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Professional in CCD' Still Needs Volunteer LOUISVILLE (NC) - While religious education programs are using more professionals, the parish CCD volunteer is not on the way out, according to a top religious education official. "We need total participation" in religious education, Father Charles C. McDonald said in an interview here. "I see professionals becoming managers of teams and ,working with volunteers. I see professionals enabling volunteers to become more effective and to have a voice in religious education." Father McDonald, a priest of the Louisville diocese, is director of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Division of Religious Education-CCD. Father McDonald was named to his new post in June after serving for a year and a half as executive secretary of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of CCD in Washington. Discussing religious education needs across the country, Father McDonald said a top priority on the diocesan level is "to develop more systematic organization in order to exert more control over the situation and to enable volunteers to be more effective." Local offices "seem to be too concerned with production of services," he said. "They should be more concerned about organization of people . . . trying to
Pope Paul Plans To Stay in Role VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has firmly squelched news reports that Pope Paul VI plans to retire when he becomes 75 years old in September. Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, papal ~ndersecretary of state and intimate aide of Pope Paul, authoritatively denied retirement plans in an interview on Vatican Radio. "The Pope has never given any reason to think that he would retire at the age of 75," said Archbishop Benelli. "Moreover, he has declared expressly that he will not 'do so." Archbishop Benelli told the Vatican Radio interviewer: "I am not here to repeat the various reasons why the Pope considers it his duty to remain at his post as '-,the 'Servant of the Servant Turn to Page Two
mobilize resources in the community." Other needs he cited are "dealing constructively with the polarization that exists" among people and a better "integration of liturgy and catechetics." Concerning polarization, Father McDonald said reli'gious edu-, cation is "a very hot focal point of the struggle taking place in society at large." What is needed, he continued, is "reconciliation and interplay . . . a matter of where you don't alienate a lot of people." Father Mc'Donald said development of specific programs is not foremost in his thinking now.' "I would like to bring to the national scene the involvement we have created" through the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of CCD, he commented. He said the Vatican's General Catechetical Directory, published last year, refers to local religious Turn to Page Two
TO VISIT PORTUGAL: Bishop Cronin details itinerary of his trip to the Azores, Terceira and Lisbon to his traveling companions, Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, center, pastor of St. John of God Parish, Somerset and Vicar General of the Diocese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at CoyleCassidy High School and assistant at St. Anthony's Parish, ' both in Taunton.
High Court Plans Major Review WASHINGTON (NC)-The Supreme Court has set the stage for a major review of the nation's obscenity laws next October. The review, involving six different cases, will attempt to an-
swer such questions as: Should a national standard take precedence over state standards in the area of obscen, ity? Can a state close theaters showing "adult" films?
Fall River Man to Africa For Catholic Relief Work James M. Harkin, the son of Thomas F. and Alice Shaw Harkin of 22 Byron St., Fall River and members of St. Patrick's has been assigned parish overseas duty with Catholic Relief Services in Senegal, West Africa, Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of the American Catholic overseas aid agency, announced here today. He will be accompanied by his wife, the former Lucille Boilard of St. Louis de France Parish, Swansea. Mrs, Harkin is graduate of Regis College, Weston and received a master's degree from Tulane University, New Orleans. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Emile Boilard of 110 Buffington St., Swansea. Harkin, who currently resides in Syracuse, will begin his new program that benefits some 50,000 impove;ished men, women and children each year throughout Senegal. . His duties will include the supervision of food, clothing am~ medicine distribution programs. He will also organize and im-
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will go to Portugal next week to at· tend meetings of the Portuguese Episcopal Migration Commission which will discuss the pastoral care of Portuguese migrating to the United States., The meetings ,will take place on July 13 in Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, and on July 17 in San Miguel, Azores. Called by Most Rev. Antonio dos Reis Rodrigues, Bishop of Mandarsuma, the meet· ings are concerned with Portuguese emigration to the United States and Canada and will in· quire into the possibilities of mutual collaboration in their ,pastoral care. Host Bishop will be Most Rev. Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho, Bishop of Angra. It is expected that bishops or their representatives from areas throughout the United States and Canada that have large Portuguese settlements will attend. Bishop Cronin will be accom· panied by Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor of St. John of God Church, Somerset, and Vicar General of the Fall River Dio-_ cese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton. En route home, the Bishop and his traveling companions will visit continental Portugal.
plement socio-economic d~vel opment projects which provide work and training in skills that help the needy to help themselves toward, future economic viability and improved living standards.
JAMES M. HARKIN
Harkin served previously in Senegal from August, 1968, to July, 1970, with the U.S. Peace Corps, and after a year as a teacher in New Orleans, he enrolled at Syracuse University as a Maxwell Fellowship student. He received his bachelor of arts degree, with magna cum laude honors, from Providence College in 1968. Catholic Relief Services, the largest private voluntary overseas aid agency in the world, conducts programs in 70 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 30 million needy people, of all races and religions, benefit from the agency's programs each year. Mr. Harkin has four sisters. They are Mrs. Mary Caron of Berkeley, Miss Ann M., a senior at Roger Williams College; Kathleen A., a sophomore at Fordham University; Joan C:, a freshman at' University of Massachusetts. He has also one brother, Thorn· as F. Harkin, Jr., a junior at Durfee High School.
Can the federal government allow interstat~ shipment of obscene material regardless of whether it is to be sold or used privately by the shipper? Can the government seize material as obscene if it was imported for the private use of the importer only? The proposal for an all-out review of the nation's obscenity laws stems from several unsettled court cases, many of which involve disagreements between state and 'federal interpretations of the same law. In Georgia and Virginia suits have challenged the state's authority to condemn books and films felt to be obscene if that material is not shown to juvenile audiences. An even larger question has come from CaHfornia: what community's morality is to be used as the community standard to be used in judging what is obscene? Further complications in the obscenity dispute have arisen when the Justice Department disagreed with a Los Angeles court decision that it is not illegal to possess obscene material for private use. The federal government maintains that it has the right to seize the material but does not have the right to punish the owner. In Wisconsin, another statefederal dispute has arisen in ,the case of interstate transport of "obscene" materials. A WIsconsin court dismissed a case involving the transportation of 83 obscene films from California.