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An Anchor of the Soul, SU're and Firm - ST. PAUL

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 18, 1969

Vol. 13,.No. 51

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ALBANY (NC)-Bishop Edwin B. Broderick of Albany has announced establishment of a parish cooperative plan, through which every Catholic home in the diocese will be receiving the Evangelist, diocesan newspaper.

In announcing the plan, Bishop Broderick said: "With the Evangelist we have the medium to provide the necessary variety and types of material in sufficient volume, week after week, that will reflect the Church's vitality and supernatural reality, and lead our people to see the

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Christian commitment and to live it."

Father William Jillisky, editor, said that by means of the plan, between 90,000 and 100,000 Catholic families in the diocese would be receiving the paper each week. Parishioners will be asked to contribute donations by means of an envelope system in the Sunday collections, he explained. .

With the introduction of the parish cooperative plan, the Evangelist becomes the 58th of 94 diocesan newspapers to go to every family.

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PHILADELPHIA (NC)-In what educators have called the first such action by a major public school board in the United States, Philadelphia's board of public education has stated that "it recognizes the need for governmental aid for the secular education of as "one of the biggest' steps fornonpublic school children." ward that has been taken" in In a joint statement released urban education, Philadelphia .Nov. ,24 by the public and school board president Richard

Dilworth said: "Too often in the past we've seemed to be almost rivals. This seems to solve that.

We'll be studying every area in which we can aid one another."

"Unless we receive a substantial increase in funding, we'll be unable tor continue as we have in the past," Msgr. Edward T. Hughes, archdiocesan superintendent of schools, commented.

"Our problems are critical and pressing at the moment, but so are those of the public schools.

The only way to solve our joint problems is by a total effort of the entire community."

Booklet and tickets for the 15th annual Bishop's Charity Ball to be held Friday evening, Jan. 9 at Lincoln Park Ballroom.

Greater enthusiasm has been shown by the public in its de-

United States Catholic Conference Produces Campus Ministli"V film WASHINGTON (NC)-"Campus Ministry," a new 25-minute documentary color film, has been produced as a public service by the United States Catholic Conference. The film focuses on the work being done at the St. Thomas Aquinas Center on the campus of 27,OOO-student Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. "But it is not simply a profile of what is happening at Purdue," commented Father Laurence Murphy, M.M., director of the Division of Campus Ministry, U.S.C.C. "While the film tells what is happening there, it also illustrates the excitement and the urgency of the campus ministry now carried on by 1,700 chaplains at 1,250 campus centers across the country," The film is narrated by Father Leo Piguet, pastor of the St. Thomas Aquinas Center, known as St. Tom's by students and faculty. It covers activities from bike hikes and Saturday football to coffee house debates between professors and student rallicals.

"Campus Ministry" depicts the wide-ranging activities of Father Piguet and his priests, Religious and lay associates.

These include religious functions -many of an ecumenical nature conducted in cooperation 'with the Purdue Ecumenical Ministr.y representing 13 religious groups on campus - teaching, social service work and socializing with the students.

The diversity of campus ministry is also illustrated in scenes depicting a prayer service for Moslem students conducted at the AQl}inas Center, a Jewish Succoth celebration, classroom discussions, and a hospital visit.

The sounds of today's campus life are captured in students' own songs.

The film is being made available for local television showings by the National Catholic Office for Radio and Television, The Chrysler Building, New York, N. Y., 10017. Schools. clubs, campus organizations and other groups may rent or purchase it through NCORT.

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"American Catholics have been 'patriotic' beyond the cal! of duty," Msgr. John

AWARD TO NEW BEDFORD CHAPLAIN: Rev. Francis A. Wallace, a colonaI' in t~e Army Choplain Corps. right,' is .congratulated by Major General Charles S.D'Orsa, First Army's deputy commanding general for reserve forces, following presentation of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Season's Outstanding Area Social on Jan. 9 Mrs. Robert Nedderman, Fall River area ticket chairman, an· nounced today the committee members of District One, Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, for the Souvenir

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archdiocesan school board presidents and school superintendents, the two boards "agreed to work jointly to secure the city, stnCe and federal funding necessallY to provide essential educa· tioilal services for all the childron of Philadelphia."

The statement also noted that "the archdioces~n board of education recognizes specifically the need for the Catholic communIty to be committed wholeheartedly to the financial support of public education."

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mand for tickets and for names for the booklet. The ball is dedicated in a special way in honor of His Excellency James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Fall River Diocese, on the occ'asion of his silver anniversary in the episcopate.

The sale of tickets has increased because of the return enagagement of Meyer Davis

and his orchestra. Mr. Davis was so well received at last year's ball that popular demand requested his second personal appearance at this outstanding social event of the Winter season. Other areas of the diocese are evidencing the same demand for tickets as in the greater Fall River area.

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POl1tiff Cautions Against Dism@y Over UpheaYa~s Within Church VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has urged Catholics not to be "too much dismayed" by upheavals within the Church today.

Speaking at ·a general audience, Pope Paul took note of the problems facing many Catholics today but at the same time he said that many of these problems "often spring from numerically small minorities and very often from sources which are not at all authoritative."

In the course of his t.alk, the Pope also criticized a new form of sociological inquiry which, aftel' examining a fact or a set of facts, tends to arrive at a norm isolated "from the social and moral context" ·of which the fact or facts are part. He warned that this form of inquiry can "result in II moral uncertainty which is socially vcry dangerous."

The Pope in the early part of his talk noted that "a sense of confusion seems to spread even among the ranks of the best sons of the Church, at times even among the most studious and the most authoritative.

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Tracy Ellis, Church historian, told a seminar here on "Peace, War, and Conscience."

In a sense American Catholics have been imprisoned by their past history, Msgr. Ellis said.

Finding themselves in a land that WllS inimical to Catholics, and for the most part of immigrant status, Catholics in this country have tried to prove patriotism, almost at any cost, he explained.

Frequently. he added, this patriotism has been unenlightened.

Early Catholics were physical inhabitants of the ghetto and often they became psychologi. cally paranoid about their standing and acceptance, the University of San Francisco historian said.

He pointed out that deeply imbedded respect for authority is the second quality that characterizes American Catholics' posture toward war and peace.

A commendable respect for authority sometimes was exaggerated into a blind acceptance of whatever policy the American government chose to pursue, Msgr. Ellis explained.

He also identified a third ingredient in American Catholics' attitude toward peace and wara quality characteristic of Americans generally: Church leadership, clergy and laity alike, along with. most citizens seem to assume that the United States has a "divine mission to bring order to the rest of the world."

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Bishops' Pastoral Letter Cites Opportunities for Modern Nun SAN DIEGO (NC)-The bishops of the Far West and South· west, • joined by the bishops of the province of Dubuque, have published a collective pastoral letter addressed" to the Sisters .within their jurisdiction.

Entitled "The Religious Woman in Our Day," the 14,OOO-word letter was described as a resume of the life-style and apostolate of the Religious Sister in the

United States.

The pastoral, which is replete with quotations from Scripture, Vatican Council II, and modern theologians, seeks to delineate the role of the Sister in the Church today.

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WASHING ON (NC)~U. S. Jewish leaders praised enthusiastically document on Jewish-Christian relations made public by L~wrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore.

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prove Catholic-Jew shl relations, Sounds Caution urges Christians tq understand Praise also came from· Rabbi the "religious Sig9ifitance" to Jews of the state of I Israel, to' Balfour Brickner, director of the commission on interreligious afexclude all intent ~f pro.selytiz- fairs of the Union of American ing and conversion in dialogue with Jews, to avoid reducing the Hebrew Congregations.

A note of caution, however, Old Testament t lallegorical significance and to ihcorporate was sounded by Father Cornelis in Catholic schoo s'l curricula Rijk, directqr of the Holy See's the better under tanding of Office for Catholic-Jewish RelaJudaism that has b n~gained in tions. Father Rijk said he is "very unhappy about the publirecent years.

Rabbi Jacob P. u in, presi- cation of this document in the dent of the Synag gue Council New York Times," which carried of. America, called t e !document a story on the document and ex"most hopeful in ts language cerpts ,from it. The priest exand spirit." It has Ibeen de- pressed fear that the draft's pubscribed as "courag~o~s" made lication will "create misunderby Dr. Joachim Pri1.z, Lchairman standing."

Father Rijk said the Times' of the governing coujncil of the article was erroneous on several World Jewish congts . counts, in that it reported the 'Immeasurable Co Ibution' document had been approved by Dr. Joseph L. LichteJ, director the Vatican Secretariat for Proof the department ofl intercul- moting Christian Unity and that tural affairs of the ~ntji_Defama­ no further action is required on tion League, B'nai B rith. has the document before it is sent called it "probably t e most im- to national conferences of bishportant document n Catholic- ops.

Jewish relations sin, e the VatiBasic Document can II statement in 965."

Dr. Louis Finkelst~'ne\ chancel"The .text has not been ap-. lor of the Jewish Theological proved, despite what the news. Seminary of Americ ,~aid: . paper says. This report can . "I. think the, stat ment'.is a create misun!Jerstan~ling.". . very beautiful reaff rdtation of Father Rijk described the doc'the point view that ha~ become , u~ent in' qu~st,on ~s, "a simple increasingly evident. inl the Ro- draft of: suggestions fOf the 'im. ,man Catholic Churc fince the plementation of the Second Vattime of Pope John." ·,l icanCouncil's declimition on the "The rejection of anti-Semit- Jews." The conciliar declaration, ism and the call 0;1 greater he emphasized, "is. the basic kn,owledge of each 01h r on the document." part of Catholics andl J ws is an . immea~~ra.ble cont?~'i1tion to reconcIliatIOn at 'a tlfn~ of frag,mentation and p'olar~zation h e r e , ' . and abroad," said Ra bill" Marc H.. FRIDAY-Ember Friday in .Advent. II Class. Violet.

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SUNDAY - Fourth Sunday of Advent. I Class: Violet. Mass Proper; Creed;' Preface of Advent.

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WEDNESDAY--:Vigil of Christmas. I Class. Violet. Mass Proper; Preface of Advent.

THURSDAY-The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I Class,' White; Three different Mass texts for Midnight, Dawn and Daytime. Mass Proper; Glory; Creed; Preface of Christmas.

Ceases Publication ALEXANDRIA (NC) - The North Central Louisiana Regis~ ter, weekly newspaper of the ,diocese of Alexandria, published its last issue Dec. 5, and will be replaced by a· monthly beginning in January, if proctdures for convertiiig t.h.e. operation can be worked out by then. Increases in printing costs were cited as the 'prinei ra I' fnctor for" the changp.

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DENVER (NC)-The National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds at its annual meet· ing here unanimously approved a resolution opposing any action by the American Medical Association, or other organizations, which would approve the principle of abortion on' demand.

The AMA House of Delegates, which held a four-day meeting here following the Catholic Physicians' meet, took no stand in support of efforts to liberalize state abortion law reforms.

Instead, the AMA delegates retained a 1967 policy that appr()ves abortions if the physical or mental health of the mother' is in danger. The 1967 policy had replaced one that had been on the books since 1871 and that stated that AMA denounces the conduct of abortionists and "holds no intercourse with them professionally." .

The Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds, in its resolution, said it opposed the 1967 AMA resolution, which it said, in effect, "is to provide. abortion on demand ·withits attendant abuses."

Cite Reasons The federation's r~solution added it was also opposed to "any other resolution which would so reduce the professional status of physicians."

The Catholic physicians' conclusion was preceded by these reasons: "When' a physician' assumes the care of a pregnant woman he incurs a responsibility to two pati«:mts, ,both mother and unborn baby."

"The discipline of medicine is ordered to the preservation of "life'and riot its aestruction." .. "(\ p~ti~?~. ha~.. ~ .righf.. to E;xpe~t :that'. a phySICIan; as.il pro· fessiomil' inan 'will make 'his decision on' the best possible medical judgment, and does not allow his judgments to be made on the basis of social and economi,c pressures or mere human

VATICAN CITY (NC)-A London llewspaper's report that Hungary',s Joszef Cardinal Mindszent~ will leave. his refuge in the U. S. embassy in Budapest and conve!1!e~ce."

"Ariy: <;>theJ:, type. C!~.·judgm~nt cotn¢ 'to live in the United States has been denied. by Vatican would reduce the professional officials. ' , . man to a mere technician 'and The paper had' sa'id that' the potential instrument' of third cardinal, who' has been in the parties." embassy since the crushing of Sex Education the 1956 Hungarian uprising, T~e 'federation, in connection had accepted an offer by Sen. with its annual meeting here, Vance Hartke - (Dem.lnd:) to' .also· hel~.·a fuli:,day symposium move to 'the U" S: . on sex. education, featui'ing Dr. A spokesman at Sen. Hartke's Mary· .Calderon'e,' executive dioffice said' that the' senator' "has rector of Sex Information and been working on (Cardinal Education ,Council of the United Mind~zenty's) case for a long States (SIECSUS); Dr. Max Levin time," and that during that time of New York and Capt. James ·he had contacted a number of Semmens, of the U. S. Naval ~'infltiential people." 'The spokes- Hospital, Long Beach, Calif. man, Ihowever, declined to name Dr. Semmens, chairman of the . those I people.' ' Armed, Forces District of the Sen. Hartke, the spokesman , said, "hopes -the rumors' are true the' American College of Obstethat the cardinal can 'come" to tricians :and Gynecologists, dis"Teenage Sex Counselthis ,country. The' 'spokesman cussed ing." , . ,added, how~ver, that the sena; tor "can neither deny nor con- .i He c(lll~d the new morality a firm ~hat, the cardinal caQ come "sc;xual revelation." In his for G)1ristmas." Sen. Hartke, the opinion, he said, "There hasn't spokesman added. does not wish been a sexual revolution. It's' to comment further .for ,fear it just that teen-agers are talking "might harm the chances of about the, things people have Cardinal Mindszenty's, coming been doing ,for years but never discussed openly before." over."

A high Vatican official said , Dr. Semmens said teen-agers' that Cardinal Mindszenty, archbishoB of Esztergom, hl;lsno plans! and apparently no desire at this point to leave the embassy. .

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frankness makes counseling them much easier. than counseling adults, who have "built 'walls around themselves."

Young people talk freely about their feelings, he said.

Permanent Harm "Young people see adults doing one thing while they are . telling youngsters to do something else. So.. teen-agers figure they can experiment with sex, too. It's just that these kids don't realize the emotional problems that can result."

Dr. Semmens explained that an unplanned pregnancy is not as harmful as the emotional trauma resulting when partners involved in a sexual relationship split, which "can do permanent harm to their ego structure," he added.

"A girl who has found herself as a person doesn't have to have sexual relations to guarantee future dates. And if she feels in any way that she's being co· erced, she should think twice before she gets involved sexually," he advised.

Dr. Semmens is convinced of the need for sex education, but said that "parents llre too.emotionally involved to provide this education." In a classroom" framework, "the teacher can easily guide the discussions because there are no emotional ties," he explained.

Deplores Lowest Foreign Aid Bill WASHINGTON (NC) - A statement issued here by the Division of World Justice and . P~<lC~ Di~ision, .United States C,atholic ,Conference, deplored the pared down $1.3 foreign aid legislation now being considered in Congress.

The statement said the amount is "the lowest in history" and about 40 per cent is earmarked for military assis,tance as opposed .to e~onomic development.' .. . '. The USCC division statement 'characterized the situation as a "U. S. faHure to respond to the genuine needs of less developed nations" at a time when some experts "believe that real prog. ress is being made, and sizeable capit!ll transfers 'would be most productive now.

"Other nations, hotably Can· ada, West Germany, Britain and Japan, are increasing their development assistance, while the United States continues' a policy of retrenchq'lent."

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Stresses Great Majority Like Mass Changes WASHINGTON (NC) The associate director of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy says the vast majority of Catholics approve of the liturgical reforms, reminding those who have been critical of the changes that Pope Paul has called for their implementation with "punctual and unanimous observance."

Referring to one unit which seeks retention of the "old" tra· ditional mass liturgy,. Father Joseph M. Champlin said: "Current' criticisms of the socalled new Mass deserve careful consideration if for no other reason than that they reflect an anxiety about matters very close to our hearts. Most change involves pain. It means leaving be· hind certain traditions of the past."

Greater Meaning "For that reason," he continued, "some Roman Catholics found the decision over 50 years ago of Pius X regarding early and frequent Communion difficult to accept; so, too, not all agreed with the official modifi· cation of the eucharistic fast law or the introduction of the vernacular or papal directives on congregational singing.

"These critics are sincere, intense and articulate," Father Champlain stated. "But they speak for only a minority of \ Catholics. .

"Recent prClfessionally con· ducted surveys indicate the vast majority approve of the liturgical reforms, find them helpful and feel that Sunday worship has greater meaning because of these changes. This is especially true when each deve~op· ment has' been thoroug~ly 'explained and carefully' Implemented by the parish priest.

"Those who find fault with the new rite approved by' the American Bishops and scheduled for use after Palm Sunday might look to the words of Pope Paul for an answer," Father. Champlin suggested.

"He said this liturgical reform is an 'act of obedience, a step forward, a demonstration of faith. It is not,' the Holy Father remarked, 'an arbitrary deci· sion, a fleeting or optional experiment, the improvisation of some amateur,' These changes were 'framed by authoritative scholars, discussed and studied at length,''' "The Pope would have us ac· cept them with 'joyous interest' and put them into effect with 'punctual and unanimous observe Father Champlin deance,' clared. , JO

Favors Rewriting American History SAN ANTONIO (NC) - If black Americans are to, be free, the country's history should be rewritten through the eyes of blacks, Mexican -Americans and Indians, Dr. Vincent Harding, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Center, At· lanta, Ga., said here.

American history as seen and recorded by white men never really existed, said Dr. Harding, who discussed "Black Revolution" at Trinity University here.

White history "stands not only under the judgment of black history, bu~' of Chicano history and Indian history as well," he said. TheJact is, "there is no American history-only a white story of what white people have said. America is about," he declared.

New Bedford Policeman Combines Work lfTith Avocations as Artist, Home Builder

By Ellen Andrew

Mr. and Mrs. Davis Balestracci of 77 Watson Street, New Bedford, have a son, Davis Jr., 17, who, on Sunday, Jan. 4, will give an organ concert at Notre Dame Church in Fall River. But young Dave isn't the only talent in the Balestracci family. Dad, a member of the New Bedf()rd Police Department for 19 years, is an artist of considerable talent. He specializes in painting harbor scenes, particu-i---~ larly of whaling ships from that golden age in New Bed, .. .. ford's past .when the city was

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"It's something I've always wanted to do," he says' with a slight smile as if to indicate he's pleased and proud of his ability to create beauty with paints on a piece of canvas. , "I liked to draw and sketch when I was youngs'ter growing up in New Bedford. . . "But I developed' my real in· terest in painting watching my brother (the late Joseph Balestracci who died suddenly in 1961 at the age of 48).

"Joe did beautiful work and what talent! He attended Swain School here in New Bedford. I always admired his work and secretly wished I could do something like him.

"Finally, a few years ago, as a birthday present, my wife (the former Yolanda Orabona of Ne\}' Bedford ) signed me up for a course in painting with Louie Sylvia at Saltmarsh's. It was a six-week course and something I knew I couldn't afford to or even wanted to pass up.

"I was going to finish that course and I did. In' the process I became 'hooked' on painting and haven't stopped since. It's something I like to do in my spare time... .

"I'm •very fortunate, to, ;be worki'Ilg with' Sy'lvla," internation,ally-!mown, ,marine ,p~inter , (he is a South Qar~mouth' resident)," "I have a little studio down cellar in our home; actually, it's an old washroom on the .north side of the house. The light's good, though, and I have all the necessities to paint to my heart's content without' any interruptlons.'· . ,"I like marine scenes, 'but I do landscapes, too." ' Wife Encourages Davis hasn't sold any of his works, but. admits that several pieces have been given as birth. day and ~edding .presents. And he adds, with a grin, "My ,wife wlli take one every once in a while and hang it up."

The likable night dispatcher at Police Headql.1arters is quick to point out the e1'1couragement 'offered . by Mrs.' Balestracci.

"She's been a big' help to me.

I don't knoW-what I 'would have done without her encouragement.

Who' knows but whilt I 'J!light never have' taken p'ainting serio ously without her' help."

Dave recalls the days when he'd watch Joe, looking over ,the latter's shoulder and offering 'unsolicited advice.

"He'd' give me a wave of'the hand and. a 'get out of here,'" Dave laughs. "Now the shoe's on the other foot. My son (the Balestraccis also have a daughter,

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Joint Councils FREIBURG (NC) - Catholic churches and religious. communities are, being urged here to enter into joint Chr,istian councils with .J>rotestant groups. The recommendation was' made by the Freiburg archdiocese after consultations with. Lutheran authorities. It suggested the widest possibl~ C.atholic interest in the proposed ecumenical units.

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Judith, 9) will do the same Dad 'presehtlx is finishing a harbor scene or the famed old thing." , :Bli.lestracci families' iiave 'lived 'New,Bedford w!laler, the Charles in the West End of New Bedford W. Morgan now berthed as a for years. They're a familiar tourist attraction at Mystic, sports name, too, as' Dave's first Conn.

But he'll also find time to cousins, Jakie and Dante Balestracci, were great athletes in serve as secretary for the Police their days and among the finest Bowling League. .football and basketball players Dave harbors, too, the ambi'ever to come out of New Bed- tion to play 'the organ. "I can ford. ' " . play three songs, 'Beautiful Dave's side of the family is Dreamer,' 'Silent Night' and more noted for its musical abil- 'Swanee River.' I've got a long ity. Brother Baptiste for years way to go before r can playas has been a familiar figure with well as my son, a long way to the famed Harpoon Harmonizers. go."

Davis Jr., of course, is quite Then 'he added with a grin, talented with the organ. Judith "It's just that I've got no time is taking organ ,and violin. She to pursue a lot of things I'd like attends the Elizabeth Carter to-do. , Brooks School and her brother, The expression "no time" is a New' Bedford 1l1gh., favorite with Dave. He'll say it, then go out and do what he think he has time to do. .Lutheran Seminarians doesn't Like building his own fiveEstablish New Union room house on Watson Street. .CHICAGO (NC) - Some 45 "That took me away from my theological students from 10 golf;" he says. "Now I never schools conducted by the three play. I should have no time for major Lutheran bodies in' the my little vegetble garden in the 'United 'States·:-t-., the American 'Summer, but somehow I manage Lutheran Church;, the Lutheran to tend to it."

Church in America· and the The Balestraccis have always Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod 'lived in St. Francis of Assisi ....." and three. non-denominational parish in the. West End, attendschools have organized an ing M;lSS and other services in ·American Union of Lutheran the picturesque little church at Seminaries here.

North and Newton Streets.

The new group will focus its attention on issues. common to .theological education and the ELECTRICAL vision of the church of seminari· Contractors ans and other candidates for the Lutheran ministry. . Highlights of the union's initial session here was the adoption of a plan to introduce a new procedure .lor' certification for ordination. The, union recommended that an all-Lutheran board for ministerial candidates . be found to assume, examining and certifying functions now 944 County St. performed by var.ious boards New Bedford and faculties.

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Ulinois Diocese To Start School Sex Education JOLIET (NC)-Bishop Romeo Blanchette of Joliet has approved a diocesan board of education plan for the establishment of a sex education program in diocesan schools.

He also laid down a number of conditions which must accom· pany the program, notably a voluntary effort, on the part of both individual schools and con· senting parents.

The Illinois Ordinary, noting the receipt of many communications concerning the impending sex education program, observed: "Since the bishop has the responsibility in his diocese regarding matters involving faith and morals, my silence on the question '" '" '" might be inter· preted as my shirking this responsibility. " Bishop Blanchette noted that the Vatican Council spoke of a positive and prudent sexual edu· cation and that the U. S. Bishops' pastoral, Human Life in Our Day, affirmed "the value and necessity of wisely planned education of children in human sexuality adapted to the maturity and background of our young people."

"We realize," Bishop Blanchette said; "the concern of parents lest their rights be usurped.

And yet many parents have indicated that they are unable fully to discharge their duties in this area of personality development, and have asked help from the Church through her Catholic schools. In this way, parents, priests and- school teachers could work toegther to reinforce moral values."

Program' Control The mid-West Bishop~oted the program will be voluntary, recognizing the right of parents to provide this education them· selves should they wish to do so that individual parish and schools will decide whether to adopt part or all of the program.

He also said special care will be exercised in choosing and training competent teachers, that coooeration and recommen· dations .from parents will be continually sought and that there will be periodic evaluation of the program.

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OUR LADY OF ANG LS, FALL RIVER . . ~ . A 4 o'clock Mass w II be celebrated Christmas Eve af ernoon, satisfying the Christ as! obligation. A Mass will be celebrated at, the same hour N ~ Year's Eve for New Year's ax.

The Child Jesus wi I be venerated following Mas es during the Christmas season.

ST. STANISlLAUS, FALL RIVER Rabbi Moshe Babin of Temple Beth-El will speak on the Jewish heritage of Christians at a public lecture to be held at 8 tonight in the church hall. Admission will be free.

The annual Polish Christmas supper or "Breaking of the Christmas Wafer" will be served at 4:30 Sunday'afternoon, Dec. 21, also in the hall.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The parish council. will meet at 7:30 tonight. in the rectory conference room.

ST. MARY'S CATHE1RAIL, FALL RIVER A communal penance liturgy The parish council assed the will take place' at 7:30 Tuesday following resolution dirtkted to night, Dec. 23. It will include Bishop Connolly at its D~cember spiritual readings, lignting of the meeting: .

I Advent wreath, a homily, priYour Excellency: ~e, the vate individual confessions and members of St. Mary's Cathedral absolution, followed by penance Parish Council, expres r'\1e Wl.'11 performed in common by all of every parishioner n this participants. To avoid delay, your episcopal ChurCj' as we eight to I0 p~iests will _hear joyfully offer to your 0 ir . love. confessions. Regular confessions and esteem upon t he 0lccaslOn in preparation for Christmas will of your 75th birthday a~d your also be heard Tuesday and Wedsilver jubileee as a su cessor of nesday afternoon, Dec. 23 and the Apostles.

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Your people look with pride The CYO will sponsor a and admiration at t~e Iefforts "casual but proper" dance from you have brought t fruition 8 to 11 tomorrow night in the throughout this dioce e I in 19 school hall. Music will be by the years as its Ordinary. hJ estab- Pale Rider band and a light lishments for the age1 and the shoW will be presented' by infirm, the schools f r Iexcep- 10,000,000 Lumens. tional children, our net ~econd­ ary schools and your olicitude for the less fortunate hAve in.deed made you the ". isbop of Charity." It is as such t~at we, Newman Association members in the name of thousa ds, offer you our greeti':!gs and trJtitUde. at Bristol Community College, Fall River, will carol .at homes of facl,llty member.s:, Sunday SANTO ·CHRISTO, FALL RIVER night, Dec. 21. .

The Council of Cathol"c Women ,9ther C~ristmas prqjec;ts .have announces' .Mrs. Mary A!fmeida included a· trip. and dinner for and Mrs: Mary' Cabecei asl'are in area children and 'a Christmas charge of a malasada uJ:lper to show presented for residents of be .held at the church hall Sat- Fall River and Taunton Nursing urday, Jan. 31. A penn ~ale to homes. Newman Association follow the supper wil ~e di- presi~ent is William Golden and rected by Mrs. Millie endonca director for the show was and Miss Emelia Paiva. I Rafael Andrade.. Music was by Mrs. Mary Cabral, Mr . Phoebe Kathleen Golden.

Souza, Mrs. Herculan R' aposa With· a theme of ,"Christmas and Mrs. Lena Rog rs I were Yesterday and Today," the prohostesses for the eoember gram featured music, skits ,and meeting of the council. a sing~along chorus.

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The Senate of Priest of Fall River has designate three priests to serve as its officers for the rest of the 1P-6~-1970 term. They are Rev. Ms!rJ John' E. Boyd, president; Rev. J hn R. Foister, vice-president Rev. Peter N. Graziano, s cretary. treasurer.

I Rev. Msgr. John E. B ytl, the vice-president and acti~ ~president since the resign ti n of Rev. Edward A. Olivei a, was confirmed as the new p eSident.

He is pastor of St. Pktrick Church, Fall River.

I Rev. John R. Foister ssistant at St. Louis de Franc~ C~urch Swansea until now a S~nato; but riot'an officer, was elected by secret ballot to fill th v'acancy of vice-president wh'cH had been held by MonSign~ IBoyd until he assumed the pre idency. .Also confirmed in, the o~ition he held under the past p e~ident was Rev. Peter N. Grazi n~ .. assistant at Holy Name hurch, Fall River, who conti ue1s as secretary-treasurer.

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Due Process A detailed report on due process was then presented to the Senate by Rev. Edward J. Mitchell,. S.T.D.) assistant at. St. Ann Church, Raynham. It. reflected many of the provisions of the U. S. Bishops' Report· and the Hartford R~port.of the New England RegIOnal Conference of the Priests' Senates.

The provision calls for the eStablishment of. a diocesan board of . mediation and arbitration, whIch would attempt to resolve all substantive difficulties and disputes in the diocese, not only involving the clergy but also the 'laity, when the latter's problems are church centered and/or church related.

The amended Hartford Report for such a di?cesan board was passed unanImously by the Priests' Senate on a voice vote.

The consensus of the Senate was' that this method forconciliating differences in the diocese would be of· advantage to the Bishop in- that it would free his hands from sensitive issues in Turn to Page Eighteen.

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VIETNAM CHRISTMAS: S-4 Robert Coleman. 21, of Mommoth, : W. Va., stationed a.t the U.S. Special Force!; camp at · Bu Prang, Sout h Vietnam, d ecorates a Ch ristmas tree sent h 1m by his !girl friend Barbara Smith of City Grove, W. Va. NC Photo.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Bill Terry, 'the". young GI kille'd in' action in Vietnam last su'mmer, still is I not buried in the cemetery of his· choice despite a. prayer: vigil protest conducted here, but a Californian who owns a plot in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery has offered it to the Terry f,amily.

Alber,t Griffith of Los Alemitios, dlif:, toid NC' .News Serve ice in a telephone interview that he was I "all impressed" by news coverage of the refusal to bury Terry iin Elmwood' that he "thought it would be a nice' gesture to :offer ,my plot." .

"I am delighted to make this . gift to this young man' through Father· Farrell," Griffith said inreferenc.e to Father EugE:ne Far- . rell, S.S.J., pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Church in Birmingham, who has brought the scandal to rtational attention.

Griffith, a former resident of the Alabama city, said he had purchased two plot!!· next to his parents'; graves wh'en he lived in ' Birmingham. He told Father Farrell he would 'be honored to' have a 'young American buried' next to i his mother and father: Pointing out that he is oppb'sed tb the' war in Vietnam; Griffith' said tne situation 'is "fantastic' ... here is a man who was killed. for his country. To say he can't be buried' is outrageous.',' Tremendous Stand Terry is buried, but in another cemetery. Before his· death in Vietnam: he had requested his fa~il/ to see that he is buried in Elmw,ood should he die' in acti~n. .ij:lmwood is near Terry's boyhood home. His mother can see the qemetery from her front porch.

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"I .thought if' the lots were owned by Father Farrell or the Terry family the case would be strengthened since blacks can't purchase lots in Elmwood," Griffith said.

Griffith is a psychologist at Metropolitan ,State Hospital in Norwalk, 'Calif: He sai'd he has no intention of returning to Birmingham and would like his two grave sites to serve a good purpose. ' "He's to be commended," Griffith, a non-Catholic, said of Father' Farrell. "He has taken a trem~ndous stand."

Mass Obligation CHICAGO (NC)-Jbhn Cardinal Cody. has arinounced that the Sunday Mass obligation may be fulfilled on Saturday· evening in' the .Chicago archdiocese, effective after the first of the year.

Cardinal Cody, in it letter sent to all priests of the archdiocese; also announced that Sunday weddings would be permitted in all parishes. Traditionally, weddings are held on Saturdays.

tians, even though there has been some "tightening up" since the openness that characterized Vatican II. So says Dr. A. C. Forrest, editor of the United Church Observer, monthly magazine of the United Church of Canada.

After a trip to Rome, Dr. Forrest said he feels "positive about the movements and directions of ecumenism in Rome. I also feel uncertainties."

The Christian churches "no longer try to take advantage" of each other and this, Dr. Forrest feels, is the most important result of modern ecumenism.

Change of Attitude The key to Catholic progress toward cooperation is the work of the. Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, which receives "praise and confidence" from Protestants, Dr. Forrest reported.

"Of all things that happen in Rome, nothing is more important to other Chrisians than the direction taken in the secretariat."

Under Jan Cardinal Wille-· brands, he noted, the unity secretariat has changed the focus of .. CatholiCism since Vatican Council II. "We are not out to . save damned souls any more," Father John Long, S.J., of the secretariat told Dr. Forrest.

"Now the emphasis is on God working in other religions."

The United Church editor praised "a subtle change of attitude!'· since 'vat.ican II when the relationship, between .churches was one of gentlemanly decency and propriety. Now the Churches . have "gone beyond mere' decency" to brotherhood. .'Whole Church' A Protestant in Rome, Prof.

Robert Nelson of Boston Seminary, told Dr. Forrest: "Protestants. should take no delight in any problem in the Roman Catholic Church now.

This i~ something for the whole Church."

Father Long agreed: "There is a recognition that people have made a commitment to a certain church. We're not trying to exploit one an· other's problems for our gain."

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Commission on Civil Rights warned here that a prohibition against tax-exempt foundation support of voter registration drives, contained in a tax reform bill reported by the Senate Finance Committee, will have an adverse effect on Negro voter registration in the south.

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by Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., commission chairman and president of the University of Notre Dame, it was noted that Congress has pro· vided legislation safeguarding the right to register and vote.

But Congress left to private organizations the task of en· couraging Negro voters to register and exercise their political franchise, the letter declared.

Under the tax reform bill which has already passed the House, foundation funding of voter registration activities would be permitted under certain conditions.

Commenting on the House measure, the Commission said "these conditions . . . although unduly restrictive . . . would enable tax-exempt foundations to fund such drives while satisfying concerns that the drive not be partisan or targeted upon a particular city, community, state or area."

The senate committee's version of the bill, however, would totally prohibit the use of funds for voter registration drives by tax-exempt foundations.

Called "Insight: Our Faith Today," the survey will be conducted by Arthur X. Oeegan, archdiocesan director of planning and research.

"The purpose of the survey," Deegan explained, "is to ascer· tain the attitudes of people in the archdiocese and try to scientifically determine the reasons behind the attitudes which we know to be present.

"We're not just going to be counting noses," he said.

"We're not going to just tabulate who likes the new liturgy, for instance. We want to know why they like it, or. don't like it, as the case may be; the reason behind their opinion."

The prime reason for the survey is to develop a profile of the people in the belief that AT CATHOLIC PRESS MEETING: At a meeting of bishops and editors held at the Bergamo plans for the future will be Center, Dayton, under joint auspices of the Catholic Press Association and the USCC Departmen? sound, he said.

Areas of Interest of Communications., are seen from left. Archbishop Philip M, Hannan of New Orleans, chair· Joseph Breznau, designated man of the Department of Communications; Richard M. Guilderson Jr.• director of NC News survey director, said interview- Service, and Norman E. Isaacs, executive editor, Louisville Courier-Journal and Lcuisville Times ers will inquire into five general and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. NC Photo. areas of interest as they fill out questionnaires. He said inter· viewers will ask such questions as: Are there any significant changes in religious practice among Catholics in the archdio- cese?

However, in a questionnaire ment, and himself the former DAYTON (NC)-Eight CathoWhat do people think about lic bishops, most of them pub- answered by 8~ bishops through- editor of a diocesan newspaper the-programs and services of the lishers of diocesan newspapers, out the U. S., '72"indicated that (The Catholic Standard, of Washand 19 Catholic editors at a they had friendly relations with ington, D. C.) archdiocese and their parishes?

Reporting on results of his Reporters Recheck How many are really cbm- three-day meeting here reviewed the editors of their papers and the goals of their publications only two bishops described rela- questionnaire, Archbishop Hanmitted to Catholic schools? nan noted that of the 84 bishops Church Statistic What kind of priests do they and strove to resolve bishop- \ tions as "strained."

WASHINGTON (NC)-A bloatresponding: editor "tensions." want» » » do they feel that they The survey was made by eo statistic came from President Fifty-five expressed "satisfacThey found the tensions were Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of have today?

How are Detroit Catholics re- relatively few and there was New Orleans, chairman of the faction" with their own diocesan Nixon during his nationally telacting to current social prob- general agreement on the pur- USCC Communications Depart· paper, and 24 "dissatisfaction." evised press conference here.

And to add to the embarrassEssential, HelpfUl pose of the Catholic press. lems ment, the statistic dealt with Thirty-eight said they were First of its kind in the counDo people feel hopeful about churc~ building. generally satisfied with diocesan renewal or is there a significant try, the bishops·editors conferpapers in the U. S., and 36 said Lauding the good works by amount if anti-institutionalism? ence was sponsored by the Com· they were dissatisfied.

American servicemen in VietWhat about adult education munications Department, U. S. Forty-nine said the diocesan nam, the President proudly proCatholic Conference; the Cathoefforts? paper was "essential" and 30 claimed: "The Marines alone this Deegan observed: "The Cath- lic Press Association and Berit was "helpful" in the dio- year have built over 250,000 said v ATICAN CITY (NC) ~ A olic who is no longer conscien- gamo Center for Renewal at the statement issued by. the press cese's program of religious ed- churches, pagodas and temples University of Dayton, where the tiously practicing his faith, who office of the Holy See has de: ucation. Only three said it was for the people of Vietnam." feels lost in today's renewal sessions took place. The Ohio fended that ,office's new regula· unnecessary.

The statistic intrigued reportState chapter, Knights of Columshuffle, may have something Sixty-two bishops said their ers, who envisioned the small t:harges that they tions against bus, provided financial assistvery significant to say about the diocesan papers have and exer- South Vietnam countryside ance in, setting up the confer- open the way to censorship.

Church." cise freedom to report misbe- dotted with religious structures. ence. ,Describing such charges as havior of churchmen when it is The reporters rechecked the staBasic Purpose "alarmist," the statement said a matter of public knowledge. tistic with the White House and Urge Special Board that there "has never been any In a statement of "preliminary Fifty expressed satisfaction the corrected figures came out consensus" issued at the end of intention of imposing undue re- with their paper's coverage of 117 churches and 251 schools To Administer Aid the conference, the participants strictions on freedom of infor· community problems. built by the Marines.

KEARNY (NC)-The Newark said "the basic purpose of the mation."

Also turned up by the quesArchdiocesan Senate of Priests diocesan press is to enlighten It concluded: "It is indeed tionnaire was the fact that 45 of voted here to recommend the the Catholic about his world and hoped to foster such freedom, in the bishops published financially establishment of a special board his role in it." a spirit of trust in the responsi· independent papers, while 37 acto administer a parish assistance The statement also suggested bility of, the newsmen and of knowledged that subsidies were PLUMBING & HEATING, INC. program which finds more affluent parishes aiding those in that in order to achieve its goal, appreciation for the service they necessary. The general convicSales and Service . . , . . the Catholic press needs "a defi- ·render the Holy See. Precisely tion was that in the overall reinner-city areas. for Domestic nition of the roles of publisher ligion education program of the in view of this the press office The recommendation for such and Industrial and editor, a mutual trust and also recalls the limits that are d~ocese, the school system Oil Burners a board came from a subcom- understanding and frequent di995·1631 mittee of the Senate's personnel rect communication between intrinsic to freedom' o('informa- ranked first, the Confraternity tioh as to every other freedom." of Christian Doctrine program 2283 ACUSHNET AVENUE committee after a series of pub- them." and the diocesan paper NEW BEDFORD The new regulations of the second, lic hearings held to elicit the . third. views of people from contributpress office provide for permaing parishes and parishes being nent or temporary withdrawal of Accuses Convents assisted under the program.

NAGPUR (NC)-The Maha- accreditation from any newsman The program was initiated last rashtra state government has guilty of an "incorrect attitude" Luncheon - Dinner and April at the request of Arch· served a show-cause notice on toward the Church or the Holy See. The judgment of "the Vatibishop Thomas A. Boland. To 14 convent schools that failed date, it has resulted in contribu- to join in country-wide celebra- can authorities" on this matter tions of $70,000 with the money tions of the birth centenary of shall be "unchallengeable." being distributed by the arch· Mahatma Gandhi, father of the 8 :30 to 11 :30 A.M. When the Vatican's new press bishop as needs arose.

Indian nation. Announcing this regulations were announced they Plans to change the adminis- in the state legislature here, aroused a storm of adverse crititration of the monies stem from Minister of State for Education . cism. Many religious editors a belief that a more structured R.J. Deotale said notices were is- and writers 'in the U. S. reacted approach could result in larger sued to the schools to show with professed dismay and criti· Routes TI and 1A at Intersection contributions while involving in· cause why "disciplinary action" cism of the new rules, and some of Route 123 - South Attleboro dividuals on a personal hasis should not be taken against even saw Kremlin-like .overtones as well. them. in them.

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People's thou ht of giving should be directed first toward Christ W 0 1is the whole meaning, after all, of Christmas. Their c ncern should be the greater giving of themselves .to Hi . lAnd this should evidence itself not only in a material ~y but by the goodness of their lives.

Then the moti e$ for giving to others should be more clearly fixed as be rooted in charity-in love ~f neighbor for the sake 0 Christ.

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But the Cathol C.IChUfCh is not the only group whose , parish structures a e, being assailed. the greatest threat that this country now faces is The Episcopal suffragan bishop of Washington, the not from the horrors of Vietnam but rather the threat Right Rev. Paul M ore, Jr., has recently been elected coof internal national violence. This statement is no mere adjutor-elect of Ne fork. He is' a churchman long active in liberal moveme~ts. His views on the parish structure .fantaSy of a few ar:oused -citizens but a concluding fact were solicited and bi-ought forth some penetrating com- presented to President Nix- rising tide of individual and on and the nation by the group violence." m~b.

Natiohal Violence CommisThe Commission provides an' According to ishop Moore, "the parish is where the extremely valuable point of insion.

The 10th and final rebattles are being fdught out concerning the gut issues of of the 13-member Commis- formation when it indicates that the day-racism, ptace, family life and even sex educa- port sion, 'directed by Dr. Milton defense spending devours about tion. All these iss e~ crash like breakers on the parish Eisenhower, says the government tWQ .thirds of all Federal expenchurch. The parish qlergy who hang in there and fight must be prepared to spend about ditures and about 50 per cent of dollars annually on the combined costs of operating these issues throu~h, with intelligence, charity, courage 20-million the Federal, State and local govpressing domestic needs. , ernments. and patience are ~ ing an immense contributio.n to the And,' the report also notes that This country, as a result, has life of our country. ' , these domestic needs have been been unable to meet its social redisregarded for so long that re, 'The Bishop sai that "to run away" from the parish sulting; violence "is divi.ding our sponsibilities and cannot adestructure is to run a*ay from the man in the street. quately remedy its multi-social • I people :into armed camps."

This makes' gr at sense. '. , injustices.

The 'Commissioner had the man's home, consequently, Granted, there r,s Ialways need to refurbish the parish courag~ to tell the Chief Execu- hasA become an armed and wired and to renew it. Special efforts are already in progress tive and the American people, in castle while sections of some cit.uncertain terms, that the na- ies are, but mere fortresses. Vigiland will increase t k greater degree in reaching out to no tion must shift its concentration ante' police forces are being or' groups of similar v' c~tions. on wat, a booming economy and ganized in many areas. Force and Granted, there isj always the need to renew and 're- the copquest of space, to the fear are substituting argument furbish the parish. he family spirit must be built up and ,task of providing better homes, and accomodation, thus infecting jobs, education and income for its the spirit of trust and co·operathis is not always e s~ when dealing with persons of vary- citizens. tion. ' ing tel1!peraments. h~n too, special efforts are already unThere can be little doubt that This is a very. sad commentary der way and must increase in reaching out to groups of the present rise in violence stems for the wealthiest and most powfrom "haphazard - urbaniption, erful nation in today's world. similar vocations.

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OFFICIAL NEW5P IpER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by T elCatholic Press of th~ Diocese of Fall River 4 0 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Ja,mes L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. GENERAL MA AGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. S'J'a~loo, M.A. ,Rev. John P. Driscoll , 'r~NAGING EDITOR Hugh J. Golden, Ll.B.

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One might' rightfully wonder why Americans are dying abroad -to save a national freedomand, in the process, lose their own national freedom and heritage.

,Civic Groups Must Help Political The I Eisenhower Commission 'tion to insure some solution to has laid the facts right on the the reality of our present nationline. Something must be done al disgrace. about them by those who 'have It is, likewise, the duty of our the puqlic and private responsi- civic-minded organizations of inbilities. fluence to cooperate in programs Each man must meet this chal- that can challenge 'crime in all lenge of violence and crime in its forms and causes. our ev~ryday living.

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Efforts by a few religious communities to come to grips with these matters In light of the, post-conciliar Church renewal have occasioned disputes in some U. S. dioceses.

The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart. in Los Angeles, whose experiments in updating their community were reportedly opposed by James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, were ordered by Church officials at one point to end their renewal program. They were told to confine th~m­ selves to their original teaching apostolate rather than engaging in a wide variety of other activi· ties.

The pastoral took note of what it termed "a whole new set of opportunities" for modern-day Sisters in "fraternal assistance, world peace, job opportunities, poverty programs, dissipation of racial conflicts, and improvement of family life."

But it emphasized that a Sister's undertakings in these areas must be carried out according to the spirit of her community and the guidance of the' local bishop.

The bishops said it would be fruitless for the Religious wom· an to immerse herself in involvement in social issues at the' ex· pense of fidelity to her funda. mental religious calling. "She will run the risk of losing both the effectiveness of her work as ecclesial and 'apostplic, and the meaning of her life as a consecrated woman," they declared.

The bishops of the provinces of Seattle, Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, San Antonio, Denver and Dubuque signed the letter.

The bishops praised today's Religious women for their attempts' to seek man's develop· ment. Nevertheless, they said, the prayer life of a Religious is not fulfilled exclusively in work.

"This kind of l'eligion would go counter to the very gospels themselves," the bishops said.

Religion is not merely "baptized , social' work."

"Although we cannot praise too highly those outstanding Religious women W);l0 have concerned themselves with, poor people, social injustice, hunger, racial justice and other such problems, we must also recognize that these works of mercy and justice of themselves cannot dispense from the need of liturgical and private prayer," the bishops said. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"",""" of C, St. Vincent de Paul-every oriented group-must face reality and get on the ball and be· come immersed in present prob· lems and not fade in past and questionable achievements.

Above all, the churches of this nation, if they are to survive, must get their head out of the sand and realize what truly is go· ing on. in this land of ours while they have any moral force left in the community.

The prattles of pious phrases, the repetition of trite platitudes, the daily devotion to pharasical attitudes have no meaning and little value to the man who has murdered, assaulted or raped. ' To save only the saved is not the message of the Koran, the Talmud or the Gospel.

Each of us has the obligation, as citizens of this country, to be aware of the report' of the Na· tional Committee on violence and to do everything possible to implement its 81 recommendations.

We might still have time to save the form of our' national life, which we know as the American dream, if we take their words seriously and to heart.

Warns Colleges of Imminent Mounting. Fiscal Problems DALLAS (NC)-Two experts in higher education financing said Catholic liberal arts colleges face an unfavorable financial foreca~t unless steps are taken to remedy present problems. They warned that within five years the country's 182 accredited agement and controls. "Although Catholic liberal arts colleges several Catholic coIleges have will need nearly $700 million made impressive strides in this more than their present in- area, the management revolution come. Dr. Jesse E. Hobson and Martin E. Robbins, president and associate of a New York consulting firm, told the annual meeting of the Southern Regional Unit of the CoIlege and University Department of the National Catholic Educational Association that their analysis is based on months of research.

They said that while all of higher education is afflicted with a seven per cent annual cost inflation, Catholic coIleges have unique problems which could conceivably increase their operating costs by as much as 90 per cent by 1975.

These "unique" problems concern a decline in what the researchers termed "live endowment"-a decline in "the previous existence of an almost unsolicited presence of Catholic students" and a parallel decline in the "large pool of devoted Religious faculty to serve them."

Tuition Gap "The ecumenical spirit of Vatican II and the resulting liberal and conservative reactions have contributed to a lessened public commitment to Catholic colleges," they pointed out.

These attitudes, they added, are magnified by the greater cost of attending the Catholic institutions relative to the extremely low cost of public colleges.

Since 1959, they reported,' tui- . tions in public institutions have risen by an average of $138 to $281, while those in private institutions have risen by $679 to $1,346 a tuition gap of more than $1,000.

"The outcome was predict. able," they said. "Today· 72.2 . per cent of all students attend public institutions."

Education Inflation They also noted that the replacement of Religious facult"ies by lay faculties costs an average of anywhere from $8,000 to $15,000 more per teacher than the "contributed services" of the Religious.

"Since these services amount to about 25 per cent of a college's budget, more income will be needed as lay-to-Religious faculty ratios increase."

Hobson and Robbins noted that when the impact of the seven per cent annual educational inflation is combined with the cost implications of more lay faculty members, "a highly unfavorable financial forecast develops."

"When the additional costs each year are added up for the five-year period, the 182 colleges will need nearly $550 million in extra income if enrollment declines and nearly $700 million if it remains the same.

Cites Alternatives "For the average Catholic liberal arts college. this means a fund raising effort of some $4· million in a five-year period. To raise such a sum for purely operational needs is a staggering task to an institution whose annual budget is probably only $1.5 million."

They said, however, the situation is not "hopeless," recommending: Administrative costs be con· tained through improved man-

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil R:v()r-lhurs. Dec. 18. 1969

Editor Urges Says Questions

MILWAUKEE (NC) - An appeal for more moral theologians to research and provide guidelines for medical science ethics was made by the new editor of the official journal of the National Federation of Catholic that has streamlined much of Physicians' Guilds.

Dr. John P. Mullooly,. M.D., higher education has barely touched many smaller Catholic newly appointed editor of the Linacre Quarterly published here, institutions."

More students be recruited said in an interview that a serithrough aggressive and profes- ous problem facing medicine tosional enroIlment drives. "Not day-"not only medicine but the enough Catholic coIleges truly . whole world-is what is life all articulate their merits and about, What, hi fact, is life * ¢ '" unique educational opportunities or death?"

The 39-year-old specialist in to potential students both Cathinternal medicine encouraged olic and non-Catholic." seminarians to increase their inCo-Op Movement More funds be recruited from terest in medical ethics research. alumni, friends and industry "Most of what has been done, to "provided donors can be con- my knowledge, has been worked vinced of the individual institu- out by physicians themselves who stopped to think, groping tion's merit."

Organizations of private in- for some answers to their own stitutions could lobby for more questions on the implications of direct federal and state aid to their research." But physicians' students, "creating, in essence, have an insurmountable task of a free market that would place keeping up with scientific ad· the educational choice on the vancements, let alone with theology, he said. student."

Hobson and Robbins believe a combination of these funding alternatives will probably be needed. They also said one key to a solution might be found in a strong inter-institutional cooperation movement, which would eliminate duplication of effort and services.

"Theologians to whom we generally and traditionally have looked for answers have to be more involved and more articu· late in these areas,". he said.

Dr. MuIlooly admitted that in an age of upheaval as is being experienced today, "there are no simple answers." People tend .to look to Catholics to see what they are saying, he observed.

So he hopes to keep the Linacre

Announce Press Month Th'eme NEW YORK (NC)-"Today's News (or Today's Catholics" will be the theme of the 'Februuary, 1970, observance of Catholic Press Month.

James A. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Press Association, said that. besides supplying editorial materials on the month to CPA member publications, the association has prepared a Catholic Press Month kit for parish and school organ· izations.

Quarterly as a leaven by publishing informative articles that will express moral problems in the framework of traditional beliefs and give gUidance where possible.

Praises StUdents "But the safe period of the' 1950s is gone with the wind. We also have to give vigorous voice to dissent if necessary, present several points of view on controversy - with the view that truth will finally come through."

The quarterly is a journal dedicated to the philosophy and ethics of medical practice.

Dr. Mullooly said young medical students are asking questions that challenge traditional views. As a clinical instructor at Marquette Medical School, he said he is very encouraged by the inquiring, searching caliber of the modern medical students.

"They won't tolerate poor teachers. They question and force faculty to do a better job.

They want to spend time. with the physicians * * * not just listen. When I was in school everyone just listened to the profs."

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Levels Charges At Institution MANTENO (NC) - A priest who was dismissed as chief Catholic chaplain at Manteno State Hospital here in Illinois has made charges detailing alleged "snake-pit" conditions at the institution.

Father L. Donahue, C.S.V., received notice of his immediate dismissal because of' his criticism of the treatment of pa· tients at the hospital. He was accused, in an official notice signed by three of his bosses, of having made charges that "have little basis in fact."

Father Donahue, 64, caIled a press conference later the same day at which he listed the following allegations against the hospital: A death rate at the hospital that allegedly is abnormally high.

The entry into the hospital of a local man, who arrives on weekends, to lend money to patients at alleg~dly usurious rates.

The alleged absence, some nights, of any registered nurses on duty in the 4,567-patient in· stitution.

Father Donahue, a member of the Clerics of St. Viator (Viatorian Fathers) and a chaplain at Manteno since June, 1964, said 451 deaths occurred in the hospital from Nov. I, 1968, to Nov. I, 1969. He said these included three elderly patients "missing from the hospital since August."

Their bodies, he said, had been "torn apart by animals" when they were found by farmers ino nearby cornfields at harvest time.

Aid to Poor FRESNO (NC)-Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe of Fresno (Calif.) has urged Congress to retain the rural legal assistance programs under the jurisdiction of the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity.

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NETCONG, (NC) - With approval of a Superior Court. judge, the practice of daily prayers in the Netcong Public High School will continue, at least until Jan. 6.

State officials sought a tem· porary injunction to restrain the practice, which involves reading from the Congressional Record the prayers offered by chaplains in opening sessions of the U. S. Senate and House. ' Judge Joseph Stampler turned down the r'equest for the immediate injunction. He notified Joseph Stracco, superintendent of schools; Vincent Togno, prin. cipal of the high school, and the Netcong Board of Education to show cause on Jan. 6 why the readings should not be stopped.

The. school officials here a few months ago came up with the plan for reading the prayers from the Congressional Record at voluntary meetings of students at the school in a period prior to the beginning of classes. , 'New Jersey Atty. Gen. Arthur J. Sills several weeks ago issued an opinion that the practice is unconstitutional, violatil')g a ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court prayer ban. The local school of· ficials decided to continue the practice despite the ruling. '

Of Outf tis for Holidays

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The glamour nd glitter of the holiday decorations this season will only b tivaled by the stunning outfits chosen by the women of the Diocese. From elegant velvets to smart looking kni s,lfrom sparkling embroidery to embellished brocades 1 6 is the year of the femi ine look More sophisticated than Carand the women of this area ~aby Street b~t just as dramatic • .1 IS the outfit Mrs. Douglas are leadmg that fa hlOn par- Chapman of St. Patrick's Church

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ade. Teenagers hav tUddenlY become 'style-setters and certainly one of the most up-to-theminute young ladies I know is Pam Hanify, daughter of Atty. and Mrs. Joseph Hanify of Holy Name parish, Fall River. Pam is a stunning blonde and for her busy holiday sc e ,ule she will be wearing a bab blue pant suit. The jacket of th s butfit is quite long (in fact t lis long enough to be worn al neover a dress. . . If she. so chooses Pa fan c.reate a ~Ifferent l~ok y F-earmg the th!rd coord~nate ~Iece,.a blue skirt. Matchmg b ue mohair accessories complete ert· ensemble.

Another very lov Iy young blonde, Millie Sullivan daughter of Atty, and Mrs. 0 niel Sullivan of St. Stanislaus p~rish in ,Fall River, will be greeting friends in a red ve vet maxi skirt which she will e~r with a long sleeved, V-nec eli white crepe blouse. A wide rrlatching s.elf .belt is w~rn wi h IMillie's lIpstick re~ skirt so sqe feels t~at she Will keel? .he ~ccessones down to. a minim ~. .

Velvet agam, only lack thiS ~ime and ~ini instea qf maxi IS the chOice of Mary Beth A~derson, daughter of, r~. Artie Anderson, of St. A~thonY of Padua parish in Fall Rver. Mary Beth's black. velvet. is f9 und in a gored, f1arl~g brief skirt that she. wear~ With a 10 g..lsleeve~ white satm. blouse ~n . loodles ~f gold c~,ams and rm s for that . Carnaby look that he young, Just love. . . .

in Somerset has chosen for her holiday partying. Jean's look consists of a long' accordion pleated pant skirt, a skirt, a white crepe overblouse and a red crepe shawl with long black fringe. That extra touch is a gold pin, layered with coins, that she wears at the plunging neckline of the blouse.{ Pants are going to be the "in" look for this gala· season, at least that's what all indications show, and Miss· Janine Pelletier of Holy Name parish in Fall River is not going to. be out of the fashion picture.

Janine's mother, a talented seamstress, is creating a striking black and gold pant outfit for her daughter. The top is gold Il}etallic cloth, made with long , .'FATHERLY BLESSING: Pope Paul greets four.year old Kevin full sleeves and a deep V neckof Californiai' a' youngster afflicted. with leukemia, Doctor ~urns. Diploma McGin,ley. line. Strikingly different are the came to see Pontiff with parents, Mr: and Mrs. ,Jam'es Mc~ bl,ack crepe slacks that are 'ac- who Prote~t_ Abortions Ginley. NC Photo: '" . . (1, - ' . -I,' , ' cented with gold embroidery PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A every seven inches" or so on the Catholic obstetrician who obmaterial and a wide border of jects to the liberalized abortion the gold on the cuffs of the policy of his "alma mater" pants. burned his dliploma and alumni Mrs. Andrew J. McBreen of Prof,e.ssor Urges Return to 3 R's life membership certificate on St. Mary's Church in Taunton is the steps of Jefferson Medical " -··To 'Ease Student Unrest: wearing her gold. 'threads. 'inter.'

College here. ' mingled with silver and red .to MII:J~AUKEE (NC)-An edu· He said "born teachers" as form a brocaded pattern that is cator dusted off an old formula well as properly trained teachers Dr. Francis Joseph McGeary, so right for Christmas '69. Von- and prescribed it as a way of are scarce, while many others district medical administrator for nie's glitter. is woven into a lessening unrest among students are incapable or not sufficiently the Pennsylvania Bureau of Voblack background for just that who complain school is boring intelligent to teach students how cational Rehabilitaton, said 'that right amount of contrast. Whip- because they're not being taught to think. he chose the Feast of the Imped up in a sleeveless sheath maculate Conception for his prohow to think.

"Students must know how to and worn with black accessories test after reading last week that Jacques Barzun, Columbia, think before they 'can begin to it's a holiday look that is lady. a Jefferson Hospital spokesman like and yet striking at the same Unive~sity professor, advocated perfect the thinking process," had indicated that the number of a return to the time-honored Barzun said. ·time. : abortions there had increased "three'['s" formula to lessen the . Wet Look' "forty fold" since liberalized protests· of college and high' rules went into effect last DeIf it doesn't glitter this season, school'students.Change Plan for Peace cember. it shines, and Mrs. John O'Neil Barzun, here -for a lecture en· of Sacred Heart parish in Fall gagement at Marquette" Univer- Memorial in Las Vegas Dr. Benjamin Kendall, assist· River will shine ina wet look sity, characterized as "a mish-' ant professor of obstetrics and dress in a brilliant shade .of mash b, f i.I.1 digested.. notions" at.

NEW YORK (NC)-A plan to gynecology at Jefferson, said of Christ as a green. Pauline' describes the tempts to teach certain social erect a statue' . I 'III t h peace memoria e ' h otel- the number of therapeutic abordress as made of a bonded ma- studies, language. arts, driver ed- casino area or' Las Vegas,' Nev.,' tions for 1969 will'probably total terial designed with long, loose, ucatiort and sex education.

800, compared with 23 abortions "Only certain basic subjects has been cancelled, the Amer-' performed at the hospital in Tells Reli.gious S r ss dramatic sleeves, a long torso •• .1 ending in a. free-swinging are capable of being reduced to ican Jewish Committee reported 1968.

Intenor life, Pra er pleated skirt and' a high rolled princi~les which may properly here.

Rabbi Aaron S. Gold of Las . VATICAN CITY (c)-Pope neckline that ends in long ties be ta4ght in· the schools," he: Vegas raised objection to the' Paul VI has reminde r~ligious down the back. Only. someone ~s said.

Barzun insisted the basic sub- plan originally approved by the communities to emph size the slender and attractive. as thiS interior life and re oJrse to full-time mother of six. could jects are the "three r's." He said Las Vegas Convention Authorprayer lest the efficac 9f their wear this particular style of after students have mastered·' ity, contending any religious these fundamentals, they shourct' monument on public property dress. programs be comprom se~. violated the Church-State clause For those moments during the be taught their uses.

Speaking to' the m mbers of He1added they should be· of the Constitution. The AJC the general chapter of tHe Con- ~olidays when. she wants ladygregation of African isSions of lIke elegance Mrs. Charles Har- taught I to read good books, use offered its legal services to the 273 CENTRAL AVE. Verona, Pope Paul exp es~ed his graves. of St.. Louis pari~h in their imaginations in writing rabbi. -' about their experiences, be aI. T~e Clark County; 'Nev., Mingratitude to their fathe general, Fall River wl.1I be. wearmg a 992-6216 Father Tarcisio Ago tOlli, for brown a~d white k~ltted ensem- lowed to' study advanGed math_lstenal Association suppported the assistance rend ret! the ble, Manan, who IS statuesque ematic~ for their own curiosity the rabbi; the convention au. thority cancelled its plan and papal entourage. on t e recent and attractive, lov~s the'lo~k of . and ~p~culation.

NEW BEDFORD named the rabbi on a committee trip to Uganda. ~ the. brown dress,. tnmmed Wlt~ a to ~elect. a: pe~c;~ memorial.

Turning to the wo k which white yoke, and the matchmg Catholics Establish had brought them to orpe, the cocoa b~own. double .breasted I • updating of the constitution of coat. With It she Will wear Communications Unit the congregation, Pope Pa'ul told ?rown accessories -and. a strikGLASGOW (NC)-A commu- ,; them: I mg large brown fur-like hat. nications commission to 'pro-' "In the midst of th dangers In Immaculate Conception, mote a~tivities in the TV, radio, of e~ce~sive ac~ivism a d pf sec- parish, Fall. River, Mrs. Mary movie and press fields has been ul~n~atJon which not even' the Alve.s Ha~ngton has sew~ an set up I by the Catholic Church ,. missionary world escap s Itoday,' e~otlc. prmted --dress fashIOned" in Scot1<ind. '" may the care of the int rior life, with. a - plunging neckline, long Each I of the comm' . , ,·.7: Perry 'Our Heeding the rec~~rse to prayer, ~~e 'love ~ fI~wlllg sle~v.es.,. and,;· ..'!l . ,full." 'meinb'ets;': the': Catholic IS~~~S~' A\i~nue for sa~r~lc~. and flor thae crloss. al- ~klrt. ~.he .w.III accent It With a Office, ttle Scottish Catholic' way~ a e Irst pace. thyrwlse, ecora Ive pm:- '-~.: ':'.. . Broadcasting Committee a d th .TauntonMo'ss. AMERICAN precIous energy ~ould qe disAll in all, it I~q~sas.'if the _catholit Film, Institute Wi~ con~ : persed and .the efflcacor' even ' ladies: of the Fall River 'Diocese "t1mie t6 'maintain 'us' ~wn iden- ~ .

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First-Footing Custo:m Fou·nd Both in Scotland, Azores

Sees 'False Issu,es' Father Greeley Criticizes Questionnaire On Catho~ic Education

By Joseph' and Marilyn Roderick In a re~ent "New Yorker" article by John McPhee about Scotland he writes, "On New Year's Eve--or rather, in the first hours of the new year-these Scotsmen in Ohio always went around to one ano~her's houses, following the Highland custom of firstfoot." According to this cus- stores that have Christmas supplies or in one of the specialty tom, the first person to enter stores that sell artificial flowers the house or cross the thres- and sup!Jlies.) hold on the New Year had to be an acceptable person and had to be dark-haire~ to bring beneficence upon the house.

My immediate reaction to the . article was to think back to my Uncle Joe who followed the custom of first-footing, although we did not give it a name. In this instance my uncle, who has since passed away, was following a custom which came from the Azores where he was born.

According to this custom the first visitor in the New Year had to be a male, so every New Year's morning we could expect a visit from my uncle who would drink a toast to our family and to the house.

Will Pass Away In his article, McPhee states that "My father remembers all this from his youth, but he raised his ow!l family in Princeton, N. J., and there were no first-footings there." In our own case, my uncle's custom has not b"~" c?rr:cd on, and I am sure it is another custom that will slowly pass away.

It is interesting to note that although Scotland and the Azores are far-removed from each other and that the custom is not as far as I know related to religion, that the customs 'are similar In intent as well as in implementation.

I have always been curious about the origins of such practices but in this case I have been unsuccessful in discovering them.

One would wonder how two separate and really unrelated cultures, quite isolated from the rest of civilization, the Scots in their bens and glens and the Azoreans in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, should have in common a rather quaint and unique custom.

In the Kitchen Egg-carton ,trees, plastic wreaths, papier-mache creche figures-Christmas is the time of year that brings out the "do-it-yourself" instinct in most of us. One reason this creative urge arises is that when we look at the cost of ready-made decorations we realize that we either do it ourselves or do without.

My fourth grade class has started to make the egg-carton tree that appeared in the December issue of Woman's Day and they are coming out quite delightfully. Trimmed with tiny colored balls and sprayed with gold or silver paint they make quite a lovely decoration, and they truly are easy enough to be made successfully by a class of nine and 10 year olders.

However the decoration (or project) that really caught my eye this year is a nut tree that one of my fellow-t.eachers, Mrs. Arthur Balthazar of Holy Name Parish in Fall River, made to decorate her lovely home. Connie was kind enough to share the directions (and her experience making it) with the readers of this column.

Nut Trree I styrofoam cone 14" inches wide at the base (These can be bought in many of the area

Varied assortment of pine cones and acorns (these can be found in area woods.)

I box of mix~d nuts with the shells on 1 can gold spray paint 1 can spray shellac 1 pound of chestnuts 1 small can of linoleum paste (this is brown and blends in with the nuts Various small pieces of artificial fruit, about 18 pieces in all.

Walnuts, cut in half (a few of these) Toothpicks 1) The styrofoam cone can be placed on any base you have.

Connie used an antiqued base with a small spike in the center that stuck into the cone. A small compote could be used as well and perhaps the styrofoam could be attached to it with clay.

2) Begin by making a circle around the base of the cone with toothpicks. This acts as a sturdy base on which to build the tree.

Most of these toothpicks can be removed after the tree is made and settled.

3) Then put 2 inches of paste around the base of the cone, using a tongue depressor (or something like it) to apply the paste, otherwise your hands will never be the same. Next put a row of the largest nuts around the base on this paste.

4) Alternate rows of mixed nuts, pinecones, half-walnuts, chestnuts and acorns, adhering with the paste. When the whole cone is covered stand a pinecone up straight on the top of the tree.

Let the whole thing dry at least two hours.

Spray the entire tre:! with gold spray paint, then with shellac.

6) Fill in empty spots with the fruit assortment.

Connie claims the secret is to use toothpicks to support the first row because it is quite heavy and to do the other rows one at a time, thus insuring an even design. Instead of the fruit I'm going to try small red velvet bows on my tree or maybe even red and white check: If your offspring go "anuttng" to supply you with the nuts for the tree, perhaps you could indulge them with a taste of these delicious delicacies and at the same time bake a batch of them for the holidays.

Orange Chocolate-Nut...Truffles 1~'1 cups semisweet chocolate pieces cup confestioners' sugar 1/3 cup of heavy cream 2 Tablespoons orange juice 1 teaspoon grated orange peel 1 can (4 oz. walnuts) finely chopped 1) In the top of a double boiler, combine the chocolate, and 2 Tablespoons of water.

Heat over hot, not boiling, water, stirring occasionally, until chocolate is melted.

2) Turn the. chocolate into a medium bowl. Ad'd the sugar, cream, orange juice, and peel, stir until combined, mix well . by beating.

3) Place plastic film or waxed paper directly on the surface of the chocolate. Refrigerate at

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4) Sprinkle walnuts liberally on the sheet of plastic film or waxed paper. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls of chocolate mixture onto nuts; roll with palm of hand into balls,cove.ring complet~ly with nuts. Refrigerate, covered, to store. Keeps well for several weeks.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Andrew M~ Greeley said the NatIonal Council of Catholic Men (NCCM) questionnaire on Catholic education contained several "false issues" and declared: "The Catholic educators do themselves no service, nor do they help anyone else by presenting such false alternatives."

Father Greeley, program director at the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, was asked by the NCCM to do an analysis of the questionnaireon prioriti~s in Catholic education-which it sent to its· national panel of some 600 consultants, mainly businessmen and professionals.

In his analysis, Father Greeley noted that 51 per cent of the respondents were willing to say that the Church "should" provide more educational opportunities for the disadvantaged, even if this meant the closing down of middle class schools.

But only 23 per cent thought that white Catholics "would SUDport such efforts if it meant fewer schools for their own children."

Father Greeley said that any sugge3tion that there must be a choice between schools in the ghetto and schools in the suburbs raises a false problem.

"Such alternatives are essentially unreal ones and it does not seem, to my mind, to be fair to respondents to force them to make such an unrealti~tic choice," he said.

"If American Catholicism wants to have the schools for its white middle class members and still facilitate the education of those in other parts of the city, there is no reason why it cannot be so," he asserted. "The argument that both cannot be afforded is an argument based on the economy of scarcity but this is, let it be noted, not the 1930s.

'False Alternatives' "The Catholic educators do themselves no service " " " by presenting such false alternatives," he stated.

Father Greeley said the consultants disagreed, "as well they might," with another "false alternative" presented to them.

Eighty-two per cent would not go along with the idea that the Church should concentrate on educating potential leaders if this meant turning away students of average or below average ability.

"The point is that the Church can easily educate, if it so de- C sires, those of average, below average, and superior ability. ..

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VATICAN CI (NC) Pope Paul VI h s I highly praised the Catho ic, populace of North a d I South

Vietnam for remaini g faithful to their religion and rying "the tears of the innocent victims of the conflict."

I In a letter he exp essed the hope that the Paris eate talks will soon find peace.

Speaking of the C tllolics of Vietnam, the Pope la ded them for their "initiatives irected to the reestablishment f iconcord and peace among the sqns of a I same motherland."

The Pope stresse that he would not desist fro t~e hope that the Paris negoti ti?ns will reach a speedy solu ion. "We pray to God that H may enlighten the negoti tdrs (at Paris), make them s n~itive to the sufferings entail d Iby the prolongation of the alfs, and anxious to assure p ace with libert.y .. . . by an a~eement which we hope is nea ." I The letter was ad ressed to the Vietnamese Bish ps' Conference, a body of bis o~s in the South. However, Vatic n Iobservers pointed out that Hje Pope °intended these words f lencourag~ent also for the ishops in the North, who, they said, are "impeded" from tra I I in the· country. . .

Fidelity to Ch 1st Archbishop Paul N uyen van Binh of Saigon, presid nt of the bishops' conference, a d: Bishop Peter Pham ilgoc Chi f Danang, vice presideilt, had b enl unsuccessful in getting the fohr delegations at the Paris p aCe talks to meet with them at the same I time.

The two hadexpl in~d that the example of Pope P~ul's efforts for peace had e couraged them. to try to meet \\i1ith the peace delegations.

The letter of praise spoke of "all our beloved son in Vietnam," but in the ortclusion Pope Paul stated: I "How we would i~h this message to reach also our sons in North Vietnam to l) 'qg them our encouragement, 0 ~lessing and the assurance tha :vve have full trust in their f d~lity to Christ . . . and to the Church."

The Holy Fathe ifurther pledged his untiring fforts to find peace for the ietnamese by appealing to "all men of ith those goodwill, beginning who are responsible f r Ithe future of your country.' ~e said that Vietnam is daily ade more dear to him "by the a~ity and duration of its trials,' knd he stated that the nation i~ ceaselessly in his prayers.

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DedicGt~d Peace Apostrl~ Has 'Plain to Eas@ 1~li'@~~OcA[J'(dQ) Tensions

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DETR,OlT (NC) - Bishop' Jo.seph L. Bernardin, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, watched the proceedings of the eighth General Assembly of the National Council of Churches here with an unusually attentive eye.

In some respects the Protestant-Orthodox gathering parallels the anticipated Catholic National Pastoral Council to be organized sometime in the future.

"The National Pastoral Council will be similar to this," t.he bisop said, "in that it involves priests, bishops, Religious, and lay people."

Bishop Bernardin declined to speculate on whether he anticipated the variety and intensity of both petitioning and dissenting voi.ces that were heard at the meeting here.

He did cite the "unusual phenomenon," that emerged both at the NCC gathering here and at· the Catholic bishops meeting in Washington two weeks earlier.

Same Issues Both meetings were distin. guished by the numbers of special interest groups from both in and out of the church seeking to get their concerns heard. "It really is an unusual phenomenon," Bishop Bernardin observed.

"On the one hand we hear they have written off the church. But on the other hand, their presence at these meetings is evidence that they still take the institutional church seriously."

Bishop Bernardin pointed out that except for the issue of celibacy in Catholicism, most of the same issues were before both bodies: the Vietnam war, special problems of racial minorities, women's rights.

"We would beam messages of ready inflamed emotions as peace, from the Koran, the Old slanted news. Right now no and New Testaments to the channel exists _ to bring un· whole. region. We would' be a slanted news to both sides. We neutral voice of moderation and would broadcast in four lanpeace. Much of our broadcast- 'guages, Arabic, Hebrew, French ing ~ould be objective news," and English," he added.

Nathan explained. ]Flew Blaira Relief Nathan has impressive cre- Rigiu&ist YOUl~hg Try "No~hing so influences aidentials as a "peace pi!ot." He has made daring one-man flights To Disrupt Meeting Epi~cop~~ ChQi~Ch into Egypt, Moscow,Paris, in BUENOS AIRES (NC) - A efforts to avert further Israeli- group of rightist youths tried to Arab bloodshed. disrupt a meeting here of 60 Some months ago· he spearGREENWICH (NC)-The Epis- headed a drive which raised $1.5 priests of the Third World Movecopal IChurch executive council million in food and medical sup- ment, which seeks social and ecomeetirig here in Connecticut ap- plies for the starving in Biafra nomic reforms, at a local high proved antipoverty grants total- -much of. it centered here in school.

Yelling anti-communist sloing $300,000, including a contro- New York. Then he flew his gans, members of the Anti-Comversial grant of $40,000 to a own plane loaded with supplies project in Albuquerque, N. M., into besieged Biafra, brought out munist Youth Organization inthat is opposed by' the local scores of starving Biafran chil- vaded San Jose high school and threw .several tear-gas bombs Episcopal bishop. . 'dren for a new life in Holland. into the audience. They left The I grants raise to more than when those attending the meetAbie Nathan was born in Iran, $3 million, recent Episcopal outlays to minority and disadvan- reared in Bombay, where he at- ing began to regroup. tended a Jesuit-operated school.

Rightist youth groups are also taged groups in this country.

He mused: "I often wonder if active in Brazil, Chile, ColomThe; council meeting here voted by a narrow margin to any othel: Jew has said as many bia and Mexico. They claim to Rosaries as I have." Most of his be fighting "progressive groups" appro~e the controversial grant adult life has been'devoted to of the clergy and laity "Infil. to the' Alianza Federal de. Mertrated by Marxists." cedes, 'despite a warning by New efforts toward world peace.

He's well aware of warnings Threaten Bnterdic::t ;Episcopal Bishop Mexico's Charles J. Kinsolving that if the from some experts that war in Chur~k Closing group I received financial aid the Middle East, far more than RIO PIEDRAS (NC) - The from the Church, many Episco- the war in Vietnam, would be Church authorities of the Cane- pal chlirches in his diocese might more likely to ignite World War INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. lones diocese here .in Uruguay refuse Ito contribute funds to the III. Although now on the brink of have condemned the closmg of nationhl church.

96 WILLIAM STREET thl! . parish church here by paThe i Alianza, or alliance, is a failure with the Peace Ship NEW BEDFORD, MASS. rishioners in protest against the group of -Spanis1;t-speaking Amer- project, the dedicated "peace alleged slow pace of church re- icans Who have laid chi.im to 35 pilot" still is determined to con998-51 53 997-9167 newal as an action amounting to million acres in the Southwest. tinue his year-around efforts New York PERSONAL SERVICE grounds for a "lay interdict."

They sought the grant to estab- toward "peace on earth, good Tl1JreotefB Wed lish a I "community mobilization will."

Int~rdict is a Church penalty NEW YORK (NC) 1 group imposed on persons and places_ progra\ll." of lay teachers in the e~ York resorting to rebellious acts or Bishop. Kinsolving and other archdiocese have vote t make breaking canon law. It is. 'an ec- critics; contend that the group plans for "strike actio " if they clesiastical censure which bars promotes violence and is con-. do not receive an cceptable people of a place or a person trary tl> Christian position. salary offer fr9m arc dfocesan from the use of the sacraments, ) .Oth~r council members proofficials by "the w el after from all church offices and tested ~hat the Alianza members Christmas." . . Christian burial. were victims, not perpetrators, After unanimously r je, ting a Some 60 parishioners of the of violence. They also emphacontract offer from arc diocesan workers' section of St. An- sized that the Alianza was mainofficials, about 300 of hE:1 teach- thony's parish gathered at the ly an ieducational body, organers marched in fron of' the church on Nov. 23 and closed it ized to help Mexican-Americans archdiocesan chance I office after reading a statement of pro- understand their rights and 653 Washington Street, Fairhaven with signs saying: "G e~s who test directed against Bishop privileges, and that. the Chun:h pays unjust wages" n1 "End' Oreste Nuti Sanguinetti of must h~ad and not fear repercus994-5058 medieval working conditions."

Canelones. 'sions .ftom anyone. . .i NEW YORK (NC)-;-So what if Abie Nathan isn't ·a Christian!

He's long been dedicated to the Christian "peace on earth, good will" message -:- not only at Christmastide but every day of the year. .

Right now he's: living aboard a freighter' called -the Peace Ship, moored at the East River here and on the brink of sinking into a sea of failure and frustration.

Nathan has said if he can't raise necessary funds to put plans for the Peace Ship into operation, "I will sell it, give back the funds to the donors and return to Israel." Nathan calculates $150,000 is needed to get the 170-foot Peace Ship on its way.

Abie Nathan said the over-all plan aims at peace in the Middle East, where Israeli-Arab tensions mountdilily. The plan calls for basing the Peace Ship at Cyprus, then cruising in international waters off the conflict area.

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I.DVELV FIRST GRADE: First graders at St. Patrick'.. School, Fall River, have whole of a time along with learning their ABC's. Left, parable of Good Samaritan is enacted by Michael Dupre, the Samaritan; Robert Alfonso, his faithful donkey; and Fronk Hrycin, the wounded merchant. Left .center, John OJ

Foresee Possible SchQo~ C~~sEngs

~n Detro~\f DETROIT (NC) - .]fohn Cardinal Dearden, saying at least 132 parish schools in tine Detroit archdiocese are in critical financial trouble, ordered an in-depth study to de· termine priorities for possible curtailments, consolidations and closings.

The 132 parish schools in· volved, out of a total number of some 350 in the archdiocese, enroll approximately 65,000 students at the present time.

In announcing his decision to pastors, Cardinal Dearden called on them and their parishioners to "do all that is possible" to save schools threatened by the inflationary pressures which have beset all education-public and nonpublic.

The cardinal also set up a timetable for reports on the schools' situation in order that other schools may l1ave suffi· cient time to make preparations for the problems which adjustments may bring them. The timetable calls for final recom· mendations to be submitted by Jan. 31.

An archdiocesan spokesman said that the 132 schools on the "endangered list" either collected less than they spent last year or showed a surplus of income too small to meet antici~ pated increases in the cost of school operations in the current year.

In his letter to pastors, Cardinal Dearden said he was "hope· . ful" there would be progress on the Michigan school aid bill, but added that it would be unrealistic for the study to depend on any resources except those already in existence.

The $1 billion school aid bill includes $25 million in aid for nonpublic schools in the form of payment of teacher salaries.

Cardinal Dearden said he has _ not changed the view he expressed in a· 1966 policy statement: "I feel strongly about Catholic education; if it were possible I would endeavor to continue our traditional program of establishing a parish school in each parish...

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Darcy has his "I'm Special" badge adjusted by Sister Kathleen, R.S.M.; right center, children crowd onto "magic carpet" for instant ·boost in arithmetic learning power. Right, Karen Melanson and John Gagliardi, editors of "First Grade Daily News," make additions to bulletin board newspaper.

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By Patricia MCGOW~llll say about the world's problems in July, f970, courtesy of the Would you like to be treated like visiting royality? Just drop into Sister Kathleen United Nations.

Harrington's first grade class at St. Patrick's School, Fall River. First off, everyone The World Youth Assembly, crowds to the door to greet you. Then you're introduced. Instead of "GooooDd mODDorn- which according to a recent UN General Assembly resolution is ing, Mrs. McGowan," rendered in elementary grade singsong, you get a cheer: "Mrs. to be part of the year's comMcGowan, she's a dear, Let's memoration of the UN's 25th medium or well done and feeds wanted someone to stop teasing anniversary, wili be held July § give her a great big cheer." it the kitten, she said "Don't an- to 18, at UN headquarters. to the tiger."

For good measure your two As the children scatter to the tagonize him."

The UN anticipates a valuable It's a deliberate vocabulary- and constructive conference, a year old, along for the ride,' varipus corners for their free period, she discusses her class- building technique and when the UN spokesman told a press conalso gets a cheer. children see the effect of their ference. The youth assembly is Everyone's wearing an· enor- room goals.

"We celebrate something ev- unexpected pronouncements have to be funded by voluntary con· mous badge. In multicolored crayon they read "I'm Special. ery day," she said. "That way on visitors and their families, tributions, both from governWe're· Special. CELEBRATE." it won't seem strange to them it's unlikely they'll forget their ments and private sources, and Some one rushes off to make a to think of Mass as a celebra- new words. is expected to cost about $700,Forlllign Words badge for the visiting two year tion." As well as "I'm Special 000. old. Someone else, chairman of Day," the day of our visit was An attendance of about 600 The first graders are learning the room's Sunshine Committee, "Kitten Day," and an enchant- a bit about other languages, too. is being contemplated, with hope ing grey .kitten was a first A Christmas bulletin board has that, given the Summer vacation rushes up to take your coat.

Then everyone gets back to grader for the morning, com- nothing on it but "Peace" in a period here, "more reasonable" the business at hand, which was plete with his own badge. dozen languages. The children accommodation may be found Another goal is to make the can pronounce them all correct- for the youth d.elegates on colinterrupted by your arrival. It's a portrayal of the parable of the children realize their ·importance ly, and the day we were there a lege and university campuses.

Good Samaritan, complete with as God's people.. "I'm Special" youngster added a new word: "It is clear that youth organi. actors taking the parts of the was part of it, and so was a the Polish term for peace. want to be in the drivzations ."certain man," the .priests, the chalkboard display of class picPoetry too. One day, said Sis-· er's seat," the spokesman said. tures, captioned "We're WonLevite and the Samaritan, not to ter, a child commented she had Accordingly, about 28 estabmention the Samaritan's donkey. derful." lished youth organizations are Many of Sister Kathleen's un· "nothing to do."

Next is a free period. Chaos? usual activities are the fruit of "Oh there's always something being consulted. They are to Not at all. In the classroom and her participation in Fall River's to do around here," said Sister. form their own planning comin the large corridor outside PRIDE project, a Federally fund- "We have words to learn, pic- mittee for the assembly and there's a drawing corner, a ed program for the e,ncourage- tures to color, numbers to study, draw up their own agenda. drama corner, at this time of ment of reading skills, but many and miles to go before we sleep. year, Santa's Workshop, a sci- are her own; for instance, her 'That's from a poem by Rohert ence nook and a Quiet Corner, method of building vocabulary: Frost," she added. equipped with a small rug and a She was surpised, she said, a 'Need a Metlllnoia' few bright cushions. Here, unA previous classroom visitor few days later to hear the same believably, children go to medigirl say to someone, "I'm had related his amazement when little COMPANY tate. very busy just now. I have miles "They know they should be a tot went up to him and said, togobeforeIsleepRobertFrost."

Complete: U~e quiet when they go there," said "Sister says I need a metanoia."

Joy to Come "A metanoili? What's that?"

Buildirlg AAatCli'O(!Jb Sister Kathleen. She asked a "It·s a joy to come here," said little boy, "What do we do in was his reaction. ~ $PRING Sf., FA!'~MAVLH\'l !

"A change of attitude," eluci- Sister Elaine, St. Patrick's printhe Quiet Corner."

993·2611 ~ Turn to Page Eighteen "We think," he said, "about dated the youngster.

That's not their only mouthwhat we're doing, why we're filler. They speak knowledgeably here and whe~e we're going." of the eschaton as the time Hungry Tiger when Jesus will come, and they At the back of the classroom know too what questions He'll is· a magic carpet. The children ask. "If you loved, and how you are convinced that they know loved," piped a little girl. their arithmetic better if they're If a hand goes up in class, SisYour Gulf Hill ~oute MlAlfiJ i!& standing on it. Up front there's ter Kathleen is apt to query, a hungry tiger, once part of a "Relevant or irrelevant?" The Always of Your Service! supermarket display. He's sup- child will tell her, or maybe the FOR HOME DELIVERY CALL 998-5691 plied with a box of paper - class will tell the child, if he's steaks. offbase.

She do"esn't say, "Stop what "When a child learns a new word or phrase, he writes it on you're doing" When it's time to the steak," said Sister Kathleen. start something new. It's "Cease so. DARTMOUTH, MASS. "Then he colors the steak rare, all activity," and when she

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voice alumni chorus n1 an allStang alumni band, ccompanying John Martin in nl original jazz arrangement of ingle BeIls' and Silent Night. Na rators will be Jay Carney, stud nt' council president and Robe : Bishop, I yearbook editor.

Holy Family Hig in New Bedford plans its C~ristmas Assembly at the Ke ne,dy Center for Tuesday, De . 123 , and also at HF cheerleade s ,are preparing for the basket all season with new cheers and new techniques. for getting tel student body to "cheer-along: ]'Jle pretty and agile HF cheer ea'ders are Jeannine Gaudreau, eggy Kramer, Maureen Lloyd, inda Lyonnais, Jane Martin, eSlie Palmieri and Anne Wals .1 It'll be "dress-dow ~ay" at Dominican Academy on· Tues. day, Dec. 23; and a SOl'I at t he FaIl River girls' scho I a recent assembly featured G~mevieve Pappas and Anne M~ri~ Melan· son showing slides 0 their trip to Greece last Summ r. . The annual Christ 'as concert is already history t Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall iver. Open to the public, it was ir~cted by Sister Therese Mary a d included a play,. "The BoYWh Wouldn't Play Jesus," directed by Paula Cordeiro under the upervision of Sister Mary Ludi i~e, vice! principal.

Yesterday was the ig l day for girls at St. Joseph's High, FaIl River. They sang over toe public address system at a I Salette Shrine in Attleboro f r the delight of the hundreds of! viewers of the Christmas ilIu ination for which' the shrine is f nious. St. Josephites had a Mar ani Service earlier this month, pr sented by the sophomore class. I Honor. Roll I .

The honor rolls for M~gr. Prevost and Bishop Con oIly High Schools in FaIl River h~ve been issued. At Prevost t 01 seniors merited high honors and four received honors. 0 e I junior, Richard Garand, rec ived highest honors, three m rit'ed high honors and seven w rei on the honors list. Richard 11remblay earned highest hono s 1 in the sophomore class, w i1e eight boys rated high honor artd eight made honors.

J, At Connolly First H n~rs went went to six seniors: S ephen Andrade, Stanley Kaczy s~i, Mich· ael Manning, Ralph attin Jr., Thomas Medeiros an !John J.

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Of First Cou cH VATICAN ~ITY, (~C)!- Pope Paul VI has authorize the pubotuments lication of secret from the Vatican ar hi~es pertaining to the Firs IVatican Council on the lOOt· bnniversary of that event.

I "His Holiness has uthorized the Vatican secret a chives to avail themselves of s chi collab- oration on the part 0 scholars, historians and theolog an;s whi<:h they will regard necessary for a good start on the wor ",I according to a . Vatican state cnt. ,

17 sophomores made Second Honors and five .juniors and 16 sophomores made Third Honors.

Connolly freshmen John Albernaz and Michael Raposa received First Honors, 18 freshmen received Second Honors and nine received Third Honors.

Many Stang students are sporting a new look, nylon-lined maroon parka jackets embelIished with the Stang name in white block letters. The jackets are being sold by Spartan track team members to raise money for uniforms.

Holy Family's By Spy features a thought-provoking poem by Elizabeth Cormier in its December issue: 7953 am a little computer-machine in a mutilated world love does not compute it hurts do not hurt, i do no~. feel i sit . and look but do not touch to touch is to die short·circuited by emotion i wish i were dead There are some other good ones too '. >::. * like' Gary Rego's "Fiery Love of Country" and Vivian Lapointe's "He Was a Nice Kid." Children's Party .

A party for underprivileged 4' to 7 year olds will be sponsored Tuesday,- Dec. 23 by juniors at Dominican Academy; and seniors in the meanwhile will visit Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home with gifts for patients. Today DA· basketball players will meet Attleboro in a home game.

National Honor Society members at Mt. St. Mary will sponsor a College Day program Mon· day, Dec. 22, with 1969 gradu· ates slated to speak to students about their college experiences.

Homeroom Christmas parties will also be held this day.

And Stangites are rejoicing in the fact that their school has been accredited by the New England Association of Secondary Schools. Accreditation came on the first application, which could only come after Othe school graduated five classes.

Juniors and seniors at St. Jo: seph High enjoyed a performance of Macbeth by the National Shakespeare Company recently; and also in the dramatic line the Gateway Players of Stang have held tryouts for "Philadelphia, Here J Come" by Brian Fidel, which they' plan to present in late February under direction of Gerald Morrissey. Also planned is entrance of play: excerpts in the New England Play Festival to be held in March.

And Holy Family's chapter of the National Honor Society has a new faculty advisor, Charles Baker. Upcoming is admission of junior and sophomore probation· ary members ·into the society..

Christian Life' Community members at Mt. St. Mary held a Christmas party for retired Sisters and are currently collecting Christmas toys for children.

PREVOST YCCL: Leaders of Youth Council for Christian

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The' Vatican has published the Christmas schedule of Pope Paul VI for this year, which will find him celebrating the three Masses of Christmas either in the ,Vatican or in Rome.

The announcement of the schedule put an end to press speculation that the Pope might. spend part of Christmas in·. S.ar· dinia or Sicily. The speculatIOn was stirred up because the Pppe in the past has traveled ou~side of Rome on several occasions to be with the Catholics of other Italian cities.

Last year, he went to the s~a­ port city of Taranto for mid· night Mass, and in 1966 he went to Florence for 'Christmas Mass with the townspeople of' the flood-ravaged city.

This year,' the Pope is returning to the more traditional and less exhausting schedule for Christmas eve and Christmas which he followe<J in t~e first years of his pontificate.

'At midnight, he will celebrate Mass in the Sistine Chapel within the Vatican for the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See. 'On Christmas morning at 8 A.M., he will drive to a Rome parish of St. Agapitus to cel· ebrate the second Mass of the day and them return to St. Peter's for a third Mass at 11

ident Ifor 'Fall River Diocese; Guy Gelinas, Prevost sodality pres· ident; seated, Romeo Goulet, Prevost' sodality vice-president. . A.M. I . , At noon,' he will impart the traditional 'urbi et orbi' (to the city of Rome and to the world) OTIAWA (NC) -. When the ing, however, did produce a- blessing from the central balbishops of Canada assembled statement in which they pledged cony of St. Peter's overlooking . . here for the semi-annual me.et- support for native Indians in the great square below. ing 6f the Canadian Catholic their struggle for justice, and an· Confetence (CCC), they did not other which urged the federal produ'ce spectacular'news stories. government to intensify efforts Attorney to, Direct ; . . to bring peace to Nigeria and aid Iowa Conference .

In :thls respect, the meetmg the victims of the war there. . did not compare to other recent DES MOINES (NC)-Timothy .sessiops in· which they issued a .The bls~ops ~Iso moved ahead McCarthy, a Des Moines. attorIibera! interpretation of Hu- Wlt~ studies directed .at..the es· ney, has been named. executi~e manae Vitae, Pope Paul's ency- t~blIshmen~' of a permanent director of the Iowa Catholic clicallon artificial contraception, dlaconate. 10 C~nada, suggested Conference. and approved the concept of a consultation With clergy lind McCarthy, a former Iowa laity on the possibility of ful- natiortal pastoral council.

Solicitor General, succeeds forThk bishops' most recent meet- filling the Sundll:Y Mass obliga- mer state Sen. James McNally, I . tion .on Saturday, and estab- who has moved to California. A E I't th B t Iished . a committee to rp.view native of Cedar Rapids, he re, xp OJ e es "the positive values of Pen- ceived his B.A. from Marquette DO! what you know best; if ance," since fewer Catholics are University and his law degree from the University of Iowa law you're a runner, run, if you're a taking advantage of the Sacra- school. He is married and has \ bell, ting. . --:-Bernstein ment of Mercy. four children.

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Adopt Guidelines to Foster Catholic-Jewish Relations

ANCHOP.-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 18, 1969

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BROOKLYN (NC)-An unprecendented set of "Guidelines for the Advancement of Catholic-Jewish Relations," advocating formation of joint community level councils and outlining ground rules for interreligious dialogue, was released here by three New values of the Judaeo· York area Catholic Sees. The social Christian tradition." document,. eight months in The nreface requested that preparation by Catholics and Guideline principles and suggesJewish leaders, is expected to serve as a model. It will be sent to Catholic dioceses throughout the country, said Father Edward H. Flannery, executive secretary, Secretariat for Catholic·Jewish Relations of the U. S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.

The document was compiled by representatives of the New York archdiocese and the Brooklyn and Rockville Centre dioceses, in collaboration with the Anti·Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the New York Board of Rabbis, and scholars of the major Jewish traditions.

The tri-diocesan area includes 14 counties, some 4.3 million Catholics and more than 2.5 million Jews. According to the 70th annual edition of the Jew· ish Year Book, published early in November, the U. S. Jewish population is now estimated at 5,869,000.

Cites Documents The Guidelines were published with a preface signed by Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, Bishop Francis J. Muga· vero of Brooklyn and Bishop Walter P. K;ellenburg'- of Rock· ville Centre.

The introduction cited Second Vatican Council documents urging elimination of anti-Semitism amongC;atholics ancka~ked that the Guidelines' foster fraternal understanding, love and cooper· ation leading to "a re-assertion in our time of the religious and

tions might readily be _put into practice "in every parish, school and organ of our three dioceses."

Compilation of the document was proposed eight months' ago

by Msgr. Charles E. Diviney, vicar general and ecumenical commission chairman of the Brooklyn diocese.

The "general principles" for Catholic·Jewish programs included these suggestions for Catholic organizations: The formation of permanent diocesan committees, including Catholic clergy, Religious and laity, and Jewish rabbis and laymen, should be "greatly encouraged."

There should be "prior con· sensus on the scope of CatholicJewish programs worked out "in a spirit of mutuality."

Experts in theology, social organization and interpersonal skillls should be consulted for dialogues.

Dialogue and common projects should be viewed as means to reaffirm and strengthen the religious traditions and commit· ments of both sides.

Reaffirming the U. S. bishops' 1967 statement, "proselytizing is to be carefully avoided in the dialogue." .

Catholic-Jewish relations should be advanced "on all levels, clerical and lay, academic and popular, religious and social, WitH stress on priest-rabbi "fraternal encounters" and cooperation between service organizations of both communities.

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NEWARK (NC}-The board of trustees of the Medical Society of New Jersey voted here to ask the state attorney general's office to investigate an abortion informa· tion service being run by a group of Bergen County clergymen.

The board voted to ask Atty.

Gen. Arthur J. Sills to look into the matter after hearing a report on the service, organized by ~ clergyman of East Rutherford.

A spokesman for the Medical Society said "this seems to be a set·up invloving people in an attempt to participate in a criminal act as far as New Jersey is concerned.... Anyone who !Jdvises a woman to have an abortion is as guilty as the one who per· forms it."

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AT ·CAMPUS MEETINGS: Areoa religious participate in two meetings at Notre Dome College, Manchester, N.H. left, Holy Cross Sisters at community conference, from left, Sister Alice Fortin, St. Goerge .School. Westport; Sister Fleurange Thibault, Sacred Heart, New Bedford; Sister Bertha' Belanger, St. Anthony, New Bedford; Sister Pou~ine Morneau, St. Joseph, Attleboro.

Right, participants In Notional Sisters Vocation Committee meeting, from left, Rev. Cornelius von der Poel. C.S.Sp., Sister Mary Finn, H.V.M., Sister Barbaro Mary Scully, S.U.S.C., Sister Mary Albertus Clancy, R.S.M., Sister Jacqueline Verville, C.S.C.

Notre Dame Host for Two Meetings Involving Religious from Diocese.

The third annual conference of the Sisters of the Holy Cross wa~ held recently on the Notre Dame' College campus, Manchester, N.H., and was followed immediately by a meeting of the Northeast Region of the National Vocation Committee. The Holy Cross workshop featured religious, professional and social enrichment programs for 450 members of the community, in religious life bl Rsv. Cornelius which staffs five elementary tions which will use radio, tele- van der Poel, C.S.Sp. vision and magazine advertising. schools and one high school The Vocation Committee, exAlso by Sister Mary Finn was in the Fall River Diocese, in a conference on "Growth from plain organizers, encourages addition to St. Therese CCD Center, South Attleboro.

Dr. Norman T. Bowes, clinical psychologist, addressed the conference on "Today's Crisis of Innovative Religious Life, the Challenge to Change."

Other sessions considered interpersonal relationships, new perspectives for Catholic schools; reading techniques, new methods of teaching religion, sex education, the dynamics of service and French teaching methods.

Personal Fulfillm'ent The vocations meeting featured talks on the dynamism of personal fulfillment as related to religious vocations.' Among the speakers, Sister Mary Finn, H.V.M., Detroit, discussed dif· ferences between commitment and 'consecration; while Rev. John O'Neil, M.S. of the National Center for Church Vocations, Chicago, explained a forthcoming campaign for voca-

"Abortion" in both the Bergen County telephone directory and the Newark telephone directory.

Newark, the largest city in the state, is located in Essex County.

Reportedly, 30 clergymen are participating in the counseling program. When the listed telephone number is called the caller hears a recorded message giving the names and the phone numbers of five clergymen who have volunteered their counseling services for the week.

'Whatever You Want' "When you call," the recording states, "tell either the clergy- Dismisses Challenge man or his secretary you wish to make an appointment about a To Federal Law problem pregnancy." Callers are DAYTON (NC)-A suit chalalso told that a dated note from lenging financial aid to non· a physician confirming the length public schools has been disof the pregnancy is required be· missed in Dayton by a federal fore the clergyman will see her. judge.

University Rejects One of the participating clerics U. S. District Judge Carl A. said that "If you want to termi··· Weinman rejected the· contenStudent Request nate (a pregnancy) in one way or WASHINGTON (NC) - The another or if you want help in tion of Protestants and Other Georgetown University senate seeing it through, whatever you Americans United for Separation turned down a request for stu- want, you will get help.... You . of Church and State (POAU) dent membership on the univer- will get whatever help yo,u and 22 individual plaintiffs that Title II of the 1965 Elementary sity's rank and tenure commit·. want." . and Secondary Education Act tee, which handles faculty hirAbortion is illegal in New Jer- was unconstitutional. ing and promotion policies. sey except in cases ~here the life The plaintiffs claimed the, ,The university senate, an ad· of the mother is endangered. Alvisory body of faculty members though the State Supreme Court legislation violated the First and administrators, voted 26 to . has upheld the law twice in re- Amendment because it gives aid, 10, with one abstention, to Ope cent years, enforcement is lax to church-supported schools. pose student membership which due to an agreement on stand- They charged that they were. had been requested by the stu- ards among the state's county thus forced to help pay for a religious ideology. dent senate, the student aca· prosecutors. . demic board, and the undergradAn effort to amend the' state . Title II provides non-public uate student organization. The law is expected in the next ses- schools with free loan of nonHoya, an undergraduate student sion of the legislature when a ' religious textbooks which are in weekliy, had sought "at least special legislative commission use in· the public school system three student members" on the studying the problem makes its . a,nd are app,roved. by boards of . education. report.

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"Work-Centered Living to ComShe munity-ness in, Christ." stressed that "we are called to inspire one another's growth, unfold and sustain one another in a Christ-centered life. In Christ we enable one another to live uniquely, encouraging each to be a special person."

Other features of the weekend included a world view of the mission apostolate, presented by Miss Lea Pereira and a discussion of theological perspective~.

Favors Involvemerrct ~ Inl Social Action PORTLAND (NC)-The director of the Bureau of Information for the Portland diocese defended diocesan involvement in programs to aid the underprivi· leged, and challenged "those who stand on the sidelines" and criticize diocesan efforts.

In a speech before the First Friday Associates of Portland, Clarence F. McKay noted that some $200,000 was allocated from the Bishop's Campaign this past year to the diocesan Bureau of Human Relations Services, which ,runs a wide variety of programs to help alleviate social and economic ills in Maine.

united efforts by all communities in seeking vocations, affords in-service training for vocation directors, and works with a simIlar organization for men, the National Association of Diocesan and Religious Vocation Directors.

Area religious who serve as officers of the committee are Sister Barbara Mary Scully, S.U.S.C., Sacred Hearts Acad· emy, Fall River, who is regional chairman; Sister Mary Albertus Clancy, R.S.M., Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall River, secretary, and Sister Jacqueline Verville, C.S.C., area coordinator 'for the Sisters of the Holy Cross of the Fall River Diocese.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-The· director of the Division of Elemen· tary and Secondary Education, United States Catholic Conference (USCC); told a congressional subcommittee .it is "sound public policy"- to extend illcreased public assistance to nonpublic· education.

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It is to be h p d that any Christian intereste~ in the issue of world de elbpment and any Catholic even partially attentive to Pope P~uI'S teaching on the int~rnational co~- . munity will read very carefully. the report, "Partners In Development" pro Jced by the Commission for InternationI al . Development nder t he chairmanship of t* Right the vast safeguard and asset of new land in the Americas and Honorable Leste Pearson, Australasia and trans-Atlantic Nobel Prize winne fbr Peace 'migrations of over 40 million and former Prime Minister of Canada. The Commi si I n, which was called into being by the World Bank, included a num-" ~ ber 'of the foremost experts in international development. Some of them, notably the Honorable Douglas Dillon, ex-Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Dr. Wilfre noted' German bank r and Mr. Robert Marjolin, fo Elr French commissioner to th iEuropean Economic Communit ~the Common Market) are orld-famous for their hardheaded analysis of the economic proce SS and as far' removed as the ~orth and South Poles from. "u o~ian overoptimism." What s chi a Commission has to say bout development is as near t Jnadorned reality as we are lik lyl to get.

Beliefs Mist keh And what do the s~y? They say, quite without h s~tationor equivoc~t!on, that wq of the main' popular ideas about aid and development is n~t taking place in the Third World because the peoples of sia, Africa and Latin Americ are idle, wasteful and inconti eht.

But the facts are ulte other.wise. As the report a~es clear, these supposedly aSfeful na-. tions have contrive lover the last decade to' devo e nearly a fifth of their annual income to investment in m etnization.

They have provided v~r 80 per cent of all the caPit~ they have used. In spite of th 'act that their exports earn I wf:r prices, they have pushed p their income from exports y. an average of six per cent a year.

Even where the re~sure on them is g.reatest:......wi hltheir av-' erage population i cease of about 2. 3 per cent a y ar~they l have managed to g by 4.8 per cent a year and so increase income per head in pi e of the inexorable expansio lOf new mouths to feed.

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ST. LOUIS (NC 'Representatives of 34 com u~ities of . nuns serving in the St. Louis archdiocese met an bndorsed formation of an A c~diocesan Council for Religious Women.

Such a body, enc u~aged by John Joseph Cardina €arberry, would act as a Jiais n Ibetween Religious women a d Iofficials of the archdiocese. A 12i member steering committee as elected to draw up proposals co;ncerning the scope of the co ncil, memo hership and method f ~c1ection, rdlltionship to the c rdinal and relationships to the' mdjor reli. gious superiors.

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souls. In short, the developing countries have been more than I holding their own. They have BISHOP OF EVANSVILLE: done remarkably well.

Msgf' Francis R. Shea, 56, pasNow we turn to the second or of Immacu!ate Conception widespread belief about development. It is that the rich na- pari~h in his native Knoxvi1le, tions have been pouring out aid Ten~., has been· named by Pope to flssist the developing peoples, Paul Vito be bishop of Evansand that little enough has hap· villel, Ind. NC Photo. pened as a result. So the time i has come to look critically and even negatively at the whole policy.

The rich nations have not been "pouring out aid." In 1960, the flow of capital from rich to poor equalled 0.8 per cent of the I combined national incomes of T~ENTON (NC) The the Atlantic States. By 1968, the New Jersey State Supreme percentage had fallen to 0.7 per cent. But this figure does not CoJrt has made it plain here really tell the story. By 1968, ,tha~ it would just as soon half the flow was in ordinary not see church matters come be. commercial loans and invest- fore the courts.

Hearing an appeal brought by ment. This is not "aid." On the contrary, it earns a handsome Iitig~nts in a Qispute involving income. The poor countries to- the First Baptist Church of South day pay back $4,000 million a Oraqge, Chief Justice Joseph year in repayment of debt. This Weintraub said: "~he court should be very figure does not include the return on investment. ·Both togeth- chary of getting mixed up in er cut the actual element of gift church affairs."··· O.~h~r justices, made similar or grant or.' concessionary loan,. in other words, of genuine aid- corm;nents.. The result was that to under 0.4 per cent of Atlantic the parties to the controversy, at gross national product (the sum the ~uggestion of Justice Weinof all the goods and services a trau~, agreed to make another step .to negotiate a settlemeht. nation produces).

"No one ever wins this kind of From Poor to Rich Nor is this the end of the mat· case,l" the Chief Justice told the ter. If "no change is made in the disp~tants. "The sensible thing to present .relationship, a situation do i~ to dispose of it through will be reached in the later part frienpship., , ' of the '70s in which the net flow Better. Method of money will run fro in the poor Justice Haydn Proctor comto the rich. The poorer countries mented: will be actually "aiding" the i'I hate to see these cases come developed nations. Lazarus will into :court. It means 'so mueh to be giving Dives a helping hand. an in~ividual. It goes higher than This almost ludicrous outcome the courts. It's too close to the of a supposedly "vast" effort of soul. i I would think that these reaid by the rich is not really sur- ligious people could settle their prising. In a world in which the diffetences without coming to market is not corrected by so- court." , cial responsibility" by instituTh~ case involved the expultions of justice, by action on the sion :from the church of a man part of society to see that every who !had been a member for 22 citizen has a chance, the re- years. and a trustee for 14 years. wards in a competitive society Lower courts ruled that the go •to the rich, the clever and courts do not have the authority the strong. . to hear church .membership dis"To him who hath shall be puteS. Attorneys for the plaintiff given," as the Bible puts it. In· argued that the court has jurisside our national societies, we .dictic)n to review whether church have laws and policies, we have proeJdures for expulsion were taxes and welfare, we have pub- met. !

I lic education and housing. We I . . may not do enough to help the poor to help themselves. But Rle~ Organ Admits at least we admit the principle Curculatioli1 Drop and have made a start.

BqNN (NC)"':'While the cir" In the great jungle of the culalion of the official organ of world, ~e seem to expect to live the Gommunist party in. Czechoby force and greed. The '''surviv- slovakia"s state of Slovakia conal of the fittest" as the law of tinue~ to drop sharply, th~ cir· nations means,' precisely, that culation of the Slovakian Caththe rich get richer, rise up to olic ~eekly has shown an \ in· play, sit down to eat, and gather crease. their wealth into their barns.

Th~ communist organ, Pravda, But God's judgmellt on SIKh . said that in addition to the cira society is that it faces'· anni· culation drop in 1968, the first hilation. "Thou fool" is His ver- 10 months of 1969 showed a furdict on those who expect other· ther ~rop. from 25,377 to 21,R14. wise. How foolish then arc we Pravda said that party memhers who grow richer' every year hy have lalso' discontinued their suh· at least $50 billions and grudge scriptions to Zivot Strany. t1w even $2 hillions to ai(f the poor ideol9gical publication' of the of the world? partyis central committee.

Jersey J.urists Avoid Church Court· Case

Msgr. James C. Donohue said the present financial crisis in Catholic education is contributing, "inadvertently but unavoidably," to the financial crisis in public education.

"The reason is obvious," he said. "When children leilVe a Catholic school which has been closed or been forced to cut back its operations for financial reasons, they do not vanish.

' TheyJ go to school somewhere else, and 'somewhere else' means the local public school.

"The dollars and cents implications for pubilc schools are clear," Msgr. Donohue continued.

"The more former students of Catholic schools enroll in public schools, the more public schools will be obliged to provide additional teachers, classrooms, equipment and materials-and this at precisely the time when they are increasingly hard pressed for funds.

"Indeed, the conclusion seems inescapable that the present financial crisis in public education is made worse by the financial crisis in non public education,'" he stated.

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E~pecially at the holy season of Christmas, the heart .of the Holy Father goes out in sympathy and love to the families who are suffering as a result of wars in the Holy Land. The refugees among them already number more than a mil· lion, and this figure increases every day. For the most part they are forced to live miserably in . tents;caves, hovels, in overcrowded camps and ..cities.

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His Holiness asks Your Eminence, as President of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, to be the voice of these voiceless ones, urging all men of good will, and their families, joyfully to share their abundance with the poor, inspired by the spiritual motives which Christmas evokes.

As a token of love for the Infant Jesus on His Birthday, children should share with children, parents with parents, and priests, with priests, in holy emulation to relieve suffering and pain o anq'to provide shelter and security.

Encouraging with paternal benevolence all the efforts made on behalf of refugees and the poor, the Sovereign Pontiff lovingly bestows upon Your Eminence, upon Monsignor John ·G. Nolan and his associates in the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, their devoted collaborators in the .Catholic Near' East Welfare Association, and all generous men of 'good will who contribute to these praiseworthy works, His special paternal Apostolic Blessing.

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ST. PAUL (NC)-Hennepin county welfare mothers in Minnesota demonstrating for increased winter clothing allowances have received the support of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocesan Urban Affairs Commission.

"The UAC supports the rea. sonable request of welfare mothers for adequate, warm clothing for their children," said UAC director, Father Edward J. Flahavan. "We also support their rights to organize to achieve this basic right....

Arrest Slt·lns The women, many of them members of the newly formed local chapter of the National Wel-· fare Relief organization, hel<l sit-in demonstrations for several days in the lobby of the Hennepin county welfare department building.

A number of arrests were made when the women refused to vacate the building at closing time.

Hennepin county welfare officials argue that they do not set clothing allowances, but must follow the rules set down by state welfare authorities.

The present clothing allowance ranges from $8 to $85 per month depending on the size of the family.

Clergymen Ask New Christmas Style CLEVELAND (NC) - Fifteen clergymen representing Catholic, Episcopalian and eight Protestant denominations have called for a commitment to celebrate Christmas in a different style.

The clergymen will picket in front of downtown stores in Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown to "call attention of the public to the over-commercialization that has taken the Christian away from the real meaning of Christmas." They explained that no particular business firm or firms are the target of their picketing.

"We have discovered ¢ ( ••) that excessive Christmas spending has left many families in debt from one year to the next simply because of status buying and overextended credit," said a statement issued by the group.

"We discovered also that the pressure of Christmas preparation has resulted in many instances in great family tensions."

Asks for Support Of Grape Boycott HOUSTON (NC)-eesar Chavez, director of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, outlined the aims of the farm workers' union to obtain collective bargaining powers to a' standing-room only rally here.

"If we win non-violently, we have a double victory. We achieve our goals and we remain free. When violence starts it recognizes no boundaries," he said.

Chavez stopped here on a nationwide tour to promote the 50-month-old boycott of California table grapes. He reported that according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture figures, the boycott here has been 20 per cent effective. This, he added, is much lower than the support the boycott has received in Eastern cities where organized labor support has been much stronger.

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Pleases Prelate WASHINGTON (NC) Bishop Raymond Gallagher of Lafayette, Ind., one of six persons who conferred

SOMERSET-SWANSEA GROUP PROMOTING BISHOP'S BALL: Participating in the planning for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball on Jan. 9, are: Mrs. Joseph Viveiros, Somerset, decorating committee; Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, Swansea, decorating; Mrs. Antonio Souza, Swansea, decorating; Mrs. Vincent A. Coady, Somerset, presentees; Mrs. Catherine Heald, Swan!\ea, decorating; Miss Clorinda Ventura, Somerset, diocesan vice-president of the DCCW.

Commission Opposes Massive Protests Cardinal Cooke With Six-M·ember Minority WASHINGTON (NC)-A narrow majority of the national violence commission turned thumbs down on massive forms of civil disobedience warning that the toleration of such protests might lead the nation into anarchy.

By a 7-to-6 margin, the commission concluded that the tactics of civil disobedience practiced on a grand scale even when nonviolent and done for laudable motives, produce an "erosion of the law" which threatens the future stability of the country.

But a six-member minority, including Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, while condemning violent or coercive tactics in civil disobedience, refused to go along with the broader indictment issued by their commission colleagues.

Several of the six minority members, including Cardinal Cooke, issued statements meant to clarify their viewpoints. The

Lutherans Approve Liturgical Texts CHICAGO (NC)-Representatives of major Lutheran bodies in the United States and Canada approved for Lutheran use new ecumenically developed translations of liturgical texts.

The translations approved by the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship correspond in part to liturgical changes adopted by Roman Catholic bishops at their November meeting in Washington, D. C. The Lutheran commission approved the new wording of the Lord's Prayer, which had been rejected by the Catholic bishops.

Also approved for Lutheran use were new English ,versions of the Apostles and Nicene Creeds, the Gloria in Excelsis, Dominus Vobiscum, Sursum Corda, Sanctus and Benedictlls. ..

The new English texts reflect a world wide effort to provide English-speaking Christians of many traditions with a common language of their faith.

cardinal said dvil disobedience can be justified as a last resort when a civil law is seen as clearly in conflict with a higher law.

Commission chairman Milton B. Eisenhower, who also sided with the minority, stressed in a statement to newsmen that all commission members were united in their opposition to violence. The split in the commission came "solely on the question of nonviolent, noncoercive disobedience'to law," Dr. Eisenhower stated.

Example for Students The seven-member commission majority urged that laws deemed unjust by some persons be tested only by small, symbolic groups or individuals and that all other persons abide by them until they are declared unconstitutional.

"For several years," the majority statement said, "our youth have been exposed to dramatic demonstrations of disdain for law by persons from whom exemplary conduct was to be expected."

They cited the example of rights' leaders who openly disobeyed court injunctions "and urged their followers to do likewise" and striking teachers union members who have "contemptuously ignored judicial decrees...·

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For Moratorium DETROIT (NC)-The heads of nine major churches in the Detroit area have announced support of a December moratorium pro'gram aimed at eliminating violence from Christmas.

The church leaders urged parents not to buy toys of violence and to register disapproval to stores that sell them. They also asked for contributions for relief of Vietnamese children victimized by war; suggested Friday, Dec. 19, as a day of fasting and prayer, and announced a procession and service for peace at a downtown church at noon Dec. 20.

..It was not surprising that college students destroyed scientific equipment ¢ ¢ ¢ interfered with the rights of others by occupying laboratories and classrooms, and in several instances closing their colleges," the commission majority said.

Criticize Contention The only two Negro members of the commission were both with the minority, and issued sharply worded critiques of the majority's central contention: that protest groups should rely on legal challenges pursued through the regular juridical processes, not massive disobedience of the law.

"Those who adopted the majority statement," said Mrs. Patricia R. Harris, "have never belonged to a group required to sit in the back of a bus, or excluded from restaurants because of race, with the approval of legislatures, courts or administrators. I am a member of such a group and I refused to obey these segregation laws."

Mrs. Harris is a professor of law at Howard University and a former U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

The other Negro, U. S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, wrote that recent advances in civil rights "could never have come about solely through judicial tests made by 'one individual' while all others in the silent black majority waited for the ultimate constitutional determination."

with President Nixon about the hunger crisis fn the United States, said the meeting was "satisfying and promising," In a telephone interview with NC News Service, Bishop Gallagher said Nixon would meet the situation through executive orders and existing programs to direct food into areas where it is neE'ded.

The President refused to declare a national emergency, however. This was the top item of five recommendations coming out of a three-day White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.

"We don't need to get a national emergency," Daniel P. Moynihan, counselor to the President, told the press. "We need to get food stamps into every county in America."

"We think he (Nixon) intends to move ahead," Bishop Gallagher said. "The six of us were quite pleased with his attitude and thought he was quite sincere." " Promises Action Bishop Gallagher, I a member of the conference's Task Force, said he agreed with the recommendation that Nixon declare a national emergency. "I thought the situation was such that some dramatic word from him" would help solve the problem, he' said.

The conference statement urged Nixon not only to declare a hunger emergency but to press for establishment of a $5,500 guaranteed annual income for every family of four. .

The recommendations were made following Nixon's address to the 3,000 conference delegates in which he said: "I know you take your work here seriously. And we are going to take your findings seriously. I expect the results of this conference to be not just words, but actions."

Father Robert J. McEwen, chairman of the department of economics at Boston College and among the six who visited with the President, said Nixon "was extremely receptive to the message brought to him ... he said he was not interested in making grandstand gestures and saying things."

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New T evor Book Reviews Years Since Reformation By ;l ~ev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy 1-

Is the presJn~ contention between progressives and conserva~ives inl the Church something peculiar to our' age? No, says M riol Trevor in her new book, Prophets and Guardians (Dou le~ay, 501 Franklin Ave., Garden City,.

N.Y., 11531. $595). In it, Between them, in his judgshe reviews the ~ars since ment, "the healthy members of the Reformation, irith spe- the Church who constitute its cific. attention tol, certain real strength" are being buffeted

points during the ast century and damaged. and a half. In the I&tter span, Mature Religion she discerns I But these wholesome people three peak pe"are what the Church is for," riods of crisis: and the essays he here presents that of Mod· are intended to indicate' how ernism in the their vital interests can best be early 1900s; served, that of the conFather Kennedy's over-riding' troversy in the concern is a mature religion for 1860s and 1870s mature human beings. His prinbetween those cipal targets are institutions and who held for practices which stunt the spirit the idea of the and imprison people in childish development of attitudes and fears. doctrine 'a n d He warns that· adolescence, if those who held to 'a once-and- artificially suspended, will inevifor-all expression 0 the revela- tably be reactiviated at a later tion of Christianity,~ apd that of stage in life, with results both the dispute in the 1830s as· to ludicrous and tragic. whether or not th re I could be Always a Healer Christian co-operat o~ with a In one essay, he lists· and denon-religious societ . I scribes the characteristics of In each instance, rophets and mature religion, showing its seguardians were arr yJd against curity, its openness, and its reo each other. "Both," whtes Miss sponsiveness to the needs of Trevor, "are neces a~y to the contemporary man and the conChurch. Prophets c n II go astray temporary world. . and become fals . prophets.

It can meet and solve the Guardians, in their zeal to pre- problems which have resulted serve unity of mind an~ heart in from immature religion. How the community, ca ~ometimes can this be done is illustrated fail to imitate the p~tience of in other essays.

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If Father Kennedy can be seLiberal As eel vere in his strictures on what The guardians h v~ no mo- he regards as malpractice, he is nopoly on Church r~dition, in not corrosive. There is magnaMiss Trevor's view. The proph- nimity in all that he writes. He ets .represent a sta d I of tradi- is shrewd in diagnosis, apt in tion which funs b c~ through prescription, and always a heal· the history of the C· u~ch. er, not a destroyer.

That there Should~be'a liberal is hardly aspect of traditio astonishing, since ~ib~rty is a· Dominican Brcther part of man's birth ight and. of ' To Leave Order a Christian man's i]hehtance.

The men she sty esl prophets SAN FRANCISCO (NC) were thinkers, and he esssence Brother Antoninus, 57, widely of their prophetic itt I was not known poet, lecturer and author, so much foresight r a~ insight., has- decided against taking final, Her stellar example's, of course, vows as a Dominican. He will Newman, whose i e~s, suspi- return to the laity and plans to ciously regarded du ing his life- marry, Father Paul Scanlon, time as doubtfully 0 tllodox and O.P., provincial of the Dominitending toward h refY, have cans Western Province dis,. been a major. influ noe in the closed. era of Vatican II. Before' joining.the Dominicans Objective Account . 1951 h The point is, as ~i$S Trevor In , e was William Everobserves, that there a~ nothing son, a convert to Catholicism, strange, and there hduld have who operated a grape vineyard I in the San Joaquin Valley in been nothing fright~ning, about California prior to World War "historians, philoso~!lers, Bibli- H. He spent the war years as a cal scholars, Iiberal-*i 9.ded poli· conscientious objector in' a fedticians and social ref rmers who eral government camp in Oregon were wholeheartedly Christian and came to the San Francisco f II and not yet opposed to the scientific and social m6vements area 0 owing the war. which had develop d'i for the A native of Sacramento, he most part outside he official served first as an oblate (lay Church," associate) in the Dominicans at St. Albert's College, Oakland. In This book builds a . intriguing 1964 he took his first vows as Ii thesis in a fairly short ispace. It Dominican Brother, He would offers a knowledgeab e and criti· have been eligible for final vows . cally . objective acc U1'tt of a in 1970.. process of evolutio ~hich is benign, constructive, a~d apparHe gained. a wide reputation I as a poet of the "beat" generaentIy unstoppable. tion which grew up here, in the I950s. He filled lecture and Two Eleme ts I Father Eugene K nnedy, in poetry reading engagements at The People Are tel Church \ many of the country's leading (Doubleday, $4.95), s eSI two ele- colleges and universities and rements tending to mo o~olize the I field on which rene a'i in the ~~~:. y completed a European Church has to be .ac ory,plished.

Both are extremist. He labels M~n's Reach them the compulsive i~troverts, who oppose all chan e'l and the - Ah, but a man's reach should ' impulsive extroverts who op- exceed his grasp, or what's pose all sensible res'raints, heaven for?

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NEW YORK (NC)-Within I the first four days of a major two-week visit to the Eastern-rite bishops in the United States, Maximilian CardinkI de Furstenberg, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Eastern-rite Churches, ran into a commonplace sight on the American religious scene-pickets. ' "\We ha.ve no evidence that they were all Catholics - they were from outside the Church," the tall, white-haired cardinal said in an interview with NC Ne~s Service here. He was discus~ing the appearance outside Immaculate Conception Byzantine-rite Cathedral in PhiladelI

phia of Ukrainian demonstrators.

Their signs read, "Furstenberg Go Home," They called, for the resignation of the Ukrainian-rite Archbishop Ambrose Senyshn of Philadelphia who reportedly had been the only one of 18 leading Ukrainian-rite prelates who had not attended a recent "Ukrainian Synod" in Rome. the incident marred the 10th anniversary celebration of the Philadelphia ,Ukrainian-rite See, The agitators, according to Msgr. John G. Nolan of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, came from cities outside Philadelphia and the whole thing was "deplorable," embar-' rassing and possibly initiated from al?road.

Nevertheless, s.aid a leading expert on Eastern-rite activities here, the demonstratjon also dramatically pointed up the kind of simmering identity crisis that Ukrainians, Syrians and other Eastern-rite Catholics have been undergoing since Vatican Council II decreed they should have more autonomy and a collegial voice in the choice of their leadership.

In some instances, the tension has put them on a collision course with the Eastern-rite congregation headed by Cardinal de Furstenberg in the view of Thomas E. Bird, contributing editor of Diakonia, Eastern·rite publication.

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NCCM Consultants Express Suppocrot for Catholic Schools WASHINGTON (NC)-An important "elite group" within the ·Catholic population has expressed support for Catholic education, confidence that it is improving, commitment to educational reforms, and a willingness to help if given the opportunity.

It also expressed uncertainty about the financial operations of Catholic education and gave a clear message to the American Catholic hierarchy: "The lay people should be dealt into the game."

The "elite group," consultants to the National Council of Catholic Men (NCCM), also rejected overwhelmingly three of the prinCipal charges made against Catholic schools during the past decade: that they were . not changing to meet the new needs of the Church, that they were academically inferior, and . that they have a divisive effect on American society.

The consultants, while expressing support for Catholic schools despite some reservations, also served notice they think more Church finances and personnel should be pumped into other segments of the Church's educational apostolate -such, for example, as the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD), Newman work, and programs of adult education.

According to Father Andrew . M. Greeley these were principal conclusions arising from re-

Institute Honors Ca rd inal Cooke NEW YORK NC) - Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York was honored at a fund-raising dinner held here by the Pope John XXIII Institute, an organization formed last Spring by the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice.

The $IOO-a-plate dinner was the first step in a campaign to raise$5 million to support annual expenditures of the institute, estimated at about $250,000.

The purpose of the institute is to bring about a change in national priorities, particularly away from defense spending and towards a' massive outpouring of efforts to alleviate poverty.

The institute also hopes to push for a civilian review board on defense spending.

Only about a quarter of the names on the guest list for the dinner were from Catholic organizations, giving an indication of the broad interest the new ecumenical institute has aroused.

Building trade unions, other labor groups, and Jewish agencies were heavily represented..

Dignitaries attending included Sen. Jacob J .. Javits of New York; the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the World Council of Churches; Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe; and Theodore C. Sorensen, al1 aid to the late President Kennedy.

Literature Award CHICAGO (NC)-Father John L. McKenzie, S.J., Scripture scholar and theologian, has been awarded the Thomas More Association's 1969 medal for "the most distinguished contribution" to Catholic literature for his book "The Roman Catholic Church." Father McKenzie, professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Notre Dame, is a former president of the Society of Biblical Literature and of the Catholic Biblical Association.

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sponses to a 55-item questionnaire which the NCCM distributed to its consultants last September.

Father Greeley, program director at the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, was asked by the NCCM to provide an expert analysis of the survey results.

Finances, Priority The questionnaire was initiated as part of NCCM's national consultants program, an effort began some two years ago to widen dialogue among members of the Church at all levels. . Some 600 consultants from all walks of life, but for the most part from the business and professional leadership class who participated in the program have completed surveys on such issues as the U. S. bishops' pastoral on the Church; Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul's encyclical on artificial contraception; and on the revision of the Church's code of canon law.

The latest questionnaire comes against a background of confusion in Catholic education highlighted by financial crisis, wideWASHINGTON ViSITOR: Maximilian Cardinal de Furstenberg, reft, prefect of Vatican's Conspread school closings, and dis- gregation for Eastern Rite Catholics, visits President Nixon at White House. A~ right is Most pute within Catholic educational cirdes over the matter of "pri- Rev. Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Oelegate to United States. NC Photo. orities"-such questions, for example, as whether the Church' should withdraw more finances and personnel from the paro:

p e au t ·Ions A gains . · t D·Ismay In · Churc h ope Questions True Value of Sociological' Inquiry

chial school system in order to better serve large numbers of y'oungsters and adults who Continued from Page One never attend parochial schools.

"There is much talk of auFather Greeley termed the thenticity, but where can we questionnaire "the most inten- find it at a time when so many sive ever developed to measure 'characteristic things, even essenCatholic attitudes toward Cath- , tial ones, are questioned? There olic education." is much talk of unity, yet many Proportion of Teachers try to go off on their own.

"The findings of the NCCM "There is much talk of the survey are rele:vant. ,not ,because •. apostolate, yet where are the they are representative of the generous and enthusiastic aposAmerican Catholic population, ties at a time when vocations but because they give some indi- diminish and when cohesion and cation of how an important elite and the spirit of conquest is group within the Catholic pop- weakening among the Catholic ulation reacts to the parochial laity itself?" schools," he stated.

In answers to his questions, "The findings in the NCCM the Pope said: "We must not study confirm earlier research: allow ourselves to be too much Catholics are still sympathetic dismayed, let alone frightened." toward their schools. They are Despite the numerically 'small aware of the improvement that groups and modern means of has gone out and they want to publicity which can distort the see still more change." slightest facts remarkably., he Detailing results of the survey items, Father Greeley said the consultants apparently did not think that a certain proportion of priests or nuns was important Continued from Page One to maintain the "Catholicity" of Committee members are Mrs. a school. Only 13 per cent agreed with the idea that "if the Robert Nedderman, Chairman; number of priests or Religious Mrs. Emile J. Auger, Co-Chairteaching in a' Catholic school man; Mrs. Angelo Flynn, Mrs. drops too low in proportion to John Kirkman,. Mrs. Charles the number of lay teachers, the Mitchell, Mrs. Victor Aguiar.

Mrs. Joseph Veloza, Mrs. Joschool isn't really Catholic seph Silvia, Mrs. Alberta Lavoie, anymore.~' Miss Delores Cangello, Mrs. Rudolph Ouellette.

Prelates Establish Mrs. George Shott, Mrs. Paul Trznadel. Miss Claire O'Toole, New Commissions· Mrs. Leo Martin, Miss Jeanette DUBLIN (NC)-To equip the E. Dupuis. ; Church in Ireland to meet the .Mrs. Benoit' Pratt, Mrs. Her. challenge of the 1970s the Irish man Lapointe, Mrs. John Burke, bishops' meeting here set up . Mrs. Leon Wojtowicz, Mrs. three new episcopal commissions Wright Turner. to deal with the problems of Mrs. William Sherry, \ Mrs. pastoral practice, social welfare Kenneth Leger, Mrs: Harold and vocations.

O'Hearn, Mrs. Frank Pereira, The new commissions bring Mrs. Alfred Almeida. the total number of episcopal Mrs. Donald Maynard, Mrs. commissions to 15, al) of which Robert Laprise, Mrs. John Alberare being reorganized in accord- naz, Mrs. Thomas Fleming, Mrs. ance with the new statutes of Angelo Pereira. the Irish Bishops' Conference, Mrs. Charles Bigelow, Mrs. which became effective last Hadley Lackey,' Mrs. Lawrence October.

Coyle, Mrs. Fernard Thibault, The meeting, held in secret, also drew up plans for three The..lmpossible new national organizations to deal with problems of a social A genius can't be forced; nor welfare, the family and educa- can you make an ape an aldertion.

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said, "There is still an immense majority of healthy people, good and faithful, to whom we can give credit.

"Indeed it is to them that we turn with our trust and ask' them in our exhortation to remain firm and to become more aware and active. The Christian people must immunize and affirm themselves by their own effort, silently and securely."

The Pope said that· public opinion today "is also formed by a method which we would call a new one - sociological inquiry."

He said this method is "fashionable and presents itself with a severity of method which appears to be wholly positive and scientific, and with the authority of numbers, so that the result of inquiry tends to become deci-

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Mrs. Lauretta Messier, Mrs. Gilbert Stansfield, Mrs. Gilbert ,Perry, Mrs. Everett Mills, Mrs. Wilfred Driscoll.

Mrs. John J. Burke,' Mrs. Owen O'Shaughnessey, Mrs. Michael Gagne, Mrs. Joseph Theodore, Mrs. Vincent Nanni.

Mrs. Joe Smith, Mrs. George Charboneau, Mrs. Frederick Dagata, Mrs. Antone Ferreira, Mrs. Antone Pacheco.

Miss Rita O'Loughlin, Miss Doria Couture, Mrs. Roger Robillard, Mrs. Claudette ,'Volivet, Mrs. Albert Auclair.

Mrs. Edmund Banville, Mrs. Joseph Viveiros, Jr.

sive, not only in the observation of a collective fact but also in indicating a norm to be adapted to the result (of the inquiry) itself. The fact becomes law."

Contesting Authority This happens, he continued, even when it is a negative fact under study, "and th'e inquiry tends to justify it just the same as imposing a norm. In addition, the object of an inquiry is generally partial and isolated, as it were, from the social and moral context of which it is a part."

Sociological inquiry is and can be useful in analyzing a particular situation, the Pope said, but "for us, followers of the kingdom of God, it will have to submit its results to different and superior principles, such as those of the doctrinal requirements of faith and of pastoral guidance along the paths of the GospeL" Pope Paul then drew a con~ clusion: "This makes us meditate whether the ills from which the Church today suffers in its interior are not mainly due to the contesting - whether tacit or overt - of its authority, that is, of the trust, of unity, of harmony, of the structure of truth and charity as Christ has conceived it and instituted it and as tradition has developed and handed it down to us." ....

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Says D,~e~t Place to live Big Factbr In Urban Crisis

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A recent fiv -Jation tour of new. towns and housing developme~ts in ju~ope has convinced this "urban ministr~ type" that we in he United States are ignorant of the senous nature of ou ~rban housing crisis. In this nation ~f wide open spaces abd "pur.' pie mountain ~ajesties a~d poor. ~eople in the ce~tral . . " cIty-famIliar problems of CrIme, above the fruIt dl plal~ disease and dependence that people are movi g, at an make ~p much of what has be-

ever fas~er pace int the areas come 'the crisis of our cities·."

Behind Other Countries of highest populati n! density, our large metPresidential commissions in ropolitan cen· recent years have studied the "-t~~_ ters. This is i.n problems of housing and future : UNICEF CHRISTMAS CARDS: The origin of UNICEF Christmas Cards is told in these photos. left part what IS planning from all angles-with' meant by the little visible effect. We have to ri'ght. showing 7-year-old JitkC'l Samkova in 1949 as she painted the first UNICEF card showing . careful statistics to show that the $un shining on a chur.:h. At right is Jitka today. married and the mother of. two children. urban crisis.

What is more. ,nearly one-half of all people in this phenomenon the United States in the year of urbanization 2,000 will live in dwel1ing units is happening in that have not yet been started all the .western. and on land that has not yet day," she said, "for an hour or Sacred Heart Church. Taunton.

Continued from Page Eleven i n d u s t r i . been broken. That time 'is barely c1pal; who popped her head in so. We call them Junior Future The youngest Harrington. Kevin, alized cou.ntries 30 years away. the 'classroom, to be greeted Teachers. and they have refresh- is just back from service in Viet and even m the The United States with its with, another enthusiastic cheer. ments and dance as well as help- Nam and hopes to continue his develo~ing ~a~ion~ ff Asia comparative affluence, technical "And the children are learning ing me with class preparation:' college education. where mdustnahzatl n as ~are- marvels of moon' landings and just lis much as in a conventionSister Kathleen's youngsters The Sister of Mercy has been Iy' begun. ,The urb n envIron- electric toothbrushes atomic al classroom," she said. teaching four years. one· year at are spontaneous and lovablement will play an ncreasingly weaponry and public' highway They are certainly having fun. St. Augustine's School. Newport, 'and also the hope of the Church, important role in.tel develop- systems is seventh in the world and the other three years at St. if they keep their present attiment of ~II humant~ . in providing housing for its peo- So are some 30 to 40 sixth Patrick·s. tude. Asked why they celebrate, through eighth graders at St. Accordmg to. pI. n~er new pIe _ far behind Sweden and . they said in chorus, "We cele· at:\d Mrs. The daughter of Mr. 'Patriek's who take turns coming town planner Helkkl vpn Hert- even Soviet Russia. brate because we're the Church:' zen of Tapiola in inl,and. the Mr. Patterson in the Christian- to t~e, first grl,l.,de room a~ter Patrick Harrington of' Holy Name parish, New Bedford, she school to help prepare materIals fact th~t the majo it~ of the ity and Crisis article says the populatIOn of the o,rld. now problem is not a lack of techno- for Sister Kathleen's unorthodox has two sisters who are also Sisters of Mercy, Sister Patricia, lives in urban comO? .njtie~ will logical breakthrough. '. He 'quotes class; "Abo~t. 10 ~ome every a mathematics teacher at Feehan Continued from Page Four change the face of CI IhzatlOn. Boston architect Karl Koch. who .invented a widely used pre..cast 1It""IIIl11Ul"!""llllllll,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,",,,,,,",".II"""""".,,nJUlllllilIII'I1lUl1111"" High in Attleboro; a:~cf Sister which he presently has to act Cites Housing A~' Sheila. a member of the non"Environment" say Jon Hert- concrete building system: "We press for more realistic national English-speaking program' oper- alone.

H would also benefit the zen "has from' now n I an ever have innovations aplenty. But and iocal housing development. ated in New Bedford by Regina Urban task forces on the dioc- Pacis Center. A brother. Rev. clergy and the laity of the diomo;e decisive signi .ic*nce for the~e is no indication that as. a man as regards w rking sur- nation we are ready to pull I.n esan and State level could Brian Harrington. is stationed at cese in that they would be aware . of a, definite and clear diocesan roundings. living S 'rr undin g s, our belts to the extent that IS mount major informational and policy for seeking and maintainleisure time mental health so- necessary to make ,the country legisl~tive campaigns to press' ing justice for all. ciological, ~conomic arid c'ultu- fit to live in." government to use its powers to Other Reports ral matters. Today t e lcities of Lac=< of Motivation overcome antiquated building the world contains J:1:undreds of In the view of an increasing codes and restrictive zoning Various committee reports were then read into the record millions of people w~o llive and number of people HUD Secre- legisl~tion. New York State has SAIGON (NC)-The fact that as a summation of Senate acdie in them, and th¥s the one tary George Romney, despite his already set up the Urban DevelUSO clubs in Vietnam are used tivities for the end of 1969. and only milieu of tleiltjlives is public stat.ements. knows that opmert Corporation with' similar urban:' . the roadblocks in our providing 'powers. but UDC has been extensively by the troops "is the' The personnel board. made It is important to understand of decent housing are not tech- rathe~ timid about making use thing for us that justifies our known its desire to be responexistence," an official of the sive to the priests of the diocese that people will c ntinue to nology nor economics. of such power so far.

The problems' are political and The private sector of industry United States Catholic Confer- in setting up priorities regardmove into urban ar±s because . they want the servic s and so- spiritual: fear. prejudice. lack' of and rtational labor' unions should ence said here. ing its function. The education Msgr. Francis HurleY,assist- committee urged a massive well only be commitment. class struggle, be en'couraged to take a serious cial benefits that c which help keep high the bar-. look at new town. planning for ant general secretary of the organized letter writing cam· found in a large urb~ln larea; At the same time they' want riers. of building codes. zoning. inves~ment and development. USCC and a member of the paign to gain public funds for the green open spac s,l quality union resistance and insufficient " Just five per cent of building de- executive committee of the Na- non-public educational instituschools and clean airtheoreti- appropriations of money by velop~ent over the next. several tional Catholic Community Serv- tions. ,decades in new towns would ice (NCCS). made the statement cally available until lnow only Congress. in suburban towns.

The lack of decent housing for revolutionize our style of urban after finishing a, whirl-wind.

We have no choice ut to urge millions of our citizens and a living! The Europeans have ai- .three-day tour of the clubs.

The NCCS, is 011e of the orthe Federal governme t~lto carry worsening, environment for all readYi• learned that not only do out its responsibilities s' clearly of us is at its heart a lack of .new towns maKe good human ganizations that sponsor the enunciated in the H u ing Act motivation on the part of the investment, they are also profit- usa - officially. known as United Service Organizations. of 1949: "to provide ~ decent American people. We already able.· Msgr. Hurley's visit to VietRelieve Pressures home and a suitable Iiying en- know from bitter experience that vironment for every American "telling it like it is" does ~ot Not only minority groups but pam was part of a tour through 94 TREMONT STREET family:' overcome resistance or build people of all' economic levels countries where USO clubs operTAUNTON, MASS. Special Proble s motivation. wbrry about the quality of their ate, such as Japan, Korea, OkiThe record to the prbsent is Churches can do very little neighborhoods, schools. recrea- nawa, Taiwan. the Philippines Tel. 822·0621 not very impressive. titing in to change the housing crisis di- tional: areas; traffic and pollu- and Guam. He stressed that his the December issue of Christian- recUy, but they can do much by tion control. New coalitions trip was entirely private and ity and Crisis, Jack E. Patterson. way of example and effective could rwell be mustered around had no connection with recent knowledgeable Cities E?itor of lobbying to provide this basic new town development with its congress'ional investigations into Business Week. remi ds us of human right for every citizen. "something for everyone" ra- alleged illegal operations at en' listed men's clubs here. our. failures: There have been multiple sug- tionale.

The usa, as a. non-military "Recent studies sho at least gestions of action for the organThis in turn would relieve the incred',ible pressures on the organization, gets no direct supI I million substandar and over- ized church community: . crowded dwelling un ts I in the Revolutionize Style major; metropolitan areas. Like port from the military, but Msgr. ,::ountry, about 16 Pjr Icent of Seed money' on a revolving Londo,n and Paris;. we might Hurley said it does help in run: . our total housing inyentory. fund basis could' be made avail- then begin to renew· our large ning the clubs..

Metropolitan areas co tain about able to non-profit groups to cities 'in a regional context.

"There is ,a tremendous four million of these uhits. In bring their developments' to the the nation that does 'so well amount of cooperation on the many area$ adequate ousing is stage where federal assistance by .its budget for defense.··,jarm part of military," he reported. 'deteriorating faster t ah it is is available. This action also has supports, and highway subsidies "Many small services are renbeing repaired· or repl cdd. a strategy value in increasing cain ~o better ,with its housing dered,. for example, providing "Special.problems ri$e from the numbers of people involved market. ,The basic problem, is huses to get the troops to the .USO clubs;';. the concentration ~f. b d rousing sufficiently. in the problem to wheth~r we want to.

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It's Nobrega & Holy Family Against the N arry Field There's every reason to believe that the Narragansett basketball league will figure prominently again this season in the Eastern Mass. Class C title race, if prognostications hold-up. The Narry circuit, which has produced the Class C titlist in each of the last three campaigns, has a of Bishop Connolly High of Fall in its first Narry camwealth of talent ready to un- River paign. Connolly is supplanting veil as the competition gets Msgr. Prevost High of Fall River underway. And, the three which has been merged into the clubs that have gone~on from the Narry championship to annex the last three Eastern Mass.

C pennants, are the very teams that are being mentioned most by the pundits in this Winter's Narry flag race.

Coach Jack Nobrega, starting his 10th season at the helm, has what appears to be another banner crop of capable lads ready to keep Holy Family High of New Bedford in the thick of the first place battle.

But, Nobrega-who has a way of impressing his proteges in the fine points of the indoor sportwill have to contend with two 'prize pupils' in the championship quest, Jack Curry and John' Brennan.

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And, Brennan already has things humming at the Diman Regional Vocational school in Fall River. Brennan, who worked as an aid to Nobrega last Winter, is starting his first year as a head hoop coach. Curry, like Brennan, was a Nobrega coaching subordinate.

There are many who believe that Nobrega's stiffest opposition will come from his 'alumni' while others are predicting that Case of Swansea and Old Rochester of Mattapoisett are the clubs that stand an excellent chance of dethroning the Whaling City Parochials who have copped two of the last three Eastern Mass. Class C flags.

Coaches in Loop

University of Massachusetts track coach, Ken o'Brien, is optimistic about the Redmen's chances in the 1970 Yankee Conference race.

"It will take somtime to rebuild a team that graduated nine outstanding seniors," commented the coach, '.'However, coming from far behind to win both the Winter and Spring Conference Championships last year has given the underclassmen a taste of being on top and I hope that this will provide the necessary motivation for this rebuilding job."

Four of the departed track members were Conference , champions and two were second place finishers.

One of the top returnees is junior distance man Leo Duart of Tisbury.

Duart and Tom Derderian of Milford, both scorers in the New England Steeplechase as sophomores, will make the switch to the mile and two miles in an effort to balance the ail-underclassmen distance roster.

The feeling on' the Amherst campus is that if' all these prob路 lems can be solved and all of the switches can be accomplished easily, the Redmen will have a well-balanced team with depth.

The team began prepping for the upcoming season weeks ago and it is ho;:ed that the solutions will have been found long before the Jan. 10 Winter opener (Knights of Columbus Meet in Boston).

UMass faces a rugged schedule in both the Winter and Spring seasons and w1ll need a 100 per cent effort from each team member in an effort to remain in the respective races.

Prevost standouts as the nucleus of his first presentation. They are Bob Guimond, runner-up to Walsh in the scoring race last Winter, and center Rick LeMay. Three boys, who played under Curry before the Fall River school joined the Narry loop, completing the quintet are Ed Ward together with Rick Jeff Ka:liff, Ron Travassos and Wolstencroft and John O'Neil.

Bob Fortin.

While nothing too much was At Diman Vocational, Bren- expected this season at Westnan's first year problem is eased port High, a third league firstwith the return of four veterans. year coach, Jim Calhoune, sent They are guards Roger Levesque his charges winging-away to an and Paul Ponte, forward Steve opening victory over ApponeBeausoleil and center Bob quet Regional as Chris Cariglia Raiche. It will probably take sank 27 points. Wayne Pacheco, Brennan several games before a forward, is another youngster he decides upon a regular fifth who wilr bear watching as the starter. The battle for the open season rolls along. He registered slot should work to advantage 12 points in the Central Village of the Regional Trade school. opener.

Both Dighton-Rehoboth and Coach Bob Gorman-like Nobrega - must build his club Seekonk find themselves' with around one returning starter, only one varsity player back for 6'2" center Paul Connors. The action. Coach Dick Bessette is Swansea mentor will fill the building his Seekonk combine other four berths from his junior around Paul Duffell, a forward varsity of last season which while Coach Bill Reynolds must shared the title in that competi- key his club around guard Bill O'Keefe, a junior who, finished tion with Holy Family.

The tip-off that Old Rochester : fOI.1f,th in the Narry scoring race figures well in the Narry front last' season.

Carrying the Seekonk colors running race came last week when another first year coach, -with Duffell will be Joe HenRoger Twitchell, directed his dricks, at the other front court proteges to a curtain-raiser win berth; Bob Taylor, center;' Ed Emond and Paul Lucchesi, over Fairhaven High. guards. , Teaming with O'Keefe at D-R Four Games Listed Tomorrow Night will be senior Dan Rose and Peter Trow, who placed third many headaches for opposing Clive Perrin" forwards; Ron Ferin the Narry scoring column last coaches as the season rolls nandes, center with either Ed Tessier' or Stev'en Benoit at the Winter will be out to better his along.

Seven boys who saw action other' 'gu~rdberth. last performance. Tom DeCosta .Tomorrow night's Narry a 6'5", one of the tallest boys last season give Coach Tom in the league, is back again at Burns the 'makings of a formid- schedule: Old' Rochester at Connolly, center, hoping to repeat his last able club at Somerset High. Asexcellent effort which saw him 'piring for the first team posi- Fall River; Dighton-Rehoboth at as a leading rebounder while tions are forwards Bill Wro- Case, Swansea; Somerset at : scoring in double-figures. The bleski, Ray Kowalski; guards, Holy Family, New Bedford and DeCosta-Trow duo will cause' Denny Jew, Rick Douglas and Seekonk at Westport.

Holy Family gained the C crown in a most successful '66'67 campaign and then duplicated the feat last March. Case was the Class C victor in the '67-'68 season after finishing in a first place league tie with Holy Family.

Nobrega - probably the most successful small school coach, not only within the diocesan territorial limits, but, in the entire Commonwealth - has an ability to impart knowledge to his players that pays off in a key league contest. Nobrega has demonstrated this so many times in the past decade that all can look to him again this season for what has become a monotonous routine for his opponents.

Timmy Donohue is Nobrega's lone returning first stringer. But, this is not an unsurmountable hurdle for the Whaling City mentor .who has capable Paul Walsh to form II steady backcourt duo. Walsh's brother, Billy, was the leading Narry point scorer in the last two campaigns.

Paul, a SophQmore, is certain to keep the Walsh name in the headlines for the next few years.

At the moment, it looks as if Nobrega will go with Paul Chevalier and Dennis Winn at the forward slots with Steve Magnant at the center berth.

Curry at Connolly has two

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LEO DUART

Duart should be in tip-top shape for the January opener, having sparked the Redmen to a winning cross country season.

The former Martha's Vineyard High School runner was the team's second man during his sophomore s~ason and was one of six lettermen.

Duart is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Duart of Edgar路 town Road, and is a member of St. Augustine's Parish in Vineyard Haven. He's always been a runner.

During his high school career he was a member of the track team and competed in three

Lifts Interdict OnVienna Chapel VIENNA (NC)-A 98-year-old interdict on a chapel of the "Old Catholic" sect here has been iifted by Franziskus Cardinal Koenig of Vienna.

The interdict, or ban, on the use of the chapel by Roman Catholics was imposed in 1871 when civil authorities assigned the chapel for the use of Old Catholics.

Old Catholics are a sect that developed from the refusal of some German theologians and ca'nonists to accept the definition of papal 'infallibility issued by the First Vatican Council in 1870. They professed adherence to the teachings of the first seven ecumenical councils and the Nicene Creed but confession and fasting, among other things, were regarded as optional.

The Old Catholics became loosely organized into national churches in several countries.

Their holy orders and sacraments are considered valid.

In announcing the lifting of the interdict, Cardinal Koenig said he hopes that "former historical burdens and mutual distrust" will be replaced by "0 spirit of fraternal understanding and of ecumenical thinking,"

events 0) " 0) mile, two-mile and discus. Proof of his success rests on the number of awards which grace his room at home.

Among the many awards is the Raymond Fontana Trophy, which he won in a Holyoke meet two seasons ago as a high school senior; the Hamilton Smith Award, for fourth place in the 1968 Greenfield YMCA sixmile event and a third place trophy for his performance in a 1967 St. Patrick's Day Road Race.

In addition to the running game, Leo was also a member of bask~tball the Vineyarders' team. But running was and still remains his first athletic love.

In addition to running on a college level, he also competes in various town meets throughout the year.

Leo is one of five Duart children and the ypunger of two boys. His older brother Frank is a teacher at Dighton-Rehoboth. Sister Pat is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts while Martha was a 1969 graduate of Martha's Vineyard High School. Older sister Delia is a housewife.

Monsignor Leo J. Duart of St. Peter the Apostle Church in Provincetown, is Leo's uncle.

Upon his graduation in 1971, Duart hopes to become a physical education teacher.

Catholic Patriots Continued from Page One New York, but expressed regret that there was no sustained effort on the part of the Church to support the papal peace plan.

Darkest Hour On a more positive side, Msgr.

Ellis commended the United States Catholic Bishops' pastoral letter on' peace issued Nov. IS, 1968. Representing a sharp change in policy, he said, the spokesmen for the American Catholic Church tackled the sub路 ject of conscientious objection, stood up for young people who were resisting the draft, and called for revision of the Selective Service Act. Too often, Msgr. Ellis said, throughout history, if the interests of the Church were juxtaposed to nationalism, nationalism would prevail.

It is Msgr. Ellis's opinion that America is in its darkest hour, which also is probably the Church's darkest hour in America. But he Is confident that Americans will come through these difficult days.

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