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The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, August 12, 1971

v.ol. 15, No. 32

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Name Provincial For Holy Union Sister Grace Donovan, SUSC, Fall River native and daughter of the late Atty. and Mrs. Cornelius Donovan, has been chosen Provincial of the Holy Union Sisters of the Immaculate Heart PrOVince. Sister is presently a delegate of the general chapter of the Holy Union being, held at Our Lady's Bower in Athlone, Ireland.' ,' Sister Grace succeeds 'Sister Margaret Higgins, SUSC, who has served in the same capacity as Provincial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Province since 1965.

The new provincial received her ,elementary education' at St. Patrick's School, FaIl River, and is a 1938 graduate of the Academy of the Sacred Hearts. She took. het 'B.A. at Manhattan, College, New York and her master's and doctorate at Boston CoIlege.

In 1961, she was awarded a Coe Foundation Fellowship in

American Studies and was given a grant to study English political thought at Oxford University in 1964. In 1965 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in a Summer seminar at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques at the University of Paris, the, Sorbonne. ' Boston CoIlege also awarded her a grant to study AngloAmerican Diplomacy at London University.

Sister Grace brings to her new office and responsibilities a wide experience on all levels of Christian thought and education. She has served as teacher at the Academy of the Sacred Hearts, FaIl River and at St. Francis De Sales School in New York on the elementary level; and at St. Mary's High School, Taunton, as teacher and administrator; in recent years the new provincial has been on the faculty of both Boston CoIlege and LoweIl State Turn to Page Six .

"A Shower of Stars"

The Twenty-fifth New England Congress of Religious Education will be an important event for many people of the Fall River Diocese. A delegation numbering in the hundreds from every area of the Diocese will be headed by The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, STD, Bishop of the Fall River' Diocese.

Beginning on Friday, August 20th, thousands from every corner of New England and visitors from all parts of the country will gather at Boston College to hear innumerable speakers and take part in workshops and educative sessions-all for religious education.

Bishop Cronin, together with Bishop Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese and Bishop Connolly, formerly Bishop of Fall

River will be among the concelebrants of the opening day Mass.

From Bishops representing the eleven New England Dioceses to catechists and interested laity, priests and religious, CCD coordinators and students, all for the purpose of enrichment in the knowledge of Christ and His Church, will come together to learn more that they may more effectively transmit the Message of Christ to others.

This annual event, legendary in its overwhelming impressiveness will begin with a Keynote Address by the Most Reverend Humberto S. Medeiros, D.D., Archbishop of Boston and former chancellor and pastor in the Fall River Diocese. Archbishop Medeiros will set. the tone for the entire weekend's theme of

"Joy and Hope! The Church Today."

Throughout the three day conference, workshops and sessions covering every aspect of religious education will take place throughout the Boston College Campus. Speakers chosen, in-, c1ude several members of the hierarchy, CCD Directors, theologians, authors and educators from around the world.

Rev. James A. Clark

ltev. Joseph L Powers

Rev. Ronald A. Tosti

Among those conducting sessions from the Fall, River Dipcese include Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, M.A., Diocesan Director of Religious Education CCD, Rev. Joseph L. Powers, pastor of St. Mark's Parish in Attleboro Falls and former Diocesan Director of Religious Education CCD, and Turn to Page Nineteen'

Feature on Exceptional· Child The 25th annual Congress of Religious Education to be held at Boston College on August 20, 21,22 1971, will feature a unique 'Mini-Congress on the Religious Nurture of the Exceptional Child, according to Rt. Rev. Msgr. Russell R. Novello.

The Chairman of the MiniCongress is Miss Marie C. McInerney, Chairman of Religious Nurture for the Massachusetts Association for Retarded Children, special education teacher at the Sarah J. Baker School, Roxbury, and a doctoral student

in special education at Boston College.

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Testimonial to Bishop Bishop McVinney's Final Rites Saturday To Benefit Nazareth All plans are finalized-more than 1300 reservations madethe Sheraton-Hyannis Recquet Club becomes the hub of the Cape Cod social season when on Wednesday evening, Aug. 18

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River will be honored by parishioners and Summer visitors of Cape Cod.

Carmen Elio, coordinator of the evening known as "A Shower of Stars", told The Anchor reporter this morning that "I am absolutely overwhelmed at the response for this affair. Having known Bishop Cronin for many years as a Church-oriented prel, ate I am aware of 'how the new Most Rev. Daniel A.Cronin, Ordinary of the FaIl' River DioS.T.D., will be celebrant of the cese would express his thoughts 11 o'clock Mass on Sunday on this occasion. 'Carmen' he morning in OUr Lady of the' would say, 'whenever you arIsle Church, Nantucket. range an affair and have the Following the Mass, Bishop exceptional children as the beneCronin will meet with parishficiaries-you can only expect ioners and summer visitors In the greatest of reSPQnses.' " the lower Church.

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Bishop to Visit Nantucket Sunday

At one o'clock on Saturday afternoon in the Blessed Sacrament Church, Providence a concelebrated Pontifical Mass of Christian Burial will be offered for the repose of the soul of the Most Rev. Russell.J. McVinney, who died unexpectedly Tuesday morning at his Summer residence, Watch Hill, R. I. Rev. Msgr. Daniel P. Reilly, diocesan chancellor, in announcing the death of Bishop McVinney stated that, "he . was not known to be ill in any way."

Succeeding the late Most Rev. Francis J. Keough in May 1948 on the occasion of Bishop Keough's transfer to the Archdiocesan See of Baltimore, the 72-year-old Providence Ordinary succumbed after 23 years of devoted service as' fifth Ordinary of the Diocese of, Providence" . As the Cathedral of SS; Peter ancl' Paul in Providence is in the

midst of being renovated, the Church of the Blessed Sacrament was selected because it was the

parish church of the McVinney family.

Bishop McVinney was born on Nov. 25, 1898, the third of fiv¢ children of Thomas and Catherine (Blessington) McVinney, who then resided at 44 Wood Street, Warren.

As a youth, Bishop McVinney attended Academy Avenue Grammar School and after graduation from there in 1912, he entered La Salle Academy, Providence, from which he graduated in 1916. From 1916 to 1918, he studied at St. Charles College in Catonsville, Md., and in 1918, he entered the Seminaire de Philosophie in Montreal, Canada, where he studied philosophy.

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He was transferred to St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y., in 1920, and finished his theological studies at the Amerkan College Seminary in LouTurn to Page Two

THE ANCHOR~Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Aug. 12, 1971

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.Bishop Cronin's Co'ndolence ~ The many ties of spiritual union and brotherly af.· 'fection that join the people of God in the Fall River Diocese with .the clergy, religious and faithful of the Dio'ce~e,' of Providence make us share with particular' sorrOw and sCl;dness~he loss caused by the sudden death of Bishop ,Russell J. McVinney. Ever 'since this Diocese of Fall River was create4 from the territory under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Providence, the two Sees have been connected by a bond of love and'mutual concern. We mourn, therefore, together with our brothers in Providence, the ...passingo( their shepherd.. . . .

The sad occasion of the death' of Bishop McVinney .is cause for reflection on the truth of our faith that Christ entru,sted the guidance and leadership of· His Church to Peter and the Apostles and their s~ccessors, the bishops.

Such responsibility is awesome and .fraught with weighty consequences for the Church, particularly in these' exciting, yet difficult times, when the Holy Spirit is guiding the people of God il} the spiritual renewal resulting from the delib~rations and decrees of the Second Vatican Council. No one more than 'Bishop McVinney 'realized the tremendous responsibility. that was his as Bishop and no one faced- up to that responsibility with greater courage and manly strength.

Yet, his character, strong as it was, also had gentle-' ness, compassion and understanding. He was, in addition, huinble.

The m~in thrust onhe good BiShop's daily activity was to serve his people and to provide for them. The Diocese of Providence owes him much. We of this diocese join in expressing together with all the Bishop's many friends - sincere sorrow.

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F'inal Rit·es Saturday Afternoon Continued from, Page One vain; Belgium, from'1921 to 1924.

'Bishop McVinney was ordained a priest in Belgium on July 13, 1924, by Archbishop John Greg-ory Murray of St. Paul, Minn.

The then newly; ordained young priest offered "his First Solemn High Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Church, Providence, on Aug. 3, 1924.

At· college, Bishop McVinney was a classmate of Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., formerly Bishop of Fall River, and of the late Most Rev. Archbishop ,William O. Brady of St. Paul, . Minn., a Fall River native: Following 'his ordination bn.

July 13, ~924,' he served as an asistant in St. 'Patri'ck's Church 'Harrisville: St. Edward's . Paw~ .t1,lcketand .the Cathedral' of SS_ . Peter ,and Paul. During his assignment at the Cathedral; Bish~ op McVinney served as associate editor .of The Visitor, the Catholic weekly for the Diocese' of Providence. ' " .

In September '1941,- the late ,Ordinary of Providence was appointed the first rector of Our . Lady of Providence' Seminary and held that Rosition until 1948 when he was named Bishop of Providence by. the late Pope Pius XII. Consecrated on July 14, 1948 in the Cathedral by Most Rev.' Amleto G. Cicognani, then Apostolic Delegate to the United States, the Bishop had as· one of his co-consecrators Bishop Connolly, at that time Coadjutor Bishop ~f Fall River.

The late Richard Cardinal Cushing preached at the consecration Mass. .

In June of 1960, the late Bishop McVinney received the Cross of L'Order de Leopold from the King of Belgium.

During his episcopate, the late church leader received degrees from Providence College, Rhode Island. State College, St. Michael's College, Winooski Park, Vt.; Stonehill College, Manhattan College, Holy Cross College, University of Louvain, Boston College, Salve Regina and Suf. folk .University.

In 'November 1968, on the occasion. of the late Bishop's twen~ tieth anniversary of his consecration:. to the' episcopacy, The . Provfdence' Visitor editorialized in the following words: As the typically American week of Th'an~sgiving draws to an end, our own thoughts are drawn to the immense' strides made by the Diocese of Providence under the wise leadership of B'ishop McVinney. Our primary petition at this time of blessed jubilee is that God will spare him to us for many more years to come. Our own voices rise spontaneously in an appropriate song of gladness learned from· that incomparable source of wisdom, the Bible: "Ecce sacerdos magnus . . ."-Here is a great priest whose life was acceptable to God. Where shall we find another to keep the law of the Most High as he kept it?"

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, .CUSTOMERS I\NOW BEST: College and community planners ofMe~ro-Lab, testing ways to present God's creation to very irPportant young customers, agree with the cliche. 'custome~sknbwbest'. Here, with children visiting the downtown oampus of Mt. St. Mary's, Los Angeles, are: Sister Joan Hedehan, left, of the college theology department; and Sist~r Dqrothy Denise, inner city coordinator.

Using ten parishI school~centers in downtown Los Angeles, Metro-Lab offers a 1971 summer of- study and direct action to adults ,*ho want quality' education for inner city children. NC P1oto : i I

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Late Pro~id~nce Bishop .Clos·ely· Associate~ with Fall River

The associationslof the late Bishop McVinney with the Diocese of Fall 'Rive~ have been many and of long 'I duration.

The last formal visitation to Fall River by the late shepherd of Providence was I on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 16, 1970 when with more than 20 other members of the hietachyi Bishop McVinney was pr~sent I in St. Mary's Cathedral fdr ,the! installatio~ of Most Ret. Dapiel A. Cromn, S.T.D. as tHe fifth Ordinary of the Fall River Diocese.

He also was presedt at the in. stallation banquet tj1e even. ing of the same day.

I Other visits inclu ed hi's pres· enc'e at the funeral I of. the late Bishop Cassidy on Nfay 2~, 1951 in the Sacred Heart ~hurch, Fall River. History is r~peating itself-another edific~ had; to be selected outside hi!; own Ca· thedral because, in! 195'1, St. Mary's was nearing Ithe end of a renovation. In Prqvidenpe, 20 years lat~r, the Ordinary's last commital rites will Ibe h~ld in the Blessed SacramJnt Church .

• I" PrOVidence since trye Bishop's Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul i is being renovated. I The late Provide?ce Bishop was also present at Ithe ¢onsecration of Bishop Gerrard on March 19, 1959 in 1st. Mary's Cathedral and served! as co· consecrator with the !Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan Auxiliary Bishop of Boston.' .

I 1 his ipresOther visits include(\ , I ' ence at· the consecration of Archbishop Humbertb S.: Me· deiros on June 9, 1966 when the former Fall River chartcellor was consecrated to head the Dibcese of Brownsville and oh od 20, 1967 on the occasion.df the dedi-

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. Mere physical cour~ge - the absence of fear - ' simply isl not worth calling bravery.11t is' the bravery of the tiger'l not, the moral bravery of the man. .

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cation of Bishop ComioUy High Sch0.ol for Boys in Fall River.

On May 24, 1945, the late Providence Ordinary as Rev. Russell J. McVinnev served as chaplain with the' then Rev. James J. Gerrard to Bishop Connolly at his consecration in the Cathedral of St. Paul, St: Paul, Minn. .

. Continued' from Page One Mr. Elio continued, "the Diocesan . Nazareth Apostolate for Exceptional Children, regardless of race, color or creed, is close to the heart of Bishop Cronin."

The coordinator concluded that this evening with a duplex . purpose has surpassed all expectations. In the last meeting with Lawrence G. Lasky, Ralph Tedeschi, and Albert DeLuca, general co-chairmen, Mr. Elio stated. this his astonishment with the cooperation given in plan~ ning the evening was shared in .equal manner by the chairmen.

The evening will. consist of a roast beef dinner, entertainment

by Tony Bennett and Count Basie and that indescribable pleasure of conversation with friends.

Necrology AUG. 13 Rev. Edward J. 'Sheridan, 1896, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton.

Rt. Rev. Leonard' J. Daley, 1964, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier Hyannis.

AUG. 14 Rev. Raphael Marciniak, OFM Conv., 1947, Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River. .

AUG. 15 Rev. Charles W. Cullen, 1926, Founder, Holy Family, East Taunton.

AUG. 17 Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, 1882, Pastor, Holy Trinity, West· Harwich.

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Vatican Aim Coordination VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican's press officer has insisted that Pope Paul VI in creating a new super-agency for Catholic relief and development agencies, is trying to coordinate and not control them.

Federico Alessandrini discussed with journalists the Pope's July 15 letter creating the Pontifical council "Cor Unum" (One Heart) to promote human and Christian development.

In this letter to Cardinal Jean Villot, papal secretary of state, the Pop,e said Cor Unum should bring together delegates of both the Vatican and Catholic welfare agencies whose common concern was aid and development. This, the Pope said, would link more closely "all the energies which flourish in the Church" for the development of mankind."

News of the creation of Cor Unum caused suspicion of Vatican intentions' among some Vatican workers and private agencies, especially in northern Europe. However, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, is most favorable to the new' council.

Coordiilation Alessandrini insisted the Vatican was aiming solely at coordination and not, as one journal.ist put ,it, "super-control" of finances and goals of the private agencies.

Many of these agencies deal in . millions of dollars of aid annually.

"Each member agency will maintain its own autonomy, finances and administration," the Vatican press officer said.

Alessandrini said he does not think Cor Unum will swallow up existing agencies of coordination, because all current agencies will remain in existence.

Cor Unum will merely attempt to be a clearing house for its members.

The council was called Cor Unum, Alessandrini. explained, because as the people of God open their hearts to their neighbors in need, they contribute to the unity of mankind.

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Cond'emns Sins Against Family

GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY FUNORAMA: LITTLE SISTERS DAY in Detroit, a highlight of SHEP (Sacred Heart Enrichment Program), sessions made up of dynamic learning ,experiences for children from varied racial, religious and cultural backgrounds, brought dozens of little sisters of the summer session pupils. Cotton candy dispensed

by Miss Elizabeth Greer ,right, proved one of the more popular attractions at the Grosse Pointe Academy funorama. NC Photo.

Diocesan CYO to Campaign Against YD

ERNAKULAM (NC) - SyroMalabar-rite Cardinal Joseph Parecattil of Ernakulam con-demned abortion and artificial birth control as "sins against the family" following approval of a bill legalizing abortions for nonmedical reasons by the upper house of India's parliament.

At the same time,' a "vasectomy camp" to last several weeks was opened at Cochin's city hall by the Kerala state government. ' Each man being sterilized at the camp is to receive cash and goods amounting to $20. Nearly 10,000 persons were sterilized in the first week of operations.

In a pastoral letter, Cardinal Parecattil said a tendency is growing today to destroy human life at its source and to justify that action. Many do not realize how grave a crime it is to destroy a child in the womb, the cardinal said.

"Whether in the cradle or nursery class or, school or office room or theater of war, human' life is precious," he said. "Its .value is priceless in the eyes of God and in the eyes of man. , The move of some路 to cut away this life in the womb of the mother cannot be condemned too strongly."

Cardinal Parecattil also condemned all attempts to impede through artificial means, the human reproductive faculty, whether temporarily or permanently.

JACKSON (NC)-The Missis- questions about venereal disease, sions are underway to explore sippi Catholic Youth Organiza- and encourage untreated cases the possibility of establishing a tion plans to wage a youth-to- to get medical care." pilot Operation Venus on the youth campaign against venereal Father Cosgrove said discus- Gulf Coast. disease with the help of. the State Board of Health.

The campaign's new approach to an old problem is based on the philosophy that "a teenager will listen to another kid before he will an adult," said Father Francis Cosgrove, Natchez-JackSixteen pages, clearly written and son diocesan youth director, and colorfully illustrated, tell why you State Health Officer Hugh B. should make your will and how to go Cottrell. . about it.

Charts on page 3 show what The program, dubbed Operayour heirs can lose if you die without tion Venus, will be carried out by teenage volunteers trained by a will. Page 5 discusses why you need public health officials on causes, a lawyer's help in drawing up your symptoms, testing and treatment will. Page 6 goes into detail about of gonorrhea and syphilis. how to start and what to include. No According to Mississippi Tofa ther, young ,or old, should neglect day, the diocesan newspaper, the his will. Maryknoll's booklet will contrained volunteers will man vince'you!

Operation Venus telephones to answer ~allers' questions about Files Suit to End venereal disease and will furnish Tax Exemptions transportation when needeQ' to' WASHINGTON (NC) - Gov. get a teenager to a physician or George C. 'Wallace of Alabama clinic for ~xamination.

"This youth-to-youth service has asked the Supreme Court to end tax exemptions for organiza- in which confidentiality prevails tions he says are only superfi- has two main aims," Dr: Cottrell Mail the coupon cially charitable, religious, edu- said. "First it' will furnish relifor your copy today! cational or scientific in their able information to any teenager pla~ued with problems, fears or operation." , The governor's complaint said ~~--~----,~-------------the state of Alabama recognizes Visitor Maryknoll Fathers the benefits afforded society by 50 Dunster Road Christ comes to each soul, all organizations such as the Red trusting as a friend, and in each Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02167 Cross or the Salvation Army, but He is betrayed over and over Dear Fr. Leo Shea: that "certain other organizations again.

R. H. Benson and foundations merely provide路 Please send me your booklet on making a a haven for the wealthy few." will. I understand there is no obligation.

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Assistance ,to Nonpublic '.Education

THE ·ANCHORThur~. August 12, 1971

Prelate Urges Welfare Reform,

To Aid Poor

BAr.-TIMORE (NC)-President Nixon's welfare reform bill was criticized by a bishop here who said the, measure should' be amended, boosting the minimum level of assistance .to poor families.

Q. Dr. D'Alessio, the controAuxiliary' Bishop F. Joseph versy over state aid to non pubGossman of Baltimore also urged lic schools, especially churchthat the administration's prosponsorEld .s~hools, has been goposal should be changed to prevent mothers with' dependent ing o,n for years and ;seemingly may never end. Do y6u see ,any children from being forced to progress being made? work and to insure that recipi,ents required to work receive A. As a matter of fact, there the federal minimum wage. has been a great deal' of prog" Bishop Gossman expressed. his ress. Twenty-five years ago, only position on the welfare reform four states had rather minor probill in. a'letter to Maryland Sens. grams of assistance to nonpublic Charles Ma'thias Jr. and J. Glenn school pupils. Now more than 30 provide various kirids of aid. .Beal Jr., both Republicans.

At the federal level,the major Bishop Gossman, archdiocesan urban vicar, listed three "points breakthrough came in 1965, with, of gravest concern" in the bill enactmerit 9f the Elementary and which has passed the House and Secondary Education Act'. ESEA is now before the Senate Finance clearly recognized, at least in principle, the right of students' Committee.

The $2,400 minimum ,level of in nonpublic schools to particiassistance for a family of four is pate, equitably in federal assistance programs. t~o low, the auxiliary said.

"I favor incentives to, work Q. Doesn't the Supreme and oppose co~rcion' for a , Court's, ruling last June against mother with dependent chil- 'programs of 'aid to nonpublic dren," said the bishop, referring elementary and secondary eduto a provision requiring mothers cation in Pennsylvania and 'with pre-school children to ac- Rhode Island represent a major cept work. setback?

Moral Responsibility

U. S. Catholic Conference is that, if there is going to be revenue sharing, the legislation must guarantee equitable participation by non public school students.

Frankly, there have been diffi,cuIties under federal aid programs in various states where, for one reason or another, 'nonpublic students have not been allowed to share in federal education benefits: So we would want to take a close look at any revenue sharing plan to be sure it contains adequate protection of the rights of non public school students.

At the same time, I have to say that the present Administration has manifested' an understanding and concern for the problems of non-public schools.

The interim report of the nonpublic education 'panel of the President's Commission on School Finance, which was released in May, suggests that ways of aiding these schools in their current financial difficulties will be sought and found.

(Dr. Edward R. 0' Alessio joined the division of elementary and second~ry education, U. S. Catholic Conference, in 1967 and bE.'Came its director last October.

Before coming to USCC he taught at :Seton Hall University and served as assistant dean of the school of education there. He has written ~nd spoken widely on governmental assistance to nonpublic education.)

It certainly is a setback, "There is no excuse for the and avery serious one. -Howfederal government to subvert ever, it is important to note its own federal minimum wage what the court really' did and law, or to be party to perpetuat- what it didn't do. The court did ing poverty wages," he added, not rule out all forms of public alluding to a provision requiring assistance to non public educarecipients to work for 25 per tion. FormS of aid which were cent below the $1.60 base hourly previously held· to be Constitutional were reaffirmed by the wage· law. court. Its decision did not bar B1sho'p Gossman .urged the direct assistance to students and Maryland lawmakers to support parents, nor did it rule out such amendments submitted by Sen. things as the use of public Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) that school teachers to teach private ,the auxiliary said would clear school students and tax credits. up many of the bill's alleged in'The Supreme Court's decision equities. certainly isn't the end of the Noting that Baltimore priests line. It simply requires that the are receiving "increasing re- court's concern about excessive quests for emergency funds, pri- "entanglement" between the m;irily from welfare recipients," government and '. religion be the bishop said: given serious consideration in • "It .is impossible for our' framing future programs of aschurches or any private agencies. sistance to nonpubic education. to meet most of these urgent Q. What kind of assistance do needs. If grants were adequate you see as permissible under the this would not be a problem."

The' bishop said society has a Supreme Court's ruling? moral responsibility to provide A. I think the decision clearly sufficient welfare to the needy. supports such things as tax-paid bus rides and' textbooks, which were previously held to be conProtest Jailing stitutional by tlie court. It also leaves open forms of aid pro-. ) Of Priest, Nuns VICTORIA (NC)-Archbishop vided directly to parents and stuJoao da Mota Albuquerque of dents.

Victoria here in Brazil, has proIt does not touch tax credits tested the arrest of a priest, two or deductions to parents whose nuns and several youth leaders, children attend private schools. all charged by police as subver- Clarification of just what is and sives and' jailed without triaL what is not permitted is going'to His protest was also signed by have to come from the actions A4xiliary Bishop Luis Gonzaga of many legislatures and many of Victoria and members of the courts in the years ahead. priests' council.

• Q. ' What do you consider to The protest said, the Church be the' immediate impact of the "has the right and obligation to court's 'decision for Catholic bring the Gospel to youth and to schools? serve the poor."

'A. It puts squarely up to the , It declared that priests, Relicountry gious and lay leaders cannot be Catholics ,of'· this charged with subversion for ful- , whether they value the advanfilling this right and obligation. tages provided, by Catholic A.

Q. Would you say you are optimistic or pessimistic about' the future of non public schools?

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schools, sufficiently td make the ,necessary effort Iand $acrifice to keep them operating.: Undoubtedly some Catholic 89hools will I ' 'I have to shut down forf inancla reasons as a resJIt of this ruling.

But I do not f3reseei wholesale closings of Catholic schools unless that is whr t the Catholic public wants. In other Iwords, the future of Cath~lic schools lies with Catholics t1 emse \ves.

education or for public welfare benefits like bus rides and health services. Government has a right and a duty to interest itself in the educational opportunities 'of all citizens, regardless of the school they attend.

Q. Considering that public schools also have serious financial problems, wouldn't increased aid to nonpublic education make life harder for public education?

Q.. If that is tihe ca,se, why is there so much empha~is on getting government\ aid? I A. First of all, given the current financial situatiort in nonpublic education, evenI relatively small' amounts of money can sometimes makeI a difrerencethe difference bJtweeri deciding to keep a school t>pen or to close it.

Then, too, if itls a questiori of major new programs ,of aid to education-such ~s we Iwill probably see sooner or later on the federal, level-thbse J.dll naturally be paid for lout Of, the tax'payer's pocket. If nonpublic sch'ools and their Istude:nts aren't iilcluded . in . t~ise . ~ew programs, thls'wllI Justmcrease the already existing tax squeeze on parents who pay Ito support the public schools and als'o pay to send their childre~1 to honpublic schools. !

Furthermore, th',ere is'1 a matter of principle at dtake :here. To the degree that nohpublic schools perform a PUblici, service, they deserve public support I,and pub'lic financial 'ail"" Remember, these a~ schools, not phurches.

The children, wh attend them are American cli.i1lrren. :The parents who PilY to suPP?rt them are ,American citizens. I . Of course it wduld beunconstitutional to see~ government ,funds for religious education.

But the aid is SOl1~ht fo~ secular

A. Public schools would suffer much more if the non public schools closed in areas where a large percentage of the total school population is enrolled in these schools.

In Philadelphia, for example, 34 per cent of all students were in Catholic schools in the 197071 school year; in Chicago-Gary; 32 per cent; in Pittsburgh, 29 per cent; in St. Louis, 29 per cent; in NewYork.Newarj{-Jersey City, 28 per cent. Public schools in thos,e places would find it next to impossible to accommodate those students without tremendous overcrowding, half-day sessions, and increased pressure on teachers.

Furthermore, Pm sure taxpayers would be shocked at the increased cost to them. President Nixon has estimated that if all non public schools in the country were to go out of business, the added' cost to the taxpayer would be over $4 billion per year in operations by the end of the 1970s, plus $5 billion for facilities. I think it's apparent that nonpublic schools are actually helping the public schoo'ls and the taxpayer by staying alive.

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By every indicator churchrelated schools, are stronger academic,ally, today than they have ever 'been in history. There are signs that a growing number of Americans 'are realizing that nonpublic schools are an integral part of the total American educational effort. All this holds much hope for the future.

As far as Catholic schools are . concerned, government can-and hopefully will-make an impor~ tant contribution to solving their financial problems. But basically I think the solution is up to the Catholics themselves.

At a time in history when Catholics in this country were far less well-off than now, Jhey created the largest non public school system in the world. If they continue to value and to want these' schools, they will make the financial sacrifices necessary to keep them operating and keep them growing in educational quality and capacity for service.

Forum to Preview Synod Topic ST. LOUIS (NC) - A public forum on world justice 'and peace will convene here in September, a few weeks before it becomes one 'of the topics before the World Synod of Bishops in Rome.

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Restraint Urged in Discussion Of President's Visit to Peking WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon's surprise announcement that ,he will visit communist China 'sometime within the next 10 months continues to be the big news here. Some claim it is the biggest 'news since the end of World War II. The President has urged Congressional leaders and cabinet members to restraint in the public comm'ents on the development. . At : the same t.ime, persons identifed only as being "close to the President" have been quoted as saying they believe he has more surprises up his sleeve, and that he could very well 'go to Moscow; if not later this year' then some' time in' 1972.

Possible effects of the President's announcement and of his trip to Peking, if it comes off, are being suggested daily.

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chance that he will be received in Moscow.

Win or Lose Everything seems to indicate that the best stance to take is one of wait and see. There is many a slip twixt the cup and lip, as the adage has it, and that is no truer anywhere than in negotiations between nations.

It is just possible that President Nixon's trip may not come off - both Washington and Peking will be under enormous pressures in the next 10 months.

Or, the meeting with Chou En-Iai may take place and produce no salutary results. In either event, President Nix.on stands to be a big loser.

On the other hand, the meeting may turn out to be a great success, exceeding even hopeful expectations. In that event, the President will be a very big winner.

On the domestic scene, some have gone so far as to say the coup insures Mr. Nixon's reelec- Cincinnati Priest tion next year. Others are quick To Head Institute to counter this, asserting that NEW YORK (NC)-Father M. domestic issues-unemployment, Edmund Hussey, a priest of the inflation and the national econCincinnati archdiocese, has been omy - are the things that will named director of the new John control in 1972.

XXIII Institute for Eastern Also, there is a considerable Christian Studies in New York. body of citizens concerned over He will assume his post Sept. the possible admission of Red 1 as head of the graduate studies China to the United Nations and institute, the goal of which is to the downgrading of the Taiwan enrich the Western Church with government, things they see im.a deeper' appreciation of the plied by the projected meeting of Eastern路 Church's theology and Mr. Nixon and Chinese Premier tradition. ' Chou En-Iai. Father Hussey, a native of Latin America specialists were Sidney, Ohio, was tapped for the wondering out loud what will be directorship while taking docthe effect in that area of the toral studies in theology at Ford<world, on the one hand in the ham University in New York. relations between the United The new institute, whose course States and Latin America, and, of studies leads to a master of on the other, between Latin arts degree, is a member of the America and Red China, which New York Theological Institute. has been sedulously trying. to Other aciivities of the ecuestablish footholds there. center include publica. menical Others want to know what will be the effect on our rela- tion of a, quarterly journal, tions with the 'Soviet Union. Diakonia; an annuIII lecture seSome have said Red China's in- ries by Orthodox and Catholic vitation to President Nixon to theologians, and the promotion '. visit was influenced not a 1i.tt1e of other forms of Catholic-'

by Peking's growing concern Orthodox dialogue. that the Soviet Union is conducting a military buildup on its northern border. Still others claim President Nixon's reception in Peking will lessen the

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Ecumenism Has Long Way to Go

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A Matter of Both

NEW YORK (NC)-Ecumen-

The two great commandments are Love of God apd ism has come a long way in the Love of Neighbor.

United Methodist Church, but a letter to the editor in a denomiIt is a matter of observing both. , national magazine suggests that ,,There are those who put the, emphasis on Love of , it still has a long way to go. , God, and then forget their neighbor. They may go to Back in April, the women's division of the Methodist , Church, talk of how they say their prayers, and yet they Church's board of missions apmay be quite critical of the family next door, harsh in pointed a Roman Catholic nun, the treatment of a brother or sister or friend, cruel .,in Sister Helen Vollkomener, as ex- , their neglect of a neighbor in need. ' ecutive secretary of development education and training.

These'may contribute quite self-righteously to a drive' The appointment was duly reto help ,the children of Pakistan but they will not tolerate corded in the news columns of the crying of the baby upstairs. They call for the evangel-' Together, the general circulation ization of far-off lands but do not give the example pf periodical of the Church.

Christian charity to those who shop with them in, the Now in the July issue of Together includes in its letters-tolocal super-market. " , the-editor section a dissenting They say that they love God. But they do not see, that view. love of God also means love of those whom Godh~s "Ecumenism is a great idea," made for Himself, those created by the Almighty and a woman from Iowa wrote "but does 'being Christian friends bearing His image in their lives, those who must always mean we, have to be bedfellows?" be tre;lted' with reverence and respect because they are Mrs. Ralph De Spain of New children' of God and brothers and sisters to every other London, Iowa, observed tartly: person.

"With more than 10 million United Methodists, surely there's Love 'of God is not only, a vertical direction-the I one who qualifies for this apperson looking up to His Creator.' It also embraces the pointment. . . . Are we so naive ,horizontal-the person reaching out in charity to every as to think her (Sister Vollko- \ other person precisely because God is the Father ,of all. mener) previous education and ; training will not be, biased and I There are other persons, of course, who place the Rome-slanted?" " . emphasis on Love of Neighbor and then pr:oceed to forBoard officials here were inget God. Ii' ' ', clined to view the comment New Maryknoll Book Factor in House They reason that 'if they throw themselves withouf philosophically. Said a· spokesreserve into active concern for their neighbors", then this man for the agency: "I suppose Connnittee Hearings it's progress of a soit that we're is enough. They may look upon prayer, upon Church; WASHINGTON (NC)~A' new nate American medical assistupon meditation on things spiritual as a flight from in- book published by the Maryknoll ance' programs and integrate able to acknowledge in print that this kind of prejudice volvement, as a running away from, the present. For, Fathers - "The Untapped Re- them then into over·all American exists." source: Medicine! ,and Diplo- diplomatic efforts. them it must be activity with people all the time. wacY"-~as figured prqminently The book was edited by a' These, ,too, miss the point of the, two commandments;' , in House Foreign Aid Committee tropical disease, specialist, and NewProvin,c'ial Their emphasis on people alone can soon lead to a wearh hearings here.' I, '; includes chapters written ,by Continued from Page One • ' I ,ness of life and effort without the sustaining power and, , ,A subcommittee t00k three diplomats, educators, statesmen College as professor of history, strength that only union with God can provide. Their days of testimony IAugu~t2-4 on and international development Regarding ecumenism in tomotives can soon be just the motives of the humanitarians a proposal to establisIla new experts. government agenty to' coordiCongressman Hugh Carey (0- day's shrinking world, Sister -goo,d as far as they go but a long cry from the mo, ~ I I, NY) wrote that America's real Grace says, "We need informed tivation of the Christian committed to serving God be~ , role is to be not "policemen of , actions for the rights and dignity the world, but medical corpsmen of every human person and cause He 'is God and serving neighbor for the sake of Approve Oll'idunation every human' family. We will, to the world." . d1 , God. Of , M' arrle Me,n " Other articles also hint at the then have the fullness' of unity The two great commandments, then, must be seen' PORT OF SPAIN (NC)-Priest political implicationns in tying for all the people of God." representatives frqm th'e Carib- , medical aid to diplomacy, Angie as inextricably bound one to the other.

As an active student of ecu'bean area and bishops of the Brooke, first woman to be elect- menism, the Religious particiLove of God must be shown in Love of Neighbor. And '. West Indies have Iapprov.ed the ' ed president of the United Napated as consultant on the EcuLove of Neighbor must be based on Love of God. oJ:dination of marrred !l!-Ien. _tions General Assembly, titled menical Commission for the DiIn meetings here, botJ;1 priests . her contribution "Medicine: Mid- ocesan Synod of' Fall River; as It is a matter of both.

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-Action That Builds Just a few years ago, a news story with a, Berkeley, California, identification line would usually tell ,a story of protest and confrontation from the University of California. ' Today, stories with this line are being carried in newspapers and are telling of another type,of protest and confrontation, one wit~ a positive, thrust.

Some University of California students became aware, of some inequities in the bail-bond 'system. Suspects with money could post a bail and be free while awaiting trial.

Those too poor to post bail would go to jail.

The students organized to provide background to the judge on suspects who .l)1ay be poor but whose life was, such that release on personal recognizance was a minimal risk. The suspect's previous, character, his,family'and community ties~these are placed before the judge for his considenition. And in many cases this information has bee'n enough to make release on ,personal recognizance a workable alternative to baH '~r :ja~l.

Instead of merely protest against the establishment, these students have come up with a program that means time and effort on their part bu(one which helps make the establishment,"work better and with greater justice. .,.

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wife of World Peace."

"When suffering is relieved;" she pointed out, "a bridge is established between man and man, the eye turns inward and the healer as well as the healed become aware of the ties of hu-

,seminar leader for a pilot program on ecumenism spon' sored by the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washing" I ton, D. C.; as an active member The 19 priest-delegates who of the Jewish-Christian confermet for two days Ibefo~e offerences at Harvard University and ing their recommendaitons to the annual Antihes Bishops' man relationsnip. The religious at Pachard Manse; and she has Conference, meetid g' said they' spirit has found natural expres- supported the National Black sion in the service of the sick Sisters' Conference and the favored "opening two ,avenues and the art of healing has been Interracial Council. to, the priesthood, one 'with a used as 'a way to the, heart of Besides completing her threey and to 1" elib.ac co.mmitment' the other without such a, compeople separated by language" year term as editor of the Sister race and, geography," Formation Bulletin, Sister Grace !'

'The Maryknoll Fathers, demitment. . , is the author of "President The proposal' waF rej~cted 11 ,scribed the book as presenting Pierce's Ministers at the Court to 6 by the bishops bht they "a strong ca~e for making medi- of St. James" and of "Difficulunanimously approhd the ordi- cine a primary tool of American ties of a Diplomat: George Mifnation of married ben. ' diplomacy," flin Dallas in London" both published in the Pennsylvania HisI ! torical Journal. Last year, the \ I ' ' new provincial was guest speaker at the National Convention of the Historical Society. Her speech, "Theodore Roosevelt and His, Foreign Diplomacy" was later published in the Historical OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE IDIOCIESE OF FALL RIVER Journal, Published weekly ~y The Catholic Press of the Diocese l,f Fall River The leadership so evidenced in the commitment of Sister ,' I 41 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 ' Grace Donovan was first realized at Sacred Hearts Academy i PUBLISHER where as a member of St. MarMost R, v. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER garet's Team she was elected by her classmates Captain of the Rev. John P. Driscoll Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. shdlloo, M.A. School! ~ Leary Press-Fall R'lver :

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International; Institutions Offer Hope for Humanity

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How, in a world, dominated by Great Powers and their struggles to 'maintain spheres of interest and to influence groups of friendly, not to say subservient, states, can any program of economic assistance avoid becoming an instrument of interna., tional competition, even a of America's shores, is a tribute factor in reviving and wors- to America's restraint. And the ening the Cold War? Liberal critics of foreign aid in America ask this question and their belief that aid does involve intervention-they quote Vietnam as a tragic example - has led m1llilt@t'KNmm!;img:,~

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them to make common cause in Congress with the much more usual critics at the other end of the political spectrum who simply disapprove 'of economic assistance because it is giving good Ameriean money to (usually worthless) foreigners.

The result, as we have seen, is that American appropriations for economic assistance have declined the last two decadesand this in the immediate aftermath of Populorum Progressio and the Pope's appeals for greater help from rich nations to -the poorer lands.

Root of Anarchy But the liberal critics are surely wrong to blame the assistance programs. What distorts and undermines their value is the highly charged, competitive and hostile international system of state-power in which they have to be operated.

As all the Popes have reminded us in the last half-century, our world order-or rather disorder - is based on the blind claims of states to be absolute masters, to know no law other than their own will, to conquer, control and exploit any other country small enough to offer no effective resistance.

Here lies the root of our infinitely dangerous "international anarchy." What we witnessed in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was the brutal practice of the theory that underlies all nation sovereignty -that it has absolute claims and brooks no limitations other than the countervailing power, of states large enough to offer it.

And since, all too often, the only way to find out if their power .does "countervail" is to try it out, the nations play a kind of Russian' roulette with each other, the sanction and th,e penalty both lying in the fact that the revolver is, ultimately, ,loaded.

America's Record One should say at once that in' this respect, in spite of the critics of Vietnam, America's record is better than that of any other overwhelmingly Great Power in history, Cuba, uncrushed, within a stone's throw

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world would be a safer place if popular demonstrations in Russia over, Czechoslovakia had compelled Mr. Kosygin or his colleagyes to retire from office.

But being the least aggressive and most powerful state in history does not mean that America's ultimate allegiance is not still to its own sovereignty. In world society as a¡ whole, we still live in a feudal age where the "big barons" believe themselves to be beyond the law.

Yet the fact that national interest and national sovereignty dictate most of the policies pursued in our little planet does not mean that there is no way out, that economic assistance must always be an instrument of Great Power politicking or foreign aid be given only to shore up the donor's interests.

TESTIMONIAL TO FORMER CATHEDRAL ASSISTRecognize Facts ANT: More than 800 parishioners and friends of the Rev. On the fringe of their disputes Paul F. McCarrick attended a testimonial on Sunday night and their confrontations, the nahonoring the former Cathedral assistant pastor now serving tions have set up a series of inin the same capacity in Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton. In ternational institutions. These may be easily dismissed as "the the picture are, front: Father McCarrick and Bishop Cronin, tribute vice pays to virtue" but banquet speaker. Standing: the honored guest's parents, they are not completely hypo-' Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McCarrick of Revere. critical. They recognize the rational facts of our world, in which communication is instantaneous, most capitals are not more than six hours from each other and nuclear warheads only 'Pope Paul Sees Personal Sin Root minutes away.

Of Social Oppressions The international institutions CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) ate man, it is from the grasp of are not often used, since nations, like individuals, tend to react to Pope Paul VI holds that human evil holding, everyone fast in raw emotion more easily than to liberation, like all great and le- selfishness, pride, carnal aprational self-interest. But they gitimate human aspiration's," petites.

"He wants to liberate man exist, for the first time in man's must constantly be enlightened history, They express the future by Christian teaching lest it lose from individual sin that multiof humanity,' if humanity is to its Christian meaning. plies its collective effects, that is have a future. And a number of ,Jesus Christ was "the free man the source of the oppressions them could be uniquely useful in par excellence," the Pope said in and enslavements generated by giving some answer to the ques- an address at this Summer home human socities, though they be tion whether economic assisth\~re, adding that it was from sin the most religious in appearance can ever be separated from that Christ wished to free men, ance." the self-interest of donor states. to liberate men.

Pope Paul then cited the words Two Possibilities The Pope was speaking to of the Prophet Isaias which There are two main ways in members of the international Christ quoted: "These people which these international exper- Catholic student union, Pax Ro- honor me with their lips, but iments are operating today. One mana, who had come on a pil- their heart is far from me." is "multilateral." This means grimage from their world conReturning to a theme that he that groups of nations, although gress in Fribourg Switzerland. has touched on often, the Pope they operate as separate gover'nHe asserted that personal sin said that the liberation Christ, ments, consult together in giving is the source of oppressions proposes is not freedom from the aid and in estimating the results. wrought by entire societies, even moral law but rather freedom to The most active group here is those that call themselves God- love God. the Atlantic nations' institution, fearing. the Organization for Economic "Freedom of love forbids all"Libreation!" the Pope said.

Cooperation and Development narrow formalism, shuts out '''The wor'd is found on all lips (OECD). It was set up in Paris every form of racism, opens the as a successor to the body run- today. It runs through the most heart wide to the spirit who ning the Marshal Plan; Japan diverse writings, and the most di- breathes where he will," the has been added to complete the ametrically opposed ideologies Pontiff 'said. membership of developed market use it.

"In order to keep its Christian,' economies'. / The other method is interna- meaning it must, like all great tional. Here the nations hand and legitimate human aspiraover funds and operating respon- tions, be constantly illuminated sibility to separate intemational ' throughout the course of history agencies, On the side ,of invest- by humble harkening to God's ment, the International Bank for word, by attentive study of the Reconstruction and Development magisterium's (Church's teach(thE: IBRD or World Bank) and ing authority) documents. by its agencies together with the honest confrontation between the United Nations Development life one is leading and the living â&#x20AC;˘ Program (UNDP)' are preemfnent. faith."

RecaIling that Jesus Christ But each sector of the world economy - trade, agriculture, promised rest to the weary, the education-has its own agen<;y. Pope continued: "But on every occasion he These are the instruments which could help to internationalize strikes at the deep cause. It is 'from sin that he wants to Iiberaid and trade.

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DUBLIN (NC) - Striding out for Ireland in the 26-mile marathon event at the European Athletic Championships in Helsinki, Finland, this month wiII be a lean, red-haired priest from a Belfast parish.

Father Paddy Coyle, 27, recently won the Irish national marathon championship in 2 hours, 14 minutes and 30 sec9nds-the fastest time ever recorded in Ireland for this event, and among the fastest recorded in the world this year.

Born in Drogheda, an Irish Republic town on the coast some 50 miles north of Dublin, the oldest of 12 children, he was or- 0 dained two years ago. Since then he has been assistant priest at the parish of Turf Lodge, on the fringe of Belfast's Ballymurphy housing estate, scene of much of the recent Northern Ireland rioting. ' Every day he dons a tracksuit and sets' out on a 20-mile training run on country roads outside Belfast. At night he is often on the streets, trying to keep th~ British Army and young rioters apart.

And both training and competitive running have to be fitted in between his normal parochial duties of Mass, Confession, sickcalls, weddings, school-visiting and ,community activities.

He said in a re'cent interview that if he ever feels his athletic activiy is interfering with his pastoral duties, he will hang up his run'ning shoes and retire from athletics.

Foreign Missioners, Hinder Progress GENEVA (NC)-Foreign missionaries can sometimes block the way toward self-reliance by the underdeveloped nations, a team of African technicians told a World Council of Churches unit here.

When this happens it tends to make it difficult for local churches to find their proper place in the development in their nations, it was declared. The technicians said that it is important that church-sponsored activities be dovetailed with national development programs wherever possible.

The technicians also told the Council's Advisory Committee on Technical Services that too many foreign technicians' with little knowledge of Africa suggests projects which appeal to them but do not fit into local needs and conditions.

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Fabri;cs, Patte1rns Available Now f.or- H;o:m1e Srewi,ng , If you're at all talented in the sew, stitch, knit-purl, etc., area then it ~ooks as if your talents will be put to great use this coming Fall and Winter season. Every magazine that has Fall issues on the stands is urgip.g readers to do their own thing. In ' ' fact one popular fashion now, the fabrics are'on the marmagazine for the youthful k~t. so are the patterns but in female has nothing in its my case the motivation is miss-

ing at least until the weather gets a bit cooler, Today the thermome t er h overe d aroun d 92° and it would. take an airconditioned sewing room to entice the home sewer to tackle woolens, or even knits on a day like today, Probably across the nation' women are still sewing late Summer and early Fall fashions because Summer affairs are still around in abundance and yet Summer fashions have all but disappeared from the stores.

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Avenue must have boycotted this issue.

One 'of my resolutions for Fall '71 is to allow myself more tiine to sew. Not only do I enjoy it but I also find that this is often the only way I can get exactly what I want, in the color I want an<:! have it fit. I know if I make it I'm not going to encounter rack upon rack of similar dresses. I know that the seams will be more than 1/32 of an inch wide and that they won't, split at the first wearing.

Luxurious, Elegant The young people of today, who' have beep, brought up on constant change, find that sewing their own is the answer for them. With the time only the young have on their himds they find they can whip up a new " dress in an afternoon, knit a bulky sweater in a week or work up a leather handbag faster than a blink.

Fabrics for Fall will be both luxurious and elegant. Great looking . wools, ,crepes with metallic threading, and ,marquesettes with silk tufting are but a few of the imaginative fabrics that will shine in both evening and daytime wear.

By all intent we, should be . ' sewing up a storm for Fall right

Orders ,Red Diplomats To leave ,Congo KINSHASA (NC)-At least 10 Soviet-bloc diplomats have been given 48 ,hours, to leave the Congo because of alleged involvement in student"demonstrations at the forme' pontifical Catholic university of Lovanium here in June" diplomatic sources said.

The sources said the diplomats included at least six from the Soviet embassy and others from the Yugoslav, Romanian, Polish and Czechoslovak embassies.

The expulsion orders arose ',out of demonstrations at the university during which 'a Congolese flag was burned and which' 'Jed to the closing of the univ~rsity, the drafting of all its students into the army and its renatl'ling , as the University of Kinshasa.

Congolese Pres..Joseph Mobutu said in an interview after the closing of the university that he had' ,moved ,to crush a ,plot against the' government' and a . plan to kilL, him.

Knowing that women love to, sew quickly the pattern ~om­ panies are coming up with more 'and more patterns that are marked "easy". Some of these are made without darts; facing, and collars gtaking life much . easier, for the home sewer who wants a quick fashion for the "day ~fter yesterday".

One such pattern is a lon'g slinkly dress with a neckline-that can be folded down into a turtle 'neck, or worn on the head as hood. It's McCalls pattern No, 2301, which they claim is the' fastest. dress on earth. Tm going to give it a try'if they have any patterns left in the, st9res. ' Another name ,that the gal' who enjoys sewing should look for is a new pattern line called Spadea Pattern Company which I don'f know enough about yet to do a column on but from all indications it's a company that's going to do business through the mails, including selling design fabrics (this will be materials that you won't be able to obtain in your local stores). It sounds interesting and as soon as I can obtain some more information I'll pass it on to you.

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SUMMERI COMFORT AMIDST FUN: Karen Leibnitz summer volunteer ~t the Guardian Angels Day Care Cen~ ',ter in ~t. LOUli"S' co;m,forts one of the children during play time. Karen, a Lutheran, is one of many volunteers of a vari~ty, of den Imi~~tions to work in the summer program.

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LUMBERTON (NC)--+Since the He will be assisted in opera'.; days when William S, !Hart and tion of the spread by Mr. and .Tom' Mix rode th1e range on the Mrs. Robert Conti who have . silent screen, it I has Ibeen the been working with him for sevdream of countless kids to live . eral years. on a ranch. . I I· Father Wasson said his homes From now. on r ~uridreds of are b.ased on the theory that y?~ngsters w~ll reahz~ Ithat am- orphaned children need both sebltIon. Delphm~ Garcl~ of Santa curity and love. He accepts only F.e has made It Ipossl,ble. She an entire family of orphans Signed over ~er lxtens/ve ranch whose mother and father-or at 1}ere in norther~1 Newl Mexico, least the mother-·are dead. He stipulating one qualification be said the youngsters will not have Qlet in selecting tl~e young ranch to leave the home unless they han?s-they must! be 0fph~ns., want to an~ he does not,arrange Bishop Jerome IJ· HC\stnch of for adoptions.

Gallup and Fathe~ William Was-, son, who devotes pis time to the A youngster :-V.ho has .gone care of orphans, Were present at throu~h the agonIzmg. expenence the signing.

I of losmg one home Will not h.ave \ he donat' : d to fear separation from his felT Ion }Vas rna e on I h h' British Protestantsthe feast of St. Vincent de Paul, ,ow orp. ans w lie under the patron. of charitIes, ~nd was ca~~ of hiS home, Father Wasson Oppose Abortion Act marked by a Mass of thanksgiv- sal.

LONDON (NC) - A campaign ing' concelebrate1 bYI Bi~hop to "rally the Protestant conscience" against the Abortion Hastrich and Father Wasson in Conference to Feature Act was launched at a meeting St. Francis Cathe1ral, ~anta Fe. Father Wasson now has some Communications Works at the House of Lords. The cam-NEW ORLEANS (NC) - ' A paign is being conducted by-an 1,200. orphans ~der ~is care. organization called Sanctity of He said the new foundatIOn, first workshop on communications of its kind in thi~ country, will media as a tool for improving Unborn· Life (SOUL).

Derek Lindley, a Manchester begin operations Ithis Fall. Al- society will be part of the meetteacher and one of the founders though intended primarily for . ing here of the National Catholic 1 Wasson Conference for Interracial Jus, of SOUL,sliid at the meeting Indian orphans, Father tice Aug. 18' to 22. . said the ranch will be home for that SOUL does not resist aboron~.

"The workshop will deal with tion absolutely. He said- that' any youngster wh6I needs ' the opportun'ities to help imthere might be circumstances in prove our society by knowing which it might ,be justified, such Dropping IMiJs,' IMrs/ how the communications indusas to save a mother's life. But Asked in COrlgress he opposes the act, he said, beWASHINGTON !<NC)! - The try operates," said Jack Sisson, ,cause it has helped to propogate old prefixes "Miss" and "Mrs." executive director of human re. the idea that abortion is a cheap -':'which enable thb onl60ker to lations for the New Orleans way out of social problems and tell at a glance if a woman is archdiocese. the problems of caring for the rna.rried or Single-~Ia re Jnder athandicapped. _tack in Congress. " , 'Dr. Margaret White, viceRep. Bella Abzu (D-I'lY) has ,president of the Church of En- introduced legislatibn pr6hibiting INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. 'gland Mothers' Union and ,a Lon- government agencih frob using don general practitioner, said the "any. title which irtdicates mari96 WILLIAM STREET , I ' 'policy of easy abortion in east- tal status" of fede~al employees.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. ern Europe is reilping a bitter Since. the male prefix,: "Mr.," harvest. Conditions in Britain does not indicate ~arita, status, 998-5153 997-9167 'are likely to'become even worse, only women are affected by the PERSONAL SIERVICE . . 'she said. bill. . i·

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PITTSBURGH (NC)-A priest has sternly criticized two amendments tacked onto ,the Pennsylvania public' welfare appropriation bill when approved by the state Senate in Harrisburg.

One amendment sets a ceiling of. on welfare appropriation for the year which cannot be exceeded.

The appropriation would be divided into quarterly budgets and provides that, if a single quarter exceeds the allocation, there must be a cut-back on individual benefits to maintain the annual budget.

Msgr. John McCarren, director of the Pittsburgh diocese's social and community development department, called the amendment unfair because "there is just no way of controlling the number of applicants." .

Edward H. Kalberer, local director of the state public welfare department, commented: "This doesn't make any sense. We cannot predetermine the number of people see/{ing welfare."

The other amendment 'vould Ii.mit welfare to a maxi~~ of SIX members of a family.

Msgr. McCar'ren called this an "attempt to cut costs." He said the legislators "are missing the whole point of welfare that we must consider: are laws peopleoriented or money-oriented?" He added: "We must take welfare out of the area of charity and into the range of economics ...

Total gut reform is needed."

The monsignor expressed the hope that the two amendments will be "weeded out" when the House considers the legislation.

Sacred Heart Guests Have Special Day Les Dames Patronnesses were hostesses to the residents of the' Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford, at their annual Summer outing. A busload was taken on a sightseeing trip to Newport which included a visit at the Green Animal Estate in Middletown.

All guests were treated to dinner and returned to the home in late afternoon. More than 150 of the residents, who were unable to travel, were entertained at the home and were served a strawberry shortcake dessert.

Mrs. 'Frank Chartier, Pres., was in charge of the program and Mrs. Albert Lamoureux directed the St. Anne's Church choir in a musical program.

Special tribute was' paid to Mrs. Alice Laviolette, a past president, who was "Queen for a Day." She is presently a patient at the home.

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P-ayi,ng Atte,ntion to Ho,mily Stru,ggle for Tir,ed M10ther

Exploins School Prayer V'iews

Getting the children ready for Mass should be a happy, warm experience, a time of joy, of preparation for a banquet with the best of friends., With my gang, it is a frantic, frustrating effort trying to overcome inertia. An hour before Mass I send them to "You had it last night. What their rooms to get dressed. did you do with it?"

Twenty minutes later I find After a frantic search for the one sitting on his bed in a tie, he finally wore one of his

trance,. supposedly putting his shoes on. "Hey! Let's go! We'll be late!"

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Five minutes before we should leave, he's still sitting on his bed, holding the shoe in his hand. He can't be asleep, because his eyes are open. "Get those shoes on!

We're leaving in five minutes!"

"What? Oh, okay. I was just thinking, if I take the back wheel from my bike, and the front wheel from ...

"Never mind the bikes! Get ready for Mass."

Another starts out to the car, all dressed in her good clothes and sneakers.

"You can't go to Mass in those. Go get your shoes on!"

"I can't find them."

"Borrow your sister's."

'I Can't Find .. .'

Two minutes later, she's back with her own shoes. "They were in her closet. How come she's always taking my stuff?"

I start my "if you'd take care of your own things" lecture, but there isn't time.

Little heads still have to be combed and braided, and all combs and brushes have disappared. The baby wants to go along, and is protesting at the top of her lungs that we're going and she's not.

I think everyone is in the car and find the dreamer still' sitting on his bed. One shoe is now on his foot ... but the other one is in his hand. I put the shoe on his foot, tie it, and push him out the door.

Settles iJown Comfortably I tried making them layout all their clothing the night before. The next morning, two minutes to Mass time, one boy came down, "I can't find my tie."

Nuns Elect Youngest Superior General BETHESDA (NC)-Sister Mary Concilia Moran has been elected the fifth superior general of the Sisters of Mercy at the orcier's eighth general chapter meeting here.

The 40-year-old nun, formerly a Pennsylvania hospital administrator and p'rovincial administrator for the Sisters' Scranton province, is the youngest member of the order to be elected a superior general.

Sister Mary Concilia will be administering to 6,000 Religious in the United States and Latin America.

WORCESTER (NC) - Backers of voluntary prayer in public schools should ask the U. S. Supreme Court to consider the matter again, Father Robert Drinan said in a letter to the diocesan newspaper here.

Rep. Drinan, (D-Mass.),· was responding to a July 16 editorial in The Catholic Free Press, Worcester diocesan weekly, which discussed the Jesuit's comments to Washington, D. C., newsmen that formal public school prayer should not be reinstated.

Father Drinan said the news report "did not adequately reo fleet the fact that I was replying to the narrow question of whether or not the Congress should initiate an amendment to the United States Constitution which should alter the Bill of Rights in order to allow prayer in the public schools."

Since the Bill of Rights has never been altered in all of' American history, the Massachusetts Democrat said, "I am very reluctant to begin that process at this time."

Rep. Drinan said he was also opposed to cHanging the First Amendment since its two provisions-simultaneously prohibiting an establishment of religion while guaranteeing free exercise of religion - "have in general served all religious groups in America ,very well."

The priest said those who desire formal prayer in public schools "should request the United States 6upreme Court to argue and decide this matter once again."

father's - under protest from both sides.

After he got home from Mass, and was changing his clothes, he found the missing tie ... under his shirt. He had put it around his neck, then buttoned the shirt over it.

In Summertime, it's worse. I start to round them' up for the evening Mass. One boy went fishing and didn't get back. I tell another boy to go looking for him. Five minutes later I find the second boy full of grease with a wrench in his hand. "I had to fix the bike first."

By the time I get to church, I'm bushed. With' the heat, it's so nice and warm and quiet, and as I sit listening to the priest intone the beginning of his homily, I begin to relax.

"Come to me all you who are burdened, and I will comfort you." .

I know it's going to be a good sermon ... and I settle down a little more comfortably.

'I Must Stay Awake

One of the kids nudges me, and in a whisper that's heard in the next six pews, "Mom, wake up!"

My head jerks. I try to pay attention. But after the crush of getting them all out of' the house, just sitting peacefully and quietly for a few minutes is so soothing. The altar slips further away ... Father's voice trails ...

I force myself awake again. I will not embarrass myself' as I did once before. I was trying so hard to keep my eyes open but fell sound asleep. My missal and purse all slipped off my lap and and hit the floor with a bang.

I must stay awake I must stay ... I must ... I .

I wonder if the Church laws requiring Mass atttendance on Sunday and the insistence on a homily is a subtle, practical part. of Our Lord's plan for tired mothers to get a quick nap?

Says Illiteracy Double Government Statistics SAN LUIS DE POTOSI (NC) -Mexico has twice 'as many illiterates as government figures indicate, an association devoted to eradicating illiteracy claimed here.

The Laubach Literacy Foundation has released statistics indicating that more than 60 per cent of the population is functionally illiterate-people who can neither read nor write well enough to use these skills in everyday life.

Government figures have placed illiteracy at 28 per cent.

The discrepancy, according to Laubach spokesmen is that many of the persons classed as literate by the government have had some instruction but either never mastered the skills or never used them and consequently forgot them.

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,TOO SHORT TO ENTER: A tourist is refused admission into St. Peter's Basilica because her hemline was judged to be too high by nun, right, whom Vatican officials placed on "short skirt" patrol for the first time. The Vatican placed nuns on guard because the male guards were becoming too lenient and were letting women with short skirts into the Basilica. NC Photo.

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THE ANCHOR- , Thurs. Augus~' 12, 1971

,Ohio,' Committee Urges State Aid Fo;r' Education

LISBON (NC) - The English College here, founded in 1622 to train priests for the then dangerous English mission, has "closed. j .But its rector, Msgr. James Sullivan, refused to say that this was permanent.

"Rather say that the students are not returning there in the Autumn," he said. "The college has been without students on several previous occasions.-for example during the Napoleonic War and for a period after the Second World War. The (English) hierarchy will be discussing the future of the college at their annual September meeting."

The college has been training priests for England since the days .of persecution of the Church there, and its fortunes have fluctuated considerably over the years.

In the past few years the number of candidates has steadily declined. This is largely due to the general decline in vocations in Britain and also to the wish of the English bishops to keep their home seminaries full. It has also been hit by the' new' approach to seminary training.

The Lisbon college could not longer provide the training and education necessary for seminarians destined to work in England and Wales. Students here lacked the opportunity to integrate with the life of local British communities and'tl1us to gain both pastoral and normal social experience.

CINCINNATI (NC) - Local public school educators and other community leaders have called, on the Ohio General Assembly for "immediate and decisive action in providing substantial support to education, public and nonpublic."

The, appeal was included in an emergency, resolution adopted by the All-Student Legislative' Committee of Cincinnati and Hamilton County at a special' meeting.'

Describing itself as "representative of all school systems in Hamilton county," the committee said· it was "appalled at the impending ,disaster threatening education" 'and that it "believes parents and all citizens must consider serious' action immediately. " . The committe set against the _ background 'of re<:ent U. S. Supreme' Court decisions declaring certain kinds o~ state aid to nonpublic schools unconstitutional. . Parents'_ Responsibility Signers of the emergency resolution included Dr. Paul A. BISHOP MEETS ,PARISH IMMIGRANTS: On the occasion of the parish feast, Msgr.

- Miller, superintendent of CincinM. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of t~e Angels Parish, Fall River, introduces to Anthony nati public schools; Arnold ColBishop Cronin some the young men from tile IsI~nd of St. ~ichael, Azores who have lins of the Hamilton County board of education; Msgr. Wil- settled in the Fall River Parish. ' liam J. Franer, Cincinnati archI diocesan vicar for education; Father Herman H. Kenning, a'rchdiocesan superintendent ,of schools; Rabbis Zellig Sharfstein and 'Albert iVIayerfeld of Cincinnati Hebrew Day School; and He added that the "pervasive .NEW YORK (NC) - Religious: 36,000 'members in '1966 to Gary Klussman of, Lutheran anxiety characteristic' of today's life in"the future must'. demand 33,000' i? 1970. i Schoois. ' _ "We, must tr~ to I discover' yohth makes lifetime Gommitt'The committee, an unofficial an even greater commitment and than in the what J')on-essential elements' per- ment very difficult." However, a purer motivation voluntary group pledged to mutual support of education for all past if it is to become a sublime liaps obsolete ma~e religious life' Father Arrupe observed, "youth . children declared its concern "for ideal, and, at the same time must less effe~t1ve in Iits s~rvice to is always idealistic, generous, 273 CENTRAL AVE. the availability of' excellence in radically involve itself in ·the 'the world today, and ,we must basically sound and disposed for extraordinary sacrifice for othbe attentive to tJ:1ose 'values of the world, the superealities of education for all children," 992-6216 whether in public or nonpublic rior general of 'the Jesuit order youth 'which ate' a~thentic," ers. I am confid~nt therefore Father Arrupe sai1d.

I there will always be young said here. schools. people who will hear and follow N~W BEDFO~D ·lts resolution called on parFather Pedro Arrupe S.J. also' I I the call of' Christ. ents to communicate their con- said that when the purest exomen Protest Ban I , cern to th,eir state legislators, ,pression of religious life -is dis"reminding them -of their seri- covered and "when we learn to On Altar G~rls Install • PHILADELPHIA (Ncb - The ous responsibility to their chilspeak intelligently to youth" Philadelphia archct'iocese's ban on an dren.'" there will be a rebirth of voca- altar girls at St. ~atthi~s Church All-Student Concern tions-"abundment in number, in nearby Bala Cynwyd; Pa., has "Legislators should be called excellent in quality, and firm in been protested byla women's ecupon to give a .higher priority committment." u,menical group "1'hich I said the . to education legislation than has at the parish had been practice Father Arrupe made his obbeen reflected' to date, staying in g~nuine delight "greeted with session until these responsibili- servations in an interview with by aiL" I the the editors of "America," ties are met," the committee deDAMPNESS , Jesuit National weekly magaclared.

The Philadelphia Ecumenical DAMAGE' The coml11ittee also called up- zine, at the end of his recent Task Force of wjomen' in Relion "all educational and other in- tour of the United States. gion also cited biblical! and traterested groups throughout Ohio' _~'::;::J,,~~ The Jesuit general attributed ditional reasons which they said to adopt the all-student concern the recent decline in reiigious the u" gkl' " of this committee and to work ~~~?t:--....... together in support of education vocations to a crisis in family Use of altar girls at Mass, legislation now pending in our life-"the best source of vocations"-the growing importance the group said in lettet to CarOhio legislature." ~.

Expressing "our serious con- of the laymen's role in the dinal John KroLof Philadelphia, cern as to the inaction of the church, and "the now blurred "constituted a pro~ressiye break~ Ohio legislature in the area of lines that once clearly por-trayed through against a prejudicial and education finan<:!l)g," the com- the priesthood,' and religious centurieS-old, but I basically uriC,hristian tradition that Ifailed to mittee said that lack of meaning- life." recognize the human dignity and ful aid to 'nonpublic schools in Figures from the Vatican yearpersonhood of woben and renthe school year beginning this • Take the moisture out of your home. Avoid dlmage book show that the number of month and the prospect of "subdered them third1class I citizens to the walls, the furniture, the ·furnishings. Live In Jesuit scholars and, priests alone stantial numbers of nonpublic after the clergy and laymen in comfort with an electric dehumidifier. has dropped from approximately their own Church.:" . school children transferring to See Your Favorite Appliance Dealer. public schools" and "crisis upon The group, which iincludes crisis to our school systems."

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The bishops' statement was made in a memorandum on the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill now being debated in , the Lok Sabha, the lower ,house of parliament. Archbishop Angelo Fernandes, of Delhi, secretary general of the Indian Bishops' Conference, presented the memorandum to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The Church acknowedges the right of every adult to follow his own conscience, the memorandum said, and is sympathetic toward pregnant women fearful of bearing a deformed child, fearful that the pregnancy will endanger health or life, or ashamed because the pregnancy is the result of rape, incest or sexual relations outside of marriage.

The memorandum said, however: "There is no evidence to show that easy abortion laws will solve all these problems. In fact, the problems may be accentuated, for we may not close our eyes to the psychic troubles resulting from abortion."

The memorandum recalled that the Indian Bishops' Conference had welcomed "the government's forward-looking plans for an all-out effort to build a just ~nd humane society and pledged ltselfto'serve the cause to the best of its ability."

The bishops emphasized the relevance of special programs of family guidance for' the weakest and most neglected sections of Indian society to create a sense , of responsible parenthood.

Sick Society "It is society that is sick," the memorandum continued, "and in need of attention much more than individual mothers who are victims of the social malaise. It is society that ostracizes a mentally retarded or physically handicapped child when it should be heartily welcomed and made the object of special care.

"It is society that makes the life of an illegitimate baby or its mother miserable, when both mother and child should receive protection and care from an understanding community."

"Our own Indian tradition has been constant in upholding the sacredness of life at all its stages," the memorandum recalled and quoted Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement, who said in 1935: "It is a sin to bring forth unwanted children, but I think it is a greater sin to avoid the consequences of one's own action."

New Assignment WASHINGTON (NC) - Divine Word Father Charles D. Burns, associate director of the Campaign for Human Development, is leaving Washington to take over a predominantly black parish in Cleveland where the black priest will administer St. Aloysius parish and serve as spiritual' director of an experimental three-parish team ministry in Cleveland's Glenville section.

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Cardinal Gilroy Resigns at 75

VISITS KITCHEN: One of the most important areas. in celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River, is the kitchen and its work of feeding thousands of parishioners and visitors. Present when Bishop Cronin congratulated the cooks and food dispensers were Msgr. Gomes and Rev. George E. Harrison, episcopal secretary.

Stresses Parents' Rights in Education Professor Opposes State Monopoly of Tax'es CHICAGO (~C) - The public SChOClI system has created a, kind of new priesthood, the head of a parents' rights group said here.

"In our opinion, state control of schooling can in many ways be just as pernicious to freedom of mind and conscience as state establishment of a preferred church," said Dr. Frank Brown, economics professor at De Paul University. "in this respect, we contend that the public schOOl system has created a new priesthood." , Brown, chairman of the National Association for Personal Rights in Education (NAPRE), said he was referring "to those many public school teachersespecially as organized through the Illinois Education Association and allied groups-who believe that they alone have the orthodox approach to teaching the public in a democratic society, and who resolutely fight against any tax funds being assigned for students not enrolled at their feet."

Brown said his organization believes "this new priesthood should not be allowed to block the movement to provide aid for all the children in this state." He

was speaking at the last of a series of six public hearings held throughout Illinois for the purpose of developing a state "Master Plan in Education."

Personal Rights Dr: Michael J. Bakalis, Illinois superintendent of public instruction, announced in May his desire to· develop t he working paper on educational goals and priorities with input from citizens and school officials from throughout the state.

Brown commended Bakalis "for his spirit of openness in arranging these public hearings" at which more than 65{) individuals presented their views.

Describing NAPRE as "an organization of parents dedicated to the personal rights of parents to control the education of their children in schools of their choice, and in the personal rights of students to intellectual and religious freedom in education," Brown suggested that the state's master plan "reexamine and define the term 'public education,' "

"Some would restrict this term to education within the state public schools, but it should rather extend to the education of all the public, whether enr911ed in public or private schools," Grants to Parents

Charge of Marxism Arouses Clergy

STOCKHOLM (NC) - The Swedish government is going to attack widespread unemployment among university graduates by training some of them to be ministers in the Lutheran State Church.

The government employment service has classified the Lutheran ministry among so-called scarcity professions, because of the many vacant Church positions, the daily Svenska Dagbladet reported, and is cooperating with the Lutheran State Church in providing statefinanced "retraining courses" in theology for unemployed sociologists, linguists, scientists and lawyers interested in the church.

PAMPLONA (NC)-Two bishops, with the support of priests in the Pamplona and Huelva Dismisses Charges dioceses, are urging the Spanish Against Charvez Bishops' Conference to censure FRESNO (NC)-Charges of re- Spain's Minister of Justice Anfusing military induction involv- ,tonio M. Oriol who recently ing Fernando Chavez, son of charged that Marxism is penefarm labor leader Cesar Chavez, trating the Church. were dismissed in Federal Court Bishop Rafael Gonzalez Morahere. lejo, of Huelva, asked Cardinal Judge M. D. Crocker based his' Vicente Enrique y Tarancon of decision on recent Supreme Toledo, who will chair the SpanCourt rul1ngs that religious be- ish Bishops' meeting Conference liefs cannot be the only reason in September, to criticize Oriol's for classifying a person as a charge and seek an explanation conscientious objector. of it.

Recommending personal tuition grants to parents who choose to send their children to nonpublic schools, Brown said NAPRE is not opposed to state schooling but state monopoly of education taxation.

"We hold that if 95 per cent of the children of this state -are to end up in public schools, then this should be by the free choice of their parents." Brown said, "rather than by the state acceding to the demands of state educators and others who can all too easily imagine that it is they and not the public who know what is best for the public."

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has accepted the resignation of 75-year-old Cardinal Norman Gilroy of Sydney, Australia, and has named Bishop James Darcy Freeman, 63, of Armidale as his successor.

Cardinal Gilroy had asked to be relieved of his duties some time ago because of age and health. In accepting the cardinal's resignation, Pope Paul praised him for his leadership of the Sydney archdiocese during the past 31 years.

Bishop Freeman, a former secretary of the cardinal, was born in Sydney Nov. 19, 1907, and was ordained in July, 1930.

Besides serving as 'the cardinal's secretary, Bishop Freeman was an official of the Sydney archdiocesan -matrimonial court and director of the, archdiocese's Catholic Information Bureau. In 1956, he was named an auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Gilroy and in 1968, he was named bishop of Armidale..

In a letter accepting the cardinal's resignation, Pope Paul singled out the cardinal's assiduous care in fostering. religion, his watchful sense of Catholic unity, his humanity which was always forward looking and beneficial, his expert use of men and things and his great charity towards his country.

Aside from the usual formal meetings'in the Vatican, Pope Paul came to know Cardinal Gilroy especially well during the Pope's stay in Sydney last year during which the cardinal was constantly at the 'Pope's side for the numerous, religious and other ceremonies of the visit.

Norwegian Atheist Movement Disbands OSLO (NC)-"Action Against the State Church," a Norwegian atheist movement said to have contributed to doubling the number of people who aeft the Lutheran state church between 1969 and 1970, has dissolved.

The leader of the movement, Levi Fragell, said the movement was disbanding because "the people who have run it now are moving to other places and, are not able to continue their work," the Oslo daily Aftenposten reported.

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You bet your life, I am. And if a bit of emotion doesn't seep through these typewriter keys and carry itself right through your mail slot, it wont b~, my fa.ult.

For the third time in as many months, L?eard an oth.erwise rational male re' , fer. to women as being too of the nuclear fam'iiy. A man cali't say, "I love you;' son." It emotional., The first was isn't quite right. A ,man isn't from an editor whom I re- expected, to cry, 'e~eJ1: at his mother's funeral. It. makes him. less than manly. A, man':' is embarrassed if caught cudpling his lEI::\;':'i":':'::E:':":::::i'lICI::'ic:::rg; baby. That's an emotional woman's job. ' Our divorce rate is soaring, our generation gap gapping, and our kids fleeing to communes-and, our wome'n are too emoDOLORES tional? We haven't been running the world, men. We haven't been , CURRAN making the rules that say men should remain rational, uptight .", and uncommunicative. We would like to see our men a bit more emotional; in fact, it would help It was, But that isn't tpe way us in our job of serving as bridge he put, it, He said, "This is typ- between father and children, ical of a', woman writer - too father and bosses, father and ulemotional." cers.

While continuing to extol the The second was 'a doctor who should know better. "I would not virtue 'of' unemotionalism we're go into partnership with a wom- spending thousands of dollars on an physician," he said. "They sensitivity techniques to teach have a tendency to let their emo- men to be open. Companies send tioris get involved with their their tense executives off' to a retreat to cry, but they must repatients."

And then, today. This was a , main strong, calm and cool the speaker, highly qualified on poli- rest of the time. Absurd.

Valuable Asset tics, maybe, but not on women.

When' asked if he 'foresaw a Teachers are constantly cauwoman catiinet member, in the tioned to \control their emotions near' future,he laughed and re- while siinulta~eously, granted plied, "I hope not. I have nothing monies to open up in Summer against women (they never have sessions. Absurd. , anything against women!) but This whole business of being they're too emotional for the too emotional is absurd. For mykind of decisions that have to self, I would have bought and be made on a national leveL" printed the emotional manuBosh, nonsense and a pox on script the editor didn't like simall unemotional men! ply to offset some of the cold and scientific nonfiction which Wor-Id Needs More passes as sensitive reading today.

For myself, I would only have Are women too emotional? Or, 'rather, are men too unemotional? a doctor who gets emotionally It depends on who's m.aking the involved with his (her, rather) " judgment. What this world needs patients. Any other. kind is useis a bit more emotion and per- less, as far as I'm concerned.

For myself, I would love hav, haps women could furnish that where men have failed. Let's ing a路 'woman cabinet member look at our' world as managed by who might use a little emotion cool, rational and unemotional in deciding future, wars, hunger allocations and racial hangups. men. ,In our insistence that men We've seen what unemotionalcontrol their emotions and hide ism has accomplished in these their anxieties, we've practically areas. What have we got to lose?

Who, me? An emotional woman epidemic of alcohoiism, heart dise.ase and ulcers on our hands. an? I hope so. I hope we women, These are' primarily male dis- in our liberation, don't strip oureases. Perhaps women have an selves of our emotion. It's a answer for men here: a few most valuable asset and it's time more tears, a little more emo- we passed a little of it on to our tionalism might be unpleasant at sons. _ the moment but valuable in the Australians Warned long run.

On one of his television panel On Abortion Laws shows a year or two ago, David SYDNEY (NC) - Australians Susskind commented that having ,were warned here by a nonwomen sit in on top level dis- Catholic wqman member of the cussions was discomfiting to Parliament against introducing, him. He' said that whenever abortion legislation similar to sometl:iing didn't go the way Britain's. women wanted it to go,-they got Britain's Abortion Act was "a misty in the eyes and choked up. terrible mistake," said Mrs. Jill Knight, an Anglican and ConSensitivity Techniques . servative party MP. Writer and panelist Gloria Speaking at a public meeting Steinem heard him out and re- on abortion at the University of plied. "Fine. Let them mist up. South Wales sponsored by the It puts off their ulcers a few Buman Life Research Foundamore months." tion, she said that "in the light In our determination to keep of England's experience I beg men un~motional, ergo mascu- you to consider whether or not line" we're facing the breakdown you should liberalize your laws."

chairmen of parish or路 are asked to submit for this column to The O. Box 7. hll River

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER On Sunday, Aug. 22 from 8 in the morning until 2" in the afternoon, the parish CYO will hold a car wash in the church parking lot. Donations are one dollar and tickets may be obtained from any CYOer. In case of rain, the wash will take place the following Sunday, Aug. 29.

On Sunday, Aug. 15, from 8 to 5" the CYO will hold a Day of Recollection at Bishop Connolly High School.

. spect highly. He turned down a mapuscript (not mine) because it was too emotional. I agreed.

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Brother Jude ~. Costa, C.S.Sp., renewed his, vows of religious life as a membert, of the Congregation of the Holy :Ghost on 'Sunday in a cetemony in Holy 'Family Church, IInskst~r, Mich.

The vows were received by Rev. Vincent I. Cronih, C.S.Sp., pastor, representin~ the Superior General of the Order.

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Brother Jude, ~he s<;m of Mr. and Mrs. John qosta, 31 Salisbury Street, Fall ~iver,~ was born in that city antI received his early education lin Fa,', II River.

After completing, his Novitiate year in Ridgefieldl Conn., he was assigned to thel staff at the Novitiate. , Subsequent appointments included St. Mar~'s Seminary, Norwalk, Conn., ~nd Sf: Christopher's Parish, Ti~erton, R. I. In June of this year, ,he i went to Holy Family ParIsh in Inkster where he is engaged i~ the formation of a parochial i program for catechetical instruction.

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NEW YORK (NC)-The U. S. House of RepreSentatives has protected man's G:od-given right to information with its, decision regarding the cond'oversial news documentary, "The! Selli?g of the Pentagon," a Catholic communications officer has! declared.

Charles M: ReiI1y, Jr.;, executive director of jthe ~ational ,Catholic Office f9r Rapio and T~levision, praised ~he H~use for rejecting a recommendation that it cite the docum:entary's producer, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and itS! presi~c:.nt for contempt o.f Congress. , 1

Reilly said the 22 6 to i81 vote will undoubtedly b~ terriIed "an ,historic milestone-\a. ringi?g defense of man's God-gIven ;nght to information."

I ' The House Interstate and Foreign Commerce C0fnmittee recommended a contempt ~itation for CBS when the I netwbrk refused to honor thel committee's subpoena for unused footage and other m{lterials cortnecte1d .with preparation of the docuJtientary.

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ST. LOUIS OF FRANCE, SWANSEA The Ladies of Ste. ,Anne Sodality will sponsor "An Evening of Fall Fashions" on Thursday evening, Sept. 23 at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea.

ST. CASIMIR, NEW BEDFORD The annual parish bazaC;lr will be conducted tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday on the church grounds, corner of Wood Street and Acushnet Ave. The affair will feature a variety of booths, entertainment and programs of popular music. Special prizes will be awar<;led on Sunday 'evening.

Both Polish and Ame'rican foods will be featured throughout the three-day program. ' OUR LADY OF THE CAPE,' BREWSTER The Women's Guild will conduct ~ "Country Fair Store" on Wednesday, Aug. 25 on the Immaculate Conception Church parking lot on Route 6A, East Brewster. The affair will open at 10 in the morning.

Among the features will be jewelry, aprons, home-made foods, candy, Christmas ornaments and a white elephant table.

Parishioners are asked to donate to the food and candy tables only.

OUR LADY OF HOPE CHAPEL, WEST BARNSTABLE A Triduum in honor of Our Lady of the Assumption will open on Friday, Aug. 13 and close on Sunday, Aug. 15.

Masses with a special sermon will be offered on Friday morn: ing at 9:30 and 4 in the afternoon.

On Saturday, the ,Masses and . sermons will, be held at 9:30 and 5 in the afternoon.

Sunday's devotional Masses will be at 9:30, 10:30 and 4 in the' afternoon.

The devotions will close with the blessing of a new outdoor statue of Our Lady and a new organ in the church.

ST. JOSEPH, . AlTLEBORO Senior cheerleaders will hold a cake sale in the parish hall after all the Masses on the weekend of Aug. 21-22. Proceeds are for uniforms for the cheerleaders.

Members of Scout Troop No. 37 will meet in the hall at 7 tomorrow night, Aug. 13.

ST. ELIZABETH, EDGARTOWN The annual parish Summer sale will be held this afternoon from 1:30 to 5 in the church hall.

Tables will feature fancy work, home baked foods", attic treasures, children's' toys and grabs. , Tea will be served from 3 to 5.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Women's Guild will sponsor an' old-fashtoned Moonlight Cruise on Saturday, Aug. 21.

To be held rain or shrine, the boat will leave Prudence Dock, Thames Street, Bristol at 8:30, Saturday evening and return at 12:30 Sunday morning.

A complete hot and cold buffet will be served, prizes will be awarded and dancing will be available.

Tickets are $7.50 per 'person and may be obtained by calling 678-0236 or 674-0246.

ST. MICHAEL, OCEAN GROVE Henry Dion, Jr., general chairman, has announced that the parish 'fair will' be toriducted Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 'Aug. 13, 14 and 15. Proceeds will be for the benefit of the parish school.

The features will include the drawing for a granQ prize on Sunday night and other prizes will be awarded on Friday and Saturday nights.

Booths will include games of chance and skill together with grocery and home-made cake sales.

'Nightly entertainment will include programs by the Music Mansion and Mrs. Raymond Cormier and her pupeteers.

God's Will It is not enough to be afflicted because God wills' it; but must be so as He wills it, when He wills it, for as long as He wills it, and, exactly in the manner in which it pleases Him. St. ,Francis de Sales

Sue University WASHINGTON (NC) - Two priests have filed suit in federal district court here to challenge a university's right to pay clerics less than their lay faculty counterparts. Father David J. K. Granfield' and Father Joseph A. Broderick, the only priest pro.fessors on the faculty of Catholic University of America's school of law, charged Aug. 2 that the university refuses to pay them salaries fitting their, position.

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Pa rents Resent Anti-Family Campaign

Response

Resen'tment "[ ask to be left in peace and quiet to raise my family. They are not a charge on the state.

We are supporting them our路 selves."

She added: "I resent being forced onto the defensive to explain why I have six children. I am also annoyed when people automatically assume that I am a Catholic because I have a large family."

She said the new organization will be open to persons of every creed and color. "I am forming it not because I am a Catholic but because I am the mother of a large family."

Her husband, a former police officer now employed by a security firm, said: "I feel it is time that somebody from the socalled silent majority stood up and opposed these people."

Liturgy Conference Has New Direct路or WASHINGTON (NC)-George A. MOl\dry, former Chicago man-

agement and organizational development consultapt, has taken office as full-time executive director of the Liturgical Conference national headquarters here.

Moudry joined newly elected president Mathew H. Ahmann of San Antonio, Tex., nationally known interracial justice' worker, in a statement outlining the coming year's objectives of the 30-year-Old conference, a voluntary association concerned with Church renew,al.

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MANCHESTER, England (NC) -There are signs that parents of large families are fighting back against a campaign here opposing large families.

Latest moves in the campaign against large families were: -A statement by Chief Medi路 cal Officer of Health for Lincoln that. parents with more than three children should be labelled "social criminals."

-Passage by the annual meeting of the National Association of Women's Clubs of a resolution calling on the government to reduce family allowances "as a deterrent to large families."

Spearheading the counterattack are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Morris of Walkden in Lancashire, who have six children ranging in age from 15 years to 15 months.

Encouraged by a favorable response to her presentation of her views on a local television program, Mrs. Morris has decided to go ahead with plans to form' a new national association "for the protection of wom-anhood and family life."

Mrs. Morris told NC News she has been subjected in recent months to a growing number of remarks "which I consider to be undignified to a married woman." She said her bank manager once told her that, as the mother of six children, she could not afford a bank actount.

"Enough is enough," she said.

"The size of your family is a very personal matter. Why should. a woman be subjected to this type of remark? Why should I be told as a parent that I am socially irresponsible?

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YOUTH SERVE OTHERS: This foursome is headed from Geneva for Lourdes to for the sick who are on pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady. Left to right are Berner, Sean McCarthy, and Sally and Susan Berner, NC Photo.

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DETROIT (NC) - Cardinal John Dearden and an inner-city pastor have been selected by a panel of civic leaders as two of Detroit's "Ten Big Wheels"-the "elite 10 whose power and influence help run the city."

The idea for the honorary contest originated with the Detroit News, metropolitan daily with 800,000 readers.

Cardinal Dearden and Msgr.

Clement H. Kern, pastor of Most Holy Trinity Parish in Detroit's inner city, found themselves the . only clergymen listed among heads of Ford and General Motors,- utility chiefs, a business tycoon, a labor union president, a financier an~ Detroit's mayor as the city's "movers and sh.akers."

The final 10 were chosen by the citizen panel from a field of 99 candidates.

"This reticent man has tremendous power and influence which he doesn't use very much, but when he does, that which he sets out to do happens," one panel member said of Cardinal Dearden.

Msgr. Kern, 62, was described as a "conscience of the communiy," and "A Roman-collared version of Robin Hood in that care he'll accept money from anyone and give it to the. poor."

Tim The pastor does not confine his ministry to the 'Mexicans, Maltese,Puerto Ricans, blacks, .

Cubans and poor whites who populate his parish. The panel noted anyone at any hour from anywhere can get instant help at Trinity. And the need does not same have to be financial.

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British Students Are Lourdes Pilgrimag'e Aides

GENEVA (NC)-Fifteen British' Martin Haigh of Ampleforth and England who do the boys and' girls left their. homes 30 "Old Boys" - alumni of the thing." here in early August for an un- school - accompanied the pilWhy do they do it? According usual fortnight holiday. Their grims to Lourdes. Once there, to Tim: "It's difficult .to explain. destination was not St. Tropez they are cared for by lady help- ,To really understand, you have or the Spanish seaside, but the ers froin the Mayfield Convent to understand what it is like at shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes and by the volunteer students.

Lourdes, and for that you must jn France. And the motive of Welcomed in Lourdes by the go there." their visit was not Summer "Hospitalie of Lourdes," the stuBut his older sister, who made sports, but two weeks of work dents are briefed on their mis- the pilgrimage several timesamong sick pilgrims there. sion-to help the sick any way though she did not accompany The work must have its own and any time they need help. the group this year, probably special rewards because most of They bring the pilgrims to the spoke for many of the young the volunteer aides who go there grotto, take them to the baths, pilgrim aides when she said: . once go again. Among them, to Mass and to the highlight of "It's strange. We go thinking Tim Bern~r, who made the pil- each day, the evening Blessed we .are doing something for grimage last year, was accom- Sacrament procession. They others, but you know, when it panied this year by two of his feed them, dress them, wash and was all over, I found it had sisters and a -schoolmate. clothe them-whatever the pa- really been the contrary. Those Tim and Sean McCarthy study tients need done. And some of sick pilgrims have such a wonat Ampleforth School in York- them need almost everything . derful attitude to life, they're so shire, England, and Susan and done for them. wonderful, it's unbelievable. I felt it was really they who had Sally Berner are students at the 'They're So Wonderful' done something for me.

Mayfield Convent in' Sussex.

Their father, Jack Berner, is a "We're not the only ones who diplomat serving at the British do this," said Tim Berner modConsulate in Geneva. Sean's estly. "There are other groups Nun Teaches Ballet father is a delegate to the cur- from other Catholic schools in To Teenage Giris rent meeting of the U.N. EconomBODO (NC) - A Dominican ic and Social Council here.

Sister is literally on' her toes The Ampleforth Pilgrimage, Help Brazilians here teaching ballet to 60 teenorganized some 15 years ago by age girls in this small Norway Settle New Land a Benedictine monk, has 30 ill town north of the Arctic Circle.

PORTO ALEGRE (NC)-About participants this year. Father Sister Ruth, who was with an 250 families are leaving their small farms in nearby Portela English ballet troupe before conServing All county and ..hitching their wag- verting to Catholicism and. beGENEVA (NC)-Some 200,000 ons to go north a thousand miles coming a nun a number of years Australians, working in small in the best tradition of pioneer- ago. said the Sisters of Bodo were delighted they had a progroups of 10 or 12, "serving all ing days.

Church-related and govern- fessional dancer among them beof the human family in the struggle against want and war ment agencies are assisting the cause ballet class was a happier in the name of Christ," is the move through a cooperative or- -and more quiet-alternative to aim of the recenty formed Ac- ganized by. the farmers after the discothesque they had contion for World Development. a they found their present acreage sidered as a way to reach youth.

The afternoon baBet course is joint secretariat of the Roman uneconomical to cultivate. Most Catholic Church in Australia and of the farmers are' descendants part of the youth center program the 'country's National Council of German,. Polish and French at St. Sunniva House, where kindergarten meets in the morning. immigrants. of Churches.

Task Force Funds Concerts for Poor ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)International Art of Jazz, Inc. has been awarded the largest of six grants given to various groups and projects by the Rockville Center diocesan Task Force on Race, Poverty and Allied Problems here.

The IAJ was set up in 1964 by a handful of local jazz lovers who believe that music can reduce .the differences between young and old, black and white, rich and poor.

The $1,000 grant insures that the IAJ's Summer program of free jazz concerts in Suffolk County's black, Puerto Rican and low-income neighborhoods will continue for the remainder of the 1971 season.

"These haven't been just jazz concerts," said Mrs. Ann Sneed, program director, "They're a tool for getting people together in an atmosphere of fun and culture instead of hostility and conflict."

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By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick

A group of my friends and I _were discussing the

horrors 'of Summer recently and a poll of the men present came up with one outstanding Summer activity ,they could do without. I concurred one hundred per cent in the con.sensus that the beach could be left out of the family : returning from the beach is to itinerary with no great loss. take a· shower and sleep for' a few hours. '. I love to see the children I' have no objection to the

,go to the beach with my wife. be~ch except that I don't like it, Nothing gives me greater satis- and I am not alone. The probfa9'tion on a Sunday afternoon lem is,to convince beach fanatics than an empty"hou~e, a cold that. not everyone enjoys their drink, good baseball game, and enthusiasm. A problem for which ' the New York Times crossword I. have' no solution., So next puzzle. This affords me a: per'- Summer 01 will 'hear the hints feet' 'Sunday afternoon. How- that everybody's husbana' a,nd ever, these are few and 'Jar be" father' is at' the ,beach, and that CADET STUDIES GENETICS: Cadet ,Greg Bowman of the U.S. Military Aca,demy' tween. Most weekends the as a 'good 'father I should be Point!, is spending his vacation at an unlikely place-in a.genetics course at ~l­ at West weake~ sex uses· its greatest' ,there,and I will drag myself to vernia CollegJ in ~eading, Pa., where his instructor and classmates, are ~Il nu~s. ~IS­ weapon , guiit, to make' me, tak~' Horseneck and, to ~isery, once the awesome move, to ·the beach. again. ter Stanislaus! Helene left and Bowman study the'results of a lab test on fruIt fbes.

First there is the mad activity Sister William Marie, ~nd Sister Davidanne are in background. Bowman needs the credits · of getti-ng' thr~e. children into the . in biology to Ienter medical school after he is finished at the academy and has served car in one piece, then there is Parish Factories his time in the army. NC Photo. the long trek to Horseneck in I '1 . , thick traffic arid the eternal ar- To Aid Jobless COCHIN (NC) Parish facguments in the back seat. Then , tori~s are a Catholic lay leader's, I upon arrival there is the joy of l baking slowly in the hot sun, answer to the unemployment chasing kids in and out of the problem in Kerala state here in $water, searching in wet b~thing India.

K. P. John, president of the suits for -dimes and quarters for CINCINNATI NCH-Don't be' hopefulness about China's future detected a note 'of embarrassthe goodies which the children All-Kerala -Catholic . Congress, a f ral'd o. f' Ch'marI mam ' • t am . re- I'S founded on hI'S belief in. the ment in the prosecutors' shouts cannot do without, and again the state's principal ~atholic lay ~pect for the Chi~ese rleople and inherent goodness of the Chinese of "enemy of the people" and the hot sun sizzling every bit of organization, proposed, that par- • keep hope alive for China as a people. "imperialist traitor," as if they excess fat until you feel like a i~hes establish small-scale fac- future power fori peace, advised wi$hed for his pardon.

Nobody knows how completereally ·tories, barbecued 'piece of beef. a missionary bisqop e~iled from Iy communist the Chinese peopie In the past, he said" parishes Following his expulsion, the Lost Day China, who said he favors Presi- are, the bishop said, but he cited From all of this I 'feel like established schools and colleges dent Nixon's pr6poseq visit to some instances suggesting what bishop was jobless. "It's very hard for a bishop to find a' joo," . every' bit of energy is drained that turn out thousands of edu- Peking.

'I may be the temper of many. he said. He added, however, that out of me. Mostly it is the sun cated young people. ·Bishop Carlo vlln Melckebeke, For a year preceding his exile, which leaves me completely listNow parishes have an obliga- ,73, bearded, Belgian-born 1m- he recalled, he had to work at he was soon rescued by the Vatiless so that by the time I return tion to assist young people in maculate Heart lof Mary. mi~- farming, as did all the. priests in can, which realized the great home I feel I have lost a whole the matter of providing employ~ sioner who headed the Nmgsla China. During that time, com- evangelistic potential in the Chiday, My normal activity upon ment. diocese,' has serred since his munist authorities tried to per- nese diaspora.

Originally his apostolate was exile from China by the commu- suade people to accuse him of nists in 1952 as apostolic .visi~or various crimes against· the gov- confined to south and east Asia, to the Chinese inl "diaspora," a ernment.' But the people an- but was later expanded to em. . ; brace Chinese Catholics throughtraditional Greek Iterm I for reli- swered: "He has cared for the si~k. He out the world. Since 1954 he gious communities tl1,.at have WASHINGTON (NC), - The States. . . . All of these have' b,een scattered.

I has distributed his goods. What has directed the Catholic Central · United States government has suffered for five years the indighas he done that was bad?"

Bureau in Singapore, which he Commenting on Ithe P~esident's ethical and economic reasons for nities imposed (on them) by an proposed visit, Bishop \Ian Melc- ' ~escued by Vatican established for the guidance and accepting another 100;000 immi~ authoritarian government," he kebecke acknowledged the diffiEven when he faced the assistance of everyone engaged grants from Cuba, Archbishop stated. culties ahead. The c6mmunist "people's jury" that decreed- his in the apostolate among the .Coleman F. Carroll of Miami The archbishop promised to idedlogy, he said, \remains athe- banishment, the bishop said he Chinese of the diaspora. · told a Senate subcommittee here. pray for the Senators as they istic, supports violen't r~volution The archbishop spoke from a make their appropriations deci- and contradicts the principles prepared text before the Senate sion. He also asked the Senators recognized as de60cdtic outSubcommittee on, Appropria- to pray for him and the Catholic side the communist sph~re. tions, defending government- · Church in Florida, which, he as·He said Chine~e cohtmunist sponsored "Freedom Flights" of serted, has given "materially and .Ieader Mao-Tse-tu?g is! doctrinCubans to Florida. spiritually" of its resources in, aire' and dogmatic. "He is a The program is . being criti- helping the Cubans. in fanatic. He, is notl intetested I cized by some members of ConPresident Dwight D. Eisen- the human being; he has no regress. At least one has· attempt· hower originated the Cuban aired to end the "Freedom Flights" lift program.......an open invitation Route.28, DENN ISPORT this year. to refugees to come to the' B'ut a country as Ikrge as Archbishop Carroll first de- United States, Some 200,000 Open 9-9' Ample Parking scribed "the .economic stimula- were believed to have signed up China, with a population! of over tion the Cubans have brought to by spring, 1966, when Cuban 700 million, cannot be Ikept in ED. COUGHLIN, Prop.":> the lagging economy of south Premier Fidel Castro announced an international ~acuum, the bishop said.

"There inustibe conFlorida during' the sixties." he had closed his list. To date I taCt." 111I11I111I11111111I111I11I11I111111I111111I11111111I11I11I1111I11I11I1111I11I11I1111I1111I1111I11I11111111I111I11I11I1111I111I11I1111I11I11I11I Moral Obligations some .240,000 Cubans are known The bishop said he believes l have .entered .this country, to .

He said Cuban refugees have that when Chinese Premi~r Chou 'rehabilitated 20,000 dwelling and an estimated 100,000 more En-Iai recently reaf~irmed to vis.. are. expected. units, thus saving government iting stuoents Peking's lopposiThe government's. reception' tion 'to the U. urban, renewaf money; contribpresence in uted 2,200 mec\ical doctors to program includes free transpor- Asia" he was talking t6 "save of BRISTOL COUNTY I " this country; established nearly tation from Havana to. Florida, face" before the Chinese IPeople. programs, Just because a bank offers you 3,000 businesses in Dade County, special .education ·Bishop Van Melckrbeke's . open-end welfare programs and ,Florida, alone; and paid "approa Savings Account ,I priate local, state and federal free entry for relatives of those Age I taxes amounting to millions of Cubans who take American citidoesn't mean it can offer you zenship. dollars annually."

LEit ,your old age be childlike, a checking account "Thousands of people, at the , Congress has gone along with and your. childhood like old age; invitation of a president of this arrival appropriations .for' ,the that is, so that neitHer,may your But We Do nation-with the implied agree- Cuban program, but 'has never wisdom be with pride, ,nor your ment of the Congress - ' regis- bound itself by treaty or law to humility without WIsdom. .

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'New Mass. Law Protects Migrant Workers Rights'

Ask Congess to Help Church In Brazil and Czechoslovakia

The June 28 issue of this column suggested that the, farm labor system in some parts of the United States closely resembles peonage, at least in certain ,major respects, It was pointed out that in the State of New Jersey, for example, and the State of Washington social workers, makes the farm worker a dehealth officers and, in some graded and lonely man.

Fortunately, however, the cases, even clergymen have Commonwealth of Massachubeen systematically denied access to farm labor camps.

We have since learned that the same situation has 'prevailed

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for some time even in the enlightened Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The record shows that a farm owner in the Commonwealth, until recently at least, could, if he were so inclined, prevent his workers from having any visitors whatsoever, the argument being that it was his land or his property and that he and he alone had the right to say who could and could not come on it.

A representative of the Massachusetts Migrant Workers Health Bureau has testified that nearly all farm operators in the Commonwealth are reasonable men and do not try to limit the visitation rights' of their migrant workers. This I am fully prepared to believe.

Exception to Rule Nevertheless the record clearly shows that there have been a number of shoddy exceptions to this general rule. In some cases friends and even relatives have been barred from labor camps in Massachusetts under the general rule of property "rights."

Social workers and even health officials have been told to "keep out."

The director of the Family Health Services for the State Department of Public Health reports that one man with cancer was refused access to a doctor for a matter of weeks. On another occasion a public health worker and a dentist tried to to visit a migrant worker and were refused permission. When they insisted, the owner of the labor camp called the police, and the police sided with the owner.

First in U. S. In summary, as columnists Joe Albano and Bob Killam pointed out in the July 25 issue of the Boston Record American, the migrant worker in Massachusetts, in some cases, has had less access to medical help and other social services than an inmate at the state prison.

Many owners, Albano ;md Killam report have argued that by keeping control of the situation they can bar such characters as loan sharks from the premises. State health officials are willing to admit that this may be true, but they point out that, when carried to excess, it

setts has moved effectively. to correct this intolerable situation.'

On June 3 the Governor of the Commonwealth signed into law a bill "regulating the visitation rights of migrant workers living in quarters apart from the living quarters of their employer."

This new law-which is said to be the first of its kind in the United States-reads in part as follows: Rights of Visitation "A worker living in quarters apart from the living quarters of his employer shall have reasonable rights of visitation in his living quarters outside of regular working hours' and the certificate of occupancy issued by the department shall include notification,. in English and in Spanish, of said rights.

"The' Department shall establish, by promulgation of regulations, such minimum standards relating to the rights of visitation under this section as will ensure the adequate protection of said rights.

"The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon petition brought¡ by the department in the name of the Commonwealth to re~train and enjoin violations of this (section of the law) or regulations promulgated thereunder."

Congratulntes Sponsors During the third week of July public hearings were held in two different cities in Massachusetts to determine what these "rea- sonable rights of visitation" should be. It is to be hoped that, on the basis of these hearings, the department in charge of administering the law will define the word "reasonable" in the widest possible terms. ' Meanwhile the sponsors of the MassacHusetts law are to be congratulated very sincerely on having set an example for other states in the union. Their bill should prove helpful, as akind of working model, to the American Bar Association which is reportedly making a careful study of the rights of farm workers.

According to columnists Albano and Killam, a recent article in the official journal of the ABA went into this problem in detail. It told of a newspaper reporter who was arrested when he went t6 one farm to interview workers. The -ABA article commented: "To the average person it is conceivable that his landlord should have the right to determine who shall and who shall not be able to visit his home.Inconceivable, indeed. That's putting it as mildly as possible.

It would be closer to the truth to say-as one of the sponsors of the Massachusetts bill has put it-that the arguments used by some farm owners to rationalize . their long-standing practice of limiting the visitation rights of farm workers are "the same arguments used by slave owners more than 100 years ago."

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Painting of Cross Wins World P'rize HONG KONG (NC)-The art teacher asked: "What is a sign of salvation?" Wong Kin Man, though he is not a Christian, replied: "The cross."

The 13-year-old boy's answer didn't end there. It became a painting of a cross-shaped, raft saving clinging children from death in a turbulent sea. Entitled "Salvation," it was sent as one of 30,000 entries from 32 countries to the First International Children's Art Exhibition held in June in Bologna, Italy.

"Salvation" won the first prize of $1,600. Wong Kin Man is a student at Nam Wah Middle.

School in Kowloon. It is one of seven Catholic schools here which sent 1,000 entries to the exhibition in Italy.

, WASHINGTON (NC) - The The conference agreed to "use Conference of Major Superiors every means at its disposal to of Men has asked Congress to bring pressure to bear upon the use its influence "to ease a situa- Brazilian government to accept tion in Brazil and Czechoslova- immediately an impartial investikia that is intolerable to Roman gation by a competent internaCatholics throughout the world." tional commission, such as the In a letter to Sen. J. W. Ful- International Red Cross or the bright, chairman of the Senate United Nations Commission on Committee on Foreign Relations, Human Rights, to investigate the Father Francis X. Gokey, con- state of human rights in that ference executive secretary, de- country."

The conference, whose memscribed the conference's indignation over, repression of the bers direct about 4,500 American Church in Brazil and suppression missionary priests and Brothers of religious liberties in Czecho- in 'more than 90 countries and slovakia. promote the welfare of more "The Conference of Major Su- than 55,000 priests, Brothers and periors of Men does not so much seminarians in the United States, wish to express indignation over said in its letter that it stands the past events as to rectify the ready to supply further evidence future," however, Father Gokey of its charges. wrote.

It cited as examples of the , He sent similar letters to Rep: validity of injustices against the Thomas E. Morgan, chairman of Church in Brazil: No Response the House Foreign Affairs ComArrest, imprisonment and tor,mittee; members of both House and Senate committees, Secre- ture of priests, including numertary of State William Rogers, ous Dominican Fathers; Msgr.

Brazilian and Czechoslovakian Marcelo Carvalheira, rector of ambassadors to the United the Major Seminary in Recife; States and American am'oassa- and priests and laymen belongdors to Brazil and Czechoslova- ing to the Young Catholic Workers organization, the Catholic kia.

The letters,-Father Gokey told Workers organization and IBRANC News, are a first step in ful- DES (Brazilian Institute for Defilling two resolutions unani- velopment).

A statement "by the National mously adopted by the annual Conference of Brazilian Bishops assembly of the CMSM in .late ,in February 1971 affirming "that June. unfortunately tortures exist in 'Detention, Torture' our 'country."

At that time, the conference, The conference's resolution an organization of the heads of concerning Czechoslovakia, Faall Catholic religious orders of ther Gokey said, was prompted men in the 'nation, resolved to in part by the Czechoslovakian publicize its concern "over the ambassador's ref\lsal to acunjust detention and torture of knowledge or answer a letter all political prisoners in Brazil, sent in February stating CMSM's including a number of priests concern over suppression of reliand Religious, who are unjustly gious liberties. There was also detained and tortured in Bra- no response to a later letter sent zilian prisons." as a reminder of the first.

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.LONG ROAD LEADING TO HORIZON: Although the Church serves as a haven for peace and prayer, it also has the often difficult role to "Go forth and teach all nations'," . Several centuries ago we had an English Pope. His name was Adrian VI. During his reign he commissioned a painter to do a study of the Church, The artist accepted the 'commission and did. a .pairiting under the title of "The Bark of Peter."

What did Adrian see when the painting was unveiled? . A large boat occupied the center of the canvas. The boat rested on waters as calm as

and serene aloofness as is characterized by the scene in the middle ..." , - Pope Adrian .had a point. fIe would not deny the role of the Church as a haven of peace and, prayer, but it must also be open to bringing this peace and prayer. py man these days. Five years to others: It must beware set- of exhaustive rksearth on the ting on a haughty distance from question of chan~e in ~ociety are the world. Jesus said "Come to over and his \work, "Future me all you that labor and I will Shock," which fumm:arizes the refresh you." But He also said, findings of that study; has been "Go forth and teach 'all nations." on the best sell~r 'lists for sev\ I I The image of the Church in eraI months.,. the painting is that of a center , "In this book, I try to show of peace and meaning and prayer. that the rate of change has imBy ~ I . The limjtation of that image is '."::' :.-: :':'::" :: : J I that it can turn the Church into FR. AL an "in group" that fears to touch McBRIDE the outside world. The members By of the "in group" fear to lose their hard-won peace. But this repudiates the missionary, qual- . FR. JOSEPH M. ity of the Church.. glass. No wind troubled the sails.

CHAMPLIN On the main deck Pope Adrian " \ ,World Needs the Church. ;. knelt with folded hands, eyes The correction to this liniit~~ ' .' lowered in the posture of tion may be caught in these prayer. plications quite apart from, and words. "Ring the bell! Wake the' Around the Pope ~tood the town! Tell the people!" Hence sometimes more import'ant than, cardinal"s in reverent attention. the need to go out to help all to the dir,ections of change'." To put Down below; looking out through share the' gift of God. The image this another way :\ wha~ 'matters square portholes, were the laity to correct the peaceful boat is the is not so much w~ere w,e are gopeering at the world. . new testament picture of the iJ;lg, but how fastil we ~ravel to What world ,did they see? wedding feast to which the poor get there. It tak~s little documentation to establish I the fact At either end of the canvas and the lame and the blind were that modern ,man I moves, or is the artist portrayed storms and invited. Recall that the members to mO"je, at' an ever compelled winds and waves. Rolling, panic of the king's house went out rate of spe~d.. Conincreasing stricken, in this troubled world and personally brought the peosider, for examplel the :time inwere Protestants, Jews, Mos- ple to the feast .. , tervals hetween-di~covery of the lems, pagans and infidels of all The elite refused to coine, but wheel, the ship, the locomotive, sorts. the folks were quiIte willing to the automobile, fhe propeller come once they felt the touch airplane, the jumbi jet, I.and the Missionar.y Quality of a loving invitation. )"he peo- space ship.

Pope Adrian stared a while i at the picture and said:' "This is ple of the Church must walk This constantly accelerating not our Church. It is too re- into the city of man. They must rate of change, ho ever, !touches moved from the problems of the go forth among men to commu- aU areas of our lif , not merely world." Taking his fisherman's nicate the peace and comfort of the mode of physiFal t~avel. It ring, he rapped it against the .Christ. The invitation is not a affect~ school, wor~, hor;ne, and edges of the painting 'and said, cold lette'r sent from a citadel to a certain extent,l churqh.

"We must be here and here and of holiness, rather it is a per- , Toffler offers' the following' here!' OUI'_task is to bring the, sonal greeting offered with' a' conclusion in a chkpter 'on the Gospel of peace and hope and friendly' hand and a loving heart. ' physical dimensiort ,of I future Who needs' a Church like this? • shock. "It is quite clearlyl imposjustice to th~' suffering and tortured world. It would be selfish Our world does. And it will be sible to accelerate the rate of of us to remain in prayerful a better place for it. change in society, or t~ raise

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Jesus' words in this Sunday's Gospel are somewhat startling.

But, he is not for peace at any price. He is not come to condone . the superficial unity that arises from an uncritical defense of the sure you, the contrary is true; I "status quo", Peace I and unity have come for division." He cannot be bought at the price of spells this out concretely; "From. sacrificing personal integrity or now on, a household. of five will be divided three against two and two against three; father will be split against son, and son against, By father, mother against daughter and 'daughter against mother."

FR. CARL J. Can he really mean that? Is this the same Jesus who prayed PFEIFER, S.J. at the ~ast Supper that his followers be united as closely as he and his Father are united? His every greeting seemed to be, stifling individual freedom. The "Peace." How can he now say peace he disavows is an appar- that he tomes to us not to bring ent peace, masked by uniformity, peace but division? Is not unity that cloaks over the very real one of the mar:ks of his Church? differences that exist. Where Preserve Personal Integrity unity is simply a disguise for Jesus' words challenge us to complacency and self-satisfacthink about our experience in tion, he comes· to divide. His . today's Church, in tOday's Word is a two-edged sword that world. Certainly Jesus came into challenges people honestly to the world and comes into bur come to grips with real issues. lives in order to bring peace and Where people risk honest inunity through' genuine love. His' volvemen-t, it is rare that differwhole mission is to help people ences of opinion do not arise. love each other as he loves us.

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Peace or the Sword?

England's Queen Elizabeth I and the youthful Earl of Essex have, held the imagination of readers and playgoers for centuries. What was the real relationship between them? A somewhat different version is offered by Robert Lacey in Robert, In 1601, when he was 33, he Earl of Sussex (Atheneum, headed a ludicrous rebellion 162 E. 38th St., New York, against the queen. It was iIlN.Y. 10016. $8.95). planned, almost unplannea, "Theirs was not a love affair," he concludes, "but a relationship of convenience founded initially perhaps upon passing infatuation

lasted only 12 hours, and was easily put down. There' could now be no question of his future.

A semblance of a trial was held, and he was found guilty and sentenced to death. Elizabeth's one concession was that By his execution would be private rather than' public. He was beRT. REV. . headed within the Tower. . From the first, Mr. Lacey MSGR. i'eaves one in no doubt as to what the outcome of the story.

JOHN S. is to be..Both at the start of his KENNEDY book and frequently in the course of it, he dwells on the ul,timate fate of Essex. But there ~M;mm:'tM.~w.mmt is no reason why he should not, but drawing its real life from the since the denou~ment is familiar profit motive of one, the aging historical fact. His task is to insecurity of the other and the show how that came about, and vanity of both. When the profit this 'he does well. . vanished, when age proved inesExample of Crookedness capable and when the vanity ex- .

He also shows that the Elizahausted itself, the relationship bethan age was far from being collapsed," There was a difference of 34 golden or glorious. The commpn years in their ages. Elizabeth people counted for hardly anywas in her fifties when she first thing, bruality abounded, as did caught sight of Essex, still under intrigue, deception, and the twenty, tall, handsome, and rankest opportunism.

A good example of the crookdashing. He was bent on place, power, wealth, and she was edness of the times is the career ready to play a game of flirta- of Francis Bacon, the celebrated essayist and purveyor of wisdom. tion with him.

By the standards of the six- Bacon began as a follower of teenth century, Elizabeth was Essex, but when he perceived already an old woman. What that his advantage might better claim she ever had to beauty, be served elsewhere, he graduwas long since forfeit. She ally disengaged himself and went painted heavily, wore a blazing over to Cecil, Elizabeth's wily red wig, and dressed in elab- secretary. And when Essex was on trial, it was Bacon who spoke orate, gem-strewn gowns. most 'cuttingly against him.

Bungles Opportunities Mr. Lacey is far too ready to She was an absolute monarch, credit the long' outmoded allegabelieved firmly in the divine tions of Jesuit plotting, against right of kings and was fiercely Elizabeth, and he exaggerates jealous of her authority. The last Catholic involvement in subverof the Tudors and unmarried, sive movements. These views she would not hear any discusonce enjoyed wide acceptance, sion of the succession to the. but scholarly study has underthrone. mined their claim to belief.

Essex, when first presented to It may be said, too, that he her, was titled but desperately seems to regard all religion with poor. He aspired to military ,a jaundiced eye, and to see a glory. He wanted to shine in the cynical or simplistic conformism world, and thought himself as the norm. worthy of any place, even the Salinger's Novel highest.

That political scheming has not To Elizabeth, he was a toy, a diversion. His attentions were died out or even declined in the pleasant, his flattery delightful interval since Elizabeth I, is to one who was gripped by clear from Pierre Salinger's dread of age and death. She gave novel On Instructions of My him opportunity for advance-' Government (Doubleday, 227 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. ment. _ But he bungled every oppor- 10017. $6.95).

This concerns happenings in tunity. Thus, when he was put at the head of a naval expedition the mythical Latin American and ordered to strike at a Span- republic named Santa Clara, in ish port and then sail west to 1978, which will be an election intercept the Spanish treasure year in the United States.

Santa Clara has long been refleet, he made a great show of actiol1 but accomplished neither ceiving aid from Washington. It objective. Given command of an is a poor country, with copper army charged with subduing as its one industry. Communist Irish insurgents, he wasted his China is interested in securing forces and all but surrendered •a foothold in the country, for from it intercontinental missiles to the Irish leader, Tyrone. can be directed at any port of Ultimate Fate The fiasco in Ireland was fol- the United States. A revolutionlowed by the worst of his many ary movement is being supplied presumptions on Elizabeth's with arms by Com~unist China.

Drama Builds Up favor. She cast him aside. ProbThe United States ambassaably his chief offense in her eyes was the' money he had cost her. dor, Sam Hood, tries to alert He was put under house arrest. Washington to the imminent

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NAMED: Rev. Charles D. Burns, S.V.D., associate director of the Campaign for Human Development, has been assigned to be the administrator of St. Aloysius parish, Cleveland, 0., and spiritual director of the ex~ perimental Glenville team ministry in three inner-city parishes in the predominately black area of Glenville.

Asks Re-Hearing Of College C.c:ase WASHINGTON (NC) - The Connecticut taxpayers who originated the suit against a federal college aid statute ~upheldby the U. S. Supreme Court now want a lower court to 'decide whether the four colleges involved are "sectarian" institutions.

In a petition filed here, the taxpayers, iricltiding representatives of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, claimed the high court had agreed in the various opinions it handed down that a genuinely sectarian college could not receive federal funds.

But the lower 'court, the petitioners said, never, ruled whether the four colleges who received aid under the statute were "sectarian."

Leo Pfeffer, special counsel of 'the American-Jewish Congress, said the high court's June 28 decision-:~pholding a federal statute which allows construction grants to church-related colleges for non~religious facilities-has been "widely misinterpreted" as permitting such aid "across the board," Attorneys close to the Connecticut case disagree with Pfeffer's reading of the opinions of the various justices. They also note that such petitions for rehearing are rarely granted, and that the high court left open the question of whether a particular church-related college can rec;eive such federal funds. danger. But the President is chiefly preoccupied with getting reeiected, something which will not be easy for many reasons.

Assistance to Santa Clara is unpopular, and intervention 'even to secure this country against a missile attack is out of the question j because of the revulsion resulting from the traumatic experience of Vietnam.

As the election campaign goes forward, and as both the revo-' lutionary movement and Chinese presence in Santa Clara gain ground, drama builds up to bursting 'point. Its resolution must be left to the reader.

Continued frob Page Sixteen When the issues and problems are liS complex as in today's world, and when people grapple with them, there is bound to be division of opinion. This may be very painful; it may be extremely destructive. Divisions may also be the sign of life, of hon'esty, of renewal. The fact of divided opinion in the Church today may be interpreted by some as a disastrous rending of Church unity or by others as a , healthy sign of renewed sensitivity to Christ's call to a deeper, more honest unity forged through genuine confrontatiori: If Jesus comes to bring peace, it is a peace that grows out of deep respect for one another, genuine honesty, and mutual efforts to deal with real problems.

If he carnes to bring division, it is' to shatter the sham, superficial pe~ce that covers over. a certain self-complacency. The ability to discern the signs of his presence, the signs of true peace, is difficulty and demanding.

The first reading recalls, with an incident from the life of the prophet Jeremiah, just how difficult discernment can be. Jeremiah's preaching causes such deep division that the King of Israel decides it would be better to kill Jeremiah. So he has the' prophet thrown into a deep cistern to die. Later he changes his mind and has the prophet freed.

The point is that in times of honest pluralism, it is very difficult to discern which "side" is most in tune with God's Word, with· the Spirit of Jesus. Jeremiah was proved by later events to be

right, even though at the time many good people thought him wrong because what he preached disturbed and divided people, From the disturbance and division created by Jeremiah arose a renewed, more deeply united Israel. Sometimes discord and polarization are signs of Christ's presence, challenging people toward a more creative, deeper harmony. How can we today discern whether the divisions in the Church arise from Christ's Spirit or not? How can we create a deeper unity out of the present polarization? . The second reading gives a basic clue. "Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus," This means that .in honestly grappling with issues in today's world, we honestly seek the good of .others, the building up of the community of mankind and the fellowship of the Church. If we keep our eyes fixed on Christ and his will, there is less chance that we are motivated mainly by self-interest.

The clearest sign of this attitude is a willingness and growing ability to listen with compassion and understanding. Respectful listening can help keep our hearts open to others and to Christ speaking through them.

Pope John, in words quoted' from St. Augustine and re'peated in the Second Vatican Council,' suggests that: "The bonds which united the faithful are mightier than anything which divides them. Hence, let there be unity in what· is necessary, freedom in what is unsettled, and charity in any case" (Church Today, No. 92). ' /

Future Liturgical Shock Continued frob Page Sixteen with near equal force to the liturgical renewal. Very often it may not be so much the actual worship change which troubles us as the when and how of that innovation's introduction. Can you explain otherwise why certain parishes experience minimal tension with the sign of peace or standing for Holy Communion and other congregations rise up in arms or split down the middle over such developments in - the liturgy? ,Perhaps we should coin a phrase, as Toffler did, to describe the type of approach needed for implementation of present and proposed liturgical changes, if we are to avoid future liturgical shock. For lack of something better I would call it "persuas,ive gradualism."

"Persuasive," The bishop who ordained me to priesthood frequently insisted that persuasion far excels mandate as a means of moving people. The trick, of course, is to win a congregation over to your side, to your point of view, to your position.

Then the course of action becomes what they want, not what they must do.

A leader who.· can persuade touches both mind and heart.

Clear, simple, reasoned, authoritative explanation opens up tJ:1e mind; gentleness, a smile, a sense of humQr, patience softens the heart.

"Gradualism," Too many changes too fast startle parishioners, make them uncomfortable , insecure, threatened, angry, hostile, restless, or possibly in the long run, and worse, apa-

thetic. "Future Shock" maintains we can absorb physically, emotionally, psychologically, only a limited number of novelties at one time. Overload the human person with innovations and there will come, ultimately, a negative reaction.

We have attempted to practice this persuasive gradualism while shifting sanctuary appointments at our parish. Eventually we will be moving, mostly in a minor way, 10-15 items like the candles, the cross, and presidential chair. If all these alterations were done within a week, the' sudden change surely would strike all parishioners and alienate at least a few. But accomplished step by step over several months, with careful explanatory comments when necessary, the danger of liturgical shock from these innovations should be reduced to a minimum.

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2. What is "persuasive gradualism"? How can it be applied to developments in the liturgy?

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Brazil Religious, Pri·ests -.Charged With.5ubversion BELO HORIZONTE (NC) Charging 33. prie~ts and Religious with subversion for a document Jhey signed three years ago, an Army. prosecutor said the Church in Latin America is being infiltrated by Marxists "with surprising success."

Provost Col. Simeao de Faria said tHat "in the last dec~de international communism, bent on subvert'ing ~he existing order iri Latin America in order to conquer this.. continent, has found in certain sectors of the\..Church an avenue for penetration with surprising success, as in the case of the accused."

A military judge at Juiz de Fora said he will start interrogation of the 33 priests and Religious within the next few weeks, when he expects to complete review of the three-year-old case.

None of the priests and other defendants, who' signed . the document protesting the death of a studenJ:, have been arrested.

The student, Edson Luiz, was killed during demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro in March, 1968.

Father Andre Muniz de Resende wrote that protest and circulated it among the diocesan and Religious priests in Belo Horizonte. The prosecutor now charges it was aimed at "inciting the people against .the. government and the armed forces."

National Issue Col. De Faria said· some signers "were teachers charged with the responsibility of educating our youth, as well as the parishioners."

"The fact that they taught in the light of Marxism, or a Gospel tinged with socialism-instead of instilling love for the country and respect for authorities-has been established ... But the Holy Catholic Church is not being held reponsible for the actions of some of its' members against national security," he .added.

Following the death of Luiz . violent clashes erupted in Rio de Janeii~ and ~ther Brazilian cities between students and police. What had started as a student protest against inadequate campus facilities became a national issue protesting what the opposition called dictatorial rule.

Outstanding Woman Jurist Honored WASHINGTON (NC) Dr. Miriam Theresa Rooney, edu~ator, author and legal authority, was honored as one of the world's outstanding jurists during the 5th World Congress on World Peace Through Law in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

She was presented with the· Pax Orbis et Jure ·medal,. the first woman ever so honored, in ,the presence of 300 jurists' from various parts of the world.

Dr. Rooney, representative at. the United Nations for the World Peace Through Law Center in Washington and Geneva, and a member of the United States Catholic Conference internatiqnal affairs committee, served as the first dean of Seton Hall University law school, Newark, from 1951 to 1967.

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, Albanians. ar~ described as inDETROIT (NC)"":"'Among some intelligent people, 3,000 Albanian-speaking refugees dustrious, in Michigan, there. are nearly loyal' to the Church which de70'0 families residing.' in· the fended them sRiritu~llY, morally Detroit northside. . and socially ag~inst medieval inThe refugees here are present- vasions by Turfish lYJoslems and ing a variety of problems, in- the more modern· communists.

Faced by ne~d of the Church cluding gunfire' at church rites, I ' ,in attempts by the Church to ac- to relate to the small overcustom them to the American whelmingly Catholic 'community, way of life, The Michigan Cath- Cardinal JOhnR., Deatden of Deolic, Detroit archdiocesan news- .' trait, requested\" the Iservices of paper reported.

Father Prenk Narevoshaj, an AI. I' ! . The obstacles include inability banian refugee 'rho was working in Rome. to speak English; lack of em- among his countrymen I I " Father Ndrev?shaj I came here ployment opportunities, and, among a minority, a loyalty to despite several Iprotests, includ-' a political organization whiCh ing charges that\he w~s a ~ascist has resulted in assassination at- and would' worf against Albatempts against a priest working , nians in promotion of the among the refugees, the news-. Church. He is\ now'; associate paper said. pastor at Resurrection parish, ,

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"The Albanians have to be The newspaper reported ·there reached. If we do not reach are 40 political factions among them, we will lose them."

Albanians. A group of five men Some special services, such- a!O· formed a group called the Tre- weddings, have been interrupted palski organized along commu- at Resurrection Church by Alnist lines and opposed to work banian men, accustomed to firof the Church among the AI- ing guns in the air on such ocbanian community. casions. Attempts have been Father 'Ndrevoshaj, 'shortly made to convince the Albanians after arrival here, refused to en- . such customs are not considered dorse the political group, ex- proper in this country. Gunfire plaining It was contrary' to in the church parking lot on Church policy. Since March, the some occasions has brought ponewspaper reported, the priest lice to the scene. has been confronted by' party Father Ndrevoshaj is reluctant members brandishing pistols and to speak of the intimidation atseveral automobile hit-anc~-run tempts by the Trepalski party attempts have been made on his and shrugs off the attempts life. which have been made' against Msgr. Thomas Jobs, pastor of his life.

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Aid R~ling Made Catholics Second Class Citizens

THE ANCHOR-· . . .

Thurs. August 12, 1971

Right to Life CeD Exhibit'

MILWAUKEE (NC)-Catholics . have been relegated to the level of second class citizens by one of the arguments the U. S. Supreme Court used recently to strike down two nonpublic school aid programs, according to a Jesuit educator.

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In a letter sent t6 every American bishop and others interested in the fate of non public schools, Father Virgil C. Blum said the argument to which he referred was reminiscent of an 1896 high court ruling which allowed the partial suppression of Negroes' civil rights.

Father Blum, chairman of the political science department at Marquette University here and author of numerous books and articles on Catholic education, first sent the letter July 8. It was printed with his permission in the Delmarva Dialogue, Wilmington, Del., diocesan weekly, on July 10.

The priest cited a section from the high court's June 28 majority opinion in the Lemon vs.

Kurtzman and DiCenso vs. Robinson school aid cases. The former concerned a purchase of secular services aid law in Pennsylvania; the latter a nonpublic teachers' salary supplement law in Rhode Island. Both statutes were voided by the court largely on grounds of "entanglement" between Church and state. .

'Religious Division' I "In these cases," Father Blum wrote, "the court declared that Catholics may not work through the democratic processes to win religious freedom in education.

"Our involvement in the democratic processes for education aid, said the Court, creates 'political division along religious lines.' Such religious division, ruled the Court, was 'one of the principal evils against which the First Amendment was intended to protect.'''

The Jesuit educator claimed this ruling "deprives Catholics and other minority religious groups of the fundamental right to participate in the democratic processes in order to influence publk policy-making."

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Albert Gallant

Mrs. Charles Fuller

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Diocesan Leaders to Lecture at' CCD Congress Continued from' Page One Rev. James A. Clark, associate pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Taunton.

Father Tosti will conduct four sessions on Contemporary Catechetics. Father Powers will join three other former directors who are now pastors for a panel entitled: "Pastors look at Religious Education." Father Clark, formerly with the Papal Volunteers of Latin America Program will give three sessions on L.atin American ·Catechetic·s.

The tremendous task of coordinating the more than three hundred sessjons as well as the logistics of handling from 7000 to 10,000 people is being done by the Boston Archdiocesan office of Religious Education - CCD under the direction of Rev. Msgr.

Russell J. Novello, Diocesan Director and Rev. Robert L. Knapp, Rev. Robert J. Keliher and Rev. Thomas D. Reynalds, all Associate Diocesan Directors of the Archdiocese of Boston.

Fall River Laity Obviously an army of people are involved in the many facets of organization and a group of people from Fall River will assist this organization by chairing sessions. Included are present and former members of the Fall River Diocesan CCD Executive Board

headed by their president, Mr. Albert Gallant of St.· Mark's Parish in Attleboro Falls: Mrs. Charles Fuller of St. Margaret's Parish, Buzzards Bay and Diocesan .Instructor of Methodology, Mrs. Charles Landry of St. Mary's Parish in Seekonk and former president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Mr. Francis Waring of Sacred Heart Parish in Fall River and Miss Jean Sullivan of Corpus Christi Parish and Instructress of Exceptional Children will also participate.

Religious Coordinators Five Religious Education Coordinators who will introduce speakers include Sr. Barbara Riley, RSM and Sr. Frances Lynch, RSM, both Religious Education Coordinators of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton, Sr. Evelyn Rogers, SUSC, Religious Education Coordinator of Holy Name Parish, Fall River, Sr. Susan Connell, RSM, Religious Education Coordinator of St. Mark's Parish in Attleboro Falls and Miss Marie Mann, Religious education coordinator of Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich.

A definite highlight for the participants from the Fall River Diocese will be the Annual Friday night "Sharing Session"

which will be held on the opening night of the Congress at the Campion Gym. Following the tradition of all Fall RiverDio· cese participants having an identifying button, this year all registrants from the Diocese will receive a red and white button with the words: "It's Gotta be ·We." Fall River Symbol This symbol, indicative of a spirit of hope and joy in the work of .religious education, will serve to identify all those from the Fall River Diocese among so many people. This will also be the theme of the Sharing session that will be conducted by Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Diocesan Director of Religious EducationCCD that will include the sharing of reactions from the day's workshops and a songfest.

Bishop Cronin will be present to meet the many religious educators from the Diocese at this gathering.

In all, this year's Congress promises to be one of the finest opportunities available for those committed to the work of religious education. Anyone wishing further information may contact the Diocesan Office of Religious Education-CCD at 446 Highland Avenue, Fall River, (676-3036).

Mini.Congress to f'eature Exceptional Child

Continued from Page One ed, the deaf, the blind, the excluded, the perceptually handicapped and the disadvantaged.

Educational strategies for teaching the exceptional of all 1896 Ruling faiths will be emphasized by Mr. "By judicial fiat," he contin- Phillip Di Mattia, Professor at ued, "Catholics in Amercia have Boston College, Sister M. Fran~ been disenfranchised with re- cille,' C.S.J., Director of CCD spect to all public. policyques- . for the Sisters o'f St. Joseph, Mr. tions about which they as Cath- .

Paul McDade, of the Green Blind olics have religious convictions, Unit at the Fernald School, Mrs. if majority opinion disagrees."

Doris Buonomo, of the Education Father Blum compared this Committ.ee of the Massachusetts situation to the Supreme Court's Association for Retarded Chil1896 ruling in Plessy vs. Fergu- dren. son that Negroes could be kept Also, Rev. Laurence Cronin, in their place-in this instance Chaplain at St. Coletta School, the back of a railroad car-to Hanover, Sister Shawn, Superpreserve "the public p.eace and intendent of St. Coletta School, good order."

Mr. Richard Gilgun, of Locke "The civil rights of Catholics Lake Colony, N.H., Sister Regina are suppressed in the name of McCool, C.S.J. of the Boston 'no religious division;' " the School for the Deaf, and many priest said, "the civil rights of others.

Negroes were suppressed in the Outstanding contributions by name of 'peace and good order.' " parent resource persons in speBecause they have organized cial education will be shared by and carried their campaign for Mrs. John Gosselin. An approach equality to the political arena to Christian wit.ness in the inner and the courts, the civil rights of city will be presented by Mrs. Negroes are generally respected Josephine Brown, Mrs. Nancy today, Father Blum said.

Robinson, both of the Howe

Baker Schools Advisory Council, Roxbury and the Roxbury MultiService Center. Mr. Richard Higgins, a young adult retardate, will discuss his development in Christian maturity. This is one of the highlights' of the minicongress. .

Other facets of the mini-congress include a dialogue with Youth, M.A.R.C; Christian Wit~ ness in medical and moral issues in special education by Dr. William Lynch, leadership techniques and methods of organization development by Mr. Richard McDonald, Vice President of the Massachusetts Association for Retarded Ch"ndren, Christian awareness through the camp experience by Rev. Jon Martin, of Camp Fatima, pastoral work with the family of the exceptional child by Rev. Paul Deffily, Chaplain of the Wrentham State School, and Rev. Robert Wagner; Director of the Apostolate to the Exceptional Child in the Springfield area., Special subject areas by Sister Rosalita McNamee, and Rev. Peter De Marco, of Bridgeport, Conn., Sister Eileen Marshall of

the Worcester Diocese, and many others.

All of the sessions for the Mini-Congress on the Religious Nurture for the Exceptional Child will be held at McGuinn Building, the special education facility at Boston College. Additional information .about this congress may be obtained at the C.C.D. Office, 446 Highland Ave., Fall River.

Bernstein Composes Inauguration Mass WASHINGTON (NC)-Leonard Bernstein has composed a Mass, at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for the gala inauguration of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Sept. 8.

Bernstein said at a news conference here that about half of the text of the Mass will be from Catholic liturgy and, the other half will be new.

It will take more than 200 persons to perform the Mass, Bernstein revealed. There will be an orchestra of 70, a choir of about 60, a smaller boys' choir, the Alvin Alley dance company and a group of boy dancers.

At the request of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, an exhibit of "The Right to Life" will be set up at the forthcoming 25th Annual Religious Education. Congress which will be held at Boston College on Au· gust 20, 21 and 22.

The leaders of the Archdiocese of Boston and the Dioceses ·of Springfield, Worcester and Fall River have asked their respective Diocesan Directors of Religious Education-CCD to make available educational materials on the positive teaching of the Church on the value of human life.

The exhibit will be highlighted by an immense collage presenting the many aspects of life.

This artistic work was done under the direction of Mrs. Charles Fuller, Diocesan CCD Executive Board Member, by a group of teenagers of the Echo Program on Cape Cod. Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, Area Director of religious EducationCCD and Associate Pastor of St. Anthony's Parish, East Falmouth will coordinate the exhibit on Friday, August 20, enlisting the help of several people of the Diocese to hand out leaflets·.

Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, 'Diocesan Director of Religious EducationCCD, .in cooperation with Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Director of the Family Life Bureau, has acquired the printed materials for the exhibit.

Rev. Francis J. Kelley of Worcester, Rev .Msgr. Russell J. Novello of Boston and Rev. Howard W. McCormick of Springfield are also working on the project.

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Gives 'Needy' Funds To Draft Center OMAHA (NC) - The Omaha archdiocese has contributed $200 to the Omaha Draft and Military Information Center out of its "contributions to the needy" fund, Father James R. Cain, chancellor of the archdiocese, said.

The cent.er is a private, non· profit draft counseling service with headquarters at Creighton University's Student Center:

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Long sleeve garments worn constantly to hide needle "tracks" -heroin or methedrine

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