(hurch OflicersEndor!e New Movie Raling Plan,
Forseen As Final Warning
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Clothing Drive for Needy
Scheduled' for Nov.' ]-9,
Bishop Connolly has announced that the annual .cloth ing Drive sponsored by the Bishops of the Uni.ted States, will be conducted in the Diocese of Fall River during the week of Nov. 3-Nov. 9. Fr. John F. Hogan, administrator of St. John the Baptist Parish, Central Village, and Dioce teers, cns served more than 40 ~an Director of the c'ampaign million of the world's hungry, 'and destitute, explained that it is official1y underprivileged entirely without reference to the
Thanksgiving Clothing: and was conducted ,for dul'ing the week of the November holiday, but officials ioundthat it became a human impossibility to' handle and process the clothing during a five day period. To facilitate matters, officials of the Catholic Relief services' decided a few years ago to divide the country into districts corre lating to the weeks of November and such a procedure has proved most beneficial and expedient. Father Hogan also stated that the collecting periods for each section will be announced in due time. , The Catholic Relief Services USCC. or CRS, the agency su pervising the Clothing Campaign was founded in 1943 by the Amcrican hierarchy !for the pur pose of assisting refugees, war victims and needy persons throughout the world. At the present time, CRS op erates relief, welfare and self Ilclp programs in areas of need in 80 countries. Through 88 overseas field offices with a supervisory staff of 162 Americans, assisted by several thousand local volun~l'ive ~eal's
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NEW YORK (NC) - The nation's top church film evaluating agencies coupled an endorsement of the movie industry's new voluntary rating system with a warning that its failure "wHl result in compul s9ry legislation" of movies. The National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) and the National Council of Churches' Broadcasting and Broadcasting and Film Commis sion (BFC) in a joint statement called on communi,ties, churches, parents, civic organizations, and news media to cooperate in striving to make the movie in dustry's new system a success. The two church agencies acted after Jack J. Valenti, president, Motion Picture' Association of America, and other officials of the industry announced the new rating system will go into effect ,Nov. :1. Under the new system youngsters under 16 will be barred from certain' movies, , even if accompanied by a parent. A' joint NCOMP and BFC 'statement issued at 'a press con ference at NCOMP headquarters here said the success of' the new system "depends on the volun tary cooperation of all segments of the industry." The statement said'the system Js based in prin':", , ciple on the existing Production Turn to Page Thirteen
Noled Jesuit' Editor Scores
rrRebellin~gr~ ,Theologians
MOBILE (NC)-Apriest-editor said here the so-called rebel1ion by some Catholic theologians, against Pope Paul VI's birth control encyclical is' directed primarily against the teaching authority of the Church. Father Daniel Lyons, . ' S.J., of New York, N.Y., addressing 'the dosing banqu,et l:!ellion of the liberal mind." Qf the annual three-day Mo' He .said, that theologians who . h D disagreed with the Pope's birth b'ile-Burrmmg'am iocesan,' control ruling "made no distincCouncil of Catholic Women con-' venti?n h~re, i!l 'Ala,bama em-' phqsized, "the right to teach with authority in the ChureIi has never rested' with its theolog~ans." ., The editor of Twin Circle and former sociology professor at Gonzaga University, Spokane, s.aid - C;lt4olic: theologians "are free to speculate em various subjects until' the Ohurch has spoken." :, : "But 't,he authority of the' ehurch rests entirely with the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops,"" he' declared. "There are many indications that the defianCe Qf a: few was not based on' tneology but on the s~irit of re-
tion between older forms of c'ontraception and the' pill." ~ather Lyons added: "They did riot seem to care, For them, the iSsue was not birth control so qluch as it was the spirit of independen~ of the law' by chal l~nging the hlwgiver. If they had not rebelled on this subject they would have rebelled about something else." Father Lyons estimated "the vast majority of Catholics, on the other hand, had no interest in challenging the Church's authority." "If a poll were taken today," ~e continued, "the great major Ity of Catholics would be quick to admit the authority of the Roly, Father to rule in su<;h a matter. Tha,t is why we waited Turn to Page Three
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Msgr. Sampson Lauds Chaplains, U.S. So~dcers
PORTLAND (NC) - The Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Army praised the cur rent crop of Army chaplains,
Retmred Pr;ests Number 10 689 In Country
and the modern soldier-"these young men with long hair, tight paJlts and lousy music," , "I can't quite account for it," said Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Francis L. Sampson. "These young men • '" olo make great soldiers. They have a sense of the relation of rights and responsibilities and they have' a deep compassion for each other, especially in combat zones. They're better soldiers than their fathers were." Msgr. Sampson, who was graduated from Franklin High School here in Oregon, returned to take part in the dedication of St. Anne chapel at Marylhurst College, a gift to the 'school from one of his former teachers, Juli anne Roller. Appointed Chief of Chaplains for the Army in 1967, Msgr. Sampson is responsible for 2,000 Turn to Page Two
ALBANY (NC) - There are 1,689 retired priests illl the United States receiving warying types and amounts
Bishop Ap~~@ves New A!)$B~rrtHlment
tll'f retirement income, according 00 a nationwide survey reported
by CRUX of the News, III bulle published here for priests. The report was based on a 100 !!ter cent response to question cU'res sent to 153 dioceses. Highlights of the report in~ \!i:1luded: -Forty-one dioceses have a mandatory retirement age - 311) Tum to Page Three ~n
MISSION SUNDAY • Od.l0fh
Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, has approved the appoint ment of Rev. Christopher O'Neill, SS.CC., as assistant at Our Lady of Assumption Church, New Bedford. Very Rev.•Daniel J. McCarthy, provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, presented the nomination to Bishop Con nully.