding of fault where there has been separation fot at least 12 months and no prospect of reconciliation.

Gov. Cahill, at a press conference here two days after the measure cleared the Assembly for a second time; said he would study the bill on its merits with(lut regard to his religious be-' Iiefs.

Speculation !'tere, however, is that he might give a conditional veto to the bill. Such a veto would send the measure bac~ to the legislature with recommendations for changes which, if incorporated in the measure, would make it acceptable.

Another factor -in his 'view is NEW YORK (NC) - Scientific matchmaking, computer dating that "with scientific break-call it what you like-has be- "throughs, we are subtly shifting come such a big business here to technology as a final resort that both the state and some for human problems, instead QJ one, answer among ,others. church leaders' are concerned.

Deception The state of New York is' Technology is outstripping our Unless you make allowances worried that victims of com- reflective processes. Because we puterized dating" services, who can db something,' we 'think we (orr your ffiend's foibles,' you be-:"Syrus may pay fees of $300 or more may 'and that we should-but tray'your OWn. for a list, of "compatible" pros- missing from the process is the question, 'why?':' " pects, are being defrauded.

Recent testimony from more Unregulated Business than 40 witneSSes at a hearing Between 20 and 30 dating serheld by New York Atty. Gen. vices in the New York metro-' Louis' J. Lefkowitz indicated politan area are said to use comthat. computers frequently back- puters: ' f!red .. They mismatched people They are, doing a lively unregCiTlrES SERVICIE instead of comin'g up. with the ulated business ,. in. bringing DISTRIBUTORS . perfect, mate. singles 'together.

Family,life program heads i'n Ga$@~DB'iS ' Embarrassed complainants tes- ' the New York archdiocese and tified at the attorney general's fuel af/1d RaU'ilge the Brooklyn diocese h'ave not hearing that it is not always true ,specifically zeroed in, on' the that, as one agency promises on computer, services, But they are its lengthy questionraie; it can 'asking themselves whether the. "guarantee" to find a "suitable" O~L BURNERS phe.lOmenon of single peopl~ dating arrangement.

For' Prompt Delivery turning to machines for marital & Day & Night Service prospects ir:Jdicates some failure in church efforts to reach single ,G. E. BOILER BURNER UNITS people in the big' city.

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States Position On Abortion

Women's Lib really leaves me cold. Before they came along, I thought it was an advantage being girl. I, still do. I don't like being called a "baby machine," and frankly, I haven't seen a machine yet that could create real flesh and blood. I have absolutely no desire to get out of my to clean a room, return five minkitchen into an army mess utes later, and find it clean.

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What, in heaven's name, is inferior about choosing a career that asks more, gives more, demands more and rewards more 'than any other profession on earth?

By MARY CARSON

This career isn't for just anybody, and maybe the Women's Lib proponents who downgrade motherhood' haven't got what it takes, After all, not everyone is suited to being the president of our country, either.

Responsible for Souls Motherhood is a tougher job than the presidency. Ridiculous?

The president is involved in making laws, and then has a whole group of people to see that they are carried out. A mother not only makes laws, but she's the head of her own police department, F.B.I. and National Guard.

The president is responsible for millions of people . . . but only indirectly. A mother must, one day, account to God for how she individually shaped the lives entrusted to her. She is directly responsible for souls!

When money runs short, the president just raises taxes. A mother must be an accountant, financial manager . . . and in difficult times, a magician. She can't say, "We need twice the money we had last year." She cuts corners, shaves expenses and works harder than any business manager.

A mother must have the impartiality of a prize fight referee; the wisdom of an attorney; the business head of a corporation executive; the patience of a research chemist ;the skill of a brain surgeon; and more love and understanding than any other profession.

Maybe the Women's Lib advocates are right . . . maybe they !'houldn't be mothers. They probably haven't the talents required, and they'd never stand for all the nonsense that goes with the job.

And there is a lot of nonsense! In spite of appreciating its joys, we all have days when we can find many things 'about motherhood we'd like to change.

Let's start a "counter-movement"-Mother's Liberation.

Every mother should be entitled to one cup of hot coffee every day that no one spills in her lap.

Every mother should be able

there should be a force that prevents the spilling of any'thingparticularly jello.

Every mother should be allowed to have one pen that no one borrows for school.

When a mother puts some-. thing down, it should stay there.

(Even carpets that I nail down get moved.)

When a mother gets ,to sit down for five minutes with the evening paper, it should b~ intact . . . no front page stories cut out for social studies projects, no contests cut and mailed, no comics that have been shredded by four kids "sharing" them.

Every mother should be allowed 20 minutes to take a bath without someone banging on the door, "Mommy hurry up. I gotta go ... bad!" .

Mother's Lib One comb, with all its teeth, should be assigned to every mother. I've thought of tying one to my dresser drawer but they'd probably take the whole dresser when they borrow the comb.

When a mother wants to set· her hair, it should not be necessary for her to crawl around the· floor looking for lost bobby pins.

Every mother should be entitled to a visit from some "guardian angel" who tells her she's doing a good job . . . in spite of the way it seems sometimes.

Every mother should get credit for taking one of the most responsible jobs in the world ... shaping'the next generation!

Care to join mE( in "Mother's Lib?" Let's show them that mothers are intelligent, talented, creative people'. . .who still have a sense of humor (an art that most of the world seems to have lost).

Do vour bit for "Motl,er's Lib" right now. Send your slogans, thoughts, comments and ideas to me, care of this paper. Offer open only to mothers who care enough to send their very best or worse, depending on what kind of day you've had!

Advise Starting Reunion At Grassroots Level· STOCKHOLM (NC)-Swedish Lutherans were urged here to undertake reunion with the Roman Catholic Church immediately at the grassroots level and not wait for it to happen at the top levels of "the large, heavy church structures." , Expressing dissatisfaction with the pace of reunion activity at the official Catholic-Lutheran Church levels. Lutheran Pastor Hans C. Caval lin, secretary general of the League for Christian Unity in this country, said: "It will take time to achieve corporate union between Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church. Do we have time to wait for it? Can we manage to wait? These are serious questions for us."

PASCHAL MEAL: Members of St. John of God parish CCD, Somerset, sponsor reenactment of Holy Thursday supper. From left Robert Murphy, CCD president, Mrs. Leo Barboza and Mr. Barboza, chairmen ,for banquet.

'Uniqu,e ,Women' Spanish-Speaking Nuns Form Organiiation ~To Develop Hispanic Identity HOUSTON (NC) Spanishspeaking Sisters from eight states met here and formed Las Hermanas, a natienal organization aiming to develop the Hispanic nuns' cultural identity and leadership potential in . the Church as well as the community.

"Our cultural background has been ignored by the Church," said Sister Gloria Gallardo of Houston, a Holy. Ghost nun who was elected president of the fledgling Las Hermanas.

"We felt we had to form our own group beca'use, we, as Chi- , cana women, are unique," she added. "By uniting, we can contribute more toward helping our people.". .Sister Gallardo, 32, said. Las Hermanas-which means "The Sisters" in' Spanish-is the first group of Hispanic nuns that has been. established in the United States.

Abollt 50 Sisters renresentinp, 20 religious cQngregations at tended a weekend meeting here and he;lrd talks' h\T .Ri<;hoD .John L. Morkovsky of. Houstoh:: Auxiliary Bishop .Patrick.F. Flores of San Anto·nio, Tex.,' ',arfd Father Ralph Ruiz. also of ,S'ui ,Antonio. president of PADRES;' a national group of Mexican-American priests.

"We recognize our unique resources as .Spanish-speaking nuns," Sister Gallardo said, reading a statement drafted at the meeting. "We feel that we can best meet the needs of that segment of the people of God known as the 'Spanish-speaking."

The' nuns adopted a series of gUideline~, to be in effect until more detailed plans. are worked out at their next meeting sched-

African Violets The Green Thumb African Violet ·Club will hold its 10th annual show from I to 7 Saturday, April 17 at LaSalette Cafeteria, 947 Park Street, Attleboro. Show theme will be "Violets on Parade." The public is invited.

uled for Thanksgiving weekend at a site to be named later. In the guidelines, Las Hermanas pledged to: Establish a clearing house of information on Chicano educational, social and other subjects "to stimuate awareness of the needs of. the Spanish-speaking."

Sister Gallardo said the clearing house would serve as a resource center, informing Chicanos where they can obtain information, about "the Chicano movement, housing, education, legislation, etc."

Work toward affecting social change. "Each Sister will have to work in her own field to sensitize the Church and the community·to bring about reforms," she said, noting that "at the present we will probably steer clear of politics."

Establish a training force toactivate leadership. Sister Gallardo said the ~roup would train Spanish-speaking nuns to be leaders in their religious orders, and would develop a teamministry approach so Sisters could work effectively 'in Spanish-speaking communities.

Participate and contribute to the rebirth of an awareness of and pride in their cultural heritage. "Before we can help our people gain confidence in themselves and take pride in their heritage, we, ourselves, must know who we are," she said.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - President Richard M. Nixon, saying he personally opposes abortion as "an unacceptable form of population control," has entered the continuing controversy over revision or abolition of laws restricting abortion.

In a statement issued in San Clemente, Calif., Nixon said he cannot square "unrestricted abortion policies, or i1bortion 011 demand . . . with my personal belief in the sanctity of human life-including the life of the yet unborn."

In the statement, he rescinded a Pentagon directive of last July which made it easier to obtain abortions in I6? military hospitals throughout 'the country. He ordered that the policy on abortions at military bases· in the United States be made to correspond with the laws of the states where the bases are located.

In Washington, Father James T. McHugh, director of the family life division, U.S. Catholic Conference, hailed the President as "forthright and courageous in stating his opposition to abortion on demand, and in urging the American people to find more humane solutions to social problems of our nation."

"His, comments," Father McHugh said, "reflect the conviction of the United States Congress and the overwhelming majority of Americans that abortion is not a legitimate means of population control, and that it provides no answer to the social problems it is alleged to solve."

Camp' Fire Girls The Leaders' Association of the Greater Fall River Council of Camp Fire Girls will meet at 7:30 tonigHt at St. Anne's School, Fall River. Rene _ V. Tremblay will conduct an outdoor safety and cooking demonstration, All leaders, sponsors, assistants and Horizon Club members are asked to attend.

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CONCELEBRATED MASS OF CHRISM: Bishop Cronin was principal concelehrant of the Iy1ass ,of Chrism on Thursday of Holy Week and fol-

Appraise Church In 'Hong ,Kong " HONG KONG (NC) - The Catholic Church runs the "best" schools, it "has a speciai affinity to go~ernment, the wealthy and Westerners" 'and it works sii1~' cerely Jor better labor. condi-, tions. This is the image Hong Kong adults have of the Catho',lic Church,according to a survey . made he"re: ' , The ,1,000 pers'ons surveyed ~ere" "from'" ~vari~us 'rel'igio~s backgrounds and' includ~d 119 Catholics. .

Grant .. Resea'rch nong' Kong, which' conducted the survey, !?aid that one conclusion to be drawn from the survey is that the Church in Hong Kong is better kilOwn for its' institutional services than for its, ideological position on issues.

Best known of .the Church's , 'institutional activities app'ear to be its schools.' Catholic hospitals ranked next in public awareness, with youth work much lesser known.

Many of the survey's respond,ents believe'that the Church has a certain tendency to support the wealthier segment of the community: Some claimed that foreigners play a major role in decisions on how the Church's money will be spent here.

Only a few thought the local Chin'ese had the most influence in Church decisions on ,money, but many said they felt that Chinese priests and nuns are as capable as foreign 0\1es in running Church institutions.

308-Year-Old Dutch Church to Close AMSTERDAM (NC)-:A 308year:old church in downtown Amsterdam is being closed as part ()f, a parish consolidation program.

Founded in 1663 by the Jesuits and in their care sil)ce then. the parish, called De Zaaier (The Sower) lost members in recent _years. Not more than 250 persons attended week-end Masses there.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-In a St. Peter's Basilica during a voice charged with 'emotion, weekly audience: The men were Pope Paul urged 10 newly or- from the Pontifical Beda Coldained priests 'to remain /Ioyal lege, an English seminary, for to their vocation and "show the late vocations. The new priests world the reason" for their , came with relatives' for the papal blessing. ' priestly 'dedication, ' , His message to the 10 priests ,The encounter. took '. place .in 'I .,... . ..... .,

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It ~as thought that the question ,of having or not haviJ1g "fast time" was settled once and for all when Congress passed the 1966 Uniform Time Act. This provided for DST to be followe,d everywhere, except in those states that voted to follow Standard Time throughout th,e state.

But' a half-dozen' or so bills dealing with this subject were introduced early in' this still young Congress, 'reflecting a fairly broad spectrum of opinion on the matter. These bills showed that there was still opposition to DST, but they als? reflected a possibly larger sentim~llt than before for the ~dop­ tion of "fast time" throughout the whole year: I"

Crime in Street In addition to calling for the f1bandonment of Daylight Saving Time on the' one hand, and fot its extension throughout the year on the other, the various measures include a call for eut J ting the observance of DST in half, Pr'esently Daylight Saving Time is observed from the last' Sunday of April to the last Sun-' day of October, There is a pro~ posal to have it eextend only

from Memorial Day (May 30) to' Labor Day at the, start, of September. . "

-af 'particular Hlterest are the ~easons advanced for observing DST all year, They reflect the problems of our times, It is argued that DST observed during all 12 months would c'ut down on crime in the, street, as the extra hour of daylight would be "bad news" for muggers and purse snatchers. '

Cha'nge Con,fession Law for Religious VATICAN CITY (NC) - Va~i­ can regulations on 'the frequency of Confession for ~embers of Religious orders were made less stringent by a new decree.

The new de'cree,issued by,the Vatican Congregation for' Reli'gious, states that men and women 'Religious should go to Con-

was one of "challenge, confi· dence and hope," The Pope said he wanted them to understand that 'arid "read in our heart the great affection and love we have for' you all." " , , The 'Pope str:essed the n'eed of pri~sts" to u~dersta~d' the seri- , f~s.~ion, f.reque.~t!y, .trPr~f,T.~'!NY ous'ness of their commitnlerit,' to "twIce a month. PrevIous regula, remain .,Joyal to their vows, and tions said Religious should go to to remember that "each one 'of Confession at least 'onc~ a week. .you, ,is another Chr~st. . " '., 'Religious, because of their special union with the Church, Thousands of priests in recent the document says, must esteem years' have applied to the Pope to' be dispensed from their vows the sacrament of' Penance arid make use of it because it "inand returned' to the lay state. creases self-knowledge, 'develResponsibility to Christ ops Christian' humility, provides spiritual guidance and makes Pope Paul had said in Februgrace more abundant." ary 1970 that he granted such dispensations "in, a spirit of . fatherly charity" but neverthe-" BEFORE YOU less "deplored the attitude" of BUY -TRY departing priests.

He told the Beda priests: "Today more than ever before there Physical, Legal Problems is need in the Church' of priests who have a clear idea of their It is contended that yearresponsibility' to Christ and to round DST would, reduce traffic . their fellow men. The needs of accidents. And it is further arthe people of God are great ... gued that it would help to conYou have been called to fulf\lI serve electricity and 'other this role," sources of power,. which in reAs archbishop of Milan, the cent years have been ha;d put Pope wrote a special letter to to keep up with the demands. his priests each Palm Sunday This last argument: it is reported, has received suppqrt particularly fo,r seven years, in which he spoke ,of "the difficulties and in city areas. the grandeurs" of the priestly It used to be 'that the most life. One of the hallmarks of moving argument for DST, when ,his pontificate has been to orit had to be voted every year, dain priests himself, something was that it gave, the working of an innovation for a modern 'rrian 'more time for outdoor recPope. reation with his family, He encouraged the Beda The aguments, pro and con, priests: seem commonplace' enough, And "We repeat to you what: we yet they are somehow quite said to the priests whom we revealing, They indicate that ordained in 'Manila: if ever some whereas support ahd opposition day you feel lonely, "if' ever for Daylight Saving Time once some day you feel you are weak seemed to divipe the city work- secular men, if ever some day er and the farmer, today they ,you are tempted to abondon the 'take into accou'nt the physical, sacred commitment of your and legal problems; of the times priesthood, remember that each rather' than the east; of the work- one of you is another' Christ er. , .. Remain always in His love,"

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BLESSING OF OILS ON HOLY THURSDAY: Bishop Cronin blesses the oils reserved for the rituals of the Sacraments of Baptism, Ordination

SchQol Aid Wins, Loss'es Reported WASHINGTON (NC)-Things look brighter for non public schools in Maryland but Michigan nOn public schools have suffered another financial defeat.

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Prelate Warns of' ABortion Dangers British Bishop Cites Distress of,,' Medical' ,Staffs

LONDON (NC) Legalized abortion is producing increasing social and psychological dangers in Britain, a bishop in close , Ope day apart, the Maryland touch with' doctors' and nurses ' Hou~e' . ,q( )~eleg1j~~s, a ppr.pved .. w~rn,eRI", Gov. Marvin Mandel's $12.1 milUrging Catholic doctors and lion nonp~blic' school aid pack- nurses to stand firm in their opage and the Michigan Supr~me position to such operations, BishCourt squelch-ed similar non pub- op Patrick Casey ot' Brentwood lie aid by upholding a voter- said that since parliament legalapproved constitutional amend- ized abortion four years ago mimt banning it. "much has happened to cause Action on the Maryland bill disquiet." came April I when the house of "We need mention only the delegates voted 79 to 60 to ac- increasing discouragement of cept its proposal to provide doctors and gynecologists optuition "scholarships" ranging posed to abortion as a betrayal from $75 to $200 per nonpublic of their professional charge to school student in families with care for life who' nevertheless incomes under $12,000. see more and more professional The controversial aid bill had time and resources devoted to earlier passed the state Senate its extinction," he added. by a 22-to-20 vote-bare mini"There are those who are mum for a constitutional major- coming to experience a sense of ity. compromise and defeat in the But opponents of the bill arc acknowledgement that, having threatening either to test it in been made legal, abortion is no court or submit it to the voters longer regarded as immoral by as a referendum measure in many young people, Particularly November 1972. among women nurses and doctors there is evidence of cumulaMsgr. William, C. Newman, Baltimore archdiocesan school tive and deep emotional distress superintendent, said further defi- at being required to assist at cit spending or more tuition in- the destruction of life." creases will be required if the J'ension, Disharmony bill is brought to referendumsince the law would be suspendBishop Casey is the bishops' ed pending the' decision of adviser to the Catholic doctors' Maryland voters.

Guild of St. Luke, Sts. Cosmas In the second school aid deci- and ,Damian and the Catholic sion, Cardinal John Dearden of Nurses' Guild of England and Detroit called the Michigan Su- Wales. preme Court action "a step In a letter to the guillds, Bishbackward in harming the tradi- op Casey said that general distional pattern of education that tresses felt among medical staffs has benefited Michigan since its are producing tension and disearliest days," harmony.

He said he feared that Cath,'olics will be discouraged from Compatible Be not disturbed at being mis- entering, the medical and nursunderstood; be disturbed rather ing professions. ' In his letter to the two guilds, at not being understanding, ' -Chinese Proverb Bishop .Casey said:

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"In the short tim'e since the 1967 Abortion Act came into effect much has happened to cause disquiet even to those who supported ,the new' legislation.

Official Inquuiry "The growing, number of abortions 'performed annually in this

Religious Leaders Forn", Conference KYOTO (NC)-Catholic and other "religious leaders and scholars have formed a group aimed at .strengthening the role of religion in the Japan of ~he Seventies.

Some 40 religious leaders' arid scholars met here recently to form the Conference on Religion and Modern Society. It will be divided into East and West Japan groups. It plans an annual plenary session to which religious leaders and outstanding scholars in the field of the social sciences will be invited.

A spokesman for the 64-member conference said: "The combination of religious leaders and scholars will permit the pooling of talents and resources hitherto divided. Theconference intends to make a unique contribution to the role which religion is expected to play in the Japan of the Seventies,"

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country, the increasingly accommodating interpretation of the legal grounds for abortion, the manner in which it is coming to be regarded as simply a, final form of contraception, the exploitation which is feared ~o exist in the private sector, and the considerable and growing strain on health service, resources which are needed urgently by the sick: all these are factors to arouse ,concern in the mind of every thoughtful member of the community."

Legal abortions; now approaching a rate of nearly 100,000 a year in this country, are provided free uMer the national health service. Nearly half of them, however, are carried out privately in officially licensed clinics.

The expenses charged, the fortunes being made by a few unscrupulous doctors and the reported soliciting of foreign girls seeking abortions have aroused so many protests that the government, recently set up an official inquiry to examine the working of the act.

See Latent Racism In New Zealand WELLINGTON (NC) New Zealand society was charged with "latent racism" in the first 'major statement of this country's newly formed Catholic Justice and Peace Commission.

The statement, said that be,cause New Zealand's population comprises Europeans, Maoris and " PaCi~ic Islanders, the country has an opportunity to demonstrate Jo the world that a just multiracial society is possible.

The commission said that complete racial justice does not exist in New Zealand and called for more effort to respond to the needs of the Maori and migrant communities.

The Maoris are aboriginal people of New Zealand with a Polynesian and Melanesian admixture.

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, On Aug.,15, 1970, the Western Conference of Team J , sters and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee signed a one-year ,pact granting hclusive jurisdiction to UFWOC overall field workers and ceding to the Teamsters jurisdiction over'drivWhen this rumor' wascallcd ers and processing plant to my attliention by Terry Link, workers. Unfortunately this a California-based correspondent pact came'apart over the is- for the National·Catholic Reportsue of what to do about some 200 contracts which the Teamsters had already signed, earlicr last Summer, with lettuc~ growcrs in California.

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What happened after that is a matte'( of record. The Farm Workers launched a national lettuce boycott, and the Te~msters retaliated, in some cities at leqst, by refusing to handle the lettuce produced by three majo,: growers in the Salinas Valley with whom UFWOC had neg()tiated ,contracts. ' .'

On March 11 of this year thc Teamsters. and UFWOC, aided by official representatives of the National AFL-CIO met in Fresno, Calif. to try to resolve this impasse. The parties agreed in Fresno to extend the August, 1'970 jurisdictional' pact for a period of three years..

They further' stipullited that the lettuce boycott would be called off for a period of 30 days, during which time they ,jointly try to resolve their differences through a three-step mediation process, the.,details of whicQ are now a matter of public knowledge. "

Meanwhile Mr. Link has pub,lished a story on the Fresno pad in the April 2 issue of the National Catholic Reporter. While this story does not refer to the above-mentioned rumor, it does throw a certain amount of cold water on the pact.

Ordinarily I wouldn't bother to comment on a routine story' of this kind, but in view of thc fact that I am one who, at his request, supplied Mr. Link with much of the information which appears in the story, I feel under some obligation to set the reco~d straight. i Mr. Link, in his NCR story" says "in probing the nature Of the UFWOCdispute with the Teamsters as deeply as I. could for two months, I became convinced that ahy settlement Of the dispute which does not give the Salinas lettuce contracts to UFWOC - including one covering many of Bud Antle's fifteen hundred workers-must be cohsidereda loss for the fledgling union.'"

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GOOD FRIDAY: Bishop Cronin unveils the crucifix during the Liturgy of the Pas-' sian and Death, of Our Lord celebrated 0 n Good Friday afternoon in the Cathedral.

Assisting are Rev. Lucio B. Phillipino, Rev. George E. Harrison, episcopal secretary and ' master of ceremonies; Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, rector of the Cathedral.

With all due respect to JV1r.

Joint Congress Link's professional competence AUGSBURG (NC) - A Protas a reporter, I must say - as aimed at putting the shiv into Let me 'repeat, in concluS,ion, one who has '. spent the better UFWOC: 'that it was UFWOC and 'the estant-Roman Catholic congress 'part of the last year working 6n As reported above, when Mr. Teamsters, and not the Bishops' here June 3-5 will take the place the farm labor- problem in Cali-' Link told me on the phone a few Committee, that put the word of the annual Protestant Kirchenfornia - that it really shouldn't weeks ago that he had picked up "mediation" into their juris'dic- tag: The ecumenical congr,ess have taken him, two months to this rumor along the way, I tional pact. What ·the word will be jointly sponsored by the arrive at such an elementary flatly rejected it as an irrespon- means to them or what it means Central Committee of German . Good Faith Effort conclusion. , sible attempt on ~omebody's part in practice remains to be seen.

Catholics (the umbrella organBe that as it may, I am coin- to muddy the waters.

As a consultant to the BishMeanwhile I would simply ization of Catholic lay groups) ops' Committee on Farm ~abor, pletely at a loss to understand Important Step . point out that, in' the field of and the Kirchentag ,committee. i was in Fresno, along with the why Mr. Link felt it necessary The fact that Mr. Lmk does' labor-management relations, it's chairman and the secretary of to. add that "this is why it seems the the committee, on the day futile of the Bishops' Committee not not refer to the rumor in his a very flexible term, and for this ' . ,'NCR S,tory suggests, that. he, too, reason, would suggest that Mr. that this renewed pact was ham- to speak of mediation ... " . , ,has decided that it was unfound~ Link adopt a wait-and-see attimered out by the parties.

Negotiated by' Unions ed', or at least {msupported by tude instead of jumping to the We did not sit in with them verifiable evidence.

Mr. Link knows-and I know ' On the other conclusion that mediation, in this during their negotiations, but, as ,that he knows because I was 'at ,hand, the fact that he goes out context is a futile gesture. soon as the pact was agreed 'to, , of :his way to' beiittle .the use of we were called into the mee'ting, pains to 'tell .him so' before he, th'e word . "mediation" in the I don't know'what mediati(;m wrote his story-that the Fresno' where 'we were briefed on the pact between. the Teamsters a!1d ..Fresno· pact-ill1d mistak'enly at- means to Mr. Link. I do know, contents of the pact' and were UFWOC was negotiated, as re- tributes' this word to the Bil'h- however, what it means to some asked if the Bishops' Committee ops' Committee., suggests that of the rest of us, and, knowing would agree to play the media- , ported above, by the parties he may still' be half'way per- this, I am willing to give subthemselves (in cooperation with tion role assigned to it in the The Falmouth National Bank the National AFL.CIO and the 'suaded that the Fresno pad stantial odds that it will prove second stage of the mediation FALMOUTH. MASS. International Brotherhood ,of isn't all that it's cracked up to , to be an effective means of setBv 'he Villa~e Gree" Since 1821 process. ' be. ' tling the dispute in question. and not by thc Bishop Joseph F.' Donnelly of Teamsters) Bishops' Commmittee.

For my own part, as I told MF-.

Hartford, Conn., speaking as· Link during our' telephorie cone;~nMMlrm~mn1n~mmmminMM18m~n~I~1 All of this is by W<iY of' say-' , versation, I am :persuaded that ttl chairman of the committee, re' ..... plied in the affirmative: He did, ing that if Mr. Link is having the pact is a verY-important step -: ~# so because, in our judgmcnt, the . trouble with the word' "media- . in' the right direction. It should Fresno pact rep~esents a' com- tion" in the, context 'of the be obvious,-hbwever, that what I pact, ,he:, happen to think about, the ,pact pleetely good faith effort ,on the Teamster-UFWOC part of the Teamsters and ought to file his grievance with. is ~eally beside tpe point.

UFWOC to resolve their differ- the parties themselves. and not with the ~ishops' Committee.': FlexiblE; Term 'cnces.

While I am on this subject, I . T~e i~p~rtant thing. to keep ~ There are those, of course, BANQUETS • WEDDINGS • PARTIES . who disagree with our judgment should like to add that,' in my in mind is that the parties themon this matter, as witness the opinion, Mr. Link's negative pre- selves, acting on their own iniCOMMUNION fact that, even before the Fres- occupation with the. word "me'cti- tiative, worked out the terms no pact had been ,signed, a ru- ation" in this context suggests arid the language of the agreeFALL RIVER mor' was circulated .in at least that he may still be. toying with, ,ment, that they have since rati- ~ 1343 PLEASANT STREET one California paper that the the rumor referred to above, fied and signed it, and that, to 5.*. ', 673·7780 pact waS a phony deal aimed at namely, that the Teamster- the best.of 'my knowledge, fully ~ putting UFWOC out of business. UFWOC pact is a nefarious deal intend to make, it ,:w.ork.

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Pope Asks Peace In Middle East" Southeast Asia" VAT1CAN CITY (NC)-Pnpe Paul VI pleaded again for peace in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and called for the internationalization of the Holy Places in addressing a small and rainswept Sunday crowd in St. Peter's Square.

The Pope called on international organizations, leaders of the warring nations and formers of public opinion to work together toward world peace.

"We feel echoing in our heart the violence, the sufferings, the destruction, the threats of these scenes of war, and make our own the anxieties and aspirations of the people caught up in the interminable contests," the Pope said.

"Therefore, in a humble but not timid voice. we turn to the great internatio.nal organizations that they may promote and favor unceasingly the frank attempt for a just reestablishment of normal relations between the nations." he continued.

The Pope said that it will be necessary to "reaffirm the reasons already accepted which spell out why various nations have a right to their independ· ence and to the valid sovereignty and inviolability of their territories."

The agreements already sanctioned to ensure peace in the theatres of war. the Pope added. "will have to be held in meaningful respect by all parties," Statute of Jerusalem Speaking of the Holy Places, the Pope maintained that all of Christianity, shares. in them.

"Not 'only in Qurname' out "i~'" that of all Christianity. we have a grave right and a' grave duty to safeguard the recognition of the extraordinary requirements of the Holy Places of Palestine. the continued presence of Christians in that troubled country and the statute of Jerusalem," the Pope said.

Frederico Alessandrini, Vatican press officer. said'the "statute of Jerusalem" to which the Pope referred is the plan approved by the United Nations in 1947 that 'calls for the internationalization of Jerusalem into a "separate body." Both Pope Pius XII and Pope Paul expressed support for this statute.

In a recent interview in the Times of London, Isra'eli Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir. said the city Qf Jerusalem would -remain Israeli' territory.

Ask Catholics Read Council Documents MADRID (NC)-TheSpanish bishops called on the nation's Catholics to read carefully the documents of the Second Vatican Council.

"It is impossible to capture t he spirit of the council without profound study of the documents." the bishops said in a Joint pastoral letter. They said the letter was a response to Pope Paul VI;s January exhortation to the world's bishops to teach the word of God. "It is necessary for our people to keep the faith in its entirety, dnd for our priests to preach the faith tirelessly in a manner that corresponds to the needs of modern man," the bishops said.

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Bishop Closes All Catholic Schools PUEBLO (NC)~Bishop Charles Buswell or' Pueblo has announced that all Catholic schools in the city will close at the (;nl! of the present school year.

The closing involving 12 c1l'-' mentary and secondary' schools and 2.633 students was attribu'ted to spiraling educational costs and vain attempts to gel state financial aid.

A tuition voucher bill for nonpublic school students before the Colorado legislature failed last month despite vigorous support led by Catholic Church groups in the state.

In light of the fina"ncial situation, Bishop Buswell said in his statement Catholic education officials in the Pueblo area all asked that he close the cit.y's Catholic schools.

The bishop said he made "all possible consult.ations on the diocesan level" and consulted Archbishop James Casey of Denver before the final decision to close the schools was made. , No Alternative "We regret, very deeply the suffering that will be caused by our action to so many peoplepastors. Sisters. Brothers, lay teachers. parents and students," Bishop Buswell said in a statement. "ThesE' people have often dedicated their lives and sacrificed their time and talents and money to the Catholic schools.

"We still see the immense value of Catholic schools, and BISHOP CRONIN PRESIDES: Monsignor Stanton, rector of the Cathedral, marks the we acknowledge the great reyear on the new Paschal Candle during the Easter Vigil rites conducted Holy Saturday eve- sponsibility that is ours in fostering those religious and moral ning with Bishop Cronin presiding. ",,",.~' values they supported," the bishop's st.atement continued.

"We also see the danger to our nation in' chipping away at the possibility of educational freedom of choice.

"But"we are left with no other alternative. " Catholic education. the mon- stand their faith. He said the NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic approach also enables "people education is beginning a new era signor said. must educate all of shared responsibility. with the members of the community. rath- to extend the kingdom of God" Stops ~{lj]bIiSho~Sl and "allows them to become laity joining the clergy in de- er than centering its efforts on MEL~OURNE (NC)-The Tritruly Christian people," parochial school students. ciding "where we go from here." bune. one Of two Catholic weekThe United States Catholic the religious education director Msgr. Lucker singled out ly newspapers in this Australian of the U.S. bishops' conference Conference official said paro"Know Your Faith," NC News' city, has stopped operation said' here. chial schools are "vital." but he adult education series. as a "solafter' 70 years because of rising "Catholic education is more added thatCath'olic education id supplement" to fo'rmal proco'sts and losses in circulation. than just schools. buildings and. would, fail if the Chuurch only grams of religious eduucation.

The newspaper has been taken textbooks. It is the total mission stresses schools.

He "said the series. which apover by the other Melbourne "The heart of Catholic educa- pears in 86 diocesan newspapof the Church." said Msgr. Rayweekly. The Advocate. which is mond G. Lucker who addressed tion is religious education." said ers. reaches four million per- wholly owned by the Archdiothe Westchester Catholic Educa- the priest, saying the Church's sons each week. cese of Melbourne. tion spring conference here. teaching mission must, also enHe said "Know Your Faith" compass pre-baptismal classes supplements parish education for parents, the Confraternity of programs. providing material for Stresses. Demands .

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Each community. he said. must VATICAN CITY (NC) - The The monsignor said parishJ. TESER, Prop. deep demands made by the determine its religious education centered programs help form the RESIDENTIAL priorities.

He added that some priesthood upon the man who basis for a "Christian community INDUSTRIAL ~ areas may want to drop grades, bears its mark "remains sub'of faith." He said such commuCOMMERCIAL ~ consolidate schools and establish stantially unchanged throughout nity must be present in parish 253 Cedar St., New Bedford ~ full-parish religious e~ucation the centuries...· Pope Paul VI and family life before Catholic 993-3222 ~ programs. told a group of .new priests. schools can be effective. .#• •##.##.&1.. ## ,..## < 'Know Your 'Faith' "Tomorrow as today they will He said the complementary apbe called: Union with God. love proach is' essential because it cf the Cross, detachment from helps Catholics to better underthe goods of earth, spirit of prayer, generous and watchful chastity. full obedience to God's representatives."

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THE ANCHOR~Diocese oHali River-Thurs. Apr. 15, 1971

'L,ike le(Q]rning Of Other Lands Via Foqd Says,' Pupils

By Joseph arid Marilyn RoderiCk We have mentioned from time to time that we find

n~thing more satisfying in the home garden than fruit of

different kinds. At present we ha~e a small su~ply of. strawberries, blueberries and raspberrIes, as well'as a number , of fruit-bearing trees.. We have just received two dwarf. class who weren't LebarilCse' I

pear trees ,in the mail which we intend .to get into the

were hesitant to try' an unfamiliar food item, but after- one bite they wer~ askin'g for '~ore :and telling the .. children whose mothers and, been kind enough to' cook the fo'od" "Ge~, that stuff's really good, what did you say the name of it was?", ,

ground as sqoh as possible. For those of you' 'who might be interested in starting trees and who. have the patience to wait thre,e or four years ·for a reason, able harv,est, we would definitely' Compiling Cookbook suggest an, investm~nt in dwarf Last month, we had 'a'n Hal,ian tr.ees.. .1 ' We have been planting dwarf afternoon, which WqS a so' a and double-dwarfs' 'for the past great success," thanks', to some fIve years at the rate of about very kind mothers and a princitwo' a year. Dwarf trees" of pal who' 'ailows her pupils,: to course, , produce standard size learn by doing. , I ' fruit, ' bu't less of it,' but they Now, we're on our way, to NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL AID BILL: Governor Marvin Mandel of Maryland, center, also take up much less space, are compiling' a cookboek the chilfar easier to prune and to spray, dren at our school can buy for signs the Maryland Senate Bill 33.:1, the adm inistration backed no~pub!ic school ~id meaand are within easy ',reach for their mothers for l\iIothefs Day. sure passed by the legislature recently. NC Photo. fruit picking. They have rela- All the -recipes are from the tively small root systems and families of our pupils, who have therefore are' not pervasive in been urged to "Tell Mommy forcing other plants out of exis- we'd love to have her favorite tence. ' recipe for our cookbook."

When we finally gather toCut Back Whips Normally; dwarf trees produce gether all the recipes that haye LONDON, (NO) - 'AlIo.wing In a section headed "The and this would necessitate very fruit faster than stan,dard trees, been pouring into our classroom, priests to marry would pose Problems of Rome," the preface considerable changes in the arespecially if they are cut back Julia Childs is going to have 'great pastoral, social and finansaid: "Anglicans must follow rangements for housing and payat time of pla,nting. When plant- competition. . cial problems for the Ro~an with the greatest concerD the ing the clergy as well as limiting I have as muc,h fun as' my ing a tree, pick outa few strong Catholic 'Church, a leading present tribulations of the Rotheir freedom of movement. looking whips and c,ut them back pupils when I 'look at the new Anglican observer has warned. . man Catholic 'Church with whom "It would in fact become necby at least a quarter. Then select, recipes each morning and oddly "It would in fact become necwe have so many problems in essary to rethink the way in those remaining and cut them enough we have everything from essary to rethink the way in common." the Roman Catholic which the proverbial soup to nuts; and off completely; especially those which the Roman Catholic The conflict between corespon- Church carries 'out its mission. which form too sharp an angle of course , we'll h'ave a section Church carries out its mission," ~ibility, as !,:xpounded by Belgian "The financial implications with th~ trunk (these probably devoted to Foreign, Dishes.

Cardinal Leo Suenens and oth,he added. " alone would be enormous. No Now, the only trouble is that would snap when they mature The comment ,was ma'de in ers, and the remnants of papal doubt the Roman Cathlic auunder the weight of the fruit both rnystud~nts and I wish we , the preface of Crockforcrs Cleriautocracy is of great concern to thorities are well aware of all had a kitchen so we could s<j.mthey bear). cal Directory, major arnual pub- Anglicians because on its outthis, but it is important that An-' Dig a hole large enough to. pIe some' of these tasty 'dishes.

Iication of the ·Church of En- come depends the possibility of ;rhe following recipe is from glicans should recognize it. hold the root system with ample' gland. its long preface' summing closer relations between Rome "Having themselves given up room to spare, and if your soil a mother who did, some of the up Anglican developments dur- and, the Anglican church, the the 'requ{rement of celibacy is clayey or solid in consistency cooking for our Lebanese Day. ing the year is always written prefac~ said. some four centuries ago they arc add a' good supply of peat moss, Baked Kibbee anonymously by a Church "There is however one Roman naturally inclined to sympathize about, fifty-fifty in proportion 2 or 3' cups' cracked wheat " 'lead~r. 'This enables him'to exproblem on whic~ we cannot ofwith those Roman Catholics who with' the soil. Water well and , 2 Y2 pounds ground lamb '01' press his views on Cl1urch matfer advice but can contribute want their Church to follow wait patiently for a few y~ars. beef (or the two meats mixed) tel's with complete frankne!>s. from our own, experience, namesuit, but they should appreciate One problem tha t. is ever pres'.

I large o.nion (g~ated) " Iy, the probl'em of clerical celi-· , how devastating would be the ent in buyfng' trees has to do bacy," the preface said. cinnamon , . Two More Catholic consequences ina time which with where they should be allspice Financial Implications is in other ways one of great bought. I would definitely recsalt Schools to Close , , ommend local n'urseries and re"All' the evidence of experi-. difficulty and should spare some' pepper BOISE (NC)-Twomore Idaho, sympathy also for the dilemma puted dealers rather than the ence suggests that once the secsweet basil Catholic grade schools ,will. close of the Pope and his advisers." fly-by-night Spring stands which ular clergy were allowed to marFilling in the Boise diocese this ,June be- ry, after a short time married are set up wherever people conI Y2 pounds lamb or beef; ground cause of a s.hortag~ of Religiious status w()uld become the norm " gregate.' Most of the trees 2 onions, chopped personnel. bought at the latter type' of operI ';'; cup finely ,chopped pinG The Sisters' of Charity of Provation are shipped into the area See Us First nuts. idence announced plans to withand in many cases they arc allspiCe, cinnamon, pepper" draw members of, their order poorly packed, rarely watered salt, again to taste from St. Rita's School in Keland have been banged from pilSee Us Last Roofing Contractor I) Wash wheat and drain, logg, Idaho, and -St. A!phonsus lar to post. If you must buy from thoroughly, add the meat and' , School in nearby Wa,llace.

STEEPLE JACK WORK one of these' source's' or' if yOll grated onion along with the seaParents in the small mining But See Us A Specialty are buying on impulse, be sun~ soning (cinnamon, allspice, salt, towns "were very 'disappointed 488 Cumberland' Street to look the tree over carefullv pepper and basil, this to taste).' at the decision to close the for scrapes on the bark, broke~ North Attleboro, Mass.

2) Mix thoroughly and put a schools," said Father, Martin ,terns,' dryness, etc. before half inch layer of this in a' large: 1-695~0322 Hughes of Wallac~. ,"!3ut they making an investment. baking pan, ; were prepared, for the :de.cision.

In the Kitchen 3) For filling cook the' lamb, I The Sisters wanted to close the My fo'urth grade class has umil brown in skiil~t.' When schools two years 'ago, then de0‫סס‬oo0000‫סס‬oo000‫ס‬0ooooo :1een studying the customs and .Iamb is' brown saute the chopped' cided they coulq' spare four :raditions of' other countries onion and pine nuts along wit\,!' nuns." .

93,'{Ojj -luring the past school year and the seasoning in the same skillet \, :.ecause food' is 1'0 much a part until the onion' is cooked. .,f a country., we have discussed 4) When the meat an}1 onions 'md sampled different foreign are cooked cover first layer of dishes. kibbee with this mixture.

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But from whatever angle we look at the next :30 years, we see nothing but rising population and deepening misery.

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The point is that building up an arms effort is not the only way of acting responsibly in international affairs. In fact, it may not be responsible at all if it means all but wiping out the nation one is supposed to helpas .in Sou~heast Asia- or con~ tributing to the intensification of a locai arms race-as in parts of Latin America.

Above, all, the offfer of acting af, a policeman in the developing world may not be really relevant in countries so poor that there is little or nothing for anyone to steal. The great obsessive problem of the poor nations today is the risk of steadily declining living standards, rising malnutrition, deepening chaos and violence and, within a decade, so widespread a context ·of disorder that no modernization, no growth, no rising skills and education can be even conceived, let alone introduced.

We do not need to take the figures of' the so-called Doomwatchers. We can take the sober statistics of such an orthodox and reliable source as the World Bank. In a speech last year at a Columbia University Conference, Mr. Robert McNamara gave the following statistics: Half Are Starving "In the developing world, at the end of the decade: "Malnutrition is common.

"The FAO estimates that at least a third to a half of the world's people suffer from hunger or nutritional deprivation.

The average person in a high standard area consumes f9ur pounds of food a day .as compared with an· average pound and a quarter in a low standard area.

"Infant mortality is high.

"Infant deaths per 1000 live births are four times as high in the developing' countries as in the developed countries (110 compared with 27).

"Life expectancy is low.

"A man in the West can expect to live 40 per. cent longer than the. average man in some of the African countries.

"Illiteracy is widespread.

"There are 100 million more illiterates today than there· were 20 years ago, bringing the total number to some 800 million." . Mr. McNamara could have added shelter~the need of some 30 million new housing units by 1975; or unemployment - the

To this, the offer of defense is no solution. Defense for what against what? Indeed, a cynie could even argue that the United States might welcome the spread of self-styled Communist governments in order to make sure that chaos an'd penury are firmly laid at the door of the Leninists!

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr. 15, 1971

University, Study Reveals NEW YORK (NC)-Anti-Semi· tic attitudes among Catholics who have had a religious education have been declining in recent years, according to a new study by the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

The findings of the research project were reported here at a press conference conducted by the American Jewish Committee.

Father Francois Houtart, director of the Socio-Religious Re· search, Center at Louvain, conducted the two-year survey in cooperation with the AJC. It is a .follow-up to a study completed in 1969 which,.show-

But, seriously, the most responsible, the least isolationist policy the wealthy nations can pursue, with America at their head, is to return to their commitment to international development.

Above all, we have to repeat, in season ·and out of season, the Christian order of priorities. All round the world the least of Christ's little ones are going without the. protein which is the indispensable early food for brain growth. Deprive them of that and they will never outgrow apathy and diminished intelligence.

To allow children made in God's image to spend their whole lives in the dim world of enfeebled capacity is to mock the image of God Himself. Yet we, the wealthy, the comfortable, the so-called Christian West allow this blasphemy to be per- , petrated simply by our failure to act.' ..

We'may say: ','We never knew Thee, Lord, ", But the Gospels do not suggest that much forgiveness will be earned by such an alibi.

ed that many Cahtolic Frenchlanguage textbooks used in France, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland gave a disparaging image of Jews and Judaism. ,'Significant Step' The objective of the new study, according to the Belgian priest, was to test the impact on youth of catechetic teaching and to compare the results with an adult group of alumni from the same institutions as the youth group.

The study was conducted among 500 young people in their last year in Catholic secondary schools in Brussels and among

In' Anti-Semitism 380 adults who were former stu·

dents at these schools.

At the press confer:erence, Bertram H. Gold, AJC executive vice-president, termed the new study "another significant step in building understanding between Christians and Jews by getting to the roots of antiSemitic attitudes."

Areas of Concern "It is one of many important outcomes that have followed Vatican Council II," Gold added.

"It reveals, however, new ateas· of concern in that hostility to Jews may have developed among , those not closely identified with the Church, especially the young."

'CHRIST· HAS DIED. CHRIST IS RISEN. CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN.

Most Responsible Policy

The need, now, as in every previous year, is for capital and technical skills to support the Third World's efforts to modernize farming, increase diets, improve schools and health, to encourage responsible parental attitudes to family size, provide industrial and service jobs in the burgeoning cities and in general to give the millions upon millions of human beings in Latin America, . Africa and Asia at least the minimum of hope and livelihood needed for human survival.

Does anyone suppose that Mrs. Gandhi's first need,on the morrow of her astonishing elec~ toral victory in India, is to have her armaments doubled or a military pact negotiated? Her chief need is bread and work and a stabilized population. Her chief risk is the spread of the anarchy already decimating one of her largest industrialized states, West Bengal. One reason for her victory. has been the agricultural advance made possible, in part, by, the capital aid and investment of the Sixties. Is that aid now' to .stop just when the electorate have demonstrated that they can still believe in free society and open politics?

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KNOW:· YOUR FAITH, Life anti Christ "To me, 'life' means Christ," wrote St. Paul in his letfer to the Christians at Philippi (Phil I:21). This is a startling statement. Another translation puts it this way: "Life to ,me, of course, is Christ."

What does Paul mean? What do his words suggest about religious education and· Christian spirituality?

In one sense, Paul probably means that as long as he lived,

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An even. richer meaning is suggested if those words of Paul are interpreted in the light of his later letters. The letters to the Colossians and Ephesians express a vision of life that sees Christ at the center of Teality: "In Him everything continues in being" (Call: 17).

Deepest Dimension of Ordinary Life "~ Paul saw Christ so much at the heart of all reality that in a very real sense "life" could be identified with "Christ." Without Him there would be no, life.

Without knowing Him the deepest dimensions of life elude man's search for ·meaning. , Paul gradually discovered such' a profound relationship between his faith in Christ and his daily_ experience, that his letters exemplify that goal of Christian education outlined by Vat'ican Council II: "The faithful, therefore, must learn the deepest meaning and value of all creation, and how' to relate it ,to the .praise of God" (Constitution on the Church, 36). .

Like Paul before them, Christians-are called to learn that religion is not a separate category of existence but the deepest' dimension of ordinary life. "To 'me, 'life' means Christ."

According to the Second V:atican Council those responsible for Christian education are to provide people with "the kind of education through which their entire lives can be penetrated . with the Spirit of Christ" (Decree on Education, 3).

Adults, "adolescents and chil'dren, each" on their own level· of maturity and experience, are" to be assisted in learning to discern the presence of Christ in life and through knowledge of Him <;IisTurn to Page Seventeen '

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In Phoenix, Arizona, there is a mountain called Camelback.

An observer standing on the south side and facing north easily traces the majestic head of a camel and two appropria.tely spaced humps silhouetted against the sky.

If he ·comes. around to the north side of the same mountain, however, the figure of a praying monk stands out, kneeling before a rock th,at is no longer so obviously a camel at rest.

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Camelback Mountain does not change, but· it looks. different from different vantage. points.

The Catholic faith has not changed in the 60's and 70's; it is "Jesus Christ yesterday, today and the same forever" (Hebrews 13:8). But the contemporary experience and practice of the faith are different, because perspectives have shifted.

Before Vatican II Catholics tended to .!i"e in a two-story un i-

verse, with God upstairs a'nd man on the ground floor. The problem of Catholic piety in those days was to strike the right balance between the love of God and love of fellowmen, between contemplation and action.

Unite Daily and Devotional Lives Devotional life ran parallel with but in a sense separate from daily existence, and the problem was integration.

The danger was to think of piety as a world of its own and removed from life. God was to be found in the "gaps", in pauses along the way in which the serious Christ,ian took ·time out for God in spiritual exercises like solitary prayer or penances 'of sensory deprivation such as giving up smoking or going" off on retreat.

A man would encounter God by standing back and withdrawing into the cleft of the rock.

Even such practices as the presence "of God, which consisted in momentary pauses to recall God's presence and, direct an aspiration toward Him, were discontinuous with one's human and secular preoccupations. For the pious such acts were like , oases in the desert.

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The Problem of Suffering "The days of Holy Week and Easter each year remind us vividly of something that was. well summarized by St. Paul when he wrote in Chapter 8 of the Letter to the Romans, "if we share Christ's suffering, we will also share his glory" (8: 17).

In the last half of that same chapt'h, Paul-or, to mention the chief author, God speaking through Paul-shows us a problem and its answer. The problem is this: if Goa is our Father, and we, by a gift of the Spirit in our baptism, . have' become God's children in a sp'ecial way, how is it that we have sufferings and 'problems, so that we "groan within ourselve~"? (8:23) In saying tryat if we share Christ's suffering 'we wiII also share his glory, Paul puts his finger on the answer: suffering is the path to glory; we make our way to the perfect happiness of heaven by enduring' in hope; that's the way God has made it.

By having his own, Son suffer" and die, Paul says, God gave us an example. Paul sounds the note of hope in the very way he puts the point: ';If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son - will he not also 'freely gIve us all things?"

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ROMAN"RUINS: The glory which was once Rome's

In the midst of pain and suffering, you may find yourself in- prior to Christianity is in ruins. These ruins remind us of clined to say that God chooses the continuing glory -of 'Christ to those who "share his strange ways to show he is "for" suffering" as Father Abbott writes. you. Paul's answer is to point' to the cross and say: "Christ Bible, have thought, as a Jewish is to say: "And he wanted also Jesus is the one who died or poet did, "How ~dd of God to to reveal his rich gl.ory, which rather, who was raised to' life choose the Jews." Others, read- was poured out on us wl"\o are and is at the right side of God" ing, for example, the account the objects of his mercy, those (8:34). Paul would have you about Rebecca and her two sons of us who he has prepared to look forward, beyond your' pain and God's choice of Jacob rather receive his glory" (9:23). ,and suffering. than Esau, have wondered how In other words, that's the way I think it can be said that God could have made such deal- it is. It is God's world and he Paul stresses mOre the Easter ings. runs it as he sees fit. side than' the Holy Week side.

God's World Notice, too, how he continues stressing that Christ, at the right Paul cites the case of Rebecca side of God "pleads with God and the two children and sets for us" (8:34). Paul is so enrapup'the question: "What shall we tured by the insight that he say, then? That God is unjust? states his response of total love . (9:14). No, he answers, you to the love of Christ (8:35-39).

The section 8:31-39 is like a have to explain it by saying "God has mercy on whom he hymn to God's 19ve. wishes and he makes stubborn In Chapters 9 and 10 and the whom he wishes" (9:18). first twelve verses of Chapter Jerusalem "Bible on Prayer If you start to say that this 11, Paul goes over the same is not to your means a God who Look back at 8:26, where Paul problem, this time in terms of the history of the Jews. A Jew liking Paul replies: "But who are says that when we cannot himself Paul equivalently asks you, my friend, to talk back to choose words in order to pray here. how it was that God dealt God?" He adds that the one who properly, "the Spirit himself as he did with them. "God had makes the pots has the right to , pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot ~xpress.~' chosen to make his saving inter- use the clay as he wishes. ventions for mankind through There is this much we can do God is like a potter and he the Jews, but many of them re- can make two pots from the same about the problem of suffering: fused to accept the idea of a lump of clay, "an expensive we can pray with the urgent ,suffering Messiah, pot and a cheap one" (9:20-21). prayer of pleading, and if the What, then, about all of God's We are like clay pots and are words just don't come right .we promises to and about the Jews? not to ask, "Why did you make can put the whole problem in the hands of God, as our anthropoIf God so loved them, why were me like this?'" many of them wa,ndering in igIf we are favored, if we are morphic expression has it, and norance. and even showing hos- among "the ones whom he even if we are reduced to a stat':) tility to God's unfolding plan? called, not only from among the of numbness we can have the Others, "looking at the record Jews but also from among the consolation of remembering that of God's interventions ,in the Gentiles" (9:26), all we can do Turn to Page Seventeen

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Contemporary Spirituality Continued from Page Sixteen pecially, Catholics stopped equating religion with saving souls, whether their own or others', or even identifying it with giving glory to God, at least in the limited, poverty-stricken meaning these phrases had come to bear.

If we had kept a complete understanding of salvation and the glory of God as these concepts are presented in the Bible and the Fathers of the Church, the changes in Catholic thinking and practice after Vatican II would have been less dramatic.

is what the Incarnation is all about.

The days of antiseptic piety, of devotion to God without devotion to one's neighbor, arc over. So also is involvement with man and the world that does not begin or does not culminate in the knowledge and love of the Father and Him whom He sent, Jesus Christ (John I 7:3). In the next few weeks we shall explore in this column some aspects of the new style of Catholic devotional practice.

Apostolic as Well as Contemplative

Discussion Questions 1. How has the prayer life of the Catholic Church changed in perspective since Vatican II? 2. What changes have taken place in your personal prayer life in the years since Vatican II?

We would have remembered what St. Irenaeus said: "The glory of God is. a man fully alive." We would not have let the practice of our faith become so separatist, restricted and compartmentalized.

The post-Vatican II Christian "renewed" his vision and began to see himself and others as persons. This means that he began to see himself, not as an isolated soul, but as a "relational" being, unique in himself, precisely because he is constituted by the network of relationship that have made him who he is.

He is spiritual, for, example, not because he has a soul, but because he has-he is related to -the Holy Spirit. He is involved with other people and the world, not because he has a body; he is a body, and therefore part of the world.

Thus the Christian, in another dictum of St. Irenaeus, is body, soul, and Holy Spirit together.

His Christian life involves everybody and everything, beginning with himself and reaching up to God. This new vantage point has made the old style piety obsolete, at least the norm for contemporary Christians. The new style is communal as well as in-, dividualistic, apostolic as well as contemplative, ',this'-worldly as well as other-worldly, secular and sacred.

Christian Humanism Catholic piety today tries to embrace all that is best in the world of secular humanism without losing anything that is true from the Christian past. Prayer is not "out", nor is penance passe; only the forms will vary.

The new piety endeavors to integrate man's world and God's .. world in a more radical fashion than before, in a both-and, rather than an either-or relationship.

Is this a development or a sellout? Some Christians think the worst and accuse the Church of trading its pure spiritual doctrine for a mess of pottage. The "new way", they say, is secular humanism. We call it Christian humanism.

Have we a test to' distinguis~ the two? In my judgment there is such a test and it is prayer, real prayer, old fashioned prayer that is personal union with God, loving contact with Jesus, personal relationship with the Holy Spirit.

If, prayer remains the central fact of Christian piety, then the rediscovery of the human and the secular as the locus of God's presence IS an addition and not a compromise. Notice, I say, "rediscovery"" because finding God in the clothing of the human

Lif'e and. Christ Continued from Page Sixteen cover the meaning of human existence. ' New Approaches A careful look at more recent approaches to Christian education reveals the serious attempts of religious educators to guide people toward a knowledge and love of Christ within· the contemporary world, For example, an approach to the Eucharist, which is the sign and source of unity, explores this Sacrament within the context of a person's experiences of community.

The doctrine of creation is deliberately introduced in rela-. tion to science and technology at an age when the child is beginning to study science in school.

Prayer is not taught as a separate lesson or unit, but rather is naturally interwoven into the entire process. The enjoyment of movement provides an opportunity not bnly to be grateful to God for one's body but to become more deeoly aware of the many people, who cannot move.

Prayer for them in turn, suggests the importance of human com'passion and the need for further scientific and technological creativity to bring healing to the lame or paralyzed.

LIFE Means Christ The Sacraments are seen within the whole world of symbol, and the history of God's saving actions is discovered within the scope of national and world history.

In other words a definite effort is made to integrate what all too easily becomes "compartments" of knowledge and living.

Doctrine is learned in relation to morality, which in turn is set within the broader dimension of spirituality.

There is a bridging of the categories of "dogm~," "moral," and "spiritual life," an such a way that all three are seen as integral p'arts of a whole way of life and a total understanding of reality.

With this type of religious education it is hoped that Catholics will. grow in faith like ,Paul's, a faith that recognizes Christ in everyday experience. "To me, 'life' means Christ" (Phil 1:21).

Discussion Questions I, What did St. Paul mean when he said that for him "life" means "Christ?"

2. How large a part should religion play in a person's daily life?

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GETS FELLOWSHIP: Father James A. Mulligan, S.J., associate professor' of Biology, St. Louis University, is one of 40 scholars to· be named to a nine·month fellow'ship for study' at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He will study environmental problems. NC Photo.

MU$ical Comedy On April 15 8 16 Mount Saint Mary Academy, Fall River will present a musical comedy "So This Is Paris" Thursday, April 15 and Friday, April 16 at 8 o'clock in the Academy auditorium.

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The principal charcters include Nancy O'Connell, Cheryl Dean, Michelle Demers and Janine Gendreau.

The male charcters representing Providence College, Stonehill College, Prevost and Coyle High Schools are Michael Dumont, Donald Corriveau, Jon Gallant, Pierre Patry and William Smith, Tickets may be purchased by calling the Academy.

~(lJJff~rmng Continued from Page Sixteen we have Christ himself pleading for us (8:34). Those of you who have the Jerusalem Bible should read, the excellent long note on prayer. at 8:27.

Discussion Questions 1. What did Paul mean when he said that if we share Christ's suffering, we will also share in his glory? 2. What attitude should a person take to make the suffering he endures a means of attaining eternal happiness?

Train Organizers

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN The aMual parish show will be presented at 8 Saturday and Sunday nights, April 24 and 25 at Hastings Junior High School, Fairhaven.

Titled "Hell's-APoppin,''' it will be produced and directed by Malcolm Tripp.

Committee chairmen include Fernando Couto, refreshments; Mrs. Leo R. Grenon, publicity and program; Mrs. Lucien Dlugosinski, tickets. Tickets will be available at the door.

ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH Women and children of the parish have conected clothing for 11 layettes, which will be distributed by the- Fall River Catholic Welfare Bureau.

Mrs. Alice Houst, Mrs. Lillian Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Sullivan and Rev. Philip Davignon are among participants in a CCO leadership training course currently in progress.

ST. JOSEPH NEW BEDFORD A May Fiesta will be sponsored by the Couples Club at 7:45 Saturday night, May 22 in the parish hall. An Italian buffet will be featured, with serving continuing from 7:45 to 9. Dancing will follow with Ray Besse's orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. David Cardoza are chairmen.

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The Women's Guild will sponsor a cake sale in the lower church following all Masses Sat· urday and Sunday, April 17 and .'

18. Donations may be left in the lower church at 4 Saturday afternoon. In charge of arrangements is Hilda Babiarz.

SACRED HEART, NEW BEDFORD A Spring Frolic dance spon· sored by the Home and School Association will be held Saturday night, April 24 at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Tickets are available from Martha Duval, telephone 996-6085.

Cub Scou~s of Pack 5, sponsored' by the parish', ha~e won a first place ribbon in a Boy Scout Exposition held at the New Bedford ~ational Guard Armory. The boys made a rep· Iica of a city park, large enough to walk through. The pack has won a first place award at the event for three consecutive years.

OUR JLAIDY OF ANGEJLS, F AJLL RIVER Children of Mary will attend a breakfast meeting following 8 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, April 18. Members will sponsor a cake sale at all Masses Sunday, April 25.

The Council of Catholic Women announces a Spring dance in the church hall from 8 to midnight Saturday night, April 17. Music \ will be by the Jardinaires.

ST. JOHN THIE IEVANGIEILllST, OUR LADY OF MY. CARMEL, POCASSET The Women's Guild will sponNEW BEDFORD The PTA will meet at 7:30 sor a town wide Bloodmobile Sunday night, April 18 in the from noon to 6 Thursday, April school basement. A nominating 22 at Crain Hall, Bourne Methcommittee will present nOIT)inee~ odist Church on Sandwich Road, for office for the next two years; Bourne. The women's unit of the and new school uniforms wiII be: host church will assist guild shown by Sister Dorothy, prin· members. In charge of arrangecipal. Teachers will discuss . ments is Mrs. Raymond Roarke. forthcoming youth activities, and Appointments to donate blood Mrs. Beverly Souza and Mrs. may be made by caIling 759-7090.

Lucy Marks will be hostesses for ST. JOSEPH, a social hour.

AITLEBOlRO NOTRE DAME, FALL RIVER Mrs. Joseph Jean,' president of the Council of Catholic Women has named the following nominating committee to select a slate of officers for the coming year.

Selected were: Mrs. Theophile Gagnon, chairman; Mrs. Roland Allard, Mrs. Bernard Comeau, Mrs. Fernand Letendre, Mrs. Edmour Poirier and Mr~. F~rnand Rheaume.

MANILA (NC) - Protestants and' Roman Catholics in Asia have joined forces to train personnel to work in urban and industrial situations. The East Asia Christian Conferences and The Catholic Asia .Committee for Community Organization are jointly sponsoring a group. called the Asian Committee for Community Organization.

First Communion practice for the young communicants from and public .both parochial schools will be held at 10 on .saturday morning. Following the practice, all children 'will be enrolled in the scapular.

Each communicant is requested to bring a loaf of bread wrapped in white paper.

"Las Vegas Nights" will be held in the parish hall on Saturday and Sunday nights starting at 7:30.

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CHRISTIAN VALUES DAY: Students from Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, participate in "Christian Values Day" at LaSalette Center of Christian Living, under sponsorship of Attlebo,ro District Serra Club. Program included session on communication conducted by Rev. James A._ Clark, Feehan chaplai~, a motion picture, a discussion period,

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SPRINGFIELD (NC) -·Organizers of· parish councils must try to find out what people in their parishes are really like in . order to 'be effective, speakers at a recent three-day institute said here. ' Richard - Dement, field service director for the National Council of Catholic Men, stressed "the need· for real, vital research into just exactly what is the parish today-where are the 'people culturally, ~here are they socially, where are they .theologically."Dement and Alma Herger, organization service director for the National Council of Catholic Women, described parish council trends for 46 lay, Religious and priest delegates from councils in the Worcester diocese.

Other features of the recent me-eting included a -five-hour talk session with Bishop Christopher J. Weldon of Springfield, and formation of an II-man steering committee to coordinate parish council activities in the diocese.

-- Dement told NC News after ·the institute that -inadequate rep-resent~tion of women, teenagers and elderly persons. is .another common problem in U. S. parish councils.

While many priests can be termed "reluctant" to start councils, Dement said, "the greatest problem, is the same problem that !las existed in the Church for years and years-a great ,deal of aparthy on the part of layo peopie."

Archbishop Joins Interfaith Group LOUISVILLE (NC)-The Louisville Catholic archdiocese, has joined a newly formed interfaith organization which seeks to find ways in which members can use their resuorces in specific ministries.

Ten churches from Kentucky and southern Indiana are mem- bers of the group called the Louisville' Area Interchurch Organization 'for Services:

and a penitential service. Students aiding in preparation of program were Neal Dolan, Kathy Gauteri, Neal Walsh and Gail Strong. At left in pic- ture, Professor, John J. Carty of. Stonehill College, trustee of Attleboro 'Serra Club. The group consisted of fifty students from the senior and sophomore c1~sses of the Attleboro Diocesan High School.

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Black Catholics Form Caucus

Three Cities Inv'olved in Public Catholic Project WASHINGTON (NC)-Public and Catholic school officials i'n three U.S. cities are exploring ways to join forces for. improving the total education pictu~e ~n their areas under a two-year study project based here: Father C. Albert Koob, Norbertine priest who heads the N~­ tional Catholic Educational' Association here,' proposed the project to the Ford Foundation. . The foundation agreed to sponsor it with a $162,200 grant, and Father Koob became project director.

One part of the two-pronged project will see school official's in Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco forming join't planning councils around eachcity's special educational pro~­ lems. .

The second part involves searching out "youthful, getic and innovative" educators ' to work with the councils,. ac'-: cording to project officials..: Xaverian Brother Bartel Br~dy, former director of special' education programs in. the Brooke Iyn diocese and now associate.'

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Guinean Catholics Fear Identification ROME (NC}-Many Catholics in the west African nation, of Guinea are staying away from Mass for fear of being too closely identified with the Church, ac" cording to a letter received ,here from that west African country!

The fear ·stems from the conviction h January of Archbishop Raymond-Marie, Tchidimbo 'of Conakry' on' charges 'he plotfed to overthrow thegove,rnment.

Archbishop Tchidimbo was sentenced to life impri~onment at hard JaboL Seventy-one othe~ persons were also sentenced to life imprisonment 'and 92 were sentenced to death. Later reports indicated that only'a small: ·number of the death sentences were actually can ied out.

director of the .study project, said he is seeking ~'people who are aware of the problems of getting two school systems to cooperate and who are interested in seeing this happen."

Expans!on !Possible Among the programs envisioned by the plannipg councils is a consolidation of some teacher training activities. _ "But in each case," Brother Brady said, "areas of interest will be selected: by the local council and, again in each case, undoubtedly . ~ilI 'reflect situations peculiar, to: that specific area." . .

I I Although ~i:I'ly three cities are involved in' the project, NCEA officials note~: patterns for cooperation netween public and :.' • .

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.Against::~'CO/s' WAS'HINGT,C)N •(NC) - The U.S. supren"ie·. COLlrt reaffirmed its month-old ruling that the draft'laws do not violate the religious freedom of Roman. Cath'olics opposed to the Vietnam .War. .

Setting aside a ruling to the contrary, the high court directed U.S. District Court Judge Alphonso J. ZirpoJr;of San Francisco to reconsider his rulings made in February, 1970, when, he dismissed an indictment in the yvidely publicized James Francis McFadden case.

McFadden, 26, of San' Francisco, was indicted on charges of refusing induction into the Army on grounds ~hat the Vietnam war violated his conscience as a Catholic.

The Supreme Court on March 8 ruled in two cases, one involving a Catholic ,conscientious objector, the other a self-described humanist, the conscientieus objectors could not select the wars in which thev reI fused to serve.

JACKSON (NC)-The Mississippi Black Catholic Caucus has non public schools across the been organized here by reprecountry may emerge. sentatives from six predominantMembers of the p~oject advi- _ Iy bl.ack parishes. It is designed sory board are Dr. John I. Good- to promote along interracial lines lad, dean of the graduate school a single Christian community of education, University of Cali- while retaining a black identity. fornia at Los Angeles; Archbish" Divine Word Father Malcolm op Paul F. Leibold of Cincinnati; O'Leary, pastor - of St. Francis Dr. Harry L. Phillips, director parish, Yazoo City, chosen temof the division of state agency porary chairman, outlined the cooperation, U.S. Office of Ed- group's objective. ucation; John ~. Porter,' Michi"Our purpose is to' develop a ~an. state s~penntendent of pubposition of the black commuIIc IOstructlOn, and Dr. Stephen nity for the C th I' Ch h' J W' h ' 'd f h a OIC urc 10 . II ng t, vlce-presl ent.o ~ e Mississippi," he said. "Our spe~o e~e entrance examlOatlOn cific . aim· is to honor the ~e~d car . for black identity and still honor th'e need for one Christian comAsks Soviets Change munity in the diocese of NatchezJackson."

Po~icies' on Jews

NEW YORK (NC)-Religious heads of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism in the United States petitioned the Communist party of the Soviet Union on the eve of its meeting in Moscow for a "review of all Soviet policy toward Jews since I~48.~' The petition. asked for elimination .of "the cruel vestiges of Stalin's rule" against Jews in Russia.

Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman, president, Synagogue Council of America, who released the statement, said the petition has the support of the Interreligious Committee of G,eneral Secretaries, whose members include Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organ iza tions.

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Member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue Coaches St. Lawrence, Hoopsters

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

Four years ago, Atty. Alvin .J. Brody appoi~ted himself coach of the St. Lawrence's basketball team in the New Bedford CYO League after finding out they had no one to coach the team.

Atty. Brody still retains this position, and is doing a very commendable job.

The unusual part of this story is that Atty. Brody is of the Defending champion Barnstable is a strong favorite to .Jewish faith imd a member of retain its title this Spring in the Capeway Conference Track the Ahavath Achim Synagogue League. A combination of proven veterans and tal,ented in New Bedford, close to the newcomers gives the Red ,Raiders a well bal~nced team Kennedy Center.

Married to the former Michele. that appears destined for an.'

Pernick, he resides at 523 Farm other banner season. Many and Conference followers pre- Street, New Bedford. The couple observers feel the trackmen dicting that this.will be the best have four children, Sheri 10, interscholastic athletic year ever . have the potential not only enjoyed by a Conference school. Loren 8, Lori 4 and Ivan 5 to annex the league crown but The football team shared the months.

Brody, who is 41, is a gradualso to challenge for state Conference title with Dartmouth. honors. ~ An undefeated regular season ate of New Bedford High School.

The Regionals cleared a major was posted by the basketball He attended Brown University hurdle last week when they de- club. The trackmen appear to and in June of 1952 graduated feated Dartmouth, a perennial be on their way. And the base- from Boston University Law track powerhouse, by the score ball team is· favored to. win School. On December 5, 1953 he was admitted to the Federal Bar. of 77-63. Outstanding individual league hono~s. performances by Peter Ryan, Thus it is possible and highly Now, between the months of Mark Burlingame, Bob DeFul- probable that the Red Raiders November and March, Al keeps gentis, Gerry McDowell, Gary will win the trophy emblematic himself very busy with his night Sousa,' Dave Fuller, George of. league supremacy in each of time pr'ogram with the team.

Booth and the relay team of the,"four major sports. With this How did it all begin?

AI, a regular at a Union Street Marcus Bruce, Bill Coumbe, notable feat within the grasp of Dave Wilbur and Reid Hall the' Barnstable athletes each and Pharmacy, in New Bedford, sparked the Raiders. every contest carries' added ,sig- which is filled with basketball a'\d sports enthusiasts, overheard The win has Barnstable fans nificance. another lawyer friend, Atty.

Charles S. Tsouprake, discussing Three Challengers Very Evenly Ba~anced the plight of a team that had no An identical situation exists at coach.

If any team is capable of deWhat's the Difference? throning the Raider trackmen, Fairhaven. Brian Young is .an now that Dartmouth has failed, excellent two miler, Gary Valerio Atty. Brody was quite interit probably is Lawrence High of runs a strong 880, Joe Fernandes ested until he learned that it was Falmouth. Fairhaven has some is highly competitive in both the for a "Catholic League." He profine individual talent but lacks long jump and mile, Steve Ponte tested for a while because of his the depth necessary to beat a and Lindsay Gifford are among faith until confronted with the the loops best in the javelin and question, "what difference does club like Barnstable. shotput respectively and Mike it make, the kids still need a Rick Bingham is expected to Plante will challenge all comers coach." lead the Falmouth charge. The in the pole vault and low hurdles.

That did it, he appointed himversatile athlete will perform in However, in spite of this strong self 'coach and it hasn't made the long jump, triple jump and contingent, the Blue Devils ap- any difference. In fact, the auxil440 yard run. His supporting .parently lack the point getters iary bishop of the Diocese of cast includes Ed Goodhue who .' necessary to stay with the loop Fall River and pastor of St. high jumps and runs the high powers.

Lawrence Church, Most Rev. hurdles, Frank Cross a pole Paul Chase, Jeff Schoening, James .J. Gerrard, V.G., has vaulter, Dave Hampton who Chuck Juliand, Jay Wilson, commended Coach Brody for throws the discuss and, Mike Randy Parker and Skip Fels all "the wonderful job he has done Zmuda a low hurdles man. turned in winning efforts for _coaching the team for the last With this group of proven per- Dartmouth in its meet against four years." Rev. William F. - formers providing the nucleus, the Red Raiders from Barnstable O'Connell, formerly of St. Lawthe task ahead of the Clippers i!1 and still the Indians were de- rence's :ChUll'ch, urges Al to to come up with men who can feated. A fact that points out "keep u.p the good work." take those all important second the balance on the Barnstable "I just love the job and have and third places. If Falmouth de- squad. And, leads prognostica- not missed a game," the genial velops this depth watch for a tors to predict a race for second mentor said. "In fact, I believe close meet when it goes against place between Dartmouth, Fair- I get more of a kick out of Barnstable. haven and Falmouth. coaching than the boys do playing. There are situations that Individal Duels Highlight Campaign produce laughs. We have tough games. But all in all, I have enElsewhere around the circuit best miler, rates among the best joyed it and will continue to Dennis-Yarmouth and. Wareham in the Conference. ~Another concarryon as long as they want boast a few good performers. sistent top finisher for the Vik- me.

But, neither is, expected to chal- ings has been Joe Kanute in the "Everybody gets a chance to lenge for a .first division finish. long jump. With many new faces' on the scene Wareham will un- play. I never cut anyone, and I Dennis-Yarmouth "possesses a doubtedly be in for a rebuilding have never had to punish or discipline any boy. Some mighty prem'iere -two mller in Mike campaign. fine basketball games are played Teich. Rod Sherman has been The Clipeway' Conference h~s at the Kennedy Center. It's a impressive in the high jump, low and high hurdle and will give been producing some of the shame that they are not better the Green Dolphins, a triple finest trackmen in the Common- attended. wealth for the past few years. threat in most meets.

"It only goes to prove the All indications are that this sea- boys love the game and want to In the weig'ht department Mike son ~ill see many more state play. Basically all the boys are Almonte should collect points in champions emerge' from the good youngsters. I can say, as an both the shot and discuss events league. attorney, that most generally refor the Regionals. Bill White will Although Barnstable is' a main trouble free. I never have be in the thick of competition in strong ,team favorite, Cape track met 'any in my 'work in the the 220 yard dash and the low buffs 'are in for a banner season' courts." hurdles. .Atty. Brody was the student with many outstanding duels manager of the 1946 New BedJohn Raymond, Wareham's slated for action this Spring.

............... 1 Barnstable Aims for Title In CaJPeway Track Loop Race

ALVIN J. BRODY ford High School team that defeated Somerville High in the Tech Tourney, and became Eastern Massachusetts champions under the former, Coach Win Dodge.

"Basically, I'm not a coach in the real sense of the word, such as Dodge and others. But, I feel I am organizing, supervising, and making it possible for the boys to playas one."

No Overtime It was all summed up by Brody who smilingly said: "I am a Jewish coach, taking my Catholic boys to practice at the YMCA on Saturdays. 'Often I inform the boys during a game, no overtime tonight, boys. I have a meeting next door at the synagogue. . '''Our team won 14 games and lost 8 my first year. But this season we have a 6-6 first half and so far in the second are 1-3.

I almost had a unique situation

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a year ago. We had a chance for the title but lost out in the playoffs. If St. Lawrence had won there was a chance I would have been opposing Abe White, another Jewish coach in the Fall River CYO. "Finally, we have a girl scorer.

Jim Corbett's sister, Patricia, does our scoring when we get the baskets."

The former CYO director of the New Bedford area, Rev. Edward C. D!lffy, paid tribute to Coach Alvin Brody at a recent testimonial in his honor. Father Duffy said "A great ecumenical spirit exists here at the Kennedy Center with AI Brody coaching one of our teams."

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New -York Clergy Protest Welfare Budget Cuts ALBANY (NC) - Leaders of the three major faiths in New York have expressed their strong opposit.iori to "proposed regres-. sive budget cuts in assistance and service for the. poor, the sick and the disadvantaged of our great state."

In a joint statement, the Cath. olic, Jewish and Protestant leaders called any reduction in benefits "insensitive and unjust."

The statement was i;igned by .

Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of Albany, chairman of the New York State Catholic Committee; Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, president of the New York Board of Rabbis; and Bishop W. Ralph Ward, president of the New York State Council of Churches, In a related.路 _development; a group of New York City clergymen also condemned the pr'oposed cuts. They made their. comments at a joint press conference with the CommIttee of Aging and Disabled for Welfare and Medicaid.

The New York Clergy Interreligio!ls Coalition, in supporting the senior citizens' objection said that the issue raised by the unit was "more than a question of financial or political policy.

Their protest and their plea constitutes a religious' question that pierces to the heart of public morality."

-In the joint statement issued here' in the state capital, the tsi-faith leaders said that the proppsed cuts would "cause the' least among us to bear the burden of budget reduction."Instead, they urged the legislators to approve Gov. Nelson A.' Rockefeller's recoinmerida-' tion '.:to i~crEfase the. present', . level of public. assistance to' refleet, i'ncreases in the cost of living."

They also called on the state legislature to- support "meaningful and innovative programs to lift people from the. tragic cycle of dependency."

About 400 clergymen are members of the New. York Clergy Interreligious Coalition. Its chairman is Paulisl Father Kevin' Sheehan of St. Paul the Apostle Church.

"Something must be wrong with our criteria and priorities for allocating state funds," he told newsmen. "No person can balance with the same moral commitment such issues as highway programs . . . against the human condition of 'the poor in our state.

"It is inconceivable that our legislatprs can bring about socalled 'deep cuts in welfare assistance,' while voting increased funding for other programs, when the bulk of welfare payments go for mere subsistence to families with dependent children and tne aged, blind, and disabled."

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