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VERY REV.' D~NIEL E. CAREY
A,tte,ndanc'e Marks Scho'ol Int'e!re,s,t You might say the Legislative Committee of St. John the Baptist School in New Bedford has put the cart before the horse. Formed to study state aid to nonpublic school education, the group has come to the fore in the emergency to meet the school's current islative Committee says. "But, financial problems. It will be we have a problem now in a replaced by a parish School huge deficit that must be met before we can think about next Board at a later date; usual- ye'ar.
ly, the School Board precedes the committee. But not at St. John's where the school problem is critical and a solution needed now, not some weeks or months from now. The projected deficit for the 1969-1970 school year is $17,750. "Increased tuition and increased parish contributions may solve next year's problems," Harold E. Carpenter of the Leg-
The Legislative Committee held a big open meeting in the school hall at which Rev. Patrick O'Neill, Diocesan superintendent of schools, spoke. An indication of the interest in the movement to gain support for St. John School is gleaned from the fact there are 230 families in the Greater New Bedford Turn to Page Four
Eulogizes Obedience Of F,ather Forni "Lord, what would you have me do?" epitomized the life of Rev. Alfred R. Forni, late pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, New Bedford, according to the eulogy delivered by Rev. Albert F. Shovelton, chaplain at St. Mary's Home, New Bedford. During Father Forni's life, Father Shovelton pointed out how the late New Bedford pastor answered that question. The eulogist said, "Thirty years ago, Father Forni said "here I am, Lord' and stepped forward in St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained, the echo of "What would you
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REV. ALFRED R. FORNI
REV. JAMES P. DALZELL
sistant to the position of administrator. Very Rev. Daniel E. Carey, V.F. pastor of Our La!ly of the Isle, Nantucket, to St. Dominic Parish, ' Swansea, as pastor. Rev. James P, Dalzell, as-' sistant at St. Patrick Parish, Fall River, to Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket, as administrator. The assignments are effective Thursday, Jan. 29. Father Carey was born Feb. 2, 1909 in Fall River, the son of the late Andrew Carey and the late Margaret Curley Carey. A graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, he attended St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md., and received his philosophical and theological training at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N.Y,
Ordained on May 26, 1934 in St, Mary's Cathedral, Fall River by the late Bishop Cassidy, Fa.ther Carey served as an assistant in St. Mary's, No. Attleboro; Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; St. Peter's, Provincetown; Sacred Heart, Taunton; St. James, New Bedford; and Our Lady of the Isle, 'Nantucket. in 1959, he was named administrator of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk, and the followink year was appointed pastor of Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket. Fljther Carey has served the people at Nantucket for 17 years -seven as an assistant and 10 as pastor. During World War II, he also served as a chaplain in the U.S. Army. Father Dalzell was born on May 12, 1919 in Boston, the son of the late Patrick Dalzell and Turn to Page Thirteen
Pope's 'Right Hand lHan' Now in U.S., Also Planning to Visit in Canada NEW YORK (NC) - Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, substitute secretary of state, of the Holy See, who began a trip to the United States and Canada on Jan. 11, is one of the most influential men. in the Vatican. He described himself as the "immediate collaborator of the Pope." The 48-year-old career diplomat will. make courtesy visits to President Richard M. Nixon of the Holy See to the United in Washington next Monday Nations Educational Scientific and Prime Minister' Pierre . and Cultural Organization in which capacity he was instruTrudeau in Ottawa the fol-
have me do?' ringing down lowing day. He met both statesthrough the years." "Again and again, in his as- men when they visited the Pope signments in the diocese and as . last year. The Vatican official is accomchaplain in the army, we can hear, "Here I am, Lord. What panied by Msgr. Joseph Gremillion of the diocese of Alexandria, 'would you have me do?" Bishop Connolly was principal La., secretary of the Pontifical celebrant at the concelebrated Commission· for Justice and Mass of Requiem offered in St. Peace, The archbishop plans to call Lawrence's Church, New Bedon dignitaries of the United Naford, on Saturday morning. Other concelebrants were: Rev. tions, the Organization of AmerMsgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, Rev. ican States, the International Msgr. John- J:'" Hayes, Rev. Albert Development Bank and other or- • J. Shovelton, who also gave the ganizations of an international nature. He will also visit CathTurn to Page Two , olic Relief Services. Archbishop Benelli has accepted the invitation of the conference of bishops in both countries to visit their staffs in Washington and Ottawa to see them "at work." He will also visit many American cities for The Diocesan CCD Office has a firsthand look at the Church announced the schedule of Adult in America. He attended the installation Religious Education courses for its Spring 1970 semester which of Bishop Mark Hurley as the spiritual leader of the Santa begins Monday. The courses, held in various Rosa diocese in California yescenters throughout the Diocese, terday. A Vatican spokesman exare designed to provide adults plained that this will provide an with insights into the practical insight into a small U. S. diocese aspects of Faith, and to give and give the'visitor a chance to teachers and parents assistance meet many bishops and priests with their roles as religious ed- in one place. Archbishoip Benelli b.egan his ucators. New courses being offered diplomatic career as the secrethis semester include one on the tary of the present Pope when Liturgy and another entitled the latter was a monsignor in "The Developing Community." the office of the Secretariat- of The course on Liturgy has been State in 1946. Successive assignscheduled in anticipation of ments took the archbishop to Paris, Dublin, Rio de Janeiro and Turn to Page Seventeen
CCD Announces Adult Program For Monday
Bishop James L. Connolly announced today the re-assignment of one pastor and the appointment of one as-
mental in promoting successful campaigns against illiteracy and offering basic education. During this time, he also joined with such notables as British economist Barbara Ward, Bishop Edward Swanstrom,. executive director of CRS and his assistant, James Norris, and Msgr. Gremillion to formulate what is now the Pontifical Commission, of Justice and Peace. Before going to Rome in June 1967 for his present assignment, A:rchbishop Benelli served for one year a~ pronuncio to Senegal and apostolic delegate for West Africa. The Vatican Press Office, in its release on the trip, stated that his visit to the great internalional bodies in North America is to reaffirm "the concern of the Holy See and of the universal Church for the welfare and advancement of all the human family" and to offer the renewed pledge of the Church's continued cooperation. It said that as time allows on his hurried trip, he will "talk with lay leaders' as well as the clergy and with officers of other Christian and Jewish bodies, as well as with Catholics" aboutthe great issues facing the human race. His schedule in the United States has taken him to New York, San Francisco, and Santa ARCHBISHOP BENELLI Rosa and he is also to visit Detroit, Chicago. Philadelphia, BalMadrid. timore and Washington before In 1965, he became observer leaving for Canada.
'Salve Announces ·New Positions
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The board of trustees at Salve Regina College, Newport, has approved administrative changes creating offices of a Vice Presi· dent for Academic' Affairs, a Vice President for Financial Affairs and a Vice President for Developmel}t and Public Relations. The Trustees also approved the appointments of Dr. Lester Carr, Professor and Chairman of the 'Psychology Department and Dean of the Summer School, to Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Mr. John S. Renza, Executive Assistant to the President, to Vice President for Financial Affairs. Sister Margaret E. Sorensen, R.S.M., who is to comp(ete her Ph. D. studies this semester in biochemistry has been appointed Associate Academic' Dean. All appointments will become effec· tive second semester, 1970.
, OFFICIAL Diocese of Fall River ASSIGNMENTS Very Re.\'. Dan'fel E. Carey; V,F., pastor of Our Lady , ., of the Isle,' "Nantucket, ;- . . .... . . 'to St. Dominic" Church, Swansea, as pastor. " '. Rev.' James. P. Dalz~il, assistant" at St..Patrick Church, , Fall. Ri'~er, to 'Our, Lady of thelsle~ Nantucket, as administra"
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SATURDAY-Memorial. White. Continued from Page One' put them to the test and proved St. AnthonY,Abbot. homily at' the Mass; Rev. Wil- them worthy to be with Him; He liam F. O~Connell, Rev. Lucio B. has tested them like gold' in _a SUNDAY-Second Sunday After Phillipino and Rev. Vincent E. furnace, and accepted them as a , Epiphany. Green. Mass Proper; Diaferio. 'holocaust. When the' time 'comes Glory; Creed; Preface of Sunfor His visitation; they Will shine day. Also ,Rev. Armando A. An- out; as sparks run through the nunziato, Rev. Alexander M. stubble. so will they. They shall, MONDAY-Wee k day. Mass Zichello, Rev. Henry R. Canuel, judge nations, rule over peoples, (Choice of Celebrant) , Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, and and the Lord will be their king TUESDAY-St. Fabian, Pope forever. They who trust in Him Rev. John V. Magnani. and St. Sebastian, Soldier, Bishop Gerr:ard was seated in will understand the truth, those Martyrs. OptionaL Red. the sanctuary and his chaplains who are faithful will live with were Rev. William E. Farland Him in love; for grace and mercy WEDNESDAY-St. Agnes, Virand Rev. Louis R. Boivin. await those He. has chosen." gin, Martyr. Memorial. Red. Father Forni was born Feb. 9, (Wisdom 3:1-12) Your Excellencies, brother THURSDAY-St. Vincent, Dea'1911 in Sandwich, the son of the 'Iate Caesar Forni and 'the, late priests and family and friends con, Martyr. Optional. Red. "Anna Consolini Forni. He, at- of Father Forni: tended ' St.' Charles College, Death is always a' test or'our'" Co Necrology Catonsville, Md. and 'studied faith in God: As the Book of philosophy and theology at St. Wisdom says' to us.. ~death·looh' JAN. 27 lVIary'sSeminary, Baitimore. like Ii disaster., To our m~rtal ' Following his ordination on eyes life seems to be ended, and Rev. John T. O'Grady, 1919, June 3, 1939 in St. Mary'S Cathe- we are left with the agony of Assistant, Immaculate Concepdral, Fall River, by the late sorrow and grief. tion, Fall River. ,FIRST DANCE: Hadley lackey dances with his daughter. The world commiserates with Bishop Cassidy, he was assigned Rev. Joseph M. Silvia~ 1955, Susan of the Cathedral Parish, Fall River, foUl'wing her preto Sacred Heart Church, Oak us, notices only the surroundings Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River. Bluffs 'for the Summer months of sorrow, remarks on the tears sentation to the Bishop.• JAN. 28 and then was assigned to Holy and the somber note of the Rosary Church, Fall River. He funeral rite, finally looks' into Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, 1947, remained there until 1949 with the face of the dear departed Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket. three years out when he served one lying in the coffin, and symRt. Rev. Joh,n J. Shay, 1961, as an Army chaplain during pathetically says, "He was a· MissiS$ippi RelogiouSi leaders Set Goal Pastor, St. John Evangelist, AtWorld War II. good man," as if this recogni· tleboro. for State's Public Schools On Sept. 30, 1948, Father tion of one's life is the final Forni was assigned as pastor to wrapping up, the last memory JAN. 29 JACKSON (NC) -'- Mississippi integration," the pastoral, adSt. Francis of Assisi Church, ,of this person. religious leaders, led by Catholic dressed to the state's 82,383 Rev. Christiano J. Borges, New Bedford until his untimely But our faith in the midst of Bishop Joseph' B. Brunini' of Catholics, said. Nor, it said, are 1944, Pastor, St. John the Baptist, death on Wednesday, Jan. 7. the sorrow of .this departure Natchez-jackson, have mounted Catholic schools in competition New Bedford. Father Albert F. Shovelton's cries out that this is not so. Our a major campaign to "make MIS- with the public schools, but enRev. Albert J. Masse, 1950, homily, follows: faith looks beyond what the sissippi's public schools a model" joy an "ever growing degree of /Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro. "The souls of the virtuous are world can see, and even beyond ,of integration for the rest of the cooperation'" with public educain the hands of God; no torment the sympathy that is extended, United States. tion here. ' ·Does A Lot' shall ever touch them. In ,the and cries out,' "This is a good· "All Mississippians should re,Formation of an ad hoc comeyes of th~ unwi~e, t~ey did ap- man. He lives. He is with God." mittee to, organize a Missi,ssippi spond positively and creatively Kindn,ess in words creates con· pear to. die, their gomg looked Our faith cries out "Life is not Conference of Religious Leaders . to the present opportunity to fidence, kindness in thinking cre· I~ke dis~s.ter,. their ,leaving ~s ended, but merely 'changed." was announced jointly by Prot- - make stronger our public school 'ates profoundness, kindness in .'. . , , like anmhilatlOn. But' they 'are 10' . peace. If they experienced pun.F~lth . IS the knowled~e of estant, Catholic and Jewish offi· system," the letter continued. giving creates love. - Lao-Tse ishment, as men see it, 'their thmgs unseen, and,. at .thiS mo- cials on the eve of Supreme "The task of' education is the hope, was rich with immortality; m~?~, ,when our faith IS tested, Court-ordered integration of the most important task facing any people. We can ill afford any slight was their affliction, great as we try to pe.er beyond and public schools. LAMOUREUX The committee was announced 'wasted time in the educational will their blessings be. God has beneath the thmgs that our , earthly eyes can see, we 'declare as civic tension about 'public process. FUNERAL. HOME "Makeshift schools,· hasty that, ,if our faith in Christ is real, schools was rising. Formation of ALBERT J. LAMOUREUX then Father, Forni .lives. We be- a Southern. Nationalist Party, schemes designed to avoid court E.mbalmer - Funeral Director Day of Prayer lieve that just as truly as we opposing the court order, was be- orders and emotiQnal appeals to Tel. 997·9044 ing discussed at a statewide ralthe social patterns of a dead past believe that under the outward Jan. IB--Our Lady of Mount appearance of bread, Christ our .Iy held at Jackson's old City will do nothing but defraud 177 Cove St., Cor. So. Second St. , Carmel, New Bedford. Savior lives upon the altar of Auditorium. young Mississippians of their St. Patrick; Wareham. NEW BEDFORD The announcement by the ad rightful place in tomorrow's the Mass. St. Anthony, Taunton. AMPLE PARKING NON SECTARIAN And this vision that our faith hoc committee, which held its world ,~ ,~ * The task that is ours Jan. 25-Sacred Heart, F a II gives us is the true reality, the first meeting at the chancery is to support this system by River. viewpoint of God Himself Who office here, preceded by one day every means possible. 1 call upon Bishop Stang Convent, came to this earth, and Who the publication of a, strongly- the Catholics of Mississippi to North Dartmouth.' conquered death on the cross, worded pastoral letter, by Bishop exercise a responsible citizenOur Lady of Mercy Conand Who made possible in our Brunini to 105 parishes of the ship in this matter ,;, ,;, ,;,,, 'vent, 'Attleboro. FUNERAL HOME, INC. lives the preaching of the good statewide diocese denouncing "We have an opportunity in R. Marcel Roy - Go LorraIne Roy news of the Gospel, in order that "hasty schemes designed to Mississippi to turn an historic Roger LaFrance we might know that this is avoid court orders" and urging corner a'nd to become pacesetTHE ANCHOR really what life is all about. FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S all Mississippians to "make ters in public education for the Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River,' In this world, we see that life stronger our public school sys- rest of the nation. 15 Irvington Ct. Mass, Published every Thursday at 410 begins with birth and ends with tern." _ "We can either choose to live Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 New Bedford by Ihe Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall death; but by faith, we believe The Catholic school system for the future, or to be buried in River. 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Rites for N'ew Bedford Continued from Page Two that eternal life begins with baptism and never ends. And our faith now demands that we apply this marvel of the love of God for us to our friend and brother priest, Father Forni.
God's Ways Not Ours Which of us can measure the life of a man, especially of a priest of God? Which of us will dare to say that we even begin to understand the value that life has in the eyes of God? Again the world judges in its own way, its newspaper headlines making important certain people, ignoring others, its praises heaped upon those who perform their deeds in what is known as the "public eye." And sometimes, we who are Christians are tempted to do the same, to say this man or this priest was more successsful than another, to use our standards to judge how much praise a man should have. And here again we must remind ourselves that the things unseen' form the great reality for God, that only He can count up the daily acts of selflessness, the constant love in-a man's heart that. makes him care about his God and his people. It is not my purpose here to praise Father Forni, for my words of this moment mean absolutely nothing. to him. I am sure that he looks pityingly on me as I try to explain the wonder of God that he is at this moment experiencing. Father Forni knows how very, very little I can even hint at this. It is my purpose to point out once again that here especially at the time of death, as in everything else in life, God's ways are not ours, and where we see death there is really life everlasting. <:;". S~rvant of God Father Forni is a priest. What is a priest? He is a man, chosetl from among other men, to bring God to these other men, to be the channel through which the life of God washes like a torrent into the people of God. He is a man through whom God is to become present constantly in the world, especially in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the altar, so that through this continuing sacrifice of the Son of God on the cross, men might share in salvation. He is the constant reminder that God has good news for men, that there is a gospel to be preached, and that this gospel is that God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son in order that we might have life and have it more abundantly. A priest is the one through whom God comes, not to nations, not to great anonymous masses of people, not to congregations or communities or conclaves, but to individual people, the lonely "me" in each of us who yearns for the possession of God. If anything sums up the life of a priest, I believe it is this, that he is the servant of God who brings God to the individual soul. • God's Obedient Servant Father Forni came from a small town that could in size and importance, I suppose, be l:ompared with Bethlehem of old. When he began to grow in wisdom and age and grace before God and man, he asked 'of his God only one question: "Lord, what would you have me do?" The answer brought him to the preparatory years of college and seminary until one day 30 years ago, God again sought him, and he answered, "Here I am Lord," and stepped forward in St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained,
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the echo of "What would you 'have me do?" ringing down through the years. Again and again, in his assignments in the diocese and as chaplain in the army, we can hear, "Here I am, Lord. What would you have me do?" And' then for 21 years as pastor of what must be the tiniest church in the diocese, day after day, the life of Father Forni said, "Here I am, Lord. "What would you have me do?" How many thousands of people he has spoken to about Christ during those years, how , many Masses offered, how many Communions given to those hungering for our Lord, how many sins forgiven in the name of God" how many sick consoled in their suffering, cheered in their loneliness, prepared with the presence of Christ for their final journey through death into life, how many affected in the neighborhood and in the city just by the presence' of this man who reflected the presence of God in our lives-it is impossible for us even to imagine. I know that many of the children at St. Mary's Home just one short block away found it easy to approach our Lord in confession because this man of God was there. And then, once more the call of Christ came, and Father Forni said, "Here I am, Lord. What would yu have me do?" And in the twinkling of an eye, as St. Paul describes it, the wonder and the glory burst about him, and he saw the vision of the majesty of God, the faith by which he lived burst into the ecstacy of knowledge and Father Forni, pulsing with love and joy and overwhelming happiness, stepped into eternal life with God. Live by I"aith, At this moment, then, we, who must :still, live by. faith, who must accept" God's word for what lies beyond the few things that appear' so solidly to our eyes, that must peer dimly into the haze of death and wonder what it is really like, we must thank God that He has taken Father Forni to Himself, that this reward has come to one who has .spent a lifetime of giving God to his people. We extend our sympathy to his family, who must bear the full burden of the sorrow of parting. But Father Forni we envy. For he rests in peace with God.
CabinetAppoirt'lltment
Seen Significant!' DUNEDIN (NC) - The first appointment of a Catholic to a cabinet post in the present New Zealand government has a twofold significance. , The new cabinet member is Daniel Riddiford. who hClcS been named by Premier Keith J. :Holyoake as minister of justice. One reason for the importance of the appointment is the fact that Ridiford has been a leading exponent of state aid for private schools in recent years and there is general satisfaction among Catholics that he will now be in a position to argue his case for such aid aJ; cabinet meetings. Secondly, his position in the cabinet, not normally one of major ones, is 'important now because it is the minister of justice who is usually responsible for recommending and framing changes in such' matters as the laws regarding abortion.
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22nd See Adopts Vigil Mass Plan CINCINNATI (NC)-The Cincinnati archdiocese has become the 22nd See in this country to promulgate the privilege of allowing Catholics 'to' fulfill the Sunday Mass obligation by at· .tending Saturday evening Masses. Archbishop Paul ,F. Leibold said the perm;ssion was granted on a five-year experimental basis by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. 'Application for the permission waS made to the congregation by Archbishop Karl J. Alter prior to his retirement last July as head of the archdiocese. The privilege becomes effective Jan. 15 and is applicable also to' the evenings preceeding holydays of obligation. Other Sees whiCh have adopted such programs include: the Boston, Detroit, St. Louis, Portland, Ore., and Denver archdioceses, and the Duluth, Lafayette, La., Fall River, . Madison, New Ulm, Minn., Superior, Manchester, Green Bay, Portland (Maine), Burlingto~, San Angelo, Tex., Wilmington, Pueblo, Davenport~ Albany and Saginaw dioceses.
Catholic Cemetery Workers Strike NEW YORK (NC) Four Catholic cemeteries included in after their presentation to Bishop Connolly are: Frank D. Gon- a citywide gravediggers' strike salves and his doug her Paula of Vinyard Haven, and Paula so far are having no extreme Berube' with her father, Donald Berube of Edgartown. problems, like too many unburied bodies piling up. Each Catholic cemetery has receiving vaults and can take care of many bodies before the situation bf'comes too severe, Turn Talk Into Action Is Objective Msgr. Thomas J. McGovern, diOf Archdioce!ian Progra~, ' , rector of fhe New York 'archdiMINNEAPOLIS (NC)"":"'Can the . mil as'signments were especially ocesan burf'au of information, typical metropolitan resident interesting. One woman in the said. Forty-two nonsectarian, Cathmake a contribution toward al- group fed her family of nin'e on leviation of welfare, education, a weekly welfare budget of $24.- olic, and Jewish cemeteries in employment and housing prob- 50, while others visited welfare, the metropolitan area are aflems? Can concerned citizens be- education and model city of- fected by the strike which began come more than just concerned? ficials to learn more about the Jan. 12. Organizers of the "Communi- concerns of minorities. "The best way to learn is to Action in the '70's" program think it is possible. They feel go out by yourself and get the that through a program of educa- facts-nothing really hits home Sav;~9s tion and attitude change, small until you experience it," said angroups can turn talk into action other participant, Bill Schatzlein and have an impact upon the of .Incarnation parish. Following the six-week proproblems of the cities. Using materials developed by gram, group members working George Nelson Associates, Min- individually have started a food neapolis, the program combines depot for Indians and establishsmall group dynamics, education, ed a list of parishioners willing sensitivity training, and action to purchase food for needy' famprojects with an emphasis on get- ilies. Schlatzein plans to take part ting participants directly involved through individual task assign- as group leader during an upcoming Lenten Communi-Action ments. program which is being co-spon"It is not so crucial that the 'first actions" are sizeable or sored by the archdiocesan urban, worthy of publicity as that they affairs, commission and ~he 'Twin give an experience of bein~ able Cities council of Churches. to effect social change," said Jim ~e. s",re: y;~"r .sG'(ingsare Evans of George Nelson Assomodern '. .. _growing :fast ciates., AnILEBORO'S in amQdcm' bank Earlier ,this year' 250 persons ,le~ding GCllrden ~enter 'like OLD RED BANI( '"7 meeting in 19 parish groups took 'part in the initial pilot project p'aying modern ge~erous of the Communi-Action program ,dividends." .' , under the sponsorship of ,the St. Paul and Minneapolis' archdiocSouth MCllin & Wall Sts. esan Urban Affairs Commission, Save !:?y 'Mail I The mixed media program inFREE ·Mail· Fori-ns ! cluded lectures, discussions, tape 222-0234 recordings, documentary films, quizzes, games and individual asThe signments relating to poverty in the Twin Cities area, Get Facts "As a member of a pilot group Fall River, Savings Bank I found an opportunity to become more aware of my own feelings 141 NO. MAIN and attitudes about these probFALL RIVER lems," said Mrs. Monica Lamp94 TREMONT STREET her, a member of the St. Francis 873 COUNTY TAUNTON, MASS. Cabrini parish social action comSOMER/SET Tel. 822-0621 mittee. Mrs. Lampher said the individ-
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MELBOURNE (NC)-The International Eucharistic Congress tion to its parishioners is to be held in Melbourne in 1973 $10,300. Total tuition received will be known as the "Poor from the parish for the school .Man's Congress." year is, $10,300. Total tuition reArchbishop James R. Knox of ceived from outside the parish is $14,900. Melbourne told the St. Vincent de Paul Society here' that the That adds up to $35,500, idea represented by this desigWith projected exp~nditures nation will underline all phases of $53,250 based on a cost estiof the preparations for the con· mate of $150 per pupil, and an gress and ,the congress itself. income of $35,500, the projected Later at the annual Mass for deficit- is $17,750. the Catholic Deaf Association, Add to the latter ,figure the Archbishop Knox said he feels parish obligation of $10,300 and confident that "if there js a there is the ,sum of $28,050 that three-year term of, spiritual will actually be needed "to make preparation in Melbourne, the ends meet." International Eucharistic Con. Causes of this financial crisis gress to be held in 1973 will are a decrease in religious teachhave a lasting effect." ers and an increase in lay teachRequesting prayers for the ers, and salary increases for relisuccess of the congress, Archgious and lay teachers. bishop Knox said the 39th conSome form of state aid .to gress held in Bogota in 1968 non-public education }s likely in effected a profound ,change in the not-too-distant futur:e. But the Colombian people because 'those in the St. John School of their preparation by the three "family" cannot wait until then,; years of prayer throughout the they are taking constructive accountry. He said they became tion now. deeply concerned about other Twenty-two years ago, in people as a result. 1948, there were 473 religious and only seven lay teachers in the Diocese of Fall River: Those CQth@lic Ch«.llrities figures have steadily declined. Opera Brolfil«:h 'Offi«:e Today the estimated figures (for 1970) are 300 religious (down MASON CITY (NC)-Catholic 173 from 1948) and 257 lay Charities of the Archdiocese of teachers (up by 250 in two Dubuque has announced the decades). . opening of a branch office here "We are encouraged by. the' in Iowa.' response to our pleas;" Sister The opening of the Mason City Mary Eva remarked. "Why, office was described as -another $1,000 was raised even before BUZZARDS SAY PRESENTEE: Thomas. G. Werlzel of St. Mar- step in a plan to decentralize and the letter .went out! garet's Parish, Buzzards Bay presents his daug~ter to Bishop distribute services throughout "This is an indication of the the archdiocese. ' true, Christian spirit' of those Connolly. The Dubuque office, establishfamiliar 'with our situation and ed in 1931, served the entire their desire to' insure quality archdiocese until the addition of Catholic education for their the Waterloo office in 1959 and . - •. ~I :... .' children. , the Cedar Rapids office in 1960, All four offices offer family and "I think it's inspiring the way , , SaY$..Church Doctri~fJ!?',1.!l1s,l?.ir~ S~ai~, ",! individual' counseling, ,services to the parents have responded. 'It-', unwed mothers, and adoption makes us want to try even hardBut Protests Contonue services, er to get this job done. We're so . MADRID (NC)-Spanish Chief "Tumultuous and subversive' appreciative of the support given of State Francisco Franco af- violence is 'unjust, but equally our cause." , Challenge Divorce St. John the Baptist' School is, firmed that his country' is in- unjust is that kind of vio'spired by the moral and· social lence exerted by those who Remarriage Laws in actuality, a regional instituof the ,Church in his' block a more just distribution of tion with 176 families in New doctrines SAN STEFANO (NC) - A New Year's message. But even wealth." Turn to .Page Five as he spoke some Catholics led In the Basque country, pollee group of priests and lay people anti-government protests. are hunting a priest,' one of the' in the Piedmontese section of The country has moved for- protesters against social and Northern Italy has questioned ward' "even amid internal and political conditions there, A the tradition teaching of the external problems," Franco said. military court in Bilbao ordered 'Church on divorce and remar- .. 'Endo'rsing Pope Paul vi's Day the capture of Father Julio Jose riage. They based their argument on ,for World Peace, Spain's ruler Araluce. He is charged with subsaid he "honestly" thinks the version, a term applied to activi- freedom of the individual concountry "is 'doing' all within its' ties of Basque' "separatists" who science and what they called the power to reach internal, peace seek greater reglonal- and eco- "vagueness" with which Christ treated the dissolution of a marwhich the Pope 'calls human and. omic autonomy. riage that no longer exists i~ Christian." ' reality. Meanwhile, Catholics were prominent·.jn protesting general' as well as specific conditions' of IELECTRICAL sod'al injustice and pressing for Contractors recognit}on"of the h~man rights of. political' prisoners. A government communique in Madrid said that police ousted from the parish church of Zumarraga, a town in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, a group of persons staging a sit-in since Dec.' 22. ~4 The group was 'protesting the dismissal of striking workers at ~~4 County St. ~ the Orbegozo metal works plant. New Bedford The workers' had acted against what they called low wages and bad working conditions. , A New Year's statement was issued by the Spanish bishops' committee' on social justice. It called for public cooperation, and the redress of social injustices, as step~ to internal peace in'Spain. "In voicing the demands of Christian peace in Spain," the - statement said, "we wish to remind- all that whenever the 653 Washington Street, Fairhaven PARENTS OF' PUPILS MEET: Rev. Patrick .I. O'Neill, D.Ed., strong oppress the weak, or the diocesan superintendent of schools, addressed parents of stu- weak hate the strong. there is 994·5058 dents at St. John the Baptist School, New Bedford. war, not peace.
Continued from Page One area sending ,355 students to the school, and there were 280 at the meeting. "There's no que'stion but what we have near 100 per cent support in our efforts to help," Sister Mary Eva, R.S.M., school pi'il'\cipal said.' '.The committee. held a I~ter ,meeting, at ,which' .fund raising suggestions were made and dJscussed: "What we~re doing," says Rev. Manuel Ferreira, administrator of St. John the" Baptist Church, "is trying to close the barn door before the h,orse is stolen. , "Letters are: being sent this week' to parents of children in the school in our' parish and out of it", keeping them abreast' .of the'situation." , , Th't'! letter is the result of the parish meeting.. Parents are thanked, for the many suggestions from the floor. Acting on the suggestion of the Legislative Committee, "voluntary contributions" are 'proposed as the means' by which the problem is met. ,. It is conceivable that some will give more than the $50 per pupil needed. ' "In any event, the' solution is of an emergency.nature that is needf?d now," Father Ferreira added. "Long-range plans will . be in the hands of a School Board that will come into existence shortly." The situation at St. John's is ' ever so real; it's· one that will not fade away by trying to forget about it or "brushing it under a rug," There are 355 ,pupils in the nine-grade school;',,60 per-'cent: or 206 from St:- John Parish and' 40 per cent or 149 ,non-parish. At a cost of '$150 per 'pupilthe projected .expenditure for the 1969-1970 school year-is $53,250. Income for the school year is broken down to $100 per pupil, $50 paid by the parents and $50 , by the parish from whieh the pupil comes. St. John Parish tuition obliga-
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With the full approval of His Excellency, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, the Senate of Priests of the Diocese of Fall River, announced the establishment of a mediation and arbitration board in the Diocese to conciliate differences that may arise between priests, religious and/or laity. The "Due Process" arrange-' ment will safeguard the rights of all and guarantee equity in implementing justice for all. The Board will consist of nine members (four priests, two religious sisters, two. members of the laity and one religious brother). His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop indicated he would appoint two priests and one member of the laity within the mQnth. The Senate will also appoint two priests and a member of the laity and the Religious will select the corresponding members of their own. The Senate Committee on Priestly Renewal, headed by Msgr. Henri Hamel,' was also officially recognized by the Bishop to arrange the Spring and Autumn Clergy Conferences. In reference to the Clergy Pension Plan, the Bishop has stated that he would welcome all recommendations of priests concerning the plan and that they .should be sent to him in writing. The Senate of Priests established a Committee to Study Pre-Retirement and Retirement
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Continued from' Page Four Bedford, 17 in South Dartmouth, 16 North Dartmouth, six Fairhaven, two Westport and one Acushnet. .' There are also seven to nine non-Catholic pupils in the school. The Legislative Committee comprises Hal Carpenter, chairman (non-parish); Joseph Vera (parish) Edward Costa (parish), Arnold Conde '(parish), Mrs. Celestino Macedo (parish), Mrs. John Tierney (non-parish), Mrs. William Brady (non-parish), Mrs. George St. Aubin (non-parish), Sister Mary Eva and Father Ferreira. They know full well the critical situation at St. John's and the need for public. aid to nonpublic education. One only has to loolt at the projected cost to cities if all Catholic schools closed: An addition per $1,000 assessed valuation of $65.4 Acushnet, 6.4 Attleboro, 13.8 Dartmouth, 34.5 Fairhaven, 46.2 Fall River, 25.5 New Bedford, 24.8 North Attleboro, 9.2 Somerset, 34.6 Swansea, 39.7 Taunton and 26.9 Westport. The situation at St. John the Baptist is the story of one parish doing something about its own problems. "The answer to our problems lies mainly in our group or parish,''- says committee chairman Carpenter. In passing it is noteworthy that the School Board of St. Lawrence Church meets tonight in the St. John the Baptist School hall. Father O'Neill will speak on state aid for non-public school education. St. Lawrence has two schools in its parish, Holy Family Grammar School and Holy Family High School. The superintendent's "crusade" to better inform parishioners in the Diocese of Fall River of the critical situation in Catholic education and the need for state aid continues to move forward.
Programs for the Clergy. It was thought that various options and programs in regard to the life-style of retired priests should be arranged so that their ministry and professional expertise would continue as an effective mannel' and not be lost' to the people of the Diocese. Liturgy Plan In regard to proposed liturgical changes that are soon to be introduced in the United States, the Senate expressed real concern for a serious catechesis for the. people previous to the new rites. It also sought a gradual implementation of those changes already allowed and deanery programs ·to teach the basic changes, so that full implementation could take place by March 22nd. The Senate also urged that the Diocesan Liturgical Commission be updated and activated so that effective leadership could be more easily given to all in the Diocese. The Senate also unanimously asked the Bishop to abolish the programmed list of parish days of prayer and adopt one particular Day of Prayer for all parishes at the same time, e.g., the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. A motion was also introduced and passed thanking Rev. Edward J. Mitchell for his services to the Senate and wishing him success in his new endeavors. His resignation was accepted with regret ~md Rev. Armando Annunziato was chosen to occupy the vacant seat on the Senate. The Senate also agreed to continue to seek financial support of the clergy for membership in the National Federation of Priests' Council. Failing this, the Senate concluded that it would have to accept suspension from . the national organization. The next -meeting of the Senate will be held Friday, Feb. 13 at 1:30 in the afternoon at the Catholic Memorial Home.
Voices Satisfaction Over Desegregation JACKSON (NC)-Mississippi's first tense week of .court-ordered desegregation ended on an optimistic note here. Justice Department, civic and religious leaders were hopeful that the transition of 30 districts to unitary systems will be accomplished without major clashes by Feb. 1. "The attendance is pretty· good and most of the kids are going to schools," reported Frank Dunbaugh, deputy assistant U.·S. Attorney General with the Justice Department's civil rights division. The department was "satisfied," he said, that local school boards were living up to the Supreme Court's Oct. 29 order to desegregate on an "immediate" basis rather than operate on a "freedom of choice" plan.
Aims to Protect Young from Smut TRENTON (NC) - The state commission examining the obscenity problem may recommend laws governing sale, purchase and showing of smutty printed and filmed material to abandoned in favor of legislation to protect the young from such matter. This was indicated by Assemblyman William E. Schluter of Mercer County at the conclusion of a series' of public hearings. Schluter heads the study panel authorized by the legislature a year ago.
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AUGUSTA (NC)-As a result of suggestions from a unit of the Portland diocese's human relations bureau, Gov. Kenneth C. Curtis of Maine has established a "people-to-people" tribal program to help solve problems of the state's Indian population. The organization for the program was arranged through Louis Doyle of the division of Indian service in the diocesan human relations bureau. Gov. Curtis emphasized that the program is not intended as a state-operated organization, "but strictly a· citizens group that will enlist the support of Maine citizens anxious to help our Indian population." Doyle said the successful people-to-people relationship between Maine and the state of Rio Grande del Norte in Brazil in the Alliance for Progress program will serve as a model for the state's new Indian aid venture.
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AT THE BISHOP'S BOX: Catherine Fernandes with her father John Fernandes of Our lady of lourdes Parish, Taunton, enjoy a comment made while at the Bishop'c; box during the presentation ceremonies.
Greatest Act· Nigerian UN Diplomat Hails F'ope John's Encyclical, 'Pacem in Terris' NEW YORK (NC)-A Nigerian diplomat, now a United Nations institute director; believes "the greatest act of reconciliation in the Christian community was Pacem in Terris," the 1963 encyclical on peace of Pope John. Chief S.O. Adebo, executive director of the UN Institute for Training and Research, speaking on the Christian concept of reconciliation at a special program commemorating World Peace Day proclaimed by Pope Paul, asserted:
Bishop Retires OTTAWA (NC)-The resignation for reasons of health and age of Bishop Michael O'Reilly, 75, of St. George's Nfld., has been accepted by Pope Paul VI.
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"I am an Anglican but Pope John was my Pope, too." Recalling his early life when one-third of his family was Christian, one-third Moslem and onethird pagan, Chief Adebo stressed the impact made by Pope John's simple statement, "We are all brothers." As for the present theme, Chief Adebo, who won renown in the mid-1960s for his diplomacy as Nigerian representative to the UN, says Pope Paul's proclamation setting forth the theme of this year's World Day of Peace "confirmed" all he believes not only of the Christian tradition of the means to peace,. but how peace can be achieved by people whether or not they are Christians.
VATICAN . CITY (NC)-Holiday crowds in St. Peter's Square were treated to an extra bonus as Pope Paul VI drove around the square in a small motorcade just prior to his Angelus talk at noon. In Spring-like weather and under blue skies, Pope Paul stood in his "slide-top" black limousine to acknowledge. the cheers of a noisy crowd as his car and two others drove through the piazza and into the Vatican gardens. The Pope was on his way to visit a new addition to the College of St. Peter the Apostle, founded in 1947 primarily to house missionary students from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Latin America.
Seminary in Phase Of Restructuring BRIGHTON (NC) - Catholic seminaries in the United States are entering a "phase of restructuring" and there is a "healthy return to formal prayer" among seminarians, it was reported at a meeting here. The Eastern Regional Conference of Seminary Spiritual Directors and a group of seminary rectors met at St. John's Seminary here to review progress made in implementing the Interim Guidelines for Seminaries issued earlier by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops;
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Plan Testimonial For Coyle ,Team. A testimonial banquet to acknOWledge achievements of the Coyle High School Warrior football squad who had completed the past season as city champions, co-champions· of Bristol County, as well as state class C co-champions., has been set for Sunday, March l. Groups have been appointed to look into possible locations, invited guests, speakers, caterers etc. These details will be finalized in the very near future. The committee comprises of the following: fYlr. & Mrs. William Drummond, Mr. & Mrs. John O'Connell, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phillipino, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Quinn, Mr. & Mrs. Alec Rich, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Tosti, Jr. Also, Mrs. Thomas Grandfield, Mrs.. Robert Leonard, 'Mrs. Alexander Trzcinski, Mrs. Benjamin Valdes. Chester Bator.' Al Bezner, Charles Boffetti, William Cahill, James Curley, Walter Dermody. Andrew Dooley, Vincent Laffan, Joseph McManus, Edward Mulvey, Charles Sault. Paul Silva, William Waldron, Donald Wilbur. Also Brother Armand Latterell and Matthew Skwarto, chairman.
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The thirty-month attempt by the Ibo tribesmen in Nigeria's Biafranprovince to break away from the central government has ended: The entire world waits fearfully , to see if the fear of mass slaughter and reprisal will be put to rest by the words of amnesty offered by the leade~s of Nigeria. While exact numbers will never be known It seems that two million persons have died in the brutal 'conflict, 'most from starvation. The efforts of various religious-sp9~sored rel.ief flights to bring food a~d medicine into Biafra is a great if sad page in the history of protherhood and, conc~rn. .
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The one would be the attitude that sees'iittle good coming out of attempts to discuss varying religious points of view and attempts to work together in areas where this can be done without compromise of conscienceS. . Such an attitude would be an admission that' unity was not possible or-worse--desired. The other error would be th;attitude that sees little or no differences among religions. This would not be . brotherhood but compromise of principles. Such an attitUde would be a denial of what one holds to be truth. ,
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With the end of the Nigerian wa~ it cannot be said that the world is a brighter place-just less dark.
The week of prayer for unity is the realization among men of good will that God is Fatper of all. It is the awareness that while there may be serious differences in beliefs among the various religious persuasions, there are many areas where there can and must be common work and efforts. No one is being asked to surrender what he holds to be God-given truth. But he is being asked to accept the reality that while brothers may differ in essential matters they still- remember that they are brothers, having much in common as well as areas of difference.
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The leaders of nation and state-as well as the entire scientific cor;nmunity-have sounded the cry of this new decade. It is the sincere belief of these men that we must in the next 10 years, preserve and purify our environ~ent or we shall be nature for its own inevitable one way road to our own personal , , doomed to an abyss of pol- assassination. lution and corruption. Either The belching smoke of induswe clean up our earth or we trial plants, the streams of polluwill be buried in our own debris. It really is that serious.
We have been destroying our natural environment for the sake of the dollar for years. The balance of nature has been destroyed by the bank balance. We can truly state, in many ways, that our human progress is but the plaything of the war lords of uncontrolled progress. . . Man has been pushed into a psychological state of continued material growth and expan· sion which now begins to cry to
tion from the factories and the fumes of hungry engines have set us on a course of self destruction. Unplanned urban sprawl, webs of concrete roads, asphalt jungles of shopping· plazas have uprooted the natural process of evolution of man and his environment. We must heed the words of the concerned -and begin to act that we might reverse this trend and attempt to purify our world. It can be done if each man becomes concerned and involved.
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The sad fact of this serious problem is that most men. could care less. , The rather feeble attempts to' explain to the ordinary person the gravity of the situation has been couched in such scientific jargon that only specialist would know what actually is happening. Only when his eyes sweep from smog or his lungs choke from smoke does a man begin to realize that something is wrong. The citizens of this planet must be made aware of the tremendous challenge to their survival in concepts that have meaning for each man. A concentrated effort on the part of 1 the public news media must be undertaken, in' simple and'direct fashion, to reach each
the play thing of the war lords erator of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses, has been named spiritual director and Miss Helen Shove has been named general chairman of arrangements for a New England Regional Conference of Nurses to be held next October in Hyannis. Tentative conference plans were made by directors of the Diocesan Council at a meeting presided over by Mrs. Collotta V. Robinson, Attleboro, council president. ' Another meeting is scheduled for 8 Tuesday night, Jan. 20 at the home of Miss Shove, 55 Grant Street, -Taunton.
EpiscopaHans Use Catholic .Church STANDISH (NC)-An Episcopal deacon has been ordained to the priesthood in a Roman Catholic church here, by Michigan's Episcopal Bishop Richard S. Emrich. Deacon Donald Wilson, vicar of Grace Episcopal church here and St. Thomas church in nearby Omer, was ordained in St. Florian Church here in Michigan. St. Florian pastor, Father Sigmund J. Haremski, permitted use of his parish church building for the service because n.either the Standish nor Omer Episcopal church is large· enough to accom· modate Father Wilson's relatives and friends for the ordination rites.
citizen. Public agencies must be given the funds they need to Heart Complexion do this. Money must be spent All our actions take their hue here on earth. What good will it do if we .from the complexion of the heart, reach the planet Mars and have as landscapes their variety from light. -Bacon no home to return to? Sincere and honest legislative """"t1II,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"t1"""""'< .up"",,,,,,,,. ",mltllll"""""""'Ulllllllll"II"'''' controls must be enforced while we are undertaking this process to destroy the multitude. This' of education. The industrialist, must cease! It is up to our dedthe contractor and the manufac- icated elected public officials to turer must not receive govern- see that it is stopped. mental exceptions for the sake Let's not kid ourselves. of mere profit. We must act now......;,in the next At the present time, there are Congressional session-if we arc many statutes and laws to en- • going to survive. force anti·pollution efforts. They The time for debate and ritual seem to have had little effect postponements has passed. because too many with too much We must stop polluting God's influence' have received privi- good earth in the '70s if we leged exemptions. We seem to want water, air and land in the be favoring a few as we continue '80s.
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Hope Canonization of Martyrs Will Contribute to Ecumenism LONDON (NC)-A joint working group of Catholics and representatives of the 'British Council of Churches (BCC) has voiced the hope that the reported impending canonizations of the 40 Catholic martyrs of England and Wale~ will contribute to a greater ecumenical commitment by all Christians. The statement followed expressions of concern from some Anglicans, including Archbishop Michael ~amsey of Canterbury, that the canonization of the 40 martyrs will hamper the ecumenical movement. A s;lokesman for Archbishop Ramsey, however, explained that although the archbishop will regret the canonization, he will not "go on complaining about it." A press officer of the archbishop said that "the last thing he wants to do is to impair the ecumenical spirit," The Catholic-BCC working group, which has 17 BCC and 10 Catholics members; said that it "hopes that, even if the different confessions are not in full agreement as to how it is right or best to honor the martyrs of their own or other traditions, yet the proposed canonizations will be carried out and publicized in an ecumenical manner and spirit,' and that every effort will be made by all Christians to see that the canonization and subsequent veneration do not lead to the revival of strife and bitterness, but, on the contrary, contribute to a greater ecumenical commitment by all," Exe::ute:l as Traitors The statement expressed satisfaction that "today Church relations have improved and that all communions, acknQwledge the martyr traditio,lJ as. one which all have shared and from which they may draw strength, even across denominatiomil boundaries." Many in this country believe that Pope Paul VI will canonize the 40 martyrs in 1970. The 40 English and Welsh men and women have already been beatified from among some 357 known to have died for their faith in the 16th and 17th centuries during the times of Protestant persecution. They were executed as traito:,s for maintaining their loyalty to the papacy when this country had broken away from the Roman Church and set up a state Anglican Church of its own. Archbishop Ramsey's press officer -!llso said: "I believe our understanding of saints is very different from that of the Roman Catholics. In the Church of England saints are regarded as examples of holiness rather than as intermediaries." Help Move:nent A Catholic· spokesman in ,London said the Church here does not believe the canoniza, tion of the martyrs "will reopen old wounds." "It is recognizing
Stay With Rome NOORDWIJKERHOUT (NC)Laymen as well as bishops at the Dutch National Pastoral Council here stressed that they do not want to break, their bonds with the Pope and the universal Church. Speaking on behalf of diocesan delegations during a discussion. on the priestly ministry, a layman, Willem H. Chamuleau, declared: "We absolutely ,do not want any rupture of our bonds with the Holy Father, with Rome, or with the universal Church."
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that men do die for their be. . liefs," he said. . "Of course, everyone on both sides regrets that martyrdom VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope should have been necessary. Paul VI has named Leo Cardinal Certainly Catholics would not Suenens of Malines-Brussels, wis~ to do anything to ~etard Belgium, president of the permathe ecumenical movement. nent committee for international "There is very reason to beMariological and Marian conlieve that canonization would gresses. help the movement." Among the new members The 40 martyrs include such named to the committee is Bishwell known persons as the Jes', op Andrew G. Grlitka of -Gary, uit Father Edmund Campion, Ind. scholar and missionary; Robert The' Belgian. cardinal replaces Southwell, a poet; Philip Earl John .Cardinal Wright, former of Arundel who gave up the bishop of Pittsburgh, who held court to return to the Church the post for ,a year and relinafter hearing' Campion preach; quished it because of his apJohn Southworth, most of whose pointment as prefect of the mutilated remains hidden under Congregation for the Clergy. a silver m'ask and priestly robes Cardinal Wright sent a letter of in one' of fhe most dramatic' congratulations to his successor and emotional shrines in Lonand pledged full support for tile don's Westminister cathedral; committee's projects. and Margaret Clitheroe, who Cardinal Suenens, whose pubsuffered the unusual penalty lic criticisms of the style of , of being pressed to death under papal government and of the a board for refusing to plead system of papal nuncios has at her trial for sheltering priests, aroused outspoken indignation, because she did not wish to inwas Pope Paul's personal choice volve the jury in her death. for the presidency of the comPhilip Evans, a Welshman, was playing tennis in jail when mittee. The committee was created by told he must die in three days' order of Pope John XXIII in time. He finished his game. 1959. Its rrincipal work is to Cautious Pace organize international conFirst step in the canonization gresses on the theology of the of the 40 was formally accompMother of God and on devotion lished in 1929 when they were to her. The next cO,ngress is beatified. Only two martyrs of scheduled for 1971, and is exthe Reformation here have so pected to be held in Zagreb, far been canonized, St. Thomas' Yugoslavia. More, chancellor of England and BISHOP AND CO-CHAIRMEN: The 15th Annual Bishop's the greatest English personality Charity Ball, commemorating Bishop Connolly's 25th year as a Mingleq Benevolence of his time, and St. John Fisher, member of the Episcopate, had as co-chairmen, Edouard W. To act from pure benevolence Bishop of Rochester. Lacroix of Swansea, left, pre.ident cf the, Fall River Particular is not possible for finite beings. The cause of the other mar, Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Mrs. Charles Human benevolence is mingled tyrs has taken its usual slow and cautious pace 'with both . Landry of Attleboro, president. of· the Diocesan Council of with vanity, interest or some other motive. -Johnson the situation at the time of mar- Catholic Women. tyrdom and at the present day obviously being taken into account. John Cardinal Heenan of Westminister recently urged the Vatican to canonize the martyrs as defenders of freedom of conC@littinuOU3 science and of the authority of CResllling the papacy at a time when both are under servere attack.
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The conference is composed of the bishops and officials of five Sees in the state. The critical financial situation facing Catholic' scho,ols was cited as the chief reason for the likely closings. Charles M. Phillips, conference executive secretary, said three high schools and 38 elementary schools prob· ably would close, but added he could not say at this time which schools would close.
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D~dham·'.and Boston. The, children were fascinated and our two hour stay was- well worth,the effort. The Child-· Hates Cats? .' . b This guardianship doesn't enren'sMul)e~m is .ased on tail an awful· lot of work but it the premise" that children does seem a bit funny as I watch
should touch things to enjoy my husband (a man who states them, therefore. almost every· quite often and loudly that .he thing in t~e place is meant to dosen't like animals) refuse to go be touched, ,manipulated, 'and to· bed until· Snowball is' safely handled to'. the heart's· content. in the house, worry if some dog Phillips estimated that some Meryl.. our W year old, was par.: i:> chasing her( generally she's 13,200 students would be affect· ticularly fascinated by some com- chasing some dog) and all in all ed by the proposed closings, puters which the children are· seem more concerned about the 8,000 in the Milwaukee archdi· a1l9"Y.ed t9 ~p'er~t~.,· " children't pet than the children. ocese alone. The other dioceses , ,¥elissa went, wH~ .over: a ~ec·,· . -Looking back on the pets that in the state are Green Bay, La tion; ~ealing :with' moyie·m!lking I had as a child (there' was a dog Crosse, Madison and Superior. in ;which !l~.e, c!lildJ,"en. draw. series . that thought he was the local inof pictures which ate spun to cinerator and ate everything in give them the' 'appearance of sight and a cat named Tara that Curia Official Praises movement and continuity. Jason b.ecame my mother's best friend), was ,enthralled 'with everything. I realize.,that mYi'pets were real· English-Speaking Nuns and left only after a second trip ly, taken' care of, by ,my mother, VATICAN CITY (NC)-In high· through the Indian 'wigwam, the: and ·father, so I gl,less Joe, and, '. Iy laudatory terms, a ranking of"Land. of .,the Giants" desk set I .are just continuing the cycle.. ficial of the Roman Curia (the and' fasciml.tlng,section;on,ml. . Every parent Italk' t.o has the' Church's central administrative croscope!?: ,; ,~-",' '" . ' . same complaint-the childr~n' body) praised the contribution of , '.,., College"Aides:' l ' ': beg for a pet"ttley jU,sf can't.' the English-speaking nuns to the ,We, would' definitely-tecorri~ live without a'dog;"or '8. cat'or INTERMISSION is USED FOR ViSITING: During the inter· faith in lands around the world, mend the Children's Museum for. a bird, and they take every op· children under 10 and especially portunity to tell you- about all mission at the Bishop's Ball, the common pract;ce was visiting Addressing the Association' of the kind parents of their friends friends at ·the vari9ul; boxes. Gathered at one spot, are: Mr. English·speaking councillors in , f'or t h e very young, say 3 to 6 who allow s,aid friends to 'have'and Mrs.' Edward Semas of Taunton and Mr. ond Mrs. Gilbert Rome, Father Edward L. Heston, years old, Space does not allow . . a full description' of the avail. as many anim'als' as they want. Perry of Somerset chat with Stephen Perry of Somerset and Miss C.S.C., secretary of the Congre· able experiences for children, but (Personally I think these parents Debbie Brie of Dartmouth. gation for Religious, traced the ' suffice it to say that there should are myths kept alive by smart history of the sisterhoods in An· be enough to satisfy any child. children), ' '" glo-Saxon cultures and attributed d The' museum 'is not overly large You Get Hoo!<e , ': to these nuns "relentless enthubut there is enough to keep 'a' Firyally you relent _(after all, s!~sm,a profounc;l spir.it of honest; ~ '.: '"~ ",f'T .. l> . .; "," : .' ~ -" ~'" child busy and the variety of who ;ilmong 'us "has "ll Mart' 'of and, (referring, to, modern, times) P.ope Paul ?ends Blessing' to NCCW -, ~,., , tlleir thi,qgs.to. !fo !~ ,~ufficient to war. stone?) and find yourself load· geilerousirivolvement' injth~ J' r;' . ...... .' .:., 11; r~rt .a ,trip.... • inp; up (your supermarket tiaskeC essential t.ask - of renewal and .. "Jor 50th Anniverso'ry We paid $4.75 for ,admission, with t'\¥o weeks' supply of cat adaptation... which included 'my wife and me food (this takes one basket, so WASHINGTON (NC) ...;... Pope tion by women in the various Sister Joan Bland of the Sis· and the three children. We were you either forget about your own Paul VI has sent his congratula- fields of the Church's apostolate. ters of Notre Dame de Namur told it is advisable to call in ad. groceries or learn to maneuver tions to the ,National Council of "We recognize your work for vance for a reservation and so two supermarket carriages) fill· Catholic Women on the 50th an· the family, for safeguarding told NC News Service that the majority of nuns-councillors who we did call. and were assured en. ing your refrig with half·empty niversary of its foundation. Christian motherhood, for aiding form the Roman Association are trance, At -each stop, in the muse. cans of smelly food that said In a letter to Margaret Mealey, ~ parents to form their Christian American or represent American um we were greeted by charming feline. doesn't like, and even NCCW executive director, the conscience in the light of the communities. college age boys and girls who cleaning up the little accidents Pope recalled that 200 women Church's magisterium (teaching She noted that the association enticed the children into partici. that do happen every now and were' present at its first meeting authority), and prepare for'their pating in their particular activity, then, even though the kennel half ..a century ago. He added: vital task of educating youth," . has been in existence for about two years and one of its major For instance, Jason. was fasci. has assured you thatI)o animal "today millions, in many thou· the Pope wrote. ' t nated'by the Indianwig~am ami leayes.their portals Ilnhousebrok- sands of wome'1's groups frQm efforts has been to keep the Con· ' Lauds Miss Mealey gregation for Religious informed spent ten minutesgiinding corn, eT). '" coast _to coast of, your great "We salute your untiring ser. hC'llowing a 'log and trying on However, the worse part of of activities and problems in convarious Indian. clothes. The girl the pet syndrome is that the country, participate in your pro- vice to the national community, vents under their superivision. and your collaboration with in attendance at the wigwam adults in the family are' the ones grams. "This numerical growth is women of other faiths in the went, out of her way to involve who lose their hearts to 'the four·, him in 'the' various activities, legged" friends and spEmd their both the sign and· the fruit of struggle against poverty, in the which . left us· free' 'to involve pre·bed hours running frQm door your spiritual motivation and cause of social justice," he con· ' , the girls in something else.·A to door or walking out in all far-sighted undertakings, in gen· tinued.· The Pope commended the great time was had by all and kinds of weather to make sure erous and loyal. collaboration with the pastors of "the Church." NCC~'s efforts in promoting I am s~re the children learned a. their pets' are comfortable. ~ ireat.deal; certaiT)ly their parents For the nights when you get a Pope Paul pr~ised NCCW moting international peace. did. ' . . . chill from chasing' the cat .or leaders for their foresight in In special recognition of Miss I~':the' Kitchen ' - just braving the wintery New.En- understanding and' practicing Mealey, the Pope expressed his WYman "Here, Snowball. nice kitten."· gland weather. this soup recipe what Vatican Council II was gratitude. He wrote: "For' 20 is a r~lll deep down warmer. later to affirm-wider participa- years you have lived at the heart 3·6592 ,.. Tho~e .intelligent remarks were of this great enterprise" giving being uttered, by me _,as' I stood Asso~rda or ~idney Bean Soup CHARLES F. VARGAS te"chetics Ma' nu-I' it both continuity and dynamism, Y2 pound dried red' kidney' freezing on, the back steps call. Ca .... sharing inspi,ration and vitality ,in~ the family <;at. The time was beans, ' 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE TAIPEI (NC)-Did Confucius with your fellow·workers, forg1,:30, in the .morning and as, the lard NEW BEDFORD, MASS. believe in God? 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Need R'ugged,n,ess Above All In Snow Styl,es for Young
Queries Attitude T award Di~arce
By Marilyn Roderick
WASHINGTON (NC)-Moves to work out a plan for the reunification of Ireland are leading to fresh questioning of the Irish Republic's stringent attitude toward divorce and birth control and may' eventually lead to a full-scale revision of the country's 1937 constitution, which explicitly forbids the enactment of divorce legislation. The attitude of the Irish Republic (the south) on these matters, and the section in the constitution that recognizes the "special position" of the Catholic Church, have often been cited by Protestants in Northern Ireland as evidence for alleged domination of the Republic's government by the Church. Their suspicions are embodied in the old slogan, "Home Rule Is Rome Rule," which is still a rallying cry for opponents of reunification plans.
Boots, boots, boots, everywhere you turn, there are boots or ski pants drying. This is one of the hazards of being a parent in New England and evidently one of the discomforts that we will have to live with unless we decide to move to some southern state where snow is some- pre-primary teacher in my buildconfessed that she didn't like thing they spray on the ar- ing this one-piece type of outfit betificial trees to make them cause' she often found that
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PLAN I'Il,EW ENGLAND NURSES CONVENTION: Preparing plans for the convention of Councils of Catholic Nurses from thrcughout New England that will be held in Oct. in Hyannis, are. front: Mrs. Collc路fta V. Robinson of Attleboro. president of the diocesan organization gnd Mrs. Thomas J. Fleming of Fall River, corre~pondng secretary. Standing: Miss Helen E. Shove of Taunton. director and past president: Mis~ Ruth E. Hurley of Fall River, president of the Foil Rver G,uild of Catholic Nurses.
Missio,ner 26 Years . Fr. Blockinger Last American Capuchin To Leave Red China ~YDNEY (NC)-The last U. S. Capuchin to leave Red China, Father Rudolf Blockinger, O.F.M. Cap., died at St. Fiacre's Friary in suburban Leichhardt here in Australia at the age of 83.
Father 'Blockinger served in Australia as a professor at the Capuchin seminary in Plimpton, New South Wales, and as pastor at Leichhardt.
Father Blockinger, a native of Wheeling, W. Va., was expelled by the Chinese communists in 1952 on "spy" charges. He was then assigned to the Capuchin community in Australia and remained here until his death.
Assembly Fails to Act "'On School Aid Bill
Father Blackinger was professed !IS a Capuchin in 1908 and ordained in 1914. He was sent to China in 1922 and served as a missionary there for 26 years. The largest hospital in northern China was under Father Blockinger's care when the Reds descended upon it. Because he was a non-citizen of China they made him owner of all the mission goods there. He continued in this status for. six years until the communists decided to try him on spy charges. He himself opened the gates of the mission compound to the Reds and they promptly arrested him. He was tried and found guilty. The death sentence imposed on him was later commuted to expulsion because he was a U. S. citizen, -
TRENTON (NC) - The New Jersey State Assembly adjourned for the year here without taking taking action on a general school aid measure which had been an issue in the New Jersey gubernatorial election campaign. While there was no move to pry the bill out of committee, Assemblyman Richard Vander Plaat of Bergen County, sponsor of the measure, said he would introduce it again when the new legislature takes office in January. That legislature will sit for two years in contrast to the current one-year sessions. Vander Plaat's bill, which was endorsed by Governor-elect William Cahill, would have provided direct payments for the education of children attending nonpublic schools. Payments would . have been based on the existing state school-aid formula under which the state makes a minimum payment to each public school district for each student enrolled.
Oppose Guilt Concept In Divorce Laws BONN (NC)-Amid discussions concerning possible reform of this country's divorce laws the German Protestant church council has issued a memorandum expressing opposition to the principle of assigning "guilt" in any legislation on divorce. The memorandum says that divorce should be viewed for what is is, namely, "the consequence of a failure of the marriage community in which both partners' are inescapably involved.'; The statement declares that it should not be necessary to file a suit for divorce but only to submit a request to the court for the beginning of divorce proceedings. Divorce should be available, the momorandum contends, "if those involved are more harmed in their human existence in the maintenance of a marriage than by divorce." However, the memorandum stresses the need for a clause in divorce legislation that will deny divorce if it will impose .undue hardship on the partner who wishes to continue the marriage.
'Sisters' of St. Joseph .Elect New President CONCORDIA (NC) - Sister Cristella Buser, 45, has been elected president of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Salina here in Kansas. She succeeds Sister Therese Marie Stafford, who died last September. Sister Christella, who joined the congregation in 1947 and since 1965 had been assistant to Sister Therese Marie, is the seventh head of the 600-member community which serves in two archdioceses and eight dioceses in this country. Bishop Cyril' J. Vogel of Salina presided at the election.
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Urges Catholics Ob.serve Church Unity Week
Urge Cathol ics Heal Wounds
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In Nation. WASHINGTON (NC)'As the nation enters upon the new decade "immorality is becoming more the rule
WASHINGtON (NC) The country's Catholics were urged. to join with other 'Christians "in. the holy task
than the exception. This is a warning sounded by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who called of restoring the unity of'the folupon every American '~to hold : . lowers of the Lord," the line on decency." The' call ~as'issued by the Na'. J. Edgar Hoover reached the tional Conference of Catholic age of 75' years on New Year's Bishop~ in 'heralding the 1970 Day, and in a traditional mesobservance of 'the' Week of sage to readers of the FBI Law Prayer for Christian' Unity from Enforcement Bulletin said that Jan. 18 to 25. in the face of today's complex Acting through its Committee conditions. "many citizens are for Ecumenical and Interreligious practically' moral cowards." Affairs, the NCCB reminded that Hoover has been the object of the Second' Vatican Council attacks, from some quarters in mapped 'four major routes on the recent years, and these seemed . path toward unity; .They are: to step up on the occasion of his "Through the :work of dialogue 75th birthday. There were news whereby everyone gains a truer reports and comments noting his knowledge and more just, appreage and observing that he had ciation of the religious life of the headed the FBI for 45 years, the different Christian communions. , ADULT EDUCATION: lawrence oldest head of a federal agency ','Through cooperation between (osoncy is director of Adult' in the capital. There were hints Christians' in the duties demand- Educati()n of the Department of he. should step down. ed by the Christian conscience Education, usec. NC Photo. Reviews Activities for, thecommqn good of humanBut Hoover seems to continue . . ity.. to be highly popular inadminis"Through undertaking ·with trative and congressional circles vigor. that task of t:enewal and here, and with a great majority reform of. whicft the Church is of people throughout the counlilway~ in - need and without COCHIN (NC) - An Indian try. His popularity with conwhich there can be. no ecumencardinal' paid tribute to "the an. gressmen has been said to reflect i!?m' worthy of the name," cient religion of India" in a his popularity with their constitSees Progress The NCCB said since the Sec- speech here praising a Hindu uents back home. The director's message to· all ono Vatican Council's Decree on' monk 'as 'a symbol of the vitality FBI agents coincided with the 'Ecumenism was issued five . of his faith. The age-long treasures of Hin- appearance of a regular yearyears ago, great strides have duism can be classed a.mong the end review of FBI activities. been made in the' work toward richest heritages of mankind, Among things dealt with 'in the Christian unity. "In all this our goal remains , said Joseph Cardinal Parecattil report were "extremist" .and that voiced in the Decree on of the Syro-Malabar rite archdi- "hate type organizations";, at. I . ta<;~s on,ppl.ice officElrs; "an allEcumenism, namely, that I'ittle ocese of Ernakulam. He spoke at, a reception for time high l of 'nearly, 6,000· cases" by little, 'as the obstacles'to perfect.'1 I ~cclesiastical ,communion Swami Rangari'athanandaji,~'who concerned with criminal violaare overcome, all Christian~ will 'returned'to .Indiir from Ii lecture ;'tion "of;c'ivil 'righ'ts ··an'i:I';more be gathered in Ii common cele- .tour of the United States,' Can- than. 13,000 convicti~ns obtained in FBI cases. bration of "the Eucharist in that ada and the 'Far East. In a section dealing with "per· For 5,000 years, said the carunity which from the beginning Christ has willed for His dinal, India has lived on a con. sons found to be deliberately Church," the NCCBstatement 'tinuous traditjOll of religion. avoiding' military' service," the , Some other religions of the past report pointed to 1,000 federal said. A visibly "united 'Church in have disappeared, he said, but convictions of such persons, the future will need those insti- the religion of India has under- 1,200 fugitives located, and an tutions and structures which gone a "continuous evolution" additional 15,000 "individuals can best 's,erve the Christian peo- and still' remains as one of the who had deserted from the military" who were located "and ple in _the expression' and con- great living faiths of mankind. The cardinal said' some of the returned to their respective tinuation of their life together," 'prayers recited by Hindus" can branches of service." . th~ bishops said. . not leave a Christian .unmoved. Questions for Americans "In Hindu asceticism, in the , The director's message in the Urge~ India Bishops techniques' of 'mental concentra- 'bureau's bulletin. observed that tion found in the Y9ga tradition, for. some years "our citizens Retain Authority' in the living example given"by . .COCHIN (NC)-:-Valerian. Car- millions of pilgrims' and sannY· have been' barraged with un-' vulgarity, obscenity, dinal Gracias of B'ombay has ap- asis (Hindu merchant ascetics) bridle<l pealed to the bishops of India who' set out in quest of God, a blasphemy, perversion and pubnot to abdicate their authority, Christian . will 'find an ever new lic desecration of our cherished telling the Indian Bishops' Con· affirmation of the primacy of ideas and symbols ':' '" "''' It adds that "a big question ference "If we have sullied the the spirit" for every American as we enter fair image of authority, turning the 1970s is' whether he wants it into a cold instrument of Book Summarizes to support and defend our free power, let us do something about society or let it be overrun and it . Work at Basilica destroyed by visionary agitators, 'i'Both superiors and subjects VATICAN CITY (NC)-Prof. have a duty to restore the fair Margherita Guarducci, an arche- whether he wants to promote name of authority. Any abuse on ologist who identified the tomb the cause 9f justice and order either side breeds tyranny or of St. Peter beneath the great or to give in to crime and chaos, and whether he wants to hold anarchy." Vatican basilica dedicated to. The cardinal, president of the him, gave Pope Paul VI a copy the line on decency and moralbishops' conference, recom- of her latest book on her .work ity or let depravity and degenmended that the bishops "en- . at the basilica when he received eracy corrupt our populace. gage in dialogue," He said they her in audience. should also consider how to The book, "Pietro Ritrovato Layman to Manage meet the demand for recognition (Peter Rediscovered)," is a brief of national characteristics or summary of her more technieal Informatioll1 Bureau local churches, "so that decen- volumes on the tomb of St ALEXANDRIA (NC) - Bishop tralization doesn't result in mini- Peter and the identification of Charles P. Greco of Alexandria churches, which seems to be what she maintains are the has named a layman director of exactly what some hierarchies bones of St. Peter. the diocese's information burea'u demand by their exaggerated ad· , Pope Paul has publicly indi- and public relations. vocacy of decentralization." AI Nassif, a native Lo.uisianan, cated at least twice that he considers the evidence offered for also ~a$ appointed associate edDiscover Own World identifying the bones as those itor of The Church Today, offiThe task of man in not to dis- of St Peter to be highly con~ cial diocesan publication. As bureau director, 'Nassif will cover new worlds but to discover vincing. He mentioned this pubhis own world in terms of human licly in June, 1968, in St Peter's serve as liaison between the dioBasilica, and again in June of the I:ese. and the communications comprehension and beauty: media. -MacLeish following year.
Cardinal Praises Hindu Religion
NCC SECRETARY: The. Rev. Dr. Robert C. Dodds is associate secretary of the' division of Christian unity of the N'ationa I ,Council of Churche c ; NC. Photo.
Suspend, Priests After Seances
GUATEMALA (NC) The bishops of Central America have appealed to their 12 million Catholics to heal the spiritual and temporal wounds left on the region by the July, 1969, war between EI Salvador and Honduras. . The leaders of the .bishops' conferences . in EI Salvador, Hondures, Costa" Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua' issued their . call for prayer and work while 'civic efforts to revive Central American unity and its common .market seem to have failed. The bishop.s were spurred to an overall peace offensive by words Pope Paul VI addressed to them at their special meeting here. "The Church in .C:entral America once more wants to revive her unifying action," the bishops stated, and they quoted the following from 'Pppe Paul's message: . "You shall direct your efforts and initiative toward the eventual solution of the problems of development and population, of an economic and social nature, and toward solving the difficulties and controversies that may arise from the present events," -The armed conflict in midJuly, which was shortened ,through the efforts of the Organization of American States, of which the United States is a member, cost an estimated 3,000 lives and millions of dollars in military expenditures and in property destroyed. It also led to desecration of churches in the border areas.
SANTIAGO (NC) - S!lntiago archdiocesan authorities have sllspended ,three Spanish priests who work in the slums here for holding spiritualistiC seances with parishioners involving a medium they called ",Maria" and Yablonski Siayings descri~ed as' the "new Virgin Mary.·.. .' , 'Deed of Infamy", " The. three priest$,. )\Iho we~e 'WASHNIGTON (NC) - Msgr. aSsign'ed to 'Ghile by ·the"Spim- Charles Owen Rice, the' "llibor ish ~~f!I1~..:1~e.r,~can., ·.~o.qPf,~~tiAn ., priest" 'of this' coal mining area, Work at Madnd, have been serv- called the triple slayings of unin'g in St. Mary Magdalen 'parish ion reformer Joseph A. Yablonat Pliento Alto, an industrial ski, ,his wife' and daughter a . section of this city. "deed of infamy;" They are' Fathers Eleuterio Spe~king at their' joint funeral Bravo, 28; Mariano Arribas, 29; service, Msgr.· Rice compared and Nicasio Viejo, 34. the method used in the slaying Although !?uspended, the of the family to the assassinapriests have refused to leave the . tions of the Kennedy brothers parish rectory' and church and 'and i)r. Martin Luther King. have continued to administer the ,There are echoes of those sacrament's and discharge their earlier' assassinations, he said, priestly duties with the suppor.t "but this was worse because of many of the parishioners. there was the element of careful _ Some of the parishioners have preparation and the chilling and formed a guard around the efficient murders of two wombuildings, but police are keeping en," A thousand miners, relaorder in the area. tives, friends, and foes of the Archdiocesan authorities un- United Mine Workers filled the dertook an investigation -when huge gothic-style Church of the report~. spread that the priests Immaculate Conception here in and some lay persons were hold- Pennsylvania as· the three siming seances as part 'Of a "Church ple caskets were carried to the reform plan." altar for requiem Mass. The medium, "Maria"~whose real name is Teresa AlcainoSchwed Leaving was an expectant mother and WASHINGTON (NC)-Warren after she gave birth to a girl on Christmas eve she was called W. Schwed has resigned effecthe "new Virgin Mary." The tive Feb. 1 as director of the Department, baby was baptized Jesusa, the Communications' Spanish feminine equivalent of United States Catholic Conference. He has held the office Jesus. since it was established in 1968.
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Hospital Reje~ts Prelate's Strike Settlement Plan
THE ANCHORThurs., Jan. 15, 1970
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Church Shifts Incom'e Pol icy
MEMPHIS (NC) - Hopes for peaceful settlement of the three-month-old St. Joseph Hospital strike were
SANTIAGO (NC) - The Catholic Church in Chile is renouncing its traditional sources of income - lands, buildings, and wealthy churchgoers - and will rely on contributions from the average parishioners, even if these amount only to 10 per cent of its needs. "We know, it is hard, but we are not afrai,d," said Father Manuel Camilo Vial, a young priest from Temuco. "We are willing to take up jobs if neces· sary." Last year· about 55,000 families contributed $220,000 to the Church in Chile. The rest came from investments and rents from lands, urban properties and stocks, as well as from contributions by well-to-do church· goers. Some small dioceses rely in great part on contributions from Catholics abroad for the support of their work, mostly from Germany and the United States. This new move by the Church in Chile will require education both for the clergy and for the laity. "Priests here usually do not appreciate ,the relation between money and pastoral work, between the coin and the Gospel," said Father Egidio Vigano, a social and economic expert work· ing for the archdiocese of Santiago. "They have been told at the seminary that what counts is spiritual values, and, therefore to be 'weary of worldly goods. It was ~he concept of the world opposing the Church."
shattered when the hospital rejected a peace plan proposed by Bishop Joseph A. Durick of the statewide Nashville diocese. Hospital spokesmen had indicated earlier they would go along with all poi~ts of the bishop's proposal, strongly en· dorsed by many black and white leaders in Memphis. But after 126 strikers marched back to, the hospital and signed up to return to work" the hospi· tal administration announced it would not go along with one item, calling for all workers to be taken back without reprisals. J. L. Luton, associate administrator of the hospital, said 21 strikers would 'not be allowed to return to work. He said 12 of these were refused reinstatement because of alleged strike-related violence, four had resigned and FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS: At the completion of the presentation of 33 young ladies from the contracts of five who worked as vacation relief had expired. throughout the diocese, their fathers led them out for -the ever-remembered moments of their Jesse Epps, special assistant first dance on the night of the 15th Annual Bishop's Ball., to the president of the American Federation of Sta~e, County and Municipal Employee (AFL·CIO), said the union members then voted to continue the strike. He charged the hospital "spat on" the call of Bishop Durick for the strike's settlement. Most of the Christian particiNEW YORK (NC)-A growing thinkers are calling for more Closed Issue number of ecumenical leaders progress. "They are beginnning pants are related to the National Bishop Durick proposed that feel that Christian-Jewish rela- to say tl;lat it is as important Council of Churches, although strike"related boycotts and dem- tionships constitute a crucial to the' future of Christianity that several Roman Catholics have onstrations stop, that all work- area much in need of further we reorder Jewish-Christian re- participated regularly including ers return to work, that the hos- exploration: lations as it is to the future of Father Edward H. Flannery, di· pital receive all workers back One of these leaders is the America that we reorder black- rector of the U. S. Bishops' Secwithout reprisals and that both Rev. Dr. Robert C. Dodds, asso- white relations." retariat for Catholic·Jewish Resides agree to Il1ediatethlilir dif- ciate secretary of the division The Protestant leader, who is lations. I .fer~nce~. ,'.'. " . , ' t ••_ 8,', cleJ;'gyman'of :'the United ;~f, Chris~i!m. upi.~Y ',,~L,t_~e ·,N.iiJewish participants in the India. Jesuit, Urges. After the hospital> declined to , tional CouncIl of Churches. Church, of Christ, acknowledged group have come from all three accept all workers back without "Jewish-Christian relationships that "part of the problem in re- branches of Judaism-Qrthodox, Population Control reprisals, it went further and are the single most important lating to the Jews is that it has Conservative and Reformed-and NEW DELHI (NC)-An India said It had never considered me- item on the ecumenical agenda," been impossible to get off the from Jewish service groups such Jesuit sociologist has called for diating any differences. Dr. Dodds told National Catholic political issue" of Israel and the as the American Jewish Com- population control in order to "Any question of mediation or News Service. Middle-East crisis. mittee and the Anti·Defamation prevent increased unemployment negotiation has long been reBoth the National Council of League of D'nai-Brith. But while American Protestant in India. solved and the hospital considers and Orthodox churches have rel- Churches and the World Council "There are no shortcuts to that issue closed," said a hospi- atively extensive ecumenical of Churches' have issued statesolve the problem of poverty tal statement. programs concerned with the ments on that crisis. "In an at- Establishes Faith, and unemployment. The latter Bishop Durick's proposal for various branches of Christen- tempt to appear even-handed, will continue to grow if the settlement had received the dom, Dr. Dodds complained that they have produced documents Order Commission population increase continues at backing of a group of black bus- there is "virtually no interest in that were unacceptable to either BANGALORE (NC) - A Faith the alarming. rate of 2.5 per cent Inessmen, the union, the press the Jews at present. and Order Commission was set per year," side," he noted. Father Anthony and a group of ministers who up for India here at a meeting D'Souza, S.J., director of the In"With maybe one exception, Discussion Group had conducted an Advent fast there is no one in American of representatives of the CathDr. Dodds' view on Jewish- olic Bishops' Conference of In- dian Social Institute here, told inside the Shelby County Jail to Protestantism working fUll-time a seminar of 'poverty and unemChristian relations have been' dramati,~e demands in the blafk on Jewish·Christian relations. I greatly influenced by his partici- dia, the National Christian ployment. commumty. think this says a lot about prior· pation in a unique but complete- Council of India and the Syrian The priest pointed out that Most of the'union membership ities." Orthodox church. India's first three five-year ecoly unofficial discussion group of ,Is made up of black laborers in Dr. Dodds credits the Roman Father Paul Varghese, a promthe hospital's laundry, dietary Catholic Church with being Jewish and Christian leaders. inent Orthodox clergyman who nomic development plans 'had created 31 million new jobs and has been meeting The group and nursing services depart- "way ahead" of Protestants at was named a co-chairman, said ments. The strike has been present in this field, though this quietly and informally for nearly the commission would not be a yet unemployment rose from 3.8 million in 1951 to 9.6 million in six years. widely backed in the Memphis has not always been the case. "counter-part" of the Faith and 1966. black community. "There was a period before Order Commission of the World Vatican II-when Jews working Archdiocese Gives Council of Churches (WCC). on this problem felt that Protes· Cites Ecumenical Father Varghese, a former astants were more progressive $5 Million to P'oor sociate general secretary of the Movement Problem than Catholics," he explained. SEATTLE (NC)-The laity and World Council and director of INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. WASHINGTON (NC) - In the "The Catholic Church had a lot institutions of the Seattle arch- its division of ecumenical action, 1970s, the problem of moving of catching-up to do, but in do- diocese have contributed $5,198,- pointed out that the Indian com96 WILLIAM STREET from dialogue to decisions will ing it, has leap-frogged whatever 792 in _monies, goods and serv- mission is jointly sponsored by NEW BIEDFORD, MASS. face the ecumenical movement. progress Protestants had made. ices during 1969 to both world- four churches in India, and that This facet of the future is on wide relief organizations and its Catholic representation on the Political Issue 998-5153 997-9167 Father John Hotchkin's mind. "Now through the declaration own local agencies, in an effort WCC's commission is "only The associate director of the sec- on the Jews of the Vatican to aid, the tragic victims of pov- token" whereas it is equal on PERSONAl SERVICE retariat of the U. S. Bishops' Council and the recent draft of erty and destitute old age. , the Indian commission. Committee for Ecumenical and the Vatican Secretariat for Pro· A detailed account of the Interreligious Affairs thinks the moting Christian Unity, the archdiocese's charitable contriRoman Ca.tholic Church needs to Catholic Church-in the hier- bution, and a breakdown of its begin planning how it will move ~rchy and officialdom - recog· distribution, is the theme of the C~eam, from theological agreements to nizes the Jew as brother. Protes- special 56-page Christmas supdecisions affecting the whole tants have yet to take any sim- plement of the Catholic NorthGan~t Church. west Progress, archdiocesan ilar step." Father Hotchkin is a 34-yearDr. Dodds noted that "outside newspaper. old priest from Chicago. He of officialdom," both Protestant Your Gulf Hill Route Man ;s Father James Gandreau, edicame to the national office of and Catholic theologians and tor, explained the theme as a Always at Your Service! the bishops' ecumenical commit"systematic analysis of our contee in January, 1967, after comFOR HOME DELIVERY CAll 998·5691 tributions." Just Depends pleting doctoral studies at the "It affords an opportunity to Gregorian University in Rome. In this earthly world, to do examine our priorities in giving He, two other priests, a nun and harm is often laudable, to do so that we can see areas of three secretaries make up the good sometime accounted dan- neglect and do something about so. DARTMOUTH, ·MASS. staff of the national office. it," he said. gerous folly.-Shakespeare j
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CINCINNATI (NC)-Archbishop Paul F. Leibold called for' new emphasis on "what a priest really is," pointing out that he is "primarily a minister of the word and of the life of Christ" and not simply a "social worker, do-gooder or tee~age entertainer." The Cincinnati archbishop spoke who responds to Christ's call to Him. to members' of the Gregorian, follow "Judas tried to play the money Program, high school stu- game part of, the tim'e and he
'dents enrolle~ as candidates for St. Gerogry seminary. "One does not have to be a priest," commented Archbishop Leibold, in order to engage in social or charitable work or entertaining. He said "the pr:iest exe~cises his ministry of Christ's word and life "through preaching and teaching the Gospel by word and example, and by administering the sacraments." "Primacy put on anything less than this will form a distorted priest," he said. Another necessary "area of em· phasis," Archbishop Leibold said, is holiness. Way of Life f:. priest's very way of life, he said, "must be one of holiness, both by reason of the holy things which he deals and by reason of the sacramental perfection of his baptismal priesthood in Holy Orders . . ..Any aspiration less than sanctity is unbecoming the future priest; and that which is designed to ~evelop holiness should be his constant interest." Speaking of a third "area of emphasis," Archbishop Leibold de~lared: "Any thought that one can 'l)e a good, effective happy , and fulfilled priest with anything '" less than total commitment' to this, life f~r and in Christ with all its implications must be dis-· pelled. There is simply no ''way except the whole way for one
became the son of perdition; Peter tried to take off his collar for a few minutes during the trial of Jesus and he fell three times into the trap of a simple woman's tongue." Youth "What I admire about young people today," the archbishop added, "is their sin(:ere openness and enthusiastic dedication to a cause. So. I allticipate that this total commitment demanded by Christ will not be an obstacle to today's youth but, rather, at· tractive to them." The' archbishop recalled Vati· can Council II's insistence on the "extreme importance of priestly formation" and its, ~m.phasis on a religious formation for seminary candidates "which gives first place to spiritual direction." The council, he coritinued, called for students to lead "a life suited to the age, -mentality and developmental stage of young men and 'which fully conforms to the laws of 'a healthy psyctiology," under the "fatherly direction of their directors and with appropriate cooperation of par-_ ents." Moreover, "the course of studies, while directed to prepaation for the priesthood, should be so. arranged that students can continue -them elsewhere without disadvantage if they, choose. 'another state of life," he said.
Philadelphia Archbishop Urges End Of Peace-by",Violence Policy , PHILADELPHIA (NC) - John adelphia; Prote 'Presbyter DemeCardinal Krol said peace "can- trois S. Kalertis of the Greek not be built by violence" and Orthodox church; Richmond Milcalleel for a sharp reduction in ler of the Religious Society of the military spending which has Friends, and officials of the Metbrought mankind to the brink ropolitan Christian Council of of mass destruction. Philadelphia, which arranged the The Philadephia archbishop service with the 'Philadelphia spoke in Sts. 'Peter and Paul archdiocese. cathedral before some 1;700 perSix choirs- Methodist, Epissons at a special ecumenical ser· copal, Baptist, Lutheran and vic,e geared to the World Day of Catholic-participated. A colorPeace advocated by Pope Paul ful candlelight service 'featured VI. , t h e ceremonies. "Peace cannot be built by vio"We must reverse and redirect lence," the cardinal said. "Peace our efforts for the attainment of is more than 'a mere abatement peace. We must do so with the of armed conflict or its deter- same commitment of. men and re, ment by a balance of terror-of sources that we have poured inmilitary power." to the preparation and prosecu· . "We pray that men will rec· tion of wars," Cardinal Krol ognize the 9angerous brinkman- said. ship of those, who by aiding and , Military Budget abetting enmity and strife, pur,He reminded that worldwide sue a 'no war-no peace' policy military spending in the last year for their own economic or po- neared $200 billion and added litical gain," he continued. if the trend is not reversed the In addition to the outpouring arms race will cost $4,000 billion ' of, laity of various religious in less than: 10 years. ' faiths, participants in the ser"As loyal citizens we must vice included officials and clergy ask whether our military budget of Orthodox and Protestant. de-" whieh,s~~ms to escalate by a self_ nominations. The service con- generating mechanism is not it- cluded with a Mass concelebrated self a threat to our national seby the cardinal and by Auxiliary curity and destiny, as well as' a Bishops Gerald V. McDevitt and monstrous expense to humanity," John J. Graham of Philadeiphia. the cardinal asserted. Candlelight Service He said ·it "is encouraging to Those in attendance included witness the aroused interest in Archbishop Ambrose Senyshyn, outlawing 'wars. and to read of O.S.B.M., of the Byzantine arch· "repeated challenges to the mildiocese of' Philadelphia; Metho· itary·industrial 'complex." dist Bishops Howard J. Gordon "It is encouragaing to see the and Fred Pierce Corson of Phil- increasing number of legislators who no longer respond to the Haste Makes Waste panic button that national seWisely and slow; they stumble curity is being endangered," he that run fast. -Shakespeare declared.
RECEIVED BY POPE: Wives of three American servicemen , missing in Vietnam soughf afd from the Vatican and were reo ceiv,ed by Pope Paul VI, in their quest to find out if' their husbands are still olive. They are, left to right: Mrs. Richard Nelson; Mrs. TheM as Stegmal);' and Mrs. Robert Duncan, all of Virginia Beach, Yr:'. NC Photo.
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ROME (NC)-For most Amer- the Pope. By coincidence, four kan housewives,' a whirlwind wives from California, also of trip to Paris and Rome is' a the "prisoners of war-missing in dream of a lifetime. But for action" category, were in Rome three Navy wives who are try- for the same purpose. The Pope ing to find out if their husbands received all seven in private auare alive or dead in Vietnam, it dience. has been a frustrating experiThe' other four wives were ence with a North Vietnamese Mrs. Stephen Hanson of EI Toro, official in Paris and a rewarding one with Pope Paul VI jn the Calif.; Mrs.. John K. Hardy, Jr., Vatican. ' of Covina, Calif.; Mrs. RooseSh~rry Duncan, 23; Nicki velt Hestley, Jr., of Los Angeles, Stegman, 30, and June Nelson, and Mrs. Arthur Mearns of Los 26, talked quietly with NC Angeles. News Service in their hotel in "He was' wonderful," June Rome prior to returning home to Nelson, an Anglican, observed. Virginia Beach,' Va. They routed "The first thing he said to all their flight via Paris for another of us on coming into the room try with the North Vietnamese. was that he was very touched "We just want to know," was to be with us, very moved by 'their common plea. our visit. He greeted us individ~'If someone would, knock on ually with a firm handshake. my door tomorrow morning and "Then, the senior-ranking wife tell me Tom was dead, I would be grateful for the news," said told him why we were t1~ere and Nicki Stegman in a soft North he assured us he would do evCarolina drawl. "That might erything in his power that he sound, cruel to some people, but could. No one knows what can it is this eternal 'not knowing' be done by anyone, but it was so kind of him to' see us and to that will not go away." . ,reassure us that, he was trying. Together, thes~ three young After Paris, Rome was a blesswives share 61 months of know- ing." ing only th,at their husbands- ' Sherry, a Methodist, and Nicki, Robert Duncan, Thomas' Stegman and Richard Nelson-are a Catholic convert of one month, M.I.A., missing in action. They' added that they mainly wanted have never been told by the his blessing and were consoled North Vietnamese that their hus- when be said he would pray for bands are prisoners or survived, them. "I will pray for all prisonbeing shot down (two are pilots, ers of all wars, for war is bad for everyone," they remembered one a navigator). "Intolerable" was Junf Nel- the Pope saying. Then he said son's description of that "not· warmly: "But I wili pray for your husbands now," knowing" feeling. Frustrated in Paris Frustrated for five days by the "run-around in Paris by a man who would not even tell us his name or his position," the women came to Rome to try to osee
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NEWARK (NC) -In separate moves, the Newark archdiocese has acted to meet the needs of minority' groups. Archbishop Thomas A. Boland and an ad hoc subcommittee of the Senate of Priests worked out a plan to provide financial assistance' as well as personnel to parishes in the inner-city ~reas. At the same time, the archbishop is taking a direct hand in promoting the equal employment program of Project Equality and has personally called for reports from pastors, administrators and agency heads. In a third development, the Mount Carmel Guild, social weI· fare agency of the archdiocese, announced that it has purchased 14 rundown apartment buildings in Newark's Central Ward and will completely renovate them for low-income housing at a cost of $1.1 million. Details of, the program to help inner·city parishes financially were worked out at a series of meetings between the archbish·· op and a special subcommittee of the senate, which had offered a comprehensive proposal of its own. The' plan agreed upon is a modification of the proposals made by the senate and the independent Newark Priests Association. It calls for the establish· ment of a Clergy Board for Inner-City Aid. 'The board is to be named by the two episcopal vicars appointed especially for this work , last Summer-Father Joseph A. Stulb for the inner city and Father Thomas W. Heck for the Spanish-speaking.
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Services 'in Chicago CHICAGO (NC)-The variouSt Christian denominations in the! greater Chicago area are spon! soring a special ecumenical ser· vice at Holy Name Cathedral Sunday. John Cardimil Cody of Chicago will host leaders of the denominations in a joint worship service, which will open the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Ecumenical worship services are 'being encouraged in all area communities during the week.
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By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S; Kennedy We hear contradictory reports on conditions within the Soviet Union. On the one hand, it is asserted that a liberalization of the totalitarian regime is slowly but irresistibly taking place. On the other, it is said that reI. ' Stalinization is inexorably occurring. Which view is ~ook .IS that .to und~rstand what .. IS IgOIng on In RUSSIa and what correct? NeIther, It would is ,likely, one should go to the seem to the reader of two classical Russian novelists, who new books on life in the USSR. wrote long before Lenin came to One is Message from Moscow power. (K n 0 p f, 501 Many features of the present situation' are attributable to the Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., Communist dictatorship; but be· 10022. $5.95); hind the situation, and explainthe other, My ing much of it, is the character T est i m 0 n y of old Russia. by Anatoly MarMarchenko's Testimony chenko (Dutton, Reading My Testimony one 201 Park Ave., runs a gamut of reactions. There S., New York, is revulsion at the injustice done N. Y., 10003, Mr. Marchenko and many others $8.95). The auby the police and the ~ courts, thor of Message horror at prison co~ditions. dis. f~om . Mosco.~ " g u s t with a variety of enormiSIgnS hImself An- Observer. He ,ties and admiration for the auwishes to. remain anonym~us, tho~'s spirit. becau~~ he IS .(or. was at. the tIme He was not guilty of the offense with which he' wa's origiof WrIt.Ing) stIll 10 .~ussla. H.e IS !lot a cItIzen. of the nally' charged. He was catapulted SovIet Umon, but a f?relgn stu- into a series Qf'loathsome and dent, who had been 10 .~oscow punishing experiences. three. years befor~ decldlOg. to· From' a very humble backdo ~IS b~ok, whIch was fIrst ground and with relatively little publIshed 10 England. education he did not submit Anatoly Marchenko is a Rus- refused to be broken and at sian worker, 31 years o!d, not a great peril insisted o~ writing, member !?f the CQmmumst party. in defiance of the regime, both At t~e a~e of 23, he was sent~o in open letters to the authorities a prIson camp. For the next SIX and in this book. years he was in such camps or ' 'u I i ti rdi y ' in prisons. n mag na ve oc . Gary Powers, the U·2 pIlot, Released in 1966 he wrote this book. He was r~.arrested in ~as in one prison at the same 1968 and there 'is reason to be- tIme as Mr. Marchenko" and lieve' that he has since been re- Vasily Stalin had been a previtriedalld r~-sEi'nt~l)ceQbecause ous pris,oner: ..• ,,,' '" . ' of ''the publication abroad of his . The fan~~lcls~ of the syste~ account of life in Soviet prisoris. IS exemplIfIed 10 the author s tragi-comic account of the politLid f S o ecrecy ical instruction of prisoners In ~essage from !"10scow, the (who are expected to sing the range IS natu~ally wIder. ~he au- glories of a regime which abomt~or moved. 10 several .dlfferent inably mistreats them). . Its unimaginative idiocy is cIrcles a~d IS a~le' to gIve. more general ImpressIons than IS Mr. seen in an entertainment which Marchenko. . prisoners were required to atAnd, o.f course,. he kne~ a dlf- tend. It was provided by a choferent kInd o~ ~Ife outs~~e the rus of poliicemen singing such USSR, hence IS 10 a posItIon to songs as "The Party is Our make -comparisons. He finds Helmsman" and "Lenin is Althat there is a retreat from the ways with You." policies of Khrushchev, and a return to some of those of Stalin. Stresses Church's The lid on secrecy is on more Political Aloofness tightly than ever, the censorship LA PAZ (NC)-The Catholic is rigid and minute, surveillance and informing are universal, the Church in Bolivia has no politipropaganda is relentless, and cal aims and the bishops are most of the people are in total neither supporting' nor opposing ignorance of anything except the regime of President Alfredo what the dictatorship wants Ovando, Archbishop Jorge Manrique of La Paz stressed here. the~ to know. His statement' came the day The author describes the reaction he observed when Czecho- after Clemente Cardinal Maurer slovakia was invaded in 1968. of Sucre had said that the "bishThe majority of the people ap- ops have not endorsed the govproved, according to him. They ernment," and was aimed at believed the official explanation, forestalling attempts by opposiand their attitude also reflected tion groups to use the Cardinal's their resentment of a satellite statement to involve the Church state's surpassing the USSR, in in their quarrel with Gen. Ovando's regime. any respect. ' In the Catholic daily, Presecia, Old Russia Archbishop Manrique said "The So effectively have the people cardinal was correct in telling been indoctrinated that they the press'" * ¢ that the bishops' generally agree with whatever meeting in Cochamba (Decem· line the Politburo puts out. It is ber, 1969) did not vote in favor incomprehensible to most, that of or· against the revolutionary they might have to decide any- government of Gen. Alfredo thing for themselves. Ovando, precisely because the ,A suggestion made in this conference has no political aims but addresses itself only to religious or pastoral matters." , §olCie~y off Joy "In fact," Archbishop Man· The very society of joy re- rique said, "the Church's history doubles it; so that, while it lights in Bolivia shows that no bishops' upon my friend, it rebounds up~ conference has taken any posion myself and the brighter his tion of endorsement or rejection candle burns, the more easily regarding the successive, goverJ;l: ' mcnts." ' will it light mine. -South
AFTER 90-MILE MARCH: Student demonstrators urging peace in Biafra spelled out their message. PACE ,Al BIAFRA. last Synday at the demarcation line across, 'Vi9 ,della Conciliatione ~hich s~parates Rome from Vatican City. NC Photo.
Assisi Still Unspoiled .by War" Hatred Has' ,Legacy of Peace from St. Francis ASsiSI(NC):.. .:-For those who cause he was a great saint but Italy should have for each other. have' forgotten or just don't because he was a great man, a The tradition is more enriched when one recalls that St. Francis know, there is one place in the serene man," Tarquinio says. Tarquinio, an expert on the is the patron saint of Italy, Tar· world that remains u!lspoiled by . all the wars and petty hatreds history of Assisi, said that if St. quinio said. The people of Assisi will tell Francis were to give a message fo~nd in the hearts of men. The 1960's closed with the of peace to modern man it you that not only St. Francis but sounds of a terrorist's bomb would not be any different from nature itself has bestowed upon blasting 16 people to their the words he preached in the Assisi a kind of peace and serendeaths in a Milan Bank, of , winding streets of Assisi during ity that will last through the ages., And ,they say that human charges that Americans had the early 13th century. "He would want men to come injustices will not prevail against massacred a Vietnamese ,village, and of the cries of sfarving chil- to Assisi and :t6 extend their' this peace and serenity: hands to others as a 'sign' of "The people' of Assisi are not dren in Biafra. And in Assisi. the birthplace friendship and peace." Tarquinio really any more virtuous than the rest of the world," said of St. 'Francis, peace and seren- said. Many Italians are not aware Giancarlo Ronci, the director of ity continued to reign as it al· ways has-an unfrustrated ex· of it but Assisi is, in a sense, of the office of tourism in Assithe "peace capital" of Italy. Tar· si. "We Assisians possess all the ample to a frustrated world. .' Recently about 30 youths of quinio explained that each year human weaknesses and frailties Assisi began a 90-mile march a representative from one of known to man." But Assisi somehow seems from Assisi to Rome, dramatiz· the 20 regions of Italy comes ing their concern for Biafran here with one year's supply of "mystically protected" from all children who are caught in the oil for the lamp that burns con- the pettiness and vices that stantly before the tomb of St. touch it from time to time, Ronci grip of a bloody civil war. believes. When Pope Paul VI gave his Francis. Peace, Serenity noontime blessing in St. Peter's Square, the Assisi youths shout· This tradition signifies the Sincerity & Integrity ed "Peace in Biafra," The Pope fraternity and love that all citi· To give real service you must smiled and waved to them. zens in the diverse regions of . To many in the world who cry add something which cannot be out for peace, it would seem bought or measured with money, Protest Sentence. more than ,fitting that one of the and that is sincerity arid integfirst pleas for peace in the new MADRID (NC)-A group of rity.-Adams decade of the 1970's should _150 priests' criticized the sen· come from Assisi. tencing of a priest to three It has been suggested from years in prison for a sermon time to time that some kind of criticizing the social and ecointernational peace center be nomic privations of his parishestablished in Assisi. ioners here. In a letter· to ArchCOMPANY Same Message bishop Casimiro Morcillo Gon"What ,for?" asked Giorgio zales of Madrid, the supporters Complete Line Tarquinio. a member of Assisi's of Father Mariano Garno said that "to condemn Father Garno Building Material$ city council and a professor of 8 SPRING ST., FAIRHAVEN, philosophy. "Why do we in As- is to condemn all of us and the sisi need a monument dedicated Gospel itself. which it is our 993-2611 to peace when Assisi itself is a mission to preach.:: monument to peace?" he asked. "Assisi has a legacy of peace 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIl from St. Francis, not simply be·
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs.. Jan. l5, 1970
.Author Sees Possible Resistance to New Mass LONDON (NC}-Campaigners against the new Mass to be introduced here next Lent have warned that an "underground resistance movement" might spring' up in the Catholic world celebrating the old Mass in defi. ance of authority after its final prohibition. Hugh Ross Williamson, well· known Catholic author and convert, told the Guardian. national liberal daily newspaper, here,
Fral)ciscans Cite Changes
In Unity Week Observ~nce NEW YORK (NC)-This year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 18 to 25, bringing together thousands of. Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox in a conim'on appeal for church unity, reflects in microcosm the sweeping changes that shook Catholic Octave, which churches . throughout the former in its language could only serve world in the 1960's. Even the to raise the blood pressure of 'Franciscan friars of the So- any sensitive Episcopalian hear-
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that the movement might go even. further ancJ openly chal· lenge the decision in favor of the new Mass as "heretical" and condemn Pope Paul himself as "anti-Pope,.. Williamson's is a minority view, Catholics here, as probably in other countries where they are a minority themselves with a past history of persecution. are strongly conservative.
!Jut they are also strongly loyal to the papacy. Commentators here and there describe them as apathetic and bewildered by the recent series of changes. But, though many individual Catholics privately and publicly criticize the alterations and regret the loss of the old Latin Mass, there has been no strongly voiced public opposition so far.
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. WASHINGTON (NC)-Direct· Iy or by insinuation, the purvey- \ ors of rock and roll music have for several years been condition· , ing millions of the Y9unger generation toward tol'erimce or even use of hallucinatory drugs, according ,to a - report in. are·' (ent United Nations publication, A review of the situation by S. Taqi, a Swiss journalist. and broacaster, in the Bulletin onNarcotics.' cites numerous vo· cal numbers 'disseminated by major recording companies and radio stations as far back as 1963, and '~plugged" by out· standing favorites among performers, as indicative of this drift.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 15, 1970
By Barbara Ward
If the next round of the arms race surge~ forward, with the full introduction of MIRVS (multiple warheads) and ABM systems to keep them off, the rate of overkill will be multiplied by at least four. America will be able to destroy Russia a hundred 1960, 10 to 15 firms have kept times over and Russia, their place as top defense conAmerica twenty-five times. tractors and have absorbed the Why do nations, with some bulk of the roughly $40 billions vestigial claims to sanity, agree of annual arms procurement. This is very big business and to spend horrendous sums-$20, in its care are the technical $30, $40 billion teams who keep inventions flow-each year on ing, suggest new arms, sketch this exercise in new systems and automatically overkill? Part of -without evil intent, to be sure the reason lies --prepare another round in the in the nature of arms race. modern science Existing weapons systems beand technology. gin virtually to be traded in for There is virtuobsolescence-Minuteman I of ally no fantasy the early 1960's giving way to of destruction a .. ' Minuteman II of the middle Sixscientist cannot ties and now to Minuteman III. at least imagine The Polaris missiles are similarly -from universal laser death rays to missiles giving way toPoseidons and all that turn corners, spew out de- the back numbers are presumcoys and arrive in quintuplicate. ably junked at several million Advanced technology also dollars a time. Between. the Defense Departmeans that a team can often figure out ways of turning the ment and the top contractors, menace into a possibility. At this close relations develop--of necMISSISSIPPI CO-OP: Manager of the Greenwood Co-op Supermart is Miss Dorothy Brock, stage, knowing the other side essity. There is a steady passage checking out a customer, who is one of 454 Co-op members. Miss Brock at 24 is perhaps the of businessmen out of the big has the same command of sciyoungest supermart executive in Mississippi. NC Photo. . ence, the research team postu- companies into the Pentagon administration. Secretaries for Delates that the enem'y'must be inventing and producing the same fense, for the Army, for the Navy, often end up as Presidents thing. So they must do it first. and Vice Presidents in Defense Basic Rhythm This is the basic rhythm of industries: Three times more 5 the arms race and one of the officers now. go from the sergreat virtues of President Nix- vices into defense industry than GREENWOOD (NC) -- Mrs. on I Street in black Greenwood. cooperative of its kind in Missison's unilateral deCision to re- in the 1950's. The store, located on the com- sippi," she added. Cornelia Dillard, a Negro houseDangerous Interdependence nounce germ warfare is that this wife, wheeled her Saturday groc- munity's main business thoroughavenue of inventing ever more Occasionally an officer will eries to the check-out counter fare, for one thing, is not in the horrifying epidemics hopefully is follow the contract he has of the Greenwood Co-op Super- Negro district--a fact which Presedent Confers closed off. awarded into the industry to market with a smile of pride as speaks volumes in itself. With Cardinal But the mechanism of increas- which he awarded it. But this ·she answered the question asked· It has grown so fast that it is ingly lethal sophistication in de- direct and not very suitable type her by the' white stranger. WASHINGTON (NC) - Presinow in its third site since it struction is not simply a matter of transfer is not the rule. The "What has the store meant? opened in 1966. It has already dent Nixon conferred at the of the scientific imagination-al- danger lies not in corruption or Well it has meant privileges and declared two annual dividends White House with Terence Carthough this is the completely malfeasance. It simply lies in the it has meant jobs. This .is our and a third, from 1969,ls a cer· dinal Cooke of New York prior new feature in the whole tragic enormous interconnectedness of store. We feel good when we tainty. to the President's flight to history. Weapons systems which the system. The men who judge . come in here. We want this to, Northampton for a 57th birthday Largest In State cost billions each year do not arms procurement and the men grow into a chain," Mrs. Dillard The Co-op, managed by Dor- celebration with his family. The jump off the drawing board. who provide the arms belong, as said. othy Brock, 24, a black college President's daughter, Mrs. David They may have to be developed it were, to the same comradeHer reply summarized better junior, last year had $302,000 Eisenhower, is a student at and produced. . ship of service and interdepen- than anything in a textbook the gross sales and a $33,000 in- Smith College. In the Sixties, a growing ar- dence. Each side has an equal thriving success story of a proj- ventory on Dec. 31. It is the The presidential press secremament industry has gathered interest in keeping the other ect which four years ago was largest such co-operative in Mis- tary, Ronald lL. Zeigler, said Mr. together unrivalled teams of sci- satisfied. just a dream, punctuated with sissippi, with some 454' mem- Nixon had wanted to meet with entists and production managers. Since most contracts are let "if's"" of Father Nathaniel Ma- bers. each having at least one Cardinal COOke to get the cardiThese groups live by their inven- without any competitive bidding, 'chesky, O.F.M.; women members $5 share but only one vote. nal's impressions on his recent tiveness way out on the frontiers the picture is reinforced of an of Pax Christi, a secular instiThe building, which resembles Christmas visit to Vietnam. of the new technology. Many of "in-group" spending over $40 tute, and leaders of Greenwood's any supermarket, was leased Zeigler said the cardinal told the firms they work for-Gener- billion of the taxpayers' money black community. from a Chinese merchant and President Nixon that troop al Dynamics, Lockheed, McDon- without any sufficient safeguard Greenwood, it should be re- opened for business Nov. 11, morale was high and that signinell, Douglas - rely to a very over the real usefulness of the called, is that little (population, 1968. At 'present the Greenwood ficant progress had been made high degree on contracts from weapons or the cost-effective- 20,436) Mississ!ppi town better Co-operative Club, sponsor of on Vietnam's pacification prothe Defense Department. Since ness of their production. Senator known for snarling police dogs the store, is negotiating for a gram. Mansfield's claim that $23 bil- set against civil rights marchers loan from the National Board of lion have been,wasted in the last in the early 1960s than for quiet Missions of the United MethodAppoint liturgical decade could, under these condi- progress in racial justice. ist Church to purchase the structions, be an understatement. ture. Hopeful Events Week Speak.ers Triple Push "The store has made us indeThe blacks who' live in the EL PASO (NC)-Catholic auThe defense effort in America shantytown of Gritney, and form pendent," said Miss Brock, as thors widely known for their Over 3S Years views on clerical life and mar- is thus under a triple push a big percentage of the popula- she checked out a line which inof Satisfied Service riage will be among the speak- toward ever higher spending. At tion, possess few of ,the things cluded Mrs. Dillard and Mrs. ers addressing the 1970 South- the core is the perpetual inven- expected in an affluent society. R.E. Anderson, both members of Reg. Master Plumber 7023 west Liturgical Conference here tiveness of science in producing Jobs are scarce because of mech- the Co-op board. JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. more "effective" means of anization of Delta cotton farm"We've been able to show our in Texas Jan. 26-29. 806 NO. MAIN STREET overkill. ing. The young leave Greenwood neighbors we can stand on our Centering around the theme, Fall River 675 7497 Then, around this scientific early in life. Many unskilled job- own two feet. This is the first "Church-Sign of Christ," the center with its inventions and less are illiterate. At every turn, conference, will give special attention to the service rendered its warnings is built an interlock- Greenwood's blacks meet disto the Christian community by ing defense and business estab- crimination, manipul.ation by lishment, with an identical inter- loan sharks or silence from marriage and the ministry. Highlighting the conference est-expanding weapon systems. whites. . will be addresses by Msgr. There have been some hopeful Next comes the tendency to . e Savings Bank Life Insurance Charles K. Keating of Camden, argue that the other side must events. A recent successful boy"'~::-!'-"" N. J., Mrs. Mary Reed Newland be making the same break- cott by blacks of white mero Real Estate Loans of Monson, Mass., and Father throughs - even though both chants resulted eventually in the . " /., ~ o Christmas and Vacation Clubs • Joseph M. Champlin, associate sides are now at least 25 times election in July of a newly comj , director of the secretariat for the beyond the ability to produce municative city administration o Savings Accounts :,. . ".\oJ" I.~~.' U. S. Bishops' Committee on the complete mutual destruction. . headed by Mayor Thurman ' " "101" 8 Si Convenient Locations C Liturgy. Unless the citizen and his rep- Henry. More than 500 delegates from resentatives can break into this Very much on the "plus" side ~~~ , five Southwestern states -- Ari- closed circle of potential anni- is the Greenwood Co-op store, NEW BEDfORD zona, Colorado, New Mexico, hilation, the chance of surviving one of, several dynamic projects Oklahoma, and Texas-are ex- to the year 2,000 are hardly which have emanated from the pected to attend the conference. bright. cream brick St. Francis Center
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River....:Thurs., Jan. 15, 1970
ASUNCION (NC) - A leading Paraguayan bishop has defended priests engaged in social reform. Theirs is not political action but "Gospel action," said Bishop Ramon Bogarin of San Juan de las Misiones. The bishop, a member of the permanent committee of the Paraguayan Bishops' Conference and a frequent critic of the government, added that conservatives often call these priests "communists" merely because the conservatives dislike justice. In the past six months, the re-
Compu~~o~y B;[?t~ COlfU~r@~ Thwe~il tl"o 'HMm@l!1 rrr~ed@ffi By Msgr. George G. Higgins 'Director, Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C.
Last November, when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a second warning against ,the danger of governmental compulsion in the field of family planning, many people yawned indulgently as though to suggest that the Bishops were allowing themselves to be para-governmental age n c i e s . is very little doubt that mesmerized by their own There within 20 or 30 years permission outmoded ecclesiastical rhet- will have to be obtained for
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each human conception lind, later, birth," Government Compulsion I find these two statements very significant and more than a little alarming, not so much because of what they actually say, but rather because of the prominence and potential influence of their authors. They can not be lightly dismissed as irresponsible or unrepresentative 1B@!(~@!f(Qi books. The first of the two, Mr. Barth, is one of the leading civil libertarians in the United States. LOND.ON (NC) Barbara The other is a highly trained theologian who taught for a Ward, the' Catholic author and number of years at a world- economist whose column aprenowned Catholic institution of pears regularly in The Anchor, higher learning. Although, as in- was presented here with.. the dicated above, he has resigned Victor Gollancz Award, granted from the priestly ministry, he is annually to the preson considerstill, to the best of my knowl- ed to have made the most outstanding contribution to the edge, a practicing Catholic. The fact that two men of such campaign against world poverty. Miss Ward, whose married prominence are now beginning not merely to discuss but open- name is Lady Jackson, is Schly and rather casually to advo- weitzer Professor of Internacate a degree of government tional Economist Development compulsion in the field of family at Colmubia, University in New planning which, until very re- York. Lord. Mountbatten of Burma cent!y, would ~ave" been- considered beyond ,the pale of discus- made the presentation at an sion is enough ,to scare the wits austere London luncheon of out of anyone· who believes in bread, cheese, apples and coffee. for which gl,lests paid expenhuman freedom. sively in aid of the War on 'Step Toward Utopia Want. Strangely, enough, however, it doesn't seem to scare them in the least. On the contrary, they If'.w@ ~~t ~~Ih1@©~$ give the impresssion that. they C~m)® N@~{l' JI!.!l~@ can't wait for 1984 to arrive. I find this almost impossible CHICAGO (NC) - St. Philip to understand il) the case of both . Basilica High -School here and authors, but especially so in the Marywood High School, Evanscase of Mr. Barth, who has dedi- ton, III., will close in June, princated the better part of his pro- cipals of the schools, have anfessional life to the cause of civil nounced. liberties. Decreasing enrolIments, finanI had to turn up the light of cial problems and a continuing my reading lamp and put on my decrease in available teaching strongest bifocals to make sure per~onnel are cited as reasons I was seei,ng straight when I for the closures. found Mr. Barth blithely describing his program for governmen- detect hidden heartbeats in extal licensing of births as a "mod- pectant mothers-although only est" proposal and a .step towards to be sure, upon authorization Utopia. by a magistrate. "? Que~t1ons Judgment . ignores Civil Liberties Coming from a man who has Is this the same Alan Barth vigorously opposed illegal wire who has been writing alI those tapping and every other form of . inspiring editorials in the Washbureaucratic snooping into the ington- Post, for ·10' the.se many personal atfairs of private citi- years, protesting against even. zens, this casual and almost su- the slightest violation of the percilious description of his pro- c;ivil liberties of even the poorest posal to license birth strikes m'e and most humble citizen in the as being a very ba9 omen for land? the future of freedom in the It is bad enough; in all conUnited States. , science, that Mr. Barth's article Frankly, I can only wonder so casually and unaccountably what has happened' to. Mr. ignores the whole issue of civil Barth~s judgment as a noted civil liberties in connection with his libertarian. Doe~ he honestly be- far-reaching proposal. lieve that the government can· It is even worse, however, set "exacting qualifications" for that as one of the leading ediparenthood without violating the torialpundit"s of the Washington civil liberties of the parties Post,.--a paper which prides itinvolved? self on its concern for ,the poor' Is he really serious-or is he and especialIy for the poor just putting us on-when he blacks who make up such a large suggests that "without any proportion of the· Washington greater intrusions on I>rivacy than population - he should have is being currently encouraged by signed his named to a proposal the Department of Justice, the which would obviously discrimFBI could be empowered to use inate against them almost to the its electronic listening devices to point of genocide.
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Continued from Page One changes in the Mass which are due to go into effect in the United States during the Spring. "The Developing Community" deals with the concepts of Church and Community and is the second in a four-part series of Doctrine courses that have been planned by the Diocesan CCD. Father Arruda In the Fall River area, "The Developing Community" will be taught by Rev. Henry Arruda at the CCD Center, Highland Avenue, beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21. Starting the same evening will be a teacher-oriented course, "Elementary Catechetics," with Sister Claire Goossens as instructor. On Thursday evenings at the CCD Center, Rev. Maurice Jeffrey will offer a course entitled "Our Developing Faith." Mrs. Thomas Murphy will be the instructor for "Media for the Christian Message," and Sister Ann Boland will teach a course on Catechetical Methods for Primary School CCD teachers. . Rev. Robert McGowan will teach a series on the Introduction to the Bible. 'It will be held Monday evenings beginn-ing Jan. 19 at the Fisher House, South Street, Somerset. At Stang In the New Bedford area, the Adult Education courses will be held at Stang High School on Wednesday evenings starting Jan. 21. The New Bedford line-up includes Rev. John Smith with a course on the New Testament; Rev. Donald Messier teaching "Our Developing Faith; ; Sister Theresa Sparrow with a teachertraining course in Elementary Catechetics and Rev. Lucio PhilIipino with a repeat of his popular series on Contemporary Moral Problems. "The Developing Community" is also scheduled for the New Bedford area with Rev. John Steakem as instructor. Taunton will be the site of one of the new courses on Liturgy. Taught by Rev. Mr. Francis McManus, S.J., it will be held Thursday evenings beginning Jan. 22 at Cassidy High School. AlsO on the Taunton schedule are "The Developing Community" with Rev. Brian Harrington and Rev. Paul Canuel teaching "Our Developing Faith." Cape Cod will offer several courses to area residents. They include "The Developing Community" with Rev. Thomas Lopes as instructor on Thursday evenings at St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis. On Monday evenings beginning Feb. 2, Elementary Catechetics will also be taught at Hyannis by Sister Eileen. In Attleboro In the Attleboro area, courses scheduled include Elementary Catechetics with Mrs. Yvette Landry; the Liturgy, taught by Rev. Gerard Charbonneau; and "Ecumenical Understanding," which will feature lecturers from several Christian denominations. The Attleboro area courses will be held at Feehan High School. A brochure listing courses and details on registration procedures may be obtained from the CCD Offices in Fall River and Buzzards Bay.
Prepare Well Work for your future as if you are going to live forever, for your afterlife as if you are going to die tomorrow.-Sullivan
Mexican-AmericanMovement SAN ANTONIO (NC)-People used to live on "this side", or "the other side" of the railroad tracks. Now it is the highway that divides cities, and San Antonio is no exception. To the north- and east of Interstate Route 10, the growing, gleaming city of San Antonio rises into the affluent suburbs around Alamo Heights. West of Route 10 are the tiny three-room frame homes of the Mexican-American barrios and their suburbs, the tiny frame homes-with more land-in the colonias at the edge of the city. Willy Velasquez used to live in a house where the highway runs now-where Mexican and Anglo communities almost meet in San Antonio. Wit1y Velasquez is one of a growing generation of MexicanAmericans whose lives, as well as their homes, are at that point of contact between Anglo and Mexican societies here and throughout the Southwest. lHlold Back Funds Willy Velasquez is Mexican-. American, born in the barrios of San Antonio, where the average education level is 5.7 years. But he is a graduate of St. Mary's University, and has most of his course work completed toward a masters' degree in economics. He has worked in Wa,shington and knows his way around government. He is director of the MexicanAmerican Unity Council and, a founder of MAYO, the MexicanAmerican Youth Organization. He qualifies as a "militant" Chicano. ' He also has 'found a decent share of financial support from the Anglo community, primarily Texas church groups and the Ford Foundation in New York. Ford, however, has reacted to local 'critics by holding back promised funds. Union Organizer' Juan Flores is also in his 20s. He is newly married, and has a university education. Most people like Flores would become accountants or management trainees for a department. store chain. Flores is an organizer for a labor union. He is an organizer for a new union-the American Labor Alliance-in a state that has a "right to work" law. "Righi to work" means unions don't have a right to organize. Unionism may be safe and complacent in Gary,. Ind., but in Texas it is fighting the way it fought back in the 20s and 30s. Juan Flores and his feIlow Mexican-Americans, not the An-
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PROVIDENCE (NC)-The Providence diocese's two seminaries will, accept nonecclesiastical s~udents begin-
ning in September, according to a new policy announced here by Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence. Establishment of the new policy will mean that the facilities, teaching personnel, special offer- . ings, and programs will be avail- . able to all young men in Rhode Island who may wish to take advantage of them. The college of Our Lady of Providence in Warwick Neck. R.I., will open its campus and all its academic and £:xtracurricular programs to properly qualified male students, including those who do not wish to study for the priesthood. Non-ecclesiastical students will be abel to pursue a liberal arts education in literature, philosophv, or religious studies. Residence facilities will not be available for the non-ecclesiastical students, however. Prep Course In an effort to provide for students seeking admission to Catholic secondary schools, but who are unable to be admitted because of lack of space, Our Lady of Providence Preparatory Seminary will also admit non-ecclesifor all the souls departed. astical students. ("Hymn for poor souls"). This seminary, located in ProvDeath Is Beginning idence, offers a four-year colSince the beginning of the 6th lege preparatory program. century. Church bells have been The seminary program itself used not only to call the people will continue' 3:~ always, with t.o wotship and to praise the emphasis on daily Mass and spirLord on Sundays and other fes- itual direction. All students of tive days, but also to mourn the both programs will be together departed. In this case, the bells in class and will praticipate in are usually tolled at the arrival the same extracurricular activiof the funeral cortege at the ties, but the non-ecclesiastical church, at its departure and dur- students will be under a differing the procession to the ceme- ent set of school guidelines. tery, if it is in the church yard' or nearby. Stand Firm Commenting on the above innovation recently, Rev. Lucien SALT LAKE CITY (NC)-The A. Madore, director of the ceme- Mormon Church has reaffirmed terv, observed: its position that Negroes cannot "More and more Church Lead- enter its priesthood, but al,so ers and liturgists have come to called for "equal opportunities" look upon the entire funeral for all races in civic and political Mass and burial rites, including affairs. These postitions were the mournful toIling of bells, as taken in a paper distributed by emphasizing too much' the nega- Mormon Church president David tive aspects Qf death, and even O. McKay and his counselors to adding to the sorrow of relatives lower echelon church officers in and friends of the departed. New December, and subsequently rerites for the deceased are now leased to the public. The 139-' in the process of being developed year-old church has' 2.8 million to bring home to the p~ople of members. God that death is really the beginning, the entrance intp a' new 'life; and to emphasize the sublime truth 'of' the resurrection. "In line with this thinking, ONE STOP Notre Dame Cemetery has adoptSHOPPING CENTER ed the use of'carillon bellS electronically reproduced to provide • Television • Grocery a more fitting and uplifting at• Appliances • Fruniture mosphere and ease the sorrow of mourners at the burial of a rela104 Allen S~." New Bedford· ' tive or friend." 997-9354 Hymn Leaflet Tn the near future, relatives and friends' attending burial rites will be invited to make their own the sentiments, praises and prayers as interpreted by the melodious harmony of the carillon bells, and as expressed by the words of each hymn which will be reproduced in a leaflet distributed to them. Appropriate religious and pa, triotic airs interpreted by caril· 365 NORTH FRONT STREET Ion bells will also be played in NEW BEDFORD the Cemetery on special days, such as Christmas, Easter, Me992-5534 morial Day, Mothers' Day, All Souls' Day and Veterans Day.
N@tl're Dame' Cem'et@ry Bells Re(:C!IU Resurrection Joy to Mourners The new emphasis of the liturgy on the Resurrection as exemplified in the words of the people at the Consecration of the Mass, "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again," has also found expression in the Iitu'rgy of the' funeral Mass and in' many observances connected with' the ,laying to rest of the faithful. Particularly moving is the use of bells at the church or cemetery, and seven months ago this ancient tradition was introduced at Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River, where Carillon Bells greet mourners. As the funeral cortege enters the cemetery, the bells start ringing the glory of the Resurrection ("Seraphic Dream"). As the procession proceeds to the burial site, they continue their harmonious interpretation of this, same sublime theme. During the committal prayers at the grave, the bells send heavenwards their praises of the Blessed Trinity, ("Holy God, We Praise Thy Name"), of Christ, King and Redeemer ("To Jesus' Christ,' Our Sovereign King") and of Our Blessed Mother ("Hail Holy Queen").' They conclude their melodious prayer' with a plea
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New Order of Brothers· Hopes to Help Delinquent and Dependent Youths PHILADELPHIA (NC)-A new community of Brothers here has no difficulty defining its identity. The Brothers in the Holy Spirit, established by Brother Robert Borgesi, aims to aid delinquent or dependent youths with minimal court records to become productiv~ citizens through "care, kindness, psychological therapy and vocational training." With approval of John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, the Brothers have opened a house to serve as a "half way house" be-tween delinquency and pro-
because the Chicanos constitute a majority of the low-paid labor force. The Chicanos see the unions as a level to obtain some of the power now held by others. Office Jobs The statistics tell Why they' are fighting. On the West Side of San Antonio, where most Mexican-Americans live, .the unemployment rate-the count of people who can find work, but not enough to live on-is 47 per cent. In the United States, 15 per cent of the work force earns less than $60 a week. In the barrios and colonias of the West Side, the figure is 44 per cent. More than half the jobs open in San Antonio are office jobs; only 14 per cent of the West Side Mexicans looking for work have white-collar experience. Only three per cent of unfilled jobs are for laborers; 16 per cent of the Mexicans out of work are laborers. The figures come from a Texas Department of Labor survey conducted a couple of years ago. The survey concluded, however, that while the percentages are high the numbers of people are smaIl: "The problem is clearly of manageable proportions."
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CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has appointed a Master of Pontifical Ceremonies for the first time since the late Enrico Cardinal Dante was made a cardinal in 1965. He is Msgr. Virgilio Noe, who retains his post as undersecretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
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First Rock Dance in History Of School Saturday, Jan. 24 The first rock dance in the history of New 'Bedford's Holy Family High is slated for Saturday, Jan. 24 at the Kennedy Center. Dana Querim, president of the student council, sponsoring organization, announces the music, be by the Eastern SOUIld Co., ' . reportedly "the most soughtMark Johnson, organizer for h'N a Fall River grape boycott steer· "af ter ban d 10 sout erIl; ew ing committee, will address DA England." Further off b4t al- girls and show a,film on migrant
OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Plans are under way for a Mardi Gras celebration from 6 to 11 Saturday night, Feb. 7. Supper will be served from 6 to 8, with dancing to follow. A cake sale will be held in the altar boys' sacristy at all Masses Sunday, Jan. 18. Council of Catholic Women members are asked to contribute cakes or donations. Also scheduled for .Sunday is a credit union meeting at I o'clock, which will include a dinner for members only.
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so eagerly ~nticipated: the senior workers; and also upcoming at prom for Jesus-Mary AcadeQlY, DA is, a school science fair, Fall River. It'll be Wednesday slated for the first week in night, June 3at the, Cheshire 'March, and a student council restaurant of Holiday Inn, Dart- sponsored College Day for Wedmouth.. Planning it are Denise nesday, Jan. 28. At the latter, Pietrocatella, chairman, and her alumnae will present their views ,committee,. including, Jeannine on college life. Daignault, Gertrude Nosko, Claire Communication Art students Robillard, Patricia Richard and at JMA published a minFpaper, Muriel Lapointe. "Holiday Herald," giving girls And juniors at Stang High,. practice in publishing fundamen- North Dartmouth, had a. post· tals. Co-editors were' Denise holiday dance last we_ek iri the Parent and Claudette Fontaine. school cafeteria, with music by Also at JMA, the annual alumthe Village 'Gate and· proceeds ,nae-varsity basketball game saw going to the class treasury. Jun- the varsity' triumphing by one ior officers are Michael Hevey, point over the alumnae, ending president; Janet Simon, vice- with a score of 51·50. . Holy Family , president; Janet Dawson, secretary; James Kelley, treasurer, Acceptances at Holy 'Family Advisor for the class is Mr. George Milot. ' include Jane Kennedy to Boston . Dominican Academy girls will College, with a $1000 National participate in a playday to be Defense Loan and Peggy Kramer sponsored Saturday, Jan. 24 by to Our Lady of the Elms. Seekonk High. Basketball and And scouts report that HF has swimming are among events on its own Joan Baez in the form the day's agenda. Also at the of senior Anne Bouchard, who Fall River girls' school, the bas- provided the highpoint of a' reketball varsity and jayvees cent assembly singing Chelsea. scored victories over New Bed- Morning and Jet Plane. Also on ford High dittoes, and the var- the program were Steve Wright sity also triumphed over alum- and Fran Clarke, folk singers nae in a 41-26 game. and guitarists, a five-member' September Acceptances rock group and the school's glee Acceptances at Stang include club. Peter Breton, nominated to Annapolis; Robert Bishop, nominated to the Air Force Academy; Pll'~uses Medultli ~ole Walter Switynski, Iona; Leilie In ·Hunu«:fJlne R®lief Habib, Stonehill; Teresa Downey, JACKSON (NC) - Bishop JoBoston College; Michelle Roy, seph B. Brunini of Natchez-JackAssumption. son, credits Catholic newspapers And Holy Family girls heading and the mass media for helping 'in the direction of St. Luke's provide more than $1.2 million in 'Hospital School of Nursing are donations for the'victims of last Claudette Coderre, Pat Ducary, Summer's Hurricane Camille. Jeannine Gaudreau and Peggy "What I did was get a letter Hartley. out directly to every Catholic editor, every Catholic newspaper in the United States' and asked, 'Will you print this notice?'" The notice was a "box score" of wrecked churches, rectories" and other buildings hit by the mighty , storm of Aug. 17. Bishop Brunini said he did not want to ask his fellow bishops to run "another collection." "We moved quickly. There was a basic sympathy. Sometimes we get mad, at the mass media, but we'd had a lot of advance publicitythrough television. Practically all the papers printed that box score andfollow<!d' up for a few weeks. With just this little notice in these papers, this terrific response, was possible,"B,ishop Brunini said.
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LIBRARY AIDES: Aides are important part of school library staff. At Dominican Academy, Fall River, Murif:1 Benoit checks out books for Susan LeBoeuf and Anne Saucier as Denise Francoeur, also an aide, watches.
Peac.e Fellowship Director Seeks New Ministry of R@conc i ~ iotion NEW YORK (NC)-In March, 1969, the Rev. Thomas Lee Hayes, director of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, left for Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two young daughters.. His purpose: a new Ministry of Reconciliation. Under the auspices of the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, an inter-faith anti-war organization, Father Hayes went to minister to the American deserters and resisters in Sweden. c Now, 10 months later, Father Hayes has, returned to the United States and according to him, "The deserters are making
it. They are creating a life for themselves." During a press conference in the Overseas Press Club here, Father Hayes spoke encouragingly of the adjustment these men have made in Sweden. He cited incidents of their' "dynamic growth" and pointed to the "real change in attitudes of the parents of the deserters." Of the 400 who have applied to the Swedish government for political asylum, 350 have been accepted to stay. Only 15 have. been denied by the government. The other cases are pending, or the men have withdrawn their applications.
ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE, SWANSEA Dr. John E. Ma!1ning will address the Ladies of Ste. Anne on sex education at 8 Wednesday night, Jan. 21 in the church hall. SACRED HEART, FALL RIVlER The Linden Club will hold a dinner dance on Saturday, Jan. 17 in the school hall. The Women's Gui1d anounces a dance for Saturday, Jan. 31 in the hall. It will be open to all parishioners. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER_ The credit union hold elections following 7 o'clock Mass Sunday night, Jan. 18. This meeting was not held Jan. 11 as previously erroneously reported. The school board will meet at 8 Wednesday night, Jan. 21 in the lower church hall; the Men's Club will sponsor a Communion breakfast ,open to" .members, families and friends, also in the 'hall, following 8:45 Mass Sunday morning, Feb. 22. Tickets are available from Joseph Amaral.
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DIRECTOR: Msgr. Marvin Bordelon has been named director of the Department of International Affairs of the U.S. Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C. He will continue to act as director of the department's Division of World Justice and Peace. NC Pholo.
NEW YORK (NC)- Michael G. Murphy, 36, has been appointed managing editor of the Catholic News, newspaper of the New York archdiocese, Victor L Ritter, the paper's president and publisher announced. . Murphy, an alumnus of Fordham University and a form~r Air Force officer, served for seven years with the New York Journal-American before he joined the Catholic News staff in 1966. He has been associate editor of the paper since 1967.
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Case High Hopes to End Holy' Family Domination Case High of Swansea is emerging as the power in the Narragansett basketball league pennant race this Winter after having more or less shared the circuit honors with Holy Family High of New Bedford for the past two years. A championship tormented the opposition in d' t II i_each Case encounter thus far. . mgre len, .genera y, n The league leaders will tangle eludes expenence. But Bob with Seekonk on the latter's Gordon has demonstrated a court tomorrow night. At this coaching expertise that has lifted writi~g, the Dick ~essett coached the Swansea Cardinals into un- WarrIOrs, who traIl Case by two disputed first place with only games in the standing, will have one regular from last Winter's to pull off an upset if they hope co-title combination. to stay in competition. The competition recognized Coach Jack Nobrega's Holy the fact that Gordon had an ex· Family club, which will be idle cellent junior varsity crop bid- Friday will return to Narry play ding for the varsity but those Tuesday when, it travels to Fall who think they know were River to meet Bishop Connolly heard saying, "the new kids High. don't have enough experience." Each game becomes more imGordon's lads have the only portant for the New Bedford undefeated Narry record. Paul, Parochials as they attempt to Connors, the sole returnee, is the stay within striking distance of leading scorer with a 21-point Case u~til the two meet on Jan. . average in the early season go- 30. Both must ward-off an upset ing. Craig Smith has a 19 pointaverage while John Griffin has until that time.
Tight Capeway Conference Competition travels to Somerset. . Coach Ray McDonald, who is now at the helm for the Blue Raiders, has the unenviable task of developing a defense that will stop Pete Trow, the league leading scorer who is averaging 30points a game for the regional combination. Pre-season favorites Fairhaven and Dartmouth are holding their own in the Capeway Conference competition, but, they have not been able to open any appreciable daylight in the standing. The Capeway outcome may be more predictable by week's end. Lawrence High of Falmouth and Barnstable, both of whom Many Non-Catholics have shown signs of becoming serious title contenders, will batIn Parish Schools tie the Greater New Bedford ST. LOUIS (NC)':'-More than clubs ,this week. And, the out21 per cent of the pupils in come of these tussles will have inner-city St. Louis Catholic considerable bearing upon the schools are not of the Catholic final standin!t. religion, according to a report ' Fairhaven's Blue Devils will issued by the St. Louis Archdi- host the Falmouth Clippers toocesan School Office this week. morrow night while Dartmouth The report also said that 56 journeys to the mid-Cape to batper cent of the pupils are black. tie the Barnstable Red Raiders. And, to the surprise of no one The study of the religious and racial composition of the inner- -but to the dismay of the oppocity schools was conducted in sition - Durfee High of Fall order to aid in planning for new River once' again is beginning to schools, officials explained. In break the Bristol County ieague addition, the school office and wide:open. The Hilltoppers are several teaching orders of Reli-./ the lone unbeaten team in the gious were interested in learning Class A circuit. "how open our schools. are .to The constantly improving play the general. community," a of Mike Fleming has been a key spokesman saId. factor in the success of Coach The report said that in the Tom Karam's top-flight combine. 3~ ~~hools classifie~ as '.'inner The big forward is proving his City, there are 7,042 pupils" of ability as a point maker in addiwhom .5,531, or 78.5 per cent are tion to his par-excellence showCatholic. There were three ing onder both backboards. schools in which 'Catholics con. Meanwhile sharpshooters Al stituted less than half the enroll- Herren and AI Hooker are pacment. These saJlle schools also ing the Durfee scorers while had. enrollments that were more loop pace setters play the usual than 90,per cent black. terrific defense that has marked all Karam produced clubs. A Delay CosUy continuation of the current DurWhile we are postponing, life fee pace will wind-up the BCL speeds by.-Seneca race in short order.
Coach Jack Curry of Connolly, . an aSsistant to Nobrega at Holy Family a few years ago, hopes to duplicate, Case's success over the Whaling City Parochials. The fray will feature a shooting contest between two of the best marksmen in the Class C circuit, Paul Chevalier of New Bedford and Bob Guimond of Fall River. Many have been waiting for this meeting for comparison purposes. In other action tomorrow night, Diman Regional Vocational of Fall River will be at Dighton-Rehoboth while Old Rochester of Mattapoisett
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the season in December, Thomp· son made his home debut in the Spartan gym.' The collar may have prevented him from playing but it didn't stop him from lending vocal support. In February,' 1967 the collar was removed. Gradually the feeling came back and before long he was turning his head from side to side. Except for the expected stiffness, there was no pain. His biggest thrill came when the Stang hoop candidates reo ported for the 1967-68 season. He had worked out over the Summer and had seemingly re- gained some of his stylish form. He made the varsity and when the season opened, John was a starting guard. Thompson had a fine year as he led Stang to a strong Bristol County League showing with his 9.7 point-per-game average and good all-around floor leadership. During the season he won a trophy for being named playerof-the·week by the New Bedford Standard-Times. Following his graduation, John entered St. Thomas More Prep School where he spent the past year. Now he's a freshman at Holy Cross College and is listed as a member of the Crusaders' frosh basketball team. Thompson is the son of Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, 58 George Street, South Dartmouth and is' a communicant of St. Mary's Parish. John has already come a long way since that June afternoon in 1966, but chances are the journey is far from over.
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By Luke Sims On' a warm pre-Summer afternoon in June of 1966, 16-year old John Thompson decided to go swimming. Together with a friend, the two journeyed to the pool of a next door neighbor. The long school year had finally come to an end. It was a happy occasion and John, like. any other schoolboy, was out to enjoy the benefits of the Summer vacation. But for John, joy was only temporary. A few hours later he lay near death in a hospital bed. During a jump or dive into the pool, Thompson and his friend had somehow collided. John began to submerge to the bottom. A ,neighbor pulled the unconscious youth from the water and summoned police who transported Thompson to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford. There it was learned that John had suffered a broken neck. For several days Thompson remained motionless in a state of partial paralysis. His chances of ever walking again were de scribed as quest!onable at best. It was a tough blow especially for Bishop Stang basketball Coach John O'Brien. The year before Thompson had sparked the Spartan sophomore team to a winning record and was reputed to be the brightest hoop prospect to enter the Nort!) Dartmouth school in several years. O'Brien was counting on John to lead the varsity the following Winter. Thompson remained in the hospital for the next, two months, his condition improving remarkably with each passing day. By August he was up and about. His neck was still broken and he was forced to wear an . elaborate brace for the necessary support. But· the fear of total paralysis was over. When. school started in September, John, brace and all, was an active member of the junior
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COCHIN (NC) - An interdenominational group of bishops in the South India state of Kerala has not been able to formulate a code of conduct governConsecrate Lithuania ing the transfer of members among their churches. Auxiliary, Bishops The group, consisting of CathBONN (NC) - Two auxiliary bishops, one of whom had been .olic, Syrian OrthOdox, Mar jailed by communist authorities, Thoma and Protestant bishops, worked on the draft for some were consecrated in Lithuania the German Catholic news agen~ time, but were "not fully agreed" on its final form, a cy' KNA reported. Newly consecrated are Auxil- spokeman said, and he disclosed iary Bishop Liudas Povilonis of that the agreement was "not beKaunas, 59, and Auxiliary Bish- ing pursued now." op Romualdas Kriksciunas of The spokesman said the proTelsiai and Klaipeda,' 39. posed agreement was to have Until 1962, .Bishop Povilonis made a six-month period of canwas parish priest in the town' of didacy obligatory for clergymen Memel. Lithuanians throughout or members of the laity wanting the world sent gifts for the to join one church from another. building ofa church , and" alThe candidate's intentions though the authorities had given would be tested during the peri· permission to build, the priest od and bishops of the two was arrested in 1962 and accused churches would also have an of black-marketeering by obtain- opportunity of keeping theming materials illegally. Sentenced selves informed of. "what was to nine years in prison, he was going on." released in 1965. The church, whose tower has been destroyed, ~~. is now being used as a dance ( hall. ~ Until now, Bishop Kriksciunas .~ has been head of the seminary ( in Kaunas. Five years ago, he ( received special permission from ( , the authorities to finish his studies in Rome. ,Predominantly Catholic, Lithuania was absorbed into the Soviet Union following World War II.
NOORDWIJKERHOUT (NC)Although the Dutch National Pastoral Council here voted overwhelmingly in favor of optional celibacy for priests, a Vatican press officer stressed in Rome that the Dutch council "is only a consultative body" and that its actions have no "juridical effect." Following the vote by the Dutch council in favor of lifting the ban on married priests, however, a group of Dutch priests said that they will place married priests in parishes willing to accept ttlem without waiting for a new policy ruling by the Dutch bishops. The, announcement was made by the Septuagint group, whose spokesmen said they regard the vote of the' council, representing clergy and laymen, as having closed the debate on celibacy. Declaring that the organization will act as an action group to seek parishes ready to accept married priests, the spokesmen said five parishes had already expressed such willingness.
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Cape Cod and The Islands BASS RIVER SAVINGS BANK
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