08.31.72

Seeks Witnesses to the Absolute

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Alcoholism Among Young Increases Alarmingly LONDON (NC)-Many doctors and social workers are becoming increasingly alarmed at the growing problem of alcoholism llmong Britain's teen-agers. They fear that it is being overlooked because of the public concern over ( drugs.

In a recent report to the Medical Council on Alcoholism, Dr.

Schools Open For 15,150 Scnools of the Diocese of Fall River will open the 1972-73 year on Wednesday morning. Sept. 6 to 15,750 students but there have been some changes. In Fall River, 12 parochial schools will receive students. That is one less than last year since St. Mary's Cathedral Parish will not be operating a school this year. • ,In New Bedford, 11 schools will be in operation, one less than during the scholastic year of 1971-72 since the Sacred Heart Parish School closed this past June.

St. Joseph's Parish School dn Attleboro also has closed its facilities in the field of Catholic elementary education.

Two consolidations will start next week. St. Mary's and the Sacred Heart School in No. Attleboro becomes ,t'he St. MarySacred Heart Consolidated School using the facilities of St. Mary's with Sr. Jeanne Poirier, SUSC, as principal.

St. Mary's Primary School in Taunton will include children from the Imma~ulate Conception, St. Anthony. Sacred Heart and St. Joseph Schools.

The total enrollment of 15,750 is broken down as follows: Kindergartens, 255; Elementary, 10,596; Nazareths, 148; Secondary, 4,391.

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E.B. Kitson, a consultant psychiatrist at the Andrew Duncan Clinic, in Edinburgh. Scotland, said: "With so much attention devoted to cannabis (marijuana) and other drugs the problem of teen-age alcohol abuse has been overshadowed."

Convictions for offenses of drunkenness among young people under 21 doubled in less than 10 years to 13,648 in 1970.

"The growing number of young people charged with drunkenness offenses does not stir public emotions to the same degree as does the rise in. tor instance, cannabis offenses." Dr. Kitson told NC News.

Alcoholics Anonymous. the voluntary organization that fights alcohol addiction, now operates . nine nationwide groups especially for people under 30.

Two years ago there were nO,ne.

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-A Vatican official has asserted that Religious who place social service ahead of their gospel mission "are offering the world a service for which it did not ask, at least not as its first preference."

Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli. secretary of the Congregation for the Evangeliza,tion of Peoples. said the service the world most desires from Religious is their witness as "signs of the absolute," or God. The prelate made his comments at the fourth national assembly of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis, an organization of Sisters founded in 1971 to encourage conformity of religious orders to official Church teach· ing.

In his talk, Archbishop Pignedoli said the world wants the Church to aid in establishing social justice and. he s'aid, "Religious have been doing this for centuries." However. the help of Rel.igious in the social sphere is not the world's first choice, he said.

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world's interest in the "absolute" is becoming more pronounced as Western man's happiness is diminished by technological progress. He sa,id young people are most interested in the "absolute and people who give witness to the absolute," They show "greater feeling for the problem of God and his presence in history," he said.

Archlbishop Pignedoli said Religious women can best help youth in their search for the "absolute" by not being just like the rest" but by being witness to the "absolute."

Cardinal Carberry urged consor-tium members to continue their work with "great conviction" and not to become angry with Religious who do not share their principles.

The cardinal, in a homily at Mass at the consortium meeting at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel, said Religious outside the consortium will be convinced of the group's value if its members continue to live their principles and to be guided by dogma.

Diocesan CCD Weekend

REV. RONALD A. TOSTI In spite of the nearly 100 deDiocesan CCD Director gree heat and the 90 per cent Bishop Cronin led a delegation humidity, the sessions were of more than 300 priests, reli- jammed with people anxious to gious and members of the laity gain new insights. to seek broadfrom the Diocese of Fall, River to er avenues, to explore deeper the 26th Annual Congress of . possibilities.

Religious Education conducted After the usual long lines and last weekend on the Amherst confused searching-"1'm" rooms Campus of the University of in this vast' complex of higher Massachusetts. education. they proceded to the From Nantucket to North At- opening session on Friday morntleboro, from South. Dartmouth ing. Rediscovering old friends to Taunton, they came-priests. and making new ones is an intereligious and laity-all to learn, gral paTt of a Congress weekend. to discover, to share so that they Those from Fall River Diocese might better present themselves had little trouble finding one to their students as learners of anoth'er as the green and white the Word of God, bringing'the "Things go better with Hope" message of Christ as catechists. buttons that all w(){'e gave a

sense of solidar-ity amid the myriads of Congress participants.

On Friday evening, the rallying point for FaU River people was a series of rooms in the John Quincy Adams Residence Hall. On the first night over 200 gathered after 'a long and exhausting day.

The evening's program began with a visit from Bishop Cronin.

The Ordinary of the Diocese spoke justly of the sacrifices that the people of the Diocese had made in coming to the Congress.

He then thanked all who had gathered and through them alI who work in religious education ,in the Diocese, pointing out the necessity of continued renewal of dedication and the importance of being true apostles of the Word of God. The Bishop then noted the presence of th.e Diocesan staff Turn to Page Seven

Pope Stresses Will Essential In Moral Life

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LABOR DAY, 1972: "Happy, all those who fear Yahweh and follow in his paths. You will eat what your hands have worked for, happiness and prosperity will be yours."

(Psalm 128, Jerusalem Bible). NC Photo.

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC)The will is the "essential and decisive faotor in the' moral life" of man. Pope Paul VI told a general audience here.

The Pope, who has been discussing various aspects of man's moral actions at this weekly general audience at the papal residence here, told 'his visitors: "To be good, to be just. to be saints, one has to want to be so.

"To give to the moral stature of men and Christians its perfect measure it is not enough to grow passively over the years or simply to assimilate the training one receives in the sphere in which one lives," he said.

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Holy Union" Ends August Chapter

- THE ANCHOR-Diocese of FaU River:-Thurs;.,Au9' 31, 197>2

House Ways and Means Committee Hears Tax Credit Arguments WASHINGTON (NC) - Battle that respect agreed with oppowas joined before the House nentts of the tax credit.

Ways and Means Committee beOne supporter of the tax credo tween supporters and opponents it, however, Dr. A, C. Janney, of a bill proposing to allow par- president of the American Assoents of children 'attending non- ciation of Christian Schools, ' public schools to deduct up to voiced the dissatisfaction of $200 for each child's tuition from some Americans with the public their federal income tax. school system.

The bill, H.R. 16141, has' been· '''Many evangelical, fundamenintroduced by' Rep. Hugh L. tal church members," he said, Carey, D-N.Y., and Rep. Wilbur "have been increasingly con· D. Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the cerned' about the accelerating Ways and Means Coinmittee. slide ,into atheism, materialism The credit differs fro'm a de- and humanism that lias taken duc'tion in that deductions are over the mood of public educasubtracted before calculating tion in the wake of court deci'one's income tax. Credits are sians removing prayer, Bible subtrac;ted from, the sum due reading, and in some places even the pledge of allegiance from after the calculation is made.'

Various opponents of the legis- public classrooms." lation insisted that it violates Public Support America'S traditional separation of church and state because it Three Nixon administration ofamounts to an indirect govern- ficials opened the hearings with ment grant to religious schools. 'endorsements of the taX credit.

Tney also maintained that enact- "We 'believe that the" existing ing the legislation would result system of nonpublic schools, in less money being available for which educates a tenth of our public schools. . children, is a vital national asSupporters pointed out that set," Secretary, of - Treasury the Supreme Court has recog- George P. Schul-tz said. Urging nized that parents have' a r.ight that steps be taken to prevent to choose the school to which the closing of nonpublic schools, they send their children. That Schultz said that a tax credit is ' right is a hollow one, they main- not a complete 'answer to the tained,- if economic factors, in- problems of nonpublic school ,cluding taxes paid to support parents but can help in a major public schools, prev~nt its exer- way and can be placed into opercise. ation quickly.

'Slide Into Atheism' Congressman Carey told NC • The bill also provides for fed: News that Congress has a great ,eral payments to the states for deal of legislation to contend public elementary and secondary , with, and it is late in the, session. education at a rate of $2.25 bil- Although the 92nd Congress ends lion a year for the next five by law on Jan: 3, it will probably years. adjourn at least before Christmas But most of the testimony fo- and perhaps earlier. cused on the tax credits. Most of "Getting the bill through wili the advocates of the tax credit depend on how much public supalso expressed support for fed- port, can be generated," Carey er-al aid to public schools and in said.

Educational Associatio~l Reports On Nation's Catholic Schools WASHINGTON (NC)-For the first time in three decades the size of the, nation's Catholic, school corps of teachers has stopped' increasing, according to the 1971-72 report of the National Catholic Educational Association.

"The changing patterns of Catholic school 'staffs have proven to be in some ways as relentless as the other trem:ls," the report statoed in its chapter on Catholic school staffs and programs.

Refloecting this development was ,the report ofa decrease of 1.3 per cent in the number of lay teachers in elementary schools in the 1971-72 school year. From 1966 to 1970 the yearly rate of increase had averaged over 9 per cent.

In high schools the number of lay teachers increased 1.4 per cent in 1971·72, considerably levelling off from the average yearly increase of 12.4 per ~ent during the 1966·1970 school period showed a decrease of 11.1 per cent. ."""'l01"""''''''II'lll'I'''''''IIIIIIII~IIIIUI''''''lIlrtlllllUll''''''''''''mlllll . .....n m _

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The 1970-...1 decrease was 7.0 per cent.

The high school full-time sisaters showed a decrease of 8.1 per cent in 1921-72, compared to the 1.1 decrease 1970-71.

While, the increase in lay teachers in terms of absolute numbers has stopped, the increase in their proportionate role on Catholic school staffs increased.

Lay teachers made up 56 per cent in 1970-71. In high schools, for those years, the percentage rose from 48 to 51.

One heartening trend in the face of discouraging statistics is the continued profess-ionalizatibn of Catholic school teachers, especially at the elementary school level where the staff quality ,has been most often challenged.

According to NCEA estimates, the percentage of elementary Religious teachers with less than a bachelor of arts degree has dropped in one year from 17.3 to 5.2 per cent. The corresponding lay teacher percentage also dropped in one year from 34.5 to .17.5 The 1971-72 report is the third in a series of statistical reports on U. S. Catholic schools by the NCEA Data Bank or Research Department currently funded by the Carnegie Foundation.

The Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts held the August session of their Provincial Chapter at 47 Prospect Place, Fall River from Aug. 21st to 24th.

Local Communities from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, New York, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, 'New Jersey as well as Massachusetts attended the Ghapter meetings. .'

The theme of the week's actoivities was sounded by Sister Grace Donovan, proviJncial, in her opening address: "Gospel Freedom of the Religious-Apostolk Woman in Community."

The sisters capitaliz~d on their own resolirces and talents by' so structuring the week that mem-~ bers of the Community rather :than outside speakers shared their experience and aspirations with the Siisters in the province, This was done by means of workshops, discernment ,exercises, informal discussions and liturgical celebrations.

Specif.ic areas presented by the workshops were: Team ministry, Campus Ministry, Ecumenism, and Federal Funding.

IS THIS MAN REALLY ARCHIE BUNKER!!: Dick Zelenka of Ridgewood, N.J. could be mistaken for an Archie Bunker type; the kind of person who is blind to his own prejudices, but he is actually a leader in trying to integrate the Elks Club. NC Photo.

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Also Creation of Parish Community, Prison Ministry, Political Responsibility of Religious Ministry, Recruitment and: retirement.

Chaplain LeavesF'or Studies

After serving for one year as chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital . in 'Fall River, Rev. Claude Saldanha, O.P., will leave'the See City and enter the School of Sovote touched off a furor in Sacial Work at St. Louis Univervannah, Ga., last spring. Bishop sity, Missouri.

Gerard Frey and :the councH's Born in Bombay on August 18, chaplain. both resigned charging 1936, Father Saldanha mllde his that the candidate has been rejected "solely because his skin Philosophy and Theological studie~ in Pistoia, Italy. He then is black.") taught at St. Charles Major McDevitt noted that the only Seminary in Nagpur, India, and requirements for membership in was in charge of progr~mming 'the K of C are that 'an individual and development. " be male, 18 years of age" and a The Dominican pries~ then practical Catholic in union with sponsored continued adult audiothe Holy See. " visual education programs to There are no other prerequi- help people in their personal and sites, he emphasized. Th,e rules Social development.

In 1969, he obtained a Doctorof the society say "nothing about ate in Social Theology from the the candidate's profession, his education, his ethnid background, 'Angelicum University in Rome, his cultural level, his financial following two years of post gradstatus or the color of his skin." uate work and research. His docHe insisted that "the sole test toral dissertation spoke of the for entrance into our great order cooperation of woman towards is the practical Ca,tholicity of the human progress in the Church and Society. applicant." .

McDevitt Hits Unchristian Attitud'e Of Some K of C Members

TORONTO (NC) - The chief executive of the Knights of Columbus called for a change in the admissions procedures of the 1.2 million-member society of Catholic men to prevent discriminahon against blacks by some members.

Supreme "Knight John W. McDevitt made his proposal at the 90th annual meeting of the Knights' Supreme CQuncil, held at the Royal York Hotel here.

"The measure of Christian c:lar,ity today is the acceptance " of all men in true human brotherhood without discrimination , b~cause of race, color, religion or condition of life," declared McDevitt. He recalled "isolated devl~lopments" in a few councils in which members of minority groups have been refused admission -into the fraternal society "by the negative ballots of a minority whose motives and crite,ria necessarily become suspect," ' : "We say their motives and criteria are suspect," added McDevitt, "because no challenge was raised to the practical Catholicity of ,the' candidate under consideration. Under these circumstances it appears that those 'who cast negative ballots violated Christian char.ity so flagrantly that they hardly can be called practical Catholics ,themselves, by the very yardstick by which they allegedly judged the candidate."

(Under present rules a negative vote by one-third of the members present is sufficient to de,ny membership to a candidate.

The failure of a Negro candidate to' gain membership on a close

Necrology SEPT. 8 Rev. Thomas Sheehan, Founder, Holy Trinity, West Harwich.

SEPT. 19 Rt. Rev. Felix S. Childs, 1969, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, FaH River.

Rev. Hugo Dylla, 1966, Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Fall I River" SEPT. 12 Rev. John J. Galvin, S.T.D., 1962, Assistant, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River.'

SEPT. 13 Rev.' Charles A. J. Donovan, 1949, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton.

Father Saldanha is now' seeking a Masters Degree in Community Organization and Planning and will make a better use of his lan~uage skills.' Besides English, the Dominican is fluent in three Indian 'dialects, French and German.

The priest will remain atached to St. Anne's Priory in Fall River but will spend the neJ!:t two years on the university campus.

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Funeral' Service Edward F. Carney 549 County Street New Bedford 999.6222 Serving, the area since 1921

Youths to Stage NationaIRa lIy For Human Life

Churches Favor Inter Communion

WASHINGTON (NC)-Youthful opponents of abortion will stage a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memoria,1 here Sunday, Sept. 3. ' The National Rally for Human Life is being sponsored by the National Youth Pro-1.ife Coalition (NYP.LC), a non-sectarian student organization founded last year a,s an aHiance of state and local youth groups ,opposing abortion.

Among its members are Philadelphia's SUN (Save Unborn Now), Cleveland Area Students for Life, SOUL (Save Our Unwanted Life-a national student group started in Minnesota), and the University of Maryland's VIDA ("Life" in Spanish).

Chris Kolb, president of VIDA and one of the rally's d'irectors, told NC News that estimates for the rally range "from 5,000 to as high as' 20,000" people. "I jU9t heard that SUN has promised 3,000 from the Philadelphia a,rea," he said, Candlelight Vigil "Citizens of all ages are coming from as far away as California," said NYPLC publicity director Suzanne Carroll, "to confront the American conscience with the violence and qestruction inherent in human aboJ'ltion ... and to let women who feel tney need to seek an abortion know that there are positive alternatives."

The day before the rally the NYPLC will hold a national convention at the University of Maryland to draw upa constitution. The convllntion will be .followed by a, candlelight vigil at the Lincoln Memorial. "The flame of candles will symbolize the goal of the NYPLC: to enlighten aU Americans of their responsibility to protect each and every human life," said Miss Carroll.

Urges Cooperation With Moslems VATICAN CITY (NC) - The problems of cooperation between Christians and Moslems can no longer be ignored,according to a Vatican specialist in Moslem relations. , Father Joseph Cuoq, a White Father missionarY, who heads the Islam section of the Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christians, said on Vatican Radio that his oflice aims at "favoring a new concept of Islam and of Moslems" among Christians.

"Today we are living' closely with these our brothers (Moslems)," Father Cuoq said. There are more than 'a million and a half Moslems, not counting 100,000 students, working in England, France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, he said.

France counts ,more than 800,000 Moslems within its borders and Islam is the second largest religious confession - after Christianity-in that country," he added.

"Moslems are ,therefore our neighbors geographically and historically," he said. The structure of their religious thought, he added, "is based essentially, as is Christian thought, on the concept of the transcendence of God."

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LOCAL ORDINARY CONCELEBRANT: Bishop Cronin, sixth from left, concelebrates Mass with other New England Bishops on opening day of the 26th Annual New England Congress of Religious Education. The principal concelebrant of the Mass offer4~d on the Amherst Campus of ~he University of Massachusetts was Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston. " '

Pope Paul IVery LivelYI Enthusiasticl ROME (NC)-Pope Paul can give the impression of being "reserved" in his public appearances, but.in personal encounters he is "very lively and enthusiastic," according to the newly elected secretary general of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

In an interview with an Italian news service the new WCC official, Methodist Pastor Phillip Potter, also said:

unity, Dr. Potter said that fraternal rapport among the churches make it possible for all to learn from each other.

Father Jerome Hamer, secre,tary of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian unity, said ill an interview over Vatican Radio that Dr. Potter is a "cordial and sympathetic person."

Father Hamer recalled that in

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"Pope 'Paul is a man of God, a very holy man, a man extremely concerned for the Church and ,the testimony it must give to the world."

The WCC officiill said that collaboration betwen the Catholic Church and the World Council "can be very beneficial. . . . Of course, we must have mutual un- _ derstanding. While working on the things that divide us, we must at the same time seek to be obedient to God by giving witness to a world which today is divided."

Admitting that centuries of division and differences of dogma are genuine obstacles to

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WCCAssembly UTRECHT (NC) - The fifth plenary assembly of the World ' Council of Churches, to be held in Djakarta, Indonesia, in 1975, will be ,the first in which the churches of Europe and North America no longer have a majority of the delegates.

November 1971 the new secretary general, along with other WCC members, had visited many Vatican agencies and had been received in audience by Pope Paul.

Dr. Potter, from the Island of Dominica in the British Lesser AntiHes, was elected third secretary general at the WCC meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in mid-August.

GENEVA (NC)-Anglican and Lutheran churches should welcome each other's communicants and should encourage their own members tel receive the Lord's Supper in churches of the other tradition, according to a recomof the official mendation Anglican-Lutheran talks, recently completed with the publication of the fina" report.

The joint commission met for the first ,time in the Fall of 1970 in Oxford, England. Meetings were also held in Logum monastery in Denmark in 1971 and in Lantana, Fla., and Pullach, near Munich, in 1972.

At its first meeting the commission decided to work towards "mutual recognition and fellowSMP between ,the two churohes."

In separnte declarations the two delegations recommended full mutual recognition of the churches, 'induding the recognition of the ministries. Mutually open Communion is recommended as a first consequence of this recognition.

Endeavors of the Anglioan and Lutheran churches toward unity in situations w.here they work side by side toward the spreading of the Gospel are corpmended, and the hope is expressed that 'an integration of th~ ministries can be achieved.

In their declaration the 1-utheran participants suggest ~'at the historical ministry of the bishop should .not be made an indispensable condition for inter-church relations of ohurch union, but that the Lutheran churches should be left free to adopt this form of the ministry where it furthers the grow,ing unity of the church. , T,he commission 'gives concrete suggestions for closer contacts and increased cooperation on world level and also in the various parts ,of the world. An Anglican-Lutheran continuation committee will gather the reactions to the report, further the implementation of the recommendations and report regularly on the development of A~glican­ Lutheran relations.

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Book Reviewers' ~ot·S·hot Rhetoric Is- Unimpressive \

Father Andrew Greeley remarks in his new book on the American Irish, "That Most Distressful Nation," that "the union movement is not in good repute with academic liberals, and George Meany is dismissed as some sort of rightist hobgoblin ..:.. though surely organized labor is the prosperity would have gone , straight to the bosses. But since largest and most powerful most modern :industries actively component of the liberal co- compete for labor, it would have alition; it has voted solidly in favor of labor reform measures for the last several decades."

Father .Greeley disagrees 'with

been hard. to keep wages down while productivity was going up." ' 'Radicalism' Only Answer _ _MWJ$~Wfmm1&-m On the other hand, they say that without unions we "might" By have seen a similar improvement in labor's· standard of living.

Their use of the word "might" MSGR. in this context would seem ,to suggest that they are so addicted.

GEORGE G. to the indoor sport of revisionism· that they feel compelled to revise HIGGINS _ 2in one paragraph of their review a statement made very categoricFINAL VOWS: Sr. Grace Donovan, SUSC, provincial; Mrs. Robert Cavey,' the ally in the preceding paragraph. mother of the professed sister; Sr. Francis Cavey, SUSC, and Rev. Robert Carter, assistlabor's . liberal critics in this re- This may speak well for their gard. He knows as well as they intellectual humility, but it's all ant at the Sacred Heart Church, Fall River. who presided at the ceremony gather to condo that labor's record, in certain rather confusing to the casual gr,atulate the newly professed sister. aspects, leaves much to be de- reader. sired. He also knows, I am sure, Be that as it may, the real that President Meany, like the problem with this kind of hisrest of us, is subject to human torical revisionism as it is being Sister Frances Cavey of the Ventura made her first prom- is currently studying for a frailty and has his own peculiar applied to the history of Vle Holy Union Sisters, Immaculate ises in the_Sisters of the Holy Bachelor of Science degree in set of limitations.

American labor movement is that Heart Province, pronounced her Union on Thursday, Aug. 24. elementary education at ~ridge­ On balance, however, Greeley it tends to be extremely ideofinal vows Tuesday, Aug. 22 in The liturgy was concelebrated water State College. believes-and so do I-that, re- logical and do~trinaire. What Sa-ered Heart Church, Fall River. by Rev. Lawrence Mooney, OC, Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. gardless of what his ·liberal crit-. many (not all, but many) of the Rev. Robert J. Carter, principal and Rev. Bento Fraga.

Arthur P. Ventura of 5 Purchase ics may be sayJng about him at revisionists who are currently concelebrant and homilist, was Sister Barbara, a~raduateof Street in Taunron, are mE:mbers . the present time, Meany and the denigrating the limited' but cerjoined by Rev. George C. Belle- Bishop Cassidy High School in of St. Anthony's ~arish 'where movement which he is privileged tainly very real accomplishments no:it, Rev. George Coleman, Rev. Taunton attended Bristol Com- Sister received her elementary to represent has made a contri- of organized labor are really out Rkhard Delisle, and Rev. Ed- munity College in Fall R,ive,r and education. bution to social progress which to prove is..that some. kind of historians, writing 50 or 100 sociaUsm or extreme ."radical- . mund. Fitzgerald for the liturgy years from now, will certainly ism" (whatever th'at may mean) of religious profession. £111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111119 acknowledge as having been of is ¢e only ,answer to labor's The daughter of Mrs. Edna real significance. problems and that any labor Cavey and the late Robert J. In the short run, however, movement which doesn't start Ca, ~y of 801 Dorchester Street, Franciscan Friars, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford, Mass.

Meany and the organized labor from this proposition is, by defi- L.:.:~:lnore, Md., Sister Frances is movement are at the mercy, un- nition, preordained to failure. an alumna of the Academy of the Ms. Lee and Professor Passell . Sacred Hearts ·in FaIl Riiver. 'Sisfortunately, of a new preed of so-called "revisionist" historians fall into this category.' Their ter received her Bachelor of Arts whose principal stock in trade is principal criticism of the book degree in teaching from Trinity to try to demonstrate-to their they were' asked to review for' College in Washington. own satisfaction, at least-that the New York Times-a revisionHaving previously taught at many of our leaders, past and ist document which. purports to , St. Francis De Sales School in present, and the movements with be the true history of mass inwhich they have been associated surgence in America during the New York City, Sister Frances is In Preparation for Feast .,...- October 28th are vastly overrated. In the case past century-is that' its author 'prE,sently' teaching at Sacred of .the labor movement, a good pays too little attention to the Heart School in Fall River.

Begins example-or, if you will, a very role of Socialists in some of In the Academy of the Sacred' bad example-of this kind of re- America's major strikes and that Hearts chapel Sister Barbara visionist history cropped up in "The most radical of all unions, the Aug. 20 isue of "The New the I.W.W., earns only a paraEditor Retires York Times Book Review." graph" and "the Communist leadGRAND RAPIDS (NC)-Msgr.

10:00 A.M.• 12:110 Noon· 5:10, 7 and 8 P.M. Reviewing a new book on the ership of the cm in the 30s rates Joseph C. Walen, founder and history of strikes in the United. no word at all." editor of 'the Western Michigan States, a Ph.D. candidate in his'Business Unionism' RADIO NOVENA: (Every Thur~day) Catholic, has retired after servtoryand a Columbia professor of What they are' say.:ing, in ef- ing that diocesan newspaper for WJDA- 11 :05 A.M.-1300 on dial economics-Susan P. . Lee and fect, .is that the only genuine 'WARE- 9:45 A.M.-1250 on dial Peter Passell-blithely conclude. labor leaders we have ever had 25. years. Msgr. Walen will bethat while wages have certainly during .the East century were come pastor of St. Joseph's parWPLM-. ~':15 P.M.-1390 on dial . climbed sharply over the years, Socialists, Wobblies, or Com- ish in Wright, Mich.

WALE- . ~~:05 P.M.-1400 on dial (Sundays) "it is only a matter of liberal munists. The corollary of this faith that the unions themselves proposition ·is that Samuel Gom~ine weeks of Praye'r for Peace in honor of St. Jude: were responsible." pers, John L. Lewis, Philip Mur- unfolding pageant of bu~iness For Peace inI our own lives, Ms. Lee and Professor Passell ray, .George Meany, and even . unionism."

For Peace in our com'munities, seem to be saying, in effect, that Walter Reuther who '!eft the Soit really wouldn't have made any . cialist Party early on in his caFor Pea,ce in a troubled world.

If you are willing to settle for difference, one way or the other, reer were, by contrast, docile second-rate puns in what purto the working people of the collaborators with, not to say ports to be serious review of a Write for Booklet and Medal """""""",'.,-""""""",,----,--United States if the labor move- stooges of, the Capitalist Estab- '''scholarly, genuinely stirring his_ For a St. Jud~ booklet and medal, send your name _ ment as we know it had never lishment. . tory of American workers," you ~ and address to ~ come into existence in the first To put it in the'reviewers' own .may be amused by this kind of : REV. CORNELIUS F. KELLY, O.F.M. : place. I say they "seem" to' be words, "labor's Wobblies have pot-shot rhe,toric. For my own saying this, for a careful reading given way to its Meanys and its part, I must admit that it leaves ~ Franciscan Friars, Our Lady's Chapel ~ _ 600 Pleasant Street _ of their somewhat supercilious swords have been beaten into .me completely cold and-not review indicates that they are profit shares. It marches to the that it makes any great differ~ .

New Bedford, Mass., 027.40 ~ not altogether certain of what it Crusades but the Cross it see~s ence-lowers my respect for the ~ Name ~ is they are really trying to say. is Blue. Accordingly, standard Department of History and the ~ Street , ,.,................ ~ On ,the hand, they state that labor histories view the bloody Department of Economics at Co"One might argue that without . engagements of yesteryear as lumbia and for the "New York union vigilance these gains of little more than entr'acts in the Times Book Review."

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Statue of· Pilgrim Virgin In So. Yarmouth Parish A replica of the statue of Our Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal.

Lady of Fatima, known as the It was here in 1917 Our Lady Pilgrim V:rgin came to St. Pius appeared to three shepherd chilX Parish and was at the home of dren in a series of apparations Mr. & ·Mrs. Joseph D. Evers, 46 predicting the Bolshevik RevoluDriving Tee Circle, South Yar- tion, the horrors of World War mouth the week of August 20th. II and the menace of CommuThis statue comes from Fair- nism. Our Lady asked for prayhaven and this was the first time ers and penance to convert RusOur Lady crossed the Canal to sia and bring Peace to the world. come to Cape Cod. This came A great Miracle of the Sun about through a small group in took place October 13, 1917 witSt. Pius X Parish who meet each nessed by 70,000 people, who Thursday evening to say the gathered at Fatima from all over Rosary. the world.

Since then, it has been the cusMonsignor Christopher L. Broderick, Pastor of St. Pius X Par- tom there to take the statue of ish installed the Statue Sunday Our Lady of Fatima to different evening, August 20 and led in . churches to be venerated. This the reCitation of the Rosary, Lit- group' of Americans was so imany of Loretto, and Consecration pressed that they thought it to the Immaculate Heart of would be wonderful to have replicas made of this statue to travMary.

Hymns in honor of Our Lady el around the United States gowere sung and a reading from ing into the homes to promote the daily Family Rosary and to Scripture was given. pray for World Peace.

Growth of Custom The veneration of the Pilgrim Chicago Group Virgin started in ·the Marian A group of men in Chicago Year of 1954 after a group of consulted with an Oblate Father Americans visited the Shrine of in the Marian Year, 1954, and named their group "Ambassa- . dol'S of Mary." In that year, three copies of the Statue were made according to Lucy's description.

She is the only survivor of the AMSTERDAM (NC) - The three children and is now a nun first meeting of the new Dutch in Portugal.

National Pastoral Council, schedAnonymous donors financed uled for Oct. 6-8, will be post- the movement and today there poned because of Vatican objec- are 120 of these statues traveltions, according to an announce- ing throughout the United States, ment by the secretariat of the fifty alone in the Chicago area.

Dutch Bishops' Conferencce.

We have with us one of those The secretariat said that the statues which, for the first time Roman Curia, the Church's cen- has crossed the Cape Cod Canal tral administrative offices, is pre- to our area because Our Lady paring a document on pastoral is pleading with us for more councils that will be sent to the Family Rosaries and sacrifices. world's bishops shortly.

The world needs to realize it is The new Dutch pastoral coun- only through Prayer and Penance cil organization-a successor to that Peace will come to us all. the council that held six sessions Rosary-Centered between January 1968 and April This particular statue was mer197Q-was tQ begin operations in ely loaned, but if enough people September. show interest, the Cape will have The Dutch bishops' secretariat its own replica to travel from said that the Roman Curia the Cape Cod Canal to Province"thinks that the authority' of the town reviving the Rosary in the bishops and their position with- family circle to promote World in the Church is not sufficiently Peace. . guaranteed by the regulations of This Statue may also go Into the Dutch National Pastoral Churches, Rest Homes, Convents Council." . as well as homes.

The' Curia, according to the Anyone who desires to have Dutch secretariat, "also finds the Statue of the Pilgrim Virgin that the time is not yet ripe for may contact Mrs. Evers, 1-394the institution of a pastoral 7471 or Marguerite Hefferman council on a national level."

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Utrecht, president of the Dutch· Bishops' Conference, had said that the new pastoral council, • ~ together with the bishops, will ~ I~OrrIS be responsible for pastoral pol- ~ SHEET METAL ~ icies. The bishops, however, have .I. TESER, Prop. , the responsibility for the daily , ~ administration of the Church and : RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL : will continue to have such re- : COMMERCIAl" sponsibility, he had explained.

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Rear row, Dr. Joseph E. Evers, who sponsored the week's devotion; Joseph D. Evers and Mrs. Joseph E. Evers. Front, Lisa, Tara, Joseph and Sharon Evers, grandchildren from the nation's capitol. Bottom: John Malloy, Miss Marguerite Heffernan, Miss Evelyn Boulton and John Norton of the parish Rosary group.

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Religious Dress Once again the Holy See has asked that priests and monks .and religious women not abandon their religious garments and identifying insignia., .

It is not that some VatiCan arch-conservative has a hang-up on clothes. Neither is it a matter of parading religion for the sake of power or privilege or prestige.

Rather, there is the desire that men and women who are committed to the service of God arid others p,roclaim by their very presence this commitment. In a modern world ' that is so much taken up with things of the senses it is necessary to proclaim that there are those. giving their very lives in the service of God and men for the sake of eternity.

In. the midst of the present world people have to be reminded of the other world. In the midst of time there must be the reminder of eternity. In the midst of selfish- , ness· there must be the proclamation of the fatherhood of God and the, brotherhood of man.

There is such a thing as the mission of presence,. the very appearance before men of their fellow men who openly an.d totally commit themselves to the full-time work of corporal and spiritual works of mercy, to the service of God, to the service of their brothers and sisters of every race and color and creed. ."

No one would or should die for clerical clothes and religious garb. But when men and women wear distinguishing marks of their religious commitment they are identifying themselves as servants, declaring before the world their full-time commitment to God and to others, willing to let the spotlight be upon themselves and their lives for the glory of· God, if they serve God and others well, and for' their greater shame, should they fall short - . of their stated intention.

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Other liturgical celebrations will follow at the Shrine while concurrent conferences on preaching's relationship with the Bible, conversion, liturgy, ecumenism and other topics will be conducted at Catholic University.

The congress is to be followed by a meeting of the religious leaders designed to implement the findings of the Congress.

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"Anyone who calls on the Name of the Lord Jesus Chr,ist to be saved is inv,ited to the Congress," said Father John Burke, coordinator of the congress and director of the Institute for Pastoral Communication and Liturgical Celebration in Washington. "It is an apostolate of all ChristUins, Cathol,ic and non-catholic alike,"

Oontinued from Page One coholics undergo a rapid change . :Father Burke also said: "The Galix, a Catholic society in from moderate to' exce:ssive the field of alcoholism, began drinking during their late teens." pUrpose of the National Con~ wOI,king in Br:itain 10 years ago The transition from regular to gress on the Word of God is the The acting director of the FBI has' released figures and now operates three units in exessive drinking at j this stage proclamation of the Kerygmashowing that 722 law enforcement officers lost their lives Sce'tland and six in England, often only ta~es three. years, and the renewed message of Chrisin the period between 1962 and 1972. Last year 126 officers ma:inly in the big industrial and is completed by the age of 20, he tianity," Ii urban centers' such as Glasgow, said.

Proclaiming the Kerygma durdied. ,and London.

Mallchester The social repercussIons olf this ing the Congress will be: The study indicates what a hazardous profession it are enormous, he said.1The young The national secretary, James is to be a policeman-an officer of the peace who must OT"owd, said that ,the main prac- problem drinker, he' expla.ined, Archbishop Timothy Mann.ing of Los Angeles, speaking on "The contend with the breakers of the law. finds himself spending .an intIcal agency is Alcoholics AnonThe role of the policeman is not simply to prevent ymous. "It is, however, a non-de- creasing amount of his timE! and Gift of Revelation;" Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, "Preaching as crime or to apprehend the criminal. He is the man on the nominational fellowship and the money.on drink. To achieVE! this the Saving Event;" Father Barnahe has to abandon former interAA member has to pursue his street who makes democracy and. reason work. His is ,bas Ahern, C.P., professor of own spiritual development ests and friends. If married, he the role to forsee/and forestall violations of the rights of , through SCl"ipture at the Grego· Sacred . neglects his family Jmotionally his 'own church, either rian University of .Rome, "The others, the man who insures that reason prevails, the man personally or in a corporate way, and materially.

Faith Experience of the Preachwho allows others to live and work and act in the peace such as we do in Calix." er;" Father Eugene H. Maly, pro. that is theirs by right.

In his report Dr. Kitson said: fessor of sacred scripture at St. He must have the knowledge of a lawyer without "More young alcoholics, most of Mary's Seminary, Norwood, Continued from Page OM the opportunity to consult the law books, the wisdom of whom started to drink abnor· Ohio, "Jesus, Servant and Lord," as teen-agers, are coming which he had discussed in two a Supreme Court justice without the time for undisturbed mally and Bishop J<>hn R. Quinn of to ~ilcoholism clinics." previous audiences, a 'third >com· . Oklahoma City and Tulsa, "The reflection. He must be truly a Solomon in his discernment Bars "encourage and attract ponent is the questiOli of man's Word and the Holy Spirit," of powers of discretion. And his decision must be made youllger patrons who are .more will. in an instant, often in the midst· of turmoil and confusion, affluent than ever before; and 'We Are Salesman' Power to W~ll I . and with immediate consequences to himself and others over-all consumption of alcohol In addition, there wiH be con"It is ;important," he continin tilis country rises steeply." and to society that can be long-lasting indeed. ferences at which speakers will ued, "especially at a young .age Dr. Kitson said that recent reAnd all this must be backed by his life itself. When search showed that_"young al- to have an exact concept of the link preaching with the Bible, Will fn the human ~tructure." communications, conversion, ecu· he places his life on the line it is not merely to keep '- 'Good will,' said the Pope, should menism, liturgy, priestly minispeople from stealing or committing crime-it is. to uphold try, religious education, and soreason and the very degree of civilization to which man- Complete New Book "express itself in terms o:f an cial. development.

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Archbishop John F. Whealo~ Without him there is' either vigilante justice or the VATICAN CITY (NC)-A spec- There are those who speak madly ialVatican commission has co~- of the 'will to power:, we pl~efer of Hartford, chairman of the return to the equally reprehensible .law of the jungle. pleted work on a new book of to speak humbly of the power to Bible conference, said: "I'm told that Madison Avenue does a Gregorian chants for Mass to will." i great jdb'of selling people things accompany the other changes in Pope Paul said that stress on the liturgy that have taken place the importance of the will and they do not need. We must sincl~ the Second Vatican Counwill power flows from the search for new ideas, different techniques, crisp approaches if cil. teachings of Christianity. "Chris· The work wasGone by a com- tian education tends to form peopie are to listen to our ser~ mission of the Congregation for strong and active souls;" he :laid.. mons and profit from them."

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Divine Worship.

"Laziness is not permitted, nor AUXiliary Bishop Juan Arzube the is sloth accepted by th~ school of of Los Angeles, who chairs the .

According .to a decree of Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River . congregation dated June 24 but Christ." conference on conversion, said 410 Highland Avenue made public Aug. 24, the book .

The Pope detoured in his 'before the opening of the conFall River, ,Mass. 02722 675-7151 of Gregorian chant and other sa- talk to' defend the contempla- gress: "We are the salesmen of cred songs, called the "Ordo of tive loife of Religious aga.inst the Word of God. When we conPUBLISHER the Sung Mass," fulfills a man- charges <>f passivity, saying that sider that last year <>nly 84,000 M~st Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., 5.T.D. date of the Second Vatican Coun- it "is not an abdication of the . GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER cil that "the treasure of sacred will, it is ... more than any converts were admitted-out of a 203 million population of which Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Re". John P. Driscoll music is to be preserved and condition of life, extremely will, 48 million are Catholics, we ~ LearY Press-·fall River fostered." ful." . need to examine our conscience."

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Penn. Attorneys File Nonpublic School Aid Brief WASHINGTON (NC) - Supporters of religiously affiliated education face a new danger of having a "freeze" put on their constitutional rights, according to a brief filed ,in the U. S. Supreme Court.

"A promise to hold legislation unconstitutional merely because some religious groups want it and some others do not, would not place a merely chilling effect upon First AmE!ndment rights: it would freeze them," the brief stated.

The brief was filed by attorneys for the nonpublic schools involved in the aftermath of the landmark Lemon vs.' Kurtzman case.

The high court has agreed to decide whether Pennsylvania must pay its nonpublic schools the more than $23 million it owed them before such state aid was declared unconstitutional.

William Ball, an attorney representing Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools in the case, said in an accompanying letter that basic constitutional liberties are now at stak.e in the case.

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Pope Paul Lauds Modern Youths

CCD DIRECtOR AT CONVENTION:' Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, second right, diocesan director of the CCD discusses highlights of the convention held at the University of Massachusetts with James Meloni of St. Mark's Parish, Attleboro Falls; Mrs. Charles Fulle'r of St. Margaret's, Buzzard's Bay and Sr. Antoinette Ouellette, SUSC, of St. Joseph's Convent.

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CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) Pope Paul VI celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven with a simple Mass in the' parish chu,rch 'of the town that borders on his summer home.

The 74-year-old Pontiff walked some 200 yards from the walls around the papal summer home to the town church of St. Thomas of Villanova to celebrate the Mass.

A few hundred people were inside and outside the church for the early morning Mass, at which the Pope praised modern youths for turning their backs on materialism. The Pope said young peopl'e know that "wealth cannot help them in searching for higher values and that, instead of bringing them happiness, it makes them lose sight of it."

At noon on the same day, one of Italy's major holidays, the Pope reminded visitors to his summer home that "we, sons of our century, tend to make the· human spirit materialistic, making it subject to the dominion of pleasure and the reign of the senses."

In contrast, he said, the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady "presents us with,a vision of the flesh spiritualized, showing it as shining in the reign of purity and beauty, almost inviting even us to confer' anew on our bodily form of being its proper identity."

"Is an act to be held unconstitutional because some say it The spirit was obvious-friend- veiled and the mini-skirted; the Continued from Page One may create 'reHgious division ly and hopeful-a' most encour- curious and the staid-all in the along political lines'? This, we and Rev. Joseph L. Powers, foraging phenomenon in an age .name of Christ and His Church: feel, is the most serious aspect mer diocesan director and now A somberly reHgious experiof this case-a matter which re- pastor of St. Mark Parish in when "prophets of doom" seem ence?

No! A truly religious exto abound. lates to religious liberty gen- Attleboro Falls. "Good foundaThey did come from all walks perience with men fully alive in erally," Ball said. tions have been formed," said In June, 1971, the Supreme the prelate,' "ana continuing of life: in limousines and camp- the awareness of the presence of Court voided a law allowing growth is evident as we together ,ing tents; some 'for the first time Christ through their humanness Stresses Religious, Pennsylvania to purchase secu- build for the .Kingdom of God." and' many 'old pros; the white in quest for a deeper union with the' Divine.. haired and the long haired; the lar educational services from Moral Foundations Father Ronald Tosti, diocesan nonpubHc schools. The court . MIAMI (NC) - ,Cardinal John said that the statute could pro- director of CCD" then thanked Krol of Philadelphia said in his mote "excessive government en- Bishop Cronin for coming and benediction at the final session spoke briefly of his own gratitanglement with religion." of the Republican National ConT~ tude to all in the Diocese who But the decision did not come vention that thi~ country's hiswork so diligently in religious to take a social position in seemCINCINNATI (NC) The until after the' schools had spent tory attests that it "was con'education. ,Father Tosti then Church must ask "the right so- ing favor of the status quo." the more than $23 million prom'ceived and survives only on The Church, Msgr. Egan said, moral and religious foundations." ised them for the 1970-71 school turned the evening's program cial questions in season and out over to Rev. Thomas C. Lopes of season," even at the risk of "must denounce and attack sin year. A three-judge federal The prelate said that, because being a'ccused of "meddling in wherever it reigns-whether over panel later ruled that the state 'and Mrs. Charles Ful'ler. of this tradition, he asked God politics." an individual's selfish heart or The "Happening" that ensued could pay the schools whatever Msgr. John J. Egan, a Chic'lga throughout an unjust social to protect those seeking public part of the $23 million it owed included a multi-media presentaoffice and to inspire them "to tion on the Value of Life. Multi- priest now on the University of order." them. serve all the people - not as Notre Dame faculty, was speakcolored balloons were in eviHe recalled Pope Paul's iden- masters, but as stewards, acDenial of Rights dence around the room but they ing to the congress of the Sisters tification of "two main sources" countable to you and your peo~ of Charity of Cincinnati here. of men's enslavement-domina- ple."

In Lemon v Kurtzman, the op- . were nota mere decoration~ Intion by natural' forces 'over side each balloon was a printed "Since Vatican II the Roman ponents to reimbursement He added: "Let no fear of un· question. The participants were Catholic Church has been seen which men have not gained con(Lemon) argued that the reimjust criticism deter'their efforts trol, and domination of man by bursements must be denied on then divided into groups of ten as the pilgrim community of all to serve this nation and the fame man. and discussed a question on the believers, clergy and laity: The the ground that the Supreme bishops said that the whole "While technology is 'not an i1y of nations, particularly in Court has withdrawn the issue subject at hand: unqualified good, it's positive pursuing the elusive goals of Church-each member according Reports and general discussion of parochial school aid from the , peace and justice." followed. The evening wound up to his competence-ought to join contributions to human deveicppolitical arena. ment cannot' he questioned," contempora~ies in advocating so"An even more serious aspect with a tired but happy singing cial priorities and policies for the Msgr. Egan said. of the Appellants' argument, of "To Be Alive:" Punch and cof- betterment of all," the former "Much more pernicious," he' however, is its implied denial of fee were then served. inner city pastor said. !taid, "are the numerous ways in Saturday and Sunday brought the rights of petition, speech, ONE STOP Acknowledging that political which men are imprisoned by press and assembly of those citi- more of the same-sessions after CENTER SHOPPING one another.! Many today are zens who support religiously af- sessions. The highlights were ob- and economic programs "cannot enslaved by poverty, illiteracy • Television • Grocery be deduced from' the Gospel," miated educati~m," the brief said. viou;s: the Friday evening liturgy and powerlessness which unjust • Appliances • Furniture Msgr.

Egan said. !'It is also true According to the brief, the ap- 'concelebrated by the asseml)led ,that Christians cannot divorce , social orders impose. . ." hierarchy of New England; the 104 Allen St., New Bedford pellants have now presented the faith-and the perspective on all "Major reform" ,is needed in Supreme Court with an "incred- Saturday evening liturgy con- reality it affords-from public 997·9354 current political systems, he said. ible assertion" that "even though celebrated by the New England affairs."

"If there is to be ,effective service a statute contains no constitu- CGD Directors; the giant barof the common good, political Political Force becue on Saturday at which 5000 tional infirmity whatsoever, it . ft ELECTRICAL power must coordinate and, were fed in an hour brought to The priest warned against almust nonetheless be declared un~~ Contradon where necessary, regulate ecomind many of the bi1:llical scenes lowing "the legitimate concern constitutional." ~,,~ so familiar to all gathered at the that social involvement runs ~he nomic and 'other social forms of University. risk of identifying the Church power. This entails ,putting huSchedule Assembly Throughout the weekend,peo- with particular ideologies" to be- man values ahead of material considerations. . . ."

ST. PETERSBURG (NC) - A pIe were gathering to share and come "a paralyzing fear."

But since a renewal of politics "By its very presen<:e in soUnited States division of UNDA, to be. In between sessions, small the International Catholic Asso- groups could be seen in all the ciety, the community of believers requires "nothing less than a ciation for Radio and Television, corners of t'he campus, some is a political force, whether it conversion of heal1ts," the Church is 'scheduled to hold its first gen- quietly sharing some new-found speaks or not," he told the Sis- is "inextricably involved in the eral assembly at St. Petersburg, ins·ights, others with a guitarist ters. "And because silence is political enterprise," Msgr. Egan 944 County St. Fla., from Nov. 25 through Dec. at -hand softly singing familiar usually interpreted as consent, said, "as herald of liberation and New Bedford a social catalyst." folk songs. not to take a social position is 1.

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Aeereidit,ed Di,ets Convi1neing Weig!ht-Cons,ei1o,us Nati:oln The tall slender girl in the apricot sheath dress stood poised before the group she' was lecturing to..Flashing a lovely warm smile she began the evening's lecture by holding aloft a picture of an incredibly fat woman and announcing to the startled newcommention to her that she had ers in the listening group heard' that Alice was extremely that this was an actual pic- overweight and invited her to ture of how she looked over Minnie's class. The rest is hisfive years ago, before she lost 167 pounds.'

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begins each of, her lectures before her weight-conscious groups by announoing that she's not a· doctor or a dietitian but that she wiH help the people in these groups lose weight in a sane sensible manner as she did.

For while Alice is not trained in the two fields she mentions 'she is a most popular lecturer on weight control. Her empathy for the overweight men, women, and children who join her classes shines through each one of classes and she seems to' sense when each one -is having a particular problem (such as being depressed over a - very small weight lo~s or even a plus) and she knowingly gears that evening's lecture to that individuat WeIl Known Story Struck by this intuitiveness of Alice's I realized that she's an exceptionally brighL girl (when she graduated Nom Durfee High in 1960 she graduated as one of the top ten in the class) who cares for people. . While there are "many, many people who will ,attest to the fact that Alke Medeiros changed their lives, .Alice attributes the complete and wonderfUJI transformation in her own life to Minnie Somer, a lecturer on overweight from Somerset who took the· initiative to call Alice,

tory for Alice has been written up in newspapers, magazines and even an English tabloid has carried the story of her amazing' weight loss.

Dieting Does Work However what I feel is even more marvelous than Alice's emergence as a lovely butterfly lis the fact that she has kept this weight off herself for over five years and that she now spends a goodly part of her life helping , other people emerge from their cocoons of fat. Lecturing two evenings' a week (arid twice on one of these evenings) and a full time job keeps her pretty busy but she still has time for her sister's children, her friends and of course her large following to whom she brings the~message of hope that they too can ~ose weight.

"If I could do it anyone can." said Alice, "because no one loves goodies more than I do," Alice Medeiros is a living. example that the watching one's diet can and dO'es work, that fat people need not live in a world where they are constantly hurt . and humiliated, that anyone who wants to lose weight can if. they ~>nly want it badly enough and are fortunate enough to meet a lecturer like Alice who remembers sml, how awful it was to be fat. '

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WEST SHOULD MEET EAST: Father Claude Sumner, S.J., head of .the philosophy department at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said in an interview in Muenster, Sask. that Western young people are searching for something' that the East has~mystical experience. NC Photo.

Life: Is Sisters of Charity Condemn Abortior, War, Euthanasia

CINCINNATI (NC)-The Sis- life" are "a total vowed dedicater!! of Charity of Cincinnati de- tion to the Person of Chr,ist, clared their opposition to all ac- lived in a celibate and praying tions that vioJate th'e principle community, for the! servic:e of that "human life is sacred," ':the Church," I "We, therefore, in conscience," A call to every Sister t.o be . ,the Sisters said, "condemn the aware "that -the Church i~; for pra,etices of abortion and eutha- .the world" and to "accept the nasia, condemn the useless kill- responsibility to· become ining in Vietnam and support the formed of world needs a~ld to mell who in conscience canno} . evaluate her personal response bear arms,'~ to these,"· .Publication of Dead Sea A pledge of support and en- .

The statement was issued at congrega~ . couragement of SisterS "who the community's first Scrolls Scheduled _ tional congress,a .six-day session have the interest anc~ ability to J,ERUSALEM (NC) - Publication of 'the Dead Sea Scrolls, in- hem attended by more than become -involved in: social is-' sues." . terrupted by the 1967 Six Day 1,000 Sisters.

The Sisters reaffirmed their A determination to "work to Arab-Israeli War and by the death of Chief editor Father dedication to Christ and their change those systems ,and power Roland de Vaux in 1971, wHl be" commitment both to education structures which contribute to and to social action. Stating that injustices in society." i . resumed in the near future.

A reaffirmation of the "sigThe scrolls, found in 1947 in a "we respect the dignity of every cave in a se~ion known as Qum- human person and affirm his nificance of humility, simplicity, ran on the northwest shore of right to justice," the SiS'ters said charity and awareness of the . presence of God in our lives." the Dead Sea, provide informa" this conviction led them to: tion about a Jewish sect known Support Cesar Chavez and the as the. Essenes' who had a com- United ~arm Workers Union in h Expelled From Brazil, munity there about the t,ime of their lettucce boycott and in their Bis OpS to Meet Priest Goes to Chile Chr,ist.~ struggle for justice.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The SANTIAGO (NC)-Father JoArcheologists and biblical Respect the cultural heritage a?nUalFa~1 meeting of the U. S. seph Comblin, 49, expelled from scholars from several countl"ies of minority groups, condemn in-' bIshops WIll ~e held ~ov. ~.3-17 Bl1aZi1 in March, will· teach at have worked on the documents justices against them. The Sisters . at the' Mamot ~wlln. Bndges the Talca branch of Chile's Cath- from the cave for many years. resolved to work to end the in- Motel here, accordmg to an anolic Un4versity.

Five volumes have already been justices. nouncement of the U. S. Oatholic Brazilian authorities refused published. t' h ' 1 1 .Conference.

-. · I S uppor:t IegIs a Ion t at WI to let the theologian reenter the The new. chief editor of the lead to stable Third World ecocountry after a brief vacation in . project is Father Pierre Benoit his native Belgium. They charged of the Dominicans' E,cole Biblique ni>Inics 'and to a standard of living compatible with human dighim with subversion. here, which, together wi~h the At the time he was director of American Scl'lOol of Or·iental Re- nity. studies 'at the Theological Insti- search and the Lsrael Museum, , A resolutions committee of the tute of Recife, sponsored bv will sponsor publication of the congress compiled a list of "out; comes" from the reports of 114 Archbishop Helder Camara of scrolls. .group discuss.ions and presented Olinda and Recife. The archbishthem to the congress. op , a fiery advocate of social Realists justice, has been under fire from The "outcomes," designed to The most sensible people to be serve as guides to the individual the military government there.

Father Corriblin helped to draft met with in society are men of Sisters and to the congregation's the. Medellin guidelines, a set of business and of the worI,d, who General Chapter to provide a directives updating the social and argue from what 'they see 'and framework . for the chapter's spiritual efforts of the Church in know, instead of spinning cob- decisions, Latin America. The guidelines web distinctions of what things' The "outcomes" include: were approved by the bishop of ought to be.

An affirmation that "the esthe area in 1968.

-Hazlitt sential elements of Religious "

MILWAUKEE (NC) - The School Sisters of St. Francis approved a series of resolutions, including one urging the ordination of all qualified women "-to sacramental ministry in the Church," at their conven·tion here.

The Sisters, meeting at AIverno College, said the current unequal status of men and ,women in the church was spawned by social and cultural conditions which are changing in most countries.

"Chu+ch practice in this matter does not conform to the essential Christian message of equal dignity. for all the hap,tized," the Sisters' resolution said. "As a group of dedicated women, we ought ,to add our voice to those calling the Church to consistency," . Other resolutions .passed by the Sister5' governing body at the convention, which had as its' theme, "A New Consciousness," urged:' Establishment of an education commission to clarify their role in education.

Initiation of workshops to help their work with children, prisoners, alcoholics, youth and parents.

Support of necessary changes: in Church structure and fund,ing to deal with current sOCial needs.

Warns EI Salvador Courts Civil War SAL SALVADOR (NC) - An influential prelate has warned Salvadoreans their- country is,on the verge of "fratricidal war." . . "Recent events. engulfed in impassionate politics, tremendous social and economic inequalities , which have become a chronic disease, and the lack of a patriotic drive to overcome: all these" are, in the opinion of Archbishop Luis Chavez Gonzalez of' San Salvador, at the root of the crisis.

This small and crowded country of 3.5 million has gone through a series of upheavals iII the last few months. The. February elections were called a "fraud" by the bishops and other observers, and an attempt coup ended .in the exile or imprisonment of several leaders. In July the new government of Col. Armando A. Molina sent armored troops into the campus of the National University saying it was to crush "a communist dominated drive."

Archbishop Chavez was instrumental in avoiding bloodshed during the armed occupation of the University campus.

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Warns Ag,a,inst Criti,cizing Other P1eopl,e's Children

rHE ANCHOItThurs., Au!~. 31, 1972

Pion flo Enshrine Re Ii'Cs in A'ri zona

The other day, some of my children were talking about a family who used to live on our block. There were four children, and while they weren't the sweetest, shyest, most genteel little angels, they weren't bad kids. But I guess they weren't so good "Really," I interrupted, "that either. One of my boys said, can't be true. They wouldn't do "You know what they used that. They did some nutty things to do .. /when their parents · . . but they weren't stupid. were out?"

Before I could suggest he not rep,'t a story that was probably better forgotten, all the other Iit-

LAKE HAVASU (NC)-Two relics, one said to be a piece of a bone from the body of St. Thomas More, will be enshrined ,in a Catholic Church to be constructed here in Arizona.

Both relics will be enshrined in Our Lady of the Lake Church, which is to be built on an eightacre site within a mile of where the hisortic: London Bridge has been reconstructed.

What would have happened if the knot untied? They'd _ have been lucky if all they did was break a few legs!"

The church ,is to resemble an English parish church such as was built prior to the Reformation, the period in which Thomas More was executed by Henry VIII for the saint's refusal to approve the monarch's takeover of the church in England.

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tie gossip mongers were eagerly asking, "What? What did they do?"

At that point, the reporter didn't need encouragement ... and didn't hear my admonitions about the evils of calumny.

There was no stopping him.

"You know what they did?" the eagerness of the little listeners made him polish every word ... sculpture every detail ...

"They used to take a mattress off a bed. Then ... they would pull it to the top of the stairs."

He paused, glowing in the attention of his audience.

Incredible Story "Then . . . one of the kids would lie down on the mattress -sideways-and pUll himself all up into a little ball, you know, with his knees pUlled up to his chest and his arms linked tight around his legs."

He interrupted his story to get down on the floor and demonstrate exactly how tight a knot a body could be contorted into.

"Then ... the other kids would wrap the ends of the mattress around him, and take a rope, and tie it up ..."

As he neared his climax, his voice was taut, capitalizing on every bit of drama. "And then ... they pushed him down the stairs!"

The kids were wide-eyed. I found the stOJ;y incredible.

Covering Available At St. Peter's

vAT,ICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican began making black, floppy, hooded raincoats available for tourists seeking entrance to St. Peter's 'BasiliGa who are judged insufficiently attired.

Last summer, at the height of a furor over the posting of nuns at the doors of the basilica to turn away women and girls wearing sleeveless or not-to-theknee dresses, an NC news correspondent suggested to a Vatican official that some kind of loose fitting gown be made available.

The idea to rent gowns was implemented this month. The idea was acceptable to some tourists but differing cultural viewpoints on decent dress and . the )nconsistent judgment of Vatican guards continue to infuriate many.

"Mom ... it's true!"

"Well, I don't believe it. They wouldn't do a thing like that."

"Mom ... I saw them. I know it's true."

"If their mother wasn't home · .. and you're not allowed in someone's house when the parents aren't home ... HOW did you see them?"

He's a fast thinker ... "I was looking through the screen door . . . from the porch."

We ended in a stalemate. I didn't believe him. He said it was true. But, I really didn't think it made any difference. The family had moved and their new ranch home had no staircase.

Same Son . Just a few days later, there was a studio couch upstairs which I wanted moved to the porch. I asked the boys to each take a section, and carry it down for me.

One went with the spare spring. One went with the frame.

The last one went with the mattress.

I heard a voice from the stairs · .. in fact, it was more a whoop than a voice .

"Wheeeeeee beHywhopping in the Summer!"

The same son who had so righteously told the story of those other kids rolling down the stairs in a mattress, was sliding headlong down our stairs on top of a mattress!

Dear God ... please give me strength not to criticize other people's children. Aside from the moral weakness ... every time I do, my own kids turn around and do something worse.

Prelate Hits Capital Genocied Practice WASHINGTON (NC)-Cardinal Patrick O!Boyle accused municipal officials of this predominantly black city of promoting genocide through new abortion regulations.

Looking at the new regulations, the Washington archbishop said "in a city that is 71 per cent black and that includes a measurable amount of poor people, no one can ignore the implications of genocide."

"The Nuremburg war crimes tribunals called abortion promoted among the Jews in Germany a 'crime against humanity,' Cim it be that what was crime in Germany 30 years ago has become a civilized action. in Washington today? Or is it' that history is repeating itself?" asked Cardinal O'Boyle.

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OUTING FOR NEW BEDFORD HOME CHILDREN: Animals will always intrigue youngsters as is evidenced at the annual outing co-sponsored by the Richelieu Club of New Bedford and the Dartmouth Police Department for the children of St. Mary's Home, New Bedford and crippled chUdren of the area. Tracy Pacheco and David Jones of St. Mary's Home are thrilled as Henri Desrosiers, president of the Richelieu Club and Maurice Levesque, chairman of the outing steady the youngsters on a pony's back.

A spokesman for Bishop Edward McCarthy of Phoenix, whose diocese encompasses Lake Havasu, said the prelate obtained the St. Thomas More relic in Rome.

The second re1ic, said to be a piling from the London Bridge predating the 12th century, was obta,ined in London by Arizona Republic columnist Paul Dean and given to the bishop, the spokesman said.

Right to Lif,e

The bone is the "size of a silver dollar" and the! piling "weighs 40 pounds and is 12 inches deep and 14 inches wide," the spokesman said.

Republican'S Urged to Make Real Commitment To Protect Child Before and After Birth MIAMI BEACH (NC)-A prolife exponent has asked the Committee on Resolutions for the Republican Convention to reject abortion as an inhumane practice that is "anti-woman and antichild."

Ms. Majority Mecklenburg appeared before the committee on hE"lnlf of the National Right to ~,l~'c Committee. She is president of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life and vice president of Americans United for Life.

She said that instead of abortion the Republican platform should call for "a realistic commitment to the protection and care of the child, before as well as after birth," Proposed Plank There should also be a commitment, she said, "to assist every woman who bears a child, especially in a distressed pregnancy."

The National Women's Political Caucus wants the Republican Platform Committee to approve a plank favoring abortion on demand. .The proposed "women's plank" for the Republicans is similar to the plank .which the women's caucus presented to the Democrats who rejected it at their July convention in Miami Beach.

At the Democratic convention, the defeated abortion plank called for "freedom of choice and individual oonscience" concerning human reproduction.

Alternatives Proposed Ms. Mecklenburg rejected the idea that a woman's right to control her reproductive capacities includes abortion. "The child in. the womb is neither a part of the woman's body, subject to her absolute control, nor a subhuman creature devoid of human rights," she said.

Ms. Mecklenburg - proposed several alternatives to abortion.

These included:

Establishment of crisis pregnancy services, such as Birthright, Alternatives to Abortion, Lifeline.

Extra financial aid to families that adopt a child with a physical or mental defect; birth insurance to assist parents to care for children born with physical or mental disabilities.

Maternity benefits as part of insurance coverage for the unmarried.

Health care programs that provide adequate pre-natal and postnatal health care for mother and child.

Ms. Mecklenburg is chairma'n of Problem Pregnancy Research and Advisory Committee; an organization established to assist the Minnesota legislature devise legislation to deal with alternatives for problem pregnancies.

"Although abortion irreversibly eliminates one part of the problem-the unwanted baby-it does not deal with the underlying social and economic pressures which cause 'a woman so totally to reject her unborn baby that she seeks its destruction," she said.

Asian Bishops Vote On Secretariat HONG KONG (NC) - Representatives of 14 bishops' conferences in Asia are meeting here Aug. 23-25 to vote on statutes governing a permanent secretariat for an Asian bishops' conference..

The statutes will then be sent to the Vatican for approval.

Last Fall there were reports that the Vatican was trying to hamper formation of an over-all structure uniting the bishops' conferences of Asia and was trying to alter decisions of the 1970 Asian bishops' meeting in Manila, which approved the establishment of the s·ecretariat.

Women1s Education Conference Topic BUENOS AIRES (NC)-Steps to insure that women achieve full educational equality were the 'subject of a four-day meeting here.

The conference, sponsored by the Organization of American States and organized by the Inter-American Commission of Women, a specialized OAS agency, brought together women d~legates from all OAS nations.

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In ·maki.ng arrangements for the meeting, OAS Secretary General Gala Plaza said "we are not only seeking ways to improve the woman's situation at work and at home, but are also interested dn examining the role that women should play in the development of American countries," Speaking for the host-country, Raul A. Quijano, Argentine ambassador to the OAS, said that the nations of the Americas "are determined to offer equal educational opportunity to women of their countries," At present, he said, half of the students in Argentine pr,imary and secondary schools are women, as are more than one-third of those who have graduated from the nation's universities.

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Reta ins Control Of Colleges ~

THE ANCHOR-

Thurs., Aug. 31, 1972

Lettuce Boycott Creates Dilemma In Syracuse

COCHIN (NC) - The Catholic colleges of Kerala state have reopened after settlement with the that continues government Church contro,l of the colleges.

The settlement ends a dispute involving tuition rates and ·the extent of government 'control over the 'schools.

Under terms of the settlement, a f.ive-member commitrt:ee wUl assist Church authorities in. make . ing appointments to the faculties .of the colleges. Three committee membe'1's will be Church representatives. one will be a government official and one will represent the university to which the coHeges are affiliated. All committee members will be nom· . inated by the Church authorities and the committee chairman will be a Church representative.

SYRACUSE (NC)-The lettuce boycott has created a dilemma for some residents of the Syracuse area: Can they support both the boycott and ~ocal farmers at the' same time?

While the boycott is aimed specifically at California and, Arizona lettuce growers. its organizers have urged re[?idents to 'I'efuse to buy all nonunion ice,berg lettuce. Since' Oswego county farm workers have not been unionized, this would ,include lettiIce grown in farms around Syracuse.

Local supporters of the boycott said that it was intended only to put pressure on the growThe settlement also provides. ers in the Western states and for ,the payment of all salaries they said that a boycott of locai by the government and requires lettuce would not help the the colleges to turn over tuition United Farm Workers, the organ,income to the government. The izers of the boycott, in their dispute with Western growers.

"HAPPENING" DISCUSSION AT CCD CONVENTION: Following Friday's sessions, tuition rates are to' be the same Father Donald Bauer, head of priests, religious and m'embers of the laity from the diocese met and reviewed I the high- as those of state coHeges. the Syracuse diocesan OUice of Church authorites are permitHuman Development. noted that lights of the day'S programs. Jerry Reardon of St. Mary's, So. Dartmouth, emphflsizes the ted to select 20 per cent of attended for the, benefit of Mrs. Agnes Perreira of Our Lady of themes of the sessions he because of bad weather and those admiotted to the colleges. other factors. the local lettuce Health Parish, Fall River; Mrs~ Anne Meloni of St. Mark's, Attleboro Falls; and Rev. The settlement was reached crop was only 10 per cent of Thomas C. Lopes of St. Anthony's, East Falmouth. in talks.in New Delhi between its normal size. three representatives of the col'Poor Crop leges-a priest, a Catholic laySpeaking of the Syracuse area man and a Hindu leader-and letrt:uce crop, Father Bauer said, , India Prime Minister Indira Gan· "I would suggest that you eat dhi and Home Minister K.C. • , it aill up! Serve it three times a In Pant. The col,lege represen,tatives day."

I were invited to New Delhi after "Because of the poor Oswego AMHERST (NC)-Kids today addressed the annual New En- drugs to avoid feelings of pain, the failure of initial negotiations crop this year. more lettuce than are spiritual slobs. Morally gland Congress,of Religious Edu- ,he said: "They feel that no one usual is being shipped to your , they're like a dish of jello be- cation here. has ever felt the way they feel. with state authorities. stores from California and Ari- cause they are removed from The theme of the Congress no one has ever been so misunzona, and will be fur the next everything that hurts, said a waH "Man Fully Alive" - the derstood."

Respect Life:· W~ek:.c.

11 months." Father Bauer said priest who works among young prO::>lem of becomfrig more fi.dly , , Such' . attitude ~s nothing in an interview with the Catholic drug addicts. human and the part 'that reli- more than "beautiful manu,re.~' Expended Into rear Sun, the diocesan newspaper F'ather Daniel Egan said the , g.iolls education can play in this. he said. "Put some holy wat,er on RICHMOND (NC) - "~espect here. .

"What does it mean to be it, but it's still manure." ma·in cause of drug abuse .is "the Life Week." designated Oct. 1-7 . Father Bauer told the local ,inability of kids to accept the human?", the soft-spoken fl'iar Young people just don't have by the American CathoUc bish,residents that while they should reaUty of their humanity - to askl~d. "It has to do with feel- the ability to appreciate the ops. has been enlarged into a buy local nonunion lettuce, they really know how to suffer and ing:; of boredom and rejection, beautiful thing that· 'is life, be"Respect for Life Year" in the should bUy only Western lettuce how to hurt." ,the feeling of not being loved- cause society today is so ma- Richmond diocese. tha,t bears the UFWU's black Father Egan. a Graymoor friar these painfu~ kinds of feelings." terialisticaHy oriented 'and everyThe year will begin on Oct. 'I, Aztec eagle la,bel.

Today's young people use thing has to be comfortable. known a,s the "junkie priest." the opening· of Respect Life' 'Father William Brown of Oshe sa~d. wego Catholic Charities said a , .Father Howard McCormicllt. an Week which will be opserved "boyoott of homegrown lettuce 6rganizer of this year's congress' throughout the country. Obserwould only hurt our local farmwhich had more than 400 semi- .vances in Richmond, however, ers and would not recognize the nars, told' a seminar that the will be expanded with separate work they have done to improve bas been lax in fighting months designated to focus atChurch Study Shows Tax Cl"flidit Aid Makes tention on major aspects of conditions of migrant farm drug abuse. : laborers in our own area."

Historical ~;ense "It is too bad the Church still human life - the unborn' child, Father Brown ailso asked supclings to· so many empty con· youth. the aged, family life, pov· WASHINGTON (NC) - Grant· school-and it would be prudent vents and other physical facili- erty, peace and racia} attitudes. porters of the boycott to coning tax benefits to parents of . polky to provide their father ties." he said. tinue to buy local lettuce.

Mrs. Alex H. Williams. coordinonpublic school children makes with an incentive to do so." nator of Respect Life Year's ecu· "If we had a Httle bit of :faith good legislative sense, according Fl~eeman's study "Income menical guidance committee, exMembership Falls, to an education study published Tax Credits for Tuitions and and more of a sense of urg,ency plained that support will come about the drug epidemic, we here.

Gifts in Nonpublic School EduCollections Rise primarily from parishes. build-" would turn some of these Tax benefits have traditionally cation" - was originally pre· NEW YORK (NC)-Contribuings into therapeutic communi"The purpose of Resp~ct Life tions to .the nation's' major be~n allowed for, "special bur. pared for President Nixon's Com· ties to treat young drug addkts." Year." she said, "is to increase Protestant churches are rising. dens borne by the particular tax- mis~:ion on School Finance. It ·Father McCormick; said the our sensitivity to and awareness even though membership is fall- payer...· and to promote "activi- ,was published here recently.

Freeman, senior fellow at meaning and the value of life of human life, and how it is deing. according to a National ties which are regarded to be in Council of Churches (NCC) re- the public interest." said Roger Stanlford University's Hoover has' eluded young drJg addicts. based and destroyed and, most A. Freeman, author of the study. Institution on War. Revolution "What is ever more probable, importantly, how Christian.s. and port. can The NCC figures indicate that Both factors are present in the and Peace said many nonpublic they hav~ never once discovered indeed persons of good schools "may be forced out of a ·reason to live. What a chal- respond to specific needs of the nation's "mainline'; churchgoers are giving more generously case of a parent who sends his existence during ,the 1970's un.' lenge to a true teacher~" he sa'id. human life." to a nonpublic school. less some type of action is taken, than in previous years. The NCC children Freeman said. ' r. to keep them alive." notes, however. that the increase "If Mr. Smith sends his chil- , ·Freeman endorsed tax credits was turned into a deficit because dren to a private school and pays for tuition costs as "the most of inflation. . " Comparative figures for nine tuition, he thereby assumes a effec:tive method of aiding noni· major Protestant denominations special burden which wouldoth- public school education." among the total of 42 in the sur· erwise devolve upon the general, at . Prudence .vey show their total 1971 mem- taxpayer." Freeman explained.

The ba~is of individual and bership to be 25.583,882. or "Mr. Brown whose children attend public schools would be national progress' is the willing266.750 less than in 1970.

Yet these fewer members con- paying higher taxes if Mr. Smith ness to sacrifice'the present for tributed more than two and a did not send his children to a the future. That is the way naquarter billion dollar,s in 1971. an private school. . . . It is. there- tions get ahead, and that is ,the 115 WILLIAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS• increase of more than $63 mil- fore, in Brown's interest to keep .. way individuals get ahead. lion over 1970's figures.

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Welfare Official Loses Job Over Abortion Protest

THE ANCHOR-

Thurs., Aug. 31, 1972

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.MINEOLA (NC) - A Nassau County welfare official has los: SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-The his job in ,a dispute over his dean of Notre Dame University's charges that the department is Center for Continuing Education illegally supply1ng abortion dehas proposed a bill of educational vices to welfare recipients. rights for citizens seeking educaA department hearing officer tion beyond high school. recommended that John Short, department aCCQuntJing director, Dr. Thomas P. Bergin, in a talk be fired. Short was accused of to the National Conference of try,ing to impose his religious Title I, Health, Education and convktions on department polWelfare here, said the bill would icy. provide an individual dollar credIn April James Shuart, county its up to $2,500, based on ability social services administrator, to pay, which could be redeemed suspended Short after he refused for educational opportunities to sign a claim for $10 milldon after high school. in state funds. Short said that According to the bill, Bergin the money would be used to pay said, an individual could' use the for abortion devices. credits at any age and would reA hearing officer found that ceive an incorne stipend to cover Short's actions were prejudicial a part of the salary lost during to discipline, good order and efeducation. ficiency dn the department.

The dean, in a talk entitled, The hearing officer said that 'tA New Look at National Needs "all agreed that intra uterine in Continuing Education: the devices (IUD) did not prevent AMONG THE 300 FROM THE DIOCE~E AT THE CCD CONVENTION: Representa- End to Discontinuity," said the conception, but were in fact , abortifacient or terminated preg- tives from, the diocese attending the CCD Congress at the Amherst Campus of the Uni- bill was one of 10 proposals recnancy." versity of Massachusetts included: Rev. Micnel G. Methot of St. Lawrence's, New Bed- ommended by several task forces involved in a national study at Change in Testimony ford; Sr. Catherine Dufault, RSM, religious cordinator at St. Paul's Parish, 'taunton; Sr. Notre Dame on the future of conIn testimony, however, county officials denied the devices were Della Ann Chartrand, OLVM, consultant of the CCD office, Fall River, and John Ozug, a tinuing education. office during the summer. used. Later, an official told the diocesan seminarian who assisted in the The othe,r proposals, he said, hearing officer that the devices included release time from emwere used in a county medical ployment, retraining for discenter. Despite the change in placed workers, community edutestimony the hearing officer reo cation centers, a national corfused to reopen the case. respondence university, use of The New York State Right to federal and state tax policies, Life Committee has asked the

BY REV. ALFRED McBRIDE beyond. I am not an island for I portunities for our students. We public service as a pacesetter, Nassau County Human Rights St. Iraneus 'says that the glory relate and relation implies an should raise ultimate questions professional education, continu,Commission to hold open hear- of God ,is a man fully alive. In other beyond me who can call for them and challenge them to ing education consortiums and' ings in the case, and Short has other words, it is God's great joy me and enrich me. And finally, develop their capacity to love. model programs in continuing said he will appeal his dismissal. to see his people achieve the contingency shall not defeat me In kerygma and worship we education.

The controversy began last fullness of their personhqod. The with its deception. For I am not should prod' them to sense the April when Short ,wrote Shuart developing human is a disclosure a mere accident. Shakespeare radical demand of God that they that "funding for abortion as a of the divine handiwork. God's said, "Shall I compare thee to a should come alive, to the poten- Black Lay Catholic means of family planning is exradical demand is that we be- summer's day. No, thou are more tials that he has planted in them. Caucus Convenes cluded at all levels of governcome who we were called to be, beautiful by far." In other words Our catechesis ,is of the living; ment."

CLEVELAND (NC) - More namely, persons in the joyous I am ,incomparable. I am an OI'ig- our struggle is not unto death, He said the welfare departthan '600 delegates to the third inal, and thus more than any rebut unto the manna of God that ment was promoting the use of and ultimate sense. annua~ convention here of the duction to a simple contingency. Is fullest life. that religious I would contend abortion devices, and he refused National Black Lay Catholic Question Exhaustively to sign the request for the state experience, faith and official reTake the Pain Caucus pledge themselves to ligion are the normal components Get to the ultimate questions. funds until he was assured that "a total new awareness and a within whieh to become an alive In the story of Jonathan SeaThis is a corollary of spirit the department would not issue greater input into nation buildperson.

God is not a dictator, gull we have the typical problem stretching. We live in a time the devices. ing in the black community." , Shuart suspended Short saying threatening and forcing us to be~ when man wa'lks on the moon, of transcendence. Jon is told that Representatives of local chap· that "he refused to carry out an come, rather he is the infinite transplants human hearts and he must be Hke the other memlover creating the possibHity for isolates life in a test tube. Yet bers of the flock. He tries hard 'ters throughout the country administra~ive function." The social services commissioner said such a happening. I wish to offer we still persist in questioning but soon finds that he has a adopted statements on social Ills, that abortion devices are not " a series of imperatives that lo- and asking the why of it all. I yearning within him beyond the politics, black theology, educa~ part of the department's family cate stages of growth in the pro- know of a teacher who uses the narrow limits of 'his community. , tion and the black family's pocess of becoming alive. The first Greek myths to quicken her stu- He tries new and dangerous tential for contributing to the planning service. ' three stages are conditions for dents into understanding man as theories and practices of flying. black community. the possibility of re~lgious expe- questioner.

Then everything seems to go Catholic-Lutheran A post-convention statement rience, which is the event above Questioning is a technique for wrong. It lis night and he is full said that the Caucus is still foReport Published all urging us to full personhood. creating a situation to release the of pain and despair. He decides cusing "on a black archbishop COLLEGEVILLE (NC) - The Then I will speak of the role of boundless reach of people, to to give up. After 'all, if there is for Washington, D. C., and other report of the meetings of the faith and official religion and cause a universal thirst that al- no challenge there will be no dioceses as a means of obtaining Lutheran-Roman Catholic Study some consequences which floW ready 'lurks in the secret recesses failure - and certainly no de- black input in policy making .

Commission from 1967 to 1971 from this happening. of the human spirit, to disclose spair. But then he finds himself decisions as they affect the lives Stretch Your Spirit has been printed in "Worship," the unlimited desire of the huTurn to Page Twelve of black people."

Take the first step, which is man heart. It is a questioning 'a review published by St. John's reaching beyond yourself. It Is that finally asks the absolute Abbey here in Minnesnta.

The report, which is 25 pages no accident that the Man of La yearning, "Can there be a relong in the June-July issue of the Mancha is a dominant metaphor sponse to my ultimate demand magazine, also has been pub- for our times. To dream the im- for perfect fulfllllment?" This lished in "Lutheran World." A possible possibHity, to reach for question creates a niche for the special section of the document the unreachable star Is the initial Holy-a sanctuary for the divine. contains "special statements" by thrust of the human person to be 'It is a radica:l summons to an five of the signatories of the re- beyond himself. Without spirit infinIte to come. port in which they comment on stretx:hing and personal selfDevelop Capacity 'and 'sometimes object to, its transcendence, there is little We .can't always count ~mfall­ likelihood of coming aJ.ive. contents. , / / / \ Even darim~tion serves as sig- ing in 'love, but we can expand The participants of the Interour capacity to love.

This can national Study Commission de- nal of transcendence. After Auveloped the report at their Feb- schwitz the Jewish community occur dn works of service and ~ \ So Can All ruary, 1971 meeting. The com- hoped that the execution of Eich- perhaps even more so in the act ~lW!& Be Proud mission's meetings from 1967-71 mann might relieve the awesome of fore-giveness. That is, we give had dealt with such topics as anguish of holocaust. Yet after ahead of time to the other the , VOl Our "Ho,."e Town" "Gospel and Tradition," "World they executed die man in the sense of welcome back to friendand Church under the Gospel," glass booth, there was the rec- ship.

Acknowledge Gift the issue of ecclesiastical office ognition that no human punishOur task as religious eduoators and "Gospel, Law and Christian ment suftiices.

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Parents Helping Others Tell Children Something One of the main criticisms of our Catholic youth drop,outs is that their .parents and their Church don't care about the poor, the dispossessed, those "others." In a recent survey by Msgr. George A. Kelly, Catholic HighcSchool seniors said that it was more imNext to money, time is our portant to work for racial prime possesion. Time is prejustice than to go to Mass C;ious to us. We can spend it on on Sunday. When this i~ ourselves or on others. The WfiY compared to their parents' overwhelming belief that the, Church should .stay out of social affairs, we can see that the two genera-

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tions aren't 'talking the same Christianity. ' We can't keep ignoring this basic return to gospel Christianity forever. I'm not proud of it but this siime kind of unspoken reproach has occurred in our home.

More than once, one of our children has remarked tha t"we sure talk about the poor a lot more than doing anything about them."

They're right.

It's difficult, even if the Catholic parent sees the need for Christian involvement, to furnish anything remotely resembling the kind of involvement of which Christ spoke in the gospels. But it's also much easier for children to criticize their parents than to change their own life styles.

No Takers A mother told me that once, when her children were accusing them 'of affluence, they said, "Okay, we agree. We have more than we need. Others are starving.' How many are wiJIing to forego our vacation this year to send the money to a hungry, Philippine family?'''' There were no takers. There were no more accusations, either, but the basic 'problem wasn't solved.

We, as parents, have to do more than talk about Christian charity. We' have to show it in our own reactions and in our own lives daily. We are living in different culture than gospel times and it isn't very realistic for the average family to "sell what we have and give it to the poor.'!

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To Parish Work OA~LAND (NC)-Two priests who established Education and Catholic Charities departments for the Oakland diocese' have resigned their posts in order to , devote full time to parish work.

Msgr. Pearse Donovan founded the department of education when the diocese, of Oakland was formed in 1962. That year, Msgr.

John McCrackern established Catholic Social Service. , Both were heads of the departments they founded. Msgr. Donovan is pastor of Corpus Christi parish in Piedmont, and Msgr.

McCracken is pastor of All Saints parish in Concora~

we spend our time indicates our emphasis in life. If we're jealous of it, using any extra time for our own work or pleasure, it tells our children something. If we use it to visit the elderly, to listen to the emotionally disturbed , to help the poor find housing, to benefit others, it tells ,our children something.

"I don't have time .. ." is one of the most hated phrases our children hear today. And we parents use it all the time. We don't have time to hear them out. We don't have time to take our dinner to the park. We don't have time to help others. . Takes Time Once, after hearing our kids talk about, a family Seder meal, a friend of mine said, "I' would like to do something like that· in our family, but we just don't have that kind of time. You're lucky you do.'"

I clamped my teeth on my tongue to keep from ,saying, "Lucky! It didn't take luck to read up and prepare' for the meal. It took time."

When a friend becomes ill, we go through the perfunctory actions of sending a card and/or a meal. -After that, we forget him.

Duty done. When' a friend loses a spouse, we overwhelm him for two weeks with invitations and then forget him. When we read about a hungry family, we send a dollar, forgetting they'll soon be' hungry again.

Our children' see this. They sense ,the vaiue of our time and they watch where 'we use it. If we resent requests to help others, they know it and this knowledge offsets all our words about helping others. They simply don't believe us.

Needs Go On I don't need to list the needs of people. I suspect that deep down, all of us who say, "We should like to do something but don't know what to do to help others," really do know something we can do.

We know the alcoholic housewife who needs patience and support, the 'emotionally ill neighbor who needs us to listen, the divorcing couple who needs help,. the long-winded oldster who needs someone to listen, the .nursing home residents who need someone to chauffeur them, the drugged youth who needs adult guidance, the delinquent who needs a Big Brother, and the young mother who is held cap,tive by babies and needs someone to bail her out once in a while. . ·But these are uncomfortable uses of time to many of us. We' want ,to do something Big, like.. feed the hungry. Or nothing at all. So we do nothing at all and our children do nothing. And the needs go on and Christianity doesn't make much difference in the neighborhood.

PREACHES RETREAT: Rev. Joseph M. Champlin, a feature writer of the Know Your Faith Series published nationally and carried weekly i.n The Anchor, will preach the: annual retreat for the priests of the Diocese of Fall River at Cathedral Camp from September 4 to 8.

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Continued from Page Eleven trying one more time and he makes the breakthrough. He tells his community they can be free.

They reject him and exile hini to the ,Far CHffs. He has sorrow at their refusal to grow, but f,inds new joy after the pain. He now eat!; the fish in the deep and the insects inland and sleeps in the arms of the universe. And after 'a long time flies so high that he enters the beyond and the possibilities of ulti'!1ate fuUill e ment. To be alive and free will bring pain as its price.

Robert Kennedy was fond of quoting Aeschylus on the matter of pain which falls drop by drop upon the human heart until the awesome presence of God is re, vealed. Jesus asks us if we can drink the cup. We should be really to say yes.

We need not be 'afraid of pain and the multiple 1<itUe deaths.

Dylan Thomas says: "And death shall have no dominion Dead men nakes, they shaH be one with man in the west wind and the moon. Wh~n their bones are picked clean and their clean bones gone, They shaLl have stars at elbow and foot Though they go mad they shaH be sane, Though they sink through the sea, they shall rise aga:in Though lovers be lost, love shaLl not. And death shall have no dominion."

The purpose of pain and death is life, ,inasmuch as it is the master possibility that unlocks all intermediate possibilit,ies. The Cro:;s of Jesus plainly shows that ·serious trial precedes any resurrection.

The religious educator has the call to enable students to come to II meeting with God, to the world of faith, to the imperative of r,eligion which is to speak and perform radkal love to the world. Thus the catechist will join issue in the project of help,ing students to be fuHy ·alive. ,And despite Whatever happens, with all its potential crudities, doubts and confusions, the love of man and the pra,ise of God will somehow prevail.

P~Lrish Parade

ST. PATRICK, FALL 'RIVER Tohe annual Parish Festival wiil be held on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23 and 24 on the schoo.l grounds. The feature on SaturST. ANNE, day wiJI be a ham and bean sup~ NEW BEDFORD per to be served between 5 and The Notre Dame College Cho- 7:30. Tickets may be obtained. raleers from Manchester, N. H. from Eugene Connors. will give a concert for the beneLeonard Bolger is chairman fit of ,the parish at 7:30 on Sun- and he is appealing for workers day even,ing, Nov., 5 in the and donations of canned goods, church. bottled items and money.

Marcel G. Morency, general ST. JOSEPH, chairman of theaff,pr has an- 'ATTLEBORO nounced that AlhertCouture, a Rev. Edmund Micarelli, Scout noted baritone from Manchester Cjlaplain for the Diocese of Provwill be one of the fe~tured solo- idence has announced that 5t.

Joseph's Troop No. 37 wiH reist~. : . Also scheduled to. render solo ceive the "Bishop Russell J. Meselections is Miss Denise Moren- Vinney Award" for Catholic parcy of New Bedford, a voice ma- ticipation in scouting.

The award will be presented jor in performance and music education at Notre Da/TIe College. by Bishop GeHneau at the Scouting AwaTd Dinner scheduled for ST. MICHAEL, December.

OCEAN GROVE 'Mr. Alden Anderson has acThe parish school board. has cepted the position of cubmaster announced that there are some for Pack No. 37 and Mr. Hollis vacanoies for students in grades Smith will serve as th~ pack's one- through seven. Further -in- temporary chairman.

A penny social will be conformation may be obtained by contacting Mother Superior at ducted at 8 o'clock on Saturday night, Sept. 23 in the church hall.

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Form Committee to Educate' Public on POI)ulation Growth WASHINGTON (NC)-A citizen's committee, co-chaired by TV personality Hugh Downs, will attempt "to help the public in understanding" that abortion and birth control are not the only issues in the problem of population growth.

The statement from Downs came at a press conference here at which John D. Rockefeller III announced the formation of the committee "to keep the findings and recommendations of the Commission on .population Growth and the AmerIcan Future before the public."

Rockefeller is chairman of the ,Commission· on Population Growth. which has had :;OJ~e rough going since it released Its recommendati~ns last March on how to .deal With th~ problern~ of populatIOn growth 10 .the United States. .' .

I~s. recommendat!o~~ for public ~olicles to promote h~eral abortlOn . stat~tes has 4rawn the ' heavle~t flr~, not only ,from U: S. ~atholic biShops, conserVative :',rot~stants, .and J:w s , but from • reSident NIXon himself.

'Compre~ensive Look' .

Rockefeller IS honorary ch~I~man of the newly formed Clt!zens Committee on Population and the American Future. "Hopefully," said Rockefeller, "through the formation of this committee, controversy and emotion can , now be replaced by rational discussion and analysis." .

At no time did any of the speakers refer directly to abortion or contraceptives- in their prepared speeches, but they later did so in response to questions Black activist and feminist , Eleanor Holmes Norton of New' York City and Stepheq L. Salyer, member of the Population Growth Commission" are cochairmen with Downs on the citizens committee. ~owns praised the Population Growth Commission's report as "the most comprehensive look any nation in the world has taken of its future" regardinl: the

growth of population in the United States.

Has Catholic View , "Most public comment on the report has been directed at two or three controversial recommendations," Downs said. "We cannot allow these to remain in the public m,ind as the su'!1 of the commission's work when this balanced and reasonable report contains so much information of imPortance."

Downs later told' NC News Service'that he personally does not see liberalized abortion laws as the best solution of achieving zero population growth. Although not a Catholic, Downs said that in this respect his view.s are similar to those of many Cathlics.

"I would hope that art enlightened society would abandon abortion," said Downs. He em-' phasized, however, that the purpose of the Citizens Committee is "to insure that all the recommendations get a fair hearing."

To accomplish this, Downs said, the Citizens Committee will bring the Population Growth Commission's recommendations and other findings to policymakers, the general public, and national mass membership organizations.

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• Pol itics and The Spiritua I Are 'Inseparable' to Black Sisters LOUISVILLE (NC) - Subjects being discussed by the National Black Sisters' Conference may seem more attuned to a political gathering than a meeting of nuns, but that's not the case, according to the Sister who heads the four-year-old conference.

Commenting on "The Politics of Black Life in America"-the theme of the conr"erence's meeting here-Sister Mary Martin de Porres Grey said that the spiritual and the political are "absolutely inseparable" and that "there is no spiritual decision that does not have political ramifications. "

Bishops Deplore Socialism Trend SAN JOSE (NC) - In sharp contrast to a Chilean group:s slogan of "Christians for Socialism," the Costa Rican bishops have issued a call to "Christians for Christianity.

"Under this call let us fight on behalf of the poor, of the underprivileged, of the exploited,:' the Costa Rican Bishops Conference sa'id at the end of a special meeting here.

The meeting was called to deal with the impact on this country, of an April conference held in Santiago, Chile, by a leftist movement called Christians for Socialism.

The statement reflects the widespread concern in Church circles about a growing effort by Catholic and Protestant clergymen to implement the ideas of top Commtini;t leaders. .

The Christians for Sodalism conference quoted Ernesto "Che" Guevara as saying that "the day Christians decide ,to give total witness for the revolution in Latin America, this movement will become invincible."

Bishops in Chile, Colombia, Agentina, Mexico and now Costa Rica have issued warnings against a trend to the left by their clergy.

The Costa Rican bishops called on CathoHcs here "to remain loyal to Christ."

Cautious Optimism On Ecumenism PARIS (NC)-A mood of cautious optimism about the ecumenical relationships between Cathojics and Protestants in France was prevalent here with the approach of the 400th anniversaryof the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre-one of the bitterest religious bloodlettings in French history.

The word "progress," perhaps ecumenism's most important product, is the one most frequently used by both Cardinal Francois Marty, head of the French Bishops' Conference, and leaders in the French Protestant Federation and the 'French Reformed Church in discussing the situation.

The federation is a combination of six denominations with about 660,000 members, plus several Protestant agencies.

It is high in prestige, important as a minority and widely respected because traditionally the Protestant community has been the source of many intellectuals and diplomats in French history.

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"People have to realize the depth of politics," she explained, adding that efforts to bring this realization to m~mbers of the National Black Sister' Conference (NBSC) "have been slow" and "it has taken this long-four years-to do it."

Sister Martin de Porres, NBSC founding president and executive director, said an understanding of politics is part of the emphasis the conference has placed on the education and training of black Religious for work in the black community.

Three institutes at the meetnig deal with participation and control, education, and the penal system. They are examples of the educational and training programs being sponsored by the conference, Sister Martin de Porres said.

Training Approach "We have .people who are ready to work and who are not afraid to work," she commented.

"We're able to affect change in institutions. There is a new awareness we h,ave to make a choice."

She added that the NBSC "deals only with action,'! preparing people to become involved in the black community and 1If:>ring about change in "what goes on down where the brothers and sisters are" in the black community.

Sister Mary de Porres said "our training approach is unlike others 'for Religious. Observing that other groups are caught up in the institutions that are oppressive," she noted that "we feel we're outsidl:!' We have nothing to risk by making choices."

Sister Martin de Porres explained that the conference has been involved in work in education and prisons and has also extended to international affairs with some involvement in African poHtics.

"We want black schools" that operate in a Catholic atmosphere and "are· significant to black people," she said. These schools "belong to the (black) community," she said, and it is important to have, in them black women ReHgious and for these schools to "deal with values."

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MOSCOW (NC) - An official newspaper in Lithuania, a Catholic stronghold in the Soviet Union, warned against "administrative attacks on Catholics and insults to believers' sentiments."

The article, which appeared in the official Communist newspaper Sovietskaya Litva, was interpreted by observers here as a recognition of the strength of traditional religious feelings among the Lithuanians.

Cardinal Angelo Dell'Acqua

Cardinal, Dies At Lourdes Angelo Cardinal Dell'Acqua, vicar general for Rome died suddenly on Sunday morning while leading a traditional. torchlight procession in front of Basilique du Rosaire at Lourdes, France.

The 68 year-old cardina,1 was a close friend of Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.

He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967 by Pope Paul and was named Vicar of Rome in 1968. The vicar general administers the Rome diocese in the name of 'the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome.

During the same year, the late cardina,1 visited the United States and received honorary <tegre~s from Fordham University and Loyola in Chicago.

The death of Cardinal Dell'Acqua . reduces the number of cardinals to 116. Eighteen cardinals have died since the last consisoory in 1969 when the Sacred College numbered 134.

Council Criticizes Health Guidelines

PITTSBURGH" (NC) The Pittsburgh Catholic Interacial Council (CIC) has criticized the 'No Common Point'· U. S. Bishops' guidelines for She explained that "a lot of health facilities for failing to adyoung people are attracted to dress the issues of discrimination black Religious," adding that' and call'e for the poor. much of this has to do with The ·council said the "Ethical "where we are." Black nuns and Religious Directives for "have some visions," and they Catholic Health Facilities," isare prepared to translate these sued by the bishops last year; into actions, Sister Martin de did not deal with problems such Porres said. "People need that." as Catholic hospitals refusing adCommenting on the .black mission to persons lacking cash movement in the United States, or insurance, fighting unionizaSister Martin de Porres said. tion of low paid workers, oppos" it is not a movement toward ing the inclusion of poor people separatism (of the races), but the on their boards, planning and movement is accepting the sep- building facilities without regard to community needs, and disaratist condition."

She added that "as long as I crimination against 'black emcan see" there will remain two ployees and patients. societies-black and white. "It's "This is not to say that efforts .not our decision," she explained. to right some of these wrongs "What exists has been the deci- have not been made by the hossion of white men." pitals," the council's critique This will continue; she added, said. "It is to say that the Ethiuntil the two societies have some cal and Religious Directives of "commonality" 'and can see how the Department of Health Affairs they can work together," There are too narrowly focused to be is "no common point now," she of any guidance or help to explained, "no consensus or com- Catholic institutions in areas of moral concern." mon point."

In the past year several incipentshave highlighted the persecution of Lithuanian Catholics.

Late last year about 2,000 Catholics in the town of Prenai signed an opim letter claiming that Lithuanian clergymen were being restricted in the performance of their religious duties, and protesting the arrest of their own

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In February, more than 17,000 Lithuanian Catholics sent petitions to United Nations General Secretary Kurt Waldheim, accusing Soviet officials of persecuting Catholics. In May, just before President Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union, thousands of youths rioted in Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, after the funeral of a Catholic youth who had burned himself to.death "for political reasons."

"Wrong methods of combating religion ... lead to an intensification of religious fanaticism and hidden forms of rites, and cause discontent and distrust among believers and embitter them," the Lithuanian newspaper article said.

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ASalute To The American Worker

LABOR DAY SEPT. 4~

United Labor Council of Greater Fall River American Federation of Labor .and Congress of Industrial ()rganization

* International Brotherhood of Electrical * Amalagated Clothing Workers of Workers Union, local 437 America, local 177 * International Brotherhood of Electrical * Amalagated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers Union, local 1505 Workers of North America, local 2 Brotherhood of Pulp, * Amalagated Transit Union, local 174 * International Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, * American Federation of Musicians, local 407 local 216 * JourneymE!n Barbers, local 331 * American Bakery and Confectionery Workers, local 20 * National Association of letter Carriers, Branch 51 * American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees, local 1118 * Retail Clerks, local 1325 * American Federation of State, County, Municipal "Employees, local 1701 * Sheet Metal Workers, local 501' * American Postal Workers Union, * Textile Workers Union of America, local 511 Joint Board * Firelocal Fighters Association of Fall River, * Textile Workers Union, Taunton local, 1314 469 * Insurance Workers of America, local * United Furniture Workers of America, 21 local 159 * International Association of Fire Fighters, local 1802, Westport * Newspaper .Guild of Greater Boston, Permanent Firefighers Association local 32 r~o.

IN MEMORIAM To Dedicated Leaders of the Labor Movement James Tansey Manuel J. Lopes William R. Medeiros John Golden John R. Machado John F. Reagan John L. Campos Joseph P. Dyer Edward F. Doolan Mariano S. Bishop George H. Cottell

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Cost, Disposal of M'ultiple Wrappings Now Obno.~ious

By Joe and Marilyn Roderick

Yesterday the mailman dropped off our first delivery from one of the mail order houses from which we order garden supplies. This was a package containing two irises which are ready to be planted now. How the company sending us an expensive shakes (made with skimmed package containing ~wo little' mi'lk, ice cubes, artificral sweet.irises can make money, is ener and flavoring) are the highsomething I have wondered Hght of her day.

about. This particular order contained a number of items which I am sure will be sent by separate mail, but it is inconceivable that there is not a less expensive way to get my flowers to me. Of course, we all know that the cost of packaging is passed on to the consumer but in this case it was ridiculous.

Anyone who does any shopping at aH realizes that packaging has become ridiculous in terms of cost to the consumer.

It seems to me that almost everything I buy is / equaI in . weight and volume to the container it comes ,in and this in turn creates a burden for those who are responsible for its disposal. A simple box of fr~zen peas comes to us with several layers of paper. over a box and a cellophane or plastic container.

Multiply' this by the number of \ items that we use daily in our homes and the price and i~con­ venience caused by the packag,ing industry is incalculable.

Calamity Stage This is one of those areas that has burgeoJ;ledalmost imperceptibly over the years but is now reaching proportions which approach a calamity. We are being packaged to death both economically and ecologically and we have no recourse but to continue paying the cost of the packaging and assuming the cost of ,its disposal.

In the Kitchen We've tried diets, threats etc. on 11 year old Melissa'who was fast packing on the pounds.

N~thing .worked because the d~­ sire just wasn't there. Out of the blue one day our answer came in the form of a local diet conscious class. Meliss!l's friend had started to attend, she was only a year older than our gal and she was doing very well, 10snggraduaIly but at a steady pace. !I broached the su1?ject to Lisa hesitantly but I was delighted when she said she'd at least give it a try. Ten weeks and 15 pounds later Melissa is a new young lady. She's energetic, her skin and'hair shine and she looks lovely in the·body shirts and hip huggers that she's now able to wear.

Foodwise she has never eaten so much really good food, five fruit's . a day, four ounces of vegetables' at dinner each eveningand of course those, five fish meals each week.

At La AA A revised diet program aIlows Melissa four breads a day-one of these breads could becomeby courtesy of the blenders-a blueberry pancake or if Lisa wanted to give one of them up, she can even substitute a half cup of cooked rice or mashed potatoes. Her evening milk 0

Joe and I are both very proud of her because it's .very difficult to be a little girl who, has to watCh her sister and brother eat the goodies she's no~ allowed.

Along with the substantial diet " aHowed, I truly believe what reidIy keeps Mel,issa on this diet is the weekly meetings where a spirit is present that is hard to describe. It's' an atmosphere of warmth and hOPl;l where each member of the group is rooting for the others' and where the lecturer is a sympathetic victor' over weight who has reached her goal.

This is without, a doubt Melissa's favorite diet conscious dessert recipe. She can only eat one serving of this because her diet only allows one banana each week.

Banana Bavarian 1,4 cup cold water 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1,4 cup boiiJing water 2 ripe bananas % cup instant non-fat dry ' milk 1,4 feaspoon coconut flavor ,1,4 .;teaspoon vaniHa. Artificial sweetener to equal 6 teaspoons sugar 4 to 6 ice cubes 1) Pour water into blender.

Add gelatin, let stand to soften, add boiling water.

2) Add 1 banana, non-fat dry milk, flavoring and sweetener.

Blend until smooth.

3) Add ice cubes, one at a time, blending after each addition. Slice remaining banana and fOld into blended mixture. Pour into dessert glasses. Serve qmme-' diately or chill, if desired. Makes 2 servings. <

Spiritual - Ethical Education Needed TOKYO (NC)-The head of the Vatican delegation to the third International Conference on Adult Education e.mphasized the need for education in spiritualethical development in adult education programs.

"The basic aim of adult education should be the 'development and the liberation of man in his total existence: individual and social, economic,. cultural and 'spiritual," said Jesuit Father Joseph Pittau, rector of Tokyo's Sophia Univ~rsity and head of the' Vatican delegation to the conference.

The conference was sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Father Pittau told the conference that "one of the fundamental needs for adult education is precisely to liberate man from attitudes which lead to injustice, .privilege and oppression, or in the have-nots to attitudes of dependency, passivity and frustra" tion." .

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Superintendent ·Favors Consolidation •

.sIOUx CITY (NC)-The Catholic school superintendent here in Iowa agrees with a presidential consultant that school consolidation is needed, and he says high school enrollment has risen during a period of consolidation here. lVIsgr. James K Lafferty said, however, that the con~ultant was wrong when he said ·that Catholk bishops are ~eluctant to merge schools. ~Ishops here, Msgr. Lafferty saId, have been active and successful in consoli-' dating scho?ls. .

1n an artIcle In the Globe, the dio~cesan newspaper here, M~gr.

Latferty commented on an artIcle

G4i!rman Clergymen P.'each .on Peace

MUNICH (NC) - The leading Catholic ·and Lutheran clergy-' men of West Germany preached on the same topic-peace-on the first Sunday of the summer Olympics, Aug. 27. They appeared at separate ceremonies, though an ecumenical service has: been announced for later during the games. , Cardinal Julius Doepfner, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference preached at the just reopened cathedral here. Lutheran Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger, chairman of the Evangelical' (Lutheran) Church Council in Germany, delivered his sermon at St. Mathew's church, where the Anglican Dean Lancelot Fleming of Windsor, England, ~a!; present. Dean Fleming's attendance has a special significance. Many of the athletes and spectators at t~e Olympics· are members of the Anglican Church..

There are many religious and denominational activities ex, pee ted here during the Olympics.

'The games started Saturday, Aug. 26, and continue until Sept.

18. Except for yatching races in the north German port of Kiel, almost all_Olympic events are being held here in the capital of Bavaria, -which is considered the stronghold 0 of Catholicism in We:rt Germany.

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by Louis Gary, a consultant to the presidential Commission on School Finance, in a recent issue of Saturday Review.

Gary, writing on '~Collapse of Non-public educ,ation: Rumor or Reality" told the bishops that to prevent the demise ,of Catholic education "the Catholic leadership must begin immediate, massive, consolidat~on of.. Cat):I.olic schools.", Bishops privately: concurred with this view, he said, but they "are reluctant to initiate such a move themselves" because they fear confusion and mistrust amo~g parishioners. , .

"The whole high school effort in the dJocese has pri;>ved Gary's theories quite correct," wrote.

Msgr. Lafferty. ' "However; contrary to Gary's analysis of the fearful hesitancy on'the part of the bishops in promoting school reorgaqizatio:n, the current Ordinary, Bishop Frank H. Greteman, as well, as his predecessor, former Ordinary Bishop Joseph M. Mueller,' has been most adamant about the need for such efforts."

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Lafferty said that enroll~ent has actually increased from ~,619 in 1948 to :4,63Q in 1971-'7>2. The current high school :nrplIment here is even slightly hlgqer than in the peak years of the early 1960s, the priest said, an~ "little change is expected" this fall. .In the elementary schools, he said, enrollment 'reductions due to mergers have- never s~rpassed 15 per cent and expected enrollment for the consolidated grade schools "is slightly ahead of last year's figure."

He noted the projected increase in students in the consolidated elementary schools was in contrast to declines in registrations in individual grade schools in the Sioux City diocese and across the nation. The students at consolidated grade schools will number 3,400 this fall. .Msgr. Lafferty said, "the consolidation of parochial schools at elementary and secondary 'levels has proved to be .the key item involved in making small independent parochial schools renewed centers of Christian culture and instruction f,or the future."

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Sees Sovereignty· Problem· Among Developing Nations

Prelate Refuses To Sign Protest

When the Bishops in their synodal document speak of developing people's "Right to Development" and of the need to bring them fully into the process of planning and decision-making at the world level, we confront a difficulty. How in fact are decisions made in international vading Norman Barons from Britain. Since then, for seven affairs? In the main, they centuries -the British have never are made by governments learned how to manage their re-

and, again in the main, governments ·in the modern world are supposed to represent nation.':.

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All this seems quite straightforward. But in fact a nation is not an easy community to Pl!L or hold together. The idea of a "nation" is only a few centuries old. The French were the first modern community to make language and frontiers coincide and to produce a "nation-state" called France.

But suppose, as in Quebec, one province' speaks French but makes up only one-third of a state - the state of Canadamost of whose other citizens speak English. What is then the basis for a national government?

Many Quebec people say: "We speak French. We have the right to have a separate sovereign government based on our language." But those who support Canada's federal system say: "By history, by joint action, by common. interests, we citizens, speaking both English and French, have learned to work together as a community. If you break it up, Canadian English-speakers may turn to the United States.

The remaining French could be reduced to a poor, isolated crippled community-rather like the French-speaking islands in the Caribbean. Let us therefore stay together as a Bi-Lingual Republic, we shall be richer, stronger and more free."

lations with the Irish.

One of their acts, in the 17th century, was to bring over Protestant Scotsmen as settlers to Ulster in Northern Ireland, in part to keep the Catholic Irish under control. Today, there are about two million of them. They live with some half millon Irish Catholics in that part of Ulster that was detached from an independent Ireland after the first world war and made part of Britain.

New Nations Thus the position today is that if. you take the original Irish island as the "national". unit, you have a very large Scots Protestant minority in the North who reject this concept ofa nation. But if you leave Ulster with its present boundaries as part of Britain, nearly a third of its whole population reject such a basis for sovereignty.

The Canadian and the Ulster examples are taken from the developed world where there is, in theory at least, enough wealth and elbow room to make rapid economic and social change at least a possi'ble way to changing attitudes and defusing conflicts.

But what about the new nations in the developing world?

Here poverty, lack of education, lack of work and hope can drive people straight to such appalling tragedies as that of Pakistan, where after more than two decades as a dual nation with, two "wings," the desire for greater. autonomy in the east wingnow Bangia Desh - was first ferociously suppressed by the Pa-thans and Punjabs of West Pakistan and finally realized with the help of an outside power in the shape of the Indian army.

Needs Rethinking

Now, mercifully, there are signs of pacification. India and The conflict is thus not be- "West" Pakistan are talking tween good and bad versions p,eace. The east Bengalis are beof the state. It is between differ- • ginning to cope with the appallently conceived versions of what ing problems of creating in -a gOC1d state ought to be. Yet Bangia Desh a state of 75 milthe division has been so bitter lion people almost from ecothat Quebec extremists strangled nomic scratch.

Yet, the Bangia Desh tragedy a political leader with a chain to make their national and lin- can be repeated in every developing continent. It is only in the guistic point.

Or take anpther tragic modern last year that the Arabs north conflict based on opposite con- of Sudan have started on the cepts of nationhood. The Irish road to real reconciliation with people can say, with every justi- the Christian and pagan South. fication, that their own culture In Columbia and Brazil, the oriand language were knocked, off ginal Indian communities are their true course of development still threatened. One of the un~ in the early middle ages by in- dercurrents of fear in South East Asia is that· whoever wins in Vietnam, the Vietnamese are much tougher than their neighBan On Rhc)desia VATICAN CITY (NC)-A Vat- bors in Cambodia or Laos.

In fact, may not the. Western ican Radio editorial implied that the ban on Rhodesia in the Olym- idea of attaching "sovereignty" .pic games was hypocritical. "Are to something called a nation 'all the nations who are partici- need some careful rethinking pating in the Olympic games in amohg d,eveloping peoples? InMunich immune from racism, the deed, may it not need it even in factor which expelled Rhodesia?" Europe where it was invented first? the editorial asked.

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HUGH CAREY

Brooklyn's Congressman Carey Co.Spons~rs Tax Credit Bill WASHINGTON (NC) - Hugh tine's High School in Brooklyn, Carey, the Democrat who repre- Carey spoke of the Brother with sents the Bay Ridge section' of 'the "eagle eye" who "could hit Brooklyn in Congress, typifies you with an eraser at 20 feet."

Speaking more seriously, Carey what is best in the tradition of the Irish in politics: a thorough attributed his skill at communiknowledge of facts relevant to cating to a Brother Amedy, who the business at hahd, a debater's stimulated his interest in English. skill and a sense of humor.

Carey said that the attitude of When a witness before the some of the opponents· of the tax House Ways and Means Commit- credit legislation, who speak of tee said that the GI Bill had en- the "divisiveness" of religiously abled him to attend Harvard Law oriented schools, disturbs him.

School, Carey said: "The Harvard "If our state schools are going Law School produced at least to inculcate the view that anytwo great Americans, the chair- thing having to do with religion man of this committee and your- is inimical to democracy, we self." . . have reason to worry," J.1e said.

Carey said that "moral and The 'Chairman, Wilbur D. Mills, an Arkansas Democrat, and, religious leadership was necesCarey, a member of the commit- sary in the drive for civil r,ights" tee, are the sponsors of legisla- and he cited the attitude of Pope tion that would allow parents of John XXIII as a major factor in children attending nonpublic helping to redress injustices toschools to deduct up to $200 of ward the least fortunate in soeach child's tuition from their ciety. federal income tax.

'Real Old Way" Children today "have more 'Pervasive Effect' After sparring verbally with a problems in growing up than I witness opposing the bill, who did," Car-ey said. But he mainadmitted, to Carey's questioning, tained that there is no generation that he had attended Catholic gap between him and his chilschools, Carey told him: "You dren. "I've walked the gap with are the best argument I know them," he said. "There's probthat ,those schools turn out an ably less of a gap between me intelle'ctuaUy super,ior person." and my youngest child than beCarey would stand to benefit tween him and his oldest sister."

"The children give me all the from the legislation. He and his wife, the former Helen Owen, recreation I need," he said. He have 12 children, ranging in age has taught them the New York from six to 25. Three of the chil- street games, including stickball, dren are now in public schools and they swim and water-ski. and five are in Catholic schools, "Bobby Kennedy taught me to Carey told NC News. "The ma- water-ski," he said. jority have attended parochial Responding to a question about schools,'~ he said. change in the Church, Carey said Carey, 53, a stocky ruddy- he once told a conservative who faced man whose dark hair is asked him about changes in the tinged with gray, is a graduate Mass that he'd like to go back to of Catholic schools, which, he "the old way." The questioner said, "had a pervasive effect on said, "You mean with Latin and ine." Their influence had made facing away from the people." him "strongly believe in ind,ivi- Carey replied, "No, I mean the real old way, with 12 men sitting dual liberties," he said.

Reason to Worry around a table with their Lord In a sm~ling reference to the and Shepherd, sharing some "impact" of the Christian Broth- loaves of bread and modest ers who taught him at St. Augus- wine."

DUNEDIN (NC)-Bishop Reginald Delargey of Auckland reo fused to sign a letter criticizing U. S. bombing of North Vietnam because it did not equally condemn the North Vietnam offensive..

In the letter, 20 Auckland churchmen, including some priests of Bishop Delargey's diocese, asked the New Zealand government "to dissociate itself from the American policy of massive aerial bombardment of cities in North Vietnam."

The letter also asked the government to press for an arms embargo and for a peaceful settlement of the Vietnam war.

Bishop Delargey said that he could not accept that statement unless there is equal condemnation of the other side.

"I felt that plea to the government was not worthy of Christians," he said. "The point that .should be made is the sheer blasphemy of war, by whomever it is waged. I felt the letter should have stated how abhorrent it wa.s to the signatories that, at a moment when peace might have come, the North saw fit to open up the horrors of the past, and the Americans saw fit to reply in kind."

Church Celebrates India Independence NEW DELHI (NC)-Catholics in this capital city attended midnight Mass in all churches of the city on Aug. 15, commemorating India's becoming independent 25 years ago.

In the brilliantly lit central assembly hall of Parliament, Prime Minister Indira Ghandi said that the "attainment of India's freedom in 1947 was the beginning of the end of colonial rule in different parts of the world." Freedom for India was won by non-violent methods that released "unthought· of qualities in our peciple ,and revealed the many faces of courage," she said.

The father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, "reinterpreted our ancient values and traditions and transformed igeals that seemed unattainable into powerful instruments of political action," she said.

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KNOW 'YOUR' FAITH

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The Apostle~: Team Ministry -

Successful management today strives to 'achieve consensus in the managerial community. It finds that neither the old fashioned dictatorial cigarchomping boss with the booming voice nor the intermediate parliamentary style with its majority and minority reports is enough.

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the members of what they like to call the "team." The ideal of consensus and team may not always be achieved in each and every instance, but it is feLt it should be constantly sought.

This means that decision mak,ing is 'a' much slower process, but a far more effective one when achieved in an atmosphere of consensus when practically everyone's mind -and heart are fully convinced of the path to be mken. The role of the team leader is to resist the temptation to settle far too quick a decision, especiaHy when under, pressure

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from the majority report of his group and the impatience of the outspoken members of the team.

Apostolic Training The gospel story of Christ's training of his apostolic team is likewise a story of Christ's patient building of a consensus among the men he. was training.

Key chapters that illustrate his specific 'plans for apostolic training are Matthew 10 and John 10.

--- The Matthew plan is fuH of specifics about the style of ministry. The men should travel lightly, carrying no excess bag-gage, nor money. They should bring a mess!lge of peace and unity to the community they visit, and if the community is not ready for that experience of peace, they should leave it until such readiness occurs. They ought to' prepare for healing and exorcism by hours of prayer and fasting. Their preaching should be gospel, that is, good news of salvation to the "poor," meaning people, regardless of economic . circumstances, whose spirit is radically yearning for the life of God. The John plan :is full of specifics about the attitudes toward ministry. Each apostle is to think of himself as a shepherd: This means he must strive to know Turn to Page ,Eighteen

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FR. JOSEPH N CHAMPLIN

Father John Ring is the openminded energetic chaplain of ,that parish and his epthusiastic worship committee includes, among others, a Sister of St. Joseph, an information technology specialist for Bell Telephone, a travel agent, elementary school teacher, tax, consultant and medical secretary.

They prepare the 9:30 Mass each week for this small, 200sea,t church which cares for a cross section of people-doctors, nurses, neighborhood residents and families of patients at the Medical Center.

The liturgies they plan and execute generally have a richness, variety and warmth to

Many people today, with much have· become· justification, "doomsdayers." They see the end 01' the Church, the end of , school and parishes, the end of ·1 priesthood, believers, and hope.

T:ley are confJdent the worst will happen.

- That the Church in' our counI \,.. ' try is in crisis can hardly be denied. What appears as half-bad, however, can also be seen as half-good. For men of faith, the challenge is to see through the figurative smoke and flames in order to find the phoenix birds ri.sing from the ashes. . Our church· is f,iUed with many, many phoenix birds. New life and new signs for hope are springing up. Many dioceses and pa.rishes are coming alive. One such parish is St. Mary's Govan, in the archdiocese of Baltimore.

St. Mary's is one of the oldest par,ishes in the United States. It suddenly found its traditions gone, many of the parishioners moving out, dissension and apo . athy prevalent. .c:; Aid of Questionnaires GROUP DISCUSSION: Despite some "Doomsdayers" The leadership at St. Mary's took three important steps who regard the Church's present crisis as beyond hope, towards discovering the new asking and evaluating the problems can bring new life into ne,eds and hopes of the parish- otherwise difficult situations. NC Photo. ioners·and their needs, and then '," I' convened ·a Vatican II for the build programs based on careful people of the parish by the hunpa:rish. Out of this mini-council assessinent of parishioners' dreds began making Saturday came enough awareness and' needs, it is in:tpossible to proceed worship the first stop on their ~ommitment for the people of in any other way. There is no dates. To be at that Saturday St. 7'Iary's to'begin building new short cut and no substitute for - evening Mass was to see five tnlditions, to face the problems determining needs on' an ongoing generations of people together at of today, to design programs and basis. worship. Parents with their services which they need today.

Sometimes experimentation and sleeping and ready-for-bed young:People often think that ques- "hunch-following" clln disclose sters came to enjoy the music; tionnaires, .especially if detailed . hopes and needs which no one grandparents who like the Mass or frankly honest, will not be ·suspected. One' parish in Milwaubetter because it had more life an!iWered by the majority· of kee seve1'll1 years ago began a than Sunday Masses came regparishioners. It all depends on Saturday evening Mass. Criti~ ularly along with the dating, en· how one goe's about the problem. cis~ and other comments began gaged, and newly-marrieds. A St. Mary's parish, using a many- to :roll in. Eventually the critineed for creativity, worsllip and pronged faith-and-needs profile, cism centered around poor music togetherness was being met in a received hundreds of replies. and the need for a' good folk good way.

A parish in Illinois, using a M~ss. The critics: organized The end is not coming. ~ather, similar type of questionnaire de- guitar music, found a.leader, besigned to yield a faith and values ga~ printing the wor~s to songs the needs and hopes of people profile, received a 95 per cent for: congregational use, started to have taken new directions and, reSJlonse from the entire parish. . plan each liturgy, and taught the therefore, call for continued asHow? By going door to door as songs to those wh~ came on sessment - and new response.

Many par.ishes today are rein Ifund-raising, py following up, Saturday evening. sponding. l'4any more will reby calling back, by using tele, Re-Assessments spond as the needs become phones, by organizing, by letting C:onfessions were heard before clearer and the hopes are exit be known that information received would also be heard, eval·- and after Mass. Soon, the young pressed. uat,ed, and acted upon.

People's Needs The parish education board of e the parish willJind its work long and difficult in searching for true needs. At St. Mary's several "If I were a richman .. ." us to face ourselves in the conyears of work preceded the final ~he fiddler' on .the roof ,Is not crete situations. of our' lives. par.Lsh meeting; in IIlinois the the;only one who wis es he were Still more difficult it is to be parLsh education board worked content as we find ourselves. for nearly nine months to deterSome of those who are single mine the needs of the people. It thi~k: " If I were married I . . ."

By is now not uncommon for that ,1 Some of those who are married parish to offer two or even three ill' think: "If only I were single edueational offerings on differ-. . JOAN ." . again I .. ." ent weekday evenings, each at1 One of our tasks of living. is I .HEIDER tracting two or three hundred to convince ourselves that people from the parish. "there's a place for us" in whatParish board members from ever we are doing. From the time these two parishes who have we find that· conviction we can tried determining needs all say someone other thlln who he is, find gui~es for our life-style the same thing: that hard and a someone-else in 'other circum- within our established situation. time, consumi~g that it is to stances. It is hard fot many of Turn to Page Seventeen

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Take a half-dozen interested parishioners gathered in someone's 'home, add a bottle of wine plus several hours animated discussion on Monday evening, and you have a liturgy planned, at least in its earliest stages, for the following Sunday. This happens regularly' in San Francisco at the St. John of God Newman Chapel . for the University of California Medic.al Center.

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them. Visitors may, for example, hear musicians (all amateurs) playing guitars, an oboe, violins, a ceHo, recorders, a tambourine; they will probably feel a desire to join in singing both something , old and something ne"..,. They very likely will also experience one or two fresh, original ideas designed to underscore the theme conceived during that Monday night planning session.

The St. John of God parish. worship team operates in relatively unstructured, informal fashion. However, these people get the task done, enjoy their work and seem to produce highly effective services. They typify to a degree the slowly, but surely developing liturgy planning committees called for by our new and flexible Roman Catholic rites.

Over-organized As much as I approve the end result of this San Francisco group, I don't think its method of procedure would succeed in the average American congregation. Without getting locked into an over-organized and often uri- . productive system, most parish ~orship committees still need fairly definite guidelines and operating rules. Two recent publications should help in that regard.

"Liturgy Committee Handbook," a nine-week study guide published by the Liturgical Conference (1330 Massachusetts Turn to Page Seventeen

Finding Our .Role In the World II

'The Dawn's Early Light' Swift-Moving Narrative The end of th-e United States almost came about after only a quarter of a century of nationhood. This little known fact is the nub of Walter Lord's book, The Dawn's Early Light (Norton, 55 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003. $8.50), which deals with the turning point in the War of 1812. and the British fleet was prefrom getting within tellThe new nation had declared vented ing range of the city. Baltimore war on Britain because of did not fall.

Britain's impressment of Ame,rican seamen and its interference with American trade. At the time, Britain was engaged in pro-

The British next turned to New Orleans, confident of reducing it. They failed there too, thanks principally to, the superior generalship of Andrew Jackson.

By February 1815, peace terms By had been agreed to, and a treaty of peace was ratified. From the despair of a few months earlier, RT. REV. the American people shifted 'to MSGR. elation. There was a new feeling , of national pride, and new reJOHN S. spect abroad had been won.. ' InKENNEDY dependence from Europe had really been achieved this time. , Mr. Lord has fashioned a clear, swift-moving narrative, especiallonged hostilities against Napo- ly good in its readily intelligible leon. account of the various military Suddenly, in 1814, Napoleon engagements. He is just as sucwas defeated, and Britain could cessful in communicating atmoturn full attention to the conflict sphere and mood. Along the way, with the United States. In this he makes many interesting country there was internal dis- points. sension; the treasury was empty; One, for example, has to do the economy was deathly sick; with British expectations conand the coast was virtually de- cerning what the black slaves fenseless. would do, once an invasion had A British war fleet gathered in occurred. It was believed that the Chesapeake Bay, and invasion slaves would rise in revolt and was imminent by mid-August. give the British invaluable assistThe principal question was ance. whether the invaders would One British commander prestrike at Washington or at Balti- dicted that the slaves would more. Almost half-way between seize their masters' horses and the two was the town of Bladens- become an awful array of bla.~k burg, Maryland, and it was there Cossacks. But the slaves proved that the opposing forces met: to be entirely loyal to the AmerThe result was a rout of the ican cause.

Americans. In only 30 minutes Again, there was the perforthe issue had been decided. The mance of important Cabinet offiBritish pressed on toward Wash- cers. John Armstrong, Secretary ington. of War, did nothing to get ready In the capital there was .utter for the British onslaught. He confusion. Frantic ef.forts were even refused to advise on milibeing made to save the Con- tary preparations, contenting gress's records. President James himself' with criticism of what Madison's wife Dolly supervised others were doing. the loading of White House ef'Moral Revulsion' fects which she thought it necSeeing Armstrong'~ non-funcessary to save. tioning, James Monroe, Secretary The British were in Washing- of State, stepped into the militon for only 24 hours, but in that tarypicture and contributed to time they set fire to the incom- the terrible failure at Bladensplete 'Capitol, to the White burg.

House, and to the Treasury Thus, he took it upon' himself building. People who had not suc- to change the disposition of' ceeded in fleeing huddled for pro- forces ordered by the commandtection in St. Patrick's Church. ing general. He removed the cavThere was looting throughout the alry from its assigned place and city. situated it in a ravine, from Baltimore Next which it was impossible to see When the British withdrew, the battlefield. The cavalry, so attempts were made to restore positioned, never 'came into acorder., But as news of what had tion at all. happened spread, there was We might note the parallels panic in the country. It appeared' between the War of 1812 for the that the newborn nation was British and the war in Vietnam for Americans of our days. In doomed.

The British moved next on Bal- both instances, the fighting was timore. This was to be a com- in a country thousands of miles bined operation, with an army away. The costs were extremely making an overland approach to high, and put an intolerable burthe city, and the fleet bombard- den on taxpayers., The military ing it from the river. Baltimore had underestimated its needs and was marked for complete de- expenditures. The people became struction. "Its record of harass- disenchanted and bitter.

"Above and beyond these pracing the enemy was unparalelled -over 500 British ships captured practical complaints, a moral reor sent to the bottom by Balti- vulsion crept over the public.

When the Continental papers demore privateers."

But the defense of Baltimore nounced the destruction at had been well organized, and Washington, they pricked perwas under a single, determined haps the most vulnerable point of commander. The British land Britain's anatomy - her national forces were strongly repul~ed, conscience."

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Our Role Continued from Page Sixteen Along with the Scriptures, our basic instruction book, we can find other guides. The role of parents is clearly given in ,the document on the role of the laity.

"They (parents) are the first to communicate the faith to their children 'and ,to educate them; by word and example they train their offspring for the Christian life." This is a clear job description of what to do if you are a parent.

Positive Living The role as well as the method is given-"by word and example they train their offspring." Many parents find it a _frustrating fact that their children do as the parents do rather than as they say.

Some parents .find it easier to sEmd a youngster to Mass than to go with them, Some parents are insistent that their youngsters attend the weekly religious' education sessions held at their parish. At the same time they find it most difficult to maintain a peaceful home atmosphere for the family.

ELEVATION OF THE CHALICE: The advance planIn both cases .the positive exning for the liturgy always culminates in the Consecration ample in daily living by the parof the Eucharist, no matter what other forms are introduced. ents would have a longer lasting effect on the life of the youngster than the words, often harsh and demanding words, which I are used to get the youngster Continued from Pa'ge Sixteen their hats and outergarments路 away from the family for his Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. and overshoes into the hall of religious experiences.

20005, $3.50 each, $3.00 per copy assembly, then the presiding If we could spend less time on in lots of five or more) is one bishop or priest should have to working out: "If I were a, ..," such publication. Edited by Vir- carry his, too." I have no argu- and more time on "I am a" ,," ginia Sloyan, the booklet covers ment with ,the desirability of could we maybe become an exsuch topics as "Organizing a Lit- monitored cloakrooms; the abso- pert on what we are? urgy Committee," "The Environ- lute insistence, however, (is a ment of Worship," and "Planning parish condemned to poor worthe Sunday Celebration." It also ship without them?) leaves me 'Relief Services Aid touches on the use of music and uneasy. There is such a thing as Flood Victims audiovisuals, urges a team minis- intolerant liturgical liberalism.

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1223 Rossell of victims of the devastating Catholic Press, Like other materials prepared Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, floods in the Philippine Islands. by the Liturgical Conference, this CRS, the overseas aid and de-, each, $2.50 in quantities of $2.95 "Uturgy Committee Handbook" velopment agency of American five or more) is another good contains a wealth of challenging, Catholics, also was airlifting thought-provoking concepts and , publication for liturgy planners. medicine to the stricken area.

Less futuristic and more pragsketches ideals which can well Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, serve as the goal for parish wor- matic than the Liturgical Confer- ,the agency's director, said that ence publication, Fa,ther Gilliship teams. At times, unfortu200 tons of clothing and relief nately, the publication becomes gan's work is "merely a local supplies were also being sent by compilation of suggestions for impractical for many situations ship, and authoritarian in its own pro- Mass-planning, a help in introCRS has been providing aid to the parish, ducing a hymnal gressive way. to the flood victims since the and a guide to liturgy teams."

One author, to illustrate, heavy rains began in early July. writes: "So' monitored cloakThis paperback, while ra-ther rooms are a necessity, not a h,lx- poorly printed and edited, does ury. If the people have to carry achieve the purpose in,3aded by its author. He writes in his introduction: "By and large . . . deBlack Auxiliary tailed references and theological Bishop Appointed explanations are not included; JOHANNESBURG (NC) - A this is meant ,to be a practical black priest was appointed an book." auxiliary bishop in the JohannesI would recommend that the burg diocese, where a group of Catholics called last year for the parish liturgy team leader secure replacement of Bishop Hugh a single copy of each text, read the two books, then decide Boyle by a black bishop.

The priest, Oblate Father Peter which could best serve the needs FALL RIVER J. Butelezi, 42, is a member of of that particular committee. the Zulu tribe. He has been apostolic administrator of the Umzimkulu diocese.

Bishop Boyle said he was very pleased with the appointment.

His new auxiliary bishop "will be a tremenous help for the pastoral care of the flock," Bishop Boyle said.

Contractors Since 1913 "As a member of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, he is already well 699 Bellville Avenue known to priests, Religious and New Bedford and laity, versed in theology a,nd ecumenical matters,"

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Continued from Page Sixteen his people. It also means he must be ready to reveal himself, to let himself be known by the people.

Thirdly, . the apostles must be ready to be wounded .by the people they serve, or by others who are offended by the fact he is rendering such service to anyone. This vulnerability may ultimately lead to death for the sake of Ithe people served.

'Intellectual Elites' Hope To 'Purify"United States Among other things; the 1972 campaign is an attempt by those who are the intellectual and cultural elites of the country-and by their own standards are also an elite of moral c~mcem and ethical sensibility-to take over political power. They have already turn political and moral power taken over the Democratic over to the elites. Many intellecparty, and their sights are tuals will agree, but the sectarian now set on the White' House. · intellectuals see a way to power

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four per cent of the national population. They were very much concerned, . of course,·- about "balanced" delegations - although none of them suggested that there should be adequate representation for the 89 per cent of the American population which did not go to college, or even ·for the 60 per cent of the young people who never went to college.

As one McGovern enthusiast said to me when I expressed doubt that Gloria Steinem or Bella Abzug spoke for very many American women, "But they know what the interests of women really are and most women dont." This is elitism pure and simple; but that's what the name of the game is: Grabbing for Power As for m.oral sensitivity, consider Shirley McLaine's comment that the Daley delegation was so old she didn't know how they got out of bed in the morning. Most people would consider such· a crack to be cruel, vicious, and politically inept, but one must understand that the elites consider youth to be clean and pure and the rest of us.to be immoral and corrupt. There is no need to abstain from offending the old or the ethnic or the workingman.

They are politically finished. The legions of the young are going to . deliver. the country into the keeping of people like Shirley McLaine. .oPviously, Mr. McGovern is not so naive. Yet those of us who have never voted for a Republi-. can ·in all our lives would like to be able to distinguish between Mr. McGovern and some· of his supporters, but it does not seem to be a distinction that he himself is prepared to make.

Nor is it just a washed up ~ovie actress with lot~ of money who hates the old. Listen to Tom , Wicker, the Movement's representative on The New York Times, describe the labor leaders of the country. "They were still mumbling threl:\ts and recriminations around their frayed cigars -elephants on their way to the boneyard."

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Hatred at Convention Where these sectarian intellec'tuals stand is nicely outlined by Arnold Beichman (himself an intellectual) in his new book, Nine Lies About America. Anyone wishing to know what the sectarian intellectuals really think about the rest of us should read thi~ book.

Among the lies Beichman documents are: "America is a fascist · country," "America means genocide," "the American worker is a honky," "our political system is a fraud," "American values are materialistic," "America is insane," "the American people are guilty." The people who believe these things hate the rest · of us, make no mistake about it.

In fact, there was much hatred at the Democratic convention.

The pro McGovern journalists sang the praises of the delegates for drinking less than delegates at previous conventions. But many of these delegates did not need to drink; they were getting their kicks other ways.

Political rhetoric is freq!:lently abusive, yet it- is 'harmless becau~e· no one takes it seriously, neither those who use it nor those who are attacked by it: But when Allard Lowenstein and Father Drinan attack Mr. Nixon there is pure venom in their voices. They not merely. want to beat him; they want to destroy him because he is "immoral." . Purified Out And not only Mr. Nixon, I think. One of the female crazies said that it was a "purifying" convention. Right! The old and the corrupt and the uneducated and the ethnic were purified right out of the party. The Chicago delegation, duly elected under the laws of the State of Illinois, was purified because it was' old and immoral. The labor leaders were purified because they were on their way to the boneyard. But the purification has just begun. Now the party has beell purified, next the nation.

What does Mr. McGovern think of all this? His admirers say he is a decent, honorable man who is not an extremist. But if he has repudiated the purifier, he has yet. to do it in a very loud voice.

Who are these 'people that are going to use the young of the nation to purify the. rest of ·us?

Lis,ten to Norman Podhoretz, who knows them all too well from having associated with them most of his life. They are unwilliing "as a class to understand themselves as part of the common run of human experience ... the intellectuals have been trained to believe that they transcend the common destiny by virtue of. the power of their minds."

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Ministry's, Goals These plans in Matthew and John may not sound like consen/ sus statements at first, but they must be read against the background of a long training period in whioh Jesus gradually leads t1\e apostles to see the value of such decisions. He is not deciding for ·them. He is interacting with them and sharing their vision as well as his own in reaching the consensus statement.

In the famous text of Peter's confession about Jesus being God's son, we clearly have a consensus 'style declaration.

Jesus asked the men what people ALFRED JOHN KELLY, M.D. thought of him. They gave the range of opinions. Then Peter catches the spirit within the group and the unspoken belief they came ,to about Jesus, "You are the messiah, the son of the Hquston Anesthesiologist Also Spent living God." Five Years in Trappist Community Today's CattJ.olic p~rish has HOUSTON .(NC)-Dr. Alfred they preferred younger candi- moved considerably fiom the old John Kelly, a Houston physician dates. After several months I de- style ethnic pastor and has adopted many of the forms of who was ordained a permanent cid~ to remain a iayman." . the parliamentary ministry. But deaeon here in', June, has hever lot needs to go beyond that to fit patterns.

Medical Career team ministry and the goal of He earned a bachelor's degree In 1950 he came to Houston consensus as an ideal. It must in chemical engineering, worked . to !r~sum.e ~is" m~'ca!. c!lreer. move beyond votes and majorihis way htrough medical school,· Here he met his wife, the former ties and minorities ,to the ideal . joined a· 'Trappist monastery in Jane Liebert, then it surgical of unny in mind and' heart and Kentucky, Ileft to resume his nurse. They dated for six months Spirit. medlical practice, married a 20- and~ at the age of 421he took a The process is longer, takes year-Old nurse when he was 42, bricie of 20. more patience and requires and now, at 64, he is the father After completing his residE:Dcy, greater sophistication and deeper of Bix children ranging in age Dr. :Kelly moved to Austin where faith on the part of all. But it from four to 19. he was'in family pra<:tice felr 16 will produce better results and Born in Waco and reared in correspond more accurately to . yea~s.

Dallas, he earned his B.S. dethe goals which Jesus set for the In July, 1966,· he became a first team ministry, hIS apostles. gree in chemical engineering at medical missionary in Maryknoll the University of Texas.

He then entered the University Hospital in Guatemala. of Texas Medical School,· GalIn 1969 the Ke\llys returned to . vestl)n, and .zoeoeived his M.D. de- Houston '.and the doctor tool{ up gr~e in 1941. DW"ing his interntwo years of residency in anesship in Detroit, he visited St. thesia.

Bonaventure's 'Franciscan MonDr. KeHy feels privileged t,o be astery and became interested in a deacon. "The hltl'dest thing' Religious Hfe. about it was getting time to get . Dr. Kelly entered the Trappist community of Gethsemani after to the classes since I :often had Army service at a time when the to be on call at the hospit~l. '~But I found the studies intermonastic Hfe was flourishing..

There were some 250 monks in esting and so did my wife. When the Kentucky community at that I was ordained I didnit feel the , $5,000 Or More time and he stayed busy. as the elation of graduation from On EquIty In Your Home high. school, but I did feel like monastery doctor.

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Pr<>fessing simple vows, he AVCO FINANCIAL Discussing the newly ordained spent f.ive years in the Trappist deacons, he said, ."We're going SERVICES community. out in a field in which we have 71 William St., New Bedford' to find our own way; We yet 994-9636 "It was p~aceful, serene, and have to determine the number of inspiring, just a long retreat," Dr. Kelly told the Texas Catholic hours ~e can devote to religious Herald here. "The hard straw actiV'ities without neglecting our . mattress didn't bother me; the famHies. lack of meat didn't bother me, "What the deacon- does will but what did were complications depend on the individual, his OIL COMPANY from ,the flu which resulted in capabilities, where he works, .and poor health. I suffered a loss of what obligations he has." energy and interest. I was left The Kellys are memoers of St. worn out, depressed. I felt I had John Vianney parish, .HOuston. to get into active life again."

Dr. Kelly assists there, at Mass "I wanted to be an active Re- on Sundays and weekdays, gives 303 IYANOUqH ROAD ligious, yet I didn't want to be a homilies, visits the sick, and dis- .

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Calls Nonpublic Schools Problem 'American Issue' WASHINGTON (NC)-A group representing Catholic, Protetant, Jewish and nonsectarian schools told the House Ways and Means Committee that "the nonpublic school problem' is not a Catholic issue nor a Jewish issue, 'nor a Lutheran iswe. It is an American issue."

Rabbi Morris L. Sherer, president of Citizens Relief for Education by Income Tax (CREDIT), testified on behalf of the group.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-A cardinal in the Vatican has branded as "fantasy and a calumy" a claim that during World War II Vatican officials, including the present pope, secretly relayed to an American agent strategic information on Japan.

Publishers of "O.S.S.: The Seret History of America's First Central Intelligencce Agency,"the University of California Press -said that the book reports that the present pope, as young Msgr.

Giovanni Batista Montini in the papal secretariat of state, and Vatican representatives in Japan provided Washington with bombing targets in Japan.

Accompanying him and makiltg shorter statements were Dr. Edward R. D'Alessio, director of the Elementary and Secondary Education Division of the U. S. Catholic Conference; Basilian Father Frank H. Bredeweg of the National Catholic Educational Association, Al Senske, secretary of elementary and secondary schools, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; Ivan Zylstra, of the National Union of Christian Schools and executive director of CREDIT; and Richard Thomsen of the National Association of Independent Schools.

The apostolic delegate in Japan during World War II, now Cardinal Paolo Marella, told NC News that the Vatican maintained its neutrality throughout the war, ruling out any Vatican participation in the "Vessell Project" described in the book.

Tax Credit

The group testified in support of H.R. 16141, a bill providing $2.25 billion a year for the next five years to public elementary and secondary schools and grant"'ing a tax credit of up to $200 to parents who pay tuition for children attending non public elementary and secondary schools.

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Their testimony focused on Title II of the bill, the section dealing with the ,tax credit. The credit is a sum subtracted from MILWAUKEE (NC)-Vocation come more educationally orithe total tax due which is calcudirectors are closing down their ented, said Sister Marjorie Kolh lated after deductions are made. convention exhibits and opening from St. Louis.

"We are here today on behalf "Now we are concentrating on of millions of our parents fight- the doors of their convents in a ing to sustain a basic freedom- new approach to recruiting new educating people at all levels as to what Religious life i3 all freedom of choice in education," Sisters.

"On a national level recruiting about," she said.

Rabbi Sherer said. has changed drastically to a One of her order's projects has "This is the real :issue. We be- person -.to - person approach," lieve that the right of a parent Sister Mary Margaret Modde, di- included extensive contact with to choose the place and form of rector of the National Sisters, parish councils and Serra clubs education for his child is a right said in an interview with the in the St. Louis area. Sister Mar· guaranteed by the Cqnstitution. Catholic Herald Citizen, arch- jorie believes such contacts with parents can be an effective way Today, however, in the face of diocesan newspaper here. of encouraging candidates. spiraling costs, ever-increasing Sister Margaret and other vo"If parents have a good pertuitions, financial strangulation, cations directors meeting in a this 'freedom of choice' becomes a mere myth in the face of the national conference here agreed Cholera Scare Seen cold realities of harsh financial . that the image projeCted by the individual Sister, not convention pressures."

As Retaliation exhibits and films, is the most PALLIPORT (NC) ........ After the important factor in recruiting Minority Groups pastor of the parish of Our Lady new Sisters.

In his testimony, Father Brede"We have reached a more posi- of Snow refused to allow parish weg pointed out that "Of the tive stage in our thinking. I facilities' to be used for vasecalmost 11,000 Catholic elemen- don',t, foresee any rush in voca- tomy operations, local health detary and secondary. schools, tions but I do see a hopefulness . partment officials declared the ,about 13 per cent are located in generated by the Sisters them- area around the church a inner city areas and about 35 selves all over'the country," Sis- cholera-infested region. per cent are located in the criti- ter Margaret said.

One person had died' of suscally changing metropolitan area pected gastro-enteritis about a "The pastoral approach to between the inner city and the ministry is widening and as a mile and a half from the church. city limits.

Thousands of persons visit this result, the role of the Sister is "About 52 per cent of Catholic expanding. Before it seemed al- Arabian Sea hamlet in Kerala school enrollment is contained most as if we were a separate state each year for the feast of within city limits of 'cities with section of the Church. Now more Our· Lady of Snow. Tradition more than 50,000 people. In re- and more people are merging says that the Blessed Mother gard to minority .groups, black into the total Church. We like saved inhabitants of the area and Spanish-speaking pupils con- to think it is that total.. Church from a Moslem attack over 200 stituted 40 per cent of the en- calling us to ministry." years ago by causing a snow rollment in Catholic inner city fall.

Contact With Parents schools in 1970-71. Furthermore, The health department timed a 35 per cent of the black students "As Sisters in a community we "festival of birth control operain inner city schools were non- believe we have many of the tions" for the slme week as the Catholic." things young people today are church festival. Officials set up Father Bredeweg said that this seeking," she said. "We off,:;r a camp close. to the church and part of hIs testimony was in an- community, prayer experiences offered visitors a cash award swer to those who criticize Cath- and a sense of mission in ser- and other prizes for undergoing vasectomies. The camp, however, olic schools for not contributing vice."

Somewhat in response to Vat- did not attract as many as exsufficiently to the solution of ican II, recruiting has also be- pected. . today's social problems.

Nuns Open Convent Doors for Vocations spective of religious life they are in the best position to influence their children's attitudes;' she stated.

Let Them See "As far as contact with candidates themselves, we have chosen to let them see us in our homes and know us as we live.

Too many people know us only through our work as teachers, nurses, or whatever, but they don't know how we live."

Day to day living contact is important, Sister Marjorie maintains, because candidates must be certain of the type of life they may choose.

"It is a beautiful experience to have a young woman come into our lives and see ""~l'1t we're about," she said, "and it is the best possible way to encot':tr.ge young people to share our way of life." .

Sister Marjorie believes that the Religious life offers women a unique opportunity to influence the world. Indeed, she declares them the forerunners of women's liberation, as administrators of schools, colleges and hospitals when few other women attained those positions.

However, Richard Mazzerini, an American and now an executive for the Hilton Hotel in Rome, insisted that many Vatican officials, including Msgr.

Montini and the late Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty of the Holy Office, provided vital war information for him as leader of the OSS's secret intelligence branch in Italy during 1943-44.

American Jesuit historian Father Robert Graham, a specialist on the Vatican's activities during the war, insisted that if the book is based on the same type of OSS reports that came from Rome in 1945, then it "can be denied categorically and in all tranquillity. "

Vincentian Meeting The monthly meeting of the Fall River Particular Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 5.

Mass will be said at 7:30 P.M. at St. Patrick's Church, 306 South Street, Somerset and the meeting will follow at the Fisher House.

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