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WASHINGTON (NC) - The 'Campaign for Human Development, the Church's drive to strike at the root causes of poverty in America, is getting a boost from television programs, magazine articles and fund drives across the nation. CBS television scheduled Ii two-part series on its religious '~LookUp and Live" broadcasts, dealing with topics. of self-help, hunger, and r~cism as they relate to poverty. The Campaign for Human Development will take up its 1971 collection Sunday, Nov. 21. Be.gun last year,' the 1970 cam-
paign has funded over 160 projects. It is sponsored by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Organizations funded by the campaign must be established and controlled by the poor themselves in their efforts to break out of the circle of poverty. Elsewhere, in a move to express their support for the 1971 campaign, . members of ~he' Priests' Forum of the Joliet, Ill., diocese voted unanimously to give 10. per cent of their funds to the campaign, a donatioll of $150. The donation pledge came
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with the Priests' Forum's resolution "to show an active con· cern for the poor and to' lead others to cooperate in ministering to the needs of the poor." At Sparkill, N.Y., the National Assembly of Women Religious agreed to place priority of efforts on the 1971 campaign. Im-
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plementation of the assembly's resolution will be carried out at local levels by 40 elected delegates. In New York, the campaign's national director, Auxiliary Bish· . op Michael R. Dempsey of Chicago, announced that the 1970 campaign . has established 23 . more self-help grants totaling ~ver a half million' dollars. The majority of grants were made to organizations in the Southwest and on the West Coast. The programs vary from a mobile unit for health information to special tutoring courses for disadvantaged students.
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The 23 grants bring the 1970 campaign total to'188 grants for a total expenditure of over four million dollars. Another $2.1 million has been alloted to diocesan self-help programs. Bishop Dempsey also praised those priests "who made great personal sacrifices and contributed .large personal checks" to the 1970 campaign. In a special statement made' in Priests-USA, the newspaper of the National . Federation of Priests' Councils, Bishop Demp~ sey said that much of the campaign's success was due to priests' love "for the poor."
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In a letter read at all Masses on November 13-14, Most Rev. erend Daniel A. Cronin, S . T . D . , · 4 P Of. Fall eX ofl.alne .· Bishop the n~~ds and Riv.er, hop.es' the.:'" Campaign for Human Develop- . .' . ment for this year. The Bishop's . The Catholic Bishops of Mas- been 'contributing to American letter follows: sachusetts, Maine, New' Hamp- civilization from the time of the shire and Vermont signed and. first settlers. .Their beneficial Dearly Beloved in Christ, issued a joint statement on the influence has been felt it;levery. The National Conference of plight of the Catholic .S·chool· generation and at· all levels of'. Catholic Bishops established a Systems and their hopes to aile- . program of education, concern viate the crises. Bishoppa'niel society.. Our ~ntire'. nation has been enriched b'ecause of them. and assistance some two years . A. Cronin, Ordinary of·. FaiL At the .pre.sent time, however,' ago, designated the Campaign River; Bishop James J: Gerrard,' their very existence is at stake. for Human Development. Now in Auxiliary of F~ll River; Bishop Primarily, though not' excluits second actual year, the Cam- James L. Connolly, formerly sively, the' crisis is financial. The paign has been called a national Bishop of Fall ·River,. were· situation is serious and will beCatholic crusade against pov- among the signers: come more serious in the ligM erty. . of the recent decisions rendered Foreword The Campaign, which springs Church-related school~ have Turn to Page Five from a desire to manifest coricern for the poor within our own
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. of projects. which are calculated .' .',J!l>allElViate'~ot?nl:Y. th.e symptoms; but more unportantly the . ' .. . causes ·of poyerty.·· . WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardi- the NCeB-USCC president, the . ' Turn to PageThree" nal John. Dearden of Detroit, leaders of the Church in. the concluding his . five . years as United. States must: Improve the "interrelationship president of the U. ·S. Catholic Conference and 'the National of persons within the Chl,lrchWASHINGTON (NC) - I t is love God whom he has never Conference of Catholic Bishops, between bishops and priests and impossible to be a Christian with- seen." cited four items of "unfinished between both of these and the Recalling the parable of the 'out caring for people's needs, business" for the bishops to cori- laity. Archbishop Humberto S. Me- prodigal son-in' which an elder sider. "Deepen' and strengthen the deiros of Boston said at a White and dutiful son resents his In the years ahead, the CardiHouse prayer service attended father's forgiving and rewarding theological dimension of what . . by 300 persons,. including Presi- a repen~ant younger son, the nal 'stated in his final address as Turn to Page Three dent and Mrs: Richard Nixon archbishop cautioned the wor~ .and former President and Mrs. shippers. 'not to "become jealous Lyndon B.' Jo~nson. of God's mercy to others simply VATICAN CITY (NC)-Every "Anyone who says, 'I love because we are not 'poor in child has a right to religious edGod,' and hates his brother is a spirit.' " He urged the gathering which ucation, and the lack of it handiliar," said the archbishop. "A man who. does. not love ·the also included cabinet and gov- caps his personal freedom, a papal letter maintains. brother tfiat he can' see cannot Turn to Page Two The letter, written in Pope Paul's name by his secretary of .state, Cardinal Jean Villot, said CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT that "a deep conviction inspires Christian parents and educators: FINANCIAL REPORT every child has a right to reBishop Cronin granted the diocesan share of the funds . ceive a clear 'exposition of what is true and what is good. from the ·1970 Campaign for Human Development to the "Without it, he. suffers a sefollowing projects: vere handicap up'on his freedom." Rev. William Norton, Project Lighthouse $ 200 The letter was addresssed to . Kennedy Center, Rental for Summer Project. .. 400 a congress in Angers, France, of Rev. Ambrose R. Forgit, SS.CC., Summer Project Our Lady of A~sumption Parish, New Bedford 4,600. Turn to Page Three Rev. William Petrie, SS.CC., Regina Pacis Center...... 1,000Rev. Paul F. McCarrick, St. Anne's Drug Dependency .Clinic· _ : , . 700. Rev. Luciano J. Pereira, Immigrant and Dropout Clothing Drive .. 2,500 Project Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney, Wareham Summer Drug . 'Usable clothlDg wUl be coIledProgram : . ed by all parishes in the Diocese 500 Brotl)er He~an A. Zaccarelli, CSC, Stonehill College .. during the·week of November 28 .»%1 Program of Food for the Elderly Poor ~ .. for further distribution to rav500 \:VASIDNGTON MEETING: .Bishop Cronin. Ordinary. Rev. James E. Murphy, Spanish ~peaking Apostolate aged or disadvantaged areas. The 500 .Rev.. James· W. Clark, Taunton Drug Program . packaged clothing will be' gather. of the Diocese, center, accompanied by Bishop Connolly, 500 ed from the parish centers dur- formerly Bishop of Fall River, left. and Bishop Gerrard, TOTAL FUNDED $11,400 ing the week of December 5, . Auxiliary Bishop~ right, leaves. the. Cathedral Rectory for
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