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Every Human Life Demands Unconditional Respect WASHINGTON (NC)-"Evel'Y human life must be unconditionally respected," Pope Paul VI in a letter reminded delegates attending the 12th congress of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC).

The reminder - reaffirming Church teachings that abortion ,and euthanasia are not permissible under any circumstancescame in a letter in the name of Pope Paul VI and signed by

Papal' Secretary of State' Car(tinal Jean Villot.

The papal letter said, "with the exception of legitimate' defense, nothing ever authorizes a man to dispose of the life of another, any more than of his own. The commandment is formal and absolute: 'Thou shalt not kill' (Exodus. 20, 13).

"Abortion has been considered as homicide since the first centuries of the Church, and Turn to Page Nineteen

Assignments Affect Youth' And Scouting Programs Bishop Connolly has announced appointment affecting the Catholic Youth and Scouting programs in the diocese.

Rev. Paul F. McCarrick, assistant at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River and moderator of the Fall River Area CYO has been named Diocesan Director of the CYO succeeding Rev. Walter A. Sullivan. Father Sullivan will continue to serve in his present positions as director of the Diocesan Camps and director of lay retreats.

Father McCarrick will continue as Moderator of the Fall River Area CYO. Rev. Roger J. Levesque, assistant at Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish, Fall River, has been appointed Diocesan Director of the Scouting program succeeding Rev. Walter A. Sullivan.

Rev. William W. Norton of St. Mary's Home, New Bedford has

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BLESSES NEW PARISH CENTER IN SEEKONK: Bishop Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, blesses the new Parish Cen tel' of St. Mary's in Seekonk. Assisting priests I were Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher, pastor 'of St.. Mary's, Seekonk; Rev. William J. Shoveltoil, administrator of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; Rev. Thomas F. Daley, pastor of St. Mary's, N ton .. . ' '

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been named the Moderator of the In a 'pastoral letter read in all New Bedford CYO succeeding I Rev. Edward C. Duffy, adminis- the churches and chapels of the ,over last weekend, did,cese trator of St. John the Baptist Bishop Connolly urged all the Parish, Central Village.

Rev. Thomas E. Morrissey, as- faithful to be generous, even to" sistant at St. Mathieu's Parish, th~ point of sacrifice, in contribFall River will become assistant utihg to the appeal on Saturday the missions.

Moderator of the -Fall River Area andI Sunday for ' Bishop Connolly reminded evCYO under the leadership of elJione in his letter that "all of Father McCarrick.

Rev. Edward J. Byington, as- us lare responsible for the spre'ad sistant at St. John the Evangel- of IChriStian ~aith." "r have sent ist Parish, AttI~boro, has been named assistant Moderator of the Attleboro Area CYO. Rev. Roger D. Leduc, assistant at St. Joseph's Parish,' New Bedford has been appointed to succeed Rev. William F. O'Connell, assistant at St. Lawrence's Par- â&#x20AC;˘ WASHINGTON (NC) - Along I " ish, New Bedford as Moderator th~ee fronts, spokesmen and of the New Bedford Area Scout- units of the National Conference ing Program. of I Catholic Charities supported All appointments are effective pr6posals to ease the plight of today, Oct. 15. thJ nation's aging.

I Testifying before a Senate cotnmittee, Father Charles Fahey, chairman, NCCC commissio'n on aging, advocated appr6val of administration propokals, for automatic increases in Sobial Security to reflect inflatio:nary conditions. He said: "The elderly should not have to go begging each year to Congress merely to stay even." ~fter a three-day meeting, the N(];CC commission on aging exI prfssed doubt that some 4,000 gorernment sponsored "forums" currently being conducted will bel adequate to draw conclusions copcerning needs for aged poor.

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Bflck Proposals Tp Ease, Plight qf Elderly

you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth."

Acts of the Apostles 13:47 Dearly beloved in Christ, These words were addressed. to Saint Paul, the great missionary. Here was a man who found Faith the hard way. He began by fighting the, Church of Christ.

He ended by joining it. Once won to the Faith, his zeal knew no bounds.

Most of us were born in the Faith. At Baptism, we were asked, "What do you seek from the Church?" Our answer was, "Faith." It has been our good fortune to grow up in Christian communities where churches, crosses, clergy,. and Christian charity give expression to faith in Christ, His Coming, His redemption. His example, and His

summons to us to learn of Him. Thank God for it.

But millions throughout the world have not been so fortunate. They live in ignorance. superstition. They are starving for knowledge, justice, and truth. In backward areas, they are a prey to disease and death.

And who will do for them what Saint Paul and the early apostles did for those blinded by superstition and sickened by sensual living in the earliest days of the Church. The missionary priests, sisters and brothers, of course.

Many of these staff hospitals, clinics, nurseries, and schools in Asia, Africa, Indonesia and- the Latin Americas, where the need is not so much for Faith as for' economic freedom.

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Florida High Court Upholds Sanctity of Marriage TALLAHASSEE (NC) - The Florida Supreme Court, acting in a child custody case, rejected a contention that adultery no longer should be considered immoral.

Attorneys had advanced the unusual contention that this nation has become so morally permissive that adultery no longer should be considered an offense against marriage. The lawyers based their case on the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior published more than a decade ago.

The high court leaned on the same report in rejecting the stand. The opinion of the court said that the report: "Recognizes the socially disruptive effects of these extramarital activities which tend to destroy the stability of family life, generate, divided loyalties and ignore the lessons of history which teaches that our western civilization has been constructed on the monogamus pattern of marriage."

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TH~ ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River~ Thurs.; Oct. 15; .1970

New Teachers At Coyle High

OFFICI)\L Diocese .of Foil River A"I'OINTMENTS Catholic Youth Organization

Rev, Paul F, McCarrick, assistant at SI:. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River as. Diocesan Director of Catholic Youth Organization Program succeeding Rev. Walter A. Sullivan. . Father McCarrick w111 continue to serve as Moderator Of the Fall River Area CYO, Rev. William W. Norton, 'St. Mary's Home, New· Bedford 'to succeed Rev. Edward C. Duffy as Moderator of the New Bedford Area CYO. Rev. Thomas E. Morrissey, assistant at St., Mathieu Parish, Fall RiVi'r as As~istant Moderator of the Fall, River' Area CYO. Rev, Edward J. Byington, assistant at St. John the Evangelist Parish, lAttleboro liS Assistant Moderator of the AttI(·boro An'a evo.

StoutiJlg l'rtIgram

I{ev. Rugtr J. Levesque, assistant· al. Nutre Dame de Luurdes Parish, Fall River as Diocesan Director of the Scout. ing Program succeeding Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, Rev. Roger D. Leduc, assistant at St. Joseph Parish, New Bedford as Moderator of the New Bedford Area Stouting Program succeedil1g Rev.' William F. O'Conn'ell.

All appointments effective today, October 15, 1970.

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Ball Presentee Thirty-eight parishes of, the Diocese of Fall River have been honored to take part in the Presentees program of the Bishop's Annual Charity Ball. Each parish will select one young lady to be presented 'to His Excellency James L. Connolly at the 16th Annual Bishop's Charity Ball on Friday, Jan. 8 at Lincoln Park' Ballroom.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan dir_ector of the Charity Ball; announced the parishes selected for this presentation honor. The parishes selected are: Attleboro Area - Holy Ghost; St. Mary, Mansfield; Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; St. Mary, Norton.

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Area-our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Holy Redeemer, Chatham; St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; St. Peter, Province. town; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; St. Joseph, Woods Hole.

Fall River Area-our Lady of the Angels, Our Lady of Health, Immaculate Conception', Sacred Heart, St. Anthony of Padua, St. John the Baptist, St. Mathieu, St. Patrick; St. Michael, Ocean Grove; St. Patrick, Somefset; St. Dominic, Swansea.

New Bedford Area - Roly Name, Mt. Carmel,. Sacred Heart, St. Anthony of Padua; St. Casimir; St. James; St. Lawrence; . St. Mary, South Dart-. mouth; St. Patrick, Wareham; St: George, Westport; St. Julie Billiar~, North Dartmouth.

" Necl'ology OCT. 19 Rev. Manuel A. Silvia, 1928, Pastor, Santo Chris~, Fall River. .

OCT. 21 Rt. Rev. Edward J. Carr, P.R." 1937, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River; Chancellor of Diocese, 1907-21.

Rev. Francis E. Gagne, 1942, Pasto~,St. Stephen, Dodgeviile.

OClr. 22 Rev. John E. Connors, 1940, Pastor, St. Peter, Dighton.

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FALL RIVERITE" ORDAINED LA SALETTE MISSIONER: Rev. Richard H. Labonte, M.S. pauses in the sacristy of Notre Dame Church, Fall River following his ordination by Bishop ConnoUY.

Four new members have joined' the staff at Msgr. Coyle High Sl:hool. Taunton. They are Bro. Juhn Thorton, Bro, John Zick, Mr. Gerald P. Barnwell and Mr. Armand Linhares.

Bruther John is a graduate of St. Edward's College; Austin, Texas and has attended Univer· sity of Prugia in Rome, Villanova College, St. Joseph's in Philadelphia and Notre Dame Intel'national of Rome. His assignment at Coyle includes the positions of dean of men and assistant principal.

Brother John Zick is also a graduate of St. Edwards, Austin and has attended Stonehill College. He has been assigned to the English Department.

Mr. Barnwell received a' B.S. degree from SMU and is presently enrolled in the graduate school at Bridgewater State Teachers' College pursuing courses in guidance. In addition to his duties as teacher of English and Latin, Mr. Barnwell is advisor to the staff of the Coyle yearbook.

Mr. Linhares is also an aiumnus of SMU with a major in, e:lectrical engineering. In the mathematits department, h~ is teaching algebra, geometry, math II, and trigonoll'l;etry.

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BALTIMORE (NC) -The editor of The Catholic Review denied charges that the' Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper maintains a "racist" policy.

The charges were mlideat a publicity workshop sponsored here by the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men and the Knights of Columbus. Half a dozen persons made the "racist" protest at the ·session.

A leaflet was distributed at the meeting headlined "From the Office of the- Black Catholic Lay Caucus." It charged the paper "generally ignored' or excluded" news of black parish activities and demanded employment of a full time black reporter.

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Blount Scores Smut Report NASHVILLE (NC) - :Files of the postal inspection service indicate a relationship between expusure to pornography and antisocial behavior, Postmaster Gen. Winton M. Blount told an area ChambpI' of Commerce meeting here.

He t1isput~t1 CvJ1lelllions that pvJ'nography has no adverse effect on adults and that repeal of smut might lead to a drop i,! crime. thus helping the Nixon ad· ministration take another step ill its disavowal of the President's Commission on Obsc£>nity and Pornography.

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HOMILY: Archbishop Medeiros is shown delivering READER: Thomas Medeiros of Fall River, son Mr. and Mrs. Manuel S. Medeiros and a freshman at Columbia :his homily at the Installation Mass. He stressed the neces~ University, reads lesson at his uncle's installation as Arch- .sity of faith that must overflow into concern for those in need. bishop of Boston.

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Somerset 'Teens Invited to R.A.P. St. Patrick and St. John of God parishes in Somerset are co-sponsoring R.A.P., a teen program which will be ,offered at 7 Sunday night, Oct. 18 at St. John of God and at 7 Sunday night, Nov. 1 at St. Patrick's Fisher House. _This Sunday night's program will be for freshmen and sophomores and the Nov. 1 session will be for juniors and seniors.

The agenda will include a film, "Where were you ~uring the Battle of the Bulge, Kid?" a Eucharistic celebration, discussion and r£>freshments.

Urges .Devotion To Rosary PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Pbila· phia's John Cardinal Krol urged priests, Religious and lay people to join with him in renewed devotion to the Blessed Mothel' and increased praying of the Rosary.

Writing in a pastoral letter on the Rosary, the cardinal pointed out that the Second Vatican Council and recent popes have praised devotion to Mary and the use of traditional Rosary prayers.

"The feast of the Most Holy Rosary," Cardinal Krol wrote, "helps to recall the long tradition of this favorite Marian devotion.

It also provides an occasion to recall that the teaching on Mary is a symbolic summary of the Catholic doctrine on human cooperation in the Redemption,"

Brooklyn Teachers Win Increases BROOKLYN (NC)-An assodation representing 4HO lay high school teachers and the lirooklyn diocese reached agreement on a two-year $2 million con· tract, placing the teachers among the highest paid in Catholic schools of the country.

The contract guarantt:es a minimum salary increase and benefits of $2,300 over the twuyear period, a raise of 18 per cent The benefits include an improved pension plan, adding an annual annuity and permitting earlier retirement.

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CU President Stresses Need of Aid I proved funds to purchase the Walton ventured that the secular components of education court's decision may not nonpublic necessarily constitute the final being taught in schools. word on the legality of giving Other sources pointed out that aid to nonpublic schools. "It will the court will likely end up reo all depend on how strict a conviewing 'a consolidation of the struction they - (the justices) Pennsylvania case, as well as make on their ruling.'" He indiIsubstantially similar cases of cated that legal challenges might !nonpublic school aid legislation also be forthcoming on other asjon the books in Connecticut and pects of giving nonpublic school aid.

Dr. Clarence C. Walton, firsc IRhode Island. lay president of the Catholic : University of America, Washington, D. C., made the comments while in Chicago to present board of trustee awards to Cardinal John Cody and Chicago businessman John W. Clarke.

The awards were for "outstanding s£>I'vice to Catholic UniverSixteen pages,. clearly written and sity."

CHICAGO (NC) - The chairman of President Nixon's "Panel on Federal Aid to Nonpublic Schools" said here that if some form of government aid is not given to private and parochial schools, those institutions would eventually diminish to but a few, offering good education, "but only for the wealthy."

In its majority rt:pul't, relt:ased Sept. 30, the commission recommended relaxing smut laws on grounds studies have shown that erotic material does not have adverse effects upon adults. The White House recently publicly disassociated itself from the group.

Althoug!'t he didn't mention the commission by name,· Blount denounced commission findings, saying: "Pornography is not simply a threat to the best interests of children. It is an act of violence against the human spirit."

Blount expounded about the seriousness of exposure to pornography by asking his listeners: "And how shall a child respond to a photograph of, for example, a human being, without clothing, bound hopelessly, and being beaten with whips to the apparent gratification of all involved?

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Legal Challenges Walton also discussed the upcoming U. S. Supreme Court review of a legal challenge to nonpublic school aid legislation in Pennsylvania. That state has ap-

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,THE ANCHOR-Dioces~ of Fall Rjver-Thu,·~., Oct. 15, 1970

Salzburg Stages ·Finest ,Of All Music Festivals From late July to the end of August, Salzburg stages what authorities consider the finest of all musical 'festivals.

Topmost conductors, orchestras, sil1gers, instrumentalists and actors participate. There are operas, orchestra concerts, chamber music, recitals, as well as varied dramatic fare, tentate. We had seen his fortday after day, with more ress, commanding Salzburg from a precipice; it· is s'aid to be, the than one each day, and often best preserved medieval fortress more than one at the same hour.

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place of Mozart, his operas dominated the programming: Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte, etc. These were presentt:'d in one or the other of twe opera houses, the large and the small, both at the Festspielhaus. Neither is elegant, but both are extremely well suited to opera, and the acoustics are ideal.

More intriguing than either is something called the Felsenreitschule, entered ,~y the same lobby which serves the opera houses. It is in this third unit that a new production of Beethoven's Fidelio was done this year, with the Vienna Philharmonic in, the pit, Karl Boehm conducting and an array of splendi~1 singers on the stage.

Suggests Cells TIlt:' stage? It is a vast l'i:liseJ platform, with the audience' seated both in front of it a"d in back, of it. Those in front are in a large regular theatre. Our seats were in this section, and across the stage from us were people in three levels of boxes which appeared to be hewn out of a wall of solid rock reaching to the roof.

When Mr. Boehm raised his baton for the overture" the houselights had been extinguished, and the many boxes across the stage from us, now but dimly seen, suggested tiers of cells. It was a perfect setting for Fidelio, which takes place in a prison, and one felt oneself to be in such a place, not just looking at a scenic representation.· ' Real Thing :rhe opera then proceeded, thrillingly, with glorious singing by the principals and the chorus of the Vienna State Opera along with the Salzburg festival chorus.

A chill shot along,one's spine at the sound of the trumpet calls which signal the arrival of deliverance for the prisoners and at the sight of them stumbling up from below stage into the light.

But Felsenreitschule-what did that mean? And was the rock wall, with its boxes, an artificial construction? No, it was the real thing. This area, origimilly roofless, was the Summer riding school of the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg.

Outdoor Area The churchman holding that title must have be.en quite a po-

in Europe. ' We had also seen his palatial Summer residence, complete with zoo, at suburban Hellbrunn.

In the gardens at Hellbrunn i one of the archbishops had designed and installed a series of water tricks, which suddenly douse the unwary ts>day as once they did the archepiscopal guests. And now this riding 'school.

This had fallen into disuse, PRAYER: Serenity is reflected in Archbishop Medeiros' but there remained the boxes, face as he listens intently to prayer during Installation cut into solid rock, from which Mass. could be viewed feats of horsemanship put on by expert riders.

Someone got the idea of using this outdoor area for theatrical events during ·the festival, 'and musical events as well took place there.

Unique Auditorium But Salzburg has remarkably changeable weather, going from sunshine to rain, and vice versa, ip surprisingly abrupt, :order.

Sudden rainstorms interrupted , performances, and a canvas clm,opy made the rain sound loUdly and gave' inadequate protection for performers and 'spectators.

Two years ago, ,the present, permanent, regulation· theatre .structure was begun, preserying and incorporating the wall of natural rock and its boxes. And now, complete, it is something unique in auditoriums. ' Something unique happened to us at the opera. One night, il1' the small house, at a performance performance of Cosi Fan Tutte, .there sat next to us an extremely nervous woman who ,petiodHAIL AND FAREWELL: His Eminence Cardinal Cushically during the performance took a handerchief from . her . ing is shown waiting to deliver his words of welcome to purse and put on, a performance Archbishop Medeiros at end of Installation Mass. The Carof her own-a loud noseblow. dinal received a tremendous ovation as he left Holy ,Cross The very next evening, in, the Cathedral after his talk which he also termed a farewell Felsenreitschule, during Fidelio, the very same woman sat next to the people of Boston. to us and did the very same thing. One would have to say that she did less damage to Beethoven than to Mozart.

Be~edictine College Authorities Firm Snlzburg Museum D'ormitoryPolicy The Salzburg cathedral does not stand aloof from the festival.

ST, ,LEO (NC)-Things were president, after conSUlting with In the huge square before it, . described as back to normal on the college board, issued a stateHugovon Hofmannstal's drama, the campus of St'. Leo College, ment that policy would not be Everyman, the cast of characters condu<;.ted by the Benedictine changed and ordered the demonstrations to cease. He promised headed by "God' the Father," is Father's here' in Florida. performed at the weekend. A, A group of co-eds' arid men a review of the college policy stage and seating for over 2;500 students staged a few demon- concerning visitation regulations, people are in place in front of the strations, protesting the college but stress~d that of the five cath'edral throughout the festival regulation against permitting men's dorms, only two are season.' women to' visit the rooms of equipped with suitable lounges and parlors where women may Connected with the cathedral men students. is a museum, and at festival time A spokesman said the college visit male students. this year' it was presenting an, suffered little from the few days The students, it was reported, exhibition ~ntitled Stabat Mater. of tensions. He denied published were bitter over refusal by the This consisted of works of art, reports ,that the college ROTC college to change the visitation dating from about the year. 1400, building had been destroyed by policy on the groun.d that the most of which depicted the grief arson. He also denied that the policy showed lack of trust, in of Mary at the death of her Son. college ever had an, ROTC b~i1d. the students and fears of promiscuity.

Included were some crucifix- ing. ion groups and images of Father Wilson DeFord, O.S.B., Abbot Marion Bowman, O.S.B. ' dean of men, said the protestors Christ suffering. But mainly the items belonged to the category were orderly and appeared to enwhich we call the "Pieta,"that is, and early 15th centuries and they joy themselves during the demMary holding and_mo,:,!.ning over were styled "Vesper-images," onstrations. He added that men the dead Christ. ' . f,or it was at Vespers that they' students policed the' dorms to Many of these were carveq in were venerated, to the accom· insure the viSitation policy wa.s and about Salzburg in the 14th paniment of special prayers. not violated.

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NEW IBERIA (NC)-Hishop Warren L. Boudreaux warned here in Louisiana "this generation is abandoning God,", underscoring as a prime example the current trend toward abortionon-demand.

Celebrant. and homilist at the annual Red Mass in St. Peter's church 'marking opening of the Fall court session, the auxiliary bishop of Lafayette, La., de'. . clared: "Once we 'lad great faith, but there are signs of decadence on , every side. We are drowning in the cares and riches of this ma-terial age., "We are forgetting the laws of God we once believed in, and turning to material achievements which will destroy us,.. he warn'ed, "Our great mistake has been to believe that because we know how to make something, we have a right to use it. So , we made the atom bomb and we pollute the land.

Witness of "'aith "Twenty years ago we would have risen up in righteous indignation if a law had been proposed to kill an unborn baby.

Now states are passing laws to remove restrictions on abortions and we sit back and do nothing about it. '~We must open our hearts and ears to the word of God 'and give witness by our lives that we believe in Him. We must say to a technological world, 'You an: wrong, there are better ways to correct, today's evils'most'f of which are based on moral problems.

"If we who believe in God give this witness of faith, we can strengthen the lives of others."

Debate Socialism CUERNAVACA (NC)-Bishop Sergio Mendez of Cuernavaca, continuing a public debate with a fellow Mexican bishop on the merits of socialism, asked that "Christianity not be made a crusade against Marxism." Earlier, Archbishop Octaviano Marquez Toriz of Puebla objected to views expressed by the Cuernavaca bishop on socialism before a large audience of university students at Puebla. Bishop Mendez told the students that some form of socialism appears' to be the best road to' Latin American develop!l1ent.

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LANSING (NC, - Repercus- alysis," the governor responddJ, sions of "Proposal C," the anti- "I believe the proposed amen~­ parochiaid amendment, arp still ment goes too far and its impl,iechoing through thp state of cations are too great." He told Michigan with each reverberation his wf.ekly news conferencp ~f warning of greater peril not only his intentions "to vote against for parochial schools but also the amendment." for public schools.

He said he belifvt-5 "Propo51il1 Gov. William G. Milliken said C" is "one of tht- most imparl· that he would vote "no" on "Pro- ant" education questions ever dfposal C," a constitutional amend- cldN! by the voters of Michigan. ment that if passed would pro- "It should np't become a politic~1 I}ibit any form of public aid to issue," the governor said. "it non-public schools. !'hould be decided on its merits."

Michigan voters wIll decide The governor called his posithe fate of the proposal in the tion on public aid for non-public Nov. 3 general election. school children "clear and coriGov. Milliken revealed his in- sistpnt." i' tention after releasing a report Public Beliefits I which· declares that the proposed "I 'favor limited assistance to amendment is so broad it might nonpublic schools because I bJbar even police and fire protec- Iieve that education -pressur~s tion for non-public schools. Tht' on public schools will be greatly report said the measurt' might increased if non public schools also mean: continue to close, and-most imNon-public schools will 105(' portantly-because I believe the their property tax exemptions; public benefits when a child r~­ nearly $60 million in federal ceives a good education-regardfunds for both public and non- Ipss of where he receives it." I ' public schools in Michigan would Milliken said he asked Porter be in jeopardy; existing auxiliary to determine which existing se~­ services, including health. li- vices would he affected by the brary, and driver education ser- . proposed amendment, if it should vices, and special programs for be adopted, because "I believe delinquent, disturbed and handi- it is imperative that we unde~­ c:lpped would end and that ath- stand the full implications of ·the Il"tic contests between public proposed constitutional amendand non-public schools on public ment as it will appear on thb facilities would be prohibited. ballot."

Even public sewage' and saniMillik~n asked Porter fur all tation services available to non- una lysis of the possible effects public schools could possibly be of the proposed amendment t1w baned, according to the report day after the Michigan Suprem~ prepared by State Supt. of Public Court placed the question on thf Instruction John Porter.

Nov. 3 ballot. The Supreme COUl1t Consistent Position ruled the same day that a la\\He advised the governor that providing $22 million in stat~ the absence of police and fire aid to non-public school children protection and other necessary is constitutiomil. sanitation services "might necesThe $22 million. will be use(1 sitate the closing of non public during the 1970-71 school year schools" because they would be to pay up to 50 per cent of th~ unable to meet sanitation and salaries of secular :each~rs Wht safety standards. teach secular subjects III non "In view of Dr. Porter's an- public schools.

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Gypsies at Fatima Come F~om All Parts of Europe To Honor Our Lady FATIMA (NC) - The vibrant strumming of guitars, gaily clad dancers stamping vigorous flamencos, and a babel of tongues filled the grounds of the famed Marian shrine here as thousands of gypsies made a three-day pil· grimage honoring Our Lady of Fatima.

The gypsies have a reputation for lawlessness but the police recruited for the pilgrimage passed their time idly, so orderly were the crowds.

The gypsies came from all parts of Europe in carts, caravans, autos and buses fa a town of tents set up for them near the shrine basilica.

The Portuguese Catholic charities organization had canteens and an economy food store set up to help supervise the children of the gypsy families.

On the first day of the pilgrimage, a river of brilliant colors flowed through the grounds as the brightly costumed gypsies walked in procession to the Chapel of the Apparitions, where some saluted the Virgin in a spoken chorus.

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Candlelight Procession ", The following day, 'the gypsies heard Mass in their own lanr guage. Later, guitars accomf panied songs of sorrow for thl( crucifixion of Christ as the gYPj sies made the Stations of the Cross. ~ Under the stars that night~ candles flickered as the crowds proceeded around the sanctuary following the statue of Our Lady of Fatima borne on the shoulderS of four gypsies.

I The next day, the gypsie~ commemoratlfd their dead at Mass sung to guitar accompa J niment. The Mass was specially composed for the pilgrimage.

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by Archbishop Emanuele Clarit zio, head of the International Secretariat for Migrants, reprei senting Pope Paul VI, seven other bishops and the priest J directors of the work for mi. grants in various countries.

In his sermon, Archbishop Clarizio compared the lives of the gypsies to that of the Holy; Family during the flight intdI Egypt. :

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Establish Hunger Coalition Center CINCINNATI (NC) - Widt-spread hunger in the Cmcinnau area has led to the establishment of the Hunger Coalition Cpntfr for Research and Action, witll Father Jerry Schafffr, a pri..st of the Cincinnati archdiocest', as director.

One of tht' first actions ot lilt' center, will be to draw public attention to tht' national observance of School Lunch Week and to the obse"rvance of Hungtr Sunday.

Father Schaffel' p()illlt:d oul that on~ of the principal aims of the School Lunch Week observance is to make citizens aware of the federal program which provides low-cost lunches in schools and reduces or eliminates entirely the cost to eligible children.

Another major concern of tile Hunger Coalition Center, according to Father Schaffer, is establishment of stations in poverty areas where needy children can receive a nutritious breakfast.

Estimates of hungry families in Hamilton County go as high as 50,000, Father Schaffer said, adding that half of these are in the city of Cincinnati.

Children denied adequate nutrition average from six months to more than two years behind others in their age level in physical growth, he said. Moreover, only one in six needy people participate in food stamp and commodity programs.

DISCUSSES l'ROBLEM: Hulbert Jawes, ex~cutive director of the Committee on Domestic Hunger, speaks about his efforts to bring the image of hungry children to the attention of America. NC Photo.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Mere facts about poverty in America won't necessarily move people to action. But-Hulbert James is hoping the image of hungry children will.

James, 28, is the executive director of the Committee on Domestic Hunger, brainchild of the National Council of Churches.

The committee, which includes representatives of six Protestant denominations, the U. S. Catholic Conference and various antipoverty programs, is currently focusing its efforts on National School Lunch Week.

"The issue of hungry children is something people can agree upon," James told NC News.

U. S. schools have been providing free or reduced rate lunches for needy students since 1946, when Congress passed the National School Lunch Act. President Nixon signed a revised version of the lunch law in' May I, almost doubling the number of children eligible for the program.

When ,the revised law goes into effect on Jan. I, 1971, nearly eight million children from families with poverty level incomes -$3,270 for a family of fourcan be served a school lunch either at no charge or a maximum charge of 20 cents.

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for the lunches are not getting them - in some cases because they don't know how to go about it.

James-black, articulate and former associate director of the National Welfare Rights Organization-is fighting this lack of knowledge· by taking NCC's "Crusade Against Hunger" to target cities all over the U. S. He is urging local groups to press for participation in the school lunch program, telling school district officials how to apply, and inundating parents, teachers and anyone else interested with information about the program.

As part of the effort to deliver school lunches to as many needy students as possible, USCC's Social Development Department sent thousands of informational pamphlets to Catholic educators and diocesan social action directors all over the country.

Noting that inadequate nourishment can ,?e the real source of learning disabilities among students, James said a school lunch program should be "an integral part of the educational policies of a school."

Teachers should includ.e such lunch programs in their contractual demands, he said, and tell education officials they "can't teach children that are hungry."

Announces Change In Economic Policy BUENOS AIRES (NC)-Church funds in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires will soon be administered hy . parish councils made up of priests and laymen, the Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires has announced.

According to Archbishop Juan Carlos Aramburu, the new policy, part of a total 'economic revamping of the archdiocese, will go into effect in October.

"It is more in keeping with the spirit of the Church," the archbishop said of the new economic policy.

"Besides, maybe we can get rid of the idea of a wealthy Church," he added.

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Continued from Page One NCCC secretary, criticized omis'8 sion of the' subject of spiritual welfare of the aged in prepara.Twenty years ago the distinguished French man of tions for the White House Conletters, Francois Mauriac, recorded his own eulogy to be ference for the Aging to be held . here in November, 1971. released only after his death. The great novelist and reFather Fahey told Senate Fiporter and polemicist who just recently died spoke words nance Committee members, conthat reflected a lifelong of preoccupation with the ways , sidering Social Security law of God and man. "I believe as I did as a child, that life amendments, the elderly "are enhas meaning, a direction, a value; that. no suffering 'is titled in justice to retain their purchasing power in an inflalost, that every tear counts, each drop of blood, that the tionary economy." secret of the world is to be found in St.. John's 'G9d The Syracuse, N.Y" pdtst exis Love.' " pressed concern about adoption of the so-called Bennett amendIt is heartening to know that men of the exalted ment which would reqiure prior minds and complex temperaments can' a~ld do~after a authorization by a local "prolifetime of thinking and ·searching and reflecting-come fessional review organization" to the basic conclusions that they began life with: that ot' any major medical procedure, there is the fact of God and the fact of oneself and' one's or admission to a medical facility, when it involves a person rerelevance comes from the relatfonship of God and man,. ceiving a federal benefit-Medicof the direction to God 'that man must take. aid or Medicare.

Pope John often pointed out that man's' life is a Evaluate Needs matter of simplifying the complex world in which he lives.

"11 is difficult enough for the poor to receive 'medical care And the truly wise and good man reduces all. to the simple without adding more red tape," fact that he is God's child and should act accordingly and Father Fahey said, adding that in so doing come into closer union with God. the plan "represents a radical When all is said and done, this is all that counts at policy switch." the moment of death. And so is the most important ele- '" ,t",i{,)!,;! """",f""","" ,!",it\"",,\,,\y·..·· . "i' I,'. -',. :::'--l""~,:,,.,.:",:>,,,~' h,>:,.:<x-,"WU:b"";";:;""';'w:;,,:w._;'";;;::,.,~_: The conference commission on ment of life, too. aging advocated widespread participation by churches in the forMauriac summed. up in his own eulogy what every ums sponsored by the adminissincere seeker comes to know. tration in cooperation with state and private organizations concerned with the elderly. The forums are being held throughout the 50 states and U.S. territories.

The commission- :said it anticiIt is not enough to say the', word and .then not do pates m(lre., than 500,000 questhe deed.. tionnaires will be filled out by the elderly and forwarded to It is not enough to decry poverty and say that one . Rev.' John"F."Moor~;' B.A., M.A., M.Ed. Washington for evaluation of of the signs of a Christian is to eradicate it and then not '55; Pefer & Paul, Fail River' the aged in conjunction with the 1971 'White ,House Conference; make a sincere and effective effort tQ do S~' .. ," ..... ",-. . The commission' 'exprEissed , And so the Catholic Church in the United ,States has' doubt that· information antici,. pated from the questionnaires committed itself to a strong and dramatic action this Fall.

Let's be honest with .each other. The 'generation gap will be representative 'of the It has made as its top priority a Campaign' for Human that we hear so very much about in press and print is aged's needs if the answers are Development-a program of education to make men aware quite real. First· and foremos~ it is about time that we influenced by organizations of the causes of poverty in the nation, and a program of begin to admit to the yery fact of the exis~ence of this so- rather than individuals them, fund-raising to provide self-help in poverty areas of the pres- so, too, ignorance is 'driving men """selves. cial phenomeqn in our .. ",,,, ..,,,,, ..,,,,,,,,,,,,,... country. . ent. society. How can we be- . to madness. We 'must' begin to aftermath of the Vatican CounIt is h'oped that fifty 'million dollars will be raised gin to heal the patient until, get together· and 'attempt to cil so many people were swept for' the self.-help programs. ", ' I, we find' out 'what, ails him? understand each other,' We 'must off their feet because they were Those who' scoff ~nd disclaim share ideas, truths and differ- not prepared for the ensuing .. This is' a massive program and has a massive pUr- such a fragmentation of society ences. changes.

Few people, including most of pose. The nation and the world are to be treated to the "are merely, swe¢ping the· dirt . Thiskn'owledge gap permeates sight of what dedicated Christians can do 'fof their needy under' the rug. '.Out 'of sight, and· the totality of our existence and, the hierarchy, had little idea at brothers. It is not going to be a mat,t~r of. caring for the this out of mind. might 'seem to today, especially our religious the outset that they would' be caught up in such a trauma'tic . needs of others. It will be a program of finding' the root be a mere bromide but its,. use., life. .The' Church of its very na- event as Vatican II. As a result, ture cannot. be exempt 'from this causes of their ,need and establishing them. in programs in- this case is quite vaiid.' - ' One of the basic reasons for human turmoil. The Church does many people could not underthat will help them eradicate those causes, enable them the generation gap is a knowl-' not exist in a vacuum. The- stand the thanges.· There were to help themselves, to change the circumstances that bind edge gap.. In every phase of our Church is' a continuum, eve~ very few religious educators who them to the, vicious cirCle of poverty and help them break society from the campus to the growing, ever evolving in the could explain them. In fact, home an ever-widening gulf is world created by its God. The many so-called experts who out into the dignity of self~support and self-respect. continuously evolving between Church is part of human exis- made attempts to be the great It' is a daring program. It, is a momentous program. age groups. What makes' this' so tence-be it in college, in the bearers of the new news did It is a, progr~m that ,wishes to make its mark on the whole terrifying is that' there are. so factory, the kitchen or the sane- .such a poor pedagogical job and many who could care. The tuary, If the Church on earth is were so ill-prepared themselves, nation. ' . apathy that exists :in its' present alive and well,' if is because its that, they created even greater , But Christianity is- daring. It is momentous. And it is ,state is appalling. It seems that members are alive and well. No d!visions in men's minds, As a result, at the end of the sixties, meant by the Lord to put its .mark on nations and men. only a. bomb or' a murder•. can body' can function when iis the Church, seemed to many, to make a commu!1ity wake up to members are at odds with each the fact that there is something other. As the tensions of life in- be on a" downard course. Along ami~s in our world. In the d'eafcrease, so do the tensions in the with this, the Church had the enit\g noise of the riot there ~re/ Church. These tensions can only built-in atmosphere for oppofew of all ages who really want be reduced and eliminated when nentsto all change. The process to understand what's going on. we begin to search for, personal of evolving had been in many As violence drives men to,' war sincerity and intellectual honesty. 'areas delayed and dulled by a comfortable and well established Church. call for renewal Revise Entire Religious Education Program was just ,The too much for many . .. . . .

The Church must undertake' a own diocese we must acknowl- who should have been the leadOFFICIALNEW5PAPER OF THE DIOC~SE OF, FALL RIVER' complete and permeating re-eval- edge the c0n:tmitment of our ers in a vital teaching Church. uation of its religious education- Confraternity of Christian DocPublished weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of 'Foll River These events have dug .a al programs. It is not enough to trine to the world of adult edu- chasm that only a sound pro, . 410H'ighlond AV.enue· concentrate all its -efforts on the cation. It is a needed program grain of religious education can Fall ·River, Mass. 02722 67 5~7151 youth level and forget the that deserves the support and bridge. Let's get busy, religious ,PUBLISHER puzzled and questioning adult. involvement of every concerned and laity together, and get beMost Rev. J~mes L Connolly, D.O., PhD. It is most refreshing to' see that Christian in this diocese,) hind programs for adult educaGENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER some programs are making a It is the adult world that cries tion before permanent separasincere effort to bridge this for a crash program of religious tions once more ev/?Ive within Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Sholloo, M.A. Rev. John P',Driscoll ~leary Press-Fall River knowledge. gap. (Here in our knowledge. In the immediate the Church, '

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Diocese Directs Ethnic Coalition With Blacks CLEVELAND (NC) - Efforts are underway here to direct u newly awakened feeling of cultural identity. among white ethnic Americans into a coalition wi,th the urban black community.

Working to this purpose is a far-reaching program called the Cleveland Plan. It was designed by the Cleveland diocesan Ethnic Task Force of the Commission on Catholic Community Action, and adhetes to blueprints for such endeavors as outlined

by Msgr. Geno C. Baroni at a Washington' meeting sponsored in June by the United States Catholic Conference (USeC).

The monsignor, director of program development for the USCC Task Force, has served as a consultant to the Cleveland Plan and to others being generated in Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh, Gary, Ind., and Providence, R. I., among other cities.

Against Poverty, Bias In Cleveland there are :l9 Sepurate groups of white Americans of foreign stock that number over 1,000 persons each. Thftse compete with a large black population, estimated at 47 per cent of the total population. The city h,as a black mayor, Carl B. Stokes.

To prevent t1ivisive polarizution, the mayor has reacted to the situation by assigning special aides to work with ethnic communities. Community relations officers meet in some areas almost nightly to develop, programs of understanding.

Relatives Relle'w Pressure on Governmen.t For Retllrn of Prisoners of W1 ar

, I WASHINGTON (NC) - Her eyes tearing from strong sun!light-or mort' likt'ly from memories of a son missing in action in North Vietnam-Mrs. Annett~ Fobair' stood on the U. S. Capi r tol steps with more than 501) wives and relatives of servicej men belit'ved imprisont'd in I Indochina.

Smartly dressed, some with flags in hand and others hoIdin~ posters calling for war prisonersr freedom, they gathered for a news conference before stream+ ing into Capitol Hill offices seek i ing to renew public and govern~ mental pressurt' to free their loved ones. i From nearly every slate camd the demonstrators-all members of the three-month-old National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in South.! east, Asia. ,I Some, such as Mrs. Fobair,' i:ame from as far away as Cali' l fornia to attend the group's an路1 nual four-day meeting capped by members asking congressmen to l sign cards pledging intensified, efforts to secure the humane l conditions of the Ger1Pva Convention for imprisonNI service-! mffi.

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Expect 100,000 At Papal Mass SYDNEY (NC) - More than 100,000 peoplt- from all parts of Australia are f'xpected to attend a special Mass for youth that Pope Paul is expfct"d to cflt'brate Dec. 2, Groups from Cutholk schools and youth organizations and young people from other denominations will attend the Mass.

The Ma~s will feature folk songs, possibly with guitar accompaniment and representatives of youth groups are expected to takt! part in the Offertory. procession, readings and commentaries.

Meanwhile, all types of transportation may be used by people in Papua and New Guinea in coming to Sydney to see the Pope. Some will fly; others are likely to come in small boats, according to plans by local Ch urch officials.

Archbishop Virgil Copas, M.S.C., of Port Moresby, said he i;; exploring the possibility of using small boats to take the people to Sydney. "They could live on them while. in Sydney," he said.

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"This was nut like any meet-I ing we've ever attended ... this wasn't just a group here for: HI good time," said Alabamian Mrs., M. K. Deichelman, her husband,l PRAY retired Maj. Gen. Deichelman at' . her side.

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They are parents of 32-year. I al League of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast old Air Force Capt. Samuel Asia, listen intently during a press conference on the CapDeichelman whose plane went itol steps, Washington. The group met in Washington' to down in Bien Hoa. His brother, Joseph F. Bauer, a Hungarian call attention to the plight of POW's in Southeast Asia NC Air Force Capt. Stephen Deichel- , immigrant who introduced the man led the search party, but I Photo.

Cleveland Plan as head of the found nothing. Samuel Deichel- I Ethnic Task Force, summed up man remains classified as "miss- the South Vietnamese," to oblige kans nlust show Hanoi they its promise and peril: ing in action." To family mem- them to send servicemen home really care." The communists "This plan is an attempt to bers, that means he's a prisoner' again. have to be made to feel, he said, I enlist ethnic Americans, their of war.

Meanwhile, she and her four that by holding prisoners, they're Short blonde hair glistening daughters await return of Air damaging their image. "Our press, churches, and other organizations 'in the fight against against her attractive lavender I Force Maj. Kenneth W. North, men need help an,d they need poverty and racial discrimina- suit, Mrs. Carole North, the 40, whose plane crashed Aug. 1, help now." tion. It is an attempt to respond league's chairman, spoke out for I 1966. It wasn't until several to the legitimate needs and aspi- what seemed to be a group of months after that time, said Mrs. rations of ethnic Americans and persons tense and hard-pressed North, that she learned her hus- Paper to Change to develop greater communica- to control emotion. band was a prisoner of war. "I Following a brief speech dur- want my husband home. I want Printing Operation tion and cooperation between CHICAGO' (NC) - The New ing which she' announced unso- him healthy," she pleaded. ethnic and black Americans."

World, Chicago archdiocesa~ licited receipt of ,$39,000 from A priSQner returnee, Navy Lt. Ultimate Goal fellow citizens wanting "to aid Robert E: Frishman, who spent newspaper, will move its printing operation to Our Sunday VisSpecifically, the plan calls for us in the pursuit of our goals," 22 months in, a 10-foot-square itor's plant in Huntington, Ind., was asked by' a Mrs. North cell that "heated up to 130 deorganization of the ethnic groups' editor Floyd Anderson said here. largely along lines used by blacks newsman if she was satisfied grees during the day," took the Anderson said the move, to in their drive for equal rights. with the government's handling microphone to say that "Amerbe effective with the New The plan includes an ethnic of the prisoner of war issue.

World's Oct. 30 issue, was being council to seek out public funds Need Help Assembly Passes taken for economic reasons. and programs for low income She began to say the Nixon School Aid Bill ethnic people and a program to "It will mean a substantial place ethnic group members on administration was doing all it TRENTON (NC) - By anal" saving in the newspaper's cost but was drowned out by a could, decision and policy making rower margin than expected, the of operation," he sadi. boards of public and social agen- chorus of "NOs" from the men, , New Jersey Assembly has passed women and children on the Capi- I a bill to help the state's hardcies.

Production of the New World tol steps behind her. for the past five years has been pressed private school system.

The ultimate goal would be to Mrs. North, of Wellfleet, Mass., The Democratic minority made handled by two Chicago plants, develop an ethnic leadership then urged everyone to "write one doing typographical and that could assure "that some of letters and speak out-w;ite the passage p'ossible, giving 18 of' photography work, the other 1 ,its 21 votes to the measure, brilliance which articulated black North Vietnamese, the Laotians, which was sent to the Senate by doing printing and mailing. demands will have to be simia vote of 45-26. That路 was a larly developed to speak to and I Condemn Torture' scant four votes more than for lower middle class America."

"What we are saying, in efOTTAWA (NC)-The Canadian 'II necessary.

BEFORE'yOU fect," Bauer explained, "is that Catholic Conference has issued a , However, some Republican legBUY -TRY ethnic Americans who feel lost, statement condemning tortures I islators voted against the bill frustrated and abandoned must in Brazil and expressing hopes , even though they favor aid to be made secure enough in their that the Canadian government I private ,education., Those who identity that they can approach would "bring pressure to bear ,took that stand were pressing their black neighbors on an even on the Brazilian authorities i for passage of a measure that OLDSMOBILE footing. It's strange, but right through various international would give assistance directly to Oldsmobile-Peugot-Renault now most of them feel unequal agencies such as the United parents, of children attending 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven I private schools.

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Stresses Senate's Function Advisory NEWARK (NC)-In a letter to priests of the Newark archdiocese, Archbishop Thomas A. Boland informed them that the priests' senate has only an advisory function and that any change in its nature would be "self-liquidating."

Archbishop Boland said that "In view of articles which have appeared in the press regarding the Senate of Priests, and in response to inquiries received, it is appropriate that we recall that the senate was established in accordance with the motu proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae of our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, as an advisory body.

"The senators were elected by the priests of the archdiocese to serve in this capacity. Any change in the nature of this body to expand its' function beyond such advisory capacity would be exceeding the limits established by the Holy Father and approved by me in constituting it, and would be self-liquidating."

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If Things C~uldn't P,o:ssibly G,et ·Worse-=-They Do If you can believe what you read, my sunny smile brightens every day. At least, that's what- my high schqol yearbook claimed. But that was before J had eight kids.

Normally I'm even-temper:ed and cheerful. But, every once in a while, when problems get knee--deep, J hit a real moments I jUdge things in the low. Nothing unusual, just light of eternity and most of the nonsense is immaterial.- But, plain old "mother's .blues." when two of the kids are arguing

I'm offered all sorts of platitlides.

Don't let yourself. get into a mood of depression.

It sounds so simple. But, I really don't let it happen. Sud-

at the top of their lungs over who sits on which chair for lunch, I have little thought for the hereafter (except possibly to find a way of getting them or me there a little quicker). At that point, all I want: is quiet:.

And honestly, at 11 o'clock at COLLEGE DAY AT STONEHILl: Among·the hundreds night, when two kids still haven't By finished their homework, and attending the annual College Day at the North Easton one wants to know why he can't College were Nancy Gwozdz, Anne Smith and Elizabeth MARY watch "Peyton .Place," and a Bogana from Stang High School, No.. Dartmouth and are textbook is missing, and three of here· showp perusing catalogues from various institutions them just remembered they €ach CARSON need five sheets of orange con- of higher· learning. struction paper for the following morning, and I find out that the one I thought had done the supdenly, I just find myself com- per dishes never got around to it St.Anne's Hospital to Benefit from Social pletely overwhelmed by the because he had a project due. in whole mess. I really had no in- school the next: day. . . and Scheduled for Saturday Night, Od. 24 tention of dragging myself down what is really on my mind is the The annual Candlelight Ball . Mrs. William Long, sPlicial into a hole. I didn't try to create fact that the baby has been sick sponsored by the Friends pf St. awards; Mrs. Roland E. Chabot, a big black cloud to hang' over for three days and just threw; up my head. Things just pile up , .. all over the place, somehow, I Anne's Hospital, Fall River will chairman of- decorations with and up ... and up. I don't even don't feel like praying. Unless, be held in the Cinderella Room the following aides, Mrs. Emile have to work at it. They coine possibly, it's "Dear God, won't of the' Coachman's Restaurant, Cote and Mrs. Norman Marcoux.. riverton on Saturday night, Invitations are being handled flocking to me all by themselves.. it ever let up?" .

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by Mrs. Armel L. Audet, Mrs. Occasionally, I have one of ,I'm offered, "God knows all . Dinner will be served at 8 and John Braz, Mrs. Henry' J. Feitelthe problems. Trust Him. Say a those days when everything I little prayer wl)en things get touch turns to mud. It starts out a cocktail period will start at berg, Mrs. Carroll Gettings, Mrs. badly, and as I work on it, it . 6:30. Music for dancing that will Hanify, Mrs. William C. Hartnett difficult" follow the dinner will be sup- Jr., Mrs. Philip JrJameson, Mrs. gets steadily worse.

Wants Only Quiet Aloysius J. Kearns, Mrs. Louis People 'tell me:. "Cheer I up. plied by Van Allen's Orchestra~ Mrs. George Bounakes is 'gen- . Magorii and Mrs. James' A. have got to get better:" Things Granted, God knows the proberal chairman and she will be as- O'Brien. lems. In fact, I even throw some Even Deeper sisted by the following hostesses: of the blame on Him. If 'nice Mrs, Michael J. McMahon, presThey underestimate my ability. ident of the sponsoring organiza- Abortion Protest'ors' people like us have such nutty kids, something h~s to be mixed When things are so bad that I tion; Mrs.. Richard J. Donovan, up in the heredity system. He' have hit a solid rock-bottom, I Mrs. John F. Dunn, Mrs. Joseph Sentences Suspended WASHINGTON (~C) - Three arranged chromosomes, genes can always manage to blast C. Giblin, Mrs. Harold K. Hudand DNA before scientists knew away a few more rocks, and dig ner and Mrs. Frederick J. Sulli- Catholic activists, arrested after a clash with police during an about them. For two. soft-spoken down even deeper. van.

My more biblical friends offer, people to have such a superOthers assisting are: Mrs. Paul anti-abortion .f/illy here, have remouthed teen-agel', something "This, too, shall pass away."

A, Giroux, reservations; Mrs. Jo- ceived six months suspended I have the distinct feeling I'm seph E. Hanify Jr., treasurer; jail sentences and placed on must have gotten scrambled in three years probation. the orginal programming of in- more apt to pass away first. herited traits.

Others say,' "Put your coat on The defendants, including L. Black Colleges Get I do trust Him. In more placid and get away from it."

Brent Bozell, 44, editor of TriThe difficulty is that I must $30 Million More umph Magazine, conservative come back. Generally the ;'Iast Catholic monthly, were convicted WASHINGTON (NC) PreSees Legal Abortions state is 'worse than the first." earlier this month of 'unlawful dominantly black colleges stand My children are so competent

By Non-Physicians to get $30 million in addition to entry, destroying private properCHICAGO (NC)-A proposal that wh~le I am out they can $95 million in federal aid al- ty and assaulting guards and poto legally permit individuals who change disruption to disaster. A ready provided them by the De- lice. aren't doctors to perform abor- living room that was disorgan- partment of Health, Education Charges stem from a rally ortions'is the expectation of the ized, with apparently no effort, and Welfare. ganized by' Action for Life-a chairman of the American Med- they can convert to complete Announcement of the forth- temporary committee of Washdevastation. ical Association's' judicial counMy own special platitude is, coming incre·ase was intended ington area Catholics-protestcil. to .fulfill a commitment made ing abortion policies in area hos"Offer it up."

In a speech prepared for the Sometimes it works. But, a f~w weeks agobY,Pres. Nixon. pitals. association's third national con- when hundrels of tiny things are gres!! on medical ethics, Dr. E. piled up on top of one another G. Shelley said that recent abor- until it makes a mountain of rubtion legislation "may have the ble - and I have lost· patience effect of legally releasing the with it - I question its val4e as. the physician from the obliga- a sacrifice. tion of ,counseling 'and advising I'm sure the Blessed Mother the patient" in abortion cases.' must have had days' when Jesus If the medical profession's fell and cut His knee, and while ethical responsibility is released she was washing' it, the bread from abortion cases, he predict- burnt, and St.. Joseph was yell-· ed, "it will not be long before ing from' the carpentry shop, we will be consider\ng the eth-' "Some kid borrowed my ham'-" ical propriety of entrusting mer, and .where the heck ,is it abortions to non-physician tech- now," and in crawling under the nicians." . table to retrieve the hammer Legislation in some states, he from where He had been pl!iying added, entitles a patient to de- with it, she hit her head, just as mand an abortion "virtually one of tQe "ladies of the synawithout any restriction whatever gogue" called on her to a'sk her - except, of course, that she to bake cookies for the cake sale.

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Sudalists at Dominican Academy, Fall River, are formUlating plans to aid area elderly. At tilt' unit's first me.eting, reports were given on a Summt-r Institute of Christian Action attended by several Dominican Academy students.

At the traditional Ri!Jbon Day ceremony, students received class bows, a different color for each high school year.

School elections have been cumpleted with results as follows: 12A: Annie Melancon, president; Judi Cote, student councillor; Elizabeth Gillespie, vice-president; Elizabeth Lavoie, secretary; Maureen Souza, treasurer. • .

12B: Gail Leite, president; Susan Costa, student councillor;' Nancy Melancon, vice-president; Katherine Carpenter, secretary; Suzanne Giroux, treasurer. l1A: Cynthia Raposo, president; Jane Rivard, student councillor; Monique Desmarais, vicepresident; Michelle Giroux, secretary; Barbara F~ynn, treasurer. lIB: Pauline Dionne, president; Helen Furtado,. student councillor; Claudia Pinsonnault, vicepresident; Cheryl Romanowicz, secretary; Patrice Toole, treasurer.

Sophomores, Freshmen lOA: Beverly Johnso~, president; Jeanne Dore, Louise Desrosiers, student councillors; Joan Pacheco, vice-president; Rachelle Dube, secretary; Judy Amaral, treasurer. .9A: Patricia Maynard, presidt!nt; . Jacquie LeBlanc,' student councillor; Darithie Sil~j'a~ ~ice: president; Carol Shaker, se'cretary; Pamela Cordeiro; treasurer.

9B: Jean Gagne, .president; Donna Sarti, stui:lent councillor; Madeleine St. Michel, vice-president; Susan Cote, secretary; Linda ~aroche, treasurer.

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Grey Nuns PI,an Vooation Days

Well, we just returned from ski country and whiJ~.

Uctoberis certainly not the season to start your ski lessons it is the time to pick out some of those stunning ski oud fits. From the looks of things it's going to be a colorful season on the slopes, with ! bright colors and shiny ma- yuu break your ilnklt:l make sur~ terial lighting up the ski- he l.loes likewise, otherwise you'll lifts. The "Wet Look" is spoIl the whole effect. what they call it but it's really water repellent eire nylon, coming in such devastating colors as Firecracker Red and Purple Plum.

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look buried in some snow bank in these colors. At least they'll be able to see you to rescue you.

Men's Styles Odds are one of your male rescuers will be wearing a nylon parka as bright as your own.

Lined with down, these are both light in weight and warm. If it turns out Sir Galahad's something of an individualist, then he'll surely be sporting the overthe-boot ski pants from Switzerland that can be worn after ski as well as during.

The fun in fashion really starts when the sun goes down, the snoW bunnies, cpme ,ba~k tq.~~e lodge and everyone sits around the fire and tells of the narrow risks, and daring feats that made up the day. Here is where fashion will ~eally be seen.

Perhaps you'll be midi minded and you'll be wearing a black mid-calf skirt, trimmed with fringe..With this of course you'll choose something peasanty and feminine in a blouse and perhaps knee high black boots to complete the Cossack effect.

If you like playing "twinnies" with the man in your life, you can purchase velveteen jeans for the both of you and top them with matching turtleneck jerseys and beautiful Danish wool vests.

Yours could be white piped in navy, and his could be red trimmed with navy. However, if

Many Receive Wages Below Poverty Level NEW YORK (NC)-More than 263,000 New York breadwinners qualify for' supplemental welfare payments because their salaries are belOW the poverty level, an Urban Coalition committee study revealed here.

New York's working poor total between 800,000 and one million people, according to Eugene Callender, president of the coalition's New York branch: About 11 per cent of this group receive assistance and studies are underway to determine if the remainder need .financial grants.

Coupled with the one million non-working welfare recipients in tIle city, the working poor total indicates that one New Yorker in four is living below • the poverty level.

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Sew-Your-Own .Wumen who like their aftel't ski apertif in a long skirt will find something unusual this sea~ son in a "sew-your-own" maxi~ skirt. Vogue is the company tha~ has thought Ull this idea and what they have done is made ali arrangement with the Mountaitr Artisans of Appalachia to pack-! age panels of their patchwork material, enough for a long skirtl using Vogue pattern 7384.

The panels will be made ofl Crompton velveteen and will sell, for $45 for each panel. Whilel this may sound like a lot of, money when you have to com.'1 plete the operation yourself, don't forget this material is alii handmade. Mountain Artisans is a nonprofit organization that' was founded in 1968 to aid the I economy of West Virginia by employing the native craftsmen. I Whether handmade or factory, made, nylon or velvet, unisex or I just feminine, this year's ski fashions are going to brighten' the northern scene like the I aurora borealis.

DCCW SPONSOR LIVING ROSARY: Principals at meeting honoring the Mother' of God at S1. Mathieu's Church, Fall River were: Mrs. Gilbert Perry of St. Patrick's, Somerset, co-chairman; Mrs. Omer N. Jean, president of the host council at S1. Mathieu's, Fall River; Mrs. Raymond A. Poisson of S1. Mathieu's, district president; Mrs. Eugene Gagnon of S1. Jean the Baptist, co-chairman of the event.

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The Sisters of Charity of Mount Saint Joseph School, Fall River, have extended an open invitation to girls interested in their order to spend a weekend at the school Friday, Oct. 23 through Sunday the 25th. Guests are welcome on other dates at their convenience.

The Sistd's also known as the Grey Nuns, whose American Novitiate is located at Mount St. Joseph School, also staff the Sacred Heart Nursing Home in New Bedford" a boarding and day school in Lowell, hospitals, schools, orphanages in Canada.

Missions in Japan and South America.

Further information may be obtained by telephoning or writing to Sister Viola Greene, s.c.q., directress of the Novitiate, 56 Saint Joseph Street, Fall River, 02723, telephone 672-2943.

Archdiocese. Makes Education Study

'Freedom' Sisters of St. Francis Plan Special Meeting To Answer Vatican Letter'

MILWAUKEE (NC)-Members of the legislative body governing the School Sisters of St. Francis will meet in special session sometime in December to discuss criticism of the' community contained in a letter from the Vatican's Congregation of Religious.

The letter, signed by congregaCHICAGO (NC)-Letters that I tion prefect, Cardinal Ildebrando begin "Dear Doctor" but turn into commercial advertisements ·Antoniutti, warned that changes about availability of abortion in the community could prove to facilities were condemned here I be "not only dangerous but a "in the strongest terms possible" source of scandal."

Although the letter did not by a council of the American I Medical Assoc'iation. ' spell out in detail what changes Protesting solicitation for it was questioning, the School abortion as a violation of med- Sisters of St. Francis have been ical ethics, the AMA's judicial " moving away from traditional council issued a statement approaches to religious life for against "commercialism and the last three years. hucksterism in this sensitive At their recent general chapter area." in Milwaukee, Sisters .of the Action by the physician group, 3,600-member community voted according to the statement, was to establish a more democratic "spurred by a flurry of protests structure so individual nuns will against the advertisements to have increased responsibilities. physicians announcing the avail- , Sister Francis Borgia Rothability of abortion facilities.

I luebbeI', O.S.F., the communi"The ethical principle re- ty's superior general, said that mains," the council said, "no I, the, changes have led to the rephysician may solicit patients. {\ I moval of some "authoritarian, physician may not do indirectly I olJtmoded practices which no that which he may not do direct- longer fit with modern society ly. He may not permit others to I and our service to it." solicit patients for him "" the Raises Questions establishment of abortion mills I She said one paramount commust not be permitted."

The judicial council, composed ; mitment would be to "move of five AMA-elected' physicians forcefully to promote peace and and charged with the responsi- I to oppose governments and bility of interpreting policy, structures which impair peace." stated it condemns "in' the I She said' the members of the strongest terms possible * * * the order would pursue a new "freecommercialization of the medical I dom" to search out the deeper meanings, of religious life. procedure of abortion."

I Cardinal Antoniutti's letter 'praised the community's devoSigns Pact ,"l tion to duty, apostolic zeal, high SALINAS (NC) - Cesar Cha- professional standards and piovez' United Farm Workers Or- i neering leadership "in the field ganizing- Committee has signed I of racial relationships." its first contract with a tomato , But the document raised some firm, Brown and Hill of King I questions about the community's City. It is the first pact the operations and activities, espeAFL-CIO labor union has signed : cially concerning changes in the since it came to terms Aug. 30 ,Sisters' styles of living and with Other Harvest, Inc., a let- , working. tuce grower.

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and in the mode of living and proceeding, the specific end of your congregation seems to have been relegated to a subordinate place and to have given way fo a wide-open apostolate," the letter warned.

End to ~5Commitment This type of orientation, it predicted, would bring an end to Sisters' traditional. commitment to the Church and to a religious community.

"All this," the letter continued, "leads to neglect of community life, of community prayer, .of regular observance, to a disregard for the obligations of the vow and virtue of poverty, to a practical negation of obedience; to practices that are not only dangerous but a source of scandal, such as late hours, indiscriminate visiting~' '!' * and worse."

The cardinal asked that copies of the letter be sent to every nun in the community for study and for use during the group's general chapter.

Because the chapter closed Aug. 20 and the letter was not forwarded to the Sisters until Aug. 28 by Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, apostolic delegate in the U. S., the Sisters planned their special December session.

WASHINGTON (NC) A broadly-based education study in the Washington archdiocese is now in full swing with 123 parishes evaluating their own programs to help determine what their Church should be doing.

The self-study, probing the "total educational mission of the archdiocese," according to Msgr.

D. Joseph Corbett, archdiocesan coordinator, was designed by Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate here.

Father Gervase Beyer, CARA project director, said the study, ideally involving input from all 396,000 Catholics in the Washington archdiocese, is one of the largest ever undertaken by any U. S. diocese.

It is unique, Father Beyer said, because it seeks opinions on the grassroots level, relays this information to an archdiocesan coordinating committee, and then brings back to the grassroots tentative proposals for further comment.

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Of Intelligence, Balance It is necessary, occasionally that we praise men, and nOw, for no other reason than that I happen to feel like

it, I propose to praise one man: Monsignor George Higgins.

I propose to praise him (though heaven ,knows he will be upset by such praise) as a man, perhaps not for all sea- govel'11mel1t, and the press be· uf his competency and his sons, but certainly for this cause intell-ectual sophistication and season in the American not because he is able to deliver Church. George Higgins is not, alas, a man for this season be·

jeremiads in the editorial columns of liberal journals; and, oh yes, G,eorge Higgins' ultimate crime is wit -- the somber, middle-class Catholic rebels can abide just about anything but, a By, , priest with a sense of hun;lOr. " (It's a good thing for the rest REV.. of us who write columns for the Catholic press that' Monsignor ANDREW M. ,Higgins' wit does not creep too· frequently into his columns. 'Fhe GREELEY rest of us, I should think, would be very quickly put out of business.) cause 'he represents the principal Real Newspaperman forces at work in the American So even though he is univerChurch. Quite the contrary, the sally respected in the natiort's sort of person he is an,d has been capitol for his intelligence and for the last 30 years stands as competency, George Higgins is a powerful symbolic judgment "out" among today's Catholic again'st 'many trends in the elites. Gary Wills, who used· to Church. ' write for .the National Catholic George Higgins' is a man of Reporter and then went on to reason in a time of rampant bigger and better things in pro~ romanticism, a man of compe- ducing drivel for Esquire,· once tency in a time of arrogant and dismissed George Higgins as,' flagrant incompetency, a. man "the Hubert' Humphrey ,of who, 'as Monsignor. John Tracy American'. Catl~olicism."

Ellis, points, out. ,may be the ,Hjggin,s; knowing who Hubert best info'rmed priest in ·the -Humphrey reaily is', or at least American Church at a'time wIlen was before'Lyndon Johnson and being' uninformed is: considered' ,the mass media cooperated to · h., v,lr . t u~. ' , destroy. him, probably accepted . Iug . A' young priest from his own it as a compliment, though I 'archdiocese once remarked ,to very much doubt that he cares me: "We young priests (which what Gary Wills or any such is usually an introduction to an think of him. ' arrogant statement), respect the I remember at. a press conferthings that men like Higgins 'ence during the Vatican Council, stood for, but, we feel that we a very, distinguished journalist have absolutely nothing to learn turned to me and said, "You from him." know, of all the men up there Good heavens, yes! George Higgins is .the only one Who ,Higgins does not have a beard, understands what a n~wspaper· 'nor even sideburns, and cuts,his ma'n has to look for." Small" hair short; he does not smoke wonder that the attenlpts of eel" pot; but only long black cigars; ,tain reactionary, ecclesiastics, to he is not self-righteous or moral~ exclude him from the panel were istiC; he' has a 'passion for facts frustrated. and for clarity; he is' incapable Need More Like Him of taking himself seriously (and I have used George Higgins probably has stopped reading as a symbol of intelligence, this column long before this sophistication,!Jalance, and comparagraph); he does not engage petence, all of which are desin broad, sweeping gener'aliza- perately needed in the American dons; he does not seek to have Church, and I have used this others condemned without due symbol to belabor the romantic process; he does not play games' left, which is conspicuously of cops and robbers with the lacking in' all such qualities.

FBI; he does not imagine that But one could just- as readily he is Dietrich Bonhoeffer rein- use the symbol to belabor: the carnate; he does not think that right. In any Church 'that was society can be persuaded, much properly run' a man possessing less remad~, by liturgical, ges- all these qualities (in addition to tures. piety, and I absolutely refuse to Good Lord, no! Of course the embarr,ass the Monsignor further young clergy have nothing to by dicsussing that subject) learn from George Higgins. would be a bishop, an archQish· op, even a cardinal. The chances Widely Respected of George Higgins ,becoming Nor are the middle-aged any of these in the present Catholic liberals particularly order of reality are very, thin happy with the Monsignor from indeed; and ,I think that this fact Chicago. He has, not deserted the is a terrible judgment on the labor movement as they have, inability of the American hierHe does not' publicly bare' diffi- archy to permit outstanding men culties he finds remaining 'in ' to rise to leadership positions. the prie~thood as their heroes It is not so much, I think, that must (even if he did have such the kingmakers doubt Higgins' problems, which one doubts, he _ orthodoxy; rather they are afraid would not be given to exhibition- of him. He is much too bright ism):· ' and you really can't run the He is obviously respescted in risk of putting someone with his Washington by business, labor" intelligence and' his compete~.ce

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in a position, of major authority and responsibility.'

Of course if there were more men like George Higgins in the hierarchy, the American Church might nQt be in the disastrous situation which it presently finds itself. But just the same is is no small feat to be simultaneously irrelevant to the romantic life and terrifying to the timid right.

One suspects that George Higgins will be remembered long after those who find him 'either irrelevant or frightening have vanished from the scene.

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Catholic Offncial Says Ecumenical Dialogue on Social ~ssues Needed WASHINGTON (NC)-Ecumenical dialogue should deal with social issues, such as war and peace, racial tensions and social justice, a Catholic official said here, because it is in this area "that Christian disunity presents the greatest scandal to the world:'

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M.sgr. 'Law discussed whal j" being done t,) inforlll concefntd Catholics and nOll-Catholics about the bilateral consultations that have been conducted under official aWipices between the Catholic Church and various non-Catholic Christian churches.

He said there are printed documents that are records of some bilateral consultations. Three volumes of records of the Catholic-Lutheran consultations havE' been published, he said, and a fourth is in preparation.

Records of the Catholic dia· logue with the American Baptist Coilvention were published as well as those of the Catholic dialogue with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The records are published, he said, in the journals of the various churches and anyone interested can find out where to locate the records by contacting the Committee on Ecunwnical and Interreligious Affairs.

Particula'r Competence The official bilateral consultations are not open to the public, Msgr. Law said, because they .are basically a forum of scholars.

"When they are dealing with difficult subjects," he said, "they want to make sure that any report accurately reflects the nuanced views expressed.

"If every session of any schol· arly dialogue were to function under pressure of news coverage and immediate release of all dOl:uments, this would be a very debilitating procedure."

Msgr. Law pointed out that not every member of the Catholic teams in bilateral consultatiuns is a priest or a theologian; lay men and women also participate.

"Whell all invitation to participate in a consultation is given by the bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs," he said, "a particular competence is sought. Many competent persons, lay and clerical, are not involved, because there are only so many positions on the team for consultation.

The people we have are competent, but obviously they are not the only ones who -are competent,"

Social issues lelld themsel Vic'S tu ecumenical dialogue, said Msgr.

Bernard Law, executive director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

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Dialogue Records "Roman Catholic Christians and Protestant Christians are in equal need of bringing the Gos· pel messag~, ~o bear on the great

Bishop Asks DeelPer D;alogue With J@W$ NEW YORK (NC) - Brooklyn Bishup Francis J. Mugavero called for increased dialogue between Catholics and Jews and reaffirmed Catholic opposition to anti-Semitism at a reception held here in his honor.

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Bishop' Mugavero made his comments before a group of national Jewish leaders invited by the American Jewish Committee to inaugurate a series of obserVllnl:eS marking the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Sel:ond Vatican Council's dedaration on non-Christian religions.

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.Can Planet Earth Sustain Ten Billion People'?

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perhaps one new cotton shirt a year. transports manure in ris head basket and works with a hand hoe. At that level of simplicity. 50 billion humans cOf.lld .iust shar~ this planet.

Thereafter the absolute checks of famine and epidemics would restore their ugly birth control.

But of course, long before that, the rich and the poor would have torn themselves apart in frantic struggles to maintain their shrinking share of the world's wealth. America, which today has six per cent. of the world's people and commands 40 per cent of the world's wealth, . would long since have been dis-. integrated by the angry billions, 80 per cent of whom would have arrived not in North America and Western Europe. but in the developing lands.

CRUSADE AGAINST POVERTY: Replacement of 'Recreation Areas' like this one'in Chicago with adequate playlots is a' concern of Bishop Michael R. Dempsey, of Chicago, national director of the Catholic Bishops' new "Campaign for Human Development." Educating all Americans to open their eyes and their pocketbooks to such needs of our poor is one of the objectives of this crusade ,against poverty. NC Photo.

ber of enor.mously important consequences have followed • from the confidential, open and very largely unfettered SovietAmerican exchanges that are possible at these m·eetings.

The technical. scientific work which underlay the Test Ban Apocalypse Riders Treaty is one such contribution.

So were the scientific preparaNo scientist at Pugwash suptions for the Nuclear Nonposed the world could drift into Proliferation Treaty. Work has this ultimate Malthusian nightChicago Cardinal Predi~ts Success been done on arms, on the seamare. Famine. pestilence and bed and technical points disFor Bi'shops' Program war - the riders of the Apoca, cussed in relation to Strategic .lypse-wpuld have long since inarms Limitation (SALT - the CHICAGO (NC) - Chicago's the April, 1970, meeting ,of the ,t,alks which are going on now tervened to cut populations back Cardinal John Cody predicted National Conference of Catholic between the two super-powers). by the old familiar and terrible success for the U. S. bishops' Bishops, methods. massive Campaign for Human The Campaign for Human DeTwo Vital Issues Development at a luncheon velopment is a national educanot But few 'scientists were The most recent Pugwash profoundly ,perturbed by the meeting here of the campaign's tion and development program Meeting took place in Chicago of the U. S. Catholic Conference. more immediate problem. What- Midwest diocesan directors.

Voices Sympathy a cO,uple of weeks ago at the inIt aims to lead people to a new ever is done about population The Chicago 'archbishop told vitation of the Adlai Stevenson VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope policy. there wilt be seven bil- the diocesan directors that he understanding of the problems Institute of International Affairs.

Paul VI said that he "was proof the poor in the nation and to About 20 participants attended lion people by the year 2000 and felt "that the campaign goal provipe self-help funds.for: Amer- foundly saddened by the sudeten from both America and Russia'; ten billion by 2015. These levels should not be' too difficult to icans trapped within .the cycle of death of President Gamal Abdel with as many again from other are made virtually inevitable by achieve. . . .

Nasser." In a personal telegram poverty and dependence. countries. Talks continued, as in the numbers already born. The "Apart from the money raised, Funds for the campaign will to Anwar Sada, vice-president of previous years, on arms control question. therefore. which the the educational program de- be raised in a special collection the United Arab Republic, Pope and disarmament, but the scien-. Conference looked at is whether signed to reawaken Americans scheduled in all Catholic church~ Paul said: "We express our tists as a group - though with 10 billions can be accommodated on poverty in their midst is most es in the nation Nov. 22.. Five heartfelt sympathy with Your some reluctance on the Soviet on this planet and. if so. how. important. I call down God's more regional meetings across Excellency and all the beloved side - felt that there were at The answers given were both blessing on you and your fine the mition will prepare local au- people of hte United Arab Releast two issues which could be hopeful and deeply disturbing. work;" . thorities for their' role in the public, praying the almighty God said to be almost as critical for The hopeful fact is that if the always to favor your country Cardinal Cody also, introduced campaign. human survival as arms control human race made a more rational . the campaign directors to Carwith a tranquil and prosperous itself. future." distribution of its resources, in- dinal Michele Pellegrino of Turin, .Cites Extremism' creasing the food supplies, the Italy. Ca~diillU Pellegrino too One such issue is' the safeguarding of, the human environ- output of goods and services the praised the campaign's goals and Among Theologians BRUSSELS (NC) - Cardinal ment. another the dilemmas of educational opportunities..... the observed that "for an Italian, to ' Leo J. Suenens of Malineshospitals, the homes and cities think of a poverty collection in ' the developing peoples in a' of the poorer peoples, mankind the U.S. seems incredible because Brussels, explaining why he atworld of exploding population. as a whole could achieve a more Italians all think that Americans tended the Brussels theological Dr. Roger Revelle of Harvard, than sub-human existence. congress and mixed freely with are very rich." one of America's most distinThe national director of the participants and observers alike, CITIES SERVICE guished scientists in the field of Another hopeful fact is that campaign, Auxiliary Bishop said that he "just wanted to.

DISTRIBUTORS population and resources, gave people enjoying this increase in Michael R. Dempsey of Chicago, .show there is a dialogue between the Assembly a' somber picture well-being and opportunity tend told ,the representatives of 31 theologians and bishops."

Gasoline of the likely trends over the next to choose to, stabilize the size Midwest dioceses that they To new acquaintan¢es at the Fuel and Range' century':- At present the increase of their families. A desire influ- would need both education 'and six-day congress on "The Future in population of the developing enced by improving economic motivation to reach the cam- of the Church," Cardinal Suecountries is. just' under three and social conditions is more paign's $50 million goal, set at- nens said that he sa~ "a big gap per cent. This rlOtte,' if sustained, effective than any partic~lar between theologians and. bishOIL BURNERS leads to a doubling of population kind of family planning. ops."

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Bishop Installed & Day &, Night Service The deeply discouraging fact By the end 'of the next or 21st CROOKSTON (NC) - Bishop century, the 50 billion mark is that there is no sign of, the Kenneth. Joseph Povish, 46, has G. E. BOILER BURNER UNITS would be reached - today, the affluent people making the vast. taken office as the fifth spiritual level is' about 3.5 billion. But effort,- in cooperation in aid, head of the 41,000 Catholics in . SHEET METAL Rural Bottled Gas Service scientists, believe that 50 billion trade, technical assistance and the 61-year-old Crookston .dio. J. TESER, Prop. is the utter limit of subsistence scientific, research-which rising cese here in Minnesota. The for61 COHANNET ST RESIDENTIAL on our planet and could be sus- living standards for the poor mer Bay City, Mich., pastor reTAUNTON INDUSTRIAL tained only if everyone made as nations entail. Inexorably, as ceived episcopal ordinatiop and COMMERCIAL Attleboro - No. Attleboro small a claim on the Earth's re- time shrinks,. and numbers rise, was installed here by Archbishop 253 Cedar St., New Bedford Taunton, sources as a Bengali peasant we prepare, without realizing it, Luigi Raimondi, apostolic dele993-3222 gate to the United ,States. who eats less' than 1000 calories for the Apocalypse. #,~'."'••'." •••••' ••••• ,.~

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PINEHURST (NC)-Achieving quality medical care for all Americans "should be more a source of national pride than placing a man on the moon," Father George Kloster told members of the North Carolina State Medical Society at a meeting here.

Father Klos'ter, secrdal'Y of the North Carolina Priests' Association. told the society's committee on social service programs that sky-rocketing medical costs cause people to question the quality of treatment they're paying for. He added they know that "our medical treatment does not live up to its reputation. " On behalf of his association, which endorses the issue of health insurance for all Americans and especially the poor, Father Kloster said: "There is no doubt in our minds that our country has the ability to provide for all its citizens a quality program of health security. What we feel is necessary is the education of our people to the needs that exist and the motivation to demand that those needs be met."

"Our challenge," he added, "is· to convince the American people that the placing of quality 'medical treatment at the disposal of every American should be more a source of national pride than the placing of a man on the moon."

Father Kloster said that money alone is not the answer to securing better health care.

"Changes will,come,;.only when we,~~e willing> to make the"same sacrifices in, f personal involvement arid dedication that we have made in the waging of war and the conquering of space."

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Eugenics PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Lawand judges anending the :tnnllal Rpd Mass in SS. Peter dnd Paul Cathedral here were urged by a bishop to lead the fight against anti-life legislation, which h,' decrit'l\ as "creeping ,·ugenics. " Bishop Geurge II. Guilfoyle uf Cltmden, N. .T., who was an atturney before becoming a priest, . l:Isked the congregation which included Philadelphia Mayor James H. Tl:Ite and other city officials; "Do we not have the obligalion to uphold in the law a morality and ethic which are not narrow and sectarian, but are basic and common to humanity?"

Bishop Guilfoyle said that permissive abortion laws represented "foot-in-the-door legislation which will lead to abortion on lIemand." He said such laws were l:I "first step in a program of creeping eugenics."

"We will then be askell," he sl:Iid, "to endorse euthanasia, child euthanasia, enforced sterilization and eugenic selection." ~, ...rs

Instead of stressing things that would destroy life,' the bishop urged the lawyers and judges to "promote positive legislation to remove the root of society's problems."

He said efforts should be directed at overcoming economic hardships, inadequate housing, family instability, insufficient preparation of youth for marriage and parenthood and sexual irrespo'nsibility.." He also 'advocated efforts to provide needed psychiatric and psychological counseling programs, maternal health care, prevention of birth defects and malformations and family planning based on Church teachings.

Cardinal's Talk Banned in Congo KINSHASA (NC)-The Congo government has imposed a total blackout on a statement made

by Cardinal Joseph Malula of.

Kinshasa on the 10th anniversary of the Congo's independence.

The statement was banned from the Congo's newspapers, radio and television.

Acco~ding to reports, the censorship ·was imposed by Presi~ dent Joseph Mobutu, who is said to have regarded the cardinal's statements as an attack on his authority.

The cardinal made his statement during a Mass in Kinshasa marking the anniversary in toe presence of President Mobutu.

The cardinal noted that the Congolese had been deprived of political and social responsibility during the long years of colol).ial rule. But, he added, since achieving independence, they have shown an "inclination towara triumphalism, toward extravagant expenses, and toward superficial 'development, all at the expense of the advancement of essential values in individual and social life."

The Church, the cardinal said, makes no claims to power but it must insist on its own role in the social and economic development of the people.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Appeal· lllg to the U. S. Supreme Court, the state of Massachusetts began its battle to hold on to a law prohibiting distribution of contraceptiv~s to unmarried persons.

Th..., 125·yt,al',oIJ Il1w which the state belIeves protects "purity and chastity" was challenged earlier this year by birth control advocate William R. Baird and found unconstitutional.

His conviction for lIistributing birth control devices to unmarried persons during a lecture 011 the subject at Boston University was overturned when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled July 6 that the law was an I "infringement on basic human rights."

I Baird's attorney. Joseph Baliro, i has said he 'welcomes an appeal I by the state since "it could overturn every birth control and abortion statute in the United \.

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Unsatisfi~J with the Baird lie· ~ cision, State Atty. Gen. Robert H. Quinn asked the Supreme ~'" I Court: "What radical change has in the society in which AT CELEBRATION: D0rPinicans and friends celebrating proclamation of St. Cathe- occurred we live to make such a law not rine of Siena as D9ctor of the Church are seated, from left, Rev. Raymond Drouin, a.p., unconstitutional? pastor of St. Anne's Church) Fall River; Sister Angele, a.p., prioress of the Dominican· "Have people acquired rights Academy community, Fall River; Rev. Arth ur Robert, a.p., subprior at St. Anne's. Rear, to extramarital relations free of Sister Anita Pauline, a.p., p~ioress general of the Dominican Academy community; Sister any public and criminal responsiMary Peter, a.p., Springfield, I Ky.; Sister Marie Ascension, a.p., administrator of St. Anne's. bility? If so, what becomes of Hospital: Sister Carlota Avila, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Fall River; and Sister our laws against fornication and adultery?"

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By Patricia McGowan Rosary Sunda'y was a big day for Dominicans this year and nearly 200 from this Diocese gathered at Dominican Academy, Fall River, for the occasion. It was the day that Dominican St. Catherine of Siena was pro.claimed a Doctor, of the Church

by Pope Paul and her ,brothers and sisters held a family party to celebrate.

Present at Dominican Academy; Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, therefore unanimously chosen as the most appropriate spot for the festivities, were priests and brothers from St. Anne's Church and Shrine, Sisters from St. Anne's Hospital; Madonna Manor, North Attle· boro; Marian 'Manor, Taunton; St. Anne's Novitiate, Dighton; Dominican Novitiate, North Dartmouth; and St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet. Also on hand w;as Sister Ma~y Peter, O.P., of another Congregation named for St. Catherine of Siena, this one in Springfield, Ky. Dominican Tertiaries associated with the academy represented the lay branch of the Dominican family, and the other Dominicans in the Diocese, the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima, staffing the 'Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, who.were unable to be present, sent a letter of congratualtions to the assembly.

Through the centuries Dominicans and Franciscans have cherished the memory of the friend-

I ship of their founders, St. Dom: inic and St. Francis of Assisi.

I Carrying on the ancient tradition, representatives of Franciscan communities in the Diocese were invited to share the Dominican rejoicing.

Father Corriveau Speaker for the cere'monies was Rev. Raymond Corriveau, O.P. He spoke of the accom· I plishments of St. Catherine, best known for her attempts to reI store the Papacy to Rome during the period known as "The Great Schism." The saint, who lived from 1347 to 1380, was the 24th in a family of 25 children. She met with tremendous opposition I from her family when she an'nounced her intention to enter religious life, .but was able to triumph over .all obstacles to accomplish her purpose.

Her proclamation as a Doctor I of the Church, following by one week a similar pronouncement with regard to St.' Teresa of Avila, ·has been taken by observers as a sign that the centuriesold "anti-feminine attitude" of i Rome is changing.

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The two women saints are the I first ever named as Doctors.

They join such male. saints as I Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, ,Bonaventure, John of the Cross ! and Peter Canisius. Doctors are : defined .as "ecclesiastiCal writI ers of eminent learning and high degree of holiness, who have disi tinguished themselves in defending, expounding and preserving I Church doctrine."

Although Catholic thinking has traditionally followed Pauline announcements about women keeping silence in the churches, new winds are beginning to blow in this area, according to a Vatican Radio broadcast in connec-, tion with the naming of the womeJ.1 Doctors.

"Gradually," said the station, "this excessive attitude within the Church began to diminish and women of the stature of St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena came to be universally recognized as being endowed with exceptional wisdom."

Coming to modern times, Vati'can Radio pointed out that "Vatican II, in its. 'Constitution on the Church,' affirmed that the Holy Spirit makes a gift '01' his charisms without any distinction of race, age or sex. And in the ·council's 'Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity,' the Chu~ch stressed the importance of women's participation in various fields."

Another sign of the growing recognition of women's part in church affairs came last Wednesday, noted observers, when for the first till)e a woman participated in installation ceremonies for an archbishop. She was Mother Catalina, of the Sisters of St. Joseph, who was a lector at Holy Cross Cathedral for the installation of Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros.

Getting back to St. Catherine', however, Rosary Sunday was a good day for her and for all women Dominicans.

The law in Massachusetts, one of 25 states making it a crime to give contraceptives to single persons, represents an effort to protect both ,morals .and health, Quinn said. "Its purpose in protecting purity and chastity," he he added, "is still viable in 1970."

The state official said the circuit court had adopted Baird's "specious argument" that unmarried people have a right to have sexual intercourse free of unwanted pregnancy. "If such right exists, then our laws pun· ishing fornication and adultery are necessarily unconstitutional."

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Weekend Foli'agerTrip Fun For Kids,' ijard on Adults

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick For the past five years we have taken the children 'on a weekend trip to either Vermont or New Hamphire for the foliage displays for which .those states are noted. This year we went to New Hampshire. The trip is manageable only because we rent a chalet with cooking and sleeping that I forego planning for meals facilities.' These chalets are and grocery'shopping I find that my family has "slapped together" privately owned which the meals and that I'm personally

owners rent' for weekends. Of very miserable. course, inflation is taking its toll and we may find that rental fees Ideal Way will become prohibitive but thus The ideal is to sit down the' Rev. Joseph J. Letmon far our weekend renting has cost us $25, $30,· $30, $40 and finally evening before I ,go shopping $50 this year. Thus far we have (the only, problem here is findbeen very fortunate in that every ing a moment to sit down) and place w'e have visited has been plan my, menu for the coming week, listing the items, I need to clean and warm.

Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P. By doing our own cooking and buy for the recipes that'l have :avoiding anything that smacks of chosen. This way there is not Providence College vice-president commercialism, we are able to the frustration that comes about for community affairs, will be get through the weekend without when you come home tired after guest speaker at the third annual it becoming overburdensome fi- a day at work, and begin to book fair at Sacred Hearts nancially. Most important from . prepare a recipe only to find Academy" Fall River, at 7:30 our point of view' is that we all you're lacking some of the ingre- VVednesdaynight, Oct. 28. get a change of pace, escape the dients.

The event, first of four fundroutines of everyday life and get By planning I can choose raising functions sponsor~d by a new view of each other in the recipes that can' be started the the· academy's 'Parent-Teachers' process. night before (such as a stew) and Association, will be open to the The children really do enjoy this gives me a headstart on: the public at no charge. Chairman themselves on these trips. There next day's dinner.

Atty. George T. Bolger will be is something about the mounassisted by a large coordinating Oh, I won't pretend that there tains, the rushing water, trees, committee. Book fair moderator and color which excites them. aren't' days when the best laid will be Sister Eugenia Margaret, ' Their senses become attuned to plans go astray and we end up S.U.S.C., academy librarian. everything around them, the with <;how mein and chop suey.

Father Lennon most common thing becomes But on the whole a littlepr:especial for them, and it is de- planning keeps my household ~'athel' Lennon, ordained in lightful to see. The same sort of running a lot smoother and.- my 1947, holds a doctoral degree . thing happens to adults but we nerves a lot less frayed. from the University of Notre have experienced it before and This is quite an unusual square have lost the excitement of nov- recipe but one I think you will Dame. He was dean of men imd elty. Food tastes better, the trees enjoy. The chocolate glaze I took dean of the college at Providence seem taller, colors are more from another recipe because I College before receiving, his present 'appointment. vivid, etc., all because of the found the one that came with awareness of a different environ- the original was too sugary, ' Active in many professional ment. and public health organizations, I jar tart raspberry jam the speaker is also'the author of ,114 cups flour F~ll, But /two books and many articles. % teaspoon salt He has lectured annually for the As for .Marilyn ,and me, we % cup butter past 12 years on VVJAR-TV on must admit that these trips are • 2 eggs a weekly program' "Psychology both fun and wearisome; fun in 1 cup sugar and, You," and in Europe for the the knowledge that the kids are % cup butter melted U. S. Air Force' Educational Prohaving a -gOQ,d time, but weari1 teaspoon vanilla eXU'act gram. some in the sense that we have 1 can (3 y:! ounces flaked to keep them occupied for the coconut two and a half days involved: 1) Sift together the flour and' Experts Ask Ceiling The ride itself brings out the salt and cut in the y:! cup of worst in me with constant adOn Farm Subsidies monitions about fighting, bick- butter until the particles are very' NEVV YORK (NC) - A panel ering and the like. After such a fine. Press firmly on the bottom of 20 experts working on' a of a greased 13 by 9 inch pan trip we both need a week to study sponsored by the National recuperate but I am sure we will and bake in a 350" oven for 12 Council of Churches has minutes o'r until golden brown. be heading north again next year called for a ceiling on U. S. subon the 2) Spread the jam about this time. sidies to large farm. operators cooked base.' and a stepped-up federal attack In the Kitchen 3) Beat together the eggs, on rural poverty.

"One moment," said the voice sugar, melted butter, vanilla and Panelists, including Msgr. Edon the other end of the wire. coconut, spoon on jam and " ward O'Rourke, executive' direc"I have to stir my stew." , spread gently.

VVhen she return~d to the 4) Bilke in a 350· oven for 20 tor of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, found phone I laughingly told her that minutes or until" golden brown. that the federal government's it .m!Jst be the evening to cook 5) Cool,' spread with chocolate prograqls ,for farmers were stew because I was doing the glaze; chill until set. Cut. into same thing. themselves creating economic squares. inequities.

Actually it was more than a coincidence that both of us were Chocolate' Glaze OneNCC document affirmed cooking the next day's dinner the need for continued federal 'squares baki!1g chocolate 2 'the evening before it all support to agriculture, but urged 2 Tablespoons butter stemmed from the fact that we that such aid be redirected to were both working 'wives and 14 cup light cream benefit small and familYdiized 1 cup confec't:ioners' sugar mothers. 'farms r,ather than. huge, indusMore and more women are re- y:! teaspoon vanilla farm operations.

I) Melt the chocolate and but- trializ.ed turning to the labor force. More , " and more homes are being run ter in the top of a double boiler Large farm operators '''stand on a part time basis but these over . hot water. least in need of such protection," returning women are finding 2) Add the sugar and cream stated the group, while the rural . that in order to keep. the home and vanilla and blend well. If poor, embracing half the nation's running fairly smoothly they the consistency is not right for poor, "has received very much ,have to do, a great deal of plan- spreading, add more cream to less than its proportionate ning and preparation. The weeks make it thinner. share" of federal help.

NEVVARK (NC)-A movie review board' set up under a city ordinance and based on a Catholic group's model has been thrown out here by a' federal court.

The judge did not explain his ruling beyond a brief comment that he was convinced the measure was unconstitutional.

The board was set up in Jersey City to rate films as suitable or unsuitable for minors. It was challenged in court by 15 film distributors or theater owners as violating the 1st, 9th and 14th amendments to the U. S. constitution. the verdict was handed down

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by U. S. District Court Judge Reynier J. VVortendyke. Pressed. to explain the ruling by an attorney for Jersey City, the judge added only "You've already had sufficient guidance from the courts."

Jersey 'City's ordinance, was based on a model drawn up for the Christian Communications Apostolate of the Newark archdiocese. The city of Bayonne adopted a similar ordinance recently.

One provision consider,ed significant was that the review board could have used the film industry's own classifications in determining audience suitability.

DDTHE CHRISTJ LIKE THING THIE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

Through no fault of their own, thousands of innocent victims in Jordan are trying to pull themselves together. Hungry boys search out scraps of food. Little girls look through rubble PLEASE HELP heaps for rags to cover their tired bodies. Cripples plead for crutches; the wounded, bandages; and the elderly, a r90f to cover their heads. It goes without saying that during the aftermath of any war, guilt-free victims suffer tremendously . as they attempt to pick up the pieces of their broken lives.... These refugees are profoundly . gratefUl for What you are doing for them. Reports an on-the-spot priest: "They spoke to me with tears in their eyes of their losses, but expressed profound gratitude for all American Catholics are doing for them." .

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Pray, please, they'll be safe...• Many young girls that ,longed for a life of service to ,God now 'face disappointmerit. Their famili.es, impoverished by war, have no means to support their training as Sisters.. , , Will you help? A Sister's training last two years, costs $12.50 a month, $150 a year,or $300 altogether. Your "peace'maker" in one of our 18 countries will write to thank you.

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Bishop Appeals for Mission Support

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Continu~d from Page One Propogation of the Faith will be gathered in all churches and chapels of the Diocese on Saturday and Sunday next, October 17th and 18th. We urge all the faithful to be generous, even to the point of sacrifice, in financial support of modern missionaries. In a very special way, since the last World Council, ending in 1965, all of us are made responsible for the spread of Christian Faith. We accomplish this, in some way, by sincere, conscientious living ..what we believe. This may, and J should, touch the lives of millions about us. But. the untold millions of the world need and attend the arrival of true friends from abroad. In the midst of hatreds, someone must illustrate MISSIONS NEED PRIESTS: Last y/ear The SocietYI and speak, of, "Thou shalt love for the Propagation of the Faith supported the education thy neighbor, as thyself." of 49,000 local seminarians and your past gifts to the! Someone on the level of the must bring peace Missions resulted in 600 native seminarians being ordained common-man to the world. Governments are in 1969. Here, two of three young men sing their thanks I bound by compacts. Financial to God. considerations weigh too heavily against efforts at true' justice.

While people are willing to give of what they possess, the' missionary men and women give of themselves; and' their services

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Let us give gladly of what means we have that the hands and hearts of our missionaries be sustained, and that they may be messengers of peace to all men of good-will, including ourselves. In, that way, the world will be better for our having. been a part of it. The world des-

been a pan of it. The world needs desperutely a tremendous Christian, united voice, and articulate support. Remember one thing. What we do speaks much loudt::r than anything we may say.

Faithfully yours in P1l'iSl, ~ JAMES L. CONNOLLY, Bishop of Fall River.

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Kwashiorkor-· What Is It? We have seen pictures of children in undernourished countries with bloated-extended stomachs - that is kwashiorkor - a disease caused by protein deficiency-a hunger-disease afflicting millions of children .

A missionary sIster working with kwashiorkor patients in Africa spoke with us recently while visiting the United States.

She said a child. suffering with kwashiorkor has no energy; the skin loses its color and becomes cracked; the hair turns orange; the hands and belly become swollen; and the chil«ll makes a continuous whining cry.

Prelate Grateful To Americans NEW. YORK (NC) - Cardinal Juan Landazuri Ricketts, O.F.M., of Lima expressed his gratitude for the aid U. S. Catholics sent to Peru following the June earthquake that took 50,000 lives and left mor:e than a half million persons homeless.

In a visit to the offices of U. S. Catholic Relief Services here, the cardinal said he could not "express in words the gratitude of the people in Peru for the immediate response of the American people and the American Church to the disaster that struck" Peru.

"Kwashiorkor is just the beginning," Sister went on, "if help is not received the consequence'i are fatal: cripplng, anemic dystentery, fever and death."

Kwashiorkor; us anI diseases caused by' malnutrition; is certainly a scandal ot' our "modern world" for H'lI' NEED NOT BE. Sister kept repeating, "nf our American Catholics only realized how much good missionaries are doing •.. how much more needs to be done •.• if they could only see it in person, their giving would triple!"

Sister' is just one of thousands of missionaries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America with this same plea. Food; clothing, and medicine are desperately needed ... maintaining and expanding mission medical clinics, and providing training centers for native lay helpers are needed more now than ever before!

The Secretary of the Commission to Rehabilitate the EastCentral State recently said, "Death 1rom starvation In ex-Biafra may exceed numbers dead during the war-unless funds for as, sistance increase."

Collections held in Catholic churches throughout the U. S. for the earthquake victims -amounted to over $1.8 million, according to a CRS spokesman.

MISSIONARIES NEED YOU: 135,000 m.issionaries depend on the Propagation of the Faith Collection scheduled for Sunday in order that they may continue to "be with" the people-talking, caring, laughing, sharing and thus be living witnesses to the goodness and love of God.

Africa is just one example. Statistics fell us at least 400 milhan people are starving, half the human race suffers from deficiency diseases, and two thirds of. the world is afflicted with some form of malnut.rition.

Over 7,000 tons of food, clothing and medicine,as well as rehabilitation equipment - such as tractors and, bulldozers worth $3 million were forwarded to .Peru by CRS.

These statistks may be difficult to imagine aud may noi move us, but whmt do they mean today In context to Christ's words: "I was hungry and you fed me .•. sick and you took care of me ... whenever you did this for one of the least important brothers of mine, you did .it for me?" Only y.ou can answer that!

I beg for Sister and the countless missionaries like her-I beg for the millions of God's children suffering and dying this very minute from diseases that need not be. I beg you to let the missionaries be your hands feeding and caring for the world's poor ... to respond to Christ's words tQday by giving generously to the missions.

Cardinal's Gift Aids Drought-Stricken CAPE TOWN (NC)-Cardinal Owen McCann of Cape Town has made' a personal gift of $2,100 to aid black Africans suffering from severe malnutrition in drought-stricken areas of neighboring Lesotho.

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According to usually reliable sources, tke recent Wo~ld Congress on the Future of the Church held in Brussels was somewhat less earth-shaking than its title promised. Gregory Baum, however, shared with the participants some interesting reflections on var. ious styles of action Catho- stand hte depth of crisis in the lies are adopting in contem- Church institution reflecting the crisis of a world in revouttion. porary Church life. His the- Words are just too weak to exsis is that some people are learning to live within a changing Church in a changing world ilJ a qualified way. "While they are committed," says Baum, "to the mystery of redemption pro-

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claimed and celebrated in the Church and in some way present in the whole of human society, they realize that the ecclesiastical system is not an absolute.

"They look forward to ,changes in law and structure and anticipate the re-interpretation of traditional dogma in the light of the Church's present experience. In the meantime, they participate in the life of the Church on their own responsible terms."

Wondrous Institution These words for all their Baum-style '~theologese" reflected my own experiences this' past week. My ecclesiastical travels brought me into extensive discussions with three very different groups, all committed more . or less comfortably to living and 'working within the Church.

I sat at the feet of-literally in one instance - contemporary communards . from the West, peace guerrilla-followers of the imprisoned brothers Berrigan, and a covey of diocesan bishops.

For all its sinfulness the Church .is a wondrous institution, surely touched by the divine, to encompass such diversity. .

It is only when yo~ see such a variety of life styles in telescoped fashion that you under-

Bishops Permit Women ·to Preach TRENTON (NC)-In a radical departure from tradition, bishops of two dioceses in New Jersey gave permission for lay women to preach sermons from Catholic church ,?ulpits.

The permission was given by Bishops George W. Ahr of Trenton and Lawrence B. Casey of Paterson. . Mrs. R. T. Dillon of Somerset, N.J., spoke at Saturday evening and Sunday Masses at churches in Long Branch and Princeton.

Her sermons were geared to the anti-abortion theme "A Right to Life."

The New Jersey Right.to Life Committee ha~ designated September as "Right to Life Month."

The committee is an interfaith organization.

chairmen of parish orare asked to submit for this column to The O. Box 7, Fall River

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO The cCouncii Jeanne D'Arc will sponsor a harvest whist party at 8 on Saturday night, Oct. 25.

In addition to whist prizes there will be special awards and door prizes. , There will be a special drawing at 8 o'clock sharp as an award for the early-comers.

press the wonders and fears of living in a world which shows every sign of rapid change being a permanent condition of life. .

Everything Conected Is it any wonder that the kind of parish priest role of Bing . Crosby's Father O'Malley in NAMED: Miss Joan Mur"Going My Way" appears so ray has been named to the quaintly anachronistic today?

Board of Advisers of The' The parish priest of the immigrants in addition to his satra- National Catholi~ Office for mental ministry was a father Radio and Television. figure for .an entire neighbor,hood. When he spoke. to City Hall- or as Richard Luecke has said, "even wangled a new playground out of the syndicate" for his people,' the local .. Church ST. LOUIS (NC)-More "wellserved as a rock of stability in a designed, non-institutional style, community. scattered housing" for low and Today the "priest and his middle income families in all parishioners live in city, ~ub­ parts of the city and suburbs has urban and r.ural areas where been called for here by the St. "everything is connected to Louis archdiocesan ·Commission everything." Sharing the one on H.uman Right~.

Body of Christ in holy CommuThe commission issued the call nion and preaching the Gospel in a resolution stressing the imperative to love your neighbor "basic human right of freedom as yourself involves relating to of movement and of decent shelpeople caught up in .very compli- ter" for families of all incomes . cated and rapidly shifting pat- and races. terns of daily living.

Noting that recent efforts to The Church reform question is. develop low and 'middle income therefore, so much greater than housing in predominantly white subsidizing parishes in black in- St. Louis County have "met with ner cities or keeping parochial misunderstanding, suspicion and schools open, The priest and his even open hostility," the compeople are living amidst the mission said every community process which sociologists call has a "moral obligation to supurbanization. port housing" for low and middle, Parish Response income families.

Paster Luecke of Chicago's , After citing the need for more Urban Training Center sees the such housing throughout the anxiety over the Church institu- area, the commission said: "We . tional question against the back- regret that the majority of white ground of "more fundamental people are not' prepared for 'this. questions about the future of "There must be a 'deliberate communities in the great conserious effort," the resolution fluence to the city and the rapid movement outward to the sub- continued, "to educate our Cathurbs; in the denial of movement olic people in the pulpit, in our outward (and upward) to the schools and especially in discus.blacks and poor whites who sion and action groups." have been rapidly filling centercity areas, and in the tensions Dismisses Attack with blue collar families at every block along the way; in burgeon- On Abortion Laws KANSAS CITY (NC) - A ing technological capacities and corporate co~plexes which may three-judge U. 'S. District Court be seen and heard, but not panel here rejected an attack on touched through television - a the constitutionality of Missoucomplaint which comes to ex- ri's abortion laws.

The court dismissed the case pression in the disaffected young; and by a fortuitously grown city for lack of jurisdiction, pointing government which offers little out lack of allegation that any hope for resolving either physi- of the plaintiffs "performed or had performed upon them an calor social dilemmas."

How do you prepare young abortion nor is there a threatened men and women for ministry in or impending prosecution under this contemporary environment? the statutes." . "The complaint seeks merely What re-training experiences can be offered on the job to those an opinion on the construction of us who were trained in an of the statutes," the court said.

The suit was instituted by two era more. resembling the "Going My Way" model? How" does a attorneys of the Western Misparish respond to the needs and souri branch, American. Civil talents in the community of Liberties Union, three clergymen and three married women of which it is a part?

This column for the next'sev- child bearing age. The suit coneral weeks will attempt to dis- tended the state laws should be cuss some new ways to ail.swer held invalid on the grounds that these and similar questions being they denied a woman the perraised in many Church circl'es sonal right to determine whether these days. she should bear a chiid.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Children of Mary Sodality will sponsor a penny sale and raffle Thursday night, Oct. 29. A planning meeting will be held following 9 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, Oct. 18.

The Council of Catholic Women will hold a one-day trip to New York Saturday, Oct. 24. A rummage sale is set for Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 5 to 7.

The Holy ~ame Society announces a dance for Saturday night, Oct. 17.

Urges Con.gress File Smut Report In Waste Basket WASHINGTON (NC)-A priest and a Methodist minister urged Congress to protect society from . pornography by rejecting the' majority report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.

Father Morton A. Hill, S:J., and the Rev. Winfrey C. Link, both dissenting commission members, told a. Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency that the commission had not carried out a 'Congressional mandate which had directed it to recommend means' "to regulate effectively and constitutionally the traffic in obscenity and porn'ography."

The commission's report reportedly will recommend repeal of all laws that prohibit consenting adults from obtaining sexually explicit books, films and pictures."

Ultimate Breakdown For this reason, said Father Hill who is president of Morality in Media, Inc. in New York, the majority report should be "filed in the Congressional wastebasket."

Link, a Methodist minister from Nashville, Tenn., said that "any recognition of the validity of the majority report would be to ,the detriment of the nation and will lead to an ultimate breakdown of all that we have held sacred through the years."

ST. f'RANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS The Women's Guild will open its season with a meeting at 7 tonight. Mass and installation of . officers in the church will be followed by a covered dish supper in the parish center. Members are reminded to bring a place setting and a covered dish. They are welcome to invite friends, and all women parishioners are urged to attend, whether or not they are guild members. Further information on this and other guild activities is available from Mrs. Paul Dumont, telephone 775-0576. .

ST. HEDWIG, NEW BEDFORD The 18th annual Fall dance and cabaret sponsored. by the Holy ~ame Society and parish council will be held from 8 to midnight Saturday, Oct. 17 at Polish and American World War Veterans Hall, 1680 Acushnet Ave. Refreshments will feature Polish specialties and music will be ·by the Rhode Island Falcons.

ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA Ladies of St. Anne will sponsor a fashion show at 7:30 Wednesday night, Oct. 28 at ~hite's Restaurant. Mrs. Herman Lapointe and Mrs. Edmond Tremblay' are cochairmen of large planning committee. Ladies' and teens' fashions will be shown, with teen models from the parish including Michele Le Comte, Jackie Lapointe, Janet Tremblay, Brenda Laliberte and Amy Perron, Other styles will be shown by professional , . . models,

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HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER CCD classes for children attending' special classes will begin at Nazareth Hall Sunday morning, Oct. 18 and will be held weekly from 10 to 11.

The parish sewing group will resume its m~etings at 1 this afternoon at the school. The unit makes pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home and welcomes new members.

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By Father Joseph M. Champlin I don't remember my own parents' wedding ceremony, but I presume it took place in St. Gabriel's Catholic rectory at Hammondsport, N. Y. My father, you see., was an Episcopalian and my mother a devout Roman Catholic. I do recall, however, at the age of 12, some years after dad died of cancer, my mother's second marriage service. The vows were exchanged

in that same rectory because my new father was also a faithful member of the Episcopal Church When my brother took unto himself a lovely bride, the rules had changed-slightly. The scene shifted from the parish house in that little village at the end of Lake Keuka to the church itself. We stood inside the building, but outside the sanctuary. My sister-in-law was then a Protestant (she has since become a Roman Catholic) and the Church thus manifested its discouragement of mixed marriages through this exclusion of· participants from the area near God's altar.

I discovered, at the beginning of my pastoral ministry after ordination in 1956, a further easing of these restrictions with regard to the liturgical celebration of mixed marriages. Now bride and groom were permitted to come within the sanctuary and, a few years later, even to exchange nuptial promises in the context of·aMass.

Recent Decrees Recent decrees go even further.

They allow-and ecumenists encourage - ministers from other Communions to share in the Catholic ceremony by proclaiming a scriptural text or bestowing a benediction or delivering an exhortation. The latest of these decrees, an apostolic letter of March 31, 1970 "Determining Norms for Mixed Marriages," makes it easier for couples to obtain in special situations permission to marry before a minister instead of the priest and in a church other than the Roman Catholic one. It is expected that the American bishops will, in the near future, issue

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These limitations, despite their radical liberalization in such a short period of time, probably seem harsh, even cruel to some.

And I am sure at least several readers feel a certain bitterness as they recall the uneasiness at the moment of their own mixed marriage years ago, the apparent relegation to second class Catholic citizenship, the arguments and disapproval from clergy, family, friends. Perhaps one individual who glances at these words remembers only too well the end of a beautiful romance, the finish of a courtship-all because he wouldn't be married by the priest or she insisted on having a wedding in the Protestant church of her childhood.

The Church bears a delicate, thankless burden here. Aware that mixed marriages mean division on something vital, possible danger to an indvi'dual's faith, and complications with regard to the children, she cannot lend enthusiastic approval to them.

But other Christian churches don't either and, likewise, Jews today usually take a dim view of matrimony with non-Jews. Even marital experts, from purely human considerations, wonder about the wisdom of two persons marrying who do not share similar religious beliefs. The Catholic Ch.urch, it seems, doesn't stand alOne' on the matter. . f'oster Unity At the same time for many, many reasons in our pluralistic, . rapidly communicating world, an ever-increasing number of men and women fall in love, face the obstacles which confront them in a mixed marriage, and decide they deeply wish to spend the rest of their lives together despite the differences and difficulties which do exist. The Church recognizes this. obvious fact and urges bishops and parish priests "to aid the married couple to foster the unity of their conjugal and family life" and to "establish relationships of sincere openness and enlightened confidence with ministers of other religious communities."

Liturgy Helpful The wedding liturgy can do much to cement that union, dissolve fears, and start the marriage off happily in a positive direction. Changes in Church regulations mean, in practice, that questions of who will officiate, where the service will be held, and according .to what ritual are almost always resolvable.

In addition the revised Catholic rite offers a wealth of opportunities for joint planning of the ceremony - by bride, groom, priest, minister, families.

Twenty-eight biblical readings plus many scripturally-oriented prayers and blessings provide ready texts which should be most acceptable to all concerned.

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Thurs., OCt" 15, 1970

Priests Senate Asks Merger All Priest-Senators at the October meeting of the Diocesan Priests' Senate have petitioned the Bishop to see to it, especially at the coming Washington, D.C. meeting of U.S. Bishops that "in sume fashion the present Board of Consultors and the Priests' Senate be merged."

This was the - result of the work of a committee headed by Rev. Msgr. Anthony Gomes on the future role of senates. It summarized a long discussion on the transition period of the Church today b~tween Canon and Conciliar Law. It also speaks of the new avenues of development that are taking place and important re-evaluation at all levels and by every consultative group in the diocese.

The special committee with Rev. Msgr.. Henri Hamel, Rev. John Cronin, Rev. Joseph Powers and Rev. John Moore as members, made the following requests.: IoThat communications with ,the Bishop be established as to the roles ·of the Consultors, Pastoral Council and Priests' Senate: that the following motion be made on the part of the Seriate to the .Bishop as he prepares to attend the meeting in Washington which will treat this matter, encouraging him in some fashion, that the present board of consultors and tht' priests' senate be merged."

New Elections Rev. Peter Graziano announced a revamping of the senate election process. It was unanimously accepted by the senate. All elections will be preceded by Ii nomination procedure, peer group and at-large elections. The Diocese will be divided into four large groupings for peer group' elections and for at-large elections. If ties result, the elections committee shall choose the nomInee or elected priest by drawing lots. Any vacancy .will be filled by the priest' who received the greatest amount of votes in the previous election.

Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC. and Rev. Raymond Drouin, O.P. were welcomed as the bishopappointed delegates to represent the Religious in the Diocese.

Rev. Thomas Mayhew has been appointed to the office of public r.elations for the Priests' Senate.

The Fall River Priests' Senate will be represented at the' New England meeting of Priests' Councils in Shrewsbury on Oct. 26 and 27 by Revs. George Coleman, Leo Sullivan, Robert McGowan, Cornelius O'Neill and James Lyons.

New "Jersey Slows Pro-Abortion Drive TRENTON (NC)-There will be no vote, for now, on legislation easing curbs on abortion in New Jersey.

Three -bills revising New Jersey's anti-abortion statute have cleared committee in the Assembly but the Assembly Republican caucus has stymied attempts to 'bring the package to a vote.

At the latest caucus the bills fell three votes short of the 30 votes needed' to bring them to the floor for a vote.

New student coundl officers at Holy Family High School, New Bedford, are Ted McIntyre, president; Glen Hall, vice-president; Nand Scotti, secretary; Mary McGoldrick, treasurer. At the first assembly of the schOOl year they tuok the oath of offil:e, then moderated' an open forum for expression of student opinion.

First coundl til:livity was il ruck dance at the Kennedy Youth Center, featllring the ·'Unison."

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HOMETOWNERS WELCOME LIBERATED BISHOP. Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M., the Maryknoll Bishop recently released after 12 years in a Communist. Chinese prison, is greeted by well-wishers during homecoming ceremonies in Cumberland, Md. his native city. The bishop is flanked by his two sisters. NC Photo. . .

TV Catholic Dilem ma Program Reveals' Only Su'rface of What Observed ''The Catholie Dilemma," a CBS television newsl report, ,re:. vealed as much about the strengths and limitations of commercial television as a communications medium as it did about the dilemma of the Catholic Church.

The narrator, Italian author Luigi Barzini, 'Iean, grey-haired, dark - browed, pipe - smoking, speaking in polished English with an accent reminiscent of Charles Boyer, provided an hourlong glimpse, studded with epigrams and· witticisms, of the Church today. But it was merely an entertaining glimpse, skimming the surface of what was observed.

As Barzini posed it, the Clitholic dilemma is this: "If the Church modernizes too far, it will lose the past and immortality; if the Church doesn't modernize enough, it will lose the people."

Possibility Barzini described a dilemma as an insoluble problem, but .seemed to overlook the possibility that the Church might modernize at a rate that allows it to lose nothing of value..

Barzini said a careful look .at Catholicism, involved in an effort to survive a crisis of civilization, may indicate what will happen to the rest of the Western world.

Renewal Of the Western world, however, . the program touched on Italy ("My country is occupied

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WASHINGTON (NC)-For tlte first time this school year, a student will SIt on the U. S. Catholic Conference Education Department's governing body.

He is Kevin Farrell, hi, & Ur.i· 'versity of Missouri sophomore and one of three new members appointed to the USCC committee on education.

President of the 51. Louis archdiocesan. Council of Catholic Youth, Farrell received that archdiocese's outstanding Catholic youth award. He was also named by Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes to a White House Conference on Children and Youth.

Auxiliary Bishop William E. McManus, of Chicago, education committee chairman, said the full committee had directed its nominating. committee to find a qualified young person "so that the point of view of youth would be expressed during our deliberations on the whole range of Catholic education."

Contrasting a duistered con- given, as "very close to fana.vent in San Francisco, where the ticism." He did not, and peronly change since the Second haps .could no't, explore the reiaVatican Council has been from tionship of sin- and penance in Latin to English prayers, and a Catholic theology or the nature Sister in Detroit, wearing a . and practice of asceticism." dashiki and teaching black hisAs contrasting scenes apELECTRICAL tory to black children, two thirds peared of a pontifical concele· Contractors Qf whom are non-Catholic, Bar- brated high Mass in S1. Peter's zini touched renewal in the Re- Basilica with mitred bishops, ligious life, which he said has in- polyphonic singing and incense cluded demands by priests and and of a home Mass in the nuns for "sexual liberation."

United States with guitar-playThe program did not, as per- ing, off-key singing and the haps such a program could not, priest explaining as he went explore the meaning of the Re- along, Barzini said: Mass ligious life as understood in the past and as understood now, the "The _center of the Catholic 944 County St. relationship of the way Religious experience is the Mass. ·It is New Bedford live to the way the lay Christian that part of the religion nonlives, the difference between ac- Catholics find most moving and tive and contemplative religious powerful.' Non-believers -are orders. awed by the Mass because it is great theater." Barzini never Asceticism explained what Catholics believe While. the camera showed Ro- the Mass to be or why the variman pilgrims climbing a long ous liturgical changes have been flight of stairs on their knees, introduced.

Barzini described· their belief Barzini'spresentation of the that, if the penance were hard Catholic Church, "neither overenough, any sin would be· for· whelmed' by its past nor frightened by its future," was, in South • Sea Streets short, "great theater" but proTel. 49·81 Hyannis vided only marginal enlightenContinued from Page Seventeen ment. personal ties with the Son as Brother and Lord, and who is re- ~1II111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111It!: sponsive to the personal guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of peace, joy and love.

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I The scholastic schoolboy foot- League, the remaining undefeatI ball campaign will reach the half- ed"1.1ntied club in the area, is way mark this Saturday, and go- running away from the pack and I ing into weekend action only appears to be destined to wear I four schools located within the the crown emblematic of loop, confines of diocesan territorial supremacy. The Islanders willi limits are sporting unblemished face McCann Tech in' a 0'00"1 records. Three of the clubs hail league encounter this Saturday' from the Capeway Conference and then meet Provincetown in a I and one from the Mayflower league affair a week hence. With I League; no Bristol County or a victory over the Fishermen Narraganset League teams have already this season, a second I been able to come up with three triumph will all but eliminate I the Capetipsters. straight victories.

The fact that Lawrence High I of Falmouth is among the undeCoach Don Ruggeri's Falmouth I feated and untied comes as no Clippers will attempt to extend I great shock to anyone, but with .their winning streak to 14 games!

Dartmouth and Barnstable also this Saturday at the expense of I in the select class the Capeway Msgr. Coyle High of Taunton. I Conference race is developing The Cape Codders defeated into an unexpected three team league rival Bourne a week ago contest. The present leaders are 21-0 while Coyle lost an impor- i not scheduled to collide until the tant Bristol County League con- ' .test to rival New Bedford by a latter part of the campaign.

Nantucket of the Mayflower 21·12 count.

NAMED BY BISHOP: Appointed today by Bishop Connolly to serve in the Youth and Scouting Programs of the Diocese were: Rev. William W. Norton, Moderator of the New Bedford Area, CYO; Rev, Thomas E. Morrissey, Assistant Moderator of the Fall River Area CYO; Rev. Edward J. Byington, Assistant Moderator of the Attleboro Area CYO; Rev. Roger D. Leduc, Moderator of the New Bedford Area Scouting Program.

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Crimson and White Moves Toward Title Ironically, Falmouth and Coyle tied for Class C honors last seaso.ry a~q w~re ,not ~ctt~d-. uled to meet each other. However, Saturday's contest will' undoubtedly be played with the determination that characterizes championship teams.

Barnstable and Dartmouth are both scheduled to meet league opponents this weekend. The Red Raiders will be at DennisYarmouth while the DartmouJh Green hosts Wareham.

Dartmouth disposed of DennisYarmouth 29-0 and Barnstable edged Wareham 13·7 on Saturday last. It appears as though Coach Carlin Lynch's Indians will have the more difficult assignment this time around, as the Vikings from Wareham need a win in order to stay within striking distance of the leaders.

In Bristol County League action New Bedford moved one notch closer to the championship last Saturday when it de-

feated Coyle to give the Crimson and White a 3-0 league mark.

The Whalers will travel to Taunton Saturday to do battle with the host city's Tigers.

Coach Charlie Benoit's eleven almost engineered a major upset over Attleboro last week before being edged 7·6. If Taunton can come up/with another effort simil!lr to its last, Coach Joe Bettencourt's Whalers will have to go all out to hold off the raging Tigers.

Undefeated but once tied Bishop Feehan High will meet crosstown rival Attleboro Saturday in what should be a fierce battle for the city championship. While Attleboro has already lost to New Bedford, the Jewelers can not afford' another defeat and still hope to catch the leaders.

On the other hand, the Shamrocks I from Feehan with their record already blemished with a tie can ill afford a loss if they hop!:' to stay in contention.

Non-League Game Features Old Rivals Twice tied but yet undefeated Durfee High of Fall River will engage in a non·league contest with Bourne on Saturday. The Hilltoppers battled Bishop Stang High' of Dartmouth to a 6-6 stalemate on Saturday last and enter this weekend's game with a 1-0-2 record. .

Stang will be hosted by New Bedford Vocational this week.

Both clubs are looking for their first victory of the campaign.

Only one Narraganset League game is on the docket for Saturday with Seekonk playing Case High in Swansea. Both clubs were defeated in league contest last week. Case dropped a 28-0 verdict to Old Rochester of Mattapoisett while Somerset toppled Seekonk 22-6.

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In the northern sector of. the diocese Mansfield, North Attleboro and Oliver Ames of North Easton are all slated for Hockomock League action Saturday.

Mansfield a 12-6 loser to Franklin last time OUt will be at Canton, the Red Rocketeers from North meet King Philip of Wrentham on the Regionals home field and Ames will host Frank-. lin. .

Oliver Ames defeated King Philip 27-0 last Saturday while North dropped a 15-8 decision to Stoughton.

CLEVELAND (NC)-Cleveland of the day and Cleveland's posiarea radio and television stations tion as a major metropolitan were criticized in a report issued I center involved in the dynamics here for a lack of "sensitivity in of the urban crisis, it seems attempts to ascertain the com- clear that, as a whole, the Cleveland broadcast industry is still munity's needs and problems."

A 20-page report" released jointly by the radio-TV office of the Cleveland diocesan communications department and the public witness commission of the The Fall adult education proCouncil of Churches of Greater Cleveland, charged that the sta- gram at the LaSalette Institute tions were more interested in of Spirituality in Attleboro, has profits than in providing public been announced by Rev. Paul Charbonneau, M.S., Director. service programs.

Noting some exceptions, the Three series of courses will be offered, each con~isting of eight report said: "With no priority for the once-a-week evening sessions area's needs and problems, the from late October to mid-Decemmajority of our broadcast out- ber.

The first series, given by Rev. lets are now promising to conDonald Paradis, M.S., will deal tinue a minimum of public serwith "Prayer, Biblical Man and vice programming.

"After considering the issues The Modern World." To be given each Tuesday evening from Oct. 27 through Dec. 15, sessions will explore the role of prayer in t~e lives of great biblical personalContinued from Page One . ities and their relevance to the nothing today permits consider· modern world. ing it otherwise. For the child, Catholic Pentecostalism geneticists tel1 us, is, from - its conception, endowed with the "Catholics and Pentecostalism" proper characteristics of a life will be the subject of a course that, although it is dependent on· to be given by the Institute's ,a privileged environment for de- Director, Father Charbonneau, ! velopment, is nevertheless autonon Monday evenings from Oct. lomous.

26 through Dec. 14. This will be . "The Church is not unaware a critical study of what has been !certainly that there are difficult called "the fastest growing reliI cases, when the me of the gious phenomenon in human mother seems threatened, but it hiS,tory" and will specifical1y Icould not admit "therapeutic highlight the Catholic Pentelabortion,' as it is called: various costal Movement1 explore its Ibishops' conference have recent- promises for the future and ex:Iy and justly recalled that with amine the dangers it can present. '!force."

A second course to be given I While recal1ing that euthanasia by Father Charbonneau com· ;is a moral crime, the letter notel) pletes the Fal1 program. To be that the physician is not obliged offered on Wednesday evenings to use every technique of sci- from Oct. 21 through Dec. 9, the ;ence to prolong the life of some- subject will be "The Riddle of the New Testament." Involved one incurably ill. i While condemning the large- will be discussion of the thinking scale criminal human experi- behind the modern Church's ap· hlentation of totalitarian regimes, proach to understanding and stated that al1 experimentation teaching of the New Testament. on man could not be condemned. The course will offer valUable in· I "It is up to you, as experi- sights for parents and religious ¢nced practitioners," the papal educators, as wel1 as the general letter said, "to fix the ever mov- public.

Registration for any course ing norms in this delicate area, jNhile recalling that the funda- may be made by mail to the Inmental principle of medical ethics stitute of Spirituality, Attleboro, temains absolute respect for the Mass. AI1 classes will be given person, for a person * .,:' * who in the conference hall at LaSais riot the master, but one who lette Shrine, Rte. 118 in Attlehas the use of a life received boro, and will run from 7:45 to 9:15 P.M. Fee is $8.00 per course. from God,"

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"To neglect the issues that in the next three years will affect the lives of millions of persons in the market area is to deny the most fundamental responsibility of the broadcaster."

The report was prepared by Jerome Lackamp, executive producer of the diocesan radio-TV office, and the Rev. Donald Stockford, director of the public witness commission.

Copies were sent to the Federal Communications Commission which is making decisions on license renewals for all stations.

Using information available to the public through FCC files, Lackamp and Rev. Mr. Stockford rated four TV stations, eight AM radio stations and 12 FM stations on such things as percentage of time devoted to news; public affairs programming; local programming of any kind and other forms of community service programs.

Lackamp said the study indicated that "no broadcast outlet in this area proposed to do any more than they have done for the past three years." He said: "If people are content with this, fine. If the public is happy with programming that is 85 to 90 per cent entertainment then there's no problem. However, if people want more than this, they 'have a responsibility to let the stations know about it."

Honor for Meany DUBUQUE (NC) - George Meany, AFL-CIO president, will be presented with the John Fitzgerald Kennedy gold mediil and citation of Loras Col1ege at ceremonies Sunday, Oct. 18 in the college fieldhouse. The award, made annually t.o "an outstanding American," will be presented by Dubuque's Archbishop James J. Byrne, college chancel1or.

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