Catholic School Goals Still HoldDoctrine, Community, Service The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, endorses the following pastoral message, prepared by the United States Catholic Conference and proposed this week by Bishops throughout the United States.
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How Does Network Answer This One National television network CBS went ahead with its pro~ramming Tuesday evening of the first of a two-part repeat of the television comedy Maude episodes on abortion. Many CBS affiliate stations' refused to carry the sequence and many sponsors refused to sponsor it. Protests were heard from pro-life groups including many vocal Catholic
groups who objected to the show's presentation of the 47year old mother's decision to terminate a pregnancy by abortion. The CBS television network is the same one that dropped one of its top 10 shows, Bridget Loves Bernie, after understandable protest from the Jewish community. Its determination to go ahead with the Maude episodes is difficult to uderstand in the light of that decision. A serious objection to the Maude shows is that it presents A Mass for the deaf and hard- abortion as Bishop James S. of-hearing in the Diocese of Fall Rausch said, "in this obe-sided River will be offered at 3 o'clock unanswerable fashion." Bishop on Sunday afternoon, August 19 Rausch is secretary general of in St. James Church, 233 County the United States Ca,.tholic ConSt., New Bedford. ference. And· a further question The Mass will be interpreted left unanswered is this: is this in sign language for the deaf by allegedly comedy show being Rev. Mr. Joseph Viveiros, a sem- used to advocate a stand that is inarian at St. John's Seminary, offensive to many Americans Brighton, and serving his diac- on the grounds of moral values onate ministry in St. James and reverence to life, or is the Parish. issue of abortion seen-strangeFollowing the Mass, refresh- ly-as being comic and enterments will be served in the tainment? parish hall. At any rate, persons are free. Although the primary purpose· to turn out the show. And in so of the Mass is for the deaf, all doing they are also free to ask are invited to attend. why CBS rejects their objection to the abortion-as-comedy routine while making a different decision in the case of one of its top 10 shows which featured mixed religions as comedy.
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Bishop Confirms Parish Change Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has confirmed the appointment proposed ·by Very Rev. Edmund Szymkiewicz, O.F.M. Conv., Minister Provincial, of Rev. Fabian Zator, O.F.M. Conv., as assistant at Holy Cross Parish, Fall River. The appointment is effective this week.
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The message follows: Two months ago the Supreme Court of the United States decided several cases involving aid to nonpublic .education. These decisions, as they pertain to elementary and secondary education, were without excep~ tion negative. Although the Supreme Court had previously upheld several forms of assistance to nonpublic education and the new decisions do not take- away anything previously held to be constitutional, the net effect of the court's action is to block, at least for now, any new, significant help from public sources for our schools, their students, and parents.
Others have criticized these decisions on legal' grounds and will continue to do so. We do not intend to repeat here what has ah;eady been said or to anticipate what will be said. The decisions were disappointing, and we regard them as unjust. But they are a fact. We must now live with that fact; While efforts to find new, constitutional methods of public assistance will continue, it is clear that our planning for Catholic schools must, for the present, be based on our own efforts and sacrifices. Parents, first of all, whose .children benefit directly from Catholic schooling, must be prepared to continue to shoulder
their financial burden. The Catholic community at large, at the parish and diocesan levels, must continue and increase its support of the schools, w.hich play such a vital role in the educational mission of the Church. In particular, as the Second Vatican Council has said, the Catholic community must "spare no sacrifice in helping Cathollic schools fulfill their function in a continually more perfect way, and especially, in caring for the needs of those who are poor in the goods of this world." Finally, we must hope that the general community, recognizing the unique .and precious contribution of religiously inspired education Tum to Page Six
Bishop Minihan Dies Whi.le in Ireland Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan, S.T.D., LL.D.., Regional Bishop for the Northern District of the Archdiocese of Boston, died suddenly on Tuesday while visiting Ireland. Born on July 21, 1903, the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese received his education at Georgetown University, Wa~h ington and the North American College in Rome. Ordained in 1929, he became secretary in 1933 to the late Cardinal William O'Connell, the fifth head of the Boston See, and ten years later was named chancellor of the archdiocese. Named pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Norwood in 1946, the late prelate later became pastor of St. Theresa's Parish in West Roxury. On Sept. 8, 1954; he was named Auxiliary Bishop to the then Archbishop Richard Cushing. On March 8, i972 when -the archidocese was reorganized into regions, he resigned as pastor of the West Roxbury Parish and became the Regional Bishop of the Northern District with of-
Bishop Visiting Cape Parishes Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of the Diocese, has continued his practice of visiting parishes and meeting parishioners in the Cape Cod Area during the summer months. He will be the principal celebrant and homjlist at a concelebrated Mass to be offered at 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, August 19, in Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville. This is a special occasion for the Centerville parishioners as they all will gather ·at a dinner scheduled for 7:15 at a Hyannis hotel for a dinner commemorating the burning of the church mortgage. • Bishop Cronin has also visited the followiq,g parishec: rl ....;,.,~ the past weeks: Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville on July 22; Holy Trinity Parish, West Harwich on Aug. 5; 'ar,i Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster on Aug. 12.
BISHOP MINIHAN fices in Lowell and residence in No. Andover. The late Bishop Minihan had many connections in the past with the. Fall River Diocese. Bishop Minihan was a co-consecrator of Bishop Cronin when Turn to Page Two
Physicians-Mechanics of Problems Or _Defenders· of Human Life cerning the dignity of hU!11an life." Medical ethics "must be universal," he said. "Physicians must not be led into making decisions based on a philosophy of si'tuational ethics as is being done by the proponents of abortion. "Physicians must not be ·led to accept indiscriminate sterilizations in the name of population control. Physicians must not be led like sheep into the arena of genetic engineering in the name of improving the quality of life. "Human life must not be used as the ball in the game of ·improving the quality of Ilife by the use of artificial insemination and
WAIRAKEI (NC) - Christian physicians must unite to strengthen the individual physician who must make daily decisions in the face of rapid advances in' medicine and the breakdown of traditional morality. a Catholic doctors' conference here in New Zealand was told. _ Dr. Gino Papola of PhilaQelphia, secretary-general of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, told the meeting that physicians "can no longer remain in our local shells making decisions which at times are forced on us 'by the thinking of our local communlities, especially in matters con,
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euthanasia. Physicians must not be hypnotized 'into -the practicing of pOor medicine because of social pressures, as is the case with abortion. "Make no· mistake about it, abortion is not only the cesspool of medical ethics and morality; it is poor medicine. "It ushers in an entirely new field of medicine. To the traditional curative medicine and preventive medicine, abortion initiates· a field of medicine which I like to call extermination medicine-a field which includes euthanasia. "Euthanasia is being presented by the sweet-smelling phrase, Turn to Page Six