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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Oct. 26, 1978
ill People.Places.Events-NC News Briefs (b Voting Records
No Hand Communion
WASHINGTON-Bread for the World, a Christian lobby on hunger, has issued a list of five senato ~s and 61 congressmen with perfect records of support for hunger-related issues in the 95th Congress. For Massachusetts, they include Sen. Edward Brooke and Representatives Drinan, Tsongas, harrington, Markey, Moakley, Heckler and Studds.
MANILA, Philippines - The giving of Communion in the hand is being discontinued in the Philippines as impractical. The decision was made at a recent meeting of the Philippine Catholic Bishops' Conference.
Kindness Prize
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL from Polish parish in Staten Island, N.Y., will treasure this photo of kiss she received from the then Cardinal Wojtyla when she and her classmates greeted "him on a 1976 trip to the U.S.
MILAN, Italy-The n978 Balzan Prize for Human Kindness, Peace and Brotherhood has been awarded to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It is Vlorth about $300,000 and is awarded at approximately threeyear intervals by a committee of Western Europeans.
Papal Hous'禄ng Project SPRINGFIELD, In路- A new diocesansponsored 150-unit housing complex for the elderly and handicapped will be named for Pope John Paul I. To be completed in 1980, the project is believed the first to be named for the late pope.
Not an Inch SAN FRANCISCO '- "We will not retreat one inch," from past single-mindedness, said Dr. Carolyn Gerster, president of the National Right to Life Committee, at the eighth annual California Pro~Life Conference. More than 350 participants cheered the Episcopalian physician as she drew parallels between the current antiabortion political experience and the abolitionist movement which sought to end slavery in the United States.
Peace Plea
DR. ANDRE HELLEGERS of Georgetown University's Bioethical Institute was one of few who predicted election of Pope John Paul II. "It was a phenomenal selection the man had everything going for him," he said.
VATICAN CITY-U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim told the College of Cardinals in a telegram that he will do "everything possible within my authority" to help restore peace in Lebanon. The cardinals asked Waldheim to work for a cease-fire in Lebanon where Syrian troops have been bombarding Christian areas.
Pius XII Defended ROME-Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti defended Pope Pius XII against charges that the late pope failed to protest Nazi persecutior. of Jews during World War II. "I lived right here in Rome during that year and a half (194344)," Andreotti said, "and I saw how the Jews who had been able to escape deportation and persecution found open doors on the part of the church." ,
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Hispanics Undercounted SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The last offical U.S. census in 1970 may have undercounted Hispanics in this country by three million, acording to Ricardo Zazueta of ,Los Angeles, national director of SER Jobs for Progress Inc.. He told more than 100 Science Employment Redevelopment national directors that there must be an assurance that Hispanics will not be undercounted in 1980.
God's Relevance SISTER MARIE CLARE POWELL, iq charge of television projects for the New Orleans archdiocese, adjusts monitor board setting as she works on a program at the archdiocesan studio .
NEW YORK--Though major changes are needed in the Catholic church, they do not constitute the basic challenge facing Pope John Paul II, theologian Father Hans Kung said in a pl"ess conference in New York. "The most important thing is not a few institutional' reforms but to make the reality of God more relevant for the enormous problems of mankind," he said.
OAS Probe MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Invesigators sent by the Organization of American States (OAS) to probe alleged atrocities by National Guardsmen during battles with guerrillas and others in September have conferred with church personnel in five key cities. The OAS Inter-American Commission of Human Rights also relied on reports gathered during the fighting by priests, nuns and lay personnel engaged in emergency relief.
Neutral on ERA ST. LOUIS-The Canon 'Law Society of America has bypassed any recommendation on the proposed Equal Rights amendment. ,A CLSA task force which had studied the ERA for the past year issued a report concluding that "it is not possible at the present time to reach the moral certitiude necessary.... to either support the ERA or to oppose it.
FATHER BERNARD SURVIL, MM, denied re-entry to his Nicaraguan mission by the Somoza regime, says the national mutiny in Nicaragua has been going on since the Somoza family took power 46 years ago.
Preserve Differences WASHINGTON-Elements characteristic of or commonly associated with different religious traditions are not to be viewed as obstacles in the ecumenical process, but as things to be preserved, said Father David W. Tracy of the University of Chicago Divinity School. Father Tracy spoke at Catholic University, where he delivered the annual Paul Wattson lecture, named after the founder of the Friars of Atonement.
'Thorough Denial' VATICAN CITY - Stories that Pope John Paul II, as a young man, was engaged and married are "thoroughly false," said Father Pierfranco Pastore, vice-director of the Vatican Press Office. 'INothing is true of what has been said in this connection. He was never married. This is a very thorough denial," added iFather Pastore.
HECTOR LAPOINTE is president of the Fall River Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. With the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, the society co-sponsors the annual Bishop's Charity Ball.
'Bishop of Auschwitz' VATICAN CITY - As archbishop of Krakow, Pope John Paul II was "Bishop of Auschwitz," the large Nazi concentration camp where 4 million people died during World War II. Oswiecim, Polish for Auschwitz, is a town of about 8,000 people within the Krakow archdiocese. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited the town and the former Nazi concentration camp many times with a host of distinguished churchmen from all continents.
Helpers Need Help ST. LOUIS-Hospital chaplains, administrators and other health care specialists spend the better part of their lives ministering to the needs of others. But they also need support from their co-workers, meditation and the ability to be childlike in their attitude toward God. About 160 persons attending the Institute on Theological Concerns of the Health Apostolate, sponsored by the Catholic Hospital Association in St. Louis Oct. 8-12, heard that message from Dominican Father Mark Scannell.
CBS CORRESPONDENT Harry Reasoner will be banquet speaker for the 19th New England Diocesan Conference of Catholic Nurses, to be held the weekend of Oct. 27 at the Marriott Hotel, Stamford, Conn.