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No Federa I Aid Pr4:禄jected For Parochia I (DioCesan plans for Catholic Schools Week are reported on page seven.)

WASHINGTON (NC) - In a statement made, ironically, just prior to Catholic Schools Week, which begins Sunday, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano has said that parents of children in parochial and other private elementary and secondary schools must find a way to pay tuition without federal help.

He said he would offer a proposal later this year "to deal with the problem of the burden on some elements of the middle class in sending their children to college."

But, he said,' more pressing fi路 nancial needs and constitutional questions make federal aid for parents of children in private elementary and secondary' schools a low priority.

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FEBRUARY 4

What They Say Bishop Daniel A. Cronin: The Church's mission of evangelization is _furthered in many ways.

Among the valuable instruments of the apostolate is the Catholic school. It affords students the opportunity for growth in the knowledge and love of God and seeks to integrate that faith into every aspect of education. The Catholic school engages in the formation of the whole person in Christ Jesus and his Gospel message.

Edward D. Costar, psychologist: The most important contribution provided by Catholic education is a sense of belong- ing and sharing provided by Christian community. Participation of families in this community enhances a child's feelings of security and love.

State Senator and Majority Whip ~ Fonseca: Greatly concerned with the decline in family life and rise of crime within the state and country, I treasure the Christian values and Christian moral code upheld in the Catholic schools throughout Massachusetts. Truly, these institutions have encouraged good citizenship.

Father Robert Kaszynski, pas-

tor: Faced with the challenge of evangelizing the baptized unbelievers within its midst and the problem of how to facilitate for today's Christian the concrete experience of the invisible God, the Church awakens daily to deeper recognition and appreciation of the role and unique effectiveness of one of its foremost blessings - the Christian school.

Superintendent Robert J. Nagle, Fall River Public Schools: The Fall River School Department endorses the thought expressed by President Carter, when he indicated recently that church-related schools had made a significant contribution to the society as a whole. This endorsement certainly applies specifically to the church-related schools of the Fall River area.

Mary M. O'Toole, teacher: Teaching in a Catholic school daily puts me in the midst of a growing Christian community and enables me to live out my commitment as a Christian in an unusually active and positive way.

Christine Griffin, elementary school student: In a Catholic school I learn about God and then Turn to Page Seven

Califano said he opposes tax across-the-board tuition credits. He said it is "worth looking at" ways to help low 'lnd middle-income families to pay such tuition.

But, he said, "I guess I have to say in all candor that in a ?Iuralistic society with a whole set of needs - including needs as urgent and desperate as malnutrition and abject poverty, tremendous health care needs for poor people, educational needs for very poor people - somehow or other those individuals, whose donations to their church are already tax deductible, have

Father Ba rtell In HEW Post WASHINGTON (NC) - Holy Cross Father Ernest Bartell, former president o'f Stonehill College, Easton, has been sworn in as Director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, part of the Education Division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Before heading Stonehill, Father Bartell was Director of the Center for the Study of Man in Contemporary Society and Chairman of the Department of Turn to Page Seven

What do the U.S. Bishops say about recombinant DNA research? See page eight.

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got to find a way, at this point in time, to bear the cost of sending their children to a parochial school or any other private school."

Commenting on Califano's statements, Father George W. Coleman, director of education for the Fall River diocese, said: "The right of parents to send their children to a school of their choice is in effect being removed, both by increasing education costs and by increased property taxes.

"The granting of a tax credit to parents of children attending private schools - and this includes college as well as elementary and secondary schools - would grant relief to those who pay for public schools they do not use. It would also maintain in existence forms of education alternative to the public school and state university sys-

tems, thereby providing competition in the field of education.

"If thE: cost of tax credit legis. lation seems great, even greater would be the ultimate costs of educating at public expense the 7.7 million children now in Catholic schools and colleges."

Father Coleman said it is projected that a tuition tax credit would mean, in the year 1980, a $4.7 billion loss in tax revenue to the federal government. But he said that if the children for whom tbe credit would be granted were in public schools, their education would cost taxpayers $17 billion yearly.

Secretary Califano made his commen ts in a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with NC News Service.

He di!;cussed parochial schools in connection with legislation offered by Senators Daniel PatTum to Page Seven

IWhat Shall "What shall we do?" queried Pamela Smith, almost in despair.

The chairman of the Greater Fall River chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, she had just returned from Sunday's "Right to Life Day" observance in Boston, flying from there to the national demonstration in Washington, D.C. In Boston, she said, the influential Boston Globe gave not a word to Sunday's program, although pro-lifers packed historic Faneuil Hall, despite "worst ever" traffic conditions following last week's mammoth blizzard.

"There were over 1500 people there and the hall's capacity is only 1000," recounted Mrs. Smith.

She, with scores of others from the Fall River diocese, went from Boston to Monday's March for Life in Washington.

She said an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 from all parts of the nation were on hand to march under sunny but chilly conditions from the White House to the Capitol.

"But Washington television de路 scribed it as a demonstration of 'Catholic school buses and nuns with children," she said.

On Monday night, neither the CBS nor NBC network gave the march the. slightest mention, although NBC Nightly News carried a long feature on difficulties experienced by poor women in raising money for abortions.

Mrs. Smith said the Massachusetts. delegation to Washing-

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ton met with both Senator Edwa rd Brooke and Senator Edward Kennedy. "Each insisted he was personally pro-life," she said, "and Senator Brooke was especially insistent on making it clear that he realized all life carne from God. "Then we discovered he is going to be the principal speaker at II pro-abortion congress.

As Hadley Arkes pointed out at thE: Boston rally," she commented, "our politicians do not undel'stand the difference between substantive moral commitments and personal emotional feelings."

"In general," she concluded, "pro-Iifl~rs are deeply concerned at the lack of media attention given their cause. . , 'What must We do,' one asked bittErly, 'show the people the ac-:ual bodies of the aborted ba b'ies, before they'll understand ':hat what we're talking abJut is murder?'"

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Silver Jubilee For La Sa lette A five-day mission retreat beginning Monday will mark the opening of the 25th anniversary year of La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. Father Richa:rd Delisle, MS of Enfield, N.H. will lead the shrine community in nightly ser路 vices to which the public is invi':ed.

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French Citizens Vanish

SEAGOVILLE, Tenn. - Bishop Joseph Durick, a full-time prison chapliain, has called for a nationwide effort to stop executions 'by lethal injections.

"This new type of legislative needlework might be thought of as an attempt to fashion a lace mask that will cover and beautify the ugly hce of capital punishment," he said.

BUENOS A:IRES, Argentina-A team of lawyers has begun investigating the disappearance of 16 French citizens, including two nuns, in Argentina. The lawyers' group includes two Frenchmen, retired Admiral Antoine Sanguinetti and Franceline Lepany, a civil rights leader and U.S. lawyers Herbert Semmel, director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, and John -Carro, .a New York Supreme Court justice.

But Would She Get Job? ROME-A female "newsperson" would be welcome to apply for work on the allmale editorial staff ~f the Vatican daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the paper's new director Valerio Volpini.

Equal Rights

ST~ PAUL, Minn-Minnesota's Catholic

FATHER LAWRENCE J. McNAMARA, former executive director of the Campaign for Human Development, who visited Fall River diocese last September, is new bishop of Grand Island, Neb.

bishops have supported legislation to guarantee eG.ual rights in housing for homosexuals. The bill would also prohibit discrimination agair.st ex-convicts and the elderly in housing.

'Negotiated 'Tu'ition' DENVER-Parents of Catholic school students in the Denver archdiocese will soon be paY'ing "negotiated tuition," that is, as much of the school's actual perpupil cost as they can afford, according to a new long-range archdiocesan plan for financial and educational development of schools.

Warn of IYC AAisuse

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia's military government has arrested more than 1,300 hunger strikers who had Church support.

The hunger strike was started in late December by 21 wives and children of miners ja'iled for union activities. It was later joined by 1,30C sympathizers.

Priest Arrested

Release of Prisoners Asked

ROME-Father Fernando Taddei, the priest in charge of the ancient Roman church where the city's Jews were once compelled to listen to Catholic sermons, has been arrested with 12 other persons in connection with the "laundering" of "hot money" from kidnapings and robberies.

Angolan Persecution ROME-The bishcps of Angola have protested the "frequent and lamentable Vliolations" of religious freedom in the Marxist nation. In a letter read in all churches Jan. 8, the Angolan bishops said that Catholics (half the population) suffer discrimination for their beliefs and often lose custody of their children.

No Sale LONDON-The Br'.tish government announced Jan. 19 that dt has cancelled plans to sell second-hand armored vehicles worth about $1.5 million to the ,government of EI Salvador. The proposed sale has been criticized by many church leaders, including. Cardinal George Ilasil Hume of Westminster.

Wants AAoney Back

REP. EDVJARD BEARD (D-RI) said in an interview on Vatican Radio that many US congressmen "intend to defend the principle of life."

NEW YORK-The Bristol-Myers Company has reached an out-of-court settlement with a group of nuns who said the company's policies for marketing baby formula have contributed to malnutrition in the Third World. The Sisters of the Precious Blood in Dayton, Ohio, who own 1,000 shares of stock in BristolMyers, charged that the company made "false and misleading' statements" to stockholders about its marketing of the formula.

NEW YORK-Members of the American working group planning the observance of the International Year of the Child (IYC) in 1979 warned against exploitation and misuse of the observance in ways that would harm the 350 million children in the world needing basic services such as medicine, education and sanitation. One example of such exploitation, said the Rev. Eileen Lindner itt an address to the Religious Public Relations Council in New York, is the plan of a textile manufacturer to produce a line of children's clothing, possibly containing cancer-producing agents, bearing the IYC logo.

Hungell' Strikers Jailed

FRANCIS FROST has been named associate secretary"for promotion and training for the US Catholic Conference Department of Comnmnications.

Bristol-AAyers Settlement

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Health Care Financing Administration is seeking to recover some Medicare funds paid to Catholic hospitals for the "imputed" costs of the services of nuns working at the motherhouses of religious orders operating a chain of hospitals. The HFCA said it has no idea how much money is involved, but 路Eugene Schulte, who heads the Catholic Hospital Association's Washington office, said the amount is likely to exceed '$1 million.

AN INFORMAL STUDY of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission.

ROME-Amnesty International, which received the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to free prisoners of conscience around the world, has launched a campaign to persuade South Africa to release prisoners of conscience, abrogate discriminatory legislation and end the use of torture.

Pope, AAayor AAeet VATICAN CITY-In their annual meeting this month, Pope Paul and Rome's Communist mayor expressed mutual willingness to work against urban ills and political violence. Both the .Pope and Mayo r Giulio Carlo Argan sp'oke at length about the city's social inequities and especially the rash of killings, bombings and other violence which has plagued the city for almost a year.

SISTEI:\ THADDEA KELLY, highest-ranking woman in the Roman Curia, is returning to her religious community in the United States.

Government AAorality WASHINGTON - "Government deals with moral issues all the time as a matter of public policy - taking care of old people, taking care of poor people, educating children," said Joseph Califano, 46, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in an interview after a year in office.

It's Not Polit'ical

WASHINGTON - The u.s. bishops~ involvement in debate over the Panama Canal treaties is not an attempt to play a direct role in politics, but rather an effort "to find a suitable means to fulfill the Church's vocation as instrument of the continuing advent of God's Kingdom in the lives of people and nations," said Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy of Miami at the annual Pan American Mass in Washington.

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HEW SECRETARY Joseph Califano says aid to private schools is a "low priority" matter for his department.

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Silver Jubilee Continued from Page One at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 in the shrine chapel, during which petie tions will be offered for the spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing' of those present.

In 1953, recall shrine pioneers, a small group of La Salette Fathers, Brothers and vol-

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'What Shall We Do?' Continued from Page One Despite lack of attention, however, throughout the nation church bells tolled, new mothers received roses, priests celebrated solemn Masses of atonemenJ, abortion clinics were picketed and motorcades circled cities proclaiming the pro-life message as thousands throughout the country used a variety of methods to protest the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's abortion decisions.

Despite bad weather almost everywhere, most observances went off as scheduled. Some 3,000 persons gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Salem, Ore., to stand for nearly two hours in the rain.

An estimated 1,700 pro-lifers in Providence, R. 1., braved 19 inches of snow to pack the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul for the largest pro-life demonstration ever held in the state.

Rhode Island Gov. J. Joseph Gar路 rahy and U.S. Rep. Edward P. Beard joined Bishop Louis E. Gelineau and other dignitaries for the Mass, which was followed by a rally in nearby Bishop McVinney Auditorium.

In Washington, D.C several hundred people marked the actual fifth anniversary of the Su-

. preme Court decisions with a two-hour Sunday prayer vigil at the National Visitors' Center.

The next day they joined the thousands of demonstrators who lobbied their congressmen before participating in the White HouseCapitol march, followed by a rally at which a series of speakers denounced continued congressional inaction on a human life amendment to the Constitution.

The most enthusiastic applause went to Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), who capped a brief talk with a scathing indictment of President Jimmy Carter.

Speaking without notes, Dornan told the crowd that the United States had already permitted its six millionth legal abortion and that the death toll was now higher than the number of Jews who died at Hitler's hands. "What a nightmare!" Dornan exclaimed. The crowd also reacted strongly when Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.) reminded them the pro-life issue cuts across party lines. He denounced Senator Brooke (R-Mass.) who, although a fellow Republican, worked hard to defeat the abortion funding cutoff. Brooke's name drew loud and prolonged booing.

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Mercy Action Foundation, which has Sister Rosellen Gallogly as province representative of its board of directors, was initiated in 1971 by the Sisters of Mercy of the Union to extend the community's works of mercy beyond traditional forms of service, to路 stimulate creative response to needs of society and to make justice for all a reality.

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During its first session, Project Crioulo will offer courses in the Crioulo language, taught by Mrs. Almeida, and in Cape Verdean cooking, directed by Mrs. Joanna Andrade.

Following next week!s preparatory prayer program, other celebrations and religious events' will be scheduled during the jubilee year.

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Open to all greater New Bedfordites, a three-month initial program seeks to re-establish recognition and greater appreciation of the Cape Verdean heritage through study of the Crioulo language as well as the cuisine native to the islands.

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themoorin~ Catholic Schools . . . A Positive Difference Catholic schools are different. People are the same. It is the challenge of change that makes a Catholic school different. It is the lack of challenge that makes people the same. Somewhere between the desire to change and the challenge it presents, one can find the reason why people feel deeply about Catholic schools.

In these days ~hen the Catholic education system, as we knew it only a few short years ago, is in the process of change, there exist in some circles doubts, fears 路and even despair. However, if Catholic education is determined to chart a course whereby people are changed, then the system itself must be involved in a changing, growing and transforming process. There are some who yearn for the days of parochial education where the absolute even permeated recess time. This, of course, is simply a flight of fancy.

The Catholic school system has merely reflected the development of the Church' in the light of Vatican II. In addition, Catholic schools have been tremendously affected by the sociological environment in which they find themselves. The Church and its teaching mission cannot exist in a vacuum. As they affect the wor.ld, so too are they affected by it.

For example, consider the population shifts tha~ ha'(e influenced urban living patterns. The growth of suburbia, the great influx of immigration, the declir..e in the birth rate and the unique difEculties of public education have all played a part in shaping Catholic schools and their p:~esent difficulties.

Our Catholic schools need our objective support if they are to contir:.u.e to offer a positive differer.ce in education. Contemporary problems of family living such as divorce, single parent families, abortion and mass sterilization supply but a few reasons why Catholics must renew and revive their mission of education, their mission of evangelization.

As change affects our lives, we must be able tc meet its challenge. The changes in our life patterns have made the challenge of Catholic education all the greater to those who really care.

Problems do exist within the system. No one is t.rying to avoid this fact. Yet we must all remember that no problem was ever solved by subjective emotional antics.

The flaws and faults in our Catholic school system are too often overemphasized, even by some well-intentioned Catholics.

A balanced and objective view would certainly indicate the advantages of a Catholic school education. The doubts and the problems that faced all education in the late sixties and early seventies have now passed. We cannot judge as some still do, today's Catholic school by that standard.

We should try to remember that the upsets of the past are usually the growing pains for our tomorrows. For the Catholic school, this growth means that it will always try to meet the challenges of the times as it prepares yount" men and women to make the changes that Christ demands of them.

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President Humphrey?

By Father John B. Sheerin, CSP Hubert Humphrey's body, after .lying in state in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, was flown back to Minneapolis for burial in the Lakewood Cemetery. America's most popular statesman lies alone in his glory.

That glory was represented at the Capitol memorial service in the presence of three men, two past presidents and the man who serves in that capacity now - an office that eluded Humphrey's grasp: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon. Yet none of these men is so genuinely admired as the bubbly, effervescent senator from Minnesota.

Some say that Humphrey was inordinately anxious to become president but there are strong reasons to believe he would have made a great one. I believe that, had he been elected, he would have radically changed the course of American history after 1968. Watergate would never have happened with all its accompanying agony and scandal.

Divine providence and his own father seemed to be grooming Humphrey for the presidency until he lost the election to Richard Nixon by less than one percent. of the vote. Early in his life he absorbed from his father a passionate interest in amelicrating the lot of the poor. Hu-

bert remembered painfully the agonies of the poor in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

He told about what the Depression did to his father in the Dust Bowl of South Dakota. In a magazine interview in 1977, Humphrey said, "It took 10 years off his life, just as surely as my name is Hubert Humphrey. I can still see him at his desk, his hands wringing, wondering how he could ever pay the bills, pay the taxes, take care of the family."

From watching his father's anguish, Hubert developed his inte~est in helping the poor, the little people on the edge of starvation. He remembered how his father read him the famous "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at a political convention by that noted populist, William Jennings Bryan.

Bryan's impassioned plea for the common people was echoed years later when Hubert headed a successful drive at the 1948 Democratic Convention to put a civil rights plank' in the platform: "The time has arrived for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the benign sunshine of human rights." And in 1964, he spearheaded the drive that won the vote in the Senate for the Civil Rights Act.

When we think of the long centuries of human enslavement and social injustice towards the blacks and the poor, Humphrey's achievement in radically improving their lot in a few years was a miracle of the first magnitude.

Commentators may say that he was sentimental, that he made extravagant political promises when buoyed up by his personal optimism, that he backed a national "juice-bank" for citrus growers and a kosher school lunch program for Jews, a political Santa Claus. But by and large, he delivered on his promises more effectively than any politician in his time. He would have made a great president were it not for the twists and turns of politics and the confusion of the times.

A Minnesota professor once told him, "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be another Cicero." A Cicero he was not: he had a habit of talking too long and too fast. But he could ta[{ convincingly because he was absolutely honest, and he could talk winningly because he sincerely loved the common people.

That he lost the 1968 election is one of the greatest heartaches of our history. For those four years, 1968 to 1972, are four tragic years we would like to tear from the pages of history.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 26, 1978

Charities Appeal Sets Schedule.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has announced a schedule for the 37th annual Catholic Charities Appeal, which will begin at a kick-off meeting at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

A special gifts phase will take place from Monday, April 24 through Saturday, May 6, followed by a parish phase, Sunday, May 7 through Wednesday, May 17.

The Appeal funds a wide range of agencies offering human services to diocesan residents.

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January 27 Rev. John T. O'Grady, 1919, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Fall River Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, 1955, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River January 28 Rev. Joseph M. Griffin, 1947, Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket Rt. Rev. John J. Shay, 1961, Pastor, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro January 29 Rev. Christiano J. Borges, 1944, Pastor, St. John Baptist, New Bedford Rev. Albert J. Masse, 1950, Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro January 31 Rev. Charles J. Burnes, 1901, Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro Rev. William F. Sullivan, 1930, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset Rev. Manuel C. Terra, 1930, Pastor, St. Peter, Provincetown February I Rt. Rev. Michael J. O'Reilly, 1948, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton Rev. Anatole Desmarais, 1975, Pastor, St. James, Taunton Rt. Rev. Patrick Hurley, 1968, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton February 2 Most Rev. William Stang, D.O., 1907, First Bishop of Fall River 1904-1907 Rev. Patrick F. McKenna, D.D., 1913, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Taunton Rev. John L. McNamara, 1941, ·Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River.

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MSGR.CANTY

Loved Years at St. Paulls Says Msgr. Canty Speaking from a snowbound condominium in South Dennis, Msgr. Joseph C. Canty complained whimsically that he had been promised relatively snowfree winters in his retirement haven.

"They told me the Cape gets very little snow," he said, "but this winter I think we've had more than anyone else."

For reasons of health, the prelate retired January 4 from the pastorate of St. Paul's parish in Taunton, and since then has been busy settling into his retirement home.

He says that cooking is a new challenge to him, explaining that as a Navy and Marine Corps chaplain and then as a pastor, he had been fortunate in having his needs taken care of, but that he's now learning the mysteries of the supermarket.

He added, however, that Msgr.

William D. Thomson of nearby St. Francis Xavier parish in Hyannis is a good and hospitable friend.

Msgr. Canty, a Taunton native, came to the life of a pastor after an eventful 22 years as a chaplain, during which he was aboard a ship torpedoed in the Pacific during World War II. "Fortunately," he said, "we had a man aboard who was able to put us back in commission after the attack, so we were able to get away under our own power."

He still, however, mourns the seven young Navy men lost during the incident.

"I loved the kids," he said, as he recalled his Navy years, which took him to Honolulu, many parts of Europe and across the oceans of the world. That they returned his feelings is evidenced by the many men

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across the nation who still keep in touch with him.

"You name the place, I hear from it," he said.

His enjoyment of travel didn't lessen after his Navy years, and he has made many trips to the West Coast where a number of fellow chaplains and other Navy men have retirement homes. He hopes that his own retirement will give him added opportunities to keep in touch with such shipmates.

Among them is retired Marine Corps General Charles Quilter, who as a colonel served as Msgr.

Canty's "altar boy."

"It was impressive for the troops to see their six-foot colonel on the altar serving Mass," he said.

His travels will have to wait a while, however. "Right now," he chuckled, "my hobby is completing moving and getting settled."

He took time, though, for a testimonial party his former parishioners at St. Paul's had for him on January 15.

"It was informal, no speakers, just a chance for parishioners to come and say hello," said John Schondek, a member of St. Paul's.

Msgr. Canty commented with delight on a bookcase he received at tne event. It will occupy a place of honor in his new home.

"I enjoyed every year I spent in the service," he summed up.

"And I loved my years at St. Paul's. Everyone has been good to me. I have nothing but gratitude."

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NEWS NOTES

This weekend at the LaSalette Center of Christian Living, Cursillo #83 will be experienced by 40 men from the Fall River diocese. A reminder is given to all who have experienced and lived Cursillo, that they remember these candidates as they follow the theme of this Cursillc,: Sing The Praise of God. The Annual Winter Social of the Diocesan Cursillo family will be held on Saturday, Feb. , 11 at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay. The program for the second semester of Leaders' School has been announced. A three week course on prayer will be given

by Sister Virginia Sampson, fo::lowed by a two week discussion on Evangelization in the Cursillo Movement offered by Father Giles Genest.

From Feb. 2 through 5 the NEItiona1 Rectors' Board will be meeting in Dallas, Texas. Two elected representatives from each of the 12 national regior"s will gather to discuss formation of leaders, evangelization and development of leadership among poor and minorities. Father Genest will attend as one of the

One in a monthly series of days of recollection for Sisters of the diocese will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant St., New Bedford. Father Randy Gibbons, OFM of the chapel staff will conduct the program, concluding with a Eucharistic liturgy.

January 24 Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, 1977, Assistant, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville.

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Former neighbor who lived next door to me at the Chad Brown Housing Project, Provo R.1. during 1945-46. They having moved from Chad Brown Apt. to the Cape area.

The family were often visited by a brother (In·law) who at that time was a student in a religious order.

Contact Lawrence McNulty P.O. Box 94" Florence, Mass. 01060 or Telephont, Collect earl, A.M. 1-413·584·2192, Captl Telephone 548·7999.

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from Region 1 (:'Ilew ,England and New York).

A post-Cursillo Committee has been formed for the various areas of the diocese. Cursillistas wishing information on this new program may contact a com· nittee member in their area.

They include: --Area I, Joe Daigle, BrewsterHarwich --Area II, Carolyn Weber, Hyannis-Centerville --Area III, Joe Sullivan, Upper Cape-Mattapoisett --Area IV, Henry Rodriques, New Bedford --Area V, Norma Olivier, Dartmouth --Area VI, Tom Donahue, Som· erset-Swansea --Area VII, Theresa Neintimp, .

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 26, 1978

By

REV. ANDREW M.· GREELEY

What should be the reaction of the leadership of the American church to the continued crisis of religious decline?

In any other organization, those in charge would call an urgent meeting and plan for a "crash" response.

There will be no such meeting, of course. The culture and structure of the leadership of the American Catholic church make it almost physically impossible

Findings on Catholic Abortion Views Shattering for them to acknowledge the crisis of decline. The only reaction which the constraints of their position permit them :.5 that of denial. This is not the result of ill will or ignorance; there is nothing else they can do.

So let's see some of the dimensions of the crisis which doesn't exist.

Since 1973, weekly church attendance among men has fallen to 35 percent, among women to 46 percent. Among those under 30, it has fallen to 25 percent; for those over 45, to 50 percent. In the meantime there has been virtually no Protestant . weekly change. The crisis is uniquely Catholic (and based 01 a data file of more than 9,OOJ

cases).

Two out of every five young persons who still admit to being Catholic (about 20 percent of the youn.g people who were raised Catholic have already left the Church) almost never go to church. You may write' them off as pagan materialists, but they are still the future of the church.

What are we doing to get them back? Nothing, of course, for to do anything would be to admit that there was a crisis.

Last week I mentioned that 76 percent of the Catholics would have an abortion (or advise their wives to) if there was a threat to the mother's health. This is not notably different from the Protestant proportion of 84 percent.

It had been pressing on her op- \ met of bandage. She was grog-

ByMARY CARSON

.Recently my 19-year-old daughter underwent six hours of surgery to remove a growth of bone above her right eye. 'The plan was to remove the bone and put in a plate to replace it.

Six hours is a long time to wait for a doctor to call.

When the phone finally rang-I fully expected, "Mrs. Carson, the operation is over. Your daughter is fine." But instead he explained that the growth of bone in her forehead was much deeper than he had anticipated.

tic nerve, reducing the size of the canal the nerve passes through.. So he had not put the plate in her skull. After it had healed for about 10 days, he'd operate again to complete the job.

My husband and I debated whether or not to tell !her. Immediately after such heavy sur· gery would be a rough time for her to hear bad news.

Yet if we waited, it could lead her to wonder what else we weren't telling her. Fears and doubts could erode her, hindering her recovery. She had to be sure we were being completely honest.

She was conscious when we came into intensive care. Having steeled myself ahead of time for the absolute worst, she surprised me by how well she had withstood it. Her head was in a hel··

gy from the anesthetic. But, all in all, she looked much better than I had expected.

She knew who we were . . . where she was . . . what had happened. There had been no brain damage. God does answer prayers.

She needed tissues. I went to get them, leaving her father alone with her for a few minutes.

He began. "Terri, the doctor had to take out more bone than he expected. He didn't put the plate in yet. He wants it to heal a bit, first."

"What's that mean?"

"You are .going to have another operation in about 10 days," "Rats!"

That was the extent of her self-pity.

The first days the swelling

Similarly, 66 percent of the Catholics and 76 percent of the Protestants would have an abortion if there was a serious threat of a defective child. Twenty-eight 15ercent of the Protestants and 22 percent of the Catholics would have an abortion if they thought they could afford no more children.

Nor are all the Catholics who admit that they would have an abortion undevout. Forty-six percent of the weekly mass-goers would abort a potentially defective child and 39 percent would end a pregnancy if there was a serious threat to the mother's health.

I will confess that I was shattered by these findings. I did not think the credibility of the church

as a teacher had eroded nearly so far. I'm certain how to explain the findings except to think that the collapse of the power of the extrinsic arguments has been much more rapid than I would have expected.

It used to be that the church C'ould "coast along" with weak intrinsic arguments for its moral position because it could always fall back on the argument from authority: "This is what the Catholic church teaches, and if you're a Catholic, you accept it."

That line of argument has not worked too well in most countries for a long time; but it did work here (and in England and Ireland). It doesn't seem to work any more.

increased. Her neck and face probably faking. Without watchpuffed up, making it impossible ing I watched her. Sooner or to eat food she had no appetite later she'd forget holding her for anyway. side, the stooped walk, the painBut after three days she was ed expression. again hungry, full of' spirit, and But she never missed a beat.

My husband was having a cup anxious to get out of Intensive Care so she could have longer of tea and overheard someone visiting hours. She was lone- dialing the' phone ... then Bob· some for the other kids and they bie's voice. "Hello operator? Can missed her. you send me an ambulance? I'm The first night, after we came sick. And my Mommy and Daddy home from visiting Terri, our won't take me to the hospital." youngest, Bobbie, who is retardMy husband grabbed the ed, came to me crouched over phone. No one was on the other holding her right side just be- end. low her waist. "I hurt. Take me I finally convinced Bobbie that to the doctor. I have to go to / when Terri was feeling better the hospital." she would be allowed to go I thought to myself, "Dear God visit. . . . not appendicitis . . . not "You sure?"

Once she was absolutely certonight," It wouldn't have been the first time we had two kids tain that she could go visit, the in the hospital at the same time. appendicitis was "cured," I felt her side but she didn't I wish I could have cured a indicate any extra pain. She was growth of bone that easily.

Iy AVIS Syndromel Hits Old Peoplel Study Discovers By

JIM CASTELLI

WASHINGTON (NC) The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released a 112-page report detailing massive' age discrimination in federal programs.

A major source of discrimination against the elderly, the commission found, is the use of costbenefit analysis. "Discrimina-

tion on the basis of age occurs," the commission said, "when administrators provide services to some age groups rather thar. others because of a belief that providing services to them wiL provide a better return on the government's investment."

The commission said empha.. sis on preventive health care by the Department of Health, Edu·· cation and Welfare and the U.S. Public Health Service associate~ "achievement of the preventive health care goals almost entirely with services to children and youth," The commission quoted a

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MARILYN RODERICK

Where but in New England could you start a week with a storm that had all the elements of a tropical hurri-

Public Health Service official who said this attitude "does not represent any exclusion of services to the elderly . . . It is just our belief that the pay-off is a ·little better the younger you have intervention" through preventive care.

"This statement," the commission said, "seems to overlook the importance that early detection and prevention of illness have for persons of any age. Today's older persons have much to gain from preventive health care services. The 'payoff' that results may be equally important to society, both econ·

omically and socially," In job training, the commission found that persons over 45 received a disproportionately small percentage of slots offered by programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Some of this discrimination, the commission found, resulted from the fact that it is difficult to find jobs for persons over 45 in private industry.

The commission cited what is known among professionals as the "YAVIS" syndrome a preference for patients and' clients who are (Y)oung, (A)ttrac-

tive, (V)erbal, (I) intelligent and (S)elf-serving.

Last June, Robert Derzon, head of the Health Care Financing Adminstration, suggested that the government could save more than $1 million a year by encouraging terminal patients to refuse certain types of treatment; to, in effect, die before they otherwise might in order to save federal money.

The Civil Rights Commission age discrimination study makes it clear that Derzon is not the only one in the human services field who thinks that way.

Says Hlere T·hiat Winter Stu.sh Is·n"t All Bad

cane and end it with a good old Yankee bliz'hrd?

But aside from the trouble of living in ye old snow belt, one does have to stop and admire the beauty of January. For a few short hours the potholes are covered up, the most pathetic trees become pieces of sculpture and every house is decked in a lovely cape of white.

By the time this column is printed, I'm sure Y'/e will all be tired of trud.ging through slush, pushing cars out of icy roadways and in general trying to .conduct our everyday lives despite the weather; however, every now and then try to forget the discomfort and glimpse some of the beauty!

With few fresh vegetables in the markets, a redpe that adds

zest to the frozen variety is a joy. This easy, delicious recipe was given to me by Mrs. Henry France, an arden recipe collector who summers at Westport Point.

Spinach Souffle 2 pkg. cooked, drained spinach 2 beated eggs 1 can undiluted cream of mushroom soup

1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper Y2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 Grease ring mold or casserole 2 Cook and drain spinach.

3 Add the soup, drained spinach and seasonings to the beaten eggs.

4. Bake in a hot water bath in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Riv,er-Thur., Jan. 26, 1978

What's Happening In Schools Week The week's major event will be a 20-school project at the Dartmouth Mall from Thursday, Feb. 2, through Saturday, Feb. 4. Coordinated by Dennis "'oyant, principal of St. Mary )chool, New Bedford, ,it will include a continuous showing of art displays and slides; and at various times r1 l1 ring the three days there will be: -ethnic dancing from Holy -Family-Holy Name, New Bedford -square dances from St. James-St. John, New Bedford -a rhythm band from St. Joseph, Fairhaven -folk groups from Stang, St. Anthony and Holy Family High Schools.

-choral singing from St. Mary's Home, New Bedford -gymnastics from Dominican Academy, Fall River An attractive Catholir Schools Week leaflet designe<'

by Sister Ann Boland, SUSC principal of Holy Union Primary School, Fall River, will be distributed at the Dartmouth Mall and in diocesan schools. It is reproduced on page 1 of this issue of Th,.

Anchor.

Check the attention-getting billboard at the entrance t( the Brightman Street Bridgr in Fall River. Its messagp' '\Catholic Schools - Growing Together."

'J Beginning the week, at 8:45 a.m. Sunday, Father Geor~~ Coleman, diocesan director of education, will celebrate th" Channel 6 TV Mass, with f" congregation of area Catholic school students. :::

Throughout the week: TV and radio spots on the Schools Week theme "Catholic Schools: Everyone Grows'" ,;.

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On Tuesday, Jan.. 31, a day of reflection will be offered Connolly High School students by principals of Jesuit schools in New Orleans and Portland, Maine. An evening program for parents will follow. =::

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Almost every parochial school has scheduled "open school" hours, combined with displays of pupils' art work on the Schools Week theme. :::

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Principals George Milot and John Finni of Stang and Holy Family High Schools, together with students from each school, will be on a talk show from 8 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 on New Bedford Radio WBSM. . :::

For early risers on Thursday, Feb. 2: Father Pierre Lachance, OP, director of St. Anne's parochial school, Fall River, will be seen on Ch. 6 at 6:30 a.m. on the Bob Basset Show, discussing Catholic schools.

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Letters to tIle editor

letters are welcomed, but should be no more than 200 words. The editor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and include a home or business address.

Unfair Editorial

IT SEEMS UNLIKELY NOW, but days are coming when you'll yearn for coooling ice as this man did during 100 degree New Jersey heat wave last summer. (NC Photo)

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Dear Editor: Your editorial, "Spiritual Elitism?" I believe is unfair.

Charismatic prayer meetings have no roll call or dues. One does not join. You just walk in, sit down and, if you wish, participate.

A good percentage of visitors and volunteers in rest homes and hospitals attend prayer meetings. They forget themselves and their problems reaching out to others without fanfare.

Perhaps a check on the percentage of members in church choirs, women's guilds, Marian Medal honors, CCD teachers. even your diaconate candidates and their wives who attend Ultreya and prayer meetings occasionally would be nice.

C. T. Spillane Orleans

Not Elitist

Ghetto Mentality?

Dear Editor: S"'ame on you for permitting the publication of the article "Here's Why Irish Won" in the January 12 issue of The Anchor.

It is without question a throwback to the ghetto mentality of the American church a generation or more ago, and it merits abot.t as much critical acclaim as t,lOse Grade-B movies of the forties, with their weak copies of JCnute Rockne screaming at their brawny if not brainy young charges to go out there and win, because GOD IS ON OUR SIDE O:1e would have thought that the identification of God, through team Masses, rosaries (left in the locker room) and medals, with the Catholic team and its consequent invincibility might have been eradicated after the Decree on Ecumenism of Vatican II. But not in southeastern Massachusetts. Here, what's more American than mom, the flag, and apple pie?

Easy. It's Monsignor Sidelines, "seen himself by Fall River friends and millions of other fans as TV cameras swept the game sidelines." There he is for all to see, mediating salvation from those Texas devils for the c1eancut (well, mostly) lads of Notre Dame.

to private schools would be conContinued from Page One Dear Editor: rick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and stitutional.

Califano acknowledged that This is in response to the Robert Packwood (R-Ore.) to provide a tax credit of up to during the 1976 campaign both Mooring of Jan. 19 in which you $500 per student for one-half of President Jimmy Carter and Vice ask Charismatics why they are tuition paid to virtually any ac- President Walter Mondale prom- so elite that they speak only to credited college, university, or ised to seek constitutional ways themselves. Somebody must have been' speaking to somebody beelementary, secondary or vo- to help parents of children in parochial schools. He said he has sides themselves to have grown cational school.

The God-is-on-our-side theme Califano said he realized that discussed this with both Carter from a national conference of Charismatics of 100 people in is about as healthy now as it parochial schools lift a "trem- and Mondale.

"We're looking at that, but I 1967, to 22,000 in 1973 and to was when Gott mit uns appeared endous burden" from the public schools and that, for example, don't have a proposal to lay on about 50,000 in 1975. Somebody on the insignia of the Kaiser's must also have listened to God troops in World War I. It's ironthe Chicago parochial school sys- the table right now." ic to think that your story aptem is one of the largest school Califano said tuition relief speaking to them.

Spiritual snobs? Never. ever, peal's on a front page otherwise systems of any kind in the' programs "should be much more was there a spirit-filled Chris- given over to ecumenical reports. country. related to need."

It accords more with the blurb "I don't think that the lawyers tian who did not feel himself so But he said that as a public at he top that all roads lead to that he didn't happy, so blessed official he had to measure the and the doctors and the corLincoln Park (for the Bishop's needs of parents of children porate executives in this coun- want to share that joy with Ball). Certainly for people who everyone.

It simply spills over. in private schools against "other try who send their children to write stories like the one on the There is no way to contain it. needs that are out there of all expensive private schools at the Elitist? Nothing could be fur- Cotlon Bowl, religion is a game, kinds, and I think some of those elementary and secondary level, a fu n-house, a roller-coaster with other needs are much more des- when there are public school ther from the truth! One of the the highs of victory and the lows perate." systems at both those levels, most outstanding characteristics He also said he did not know should be permittÂŤ:d to have the of Charismatics is the ability to of cefeat . . . whether tax credits for tuition American taxpayer, whose av- see derelicts, outcasts, prostiJean Verdenal erage .income is about $14,000 a tutes through the eyes of God, ArIes. France year, pick up part of the tab. to love them and to minister to them.

That's a choice they make."

Christianity cannot be threat"My own kids are in private, Continued from Page One ened by elements external to it. parochial schools - my boy's Need mortgage grow to love him more and more at Georgetown Prep, my daugh- If there is any threat it is from or home each day and then I can share ter's at Stoneridge - that's my within. We who claim to. be Christians can do more harm with and care for everyone choice," Califano said. illprovement money? . when what we do or are mocks Mal,e NBlS your home port. around me.

Christ ... and the Holy Spirit.

Sister Theresa Mary, principal: Why should a church - a Catholic education strives to church, of all things, be seated build community on a solid Contmued from Page One over a movement of the Holy foundation of Christian involve- Economics at the University of Spirit? A New Pentecost prayed ment, initiative, responsibility Notre Dame. for by Pope John!

NewBedtord and leadership. This is realized The Holy Cross priest has Virginia C. Williams ''-ll Institution fOr savings through total partnership bebeen an economic consultant to ~ 6 convenient offices North Dighton tween Church, family and school, the New York Governor's Comutilizing the community talent mission for Elementary and Sectoward the quest of a deeper reondary Education. In 1971, he rr~~~~~-~~~~~. lationship with God in everydirected the Economic Analysis day living. of Nonpublic Education in the Owen and Patricia McGowan, ARE YOU UNHAPPY WITIH YOUR PRESENT LIVING United States for the President's parents: Growth means moveARRANGEMENTS? MONEY WORIUES GETTING TO YOU? Commission on School Finance. ment toward the light. That is what education in Catholic The Fund for the Improve144 Pleasant St., A"lebo.'O, Mass. 02703 pre-primary ment of Postsecondary Educaschools from Now has openings. Walking distcmce to stores and town, through college has meant to tion was established by the EduR.N. on duty daily. All types of pllymEmts accepted. This is our seven children. As with cation Amendments of 1972. It not a nursing home. For information Call: plants, there has been and is makes small seed money imsome blind groping, but the provement grants to postsecondMRS. MORIN, R.\'II. (617) 222-1532 steady thrust is toward the true ary institutions and commurlityor write Morin's Retirement Home. light. based organizations. _;iiiiiiiiiiiiOiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~'

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur.• JOt,. 26. 1978

DNA Research: -What Do Bishops Say? Following is a statement on Recombinant DNA Research issued by the Bishops' Committee for Human Values: The Bishops' Committee for Human Values has followed the discussion of recombinant DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) research with interest. It is an issue which illustrates the endeavor of scientists and the public to ensure scientific progress_ in a fashion that respects human values. We recognize that this debate has not yet come to full maturity; that it is too early to determine precisely how to reconcile scientific inquiry, public health, human values, and policy in this matter. It is not too early, however, to outline its many dimensions and to urge informed public participation.

We have several purposes in speaking to this issue. A primary objective is educational. This is just one of several important areas in science policy about which not 'only scientists and specialists but the general public should be informed. The responsibility to be informed is especially critical for those in teaching and pastoral roles.

Secondly, since recombinant DNA is a pradigm of other scientific issues having value and public policy dimensions the approach in this instance will be normative of the way these other matters are handled. We should like to call attention, then, to the moral dimensions beyond the hazards issue and offer some guidelines in moral reasoning concerning recombinant DNA research.

The modern era of molecular biology began more than 20 years ago with the identification of DNA as the chemical basis of heredity and the discovery of its general structure. Advances in molecular biology now permit the joining of portions of DNA molecules from different species into "DNA recombinants," which are then inserted 1nto bacterial calls. This technique will recilitate increased knowledge of basic biological processes because it makes possible the study of individual genes and their component parts.

Recombinant DNA research has already increased our understanding of the organization of genes in lower organisms and of gene duplication.

It is thought that there will be beneficial practical applications as well. On the other hand, the research is a cause of concern because some experiments may pose new, unanticipated risks. Biologists are altering the genes of living things without being able to predict the outcome.

Because this technology has the potential to modify all forms of life it requires full exploration, of the ends it serves and the means to these ends. Serious, thoughtful reflection on these - matters as well as responsible collaboration between scientists and the public are morally and pragmatically imperative. This process of reflection was initiated by the scientific com-

munity on an international level novel and uncontrollable epi- not be at the expense of other and has expanded to include demics) and on the unknown and fundamental values.

Because the well-being and members of the public in local lasting efects of such intervencommunities. The nature and ex- tion in the evolutionary pro- health of human and other forms of life may be at stake, content of the debate calls for re- cess.

There are basic ethical ques- cerned persons should become spectful, patient, responsible behavior on the part of all pari:ici- tions about recombinant DNA involved in the dialogue. These research which should be raised remarks do not answer the quespants.

Simply stated, the dilemma is and dispassionately addressed. tion of precisely how to balance this: investigation involving re- Have we sufficiently investiga- the value of scientific inquiry combinant DNA promises great ted 'the potential for hazard to with responsibility to humanity at large. It seems wise, however, theoretical advances. Moreover, justify this resarch?

To exercise a moderating in- to inject a note of caution and this technique may have practical applications (e.g., in medicine and agriculture).

At the same time, because the research is new (in some ct.ses involving pathtoganic substances and sometimes new organisms) ii: may involve unknown and potentially grave risks. It is generally agreed that there is need for caution since DNA molecules ." could come from the laboratory ~ with consequences which cannot -... ,&.",.~" be foreseen. ."... .• . •:•.•..........

Parties to the controversy . . .< .~.. . . '><~ .-"'. adopt various stanc::s ranging ~.~. "".,.,. from the opinion that already .~ too much time has been lost and ~ work should proceed apace, to the other extreme which would ... 9', ',I ' . ban all recombinant DNA research as inherently too risky.

Without detailing the history of the entire controversy, several commendable aspects of the debate should be noted. The issue came to public attention through the responsible action of scientists themselves who A< .. were concerned about the possible hazards. ~ :~ Furthermore, molecular bic1o'~"" %JII.: ~ ...•.... ....:::. "'::'f<:t\:~ ,. . ...

At. ,:<;8ft.;<.",.,.; gists voluntarily imposed a morNOBEL PRIZE WINNER Maurice H. F. Wilkins atorium on the conduct of certain types of recombinant DNA studies a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecular research while the sit:.::ation was structure in 1962. (NC Photo) reviewed. The process of deliberation about the technique and \ fluence on recombinant DNA prudence in the awesome task its hazards was open. In other studies, does one need to iden- of so doing. words, there has been a serious tify or only suspect substanA fundamental issue in this effort on the part of some sciential riski Who should judge the debate concerns the public's retists to consider the risk dimenacceptability of risk? Has there lationsship to scientific resion of the matter. been sufficiently wide dissemina- search. Contrary to the notion In June 1976 a yea::--long ds- tion of balanced, accurate infor- of value-free science, almost cussion of safeguards resulted mation about recombinant DNA every scientific endeavor has in the publication of guidelines for the public to contribute in- trans-scientific dimensions perby the National Institutes of telligently to policy making in taining to aspects of human life Health which specify how grant- this regard? Are the NIH guide- other than the scientific. ees of NIH must conduct recom- lines adequate? Can they be enThese dimensions involve ethibinant DNA research. These forced, and if so, how? cal and public policy implicaguidelines stipulate two types of Is legiSlation a satisfactory tions. In keeping with the right containment: physical and biologway of managing or controlling of self-determination, the public ical. The physical containment should know about scientific requirements are designed to this research? What is the re- research and be able to judge sponsibility of the United States confine organisms containing reon an international level in 'deal- for itself the acceptability of the combinant DNA to the laborarisk which such experimentation tory. The biological containment ing with recombinant DNA? entails for present and future Have we sufficiently reflected requirements stipulate' the use generations. of weakened strains of host ca]s, on this method of intervening Furthermore, if the discussion so that, should any organis::ns in the process of evolution? Is escape from physical contain- recombinant DNA only a pre- includes an informed public, the ment, they could not survive. lude to more extensive genetic debate is likely to consider more Agreement is lacking, however, modification, Le., to human en- than the specific issue of biogineering? How far do we want hazards. The focus may expand on the adequacy of the guidelines to prevent such an QC- to advance in genetic engineer- from the means of achieving greater knowledge to include the curence. The guidelines do ing? end or goal of the activity.

The controversy surrounding not apply to industrial and other these techniques highlights the A multidisciplinary effort private research.

Proponents of recombint.nt issues of freedom of scientific should consider the social, poliDNA research cite its potential inquiry and the role of the pub- tical, economic, and ethical imbenefits (e.g., the development lic in science policy. Among the plications of such research. Reof new methods for understand- values prized by the scientific flection is called for on the ing and controlling disease) and community are, understanding, meaning of the direction microthe adequacy of the NIH guide- scientific knowledge and the biology is taking in recombinant DNA research. lines to prevent any undesireable freedom to pursue it.

The Church, while recognizing consequences, which they conWith these as with all values, tend, are at this point merely however, the potential exists for its limitations in scientific mathypothetical. Critics of the tech- conflict with other human val- ters, has something to contribute nique tend to focus on the po- ues. Knowledge gained in re- to his reflection.

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the Church in the Modern World observes that "recent research and discoveries in the sciences, in history and philosophy bring up new problems which have an important bearing on life itself and demand new scrutiny by theologians."

In other words, the new circumstances which challenge traditional understanding of human values must be met with creativity and imagination, reflecting a fuller and deeper understanding of the values at stake. We can undoubtedly come to still greater appreciation of our intellectual and creative capacities.

Yet, in this era of unprecedented scientific capabilities the pursuit of knowledge or truth is not the sole criterion for responsible scientific inquiry, especially in light of the limitations of our human condition. A desire to control the totality of life, coupled with increased technological might, produces an inflated sense of autonomy and tends to obscure the fact that our intelligence and creativity are limited.

There is more to reality than what is subject to scientific investigation and manipulation.

Each scientific advance does not necessarily constitute real human programs.

This realization should cause us to pause before we pursue everything which is scientifically feasible. Wisdom is also necessary if the good of humankind is really to be achieved.

The fundamental moral imperative is that good is to be pursued and evil to be avoided.

We are strictly obliged to avoid harm, but we are not obliged to accomplish all "good." It is possible to harm future gem!rations by negligently omitting to accomplish some things via science.

On the other hand, we are not obliged to accomplish everything possible through science at whatever risk or at the price of assaulting time-honored values. Christians have always refused to vest absolute value in any human good or endeavor.

We ought not now to follow slavishly the technological imperative that "All that can be done, must be done."

'In determining what should be done we must be wary of a strictly utilitarian mode of reasoning. We do not look only to consequences. Our actions must not only point to or produce future goods. They must also respect and reflect the range of human goods in the process.

A good end or good purpose does not justify any means.

There might well be a worthy scientific goal which ought not be pursued. if it unjustifiably violates another human good. In other words, ethical constraints might slow down, or even preclude, some scientific advances.

Home Influence "Religious education is Godcentered with the core of its spirit in the atmosphere of a Christian home." John E. Large

Pro-Life Number

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Jan. 26, 1978

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) The person on the other end of the line said: "This is your Right to Life Hotline. There !ire many things to do now, in particular letter writing. If you will get a pen and paper, I will give you some addresses of people to write to."

So began a recent recorded hotline message from the Kentucky Right to Life Association and Right to Life of Louisville.

Recordings are made five days a week, Monday through Friday, with the Friday recording staying on the line through the weekend. By dialing 897-LIFE, callers receive a message on national or local pro-life issues.

The purpose of the hotline is to "get pro-life information to people as quickly as possible," said Margie Montgomery, executive director of the Kentucky and Louisville Right to Life organizations.

She said the telephone service was installed to coincide with the opening of the 1978 session of the Kentucky General Assembly. A number of antiabortion issues - including state funding of welfare abortions for the poor and a cali for a federal constitutional convention to propose an anti-abortion constitutional amendment - will come before the legislature.

The hotline, will be operated on a permanent basis, however, Mrs. Mongomery said.

In the weeks ahead, it will focus on proposed pro-life legislature, but recent messages have also asked people to write letters to the national AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., and to CBS News in New York.

Pro-lifers are seeking to arrange a meeting .between George Meany, AFL-CIO president, and Dr. Mildred Jefferson, president of the National Right to Life Committee. The message said: "Mr. Meany could make a tremendous contribution to our cause by simply meeting with Dr. Jefferson and learning more about (pro-life) issues."

The letters to CBS News are aimed at criticizing anchorman Walter Cronkite's comments on a November broadcast about the Medicaid abortion funding controversy in Congress at the time.

Cronkite, noting that the Catholic Church is a leading opponent of abortion, said that while only about one-third of the House members are Catholics, 70 percent of the House members of a joint conference committee dealing with the abortion funding measure were Catholics.

The hotline message said Cronkite should be informed that "those of many religious beliefs are in the right to life movement" and that "we realize this (abortion) is a scientific issue, a civil rights issue, a human life issue,"

4 Million Visitors TAKEN THE SAME DAY, but a world apart, pictures show- a child nurse in Viet Nam feeding another child injured in a Cambodian raid on his village. Meanwhile in San Francisco the carefree fun of childhood is enjoyed by 7-year-old Julie Arms, a living doll who decided to join her collection for a nap. (NC Photo)

LOURDES, France (NC) The Marian shrine at Lourdes had four million visitors in 1977, the highest number since celebration of the shrine's centenary in 1958, :when four and a half million pilgrims were counted,

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on, GOD! "Thank you, God!" was the ecstatic response of Brother Boniface upon being presented with a 36-passenger bus by Frank Muetzel, financial director of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese, on behalf of members of Sacred Heart parish, Salem, Mo. (NC Photo)

Thank YOU , God! SALEM (NC) - "We really don't need the bus," the Sacred Heart parish council agreed.

Since the parish school closed several years ago, the bus had rarely been used. "It was a kind of luxury item," said one member of the council. "We didn't really need the bus, but it was nice to have around."

Some council members wanted to sell it, but the stewardship committee had another idea.

Two years ago a group of Vietnamese Brothers settled at the former Oblate of Mary Immaculate Seminary in Carthage.

With several grants and private

donations, they bought a 107acre hilltop farm near Halltown, 40 miles east of the seminary.

"Every time the community went to the Halltown farm, or to Springfield for Mass, it looked like a convoy traveling up the highway," Frank Muetzel, finance director for the Springfield Cape Girardeau diocese, told the parish council.

The community wanted to buy a bus, he said, but "it was pretty far down the priority .list."

After listening to Muetzel, the parish council knew what to do with the bus.

Muetzel invited Brother Boniface, a member of the Vietnamese community, to Springfield.

"I didn't know what he wanted," the Brother said, "but I came."

Brother Boniface found out after meeting Muetzel in the parking lot of St. Agnes Cathedral.

"Here are the keys," Muetzel told Brother .Boniface. "The bus is yours."

Predictably, Brother Boniface was excited. "For us?" he asked Muetzel. "From you, from Salem? Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, God!"

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (NC) - A California woman, continuing the cause of a French priest murdered in 1972, has launched a national campaign to get one Catholic church in each state to play a hymn to the Virgin of Peace next May 1.

Justine Ferem of Redwood City began the campaign in midNovember by writing letters to pastors of one church dedicated to Mary in each state, asking that a hymn composed by the late Father Henri Tomei be sung ::>r played ih the church on May l.

So far, four churc:1es - in New Hampshire, Arkansas and Delaware have agreed to- participate.

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Mrs. Feram chose her churches at random from The Catholic :Jirectory, the only requirement Jeing that they be named for

Mary. Besides the letters to 50 pastors, she's also written to the bishop of each diocese in which a church is located.

Father Tomei, who was killed on Nov. 2, 1972, while hearing confessions in St. Mary's Church in Los Gatos, Calif., composed the hymn during a bombing of the small French village of Gray during World War II. Learning that all the villagers survived the bombing, he dedicated the hymn to the Virgin of Peace.

Mrs. Feram met the French priest when he was assigned to her parish, Mt. Carmel in Redwood City, in 1961. He expressed the wish that his hymn be played in all 50 states on the same day to advance the cause of peace.

Ever since the priest died, Mrs. Feram has thought about his wish. Last year, she "asked

for a favor a~d promised the Blessed Mother that I would carry it out," she said. The favor was granted, and the campaign for peace was launched.

Bishops Will Sponsor Human Life Parley NEW YORK (NC) - Scientists from several countries will meet May 23 and 24 in New York to discuss natural family planning methods.

The gathering is sponsored by the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities and by the Human Life and Natural Family Planning Foundation. It will be preceded by a two-day meeting of diocesan and state pro-life coordinators.

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By Father John Dietzen Q. I cannot agree with people who contend that one is free from guilt of sin if he personally feels DO guilt and has· a clear conscience on the matter. ......Pm referring to such serious sin as an abortion. As far as Pm concerned, it is childish to base our reactions on personal feelings. Too many have this attitude of permissiveness, and feel in their particular instance their actions are perfectiy acceptable. (Mass.)'

A. You're probably right in believing that many of us too easily excuse ourselves from moral responsibility even in matters of serious sin. In today's legal and social atmosphere, one of the areas in which this can easily happen is in the direct killing of an unborn human being, which is certainly a most serious sinful injustice.

However, we must be careful not to confuse the objective sinfulness of an action with the degree of guilt an individual has incurred in doing it. To put it bluntly, there's no way you can know to what degree the person in question is fully guilty of the sin of abortion. Even the woman herself may find it almost impossible to sort out the motives and emotions and pressures which allowed her to do what she did. At any rate, her guilt, whatever it is, is a matter between her and God. Admittedly, this is a delicate situation to deal with if a person is trying to be truly helpful.

An honest acknowledgment and acceptance of one's guilt is always a first necessary step to forgiveness and healing. So we need to assist such a person not to bury genuine awareness of guilt. It will only rise again to plague her in perhaps much more serious ways later on.

So gentle reminders of the seriousness of what has been done, of one's responsibility for one's actions, and of the ready, forgiving love of Christ are always in place. But we should never play God and pretend we know what is really going on in' another person's soul.

Q. What is the Church's policy on the marriage of a couple, one of whom is CathoDc and the other a non-practicing Catholic?

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Q. The dates for Lent and Easter change all the time. Who determines when these elates are each year? (pa.)

A. Though there is some divergence in a few parts of the Christian world, Easter is generally' celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox.

The vernal equinox is on or about March 21.

The dates for Lent, Ascension and Pentecost are determined by counting backward or forward from the date for Easter.

(Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box: 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.)

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BENEDETIA BI, 8, lives in Namekhon, Burma, but has close ties to New Bedlord, where her "spiritual mother" is Mrs. Gertrude T. Charpentier of St. Theresa's parish.

Through the Foster Parents Mission Club, Mrs. Charpentier has "adopted" contributing $6 Beaten U.S. Nuns Benedetta, monthly towards her care.

She says Benedetta's parStay'With Poor ents are living but her father MANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) - Three Maryknoll Sisters who is an invalid and her mother, were beaten with rifle butts by , a fieldhand, cannot adeguards while pleading for student quately support her and her demonstrators in Managua said brothers and sisters. Therethey see their mission as fighting alongside the people for hu- fore the little girl has been taken in by Missionaries of man dignity.

"Our role is to be with the SS. Peter and Paul who feed, people in their struggle to clothe and educate her achieve a life of dignity and Further information about justice," said Sisters Julianne the Foster Parents Mission Warnshuis, Margaret Ann Healy Club is available from its and Margaret Dillon. "Our com9800 Oakland headquarters, mitment is to accompany the growth of the kingdom of God Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 482~1 among the poor of Nicaragua."

The nuns work at Open 3, one of the suburbs that sprung around Managua after the 1972 earthquakes destroyed most of the slum neighborhoods in the inner city.

About 100 students lind other demonstrators had occupied seven churches to press the government of Gen. Anastasio Somoza for a Christmas amnesty for political prisoners. At one point in late December a few groups paraded through the neighborhoods. Soldiers of the National Guard stopped them with tear gas and beatings.

The three nuns came out of their home across from Holy Cross' church to intercede with the guards, and were struck.

Guards knocked one to the ground and inflicted a head injury on another.

Sister Warnhuis comes from Sioux Falls, S.D.; Sister Healy from Massapeua, N.Y., and Sister Dillon from Hamburg, N.Y.

K of C Insurance Totals $4 Billion

The Knights of Columbus insurance program, benefitting about a third of the organization's Qearly 1.3 million members, had reached a total of $4 billion of life insurance in force.

The program, initiated in 1882, took 78 years to reach the $1 billion mark, 11 more years to reach $2 billion in 1971, four more to get-to $3 billion in 1975,

P.HILADELPHIA (NC) Catholic school and CCD students in Philadelphia must memorize the Our Father and Hail Mary, the Eight 'Beatitudes, Ten Commandments and Seven Precepts of the Church, am()ng other prayers and formulas, according to a directive issued this month

by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia.

and slightly over two more years to reach the $4 billion mark.

According to Supreme Knight Virgil C. Dechant, the accomplishment places the Knights of Columbus in the top 6 percent of the" life insurance companies in the United States. The society ranks 125th among the 1,800 insurance companies. .

Carter Urges Prayers For Leprosy End BELLMORE, N.Y. (NC) In a message marking World Leprosy Day, Jan. 29, President Jimmy Carter has called on all Americans to join him in praying that "in our lifetime lepros·y will become but an unpleasant memory and that the suffering it causes will end forever."

In a letter to Howard E. Crouch, founder-president of the Damien-Dutton Society for Leprosy Aid, headquartered in Bellmore, N.Y., the President said that despite recent progress in discovering drugs which can inactivate leprosy, it continues unchecked in many areas of the world.

"Clearly much more needs to be learned before a truly effective control can become a reality," Carter added. "Toward this end, the dedicated work of men and women throughout the world must continue to have our wholehearted assistance and support."

Liturgist Dies LONDON (NC)-Canon J. B. O'Connell, well known for his work on the liturgy before the Second Vatican Council and the only priest from Britain on the council's preparatory commission on the liturgy, has died at the age of 89.

The memorization will be required in all catechetical programs in the archdiocese, said the cardinal, who added that a learning by heart" should be stimulated by a catechist "who is desirous and joyous in proclaiming the Good News to the point that the learner wants to remember because the Gospel is so good."

A common knowledge of prayers and precepts will also contribute to a sense of belonging and security, Cardinal Krol said.

"There is a disturbing sense of being left out when prayers said in common are unknown, when the responses cannot be given when required at Mass or in sacramental reception, or passages of Sacred Scriptures :are unknown in discussion with others, especially when the others are not of the faith," he said.

"Memorization, when memory is properly and skillfully developed, provides the believer with a sense of security."

Memorization is not intended to replace understanding under the new guidelines"however. "In the past many pedagogical errors were committed by excessive insistence_ on committing catechism answers to memory," Cardinal Krol said. "Catechists can abuse the development and usefulness of this marvelous ability of memory if they disengage memorization from understanding and if they motivate those being taught to remember through threat of fear of failure."

Prayers and formulas cited for memorization in the directive also include the Apostles' Creed, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, the Acts of Faith, Hope and Love, the' Seven Sacraments, the Morning Offering, prayers at Mass, and the capital sins.

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S1. Thomas Aquinas, a physical, intellectual and spiritual giant was born about 1225 in Italy. His father was a baron of the king of Sicily, and his mother was a Norman. He had three brothers and several sisters, the youngest of whom was killed by lightning in the same room where Thomas was sleeping.

At age five he was taken to the nearby famous monastery of Monte Cassino. He stayed until he was about 13, then transferred to the University of Naples. For the next five years he studied arts and sciences.

Most importantly, he got to know and admire the Order of Preachers and at age 19 received the Dominican habit. The reaction back home was violent.

If he wanted to be a religious, let him be a Benedictine and become abbot of Monte Cassino one day. But a begging, impoverished friar! His mother left for Naples at once, but with a group of Dominicans, including the master general, he had already set out for Bologna. Theodora sent word to his older brothers, who took a detachment of soldiers and ambushed the party. Thomas was brought home, and kept under close guard with only the Bible and the Sentences of Peter Lombard for company. But all efforts to dissuade him failed and after two years his family gave up.

His superiors then sent him to study under St. Albert the Great at Cologne where Thomas seems to have been taken aback by the noisy enthusiasm and heated discussions of his lively fellow students. He fell silent and reo served and was nicknamed "the dumb Sicilian ox."

But one day Albert read a set of his notes and was amazed.

The next day he gave Thomas a public examination and the following prophetic evaluation: "We call Brother Thomas 'the dumb ox,' but I tell you that he wiII yet make his lowing heard to the uttermost parts of he earthY From Cologne the young friar was sent to teach at the University of Paris. In a short while he became a master and a doc: tor;. and shortly before leaving Pans he began work on his great "Summa contra Gentiles." The next nine years found him in Italy, where he lectured in elite papal schools.

Toward the end of this period ~e began his masterpiece, the Summa Theologica," acclaimed by many the greatest single theolgical work of all times. . It is a comprehensive synthe~lS of Christian teaching, blend~ng bibilical revelation, the writmgs o~ the Fathers, especially Augustme, and the philosophical principles Thomas had culled Turn to Page Thirteen

Karl Rahner

By William Ryan

In late 1974 a group gathered in New York to pay tribute to a short, smiling man in a gray suit whom many consider the gr.eatest theologian of the 20th century. The Campion Book Award of the Catholic Book Club was presented to German Jesuit Karl Rahner, a scholar whose writings have influenced scores of colleagues and seminarians for decades.

Karl Rahner was born in Freiburg, Germany, March 5, 1904, and entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1922. He was ordained at Munich on July 26, 1932.

After ordination, Father Rahner pursued graduate studies at Freiburg where he was deeply influenced by the works of certain philosophers, particularly Joseph Marachal, a Belgian Jesuit 'who had developed an original theory of knowledge; Immanuel Kent, whose writings inof Aquinas with the temporary troduced Rahner to the "transwinds of scholarly and ecclesiaticendental method" that was to cal fashion. As one of the few characterize his approach to supreme thinkers the human theology; and Martin Heidegger, race has produced, he deserves a host-Kantian existentialist. better!

Using a philosophical basis, At any rate, there was eventRahner constructei:l his life work, ually not only abrasiveness between town and gown, but also a profound synthesis of the between mitre and scholar's bi- Christian faith is both contemrette. This tension between ad- porary and in continuity with the ministrator and scholar, the one past.

It also provides evidence that trying to preserve a little peace and quiet in an unruly world, the the Christian faith presents other dedicated to advancing much to mull over. A Rahner fresh (and sometimes unsettliI!g) bibiliography published in Gerideas, is not going to disappear. many in 1969 runs some 90 By and large, however, the pages and contains more than universities, creatures of the 2,000 entries of books, articles Church in the first place, have and monographs! His most fabeen the training ground of un- mous works include "The told numbers of Christian lead- Church to Come" and "Nature ers, centers of human advance- and Grace." ment as well as wellsprings of Now 73, he continues to write. new ways to understand the an- His latest book, "A Basic Course cient Gospel. The invention of_ in Faith," published last year, the universities was a towering was praised by Vatican Radio as achievement. "a masterful and mature eynthesis of Christian faith."

-Rahner's Jnfluence has extended into ever widening circles.

He has made decisive contributions to the Christian-Marxist For learning is finally a ques- and the Christian-non-Christian tion of people helping other dialogues. Many share the judgpeople to expand and grow. And ment of George Lindback of this is the proof that scholar- Yale who said that in compreand intellectual ship or the life of the mind has hensiveness little to do with knowing a lot. quality, Rahner can be placed Students are looking for some- alongside the great Protestant Karl thing else, something that opens philosopher-theologians their way to understanding Barth and Paul TiIIieh "and in terms of balance is perhaps the rather than blocks it.

What students seek is better greatest of the three." described as a know-how rather In addition to teaching and than knowledge. It is more like writing, Father Rahner has leca trained ear than a ready an- tured internationally. He partiswer. It is more like unknowing cipated in the work of Vatican than knowing. It is a developed Council II and Popes John XXIII capacity to live with our ignor- and Paul VI publicly stated their ance, and yet continue to in- admiration for his scholarship. quire. Socrates was surprised In an interview conducted when the cracle at Delphi let it shortly after Vatiean Council II, be known that he was the wisest Father Rahner's comments on of men. So he undertook a sur- the Council and the challenge to Turn to Page Thirteen Turn to Page Thirteen

The Universities: ALearning Explosion

By Father Alfre4 McBride The centuries of patient preservation of classical learning by the monks finally yielded a learning explosion in the 12th and 13th centuries with the creation of the universities: Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Padua, Bologna, Salamanca. Prior to the founding of the universities, there were cathedral and menastic schools. The method of education was primarily memory and mastery of what ancient authorities, especia;Jy Church Fathers , had said about this or that topic.

Local city administrators feared the power of the university, especially in the area of new ideas.

The best recourse the university had was to obtain a charter from the Holy See granting it freedom to pursue new lines of thought. Thus the Church threw her protective mantle over the work of the university.

In time, however, the Church, too, wondered about the freedom of its scholars. Though it is hard to believe it now, Thomas' Aquinas aroused a good deal of anxiety in official Church circles. He spoke with such a new and inventive voice that many churc~hmen feared he was edging close to heresy.

One of the small pleasures in reading history is to see the paradox of a man considered a nidical and a threat in his own time, become the darling of the conservatives in another age.

In one sense it is a pity to associate a man of the magnitude

Around this time, Arab scholars were studying and promoting the works of Aristotle a::td noting inventive ways to adapt his ideas to the new age. Their enthusiasm was contagious enough to affect the Christian scholars who began to coordinate the philosophy of Aristotle with theology and other disciplines. The ferment caused by' this and a new-found self confidence in their own imagination and activity led to a different teaching style and a literal learning explosion.

By Father David Burrell, C.S.C. Gone were the dreary repetiThe life of the mind has little tions, to be replaced by lively to do with knowing a lot. It may disputations, debates and dialog- seem as if it does, because people ues. Exclusive emphasis on au-_ with inquiring minds do learn thority-quotihg was replaced by a great deal. And like the rest of maximum student involvement, us, they have a hard time rethe rigorous use of logic and sisting the temptation to show careful research. off. But if that is all that a perFrom the very beginning tbis son's inquiry comes to-knowuniversity life displayed many ing something else, we don't of the traits that have endured, think of him as learned. For namely, interest in academeic knowledge can never substitl,lte freedom, student unrest, a ques- 'for insight. tioning and critical attitude.

A space where we can exMuch has been written about the pand our vision simply by taktraditional riots between town ing part in the conversation and gown, that is, between stu- makes for an intellectual culture. dents and local citizer..s.

A place where our perceptions What is less known is that in of order an:l beauty can be eduthe beginning, the issue of aca:l- cated by looking and listening is emie freedom was often at stake. a cultured place.

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Dumb Ox Continued from Page Twelve from the pagan philosopher Ariestotle: a daring and dangerous innovation, it led to rejection and at least temporary condemnation.

In Paris, the saintly King Louis IX had such high regard for Thomas that he consulted him on weighty political matters and the university submitted to him for solution to an important Eucharistic controversy. However, he was a storm center at the uni-

Faith Continued from Page Twelve vey, and on the basis of countless interviews, was forced to agree with the oracle as he realized that everyone he spoke with thought they knew more than they did. Because he knew where he was ignorant, he was in fact wiser than they.

But it is uncomfortable to admit our ignorance. That is why' Plato presents Socrates as an ideal, a hero of the life of the mind. Most everything inside us and around us conspires to keep our weakness from view.

Yet we need to acknowledge it and learn how to live with it.

How can we learn?

That question has always led men and women to the Scriptures, prayer and those movements charcteristic of faith. We may not believe but we can make some of the movements believers make: We can sit quietly and reach out with heart and mind towards one whom all men call God. We can allow ourselves to be carried along with others in song and praise of God. We can let our own hearts signal to us their longing and desire - and we can begin to follow our heart's desire.

If we set out on this path, if we allow what we do not know to impress us l}S much as what we do know, we will discover a whole world - a vast universe - in which we can gradually come to be at home. It is more like darkness than light, more akin to sleeping (and dreaming) than waking (and acting), but it teaches us to live more naturally with all that we do not know.

versity. Because of his realistic humanism, his insistence on the primacy and autonomy of the human intellect, he was Japplauded by the faculty and arts but was an object of suspicion to the faculty of theology.

As we know from contemporary experience, people are uneasy with· new ideas. They threaten security and the easiest reaction is to cry "Heresy!"

Thomas got this treatment, too; on at least one occasion an attempted defense of his position at the university precipitated a riot. It took almost a century for his theology to be accepted and to supplant the Augustinian system as the official theology of the Western Church.

On Dec. 6, 1273, while celebrating Mass, Thomas had a religious experience which moved him so deeply that he gave up writing, leaving the monumenta Al Summa unfinished. "All that I have written seems to me but straw," was his explanation.

The next year, on his way to the Council of Lyons, he fell gravely ill and was taken to the Cistercian Abbey of Fosse Nuove.

There he died on March 7, 1274.

He was canonized in 1323, not because of his intellectual brilliance, but because of his holiness.

In spite of everything, he was amazingly humble, patient in the midst of controversy, never heard to make an unkind remark. His prayer life was intense and he insisted repeatedly that he had learned more at the foot of the crucifix than from all his books.

IIlino!s Char'ities Want Payments Up CHICAGO (NC) - Catholic Charities agencies in six Illinois dioceses won the first round in a suit against the state's bepartment of Children and Family Services when a circuit court ruled that the department is required to pay the agencies 100 percent of the "reasonable costs" of foster care services they provide to children who are wards of the state.

The suit charged that the department has set arbitrary payment levels far below the "100 percent of reasonable costs" mandated by a 1976 Illinois law.

Karl Rohner Continued from Page Twelve theology in the future seem as timely and prophetic today as they did then. "I think that what the Council accomplished more

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But he also warned against the dangers "of a false adaptation of the Church to the modern world, or of falling into a purely secular humanism."

From the impressive array of books and articles that this one man has produced, one might assume that he has time for nothing else. But this is far from true. Those who know him well can tell of the many times that lay people have called him to ask a question. Father Rahner always takes time out to talk to them and carefully answer. And if someone is in need, he quietly lends his aid.

A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego As Dimensoes da Cruz Conta-nos 0 Evanqelho que Jesus antes , de morrer excl amou em alta voz: "Tenho sede". Mas nao quis beber. Porque era sotiretudo uma sede de.almas, de atrair todos a Ele e salvar todos os homens. "Quando for exaltado da terra atrairei todos a Mim." A cruz e sinal do amor de Deus e sfmbolo tambem da nossa vida. Ali esta Cristo de bra50s abertos, querendo abra)ar a humanidade inteira. A nossa vida, como a cruz, ha-de ter as duas dimens~es: vertical e horizontal. Se falta uma delas, estara condenada ao fracasso. E, qraficamente, 0 que Jesus ensina no Evangelho: "Amaras 0 Senhor teu Deus com todo 0 teu corasao, com toda a tua alma, com toda a tua mente. Este e maior e e 0 primeiro mandamento. 0 sequndo, 'porem, e semelhante a este: amar§s 0 teu proximo como a ti mesmo. Neste dois mandamentos se resume toda a Lei e os profetas."

Nao e posslvel amar a Deus sem amar 0 proximo. "Aquele que nao ama 0 or6ximo a quem v~ como podera amar a Deus a quem nao ve? E este mandamento recebemos de Deus: que aquele que ama a Deus arne tambem 0 seu irmao". E e precisamente esse 0 mandato novo de Jesus na ultima Cei a: "Dou-vos urn man· damento novo: que vos ameis una aos outros como Eu vos amei a vos ... Nisto conhecerao todos que sois Meus disclpulos, se tendes amor uns aos outros."

Muito menos e posslvel amar 0 orOXlmo sem amar a Deus, como nao Dode J brafo horizontal suster-se levantando sem 0 outro que se erque para 0 Ceu. Ha que desconfiar, e a historia repete-o continuamente, dos que muito falam em amor mas nao procuram aproximar-se de Deus, cumorir fielmente a Sua vontade, Que e a unica maneira de ama1 '0 de verdade. Urn amor puramente horizontalista nl0 passarfi de filahtrooia, de sonho vao. Mesmo se tome~a com inten~oes elevadas acaba semnre deqradando-se no lamasal das paixoes eqolstas e mesauinhas.

Ha.que amar os outros por amor de Deus.

Por isso amaremos a todos, bons e maus, a~ miqos e inimiqos, oobres e ricos, simpaticos e antipaticos. "Amai os vossos inimiqos fazei bern aos que vos aborrecem e rezai pelos aue vos oersequem e cal unam.

Havemos de ver Cristo neles. "rive fome e destes-Me de comer ... Estava na cadeia e fostes visitar-me, dir~ 0 Senhor no JUlzo Final, Quando fizestes isto a urn dos Meus ·irmaos mais pequeninos a Mim 0 fizestes." o Senhor mandou-nos amar como Ele, 0 que e humanamente impossfvel. Mas para Deus tudo e posslvel. Sobrenaturalmente, sim, podemos. Pela gra~a recebemosa caridade, 0 proorio amor com que Deus ama. "A caridade e paciente, e beniqna. A caridade nao e invejosa, nao age precipitadamente, nao se ensoberbece, n~o ~ ambiciosa, n~o busca os seus interesses, nao se irrita, nao oensa mal, n~o se aleqra com a injustisa, mas se comoraz com a vefdade; tudo sofre, tudo cr@ tudo espera, tudo suporta." o amor tern uma ordem. Ordem das oessoas e ordem de bens. Ordem de pessoas: primeiro Deus e em tudo. "Nao descuidamos a Cristo pela preocupa~ao com 0 proximo enfermo, diz Santo Agostinno, j~ que devemos amar ao enfermo oor causa de Cristo."

Deoois havemos de amar os que estao mais perto de Deus: a Virqem Santlssima e os Santos. Em sequida aqueles aue se en contram mais oerto de n6s, pelos la~os de san~ gue. Finalmente a nos sa cariqade ha-de estende~se a todos os homens.

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This week I am answering a 'question from a high school student who says that although she and her friends are ecumenical, they have difficulty getting their parents to see their point of view.

In reflecting on her dilemma, I thought of a talk heard by Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of New York. He called it "When Religious Disagree" and "to disagree in love" was his emphasis.

The time has come for us -to learn to conduct ecumenical polemics," he said. "As polemics were once conducted, they meant enmity, harshness, the total negation of the antagonist's position. They assumed polarization, with one debater possessing God's truth, and the other necessarily negative in God's eyes.

But no more."

Among those who respect one another we have seen the death of the old polemic style. Instead of seeing the agents of the devil when people argue, we can often see persons of another mind.

Instead of the negative, there is the different.

There are many in my life who reject my faith, the things that I believe. But they are still people I can respect for other reasons. I can still feel goodwill towards those who differ. It depends on how they differ and whether or not they are being destructive and undermining.

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Rabbi Borowitz: "Faith in Christ divides the Christian and the Jew. Insofar as Jesus is understood to be a person of the Trinty, that divisiveness will effect the underlying sense of unity which Jew and Christian might find in the unity Jews understand the biblical God to be."

"Here the difference~ seem to be decisive for the entire structure of the faith and almost more fundamental than the similarities. Yet, if all faith is ultimately subjective, why should we undertake to prove the differences? Since we will never be able to fully explain them, we will expose ourselves to the charge of avoiding ecumenicity for emotional, ethnic, or other morally insubstantial reasonS. That should serve as a warning that this effort may often end in frustration and misunderstanding."

He goes on: "Yet I think the opposite danger is greater; not to路 try to clarify where we truly disagree is to imply that our differences are not significant at all; it is to permit a shallow relativism to dominate religious discussions or to prevent them from talfing place at all. What can be said about our faith, even in difference, should be said in older that we can exercise upon it the checks and balances of which we are capable.

By Charlie Martin

You Light Up My Life So many nights, I'd sit by my window, Waiting for sOiDeone to sing me his song.

So many dreams I've kept deep inside me Alone in the dark, now you've come along And you light up my life, You give me hope to ~rry on You light up my day, And fill my nights with sun Roamin' at sea, adrift on the waters Could it be finally, I'm turning for home FinaJly a chance to say, "Hey, I love youl" Never again to dream all alone.

Theme from "You Light Up My Life," Sung by Debby Boone "In that way, we shaJl be most responsible in believing; and in the secondary process of trying to explain our differences to people of other faiths, we may better learn what it is that we've been trying to say to ourselves aJl this time.

"Or perhaps as we hear it from other people coming back to us and recognizing that they don't quite get it, that they say it with a distortion, or they have a fallacy about it, then we s:Iddenly realize what we ourselves did not mean."

My young friend would agree with Rabbi Borowitz's remark that we confront adherence of faith in the full human dimension of the truth on which people stake their existence. If they do any less they don't reaJly 'be路 lieve it. And if their faith is an intellectual game (as so ofter. it is) then what?

Many youth think their eldars should not even speak about their religion, since they are路 not being truthful, are not "fully present" in the words they are saying. The hypocrisy which is ever with us gets us nowhere.

Authenticity lays a demand on us and opens our eyes.

One must risk dialogue; one must risk true ecumenical exchange without fear. Both sides must be open to the truth.

Neither, in all good conscience, must exert pressure on the other to make a decision.

Many of us know people who have left the churches of their childhood to accept the doctrines of another. Conversions take place every day. Who are we to judge?

Let us go with our own faith, our own searching within our own church.

I think, too, what Rabbi Borowitz was saying is that it would be an extraordinary contribution, to the contemporary world if all religions could show people how we can believe to the depths of our souls and yet be willing to engage other people in the fun depths of their difference from sameness with us. He called it a "vulgar sinfulness" that infects every level of our social relations when we must deride those who differ from us in order to firm our Own worth.

He Goes to Bat for Gill Hodges NEW YORK (NC) - It's not quite a canonization, but membership in Baseball's Hall of Fame is the rough equivalent ::or a ballplayer.

And Bishop Francis Mugavero of Brooklyn has gone to bat :'or a Brooklyn favorite son in bis year's Hall of Fame election.

His candidate is the late Gil Hodges - "the Brook:Iyn Dodgers' star first baseman, manager of the World Champion Miracle New York Mets, a gentleman, model citizen, humanitarian."

Calling Hodges, a Catholic, a model for youth, the bishop said "Sports in our country have un路 dergone a revolution since Gil's passing in 1972. The athletes who get the biggest headlines have the highest salaries or defame their teammates; the humble, honorable player is often neglected. There are now few true heroes for boys and girls to emulate.

"When a man is voted into the Hall of Fame he receives na-

Nonal expcsure. If Gil's election serves as a positive force to even a dozen youngsters, that would make the honor worthwhile."

Hodges, who died at the age of 48 in 1972, is eligible for election into Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., for the first time this year. Electors are 1O-year members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Bishop Mugavero gave Hodges his endorsement qn the sports section of the Sunday New York Times on Christmas Day. After citing Hodges' impressive baseball record, he said, "There was never a more religious man in sports. ,He had an abiding love for God, country, family, baseball and truth.

"When there was a color line to be broken, Gil helped break it," added the prelate, saying that Hodges helped keep' peace on the pla)~ing field when fights were threatened over Jackie Robinson, the first black to play major league baseball.

Copyright (c) 1977, Warner Brothers Records, Inc. For more than 25 years, statistics have been kept on the success of recordings. The list is lengthy and complete, covering every conceivable category of music. For a song or artist to break into this Iist today is a rare occasion. But the above song by Debby Boone has done exactly that - re-written several records and placed among the great hits of the past three decades.

It has several ideas worthy of discussion. The idea of bringing light into a person's life, the significance of sharing our love and care, sounds like the Gospel put to music. We do have the ability to "light up" each other's lives.

In this song I was struck by the phrase, "You give me hope to carry on." In the first verse, the songwriter speaks of dreams present in her life. These two ideas seemed tied together. Perhaps the dreams can be seen as goals; perhaps 'ideas of what the future will be if it turns out right. Dreams or goals are important.

They help establish direction in our lives and add to its meaning: Realism is the other side of the coin and surely all of us must Esk ourselves the question, "How realistic are my goals or standa.rds?" Yet high ,goals bring out talents and abilities that otherwise could have remained buried inside us. To have a dream about the future is one way of growing, changing, and finding new challenges.

"You give me hope to carry on" implies another aspect of our dreams and goals - rarely do they come easy. There are many disappointments: tests flunked, some relationships that do not turn out the way we wanted. Sometimes our big goals seem to grow more distant and we wonder if they are reachable at all. Doubts and fears can step into our lives. In short, we need encouragement and support by our close friends if we are to continue dreaming, trying to achieve the goals we have set. When our friends give us that support, indeed they light up our lives, and build a new sense of hope. We do not have to "dream all alone:' Each of us can ,be this type of supportive person to our f.iends.

The requirements are an authentic interest in people and a willingness to take the time to listen to others, to really hear their dreams and goals. I have often thought that. this type of interest qn others is how Jesus lived. Among His real miracles were the healing of others' broken dreams aI1d feelings about themselves. For those of us who wish to follow Him today, the same opportunities are available. We can give others "hope to carry on:'

Bishop Gerrard Students of Bishop Gerrard High Schooi, FaIl River, have been involved in many activities recently.

A blood drive was held at the school. An estimated 27% of students eligible to donate were on hand in the school's gym to give. Another drive is planned for the spring.

The Bishop Gerrard Drama Club, aided by budding actors from the Connolly campus, presented Arthur Miller's "The Crucible:' The play, directed by Ronald Ratheier, depicted the

trial of accused witches in 17th century Salem.

Bishop Gerrard has its own true blue announcer - Denise Gauvin. Denise, daughter of Raymond and Doris Gauvin of Fall River fulfilled requirements enabling her to be a licensed radio announcer and she is currently working with the members of radio station WALE. Added to her achievements this month was the acceptance of her poem, "A Snowflake Falls," by Young America Sings, a high school poetry anthology.

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Old Rochester at New Bedford Voke-Tech, Bishop Stang High at Dennis Yarmouth and Holy Family at Seekonk tomorrow night with Dennis-Yarmouth at Wareham, Seekonk at Old Rochester, Feehan at Holy Family and Voke-Tech, at Stang Tuesday.

Division Three's games are DiAs banal as Saturday morning man Voke at Case, Falmouth at may be, young people's programBourne, Westport at St. Anthony ming on the rest of the weekly and Coyle-Cassidy at DightonRehoboth tomorrow, Dighton- schedule has been undergoing a Rehoboth at Falmouth, Bourne renaissance that rivals the best at Westport, Case at 'Coyle- of prime time.

Cassidy and St. Anthony at The innovator here, as in Diman Friday. other areas, has been ABC, All leagues have been seri- whose "Afterschool Specials" ously affected by the recent . initiated the trend a few years storms and the rescheduling of ago for quality in children's progames is not an easy task. The grams. The other two networks many postponements and re- have upgraded their efforts, but schedulings make it impossible unevenly. to give an accurate standing in One of the more intriguing efany league, including the Hockforts will be NBC's broadcast at omock League which has full noon this Saturday of "The Nafour-game cards on tap for totional Kids' Quiz," a show tabumorrow and Tuesday. lating responses of some 650,000 Tomorrow Canton will be at young people between the ages King Philip, North Attleboro at of 8 and 13 years to questions Mansfield, Franklin at Sharon, about personal values. and Stoughton at Foxboro.

The show goes off well. The Tuesday, it will be Franklin at Canton, Mansfield at Foxboro, studio audience of young people Sharon at Stoughton, and Oliver responds to the questions with genuine enthusiasm and the Ames at North Attleboro. dramatizations of each moral issue (shoplifting, bullying, sibSouthies Near Hockey Crown As a result of their stunning Next Sunday night South op- , ling rivalry, etc.) hold one's in6-0 upset of runnerup New Bed- poses Fall River North at 10 terest. Michael Landon of NBC's ford, last Sunday the Fall River o'clock. North held Somerset to "Little House on the Prairie" South icemen have virtually a I-I deadlock and North nipped keeps things running smoothly. clinched at least a share of the Taunton, 3-2, in other games last One thing this poll reveals is Bristol County CYO Hockey Sunday. Taunton and Somerset that today's youth' are as idealLeague championship.

The meet at nine o'clock, and, New istic as any previous generation.

Southies need only to pick up Bedford goes against Westportthree points in their remaining Dartmouth at 11 in other games On Television five games for sole possession in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, Information rather than of the league crown. next Sunday night. confrontation is the philosophy of "Turnabout," a new weekly' Africans May Send Missionaries To Brazil series for and about women VATICAN CITY (NC) - Afri- discuss at a July meeting a pro- "an~ the men in their lives" can bishops may formally de- posal to send African priests to premiering Monday, Jan. 30 at cide to send their first mission- minister to African emigrants 8:30-9 p.m. on PBS. aries to another continent when working in Brazil.

On the first show, "Juggling," they meet this summer, Vatican The Vatican radio station the subject is how working Radio has reported. said that possibilities were fa- mothers cope with the dual revorable for acceptance of the The symposium of the Epis- plan since seminaries in Nigeria, sponsibility of family and carcopal Conference of Africa and Kenya, Malawi and Uganda are eer.

Madagascar, a pan-African asso- operating with near capacity enA bonus to all these shows is ciation of bishops, is slated to rollment. the inclusion of a reading list for

That's the question uppermost in the minds of all connected with Durfee High basketball as well as in the minds of Hilltop followers.

Durfee was handed a douplebarreled jolt as injuries suffered in the game against Fairhaven sidelined Chuck Wojtowicz and Jim Donnelly for pro!>ably the remainder of the season. Chuck suffered torn ligaments and Jim an ankle fracture in separate accidents for which no blame attaches to Fairhaven players.

John Powers, who had not seen that much varsity action but whose "at-the-buzzer" basket on a rebound shot gave Durfee its win over Fairhaven, filled in for Wojtowicz and showed promise in his first varsity start, against Barnstable last Friday. Greg Brilhante took over the role of "sixth man" in replacing Donnelly.

In Division One Conference play Durfee is home to Attleboro tomorrow night and visits Somerset Tuesday night but the real test is not expected to come before the Hilltoppers take on New Bedford in the Bank Street Armory on Feb. 3.

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ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Registration for next year at St. StanIslaus School will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 and also during the "open school" hours of Catholic Schools Week.

A series of marriage preparation talks for high school and college students will be held for three weeks from 6:30 to 8 p.m. each Sunday. Non-parishioners are welcome to attend.

Volunteers are asked to assist in cleaning the school kitchen Saturday, Jan. 28. 11hose inter ested may contact Thomas Freitas.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER During Lent, daily Masses wiiI be offered at 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. and Stations of the Cross will be held at 3:45 p.m. each Friday.

On Ash Wednesday, Masses will be offered at 7 a.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., at which time ashes will be distributed.

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SSt PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A meeting will be held at 7:3C in Father Coady Center for adults and teenagers interested in serving on the team for a. young adults' retreat in Febru.. ary.

Catholic Schools Week wilI be ushered in this wee.Kend by school children who will prepare the liturgies for beth Saturday Masses and the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services on Sunday. Coffee and donuts will be served in the school after each Mass and parishioners are invited to inspect displays of pupils' work.

An open parish council meeting has been postponed until 7 p.m. Sunday: Parishioners are urged to attend and help the council· ma.rk its first anniversary. Officers are Edward Quirk, president; Helen Ozug, vice president; Lorraine Kozak sescretary.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER Fourth graders in the parochial school have planned a Mass for 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31 to commemorat4~ Catholic Schools Week. All are invited to attend.

Candles will be blesssed on Candlemas day, Thursday, Feb. 2.

Baby clothes, blankets and cribs are needed for use by Birthright. Dono~ may contact Normand or Bertha Morrissette, telephone 674-5267.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER. An "open school" will be held from 9 to 11 :30 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday Feb. 1 and 2, in observance of Catholic Schools Week. Posters and displays will illustrate the theme "Everyone Grows!" and parents and friends are invited to visit.

ST. JOHN or GOD, SOMERSET The Holy Ghost committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, ~"""""""""""""""""""""""~,Jan. 3J in the rectory basement.

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ST. JOSEPH. ATTLEBORO Knights of the Altar and Junior Corps members will be invested and installed in church ceremonies at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29. All parishioners are invited. The homilist will be Father Kaszynski, Priests' Council president and charismatic renewal liaison.

The Ladies' Association will meet at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3 in the parish hall, immediately following 2 p.m. Benediction in the church. Mrs. E. C. Tuttle of Yarmouthport and Mrs. Eugene A. Hudson of West Harwich will present book reviews. The public is invited.

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Theories on Fallen-Aways Seen To Be Erroneous

By Robert Nowell

ference, and with persons in two middle-class and two workingclass parishes in London and Central Lancashire.

Respondents, they said, "often spoke of Catholicism being rammed" of 'pushed down their throat' at schooI." They quoted one man who said he just "faded away" from the Church at age 14: "Religion had been drummed into me so much I just got so fed up with it. I would probably be a churchgoer now if it hadn't been forced on me."

The sociologists also found as a key element a process of drifting away from the Church at crucial periods of transition, such as moving from school to work, or migration, particularly in the case of men coming to England from Ireland.

Writing in The Month, a journal published by the English Holy Jesuits, three sociologists from the University of Surrey said they found as one of the chief SCRANTON, Pa. (NC) causes of departure from reliAuxiliary Bishop James C. Timlin of Scranton has been ap- gious practice "a negative reaction to Catholic socialization" pointed episcopal moderator of rejection of religion that they the National Association of Holy feel was "pushed down their Name Societi{~s, succeeding Bishthroat" or "forced" on them op John L. May of Mobile, who when they were young. held the post for the past five They expressed skepticism toyears. ward the claims on one side that The goals of the National Association of Holy Name Soci- liturgical changes have driven eties are to stimulate love and Catholics away from the Church reverence for the Holy Name of and toward the claims on the other side that thousands have God and Jesus and to suppress left because of frustration of eximproper language. pectations aroused by the Second Vatican Council, especially Faith Makes Martyrs over the question of birth con"No one is a martyr for a con- trol. . clusion, no one is a martyr for (American sociologists Father "For many of our respondents an opiilion; it is faith that makes Andrew Greeley, William Mc- lapsation had occurred long bemartyrs." - Cardinal Newman' Cready and Kathleen McCourt fore the Second Vatican Counreached the same conclusion cil," the three concluded. "We about the effect of liturgical suspect that the official Church changes on Catholic practice in never did come to terms with the United States, but an op- the full implications of high posite conclusion about birth rates of non-involvement. for pregnancy help control. They found reaction to "Rather, those who made the confidential the Church's birth control stand decisions assumed an effectively a major factor in what they called the decline of the U.S. socialized and responsive laity, previously simple and devout, free pregnancy testing church.) subsequent.ly active and inLet us help you - We Care The three British sociologists volved.

Thus they over-empha- Michael Hornsby-Smith, Raythe coherence of· the besized mond Lee and Peter Reilly lief structures and the ideologiheld that a number of factors which have long been in opera- cal commitment of ordinary tion in English Catholicism are Catholics . . . responsible for Catholic lapsing "Institutional change, unless it in England. is directly responsive to the Dignified f:uneral Service The researchers collected needs of ordinary people, is likedata over the past three years ly to be ineffective and thus WAREHAM from interviews with lay mem- many Catholics will, in our view, 295·1810 bers of the commissions of the continue to drift out of the English and Welsh bishops' con- , Church."

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