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Dominicans Start Relief Drive
THE ANCHORThurs., Sept. 6, 1973
NEW YORK (NC)-A drive to collect money and clothing to aid victims of recent floods in Pakistan has been begun here by the Dominican Foreign Missions. The Pakistan mission to the United Nations has announced that 20,000 square miles are inundated and 8 million people in 10,000 vlllages and 22 cities are affected; that a million homes have been damaged or destroyed; and that a million tons of stored grain have been washed away. Dominican Father E. H. Putz, a veteran of 17 years in Pakistan, wrote that "the low lying lands along the Indus and Chenab Rivers are all under water, Rangpur city is in the middle of the flood. Canals have been breached. The dikes along the river banks have been washed away, so there is nothing to stop the water from entering the cities." The medical dispensary of his mission, Father Putz noted, has been washed away along with crops, livestock and clothing. Clothing, especially warm clothing for the winter may be sent to Dominican Pakistan Foreign Missions, c/o Catholic Relief Services Warehouse, 73-25 Woodhaven Boulevard, Queen, N. Y. 11227.
Rome Applauds French Decision VATICAN CITY (NC) - A French government decision prohibiting the filming in France of a Danish production titled "The Loves of Jesus Christ" was applauded by the Vatican. "The ruling of the French authority can only arouse the consent of every conscience with a civic sense," a statement in the V'lt.i~li" nllilv newspaper said. The statement appeared in a form"i. i.ual the paper reserves for comments coming from high authority in (he Vatican, usually the papal secretariat of state.
LOS MUCHACHOS AT ST. PATRICK'S-Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York lis. tens to members of Los Muchachos, the Spanish International Boys' Circus, sing after a Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, welcoming them to the United States. NC Photo.
Says Copernicus Man of Great Faith
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Mick- Kopernik ,in the quincentenary of illaj K 0 per n i k-more often hi,s birth." known as Copernicus, the Latin He spoke briefly of Kopernik's version of his name-was honor- achievements as economist, ened as a man of sC'ience and of gineer, military taotician, doctor, faith as a. monument to him was mathematician, 'and classical dediicated here. scholar in addition to astronGOlAS (NC)-Archbishop FerKopernik was ,tJhe Pill·ish- omer. Anyone of these, he said, nando Gomes of Goiana protested scientist who fo~mulated the "would have enshrined his name the arrest of local printers who heliocentric ,theory of universe in ,in the history of the world's . printed a church document crit- ,the 16th century, ,a very contro- greatest men," ical of the military government. versial conception of the uniThe cardinal also praised KopThe ptelate took full respon- verse at the time. ernik .for a "moral heroism in sibility for the document which Attending the ceremony were ,humble but determined pursuit of he said was an application of the . Mrs. Jul'ie Nixon Eisenhower, truth," which caused him to chalChurch's social doctrine to con- John CardinaI Krill, who blessed lenge the 'scientif.ic ,traditJion of ditions in Goias state. Six Brazil the monument, and Mayor Frank centuries-a tradition supported dioceses sponsored the survey on Rizzo, who accepted the monu- by the Church of wh;ich he was which the document was based. ment for the City of Philadelphia. . a ,loyal member" in proposing "I was the first to sign it, the Cardinal Krol called the monu- that the !iun and not the earth responsibility is all mine," Arch- ment, commissioned by the Pol- was the center of the planetary bishop Gomes said in a letter to ish Heri,tage Society of Philadel- system. police. "I am ready to accept the phia, "a fitting tl1ibute from the That proposal, said the cardinconsequences from our struggle Polonia of the Delaware Valley al, "is the basis for the calculaagainst injustice, for our defense to the great Polish genius Mikolaj tions which have projec'ted our of love and justice," He said it was unfair to arrest the print shop owner and his workers after publication of the document "People in Isolation" MILWAUKEE (NC)-There is "I was appalled to find such -a study of poverty in the area. poverty among the five million a massive job ahead for the gov"Yet those who wrote it are left ernment and charitable organ- people of Saigon," O'Neill exalone," he added. The survey included a random izations in aiding hundreds of plained. There are thousands of sample of 2,000 persons, of thousands of homeless South beggal"s, old people, women which only 600 had jobs. Among Vietnamese, according to a St. with babies, small boys ,nd girls findings were wages of $1.50 a Vincent de Paul Society official. begging on the streets; prostitutes approach you at all timesday for farmworkers in big landThat general appraisal of the frequently four or five in a sinholdings, and uneven distribution post-war situation in Southeast gle block. of income. Asia is containe~ in a lengthy A handful makes $400 a month report of a recent three-week "This indicates a serious spirwhile some 50 million stay under -trip to that area by Charles A. itl.l81 and moral condition which $40, the document said. O'Neill, executive secretary of ,is interrelated with the social the Vincentian central council of and economic problems. The Vinthe Milwaukee archdiocese. . centians are quite aware of the Protest Questions de!lloralizing condition and are The July trip to Japan; 'South desperately seeking help to' deOn Birth Control Korea, Hong Kong, The PhilipMANCHESTER (NC) - Trade pines, South Vietnam and That- velop programs to l'ielp at least a unions in the Manchester area of land was sponsored by Catholic small number of the people afEngland are planning a protest Relief Services (CRS) and en- _fected," O'Neill said. against some local firms asking dorsed by the Vincentian soci"Hundreds of thousands of prospective married women em- ety's superior council. The to.ur people must be resettled back ployes: "Are you on the pHI?" focused on Vincentian relief and And the docal Member of Par- rehabilitation programs in South in their villages' and helped to begin a new life. The conditions as liament, Charles Morris, said he Vietnam. I found them, in all charity, 'intends to raise the matter with In the report, submitted this cannot be tolerated for any great Employment Minister Maurice week to Bishop Edward E. length of time." Macmillan. Morris condemned the practice Swanstrom, CRS executive direcDuring his six-day Vietnamese of 'asking the women if they are tor, O'Neill described the poverty taking ,birth control pills a's "a of South Vietnam as "unbeliev- .stay O'Neill met with CRS, Vinable." centian and Church officials; gross intrusion into privacy,"
Protests Arrest Of Printers
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generation into the space age,into travels beyond the ea'l1th and the landing on the moon." Hailing Kopemik as "a man of great faith in God," Cardinal Krol quoted from the astronomer's book on tlhe revolutions of heavenly bodies: "How could anyone observe the mighty order with whiich our God governs the universe without feeling himself incHn~ to the praotlice of all virtues, and to beholding the , Creator Himself, the source of all goodness, in aH things and before all things?" to dllustrate that Kopemik found science and faith compatible. The Kopernican tbeory is reflected ,in the monument's 16feet-diameter 'stainless 'steel circle, symbolizing the -orbit of the earth with the sun fiixed in ,the center, its rays e~tending to and beyond the earth's orOO,t.
. "A society that still believes in itself cannot allow the slander of the very highest values it lives upon and survives upon, beginning with religious values," said the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. (The director general of the French Cinema, Andre Astroux, prohibited the filming in France of the projected Danish movie after reading the script. He described the project as "an act of profanation.") The Vatican daily, however, condemned a Molotov cocktail attack on the Danish embassy in Rome. The attack ostensibly had been carried out against the Danish government's decision to supply funds for the production of the film.
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toured a leper center, and a number of Vincentian child care facilities and schools; and visited with several poor families. The report cited need for financial help to construct day nurseries for children, homes for invalids and aged, and a charitable village for 200 refugee families.
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