Papers on JusticeWide-Rang-ing VATICAN CITY (NC)':'-With sidering the 24-member commis- arms expenditures and comparathe third week of discussion and sion top heavy with papal nomi- tively puny foreign aid expendi~ debate behind them" the bishops nees and curial prelates, appealed tures. John Cardinal Carberry of St. meeting in Rome for the Synod to synod regulations for appointcharged a special commission to ment of a 12-member board with Louis lashed out at wide-open put together the results of their eight selected members and four abortion laws in the United debates on priestly celibacy and papal appointees., That motion States as a violation of the rights of the unborn.' then deepened' their discussion was denied. It appeared that the synod is One common topic was the on international justice. It was already clear that the so determined to close every need for rich, nations to tighten synod was backing priestly celi- , door against change in the pres- their belt in order to put their bacy without reserve and was ent discipline that it is avoiding surplus at the disposal of poor' moving sharply away from any even the slightest hint of a new nations for development. Several bishops said that the proposals to ordain married men. -policy. Miss Barbara Ward criticized Church should take the lead in In the debate on justice, the United States came under fire America's restrictive haJ?dling of this and Cardinal John Heenan not only from British economist its dollar crisis and John Cardi- of England suggested that Barbara Ward-one of the three nal Dearden of Detroit asserted churches everywhere-including An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul laypersons to address the synod that the United States must the Vatican - sell rarely used sacred vessels for the poor. -but also from three America~ change its national priorities., . John Cardinal Krol of PhilaBishop Alexander Carter of cardinals. The number of speakers listed delphia criticized- as did other Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, urged Fall River, Mass., Thursday, October 28,.1911 Turn to Page -Six for the justice question rose to bishops - the astronomic U. S. PRICE 104 about 150 and reinforced wideVol. 15, No. 43 © 1971 The Anchor $4.00 per yea, spread conviction that the synod 'could not possibly end its work decently by the end of October. Even news that the synod would continue to work through the first w.eek of November Among the' 7,000 delegates working ses,sions 'he would like failed to pacify the many who maintained that there was too 'from across the country meet'ing to attend but is asked to partici, Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Ed.D., of the advisory committee for much' important work to be ac- in Miami Beach this week to pate in an area of the Core Con'superintendent of schools in the, the national Elementary and complished in too little time. ,participate in the National Con- gress. Fall River Diocese, has been Secondary Act', under Titles II One synod delegate ipter-',· gress of Religious Education are The seminars and Core Con, elected vice president of the and III~ rupted his own Latin address to ,Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Diocesan gress reflect trends' of religious superintendents' division of the A specialist in school financial speak directly to Pope' Paul VI Director of the Confraternity of education today. Emphasis has National Catholic Educational matters, Father O'Neill has, de- in Italian about the inad,equacy Christian Doctrine; Sr. Della been placed on examining proAssociation signed budgeting procedures of the time allotted to the synod. Ann Chartrand, OLVM, and Mrs. grams for: adult' education; the 'Father O'Neill holds a master's which have been applied iii 25 And practically every working Angela Harney of Diocesan media; the shared learning exdegree and ado<;torate in educa- dioceses. . , committee of the synod, iI;ldi- CCD Office; and Rev. Henry S. perience of the family; ecumention from. Boston College, and A Fall River native, the priest- cated 'it had too little time, to Arruda, assistant at St. John ism; and social awarenes!l. has been on the, faculty of Notre educator was ordained ,in 1957. deal with all the work' at ha~d. Father William Tobin, AssistDame University. He served as chaplain at,Bishop, ant Director of the National There were complaints, too, He is a member of, the advi- Stang' High School and has held libout the handlina of the docu.Center, notes "the idea is to give , sory committee onhe Massachu- . his position' as diocesan superin- ment on the priesthood. Synod ·the religious educator as broad setts Advisory ·Coi.lllcil' on Teach- ,tendent of schools. siilc~ ',,1961. , a 'range of areas to participate in officials, heeding repeated pleas er 'certification; and a niell1bet' as possible; and yet let the indiFather O'Neiil' also· serVes on for a single document combining vi~ual, still achieve a cohesive, the Massachusetts' Commission theological and practical.aspeCts in~depth participation." for Educational Television, and of the current crisis in priestly " 'The 'delegates ,were giyen an on the executive:' committee life and ministry, gave the, reof the' Indepen<;l,ent,' ,Secondary sults of both debates to a com- of God Parish" Somerset and irrim~diate sense of what the Schools of New England. He is mission of two dozen men who 'CCD Director of. the Somerset-. Congress was all about during , , the "opening session last night. chairman of the educatiol1al de- had been drafting a document· Swansea Area. " Last held in Pittsburgh in The keynote addresses by Dr. ,partment of the Massachusetts on the theological aspects only. Some powerful members, con-, 1966, the National Congress is ',Mary~Angela Harper, President' Catholic Conference. -, ' sponsored by the National Cen- of 'the. Board of Education, ter of Religious Education-CCD, 'Washirigi~n Archdiocese and Mr. Anchor Columnist a division of the Department of Turn to Page Six ' Education, United States Catholic Conference. , As a division of the USCC, the ,National Center' supplies the . leadership and support of the American hierarchy for all the WASHINGTON (NC)-House- and husband, Dan, and their religious education programs wife, Mary Carson sat at the large family. throughout the United States. Despite .the family's experikitchen table in the 80-year-old The focus of the Congress is home in Baldwin, Long Island, ence, Mrs. Carson said her book to provide for those concerned where she was born and :began "Ginny, A True Story," to be about the growth and developwriting on scratch paper about published in January by Double- ment of religious education an REV. PATRICK J. O'NEILL her young daughter's accident. day, offers no gloom-and-doom opportunity to meet with cate"I pretended I was writing a but' a message of hope. chetical experts in various fields Ginny is now 11 and "all of such as psychology, theology, friend then' in Germany about the day Ginny was coming home us consider her life a miracle," administration. The delegates from school and was hit by a Mrs. Carson said. However,- she will be ab.le to evaluate existing moving van," Mrs. Carson said admits that the miracle not only programs and to shape the direcof the letter that grew into a taxed the abilities of the physi- tion of catechetics for the future. cians who hovered over the child, Three hundred and twentyNEW YORK (NC)-Pope Paul book. Turn to Page Six two working s~ssions are being Six-year-old Ginny, whose VI is deeply concerned about conducted over the three days. world peace and the alleviation skull was crushed, lay in a coma They cover a broad span of of human suffering, President when doctors told the Carsons topics. The sessions have been Nixon's personal envoy 'to the she had a one in a million chance correlated, however, into three New Funeral Rite Vatican told guests at the annual to survive. The Carsons told NC News in major areas called .the Core ConAlfred E. Smith dinner here. an interview that they clung to Explanations and illustragress. They are titled: The TheolNAMED: Rev. Msgr. RoHenry Cabot Lodge, the en- their Catholic faith and conveyed tions of the revised liturgical 'ogyof Revelation and Faith in voy, said that in audience talks their hopes to Ginny even bertL. Stanton, pastor of St. Rite of Funerals that is to be the Light, of Communication he has had, the Pope paid "par- though they were not certain introduced in all parishes of Skills, Media and Christian Patrick's Parish, Wareham ticular attention to the plight of she could hear. the diocese in accordance with Awareness; the Moral-Ethical has been named by Bishop war prisoners, to measures to "I had always felt that God the directive of Most Rev. Response and Understanding the Cronin as the new Diocesan prevent the drug traffic and to never asks more of us than we Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., OrLearner-Impact of Culture and Moderator ot' the Diocesan economic and social aid to un- can do. But sometimes He comes cijnary of the Diocese, can be Environment; and the Church as derdeveloped countries." Council of Catholic Nurses. terribly close to the ',dividing .found on pages ,,10 and II, of Lodge, principal speaker at the line," Mrs. Carson' said' ,of the 'this issue of The Anchor.; , . ~, " Missionary and Curriculum Plan- He, succeeds. Rev. Cornelius ning, Goals and Evaluation. Each : ,.. Turn to Page Two accident's lasting effects on her, ' ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;' delegate is asked to select the J. Keliher.
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