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New SSe Peter and Paul Church, Fall River, will be entered from Snell Street as shown in architect drawing of the existing school building which is being renovated to contain both the Church and an eight room school.

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SSe Peter and Paul Starts Structure Renovation His Excellency, the Most Rev' erend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, announced that work oil the extensive structural modification of Fall River's SS. . 'Peter and Paul Parish school building has begun. When, the project is completed, the existing school building will be completely transformed ,into a multipurpose parish facility.

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Reconciliation 路 Peace Pope Paulls T'heme VATICAN CITY (NC) - "Reconciliation-The Way to Peace" is the theme chosen by Pope Paul VI for his peace message during the Holy Year, 1975.

The theme of the World Day of Peace, which the Pope has observed on Jan. I since 1968, was discussed by Bishop Ramon Torrella Cascante, vice-prE:sident of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission, in a special press conference Julr 11.

The bishop pointed out that the theme of reconciliation is "not only one of the twin themes of Holy Year (renewal and reconciliation), but is also an obsolute requirement for the establishment of world peace."

The actual message from Pope Paul on the World Day of Peace, to be observed next Jan, I, will not be released for the next six months. However, the theme of

the Pope's thoughts was announced six months ahead of time to provide bishops, pastors and various Catholic organizations to develop their thoughts and ideas in advance.

The 1974 peace message theme is "Peace depends on you." Bishop Torrella Cascante said that the theme of next year's message takes Christians "one step further."

He said that "Christian reconciliation is not a step backward or simply a conservative and immobile form of existence." Instead, he explained, Christian reconciliation is "in its very essence an improvement on what has and admonition for the future. It existed before.... It is an option brings in new ideas and opens new ways to approach those who, in the past, were friends Turn to Page Two

Survey Shows Less Use

BOSTON (NC) - The contention ,that Catholics in large numbers are going to Confession less often than they did is supported by the results of a survey of over 2,000 readers published in The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston archdiocese. ,According to the survey find,jngs 73 per cent of all those responding admitted they avail -themselves of the sacrament less often than they did 10 years ago, while only eight per cent indicate they are going more often.

The publicati'on of the survey stems from a questionnaire that appeared in The Pilot.

Along with concluding that Catholics are going to confession less, survey results also indicated that education in asTurn to Page Four

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A neW air-conditioned church, accommodating nearly five hundred worshippers, will occupy the street f19or, while the parish school will be located in eight classrooms on the second floor.

A parish center with complete facilities for a wide variety of activities will be constructed on the lower floor.

Bishop Cronin announced that the architectural firm of Holmes and Edwards, Inc., of Boston, had been engaged to design the project. The Paul G. Cleary Construction Company, Inc., of New 'Bedford, low bidder, will under-

take the extensive alterations required.

Reverend Francis M. Coady, Pastor, and Reverend Ronald A. Tosti, Assistant, noted that the project, scheduled for completion early in 1975, would preserve the life of the parish and of the school. The multipurpose facility is recognized as a pratical solution to the grave difficulty presented by the disastrous fire of April 10, 1973, which totally destroyed Saints Peter and Paul church.

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Vatican Emphasizes Youth Holy Year Participation VATICAN CITY (NC)-There ation---will include not only is a definite' accent on the par- Catholic young people, but also ticipation of young people in youth groups from other Christhe Roman Holy Year observ- tian churches. Bishop Mazza _. ances of 1975" according to the said an as-yet unestimated numVatican. ber of marchers carrying olive Bishop Antonio Massa, secre- hranches as a sign of peace will ,tary general of the Central Com- walk from the Franciscan shr.ine mittee for the Holy Year told a city of Assisi in central Italy to press conference (July 9), that Rome and deposit them at the Church authol'ities are "working tombs of Saints Peter and Paul hard" to assure the young their during Holy Week.

Early in February, another own place and role in Holy Year observances. Among the largest young happening will be held manifestations of youthful par- ,in Rome's Sports Palace, this ticipation now being worked out, . t路ime based on a musical, folklore he said, is a week-long "March theme which will bring together of Reconciliation" by young peo- groups, bands and choral ensemple'from all over the world from hIes from all over Europe and Assisi to Rome dur,ing Holy , elsewhere. The event will have Week next year. a religious theme "but it will defAs it is now conceived, the. initely feature the modern reli190-mile walk to Rome; which路 gious music which is so popular will stress one of the twin- today," the bishop said. The Turn to Page Three themes of Holy Year-reconcili-

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THE ANCHORThurs., July 18, 1974

Urge Approva I - Of Agreements With Anglicans BOZ'BMAN (NC)-Three bishops here in Montana-two Ro/ man Catholics and one Anglican -urged their Churcl;es to give official ratification to the agreements on the Euchal'ist and on ministry and ordination by the American-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC).

The caIl for official ratification was the f'irst such aclion involving Catholic bishops, according to Jesuit Father Herbert Ryan, a member of ARCIC. "After prayetful study and reflection, we find these agreed statements to express substantially the faith we each profess," the bishops declared. "We caIl, therefore, for their official ratification by· our respective Churches."

The three prelates-Catholic Bishops Raymond Hunthausen. of Helena, Mont., and Eldon Schuster of Great 'Falls, Mont., and Anglican Bishop Jackson Gilliam of the 'Episcopal Diocese of Montana-called for official recognition of the agreements after a three-day workshop at Montana State University here.

The workshop, attended by.

135 Catholics and Episcopalians from the three Montana dioceses, was the second for the . Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue group for Montana (ARC'MONT), which first met last January.

Official Recognition At the conclu·sion of their Ja':luary. me,et.ing, ·.t.h!,!. ·...group .. . forrmilated . ge'neral consensus statement on the two agreements .by the international commission. That statement was reviewed and revised, and at the end of the workshop here, June 27, the three bishops signed the statement.

They declared that they had studied the agreements with the aid of cOrt;lpetent experts and found them expressing "substan- . tially the faith we each profess."

They said they were asking for official recognition of the agreements "in order to promot!'! better understanding betvveen our Churches" and so that "such recognition may provide reassurance that the substance of our fa,ith is accurately expressed in these documents." .

Father Ryan told NC News that, while response to the two statements has been largely favorable around the world he did not know of allY other' c~I1

by Anglican and Catholic bishops for official ratification of the agreements by their respectice .Churches. The Windsor statement on the Euchal"ist was completed by ARCIC in 1971, the Canterbury statement on ordination and ministry in 1973.

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Necrology JULY 29 Rev. Mathias McCabe, 1913, Pastor, Sacred Heart, .Fall River.

JULY 31 Rev. Daniel Hearne, 1865, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton.

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Three.fold .Program of St. Anne's Board .Embraces Adults, CCD, Schoolchildren

Continued from Page One taken come at the conclusion of a lengthy period of study and consultation.. Clergy, religious and laity have reviewed the matter at formal and informal'meetings, at parochial, local and diocesan levels. Father Coady noted lhe enthusiasm of parishioners for the attractive and functional design which gradually merged from discussions and studies, For the present, parishioners will continue to assist at Sunday Masses in the basement of t he school. During construction, youngsters from Saints Peter and Paul School will attend class in Saint Anne's School building in Fall River, which was able to accommodate the entire faCUlty and school population displaced hy the project in its spacious Forest Street structure.

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"We hope to use it as a mod"~ ~ el-we're proud of it."

That's how Rev. Michel c.· Methot, associate director of adult education for the Fall River diocese, feels' about the year· old Board of Education of St. Anne's parish, Fall River.

In what may be a .first .for the diocese, the board unites in one body administrative responsibility for the parochial school, the Parish Confraternity Doctrine (COD) program and activities in the field of adult educatiori.

This. three-fold thrust, notes Rev. Thomas M. Landry, O.P., pastor of St. Anne's, came at the time that the diocese as a whole ~oved to combine all ,forms of education in one department, headed by Msgr. Patrick J. BUSY MEN: Planning agenda for Board of Education of O'Neill. "We're pleased to have St. Anne's parish, Fall River, for coming year are Roger L. espoused our perspective simul-' Dumont, member, and H. Boule, board president. taneously," he said. . , Normand .

Unit has responsibility for parochial seho()l, CCD and adult First Plresident . ., The first president' of St. education programs of parish.

Anne's board was Andre Plante.

Just installed, also for a one- result of this interest shown by said, were changes in the Church year term, was Normand J. the priests, reports Bernard The- and an assortment of modern.

Boule. Boule said the full board roux, longtime parish secretary problems. Working with the numbers 11 members, divided I and also a board member. board and diocesan office in preinto three th'ree-member comAdding. to parish involvement paring responses to such exmissions, each respon~ible for in baptisms have been children pressed interests will be Sister an area of activity, plus him- from St. Anne's Sch'ool who have Noella Letourneau, O.P., newly self and Father Landry, an ex .attended two baptismal ceremo- appointed religious education coofficio member. ' nies en masse, planning the en- ordinator for the parish.

In their first year of operation tire liturgy for one of the. events.

Another avenue of parish in·board members met with Father The board, said Boule, has at- volvement, pointed 'out Boule, Methot, Sister Marion Geddes, tempted to reach adults not in- is se.1ection of members to serve R.S.M. and Sister Rita Pelletier, volved with children by mea~s on the Board of Education itself, S.S.J.'- representing the adult, . ",of. a':q\.lestionnairedistributed· at' a .proceSi, ,carried out through school' arid 'COD 'dep~rtnietlts" of all Masses one Sunday last open . nomination and' election· the diocesan office. month, asking what topics recip- proGedur;es,.",.. .....,", '" .,.

Particularly emphasized has Summing up the work of the ients would be 'interested in disbeen the role of adult education, cussing at forums or in study board, Father Landry said, in line with recommendations "We're on our way, trying to do groups. made by the U.S. bishops in their the best we can and expecting to New Coordinator '1973 pastoral letter, "To Teach Among suggested subjects, he learn as we go along."

As Jesus Did," St. Anne's members recently met with, Donald Emond, director of Fall, River's Family Service Association, to study the dynamics of organizing adult study groups.

That session will be followed Board of Ed"ucation Says Cathofic Schools by a "goal-setting weekend," to take place at Case House, SwanWill Not Be Racist ."avens sea, during which specific techST. LOUIS (NC) - The St. perintendent of schools, said a niques of working with. adults Louis Archdiocesan Board of copy of the statement was: being will be studied.

Reached· by the work' of ,the Catholic Education here declared sent to' all parish priests and thafpublic sch90l students from school principals. board are 431 parochial schooi children, more than 100 grade public school districts directly Father Leib'recht said that schoolers and a varying number affected by any court order for there are at least eight public integration may not be accepted of high school students in CCD school districts which are ininto Catholic schools. classes and discussion groups, volved, in one way or another, and an as yet "rather smal1" 'In its stateqlent, the board with possible court orders renumber of adults. noted that in 1947 Cardinal' Jo- lated to integration.

Reach Through Childre., 'seph Ritter, then ·archbishop of Father Leibrecht 'said that The most successful way of St. Louis, declared that all the reaching adult parishioners thus schpol5! of the archdiocese must Catholic school.s have always acfar has been through their chil- admit students regardless of race cepted applications after public dren, said Boule, noting that into the Catholic schools of the sc.hool kindergarten for Catholic SChool first grade, and from "sacramental progl'ams" for par- archdiocese. public school. eighth grade for ents of children preparing to reCatholic school ninth grade, and that early "Consistent with ceive the sacraments of penance, precedent," the statement con- that this practice will continue.

Holy Eucharist or confirmation tinued, "we the Archdiocesan have been uniformly well atBut the guidelines say that in Board of Education, with ful1 aptended. such cases the pastor and proval of John Joseph Cardinal Also successful has been a' school administrator must be program of visits by priests of Carberry, reaffirm our position morally certain that tbe applithat 'the Catholic schools of the the parish to expectant parents.

Archdiocese of St. Louis shall cation made by the student is "We ask the parents to ,notify not become havens, or even give not for uMcceptable or unethius four or five months before the appearance of becoming cal reasons. the birth, before the godp'arents havens for any students who Other ca.ses of requests for hilve been selected. Then the priests will visit at least twice . may b~. seeking to avoid pres- transfers must be dealt with insures.. brought about by current dividually, the guidelines say: before the baby arrives, to exefforts to integrate public schools In these cases, too, there must plain the importance of, bapin various areas of the arch- be moral certitude that the transtism." diocese." fer request does stem from unAt leait one prospective faFather John J. Leibrecht, SUO. ethical or unacceptable reasons. ther entered the Church as a.

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Pope's Theme Continued from Page One and who have subsequently become enemies."

Bishop Torrella Cascante insisted that the Pope's thought was that "to recognize that there is a conflict" is not enough.

"Conflkt is, in fact, not an end, but a means," which must lead all to seek its solution, he said. . Reconciliation implies, the bishop explained, "a priority in seeking out the causes of the problems behind a conflict. . . .

Reconcilialiion is not only a rightful thing but is also a duty, a duty which finds its justification in history."

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Holy ""ear Participation Continued from PagEl One throughout the oity. "Non-Italian show at the Sports Palace is orchestras from France, Germany, being organized by the Focolari ,Belgium and Spain has already intemational offered to perform in Rome durmovement, an group of young lay Catholics. ing Holy Year to add to the sol· A number of large pilgrimages emnity of the event," the bishop of young people, such as one said. already organized ,in Milan of Beyond these events, he con tin· 10,000 young people, are expect- ued, a whole series of ordinary ed to visit Rome during 1975. and extraordinary religious cereOther nations which have al- monies will take place in Rome ready notified the central com- during 1975. "I can say that mittee they 'intend to send young the Pope's regular calendar of pilgr,images to Rome inc:lude Ire- religious events will be main· land, Australia and Germany. tained completely and that moreOctober Get-Together over it will be expanded," he Still another Holy Year get- sa'id. The extraordinary events together to be held in Rome" will include a series of canonizamost likely in October,. will be tions and beatifications which composed of athletes and sports may include Blessed EHzabeth groups. It ,is being orga.nized by Seton of the United States, several Italian sports organiza- Blessed Oliver Plunkett of Iretions which hope to attract par- land and John Cardinal Newman ticipants from various nations. of England. However, specifics , Even for young people who on these events have not yet come to Rom~ as Holy Year pil- been released by' the Vatican. grims ,but not as part of specifi· cally younth-oriented pilgrimEcumenical Encounters ages, the central committee has A number of ecumenical en· plans for special services and counters 'are also on the docket, get·togethers on a regular daily Bishop Mazza said. Among these and weekly basis. will be participation .by, nopThese plans include a 7 p.m. Catholic Christian an,d' OrthodQ.X daily Mass for young people at offioials in the opening of die the Basilica of St. Cecilia and holy door on nee. 24th, the om· twice-a-week afternoon special cial beginning of !the Roman: v,isits to' the catacombs of St. Holy Year, and a series of meet- " Callistus which will provide spe- ',ings and discussion groups to. cial prayer meetings, discussion be held at the Basilica of St.', groups and the possibility of Paul's-Outside-the-Walls and at meeting young people from the ,catacombs of St. Priscilla.' many nations.

Ecumenical centers will also To accommodate the large be opened at churches near each youth pilgrimages, Bishop Maz- of Rome's four major basilicas: za said a "tent city" is to be St. Peter's, Sit. Mary Major's, set up near the ancient Abbey of St. John Lateran's and St. Paul's.

Asked to estim,ate how many Tre Fontane, the traditional shrine marking the martyrdom pilgrims are expected to pass of St. Paul. " through Rome during 197.5, Bis,hThe shrine- is' surrounded by op ,: Mazza said: "At present 'it large groves of trees.and is close. is not pOssible to give:'a,'relilly': to .the convent of the Little Sis- conclusive figure. A year 'ago, tel'S of St. Joseph and the Trap- we were talking ~n terms of five pist monks. rto six million, but there are Health Facilities many factors ,which today have Passing on ,to general arrange- changed ,the picture somewhat." ments for pilgrims,as opposed The .Dishop said that, for into tourists, Bishop Mazza said stance, as of the present one that as of now approximately U.S. bishop estimated that only 11,000 beds are assured by a about 35,000 pilgr.ims· would Church-estabtished I(lgency set come. from . th~ United St8ltes. up to handle pilgrimages coming '\1 thmk thIS IS very lpw and to Rome. "Most of the pilgrims believe it will probably increase will stay in religious institutes," greatly by the end of this year." he said. "We are working to see Among the factors preventing that all these 'institutions' are an accura,te forecast 'at -this time, supervised in terinsof: prices, . tJ:1e bishop noted, are the' present. sanitation and other services and disturbed ,international situation, are controlled by the city inspec- Italy's own political unrest, curtors to check against abuses or rency fluctuations and the enerdefects." gy crisis.

Other health facilities will be proVlided by the ,Sovereign Order Orthodox Congress of the Knights of Malta and arrangements are being made that Opposes Abortion "some beds" in Roman hospitals CHICAGO tNC) - The Bienwill ,be set aside for pilgrims who nial Clergy-Laity Congress of the become ill while in Rome.

Greek Orthodox Church in North Cultural Programs and South America reaffirmed Cultural programs, inclUding its position that "abortion is' a weekly concerts, art 'shows, doc· sin," but ,it turned aside a resoumentaries and radio and tele- lution calling for a constitutional, vision programs, are already be~ amendmen~ to ban abortions. ing prepared 'and will take place Delegates called instead for state laws prohibiting abortion on demand.

New Bidlop' The congress also voted VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope against using bingo or raffles Paul VI has named Father Eu- asa method of fund-raising for gene Philippe Larocque to be the churches. Such gambling prac· new bishop of Alexandria, in the tices, it said, are "inappropriate Canadian province of Ontario. to our calling to serve God in The new bishop was born March our Chr,istian community."

27, 1927, at Windsor, in the Ca· Among those who greeted the nadil;ln diocese of London, and congress were Cardinal John was ordained in 1952. At the Cody of Chicago and Dr. Claire time of his nomination as bishop Randell, general secretary of the he was pastor of the Church of National Council· of Churches St. Anne at Tecumsl~h, London. (NCC).

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CULTURAL EXCHANGE: The bishops' meeting room in U.S.' Catholic Conference headquarters in Washingtori, D.C., took on a new look as colorful costumes and artwork decorated its walls for a meeting of Afriean and American women. Five women from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda spoke about the status of women in their countries as part of a five-month U.S. tour spon~ored by Grail. The Washington meeting was held ',under. the. auspices'·of Gliu~ch, W<>~,en :Yi1.it~~" ~J:ld" the" Archdiocesan Council 'of " Catholic Women in the District of Columbia.-N<:: Photo. '_. : ~ .-'... ..'. I:;;. . .... . : .... · ; : •• 1 • • •

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. July 18, 1974

Good 0.ld Days Five years ago this week-July 20, 1969-Neil Armstrong became the first' man to walk on thE! moon. The momentous event is being celebrated at Cape Canavaral.

But it is a sign of the times that public reaction has been and is that of boredom.

It may be that people are so used to the spectacular that the thrill of anyone extraordinary occasion quickly fades away in anticipation of what more can be done. Or it may be that people the world over and especially here in the United States are jaded, are fed up with the accomplishments of technology, are yearning for the achievements that spell out peace and family happiness and contentment.

Perhaps this explains all the outpouring of nostalgia that is engulfing the present scene-clothes, furniture, movies, resurrection of plays, all are spelling out· of the past and harkening back to another time when the pleasures of life seemed so much more simple, the demands from life so much less complicated. .The bygone eras are smiled at as lacking in sophistication. And then, in the very next breath, there is the attempt to .recreate those "good old days." . " Thomas Wolfe truly wrote, "You Can't Go Home Again."

There is no going back. It is really unhealthy to try t9 live in the past. But it does. make sense to ask what is J>eing sought from the past and some obvious answers suggest themselves. \ .

The longing is for the day when the person meant 'more than the thing; when a man's word was his bond; when such phrases as "obedience," "respect," "duty," "honor," "patriotism," "doing one's best,"-when these were sources of inspiration rather than occasions for snickering. The longing .is for the family circle, with harmony and affection and love the whole unquestioned context in Which parent~ and children lived their liv~s. The long~ng is for change by evolution rather than by revolution, for civility among people, for a sense of security walking the streets and enjoying one's own neighborhood and home. The longing is for the re-e~tablishment of a sense of trust. ' Some of this perhaps can Qe brought back by.technology. But the full realization of what is sought after can come about only from within the .hearts of people, from the~cre­ ation of a moral climate in the nation, from the sincere attempt on the part of each individual to bring about. this "renewal and reconciliation" in his own life. And once the goodness in the individual's life becomes visibile, it will: also be seen as 'desirable. And this may touch others to strive for the same renewal in their lives and for their communities.

A tremendous undertaking for an individual to attempt, yes. But the alternative is to surrender to the forces of apathy and discouragement and to turn to playacting in the _p~st to answer the challenge of the present and tli~ future.

Summer Influence Summer is a time of relaxation, and fittingly so. But there can never be a relaxing from God. The burden in Summer is almost completely upon parents to encourage by example and by word the spiritual lives of their, children, especially the reaching out for union with God' through Christ in the Sacraments of the Eucharist.

Pope Paul recently spoke of the Eucharist as "a mystery of a presence willed by love.... Christ became spiritual food to show us that He is necessary to us. He is the true interior and personal nourishment for eternal life."

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.yATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope . Paul, taking the occasion of the end of the school year to hail.

"The new rising generation which asserts itself and judges the world which went before it and formed it," urged young people to follow the Christian way.

The Pope, speaking .July 7 to crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square fOF his usual Sunday blessing, said he saw two "contrary expressions" in the faces of young people today.

"We see an expression of great energy, a will to live and to conquer, a need for certainty al]d, for fulness ...

Torment of Spirit "We see another expression of, uncertainty, of sceptisirm, of disappointment. Why live? Who to live for? Into, what values, toward what ideals should this energy be channelled?".

The Pope said J:te' understood "this torment of your spinit."

He continued: "You are suf· fering from the decadence of modern times, from' the futility of the goals proposed for your energies, from the emptiness of the hedonism that would substi· tute .itself within you for strength, beauty, love; true happiness."

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Continued from Page One sisting Catholics to understand the changes in the rite of Penance as welI.. . as the other changes in the Church has been less than REV. JOHN F. MOORE 51. William's Church effective for the majority (55 per cent).

The Sunday homily, many (65 per cent) felt, could be an effective starting point for any eduThe introduction of the 747 formed bodies enduring the or· cational program.

Jumbo Jet has' been rated by deal of a five or six hour flight Both adults (72 per cent) and the airline industry as one of aboard one of these wonders of teenagers (64 per cent.) COncludthe greatest advancements in the age. Being packed ·into It jumbo jet resembles rather. a ed that the concept of sin ha's the field of public transportation.

The advertising and promotion poor tuna after it leaves the definitely been down-played in recent years. Yet practically. all for this plane has been slick and cannery.

(90 per cent) indirespondents On a recent flight from Shansuave. The images of plush seatcated they continue to make the ing, luxurious puplic areas and non to Boston (is there any other distinction between traditional gourmet meals have been flashed . route?) it was my joy to be listacross our television screens tl) ed am0J.1g three hundred l,iving, mortal and venial sin.

The Church's role as a princicapture our imaginations as well squirming and tortured bodies as our bill folds. For this traveler poured into a highly-praised 747 pal' factor in the formation ot it is a lot of mum~o' jumbo, .

Shamrock. To begin with, any .one's indiv·idual conscience was time you fly on an Irish jet you basically upheld by the older The 747 is indeed huge and might as well resign yourself Catholics (57 per cent) while enormous as far 'as planes are to the fact that you· are a mem- only 22 per cent of those under concerned. However for the poor ber of a children's crusade. At 19 saw the Church as being passenger it really is a' sardine least one third of the passenger a significant factor in this ascan. In fact, a sardine retains list must be under six years of pect of their lives.

On the question of a child's some of its original form and age. Of course, on a 747, young reception of the sacrament of shape even in the can. It would people this age feel quite at be difficult to say the same for home since t.he seats were de- Penance the majority of all those who answered (59 per cent) felt the squashed, crushed and de- signed with them in mind. that children should go to confession before their first ComOne Word of Advice: Let The Flyer Beware munion.

Any person over one hundred , them by their travel agents back pounds attempting to squeeze home. Unfortunately such apilthe body into the padded high grimage ·is only a space walk. rant. In truth, they are a little chairs of the jumbO jet would reAnother delightful feature of more than a frozen T.V. dinnersemble an overweight candidate these man-made wonders is the pushed down the aisle on a servat the local health spa. Another comfo,rt stations. . Packed into 'ing cart. On a 747 they often cardinal rule on an Irish jet is mid-ship like so many flying out remain frozen since so few must that no one sleeps., Not that one . houses, they also serve the dual serve so many. The elegance of can but rather it is just not purpose as a movie screen (fig~ plastic makes the entire meal done. The flight is a study in ure that one out). The number of . se'em little more than a flying constant movement not from the these conveniences are so few picnic lunch. grace of the p1l1ne but rather' and the lines so long that it is Think twice then when you from the stretching bodies seek- truly a study in the exercise of say "the joys of fIying." After ing some few moments of relief free will. the jumbo jet, one is tempted from the m...edieval racks to All airlines loudly acclaim to believe the old saying that if which they have been strapped. their fine cuisine served in the God wanted man to fly He would Up and down the narrow pas- most elegant manner. One thinks have ,given him wings. Even 'so, sageways-called " aisles-people' . of multi-course meals served man would be a very unlikely wander searching, as it' were, with the best of wines with all bird as is the 747. Let the flyer for one of those pictures shown the trimmings of a deluxe·restau- beware.

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Governor Vetoes Bill on Aliens

TAIPEI (NC) - An American priest, Father John Traugett, has been appointed national chaplain of the Young Christian Workers' yeW organization here.

The 36-year-old Maryknoller from Long Island, New York, is shouldering the new responsibility at a time when bishops and priests show an ever increasing concern for the lot of the young worker in a society that has changed from basically agricultural to predominantly industrial in -the short space of 20 years.

The mass migration of boys

and girls from the countryside and villages to the cities and industrial centers threatens tradi· tional family structures and cherished social values.

The 1;lishops' conference here recently directed that its delegates to the World Synod of Bishops convening in Rome in the fall should stress, among other things, the questions of evangelization of the worker, and youth and urbanization.

The anxiety. of the bishops here in face of the changes brought about by rapid industrialization is shared by Church authorities of all developing countries. The participants at the assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences here in April voiced their soliciNEW BRUNSWICK ,(NC) tude in the strongest terms. n·..::! Damien·Dutton Society for The Young Christian Workers' Leprosy Aid awarded its 1974 movement ·is in the forefront of achievement award to a physi- the struggle to improve the life cian who has been a leader in of the young worker and if posleprosy work for more than a sible to win him for Christ. half-century in the Philippines.

Father Traugott, a man of enDr. Jose N. Rodriguez, a thusiasm and energy, is well knight of the Holy Sepucher, was aware of the problems. He arthe recipient of the Damien- rived in Taiwan in 1965 and Dutton Award, announced re- after language studies and some cently by Howard E. Crouch, years in country parishes became founder and chairman of the involved with the YCW five board of the society which is years ago, first in Taichung city, headquartered here. central Taiwan, and for the past The society provides, under two and a half years in Taipei.

Catholic auspices, funds for re"I accepted the national chapsearch, medical assistance, relaincy with. the provision that habilitation, education and recthe term would be only three reation for leprosy patients in all years," Father Traugott said. parts of the world.

"The position should rightly be Presentation of the award on held by a Chinese priest:' behalf of the society was made The -YCW was established at a luncheon in a Manila hotel here about 15 years ago by Belby Eduardo Z. Romualdez, ambassador of the Philippines to the gian Jesuit Father Rene Petit, who has resigned as' national United States.

The bronze plaque on the chaplain for reasons of age.

Father Traugott: speaks both award cites Dr. Rodriguez as "an outstanding scientist, teacher the Taiwanese dialect and standand administrator who in a life- ard Chinese. As Taiwanese is the time devoted 'to the leprosy prob- first language of most of the lem of the world made major migrant workers, his fluency in scientific advances in its diag- that tongue is a great asset.· The nosis, treatment, epidE~miology young Maryknoll priest has a quick wit tempered by great and controL" Dr. Rodriguez has been active- kindness and can wisecrack with ly engaged in leprosy work since the young workers or show end1922 wren he was among six less patience listening to their young volunteer doctors to go problems as the occasion deto the Culion Leprosy Colony mands.

"The YCW herE< is not and (Philippines); described· at that time as the "Island of Living cannot be a mass movement, a!i Death." Later, Dr. RodrigiJez be- . it was originally conceived in came chief physician at the col- Europe," Father Traugott said.

"Christians form only a very ony. small percentage of the population."

ALBANY (NC) - New York Gov. Malcolm Wilson has vetoed a bill which would have made it a crime to knowingly employ illegal aliens, and which had come under strong attack by this state's Catholic community, Father Anthony J. Bevilacqua, director of the Brooklyn diocesan migration office, had publicly criticized the bill and, in a telegram, urged the governor to veto the legislation because it was "anti-Catholic and discriminates particularly against Hispanics."

Damien-Dutton Award Givenl

He contended the bill was discriminatory against Hispanics because of the large proportion of Spanish-speaking persons who would have fallen under the ~egislation's purview.

HONOR MARY: Deborah Almeida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Almeida of Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River, adjusts decorations of Marian shrine at family's sumFather Bevilacqua said the bill mer home in Tiverton. Statue has been traveling to homes of parishioners as part of Holy Year preparations by members . was anti-Catholic because most the persons who are the obof Children of Mary Sodality. Deborah is past president of of jects of the bill are Roman parish unit of organization.

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Peron's Death Gri·eves Pope VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has sent his deepest sympathy on the news of the death of Argentine President Juan Peron, saying he heard of it "with profound sorrow."

The Pope sent a telegram to the late President's widow, Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, who succeeded her husband 'as president of Argentina and who had visited Pope Paul two weeks before the death of her husband on July 1.

The papal telegram stated: "The news of the death of the most excellent Juan Domingo Peron was received by us with profound sorrow, particularly because it occurred while he had dedicated himself with- special generosity and commitment to the service of his .country . .

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The New York State Catholic Committee, which represents the state's bishops, also came out in opposition to the legislation.

In a letter to the governor's counsel, Michael Whiteman, com· mittee secretary Charles J. Tobin said lihat his group was "especially concerned with the thrust of the bill because of our deep commitment to help illegal aliens."

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J1eans Are Out, High-Priced Pretti,es Ar,e In fOr"'r eens

STOCKHOLM (NC) - "Mary" will be the topic of the meeting of the League for Christian Unity to be held Aug. 2-4 at a Bapt.ist school in Sjoevik, north of here.

One of the principal talk~ will be given by Jesuit Father Herman Seiler, religion editor of KIT, the Swedish' Catholic Information Service, on "Mary and the Church." , Other lecture topics include "The 'Controversial' Marian Doctrines" and "Mary in Protestant Piety in Sweden."

Founded in 1965 by Lutheran Pastor Hans C. Cavallin, its secretary general, the League for Christian Unity aims nt the unity of all Christians with the bishop of Rome as their visible head. It has Catholic, O.-thodox, Lutheran and other Protestant members.

Between getting Meryl ready for her trip and now doing the same for Melissa, who is going to W as~ington with her godmother, I have spent a great deal of time in the teen-age departments of some of the area's clothing stores. From so much first hand observation I can tell veil. If they want informality they can wear berets tipped to you something that you the side, f.uzzy turbans or deep probably already know by brimmers that come down and

your own viewing: this is the year of the halter and shorts.

Summer of '74 finds young people still wearing jeans, but not

touch the tips of the eyelashes.

Watch for a return' of the bulky boot as a fashion accessory in all age categories. Their return is being hastened by some of the longer s~drts that you'll ,also see around.. '.

When not wearing boots teens will still focus' in on By their legs with an ~ oxford type of lacer worn with .textured MARILYN stoc'kings as imaginative as you like. These sturdy-looking shoes RODERICK have a high thick heel and look very well with some of the handsome skirts and suits that you'll , with their former passionate see around.

Jeans will not highlight the fervor. Many of them are into really pretty clothes, and it fall wardrobe of the "with-it" looks like only the beginning. . teen; however, when Mom and rDuring the hours that I've . Dad get a look at som~ of the spent leaning on the racks (wait- price tags on t.he pretty new ing for my offspring to make up clothes they may actually regret their minds) I've observed the the demise of that denim first 'indications of what the uniform. young teens will be wearing for fall. Coordinated outfits will be big,' especially in pla1ids and Establish Guidelines checks. .

For Youth Marriages Solve Problem NEW ULM(NC) - As a '~tem­ On the circular racks of teen porary solution" to the problem ,or ~ yqtl!)g. -junior;. <;Iep.artm~nts ·of . ·high· divorce: rates among jackets, skirts, slacks, jerseys teenage marriages, the diocese of New Ulm has developed a set and blouses are grouped as families to help solve the problem of guidelines giving priests the authority to postpone: teenage of what goes with wha.1.

The young, who can get away weddings if they feel .a young with a costumey or era look, will couple too immature for matrimony.

• still be looking toward the forties and fifties for their fashion According to the Jun~ issue of inspirations. Many of the co-' the diocesan monthly, Newsletordinated jackets are cropped at ter, the rules al'e the tesult of the waistline for the Eisenhower a- meeting of the chan~ellors of or Montgomery influence, while the Minnesota's six dioqeses and others are below hip length with meant as an interim measure unpadded shoulders reminding us til statewide guidelines' can be (the few of us who care to admit formulated. Frequent' appeals that we remember) of the car~er from diocesan priests concerning suits worn ina Roz Russell or guidance on the subject of teenKay Francis movie. age marriages also prompted the This "tongue in cheek" nostal- guidelines. gia can be played up to the hilt Tbe guidelines apply: to men by fashion-conscious teens be- under age 21 and wom~n under cause all their/ friends are doing a'ge 19, and to women under 25 it too and many of their outfits if pregnancy is a factor;., look as if they will be an awful lot of fun to wear.

In order to get a hint of what Bulletin Cele!brate's I mean about nostalgia, teens lOOth AnniV'ersary wiil be wearing the pillbox hat, CLEVELAND (NC) _. The complete with nose-touching . Catholic Universe Bulletin, the

weekly of the diocese 6f Cleveland, has celebrated its 100th . anniversary here by reproducing Ordain Women its first front page, that of July LONDON (NC)-Women have 4, 1874. . , been ordained ministErs in the Among the ne~s stories conMethodist Church for' the first tained on the 100-vear-old front time in Great Britain page are stories of' a ho'rse race, The ordination of 16 women a proposal to restrict i Sunday took place at four diffel'ent Meth- hours of saloons, and 'the conodist churches in western En- struction of a $12,000: church, 51. Adalbert Parish. ip Berea. gland.

The Methodists are among the The front page _also :contains most active supporters of Chris- advertisements for "cream gintian reunion in this country, hav- .. ger beer" 'and "gents" handmade ing had talks with all the major sewed boots.' churches,. including the Catholics.

Although the paper was orjgOnly last year their efforts to inally named CMholic Universe, merge with U-.·z Anglican Church the word Bulletin was added to were o'nly narrowly ou:-voted by the reproduction as was'the date the Church of Englanc.'s general July 5, 1974 in order td comply. synod. with postal regulations.

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Army Commissions First Female Chaplain

MOTHER TERESA AT SHRINE:: Mother Teresa of Calcutta hears Msgr. John J. Murphy discuss the papal tiara (background) on display at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Msgr. Murphy is shrine director. The coronation tiara was given by Pope Paul for the benefit of the world's poor. MotherTeresa, in .Washington ,briefly, made'a s~rprise visit to th~J Senate.

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The Rev. AI'ice M. Henderson, a native of Indian Springs, Ga., was commissioned by Gen. Waiter T. Kerwin and will travel to the Army's chaplains school in F1. Hamilton, N.Y., before receiving her first duty' assignment. ,Capt. Henderson was accepted into the North Atlanta Georgia . Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1966.

She was graduated from Turner Theological Seminary in At· ·1~nt!1 )n, 1969 with a.master of "djvinity-philosophy ;<!nd theology degree. .

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WINONA (NC) - "Don't drift der of Sisters which she found· from. humble works," Mother ed. "-I told the donor that I was Teresa cautioned a meeting of sorry that I could not accept it," national officers and regional she said. Mother Teresa said vice-chairmen of the Co-Workers that to do so would have been of Mother Teresa here in Min- contrary to the basic premise on nesota recently. which she and her Sisters Bve Msgr. J. Richard Feiten, na· and work. They.believe God will tional treasurer for the organiza- provide and do not concern tion, expla'ined that Co-Workers themselves with the future. is an organization of men, womMother Teresa admitted that en and children who work in sometimes her Sisters are acthe spirit and: servke of Mother cused of "spoiloing" the poor.

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-"-It's good at least one congreMother Teresa, famed' fo"r her gation spoils them," she said. work .,among' the poor of the "Besides, we cannot spoil anyslums of Calcutta, is an Albani- one more than God spoils us an nun who was born ·in Yugo- and as 'Iong as He puts things slavia and travelled to India as in my right hand, I will give a member of the Irish branch of them away with my left." the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Loreto . Sisters. Depressed by the dying and destitute on city streets in Calcutta, she obtained perm is· s·ion to start a new congrega· tion dedicated to serving them.

The nun told her Co-Worker.s that "many people would like to do big things: few are will to do the small things."

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Exp,eriences of God's Love

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Sometimes people who survive a great crisis in their lives find their Faith in God strengthened in a very profound way. A good friend of mine has just had such an experience.

I first met Dick Guilderson about a dozen years ago when he and my husband worked 'In his words, "I could never together on a diocesan newsget the bo<:>k off the ground bepaper. As an editor, Dick felt cause I had never been sick. the paper needed some arti- Now, after my experience, I

cles on everyday family life written by a wife and mother, to balance its intellectual and theologoical material.

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MARY CARSON He asked me to try. It was really the 4irst writing I ever did. Dick patiently showed me how to improve my manuscripts and later, when he was director of the National Catholic News Service, he asked me to contribute a regular weekly column.

Personal Crisis Dick .is an energetic and creative writer and always has half a dozen projects underway. For several years he has been collecting information about people who found a stronger faith in God after they underwent a crisis in their lives.

He intended to turn this mao terial into a book but other projects got in the way and the book just didn't get written.

Then, without any warning, Dick found himself facing a crisis.

Two months ago he learned he had a large malignant tumor in his right kidney. He underwent a five hour operation duro ing which the kidney and the lower lobe of his right lung were removed, The doctors who operated think Dick has good prospects for recovery from this illness but they say without the operation he would probably be dead now.

Dick sincerely believes this experience has been just the inspiration he needed to write that book. He told me that at 49 years of age he had never had any illness worse than flu.

Bi~hop Speltz Proposes Christian Capitalism NEW PRAGUE (NC) - "Capitalism must be made Christian" so human needs are placed above higher profits, Bishop George Speltz of St. Cloud, Minn., said during a Rural Life Mass homily.

Joining Rural Life Sunday ser· vices for the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bishop Speltz said that unbridled capitalism will lead to violence unless human needs and the common good are given greater c:msideration in the .investment of capital.

"In the hands of good and wise men and governments, capital can help youth get started on the land, help farmers hold their farms," said the past president of the National' Catholic, Rural Life Conference.

MONTICELLO (NC) - Camp Courage, a year-round camp for mentally and physically handicapped persons of all ages, was dedicated here in a ceremony attended by Iowa lIov. Robert Ray. Located in the "P.ictured Rocks" area of the Maquoket River, the camp was the idea of Father John Gallagher, pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Marion, Iowa, who donated the 40 acres of timberland, which had been given to him, for the project.

feel as though the missing part has~een suppiied . . :'

Referring to those who have suffered, he said, "I tasted their pain, their anguish, their experi· ences. I now have the experience and the deeper appreciation necessary to put together such a book."

He feels that faith plays a tremendous part in dramatic recoveries ... in facing the impossible . . . in unravelling the insoluble.

Request to Share Have you ever had an experience that you feel was beyond human endurance, a cure greater than medicine, an answer beyond human reason, about finite wisdom? Have you felt that faith . . . the hand of God . . .' has played a part ·in your life?

Do you feel that if your story was published . . . included in Dick's book . . .it might help bring faith to others?

If you'd like to help spread the faith, rather than keep it to yourself, if you are interested in sharing your story, write to me care of The Anchor.

I'll forward your letter to Dick Guilderson. If your story is used you may' remain anonymous,' if you prefer.

Did you ever have dreams of heing a missionary, bringing the word of God to others who needed it? This may be your call.

If God has given you evidence of His love, His power, His guidance, please share it with others.

Do it right now.

Charities Conferences Scheduled in Boston WASHINGTON (NC) - The annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) will be held Sept. 27Oct. 3 in Boston under the theme "Renewal and Reconciliation," the theme proclaimed by Pope Paul VI for the Holy Year, it was announced here at the NCCC's headquarters.

Scheduled, educational institutes include the topics of Theology of Charities, Humanizing and Transforming the Social Order, Concepts in Approaches to both the Institutional and Community Aged, the Parish as a Community of Reconciliation: the Parish's Responsibility to Deal With the Neighborhood, and Transactional Analysis and Behavioral Modification.

Included among the workshop topics are Housing, the Neighborhood Human Service Center, Marriage Catholic Style, Juvenile Inju:,tice, Disaster Relief: the Catholic Response, Alcoholism and Cr"arities, and Transportation: Mobility or Oppression.

Speakers include Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.); David J. O'Brien. professor of history at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.; and Henri Jacob, in· ternational president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

Nun Named Secretary For Health Services

GARDENER IS SHEPHERD: The shepherd ~of the Peoria, Ill., diocesan flock mixes his analogies a bit by also being a gardener. Bishop Edward W. O'Rourke stops for a break while working in the.flower garden surrounding a Marian shrine at his home. The bishop put' up the shrine in response to Pope Paul's encyclical on Mary and the U.S. Bishops' pastoral, "Behold Your Mother." His·flowers include an "Our Lady of the Snows" rose distributed by the shrine of that name in Belleville, Ill. NC Photo.

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ALBANY (NC) - Sister Serena Branson, a Religious of the Daughters of Charity, has b~en appointed secretary for h-eaIth and social services by Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of Albany.

Sister Branson, believed to be the first woman Religious in the United States to hold such a position, will replace Father Rich· ard J. Downs, who resigned to return to parish work.

A recipient of the Humanitarian Award from the New York State Association for R~tarded Children for her work at the Kennedy Child Study Center, Sis· tel' Branson is a member of the Academy of Certified Social and Workers and the National Association of Social Workers.

She also received the Ecclesia Pro Pontifice Medal presented by the late Cardinal Francis Spellman for h-er achievements in the field of falTlily and child. welfare.

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Priestly Ministry Committee Works on Separate Concerns , WASHINGTON (NC) - The Clergy," It will also provide inNational Conference of Catholic formation and assistance to loBishops' (NCCB) Committee on cal priests and bishops relat'ive Priestly Life and Ministry has to this and other areas of conformed three subcommittees de- cern regarding clergy pers,onnel. signed to deal with the continAssisting Bishop Guilfoyle on uing educat'ion of priests, meth- his subcommittee will be Bishop ods of affirming and supporting Francis R. Shea of Evartsville, priests in their lives and. work, Ind.; Msgr. James Walsh of Miand the distribution 'of the ami, and Fathers Mark Figaro, clergy.

S.V.D., of Lafayette, La.,' and The Committee on Priestly . Reid Mayo of Chicago. Msgr.

Life and Ministry, chaired by MacDonald will serve ,as an exAuxiliary -Bishop Thomas, J. officio member.

Grady of ChiCago, assists the Continuing Growth NCCB in responding to the The subcommittee on continneeds and concerns of American uing education of the clergy will priests. examine and encourage the conAnnouncement of the sub- tinuing growth of priests, emphacommittees was made by Msgr. siZing spiritual renewal. AssistCoHn A MacDonald, executive ing Bishop Anderson will be director of the Office of Priestly Archbishop ,Ignatius J. Strecker of Kansas City, Kan.. and FaLife and. Ministry.

Bishop Grady has asked Bish- thers Daniel Danielson of :Oakop George H. Guilfoyle of Cam- land, Calif.; Antonio Gon,zalez' den, N.J., to chair the subcom- of . Amarillo, Tex.; Paul Purta, mittee on clergy distribution; S.S., Baltimore; Joseph H. Voor, Bishop Paul F. Anderson of Du- Louisville, Ky.; Msgr. \ Alexander luth, Minn., to chair' the sub- Sigur of Lafayette, La." and / committee on continuing educa- Msgr. MacDonald.

The subcommittee on priest· tion, and Bishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Helena, Mont., Iy affirmation and support will to chair a subcommittee on deal with such matters asreaf· pl"iestly 'affirmat~on and support. firmation of a priestly vocation in the midst of change, pri~stly Bishop Guilfoyle's subcommitfraternity, mutual t~ust, lonelitee will prepare a response for ness, promotion of' a sense of the NCCB to the document isprofessional responsibility,' and sued by the Vatican Congregaother factors affecting the: mo- . tion for the Clergy, entitled "Di'r,ale of the priesthood in: the rectory on the Distribution of United States.

I Assisting Bishop Hunthausen will be Fathers Kenneth Untener of Detroit; Paul Boyle, C.P.. of Chicago;, Jq~~n Mprxis,~ey lof " Worcester, Mass.; Edward ST. LOUIS (NC)-Dr. Kenneth Deutschmann of St. Louis; Msgr.L. Teegarden, general minister William Gallagher of Seattle,' and president of the Ch1"istian Wash., and Msgr. MacDon~ld.

Church (Disciples of Christ), has The Committee on, P.riestly communicated to Pope Paul VI Life and Ministry will meet in his support for the Pope's appeal October to discuss initial 'profor amnesty for political' and grams and directions that ~ay . other prisoners. be presented by the subcommit'1n a statement to the annual tee at that Dime. Bishop Grady meeting here of the 222-member is expected to make a report to General Board of the Christian the fall meeting of the NCCB. Church, Dr. Teegarden noted t'hat Pope Paul had recently proclaimed 1975 "a Holy Year for all Roman Catholics, and he appealed to all nations to grant amnesty to politica;l prisoners and other prisoners to celebrate the Holy Year. He called 1975 the "year of man, the year of the earth, the year of the poor:" He urged his church to works of charity and urged rich nations to help poorer nations."

The Falmouth National Bank FALMOUTH. MASS Recalling that the general asBy the Village Green Since 1821 sembly of the Christian Church last fall in Cincinnati had called for amnesty for Vietnam draft law evaders, Dr. Teegarden said Nobska Furniture that in keeping "with the spirit of our general assembly action, the spirit in which the Pope offered his Holy Year declaration, an~ in the light of our cordial bilateral conversations with the Roman Catholic Church, it has seemed appropriate to me to send a message to the Pope s.upporting his concern for amnesty,"

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Dr. Teegarden said that be woU'ld later ask the Christian Church to give special consideration to the issue of amnesty in 1975 and to encourage the U. S. government to seek ways of assisting poorer nations in contlrolling famine and in economic development.

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The dioceses involved are the archdiocese of Philadelphia and the dioceses of Allentown, Pa.; Camdtm, N.J.; Trenton, N.J.; and Wilmington, Del. Bishop George Guilfoyle of Camden will serve as Iiai~on betoween the office and the executive board, composed of the bishops of the five dioceses or their ,representatives.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The bishops of the five Catholic dioceses in the tri-state. Delaware Valley area have announced the formation of a regional radio~ television office. . , 1 Father Leo J. McKenzie, a priest of the Philadelphia archdiocese, has been appointed director of the fa~ility, to be known as the Delaware Valley Catholic Office' for Television and Radio.

A graduate of the Philadelphia archdiocesan seminary, Father McKenzie has a doctorate in

"Our aproach is marketoriented," Father McKenzie said.

"This office will operate within the geographical limits of a specific number of radio and tel· evision stations and cable systems. The Philadelphia metropolitan broadcast market extends beyond the territorial boundaries' of anyone diocese in the Delaware Valley. However, the people of this area share common interests, co,ncerns and prob· ICms."

Mass Schedule for Summer Season BREWSTER,

EDGARTOWN.

OUR LADY OF THE CAPE \

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, '10:00, 11:30 AM., and 5:00 P.M. .r Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. except Wed. 7:30 P.M.

ST. ELIZABETH Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 A.M. (5:00 P.M. beginning June 30) Saturday Eve.-4:00 - 7:00 P.M. Daily-5:15 P.M. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions-Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Masses: Sunday--8:30, 10:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.~.·

BUZZARDS BAY ST. MARGARETS Masses: Sunday-8:00,9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12 noon and 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve,-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM.

ONSET,

ST. PATRICK Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00'cll: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 Masses:

ST. THOMAS CHAPEL 9:00, 10:00, ] 1:15 A.M. Saturday-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Effective June 22-Subject to change'

Sunday~8:00,

ST. MARY-STAR OF THE SEA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11 :30 AM. Saturday--6:30 P.M. Daily 9:00 AM.

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CENTERVILLE' ." ,OUR L O\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.

HYANNIS ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00,' 9:00, 10:00, 11 :00, 12:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 8:00 AM.

YARMOUTH PORT ,SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.~5:00 P.M.

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

CENTRAL VILLAGE

MARION ST. RITA Masses: Sunday-8:30,- 10:00, 11:15 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-8:30 AM. .Friday-Benediction & Rosary 7:00 P.M.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. Saturday at 5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. ,Sunday Masses Parish Hall: 9:30 and 10:30 AM.,

CHATHAM HOLY REDEEMER Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. .Saturday Evening-:-5:00 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 AM. Full schedule begins June 22·23'

EAST FALMOUTH ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 &. 7:30 P.M. l?aily-8:00 AM.

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 AM.

MATTAPOISETT ST. ANTHONY Maiises: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00 (Folic Mass), 11 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday-8:00 A.M. - 4:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 and 9:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.)

NANTUCKET OUR LADY OF THE ISLE . Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:30, 11 :00 A.M. and 7:00 P.~.

Saturday Eve.:-'5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:30 AM.

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 Ma~,es: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena-Wednesday Morning Mass at 8:00 AM. '

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ROME (NC) - The National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN) has called for women to he present at this year's World Synod of Bishops in Rome in the fall, whose theme is "evangelization of the Modern World."

Speaking for the organization while in Rome recently, Sisters Dorothy Donnelly 'and Ann Gillen, president and executive director respectively of the NCAN, urged all Church decision-makers to reflect on the teaching

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methods of Jesus, who sent Mary Magadalene to report the good news to the brethren.

"Half the Church is women," they said, "and yet, churchmen employ tokenism by appointing several women observers and then hope that women will accept this as justice."

Sister Donnelly maintained that the NCAN wants "to save the bishops from the untenable position of thinking that they can speak from a level of integ-

rity and wholeness when they ignore 50, per cent of their members.

"The Holy Spirit speaks to women as well as men," she continued, "and therefore the whole truth cannot be discerned at this synod if the churchmen are not open to the other half who also hear the Spirit. Thus, we are asking that women be given presence. voice 'and vote at this synod," Sister Donnelly concluded.

Mass Schedule for Summer Season NORTH EASTHAM

CHURCH OF THE VISITATION Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. OSTEllVILLE

OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-·5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. Confessions: Saturday--4:00 - 5:00 P.M. SANTUIT

ST. JUDE'S CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 AM. 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 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M..

Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M.

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COMMUNITY CENTER Sunday-7:00 -P.M. (Beginning June 30) WAREHAM

ST. PATRICK Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00,10:00,11:30 A.M. , and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 6:00 P.M. Daily~7:00 AM. and 9:00 AM. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament follows the 7:00 A.M. Mass and continues until '7:00 P.M. Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Tuesday: Mass of Peace and Justice 7:00 P.M. Schedule for July and August WEST WAREHAM

ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday-7:00 P.M. Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Schedule for July and August

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ST. JOHN THIE EVANGELIST 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 AM. Confessions: Saturday ,-- 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. and following 7:00 P.M. Mass PROVINCETOWN

ST. PETER THE APOSTLE Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, iO:OO, 11:00 AM:, 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.--7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. and 5:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday--4:00 - 5:00 P.M. SANDWICH

CORPUS CHRISTI Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. and 12 Noon Saturday Eve.·-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. SAGAMORE

ST. THERESA Masses: ~unday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.·-6:00 P.M. SOUTH IOARTMOUTH

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

YARMOUTH

ST. PIUS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15,' 11:30 AM. 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM. BASS RIVER

OUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM. Daily-8:00 A.M. VINEYARD HAVEN

ST. AUGUSTINE Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions: Saturday·-2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

WELLFLEET

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

SACRED HEART Masses: Saturday-7:00 P.M. Sunday-9:00 AM. NORTH TRURO

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. WEST HARWICH

HOLY TRINITY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00. 10:30, l?~OO noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. & 7:00 P.M. ,First Friday-Mass and Exposition 11:00 A.M. DENNISPORT

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

ST. GEORGE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. WOODS HOLE

ST. JOSEPH Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses NORTH FALMOUTH (MeganseH)

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11 :00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses ...

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ST. CLOUD (NC) - If Church and family provided more support for young people, they would be le~.s likely to experiment with and perhaps become addicted to drugs, according to the new director of the Drug Drop-In Center here in Minnesota.

Henry Mansell took over the directorship of the three-yea 1'old center about four months ago after spending 11 months as resident coordinator of a chemical dependency program called Re-Shape at the St. Cloud State Reformatory.

Having had the experience of pr,ison life and having been a drug abuser himself, Mansell said he realizes the loneliness, and the anguish of addicts. He knows, too, what is needed in a drug abuser's life, he said in an interview in the St. Cloud Visitor, St. Cloud diocesan newspaper.

If they had alternatives and other types of reenforcements, such as Church and family involvements, Mansell suggested, drug abusers "wouldn't go on drugs."

Part of the problem lies with the young people and their lack

of interest in the activities that are provided, Mansell maintained. fault also lies in the f.act that there are not enough activities for them to be involved in.

Mansell spends time with the kids who hang around the street corners downtown at night and learns of their uninvolvement, the lack of discipline in the homes and the lack of love and care which, he said, is really needed.

As to the status of religion in the lives of young people, the clientele of the center and those who are getting into trouble "could care less about it," according to Mansell. But those who are not getting into trouble "are pretty involved in religion."

The main purpose of the center· is crisis intervention, deal"ing with people who are on drugs, who are depressed and just need to "rap." In this phase of treatment Iistenings is the key, Mansell said.

"What is needed isa willingness to extend ourselves to those who are having problems, to get involved personally, and to really stay in there and struggle with them and try to guide them."

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Bishop Rausch Hails Passage Of Aid to Poorest Nations WASHINGTON (NC) - Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, has praised the House of Representatives for showing "welcome awareness of this country's proper role in an increasingly interdependent world" by approving a $1.5 billion aid package for poor countries. ' The House, reversing a vote taken last January, approved the U.S. contribution to the International Development Association (IDA), the so-called softloan window of the World Bank.

The IDA contribution, to be paid over the next four years, passed the Senate in May and was strongl.y supported on .Capital Hill by key Administration figures," including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Treasury William Simon.

BishopSi Urge More Restricted Sunday TORONTO (NC) - The Catholic bishops of Ontario province have informed the provincial government they favor "a more restricted" rather than "a more open Sunday."

This message w.as contained in a report to the Ontario government commenting on the "Green Paper on Sunday as a Common Day of Rest and Uniform Store Hours."

"The need for stricter legislation to protect Sunday as the common day of rest," the report states, "comes from the incontestable fact that a steady erosion towards a more wide open commercialization of the day has occurred this past decade."

"We can easily lose all that we formerly had and still need merely by default. Then the cure will necesarily become more painful than the malady itself."

The House rejected the contri· bution by a 248-155 vote at t~ height of the energy crisis last .January. Opponents said then that poor cOllntries would use IDA funds to pay for higher priced Arab oil and the funds would thus become an indirect subsidy to oil-rich lands at a time of mounting inflation at home.

In his latest statement on the> IDA loan, Bishop Rausch called the January House vote a "blow to the poorest nations of thp world and a virtual repudiation of U.S. responsibility toward them.", Observers say that House pas· sage of the contribution by a 225-140 vote was brought about by an amendment to the bill, permitting Americans to buy, sell and own gold. Private ownership of gold is favored by many con· servatives and was also passed by the Senate.

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Theology of Hope Makes Sense of ,Life or' Death Richard L. Rubenstein, a Jewish theologian who was once a rabbi but has since forsaken his ancestral faith and resigned from the rabbinate, says in his recent autobiography: "Although I have never believed in the literal truth of the doctrine of the Fall of ' Man, I have always believed der out loud wh,~ther or not the Republic can survive. in its psychological, truth.

The late Stewart Alsop might The Fall had certainly been appear, at first glance,' to have empirically validated by the events of our times. For me it was further validated by the raging chaos of my own soul."

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MSGR, GEORGE G. HIGGINS ("Power Struggle: An Autobio· graphical Confession,"Scribners).

been a case in point. Alsop, w ho wa s one () f W as h'olI1g ton ' s most respected journalists, shortIy hefore he died wrote a book describing what it means to live with a terminal disease and to confront daily the prospect of his own death. At the beginning he described "the trapped and desperate feeling;' that came over him after being told that he would almost certainly die quite soon: At the end of the book, he was more resigned to his ,fate. ",Last Saturday night," he wrote, "when 1 felt so sick, I felt rather sure that 1 would die quite soon, and perhaps very SO(ln, within the next day or so. 1 did not at all welcome the prospect, 'but it filled me with no sense 6f panic ... Why the' difference. , "Perhaps the state of the nation has something'-:"a very little something to do with the differ'ence. For weeks now 1 have been haunted and depressed' by a sense that the American, system ... is' falling apart; by 'il sense that we are a failed nation, a failed people ... The thought has occurred ,to me quite often in recent weeks that perhaps this is a good time to bow out. No doubt it was the state of Alsop, far more than the state of the nation, that caused this thought to occur to me so often.

RELIEF IN MAURITANIA: G,overnment workers provide relief supplies-milk and dates-to people at a distribution station in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Although there is rio Catholic Relief Services office there, Msgr. Andrew P. Landi, assistant CRS director, visited the area to study the possibility of sending aid. Msgr. Landi 'conferred with officials of the Red Crescent, Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross. NC Photo.

No sooner had 1 finished reading these words on a delightful Sunday afternoon, in Washington when the Fall of Man was again tragkally validated by the events of our times. 1 had just put Rubenstein's sensitive autobiography aside and was about to turn to some weekend chores Agen~y when my s~cretary called to inform me that the late Dr. Martin Luther King's mot.her had ROME (NC)~Drought condi· been shot to death by a deranged' ti6n~ in Africa and the relief of gunman while attending services millions of sUffering persons at the Ebenezer Baptist Church there ~are !'the n'uniber one emer· in Atlanta, Ga. Before 1 had time gency problem" facing the U. S. to walk across the room and turn Catholic Relief Services (CRS) on my radio, 1 received a second today. call from a priest associate who Msgr. Andrew P. Landi, assis· spoke ,in the hushed tones of a man who had suddenly and un· tant executive director of CRS" Faith In Resurrectioin expectedly been confronted once overseas relief ~gency of Amer· again with the mystery of evil ican Catholics, recently in Rome, It would be a mistake, I think, and for whom the Fall of Man . to interpret this to mean that AI· ' reported on his tour of several was once again being validated sop was a kind of latter day Sto· seriously threatened African na· by the events of our time. ic who believed that death is the tions which he made with Msgr. end of the human story. From Wilson E. Kaiser, regional CRS Mystery of Evil what 1 have heard and read director for sub·S~hara Africa.

"We made contact with our For the rest of the day, 1 kept about him, I would assume that thinking off, and on of what he believed in an after-life and program directors in the drought Professor Rubenstein had said retained his religious faith in the areas in Senegal, Upper Volta and the Sudan - although the about this matter from his own Resurrection. ' agnostic point of refel·ence. 1 In any event, the senseless Sudan so far is almost untouched dare say he was speaking for the murder of Mal1tin Luther King's by the drought-and with offi· ma,jority of the human I-ace. At mother at the hand of a demented cials of other countries which some point ,in life (Auschwitz assassin-on whom none: of us are not yet affected by the emergency," Msgr. was the turning point for Ruben- w.m want to pass judgmeht lest drought stein) most men and women-be ~e ourselves De found wanting Landi said.

The visit of the two represen· they believers, agnostics, or even ' in mercy and compassion - can . atheists-are brought up short serve to remind us that only a tatives of the American Catholic by the mystery of evil and are theology of hope can make sense relief agency took them on thoufOl'ced to admit that it cannot of either life or death. The Sec- . sands of miles of difficult travel be explained, much less explained ond Vatican Council,' in discus- across parts of West Africa and away, in purely rational catego- sing this matter, reminded ,Chris- then to the eastern part of the ries. tians that "we ought to believe Cl!lntinent including Sudan and that the Holy Spirit in a manner Ethiopia.

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Officials Report Cathol ic;: On African Drought Conditions CRS has: ,been in Senegal and Upper Volta since 1958, Msgr.

L~ndi ,said, ",We, toured many of the wate'!,' projects, including well digging and earthen dams," he reported. ORS, 'working along with other church and religious organizations as well as national governments, has provided tools for project. work and food for those working on projects as part of self-help incentive programs, Msgr. Landi said.

In the ]slamic Republic of Mauritania, CRS has' no office, Msgr. Landi said. "But we have sent relief goods into the coun· try and are studying the possibility of sending in' someone there. We were received by the secretary general of the Red Crescent, the Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross," he said.

Vetoes Inmates Rights Bill JEFFERSON C]TY, (NC) Despite overwhelming legislative approval and the support of the Missouri Catholic Conference, a ,bill designed to protect the rights and needs of institutionalized individuals who arc or might be the object of medical research, has been vetoed by Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond.

The bill would have required consideration of whether or not the rights and needs of patients in particular' medical research projects had been adequately safeguarded.

It was not until after its almost unanimous passage in the Missouri legislature-30-0 in the Senate, and 145-1 in the House of Representatives-that >the bill received considerable criticism from members of the medical profession. ']n a telegram to Gov. Bond, Dr. Ro'bert Felix, former dean of the St. Louis School of Medicine said in opposition to the bill: "I am amazed and shocked at such a bill. It will bring any research to a grinding halt in the state of Missouri."

Dr. William Myer, Dean of the University of Missouri Medical School, told the governor "that although the intention of the bill was' laudable, the hill as written contains certain provisions whichhave the potential for inhibiting the prog,ress of clinical research and care in the state."

Father Wally Ellinger, chair· man of the Missouri Catholic Conferences Social Concerns "Department" had urged the goy· ernor to sign the bill.

Health' Center Gets New Building JEiRSEY CITY (NC)-A new $8 million six·story hospital building was dedicated here for the St. Francis Community Health Center.

Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, who was installed as archbishop of Newark two days before, pre· sided at the dedication where the dedicatory speech was given by his predecessor, Archbishop Thomas A. Boland.

The new building replaces the 1899 structure and provides ]44 gen'eral medical·surgical beds and 17 psychiatric beds.

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Pro-Life Groups Get 350,000 Signatures in P·etition Drive TORONTO (NC) - Canada's pro-life groups have tabulated more than 350,000 names in their bid for· a one-million-signature petition demanding the' tightening of existing abortion laws by the federal government to protect the lives of the unborn.

"The preliminary results give us a very hopeful indication we will reach our objective," said Dr. L. L. de Veber, newly elected president of the Alliance for Life.

However, he cautioned that unless canvassers renew their efforts during the summer months and start submitting their petitions to the alliance's headquarters ·here, the campaign could fall short of its goal.

In December 1973, the 75 antiabortion organizations in Canada banded together under the alliance and launched the country's largest-ever petition drive.

The petition is expected to be presented to the prime minister

along with a report sometime in late October. Simultaneous lob-. bying of all members of the parliament will also take place. ,Each member be given a breakdown of those who signed the petition in his constituency.

A spokesman at the alHance office said there are thousands of signatures pouring into Toronto each day.

Elmer Kremer, an executive member of the alliance, said forms for more than three million names have been distributed since January.

"We have huge boxes of these petition sheets and haven't had a chance to calculate all of them yet. Toronto volunteers have handed in about 100,000 names so far but we have to hear from Quebec which has promised about 300,000 signatures," he said.

Kremer explained that the campaign was not. officially kicked-off in many centers until the beginning of June.

Addressing the first general session of the conference, Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York said that "when the credibility of many institutions has come to a low ebb, the local parish has frequently enjoyed acceptance and truth. This has been demonstrated often in New York in those areas where the poor reside, in elections to the poverty corporations and local school boards, in neighboring housing sponsorships, in adult education programs, in attachment to the city parochial school, and in establishing child day care and senior citizen centers."

The cardinal emphasized the importance of local parishes maintaining that "they are a promise of stability, of permanence in a storm of change, of security tJ:lat at least one of the major structures of our society, the Church, has not pulled out and thrown up its hands in frustration at t.he appalling convergencies of urban crises. And the Catholic Church will continue to remain present in the neighborhoods of the poor and the minori·

Priests' Senat'es Join Federation CHICAGO (NC)--The priests' senates in the Cincinnati archdiocese and the Tulsa, Okla., didiocese, along with 'he Western Province of thl' Cri?l'~<'ian Fathers have joined the Nr tiona I Federation of Priests' COl':1dls (NFPC).

The Cincinnati priests' senate represents approx:nately 800 and Religious archdiocesan priests. The vntu tJ dfiliate with the NFPC came after long delib{'rations with Fr.t'n::>r Reid C. Mayo, NFPC president.

ties and the socially deprived," the cardinal said.

Cardinal Cooke explained that "the urban ministry of ,the local parish encompasses its role of service in housing, in education, in opportunities for employment, in the very critical area of personal safety for the people who dwell within its boundaries."

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Plan Missiology Week in Belgium NAMUR (NC)-The 44th International Week of Missiology will be held Aug. 26-29 at the major seminary here on the topic "Who will carry, tomorrow, the Gospel to ,the nations?"

Participants will study the use of local catechists, either Brothers, Sisters or lay persons, as substitutes for priests in preaching and in other pastoral work.

They will also examine the relation of foreign missionaries to mission countries, whether governments are admitting them, local churches accept them, and whether bishops want them and what spiritual, intellectual and psychological requirements the local churches believe the missionaries should have.

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Bronx Clergy Conference Seeks Solutions to Urban Problems NEW YORK (NC)-The Northwest Bronx Clergy Conference, an organization of" some 20 churches here that has been pressing for better living conditions in their section of the city, recently sponsored a three-day conference at Fordham University entitled "Strategies for Ministry in t~e City Struggle."

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They will al-so consider how to develop missionary vocations in traditionally Christian countries.

f; PRAYER FOR TOURISTS: Tourists from all around the world who visit the Grand Canyon are given this reminder of the source of the awesome natural wonder on this plaque built into a retaining wall for an overlook. The verse is from Psalm 66. NC Photo.

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Speakers will include Archbishop Bernardin Gantin, secretary of the \jatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and former archbishop of Cotonu, Dahomey, on "The African Viewpoint;" Belgian-born Bishop Jean van Cauwelaert, former bishop of Inongo, Zaire, on "Local C~te­ chists;" and Sister N. Murata of the generaJate of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary on "The Asian Point of View."

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We are not here to judge but to give our own account. " -R. H. Benson

SNYDER (NC)-lt's not easy home have done their share of The strategies conference was to return to school after many trye usual household chQ~es. an attempt'by Northwest'Bronx 'years' to 'face up to competing priests to help curtail the grow- with 18 to 22-year-old minds and ing exodus of working class peo- enthusiasm, and to have teachers ple to the suburbs. The result of the same age as one's own chilsuch migrations has been the dren. The task is even more difdisplacement of thousands ot' ficult when one is the widowed ~~of families of the working poor and mother of 12 children, ages 9 those on fixed incomes due to to ;30, five of whom are still at housing abandonment and gen- home and in school themselves. eralized urban decay.

Marge Quinlan of. Snyder, New York, overcame all of these ob• stacles to' receive 'her bachelor of arts degree in art history from ••• Jesuit-run Canisius College at Buffalo, N. Y., recently.

ST. LOUIS (NC) Marist Brother Dominic Lozeau was Whi,le in school, Marge made for those who don't want to tie up their elected president of the National the dean's list every semester Assembly of Religious Brothers a·nd was a member of the colSavings for long periods of time we also (NARB) for the 1974-75 year at lege's honor program. She also the assembly's third annual coil- received a special presidential have available the "convenient" REGvention, held recently at St. Lou- scholarship and is listed in Who's is University..

Who in American Universities ULAR passbook account earning 5.25% and Colleges.

Brother Lozeau, who succeeds for an effective yield of 5.47% Xavierian Brother 'Bonaventure She said she feels that there Scully, is a member of the fac- is no such thing as a "generation and ulty of Our Lady of Lourdes High gap" but instead mayhe just a the "different" 90 day account earning School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He "people gap." formerly taught at Mt. St. Mi'''I didn't try to be just one of 5.75% for an effective yield of 6.00% chael's Academy in New York the kids," she said. "I just loved City, and at Catholic Central being a mature woman enjoying High School in Lawrence, Mass. the quiety dignity of Canisius. interest continuously compounded The young people were just wonA native of Fitchburg, Mass" insured sate by a Federal Agency Brother Lozeau joined the Mar- derful and somehow I never ists in 1958 and has studied at thought about my age during the Marist College in Poughkeepsie ' full four years because they "and at the Catholic Institute of ever made me conscious of it."

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Marge was fortunte in being Other officers elected for tb~ able to arrange her studies to 1974-75 ye@r were: Passicnist coincide with the schedule of her Brother Damian Carroll, a staff five daughters who are still at 'I!! member of the Passionist radio home with her. Her first class SOMERSET FALL RIVER and TV center in West Spring- started after her youngest child 149 GAR Hwy., ~~e. 6 No. Main Streot field, Mass.. vice-president; and was on the school bus and her 145(; Plymouth Avenye Brother Guy Roddy of the Broth- last one ('nded in time for her to ~ ers of Chris~ian Instruction, reli- be home when they arrived from gious education coordinator at school. He!' 12 children all Phone 9-8181 St. Joan of Arc parish in Canton, shared her enthusiasm in going back to school and the girls at Ohio, secret.ary-treasurer. .~==============:I

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Commends John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor,'Soldier, Spy Of spy stories there is no end, and first rate. A memorable exception was 'The Spy Who Came In From the Cold." tion Mr. Le Carre has given us several inferior to the one which ' made his reputation: But happily he is back at the peak of his form in his new book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022. 355 pages. $7.95).

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cerns tlie assassination of a President of the United States.

This took place in 1960, and the fictional President \Vas Tim ' Kegan, then 42. Kegan was a son of one of the richest men in the country, if not in the world, the brassy Thomas Xavier Kegan, a' professional Irishman who had no 'Irish ancestry, The elder Kegan holds that money is both, the only morality and the only salvation.

He has another son. Nick Thirkield, bearer of the name of the man who adopted him after mar· rying Thoma,S Kegan's ex-wife.

Nick has striven all his life to escape the smothering clutches of his father and is off in the Orient' making his own fortune.

Search for Truth The title is taken from a small children's fortune-telling rhyme. , There he is told by a dying It applies to an effort to discover man that his brother's assassiwhich of several persons at or nation resulted from a plot, and near the top of British intelli- was not the work of one gungence work ,is actually a traitor man as the Pickering Report had who has sold out to a ccntroller declared it to be. He returns to the United States to follbw up of Soviet intelligence.

The effort is directed by -this lead.

His search for the truth'takes George Smiley, a middle-aged man who had once been a close him through a maze of d:oubleassociate of the chief of British dealing, "o'n some kind of bumintelligence. Both he and ,the mer through American 'mytholchief had lost their positions be- ogy." Duped and bewilderlfd btit cause of a mysterious fa:lure in persistent, he comes to realize that "someone, somewhere was the system.

Now' Mr: Smiley is asked to trying to tea:ch him 'futility . - ~ . come out of retirement 10 can- , Only one pattern seemed to exduct a clandestine investigation, ist: a pattern of confusion and the object of which is to deter- exhaustion intended to teach, .mine the identity of the "mole." h,im that all striving was fruitA mole, we are told, "is a deep- less, thaI. when he understood, penetration agent so called be- the futility, he would find peace cause he burrows deep into the and safety for the people he fabric of Western imperialism, in loved."

He discovers the sho,cking this case an Englishman."

Smiley's task is complex and truth at last. But the truth endangerous. He is to spy on a spy compasses much more than the or spies. The suspect are aJI men . ultimate responsibility for the I whom he has known for years death of his broth-er.' and with whom he has worked Fundament of Fact closely. Yet h'ow well has he As some of -the points noted known them? In that trade. de- above suggest, this novel is pri-, ception is second nature, and no marily a work of satire. ,It one ,is fully trusted. Moreover, abounds in exaggeration, some killing comes easy to such of it outrageous. Nick's advenpeople. tures and discoveries are wildly Like Smiley's task, the narra- improbable, but improbable as iive is complex and ,charged with the figures in the distorting I mirdanger all along the crackling rors in an amusement park are live wire. Mr. Le Carre has 'ac- improbable. There is a fundacomplished the considerable feat ment of fact in those images, as of telling an immensely compli- ' there is in Mr. -Condon's weird cated story without ,making a inventions. muddle of it. He puts together He is aiming at all the "fraudan intricate puzzle bit by bit, ulence and fantasy" in Amel'ican keeping the reader interested and life, lind says that Nick, "as their involved every step of the way. present target, represented' in miHe is deft, and he plays fair. crocosm what the American peoAlso, his characters are much ple had been." The fraudulence more than the stock, one-dimen- and fantasy, it is asserted,. arc sional figures or ordinary sus- "the permanent policy the pepple pense fiction, They have distinc- who own this country have, for tive personalities, articulated his- all the rest of the populatiop." tories. Yet over almost all of . Is this so? In some, part at them there hovers a doubt. . least, as recent events have inThis is a spy story which does ,dicated. Hence there is sdmenot take the reader on al1 in- thing salutary about Mr. Contellectual slumming expedit ion. don's fantastic fiction. ~ That fiction is uncomfortable.

Winter kills It is uncomfortable to the comThere is a mystery, too, at the placent patrioteer. It is uncomcore of Richard Condon's novel 'fortable, also. to the sensitive Winter Kills (Dial, 1 Dag Ham- reader who is free of smugness. marskjold Plaza, New York, N.Y. For the book features literal 'ob10017. 304 pages: $7.95). It con- scenities in quantity.

'1rhe Parish Parade' ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO A summer festival is planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 26, 27 and 28. AddiST. MARY, tional volunteers are needed to SOUTH DARTMOUTH Committee heads have been man booths and assist in oth,named for an old-fashioned er preparations. Donations of country fair to be held on the canned goods and flea market church grounds from 10 a.m. items may be brought to the 'school from 6 to 8 tonight and to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.

General Chairman George St. tomorrow night.

Tickets for a Litierace show Aubin will be assisted by ~ev.

William Blottman, treasurer, Tuesday, Aug. 27 are available and a large number of parishion-, 'at the rectory. Cost includes' ers. Committees include parade, transportation. entertainment, "bake off," auction, games, supplies, candy, SPECIAUST: Sister Mar- Christmas items, electrical main- Cursillo ,Movement garet Anne Guellich, 29, will ,tenance, country store, frog conbe graduating from the Col-· test, baked goods,' "treasures and Holds Encounter FINDLAY (NC) - The Curlege of Insurance in Septem- trash" and refreshments.

A planning meeting will be sillo movement stressed transber. She is seeking the busiferring its concentration from ness adminIstration degree held tonight and any additional the individual and the parish parishioners wishing to volunto help people understand teer assistance are asked to be to the Christianization of socitheir rights. The Missionary at the parish center at 8 o'clock ety during ,its second National Encounter held at Findlay ColServant of the Most Blessed tonight. lege here in Ohio.

Trinity said her specialty HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The week-long encounter, symbolizes the "evolving" A brochure, "Guidelines for whose theme was "Evangelizastatus of women in the Wedding Music," is available to .t-ion of Environments," brought Church. NC Photo. parishioner:; planning nuptial together some 500 Cursillo leadceremonies and may be obtained ers representing nearly 100 dioat the rectory. ceses. Seminars 'and discussion New Examination A bus tour' to a Tanglewood groups related to the encounter Of Bishop Started concert featuring Arnold Schon- theme were conducted in EngLONDON (NC) - A new plan ~erg's "Gurreleider" will take lish and Spanish to accommoto spotlight the bishop's role as place Sunday, Aug. 25. Reserva- date the nearly 100 Spanishleaders of the Christian commu- tions should be made this week speaking delegates. nity is beingt launched by the at the rectory.

National Laity Commission for ST. STANISLAUS, .

FALL RIVER AnLEBORO'S England and Wales.

The annual Polish summer fesleading Garden Cltnter Working on the assumption tival will take place Saturday that· not many people know and Sunday at Malowa's Grove, much about their bishop apart Tiverton or, in (:ase of rain, at from his name, the commission ' the 'parochial school hall on has prepared a· deta,i1ed four- Rockland Street.

South Main & WalO Stl. part discussion paper to be cirSaturday night's program will culated throughout the country feature the Lee Drewniak orchesto encourage groups and individ- tra and the John Sowa group 222-0234 uals to study the role of the bish- will be heard on Sunday. Free ,op and his task and means of bus service from the Fall River helping him.

Shopping Center will be offered It comes at the same time as from noon to 10 p.m. Sunday. the publication of another conFestival attractions will insultative document for English clude Polish and American foods, and Welsh CathoHcs on a pro- many booths and dancing. Prizes Complete Line posed split-up and revision of will be awarded throughout the the present national dioceses event, cJ.imaxing in grand prize Building Materials and other complementary ques- awards Sunday night. Admission 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN tioris for strengthening the work to the festival 'grounds will be 993-2611 of the Church in this ,cou,ntry., free. ~········'·····ttp.

PUblicity chairmen of parish oraanlzallona ue .sked to submit news Ilema for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, F.II Rlv.r, 02722. Nsme of city or town shOUld be Included, I I well IS full dates of all Jcllvltles. Plene send news of future rather th.n past evente.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH God, Our Family, and Yvonne

A Medical Viewpoint

By Mary Coleman, M.D. Every expectant mother has but one real wish - a perfect child. The sex isn't that important. But her little one's physical health and perfect brain is.

And if she had to make a choice of which she could have for her child-physical health or a perfect brain-most mothers would choose a perfect brain. Well, neither the mother nor the physician are given a choice.

The cold, hard fact is that out of every 100 live births, about three per cent have some type of retardation. Downs syndrome accounts for the largest percentage. It is to the parents of retarded children that I address this article.

After the ,initial shock of learning you have a retarded child has passed, you want to know: What can medical science do for my child? Why wasn't my child perfect? Should I place my baby in an institution? How will' this child affect my other children?

Research doctors arc looking for causes and finding treatment for afflicted children. But, unfortunately, research funds ,in the United States are limited. Present programs are funded through the Na~ional Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

We spend approximately the same amount each year but because of inflation, the allocation seems smaller and smaller. The money is not there to see them through, so many who are in·

terested are forced to go into a more lucrative type of practice.

My field is medical research.

I am a neurologist and for the past six years have been deeply involved in the study of Downs syndrome, autism, and a number of rare diseases: areas of purine metabolism, amino-acid, calcium, and epilepsy. We have learned some things that are positive treatments for some of these conditions. For instance, my research group has discovered ,l'WO new treatments in connection with epilepsy. What has been learned to date about Downs syndrome by our research team is contained in a volume entitled "Seraton in in Downs Syndrome" edited by Mary Coleman, North , Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam; North Holland Publishing Co., Ltd., London, 1973.

Besides my own studies, there' are programs being conducted in the Western part of the U.S. and in Europe.

Who does retardation str,ike?

It knows no bounds. No race. No religious ,background. No economic strata. No educational level. Any family in the world runs the risk of producing a retarded chiltl. Medicine knows no cause for the majority of these defects.

There are, of course, genetic factors involved with some couples. And with a chromosomal anomoly (Downs syndrome is the most common), the percentage is larger in mothers over the age of 35. However, we see a numTurn to Page F01.!rteen

When I went into the delivery room for the birth of my sixth child, [ was full of joy and anticipation. For the first time, my husband was with me to share in birth.

When we heard our baby cry and saw her tiny, perfect little body, we knew we were blessed once more. She was so beautiful!

The children were waiting anx· iously and we could hardly wa.it to phone them.

But 12 hours later, my happiness vanished when the pediatrician dropped by and said casually, "You know, your bab~~ has Downs syndrome." A cold chill went through me and I asked, "What is Downs syn· drome?" He replied, "It's a nice name for mongolism. Her mental development won't go beyond age seven-and I don't mean a bright seven. I'll bring commitment papers so you and your husband can sign tomorrow morning. We can get .her into Rosewood (an institution for the mentally retarded)."

He waited a moment. [ could not speak. He went on, "For everyone concerned, this is the best decision. A child like this is just too hard on the whole family. You'll only develop a useless attachment.". He walked to the door, then turned and said, "I'd suggest immediate Baptism. She may have a sec· ondary condition-a lot of these children do. If you're lucky, she won't make it through the first year."

"For God's sake, baptize her!"

I tried to stay calm as I said, "[ wouldn't think of an institution. I'll take her home and see be for everyone's transforma- how she is for myself!" tion.

Then I kept hearing "mongoOn the surface, this seems folloid, mongoloid, mongoloid" echo ly. To t'he Christian it is a way over and over .in my brain and of life. [ started screaming. Sedatives How does a family become helped but I could not stop cryaware that it is experierycing a ing. I experienced deep deprespurification of its value? How sion-I, who had no acquaindoes a family become aware of tance with depression other than its expectations? How can it reading about it. But we came cope with all the hurts; those into know one another well. volved in relating directly with At feeding time, the nurse the child, and those involving asked timidly, "You don't want friends, neighbors, teachers, doc·' your baoy, do you?" I shouted tors, priests and other family angrily, "Of course I want her!" members?

Sensible Attitude Struggle for Insight

From Shadows to Light

By Sr. Mary Therese Harrington A profound drama begins in a family when a disabled child is born. Great expectation, great longing, and a great hope are shattered by the news, by the awareness, that something is not J1ight. The sudden plunge into darkness may be short-lived or take a great deal of time but coming to terms with the pain is done in the depths of one's heart.

The depth of the drama affects the ,interiority of each member of the family. Each one needs time and space to struggle with the hurt that wounds them as well as the disabled child.

When all the members of a family agree to pass through this zone of pain and to come up on the other side into the dawning of a new if limited hope, they become transformed people..

They enter into a new solidarity with one another. They enter into a new world where they begin to see with respect other families struggling with the same mystery. They know that they will have to pass through hurtful, dark experiences time and again, but they also know they can do it and reach the light because they have already had some courage. Strangely enough, it is the disabled child who leads them along. What is hurtful can

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Certainly the temptation to hide, to put the child apart, to pretend, to reject, will only make matters worse. Gradully the family and the disabled child need to relate to others. They need to belong to a community where each one can' explore the significance of what is happening. Within a group of believers this exploration will be within the framework of the Gospel.

When an insight from the Gospel, from the life of Jesus in his relationship to his friends and to his Father, sheds light on an event, the person can go back to the same situation with new courage because his heart has been changed.

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I unwrapped her and examined every ~nch. She was beautifulthen I held .her up and she lifted her head! The doctor said she wouldn't. "He's wrong," [ told myself. But the oriental slant to her eyes and sluggishness ,in nursing strengthened my fear.

After they took her to the nursery, I looked out the window -my child could never love the sunshine, the trees, the birds, nor any of God's wonderful creations. [ cried bitterly. I don't know whether my tears were for my baby or for myself or for us ,both. I admonished God for sending such a cross-I begged God not to let it be so-I told Him I could not accept this child. [ was hurt and angry and lost.

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SELF-RELIANCE: Yvonne, a Downs syndrome (mongoloid) child is "according to her teachers '. . . one of the best emotionally adjusted children they have: ever taught and they find retardation difficult to detect." Yvonne Screiber, 5, showing typical Montessori school self-reliance, cleans up by herself after completing a messy project. NC Photo. about Yvonne, and when he and our teenage son and daughter came, they tried to console me.

They could accept this cross. I could not. After they left, I called two close friends-Sister Mary Heffernan and a long-tim'e friend who had had a blue baby 18 years before. I asked Sister to pray for my baby and me and I just talked to Dori~she and her husband had faced their dif·

ficult situation sensibly. Afterwards, I felt some kind of solace.

Rely on God When I brought my baby home, the only way I could live with myself and everybody else was to ignore the diagnos4s. Except for making a stronger effort to stimulate Yvonne, I treated her as though she were normal.

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Continued from Pag~ Thirteen faith, hope and love needs to be experienced by the disabled child as well as by his family.

They should all receive the type of pastoral care that is meaningful, that corresponds to their needs.

Inspiration to Others

A Medical Viewpoint

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Continued from Page Thirteen ber of chromosomal anomol,ies in births which have occurred with younger mothers so we cannot conclude that the age factor is THE CULPRIT. To those parents who still have guilt feeljngs~ I urge you to put an e~d to them. They are destructive and serve no useful purpose.

There is too much YOLl can do that is con~tructive, and if you have not yet realized it, you will find that your retarded child can bring you much joy.

Institutions Last Resort· One of the first qu'estions parents must answer for themselves about their newborn is: Should I' "institutionalize him?

More and more doctors are advising against this course of action. And with good cause. Most institutions are bad news. I definitely feel that a retarded child should be kept at home if at all possible, Any institution is a depersonal.ized place-a.setting where even a normal child would have limited opportunity to develop.

T believe foster homes and institutions in small group 'lettings will take the place of institutions as we know them -today, We are already seeing foster homes which are willing to take the retarded child. Progress made in these 'situations tells liS this is the road to take.

My recommendation for insti· tionalization is given only when t here is no other solution, e.g., death of the p,irents or chronically ill parents. And tht're are rare cases where the child is a danger to t~e community.

and since almost every family knows of -at least one case, acceptance by society should improve. .

The greatest danger parents face with their retarded child is overprotection. The· classic emotional problem is the ability Just as there are different of parents to allow their chilphilosophies of education and of dren to make their oW,n decitherapy, so there are different sions. It is simply blOWn up if schools of pastoral care. Pastoral a child is retarded. Interes~ingly care includes the liturgical, soenough, some children with ter·, cial and catechetical services ofribly low IQs are self supporting fered by a Christian community. and take busses unaided. They One school of pastoral care are products of parents who would apply the same norms to knew how to encourage indceveryone. Because of this menpendence. There ure, of course, tality, there has only been a vital limitations. religious education for the menIn the medical literature there tally retarded for the last 20 is a case cited of a mongoloid years. (adult) who was kept at home .Another school of pastoral by his parents. His IQ ~as 26 care would 'say that; although but he had been treated as a rei· everyone belongs to the church, atively normal child.: Upon differences in life style, in ways 'reaching adulthood, he held a of knowing, and in age must be full-time job, rode busses, and acknowledged. The pre-school LOVE AND JOY: "When all members of a family child, the student, the aged, the received a citizenship aw~rd for turning in a lost wallet tOI a bus agree. to pass through this zone of pain and to come up adult person are not· set aside driver. He read simple things on the other side into the dawning of a new if limited permanently in the Christian, and -was self-supporting. He community .but. there are times needed to stay in an' institution hope, they become transformed' people." A mother and her when everyone acknowledges mongoloid teenage daughter show their love for each other that they have a special life aft~r the death of his parents but he still kept his job and in their Milwaukee home, NC Photo. task to cope with. 'So, too, the was a contributing member to dis~bleq person and his family society. , belong to the parish but there Studies 20. to 40 year~ ago are times' when they need to say indicated that the average IQ to the other children or to those who they are liturgically, cateC0r:ti:nt>d from Page Thirteen for a Downs syndrome child was in the neighborhood either con- chet.ically, socially. They have the same: Things went smoothly aiuund 20. Today in my, clini~ scio:Jsly or subconsciously. We a quality of presence which is and many other clinics, the av~ until ht>r one-month checkup focus on wllat she can do, and a gift to a parish. erage IQ for the Dcwns. syn- with the pediatrician. He shook When a disabled child and the patiently work with her on his head and said sadly, "Don't, dro,me child is around -50. Most family have the courage to come things that are difficult.

We love expect too much.

She'll probably of these children come' from upforward and to be visible in a per middle-class families, enjoy go baok rather than forward. I her because she is Yvonne. parish, they minister to the parstill think you should put her parental acceptance, enter some She's just completed three ish. They break down prejudices type of nursery schc,wl at !l~out in Rosewood."My depression was years ,~t a Montessori school and·.inspire others. But the whole back; Each after-tile-doctor vis-it Th.t;rl:jli~r(iLI16,.9~h~.t:.:C69i,c~.,;., a~, j3,)\¥e "M.(.!J~~Jj~ ..aI)JI,~;~r!~,.j \J:ia' d1:theJ same ~e'ffe;h.'MY~htIsDa'n(fI;, wit!lv n~H"m~l jrchil<lre~" I' i'{v.(mn.e~s·i' burden 'is'!not' :to i~1:5ii on' 'them .."

Moaerh-'~ ldi'ugs' t Iusuflil'Y' '-J1i~R(t' treated",Ghdet' 'present 't-es(Mf~ti and the children were infinitely speech has been the only discern- In turn, the par.ish is to provide home 'care possible. Most' retard. . programs. abl,e slowness. But she talks in specialized -services when .they ed children, particularly Downs Downs syndrome can be :diag- patient and all of us prayed. sentences and reads simple are needed and in an appropriate When Yvonne was 14 months syndrome patients, are passive. nosed at birth because of physiwords. Acco:rding to her teach- manner.

The individual mothering and cal characteristics. This, perhaps, old, I heard about a doctor who ers, she -is one of the best emoThen the disabled child will attention a child receives at is the biggest strike against it. was doing research with Downs tionally adjusted children they have led the family and the parsyndrome children.

We took our home can be crucial to his devel- Knowing immediately that j,t exhav<: ever taught and they find ish into the Light where ,the - opment-he may even go beyond ists conditions parents to expect little girl .to her immediately: retardation diff-icult to, detect. basic values of the Gospel, of The doctor examined her, smiled expectations. Present studies a lot of limitations. How,ever. the Resurrection are manifest. has and said, "Even though she In five short years, Yvonne show that an only child is apt parents usually get •. what -they to make greater strides th'an one expect from children-normal or Downs, she is unusual. You have has given us more than we can Despair ever give her. Little things are who has four or more sibling retarded. Studies prove that !high a lot to hope for," While I was disappointed that more important; working togethrivals. Perhaps this is true be- parental expectancy usually proWe need 'not despair of any she confirmed the diagnosis, she er with the child we love' so man, so long as he lives. cause the parents have more duces higher performance.. gave hope. No cure was promised much has brought us closer and -St. Augustine ti"'!e for just one. Another 'reaEmployment of Retarded -n6 miracle-but it was a posi- deepened our love for one anson may be that parents feel, ei~ Since clinical reports indicate tive s,tep. I have always believed other. How far her mental develther consciously 'or unconsdous- a lesser development in D~wns that if I want God to help opment goes seems less and less ELECTRICAL Iy, that -their emotional invest- syndrome children from I~rge Yvonne, I have t() do my part important, perhaps because her Contradors ment seems to be more on the famHies" it is reasonable to con- too. One child in 600 is born love for us is so pure, unquesplus side with their normal chil- clude that more and better parwith Downs. Some day there dren. ent-sibling programs should be will be treatment. By being part tioning, and gentle.

Plus Factor in Home developed. A better understand- of the research, Yvonne ,is helpEach morning, she awakes with Another parental concern is .ing and a more acute awareness ing to find, answers. And .maYbe childish'delight to greet the day. the effect a retarded child will of what might be accomplis'hed she will be helped in the process. Yes, she loves God's creationshave on their other children. could produce more retarded the sunshine, the rain, the flowCourage From Child Most children do not react until adults who are self-supporting ers. Our beautiful llittle Yvonne they are between the ages of 12' and contributing commurtity After this, my feelings and at· is very much a' part of it all.. I and 14-the sentitive adolescent members. While a majority. of titudes didn't chal;tge dramati- just needed time to understand per.iod. mildly retarded people are em- cally, but depressions were few· that God gave us His speci~J A common manifestation is ployed today, that number co:uld er. One particularly bad day, 11- blessing. reticence to bring friends home grow beyond all expectations year-o.ld Christopher looked at because there is someone "dif- with the rightunderstandi'ng and her, took her little hand in his ferent" in the family, but this development of better programs. and said, "You know,' Mom, I phase passes. Many patients Many of those in institutit>ns wouldn't exharige her for any have told me that overall, the today should not be there. They baby in the whole world!" I retarded child has helped broth- should have been loved at home, knew he meant it. My son 'gave ers and sisters to reach a healthy trained in proper programs, and me the courage -I lacked. Maybe maturity and has been a plus ,intergrated into the community. that's when I started to live factor in the ho",!e. When par- Apart from being contributing "again'ents accept .the retarded child, members to' society, this could As Yvonne grew (there was no the rest of the f.amily usually save a lot of the taxpayers' dpl- secondary condition), she was • BANl:;)UETS • WEDDINGS • PARTIES follows suit. lars. more and more responsive. She Programs for Retarded An imperative demand of rriqd- is very proud of each new ac• COMMUNION BREAKFASTS The days of hiding an "imper- ern-day society is to expand re- complishment and so are her fect" child are finished. Over search not only in the areas ,of father and brothers and sisters.

1343 PLEASANT STREET FALL RIVIlR the past 10 to 15 years, com- prevention of birth defects but Needless to say, so am I! We munityattitudes have changed.' also .in programs that correct treat her like a normal child.

673·7780 More programs are being de- defects resulting in· mental re- We' expect her to behave and learn but we do not compare her signed for the mentally retarded, tardation.

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Jubilee Year Importance Is Almost Incalculable

Thurs., July 18, 1974

Few Catholics realize that 1975 will be a Holy or Jubilee Year. Among those who do know it, the notion probably stirs up nothing more than a "ho-hum." Some of the more progressive Catholics are doubtless ready to write off the Jubilee Year as one more relic of voting the Jubilee Year to intensive education of all men, woman archaic past - some- en, children and 'resident aliens' thing that belongs in the in the teachings of the Torah."

CINCINNATI (NC)-The Cincinnati archdiocesan priests' senate approved without dissent a strong resolution of commitment to ecumenism.

The 10-point program included a commitment to participate in interfaith ministerial associations, to initiate and encourage pulpit sharing, to participate actively in ecumenical programs and service, and to make ecumenism an integral part of their preaching and teaching.

The resolution also called on the archdiocesan seminary to "take leadership in ecumenism" by providing seminarians with strong ecumenical experience and by heing a theological resource for ecumenism in the area.

It called for a stress on ecumenism in programs of continuing education for priests, and it gave support to the ecumenical activities of' Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati.

Although aimed, primarily at the issue of Christian unity, the resolution also pledged the archdiocesan priests "to reverse the ignominious history of our relationships with the Jews through more knowledge and understanding which we will share with our own congregations."

In a survey of priests leading up to the resolution, slightly more than a third of the respondents said they belonged to ,ministerial associations, but four out of five said they were in commun'ication with rabbis and other ministers in one way or another.

These practical and moral difficulties were among roadblocks to cooperation cited in the survey; lack of leadership and understanding, too many meetings, lack of laity response, and strong convictions on issues such as birth control, abortion, race and alcohol.

same historical ashcan as "seven years and seven quarantines," stations of the cross, and rosary devotions on Sunday afternoons.

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REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

. In fact the idea of a Jubilee is an extraordinarily exciting onc. Far from being old fashioned it represents an attempt to sacralize time, to reestablish harmony between life and the rhythms of nature that the most advanced historians of religion, religious sociologists, and psychologists can only vigorously applaud. In a world suddenly conscious of the environment and the ecological cyc:les, the Jubilee takes on .a richness and an importance that is almost incalculable. Given the prepensity of the Church organization to blow opportuni'lies, it seems very likely that the Holy Year opportu'nity will be blown too, hut such an opportunity lost would be a great pity.

Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish CommHtee, has prepared a fascinating paper on the Jewish origins of the Jubilee. ("Yubel" means "exult" and refers 路to the sounding of the shofar - the ram's horn - on the Day of Atonement, which announces the 'inauguration of the Jubilee Year.) It doesn't seem very likely that any Catholic publication will be interested in the rabbi's paper, given the listlessness and indifference of things Catholic today. The Holy Year, you see, will be one more exercise in ritual,ized devotion, and nothing really important or dramatic will occur.

Year of Liberation Still, Rahbi Tanenbaum's comments are most interesting: "The Jubilee had for its aim the emancipation of the individual from the shackles of poverty, and the elimination of the various economic inequalities in the Jewish' Commonwealth in accordance with the demands of Social Justice."

The Jubilee then is a year of liberation - spiritual liberation p"imarily, but a spiritual liberation which set four preconditions of liberation in the actual life of the people. In Rabbi Tanenbaum's words: "a) Human-liberation of the slaves. b) Economic-the moralization of the use of property and material goods. c) Ecological-liberation of the land. d) Educa,uion-the路 creation of a spiritual demo(;racy by de-

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The possibilities that could be found in those four kinds of Uberation as a theme for Holy Year 1975 are immense. It could indeed become one of the most remarkable experiences in twentieth-century 'Catholicism a time of study, prayer, reflection, planning, and (as the pope has made clear in his .theme) reconciliation. We coul~ pause, catch our breath, from all the frantic confusion of the past decade 路and a half, get to know each other hettel', bury our old conflicts and marshal our resources for a great revival in the final quarter of the century.

Principal Theme Of course, this isn't going to happen. We w.ill have prayers, sermons, devotion,. pilgrimages, pastoral letters - and nothing will change 'at 'all. We will go through rituals of reflection, rededication, and reconciliation, but nothing will happen. As Marc Tanenbaum notes, "Isaiah scores the hypoc'risy and worthlessness of ritual without righteousness." Well, ,Isaiah, get ready, because that's what we are going to embark on.

Take the principal theme of reconcHiation: Our leaders" will harangue us about our obli'gation of reconciliation with them. They mean, of course, that reconciliation implies that we g,ive in and go along with them on everything. It does not imply, perish the thought, that they reexamine themselves, do penance for their mistakes and failures and become reconciled to the rest of us. And of course if the leaders do not frankly reappraise their own behavior and admit their own mistakes, how can we expect the followers to do the same thing? "Sicut rex, sicut grex," as the wise old Latin proverb says.

Reconciled to Whom?, Become reconciled to those who have left the priesthood?

Or to those who have been pushed to the fringes because they dared to express themselves? Become reconciled t,o the hollow and powerless pr.iests' senates and personnel boards?

Become reconciled to the religious women who continue to be treated like second-class citizens? Be reconciled to the scholars and intellectuals who for all practical purposes have been drummed out of the Church?

Be reconciled to the laity who think that the Church's hardness of heart on marital sexuality has betrayed them? Be reconciled to the lay newspaper editors who have been f,jred or to the clerical ed,itors who have been dismissed? Be reconciled to due process, to democratic participation in the choice of bishops, to pastoral councils with real power, to experimentation with marr.ied clergy-to all those things that the overwhelming

UPSTAGED, BUT NOT FOR LONG: A youngster racing across the front of the stage upstages the star of the show, Bob Hope, at a benefit for Our Lady of Fatima School, Scarsdale, N.Y. But comedian Hope capitalized on the impromptu dash by joking about it and got his audience back again. About $50,000 was raised from the crowd of 10,000 in Mt. Vernon Memorial Stadium, who watched Hope, country singer Jeannie C. Riley and the Harry James band. Parishioner Pete Bennett, a show business promoter, got the acts together for Our Lady of Fatima Sehool when it was threatened with closing. He said he wants his sons to continue attending the school. NC Photo.

"Minnesota Platforms Straddle Fence on Most Catholic Issues ST. PAUL (NC)-During their recent state conventions, Minnesota's three major pol.itical parties debated, but for the most part refrained from making a firm commitment , on such issues .as abortion, euthanasia, nQnpublic school aid and' amnesty.

An almost evenly divided Democratic Farmer-Labor party majority. of the clergy endorsed in the study the bishops themselves paid for? Be reconciled with the black and Latino Catholics who are excluded, for all practical purposes, from the power structure? Be reconciled with the young people who think that obsession with ecclesiastical organizatJion is a foolish waste of time?

Don't be silly, friend. That's not what the Jubilee is about.

It's ahout all those people crawling back to us and doing penance for having the sinful pride to disagree with us.

Reconciliation absolutely demands that we have the sensitivity to put ourselves into another's position and sympathetically understand where he ,is.

Such a change of heart may occur during 1975, but it will be one of the Holy Spirit's great accomplishments of the last 2000 years if it does.

(DFL) convention tabled the abortion question following a test vote which indicate neither side arguing the issue possessed the required 60 per cent delegate strength to pass a platform plank.

Republican delegates passed a general two-pronged abortion plank calling for a "uniform national law on the issue of protection of life," and a national referendum to determine what form such legislation should take.

The American Party of Minnesota, an affiliate of the American Independent Party, adopted a resolution calling for the protection of human life f~om conception on, and for opposition to public funding "for killing human beings."

The DFL party failed to act on a plank calling for greater availability of family planning services. The Republicans approved a plank emphasizing the prevention of pregnancy rather than its termination.

A euthanasia plank which would have declared the "involuntary deprivation of life" a criminal act failed to be considered by the DFL party. The American party approved a plank which stressed that '~no human being should be deprived of life because of age, oiliness or incapaci ty."

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Pope Ordains Seven Bishops

tHE ANCliORThurs., July 18, 1974

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Popc Paul VI ordained seven bishops Sunday, the 11th aniversary of his coronation, in St. Peter's aasilica.

They are Archbishop-elect Gabriel Montalvo, a Colombian who has been named apostolic nuncio to Honduras and Nicaragua; Archbishop-elect , Angelo Acerhi, an Italian who has been named apostolic pro-nuncio to New Zealand and apostolic delegate for the islands of the Pacific; Bishop-elect John MacKey of Auckland, New Zealand; Bishop-elect Tsinda Hat'a M'Sanda of Kenge, in Zaire; Bishop-elect Andrew Deskur, a Pole who is' president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications; , Bishop-elect Antonio Cabri, an Italian Josephite who is auxiliary in the apostolic vica, riate of Napo, Ecuador; and Bishop-elect 1:homas Nantha, auxiliary in the apostolic vicariate of Vientiane, Laos.

Cardinal Plans Immigrants' Job Project BOSTON (NC) -- Eighteen Spanish-speaking migrants to 'Boston will be provided .jobs within the archdiocese here as a result of a contract, between Cardinal Humbert-o Medeiros of Boston and the U.S. Department of Labor, JY1anpower Administralion.

The contract is the second in a ,series under Jobs Ol"iented to the Business Sector (JOBS) program of the archdiocese. The first contract involved 30 Spanish-speakers.

The Cardinal Cushing Centcr for the Spanish Speaking ~f the archdiocese will manage the program and provide social services for the new employes. Its successful management of the first contract resulted in permitting I'he program to be renewed this year.

The contract is the latest in a series of government agreements which are providing necessary funds to the Cardinal Cushing Center for an integrated! program of acculturation of the Boston Spanish-speaking population.

Cardinal Medeiros expressed his approval of the efforts of all r.oncerned to provide a means hy which the Spanish-speakers may enter and enrich the mainstream of American life.

Auxiliary Services Act Sustained COLUMBUS (NC) - A threejudge federal court here sustained the constitutionality of the Ohio statute that provides auxiliary services and materials to non public school pupils in the state.

'The Ohio act has bccnimplemented since 1967, but this decision will permit an additional $81 million to -be used in funding the program.

Program Involves' Whole Family PARAMUS (NC) Paulist Press has announced that it is marketing a new parish program designed to involve whole families at once in the religious education process.

The 'program, enlitled "Family:, Parish Religious Education," was developed by Dominican Sister Maureen Gallagher, assoeiate director of religious education for the Diocese of Madison, Wis. Under the program parents and high-school-age youths meet together for an hour while other children meet separately in other classes geared to their learning level-pre-school, primary, intermediate and junior high school.

In the first hour there are instructions, discussions and audiovisual presentations on a theme, such as creation, reconciliation,. or the¡ Eucharist.

A second hour is devoted to family sessions, in which each family comes together as a unit to discuss the theme and do a project or play a learning game based on the theme. The s.ession ends with a liturgy for the whole group. .

Urge Amnesty BETHESDA (NC)-A call for "universal and unconditional amnesty for violators of the Selective Service Act" was issued here in Maryland by the Sisters of M~rcy of the Union. Issued during the Sisters' ninth general ,chapter held at their gener-alate here, the chapter based its position on Pope Paul's call fOI" amnesty during the Holy Yeal' and on the chapter's contention that unconditional amnesty "would demonstrate that America is still capable of a communal moral act.

"HOW DO YOU STOP THIS 'THING?": Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston gets a ride on a swing whpe visiting the archdiocesan summer camp for underprivilegedchildren at Nantasket Beach, Mass. The cardinal wondered aloud, "How do you stop this thing? It's like perpet~al motion." NC Photo.

David J. Young, attorney representing nonpublic school parents, commented: "This federal court decision should serve as a guide to legislative bodies in other states looking for .constitutional methods to achieve ,equality of educational opportunities."

Pr,iest Says Irish Need American Prayers, Sympathy, Understanding CINCINNATI (NC) - Northern Ireland needs prayer, 'J.1nderstanding, sympathy' - and visitors. ' .

Jesuit ,Father David Bowman who has visited the strife-tor~ country 10 times in the past two years, offered this catalogue of needs at an ecumenical service recently in St. Peter in Chains Cathedral for "reconciliation in Ireland."

Visfting Northern Irelan~, he suggested, would be a dramatic expression of sympathy and understanding and of a "willingness to listen" to people on' both sides of the confHct. Acknowledging that "if ypu're there more than one day" a' visitor will find himself "in proximity to shooting and bo'mbing," Father Bowm'an 'said. "But there are 500,000, people who' live there. Dear God, they live there all the time. The Protestants need to be Visited-the Cathol'ics -the poor . . ."

'I ' Father Bowman, who isspecial assistant to the general secretary for ecumenical services of the National Council' of Churches, has visited Nortnern Ireland as a representative of the NCC and of the Roman CathoHc Consultative Committee on Northern Ireland headed by Auxiliary,Bishop John J. Dougherty of Newark, N.J.

The situation in Northern Ire-. land today is "more difficult, more dangerous, more humanly depressing" than at any time in the past 800 years, Father Bow-' man said.

Bitter Situation "It seems beyond question that the. Protestant poor and the Catholic poor will not speak to one another, deal with one another, pray for one another; the situation remains bitter, bigoted and hopeless," he said.

And it is all the more remarkable, he added, because "the Irish people are the most wonderful" most hospitable, most communicative people that most of us have ever encountered."

In pra)'mg for people torn by hatred, however, it .is necessary first to look inward, Father Bowman continued. "If we are to be truly dedicated to reconcHiation and peace and justice in NOl"thern Irelana and in the country Ireland, we have to look first at ourselves and wonder about how dedicated we are to these ideals in our own lives, communities, neighborhoods."

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