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Denies O. K. Of Exhibit FORT LAUDERDALE (NC)An internationally known pharmaceutical company has denied any advance knowledge or approval of an exhibit on fetal experimentation displayed during the recent national convention of the American College of ObstetTics and Gynecology held at Miami Beach. In response to a letter of pro~ lest sent to Ayerst Laboratories of New York by Dr. Matthew Bulfin, local obstetrician who heads the newly formed American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. John B. Jewell, executive vice president of the firm stated that the appearance of the firm's name on a plaque accompanying the display prepared by the department of obstetrics and gynecology ,at the University at Kansas only acknowledged a grant of unrestricted funds from Ayerst. Expressing understanding for Dr. Bulfin's concern, Dr. Jewell wrote: "I give you my word I have never supported such research." According to Dr. Bulfin, physicians participating in convention sessions found the display which depicted experiments on human trimester fetuses aborted by hysterotomy, "repulsive." The plaque read ~'Funded by Ayerst Laboratories." Meanwhile, the number of physicians across the nation who aTe signifying their support of the new pro-life group continues 10 increase, Dr. Bulfin said. He stated that recently he has received correspondence from pathologists across the country who are outraged by the size of Jive fetuses being sent to them after abortion. He cited Oklahoma City and Maryland as two of the areas from which pathologists have written.

Back To School For Bishops 0/ U.S. WASHINGTON (NC) - Sixtyfour U. S. 'bishops attended a theological seminar at the Theological College of the Catholic University of America here July 9-12. ' The fifth annual theological seminar for bishops, cosponsored by the Bishops Committee on Doctrine and the Catholic University, focused on theological developments since the Second Vatican CounCil. Among the topics discusseCi were medical ethics, the apostolic succession of bishops and the virginity of Mary. The four-day meeting was directed by Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the Bishops' Committee on DoCtrine. It was limited to Bishops and all sessions were closed. Among the bishops participating in the seminar were Cardinals John J. Carberry of St. Louis, Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston and Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore.

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About Docuh1entWASHINGTON (NC) - The Doctrinal Congregation's recent "Declaration in Defence of the Catholic Doctrine on the Church Against Certain Errors of the Present Day" drew mixed reactions of approval and strong criticism from American theologians. Although the main focus of the Vatican statement was the Church's position on infallibility, theologians contacted by NC News expressed strong interest in the section in which the document describes the "historical condition that affects the expression of Revelation." While asserting that the "meaning' of dogmati~ formulas ... remains ever true and constant in the Church," the doctrinal congregation declared that such formulas may be incomplete and "depend partly upon the expressive power of the language used at a certain point in time and in particular circumstances.'" Anyone interpreting dogmatic formulas must also take into account the particular questions being answered or the errors being corrected by the formulas, the congregation said. The congregation's statement on historical conditioning of dogmatic formulas "seem to me exactly the kind of thing that most of us (theologians) have been

Catholic Schools Told to Develop Alte,rnate Plans for Financing • ST. PAUL (NC) Catholic schools in the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese were told to sta'y open but develop alternate

financing plans for the 1973-74school year in case the Minnesota Tax Credit law is declared unconstitutional. The 1971 Minnesota law allows parents to deduct tuition costs from their state income tax, up to $100 'per elementary school child and up to $140 per higb school child. It is similar to a New York tax exclusion law that the U.S. Supreme Court recent"One of the big problems with ly declared unconstitutional on our kids," he says, "is that they the grounds that it had the pri· don't have' real close friends in mary effect of advancing religion. The Minnesota law is still in whom they can confide. They don't quite trust their compan- effect, but a challenge to its ions. Maybe it's due to the way constitutionality has reached the the' townspeople have always Minnesota Supreme Court. The taken advantage of the rural court is expected to rule on the case sometime tbis fall or wincampesino." Father Murray's duties, how- ter. In guidelines publish~ for the ever, do not end with the CFM and the high schooll:irs. He is 129 Catholic schools of the St. also director of the Maryknoll Paul - Minneapolis archdiocese, Fathers' Center House and chap- the archdiocesan board of education said that: lai~ of the Puno Hospital. Hospital fadlities are limited, All Catholic schools "should he notes, and healing is slower plan to remain in operation for because of the altitude. "I f.ind, the 1973-74 school years." however, that the people are Pastors and school personnel used to suffering and more pashould make every effort "to tient than the sick in the States." work for full enrollment for the Father Murray has been coming school year." working in the Puno area since Every school "should present his ordination in 1951. The Puno Department is a state about the an alternate financing plan for size of Ohio. It has been listed as the 1973-74 school year ... by a permanent disaster area by September 15, 1973, based on the possibility of the loss of the MinUnited Nations' experts. During! the cursillos for men nesota Tax Credit benefit." and women of the PUIlO area, the , Budget· deficits could be offIndians study their situation and set by short-term loans, a rereflect on it. "We believe they ordering of parish budget, fund are, trying to change it," says raising events, and voluntary their' Director, "and they will, if contributions from families who the rest of the world gives them are financially able to give more, a fair shake." it added.

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New Bedford MQryknoller Introduces CFM In Altip~ano 'Area of Southern Peru A busy New Bedford mission- i1y, and I mean the family at all ary priest in Puno, Peru is help- levels." , Father Murray's CFM groups ing Latin American women regain their dignity and rightful concentrate on the apostolate to p1l1ce in society, especially wom- other families and to youth. en of the most neglected areas Some couples give sex education and social classes. courses in the local high school. "In the past, the Latin .AmerThe New Bedford Maryknolican woman has always taken ler is also a counselor at St. the back seat," says Rev. Charles Ambrose High School. He studied Murray, M.M., son' of Mrs. Mary . clinical pastoral counseling at St. E. Murray, 11 Chestnut St., New John's Hospital in Lowell, Mass. Bedford. in 1971. ."We are trying to help the people become aware of both the woman's role in society and the family's importance in that same society," related the 51year-old Maryknoller. Father Murray is Diocesan Director of Cursillos and moderator of various Christari Family Movement (CFM) groups which he has founded in the two-mile high antiplano of southern Peru. The first Quecna Indian language CFM group in the world was started by him several years ago in Azangaro, where he worked for 17 years. The CFM is not just for middle <:lass families, according to Father Murray. "It is impossible to transform society without emphasis on its basic unit, the famFATHER MURRAY

saying," said Sulpician Father Raymond Brown, an American Scripture scholar and member of the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Commission. Father Brown's comments on this topic at the National Catholic Educational Association's annual convention earlier this year provoked accusations of heresy in the pages of The Wandered, the conservative national Catholic weekly. "On an initial reading, 1 don't think the average, middle-of-theroad theologian is going to have any trouble with this document," Father Brown said. The section on dogmatic formulas was described as "a very nuanced treatment" hy Jesu·it Father Avery Dulles of Woodstock College in New York. "It is striking how many reservations they built into the affirmation of faith contained in dogmatic statements," Father Dulles said. The congregation's emphasis was on the permanence of such formulas, he said, hut it was "nuanced in such a way that theologians will be able to work with it." Jesuit Father John H. Wright, professor at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkley, Calif., and immediate past president of the Catholic Theological Society of Turn to Page Two


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