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Parent Power Shows In Tax Credit Bills
SACRAMENTO (NC)-In the closing moments of the legislative session; the California Senate passed a bill giving a tax credit of up to $125 per child to parents of nonpublic school children. The bill, sponsored by Leo An Ancnor 01 the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul McCarthy, a Democratic Assemblyman f,rom San Francisco, was preVliously passed by the AssemFall River, Mass., Thursday,. Dec. 7, 1972 bly. It now goes to Gov. Ronald Reagan for signature. PRICE lO¢ Vol. 16, 49 © 1972 The Anchor The bill provides to 'a family $4.00 per year with an adjusted gross income of less than $15,000 a state income tax credit of $125 for each child for whom tuition has been paid ina nonpublic elementary or secondary school. For families with adjusted gross incomes WASHINGTON (NC) - The have taken the vow of poverty, from $15,000 to $18,999, the bill Leadership Conference of Wom- their counselors and treasurers." provides tax credits ranging f~om en Religious (LCWR) and the "There's a great deal of inter- $100 to $25 per child. Conference of Major Superiors of est in this," said Brother Quinn. "Parent power was never more Men (CMSM) are sponsoring a "Whether or not orders get it than in the last week of evident series of workshops to inform re- (Social Security) will take careligious orders of benefits avail- ful study. This is not something the legislative session," said able to meir members under new people will jump into right· Joseph M. McElligott, director of education for the California Social Security legislation. away." Catholic Conference, commentThe meet~ngs will deal with The benefits can becom'e avail- 'ing on the passage of the bill.. amendments to the Social Secur- able to Religious if their orders ity Act signed into law by Presi- elect to provide Social Security dent Nixon on Oct. 30. One of coverage to its members. The the amendments provid~s Social benefits include: Security benefits for the first Holy Day Monthly cash r;etirement benetime to men and women Reli- fits at age 62; Tomorrow, Dee. 8, is the gious who ha'.;e taken poverty Monthly cash disability bene-. feast of the Immaculate Convows. fits for those so severly disabled Spokesmen for both groups as to be unable to perform duties . ception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast of obligation. said the- meetings will begin with for a year or more. Our Lady, under the title of a three-day session in Chicago A lump-sum death benefit to the Immaculate Conception, is in December and continue with the order in the case of the memthe 'patroness of the United one-day"llesslons in 15 other ma- ber's death. States. jor cities in January and F'ebruHospital insurance coverage nry 1973. • • ,;, • • • • • • • • • • +- • • • • • • • • • under Medicare at 65 or before . "We're anticipating 300 to 400 age 65 in case of disability. people at each of these meet'Wages' Computed ings," said BrotherWiIliam Quinn, Social security checks, for assistant to the president of the' most workers, are based on the CMSM. "These will be open to average amount of cash wages men and women Religious who Turn to Page Six
McElligott pointed out that the Senate finance committee, which rejeCted the bill at the beginning of the week, was "deluged" with messages asking reconsideration. It reversed itself and approved the bill on the next to the last day' of the session. "This proves that people can
be heard despite the efforts of well financed lobbY'ing," McElligott said ina referimce to the opposition to the bill by the California Teachers' Association. Assemblyman McCarthy had argued that it made more sense for .the state to all~w a tax credit Turn to Page Three
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Father Flannery Attacks Series On Middle East
Name Fr. James S. Rausch Genera:1 Secretary of NCCB WASHINGTON (NC)-Father James S. Rausch 'has been named general secretary' of the National Conference of, Catholic Bishops and the U.S.. Catholic Conference.
REV. JAMES S. RAUSCH
He succeeds Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, general secretary for the past five years, who has been named archbishop of Cincinnati by Pope Paul VI. Father Rausch's election to a five-year term, effective Dec. 15, was announced here by Cardinal John Krol, NCCB-USCC president. He was elected by a unanimous vote, conducted by mail, of the NCCB administrative committee and the USCC administrative board. Father Rausch, 44, first joined the USCC staff as assistant general secretary in January 1970. He has been Bishop Bernardin's closest collaborator in administering the USCC, the national agency of the u.S. bishops.' Cardinal Krol commented, "I feel confident that he will bring ·...the same qualities of professionalism and priestly concern to his expanded responsibilities as general secretary of both conferences." Father Rausch was born in Albany, Minn., Sept. 4, 1928. He was ordained a priest in St. Turn to Page Two
WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Edward H. Flannery, executive secretary of the U. S. b~shops' Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, has attacked an NC News series on the Middle East as "one-sided and anti-'Israeli." Father Flannery said that the reporter, Louis Panarale, "gave no evidence whatever of having consulted a single Israeli or defender - of the Israeli position. This. in itself renders the series . journalistically deficient and, as -an exposition of the realities in Israeli, worthless."· In a denial of the charges made in Father Flannery's statement, Panarale salid he had spoken to both Israelis and Arabs as well asnon-IsraeHs and non-Arabs WIho have lived for years in the Middle East. The priest criticized remarks made by Melkite-nite Archbishop Joseph M. Raya of Acre, Israel, in an interVliew in the series. "Referring to an 'exodus' of Chdstians from Israel which has been challenged by many," iFr. Flannery said, "he made no allusion to the well known fact that Christians haV'e been leaVling the entire Middle East for more than . 100 years and are now leaving other Arab countries at a much faster rate than Israel." Turn to Page Three
VINCENTIANS' CORPORATE COMMUNION SUNDAY: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., center, was principal concelebrant and homilist at the Annual Corporate Communion Mass of the Fall River Particular Council, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Fall River. Antone Pacheco, left, of Our Lady of Health Parish, Fall River and president of the Fall River Council and J. H. Leon Gauthier, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the host parish, St. Anne's, meet the Bishop prior to the annual Communion Breakfast.
Protests Force Changes in Ban On Religious Christmas Songs UPPER· MARLBORO (NC) County school superintendent A public school board in the Carl W. Harrel said that the Washington suburbs decided to ·intent of the guidelines had been revise guidlines which had ap- . '''misunderstood,'' and he called a parently banned the use of Chris- special meeting to revise the tian carols during the Christmas guidelines in order to clarify season. them. He· said the revised guidelines Based on a 1962 Supreme Court' decision banning compul- allow. the singing of Christian sory religious observances in songs at school programs "in the public s c h 0 0 Is, the Prince propel: context, and in the proper Georges County guidelines had setting, but not in terms of a religious service." originally said:· The initial guidelines had been "This means no songs or music programs that have signifi- sent out after complaints by the cance for a particular religion Jewish Community. Council of should be performed during the Greater Washington that last period which coincides with the year a number of schools had specific religious celebration." failed to comply with the more The guidelines on the 'whole general guidelines and had were similar to those issued an· turne4;l public school Christmas nually since the Supreme Court programs into religious observdecision, but this paragraph ances. Hassel said the new text made them more specific. News reports of the more' re- "takes away the strong prohibi· strictive language brought a rash tive statement, and puts it in the of protest calls from parents, mu- area of careful discretion." He sic teachers and students. Tum to Page Six