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Appa~achia ie a powerful word. The ve~ name evokes visions of rugged mountain life, isolation, poverty, misery and despair. In this vast area that enc<Ym.passes 11 states
1fhe freedom ~hat should' charac- live 16 mi11~on of the most poverty-striken people in the Uni1Jed States. In every category terize such vocations in a mes- of hUm&n activity Appalachia has fewer of the good things of life than d~s the rest C3ge addressed to the faithful of @:f America. Nowhere in this The latest accomplishment of 'Gte world on the fifth World nat~on do people h~ve less CAP, Inc, is the completion of Blny of Prayer for Vocations, iYWOme 00' live in poorer II Grade A dairy farming comThe need, the Pope said, stems Grom the plan of salvation in the housing; n'Owhere do they pleL :mind of God, ''who wanted have rewer educational: opporSpecial schools are set up ~rist to be the sole S{)urce of tunities or suffer from such I:l during the Summer months to " ed' al th d teach religion, "We had six of G:l1vation and of sanctity, and 1a cit: 0 ... m lC care as ey 0 pho wanteOl His mission to be in Appalachia; nowhere in all these Bible schools going last "'.... ld h ' d Ch ' Summer." Father Beiting said ""'erpetuated and sPread through we wor as organIze . rISI!/ ti ' t " d f dh ts "Over 350 children have been ~ n men, partakers in the am y ...oun so ew a eren , A I h' included in this program. Eighty 17:l'iesthood of Christ, indispen- us In ppa at: lao "l...··",..,'·'ll' """'e Eastern K~ntuc""" area h" ·,il,.,·~ pe.r cent of them have been nonBable ministers of the word a n d " ' u ~.. n.:t "'... 1 _1 h' h th d b' d' Catholics." A ;9p....ac la as of grace among the rest of mane U 10US lSIIdnd." tindion of being the poorest of CeJl.wll"S foil' Rellilgilll)n This need, arlslng from the the poor in all CIf t'h1lSe cateA8 a follow up to the Bible nature of the Church, is DOW g<)ries. ~ -schools the parish has organized more acute, the Pope continued, Four of the poorest counties three centers fur year round OOoause the numbers of the of Eastern Kentucky comprise religious instruction. ministers of the Gospel are dimthe parish of Father Ralph Bei"We have a very active bome luishing, while the fields open ting; He has a parish roughly visitation program,"Father said tD their work are increasing. tile siire of the state of Rhode "and this year we will visit beThe Second Vatican Council's Island.. tween three and four thousand IMghlighting of, the priesthood On his first speaking tour in homes." of the faithful, the Pope said, New England the tall, rugged Each year about 2,000 people should not lead to a "dimming looking priest came to Bishop give from a few days to a few of the ministerinl, or hierarchiCas.;idy High School in Taunweeks of their spare time, school eal, priesthood. • • • In fact, the ton to talk to the student lx>dY breaks or vacations to work at more the common priesthood is and the senior class from Coyle one of the four centers Father to be improved, the more it has High School. has eStablished in his parish. Deed of the ministry of the hierThe priest's five day tour mPriests, nuns, college students, arehical priesthood, and the eluded addresses at Harvard . wh<lle families go down to the more the function entrusted to University, Regis College, Holy area from all over the country tIhe latter manifests its absoCross College and Newton Colto work for 'the Appalachian lute necessity." lege Gf the Sacred. Heart, as poor. - - - O O - for S I ... weJn as a TV appearance on One of Charlie King's inOO has N "",~.". a VBuOD Bob Kenned""s "Contact" show. . ..... P lid d th ....... :t ' been to find useful work for
&Ue ope e B~ktAD. Aid ;a., ,_. f tha Ch h at d ODe ."'" "" ... all these volunteers, as carpen -=:> ales 0 e urc, an so Aocompanying Father Beiting ters, nurses, farmers, cooks, el the Christian salvation of the - ..... e tour was a ......"'" looking ld t be . ~-.d be- -- '... 6""'" teaching Bible classes or counWOT and personable young man from ded chJU'"6~ ri tias h FATHER BElTING seling at the children'scamps.
............canno --& ...vun on a sma c p e- Brockton, twenty year old CharEvery Sunday of the year DOmena or need movements, which Be King. Charlie has interrupted From the inception of hi8 :rather Beiting and two other themselves the ministry -.d approval of the hierarchical lWloollege days lit John Carroll pastorate Father Beiting has ca,r- priests drive over 200 miles to Driesthood." University to work with Father ried on a dual apostolate. As say Masses for 1~heir parishioners The priesthood's authority Belting as a full time lay vol- well as tending to the needs of in homes, in the three churches Mel the priests' sacramental unteereaming the grand sum crl of the 45,000 who live within af the parish, in a candy store a dollar a day. the boundaries of his parish, be and a pavillion. to " "renew f the bloodless Charlie reflected .,....._.. hi'".. h as worK.,.. 1 --, ito .power 1 b ti o on every leve Non-Catholic attendance at the tie e C ra on are necessary l' ,wo~. in Appalachi" ' lpig ht "'.. ..... Masses ' . ....._ .. has con-'Improve the econOmiC is often three times as 'IoU\: hurch and -ced hl'm that hi's vocatl'hn the A ppaI ach'Ian. poor. F rom," great··as the native Catholic at --'dthe salvation of ..... Vlll ~ h nki d e l:H.U • IDa """"er ea-:ng hi'S deC'N>e distn'b u ti on 0 f f 00 d and cI 0 th'mg,. tendence 'in" these' countries , As n, dditi I in ...... ,.~ ... ~ in the,," ~.!, antha ona I! reason ti .41- -l~<I'n'.:o work o'mong the poor." "'- '-"'d·ressmg. ' Co n g ress1'0n al " where .only one person·in every ed ~ .w.,.. ~ ....... 'OU , . _..ng e ne ...or, voca ons, ~." think it's true, that we will 'tt F th h ht :. Ole. Pope cited the secularization.' .n......." what Eug~ne McCarlh'" COmml ees, a er as song 1,000 is Catholic.
~ ~ or to attack the poverty of Eastern . ... ,~, the modern w9rld.whJch ,has" 'CaDs Q'moraJ. revoiution to solve Kentt.eky with every means. . ,. Summer Missions a greater need ~r a "conse-· "the Poverty crisis this cOOn-av.aiiable. . For.·five weeJ~8 every·Summer ~t:~an~:!,eciaf~thZed preseten~e", tij-;" be s a i d . " .'.. ..' New Project Father :Belting and a team of ..... ..~ew<U.us 0 ~ mys neB ~' pilther Beiting haS'been -WOrk'::' As his familiarity with the . priests, . seminari~ and ~y ~ Go~ ~L Cor. 4, 1). . ". :' .jWg hi Eastern Kentucky since 'area'increased and the extent of people .go through the country , .' Wllhngll1ess to Sacrifice :" [OOa .. when' he was assigned.:'&' :work· to be done became more ·side' ona streetpreaching mis ! ~ .... ~. addi~on to the need ,for mission parish under the aus- and more pressing, the need for: sion. Reception is not always , 'WOCations, the Pope in his mes- pices of the Diocese of Coving- a permanent solution to eco-· ..cordial ,in this section where ~ stressW freedom of vo.ca-· ton~ Besides his 1,000 square:: nomie ills became evident. In prejudice against Catholics runs fions, by which, he said, he mile parish, he bas ·the respon~, mlilw~r, to this need in the Sum- high. Father and his preachers meant "personal! I;U1Q voluntary sibility of all 25 counties in .mer. of 1965 Father' Beiting have at times h~ to proclaim ehlation to the cause of Christ·" Eastern Kentucky .through his founded' the Christian Appala- the 'good news of Christ's mes II:nd. of' His Church." .. .. position as Deail of Kentucky ehian Project, Inc., an independ-. B;1ge ~f broth~rhood and ..·con "'There cannot be any voca- Mountain Missions. In this posi-, ent ~on-I>rofit organization .. cern a~id, ca~ca~ and, hurled .'aons," he said, "unless they :are tion Father directS all the mis-' working to develop the economic tomatoes.. , ~; unless, in other words, they' siooory and soCial endeavorS of" resources' of the' region to 'the' : The 'Word is' not falling OD , "00"e" "offered spontaneously of ,.t1\-e' Church in this" the most, a'dvantage of the ·poor. Now in entirely stony ground, even in "'''themselves, conscr~usly, gener- ,'; ~pera1;e pove,ny.· area,. of,', its fourth' y~ar: of 'setvi~, in ~ -.an. .a~e,a· wpel"l~' .for genera-tions '''''!Ciusly, totally." America. Jackson COUl).t~, the CAP, Inc. .Catholics. have been thougbt to ::: ~ 'This, hesa1d; applieS Doth to Per capita income in these.' lias carried out numerous devel- I :'be leagiie 'witb the devil. The ":~\'!stly and Religious vocati6ns, '" :eotJ,nt,ies avera~es bet~.~~.r:t ~50.; ,ClPmental, "training and employ- parish is currently instructing "". male and female' vocations. 'ana $840 a year, Nearly nine ou~ plent programs. Among these',' 25 ,people' in the· faith. " "The expenses of our pro " "'Willingness to sacrifice, the" 'M every' 10 houses is 'lIubstand':' ate' tlie 'lntroduction' and pro,', 'Pope went on, is the cru:* of :the' atil.;. lacli:ing electricity, running, . duction' of- sevetal' itlew "crops are enormous," Father ·"~bleril. The world of religion, water or inside facili.ti~. Tl1ere .. in... the· count4ls agricult~ral sighed "and they're. financed discredited by atheism or hedon- ~ no higher per cent of illiter- economy, and many technical entirely by contributions," On !lEm., he said, is no longer as at- . 'ate"People in the' UnIted SUites innovations iIi the' ag.ricUltural his speaking tour Father' is ~~tive as it OJlC~ was.,. _ thml in Eastern Kentucky. Med-' field. searching for individuals or Bul youth, he said, is stillre- iea.l facilities al'e few and far Complementing the agrj.cul- groups'who:'will sponsor one of eeptive to the call of the Church between. tural prOjects, .several small in- the.. 25 'full time volunteers like to do "difficult things, heroic "We need doctors .desperately": dustrial;ptograms serve to train Charlie King (~t a OOst'of $30 a Cbings." Father Beiting said sadly. and employ natives of the month) Olr'·to· pledge contribu "The Pope urged families to be . Sickness Leads to Apathy county. The woodworking fac- tions for any item on his list -.tiling to make the sacrifices of Malnutrition takes Its toll in tOry turns out high quality Ap-' of "immediate needs" - items • son or daughter to the Church. many ways. "The mountain pal~hian woodcrafts, ranging ranging from tires for their people have often been carica:' from knick-kneeks to Appala- much used cars to a Holstein turedas lazy but Wldernourish- - chian musical instruments. ~ for the d"Liry farm. merrt and sickness are the real' Seasonal employment is proIn concluding his talk to the BERLIN (NC) - The World eauses of their apathy. Most of . vided through the production of students at Cassidy Father asked these people h.ave ·been sick . Christmas wreaths. Plans are if they would like his address Congress of Catholic Youth, on second thought" he lIeP'resenting the International since the day they were born," ~ . on, the drawing board for a palletmaking industry and assorted qUIPPed "would you rather have .Catholic Youth Federation and Father asserted. "They're gooCl people-won- enterprises that will employ Charlie's?" the World Federation of Catho deriul people," he insisted. It's over 100 men in the county For those who would like lie Young Women and Girls have voted to merge the two a shame. There should be many' which has one of the highest Father's it .Is St. Williams erganizations to form the World more 'people working to help unemployment statistics in the Church, 224 :r.exington Street. tib.em.... nation. Lancaster. Kentuclq. Wederation of Catholic Youth. G
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Crisis .in Poland Affects Church BERLIN (NC)-The Catholic Ohurch and Catholic members of Poland's Sejm (parliament) have been caught in the cross fire of the current political crisis in that country and the resurgence of anti-Semitism that has a~companied it. For the first time the Church has bean publicly attacked for its support on the students dem onstrations in March fur intel lectual and democratic free doms. Jozef Kepa, first secretary of
the Warsaw Communist party
committee, in m speech released
(April HI) backed party chief
Wladyslaw Gomulka's efforts to
tone down the anti-Jewish state
ments that have been rampant
in the press, on television and
in public speeches, but had hard
words for the Catholic hier
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Target of Kepa's criticisms was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski of Warsaw,. who praised the stu dents i'Or their maturity and moderation. "The voice of the reactionary party of the Church hierarchy" had been heard. Kepa said, among forces united against the people's power. He condemned the support given by Polish Roman Catholic leaders to the student demonstrations. Meanwhile, in the Sejm the five Catholic members known as the Znak group were assailed by Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz aid Politburo member Zenon· Klisko because the Cath<llic leg islators had asked the govern ment if it approved of a viola tion of civil rights by police ac tion against the demonstrating students. Kliszko called the Catholic deputies "friends of pro-Israel Jews" and "revision ists."
Future Bright ROME (NC) -The religious liberty situation in Czechosiov akia has already changed greatly . for Catholics and hopes for th~ future, ·seem bright, according to Bishop Frantisek Tomesek, a p 0 s t <l) 1 i e administrator' of Prague.
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