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Modern Man's Belief In God Diff'icult VATICAN CITY (NC) -Although he instinctively seeks God, modern man finds religon and faith difficult because God is a mystery, Pope Paul VI told a general audience here recently. Speaking to thousands in the new Vatican audience hall, the Pope said that the possibility of man reaching a knowledge of God either by human reason or divine revelation "is not easy." "Even though religion is profoundly rooted in the human being, even though the aspiration to God is rooted in the mind, in the heart and in the feelings of man," he said, "it is not easy to satisfy this aspiration ... God is at the summit of

Present Generation Seeks Answers in Spirituality WASHNGTON (NCj --Demard Basset, the urbane, wise and witty British Jesuit who is probably the best-known and most sought-afte.r retreat master in the English-speaking world, attributes his reputatbn to magnetic tape. "I must say, I wa" staggered!" he remarked after his arrival here in January on his biennial tour of the United States. "They told me in 1958 in Chicago they must put me on tape -and suddenly what I'd been saying for years in England and nobody paid much attention to, put down on tape. turned out to be sort of a comedy turn."

The comedy turn-on-tape, isissued under the general headir.g of "How To Stop at the Moon," was a crashing success. Requests for a retreat from tha profoundly entertaining JesUIt began to pour in. His Jesui: provincial said "take a tour.' Father Basset is also a bestselling author, a first-class honors graduate in history from Ox" ford University, and a collateral descendaI't of both St. Thomas More and General Robert E. Lee. A man who prays daily on his back, lyir.g flat on the floor (Ir preferably out in a meadow "There's a form of prayer which requires that my body be out

desires, He is at the root of research, He is under a veil of sensed imminence. But God remains a mystery." . The Pope noted also that "reli- . gion, and even still more, faith, is difficult not only in itself but· also tiY"ough our fault."

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He explained that "we do not use our faculties in a satisfactory way" and tend to prefer instrumental and scientific progress rather than "speculative knowledge and the profound moral experience which generally serve as the path toward religious life ... We have neglected the ways of wisdom in order to run along the ways of science."

Sees Pro-Aborton Propaganda In'MCircus Welby, M.D.' Drama "Marcus Welby, MD," consistently rated among the top 10 shows; is one of television's most popular programs. Its recent two-part drama "Basic Movement" undoubtedly garnered millions of viewers. Unfortunately, those millions received with their drama a dose of pro-abortion propaganda. .

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who will take the blame?" Earlier, she had asserted, "I will not bring a defective baby into the world." . Aifter the child was born with a heart defect, there were scenes of "I-told-you-so" and breastTurn to Page Six

MEETING DIOCESANS: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin made pastoral visitation to St. Dominie's Church, Swansea, and is shown with pastor, Rev. Daniel E. Carey and Douglas and Daniel Desrosier, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Desrosier of 2 Maple Ave., Swansea.

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in the' pilot several} years ago only to disappear-arrives home Ifrom the wilds of Peru. Of nel::J . cessity -ifor why else bring her "If a man loses 'his reverence iback?...,...she was pregnant and in for any part of life, he will lose the midst of marital turmoil. his r~~erenc'e for all of life." But even that was not enough. ·This quote fr~ Albert SchweitConvinced that she had cOn- zer, on a '.poster with a picture of tracted rubella and that the c'hild a fetus, hangs on a wall of Robwas deformed;' she asked 'for. an ',ert M. BYil'n's book~lined office abortion. No need to spend time at the· Fordham Law School in here recounting the subplots New York City. (the romance of Dr. Welby's asThe words. of the great Protsistant by a lady tuba. player or estaI:lt' h~manifarian . sum up the recounting of Mrs. Welby~s' ' neatly the reas'ons which led death in miscarria,ge which was to the unusual appointment given witnessed by the daughter.) ' . to Byrn in Oecell}b~r by the New. ,But two remarks made by the York State Supreme Court. Byrn; . good doctor's daughter must be ' In the quaint language of' the repeated and chal'lenged. After court, has' been 'made· the gUa~agreeing to continue with the dian.and 'll~gal representative of' pregnancy, Sandy threatened her "Infant· Roe and all other infan·ts .. husband and the. two doctors Ibetween the fourth' and 24th with: "If the baby is 'defective, weeks of gestation· due to be.

of the way"), he told NC News he is hopefUl about religions current distempers: "Since the early 18th century, religion has seesawed, first up, then down, decade after decade; forever on the way out and on the way in. Our present generation is no exception. In what some like to call the post-Christian era, Jesus Christ Superstar holds the center of the stage. "Prayer may be out at the moment whereas mysticism, yoga, contemplation are the thing. So many of the leading psychiatrists, today seek religious solutions, and from officially atheist Russia comes Alexander' Solzhenitsyn with some of the most profoundly spiritual writing of the century. "Those who recall the traumatic days between Palm Sunday and Good Friday will never be depressed. For myself, after Turn to Page Nineteen

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aborted in municipal hospitals." The appointment indicating a possibility that the courts may find .that unborn children are persons with legal rights, . was an explosive one-so explosive that Byrn gives his home address only as. New York City. He hopes to keep down the number of abusive phone calls. Since the passa'ge of a new law in 1970, New York has become one. of the most permissive stl\tes in' the U. S. for women seeking ,a>bor.tions. According to ',lfigures··.mad~··publicby the state gqvernment, .215,000 legal abortwO's were periformed in New York iIi the year following passa'ge of the new law. . . The best' hope of' .those who

want to change the trend in New York and in the country as a whole is that the COUlI'ts will decid:e that unborn children have a constitutional right to life. Byrn, who has filed a suit claiming that the New York abortion law violates the 14th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, is a key fjogure in the legal battle to have thiat right to life recognized. Protection of Life President of the Metropolitan Right to Life Committee and a leader ir. the fight against legalized abortion since 1964, Byrn is a tall, solidly built 40-year-old bachelor who lives with his moth~. His interest in abortion, he says, is part of a larger interTurn to Page Eighteen

LaSalette prayer center and shrine, Attleboro, will offer' three courses in its Spring, 1972, adqlt education program. The courses, all six weeks long, are sponsored by LaSalette's Institute of Spirituality. The first, "Journey into a Ne\t" Creation: Introduction to the New Testament," .. wHL start Monday, Feb. 14, and will run through March 20. Intended to be an introduction to the New Testament, this series will be taught by Rev. Normand Theroux, M.S., a member of the institute. Father Theroux will also instruct another course. ~''Ihe Miracles of Christ," starting Friday, Feb. 18, and running through March 24. PrOVIding an ()bjective interpretation of the 'miracles of Jesus, it is designed for students who have had some background in theological studies. The third course, ""alue of PQPular Music," will be offered by Rev. Fernand. Cassista, MS., Turn to Page Nineteen

Invitation Bishop Cronin cordially ~nvites all the clergy, religious and laity in the Diocese to participate in the priestly ordination of Rev. Mr• . Michael R. Nagle in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on Friday evening, February 4 at 7 o'clock.. All priests present are invited to take part in the laying of hands in the ordination rite.· They are to be vested in cassock and surplice or Mass vestments. . Priests wishing to concelebrate with Bishop Cronin are asked to bring amice, 'alb, cincture and stole. .

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LOS' ANGELES (NC) - Baptists have historically supported . public schools. With' increasing '. secularization of these schoois, more Baptists are supporting Baptist day schools, and among this group there is a general desIre for state tuition grants to children by the voucher, system. ,Dr. C. ,Rowan Lunsford, 53, Baptist day' school superinten,dent here, gave this summation of thl;)changing Baptist attitude on the denomination's traditional stand on Church-State relations. In' Greater Los Angeles' there are day schools operated by 24 Baptist churches and one 550student' Baptist high school. .

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will meet with the priest directors of the Catholic Charities Appeal to"morrow to plan the '1972 cam, paign~ Bishop Cronin is honorary , -c/lairmari of the appeal and the' · diocesan director is Msgr. An',thony M. Gomes, Our Lady' of' , the Angels Church, Fall River.' The purpose of the session is to discuss the mechanics, theme 'andprocedures for the 31st an'nual appeal. The SipeciaI gifts phase will start' April 24 and ehd May ,6. The house-to-house par-, ish appeal will begin on Sunday, May 7 and extend tq Wednesday, May 17. To Complete Home Bishop. Cronin will be serving as honorary chairman of the appeal for the second' tif!le. Its motivating factor will be the . completion of the new St: Vine cent's Home' in Fall River. The' service and care in the works of charity" mercy and social ser· vices rendered by appeal funds. over the last 31 years in the various agencies will stimulate .. this year's campaign. Area directors to be present at the session will be Rev. Roger D. LeDuc, St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford, in charge of the 'New Bedford area; Rev. Bento R. Fraga, St. Joseph's Church, Taunton, for the Taunton area; Rev. John F. Andrews, St. Margaret Mary Church, Buzzards Bay for the Cape Cod and - Islands area and Rev. Roger L. Gagne, S1. Theresa's Church, South Attleboro, for the Attleboro area. Msgr. Gomes is also area director of the Fall River area.

: Dr. Lunsford reviewed th~ position of the day schools in a dis- , . cussion on the' 25th' anniverSary of these' Baptist schools' in " Southern' California. ",

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BISHOP CRONIN AT PROVIDENCE ORDINATION: Bishop Cronin, left a concelebrant at the Mass of Ordination to the Episcopacy of Most Rev. Louis ,E. Gellineau on last Wednesday, listens to the new Ordinary of the Providence Diocese deliver his homily following his ordination and installation as shepherd of the lRhode Island Diocese. Photo by Marcello.

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CITY (NC) ~ Or- joined to Him through fa,ith 'and thodoxy is the "first concern" of ,the Ho1y Spirit, in the Church, the Church, .Pope Paul VI de- that is His Mystical Body, elared.' "That is the way it is, beloved "The teaching Church does not ,children. In so affirming; our invent its doctrine," he told a doctl1ine detaches itself from the general audience. errors that have circulated and "To those who urge it to make 'still flourish in current culture.

attached to a broad gamut of alp'proaches to re'1igi.on in the early part of this century that were said to undennine the objective valid:ity of religious beliefs and practices. Modernists 'held that existence ofa personal God can not be' demonstrated, the Bible is not inspired, Christ is not divine, nor did He establish the Church

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Funeral Service . its faith easier, more in keeping "These errors could totally Edward F. Carney' with the tastes of the changing . ruin our Christian concept of life A C tion for, Peace' ,mentality of the times, ,the Chu.rch an d. 0 f h'IS tory. Md" 'or institute the' sacraments. Pope 549 County Street 0 ermsm repSt. Pius X, who condemned it as New Bedford 999·6222 WAS.HINGTON (NC)-Officials ~epIies with the Apostles 'non resented the characteristic ex- heresy ',in 1907, linked it with of the Leadership Conference. of p.ossumus'-we cannot." pression of these errors, and Serving the area since 1921 agnosticism . and an indiscrimi'Women .Religious here have The, Pope warned against re- under other names it is stUI cur" .. :nate eVOlutionism.) dra ft ed a Ietter t 0 th ree key gov- garding Revelation as "an evolu- re' n,t·.'" Pope' Paul continued: Auth,entic Revelation "We 'can then understand why ernment officials urging immedi- Hon that is still continuing, itself and surpassing ate withdrawal of all American· chan''''ing b . the' Catholic Church, today and men and war materials from In- itsel,f.,"', (The tenn ,"Modernism" was I iin the past, attaches such imdochina and, "continued efforts· He said that God's Rl;)velation li>Ortance ,to' the strictpreserva·to assure release of all prisoners 'to men ended with the apostolic Say' Cathol,ic Youth ation of authentic revelation. We of war." The letter,. addressed to ~ge, and added: (:an understand' why the, Church Pres~dent Ri~hard Nixon, ,Vice- '. . "The word of God finaHy, is Leader Tortured regards revelation, as an inv,iolaDoane'Heal'Ames INCO.'ORAIID · PresIdent· SpIro T. Agnew, and: for us the Incarnate Word, t h e ' . Ible treasure. And we can underRIO DE JANEIRO (NC)-The stand why the Church has such Spea,ker of. the U.S. House ~f 'hiStorical Christ and then the 1 FU'NERAL I'n the communl't'y Brazilian, Bishops' Conference f . RepresentatIves Carl' Albert., IS. " Chrl'st' 11',,,,,'ng . ' a . stern consciousness SERVICE " .. reported here thatthre~ Catholic, " , '0 its baSIC Part of a five-phase "action , duty to· defend and, transmit the toward peace" resolution' passed ' .,' , leaders engaged in social action , Catholic k d (~tl'ine of the faith in unequiv. and yolith wor were arreste. (leal terms. . unanimously by LCWR's nation· Publish HY ANNIS 775-0684 al board. 'One of them was tortured by . "Orthodoxy. I is its.first ·ress .ree t ory P . police., . ' . con. South Yarmouth 398-2201 'I09Y' :.. , (:ern; pastora' ,maglstenum ItS \' }if,lrwich Port 432-o59~ N. e.cro NEW YORK (NC)-An up-to- .~ Andres Campos, a" citizen of primary and providential funcdate listing of the nation's. EI Salavdor who works for the !ion." FEB. 4 Catholic newspapers, magazines youth department of the Latin 1'/ Rev. Msgr. Hugh J. Smyth, and publishers is now available American Bishops' Council, was '/, P.R., 1921, Pastor, S1. Lawrence, from the Catholic Press Associa- tortured in Sao }>aulo after his New Bedford; 1st Vicar ·General". ,tion here. arrest' there 'in late November on Fall River 1904-07;' Administra, In addition to the names; ad- charges of,. subversion.. He was tor of Diocese, Feb.-July, 1907. dresses lmd phone numbers of released Dec. 10. FEB. 9 most Catholic publications in the Two sociologists, a priest and SERVING ALL FAITHS Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelly, 1963, . United States and Canada, the 'a', layman, werealsd. arrested on Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul; Fall: '1972 Catholic, 'Press Directory subversion charges two monthS River.. includes lists of CPA officers, ago.- They were' released six'; directors. and committees.' weeks later pending trial. They ; FEB. 10 James A. Doyle, CPAexecu- were not tortured.' Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, i966, tive director, said the directory,' 'The ,incidents became known t Pastor, S1. Mary, Mansfield. published annually, also includes _ only recently and. then to only a -:'~ list of St. 'Francis de S'ah~s handful of .Brazilians. They were Sumner James Waring, Inc./Thomas J. Ashton & Son, Inc. THE ANCHOR " Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, winners over the years.;' CPA . reported in tl!.e D~ce.mber issue , CITY LOCATIONS Mass, Published every Thursday at 410 grants the award each year'''for of the bishops' conference bulle178 Winter St.l466 North Main St., Fall River Highland Avenue, Fall ·River, Mass. 02722 ' by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall ol:ltstandin'g contributions to tin, Noticias, which has a circuSUBURBAN LOCATION RIver, SUbscription price by mail, postpaid Catholic J·ournalism." lation limited' to Church leader~, ' , -189 Gardners Neck Road, Swansea, $4.00 per year. ..

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ROME (NC) - Pope Paul VI and representatives of the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople exchanged the kiss of peace in a ceremony observing the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. . In the 50-minute ceremony at St. John Lateran, the Pope's catnedral in Rome, Pope Paul said that it is necessary for Catholics and Orthodox Christians to pray for guidance "at a moment when we will be asked by the grace of God to take de· cisive steps, not only among ourselves but in the entire Christian family in the future, whichwith all our hope-we desire to be close at hand." Joining' with the Pope was a delegation sent to Rome by Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, led by Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon and Metropolitan Damaskinos. During the ceremony the Pope and the Orthodox churchmen exchanged the kiss of peace, recalling a similar embrace between Pope ~ul and Patriarch Athenagoras in Jerusalem in 1964.

Metropolitan Melit011, clad in robes trimmed in red and gold, sat to the left of the Pope, but below the steps of the main altar of ·the basilca. The praY,J:r service was conducted in Latin, Greek and Italian. The Sistine Chapel Choir sang in Latin, alternating with a choir of Greek seminarians. 'Branches of Same Tree' ih a brief talk the Pope said: "We are ,ait"Christians. We have become through Baptism part of toe Mystical Body of Christ, which is His Church... All of us have faith in Christ the Lord and all expect through him to be fOl1given, 'redeemed and saved in the same viv;ifying and sanctilfying Holy Spirit. Behold, the basis has already been laid for that ecumenical unity which we are ardently seeking." The Pope, referring to a volume of documents presented to him by Metropolitan Meliton that encompass 12 years of exchanges between the Orthodox patriarchate and the Vatican said that both churches are happy to have rediscovered themselves as the branches of the same tree,' born of the same root, and now sorrowful for not having yet been able to achieveby drinking from the same mystical chalice - that penect communion which would confirm between the two communities the organic ·and canonical unity proper to the one church of Christ.

Dad-Daughter Dance The Parents' Association of Sacred Hearts Academy; Fall River, will sponsor its annual father-daughter dance tomorrow night in the academy auditorium. MQsic will be by' the Musical Tops, directed by Bebe Alves, an~ a queen and her court will be chosen during the evening.

Charity He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity. -Swetchine

ClJristian Life Communities To Gather For Faith Commitment Weekend The New England Federation of Christian Life Communities will gather together for "Phase No. 1 - a Faith Commitment Weekend," hosted by the Fall 'River Queen of Peace Union of Christian Life Communities tomorrow through Sunday at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. Over 100 participants, all CLC leaders, from 27 high schools and colleges throughout New Englandwlll attend. Housdng for out-of-towners will be provided by families and friends of Fall River and New Bedford CLC members.. The purpose of the weekend will be for student and adult leaders of the NEFCLC to commit themselves verbally, physically and mentally to the CLC way of life and all that it en· tails. The theme of the weekend will be commitment through involvement. The program will begin tomorrow evening with introductory ,information given at Bishop Gerrard High School. The session will begin wIth a' talk by Rev. Mr. Ronald Sarno,' SJ, assistant to the National Moderator in charge of Colleges and a na· tional Impact team leader. Impact is a youth retreat sponsored by the National Federation of CLC's. He will discuss failings as a result of human weakness and 'show how goodness springs from the same source once Christ has been accepted as the reality in one's 1ife. Bishop Dingman Highlighting the weekend will be an address by Most Rev. Maunice Dingman, D.O., Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa and Episcopal Moderator of the National Federation. Bishop Dingman will speak on his vision of the American Church. His talk will be fol· lowed by an addres.s on the World CLC Movement as envisioned by Rev. Mr. Jose Equi. vel SJ of Santo Domingo, treasurer of the Jesuit Province of Chicago and National Representative to the World Federation of Chrdstian Life Communities. Mter lunch, Bishop Dingman will speak on the individual's commHment to Christ and what that act entails. Sister Mary Ann Foy RSCP, a national NEFCLC promoter, will spe!lk on the reo sponsibility .of the indivdual in commiting himself to CLC apostolates. A commitment film wdll underscore the previous sessions and Rev. Arthur de Mello will deliver a brief explanation of the film presentation. Commitment Ceremony Bishop Dingman will be ,the principal celebrant at the afternoon liturgy. Parents and friends of CLC have been invited to join the Bishop for the eu'charistic celebration which will join the national delegates for the evening meal. Later, various group activities will take place which wlll be. followed by special meetings: college-high school seniors; adults and moderators; and a New England Federation meeting. The NEFCLC representatives will have an opportunity to meet the National delegates in a panel discussion followed by a social hour. On Sunday, the closing day,

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cal programs. Sister Mary Albertus RSM, and Sr. Helen Scarry, RJM are hospitality coordinators. Sr. A:rlene Wood, RSM is in charge of decorations. The three Sisters are on the Bishop Gerrard }[j,gh School faculty. Area schools participating in the Phase 1 program are: Bishop Connolly High School, Fall R,iver; Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River; Holy Family High School, New Bedford. Other schools sending delegates are Southeastern Massachusetts University; Providence College; University of Massachusetts; Fitchburg State College; Rhode Island College; B.M.C. Durfee High School. More distant ,institutiom; sending delegations include St. Dom:inic's .Regional High School, Lewiston, Me.' and Mot. 8t. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, R. I. and St. Bernard's High School in Fitchburg. Because Phase 1 is a leadership workshop, only four students from each CLC group are invited to participate in the weekend program.

Dr. Raymond Zambito D.D.S., National President of NFCLC from Rockville Center, N. Y., Archbishop Against will talk on specific commit· ments in the modern day world. Sterilization P'roposal PORT-OF-SPAIN (NC)-ArchHe will be followed by Sister Mary Ann Foy who will speak bishop Gordon Anthony Pantin of Port-of-Spain restated the on speoific CLC apostolates. Other invited guests for the Ohurch's condemnation of sterilweekend include Most Rev. ization after it was reported Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall that the 'Fami1ly Planning AssoRiver; Brother Charles St. James, ciation of Trinidad and Tobago F.I.C., Dr. Thomas Bausch, as· . hopes to provide sterilization sistant chairman of the Council services for men and women. of Moderators. and Promoters "In the light of a recent press and Rev. Joseph MacFarlane, SJ, repollt regarding proposals to New England Promoter of CLC's. provide male and female steril. izatio::1 services," the archbishop Program Planner sa'id, "I deem it necessary to The weekend is being planned ma'ke quite clear the Church's by Brother Theodore Letendre. stand 011 sterilization: direct FIC who is president of the area sterilization, such as is contemBoard of Moderators and Na- platec, for the sole purpose of tional Chairman of the Council . contraception, is a grave violaof Moderators and Promoters. tion of God's la,w." Some of his co-workers include An. article in the Trinidad Jim Ford" a student at S.M,U. Guaoc,ian reported that the Famand East Coast representative to colleges; Don Boucher, student ily Planning Association's $20000 building for sterildzation opat UMass. Both are past presidents of the Peace Union of eraticns is nearing completion. The archbishop said also that CLC's. Robert Bouchard is the 'President of the Bishop Connolly he "cannot consider the introE:LC group and East coast repre- duction of such operations a sentative of the NFCLC to high sign of progres). n schools; Marc Demers is president of the Queen of Peace Fall River - New Bedford Union. Others on the planning committee are Gerard Dufault of UMass. and, Pauline Levesque who are Housing Committee' coordinators; Debbie Field, Holy Famdly High School, New Bedford, and Thomas Burke of Bishop Connolly High School are in charge of publicity and program arrangements; Rev. Mr. Paul Roy, SJ will be music coordinator and in charge of liturgi-

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Named Consultant To 'Social Services PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Philadelphia's former commissioner of we1fare, RandolJph E. Wise, has been reta'ined as a consultant by Catholi<: Social Services of the Philadelphia archdiocese. Wise was the city's welfare commissioner for 20 yeats. He said that while working closely with Catholic Social Services he gained great respect for its many and varied services to the total community. "It seems we never have enough social services to meet ever-increasing needs," Wise said, "but PhiladelJphia has been blessed With a tradition of public and private agencies to fill gaps that would otherwise be immeasurable."

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope is editor of ¥ission and WorldPaul has named M<;gl'. Edward mission magazines. T. O'Meara, national director of His . appointment was anthe Society for the Propagatio!1 nounced here by Archbishop main in misery or tbJat the danto two recent books in particu~ The. Roman Synod's docger of destroying the very physi- lar: ,"Alienation and Economics" of the Faith, auxiliary bishop of Luigi Raimondi, apostolic deleument on World Justice,as cal foundations of life on earth by Walter A: Weisskopf (E, P. St. Louis. gate in the United Stal~s .. indicated in an' earlier re- is precipitated." .,Dutton' , and Co.; '. 'New York . Those who are already .rich $7.95) ,and "In· Pursuit of ReleBishop·elect OiMeara, 50, will lease of this column, has .'a Iess mate- vance by Herbert J, Muller contdnue as SPF direct')r. , been severely criticized in some are bound to accept circles, notably, for example,· in rial y;ay' of'llf,e, with less waste,~Indjana .' University Press" Msgr. O.'Meara was' born in a Ifeatwre article on the Synod in 'order to avoid the destruction: Bloomi~,gton, Ind. $10). ig21 in St~ Louis, where he at-· by William Triggs in the Dec. of the' heritage. which they are . Economic Growth tended Catholic: gr:immar and obliged by, absolute justice to· . Mr., Weisskopf argues in his high' schools, Cardinal (7lennon share withal! other members trail~blazing study; one of the ,C'ollegeand Kenrick Semin~ry: of the human race. .robst important books publ'ishl.'<l ~e also. studied at the.AngeliBy Mr. Triggs and other like- in the fie1.d of economics in re- ,~uin University in Rome, where. minded critics of the Synod doe-cent years, that we have. made a . 'he' earned a do(:torate in theal. MSGR. ument on .. World Justice. may fetish'oiltofcontinuQus econoilr\-. ogy. ., , . al'gue, .if they will, that this is' ic gtowth" through 'an ever- . GEORGE G. simp!y: more of:,the same old ir- ex.panding GroSs· National Prod- ,': He wasordadned in: 1946 and, .releVa~t eccle~tical""rhetoric,' .uct,.. \, i . , : .,':: '~" ," " , ' . with· time out for studies .in Rome, . HIGGINS but I don't ha,ppen to ,agree ",vith ··.·Inthe·over-developed· West," s'ervect as assistant 'Oast~l: in St. them..To th~.~ontrlary, -;I would he says,"it"isthe ·GNP·fetishism Louis :parlshes until· 1956, when liIIllllll:::l::: 11;;::mm ::llmlll say with·· Fath:er.' Baum .'that in and in underdeveloped part he .went to' New Yorit as assist22 issue of The' ChristianCen.- ". the North American context, this. of, the' . world <. thepopulatj(m ant nationa'l director of the SPF., tury. Mr. Triggs thinks the doc~ . section' -of. the' 'doc~ent is e)CJ>losion. together will) the ill·: He' returned to St. LouL~ in 1960 ument is ultra-<;onservative arid '''avant-garde' and ~ad~cal.":'considered economic and teehno- ,as archdiocesan director of the logilcal a~i'ng at: the· West which·' SPF'and the following year was completely irrelevant. " ' . ; Trend lls Turning. It is worth noting, however, : It" is my itrtpres,slon".that· the threaten the surVival of. mankiM named pastor of ~;t. ,Louis that a number of other observers ipeople of the United States and as much as the danger ofa nu· .Cathedral. whose credentials In this area Canada are far from being ready clear holocaust. are as at least as impressive as' at this point in history to en"In view ~.of this situation it is In ~967 he was ..pointed naany that Mr. Tri~s' can lay tertain even the possibility that ridculrius' to· ma'intalO that COrl- . tional SPF' director end in I:,68 claim to, have reacted to the they (we) havE,l. to settle for a tinuation of' economIc growth ,was:named ,a Inember of the .' document quite favorably. Father somewhat lower standard of along' 'the same lines as before .. . , .vatica.il's Congregation for the Gregory Baum, Ii .respected· theo~ ''l'iving in the in.terest of interna- satisfies human: 'needs; catasBISHOP·ELECf O'MEARA 'logian with prm.essional training tionalsocial justice, and more trophic' scar~ity: 'and the ,threat . ,EvangeHzation of Peoples. He in the field of sociology, is a specifically, in the interest of Of 'extinction' can be. interpreted case in point. . ·,protecting the human' environ- as need~atisfactiononly'if o~e Father BaUJD, though disap- ment,. . . . Ipostulates' a death instinct and pointed' with the Synod docu-. 'Until very recently,as a mat- is in favor ofsati~ying this' ment on the prieshood, thinks. ter of fact, even the few ecolo- urge," that the. message contained in gists,. economists and other ex- • The only way out .of this pre· . ''TIiE DI~FERENT 90 DAY ACCOUNT" the document on World Justi<;:~, perts who taIked about this as a dicament, he says, "is to strive is "daring alJ .dforward looking." possilbility were thought to be for a new mode of . life which· per an.nu." min. $500. , Spirit .of Concern ' . unr~alistic 011' naive or. were said will rectify ,the' imbalance Of' On 'political matters, he vyroteto be suffering from a loss of WestEl1'n'~oci~ty, But this cannot No Notice"~required after 90 in the Dec.lO issue. of hUJ;l1an nerve. . be create!cfbyexternal organdays on withdrawals made withAt the present time, however, ization, political reforms or revunity. and solidarity that tran~ . in 10 days of each interest scends the, awareness of most there are certain indications that olutions.: Change from within h period. .' Catholics. Global consciousness, the trend is beginning to turn t:equiJI-ed' before one' .ean thinlc IMMEDIATIE INTEREST' - COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY to which the synod calls 'Chris- in the other direction, More and, in tenns of external' in.stitutional t~ans, is something disturbing to more e~perts are being given a cllanges. Manning the barr·icades, (interest exempt from Mass. Income tax) the local and regional churches. respectful hearing. In this con-' even gradual social refonn as The ;, primary identifcation of nection; I would call attentionadvoca'ted by liberals is insuffi· Western culture is still national. . cient." "The spirit of concern, solidar" . Liqui,d ASl.ets !Practice 'of Austerity 1 North MClin· St. 149 GAR Hwy,Rte 6 Professor. Muller, in the second ity and identificalion with all Fall River Somenet :book ·referred to above, strongly men, especially with the undeJ:' .Bishop Asserts SAN' FRANCISCO (NC)-Liq~ .SUPPOllts the position taken by privileged, is not commonly acknowledged. Here the synod uid assets of the San Francisco Dr. Weisskopf (and by the ' gives expression to an avant· archdi'ocese are a t a "d'Isturb'109- Sy'nod) on thl's' ma-ter. u galI'de spirit.", ly low level" and th'e chancery "Thinking' of· the worldeco'. For the North American scene office's expenditures "consistent- logical crisis," he ·w:rites,. "some particularly, Father Baum points Iy exceed current revenues," scientists say ... plainly that the ' out, the document on World Auxiliary Bishop Nonnan F. Me. chief national need. is austerity, Justice, in several important re- Farland said here.. 'less . production' of material spects, ·takes. a "radical" ,posi· . According to an off,icia~ finan. goods, a ll?wer standard of living tion. In summary, he is strongi:y: 'cial report released by the bish, for the pro~erous. A moralist C1f the opinion. that the Synod, op, the archdiocese is operating ,might add that without some on a number of. important issues at a $932,294 deficit as of last practice of austerity, instead of In the ar.ea of World Justice, June 30. .forever' spending, ,consuming, ~'has given' a ieadership' that The' d~icit "is perhaps the and wasting while the quality seems far ahead of the present'," most. critical figUre dn the finan-' of OUlI' life deteriorates, we have especially in the North American ·cla . 1 statemen,. t " sal'd .B'IS hop Mc- no rl'gllt' to preach to' the.,world context. . Fartand in a conunentary accom.· 'the virtues pf free priv.ate enterr fully a,gree w:~ Father Baum pailying the report. "The, chan. prise, democracy,· Christianity, . in this regard arid would call at· cery office is continuaHy being or any of our national idols." . .. tention ,to what. the document called upon to sustain and sub. .,ProfessOr Muller,. returning to on World Justice has to ,s~y ·.-sidiize operations .beyond its ,thesaine.subject ·in ·.another . lContex;t, says that, in his opin~' . ·aibouf'.··the 'maldistribution of ·means." .wealth between ·rich and poor Included in the deficit are ion, "the American. people are J:ll;ltions and about the il'll'espon· .chancery' operations and arch~ . no;t 'ataq p~epared for. au~terity~ . . . . . .t ... .' sible way in which the richer diocesan subsidies .to. 'schools any sacrifce' in their' standard of , : nations ha.ve' polluted th,e h,uman' . and p a r i s h e s .11'V1·n.a."·' ., Save yourself time. Our large .envirorim~nt to their own short· ' That mayor may not be com. selection geared to student . pletely fair. to the American run economic'advantage and needs practically assures you of Leave Ministry .ipeople. In any event, it ought to , 'with little or no regard for the finding the .books you need for . r rights of the so-<:alled develop· SANTO DOMINGO (fIlC) ,- . give: pause to Mr. Triggs and your 'school assignment.· Jng lJIlltions. A!bout 30 of theDominiCanRe~ other critics' of the Synod doc~ 'Avant-garde, Radical' pubHc's 400 priests, 'or seven per ument on World Justice. In the Hit is impossibl~ to say," the cent, have le.!t the ministry in. light 'of'-the Weisskopf and Mul. d~ument asserts; """hat r.igh.t the last: five years in Qrder to ler Ibooks, surely they: will not ~he.rich nations have to ,keeP up' . marry after.applying· to the Vatwant to gO'onWitoout qlialifica. their.. claim to increase th~r own . ~ ican for ·laicization; a newspaper tion that the dO,cwnent is ultrain the' original Fall River 'Shopping Center . material demands,.:if 'the conse· . here said it leamed:from church conservative and total!y irrele- '.' ,,". : ". '"'~1 Mal'hmo:S::Bistiop ~Ivdo • ,tel. .6.79·1851 quence is' either ·that·, others re·' QffiJcials. ' '. vant. ." ,

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Draft Counseling 'Center at Colleges BROOKLYN (NC~A team' of "Some calpe for help in filing Cath olic campus ministers here conscientious objector status, will start its second semester of some for advice on how to obdraft: counseling in February. tain hardship deferments, a~ Nowrman Center 'facilities at some just wanted to know what QUeens and Brooklyn Colleges, they should do When they went coeducational city cshools,' dou- to their local draft board to regble as 'headquarters for, the draft ister," Father ~ain said. counseling one evening, each week. ( Father Peter V. kain, coordi· Y 'Protects Buddism KANDY (NC)-The new draft nator, said nearly 200 students and their parents used thecoun- ' <;:onstitution . of Ceylon guaranseling services offered by nine tees all citizens the tight to freepriests and one Xaverian Broth- dom of religion, but says, the er, most of whom work as state has the duty to protect campus ministers, duri~g the and foster Buddhism, the religfirst college semester. ion of the majority of. the people.

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It can be just about' taken for granted these, days that to talk about education 'is -to speak about crisis. Private colleges, especially, are faced with many difficul,ties and chief 'among these are decreasing enrollmentS' and increasing costs. Deficit bpdget is piled upon deficit budget and no one knows how or where it will all end, which colleges will have to 'change and amalgamate in order to live. what colleges will fail to sun'ive. The, Association of American Colleges ,has said that the private college picture is even more desperate than' people realize, and that private colleges right now need one billion dollars of no-strings go:vernment help if' they are to survive. " . And yet, in the midst of this" a far different picture is given by a small group of colleges, those belonging to the Christian College Association. A survey of ,forty of ,.its members, enrolling some thirty-six thousand students, indicates that enrollment is up and the financial picture is a healthy one.' The surVey attributes this health to the fact that the colleges are "distinctly Christian" in character. Students who enter them choose them and go into them knowing exactly what they are getting int~olleges that op~rate' -within the framework of the Ten Coinmandments, that' set up moral standards of behavior for students, that e~pect students to act accordingly. .' This is how the colleges present themselves, this is what students know abolit them before they em'oll, this is how students and colleges operate. ' niere was a time'when 'denominational colleges or those with religious traditions' operated this way also. This is no .longer the case in most instances. Most- colleges Psychiatrist Says Parents' Ulnited now, look upon themselves as institutions of higher learning and are not overly concerned about the student's spirFront Harms Children 'itual or moral life. as long' as 'he does not introduce crime , ST. MEINRAD (NC)-Parerits master at playing off people , on' the' campus. are. actually doing their children against each other." This. ,Qf ,course, •presents many questions~ Parents ,a disservice when 'they pret~nd : The more, healthy family resometimes, send, soqs' ,and daughters to", religion~ to agree on how to raise them, lationship. Dr. Bowen said, is related colleges expecting that ad!JliIlist~tion',a~d ,faculty according to'.a psychiatrist with for each';parent to have "a sepwill act in their places.'This, they no longer do. Parents i5 years 9f 'experience in family arate and different indiv'dua1 re~ lationship w:ith the' child." sometimes send s,ons and daughters'to reli~on-relatea, col:' ' psychotherapy. " , , b ' Dr. Murray Bow,en, psychiatry "The united front pr~sents the leges expecting that their young people will be taught one professor at Georgetown Um- child with an amorphous parentspecific religion. Instead. more often than not, students versity's School of Medicine,' al amalgam that is neither mas'attend courses' that are' a religious smorgasbord. The saJd said the so-called "united , cliline no feminine. A child, with most some' religion-related colleges do is to state that front" }D~ny parents try to ex- a separate relatiolllship 'with each they have a religious tradition,expose students to .the hibit in front of ,their children parent is in a better position to might relieve tension between know men from relating to his opportunity to investigate .more deeply this religioustra- ,the parents, but, it also resultl; father, 'and 'to Imow women dition. and-hopefully~wait and see \if it' is, attractive "in a more difficult long-term :from relating to his mother;" . They psychiatrist warned, enough to influence them. situation for the child." ' . Many parents and students 'understand this, and'are Interviewed iii the February ho~evei', ,that "any attempt to willing to settle for' it. 'Many do' not understand 'and are. issue of Marriage' magazine, stop the united, front, without ;paying attention to the' parents' upset and disappointed in the, colleges. But, apparently, published: monthly by. St. ~ein- l:Jther immaturities, would only . t'Ion , ,co II' rad Archatbbey here 10 Indiana. those 'h W 0 ~n,t er the Ch' ns t'Ian C011ege Assoela ,eges, 'Dr. Bowen said the "united r~sult in parental, immaturity know what they want and are' willing to support the front" 'approach boils down to being transmitted in sqme other colleges of their choice. a "two on one'" sitiuatiqn de- way."

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beating. From there the show gave itself over totally, to the histrionics of a soap opera (which had been loOming in the plot for two weeks). But no one:-neither husband, nor wife, neither g.p. nor specialist--made the e,ssentia1 point. Why must blame and guilt be attached to the birth of a defective child? . Excuse for Abortion Admittedly. having a less'than..perfect child is not the dream of every parent. But have we, become so attached to the image of Hollywood symmetry and deodorized life that we are repelled at the thought that a child may be, cripp~ed or deformed? Is the fact that a child wil1 walk with a limp (or wear a 'brace or mature mentally only to the third grade) excuse enough to dispose of him? That was the premise presented in Marcus Welby. Indeed, after the child was born and had to undel"go a heart operation. Super-doc expressed great love and concern for his grandson. But before the birth, not one word fr!lM his lips in defense of t'J:1e life his daughter carried. Yet innate in the program'was the a'nswer. for running currently with th~ main plot was a subprot about another couple who had already still~birthed a defective chi1d. ,In true TV fashi,oli (where calamity follows disaster); it was discovered that the father had a missing gene, which had caused the deformity. , Mer'fivemontlis (which" sHp~' ped by between 'the 'two episodes). pregnant again. the wife wished to have the second child. The husband was less sure until -after testing the amniotic fluid -Dr. Welby assured him his child was ,normal. '

Room for Love In that scene. Dr. Welby' gave a speech about scientific development, about how no one knows what will ~ medical practice in a decade or }wo,' about how science fiction becomes fact. " And, that is the, point that shou1d have been emppasized throughout thediam'a. There is no blame in prOducing a defonnied child, for cure~ and corrections may be, around the corner. But even when there is no hope 'for oo~ality,"'there is room 'f6r love: Ask any peP-IOn who lias a child wi,th a birth defect: ask anyone who works with crippled or're~rd«id chilren. There is a love" there that is stronger-th'iu1' any;other: '. , -. ,,: : No, matter wh~ther the' limp is the result, of Byron's clubfoot or Goebbels" infantile paralysis. No matter whether the child becomes poet or war criminal. It is the potentia'l person that" must be 'protected and loved, from' conception to' death, perfect or , fhiwed. (James Breig, writer with The Evangelist. the Albany. N. Y. diocesan weekly. wrote ~his appraisal for his newspaper.) '

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Priests' Survey Manifests Need for Catholic Press CHICAGO (NC}-Most Amer- press. "There is a'iso strong agreeican diocesan priests surveyed by, U. S. Catholic magazineindi- ment that ;Catholics don't read cated they read diocesan news- enough of the Catholic press, papers more avidly than they that each diocese still needs its own brand of it-and a nearly read the secular press. A large number of priests said even split about ,whether the they rate the CathoHc press as nation's Catholics should have a good to fair, and almost 90 per daily dose of it." According to the survey, the cent of the clergy polled said they do not think that average priests avidly read the diocesan Catholics read enough of the press. The findings showed that Catholic press. 94.7 per cent read their own Results of the study on, the, diocesan newspaper and 71.2 periodical reading habits of per cent read one of more diocAmerican Catholic diocesan esan newspapers other than their priests appeared in U. S. Cath- own. ol,ic's February issue. The magaIn contrast, 67.5 per cent said zine is published here by the they read a secular daily newspaper. Olaretian Fathers. About 500 priests , representOnly 2.2 per cent of the priests ing aU age groups, were asked rated the Catholic press as exby the magazine what period- cellent. ,But 82.4 per cent said it kalsthey read in the religious was good or fair, and 12.9 per and secular press, and what they cent described it as poor. ' An 'overwhelming 88.9 per think about the overall state of the' Catholic press in America. cent of the respondents said the "Despite the lack of agreement average Catholic does not read on specific, desired content," enough Catholic publications, wmte Kevin H. Axe, the maga- and a strong minority-46 per zine's managing editor who con- cent - said they think' there ducted the survey! "there is should be a national Catholic strong agreement about an en-' daily newspaper in the United . during need for the Catholic States.

Court Overturns Groppi Sentence

WASHINGTON (NC)-A contempt sentence meted out to Father James E. Groppi several years ago by the Wisconsin leg-: islature has been overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court. The COUl1t held 7 to 0 that the Cmilitant pastor of St. Michael's Church in Milwaukee was not given a statement of the charges or a ohance to respond to them. ,. Chief Justice Warren E. Burge~ .said -that the legislature's punishment without hearing the priest, violated constitutiomll procedures. The fact that Father Groppi was held in contempt STUDY ATLAS: Doing a little mapgazing in prepar- two daytS after his allegedly con· . ation for their trip to Europe this Summer are, from left, temptuous conduct before the Patricia Benjamin, John Sands, Brother Gerald Robbins, legislature was a major factor in the Supreme Court's ruling, C.S.C., and Elaine Secatore. Burger added. Father Groppi was held in contempt by the Wisconsin Assembly Oct. 1, 1969, for his part in 'a welfare demonstration that had blocked the legislature for about 12 hours two days earlier. .... At the time the resolution was A teacher at Coy-le-Cassidy visit Amsterdam, Brussels, Na- passed Father Groppi was in the High School, Taunton, will fly ples and Pompeii. Dane County jarl on disorderly Brother Gerald stated that conduct ch~rges arising from to Europe this Summer with a group of s~udents to attend there are places available in the the same incident. , classes· in Great 'Britain, France, group and interested students The contempt resolution was or t:leir parents are invited to . Spain and Ihily. ',adopted under an J848 WisconBrother Gerald Robbins of 72 contact him for further informa- sin law wLthout giving the priest tion. There are now eight stu. Church Green, Taunton, has been the group, five from an opportunity to present a deappointed by the American In~. dents down,". Father Frieidman said. Coyle-Cassidy High School and fense. The resolution specified The edght-member commission stitute for Foreign Study, Green- three from Cardinal Spellman that the priest would be con-Chaired by Msgr. Terrence J. wich, Conn., to chaperone a fined to the county jail for six High School, BrocktQn. Murphy, president of the College group of students on a study ffi'OI1Jths or for the duration of of St: Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. tour, beginning in ,July. Th~y will the legislative session, whichtour and attend lectures at the ~sifted through discussions, and ever was briefer. recommendations made by cam- University of London, the UniThe 124-year-old Wisconsin pus ministers .at five regoinal versity of Paris, the Unillersity of contempt law had never before Madrid and the Marianum meetings. PIULADELPHIA (NC)-l'he been used against anyone by It came up with a nine-page . School in Rome. They will also the state legislature. In fact, Epis~opal diocese of Philadelphia docUIDEmt which makes suggesFather Groppi was the first man has decided to pay $545 in intions about the structure, funcin American history to be found Knights to Honor come taxes withheld by one of tion and public responsibility, of its priests as a protest against in contempt by a legislative· body campus ministry. at Catholic col- Archbishop Sheen without a hearing. the Vietnam War. leges. DOYLESTOWN (NC)-Retired After the Rev. Davi~ Gracie, Th'e document says that mi~ Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, an urban missioner here, had relistry should be "a central and 'Prominent television preacher of integral element of. the Catholic the 1950's and later bishop 'of fused for 18 months to pay half insitution," and never be con- Rochester, will be honored May of his income tax assessment, the Internal Revenue Service sidered "marginal." 28 at the National Shrine of Our went to his employer asking the Suggestect Roles Lady of Czestochowa here in Episcopal diocese to turn over Pennsylvania as the Knights of $545 of the priest's salary. It says a campus ministry team, including clergy, Religious Columbus' 1971 "Catholic Man Refusing to do so would have and laity, lis the "preferred of Action." made the diocese liable for posmodel for this apostolate;" that Knights of Columbus Day is sible criminal charges, for nonthe role of women ~'should be held annually at the shrine, with payment of the taxes. deepened and expanded," and thousands of knights and their Father Gracie appealed to the that "campus ministry shol,I1d families traveling to Doylestown Episcopal council "to join in a no longer be seen as a part-time to see the annual recipient of the corporate act of resistance job." award and hear him to give an against this barbaric, immoral COMPA~Y Suggested roles for the cam- an address. war." Paying the bill, he said, 'pus minister include counseling, Aluminum or Steel Knights Day was a small af- "will finish me as a tax resist~r!' "Christian witness of social and 944 County Street Voting to pay the tax bill, the moral issues," and objective, in- fam- in 1967 and 1968, its first NEW BEDFORD, MASS. council also set up a committee dependent meditation between years. In 1969 there were 10,000 992-6618 . ~ to study the theological implicapersons on hand when TransporvarIOUS campus groups. tions of conscientious tax reLiturgical and other kinds of ta,tion Secretary John A. Volpe sistance and tax exemption. received the first Catholic Man' eJeperimentation by the campus ministry team "should be en-, of Action award. Life couraged by the diocesan auThe 1970 award recipient was thorities," according to the astro'naut Richard Gordon Jr., Every mile is two in winter. guidelines. "Creative risk-4:aking who accep.ted' on behalf of him~Herbert should. be permitted." self and seven other astronauts The guidelines say formal who are Catholic, while 12,000 training of, campus ministers persons watched. 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Says Role 'of Campus Ministry. In Catholic Colleges Increasing WASHINGTON (NC)-Changes in religious programs at Catholic colleges have /increased the scope of campus ministry there, according to a priest who helped d-ellelop' m~'f guicleli.n.es on Catholiccampus ministry. Catholic colleges once offered an emensive program of "I:eligious exercises" Hke public recitation of the rosary and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, said Father C.W. Friedman, executive secretary of the National Catholic Educa'tional Association college and univ~rsity department here. But today, he said, these programs have mostly "gone by the wayside." Today's coIlege theology departments, "say that they teach theology or religion as a strictly academic subject," and consider the 'spiritual growth and commitment of individuals as outside their sphere, Father Friedman added. "Somebody has to take up this slaok." Until recent years, persons involved in campus minis~ry did most of ,their work 'on "secular" campuses, where "Newman Clubs" and other church programs flourished. In those days, campus ministers at Catholic. colleges were called chaplains, and often had full-time teaching jobs besides their other duties. Rising Importance "Campus Ministry Guidelines for Catholic Colleges and Univer-, 'sities" - the guideLines Father Friedman helped develop and the first ever drafted on a national level-are an indication of the rising importance now being arttadhed to .this phase 'of campus manistry.. A Commis!?ion on the Campus Ministry within NCEA's college and university department developed the' guidelines, based on "feedback from the flield-from the;WHom up, not from the top

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Guidelines .Issued' Por Educators,

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NEW YORK (NC)-A set of guidelines' for avoiding "sex role . stereotyipes" are' now available from the National Council of Churches' Christi-an educ'ation divsion here. The guidelines urge' writers, editors, artists' and photogtllphers of Christian educational material not to use the term "man" when "persons", would do as well.' 'Educators should also watch out for stereotypes tha,t: imply women are, passive and:' men aggressive, or that little girls"tan cry but little boys should not, the guidelines say. , Alternatives to job stereotypes should alsob~ offered, according to the guidelines, sw::h as picturing women in business and industry and 'men as teachers or nurses. Girls ougbt to be, pictured spending time with their fathers, lIJlld boys with their mothers, the guidelines said, and both' tnen and women should be seen doing cooking and yaJr'dwork. The Church did not invent sex stereotypes, said Diana .I;.ee Beach, a school chaiplain, analyzing the resuhs of a study, on' church school curriculum in a recent issue of Spectrum, NeC's education bi-monthly publication.

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When Paris says lower the hemlines everyone screams and hollers in protest but keep your eyes on the fashion picture and take note that a couple of seasons hence a lower hemline, will filter down to Middle America. Willi such thoughts in mind let's ta'ke a peek at what that city on' the Seine is forecasting' for this season's' showings. To Lie Dormant If, you've spent your sewing lessons learning to set in sleeves ;properly you may find that your new-found skill will, lie dormant for awhile, because this peek into the near future in fashion , reveals that a soft, rounded dol-,

Cardinal Asks World's H~lp for Refugees CALCUTTA .(NC) - "These people are the whole of humanity's concern," Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York said as he visited the muddy camp near here where wooden huts shelter more than 250,000 refugees from East PaKistan' (now l'8ngla, desh).' Before leaving for Bangkok . and Saigon, where he presided at New Year's services as Catholic military vicar in the United, States, ,Cardinal Cooke appealed to the world to help India ,x:ehabilitate the millions' of refugees displaced by nine months of military action in their home-' land. ' The cardinal· s;poke through an interpreter with some of the barefoot, blimket:clad refugees. He then' went to Mother Teresa's War on Want Hospital near Dum, Dum Air-port, where he celebrated Mass on a make-shift altar the Sisters had set up in, plank-floored ward roofed with wood and tarpaulin.

this t~pe of fashion are "easy" and "sure," but another one that could be used would be fortyish. Yes, very high fashion is still harking back to the post-war !period for many of its inspirations. Pants Are Back Pants are back, after a short brea'k' when your pantsuits got relegated to the back of your closet. They are calling them EasyPants and they'll be worn for botli day' and evening. The increase' of, travel both, in this cOuntry and abroad may be one of the reasons that this particutaI' style 'of dressing has been 'returned-by popular 'demand. However, the new ,pants will be quite wide in the leg and will be worn with what they are ca11ing the squared short topper. 'Just a glance at ,the topper will reveal to' those in the overthirty bracket that this "too is a leaning back into 'the days when Betty Grable and John Payne smiled 'from the billboards and Milton Berie was 'our, favorite TV personali;ty. If I r~emher cOrr~etly, my topper' was white (it probahly' lived in the cleaners) and we wore them over everyfuing from broomstick skirts to our strapless prom gowns. Watch Paree ideas that will hit the headlines pretty soon, after rising from the drawing, boards of the French designers are capsleeved dresses, naITowly belted waists (there go our diets again!), pleats and ruffles, pale stockings and 'off-the:shoulder necklines. While all th~se new ideas (or revamp of old ideas) may leave you an indication which, way it, will be heading in. '72 and '73. So keep your eye on Paree., Oth~r

Couple Opposes Using Taxes for Abortions

LANCASTER (NC)-A marr:ied couple here in Pennsylvania said they they intend to" withhold a percentage of their state income tax payment in proportion to the amount the state spends in sup- ; port 'of abortions. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gallagher halVe sent a letter to their state representative asking for infoI', mation' about what percentage : , of the state budget, either 'di-. Churches Merge rectly or indirectly, supports MADRAS (NC) - Two non- li!bomons. In their letter the Gallaghers Catholic churches in India have aJChieved full inter-communion said: "We have no control over and are now going ahead with an individual secretly having an negotiations for a merger. The aborNon. However, for' an aborchurches are the Mar Thoma tion t.o be paid for by tax dollars, Syrian Church, which is Protes- in a tax~supported hospital is tant in doctrine but Orthodox another matter.'" ' in origin 'and ritual, and the They said they realize their Church of South India, which is action v.iolates the law of Penna union of major' Protestant sylvania but "we choose to viochurches in South India and l.~",:, Htl!.er,f;h,ap.. North' 'Ce:yr6"i1: ,; :." .. ,,'.' :'\,,< "', .... , ,1~tr.\tN~:-,~!P.A~F~ the' jaw' of God." _

Catholic Conference Formed in Georgia MEDiCAL MIRACLE: Stlella Marie Waltz was hardly .more ' th~n a greYish glob of tissue' one year and a half, ago' Whet} she entered the world breech (backwards) ~~o and one half months premature, and weighing only 28 oz. pictured ,Iat birth with hE~J!" parents, Stella and Norm~n W~1tz. the miracle on Page 9.~C PhotQ.. ,

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Leaked Study Report· Called Prejudicial I To Catho.lic Educatio,n ALBANlj' (NC)-A study commission's reported recommendation to '~nd direct' parochial. school aidl in New York was called "an appalling case of ab-' solute ptej6dice" by a spokesman for sd,te Catholic schools. The Flei~chmann Commission, appointed ih 1969' by Gov. Nelson Rockefbller to examine ways to improve IbOth public and nonpublic education in New York, has committed "a disgraceful cop-out," s~.jd J. Alan Davitt. He is executi~e secretary of the Catholic School Superintendents' Associationlof New York. Preliminary press accounts of ~ommissionl findings, before bemg presented to the governor, indicate th~t the study group be- ' lieves all aid programs to nonpublic 'sch601s are unconstitutional. "j ,, ' 'Absolute Prejudice' "Such a ~onclusiori is incredible," Davitt'. said whIm consider.. Jng among 6ther things that both . , houses of the state legislature have clearly gone' on record in favor of help to the 20 per ce~t of students !who are in Catholic or non-public schools. ' "The rep6rts indicate that the Fleischmand majority is an appalling casE!- of absolute prejudice againstl a Catholic education . . . a prejudgment· based on 'mere :perso~al views, whicl;1 i!s disgraceful," Davitt said.

ATLANTA (NC)-The state's two Cathdlic BishOips announced here format'ionof the Georgia catholic Conference, which ,t4ey said would "give' witness of, s;piritual vaIues in' public affairs' and provide' an agency .lor 'corporate Catholic service to the state-wide community...· Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan Of Atlanta and Bishop Gerald L. Frey of Savannah will serve on the conference~s board in addition to two priests and two laymen. ' Father Michael A. Morris of Atlanta wiH serve as, the conference's executive, secretary, supervising its day-to-day activi~ ties. He is also the Atlanta arch'diocesan education director. In a statement released here, ArehbiSihOip DOl1Jllellan and :QishOip Frey said the conference, among other ,things, would "formulate policy positions with Il'eference to state governmental progra'rhs, legislation and poli~ des which affect the common good and the interest of the Church." ,

He added in a news release, from the New York State Catholic Committee that "we can only hope the published reports are in error and that the Fleischmann majority wi.11 seriously consider its responsibility to all the students in all the schools in the state.'" Di~closure of partial findings of the' 18-member' com~ission, named for its chairman, attorney Manly Fleischma.nn of Buffalo, also brought' an angry reaction from some New York' archQio~ cesan officials, including Msgr.' Sneer Joseph T., O'Keefe, secretary for A sneer is often the sign of education. ' heartless malignity.·, -Lavate,r

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My husband and I share a room in our house which we call our, office. He runs his business from his side and I do my writing on my side. My side of the office looks worse than the side of my refrigerator . . . and my refrigerator sets records. My it-right after I get ~he' column desk has a way of accumu- written. lating sorts of things. . . So to avoid the black window, all the things that the kids I' puU down the shade. '(That

, .DETROIT (NC) - Two Michigan physicians, Doctors Ma~reen Fedeson and Richard Jaynes, have been appointed 'guardians ad litem (for purposes of litigation) "of the dass of all, the unborn persons' in the State of Michigan." The appointment, made by Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman, gives the doctors and their attorney, Arthur, F.Barkey, the ri8ht to intervene effectively in a case testing the constitutionality of Michigan's anti-abortion law. Without their status as guardians, the two doctors, both vigorous opponents of permissive abortion laws, would be able to enter the c~se only ~rough friend of the court briefs. The guardian, status permits them to become parties to the ,suit, along with two public officials who are entrusted with the enforcement of the law: Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley and Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan. Barkley, who will be one of the lawyers pleading the test case, said he believed his participation would be useful because he felt the public officials could not completely defend all as,peets of the prohibition of abortion without compromising their respons~bility to the public.

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probably has something to do with the oroot of all the problems of the world, if I were a psychology student. But, I'm noL I'm not a home economics student either, from the looks of that window.) So, after the shade is pulled down, the next best. thing to stare at is the waH next to the window. For it is on that wall By toot I hang all my special mementos. MARY There's a copy of the prayer of St. Francis, "Lord, make me CARSON an instrument of thy peace ..." sent to me by my brother, the year his wife died. SmUng Children There aore the Beatitudes for AI'I the stuff that the kids pile on my desk keeps sliding off like those who work with the handimelted ice oream, and pretty Clllpped, "Blessed are the Friends soon, "my stuff" is all over the of EX'CeptionaI Children." They offer consolation when days office. have been difficult. Anyway, in, my little corner, Then there is the prayer of I have my desk, and,. my type- Fm Giovanni, sent to me by my writer, which faces the window. husband years ago. "... within And' it's great. I can sit at the our reach is'joy. There is a raditypewriter, waiting for inspira- ance and glory in the dar.kness, ,tKm to hit me ... 'and stare out could we but see; and to see we the window. have only to look." Unfortunately, watching the And there is a collection of AND SOME ADVOCATE ABORTION: Now a healthy Childhood Association traJffi(' go by doesn't foster many phdtos of my husband and all 24-pound normal child, doctors consider Stella Marie's sur- Director Resigns briIliant, poetic, earthshaking in- my children., There they smile at mediCa:! miracle but the world considers it a sermon vival'a sl?iration~;, My.. usual re~ction is, me ... every one of them. PITTS~URGH (NC) Father ,iWjll you look at the way that And as' I sit. here' trying to on lo"eof children by true parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waltz. Augustus Reitan has resigned nut is driving? If he's doing any- write a column,' those same beoause of poor hea'lth after serthing, he's doing 80! He must be sweet smiling children are killving 15 years a'S national direcout of his mind." ing each other out in the 'living tor of the Holy Childhood Asso,By the time my husband re- room over a game of "Hearts," ciation. Marquette Sociologist Tells Practical Ways That sweet smiling husband is ' acts, "What did you say?". the ",I am happy if I have made car is 10' miles· gone, and there, watching the 'umteenth inning of some contribution in encouragTo Help Elderly is nothing' to show him anyway. that supreme delight ... fitbaIl. ing children to help their less And do you know what I'm MILWAUKEE (NC) - Only mental health set In.'' Clean the Window Ifor.tunate brothers and sisters in going to do? I'm going to take five per cent Iiv:e in institutions. The complication is that the Aside from the fact that I'm 'all those smiling faces, take The .other 95 per cent, to a great "outside" elderly, those already the mission areas of the world," uninspired by traffic, I have them off the wall, tape them to extent, live alone in apartments outside the arms of these pro- he said. trouble puUing two consecutive the shade, AND SNAP IT or rooming hpuses out of touch grams and who have few if any The Holy Childhood Associathoughts together during the RIGHT UP TO THE TOP ... with the spirit-energizing of par- friends in the parish community, tion was founded in 1843 in day, interrupted with, "Mom, RIGHT UP INTO THE ROLLER aren't aware of these helpful pro- Paris to educate and train Cathish life. olicchildren in mission activities where did you put my other . . . AND SIT HERE AND grams. They are the lonely elderly. and to provide fund'S for neshoe?" "Mom, can I go to the STARE AT MY DIRTY WINToo frequf'!ntIy churches beSo one of the greatest Chris- glected ch.i1dren in missions all library?" "Tell him to stop, DOW! lieve that the aged will seek out tian opportunities, Dr. Moberg Mom!" "Do you want to hear a clergyman nearby or partake said is that of ministering to the over the world. The association hoas offices in 41 countries. the story I just saw on TV?" of parish activity, but this is an needs of these people. Find the "Mom, she won't let me bororow Priests' Senate Asks erroneous assumption, Often isolated, draw them into the soher paints ... and i need them they are unable to get to church, cial activities. By doing so, inExperimental Parishes .. : 'cause I hafta do a poster ..." LOUISVILLE (NC) - Experi- don't know about the activities, directly they can help the elSo, I generaIly write at night.. men:ta1 parishes should be estab- and as a consequ'ence, being derly in other needs, psychologiBut .I can't see much out the lished here as an alternative ap- , ·"out of 'sight" they are "out of cal and material, "all of which window at night, partly because mind." . Est. 1897 are interrelated with spiritual it's dark out there, and partly 'proach . to traditional parishes, This is the opinion of Dr. Da- minist.ries." archdiocesan the . Louisville Builders Supplies because the window is so dirty, vid O. Moberg, 'a researc.her and "If we think of a man as it 2343 Purchase' Street which looks much worse at priests' sen,ate recommended in professor who presented a paper whole being, to leave out any night. I remind myself to cl~an a committee report. New Bedford on the spiritual well-being of the one dImension of need is doing a The report which has been 996-5661 . endorsed by Archbishop Thomas elderly to the· recent White disservice," he said. House Conference on Aging. Board Sends Medicine J. McDonough, lists four models Dr. Moberg, chairman of the whic'h parishes can use through To Bangladesh what is' termed "controlled ex- department of sociology and anthrqpology at Marquette UniverNEW YORK (NC)-The Cath- perimentation.". olic Medical Mission Board has The report' was unanimously'. sity, described w~ys in which announced shipment of $231,000 pa,ssed by the senate and'recom- churches can l!ssist the elderly worth of medicines for the peo- mended to Archbishop McDon- in 'an interview here. ple of newly created Bangladesh ough "as an adequate norm for 'Find the Isolated' ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New, Bedford and the hundreds of thousands legitimate experimentation." Dr. Moberg noted that many oreturnees from Indian refugee Father Thomas L. Boland, churches are not engaged in acOne of Southern Ne~ England's Finest Facilities camps. chairman of the senate commit- tivities that relate specifically to A varied assortment of medi- tee, called the report "purely a the elderly. They provide some cines was a'irlifted from New framework for experimentation." kind of program or activity that Now Available for York to Dacca as part of a 37- He said that "we're not cal'ling perhaps also involves an inexton shipment by Catholic Re- for change across the board" pensive hot meal. "That in itself BANQUETS, FASHION SHOWS, ETC. lief Services and the Protestant and "we're not saying every speaks to a need," he observed. Church World Service which parish should change" or should "The aged often aren't aware of FOR DETAILS CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 sent blankets, bedding and other be structured along the line of what is a balanced diet, and so items. 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"CELEBRATION OF LIFE" IN ATTLEBORO FALLS PARISH: L~ft; Sr., Susan Connell, RSM, and Mrs. Mary Morrill, right, register the stu, dents from Bishop Feehan' High and the high schools of Attleboro ~nd No. Attleboro Ior the all-day spiritual :rogram in St. Mark:s Parish

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-The Sacred' program was broadcast Jan. ~9, NEW YORK (NC)-A system Heart Program is probably the 1939. Wiu?in a short time it of federal tax credits has been largest, r:adio and television apos- was est'ablished .on a regulllr 'proposed as "a oleaner and more tOl,ate in the world, with, 600 radio basis and lother stations, were .direct way" to avoid the church- and 81 television stations in the carrying it in other states. It is state controversy surrounding United States. carrying its pro- now worldwide in scope. aid to nonpwblic schools. grams.. . " In additilm to the 681 rad~o .. The proposal, which would . But It 1~ the cont~nt.and qu.al- ,and televi~ion stations. in the allow. parents to' claim a tax ,lty that IS the principal prl~e. United St~tes there are more deduction' for a percentage of and concern of the program s than 100 foreign radio stations tuition payments, was made by p~od~ce~s, not mere breadth of transmitting the programs in Dr. Seymour P. Lachman, vice- dl~nbutll('n:.. Canada, Eastern Australia, Inpresident' of the .New York' City ..That thiS IS a radiO or tele- donesi'a, Mklta, the Philippines, Board of' Education. VlSLon program ~oes not. say the West.lIndies and Vaticl}n much, bUit ~hat kind .o.f program" City. rher are 125 televisio,n Lachman, who views even 'we . haV e 1s very Impo rt an, t I stations scattered from one end I ' . ",partial demise" of private or Jesuit Father Denis Daly Saored pa~ochial schools as throwing a ' .' of the globe to the other, carryHeart P.rogra~ director, told the ing the telEkasts. The estimated much ,greater burden on public St. LoUIS R~vlew,~ewspaper of wee~y w6rldwide audience ~s schools, outlined his proposal at the St.' LoUIS archdIOcese. five millionl a meeting of an organization of The kind of program he wants I ' Jewish teachers. Ito produce is one aimed at the Contributors Support : , .I According to his plan, which middle-a, ~ed o~ elderly, a proThe produ yers know this from l would require congressional gram which wlil help these pea- polls and surveys. But they also changes in the federal income pie to understand th h I ' ' .. e . c anges h.ave a. morel direct 'way of knowtax law, a family could claim that are. gOing on 10 their church tng. Listeners write to the world tuition costs as a deduction on and their world today. headqwartets here, and they federal income taxes. I "Today everyone is so con- write in untbelievable volume. "Not even the strongest ad- cerned with the young that the About 100 pieces of mail are received d.ailYi.'1 at the headquarters,•. vacates of the complete separa- older Oatholics. ar:. neglected," tion of church and state could Father Daly said, and we try . The mali gl,ves the producers ~n logically argue that this would to show them what rene~al is. ,idea of th.e Ikind. of person they tbe in v,iolation of their constitu- We have an apostolate wllth the are reaching With the programs tional principles," he said. people who find changes hardest and they a~e not all old (one in u five is undfr 40 years of age) Grenter .Saving to understand and to adjust to. The Sacred Heart Program has and they are not all Catholics I ' Lachman also stated that the had its apostol'ate for 33 yea,rs, (one out of three belongs to saving to parents would be "far since the day in 1939 when Jes- some othet denomination be. greater than any plan now pro- uit Father Eugene P; Murphy sides the C~tholic Church). ' 'posed or enacted-and it would and a ~oup o~ fel1l?w Jesuits at "We kn()~ from the maH that not cut into state or local rev- St" ~OUIS Umversltyp~duced these are ndt just little old ladies epues but would draw instead t?e first program on radIC? staI I on . much more plentiful rev- tIon WEW, then owned 15y St. I , enues." - Louis Univers1ty. . $5,000 Or More 'Msgr. Joseph T. O'Keefe, sec· Worldwide in Scope . I retary for educa'tion of the arch. On Equ~ty In Your Home diocese. of New York said: "We The aim of the founders of the YOlll Ma~ Use The Money are extremely favorable to the program, at first called "The Howeyer You Wish. COl1lCept of tax credits, and it is Sacred Heart Hour," was to AVCO FINANCIAL encouraging to see an educa- strengthen devotion to the SERVICES' ·tional leader of the caliber of Sacred Heart of Jesus and .to I Dr: Lachman endorse this con- ~pread Christ's teaching to all . 71 Willi~ St., New Bedford ld The f'lrst" 1994.9636 cept.',' part s 0 f th e war.

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Drops Atomic Physics To Becomep'riest VIENNA (NC) - After studying physics for more than eight years - two of them in the United States-and after three years of work at the Austr,ian atomic reactor in Seibersdorf, 35-year-old Helmut Leonhard decided to give up science and become a priest: "It was just a practical consideration of which kind of work would be more useful to mankind," the recently ordained Father Leonhard explained. "After careful thought I came to the conclusion that a priest can contrihute more to the welfare of mankind than a physicist. "Counting neutrons in Sei'persdoN is all very well - but nobody is really benefiting by this. As a pr.iest I can really do some good - and that is more satisfying for me as we1l!"

THE ANCHORThurs., Feb. 3, 1972

Everyone Gets' in the COD at St. Mary's Parish in Mansfield. No one in St. Mary's parish. Mansfield, could possibly say he doesn't know what CCD IS all I8!bout. Not a,fter distribution of "CCO Report," a newsy fourpage leaflet enlivened with spark~ing photos of ceo in action. The leaflet was the bramchild of parishioner Thomas Warr~n, said Rev. Thomas L. Rita, curate in charge of OCO. It has met with an enthusiastic r,~spon.;~ from church members. The whole program has received the enthusiastic support and encouragement of Rev, John T. Higgins, pastor of St. Mary's. The repoN outlines changes in CCO in the past few years, "explains why they have taken place and discusses future dirertions for religious education at St. Mary's." The new approach to CCO, notes the report, is "experience oriented," meaning that it attempts to involve students in more ways than in simply memori2Jing catechism answ.::rs. CCO youngsters may make pesters, do community service pro,!erts, view fUm strips, listen to music, help prepare liturgies-all to the end of making Christianity a living thing for them. Na'turally, such a program is more demanding on teachers . than were the old-time question and answer sessions. Personal contact between teachers and students is stressed, meaning that many more teachers are needed. St. Mary's has 125 adullts and teenagers currently instructing 1200 youngsters, but feels that this is nowhere' near >the number that could be used. ~arents Are Primary Even wiItha multifaceted j:CD program" emphasizes Father Rita, parents have the primary respons~biliiy for the religious education of their children. "Unl'ess the young can see Christian prinoiples in use in their families," states the report, "the~' will soon begin to think that Christiamty is something to be learned but not necessa:rily practiced." St. Mary's parents won't be expected to sink or swim in their catechetical etifor.ts, however. ',fhe report promises that adult education wiH be stressed in the parish, both for the sake of the adults themselves and' for the sake of fa'mily-centered religious education projects, "such as the. Advent wrewth and Bible ,study program in the home." However, "We have no intention of asking parents to take Ii more active role in the religious education of 1heir children without first preparing them on how to go aboUit this most important task." Part of the' adult education program was a lecture series this , past Fall, and a second series to be held each Friday evening in Lent under the direction of Fwther Rita. He said that the theme for the series wiH be "A Positive Response to Lent," and thalt area priests will be invited as guest speakers. Among them w£11 be Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, diocesan CCO director; Rev. Kevin Tripp, Holy Name parish, Fall River; Rev. Normand Boulet, St. Joseph, Attleboro; Rev. Brian J. Harrington, Sacred Heant, Taun>ton; and Rev. Rob•

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Seeks Improved Hiring Practices MINNEAPOLIS (NC) - The executive' director of a Minnesota interfaith project promoting equal employment' opportunity intends in 1972 to improve mettlber churches' own minority hiring practices.

MANSFIELD CCD AT WORK: Rev. Thomas L. Rita, assistant at the Mansfield Parish during one, of the many CCO, programs conducted at St. Mary's. ert Brennan,' C.S.C., Holy Cross, faot that as Catholics they wrIl South Easton. be e>"'Pected to serve the Church Lay Coordinator and mankind." Nor are the newest Christians An important ingredient in the success of St. Mary's CCO pro- neglected. Parents of babie3 to gram, said FlIither Rita, was the be baptized are requested to ata.ppointment ~ast Summer of tend a workshop, held monthly, Mrs. Ellen Westlund as lay co- which outlines their responsibilordinator of religious education. itielj as Christian parents. Long active in parish CCD work, "n's a smooth-running proshe is now able to devote the gram, bwt help is needed. notes major part of her. time to this the report. First come prayers, acttvity. Among her responsi- then financial an~ volunteer bilities are teacher training at support. In addition to teachers, all levels and preparation of les- adults are weleomed as nonson plans for use by volunteers. teaching aides, and as helpers in A unique innovation at St. planning the adult education Mary's, as described in the re- ' program. port, is that youngsters preparIn short, it's going to be hard ing for confirmation are asked to be a St. Mary's parishioner to perform a few hours of social and remain uninvolved-which se.rvice "to impress on them the is exacUy what this is aU about.

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NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Thethird annual Bishops Communications Institute wound up here on an optimistic note. Most of the participating bishops from nine states agreed that the Church should do more in the area of communications, especially in reaching the 'poor and the young. '~1f we do not learn how to oommunicate with the poor and the young people we will be missing the boat cGmpletely," one bishop to'ld NC News after the institute. The institute paid speci>al ate, tention to those two principal concerns of the Church. ' A number of experts held open-ended discussions with the bishops in an a'ttempt to help them develop their communications capability, according to Robert B. Beusse, director of the communications department of the U. S. Catholic Conference, sponsor of the institute. '''In previous' years we had visiting lecturers but this new format seemed to work out much better," he added. , The bishops spent long hours working on their assignments 'and learning for the resource people present. They began at 9 A.M. and when through 11 P.M. during the five-day institute. "This included 10 discussion sessions, four studio or practice sessions amounting to 12 hours of spontaneous news interviews, press conferences and personal

presentations using teleprompter and other techniques," Beusse said. I»lan Regional Appr:oach One session dea1t with the increas-ing need for support of the Catholic newspaper as the most inexpensive means of communicating with the people in a diocese and a parish. "The bishops were great student:; of communications," Beusse said, "because they realize community leaders today need an understanding of the media." Because studies showed that most of the 50 bishops attending the conference' institutes at Loyola University came from the east and south, a new regional . approach is planned for the futUl'e, Beusse added. "Loyola bas been ideal as starting base. Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who was the first chairman of the usec Communications Commit. ' tee, really was the' inspiration both to the staff and to, the bis'hopsfor getting into communioa::ions training with both feet."

James E. Beard's goal as head of Project Equality here is to "emphasize compliance" by churches and church-related institutions that are suppliers of goods and services. His office now is asking 372 Minnesota religious institutions that are not churches to sjgn supplier agreements. Project Equality, a program of the Minnesota Council on Religion and Race, is part of a national effort based in Chicago. It has gained respect for its effectiveness, Beard said, through member-boycotts of cooperative suppliers. Some 1,500 Minnesota congregations, including 270 institutions such as hospitals, schools and publishing firms, are member bllyers. They agree to affirmati~e minority hiring policy and practice in their own operations, to solicit Project Equality commitment from their suppliers and to use the project commitment as a criterion in selecting suppliers. According to Father Edward Flahavan, executive director of the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan Urban Affairs Commillsion and Project Equality coordinator, the national office has begun naming non-coopetalive firms.

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ROME al Catholic relief agency Ca~f(as,. I th ,Intemationalis has set up a $30'· Tha t t a I S " mimon aid program for v,ictims . " In a north,em state si~s' a. beautiful minor seminary, . of viol~nce, both, nature's and' man's, in Bangladesh. 'picturesquely situated on several acres of lake shore propThe program will attack the 'erty. Built some 15 years ago, it has facilities for several human misery left by a catashundred students, a lovely chapel, lounges and dining halls, trophic cyclone that swept out tennis courts, wO,oded hiking the Bay of Bengal in Novemb'er areas, pier for fishing' and protector any more. We have 1970,and devastated East Pakis. , sue-ceeded in that mission. There .tan. 'It' will also attempt to ,heal boating', shoreline for swim- are, 'numerous laws protectin'g " b ' " the wounds left by Decem er s ming and about 35 students.', childre'n, from exploitation and 'brief' Indo-Pakistani war in East "Thirty-five students!" I eX-'providing for their welfare. We Bengal, and aid an estimated claiined to' one of the order's ,harve adequate Church agencies WHITE SISTERS MEET-_ Sl'ster 'Man'e ']I;'rancol'se Le-, 10 million refugees who are ex. Priests. ',"How can you keep it for the familY,and for education j pee t e d t 0 ret'urn to what I'S now open for,35 students?" now. We offer help in adoption, 'Dreff, seated,'second from left, General Councillor from the called Bangladesh from neighmarriage, enrichment, social ser- mother-hduse in France, is wekomed by the administration 'boring India by March. vice, foster children. outlets and of the AIberican Province of the White Sisters. Seated, Eleven national Catholic relief left to right: Sister Claire Francis Pelletier; Sister Marie . agencies sealed the aFeement at so on. The amount of time and I , ' a n extraordinary meeting of CarBy monies devoted to our kids' reli- Francoise',- Sister Lucille Labell, Provincial; Sister Jean- itas International's emergency gious and other education is in- nette Ch~rbonneau. Standing: Sister Anne Marie. Bert- aid commisssion here in midDOLORES; credible. Congresses, commJttees, hiaume; Sister Marie Gertrude Laliberte; Sister Imelda January. About $9 million of the organizations, .text boo~s, maga-' Michaud; andSist-er Jeannette Richard. planned $30 million in funds was CURRAN zines - aU devoted to religious made immediately available. education-show us where our Work must be well under way . h r t t' t when the monsoon strikes BenemJ'uts~:t'Sle·introduce ourselves Ie IS. e rs. , a er" r e e . g a l in May, Caritas officials said. ..m.l;lliKiWW$§~ to a new apostolate-the elderly' I . . ' Cor Unum, the Vatican's new "It's a real hassle," he replied. Catholic.' And let's point. out his, . F r e n c h ' G 'e n e , r a l l cl-I,I,or" coordinating agency for world"It requires a staff of more than wide Catholic relief and develneeds: 'spiritual hope, education, that just tokeep':!p· the: school employlnent: leisure time activi- . White siJters from Fall River. can. Chilean, and Alabama': mfs- ; opment, was informed of the and the ·buildings." . ties, .usefulness, alleviation of recently joi~ed members of their sions was followed by' appropri- financial undertaking. I'{Jlfamiliar with the area and loneliness, decent housing, and community from all parts of ate slides depicting each of the Catholic Relief Services of the I. know that in a. radius of say freedom from the fear of not New England in a day of sharing ,areas with'their particular type United States, which is taking 80 miles,' there are thousands of 'having .enough money to make it 'at Putnam I Catholic Academy, of work. A decade of the rosary part in the massive relief ~fort, older people caught.in ,.th~ infla- . to the grave. . 'Putnam, Cohn., meeting to greet ' was said in each of the c~rTe-' ,also ordered 37.5 tons of relief tio'nary squeez,e.. They .haven't Our GhHdrEm"aren't, the dispos- Sister Mari~ Francoise LeDreff, sponding languages:' English, supplies flow out of New ;York l'\ad a vacation for yeats, This sessed in 'society todaY: Our, a general boundllor 'from the French, Spanish, Breton, and for Dacca. The cargo includeq barely-used property would be older people are. So it is there congregatio*'s motherhouse, in Toupouri (Afrkan dialect). antibiotics, Cholera' vaccine, -ideal to serve such a use. I sug- we must shift our' emphasi's. The St. Brieuc, France. . ,Prayer Service tents, blankets, tarpaulins and gested it to the priest. oldsters are the ones who .'need Th~ day'~ program included a ' I,ncorporated into. the .program infant clothing. . "Why not open this up to. help even if It .is at the expense multi-medial presentation in the was a. prayer se:rvlcem honor older people for Summe'r vaca. form, of prayer for the mission~. of Dom Jean Leuduge~, founder \Criticize Liturgy of our children. tions? They could fish, boat, A brief histbry'of the order, tlte of the I?~ughters of·the Holy Participation Aids Millions Are Lonely hike, read, have daily liturgies, Who are our old? They are American Pt,lovillce, 'and the Afri.. SpirIt; as t.he 'White. S.isters are meet oither people, dine on someCONYERS (NC) - Priests inocormally . known, . whose 250th those of any age who need us. . ' volved in liturgical development one else's cooking and come to Millions of Americans liv.e in • .' • ,anniversary of death occurred strongly criticized the aids for believe that the Church really on Jan. 17. His love of the poor fear tOday that their meager cares about them. They could participation in the liturgy curfunds won't see them' through I • and devotion to the Holy Spirit . pay a small amount and have a in use. . 10, and the Blessed'Virgin were the rently illness and perhaps a ,long congrand Church-sponsored vacaAt their Winter meeting here K01TAYAM (NC)-The three legacies which he, left to ~he in Georgia, the board of direcvalescence. We can close up tion." The priest's face lit up. "Hey, some schools and open them Wisemen f~om the East were members of the congregation tors of the Federation of Diocthat's a good idea. I wonder why again as warm and inviting con- .Hindu princbs from 'India's Ker- which he founded in 1706. These esan Litu11gical Commissions adrv(lJlescent homes complete with ala state, ac:cqrding to an article '~ere brough~ to, the fore and dressed a position paper to the nobody ever brought it up." spiritual, educational and social in the Christmas issue of a Ker- 1 e-evaluated m tt.1e prayer ~er- companies which publish such.. Where Is Vision? activities. This might even draw ala weekly.!Author T..M. Kattali' ~/i~e, composed by Sisters at aids. I wonder indeed. Why isn't villa St. Joseph, the commuanyone thinking ahout the needs . some disenchanted nuns backthumkuzhi oited an old traditiort The board said the aids 'are into meaningful' service. among Ker~la Christians whieh nity's infirmary. of our older 'people today? Is it often of less than desirable qualMiIHoPls of our old are lonely, says that three Rajas from Pirabecause we're' still so· totally ify, limit choice of options, esIndiiais child-centi:!red, fix,ing our eyes have lost a purpose in living be- vom, an old principal'ity near IPraises , . , '1>edally musical options, and and resources so narrowly cause life is so bleak for them. here, travelbd to Bethlehem on IConduct of War often contain prayers and readupon our weM-fixed children . Instead of selling empty con- the first Christmas night after ings proper only to a lector or NEW DELHI (Nq-India illsthat we refuse to acknowledge vents ami semin'aries, and using seeing a stdnge star in the sky. the priest. Many of the materials I played humane qualities in its the monies to keep our. schools our new apostolate, the elderly?, open, wliy not turn these facHiThe three later became Chris- recent 14-day WOlr with Pakis- do not help to foster good liturWhat happened to vision in ties into senior citizen living tians and fplJnded a church at gy, the board said. ' tan," Archbishop Lawrence our Church? We were once the quarters or vacatIon homes for Piravom, the story says. Picachy, S.J., of Calcutta told institution that p~rceived and the elderly? If they could look Several I~dian historians have. the nation on All India Radio. aligned itself with the victims, forward to' even two weeks' of in the past Ispeculated that the "The greatest, victory of our the have-nots in the' society of .enjoyment, the other. 50 might Wisemen w1re probably from In~ men," the ar<;hbishop said, "has its day. From early slaves ·not be so .bleak. dia , but none has so far identi~ been the humane way in which . through serfs through castaway We have national' conferences fied them -ivith any particular the campaign was conducted, baby girls, it was .bur Church of bishops and of the laity, na- region in tht country. ' and the honor sJi:1own to pristhat saw the needs of children tional centers of religiou's educaJesuit Failier Henry Heras had (mers, especially the wounded." 100 years ago and met those "Serving the Community , The· archbishop vIsited army needs with almost total emphasis tion, .and national congresses of published a book earlier containSince 1873" he' noted hospitals and said 'theo1logy. Why not a National ing what he IjCalled c . oncl,usive ev~. upon their health, welfare and Center for the Elderly, bent on idence that the Wisemen were gratitude in the tired eyes"· of education. Cities Service Petroleum i wounded prisoners. But that's changed. Our ohil- improving the quality of life for . Indians.. . . ' Products Kottarathumkzhicited the fact He especially praised Indian dren don't need the Church as those who really need' it? A center that would work as devoted- that Kerala ~tate had trade' rela- Gen. 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ST. JOHN OF (iOD" By Marilyn and Joseph Roderick SOMERSET . The Women's Guild will hold , . It is three years since'I began 'my love -affa~r wi~h its annual mala{:ada supper and the guitar and I fully expect that one of these days I w111 penny sale beginning at 6:45 grow tired of it, but, so far my interest seems to gr.ow e~ch Saturday night, Feb.' 12. day rather than, diminish. Being a creature of habit. I, fmd Scheduled for We<inesday myself 'looking forward to night, March 8 is a "Fashions at the fragments of time I can of orange juice a!1d then stagger Tulip Time" style show at the to the back door, to find my Venus de'Miio restaurant. Memspare to become engrossed morning paper. Heaven fOl1bid bers, and friends who wish to in the particular piece I am that by some human, or mechanmodel for this' event are rei working on at the moment. ical error the paper has not ar'" quested to attend try-outs at I write this because many of rived. I ,then immediately bewee ENVOY: Rev. Ken- - 1:30 Sunday a~ternoon, Feb. 13 I ' 'my friends tell me that they suf- come a cantankerous creature taro"Burma special envoy to in the parish hall. fer a great, dea-I from tension who can't adjust to the change The Brayton 250 Club will the new I nation of Bengla, and cannot relax. For my part, in my schedule.' hold a banquet Saturday night, ,I find two great escapes from Most people, myself included, desh from the World Coun- March 11, also at the Venus de the' tensions of everyday li\(ing:', find ohange difficult-very often cil of Chbrches talks duri~g 'Milo restaurant, which 'will also the ,g;ui~ar and' the garden. At the sameness is comforta~ble and an interVriewon his retunl be the scene of a Communion' this time of the year, the latter famHiar while the, unknown from that country.NC Photo. breakfast Sunday, March 19" is ,impossible, but the guitar is holds all sorts of terrors. under co-sponsorship of ~e Take Weekend' Off within ea~y reach. I sometimes' " guild and the Holy Name Society. wonder if I will ever be able to One time whe;ll ~hange is Breakfast arrangements are be· play anything d~ently, but 1 readily welcomed, however; is ing handled, by Mrs, Beatrice have a great deal of fun trying. in the Winter" when weather Lapointe, chairman of the spir" . Skiing Next? , fore,es us' ,to cling to the shores " i t u a l endeavor committee of the , VATICAN CIlY (NC)- De-guild. Marilyn and I met' a couple of of home (that' is unless' you're ecu· old friends last weekend who ,fortunate' eIllougih to be in a" 9pit~. mani, c1a~st t.hat t the II d ,ST. KILIAN, have become rahid ski enthusi- position to head for a warmer menical movemen IS sa' e on NEW BEDFORD asts. 'Thehusbimd, a man in his 'climaJte, Qr if you'r.e one of the dead cente~, the president of the Parishioners will sponsor a middle forties and a hard work- ski advocates that Joe mentioned Vatican's Secretariat for Chris- Mardi Gras supper at 6 Saturday ing gentleman, told us of his, 'in his portion of the column). tian Unity! ri1aintai~s .~hat 1971 n~ght, Feb. 12 fn the school hall There" :are Ways to 'find a saw a: number of slgm)fcant de- on Ear-Ie Street. The menu will adventures in the ski trail last weekend with so much~'enthusi- ibrea'k' in: themonot6ny, how- velopmentJI in progres,s toward include chicken, ham, meat loaf, ' asm that I saw a longing creep- ever, and one is to ta'ke even Chr.isbian unity. On Ii, V~ticii.n Radio program ,potato salad, baked' beans, and ing into Marilyn's eyes and I an overnight trtp to one of th~ ' a s o r t e d pastri~;.·' Tickets are had '¥isions of us trucking many area motels, that are fea- during theI WeE7k of ~rayer for a¥ailalble from Bill Richard, everyone up to New Hampshire turing specials that include sauna Unity, Car?inal Jan WIllebrands, Wright Walk~r, all 'committee' to try our 'hand at ,braving the baths and an indoor pool. president of the unity secreta·' members, and the rectory. No slopes:, . Every Winter my' Uncle Russ riat, revieWed activities ,of an ec- tickets will be soid" at the door. II am' sure our friends find and' my Aunt' Mary' spend' Ii umelliicaJ ftature conducted by ', their weekly mountain sojo,urns couple of 'we~kends 'on Cape the Catholic Church and' other ST. GEORGE, ,- ". -' a great way to, forget the hustle' cod at one sooh motel' and they Chri,stian 6hurchesand com-mu- WESTPORT The; Women's Guild, will sponand bustle" of their weekday' life. "recommend it highly for chasing nities durirtg the past year.' Beginning with relations with sor a public whist party at 8 on I can think of less expensive 'Winter blues. ' , Cardinal Saturday night, Feb. '5' in St. other friends of ours'took ad- Eastern Ichurches, ways to wOJ:k oM my excess en'ergjes, but I suppose this kind vantage of one' of' the specials , Willeibrands recalled that the let- George's School Hall, Rte. 177, ,;of acti¥ity can be a great deal' . that allow children to sleep in' ters exchAnged between Pope Westport. In addition to the of fun, especially for a family. , the parents' room free of charge. Paul VI' ~nd Greek Orthodox whist prizes, door awards will be In the meantime though, I In this way a family of five can ' Patrinre.h .Athenagoras I of Con- made and refreshments , served. 1971 ' 'J1ickets will be availwble at think' I will just take out my !take advantage ,of' a' room or stan1Jinoplet ~n , early tStressed the need for the'growth the, door. " ,guitar, pick out a few Spanish ,two." tllnes and wait for the day when ',So pack up the sleeping bags, of a truly Ibrotherly attitude in -' OUR LADY OF FATIMA, I can play without flinching at 'di'g out that old bathing 'suit (or . both communiti~s so that one 'NEW BEDFORD , every , turn.. ~nd, if t!:tat day rbuy a new one from Ii cruise ' day they Imight "communicate 'A Valentine dance and buffet ever comE7~ I,.will probably won- 'collection), 'and chase ' away together with the same chalice of under the spollisorsh'ip of the der why I spent s,o many hours those midWinter doldrums. ' the Lord." Women's Guild jis Scheduled for ,fooling around with a musical My family loves chocolate' in The cam-dinaI cited his visit to Sati.Jroay' night, Feb. '12 in the instrument when what I reaHy any shape, form 'or' fashion, Patriarch IAthenagoras during parish ,hall, Tobey Street. yearned for ,was to feel the therefore I'm always looking for which he gave the patriareh a A social hour will, open at 6:30 mountain air rushiJ:lg through illY that, extra special chocolate more than 'li7oo-page volume con- and will ,be fc,l1o~d by the ,hajras I' whisked down, the recipe. This is a good one. tain:ing 285 documents exchanged, Ibuffetat 7:30. Danoing' will by' the Vatican and the patr i- foUow. snowy mountainside. Hot Fudge Pudding Cake ' In the Kitchen ,. 'archate dU~ing the past 12 years. Tickets are $6.00 a couple and 1 cup SIfted f10~ It's strange how;,quickly we The, cardinal also. recalled his ofificial vi~it'S to the Orthodox may be obtained from any memfall into a routine (most, of the 2 teaspoons baking powder Churches bf Greece and Crete ber of the guild. time without even being con% teaspoon salt scious of' it),' and become crea% cup sugar as well as hds 'attendance at the ST. JOSEPH, tures of habit. At the sound of ~ Tablesp?ons COCO,I synod of the' RuSsian Orthodox AITLEBORO the alarm I shoot out of bed, as V2 cup mIlk .' Church tha't elected a new pattiThe next meeting of the Worn. if pursued by 20 tigers, put the 2 Tablespoons shortemng, arch CYf M6scow and all Russia. en's guild is scheduled for Tuescoffee onlPour myself a drink ,meloted I day night, Feb. 8, immediately ~" " 1~~~ed~ Named to Apostolic alfter the 7:30 evening Mass. 1 cup br~n sugar Delegation in U. S. This meeting is open, to husMichigan Abortion 4 Tablespoons cocoa t • bands. 1% cups hot water WASHINGTON (NC)~Father A CYO ,Communion supper BiII De f eate d 1) Sift together into a bowl l?aul Gigliol a veteran diplomat, will be seIWed following the 5 LANSING (NC) - Proponents the flour, baking powder, salt, has be/iln, named an official of o'clock Mass on Saturday eveof a permissive abortion law in sugar and 2 Tablespoons cocoa. the apostolic delegation herE'. ning. CYOers will attend the Michigan have suffered' a severe 2) Stir in milk and meloted, Archbish,pp ,Luigi Raimondi, Mass and gather for a roller blow to efforts to get 'the con- shortening. Blend in nuts. apostolic delega,te in the United skating party following the suptroversial measure thrqugh the 3) Spread in a 9 inah square States,amiouncei the appoint- per. House of RepreseIitatives i~ the pan and sprinkle with a, mixture' ment. ,1 ' "' of brown sugar and i4 Tablei972 session of the legiSlature. Father Giglio will serve as The House voted, 69-28 against spoons cocoa. Pour hot water counsellor to the delegation. A -a,' -move to attach the, Senate- over entire batter. Bake in a 45-year-Old I native of Malt.1, he approved abortion measure to a 350· oven for 45 minutes. was ordained. in 1952, was ONE $lOP proposed, revised state cl1iminal 4) During the baking,' the' schooled irlI canon law and di- , , ' SHOPPINGi CENTER code. ,The defeat forced the cake mixture rises to the top' ptomacy ,~nd has, served , in ,abortion bill back to the House and the chocolate, sa,uce, se,ttles Vatican ,diplomatic post, :n • ,Television • Grocery , .parliamentary ~able, where it to the bottom. Invert square of Nicaragua, I" Argentin1\~, .. ~olivia, • Appliances • Furniture !:,had been I&nguishing since it ,pudding on dessert plates. Dip Iran, A1geNa, South v!etnam 104. Allen St." New 'Bedford, was reporte'd out of, commi.ttee sauce from pan over each. 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OUR LADY'· OF , PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD , The District Council of Qathotic Women will meet at 7:30 tonight in the church hall. Parish guild members will reo ceive corporate Communion at 8:30 Mass Sunday morni~g, Feb: 6. The unit plans a ham and bean supper at 6 Saturday night, Mareh 25. The next regu~ar meeting will be at 6:30 Sunday night, Feb. 27 in the church hall. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON The annual parish penny sale wi'll take place at 8 Monday and Tuesday nights, Feb. 7 and 8; In addition to prizes, many home· baked cakes will be raffled and there will be a $25 door prize each night. Grand award will be $500 in cash. ,Co..chairmen are Ann Marie Soignoli and Robert St. Onge. Committee chairmen include Santa Lewis,' tickets; Margaret Mulcahy, kitchen; Miss Soignoli, publicLty; BeHa Medeiros and . . Mary Car¥alho, cakes. The pub· Iic is invited~ , HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Throats wil'l be blessed' after 7, A.M. Mass this morning, and from 3 to 3:30 and ,7 to 7:30 P.M. Rev. Michael Nagle will be ordained to the priesthood at 7 tomorrow night in St. Mary's Cathedral, and will say I)is first Mass at 1 Saturday afternoon in Holy!'{ame Church. A receptio!l,_ wUl, follow in the school hall. ' QUR LADY OF ANGELs,

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will ta'ke place from Sund~y, March 5" through Saturday, March 11. The Holy Name Society an· nounces a giant penny sale at 2 Sunday afternoon, Feb. 27 in the parish hall. A dance will be held . at 7:30' Sa'tur~y night" Mareh 4, also in the hall. , A pre-.Lenten Mardi Gras, NJ:'alacada 'supper and dance is _' announced for Saturday night, Feb. 12. Masses on .Ash Wednesday, Feb. J6 will be celebrated at 7 A.M. and 4 and 7 P.M. the Council of Catholic Women will ,hold a Valentine whist at 7:30 Saturday night, Feb. 19, in, the haH; and the par~h council wlll meet at 7' P.M. Sunday, Feb. 20. SACRED HEART, NEW BEDFORD The Home and S~ool Associ'ation will, hold a Valentine's Dance on Saturday, Feb. 19 from 8 to 12 in the parish hall. Music will be by the Classics. Tickets may be obtained by calling Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dupu~ at 993-4837. UP Did 10 I nUeM IOi~f\! rriOI~Rr\':

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Third World 'Squalor ·Sadly Duplicated in West Virginia

Pay Increase for Teaching Nuns. PEORIA (NC)-Teaching nuns school year. The board recPJDin the Peoria diocese will get a mended that the five per' pay increase next FaU when', figure be considered a basic mill' their stipends increase from.. imum and urged that,.if possible, $2,400 to $3,400. they be given more. The raise, approved by Bishop The raise brings the minimums Edwal'd W. O'Rourke and dioc- to $6,510 for fUlly-certified esan school board members, is teachers and $6,090 for nonthe first salary boost for the certified teaohers on the elemennuns since 1970. tary level. Secondary school In addition to the sisters' pax, ... teachers with bachelor's degrees hike, lay teachers will earn five,. Will/get $6,300 yearly and those per cent more in the 1972-73 withmaster's are due $6,510.

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When the Priests' Senate of the Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia was planning a series of workshops for the priests to be held in various cities in the State, Fr. Jim O'Brien irivited me to attend. Fr. O'Brien wanted me to discuss some of the inter. national implications of the bought rights to the land for Church's social teachings. It fifty cents or a dollar an acre." West Virginia is not the only seemed like a good chance "Third World country" in affluto see a piece of the Third World right here in "the good ole US of A," as Archie Bunker would say. West Virginia is a domestic variety of a Third World country with many of the symptoms that plague so-called poor countries of the world, like BoLiva, Ecuador and Indonesia.

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ent America. Peter BanHls' three-part series last year in "Tohe New Republic" analyzes a similar phenomenon in CaHfornia, as does Lee Webb in the November issue of "Liberation" .in .an artkle,"Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Vermont." West Virginia ups.ets conv~ntionaI ideas about geography. Although a state-the 35th to join the union-it is more correct to say it is,an occupied colony, owne9- vi~tually lock, stock, and barrel by non-residents. Some of the worLd's major cor· porations, with incomes exceeding th9se of. dozens of nations,

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own signficant holdings in West Missionary appeals can be drawn from different aspects of Virginia. Although its people are mission life. One aspect may show the person of the missionCINCINNATI (NC)-Sheriff's ary: the one sent; the one who serves others. The missionary, The "Report of the President's poor-West V'irginia ranks 44th then, needs professional training, materials to work with, and Appalachia Regional Commis- in per capita income in the na· deputies here padlocked a downsimply, his "daily bread~': food, clothing, transportation facilsion" puts the West Virginia tion-until recently,. it was the town' mo.tion picture theater ities, and whatever costs are involved in his service or apostoscene in terms that are inter- nation's major source of hard- after Common Pleas Court Judge changeable with those describing wood lumber and is still' the William S. Mathews ordered it late. Another side of mission life may show the mission's people much of the Third World. The chief supplier of bituminous .' closed until it stopped showing report noted that where an area coal. .obscene films. and their needs: the leprosy patients in Africa, the starving refugees Mathew~s action following 17 of As:[a, or the sick and poor of a Latin American slum. These "depends pr.imarily on the exTo gain a perspective of the traction of natural resources for plight of West Virginia, it is days of hearing testimony and peoplE: and the mpst inhuman conditions imaginable are very its income and employment"- helpful to visit a region 400 arguments in a civil suit filed real in many mission countries, and the missionaries serving such as is the case in West Virginia, miles northwest of the State- Nov: 17 by Charles H. Kea,ting' as these certainly deserve all .the encouragement and support we Bolivia, Zambia, Namibia, etc.- the near-northside of Chicago- Jr., Cincinnati attorney and can give. "it is extremely important that not the posh Gold Coast, but founder of Citizens for Decent Then, there are other mission needs, less humanly tragic, a high proportion of wealth rather a block or so just west of Litterature. Keating charged that but' also greatly dependent on our help, especially' where developcreated by extraction be rein· that fabulous lakehorefrontage. the theater, Cinema X, was a ment ~;lS begun. to help people help themselves. These are. vested locally in other activi· This section is a '''subuI''1?'' of public nuisance because it viothe neoos of the' young Churches: providing for education, ties."ir: West Virgnia, or more properly, lated Ohio anti-obscenity laws. health .care, agricultural and community development. Religious a kind of'resettlement camp for Mathews said state legislation and priestly' vocations are rapidly increasing, while the people Not Seen Locally eoonomic refugees from Appala- making it a crime "to commit. and local Church are stUl too poor to provide the facilities and The fact is, as the report doc- chiao Here, in a sq'ualOO' only.a acts of rape, sodomy, adultery, personnel needed. And finally, more pastoral and catechetical uments, this is precisely what developed nation can' produce, incest, etc." represented current programs are required so the laity may participate more fully did not occur in West Virginia. are hordes of marginal persons, community standards of moralin family--community-and cultural development. "Much of the wealth produced m-fed, inhumanly housed, illit- ity. He said that the evidence in The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is concerned with by coal and timber," the Com·' erate .and depl1ived of politcal the case showed that the theater all these aspects of keeping the Church alive and growing, for if mission noted, "was seldom seen power as well as of' the means had been exhihiting for financial the Church is not first present-and the individual missionary or locally. It went downstream of acquiring responsibility and . gal'n pl'ctures of acts vI'olatl'ng Christian. IS that presence-t he servIce . mos t nee d ed'ID 0 th er areas community standards and state with the great hardwood logs; moral dignity. could n.ot be given. ·it rode out on the rails with the laws. Your contributions, then, help support these many channels Exporting Unemployment .' coal cars; it was ma.ned between . If that kind 'of life represents Mathews cited an Ohio law of mission-life, each important and needful of financial back-, distant cities as royalty checks to these ChicagO-West Virginians' giving these criteria 'for judging ing to do Christ's work effectively. And because of its unJfrom non-resident operators to an escape from the oppressive what is obscene: that its domiversality ,as a "PontilficaJ" .society, thei Propagation ot the hO.lding companies who had conditions back hollie, then the nant appeal is for the "prurient Faith distributes your funds, as it has been doing for 150 years, to those areas and missionaries most needful of that help. situation ·inWest· Virginia must interest" and that its dominant surely· be abominable.. . tendency is to arouse lust by There remains one aspect-one added dimension-that makes Competition Opens A recent· issue of the monthly displaying' or depicting nudity, all missionary service and our support of the missions, different For O'Grady Award publication "AppaIachia" boasted sexual excitement or sexual con- from every other ~·worthy. cause." We should never forget that the WASHINGTON (NC)~Authors that the unemployment gap he-' duct in' a way which tends to missionary, above everything else he is or does, is a witness of of manuscripts fpcusing on some tween' Appalachi,a and the . rest represent human beings as mere Christ, present and active in the world and in His Church . . . aspects of Catho~ic social service, of the nation is steadily··closing. objeots. healing, blessing, serving, saving. philosophy or practice have been The gI"im fact is that West Vir· "It is the opinion of this court' We Christians-at-home do not only SUPPORT the missionary, invited to. compete for the an- ginia is exporting it,s. unemploy" that the subject material would. we share in his life and work because we share in the same nual Msgr'. John O'Grady Award. ment. Deprived of any i'\ope ·for be found to be obscene in not· Body of Christ. We have the same mission: to tell the world Msgr. O'Grady was secretary a meaningful future, more th'an just 'one but in aU' definitions of the Good News of how much, God loves us!' You may have various reasons for giving to the missions, of the National Conference of 700,000 West Virginians left the the law," the judge said. He also commented that the films at . but may it. always be an expression of your love and a sharing Catholic Charities 'from 1920 to State in the last 20 yearS. . Like th~ir propertY··less broth~ Cinema X' we~t substantially beof that added dimension in your life! May we include your help 1961. He was an ardent believer to meet the many. neoos of our missionaries? Please send a genin 'the importance of writing as ers" and' sisters in .Asia! Afdca yond community standar.ds and erous sacrifice for them and the people they serve today. and Latin America,. they flee that the material offered' in evi· a means by which a significant from impo.veri,shed rural regiOns . dence was without redeeming contribution. could be made to and dehuinanizng mechanization social value. . ~""'-""""""""""""~'---"'-""~"; the development of Catholic. so- and s~~rl1') 'into the barrios and : SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society , cial services:' ghettqes. for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column : : Manuscripts 'submitted to the and send your offering to Reverend Monsignor Edward T. _ If the adjacent states had .had Villanova Dean conference for consideration passport restrictons and visa re: O'Meara, National Director, Dept. C., 366 Fifth Ave, New. : VILLANOVA (NC)-AugustinYork, N.Y. 10001 or directly to your local Diocesan Director. : must be 5,000 words or less and quirements inhibting this mass ian Father Richard Breslin, may deal with 'either traditional migmtion, it is conceivable that ohairman of the Villanova Uni· : ~ The Rev. ~;Msgr. Raymond T. Considine concepts or wdth new' thoughts war would hav.e broken out in versity faculty assembly, has : 368 North Main Street : or endeavors in the area of social the AppaIachian MountaJins and been named dean of Villanova's Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 : service. the O~io River Valley. college of liberal ar!s and sciWhat adds irony to the ences, A 1960 ViHanova gradu- :For further infoqnation about NAME _ : the contest, which requires seven tragedy of this American colony ate, he joined the faculty in 1968 _. copies of each submitted manu- -West Virginia-is th~ motto as a member of the department , ADDRESS :........................................ , script before May I, contact the emblazoned on the state's. seal: of educa'tion. In 1970 he was NCCC at 1346 Connecticut Ave- "Montani Semper Libed,"- elected chairman of the faculty : CITY.:........:.........:............................................... STATE.............................. ZIP............ : nue, .. 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The p'ast few' years have been. There, are intelligent; pec?ple ative' possibilities dn human today 'who reality 'beli,eve, ~hat'·, .·affairs which have yet to be marked 'by a. flood' of banners, buttons and .bumper stickers, , ,hope: for the. futture 'of mankind exploited.'. . : Many of' these cr.eadve. visual i,g, qufte irrespO~sible and ground- . Hope is the believer's response messages' focus on today's prob- , . less; so' that the more couraag- to this. To hope means genuinely lems: war, drugs, pollution:' ous and rational way' of. living and oompletely' tQ desire the crime. Surprisingly, a ·str,iking. is to accept the spi,riling of des- . reign of God Wlith· a,ll its implipositive . note . charact~rizes a tructive power to an 'inevitable cations, to exp'ect it confidently large number of these ·eye-catchconclusion.' in. psychological colo' and· to keep putting forth all the ing mini-messages. One frequentlapse' or'iiuCIear holocaust:· necessary effort, to bring it ly observed button seeins to sum 'For ,the individual· it is not about.' If it' is difficult for an up this, sense . of affirmation: isolated indiViidual to li~e, by "Celebrate Life.'.' ,' faitlt, the same may be said of WI' ',' .,' '.~ Ta call for a celebration of life hope. It' requires very strong ,'.... ~: ,.~y . .' when faced with· sC> many deadly . communrty suppO~. ' . problems may: seem to, be a - Hope naive reaction.' It ,·is in fact an Christian hope is not unrealis.: MONliCA· . act of faith·arid·'h.ope, ev~n love, tic nor irresponsible nor ground.iELiYiIG . To 'celebrate ,life is· a deeply less. It is based on the commuChristian attitude, an affirmani,ty's sober reflection on the tion that Life and love wili ultiwonderful works of God in the mately win out over -eve'ry force past in which God revealed 'him.....,.... : 11 'J" and tiorm of death; reasonable to look beyond death., self as a merciful redeemer provThe Chu1-oh's'sa~raments conSo one 'canonly, live in t~e' president for his whole creation and v.ey. the. same message as .the ' ent ~s fate has shaped ~~" trying concerned for mankind and for buttons and banners: They are' to forget the future and defend-. indivdual men. '11 is based more the traditional Christian 'way of ling whatever pel1sonal privileges. .esp~cially on the community's celebrating lif~.. "As' '~signs of oonstant reflectilOn on. the perone has against others: , grace" and "signs of faith" the Of course, this is' not the. son of Jesus and' the eversacraments are profound celeChristian view of reality and of deepening realization of what brations of Hfe... . in man himself and the world in described ,the mystery of life as man and the futlire. 'For us' Jesus means for future .possibilSo deeply enmeshed in earthly which he lrives. a place lof ,meeting God by the world fs not the outcome' of ities of mankind and of each symbol.and human, language the 'Daily Life speaking ,of the "sacrament of fate but of' creation for a pur~ . Jndividual man, 'no matter what sacraments of the Church affirm As. peak moments. of contact the present moment." Ea,ch mo- pose in which we are called to his 'circumstances. ,with Christ, the sacraments, ment is graced by' God's pres- 'Share. Man, far' from being a Christian hope is based on teach us the serioU'sness and' ence. More receritly Pope John he1pless pawn in the world is Jts . events of promise, in which the joyfulness of human experience XXIII taught that there was an co-creator and co-sanctifer, The community has exper.ienced reBy and reveal how all of life c,an in eighth saCrament:, People. How future' is ,ours to create precisely demption.in its liberation from reality be a moment ,of contact . effective this' "eighth sacrament" because Christ has already as-' apparently insuperable obstacles, with Christ. The seven sacra- can be in uniting. people with sur-ed the victory 'over' chaos and and has recognized God as the , FR~ CARL J. ments are meant not only to di· 'God and *ith each other can 'be the power of destructiol1, there- great I.iberator or redeemw, alPFEIFER, S.J. rect our minds toward a life reoognize<fin Pope John hims.elf.· hy releasing undreamed-of ere:rum to Page Seventeen after tMs Hfe, but 'to draw our J1he se'fen sacramen,ts ar~ in attention to the mystery of ordi- a sense ~odels· of God's saving miry daily life as itself. sacra- presence and activity. They help that despite all the frustration, mentaJ!. They point to the extra' us becom~ sensitivE,! not only to fear and misery there is a basic ordinary depths of the ordinary. .how God's love is offered to us soundness in life, society, love!n years past Catholic writers' throughout our daily experience, but how i our love can grow. A reail celebration always in- will never eat it again until it Through Itheir symbolism the oludes a banquet. Christi,ans is given its real meandng in the sacraments show us that we can hold their greatest celebration at Kingdom of God ... I will never find God'~ love and respond to a very special banquet of thei~ drink this wine from now on .u'ntil the Kingdom of God' it in the ordinary activities of own . '' . . eating and drinking, forgiving and The Christians' ceiebration is comes" (Luke 22, 16.18). "You Family feasts like, Thanksgiv,We began two Sundays· be- ' being 'fotgiven, making love, a celebration of life. They want ·will eat and drink at my tarble ing are;' for priests whose par- .forehand with a suggestion that caring fot the sick, being with to celebrate Hfe in joy, full of in my Kingdom" (Luke 22, 30). ents have passed on, often curi- parishioners thank the Lord 'for to the Father who With thoughts like these in others, bUrYing the dead, giving thanks . - gave , ously ,empty, holidays. There is his many blessings by 'sharing birth, ta'king a stand. it. Their banquet is the one they' mind, "he took th~ bread, gave usually: to be sure, a Hne dinner their abundance with others less Celebrate Life shared with their Lord on the thanks of God, broke it, and someplace, . perhaps football fortunate. The homilist outlined The sadramental symbols are night before he went to his gave it to them, saying: 'This is viewing via television and even several organized ways in which th my body'" (Luke 22, 19). "He all drawn,I from ordinary life--- d ea. a' bit of re·st. But beneath the this could be accompHshed: the water, oil, :lights, food and drink, "I have wanted so muoh to took the cup, gave thanks to surface.and deep in the heart we Fall olothing drive, the Cam- words and gestures of forgive- mm@um:ml&UHmrl@U! God, and said: 'Take this and - frequently sense a little pang of paign for Human Development • ness, encouragement, comfort, share it among yourselves ... loneliness oil these home-center- collection and, especially, . the As such they n'ot only signify God's new covenant, sealed with .ed days, a 'sharp awareness of Solemn J1hanksgiving Day Mass and make I'availahle in the liturB my blood.''' (Luke 22, 20). In what celibacy entails. at 10:00 A.M. with its offertory Y this same spirit he said "Do this in memory of me'! (Luke 22, 19). This' year, however, I felt none procession of food donations for gical cele1?ration the grace and love of Gqct, but tfuey direct Qur FR. 'QUENTIN the poor. . minds and hearts back to the View of Realities Others took up seriously the real'ities of ordinary life as also QUESNELL, S.J.. So -Christians celebrate life, necessary hard w:ork of preparaland making .available for they remember that Jesus signifying tion. A talented sist!,!r fashioned By , attractive and appropriate ban; _ ners for the oocasion. Grammar celebrate life. eatthisPassove,r meal with you' He looked death and suffering FR. :JOSEPH school artists designed posters The' Se90nd' Vatican Council Ibefore I suffer'" (Luke 22, 15). ~ and' betrayal and failure right for the- chul"ch's five entrances:. CHAMPLIN' suggests Ithis, aspect of the He said "before I suffer," for he :,in the face - and gave God ("Give some fiood' for 'the poor" Church's, I sacramental liturgy. knew he wouLd die the next. day." ',thanks and praise. He was eat. so they can have just. a '.little "For well jClisposed,members of ~'Qne of you will betray me" ing his last meal on earth-and tmr""ddWRllmKWllKF· . more"). The ' musical . director ,the faithfl:ll, the liturgy of the (Mark 14, 18). "This is my bOdy, . :h~prOnij.sed them ~m6ther in the of that sadness, nQ. acli~, no pain "and par.rsh :ch6irpre,pared a . sacralPent~ and 'sacramentals whi~h' is given for you'~ (Luke' Kingdom of God. ,. ,of aloneness. Thanksgivng in the varied choral 'and instrumental sanctifies almost !!very event in 22, 19) ... "my blood whic~is " . ·we halVe known suffering, and parish, was a tremendous. timeprogramf?r t~e Mass itself. ,·their Jives ... There 'is' . hardly pourE;~' ,out for- you" (Luke' 22, , ·.-we expect more of it before we "o~ sha'i:ing, ,and r"wasso person-Family Dey. any proper use of material 20). ' , " ' "die. We look fOl1Ward to death ally involved in our "give 'thank,,> ".,But· .t~e, most impo,r,tant. pre· tb'irigs" which cannot thus be But he knew that' his· death and we' shrink from. ,it. We fear' by giving" proj~t that the cus~ ~., limina~ .efforts for; tha't ,day. directed tbward the sanctifica- was the door to -life, so he spoke failure. We are broken-hearted tomary holidayune.asiness never . 'We~e,,-~in fa<:t taking place within ,tion' ofm~n an~th~ praise. of of the Kingdom of 'God'which' at the tlhought of' human behaq a c~a:nce to spre.adits gloom fam!lies.'-·, of. ",the' ',corm,nupity. God" (Liturgy, 61). :" woUld come and th~'meal' they: fulyal::. We· know· these thlngs 'ove; "Dty" ~pirits." ....:. , .. "Turri Pag~ Eighteen .' Turn~o Page Sev~nteenwOUld share there toeether: "C .Turn to Page. Seventeen

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-Two New Books Indicate Interest in Henry VIII

Sacrament$ Continued from Page Sixteen ways, calling men to greater freedom from the evil deeds of the past. But such events of promise must be known from more than hearsay. They must be kept alive in the e~perience of the community so that all can participate in them personally and know in their own lives the promise for the future. What we try to do constantly in the sacraments is to bring the day to day experiences of our lives into the context of the great events of promise of our Chnistian heritage, so that we may refllect on the events of our own lives so as to see them as events of promise and as grounds of hope for the future.

Henry VIII of England died in 1547, but he continues to interest thousands, and hardly' a year passes without the appea1'ance of a new book about him. This may be because he paved the way for the Protestantization of England and thus contributed heavily to In many years of reading the success of the Reformmany books abolit Henry and his ation. It may be because he reign I have never encountered was an especially colorful anything like this pictorial abun-

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In any case, we now are confronted with two new books about him: Henry VIII and His Court by NeviHe Williams (Macmillan 866 Third Ave., N. Y., 10022.. $12.95), and Henry VIII, by Lacey Baldwin Smith (Houghton Mifflin, 2 Park St., Boston, Mass. 02107. $8.95). Neither one lis a bi,ography properly so called. Mr. Williams covers more of Henry's life and proceeds more chronologically than Mr. Smith, but he describes bis work as "a personal account of the sovereign," his family, and his court. • In his final pa,ragraph he makes the clOOm that Henry "in this 'book ... has been portrayed for the first time as the miraclemaker who turned the water of medieval kingsMp int'o the heady wine of a personal national monarchy, with the court as its chosen vessel." A little farfetched, that. Not all of the book is as highflown. Most of it is engaging for, its- factuality and reasonable in its interpretation. , Showmanship Essential Thus, we are shown the grand scale on which Henry lived. He anherited eight principal residences and built or acquired eight more. There were 170 people in close personal service on him. When his daughter Mary was born, four rockers of the cradle were engaged. When he went to France for a meeting with Francis I, he brought ahmg a mere 5,000 attendants. And so on. All this was as much showmansship as anything else. And for Henry, showmanship was an essential ingredient, if not almost the equivalent, of statesmanship. Yet the man closest to him through the' vioissitudes of his long reign was no grand or glamorous figure but his jester Will Somers, whom he had included in some of his portraits. The distinguishing feature of Mr. Williams's book is its literally astonishing wealth of illustrations. There 'are scores and scores of these, some in spendid color, most in black and white, and all but a few unfamilar. Pictorial Abundance .' These' reproductions of paintings, miniatures, sketches, sculptures, these photographs of bUlildings, objects of art, weapons, utensils, etc.- make, Henry, his court, and his times more real. to \IS than piled up pages of prose. lJ':'... \l~'f"'t~,

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dance and vadety. It provides a sort of pageant, gorgeous and instructive, in which the reader finds. himself engrossed from first to last. . Mr. Smith's book, is, really a set of essays, more or less closely woven ,together, aimed at measuring Henry and his accomplishment. It be~ins with an account of the, monarch's death and .its immediate consequences, then backtracks to consider what the author ·thinks to be the most significant,t~emes in Henry's career. . God's 'Anointed' A point which, Mr. Smith makes more than Oilce i"s that it i,s a miistake to judge Henry in , twentieth century terms. He was not a twentieth century man, ,but, one of the first half of the sixteenth century. It is in th,at context that Henry is to be assayed. For example, a king of the sixteenth century considered himself as God's elect and 'anointed, his power direct from God and his aocounta'bility to God· alone. Something of God's majesty invested him, and something of God's authority. As a plenipotentiary, he claimed a sort of infused knowledge and a speoial divine gift for the dis:cernment. of tr.uth.. His conscience ,was infallible as was no other. He could therefore claim absolute' obedience, and could dispose of his subjects at wm, which in practice could often mean at ,'whiim. When rebellion qcourred, the king's 'concern was not. t,o deal with and mitigate, its causing conditions, but to crush i~ ruthlessly and to visit horrible punishment on its leaders. For did it not violate the divine right? Sense of Righteousness The king's honor was sacred and hao to be upheld. It was for the king's honor that wars were fought. Henry beggared his kingdom with his campaigns against Scotland and Fmnce. These had little point· and were to little 'purpose, in our V'iew. But they vindicated the king's honor. Given this royal status, it is not hard to see how Henry, with a sense of right and righteousness,- made the break with Rome occasioned 'by his failure to get an annulment of his mandageto Catherine of Aragon. As king, enlightened, directed, and empowered by God, he saw himself perfectly, justified and· unchallengeable in so doing. He was right because he was king. ' , When he died at 55, a hearse nine stories high was constructed to convey his remains' to Windsor. And a towering wax effigy of him was. made, complete. with scepter, orb, and crown, to be. set upon Ii. canopied chariot and drawn through the streets to overaw'e every observer. Fanciful Arg~ent . The difference between the poor corpse and' this effigy was somewhat like' that between ..the .I.JI ... ...;.

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-Winte~ Carnival of Music New Bedford Parochial School Pupils Part of Progam to"Aid Educati,on Students of the eighth grade of St. John the Baptist School, New Bedford will join other musical groups to present a Winter Carnival of Music for the benefit of the par~sh school.

Sacramental , Continued from Page Sixteen Religious educators therefore have the task of guiding others through an appreciation of tlhe actuall symbolism of the sacraments and through the meaningful celebr,at'ion of the rites to a deeper appreciation of the mystery of all of life.' They also have the chaMenge of providing enriching opportunities for discovering dimensions of beauty, warmth, creatiV'ity, nurturing an appreciation of symbolism-all of fuese are pa11t of a catechesis of the sacraments as celebrations of life. We may be grateful to the hanner and· button makers for recalling to our minds what the Church's sacraments have been hinting at aU ,along: "Celebrate Life!" ' "llllll'l'llllll"llllllllllllllllllllltl'11111l1l"'lllli""""""1,.",1111'111"'111"""""'11'1'111""

reality and illu~ion regarding the king. , Mr. Smith presents some very 'stimulatiJlg ideas. But he is far from concise or averse to· repetition. Some of .the argument he makes concerning ,religion is ,arbitrary, even fanciful. , . There 'is im impressive, scholarly aP'P!lratus in' his book,' but, in testing some of it, I found it questionable.', For example, he say-son page 291 that Monsignor Philip Hughes, in his The Reformation, in England, "pI-aces Henry firmly in hell." - I looked up the reference and discovered that Monsignor Hughes did nothing of the sort; the passage' cited has nothing whatever 'to do with placing Henry in hell, or anywhere else, for tl:l!lt matt~r.

Scheduled' for 8 o'clock on Friday night, Feb. 11 in Keith Junior High Auditorium, Rockdale Ave. , The eighth graders will pre.. sent selectLons from "Camelot" and "Ol~ver." In addition, the program wili inolude The Young Rhode Islanders and "Father Pat" Patenaude, MS, noted "music man" from La Salette. Tickets are $4.00, each and the affair is open to the public. Tickets may be. obtained by contacting St. John the Baptist School at 993-7228.

Many very simple people who know hardly any theology celebrate the sacraments in this way with great depth so that they are a source of hope in the parish and in the larger community, and have no difficulty withstanding the sophistication of the prophets of doom. That the sacraments are acts of hope is nowhere more evident than in the celebration' of the sacraments of the sick and the' dy;ing. In the anointing of the sick and in the bringing of viaticum, tJ:1e mystery of death is confronted immediately and concretely. The sacramental celebration places the death of this indiV'idual w,ithin the context of the death and Resurrection of Jesus' and confiden'bly asserts that even death is seen as an even~ of promise 'for the future.

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Continued from Page Sixteen are real. They are part of life. But, with Jesus at this special hanquet, we look at those realities and fino that with him we can look right through them. With hdm we too can give God Church Offers Aid thanks and praise. We take the bread he breaks for us, drink of To Vietnam Vets NEW YOR& (NC) The the cup he offers us, and begin United Presbyter.ian Church has to celebrate the still greater eSba'bi.isherd an emergency min- a-eality which underlies all the istry to Vietnam war veterans rest: We celebrate the most real facing problems of' employment, thing of all-God's love, God's education, discrimination, dis-' care for us, God's goodness which gave us this wonderful abilities and drugs. The new program is known as worlo in the first place. We celEmergency Ministry on Veterans' ebrate God's ever offered gift Services. The program was de- of free happiness and salvation veloped in consultation with with our Lord. government agencies. Our ce1f;brating like this beThe Rev. L. William Yolton, comes a living sign of God's love one of the planners of the pro- in the world. It helps us make it gram, said that the Vietnam vet- posstble for men who see 0Ua' eran faces a' cold public recep- faith to open fueir own hearts tion compared to veterans of ever more wide to their loving other wars. Father.

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,,When I read in the papers re,cently that Father Brown had given a ,lecture on the "Infancy Narratives of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke," I wrote and asked him for a copy of his iecture, since I have grown very interested in New Test,ament studies in the last few years. 'Father 'Brown's paper, to be published shortly in Theological Studies, is a model of careful, cautious, scholarly balance. He approaches the ·difficult and delicate question of the Virgin Bir:th in a way that can only be .described as a model of sober and responsible restraint. Father Brown neither turns away from tough questions nor panics in , the face of them. Judge Before Reading I therefore was astonished to see that he was vigorously at'.tacked by a number of writers in the Catholic press. Paul Hal~Iet : dismisses him as an "Ultra -··'Liberal" and· a "Modernist" and cqmpares him with Herod. Frank Morriss suggests that he is guUty of "falsehood and ignorance," and Msgr. Joseph Baker, himself: a- theologian, . contends that ,the 'suggestions. Father Brown' makes "must be rejected by those who take th~' premise ,:or the R10man 'Catholic Church ;serious!y:" Since 'Frank Morriss sometime ~go denounced' Hans Kung's book, oninfalloibility before it ..~as published, I ,found myself .wondering whether all three of ;"the, columnists might be judging :Father Brown's article without :having read it. I inquired and 'discovered that none of the three .had asked - Father Brown for·

Ecumeni,cal House , .VITORIA (NC) - Auxiliary .~Bishop ·Luis Fernandes of Vitoria' 'has moved into a modest residence that he' is sponsoring '.jointly with monks from the Protestail-t monastery at Taize, France. Earlier, two Benedictine 'monks and two Taize' monks opened an ecumenical residence at Olinda with the help of Arch·" lbishop Helder Camara of Olinda and Recife.

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. Continued from Page. Sixteen F'athers, mothers, 9hildren apparently heeded the appeal, because on Thanksgiving a: 'remarkahle crowd of over' 500, assembled for the Eucharist and carried with them an indescribable array of food items. Each member of the congregation brought something to the Sanctuary and the acculpula'tion heaped in fron,! of our altar contained at least $700 worth of edibles. We had gathered 2 turkeys, 10 canned hams, 20 containers of coffee, bags of potatoes, sacks of -nour, boxes of fruit cakes, jars of homemade preserves, dozens and dozens and dozens of cans containing vegetables juices, fruits, and soups of all kinds. A young man left at the rectory earlier in the day two bags of onions produced in the rich muckland of his o~n farm. One thoughtful donor presented a small bottle of cocktail onions. However, no individual supplied the more substantial and expensive material to go wdth them., . Songs like "Let us break bread together" and "Now thank we all our God" flilled the air throughout the liturgy. In addit,ion, the organ,' a vibraphone, and· the guitar performed different medleys, including a series of rpartiotic pieces while the large congregation walked forward dn procession with their ofifer.ings. . Rewarding I talked to a high school girl and choir member afterWards wlhose tears told me how much she was moved by the experience. Others older, reacted similarly. The sight of youn~ children presenting cans of vegetable soup or jars of peanut butter ror the poor seemed to be the most touching part of our ser· vice although an event like this usually has so many beautiful nuances that it can't be precisely dissected or analyzed. The generosity of so many and the success of our labors left me with an unusuaily deep peace on that Thanksgivdng afternoon. Jot intensified the next day as I watched a semdnarian; 4 eighth grade girls and a teenage boy sort the food, load car· tons into my car and head for the ,homes of famiHes whose meager tables would be fuMer because of the holiday Mass. Thanksgiving sharJng in the parish continued on for this writer long after the eucharistic celebration. An announcemimt . 'in the previous Sunday's .bulletin produced 36 invitations from parishioners who were willing.to oiifer the pa'stor a slice of turkey, a piece of pie, Of a few minutes conversation during .the. holiday. He left the rectory at 1:30 P.M. and'returned 10 hours and 18 homes later-quite full, .rather tired, but very, very happy. .

the pa'per is from- the author. Thus, un-le~s. the three columnists have had aCcess to the paper without Fatl1er: Brown's knowing about it, :on~ can. rell50nably conClude thart: they have, condemned him without readil1g the artiCle. '. The mind, as the say'ing goes, boggles. A man is dismissed as a Herod and a "Modernist" without even oothering' to read his article. He is aocused of false~ hood and ignorance without the accuser ev~n knowing what he really said. Controve(sial Character ·From Morriss and Hallet one, might not be surprised, but what can be said ab,out Msgr. Baker? ROBERT M. BYRN Is it his custom to make critical judgments in the editori'al page of the St. Louis Review about the work of a professional colContin~ed from Page One' sidering the case and is eXpected league without reading that colleague's work? How' could he est in "the' legal protection of to make its decision soon. have possibly said anything about life withiit the community." A graduate of Fordham Prep Father Brown's paper or even Once easy abortion. becomes and the Fordham. Busine3s mention him in art editorial with- an accept~d part of American School as well as of the I.aw . out fil'St reading the paper? life, he believes, the way wHl be School where he now teaches, ,Father Brown is not reluctant opened for legalized euthanasia Robert Byrn began his legal ca,to let people read the paper. If "and a soCiety which accepts the reel' with a large Wall St,:,eet Messrs. Morriss and Hallet or idea that dnly those who contrib- firm. After four years, d'lring Msgr. Baker had asked hJm I am ute to sobety have a right to which, he complains, he rarely sure they would have ,had the live." Th¢ unborn fetus, "the got into Ii courtroom; he let a paper by return mail. Apparent: most helpless human life," is friend on the fordham faculty Iy, aU three columnists had being denied "equal protection persuade him to become a teach-. made up their minds oil the basis under the :Iaw," Byrn argues. er. of news stories and didn't want He woni the first round of his 'Mass Slaughter' -to be bothered with the facts. battle, early in January when Since he became involved in One hardly need say that their Judge Fra1ncis X. Smith of the behavior is unconscionable. New Yor~ State Supreme Court abortion controversies in the But it is not all that unusual. decided th:at "a fetus is a living mid-1960s, virtually' all of his I have long since taken it f<or human being" entitled to legal published articles and speaking 'granted that Catholic COlumnists, protection.! An injunction which engagements havl'l been devotd editorial writers, and book re- would h~ve halted abortions to this topic. But he pursues inviewers would denounce my under the Inew law in municipal terests in other areas of law as work without reading it.. Yet I hospitals ~as blocked; a few well. .\n article r10 proh'ems of ·am, for reasons that escape me, days latei, by the filing of an sentencIl'g • and· corre<'tioil of a controversial character appeal against Judge Smith's convicted criminals was recently , decison in 'the' Appellate Division published in the National Jesuit Deserves Hearing of the State Supreme Court. 'the weekly, ,America, and he looks I WgS not surprised, for exAppellate IDivision is now con- forward to the time "when aborample, when a: prominent liberal tion is a closed issue and Jean I edi,tor wrote about the Educawrite, on something else." tion of Catholic Amerioans in a See Br,ght Future In his spare time, Byrn likes fashion that made it abso'lutely For Magazine I . to read history books and mysdear he had not read the report. WASHINGTON (NC) - ChtisWhen I challenged him on, the tianity Today, an interdenomina-. tery stories and he enjoy~ travel matter, he admitted that he 'was tional magazine for clergy and during his vacations. Bu~ for the writing more about mY' "general lay leaders, has been scoring present, most of his energy is I position" on Catholic schools. substantial gains in both adver- devoted to his number-one ohFair enough. I hav~ been' in the tising and circulation, its edi- jective: "eradicating from our law a· statute ,iVhich has sanckitchen long. enough 'to know tors report.': ' .tioned a mass :;Iaughter of huthat I'don't.have the right to be Christianity Today's editxlr, man beings on a scale comparjudged on what I say but must Harold Liddsell, said the growth accept judgment on what people of the ~a~azine is "a sign of in- able to the genocide. in Nazi think I say (0'1', better, on what creasing eVangelical 'vitality, not Germany and, more recer.tly in they' know I really tjlink). But only in. t*e United States but Pakistan." Father Brown is a, mild, moder- , around th~ world...· The 16-yelirate, inoffensive person-and' a old ma'gazine has a current cirmuch more distinguished schol,ar culation of about 130,000. than I'll ever, be. Surely' he deThe magazine's advertising deserves a' hearing before' he· is partment ~eported that 1971 adoondemned. IINDUSTRIAL and DOMESTIC vertising revenue was up 4l.6 ,But he won't get one. The per cent dver the previous year temper of the times in American with lineJge up approximately Catholicism is that people are 35 per cedt. , guiLty until proven innocent, and The mkgazine has experi,they, cannot prove themselves mented rlkently with color or innocent~unless they are Cath- .glossy stotk, which the editors 'olic "radicals," and then they are said, is in l line with a general innocent even after ' "they , are -trend to Itry ,for "coffee-table 312 Hillman Street . 997·9162 New Bedford appeal." [., proven guilty. . ~ ~ ~ ~~

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tHE ANCHORThurs., Feb. ~, '1972

SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

The Parish Parade

IN THE DIOCESE

ST. P,ATRICK, FALLIUVER The Women's Guild announces a potluck supper for members and friends at 7 Monday night, Feb. 7 in the school hall. Mrs. Donald Jagmin, chairman, announces that tickets Woill . be available at the door and that the entertainment, conSisting of slides of attractions in the Newport: area, will be presented, by Claus Ottman.

B, PETER J. BARTEK Norton Hiah Coach

.Southeastern Conference Set .

To Prepare Hoop .Alignments The Standing Committee of Athletic Directors of the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will, meet in the ,very near 'future for the purpose of establishing divisional alignments for Winter sports. One of the group's charges will be to' formulate a league is p'ertinent to the committee's schedule for the 1972-73 evaluation. . basketball season. In doing If it were equitable to estabso, 'the committee will have lish divisions on the sole basis of to assign each of the 24 member schools 10 one of, probably, three equitable divisions

According to the by-laws of the new, loop, the group wm seed or rank. the schools on the basis of their competitiveness or ability to' perform on tJ:te basketball court. In order to determine the competitiveness. of each school, the committee will consider the individual school's won-loss record for the past four hoop seasons, its male enrollment grades 10-12, the strength of the schedule the school has played for the past four years and any other information a school volunbeers that

Size Important, P'erformance Counts Size is important, all agree, However, some small schools have done extremely well over . the years against outclassed opposition. It is ,the hope of the schools in the league that all members whether large or small will, have the opportunity to compete against others in the same competitive position., Performance is what counts. Holy Family Hign of New Bedford has long been the top club in the Narragansett League. For the last decade, the Parochials have been en,gaged in, virtually, a two team race for the title with Case High of Swansea. Somerset has come on strong in the past few seasons. Bishop Connolly of Fall River has done

, HOLY GHOST, , ATfLEBORO A public card party will be held in the church hall at 8 Tuesday night, Feb. 8, under sponsorship of the Women's Guild. Mrs. Vlictor Smith, chairman, announces that prizes will be awarded and refr.eshments served. The regular guild meeting, slated for Feb. 10, has been cancelled. The next· meeting wUl be held Thursday, March 9.

enrollment, the a.thletic directors serving on the committee would have fulfilled their charge for all sports long ago. In fact, if this could have been accomplished, the new league never would have been formed. The Conference came into exdstence because of the desire of many schools in the diocese to compete in a league where they would have an opportunity to win a fair share of athletic events. Such being the oose, the athletic directors must pay more attention to the strength of a given school's program rather than to ·the size of the instituHon.

well since joining the league. ' However, Diman Regional of Fall River and Westport have been hard pressed to win even a few games over the course of a season. A similar situation exists in the Bristol ~ounty League where Fall River's Durfee High, New Bedford and lately Bishop Stang of Dartmouth have been the powers. . In the Capeway Conference, Barnstable is the dominating force. Fairhaven and Lawrence High of Falmouth are highly regarded as basketball schools, but a notch below the Red Raiders. Dennis - Yarmouth has trouble competing on a year-in-year-out basis. .

Athletic Directors Face, Difficult Task Attleboro and Taunton are the Taunton which, are seven or lallgest two schools in the Con- eight times its size. But, when ference. Diman Regional' ranks, records are compared the Paro, third. On the basis of enrollment chials come out on top. they should compete against one 'The athletic directors serving another, However; on the basis , on the Standing Committee will of competitiveness it is another have to weigh all factors. They story. will have to compare the relative Holy F1amily, on the other strength of the Bristol County,. hand, has been one of the most Capeway and Narry leagues besuccessful basketball schools fore attempting to form diviwithin the confines of diocesan sions; They will have to explore territorial limits for the past 10 the feas~bi.Jity of Attleboro, for years. BUlt, the- school has only example,. traveling to Barnstable 95 boys enrolled in grades 10-12. for a· basketball game. They On ,the surface it is preposter- must make a' judgement regardous to suggest that Holy Family ing the future based upon how play schools like Attleboro and a team performed in the past. Their task is not an easy one. Recreation ' Lt is not one they are taking To devote a portion of one's lightly, in any sport. The fruits leisure to doing something for of their, labors should make for sOn:,leone else is one of the high- some exciting schoolboy competition for both' participating est forms of recreation. -Fitzgerald athletes and fans.

IMMACULATE CONCEP110N, FALL R.IVER' The Catholic charities committee of the Women's Guild Wlill sponsor a Valentine wh-ist at 8 Saturday night, Feb. 5 in the parjsh center. Mrs. John Albernaz is in charge of arrangements.

Seeks Answers in Spirituality, Continued from Page One 30 years as a priest, this age which is termed permissive seems also to be a puzzled age and a probing age w:th a r~)j· gious solution ahead." Father Basset ·travels and talks just three months annually. This year he came first t!l Washington, where he gave a retreat to F.B.I. men of all faiths. After that it was on to Boston for a month, another month in St. Louis, and then back to, the Isles of SCil'ly which is now home. Hermit Life Three years ago, on :, is 60th birthday; Bernard Basset resigned as the head of a large London retreat house and, with the joint approval of hii provincial and the local bie;hop, became pastor to the 20 RQinall Catholics in the parsh on St; Mary's largest of the Isles of Scilly off the Cornis~ coast. "I thought it would be lovely to be a sort of hermit," he explained. ' All profits from the Basset books go straight tt) hie; Jesuit province and froin there mainly on' to the missions in Inelia. He suppoits himself and his church by his newspaper, and magazine wl'itings, occasional fees from the BBC for reruns of h',3 writings, and contributionc; from the retreats. 0 .Booksellers teH him', he says, that the sale of reiigous ,books us spiraUng, upward after ,a decided slump. His own books10 of them in as many yearshave been doing especially well. The first, published in 1962, was "We Neurotics," a runaway best-seller now in its sixth printing. He notes that it is a book "which English .CatJholics buy secretly and always for 'another'." But in the current psychiatry-oriented society "it went through four editions on its title alone." His recent first pr.inting behind the Iron Curtain-a com-

bination of two titles - sold 10,000 copies in the first three mOnths. ArlOtJher 5,000 is on order.

55. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER

LaSalette Offers Continued from Page One on Tuesday e~nings starting Feb. 15 and running through March 21. Father Cassista is head of the popular music department of LaSalette's Mark IV Presentations. His course is designed to help parents, teachers, religious and priests understand contemporary rock music and vouth. Each session will include demonstrations with, recordings. All Gourses will be conducted from 7:45 P.M. to 9:15 P.M. in the conference hall above LaSalette's religious articlel ·store. Fee for each course is $11). Re~stration forms may be" obtained by writing lb Adult Education Program, LaSalette, Route U8, Attleboro, Mass.' 02703, or by caUing (617) 2225410.

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THE ANCHO~-Diocese of Fall ~iYt:lr'"7Thurs., Feb. 3, 1972 , , I' "l

Noted Scriptu,ral Scholar

Expl~ins- Virginal

Cc)nception 'l.ecture .

NEW YORK (NC)-A promi- ing an increasing problem in that had Men raised by others." on the basis of either'~garbled settled long ago by the Church, , nent Catholic theologian has de- Catholic New Testament interAs for newspaper accounts of newspaper reports" or a one- and was therefore not up for fended a!'1 a customary scholarly pretation an<;l which has been a the talk, he said about his lec- page summary distr~buted at the discussion, Father Brown replied: undertaking a lecture he gave difficulty for Protestant scholars the talk, h1 said the news items lecture, although they did not "This is precisely what I want here last Fall on problems about as well," he said. ' , given by a news service "are at hear the lecture and have not theologians to make certain of.'" Mary's virginal conceiving of He pointed out that, early this, ' ;!)he ~eI'CY 1of subscribing news- asked for a copy of it. 'Nothing Sensational' Jesus, a lecture that brought "I 'am sorry to.. be harsh," the century, most Catholic textbooks Father Brown, president of the papers whifh are free to delete startled reactions and personal Catholic Biblical Association and part of the news release and priest said, "but this is a sign explicitly taught that mim was attacks. winner of a 1971 award as out- which suphly their own head- , to me of the near-hysteria that created directly from 4.\1st by exists among extreme right-wing God because the first chapters of I Father Raymond' E. Brown, standing theologian of the year, lines." Catholics today." Genesis were thought to be professor of biblical studies at said there was "nothing really 'Near-Hysteria' _ He called, it "a sign of weak- "stra'ight history," whereas now, Union Theological Seminary- ,sensational" about his lecture He said Ihe really should not: Woodstock College in New York, even though some news reports be ,getting I any reactions at all ness to be afraid of objective following the lead of the Vatican had given what he called a in the general press gave mis- because the 60-page lecture will di~cussion" and said that "unfor- itself, any Catholic scripture" "highly technical" talk to fellow leading impressions. He said he 'not be published until March, . tunately this fear is fostered by scholar of any repute takes eva:' • some ,Catholic feature writers in lution for granted. theologians on, some unresolved gave the same lecture in Dublin in "Theological Studies." our newspapers." 'aspects of Christian study on the last Summer without causing the "Whenever new evidence is Father IBrown had strong slightest disturbance. topic. Father Brown, Wlhen asked brought fOrWard," he' said, The virginal conception is- words for some Catholic colun-I- whether the Biverage person '\Catholic tlheologians have an ,In a question and answer exsomething he has long been !lists who &e said have attacked would benefit' from reading his absolute duty to reexamine docplantation of the lecture appearh~m or hav,e tried to refute him, lecture, said that "in honesty I _trines to see whether the manner .ing in several Catholic weekly studying, he said, and will be ,I pa~t of a book he is writing on would have to -say no." He said in which they have tradiUonally newspapers this month, the Sulit was composed for theb'logians understood a doctrine still . i Tribute pican prfest said it is customary Christ's infancy as narrated in in prominent theological schools the gospels of Matthew and The kindness and charity of or at least for persons w,ith- a 'stands. for a newly appointed professor Luke. the poor tQ their kin is perhaps theologteal education. "To seek to clarify what the like himself tq, give a formal "I did not originate any the most s~blime tribute" to the Settled L,rmg Ago Church's position is is not at all inaugural lecture. doubts," he said about his lec- essential goodness of mankind. Asked whether the virginal the same as to challenge the "I chose a topic that is becom- ture. "I simply discussed doubts -Feather conception had not already been Church's position."

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