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OIReilly Early and Strong Minority Rights Fighter By Dennis P. Ryan One of the most colorful and illustrious Irish Americans of the 19th century was John Boyle O'Reilly of Boston. . An Irish revolutionary, he fled to America in 1870 to escape imprisonment by the British.. Soon as a reporter .and then editor of The Boston Pilot, he became one of the country's outspoken propopents of minority rights - for Irishmen, Jews, blacks and American Indians. In addition he championed the rights of labor, advocated political, educational and' penal reforms, and called for the conservation of America's natural resources. The Pilot, now Boston's archdiocesan newspaper, was at that time the leading Irish-Catholic paper in the country. Under O'Reilly's direction it campaigned against the squalid living conditions, poor wages and other inequities suffered by Boston's pre-

dominantly Irish immigrant population. He counseled Irish-Americans to practice hard work, toleration and brotherhood in order to win Yankee acceptance, and he was quick to 'admonish when they failed in such objectives. He criticized the employment practices of the Boston Police Department by noting that "out of the entire city, one-half of which is Irish, there are only two inspectors and four sergeants of Irish birth or descent, while out of 70 officers in the state there is only one of Irish birth and he holds the lowest grade." Often O'Reilly scored the public education system for generating prejudice against the Irish and the Catholic Church. The hiring policies of Boston's Department of Education also drew his criticism. In 1885 he observed that although the majority of students in BostQn's Turn to Page Ten

Cites· Position of Church In ·Politics and Economics particularly with regard to the issue of the legality of abortion. "What must be avoided," Archbishop Bernardin said, "whether in the courts or in the halls of Congress, is the impression that the Catholic Church expects civil law to embody divine law as read by Catholic theologians or the magisterium (teaching authority) of the Church. Our efforts should be directed at persuading citizens, law makers and judges that we oppose abortion on the same kind of grounds as one opposes slavery, or euthanasia, or geno· cide or infanticide. It is il matter of basic human rights which transcend denominational interests." The archbishop was a speaker at the fifth Ecumenical Institute

CINCINNATI (NC) - The Church's role in temporal affairs is not that of a law giver nor of a higher authority with a right to correct decisions and actions of the civil government, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati told an ecumenical meeting here. . The Church's role, he said, is that of a people, God's people, attempting to render services to the human family in the light of the Gospel. The archbishop, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke on "The Ethics of Economics and Politics." Secular humanists, he said, suspect the Church of seeking to "structure and consolidate" society according to divine law,

on Religious Educationat Mt. St. Joseph-on-thre-Ohio near here. The words of Jesus Christ, "Whatsoever you have done to these, the least of my brethren, you have done to me,"are "the true basis of Christian action in the contemporary political and social order," Archbishop Bernardin said. The archbishop said that the principle embodied in those words was the motivation for the involvement of "church peo· pie" in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. "The 'church people' were not there because they saw an opportunity 'to structure the human community according to divine law,''' the archbishop said, "but because they had developed Turn to Page Two

LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL by Father Maynard Geiger, O.F.M. Several years ago [ received a letter from a gentleman ~n New York saying he Ihad heard that I had dn ilhe Santa Barbara Mission Archive a copy of a letter sent by Father Jun'ipero Serra to Genera,1 George Washington.. He wondered if he could obta·in a copy of it. I was amazed. Had such '18 Jet· ter eXlisted, ,it would surely have been published 'long ago. ·On JU'ly 4, 1776, Father Serra was saHing aJlong the Pad~ic Coast between Monterey and San Diego, totaHy obHvious to the events in Philade'lph'ia. Neither Father Ser:ra nor General Washington knew of the other':; work. The Atlantic and Pacific shores were both populated by non-Indians 'in 1776. But the differences between the two coloniaJ ~eas in pol'itica'l viewpoints, reli~on and language, and itlhe vast physiool separation by rnounta~n ranges, deserts and plains, would have justified one in saying: Never ,the twa1in shall meet.

Father Serra Cathollic Christianity dn the present state of Ca\:tf~a took root on July 16, 1769, when Father Serra planted t'he cross on a hilltop above the iha'rhor of San -Diego. Contrary to a commonly held opinion, Spa'in did not come to Ca,lifomia pl1imariJy to pIant the Catholic religion. She moved ,in to create a buffer st'ate ·ror what was then known as New Spain (today Mexico) against the threat of Russian 'aggressiontirom the north. In the process, however, she aliso wished to implant the Cathoi'ic faith among the naNves and to ciV'iJIize them on the Spanish pattern. This work w~s commended to the Froooiscan missionaries of tlhe Cd11ege of San Fernando, Mexico City, who were already laboring in Lower California (the peninsula, whioh is stiUa part of Mexico). The kii'ng of Spa'in and under him his Aimer.ican vi,ceroys controlIed 1Jhe Ohurch ,in aU externad 'affairs-a situation totaHy a<l'ien to ooc subsequent ~ational traTurn to Page Two

"GRANDFATHER PRIEST": Rev. Mark Dittami, O. Carm., "grandfather priest" from St. Michael's parish, Ocean Grove, with his f~mily. From left, his daughter Ursula; grandchildren Marietta, Susan, Cathlin; son-in-law Robert Leahy.

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ShoU'ld priests marry? For Rev. Mark Dittami, O.Ca,rrn., forrnerJy a member of St. Mi· chael"s parish, Ocean Grove, tlhe question is academic. He was not on1y a husband and faUter, 'but 'a grandfather before he became a priest. For 'him the decision to enter reHgious life came on the heels of tragedy. His Wlife died in 1961, only a few days ,before the couple were to celebrate their 25th wedding ooniversary. In t1he em~iona~ turmoi!1 that fonowed

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he considered dedicating himself to various forms of volunteer work, becoming a teac~er or possibly rema.rrying. 'J1hen a fr.iend suggested 'the priesthood and after prayerfUl ref,lection he decided to follow his brother, Ma,mo Dittami, dnto the Carmelite Order. He left behind him a 'Successful career In adv.ertising and years of service as a Boy Scout commissioner, entering the CareHte community at a novitJiate :in England. Fo'HoWling theolog·

ica~ studies tlhere 'and in Washington, D. C. he was ordained !in 1965 and was immediately assigned to an apostolate as modern as tomorrow-that of serv,ing at a shopping malI .chapel .in Peabody, Mass. "We are putting Christ in the marketplace," he explained in an dnterview several years ago. "We are hringing him· where the people !(lre. The shopping center is now Main Street for the suburbs. Just as the New England churoh Turn to Page Ten


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Liberty and Justice for All Continued from Page One dition of complete separation of Church and state. And missionaries had to conform to this arrangement. T.he governors were also military men. The Francis! can s!lperior in Californ~a lived at Carmel, near Monterey, dose to the governor's headquarters. Eaoh mission was guarded by a corporal and five soldiers, one of whom was in charge of the mission's economic affairs. Seven Missions By the end of December, 1776, seven missions had been fou'nded: San Diego, July 16, 1769; San Carlos, Monterey-Carmel, June 3, 1770; San Antonio, July 14, 1771; San Gabriel near present Los Angeles, Sept. 8, 1771; San Luis Obispo, Sept. 1, 1772; San Francisco, Oct. 4, 1776 'and San Juan Capistrano. Nov. 1, 1776. There were no civi'J.ian settlements, Ibut three presidios were founded along with the missions of the same name at San Diego, Monterey and San Fr,ancisco. Frpm the very beginning t'here were misunderstandings and con'fHcts between the missionaries and the miJ,itary. By 1772 these reached the point that Father Serra was ,forced to ,return to Mexico to obtain£rom 1:Jhe new viceroy, Anton'io Maria BucareH y Ursua, a freer hand for the missionary enterprise. He, presented 32 'Points, most of which were granted, <lnd as -a result, the missionaries had fuB control of tihe Indian converts except in high crimina!l cases. Jesuit Support Money from the Pious Fund, a fund estabHshed by the Jesuits in Lower California but after their expulsion in 1768 taken over by the government, was 'used for mission expenses in both Upper 'and Lower Ca':'ifornia. The f,~nd provided 1,000 pesos for the establishment of each mission and 350 pesos a year for tihe salary of eaoh missionary. The missionaries' 'sa'lar,ies were used to purchase items needed by the concert Indians. Ships brought supplies from Mexico each yea,r for t'he presidios and missions. At times cattle and other animals were dr.iven up to Upper California from Lower California. 'f.he early mission buHd'ings were crude frontier establishments. l1he churches, Hving quarters, work shops, storage rooms were bU'i!t of unhewn timber

Necrology JULY 25 Rev. Michael J. Cooke, 1913, Pastor, St. Patrick, F'aIl River JULY 26 Rev. Msgr. A'lfred J.E. Bonneau, 1974, Pastor Emeritus, Notre Dame, Fail River JULY 29 Rev. Mathias McCabe, 1913, Pastor, Sa,cred Heart, FaIil River JULY 31 Rev. Daniel Hearne, 1865, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton "_""""11""111"""""'1"""""""101'"''"1111111111'''''''""1111"_'.._ ___..

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with thatched roofs and hard dirt floors. Soon adobe began to replace the wood-and-dirt structures. These early missions stretched along 600, miles of coast from San Diego to San Franoisco. The principal road connecting them was 'caHed El Oamino Real. Until the converted Indians could be taught the various trades, buHdings 'Could 'be erected only in the simplest fashion. The Indians of these missions were nomadic peoples with no Hterature or agniculture. They tlived from the bounty of the ,land and the sea alone. Most 'of the time men went 'about entirely naked. There were six different ,languages spoken between San Diego -and San Francisco.

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Aid to Indians The missionaries attra'cted 1:Jhe Indians from the native villages to the mission settlements, by kind treatment -and gifts. They gave rudimentary 'instruction in the CathoiJic faith before Baptism. There was daily Mass and instructions and the feast of 1:Jhe Chul'Ch were colorfu>1'ly celebrated. At the missions the Indians bui:lt their traditional huts. Only later could they be ,induced to build adobe houses with tile roofs after 1Jhe Spanish manner. Simple woolen clothing was provided for them a~ong with three regular meals a day, supplemented by food of their choice obtained by 'hunting, fishing and seed gathering. Succor for Soldiers The missionaries attended also to the spiritual needs of the soldiers and their famtlies, for no diocesan priests had been suppl'ied by the government. A dqctor at Monterey was the sole physioian in 'the 'area. By the end of 1776 at San Diego 461 Indians !had been baptized and 115 ChrisHan marl'iages performed. By the end of 1776 the mission had 498 livestock and a develop,ing agricuJ.ture. The other missionsgradually developed aIong the same lines. The great Anza expedition of 1775-1776 brought soldiers' and families from Sonora, Mexico to found Presidio San Francisco and -later {he civ.iJian pueblo of San Jose. Most of the 177 persons in this expedition remained 'in Upper California. Exact statistics on the Catholic poPUlJ>ation ~n Caltifornia by the end of 1776 are unavaHable, since t,wo mission registers' are no longer ext'ant. But available eVJidence suggests that the total number of Catholics by that time, botih Indians and Spaniards, was about 1,900. When the Amer,ican Revolution began, California was s~ill pure mission territory with only seven years of missionary work behind it. Recommended reading: "The Life and Times of Fray Jun'ipero Serra," by Father Maynard Geiger, O.F.M. (2 vols., Washington, D. C., Academy of Ame,rioan Franciscan History, 1959). (Father Geiger has been archivist 'at ,the Santa Barbar,a MisrS'ion hohive-lLibrary in California since 1937.)

HARRISBURG (NC) - The the reason I lost. They pulled Pennsylvania Catholic Confer- the rug from under me." ence has made an agreement The $4.7 billion state hudget, with the state's Democratic proposed n, democratic leaders' leaders to support the transfer with Gov. Milton Schapp's apof $169 mHlion from the now proval, would avoid new taxes defunct Parent Reimbursement if the $169 million in the reimFund to the state treasury in- bursement fund can be transexchange for a new program of ferred to the treasury. aid to nonpublic schools. Mullen predicted that the The Parent Reimbursement House leadership would renege Fund was a nonpublic school aid its promise to the Catholic Conprogram struck down two years ference to work for a new nonago by the U. S. Supreme Court. public school aid p3.ckage. The proposed nonpublic school aid law, devised by the state's House leadership and the Cathoic Conference, asks the state Continued from Page One to fund a new auxiliary services a burning conviction that segreprogram that would be adminis- gation and degradation of black tered differently from the one human heings was a rejection of ruled unconstitutional by the Christ's teaching and his love." Supreme Court in May. Archbishop Bernardin also While the new program would stressed, however, the need for spend over $20 million for spe- sophistication in the means used cial and remedial education for in social and political action. nonpuhlic school students, it "We are not out to provide stipulates that speech and read- a blueprint for a Christian social ,ing therapy programs, counsel- order," he said, "but we must ing, and psychological services, be able to establish criteria and be offered in public schools on goals in the various political and a time-sharing basis instead of social disciplines that will guide in nonpublic sohools on a full- the practical action of Christians time basis. Supporters hope this who serve society as politicians, alteration will assist the pro- bureaucrats, diplomats, city gram in withstanding a court planners and ecologists," test, should one arise. . . In addition, the new program requests a $2.1 minion increase in the budgeted $6.5 million for Immediate Opening textbook aid to nonpublic schools during fiscal 1975-1976; another Available $2.1 million for basic supplies; and a $6 million increase that would bring state aid to private colleges up to $12 million. Rep. Martin Mullen of PhilA sa lesperson to selt adelphia, a longtime leader in advertising space for the fight, for nonpublic school THE ANCHOR. Terms aid, vigorously opposed the use of the $169 million from the de- • negotiable. funct reimbursement fund to .balance ~he state budget. - ApplyThe Catholic Conference's The Anchor agreement with House leaders P.O. Box 7 derail~ Mullen's plan to block Fall River, Mass. transfer of the money. He said that the "Catholic Conference is

Names Primate To Eucharistic Congress Post PHILLADELPHIA - His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, was named to a key ecumenical committee for the 41st International Eucharistic Congress. The Congress is a world-wide spiritual assembly of Catholics and other Christians meeting Aug. 1-8, 1976 in Philadelphia. Archbishop Iakovos joins the Committee on Participation of Christians of Other Churches as co-vice-chairman. Committee chairman, the Most Rev. 'William W. Baum, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., announced the appointment. Shared Post The Primate shares the post with the Rt. Rev. John Maury Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., and the Rev. Dr. Robert J. Marshall, President of the Lutheran Church in America. The 45-member committee, representing Christians of various denominations, meets regularly to plan the ecumenical aspects of the progr,am, liturgies and worship services and hospitality for the Congress. The head of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas also serves as Exarch, Ecumenical Pa· triachate of Constantinople. In addition, Archbishop Iakovos is chairman of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in the Amer,icas and a member of the central committee of the 'World Council of Churches. The Greek Orthodox Church has 250 million communicants throughout the world. More than two million live in the United States. His Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Demetrios I ,is the spiritual leader of world Orthodoxy. Archbishop lakovos was appointed Primate of the Church in the Americas in 1959. He was ordained as a Deacon in 1934, following his graduation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki in Istanbul, Turkey. He also st1!died at Harvard Divinity Scbool where he received a Master of Sacred Theology degree in 1946.

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OlJl\ LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Parishioners wiH meet at 7 ,p.m. Sunda,y in the parish halll Ito pl'an observance of the teast of Our l1ady of Angels, to be held the weekend of Aug. 8. The Holy Ghost Feast will be celebrated th'is weekend. The Holy NaJIne Society widl &ponsor a baseball trip to Boston Sunday, Aug. 3.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The 14th ·annual parish summer festiva'l will be held this weekend at Westport Falir Grounds on Reed Road, Westport. Attractions wm include booths, prizes, games and Polish and American food specialties. Lee Drewniak wiU provide music for danoing Saturday night· and JOhn Sowa on Sunday afternoon. Dancing, parking and admission wiU ,be free of charge and additionally a free shuttle bus wiH run from noon on Sunday from the Fall River Shopping Center parking 'lot. Walter Wisniewski, generall chainman announces that a flea market and auotion will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday and grand prizes wiH be awarded Sunday evening. ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO . Canned goods and flea market items for the parish summer festival may be brought to the sollool today or tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. - IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER The annual parish family picni~ wi'll take place from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, July 20 at Our Lady of the Lake Camp, East F~eetown. SSe PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Former parishioners and friends of S5. Peter and Paul Pa,rish are invited to attend the annual picnic to be held Aug. 8, 9 and 10 ~n the new recreation center and on the church-school grounds, Snell and Dover Sts. Norm and Dot Hathaway will serve their famous chowder-clamcake supper on opening night and a meat pie supper will highlight the second night's program. Young and old will find something of interest in the booths along the midway, plus an auction, penny sales and Las Vegas niglht.

New Abbot MOR'IHSTOWN (NC) - Father Br.ian Olarke has been elected 'the seventh abbot of St. Mary's Benedictine abbey here, succeeding Abbot Leonard SasseU, who ,resigned beca.use of ill health.

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ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT A Mass celebmted on the Battleship Massaohusetts in FaIll River preceded ,installation ceremonies for the Couples' Club and a tour of the ship followed. New' oft1icers at:e Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lavoie, president couple; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Sunderland, vicepresidents; Mr. and Mrs. Normand Maoceau, treasurers; Mr. and Mrs. James ::;teadman, secretaries.

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VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY FORMS: Vietnamese priests and Brothers are greeted by Bishop Bernard F. Law of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., as they arrive at Our Lady of the Ozarks Seminary, Carthage, Mo., where they will establish their community. The priests and Bro.thers are members of the Congregation of the Blessed Mother Coredemptrix, a Vietnamese order founded in 1954. A total of 174 of its 606 members are refugees and will live in the former Oblates of Mary Immaculate seminary.

Vietnamese Religious Need Sponsors WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Catholic bishops have been urged to give special attention to the sponsorship and resettlement needs of Vietnamese priests, Religious and s~inarians now in the four refugee camps in this country. It is estimated that there are more than 300 priests, Brothers, Sisters and seminarians in the camps,. according to a letter to the :bishops from Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Cath· olic Bishops ~NCCB). Bishop Rausch's letter accompanies a report prepared by Bishop Robert E. Tracy, chairman of the NCCB Committee for Migration and Tourism. Bishop Tracy, retired bishop of Baton Rouge, La., has been designaed the conference's special liaison for the resettlement of Vietnamese priests, Religious and seminarians.

Statistics in Bishop Rausch's letter, based on a survey' by Bishop Tracy of conditions at the refugee camp in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., and information on the other three camps supplied by the U. S. Catholic Conference's Migration and Refugee Services, show that there are 68 Vietnamese priests and 104 Vietnamese Brothers in the four camps. In addition, there are 40 Sisters and 56 seminarians in three 'of the camps and a large but undetermined number in tht" fourth, Fort Chaffee, Ark. Both Bishop Rausch and Bishop Tracy noted that, although the priests, Religious and seminarians need immediate sponsorship in order to'be released from the camps, their final resettlement cannot be determined until it is known where there will be concentrations of Vietnamese laity. "When a refugee accepts spon-

sorship," Bishop Tracy's report said, "he is simply anxious to get out of camp and start learning English; he knows little or nothing about the U.S.A., the sponsor or his diocese, -order of parish. It would be unwise to consider

permanent resettlement under such circumstances. "However, most refugees, it is expected, will remain with their original sponsors and minister eventually to both Vietnamese and American people."

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River presided and gave the final commendation at the con· clusion of the concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial offered on Tuesday morning in St. Brendan's Church, Dorchester for the late JaJInes M. Buckley, the father of Rev. James F. Buckley, assistant pastor at St. Joan of Arc Church, Orleans'. Father Buckley was principal concelebrant. Numerous members of the clergy from witJbin the Diocese and outside concel· ebrated. Among the concelebrants was Rev. Char,les E. Buckley, S.J. of Holy Cross College, Worcester, a brother of the deceased. Rev, A. Paul White of the Boston Pilot was the homilist. Mr. Buckley, the husband of Mary Joyce Buckleyaied on Saturday.. In addition to Father Buckley, he is also survived by two daughters. They are Mrs. Helen T. Alari of California and Mrs. M. Christine Loftus of Arlington. Interment was at St. Joseph's Cemetery.

New P'rior ST. MEINRAD (NC) - Benedictine Fa,ther Timothy Sweeney 'has been named as the new prior of St. Meinrad archabbey, the 180-member monastery here an Indi,ana. As' prior he will assist. Archabbot Gabriel Verkamp in rthe operaltions of the Benediotine arohabbey. Father Sweeney succeeds Father Gerald Ellspermann who had been prior since 1969.

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Values and School More and more in educational systems there is increasing emphasis on values. It seems that educators realize that an education that gives information alone is only part-edu·cation.. If education is for living and living involves choices and decisions and judgments and these presuppose a value system, then education must do something about values and standards. And so. many schools are introducing discussion periods and courses known as "moral dilemmas" or "moral education" or "value clarification." Evangelists of the movement are such figures as Dr. Sidney Simon of the University of Massachusetts and Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg of Harvard and Harold Lasswell of Yale. It is good that educators and those concerned with the development of the whole student, the whole person, are trying to do something about the area of moral growth and development. It is good that they recognize that education cannot be absolutely secular, cannot divorce itself from decisions based on values. It is good that they see the one-sidedn~ss of feeding the intellect while neglecting the will. It is good that at long last they are responding to the old apology that has been heard far too often and far too loudly over past decades from seemingly intelligent and professedly good men - I was only following orders. It is good that they see that the consciences of men exist and must bear accountability for actions. The'only rub iIi the present situation is - what values? It is difficult to talk about value judgements unless there is~ some clear idea of what are the values by which one should live, what standards against which one should make judg. ments and decisions. All this calls for some' absolutes, some principles established in the' light of belief in God and man's accountability before God. What are these to be? In .the Catholic school system there is no problem. The atmosphere of the classroom is one.that is God-oriented. The ten commandments and the sacraments and the cr~ed, safeguarded and presented by the Church, sum up the rev.elation that God has given for the guidance of man.. These give the values that one must have, the standards against which to judge one's actions, the light in whicn to make decisions. But what values have validity in the public school system? If, as happens in many of the value and discussion courses today, every answer that is given to a moral problem is accepted as valid; if the discussions are open-ended without coming to conclusions; then, one asks, of what value is the value course? It is commendable if the public school system tries to arrive at certain standards about certain basic moral situations. It is to be hoped that people of good will will see and accept these as desirable. Certainly the vast majority of teachers will project these values in their personal lives and thus influence their students for the good. Bu( it is difficult to see how the whole range of values can be treated in anything other than a professedly religious schooL And the parents are still the ones who must impart the values and cannot expect the school to assume QY default what they themselves do not do.

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Cathed ra I Boysl Camp Reports Best Season Cathedral Boys' Camp is enjoying its best season since its inception with a full capacity enrollment of 300 during the present session. Hundreds of parents and friends have attended the special shows at the new departments, MacDonald's Farm and the golf driving range. Enrollments have been closed for the third camping session and parents who want to send their youngsters are asked to plan on the fourth camping period which runs from Aug. 11 to Aug. 22. There are still a limited number of openings at Our Lady of the Lake Camp for girls in both the third and fourth periods. Further information can be obtained by writing the camps at Box 248 in East Freetown or by calling the camp office at 763-8874 or 763-5550.

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Play It Again Some of the current thoughts that have echoed forth fr-om the White House in the past few weeks sound like an old. play-back tape from the days of Harding or Hoover. A chicken in every pot or a pot for every chicken. Americans have nothing to worry about. inflation is being oil companies have told their' customers that they must excontrolled, unemployment is pect higher fuel bills this winter being checked and the econ- if they expect to heat their

omy is beginning to flourish. homes. There is 'a positive action Yet somewhere between the by the executive branch to redream of Washington and the move controls on "old oil" which ,reality of the ordinary worker will further drain the pocket there exists a Vl,lst gap which books of the public and fill Ule few people can bridge. . coffers of the oil industry. We Seemingly among the very are told that all this is being few who can bridge this gap are done to control inflation and the forces of big business loyal save ener,gy. Well there are many to the banner of the Grand Old who doubt the veracity and the Party. Certainly the oil indus- value of such actions when oil try falls into this category. As and Presidential politics conevery driver knows, we are verge. A rerun of the tape gives paying through the nose. Each much weight to the argument and every week the price of that the oil companies have gasoline a-eaches a new high for manufactured a shortage of gasthe American ·consumer. Local oline and other fuel oil products.

Oil Prices Manipulated to Hit Vacationeers During the season of the year when most Americans are on vacation and buy more gasoline, it seems that the oil companies have manipulated refinery output so they could raise retail gasoline prices as much as seven cents a gallon. One estimate has it that the oil companies have cut back the refining of gasoline hy as _much as 15 per cent. In addition to this situation there is evidence that the oil industry is storing up stocks of "old crude oil" under the ceiling price of $5.25 a har-

reI in anticipation that all oil price controls will expire on August 31. After this date Americans could pay as much as 10 cents a gallon more for gasoline. In other words the consumer has seen nothing yet if price controls expire. This is but one example of political favoritism that has been ex,tended to the barons of American industry and certainly is but one example in the long !Joist of American operations that control the. economic life Qlood of this land. There seems

WASHINGTON (Ne) - Both the Connecticut and New Hampshire legislature have passed bills to reinstate prayer periods in public schools. It is expected that the governors of the two New England states will sign the bills shortly. The Connecticut bill requires that time be set aside eacb day in the state's public schools for "meditation." Gov. Ella Grasso said she will sign the bin, which passed the Connecticut House of Representatives by a margin of 88 to 56, and the Senate by 28 to six. The New Hampshire bill permits the voluntary recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public elementary schools at the option of local school districts. The New Hampshire Senate approved the House-passed bill on an 18 to 5 roll call vote. Gov. Meldrin Thomson indicated he will sign the bill.

Irish Children LONDON (NC) - A group of 28 school children from embattled sections of Northern Ireland flew to North America June 26 for a six week, expense-free holiday. Tbe concept of shuttling children away from the violence in Northern Ireland grew from the initiative of a Belfast housewife, Sa,rah Hughes, who wrote to more than 50 American and Canadian newspapers three years ago about the plight of the children in her city.

to be very little concern for the day~to~day economic prob~ems that the housewife, the farmer and the mill worker must face just to put bread on the table. Men and women must still stand in oJong unemployment lines. Cities can no longer depend on Federal assistance to meet their severe economic problems. Yet the oil companies and their like grow, thrive and prosper. With the present favoritism of the White House, with the present 'lack of Congressional action and the present political power of' industry, each and everyone of us can be sure that the rich will get dcher and the poor will get poQrer.


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Pilgrimsl Hymns Encourage Pope VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI 'has stated that the hymns of the pilgrims in St. Peter's Square, which he can hear in his apartment are a great consolation to him and a natural and beautiful expression of faith. At his regular Sunday noon talk to a large crowd waiting in St. Peter's Square for the Angelus, the Pope said that these simple sung prayers! "at once collective and still deeply personal" mean "that prayer is indispensably necessary." He continued: "Human life cannot exist without this mysterious but fruitful conversation with God ... In times of adversity, our spirit cannot have any hope except in His transcendent providence. And at the moment when our spirit mistakenly rejoices in its own self-sufficiency and proclaims its own wealth, it should remember that all riches, including those earned by man himself, are debts to be acknowledged before the giver of all that is good." . Speaking from the window of his study above the great square, he referred to the square as a "privileged spot on .earth." The Pope told the pilgrims that prayer gives them new confidence in their outlook on life, a grand concept of their existence and destiny and an orderly world-view "that finds in God its deepest and best reason for existence."

Pop'e Pa uI Urges Strong Witness VATICAN CITY (NC)-Christians, and especially Catholics, must ·be spiritually and morally strong and fearless to witness to Jesus, Pope Paul VI said recently. At a general audience at 6 p.m. on St. Peter's Square, Pope Paul told 'about 50,000 people:: "A Chr,istian, and especially a Catholic, lnU5t be strong-spiritually and morally strong. A follower of Christ must not be af,raid ... He is invested with the task of witnessing which liberates him from shy,ness and from opportunism and suggests to him both words and conduct at the right moment,coming forth from an interior spring whic-h he, perhaps, did not know existed before it was tested." The Pope, speaking' loudly and enthusiastically, said: "The modern tendency to abol'ish every ethical and per·sonal ef·fort - an exception. is in the world of sport which is good but it is not enough-is not a prelude to true 'human progress." He questioned his listeners: "Could the concept of a weak Christianity be legitimate - a Christianity timid and afraid of its own shadow? "I's there perhaps a new true Christianity which in practical terms is willing to give in' to every type of conformism in encounters with the world around jt?.. A Christianity which desires to profit from every chance to make a good Slhowing, to earn the upper hand, to save trouble, to go ahead at full speed?" Departing from his prepared text, the Pope answered: "We want Christians to be strong.

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Cardinal Defends Christian Marriage PARIS (NC)-Making divorce easier is no way to impwve the chances 'Of sucoess -in marl'i'ed :life, Cardinal Francois Mar,ty of Paris said in an lnterview here. The cardinal, who is chairman of ,the French Bishops' Conference, was replying ,to questions posed by the French press agency Agence France-Presse. He was interviewed shor.t1y before the Senate voted 212 t'O 31 in favor of a governmentsponsored divorce reform boill that had already passed the' ),ower . house, ,the National Assembly. ",lam convinced that it is not by facilitating divorce and by making it commonplace -that you can improve .the chances of success in the Hfe of ·a couple," the cardinal commented. It is necessary for the lawmakers, he :said, to take into consideraNon fli,ilures in marriage, and it is a good thing 10 abolish the hypocritical procedures used in legal s'eparatim~s. But it is also necessary, the cardinal 'said, to provide a national policy on the family and to choose, yes or no, whether one bel'ieves ,in the family as ".the basic social unit." "This supposes 'an ensemble of lsocial measures .in aid of the family, but 'a1so a marriage that is not only a contract," he said. "·For Catholics, it Js and remains a definiHve comill'itment before God. "The Church will continue to promote Christian marriage."

The approved ver:sions of the b'ill in both the Senate and the Assembly provide for divorce by mutual consent, wirhout fau),t. Another new ground for divorce ,is "rupture" of a marriage by a phy,sical separ:aiui'on of at leaSit six years or by the mental illness of one of the partners. In the interview Cardinal Marty reaffirmed the French bishops' opposition t'O artificial contraception.

Urged to Honor Jesuit Explorer SPRlINGFIELD (NC)-The IlIinois Knights of Columbus have been asked to promote a worthy memorial to the famed D;lissionary and explorer Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette. Hlinois' secretary of state Michael J. Howlett spoke to the Knights of Columbus state convention on the eve of the 300th anniversary of Father Marquette's death, on May 18, 1675. Calling ;Father Marquette "the first great figure of our IlIinois heritage," Howlett declared that "his life and works should .be made known to the minions who have followed him into TIlinois." He said a suitable memorial would be a worthy project for the IlIinois Knights. "Marquette's unselfish, saintly life should be an eX'ample to all of us to use wisely the wonderful resources of our state," Howlett said.

"The pill is now given at the .age of 13," he commented. "'Who can gJ~ assurance that an adolescent girl is really free ,today in the sexool domain? "'Let us admit that she is relieved of ,the ',taboos' and ignor:ance that yesterday was a burden on sexuality. "Is 'She not today eVidently conditioned ... by the encompassing eroticism? She cannot make a really free choice." (Doctors and birth-control centers were recently given government 'permission to give cont113.oepHvesand birth-control advice to adolescent girls free of charge when the girls do not want their parenus to leam of thek actions.)

FARGO (NC)-Bishop Justin A. Driscoll of Fargo, N.D., has asked U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun to take the initiative in reversing the 1973 Supreme Court decision striking down most state restrictions on abortion. lIn a letter to Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in the 1973 case, Bishop Driscoll urged him "to take the initiative or give the leadership in turning back the decision you wrote, today so properly and so frequently labeled as 'bad law, bad morality, and bad medicine.''' BJoackmun had said the people of the United States ~'are in moral and ethical confusion" and that the Supreme Court's abortion decision "was a constitutional analysis, not a moral one." Blackmun had added: "'But law has moral overtones and a conflict between morality and constitutional law at times would seme to be inevitable." Bishop Driscoll said he agree5 that "there is a conflict between what you wrote in the majority opinion, Roe v. Wade, as regards what is now tragically the 'law of the land' in protecting unborn life and in what the followers of the JQdaeo-Christian ethic can accept." The bishop went on to say, however: "I cannot accept your implications that the United States Constitution is an immoral document, or that there is a conflict between the Constitution and the moral beliefs of our . people."

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P"ojects Assist Hungry in India

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NEW YORK (NC)-Two U.S.funded pilot nutrition projects to aid starving chilldren are under way in disaster-afflicted parts of India. ,Funded by the Sisters of Loretto and administered by Cath· olic Relief SerVices (eRS), over· seas aid and development agen· cy of U. S. Catholics, the Loretto Child-In-Need Projects are designed to bring emergency food supplies to more than 9,000 chill· dren in India where starvation has been caused by floods and ocought. The projects are being con· ducted on opposite sides of the Indian subcontinent through the Calcutta and Bombay offices of CRS. Naturai· disasters have inflicted the greatest suffer,ing among ohildren under the age of five, according to Gus C. E. HaIJ, director of the CRS Calcutta office. He added these chilocen face irreversible damage to their physica1 and menta'! health because of the ravages of prolonged starvation. InitiaUy, tihe Loretto Sisters funded the project forom $90,000 in their treeasury. An additional $90,000 will be raised by the 800-member American Relig,ious community by llibstaining from meat, fasting, and taking on extra work such as typing term papers for students, and poll· watching during looa.! electionS'. 'J1he CatJcutta and Bombay projects dilffer in several respects. In Calcutta the project is administered from 14 city· based centers. The main source of nutr.ition there is a low cost premix food supplement made from ingredients bought locaHy and prepared by the mothers of _the undernourished chiJdren. In Bombay, 1Jhe feeding project is carried out from 21 widely-separated and isolated centers in the drought stdoken Indian states of Gujerat and Madhya Pradoesh. The nutrition supplement there is an orange flavored, v.itamin and protein enriched ·biscuit that is eaten on the spot.

Folly to be Unwise

A belief which once prevailed in the Church was that faith could be preserved if certain ideas were kept away from people. This custom was exemplified by the Index of forbidden books, and more recently by novitiates and seminaries which censored the daily newspapers before ents should just turn off the TV, or hide the parts of the paper allowing them to circulate they don't want the kids to see. among students. Some peo- By doing this, they are avoiding ple may still believe that true faith is threatened when certain subjects ar!'l discussed or radical ideas pushed. I don't . . . although there, are times when I

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MARY CARSON cringe a bit at some of the things which are circulated. As I see it, it is virtually impossible to insulate myself or my family from any particular subjects or ideas. This is because of the age in which we live, a time bombarded with ,a continuous flow of information on every conceivable subject. Any child with a sixth grade reading level can follow Dr. Joyce Brothers' anti-war attitudes, and' why people divorceand remarry. Those who don't read that well can watch a David Susskind panel discuss similar subjects on TV. I don't buy the idea that par-

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So the parents' job is, both by example and teaching, to give their children some background against which they can make their own value judgments on what they watch, listen to, and read. My own kids frequently amaze me by how fast they recognize and turn off garbage. Th'e impossibility of insulating people from ideas is undoubted· ly why the Church no longer maintains the Index and why seminarians and novices even go out on dates. Just as parents have, the Church has found that trying to "protect" people from certain information is futile., The only practical 'approach today is open communication in the belief that we can all learn to recognize and turn off the garbage. NUN TURNS COWGIRL: Sister Stella Edattu, a memThe open attitude is particularly evident in the Oatholic ber of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary, turned press, with more and more news- cowgirl in order to save the cost of a professional stockman papers carrying controversial when she brought 30 head of cattle from Australia to India opinions, and readers expressing ,agreement or disagreement in for agricultural projects to help the poor. Six of the cows the letters to the editor columns. gav.e birth to calves during the 48 day voyage, complicating I'm sure· this is pleasing to a customs report because the value of the cargo increased Christ, who warned us against during transit. The Friesian and Jersey dairy heifers and being lukewarm. bulls were given by farmers in Victoria and New South I find this growing openness Wales under an Australian program, "For those who have to diverse opinions a sign of health in the Church and the less." NC Photo Catholic press. There are fewer and fewer Catholic papers where Religious Broadcasters the editorial policy closes the paper to all but the most ortho- , To Hold Convention dox writers. LANCASTER (NC~The chal· lenges to religious broadcasting It used to be that a writer who expressed a controversial opinion and effective use of the media just disappeared from the Cath- to communicate the Gospel will olic press but this rarely happens be discussed at the Eastern con· today. When it does, the editor vention 'of National Religious Sandal Wood, one of our newst villages, offers an (or bishop) involved, reminds me Broadcasters '(NRB) at Lancaster excellent selection of Y2 acre to 1 % acre homesites priced of parents who hide parts of the Bible College here Aug. 11 and from $8,500. newspaper from their children, 12. Property owners in Sandal Wood may apply for or switch off the TV. Speakers . will include' DI:. membership in the Golf Club, Tennis Club, Beach Club When a parent takes this Charles Learning, FaUh Gospel and Cabana Club of New Seabury. Broadca9t, St. Petersburg, Fla., course with a child today, the parent loses credibility and the Who will outline the current criNew Seabury offers several' finance' plans-one for child looks elsewhere for infor- sis in religious broadcasting, 'and every budget. Down payment as low as 15 percent; mation. The same thing will hap- Richard Canfield, Eastern NRB interest as low at 7 percent. No closing costs. pen to .Catholic newspapers if president, heading a panel of they skip dealing with the hard mental health spedalists on DIRECTIONS: From the Mashpee Rotary at Rt. 28, follow Great Neck Road "Mental Health and Religious questions. ....Broadcasting." 2 miles to the entrance to New Seabury.

partment of Education has prepared a resource booklet to as· sist dioceses 'and pa,rishes in their observances of Cateahetica'1 Sunday, 1975. "Liberty and Justice" is the theme for the observance, to be held Sept. 21. Following the observance of Catechetical Sund~ the past two years, dioceses were invited to ~ontI1ibute resource materials for the new booklet. Muoh of the material in the resource booklet was developed by diocesan religious education offices throughout the country. 'J1he materials in the bookilet ,include suggestions for a rite for the commissioning of parish cateahetical personnel, originalily developed in the Archdiocese of Chioago; a statement of belief and chalJenge, slide presentation script and adult education course developed by the Buffalo diocesan .religious education depal'tment; a homHy prepared by the German Priest Beatified education office of the Denver VATWAN OITY (NC)-Father archdiocese; notes for parish K.alfl Steeb, a German pr;iest who preparation for Catecheticlll was a convert to CathOllicis:m, Sunday produced by the dioc- was beattJified ~n St. Peter's Baesan of.fice of religious education sHioa July ~ hy Rope Paul VI. ,in Baker,' Ore.; prayer services .F,ather Steeb, horn in Tuebignen, on the justice theme and a bib· Germany, became a convellt dn Uography developed by ,the of- Verona, Italy, and later founded fice of reHg,ious education in the the Religious Order pf the Sisdiocese. ters of Mercy of Verona.

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are outfits that can only be worn during th& very hot months, no matter what delightful prices they are being sold for, while a good buy is one that can travel right into, fal!. There are a great many shoe sales now and I did pick up a lovely pair of navy dressy sanda,ls for less than half price. White shoes are something else -they have a very short season and they store poorly. I personaHy would rather invest in shoes that span all seasons, and there are surprisingly many of those on sale, along with the real summery looking ones. Fall Clothes While planning your sale shopping with much thought, you'll also be able to get a peek at the first fall clothes that are already appearing in the stores. Knits ar.e as popular as ever and in soine cases even more so. U you plan on a big investment for fall, take a long look at the knitted coats that will be worn over matching dresses or skirts ana tops. They are quite lovely, !longer than what we have been wearing and quite versatile. If you're an expert with the knitting needlles you could even whip one up yourself. Start now and be fashionable when the first crisp air arrives! A material that will be star for fall and winter is ultrasuede and chamois (the latter is a washable combination of polyester and polyurethane that looks and feels like that beautiful soft chamois.

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Sees Progress Against Hunger ROME (NC) - No one was very optimistic; but most of the grim and often bickering delegates to the first meeting of the World Food Council were willing to' concede that some progress has been made recently in the battle against world hunger. "The crop situation may be easing this year, 'but we 'cannot forget the very real danger that growing food requirements are stretching the capacity of the world to feed itself," Sayed Marei told the council here June 25. Marei, an Egyptian, is president of the council, created at the behest of November's World Food Conference in Rome. The council's mandate is to survey and help improve the way men grow their ·food and share it with other men.

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. MARSHAL AND PARDNER: Marshal (more familiar as Archbishop) Jean Jadot wears his new badge proudly as he poses with Marshal John Copelin of Dodge City, Kansas. The archbishop, apostolic delegate in the United States, obtained his honorary legal title at Boot Hill, the burial place for legendary characters of the Old West. The native Belgian archbishop met with area priests and nuns during an overnight visit as the guest of Bishop Marion F. Forst. NC Photo

Illogical, Unfaithful Inconsistency.Between Faith and Works Is Christianity's Sin

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Mod· ern Christianity's great sin is failure to follow through from faith to good wo~ks, .pope Paul VI said in his general audience talk June 25. "What is the great sin of modern Christianity?" he asked. "It is the sin of being illogical, inconsistent and unfaithful. It is faith without works." Faith, the Pope added, must lead to fidelity. "Faith demands a profession, a logic of thought and life . . . ,a move from the mind to the will, a witness, effort, risk, resistance, sacrifice and a martyrdom, as so many generations of Christians have taught us." The Pope counseled that faith must be "clear, firm and stable" in the fact of doctrinal uncertainties. President Marcos "But do not bel,ieve that this Assures Catholics fidelity signifies 'blind and inert MANILA (NC) - PhiHppine immobility," the Pope said. President 'Ferdinand E. Marcos "It means rather than an exIllinois College Gets has assured Filipino CathoHcs traordinary vit,ality must be giv$1 Million HEW Grant ~~~~~~is~~i1iPPines will not go en to the seed of the faith." He warned against "devastatLISLE (NC) - Illinois BeneIn two public speeches during ing incons-istency" of dead faith. dictine College here will develop the observance of the 77th aimiThe audience, originally set and expand its programs in ac- versary of the Philippine's decademics, student life and inter- laration of independence, Presi- for St. Peter's Square, was nal management with the aid of dent Marcos attempted to allay moved indoors due to bad weatha $1 million grant from the De· apprehensions expressed' by er. Consequently the Pope gave partment of Health, Education some Catholics at the Philippines brief resumes of the talk he had and Welfare, renewed relations with the prepared on f'aith and another major address on Africa. The grant covers a three-year People's Republic of China. During the audience the Pope period, with most funds to be The two countries resumed used .during the second year diplomatic, radio and cultural ties met briefly with a group of 40 for the implementation and during the state v,isit made by Australian aborigines who arstrengthening of programs. President Marcos to Pek'ing, the rived in Rome without baggage, money or documents following It calls for a comprehensive Chinese capital, June 7 to 11. health education and physical President Marcos, who is a Cath- an aircraft disaster they suffered fitness program for students and olic, was received by Chairman in Bombay, India. the community, improved health Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou The group, from the Diocese services and an improved intra- En-Iai. Their meeting culminated of Darwin, had to make an emermural sports program, especially in thth signing~' of ,",an Qf\fIicial;\1; seq<;):' Jliln.ding in Bombay after for wo;n~ at~'~k',~;~~f'\~~~~~Si~t-:;' tvhi~h 'their' plane bti'rst into college. er an e&trangement of 26 ye<:\rs. flames. No was seriously ROME (NC)-Anmen'ians from the Middle East, the Soviet Un.ion and West Europe have arrived here on a pilgrimage led by Armenian-rite Patriarch Ignace Pierre XVI Batanian of CHiC'ia, who llives in Lebanon. An estimated 850 Armenians, together with eight archbishops and bishops, arrived from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Greece, France, Italy and Soviet Armenia. The pilgrims were to attend Pope Paul VI's weekly general audience and on July 10 to meet in the Church of San Nicola da Tolentino for the unveLling of a statue of Ca,rdinal P,ierre Agagianian, late prefect of the Congregation for the EvangeHzation of Peoples.

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hurt, but all were deeply shaken. After 'the accident the group thought at first to return to Australia by ship, said the gorup leader, Father John Leary, a Missionary of the Sacred Hea,rt. But the aborigines' strong desire to see the Pope overcame their fear of the misadventures of technology, the priest said. During the four-day stop in Bombay, he added, a young aborigine was so saddened by the human suffering he saw in the Indian city that he cried for the entire time. According to Father Leary,. Western society would consider the boy who cried to be himself a victim of poverty.

SPRINGFIELD (NC)-The Illinois General Assembly approved a biB requiring the husband's or paJrent's censent before an abortion can be perfornned and another biN providing the loan of secular textbooks to 1llinois school children attending either public or nonpublric schools. The free textbook bill, passed by the Senate June 27, was a substitute for a House-approved bilJ providing annual cash grants to parents of parochial school dhilldren. Sen. Michael Brady (0- . Chicago), one' of the Senate sponsors of the substitute biB, has stated that the 'legislators decided on the textbook approach because of possible consNtutional challenges to the law. The House approved the free textbook bill in a 104-35 vote and it went to Gov. Dan Walker. Sponsors of the bill have said that about 15 per cent of the money 'appropriated for free textbooks would go to parochial school pupils. According to the new legislation, the IUinois Office of Education will draw up list of professionally accepted textbooks that the otiflCe wiLl lo,an to all school pupils in kindergarten, grammar or high schools upon legitimate request. Or. Charles Brady, secretary for educational affairs of the Illinois Catholic Conference commenting on the 'constitutionaHty of textbook legislation, said that the U. S. Supreme Court !has upheld the constitutionality of providing textbooks for nonpublic school children. .

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EAST BREWSTER IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Schedule runs June 28· Labor Day Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-4:30 and 6:00 P.M.

BUZZARDS BAY ST, MARGARETS Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00; 11 :00 and 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Confessions: Saturday-4:oo-5:00 and 7:00-8:00 P.M.

ONSET ST. MARY-STAR OF THE SEA Masses: SundaY-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:3~ A.M. Saturdav-6:30 P.M. Daily 9:00 A.M. Confessions: Saturday-3:30-4:30 P.M. and after 6:30 P.M. Mass

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OUR Lo\DY OF VICTORY Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 A.M. First Fridays-Ultreya-8:00 P.M. First Friday Masses at 7:00 and 9:00 A.M.

WEST BARNSTABLE OUR LADY OF HOPE Masses: Sunday-8:45 and 10 A.M. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M.

CENTRAL VILLAGE ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. Sunday Masses Parish Hall: 9:30 and 10:30 A.M.

CHATHAM HOLY REDEEMER. Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9':00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Evening-5:oo P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M.

SOUTH CHATHAM OUR LADY OF GRACE Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

EAST FALMOUTH ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. . Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:30 P.M. Daily-8:oo A.M.

EAST FREETOWN OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-9:00, 11 :00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:30 P.M.·"" Daily-8:00 A.M.

EDGARTOWN ST. ELIZABETH Schedule begins June 14 Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 • 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions-Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

FALMOUTH ST. PATRICK Schedule effective weekend of June 28-29 Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 and 5:30 P.M. . Saturday Eve-5:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. - Saturdays 8:00 A.M.

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS ST. THOMAS CHAPEL Schedule effective wee~end of June 28-29 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 A.M. Saturday-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M.

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Mass Schedule for Summer Season NORTH EASTHAM CHURCH OF THE VISITATION Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M.

OSTERVILLE OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION Masses: Sunday-7:oo,8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. Coofessions: Saturday-4:00 - 5:00 P.M.

SANTUIT ST. JUDE'S CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 A.M. Saturday-5:00 P.M. Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M.

MASHPEE QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M.

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ST. JOHN mE EVANGELIST Schedule begins June 22 Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30,10:30,11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:30 A.M. Confessions: Saturday - 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. and following 7:00 P.M. Mass for half-hour

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SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-9:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M.

MARION ST. RITA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. Daily-8:30 A.M. Friday-Benediction & Rosary 7:00 P.M.

MAnAPOISm ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00 (Folk Mass), 11:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday-8:00 A.M.• 4:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M.

NANTUCKET OUR LADY OF THE ISLE Schedule starts weekend May 31 Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:30, 11:30 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7;30 AM (Saturdays 9;00 AM.) Rosary before 7:30 A.M. Mass daily

SIASCONSET, MASS, UNION CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-8:45 A.M. July and August

OAK BLUFFS SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:15, 10:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M.

ORLEANS ST. JOAN OF ARC Mu.ses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 !1nd 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Our Lady of perpetu,aI'H.elp, No\,ei,.:-We~nesday Momlns Mass at 8:00 A.M.

PROVINCETOWN ST. PETER THE APOSTLE Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M., 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. (except Saturday) Confessions: Saturday-4:00· 5:00 P.M. and &:45 P.M.

SANDWICH CORPUS CHRISTI Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. and • 12 Noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

SAGAMORE ST. mERESA Masses: Sunday--8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M.

SOUTH DARTMOUTH ST. MARY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. & 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. Saturday only-8:00 A.M.

BASS RIVER OUR LADY OF mE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30 A.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (July and Aug.)

CHILMARK COMMUNITY CENTER Schedule begins June 29 Masses: Sunday-7:oo P.M.

Y(AREHAM ST. PATRICK Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 6:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament follows the 7:00 A.M. Mass and continues until 7:00 P.M. on ist Fridays Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Schedule for July and August

WEST WAREHAM ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-9:00 A.M. Confessions: Y2 hour before Mass

WELLFLEET OUR LADY OF LOURDES Masses: .Sunday-8:oo, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:30, 9:00 A.M.

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HOLY TRINITY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. First Friday-Mass and Exposition 11:00 A.M. and Benediction 2:00 P.M. Confessions: Saturday 4:00 and 7:45 P.M.

DENNISPORT UPPER COUNTY ROAD OUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Confessions: Saturday-3:45 P.M.

WESTPORT ST. GEORGE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

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ST. PIUS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 A.M. 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 A.M. (9:00 A.M. Mass Mon.-Fri. only)

ST. JOSEPH Schedule from June 21-Sept. 1 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses

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O'Reilly! Early and Strong Continued from Page One public schools were Catholics, only 200 of a total of 2300 of the teachers were Catholic. Nor had Boston yet appointed its first Catholic headmaster. As editor of The Pilot, he pointedly singled out the names of those business firms whose help wanted ads insisted that "no Irish need apply," Foe of Racism O'Reilly's Pilot gave extensive coverage- to Negro social and cui· tural activities, praised the appointm~nt of blacks to public office, and favored racial intermarriage. Following his 1886 Southern tour, when he witnessed segregation against the blacks in hotels, restaurants and theaters, O'Reilly advised blacks to mobilize politically. "If I were a colored man," he declared, "I should use political men, parties, as I would a club or hatchet, to smash the prejudice that dared to exclude my children from a public school, or myself from a public hall, theater, or hotel," With equal vigor he denounced anti-Negro demonstrations above the Ma30n-Dixon Line. He criticized seven Minnesota white students who protested against their school's granting of a diploma to a black student; was angered by the dismissal of a black cadet from West Point; and condemned New York policemen who threatened to strike rather than allow a Negro to join the force. Champion of Rights Quite unde.rstandably, O'Reilly's death in 1890 was viewed as a calamity by Roxbury's black community. In their tributes to O'Reilly his Negro friends compared him to William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips as a champion of Negro rights. As one of the few who spoke out for the rights of the American Indian during these years, O'Reilly attacked the practice of gaining valuable land concessions by means of "corn whiskey and firearms." When the battle of Little Big Horn made Indian rights a national issue, O'Reilly commended the Sioux for their skill in defeating Gen. George Custer in what he (fonsidered a fair fight. Of more concern to him was the possibility that Custer's death would prevent the public from properly considering the real issue; namely, that "treaties are broken up as soon as the ink is

also praised the Jewish businessman for his skill, honesty and integrity. He detested the racial slurs contained in the book, "The Jew," written by Telemaque T. Timavenis, a Harvard instructor; he denounced the treatment of Jews in Russia, Germany and Austria; and, he declared, when a New York owner refused accommodations to a Jewish businessman, "It is the duty of every liberal mind to condemn such an incident." John Boyle O'Reilly died sudrle~ly in 1890 at the age of 46, a man who envisioned the world as a community in which "all men are bound by gold chains not only to the feet of God, but to ·the feet of each other," For, as he declared, "There are no Classes or races, but one human brotherhood; there are no creeds- to be outlawed, no colors of skin debarred. Mankind is one in its rights and wrongs."

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Schedule Catholic Press Meetings NEW YORK (NC)-Two days of meetlings fur the oommu,ttees of the Caitholic Press Assooi.atio.n (CPA) haveheew sohedu,led for Aug. 20 and 21 dn Washington, D. C. The CPA hoard of directors wiH meet Aug. 22 fuHowing the commlittee meetJings. 'I'he CPA 'is 'an association of Catholic publishers and press personnel in the Uni,ted States and Canada, devoted to the promotion of oooperation and higher professional standards .in the CathoFi~"press. - . . "

(Dennis P. Ryan is a candidate for a doctoral degree in history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.)

Grant for Abused Children Program NEWARK (NC) - Associated Catholic Charities of the Newark archdiocese has received a grant of $50 000 from New Jersey to administer a protective t"rogram for abused and neglected children in Union County. The agency's .family. division office in' Union will administer the program, which will serve both English and Spanish-speaking clients. Some estimates place the number of children in Union suffering from parental neglect at 3,600. The grant to .Catholic Charities was made by the State Division of Youth and Family Services. It is part of $800,000 in state, federal and local funds being made available for the Union County Protective Services Demonstration Project. Six community agencies are invo'ved in the program. Professionally trained social workers will provide individual, family and group counseling for parents. Paraprofessionals and volunteers will work with the mothers of abused children and will assist families in obtaining help from various agencies.

NEW YORK (NC) Pax Christi-USA, the U. S. branoh of the international Catholic peace movement, will hold a convocation on tlte tJheme. "Ohristian Nonviolence: A chllJ11enge to America" at the Bergamo Center, Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 21-23, the executive committee of Pax Christi-USA announced here. The keynote address wHl be given by Auxi1iary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit, a member of the executive committee. The meeting is intended to hring togetJher Catholics and others who support Pax Christi's program to establishing peacemaking as a top priority oftJhe U. S. Catholic Church by exploring and a,rticulating the ideal ". Of Christian nonv.iolence.

JUSTICE FOR FARMERS: Farmers in Minnesota sell hamburger and cheese directly off a truck at reduced prices to demonstrate the role of middlemen in food price markups. The sale, organized by the National Farmers' Organization (NFO), took place at 51. Thomas College in 51. Paul while justice hearings sponsored by the U. 5. bishops were being held inside on the needs of rural Americans. NC Photo

Grandfather Priest Serves Shopping Mall Continued from Page One wa·s built near Main Street,the new Main Street is the shopping center;" . Freed from paroc.hi,aI responsibiHdNes, a smaU ohapell is able to concentrate on the human needs of worsivippers, and Father Diotami soon found himself ~n­ valved in counsel'ing and comfor.ting. Fcom his rea:liza,tJion of <the lonel-iness of the many Who oame to him there grew a unique organizaVIon, the cal'IDel Club, made up of widowed men and women seekling "to help each other find the help each needs in combating loneliness, providdng mild care and attaining socral, material and spiritua'l welfare," Meetings featur~d speakers, discussion or enterla.jnment and dinner dances were heild regularly. The club proved so popul'ar that worn Peabody it 'Spread to other cities in Massaohusetts and nearny Rhode Island. "Loneliiness can 'be a cripplling affliction," declared Father Dittam!, speaking ,from his own experience. "It takes two to :five years for 'a person to make an adjUiStment atiter the death of a partner," FoHoV(,ing his success in Peabody, the Ca,rmeHte was asked to add 'in esta:blishing a simHar chapell at the Bergen Mall Shopping Center in Paramus" N. J. There he began 1'iteraHy from the ground up, roning up his' sleeves and working with a power saw Ito aid in tranSiforming a former stockbrokers' off1ice into 'a chapel seating 100 and standing an additional 50 at its three Masses celebrated seven days a week. He has been 'at the New Jersey chape'l. since 1970, Where his program includes daily hearing of confessions, many coun,seling sessions and overseeing of a·re-~ Jligious goods store operated in

conjunction wlith ,t:Jhe chapel. F'undraising dinner dances are occasiona:lly held and the Bergen County Kni<>hts of Columbus 'alIso make contributions to the chapel, but 'in tl1e main ,it is Iself sUPpoI'1ing. Its potenHal users, he notes, include an awesome ha:l,f mil~'llion souls residing witbin a 10 minute driving radius. And when they. attend Mass they wHl note the unusuail cha'1,ice used by Father Dittami, which 'includes gold and jewels belongdng to his Ilate wi.fe, as well as Ihis own melted down wedding }'ling.

To these friends he wrote ira letter sent out after his ordination: "I have 'a greater appredatli<>n of friends, in Ii: deeper awareness of the unity of our human si.tuation, both in its joys and sorrows. Surely I cannot thank God enou~ for alI the wannth and friendship you have showered upon me, not so long ago in' SON'OW, and now in joy. From you, I hope I have ,learned to sha're my's~lf completel1y in total servce to mankind in the love of God."

The CarmeHte is eager to welcome y1j'S1itors from Fa'11 River who may be dn the New Jersey area. He notes that the Bergen Very spooia'1 Vlisitors to the MaU is on Route 4, about e'iglht chapel from time to time are .mi:Ies wom the GeOrge W'ashingFa-tiber Dittami's thr~e grand- ton BrJdge, and that the chapel children, the daugh.ters of his own only dau~ter, as are old address is 'I1he Oannelites, Berfriends from tAle Fan River gen Mall Shopping Center, Pardiocese. amus, N. J. 07652.

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On Sunday evening, June 22, the David Suskind television talk show featured a spirited but remarkably courteous debate on the proper role of the media in covering the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, CIA, and other sensitive government agencies. The panelists balanced article in Commentary entitled "The Presidency and the were experienced journalists. Press." "There is nothing the With the exception of former matter with investigative reportWhite House staff member Pat- ing; there ought to be more," rick Buchanan and, to a lesser Moynihan readily conceded. "The extent, of one other panel mem- issue," he said, "is not one of ber, they took the position that - serious inquiry, but' of 'an almost feckless hostility to power. Obviously government at all levels needs and will continue to get criNcism, and some of it will inBy evitably be harsh or destructive, often enough justifiably so. . . . MSGR. Nevertheless there remains the question of balance." GEORGE G. The trouble 'is, however, that HIGGINS "balance" in this contest is difficult to define. What Mr. Moynihan might consider a balanced the media ought to play an ad- approach to the news would versary or watch-dog role with probably be labeled a whitewash respect to the government and by more skeptical or more disought to do so ever more aggres- Hlusioned observers of the politi· sively. cal scene. It's the old story Only the media, they contend- in the city room of the New ed, can keep the government York Times or in Walter Cronhonest, let the chips fall where kite's television studio as well as they may. Witness Watergate, at the dinner table, one man's they argued by way of example, food is another man's poison, or the deception practiced by and vice versa. successive Administrations with Pro-Establishment regard to the war in Vietnam. In any event, Mr. Buchanan Merits Attention Mr. Buchanan, who, because who was, or gave the impression of his former White House con- of being, on the defensive during nections, must have felt (and cer- the entire_ Suskind show-would tainly looked) uncomfortable as have been more persuasive if he he listened to this line of argu- had brought a greater measure ment, repeatedly warned that the of personal balance to his insistmajor national newspapers and ence on the need for balance in television networks, by their con- the media's coverage of the stant muckracking, are under- White House and other political mining public confidence not institutions. only in the off\ice of the PresiInstead, he spent too much dency but in all our basic politi- time arguing (shades of Spiro cal institutions. Agnew) that the majority of naMr. Buchanan's point merits tional reporters and newscasters serious attention, as Ambass,ador are poliHcally left of center and Daniel P. Moynihan suggested that their liberal-to-left bias several years ago in a carefully leads them instinctively~ if not by conscious decision, to take sides against the government by Manhattan College overemphasizing its failures' and Has New President _underemphasi2!ing its accomNEW YORK (NC) - Christian plishments. Brother Stephen Sullivan, execThe other panelist agreed that utive vice-president and provost perhaps the majority of nationof Manhattan College here, has ally prominent reporters' and been named the 17th president newscasters are, politically in the college's 122-year-old his- speaking, "liberals" (though certory. tainly not "leftists" or "radiThe announcement was made cals"). On the other hand, they by Vincent dePaul Draddy, rejected the notion that this chairman of the college's board leads them to slant the news of trustees. Brother Sullivan suc- against the government. or ceeds Brother Gregory Nugent, against the Establishment !in gen63, whose 13-year presidency. eral. If anything, they contendwas the longest in the college's ed, the majority of reporters and history. newscasters, whether liberals or Brother Sullivan, 54, came to conservatives, have been too Manhattan College in 1959 as an easy rather than too hard on the assistant professor of theology. powers-that-be in most of our In 1963, he became an associate major institufions. professor and academic vice With all due deference to Mr. president. Buchanan and the ill-fated Mr. Born in Boston, Mass., he Agnew, I am inclined to agree joined the Brothers of Christi'an with this conclusion. W,ith a few Schools in 1938. He received a exceptions that prove the rule, bachelor's de-gree in classics the media tend to be pro- rather from the Catholic University of than anti-Establishment. As a America in Washington, D. C., in general rule, it is only in the 1943, a master's degree in clas- independent weeklies and monthsics from Manhattan College in lies that the anti-Establishment 1955 and licentiate and doc- point of view on controversial torate degrees in theology from social and poiltical issues reCatholic University in 1957 and ceives anything like an adequate hearing. . 1959.

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. FATHER "ALcAPONE" CELEBRATES: Franciscan Father Albert Braun, 87, distributes Communion from his wheelchair during a Mass in which he observed his 60th anniversary as a priest. While a Japanese prisoner during the. Second World War, he got the nickname "AI Capone," because he stole food to keep fellow Americans from starving to death. After the war he built the landmark Apache "cathedral" on the Mescalero Indian reservation in New Mexico as a tribute to servicemen. NC Photo

..Response to Refugees .'Amazing' WASHINGTON (NC) - The coordinator of the resettlement program for Vietnamese refugees in the New Orleans archdiocese said she is "amazed" at the amount of assistance given by' the federal and local governments and by private citizens. The coordinator, Mrs. Elise Cerniglia, who also worked in the resettlement program for Cuban refugees, said that both government agencies and private citizens have responded more en· thusiastically to the plight of the Vietnamese refugees In an interview here, she said she has placed 30 families, comprising about 250 persons" in three- and four-bedroom houses in a su!xiivision in a predominantly black area. "I thought they might not. be accepted," Mrs. Cerneglia said, "but the people in the subdivision have brought curtains, groceries and been very friendly." The rent for the houses is being paid for by the U.S. Catholic Conference Migration and Refugee Services resettlement ,program under an arrangement with the federal government. "I'm trying to set up a community of Vietnamese that will be self-sufficient and able to purchase their own homes, Mrs. Cerniglia ,said. Under a special arrangement with the realtor, the rent for a four-bedroom house has been set at $100 for the first month and $125 for the second. It is ultimately to go to $175 a month. She said she has placed about 15 single men and 10 heads of households in jobs. Job opportu-

nities are plentiful, she said, but" housing remains a problem. The management of the Avondale shipyard, which constructs offshore drilling rigs, told herthat they could hire 100 persons, she said, but she has not been able to find housing for potential employees. Another problem, Mrs. Cerniglia said, is insufficient notice from the military camps housing

the refugees about the time of their arrival in New Orleans and the composition of the families arriving. "We're getting ready 10 open a summer camp for the refugee children," she said. "St. Joseph the Worker parish has a bus that will bring them to the parisb school where they will learn English and be involved in a recreation program."

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Commends Dan Madden1s Religious Guide to Europe Daniel M. Madden's "A Religious Guide to Europe" (Macmillan, 866- Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 529 pages, $9.95) is published too late to be of help in planning a trip this summer. But it will be of assistance to anyone laying out a trip for later this to the Continent, desyear or for future years. And, London tined for the English army fightcome to think of it, the book jog in Russia. A master criminal can profitably be taken along named Edward Pierce decides to on a journey already arranged. In alphabetea'l order, .it ranges from Asia to Turkey, with a short chapter on Eastern

steal one such ·shipment. This wiH be no easy feat. The bullion is heavily guarded en route from a bank to a London raiilway station. Aboard the tra'in, it is placed in for:midable safes located in a locked car. All this procedure is a closely By guarded secret. The fiendishly clever Pierce RT. REV. begins by worming the secret MSGR. out of an officer of the bank, one Fowler. Pierce now knows JOHN 5•. aH the elements of tfue problem facing 'him and he now proceeds KENNEDY to enl'ist a &et of crim,inal specIalists from the London underworld. ' Europe appended. This latter Each of these in turn performs feature means that Poland, his or her particular servke, and for e~ample, ,gets only a single . P,ierce 'advances steadily with paragraph, which is entirely in- his nefarious scheme. He spends adequate. many months in carrying it out, In contrast to that, Austria witJh considerably more luck gets 33 pages, and of course ,than such a dastard deserves deserves every bit of tJhat space. and with many a hairbreadth And Itatly gets 45 'piliges, also escape from detection or frustraweLl warranted. Even so, not tion. The denoument of the ,tale, every place of religious interest must, of course, 'be left for the in It'aly is treated. nor could this reader to discover. lif he wishes. be so. Victorian Setting One can question the propor"Leonie Hangrave is a pseutioning whioh gives three pages donym. We are told that it con,to Assisi, but four pages to ceals the identity "of an author Padre Pio. Assis'i.and the ,story both .prolific 'and much pra'ised and perennial !influence of St. . for work in other modes." This Frands, certainly outrank in im- time out, the autihor is essaying portance the recent phenomenon a novel Vktorian not only in of Padre Pio, think what one setting but alIso in ,style and in wiJIl of that phenomenon. sentimentality, witJh feather-light . Mr. Madden has not conf.ined touches of satire. himself to Catholic Europe. He The heroine of Clara Reeve·:is gives anformationabout places early orphaned, is entrusted to ,important to Protestants: for the care of a ferocious uncle and example, those in Scotland con- 'a kindly aunt, manages to avoid nected with John Knox. Mt. an unsuitable arranged marriage, Athos. in Greece, is a great and inher:its a fortune. Greek OrtJhodox center. and the Her troubles are over. right? author supplies a compreliensive Certainly not. She ,then is courted introduction to it. 11he Old Jew- by an aristocratic cousin, Niles· ish Quarter and the Jewish Mu- Visconti, who is graced with an . seum of Amsterdam are de- ItaHan title-he is the Count Visconti. They marry, and all sc~ibed. Your -rev,iewer does not know her weal1th becomes his. She goes to Italy (so unparof any other guide of this type which as as ,wide-ranging as Mr. donably CatJholic), to Uve with Madden',s. Besides being so ex- !him and his viperish mother. tensive, it is well written and They make her existence misreadable. Personalities and anec- erable. In their establishment is dotes,. -as well as historical 'a menacing manservant who is sketohes, enliven the pili'ges. on suspioiously familiar ter:ms Also, there are some practical with the V<iscontis. What js his aids, such as hotel 'listings and relationship to tJhern? Why does he sneer at Olara? W1hy do they the distances between points. let him do so? Two New Novels But CIara is, after all. 'the herAnother sort of journey <is provided by two new novels, The oine. More than that, she is the Great Train Robbery by Midhael narrator of this lengthy. serpenCrichton (Knopf, 501 Madison tine story. After making some Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022. horrifying d'iscoveries, she is 266 pages. $7.95) and aa,ra finally rid of her tormentors, Reeve by Leonie Hargrave and is free to marry a very (Knopf. 442 pages. $8.95). Both worthy man. these books'take the reader back . The autihor has brought off a to Vrictorian England, specifically tickHgh feat, capturing the menthe middle of the 19th century. tal'ity and the method of the Dr. Criohton',s prev.ious fiction writer of the protracted sentenhas been in the genre of science tious.and horror-taunted novels thI\iI1ers, The Andromeda Strain of a hundred years ago. Whether and The Terminal Man. He now or not you care to stay with suoh a performance 'for almost tries a change of pace. The time is 1855. The Crimean 450 pages is for you to decide. War is dragging on. Each month It is a curiosity successfuHy contrived. th~e is a Shipment of gold from

Warns Catholics Against Abortion MANILA (NC)-A seven-day seminar on abor:Non spons'oced by ,the private Fami'ly Planl1Jing Organlization of the PhiJiipp'ines (FPOP) has provoked a public warning from Arehbishop Jaime L. Sin of ManHa aga;inst aoceptance of the "abom!in,ll'ble prac,tiee" of abortlion. Agencies of <Vhe government rinvolved in population control partliC'ipated in the seminar on ilibor,tlion, the first to be held in this country.

the populatli'on that human life is 1nVJiolable, Arclhbishop Sin warned: "The danger in the Ph:Hippines is especiaHy signifiicant. We have, so far, managed to preserve a respect for human I,ife ,and 'have stayed away from 'abortion, at least ,in ,its more obvlious forms.

"But we have ,implementedor a'1'low.ed to be implementeda broadly based program of con· tr.aception that has included a Speakers claimed that native. v,ariety of meth¢s. And qUlite a herbalists were selling abor:t!i- number of these methods do not facient herbs lin the churches fall'l within ttJhe lilinits consid,themselves, espeoiaUy on Sun- ered ~H!iC'i.t by the Churoh." days or holy days of oblligation. AltJhough no statistics are Reminding FiHpino Catholics'. ,available, population experts of who constitute 80 per cent of <the government, notably tlhose·

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Education and the Home 'It was a smaU incident, but it has ~tuck with me over the years. l1he young woman .and the 'little girl boarded the bus at a downtown stop and took the seats just in front of me. As children wiH do, ,the child hunkered up on her knees and stared at' me over the seat back.

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RUSSELL SHAW

She was ,a pretty little thing, a toddler just beginning to talk. For several minutes she babbled wh'ile I tidly tJ1ied to decipher what she was saying. Then suddenly it came through to me. SmHing in an innocent and engaging manner, she was repeating over and over an obscene phrase which, as they say, could not be printed in a fami'ly newspaper. I do not mentiontJhe incident fortJhe salre of moralHzing. Certa'inly by itself it tells Jittle or nothing 'about the young woman and tlle Etule girl. But perhaps -it does have 'a 'Point in relation to education and the home."

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Good Examp.e in Home Let us begin with the obvious. Like it or not, for good or ill, education does occur in the horne. ChHdren, especia'1ly the very young, are teaming constantly from what they hear and observe. And the adults whom they hear and ()bserve most steadily and most inHmateiy are their parents. ,For a pM'ent this can be a rather frightening thought. Every parent wants to give his or her ohildren "good example." But it would be a mistake to leave the matter at that. What sort of "good example" are we talking about? If it comes down in practice to "Do as I say, not as I do" we are skating on thin ice. Example by Action - . ,For instance, what do we teach 'about education---'tJhe process of learning--'itself? Do we convey the idea tlhat ,it lisa worthwhile and even pleasurable a,ctiViity? Or, without intending ~t, do we communicate the message that it is reaJIly something onerousa burden to be borne when necessary but avoided wbenever possible? Many parents are quite conscientious 'a'bout seeing to it that their chHdren do the'ir home· work. But .some undenmine their own efforts by indicating, in deeds if not ,in words, th'at nobody engages .in intellectual activity unless he must. Is it posTurn to Page Fourteen

An Education •In Symbols

Five tOl"pedos and an uncounted number of aenial bombs hit the U.S.S. AI"izona on December 7; 1941 as that huge battJieship lay at anchor in tJhe Hawa,jjan Island's magnificent Pearl Harbor.

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The explosions ,ripped the ship in two and within nine m'inutes it settled to the bottom, entombing 1,100 men in a watery grave. Their bodies still remain in the rusting hulk of ,the Arizona, but above the ship spans a remarkable memorJal. The building en· closes an assembly area ~arge enough to accommodate 200 persons and in that space is a model of the battleship, a bad recovered from the sunken ves,sel and a shrine listing the names of those ~Hled during 1:Jhe attack. A pole rises from the side of the white structure and each day a Color GUM'd ralises and .Jowers the flag 'as a symhol the Navy sentimentaI1y considers the Arizona sUll in commisstion. At the base of :the f1lagpole, a bronze plaque reads:

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"Dedicated to the eternal memory of our gallant shipmates ,in the U,S.S. Arizona who gave thei,r lives in acDion 7 De· cember 1941. .. May God make his face to shine upon them and grant them peace." Perpetual Memento As your boat slowly circles to give the guide an opportunity for an e~planation of the Memorial, visitors 'are asked to pause for a moment of sHent prayer in , memory of those buried beneath the waters and within the U.S.S. Arizona. The manner in which 300 pleasure seeking, Scotch or ·beer drinking tourists suddenly became quiet and foldowed the suggestion was !l"athe~ amazling. The Memor-iClJI and its various components - the flag, the shrine, the bell,' the buoys indicating the sunken boat's extrem·ities, the model ship--are symbols. They remind us of a past event, make it present to us during the current moment, and perpetuate ,its memory for the future. As symbols they a'!so have the power to touCh us, to move our inner selves. We not only learn a'bout what happened nearly ,three decades ago, we may aliso find ourselves lin certain ways 'inspired ;by the ex'ample of those who died for the sake of a cause. It can move us consciously or unconsciousl~ to act in the fuTum to Page Fourteen

BY MARY E. MAHER A whale's- stomach is not a likely digestive pot. For two centuries, the American educationa'! melting pot has brought. with -it a kind of whimpering, narcissistic Jonahlism. There has been a ma~ked tendency to stay ,inside the comfortable walls of an educaNonal model that ds mostly An~lo-American. In CathoNc education this forced the Gospel to be proclaimed in a mono·cultural fashion. We now approach ,the Bicentennial and many options for reo understandiinlg Cathol,ic e'ducation ifie before us. It is root time. Bcing root time, we, like Jonah, are asked to get out of our com· fortable mono-<cultlH'al patterns and parochialisms (whales' stom· achs) and see what O\1r multi· etJhn'ic hackgrounds offer to and for Catholic education and ed· ucation lin generaL Historically, Catholic education of.fered an identity support for cultural minoriNes, largely Irish or Polish or German OatJhoHcs. This was perhaps appropriate to our nation's beginnJng for in any ,infancy period the protection of the species Jis crit'ical. We are not in the period 'of beginnings now. We 'are thinking about a'ction that will make us grow into more mature American forms. Options T,wo options seem open. One is the retreat into the myth th(lt ethnic differences are melted down by faith in Christ. That myth is dead since we now know that the meaning of the Church is like the meaning of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poemthere is beauty in each culture that expresses the salvation and 'growth that Jesus brings us. The Church lis to invite out that beauty and growuh, not styl,ize ,it into fOl'ms appropriate to one or two cultures. The other option is looking forward to the 21st -century and trying to create through growthful understanding a mosaic where ethnic, racial and religious identities and traditions can ,invlite global survivaL Uke 'it or not, the Ninevah we are now ,spilled into has aN the perils that quaked Jonah's nerve, too. We need a hard look at group identities and conflicts, the podlut'ion of our envkonrnent, depletion of energy, non-renewable national resource waste, rampant population growth, the growing gap between ,rkh and poor. The whole globe is interdependent. The community idenHties we huddle to find ~n small groups are shaped, as are our self-'images, by fue world' about us, by ,the ethnk backgrounds we 'bring into our present settings. Pluralism in Education To he a Catholic educator in the United St'ates at the time of Bicentennial ,is to reconcile and, in instances, reverse two centuries of cultural incubation and in a gesture as broad as the cross to seek convel'gence rather than confl1<:t 'With our Pol'ish or

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V LORD TO ALL CULTURES: "Catholic education is tonal, the lived expression of the belief that the Lord is incarnate in all cultures, inviting them to fullness of life." A young woman holds a New Testament contemplatively in a Brooklyn Catholic school named for a black child killed in the neighborhood. NC Photo. black or Irish of Jewish brothers. "Cat:halk" is a good word for Jjt touches down into the BibHcal reality of its root mean'ing of "universCl'I." The word "Catholic" impHes pluralism. Cathoi'ic education is lin 'a unique position to act according to ,its nature: belief that Jesus is ,incarnate in aN mankind. If the riches of such pluralism are to be found in our education in a renewed way, ed· ucation must assume a new fOml. Testbooks have tended to dissolve culturaI differences by underplayting them. Much cur·riculum has heen mono-cultuml and has tended to assimHate children into the Anglo-cultural form. The overriding purpose of schools was to make of newcomers from many nations one people witJh one culture. -Yet God's people are multi-cuItural. Lord to All Cultures LittieactuaI pluralism was en· couraged in schools. Learning 'about great Negro or Jewish figures is not the same as accepting the great good dn each of these cultural communi,Dies. Thus, much that has heen called "multi· ethnic" in CathoLic education 'has been but symboHc tokenism. Intercul,tul"a,1 educa·tion is not

offering facts about many cultures: Spanish or French verversions of Dick and Jane. We have been in this peouJ.iar but subtle position of making interTurn to Page Fourteen

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Cuban Issue Plagued by Guerrillas Violations of Human Rights Anti-Castro Cubans in the United States feel vindicated by the confirmation in a June report by the Organization of American States (OAS) that the Havana regime has engaged in systematic violation of human rights. While large sectors of public opinion and several international organizations have co~demned violations of human rights in Brazil, Chile and other dictatorships of the right, anti-Castro Cubans felt reports of torture and arbitrary imprisonment in Cuba were being ignored. The OAS report came out as the OAS was preparing for a July.meeting at San Jose, Costa Rica, to amend ,an inter-American treaty on mutual security. It should open the way to a lifting of the sanctions imposed on Cuba in 1964 for exporting revolution through the guerrillas it trained. It will mean the OAS no longer regards the Castro regime as a danger to other governments in the Americas. That is a point of view many Cubans abroad and conservative leaders in Chile, Uruguay and other nations contest. They point to the mid-June meeting in Havana of 24 top communists from'Latin America who resolved to fight "American imperialism" as the main common enemy, anil to continue to

struggle for revolution in each of their countries. There were two significant changes over past meetings of the same leadership. The June declaration spoke of using "legal opportunities" in the struggle, and of accepting an alliance with socialists and others if they respected the communist ideology. It praised actions by nationalist governments to take control of their country's natural resources, such as oil in Venezuela. The leaders said "the unity of all leftist forces is more essential than ever." However, the June declaration approved of armed violence if necessary-to fight what it called counter revolutionary violence. It spoke of the "Fascist brutality" in Brazil and Chile. Exiled anti-Castro Cubans now feel vindicated by the OAS human rights commission report. Basing its conclusions on, detailed lists presented to the Castro government in April and October of last year, the OAC commission wrote' that such evidence "constitutes a most grievious case of violations against the right to life, to freedom, to the security and integrity of the human person," It also denounced practices by Cuban authorities in violation of "equality before the law, of common justice, of protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without due process."

A Bi-Centennial ChQllenge' Continued from Page Thirteen cultural education an additive, not ,the base of Catholic education. It !has somehow become a 1970 version of our 1950's version of making Oabhalic math hooks "Cathol'k" by adding saInts 'and statistics to each other. ' Catholic education, when true to its roots, attempts to assist (.h'ildren to understand and value different expressions in which men fulfill human needs. Octavio Paz, <the Mexican poet, will present the spirit of his people, in a different way than Rilke. Yet both are enormously rich in cultural diversity. Cathol'ic educaHon is tonal, the '1.ived expressions of the ,belief that tJhe Lord is incarnate ,in all cultures inviting them to fUlHness of Life. Education which ,is based on a cu1{uraHy pluralis,t!ic 'approach is able to prepare ohi'ldren to reflect upon Their lives dn a multicultural society. It asks that concepts be learned from experience that is true to whatever culture one is ,a part of. We know the damage that has been done by asking children of Mex'icanAmerican heritage to Ileam Angdo pat1erns of behavior. We know, too, that 'The Anglo suburban family settings have been normarive in much that our Cathaltic educational system has proVlided. Other cuUures, whHe not caHed dey,iant, have indeed, .by tone or omission, been subtly considered 'as such. This form of education has fostered conflict among groups in our society. Polarizations have ar::isen and often schools, Catholic and public, have been used as 'instruments to realize cU'ltural equality and desegreg·ation. "''"11heir-'' pusiN'on

"FREE TIME": When is a child going to use his imagination, except in those 'idle' moments which adults usually deplore? A child looks inquisitively at the waters of the Gulf of Mexico at Clearwater Beach, Fla. NC Photo.

Education and the Home Continued from Page Thirteen sible that there are homes in which -children never see il:heir parents reading a serious book or engaging in serious conversation just because they want to? AJre there homes where the only adultpast,ime consists of mind,less hours in front of the televisionset? Unfortunately there -are.

must be altered from that of instrument to that of initiator of the new pluralism thalt genuine Catholic faith ds about. Extreme Gospel Basis Of course the other extreme is We know ,th'at culturai plural- no more desira'lYle. There is ism 'is a positive force for the something bi~arre 'about -efforts' psychological development of the ito turn the 'liv,ing room into, a individual. Educational exjerts miniature classroom. At the age (Piaget and others) have rea1lized of iflhree ,John Stuart Mvll, the that gmwt>h comes when one 19th century English philosopher comes into contact with ideas of and economist, was being taught experience which chaillenge one's Greek by his father. Under the present way of viewing the fa'ther's direction, his boyhood world. Un'iformity is gradually was given over al:most exclusivewaning as the assumed founda- 'Iy to books. The elder Mill tion of unity. Different cultures proved that it could be doneand behaviors are expressions his son was 'an unquestionably of our oneness, our common precocious soholar - bu.t very humanity. - few people, then or since, have Tohe Word became flesh, man- agreed that ibis approach to the kind incarnate. CathoHc educa- education of children was right. tion in the future will be marked Over-scheduled by this glory ,if it ,remains t,rue On ,the contrary, one of the to its roots: self-es-teem and a,c- most important contributions the ceptance of the true human home can make is to provide ¥alues 'in every culrture as the children with a bit of wel-come base upon which anv exper.ience ,,rel'ief from the ri~id organizaof Gospel can happen. tion of their time. ChHdren need opportunIties to do nothing-or a,t 'least what 'appears to adults Chavez Tour as "notbing." SAN YSIDRO (NC)-The head Today' a great deal of the of the United Fa,rm Workers typical child's Nme is highly orof America (UFWA) Cesar ,ganized for him or !her, 'and the Chavez, left this ,southern California town July 1 on a 1,000- schedu'le ds one imposed by adults. School, clubs, 'lessons, mi'le maroh through the state to chore~hese things set up weH promote the union's cause· among field workers. The march defined patterns channeHng the child adong through the day. The began from the doors of the impIic,it message is that time not border station of T,ijuana, Mexdevoted to "productive" activity ico, where Chavez spoke to some .is' t,ime wasted. . 50 singing 'and .flag-waving supBut ,is it reaHy? What about porters wlho had gathered for the send off. "We want to ex- the kind of leaming and growing plain to all the ,farm workers that do' not correspond to the what the new state law signed sometimes narrow categories esiqy wel1,meaning by Gov.' Brown means to them," tablished aduits? When is a child going to Chavez said.

,learn to use his imagination, except in those "idle"· moments which 'adults usua'1lly deplore? How is a chiJId going to leam how to organize his time for himself, except by having some time to organize? 'Free Time' This is not an argument for idleness, nor 'a plea for parental irresponsi'biility. A' good balance is needed--.between careful or,ganization of children's time and aotiVlities, and a reasonable amount of ",free time" when chi'ldren can Ilearn to grow more or less on their own. The reallities of Hfe today make the home the best-and possibly tJhe only --.pla~e Iforthe latter to occur. In 'tJhe {,inaf analysis, the role of itJhe home with respect to ed-

<"vminued from Page Thirteen tur.e with a simillar heroism and ounself1ishness. However, for those too young .to recaH that ;f·ateful Sunday afternoon in 1941, tlte Memorial with its symbols would cause mtle internal excitement unless they had received some previous education or on-the~spot explanation about the ship's sink!ing. FUl'ther, if this explaindng becomes too 'long or compUcated, 'a pause by the Arizona woU1ld probably produ'ce a aittle dnspiration. l1here are some parallels here with those many symbol'ic objects 'and actions of ,the Church. Symbo}s Speak for Themselves They speak to us about the past, make the previous event present, and promise sometlh'ing for the future. The Euoharist does 1Jhis dn obVlious ways. Holy Week Htuorgies 'are filled with such symbolic objects (palms, candIes) and actions (washing of tihe ,feet, unveilJdng the cross). Daily CatJh~Hc Jiving also !includes symbols like 'a sign of the oross, a genuflection in chureh, a pair of rosa,ry beads, a meda'l around the neck, 'a statue in the home. A ld,ttle explanation about ,them may occasionally be necessary. However, normally fuose objects and actions ought to speak by tlhemselves. If, however, these require a lengthy, involved commentary, they tend to lose their power to move a ,person and no longer are ef.fecNve symbols. StiLl, if our hasic rel'igious symbols 'a,re to help us grow spirituallly, children need to have them explained at an early age and adults every now and then wNa benefit from a brief refresher course lin ,the mean'ing of such 'symbolic objects and gestures.

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Cardinal Cody Asserts Authority In School Closing Controversy CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal John Cody of Chicago has asserted his authority as head of the archdioce:;e to close four Catholic schools on the city's South Side. The closing of the schools, all of them with mostly black or Spanish-speaking students, had created a controversy here. The organization called the Catholic Community of Englewood, where the schools are ,located, had opposed the school closings. On June 2, the archdiocesan school board voted to ask Cardinal Cody to suspend plans to close the four schools after opposition from the parishes. On June 21 the school board recommended that two of the four schools not be closed and criticized what it called "poor communication" in the an· nouncement--of the closing. The Englewood community asked the archdiocesan priests' senate to grant a hearIng concerning the schools closings. At that hearing, held June 23, a statement from the cardinal emphasized that both the priests' senate and the school board are only consultative bodies. The statement said that his decision had been made in the framework of a much broader view than that represented by any of the involved groups. The cardinal's views were ex· pressed in a statement read by Msgr. Francis A. Brackin, vicar general and delegate of the arch-

bishop for administmtive matters at the June 23 meeting of the priests' senate. The archdiocese had announced May 9 that the four schools would be closed after the 1974-75 school year because of declining enrollment and mounting economic problems. The parish schools involved contend that they were not informed of the decision until May 10. The statement read by Msgr. Brackin at the priests' senate meeting at River Forest, IlL, said that the priests' senate is a consultative body which is allowed by the cardinal to prepare its own agenda. "He never intended," the statement said, "in giving this latitude, which is far more tlian that suggested in the Roman documents on presbyteral senates, that this would be misused; and the archdiocesan school board, even though its constitution mentions it is a policy·making agency, is also, when analyzed, only a consultative agency." Msgr. Brackin said his appearance at the meeting was not to be interpreted as meaning that the cardinal is granting to any group the power to review or change "the official decision of the Ordinary (bishop) which was made after due consideration and study. His decision was made in ,the f.clmework of a much broader view than is represented by any of the involved groups."

Meeting Betw'een Bishops, Ford Ca lied Positive, Constructive WASHINGTON (NC)-A White House meeting between President Gerald Ford and five American Catholic bishops has been called "cordial and positive" by the bishops and "good and constructive" by an administrative official. In the hour-long meeting, the bishops discussed Church positions on the world food crisis, the Vietnamese, refugees, illegal aliens, abortion and nonpublic school aid. The bishops were represented by the executive committees of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC). Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati, NCCB-USCC pres· ident; Bishop James Rausch, NCCB-USCC general secretary; Archbishop Thomas Donnellan of Atlanta, NCCB-USCC treasurer; Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, elected member of the executive committee and Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, elected members of the USCC executive committee. NCCB-USCC vice-president, Cardinal John Carberry of St. Louis, was out of the country and unable to attend the meeting. Understanding of Problems The meeting was also attended by Attorney General Edward Levi, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Ingersoll and several members of the White House staff. The President left the meeting after about 45 minutes, while the ofhers remained. Archbishop Bernardin said he was pleased with the meeting "in the sense that there was an understanding of our concerns."

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102 AND·GOING STRONG: "Poppa Joe" Durette, 102- . year-old sacristan at Most Pure Heart of Mary parish, Mobile, Ala., prays in his "reserved" pew, in the front of church. No matter what the event-wedding, Confirmation or whatever-participants always yield this place to "Poppa Joe," who has been working for the church so long that even new priests get his advice correcting them on "new fangled ideas." A former miner, lumberman and horse driver, he retired in 1945, smokes an occasional cigar but does not drink , "I tried a beer one time and it make me sick."

Bishops Warn Anti-Church Attacks Are Threat to All Portuguese

Following is a summary of LISBON (NC)-The Portuguese the bishops' positions, as de- Bishops' Conference said a rescribed by Archbishop Bernardin, cent violent attack by a leftist and a summary of some of the mob against a much smaller President's responses, as de· group of Catholics was "a threat scribed by a White House official to the fundamental liberties of who attended the meeting: all the people." -Calling the food crisis "a The Catholic group was demserious crisis requiring strong onstrating for the return of a and creative leadership for its Church radio station seized by solution," the bishops asked for leftists. continued and expanded AmeriAbout 5,000 leftists led by the can food aid with a "high per- Marxist Popular Democratic Uncentage" devoted to humanitari- ioncornered about 500 Catholic an needs, as well as efforts to demonstrators ..:.- including nuns increase agricultural production and children - outside the resiin the developing nations and an dance of Cardinal Antonio Riinternational grain reserve. beiro of Lisbon and pelted them 'Vietnam Refugees with stones, iron bars and &ticks. The president, citing a' poor The outnumbered Catholics took crop year last year and budget- refuge inside the cardinal's resiary problems, said he approved dence, which also houses the ofthe highest food aid option pre- fices of the Lisbon archdiocese. sented to him for Fiscal Year The leftists kept the Catholics 1975. He said he would continue in a state of seige during the to watch the situation on a quar- night of June 18-19. Next mornterly basis and, with a good ing troops made their safe pascrop year expected, said he ex- sage out possible. About 20 of pected increased aid next year. them were treated for injuries. -The bishops said the USCC The Catholics had gathered' would continue in its efforts to in front of the building, known secure sponsors for Vietnamese as the Patr,iarcado, to protest refugees and was particuarly the take-over by a score of comconcerned about the fate of some munist-Jed workers of the Cath40,000 refugees still on Phuquoc ,olic broadcasting station, Radio Island off the coast of Vietnam Renascenza. and some 25,000 refugees now About the same time Socialists in other countries in the Pacific. were pressing the Revolutionary The President "applauded and Council, Portugal's governing expressed great gratitude" for body, for the, return of their the Catholic Church's responses daily Republica, aJ.so taken over on the refugees. He said the ref- by communist-led workers. ugees are now leaving the reObservers said communist agisettlement camps at the rate of tation and attacks on Catholics 700 a day, good in compariston and Socialists led the Revoluto an earlier lower rate that has tionary Council to restate June been criticized, but not good 21 its opposition to outright dicenough. He said he will review tatorship of the proletariat. Exthe prosress weekly. " tremists within the Armed Forces

Movement (MFA) and other revolutionary groups had been pres9ing .for a full military government aided by neighborhood "people's committees," with the total exclusion of political parties. Besides condemning the Patriarch incident the bishops condemned other outbursts of "hate, intolerace and violence" against Ca,thoJ.ics and against Catholic leaders in Portugal. They added that such violence jeopardized the bagic freedom of the Church to carry out its work. Before the Patriarch incident, the bishops had issued a statement during a meeting at Fatima. They denounced "totalitarian developments which endanger the revolution's original ideals."

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NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Press Association (CPA) presented 11 awards for qutstanding religious books for 1974 at the religious books awards luncheon during the CPA annual convention here. Capuchin Father Hugh Morley, chairman of the book awards' committee, made the presentations to publishers, representatives and authors. Three awards went to books published by Doubleday and Co., Inc. The books selected as best in their categories were: Biography: "Thomas Merton, Monk" by Brother Patrick Hart (Sheed and Ward). History: "'Islam under the Crusaders" by Robert Ignatius Burns (Princeton University press). Christian Family: "The Cour· age to be Married" by Jonathan Hanaghan (Abbey Press). Theology: "The Spirit of Eastern Christendom" by Jaroslav Pelikan (The University of Chi· cago Press). Liturgy: "The Sacraments Today" by Juan Louis Segundo, S.J. (Orbis Books). Fiction: "The Good Shepherd" by Thomas Fleming (Doubleday and Co., Inc.). Chcistian Living: "To Barbara With Love: Prayers and Reflections by a Believer for a Skeptic" byq Joan Bel Geddes (DOUbleday and Co., Inc.). Scripture:: "A Theology of the Old Testament" by John L. McKenzie (Doubleday and Co., Inc.). Christian Ethics: "Process and Permanence in Ethics" by Alfons Deeken, S.J. (paulist Press). Prayer Life:' "Silent Music: The Science of Meditation" by WHliain Johnston (Harper and Row). ' Youth and Children's Books: "Stepka and the Fire" by Dorothy Van Woerkom (Concordia). Regarding this year's entries, Father Morley said that 137 books, "nearly twice as many as last year," were entered in the competition. This shows a "renewed interest in religious publishing. Th"e quality of books submitted in the various categories was exceptionally high." he said.

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Pope Paul VI Says Holiness Possible for All VATICAN CITY (NC) - Not all can b'e canonized staints but all can be saintly, Pope Paul VI told some 60,000 persons at a weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square. The Pope said the basic demand not only of the 1975 Holy Year but of Christianity itself .is sanctity. He argued that it is possible to live everyday lives in such a way as to attain sanctity. ' '\First of 'nIl it ~s not true, that sanctity is impossible. Read the lives of the saints and see how they experienced ... our same di'fficulties, our weaknesses, and how they succeeded, apart from extraordinary mIracles and charism, to earn the designation of saints." The Pope added: "There is a sanctity we may caB ordinary because, while it too is woven into an extraordinary dual design, is accessihle to aU." . SpeHing out the two elements of this "dual design," Pope Paul stated: "The first is grace, tJhe state of grace, the life of grace which faith and sacraments give one and which prayer feeds and expresses ... "Second is our desIre, that is to say our personal moral life. Our religion does not merely impose precepts and threatened punishments upon this Hfe but also infuses light, energy, comfort, charism into it." The Pope said holiness "demands this very first duty-to desire it." He added: "To desire this means to love. Human love, sparked by divine love, which is dharity, holds the secret of perfection and sums up the whole duty of man and aU natural honesty. This is the sum and the first precept of Christ: Love God, love your neighbor."

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed the position of the' Catholic Church in the Soviet Union, disarmament and peace in a onehour meeting here June 28. Their talk came at a time when stepped;up persecution of religious groups has been reportedly taking place in the Soviet Union, including renewed persecution of Lithuanian Catholics. Coincidentally, just as Gromyko's five-car motorcade pulled throught the Vatican Gate of the Bells at 6 p.m., about 500 Lithu-

anian exiles were participating in a Holy Year'Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica. The meeting was the fifth between Pope Paul and Gromyko. Besides discussion of the Church's status in the Soviet Union, the Pope and the foreign minister 'discussed peace "with special reference to the problem of the Middle East and to the conference on European security," said Vatican spokesman Federico Alessandrini. The Vatican has always, advocated a peace settlement in the Middle East which respects the rights of all 'parties involved.

Linked to this, the Holy See has called for a special status, internationally guaranteed, for Jerusalem and the Holy Places. The Soviets would like to see an independent state established

Projects Deficit CHICAGO (NC)-The deficit for t'he Ohicago Chancery Offiice for the year ending June 30, 1976, is projected at $2,502,398, compared to $1,097,653 for the 11 months ended May 31, 1975, aocording to a letter sent to priests of the Ohicago archdiocese.

in Israeli-held territory from the Jordan River's West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Regarding the conference on security and cooperation in Europe, the Vatican has been represented at the 35-nation preliminary meetings in Helsinki, Finland, and Geneva, Switzerland, leading up to a proposed June summit conference. Pope Paul first met the foreign minister in October 1965 when he visited United Nations headquarters. Three other meet-' ings followed at the Vatican during Gromyko's visits to Italy in 1966, 1970 and 1974.

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Mother Teresa Cites P'overty in Resolution MEXICO CITY (Nt) - A ',revised draft resolution on "women in poverty" was submitted to a committee of the International Women',s Year Conference here by' Mother Teresa of Calcutta June 28. Mother Teresa is a member of the Papal delegation to the conference. "Extreme poverty constitutes an obstacle to the enjoyment of basic human rights," the resolution said. It made an urgent appeal to all men and women to "give Pf,iority to those women whO; with their families, live under ,an intolerable yoke of poverty." An earlier draft of the resolution called upon governments to eliminate the causes of poverty "that threaten the God given dignity of women, men, and children." But a coalition of delegates, headed by the representatives from the Soviet Union said that although they respected the belief 1n God, the dignity of women, men, and children "is not God given but a result of civilization." Because of this resistance the term was deleted from the resolution.

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