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How Cain Church Leaders Combat Drunken Driving?

WASHINGTON (NC) - An ecumenical group's study for the U.S. Department of Transportation has recommended a series of measures for religious leaders and organizations to combat the spread of drunken dr.iving in the country.

The North Conway Institute of Bost~m, in a 30-page document commissioned by the Trnnsportation Department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said the leaders and organizations should: Help persons to lead stable lives through religious teaching.

Educate members of religious con8l'egations about the perils of drunken driving.

Assist persons accused or convicted of drunken driving.

Provide facilities for local programs fighting drunken driving.

Influence, and possibly guide, agencies of which religious leaders are members in an understanding of drinking/driving problems.

The institute's study was presented to Transportation Secretary John Volpe in ceremonies in the secretary's office here Dec., 13. Meeting with Volpe were Father Michael J. Sheehan, assistant general sec:retary of the U.S. Catholic Conference; Mrs. Cynthia Wedel, president of the

Diocesan Honor for 175 Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has announced that the Marian Medal will be presented to 175 men and women of the Diocese of Fall River in recognition of distinguished services they have performed for the Church.

The awarding ceremony will be held at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, tomorrow, Friday Dec. 29, at 7:30 in the evening.

The medal has. a raised image of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal with the Latin inscription "0 Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee." The 1830 date designates the year of the apparition to St. Catherine Laboure.

The back of the medal has the seal of the Diocese of Fall River which was established in 1904.

National Council of Churches of the U.S.; and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman, of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Father Sheehan said the 30minute conference' with Volpe Paul VI in his World Day of was held "to symbolize the unity p'eace message for 1973, insisted of religious leaders in their con- that peace is possible. cern for the problem of alcohol."

He criticized both those who The institute's study, besides say peace "now has come to civmaking recommendations for re- ilization" although there are ligious leaders and groups, cited unfortunate situations here and statistics on the number of al- there, and those who would cohol-related deaths on American make violence "a way of life." highways last year.

To the first group he said: According to the study, en- "Alas, it is not a question of titled "New Hope-New Possi- wars here and now. It is not a bilities," over 27,000 fraffic question of transitory episodes, deaths last year-or about half- . but of wars which have been Turn to Page Two going on for years. Nor is it a

.The !recipients are: Anthony Abraham, 45 Wamsutta Road, Somerset.

Mrs. Joanna Alden, Carver Street, Raynham.

Alfred F. Almeida, 3 Hambly Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Mary M. Alves, 65 Plain Street, Fall River.

Frank Amaral, 160 Newhill Avenue'" Somerset.

Mrs. Susanna F.' Amaral, Look Street, Vineyard Haven.

George C. Ambrosio, 71 Wilbur Avenue, North. Dartmouth.

Mother Anthony, O. Carm., Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River.

Joseph G.' Barckett, 301 Belle· ville Road, New Bedford .

Mrs. Mary Batchelder, 603 Orswell Street, Fall River.

Thomas Beaulieu, 596 Cherry Street, Fall River.

World Day of Peace January a matter of superficial disturbances, for. these wars weigh

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Mass for Peace Bishop Cronin will offer the Mass for Peace in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, the Vigil of New Year's, in cooperation with the Holy Father's appeal that has designated Jan. 1 as the World Day of Peace.

heavily upon the ranks of heavily armed men and upon the unarmed masses of the civilian population."

In a passage prepared long before U. S. presidential adviser Henry Kissinger revealed that his Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris had run' into heavy weather, the Pope said: "Nor are these wars easy to solve. They have exhaused and rendered impotent all the skills of negotiation and mediation."

To those who want violence to become fashionable again by clothing ,itself,"in the breastplate of Justice," the Pope painted a picture of a world in which violence rules: "Collective selfishness comes to life again in the family, sociTurn to Page Six

Area Bishops Hit Bombing Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., joined thl~ Catholic Bishops of the Province of Boston in expressing their dismay "in the hideous contradiction of the Christmas spirit of peace and joy" brought about ·by the resumption of bombing in Viet-

Montana .I)iocese Plans to Appeal Judge's Or'der GREAT FALLS (NC) - Bishop Eldon B. Schuster of Great Falls has disclosed that his diocese is considering an appeal of a federal judge's order that forced St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings to perform a tubal ligation on a woman who had just given birth.

Bishop Schuster also said the diocese was preparing additions to the U.S. bishops' 1971 Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities that reo late to sterilization.

The prelate made his comments in the Dec. 14 edition of the Montana Catholic Register.

The comments werEl contained in a letter to Catholics of his diocese to explain the diocesan reaction to the judge's order, issued in October.

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Miss Irene Elsie Beauparlant, 451 Osborn Street, Fall River.

John J. Bevilaqua, Jr., 142 North Washington Street, North Attleboro.

Mrs. Mary Blythe, 116 Park Circle, South AttlE!boro.

Joseph C. Bollea, 3 Lyric Avenue, North Dartmouth.

Roger E. Boyer, 77 Princeton Street, New Bedford.

Mrs. Aldea Brais,· 74 Moran Street, North Attleboro.

Mrs. Margaret M. Brooks, 1863 Pleasant Street, Fall River.

Walter E. Bucko, 494 Tecumseh Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Ruth H. Burgess, 52 Orchard Street, Somerset.

Roland F. Burke, 39 Antrim Street, Somerset.

Mrs. Mary E. Cabeceiras, 71 Mulberry Street, Fall River.

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CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY AT ST. MARY'S HOME: Tracy Pacheco, left and David Jones, right were among the children at St. Mary's Home who stole a march on other children when Bishop Cronin visited. the New Bedford Home on Friday and distributed gifts and toys to the youngsters. .

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"With equally heavy hearts," the bishops stated, "we join Pope Paul in his expression of dismay and sorrow at the renewal of the Viet Nam." "The Holy Father has reo dared," wrote the bishops, "that 'peace is possible if it is really willed; and if peace is possible it is a duty.' But peace can be attained only 'through negotiations entered into with mut~al patience and trust.'''

"At our November meeting the.

American Bishops expressed the hope that 'intensive efforts on the part of our government as well as other parties involved appear to be refining the final details of a settlement which will end the fighting .. .'

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Plan Respect For Life Day

THE ANCHORThurs., Dec. 28, -1972

Taunton Catholic Middle School Aids Charity As one of its first major activities .since its organization, the Taunton Catholic Middle School presented a Christmas pageant, with proceeds benefitiI'\g local charitable organizations. .The program, staged at the school, formerly Msgr. Coyle' High School, presented religious and secular themes, in music, art" drama and photography.

Sixth graders, directed by Sister Ruth Kindelan, offered traditional carols, with a studentprepared slide show acc.ompanyinga rendition of "Deck the Halls."

Students from other grades sang carols to accompany narration and tableaux depicting the story of the Nativity.

Yule Decor Sister Dorothy Parker, art teacher, coordinated student activity in preparing pageant decorations. A gold mesh backdrop, large Star of David and stained glass windows highlighted the stage, while ,a life size three dimensional angel overlooked a creche in the school foyer.

Necrology JAN. 6

Rev. James -F. Roach, 1906, Founder, Immaculate Conception, Taunton. .

JAN. 7

Rev. Alfred R. Forni, 1970, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford.

JAN.. 8 Rev. Alfred J. Carrier, 1940, Founder, St. James, Taunton.

Rev. John Kelly, 1885, Founder, St. Patrick, Fall River.

Rev. Arthur C. Lenaghan, 1944, Chaplain, United States Army.

JAN. 10 Rev. Jourdain Charron, O.P., 1919, Dominican Priory, Fall River. ' Rev. George H. Flanagan, 1938, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River..

NAMED: Bishop John R. Quinn of Oklahoma CityTulsa has been named arch-, bishop of the new separate See of Oklahoma City.

OTTAWA (NC) - The next Respect for Life Day in Canada to be observed on Sunday, May 20, 1973, will focus on the human .. dignity of the handicapped.

The day will try to create a deeper awareness of: Respect for life itself; The role of the handicapped in society; The wish and the right of the handicapped to live a rich and full life and to share their experiences; _ The duty society has to provide the handicapped with the necessary resources for their needs.

The first two Canadian Respect for Life Days focused on life before birth (1971) and the aged in the family of man (1972).

Drunken Driving

BISHOP OFFERS MASS ON TV: Bishop Cronin at the conclusion of the Mass he offered for the shut-ins on Sunday morning, Dec. 24 over Channel 6, New Bedford. On the right, Rev. John J. Oliveira, secretary to .the Bishop, assisted.

. Diocesan Hlonor to 175 on Friday Continued from Page One Eugene R. Farrell, Jr., 220 South Mrs Judith A. Cabral, 363 Old Main Street, Mansfield.

Providence Road, North Swan.. Alex Ferreira, Jr., 20 South sea.

Street, Taunton. .'

Edward F. Cameron, 58 Sunset ..Edward A. Ferreira, 9 Presbrey Drive, Raynham.

Court, Taunton.

Mrs. Jean Campbell, 81 Scadding Mrs. Catherine A. Fisk, 52 Carpenter Street, Seekonk.

Street, Taunton.

Mrs. Ameila Caron, 89 Highland Hugh W. Flynn, Sr., 7 Weir Avenue, Taunton.

Avenue, Westport.

William M. Cauley, 23 Adams路 Jerome D. Foley, Jr., 63 Cottage Street, Fall River. dale Avenue, South Attleboro.

George Chadinha, 30 Eighteenth Martin Foley, Creek Road, Na.ntucket.

Street, Fall River.

Albert L. Champoux, 1157 Globe Ferdinand Francoeur, 131 Earle Street, Fall River.

Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Therese C. Charest, III E. Deane Freitas, 66 Wilbur Avenae, North Dartmouth.

South Main Street, Acushnet.

Mrs. Frances E. Christensen, 516 Arthur C. Furtado, 237 Kilburn Street, Fall River.

Summit Street, Fall River.

Miss Hazel V. Connor, 143 Tern Mrs. Mary C. Furtado, 2 MulberLane, Centerville. ry Drive, Mattapoisett.

Eugene N. Connors, 155 Tuttle John C. Galego, 157 William Street, Fall River.

Street, Fall River.

Ramon Cotto, 7 Hodges Avenue, Alber~ L. Gallant, 14 Cottage Taunton. ' Street, Attleboro lPalls.

Edward Courbron, 56 Hazel Mrs. Mary Galvin, 77 South Street, Attleboro.

Street, New Bedford.

Mrs. Alice Coyle, 53 Rodman Mrs. Adelaide M. Gautieri, H6 Street, Fall River.

West Street, Attleboro.

Michael V. Creedon, 1900 Main Mrs. Hazel Gazarro, 117 Albion Road, Westport. . Street, Fall River.

Miss Angeline Crispo, 439 Bed- James L. Giblin, .120 Bedford ford Street, Fall River.

Street, New Bedford.

Mrs. Gertrude M. Davis, 75 Mrs. Pauline Goldrick, 59 ChestShawmut Street, Fall River. nut Street, Fairhaven.

Mrs. Mary Doane, Pond Road, A. James Grenier, 68 Mount Orleans. .

Hope Avenue, North Attleboro.

Mrs. Barbara Dolloff, 101 Chest- Edward G. Griffin, 80 Marion nut Street, North Easton.

Road, Wareham.

P. Edward Donnelly, 4 James Roland Guay, 77 Rockland Street, Street, Taunton.

Fall River.

John Doucette, Pilgrim Spring Ralpr Guerreiro, Sr., 11 Ledge Road, Wellfleet.

Road, Swansea.

Walter Downarowicz,26 River Mm. Beatrice Guilmette, 139 DaDrive, South Attleboro. kota Court, New Bedford.

Mrs. Margaret Downs, New York Miss Mildren M. Harrigan, 228 Avenue, Oak Bluffs.

Rose Terrace, North Dighton.

James Emerson, 348 Hersom Clifford H. Harris, 45 Debb拢e Street, New Bedford.

Lane, South Dennis.

JoRn F. Fabian, 1170 Dutton Mrs. Helen M. Harrison, 1125 Street, New Bedford.

Prospect Street, Somerset.

Edward Hill, 15 Huntington Avenue, New Bedford.

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Mrs. Mary Johnson, 31 Fremont Street, Taunton. , Mrs. Mary I. Johnson, 149 Newton Street, New Bedford.

Dr. Robert F. Johnson, 58 Holmes Street, Marion.

Alfred V. Jones, 772 High Street, Fall River.

Martin E. King, 45 Alpha Street, North Dartmouth.

Mrs. Rita King, 15 Benefit Street, Taunton.

Thomas Khoury, 246 Quequechan -Street, Fall River.

Paul Laferriere, 65 Maple Street, Attlebor\>. , Alphee Laflamme, 24 Alfred Street, New Bedford. ,Maurice P. LaFrance, 4 Eric Road, North Dartmouth.

Mrs. Katherine C. Lalumiere, 45 Goss Street, Fall River.

Ulric Landreville, 164Y2 County Street, New Bedford.

Arthur Langlais, 188 Tremont Street, Fall River.

Joseph Lavoie, 58 Woodlawn Street, New Bedford.

J. Oscar LeBlanc, 119 Holly Street, New Bedford.

Joseph Macek, 206 Buffington Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Mary Mazzoni, 356 'Foley Avenue, Somerset.

Frederick W. McComiskey, 30 St. Margaret Street, Buzzards Bay. Miss Winifred L. McKeon, 72 Ashland Street, Taunton.

Joseph F. McNulty, 23 Lawrence Street, Taunton.

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Melanson, 309 Lawton Street, Fall River.

Alfred M. Mello, 166 Woodman Street, Fall River.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mello, 202 Lincoln Street, Seekonk.

Mrs. Anne Meloni, 153 Glendale Road, Attleboro.

Mrs. Katherine A. Mikolajczyk, 25 Salisbury Street, New Bed, ford.

Frank Miller,路 Carman Avenue, Sandwich.

Mrs. Mary Moitoza, 35 Roosevelt Street, Taunton.

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Continued from Page One were alcohol-related. It also stated that one of every 50 drivers are drunk.

Another section of the document dealt with the AlcohOl Safety Action Projects, local federally funded efforts to educate people on the dangers of drunken driving.

The study specified that the religious leaders might provide facilities for these projects, which are located throughout the country, as a way to fight drunken driving.

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Pope Stre!iSes. Church's Need For Holy Spirit VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Church's first and most important need is the presence of the Holy Spirit in it and in all its individual members, Pope Paul VI told a general audience here.

At the same time t.he Pope challenged those who, invoking the Holy Spirit, "have become apostles of controversy, laicization and seculariz,ation."

Pope Paul began his talk by saying that he had been asked frequently what the greatest needs of the Church are today.

"The Church needs to be animated by the Holy Spirit," he declared. "By the grace of the infusion of this new life which comes from heaven, not born of earth, which the Lord gave to His Church on the day of Pentecost.

"This wind, this fire, this energy, this word, this richness, this interior power which is the Holy Spirit, the miracle of Pentecost, (his, above all" is what 'the Church has need of today."

'Font of CharisJrls' Almost in a litany form, the Pope listed the various aspects of the Holy Spirit in the guidance of the Church in the world.

"The Church needs the Holy Spirit, which is the animator, the sanctifier of the Church," he said.

"The Holy Spiri.t is the divine breath, the wind behind its sails, its unifying principle, its interior source of light and power, its support and consoler, its font of charisms and hymns, its peace and its joy ,its pledge and prelude to blessed and eternal life."

Modern man, particularly, has need of the Holy Spirit, the Pope said, because he is caught by the "enchantment of an outward, beguiling and fascinating life, unfortunately often corrupted by the flattery of false happiness.

"Modem man needs to feel anew a welling up from within his most inward depths of personality, almost like a sigh, a poem, a prayer and a hymn, the praying voice of the spirit."

'In Each of Us' Pope Paul called out dramatically: "Living men, you young people, and you consecrated souls, you brothers in the priesthood, are you listening to us?

This is what the Church needs.

The Church needs the Holy Spirit. It needs the Holy Spirit within us, in each of us, and in all of us together, in us the Church."

Then the Pope began asking questions about the present state of unrest and strife within the Church.

Special Pal)al Envoy Sent to Ugolnda VATICAN CIlY (NC) - Pope Paul VI sent a top African official of his missionary office on a diplomatic fence-rpending mission to Uganda, which has ex~ pelled more than 100 Catholic and Protestant missioners since early December.

Archbishop Bernardin Gantin, associate secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, set out for Uganda and his conversations with President Idi Amin Dec. 15, the same day he was named special envoy to President Amin.

Archbishop Gantin was born in Dahomey.

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Bishops Studying Proposed Change In Marriage Law

SECOND ANNIVERSARY: Bishop Cronin was principal celebrant at a concelebrated Mass of. Thanksgiving commemorating the second anniversary of his installation as fifth O~dinary of the Diocese of Fall River. The Mass offered in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. was ,followed by members of the congregation congratulating the Bishop on the occasIOn.

Planning Aid for Peacetime Vietnam VATICAN CITY (NC)-Worldwide Catholic welfare agencies are studying a battle plan on the fronts of hunger, housing and health for a peacetime Vietnam.

The plan, as well as current needs of two million refugees in Southeast Asia, was presented to the executive committee of Caritas 'Internationalis, worldwide federation of Catholic relief agencies, which met in the Vatican at the end of November.

An informed source said the plan was modeled on the United Nations 'peace-keeping teams, in that individual agencies would volunteer their relief experts, money and materials and coordinate all aid under direction of a central command.

Father John McVeigh, Southeast Asia director of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, told the Caritas committee that refugees will need daily aid long after a ceasefire has been -declared.

Although Asians generally have a strong desire to return to the home of their ancestors, Father McVeigh told the committee "it is anticipated that many will remain in their camps until their home village is both free and protected."

Minimal Needs Father McVeigh said ther'e was general dissatisfaction with any ceasefire which would allow the respective armed forces to hold whatever territory they possessed at the time of the ceasefire.

"The victims of the war will continue to be in much need of basic health and comfort items endemic to a way of life which can best be described as minimal, and this need will continue for a long time to come," the priest from the Reno diocese told the committee.

Any plan to aid the refugees in peacetime Vietnam must include among urgent priorities the reconstruction of ravaged villages

so that people can return to something, Father McVeigh stated, adding: "Many refugees will have to be relocated, that is, given a new start in a new place, for many villages, particularly in the northern Quang Tri province, have been reduced to rubble."

Another factor to be considered in any peacetime plan is the need to provide for the large

Prayer of Thanks Greets Astronauts Father John A. Ecker, Catholic chaplain of the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, wrote a prayer of thanksgiving for the return of the Apollo 17 astronauts.

The T'iconderoga picked up astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Schmitt in the Pacific Ocean near American Samoa following their moon expedition.

The prayer written by the Quincy, Mass. priest, said: "The heavens declare your glory, 0 Lord-the planets, the sun, the moon and the stars which you set in place.

"In humble gratitude we thank you for the safe return from your heavens of these pioneers in space.

"May their achievement contribute to the unity of mankind and peace for all your people in this holy season."

Braille Masses Sunday Mass propers in Braille are available from the Xavier Society for the Blind, 154 E. 23 St., New York, N. Y. 10010. Also available is the ordinary of the Mass, as well as other material in Braille and large type editions and on tape. All materials are mailed free of charge throughout the U. S. and Canada and catalogs will be sent on request.

number of soldiers who will be demobilized.

Housing Problem The government of South Vietnam announced Nov. 16 they will grant land to the soldiers and about one million unemployed.

Father McVeigh said private agencies would be called on to help these people get a start in their locales by providing housing, food and cash grants.

Nutritionists and medical teams must also be maintained and supported, he said.

Still another problem that ,nust soon be faced is the fact that the majority of refugees in Vietnam and Cambodia are living in former military bases which are badly in need of repairs.

Auxiliary Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of New York, executive director of CRS, asked Caritas Internationalis to fprmulate a plan for aid in peacetime Vietnam two and one half years ago.

At that time, the bishop said CRS would willingly set up a relief program in North Vietnam after the hostilities if the agency were permitted to go there. CRS was expelled in 1954 and all its supplies confiscated.

SEAITLE (NC)-Four bishops in Washington State are studying a proposed change in the state's marriage law ,that would have the contract take place before a county auditor through the signing of a registry and that makes any solemnization of the vows by religious ceremony unnecessary.

Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly of Seattle, Bishop Bernard Topel of Spokane, Bishop Cornelius M. Power of Yakima, and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas E. Gill of Seattle are concerned that the measure, to be introduced in the state legislature in January, appears to secularize totally the exchange of vows and encourages the couple to eliminate the traditional religious rite before priest, minister or rabbi.

Should the results of the study support this analysis, it is anticipated the Washington state bishops will oppose the measure when it is presented before the legislature.

The proposed bill further advocates the elimination of the cousinship barrier to marriage, although it states that marriages will not be certified "when the parties are... an uncle and niece or nephew and aunt." It also would require a more comprehensive health and genetic data from the couple; permit application by mail instead of the 'current "in person" regulation; and require a statement of marriage encumbrances (such as child support) to be given to the prospective spouse.

Plan Ecumenical Attack The architect of the measure is a Seattle attorney, Ivan E. Merrick Jr.a former Episcopal priest who is currently active with tp.e Family Law Committee of the Washington Bar Association.

Merrick told the Catholic Northwest Progress, Seattle archdiocesan paper, that his proposal had been considered by child-care organizations, a few religious lead~ ers and at several public hearings.

While there appears to be no uniform drive at ,present among various religious denominations in the state to work for the legation's defeat, it is understood a number of clergymen are planning to mount an ecumenical attack on the bill, which they say robs the marriage rite of its spiritual significance.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Dec. 28, 1972

Marian M'edals for 175 Mrs. Helen Piper, 547 Robeson Continued from Page Two Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Margaret M. M.oore, 154 Leo T. Pivirotto, 217 Forest High Street, Wareham.

Street, North Dighton.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Leo Mulligan, Mrs. Kathleen Quinn"145 Plym38 Davis Street, Attleboro. outh Avenue, North Westport.

Mrs. Barbara Murray, 369 Elm 'Miss Mary P. Quinn, 158 SumStreet, Mansfield. mer Street, New Bedford., Kenneth W. Nelson, 441 Cog- Edward 1. Quirk, 82 Mott Street, geshall Street, New Bedford.

Fall River.

William H.' O'Brien, 75 Forest Mrs. Lydia Ramalho, 135 Lexing· ton Avebue, North Dartmouth.

Avenue, Seekonk.

Warren J. O'Connell, 77 Rock- George Rashed, 297 Flint Street, Fall River. land Street, Fall River.

S. Rego, 5 Emerson Street, Alvin Mr. and Mrs. Redmond A. O'Cal• Fall River. lahan, 800 Shore Road, PoArthur Rego, 4'-Appleton Street, casset.

Fall River.

Mrs. Cecilia Oliveira, 67 Langley Edwin Reis, 118 Howard Avenue:, Street, Fall River.

New Bedford.

William F. O'Neil, 901 Robeson Miss Mabel Rezendes, 1012 VicStreet, Fall River. toria Street, New Bedford.

William R. O'Neil, 403 Kaufman William J. Richard, 318 Ashley Road, Somerset.

Boulevard, New Bedford. .

Dr. and Mrs: John B. O'Toole, William R. Roberts, 403 DanJr., 121 Mount Pleasant Street, forth Street, Taunton.

New Bedford.

Lionel H. Robitaille, 206 Ashley Charles A. Ouellette, 575 William Boulevard, 'New Bedford. .

Street, Fall River.

Joseph Rocha, 95 Winslow AvATTLEBORO WORKERS: Among Attleboro area workers for the 18th annual BishRobert P. Ouellette, 42 Canedy enue, Somerset. . op's Ball are, frqm left, Miss Emily Medeiros, Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, hospitality; Street, Fall River.

Mrs. Dolores Rodrigues, 128 JarMsgr.

Gerard Chabot, St. Theresa parish,' South Attleboro, diocesan moderator of th~ Leonard F. Paiva, 17 Winsor ry Street, New Bedford.

Council of Catholic W'omen; Rev. Roger L. Gagne, pastor of St. Mathieu's Parish, Fall Street, Fairhaven.

Edward A. Rogers, 1 Riley Court, Mrs. Isabella Parker, 109 Knight Ri.ver and a Ball director; Miss Angela Medeiros, Mt. Carmel pari.sh, Seekonk, decorations.

North Attleboro.

Avenue, Attleboro.

John Rogers, 22 Covel Avenue, Mrs. Roberta Parkin, 4144 AcushSeekonk. net Avenue, New Bedford., Mrs. Adele M. Rose, 310 Brook Arnold Parsons, 427 Bedford Street, Dighton.

Street, New Bedford.

Mrs. Gail A. Saxon, 123 BroadNormand J. Patenaude, 24 DusThirty-six young ladies will be Schools for exceptional children the Ball Committee, the Society way, Taunton. .sault Street, Fall River.

Frank D. Shea, Elizabeth Island presented to the Mos.t Rev. Daniel and four summer camps for of St. Vincent de Paul and the Mrs. Emily D. Pelczarski, 8 CorRoad, Popponessett Beach, A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the for underprivileged and excep- the. Council of Catholic Women. am Street, Taunton.

The Presentees for this year Waquoit.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall tional children.

Mrs. Joanne B. Perry, 12 Pur- Joseph P. Sitarz, 15 Holly Street, River, at the 18th annual BishMrs..James A. O'Brien, Jr., of .are: chase Street, Taunton.

Attleboro, Mansfield, Norton op's Charity Ball on Friday, Jan. Fall River, chairman of the presNew Bedford.

Norman 1. Perry, 2 Magnolia Av- Mrs. Lois B. Slater, 161 Snell 12, at the Lincoln Park Ballroom, entation committee, has an- Area: Virginia Borden, Beverly enue, Fairhaven.

Street, Fall River.

North Dartmouth. The B:ill will nounced that the presentees and Ferreira, Patricia Lambert, Diane Adrien D. Picard, 174 Old Bed- Mr. and Mrs. John J.. Smith, 0 honor Bishop Cronin, who will their fathers are scheduled to Paradis. ford Road, Westport.

Cape Cod and the Islands Area: Thatcher Street, South Dart-· be the guest speaker. meet at 2:30 P.M. Sunday" Jan. Alfred Pimental, 66 Dighton Avmouth.

7, in the Lincoln Park Ballroom Colleen Kheary, Mary Lipp, "These presentees represent for a rehearsal of the impressive Camille Morgan,. Patricia Mol" enue, Taunton.

Mrs. Lucy Soares, 485 Mill parishes from all areas of the di- presentation, ceremony.-tensen, Mary, Virginia Smith, Street, NeV.' Bedford.

Mary Patricia Quirk.

Mrs. Mary A. Souza, 23 Brad.. ocese," said Msgr. Anthony M. Name Presentees Gomes, diocesan director of the Fall River Area: Theresa Ann ford Street, Provincetown.

Ball.

"We have one presentee Continued from Page One Barreiro, Patricia Cresson, MuMrs., Priscilla Sprague, 52 Hawes Names for the various catecoming from St. Elizabeth's. parStreet, North Dartmouth. rielle Degagne, Ruth Flanigan, and shells and the thunder of gories of the Charity Ball Bookwar, leaving as victims the little, Mrs. Ruth Studley, 150 Walker ish in Edgartown on Jv.'artha's let arrive daily at Ball Head- Suzanne Gagnon.

Vineyard," continued Msgr.

Street, Falmouth.

Gail Ann Howayeck, Rita Launameless, faceless people of ,quarters, and may be submitted Gomes.

Dr. Robert J. Sullivan, 1600 Bay that sad land, who once again until Jan. 5. Tickets for the Ball rendeau, Kathleen O'Brien, ConStreet, Fall River. cower in terror.

The winter., social event viill may be procured at all Catholic stance Perry, Joan Rezendes, Bernard G. Tomlinson, 1226 be::lefit four Nazareth Hall rectories and from members of Phyllis Stanton.

"We grieve at the publication North Main Street, Fall River.

New Bedford Area: Barbara of expanding lists of American George /fonelli, 671 King Philip Brazil, Christine Marie DiGiac', casualties and other men and Street, Fall River. omo, Cynthia Jane Duggan, lin.4~ppeals women, our brothers and sisters Joseph Travers, 957 Thorndike da Mae Francis, Maria Gomes. of Viet Nam and other nations Continued from Page One undergo a caesarean and want a Street, New Bedford.

Debra Marie Langlois, Debwho are still suffering, starving, Mrs. Mary V. Travers, 57 Thir- cent's to perform the operation tubal ligation at the same time." orah Loranger, Mary Elizabeth dying. Unable to stand indifferbased on a suit brought by two teenth Street, Attleboro.

"The ruling is still unsatisfac- Mahoney, Annemarie Saba, Janet ent, we join our Holy Father in Arthur Tremblay, 64 Ci].erry Av, Billings residents, Mr. and Mrs. tory," Bishop Shuster contended Silveira. his plea to all civil leaders for the enue, Taunton.

James Michael Taylor. 1:1 their in his letter. "In consultation Taunton Area:,Kathy Andrade, immediate re-opening of negotia- Albert Turner, 1051 Burt Street, action the Taylors demanded Kathleen Fenton, Joanne Eliza, with competent and thoroughly . tions.

Taunton. ' that Mrs. Taylor be sterilized orthodox moralists we are pre- beth Machnik, Jeanne Neault, Mrs. Martha Vaccaro, Hidden after delivery of her child be, paring additional guidelines for Theresa Sullivan.

"During these days, as we celVillage Road, West Falmouth. ~ause her diabetic condition dic- the use of our hospitals." ebrate the birthday of the Manuel O. Ventura, 10 Hern Av- tated she bear no other children.

Prince of Peace, 'we exhort all Best Legal Talent enue, Taunton. men of -good will to join us in Unsatisfactory Ruling Antonio Ferreira Viveiros, 217 prayers and sacrifice, that the The prelate also said: The Taylors also noted that Welcome Street, Fall River. blessing of peace which He came Mrs. Eileen F. Vogt, 58 Pullman they were forced to go to St. "Presently our lawyers are to bring to the world 'will soon Vincent's because it was the only working in close collaboration Avenue, South Attleboro. be returned to the family of Thomas P. Walsh, 299 Doherty hospital in the area with matern- with the best legal talent availnations-family of men, ity care facilities. Last June St. able (Catholic Hospital AssociaStreet, Fall River.

There's 11 convenient tion, United States Catholic Conlocations in Attleboro "Together with our Holy Mrs. Louise Waring, 490 Harvard Vincent's and Deaconess Hos- ference and others) concerning a pital, 'a non-Catholic' institution, Street, Fall River. , Falls. Mansfield, North Father, we urge our people to possible appeal of the order."

Attleboro, North Dighton, flock to their churches on New Miss Marcella J. Warrener, 889 merged their facilities and cenIn a related development, a tered them in St. Vincent':; .

Pearce Street, Fall River.

North Easton, Norton.

Year's Day, which he has set Raynham. and Taunton.

St. Vincent's hospital complied federal judge earlier this month aside as the World Day of Lawrence A. Weaver, 1 Long, wood Street, New Bedford. with the order, which may have denied a court' suit that tried to Prayer for Peace, to beg the intercession of Mary the Mother of Mrs. Carol Wilder, 35 Elliot been the first federal, court de- force the Miles City, Mont., Holy Street, North Dartmouth. cision in this country requiring Rosary HQspital to perform' a the Church for a just and lasting Arthur E. Wills, 35 Buzzards Bay a Catholic medical facility to sterilization operation. The suit peace." contended Holy Rosary was the Avenue, Buzzards Bay. perform such an operation.

The letter is signed by Arch- Miss Mary Ursala Wing, 23 Head Several days after he issued only area facility where a sterbishop Humberto S. Medeiros of' of the Bay Road, Buzzards Bay. his original order, which seemed ilization could be performed.

Boston and the Bishops of Mrs. Celia Wolowiec, 122 Mel- to open the hospital's doors to U.S. District Court Judge RusSpringfield, Worcester, Fall ville Street, Fall River. all women seeking a sterilization sell E. Smith, ruling in Missoula, River, Burlington, Manchester, Vincent J. Worden, Ocean View 'operation after giving birth, denied the petition because he Portland; Auxiliary Bishops and Drive, 'Grand Island Beach, Judge Battin said his decision said the case was not a proper MEMBER r 0 I C the Melkite Apostolic Exarch.

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Most Northern Irish Unwilling Victims in Whirlpool of Violence LONDON (NC) - The over"Unfortunately many of these whelming majority of the ordi- occasions have not been screened nary people of Northern Ireland on national networks and so in"passionately want an end to evitably people elsewhere asthis violence," Cardinal William sume that they have not hapConway of Armagh, Northern pened," he said.

Ireland, said in an interview in 'Second Campaign' the Universe, a Catholic weekly published 'here.

The poor people of Northern "But it is much more difficult Ireland, Catholics and Protestant, for them to influence events than he said, "are caught up as unappears to people outside the wiNing victims in a whirlpool of situation," said the cardinal, who violence and counterviolence is president of the Irish Bishops' provoked by extremists, fanatics, Conference. : on both sides."

"I think the dominant attitude Cardinal Conway also expressof people outside Ireland towards ed concern about what he called this terrible situation should be one of compassion-compassion the second campaign"-the unfor the hundreds of thousands checked· individual and deliberate of ordinary ohonest folk who are murders of innocent, uninvolved suffering greatly in mind and . Catholics.

"Since the beginning of this body, caught up in the hurricane of history that is nQt Qf their year, the bodies of 69 Catholics have been found murdered in own making." .

Cardinal Conway described as the streets," he said.

Because of the IRA's terrorist "absurd" the charge sometimes made that the Catholic Church campaign, he said, many outside has not spoken out clearly of Ireland are not aware of the enough about the terrorist cam- "second campaign." paign of the Irish Republican "As one who had denounced Army (IRA). the IRA campaign so often, I felt bound in conscience to call at'Clearly Condemned' tention in simHar terms to this "The- Catholic bishops have second campaign ... It is terribly clearly and unambiguously con- important that world opinion demned the IRA campaign from should see all sides of the terthe very beginning," he said. rible picture because campaigns "Even before it got off the like these grow bigger in darkground in 1970 they condemned ness." it.

Individual bombings and shootings have been denounced in the most forthright and unqualified terms ... The record on this matter is perfectly clear.

Cardinal Conway also said he is on the friendliest terms with Protestant church leaders in Northern Ireland. They meet frequently in each other'-s houses, keep in close touch and have appeared together many times on local television discussing the situation and praying together, the cardinal disclosed.

'Funds for Poor HYDERABAD (NC) - Archbishop Saminini Arulappa of Hyderabad urged Catholics not to send him Christmas cards and instead to send a contribution to the Prema Seva Fund, which helps provide schooling for poor children here in India. The archbishop established the fund when he took charge of the archdiocese in March of this year with a burse presented to him at that time.

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No Let-Down There is a sense of let-down this week and this, of course, is not surprising. , . People spent so much time preparing for Christmas that there could not be anything else but a weariness from the very physical activity and emotional involvement of the occasion.

But it would never do for this weariness to be transmitted to the 'spiritual aspect of Christmas.

-Just as the Church uses Advent to prepare for the coming of Christmas, to build up a sense of anticipation, of expectation, so the Church asks now that this time after Christmas be spent in savoring the feast.

Christmas is not merely a time to look back, to com-" memorate a past event. It iS,rather, the time when the coming of Christ is lived again in individual lives. Each individual is asked to open up his heart yet more to the greater presence and activity of Jesus Christ -within his life. Each person is asked in this our day and' in this our time to enter into the action of Christ's corning so that: each may enter into deeper union with Him .

This i$ the'spiritual reality of Christmas that no weariness from shopping and feasting should blunt. This is the spirit of Christmas that even the most tired person should hold fast to - the presence of Christ within oneself, the living of the, Christ-life, in one's thoughts and word~ and deeds, the continuation in one's own life of the peace and happiness and promise of eternal life· that Christ came to give each person.

There must be no let-down, no weariness in this.

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Irian interview following his retirement last week from SAN FRANCISCO (NC).-ModNew York University, philosopher Sidney Hook commented: , ern technology is stirring up ethi"A fetishism of action has become a substitute for pro- cal questions which doctors of longed concern for ideas." . eal'li?r eras never ~ad to f~lce,. a.c. . . - cordmg to a JeSUIt who IS VISltThiS has been a favonte theme pf Professor. Ho~k.. ing professor of medical ethics Several years ago, when college students were gettmg m- at the .University of Calilornia's volved with all sorts of social concerns, the philosopher campus here. observed that good works off the campus are no substitute _AI: issue like the prolongation .

1" d of life, for instance, "is now seen for good work on the campus.. He· h.as.consistent y mSiste in a significantly different way that the person must be. tramed m ideas before h~ can than it could possibly have been bring correct judgment to action. Professor' Hook pointed seen before we had the technolto the 'campus uprisings of a few years ago' as examples of og;r," sa~d Fat~er. ~llbert Jons~n. activity run wild because not influenced by thought. .rod~y s pediatrICian may have to deCide whether to save the There was a wise man who once· said that the worst life of an infant with serious combination in the world was all pep and no judgment. birth defects, Father ,Jonsen said.

Of course, one would not want to see -all judgment and no Five years ago, he continued, ~he activity because in this world of people and objects some- ?oetor would have had no chOice • . . ' I n the matter because the techthmg does have to ~appen, deCiSions hav~ to be made, p~o- nique necessary to save such an grams have to .be implemented.· infant's life was unknown anp But Professor Hook would have these 'the results of the child would.have died. thought of contemplation of familiarity 'with the world Fa~her Jonse~, pr~s:ident of the , . , Jesuit-run Umverslty of San . of ideas.

Fr~.ncisco from 1969-72, first beHe is quite fearful that all too many students today came interested in medical ethare not' concerned about the world of ideas, the period of ics when ~e wa~ .studying .for 8 contemplation and training that must precede a life of do<:torat~ In ~ehglOus studIes at .. ' . t and Ya1.e Umverslty. actiVity, t he f?und' .atlOn 0 f .thoug.ht· thatgives pom In his present post at the Ueipurpose and directlOn to ahfe of mvolvement. versity of California, Father Jon ..

'In this he:fs paraphrasing th~ words"of St. Thomas sen is associated ~ith a newly Aquinas who once wrote that the active life the apostol- ~or:med Health Pohcy group an? . . .' .

IS also on the faculty of the um.. ate, must be the overflow of contemplation. . versity's School of Medicine.

There must be thought before there can be purposeful The priest sees his roles as action. . "not giving orders or advice, but

discussions with doctors, interns and medical students.

Sees More Transplants Ethics is especially important in medicine, he said, because "there's' a very pronounced powerrelationship" between the physician and the sick person "who is relatively helpless/" - . Father Jonsen, member of a national Institute of Health panel on the development of an artificial heart, feels that transplants of human organs will occur with increasing frequency in the next decade.

The medical profession is "really close to some significant breakthroughs" which will clear up many of the problems now inherent in the transplant operations, he said.

From an ethical standpoint, these breakthroughs will mean that the so-called "risk-benefit equation"-judging whether the benefit to a patient outweighs the risk of a certain operationwill decrease in importance as far as transplants are concerned, Father Jonsen said.

'Massive Issues' . What.....other ethical questions might the next decade bring?

"It seems to me that we're going to face massive issues relating t'o the delivery of health care and distributive justice," Father rather of injecting into a serious Jonsen said, referring to the dicon.versation about a medical lemma of persons who .do not ma:nagement problem the kind of have access to good medical issues that are ethically .rele- treatment. . A second issue which will be V8I11t."

He will do this through teach- discussed is "the pharmaceutical ing,. symposiums, and informal use of drugs, especially those which have to do. with altering behavior" in psychiatric treatOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OIF FALL RIVER Refuses Blessing ment, the priest said. He cited Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River .. ' CORDOBA (NC)-Father Jo- "a tremendous growth in our 410 Highland Avenue aquin Canalejo, pastor at the. ability to alter a psychic state Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 Church of EI Salvador here, re- by .the use of drugs." fused to bless the headquarters of Ethicists of the future will also PUBLISHER a (a.rge commercial company be- have to deal with "genetic recause builders had made labor- search and engineering," Father Most Rev. Daniel A.. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER ers work on Sundays. In Spain, Jonsen said. He added: . the blessing of buildings is a so"The ability to reach into the Rev. Msgr. 0 anie I F. Sh a II 00,.A. M 'Rev. Jo h n P. Driscoll cial event of importance 10 the genetic structure and make ~ leary PreSl-·Fall ~Iver community and owners. changes is now in the making." oo'

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Day of Peace Continued from Page One ety, tribe, nation and race; crime no longer horrifies.. Cruelty becomes fatal, like the surgery of hate declared legal. Genocide is seen as the possible monster of a radical solution.

"And behind all th<lse horrible visions there grows, through cold-blooded and unerring calculations, the huge economy of arms, with its hunger-producing markets."

Still declaring peace to be possible, the P<lpe rejected the idea of peace as a lull in warfare or a quiet corner "amid the ruins of all normal order." He rejected the notion of peace as a bleak order imposed by a ruthless conqueror, and cited the bitter words the Roman hist<lrian Tacitus put int<l the mouth of a Caledonian (Scottish) chieftain exhorting his warriors against the Romans: "They create a desert and call it peace." He reo jected also the notion of peace as "a truce, a mere laying down of aI'IIls." He. continued: "We admit that . a perfect and stable tranquility of order, that is an absolute and definitive peace among men ... can only be a dream, not vain, but unfulfilled, an ideal, not unreal but still to be realized.

"This is so because everything in the course of history is subject to change, and because the perfection of man does not have a single meaning, nor is it fixed.

Human passions do not die."

This consideration, he said, raises "a doubt that could be fatal~' about the possibility of. peace.

"Here on the.contrary is our message, your message too,- men .of goodwill, the message of all mankind: pel,lce is possible. It must be possible!

"Yes,because this is the message that rises from the battlefields of two world wars and the other recent armed conflicts by which the earth has been stained with blood. It is the mysterious and frightening voice of the fallen and of the. victims of past conflicts. It is the pitiable groan of unnumbered graves in the military cemeteries and. of the monuments dedicated to the unknown soldiers: Peace. Peace, not war."

Peace is and must be. possible for two other reasons, the Pope continued. ~'Yes, because peace has conquered' the ideologies that 01''pose it. Peace is above all state of mind. Peace has at last penetrated as a logical hl,lman need into the minds of many people, and especially of the young. It must be posible, they say, to . live without hating and without killling. A new and universal pedagogy is gaining ascendancy -that of peace.

"Yes, because the maturity of civilized wisdom has expressed this obvious fact:- instead of seeking the solution to human rivalries in the irrational and barbarous test of blind and murderous strength in arms, we shall build up new institutions, in which discussion, justice and right may be expressed and be. come a strict and peaceful law governing international relations." . Here Pope Paul cited the foundation of the United Nations and other international institutions.

"In these institutions peace finds its own home and its own wor,kshops."

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Pope Str1esses .Churc;h's Right To Make Laws VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope PPaul VI has once again defend: ed the Church's right and duty to make laws and enforce them.

He also criticized what he called "false opinions" that the Church is by nature "purely charismatic" and that its "spiritua,1 part" has been overshadowed by "juridicism."

Pope Paul also denounced the notion that Aaw "cannot be reconciled" with love, "as if justice, founded in law, were not itself a virtue strictly tied to charity."

The Pope, speaking in Latin, was addressing participants in the second renewal course in canon law given by Rome's Gregorian University for diocesan legal officials. At his Dec. 13 discourse were vicars general, diocesan judges, chancellors and canon 'lawyers from 22 countries.

He cited the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium); Visible Structure "Christ, the one mediator, established and ceaselessly sustains here on earth His holy Church, the community of faith, hope and charity, as a visible structure ... which is governed by the successor of Peter and by bishops in communion with him."

From this Pope Paul concluded: "Since, therefore, the Church is a visible society, she must have the power and the duty of writing and administering laws."

Members of the Church, he said, have the "obligation of conscience" to obey such laws.

Explaining Church ~aw, the Pope said: "Canon law is the law of a society which is indeed visible but also supernatural, which is built up by the Word and by the sacraments, and whose aim is Ito lead men to eternal salvation."

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Plan Seminars On Education WASHINGTON (NC)-A series of one-d!1y seminars chiefly dealing with the U. S. bishops' pastoral on education will be held in several major cities in the United States next year.

Besides the pastoral, "To Teach as Jesus Did," a focal point of the discussion at the seminars will be the General Catechetical Directory, issued by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy.

The chief sponsor of the sem'inars is the National Catholic Educational Association. Cooperating in the presentation of the programs are the Catholic University of Amerka here and the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Cities in which the seminars will be held include Minneapolis.

Boston, Atlanta and Washington, D. C. However, a specific schedule of seminar sites and dates is expected to be released in Janary.

MSGR. HACKETT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: First presentations of the Msgr. John H. Hackett Memorial Scholarship established by his class of 1943 at Coyle High School, Taunton, in memory of the late Chancellor of the Diocese, were made at ceremonies conducted at Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton. Winners and principals at the occasion were: Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton, who served as representative of the 1943 class at the awarding; Dr. Robert S. Hackett of Fall River, brother of the late Monsignor Hackett, who made the awards; and the three winners, Victoria Mendes, Susan Lamb and Gregg Fitzgerald.

Notre Dame Sisters Continue at Stang The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, an international teaching order, announce the completion of a year-long study of their work in the Massachusetts province. They staff sixty schools, predominantly in the archdiocese

of Boston, but also in the Worcester, Fall River and New Hampshire dioceses.

Bishop Stang High School, No. Dartmouth, is one of the nine secondary schools remaining under the direction of The Sisters of Notre Dame.

Sister Helen Cornelia, Provincial, described the' comprehensive study begun in January 1972 under the direction of Sister Ann Lynch, S.N.D. as involving extensive data-gathering, consultant services, regional input sessions and consultation with pastors, parishioners, faculties, and archdiocesan officials. The whole process· has been geared towards a revitalization of the services of the Sisters of Notre Dame, especially in the area of providing continued excellence

in education. For the effective implementation of this goal of educational excellence, withdrawal from some schools currently staffed by the Notre Dame order is necessary. Sister Helen Cornelia pointed out that declining personnel is problematic for her order as well as for others; however, she stressed the importance of looking upon retrenchment as a means of renewing and strengthening the Catholic Educational System.

The Provincial stated that the Sisters of Notre Dame commit themselves to the service of the poor, and to schools which teach the central Christian values, centers where teachers and students alike are motivated to help build a life consistent with justice and charity in the society to which they belong.

Synagogue Council Endorses Boycott

CHRISTMAS CONCERT, Sr. Mary Curry, SND, right, directress of music, discusses the program of Christmas Music with Roland Paquin and Denise Lagasse, members of the orchestra prior to the presentation to the invited seventh and eighth graders from the area's Catholic schools.

The _ endorsement passed by the council urged its member groups to avoid iceberg lettuce unless it has the UFW label; sign a pledge not to buy or eat iceberg lettuce not bearing the UFW label; urge supermarkets not to· carry non-UFW iceberg lettuce; insure that non-UFW iceberg lettuce is not served at official organization functions.

Aids Handicapped EUREKA (NC) - Franciscan Brother Matthew Gallagher. who spent two years recovering from wounds received in World War II, now spends much of his time helping the handicapped learn to paint. Brother Matthew, a talented painter whose profits from his work have gone to the monastery here in Missouri, says "I try to guide them to search for talent that might be a means of self-support and to give them a medium for relaxation."

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take inventory of our wardrobe. (Long dreary winter nights lend themselves w~ll ' to closet cleaning.) What better time to throw or ,give away that dress that has been taking up space for many seasons waiting to be shortened or

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always felt was taboo-who knows, with age, maybe our image is changing also 7) Try a different hairdo, makeup, perfume. Let your hairdresser become creative with his scissors.

After all, if you don't like the results you can always hide it under a winter hat until it grows in.

The New Year is the time for doing away with old and giving a whirl to the new, and what better place to start than in our world of fashion.

Approves Silent Prayer . lengthened, that coat that has a few more wearings in it but is In Public Schools HARRISBURG. (NC) Govdated fashion-wise, or that sweater that you've never worn ernor MiltonJ. Shapp has signed into. law a bill permitting silent because you hate the color, fit, or style; Eyeryone of these "nev- meditation and prayer in public er-worns" takes up valuable clos- schools in Pennsylvania.

The legislation, passed by the i • et space, wrinkles your other clothes and, not least important, . 1972 session of the state General has a tendency to give your Assembly, amends the Public spouse the impression that your School Code of 1949 to allow a public school teacher at the bewardrobe is limit,less. ginning of each school day to . Search and Destroy conduct a "brief period of silent If you haven't worn it in the prayer or meditation." past two years, there's little likeThe law also states that the lihood that you'll suddenly dis- silent prayer period "is not incover you're mad about it. So tended to be, and shall not be start a "search and destroy" mis- conducted, as a religious' service ' sion in the area of clothes! or exercise." Instead, says the Spare those outfits, though, bill, the prayer period "shall be \ that you just can't bear to part considered as an opportunity for TWOFOLD CELEBRATION: Mr. and Mrs~ Lucien P. Lachapelle of Carver St., Fall with, things filled with memories. silent prayer or meditation on a Memories are worth a small religious theme by those who River, and members of St. Anne's Parish enjoyed a dual privilege when a renewal of the are so disposed, for a moment of . Enthronement of the Sacred Heart and the presence of t.he Visiting Statute of Our Lady amount of closet space. silent reflection on the antici- of Fatima occurred at the same time in their home.

Along with a closet cleaning spree, some other New Year's pated activities of the day."

The law says the public school resolutions that would be well teacher may conduct the -period worth attempting are: . at his· own discretion or upon 1) A'return to the sewing mathe authorization of. the "board SANTIAGO (NC) - U.S. Cath- ued at close to $1 million. report added. Among the projchine and perhaps even a return of school directors by which he olic!> helped some 300,000 Chil- reached 260,000 children in ects are those designed to imto sewing school is employed." eans with food, clothing and schools, summer camps and prove agricultural production 2) The finishing of any ceaft , neighborhoods. Also helped were and community living, and to medical supplies in 1972. projects started (such as my four workers' families in poor neigh- fund cooperatives and housing, worth an estimated The aid, Pro-Life Conference year old incomplete afghan) borhoods, and close to 5,000 road building and irrigation , $2.7 million, was jointly admin3) A DIET! projects.

Slated for Midwest istered by the U.S. Catholic Re- adults in several institutions. . 4) Shop the bargains Clothing, shoes, blankets and COLUMBIA (NC) ..::: A Youth lief 'Services and by Caritas, Chilean Catholic Charities organiza- other goods gathered during the Conference on Human Life for U.S. B1shops' Thanksgiving .~ .

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Ecuador Bishops Ask A report released'here said Drive, as well as medicines, and senior high school students ~~ Contractors the U.S. Food for Peace supplies, brought relief to disaster areas will be held Jan. 27 at Stephens Justice for Prisoners provided through CRS and val- or to the very poor.

QUITO (NC)-Ecuador's bish- College here in Missouri.

In the last 18 months Chile .ops have asked the country's The conference is being sponhas been hit by storms, floods military regime to guarantee the sored by a youth pro-life group Caribbean Conference and earthquakes, causing damrights of all prisoners at the called SOUL (Save Our Unwant- Of C·h h . age in the millions of dollars and federal ~nd local level. ed Lives) at Stephens College . urc es In 1973 leaving some 22,000 people "We hope you will take the and Missouri Citizens for Life, PORT-OF-SPAIN (NC) -- The homeless. necessary measures to guarantee an organization of all pro-life first assembly of the Caribbean CRS-Caritas programs are also ~4 the due process law, particularly groups in the state.

Conference of Churches will be aiding several social develop944 County St. held in Jamaica Nov. 13-16, 1973, at the state and local level, ment projects "to assist people According to Ms. Rosanna Pa- it was announced here.

New Bedford • where deplorable abuses are to' become self-sufficient," the The theme of the conference more likely to happen," the bish- trona, one of the organizers of ops wrote Gen. Guillermo Rod- the conference who is a student will be "The Right Hand of God" riguez ,Lara, head of the military at Stephens College, the main and more than 150 delegates junta that has ruled this nation purpose of the day-long confer- from churches of the region will ence is to introduce young peo- discuss God's action in conternof 6.3 million since February.

The bishops' letter was ap- pIe to the issues connected'with porary events in the Caribbean.

• Savings Bank Life Insurance There will be workshop::; on proved at their recent meeting the value of human life-aborin Banos to deal with "Gospel tion, euthanasia, the mentally ill, power, reconciliation, work, wor• Real Estate Loa ns and Liberation." At about the . the retarded, and the population ship and development.

Christmas and Vacation Clubs • Dr. Philip Potter, Dominkansame time the government an- problem.

• Savings Accounts nounced that 28 persons-includAnother aim of the meeting is born secretary general of the ing unversity students and writ- to help student leaders develop World Coundl of Churches, will • 5 Convenient Locations ers-will be tr,ied on charges of pro-life groups in their own com- attend the assembly and Carditerrorism. . munities, There are currently Jan Willebrands, president of the NEW BEDFORD Some of those charged· have three youth pro-life groups in', Vatican Secretariat for Promotsaid they have been subjected to Missouri-two in Columbia and ing Christian Unity, has been long interrogations and torture. one in St. Louis. invited.

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Av·ers Daughter's Ree.overy Proves; Miracles Still Exist

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Some people question God's existence. They feel He doesn't "show Himself"; they wish He would walk among us again. They'd even settle for a miracle, or two, just so He proves He"s alive.

He does perform miracles every day. They are all one who could give me hope that a child injured so severely around us. could recover. I finally heard One day six years ago, from a woman whose son had my daughter, Ginny, ran off to school in the morning and didn't come home that afternoon.

By MARY CARSON

She had been hit by a truck ... her skull crushed.

She was rushed to a hospital.

A neurosurgeon operated on her and felt she couldn't live through the night. "A- million-to-one odds," he said.

Ginny lived, through that night, and another, and another.

But because of the damage to her brain, she couldn't see, couldn't move, couldn't talk, couldn't breathe on her own. She couldn't even control her own body temperature.

Bit by bit, over weeks, months ... and years.' .. she has regained almost all these abilities, and now, six years later, she is well on her way to being a normal young lady.

Muscles Return She couldn't see .. '. her vision is now perfectly normal.

She couldn't move ... and now . rides a bicycle.

She couldn't talk ... now her spel\..ch is better than most childreJl' her age.

She couldn't live ... but she did.

Still, she has not completely recovered. She wears a brace on her right leg, because she lost the use of some muscles in her right foot.

But just recently, the use of those muscles started coming back!

I spoke to the neurosurgeon.

He said, "You can expect improvement for 12 to 18 months after such a brain injury. For the use of those muscles to return years later is miraculous."

Ginny's recovery is not the only miracle that occurred as a result of her accident. It turned me into a writer!

During the days that followed her accident I s,earched for some-

One-Fourth of Abortions Performed l::>n Teenagers SEATILE (NC) - More than one-fourth of the legal abortions performed in 1971 in Washington state were teen-aged girls.

A study by University of Washington experts showed that of 14,295 abortions performed ·last year, 4,092 were obtained by teen-agers.

The statistic~i were released at about the time that a judge here fined a physician $500 for performing an abortion on a teenaged girl despite a court order to prevent the operation.

survived a similar accident and was greatly encouraged.

So my husband suggested I try to write Ginny's story, to give others faced with such impossible odds some hope and encouragement.

I had no experience as a writer. I had no schooling in journalism. Bluntly, I just didn't know how to write. . After several false starts, I finally sat down at the kitchen table with paper and pen and started writing Ginny's story as if I were writing a letter to a friend.

First Published Publishers very rarely accept manuscripts from unknown authors. But the first publisher we submitted GINNY to, Doubleday & Co., agreed to publish it!

Also, a writer's first effort, even when it is published, is rarely successful. But two book clubs selected GINNY! Ladies' Home Journal and Coronet magazines both used Ginny's story and the January 1973 Reader's Digest contains an article on "The Miracle of Ginny."

It has also been translated into other languages and millions of people all over the world are learning the story of her miraculous recovery.

I can only believe that God wanted the word spread that He's still performing miracles.

He wanted a message of hope, encouragement and faith to reach people who needed it.

Are you facing an impossible situatio~? Do you need a miracle?

Write to me in care of The Anchor and tell me about it in confidence. The only one I'll mention it to is God. He has given me so many miracles for myself, perhaps He'll give me one for you.

SERRANS HONOR BISHOP GERRARD: Principals at New Bedford's Serra Club tribute to Bishop Gerrard on his retirement were: Rev. Walter J. Buckley, pastor of St. Kilian's, New Bedford; Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, retired pastor of St. James, New Bedford; Bishop Gerrard, the honored guest; J. Clinton Rimmer, president ~f the Serra Club of New Bedford; Rev. Msgr. John A. Chippendale, retired pastor of St. Patrick's Wareham.

legal Abrorti,on Rem/ains Maior Concern

LONDON (NC) - Legalized abortion, now about five years old and an accepted facet of British life for many, remains a major matter of concern and protest for C~tholics here.

The Catholic-inspired Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child - formed during the parliamentary battle over legalized abortion in 1967 - is now campaigning for a tightening up of the law and receiving much nonCatholic support.

Abortion on demand is now available through the state's inexpensive National Health Service but even more easily - if one can afford the price - at plush and highly profitable private clinics in London and in other large cities.

The abortion rate is now runSociety' Needs Demand ning at almost 150,000 a year and still rising.

Ecumenical Approach In a talk at Altrincham, an MANCHESTER (NC) - The annual abortion rate of a quarter needs of society demand an ec- . umenical approach, "and it is of a million by 1980 was forecast ludicrous to suppose that we for Britain by J. J. Scarisbrick, shall do God's work in England a Catholic and a professor of in 1972 under separate denomin- history at Warwick University. ational auspices," Anglican Bish· Scarisbrick is also chairman of op P. C. Rodger told a meeting Life, an organization campaignof the Manchester Council of ing for the repeal of the 1967 Churches.

Abortion Act. Speaking on the Call of the He said that one in every North, the ecumenical mission seven pregnancies is now being to renew Christian life in north- terminated in Britain. ern England, Bishop Rodger crit"And these are only the figicized those Christians who "still persist in behaving as if the de- ures for legal abortions under the nominational were the normal, act," he said. "The back ~treet and the ecumenical extra, for abortionist is as active as ever, which it is burdensome to spare even though the sponsors of the some of our time, money, and act claimed that their measure would put him out of business." energy ...

Abortion, he added, "has got "The younger generation of today, all across the world, is into our bloodstream, it has beshowing plainly enough that come socially acceptable and has their way into the kingdom of come to be regarded as another heaven is not likely to be our form of contraception.

"Women are under great preswell-worn ecclesiastical paths.

"The Church which lives to it- sure from society to have abortions. The pressure comes from self will die to itself."

boy friends, husbands, parents and social workers."

Launched two years ago, Life has 28 established groups in different parts of the country, and 10 more are being formed.

Each operates a telephone service to help pregnant women who wish to continue their pregnancies.

Scarisbrick said: "We are up against a well organized and well endowed evil. If we are to defeat the abortionists we must beat

Rock Operas Find Road To Madrid Bumpy MADRID (NC) Two successful rock operas, "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Godspell," are having some difficulty in becoming "Jesus Superestrella" and "Divino Encanto."

Producers had to submit full Spanish-language versions to the censorship division of the Information Ministry here. Soon afterward two ministry officials went to London to see the shows and report back.

Theater circles here predict that any government approval will be based on changes to "make the productions more palatable to Spanish audiences."

them at their own level by reaching their clientele before they do."

Conference Appoints .Assistant Director WASHINGTON (NC) - Richard Duffy, former coordinator of state and federally funded programs for the Brooklyn diocese, has been named assistant director for governmental programs of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Catholic Conference.

Duffy, holder of a master's degree iIi educational administration, has been a high school principal, teacher, and head counselor in a home for boys.

He replaces Frank Monahan, who is leaving the conference after two years to study in Mexico. Monahan had been director of special programs for the Chi· cago archdiocesan school system before coming to the USCC. Also announced was the addition of Brian Flynn as a staff assistant in the division. Flynn was a Peace Corps volunteer in India for three years and has taught in a junior high school in the black Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn.

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President Lauds Relief Services -In. Bangladesh WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon has praised Ameri'can voluntary groups for t!:teir relief efforts in Bangladesh.

The president's comments came in a letter to Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, chairman of the board of trustees of Catholic Relief Services, overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics which has conducted a $12.5 million program in Bangladesh since that nation became independent last year.

Father Damif~n :'s Leper Colony Real Font Of Tranquility and Co mpanionship KALAUPAPA (NC) ~ The small. Japanese woman was blind, her fingers were stumps" her feet were in bandages. But she smiled as she chatted merriIy, sitting on the edge of her bed.

Her name was Ethel Kamingo.

She had been here at Father Damien's old leper colony on the island of Molokai for 49 of her 69 years-and in 1953 she was married even though "I was an old lady."

"Florentino - my husband likes parties - and he's a good cook."

At this point Florentino, wearing a rosary with beads as big 'as marbles, was whe.eled into the double room in the blind ward of St. Francis hospital. He laughed at the description of himself.

"That's his bed over there," Ethel nodded across the room.

"We're dying together."

Outside the long, one-story wooden hospital a dazzling sun burns down on the six-and-ahalf square-mile triangle on this sparsely populated island, Great waves smash against the shore, and straight-up cliffs rise 2,200 feet behind the peninsula. .Nearing Century Mark When the young Belgian Father Damien de Veuster arrived in May, 1873, at Kalawao, the barren northeast part of the peninsula, was a place of death amid life, a point of no returh, where the average leper wa.s expected to survive 14 months., Today it is a place of life and peace. Its population of 180 men and 35 women have accepted and moved beyond the haunting terror of the disease.

"We have a saying here," said Richard Marks, 43, an ex-electrician and a patient, \yhose grandmother and uncle are buried at Kalaupapa, "that as long as you're anxious, you'll never get well."

Marks and his wife, Gloria, run the Damein Tours, one of

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EMMITSBURG (NC)""":St. Joseph CoHege here has annou"nced plans to lease its 200-acre campus after the graduation of the class of'1973.

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In April 1971, the college's board of trustees announced it was closing the college in June of next year because of operational deficits. . The college's leasing announce· ' ' \ > ment will be carried in the Wall "\ ".'.9}1 Street Journal. The advertise. ment will portray the school's facilities and grounds as suitable \ I as a conference .site, training .In his correspondence to the' center, or housing for an educacardinal the president enclosed tional institution. letters he had exchanged with four members of his Advisory Under any Ileasing contract nePanel on South Asian Relief As.gotiated, the Emmitsburg Provsistance. The panel members, in ince of the Daughters of Charity, their letters to Nixon, called U.S. whose headquarters adjoin the emergency aid to Bangladesh "a college campus, will retain own· truly superb example of the· traership of the two historic shrines .ditional American response to on campus, the White House and the need of people in deep disStone House. Both were occutress." pied by Blessed Elizabeth Seton, who founded the school in 1809 Three-Pronged Effort that evolved into the college alThe president told Cardinal most a c~ntury later, and the Krol, president of the U.S. Cathoriginal community of Sisters olic Conference and . National and students.

Conference of Catholic Bishops, The college's sale announce~hat the exchange of letters ment for the aibrary collection"should be a great satisfaction which is catalogued according to for you because of the important .the Library of Congress system role which,private American vol-is being carried in the Chron. untary agencies" have played in icle of Higher Education. About Bangladesh.

85 per cent of the volumes were . He further noted that the acquired in the past 20 years. agencies' have been part of a IN DAMIEN COUNTRY: Sister Emmet Anne, a mem- Shelving and other equipment three-pronged relief effort in the ber of the staff of St. Francis Hospital chats with Mrs. will also be available for sale. new nation-an effort in which The college is located 60 miles Mary Opio in the presence of Guide Richard Marks. the U.S. government has channorthwest of Washington, D. C., neled relief through the United two travel services in the slum- cis Church, a Belgian of the Sa- near the Maryland-Pennsylvania Nations, t h r 0 ugh voluntary bering leper village run by the cred Heart order named Father Hne. groups such as Catholic Relief Department of Health. Nearly Philibert Vanfrachem, 73. About Services, and through direct everyone works for the state at one third of the community is grants to the new nation., wage~; ranging from 10 cents to Catholic. There is also a United 'Great Satisfaction' 90 cents an hour. . .

Church of Christ and a small Mormon group.

"This cooperation has enabled Beauty of Life CO~ "I'm the happiest priest in the the American people to marshal Since no children live here, the world-the fullness of' man is Complete Line massive resources and energies couple's two children live with not only physical," Father Philiin responding to one of the major Building Materials their grandparents in Honolulu. bert said, "it's the soul that tragedies of this century," Nixon Their father sees them when he counts. What does' this place 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN said. The president added: visits a leprosy treatment center say? It says-accept God's will 993-2611 "All too often in this hurried in your life. Here you don't have ST. PAUL (NC) - Father Paul near Honolulu.

Marks was born on the island complaints, suicides, drug probworld we neglect to take the' Bussard and the College of St. time to say 'thank you' or to Thomas, St. Paul, have rea,ched an of M<LUi and the first time he had lems or loneliness. There's lonelicommend constructive and imag- out-of-court settlement of a lepro:3y-it recurred and now he ness in New York or San Franinative work. I .therefore want $350,000 lawsuit concerning the is bef:ng treated again-he went cisco. Not here."" to be particUlarly sure that you priest's 'dismissal as editor of the to Louisiana where a large lepSisters at the hospital-sucrosarium is located. The experiand your colleagues know of the Catholic Digest magazine. cessors· of the famed Mother ence made him angry about what commendations these efforts The agreement was said to be Marianne Kopp, who arrived in have received from a group of "a substantial monetary- settle- he sees as outmoded methods 1888 with her Franciscan nuns and treatment of.leprosY":"-a term distinguished American observ- ment" by the priest's attorney, from Syracuse-may be civil serers. In addition, I want to add James McClure. Details have not he prefers to Hanson's diseasevants technically but are all part my own expression of apprecia- been released pending final ap- here in Hawaii.

254 ROCKDALE AVENUE But he would never go back to of the· Kalaupapa community. tion as well as great satisfaction proval by the college's board of . NEW BEDFORD, MASS. "I decided there was more to the bustle of the mainland, or that all of us have been able trustees. work than an eight-hour day/' give liP the splendid beauty of to work together so effectively' McClure said the money inremarked Sister Emmett Anne, in this task." . volved in the settlement would life in the most famous leper 25, here two years, "so I voluncolony in the world.

The contents of the president's be given a Philippine Island misKalaupapa has a courthouse, . teered. It's not what you do, but HEATING OILS letter were disclQsed by the U.S. sionary charity which Father a seldom-used jail, four police- what you are that counts around Catholic Conference. Cardinal Bussard has long supported. here."

COMPLETE The priest, serving at Immacu- men, a firehouse, a bar called Krol previously has had several Rea's where patients may purHEATING SYSTEMS late Conception parish, Columbia contacts with the· president, usINSTALLED ually in visits to the White Heights, had sued St. Thomas- chase beer and wine but not hard owner of the magazine-in 1969 liquor, 200 or so TV sets, more House. following his dismissal as editor. than ,300 beef cattle, and scores 24 HOUR OIL BURNER Father Bussard was one of the of old cars.

SERVICE Social Doctrine co-founders of the Catholic DiPatients live at home, for the MEXICO CITY (NC) - The gest in 1936 and was publisher most part, prOVided they keep BUDGET PLANS Church is not tied to capitalism until 1963 when he agreed to· up the houses. The 39-bed hosThe Vargas Oil Co.. protects or socialism, the superior general switch ownership of the publi': pital, staffed by six Franciscan your family's heating comfort nuns from Syracuse, presently of the Jesuits, Father Pedro Ar- cation to the college.

The priest claimed the college has some 16 patients, some reall year round. rupe, said here. "The Church is independent of any system. It later reneged on an oral contract quiring almost full time care.

TRY US FIRST Happy Priest has its social doctrine and ex- insuring that Father Bussard A moving spirit in Kalaupapa plains the Gospel according to would-be retained as the editor' 3-6592 of the magazine. is the present pastor of St. Franchangi~g times," he said. ';

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Cardinal Cody Issues Celli To Prayer CHICAGO (NC) - "The Spirit of God is calling, calling in the world today, calli.ng to communion, to covenant, to prayer," declared Cardinal John Cody of Chicago in an Advent pastoral letter here laun<:hing a threephase program for renewal in his archdiocese.

Phase one of the Chicago cardinal's program involves training 100 priests in the archdiocese' as a cOfe team to assist at two two-day workshops on prayer.

Phase two, to take place January to March, 1973, will consist of a series of district meetings involving all of tht~ archdiocese's priests.

The district meetings will be devoted to the tnpic of prayer and to the development of programs for phase three - an en-. richment of the prayer life of everyone in the arehdiocese during Lent.

"During the 1960s," said Cardinal Cody, "we experienced a drift away from prayer ... As a result, at the beginning of the 70s, there was in the 'church a sense of loss and loneliness, a vague feeling of guilt, a nameless thirst."

Renewed Interest Speaking of the d~cline of many traditional devotions which resulted from changes in the Church's liturgy and prayerlife, the cardinal said, "No viable alternate forms of prayer appeared to take their place."

He .cited evidences of a "renewed interest in prayer," however, such as the fOl'mation of small prayer groups, the charismatic movement, and the popularity of workshops on prayer. ",I firmly believe that we are now just beginning to see what Pope John XXIII envisioned as a result of the Second Vatican Council: 'a second Pentecost' and a 'spiritual renewal' simply in the Gospel and the Holy Spirit," Cardinal Cody said.

Columbus Diocese Joins Key j'3 COLUMBUS (NC) - Bishop Clarence E. Elwell of Columbus has recommended the Key 73 evangelization program which began this month and continues through the end of 1973.

In a letter to priests, he noted: "This is an ecumenically based program of preac:hing which the more evangelical denominations conceived and developed. It allows each denomination to handle the program in its own way."

The bishop went on: "In a day in which so many have left their faith for a basically areligious life, such a campaign for Christ and His religion may do much good. I heartily recommend it to all our priests ..."

Eighteen Ohio denominations are taking part in the national program. All four Catholic dioceses which are members of the Ohio Council of Churches-Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo and Youngstown-al'l~ represented on the Ohio Task Force for Key 73.

Anxtety Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

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Franciscan Brother Utilizes Talent To Aid Cerebral Palsy Victims EUREKA (NC)-Seated before an easel in his cluttered art studio, Franciscan Brother Matthew Gallagher moved his brush from palette to canvas and back again in a seemingly endless motion.

On a barnwood painting of the head of Christ, he brushes the edges with oil and wipes it off for an antique finish. Then he applied a crown of real thorns to add realism.

Even in the midst of this constant activity, Brother Gallagher finds time to spend with a constant flow of visitors to his studio at the St. Joseph Hills Infirmary here. But none of the visitors get as. much attention from Brother Gallagher as do the handicapped children who come f,rom the United Cerebral Palsy Association in University City.

Brother Gallagher lets the children paint in oil on wood.

Designs for them to copy already have been chalked on the wood by the brother.

The cerebral palsy victims are not all children. There are others who range in age from 13 to 52.

"Old or small, they are all the same," says Brother 'Gallagher.

"I try to guide them, to search for talent that might be a means of self-support and to give them a media for relaxation."

Brother Gallagher is not a stranger to suffering. Wounded during World War II, he spent two years in hospitals and after the war came into contact with cerebral palsy victims at the Matheny School in Morristown, N.J.

BROTHER MATTHEW GALLAGHER, O.S.F. His name then was John Gallagher, graduate of the Newark School of Fine Arts and owner of a book and religious objects store.

One of the Matheny School youngsters asked him to write the Franciscans for him. It was

Missionaries Give Highlights Of Work in South America WASHINGTON (NC)-For an American priest who has spent 24 years in Brazil, the "deepest impression is to see how the people responded to the change from a dogmatic Church to a Church of service."

"I find that I am more acceptable to more people," added Redemptorist Father James Weninger, who hails from Allenton, Wis. His working territory borders the Amazon River, from Belem at the mouth to Manaus in the jungles.

Father Weninger and other missionaries attended a twoweek "mission furlough seminar" here sponsored by the U. S. Catholic Mission Council.

Two Daughters of the Holy Spirit who have worked for almost a decade in Chile said the poor made the most lasting impressions.

Help Each Other "The poor go about laboring for survival, responsive to service, wrapped up in their daily needs and too busy for functional politics," said Sister David, from Putnam, Conn., who works among the miners and construction workers of Antofagasta, Chile.

"They are receptive, warm, hospitable. From the little they have, they help each other."

Sister Claire, whose work is with the Christian neighborhood communities in the shanty towns of Santiago, sees a strong patricipation of the people in both civic and religious life.

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tionalists resent the presence of Americans, Brother Hugoresponded: "We are appreciated by those for whom and with whom we work. There is a frank and open friendship."

"These people have -been under the regimes of extreme right and extreme left, but in the 10nB, run they have not known l':ocial justice, and for them all leaders are the same," the Xaverian missionary said.

The recent devaluation of the peso has meant hardship for the rest of the people, said Brother Julian. "They could buy five loaves of bread for one peso; now they get only three. Angry people in some areas looted the corner stores.

"They see a hope and an answer in socialism to get out of misery," she remarked.

Since the end of 1970 Chile has been run by the Marxist government of President Salvador Allende.

"Allende stands as a new hope for the very poor" Sister Clair added.

Xaverian Brothers Hugo Hammer of Louisville, Ky., and Julian Riley Qf Woodhaven, N. Y., said that Bolivia, where they wOl'k, is experiencing a shar.p curtailment of activities by priests and laymen engaged in social reform.

"Poverty, unemployment," both missionaries said when identifying their main concern in the country which ,is ruled by the military. "We want to provide an opportunity for our youths to overcome these adversities."

determined that the boy could not meet the order's requirements for admission,. but Brother Gallagher found himself drawn to the religious community and requested admission.

Fund Raiser After two years in the novitiate, he became Brother Matthew, O.F.C., a talented painter whose profits from his work have gone to the monastery here. The monastery includes the St. Joseph Hills Infirmary for chronically ill and aged men.

Besides his work at the monastery, Brother Gallagher has worked with the Cerebral Palsy Auxiliary of Greater St. Louis.

For the past seven years he has designed Christmas cards for the auxiliary and they have been sold as a fund-raising project for the United Cerebral Palsy Center.

And when time permits, he visits the center, bringing with hiIJ;l the simple designs the students enjoy painting. He moves among them giving encouragement, helping to move a stiff hand, holding steady an overactive hand.

Says Mrs. Vera Connors, a volunteer teacher at the Center: "Brother Matthew gives purpose and a sense of accomplishment to each of them."

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Ukrainian Clergy Seek Patriarch NEW YORK (NC) - The Society of St. Andrew, a worldwide organization of Ukrainian-rite priests meeting here, protested the Vatican's continued resistance to the establishment of a Ukrainian-rite patriarchate.

In a letter to Pope Paul VI the society filed a list of protests and grievances centering around the refusal of the Vatican to recognize Ukrainian Cardinal Josip Slipyi, major archbishop of Lvov (in the Soviet Union), as patriarch of all Ukrainian-rite Catholics around the world.

"How aan we sustain respect among our faithful toward the authority of the Universal Church when our Church has obviously become the sacrificial lamb on the altar of dialogue between the Vatican and atheistic Moscow?" the letter asked.

The long controversy over the right of the Ukrainians to have their own patriarch was intensified last year when Cardinal Slipyi called a special synod of Ukrainian bishops in Rome.

The cardinal charged the Vatican with a sell-out to Moscow when Pope Paul VI told him he could riot establish a Ukrainianrite patriarchate because of "canonical, historical, spiritual and pastoral" considerations.

When Cardinal Slipyi distributed a draft of a proposed constitution for the Ukrainian-rite ip 1972, the Vatican secretariat of state sent a letter to all Ukrainian-rite bishops challenging his authority to do so.

Teen-agers Enjoy Gregorian Chant MADRID (NC) - Singers of Gregorian chant from the Silos Dominican Monastery at Burgos made a hit at a packed house of teen-agel's at the Teatro Real here.

Introits, alleluias, hymns and offertories from the rich collection of Gregorian Masses and chants entertained more than 2,000 persons. The repertoire of the Silos choir, critics said, is headed "for the hit parade."

"Gregorian chant came from the people, and perhaps this is a return to the people," said one Madrid writer. Others attributed the success to a new musical sensitivity among the younger generations, "which separates the artistic value from the liturgical message. The travel from church to stage is not unusual these days."

Gregorian chant is undergoing a revival in many regions of Spain, along with growing interest in religious art.

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This is the week mothers lapse into something called post-holiday shock, a malady brought on.by exhaustion, relief and wall-to-wall family. Somewhere along the way, our culture fell heir to the myth that while fathers need to get away from their loved for six solid weeks ones mothers welcome ex- entertaining and nobody appreciates us. ternal exposure to maternal That's it in a mistletoe, isn't it? demands.

(And isn't it the end of every I am about to explode that .myth and I suspect I have many harried-eyed mothers urging me on this week. Our mainsprings

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~I§..WJ.%H*ra1;t>'fiM·:/. have been wound too tightly too long. We simply can't keep ':In smiling. We started way back in October when the first newspaper ads appeared. It's too much to ask that we last until New Year's Day. Every mother is entitled to at least one. good explosion between Christmas and New Years.

It doesn't take much to trigger it. I went off one year when a young one, inundated with plastic, pouted the day after Christmas, "The trouble with Christmas is that it doesn't last long enough." .

Poor child. He still - doesn't know just what it was he said wrong. It took weeks before he used any of thE;! words in that sentence again, figuring one of them must have been a naughty one. .

Anyway, after I released the tensions of the preceding two months on any family handy, I drove to the library and spent a marvelous two hours reading periodicals I didn't know existed.

I came home refreshed, actually willing to face leftover turkey and demands for more batteries.

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The b~st remedy is to get away for awhile. If at all possi·· ble, we need to take an over·· night away from the family but not from our husband. It doesn't have to be elaborate,. just away.

Away from the phone, decora.. tions, pouts, demands and post.. holiday paraphernalia. We can work out some mutual baby-sit.. ting exchange with a neighbor" choose a nearby town to explore or take off for a cabin-anything.

But we must get away.

Not possible? (Not for me, either.) The next best thing is to get away for a day. Here the 'problems are simpler. We can hire a high schooler to sit, meet an old friend for lunch, shop, play bridge, anything as long as it's away from home., If all this is beginning to sound pessimistic so soon after the holidays, let me reassure readers that I've never met a mother who didn't want the folde-rol of Christmas. We wouldn't give up the anticipation,. prep. aration and excitement for anything. 'We like decorating cookies with our families. We love seeing our children perform at the annual school program. We enjoy dressing up for parties. We like sending and receiving cards. We thrill with awe at the Crib.

We're Not Scrooges

We're no· Scrooges. We like Christmas. But we want it to end. When it is over, we see ourselves. with another big job ahead, storing decorations, exchanging gifts and restoring normality to 1;1 ho~e where no one else wants' it restored. It is at this . point-this week-nowthat we explode. Why do we have to feel guilty about it? It's We're Cheated a perfectly normal reaction to I could give all sorts of erudite weeks of activity.

Last year, a friend of mine reasons' why mothers fall apart held on until the third day after this week: psychological letdown Christmas.

The first day after, and so on. But I think the reason is simpler. I think we feel she asked her teen-age daughters, in her still-sweet holiday cheated.. voice, to clean their rooms. They These few days after Christ- didn't. mas, we review our efforts and She asked aga)n the following the results. We spent too much day. They didn't. On the third money. Our parties didn't go day, she blew up. She said all over as well as we hoped. Our the old familiar things, "You kids' presents didn't make them' want the fun but you don't want any happier. We put on too the work ...," ending with, "Nomuch weight. Here we have been body cares about me." decorating, mailing, buying and There was a silence when she ended and then her oldest daughter said gently, "You lasted longPeace Day T·heme er this year, Mom. Last year, you WASHINGTON (NC) - The Division of Justice and Peace of blew up the morning after the U.S. Catholic Conference has Christmas."

My friend put on her coat and prepared material to assist edudisappeared for seven hours. cational and -liturgical programs devoted to Pope Paul VI's How do I know where she went?

"Peace is Possible" theme for She stopped by and picked me toe World Day of Peace, Jan.}. up. We had a perfectly marvelous time.

The packet contains six sets of materials that include scripture texts, essays, homilies, pub(Want to comment on Dolores lications, guides to groups deal- Curran's column? Address your ing with social problems, and letter to her in care of. The Anchor). bibliographies on social issues. /

By Pat McGowan The end aim of 'a CCD program is to develop a child or adult into an informed, loving Christian - but along the way to this goal a good deal of nittygritty work must take pI ace behind the scenes, especially wh,~re children are concerned.

Concentrating on the nuts and belts of religious education was a re~ent workshop for CCD coordinators led by Sister Ita Devitt, S.U,S.C., at Fall River's CCD. Center on Highland Ave'1ue.

Sister Ita is Coordinator of Coordinators for the Archdiocese cf New York. As such she must deal' with problems likE' those of childrer. who take s.lbways from school to CCD cHIS! es, but mysteriously disappear at intermediate subway stops. "After a little boy played hookey like this and was injured, we had to establish exactly where the J~e­ sponsibility of his public school ended and ours began," she said.

As a result the New York Archdiocese developed very careful procedures for checking cl:.i1dren's CCD attendance, she said.

While admitting that such problems would rarely arise in the FaIl River Diocese, she stressed th.lt accurate record keeping is important for religious education programs.

In general, she told the 18 coordinators from all parts of the Diocese who participated in the all..day workshop,' CCD people sh(lulp avoid the "bandage method" of operation, "where you hop from one crisis to anott:er without planning ahead."

Know Projections She said that such planning should involve knowledge of what is projected for the city or town in which a coordinator is working. "Is your area a suburban community on its way to be.. cOT.:ling a small city, is it rural, is it inner city?"

She distributed material indicating that the ideal parish CCD team would involve clergy, the parochial school principal, the CCD staff and the parish council. Considered very impor-\ tant is public relations work, including personal contacts, parish announcements, fliers and posters, which might be distributed at local stores and in housing projects, and' radio and newspaper releases. Where a parish includes foreign language groups, suc:h as Spanish or Portuguesespeaking people, material should be available in those languages, she noted.

Chapel in Cluster Of Skyscrapers LOS ANGELES (NC) -- The Los Angeles archdiocesE has opened a chapel amid a cluster of new skyscrape~ in downtown Los Angeles. \ _ St. Bernardine's' Chapel is in the sublevel plaza of:l~wly opened twin 52-story towers. It seats 450 persons, has two priests assigned to it and will provide Masses morning, noon and after work. .

The chapel is in the center of a high density downtown section where 25 high-rise· buildings are projected by 1975 with a work force of 55,000 persons.

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AT WORKSHOP: At daylong workshop for CCD coordinators held at Fall River CeD Center are, from left, Sister Ita Devitt, S.U.S.C., Coordinator of Coordinators for New York Archdiocese, and leader of the day; Sister Della Ann, a.L.V.M., Fall River diocesan CCD consultant; and Sister Gertrude Bourcier, C.S.C., coordinator from St. Joseph Church, Attleboro.

CCD classes shouldn't number more than 12 or 15 children, said Sister Ita, admitting that this guideline isn't often followed, ~iven the sca.rcity of teachers.

She suggested that parents should be involved as CCD aides wherever possible. "Sometimes they'll end up as teachers."

A lot of paper-work is involved in CCD, sighed Sister Ita, noting that supplies must be ordered, financial and attendance records kept, and there should be as much communication as possible between school and home.

All Ages . Reflecting the new concern of religious education for all ages, Sister Ita said that today's coordinator must think of preschool religious education, which might involve discussion groups for mothers as well as classes for the pre-schoolers themselves.

Parents of older children can be reached through adult discussion groups developed from short-range sacrament programs used in connection with preparing children for reception of First Eucharist and Confirmation.

Newest of all are senior citizen programs, mainly involving discussions, lectures and .films..

"The best CCD coordinator," declared Sister Ita, "is the one who isn't there and can be replaced immediately. By that I mean that a program shouldn't depend on wonderful Father X 01' Sister Y, and collapse if he or she is transferred."

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Stress Family's Political Role In Society WASHINGTON (NC) - The family life directors of the nation's 160 Catholic dioceses have urged Christian families to unite in movements and organizations that wiH give them an effective voice in shaping legisI&tion and social policy.

"We live in a highly political world, one in which the democratic process ,is the mainspri'!g of social action," they said in a statement for Holy Family Sunday, Dec. 31. The statement, entitled "The Family: An Agent of Social Change," was issued by the Family Life Division of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

The statement said that, while powerful interests have their spokesmen, "no one speaks for the family." It said Christian families must unite in their efforts to attain a ",just social order that safeguards human rights and provides opportuni· ties for each person to enjoy his or her rights in a responsible fashion."

Social Planning The statement said the fame ily's "political role" in contemporary society involves: A "critical function" requiring it to "question the direction of society and proposed social programs in the light of Christian faith and Christian values and moral principles;" A "directive influence" in regard to laws and social policies which requires an awareness that U.S. legislation and policy are "sometimes inconsistent or ambivalent in regard to our understanding of the role of the family," particularly in the areas of legislation on the age and preparation for marriage, parentchild relationships, . divorce, adoption and welfare; "Responsible social planning" which will be carried on if the families express "their conviction that human life and the stability of the family are not realities bound up with this world alone" but involve "the eternal destiny of man."

Needs of Children "Our society is deficient in pro· tecting the rights of children," the statement said. "Permissive abortion laws violate the unborn child's right to life, and many of our social policies ignore the . needs of children or assign the child an inferior status in society.

"Moreover, there is a growing tendency to treat children as burdens, or as interlopers in the private lives of thE:ir parents. Some. parents seem to be involved in a continual flight from their children."

Among the Church-related groups "actively engaged in helping Christian families fulfill their role in society," the Family Life directors mentioned the Christian Family Movement, the Marriage Encounter movement, Teams of Our Lady and pre-Cana and Cana programs.

Catholics Invited GENEVA (NC)-Roman Catholics have been invited to attend the World Conference on Salva· tion Today, scheduled Dec. 29Jan. 8 at Bangkok, Thailand.· The conference is sponsored by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches.

IRA P,·ovisionals' Leader Started Life lVeither as Irishman Nor CathfJlic LONDON (NC) - Sean. MacStiofain, leader of the militant Provisional wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA) who went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment, began life neither as an Irishman nor as a Catholic.

In fact, he didn't even begin life as Sean MacStiofain.

Born in London Feb. 17, 1928, he was baptized John Edward Drayton Stephenson in Protestant St. Augustine's Church a month later-just as his forebears had been baptized and· married for 150 years.

MacStiofain's Irish heritage consists of exactly one grandparent born in the Emerald Isle.

His father, Edward Stephenson, listed on his birth certificate as a "political agent," was at various times a law clerk and a salesman. A domestic tyrant, he provided at best a meager living for the family, which also consisted of two girls, his wife Lillian's daughters by a previous marriage. Often the family survived on one bowl of soup a day.

Little John Stephenson was extremely insecure, dreading his step-sisters' leaving home (which of course they eventually did) with tearful pleas: "Please come back. You will come back, won't you."

His mother died in 1939 and Edward Stephenson quickly remarried. John resented his stepmother, Mary, a Catholic of Italian descent, fiercely, often refusing to enter their small rowhouse in London's then-shabby Isling· ton district when his father appeared in the evening.

John Stephenson was not reo garded as a particularly bright boy. He was thought honest, generous, and had an uncontrollable temper if provoked. Someone remembers that it took four boys to drag him off another boy who had flicked him in the face. by accident.

The Parish Parade

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO The parish choir will present a 'Concert at 8 Sunday night, Jan. 14 in the church. Tickets are now available.

OUR LADY OF HEALTH, FALL RIVER The installation of officers of the Holy Name Society, the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit and the Young Men's Association will be conducted at a joint affair on Saturday night, Jan. 20 in the church hall.

Supper will be' served from 6 to 8 and dancing with music provided by Viriato Costa and his orchestra will follow the supper until midnight.

Reservations may be made by contacting the committee members or by calling 3-4301 or 3·8821.

The next meeting of the Holy name Society is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 28.

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His stepmother talked his father into giving the· boy, then 12, the instruction in her own Catholic faith that led soon to his conversion. The reason appears to have been one of convenience: the nearest school to the Stephenson home was Catholic.

The boy now began to reassemble his life. It was framed by the Catholic Church, a school where most of whose boys were of Italian or Irish descent, and a a- father with whom he still had a sort of personal relationship.

The school was evacuated early in the World War II, and John Stephenson went with it.

When he returned to London, it was to find that Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson had had a boy.

One version has his stepbrother claiming, later in life: "I could have got anything I wanted from my father. John got nothing." . This seems improbable, but it is certain that John's links with his father wore increasingly thin.

Edward George Stephenson died in the National Temperance Hospital in April, 1952. There was no funeral service and the coffin was barely halted by the church door on its way to the graveyard..

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Above all, he spent as much time as he could with the father of a boy he had known 'at school, an Irishman and old Sinn Feiner, or member of the movement to unify Ireland. He listened raptly to the stories of the struggle against British' imperialism and for the freedom of Ireland, of the battles and the heroes.

He was about' 19 when he started to peruse current IRA literature. He drifted into London's IRA underground and met the sympathizers, the hard men.

1969-1970, the IRA was clearly splitting into two wings - the Officials headed by Goulding and the Provisionals under MacStiofain.

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His boyhood dreams appeared to have come true: MacStiofain found 'himself the leader of a commited army in Northern Ireland, able to assume the role of protectors of the much-abused Oatholic minority against the continuing outrages of the British and their Protestant Unionist Prison cohorts. Disillusioned members He married an Irish girl in of the Provisional IRA say Mac1950 (they have three children). Stiofain ruthlessly squelched all Three years later, with Cathal opposition to his terrorist tactics Goulding, now leader of the offi- between 1970 and the present, cial IRA, he raided a cadet arm- and instituted a virtual reign of ory near London. They were terror in Catholic urban neighcaught and he was imprisoned borhoods in Ulster.

When the Eire government for three years.

In prison, he learned Gaelic finally jailed him for six months and changed his name from John after his conviction of belonging Stephenson to Sean MacStiofain . to an illegal organization, the and in the late 1950's gravitated IRA, this north London lad saw to Ireland and the IRA, which in his chance for supreme martyrthe early 1960's mounted a noto- dom: he would allow himself to riously unsuccessful attempt to die in the great tradition of Irish reunite the country in an abor- Republican heroes, refusing to tive campaign of terror and vio- eat or drink while in the hated hands of the turncoat Dublin lenc~.

By the late 1960's, MacStiofain government jailers. had risen in the ranks and fell Meanwhile his loyal followers out with Cathal Goulding. The heap scorn on the world for caltraditional - now "Official"- lous indifference to the sufferIRA was drifting to the left, em- ings of this man who has been bracing Marxism with a uniquely so intimately involved in the Irish flavor, and reassuring the death and mutilation of hundreds anti-Church strain in Ir·ish of innocent .men, women and history. children in Ireland's unhappy The details are' murky, but by north.

BROOKLYN (NC) - Bishop Francis J. Mugavero has announced the Brooklyn diocese will close one high school, phase out another and raise its high school tuition from $700 to $800 a year next September.

Bishop Mugavero said the Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School for girls would close at the end of the school year and the New Catholic High School for boys would be phased out over the next three years.

The prelate, citing financial difficulties and decreasing enrollment, also announced the $100 tuition increase, the third in .the diocese since 1969. In that year, the tuition at the diocese's high schools was $300. It rose to $600 in 1970 and to $700 last year.

The diocese closed three schools last June - St. John's Prep, Brooklyn Prep and Most Holy Trinity-because of monetary problems. The diocese now has 10 high schools and 201 elementary schools, none of which llave been closed.

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By the time this appears Christmas will have come and gone and the whole family will be in the somnolent state that follows the hectic activitiy of the holidays. In' other words, things will be· back to normal for the cold winter months when we are forced to slow down and pull things back catalogues sets us day (or night) before the fire and sudtogether again. Periods of dreaming denly Spring doesn't seem tht\'. brisk activity followed by far away. .

quiet periods fascinate me. On~ gets the feeling that there is a giant force, much like a huge revolving magnet, fostering periods of intensity then periods of forced quietude.

These cycles occur throughout our lifetime but they are particularIy evident around the holidays.

Certainly wives who have been running around shopping, preparing food and maintaining equilibrium among the children' could not maintain, the breakneck pace for long. I myself find that I approach the holidays in a state of weariness that must be compensated for by re.st.

Prepare for Spring So now we prepare for the home activities which, though subdued, are crucial to the mental balance and physical rejuvenation of the family in preparation for the coming of Spring.

There will be a nightly fire in the living room, a replenishment of good books, a number of evenings with the newly acquired family games of Christmas, and a little more attention to each other as we are limited in our activities by cold and snowy weather.

After the anticipation and excitement revolving around Christmas the children are practically in a comatose state and are much easier to handle and to keep' in tow. They too require a respite and a chance to recharge their batteries. Granted, their recharging is relatively brief and their energy leve( is quickly .restored but they nevertheless require a period of adjustment.

In the Kitchen In planning activities' for the children in my classes, I came across a delightful little poem in which the poet wonders if the New Year will be really different. "Will snowflakes be purple and robins be green?" she queries.

We all face each New Year with a sense of wonder, but there is something in January that helps reaffirm our belief that Spring will come and that is' the seed and flower catalogues that start to pour in about the same time as the Christ'mas bills. (At that point all hope in everything may well disappear.)

Statistics show that January . and' February are the two most depressing months of the year, not only weatherwise but moralewise as well. The landscape is bleak,' viruses in one form or an. other visit every household, and life in New England becomes' more of an endurance contest than anything else. . Not For Behind However, the arrival of the

Altmism Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but yourself, -Joubert

Each family has pet projects and this Spring I hope ours will . be a small section of the backyard that presently looks like a devastated moor. This desolation i:; the result of our living room extension but it has waited too . long to be restored, and this Spring is when we have decided to begin the job.

All ca~ogue dreamin~ a.ld ordering will be aimed toward improving that area and again as in many other' instancec:; the dreaming will probably' be as much fun as the planning.

For that extra delightful recipe for holiday entertaining, this pie is the answer.

Almond Butter Crunch Pie 2 cups milk Yz cup sugar 4 eggs % cup cornstarch % pound almond crunch vanilla baked pie shell 1) Put half the sugar and half the milk in a pan and bring to a boil.

2) Blend together the remain· ing 1 cup of milk, the cornstarch, ~4 cup sugar, and eggs and blend tI:toroughly by whipping.

3) Pour into the boiing sugar milk mixture, stirring consr.antly with a wire whip..

4) Remove from the fire and· cool. Add the butter crunch, reserving some for topping, and vanilla and pour into pie shell.

5) Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with remaining butter crunch.

Installed as Head .Of Archdiocese CINCINNATI (NC)-Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin was installed as head of the Cincinnati archdiocese in ceremonies at the St. Peter in Chains Cathedral here. .

After he received his pastoral staff from Archbishop LUigi'Raimondi, apo~tolic delegate in the United States, Archbishop Bernardin was applauded vigorously by the Church leaders, civic officials and 1,200 otHers. who thronged the Cathedral.

Archbishop Bernardin, the eighth Ordinary of the 151-yearold See of Cincinnati, also was applauded fervently at the conclusion of his homily during the Ceremonial Mass, in which he said: "Proclaiming the good news means simply preaching Christ's Gospel, But more specifically it means relating this Gospel to the myriad situations in which people find themselves each day'.

Unless this connection is made between the Gospel and daily life, religion will become irrelevant and lose its power ,to touch and transform the minds and hearts of men."

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ST. LOUIS (NC) - Maryville College here has been swarming with police for the paE,t several. mont1)s,but not for the usual reasons-there were no civil disturbances, no angry confrontations.

The 42 policemen at Maryville are there as students, most of them enrolled in .the legal justice program, but many taking courses in other programs.

When the legal justice program was inaugurated in September it was expected that'perhaps as many as 10 officers might take advantage of it.

The police departments which have sent the officers have warned' the college to be prepared for more than double the present number in the semester that begins in September, 1973.

The legal justice program has attracted not only police officers but also 'other students-young and old, men and women--from a variety of backgrounds. It is this variety in the student body that some of the police-students havl~ found most interesting.

"There is a definite need for this if for no other reason than to acquaint police officers with social contacts with others besides police officers," said Capt.

Edward F. Morrissey of the Clayton, Mo., Police Department.

'Coming Apart' Course "You learn something about the world outside of police work.

This is like the distinction be-. tween liberal arts school and trade school. The latter may give you the job skills 'but the former gives you an outlook on life.

You get a view of the world ftom this." . D,~tective Mark Martorano of the St. Louis County Police De· partment is taking three classes at Mal'yville-"Men at the Bot- . , tom," "Coming Apart" and a his·· tory of Asia.

"I'm going for a. bachelor of science in history," he said. "[ should get it in about a year."

Martorano said that the course he got the most out of was the one called "Coming Apatt," taught by Sister Patricia Bar.. rett, director of the program.

and you try to get some idea of where it's going and the problems we have today," he said.

"We go into poverty, the welfare system, all those things. It gives .you a better overall view of the community you work for and the nation."

Martorano said he thought that it was be'coming more and more important for police to have college backgrounds.

"The point of the course is that society today is changing

Plan to Double Radio Schools

ACHACACHI (NC) - Radio San Gabriel, sponsored 'by the Maryknoll Fathers, will shortly double its radio.school centers by boosting its power. . Radio San Gabriel now serves about 240 radio schools that Bring Practical Experience give training in reading, writing "I think it makes you a much and mathematics to the Indians in the Bolivian Andes. At the better officer on the street and schools small groups of children it would make you a much betand adults, with the help of an ter officer at headquarters in instructor, gather in the early command of others," he said. mo'rning or late afternoon hours Sister Barrett .said she finds to follow lessons broadcast by the officers "very responsive, apthe station. preciative of what they are getThe boost in the station's pow- ting here and particularly appreer will allow the addition of 260 ciative of the personal interest more radio-school centers. we have taken in them."

The announcement of the boost "The whole 'problem of the in power came at graduation cerfield of law enforcement has emonies for about 4,000 Indians here who had learned to read been in the spotlight nationally," and write through the radio she said. "It is politically imporschools. Since 1956 Radio San tant. A great 'number of citizens Gabriel has helped train about groups are organizing to im30,000 Indians to be literate. The . prove the criminal justice sysilliteracy rate in this country of tem. It was partly the idea of this course that pplice should be 5.1 million is 68 per cent.

The government of President better educated and that a colHugo Banzer awarded 'its Great lege degree was becoming. a Bolivia Order decoration to the requisite for promotion. And, in Maryknoll superior in the coun- general, police departments are try, Father Leo Sommer of Bos- coming to recognize the importance of well-educated police· ton. men."

Nueva Jornada, a national Sister Barrett said she thinks daily, praised Radio San Gabriel as "an example the government the police added "a very worthshould follow if it really wants while note on the campus-they to end illiteracy in the nation." bring practical experience."

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ing biased propaganda are connected with the supposed "higher good" of preserving the community.

Governments sup;>ress infor. mation in the name of "national security." Governments disseminate every kind of report, true and untrue, to discredit "the enemy." Governments engage in all sorts of campaigns of secret lying, espionage and sabotage to "weaken enemy resis~ance."· Survival is held to be more vItal than honest reporting.

"Salus populi suprema lex," said the Romans and as soon as the good of the people is made, by this maxim, the highest law, then virtually any skullduggery can be conducted in the name of high principle and necessary selfdefense. What can begin as a perfectly sensible request that citizens do not, i.n wartime, name the times and movements of convoys and 'armies may end as total control by government of all kinds of information, true or false.

Total Takeover In the 20th century we are most accustomed to the total takeover of information in totalitarian states. Both th'e Nazis and' the Communists were, of course, trying to put across a single doctrine and to ensure that no one could question its truth.

But if we look more carefully at the excuses they gave-and totalitarians still give-for controlling every avenue of education ,and communication, we come back again to the same excuse: "Society is in danger. Our (communist, NSlzi, fascist) State is being threatened by hostile forces. We need total control 'to ensure survival. We invoke 'the supreme law' because otherwise the people (the Volk, the corporate State, ,the vanguard of the proletariat) will not survive." ·In one of the most striking recent examples of this fear of openness,the Soviet Communists invaded Communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 to "defend the socialist system against world reactionary forces" and the world' briefly saw Czech students confronting Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague with bare hands fighting to keep free the channels of communication opened to them during the few mont!hs when Czech Communism

television workers, teachers, publishers-who have had to leave Czechoslovakia or risk prison or find themselves in the worst and dirtiest industrial and service jobs.

This excuse of "the public good" is probably more important than defending the actual content of state philosophy. This, after all, can change. Communism has already proved capable, in its 50 odd years of political power, of producing a very wide divergence of political views. It has its own sects and heresies.

No imperialist is less acceptable to Peking than a "social imperialist"-by Which is meant Soviet Russia with its 'armies along 4,000 miles of China's frontier.

Common Claim , Similarly, totalitarian govern,ments of the right, come in any number of shades and tendencies -from 'racist militarism or industrialism in Africa to traditional monarchies in Asia to feudal technology in Latin America,. What all have in common is the claim to control all commu· nications in the name of the security of tJhe State.

And, posSibly, for open societies with free institutions, this is the most important trick to watch. The concept of plural views, of ideas preached through conviction, not by force, of truth loved as a good in itself and sought with the deepest faith and Objectivity-these are hardly vulnerable to direct attack.

In well-established democracies, we do not accept the demagogue who goes around saying: "I have the truth and I'll fight your right to say anythig different." Only the most powerful argument would be even listened to, if it tended to lessen the "self-evident need for truth and openness in communication."

But the strongest argument is precisely that the security of the State is involved if truth is spoken too freely. Therefore, any ctaim by government to manage or influence or manipulate the free flow of information in the name of national safety is almost certainly the gravest enemy of free society. Of course, the corollary of government restraint is honesty in private reporting.

But this simply illustrates yet another' facet of the primacy of truth.

'Taugh-t the Blind BANGKOK (NC) - Genevieve Caulfied, a blind American who spent nearly 50 years teaching the blind in Asia, died here of a heart attack at the age of 84. She founded Thailand's first school for the blind and was one of the principal organizers of the Blind Rehabilitation Project in Saigon.

Her work so impressed the Buddhists of Thailand that scores of parents asked her to prepare their children to be baptized into the Catholic Church.

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Prominent English Anti-Smut Crusader Battles for Morality in Broadcasting WASHINGTON (NC)-America's image of morality crusaders as little old ladies in white tennis shoes could suffer a serious blow this December.

On a two-week tour of the United States is Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, affectionately described by her English countrymen as their "most notorious bluestocking."

But the "little old lady" image just doesn't fit Mrs. Whitehouse.

At 62 she is tall and dignified, with a vigor and professionalism that belie her age. When interviewed by NC News upon her arrival here, she was stylishly dressed in an attractive gray tweed suit.

A mother of three and former schoolteacher, Mrs. Whitehouse has been making headlines in England for 10 years by battling the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) o,ver the moral tone of their programming.

Just before she left England to tour the United States, she created a new flurrry of headlines by calling for a complete ban of the song "Dingaling" on British airwaves. Supposedly a song about children playing with their toy bells, the song "has obVIOUS innuendoes," said Mrs. Whitehouse.

Effect on Children She told NC News that her interest in 'the' moral tone of broadcasting dated from an incident in 1963, when... she was stUl teaching school. After viewing a prime-time TV discussion of pre-marital sex, said Mrs. Whitehouse, "a group of my students came to school the next day convinced that 'intercourse is all right after you are engaged.' " "If a single, 45-minute program could have this effect" on children's thinking, said Mrs. Whitehouse, she wondered what profound effects the BBC's overall programming was having.

Soon she became so enmeshed

Corporation Head Urges Tax Credits NEW YORK (NC)-Alan Pifer, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has proposed a tax credit system for charitable contributions that would provide standard income tax benefits for persons in almost all income tax groups.

Pifer, in an introduction to his foundation's annual report, said his plan would save taxpayers $4 billion a year and help end the alleged favoritism shown the rich over the poor in income tax deductions for charitable donations.

Under his plan, a taxpayer in the 50 per cent and under tax bracket could choose between filing under the present system or take a 50 per cent credit for all charitable donations against the amount of taxes he owes. A taxpayer above the 50 per cent tax bracket, he said, should continue the present system.

Thus, almost all taxpayers would receive a 50 cent credit for each $1 dollar they donate to charitable institutions, including those with religious affiliation.

From this campaign came the National Viewers and Listeners Association (VALA), which Mrs. Whitehouse said is trying to develop "structures for viewer participation" in TV programming.

Constantly accused by British newspaper columnists of trying to impose "censorship" on television, Mrs. Whitehouse vigorously denies it.

MRS. MARY WHITEHOUSE

She told NC News that VALA is attempting to develop an independent advisory council for the BBC. "There are advisory councils for television in our country," she said, "but the broadcasting company appoints them. NaturallY, they are under the company's control. They must be completely independent:' Getting Involved

in a series of battles over BBC programs that she had to give up her teaching job to devote her full time to the fight.

She said accusations that she is representative only of anarow, sectarian group are totally false. "We have organized a Denies Censorship nationwide petition for public decency," she said.

She started a national Clean "It's reaHy a question of the Up . TV Campaign which eveD" tUlllHy resulted in almost 500,000 degree to which people who are signatures' on a petition to Par- concerned are wilfing to get inliament urging that "the BBC volved-there is only a small be asked to make a radical percentage that wiJl get actively change of policy and produce. involved."

Mrs. Whitehouse helped orprogrammes which build cha·ractel' instead of destroying it, ganize the "Festival of Light" which encourage and sustain demonstration against pornografaith in God and bring Him back phy in London last year, which to the heart of the British fam· attracted 35,000 participants in Hy and national life."

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Asked about counterdemonStudents P'rotest stration charges that the Festival Seminary Closing of Light ignored larger moral BEIRUT (NC) About 250 stu- issues such as war and economic dents of the Maronite-rite minor .imperliaism, Mrs. Whitehouse seminary at Ghazir occupied the said: Church here of Cardinal Paul "I meet that question on colMeouchi, Maronite-rite patriarch lege campuses wherever I go. My of Antioch, to protest his deci· answer is, 'yes I think these are sion to close the seminary. serious issues, too. But what are Students of the major semin- you doing about the war or these ary of Kaslik, administered by other evils? If you've devoted the Barnabite Fathers, and fac- as much time and effort to fightulty members of St. Joseph's ing some other evil as I have in University here said that they my fight, then' you deserve a would go on strike in solidarity hearing, too.''' with the minor seminarians of Ghazir....

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Finding One Another in the Body (tl Christ sell' frustrated in trying to get across the message that would save the world. They flogged him and they laughed at his claims;

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ONE IN CHRIST: "That is the way of self-giving from crib to cross." NC Photo.

We· can hope to be one in Christ, because· there is a Christ to be one .in. We ~elebrated the beginning of that hope when we celebrated his birthday on Monday.

Christian community is finding one another in the body of Christ. "In one Spirit we were all baptized into the one body. You are the body of Christ, and members one of another."

The body of Christ. is not something imaginary. Nor is it merely a pretty name for the Church. There is .only one real body· of Christ. It is the bodY of the baby for whom there was no . place in the inn, the body of the young worker and of the unrec- . ognized prophet and of ·the crucified man.

That is the body with which we must be one if we are to be· come united with one another,

When we are united in that body, then we are the! Church.

The perfect Christian community we long for may be still in the future. But the center of its unity is here in the present, be· cause he was born for us in the past. The Christ- who makes us one and can make all men one is not a geometrical point toward which the lines of humanity convergein some distant future.

He is a man; he is someone.

Christ: Man

they put him in jail and they put him to death.

But he rose in that body, as we hope to rise, from the world of the dead: When we helieve· that fact and recognize that man as "Christ, Messiah, 8avior, Lord," we are on the way to Christian community.

Community Faith in·that man createn com· munity, and the more real is the faith, the more real is the community. The faith reaches a high point of expression in the Eu· ·charist. As a result, St. Paul can write, "Is not the cup of blessing we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread we break a sharing in thE body of Christ? Because the loaf is one, we, many though we are, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf."

Finally, to believe in him and to recognize him as Lord is to accept his way to growt:l and life. That is the way of selfgiving-from crib to cross. If the only way we can grow is to cut others down and take What is theirs, then the humar. race will never be one. Life will always be a warfare.

But, according to Christ's way, giving ourselves away to others is what makes us grow to the full maturity of Christ the head.

Through him the whole body grows, and, with· the proper fUI1<:tioning of the members joined firmly together by each supporting ligament, builds itself up in love.

The Christian Community Today Mahatma Ghandi, spiritual and political leader of India, was a Hindu. Yet he admired and respected Jesus Christ, whom he came to know through reading the Gospels. However, it is said i that contact with Christians led • him to disdain Christianity. ,Fyodor. Dostoevski, world renowned Russian novelist, also loved Jesus Christ. He too knew : Christ through the Gospels. Yet he came to despise Christians.

Today many rontemporary

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FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J.

Americans are "turning on" to Jesus at the same time that they "turn off" the Churches. There is even a growing movement of "Jews for Jesus," although few Jewish followers of Jesus join Christian Churches.

On the other hand the official teachings of the Second Vatican Council proclaim that "by her relationship with Christ, the ··Church is a kind of sacrament or sign of intimate union with God, and of the unity of all mankind. She is also an instrument for the achievement of such union and unity" (Church, 1).

Ideals: Reality There would seem t:o be a discrepancy between the ideal described by the Council and the experience of many inside and outside the Church. It would seem that if the Church is a sign, its meaning is not being recognized. Some would even say that the institutional Church as it is experienced in parishes, dioceses, or even internationally, gives rather the appearance of being a counter-sign to the unity Jesus came to bring.

To educate our people-from pulpit, at home, in school-to

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FR. JOSEPH M: C:HAMPLIN

We can love him because we we have seen him; because he was once a child who could be . , IlU:~1Xt:1 t]1:mm~~"'; : cared for and c.omforted, a man who worked and grew tired over What about' the eucharistic his work. We come together prayers and other so-called presaround a man who was hungry identili\l formulas designed. for and thirsty, and sometimes alone proclamation by the priest? Is it and afraid. He was a prophet better for a person to read along and a preacher who found him- with t:1e priest, deacon, lector or

watch and listen attentiv.ely?

Over 400 members of. diocesan liturgical commissions in the United States (plus representatives from Canada, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines) held their annual convention in Detroit this fall and gave these questions a fairly thorough examination.

They wisely, I think, invited three men from different fields with opposing views to deliver carefully prepared position papers on the subject of worship aids.

Father James Shaughnessy, a former pastor in the Peoria diocese, first president' of the National F;ederation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, and now director of a liturgical research program at the University of Turn to Page Seventeen

recognize and aspire to the ideals of Christian unity proposed by the Gospels and Vatican II, is good. But the ideals will only be appreciated if the reality is examined with equal honesty and openness. By second grade today's children are ,able to perceive the distance between lofty ideals and often painful reality.

Meaningful ideals are only embraced when seen against the backdrop' of the real.

There is little educational value in teaching the young that their parish is a community, even a family, when there is not an honest dealing with their percep:tions of that. parish. To repeat'edly tell the young-or old-that ,the Eucharist is a joyful banquet :or meal celebrated by the Chris'tian community, may not ring true to their experience of Sunday Mass in their parish. To suggest that Christians are an example of social justice, compassion, honesty or dedication. may appear either naive or false to many maturing Christians.

Ideals: Hope It seems to me that the ideal must be taught and taught clearly..As the Council affirms, "the future of humanity lies in the hands of those who are strong enough to provide coming generations with reasons for living and hoping" (Church in World, 31). Ideals give one reasons for hope and renewed vitality.

But in painting a challenging ideal it is important to avoid triumphalism or fantasy. The Christian community today-as in every age-is often far from living up to its ideals. It has been ~any centuries since whole nations were converted to Christ by the example of, "how the Christians love one another."

The Council, reminds us that "Christ summons the Church, as she goes her pilgrim way, to that continual reformation of which she always has need, insofar as she is ,an institution of men here on earth" (Ecumenism, 6). :paradoxically, a healthy balance between sharing ideals and recognizing reality that perhaps falls quite short of those ideals makes pOssible a deeper awareness of how much of the ideal is a,ctually present in real situa-' tions. Once the reality is approached honestly, and people have an opportunity to express their disillusionments, fears, and anger within an understanding atmosphere, I have found that they begin to recognize many positive . factors they were blinded to before. They can begin to recognize that while their community may not yet be ideal, many seeds of that ideal can be noticed.

Pride: Humility . 'It can be quite surprising to many, once their disappointment and anger are defused through understanding and honest listening, how many good things are happening . within their local Christian community and within the Church around the world. InTurn to Page Seventeen

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Suggests Radicals Acquire Techni'cal Competence

THE ANCHORThurs., Dec. 28, 1972

Marks 50 Years In Priesthood

It is now clear where "Catholic radicalism" is going

when the war is over. Recent interviews with and writings

by Daniel Berrigan indicate that the new enemy is "technology." It would also appear that the attack on "technology" will be of the same orThere would be little time for der of sophistication and inculture. Most people would not telligence as the previous at- be able to read and write. Folk tack on the war. To begin art might flourish, but not many

with a definition-from which poets like Danil~l Berrigan might be legitimately I~XCUSed: Technology is nothing more than the

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REV. ANDREW M.[;;;::~} GREELEY

practical application of scientific knowledge. An attack on technology is both an attack on science and on the way science has been applied.

Catholics who do not respond to a book from Father Berrigan the way the old Church used to respond to a papal encyclical might want to ponder what life would be like were it not for technology.

Epidemics, Germs To begin with, half the readers of this article would not have lived beyond the age of 20 (and the writer of this article would have died in infancy). Women readers would have had to have six children merely to keep the population stable. Half of their children would not live to adulthood. Eventually, either the woman or one: of her children would have died in childbirth.

Epidemics of cholera, malaria, and smallpox would be frequent.

Cholera germs would .Live in waters unpolluted by technology, waters that would be clean, pure, and deadly. Children would succumb to scarlet fever, measles, and polio; men would work from dawn to dusk every day; homes would be dark, dank, and cold. Life would be dull, short, and brutish. Famine would always be a lurking possibility. A single storm at the wrong time could turn that possibility into a certainty.

As Colin TurnbuIl's recent study of the Ik makes clear, when men Hve on the brink of death they turn to violence and cruelty of the sort that makes our frequently violent cities seem peaceful by comparison. Modern life may have its uncertainties, its harshness, ·its cruelties; but only the naive romantic would want to trade places with the Ik, blessedly free from technology as they are.

18·Year-()ld Named To School Board PATERSON (NC)-An l8-yearold college student has been appointed by Bishop Lawrence B. Casey to the Paterson Diocese's school board.

James Andreano, 18, a sophomore at Montclair State College who has been .active in the Right to Life movement, replaces Dr. Hugo Cardullo, a pediatrician.

'folk would have the leisure or the .lifetime to enjoy it. The great music, painting, and literature of the world would belong to a very few. Religion would be mostly magic and superstition used to keep the hostile forces of the universe at bay so that man might survive.

Radical Program Is this the kind of world to which Father Berrigan wants us to return? Is this what Barry Commoner has in mind when he says that the iron law of ecology is that nature knows best? The life described ·in the previous paragraphs is what nature did.

The elimination of much sickness and misery from the world is what man and his technology did.

Upper middle-class romantics like the Catholic radicals may want to destroy technology; those in the United States and other parts of the world who do not yet enjoy its benefits are not likely to be edified by the radical program.

The Green Revolution (in food production) is pure technology.

In the space of a decade, it practically eliminated the threat of famine in India (where, thanks to the technnolgy of the Green RevOlution, food production is now increasing twice as fast as the population). Would the Catholic radicals willingly sign the death warrants of those Indians who most certainly would have starved to death if it were not for the Green Revolution?

Root of Difficulty It is, incidentaliy, worth noting 'that the Green Revolution was designed and financed in the United States (mostly by the Rockefeller Foundation), a society which Father Berrigan repeatedly tells us is sick. Not so sick, apparently, that it cannot produce a technological change which will save millions of .lives.

The problems of pollution and environmental waste are not technological or even moral. If everyone would 'admit their moral guilt-as the radicals insistand bring back their bottles to the supermarket, the environmental problems would not be changed at all. The root of the difficulty is social:-organizational and economic. Our capacity to understand the organization of large-scale economies, politics, and societies has not kept pace with our understanding of physical and biological science. But the problems of economy and social organization are complex and intricate-much more diffi·cult than food production. They will not be solved by the naive enthusiasm of self-righteous romantics who are devoid of technical competence.

If the younger radicals really want to make the world a better place instead of merely having the fun of engaging in protest, they would be well-advised to abandon simplistic solutions and acquire technical competence. But that would mean work.

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LAY PARTICIPATION: "Are missalettes, leaflets, booklets and other participation aids a help or hindrance to good worship?" NC Photo.

The Question of Missalettes Continued from Page Sixteen over 45, poorly trained lectors, Notre Dame, began the discus- inadequate public address syssion. He argued from pastoral, tems. He also noted that Scriphistorical, and theological view- ture is by nature the written, points for the elimination of not spoken word of God. Finally, those texts in participation aids the biblical expert spoke about which are not proper to the an individual's freedom to read laity's role ina liturgical celebra- along with the lector or listen tion. to that person proclaim God's Advocates Revision inspired message. Omitting those This would cover, for example, passages, he felt, curtails such the eucharistic and other presi- liberty. dential prayers (which belong to David Kraehenbuehl, director the priest) plus the scriptural of the education division for the readings (which belong to the :l.S. Paluch Company, publishofficial reader). ers of the widely used "MissalMoreover, he would remove ette," "Celebrate," and now rubrical directions and the cele- "Praise," took 110 sides, but, brant's private prayer during the claiming to speak as a represenpreparation of gifts and before tative of the participation aids Communion from the missalettes. publishing industry, urged the At the same time, he clearly production of diverse materials stressed the need for publication by which "the maximum numof all these texts with suitable ber of American Catholics can commentaries in volumes de- participate to the fullest extent signed for study and preparation ,in any liturgical event." outside the service itself.

Flexibility Father Shaughnessy mainKraehenbuehl insisted that distained that aids complete ,with all these items erect paper walls posable, relatively inexpensive between the priest and the con- and short-lived leaflets, booklets gregation, that individualistic or missalettes make it possible prayer instead of community to serve with a variety of styles worship results, and that persons the highly diversified liturgical ,in the pews become slaves to congregations we have in the the printed page anti fail~o con- ,United States. They offer, in his centrate on the action in the view, flexibility, and a viable sanctuary. In a word, such mis- method of testing, especially salettes or booklets place an with music, new compositions obstacle in the way of full, ac- and -rites before they are produced in permanent and more tive participation. expensive hard cover books.

Keep Biblical Readings The convention delegates, in a Father Jerome Quinn, a Scrip- confused, lengthy and exhausting ture scholar and seminary pro- session after the presentations, fessor, passed over the matter voted to approve a resolution concerning retention or elimina- which urged the elimination of tion of presidential prayers and rubrics and pr.esidential texts in similar texts, but did argue for participation aids, but accepted the publication of biblical read- the inclusion of biblical readings. ings in the aids designed for Sunday Masses. .

Happiness Father Quinn cited the wellknown and readily acknowledged We have no more right to conproblems involved today in ef- sume happiness without producfective listening-large churches, ing it than to consume wealth hearing difficulties among many without producing it.

-Shaw

BALTIMORE (NC) - The 50th ordination anniversary of Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Balti· more was celebrated with a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen here.

Religious and laity of the archdiocese joined with Cardinal Shehan in hearing Auxiliary Bishop T. Austin Murphy say: "Your Eminence, we are much in your debt for the glimpse of Christ your person and ministry have given us." The prelate added: "The cardinal's unfailing kindness is perhaps the quality that first impresses and which lingers longest when all other impressions have faded. 'Omnia in caritate'-everything in charity is not an empty motto on his coat of arms. It is a way of life."

Cardinal Shehan responded: "One thing that I have always treasured above all things here in the archdiocese of Baltimore is the unity and cooperation that has existed between us all bishops, priests, Religious and laity. And as I conclude my 50 years of priesthood it is my earn· est desire and my most fervent prayer that unity, that cooperation, will continue to flourish during the time that is still left to me here in the archdiocese of Baltimore."

Lawrence Joseph Shehan, graduate of St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md., St. Mary's Seminary of Baltimore, and the North American College in Rome, was ordained a priest on Dec. 23, 1922 at the age of 24.

The Christian Continued from Page Sixteen stead of tl'iumphalism, there can be legitimate pride. ,In place of defensiveness, an honest humility can grow.

We are a Pilgrim Church.

What matters is that we continue on the way, admitting our failures. but rejoicing in the great things the Lord continues to do for and through us. As we struggle toward translating the ideal into reality with God's help, it may be that we and others come to recognize more readily the presence of Jesus Christ within our communities.

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New Book on Vietnam War Honest, If Not Infallible With a settlement in VietnaiTI said to be in sight, there is a temptation to dismiss that whole messy business from our minds. We are weary of it, and would have done with even the thought of this longest, most dubious, most un. popular war in our history. during the Truman presidency.

This .would be a mistake. We then supported the French There are lessons to be learn- attempt to reimpose colonialism ed from this lacerating ex-. after World War II, and we did perience. To ignore them would be to risk repeating our blunder, at ruinous expense.

Much research must be done

so to the tune of two billion dol· lars in four years. The French failed. By the terms of the Geneva Agreement (1954), Vietnam was divided.

When John F. Kennedy became President jin 1961, Vietnam By was a minor but sticky problem.

The South lacked unity, had a weak government, and was vulRT. REV. nerable to the insurgent VietMSGR. cong, who were Communist and somehow connected with the JOHN S. Communist regime in the North.

KENNEDY Chaotic State Kennedy himself was skeptical of what American assistance could do to prop up ·wobbly before the lesson can· be put in South Vietnam. But there were definitive form. But already there those in his administration, or are books offering more than a with influence upon .it, who had modicum of fresh· information ,a euphoric, can..do attitude, be· and incisive interpretation. The lievers in a global destiny for latest of these is called The Best the U.S. ;lnd in insuperability of and the Brightest, a gargantuan American power. Our brains and book by David Halberstam (Ran·' technology were a unique, omni· dom House, 457 Madison Ave., competent, and unbeatable comNew York, N:Y. 10022. $10). bination.

Mr. Halberstam is himseJf Hence the decision, despite among "the best and brightest" Kennedy's misgivings, to send in of the critical eyewitness reo advisers. There were 20,000 porters of, and commentators on, American troops in addled Viet· the American effort in Vietnam. nam when Kennedy was shot in Here he draw,s upon his own di- November 1963.· Despite this rect observation, as well as upon plentitude of advj-:-rs, the war an abundance of published was going 'worse ~;lan ever for and unpublished sources, on the the South, which was in a chaIN THE MIDST OF HIS LOVED ONES: Bishop Cronin Pentagon Papers, on 500 inter· otic state internally.

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Mary's Home, New Bedford, following their acceptance views with especially informed President Johnson sought to people. A very rich mine indeed. withstand a further decision on the Diocese.

Dense Subject U.S. policy in Vietnam during The question is whether he has 1964, an election year. But a de· • made the best use of these ma- cision was nevertheless banged terials. How sift and shape them out in a contest of opinion and ARMAGH (~C) - Four Irish troubled island-the first such so as to achieve a unified, intE:l- maneuver among his subordinligible, and truthful account? ates. The Tonkin Gulf resolution church leaders issued a joint joint message ever.

The plea was issued as bombs ,Only someone familiar with the of July 1964 gave the President Christrr;as plea for peace in this exploded in downtown streets materials (and the events) them· what he considered carte blanche selves can determine how pre· as to Vietnam policy, and he used crowded with Christmas shopcise and judicious Mr. Helber- it to begin air raids in retaliation in the ~ype of war, and on the pers in several Northern Irish starn's book is. The general read- for attacks on the military bases type of terrain, involved. towns and gunmen killed another er, such as this reviewer, will which, although not" at war, we man; raising the three-year death Information Disregarded probably say that it strikes him had in the South.

Linked to a myriad of false as- toll to 669. as honest, if certainly not inPast Ignored Cardinal William Conway of sumptions was a disregard of fallible.

Intelligence reports were that sound information supplied by Armagh, president of the Irish He will also probably say that the bombing would be futile and the intelligence services, partic· Bishops' Conferences;· the Rev. we have here a complex treat· would lead to infiltration of regu· ularly the CIA. Mr. Halberstam E. R. Lindsay, president of the ment of a dense subject, perhaps ' lar North Vietnamese forces into cites repeated instances of intel- Methodist Church; the Rev. R. V. even an overelaborate treatment. the South. The reports were ig- ligence which was accurate arid A. Lynas, moderator of the Pres· There are some 675 pages of text nored. The event proved them irrefutable, but was unheeded byterian Church; and Anglican in small print. Reading it tho· true.

Archbishop George O. Simms of 01' arbitrarily contradicted or roughly is a several days' task.

Armagh issued the peace plea.

During 1965, more and more fraudulently edited.

It is not straightforward, but American troops were sent to This book is sure to be dis"The Christian message is alintricately patterned. There are Vietnam to enter combat. Esca- puted and vatiously rebutted. It ways relevant and it was never several main themes, and these lation was on in earnest, on an is not the whole story; it may not more necessary than it is in Ireare closely interwoven. The ef- open-end basis. The war became be the most even-handed evalu- land today. 'Peace on earth, fect is at times dizzying. The an American war, even bigger tion of as much of the whole goodwill to men' was the sign of style can grow prolix" and we and fiercer, 'but without victory story as the author has un- the angels when Jesus was born are told the same thing' over and and indeed without appreciable earthed. It is sure to offend, and and it must become the program over again, e.g., that Walt Ros- deterrence to the enemy. We had be re:;ented by, those who feel of life for every person in the tow was an enthusiastic, incor- repeated the mistake of the that to say our government made land." rigible advocate of the bombing French, with the same dismal re- a huge mistake is rankly unpaThe churchmen recalled that of North Vietnam. sult. triotic, if not treasonous, and a God "is father, that His family Sticky Problem .

Why? Mr. Halberstam gives slur on the, memory of the trou- includes all mankind and that Would greater simplicity and n1'any reasons. One was our ig· sands of Americans who died in each member of His family is of tighter editing have interfered noring the past,' specifically the Vietnam. infinite worth. with Mr. Halberstam's ambitious substance and the meaning of But it is incontestable that, "At Christmas we think es· scheme? Probably not, since Southeast Asian history, recent during the past decade, we have pecially of children and home, more clarity could have be~n and remote. Another was our been enmeshed in one of the and of friendliness and giving. It brought about thereby, without insensitivity to people (seeing the murkiest, most wounding, and will not be God's Christmas if we damage to the evidence or the Vietnamese in ludicrously inap- most unprofitable episodes in our think of and give to our own imargument. Moreover, -a trimmer plicable American terms). Still whole history. We must explore mediate family circle only. All book would have more readers another was our failure to recog· it and learn how to forfend any- acts of selfishness and pride, all staying with it to the end. nize that our kind of power and thing like it in future. We cannot expressions of bitterness and , In a way, we got into Vietham our technology could not prevail afford another Vietnam, ever. hate, of cruelty and brutality,

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are the very opposite of what God wants us to do, and destroy His purpose in our hearts. Murder is a heinous crime against God and humanity, no matter who the victim is.

"In sending greetings, we wish to emphasize that the Christmas message is not only for this particular season but for every day of 'the year, the immediate future here in Ireland will call for the utmost goodwill and courage.

Let us go forward determined to bring the spirit of Christmas into the relationships and decisions of 1973, remembering that God who came in Jesus is still Emmanuel -'God with us.'''

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Deacon Program Adds Olrl'e Year To Trailrling ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)The Rockville Centre diocese has added a year (If parish apprenticeship to the regular seminary program.

In addition, the diocese has decided, beginning in 1974, to ordain men inClividualIy rather than collectively in ordination classes.

"During the fift year of training, the deacon himself will determine when he is ready for ordination, and then he will submit his request to the bishop, who will choo5.e a date for his ordination," said Msgr. James Coffey, rector Cif the Immaculate 'Conception Seminary. "To lock a young man into a fixed date for his priesthood is a disser,vice."

Msgr. Coffey, who announced the ordination changes, said the additional year of preparation for the priesthood will enable priest-candidates to spend all their time as apprentices in the parishes. Previously, the candidate's time was split in his last year of apprenticeship between academic studies in the seminary and "field work" in the parishes.

"We should have anticipated that the burden of study and ministry would be too much," Msgr. Coffey said. "'fhe deacons were responsive to parish needs and their hearts got lost to the people."

The new procedure, he said, would enable the priest-candidates to "get the theological training and practical experience a certain sequence."

Ordination changes in the diocese, which comprises Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, will begin with seminarians now in their third year of studies. The changes will not affect deacons now working part-time in parishes who will be ordained as a class next May.

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The pickpockets will stay in jail until Jan. 10 so that the rest of the population can celebrate the New Year without this added hazard, a police information officer said.

Thousands thronged Our Lady's shrines here Dec. 12 and in other major cities. Commenting on the widespread rE!Verence for Our Lady and the fact that over 15 per cent of Mexican women are named Guadalupe, the shrine director here, Father Guillerm'o Schulenburg, !laid "without any use of communication media but simple devotion the name of Guadalupe spreads from nation to nation."

In the 441 years since the apparition to the Indian catechist Juan Diego, the priest added, "the constant faith of the people is the most enduring tribute to Our Lady's blessings."

Sacrifice To make sacrifices in big things is easy, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom capable of. -Goethe

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Notes Concern About Key '73 NASHVILLE (NC) - Endorsing the Yl::'.-!I'lng evangelism crusade called Key 7~. D1Sh1J}J Joseph A. Durick of Nashville and the diocesan priests' senate have recognized the concern of some Jewish leaders that the crusade would be used to proselytize young Jews or to identify American culture with Christianity.

Urging all Catholics of the Nashville diocese to cooperate with· the activities of Key 73, Bishop Durick said that the crusade's aims were: "first. to make the faith of the individual Christian more intense, and. secondly, to speak clearly of that faith to the millions of Americans who are 'un-churched,' 'or who have no formal religious association a.t all."

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Collegian Spends Summer Improving Lot Of Tots in Vietnamese Orphanages NOTRE DAME (NC)-In orphanages in Vietnam, in barren rooms on bare floors untended babies lie in their own wastes, some kicking at the flies swarming about them, some too weak to move.

Many of the "abies are legacies of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the children of U.S. servicemen and Vietnamese mothers. It is estimated that there are from 15,000 to 20,000 such war orphans.

The description of their condition was given by a young man who spent last summer trying to improve the lot of some of the, orphans. He is Phil Conroy, a Notre Dame Universtiy senior and midshipman in the Navy ROTC, who went on summer cruise near Vietnam last summer.

"My own family had been through adoption procedures for two orphans last year, so I know some of the problems involved," Phil told The Observer, Notre Dame's newspaper. "But when I got over there, I became aware of other adoptions from U.S. families having problems. I wanted to help."

After his tour of duty was over, Phil obtained permission from the Navy and the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam to visit Vietnam. With a Vietnamese lawyer who specializes in adoptions of orphans

by American parents, he formed a plan to speed up the adoption procedure for 17 children.

"There was a lot of red tape," Phil said. "First of all, there's the Vietnam government passports. These were free, but the problem was to leave the country, you had to be a national."

Major PrOblem The problem is a major one in the adoption process, he said, because children of U.S. fathers and Vietnamese mothers are not

recognized as nationals by the Phil took the other eight to Vietnamese government, and Omaha. In those cities they were therefore are not issued the of- met by their new parents. ficial birth certificates necessary Phil said adopting a Vietnamese for emigration. child is a difficult process, "You "It's really a shame, since realIy have to know somebody to there is something like 50 to 60 do it," he said, adding that "it families in ,America for each makes no sense to have a child child available for adoption," die in a Vietnamese orphanage Phil said. when there are so many people The solution to the problem is wa':lting to adopt them." the fabrication of certificates, he said. He estimated that nearly one-third of all Vietnamese adop- Spread of Drug tions involve either completely Use Saddens Pope fabricated certificates or'the use VATICAN CITY (NC) - The of the certificates of dead chil- use of drugs among the young dren. has reached such enormous proOther problems included re- portions that it has become a leases from the orphanages, ap- matter of "profound sadness" proval of a parent, or approval . and concern for all, Pope Paul of relatives, medical examina- VI told 150 educators and social tions and various fees, Phil workers who specialize in drug said. problems in Italian schools.

The adoption procedures with Pope Paul told the group that which he became· involved had "the worrisome spread of sad~ already been started by persons' ness, especially in terms of the and organizations. The longest had been in progress for nearly damage it does to spiritual and intellectual energies." ' two years and the shortest for Pope Paul said that it is necabout six weeks. essary to mobilize public opinMortality Rate ion to slow the use of drugs, During the time of the adop- "which has reached very great tion process, he said, children proportions." often die. He cited statistics inThe Pope suggested that todicating that in some areas 80 day's adults share greatly in the percent of orphans die. responsibility for the spread of FinalIy at the beginning of drug usage among the younger August after cutting through the generation. red tape, Phil was ready to escort a group of orphans to the United States. There were 17 ranging in age from eight months to five years.

At that point, the Military Affiliate Radio System, the State Department and the Defense Department helped arranging contact with the adoptive parents in Contractors the United States and in providing transportation.

Assist by Nurse From Saigon, a nurse, Bonnie Bickel, escorted nine of the 17 orphans to San Francisco, and

The bishop's singling out Christians and those with no religious affiliation as objects' of the crusade was done with Jewish objections in mind, diocesan sources said.

The theme of Key 73 is "Calling Our Continent to Christ" and its objectives include sharing the Gospel with every person in North America.

More than 100 denominational groups including several Catholic dioceses, have already announced plans to participate in Key 73.

College President ST. LOUIS' (NC) - Sister Barbara Brumleve has been named president of Notre Dame College here succeeding Sister Carol Ann Collins, who was acting president since August. 1971. The appointment is effective next May.

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