o
The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Sou!,
v@~o
6 N@o 33 0
SU'f0
and rirm-ST. PAUL
<C'l 1962 The Anchor
PRICE lOc $4,00 De. Year
F~ther
Joseph Leaves For Chapla"i-n Duty It's "Goodby, Father" and "Hello, Captain" for Rev. Louis J. Joseph, assistant for the last two ·years at Sacred Heart Church,oOak Bluffs. Father left Tuesday of this week for Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho,' to serve as a qhaplain in the United ' States Air Force. With the was called to active duty on permission of the Most Rev- Aug. 2. He will report to Headerend Bishop, Father Joseph quarters,' 9th Combat Support enlisted in the Air Force and
I
FATHER JOSEPH
Group at the Mountain' Home Base, with the rank' of Captain. Father Joseph is no stranger 00' service life. A native of Provincetown, he 'interrupted his high school course to' serve in the European theater from'1943 to 1946. bn graduating from' Pt'ovincetown High School; .he re-enlisted - in the Army and served in the European Occupation Army and in Korea,receiv"" ing an honorable discharge in 1951. ' ,Father prepared for the priest'hood in St. Mary's College, Kentucky, and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He was' ordained by Bishop COIll'ioilyin St. .Mary's' ~~lt::~ral, FalI' R~ve~, o,n Aprli~ ,
Upon his ordination; Father Joseph w~s assigned to the Island parish where lie served until hCOsaid his farewell to the . people at Masses on Sunday. Father joins several other Fan River diocesan priests who are serving as chaplains to provide for the spiritual. needs of those in the service througholit the "'orId.
'Church Is 'Not Church' Without Lay ~posto'a~e
SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-"The lay apostolate is not an accessory, not a luxury, not something capricious .•• for the Church is not the Church of Christ without the lay apostolate/' This message, expressed with a dynamism belying his 80 years, was brought here by Msgr. Joseph Card- to 100 countries and encomijn, a champion of the lay passes •three million young Msgr. Cardijn directed a p 0 s t 0 1ate. The Belgian adults, the bulk of his attention to the ' priest, founder of the international Young Christian Workers, spoke at Presentation High School and urged American Catholics to wake up to their responsibilities as lay apostles of the Church, in a world community which more and more looks to the U.S. for moral as' well as sCientific and technological leadership. During speaking engagements both to the general public and local Young Christian Workers, Msgr. Cardijn consistently underscored the essential importance of ,the lay apostolate to what he termed "the salvation of the Church and of humanity." He termed the lay apostolate the "mission of the layman to spread the reign of Christ on earth." He urged laymen to study their environment, so they can solve the problems of daily living that "laym'en alone can solve in a Christian way." As spii'itui\l director Of a 70uth movement which extenda
need for an active apostolate among working youth. Speaking of the United States, he expressed deep concern about the materialistic, secularistic influences which' surround young men and women after they leave Sl;hool a'nd enter working life. He spotlighted the breakd~wn in family life, the high rate of divorce, early dating, and sexual immorality as indicative of a degenerating American society. In America, he' said; young people do not think of the future, because there seems to be no real meaning to their life, yet they '''must be the molders of society tomorrow." "It is not enough to teach them, to baptize them, to prepare them for Holy Communion," he declared. "They must have a Christian. education for life." He cited the "absolute necessity" of having mature, trained' Christian leaders in every' sector of society, who' wUl' make, it Turn to Page Eighteen
PAPAL AUDIENCES GIVE INSIGHTS TO COUNCIL: During audiences such as thIs, His Holiness Pope John XXIII has himself given the best and clearest insights into what the cOJ]ling Second Vatican Council will be like. Above, he is shown welcoming a group of dignitaries' from a: new African nation. On one such occasion, the Pontiff said: "The work of the new ecumenical council is really directed en.tirely toward giving back to the fac'e of the Church of Jesus the splendor and the pure and simple lines of its birth, and, to present ft as 'the Divine Founder made it, without. stain or defect." NC Photo.
Pope's Own Quotes TellCounc·il Aims
VA.'rICAN OITY (NC)-The best forecast, of the Second Vati~an Ecumenical Council can be fottnd in the words of ~ope John. This is true ,because it was he who first conceived . the idea for the council, he alone who had the power to convoke "it, and he alone who by his approval can give it ecumenical character. Alinostfour years have passed since Pope John first announced his intention to convoke an ecumenical council. Not a wee){ has gone 'by since that time III which, he has not 'written or spoken on the subject. An accurate picture of what the coimcii will be..,- not in its details but in its pervading spirit, motivation and hopes ~ ca'n therefore. be drawn from the monumental record of the Supreme Pontiff's spoken and written 'word~ Pope Jo'hn conceived the idea of a council, he said, shortly after he was raised to the Turn to Page Twelve
FIRST: Dr. Joseph English, an alumnus of St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, has been appointed first fulltime ;peace Corps psychiatrist, and will assist in training physich~ns,for unit. NO Photo.
Church in Spain To Oppos~ Morally .Harmful, Actions VALENCIA (NC) - The Church in Spain will oppose at all times any state activity deemed morally harn1:ful to Catholics, the Al,"chbishop of ValEmcia has asserted. But the clergy had no desire "to command in Spain" and neither does the Church seek "poli' tical opportunity" for the It wa's made clear, however, application of its social doc- in June by five Bishops of diotrines, Archbishop, Marcelino ceses affected by the strike that
Olaechea 'Loizaga of Valencia said iIi a pastoral letter. The letter, which drew a disstinction between the activities of the Church on the one hand and the State on the other, came in the wake of continued Catholic efforts to promote social justice principles based on papal encyclicals. And it followed by only a few weeks the' strike in northern Spain in which 100,000 workers were involved. The Holy' See, in a letter sent at the end of July to the National Congress of Young Christian Workers (YCW) here, had called for increased promotion . 'of the Church's social teachings. On July 14 the Bishops of Spain urged in a' letter issued on the first anniversary of the publication of' the encyclical Mater et Magistra that labor, management and the goVernment draw on Christian principles in working for a more dignified life for all people. ' The encyclical itself, considered a blueprint for social progress, was widely publicized during the workers' strike that began last April. The YCW and the Workers' Confraternity of Catholic Action had pUblished a joint declaration of solidarity with the strikers, and the Spanish. Bishops had supported
the'strike's objectives. '
they had never ordered th'eir . t s t 0 preach sermons m . be prIes half of the strikers. Turn to Page Eighteen
MOlrolaty Forbids Use of Abortion For Any Cause VATICAN CITY (NC)Vatican Radio has com· mented that even the threat ofa deform~d 'child cannot authorize abortion. The Vatican commentator spoke against a oackground of widespread press and. radio commept on the case of a U. S. woman, Mrs. Sherri Finkbine of Phoenix, 'Ariz., who is seeking an abortion for fear her baby will be deformed because she took thalidomide a drug feared to be responsible for the defor. mation of, babies. The commentator did not mention Mrs. Fink. bine. The Vatican Radio commenta.tor said: "It is understandable that Q mother who is the prey of anxiety because of the unhappio ness she foresees for her own child cim wish for its death, and thus'subjectively transform into a test'imony 'of,l~ve J,ter desire te Tuin to Page ~ighteeJl
o