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Four New· Members For Education Board

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

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, .Sept. 9, 1971 PRICE 10¢ Vol. 15, No. 36 © 1971 The Anchor $4.00 per year Director's Warning REV. CORNELIUS J. KELIHER

Music in Masses On Trash Spiral DETROIT (NC) - There are folk Masses, guitar Masses, jazz Masses and traditional Masses, but there is also a lot of musical trash in some Masses.

This charge by Karl Haas, fine arts director' for a Detroit radio station, wa's made before more than 1,000 participants at a liturgy conference here. The conference was co-sponsored by the Detroit archdiocesan Institute for Continuing Education and the Department of Worship. . By trash, Haas said he was ~ 'referring to some music being ':" l,lsed at contemporary Masses. :. He called the music inappropri. -ate, poorly composed,. cacophon,ous and often performed by ama;. teurs whose main talent, he f; cl~imed, is the ownership of' a '1, gUItar. <'s .Haas cautioned church musii,~ ~ians not to be swayed by novi '''1~lty and urged them not to aban'.don tested and worthwhile forms dor experimentation's sake. Vati'~;can Council II, he said; .did not '::deV'land the tossing asfde of all tradition for innovations.

Instead, Haas advised musi~ cians when selecting liturgical music to keep in mind that "the worship of God must be approached with respect."

Th'e purpose of music in the liturgy is four-fold, Haas said: It should inspire worshipers and clergy, induce a mood of prayer, aid imagination and understanding and establish decorum. Decorum, Haas said, is not induced, by some current music. i , Two popular compositions I • Haas would not recommend for ~'.'liturgical celebrations were "Jo seph and the Amazing Techni"-

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School Closings '~tlit Taxpayers SEATTLE (NC) - If Catholic schools in the state of Washington were to close and their students sent to public schools, it would 'cost state residents an extra $26 million a year in taxes, a survey here reports.

The figure was derived by a national firm of certified public accountants which' did a study Tum to Page, Two

color Dreamcoat," and "Jesus Christ, Superstar." ' This is not because he considers himself reactionary, Haas said, but because he believes these two compositions, while good in spots, are more theatrical than liturgical and would distract from the service rather than inhance it. "Godspell," on the other hand, had some liturgical merit, he said.

Haas said that some music has been passed off as a jazz Mass, while in reality it is neither jazz nor liturgical and is better suited", for dancing or a tavern.

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REV. MANUEL P. FERREIRA

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, today appointed two priests and two of the laity to the Diocesan Board of Education.

Appointed were: Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher, pastor of St. Mary Parish, No. Attleboro; Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford; Attorney Gilbert Coroa, a member of St. Michael Parish, Fall River; Mrs. Eugene J. Dionne, a member of St. Mathieu Parish, Fall River.

The new appointees will fill the vacancies on the Board created by the expiration of the

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MRS. EUGENE J. DIONNE

terms of Rev. Msgr. Thomas F. He holds membership in the Walsh, Rev. Msgr. Leo J. Duarte, American,' Massachusetts and Judge Beatrice Hancock Mul- Bristol County Bar Associations. laney and Dr. James Nicoletti.

He is also a member of the Father Keliher American Judicature Society.

Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher, the A member of St. Michael Parpastor of St. Mary Parish in ish, Fall River, he is President North Attleboro was ordained of the Parish Council and treato the Priesthood in May 21, surer of St. Michael's Federal 1932 by Most Rev. James E. Credit Union.

Cassidy. ' He resides at 587 North UnderHe has held assignments in St. wood Street, Fall River, with his Patrick Parish, Wareham; Our wife and three children.

Lady of the Assumption, OsterMrs. Dionne ville; St. Louis Parish; Fall River; Mrs. Eugene J. Dionne, the SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall widow of the late Dr. Eugene River; St. Mary Parish, Hebron- J. Dionne, a prominent Fall ville.

River dentist, is presently a Father Keliher has also served teacher of French at St. Math~eu as a Chaplain in the U. S. Navy; Parish School, Fall River.

Chaplain of Catholic Nurses in She is the daughter of the late the Diocese of Fall River; Direc- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Galipeau tor of Hospitals' alid Nursing of Taunton. A graduate ' of Associations.

--Bridgewater College, Mrs. Dionne Father Ferreira has taught at North Attleboro o'rdained to the Priesthood on High School; Pearl School in April 2, 1960, Rev. Manuel P. New York; and Dighton High Ferreira, pastor of St. John the School where she was head of , Baptist Parish, New Bedford, has the French Department. held assignments in St. Elizabeth Mrs. Dionne has' been a Parish, Fall River; Our Lady of trustee of the Fall River Public Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford. Library since 1963, a member of He has also served as Notary the 'Board of Directors for the and Advocate of the Diocesan Science Fair, Co-chairman of the Tribunal and Chaplain to the United Fund in 1967 and holds American Legion Post 1 of New membership in the Women's Bedford.

Club of Fall River, the Women's Attorney Coroa Guild of St. Mathieu Parish and Attorney Gilbert Coroa has St. Anne's Hospital. practiced law in Fall River for She is the mother of Lucie13 years. He is Assistant Clerk Anne Dionne, a teacher in the of Courts for Bristol County and Fall River Public Schools and treasurer of the 'Fall River Bar Eugene J. Dionne Jr., an honor Association. student at Harvard University.

BUFFALO (NC)-Denouncing "anti-Christ gibberi~h" taught in local schools, Bishop James A. McNulty said here that his diocesan religious education office has been assigned "to keep our Catholic schools Catholic in doctrine, morality, virtue and good manners."

In a brief pastoral tetter on Catholic education, Bishop McNulty called some teachers "false prophets." He said students have startled their parents by coming home from religious instruction classes and saying they don't have to attend Mass, go to confession, honor their parents or obey the Pope. \ He blamed this on teachers who have imposed on the students "their own negatives" and "ideas far removed from the authentic teachings of Christ."

"These negatives are not the doctrine of the Church built by Christ," the bishop said. "They contradict that heritage of truth that belongs to the Church. The question naturally arises. How ANNIVERSARY: Most could this happen? That anti- Rev.' 'Daniel A. Cronin, ~hrist tea.chings could b~ found S T D B" ho of Fall River In CatholIc schools or In Con, . . ., is P . .' fraternity classes? ' , ',Will observe the Third Anm"The answer is 'false proph-versary of his Ordination to ets.'''' the Episcopacy on Sunday, Bishop McNulty said the September 12 and will celeCathol~c, schools must be kept b t the H) A.M. parish CatholIc as they "move on to ra e . , new frontiers of excellence in Mass m St. Mary s Catheour secular s t u d i e s . d r a l , Fall River, on that day.

Court1s Decision Causes Tuition Hike in Schools PHILADELPHIA (NC) -

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Catholic high schools here is because of the U. S. Supreme Court decision against certain forms of state aid to private schools, according to the super-. intendentof archdiocesan schools.

The increase is the second announced in two months by Msgr.

Francis B. Schulte. The first came June 15, before the Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania law that gave state aid to private schools for secular instruction.

The first increase of $70 raised tuition to a tentative $200 for the 1971-72 school year. That incease, Msgr. Schulte said, was

due to a substantial rise in operating costs but was based on the assumption that the state aid bill would be upheld.

He said the latest increase, bringing tuition up to $300, "is the immediate and direct effect of the adverse Supreme Court decision."

Families with more than one child in archdiocesan high school· will be charged $300 for the first child, $250 for the second, and no tuition. for any additional children attending the schools.

The superintendent estimated that fewer than 25 per cent of parish elementary schools charge tuition. More than 50 per, c,ent are likely to start charging tuition this year, he said.

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St Louis 'University Perniits Kunstler to Speak on CCl.n1p~S '

ST. LOUIS (NC) - St. Louis opinions on ,the '~way' to effect University officials said they dis- change are wrong;his courtroom agree with William Kunstler's actions have' been cited for con,views, but they' permitted the, t~mpt; his importance is minioutspoken attorney to speak on' mill;' arid' his' relevance is~ quescampus because a student group tionable:'~' , had followed accepted 'university ','Dis~ace to, Good Nam~' procedures i~ inviting him. " K~~st!e,~, who has defended The Jesuit ,denied that Kuntsmilitant fe~tists and radicals, ,ler had, been invited' by the, uni-,' ,gave a talk, on the, campus on ,versity, or that his' appearance' ,A~g. 3.1. There were no inciwas an official' part of 'dents. freshman -orient'ation activities.

He had been invited by an He, said he was, confident that ,elected. student activity board, the students had sufficient intelwhich selects a series of speak~ Iigence to judge the. merit~ of ers for .a .campus lecture' pro- ,the attorney"'s talk., ,gram., Steve ,Loewy; chairman of the Noting that some persons had state Young Americans for Free-' NAMED: Rev. ''William J."' " -, I protested Kunstler',s planned ap- ~om 'chapter; had ,criticized the Sh~veIton;' pastori 'of Our , pearance, Jesuit Father Jerome ': universi,ty, saying:, "The appear~ J. Marchetti, ,the uniyersity~s ex- ance of 'William Kunstler .is, a ' Lady of. Mt. Gami~l Church, 'ecutive yice-presidEmt and acting 'disgrace t.o the good name of St. Seekonk· has been" named. by, .' . _.

I presid~n,t.' said: Louis University, an affront to Bishop Cronin as ~haplain of University Policy thQse, who contribute to' its sup- ", theSeekpnk Coun~il of' the ", ...', port, and a betrayal of the confi-' "Since the ',student group dence parents have shown in 'Knights" of Columbus' No., ',which invited Mr. Kun'stler tol- " placing their sons 'and daughters, 5108. ' lowed the presently approv~d there.'" 'e procedures set' down in· the ", Kunstler warned 'in' his talk speakers' policy, he.will,pe al- . against a Joss of personal Iiber---:C o~ 'os~ng lowed to speak here., The' uni- ties through ,government wire-'" 'Continuedfr,om P~ge One' , versity policy expressly states" t'apping, preventive' deteritionsponsored jOh1t1y by Archbishoi> 'It. is understo.od that sponsor- ,'and spying. He cited the gov- Thomas A. Connolly :of Seattle, shIp of guest speakers does not, ,ernment's prosecution of the Bishop Bernard Topel of Spoimply approval or end9rsement, 'Harrisburg Six, the peace a~tiv- kane and Bishop Cotnelius M. either by the sponsoring, group ist group which includes priests Power of Yakima. Trye prelates or the institution, of the views and nuns. authorized. the superintendents expressed.' '" , " DenounclOg government lOva- of Catholic schools in' their dioUniversity ,alumni and. the sions of privacy, Kunstler said c'e~es 't9' contract for Ithe study, MissourLbranch of Young Amer- that "fear created in one spreads '" ' ., J icans forFreed~m had' objected 'to all.". ,'. ",In compiling 'the potential cost to Kunstler's appearance. They to 'taxpayers, the a<;counting firm charged '. that the att<.>rneY has ' _" ~aid its figures were I based •o~ advocated violence and' disrupJ '~he' asstimption th~t the appro~tive tactics in the past. ' , , ' .. ';" ",'.'

J, '0 ' .. lmately, 38,000 pupIls enrolled'lO, "I persomilly' do not agree the 134 Catholic elem~~tary and secondary schools in I Washing,ST. PAUL (NC) - The St. ton would be integratJd into the with Mr. Kunstler's views nor do 'I condone' the disr~ptive Paul - Minneapolis archdiocesan state public schOOl system and courtroom tactics which he is· re- Christian Sharing Fund hils de- that the· cost per student in the ported to have engaged in," fended the militant American In- public: systemwoul~ remain Father Marchetti said. dian Movement as the best ex- constant for those abs6rbedfrom "Speaking for the university, ample of a' self-help group it the closed Catholic schools.

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Father PatrIck S. Clark, SeatThe endorsement of the Indian tie archdiocesan schools superingroup working for social change tendent noted when Ithe study Necrology ' .

I ~ame a f ter a stor~y open hear-., was' released that figures make SEPT. 10 mg where CatholIcs protested no difference since thle possible Rt. Rev. Felix S. Childs, 1969, use of C~F funds ~o help finance ,forced closing of' hna~cially Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart groups mvolved m what they" pressed Catholic schools would Fall River. " t~rmed questionable legal activi- ~ constitute a significartt burden Rev. Hugo Dylla, 1966,. Pastor, t I e s . , . ,on Washington's taxp~yers.

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SEPT. 12 Rev. John J. Galvin, 1962, As- chosen as the group' best fitting: Diocesan '~rlests In Sc hool Post$ sistant, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall CSF'.s (purpose and criteria for River. fund mg. . . .. ,',; SIOUX CITY (NC)t-A large , Accordmg to CSF gUldelmes, number of priests will assume SEPT. 13 Rev. Charles A., J. 'Donovan, . grants are made on t~e basis of 'full-tim'e education posts here as 1949, Pastor, Immaculate Con- a group's value, hardship need' part of an effort "to make the and desire to implement social priesthood visible to: Catholic ception, North Easton. change and self-help programs. youth, their, parents,: and the SEPT. 15 ,,"We fund idea,' a goal, a Christian - community,'; a diocRev. Henry J. Mussely, 1934, purpose," CSF chairman Donald esan education official!said here.

Pastor, St. John Baptist, Fall Hall told about 35 persons, mostNoting that ,51 out of 183 acRiver.

Iy Indians, attent;ling the, hear- t'ive diocestan priests ~i11 se'Jrve Rev. Brendan McNally, S.J., ing, "We are not going to get in- either as principals or: heads of 1958, Holy Cross College, vol~e.d in second-guessing every counseling programs i~ 11 CathWorcester. declslO~ every·- .group . makes," olic high schools this Fall, Fathe'r Rev. John J. Casey, 1969, Pas- Hall saId after lIsten 109 to per- James K. Lafferty,: dioce~;an tor, Immaculate Conception, so~al attacks and e~otional r.he- school superintendent, Isaid that North Easton. tOrI~, ~n th: ~u,?Ject of last the structure throllgh, which a SprlOg s. IndIan take~ver of. a priest "can project his image to SEPT. 16 Rt. 'Rev. Jean A. Prevost, P.A., ,naval aIr base at MlOneapolIs- youth most effectively is the Catholic school," I P.R., 1925, Pastor, Notre Dame, St. Paul International Airport.

Fall River.

After evaluating ,complaints In adition to the pri~sts with against backing potentially dang- positions in diocesan high l.mllllm'Ul"mmll1""IIlU""m""'UII'''''''IlWlllu"m,,,,,,,u'''''''''''"l1l1i,!"n,mIlU erous groups by John Gebhart, schools, many of the 82 priests THE ANCHOR commander of the air base, the serving parishes with ,parochial Second CI~ss PoslaRe Paid at Fall River.

M,ass., Published e.ery Thursday at 410 CSF board agreed to continue elementary schools also act as Highland A.e~ue. Fall Ri.er, Mass, 0272' by the CatholiC Press of the Diocese of Fall its monthly installments of the sch091 principals / or tJach, reliRiver, Subscription price by mall, postpaid «,DO per Year. $5,150 grant to AIM. gion courses.

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HUNTINGTON' ' (NC) - Vice- demanded that Hoover 'retire, President Spiro Agnew has de- Agnew said that, age is not the fended J. Edgar Hoover' from real issue' in the anti-Hoover attacks by "presidential, aspi- effort. rants who apparently foresee "A more likely explanation is some political accretion from the the fact that he is' anathema to radical left if they challenge the the New LEft and extremists of integrity of the FBI and its long- ' every stripe, 'and, he doesn't time director." mince words iri calling attention , ,"These opportunists are being to them as dangerous' to the aided and abetted, by certain of, country," Agnew said.

The vice-president expressed their friends in the liberal news media who au'tomatically shout confidence that both Hoover and 'right on' every' time someone the FBI would survive the latest claims ' his 'civil ,liberties have assuits and "will again triumph been threatened, ,regardless' of over their critics, and the Amersuch ican people will be the winner," the; transparency . of charges," said Agnew in a· frontI page bylined article iri the Sept.'

5 issue or' Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic weekly pub~ e Iished, here in .Indiana: " ., ~SUS~o , ,:Agnewsingied,qut twoDemo~ ',:WASI,iINGTON (NC~eorgecr~tic,pr~sideritial ,~on~er.lders,' ,town' Univer~ity officia.Is here Sen",G,eorge, McGovern of, South . r~ported that ,an int~rrial audit ,Dakota and,Sen.',EdmundMuskie "indicates that'il former univer-:0(: Majrte; ~ 'c~iti~s"O( tll"e' '76- sity ,official apparently' 'tnisused , y~ar-ol!:l",FBI director: ", " " $83,000, some of which' finan'ced , , '-,He' iii-belied McGovern, a lead-, an around:the-world trip. ' er,',of the: ~'Dump'Hoover"move- " . The results of the audit were me'lit and,'s'aid IYIuskie: ,i~hare's " turned",over to the fraud section " the phobia of those ~ho b~lieveof the U. S., attorney's office. t!te)are. under surveillance.'" ' Seymour Glanzer, chief of the .Both senators have :critiCized ' ,fraud section, said the results of Hoover: for excessive,: s'urveiF "its investigation would be made 'lance; and Muskie has charged public shortly, ' , that FBI agents spi~d on his Jesuit Father Robert J. Henle, 1970 Earth Day activities. university president,- in a letter 'Political Odor' to, the member of the university Discounting McGovern's charg- community, id:ntified the off.icial es, Agnew said it would tie up as Rob~rt J. DIXon, former dlreca fourth of the FBI's agents to tor?f student acti~ities. maintain a ,surveillance as tight ?IXO~, ,Who reSIgned at t~e as the senator claims watches unIversIty s request last May, IS members of Congress alone. He a recent Georgetown graduate said that .F1U agents' had ob- who had ~een appointed to a served Earth .Day' functions at_,Pos~' in ..the ",~~!ve~~!~y,~~~inis­ tended by Muskieand discovered tratIOn rIght after graduatIon., ' that some speake~s, such as outJames F. Kelly, university spoken leftist Rennie' Davis had viee-president for administrative preached violence instead of affairs, who was in charge of ecology. ' the university's, investigation of Agnew said it was not the ,the case, said the matter became first time that the FBI and known last Spring when various Hoover have been assailed. But university clubs and, activities he added that whereas in the questioned items charged to past such attacks had come from them in university accounts. expected quarters-"enemies of Kelly said the investigation the American system"-the lat- s~owed that Dixon w.as submitest assault was coming from an- tmg vouchers for\ gIfts, plane other direction. travel, and restaurant meals at"It gives off an unpleasant po- ~end~d by. gues!s "n?t appa~entlr.

Iitical odor-perhaps for the first, mvol~ed, 1O. unIversIty busmess time in history/' the vice-presi- and mdlcat10g on the vouchers dent commented. that the expenses were incurred Agnew said that despite the on university business, fact that the presidential con'Elects President tenders' anti-FBI allegations MILWAUKEE (NC)-Sulpician could be refuted, they still "could damage an outstanding Father Raymond Brown of Woodstock College, New York, American institution." was elected president at the 'Anathema to Left' Catholic Biblical Association of "If the FBI suffers from these America's annual meeting here. attacks, all law enforcement in He succeeds Father Jerome D. America will suffer," the' vice- Quinn of St. Paul Seminary, president said. And we can iIIafford that, particuiarly at a time THE MUSTARD- SEED in our history when the FBI and' the police of this nation have' SHOPPE their hands full maintaining or" Second Season Opening der and preserving our instituSEPTEMBER 14th tions of government from those Over thirty countries represented by who would tear down our soquality handcrafted gift items, creciety," ated by refugees, dispossessed of ApNoting that' some criti,cs have palachia, local handicapped, elderly,

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Directors' Urge 'Federal Help F'or Schools ALBANY (NC)-The National Association of State Catholic Conference Directors has urged immediate federal action to ease the financial burdens on parents and other supporters of rionpublic schools.

At its recent semi-annual meeting in Osage, Mo., the association passed a resolution calling for "a realistic, equitable and quick federal program" that will help financially strapped Catholic schools and meet any cqnstitutional and court test.

Charles J. Tobin of Albany, secretary of the New York Sta'te Catholic Committee and, president of the conference, directors group, later released the text of the resolution.

It said: "T.he recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court have closed off certain ways of providing public assistance to nbnpublic education.

"There still remain other avenues through which public assistance can be provided for parents and children who elect to use church-related education.

The President of the United States has strongly urged that public assistance be provided to assure the continuance of education which includes moral, religious and spiritual values.

'Immediate Action' "The financial bur'dens con.fronting parents who elect to exercise their constitutional right to provide for their children's education are ~f so severe importance that immediate action mLlst be forthcoming from Federal and ,State legislation.

"Therefore, the National Association of State Catholic Conference Directors, acting in behalf of millions of young Americans attending nonpublic schools in this nation, commends the recent pledge of Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, to support action to assist parents to provide education for their children embracing moral and spiritual values which are of overwhelming importance- to the future well-being of the United States. "!tcaUs upon the 'federal government to take immediate action to enact programs of assistance which will allow churchrelated education to continue to serve this nation and its people."

Catholic Apostolate To Honor Executive NEW YORK (NC)-The president of the Television Bureau of Advertising will be honored by the Catholic Apostolate for Radio Television and Advertising for demonstrating "an exemplary Christian attitude and deportment in the media field."

Norman E. (Pete) Cash will receive the 1971 CARTA award today at the organization's 11 th annual luncheon here. Cash is a member of the National Catholic Office for Radio and Television and serves on the advisory board of St. John's University.

Cardinal Terence Cooke of.

New York will be the luncheon speaker.

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Hails New Penn.

School Aid Law PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Cardinal John Krol has hailed new Pennsylvania law aiding nonpublie school students, saying it safeguards constitutional principles and underscores the' "reality that the child-not the schoolis the beneficiary of the educational process."

The new law-a tuition reimbursement program for parents of nonpublic school childrenwas signed Aug. 27 by Pennsyl, vania Gov. Milton J. Schapp. It grants $75 annually per child in a nonpublic grade school and $150 per nonpublic high school student.

Asserting that the new law is "tailored to meet the Supreme Court's criteria for constitutionality outlined in its' recent ruling against another Pennsylvania aid program, Cardinal Krol acknowledged that the tuition reimbursement program may also be challenged.

Opposition "under the banner of constitutionality" may actually stem from anti-Catholic sentiment or "raw secularism which advocates freedom from rather than freedom for religion," Cardinal Krol said. He urged Pennsylvania citizens "to discern the true motives of all opponents of the a<;t."

'Indispensable Reller "While we respect the sincerity of our opponents' convictions," he continued, "we cannot help but raise serious questions about the impact of their actions on freedom of choice in education and upon the quality of education in our community."

Praising "the leadership and statesmanship of the governor and the legislators," Cardinal Krol said the new law "provides a measure of indispensable relief to both nonpublic and public schools," safeguarding "the right of freedom of choice in education for parents, without forfeiting their rightful share of the educational taxes they pay."

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JOINS IN SILVER JUBILEE OF PARISH: Mrs. Louise B. Connors, historian of the silver .jubilee booklet of 51. Marg~ret's Parisll, Buzzards Bay is r,eceived by .~ishop Cronin following the Mass of .Thanksgiving offererl by路 the Ordinary of the Diocese. Rev. John G. Carroll, pastor of the Cape parish is on the Bishop's left.

Suggests Equitable 路Labor Contracts Church Institutions, Unions Urged to Bargain CINCINNATI (NC) ....:... Church institutions should not use their limited income as a reason for refusing to recogn'ize unions formed by their employes, a Cincinnati archdiocesan official said here.

And unions should understand that such institutions, because of their financial situations, cannot meet the same demands asked of private industry, said William R. Schumacher, the archdiocese's social actions program director.

"The problems of arriving at equitable labor contracts between the employes of religious institutions and their employers should not be used as an excuse to, deny the right of employes to organize which has been set forth and defended by the Catholic Church for more than 80 years," he said.

Schumacher noted that financially pressed Church institutions facing employe unionization efforts are being asked to pay the same wage level set oy private industry.

Once the employes have formed a union, he said, Church officials should recognize it and management and labor should begin bargaining in good faith.

"By that," Schumacher said, "we mean that the employers will fully understand the need of the employes for a living wage and of their right to organize in

their common self-interest to achieve such a wage.

"On the other," he continued, "we would expect the union to be fully understanding of the very real problem in trying to meet demands which private industry might be able to meet but which,because of their limited sources of income, religious institutions could not be expected to reasonably undertake."

Schumacher said that for the

Parish Group Sings For Girl's Health , GARFIELD HEIGHTS (NC)The family of it 10-year-old Ohio girl, a kidney transplant patient, will 'be able to patch their strained budget wit h proceeds from a record album named for the girl-"For Betsy."

When the 20 members of the St. Monica parish guitar group here heard about the financial problems of Betsy's family .from their moderator, Father William Bowler, they decided to pool their talents in a money making effort to help cover the girl's continuous medical expenses.

The group produced a long playing record of 18 songs ranging from parts of the Mass to ex-Beatie George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord." The songs were taped at St. Monica's Church, usually with part of the congregation present.

past 80 years the Catholic Church has urged both labor and management to work for their mutual benefit and for society's common good.

"Now that the Church itself is being requested' to recognize these same obligations to its own employes, its dedication and commitment to these ideals is being tested," the archdiocesan director said. "Let us pray to God that it does not fail the test."

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" "You will know they are ,in the Vatican paperL'Osserv'aChristians, ~y their love, by their .. tore della Domenica:" love." , "The latest incidents were As I drove across the border provoked by. a 'precautionary from the Republic into Northern measure' taken by the Belfast Ireland the words of this' hymn government, with the very h'esikept moving through my mind tant approval of London, the and they frequently occurred to confinement by the government me 'in the days after that. During of those allegedly responsible the night of ipy arrival intern- for persistent disorder. This is ment . was' declared and some something similar to a suspect's 300 men were "lifte,d" setting law 'that marked the most critioff violence that would result in 'cal stilge, of the 'great terror' more than 20 deaths and' cause under the French' ,. Revolution. grave disturbances, dislocations, Fourteen' thousand British soland endless heartbreak. Simul-, diers in 'battle gear were appal-" taneously with' this announce- ently not enough to restore order ment parades were banned for "-but what order.' If things are six months" the Apprentice Boys to be measured by human judgeparade was' due in a' matter of ment no solution to the problem . days, and the serious question appears possible," . , had ,to be asked whether the Cardinal Conway began to regovernment in trying to appease ceive information almost imme,the extreme right had bought diately on the treatment accorded to the interned men. He rethis peace at a great price. leased Ule following statement The power of internment was . concerning this: first given to the Northern Ire"The Catholic Bishops have land government in 1922. The over and over again cond~mned , Civil Authorities. (Special Po:-r- killings and other forms of vioe~s) Act gave the Minister for lence ,as the means to political Home Affairs power "to take all. such' steps and issue such ends, and it h~sbeen acknowledged that this view is shared orders as may be necessary for by the great majority. of Catho~ preserving the peace and main- lic people.' It is necessary to taining order . . . a per$on who ....

• state that abhorrence of intentis suspected of acting or having _ment without. trial-and particacted or being about. to ,act in ularly its one sided application--,. a manner prejudicial to the preservation of peace: .. (may) 'be is equally' deep and, widespread among ,these same people. interned." At that tUne a number of prisoners were interned on Demand Rigorous Examination the .prison ship Argenta in Belfast At 'the present time it is im~ Lough. the fact that the author- portant that a strong 'Ijght of ities are now using the Maid- publicity should he focussed not stone tied up in Belfast stirred merely' on the reasons put for" bitter memories among Catholics. ward to justify internment, but' The Act was renewed annu- also on the manner in which it ally until 1928 when it was ex- has been exercised. Already tended for five years. In 1933 there is a' prima facie evidence it was made a permanent part that' entirely innocent men, of the peace preservation in taken from their homes in the force in Northern Ireland. The small hours of Monday morning, next' occasion on which intern- were subjected to humiliating' ment was used was in 1939 and brutal treatment by security when with the outbreak of war forces. a number of subversives were inThis evidence should' be open terned. In 1950 the government, to rigorous and, independen~ exwhich had revoked a number of amination. For) im official the Special Powers regulations, spokesman to say, as he has gave the police the power to de- done, that complaints should be tain people for only seven days forwarded to the police for exI without a warrant. amination must inevitably seem to those concerned,' in the cliWhen the IRA inaugurated a mate of Northern Ireland at the new campaign the Special Powers Act was reintroduced' in present time, as bordering on December 1956 which again provided for internment. This phase of internment .continued _until April 1961 and the largest number of people interned at one time was 187.

Catholic Frustration The reaction to ntis most recent phase was one of deep frustration among the Catholic community when it became known that despite Prime Minister Faulkner's statements internment had been applied in a one sided way. It included the arrest of .Civil Rights leaders who at no time advocated change in other than a peaceful way.' The British press and television was quick to point this out.

It is very difficult for an observer to accept at face value the Northern government's claims that the arrests were of all extremists of both sides upon which information was available.

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men in the f.irst 48 hours', of their internment, particularly the camps at Ballykinlar and MagilIan. Unlike Protestant' \ leaders who came out immediately, in support of internment the Cardi.nal waited a few days bJfore releasing his statement s6 as to avoid provoking extrem'eI reaction in an emotionally charged atmosphere.

In talking to Fr. Lenny Ire· viewed with him the Cardinal's statements on the inequities oj' the Judicial system in Northern Ireiand: Fr. Denis FaJI .had raised - the question in :a talk given in Dungannon in 1969 which suggested an a: p'riori position about the entire judicial system. It was clear the' Cardinal had misgivings about the system in' his official statement but not from an a priori position "To interpret the Cardinal'S statement of 17 November as ~ blanket approval 'of the whole system and practiCe is inco~rect."

In July of this year a number of priests protested the sentence of a' man who welled "Up the IRA." Unbelievable as itl may seem the sentence was 12 months in jail. The Cardinal's reaction was again one of artxiety of some aspects of justice in Northern Ireland, a deep: and widespread anxiety which should be taken seriously in the i con~~~i~s:idO~;in~~~e~:n~~~:~~~ text of community confidience. , Cardinid's Requests " close and impartial scrutiny over this terrible power. Earlier the Cardinal had, said To say this is not to condone that he felt two things 'w ere I • in any way the activities of any necessary to restore some. :kmd one who has deliberately stimu-' . of normality to the commu'nity: lated violence. and who must "I) an impartial law enforcetherefore share-with· others- . ment system in which the ~hole responsibility for the deaths and community can have confidence terrible sufferings ,of so many 2) the speedy introduction of thousands of people in recent effective reforms . . . I cahnot weeks. emphasize ,too strongly the! imCatholic people should not portance of the speedy introaucallow. themselves :to be per- tion of really' effective refdrms suaded into violence or sterile -reforms which will have t6 go _ self-destructive forms of protest. deep if they are to win confiThey should rather think to fol- . dence, Every day I~st in introlow positive responsible leader-. ducing such reforms is dangership." ous. The Government should Cardinal Avoids Provocation grasp ,this nettle firmly hnd I spoke to Father Frank Len- quickly." How tragically :the ny, the Cardinal's secretary, at Cardinal's predictions came I to Ara Caeli, the Cardinal's resi,- pass.

I dence in Armagh. He made it In the view of the Cath6lic clear that the Cardinal was most community the reforms are 'on specifically concerned with the the statute books but people treatm~nt accorded the interned have not seen their fruit coine ,

through, their impact has not public as. refugees. On another been made in practical terms. occasion when,our car was stopMost feel the reforms come only ped :at night by British troops I at the insistence of Westminster could share ,the appr~h~nsion ,as without a change of h~art and it we waited in the, darkn'ess to is these same reluctant men who get clearance to move on.

In talking to Fr. Lenny he are charged with their adminis. tration. Thus the situation has ar- mentioned one occasion when rived where the Catholic commu- his car was caught up in· the nity does not accept the Stor- middle of a mob and the momenmont and th'e campaign of pas- tary concern it gave him. One sive resistance a.s contrasted to night when returning to our violence, which has been con- hotel in Dungannon the street !';tantly condemned by the Car- was barricaded by an overturned dinal, is ,seen as a ,safety valve, vehicle and we had to go down an outlet for the deep frustra- a street wrong way, half way down the street, we encountered tion of the people~s emotions.

Passive resistance would seem a group af young men rushing to be the only weapon right now up the street 'to throw' stones -as the Catholic community has .at windows of local stores and been driven into a corner where for the moment there was that ' few tactics are left to them apart sense of fear. 1 Experiences of Parents from violence, and more' and more will be tempted to violence.

My parents were in Coalisland The feeling is the resistance when a three hour encounter campaign will be well supported. took place between the British troops and local residents. BeMonotony of Frustration I also spoke to Fr. Austin Eus- tween the overturned vehicles, tace whose work Fr. Lenny re- missiles, rubber bullets, CS gas gards as probably the most on- and flares being shot into' the . going example of what the air it was a hectic three hours church can enc'ourage and co- for them. In'-view of these expeoperate in to alleviate the prob- riences I have come more to relems of housing and unemploy- alize the deep psychological imment. Fr. Eustace's Public Hold- plications of the violence. ,Whereas in 1969 the college ing Company has just opened its new crystal factory. He is al- students' had been interested in ready seeking permission to ex- advancing the cause 'of the pand it 100 per cent as he has minority by participating in Civil interested buyers in the Repub- Rights causes the continued lic of Ireland, Great Britain, Aus- violence has made many young tralia, New' Zealand, Canada, the people quite accustomed to vioUnited States as well as five lence. In all of' 'ihis there seems African count~ies for its prod- to be a growing :disregard for the ucts. The first issue of stock in dignity of the human person. As the Public Holding Company was Cardinal Conway had warned :oversubscribed and a new issue earlier, "Your children could be of stock will be, available shortly. maimed for life, ,psychologically But even here there is frustra- and otherwise by a continuation tion as Fr. Eustace has had diffi- of these disturbances~" ,This is a culty in obtaining permission to problem shared with all minorigo ahead with the housing he ties throughout the- world but the planned in connection with the deep psychic effect on the indiwork project. It is difficult to vidual does not often show in view an activity like this which the newsreel or on the printed addresses itseif to two of the page.

In Dungannon and Coalisland problems which have been ac,knowledged by two successive I had an opportunity to discuss Governments of Great Britain as with Civil Rights leaders the .sitneeding reform, housing and em- uation as they saw it. It was ployment, and not feel frustrated from Coalisland to Dungannon by the obstacles placed in its that the first Civil Rights march way by government repres~nta­ occurred on Aug. 24, 1968 and tives. As one talks to many in Coalisland again was first to the North this experience is reTurn to Page Five peated over and over. .

Psychologically one must wonder' how many people realize what it is like to be part of the minority in Northern Ireland.

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Stonehill Dean Reports on Belfast Continued from Page Four support' the Civil Disobedience campaign. Historically, the movement began in the '60's when the IRA campaign of the late 1950's and early 60's subsided.

The Civil Rights attitude was that reform was possible within the system but as the IRA provisionals resorted to violence the Civil Rights movement began to splinter.

The Civil Rights leaders feel that the Unionists never accepted the Civil Rights movement as non-violent and so when the IRA provisionals resorted to violence the Unionists felt their claims were justified. Thus in an ironic twist the IRA provisionals undermined by its violence the_ one avenue that held the greatest chance for 'peace and' played right into the hands of the Unionist leaders.

Underlying Philosophy It is the feeling of the Civil Rights leaders that the only policy of the Unionist party is to preserve Protestant supremacy and unity with Britain and the only way to unite the Unionists is to show the Civil Rights campaign as a threat to the state.

Thus in a simplistic way all attempts at reform are identified with attempts against the state.

If we read the statements of many of the leading figures in' the North you can see this underlying philosophy in these statements . Thus Rev. Paisley referred to the refugees who fled to the Republic as a propaganda stunt in one of his news conferences. Mr. Taylor, as a spokesman for the government implied ina talk in the Uilited S~ates ,that if the' Civil' Rights movement continued Northern Ireland would be faced wit.h a Cuban style revolution.

The Civil Rights leaders feel that in the last year the initiative has been with the IRA provisionals rather than with the Civil Rights movement. Internment, however, created a massive backlash of public opinion; the alienated Catholic groups realized that violence is not the answer and so the Civil Disobedience campai~n was born. . The theory behind this campaign'is that if one third of the people refus~ to be governed they cannot be. The nature of the exercise is to bring about a new type of government. Their resignations from government positions, non-payment of taxes and rents, a minimum of cooperation with the government.

They feel that the vandalism which follows many ralIies illustrates the break down of law and order when vandals are allowed to operate though some of the more sophisticated young people feel vandalism is necessary to call attention to the demonstration in the press or on television.

The problem is further c.omplicated when we realize that the youngsters who normally would engage in vandalism are caught up into this and when the whole society would be united against them they would be punished but in present situation there is a problem.

Local Government's Strategy As to the future the Civil Rights leaders see three forces at work: 1) Catholics completely alienated from government and taking part in civil disobedience 2) Right wing unionists will no longer be content to influence

but will seek to make policy directly now that they have tasted power 3) Anglo-Irish relations both nations will have to co-operate in relations to Common Market.

Under Treaty of Rome' member nations must seek to settle their political differences and certainly no Irish government could gain approval to enter Common Market if it meant an official acceptance of partition.

Thus it would seem that on the British side there has to be the consideration of a jus.tification of a tremendous expenditure to continue the course in Northern Ireland at a time when Britain already is facing. rising unemployment and an economic pinCh. As a result the Civil Rights leaders feel that as the Sunday Times pointed out normal political means cannot be used and civil disobedience is the only possible solution open to the minority at present.

Their reply to the. Stormont White Paper "A Record of Constructive Change" that all reforms have been put through can best be summarized by an example. Local government councils can circumvent any point system by which people receive priority on housing by strategically locating houses, e.g., houses placed in Protestant community are unlikely to be sought after by Catholics.

In conclusion they feel at root of all Northern Ireland's problems is canonization of Unionist position denying the validity of a Nationalist position as a political position, thus one political point of view is- canonized over others. They ask. how Protestant subversives can be ignored in internment when Civil Rights leaders are interned.

Century Separated Opinions The problem of Ireland has been questioned by many in Great Britain over the years. As far back as Feb. 19, 1844 Lord Macaulay said in a speech in the House of Commons: "I hold that Ireland is in a most unsatisfactory, indeed in a most dangerous state ... You admit that you govern' that island not as you govern ,England and Scotland ... not by means of the respect people feel for the iaws, but by means of bayonets, of artillery, of entrenched -troops."

In' more recent times Paul Johnson in the New Statesman July 23, 1971 summarized all the means Britain has tried in Ireland and gives his evaluation: "In Ireland over the centuries we have tried every possible formula,: Direct rule, lindirect路 rule, genocide, apartheid, puppet parliaments, real parliaments, martial law, civil law, colonisation, land reform, partition.

Nothing has worked."

Richard Grossman, the editor of the New Statesman and路a minister' in the last Labor government gave his evaluation Elf British troops in Ulster in the cover story of Aug. 13, 1971 when he wrote: "The J3ritish troops in Ulster are no( longer a peace-keeping force: They have become an ,army of occupation. Internment has clinched it-along with the deal whereby Prime Minister Faulkner got his camps in return . for the ban on parades. The measures which were to have prevented civil war have, in fact created it. The orgy of self-

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destruction is happening before the eyes of British soldiers compelled to play the very opposite role to that in which they were first cast. As a result of 12 months' inertia the British Army has become, an instrument of Stormont's policy, doing Stormont's dirty work. This is intolerable."

'Lamentable Failure' I should like finally to sum up the situation in Northern Ireland through the eye of the Sunday Times of London of Aug. 15, 1971: "When the Ulster Unionists settled in 1920 for an arrangement which kept only a part of Ireland linked to' Britain, they made it as large a part as would be sure of providing them with an overall majority. When they saw that even among their chosen six counties there were two, or more where their majority was fragile, they fiddled electoral boundaries to keep themselves in power. They packed the judiciary and intimidated juries. All. this is known, attested. There may have been a \I: time when it was still helpful to ALL EARS: When Sister Dorothy reads, everybody talk-as all three Governments pays attention-even Duchess, the collie..Why not? It's concerned, in London, Belfast, the story of Rin Tin Tin, the famous wonder dog. Sister and Dublin, still insist on talking Dorothy is shown here with youngsters at St. Vincent's -in terms of improved Catholic participation in a system stacked home for children in Shields, Mich. NC Photo. against them by sheer numbers, for all the Northern Ireland Governments honourable efforts at reform. That time has gone by.

If nothing else has, the fact and Sisters of Charity Search for Meaning manner of internment has sent it flying. It is time now for the Of Community Life British Government to acknowlDAVENPORT (NC) - "And Mary who were 'prodding themedge that the 50-year experiment don't thin,k marriage is out of selves about their religious comof a Unionist Ulster with its own the question for me," the middle- munity life diJring their third Parliament-"a, .,protestant Pan aged Sister .said, "there was this annual senate held at Marycrest Iiament and a Protestant State," rich, lonely widower on our College here in Iowa. in the ingenuous phrase of its High in their concern was the first Prime Minister-has been a cruise ..."

Waves of laughter beat back loss of Sisters leaving the comlamentable failure." the Sister's attempt to make her munity, particularly young SisProblem 'Contra Nnturam' point, but she continued: "I ters. The order's median age has It is equally important that we recognize the problem for what don't have to stay in the com- risen from 51 to 56 in the last it is, that in particular we recog- munity. I could continue with two years. Despite the vocation nize the economic, political, and my work and in my present job lag, the Sisters stayed in good social problem that it is. As and there would be no difficulty humor as they discussed their Paul Johnson wrote very suc- at all ... but I am staying be- community's condition. cause I choose to stay."

The community has been excinctly: The Sister was one of more perimenting for three years with "It is tragic, indeed, that the British are still taught to see the than 200 members of the Sisters what it calls team government, Ulster conflict in religious terms, of Charity of the Blessed Virgin led by Sister Roberta Kuhn, president, and two vice-presifor this makes it seem incomprehensible. We cannot believe, economic control will be re- dents. in the 20th century that people moved from those who seek to The Sisters attending the senare prepared to kill each other perpetuate these injustices. For ate indicated that their experi'because of ancient theological as I have indicated earlier this ence with collegial government disputes. This makes the prob- is the last peaceful means left, has enabled them to talk freely lem appear contra naturam. In if it is not successful there ap- about everything from the meanfact, Ulster is essentially a con- pears only the spector of ing of vocation to "the impatemporary crisis, with parallels violence:' tience of younger Sisters," to all over the world. It is the relic Whatever support you can the conflict between personal c;>f'a colonial past, with an iso- give by prayer or other means and community commitment and lated settler minority struggling open to you may force an in- projects. to maintain its position of racial formed world opinion to bring She said community "no longsuperiority in an alien island. Re- more pressures 路for peace. One er means what it did in the ligious differences are merely the has to hope for this when you days when a superior said 'you most obvious manifestation of a see men like John Hume, M.P., 10 go here and you 10 go there.' conflict of racial cultures: a arrested by the troops after he "Now I do my work, try to man's faith is the stamp of his and Fr. Denis Bradley pleaded see my situation and the situaorigins, just as in similar situ- with the troops not to remove tion of others in 'the light of ations elsewhere it is the color' the barricades which the local what I understand from our hisof his s~in. The racial problem community in Derry saw as their toric commitment, and make a of Ireland, springing from En- defense. The Cameron Report decision: this is my commitgland's efforts to colonise the "Disturbances in Northern Ire- ment," she added. country, existed centuries before land" a report to the Governthe word 'Protestant' was ment of Northern Ireland cited minted."

John Hume. "Mr. Hume's influWhile in Ireland I was strik- ence has been insistently exeringly moved as I read the votive cised in favor of the adoption of Mass for peace and its words peaceful means of protest and sunk into my heart and mind. I he has so far resolutely opposed hope others in America will pray violence and disorder." As conthat this last chance for a non- cerned people of good will we v:iolent approach to justice for must not be taken in by those the minority will be' successful, who would frustrate justice and that the mask of political- seek power for power's sake.

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,'Decade Of Awakening' "Socialism has turned out to be a grim joke and democracy seems to be going to pieces. The nineteen-seventies will be a decade of spiritual awakening."

The speaker is not some ecclesiastical figure nor even a contemporary philosopher or theologian. Rather he is one of the most distinguished Italian nIm directors, France Zeffirelli.

The first' sentence of his statement may be open to debate. One hopes that the second sentence is a true assessment of what is now taking place and what will come.

Zeffirelli has-with many others-correctly seen that the materialism of the past two decades lIas done something to people. Life has. been eased by mechanical invtmtions;,time-saving devices have given many people all sorts of leisure. Theoretically, life' should have become happier for those enjoying all these benefits. Actually, there is a whole pre~ent generation that is restl.ess; that is disillu~ sioned, that is rebellious. And it does not seem to know what it is fighting against and why.

Many spiritual leaders' h!ive pinpointed the problem and the answer: man is a spiritual being and his soul must be fed. Man-St. Augustine said it sixteen centuries age-is a restless being and can find his rest only in God 'and the things of God. As Zeffirelli expresses it, ma\l has a deep need, "the will to exaltation." He wants to be more than himself, he reaches out for what is above and beyond himself, and this is God. Perhaps Zelfirelli is not saYing anything especially new: But it is encouraging when one of his stature sees a present-day problem 'and its cause. And it is particularly encouraging when such, a person is in the position to do something- about it. This famous film director works in a powerful medium. He has already been influential in it on a world-wide scale. And note he is turning his considerable talent to exposing the problem and suggesting the answer: , Already awaiting editing is his film on St. Francis of As.. sisi with whom, he believes, many of today's youth have much in common. And while today's youth sometimes manifest their. restlessness in strange and unproductive ways, they can see in St. Francis how one man,:found the answer to his questioning and .literally changed the West.. ern world'in 'the process and by his own life.

It is to be hoped that Zeffirelli is right. As the nineteen-fifties were the years of afflu~nce and the nineteensixties the years of rebellion, it may well be that the nine~ teen-seventies will be the years of spiritual awakening.

An Answer To Crime Recently-released statistics show that crime has been rising at an alarming rate. The causes are many. But one factor stands out clearly: all too many people today feel that they, have the right to do as they please. This,- of course, is not a right; it is the mere physical ,ability.

Pope Paul has said in this regard: "If everyone wants , to do as he pleases on the pretext of liberty, then we will easily come to the, decadence of civil society organized as a state . . . Liberty is extremely pres:ious and delicate ... It is true that liberty must be able to operate without, obstacles, but it must be directed toward good, and this! direction is called a sense of responsibility, it is' called' duty. It is true also that liberty is a personal right, but it cannot fail to respect the rights of others. It cannot be: divorced from charity . . . It is true that conscience must be one's guide, Qut conscience itself must 'be guided by , the science of things both divine and human." ' There has been much talk of freedom and liberty.

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Spanish-speaking coalition c1aim- at the front door of the Bank ing that the Catholic Chutch has of America to keep us out," n~glected their ethnic: group The coalition, maae up of said it would ask the U. ~. bish- Mexican-Americans and 'Puerto ops to donate $500,000 fr9m one Ricans includes Paul Sedillo Jr., Sunday's nationwide collection direct~r the the U. S. Catholic for the establishment of a l center Conference's Spanish-Speaking here to lobby for Hispanic division, and Mrs. Encarnacion interests. .

I I Padilla de' Armas, a division If the 'bishops reject the re- staffer.

Sedillo said if the center was quest, spokesman for the coalition said at a news conference, established it would not be conthe coalition will ask Hispanos nected with the Church. He said across the 'country to withhold it would, address itself to gentheir Church contributions on eral issues facing the Spanishfour successive Sunday~ and speaking, adding that the center send them directly to the 'center, was needed because Hispanos to be called the Spanis\1~Speak- lack a national vehicle to articuing Crisis Center. late their needs effectively.

Juan L. Coria of Berkeley, Calif., chairman of 'the Ad Hoc Refuse Jurisdiction Coalition for the SpanishSpeaking, said his group:would In Textbook Case make an official request to the LINCOLN (NC)-·The Nebrasbishops after a nationwiqe His- ka Supreme Court has declined panic meeting here Oct. 17. He the request of an Omaha attorsaid the coalition' expects the ney 'to ,decide the constitutionmeeting to endorse its cause. 'ality of a new state law authorCoria said the coalitidn had izing public schools to lend textdecided to ask the bishops to books on non-religious subjects fund the center becau~e, he to pupils in private schools.

The law, passed by the last charged, the 'American i €hurch has "failed" the Spanish.lspeak- session of the state legislature, ing, who make up 25 per pent- went into effect on Aug. 27. But the largest minority-of Catho- Attorney General Clarence A.H. lies in the country. i" _' Meyer advised the state educaHe blamed Church neglect for tion commissioner not to implethe "powerlessness" of the ment the law until the question Spanish-speaking. He said people of its constitutionality has been in the barrios view the bishops settled.

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-In a private audience Pope Paul VI gave Cardinal John Joseph Carberry of St. Louis what the prelate calls "a very special message for the priests of the archdiocese of St. Louis."

Cardinal Carberry said. the Pope-asked that his apostolic blessing be given to all the 'people - priests, Religious and laity - and that they be told he prays for them and asks God to watch over them.

The cardinal told the St. Louis -Review, archdiocesan newspaper, that the Pope also said: "Tell the priests especially. that they mean so much to me and that I truly love them, that I am' willing to help them and to strengthen them. , "'I hope in a very special way that they will come to realize that they, more than the bishops, are channels of grace to thee people. The priests are the ones who offer the sacrifices of the Mass for the people, they are the ones who give them the body and blood of Christ in Holy Communion, they are the ones who go with them in their sufferings in times of illness and they join the newly married in the sacrament of holy Matrimony - they are close to the people.

'Fatherly, Vigorous' " 'They are, then, in the front , lines of the battle for the cause of Christ and I pray for them every day,''' The cardinal said that the last time he had seen the Pope was in May, 1970, and at that-time ,the Pope had looked "very tired and weary."

"But this time," the cardinal said, "the Pope looked very well rested, his voice was strong and he was fatherly and vigorous in his greeting and throughout the audience."

Plan to Publish Pentagon Study BOSTON (NC) - A non-profit publishing branch of the Unitarian Universalist Association plans to publish a 3,OOO-page four volume version of the Pentagon's secret study of U. S. involvement in Indochina.

The publishing House, The Beacon Press, announced that its material is the same used

by Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alasak), before a Senate subcommittee June 29. The work will be titled "The Senator Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Paper: The Defense Department History of Decision Making on Vietnam," "Sen. Gravel has performed a unique public service 'in making these documents available," said Gobin Stair, Beacon Press director here.

The four volumes, to be issued in October, simultaneously in hardcover and paperback, will contain "2.5 million words.

The Unitarian and Universalist Churches which consolidated in 1961 have long opposed the Vietnam war, a position often reflected in Beacon Press publications. '

Truth Nothing conquers except truth; the victory of truth is charity.

-St. Augustine

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs.,'Sept. 9, 1971

Suggests Halting Inflation'

By Helping Elderly Poor

Paulist Christian C'ulture Series Opens Sept. 22 with Fr. Haring Rev. Bernard Haring, C.SS.R., noted moral theologian, will open the 14th season of the Christian Culture Lecture Series at John Hancock Hall, Boston, on Wednesday evening, Sept. 22, at 8:15, discussing the topic.

"Hope for Hopeless Moral Dilem-

One of the worst tragedies of continuous inflation is the worsening plight of those who are both aged and poor.

In fact, if Christian intelligence and conscience are really

to go to work-as Pope Paul challenges them to do-on local issues of critical moral importance, the fate of old those who,. most often, have people in inflationary times spent a lifetime in work supporting and bringing up the next genhas as good a claim as any eration. And, significantly, some to be at the top of the list.

By BARBARA WARD

It is one of the paradoxes of

our Western, nominally Christian, society that we keep believing our way' of life to be more humane, more respectful of human dignity, more responsible for. human welfare than any other social order invented by man. We still talk of the Asians' "lack of respect for life" while we cheerfully kill off about 50,000 people a year on the roads without the least sustained effort to end the butchery.

Similarly, we seem perfectly unaware that one of the disgraces of our modern industrialized societies is the virtual discarding of old people as though they were so much useless ballast while, in tribal Africa, they are still the respected oracles of the village and in Communist China, it seems, the age-long Confucian tradition of veneration for old age continues in the communes and fam,ily groups.

In the West, the continuity of family life, broken by higher mobility and industrial change, can even result in the virtual abandonment of parents. Sometimes the results are only personally tragic. One thinks of dreadful, though expensive "senior citizens" settlements where the old ape the young in style and entertainment and where they are deprived of old age's deepest content - contact with young children, respect for experience and disinterested family affection.

Human Tragedies But these are the best of the uncivilized solutions. Add poverty and inflation and you have the horrors of uncertainty, of rising costs always outstripping pension increases, of landlords' harassments designed to get pensioners out and higher paying tenants in; add loneliness and family disruption; add the breakdown of community sense and even parish life.

What you get is the worst of human tragedies- despair and abandonment just as physical strength and mental vigor begin to fail. Our Western cities are full of the forgotten old. In care and respect for the elderly, our so-called Christian societies do' worse than pagan Africans or unbelieving Chinese.

Extravagant Demands Yet there are answers - provided we are prepared to put our minds seriously to the problem of securing a decent old age for

of these answers bear directly on the problem of inflation.

We know, for instance, from President Nixon's wage and prices standstill, that at the core of our present Western inflation lies the pressure of strongly organized workers to incr~ase wages even if such action sets in motion another round <;If priee increases.

I have already mentioned in this column one of the difficul- . ties about persuading large numbers of workers to lessen the push of continuously rising wage demands - the extravagant demands on the community's resources made by leaders of industry, successful novelists, starlets, rock singers and, the lowest form of social life, the' currency speculators.

Freeze Short-Lived If one man or woman is prepared to taj{e a million dollars a year out of the community's stock of materials and labor for his or her personal gratification, then we cannot begin explaining to the $8.000 a year man that a rise of a few dollars a week is harmful.

His aspirations are set for him by television reporg on Onassistype living standards. Tell him to consume less in the name of a stable currency and his answer will be explicit and probably far from polite. That is why the present wage freeze is bound to be short-lived unless other policies are introduced.

A'reconsideration of Western standards of rewards may therefore be a moral and political prerequisite of curbing inflation.

But another expedient is also worth examining particularly in its impact on the heart-rending problems of the aged.

Guaranteed Income Some economists are beginning to wonder whether the concept of "fringe benefits" which! already cover pensions, health care, holidays and so forth might not be rethought in terms of a more lasting offset to inflationary pressures. The problem today is that a sudden increase in paid-out wages pushes up costs, moves on in pushed-Up prices and prepares for the next wage demand.

But suppose the package inchided quite a high element of guaranteed income, in constant dollars, to be taken uP,. as of right, at the age of 60? The income would be the equivalent of average income over the last two decades of working life.

In such settlements, immediate claims would be deferred, thus breaking the jnflationary spiral.

But demand would not fall so far as to deepen the risk of reces~ sion. It would be transferred, stage by stage, to those who need it most-the elderly poor.

In fact, old age in destitution could be virtually abolished.

More than that, old parents, far from being a financial burden

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FIRST: Father Haring, C. SS.R, will open the Paulist Christian Culture Lecture Series on Sept. 22.

Magazine Aims To' Free Spirit WASHINGTON (NC) - "Freeing the Spirit" is a new quarterly magazine published by the National Office for Black Catholics in an effort to set loose the creative energy of the black Catholic community.

It is dedicated "to all black people who have rediscovered their imprisoned souls. Also this book is a prayer for those blacks who still have not found themselves; who have not discovered their beautiful black self."

Editor Michael St. Julian is a former seminarian who has taken the Swahili name Mtumishi Wa Watu Wango, which means "servant of my people." He said that although the colorful slick paper magazine is directed to blacks, it is not aimed at them exclusively.

"We believe there should be sharing," he said. "We think the time has come for the entire Church to begin to experience and receive contributions black people can make."

In the first issue of the magazine路 are liturgies, prayers and Church ceremonies, all written by blacks. It is St. Julian's hope, he told NC News, that "ordinary people will be encouraged to submit material, submit liturgies, and if they're good, we'll print them."

The next edition, he said, will probably be on music and "more scholarly than this issue," St. Julian, who is from New Orleans, said it will include reports from persons who have done research on black religious music, the use of drums in religious music, and the roles played by jazz and blues in religion.

Blesses Walkathon BATHURST (NC)-Pope paul VI sent his blessing to Anglican Bishop E. Kenneth Leslie of Bathurst, who completed a walkathon of over 100 miles to raise money for paying off the debt on All Saints' Anglican Cathdral here in Australia. Bishop Leslie walked from Dubbo to Bathurst and sponsors of the walk have contributed over $60,000. in poorer families, would be a respected asset-and if we cannot restore Asian standards of decency by way of morality in our corrupted, materialist order, let us at least provide a financial incentive. Let us be bribed into the virtue of caring for the elderly if we cannot make it on idealism alone.

Father Haring of the Redemptorist Fathers is a member of the faculty of the Academia AIphonsiana, Rome, and has written extensively on moral and pastoral theology. His latest bOoks are "The Morality of Per'sons," "Church on the Move," . and "Catholic Moral Theology After the Council." Father Haring has lectured throughout the world on such topics as Situation Ethics and Abortion, and is currently preparing a series of conferences on the Sacrament of Marriage for the clergy of the Diocese of Rome.

On Oct. 27, Rev. Eugene C. Kennedy of the Maryknoll Fathers, psychologist and author, will speak on "The New Mythology of Sex." Father Kennedy is Editor of the publication, You, and his books include "A Time for Love" and "People of the Church."

An outstanding European theologian, Rev. Hans Kung, S.T.D., of the University of Tubingen, Germany, will be guest speaker

at New England Life Hall, Boston, on Nov. 13, discussing "Jesus: Challenge of the Church."

Father Kung's latest book, "Infallible? An Inquiry," has caused much discussion among theologians, who are exploring the doctrine of 'Infallibility declared by the First Vatican Council of 1870.

Rev. Anthony T. Padovano, theologian and author, of Im. maculate Conception Seminary, Darlington, N. J., will be the final' speaker in the series on Dec. 10, 'discussing "Christian Commitment and Fidelity." Fr. Padovano has written and lectured on Ecclesiology, and his latest books are "Culture and Quest for Christ" and "Dawn without Darkness." He is a mem,ber of the Priests Senate of Newark and Associate Editor of the' diocesan paper, The Advocate.

Rev. Robert F. Quinn; C.S.P., Moderator of the Christian Culture Lectures, has planned this year's series to explore, through these outstanding speakers, some of the most urgent and complex problems confronting the Church today.

Tickets and information concerning the lectures available by writing: Rev. Robert F. Quinn, C.S.P., Christian Culture Lectures, P.O. Box 8579, Boston, Ma. 02114.

.Constitutionality of Minnesota's Tax Credit Law Challenged MINNEAPOLIS (NC)-A state aid law granting tax credits to parents paying tution for their children attending nonpublic schools has been taken to court here by two citizens' groups.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Minnesota' Civil Liberties Union filed suit in a state court here, challenging the constitutionality of the law in light of recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings against two other non public school aid laws.

The suit seeks a permanent injunction to prevent the state tax department from implementing the 1971 law.

Spokesmen for the two groups said they believe "that the Minnesota parochiaid law violates the first amendment to the U. S. constitution because it involved the state in an 'excessive entanglement' with religion."

"Entanglement" was a reason the Supreme Court gave June 28 for voiding nonpublic school aid laws in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

A spokesman for the Minnesota Catholic Conference denied that the state tax credit law is unconstitutional.

The law contains "safeguards so that the state, various state departments and the non public schools are not involved in 'excessive entanglement,' " said LeRoy Brown, MCC education department director.

"This law is primarily one where parents of children in non public schools apply for income tax credits," Brown said, "and is somewhat similar to tax credits for other things."

He noted that in Minnesota some taxpayers subtract "rent credit" from their final property

tax assessment, since they are ineligible for tax relief provisions granted those who own their own homes: Personal dependent credits are also subtracted from final tax assessments, he said.

The tax credit law under fire says parents can subtract up to $100 in tuition costs per nonpublic grad~ school student and up to $140 per high school student from their final income tax assessment.

Dean Rusk Named To Advisory Board WASHINGTON (NC)-Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk has been appointed to a new seven-man advisory board at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service here.

Rusk is now a professor of international law at the University of Georgia. As a member of the new. advisory group he will reo view the school's program and suggest means for improving it.

Other members of the advisory group include U. S. Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R-Md) and James A. Perkins, former president of Cornell University and now chairman of the International Council for Educational Development.

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The Catholic Women's Club of Fall River will honor Most . Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. at '1(~1 its first meeting of the year .! scheduled for 8:15 on Tuesday M.' evening, Sept. 14 in St. Patrick's 1 School Hall, Fall River., It will be an open meeting and all women of the area are invited.

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I really, enjoy receiving mail from readers of my. columns. Too often a columnst writes of what interests her alone and ,in doing so may unconsciously avoid some 'subjects that should be given serious consideration but that perchance never enter her mind. Stich a subject is the this letter··giving my conscience, perhaps' the conscienc:es of "wearing 'of natural furs". and some' of my readers, a little Furs have never really nudge, So many of us, myself

been my thing, possibly because I ,have never nad the mo'ney to' indulge in this type of apparel or more likely because ~he ones I could afford never appeared to have ,that much styling: Recently I have noticed the ads from man-made fur manl,lfacturers deploring the killing of animals in order to adorn the rich

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included advocate any means possible to save our environment but ·often overlook the ways that , we ourselves can be active in the conservation effort.

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Ads, f~aturing well known personalities women who could well afford to buy the 'most expensive fur available who are. shown wearing man-made furs ~ with statements from them de- ' By claring that they will. refuse to buy any more natural furs be-,!

MARILYN, cause of the needless slaughter ' of these animals are appearing in media across the nation.; RODERI(:K These ads are creating such a:' furor that in some areas the reg- .0,.·,~tlf<4 :'t' j ' , lWi$i~fimU'gl'Bl:1~. ' ular fur dealer is. threateJ,ling to, females of the world but because take his advertising money away" .t'~ 'i,'<' t b I it really' wasn't a subJect' that from any publication that dares I I, was affecting me' personally, I' to run these, conservative ads : I must sadly 'declare' that' I never ',sponsored by the man:made fur A LIVING MIRACLE?: Frances BU~s, 6, of Glasgow, gave it more' than a passing 'manufacturers and the cohservawho three, y~ars ago; \fas SCi ill with cancer that doctors thought. It was, finally this let- tionists. ter from one of The Anchor While I'm sure there are many , gave her, only a few qays to live, may soon be delcared , readers, Rita Cobb of Barnstable women who can tell 'a mink a, a "livin& miracle." W~en doctors gave up hope, J;ler parthat persuaded me to write this' 'mile away, I'm the type that ents took. her to Lourdes and bathed her twice in the I ' column and to look into the con- could have a fake foisted, off on ' waters of the well there.

Now, seen here recently, she shows servation issue further. ' her without the slightest, suspiis' not likely to no trace of the cancer,' and doctors say it Letter cion, so the thought .of giving; Dear Mrs. ~oderick: '.. up my, mink, ,to. be hUplane i~a i reappear.' NC'Photo. ' . , Your article descnbmg the very slight sacrifice oil.' my part' i furs on sale.

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If you were to read The fakes outshine the real thing' Slaughter of the Baby Seals by especially in the area of styling. , B. Davies, you would never recNo th t M C bb h ommend the wearing of furs by kw d a t rS 0 d fas, · t' "1' I. . I 'In Latin America V mcen Ian ~mnmg women (I imagine here Mrs. ,awa ene. m~ 0 th e .nee or concern m thiS area I mtend to Calle~ Valuable Asset ) ' Co bb means na t ura I furs. . do some readmg on the subject Do. you know the s~ffermg and I think I'll t t '. h h MILWAUKEE (NC)-Coopera- the program can be improved if expenenced by trapped ammals- b k h t' s ar Wit t e .

00 semen IOns. ' tion between St. Vincent de Paul U. S. Vincentian groups channel the kmd you would never allow to happen to your, domestic pets?

Too often women, especially groups in the United States and all correspondence and financial That mail-made furs are smart _ those who can afford luxury Latin America is invaluable, ac- contributions through the supeenough and allows women from items, do not stop to consider cording to Charles A. O;'Neill, rior councils in foreign countries indulging in such savage luxury the effect these desires have on executive secretary of the Mil- rather than directly to their and thereby belying the very th 7 rest of the world. It is heart c waukee archdiocesan Vinc~ntian Latin American brothers.

-I qualities one would expect in emng to see women becoming central committee.

He explained that Vincentian Twinning programs linking headquarters in those countries women-compassion, gentleness, more and more concerned ab.out and consideration for all living the world and others even, if it U. S. parish conference~ to are better equipped to translate things. . means sacrifices on their part. those in Latin Americal are correspondence and exchange, valuable assets to the society currency.

Rita Cobb despite recent criticism that such Barnstable latin-Rite Catholics Need for Justce relationships are ineff~ctive, I want to thank Mrs. Cobb for Discrimination O'Neill said after completing a bothering to sit down and write Protest O'Neill said the society~s forQUILON (NC)-Kerala st~te's' tour of 15 countries in C~ntral eign program does not affect Latin-rite Catholics' accused, a ~ and South America and the: West twinning within the United Protestants Applaud state government committee of Indies.

States. "Actually, we urge con. ii' The tour was sponsor~d by ferences with surplus funds to discriminating against them in Anti-Abortior:'l Sermon Ca~holic Relief Services in: coopcontribute generously to our YOUNGSTOWN (NC) - A civil service appointments. eration with the' U. S. superior Catholic mounted the pulpit for The charge was made here in council of the Vincentian Sqciety. needy conferences and, if they can do so, also twin with a con- _ the first time in Calvary Temple ,India by the Latin Catholic AsHowever, O'Neill said hei plans ference in Latin America. The' here and called on the Protestant sociation {ollowing a recomcongregation to oppose attempts mendation by the committee that to recommend to the council point is that St, Vincent de Paul to make Ohio's abortion laws the Latin-rite share of positions that some of the twinning ~meth­ groups in many parishes can do more open. in government service be re- ods be changed for increased' both and they are doing it," . [ O'Neill said.

"Face up to the responsibility duced' from five per cent to two effectiveness. , of protecting those living but yet per cent.

Through twinning, parisli conDuring h,is visit O'Neill met " unborn, or approve the destrucferences 'in this country :adopt with Archbishop Dom Held'er The committee made the rec- similar groups in Latin America Camara of Olinda and Recife, .... tion of such life," challenged Howar<! Witt, local chairman of ommendation after a recent by providing assistance thtough Brazil. He also helped organize study of the economic and edu- prayers, correspondence ahd fi- a Vincentian conference in the Right to Life Society.

His talk was punctuated with cational status of minorities in nancial aid. The program 'is, in- Masaya, Nicaragua. ,"Amens" from the congregation. the state. tended to "stimulate underhandIn Brazil, Archbishop Camara Th~ 300 ,worshippers applauded Challenging the committee's ing' and a spirit of fraternity assured O'Neill, he reported, that when he finished. finding that the population of and friendship among Vlncen- the twinning program was most Witt said man was being led Latin-rite Catholics in Kerala is ' tians throughout the world. valuable to Vincentian groups in into, a "swamp of despair" by only 730,000, the association' . O'Neill told the Catholid Her- South America. He said-the prelproponents of permissive abor- said the actual figure is ald Citizen, Milwaukee archdioc- ate stressed the need for justice , . I . . tion.

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ENUGU (NC) - The Nigerian bishops, defending clerical celibacy, said that they are not in favor of ordaining married men and that" the priest shortage can be 'partially solved by a better distribution of priests.

They urged greater flexibility in allowing diocesan priests to work in other dioceses and oth'er countries: Another' way to help solve the problem of the scarcity of priests, they said, is the use of permanent'deacons.

At a meeting held here to brief Nigerian delegates to 'the world Syriod of .Bishops opening Sept: 30 in Rome, the bishops said: "For many reasons, celibacy is fitting for the priest and only those who are ready to live this life should be admitted to the ' priesthood."

The bishops also pled'ged to "uphold, promote and defend the rights, of 'all human persons in producing just and equitable'distribution of national wealth, knowing that true peace and stability are based on justice and freMom." THey' pledged 'also - their'" to:' " operation in all social development programs.

The priesthood and world-justice are the two principal topics on the synod agenda.

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All C,hildr,en' Ba·ck i\n Sc.hool·\ Aftler Fra,ntic Pr,e1parati,on l I hate to see those "back to school sale" signs appear in store windows. For me they mean two weeks of frantic ' preparation for the new school year . . . and I was just beginning to enjoy the Summer vacation. My eight children attend four different schools. ' The requirements of each four. A dozen small notebooks, school vary. The require- a dozen large ones, 2000 sheets ments of each teacher in of loose-leaf, three packages of

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Women's Council Of New Bedford The first Open Meeting of the New Bedford Council of Catholic Women will be held on Thursday night, Sept. 16. A concelebrated Mass will be offered at St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven at 7 o'clock. The new officers for the year 1971-72 will be installed after the Mass.

construction paper, assorted each of the four schools vary. scissors, paste, rulers and as· t pa d s s hou Id h ave covMultiply that by the varied r e -slgnmen A reception and meeting will o ' s nee d s. Th e glr . I, quirements of eight kids, and I ered every ne follow the services in St. Joget light headed just trying to at the counter rang it up. $23.47~ seph's Hall. Mrs. Charles Landry, think about it.

All I wanted was a few little Past President of the Diocesan notebooks.

Council of Catholic Women will On the way out of the store, the be guest speaker. kids suddenly remembered' a Mrs. Winifred Tucker, Presifew other goodies. "I need a dent of the Associal of St. Jo8y lunch box and a thermos." ,"We seph's Parish will be hostess. need book bags." "You forgot to MORE FLYING NUNS: Sister Judith Rosenthal, cenMARY buy crayons." "Three of us have ter,."of Northampton, Mass., and Sister Sheila McGuirk, Maryknoll to Publish to have" bags for gym gear," CARSON right, of South Grafton, were recently sworn in by GovFully Equipped Childrens Magazine Another $26.79 and I was sure ernQt Francis Sargent as members of the 104th TAC FightMARYKNOLL (NC) - A new er Group, Massachusetts Air National Guard, Westfield, full-color children's magazine had everything.

Our youngest attends a day Mass. Both sisters of St. Joseph, Holyoke, will take regular called Share will be published To begin with, take the prob· school for the retarded. Every- WAF training during six weeks basic training program this month by the Maryknoll Fathers. ' lem of shoes. Evetyone needed thing must be labeled-right at Lackland AFB, Texas. N<: Photo. new shoes, so 1 piled them into down to underwear and socks.

Father Miquel d'Escoto, the the car. When they filed into the Labeling was one of my least society's communications direcshoe store, they looked like a favorite jobs until 1 found out tor, said the magazine is intendthat one of the older girls bunch of orphans on a bread line. ed as a religious education tool Spotting the long column of feet, thought it was fun. With just with emphasis on international Quake-Wrecked Hospit.al Making Comeback a little Tom Sawyer salesmanthe owner's eyes lit up as he endevelopment and global. awareship, she took that mess 'Off my visioned a sale that would pay 'ness. ' On Bedrock Courage hands. the month's rent.

The first day of schooi' every Journalist 'Moises Sandoval, SAN FERNANDO (NC)~The take two more years.

After a brief conversation, the one was up early-and everyone editor of Share, said the magadevastating earthquake last Feb. The comeback will be slow, sparkle disappeared. His dreams of dress shoes, school shoes, was out on time-everyone made 9 destroyed more than buildings engineered by many studies, an- zine's educational goal is "to sneakers, play shoes, boots and his bus-and everyone was equip- here. Its after shocks have been alyses, knocking on doors, seek- make our readers aware of the world around them and its needs, slippers for each child burst like ped with a complete assortment unemployment, indebtedness, up- ing, hoping. and to open up to them ways' rooting of lives-all because of a big bubble. I made it clear I of supplies! , 60 terrible seconds.

The Sisters figure on taking they can respond positively to Down Hill was. .interes,ted only in the m.os~ on another loan, this one from In that one terror-packed min-' the Small Business Administra- ·those needs," ecoilOmical, practical, durable., I basked in the peace. For once ute the Sisters of the Holy Cross' tion, for the north wing. For the way of getting them shod.

Calling itself a "do-it-yourself remembered everything!

209-bed hospital, not yet 10 main job they are praying for educational adventure," the Then they came home.

Shoe Problem "Remember the loose-leaf bind- years old, was jolted, wrecked passage of U. S. Sen Birch Bayh's monthly magazine asks its young Since they make everything in "stretch" fabrics these days, I'm er you got for me? I'm not al- and turned into a dangerous hulk amendment to Public Law 91606 readers to write guest editorials, anxiously awaiting the day they lowed to use it. I have to have of cracked concrete unsafe for which will extend federal disas- join its pen pal club, an.d suggest human occupancy. ter aid to nonprofit private hos- projects to "build' a better make stretch shoes. Nothing loose-leaf tablets." planet."

After the dust had settled, pa- pit,als.

"I need more big notebooks, seems such a waste as outgrown, Meantime, the Sisters carryon perfectly strong shoes. It wasn't twice the size of the ones you tients evacuated, damage assessed and prospects appraised, the pic- with the encouragement of the as bad with the older ones when got," ' First Mission Church . "Only half my books fit into ture was this-the main things lay board of trustees. The SisI could pass them down, but the youngest outgrowing shoes the book bag; I have to have a the Sisters had left was a $4 mil- ters continue to operate' a 24- Celebrates Centennial lion mortgage and their courage. hour emergency service in a , bigger one," seems an out-and-out waste.

BAYOU GOULA (NC) - The "I need a compass and a proFor some six months now the convalescent facility east of the centennial anniversary of St. Once the shoe problem was solved, I checked out the rest tr~ctor, and the little kids are warm valley winds have blown hospital. They continue their Paul's Mission Church in Louisiof the clothing. Most of them had suppos,ed to have pencil cases. through cracked windows and charity work in the nearby Santa ana, was celebrated Sunday with an ample supply. Three are still But don't worry, Mom. We don't empty halls at Holy Cross, a Rosa parish clinic, motivated by Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge, officiating at a concelein uniforms. By remaking, one have to have it right away. As ghost 'of a hospital. But during bedrock courage. brated Mass. jumper into a skirt and altering long as we have it by tomorrow those same six months the Sisters and hospital trustees worked ' some of the others, the children morning, it's 'okay," Character harder to revive Holy Cross.

When the church was built in the first day of school.

I love were all set without my having Remember always that the 1871 it could accommodate about But it's all down hill from there.

And now, Holy Cross Hospito go near the uniform company. tal has begun its comeback. world is not things, but persons, 400 and was often filled to caI was feeling most complacent Great cranes and derricks that no natural beauty of inani- pacity. Today with a noticeable about that when one of the boys Seek Sponsors to Help breasted up to the once hand- mate things can equal in interest decrease in population in ttte reminded me he didn't have some facade and began to de- ttJe profound fascination of the Bayou Goula area, an average of Poor Children in India sneakers for gym. human character.

125 attend Mass in the old buildWASHINGTON (NC) - Spon- molish its sixth and seventh "Why didn't you say someing.

-Katherine T. Hinkson floors. thing about that when we were sors who would assist 600 poor One crane will lift out several children in India are being in the shoe store?"

8500-pound elevator motors, sought by the National Council "My sneakers were fine then. 'of Catholic Women's Help-a- place them' in' a storage area, on They just fell apart yesterday, the ground., playing football out in the Child program.

When the top floors are gone, Persons who agree to serve as street," the fifth floor will be given a sponsors send the children $10 'You Forgot' temporary roof.

The time saved on clothing each month for their education,' Then the three-story north was lost in a re-run of the trip food and clothing, NCCW offi- wing of the hospital will be cut to the shoe store. While I was cials said here.

The children, now awaiting away from the main building. in the shopping center. I stopped The north wing, say engineers, into the 5 & 10 for a few note- adoption in India, come from had been driven as a battering cannot propoor families who books. Three said they needed ram against, the main building looseleaf binders, so I bought vide for their basic needs. They by the force of the quake. It range' in age from infants to BANK-BY-MAIL (post-paid) WITH must be separated so that it teen-agers.

Contemplation , Four sponsors. all from the cannot happen again.

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Schools Reopen Under 'Shadow Of Aid Ruling WASHINGTON (NC) - Catholic schools across the country are reopening. their doors this month under the shadow of the . Suprem'e Court's ruling last June against some forms of aid to nonP':lblic ~ducation. . Since the high court held Pennsylvania and Rhode Island aid programs unconstitutional on june 28, spokesmen at many levels have.' affirmed th'at the Church is in the school business to stay regardless of unfavorable court rulings or other hard knocks. ' But there is no doubt that the Supreme Court's decision has added a' new element of uncer- . ·tainty and urgency 'to the finan. cial crisis of Catholfc schools.

Consider these facts: Eight hundred Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed for good since last June. This is twice the number expected before the Supreme Court ruling, according ttl the National Catholic Educational Association, and reduces the' total of Catholic schools to about .10,600.

NCEA estimates put Catholic school enrollment at a shade under 4= ~iIlion, compared' with 4.3 million in the last schoQl year.

New Court-Tests Encouraged by the .Supreme Court's surprisingly harsh rejec. tion. of . the Pennsylvania"and Rhode Island programs, foes. of public assistance' .for 'church' related schools are pUShing new court tests of aid laws in half a dozen other states.

Despite all that, Catholic edu~ cation leaders see some bright spots in the current situation. , One is the shock effect of the .Supreme Court's ruling itself.

The court did not bar all forms of assistance to nonjmblic education, but it did make it clear that it Jakes a jaundiced view of many kinds of direct state aid.

Catholic educators don't welcome this but they do acknowl-· edge that ,it could have the salutary result of forcing, Catholics to decide just how important Catholic schools are to them.

'Up to Ctltholics' Says Dr, Edward R. D'Alessio, director of the U. S. Catholic Conference Division of Elemen~ary and Secondary Education: "It puts it squarely up to the Catholics of this country whether they value the advantages pro. vided by Catholic schools sufficiently to make the necessary effort and sacrifices to keep them operating.

"Undoubtedly some Catholic schools will have to shut' down for financial reasons as a result of this ruling, But I do not foresee wholesale closings of Catholic schools unless that is what the Catholic public wants. In other words, the future of Catholic schools ,lies with Catholics themselves."

Another result of the Supreme Court decision has been to spur the search for forms of aid which will stand up under the scrutiny of courts.

Missouri' Knights Urged to Back Nixon's Stand·

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SCENE FROM YESTERYEAR: Duke, Rev. James Koons'. horse,' dfi.nks water from a trough the St. Paul's Lutheran Blue Church, Coopersburg, Pa., built in 1833 when it was founded. Rev. Koons enjoys riding in his buggy when visiting his parishioners. Duke ignored warning on side of troti~h wlticlt pio bahl)':' teferre.d to human consumption.

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D~creasein' Studc~nts,

.. 'ROME (NC)-The Jesuit order before 1965)', but theyha{.e beel1l in the United States and Canada from the lower half of' the me·, is in jeop~rdy in terms of "viable dian age.

I 4. American ordinations are growth," according to a statisti. .

I . caJ study ordered by -the general down 31 per cent, while .entrallce of the 21,000-member society~: of younget: seminary candidates . . is down 60 per cent; In c;anada, Father Pedro Arrupe.· In simple language, it means there are .~4 per cent fewer orthe Jesuits' in ,th6s'e two countries'dinations, while' semin'aty en~ . willsoonbe.represe~tei:lby ola trance has fallen 73 per. cent. men . in ' wheelchairs 'with nO C'ontinued Loss i .' young Jesuits to carry on the." work of the Society 'of Jesus.

What all thIS seems, to "th t d i d ' ".

'Conducted 'by researchers at mean, e s ~ y conc u. ~s, IS the University of San Francisco's .that the Je.sUIt-~ommumtle~.of Institute for Socio-Religious Stud- both. countrIes WIll have at rIsmg ies under the direction of Jesuit, medIan age, a larger number of Father Eugene Schallert, the older priests with . . . geri~tric study lists four factors gleaned pr?blem~, fewer n.ewly or?amed from the responses of 5,572 prIests m. some mstance~, and American and Canadian Jesuits-' the contmued loss of I more ' factors which it says "should priests." , I , cause concern rather than optimThe study was presented to ism": \ Father Arrupe last May an,d has . 1. Median age for American been sent to Jesuit sU~Friors Jesuits is over 51, for Canadians, around the w~rld. Sp~akl?g to 56-meaning, half the priests are EurOpean JeSUIt alumm Aug, 26 in Liege,. Belgium, the. Sp~nisholder than 50.

2.. Death rate has been "con~ stantlyaccelerating" in the years Asks Aid for Public 1965-1970 (in Canada, up 137 p.

C .11 I I per cent). ' . rlyote 0 eges I' 3. Departures from the priest-, . TRENTON (NC) - The iNew hood have not only accelerated Jersey Board of Higher E9uca-' during those five years (14 times' tion unanimously urged [here higher in the United States than that state assistance shoul? be , given to both private and public colleges and universities. i ~ashington ~other The ,board's endorsement came Takes Another Job after two hours of' debate over WASHINGTON (NC) - Mrs. the wording of a r~solution;!spe­ Julia M. Walsh, prominent in cifically citing "the principle of Catholic and other activities here, public financial assistance td rehas taken on another job. gionally accredited· institutions She has agreed to serve as a and such others judged qualified member of the board of the Med- b,y the Board of Higher Ed~caI. ical College of Pennsylvania in tIOn. Philadelphia, composed of 175 The wording extends the prin-women interested in supporting ciple two-year junior and :commedical education. munity colleges.

I She serves on the board of St. Because of the l~ngthy m~et- ' Mary of the Woods (Ind.) Col- ing the board did not tak~ a lege; Georgetown Prep School stand on a specific bill tp be in suburban Garret Park, Md.; iritroduced at the Fall session of is a vice president of a stock the legislature. The bill' wo~ld brokerage firm; a bank advisory provide for payment of' specific board member, among other ac. amounts varying from $800 for tivities-and is the mother of 12 a bachelor's degree to $2,800 for children. a doctorate.

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born general commented on the . dwindling 'locations.

"Evidently, the s~ciety does not have the, promise that Christ gave His Church·~of being everlasting," he said. "It could well :happen;, as with all. human things, that for the Society also there\T is a. 'time. for dying.: It could' so be.". . ,:' Father Arrupe added, however, that the work of the Society was not only as valid today but as necessary as in the days of St. Ignatius, its founder.

Diocese Channels F.unds to Refugees DUNEDIN. (NC)--All of the proceeds of the Dunedin Dioc~ esan Needs Collection this year will be used to aid East Pakistan's refugees.

The collection, over $10,000, normally'is used for the Church's educational and charitable works in the coming year.

Bishop John P. Kavanagh of Dunedin said that he was' earmarking the .f,unds ' for' East Pakistani refugees in India "even though it will mean a hard struggle in the year ahead for the diocese." But, he added, the situation of the refugees "cries to heaven for a response from every Christian." Dunedin is the smallest of the New Zealand dioceses.

JEFFERSON CITY (NC)-The Missouri Catholic Conference has called upon the state's Knights of Columbus to write or wire President Nixon their en.couragement of his support for nonpublic schools.

In a letter to Missouri's bish. ops, state officers of the Knights of Columbus, its own advisory board and "key personnel," the state conference said there was' "an urgent need" to encourage Nixon "to pursue his promise" that he would seek financial help for the parents of nonpublic school students:' "We understand that the President has been getting a good deal of adverse mail to his speech before the recent K of C cOJ:lvention," said the letter. .Nixon had told ~he national convention of the Knights in New York on Aug. 17 that the rapid closings of nonpublic schools was a trend that must be turned around. He. s~id they could "count on my support to do it." The president's speech attracted national headlines and .wide attention.

Equal Treatment Because' of negative, reaction and in order to show Nixon gratitude for his remarks, the Missouri . Catholic Conference said it was suggesting that' each K of C coundl in the state-"ot' better yet, many members from' each council":""'thank the president and encourage him "to approve sOme appropriate means of. assistance to';riori~ulmc 'sdiBol1 parents." ..

The conference's. letter said that no mention should be made of the type of assistance vehicle desired. '~A varilition in the language of each letter or wire ought to be obvious, yet it should emphasize the same theme-:-the desperate need for parental assistance," the lett~r added.

Attached to the covering letter was a 450-word synopsis of arguments on' why Catholic schools should be included in governmental funds for education, with the note that excerpts from it be used in letters to Nixon. The main point of the synopsis was that equal treatment of all parents. not simply the liberty to choose a churchrelated school, is "the dominant constitutional demand here."

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Priest Opposes Nixon Proposed' ,Visit to Peking BOSTON (NC)-A Vincentian priest said President Nixon's propos,:d trip to Peking could lead to a communist take-over of Formosa. .

Father Stephen Dunker, a mis.sionary in mainland China for 20 years before being evicted in 1951, was visiting here while vacationing from his current assignment on Taiwan.

Recognition of the mainland government, he said, eventual1y could lead America to abandon the Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan, and their dreams of returning to govern the mainland.

Mainland people would welcome the Nationalists, Father Dunker said, if they could go back. They have relied heavily on American support which, if withdrawn, could trigger a communist invasion, he added.

'False Premise' Father Dunker said the communist takeover of the mainland, which he witnessed as a missionary, resulted in, a loss of civil and religious liberties. The Red Chinese. government's intimidation was so strong, he said, that 'it took only one communist to control 5,000 people.

"They say you cannot ignore the 700 million people of China," he said. "I say this is a' false premise, that you are not recognizing 700 million people; you are only recognizing the communist elite.:' He said he believes the proposed Nixon visit to Peking was _ J!l0tivilted ,by misinformation on th~. parU>f. th~.Anierican governr, ment:

Rabbi Praises Canon Lawyer NEW YORK (NC) - Clara Maria Henning, the country's first laywoman canon lawyer, has been praised by a Jewish leader for organizing a group cal1ed Catholic Women. for Soviet Jews.

Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national director of the Interreligious Affairs Department of the American Jewish Committee, said that Miss Henning drew her inspiration for what he cal1ed her "great humanitarian work" from personal experience of Soviet oppression.

Her interest in the plight of three million Jews in the Soviet Union, the rabbi said, stems from her childhood in postwar Germany. As a child, the 30year-old Miss Henning was interned in a Russian refugee camp, where her grandmother died of starvation.

She later returned to Germany where she grew up "painfully aware of t~e role her country played in the destruction of the European community," Rabbi Tanenbaum said.

Today she is trying to create bonds between "individuals and families of the Catholic and Jewish communities in the United States and the Soviet Union," he said on one of his weekly raido talks aired locally.

Miss Henning, who earned her canon law doctorate at Catholic University in Washington, and her group are organizing letter writing from American Catholic women to Soviet Jewish women to help sustain morale.

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St. ,Joseph's Church Concert Group Plans New Bedford Musical Series The officers and directors of St. Joseph's Church Concert Committee of New Bedford announce that two musical events are booked for the 1971-72 season. Both events will take place in the church which is located on Acushnet Ave., New Bedford.

The first event will be an organ recital by the international1y-acclaimed organists from Paris, 'Maurice Durufle and Marie-Madeleine Durufle-Chevalier. The celebrated husband and wife team, organists at St..

Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, will perform on the. three manual, 56 rank Casavant organ at St. Joseph's Church at 8:30 on Tuesday evening, Dec. 7.

Boston Symphony The second event will include over 150 performers. The Boston Conservatory Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, the St. Joseph's School Choir, under the direction of Denis Tetrault, and Michel Labens, organist, will perform the "Te Deum," by Hector Berlioz. Rouben Gregorian will conduct this program at 8:30 on Sunday evening, April 30.

Maurice Durufle was born in Louviers, France. At the Paris Conservatory he was a pupil of Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, and Paul Dukas, with whom he' studied composition.

Since 1930, Mr. Durufle has been titular· organist of the' Grand Orgue de St. Etienne-du-Mont.

After substituting for Marcel Dupre' at the' Conservatory, .he was appointed Professor of Harmony at the Conservatory.

Vatican Citation In 1956, the Department of the Seine conferred on him the Grand Prix· Musical, and in 1961, the Vatican honored him with the citation of "Commander in the Order of St. Gregoire," conferred on him for his contribu- . tion as composer in the field of Sacred Music. He has given many concerts in Paris and 'the Provinces, as well as abroad. He

Friars Minor Mark 25th Anniversary GRANBY (NC) - The InterProvince Conference of the Friars Minor Conventual celebrated its 25th anniversary last month at St.. Hyacinth College and Seminary here in western Massachusets.

Father Raymond Borkowski, OFM Conventual president and St. Hyacinth Spiritual Director, presided at the three-day sessions at which the Very Rev. Clement O'Donnell, first president of the Inter-Province Conference was the honored guest.

The conference elected Father Bernard Geiger of St. Bonaventure Province in Chicago this year's president. Three new vicepresidents were also elected during the anniversary sessions.

The Inter-Province was founded in 1947 to achieve greater cooperation and exchange among the four Conventual Franciscan provinces in the U. S. ' F

Christian A good Christian may be almost defined as one who has a ruling sense of God's presence within him.

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Villanova Names New President VILLANOVA (NC) - After a long search, Villanova University has found a new president·Augustinian Father Edward J. McCarthy, a former Villanova student, teacher, and dean of the graduate school~ The search beganiri early July when Father: McCarthy's predecessor, Father Robert J. Welsh, suddenly resigned. A special five-member committee of the university's board of trustees conducted the search for a new president. In a marked departure from tradition, they sought suggestions from faculty, students, alumni and councils of the university, as well as from Augustinian communities throughout the eastern province.

.MR. AND MRS. MAURICE DURUFLE has compo~ed works for organ, chamber music" ..voice. .and orchestra, of which his "Trois Danses" and "Requiem" have been performed widely in. Europe and this country.

Organist at 11 Marie-Madeleine Durufle-Chevalier was born in Marseille. At the age of 11, she was named titular organist of the Cathedral of St. Veran de Cavaillon, and at the age of 12, entered the Conservatory of Avignon. In 1946, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a pupil of Marcel Dupre. There she won, witt) honors, the First Prize in Organ, and in 1953, was awarded the Grand Prix International-Charles Marie Widor, for. organ and improvisation.

Recitalist for French Radio, she also has given many concerts in Paris and abroad, and has been co-organist with her husband at the Grand Orque de St. Etienne-du-Mont since 1953.

In 1964, Mr. and Mrs. Durufle made their first visit to the U. S. A. when they were invited. to appear at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Phi~adelphia.

Franck's "Choral in, A minor."

Mrs. Durufle will return to the console for the "Fantasie on 'Ave Maris Stella" by Charles Tournemire. Mr. Durufle will return to perform his own composition, "Prelude in E-flat minor."

Mrs. Durufle will c1os~ the program with her husband's composition, "Prelude and Fugue on the name 'Allain.'''

Proceeds from this event will benefit the parish's elementary school. Tickets will be $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for students.

The man the commission chose, Father McCarthy, received his bachelor of arts degree at Villanova in 1934. and a doctorate in history at Catholic University of Washington, D. C., in 1941.

He was assistant 'professor of history at Villanova until 1946, and then took several years of travel, study and teaching in Latin America. He taught at an Augustinian college in Havana, Cuba, and eventualIy became vice-president of that colIege. , When Fidel Castro came to power in 1961, Father McCarthy and 12 other Augustinian priests were jailed and' then expelIed. The college facilities and grounds were taken over by the new government, at a loss of $20 million to the Augustinians.

Elects New Abbot COLLEGEVILLE (NC) - St. John's Abbey, the world's largest Benedictine community, has elected as its seventh abbot Father John A. Eidenschink, 57, dean of the divinity school at St. John's University here in Minnesota.

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Bach and Brahms Mr. and Mrs. Durufle will share the program at St. Joseph's Church on the evening of Dec. 7. Mrs: Durufle will open . the program with "Prelude and Fugue in D major" by JohaJnn Sebastian Bach. Mr. Durufle will perform "Recit de nasard" by Louis Nicolas elerambault, Dietrich Buxtehude's "Fugue in C major," Two Chorals by Johannes Brahms, "Oh que vous etes heureux vous qui stes pieux" and "Ardemment j'aspire a une fin heureuse," and Cesar

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Students Erupts in N'ebraska LINCOLN (NC)-·A ·.serieS of said, it will not be permitted."

Father Dawson said that in disputes over publicly funded aid 'to parochial school students ,has, May the 'state Dep~~tment' of '. . come to a head with the opening Education assured ,parochial of the new school year in Neb- schools of Title I aid. "This raska. promise stood ilntil Prasch' inLast. year. about this ti~e I wrote a rather,~ pensive: The. state's attorney :general sisted on an op'inion from the' " column,' on my reluctance in seeing our middle' ~hild off has directed the education:com-' state attorney general's office, ---to kindhgarten, away from our, total influence . ~o dis-' missioner' not to implement a 'which in, effect nullified the cover the~.'World. I was sad to see him leave the.nest and: new state law authorizing. the promise," he said. sadder still to see the eager" loan of textbooks to private . Cites Federal Law ness witn': which, he fled.

So, First Grade' T~acher; who-' school students until the law The Catholic educator charged can be tested in the Nebraska in a statement to. the press, that Now, a year later,"I,ca'n hard- ever you might 'be! I. hand this: son over' with reli,ef and, hope: Supreme Court. was prominently featured in 10ly wait to: thrust: him out that you find the time and cour-' • The superintendent of schools cal newspaper and radio and TV the door to first grade. What's age to teach him the.ari'swers t~ for the Roman Catholic, dio'cese newscasts: "They have not kept the difference(Long Summer and these verYJelevant why's he put, of Lincoln has charged that fed- their promise to us, and they are short nerves 'aside, this is a dif- to me during the Summer. .: PAPAL CHOICE:: IMost eral guidelines prohibiting dis. not abiding by the federal laws ferent boyfr6m the: 'one who Why does the vacuum cleaner:.< Rev. William W. ,Baum, crimination are being violated by under, which Title I funds are trotted off to' kindergarten last h d h d I year. He has discovered the world puff ~ut like t at an were oesi· Bishop' of Springfield-Cape local ;1uthorities in withholding awarded, which specifically state Title I funded aid from educa- equal funds must be provided so . the air· come from? ' G' d' M P of rational "why's."

Wh don't freckles grow when: lfar eau, o. .IS: ope tionally disadvantaged children that handicapped children in pri,your iace:.grows? " : ~Paul's personal chOIce ~s del- in parochial schools and has. de- vate schools receive comparable Why do some candles, drip and! egate to the Word Synod of man!ied a cut-off of such funds aid t6' those in the public others don't? '. Bishops opening the i~nd of to Lincoln public schools "until ~schools:" . , ,Why does your fever make the, this month in \ Rom~. NC all federal guidelines are satis- '.:: Withholding of Title I funds, By fied." " . h e asserted, "further handicaps thermometer line' g~ up: ' I Roman Catholic educators in .'these already handicapped chilWhy ~o~s. declamycm cure. '.' ' . . , I DOLORES the state have announced they . dren." your tonSillitIS? .'

Why de' we have wars when' . USSIO e cq?"es are considering enrolling' the In demanding 'that all Title I 50,000 parochial school pupils in fUJ:lds be held up because the nobody wants .them? , -t Why does it 'Iook like there,~:eSUI uper~~r public schools for part of their Lincoln public school system is a lake ahead on the In,tj:!rstate 'MOSCOW (NC)-Fathe~ Pedro classes on a dual enrollment .allegedly not complying with federal restrictions against disbut when you get there, it's gone? Arrupe, first superior general of 'basis. .

(I stud,ied ,that one at least a the Jesuits to visit the ISoviet The dispute between Father crimination, Father Dawson 'estiChildren ~perid 'good dea:! of . dozen times in my educational Union, said he is ,grateful'for the James Dawson, Lin<:oln diocesan mated tl!at he Is calling into questh~ir pre-kindergarten life ask- c~reer an~ it. still mystifies me.) "~rem~ndous hos~itality" .I.~hown tion $330,000. Of this amount, superintendent of schools; and he said that $30,000 should come ing why, I admit, ·:But those CompassIon for Tllacher him smce', he arrIved here Aug. Lincoln public schools Superin: early why's stem from wanting Why ,did that ba~ed potato 27. ' ,:: : .1. tendent John Prasch boiled over to parochial schools. to hear themselves ,talk or want- blow up and the others didn't?

"I am :very happy, extremely into angry words from Father Estimated enrollment in Cathing their parenes attention or Why is beer good for parents satisfied with my visit," s~id the Dawson that found their, wa'y . olic schools in Lincoln is expeCt-' wanting an object. Toddler why's .,andbad for kids?' '; 63-year-old: Spanish-born iFather into newspaper headlines. ed to be about 2,500 students for tend to senei a mother up the Why isn't there. any air on Arrupe.

'He 'has ,been ,Jeshit su,Father Dawson accused his the .coming year. " ' . ., . I, wall because of their sheer in- o the moon? , . ' , ,p~ri()r general since 1~6?'1 public school counterpart. of disText~ok Law' '. anity ("Why is this Wednesday?"

Why, doesn t .. the telephon~ He' said he had "a very nice criminating against needy paro. On the question of ~he I.oan of and "Why can't we have a fire' . conversation;' ·with Patriarch chial school pupils in the .denial ' textbooks to Catholic schools, engine?") but they're easily an- work? ,Why is the' cam in,:,that motor filmen of 'Mosco{v aQdAll Rug- of Title 1 funds ind of ""telling' . ,Attorney General Clarence A. H. swered. I can cope with those. different from the other one? , sia head of the Russian 'ortho- a bunch of half·truths and, non- Meyer has directed state EducaThe sjx-year-old why's are the tion Commissioner Cecil Stanley Why de we kill dandelions d6~ Church. "It lasted abbut 45 . truths." ones that throw me. They are Assured of Aid to "take no action by way of when they're pretty? ' minutes and was gener~llin naintelligent in'.. areas in which I These are just a few of his ture. I spoke of the wor,k of the Title I of the federal Elemen- implementation of the free textam not. They cover everything questions and I am weary. I Jesuits their activities in corr!- tary and Secondary Aducation book law, unless and until the from engines to insects to space hope that some super-huma~ muniti~s around the world. _He, Act provides funds for remedial - ~'~r:r:~eC~~:: ~~eN:~;~~k~o~~~~~ and I can't stretch my handy esteacher has a little mor~ patiencl;l sp~ke of his Church, rathJr gen- help to educationally disadvan- 'tutionaL" cape technique, "That's a Dadand ~ lo~ ~ore ~nowledge t~an, erally., He' gave me quite la nice taged children, primarily those . A petition was .filed by an undy question," much longer. .

I. It s difficult :-enough ha.vmg 'gift, a cross."

• ' I youngsters with speech and, Identified Omaha family on Aug. Dad does very Well in answer~ Father Arrupe came ,to Mos- 'reading difficulties., ing why the end qf a 1916 loco- one ask why.but the ~heer mght27, asking the state Supreme of havmg ~O sl,x-year-olds cow at the inviti:ltion af .tHe Rusmare According to Father Dawson, Court to determine the' cbnsti~ motive differs from a 1922 one bom~a~d oneall da.y long with sian Orthodox. bishops.I.After Prasch "told the Lincoln news but the children have a way of . visiting here, he was to visit the media that aid to handicapped tutionality of the law, which' asking. such questions while why s IS overwh 7lmmg. .children in private schools is not came into effect on that day. The Dad's at work. My first response . S~,.I am sen~mg my walkl~g theological academies of II-enin- allowed because the state has court has not yet determined mqulsltor off, thIS year, n?t With grad and Zagorsk, whicq have to such a question is, "I never whether or not to hear the case. t~ars, but WIth compaSSIOn f~~ had scholarly contacts with the noticed."

The'law, passed by the legislahiS. teacher who, I. hope, ~on t Jesuit-operated Pontifical I BibliBut that's a mistake. My son ture this year, authorized public Catholic Orphanage smile sweetly and suggest, Why ,cal Institute and the Gregorian is delighted to go' into a half~ s'chools lend nonreligious textdont' you ask your mother that . University in Rome.' I Trevino Beneficiary' books to private hour explanation on the differ- one?" school students. , : LONDON (NC)-Lee Trevino, The public schools can receive ence, using terminology that's Over the past few years :Father as alien to me' as the locomotive.

Arrupe has met a number of American champion golfer from up to $15 in state· education After the lesson, I retreat into a, Questions Church , Russian bishops. He is th~ 'third Texas, gave $4,800 of the $13,- funds for each student involved.

"WeIl, I don't really know why Tax-Exempt Status The' legal test' is' expected to highest Catholic churchman from 200 prize money he received they changed it, Mike. Why don't Rome to visit the Soviet! Union winning the British Open Golf hinge on whether the state aid is MUSKOGEE (NC)-A district in _the last year.

Championship to a local Catholic to the individual student or wheyou ask your dad when he gets II court judge here chaIlenged the' orphanage. home?" ther the benefit accrues to the , Sister Agnes, superior of'· Our parochial school.

'Why Does' United Presbyterian Church's Father Hesburg.~·.1 Lady's Home for Babies at I get shrivelled with a kind tax-exempt status on grounds and patronizing look which says, that the church maybe involved To Head Counc:il.'\ . Freshfield, Lancashire, close by , I the tournament course at Birk"I shouldn't have bothered to in politics.

Judge John Porter Jr~ sai,d he NOTRE DAME (NC) T Holy dale, was presented with the ask." asked'Oklahoma's state attorney, Cross Father Theodore M. Hes- money by Trevino at a local caINSURANCE AGENCY, INC. for an opinIon because of two burgh, president of the Univer- sino - at a ·supper including recent church actions---,adopting sity of Notre Dame, ha~ been cocktails and champagne.' .., Diocese Establishes 96 WILLIAM STREET resolution calling for a special appointed chairman of th~ OverThe golfer had decided to give ' NEW BEDFORD, MASS~' Dey'elopment Office asession of the state legislature seas Development Counc,il! a priTUCSON (NC)-A new devel- to act on' permitting 18-year-olds vate group which prom,otes ef- part of. his winnings to charity 998·5153 997-9167, 'opment office geared to assist to vote, and approving a $10,0.00, fective aid to underdev:eloped and the casino owner whom he ' PERSONAL SERVICE consulted 'recommended' the' , the Tucson diocese and its par- grant to assist black militant countries.

I ' Catholic home. When he handed • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • + • • ishes in fund-raising and com- Angela Davis in her California' The ODC. is headquartered in' Sister Agnes the check he told . I munications efforts has been es· murder triaL Washington, D. C. ,It proV:1ides a her: "I don't know how many tablished here in Arizona.

"This is politics pure and sim-' clearinghouse for overseas devel· kids you have there, honey. I Thomas J. Kolda was named pie," the judge asserted. He ex-, opment information and activihave accomplished something if PLUMBING & HEATING,. INC. first director of, the office. He pressed a special dislike for the ties, conducts studies. of: i~s own I am helping somebody." will pay particular attention t6 grant to Miss Davis, because Of in, the area, serves as ~ Iforum Sales and Service ~ Tucson Bishop Francis'J. Green's her associatinon with commu- for discussion of development for Domestic and Industrial '= Death annual charity and development nism and the Black Panthers. 'policies,according to its' s~okesOil Burners fund appeal, and will also proChristianity has died many "Since many churches are, men, and, "keeps the urgency of . 995-1631 I vide year-round services to par- playing footsie with the commu- the challenges of development times and risen again; for it had' 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE ishes in the 42,000 square mile nists, I feel they should be in-' before the public and re~ponsi- a God Who knew His way out NEW BEDFORD diocese. of the tomb. ·-Chesterton vestigated," said the judge. ' ble authorities.".

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Urge, Home Garde'n~r Plant At Least' One Fruit Tree

Education Forum

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick , One of the great joys of the home gardener is the produce which comes out of the garden as the weather begins to cool. The children planted a garden this Spring, and although they'have since given it little attention we have enjoyed fresh tomatoes, green peppers, fresh corn, saving magazine clippings catepeas~ and now carrots as gorized in folders isn't a new one, I do feel that it's important well as a number of smaller enough to be mentioned.

WASHINGTON (NC)-An ongoing forum to help Catholic teachers caught up iri conflict over the best ways to teach religion is being planned by the National Catholic Educational Association. ' A "very real dilemma" in reli,gious education developed after the Second Vatican Council, said Norbertine Father C. Albert Koob, association president.

Church renewal and modernization extended to religious instruction, he said, and the same basic problem arose in that area as in others: some felt threatened . by the modernization; some felt it wasn't s,weeping enough. , "Caught in between these op: posing views are the individual religion teachers," Father Koob said, "many of whom have appealed to NCEA for guidance and direction." The association numbers 7,000 Catholic school teachers and administrators among its constituents.

One response to these appeals was publication last year of Criteria for the Evaluation of ~eligious Education Programsa workbook to help teachers rate course content, educational facilities and resources, and their own classroom effectiveness.

The association has currently answered requests for 50,000 copies of the Critera - a docum_ent· with input from a broad spectrum of religious educators.

The,National Forum for Religious Education, due to begin operations this Fall, will "build on the momentum" achieved by distribution of the Criteria, Father Koob said.

The forum will provide teachers with consultant service if requested, help them organize seminars and workships, and reo lay the latest information on textbooks, curricula and teaching techniques.

quick growing vegetables. NothFDing of Recipe Articles ing tastes better than freshly I'm a magazine' fanatic' and I picked veg~tables as we all hoard them (if I can) but periodknow, but there is 'a certain amount of pride that goes with ically Joe will bemoan the fact growing the vegetables that that the magazines are taking gives them even a better taste over the house and my weeding out' process begins. Ironically, and fl~vor, 'MEET AT q>NFERENCE: Cardinal Egidio Vagnozzi, I read recently in one of the it's always the recipes that I gardening magazines ,that it is want to save that get thrown out former apostloic, delegate to the United States, chats with too costly to grow fruit in the and those I could.care less :about sisters at a confetence on the renewal of the religious life. small home garden and that keep crqpping up. However it's I gardeners have turned to the not until you are desperately I searching for a speCial dish that fruit markets for their fruit rather" than 'growing their own. you realize what you have done.

Now 'I ,grant that spraying is It seems to me that Miliie's 'soluCardinal :Vagnozzi Encourages New expensive' ;:lnd a, nuisance, but I tion solves everyone's problem certainly think that the cost to and still keeps neat husbands Organization of Sisters ' the grower is negligible as com- happy. .

CHEVY CHASE (NC)-SpeakAnother theme speakers menHors d'oeuvres are a little like pared to the thrill of picking a Ro~an cardinal tioned was a growing "anti-life" ers including a cakes in a way' because' it's tree-ripened peach'and savoring the juicy pulp, of ,the fruit. Any much easier to 'make the'm if and a' U. S. Congre~sman gath-trend and "what members of reone who' has' grown' tlleir own you have a picture to look at. ered in this Washington, D. C., ligious communities can do to fruit wO\lld not make this kind I can read page after page of suburb to encourage! a growing counteract it." ' Congressman Lawrence Hogan, pickled shrimp, stuffed torriatoes, organization of Sisters pledged of statement. to im~l:ment.

Vaticah directives (R., Md.), a leading opponent of marinated this or filled that but Rewards of' Gr~wi~g ,Fruit I liberalized abortion laws, atit isn't until I see something in on rehglOus hfe.

As of right now, we are en- all its Kodak glory that I itch to Cardinal Egidio Vagnozzi, for- tacked the "anti-life" philosophy, joying the first of the grapes and mer ,apostolic delegate to the which he said could lead to immake it. the first of the peaches. The United States, told rpembers of perilling life at both ends of the 'From now on I resolve to ,save peaches have two to three weeks Consorti~m Perfectae Caritatis huma~ spectrum-through aborbefore they ripen completely, my magazine treasures a-Ia- at a natIOnal assembly here that tion and mercy killing. ' Millie if I ,can only stop Joe but at this juncture they are just the~e is a "real sens~ of gratifi: Rep. Hogan a Catholic, said ripe enough to' eat and they are from weeding out the folders. cation" . . , . ,at. 'th e progress 0f th elr Religious bear, a heavy responWith the retunl to rootine. delicious. Whatever they cost in orgamzatlOn. I 'b'I't f d ' " h Cd'' I V . I " Sl I I Y or re- IrectlOg t ough t dollars and cents, the peaches many of, us find ourselves ar lOa agnozzl, now presl- and action away from such a to "bring a little called upon are well worth the cost. dent. of th: Prefectu~e for Eco- philosophy.

Another factor to consider in something sweet" to a ' PTA, nO~lc Aff~lrs of th~ 1;I0ly See in Dr. and Mrs. John W. KavaGuild meeting !Jr even to a growing home fruit is that the VatI.can City, descnbe,d the Con- naugh a husband and wife friend's house.

This recipe' for children are' affected by the sortl.u~,as "a r ' an'd d ' , team from Kalamazoo, ,lvlOg ynamlc speaking product they find at hand. We raspberry jam squares is fairly I Mich., made a similar presentahave, heaven knows, few enough easy, quite, delicious, and it re~~ty. . Ight ot~er m.emb~rs of the tion-"The Vanishing Right to things in most homes to which makes about.48 squares-a nice hIerarchy, lOcludlOg Archbishop Life in America-a Challenge to we can point with pride, what amount for, a large gathering.

Heublein-U FWOC James J. Byrne, of! Dubuque, the Catholic Church" Raspberry ,Coconut Squares with supermarkets etc., and so Iowa, and several officials from .

Dispute Settled it seems to me that, the children 1 % cups all-purpose flour order generalates i~Rome also SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-Heuneed something visible and tan1 Y2 cups sugar attended the meeting) Pope P'aul Praises gible to take pride in and to blein, Inc., a major wine pro~ teaspoon salt A communication forum for enjoy. No better ptoduct can be ducer, and Cesar Chavez' United Y2 cup butter or margarine, . those sharing a particular view Mary's Peace Role in evidence than the fruit which Farm Workers Organizing ComCASTELGANDOLFO (NC) softened of the religious life,! the Conchildren can see grow, anticipate 12 ounces moist sweet shred- sortium was ,established in Pope Paul VI paid special tribute mittee have reached an agreeripening and then finally enjoy. ded coconut March by 116 Sisters,' including to Mary as contributor to "the ment here settling their labor My friends accuse me of being unity, brotherhood, peace and dispute.

4 eggs 71 major superiors. ' a fanatic in this area, but I feel The settlement ends UFWOC's Y2 cup raspberry jam Consortium membets, coming salvation of mankind" in a talk that each of us should grow at worldwide boycott of Heublein here beamed simultaneously to ~ cup butter or margarine, from about 90 religious comleast one tree for ourselves and softened , munities in the Unit~d States St. P~ter's Square and to Yugo- products and gives UFWOC the children. It comes as no surjurisdiction over workers on 1) Put the flour, Y2 cup of the and Canada, are mai~ly Sisters slavia~ prise then when I suggest that sugar into a mixing bowl and who support the Holy See's right The Pontiff's immediate audi- 5,800 acres of California vineyou pore through 'the catalogs blend well.. ' . ' " to determine norms for religious ence was thousands of pilgrims yards owned by a Heublein suband select a few trees now for 2) Cut in Y2 cup of butter unlife; wear distinctive habits, and who gathered at noon at the sidiary, Vinifera Development Spring planting. til particles are fine. ' live in religious communities pontifical Summer, residence in Corp. , In the Kitchen Auxiliary Bishop John F. Don"under duly chosen s~periors." the Alban Hills outside Rome 3) , Acid one lightly beaten egg elly of Hartford, chairman of the on "Ferragosto"·-literally "AuFo~ the past week I have been They are also pledged Ito impleand toss to moisten. With your conducting a frantic search for hands, work mixtur.e together menting directives on the re- gust feast"-in Italy, one of the U. S. Bishops' Commitee on some great hors d'oeuvres rec- until it forms a dough. Lightly newal of religious lif~' adopted country's biggest annual holi- Farm Labor, announ'ced the acdays. ' cord. ipes and with little success. I flour your hands and press at the Second Vatican Council. know I've seen just what I want dough on bottom of a 9 by 13 'AnU-Life' Tre~d' in anyone of a million maga- inch pan that has been slightly zines, that I've scanned over the buttered.

Discussion at the recent threepast years, but, of course, in one day meeting centered at-ound the 4) Spread a thin even coat of of my infrequent spurts of papal treatise "On the I Renewal housecleaning those magazines I jam on the top. of the Religious Life According • 5) Cream together the ~ cup wanted to save have been to the Teachings of th~ Second • softened butter'with the remainthrown out.

Vatic~n Council," rel~ased by ing 1 cup of sugar.

One of my friends came to ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford Pope Paul VI in July. ' the tescue with a collection of 6) Ado the remaining three One of Southern New England's Finest F~cilities magazine clippings that she has eggs, ,one at a time .and beating been saving in a folder for some ,after each addition until light Catholic Governor time. The folder that she and creamy.

CALCUTTA (NC) _: For the Now Available for brought over was labeled "Buf7) Add the coconut and mix first time since India g~ined infet" and in was all those great well. Spread over jam"-and bake dependence in 1947 a ICatholic BANQU E'rS, FASH ION SHOWS, ETC. I colored pictures that we've al- in a 350 oven about 30 to 35 has been appointed governor of ways wanted to save hut it just minutes or until golden brown. West Bengal State. He is AnFOR DETAILS CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 became another good' intention. Coolon rack and cut into thony Launcelot Dias, who was While I'm sure Millie's idea of squares. born in Goa. '

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS fortunate for a number of reasons. In any· event, Fr. Congar's reputation has long since been amply vindicated (notably Pope Paul VI himself) and his ill-fated book is no'w back in print. Let's hope it will soon be made available in English.

Though it was written largely against the background of what was happening within the Church in France more than two decades ago, "True and False Reform" has much to teach us with reference to some of our own problems within the post'vatican II Church in the United States.

Intra-Mural Bickering This is particularly true of the very last section of the book which deals with the problem of how to preserve unity (not uniformity but unity) within a given local Church (the Church in France, for example, or the Church in the United States) at a time when there is such a sharp' division of opinion among the clergy and the laity alike on a wide range of debatable issues in the area of pastoral practice and socio-economic reform.

Father Congar is not one to panic in the face of this problem.

At the same time he is frank to say that the possibility that a given local Church might be torn apart by intra-mural bickering and might be split into two churches (a "traditionalist" Church and a "progressive Church, or one of the "right" and one of the "left") should not be written off too lightly.

Fr. Congar's warning is well taken in the particular case of our own local Church in the United States. On the one hand, while we obviously have our share and perhaps even more than our share of intra-mural bickering, it is not 'my impression that we are in any immediate danger of being split asunder into two separate and irreconcilable camps.

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BELFAST (NC)-The story of a woman whose husband was taken away by British soldiers after they broke into their home gave support to an Irish cardinal's charge that innocent persons are being mistreated under the government's imprisonment without trial policy.

In the afternoon of Aug. 14, Mrs. Kathleen Weir, with her tW9-year-old son Patrick, stumbled into the Central Citizens' Defense Committee building in Belfast's Falls Road section, sobbing that British soldiers had just broken into their home and ta~en away her husband, Frank.

The soldiers had been looking . for her brother, Eugene McKenna, one of several members of

the outlawed Irish Republic,an Army (IRA) photographed at a news conference the day before.

When they did not find McKenna; the soldiers took Weir instead.

After several hours of evasive answers, the British Army and the police told NC News that they had taken the wrong man.

But Weir was not released until Aug. 15:

witch hunt or a new form of ing gets tough, he is always the heresy hunting which is much perfect gentleman. too spiteful and far too vindicI don't know the Monsignor tive in tone and fails to make well enough to be able to say the necessary distinction be- what it is that makes him tick, tween those matters which are but, as a faithful reader of his essential to the faith and those column, I would jiidge that he which are open to free and frank has three things in particular discussion and lend themselves going in ·his favor: He has a keen to quite legitimate, not to say sense of history, he genuinely wholesome, differences of opin- likes people, and he is .a man This.is only one instance of of simple but profound Christian' ion. what Cardinal William Conway On the other side of the fence faith. of Armagh meant when he con-in the so-called liberal or proPerhaps it is these three qualidemned imprisonment without gressive camp-while theological ties taken toget!1er that account trial as a "terrible power to give witch hunting, for the most part, . for his serene optimism, which to any political authority." The is taboo, fraternal charity' is is typically reflected in the folcardinal said there was evidence lowing excerpt from one of his sometimes in short supply. that innocent persons are being Ridiculing the "opposition" or most· recent columns on "The arrested and mistreated. judging the other fellow's mo- State of the Church."

"The reform and the renewal tives and putting the worst possible interpretation on them is and the return (of the Church) a human enough failing, to be to the world had to come some time. God so loved the world sure.

But it is one thing to err in that He sent His only begotten this regard and something else Son into it; but the Reformation, again. to pretend that hitting be- the E)nlightment, rationalism, low the belt or going for -the Freudianism, and Modernism so, jugular vein, so to speak, is a estranged His Church that it all virtue and that the practice of but abandoned it. fraternal charity in the liberal'Good for Church' conservative dialogue is a sign "The reentry of the Church of weakness or of a lack of cominto the contemporary world by mitment to the truth. way of collegiality, subsidiarity, Likes Pilot Columnist the liturgical reform, parish and If there is one man writing diocesan councils, -due profor the Catholic press in this cess ..., the liberation of the country who has managed to Sisterhoods, the new focus on steer clear of these two ex- the social gospel and the servant tremes and to keep his Christian church has been a. bit painful. wits about him it is Msgr. Old ways become cherished just George Casey, author of a syn- because they are old, and old dicated weekly column, Drift- habits become. canonized. Feelwood, which originates in the ings and affections get torn up Boston Pilot. along with them. But it has been Msgl'.Casey, a pastor in' the accomplished ... archdiocese of Boston, who is "This storm has been good well into his 70s but has the for the Church. It got rid of mental outlook, the enti).usiasm, some old. baggage. It ·was reand the intellectual flexibility of minded unforgettably of its true a man of 35 or 40, is, in this role and the prime concern of writer's judgment, one of the Jesus for it: Not itself; not a most civilized Catholic journal- code of canon law, but people, ists in the United States. ·the sort of people and their His column does honor to The needs as carefully described in Pilot and to its editor, Msgr. the 25th chapter of St. MatFrancis Lally, who "discovered" thew's Gospel."

Msgr. Casey in the first instance A system that can produce and has given him his head for this kind of youthful optimism 10 these many years. in a man who was born before the turn of the century can't be Has Three Qualities all bad.

Msgr. Casey is a thousand per cent in favor of Church renewal (aggiornamento) and is never C;haplain Becomes afraid to take an unpopular P'arish Priest stand on controversial issues.

NEW YORK (NC) - Father Nev.ertheless, even. when t~e go- Laurence H. Gibney, chaplain for 11 years at the Manhattan House of Detention, has left the prison .

P'arish 'Hotline' to return to his boyhod parish To Assist Needy in Harriman, N. Y. LOS ANGELES (NC)-A preHe told The Catholic News, dominantly black parish on this New York. archdiocesan newscity's south side has started a paper, that he plans to continue 24-hour telephone "hotline" with his fight for prison reforlJl while I Enclosed is $ to share in the work of I the help of a $3,000 grant from a pastor in Harriman. Inside the I today's missionaries bringing hope to all the world's I the Campaign for Human Devel- Manhattan House of Detention, helpless poor. known as the Tombs, his post opment.

Father Alexander Nardi, pas- will be carried on by Father John I Nam~ I tor of the St. Martin de Porres O'Leary, who has been on the I I Center, said the hotline's aim is guidance 'staff at a Manhattan : Address to assist anyone who is in need high school.

"Eleven years as chaplain is anytime, whether the problem I City .State Zip L JI involves food, clothing. rent, much too long," Father Gibney drug addiction, alcoholism, im- said' of his turbulent fhaplaincy SALVATION AND SERVICE ARE THE WORK OF migration, poverty, employment which he admits has left him , with a burned out feeling at or anything else.

The Society lor the Propagatiol1l 01 the Faith A first-Sunday-of-the-month age 42.

He still looks gaunt, having collection of canned food is exSend your gift to: pected to provide a stockpile for lost 50 pounds since Tombs riothungry people. The hotIine will ing last August and October.- He Rev. Msgr. Edward T. O'Meara Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine National Director Diocesan Director be staffed by a. Sister, a lay questions how effective he could Dept. C, 366 Fifth Avenue OR 368 North Main Street social worker and volunteers have been had he remained as New York, New York 10001 Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 chaplain. from parish organizations.

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Distinct Chapel , . let's take a look at' recent If not on the main altar, then painting homes and· cleaning up Church .legislation on ,the sUbje~{ where? Section 53 answers this neighborhoods are some of the for: an .explana~ion which may question. "It is therefore recom- services the member's !have pro.

I mended that, as far. as possible, vided. the tabernacle be' placed.' in a The existence and Wipespread chapel distinct from the middle success of FISH is a I sign that or centra:! part of the church: .." Catholic parishes may. not be By That suggestion opens' the door giving young peopllil' enough to myriad possibilities-a totally credit.. Too often, they are ap~ FR. JOSEPH' M. separate chapel, a' room con- proached in terms of: what we nected with; but apart from the can give' them instead of what CHAMPLIN main area, a side alcove; it 'niche they can give. Our focus tends to in the front wall visually distant be '0.0, what will be I good for from the focal pofnt ot' the' them rather than on What good enlighten confused minds and sanctuary. they might be able to ;do. .

This Roman' decree, neverthe-' calm anxious hearts'. less, mentions "the place in a This approach has t:.vo unforIn '1967, the Holy Father is- church or 'oratory where the tunate results: 1. 1jhe teens sued through his Congregation Blessed Sacrament is reserved themselves are not challenged to of Rites an "Instruction on Eu- in the tabernacle should be truI~ move out of childish dependence charistic ,Worship." Section 55, prominent." No "hiding" of thJ and 2. a number of community which follOWS, recommends that tabernacle, then.·But prominence, needs are not met betause too the' Blessed Sacrament not be Turn to Page Sixteen \ few adults have the time, energy .

I reserved on the altar where I Mass is offered and gives .the rj =====================::±==~ reason why. ,,·v,,·n~u,'· "In the celebration of Mass L' l l!J '0 . the principal modes of worship by which Christ is present to "You can depend' on this as Christ in Revelation: (Apocahis Chuhch are, gradually re~ worthy ,of full acceptance: that' lypse) ,is an interpretation of vealed. First of all, Christ is seen Jesus Christ came into the world man's experience of thlf mystery to be present among the faithfUl to save sinners. Of these I my- of his own sinfulness I and the gathered in his name; then in self am the wo'rst." These words mystery, of God's graqious forhis Word, as the Scriptures are of St. Paul, found in the second giveness. This has be~? the exread and explained; in r the per- / -,-."- ,perience of the Hebrew people; son of the minister; finally and it is the experience I of the in a uinque way under the speChurch of Christ. The I heart of cies of the Eucharist. Consethe biblical interpretation is that quently, because of the sign, ~Y "where sin abounds, grace it is more in keeping, with the abounds even more." The God of nature of the celebration that FR. .cARL J. Abraham, Isaac, and J~cob, the the Eucharistic presence' of Father of Jesus is "quick to forPFEIFER, S.J. give." Mercy is his most obvious ",.:,:' characteristic. . I One of the most moving exreading for this Sunday, express pressions of just how' mercif~l the message of all, three Scrip- God is may be found in the ture readings for Sunday's Mass. third reading for this: coming' While God despises sin, his heart Sunday. Luke records J~sus' parable of the "Prodigal Son." Acremains open to the sinner.

St. Paul drew his deep convic- tually the story is more about tion of God's willingness to for- the Father's readiness t~ forgive give from his own experience. his wayward son than it~ is about "I was once a blasphemer,a per- the son's sin. It is the Father secutor, a man filled with arro- who !s "prodigal" in hi,s loving forgiveness. Unfortun'ately the gance." Yet he was .forgiven.

Moses had a similar experi- story is so familiar to us since ence with the Hebrew tribes he our childhood that we clay miss I. led out of Egyptian slavery.. the full impact of it.

Hardly were they free from Paul Explains God's ~e~cy Pharoah than they grumbled St. Paul can help us reflect on against God and Moses, and in Jesus' parable from a frbsh perMoses' absence, they made a spective. Drawing on his lown exgolden calf and worshipped it in perience as well as on tne Scripplace of their God. ' tures, Paul struggled to adeThe first reading for Sunday describes the situation. In the quately express his conViction of God's commitment to mercy and language of the time, God is deforgiveness. Because wei are so scribed as being furious with the Hebrews. In his anger he plans ' aware of the heroism, i~volved in risking one's life for !another to...destroy them all for their sin.

Moses pleads with God to for- in war or other grelilti crises, give, and "so the Lord relented Paul's words in the letter to the WHERE IS THE BLESSRomans might strike us more ED SACRAMENT?: The Eu- in the punishment he had forcefUlly than the more familiar . I threatened to inflict on his peoparable 'of the Prodigal Spn. The charist, n'ot the' tabernacle ple." message is t!J,e same.

I is the heart of Christ's pres~ Character of Mercy "It is rare that anyone should ence among us, explains Fr. 'The Bible, from Adam's sin in lay down his life for a ju~t man, Champlin this week.

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and inclination to satisfy. them. , can help. A!I we need do, to en: If we can come to view the list their aid is focus '0.0 their young people in the parish as emerging adulthood rather than' potential allies in our task of on what remains of their child- ' serVing the community, we hood.

We need to ask their help in might all be much farther 'ahead: Some of the things we might discovering community needs and, developing ways of. satisfy. ing those needs. We need to ask them. to join us, to ask them to help. We need to do this at least By as much as we offer our help to them.

JAMES J. One step in this direction , PHILLIPS would 'be to provide or' expand youth representation on the Parish' Council. This may mean making provisions for one 'or WtlHti<Yl~m'iit1m:nlKr.. more youth representatives. Or consider would be the following: it may' mean lowering the age Youth as Parish Allies Elderly people in the parish limit for candidates and electors are often in need of regular, to 16 or 17. (I have never seen cheerful visitors. They, as well this latter idea in action; but it as other shut-ins might also is an intriguing possibility.)

Whichever steps are taken, benefit from having someone do they need to be accompanied by the household chores.

Teens who do not have drug an important shift in mentality. or parental problems - or have It is necessary that we recogworked them out-might be able nize that, while a 16 year old is to help those who do have such not an adult, neither is he, a problems. child. He is usually capable of a Many young people-male and great deal more than is 'asked female -'- are very good with of him.

The shiff in mentality might children. They might be able to form the backbone of any num- be hastened 'if we realize that, at age 16: ber of child-care services.

Thomas Edison was a teleAdults and teens, working together should be 'able to do bet- graph operator; ter on fund-raising campaigns George Washington was part than would adults by themselves. of a team that was surveying the Ushering and commentating wilderness; are not skills that are beyond Catherine of Siena was beginthe scope of many teen agers. ning her illustrious' career in the.

Teens as well as adults--ought co~vent; to be involved in putting togethGrover Cleveland was teaching , ' er parish liturgies. in a school for the blind; Just Ask Youth Claire Boothe Luce was proWhether it is one or another ducing her first play; and of the above needs or something Davey Crockett was returning else that is important in your home after three years on the' parish, the youth of the parish road.

The crowds are often smaller on Saturday aftetnoons for Confession. Is this a blessing or a curse? Is this some fall-out from the post-Council 'Church that is wrecking a fondly' loved and honored Catholic practice? What' is happening to the sacrament of ' penance? Perhaps part of an answer can be found in the limits of the accepted, images of the sacrament. /

Classical confessional practice worked in and out of the images of the court room and privacy.

The court room exaggerated the role of the confessor as judge. It emphasized punishment ,and penalty langu"age. Since the docks were crow?ed, the cases had to be expedited with all due haste.

Wags were not above calling the experience an ,"absolution machine."

The image of privacy had the unwitting result of excluding t1)e community. It cut the a:::t of reconciliation in half. Hence w.e were perfectly willing to be reconciled to an invisible God. But what about the visible neighbor

II we had offended? Unity with God, yes. Unity with the significant other? Not sure.

Both these images, court room and privacy, needed purification.

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The model for this is the Upper Room 'on Easter night when Jesus came through the door and endowed the apostles with peace and talked to them about the sacrament of forgiveness.

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His forebears remote and immediate are the subject of William Maxwell's book Ancestors (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., New York. N.Y. 10022. $6.95). All very well for Mr. Maxwell to trace his family tree, but can we expect the rest of us to be interested and to pay money to have notable for the lengthy sermons and the fervor of the people. it recited to us? Whatever Later, as new communities he may expect, we, owe it were founded here and there in to ourselves to read his book, for it is different and delightfuL It captures various phases of American history in personal terms, and it conveys the personal and social impact of reli-

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gious belief and religious experience at successive stages of the American story.

The Maxwells originated in Scotland, and some arrived in this country before the Revolution. They moved about, as did others in the genealogy outline~ here, from region to region, state to state, often being on the frontier.

Spirit of People One of Mr. Maxwell's grandfathers was five years old when his father died in Pennsylvania in 1854. The child had an older sister and two older brothers who were taken by relatives. No relative took him. He was entrusted to strangers in Ohio. At the age of 16 he decided to go to Illinois. He got there by walking 600 miles. Eventually he became a lawyer.

There is' much more to this one man's story. But the bit above is cited to show the hardihood and the spirit of Mr. Maxwell's people, demonstrated again and again in stories which have come down in the family.

These people did not whine, repine, and wait for something to be done for them. They were courageous, self-sufficient, hardworking. They were not felled by misfortune, nor did they cringe from the unknown. It is not mere chauvinism to speak proudly of an American attitude of which, in these days of affluence, few tra~es are left.

the Middle West, there was c6n~ cern to have religious meetings and to build a church as soon as possible. ,When the prairies were still untouched and the grass readied the height of an adult's head, people would walk five miles through the grass to attend a service.

Religious Position Religion was' constantly discussed. Points of doctrine were meticulously considered. When differences arose, the talk would go on for hours and hours; the concluding speech in one historic debate lasted 12 hours.

The extent to which secularism and indifference have advanced by now is hardly realized until we are reminded, by such a history as that depicted by Mr. MaxwelL of the paramount position which religion held in the American mainstream in the nineteenth century.

Its decline· can be seen in what Mr. Maxwell has to say of his family in the twentieth century. His more immediate relatives, and 'he himself, cannot be styled irreligious, but formal religion and clearly detailed ~reeds do not mean to them what they did to previous generations. . Poignant, Funny One .of the mOst engrossing sections of the book deals with Mr. ,Maxwell's parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, as he knew them. This section is concerned chiefly with the town of Lincoln in southern Illinois, which we are shown as it was during the author's boyhood and youth.

Here there is that which is poignant, much that is funny, all expressed with marvelously evocative exactitude. Up to this point the book has been living and green, but here it bursts into lovely blopm.

People. whose ancestry is .not at all like Mr. Maxwell's but who grew up in America in the first quarter of this century, will be able to duplicate from their own memories much which the author relates.

"What I don't understand," writes Mr. Maxwell, "is how we could have taken that happiness for granted and not sensed that there was a time limit to it." Almost everyone will nod and sigh and second that sentiment. But isn't it good, at least, that there was such happiness in simpler times? Will its like ever recur in this new, frenzied age?

Rule of Faith Much attention is given in the book to the religious convictions and practices of Mr. Maxwell's ancestors. For the' most part, they were Presbyterian to begin with. But they turned to more Fundamentalist belief, and be came members of the so-called Christian Church and the DisNun Appointed ciples of Christ.

Their sole rule of faith was the OTTAWA (NC)-Notre Dame Bible, and a decisive factor in Sister Margaret Ryan has been their change from Presbyterian- appointed assistant chancellor of ism was the absence of any ref- the Ottawa archdiocese, first erence in the New Testament to woman to hold such a high post infant baptism. The letter of the in the archdiocese. Archbishop New Testament they took liter- , Joseph A. Plourde select~d her to ally. assist Father Roger Morin, chanReligion's centrality in their cellor. She will work as a notary, lives is proved again and again. reviewing publications which reSome participated in the Great quire archdiocesan approval and Western Revival of 1800-1803, testimonial letters related to and attended camp meetings marriages in the archdiocese.

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Continued from Page Sixteen ',' I the p~nitent to express his own judgment and face it with integrity and accept the pain that accompanies purification. Thus the confessor enables the penitent to grow in refined moral judgment.

Privacy still has a critical value, but within limits. The penitent ought to be encouraged to use the therapy of apology. This offsets the "half a loaf" confession which appeases God but ignores the neighbor., However, a caution is needed here. If marital infidelity is confessed, the disclosure of this to the partner may not be the best therapy of apology. The partner may explode in ,rage or collapse in disillusion.

There are limits to the therapy of apology. Radical candor is not. necessarily always the best policy. In this case' a conscious 'development of positive and loving behavior toward the other, is the best step. Actua,lly,. tllis is ' always the best in any case.

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MULTI-RACIAL ADOPTION PROJECT: This brighteyed baby is just one of many multi-racial babies already placed in a foster home in the Archdiocese of Seattle during its recent successful program of emphasis on the care of multi-racial babies in their area. (NC Photo courtesy of Catholic Northwest Progress)

Find the Tabernacle Continued from Page Sixteen does not necessarily mean a physically central location either.

Modern designers use various methods to highlight actors in the ~heater, masterpieces at a museum, or towers of a ·l:iuilding.

They can employ similar means to draw attention toward the tabernacle.

room-Blessed Sacrament chapel.

This requires constant transfer of the ciboria from place to place and, more seriously, creates uncertainty among parishioners.

Even 'with the door open, the candle extinguished, and the compartment obviously vacated, people kneel in prayer before the empty tabernacle.

The Blessed Sacrament worship area "ought to be 'suitable for private prayer so that the faithful may easily and fruitfully, by private devotion also, continue to honor our Lord in this sacrament." Rich ornamentation, an intimate setting, kneelers relatively close to. the tabernacle, a place rather quiet and restful-these elements create a climate which fosters personal reflection, and informal conversation with the Risen Jesus present in the reserved Host..

Such duplication does lead persons to ask: "Where is the Blessed Sacrament?"

Simplicity of Altar' of Sacrifice The altar of sacrifice and its surrounding area, however, should be simple and uncluttered because the liturgical action is what makes this particular space come alive. People, prayers, rituals, are the important aspects here and artistic furnishings should not, by their elegance, distract a congregation from the ceremony.

In the Blessed Sacrament chapel, on the other hand, individuals kneeling or sitting in prayer should find the setting stimulates their thinking and elevates their hearts.

A final note. The instruction of 1967 directs that "as a rule, each should have only one tabernacle, and this tabernacle must be safe and inviolable." It does become confusing otherwise.

We have a tabernacle in our main sanctuary and a second one in the combination crying

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For if, when we·were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him by the death of his Son, it is all the more certain that we who have been reconciled will be saved by his life" (Rom 5:7-10).

Paul expresses the' wonder of every man who in honesty recognizes his proneness to sin, as well as his actual sins, and experi~nces the mercy of his forgiving Father. Because of Jesus' life, death and resurrection we can always turn to God for forgiveness if we repent of our sins.

As the Scriptures affirm:' "We do not have a high priest (Christ) who. is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet never sinned. So let us' confidently approach the throne' of grace to receive mercy and favor and to find help in time of need" (Heb 4:15-16).

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Penitential Services Increasing The growing popularity of penitential devoti<fns is a fine method of bringing out the communal dimension of the sacrament of penance. Even better, the day may come when general absolution will become a normative practice for the high holy days of Christmas an~ Easter.

Now all this may not solve the problem' posed about the smaller lines on Saturday afternoon. It's not that the court room has scared people away, but rather tha~ people are in many ways more serious about their moral lives and less willing to rattle it off in routine weekly fashion.

It also may mean that they are non-verbally asking for a greater understanding of the communal dimension of penance which doesn't come through so well in the current privacy practice.

Who knows? Let's think about it.

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, One of the' most nasty phrases c~rrently to, be heard in the American ch~rch is "hyphenated priest." A man to whom that label is' affixed is thought of as being something less than a '''reai priest." He does real priestly work some of the'time and other "' , , ' " , ~work the rest of the time.'

Historically ,speaking, priests, ,The attitude of many of his have do~e practically e~erything ", ., from geography' to diplomacy. c?lleagues toward ~lm .IS a Sociologically, the leadership'

mixture of e~v~ for he IS belIev:d to' have an easier and better lIfe -~nd dis~ain, because if he w~re , a real prIest he would be domg '''~eal'' p~iestly wor~ all ~he time and not Just part of the time.

role of the priest can obviously be executed in a multitude' of ·ways. And theologically, it seems to me to be singularly, inappropriate. to put any limitations' on where the Holy Spirit might lead a man' to exercise, his ministry.

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Who h~ppens ,to exerCise the' skills of a, socioloREV. gist iit 'a certain time and place;' under; I ,hope: the' inspiration of ANDREW M 'the Spirit,. and" appointmen'iof , my ecClesiastiCal leaders. ' GREELEY What ,baffles, me about the criticism, of the hyphenated IiMEIW@Wilmiuffemmm priests is, that the criticism usuSome time ago"Father Vincent ,ally' comes from the same sorts Donovan, a columnist for the of people who enthusiastically National Catholic Reporter, won- speak of part-time priests. Apdered aloud why theologian Karl parently, it is all right to bel a Rahner, the librarian of tl1e Vat- , "part-time" priest if you ar~, a ican:and I were still-"prie~ts l:?e~, , professic)nal or' working man cause whatever our contributions' 'who is ordained, but it is not were to the Church, they weren't ' right to be a "part-time" priest priestly cortributions. r" do not if: you are ordained and then know whether Father,~Do~ovil~ , take on another kind of skill or knows the Vatican librarian or responsibility.

But I do not think of mys~lf Karl Rahner, and I am quite sure • that he does not know me, so I as a part-time priest. I am not ,know, . . it priest. jUst when I say Ma?s, was at.' a bit cif a loss to' , how he was 'in a position to evalor just when I am with the beuate our work. draggled group of Christians to whom, I attempt-usually without too much success-to minisPastoral Dimension ter. I'm a priest all the time and Father Donovan seemed to I am not at all persuaded that thinle that he was a priest be- the secular university w~rld is, cause he wo'rked with a "commuany less pagan than the factories ' nity," and the three of us were of Paris. not priests because we did not Priest-Tentrnaker work with "communities." As a point ,Qf fact-and Father DonA priest of the Chicago archovan could easily have deterdiocese ,recently announced that mined this - I do indeed work he was becoming director of the with Ii community., I ,have alIllinois division of the American ways done so and will always Civil Liberties Union, apparentdo so. It was precisely the pasly" without bothering to inform toral dimension of the priesthood his Archbishop on the subject. I that attracted me into it 'and it don't especially approve of the is an aspect of the priestly life style of the announcement, and that I never propose to 'give up, I would strongly disagree with however many other irons I may some of the dogmatic stands that have in the fire. both the' priest in question and But my point is that even the ACLU take. Indeed, I served though, I personally would never on the board of trustees of the want to be without' pastoral ACLU for several months' and rework in the traditional sense of signed simply' beca~se it was a: the word, I do not think it his-' far too doctrinaire and dogmatic torically, or sociologically, or organization for my tastes: theologically- proper to insist But, quite apart from any of that this is the only kind of these considerations, I 'would work that a priest ought to be think 'it would 'be a very good: doing. thing for the Church to have a' ,man in sacred orders deeply committed to that kind of social 'Crass Maneu,ver' action which seeks civil rights, WASHINGTON (NC):""" A na- and civil liberties for all. A man; tional teachers' organization' who does it rpay define himseif head denounced as a "crass as a hyphenated priest or even' political maneuver", President insist that- he is not a priest at Richard M. Nixon's recent pledge all (though, as I understand the of support for the nation's non- Chicagoan in question, these are not his stands) but concern public schools. Donald E. Morriabout civil liberties seems to be son, president of the National Education Association, called at least as much priestly work as making tents. : Nixon's statement "all the more regrettable" because it came And presumably no one will ' only a few weeks after the U. S. deny that Paul of Tarsus, the Supreme Court struck down two' well-known priest-tentmaker, was st~te aid laws benefitting nona minister of the Gosp~l even public schools. when he was making tents.

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WASHINGTON (NC)t:-'- The, of pushing for adjournment as unsettled issues' of ,national soon a's Thanksgiving, health insurance, betiet, educ~A number of observers here tion and similar projects facing' regarq the Congress' first s~ssion the 92nd Congress upo~ its re- as marked by lack of lustre and convening Sept. 8 had been ex- inconsequentia. Now, however, a pected to draw public ~ttention new agenda has been carved out this Fall but that was before by Nixon's strong economic acPresident Nixon's bombshell eco- tions, 'according to Robinson, ! and priorities will be drastically nomic decisions.

I' rear,ran'ged",':", : James 'Robinson, director o( government liaison at the United Among. unfinished congresStates Catholic Conferehce and sional business was adoption of veteran Capitol Hill ~atcher, a form of national health insurjudges' that "there is whole' ance. With a wide assortment of new situation now." health insurance programs to I Lchoose from, debate had been 'The issues Congress ,was re- expected to continue into next viewing this year will hc!>, longer year. Now it could take several have importance," he commented years longer. to NC News after the' dramatic The USCC division of health Aug. 15 turn-around in ,ptesiden- " affairs has endorsed the concept tial economic policies tOI defend of national health insurance, but the dollar and attack iryflation. has issued no preference for one In an interview before Nixon plan over another. acted, RobinsQn had said that Minimum Wage Congress might not have time So far the Congress this year in the Fall to decide the fate of has been considering things the important legislation b~f9re ad- Congress didn't do last year," jqurning early. He note,d that Robinson observed.

Raising the' minimum wage, some congr~ssmen were,t~inking for example, was considered last year, but since no action was Laity Orgarllizat'i ol1l taken 'it had' been expected to come up for discussion again.

Criticizes Survey: KOTIAYAM (NC) ~ :Kerala Part of any proposed minimumstate's principal Catholic lay or- wage legislation would attempt ganization has criticized hn un- to bring minimum wage rates for official survey here in I India farm workers up to the federal whiCh claime<;t that 65 p~r cent, level. The U. S. bishops have of the priests canvassed favored urged improving' coverag~ for optional celibacy and, layl dress farm workers for years.

- Then there is a major educaoutside Church functions. I , I tion package; which would reThe working committees of the vise education legislation and exCatholic Congress said that its pand education benefits. There ~wn inquiries indicated ~ that is no telling how soon it: might most priests in Kerala are [proud be acted upon by the House. of their unmarried statJ and "There is a complex child detheiJ;' clerical'dress. The c01'nmit- velopment act," said Robinson, tee said the majority of the laity "which if passed would amount have' the same opinion.

I to about a $2 billion expenditure , The group charged that ~ some eventually. It is vast and very anti-celibacy priests are 'spread- ambitious, and we are very much ing propaganda that most 6t the in favor of it:' ' Welfare revision was expected state's priests want optional celibacy. It said such propaganda is to receive major attention and bringing public ridicule pown further consideration by Conupon Catholics and that\it is gress, until Nixon put the oneliarmful both to the Church and year freeze on welfare reform the Catholic community: for in his attempt to bolster the American economy., priests to marry. .

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OUR LADY" OF 'PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD The combined societies of the parish are sponsoring its annual two day bazaar on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 11 and 12 in the ,parish hall. Polish and American foods will be served.

Pierogi is now on sale in the hall and a special steak dinner will be served on Sunday, starting at noon.

Mrs. Stanley Supczak and Mr. Alfred Cioper, co-chairmen are requesting the parishioners and friends to make offerings of ~ prizes for the booths and baked foods for the kitchen.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER The annual procession in honor of Our Lady of Fatima under the sponsorship of the Holy Rosary Sodality will be held at 7 on ' Saturday evening, Sept. 11 and the Sodality's Feast Mass will be offered at 8 on Sunday morning, Sept 12.

The Winter schedule of Masses begins on the weekend of Sept.

11-12. It is as follows:' Saturday evening at 4 and 5:15; Sunday, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 noon and 5in the evening.

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, NEW BEDFORD The PTA will hold its first meeting of the year at 7:30 on Sunday evening, Sept. .I 9 in the school basement.

'The' slate of officers for the next two years is: Joseph Rapoza, president; Richard Barboza, vice-president; Beverly Souza, secretary; Elizabeth King, tresasurer.

ST.,JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The Junior High School DropIn Center will open for the season on Friday night at 7 o'clock in the' parish hall. The center is open to all seventh, eighth and ninth graders of the area. New games and facilities have been added. ' Registration is one dollar.

The parish bowling league will start Monday night at 7:30, Any parishioner desiring to participate must contact Gloria Turcotte at 222-5855. '

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"As nearly as I can recall, this is probably' the first time that the leaders of public and non~ public education in our largest cities have ever come together," wrote Dr. Sidney P. Marland Jr., U. S. Commissioner of Education, in a letter of invitation to conference participants.

Described as a "Joint Conference of Public and Nonpublic School Leaders." the meeting has been set for Nov. 15-17 at a seminar center in Warrenton,: Va., near the.nation's capital. .' '. . .

About 100 education officials, . including Cathol.ic· and': pUblic school s\lperintendents' . from, cities with populations over 300,000,national re'presentatives . of other nonpublic schools, and heads of various educational organizations. 'have been' invited to attend the confe~ence.

The. meeting "represents an extremely promising step toward grea~e~ understanding and cooperation among all sectors of American education," said Dr. Edward R. D'Alessio, director of the U. S. Catholic Conference elementary.

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NEW YORK (NC)-Catholic and Protestant overseas' relief agencies have announced a joint national ·publicity campaign to make Americans more aware of the plight of East Pakistani victims of civil war and natural· disasters.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Church World Services (CWS) had coordinated puhlicity .drives· before to aid victims of the Nigerian civil war and the Chilean earthquakes. CWS is the relief organization of the Na-· tional Council of Churches. . Rocco Sacci,. CRS director of. information, said the new drive will include TV and radio an-

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Last November, East Pakistan was hit by cyclones and tidal waves that left crops ruined and hundreds of thousands homeless.

Most of the stricken area had virtually no roads or communications, so relief supplies were difficult to distribute. . Aid Program Sacci told NC News that CRS was planning a long~term aid program to replace lost housing and dig new wells, and said it was "one of the few aid agencies able to get rehabilitation projects under y.ray at all in that area,"

But just as the projects were six million Pakistanis trudged to getting started, he noted, 'civil India in the most massive refuwar broke out in East Pakistan. gee movement in recent history.

Ports closed. Communications Crops were lost. Cholera and with the capital city of Dacca other diseases threatened epiwere disrupted for weeks. Over . demics, both in refugee cari-tps and in destroyed East Pakistani villages. . uperlor ecte "Now' we're faced with the NEW BRITAIN (NC) - Sister problem that many of those reMary Judith Wasowski, a former' maining in the area are threatFulbright scholar, is the new su-' ened with famine:~ Sacci· said. perior general of the Daughters "One emergency' leads to the of Mary of the Immaculate Con- ·other." .. ception. She was elected to a· As a. final straw, he noted, six-year term during the congre- . Pakistan~s summer inQ!lsoon seagation's' general chapter at the son has brought heavy:.rains and motherhouse here in Connecti- more flooding. Thousa'nds more cut. have been displaced: . .

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"That is why the parable of the Good Samaritan is so impor-' tant," said the 53-year-old bishop in the homily at his installation ceremony here.

"If we are truly Christian, we must see the deprived and oppressed, we must stop and heal the wounds of suffering mankind with the oil and wine of Christian love," he added.

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Critical Decisions "What this all means is planning big-city school systems for the future.:' said Norbertine Father C. Albert 'Koob, president of the National Catholic Educational Association. also planning to attend.

With both public and nonpublic schools systems frequently making "critical decisions capable of long-range impact, it is nothing less than essential that the leaders of these systems make these decisions in concert and with due regard for the effect they will have on the neighboring system and on the entire community," the NCEA president said.

No formal agenda for the conference has yet been set, but coordinators of the meeting noted that "common problems" will be discussed.

"We're soliciting items from the field from the people who will be participating, to see what they consider topics relevant for considerations," said Thomas J. Burns. USOE acting associate commissioner for elementary and secondary education.

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Catholic FIRESIDE Edition of THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE IMPRIMATUR +PATRICK CARDINAL O·BOYLE. D.O. Archbishop of Washington

THE MOST OUTSTANDING.AND PRACTICAL BIBLE OF THE 20th CENTURY. Newly translated, newly designed and added features ' make this the most beautiful Bible available - and desired by everyone.

A major publishing achievement: The first completely American Bible translation specifically for American audiences. Produced under c;atholic auspices with active participation by fifty Biblical scholars and editors over the past twenty five years.

In the NEW AMERICAN BIBLE, you get these special full color features:

OUTSTANDING INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE: •

Preface to the NEW AMERICAN BIBLE.

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Origin, Inspiration and History of the Bible.

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A Harmony of the Gospels.

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Synchronous History of the Nations.

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A treasury of cross reference explanatory notes and footnotes throughout .both the Old and New Testaments.

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Words of Christ in red to facilitate reading and understanding.

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Encyclopedic Dictionary and Biblical Reference Guid·e.

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His Holiness, The Pope and the Vatican

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Life of the Blessed Virgin and the Rosary

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Sacrifice of the Mass

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