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u.s. Catholics Sup'port Pakistani .Refugees Rev. John F. Hogan, Diocesan Director of. Catholic Relief Services, has released a report on CRS aid given to Pakistani refugees as a result of American Catholic charity.

Since the end of March, when the civil and military strife in East Pakistan forced millions t,o cross the India border seeking safer quarters, Catholic Relief Services has made available for' aid to the displaced 27,934 tons of foods, medicines, blankets, cookware, water purification supplies, disinfectants and other relief materials, valued' at $3,042,456. This aid carne 'from existing stocks in Calcutta or

from aid and sea shipments from the United States to Calcutta.

From existing stocks in Calcutta: 18,292 tons of milk, oil, bulgur wheat, CSM mixture.

(Valued: $1,290,434.)

Purchased in Calcutta-shelter materials; local clothing; well-sinking equipment; enriched baby foods; household supplies; materials for food processing, preparation and 'tra'nsport.

(Value: $200,000.)

Dispatched by air to Calcutta: 41 tons of materials including shelter tarpaulins and tents; blankets; 150,000 doses cholera vaccine; mass innoculation jet Turn to Page Six

Pope. Calls For Justice As Basis of Peace -VATICAN CITY (NC) - "If you want peace, work for justice" is the simple theme for Pope Paul's fifth annual World Day of Peace, set for next Jan. 1.

Bishop Ramon Torrella Cascante, vice-president of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace, told a news conference at. the Vatican that although the actual papal message is not yet released, it will emphasize a point on which the survival of mankind depends: the link between justice and peace.

"There is no u'se in speaking of a peace not based on justice, or of a kind of peace in a time when there is the absence of war but there is no genuine peace, or of a peace in which there is only a truce between combatants," the bishop said.

"Instead, the Pope intends to say that the basis of peace is concord. It is love. There is no justice without love; and love is the interior force of justice."

The Spanish bishop explained that the theme of justice was released well in advance this year because the topic of world justice will be discussed at the Fall session of the' Synod of Bishops. He said that the World

Nuns Offer Salary Cut PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Two religious communities representing over two-thirds of the teaching Sisters in the Philadelphia archdiocese have offered to give up 20 percent salary increases because of the recent U.S. Supreme Court action nullifying a state school aid program.

The high court ruled June 28 that a Pennsylvania purchase-ofsecular-services law and a Rhode Island non public teacher salary supplement law were unconstitutional. The Pennsylvania aid plan would have meant $8.9 million ,to Phiadelphia archdiocesan schools next year.

In a joint letter to Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, Mother M..qaudia, superior general of the Sisters, S~rvants of. the Turn to Page Three

Day of Peace will benefit from deliberations of the Synod and will help put into practice the recommendations of the Synod.

The theme of working for justice was chosen by the Pope from among a number offered him by the peace and justice' commission, Bishop Torrella said. The Pope's selection, he said, was in line with his interventions for peace throughout his pontificate.

"If you think of Pope Paul's reign, you see that his work is mainly concerned with the (Second Vatican) Council, its implementation and peace," the bishop said.

Asked what concrete accom-

Decision Emphasizes Parent and Child PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The recent U. S. Supreme Court decision barring two state aid pro· grams benefiting non public schools may be a "shot-in-thearm" to parents' rights according to an official of a national group backing freedom of choice in education "On the surface, the (Supreme Court) decisions seem to be body blows to freedom," said "James L. J. Pie, national president of Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF). "But this may be a shortsighted view."

Pie, an attorney and deputy city solicitor in Philadelphia, also prepared the city's brief supporting Pennsylvania's ;'pur. chase-of-services" law - one of the two aid programs struck down by the court on June 28.

The court also outlawed Rhode Island's state aid for salary supplements to non public school teachers.

He said the court "rejected. a method-it has not destroyed an idea."

"Up to now, the spotlight might have been on aid to schools," he continued. "Now the whole country must turn its attention to the real questionaid to parents and aid to chilo dren."

Popular Musi,c Workshop July 24 in Enfield, N.H.

PERSONAL CARE: Mother Teresa, superior general and foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, has been working with the poor of India for many years. Here she t~k~s a personal hand in ,calming the fears of a refugee Waif 10 Calcutta where the sufferng and hunger continues: NC Photo.

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A one-day Popular Music and .Religious Education workshop will be held Saturday, July 24, at the LaSalette Shrine in Enfield, N H. under the direction of Rev. Fernand· Cassista, M.S., director' of popular music services for Mark IV Presentations of Attleboro.

This workshop ·will provide insights and practical information , for the use of popular music in the classroom, discussion groups, .and for all programs of religious education.

This workshop will benefit teachers, parents, adults and teenagers who are interested in Popular Music and wish. to appreciate the. sounds of today more fully. -

plishments had been gained either by past slogans for days of peace or by the work of the peace and justice commission, the bishop s~id: "The pontifical commission by its very nature is not an 'action' organization.

It exists to motivate people to act. It would be easier to do nothing, to say that one person cannot accomplish this miracle of peace and justice. A~parently the Pope does not believe this, because he incessantly calls' for development in -any country and for any man. The Pope believes that one man can do something.

That is why he urges you: If you want peace, work for justice"

The program' will be: Morning Session 10:00-12:00 A.M.

The Value of Popular Music.

This session will deal with the following: Youth and Music; The Prophetic Dimension of Popular Music; The Sacramental Dimension of Popular Music, The Kinds of Popular Music; Significant songs and insignificant songs; What can be done with Popular Music?

Lunch - (The participants are free to bring lunches or to avail themselves of the Cafeteria facilities.)

Afternoon Sessions 1:15-3:00 P.M. TUm to Page Three

Pie said "various forms of aid to children"-like tuition grants, tax credit$,.. vouchers and other programs "show the most promise for a fair legal and workaple solution to the pressing problem of freedom of education in America."

"In these days of inflation and ever-rising costs," the CEF leader said, "there is no freedom for the poor without aid from the whole community. Unless every man is free, no man is free.

"We tried government aid to schools. It proved to be a shaky reed. The high court has cut it down. Community aid to parents and to children is a powerful and necessary support for freedom. Let the people build on that now."

Liturgical Week At Cranwerl , Th'c' Rev. Dr. James T. Burt· chaell, C.S.C., Provost of the University 'of' Notre Dame, will be the' keynote' speaker at the 1971 Liturgical Week sponsored by the New England Liturgical Committee. The week is planned for August 23-26, 1971 at the CranwellSchool in Lenox, Mass.

The theme of the week will be "Celebration . . an American Need."

The first part of the week will center around elements which are important to the whole theme of celebration itself. There will be workshops on the theological dimension, the sociological dimension, the cultural dimension, the physical dimension, that is, space and environment, architecture, etc, and others.

The second part of the week will concentrate on the newly revised books of the Roman rite. Experts from _around the country will give workshops aimed at assisting parishes and other groups to enrich and take advantage of the new rites to the fullest extent possible. Workshops will be conducted on the, Sunday Eucharist, Baptism, Marriage, Funeral, Anointing of the Sick.

Some of the workshop leaders include: Dr. C Alexander Pelo\ quin, Composer - in - residence, tum to Page Three

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Re.ligiou·s'"Brothers:' :E'njioy" ,Awareness of Ident'ity'

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SYRACUSE, (NC) - Religious Brothers ,need not loosep celibacy'vows for recruitment because Brothers, unlike' priests, do notsuff~r an ,identity crisis over celibacy, the director of the Religious Brothers' Institute said' here'" ' Brother Damian Carrol, editor'. of the biweekly m'agazine the' Brothers: Newsletter, said that orders are simultaneously tightening' their entrance requirements and extending their training pro~ grams, . , Brother Damian and 150 other' brothers representing 50 cOlTlmunities in the' United States,' Canada, New Zealand and Austria came to the Institute to discuss' how.- to' "make a better apostle' by making a',better Reli~ gious." , The' religious: orders, are in, a, 'difficult stage, Brother Damian said. Although their membership has been slowly but steadily risc ing since 1955" at the same time young people are hesitant when' it comes to committing themselves permanently to a celibate life of service.

Attraction , Brothers are now faced with making th~ir life-style 'attractive, he said. Some orders, ,he added, are planning new forms of relicommitment wherein gious young men would promise' to serve .their order for only a certain number of years, instead of for life.

Brother Damian noted that smaller communities are replacing large' institutions or monas: teriestand that some Brothers in the future may be able to choose to live in apartments or homes closer to the area of their ministry.

Education Brothers, he added, are 'promoting their vocation in a way that shows them participating in' various community action 'groups, thereby dispelling the characterization of Brothers as monastery hideaways.

Brother Damian noted education'a) opportunities are open- to Brothers in various fields from nursin'g ,tor!ldio and television, and ,he said religiollsorders often, pay, for. their tuition bills.

With 'these added attractions, ,Brother Damian thinks the brotherhood will become appealing to the. m'ediators" contemplators, commune-loYers and mystics that have emerged 'on America's college' .:ampuses.

Their mere existence, Brother Damiim said, is a "healthy 'sign for the future of religicus Broth-, ers.'" , Brother Damian said he cannot explain why the brotherhood has been more succes;;ful than the priesthood. in keeping their membership uP-:-except, he said, Brothers, are not torn by the identity ,crisis facing today's priests.

He cited celibacy a~; a firm commitment for' a Broi:her. "If 'you aren't celibate, you aren't a Brother," he, said adding that when a man commits himself to the brotherhood he is aware of that commitment.

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Of 'Appa ritic)ns'

MONCTON (NC)-Archbishop Nor,?ert Robichaud of Moncton has banned any promotion in ,this Canadian archdiocese of the alleged apparitions, of the Blessed Virgin at Garabandal, Spain, in 1961. ' The archbishop recalled that the Vatican's Doctrinal' Congregation in February, 191'0, "deplored that certain persons and institutions persist in s!=reading the movement Of Garabandal" and reaffirmed the deci~ions of Bishop Jose Cirarda l.:achiondo of , Santander, in whose diOCEse Garabandal is located.

Archbishop Robichaud said Bishop Cirarda had concluded in 1967 after an investigation that there, was never any apparition' or message and th;:lt the events at Garabandal ,Had a naturaL explanation.

Mrs. Maria Saraco, a' pr,)moter , Friends of the Presentation' of the alleged apparition~;, can: Novitiate will again hold their celed a sch'eduled lecture in Annual Fair on the grounds of Moncton after the archb ishop's St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River.,' ban was' issued.

The Annual event will take She said she would not defy place 'on ,Saturday, July 17; and the archbishop, because she felt the public is invited. ' the Blessed Virgin would wilDt her to be obedient.,

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Necrology JULY 16 Rev. Bernard Percot, a..P., 1937, Founder, St" Dominic Swansea. . , JULY 17 Rev. YVilliam J. Smith, 1960, Pastor, St JaI:11es, Taunton..

JULY 18 , Rev; Adalbert Szklanny, 1968, St Patrick, Fall River. .

JULY 19' Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan; D.O., 1934, 2nd Bishop of Fall River, 1907-34. """"""'""'''''''''"Il'''''''''''''II'''lll''''''''''''''',I,''''''''IlllUlI!"'t1IIIII"'I""""""lll

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DISCUSS ,SYNOD: Discussing on television the forthcoming World Synod of Bishops which will open this Fall in Rome are, left to right, Archbishop Joseph McGucken of San Francisco, Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York; moderator Solon Gray; Cardinal John Krol of. Phila:delphia; Cardinal John Cody of "Chicago; and Archbishop Timothy' Manning of Los Angeles. NC Photo,.' " I

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Many BelQng', to Several Churches at One Time I ST. LOUIS (Nc)-liow could 175 million people in ITapan admit to belonging to .!some or. ganized religion when ithere are only 104 million peo~le in Japan?, Belgian, Father Joseph Spae, direcfor, of the Oriens\ Institute for Religious Research iin Tokyo and a, consultant to the Vatican Secretariat for Non.Christians was ready with the exlplanatio~ in. an interview here. : "The thing you have to remel1Jber about the Jap~nese and their religion," he said,! "is that the same person may I consider himself belonging to, several churches at one time. I This is not at all unusual-in I fact, as the religious statistics iindicate, it is very usual. i "The government took a survey several years ago and these ,statistics came out," he said.

"What happened was th~t people ~ut themselves down as"belongmg to several churche's. They were ,Buddhists, but also' Shintoists;" ~'

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, GREEN BAY (NC)-A diocesan academy of religio~ which . will seek to encourage, improve and experiment with the teaching of religion at all ag~ levels was announced hereby I Bishop Aloysius J. WYC;islo of I Green i Bay., Father David Kaspere~, diocesan religious education. director .: • • -I ' !VIII head the, new aC,ademy, , which has a tentative opening , date of Sept. 1 in ,a vacated,Cath-otic elementar?,. sc~ool.

For accredltlzatlOn and tlix purposes, the academy ~i11 be legally an extension of si. Norbert College in West D~ Pere · b ut WI'11 'operate ' , W IS" asIan au-' tonomous unit. . ' Bishop Wycislo noted tile new project would be a coop~rative effort of the Green Bay Diocese, . St. Norbert College and the Norbertine order which staffs the college. . i

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NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Edwin G.Borserine of Kansas, City, Mo., has been el,ected 'president 'of Serra International, an organi'zation of laymen dedicated ,to promoting vocations of the priesthood.

Borserine, chosen at Sl~rra's annual convention here, suc,:eeds Dr. Charles J. Weigel as head 0f the organization. Other officers include Lawrence J. Hayes, Minnesota, Samuel D'Anna, New Jersey and Thomas G. Ran:;dell, Cause I K;entucky, vice-presidents; Dr. The cause of sin is the I will's R: A. Stevenson 'J,r., Texas, secnot holding to the rule of reason. retary and Albert C. Hamersky, and divine law. !'

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nothing in either religion which discourages this.

"What is' surpising though," he said, "is that there are 2 Y2 million more persons in Japan who list themselves as Christians than have ever been baptized as Christians. As you know there are, 'religionS-Islam, Judaism, Christianity-which do not permit one to belong to two religions at the same time.

The confusion about the 'number of Christians also comes from the religious "crossfiling" practiced by the Japanese when being polled by their govern,ment about their religious preferences.

The actLial number of Japanese Christians, Father Spae estimated, is about 780,000. The number, is small, he said, but rising steadily, especially since the end of World War II. "In Japan Christianity is equated very closely with the United States," he said. "Because the missionaries were mainly from the United States, the Japanese, think of every American as a Christian. When

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I first went to Japan in' 1938 there was great hostility to th~' U.S. 'and to all Westerners and there was great hostility to all' Christians.

Concern About Abortion "Since the ~nd of the war, though, Christianity has grown steadily. In fact,the attitude toward . Christians and Christianity ,has changed to the point that if two people apply for a job in Japan and one is a Christian, the other non-Christian, the Christian will get the job every time. Why? The Christian is thought to be a better person. It has to do with the improved feeling for the United States." .

Father Spae said Japan is going through a change of attitude toward abortion. It has always been legal in' Japan but people are now having second thoughts, he said'J "Today I would say that the Japanese are thinking of doing away with abortion, or at least tightening up the law. Under the present law there are estimated to be up to two million abortions a year in Japan. The number has gotten so high that there is great, concern about it among the leaders."

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3 Chinese Bishop Says Only Forc'e Is. Effective With Communists

NEW DELHI (NC)-A bill to ban the religious conversion of minors and to make other conversions subject to permission from the local magistrate was introduced into the Indian parlia:. ment here.

Introduced by Jagannath Rao Joshi, leader of the anti-missionary Jan Sangh party, the bill pro- vides for imprisonment up to five years or fines up to $1,300, or both, for those who convert or assist in converting a minor.

Similar billls outlawing "forced conversions" and the conversion of minors have been enacted in the past by several state governments in India.

When such a law was enacted in Madhya Pradesh state in 1968, there were fears of possible harassment of missionaries who are unable, for conscientious reasons, to comply with the requirement that every conversion be reported to the district magistrate by the officiating minister for police investigation.

In 1970, however, Archbishop Eugene D'Souza of Bhopal said the Church had "no trouble" up to that time from the law. He said the work of evangelization had continued and "we have never been challenged."

LOS ANGELES (NC)-The ordinary people of Asia cannot understand why after eight years the United States has not been able to win its millon-dollar-aday war against communism in Vietnam, according to Bishop Joseph Cheng, O.P., of Kaohsiung, on the southern tip of Taiwan.

"Withdrawal from Vietnam 'will mean that the people in Asia will lose faith in the United States," the Chinese bishop said here in an interview.

"Only force is effective with the communists," the bishop said. "How many years have you been talking with them in Paris, spending money to keep a staff in an expensive hotel? And the communists laugh at you."

The sentiment in Taiwan, said the bishop, "is for the U. S. to win the war" 'No Compromise' His opinion is that Vietnam cannot be settled because of communist China. New diplomatic developments in regard to mainland China and America are not popular in Taiwan.

"We do not like the policy of two Chinas. And the communists don't like a policy of two ....

Music Workshop COl}tinued from Page One Dominant Themes in Popular Music.

What are the dominant themes in Popular Music? What do these themes reveal?

Biblical Themes in Popular Music. This part of the session will deal with specific themes as they are presented to us in Popular Songs.

BreakSession II - 3:15: Practical demonstration of a conference and a discussion based on Pop. ular Music.

5:00 P.M.: Contemporary Celebration of the Liturgy.

Note: Each session includes records demonstrations.

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Miserable Life "I have received a communication from within China from a priest I knew. He has been 20 years in a labor camp. He said he was leading a miserable life.

'Pray for me and for the Catholics,' the priest wrote." .

Bishop Cheng studied for the priesthod in Hong Kong after the' fall of China.

"China fell because the Upited States abandoned her," he said.

Bishop Cheng continued his studies in Rome and in 1961 was consecrated a bishop by Pope John XXIII. His diocese has a population of 2.4 million, with 50,000 Catholics.

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Salary Cut Continued from Page One Immaculate Heart of Mary; and Mother Alice Anita, superior general of the Sisters of St. Joseph, said their teaching Sisters in the Philadelphia archdiocese wanted' to sacrifice their salary increases for the 1970-71 school year, due to the court-inflicted financial crisis.

The two orders have 1,160 Sisters teaching in archdiocesan elementary and secondary schools.

Their increased salaries would be $2400 next year.

The two superiors said their Sisters made the decision "in consultation with their general councils." Their offer was made "in public witness to their enduring dedication to Catholic education," and expresses "their willingness as persons bound by the vow of poverty to be, as the Church asks, poor in fact as well as in spirit," the superiors said.

In a July 9 reply, Cardinal Krol said h,e, was "deeply moved" by the Sisters' offer, but neither. olccepted nor rejected it.

Chinas either," he said.

"There can be no compromise.

"Communism is destructive of humanity and morality. Communism is against every freedom, every religion."

Bishop Cheng said communism in China is "very dIfferent from communism in Poland or Hungary. In those countries communism has let religion exist. But in China there are three million Catholics without Mass, without- priests.

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Liturgical Week At Cranw'ell Continued from Page One Boston College; Rey. Robert Hovda, The Liturgical Conference, Washington, D. C.; Sr. Bessie Chambers, R.S.C.J. of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago; Dr.路 William' Storey, University of Notre Dame; Rev. Joseph Champlin, former Associate Director of the Bishops Committee on the liturgy, Washington, D. C.; Mr. Robert Rambusch, church design artist, New York City; Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, Assistant Pastor of Holy Name Church, Fall, River, and others.

The Maurice Lavanoux Award in the Cultic Arts, to be offered annually by the New England Liturgical Committee, will be presented for the first time on Wednesday evening, August 25.

This year the award will be in the field of sacred music. A choir will sing the award-winning entries in the competition for music in the new funeral rite.

The Gerald Ellard Award, offered annually by' the New England Liturgical Committee for signal contribution by an American to liturgical life in this' country, will also be presented during the Liturgical Week.

It is necessary to pre-register for the week.. No single day or single session registration are accepted. Information for registration may be obtained from Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, Holy Name Rectory, Fall River, Mass., or from Rev. William J. Leonard, S.J., c/o Liturgical Week, The Cranwell School, Lenox, Mass.

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BOSTON (NC) - Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston has reiterated his declaration ,that as "Christians we must be especially sensy.ive to the ethical isues raised by the (Vietnam) war."

He urged all Catholics "to read and reflect upon" a pastoral letter issued in May by the bishops of Boston province on, the morality of war. "We in· tended the letter," the archbishop said in a statement read at all Masses throughout the archdiocese, ,"to be used by Catholics to form their own consciences about the war."

He asked that all priests "aid

Israel is one of the smallest of nations, and one of the youngest. Not yet 25 years old, its Jewish population n'umbers two and a half million. Yet it is in the news f~r more, and far more prominently, than any nation of comparable size and age, and its fate may determine whether drew up a plan of partition there will be another world which gave a part of the .Holy Land to the new nation of Isw<;lr. How 'much do most of rael, and a part to the Arabs. us know' of Israel and the Israelis? Pro~ably very little.

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Amos Elon tells us a great deal about them in his' book The Israelis (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 383 'Madison Ave" New 'York, N.Y. 10017. $10).

He offers copious facts and fig,ures, but his chief purpose is portraiture and interpretation.

He reviews the proc'ess by which a Jewish homeland was, in the past 100 years, gradually restored, after centuries in which none existed.

In 'the third quarter of the nineteenth century' there were some Jews living in Palestine, but they were quite few. Then cam~ the almost imperceptible beginnings of a return, mostly from Russia 'and other parts of Eastern Europe.

Wr,ves of Immigration In those areas, there were large numbers of Jews. They were cruelly discriminated against, and occasionally were subjected to murderous pogroms.

Zionism drew the interest of these persecuted pepole, and a trickle of emigration started in the 1880s.

Palestine was then a part of the Turkish empire. The Jews who removed (0 it managed to buy land. It was by no means the best land available, but they worked it zealously and improved it signally: A second surge occurred after the attempted revolution in Russia in 1905, and already in 1908 the first kibbutz or communal farming venture was established. A third wave of immigration in the Holy Land lasted from 1919 to 1924, and a fourth and a fifth took place in the 1920s 'and th'e 1930s.

Hitler's Rise It was never anticipated that there would be conflict with the Arabs. Palestine was thought of as a virtually empty land, and Arab nationalism (in response to' Turkish tyranny) was as new a phenomenon as Zionism. Mr. Elon says ,that the Jewish new· comers were simply blind to the . Arabs' ,interest in Palestine.

What really fired' Jewish determination that a Jewish state must come into being i~ Palestine was Hitler's rise and his resolve to exterminate the Jews.

There must be a place of refuge, a place where Jews would belong and which they could call their own.

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The Arabs rejected the proposal, 'and Egypt and other Arab states launched a war to blot out the infant Jewish state. The Arabs lost the war, and Isrecel set about securing and devolping its territory.

Arab Refug,ees Twice more the Arab states struck at Israel, mosl; recently in 1967. Each time thEy were defeated, and' the boundaries of Israel were extended. At pre'sent, of course, there is an' uneasy cease-fire, and the' great powers are engaged in efforts to bring about a permanent settlement . between Israel and the Arabs.

Mr. Elon is well awar~ of the feelings of the Arabs, the pitiable plight of the Arab refugees who lost their homes and means of livelihood, the need of an arrangement wh'ich wi\'l at least approximate jU:3tice. lie is not a fanatical champion of, or, apologist for, Israel. He indicates one after another tragic paradox in the situation between Israelis and Arabs.

Most of his book is given to an examination of the Israelis, and especially the difference be-tween the pioneers born in Eastern Europe and the younger generations born in Israel. The contrast is many-faceted, often sharp, alwaysl signifieant.

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Oldsters Conservative The old still have a monopoly of government positions and power. They constitute an establishment, indeed a mandarin' establishment, which their juniors, until now vainly, would like to see replaced.

As has repeatedly happened in history, the old:;ters, who were revolutionaries in their early days, are now very conservative and critical of the newfangled notions of the rising generation, which, in turn, is forgetful of the past.

Israel, Mr. Elon notes, is a nation which, throughout its existence, has been at war or semiwar. It lives' in constant danger.

It is haunted by HUer's massacre of 6,000,000 Jews. Sadness and pessimism are characteristic qualities.

Yet, rightly, there is a vibrant sense of achievement. Anyone who has visited the country has , seen ample evidence that this is well warranted. Barren acres have been made green and fertile. A denuded landscape has been reforested. There are major feats of engineering, a swift growth of industry, the agricUltural and social accomplishments of the kibbutzim, a working democratic system, and the absence of militarism despite the continuous, necessity of being under arms.

Holy Places Mr, Elan seems to have scant regard for religion. Many of the lsral.eis' are irreligious, and the' committedly religious are a min~rit~ which managl~s to wield

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their people in using the document by preaching the Gospel of justice and peace, by discussion and educational programs."

The archbishop's letter concluded with, an invitation to join him "in fervent prayer that peace may come not only to Southeast Asia but to Pakistan, the Middle East, and every other place where the scourge of violence threatens the sacred dignity of human life."

Religion Religion is the virtue by which men show God due worship and reverence. -St. Thomas Aquinas

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How can you make this troubled .world a better place? Pray for our native' priests and Sisters each day, and do all you can to give them what they need. They are your ambassadors to the poor, and they get lonely, hungry, tired. Month by month, have a share in all the good they do!

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'Adopted Child ,I ' TRENTON (r:' C)-+An adopted child cannot be, taken away from a couple beca~se they are professed atheists, the New Jersey Supr~me [court has ruled unanimously.' ' In a 7-0 decisioh the high court overturnbd a kuling by a lower court ~hichl' had gone against the cbuple, John and Cyrithia Burk~ of 1 Carterville, Ill. I '.

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I ment from Catholic Church sources on thel Supreme 'Court's ruling.

The child ras ladopted in 1969 while Burke was teaching at Seton Hall Uryiversity in South Orange, I~.J. ,He and his wife later mbved, to Carterville where BJrke ik a student at Southern Illinois University. , . The Supreme Court said, "Since the solei grourid for denying the adoption Was Burke's beliefs regardihg r~ligion and it is clear frorrt the !r'ecord that they are other~ise fit, we grant the adoption."

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o Give a child a chance. In India, Ethiopia, and the Holy Land you can 'adopt' a blind girl, a deaf-mute boy, or a needy orphan for only $10 a month ($120 a year). We'll send you the youngster's photo, tell you about him (or her). o Send us your Mass intentions. The offering you make" when a missionary priest offers Mass for your intention, supports him for one day.

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Almost nothing is isaid of the Christian preserice ini Israel, and the question 6f th~ Christian holy places isl not ,mentioned.

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Devotion to Duty Poses Problems For Retired

THE ANCHORThurs., July 15, 1971

WASHINGTON (NC)-Devotion to duty, considered an asset to a priest or Religious, can pose special problems at retirement time, it was disclosed here at a workshop on Religious and Retirement.

"Religious share the common dread of aging and their problems are further compounded by life styles traditionally dedicated to service until death," Sister Marie Gaffney told more than 200 nuns, Brothers and priests at the workshop co-sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Charities and Georgctown University.

Sister Gaffney, a Missionary of the Most Blessed Trinity, workshop coordinator and staff consultant to Catholic Charities' HELPING HAND: The South Attleboro Knights of Columbus recently presented conference on aging, said "the check for $1,000 to benefit Youth Center at 51. Theresa's Church. Left to right, Outcessation of one's lifetime aposgoing Grand Knight Richard R. .Murray, Rev. Msgr. Gerard J. Chabot, pastor of St. tolic wor~ is dismaying."

"You know," said Sister of Theresa's, Rev. Roger L. Gagne, assistant pastor of 51. Theresa's, and Incoming Grand St. Joseph Marion Gundell of Knight William Cowley.

Rochester, N.Y., "we think we have to die with our boots on."

"The retired Sister needs first to learn to relax," Sister Maria Virgo Schemanske, a Servant of the Immaculate Heart WASHINGTON (NC)-J. Ed- reputations and status of many Often .they are selfish, arroof Mary, told a' discussion group at the workshop. A Sister "needs gar Hoover has said that Chris- citizens. For that reason we gant and disdainful of the rights to enjoy leisure wi.thout feeling , tianity has given him the must have special agents of un- of others. strength and courage to carry impeachable personal character, guilty," she added.

Church men and women out his job. integrity and honesty. Their in- should speak out forthrightly for Interior Life The director, of the Federal vestigations must be scrupulous- what is right, good and noble.

Bureau of Investigation also ly fair and impartial, reporting The voice of the church is a What is needed, said Dr. Peter J. Naus, visiting profes- said he looks for good Chris- the facts without prejudice or powerful and meaningful voice sor from Nijmegen University tian qualities in young FBI re- error. They must be above the -and it should ring forth loudly temptations of bribery and dis- and clearly on behalf of those in the Netherlands at Notre cruits.

"For me Je~us is a living honesty. moral principles, which underDame University, "is a theology We carefully investigate the lie our society. of retirement." A full time Re- reality," Hoover said in a quessearch and Training Program tion-and-answer interview in backgrounds of applicants for Too frequently today Christhe July issue of Decisions, a FBI employment to determine tians are silent in the midst of in Aging, with special attention to Religious, is now being plan- publication of the Billy Graham their reputation, character and injustice when the law is vioEvangelistic Association. ability. The success of FBI stems lated. Too frequently Christians ned at Notre Dame in Indiana.

"No matter what problems in large part from the high are not ready to do their share Workshop director, School confront me, I know that I can .moral standards required of all as citizens.

Sister of Notre Dame Maria count on our Redeemer for our personnel.

MercedE!s Hartmann, professor Christians have an obligation, strength and courage," he said.

Q. How can the 'churches help of social welfare at the Colboth individually and through Hoover described how im- reinstill character and路 morality their churches, to stand up for lege of Notre Dame of Maryportant Christianity was to him in people today? freedom, the dignity of the inland, said she thinks it imas a boy when he attended Stress Moral Principles perative to "extend the' condividual, and those moral prinSunday school at the Lutheran A. One of the great tragedies ciples which alone make life cept of service so that it inChurch IOf Reformation here. of the free world today is a worth living. cludes contributions of service He later joined the Presbyter- decline of moral values-honboth to and by the aged Reian Church of which he is still esty, integrity and fair play. ,Iigious." a member; Crime rates have jumped drasBishop Walsh Plans Sister Gabrielle Husson, su"My early life in the Church tically. An increasing number of Visit to Africa perior of the Convent of the helped me to understand the people-both youthful and adult Sacred Heart, the Apostolic personal responsibilities each - feel that the law need not RjOME (NC)-Bishop James Center for Retired Religious, in of us must accept in providing be obeyed. Many are disrespect- Walsh, pioneer Maryknoll, misWashington, D.C., commented, a moral and spiritual example ful toward law enforcement of- sioner released from, a Chinese "Those who have had a full life for others, both in word and in ficers and our judicial system.

Communist prison last July, paid and are realistic, look forward a visit to the head of the deed," he said. to it. We have a waiting list.

Church's worldwide missionary Here are his answers to some Schedules Fireside We are dedicated to the idea other questions posed to him in network on his way to East - that religious life is based fundaAfrica. the article: Chats on Radio mentally on prayer-the interior As well as meeting Cardinal GALLUP (NC)-In an effort ,Angelo Rossi, prefect of the , High Personnel Standards life - or religious, life is not Q. What are the Christian to unite Catholics in the Gallup Congregation for Evangelizing worth the living." qualities you ~eek to 'inculcate diocese, Bishop Jerome J. Has- Nations, the 80-year-old bishop in the young agents whom you trich has launched a series of also met Cardinal John Wright, Jesuit Association train, and how do you go about weekly "Fireside Chats" on four former bishop of Pittsburgh who area radio stations. it? is prefect of the Clergy CongreElects P'residel1lt "I want to get all the people gation.

A. The FBI plays a critical WASHINGTON (NC)-Father role in American society. Our in my 'adobe hacienda' and talk Bishop Walsh, who spent 10 John J. Fitterer, S.J., chancellor investigations affect 'the lives, to them," said the bishop of the years in a Shanghai prison under of Seattle University, has been approximately '200,000 Catholics sentence for "espionage," was elected president of the associawho reside in the 55,000 s::Iuare on his way to meet fellow tion of Jesuit Colleges and UniHeads Province mile diocese covering parts of Maryknollers in Kenya and Tanversities.

OYMPIA FIELDS (NC)-The western New Mexico and east- zania. The new generation of unusual distinction of being the ern Arizona.

Father Fitterer, 49, will asmissioners had never met the Church officials have de- one-time superior general of their sume his office at headquarters first midwesterner to head the here. The association consists Midwestern province of the Or- scribed the diocese, which inorder, who had last been in the of the nation's 28 Jesuit col- der of St. Augustine has been ac-' cludes three Indian reservations, . United States just after World leges and universities. It was corded Father Raymond R. Ry- as the poorest in the U.S. War II. Beginning on July 4, Bishop formed last July following the an, 40. A native of Chicago, he division of the Jesuit Education- joined the Augustinians in 1948 Hastrich's 15-minute taped mesWill al Association (now defunct) in- and was ordained to the priest- sages were aired on radio staTo will change is not the same to the AJCU and the Jesuit hood in 1957. He has been ser- tions in Farmington, Grants and thing as to change will.

Secondary Education Associa- ving a~ dean of men at Tolen- Gallup, all in New'Mexico, and in HolbroQk, Ariz. tine College here in Illinois. ~St. Thomas Aquinas tion.

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Urges Return To Tradition EAST ROCKAWAY (NC)-In 1965, Ray Gimmler, a New York City fireman for 24 years, became concerned with what he calls communist-led anti-war demonstrations, an especially permissive news media run by the "so-called New Left," ultra-liberal parents preaching liberalism to their children and the general demise of good old American patriotism.

Determined to counteract the resulting impression that this country is "bad and evil," GimmIcr since then has led a, series of parades and demonstrations on Long Island to show "that generally this is the greatest and most. generous nation in the history of the world."

Mustering the help of his local American Legion Post, Gimmler organized a "Support our Boys in Viet Nam" Parade in 1967 with an army of Long Islanders supported by "$5 and $10 donations from the little people here and there."

Since then a series of. other projects have emerged including the National Commission for Responsible Patriotism, the Honor America Committee, the POW Committee and Save the Pueblo.

And for every peace demonstration on the South shore of Long Island since 1965, Gimmler has led a counter-demonstration which he says has doubled or tripled the ranks of the others.

Even the church has been victimized by the onset of liberalism. Gimmler says he has tried his best to go along with the "liturgy, shaking hands and the whole bit" but says it has weakened .the church. In an interview with The Long Island Catholic he said: "The complete relaxation of rules hasn't prevented sin; its given sin credentials.

Fear is removed-fear of God, fear of punishment."

Ordinations in Cuba ROME (NC)-Fifteen seminarians from five of the six dioceses in Cuba were ordained in the first three months of 1971, according to International Fides Agency, a news service sponsored by the Congregation for the' Evangelization of Peoples.

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Familiar Words "Children now love luxury, have bad manners, contempt for au.thority, show disrespect for elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise.. Children are now tyrants and not slaves of the household. They no longer rise when an elder enters the room, they contradict thei r parents, chatter before company, gobble up the food at the table, cross their-legs, and tyrannize their teachers.".'

The words have a familiar ring. They coulel be taken from any article on jtiyenile delinquency. They could be from any sociological report on home and family or the school. They could be the verbatim record of the outpour-. ings of an irate father or mother. No reader of today's newspaper would be at all surprised at 'reading them. as the comments ·of· a contemporary speaker.

The fact is that these words are a direct quotation of the -Athenial philosoph~r Socrates and were written by· - him some twenty-four hundred years ago.

All of which shows that children have not changed too much 'over the centuries, or else their parents' criticism qf them tends to run along' the same lines.

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So ,Much Done Just a few weeks ago, the faithful of the Fall ~iver Diocese were asked to assist the refugees of Pakistan who were fleeing not only from civil war but whm;e camps were being ravaged by the dread disease of cholera.

And now the report has been issued from Catholic Relief 'Servi~es - the helping organization of the United States .Bishops - of what· has been. done: with the monies contributed. .

The statistics, while still modest in comparison with the tremendous need, are ail encouraging indication that something positive has been done and is still being done; and. those who contributed to the aid of the, refugees ,have every reason to feel happy that so much has b~en done with their gifts in so short a period of time.

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It is all very .well for those not immediately ;:nvolved' to say that accidents will happen. But there is a human element involved. .

Every person driving an automobile must be e~:pecially aware that an accident can happen to him,at any moment.

Children, riders on bicycles, motor bikes-all must be expected ,to do the unexpected at any moment. .

Police report that in the majority of car al~cidents . there is the element of either speed or liquor.

No one. sets out to -hurt himself or another,. But- a lJloment 'of carelessness, of taking a' chance, of driving when' he should not drive, and one can bring ahout an irreversible tragedy.

Water safety is another aspect of Summer that cannot be disregarded. The multiplication of boats has brought with it the multiplication of dangers and added safety risks.

Summer is wonderful time to enjoy all that nature has provided for wholesome' and healthy' recre~ti()n. But the first condition of enjoying it is to live....:.. and to let others live.

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Continued from Page One guns; household utensils; and medicines. (Value: $157,973.)

En route to or diverted to Calcutta via sea: 9,291 tons of U. S. Government-donated foodstuffs (Value: $1,099,049.)

Scheduled for shipment: Froill the Port of New York; about July 9, 150 tons of aid supplies. .(Value: $180,000.)

From West Coast ports, a'bout mid-July, 90 tons of aid supplies.

(Value: $115,000.)

Catholic Relief Services is providing daily food rations for 600,000 refugees. The regular CRS/Calcutta program, under the direction of Frank Carlin of ,Philadelphia, was reinforced by shifting personnel from its New Delhi, Bombay and Madras office. The CRS emergency program is being conducted in cooperation with the Indian Government, the U. S. Government, United Nations agencies, and - other secular and Church,related relief agencies.

Supplies and support for'CRS shipments have been received from' the Catholic Medical Mission Board and other agenCies, fo'undations, and individuals throughout the United States.

Many dioceses throughout the United States, the Diocese of Fall River among them, have conducted, and others are planning, special collections in Catholic churches for further support of this CRS emergency program.

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Sale of Kung B'ook

LONDON (NC)-The Catholic' Truth Society, British .publishers, has barred the sale at its big With the recent action of the Supreme Court, paro- central London shop of Father chial schools most! certainly face a· very grim future. Dur- Hans Kung's latest book "Infaling the past f~w y¢ars many Catholics have become used lible? An Inquiry," which questions papal infallibility. . to the closing 10f th1eir parish schools. Many more will face The society's semiautonomous the same fat~ in ~he very , shops in other large cities are near future. However a real constant and fixed, guarded and expected to follow suit.

I· protected like the Berlin Wall. w developing At Thomas Rittner, the' society's situation is ·the same' time cities have whet:e many Pfi!0pl~ will not either developed and expanded general secretary, said: "It does only have to get a~customed new territories or have been not come within the objects of to the closing sc~ools but bulldozed into a taxpayers night- the' CTS, which is to spread a mare. Parishes once the back- knowledge of the Catholic faith .. also the closing 9f churches.

There are many ,reasons why bone of many dioceses have now The decision is not an unusual parishes and chu}ches 1\Vill~lo'se become the heavy burden on the one. We are all the time deciding what books to sell and what their doors. Firsrl and foremost, back of many dioceses. not to."· we have the urb~n situation of Suburban SituationThe society's main activity is.: jllodern America.f Wit", the tremendous drive to renew our The situation in the suburbs publishing five-and ten-cent cities, many pari~hes fbuna that is not all sweetness and light;' paper back leaflets and pam" they were traffi¢ islahds in a Just this past week a church in phlets on Catholicism and Cathmaze of ribbon ~oadways, The the diocese of Rrid~eDort. estah- olic matters. About 2.5 million- of flight to the sUbutbs, pbo~ urban Iished only eight years ago, will these are sold a year, through housing, and the \ general decay close in the near future becaus'e the mail or parish churches of our cities will, certai,nly close o'f inflation and .insufficient '"""l1n"l/I"II,r."'""flI1IIIIU"·."""lIImllnmlll,n"I,t1"""'11'11"""""""""""""" many church doors. ; operating funds.

The diocese also in~icated a ary. They are quite mobile and, The situation IS fu*ther aggravat~d by a rea~ lack. of planvery common problem unique to in today's world, constantly on ning and reorganization on the suburbia - namely, that the the move. Job markets· are not part of the' churches th~mselves. church which will be closed was local, they are national., People In many cases inl.thisi country, • the product of the building boom are not rooted in a lifetime and especially in our local area, . of the eady sixties but the pop- locale as they have been in the churches were ~uilt back to' ulation incr~ase anticipated to past but will move across the back. Three and ev~n' four sustain the parish never com- .face of this land in search of churches,of the s~me d~nomina" pletely materialized. This factor better living. tion can be foun'd .in the area together with rising' costs were Churches of all denominations of a" few city bl11cks. !National responsible for the church's dif- must begin to realize this change churches now sit in' thb empti- ficulty The diocese make it in the mores of America. They ness' of their vacated I ghettos. quite clear that the church too must become mobile and Built to serve t~e tebporary closing had nothing to do with flexible if they are to meet the , needs of assimilation, t~ey now decreasing attendance or fall- needs of their· people and the fiild themselves in Imanyl circum- ing off of contributions. This is circumstances of modern living. h I f but one example of what many stances mete c ap~ s 0 ~ase. suburb churches are now con- We cannot sit in the shadows of Territorial parishes Iin the the "old parish" mentality. This city also find thertiselve~ suffer- fronting or will face in the very belongs to fragmented history. ing from poor planbing. Many of near future.

The official church must be the ancient and vbnerable parMobile People ever 'aware of the social changes The way of life in these and developments in the lives of ishes, once 'the crbwni~'g glory States has greatly modern men if they hope to of urban life, no~ sit: in the United rather faded light of I blight. changed over the past few years. keep even a few church doors Pac',h boundac'" tv, 'im,'n'd Poopl, ac, no' fixed and "'tion- open.

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THE ANCHORThurs., July 15, 1971

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One thing has been made clear by the partial publication of the McNamara Study on Vietnam. It is that the United States was drawn more and more steadily into the struggle by the irreparable weakness of the South Vietnamese government. The American people can be free the French for 40 years 'and was of one nightmare, at least- so much the acknowledged leaders of the resistance that in 1946 that they have had an Ad- the French negotiated with him ministration brutally plotting to establish its power and interests in a small defenseless country.

There is no trace of this kind pf irresponsible self-in/terest.

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ernment blundering from step to step into the fatal morass because the side it was trying to defend was too weak, and the side it was trying to restrain was too strong.

Policy Worked in Korea This is not however a dishonorable mistake. One can only repeat. Without the American military counterweight in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s-the so-called policy of containment-it is perfectly possible that the Russians might have been tempted into further strong-arm methods of the kind they applied in Prague in 1948 and repeated in 1968. Berlin was very tempting and they beseiged it in 1947-48. Only a large American-backed airlift persuaded the" Russians to retreat.

It was,' therefore, not illogical to apply the same policy in Asia when in 1950, the North Koreans openly attacked South Korea.

Again, the policy worked. South Korea, which had no desire to be run from Pyongyang, survived the onslaught.

So why should the same pol· icy not work in South Vietnam?

Was it not the same case-a Communist takeover of an unwilling neighbor backed by ex· ternal Russian a'nd Chinese aid?

Had not America the duty to see that the South Vietnamese were left secure in their right of self· determination?

Tragically, for America, the cases were not the same. In the first place, earlier colonial con· trol in Korea had been exercised by Japan whom America had just defeated. White and Black American troops could not possibly be supposed to be allies and successors of the old yellow conquerors. In Vietnam, it was. the French who were .giving up, very unwillingly, their colonial stakes. It was easy to see in their friends, the Americans, not deliverers but "more of the same."

This difficulty was compounded by a second. In Korea, the whole fight for liberation had been symbolized by the Southern leader, Synghman Rhee. In Vietnam, on the contrary, Ho Chi Minh had fought

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Unhappily, French settler interests were so strong that these talks' were broken off, and the playboy Emperor of Vietnam, Bao Dai, was sent back to Saigon as a French puppet.

Kept on Coming Saigon has never recovered from its weak and unrepresentative governments, which have seen to it that no fair local election ever took place. Meanwhile, in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh continued what for him was still a war of colonial liberation, first from the French, then from the Americans and, as Mr. McNamara himself remarks, in the report, nothing seemed to check the enthusiasm of the North Vietnamese for him and for his struggle.

However, many thousands were bombed or killed, they kept on coming. Thus the strength of the North and the weakness of the South sucked the honest but mistaken Americans further into the ·bog.

How, today, are they to withdraw with .minimum damage both to themselves and to the honorable cause of self-determination which they believed themselves to be upholding?

Simply to fix dates of withdrawal could end in a shambles like Dunkirk but without the dignity. Only one really relevant proposal has been put forward and that is the .resolution 'proposed in the Senate by Senator Adlai Stevenson IU, which so far has unfortunately not secured the support of more than 36 sen· ators. But it goes to the roots of the problem and suggested a way out.

Resp,onsible Exit . The resolution asks that. the Congress send out a Commission to South Vietnam before the forthcoming Presidential elections to make sure that the maximum number of South Vietnamese voters realize that America is not 'cort:Imitted to President Thieu and to continued war.

This demonstration could give the .voters the courage to vote for peace candidates like General Minh, who would head a government ready for orderly negotiations with Hanoi.

The rigged election laws at present mean that the Presidential elections will be a farce.

But a serious American Congressional. presence demonstrating America's commitment not to help fix the elections, might let genuine self - determination emerge. And, after 30 years and more of weary war, a great majority of South Vietnamese at least deserve the chance to vote for peace.

Such a vote ~ould ensure America a responsible exit.

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CATHOLIC BOOK AWARD: Father Harold A. Bue-' tow, author of "Of Singular Benefit-The Story of U. S. Catholic Education," accepts from James A. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Press Assocation, this year's National Catholic Book Award in the field df Education and History. NC Photo.

Successful Programs Promoter. Says Sacred Heart Devotion IOn the Rise l CINCINNATI (NC)-Bad news tional name and it may seem out is plentiful, Father Eugene Mur- of place among the commercial phy admits, but there is one im- entertainment programs,". he portant piece .of good news s~id, but the St. Louis headquarwhich he is ready to share with ters of. the program receives anyone who will listen. • about 100,000 requests a year "Devotion to the Sacred for copies of the talks.

Heart is on the rise," the white"What makes devotion to the haired, amiable Jesuit said here. Sacred Heart intrinsically so What's more, the Sacred Heart powerful," Father explained program he launched in 1939 is Murphy, "is the fact that it's alive and flourishing, reaching an expression of God's love for more than five million persons us and of the return of our love weekly through about 770 radio for Him." He pointed out that stations and 200 television sta- "all the Popes of our century tions on five continents. have cited devotion to the Father Murphy, who was in Sacred' Heart as an answer to Cincinnati to conduct a retreat, present problems." has been actively promoting the "Although, many of today's Apostleship of Prayer and devo- problems appear insoluble, we tion to the Sacred Heart for have to do all we can to serve more than three decades. all men," Father Murphy said.

The 15-minute and half-hour "But we' can't do so without Sacred Heart programs include some deep, driving motivation, the Apostleship's daily offering, such as love of the Sacred a talk by one of the program's Heart."

36 speakers ("all of the highest "Moreover, it would be pretty quality," said Father Murphy), hard for anyone to be sincerely "very reverent devoted to the Sacred Heart and music and prayer." not to be moved to the very limit "Our library of recorded reli- in serving the needs of his neigh· gious music must be. one of the bor," Father Murphy 1eclared. finest in the worl'd," he said, pointing out that it includes the work of the Little Singers of Volunteers to Aid Paris, the Vierma Boys Choir, Cholera Victims the Wagner Chorale, Waring's NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Dr. Pennsylvanians and "Cincinnati's Pierre Espenan, a local surgeon, excellent Bonaventura Choir." is giving up his vacation to go Expression of Love . to India and help treat East To the Denver-born Jesuit, who often has been told that Pakistani refugees who are suf"devotion" in an "old-fashioned" fering from a cholera epidemic.

Dr. Espenan said he would term, the steady progress of the program tells him something spend two weeks in India, workelse. "It has a distinctive decep- ing in areas where the disease is most serious.

Archbishop Philip Hannan of Ends Service New Orleans announced Dr. EsDAVENPORT (NC) - Msgr. penan's decision at a news con.

B. L. Barnes will end 32 years ference, and urged all Catholics of service with the Catholic in the New Orleans Archdiocese Messenger, Davenport diocesan to show their concern' for the newspaper, to become pastor of victims, "We must show them that. we St. Mary's Church in Williamsburg, Iowa. Msgr. Barnes, 66, are truly brothers," the. archbishop said of the refugees who will be relieved, effective Aug. 9, as pastor of Holy Family are said to be dying from cholera Church and as executive editor at the rate of more than 500 each day. of the Messenger.

The Annual Summer Festival takes place 'at Urban's Grove on July 17 and 18. The Attic Auction will be on July 17 at 10 A.M. Dancing Saturday and Sunday to Johnny Sowa's Band.

There will be Polish and American kitchens, refreshments, games, amusements, a clown and free balloons for the children. As usual free parking at the Fall River Shopping Center parking lot with free bus service to and from, the grounds from 12 noon to 10 P.M. on Sunday. Co-chairmen ·are Wil· ,liam Diskin, Richard Ernst and Dennis Cunningham.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Annual Lawn Party will be July 23, 24 and.25 on grounds directly across from the Church.

There will Portuguese and Americah food, nightly concerts, games, auctions, cake and doll sale, raffles' and grand prize.

Chairman Jack Cabral and grounds crew Jim ,Rebello, Leo Barboza and Joe .Costa' invite volunteers to report to the grounds. , \ OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVJER The Feast of Our Lady of the Angels will be held August 5, 6, 7 and 8.

The Holy Name. Society is sponsoring a trip to Boston next Sunday to see the Red Sox. Tickets are 'available from Holy Name members.

ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH The Annual Summer Bazaar sponsored by the ladies of the Guild takes place July 21. Theme this year is "Christmas in July" and will feature aprons, knitted articles, art work, plants and flowers, novelty items, homemade foods, and many Christmas gifts, Bazaar will be in the Upper Church Hall.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS The Parish Guild will hold a Country Store and Bake Shop this Saturday from 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. A Ham and Bean Supper will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 P.M. The event will be in the Parish Center behind the Church where there is ample parking.

There will be home-made foods and jellies, antiques and attic treasures,. aprons, knitted goods, hand craft, pewterware, jewelry, original paintings, stuffed toys and souvenirs.

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Prefers lntim,ate To D,epa,rtm,ent Nothing turns off my enthusiasm for -an ouW.t faster , than to see racks of identical garments. While it is very doubtful that you would run into someone else with the same thing I can still not work up any interest when such a probability exists. Also the " loveliest garment going loses fer on the price). For a moment all its 'sparkle and' allure I had to blink my eyes to make sure I hadn't wandered back into when it's' side by side with the first store by mistake; but no 10 others in the same identical design and fabric.

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that from all the advertisements and even from the design of the mall itself would lead you- to believe that here is really the place to find up-to-t:he minute fashions. While the stores there are. not really what one would call high fashion they are nevertheless three department stores which do cater to the shopper who wants attractive medium priced garments. Oddly enough these three stores must buy from the same central buying office in New York because I could have saved myself time the other · evening, when I was shopping at this mall, by visiting just one of them. A visit to the three of them indicated that there was not one iota, of difference in any of their- merchandise.

Same Merchandise .At the opening entrance to each one of tnese stores was a · revolving' rack of knit blaZers.

Priced at $18 (which' was very reasonable) they came in patriotic colors-red, white or navy blue. Now from air indications the blazer is going to be the "ford" in our future so when I saw the first rack I was very _ 'tempted to buy a couple at this price. Thank goodness I chose to look around .because no sooner did I e'nter the second large store when I bumped-smackin'to a similar rack of the selfsame blazers, priced also at '$18.

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Tells Siovakians Choose Com~unism or- Religion VIENNA (NC)-A Communist party official in the Slovakia region of Czechoslovakia decreed that only manual laborers and old people may retain both their party membership and their religious faith.

All others, particularly intellectuals,must choose between communism and religion.

Jann Papp, a 45-year-old district leader of the Slovak Communist party, was quoted by' Radio Bratislava as telling party workers that religious faith would be tolerated only for certain categories of members.

Papp was explaining the rul.es for new party membership. car,ds in C;zechoslovakia, where the · Communist party has been interviewing .all' membership cardholders.

it was the same merchandise just a different location.

There is no need to go into my feelings as I walked into the third store and my rack of blazers had· become triplets. This might be a bit funny if it were just this one item that they were standardizing bllt as· I looked around with a little more' perception I realized that garment after garment was just like the one in the. next ~:tore. It truly must save them a great deal of money on delivery service-one truck can service the three stores.

Personal Touch This similarity is' fine when your my pre-teener's age and it's very important that you don',t look any different from your friends but when you're older you like to feel that you've at' least developed a little individuality. That's one rea!;on why I enjoy the small intima,te shop where there's one 'or two of each style. The clothes may be exactly the same as those million or so on the department store rack but seeing them sd apart like good jewels give them some" thing special. .'

Many of my friends ohject to the personal touch of the small shop because they feel that· in many cases you can't, wally be objective about what YOll're trying - on especially whE~n you know and like the owner. I can understand the way that they. feel but recently I have discovered a delightful little shop, right in my neighborhood that carries some 'Iovely individual olltfits at reasonable prices The girl who runs it is friendly, but not so overpowering that you hate to go 'in. To me this is the perfect; way to shop.

Lutheran Leader' Asks Release of POW AUSTIN (NC) - A Lutheran leader has called upon the North Vietnamese to release a U.S. prisoner of war because of the recent death of his wi(e here.

U. Col. Roger Ingvalson, a Lutheran, has been a POW since 1968, and his wife's death late last month 'from an undi:>closed illness leaves their ll-year:old son an "orphan" u,nless 'his fa-., ther is released.

Dr. J.A.O. Preus, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, has cabled Ton Duc . Thang, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietm.m, re- . questing that he release Ing. valson "in view of the tragic 'death of his wife."

"His young son desperately. needs him," read the cable "Believe such action on your part ' would be warmly, received ' around. the world and do much to relieve tensions' surrounding" the war and concerns about the' treatment of POW's."

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BATON ROUGE (NC)-Two all-black schools in the Baton Rouge diocese will be merged with other parochial schools to eliminate racial segregation.

Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton' Rouge, who directed the merger, said the action is in "total conformity with Catholic moral principles on racial· justice." ·The merger will be effective next September.

All-black St. Augustine School in New Roads will be paired with Catholic. High of Point Coupes. The existing interparochial school board in New Roads will .govern the operation.

The diocesan pastoral council and the diocesan school board have recommended that allblack St. Francis Xavier School in· Baton Rouge be paired with St. Agnes school here and. a new interparochial school board be established to govern the operation.

"I am quite sensitive to the emotional overtones of the situation and of the feelings of the people concerned, and I have carefully studied reports and lis(ened attentively to everyon~ who wanted to be heard on this controversial issue," the bishop said. "I hl!-ve myself made more than one on-the-scene inspection of the facilities under discussion, and I have delayed approval on the recommendations of our advisory bodies until full hearings on these recommendations could be conducted."

New Publications WASHINGTON (NC) - New publications and filmstrips have been released by the United States Catholic Conference adult education department here.

The publications; "Reaching the Forgotten Adult" and "Financial . Aid," summarize the results of a recent adult education conference and outline federal funding programs open' to private education programs.

but not have the right to invoke a said Sister Murtha had not as priest's privilege hnd rbfuse to yet beEm recalled to appear beanswer, a . grand I jury! inquiry fore the grand jury. about a murder, aI. NewI - Jersey Sister Murtha spent a night , , appeals court rulea her~. . in Hudson County jail last May Dominican Sister Margaret for refusing to testify and faces . I Murtha, 32, wh~ works for 'jail again if she maintains siCatholic Charities in I Newark lence. .and lives at St. Boniface parish in Jersey City,l was jdirected by the. appellate divisioh of suInstall I , perior court to telli a gr~nd jury about a conversation she had I ' last February with a :17-yearold boy WhO. was Ijquestioned in a murder case.

I . Sidney Goldmann, the presiding judge of the ~ppellate END division whose 12tpage! opinion upheld a lower court order, ruled DAMPN~SS that th~ priest's p~ivileg~ to re- .main silent about infdrmation received in confesJion does not extend to nuns"1 ~ _~'=' .,.;:-:,,~~ When the court opinion was handed down July ~is~er Murtha was recuperapng from a gall bladder attack in 1St. Johersey City. seph's hospital in I . , ~' Judge Goldmann held that Sister Murtha wasj not',entitled to remain silent o?groLnds of conscience.

J I ''This case calls for Ia . balancing of interests! that: of the state in enforcing the power of • Take the moisture out of your home~ Avoid dlmlge to the walls, the furniture, the furnishings. Live In the. grand jury to Iinqu(re into comfort with an electric dehumidifier. the commission of a crime and that of Sister Margaret, who See Your Favorite Ap.pliance Dealer. to a claims that she re~ponct's I . call of conscience,i' th~ judge or said. "In the partioular CircumI ' I . stances of this case the. latter must give way to the former."

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Last week 1 promised excerpts from letters I've received regarding a column 1 wrote offering little sympathy fClr Women's Liberation. I suggested a counter-movemel1t, ,Mother's Lib, to give mothers the respect and credit they deserve. The letters ran 6 to 1 in favor of Mother's giving. Love is 'freedom; love Rights. (Seems to baek up 'Liberates,' for God is love."

"Unless mothers are given that old adage about the back that authority and respect "hand that rocks the cradle . . .") Here are the reactions of women, and men, from all over the countrv.

necessary for shaping the next generation, this world is heading for ruin!"

Important Career "We realize a good mother leeds special talents just as a 100d nurse, artist or policeman :Ioes. Not all women's talents lie in the direction of motherhood, yet society pretends to assume MARY they do. Women's Lib only calls for the right of each woman to pursue any occupation in which CARSON ,she is interested and to pursue it on equal terms with men."

"It seems as though there wouldn't be so many problems "I just loved your Mother's with children if more mothers Lib column." , felt the importance of their "No power tool can say,. 'career.' But it seems that quite 'Mommy, I iove you'." a few of them are very much "Please do not continue per- interested in acquiring more of petuating the belief that we in life's material good than being Women's Liberation (please, not conscientious mothers." .

Lib) are scornful of motherhood.

CINCINNATI (NC) - Father "I don't need to march and Individuals in" the movement yell for attention; I get it day George Twigg-Porter, hospital 'may feel this way but our feelin and day out from my ,fam- chaplain, retreat master, author ings are that a strict policy on ily." and convert, is addicted to fourmotherhood is an infringement on "We're expecting our ninth letter words. the right of a woman to her -and we're thrilled."

In Cincinnati for.a series of freedom:" "My prayers and best wishes retreats at the Men of Milford "One thing I'm afraid of with for Mother's Lib. Any room for Retreat House, the English-born these Women's Libbers. If the a 'Father' in it?"

Jesuit and former Hollywood men find out how great it is 'Christian Liberation' film actor ticked off some of his to be a woman, they're liable "You are apt to be having a favorite four-letter words: "Pain. to campaign for 'men's rights,' mob of angry male demonstra- Work. Pray." making us jointly responsible tors marching around your home They add up, he said, to the for 'bringing home the bacon,' in protest for not being invited most important four-letter word putting up storm windows, fixto join the Mother's Lib." of all, which is I-o-v-e, he said, ing leaky faucets, changing tires, "I think women have a great spelling out the letters. ,"Easy etc., etc." deal to offer both to our c,oun- . to say b4t not easy to do. You' try and our church. But I think have to look to the Cross to see 'Tears and Joys' we should put the emphasis on what love really means. It "Having SIX daughters and 'Christian Women's Liberation.' two sons,~ I thank God every There's a big difference. With' means love your enemies, for day for a wonderful husband Christ as our leader, there will one thing. Try that." and children. People are not be no limit on what we can acStationed in San Francisco, satisfied . . . always wanting complish. Women are going to where he serves as chaplain of more. I wish they could learn be taking a greater role in five emergency hospitals, Father to be happy with what they church and society. Let's do it Twigg-Porter (he played juvenile have." in a Christian manner. Let's roles in films under the name of "There are tears and joys, avoid the vulgarity that some Geordy MacKay when his mothneither of which I would give have given it. Onward, Chris- er was a character actress in the up. It is a privilege to be the tian Women!" movies of the 30's) also is rewife and mother and character Next week I'll share with you gional director of the Apostlebuilder for my family." some of the demands that our ship of Prayer.

"What better way can this counter-movement, Mother's Lib, He speaks about love on radio old world be shown just plain has attracted from mothers from and television often as one of LOVE than through mother- coast to coast. the Sacred Heart' Program hood." preachers, sponsored by Jesuits.

"There is no dedication in In a recent series during a the world so important to all as Women's Council Plans nine-day Sacred Heart retreat a mother with complete love Training Institutes Father Twigg-Porter spoke on . . . the love which flows from WASHINGTON (NC) - Team training institutes to help men Students Demonstrat'e and women interested in volun- Woman Opens Senate teer work to function more ef- Session With Prayer Anti-Poverty Interest fectively together will be sponWASHINGTON (NC) - The BROOKLYN (NC)-Local. of.soredby the National Council July 8 session of the U.S. Senficials of the U.S. Bishops' of Catholic Women. ate wa~ opened with a prayer Campaign for Human DevelopThirteen such institutes, billed offered by a woman who is a ment were wondering: Are young people interested in the as three-Clnd-.a-half day experi-, Presbyterian minister-the Rev. ences in creative, cooperative liv- Wilmina M. Rowland of Philmassive, anti-poverty effort?

They asked the question at ing and working, will take place adelphia.

The information office of the St. Angela Hall, an all-girl from August through路 November school here, and got an' over- in locations across the country.

United Presbyterian Church in The council designed the for- 'the U.S.A.' said she is the first whelming response-a threemat of the institutes with the woman invited to open a Senhour, multi-media program on help of Center for a Voluntary ate session with a prayer. The, poverty, hunger and human Society, an organization here Rev. Miss Rowland, who serves needs. which specializes in continuing the.. . United Presbyterian Board Seventy-five St. Angela students dramatized their, interest education for adults interested in of Christian Education, was inimproving their knowledge and vited to offer the prayer by the in the development campaign with art, music,' dance, poetry skills in the field of volunteer Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, Senaction. ate chaplain. ~nd film.

"Love and the Single Girl" (that was about the idea of vocation); on "The Professor and Love Life of a Jesuit" (an account of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius).

Although he is only a parttime retreat master, he conducts enough retreats throughout the country to be convinced that there is "an upward trend" in the retreat movement following some years of declining attendance.

Lauds Young People "People are beginning to appreciate Vatican II," he believes, and many retreat directors have learned to adapt to new times

Catholics Build Homes For India Squatters TIRUVALLA (NC) -;- Sixteen families due to be evicted from their squatter huts on publiclyowned land here will have new homes and on that land. AnCatholic Indian Jesuit a Belgian charitable group are responsible.

and new needs. "Some retreat masters memorized canned talks and failed to come 'up with a new idea in 20 years," he said, suggesting that they should be more "spontaneous" and more willing to "adapt."

At ,the same time, he has found, people still want to hear Scripture and the truths of faith.

"I'm more optimistic than ever," he said, "in view of the general upswing in spiritual matters and the kind of young people we have. . . ."

When he himself was one of the young people he was playing roles in such classic films as "David Copperfield," "Oliver Twist," and "Of Human Bondage." He thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister, but Catholic friendships steered him toward the Catholic Church and he entered it in 1936 at the age of 15. Four years later he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1953.

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Says .EnthusulSlr !ior Ecumenical Movement' H ds Diminished

GENEVA (NC)-The ecumenical movement "has slowed down considerably," according to a NAGERCOIL (NC)-Priests of Roman Catholic priest who has the Kottar diocese have set up been very a,ctlve in the movean organization here for the ment.

The priest, Jesuit Father "erad-icatioi1" of casteism" in the George Dunne from St. Louis, Church. Casteism in 'the Church-prevalent amo~g Catholics in Mo., general secretary of the T~mil Nadu~ a region in south- . joint committee on Society, Deeast India-is a continuation of velopment and Peace of the' Catholic Church and the World the Hindu .caste system.

Council' of Churches (WCC), , Catholics belonging to the low- _ told NC News: er castes staged a hu~ger strike "Following Vatican II and in Veilore in T}1ay to· protest the other Vatican documents on ecunomin;ltion by Pope Paul VI of menism, there was a great a member. of. a higher caste as splurge of enthusiasm for unity.' bfshop of Vellore.

But I think that in other circles The, new organization, called in Rome-and' I think :in some Unum Sint (That they may be there never was much enthusione), requires its members to asm-there is much les:; enthupreach' against casteism when- siasm now.

"That does not mean it is ever' the opportunity arises and to encourage inter-caste mar- totally dead."

Father Dunne said he conriages.

The founding priests said it is' siders his present job proof that evident iri .the diocese of Kottar . the Vatican is still basically supporting SODEPAX. that casteism hampers progress Vutican Approval among clergy and laity, creates In 1968, -the first year of its disunity and disturbs the peace. existence, Father Dunne was They said many conaemn cas- SODEPAX. A quite unique moteism verbally, but few practice ment," he said, "since it was the what they -say. first time since the 'Reformation Membership in the organiza- over 400 years ago that the tion is open to any' priest of Catholic Church had joined the (he diocese who makes a promise Protestant and the Orthodox."

The first mandate for three to campaign against casteism·. years and money, $20,0.00, came from' the Pontifical Commission End Course' on Justice and Peace and was NEW ORLEANS (NC)-More . matched by the WCC· and a than 40 diocesan communica- Ford Foundation grant of· .Jions personnel became familiar $30,000.

"We are certain it will be con-. . with the latest media trends, equipment, and te.chniques dur- tinued for another three years, ing a three-week course at the and are awaiting official word National Institute for Religious from Rome on it," Father Dunne Communications at Loyola Uni- said. "We have done our plan- . ning for the next three years versity.

Catholic. Hospital Association.

To Ai,d iH·ealth '-Care Facilities ATLANTIC CITY (NC) - Patients in the nation's Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and related .health care facilities eventually stand to get more for their money as a result of a new plan outlined here.

The plan, called Catholic Health Services Leadership Pro~ gram, was launched at the 56th annual 'meeting of The Catholic Hospital Association. It is intended to maximize the strengths and resources of the religious congregations that run Catholic hospitals across the country so that, in turn, they can provide higher quality and more efficient care to the sick without large outlays of additional cash.

As CHA executive director Mercy Sister Mary Maurita described the new program, it will function somewhat as a guidance counselor to any of CHA's nearly 900 health care facility members seeking its advice.

A survey among CHA members revealed that reaction to the leadership program "was overwhelmingly positive with only eight of 425 respondents indicating that it was not necessary," Sister Maurita. said. Over 75 per cent, she added said such a program was impertive or badly needed.

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was reinforced here at the CHA convention when delegates approved without.a ripple of dissent a substantial CHA dues increase intended in part to help support the new plan.

Improve Services Much of the leadership pro-' gram remains to be outlined be-" fore its implementation in late Fall, said Sister: Maurita, who works at CHA headquarters in' St. Louis. As of now, she explained, one of CHA's primary' objectives in administerirlg the' program will be to identify criteria for excellence in all a.spects of health care which can be applied on a tailormade ba sis to specific institutions.

In some cases, she said, CHA advice may lead to a rel.igious congregati9n's phasing out of health care service complet,~ly. In others, it may mean merg€'r, but in any event CHA will stress the need for greater cooperation than ever before between religious communities, dioces,~s offering health care services and private and public hospitals in local areas.

The broad aim, of the Il~ader· ship program is to assist health care management and r,~lated personnel update and improve its services, both medically' and morally, to the consumer.

Describes Plight Of Refugees NEW YORK (NC)-Six million.

East Pakistani refugees, driven from their counrty by last winter's severe floods and cyclones, spend their days "wasted, wajt· ing and suffering," a CathoUc Relief ~ervices official said here.

ica, Father Dunne said. "We want to arouse the vast network of church-controlled ·mass media . to the problems we study. We don't want to abandon Asia or Latin America, but we don't want to dissipate our efforts."

Msgr. Joseph Harnett, from the CRS Rome office, was describing what he had witnessed during a recent visit to the India-Pakistan border area where the refugees are huddled, largely without shelter from steady monsoon rains.

He said the way to Christian unity is to prompt the churches to cooperate in dealing with social problems.

"Here at WCC (his office is in the- WCC headquarters) we are of different faiths,'~ he said.

"But we get to know each other and discuss theological dif(erences too. We find that we 'were not as inseparable as we I1ad been led to think. We are experiencing ourselves a wonderful unity."

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NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice will hold its 1971 convention at Loyola Uni: versity here from August 18 through 22.

Sponso~ed by Catholic bishops in Southern United Stat.es, the convention will focus on the role of "The Church in the City of Tomorrow."

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He said the V~tican'l has always approved ofI SODEPAX's .

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He was one of several speakers at a recent press conference here giving the details of a na'tional drive sponsored by Americans for Children's Relief. ACR is a national organization which . also coordinated relief efforts for' victims of the Nigerian.

Biafran civil war.

Funds raised through ACR's national drive will be channeled . to voluntary agencies working in India through an ecumenical effort headed by CRS and Church World Service, its Protestant. counterpart.

Since it was founded in 1961, the conference has worked with civil rights leaders to promote interracial justice through coordinate programs for institutional change· within the Church.

He said the O~ganization is 'primarily educational an1d leaves those in various heas i to deal' with problems aftet international and national corlferences are held on. specific sti~jectsi For the' next I three years S0DEPAX will concentrate on Africa, Europe andl North Amer.

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Professors See Frei Returning To Presidency NOTRE DAME (NC) - Presiident Eduardo Frei of Chile, a Christian Democrat, could again head that country if the present socialist government preserves its electoral system, two political scientists said here.

"There seems little doubt that Frei's chances to win the presidential election in !976 are great," wrote Drs. Michael J. Francis and Hernan Vera-Godoy in "The Review of Politics," published quarterly by Notre Dame University.

Both writers, co-authors of the book "Chile: Christian Democracy to Marxism," teach at Notre Dame.

The professors said they were surprised that' Chileans rejected Frei's party in the last general election after his administration claimed it was a model for reform in Latin America.

The professors cited as the administration's achievements: Chilean co-ownership with American corporations of copper mines, and progress in education, housing and agriculture, and a land reform benefiting 28,000 families without decreasing the over all agricultural production.

Frei was elected in the 1964 elections by 56 per cent of the vote. Chilean law prevents a president succeeding himself.

But Frei would be an eligible candidate in 1976._ Last October a socialist coalition headed by Salvador Allende came to power after wirining 36.3 per cent of the vote. The rest of the electorate was divided between rightists, moderates and other leftists. , Francis and Vera-Godoy speculated that the Allende government may take one of three courses: a military coup to retain power, totalitarianism, or continued reliance - on the democratic process.

The professors' assertion that Frei could win in 1976 comes from their belief that Allende will most likely follow the democratic process.

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The publication is intended to . "fill a void that now exists in making civic, government, labor, business, academic, neighborhood, religious, media and other organizations aware of the many steps that are being taken on the local and national level to meet the critical problems of particular groups in our pluralistic society," said Irving M. Levine in announcing the inauguration of the report.

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Football Star Calvin Hill Talks, on Li'fe SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-During the football season, 212pound Calvin Hill catches passes and lunges his way past foes on the gridiron green.

But off season, the 24-year-old black player for the champion Dallas Cowboys attends theological school and raps with underprivileged youngsters in Dallas, New York and here.

With the financial backing and good wishes of a soft drink company, Hill jets around the country trying to convince kids-especially minority children - to accept challenges and strive for goals.

"I tell them there isn't that much difference between the people who succeed and the people who' don't," said Hill, the 1969 Rookie of the Year in the National Football League. "The main difference is the people who do succeed manage to 'seize the time,' as Bobby Seale put it."

He doesn't lecture to his young fans.

"I'm just not a jock who's coming here to tell you to study hard," Hill tells them. Instead, he raps with groups of young-

sters at schools, recreation centers and sports fields. He talks about drugs, jobs, being black, or life in general: 0\ , But the young boys usually ask about football first. Being a famous football player helps.

The tough-driving halfback with the warm smile and tight handshake was nicknamed "Calvin Cool" by his Dallas teammates.

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barrier in professional sports, Hill grew up in a black neighborhood in East Baltimore.

It was in high school that Hill first exploded as a sports star.

Receiving a scholarship, Hill attended a private, predominantly white school in Neyv York City.

He batted 0400 in baseball, averaged 26 points per game in basketball and, in his senior year, was named an All-America schoolboy quarterback.

Born in 1947, the same year Jackie Robinson broke the color

That was just the beginning.

He went on to Yale also on a scholarship, played football, was graduated with a B.A. in history and quickly picked by the Dallas Cowboys in the first draft round.

He was 20 year; old when the Cowboys first chose him-not even old enough to vote., Since graduation from Yale he has been continuing his education at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas:

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NEW YORK (NC) - Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, writer and pioneer in the ecumenical movement, has been appointed associate professor of religious studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

As a reporter, Rabbi Gilbert's articles on the" Vatican Council won him the,Catholic Press Association Award for 1961. His books include "A Jew in Christian America" and "The Vatican Council and the Jews."

He comes to Marymount from the Jewish Reconstructionist Time Foundation, where he was asThe enemy is glad to make sistant to the president. Rabbi you lose time when he cannot Gilbert taught part-time at make you lose eternity. ' Marymount for four years be-St. Francis de Sal~s . fqre his full-time appointment.

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LONDON (NC)-"-A recent British Broadcasting Corporation program showing small Church of England congregations has been attacked by two Anglican bishops.

Anglican Bishop Robert Stopford of London, said: "Just as you can prove almost anything by statistics, so in television and radio you can create almost any impression by the material you select. This program was slanted in such a way as to convey the Church of England as a whole."

The program must have indicated to many viewers that the Church is dead or dying, Bishop Stopford said in a sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral.

"There are indeed congregations as small as were portrayed but there are many churches in this diocese, as in others, where there are large numbers of communicants on an ordinary Sunday morning and many congregations which have a flourishing life of worship and service."

He said he believes people will soon turn away from the boredom of permissive society and that the second half of this century may be an age of religion.

Untypical of Country The program was also strongly criticized' by the Bishop Gerald Ellison of Chester for what he called its lack of objectivity and "wholly defeatist and condemnatory" attitude.

Bishop Ellison, who appeared briefly in the program, said it seemed as if its planners had decided that, whatever the evidence to the contrary, the Church is ineffective. ludicrous, effete, and moribund. "So they set about gathering material to this end."

He added that the comments and illustrations ih the program were drawn aimost wholly from the Southwark diocese in South London, where, he said, special problems make it untypical of the country as whole.

Entitled to Whole Truth After being shown a church where the curate rOan a youth club, television viewers were told it was exceptional and that "half a mile down the road is something much m.ore typical: Christ Church, Brixton-grUbby, mournful, decaying, a fitting home for lost causes."

The program's reporting team, said Bishop Ellison, visited none of the flourishing, vogorous 'parishes in Southwark or elsewhere.

"It mentioned none of the farreaching reforms in Church life," he said.

The program has caused anger and distress, the bishop said, IlQt because it was telling a few home truths but because it was not telling the whole truth. "And that is something to which we are all entitled."

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The editors of Ne'wsweek are realistic enough to recognize that' this primitive impulse to settle political accounts, and to do so rather self-righteously, is almost inevitable. Nevertheless they are seriously concerned about' the possibility of its being' carried too far and eventually getting out of hand. '~The impulse to judgment is 'strong," they conclude, "as the furor over the Pentagon papers has made plain. Yet·unless that impulse is tempered by reason, the time of accounting' may prove a tragic aftermath to a ,- tragic. war.'" ' The editors of Newsweek suggest, that one way of tempering "by reason" this potentially destructive "impulse to judgment" is to try, to force ourselves to realize' that the principal players in the Vietnam drama were -at least according to their own lights-honest ' and' conscientious public servants trying to do their job as' well as they could.

But if they were honest men, the editors point out, "they were limited men as well. They served the orthodoxies of their era and waged their war ac,cordingly. Their failure was that while they 'did a great deal of soul-searching, they did not finally question its orthodoxies."

Pragmatic--Questions Newsweek's sensitive and rather magnanimous approach to this highly volatile controversy' strikes me as being more balanced than' that of James Reston, for example. Mr. Reston-who, 'as a senior editor, reportedly' had a lot to do with the New York Times' historic and, from my point of view, highly commendable decision to break the story of the Pentagon papers-normally, writes as a man whose "impulse to judg-ment" is under the tight control of reason. In this case, however, he has stepped out of character, at least momentarily.

In his New York Times column of June 13, he says, for example, that ','One of the' many extraordinary things in this collection (the Pentagon papers) is how seldom anybody in"the Kennedy or Johnson Administra-

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virtaully intoxic~ted by the excitement of the McCarthy witch hunt,' they wentl on ~ veritable rampage looking, for scapegoats and found them fn the' person of such' distinguis~ed prtriots as the late Gener~l George Marshall, for examJ:/le.

We have pai9 a n~avy price for the oversimpli.fied moralistic fervor of that ';nightmare decade." HistorYl1 maYI well rec~' ord tbat part of that price was our tragic involvement in Vietnam, .

Be that as it ay, e can ill tegrity, 'really had no choice I afford the luxuliy of indulging but to take issue with Mr. Reston's sweeping and highly mor- (this time at ..,th. instj:igation of alistic indictment of' the Ken- so-called radicals orl progresnedy-Johnson "pragma'jsts." In sives) in anothet- such, orgy of by ~ur his op-ed essay, "Morality and, recrimination tr~,ggered I the War," published in the June sense of disillusionment over the 22 issue of the New Yo::k Times, war in Vietnam, Rostow points out-and properWe may well be readed in IY'so-that Mr. Reston has dis- that direction, ljowev¢r, unless torted the issue by drawing a the point that ~enneth Thompvastly oversimplified distinc- son, among othE;rs, has repeattion between "morality" on the edly made abou~ the ;ambiguity one hand and "pragmatism" on of political mo lality I'is taken the other. to heart by the people' responMr. Rostow's point is that sible for mOldin~ p ubl1c opinion there are, indeed, a number of during this tro~bled [period in . our national his~ory. very serIOUS moral issues inCompromise, [Ad]'ustment I ' volved in the pursuit 0:1 ,the nationaI interest-our own or any"If the liberal rram,Hist," Mr. Thompson, a distingu~ished poone else's-but that l:hey are Iitical scientist, Iwrites in the not simple issues by any means. April issue of Ndtre Dame's ReI ' He himself, he says-Mr. Res•ton to' the contrary notwith- view of Politics, "must forever standing-:-has earnestly wrestled be on guard against, the ilIuwith these issues over a long sion that politics fan be divorced period of time and is, still .. from moral purposes, Ithe moralist needs to know that like I wrestling with them. ancient churchm~n, once havHe lists five such issues, by way of example, and, in the' ing crosed the ine separating ethics from politi6s, he I,is on new I course, of analyzing them, tries ground. to show that there is no easy "moral" solution to any of '"It is a realrrt of hmbiguity them. ~nd complexity, I wh~re compromise and aajustment for Sincere Public Servants It seems to me that Mr. Rostow goods ends, not thei,final triumph of justice, are often the has the better of the a.rgument best practical outcome! It is inwith Mr. Reston. This is not frequently a rea1lm ' of yes or ,to suggest that he is right about no, victory or def~at,11 my side. the war in Vietnam and that Mr. right and all else I wron,g, In our Reston and the New York Times day the impatient radical must are wrong. Quite the <:ontrary, grasp t h'IS In . h,lIS approac I h to in fact. 'Nor is it to suggest that botn national andI international I bl I" Rostow and the other f:ennedy. Johnson "pragmatist~," are pro ems." , without fault and ,should not ' That's an unpopular! thing to say at the preseht tirrte, espebe held accountable for their -:cially in the IigJ~ of 'what we stewardship as the architects of ha~e learned thu~ far 'from the' and apologists for our Vietnam p,e.nt,agon papers I Neyertheless policy. ' 1 it needed to be said. At the very That's not the point at all. l¢ast it can serv~ to remind us The point is that, unles:; we, as th,at avoiding a r~petitibn of the a nation, are willing to give tr,agic mistakes of the ~ast decthese men credit for bei.ng hon- ade' is the real [lesson ,to be est and sincere public servants learned from the Pentagon -men who did, .in facl:, strug- papers and' tha~ usiI~g 'these gle, however unsuccessfully, papers simply a~ an I occasion with the great moral i:;sues in or an excuse fo~ settling pothe field of foreign policy..

I' there is a real possibility that htlcal accounts or for selfrighteously separa1ting tho e moral our primitive "impulse to judgh ment" will lead us down the seep from the a'!l0rall goats or pragmatists would be a serious blind alley of self-rightEOUS po- mistake and onle w~ich, as. litical recrimination.

Newsweek has Ipointed out, The temptation to give in to could result in tragi6 conseI the vice of sanctimonious self- quences. righteousness in the field of political morality, especially' in 'I~ '..II the area of foreign policy, is ecelves waru , 'I nothing new in American hisSYRACUSE NC)~Mariantory. Unfortunately our record ist Brother Joseph DaVis, execas a peopie in resisting jt hasn't utive director of the National Ofbeen very creditable. fice ,fot Black Catholics and Orgy of Recrimination former vice-presi~ent: of the l\iIany Americans gave into it Black Caucus, ha~ received the ,with a terrible vengeance after Brother's Newsletter Alward in the so-called "loss" of China recognition of hisl contributions following World War n. Com- to the Catholic Church.! He was pletely ignoring the complexities 'specifically cited for 'hi~efforis I ' of internationalrelatiolls, and as head of the NOBC. tions ever seems to have questioned the moral basis of the American war effort."

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Vocations Decreas,e British Convents Facing Problem Of Staying Open LONDON (NCr-Where have all the young nuns gone?

That was the title of a recent conference at Wood Hall Pas~' toral Center, Yorkshire. It highlighted a problem that convents throughout Britain share with others in Europe( how to stay open in the face of an alarming decrease in the number of novices.

"The decline in the numbe~ of vocations added to those who have left Religious orders gives rise to anxiety," was the cautious comment of Msgr. Michael Buckley, who organized the conference.

"The whole structure of Religious life must be reappraised." he said. "We must get rid of the

negative aspects like the lack of trust between nuns, and encourage the positive ones."

The greatest reduction has been in girls prepared to see fulfillment of their religious vocation in teaching, There is no shortage of re~' cruits for missionary 'and social work.

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NEW YORK (NC)-A healthy society means better business, said Franklin D. Roosevelt as he kicked off his "New Deal" in 1932.

Today, 200 business and university presidents are saying the same thing.

In a 74-page statement entitled "The Social Responsibilities of Business Corporations," the reasearch and policy department of the Committee for Economic Development said: "There is broad recognition today that corporate self-interest is inexorably involved in the well-being of the society of which business is an integral part, and from which it draws the basic requirements needed for it to function at all,.--capital, labor, customers. And it has become clear that the essential resources and goodwill of society . . . must be worked for and developed."

The CED describes itself as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan and non-political" research and educational organization. Its members commission studies and recommend policies designed to "promote stable' economic growth with rising living standards and increasing opportunities for all."

Serve Business Interests The study leading up to this statement was osiginally undertaken in 1966 to define the business community's economic objectives. But during the next two years of increasing social turmoil, there occurred what the statement called a "shift 'in the subcommittee's main interest" from straight business' objectives to a combination of business and social objectives.

The statement listed pollution, job training and minority employment as social problems of immediate interest to business.

The statement also listed specific reasons why solving social problems now also serves business interests: A company is responsible to its stockholders, and today those stockholders "have become so sizable and diversified ... that they actually constitllte a microcosm of the entire society."

Help Disadvantaged "It is obviously in' the interest of business to enlarge its markets to improve its work force by helping disadvantaged people to develop and employ their economic potentia!."

The public is putting pressure on business and the gov-

Protestant to Head Catholic College .

NEW HAVEN (NC) Dr. Francis H. Horn, 62, a Protestant, will take office Aug. 1 a<> president of 650-student AIbertus Magnus Coliege for women staffed by the Dominican Sisters here.

Dr. Horn, a native of Toledo, Ohio; is a Congregationalist.

He is president of the New York State Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities and former president of the University of Rhode Island.

Albertus Magnus College was founded in 1925 by' Dominican nuns headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Horn will succeed Sister Marie L0uise' as president.

ernment. "There is now a pervasive feeling in the country that the social order somehow has gotten out of balance, and that greater affluence amid a deteriorating envirom:nent and community life does not make much sense," If businesses don't volunteer help now, the government may force the issue later. "Experience with governmental and social constraints' indicates that the corporation's self-interest is best served by (taking) needed action ahead of a confrontation."

There may be immediate profits in running social programs if the government can be convinced to continue "privatizing the public sector"turning over existing social programs to business-with direct cash subsidies and cash incentives written into government contrl,l.cts. ' Increase Contributions Completely open scrutiny and regulation by the public and the legislature, the statement said, are needed, to "minimize the risk of a social-industri,,1 couple developing along lines of the so-called militaryindustrial complex."

But corporations can start getting more deeply involved in social problems without government backing,' the statement pointed out. Among' the ways suggested: Increase contributions to charitable and eduactional institutions, which now amount to less than 1 percent of total corporatepre.-tax income..

Form more 'cooperative, multiple-business programs, which may solve an area's social problem while minimizing "competitive cost disadvantages," Encourage employees and managers to apply their skills to social as well as business matters. This should be "widely and explicitly recognized as a normal, rather than extracurricular, part of managerial responsibilities. "

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ST. GEORGE, NORTH WESTPORT The Women's Guild will hold a Lobster Supper on Saturday evening, July 31 at 6 o'clock in St. George's School. Adult tickets are $3.50 and children's tickets are $2.

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Oppose Marriage For Priests

WOMAN LECTOR: Mrs. Pat Kiely, a newscaster and member of St. Bede's Church near Pittsburgh, exercises role as lector during _Mass. NC Photo.

TRICHUR (NC) - Bishop Joseph Kundukulam of Trichur here in India claimed that none of the 250 priests of his diocese is in favor of priests' being allowed to marry.

He made his claim in' a comment on an unofficial survey of about 1,000 ,priests in Kerala state in which 65 per cent favored optional celibacy.

Bishop Kundukulam also said that he has learned that the number of those in favor of optional celibacy was exaggerated.

Bishap Arattukulam told his fellow bishops that the findings represent the views of some priests who consistently disobey regulations.

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Church Example Of Cooperation NYBORG (NC) - European churches should set an example of "coexistence, mutual ~elation­ ships and cooperation," an East German churchman told the 380 delegates at a meeting of the Conference of European Churches held here in Denmark.

In his keynote address, "Servants of God, Servants of Men," Lutheran Bishop Werner Krusche of Magdeburg, in East Germany, set the theme for the meeting of Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Old Catholic Church delegates from throughout Europe.

Every East European country except Albania was represented at the meeting.

Although the Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the conference, it was represented , by five delegates.

Stressing that. relations between Catholics and the member churches of the CEC have improved considerably in recent years, the meeting agreed that both have been led "to a deeper awareness of their common responsibilities in the service of, God and men."

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.As write this I am just about finishing up 'a week's vacation in which I had intended to get many of the things done that _seem to creep up on me all Winter. There was some small painting to be done, a .few odds ,md ends and a general run at the garden. Per usual I have accom-, Grounds (where Paul Revere aI1d Hancock are buriEd, Fanuiel plished none of the things I John Hall and Paul Revere's house). had, planned. I suppose this The 90-degree heat may have

is as it should be. Our Amer- cooled my ardor a bi!: and the ican, penchant for work can be fact that we were accompanied pushed to extremes. by four~arl1'\, thirsty and hunAfter all, what is a vacation for gry youngsters perhaps .. colif not to remove us fro.m the ored my· enthusiasm but both. grind and routine of work. How- Joe and I felt that Boston could ever, I' have' found it' sympto- " have done. a better' job in p'rematic of most of us middle-aged senting . these very important' people that we think very highly spots. of work and measure our accomNowhere did we ccme upon' plishments by the amount of any guides who conv,~yed any work we do, and not by the en- sense of :the history to be found joyment we 'have. here; most of the,' people . who This desire lor work and love were working in the' buildings of accomplishment seems to me appeared to be there to' either to be th'~ major difference be- sell· picture po'stcards or to make tween generations. If a genera- sure that the childn:ndidn't tion gap does exist for me it is touch anything and at the end of most evident in this area. i. I find the Trail I really felt like writthat in talking to young people ing, whoever is in charge, a let·· that I· differ very little' from ter and t~lling them to visit them in their political goa'ls, in Plymouth Plantation and see their de'sire to make the estab- ,how history is really made to lishment responsive to the "live" for youngsters. people etc., 'but I do find a major Restaurant Highpoint gulf in standards of work and Despite our disappoiLtment in accomplishment. the historical Trail, we had a . .

I It is, not enough for my gen- delightful day because Paul ReFATIMA: Boston's Archeration to be philanthropic and vere's. house is located in. the '1 .

I bishop Humberto Medeiros altruistic; we m'ust get some- Italian section of Boston, one of thing' done.. I would agree with the most delightful plac,~s I have will lead Portuguese, Pilgrimthe' young that too often what ever visited or revisited. age on Sunday', JU~y 25, to. we set out to do is narrow and The people here are friendly, Xa~eria~ Fatp.ers I Fatima selfish, but nevertheless, we are the shops delightful and 'the willing to d~ 'what we feel is our sidewalk open-air markets a Shnne In HollIston.' Archcon"Bag." ,sight no tourist, or native New. bishop Medeirbs' Automobile Factor Englander for that matter, duct 3 P.M. se1rvice'.

It seems to me that the young should miss. , people I meet are extremely lazy.

By the time we reached this My wife and I were at a theatre area the children were :famished I :' recently. and were massed in the and we found a large,',:;ool and lobby waiting for the show to , excellent Italian' restaurant that open, and. we found, ou'rselves at that point was "just what the WASHINGTONl (NC)L....Jude P. surrounded by a very young doctor ordered.'"

Dougherty, dean .of the philoscro~d, most' Iof whom were "Oh, doesn't this place smell <?phy school at Catl10li~ Univerdressed' in . casual summer good," said 'my niece Linda. Anp sity, is the new I editor of the clothes. . it really did smell scrumptious. "Review of Metaghysics," which . We were both amazed at the When a waiter passed us with has begun publi'catiorl at the size' of the boys and girls, not the biggest pizza I have ever, university h~re. I ·1 in height so much. as in their ever seen the children's eyes Dougherty succeeds ,as editor heaviness and flabbiness: We . were like saucers. Gratefully Prof. Richard Berbsteid of Havboth .. conjectured that the big- the food tasted as good as it erford College inj Penrysylvania. gest factor in what we were looked and needless to say this Bernstein had m~ved the publiseeing was the automobile. Lack restaurant turned out to be the cation of the philpsophy journal of exercise due to the availabil- highpoint of the trip for the from Yale in 1966 when he acity of the convenient car has left younger set. cepted an appointtnent at Haver- . many of our young people flabby This is a very tasty chicken ford.

I at' a time when they should be dish that can be prepared in From the journal's founding in physically at their best. 'your ele~tric, fry pan without· 1947 by Paul Weis~, then at Yale I ' , TJ:1is question of laziness both· heating your kitchen up with University and now at Catholic ers me because I see it on every oven-cooking. .

University, the RJview Ihas proside. If there has been on~ outChicken a L'Orange vided an open for~m for diverse standing characteristic of the I chicken, cut up for frying , and not alwaysfa~hion4ble philAmerican people it has been our 1 teaspoon' ground gi::lger osophiCal inquiry. I ~ desire to work and accomplish. 2 Y2 teaspoons salt Do~gherty, wn10 hfs been One wonders how many of the 1 cup flour '. dean o~ philosop~y since. 1967, young" people leaving their.

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Once a Cuban citizen anever, that the airlift has become to\ .leave an aid program for the Fidel nounces . the intention .

Castro government. The daily Cuba, he or she must give up supported the proposal of Sen. ,their job, property and other Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) that rights and work in the sugar funds for the airlift be cut off. fields or any other government assignment.

(Ellender, chairman of-- the State government officials Senate Appropriations Commitand the legislature in Florida tee, withdrew his proposal June have voiced support for the con29-thereby assuring that the refugee flights would continue tinuing of the airlift.

Howard H. Palmatier, direcat least for a while. The senator said he would reintroduce his tor of the U. S. Program for proposal in August, saying he Cuban Refugees, told NC News upon returning from Washington still wanted to see the flights that "this experience has shown ended because severe unemploy" ment in the United States meant how many leaders in public and private life are ready to come 'to the nation could no longer absorb 3,600 arriving Cubans each the help of human suffering everywhere." month.)

Palmatier confided that he Archbishop Carroll told Diario found support for the airlift Las Americas: among most members of Congress in Washington. He added: . 'Blessing for U. So' "One of the more quiet yet "The United States cannot fail the thousands of Cubans whom effective.works has been done by it solemnly promised one day to Catholic groups. Many bishops welcome' here. These Cubans be- with large Cuban· communities in lieved in this promise and ac- their dioceses mobilized contacts, cepted the offer. By doing so,' to insure the continuation of the they were marked as disloyal by' airlift." the (Castro) regime, which we know has no consideration for Fore Four those who refuse to show total.

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - Fred submission."

W. Fries, managing editor of The The archbishop, a member of Criterion, Indianapolis archdiocethe U. S. Catholic Conference's san newspaper, posted his fourth international affairs committee, life-time hole-in-one in the ansaid he· has acted on several oc- nual CYO golf tournament here. . casions 'to forestall efforts at The ace, on the 120-yard eighth endi.ng the airlift. hole, helped the veteran editor "The Cuban exiles have writ- annex the adult division trophy. ten, a worthy history in this country of hard work, respect for the law, creative influence and cultural contributions," he CHAS. F. said. "In many ways, their coming here has been a blessing for the United States." .

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tHE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 15, 1971

Cites Vi'etnamese Children's Plight WASHINGTON (NC)-The De-

We stopped in a small out-of-the-way church not partment of Defense reports long ago and received Communion old-style, kneeling at there are about 5,400 children in the altar. My nine-year-old stared stupified. She didn't Vietnam who may have been know what to do and I had to guide her to the altar and fathered by American servicemen. practically bend her knees. ¡Such children are not recogWhen all' the girls in class We hardly reached the car invoked Mary in a special no- nized as citizens by either the before she said, "Boy, what vena, begging to be chosen May U. S. government or the Vieta wierd way to go to Com- Queen every Spring? namese, but more than being

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Sooooo, we had to tell her what it was like in the old days. We told the kids about kneeling by the altar rail for Communion and some of the inherent danger, like the corner squeeze. Somebody always got it when both ends of the rail started filling at the same time.

Then we mentioned the time Grandma got caught in the middle of the cut-off line between priests. The eastbound priest stopped right before he reached her every time and the westbound priest did likewise.

After being passed up the third time, she started to laugh and that brought quick action.

Good Theology Our kids soon tired of our ecclesiastical nostalgia and fell to fighting or some other relevant activity while we continued to recall more of our childhood church. Here are some of our "Remember Whens?"

Remember when staying up for midnight Mass was a sign of a religious coming of ag~ And when the oyster stew earlier was practically a part of the Christmas Eve liturgy?

Wh'en "Because Father says so "was perfectly good, theology?

When sleeveless dresses were considered impure?

Refuse to Accept Draft Exemptions ST. LOUIS (NC) - Twenty, seven Jesuit seminarians at St. Louis' University school of divinity have announced they will no longer accept their exemptions as seminarians from the draft.

They also announced that they would neither carry their draft cards as required by law nor cooperate with the Selective Service System, "which is the machinery of international murder."

The 27 Jesuit scholastics represent about a third of the Jesuit seminarians studying at the 'divinity schools. !\. group of 11 of the signers sent their draft cards with the peace statement to Father Robert Drinan, S.J., U.S. representative from Massachusetts.

Father Drinan, who was elected in November on an anti-war platform, refused to comment on the statement or say whether he had received the draft cards.

When Holy Saturday Noon was the most popular feastday of the Church year?

When you didn't stop to say a prayer because you didn't have a hankie fQr your head?

When everyone was satisfied with his kids' catechism?

When one of the highlights of the solemn high Mass was the possibility that some altar boy might faint?

When more priests were ordained than left each Spring?

When stomach-growling in the confession line practically constituted a venial sin?

When blessing of the throats was better than penicillin?

children "without a country" they face lives of discrimination as a 'result of their mixed blood and illegitimacy, according to Sen. Frank E. Moss (D-Utah).

The senator said that because he knows that in Vietnam illegitimate children of mixed bloodespecially if they are part Negro -are considered outcasts facing "disgrace and ostracism which is insurmountable," ,he has introduced a bill to help them.

Sen. Moss has appealed to Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for early hearings on his legislation which would bring U.S. soldiers' illegitimate children to the United States.

In announcing his bill, which as yet bears no price tag, Sen. Moss stressed that he has no intention of taking any child from a Vietnamese mother who wants to keep her family together.

He said, however, that such children "are the result of our involvement in the affairs of Vietnam and therefore we owe them a great deal. They are half American, and if not accepted and wanted in Vietnam, then we should give them the opportunity to receive a good life here."

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Social Action When if a man wasn't sitting in his pew, he. was sick? . \ When everybody's annual donation was printed and distributed for all his p~w-mates to read?

When, if the organist played "Here Comes the Bride," it wasn't a Catholic wedding?

When you didn't brush your teeth before Mass for fear of 'swallowing something?

When you lit' holy candles during an electrical storm?

When, if you left Mass early, Monsignor turned from the altar and asked where you wer~ going?

When social action meant a bake sale?

When we didn't dare say to our parents, "I don't wanta go to church?"

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Mass in Cathedral Marks Anniversary WASHINGTON (NC)-Ambassadors and charges d'affairs from about 30 nations attended a Mass arranged by Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle of Washington in St. Matthew Cathedral to honor Pope Paul's 8th anniversary of coronation.

Secretary of Transportation John Volpe was the lector. Former Chjef Justice Earl Warren was among prominent guests who sat with the congregation that filled the cathedral.

Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, apostolic delegate in the United States, was principal concelebrant. In a brief message after the Mass, the archbishop praised Pope Paul's concern with spiritual values, the Gospel, and the dignity and rights of the underprivileged.

A reception held later in the week at the Apostolic Delegation, in honor of the Pope's anniversary, drew about 350 guests.

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I suddenly reai1ed ort a Spring area, the feeling of closeness or the connection between theoretiSaturday morni-ng that: seeing is community disappeared.. People cal sugges~ions from R?me and believeing when It c0"les to the had scattered, typically enough, ·that practlc~1 eye-op~nmg. conrenovation of olb 'churches or throughout the church, two here, trast I expenenced thIs sprmg. one there, another way over in "Churches and 'other such the construction ~f neW ones.

We have a hkndsolne, new, the corner. The difference im- pla.ces should be suitable for 700-plus capacity Iparish church. KII;r;gm;;t:m;i(:;:;:;:;II;Ig;:;:m;Il' cel:brating. t~e ~ucharist and .for ,Pews are, grouped around the active particIpation by the falthaltar in semi-citcula~ fashion ful."

"The places for the faithful making for good I acoustics, exBy should be arranged so that the cellent visibility, I and "a certain sense of onenes~ bet1veen the people ~ay take f.ull part in the celebrant and his congregation. FR. JOSEPH M. celebratIOn by seemg and by unAt ·the structure'S rear; there is CHAMPLIN derstanding everything." a crying room Which I converts ,, "It is, highly rec~mmended during' the weeki into! a small, that th: Holy Euchan~t be re- .

Blessed Sacrament chapel with rt::t:;mmt;:;m;IM@mm;M:m served m a chapel SUItable for an altar facing th~ people. mediately struck me and con- private prayer." .

Each weekday Iten tp twenty firmed through an actual event In an ea~li:r section, the s~me . assemble' for both '\ the early what I have often read or heard d9c~ment gIves .a theolo.glcal morning and late ~fternbon. Mass in theory: where you celebrate baSIS for ~ommumt~ .wo~shlp or in this relatively Itiny intimate the liturgy exerts an enormous congregatIOnal partIcIpation. crying room/chapk setting The influence on how wei! you wor. Root Notions "The Lord's S~pper is the a~atmosphere for those ~ail~ Eu- ship, the Lord. charists is infotmal, I relaxed, General .Principles sembly or gathenng ~ogether. of Chapter V of the Roman Mis- , .the, ¥e.ople of God, WIth a pnest highly personal-tthe gathering of a small family for public sal's General Instruction treats p.resldmg, to celebrate t~e memoprayer and wors?ip. the "Arrangement and Decora- nal of th~ Lord. F~r t~IS rea~on . On that Satu5day :morning, tion of Churches for the Eucha- the promIse of Chnst I~ partlcuhowever I offeredl the Holy Sacristic Celebration." Its eighteen larly true of a local congregar-ifice in~tead at our mkin altar. - articles offer general' principles tion of the Church. 'Where two It was the same Mass of course and specific norms for church or three are gathered in my ,and with almost the 's~me 'indi: art and architecture. A few ex- name, there am I in 'their midsf victuals, but in [thiS !spacious , , cerpts from them will illustrate (Mt. 18:20)." : We have, then, two root no: tions here-private, individualized prayer and public, commuI nal worship. Each has' its place in the Church, and each requires its peculiar kind of place in a Getting a graspJ of the mean- make that sign. And we, in church. .

- ing of prayer i':; lIke gr~bbing a teaching them, re-establish our Liturgical services, the "gathhandful of mercury. you can own sense of belonging. ering together" of God's people, My own children first learned means social worship, individuCHHLD IN HOSIPITAL HUGS NURSE: The form of ~ou~h it; b~t, i.f Ybu try to hold the greatest of formal prayers, als welded into a single unit, a It ~Ightly~ It slIps !awa i ·_· God' is love. Spontaneous, fully given love. NC Photo.

When Jesus was ask~d abou,t the Our Father, in a calypso ver- closely knit and interacting body prayer, he prayed.l He t~ught his sion. We were getting tired of which listens as one and reWho has spoken most elo- have in Christ Jesus, who, followers words tOI use. IWhether "Thank you, Jesus, for the food" sponds as one. The building itquently of the divinity of Jesus? though he was in the form of . or not they real~y pr~yed de- before meals and went to singself ought to facilitate that kind Saint John, Saint Paul and the God, did not count equality with, pended on how they used the Turn to Page Seventeen Turn to Page Seventeen Councils of Nicea t and Chal- God a thing to be grasped, but words.

I cedon. They tell us there was emptied himself, taking fae form Whether what you do - or , . more to Christ than the' human. of a servant, being born in the what I do - is a~tuallY praying There was' a plus side that led likeness of men." (PhiL 2: 5-7) depends on sdmething inside of to utter astonishment opening Jesus is now in the form of us that cannot be described. men's eyes to a revelation of. God. The form of God is love•. And it depends od God; Prayer I vividly remember sitting in Many, however, find that it God.' The emptying of the form is the is, after all, . a ·t~o-wh coma small room with a delinquent poses problems. What meaning' 'Saint John says that Jesus is emptying of self in acts of love. munication. boy. He was about 12 at the can so human a word have when He takes the form of a man so , the Word that was God. (In 1:1) time, confined to a state re- applied to God? Doesn't- the The divine ' Word speaks the that the outpouring of divine habilitation school for boys after idea of an overprotective at human level. love can occur meanIng of God to the world. being convicted fQr auto, theft. "father-God" tend to confirm John tells us that Jesus is the Thus Jesus is the Man far OthBy His parents were anything but Lenin's view of religion as an most astute hearer of that Word, ers. exemplary. His mother was opiate of the people?

He is obedient' unto death .. so much' so, that it takes flesh JAMES J. ·known in the neighborhood for in the body of Jesus. Speak of The word obedient comE:S from her loose living. His father was a Latin word meaning "t(l hear."

PHILLIPS the humanity of Jesus as much drunk much of the time and· beat as you wish, but allow yourself Saint John already speaks of the boy mercilessly. as a hearer of the Word.

Jesus to sense the marvelous' mystery We were talking about his By of his person. He is the com- What did the Word ask of him parents, and in the course of the plete ikon of God. "He is the finally?, A martyr's death for a Une way of teaching ~rayer is conversation I mentioned the FR. CARL J. image of the invisible God, .the proof of final love. Thu:, Jesus to help your' childten s~y prayword "father" in relation to God. I ' masters the art of self-giving ers, for example, the Sign of the PFE~FER, S.J. love as he obeys the ultimate Cross. When childten first learn I expected that' the boy'·s ,reaction would be negative be'Word, to die for those he loves. this prayer, their TaJor iconcern cause· of his painful experience By Action, Being is with the mecllanics: of the at home with his father. To my I '.

John and Paul locate the di· thing: It is a cha,llengEj to get surprise,. the notion of God as No matter how many qu.esFR: AL vinity of Jesus: (a) as profound the proper hand to the right spots "father" made sense to the boy tions come to mind when we hearer of the Word (b) a:, being' in the right ordet. Yet,"even who proceeded to give me a begin to think of what meaning .McBRIDE in the form of God 'through self from the beginning, it is more most moving description of what "father"· can have when applied giving love (c) as the oIle who than a test of dexterity. : a father should be like and what to God, we cannot.av'oid the fact, hears and loves unto death and, The Sign of th~ Crdss is· a kind of a father he wanted· to be that Jesus himself frequently reresurrection. sign, not o.nly of th:e Triryity, but when he grew up an married. ferred to God as father, his first born of all creation." (Col. These are action ways of of belongmg. The peqple we From these images of an ideal father and ours. The third read1:5). speaking of ·the Godhead ,of worship with and Ibelieve with father he related easily to God ing of this Sunday's Mass reSaint Paul says that Chrisfs Jesus. Nicea and Chalcedon m~ke that sign and it identifies as ·"Our Father." d'lIs St. Luke's version of the I divinity is to be found in the use being ways. They speak or them as belonging together.

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Bedtime Prayers Yet, our most frequently used mealtime prayer - at t.he children's request - is the Catholic version of Grace before meals.

It says what we want to say; and its meaning comes, not from how old it is or how often it has been said, but from the way it seems to summarize our own feelings.

We have had a hard time with bedtime prayers. Right now we are crossing each child on the forehead and saying "Good night. God bless you." Sometimes they cross us back. Sometimes they do not. .

When they were a bit younger (the oldest are 6-year-old twins), we used to sing night prayers.

We always tried to sing religious songs. But they would often hold out for "When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbin along." We never thought much of that as a prayer. Yet, in their childish simplicity, maybe they knew more than we did.

They know the Our Father now. They learned that when, during its recitation at Mass, one of us would lean close to them and say the words distinctly. That is also how they learned or are learning the other standard Mass prayers: Holy Holy Holy; the Creed, the Gloria.

Discipline ':Required We are not in a hurry to teach them all the prayers we know.

It hardly seems to matter how many they can. say. Besides, the longer we extend the teaching process, the more we will be forced to continue thinking about prayer. As we think about it-and as we pray with themwe seem to be getting a little bit deeper into what, it means 'for us to pray.

We are thankful for this opportunity to teach our children their prayers. And we will be disappointed if their religion teachers take over the task. It

is for our benefit and theirs that we teach our children to pray.

With children, as with older folks, there is a certain discipline required for prayer. We need to put it into some form or framework. We like to think that everything we do is a prayer. We wish we could always be conscious of God and communicate with Him. But this does not just happen.

We do not· automatically turn to God any more than we automatically turn to evil. Our more constant condition seems to be one of mediocrity, and we need some sort' of discipline to break us out of it.

Constant Repetition We could learn a lot about this from the eastern religions.

They work hard at learning to pray. and have many different frameworks within which they do their praying.

Perhaps there is ~ lesson, too, in the way the Hari Krishna people, pray. Apparently, their only prayer is the constant repetition of the phrase "hari krishna." They say it over and over again until everything else is blocked out and they have made contact with the spirit within them. That sounds a lot like the litanies we do not say much any more or the aspirations we used to learn. It even sounds a bit like the rosary.

It strikes me that we might do with more' of this kind of "mindlessness" in our own praying. It is presumptuous to try' to "think" God into our midst.

Perhaps we ought to go the other way and close off our thoughts so He can take over.

Simplicity, a bit of levity, learning special words, discipline, "mindless" repetition, being with others-without really saying what prayer is, these things do touch on what it means to pray. That is all this article set out to do: make some comment;> on prayer. I suppose all that remains is for us to keep trying to do it.

Small Places for Small Congregations Continued from Page Sixteen of joint public prayer. It does on Sundays in the main body of our church and during the week at our Blessed' Sacrament Chapel.

It doesn't when we offer the Eucharist for a few dozen on weekdays in the section designed for several hundred.

Private prayer, on the other hand, seeks a quiet, soft atmosphere. Chair and kneelers should be near a distinctive tabernacle surounded by rich, inspirational art work and made the focal·

.Refuses to Enter Withdrawal Debate PORTLAND (NC) - "We do not conceive it as our business to set a date and demand that the President abide by it," Archbishop Robert Dwyer writes in an editorial in The Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the' 'Portland, Ore. archdiocese.

"It IS not the purpose of this statement to enter into the debate as to the justice or in'justice, the morality or immorality, of the war in Southeast Asia," he added, explaining that the newspaper's policy supports only a general idea of peace "consistent wi'th national and international safety."

point through appropriate use of lighting: Discussion Questions: 1. How well~planned or designed is your church for small community worship and full parish participation in the liturgy?

2. What is the difference between liturgical prayer and private prayer?

Priest Appointed Liaison With Media CHICAGO (NC)-A Chicago priest has been invited to serve as liaison with press, radio and television for the Pontifical Comi mission for Justice and Peace during this Fall's world Synod of Bishops. in 'Rome.

He is Father James P. Roache, secretary of communications for the Chicago archdiocese and director of the Center for Pastoral Ministry here.

Msgr. Joseph Gremillion of the Alexandria, La., diocese, secretary for the pontifical commission said: "Father Roache's dual roles and experience, as press officer and as director of the newly founded Center for Pastoral Ministry will offer great benefits to our secre~ariat during the synod."

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Bishop Asserts Theology Source For Objection MEMPHIS (NC)-Objection to the Vietnam war as grounds for refusal to answer the draft and an individual's right to make' an "ethical and moral" decision about military service was publicly endorsed here by Bishop Carroll T. Dozier of Memphis.

The bishop, made his position known when he appeared before the Memphis draft board to support a young man's ".effort to obtain conscientious objector status.

He also held that conscientious objection to war is well-founded in Catholic tradition.

VATICAN POST: Sister Thadden Kelly of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary has been named a department head in the Vatican's Congregation for Religious Orders.

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God Our f'ather Continued from Page Sixteen version (Mat 6: 9-13) is slightly more detailed and closer to our .familiar prayer: "Our Father in heaven . . . ." Not only do the Gospels frequently, refer to God as father, but the Old Testament uses the image often.

Through the centuries, Catholics and other Christians have prayed the "Our Father" or "Lord's Prayer" in every part of the world and in every language.

Share God's Life As with every human image of God, after affirming some positive meaning, we must mod: ify it. God may well be our Father in some instances like our experience of human fathers, but he is certainly not a father in exactly the same way. He is not a man. He does not generate a child as a human father and mother do. He does not have human feelings and emotions.

So we have to modify most of what we just affirmed: God may be a father, but not just like a human father.

What sense can it make to call him father? The three Sunday readings focus on what is most proper and good in each father and apply that to God. The second reading gives the basic insight. Paul asserts that God can give "new life in company with Christ." Fatherhood among men is the generation of human life. Father and child share life because of the activity of father and mother in creating that Jife. The implication is that we actually share God's life if we can really call him "father."

Sons of God This is exactly our Christian faith. Because we are united with Christ we. share in the life of God himself. "See what love ,the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called children of God! Yet that is what we are" (I Jn 3:1). This "new life in company with Christ" we call "grace" and can say with St. Paul "Christ lives in me." We are sons of God because we are united with his only son Jesus Christ. We are sons in the Son and "our life is hidden with Christ in God." The spirit of

Christ, therefore, teaches us to pray "Abba Father."

The first and third readings add another aspect of God's fatherhood: his genuine love and care for us, his children. Even the delinquent boy recognized that care and concern are the marks of true fatherhood. God's fatherhood is expressed in his love for us.

The story of Moses pleading with God, and Jesus urging us to plead with God as an importunate neighbor reveals something of the "heart" of God's fatherly care for us. He loves us not with a human heart and feeling, but with a love that allows us to approach him confidently, even boldly as a child approaches ,his father.

"Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the words our Saviour gave us: Our Father .. ."

Jesus As God Continued from Page Sixteen with the Father." They speak of a divine person and nature in Jesus as well as a human nature. The divine person unites the human and divine nature.

This being talk is less vivid than John and Paul's action talk, but its heart is in the right place. Nicea and Chalcedon are anxious to preserve the complete vision of Jesus - his utter humanity and his exalted mystery.

The example of John, Paul and the Councils should guide us in our ap'preciation of the meaning of Jesus., They teach us to refuse the temptation to reduce him to a human fact and nothing more, or to exalt him to an unreachable divine fact and nothing more. They urge us to be patient of the richness of the mystery of Jesus in the fullness of humanity and Godhead. No need to' let the 'complexity put us off.

Following their spirit we can embark on a sincere imitation of Jesus and a contemplation of the mystery surrounding him that will yield in us a self-understanding which reveals our own humanity and our own call to be profound hearers of the Word.

In an interview, Bishop Dozier said: "Many draft boards are operating under the opinion that ,only a few religions theologically sanction the position of a conscientious objector. It is perfectly consonant witfl Catholic theology that' a person, be a CO," , Just War Theory The bishop, also denied that patriotism was an issue in the matter. "They (draft board members) use virtue and religion with patriotism to align it inevitably on the side of the war," he said.

"Patriotism is in the interest of the good of the country. But, is the involvement in the Viet,nam war really for the good of the country'! Judged by the 'just war theory' (of ~... Thomas Aquinas) it does not comply," he said.

After outlining the requirements which St. Thomas held necessary for a \War to be moral, Bishop Dozier said that there were "strong issues with this war" and that ethical and moral principles should be carefully rethought.

The bishop also indicated that he hoped to lay the foundation for a draft counseling program in the Memphis diocese.

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Believes Americans 'Nee'd More of Christ's. Chari,ty One of the most important books of our time is the . Middle Americans by Robert Coles (Atlantic, Little-Brown).

It is the first successful attempt by a member of America's intellectual elite to penetrate into the mysterious recently rediscovered world of mid. dIe Americans and come Furthermore, a man may be deeply -patriotic and 1;till hate back not with- American the war in y'ietnam, an:! also be snobbery but rather with suspicious of the "big business" sympathetic understanding. To a very considerable extent, the future of American society qeoends on how many of our inte·llectual. and student left are able to make a similar pilgrimage.

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Cole is a fasinating man with a subtle, complex mind. One had, for example, to read very carefully his lengthy dialogue with Daniel Berrigan in the New York Review of Books to realize that, for all his personal admiration of Father Berrigan, Coles was. in vigorous disagreement with him. 'Cole is able to see many sides of an argument but this does not prevent him from taking a stand of his own.

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A policeman may ha.ve nothing but contempt for the spoiled, smart aleck children of' the rich who are Ollt to destroy American society whik, at the same time, understand that there are vast areas of American society that desperately need reform. .

One would Si:\y, "Of course,' everyone knows that people are complicated and that American society is complicated, Everyone knows that not ".II white ethniCs are hard hat, ncist war criminals. We scarely Heed Ri>bert Coles to tell us that even human beings who dO::l't haVe Ph.D's are ·complicated."

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The truth 'of the matter is that we do. The mythologies of the generation gap, the hard ~lrst hat, the white ethnic racist, the ST, LOUIS (NG) - The Cathsuperpatriot. have been ~;o vigor-' ously promulgated by the mass .olic Church's justl war .,theory is 'media and so insistently' being not intended to a4vocaie war alpushed by the intellectual jour- though some use it as In excuse nals that a substantial segment . to support war, t~ech~irman of of American society actually be- the 51. Louis Arc~dioce~an Commission on Worltl Justice' and lieves they represent n~ality.

Peace declaredh1r.e. I When my colleagues and I Neat Categories In a series of lectures on "The at the National Opinion Re'se~rch He began his exploration of Center discovered, for E,xample, Catholic Church ahd Peace," Dr. .

1· I middle America in a rather pe- that white ethnics are less ra.- Jean Leguey-Feilleux, I commisculiar way. His initial interest cist than other Northern white sion chairman an~ assodiate prowas in. the psychic injuries done Americans, and less likely to sup- fessor of political sCien~.e at St. to the black students in the. early' port the war; our findin gs were Louis , Universit I' sa~id that days of integration in the South. dismissed as patently absurd. rather than sUPP9rt of, war the What, he wondered,-did it mean I was once at an intl!llectual exact opposite was the intention to a student to have to be es- meeting where Robert Coles of those who cdnstrutted the corted to school each day by was subjected to the rudest theory. police through lines of scream- treatment I have ever seEm in 10 According to The N~w Cath. ing white bigots. years of wandering around olic Encyclopedi~ the. theory But then Coles began 'to won- American academia. In our pres- which orginated wilith' St!. Augusder about the screaming white ent romantic era, we don't want tine, has come to be interpreted bigots and one imagines, with complexity, and we don't like .

I I considerable difficulty and pain, men who come and tell us about to mean that wars of aggression, whether just or unjust,1 are im'strove to interview and under- cO!'Jlplexity.

I Coles concludes moral. Under it, t1efensive war stand them. He discovered that his book with a statement that is morally ..justi.fia. r' Ie, d,'lefensive people cannot be fitted ihto will surely get him in trouble. neat categories of "racist" and "I believe Americans . . . "nonracist." need a little more kindne'ss Asks Africanization I remember Coles remarking towards one another, a little I I -fhristial1!ity , on one occasion that swarms of more of the charity Christ urged NEW- YORK (Nr)-If ChrisNorthern college students de- upon us. Those. who write cended upon' the South to re- books, we who write books, tianity is to survire inl Africa, make Southern society; only a are particularly apt to get swol- African Christians must: be givfew bothered to try to listen to len with ourselves-and so for- . en the. freedom to de;velop a and understand .the viewpoint get about our own sillS and genuine~y. Afric~n I Chri'~tianity, of those white Southerners crimes and 'problems' (~.s they a leadIng AfrIcan ,Protestant ' whom they were so vigorously are called in this day and age); churchman has debared intent on reforming. The' rich l:Jence again our need to struggle 'Canon Burgess Icarr,~ newly kids from the elite colleges in for the charity towards others elected general secretarx of the the Northeast already knew we hope they will in tum offer' All African Cohfererice of ., , everything there was to know back to us."

Churches said: "Christianity in about the South and there was Africa today .is I imported, a nothing' to learn, especially from Christianity. determined I by a New Jersey Abbc)t white Southerners. Only students w~. rid view alien tf' Afr ca. Exfrom Middle Western colleges, cept among the independent Hea'ds Congregation and particularly Catholic ones, MANCHESTER (NC) A churches and thf E~hiopian .bothered to talk to the white Church, it's a ChriS.tiani,.ty. that abbot from IlJorrisBenedictine people. town, N.J., has been ,~lected has not paid any attention to Society Is Complicated . president of his order's largest Africa's value systjm."!

Canon Carr made his comThe fundament'al theme of the American congregation.

Abbot ¥artin J. Burne, former me.nts in the lead I article in a Middle AJ11ericans is that people are complicated, that a man head of St. Mary's Abhey in' special Africa iss~e' of New Morristown, is the new presi-' World Outlook, arl ecubenical may one' moment express an incredibly racist sentiment and dent of the American - Ca~;sinese m~nthly published.1 here, jointly then in the next moment sup- Benedictine Congregation - a by mission· interJsts bf the port the black cause as vigorous- unit of the order with 21 mon- United Methodist Iand i United asteries and over 1,700 monks. ly . as any professional liberaL !

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Condition Is Right Int'entian preparations on the part of sov- neighbor is still a man's' duty." ereign states are morally legitiIn addition to the right intenmate and to be morally justifi- tion, another condition for the" able, war must be the .last re- just war is that it must be in sort with a limited use of force. the service of a just cause, Dr. Love of Neighbor Leguey-Feilleux said.

"Specifically the prime thrust "And it is necessary to underof the effort of any Christian stand that wecamlot have' a must be the pursuit' of peace," just cause to use force if there Dr. Leguey-Feilleux stressed. "It is any way to accomplish the is true that under some condi- same thing through means other tions it is morally permissible than war," he said.

"However, it is .realized that· to use force but only under exthere are times when human ceptional circumstances."

The just war theory must not beings, who have a great potenbe used in a legalistic war, said tial for good but also have aDr. Leguey-Feilleux, who is also great potential for evil, are bent a member of St. Louis Univer- on harming their neighbors. And sity's Institute for the Study of . if the only way we can stop then is to use force then this Peace. is a just cause, assuming that "It is not a matter of finding enough loopholes to get away there is no other way to avoid with the use of force," he said. this. It must be a last resort "The first thing to stress is that when it is done," he said. the first condition of a just war is the right intention. The person who is trying to get away with something does not have the right intention ~o begin with.

We must als'o stress that 'the concern for just conditions cannot be viewed as an exoneration' of the duty of each of us to love his neighbor. The use of force, if necessary, must be done with the recognition that the love of.

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Urges Churches To Fight Alcohol, Drug Abuse NORTH CONWAY (Nq-An ecumenical conference of dergy and laymen here in New Hamshire has asked the nation's churches to start initiating positive nrograms to fight drug and alcohol abuse.

Churches can assume "an advocate role on behalf of the public," said one recommendation from the 17th annual North conway Institute conference here, "examining the practices of various groups that may contribute to the problem, including industry, legislative bodies and administrative agencies."

The North Conway Institutea Boston-based, interfaith, interdisciplinary association -was established in 1951 to study problems related to alcoholism.

This year's institute, however, also tackled drug problems under the theme, "How Can the Church Help?"

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Propose, Quota Sys'tem for Employment

Answering that question, the, 120 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish participants said LOUISVILLE (NC)-The Louis- their percentage of local populachurches should review existville area Council on Religion tion, ' ing drug laws. make creative ''This plan does not affect use of the public media, and and Race has proposed that a change some of their own pol- quota system be strictly enforced small businesses,. nor does it apin the hiring of members of mi- ply to large corporations unless , icies. nority groups by corporations they deal in federal contracts," Dr. Helen Nowlis an institute wrote Father Grenough. "It is that have federal contracts. speaker and head of the U,S. only a beginning. We hope that Father Richard Grenough. writOffice of Education's program somebody can find the key that to train teachers in drug edu- ing in the LACRR newsletter, will open all jobs to minority that minority group proposed cation. told institute partici,people." persons be hired according to pants they could also apply what has been learned about alcohol to drugs.

Noting that "there is no such thing as a completely safe or completely dangerous drug," , LOUISVILLE (NC) - The new population of about 10 million.

Dr, Nowlis also said 110 one "We can't open new parishes" president of Uganda had anwaots to face the question of nounced that he would allow 10 without missionaries, he exhow an increasingly pluralistic missionaries expelled from the plained, adding that there are society controls drugs, country four years ago to return "many areas" in which there are"It's just plain that 200 mil- - and African Archbishop Em- no parishes Vow. He said there lion people, and soon 400 mil- manuel Nsubuga, a recent visitor are about 200 priests in the lion people, are simply not go- here, said he was "very excited" country and only about half of ing to agree on this kind of about it. these are native Africans. issue because it's a value judg"This is very good news." the Education, Problem ment," she said, archbishop of Kampala. Uganda. said. adding that he would write As a result of the shortage of Leurn From Mistakes a letter to the president. Gen. priests, Archbishop Nsubuga In her opinion. she said, "cur- Idi Amin Dada, to express his said one of the major problems rent controls cause more dam- gratitude for the action, facing the Church in Uganda is age than good," and penalties Archhbfshop Nsubuga said that the "need for support from other for simple possession or "simple. before he left Uganda for the countries" to provide education ,casual dealing" in small quan- United States, wrote a letter for' African priests' and. Sisters. tities of drugs should be re- to Dada asking that the mission- ' There is no free education in the duced. aries (eight Verona Fathers and country, he said, and the Church The author and research psy- two Spanish priests) be permit- has limited financial resources. chologist said it is important to ted to return to the country.

"If a boy comes from a poor learn from past mistakes made The 10 priests were deported family and wants to become a with alcohol controls, in 1967. by former Ugandan priest, he can't (afford to) go to Conference participants pass- president Milton, Obote for al- school" unless a benefactor sponed a long list of recommenda- legedly being involved in a fac- sors his education, the archbishtions on this and other sub- tional dispute in neighboring op remarked. jects, ' Sudan. Archbishop 'Nsubuga said "We have many benefactors," They called on their churches the priests, who served in north- Archbishop Nsubuga explained, to establish legislative action ern Uganda near the Sudan saying that without them a numcommittees which would "work border. claimed they had not ber of priests and Sisters could with legislative bodies to place been involved in 'Sudanese not receive an education. the highest priority upon: com- politics.

Besides the education of missioning scientific research Need Priests priests and Sisters. Archbishop and evaluation of mood-altering Archbishop Nsubuga's excite- Nsubuga is also, seeking financial chemicals . . . ," ment over the return of the mis- assistance for the construction That recommendation also sionaries is explained by one of of a shrine near Kampala in . noted the "existing body of law the problems he said is plaguing honor of the 22 Ugandan martyrs relating to mood-altering chemthe Church in Africa-the insuf- who were killed in the 1880s. i<::als" should be speedily reficient number of priests.

The 22 were canonized by Pope viewed and changed where neHe said in an interview with Paul VI in 1964. cessary, The Record, Louisville archdiocesan weekly, that there are 60 Ignorance' S~ints parishes in Uganda and 100 parIn other living creatures the No devotion to the saints is ishes are needed to serve the ignorance of themselves is napopulation.

The archbishop estimore acceptable and more proper than if you strive to express mated that there are about four ture, but in man it is vice.

Boethius their virtue.

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According to Father Grenough, most corporations in the Louisville area have a ,number of federal contracts. He said that by law any company with' 50 or more employees and a federal contract of $50.000 or' more is obligated to develop a program for hiring members of a minority group.

Father Grenough maintained that if a quota system were used, anyone could determine, simply by counting heads. whether the firm was living up to the program terms.

Proposes 'Minimum If employees were hired according to population, firms in this area that have federal contracts would have approximately 16 per cent black employes, Father Grenough said.

Father Grenough cited statistics of the black labor forces at area branches the Ford Motor Company, General Electric and International Harvester, all of which. according to Father Grenough, are below his proposed 16 per cent minimum of minority group personnel.

According to Father Grenough, Ford's automotive division has a seven per cent black work force, General Electric nine per cent. and International Harvester 14 per cent.

Regarding advancement policies. Father Grenough called for a halt in white advancement until black advancement comes into proportion. "We ask that all union contracts that do not so read' be declared void." he said.

"Whites have no more 'right' to advancement than blacks," Father Grenough said. "We're not depriving whites' (by this plan). we're just stopping the undue acceleration of them."

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Catholie educators at a workshop here talked about large-scale coordination of educational programs which would do two things: make the best use of available resources and reflect the expanding view of what Catholic education means.

"We can no longer afford to each go our separate ways," said Father Raymond Lucker. director of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) education department. which sponsored the workshop.

The five-day session on the Total Teaching Mission of the Church was held at Catholic University of America here.

"Organization. management (and) planning are not the goal of Catholic education, but important and necessary tools."

Father Lucker noted.

National Trend Teams from four U.S. dio- I ceses-orlando, Fla.; Detroit; Worcester, Mass.; and Portland, Ore-described educational coordination efforts in their respective areas.

Their presentations reflected growing national trend to combine formerly separate effortsCatholic schools, adult education. campus ministry and other educational programs-into a unified whole.

While structural details varied. each diocese making a presentation had a director of education and a board of education concerned with all facets of the diocesan educational program.

There is no single. best organizational plan for Catholic education. Father Lucker told the 114 workshop participants, because of differing diocesan and parish needs. facilities and educational backgrounds.

Effects of Renewal "We can learn from sharing with one another." he said.

Bishop Willi'am D. Borders of Orlando, who presented his diocese's plan for coordinating educational efforts. also talked about the effects of Church renewal on Catholic education.

"Renewal in the Church involves sensit.ivity to and concern for, the essential dignity of the human person. subsidiarity and collegiality.... Bishop Borders said, noting that these three elements are also evident in modern planning for Catholic education.

Collegiality, for example. is "a decision-sharing' "process" which applies not only to the Pope's relationship with his bish路 ops. or bishops with their priests. he said. "Collegiality is -also a matter between pastor and people."

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