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Bishop Sees President At 4:30 on Monday afternoon, July 24, His Excellency, America Tomaz, president of Portugal received Bishop Cronin and his traveling companions at the Palacio de Belem, the "White House" of Portugal. However, the president does not reside in the palace but in his own home.

Although the president does not speak English, he understood most of the conversation. In a like manner, Bishop Cronin, who is fluent in Italian and French, understood most of the conversation in Portuguese.

Expressing deep gratitude for Bishop C'ronin's visit and his profound concern for the welfare_ of the immigrant Portuguese in his diocese, the president manifested a keen perception of the migration trend affecting this area of Massachusetts and stated that he realized that the majority coming to our shores were Azoreans, with a sprinkling of Madeirenses and Cape Verdeans.

A devout Catholic, the president who was a frequent pi,lgrim to the Shrine of Fatima until 1958 when he became president. inquired of Bishop Cronin about the immigrants and the practice of their faith.

In a discussion concerning Bishop Cronin's impressions of Portugal, President Tomaz mentioned a list of places to visit.

Since the tight schedule of the Ordinary of the Di()cese of Fall River would not find him free' for these stops, he promised to see them on his next visit to Portugal.

The president accept.ed the explanation as a promise of a second visit to Portugal in the' future by Bishop Cronin. o'

BISHOP MEETS PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL: His

Excellency, Americo Tomaz, president of Portugal, left, received Bishop Cronin and his traveling companions, Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., pastor of St. John of God

Bishop Returns From Tour

By Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G. and Rev. John J. Oliveira On Monday, July 17, we arrived at St. Michael's Island. At the airport of Ponta Delgada, we were greeted by a delegation from the seminary headed by the Most Rev. Paul Tavares, Bish.op of Macao and a native of the island.

The American Consul in the Azores, Mr. Hybloom, was also a member of the welcoming party.

The evening Mass was concelebrated at the church of, Born Jesus at Rabo de Peixo.

As Bishop Cronin arrived in the church square, the bells pealed and the crowd that had gathered on the church steps burst into applause. It was the first time that a foreign bishop had visited the parish.

During the Mass, Bishop Cronin stressed the importance of the ~aith for the immigrant and offered proof of this Faith in the two priests who were accom-

Educational, Association Publishes Primer on Catholic School Boards WASHINGTON (NC)-A Catholic board of education is a good structural vehicle for involving a broad cross-section of Catho-

Four Dominican Sisters To Take Vows in Dighton Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will be principal celebrant of a Mass at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Vice Provincial House of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Elm Street, Dighton.

The occasion will be the receptipn of perpetual vows by four of the sisters of the Congregation whiclt staffs St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Madonna Turn to Page Two

Church, Somerset, second right and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy High and assistant at St. Anthony's Church, Taunton, extreme right. The Palacio de Belem was the scene of the meeting.

lics in educational policy decisions, according to an official of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).

"Participative decision-making is undoubtedly one of the most exciting directives to emerge from Vatican Council II," said Dr. Mary-Angela Harper, prei)ident of NCEA's National Association of Boards of Education (NABE). "And surely the board movement is among the brightest hopes for implementing this directive within an educational context."

Mrs. Harper and others active in the Catholic school board movement contributed articles to a recent NABE publication, "Boards of Education: A Primer."

Parish boards of education composed predominantly of lay people elected by their fellow parishioners-have several kinds Turn to Page Six

panying him-Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., pastor of St. John of God Parish in Somerset, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, Chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy High School. and Assistant Pastor at St. Anthony Parish in Taunton.

The Bishop urged the Mass participants to continue to pray for the Faith that unites all Christians and to encourage their friends and relatives who have emigrated to continue the

rich heritage of Faith that is theirs.

On Tuesday, July 18, we began our activity with a visit to Rev. Msgr. Jose Gomes, the Dean of the Island. He has served the Church for many years and is now retired. From his home we visited the village of Arrifes, the birthplace of the Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiro~, Archbishop of BOston.

In the village, we toured the

Fr. Arthur dos Reis Retires As Santo Christo Pastor Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin today acceded to the request of Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis and accepted his resignation as pastor of Santo Christo Church, Fall River, which he has headed for the past 12 years.

The resignation becomes effective on Wednesday, Aug. 9.

Born on July 25, 1902 in San Vincente, St. Michael, Azores the 70-year-old pastor studied at the Seminary of Angra and completed his theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and Belmont Abbey, N. C. He was ordainep to the priesthood

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ltouse in which the Archbishop was born and spent his early years. Our visit concludeQ. with a visit to the parish church where the Boston prelat~ was baptized.

We then headed for the western part of the island. Fathers Adriano and Mariano Mendonca, cousins of Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, escorted us.

In the course of the tour, we visited the villages particularly associated with priests of the Fall River Diocese. Among them were: Camdeleria, native village of Rev. Evaristo Tavares (Immaculate Conception in New Bedford); Feteira, Rev. Antonio Tavares (Our Lady of Lourdes in Taunton); Remedios, Bretanha, Turn to Page Three

by the late Bishop Feehan on May 29; 1926 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

Following his ordination, Father dos Reis served as assistant at Holy Family Church, East Taunton, St. Michael's Church, Fall River and in April of 1927 was transferred to Espirito Santo Dearly Beloved in Christ, Church, Fall River, as assistant. , In the dogmatic Constitution On Aug. 21, 1929, he was on the Church, the fathers of named administrator of St. An- the Second Vatican Council thony of Padua Church, Fall taught: River and one year later was Christ the Lord placed Peter named administrator of Our over the other apostles and inLady of Health, also in the See stituted in him a permanent and City. visipl~ source and foundation of In March 1933, Father dos unity of faith and fellowship.

Reis returned to St. Anthony of And all the teaching about the Padua Church, Fall River, as institution, the perpetuity, the pastor. He remained in this as- force and reason for the sacred signment for 22 years and was primacy of the Roman Pontiff transferred as pastor to St. and of his infallible teaching auMichael's Church, Fall River on thority, this sacred Synod again March 4, 1955. proposes to be firmly believed During his pastorate at St. by all the faithful. (Lumen GenMichael's the aspirations of all tium, No. 18) the parishioners of the North Now entering his tenth year End parish were realized 'in the as successor of St. Peter in the building of a beautiful new exercise of this awesome responschool on Essex Street. The new sibility as shepherd of Our Diedifice replaced the two wooden vine Savior's universal flock, Quildings that had done service our beloved Holy Father Pope for a number of years.

Paul VI graphically reflects the In April of 1956, the Portu- substance of this teaching. He guese Government officially rec- is, indeed, the saintly source and ognized his great work among foundation of the unity. of faith the Portuguese immigrants by and fellowship for the People of bestowing upon him the Military God in every corner of the world.

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Peter's Pence On Sunday

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- Continued from Page One 'He is an apostle of peace and fraternal charity in our t,umultuous times. He has ceaselessly 'manifested the paternal solicitude of a loving father to those of God's children who are afflicted with poverty, disease, illiteracy, oppression or the, distress provoked by war, natural disaster, or other scourges. One principal means of assisting Pope Paul VI in these apostolic endeavors, and a time, honored measure for manifesting the close bonds of unity between our local Churches and the Cnurch of Rome is the annual Peter's' Pence Collection, which will be taken up in all parishes as a special second collection next weekend. I call upon the faithful of the Diocese of Fall River to exhibit _once again the loyal and generous affection for our Holy Father which has always 'characterized the Peter's Pence Collection. At the same time, I urgently commend to the good prayers of all, clergy, religious and laity of the Diocese, the intentions of Pope, Paul. [n union: of prayers that Almighty God will shower His choicest blessings upon Pope Paul VI, that God's Kingdom may grow and prosper under his guidance and direction, I have the pleasure to remain Devotedly yours in Christ, ~

Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River.

Final Vows

02722. \ OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL,· NEW BEDFORD At the recent meeting of the Parish PTA, awards were presented to the coaches and players of the boys' and girls' basketball teams.

The annual picnic of the PTA will be held on Sunday, Aug. 6 at Otis Air Force Base. Picnickers will meet at 8 o'clock in the morning at Cardon's Furniture.

Store Parking Lot at Cove Rd. and Orchard St. The fee for the affair will be $2.00 per family.

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BELFAST REFUGEES: Talking to Sister Mary Shannon at Convent in Milltown County are left to right Mrs ,Joan Richie, James Hockland. They are among the old age pensioners who 6,000 other refugees -from Lenadon Estate to the Irish Repu.blic.

Twenty-nine of 49 dioceses replying said their pastoral council Y;'as prindpally an advisory body to the bishop, but "also entered

WASHINGTON (NC) - Most U. S. dioceses have either estab. lished pastorai councils already, or are in the process of setting them up, according to a recent report.

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Most Dioceses Favor Pastoral Councils

Youths Need Help Continued from Page One The report-"A survey on DiM~nor, North Attleboro: Mari'ln ocesanPastoral Councils in the Of Honest Adults Manor, Taunton.

United States of America"-also HOUSTON (NC)-The adolesThe sisters- taking, their perpet- notes that the councils consider' cent's search for God can be lIal vows in the Congregation a variety of issues, ranging from helped through the virtues of "are: Sisters'Luz Amparo Carten- .- "priorities for the total diocesan , patience, understanding, trust .as' of Medellim, Colombia; Sister , effort" to social action. and hontlsty, according to eduMarta Ines Toro of Bogota, Cocators lecturing here on "The The matter discussed most Adolescent Search for God." lombia; Sister Edith Maria Barros of Barranquilla, Colombia, often, however, was "assistance Father James DiGiacomo, head and Sister Mary Margaret Mello in the organization and development of parish councils." of the religion department of of Rehoboth, Mass.

Brooklyn Preparatory and facConcelebrating the Mass with Based on responses from 137 ulty member of Fordham Preparthe Most Reverend Bishop will of the 166 U. S. dioceses polled, be Very Rev. R. Gabriel Blain, the 'report was prepared by a atory in ,New York, and Dr. O.P., Prior of the Dominican Fa- unit of the advisory council to Thomas Francoeur, of McGill thers in Fall River and Rev. Jo- the National Conference ,of Cath- University in MOI}treal, spoke seph J. Rocha, O.P. Chaplain at olic Bishops (NCCB) and the U. S. at a summer Institute of Religious Studies at the University St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River, Catholic Conference (USCC). of St. Thomas here. and a -cousin to Sr. Mary MarThat unit-the advisory coun~ garet Mello.

"Youths are looking for peocil's steering committee for -a ple who are honest, who are national pastoral council-noted , loving, and whom they can trust Necrology in an introduction to its report and when they find such a perthat it hoped the survey results son they find someone for whom AUG. 5 would be helpful "not only to the Christ is real and alive today.

Rev. Martin J.Fox, 1917, dioceses. which already have a Hopefully that person will be pastoral council; but also to the each of us," Father -DiGiacomo Founder, St. Paul, Taunton. ones which are planning them said.

Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, 1934, for the future."

VVhen students do not accept Pastor,SS. Peter and Paul, Fallthe personal testimony of Christ Advisory Body River. in the Bible and other writings, The first 10 diocesan pastoral , they can find Christ. in honest, AUG 6 councils, made up of representrustworthy, loving adults Rev. Joseph P. Lyons, 1961, tative priests, Religious and lay around them, the Jesuit- expeople, were established in 1966, p·lained.

Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River. according to the report. 'AUG. 8

By July of this year, 57 of the Rev. William Bric, 1880, responding dioceses had pastoral Founder, St. Joseph, Fall River. councils and 69 were planning to Inc. establish them.

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Eleven have no' current plans to set up a council, including the archdioceses of Miami and Philadelphia; and the dioceses of. Belleville, Ill., Sioux city, Iowa, and Steubenville, Ohio.

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into the decision-making proc: ess." Eighteen said. their council was strictly an advis,ory body.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER • The annual family parish picnic will be held from noon to 6:00 P.M. Aug. 6 at Camp VVeich in Assonet. All are urged to bring their lunches and cookout equipment. The pool will be open and games will form part of the program.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER The final meeting in preparation for the feast will be held at 7 o'clock on Sunday' night in the parish hall.

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"The terminology here may be THE MENTAllY RETARDED : interpreted in differ~nt ways by -~ TRANDSCGIENT PMOEONR _ AGE EN Tl E different respondents," the re- • AlCDHOLIC REHABILITATION : port noted. "Suffic~ it to say : In the U.S., Canada and England that each (bishop) involves the Write: : : diocesan pastoral council in the DIRECTOR OF VOCATIONS : decision-making process to vary: BROTHERS OF THE GOOD SHEfHERD : ing degrees." , _ P. O. Box 260 _ The. number of members on Momence, III., ~0954 : : each pastoral council ranged ~ ~ from 696 in the Oklahoma CityTulsa dioces'e to' 15, 'members' in Erie, Pa. .

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Bishop Returns Continued from Page One Rev. Henry Arruda (St. John of , God in Somerset); Santo Antonio, Rev. Joseph Oliveira (St. Michael in Fall River); Capelas, Rev. Laureano C. dos Reis (St. Anthony of Padua in Fall River) and Rev. Luciano Pereira (St. Michael in Fall River); Sao Vicente, Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis (Santo Christo in Fall River).

Sete Cidades A highlight of this section of the island is called the Sete Cidades-Seven Cities. In the center of a large valley, you find two lakes separated from each other. The color of one lake is green and the other blue.

The traditional explanation for the different colors is that once a princess with blue eyes met a peasant boy with green eyes. . Because of their different social classes, they were not allowed to marry. The two youths then cried their eyes out - so, one green lake and the other blue.

The actual reason, however, is that the two lakes are of different size. The smaller one ref.lects the coloration of the flora and the other larger one reflects the sky.

The evening Mass was celebrated in the church of Rosario in Lagoa. Here too a large crowd greeted Bishop Cronin.

Among the villagers was the President of the Municipality of Lagoa and the Municipal Secretary of Finance.

After a beautiful and inspiring liturgy, Bishop Cronin met the parishioners individually as is his custom in the Diocese of Fall River.

Santo Christo Our first visit on Wednesday, July 19, was to, Santo Christo.

The Sisters at the convent of Esperanca allowed us a private visit -to their chapel. We knelt there, awed by the piety and devotion inspired by. the chapel's beautiful statue. .

The Sisters were quick to show us a 300 year old rosebush which is continually in bloom, even through the winter months and for ·throughout the 300 years. It is certainly not miraculous but certainly not ordinary.

They al~o have a 300 year old fig tree:in their convent garden that has never ceased to be overladen with fruit.

The Sisters carefully explained the tradition of the Santo Christo devotion to us as we ended our tour.

In the afternoon, we traveled to the eastern end of the island and included visits to the towns of Povoacao, where the local pastor and episcopal vicar, Rev. Msgr. Joao Mauricio, showed, us the local high school funded in large part by Rev. Joao Medeiros, a native of that town and the retired pastor of St. Elizabeth's Church in Fall River.

We then descended to Faial da Terra, a lovely village by the sea, wedged at the foot of two mountains. This was the birthplace of Rev. Joao Resendes, pastor of Espirito Santo Parish ·in Fall River.

From a high vantage point at the top of a cliff, we looked down on the village of Furnas with its beautiful lake and fuming hot springs.

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Bishop Returns was met at the church door by many parishioners as is the custom and for the occasion the entrance of the church was paved with II carpet of flowers in varying designs.

The church is one of the most modern on the island and it was dedicated on the day of President Kennedy's assassination. A children's choir sang parts of the Mass along with the congregation.

Bishop Cremin, in his homi~y, stressed the unity of Faith and the universality of the Church.

Although language and distance may separate Catholics, Christ and the Church unite them.

In this church asio others, we met some members of the Diocese of Fall River who were visiting their native homeland.

Here Bishop Cronin met a young boy he had confirmed in Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford and Sue Elizardo, a recent graduate of Coyle-Cassidy High School.

Leave Island Thursday, July 20, we left from Ponta Delgada Airport for Lisbon. Representatives of~ the area clergy saw us off and ·included the episcopal vicar of the island, Rev. Msgr. Joao Mauricio.

On departure, Bishop Cronin received a telegram from the Vicar General of the Diocese of Angra thanking him for his visit in the name of the Bishop of Angra and wishing Bishop Cronin both 'a speedy return to the Azores and a safe journey.

The plane stopped at Madeira.

Unfortunately, we did not have time to tour the island which is _ the native island of Rev. Jorge J. Sousa of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Fall River. ' At \ the airport, we were greeted by the Bishop of Madeira, who, on the 'first of October, begins his episcopal duties as the new Bishop of Coimbra on the continent.

Portugal Arrival Bishop Cronin was invited into the cockpit before we landed in Lisbon and he was able to witness our arrival in Lisbon from that vantagepoint. It was amazing how smoothly the bishop landed our aircraft! .

Our arrival at the Lisbon airport was televised and Bishop Cronin gave a brief interview to the press regarding the nature of the visit to the Azores and to the continent.

At the airport to meet us was Rev. Msgr. Sebastian Corsenago, Secretary of the Apostolic Nuncio to Lisbon. He brought to our disposal a chauffeur driven Mercedes-Benz car bearing the registration plate "CD-lOOO", the number-one car of the Diplomatic Corps to Lisbon. • On Friday morning, July 21, we concelebrated Mass at the Cathedral of Lisbon, a former moorish mosque dating back to Turn to Page Five

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PARK BISHOP IN CONTINENTAL PORTUGAL: Top: After visiting the Convent of Santa Cruz in Sintra, a hermitage built in 1560, Bishop Cronin chats with a villager. Center: Fr. Oliveira, Bishop Roderiques and Bishop Cronin at the Palacio da Penha, Sintra. Bottom: Church, convent and palace of Mafra built in 1717. Noted for its 110 carillons.

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BargainingContrac:ts Only Solution to Labor Problem ,I The State of Arizona, as the press has amply reported, is currently faced with a farm labor 'crisis of major pro~ por:tions. It broke out into the open earlier this Spring when the State legislature, prodded by the Farm Bureau Federation, enacted a repressive farm labor bill which letter I have just quoted is not the workers bitterly resent the only person of influence in who disagrees with me and'are determined to strike Arizona in this regard nor the only one

from the books no matter how long it may take them to do so.

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who is hoping against hope, that if and when the workers go to a secret ballot election, they will either vote "no union" or, at worst, vote for a union otner tha'n Chavez' organization.

As one who has spent a good many years studying the labor problems in this country and is in regular contact with most of the people in the top leadership , of the labor movement, I would. say that this is an idle dream, BURUNDIANS WIDOWED BY WAR: There are 30,000 widows and children in the a phantasy which can lead to Bujumbura area alone and some of the women have been twice widowed, their first _ nothi~g but grief.

ences on this crisis-one in TucThe fact of the matter is that son and another in Phoenix. At the Teamsters are completely out both meetings I said, among of the picture.· Under the ausother things, that there will be pices of the AFL-CIO, they, have no solution to the farm labor signed a three-year jurisdictional problem in Arizona or in any pact with the United Farm Union. other State until the growers This pact is being observed in and the workers sit down to- Arizona and there is no likeligether and negotiate bona fide hood that the Teamsters will at collective bargaining contracts. any point in the foreseeable I also said that the growers future renege on their agreement. will have to reconcile themselves .Any grower or group of growers to dealing with the one and only who would try to persuade them union that can legitimately claim to do so would be asking for to represent the workers, name- unnecessary trouble. ly the United Farm Workers Union headed by Cesar Chavez.

A gentleman from Yuma, Ariz. AdvJ!or Denies Dike has written to say that my posi-tion on this matter is "about as Bombing Charges WASHINGTON (NC)-Father far from the truth as it's possible John McLaughlin, a Jesuit workto get." His argument seems t6 be that if the growers in Arizona ing as an aide to President Nixwere to sign collective bargain- on, has denied charges by Euing contracts with Chavez' union, gene C. Blake, general secretary they would be forcing their of the World Council. of workers into "bondage against Churches, that the United States their will" and w,ould be com- is intentionally bombing North pelling - them to join a union Vietnamese dikes. which, "in a majorJty, they want "The charge that we have deno part of." liberately struck the dikes is untrue, though some have been Only One Union accidently damaged," he said, In summary, he says, "there in an interview with NC News. is no place in a s'ociety based Father McLaughlin said; on Christianity for Cesar Chavez and he will not succeed in the "Nothing could be clearer to me State of Arizona. The secret than the fact that the bombing ballot election will take care of policy of the United States govhim and the true farm worker ernment ... is to exclude the direct targeting of North Viet"nam• will be a free man." ese dikes. In fact, no target in I am afraid that the gentleman is whistling in the dark. During 'which there is a substantial" probthe past few years there have ability of significant loss of been many secret ballot elec- civilian life has been approved tions, notarized card checks, and under current policy. We are not ratification elections in several now attacking the dike system States, including Arizona. In of North Vietnam, nor has the each instance, to the best of my United States ever attacked that knowledge, the workers voted system," for the United Farm Workers Father McLaughlin, who reUnion. This being the case, it cently returned from a tour of would be a waste of time for South Vietnam, conferred with any grower or group of growers military leaders, pilots, enlisted to try to undermine Chavez' men, and intelligence and photo union. surveillance personnel engaged in bombing operations. AccordHoping Against Hope ~ng to Father McLaughlin, the To repeat, then, what was said president's order to avoid targetabove, I can see no solution to ing ()f North Vietnamese dikes the farm labor problem in Ari- "are emphatica:Ily understood zona until the growers accept the and rigorously enforced all the fact that there is only one union way down the chain of com- " involved in the present contro- mand." But,. he added, "this versy-the United Farm Work- statement does not mean that ers Union headed by Chavez. no bombs have fallen on or near ,I realiie, of course, that the the dikes, causing accidental and gentleman from Yuma whose secondary damage)'

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Tour Ends Continued from Page Three the early 13th Century. After Mass, we visited the neighboring church which tradition states is the birthplace of St. Anthony of Padua.

We had lunch at the Apostolic Nunciature with the Most Rev. Giuseppi Maria Sensi as our host.

Here we also had the privilege of meeting His Eminence Cardinal Cerejeira, retired Patriach of Lisbon.

With the Nuncio's car at our disposal, we toured the Tower of Belem, the monastery of Jeronimo's-the monument dedicated to the role of Portugal's discoveries. We concluded our afternoon tour with a visit to Sesimbra, a beach resort south of Lisbon.

Historic Hermitages In the evening the Most Rev. Antonio Roderigues, Mllitary Ordinary, Auxiliary to the Patriarch of Lisbon and President of the Episcopal Commission on Immigration, took us to Estubal, a beautiful resort.

On the way, we saw the monastery founded and reformed by 5t. Peter of Alcantra. It was interesting to see 路not only the monastery founded by the saint but also the different hermitages dotting the hills. There, monks dedicated their lives to prayer and penance.

We had dinner at the Estalagem of St. Phillip. This is an ancient castle which has been converted into a restaurant and hotel. The view from the castle and the sense of history found therein was truly a unique experience.

We returned by the new Salazar Bridge, the largest suspension bridge in Europe and we saw the statue of Christ the King which overlooks the city of Lisbon. This statue ,in itself indicated the role of Christ and the Faith which is part and parcel of the life of Portugal.

Fatima Visit On Saturday, July 22, we went to Fatima. Each of us had th~ privilege of offering and attending each other's Mass at the Chapel of the Apparitions, the site where Our Lady appeared to the three shepherd children in 1917.

The basilica contains the remains of two of the childrenFrancisco and Jacinta. The third child is now a Carmelite Nun in Coimbra.

On our journey, we also visited the seacoast town of Nazare which is both a beach resort and a ma,in fishing port for Portugal.

We also toured Batalh-an un_finished monastery which is now a national monument containing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and is one of the world's outstanding works of architectural beauty.

On Sunday, July 23, we celebrated Mass at the church of St. Anthony and then visited the Castle of St. George which over;looks the city of Lisbon. The Bishop of Madarsuma, Bishop Rederigues, escorted us in the afternoon.

We visited the National Palace of Sintra, used during six centuries as the Royal Family's residence. It has a complex architecture whose more remarkable parts date from the reign of King John (l385-lA33) and King Manuel (1495-1521).

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Tour Ends Palace., of Pena. Here, in 1503 there stood a small cloister of Jeronimos Friars. King Ferdinand extended this monastery into the present castle in 1840.

In contrast to this grandeur, we also visited the Capuchos, a hermitage carved in the rocks where the monks would volunteer to spend a period of time in penance and prayer for the good' of the Church and their own souls. The simplicity and austerity. of the hermitage gives one a sense of history of the Church.

We returned by way of Estoril to Lisbon, after visiting Mafna - famous for its enormous church-palace and monastery.

The palace of Mafna was the last residence of the last reigning king of Portugal, Manuel, who fled from this palace into exile with the Queen Mother, Amelia.

The steeples of the church house 110 carillons which ring out in coneerts on special occasions.

Presidential Visit Our last fuB day in Lisbon began with Mass celebrated at the site of St. Anthony's birth. In the afternoon we had a formal dinner at the nunciature which the Apostolic Nuncio gave in honor of Bishop Cronin.

Among the invited guests were the ambassadors of Australia and Italy, the Consul-General of France, the new Bishop of Lamego ana Bishop Roderigues.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, Bishop Cronin was received by the President of Portugal, His Excellency, Americo Tomaz. During this visit, the President and Bishop exchanged ideas regarding the Portuguese in America.

Then, we visited the new Archbishop and Patriach of lisbon, Most. Rev. Antonio Ribeiro.

Again the work among immigrants and the needs of the Church were discussed.

Our last meal was at the Veranda do Chanceler, a beautiful1ly typical restaurant in the old section of Lisbon overlooking the harbor. For this meal, Bishop Cronin invited two priests of the Fall River Diocese who were also touring Portugal-Rev. John Gomes of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Taunton, and Rev. Richard Gendreau of St. Michael Parish, Ocean Grove.

Another guest at the meal was Rev. George Coleman of St. Louis Parish, Fall River, who is studying in Lisbon this Summer under a Gulbenkian Grant. It was a most amicable evening.

We left Lisbon on Tuesday, July 25, at 1:20 in the afternoon.

Eight: hours later, we were at Logan airport in Boston.

Constancy A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

-Confusius

VISITS BIRTHPLACE OF ARCHBiSHOP MEDEIROS: Top; Arrifes, St. Michael, Azores, Bishop Cronin visits the birthplace of Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros. Over the door is a plaque noting the fact. Center; The Ordinary of the Fall River Diocese stands on the heights overlooking the twin lakes of Sete Cidades. Bottom: Prior to the flight to t~e continent, Rev. Andriano. S. Mendonca, pastor of St. Peter's Church, Ponta Delgada, . nght, and a cousin of Father Luiz G. Mendonca of Somerset, left, escorted the Bishop on a tour of the Matriz, Ponta Delgata:

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Christianity and Tea Cups A distinguishedJranslator of Chaucer, Professor Nevill Coghill, commenting on Chaucer's interest in manners, has said, "One' of the things I notice in the 20th Century is' the. decline of manners, the decay of honor and what is noble and truthful. Good manners is Christianity applied to teacups and coffee spoons."

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Many present-day problems could be solved by a copy of Emily Post or Amy Vanderbilt. .Consider the generation .gap. It is true that there is a tension and hostility between younger and older people.

Much of this is due to the sweeping away of a paternalism that gave the floor, in other days, to older people and expected younger'folks to sit quietly and listen without-externally, at least-talking back. Now such a paternalism is gone. And, as a result, there is a. sometimes bitter exchange of views with an accompanying alienation of the one group from the other.

Manners would help in this adjustment. Older people should be able to present their views and the wisdom of their years but in an acceptable way, with reverence for their listeners. Younger people should be able to grant: .

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De a reconciliation of varying viewpoints with the emphaThe sis on arriving at truth and the wise path to follow, instead of a policy of dictation by the one group and arrogrant rejection by the other. .

This would be Christianity in action.

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Sobering Thought Summer is a time when there are usually no organized classes in religion or religious education.

More Than SOO Anointed in Special St. James Day Rite I

BLANTYRE (NC)-The bishopelect of Lilongwe told a national lay apostolate seminar here that the laity are more important .than the clergy in the Church, although it is the clergy's job to give direction to the laity.

Bishop-elect PatrIck A. Kalilombe of Lilongwe, a member of the White Fathers, who is to be consecrated Aug. 27, commenting on St. Paul's description of the Church as the body of Christ, said: "The head is not supposed to walk, but ,to give a sense of direction. So also in the Church, bishops and priests must help in showing the way, but the laity are more ·important, for they form the large majority of the people of God, who are the Church."

Bishop-elect Kalilombe said that, because of circumstances, the clergy had dominated the Church in Malawi for too long.

"We are a clericalistic Church," he said, adding: "The' happy moment has now come that our Christians are reflecting on their place in the Church. This is an encouraging sign brought about by the (Sec~ ond) Vatican Council and the many national and international seminars of the laity to which Malawi has been sending delegates."

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the source of which had mystiContinued from Page One fied doctors. of responsibilities, noted Father After the priests 'offered the And yet-a great deal of teaching about religion is Olin J. Murdick, director of- the for the sick and Church's prayers going on. elderly, the people filed up to U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) several stations at the entrance . education department of an early Youngsters are taking their cues from their parents to the sanctuary for the anoint- proponent of the board concept. and from older people around them.

Stresses Fwiction ing on the forehead and "hands Among these, he said, are eswitl~ the oil of the sick.

Attendance at Sunday Mass, the r~ception of the sacra. Adding a poetic touch to the tablishing a school's objectives ments of Penance ~nd Holy Communion, daily prayer-all communal rite, Father Meehan and outlining policies to help these realities of religion are being placed in a scale of . had the priests and servers dis- school administrators achieve values by parents and oldsters for youngsters to see and tribute flowers to each person those objectives. accept as' their own.

He noted, however, that the who had been anointed. , function of a school board "is Since the discipline of the In a family where there is living religion-prayer and to establish policy; not to adChurch requires that l the sacra· the sacraments and then the daily living out of what these minister the school. Administrament not be administered more tive decisions are the responsistand for-then youngsters are realizing that religion is than once for the same illness, bility primarily of the principal,' as much a part of daily as eating and breathing. priests met the people at: the doors of the church to ask who who seeks to conduct the educationill . program in terms of esIn a family where there is a slackening of religious wished to be anointed. Those practice because it is Summer or because no Sister or CCD who did filled out cards for the tablished policy."

The pastor of the parish should teacher is reminding youngsters of religion, then children . Plan Encyclopedia church records. be a voting member of the school are likewise learning a lesson about religion-that it is a Similarly. in' keeping with board, Father Murdick said, and church discipline, the' sacrament can contribute "his knowledge of .sometime thing, that its value declines at certain periods Of Medical Ethics WASHINGTON (NC)-An 'en- of Penance was available prior the community, his familiarity of the year. cyclopedia 'of ethical issues fac- to Mass. with the financial situation, and In either case, religion is being evaluated and placed ing doctors and medical rehis concerns with the educational Pr~se Prayer of searchers will be produced at the in a hierarchy of values. needs of the people."

Kennedy Institute for 'Bioethics I ·Father Robert Traupman, diocPastoral veto of a board's deIt is being stamped as vital and necessary or as merely on the Georgetown University esan liturgical coordipator, not- cision, "should be very rare in campus here. ing that the sacrament is normal- occurrence," he said, "for the useful at times and yielding to convenience.· "Advances in science and ly, administered privfltely, said presumption in creating a parish A sobering thought for a Summer day.· medicine have brought new he believed that "the community board of education is that those ethical dilemmas to the general setting ,is perfect because it is a who have been asked to assist in public as well as to people work- welling up of prayer of praise." _ the decision-making process are ing in those fields," said Dr. The pastor, Father David P. worthy of the trust placed in Warren Reich, senior research Page, had told his people during them." scholar at the Kennedy InstItute. the past week that "the -anoint: Father Murdick noted that "We are faced with complex ing is specifically for hea)ing of many boards, concerned origincontemporary questions: .Who the body and so shoi.lld bE! ad- ally only with schools, have also gets to use the artificial kidney ministered, not at the last mo- begun to be concerned with remachine? Whose life should be ment before death, but rather as ligious education programs outprolonged? What issues are in: soon as the (sickness, is deter- side the school. .

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER volved in the creation of test mined to be serious."

Alluding to the difficulties inPublished weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River tube babies and genetic engineerFather Meehan, who was chief volved in solving educational 410 Highland Avenue" ing?" concelebrant at the iMass, re- problems, Father Murdick said a.

Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 Dr. Reich, chief editor of the quested just prior to the last board member - should have . encyclopedia, said it will be "an blessing, that arty ~ho believed "broad shoulders;' a duck's back; PUBLISHER educational reference tool tp they had been healed should sub- the ability to smile; a head for Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. clarify .the social and ethical s~quently contact 0Ile of the figures; foresight; a high boiling GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER problems ,involved in medical parish priests so that such testi- point; an open mind; a sense of practice and biomedical re- mony might be used at future humor, and the ability to sleep Rev. Msgr. Daniel F: Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll search." services. at night." ~ Leery Prlls-·F.II River .

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ORLANDO (NC)-The sacrament of the. Anointing of the Sick was administered to more than 500 persons here in an unusual liturgy on the feast of StJames, "the patron of the sick and aged.

The ceremony, held in St. James Church, was particularly appropriate since the Church traces the origin of the sacramept, formerly called Extreme Unction, to the Epistle of St. James.

The sacrament was administered following a homily by Father John Meehan of the. parish. Parishioner James Robinson also spoke during the liturgy of how the Lord had healed him of a weeklong internal hemorrhage,

CHD' Officials Sc'reen Requests For Funds

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Orlando Priest Groups Merge

WASHINGTON (NC) - Cam· paign for Human Development (CHD) officials are now in the process of sorting through 2,000 project proposals, totalling well over $125 million, in search of those projects most deserving this year's $7 million in funds, CHD, an anti·poverty program initiated by the Catholic Church in America, is financed by an annual collection taken in all parishes on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Designed to fund programs initiated by and for the poor, CHD appropriated money to 231 self·help projects last year, With over $15 million received since the program's in· ception, CHD will take up its third collection this year, The program, which was cre· ated with the hope of "breaking the hellish circle of poverty," funds all facets of community development - social develop· ment, education, health, housing, legal aid, communications, trans· portation, and economic develop· ment

ORLANDO (NC)-Three separate organizations of the Orlando diocese have been merged into a single policy-making body.

The new organization, the Presbyterate, will include· the Priests' Senate, the diocesan consultors and the parish priest consultors, according to a document signed by Bishop William D. Borders.

Father David Page, president of the Priests Senate, said "one of the important features of the document is that the Presbyterate is a policy·making body.

The laws of the Presbyterate become effective 30 days after passage, unless they are vetoed by the bishop."

In the event of a veto, Father Page said, "a two·thirds vote of the membership may request of the bishop further 'discussion and reconsideration."

The Presbyterate constitution will take effect following the election of 16 members to the body by all active and retired priests of the diocese in the Fall.

Bishop Borders will appoint four members.

Since members of the Presbyterate will have the canonical status of diocesan consultors, they will continue in office even in the event of the death bf the bishop and they will elect an administrator to 'serve as interim head of the diocese.

Aid Appalachians

Among those projects already funded by CHA is a local trans· portation service for autoless rural families in mountainous Auburn, Calif, The system, called the Mountain Transportation Co· operative, received a $30,000 LOURDES BOUND: American pilgrims in Rome on their way to Lourdes were greeted CHD grant to start their door·to· door mini·bus service this year. at Rome's international airport by Cardinal John Wright, seen here assisting George By limiting the bus fare to the Hacker of New Jersey waiting with David Marion of Bakersfield, Calif., at left, for the 25·50c range, the community ser· buses that will carry them to a special audience with Pope Paul VI at Castelgandolfo.

'Gift of: Blackness' vice group is able to serve finan· cially disadvantaged workers and Praised at Seininar elderly who had been deprived of NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Black educational, recreational, and job Catholics should share their opportunities by their lack of retariat of State, Sister Elvira 750 Italian members, the Amer- unique "gift of blackness" with

By Father Donald W. Wuerl transportation, and approximately 100 people ican addition brings the "sick others, Father Clarence Rivers ROME (NC)-The fast moving devote their time in more than train pilgrimage" to an all time told a Xavier University audiAnother major area of CHD, funding is work with resident pace of the jet set was tempo- 10 modern rehabilitation centers, high of over 800. ence here. and migrant Appalachians. Glen- rarily slowed down today. at clinics and centers for incurable Father Rivers, an official of Taking its name from the Sis" mary missioners have received Rome's international airport. In in Italy. the National Office for Black tel's' habits and nurses' uniforms a $10,000 CHD grant for their place of the usual assortment of Catholics, said that this advice From the Rome airport the that fill the aisles of the train Appalachian help project Group airline personnel, baggage men was first given by Pope Paul VI 7, The group, comprised mainly and customs officials, flight 844 group drove to the papal Sum· during its 36-hour run to Lourdes, , on his 1969 trip to Uganda. mer residence in Castelgandolfo the White Train is now an inof lay volunteers, offers educa- from New York was met by "The 'gift of blackness' might tional, medical, legal and reli· wheelchairs, stretchers, nurses where Pope Paul VI received stitution in Italy. This year's be described as the collection of them in special audience.

After trip marks its 21st year of ser· . gious services to Appalachian and nuns. experience, culture and resulting the Pope's greeting and blessing vice to the sick. residents. The Glenmary Home The focus of attention was the American contingent joined perspectives of black people," Missioners are now spreading some 70 special American pas· The unusual character of the Father Rivers told a group atits Italian counterpart.

With the their work into the deep South's sengers-priests arriving to be· pilgrimage rests on the large tending seminars on "Freeing the rural communities. come the first United States numbers of priests who make Spirit" and "White Priest-Black group to join the noted White Jesuit Gives Life up its roll. More than 40 per cent Parish."

Self-Help Projects Train pilgrimage of sick Italian of the White Train travelers are "On the occasion of his visit In Detroit, $15,000 worth of priests to Lourdes.'

To Indian Villages sick, old or crippled priests who to the martyrs' shrine in UganCHD funds have been allocated NEW DELHI (NC)-A Belgian make this annual visit to da," Father Rivers recalled, Under the leadership of Bishop to the Enjoy Senior Citizens Jesuit with 20 years experience Lourdes. Others are priests who "Pope- Paul VI, speaking directly David ~aloney of Wichita, Kan., Community College. The college in India is adding a new dimen- come just to help their brother to Africans, and at least indirecthas allowed elderly members of the priests, representing 22 sion to' government plans for priests. All combine with the ly to Afro·Americans, exhorted the city's Cass Corridor, an states, stopped in Rome on the inner·city ghetto of Appalachian first leg of their journey which providing houses to the home· trip a formal spiritual retreat blacks to contribute to the needs preached in special auditoriums of the Church out of their 'gift migrants and blacks, to improve will take them by train up the less.

Since Indian independence 25 in Lourdes. of negritude (blaclmess).''' their housing, register to vote, Italian coast, across southern years ago central and state gov· a'nd receive increased health France and to Lourdes.

On hand to meet the flight ernments have been acutely facilities. The college, run by St. Patrick's Catholic Church, also was Cardinal John Wright, for· aware of a housing shortage in provides the elderly with recre· mer bishop of Pittsburgh, now villages and cities. Legislatures ational opportunities, part·time prefect of the Vatican Congrega- and the nationalized life insurjobs, and educational activities. tion for the Clergy. The cardinal ance corporation have regularly Similar serf-help projects are will again this year travel on allotted funds as grants and being financed by CHD across the train as president of the loans to poor families for buildon the Cape the country. In Tulsa, Okla., CHD pilgrimage, With him were Msgr. ing their own homes. But the has provided a grant to finance Luigi Novarese, director of the problem grows rather than di· The Highest' Savings Dividends an organic food and medical pilgrimage, and Sister Elvire minishes.

Allowed by Law The element Jesuit Father clinic. The Neighbor for Neigh- Psorulla, directress of the Volun· teers for Suffering, who headed Michael Wind,ey gives to the bor Health Clinic is trying to 5 1;4% - Regular Savings prevent as well as treat illness the staff of Sisters and nurses housing program is what he calls 5 ~ % - 90 Day Notice _. through proper diet. In Baltimore, in the transfer of the infirm "village reorganization." The 5 %% term Deposit Certificates, 1 yr.

Md. CHD funds have initiated priests to waiting buses.

Village Reconstruction Organiza· 6% - Term Deposit Certificates, 2-3 yrs. day care centers, fought zoning The Lourdes pilgrimage is the tion, which the 51-year·old priest law infractions, and defended high point of a year round pro- heads, aims at building a new Bank by mail - it costs you nothing ,tenants in landlord·tenant dis· gram for the sick and handicap· type of casteless village as a putes. Health clinics are also ped priests, adults, and children growing community, competent planned with CHD's $20,000 to which Msgr. Novarese, a for- to take care of its own problems, 307 MAIN sr.. SOUTH~YARMOUTH, MASS. 02664 grant. mer member of the Vatican Sec· including housing.

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,Knit Now and Wardrobe' For the Fall Will B,e (,hie.

A gal won't need her love to keep her warm this winter if she plans on buying any of the great looking sweaters that are already hitting the stores for the fall.

These sweaters not only come in a variety of colors and textures but they also come in a range of lengths with lines reveal more than they possibly conceal. the most popular and newest If all those summer barbecues styles those that end just at and clam bakes make wearing, the waistline.

This look, that is a 1'970 version of the Eisenhower jacket, will be popular not only in the

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this type of fashion difficult, take heart, sweaters can still remain in your wardrobe because another fashion revival is that. of the loose bulky varsity sweater design that instead of revealing conceals those summer binges.

So whatever your sweater future will be-tiny or huge, you'lI find fall knits will keep you in "stitches."

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sweater version but also in heavier materials 'as a cropped jacket.

However, the knits will be the first 'scene stealers when the first winds of fall start to blow.

Trimmed with wide ribbing around the wrist, waist, and v necklines these shruggy little sweaters will become a favorite of the young. And even those of us that are past the teeny bobber stage will find that they fit delightfully into oilr wardrobe as they top a skirt and blouse combination or even compliment a woolen dress.

Sweaters will come with mates too, skirts that are knitted to match or compliment their' tops for a total knitted look. If you are very clever with the knitting needles then you can knit your own set and truly have something individualistic.

Angora Returns' Because many of these sweaters have the "baby doll" look, there will be a great revival of angora yarn (remember back to the days when we used to keep ou, angora sweaters in the refrig in order to keep them from shedding all over our dates' dark suit!). Many of these little sweaters will use the angora as 'an accent especially in the area of stripes or contrasting banding.

A La Helen Wills Moody These lean little knits, of course will look best on lean torsos as their body hugging

Says Socialized Farming Way to Land Reform' QUITO(NC) - Farming systems that put land ownership into .the hands of those who work them would be preferable to present agrarian reform programs, said some 40 campesinos at a conference here.

The campesinos, landless farm workers hailing from 19 Latin American nations, came to this conclusion after surveying the ~'mostly negative and contradictory'resul,ts" of land reform programs launched in this century., These programs have ':failed dismally in providing for an improved standard.of living on the part of the millions who till the , lands! ,t~~Y. .agre~q.

Sees Indians Struggle To Obtain Rights TEHUACAN (NC) - Father Leon Guilmette Bois, an Oblate missionary working among In.. dians in the remote Tehuantepec region .of Southeast Mexico, said "there are signs that the Indians of this region are beginning to realize that they must struggle to obtain their rights 'and human dignity."

The Oblate priest made his observation at a meeting to dis,cuss the Church's pastoral work in 'this long-forgotten area of the country.

"The political; 'social and economic implications" of' the awak· ' 'ening of the Indians "are just barely visible over the horizon," he said. "We hope to see the. results of this important change in our lifetime, but we must remember' that our time' is not Indian time." and it may' take even longer. ,Four Oblate Fathers began working in Southeast Mexico in 1950, Two of them had experience working among Spanishspeaking people in Texas, a third among Arctic Eskimos.

The fourth was -a recent arrival in the New World from the Netherlands.

Bishop Asks Amnesty For India Rioters TELLICHERRY (NC)-Bishop Sebastian Valloppilly of Tellicherry has appealed to the Kerala state 'government to grant a general amnesty to rioters arrested in a Hindu·Moslem clash here.

This would be a suitable gesture to mark the silver 'jubilee of India's independence, the bishop sa~d at a meeting with state officials.

The bishop is a member of a peace committeee that was set up soon after. Hindus and Moslems clashed last December in a dispute over the right to use public roads for religious processions.

The outbreak of violence, raping and arson lasted for several days. The bishop said all pending cases in connection with the disturbances should be dropped. Otherwise ill feeling is likely to continue as the two parties try to defend themselves in courts, he stated.

'J MILE~A-MINUTE SUMMER FUN: Sister Ann Marie, center foreground, and young friends are thrilled riding the mile-a-minute German Sprung Schanze at Paragon Park Hull as they spend a day at the amusement park as guests of the management. NC Photo.

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) The . real strength of modern youth lies in their ability. to serve and to love, Pope Paul VI told a thousand students from the United Stfltes at a special meeting arranged for them fol· lowing his' weekly general audience.

Greeting the Americans in the inner courtyard of his Summer . villa, the Pope said: "We know the impact that youth has 'had on modern living.

"We know that your real strength lies in your ability to love: both God and your fellow· man. And we knqw how this love on your part is translated into action, how it is manifested in your ability to serve ...

"This is your vocation, this is the meaning of your lives: service!"

The Pope encouraged the young to pursu~ truth "with sincerity and openness" and to "strive ever more to reach your ideals of justice and fraternal, love."

The Pope added: "And in this striving, be always intolerant of mediocrity."

Asks Press Publicize Prisoner's Plight

SAO PAULO (NC)-Archbishop Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo has called on' the Euro· pean press to publicize the plight of 36 political prisoners, most of whom have refused food· for 40 days to protest their treatment in Brazilian jai'ls Catholic Deaf Association Uses Flickerin~, In a telephone call to the Lights, Flashing Hands French office of Amnesty Inter- .

ST. PAUL (NC)-Lights flick- marriage that had just been por- national, the archbishop also asked European .authorities and ered to call the meeting to order; trayed. all eyes moved to the front; and Lights flickered 'again, the agencies such as the Interna· the first drama workshop of the group reassembled and group tional Red Cross to investigate the case.

23rd annual International Cath· leaders shared reactions: Archbishop Arns made the call olic Deaf Association was in ses"The coupl~ lacked faith that sian. they could' communicate" one , after the Brazilian minister of justice refused to allow him to Standing on a chair behind a man said. visit the 36 prisoners, who inHappy marriage b~tween deaf well-lighted podium, moderator clude three Dominican brothers. and hearing people is poss:ible-' Colin McAdam introduced the ,The Dominicans, Brothers first of a series of skits, which but both must learn to communiYves do Amaral Lesbaupin, Carcate, both must educate themdepicted family problems in a los Alberto Libanio Christo and home where ,one or more mem- selves," another said.; "Deaf people always blame Fernando de Brito, described bers are deaf. ' hearing people for keeping: sep- their "very grave situation" in a McAdam, dean of students at arate," said Jim Potter, a deaf letter to Pope Paul VI. • the Minnesota School for Deaf instructor at the School for the in Faribault, used both sign lan-' Deaf. "We keep separate too, ST. ANNE guage and words to convey his Why don't we hang out with message to an audience of 300. them?" Applause interrupted his CREDIT UN 10M 43 RODNEY FRENCH BLVD. The skits spotlighted everyday, sign language presentation.

NEAR COVE RD. NEW BEDFORD problems and situations-a hearPotter continued, "Sometimes All Your Money Insured Against Loss ing husband and a deaf wife who 'when I get with my deaf friends, All Personal LOdns Life Insured were not communicating; a hear- I push my five sons! aside' and Home Mortgages on Easy Terms ing couple and a deaf couple; don't let them join in the can· No Penalty Clauses Bank in Person or by Mail deaf parents with hearing chil- versation. This is not good."

Welcome into Our Credit Union Family dren; and deaf parents with deaf More than 1,000' delegates Open Daily 9 am·2 pm Frl. &·8 pm children. from the United Shates, Canada -ParklnlDirected by Mel and Sharon and Latin America attended the CLOSED SATURDAYS Carter-a deaf husband and wife convention. team who are, faculty members at the School for the Deaf-the skits were 'acted out by volunteers-some who could hear and some who were deaf.

AIJ. four skits were presented simultaneously in sign language and spoken word.

As each skit ended, the workshop used special directions to divide into small, groups for dis· cussion. Large numbered cards were held up in different areas of the room to signify meeting places. During the discussions, hands flashed the feelings of the participants as they examined the lack of communication in the

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Charity Thrive on Tro,ubl,e We are moving into an age of more leisure ... more comfort . . . more recreation . . . more free time. My own observations make me wonder if we will use the time wisely. Calm may be good for the body . . . but doesn't do much for the soul. That sounds as 'if I'm an ascetic didn't match. It was terrible if it rained on my freshly set hair. from the Middle Ages. Tliank God, I'm getting over such Granted, you - need a quiet trivia ... most of the time..

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time to mediate, reflect and pray. But this is all theoretical, theological ... apd far above the practical everyday happenings.

Charity, perspective, understanding, and compassion... thrive on trouble!

When our daughter suffered severe brain damage six. years ago, she lost her speech. For months, as she lay mute in the hospital, I could listen to the incessant chatter of the other seven children and think, "Thank God ... they can talk."

When she first added her voice to the rest of the clamor ... it was music.

Now, how often I forget, and wish they would all be quiet . . . or at least try to talk to me, one at a time. . Time for Tragedy Frequently, I'm too busy ... too busy for anything and everything. This morning, phone calls had to be made, deadlines had to be met, appointments had to be kept. My mother called to chat for a minute, and I cut her short. I had no time.

But seconds later an ambulance raced to a friend's home.

Her mother had had a heart attack. Forgetting all those things that "had to be done," I instinctively ran to her home to offer a ride to the hospital.

Why is there time for tragedy ... but no time for conversation?

Some months ago, our daughter was having a convulsion. As the police lifted her into- the, ambulance, I looked up. A neighbor I haven't seen in years was at my side, car keys in hand.

I spoke to him later that day to reassure him that everything was okay. But, I'll bet that we won't see each other again until the next time there's trouble.

In Visitors' Lounge There was a time when I'd worry that my purse and shoes

Secretariat Organizes Africa Meetings ABIDJAN (NC)-The Vatican Secretariat for non-Believers is organizing a meeting to be held here from Aug. 29 on the theme: "The Impact of the Modern Scientific-Technical Civilization on Religious Life."

The meeting at the Higher Institute for Religious Culture here is for French-speaking Africa. A similar meeting is to be held at the same time in Kampala, Uganda for English路speaking Africa.

My observations on the response of people in time of trouble was confirmed by a friend the other day". Her son had been deathly ill for months ... and was growing steadily worse. The doctors petformed an operation on which they had records of only 12 previous cases ... and five of those died., He was on the operating .table for 13 hours. Existed for tvvo weeks, then required more emergency surgery. Since he was in a hospital 200 miles from home, his parents stayed at a nearby motel, waiting out his slow recovery.

They could visit him only for short stretches. Most of the time they spent in the "visitors' lounge" watching the clock for their next allotted few minutes.

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Incredible Love She told me about those hours in the waiting room: "The bond of warmth, concern ... even love which flourished was incredible.

Age, race, religion, made no difference. Long-haired swingers and sophisticated society matrons had compassion for each other.

"At another time in life, these same people might cross a street to avoid each other. But at a time of intense tragedy ... they all cared ... genuinely cared for each other."

Why can't we learn this any other way?

"They'll know we are Christians by our love" ... but we seem to be more ready to prove it in a time of fear.

Let me pray often, "Dear God, grant me the wisdom to open my heart and hands in time of peace and prosperity with the same swiftness that I can -in a moment of tragedy."

Catholic Membership In Council Unlikely LONDON (NC) - Most of the 26 denominations forming the British Council of Churches (BCC) want the Catholic Church to become a full member and give a new boost to' the Christian unity movement in this country, but the majority of Catholics cont;nue to show' no widespread desire for membership at present and the time may not yet be ripe.

This is disclosed in a detailed report issued July 20 by a joint Catholic-BBC working group listing the pros and cons of Catholic membership.

The British Council, national associate of the World Council of Churches, will discuss the report's findings in full session in October and the two Catholic hierarchies concerned-EnglandWales and Scotland-are likely to study the matter at their an-. nual Advent conferences. They will be then have received comments from their diocesan ecumenical commissions.

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Diocesan Group Asks Stricter Enforcement Of Anti-Obscenity Law BLOOMFIELD (NC) The Communications Apostolate of the Newark archdiocese lias asked Gov. William T. Cahill to see that the state's new laws designed to control the traffic in obscenity are enforced.

Msgr. Paul J. Haynes, director of the apostolate, said a survey by his staff shows that the laws are not being obeyed and that enforcement has been spotty.

The survey was taken after his office was informed by parents that pornography is being sold ,in neighborhood stores. .

The Communications Apostolate was instrumental .in obtaining passage of the new laws a year ago. They are designed to eliminate open display of pornographic items and their sale to persons under 18 years of age.

Msgr. Hayes said there is no question that the law is being violated. He said that one 16year-Old boy, with the permission

Christian Charity Sisters Re-elect Superior MENDHAM (NC)-Mother M. Augustilde Giesen has been reelected superior .general of the International Congregation of the Sister,s of Christian Charity at a chapter here in New Jersey.

Elected to a second term of six years, Mother M. Augustilde is the first American-born Sister to hold the office of superior general of the 2100-member Congregation.

Also elected to the general council was Sister Virginia Janson. Sister Janson will act as representative of the eastern province. She presently serves as delegate to the chapter and immediate past pr,ovincial of the province.

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of his parents, purchased pornographic material in several stores. The purchases were monitored by a member of the commUTiications office staff.

Violations are most flagrant in urban areas of the state, according to officials of the Communications Apostolate.

Sisters of St. Joseph Re-elect Major Superior SOUTH BEND (NC) - Sister Josephine Marie Peplinski of South Bend, Ind., has been reelected head of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis.

A native of Milwaukee, Sister Josephine Marie has been l\lajor superior of the Congregation of Sisters since 1968. The order serves in 17 dioceses in the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, Peru and Brazil.

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Catholics contributed $100,000 in cash and combined with the Lutheran Church to distribute 92 tons of food, paper products and cleaning supplies to help flood victims here.

The money and most of the supplies were collected as part of a special Catholic and Lutheran appeal Sunday, July 2.

In an emergency measure, additional food was distributed from government-donated supplies originally issued-to the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations of the Philadelphia archdiocese for use in its lunch program for parish elementary schools.

On behalf of the flood victims, Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia and Msgr. Philip J. Dowling, executive director of the cardinal's commission, offered their "prayers and their deep appreciation , .. to th!) many parishioners and volunteers who extended their hearts and hands in love and brotherhood."

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Helps Island Nation PORT LOUIS (NC) - A twoyear-old Catholic organization, funded in part by Australian Catholic Relief, is helping to improve economic and social conditions in this Indian Ocean island nation.

The organization, called the Institute for Development and Progress was founded by Msgr.

Amadce Nagapen, vicar general of the Port Louis diocese, and Jean Noel Adolphe, a layman of the diocese. The institute's scope includes research, information distribution and various forms of social action.

Mauritius, a former British colony which became independent in 19ti8, is beset with both overpopulation and underemploymerit. A nO-square-mile dot on the map, the volcanic island has a population of about 850,000. .

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Sister Rosita Wisniewski of' Southgate, Mich., has been elected vice-president of the congregation. She has been a member of the order for 25 years. A native of Flint, Mich., she will reside at the South Bend motherhouse.

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Pope 'Paul Defines Christian Moralit'y

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC)- consciousness of.' the demands WASHINGTON (NC) - The Pope Paul VI, tackling what he of social justice "luckily is wide.' Feder.al Bure~u of Investigation called the "immense problem" spread nowadays," . He had begun his talk at his has sworn in its first two women of relations between secular life agents-one of them a former and Christian life, declared that Summer home here by stating Christian morality is distinct that he would "leave aside for nun.

Joanne E. Pierce, 31, was a from natural morality and gave the· moment those who are attacking doctrine, and limit ourSister of Mercy from 1959 to a definition of it.

1970. On July 17 she took the "We can define it (Christian selves to those who are ensnarFBI oath of office and began the morality) from a practical point ing and undermining the moral standard 14-week training.course . of view as a way of living ac- rule, the living of life," required of all agents. . cording to the faith, that is by He continued: "We have to The other woman who broke the light of the truths of Christ consider an immense problem, 48 years of all-male tradition and His example," the Pope told their relation between natural, was Susan Lynn Roley, 25, a for- his weekly general audience. mer first lieutenant in the U. S. He recalled St. Paul's "inci~ive Marine Corps. and up-summing formula, 'the Miss Pierce' attended Medaille just man lives by faith,' " College in Buffalo, N. Y., where Two important conclusions, he ST. LOUIS (NC)-A statewide she. received a bachelor's degree said, should be drawn from this. anti..abortion organization, the in history in 1965. She earned notion of Christian morality. an MA in history from St. Bona"The first conclusion is that Fight for Life Task Force, is pollventure "University in Olean, our practical idea of life should ing all candidates for state N.Y. keep first place for God, for re- offices here on their abortion After leaving the Sisters of ligion, for faith; for spiritual views.

According to Mrs. Norine Mercy order, she was hired by health. This should not be an the FBI as a secretary and office honorary first place, purely for- Metzner, the group's spokesworker. mal or ritual, but rather a first woman, the task force has distributed reports on candidates' The training course the two place of principle and .action." views on abortion to more than women must pass includes inThe second conclusion is that struction in self-defense, federal religion cannot exonerate man '60,000 people throughout the state. Reports have been made criminal procedures, constitufrom duties toward human jus- on oandidates for governor, lieutional law and investigative techtice and social progress. tenant governor, attorney genniques. eral, treasurer and the Congress.

They will have to learn to use 'Immense Problem' Reports on candidates for a .38 caliber revolver, a shotgun "It should be recognized," the state senator were also schedand a rifle, and prove that they are physically fit by doing the Pope said, "that the primacy of uled.

Candidates for executive office required number of pull-ups the religious factor in ordering push-ups, and sit-ups and by human action does not carry were polled on the theory that running two miles in 17 minutes with it an evasion of urgent "anyone who has a position of duties concerning justice and any consequence whatsoever has or less.

A Bureau spokesman said the human social progress,' as if some influence in influencing new trainees would be given no purely religious observance suf- legislation," Mrs. Metzner exspecial consideration because ficed to exonerate a man's con- plained. science from the obligations of Six candidates' for governor they are women. solidarity and generosity toward responded to the survey. Two "They're just FBI agents now," one's neighbor. Much less does were in favor of abortion law the spokesman said.. the recognition of religious reform, two against, and one' primacy in morality create a sel- undecided. Another suggested Seclusion fish and irrational slow-down in that the matter be settled in the Loneliness is something you the active quest for remedies for courts. None of the six appeared can't walk away from. social evils. Quite the contrary.'" to favor abortion-on-demand legThe Pope remarked that this islation. ~Feather

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profane, secular life and the Christian life. Today we are witnessing a gigantic effort to strip the common way of l~fe of every mark, every standard, every commitment stemming froro religion," .

Oppressed in Practice In the same vein the POPI~ observed: "From the admitted fact that many expressions of thought and of human activity should be governed by their own rules, and that the very ordering of the 'state can be conceived soundly and reasonably in a s~cular way, some want to conclude that religion should not only not appear any longer in public, but should no longer have any inspiring and orienting influence on' civil legisl~tion and in, practical standards.

"Even when religious liberty is officially recognized, it is often suppressed and oppressed in practice, sometimes with intimidation and harrassment that succeed in suffocation. as deeply' as the depths of conscience, the free and frank profession of religious feeling," .

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Pakistani Education Minister A.H. Pirzada said that private colleges failing to meet the requirements will be nationalized beginning in September, private schools in October.

In Washington, the Pakistani embassy emphasized that no distinctions would be made between Christian and Moslem private schools.

"These new reforms are not aimed at ~ particular community," an embassy spokesman told NC News Service. A private institution may be benevolent and non-profit but still be nationalized if it caters to the more privileged classes of society, the sp'okesman said.

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Missionaries Aid In Bangladesh UNITED NATIONS (NC)-Out of the holocaust of civil war came an independent Bangladesh last Deceomber. And out of the chaotic initial weeks of the world's rush to help that devastated country has come an orderly, systematized administration of the aid still flowing in, as described at t~ese headquarters by a staff member of UNROD (UN Relief Operation Dacca).

This unit, which is due to be phased out by March 1973 and replaced by continuing projects of the UNDP (UN Development Program) and affiliated UN agencies, has resources to date of more than $200 million, pledged or contributed by governments and in part by private individuals. Its activities are carried on in cooperation with the government of Bangladesh, under the overall supervision of Sir Robert Jackson, an assistant UN secretary general.

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Creative Projects .for Retired

WASHINGTON (NC)-An ex· pert on aging has urged Religious communities to replace "busy work" programs for retired Religious with creative community-based social service projects.

Dr. Paul Kerschner, executive director of the Maryland Commission on Nursing Homes, made the recommendation at an Institute on Retirement and Religious at Georgetown University here.

"There is" he said, "a pressing need for innovative, experimental retirement enclaves," for the elderly. He suggested, "... independent retired religious living in apartments, engaged in teaching, delivering of services to less mobile elderly and operating shops."

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A similar program· was instiOf these, the single largest tuted at Christ the King parish undertaking is that of CORR a year ago, at about the same (Christian Organization for Re- time that a methadone treatment lief and Rehabilitation) headed center was being established at by two Holy Cross missionaries, a third parish, St. Patrick's.

Fathers Benjamin Labbe of SherCasa Bonifacio will be staffed brooke, Que., and Richard W. by personnel from Liberty Vii· Timm of Michigan City, Ind. lage, a state narcotic rehabilita· Mushrooming from a modest nu- tion center in t~is city which has cleus set up to aid victims of the a large Spanish-speaking popu1970 cyclone and tidal wave in , lation. Priests of the parish will former East Pakistan, it has ex- provide spiritual direction for panded spectacularly, tapping the program, with residents of Catholic and ecumenical sources the halfway house participating of support in many countries. in parish life.

Kerschner said that retirement centers would include care for less active elderly persons and continuing education for all. In closely related centers, .retired Religious would train others to work with the aged.

Retired Religious could also run small community-based half· way.houses for drug addicts and alcoholics, and homes for dis· turbed adolescents.

"Why not have six elderly priests and six nuns run a residential center for disturbed

Religious Superiors Endorse Boycott WASHINGTON (NC)-Dfficials of Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) have urged members of the group to support the lettuce boycott started by the United Farm Workers' Union (UFWU).

Mercy Sister Thomas Aquinas Carroll, LCWR head, cited the "heroic struggle against injustice being waged by Cesar Chavez and . his farm workers." , UFWU leader Chavez recently ended a 24·day fast ·which he began to dramatize the union's lettuce boycott and to protest an Arizona law limiting the striking power of the farm workers.

In a July 21 statethent issued at the request of LCWR's national board, Sister Carroll called upon conference members "to eat only black eagle-trademarked lettuce and to promote the efforts of the farmworkers." The black eagle, UFWU's symbol, is stamped on crates of iceberg lettuce sold by growers under union contracts.

youngsters" Kerschner said. Such homes would offer rewarding work for the adults and provide a form of family life for children from broken homes, he said.

Concept of Leisure Day care centers would also offer opportunities for retired Religious. "If one of the major fears concerning day centers is the loss of traditional values, you could certainly provide a significant input into the daily lives of the children with whom you work," Kerschner told participants in the institute.

A different note was sounded by another institute speaker, Sister Rosemary Strain, coordinator of pre-retirement and reo tirement for Sisters of Mercy, Province of New York.

"I would be happy to see Religious relaxing without guilt," she said. "Too few of us have learned the true concept of leisure as God intended it to be.

Leisure is a deep contemplation of God which brings one to a true realizitation of oneself and the creation all around him."

The institute was sponsored by Georgetown and the National Conference of Catholic Charities.

Sisters Hold First Chapter in U.S. BATON ROUGE (NC) - The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg is holding its general chapter, ,the first to be held in the United States, at St. Joseph Academy here July 29·Aug. 19.

Sister Cecile Brouselle, superior general of the congregation, is presiding at the meeting of delegates from three U. S. provinces and three French provinces.

The congregation is based at Bourg, France.

Bishop Robert Tracy of Baton Rouge celebrated the opening Mass of the Holy Spirit in the academy at Baton Rouge, where the Sisters began their work of caring for orphans in 1868. In the intervening years they have extended their apostolate into teaching, nursing, social work . and other fields.

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.Child's 'Needs Paramount In Religious Education Last year, I went directly from one religious education workshop to another in the same diocese. "The first was _slan~ed_for parents, the second for non-parents. Each turned out to be a sophisticated exchange of scapegoating. At

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I came away saddened, not at the caliber of either the parents or non-parent leaders but because neither accepted the other as a sincere' participant in the religious growth process. As long as each could stereotype the ,other as not caring about the children, neither had to settle down to the hard work of learning to work together. . Unfortunately,' parents and parish have little history of working together in the mutual goal of producing a faith-filled child. Parents have been pro. grammed to a role - teaching prayers, seeing that children get to CCD, Saturday confession, Sunday Mass, and so on. They have done this, not because it filled the needs of their children but because Father said so. The ultimate evidence of fulfilling this role rested on the visible faith of their children.

Child's Total Needs The parish was programmed to its role also, Le. furnishing the sacraments, supplying a class, time, ano CCD teacher, and in.forming parents of their duty in seeing that the children appeared. And the parish was judged on its visible class and Mass participation.

'In this narrow delineation of roles, we became very good at judging each other and equally good at ignoring the needs of the child.

Is anybody really looking at the child? When our eyes are. on each other, be it with accusation or resignation, our eyes are not

Photo Editor WASHINGT0!'f (NC) - The appointment of Thomas N. Lorsung as photo editor of NC News Service, effective in mid-August, was announced here by A. E. P. Wall, director. Lorsung 'will replace Frank Hoy, who resigned in order to teach at local universities and to pursue other profes~ional interests. Lorsung is a photo editor at The Milwaukee Sentinel, ii morning daily witb a circulation of 170,000.

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Those are his needs. Are our present efforts meeting them? or are we so enjoying .our anguish and hand-wringing that we don't have time to establish new forms of religious education to meet those needs.

There's no commandment stating "Thou shalt teach religion in a class with 30 children once a week," but to view 'parent and· parish attitudes, one comes away with' the feeling that miracles happen in that hour every week.

We really know better. We know that unless we make religion viable in the child's lifethrough his family, school, church and society-we. might as well forget about, making it memorizable.

They Will Respond This takes more than lipservice cooperation. It means that parents have to be educated first to the changes, and that's a pastoral responsibility. Only when parents have successfully understood the need to go from a cioctrine-centered religion to a family-centered religion can they .comfortably furnish home celebrations, home prayer and home love of God. Onc~ parents are re-educated to the importance of their role and given some confidence and help in changing fr.om the old Catholic family atmosphere to a new and rich one-schmaltzy, if you will~they will respond and respond enthusiastically. I've seen it happen too many times to discount it.

But first· we have to start being honest with one another, parents and parish. We have to develop a common language, not one we use with other parents, and one we use with Father and Sister. We have to call a truce and make a mutual agreement to kill the scapegoat. It's obsolete, anyway. Let's make it extinct.

Once we do away with that handy device of blaming the other for our own negligence, we can study the child and begin fulfilling his needs. And, most important, let's do away with those two insidious myths: "Our parents don't care" and "Father didn't tell us to." I'll deal with those in the next two weeks. .,

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React. Angrily To Seizure Of Priest LA PAZ (NC)-Cardinal Clemente Maurer of Sucre has,denounced the arrest of Father Klaus Weber, a German priest who has been working among impoverished Bolivian campesinos for the last five years.

A month ago the ,cardinal had seemed disposed to seek imp'roved relations between the Church and Bolivia's military government, headed by Col. Hugo Banzer. But the arrest of Father Weber; he said, "once again makes Church-State relations in Bolivia tense." .

Bolivian army troops arrested the German priest at the Our Lady of Mercy church, more than 200 miles from Sucre. The soldiers entered the premises without Church permission, de.spite the existence of a verbal agreement between the Church and the Bolivian government on this matter that no troops or police would enter a church to' make an arrest without permission of the local bishop.

Told of this' agreement, the soldiers repli(:i by saying that they were merely carrying out ':the orders of 'superiors."

Join in Protest The arrest, the cardinal said, was one more example of "unheard of" conduct by the government in dealing with some priests. Such acts, Cardinal Maurer added, "are now so frequent as to mean the continuous interruption of the work of the Church in helping to develop some areas of the country."

Local campesinos, who were being helped .by Father Weber through a colonization land set. tlement program, joined in the cardinal's protest and threatened a work stoppage if the priest was not freed at once.

Despite the cardinal's protest anq the campesinos' threat, the Bolivian government has remained silent. Father Weber has been taken to an army . headquarters post in Camiri, some 200 _ miles from Sucre where he is being held incom~unicado.

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ELMIRA (NC)-Nine hundred students may not be' able to return to Catholic schools here and .in nearby Corning as a result of problems caused by tropical storm Agnes.

While flood damage to school buildings is partially resjponsible, reduced school contribu.tions, an indirect effect of the storm, is the main cause of ,the reduced I enrollment.

In' addition, Catholic school 9fficials say that they have been unable to get federal aid to repair schools.

Father Albert Shamon, Rochester diocesan vicar' for education, said that the budget for the 1972-73 school year' for Elmira Catholic schools calle,d for $460,000. This figure represents a budget cut to the absolute minimum, said Sister Mary Agnes Zimmer, regional school superintendent.

"There are no extras :that 'c,an be subtracted now that the flood hit," she explained.

And ,because flood-stricken families are unable to' contribute, it now· appears that only half that amount will be raised in time for the opening of school.

Unable to Help Elmira Catholic schools have only enough funds t~ enroll 900 of their 1900 students in the fall.

Money needed' to repair flood damage has even further reduced the budget. In Corning, 80 per cent of the parishioners who would normally have contributed to the school fund have left the area or are financially handicapped and unable to help. . ' "Not only the actual damage and the necessary repairs must be figured," said Father Shaman, "but also the fact that industry has been hurt, businesses mined, and people are just not going. to have any money to, contrioute toward rebuilding," An estimated $1 million in damag~ was done to diocesan property' alone..

Of the eight parishes that contribute to the budget for the Elmira schools, only one waH unharmed by the flood, said F,ather Shaman.

Though government aid has been promised to public schools, nonpublic schools have been ignored, he said. A sfand-by disaster flind for school assistance is available but it is specifically '

South Africa Eases Stand on Namibia UNITED NATIONS (NC) United Nations Secr~tary Generlll Kurt Waldheim has advised the Security Council that he will name a personal representative ,to conduct further negotiations with the government of South Africa on the future status of its mandated territory of South West Africa, known in UN parranee as Namibia. .

Waldheim's report to the council on his five months of quiet talks with the South African government at. Cape' Town disclosed progress beyond that re'ached at any time lin the 27 . y~ar~ the area has been under dIspute.

His review indicates a shift in the position of the South African government toward accommodation with the UN in the movement toward eventual self&-overnment and autonomy for Namibia, a German colony since World War I.

ear-marked for public schools: In the Corning-Elmira area, four out of six Catholic schools were damaged, one' so badly that it may 'not reopen in the Fall.

Indirect Aid· Father Shamon ,and Father Daniel Brent, diocesan superintendent of schools, released· a statement after learning of the exclusion of nonpublic schools in government relief programs.

Father Shamon accused government of using the "separation of Church and state" to "cloak glaring un-American discrimin-. ation and injustice."

However, Church and govern'ment officials in Washington said that while direct government aid is not available, Catholic schools can receive indirect aid. . Catholic school students can use public school facilities while their schools are being repaired and the Catholic students can continue as separate classes with their own teachers, accord'ing to the officials.

Tl1ey also said that Catholic schools are eligible for government loans which have low interest'rates and which need not be repaid completely.

Charge Government With Discrimination PANJIM (NC) - The government of Goa state discriminates against Catholics, according to Jack Sequiera, leader of United Goans, a Catholic-oriented opposition party.

Evidence of such discrimination, Sequiera said, is the fact that not one Catholic has been named to the committee set up by the state government' to investigate primary education, in spite of the fact that Catholics are more than a third of Goa's population and the community. most active in education.

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by Education ,Minister Sashikala Kakod.har, the daughter of Goa's chief minister, Dayanand Bandodkar.

Sequiera charged that the gov- ' ernment of Goa, a former Portuguese colony taken over by India in 1961, "is a Hindu government carrying on a Hindu administration."

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CARBONDALE (NC) - Rita DUBLIN (NC)-Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York joined Burke's voice has a calming genCardinal William Conway, pri- tleness, sometimes a lilting mate of All Ireland, on a visit to breathlessness, the sound of a children evacuated from troubled smile, sometimes the hint of a areas of Belfast in Northern Ire- tear. land. .

The president of the National The two cardinals met the Council of Catholic Women dischildren at. a Catholic college plays a serenity that indicates near Newry, just north of the she's liberated-from any tyranny that might dominate her spirborder with the Irish Republic. ' Preaching earlier in St. Pat- it.

She is a wife and mother rick's Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Irelan~, Cardinal Cooke :vho discovered" through sufferwarned against the philosophy of mg that God really IS. Faced for extreme violence. He said ex- 10 years with the fact that she tremists tend to project the fatal would lose her only child to illusion. that some people are death, she survived that spiritual wholly good and others wholly battle only to meet this year bad, and that violence and with what she describes as the counter-violence are the only biggest spiritual conflict of her successful solutions to situations life. It was caused by the experi-' filled with tragedy and bordering ences she encountered while serving as cochairman of the allon despair. women Pennsylvania Abortion H~ said they must learn that . neither imposition nor dictation, Law Commission.

Mrs. Burke is on a sabbatical neither force nor fear, will turn from her library and teaching the tide of evil.

"If they believe the words of position at St. Joseph Hospital Our Lord, aU men must learn to here in Pennsylvania, and with live together amicably, positively council activities at a breathing and cooperatively with one an- point, she found a free afternoon other," he said. "Such a hope last week to share some of her must be dear to the hearts of recent experiences. every Irishman and Irishwoman Miracle at Fatima and I assure you it is near to Mrs. Burke talked of her son, the hearts of your relatives, Tommy, "who taught us all we friends and sympathizers in the had to know about faith and United States." hope, love and patience."

The two cardinals prayed toMrs. Burke and her husband, gether for peace in Ireland at the Tom, learned when their son shrine of an Irish martyr in , was three that he had progresDrogheda, in the Irish Republic. sive muscular dystrophy. 'The Welcoming Cardinal Cooke on news came just a day after anhis visit to Ireland, Cardinal other doctor told Mrs. Burke she Conway praised his interest and would never have another chHd. compassion for the people suffer- She spent the next few years ing from civil unrest in Northern searching for some religious Ireland. strength to carry her sorrow, all Church Wrecked the while trying to make' TomHe said Cardinal Cooke organmy's few years with them happy. ized a collection throughout the The Burkes traveled from hosarchdiocese of New York and the pital 'to hospital. as part of a proceeds were distributed to re"whole army of parents trying to lief organizations in Belfast and find a miracle." At Fatima Rita Londonderry.

Burke found' her miracle-TomMeanwhile, a Catholic church my wasn't cured but Rita was. in a Northern Ireland town was Gift of God completely wrecked by a bomb At Fatima, she said, "there just explosion. St. Joseph's Church in came a moment out of all that Portadown was more than 100years-old and had 400 communi- prayer when I think I knew Tommy was not 'going to be cants.

I On his return to New York,' cured but it really didn't matter Cardinal Cooke told NC News because all of a sudden I knew that his visit to Northern Ireland God reaUy is ... I don't think I was one "of loving concern and could. haVe loved Tommy more moral support for all the people ... but it was just a thing that came with faith and it was beart.here."

He spoke of the t.ension and able. And you know, the world fear evident in the faces of the is full of bearable things that people in the North who are have to be borne." Rita said the virtually prisoners in their own faith she received was a giH of homes. He said he had no infor- God 'and it has really never gone mation on political or military away. Tommy died in 1957.

She carried these- experiences activities in Northern Ireland.

But he emphasized that "a new into those weeks of testimony political initiative is necessary to the abortion commission in order to bring about peace when, she claimed, almost every witness favoring abortion adand reconciliation." mitted it was the "poorest solution ... the very last choice," in Plea for Justice coping with an "unwanted pregNAIROBI (NC) - A Kenyan nancy." government official has urged "The thing that really susthe Christian press and church tained me personally through the leaders to speak u~ for justice whole thing was the young peoand the general welfare of the pie. They were .the ones most people. The official, Dr. Z.T. avidly against abortion on deOnyoka, minister for information mand." Rita said a young teenand broadcasting, spoke at the agel' sobbed to her that she joint meeting of the National didn't want an abortion but her Christian Council of Kenya and parents arranged it so she the Catholic Secretariat of the wouldn't embarrass them by her country. The meeting was held out-of-wedlock pregnancy. We've at Kenya Polytechn:c Institute. . got to develop a society where

MRS. RITA BURKE a woman isn't' pushed into this kind of drastic action," she almost pleaded.

Audience With Pope The commission led in an indirec.t way to R0me and Mrs. Burke's audience \/ith Pope Paul VI. As a favor to Mrs. Judy Fink of Pittsburgh, a Presbyterian and a member of the Commission,

Church Assembly To Stress Action NEW YORK (NC)-The major emphasis at the ninth triennial General Assembly of the National Council of Churches will be on implementing rather than formulating national policy, says Rev. Sterling Gary, chairman of the Assembly and executive head of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ.

Though NCC's 33 member churches have spoken in various policy statements, resolutions and messages on many public issues, too little has happened, Cary said. "We've concluded that words are not el}ough. Now we have to find tools to achieve the kind of change that the churches agree they want."

The style of the assembly to be held in Dallas, Dec. 3-7, will differ from past assemblies.

While representatives used to speak on national problems, at the meeting they will seek to deal with the problems, Cary explained. "We are going to dig deep in a serious .effort to come up with solutions," he said.

The assembly's 850 voting delegates, plus consultants and observers who are expected to bring the total attendance up to 2,000, will discuss three major themes. The themes-cvangelism and renewal; stewardship of creation; and justice, liberation and human fulfillment-will be debated in regional action groups as well as denominational caucuses.

Rita agreed to try to present to the Pope a copy of a response .to the abortion on demand recommendations of the U. S. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. In Rome an official told 'her to be brave enough to try despite the fact that the Pontiff's personal encounters with the public are brief.

One of about 5,000 persons at the audience, Mrs. Burke was in ' the front row. When the Pope aproac?ed her and took her hand she saId, "Holy Father ... " and began her speech, telling him that Protestant women had helped write the report and that they. wanted .to express their gratItude to. hI,? for all he ~ad done and saId JI1 defense of hfe.

Halfway through her speech, she said, her thoughts raced: "Rita Margaret Burke, Spring Street, Carbondale, you're talking to the Holy Father!" At that point. ~er knees went limp but she fll1lshed.

Pope Paul took the report, patted her cheek, thanked her and gave all the women his love and prayers in the name of "Our Dear Lord Jesus."

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Back School Aid, Oppose Abortion CINCINNATI (NC)-Members of the Knights of St. John and the group's Ladies Auxiliary adopted resolutions supporting efforts to obt路ain state aid for parochial schools and endorsing campaigns for strong anti-abortion laws.

At their (;onvention here, members of the organizations also approved a resolution opposing the legalization of, marijuana.

Archbishop Thomas McDonough of Louisville, episcopal adviser to the organizations, hailed the faith of the Knights of St. John and their "deep determination to follow the will of God and high hope of making the world spiritually a better place in which to live."

Archbishop McDonough concelebrated the Convention Mass with Archbishop Nicholas T. Elko, Auxiliary of Cincinnati.

Addressing the convention banquet, Archbishop Elko challenged the Knights of St. John to "let your good example of Christian living raise such a heavenly notice against earthly concerns that the wilderness will be cleared and that once more there will be clear skies permeating this dense fog of immorality and hectic living."

"We are living in a world that is denying God," Archbishop Elko said.

He told the Knights and Auxiliary members that "if more people join you" in accepting the commandments and the Cross, the government will begin to路 see "what good Christians stand for."

Alfred F. Hartings of Maria Stein, Ohio was elected supreme president of the Knights of St. John at the conclusion of the convention. Hartings, who .was supreme vice president. succeeds Frank C. Wopperer of Buffalo.

University to Host Research Congress JAMAICA (NC) - St. John's University here in New York will be host to the second congress of the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society Sept. 3-8.

Scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia will discuss the study of human nature and those principles which govern thinking, action and judgments. The phnosophicalstudy of phenomena originated in the research of Edmund Husserl, German philosopher.

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Spring .Planting Chores Now Reaping Produce

By Joe and Marilyn Rollerick.

The fruits of the garden are now evident to the children. This past week we have been picking about two quarts of blueberries per day from our four blueberry bushes and about the. same from our, raspberry plants. There is nothing nicer than having an overbundance of these fruits. didn't feel guilty about the fact that they are not .doing very This week while I was in much of it Perhaps one of the Boston I came across culti- solutions is to air-'condition the

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vated red raspberries at 95c a half pint which made me even more appreciative of the pint I have' every 'morning for breakfast . \ Raspberries are an, excellen t crop if one has sufficient room to grow them. They are unsight-, ly and unrluly but 'are reratively easy to care for, as compared to other fruit-bearing 'plants. The , only thing we really do to them is prune out the old canes after the growing season, leaving room for the new canes to develop.

As far as blueberries go, we do practically nothing except fertil~ izing in the early Spring with acid fertilizer mixture. Nothing could be easier or more productive. All four of our blueberry bushes are now about 10 years old, so that they stand well over six feet tall. To say the least they are very productive and produce the large cultivated berry -that we see on the market.

There is only one drawback to blueberries and that is that they take up room in the garden.

I have said repeatedly that having fruit-bearing plants in the garden teaches the children respect for the garden. My children are fully aware of the fact that damaging the raspberry or blueberries will result in fewer goodies for them and therefore I very seldom have to tell them to keep away from the garden.

Rather, they are constantly warning other children not to hurt the "garden in any way.

In the Kitchen "I just don't feel hungry" has probably"" been the most overworked statement uttered by area residents over the past two weeks. After a late start, our summer has arrived in all its glory complete with appetite wilting heat.

Mornings are not too bad for there is still a coolness in the air that one can enjoy but by late afternoon all thoughts of food are enough to make one nauseous. Meals become hurried . affairs to be rushed through quickly and we consume more liquids than a band ~f nomads in an oasis.

Air conditioned Kitchen This wouldn't be too bad if those of us ?tho enjoy cooking

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Ecumenical' Center NAZARETH (NC)-A newly reconstructed ecumenical center will be blessed here Aug. 13 by Ukrainian-r:ite Bishop Jaroslav Gabro of St. Nicholas.

The blessing will highlight a three-day ecumenical conference of Eastern-rite Catholics and other denominations sponsored by the Melkite-rite diocese of Galilee.

The ecumenical center is owned by the St Nicholas diocese.

kitchen so that we'll enjoy spending our time there more than any other part of the house.

Another, more practical and economical solution is to take ad.vantage of the fresh vegetables and fruits that are appearing on the country stands and use these as the mainstay of your food planning. Even unadorned fresh produce adds a great deal to your dinner table, perks up wilted appetites and may even bring a few compliments from' your family despite the fact that your efforts in preparing them can be kept down to a minimal.

It's potato salad weather and what could be better than a new recipe for this taste perker-upper.

Nellie Hern's Potato Salad 6 cooked potatoes, sliced, cold % cup salad oil 1 head lettuce Y2 teaspoon mU$tard 2 Tablespoons vinegar l,i cup cream 2 medium beets cut in strips 2 egg yolks salt and pepper 1 teaspoon sugar 1) Cut potatoes into thin slices and 'beets into strips.

2) Wash lettuce and pat dry (do this early in the day) and then cut into long strips.

3) Mix lightly all of the vegetables, the potatoes, beets and lettuce in the salad bowl.

4) Make the dressing by adding. the salt, mustard and sugar to the egg yolks.

5) While beating, slowly add the oil, vinegar and cream and pour the dressing over the salad and toss lightly before serving.

BROTHER DENNIS J. FLEMING

Hold Profession In So. Easton Brother Dennis J. Fleming, C.S.C., son of Mrs. Theodore J .. Fleming and the late Mr. Fleming of 57 Crane Road, Quincy, professed his perpetual vows in a ceremony at Holy Cross Parish, South Easton.

Brother Fleming entered the Holy Cross Fathers and Brothers, Eastern Province, at Stonehill College, in 1963. He made his novitiate at Holy Cross Novitiate in Bennington, Vt For several years, Brother served as a clerical assistant and private secretary. He received his higher education at St, Joseph College, Bennington and Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport.

Brother Fleming resides at Holy Cross Provincial House in Bridgeport, and is a fourth grade teacher in Stamford, Conn.

Bishops Support Lettuce Boycott

DENVER (NC) - In an effort to "consider the plight of the farm workers in terms of Christian responsibility," the bishops of Colorado have endorsed a boycott of non-union iceberg lettuce "as a means of helping workers obtain a just and Vocations Explosion these equitable scale, of wages and livSeen in Nigeria ing conditions."

In a statement called "AgriculDUBLIN (NC) - A vocations explosion is under way among tural Concerns," Archbishop Ibos in the territory that was James V. Casey and Auxiliary called Biafra during the Nigerian Bishop George R. Evans of Dencivil war (1967-70), according to ver and Bishop Charles Buswell an Irish priest now working of Pueblo, have come out in there. support of the boycott sponsored Father J.C. McGuinness, a 'mis- by the United Farm Workers sionary at Holy Family College Union.

"Support given to the unionin Abak, South Ea~tern State, Nigeria, writing in an Irish reli- ization of farm workers is not gious monthly, The Furrow, re- intended to jeopardize in any ported that seminaries in all the way the rights and prerogatives Iboland dioceses are overcrowded of the farmer-grower," the bishand there is ",8 very large in- ops said. "This is not a farmer crease" in the number of voca- versus farm work situation, but tions for the congregations of rather the farmer and farm nuns. workers - each working within The dioceses include Onitsha, its own organization-seeking a Enugu, Owerri and Umuahia. In just price from the market his own diocese of Ikot Ekpene, Farmers throughout the country Father McGuinness wrote,num- are united in/such unions. Their bel'S entering the seminary have right to unite should not be imbeen continuously high despite peded; nor should the right of the the war. .

• farm worker."

In the Fort Harcourt diocese, "The Ch1.!rch has frequently where the bishop and many' of proclaimed the ,right of the workthe Catholic people were Ibos er and the right of the employer before the crisis, many boys of to establish collective bargaining various tribes are seeking entry as Ii means of protecting the into the minor seminary, which basic rights of each individual," is open again: they explained.

VATlC~N CITY (NC)-U. S. Rogers said Pope Paul had Secretary of State William P. "made several attempts, directly.

Rogers said he personally con- and indirectly I believe, to veyed to Pope Paul VI "the very achieve an exchange of prisonwarm thanks of President Nixon ers of war in Vietnam." 'and the American people" for The Pope, Rogers continued, the Pope's attempts to obtain an . had also sought to obtain more exchange of prisoners in Vietcomforts for prisoners, such as nam. access to mail. Another goal of He said the Pope's .efforts had the Pope's efforts for prisoners, been exhaustive but had worked Rogers said, was "accountabil','to no avaiL" ity" for their treatment and comRogers met Pope Paul July 11 pliance with international standon the final leg of a fact-finding ards on the treatment of prisonand fence-mending .tour that ers of war. took him around the world. The The Vatican's press office is~ American statesman spoke to sued a communique on Rogers' newsmen after a papal audience meeting with the Pope that said he 'said he had sought at Presi- the American secretary of state dent Nixon's express request "wanted to give wider .informaRogers applauded the Pope's tion on the results of President public appeal to negotiations at Nixon's visits to the People's Rethe Vietnam peace. talks in public of China and the Soviet Paris. The Pope, two day:> be- Union." fore meeting Rogers,' had urged President Nixon, the commuthat American and Vietnamese nique continued, had already negotiators "show the wisdom and magnanimity that can put given the Pope news of these visand human dignity before its "by personal message after each trip." any other interest" The communique continued: Interest in Peace "A great part of the conversaRogers said, of his meeting' tion between the Holy' Fatjler with the Pope: "I don't want to and Mr. Rogers was dedicated to quote His Holiness. Obviously he the search for peace in Indochina expressed to me, as· he did in and in the Middle East ' his public statement,' his great "His Holiness listened to Mr. interest in peace, urging all concerned to do their .utmost to Rogers' account and expressed bring about a peaceful s,ettle- fervent hopes that the talks and contacts undertaken at such a ment high level might develop, into "I expressed the v~ew of 'my positive understandings, in the government to His Holiness that interests of cooperation and we supported his plea, that we peace among all the world's think it was a very useful and peoples." constructive step he had taken to The communique said that make this very strong plea. And I expressed the hope on the part during the hour-long meeting of my government' that the nego- Rogers "declared that the govtiations will result in a settle- ernment of the United States , shares the desire for a quick ment" , Asked whether he' and Pope negotiated solution to the VietPaul had discussed 'the prisoner- namese conflict and thanked the Holy Father for his tireless efof-war issue, Rogers replied: "Yes, we did discuss it, and I forts on behalf of peace there thanked His Holiness ,very much and in the entire world."

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for the part the Vatican has played in this picture.

"They have made every kind of effort they reasonably could make, to no avail. ' "And I expressed: the very warm thanks 'of President Nixon and the American people foJ' the efforts that His Holiness had made." :

Monsignors Named VATICAN CITY (NC)-Two Amerkan priests working with other U. S. priests, and seminarians in Rome have been named monsignors. They are Fa·thers Richard J. Mahowald of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Lawrence K. Breslin of Cincinnati.

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The Bishops' insistence in their Synodal document on the "right to development" underlines a point that it is very easy for Christian citizens in affluent lands to overlook.

That point is the humiliation that can follow from being" continuously at the receiving One of China's great appeals end. No one denies that comto the Third World-until much passion and generosity are of its prestige was lost by its Christian duties. But if some- support of West Pakistan's dreadful violence in Bangia Desh -was to claim to have developed its own economy, its own system-and even its own hydrogen bomb without being beholden to anyone.

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one is always in the position of having money to give away and someone else of always needing to receive it, the fortunate person is continuously tempted to congratulate himself on his magnificent record of beneficence.

The unfortunate one can come to loathe and resent the dependence in which he is placed.

It may be "more blessed to give than to receive," but it may be much more tiresome to be always receiving. The burden of gratitude becomes intolerable.

One recalls the very old phrase: "Why does he dislike me? I have never done anything for him."

In our planet at large, this problem of giving and receiving is, of course, complicated by the facts of recent history. It is only in the last three centuries that the rich nations of today-largely white, post-Christian and Atlantic-have come to control 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

And the two-thirds of humanity who are still pre-technological and poor have not forgotten that Western predominance was established during the period of world wide Atlantic colonial government and settlement - still maintained by a very high degree of economic control.

China's Appeal

Yet the fiery governments and equally fiery students who call for what is known as "the clean break"-no aid from the West, little or no trade with the West, as complete a stoppage as possible in economic relations of all sorts with the West-do not always' count the cost. It must be repeated. The already developed powers account for 80 per cent of the world's markets and capital flows, 90 per cent of all services such as shipping, banking and insurance, virtually 100 per cent of the critical element of research.

If poor nations try to cut . themselves' off completely from all this organized wealth, they are likely to find themselves completely unable to carry through the kind of economic expansion they need even to feed their grow.ing numbers, let alone educate and employ them. .

China is false analogy. It is a vast internal market of highly sophisticated and trained officials, artisans, farmers and workers who, for 2,000 years, have successfully managed a system which includes a quarter of the human race. Few societies in the world have the skills, the resources and the scale to permit them to turn their backs on the rest of mankind. For most poor nations, a "clean break" would mean collapse, famine and an. archy.

Essence of Right

So, in a sense, it is easy for a man of Asia or Africa or parts of Latin America to feel that the "aid" he receives was filched from him in the first place by settlers who took his land or merchants his money. He feels he is still being asked to be grateful for goods and services which his own work has helped to create.

The whole relationship is an uneasy mixture of dependence and resentment and it is not surprising that all round the world voices are raised calling for an end to all assistance, to all flow of resources from rich nations to poor nations so as to end, once and for all, the humiliation of a semi-colonial situation.

Are we then stuck fast in a dilemma? Must poor nations swallow their pride and accept aid? Or must they assert their dignity and starve in the process? The relevance of the Church's teaching on "the right to development" lies precisely in the degree to which it releases the world from this ugly choice.

The essence of the right is to recognize that men and societies have a human and, as it were, constitutional iClaim on some share in the bounty of God's total creation.

A few conquerors, a few well placed trading nations, a few first comers, however well intentioned, cannot engross for themselves alone the resources of the whole planet. The world's peoples have the right not to compassion but to justice. And justice implies not arbitrary giving but institutionalized sharing.

We recognize this domestically when we use the income tax to redistribute wealth by law.

We need a similar mechanism at the world level. Then development can truly become a right and its fulfillment part of our new sense of planetary citizenship.

Education Decree Worries Bishops LA PAZ (NC)-A recent government decree, under which private universities would be integrated into the Bolivian University system, has Bolivian bishops worried.

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Patriarch Demetrios Stresses Unity ROME (NC -Former parish· ioners of the new leader of the world's Greek Orthodox remember him as a priest "whose way of life was charity and whose only passion was his priesthood."

Patriarch Demetrios Papadopolous, as metropolitan of the Aegean Islands of Imbros and· Tenedos, was perhaps the least known of the 15 Orthodox churchmen who convened in mid-July to elect the 269th patriarch of Constantinople (IStanbul).

By a vote of 12-3, the 58-yearold former parish priest and professor of Greek was chosen to succeed Patriarch Athenagoras I, who made the unity of Christianity the chief goal of a lengthy reign, ,which ended with his death at the age of 86 July 7.

On the day of his installation· Patriarch Demetrios sent his greeting to Pope Paul and other Christian leaders and said he intended to pursue unity within Christianity and within the Orthodox churches.

Is he liberal or conservative, ASCA asked him.

After thinking a moment, the Patriarch replied: "I have accepted the role of Simon of Cyrene to carry· the cross, but I absolutely do not intend to launch any new programs.

"Instead, it is my intention to continue faithfully in the Greek Orthodox tradition."

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magazine, UOsservatore Della Domenica, found it "extremely interesting" that the new Patriarch has Catholic relatives, many of whom are buried in the Catholic cemetery in Istanbul.

As a priest, L'Osservatore reported, Patriarch Demetrios would accompany the Catholic priest as he blessed the graves on All Souls Day. When he returned as a bishop in 1964 for this ritual, the Catholic priest gave him the stole and accompanied him as he blessed the graves.

Quoting his former parishioners in Ferikoy, a section of Istanbul" L'Osservatore said Demetrios was remembered as a parish priest "imbued with the obligations of his apostolate, unpretentious, always ready to talK to the poor, to receive them and to encourage them."

One old parishioner added: "He was a priest at the door of whose home a poor man never knocked in vain.".

COIMBATORE (NC)-The national chaplain of the Christian Workers' Movement told other clergymen here that they should become involved in the trade union movement and "use it as a means of building a new social order based on justice tempered with charity."

"Trade unionism is a reality," said the chaplain, Father Thomas Joseph, who came here to meet the clergy and laity of the Coimbatore diocese in southern India Road to Unity . and to expand the CWM. A few days later in his home Addressing a group of the clerin Istanbul, thE;! Patriarch spoke gy at the residence of Bishop of "unity" with the Italian Cath- Manuel Visuvasam of Coimbaolic news service, ASCA. tore, Father Joseph stressed the "I know that unity is on the need for a new approach to the minds of many people," he said. vocation of the layman. He said "Even if the journey is long and that the layman's role should be tiring, I fully intend to stay on one of missionary involvement in 303 IVANOUGH ROAD the world rather than one of dethat road."

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Finding Individuals at the路 Altar The soundest lesson from the altar community is that God is the best guarantee of our personal uniqueness. The stories in the' liturgy of the word often stress how much God strives to help ,each person to whom he speaks to be himself. (i{(::tr:;rllKIt:J#m:1::g;l:((Im,

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God doe'sn't clobber Job into being a simpering licker-ofwounds. God rejoices that Job doesn't take suffering lying down.

God is pleased that Job struggles and ,fights through the pain that seeks to level him.

The same is true in the Jacob story. Jacob finds himself in a powerful dilemma. His uncle Laban is coming from the north to force him back into slavery. iUs twin brother Esau is marching from the south with four hundred angry tribesmen to punish him for cheating him out of the 'birthright.

Jacob turns to God, not meekly to accept light, but to fight the almighty for an aJ,lswer.

Jacob wrestles with God and becomes his own man. God is so pleased' with Jacob that he names him Israel, the one who prevails with God. Jacob emerges as a real person.

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back, and like Jacob, she prevails By DR. LAWRENCE LOSONCY with God. Many people today look at , Far .from being offended by the their parish and then pray for woman, Jesus is moved to re- unity. Certainly, our parishes tospect her and is resolutely glad day are more divided than at any to offer his healing powers to her other time in the American daughter. The text doesn't say Church. Not only parishioners Jesus let out a mighty roar of are divided, however. Clergy, relaughter, but it could very well ligious, diocesan personnel, colhave. It would be an outburst of lege faculties, high school staffs, pleasure to honor a woman who parish councils-all are expel'iwas determined to stand as a encing the bitter sword of strife, person while yet being a pro- the deep scars of division, the found believer in God. wounds of ideological warfare.

These stories from the altar remind us of the mysterious fact Present-day division comes as that the mightiest individuals a particular shock to us in the thrive in the context of a believ-' United States, because we were . mg commum'ty. Communl'ty l'S . accustomed in earlier times to in the belief, the love and the cover .up our differences with a presence of the Spirit. Ideally, it show of harmony. What that yields startling examples of indi- meant, in essence, was that as viduality. One faith, one Bap.' parishioners we would not say tism, one Lord Jesus-but mul- unkind things about the clergy . . 路 I t lp e 'expressIOns In pa re nts , or one another until we arrived teachers, secretaries, sanitary en- safely home or at lel},st out of. g-ineers, cops; waiters, board our victims' hearing range., We chairmen, hockey players and were then a silent, muttering musicians. people.

A community in which persons Today we are a vocal, shouting have no sense of self-uniqueness people, both verbally and in is not a community. It is a col- print. Many read this situation lection of robots. A community as a sign of despair. But deeper in which there is no Holy Spirit analysis will show that the shoutpromoting a unity ,of mind and ing is caused not by ill will and heart is not a community either. childishness but by theological It is a chaotic gathering of peo- growth and deepening convicpIe engaging in gross mono- tioIls, by growing' vision and logues. The altar without indi- seriousness of purpose. The viduals is a lonely ego talking to American Church, diocese by diitself. The altar without spiritual ocese, parish by' pa~ish, meeting unity is the equivalent of a noisy by meeting, family by family, freeway at rush hour: block by block is coming of age.

Personal Decision~路The shouting represents the fadThe stories that come from the' ing stages of adolescence, its last altar encourage' us to be our- shouts of rebellion, its beginning selves. They tell of how an awe- of maturity, the first testing of some faith in God reveals the ideas one against another.

It is important, of course, that pleasant discovery that God is intensely interested in' seeing us diversity not become scandal and take the aggressive steps to de- confusion for the young who see velop our personhood. their elders quarreling. It is imMost sermons tell us to imi- portant that the disputes not betate Jesus. A persistent lesson come a sign of contradictiori for from the life of Jesus .is, t\1at he those looking at Christians for a was a self-determining and ag- witness of charity and brotherly gressively- personal man. When love.

Turn to Page Eighteen But it is also important that' we see the true richness represented in diversity. Because we are different and are willing to speak out, discussion and debate provide easy opportunities to disFrom LaMancha's song "Impos- cover and appreciate. sible Dream" have a message f~r Needed for Unity our lives. As one thinks about Adult Education, in the minds the meanings behind the phrases, of many people, is needed in it is easy to think: "these are hard tasks." "It cannot be done." order to unify the parish. The "to reach the for"Why try?" The next step is to time has come gotten adult" in religious educaretreat from the' thought and tion. Just as we once looked to turn to something else. schools as the melting pot of Maybe we have to use the America, many today look to positive of, telling ourselves over adult education as the great and over again: "Yes, I can." As "leveler." we gradually ,become convinced We have found out from our that we can, then it is possible schools that opinIon will never to take the necessary action to unify the United States. What dream and to reach. we are finding out from adult It is not always clear what the education is that opinion will dream may mean, how it will never unify the' parish. Indeed, develop, or what will be involved the more education people acin the process. It is not always quire, the wider and more diverse clear how or where to reach. their opinions become. Now we One factor is that to dream and can understand why the learned to w.,?rk toward making a dream men of Greece spent all day Turn to Page Seventeen debating; now we know why

Reaching the Unreachable Star

"To' dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To reach the unreachable star., This is my quest to follow that star."

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REMEMBER THE ADULTS: "Adult Education in the , minds of many people, is needed in order to unify the parish." The time has Gome "to reach the forgotten adult" in religious educ~tion. NC Photo. theologians of the Middle Ages were fond of dispute, why professors, doctors, lawyers" and . professionals of every kind find it difficult t6 reach consensus.

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"Dear Father Champlin, "I ani a 13-year-old girl who attends Saint Angela.Merici parish.

"Concerning your write-up in our Catholic paper, 'Peace Rite Gaining ApprovaL', When I go to Mass, some people, I when the peace rite comes, face their head

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to the ground hoping that if they don't look at the person next to him, he wo,n't have to shake hands, or even smile.

"I feel very good inside after I shake hands with someone. A few times I have extended my hand to the person l1ext to me, and they just turn: away. At Mass we ,are supposed to be one family having a part in the feast of the eucharistic celebration.

If people act this way,

they shouldn't even bother going to Mass because they don't participate. Please send me a .reply.

Thank you."

How do you answer a letter like that? How do you explain to a young girl in her teens that many find changes painful and need time to accept or understand them? How do you tell her 路that a few may never look up or smile or extend a hand? How do you convey the notion that. Catholic Christians should, practice love and patience even, perhaps i particularly, when the gesture of peace is rejected?

VVords on paper are not very satisfactory in responding to complex , human, questions like these. But we can answer two other inquiries I have heard on occasion about this controverted sign at Ma~s.

Kiss of Peace The first asks why the gesture of peace is not at the beginning of Mass where we have the greeting and penitential rite. It Turn to Page ,Eighteen

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Goulden's Book Explains Power of ISuperlawyersl

THE ANCHORThurs., August 3, 1972

Not all the lawyers in Washington, D.C., are Washington Lawyers. The latter are relatively few in number, but they yield far greater power than most of us realize.

This is the contention of Joseph C. Goulden in his new book The Superlawyers (Weybright and Talley, 750 Third rules must be decertified because tested, a WashAve., New York, N.Y. 10017. insufficiently ington Lawyer can secure innu$8.95). The Washington merable delays which keep the

Continued from Page Sixteen respect for difference and tolerance of disa&reement are the cement of community.

Honor Traditions We have discovered that ethnic traditions need to be honored and enhanced if community is to be possible. We have discovered that individual values must be encouraged if family, neighborhood, and parish are to be honest. We have discovered that minority views must be allowed on any question if democracy is to be strong. What we have discovered is that no two humans, no two families, no two groups, no two parishes are alike.

Uniformity, unlike diversity, occurs only in cemeteries, where we are all exactly equal. Diversity is richness, a richness which makes learning and understanding possible.

What we are discovering, in the final analysis, is that Jesus, not opinion, unites us. Because God dwells among us as a people, we are a people. Because we have faith in God, because we share the same divine life, we are one.

Love, not opinion, is what holds people together, because love is the strongest and most appealing force in all of human experience. From love comes the richness called freedom and the wealth called diversity.

questionable product on the market until the maker has made profits in the millions.

By What about the danger to people who have used the drug durRT. REV. ing the long interval? That is no concern of the Washington LawMSGR. yer; he is. safeguarding his client's interests, and his own fees.

JOHN S. As a result of such abuses, KENNEDY there has sprung up a new breed of lawyers in Washington, the public-interest lawyers, of whom Ralph Nader is by far the best Lawyer seeks to direct what the known. Nader is taken with government does so that this is deadly seriousness by Washingto the benefit of his clients. ton Lawyers, because he has He deals mostly with the Conshown that the giant corporagress and with the executive detions are not as invulnerable as partments, especially the reguthey had long seemed. And every latory agencies. He influences effort is being made to thwart the shaping of legislation and its him and his kind. administration.

Mr. Goulden tells us about the The Washington lawyer is a Washington Lawyer almost more fairly recent phenomenon. He than we want to know. His book probably came into being in the is long and it has copious speciheyday of the New Deal, when fics. The case he makes is one regulatory agencies suddenly and which causes dismay and anger. spectacularly proliferated. Young We had some notion that what men fresh out of law school he describes did indeed' go on, found jobs in them. They became but no notion of the extent oht. familiar with all the intricacies "We had trusted that government of relevant law and of the agen-, was not subject to manipulation cies' rules and administrative and control which render the avprocedure. erage citizen powerless against In time, many of them moved the huge corporation. It was a out of government service into futile trust, as Mr. Goulden private practice. Because of their abundantly demonstrates. expertise in regulatory law, they Shape of D1usion were in a position to help corWilliam E. Barrett's novel The porations which camE! within the purview of the agencies. This Shape of Illusion (Doubleday, help was in the form both of get- 277 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. ting favorable legislation written 10017. $5.95) starts out interestand then of seeing to it that cli- ingly enough, if more than a bit ents got the greatest advantage heavily, but it never gets anyout of its application and their where. Its narrator is Kirk Donner, an American artist, who has dealings with the agencies. been unhappily married, then diIn effect, the Washington Lawyer enables business to seize vorced, with his wife dying soon control of the measures and after. His specialty is painting machinery of reforms which are the heads and faces of living perinstituted for the public good. sons in the manner of the sculpBecause of him the agencies tured figures on the portals of have 'become, according to Mr. old cathedrals.

He is invited by an art dealer, Goulden, "one of the most miserable failures of American a friend of his, to view a mysterious painting. Others invited to government." see it at about the same time are Safeguards Fees Lawyers and regulators are so a Protestant clergyman who edits close in their relations as to as- a review, and a Jesuit. The painttound the naive onlooker. There ing .is obviously old and masterin a fairly regular exchange of ly. It represents a moment in the jobs, with a lawyer sitting on one Passion of Christ after the side of the table as-the represen- scourging and just before the tative of a government agency, Way of the Cross begins. A howlthen shifting to the other side ing mob presses in on Christ.

Each of the viewers is greatly of the table as the represEmtaimpressed with the painting, but tive of a corporation, then going back to tne government agency then each in turn recoils, as he discovers himself in one of the as a commissioner, and so on. figures hostile to Christ. None Of one powerful law firm, it is said that it has a permanent seat finds any of the others in the in the office of the Solicitor picture. One brings in a Negro General, meaning that for the elevator operator to have a look, last 20 years one or another of and this man is as horrified by the firm's lawyers has been on a personal discovery as the the Solicitor General's staff, the others have been. Shortly thereaverage term being two ·years after, he becomes ill and dies.

Burned at Stake and the usual aftermath a partThe art dealer will say almost nership in the law firm upon his nothing of the origin and history return to it.

Is the Washington Lawyer a of the painting. Either he is as villain? No, says the author. But ignorant of these as he pretends he evidences very little if any so- or he is concealing something Sinister. The little. that can be cial conscience. In the case, for example, of drugs which the FDA pried out of him indicates that

Parish Unity

DOUBLE EXPOSURE: "Why try?" Why try for the "impossible dream" when it means frustration and a diminishing of hope? Why not merely turn away and say it cannot be <;lone? But on the other hand, why not have a positive approach and look upward toward what some may call "impossible" and attain it. NC Photo.

Reaching the Unreachable Star Continued from Page Sixteen a reality will be a motivating force for living and hoping. .To dream on and on, dream after dream without seeing the challenge the dream presents leads to an imaginery existence in a world of the unreal. To dream and to work toward creating a reality of a dream leads us 111""'111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIUIllUlmlllntmlllltllllllllllllllllllllllll,mll

the artist, a German who lived and died in the secenteenth century, is represented by no other extant works, and that the picture has repeatedly been a cause of trouble and has for a long time been kept concealed. The artist, it appears, may have been burned at the stake as a sorcerer.

Fascinated, and with his curiosity aroused, Donner accepts a commission from the clergyman to go to Germany, to the town of the artist's birth, and try to find out more about him and this painting.

Same Old Story The town is Friedheim, in Bavaria, where every 10 years a Passion Play is staged in fulfillment of a vow made at the time of the Black Death. On" his way from Munich to Friedheim, Donner meets an American girl who is a researcher for a magazine called Sphere. She is to write up the Passion Play in Friedheim, both of them become involved with townspeople who perform leading roles in the play.

In the town church, Donner finds another painting by the same artist, this one of a quite. different type. But of the artist himself he learns very little.

Something like love mayor may not be drawing Donner and the girl together. She leaves. He leaves.

A mystery has been proposed to us, and we read on and on in expectation of a solution. One, never comes. Quite as elusive are the characters and their relationships. We have been had.

to many new and varied experiences with persons, places, and situations.

Whether the star, or the final end, is unreachable is not as important as the quest we have to reach it. Without a dream and a quest there is little chance for hope.

Why strive for an unreachable star? To give the world a sign of a living, striving hope.

Mary and Martha thought it was an unreachable star to ask that their brother, Lazarus, be restored to life. However, instead of being content with grieving in their sorrow, they looked around for the sign of hope in their lives. Jesus was their sign.

They were confident that he would do what he could to help them. Jesus did.

If we are striving to be Jesus People, we too need to be helping those we meet in life "to follow that star."

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Renewal Leaders Defend Nuns .

THE ANCHOR-'Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., ,Aug. 3, 1972 ,

Four-F.ifths of Am.erican Population Oppose Busing

QUITO (NC)-The faculty and students of the Latin American Pastoral Institute (IPLA) here defended three Laurita Duns who were expelled as "subversives" from, Bolivia in May, and said the Sisters were searching for new goals.

The nuns were part of a group living in small communities with the poor.

The institute is the Church renewal training center of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM) and the Latin American Confederation for Religious

In its windy and pretentious "The Quest for Justice" . the "Center for Concern" has the following comment on busing: "The strong emotional overtones in this question d.emand cle~r voices speaking out for justice. In the midst of the present controversy Professor Armor's research is on busing, church voices bound to be controversial. In- must be heard in reaffirming, deed, he was condemned as a respect for the dignity of racist even before his article (in persons 'and the need to root out prejudice. n

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One is hard put to know whether the "concerned" Jesuits are for or against busing since the statement on the subject is at least as equivocal as the plank adopted at the Democratic convention. 'One would have hoped that the Jesuit social scientists involved would have addressed themselves both to' an attempt to understand why there is so much opposition to busing (including, according to recent data, the opposition of almost half the black population), and to an attempt to outline effective ways to provide high quality education for all Americans.

A federal judge in Detroit recently decided there was no , practical reason for not busing kindergarten children an hour and a half every day. Anyone . who reads the newspapers about recent Supreme Court decisions knows exactly how much chance such a decision has of holding up in the long run. But in the short run it will very likely hand the state of Michigan to Mr. . Nixon on a' platter, which one assumes is not the explicit intention of the busing advocates, Negative Effect If the achievement of some sort of mathematical balance among ethnic groups in urban school systems would be a way of eliminating racial injustice, it seems to' me very likely that ~omething In0re than 17 per cent of the American population would be willing to support it, but at this point, the overwhelming majority of Americans are not persuaded of the effectiveness of busing, and.the advoc'ates of "balanced school enrollment" have the burden of proving to their fellow citizens that busing does work. For if it does not, to attempt to impose it in the name of the search for racial justice is itself an injustice.

A recent study by Professor , David F. Armor of Haryard University calls into serious question the effectiveness of busing.

There is no persuasive evidence that it leads to higher achievement or more positive selfconcept for minority students.

Furthermore, 'it would appear that far from 'having a positive effect on racial attitudes, busing tends to have a negatiye effect both on black and white students.

the Summer 1972 issue of Public Interest) appeared. Like all research, his findings must be subjected to the most searchipg professional criticism. Hopefully, that professional criticism will be free of name-calling.

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The IPLA grou~55 priests and Religious from several Latin American countries - recalled that the three nuns and 35 other "-' members of the Laurita order were working in Bolivia under a plan approved by the Vatican Congregation for Religious in

'Nutty, Pointless Idea' But none of the criticism of Professor Armor's work is likely to tum up overwhelming evidence that busing hasha~ a notable educational impact. Fur,ther research will be required, but at the present point in time, there is nothing in the research evidence that is likely to change the' minds of the four-fifths of the American population that is opposed to busing.

It might have been much better if the courts and ,the civil rights agendes had not gone so recklessly ahead in the pursuit of racial balance in the schools.

Surely they could have waited ,till more evidence was in. But at the present time, the instinct of middle America that busing is a nutty and pointless idea seems to be much sounder than the enthusiasm of the intellectual and 'moral elites of the country who equate an unproven social 'experiment with "the affirming respect for the dignity of person and the need to root out prejudice."

There is certainly prejudice in the opposition to busing but there also may be a good deal of common sense in it, and until the moral and intellectual elites of the country are willing to concede 'the possibility that those who disagree with them might n.ot simply be bigoted racists, the quest for justice is likely to be much slower than it has to be.

Sponsors Citizens' Inquiry to Ulster CHICAGO (NC)-The National Catholic Conference for .Interracial Justice (NCCIJ) will send a citizens.' task force of inquiry to Northern, Ireland this Fall.

According to Walter Hubbard, conference board chairman, the purpose of the trip is two-fold.

The Ulster trip is designed' "first to familiarize the delegates with facts regarding tensions there" and second, to' allow the returning delegates the opportunity ,to "raise the level of consciousness of Americans regarding civil liberties in Northern Ireland," Hubbard said.

Sister Margaret Traxler, conference executive director, pointed out that the Ulster inquiry, the suggestlOn of NCCIJ's black chairman, demonstrates black activists' willingness to work for the guarantee of civil liberties for all races in all parts of the world. During the past 'four years, NCCIJ has worked in behalf of So.viet Jewry and blacks in Rhodesia to restore civil liberties.

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CONCERN FOR POW'S: Concern for Pri~oner:; of War, Inc., presented Congress with about two million pieces of mail asking the lawmakers to take action on behalf of Prisoners of War held by the North Vietnamese. Here Rep. Victor Veysey (R.-Calif.) accepts the mail and John Kjome, right, Whose brother is a POW. NC Photo.

F'rom the Mail Bag Continued from Page Sixteen is there we think of our sins and conJess to God, a"s well as to our brothers and sisters. Would not that be a more appropriate place than in its present spot?

In some ways, yes, But other strong reasons militate against this. Worshipping together has the power to change our hearts in l:he process. We should, of' course, live as perfeCt Christians and come to the, Eucharist with loving, forgiving hearts, at peace with all our enemies. But human nature doesn't follow such clean rules. We arrive at church on Sun-:lay mornings sleepy, preoccupied, maybe, at times, even hostile to one or two or the whole world.

The liturgy, however, frequently can get to us. God's .word in the scriptures the preacher's homily, the music, the eucharistic prayer-all are designed to lift us from sleepiness, preoccupation and hostility. But I don't think we can expect the man or woman who has just found a place in the- pew to turn immediately and extend with ":leaning the sign of peace.

We have used effectively at entrance time a brief introduction rite similar to the reconciliation gesture. It goes 'something. like this: "We gather for Mass ,to worship as a Christian family.

We can do this better if we know at least those persons immed:iately around us. If you care to, why not introduce yourselves now to those before, behind, and at e:ither side of you." That actually' ser.ves as a good preparation for the peace sign' later on in the celebration.

Reconciliation .. The second inquiry asks why ,we :,hould shake- hands with a

spouse, a parent, a child, or a neighbor already well-known to us. The reply is relatively simple, yet profound. Our smile, bow, handshake or embrac:e' is not a greeting or introduction like the one described above, but a gesture of reconciliation.

It in effect says: "I have just asked in the Lord's Prayer to be forgiven as I forgive others. And in a moment I will step fOI'1lVard to accept the same Lord each one here will receive. 'BeforE! doing so, I wish to empty out of my heart all bittern芦:lss, every hateful, hostile feeling I bear to any fellow human being. You represent mankind and especially those with whom I differ, Peace be with you means pe~ce be with them as well." .

To end in a positive way, I would like to quote ~everal encouraging sentences .out of a note from a woman in Michigan: "It's like having a ray of sunshine in our church. We feel that the whole attitude of the people has changed. We no longer just look straight ahead during Mass and on the way in and out we visit with each other. All of this I (eel is a direct result of our priest encouraging us to give each other the sign of peace."

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In a letter to CLAR president, Father Manuel Edwards, the路 in-stitute's faculty and students' said "the one-year experimental plan of the Laurita Sisters was a genuine search to adapt their ways to the true service of the poor and the oppressed in the 'spirit of their foundress."

The order, predominantly staffed by Colombians, was established in Medellin by Sister Laura Montoya in 1914 alld approved by the Vatican as pontifical institute in 1954. It!! 1,230 nuns specialize in catecpetical and social work among t/le In'dians and the poor in several developing nations.

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He~p from God Continued from Page Sixteen Peter argued with Christ that he should change his ,plans to avoid possible arrest and execution, Jesus stood his grouJ;ld and heatedly accused Peter of being a devil. When the Father brought Jesus to the final hour of Getltsemane he found a son still raising questions about the wisdom of such a course of behav路ior.

The result is impressive.

Christ's final obedience is not a slavish submission, but a carefully thought through personal deCision. The majesty of his passion was that of a King in command. He is the first-born of individuality at the altar.

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Father C. Albert Koob said Louis R. Gary and K.C. Cole, authors of a Saturday Reviewal'ticle on Ca,tholic schools, "generated new myths and blemished their own educational research with rhetoric."

Gary and Cole said more money will not help Catholic schools "until Church leaders stop concentrating their efforts on keeping schools open that will clos'e in a few years anyway." They urged immediate, massive consolidation of Catholic schools to preserve the system.

"Those who know recent Catholic educational history ... are aware of numerous consolidations throughout the country in recent years," Father Koob said.

"No one denies that at one time there was general overlap, particularly in Catholic elementary education; but realisticaJly speaking, we have reached the saturation point in that area simply because 'geographical obstacles make additional mergers prohibitive."

Cole and Gary'denied that faIling enrollments at Catholic schools were attributable to the inability of Cathoiic parents to pay tuition, noting that enrollments had been "dropping for a decade" before the large tuition increases of the last two years.

Father Koob said the authors "overlooked the fact that it was parents who provided school funding through contributions to

the parish for years, until sharply rising educational costs simply made new sources of revenuetuition-mandatory."

"The economic fact of life in· 1972," the NCEA president continued, "is that Catholics are no longer financially capable of totally supporting the substantial school system that has' contributed so significantly in the national interest."

The Norbertine priest said federal income tax credits-allowing parents to subtract nonpublic school tuition costs from their tax bill-would bring "relief in thjs area" as well as provide "a substantial boost in the morale and confidence of Catholic parents and educators." , Minimized Impact Father Koob said Gary and Cole "did something of a disservice to the nation" by minimizing "the impact on public education should' Catholic schools phase out completely."

The authors said projected enrollment declines in public elementary schools "would make this a viable public policy option."

"In New York state alone," they said, "it would cost the taxpayers $415 million more in public aid through 1980 to keep Catholic schools operating at their current level than it would to absorb Catholic transfers into public schools."

Father Koob denied that public schools could easily handle 'a mass transfer of nonpublic school students, noting that President Richard Nixon's panel on nonpublic education "predicted sheer chaos in the public school systems of the seven most populous states should Catholic schools there disapp'ear."

'Suspended Animation' Status Of N'ew York Nonpublic School Aid ALBANY (NC)-Recent court New York City ruled part of actions have left aid to New the 1972 aid law unconsitutional York nonpublic schools in a on July 21. The judges said nonstate of suspended animation. public schools could not receive For three consecutive years, state "health and welfare grants" the state Legislature here has for renovating old or unsafe fapassed laws which would have cilities. They promised to rule meant millions of dollars in non- soon on three other aid programs public school aid. Federal courts included in the law. voided the first two, however, Funds authorized by the law, and a New York citizens' group at least $37 million, have been immediately brought suit against . frozen pending a final' court dethe third law. cision.

A three-judge federal panel in Distribution of about $14 million of aid authoriz~d by another Priest Sentenced New York law has also been held up pending final court acFor 'Subversion' MADRID (NC) -Father Fran- tion.

The money had been set aside cisco Garcia Salve, a workerto pay nonpublic schools for priest, has been handed' a twoyear jail sentence on charges of recordkeeping, testing and other painting anti-government slogans services required by the state.

A federal court declared the on the wall of a subway station law authorizing the payments unhere and resisting arrest.

Father Garcia's arrest was constitutional in April, but nonpart of a roundup of leading fig- public school officials said their ures in the workers-commitees institutions deserved to be paid movement, through which Span- for the services they had perish workers are attempting to formed while the law was still develop bargaining power and on the books.

A lower court said the funds obtain more humane working nation where could not be paid, however,and conditions in helping striking workers is a U.S. Supreme Court' Justice Harry Blackmun recently upheld political crime.

The Spanish priest was ar- that ruling until the high court rested while attending a gov- hears an appeal of the decision ernment prohibited meetivg with which voided the law in the first lay leaders of the workers- place.

Spokesmen for the New York. committees at a school operated by the seminary of the Oblate State Catholic Committee here Fathers. said the appeal is being prepared.

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Anti.Apa rtheid Group Disbands

"Mr. Gerberg, my husband won't be able to come to the office today. He dropped his Perfect Attendance Award on his foot"

Assert More Money Won't Solve Problems of Catholic Schools NEW YORK (NC) - More money, from government aid or whntever source will not help Catholic schools "until Church leaders stop concentrating their efforts on keeping schools open that will close in a few years anyway," according to two education researchers.

"Instead of continuing to preserve buildings, Church leaders should begin to preserve the option of Catholic education itself," said Louis R. Gary and K.C. Cole in a recent article for Saturday Review.

Gary, former chairman of the late Cardinal Francis Spellman's committee on educational research, contributed data on nonpublic schools to New York State's Fleischmann Commission, a school finance study group established 'by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.

Cole, association education editor of Saturday Review, edited the Commission's final report, which said public funds and tax re¥enues should not be used to support students at nonpublic schoois.

In their article for the New York weekly, Gary and Cole said Church leaders must close inefficient schools and consolidate the system.

"The fact is, enrollment will drop 42 per cent in this decade, whether or not new income is found," they predicted. "The dif-

Catholic Daughters Re-elect Officers ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-Mary C. Kanane, of Union, N. J., was re-elected national regent of the Catholic Daughters of America here at the organization's 34th biennial national convention. , Miss Kanane, judge of the surrogate court of Union County, N. J., became national regent in January 1970. She replaced Mrs. Anna M. Baxter who died in office.

All other national officers were re-elected. They are: Mrs. Winifred L. Trabeaux, Plaquemine, La., first vice-regent;Miss Eleanor S. Quinn, DeKalb, Ill., third vice-regent; Miss Mary E. Murray, Mt. Savage, Md., second 'vice-regent and Miss' Margaret McKearney, Rego Park, N. Y., secretary-treasurer.

-terence between the current policy of over-tension and a policy of planned consolidation will determine whether the Catholic school system will decline to half its present size or will collapse completely."

The "real reason" Catholic school enrollments are dropping, the authors said, "is that Catholic parents-for many reasonssimply are not choosing to send their children to Catholic schools."

Only 33 per cent of the nation's Catholic school age pop-, ulation is currently enrolled in Catholic schools, they claimed, and the schools "are just beginning to reflect the recent drop in Catholic birth rates."

Lay Teachers "Increasingly," Gary and Cole continued, "Catholic families moving to the suburbs are choosing public schools, which often have attractive facilities ... that' Catholic schools can't afford," even though academically "Catholic schools are as good as public schools-if not better."

Catholic - schools are also "caught in ideological confliets in the Church itself," they said, and have to bear the' brunt of complaints from both liberal and conservative parents who object to certain kinds of religious instruction.

Another problem is that many Catholic schools are "losing their distinctiveness" through a growing substitution of lay teachers for nuns and Brothers in Catholic classrooms, Cole and Gary said.

Along with falling 'enrollments, they said, the decline in teaching Religious "is the most serious economic problem for Catholic schools," s,ince lay teachers must be paid much higher salaries.

CAPETOWN (NC)-The University Christian Movement, an interracial student organization considered subversive by the government here, has disbanded.

In recent months, the UCM has been plagued with both in· ternal and external problems.

Between last September and March this year three senior UCM officers were banned. Under South African law a "banned person's freedom of movement and association is severely restricted. He "may no longer be quoted nor may his writing be published in South Africa."

However, UCM's general seretary, Christ Mokoditoa, denied that government pressure was involved in the disbanding.

Several organizations which previously supported UCM withdrew their support because they contended that UCM had become less interracial and almost solidly black in its membership. Last April the Student Catholic Society of Pretoria barred UCM members from its premises and activities.

The Methodist Church of South Africa, once a supporter of UCM, severed all ties in 1971, mainly in opposition to the UCM loss of interracial balance.

Says Today's Youth More Idealistic HONG KONG (NC)-Today's young people are more idealistic and have a keener sense of justice than preceding generations, Bishop Francis Hsu Chen-ping said in a pastoral letter issued to mark Youth Sunday.

He pledged Church support for development efforts to attain a "higher quality of life" for this "city of youth," more than half of whose four million people are under 25.

He als() urged the government to name a commissioner for youth to help satisfy the needs of young people "longing for political participation and equal opportunity. " This British colony's first Youth Sunday was initiated by the Hong Kong Catholic Youth Council, which has 20,000 members and whose summer program this year involves close to 100,000 young people of all faiths.

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Movement to Aid Mentally R~etarded Growing Into U1niversal Project

By JO·ANN PRICE TROSLY-BREUIL (NC) • A cluster of family-ty.pe "foyers," or residences, for mentally retarded youths, begun here in 1964 by the son of the late GovernorGeneral Georges P. Vanier of Canada, is fast becoming an international movement with the umbrella name of I' Arche (the ark) Association.

Dr. Jean Vanier, 43, the founder, estimates that between October 1971 and next October the organi2;ation will' increase its care from 170 to 250 mentally 'handicapped in foyer-workshop facilities in France, India and Canada.

While this may not seem much, the indications are that the association is growing quickly. It js proving a particular challenge to collegians of the "Backpack GeneratioI)," many of whom serve as volunteers or token-pay '- assistants for a year or more at one or another foyer. '. Devotion to the Rejected ~'In France, there are; perhaps, some 500 places available in residential sheltered workshops and there are only about 40 more available in special homes," said Dr. Vanier, a Catholic who reo' signed a Royal Canadian Navy commission for religiOUS reasons in 1950 to embark on a contempla,tive search which took him to a Dominican monastery, then through doctoral studies at the Catholic University in Paris. \The 6 foot 4 inch bachelor had been horrified at the' searing sight on several occasions, of the mentally retarded in psychiatric hospitals-shorn of dignity, segregated, locked away ~nd deprived of rights.

Calling So in 1964, he bought a small home, l'Arche, in this sleepy community, moved in with two mentally handicapped youths, and decided to devote his life to them and others similarly rejected by society.

"I knew that was what

A FOYER OF L'ARCHE WHI~H ALSO HOUSES WORKSHOP FACILITIES. N:C Photo. should do," he told NC News Service. "It was a call."

Mentally handicapped persons "are just one form of the rejected in our society because they constitute a danger," he continued. .

"We don't know how to act toward them. We are awkward in front of them. They make us ashamed. We automatically have to hide them in institutions.

"And at the source of it all you find exactly the same kind of segregation that results in the segregation of bla'cks ...

"Then, too, people are afraid of getting attached to the handicapped. It would mean their life style would change. You can't get close to someone, and see their suffering and needs-because then you'll change."

The "needs are fantastic" to. open family type residences (the foyers of l'Arche have perhaps six or eight youths each, with two assistants in charge) and workshops for the less severely mentally handicapped.

"If we created five homes a year it would be far from sufficient," .he observed.

Rapid Progress Nevertheless, I'Arche's progress has been swift. And the gentle and always smiling approach of Dr. Vanier, and his aides, already has won recognition.

Insists United Ireland Cannot Be Realized by Use of Guns SYDNEY (NC)-"They're not going to get a united Ireland by the gun," said Anne Hope, whose forehead bears a scar from a rubber bullet fired at her by a British soldier during Bloody Sunday in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, when British troops killed 13 unarmed Catholic civilians.

Miss Hope, '27, is treasurer of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights association.

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She was in Sydney at the invitation of the Irish Civilian Relief Association to speak on' the problems in Northern Ireland.

The bombings, burnings, injuries and death have only deepened the long-standing hatreds'in Northern Ireland, she said.

The Civil Rights movement· is against all violence" Miss Hope said. It will take a long time to

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restore tolerable living conditions in the stricken areas, she added.

'She said that of the group of friends she belonged to during her schooldays seven had been shot dead so far in the current troubles.

Miss Hope said she feels that passive resistance and mass demonstrations will benefit the cause of the Northern Irish Catholic minority more than violence.

"They know how to handle war," she said of the British army, "but they don't know how to handle peace; "Passive resistance is the best way.

"Everybody, sooner or later , must get around a table and talk.

"If they had, done that four years ago there would not be the situation there is to,day."

But, the divisions still run deep, Miss Hope said.

"It will be a long time before past and present bitterness will be forgotten, but a start must soon be made towards a workable solution."

munities, aided by some 80 youthful assistants.

The aides are teachers, nu:rses, farm kids, youths taking a year off from college, who have been eager to live in community with I'Arche's boys. A small number of handicapped girls are cared for.

All Denominations The assistants are Catholics, Protestants and youths of no faith. Often they arrri:ve with a work, sleeping bag, offering in the garden with the handicapped, or in one of the workshops or as painters or :plasterers to help with the upkeep of the place. : In the eight years since Dr. Vanier arrived, l'Arche's population has become about onequarter of the population of Trosly-Breuil. Relations with villagers are delicate, sbmetimes, but frequently it is the young men of the foyers who make the first move in inviting: villagers to their homes for Christmas,. or a birthday or feast day. Dr. Vanier believes that less severely retarded youths can and should be integrated in the community at large. ' In other parts of France, whose government pays $10 day per I

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handicapped person to l'Arche once a house has been approved, four foyers and centers for commuting handicapped 'have been opened.

There are two houses, each called Asha Niketan (Home, of Hope) in Bangalore and Kotagiri, India, and two foyers at Richmond Hill, Ont., Canada. One of the newest projects is a home to be opened near Canterbury, England. ' American Helper "It's hard to put your finger on "the secret of I'Arche's success in reaching, healing and supporting mentally retarded yeuths along the road to autonomy, said one assistant, Elizabeth Buckley, of Boston.

"There's suffering here," said Miss Buckley, who taught parochial school in Brooklyn three years and heard about l' Arche in 1967 through a Canadian friend.

"When you begin to live with deeply wounded people, you realize your own helplessness.

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