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Bishops AskCal11paign Against' U. S. Policy The U.S. Government forces poorer famililts to practice birth control, the American biahops .have charged in a unanimous statement at the opening of their historic meet ing in Washington this week. The . assembled prelates de manded a "clear and unqualified separation of welfare assistance from birth control considera .tions, so as "to safeguard the freedom of the person and the
autonomy of the family." Turning to· Catholics, the bish ops then especially called on them "to oppose vigorously and .by every democratic means, those campaigns already under way in some states and at the national level toward the active promotion, by tax-supported agencies, of birth control as a public policy; above all in con nection with· welfare benefit programs." The same charge was leveled
at . the government's linking of foreign ·aid with "policies which pressure for birth limitation." The statement on government and birth control is the result of a committee formed to draw up such a statement in Spring of this year by the administrative board of the N.C.W.C. It could not be issued as the statement of the assembled bishops since thia was the first time the bisl:lOps have met together .. since tha¢ Turn to Page Twenty
Diocesan School Board Sets Reli9ious.to~Laity Ratio' The Diocesan S<:hool Board has proposed a· religious
llay ratio ampng te~chel·g in the elementary schqols of the
Diocese of Fall Rivet' and the development oJ' a super
vising principal progt'um in the educational system. Final
<!ieci~jons on the two iSimes
will be made at the next to enlighten the members re
meeting. The consideration garding the Diocesan situation and it was found to be most fav ~f the religious-lay ratio was orable.
requested by Bishop Connolly in Thirty schools out of 59 al ~der that the Diocese receive an equitable number of religious ready have a supervising princi teachers from each community pal, so no change is required. Nine schools do not have a
serving in the elementary schools and that there will be an . supervising princpal, however,
equity and fair-sharing by the this grouping has two lay teacl1
pal'ishes due to the additional ers and so there is no need to
have a religious appointed in
~ost of lay teachers on the staffs. The second issue considered this situation.
Nine other schools with no su
was the question of each elemen pervising principal and only one
tary school maintaining' a super lay teacher, hence this grouping
trjsory principal. . Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Ed.D., would be expected to hire an
presented the statistical status of additional lay teacher in order
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First Bishops' president
N.ative of Rhode Island
WASHINGTON (NCl-Archbishop· John F. Dearden, BISHOPS'CONFERENCEOFFICERS: The first elected· president ·and vice-pr:si. new president of the U.S. ·episcopal conference, ,has· dent 0;[ newly established Conference o~ Catholic Bishop$ receiving the congratulations become well known for his· role in the ecumenical move from Francis Cardinal Spellman of New· York, ·center, are Archbishop John F. Dearden of ment· and for his determined efforts to improve racere Detroit, president, left, and Archbishop John J. Krol ofPhiladelphia, vi'ce-presiden~, right. Yations. He has been arch coadjutor bishop with th~ right· bishop of Detroit for almost of succession to the late Bishop ~ight years, ~havjng been Hugh C. Boyle. of Pittsburgh.
named to that post by the He succeeded to the Pittsburgh
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Archbishop Dearden was first in Valley ,Falls, R. I., Oct. 15,
elevated to the episcopacy March 1907, the son· of John S. and -liJ, ·1948, while he was rector of Agnes. C. (Gregory) Dearden. WASHiNGTON (N(;)....:....The·statement on the government and bh;th control by the St. ~\"Iary's seminary at Cleve .After moving to CleveJand, he lI8nd. At that time he was ~,amed was educated at the Cathedral administrative board of the NCWC was not "a spur of the moment product", but the Latin Scpool. He stU<hed for .the presentation ofa.viewpoint the board felt the Ameri·can people should hear. The bishops . priesthood at St. Mary's semi-· were· "quite· interested"· in presenting. this viewpoint to the government earlier this)'ear. nary, Cleveland, and .. at: ·the but their "letters have never' North American College in been acknowledged." These ·gave a "litt~e background" to the. tights and privileges of citizens." ~n R9me, where he w.as. ordained In January, the legal depart points were m·ade by, :6i~h unanimously endorsed statement . ~. fI, 19;'!2. . "issued ·earlier. ment of the NCWC had submit op ·Raymond ·Gallagher of ,After ordination he served at "The bishops of the United ted· to the' OEO a memorandum St. Mary's parish, Painesville, Lafayette, Indiana, at a news states," ·:Bishop Gailagher said, challenging the authority of that NEW YOR K (NC) 0., until 1937, when he started conference. here. The bishop office to finance birth control "were quite inte~esteei in pre ~hurch contributions by teaching at St. Mary's seminary. 'senting a point of view to the Turn to Page Eleven members of 44 U.S. and Can- He was named rector of the semgovernment concerning the, re· adian Protestant and Angli- inary in 1944. marks made by the President in ean denominations reached an He was consecrated a bishop his State of the Union message all-time high of more than· three by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, about taking a very active role and a quarter billion dollars in then apostolic delegate in the The second annual Leadership in the population explosion With this issue The Anchoa 1965, a National Council of United States and now Papal Day for public high school stu-. problem. We did offer to present begins a weekly fashion col Churches sUI'vey shows. Secretary· of State, in S1. Agnes'. dents, of the Diocese attending our point of view and to meet umn by Marilyn Roderick. al" The total- $3,300,996,291 - is church, 'Cleveland, May 18, 1948. C·onfraternity of Christian Doc- with them and discuss it, but' our ready known to readers for the the highest figure reported in the Archbishop Dearden has been trine classes is sc,heduled for letters have never been ac garden and home column co 45 years since the statistics were Turn to Page Ten Saturday, Dec. 10 at Bishop , knowledged, in spite of "the fact authored by her and her hus first compiled. Stang High School, North Dart- that we felt that as· a significant band. A member of Immacu "Statistics of Church Finances" mouth. late Conception parish, Fall group of thoughtful, and we for fiscal 1965 were released by To Qe sponsored by the Teach- hope spiritual, people in the U. S. River, Mrs. Roderick is a fash the council's Gommission on .ihe Most Rev. Bishop dising Sisters and Brothers Com-· we did have a viewpoint which ion model, sewing instructor Stewardship and Benevolence. penses the faithful in the Fall mittee of the CCD, the day will we thought would be helpful in the .Fall River public Protestant church glvitlgin River Diocese from ·the·law of include .Mas'!, conferences, dis- to. hear * >:; ::' alid topr~s~.rve Schools, ·and ·the young mother Ilhe United States alone went .abStinence Oil Friday, Nov: 25, .. ' cussiol,1s,,:: evaluation·and enter- some of what we would consider of 'three· children. Sec Pace·'· .. Tum· to 'PageT~ . .. ... _.. -ihe '''aT .after ·thllnksgivin=-.· Tii.ihi- to Page FOlHEkhL . . . M be w..ost essential individual
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