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NOVEMBER 18-19

Human Development Campaign Encourages Self-Help Projects.

WASHINGTON (NC)-In November, 1969, the U.S. Catholic bishops .pledged themselves to raising $50 million tq fight poverty in America.

From that pledge came the Campaign for Human Development ,which officially began with a nationwide collection Nov. 22, 1970. The first annual collection netted $8.6-million to help the poor of this country. Last year's collection of $7.2-million brought the total to almost $16-million. " One quarter of that total-almost $4-million~stayed right in the dioceses where it was collected, to fund local programs of An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul self-help for the poor. .

The other 75% was sent to the bishops' national CHD office Fall River, Mass., "thursday, Nov. 9, 1972 here for redistribution on the basis of need and value.

PRICE 10' Vol. .1~, No. 45 漏 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per year The purpose of the campaign has never been the traditional dole of charity. In the words of an 'old proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day -teach him how to fish and you , feed him for his life."

Acting. on that principle, CHD has .funded self-help projects LONDON (NC)-Last year an "They keep talking about risattempt to legalize voluntary eu- ing population of Britain, but in thanasia was defeated in the fact the birth rate has been fallBritish House of Lords. , ing every year since 1965," she But that is not likely to be said. the end of the affair. .

"The only thing which is Mrs. Francis Morris, a Catholic keeping our population growth and treasurer of the National As- level as high as it is, is the fact sociation for the Protection of that our old people are living Family Life, told NC News: "We longer.

"That is the reason they keep have had our'ears to the ground, WASHINGTON (NC)-"Poverand we understand that fresh ef- talking about euthanasia." ty is .what happens when people forts are being made to get anMrs. Morris is strongly op- give up caring for one another." other euthanasia bill brought be- posed to any attempts to give That is the theme of this year's fore Parliament."

Britain a national population pol- Campaign for Human DevelopShe said that reports from icy with a minister of popula- ment (CHD), and teaching people .members of the association, in tion. to care is the purpose of the all parts of the country reveal a Such a suggestion was con- CHD's educational arm. . growing tendency to mention eu- tained in a report published earliFunded by $105,000 from last thanasia more frequently. er this year, by an all-party com- year's $7-2-million collection, the "We can see here a parallel mittee headed by conservative CHD educational division has with the campaign to legalize member of Parliament Airey been developing programs to abortion.

Neave. teach America's Catholics what "Before any attempts were Some in Britain feel that. the路 poverty really means. made to make that legal, it had present government may be "We want to get into their atbecome a topic of general con- about to implement one of the titudes, not just their heads," versation." committee's recommendationsTurn to Page Six She said that euthanasia is the spending of nearly $50 milbeing mentioned more frequent- lion a year on a free birth conly in the press o'r on television, trol service. especialiy in connection with deThis is certain to arouse fierce formed children and with old controversy, and not only from people. .Catholics.

Mrs. Morris said she is conIf a euthanasia bill is introduced, she said, "we shall be '!inced that the Family Planning there in the front line fighting Association, originally a volunVATICAN CITY .(NC)- The it." tary advisory serV'ice intended Mrs. Morris said she does not for married people, has been post-conciliar Church needs a view euthanasia in isolation but taken over by persons, who are deep spiritual vitality, .not bitter sees it as part of general cam- now using it as a. vehicle for arguments, Pope Paul VI told thousands of people at his weekpaign by some people to under- pushing their policies. mine the more customary ChrisCurrently the National Associ- ly general audience here.

Continuing his recent audience tian ethic of this country.

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such as community cooperatives, job training programs, community health and legal services, credit unions and seed money for small businesses.

Almost 400 such projects have been funded by the national office in less than two years. Na-

tional and local allocations to self-help projects have totalled almost $12.5-million already, with more projects still to be an路 nounced.

This year's CHD collection will be taken up on the weekend of Nov. 18-19.

Euthanasia Movement Undercuts Morality

CHD Raises Educational Programs

HELPING CHILDREN: The weekend of Nov. 18-19 will see people of the Diocese asked to assist in breaking the "hellish circle of poverty" by contributing to the Campaign for Human Development which sponsors programs for' the improvement of human living among young and older in the nation.

Pontiff Says Post - Conciliar Church Needs Spirituality, "iVot Arguments

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are two obstaCles to this pursuit -the exterior humanitarian life of the Church, which subtracts fr.om its interior life and secondly, worldwide "contestation" or conflict within the Church.

The 路p.ope declared this "contestation" is self-centered unrest, hidden under a certain legitimate pluralism, but "inclined toward an inner corrosion of Church unity in homage' to a tendentious freedom from every authority and hence from every form of obedience."

On the other hand, the Church has been told by Christ to carry the Gospel to the world, the Pope said, and must strengthen a'tself spiritually to do so; all the more so because the world is

"wrapped -up in its own gigantic, stupendous and hO,rrible realities."

Quoting the command of Christ in Luke's Gospel, the Pope said: "I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves."

Later, in greeting Italian missionaries at the audience, the Pope reminded them they would encoullter difficulties. But he urged them to be brave because "as we said, Christ overcame the world."

Nearly 20 bishops joined the Pope in blessing the standing room only crowd. In a special greeting to U. S. servicemen from Italy and Germany, the Pope said he hoped their "activities will serve to promote peace and brotherhood among all men."

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Attleboro-Taunton Area Musicians Hold Workshop SUl'lday, Nov. 12

THE ANCHOR-Diocese-of Fall River--Thurs., Nov; 9, 197~!

· Vatican Denies Change In Annulment Causes

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ROME (NC) - The ground rules have not changed for a Church court to declare a marriage invalid, nor has the Church recently expanded these rules to allow drug addiction or mental disorders as grounds for a declaration of nullity.

Some recent press reports from .

Rome indicated that Pope Paul VI had broadened the conditions for declaring a marriage invalid to include narcotic and alcohol addiction, schizophrenia and ot~er mental disorders.

It is true, said a Vatican canon lawyer, that the Church in rendering verdicts on a particular marriage can specify by name the 'disease or affliction which impaired the ability to make a full, free consent to the conditions requisite for' a valid marriage.

"There are two basic ways to attack the validity of a marriage in a Church court, and these have not changed or expanded," the lawyer told NC News in Rome. .

"If one or both of the parties excluded absolutely the intention of trying to have children or, secondly, withheld consent to a permanent union lasting until death of one of the parties, then t.he marriage can be deClared never to have existsed," he ex· plained.

The lawyer explained' that Church courts in recents years have declared marriages invalid because of drug addiction or some mental disorder but "in every case the Church' was speaking of the reason why the all-important full and 'free consent to the marriage was im~ paired."

In other words, the lawyer emphasized, the verdict was not _based on addiction or affliction but on the lack of ability to give full and free consent.

The lawyer also stressed that the' addiction or mental disorder must be demonstrated to have existed prior to the marriage ceremony.

The Roman, Rota, a high Church court whose jurisdiction includes marriage cases, has in recent years used modern medical terminology to categorize their many cases.

From Oct. I, 1970, to Sept. 30, 1971, the Rota handled marriage cases involving schizophrenia, nyphomania, psychopathic disorders, nervous obsessions lead·

Catholic Editor Wins Parliament -Seat EDMONTON (NC) - Douglas J. Roche,' on leave of absence from his position as editor of the Western Catholic Reporter, won a seat in the Canadian Parliament.

Roche ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate from the ,Edmonton-Strathconat constituency.

The seat had been held by Hu Harries, a Liberal, who sought re-election.

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ing to scrupulosity, paranoia, sexual mono!."ania, drugs, alcohol and hypnosis.

All of these cases involved the free consent of one or both parties to the terms of the marriage.

Even though some canon law.. yers in the past few years have urged the Church to dissolve unions that have "psychologically died" and allow those partners to remarry, the Church has maintained a strict interpretation of a marriage validly entered as lasting until the de~h of one of the parties. hyster~cs,

Plan Pilgrimage To Molokai

MODERATOR: Rev. John P. lDriscoll, pastor of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford has been appoipted by Bishop Cronin as moderator of the New Bedford Woman's Club.

The Fa.Jl River Diocesan Choir Directors' Guild will conduct an area workshop for musicians assigned to Attleboro-Taunton Churches on Sunday, from 3 to 7 in'the Sacred Heart School' Auditorium, Second Street, Ta-unton.

Rev. WiHiam G. Campbell, direc~ tor will preside at the meeting and conduct the choral session.

Mrs. Harvey Alden and Mrs.' Frank Montesanti have been appointed Taunton, and Attleboro Area Chairwomen of the (guild.

Father Campbell, in announcing th~ area appointments, requests that any and all musicians who wish to attend the workshop should contact either Mrs. Alden or Mrs. Montesanti. The WOI1kshop . is open to ,all Chun:h Musioians, choir members, cantors, as weH as organists and choir directors.

The meeting will 'begin at 3 o'clock ~ith the presentation of the document "Music in Catholic Worship," published by the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.

Mrs. ~lden will present the document, whJch will be distributed together with a synopsis of the e~planation -given by Rev. Robert Canniff at the opening meeting on Sept. 24 in Fall River.

Area workshops are scheduled to assist those who were unable to attend the September meeting or who feel it necessary to receive additional instruction in the new lliturgy.

From 4-5 Father,Campbell will conduct a Choral Workshop, demonstrating music to be used at all Eucharistic celebrations.

Copies will be available for the reviewanct appraiseil of organists and choir directors. In addition, latest publication of selections from Gregorian Institute will be , displayed for sale.

Mass will be concelebrated at 5 by [fathers Campbell, Walter Sullivan, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, and Donald Couza, pastor of St. Mary's, Norton. The choir of Sacred Heart Ch6rch, under the direction of Mrs. Alden, will sing at the, Mass, assisted by members of the Choir Directors' Guild.

The meeting will resume at 6 o'clQCk with an informal discus"sion period during which re' freshm"ents wiI.l be served.

In anticipation of Sunday~s

In observance of the 100th anniversary of· the arrival at the' island of Mol6kai of Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC., worldfamous "Apostle to the Lepers,'" a vacation-pilgrimage is being organized to Oahu, Molokai and Hawaii, January 20 to February 2, 1973.

UNITED NAnONS (NC)-In Highlights of the pilgrimage, first of its kind, wil.I be a Mass reGent months the flow of refucelebrated in the church built by gees back to their homes iin Father Damien and ex-American southern Sudan-devastated in Army officer, Joseph Dutton, at civil warfare that lasted: 17, years Molokai. Spiritual directors of -has swelled from a rtiere trkthe' pilgrimage will be Rev.'FraR- kle to a total of about 5,000 per cis Larkin, SS.CC., Director of month. From now until the end Father Damien's Beautification of 1972, it is expectea to accelCause in the United States, erate rapidly, and reliefiagencies whose headquarters are at the there are bracing themselves to National Enthronement Center of cope with the influx.

From Geneva recently the the Sacred Hearts Fathers, 3 UN~s High Commissioner for RefAdams Street, Fairhaven, and Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. of ugees, Prince Sadrud<;lin Aga Ki'.an, issued an appeal. for the the Family Rosary Crusade. $5 million still needed to comHawaiian Pilgrimage plete the one-year emergency aid Father Larkin notes that the program in the area-originally pilgrimage will include stops in estimated at $22 million but now Honolulu, where Father Damien ' scaled down to an overall cost was ordained, and the "Big Is- of $18 million. The reduction was land" of Hawaii, where Father "made possible, the high commi!;Damien worked for nine years sioner said, because of the relid before he went to Molokai. Tours received and by economibs in the will include a visit to the modern relief operation. ' leprosarium of Kalaupapa, in adStatistics cited at the October dition to the sightseeing, swim- meeting of the high commissionming and fishing enjoyed by all er':; eXecutive committee showed visitors to Hawaii. repatriation of more tha'n 30,000 Further information is avail· SOljth Sudanese from Uganda, able from Father larkin, care of Ethiopia, the Central African ReCatholic Travel Office, 1730 public, and Zaire (the' former Rhode Island Ave., Washington, BelgiM Congo) and 250,000 who D.C. 20036. . had scattered into th'e bush, cleared land and sowed crops to, Commission Names su~,tain themselves.

Executive Director With the harvest se,ason at hand, many more thousands, it NEW YORK (NC)-;Dr. Jorge is ealculated, will join the home.

Lara-Braud, founding executive ward trek. The total number of director of the Hispanic-American Institute, has been named displaced South Sudanese has executive director of the Com- been estimated at 750,00,0.

Relief· Agencies ALid Refugees

mission on Faith and Order Fr. Gorman Former of the National Council of Churches.

Magazine Editor Lara-Braud, a member of the UNION CITY (Nc)-A Requi· Presbyterian Church, U.S., will em Mass was offered, at St. be charged in his new post Michael's Monastery here in New with promoting Christian unity Jemey for Father Ralph Gorman, through joint 'theological studies former editor of Sign magazine.

The Passionist priest. died in among the more thaJ:l ,30 churches represented in the commission. Scranton, Pa. at the ag¢ of 75.

Sister Ann Patrick Ware, a He was editor of the national Catholic theologian and member publication from 1942 to 196{i of the Faith and Order executive after spending seven years a!; staff for, the past four years, assistant editor. will work with Dr. Lara-Braud As editor, he raised the circu.. as associate director. lation of the publication' frortl James 1. McCord,' president of' 120,000 to 350,000 as the maga:' the Princeton Theological Semi- 'zine won more than 30 awards nary, is the chairman of the from the Catholic Press Associa.. commission. tion.

Bishop to Address NeC Assembly DALLAS (NC)-Auxiliary Bishop Patrick L. Flores of San Antonio will address the National Council of Churches General Assembly here.

Bishop Flores, a leader of Spanish-speaking Catholics in the United States, will speak on "Justice, Liberation and Human Fulfillment." ( Speaking on the same theme will be ithe black writer Imamu Amiri Baraka, formerly known as Leroi Jones.

The general assembly, which is held every three years, is attended by voting representatives from the council's 33 Protestant and Orthodox member-churches.

A total of 2,000 persons are expected to participate in the Dec. 3-7 meeting.

Although the Catholic Church is not an NCC member, the U.S. bishops and the 'council have been discussing the possibility of Catholic membership. .

meeting, Father Campbell has visited Attleboro and Taunton Churches in an effort to ascertain the needs of each panish and to provide assistance, or offer recommen'dations when necessary.

Fall River Native Is Ordained Assumptionist Rev. Paul L. Guerette, A.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Guerrette, 1197 Robeson Street, Fall River, was ordained an Assumptionist priest last Saturday by Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of the Worcester Diocese in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Assmption College, Worcester.

Father Guerrette is assistant professor of religious studies, assistant chaplain and director of the Campus Ministry Center at the college.

A 1962 graduate of Msgr. Prevost High School, Fall River, he entered the Assumptionist Order in, that year and pronounced perpetual vows in 1971. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Assumption College ~n 1967, a master of divinity degree from Boston College School of Theology in 1970 'and a master of sacred theology degree from Yale University this year. He has also studied at Boston University and Columbia University.

Offer Free Aids To Blind, Deaf 'Free services to deaf and blind persons 'are offered by the Xavier Society for the Blind, the National Catholic Press and Library for the Visually Handicapped.

"We should like to send the deaf~blind our BraiUed weekly ne.wsletter containing current religious topics of an inspirational and .informative nature," says Miss Betty J. ,Dodt, promotion director for the society. "This weekly affords the deaf-blind an opportunity to obtain further information on matters of special interest to them," she notes, adding that inclusion on the society's mailing list is free, as are many other Braille services.

She requests that names of deaf or blind persons be sent to her at the Xavier Society, 154 E. 23, St., New York, N. Y. 10010.

For Health Centre Members of the Peloquin Chorale wiH entertain at the annual dinner sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy for the benefit of their Health Centre for retired religious ,in Cumberland, R. 1.

Friends, and former students of the Sisters of Mercy are inv·ited to attend the event, to be held at 7 tomorrow night at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea.

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LOS GATOS (NC) - Father Henri Tomei, 68-year-old assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church here, was stabbed and beaten to death in his confessional box on .

Nov. 2.

A woman parishioner who had entered the church about 4:30 P.M. said she saw a tall, thin white man kicking and beating the priest in the confessional.

She then rushed from the church and summoned the pastor, Father Richard T. Howley, who administered last rites to the dying priest and summoned an ambulance to take him to the hospital.

Father Tomei was dead on arrival at Los Gatos Community hospital of multiple stab wounds and a severe beating, police reported.

The Parish Parade ST. ANN, RAYNHAM Ladies' Guild members will holl a Christmas party and Yankee Swap Wednesday, Dec. 6 at Benjamin's restaurant.

IMMACULA TE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER Deceased members of the Women's Guild will be remembered at a Mass to be celebrated at 5 Saturday evening, Nov. 11.

ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY A Mass will be offered for deceased members of SS. MargaretMary Guild Saturday, Nov. 18.

ST. ANNE, FAL RIVER Bingo is played in the school auditorium at 7 every Wednesday night. " .

The parish board of education is sponsoring a lecture by Alfred A. Dube, treasurer-manager of the parish credit union, at 7:30 tonight in the school activity room. His topic will be "Getting the Most for Your Money." Parishioners and friends are invited and there will be no admission charge. The board will meet at 7:30 Monday night, Nov. 13, in the rectory.

A public penny sale sponsored

by St. Anne's Senior Citizens will take place at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon;Nov 14 in the school.

Cub Scouts will hold their monthly pack meeting in the 'school recreation room at 7:30 Friday night, Nov. 17.

A whist party is scheduled for 7:30 Saturday night, Nov.' 18 in the school. Proceeds will benefit the parish CYO cheerleaders.

The parish committee will meet at 7:45 Monday night, Nov. 20 in the school activity room.

The unit will sponsor a dinner dance Saturday night, Nov. 25, with music by the Jack d'John Trio.

Senior Girl Scouts will benefit from a whist party scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2.

Beginning Sunday, Dec. 3, baptisms will be held by appointment only. Arrangements may be made by calling the rectory.

Maurice L. Francoeur is in charge of arrangements for a bus tour to LaSalette Shrine, followed by a restaurant dinner, Sunday, Dec. 10. Further information is available from him at telephone 674-24~ 1.

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THE ANCHORThurs.• Nov. 9, 1972

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Thought at the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, will be the next speaker in the Christian Culture Lecture Series at John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, on Wednesday evening, November 15, at 8:15, discussing the topic, "Are Theologians Helping the Christian People?"

Father Baum was born in Berlin and is a' convert from Judaism to Catholicism. He was selected by the Paulists Fathers Press to be the Editor of its magazine, THE ECUMENIST, and is Associate Editor of CATHOLIC WORLD. Father Baum devoted two years to the study of sociology at the New School in New York and is a well-known writer, whose latest books include "Man. Becoming" and "New Horizons."

Tickets for the lecture may be obtained at John Hancock Hall on lecture night, or contact Father Robert F. Quinn, C.S.P., P.O. Box 8579, J.F.K. Station, Boston 02114; telephone 5236083.

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EQUALITY·PEACE: These two stamps were recently issued by the Vatican Post Office, one of them showing a black angel symbolizing racial equality before God (left) and the other showing a crucifix surrounded by flying doves. The stamps, the work of Italian sculptor Corrado Ruffini, bear the inscription "Every Man is my Brother," are part of an issue of four stamps with an aggregate monetary value of 240 lire (38 cents). NC Photo.

Federal Judge Orders Hospital Action BILLINGS (NC)-In what apparently is the first case of its kind in the country, a Catholic hospital here in Montana has performed. a sterilization opera- . tion that was ordered by a federal court judge.

St. Vincent's Hospital doctors delivered Mrs. Gloria Jean Taylor's second child Oct. 31, then performed a tubal ligation to comply with U.S. District Court Judge James F. Battin's order issued. several days earlier. .' The judge ruled, in the form of a temporary order, on Mrs. Taylor's suit demanding that she be sterilized at the hospital after delivery of her child because she was in no physical condition to bear other children.

The judge's ruling opened the hospital's doors to all women who want to be sterilized after delivering a child.

The order will remain in effect until the civil rights suit brought

by Mrs. Taylor, 32, and her husband, James Michael Taylor, is finally resolved. Several officials said the final disposition of the case could take several months.

Judge Battin and the administrator of St. Vincent's, Charles A. Kaczmarek, said the order is the first federal court decision in the U.S. requiring a Catholic medical facility to perform a sterilization.

The judge's order undoubtedly will be appealed. Kaczmarek has b'een in contact with the general counsel's office of the U.S. Catholic Conference in Washington, D.C., about the case.

After the judge's order was issued, Bishop Eldon B. Schuster of Great Falls, Mont., said the hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity, would comply with the order because "we have no choice but to abide by the law."

However, he' said "the decision might influence the religious order's future decisions. on whether to continue running hospitals."

Before Judge Battin issued his order, Mrs. Taylor and her obsterician, Dr. Henry Charles Kaysre III, testified to the women's medical problems' and her "Class A diabetic state."

Mrs. Taylor's suit, filed by American Civil Liberties Union·

attorney Robert L. Stephens Jr., ter the institution and Deaconess had contended that she would Hospital, a non-Catholic facility, suffer severe psychological dam-' agreed to consolidate them. age and increased threat of death . The Taylors had moved to Billif she could not have a tubal ings from Alaska in September ligation performed after giving but were not informed until the first week in October that St. birth.

St. Vincent's is one of two hos- Vincent's would not allow the pitals in Billings. Since June 5 tubal ligation because it was baall maternity care facilities have sically a contraceptive operation been centered in St. Vincent's af- prohibited by Catholic ethics.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 9, 1972

Pessimistic Outlook Sta~ps, Author As' Self-Centered Garry Wills' latest book, "Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, 'Prophecy and Radical Religion," (Doubleday, New York $7.95), promises to be one of the most widely reviewed and most talked-about books of the year in the field of religious publishing. As of November 1, it had already that his book is required reading is one thing. It's something else been reviewed in both the again, however, to say-as does daily and the Sunday New novelist John Gardner in the York Times, as well as in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Bookweek, a nationally syn: (licated book review supplement

By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS ~g&mil$~

October 29 issue of, the New York Times Book Review-that his case against the institutional church is "so strong and original that only the prejudiced or obstinate will be able to dismiss , him."

I certail)ly wouldn't "dismiss him." To the contrary, I would say that his criticism of the institutional church' is, in many respects, very telling and most certainly ought to be taken seriously. ,1\ would also 'agree with those who say that he is one of the best literary stylists to have come down the pike, in recent years.

subscribed to by mass-circulation newspapers from one end of the country to the other. Moreover Poetic Freed,om it's safe to predict that within On the other hand, even at the next several weeks a number of other periodicals with a na- the risk of ~ppea(jng to be "prejtional audience will have taken udiced or" obstinate,'" I would notice of the book. In short, Wills agree with Christopher Lehmannis currently getting more at- , ~~~pt when he say~, in 'a gener: tention, and more accolades, than ally favorable review' of "Bare , any other writer I can think of- Ruined Choirs," that the reader even more than Norman Mailer, has "to take a lot of what Mr. who, according, to one reviewer, Wills writes on faith and as a is the only living writer who kind Of poetry." I would also go can match Wills' "fusion of po- along """ith those reviewers who litical insight, lyric power and have characterized his polemical style as "ruthless," "strident," satiric wit ..." and at times rather "condescendPessimistic , Wills' book argues-to put it ing."

Poetic license of the kind that as mildly as possible-that the poor old Church is in catastrophi- Wills goes in for with a vencally serious trouble, largely of geance undoubtedly has its leits own making., Indeed his pessi- gitimate uses, but it can easily mism concerning the future of be abused. To my way of thinkthe institutional Church is almost ing, Wills has 'abused it rather funeral in tone. In the words of irresponsibly in his treatment of the same reviewer referred to a number of individuals '(John above, he seems to be giving it XXIII and Paul VI, e.g.) and a "the rites of extreme unction." number of specific issues.

His treatment of the celibacy This is not to say that Wills himself has left the Church, nor issue is a case in point. Wills is it to suggest that he has any casually asserts, for example, intention of doing so. ,He makes ' that "the kinds of men most adait clear in ,"Bare Ruined Choirs" mant on retaining celibacy are that, while he has pretty well also most opposed to social actigiven up on the institution, he vism; they try to restrict the has not given, up on the Church range of services to be rendered itself as lJe conceives of it in all by a priest." That's sheer rheits pristine purity. He is simply toric-and not very dazzling going underground-not in des- rhetoriC at that. pair, but because he is persuaded Iittellectual Arrogance that "The best thing' iii 'the Most people who have written Church, as ina nation, or in in· dividuals, are hidden .... Life's on the celibacy issue in recent streams lie far down, for us, be- years, regardless of, their own low the' surface of our lives- views on the matter, are willing where we must look for them. to look at all the pros and cons.

Not so Mr. WilI~. He is strongly It is time to join the underpersuaded that the debate about ground." celibacy is a completely phony It would be utterly presumptuous on my part even to com- issue. "It should be clear ...," ment on Wills' decision in this he says, "that all the arguments regard. I can only wish him well for institutionalized celibacy are as he sets out to discover for dodges and deceits." That strikes himself (as each of us must do ' me as carrying the virtue of self in the secrecy of his own soul) assurance almo$t to the point the authentic meaning of religion. of intellectual arrogance.

Criticism of Reviews One of Wills' more enthusiThis having been said, I can- astic reviewers lias suggested, not help but add that some of witll reference to another issue, Wills' reviewers have been less that while Wills is admittedly a objective in their treatment of brilliant writer, he ought "to stop his new book than one might waving his arms and think ...." reasonably have expected them . I second the motion. The celibacy to be. Their critical faculty issue and a number of other matseems to have been dulled by ters which are touched upon in their admiration for his obvious Wills' book are much too imporliterary talents. To'say that he tant to be dismissed out of hand has a brilliant literary style and with a dazzling rhetoric flourish.

BALL CHAIRMEN: From left are organizers- of the 18th annual Bishop's Ball, to be held Jan. 12 at'LincolQ Park Ballroom: Mrs. S'tanley Janick, Fall River, Co-Chairman of Deeorrations; Norman Hathaway, Fall River, Hall; Miss Margaret M. Lahey, Somerset, Theme and Color; Rev: Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Diocesan Director; Mrs. James A. O'Brien, Fall River, Pr~sentees; Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, Hospitality; Robert Coggeshall, ' Co-Chairman of Decorations.

':S~mmer CCllmps Are Assisted By Ball The 18th annual Bishop's Char· ity Ball of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River to !be held on Friday, Jan. 12, at Lincoln Pak BaLlroom, North Dartmouth, will benefit four summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children of southeastern I 'Massachusetss, regardl~ss of 'color, race or creed. The social and charitable event will be in honor of the Most, Rev. Daniel

of the planning committee, that River. The diocesan Ball com- many camp improvements have mittee and the co-sponsors of the been made possible by proceeds affair, the Council of Catholic of the Ball. The camp for excepWomen and the Society of St. tional children, Nazareth Day Vincent de Paul, supervise all Camp, provides expert recreation details of this outstanding winter under professional supervision.

The St. Vincent de Paul Oversocial event. ' , night Camp and Catholic Boys' Camp Improvements Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Day Camp served hundreds of diocesan director of the Charity cqHdren during the past summer Ball, noted at the last meeting under trained camp directors. A camp at Mashpee on Cape Cod served emotionally disturbed children.

A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall

'Naturoll Allies' Communicati~ns I~edia

Indispensable Ingredient ;of lieligious Renewal

LONDON (NC)-The communications media are an indispensabl,~ ingredient in the religious renewal movements of modern tJim~s, especially in ecu~enical acti"it\~s, Archbishop Edward Heston, president· pfthe Pontifical Commission ,for Social/Communications, said here. .

Talking to newsmen in, St. Bride's Anglican church Archbishop Heston, the Eng~ish­ iangage press officer at' the Second Vatican Council and at the first Synod of Bishops, in 1967, stressed the 'importance of the media in communicating the Church's message.

"I know of no more important TIle American archbishbp also foreeast eventual Catholic mem- function for Christian journaIdsts 'bership ,in the World CoUncil of and broa<;lcasters than to, continChurches, although he· did not ally 'reiterate the importance of specify a date for this develop- ,and the validity of the Gospels to ment. modern man,'~ he said.

"And 1 must also stress that One of the Vatican's 'foremost experts on press-radio-television the Qlurch must help the media communication, the archbishop in getting the message across. I was in Britain ·for nearly a week think we've come a long way in -recognizing that "cOmmunicaas a guest of the governm'ent. , tions people are our natural He conferred with Anglican allies, not our foes."

Arch/bishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury and made a Christmas television tape for the British Broadcasting Corporation during his visit.

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Persons or groups wishing to help carry on this work may do so by having their names printed in the Charity ~all Booklet in one of six categories, each entitling the person or group to tickets for the ,Ball. Tickets will also be sold at the baHroom.

Further information may be ob· tained by contacting Ball Committee members, members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Council of Catholic Women, or Bishop's, Charity Ball Headquarters, 410 Highland' Ave., Fall 'River, Tel. 676-8943.

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History Professor Says Israel Should Be , Every' Christian '8 Second Country WASHINGTON (NC)-"Every Christian ought to have two countries, his own and Israel," said Dr. Frederick M. Schweitzer, author of a history of Judaism sponsored by the New York Archdiocese and the AntiDefamat~on League of B'nai B'rith.

Dr. Schweitzer, a Cathoilc and an associate professor of history at New York's Manhattan College, said that in his opinion "Christian Zionism follows logically from Christian doctrine."

While acknowledging that Israel as a nation practicing power politics "is subject to criticism of the kind one applies to any state;" he said "the Jews have a vocation to live in the chosen land of God. To me the restoration of the Jews to their ancient homel1and is the working of divine Providence."

The fundamental cause of anti-Semitism, he said, is "the ancient charge of deicide," the belief that the cry of the Jew.ish leaders to Pontius Pilate "His blood be upon us and on our children" brought a permanent curse on the Jewish people. , Anti-Semitism Constant Dr. Schweitzer said that this belief is a misconstruction. "My own position is that Christianity does not replace Judaism."

"Neither Jesus nor Paul see the Jewish community as rejected by God in any way," he

Asserts Bishops' Synod Valuable

DR. SCHWEITZER said. Noting that Jesus, the disciples, the early Christians were all Jews, he said that the distinction between Judaism and Christianity was vague until the fourth century. "One could go . to the synagogue on Saturday and to Mass on Sunday."

Denying that there is any basis ·in the New Testament for anti-Semitism, Dr. Schwzitzer said that the criticism of the Pharisees by Jesus is "ctitrlcism from within" and was "not a condemnation but a qualification."

Periods of cordial understanding between Christians and Jews since the first centuries after Jesus are the exceptions, he said.

"Anti-Semitism ,is a constant."

Hebraic Revival "The Renaissance," he said, had a high regard for Hebrew scholarship. They saw a knowledge of Hebrew as a key to the understanding of Christianity. In the Enlightenment, the philoso-

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Synod of Bishops has already proven a valuable institution, despite some difficulties encountered at the 1971 session, .Pope Paul VI told 15 members of the synod's permanent advisory council.

The council of the general secretariat of the synod was received in an audience by the Pope after a week of meetings to overhaul the synod regulations 'and suggest a date for the next synod and to discuss possible topics.

The Synod of Bishops has the ST. LOUIS (NC)-A federatask of providing a sounding tion of national' Catholic press board for the opinions of bishops organizations has been proposed throughout the world on impor- by officials of the American and tant church subjects and offering German Catholic press associaadvice and suggestions to the tions, meeting here during the P.ope and the Vatican.

Midwest regional conference of The 1971 synod session ran the Catholic Press Association of into difficulties because of pro- the United States and Canada longed debate with frequent rep- (CPA). etitions on the 'extremely vital The proposal is directed and far-reaching subjects of the toward the International Catholic priesthood and world justice. At . Union of the Press, with headthe end of the synod Pope Paul quarters in Paris. The union now invited the more than 200 dele- includes four other federationsgates to submit suggestions for 'of individual newspapers and improving .future synod sessions. magazines, Catholic news agenIn his brief Latin address to cies, individual j'ournalists, and the 15-member synod council teachers of journalism-but does Pope Paul said he "remembert!d not currently have a federation well" ,the 1971 synod but is al- of national associations of Catholic publications. ~eady thinking about the next The joint announcement was one.

Alluding to the fact that some made by Father Louis G. Miller, bishops have suggested that. CPA president, and James A. synod sessions be held every Doyle, CPA executive director, three years instead of every two Experience years 'as is now called for, Pope Paul said he wanted to have the Since a politician never beopinions of the bishops on the lieves what he says, he is surmatter before reaching a deci- rrised when others believe him. sion.

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phers insdsted that men are men.

A man is more a man than he is a Christian or a Jew. With the philosopher, the Jew ceaszs to be a victim and becomes a problem.

"In the 19th century there were tendencies toward the emancipation of Jews," he said, but also other currents contrary to that, starting points for the pogroms and the Hitlerian holocaust.

"In the EnLightenment and the 19th century, regard for the Jew is in secular terms. There was no real appreciation of Judaism as a great world of religion or of its importance for Catholicism.

"The next great milestone was the Second Vatican Council's declaration on the relationship of the Church to non-Chnistian religions." With the readings from the Old Testament at every Mass, Dr. Schweitzer said, there has been "a kind of Hebraic revival."

'Most Gifted' But he said, 'it is "too soon to say whether anti-Semitism has gone into dec\iine. "My instinct is that anti-Semitism is a kind of Hydra," a many-headed monster, growing new heads when one is cut off.

"What a1Jpeals to me most a1bout the Jewish people," Schweitzer said, "is their high regard for scholarship. Their greatest triumphs are triumphs of scholarship. The Jewish race is the most gifted the world has ever seen. Jews, century after century, produce seminal thinkers and artists."

"Beyond that," he said, "their greatest achievement is simply to have endured against every obstacle."

Defending the vigor of 'Israeli millitary policies, Schweitzer said that "the lessons of appeasement in the 1930s animate the Israeli government's attitude toward the guerrillas." He said Israelis believe appeasement lasted as long as it did before the 'Second' World War because of the prevalence of anti-Semitism.

Germans, Americans Propose New Federation for Catholic Press and Dr. Ferdinand Oertel, president, and Wilhelm Schmitz, vicepresident of the German Catholic Press Association.

The new federation would include organizations in about a dozen countries, and it would serve as an information center and a coordinating agency for international programs and projects of value to member publications in ,the various national associations.

Dr. Oertel invited the American CPA to join the German group in the development of a set of principles for the Catholic press throughout the world. He said that Catholic publications are the Church's basic communications instrument.

Catechists Financial aid from the Society for the Propagatfon of the Faith has also been stepped for catechists. In 1971 it amounted to $2,811,700 (or 30.5 per cent of the money ava.iJable for extraordinary subsidies). In 1972 the amount will be s?me $4,000,000.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 9, 1972

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Aging Committee Established SAN DIEGO (NC>-=-Bishop Leo T. Maher of San Diego has set up a 50-member advisory committee on the aging to deal with new legislation, low cost housing, spiritual, recreational and educational programs, and information, gathering related to the needs of the aging.

The new committee is part of the diocesan Department of Aging, formed last January. The committee will consist of a priest and two or more lay people from each of the diocesan deaneries, the regional groupings of parishes and institutions in the di-

ocese. Other members will be representatives of the aging themselves,- ethnic groups, professional people, retired priests and Religious.

1he diocesan department on the aging "is not designed to serve Catholics only, but to reach all people on an ecumenical basis,"- said Miss Maria Estrada, department director.

Responding to requests by parishes, the department has organ, ized visiting programs, senior citizens' clubs, days of recollection, job and councellirig referrals, and obtaining household help.

SDM·EDNE FDR THANKSGIVINB THE HOLY FATHER'S MiSSiON AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

You'll be happier this Thanksgiving if you give something of yourself to someone who has nobody.

Giving belongs in Thanksgiving.

Attend Mass that morning in your parish church• SOMEONE Take fifteen minutes to visit someone in the WHO hospital.

HAS NOBODY Have someone who 'eats alone join your family for turkey and all the trimmings.

Better yet, feed someone who

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food.

There are millions of people in the world who have hollow eyes and swollen stomachs- because they have no food.

We don't see them because they're'overseas.

We know they're there, however.

can we ignore them, let them' starve?

Your $10 by itself will feed a family of refugees for a month. $100 will feed ten families. $975 will give a two-acre model farm to a parish in southern India, so that the priest can raise his own food and teach' his people better crop· production. $10,000 will ena~le Archbishop· Mar Gregorios to give a churchless village a church, school, rectory and convent. Name the parish for your favorite .saint, in memory of your: loved ones.

The Archbishop will writ~ to you.

Giliing belongs to Thanksgiving, it's part of life.

How much will you give back to God?

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Drug Scene· There has been a chang~ in attitude on the drug. scene.

A few years ago there was writirig and speaking about it in a crisis atmosphere, with much confusion and concern. Now there has come the acceptance that the drug matter' is here to stay, seems to have become a part of .the American scene, and so it has fallen into the category of a sickness that will always be with us.

It is necessary that the war on drugs still be waged on all fronts. The respectable drug houses must be confronted with the fact that they are manufacturing drugs in such qua.ntities that only an irrational person would insist that some are not reaching the wrong hands. The whole American concept of taking medication for the least discomfort must be re-evaluated.

And there must be the understanding that parental attitudes have much to do with. drug use. Stanford University's Dr. Harold H. Blum has done a study in which certain key 'factors stand out. Dr. Blum says that more than the so-called generation gap, the key factors to look' at in predicting where drug use will surface are family practices and background. Such things as family income, political and religious beliefs, attit.udes toward authority and 'toward youthful rebellion and self-expression, and parental use of drugs and alcohol are what to look for.

"The richer the family the greater the risk" indicates that children who are given everything that they want often turn to drugs because they do not r~ceive what they need-the love and concern and security from their parents.

"One of the most powerful sets of predictors," says Dr. Blum, is religipn, and the family 'Yhere religion is a strong factor with well-defined beliefs and standards indicates a lower risk than more liberal faiths.

Dr. Blum points out that there is always tension between authority and self-expression, between the freedom of the individual and the responsibility toward the community, and these must be balanced because any imbalal)ce on the side of the individual can point to. one who will more easily turn to drugs.

Where family cohesiveness is lacking,' the influence of the peer group becomes stronger and this is another factor making introduction of the drug scene easier.

The family must still be considered as the basic element in society and the place where attitudes and actions take their beginnings and influences.

The Poor Indian Indians have occupied - appropriately enough - the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington. It seems hardly likely that their act'ion will bring about the effects they desire, and it is unfortunate that they defy court orders since the courts, imperfect though they sometimes may be, are the guarantee that we remain a nation of law..

But it is a fact that the American Indian has been treated s.hamefully by the government of the United States. There seems to be a great 'deal of good will in speaking of what should be done for the Indian, but this good· will just does not seem to be .able to be translated into action. Perhaps the whole matter has been bogged down in bureaucracy. Perhaps people just cannot comprehend that the plight of the Indian is as desperate as it really is. ' But there should be the realization. that the United States has obligations to the Indian, not in a ,patronizing, way, but in justice. And the government should reach out to fulfill these obligations, and the people should insist " that this be done.

The United States is a generous nation. Its generosity should extend to those whose' ancestors inhabited this land long before there was a United States. .

@rheANCHOR OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER PUBLISHER ' Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O.; S.T.O. GENERAL· MANAGER Rev. Msgr.'Daniel F. Shelloo, M.A. ~le.ry

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,CHD Aids Edu(cation Programs .

Helps Resettle Expelled Asians WASHINGTON (NC) - Seven voluntary agencies, including the Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Catholic Conference are helping to resettle 1,000 Asians expelled from Ugana. The first 82 refugees' arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport Nov. 2.

An. estimated 50,000 Asians, either stateless or holding foreign passports, were ordered to leave Uganda by Nov. 8.

USCC Migration and Refugee Services has accepted responsibility for 160 families, seven of them in the first group to arrive, said John E. McCarthy, director of the USCC unit.

They are going to several dioceses, he said. "We've had offers from Newark, Portland, Ore., Los Angeles." . The group includes a microbiologist, a lubricating engineer who has 20 years, experience with Esso, a welder and fitter, and the superintendent of a clothing factory. All ~peak English, and McCarthy said, "We won't have any trouble placing them. We have enough job offers for all of them."

The State Department requested the assistance of the Migration and Refugee Services, McCarthy said, land the agency contacted resettlement direCtors in various dioceses throughout the United States. .

Continued from Page. One modules experimentally, Perella said Frederick J. Perella, Jr., as- said, and comments on their efsistB:nt educational coordinator fectiveness will help the CHD to , develop future programs. for the CHD. The educational office has also Perella explained that the CHIl's educational program is compiled and distributed a 39more than just infprmational- page "Pov.erty Profile" devoted to replacing myths about poverty it is "value education."

"Our goa I is behavioral with facts. It points out, for exContinued from Page One. ample, that:' c~nge," he said. He, said that "By government st,andards, 60 ataion for the Protection of the" American people simply do not realize the extent of poverty percent of the poor are children Family Life (NA!PFL) is waging a in the united States, or the con- under 18 or elderly persons over campaign agwinst the Birming65. ditions th..".t cause it. ham Family Planning AssociaMore importantly, he said, "(Over-all) 75 percent Of poor tion's decision to form a subsidCatholics do not fully ,realize people are really not capable of iary company ,for the sale of nonwhat they can and should do as working. Of the 25 percent cap- medical contraceptives.'

ChristiaI).s to combat poverty. able, 23.6 (6.2 million persons) According to the September The CHD's educational p.rogram do work full or part time. 95 per- edition of the Birmingham is geared to developing "an cent of all poor capable of work. group's "Newsletter," the conawareness of what the Church do work!'~ traceptives will be advermsed has said' about social justice," The educational office is also and sold through its clinics and 'Perena said. ' developing programs for training a mail order service.

CHD's educational campaign is seminarians and nuns, and it is iJt is "nothing more than a viactually two-pronged. "At our of- working on the possibility of pro- ably commercial firm selling fice8 here we work- primEirily on grams at the college level. contraceptives," Mrs. Morris fomlal or structured eduqational The effects of these education. Silid. situations," Perella said. "The al programs will not be seen for Quoting from the same "NewsU.S. Catholic Conference's Divi- a long time. Education is a "desion of Creative Services in New velopmental process," Perella letter," she said that a regional York works with.the masS media said. "It will take several years officer of the Birmingham organ·ization had stated that contraand in what are generally called just to get it under way.", ' ceptives would be sold to any'impact' situations." one visiting the clinic, irrespecLast .yearthe two staffs coltive ot" 'age or marital status, laborated to develop io educa- Value of CathoUc even if they were only 13 years tional "modules" on poverty for Schools Reaffirmed.

-of age. 'use in Catholic elementary and PARIS (NC) - The National "What has that to do with secondary' schools. The modular Committee for Catholic Educaapproach was used, Perella said, tion, with the backing of the planned families," she asked. because "few teachers would French bishops, has reaffirmed "All it will do 'is to escalate the take, a whole curriculum. So we the value of Catholic schools venereal disease rate, the illewro::e it in sections, self-con- without condemning parents who gitimacy rate and the abortion tained units or modules. That choose another form of educa- rate." way teachers are able to pick tion for their children.

Those using an extension of unit.3 and incorporate them into In a 22-page document entitl- birth control services by the other courses." ed "A Reflection on the School government claim that if unSeveral dioceses are. using the in France and on the Catholic wanted pregnancies were' preSchool in the Nation and in the vented Britain would save close Church," the committee conclud- to $5 billion on welfare payCOlnc:ern for Drop ed that "the future of the Cath- ments over the next 16.years.

In Marian Devot~on olic school rests on its lletermiWhat ,is worrying many ZARAGOZA (NC) - A high nation for renewal and progress. Christians in Britain is that the Chu:rchmen here in Spain blames 'More and more it is tending to family planners' offer advice on Catholic education,leaders for a present a new image of itself." how to have sex without being decrease of Marian devotion in Since the 19th century, the concerned with the full conse'this nation otherwise fam:ous for existence of Catholic schools in quences. its cult to 0ur Lady.

France has been challenged by, Alrchbishop Marcelo. Gonzalez 'the anticlerical left which deStatesman of Toledo told delegates to a mands that public sC;hools alone Marian Week here that "the cri-, receive aid and recognition from A disposition to pres,erve, and sis fln devotion to Mary cannot the state. In recent years" some an ability to improve; taken tobe attributed to the teaching Catholics,,'questioning the value gether, would be my standard of authority of the bishops nor to a of Catholic institutions in generdecrease of interest at the grass- al, have also questionel the ex- a statesman. roots level. istence of the Catholic school.

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.Oklahoma Bishop Urges Reform Of Criminal Justice System OKLAHOMA CITY (NC)-De·. scribing the U.S. system of criminal justice as "in danger of ale most complete collapse," Bishop John R. Quinn of Oklahoma City and Tulsa has urged Catholics of the diocese to support all local and state efforts to improve pri· sons.

"It would be sheer lunacy to imagine that society has been improved if a prisoner emerges from confinement not a better and more positive person, but a more determined and hardened criminal," Bishop Quinn said in a pastoral letter on penal reform.

"Do we have to be told that the hardened criminal is very much a destroyed person and that he is very much a threat to the safety and welfare of the rest of us?" he asked. "How can we call 'ourselves believers in the Gospel of Jesus and be indiffer· ent to the progressive disintegration of other human beings?"

The bishop said that estimates "indicate that 85 percent of all crimes are committed by repeat· ers who have already served time in a penal institution."

Discussing the reasons for this, Bishop Quinn pointed out that the state prison at McAlester, built to house a maximum of 1,100, inmates, now holds more than 2,000.

'Remains a Person'

problem of narcotics.

"The convicted criminal is and remains a person. To live. in a human way man needs among other things adequate housing, room to move, education and something to occupy his time.

Where these things are lacking it is not hard to see why people have no sense of human dignity and why they may act at times like animals."

Bishop Quinn called the education programs in the state correctional institu1ions "woefully inadequate."

'Special Education' He also noted that two thirds of all convicted offenders are not in prisons but on probation. Because insufficient funds are provided for the parole system, he said, the case load average in Oklahoma City is about 187 per parole officer and about 157 in Tulsa. This situation "contributes to the high failure rate."

The bishop proposed for consideration: "I. A full time Pardon and Pa· role Board composed of qualified people.

"2. Increased salaries for prison guards with a demand for improved qualifications.

"3. More comprehensive education programs and an attempt to come to grips in a realistic way with the 'special education' problem which prison inmates "This severe overcrowding to- present. gether with the absence of "4. Expanded pre-release proplanned activities to occupy the grams with greater support from time and attention of the pri- the communities in whiCh they soner leads to all sorts of crimes are located. . against persons within the prison' "5. Separation of hardened itself," he said. "There are fre- and da!1gerous offenders from quent stabbings and assaults and other prisoners and establish. the de'gradation that comes with ment of minimum security prisperversion, not to mention the ons for first offenders..

THE ANCHORThurs., Nov. 9, 1972

See Civil War Threat in Chile SANTIAGO (NC) - Chile's bishops issued a call for domestic peace as conflict between the Marxist government and opposition groups sHarply increased, threatening civil war.

In addition to the labor controversies dividing the people, the bishops said, "there is a smouldering confrbntatiton be. tween large sectors of the population which could easily lead to a struggle of untold consequences, including the liquidation of one whole class."

They did not identify the threatened group of Chileans.

The bishops' warning came as opposition parties and organizations staged several strikes climaxed by a Day of Silence to protest government economic and social policies, plus restrictions on press, radio and television.

The groups are united in the National Commando for People's Defense and are pressing President Salvador Allende's administration to grant eigh~ demands.

The demands include respect for civil rights, a free press, social change in accordance with law, people's participation in reform decisions, job security, an end to violence, freedom to travel abroad, and an end to political control of economic resources.

The bishops asked President Allende to accept these points "as a peaceful way to solve the crisis." But they also asked opposition leaders to "maintain obedience to the constitutionally elected authorities."

LONG ROAD AHEAD: Near Delano, Minn., three marchers continue a trek which will take them more than 3,000 miles form St. Paul, Minn, to Toliman, Guatemala. They are seeking to raise $500,000 for the San Lucas Mission, which is sponsored by the Diocese of New Ulm, Minn. NC Photo.

Connolly Players Act Plan 'Witness for the Prosecution' For Nov. 17-18 Production

With the school year now wen Bacon of Bishop Gerrard and under way, the Connolly Players Phyllis Stanton and Cheryl Lay are once again in the swing of of Sacred Hearts Academy. dramatic action. Hardly rested Essential to any production is ST. JOSEPH, from Winterset, Tall Story, and a dedicated stage crew. Under ATTLEBORO Born Yesterday, last season's ef- the supervision of Robert Flynn, An old-fashioned record hop, forts, the players are hard at who has been appointed stage featuring music and clothes of work on their forthcoming pro- manager, and his assistants Robthe '50's will be held from 8 to duction, Witness for the Prose- ert and Russell Abisla, a crew of midnight Saturday night 'in the cution by Agatha Christie. workers is building the two sets. parish hall.

The story is that of a young The crew is made up of John Cub Scouts are holding a married man who. spends many Higgins, .John Britland, Maurice three-week sale of holiday can- evenings with a rich old lady.

Levesque, Mark. Andrade, Ron· dies and nuts.

One evening she is found mur- aId Caouette, and Robert Soares.

The annual turkey whist will dered, and the young man is the Michael Faris is handling the take place at 8 Saturday night, chief suspect. Since he is quite props. Veteran light man Thomas Nov. 18 in the parish hall. Tur- na'ive and innocent,' the testi· Higgins is back on the lightkeys, grocery baskets and other mony of his wife is expected to board. The play is under the prizes are needed as donation result in an easy acquital. Only and may be left at the rectory at Agatha Christie, the master of direction of Rev. William J. Cullen, S.J. any time. the modern murder story, could Production dates are Friday, Vocation field trips for chil- have conceived the turn of Nov. 17 and Saturday, Nov. 18 dren in CCD classes will be held events that follow. at 8 P.M. Tickets are $1.50 and Sunday afternoon from 12:30 to Brushing up on their best 4:30, with boys visiting Friars British accent for the play, which may be purchased at the school, of the Atonement in Cumberland is set in contemporary London, from members of the cast and and girls visiting Sisters of the are John Affleck,. Paul P.J. Le- crew, and at the door.

Presentation in Dighton. . vesque, Joseph Occhi, Brian Officers of B.E.E. People for \ Ribeiro, David Doraz, Chris the coming year are Mary Jane White, Nicolas Semine, and Ed- "Goulet, president; Pamela Nas- ward Lambert. The female leads lund, .vice-president; Nan c y are Celine Oliveira and Susan O'Brien, secretary; Michelle Rocheleau, treasurer.

Sisters to Request 25 Per Cent Raise

The Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town should be inclUded, as well are full dates of all actiVities. Please send news of future rather than past events.

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK A Country Fair planned by the Women's Guild will take place in the basement of the Church Center on Route 44 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18. Mrs. Eleanor Whitney, chairman, will .be assistsed by Mrs. Alice Risio, co-chairman.

Features will include a country store, handcrafted items, Christmas decorations, dolls and toys, baked goods, a green thumb section, mod articles, a fleamarket and children's pony rides; Patricia McWinnie will demon· strate arts and crafts and Rhode Island's youngest magicians, Bruce and Jeanette, will enter· tain between 2 and 3 p.m.

A snack bar will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and cocktails will be available from 6 to 9 p.m. Raffle tickets will be drawn at 8 p.m.

ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH Women's Guild members will ST. MARY, meet at 8 Tuesday night, Nov. NANTUCKET 14 in the church hall. Mrs. John The Women's Guild will hold Kevern, president, will lead a a covered dish supper at 7:30· business meeting, after which Monday night, Nov. 13. A social Mrs. John Houst, program chair· hour will precede the meal at man, will present Mrs. Judith 6:30, and a plastics demonstra- Heureaux, who will demonstrate tion will be held afterwards. various arts and crafts. Refresh· Members are requested to notify ments will be served by Mrs. a member of the telephone com- Matthew Fitzsimmons and her mittee if they are bringing committee. Members may bring guests. guests.

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MILWAUKEE (NC) - Rising expenses, particularly much larger retirement costs, will force nuns in Wisconsin to' seek raises of more than 25 per cent next year.

A study by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious showed that Sisters will require an average stipend of $4,135 for the 1973-74 academic year. This is in addition to a continuation of existsing policies of parishes and institutions regarding housing and transporation. ' The average stipend is a result of financial projections of 16 religious communities teaching in the state's five dioceses.

For 1972-73 the average stipend needed by the Sisters was projected at $3,280.

Requests Services For Crash Victims

CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal John Cody of Chicago asked the pastors of his archdiocese's 460 parishes to conduct services for the 44 persons killed and· over 300 injured in a train crash Oct. 30.

The cardinal also asked the pastoIlS of parishes where funerals for victims were to be held to notify him so that he could send a personal word of condolence to the families.

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THE ANCHOR-D.iocese of Fall River-Th.,:,rs., Nov. 9, 1972

Avoid Mid-D,e,cemb,er 'Panic Do Yuletid1e'S,h,opping .N,ow Just about this time, with Christmas Club checks in the mail, our thoughts turn to early Christmas shopping.

In early November we can view our gift list with comparative calm but by mid-December panic ~nsu~s.

Many of the better stores are sending or have already starting his (or her) own plants Jrom s~ed-then wh~t could be sent their gift catalogues. more "wanted" than a seed startThese in many cases are er kit that includes all the equip0

quite beautiful and while they are fun to look 'at they are also ~onderful for saving you steps.

They are really an upgraded ver-

ment needed to keep a gardener busy through the wintry months ahead. ' That same gardener on your list may have yearned in vain for a greenhouse apd while providing 'that would be an impossible strain on your budget, why not try fluorescent light gardening for him' as an alternative. oYou can start with a small basic set and gift him with the extras as the years go :on.

Christmas shopping at home can be as much fun as shopping in the crowded, warm, frustrating 'stores, bllt regardless of my good .intentions, I'm positive that not all my shopping will be done the 'leisurely way. ~er usual, . a lot will be finished up on Dec. 24.

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sdon of the yellow pages. Only in -Ruby Keeier, second (rom right; are on hand at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New Yor~ this ease let your pen do the City where Cardinal 1'erence Cooke presides at the dedication of a ramp for the handlwa'lking. . 'capped.

In the backg~ound is Bisho~ Joseph Flannery. NC Photo. ,Now's the Time I If you plan to do some of 'your shopping by m,ail certainly now is the time to do it. .J generally . procrastinate 'over this and end up eIther worrying frantically Anglican ~hurch Schools o WASHINGTON (NC)-C;:ardin. efforts being made by our gov- of a war but the beginning of an al John Krol, head of, t~e U.S. ernment" and the "apparent co- enduring peace based on justice about the possibility of the pack- Financially Hard Hit bishops conference, askediAmer- operation of the other parties in- -in Vietnam, in our own counages not arriving by .Dec. 25 or LONDON (NC)-The Church try, and everywhere in. the icam: to pray for the succ;:ess of voived" in the negotiations. failing to send my order out alWhile praying for peace, the world." together and then regretting it of England (Anglican) will need the Vietnam peace negotiations I For Enduring Peace ,bitterly when I can't find any- to find up to $45 million in the and to prepare for the postwar Philadelphia archbishop said that next 15 years to modernize its work of "reconciliation ~nd re- Americans must plan for the fuThe text of Cardinal Krol's thing as nice in the stores. ; ture and "prepare ours~lves for statement follows: .

Jewelry, lovely lingerie" up- schools and to meet the costs of construction."

Noting that negotiations, "seem the work of reconciliation and . ';Negotiations leading, to. an usual handbags, and the different new educ~tional"work, accordaccessory for the home are the irig to an official report路 of the now' to be at a critical ~tage," reconstruction' required ndt' only end of the fighting to Vietnam Church.

Cardinal Krol said that "all in Vietnam, but in our own na- seem now to be at a critical mainstay of these holiday broAnglican Bishop Robert' Stop- Americans should join in I heart- tion." stage. Appreciative of the intenchures. With these items, style "Generosity and a fervent de- sive efforts being made by our is l)ot as important as knowing ford of London said the rate of felt prayer that the outco~e will inflation in Britain is seriously indeed be aq end to the fighting, sire to bind up the physical and government and encouraged by the taste of the' person you're eroding the capacity' of the the speedy return home of our spiritual wounds inflicted by this the apparent cooperation of the gifting. churches to meet their share of prisoners oflwar, and a jJst and tragic conflict must mark our other parties involved, all AmeriI For the Gardener the costs of parochial schools. lasting peace throughout South- policies in the months and years cans should join in heartfelt If your family or friends inIn September Cardinal John east Asia." , ! ahead," Cardinal Krol said. prayer that the outcome will include a garden enthusiast then Heenan of Westminster warned , In his Oct. 31, statemen~, Car"Let us pray, then," the Car- deed be an end to the fighting, why not a thoughtful gift from British Catholics that unless dinal Krc>!, president of the Na- dinal said, "that these new and one of the flower companies. An more money' can be found, the tional Conference of Catholic hopeful developments will indeed the speedy return home of our prisoners of war, and a just and . .! . exotic ,plant, that someone would Catholic Church will have to stop Bishops, spoke of the "m~ens1Ve prove to mark not just the end lasting 路peace throughout Southhesitate to splurge on for him- building schools and replacing I east Asia. self, makes the perfect gift at sub-standard ones.

"At the same time, looking to holiday time. Or possibly your The Anglican report, "Crisis in the future, we must prepare our. I .giftee enjoys' rai9ing plants or Church Schools" by a working DUBUQUE (NC)-A Catholic been able to distinguish between selves for the work of reconciliaparty. of the Church's board of women's group here has. as~ed its the things of Caesar and of God tion and reconstruction required education, said that inflation and members to start, a campaign to Minnesota Diocese -the market place and the al- , not only in Vietnam but in our I the extra building required for show that most women support own nation. .Generosity and a tar." the raising of the school-leaving Has Pastoral Council fervent desire to bind up the Pope Paul VI's decision hot to "Women too heady with secuNEW ULM (NC)-A consti- age to 16 in 1972 had a big fi- allow the ordination of Women. physical and spiritual wounds inlar liberation may endanger their ution for the New' Ulm 路Diocesan nancial impact. on the Church The executive board 6f the oown souls and'the souls of those flicted by this tragic conflict Pastoral Council has been ac- schools. Of these, inflation is the BOO-member' Catholic M'6thers whose lives they influence daily," must mark our policies in the I cepted by 114 delegates from 10 most pressing problem, the re- Study Clubs asked that letters months and years ahead. of she said. , ' regional councils in the diocese. port said.

"Let us pray, then, that these support for Pope Paul be Written The 49 Mothers Club in the The council will be made up by parish societies, home-~chool Dubuque area have spearheaded new and hopeful developments associations and independent campaigns against X-rated mov- will indeed prove to mark not of 33 members: the bishop, 20 Consider Conclusions just the end of a war but the lay persons (two from each group of paJ;"ishioners. : ies and for decency in dress.

Mrs. region), three priests elected - On Spanish-Speaking 'News coverage ,of the' papal Eberhardt was awarded the Papal beginning of an enduring peace based on justic~in Vietnam, in through the Priests' Senate, WASHINGTON (NC) _ A statement on ministry, Iwhich Award, "Pro Ecc1esia et Ponti- -our own country, and everythree Sisters elected through the seven~member ad hoc bishop's limited ministerial positions to fice" in August. where in the world."

Sisters' Council, threeyollth se- committee will consider the con- men, left readers "with the imlected by the campus ministry, clusions on the place of Spanish- pression that the majority of and three appointed at large by speaking peoples in the U.S. Catholic women were ;unhappy Catholic Church that were form- and disillusioned because! they the bis~op.

The constitution provides for ulated at a meeting of Hispanic could not be ordained to the priesthood," said Mrs. Arithony quarterly meetings. All meetings' leaders last summer. will be open to the public and Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, Eberhardt, CMSC presiden't.

"This is not true. MilliJns of will be held throughout the dio- general secretary of the National cese so many people can attend, Conference of Catholic Bishops Catholic Women are happyI with ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford ' said Ed Donahue, chairman of the and the United States Catholic the structure of the Chur1ch as constitutional convention.

Conference, was named 'chairman it is."

One of Southern New England's Finest Facilities "Woomen have never needed The constitution was develop- of the special panel by Cardinal the highest place at the fuble," ed over three years. The council John Krol, USCC president. ' Now Ayailable for Mrs. Eberhardt said. "We: have The committee will "see which was first organized on a regional basis because Bishop Alphonse , of the conclusions can be impleDistortion J. Schladweiler wanted the dioc- mented on a short or long range esan cO\.Jncil established from basis," according to Paul Sedillo, What we' call despair is ,often FOR DETAILS CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 the people up rather than from director of the U.S.C.C. Division the painful eagerness of unfed the bishop down, Donahue said. . for the Spanish-speaking. hope. "lEliot 0

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Cathol ic Schoo"ls

Recently I was in' the midst of a rough, day. Several of my kids were home with an intestinal virus. The phone rang. It was a neighbor who was frantic because her dog, Fifi, was at the vet for a, check-up and there was no way of knowing what the doctor A young mother, tied down would find. She wanted me with her children, feels cheated to leave my family and come . because she never develope:! her over to stay with her till the potential for a succes3ful career doctor called!

I don't mind people loving their pets - but that woman sounded as if she was going to have a nervous breal~down.

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I thought it was ridiculous.

Then I wondered how many times I've been upset over some. thing that seemed silly to s::>meone else.

So I patiently explained my silJuation,and she said she'd try to find someone else who was free to help her. ' A few days later I met another neighbor. She told me she had received a call from the first neighbor and had gone right over to cons,ole her. The second neighbor had been watching a boring soap opera on 'TV when she got the call, and was happy to be of service.

Blessing or Burden?

This started me "thinking about how some things can be a b.urden for one person.:. yet the same thing is a blessing to another.

The child comes whining to his mother, "Why's it raining, Mommy? Why does it always rain when I want to go out to play?"

A farmer sees the same rain falling and thanks God for saving his crop from drought.

The school age boy complains because of his homework, his chores around the house, his paper route. His teacher makes him study; his mother makes him tidy his room; the route manager asks him to take on 20 more papers because another boy quit. "There's never any time to just do nothin'."

The aged stroke victim sits in his chair at the' nursing home all day, looking out the window. He watches the boy trudge by with his papers... and wishes he could do something ... anything.

The traveling salesman would love just to settle down for a month 'at home. The overworked mother feels depressed because she hasn't been anyplace in 15 years.

Listen Every man should periodically be compeHed to listen to opinions whiclt are infuriating to him.

To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

-St. John Ervine

NEWARK (NC)-A state judge here has ordered the public school board in Orange, N.J., to begin to provide aid for students at five parochial schools in that city. ,Despite the ruling, two suits challenging the constitutionality of the state's aid to ponpublic school laws are still alive.

Under the ruling here, the school board must accept and process requests from schools seeking aid under a 1971 state law, even though the board believes the law to be unconstitutional.

... and a successful career woman complains of the emptiness, for no one ever calls, "Hi, Mom ... I'm home."

Set of Soul

There is a bit of salty philosophy I remember hearing as a child: "One ship goes east, an. other west, by the self-same winds that blow. 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale that determines the way they go. Like the ships at sea are the ways of fate,as we voyage along through life. 'Tis'the set of the soul that decides the goal, an:! not the calm or strife."

Sometimes it's wholesome to analyze our complaints ... for our burdens could be another's blessings.

My house is untidy. Do I think of those who have no home?

My kids are noisy. Do. I think of those who cannot hear?

Too often I discount another's worries. But each person's prob~ lems are important to him. I can~t begin to understand another's troubles until I can see from his point of view.

Do you have a, blessing or burden in your me that could be just the reverse for another person? Write to me care of The Anchor and tell me about it.

Maybe 'if we collect enough ideas, we can help others see a new point of view.

Germans Honor Memory Of Teresa Neumann KONNERSREUTH (NC)-Four thousand Catholics ,flocked to this small farming community to attend a Eucharistic Day of Prayer marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Teresa Neumann! who some claim experi~mced the slligmata - bodily mar"ks or pains similar to the wounds of Christ.

Bishop Rudolof Graber of Regensburg, who celebrated a Mass ,in the crowded village church, said that the occasion was not to be seen as the beginning, or. the end, 'of a canonization process for the still controversial Bavarian woman.

Public Health Nurses Get $1000 Raise NEWARK (NC)-In a move to improve nursing service at parochial schools in Newark the City Council voted to raise the salaries of public health nurses $1,000 a year.

The new $8,440 salary was designed to make public health nursing as attractive as ~ervice as nurses for the Newark Board of Education. Because of the salary differential and other factors, nurses had been leaving the health department to work for the education board and this necessitated a cutback in services being provided by the health service to parochial schools.

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In addition, the board-which has filed a suit in federal court in an attempt to upset the law on constitutional grounds-must pursue its constitutional arguments in state courts first, accordir.g to the ruling by Superior Court Judge Joseph Harrison.

Action against the school board was initiated by city ofANNUAL BALL: Enjoying the Annual Ball of the New ficials refused the services of reBedford Catholic Woman's Club are, seated, guest Mrs. "een refused the services of reLionel P. Amaral, and, standing, left to right, Co-Chairman medial instructors for children Mrs. Joseph C. Motta, President Mrs. Joseph N. Joseph and needing such services. .Under New Jersey law there Joseph C. Motta.

IS more than $30,000 available to Jrange for these services in this !:chool year. The procedure calls for the processing of requests from nonpublic schools to bp Argen!ine Bishops, Priests Debate 'Socialism' "andled by' the local public school districts with the state As Crisis Remedy reimbursing the districts for BUENOS AIRES (NC) - The The bishops' statement depart- funds spent.

Argentine Bishops' Conference ed from past conservative posiThe law has also been chal, recommended greater use of co- tions, but warned against blank operatives and redistribution of acceptance of socialism. It said leged in a federal court in Trenwealth to solve some of this na- some socialist trends "embody ton. That court has agreed to tion's problems, including vio- deceptive seduction under the form a three-judge panel to try' lence and inflation. guise of social renewal or libera- the suit, filed by various oppon¡ ing socialization, while pushing' .:-nts to state assistance to chilAlthough recognizing that "so- non-Christian ideas and senti- dren in nonpublic schools. cialism of one, kind or another . ments, such as class struggle, is gaining growing acceptance" subversion, hatred and materialamong many people, the bishops' istic tenets." statement _stopped short of acThe bishops' meeting held at cepting demands by progressive priests that they endorse "so- nearby San Miquel at the end of Aluminum or Steel October, gave them an opporcialism a la Argentina."

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992-"618 Third World Priests' Movement, eral recommendations. They said: which for several' years has been , pressing for radical reform of "Gravest of all (the problems) economic and social structures are the social and eco'nomic imin this once prosperous country pact of an unjust distribution of of 24 million people. the national income, the closing of shops and businesses, the While there has been repeated flight of capital or the misuse friction between most Argentine of foreign investment against Arbishops and the movement, both gentine interests, inflation, nesides are showing signs of con- glect of our agriculture, overciliation. taxation, price chaos and unemThe priests said "we want ployment." dialogue (with the bishops), be~ cause we oppose. attempts of those who seek to divide the Pope, Cardinal Discuss "Serving the Community Church." , Since 1873"

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The bishops agreed with the Third World pri~sts that the poor in Argentina are being exploited, that economic and social injustices take their greatest toll among youth, farm workers. and industrial labor, and that the old capitalist doctrine of free enterprise for' profit "neglects the common good."

Cite Problems The Third World Priests Movement, which claims a membership of about 500, has asked the bishops "to become the voice of the oppressed and the instrument of the p~ople's liberation" from want.

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Dutch Car-dinal Bernard Alfrink and Pope Paul VI met privately for more than an hour, and reliable sources said that the two reviewed the entire picture of the Church in the Netherlands.

Dutch Church authorities said that the cardinal was to discuss three principal topics: a catechetical course ordered with; drawn by Vatican offices; the situation in the Roermond diocese" where the appointment of Bishop Joah GUjsen aroused opposition; the Vatican ban on sessions of the Dutch National Pastoral Council.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 9, 1972

RESTORATION OF PIETA: Left photo: Like a macabre medical lab, a te~hnician in Vatican City examines one of the broken fingers of the Pieta. The statue's arm and hand lie' on the table beside other parts which' were broken in an attack by a hammer wielding madman.

Agency: Supports Incentive-Based Welfare Sy'stem

Right:! Holding a dental drill with a brush attachment, a technician 'looks through a powerful microscope at damage of the Pieta, Michelangelo's famed! statuE! which is being restored in Vatican City. NC Photo.

Acceptance Sleen, for ;IGlreen Paperi LONDON (NC) - Britain has prop-osed a future government for 'Northern Ireland that goes a long way toward guaranteeing the rights of that British province's 500,000 Catholics in their ongoing conflict· with Northern Ireland's million-strong Protes· tant majority: The Green Paper on' Northern Ireland published by the British government proposes restoration of a provincial parliment vague~ ly similar to the Northern Irish government suspended by Britain in March.

Significant proposals are: - The rights .of Catholics would be guaranteed under a formula not yet specifed_in the Green Paper drawn up by the British interim mlnister for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw.

- Responsibility for internal security, including police powers, would be retained by the British government in London.

Northern Ireland will ren't~in Bri- Londonderry, said he sees "the tish so, long as the ~ajority, first glimmers of reality in the ther,e want :it. But the dopument 'paper;" also says that "a settlement Brian Faulkner, leader of the must recognize Northetn Ire- predominantly Protestant Unionland's position 'within Ireland as ist party-which has run Northa whole." " I ern Ireland for over 50 years---' , React Fnvorably I called the paper "a clear and The Social Democratic and iogical one containing' realistic .

I ,Labor party (SDLP), which rep- proposals f9r discussion." Referresents most of Ulster's rI Cathoring to Faulkner's reaction, Dev, ,lics, reacted favorably :to the lin said: "I woul9 think that the Green Paper. SDLP Belfa$t lead- Unionist party would be less er Paddy' Devlin said: "We feel pleased with this document than this ,document is a step I in the . anyone else. For the first time right direction, recognizing as it the British government is recogdoes the possibility of rehnifica- nizing the right of tl1e Irish govI .ernment to play its 'part in a settion. " , ' John Hume,' SDLP leader in tfement." , .

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Former Priests Find New Home PHOENIX (NC) - Laicized priests, once considered outcasts, have begun to find new homes in the Ohurch here.

LAKE JUNALUSKA (NC) The Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA), an organization of Protestant and CathoFormer priests who now live lic churches, has called for a rein the Phoenix diocese have form of the nation's welfare sysformed ,their own organization tem. . and have begun to hold meetings The new welfare system should with Bishop Edward A. McCaremphasize "incentive, not comthy. pulsion" and should include job And two laicized priests are training and ail expansion of opnow working full time in. parish portunities for,work for the poor, religious education offices, while the commission said here in a third has a part-time job teachNorth Carolina. ing religion, according to Alive, "Need should be the only test tlbe monthly magazine of the of eligibility," and benefits should Phoen~ di'Ocese. be large enough to maintain a decent standard of living, accordThe Priests' Senate invited ining to a resolution adopted un' .active priests and former Sisters animously at a' meeting here of to a meeting last May at which representatives of the 17 denomMissionary Si~ter S~ys Asians Growing plans were made to begin a diainations and several church counlog between Church officials and Wary of"Aid' . cils which make up the organizaits inactive miJ1listers.

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DUNEDIN (NC)-Asifln peo- vantage from cheap labor and The present welfare system Since then two general meetpies all'e increasingly seeing aid 'natural resources and with scant "satisfied nobody," even though in,gs have been held, the group Indication of Settlement from rich countries as sorhething concern for the welfare of the the nation's economy can suphas elected officers and a liaison N6ftbern Irish Catholics have designed to exploit rath~r than people," she said."

"They then port "all Americans ,above the claimed that they have been dishelp them.

And their res~ntment . begin to look on aid from these section has held additional seslevel of dire poverty," the comcriminated against in housing, is growing. : nations as 'only a little being sions with 'Bishop Mc,Cal'thy. ·mission said. .This is the message of :Argen- given back of what has already CORA alsO backed fede~al jobs, and voting and that Northstandards and funding and called· ern Irish police have used un- tine-born Sister I~ez Braul(l, from been taken from them."

She illustrated this point by for a' simplification of welfare called for violence to repress. Jakarta, 'Indonesia, now i1n New their 'legitimate complaints. ,Zealand .on behalf of the Asian. saying that Indonesia .urgently rules.

The Green Paper will be fol- committee for People's Or~aniza- needs foreign currency to meet "Rigorous observance of the I, dts heavy debt to communist legal rights of welfare recipients" lowed soon by a "White Paper"tiom:.

Sister Braun, now irt New countries, incurred under the should be reqllired, CORA said. setting out Britain's definite prQThe resolution also "commends gram-as opposed to the Green Zealand after being th~ only ousted Sukarno nigiine. One way the action of legitimate welfare Paper's' tentative suggestions- woman deleg~te to anAu~tralian to get this currency was to inrights organizations who are for Northern Ireland's future c~nf,erence on' 'industriall chap- vite foreign investment. But striving 'to formul~te and pro- gover-nment. Nonetheless, the launey. She ,went as delegate for often it had a devastatng effect; mote decent programs, of pub.1ic Green Paper gives a definite In- her <:ommittee, which was' set up she said. dlCation of how the British aim by the East Asia ConferJnce of "A Japanese textile firm, for assistsance." to settle the problem of Ireland's Churches' Industrial Missi6n and, instance, sets up two highly orturbulent people. the Catholic Church. i ganized factories in Indonesia Prepare' D~fense 'There is a surprising acceptA Franciscan Missionary of employling Iittle labour," she said, Against Attack ance by the province's conflict- Mary, Sister Braun sai~ that but in the process thousands of BELFAST(NC)-Recent Pro- ing political groups. of White- the non-Catholic and Catholic smaU textile industries through-. testant words, and actions have l~w's proposals as embodied in churches had joined force~ in the out the country are killed. They committee to organize tne peo· call it a joint venture-but with ELECTRICAL led Northern Ireland's Catholics ·the Green Paper.

Contradon The restrained response is pie at village level into ~ommu- whom?".. to increase their preparations for partly due to the skillful way in nity projects.

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Gangs of Pro.testant youths which the Green Paper manages .A vivacious, articulatei social D~RMODY have carried out destructive raids to emphasize the 'right of the ,psychologist, Sister Br~un told and a Protestant leader said that . Protestant majority in Northern NC News that beCause of lexPloihis men will "shoot to kill."

Ireland to remain within the talion of Asian countries by deDRY CLEANING A committee in Belfast's larg- United Kingdom, /while pointing .veloped nations, the Asian peoAND FUR STORAGE est Catholic neighborhood warn- to the' possibility~some would . pie lire becoming more ~ary of 34-44 Cohannet St., Taunton ed that Catholics might arm for say inevitability-of eventual .aid. !

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CELEBRATION: St. John the B~ptisl Parish in New Bedford observed Sunday its IOOth Anniversary. Left photo; Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, celebrates Anniversary Mass assisted by, left to right, Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., pastor of St.

Bishop Conducts O'Donnell Rites Bishop James J. Gerrard read commendation prayers at the conclusion of the funeral Mass of Mrs. Margaret T. O'Donnell, mother of Rev. Joseph F. O'Donnel, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, North Easton.

Father O'Donnell was principal celebrant of his mother's Mass. assisted by Very Rev." Henry T. Munroe, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro, where the funeral took place, and Rev. Robert C. Donovan, curate at St. John's. Fourteen additional priests and monsignori of the Fall River Diocese also concelebrated, and many other clergy were present.

Homilist was Rev. David J. Coffey, pastor of Our Lady of the Bay Church, Warren, R.I., and Rev. Daniel F. Hoye,' curate at St. John's, was master of ceremonies.

Delegations Attend Delegations of nuns in attendance represented the House of the Good Shepherd, Marlboro, Immaculate Conception Convent, North Eastson, and St. John the Evangelist School.

Mrs. O'Donnell was the wife of the late Attleboro Police Sergeant Joseph F. O'Donnell. Interment was in St. John Cemetery, Attleboro.

John of God Church, Somerset; Very Rev. Thomas J; Harrington, Diocesan Chancellor; and Rev. Manuel ~.' Ferreira;- pastor of the celebrating parish.

Right photo, the Bishop greets parishioners after the Jubilee Mass.

Submits Possi,ble T'hemes: for 1974 Synod VATICAN CITY (NC) - Ten possible themes for the Synod of Bishops' meeting to be held in the Vatican in 1972 were submitted to Pope Paul VI by the 15-member council of the secre" tariat of the synod. The council met here Oct. 24-27.

Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, president of the U.S. Nationai Conference of Catholic Bishops and an elected member of the synod council, said the themes include family life, the teaching authority of the Church (magisterium) and the problems of faith today, local churches, marriage, ;youth, the missions, justice, secularism, prayer life and penitence.

Cardinal Krol said that some of the themes were suggested by council members at their firstplenary meeting in the Vatican Feb. 29-March 3, and others were made by bishops at the 1971¡ synod session by bishops' conferences.

32 Submitted "No matter what their origin," Cardinal Krol told NC News, "every theme submitted to the Pope was judged on the basis of relevance to the mission of the Church and the urgency of the subject to the needs of the times."

The cardinal added that another criterion was the number and composition of bishops' conferences suggesting a particular theme.

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In submitting its list to Pope Paul-who alone will choose the theme of the 1974 synod session -the council recommended that only one theme form the agenda of the next synod.

This does not m.ean, liowever, that Pope Paul must exclude "nine themes in .choosing one, because many of them are related.

Close Connection As Cardinal Krol explained, if the Pope chooses family life, the synod could discuss the problems of marriage, youth, catechesis and the role of the laity in the modern Church. If the magisterium is the chosen theme, then the synod would consider such topics as dialogue, ecumenism, catechetics and the' relationship with theologians.

Expanding on this point of the close connection of many of the

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Between 1950 and 1970 the and infidelity.

"We speak of procreation and number of priests in Africa jumpeducation of chitdren, while the ed from 7,500 to 15,100 and the world speaks of contraception number of Sisters from 14,078 to and abortion and suggests that 27,555. In Asia priests increased parents delegate others to teach from 6,868 to 15,257 and Sisters from 25,691 to 47,246. their children."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall "River-Thurs., Nov. 9, 1972

Life Is Meant to be Spent, Not Saved, Said Grandma She ~as leaying the old place, finally. They'd been at her to get out of there for a long time. "Too many steps," they said. "Obsolete plumbing," they said. "'Changing neighborhood," they said. She supposed they were right. They were right in everything and grouchy Oscar. Then these days, her grown chil- phabets Danny sorted her hair pins and - dren. Right about the world. spools of thread, the only toys Right about religion. Right .she had. about why people her age were wrong.

Yes, she was leaving the old place. She ~idn't want to leave.

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The steps were tiring, true, but she didn't have any reason for banking her strength. The plumbing was obsolete but she knew just where to bang the pipes for water or for silence.

The neighborhood was changing but she liked change. More old people moving in and more young couples without moneyjust as they had been when they moved in 40 years earlier.

More new babies in the plock.

Babies meant life. Babies meant usefulness. How she liked it when little Mrs. Lucero down the block knocked at her door and asked timidly if she'l keep an eye on Danny while she took the baby to the clinic.

Meant to be Spent Since the neighborhood clinic meant a long wait, she and Danny sometimes spent the whole morning together, he asking three-year-old fashion, "whassis." and she answering his every question. They watered the flowers, growing scrawnier every year since George died. They ,watched Sesame Street, chuck'ling together over bouncing aI-

She liked having Danny around. "Too wearing," her grown children scolded. What were they saving her for?

"Life is meant to be spent. not !laved," she retorted, surprised at her own boldness.

They smiled indulgently. She knew they were thinking, "Lis·· ten to her. She's getting a little on the senile side." And they would repeat her remark to their brothers and sisters and everyone would shake his head over Danpy's visits.

Mr. Moore Lucky they didn't know about old Mr. Moore, the lonely widower down the street who took to dropping in for a cup of cof- . fee mornings. Most days he told her about his wife, how she got sick and died and most days, she followed that with the story 9f George's stroke.

When they talked about their children, they shook their heads but when they talked about their grandchildren, they smiled.

She didn't have to explain to Mr. Moore why she was leaving.

He heard the same reasons from his children-old,. obsolete, changing. "What do they think we are?" he asked and they laughed together, tears snaking ,out of wrinkled eyes at this unexpected joke.

Yes, she was leaving. She didn't care where she was going.

That really didn't matter. It was the leaving that mattered.

S~e gave the obsolete radiator a fond final bang, sat down on the tiring front steps, waved at the wearing Danny and waited for life to begin.

Suddenly she felt tired.

FOURTH SESSION IN CONTINUING EDUCATION: TQp: Rev. Michael Fahey, S.J., of Weston College delivers his lecture on the Church as a Saving Institution to a crowded auditorium at .~t. Julie's PCllrish, No. Dartmouth. Rev. John J. Smith, co-coordinator with Rev. Ronald A. Tosti for the program is seated beside the podium. Bottom: Part of the large audience attend the s:ix-week program.

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-eatholic editors meeting here were told to examine their consciences, work for peace, and goad bishops.'

The list of priorities was given by speakers at a Catholic Press Association .Midwest regional meeting attended by 75 delegates representing 32 newspapers and magazines.

The plea fOr an examination of conscience came from Cardinal John Carberry of St. Louis who said he was not offering criticis,m but "only questions."

His first question was: "How can you maintain objectivity and stilI encompass truth? ... Truth is not well-served by' printing' statements if there are facts which refute these statements."

The second question, he· said, "concerns mo~ality, pornography, immodesty and nudity."· . "How can the media condemn pornography and violence and let their advertising departments fiII them with what is condemned, with things which constitute a source of sin for those that see it?" . . ."Can men excuse themselves

Pope Pr.ys for Haste In Ending War

simply because they are working on instructions from above?"

Cardinal Carberry asked.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Re- blood in Vietnam has become The third question, he continued, is ",whether you are moved ports of an imminent en~ to the the drama of the world. war in Vietnam were greeted by more by sensationalism and conl "Anyone who has that sense frontations in making news when Pope Paul VI with his personal of solidarity which now makes t'he good and'great things are not prayer for "generous haste" by of all men a family an~ a single all parties involved. given much attention at al1?" society, cannot escape the anxlhe Pope told a crow!:! in St. iety of these days of tension He said also that the mass media "tend to give immediate Petler'S Square that "we are and hope. Are we truly at the attention to critics of authority." awaiting the great news of a end of this war, which has made Thus, "criticism becomes more tt,uee and then for news of us understand that justice, freenewsworthy and dramatic than brotherly pacification." I - dom and love must mark the reconformism, .and tends to erooe It was the first time the Pope lations between peoples and men, conf~dence in authority." had spoken publicity about the and not the imposition of force, James McGinnis, director of pos:,ibility of an ending of the nor of the prestige of pride, nor St. Louis University's Institute, Vietnam war since it had been the blindness of hatred and viofor the Study of Peace, told dele- . announced by the U.S. that an lence?" . The Pope, who has .worked gates that the Catholic press can agreement· to end the 'war is ' both publicity and privately to,. help contribute to peace "by in- being finalized. terpreting (world) events not as The Vatican maintained com· 'national disasters' to U.S. pres- plete reserve on' the po~sibility . tige and power but as opportuni- of a solution in Vietnam,' ties" for conciliation.

But the Pope revealed his McGinnis said that the future hopes for peace in Vietnam Over 35 Years should contain "groups of Gospel . shortly after having tak~n part of Satisfied Service people ... witnessing to peace." in beatification ceremonies in St. Reg. Master Plumber7023 Such groups, he said, should Peter's Basilica for Salesian' JOSEPH . RAPOSA. JR. not be /like the peace movement Father Micfiael Rua. 806 NO. MAIN STREET "which petered out after two Pope Paul declared: "The draFall River 675-7497 years." ma of ideologies, of battIe and . .. .

bring the Vietnam war to a peaceful and just conclusion, continued: "WeIl, we are awaiting the great news of a truce and then for news of brotherly pacification .... What is needed now is true peace. That they may be realized with generous haste and so that the tensions between men may transform themselves into proposals and sentiments _ of brotherhood now becomes our fervent prayer."

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• Conference Asks Speedier Method Of Laicization AUGUSTA (NC)-Representatives of New England priests have voted unanimously in favor of a speedier method of laicization of priests.

In a resolution,delegates to the annual New England Conference of Priests Senates here recommended that "the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and New England Senates of Priests,press for the development of a policy which shows greater reliance on the judgment of the local Ordinary (bishop) in granting dispensations without undue delay to men who have conscientiously and maturely decided to leave the active priestly mi,nistry."

Under current procedures, applications for laicization are forwarded from the local bishop to the Vatican, which must give final approval to the process.

Another resolution also passed unanimously c a II e d on "all Church agencies in New England to be more aware of the science of professional planning" and the possibility of its use for "the more effective furtherance" of the work of the Church.

Two New England dioceses, Portland and Providence, have begun long range planning projects.

Archbishop Humberto Medeiros of Boston told the delegates: "Spiritual growth is never automatic, it is never short term, it never arises from meetings or discussions alone, it is unique and different in every case and it is the work of GOd, a work necessary before there can 'be unselfish ap6stolate."

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"This kind of growth involves some suffering, but it is not the kind of suffering which will reo move us from our people," Archbishop Medeiros said. "Rather we will partake more fully with them in the meaning of life. We will be among them as the Council says we should ... as a 'brother among brothers,' weak, joyful, trusting not in ourselves, but in God with whom we are daily united in prayer and service."

Bishop Peter L. Gerety of Portland stressed the need for prayers, "inclUding the whole gamut of forms of prayersprayer alone, prayer together, shared prayer, dialogue prayer.

The essence is what all spiritual writers have told through all the centuries; to be effective priests in any lasting way, we must be men of prayer."

Eleven New England bishops and about 70 priests attended the conference. Father John A. Morrissey, chancellor of the Worcester diocese, was reelected chairman of the conference.

Assured of Funds HYDERABAD (NC) - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government may cut off foreign funds to missionaries, but not to hospitals run by them. This assurance was given at a national hospital convention here sponsored by the Catholic Hospital Association. The deputy minister for health and famliy planning, A. K. Kisku, a Christian; told the 500 delegates at the convention not to feel panicky about the proposed' legislation to regulate all money coming into the country.

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Bishops Amn'esty Stand Restated WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. bishops' 1971 statement favoring amnesty for "selective conscientious objectors" to war has been reiterated in a statement from the Division of World Justice and Peace of the U. S. Catholic Conference.

The division's statement was issued in response to the "increasing attention"given to amnesty in the presidential campaign, according to James R. Jennings, associate director of the division.

"While we welcome anything which adds to the publlic understanding of this important public issue," Jennings said, "appeals to emotion and nationalistic senU. S. PRIESTS RELEASED: Two American priests, Father John Peterson, 35, left, timents in the heat of a poHtical and Bruno Hicks, 43, appear before Edmundo. Reyes, right of the Philippino Immigration campaign can have the opposite and Deportation Commission in Manila. They were signing documents saying that they effect and actually obscure the human and moral dimensions were leaving the country voluntarily. The two had been under detention 'for alleged "anti- that should be 'given priority."

Filipino activities" but were released shortly before meeting with Reyes. NC Photo.

In an effort "to keep the discussion of this extremely sensitive and emotion-charged issue l on a plane worthy of democratic I discourse," Jennings cited the OAKLAND (NC)-An Ameri- radio station's advocacy of land mountains and had only been a following section of the U. S. can Franciscan priest arrested reform and organization of peas- temporary director of the station bishops October, 1971, statement and released under martial law ants)nto unions as well as his in 1969-70. "Perhaps he was de- on selective conscientious objecin the Philippines said he thinks involvement with the Federation ported because of his assoc·iation tion to war: "We are aware that a number "there was a Chr.istian alterna- of Free Farmers, which has with me," Father Hicks said. He of young men have left the tive to communism developing" sought to organize peasants and said he thinks the "government country or have been dmprisoned in that country "and I think to press for land reform, may really did not know what our because of their opposition to that's suppressed now." views were. have prompted his arrest. compulsory military conscripThe priest, Father Bruno Father Hicks said he was disHe said he could not tell Hicks, 43, who was director of a appointed about being deported whether any progress had been tion. It is posllible that in some radio station in the central Phil- from the Philippines at a time made under martial law. "I'm cases this was done for unippines, told NC News that when Marcos had decreed land happy to see that arms have worthy motives, but in general "movement toward social reform reform granting some 700,000 been confiscated and that some we must presume sincere objecwas growing" in the Church in Filipino farmers the right to buy of the oligarchs were impris- tions of conscience, especially on the Philippines.

"Leadership 12 acres of land each f.rom their oned. People are very much the part of those ready to suffer for their convJctions." among the hierarchy wa'S devel- landlords, 'and ordering about afraid."

"Since we have a pastoral conoping. I don't know what's go- 3.7 mH:lion acres of privately Commenting on the arrest of cern for their welfare, we, urge ing to happen now," Father owned farm land to be divided Dutch-born Father Cornelius civil officials ·in revising the law among the farmers.

Hicks said.

Lagerwey, executive vice-presi"We thought we had the dent of the Center for Social to consider granting amnesty to Father Hicks and Father John those who have been imprisoned Peterson, 35, were arrested know-how and the experience to Communications in Manila, about a month ago after Philip- help with lal)d reform," Father Father Hicks said that the main as selective conscientious objecgiv:ing those who have pine president Ferdinand Marcos Hicks said. Asked whether his reason was probably the publi-, tors, and emigrated an opportunity to reproclaimed martial law because expulsion might be an indication cation by the center of "strong turn to the country to show their of what the government said was that the I'and reform will not articles advocating Christian responsibHity for their conduct 'a threat to national security be ser:iously implemented, he socialism." and to be ready to serve in other from the communist New Peo- said, "I can't say. I hope not." ways to show that they are sinlater Father Lagerwey was ple's Army, backed by unnamed He said his radio station had cere objectors." allowed "a lot of 'free commen- released. foreign powers.

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Begin Screening Process to Avoid "Heart~reak' of Early Marriages ALBANY (NC)-eiting the frequent "heartbreak" of early marriages, Bishop Edwin B. Broderick has set up a new screening procedure for young engaged couples.

The procedure applies to all cases in which one of the engaged persons is under 21, and it can result in refusal to allow the marriage.

Under the procedure a priest begins to meet with the couple two to' four months before the wedding. During the meetings both priest and couple will evaluate the couple's maturity and ability to assume the resporsibilities of married life. Parents of the couple will also participate.

If the priest has any doubts, the couple will meet with a professional diocesan counselor. If both priest and counselor have

doubts, the couple will be asked to postpone their marriage.

Couples may appeal any postponement requests to the bishop, but special circumstances; such as pregnancy, will not waive the process.

In a pastoral letter, Bishop Broderick quoted statistics showing that "young marriage is far more problematic than marriage of a later age."

"I wish to do everything I can do to prevent the heartbreak of a marriage hastily entered and soon ended," Bishop Broderick said.

A committee of priests, counselors, educators and students has worked on the procedure for two years. The procedures will be reviewed after a year based on priests' observations.

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By Joe and 'Marilyn Roderick

This Halloween we bought our usual bags of goodies in anticipation of the little children who come to our'door with their' hesitant cries of "Trick or Treat." We endedl up with most of what we bought still intact because 'very few children showed up.

Where they were I do not "grass always being greener," find my' fingers itching to try know, but I did notice that Inew recipes as each holiday rolls almost every child or group around. There is something tre·,

of children was accompanied by a parent. Manilyn took Jason out for some Trick and Treating rather than let him go out ,alone.

The other week we were tal'king to the director of our local Boys' Club about the small number of children who attend activities during the week and he suggested that the problem was that parents were afraid to let their children out ,alone at night. This has always peen a phenomenon that we have associated with the big city, but rarely Wlith small cities and towns.

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Share Recipes Now I feel is a good time to appeal to my readers to 'share some of their recipes (especially their favorite holiday ones) with us. .u you have some very spe.. cial , or dessert that your family enjoys, it might be very nice to allow the readers of The Anchor to try it also. I haven't broached the subject, to, my understanding editor as yet, but if I do have enough favorite hoiiday recipes sent in, perhaps we could do a full page on them. ' This is the time of year when sharing 'should Ibe a byword and what could be more fun to share than recipes thlit your family has enjoyed. You can send them to me in care of The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall-River 02722.

This recipe makes a large, moist and delicious fruitcake that will keep right through all the' holiday festivities ahead, While dt's early to mention this, I will say thai''r- intend to use 'this recipe for my Stir-up Sun.. ' day fruitcake. It carrie to me from Mr,s. Joseph Mello of St. Michael's parish in Fall River.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON' The 25th An,nual Penny Sale will be held on Tuesday and , Wednesday nights, Nov. 14 and 15 in the church auditorium.

Doors open at 6:30 and the sales HOLY ROSARY, begin at 8. Fifteen complete dinFALL RIVER· ners will be awarded each night.

The Women's Guild Chr.istmas Children's Fair on ,Saturd~y partY will be h'eld at 6:30 Mon- afternoon, Nov. 18 starting at day night, Dec. 4. Friends of 1:30. ' ' r members are invited. An Italian .

ST. MARY, meal will .be served, according to announcement made by Miss NORTON The C~tholic Women's Club is Rose Saulino, chairman. 'She will be aided by Mrs. Manuel Ponte sponsoring a whist party at 8 Wednesday night, Nov. 15 in the in making her arrangements.

JOHN W. McDEV'rrr parish center. Turkey dinners, Tickets are available from Mrs. turkeys and other ,prizes will be John Cosmos and Miss Pat Costa. Mrs. Anthony Pannoni is awarded and refreshments will I be served. in charge of decorations.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, ST. MARY, WESTPORT BOSTON (NC)-John W. Mc- NORTH ATTLEBORO .

The Ladies Guild will hold 'a Devitt has been reelec'ted to a The parish was host recently 10th term as supreme knight <>f to 60 CCD teachers from the Christmas bazaar from 9 AM. to 2 P.M. Sunday, Nov. 12 at the the Knights of ColumbJs by the AttlEiboros at a workshop demparish hall. Attractions will board of directors of the frater- onstrating use of new CCD manal organization of Catholic men. terials. Mrs. Connie Farley con- indude Christmas decorations, McDevitt, 65, first w~s select- ducted the program, conduding toys, novelties, handwork items, ed chief executive officbr of the her presentation with a Bible' grlilb bags and a snack bar. group in February 1964. He had celebration. Chairman was Sis- ST. MATHIEU, se:rved 'as deputy suprerbe knig:ht ter Jeannette Gignac, C.S.C., FALL RIVER i since 1960. , The Courtcil of Catholic Women COD coordinator for St. Mary's A native of Malden, Mas:;., parish. arinounces a cake sale to be held ' Mj~Devitt had served ks chairfrom 10 AM. Saturday, Nov. 11 man and member oi several' OUR LADY OF ANGELS, at Stop and Shop, Hanbour Mall. . sc:hool boards in Massk~husetts FALL RivER Cakes should be brought to the and was chairman of the states A tur.key whish WliH be spon- ,parish hall between 7 and 9 toboard of educatJion befote joining sored by the Holy Name Soci- morrow night. Mrs. Oscar Raxter th'e Knights' New Hav~n Office ety at 7 Saturday night, Nov. 11 is sale chairman. as deputy supreme knight. in the parish hall.

A Christmas sale is scheduled Besides reelecting McDevitt, Parishioners will hold a pre- for the weekends of Nov. 25 and the Knights' of. Colurilbus 21- . Advent malasada supper and 26 and Dec. 2 and 3 in the parish member directors' boar4 meeting da'nce Saturday night, Nov.· 18, hall. Mrs. Louis ~erriier and Mrs. here reelected Charles Ducey 'of also at the hall.

Denis Vliolette, co-ehairmen, reHamden, Conn., as d~puty suA one-day trip to New York, quest that members bring donapreme knight;, Virgil - Dbchant ,of open to 'all, will take pla,ce Sat- tions for this project between 4 I ' t ' La. Crosse, Kart., as supreme sec- urday, Nov. 25 and will include and 8 P.M. Friday, Nov. '17. Sai~ retary; Harold Lamboley, ,of attendance at a Christmas show. hours will be from 10:30 AM. Monroe, Wis., as supretne advo- Reserva'tions may be made by to 8 P.M. on 'both Saturdays and eate;'John Griffin of Hughesville, telephoning 672-9737 or 673- from 9 AM. to noon on the SunMd., as supreme physician; and 1553. days.

Bishop Charles Greco of AlexanChildren of Mary will conduct The unit's next meeting will dria, La., as supreme chaplain. . a cake sale after all Masses the take place at 7:30 Monday night, II weekend of Nov. 11. Members Nov. 27. Mrs. Paul Lecours, wiU attend Mass, a Communion chairman, announces that it will Radio Schools Spur breakfast and a meeting Sun-' be open to guests. day, Nov. 26.

Village, Educati'on ST. LOUIS, I BUENOS AIRES (NC)-Radio OUR LADY OF FATIMA, FALL RIVER schools are stepping :up thE:ir SWANSEA All parishioners, especially adult e d u cat ion campaigns The annual parish Christmas parents, are invited to attend a throughout Latin Am~rica but sale wiU 'be held from 9:30 AM. ,film showing to be sponsored need helpfrom abroad, Said Fath- to 7:30 P.M. Saturday in the by the CCD at 7:30 Sunday er Enriqu~ Nardelli, a ~eteran in church hall. Unusual handcrafted night, Nov. 12 in the parish hall. these efforts.· I· items available will include knit Titled "What's This Got to do I In a ceremony, here i marking goods, household novelties, dec- with Catechism?" the film will the establishment. of the Latin orative items and personal gifts. explain new approaches to reliAmerican Association 'of Radio Santa Claus will be on hand to gious education. It will be folSchools (ALER), the Argentine greet children and special prizes, lowed by a discussion period and priest estimated that. illiterat,es . induding a color television set, refreshments will be served. in the continent numb~r nearly will be awarded. ' A smorgasbord supper will be 100 million. He included tho:,e who at one time knewl the fun- held in the church hall the Same \ damentals of writing an!1 reading evening, beginning with a social •. but became semi-illiterates be- hour at 5:45.

ONE STOP cause of a lack of mat~rials for ST. BONIFACE, SHOPPING CENTER practice. i NEW BEDFORD • Television • Grocery Other sources put the numher The Women's Guild, wUl hold • Appliances • Furniture of illiterates in the region at !iO a bazaar in the church hall from million, or about 25 pbrcent of 104 Allen St., New Bedford 10 AM. to 6 P.M. Saturday, Nov. the population 15 yearS old and 18. Attractions will include a 997-9354 over.

I homemade ,foods booth, chilFather Nard~lli said itlis doubt- dren;s articles, refreshments, ful! if government budgets can fihanderafted items and a white nance enough schools arid-teachelephant table. ers to overcome the pro~lem, and added that' radio schools-monitored by small groups in! hamlets, BEFORE YOU farms and slums-can do the job faster and at less expen1se.

BUY -TRY , Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items, for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town shOUld be included, as well are full dates of all activities. Please ~end news of future rather ,than past events.

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It is a sad state of affairs when people are afraid to' leave their houses for fear "they will receive bodily harm.' Unfortunately, very little seems to' be done about the situation. Certainly our chiklreri are very much restricted by the fact that they must rely 011 their parents to take them wherever they have to go.

Halloween' was once a time for children but it has become a tme for fear. i1t seems that everythfng is an occasion for fear nowadays.

It is a great ploy of the politicos to blame the courts, but the problem is much serious and complex than that, and aside Pumpkin Fruit Cake' from all the clamor crime continues and in some cases, as in ' 3 cups flour Fall River, increases dramatical2 cups sugar ly, with capital crimes becoming 1 cup chopped nuts a part of our everyday news 1 cup chopped raisins broadcasts. % teaspoon salt % teaspoon cinnamon ' Somehow we have developed i Tablespoon, baking soda 'a tolerance for this kind of news 1 Tablespoon baking powder which is shocking, even' to the 1 cup chernies (cut up) point of not allowing children to 1 can pumpkin pie filling go out trick or treating on Hal4 eggs loween, rather than doing some1 % cups cooking ,oil. thing about the situation which 1) In a very large bowl mix' makes such a prohibition necestogether all the ingredients very sary. , well with a hand beater.

In the Kitchen 2) Pour into a greased tube pan and bake in a preheated 350· This is the'season when I long for a deep freeze. How wonder- oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes. ful to do your holiday baking early! Well, my freezer is just Hartford Priest aJbout big enough for the weekly needs of my family so that a Heads New Society great deal of beforehand baking NOTRE DAME (NC)-Father is not possible. However I can Daniel E. Johnson" vicar for indulge myself in early Novem- priests in the Hartford, Conn., ber by gathering as many holi- archdiocese, was elected presi.. day recipes as I ca'n. ' dent of the newly formed Society There are' some dishes that of Church, Personnel Adminis.. ",' become a very personal part of tration.

Father Johnson was chosen at: your family celebrations. I couldn't imagine Thanksgiving the end of a four-day, meeting' without turkey but there are of 160 personnel' specialists in' items such as holiday, cookies , Church work at the University and candies that can very easily of Notre Dame's Center for Con- , change from year to year. An tinuing Studies here. ' , At the meeting, the specialists inveterate believer in that voted to form the' society to I provide them with a means to Genius exchange ideas on their work and Readiness i .

I • When a true genius appears solve problems. The society had Whether happiness may come in tJhe 'World, you may know him ,"been discussed at three earlier I by this sign, that the dunces are meetings of specialists sponsored, or not, one should try I'and preit. by the, National Federation of pare one's self, to do without all in confederacy against him.

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Says Automobile Carnage Ques!tion of Conscience

Canadian Bishops Urge Worldwide Study of Family Life by Synod

Before we turn to the Synod's denunciation of the most ancient and grievous crime against the sanctity of life-the blood-drenched pages of man's history of war -there is a digression to make. Perhaps the Synod itself should have made it. Certainly it is time for moral climates and the total foul-up city ,traffic with commuter theology to take it up. But, of cars, we have a formidable sum like human sacrifice in prim- of what ,the economists call itive society, it is so mucn taken for granted that we hardly consider, let alone discuss, its moral implications. This is the steady,

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~nregarded, aH-but-minciIess sacrifices to the gods of speed and pleasure perpetrated by the killer-car. ,In Western Europe, the toll of death in automobile accidents is in the neighbourhood of 50,000 a year with four or five times as many maimed, some of them for life. In Britain,. five children die every day, four times that number are injured. In France; there are blood banks along major highways. In the United States-which also has an an.nual death toll of some 50,000 kil'led~he year 1971 saw the destruction of the two millionth v路ictim, a death rate more than that of all the wars ever fought by' ,the United States and achieved in less than half the time.

What Strange Gods If, as Christians, as citizens, we are serious about respect for life, it is little short of incomprehensible that the daily massacres on ,the roads should be accepted, without protest, as a by-product of mobilitr or convenience. What strange gods we worship when we accept sacrifice 'and suffering on such a scale!

If we were seriously perturbed about the automobile's appalling hemmorhage of life and human well-being, there would, of course, be any number of policies we could pursue to check it. One of the most straightforward would be to stop the hidden economic subsidization of the motor car which neglect of the accident figures implies.

We can be quite hard-headed about this. Each death can be represented by a capital sum calculated on the basis of likely length of life and earning capacity---'the kind of tragic calculus the Soviets are making these . days before they issue an exit permit to Jewish citizens. Then we add the hospital costs of curing the injured or looking after the permanently incapacitated.

Then we add again the loss of earnings of all these survivors.

The calculus has not yet been made but iUs unlikely to be less than $l() hillions a year for America. .

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OTTAWA (NC)-A world-wide study of the family has been proposed by the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops (CCC) as a topic for the next World Synod of Bishops in Rome.

There is no single pattern or model ,for the 拢amily throughout the world the CCC proposal "diseconomies" or "bads" which notes. Co~sequently to portray should be added in order to estifamily life on a global scale, "a mate. the true cost of the autopanoply of miniatures would be mobile and the truck. required" to form an inventory If such costs were added, of the various customs, cultures they would send most commerand civilizations, region by recial traffic back to the nongion, it says. killing raHways, speed up rapid "The synod, an event in the transit for cities, vastly increase life of the universal Church, the price of all high-p9wered be a rich opportunity for NAMED: Bishop Cronin could cars, double the cost of the secgathering and studying such a ond car, triple the third a!1d in has named Rev. Richard ',panoply of miniatmes' about general put a stop to our present Chretien, assistant pastor at family }!ife in aH parts of the senseless subsidization of daily Sacred Heart Church, No. globe, Ohristian and nonslaughter by the automobile.

Attleboro as chaplain to the Christian," the CCC suggested.

"The results of such a vast True Costing Girl Scout Program for the inventory could then be analyzed, At this moment, In particular, Attleboro Area. discussed and studied for: (1) when the container revolution is simiLarities and differences enticing more and more vast Oppose Oppression across all cultures today, and (2) trucks and trailers on to roads evidence of how distinctly Chrisat speeds which make it impos- In Lithuania tian 'insight shape, influence or WASHINGTON (NC) - Repsible for them to maneuvre and in any way impinge on ,family stop quickly enough in times resentatives of a Lithuanian behaViior. of trouble, the true costing of group in the U. S. have met with '~From such a ~Iobal inventory the apostolic delegate here to road traffic could prevent a douand analysis, a synod study of bling and trebling of . future request that Pope Paul VI de- the family could proceed realisnounce alleged persecution of redeaths. tically to questions about approThere are, of course, other ligion in Lithuania by Soviet priate pastoral activities in the authorities. possJbilities-prohibitions.. reguMembers of the Lithuanian Church intended to' serve the :lations, restricted areas. The family of man in 'aU those activieconomic example is chosen American Community of the' ties and undertakings that are United States of America, Inc., only to show that rational poliin a news release, said they met of the family." cies are possible. The real quesNew Type . tion is not technique-economic with the delegate, Archbishop The CCC proposals were conto urge the Luigi Raimondi, also or pOlitical.

Pope to announce a worldwide tained in a letter to Polish BishThe question is decision. Do day of prayer for the Church in op Layslaw Robin, general secwe care? Are we ready for a retary of the Bishops' Synod in Lithuania. diminution of convenience? We Archbishop Raimondi said he Rome, from Bishop WiHiam' E. may not intend either to be killwould forward their requests to Power of Antigonish, N.S., CCC ers or to be killed. But we take president. the Pontiff, the group said. the r路isk. Convenience is the criterion, not the sacredness of life. For so-called Christian societies i,t is a daily blasphemy.

Action to end killing does not entail abolishing the use of all cars. Small, low horsepower cars, electric delivery vans, motorcycles with speed' limits and silencers built in can' give people and families convenience and mobility. But big horsepower and big commerce do not now pay their .full' social and economic costs. Until they do, the carnage In gratitude for my many blessings, I wish will only increase. Do Christian's feel that no issue of conscience to share this month of Thanksgiving with is involved? the world's poor and the missionaries serv-

Bishop Rubin recently indicated that the next session of the synod will be held in 1974.

The proposed synod study of the family, Bishop Power's letter added, "would call for ~ new type synod, not of the bishops alone but involving couples and other family membe!s from all nations, as well as spedalists of many disciplines:' "This would be true not only of aH the pre-synod work but of ,the synod itself, along the lines of a wide soale exchange of experiences based on real life on the part of Chrisman couples," the letter said.

The letter sketched a CCC plan for a pre-synod study of the family in Canada.

Form Organization For Coopera.tion TORONTO (NC~About 50,000 members of six fraternal organizations in metropolitan Toronto, two of them Catholic, will form a loosely knit organization in November to foster better cooperation and understanding among themselves. ' The six groups are the Knights of Columbus, the Order of Alhambra, the Shriners, the Rani Ghar Grotto, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Loyal Order of Mnose.

The groups are expected to ratify a draft charter for the Greater Toronto Fraternal Association and hope to receive their incorporation from the Ontario province by the end of the year., The non-profit fraternal association will not only encourage cooperation but also provide an instrument for a combined public relations front.

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The resigning officials are Dr. Leonidas Ortega Moreira and Dr. Manrique Izquieta; Dr. Ortega said he "deplored the fact that the principle of authority has 'been broken."

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KNOW Life is ,Relationship "I am because you are," wrote a young woman to the man she loved. The two, both crippled, had decided to go their separate ways rather than marry. Her words to him revealed the depth and significance of their relationship even if marriage was not to be their choice.

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The young woman's words also suggested, a penterating insight into the meaning of everyone's life, an insight with applications' far beyond her own personal ,relationship with her'lover.

St. Paul told, the Athenian crowds about God, "'In him we live and move and have our being" (Ads 17:28). We might say, interpreting Pa'Ul~s words, that life lis relationship. "I am because you are."

Some of the 'Bible's most penetrating dnterpretations of the mearning of human llife portray the deepest reality of man's .life in terms of relationship with God~ Ezekial, for example, des-

cribes life as a graced relationship between God, portrayed as a lover and husband, and Israel, described 'as an abandoned infant who, through God's graciousness, grows into a beautiful ' young woman (Ez. 16). She can dn all truth say to God, "I am because You are."

Scripture The same dramatic description of man's existence as constituted 'by his relationship with God is, ,found in the descriptions of man's origjn in the fiirst two ,chapters of the book of Genesis.

Man e~ists because GOd, motivated by love, gives man llife.

Psalm 104 poetically sums up the Judaeo-Christian insight into life as relationship wJth God. Painting a picture of all living things looking expectantly to God, the psalmist writes: "If you take their breath, they d(e, and they fall back into dust.

But send your spirit, and they come to Hie, You give the earth the freshness of youth." (Ps. 104: 29-40) I Jews and Christians see life's deepest reality as relatioJ:}ship with God, a relationship initiated

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in the rel,igious vocation situation. This week I would like to list and describe briefly several other developments which in my judgment, substantiate the assertion.

Improved literary programs.

This column from its inceptiop. has freqently reported on imag,inatdve and successful worship services in the nation. There are others, of course, and, what seems to me particlarly signifi. cant, an ever-increasing number of parishes or worshiping communities with diversifJied, highquality Sunday Hturgies.

Our diocese has never been a pioneering area in the liturgical ,field and we have few pastors who would consider themselves avant-garde liturgists. Yet at a

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It is no accident that one of Thomas Merton's most famous books should be called "No Man ,is an Island." Merton was a monk who knew silence and solitude. He sought God in the peace of the monaste7 and ,in the quiet of prayer. And yet he came to realize with great C{lnviction that no man is ever alone or free from other men.

His books were a constant source of inspiration for people who struggled to tiind the meaning of life, his message a constant reminder that we :are alI in need of one 'another,. that no human can ever cut himself off from .others and still hope to survive.

A number of philosophers pondered this same the~e, especiaIly in the light of tjle World Wars I and II. Many ofthem despaired because they I. saw in world war the last 'signs of man',s alienation from has fellow men. Others saw hope, because they felt the living, graphic catastrophe of war would convince all of us that we cannot surVlive in a state of alienation.

Sartre portrayed the :situation, in a metaphor. 'The last thing to be seen of a "drowning person is a hand above w.ater. Th~ hand is open. The only way the drowning person would be saved is that someone reach out wdth their hand, take h~s •hand :in theilis, and pull him up, Sartre's comment ~is that allot 'us tod~,y 'wili find ourselves drdwning if Sunday ,afternoon clam bake for we live in isolation from others pI1iests recently, I learned in but or in denial of our relationships. a few hours of four parishes unYearning for God dertaking some really creative Martin Buber popularized the steps to 'improve their worship notion of relationship' in the programs. phl1ase. "I-Thou." He felt that if We hear aJbout places where I nothing has been done to imple- WE: see others as persons, we ment the liturgicall renewal, will be open to them. ~ut if we where priests apparently don't see others as objects, t6 be used or manipulated, we will be care for the "new" 'iturgy, where closed to them. For' him, the members of the congregation must suffer week after week central question in all human ex· through dull sermons, bad music periences was the qu~stion of and a generally poor celebration. whether we would trea~ one an-' But these seem, fortunately, to other as persons or th,ings. He be on the decrease and more felt that in relating to lone all-' satisfactory approaches ~m the other, we would find: meaning and ,purpose, for in relating to increase. onl~ another we free the person Return to· Prayer and the life which is each of u:s, Greater concern about prayer. and there is growth. ' In the sixtdes many prJests aban- ' Buber'sthinlcing was tnuch dndoned the breviary and turned fluenced by the Hasids, a sed to other forms of prayer or, total- of Judaism begun in -the 18th ly submerged themselves in the century. The Hasids.' ~ccording active apostolate. Some said in to BUber, believed a diVli~e spark effect: "My work is my preyer." dwelt 1nside every livirig' thing, I see the clergy now shifting to be freed only when' a relationback to a deeper interest in their , ship had been established. For inner Life and, particulaI1ly, back thi:; reason they communed with to the Church's oUicial prayer trees and other things of nature, book, especially in its American believing that they wo~ld fin:! format, '''Prayer of Christians." the divine dn the relationship.

Moreover, the rapid growth of Buber points out how m4ch more Pentecostalism' plus the intense likely this is to happenbetwee::t interest of priests, religious.. men human beings. ' , and women, and the laity in Buber Without realizing prayer groups and shared prayer wa.s movdng iil 'his it, thought says something about a return toward the mystery Qf God's to the'SpiI1it and to things of the 'presence in us. Like the Hasids spirit. This does not mean an and like the philosophfrs wh,o end to con.f.lictsin the Church pondered the kinds of problems Turn to Page Eighte.en Sartre struggled with, B4ber was

II The Church Has Turned A Corner I Last week I ventured my opinion, based on extensive travel around the United States during the past year, ,that the Church has turned a corner and is entering upon a, period of relative serenity, I offered two reasons in support of this observation: a change in the attitude of priests and a shift for the better

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Dimension God, who is above all human experience' (transcendent) chose also to become present in human experience (:immanent). When he sent Jesus, his Son, to live among us, he immersed hdmself in' human experience. Through the Incarnation of Jesus and through Jesus's death, resurrection, and glorification, God has made himself our God forever.

Through -Jesus we are offered a relationship to God in a personal way, and through our relation-

ship wdth other human beings we are offered a chance to find I Jesus. , Because the Spinit of God dwelIs in the Church of which we are, members by Baptism, and because God sends his spirit to dwel,l in the 'hearts of all men of good will, we begin to search for Jesus Christ not alone, but in the company of other people. ,The experience of relationships W1ith other persons is essential for developing a relationship with God in Jesus Christ, which bond is in fact the deepest dimension of any relatlionship between people.

Our Relationship "The reign of God can be likened to ten bridesmaids ..."

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Why should it be "like a mustard seed" or "like yeast" or "like a bur,ied treasure?" Really, what has God to do with "a merchant's search for fine pearls" or "a dragnet thrown into a lake" or "a king's wishing to set'tIe accounts with his officials?"

Yet in Matthew's gospe-l, Jesus said that God's rule over our world could be compared to all those things. It doesn't seem to result ,in a very lof.ty picture of 'God. It makes God sound so close and ordinary, as if we could see him or something very much like him every day.

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-Book Shows Deficiencies In Legislative Process

Anti-Abortion Seen Growing

"Any successful public figure has to develop an automatic filtering mechanism between his brain and his mouth," says Congressman Donald Riegle, a Michigan Republican, in his book 0 Congress (Doubleday, 277 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. . $7.95), which he wrote in In the period covered by the collaboration with' Trevor ' book. he was divorced and. re., .married. These proceedmgs, · A. rm.b nster. The fllter s func- dwelt on at length, win him no hon l~ to prevent the man from speakmg candidly. Were he to say what he really thinks, his chances of election or re-election

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would be jeopardized.. What, then of a congressman wh_o publishes his diary? This is what Mr. RJiegle ha,s. done. His book comprises entl1ies he made from April 1971 to April 1972. Is it perfectly candid? It appears to approach that standard.

This is no puff job for the United States House of Representatives. Nor will it inspire anyone with confidence in that body. But it may serve the useful purpose of awakening some citizens to deficiencies in the legislative process, and then inducing them to demand and work for reform.

Mr. Riegel is in his early thirties. He has been in Congress for three terms. He is a liberal. His age and his lack of seniority in offiice have as much to do with his displeasure over the ways of the House as do his views on issues. The House is dominated by old men- wielding enormous power as a result of their continuous presence there for decades.

A Congressman',s work load is enormous, as Mr. Riegle demonstmates. He is e~pected to be familiar with any number of vital, complex matters. Yet the House and its committees. are egregiously lacking in staff. There is need of skHled assistants to do' research without which members cannot make ~nformed, correct decisions.

Moreover, the Congress proceeds at a pace rivaling the snail's. "That approach will not enable America to beat the train to the crossroads ... We're trapped by a traditional momentum which makes it ,impos'sible for us to ... come to grips with really urgent problems."

As for dntegr:ity, a Congressman who has served for almost a quarter of a century told Mr. Riegle that he could count on the fingers of both hands the number of men who vote their consciences in each and every instance.

Mr. Riegle gives some account of what went on in the House during one year, offers observations about a number of public figures, and describes his. campaigning pack home. He recounts a good deal of horseplay which makes tiresome reading. His humor can be dull and tasteless.

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ROCHESTER (NC) - Antiabortion forces seem to be gaining important backing, according to a survey of state legislature candidates by the CourierJournal, the diocesan newspaper here.

Of 57 candidates surveyed, 25 said they favor repeal of the state's abortion law, which allows abortions through the 24th week of pregnancy. Only 12 candidates said they opposed repeal. [n a similar survey two years ago, only ·nine of 46 candidates said they favored repeal.

In the present survey which oovered candidates whose districts are in the area covered by the Rochester diocese, six other candidates commented. on the Iaw but did not make yes-no commitments. Fourteen did not answer.

The legislature voted to repeal the law in ,the last session. The Assembly voted 79 to 68 for repeal and the Senate concurred by 30 to 27. Gov. Rockefeller, however, vetoed the repeal.

This yea.r's survey question read: "Will you vote for repeal of the present New York State abortlion !Iaw?" Yes or .0'0 check boxes were provided as well as space for the candidate's comments.

Of the 22 candidates for the State Senate, 11 said they would vote for repeal of the law, 2 said they would not, 3 commented wIthout indioating a definite position and 6 did not answer.

Robert Shogan',s book A Ques- . tion of Judgment (Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, Ind. $10) is sub\itled "The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court."

It was written without any cooperation from· former Justice Abe Forta,s, and therefore cannot be the last word on its subject.

Is that subjeot of any great interest now? Fortas has receded into relative obscurity,· and the fuss which led to his resignation from the court has receded into the past. But Mr. Shogan's intent is not tei revive a 'scandal. He is more interested in the system whereby the Fortas situation and RELATIONSHIP: "Our relationships to one another its issue came about. set the tone of our relationships to God." A Sister in New His book is sober, avoiding all Orleans, La., shows her love. for a baby in her care at sensationalism. It seeks to be evenhanded, taking no sides, yet a nursery. NC Photo. not refraining from judgment. It tells the ordinary citizen much that he should, and probably doesn't, know about the world of . Continued from Page Sixteen God wHl not judge you." "ForWashington and the impact of they all somehow like God? It give us our sins; as we forgive politics on an institution suppos- seems that Jesus thought so. And those who sin against us." edly removed t~erefrom. he ought to know.

Love of Neighbor But even that is only h~lf the Paris Was Yesterday story. Jesus suggests an even The relationship between ou~ For about 50 years Janet Flan- stronger comparison to God. As neighbors and ourselves will set nel' has been writing a column he wants us to understand it, the over-all tone of our relationentitled "Letter from Paris" for God is like the people we meet. shIps with God. That is why Waste the New Yorker magazine~ A And, for all those people, God is Jesus can ,say that "the second I have spent my life laboriousnum~er. of these articles, from like us. commandment is like the first." ly doing nothing. the 1940s into the 1970s, have alThat is, "love your neighbor as --Grotius Basics ready been collected in book yourself," is like "love God with form: Now comes Paris Was The expenience we have of your whole heart and soul." $5,000 Or More Yesterday (Viking, 625 Madison one another is our most basic For Jesus, either of these two .Ave., New YOl'k, N. Y. 10022. experience of God. The images On Equity In Your Home commands taken along and with$8.50), comprising pieces written we have of one another are our You May Use The Money out the other one is just so much between 1925 and 1939.

However You Wish. fundamental images of God. Our empty talk. The relationship Most journalism i~ inedibly relationships to one another set with God and the relationship AVCO FINANCIAL stale when served up in books. the tone for our relationship to with our neighbors give meaning SERVICES Th'is is not so in Miss Flanner's God. , to each other. That is why Jesus 71 William St., New Bedford case. For one thing, even when Jesus never tells us to treat can also s·ay: "Whatever you do 994-9638 dealing with the ephemeral, she seeds and yeast and nets and to the least of my brothers, you found significance which was of 'pearls as if they were· God him- do to me." lasting interest. For alllother, she self. But he does say that is how writes superbly, with elegance we should. treat one another. and wit. She. sought from· the First, he asks us to try to be like Understand Youth, -start for wrLting which would be God, loving not only those who "precisely. accurate, highly per- love us, but giving generously to Directors Advised VATICAN CITY (NC)-To atsonal, colorful, and ocularly de- good and bad ahike. Your Father scriptive." She succeeded. makes his sun shine and his rain tract young men 'to the priestAnother element in the appeal fall on both the good and the hood today it is necessary to of Paris Was Yesterday is its . bad. We should try to be like know their mentality, to be their power to transpol't· the reader to that: "perfect as your heavenly friends and to "appreciate the 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE obstacles they face," Pope Paul an era long gone and to a place Father is perfect."

NEW·B~DFORD, MASS. VI told a group of vocation diBut also, we will actually find \V'hich, in many way,s, is no longrectors from England and Wales.

God like onrselves: "If you do er what it was a few decades The Pope told his visitors, led ago. Only here and there has not· forgive others, then your MIss Flannel' aqded to what she Father in heaven will not forgive by Bishop Joseph Casey of Brentwrote in the twenties and thir- you the wrongs you have done." wood: "You know that you yourHEATING OILS ties. The bulk of the book is un- "You will be measured by the selves must radiate authentic retouched and represents re- measure you· apply to others;!' Christian joy and that your minCOMPLETE porting and comment contempo- "Do not judge others so that istry cannot be devoid of perHEATING SYSTEMS· sonal prayer and penance." rary with the events lmd people INSTAllED dealt with.

Noting that the task of a vosition suited him . . . By his cations direction these days is Nostalgic Feast 24 HOUR OIL BURNER friends it was known he never . "arduous" and filled with "many SERVICE "In France," Mis,S Flanner ob- lay down before events; he even difficulties," the Pope said that _ served in 1922, "being a bare- attempted not to lie down for the "it is necessary to follow closely BUDGET PLANS footed boy is usually preparation last event of his life. Forced to the mentality of young people, for becoming not President, but a bed, finally, he still .kept his to know them well and to be The Vargas Oil Co. protects their friends. barefoO'l:ed man." This tiny 'sam- clotlies on." your family's heatin.- comfort pie suggests the quality of the Po)itios, the arts, personalities all year round.

"It is necessary to appreciate writer. Of Clemenceau, who of all sorts, murders, swindles, the obstacles they face and the died in 1929, Miss Flannel' said obituaries, all these figure in particular pressures they reTRY US FIRST at the time that he "asked to be Paris Was Yesterday, and make counter in being modern Chris3n6592 buried standing upright. The po- for a nostalgic feast. . tians."

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Com ri1unltie's As Integral Parts of City As someone who has labored for years to promote:' the serious 'consideration of ethnicity in American society, I must confess to having mixed emotions about the definitive rediscovery of the "ethnics" in the election campaign.

I lament that they were re' discovered 'after they had de- even if one says that ethnics are less racist than the American serted the Democratic candi- average. date and 'not before. And Not Interested I'm appalled about the' stupid, 'insensitive and downright ignorant comments made about ethnics in the American press.

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In a brilliant' article I read recently, the .historian Thaddeus Radzialowski -... comments, "The American view of the' immigrant and his progeny has changed considerably. The brutish, antidemocratic ignoramus; the strikebreaking supplanter, of honest American l~bor; the advance guard of anarchism and Bolshevism; the mindless tool of the papal conspiracy was transformed by the 1940s into the' kindly, gentle, slightly comic fellow who, .waving his citizenship papers proudly, burbled heartwarming patriotic cliches in broken, night school English.

Now he is' again transformed into the r,adst hard-hat. These stereqtypes, many of them conflicting, 'reveal much more about the projected hopes and hidden fears of American society than they do about the immigrant."

Research evidence from a half dozen studies has made it pel'fectly clear that the ethnics 'are less racist and less hawkish than other Americans. Yet this finding is resolutely rejected by most members of the American elites. One professor at the University of Chicago recently denounced me as irresponsible for repeati~g thi~ finding in' public even though he admitted that, his research ,showed the same results. Apparently, one is a racist

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ROME (NC)-The willingness of Polish people to walk long distances and' to endure the discomfort of cold and rain to attend Mass indicates "a deep devotion to their faith," Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, said here. . " "The Second Vatican Council," the Cardinal said, "emphasized that the renewal of the Church would follow from a personal spiritual renewal as' its basis.

The people of Poland have ob·viously experienced such a, personal spiritual renewal, and the results are inspiring."

The cardinal said much of the renewal is due "to the efforts, of the Polish hierarchy in pre. paring their people for the celebration of the Polish millennium in 1966.,"

'The simple truth is t:lat most.

Americans know absolutely nothing about the ethnic commu. nities and are not interested in ,learning. Their stereotypes, as Professor Radzialowski says, are all they need. Among the worst of the anti-ethnic bigots are cer· tain Catholic intellectuals and journalists for whom it is incon·. ceivable that anything good could come out of the ethnic community. People like Gary Wills and Sidney Callahan have already made it clear that there , is too much ethnicity in Ameri.., can society.

And George Higgins (the sec· ond=l'ate novelist, not, the mon.. signer) thinks that the Irish would be well advised to forget. everything in their past because there was nothing there but. "mud huts and misery." (And' faith and a fight for ·freedom and poetry and song and story,telling and mysticism-but Mr. Higgins is apparently not interested.)

Now comes Gerald Sherry, the . of Catholic Flying Dutchma~ journalism. He denounces me for playing on ethnic fears.

That's right, Gerry, old man, tIDe ethnics have not!hing to be afraid of. There ,is no crime, in the city, no, drug problem, no collapse of urban life. Strange .that black Americans see exactly the same problems. ' Open Question (By the way, Mr. Sherry recently announced ,that I had , written myself out of .the Church' by my criticism of bishops.

Strange. I thought faith was directed at the gospel and not at· the virtue and competency of the hierarohy. When Mr. Sherry arrives on the scene at a new newspaper he promptly drops all "liberal" columnists on the grounds that he will give the "liberal" opinion.)

Whether the Catholic press and Gatholic universities and Catholic scholars will ever achieve enough maturity to be able to take' a: look simultaneousIy critical and sypathetic, sophisticated ·and ,warm, at the ethnic ,immigrant communities and their hopes and fears, their promises and their potential, seems to me to be an open' question. I'm not holding my breath.

Yet there might be good rea-' son for doing so. As Professor Radzia.Jowski says at the concluslon of his article: "It is a fact that Americans' know almost nothing about him (the ethnic) or the communities he established in our urban areas. Solutions to our national urban crisis must be based on knowledge of how the city is organized. It is obvi-. ous that ethnic communities as well as the black community are iritegral parts of the city .scene.

Therefore it is necess'ary to. understand the former just as we are, beginning to understand the latter if peace is to be restored' to our cities.

PRINCIPALS DISCUSS CONGRESS: Archbishop James R: Knox of !\ielbourne, right, host, and Father Brian W'alsh executive di~ector of the 40th International Eucharistic Congress scheduled for Feb. is-25 in Australia pause bE'.fore S't'. Patrick's (;,.athedral, Melbou,rne arid discuss plans for the event. NC Photo. .

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, Continued from Page I Sixteen" ' Upsurge i~ confessions. I think I ddl b or an 'immediate resolution of there is a mi e course etween I I diffetences, but it does, I thin:k, confessing once a year (or ess f ) d k S augur for more peaceful, objec- 0 ten an once a wee. orne tive, accepting discussiop of COI1- who used to go regularly and troverted matters.! often, apparently now go hardly I h b Family Involvement , a~, a!l. However, sense tee,'. !. gmmngs of a change here,arealParental ,,"volv~ment 1m sacra- itation on the part· of many .menta» preparations. ~he en- Catholics that they may have ga,gement. of ~other nd da:d overreacted and given up somemore actively m the' ,work of thing that has great spiritual preparing children for Ibaptism, value. ' First Communion, First Confes-' sion, and confirmation ~ay well Confessions be the most important \nnovtiDn The, immediate and very solid of ,the 70's. Our experience i.n the pa1'lish has shown .jt~ tremell- success of our 'confessional rqom do us value as an adult education at Holy Family leads me to conve:hicle, a~ a means ofi building, clude as weB that most churches closer famBy ties, and as an ef- throughout the country will soon fec:tive method of trattsmittiIilg feature this kind of arrangement for the sacrament of penance, an faith values to the yourlgsters. improvement which will enhance, In an age of confusidn among as we discovered, the quality, if adult Ca,tholics, family: disintegration and alienation i betwee,n not the quantity of confessions.

The olear benefit and wideparent and child, the :potential these programs hold for healing, spread popularity of common rifts and' clarifying misconcep-' penance services as ,a complement to auricular confession tions should be obvious.!

We sometimes forget Ithe va:;t need only be cited here as furchange, which has taken, plate ther indication of an atmosphere in so few,years. Parish I councils' w,e can expect in this decade. are now the rule, not an excep~ New Trend tion and ,in time liturgy planning' teams will be equally as Women in the CHurch. 'An edcommon. Shanxi decisi~m mak- ator friend and classmate is not ing is today an accep~ed term' so optimistic about the future and while implement*tion of and anticipates an even more that concept on the local or dioe- tUl'bulent period ahead when the esan or national level may not full impact of the women's libhave reached the degr~e which er,ation' movement hits the some desire, its ultimat~ role in Church. That may well be true, OUir future, cannot be qu~stioned. but I prefer to look at this from Better preaching. Lay~ persons . a different perspective. tend rightly or ·wrongly ito judge The gradual integration of priests and parishes' heavily in women into more active' roles termS of their sermons lor hom- (e.g., readers at Mass, distribuilies. The clergy know that and tors of Holy Communion) and . I bel>ieve at this time ate giving the v,ita,1 decision"making proI • much greater .,time and cesses (e.g., on parish councils , effort to the preparatIOn of good pre:;- and liturgy planning teams) may entiat ions for the Sunday liturgy. be too slow for some and too The positive implications of such much for others. However I think Cath- the Church will benefit from that conscientiousness for the I olie Church in the 70's Ilikewise tlend, be richer, better and, ulought to be quite evideqt. timately, stronger because of it.

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Continued from :P-age,-Sixteen nicate himself with man, wanting to share his life with us, keeping us in existence..

Recognition and Response We are free to respond, accepting God's gracious offer of himself, listening sensitively to his guidanc~, entrusting our'selves into his hands Wlith fa,ith.

We are free to ignore him, acting as if we had no need of him. No matter how we respond, it is his love that keeps us in existence.

The fuller our response, the rich· er our share in life.

It appears to me that the, purpose of religious education-in the home, classroom, or Church -is. to enable people to .discern the presence and reality of God In daily me. Religious education is meant to sensitize people to the deeper realities of their lives, the deepest of which touches their relationship with God. The religious educator aims to enable people to recognize and respond to God's activity in their lives for life in depth is relationship wti.th God. ReJigion is but the deepest', dimension of human life.

Insight The heart of the religious education process is, therefore, the skill at interpreting daily Ufe in the light of the Judaeo-ChI1istJian tradition which sees man's Iif~ as relationship with God. This process implies a dynamic balance between growth ~n human e~perience and deeper appreciation of that tradition. Relligious education is neither simply learning traditional fruths nor simply exploring human experience to penetrate the deeper meaning of Christian tradition, which lin turn permits deeper insight into life's meaning.

Appreciation of the deepest meaning of life as relation writh God-"I am beoause you are"can develop only as one's capacity for re'lationship with others grows-"I am because you are."

'As there is ,increased experience of significant relationships in one's t1ife, one is more able to perceive the meaning of the ChrisUan 'insight into'life as relationship ,with God.' , This Christian view of human lafe can open one to recognize' that the heart of one's relationship with others ,is graced by God's loving relationship with us. J"or example, to experience being with another allows one to understand Jesus' words, " I am with you. "(Mt. 28:20). Insight into Jesus' words reveals that Jesus' ,presence touches our whole lives, but especially when we are with others lin love and trust.

Rel,igious education today is viewed as a dynamic process of integrating human experience with the Christian tradition in such a way that the one iUuminates the other throughout the process. As St. Paul says, "For, to me, ')life' means Christ" (Phil.

1,21). I am because You are.

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,SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

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The schedule makers of the newly formed Southeastern Massachusetts Conference must be psychic. For, in _this the first season of Conference competition, the league's divisional championships will be decided on the final day of loop play. Division I w i l l crown its titlist on Thanks- New Bedford and Durfee High of Fall River. giving morning, while the The Taunton contingent, conDivision II and III pennant sidered a dark horse contender races will be finalized this Satur· day.

Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton leads the large school division race and needs only one more victory to assure itself of, at least, a share of the title. The Warriors wm host Somerset Saturday anlthen play intra-city rival Taunton Thanksgiving morning.

Coach Paul Therrien's boys are unbeaten in five league encoun· ters going into Saturday's contest. Somerset is 1-1-4 in the circuit. Coyle's overall record is 5-2 with the. losses coming against non-league opponents

earlier in the Fall, -now is the overwhelming choice to win the title. Only successive upsets will derail the Warriors.

Dartmouth, presently in second place, can only hope for those upsets to finish first. The Indians crushed Attleboro's title aspirations las.t; Saturday when they rode to a 14-8 triumph. Coach Carlin Lynch's club will'entertain Feehan High of Attleboro this Saturday. If victorious it will have to wait to see what happens Thanksgiving Day in Taunton while they play non-divisional foe Fairhaven. Dartmouth is 5-1 in the Conference. '

Stage Set for Fairhaven-Stang Showdown Attleboro, the preseason fa-' vorite, was almost a sure bet to win the crown until two weeks ago. Then the title dream ended, as the Bombardiers unbeaten in five starts lost to Coyle and Dartmouth on successive Saturdays. With its league schedule completed, Attleboro can finish no better than second.

Attleboro will face Durfee .in a non-league 'contest Saturday in Fall River. Taunton plays at Barnstable. The Tigers battled Feehan to a 6-6 stalemate Saturday last while Somerset fought to a 0-0 deadlock with Barnstable.

Coach George Meliot's Bishop Stang Spartans from Dartmouth, Division II leaders, held on ·to escape with a 6-0 victory 'over interdivisional rival New Bedford Vocational last Saturday while runner-up Fairhaven trounced, its Division III opponent, Old Rochester of Mattapoisett 36-14

Now the stage is set for their showdown battle.

When the Spartans travel to Fairhaven this weekend, it will be with the knowledge that "to the victor goes the spoils". There will be no tomorrow for either club as both conclude their divisional schedule in "the championship game."

Stang enters the fray with a 4-0 mark against league opposition. Fairhaven takes a 3-0-1 record into the contest. Fairhaven must win. Stang can' afford a tie.

Both teams pcl'ssess fine-offensive talent and tough defensive units. Fairhaven will be forced to contain powerful Hartmut Andrade and speedsters John Cooper and Dave Ford. The Spartans must contend with quarterback Dave Almeida and halfback Skip Jason. The con~est may well be decided by the stopper unit that does its job most effective.

Division III Title on line in Swansea Elsewhere in Division II Dennis-Yarmouth will meet Seekonk on the Cape, and Bourne is at Falmouth while Dighton-Rehoboth host Old Rochester in nondivisional contests.

Both D-Y and D-R defeated Division III opponents Saturday last. The Green Dolphins downed Norton 8-0 on a safety and 40 yard punt return by Richard Lopes while the Falcons from Dighton used a blocked punt to defeat Diman Regional Vocational of Fall River 20-14 for their first victory of the campaign.

Coach Jim Lanagan and his Wareham Vikings will put their Wishbone offense to the supreme test Saturday when they go against Cast High of Swansea ,for the Division III title.

The Vikings, like Stang, enjoy a half game lead over their op-

ponents going into the championship contest. Wareham is 4-0, Case 3-0-1.

Case used a come from behind 12-6 victory over Seekonk last weekend to prepare for the showdown encounter while Wareham, idle, sat in the stands trying to discover a Cardinal weakness.

New Bedford Vocational will be at home Saturday morning to Norton in the only other Division III game on the docket. Diman plays Southeastern Regional Vocational in a non-league game.

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TEN YEARS AFI'ER: Bishop James E. Walsh, right, a pioneer for the Maryknoll Missionary Society in China, receives the John Dubois Medal from Martin T. Golibart, president of Mt. St. Mary's College Alumni Association at Emmitsburg, Md. with Philip A. McDonnell, a Time-Life Inc., executive and earlier Dubois medal recipient on the left.

Bishop Walsh originally was awarded the ,medal in 1962 while he was imprisoned in China, a situation that existed until 1970. NC Photo.

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.State of Church VATICAN CITY (NC) - The state of the Catholic Church in the United States is "certainly not perfect", b~t it is "very encouraging," Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia said in an interview over Vatican Radio.

Cardinal Krol, 'who is president of the U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, said some news reports on the Church in the United States tend to give a distorted picture because there "is a tendency within the mass media to stress only the events which make news."

The Cardinal said that "too often the news services present only what is unusual, out of the normal or atypical. The defection of a priest or a Religious receives particular attention while .the hard -and diligent work of tens of thousands of priests and Religious is rarely the object of news," He added: "Thank God the unusual and atypical episodes are still considered exceptional ...

Readers and listeners must take into account the fact that the news agencies, even if accurate, reflect what is unusual or exceptional and they therefore present an incomplete vision of events."

Cardinal Krol said that "the Church in the United States, like

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the rest of the Church in every every day for the high quality time and place, has reasons for of the priests, Religious and layanxiety. There are tensions, dis- men who work to carry out the sent, and conflicts which St. Paul mission of the Church, for the people who are faithful to their referred to in his letters.

"At the same' time there are vocations and who, for this reamany elements of consolation son, are considered normal, comand joy. In the past 50 years, mon and rarely attract the attenthe Church in the United States tion of the local or international has grown from 17 million to 49 press." million Catholics. In the last 12 years, while the number of Religious women has decreased, the total number of priests has increased," •The cardinal said: .IEven today Mohammedans claim that Ala significant increase in the num- lah will not subtract from the life ber of vocations is being regis- of a man those hours he spends tered." ~eferring to the situation fi~hing. Now it appears that the in his Archdiocese of Philadel- Lord also looks kindly on golfers. phia, the cardinal reported: Hervey Gaudette of 325 N. Front "Last August I presided over a St., New Bedford, reports that he ceremony during which 61 young bought his grandson a "Golfer's Religious belonging to one of the Prayer" plaque for a birthday 60 communities of Religious ~ift, inscribed: "May the good women in the Philadelphia arch- Lord grant before my golfing days are done, that I, just once, diocese took their final vows.

"God willing, next May, I will score a legitimate hole in one," Grandson Jerry Wedge took ordain more than 40 young men as priests for the Archdiocese of the plaque and the"next day celePhiladelphia. There will also be brated· his birthday with a round other ordinations of Religious of golf. Sure enough, at the 17th priests be1nn'!ing to communities hole of· Poquot Golf Course, in the archdiocese."

Lakeville, the prayer was anCardinal Krol concluded by swered. At last report, golfers saying: "The general picture is were standing in line at Our certainly not perfect, but it is Lady's Chapel gift shop, New very encouraging. We thank God Bedford, to get those plaques.

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