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WASHINGTON (NC) - The ment also argued- that the federal Reagan administration, prompted appeals courts rulings in the by abortion law oases from Pennsylvania and Illinois cases Pennsylvania and Illinois, asked should be overturned because the U.S. Supreme Court July 15 the rulings in those cases, too, to overturn its landmark 1973 were "multiply flawed ...· decision -legalizing abortion. By urging the court to overturn its 1973 decision, the Justice De The administration, in a Jus partment apparently sought an tice Department friend-of-the ovenuling for the first time court brief, argued that the Con since 1954, when the depart· stitution itself contains no lang uage guaranteeing abortion ment successfully asked the rights and that the court's 1973 court in' Brown vs. Board of Roe vs. Wade abortion ruling Education to throw out the 1896 ruling permitting racially "sep was flawed. A "compelling ground for our arate but equal" schools. The Supreme Court had agreed urging reconsideration of Roe vs. in April and May to hear the Wade is our belief that the tex tual, historical and doctrinal Pennsylvania and Illinois dis basis of that decision is so far putes. The Pennsylvania case in flawed that this court should overrule it and return the law to volves the state Abortion Con the condition in which it was be • trol Act, passed in 1982 but fore that case was decided," the largely gutted by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court' of Appeals in brief declared., "There is no ex plicit, textual warrant in the Philadelphia. Provision of the law struck Constitution for a right to an down by the appeals court de abortion." Prior to the high court's 1973 manded that a woman seeking I'uling, various states forbade ,an abortion be told of the ad verse psychological and physical abortion while others did not. The Justice Department also effect and be advised of poten· stated that the 1973 ruling "is a tial prenatal and childbirth assis source of such instability in the tance; that a second physician be available to save a viable law that this court should re consider that decision and on fetus aborted; that the physician reconsideration shoUld abandon use an abortion method most likely to save the unborn baby it." Turn to Page Six In its brief, the Justice Depart·
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THE RIBBON is a project for young an d old. Top, youngsters at St. Vincent's Home ' WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope work on their panel; bottom, Mrs. Anna Souliere, RN, and Sister Virginia Ptaz, FMM, help John Paul II accepted the resig· nation of Cardinal Timothy Man· Sister Diane Talbot, OP, add her signature to those of sisters who have lived through the ning of Los Angeles July 16 and two world wars of the 20th century. (Gaudette Photos) named Bishop Roger M. Mahony
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Washington to the Capitol and By Pat McGowan Youngsters at St. Vincent's the White House. In the making since 1982, The Home, Fall River, too young to remember ,the Vietnam War Ribbon is the brainchild of Jus and Dominican Sisters, also in tine Merritt, 61, a Denver grand Fall River, who clearly recall mother of seven. Contributors, who are from all 50 states and World War I are among contri butors to The Ribbon, a 10-mile ,many foreign countries, were r:eace statement which on Aug. asked to embroider, paint, quilt, 4. will enwrap the Pentagon and applique or otherwise embellish t.xtend through the streets of 18 by 36-inch panels of material
with symbolic or realistic repre sentations of what they would most fear to lose in a nuclear holocaust. In Washington on Aug. 4, the Sunday before the 40th anniver sary of the Aug. 6 atomic bomb ing of Hiroshima 'and the Aug. 9 bombing of Nagasaki, over 17,000 panels will be held by Turn to Page Six
of Stockton, Calif., to' succeed him as head of the largest arch diocese in the country. Cardinal Manning, who turned 75 late -last year, submitted his resignation after nearly 40 years as a bishop and 15 as !head of the Los Angeles See. Church law requires bishops to submit their resignations at age 75. Cardinal Manning's retirement draws the U.S. church closer to the end of a major era. Of the four remaining active cardinals in the country, only Cardinal _John Krol of Philadelphia, who turns 751ater this year, attended the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s as a bishop.
The changes in the Los An geles Archdiocese, which has, more than 2.5 million Catholics in t.hree Southern California counties (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura), were an nounced in Washington by A:rch bishop Pio Laghi, papal pro nuncio to the United States. Archbishop-elect Mahony. 49, a bishop for 10 years and bishop of Stockton for five, gained a national reputation in the early 19705 as a leader in social jus tice struggles, especially for California farmworkers and the nation's Spanish-speaking minori ties. From 1970 to 1975, while ~ocial services director and then chancellor of the Fresno Diocese, he was secretary of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Turn to Page Three