Pope Urges Lent of Self-Denial VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul has opened Lent with a plea to put lenten self-denial to work for the poor. "If each one lets his brothers and sisters come into his own life, if he shares with them of his substance rather than of his surplus, then he overcomes many ·obstacles to reconciliation and attains renewal," the Pope said in a Feb. 11 Lenten address to the universal Church. Of Christ's words, "The poor you .always have with you," the Pope commented: "It always sounds as though the efforts of Christian charity and human justice were destined to be always defeated. And would not an overall view of our times seem to confirm this? Even though we appear to have all the means of fighting poverty, we still hear of wars, famines and disasters.
"But for the Christian the fact that such situations continually recur does not mean they are inevitable. The Christian rather understands the words of Jesus in the sense that none of His followers can ignore the fact that Jesus identified Himself with the poor." The Pope's address, in its entirety, said: Dear sons and daughters, "The poor you always have with you" (In 12:8). These words ot' Christ to the Apostles are full of meaning. It almost sounds as though the efforts of Christian charity and human justice were destined to be always defeated. And would not an overall view of our times seem to confirm this? Even though we appear to have all the means of fighting poverty, we still hear of wars, famines and disasters. But for the Christian the fact that such situations continually recur does
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Asserts Holy Year Themes Heart of Catholic. Press CINCINNATI (NC)-Renewal and reconciliation - themes of the 1975 Holy Year-are "at the very hear.t of what we're doing. in the Catholic press." That is the conviction of Father Jeremy Harrington, O.F.M,. editor of the prize-winning St. Anthony Messenger, vice president of the Cathoilc Press Association. Interviewed on the eve of the annual Catholic Press Month (February) observance, the Franciscan journalist said he saw reason for optimism about the future of Catholic publications despite economic setbacks of recent years. And he cited two areas in which the publications - particularly the diocesan newspapers - provide. unparalleled service to the Church: "They are the most effective means of communication within a diocese." "They are without a doubt the best means of adult education." Father Harrington, who in 1972 received the Catholic Press Association's highest honor, the annual St. Francis de Sales award, spoke of the "renewal" theme of the Holy Year, observing: "That's just what the Catholic press endeavors to do-to help its readers achieve a- deeper faith, a stronger commitment to Jesus, a better understanding of their membership in the
Christian community. If we don't know each other and what each other is doing-and why, how can we act as members of the Body of Christ?" he asked. Turn to Page Nine
not mean that they are inevitable. The Christian rather understands the words of Jesus in the sense that none of His followers can ignore the fact that Jesus identified Himself with the poor. Until the end of time, the poor are "with" Jesus. They are His partners, His companions, His brothers and sisters. The Christian, precisely because he is a Christian, must take his place beside the destitute. He must give of himself to assist them in their immedate needs. He must commit himself to helping, in many different ways, to build a better world-a more just world. Lent is an appropriate time for this exercise of self-denial, because it reminds Christians who they are. It puts them on their guard against the satisfaction of a comfortable existence and against the temptations of living in abundance. Tum to Page Three
Bishop Cronin Leads Pilgrims For Rome Holy Year Renewal Eleven. priests and nine Religious will be among the 17 pilgrims that will accompany Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, on the 1975 Diocesan Holy Year Pilgrimage to Rome. The diocesan group will leave Boston tomorrow, Feb. 14, and ·return on Saturday, Feb. 22. Among the priests accompanying the Bishop are:· Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Director of the Diocesan Travel League and pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Fall River. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, Diocesan Chancellor. Rev. Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, Officialis. and pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro. Rev. Msgr. John J. Regan, Rector of the Cathedral. Rev. William F. Blottman, assistant pastor of St. Mary Parish, So. Dartmouth. Rev. WiUiam E. Farland, pastor of 51. Joseph Parish, Woods Hole. Rev. Leonard Mullaney, assis-
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tant pastor of Immaculate Con- who will journey to Rome are: ception Parish, Taunton. Sister Mary Agnes Shannon, Rev. Felician Plichta, OFM Sister Lucille Richard, Sister Conv., pastor of Holy Cross Anastasia, Sister Dorothea BeauParish, Fall River. lieu, Sister Theresa De1isle, SisRev. John J. Smith, Diocesan ter S.F. Dwyer, Sister Helen Director of Vocations and assis- Fletcher, Sister Cecile Marquis, tant pastor of St. James Parish, and Sister Margaret Ready. New Bedford. The pilgrimage will leave from Rev. John J. Steakem, Instruc- Logan International Airport in tor of Religion at Bishop Stang Boston at 7:10 P.M. tomorrow High School and assistant pas- night, Feb. 14. tor of St. Julie Parish, No. Dart- . Their first day in Rome will mouth. be a free-day to permit pilgrims Rev. Horace J. Travassos, as- to rest from the transatlantic sistant pastor of St. James Par- flight. ish, New Bedford. On Sunday morning, Feb. 16, Among the Religious Sisters rum to Page Eight
Dedicate Pediatric Center At St. Anne1s Hospital A pediatric center at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, was dedicated Sunday by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. The first of its type in Bristol County, the new facility will offer complete ambulatory health services for all children in the Greater Fall River area. At the Sunday ceremonies Bishop Cronin praised the hospital for its dedication to health care "within the context of Catholic ethical and moral conV'ictions" and noted the constitutional right of members of the Church to follow their religious principles regardless of possible loss of federal benefits. Also speaking was Dr. Sydney S. Gellis, chief pediatrician at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston, who has been involved in development of a residency program bringing future pediatricians and specialized medical services from Tufts University and the New England Medical Center to Fall River. Dr. Gems said the pediatric center has the potential of serving as a regional facility and could become instrumental in serving children wi.th learning disabilities and emotional problems as well as physical ailments. Noting that "national health . service is sure to come," the
physician declared that St. Anne's Hospital "will be ready for tomorrow's developments in delivery of health care, and at the same time, is a reflection of continuing commitment to community service." . Doctors presently staffing the center are Edward A. Penn, Turn to Page Five
Catholic Papers Seen Necessary' CINCINNATI (NC) - Most people who receive the Catholic Telegraph read it "every week" (90.3 per cent) and consider the paper "not a luxury but a necessity" (91.4 per cent). That's what subscribers told the Telegraph, Cincinnati archdiocesan newspaper, in a readership survey conducted last fall, tabulated at the University of Dayton and reported to the Telegraph's advisory board recently. The Telegraph has been the weekly newspaper of the Cincinnati archdiocese since 1831. The 91.4 per cent who called the Catholic press a necessity included 66.8 per cent who "agree strongly" with that position and 24.6 per cent who "agree somewhat." Turn to Page Eight
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CONFIRMATION SCHEDULE
1975 MOST REVEREND DANIEL A. CRONIN, S.T.D. BISH()P OF FALL RIVER
March 16 - 3:00 P.M. St. Peter's, Dighton April 1 - 7:00 P.M. Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River April 3 - 7:00 P.M. Holy Cross, Fall River St. Roch's, Fall River St. John the Baptist, Central Village at St. Mary's Cathedral April 6 - 3:00 P.M. Immaculate Conception, Fall River 7:00 P.M. St. Anne's, Fall River April 7 - 5:00 P.M. Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket April 17 - 7:00 P.M. St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro April 22 - 7:00 P.M. St. George's, Westport April 25 - 7:00 P.M. St. Thomas More, Somerset April 30 - 7:00 P.M. St. Joseph's, Fairhaven May 2 - 7:00 P.M. Santo Christo, Fall River May 5 - 7:00 P.M. St. Francis Xavier's, Acushnet May 12 - 7:00 P.M. St. Louis de France, Swansea May 18 - 11:00 A.M. St. Mary's Cathedral (Parish Youth) 3:00P.M. St. Mary's Cathedral (Adult) May 19 - 7:00 P.M. St. Mary's, Norton May 21 - 7:00 P.M. St. Anthony's, Taunton May 23 - 7:00 P.M. St. Patrick's, Falmouth May 27 - 7:00 P.M. Holy Ghost, Attleboro May 28 - 7:00 P.M. st Julie's, North Dartmouth May 30 - 7:00 P.M. St. Mary's, South Dartmouth June 1- 3:00 P.M. St. James, New Bedford 7:00 P.M. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford St. Margaret's, Buzzards Bay June 9 - 7:00 P.M. June 11 - 7:00 P.M. St. Anthony's, East Falmouth Oct. 19 - 3:00 P.M. St. Augustine's, Vineyard Haven St. Elizabeth's, Edgartown 7:00 P.M. Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs Oct. 21 - 7:00 P.M. Holy Name, Fall River Oct. 23 - 7:00 P.M. SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River
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CUB SCOUT AWARDS: The cub scouts receiving the Pro Parvuli Award last Sunday were: front, Michael Racine, Dennis Poulin, Michael Arguin and Arthur Terrell. Rear, James Welch, Mark Ouellette, Mark Paiva, Luis Machado, Gary Blanchard and Marc Racine.
Training Program Prepares Cub Scouts When 11 Cub Scouts received the Parvuli Dei religious award at ceremonies at Sacred Heart Church, New Bedford, last Sunday, they were probably the most thoroughly qualified recipients in the United States. They had graduated from a unique nine week program that Scout officials say is the only one of its kind in New England and probably in the entire country. For nine Sundays the youngsters bad met for breakfast and a discussion session, led by Mrs. Norman Boulay. Topics included how to show love of neighbors, family and friends; a brief history of Christ and the Church; the place of charity and prayer in daily life; and respect for sick, elderly and shut-ins. Folk Masses The discussion was followed each Sunday by attendance at a folk Mass celebrated in a different church. Among those visited were St. Julie's, St. John's, Our Lady of the Assumption, St. James, St. Joseph's, Fairhaven, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Casimir's and St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Excursions were also made to La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, St. Anne's Shrine, Fall River, the Bishops' Crypt in the Fall River cathedral and St. Joseph's Shrine, Dartmouth. In the course of their training the boys collected newspapers
St. Joseph's, North Dighton St. Mary's, North Attleboro Holy Rosary, Fall River Holy Name, New Bedford St. Kilian's, New Bedford Espirito Santo, Fall River St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River St. Joseph's, Woods Hole St. Patrick's, Somerset St. Patrick's, Somerset Holy Rosary, Taunton Immaculate Conception, No. Easton Our Lady of Grace, Westport Sacred Heart, Fairhaven Sacred Heart, New Bedford OUf Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford St. Mary's, Fairhaven St. Joseph's, New Bedford Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk St. Joseph's, Attleboro St. Mark's, Attleboro Falls St. Mary's, Seekonk St. Joseph's, Taunton St. Theresa's, Attleboro Necrology St. Mary's, Taunton FEB. 22 St. Paul's, Taunton Rt. Rev. Jovite Chagnon, 1954, Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford Founder, St. Joseph, New BedImmaculate Conception, Taunton ford FEB. 27 St. Patrick's, Fall River Rev, Joseph N. Hamel, 1956, Sacred Heart, Fall River Founder, St. Theresa, New BedImmaculate Conception, New ord Bedford St. William's, Fall River Our Lady of Victory, Centerville THE ANCHOR Second Class Postage Paid at F111 River, Our Lady of Assumption, Osterville Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 St. Stanislaus, Fall River Highland Avenue, Fall Rliver, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Prets of the Diocese of Fall St. Stephen's, Attleboro River. Subscription price by mall, postp3ld 5t. Mary's, Mansfield ~5.00 per lear.
and sent clothing to Indian schools in South Dakota. Christmas gifts were made and delivered to grandparents and senior citizens.
Bishop Confirms Appointments Most 'Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River has confirmed the following appointments made by the Very Rev. Fintan Sheeran, SS.CC., provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The appointments are as follows and will become effective on Friday, Feb. 28, 1975. Rev. Benedict Folger, SS.CC., to St. Francis Xavier Parish, Acushnet as pastor. Rev. Finbarr McAloon, SS.CC., to Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Wellfleet as pastor. Rev. Leo King, SS.CC., to Holy Redeemer Parish, Chatham as assistant. Rev. Jude Morgan, SS.CC., to Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet as assistant. Rev. Joachim Schults, SS.CC., to St. Anthony Parish, Mattapoisett as assistant.
Scout Chqirman _ James Millani, 153 Glendale Road, Attleboro, has been named new chairman of the AttleboroTaunton Catholic Scouting CornrniHee, succeeding Maurice Kent, who has served in the post for the past four years.
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Log books contain the 100year history of Sacred Heart parish as well as pictures depicting the influence of Christianity on daily life and compositions describing the Cubs' reactions to the Parvuli Dei program. All work done by the boys was reviewed by Rev. Ernest Blais, Scout chaplain and pastor of Sacred Heart, then forwarded to Gabriel Holmes, New Bedford chairman for Catholic Scouting. The "religious den" training is part of the complete Cub program of Pack 5 of Sacred Heart. Mrs. Boulay is also responsible for Ad Altare Dei award training for parish Boy Scouts. Sunday's Mass, noted participants, came on Boy Scout Sunday and uniformed Scouts lectured, served, offered the offertory gifts, ushered and played the organ.
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Marlboro Case Jesuit Denied Reinstatement 'VATICAN CITY (NCl - The Vatican has turned down an appeal for reinstatement in the Jesuits from Father Joseph O'Rourke, who was dismissed from the society after publicly baptizing the child of an active advocate of legalized abortion. A source within the Congregation for Religious, the Vatican office which deals with such appeals, said Father O'Rourke's appeal was rejected Dec. 19. The stated reason for his dismissal was disobedience. He had been ordered by his local superior not to baptize the child. The official of the Congregation for Religious said the ~on路 gregation found no grounds for intervening. He said the superior general of the Jesuits, who ultimately must take responsibility for dismissal of a Jesuit priest from the order, "exercised full authority as entitled" by Jesuit constitution. Fr. Arrupe According to a Jesuit spokesman in Rome, Father O'Rourke's dismissal from the Jesuits' New York province had to be approved by the Jesuit superior general, Father Pedro Arrupe. He added however that Father Arrupe did not have to seek permission from the Holy See for the dismissal, since Father O'Rourke had not been solemnly professed as a Jesuit: The Jesuit spokesman added that the superior general's action did not take effect until after the process of appeal was concluded. A Vatican source familiar with the case said that the congregatiQn was unable to take action because the dismissal was carried out according to current Jesuit law. Father O'Rourke baptized the child Aug. 20 in Marlboro, Mass., after the local pastor had refused to do so.
Pope on Lent Continued from Page One In this Holy Year, which is dedicated to reconciliation, each individual is challenged by what reconciliation implies: giving and sharing within the human family. If each one lets his brothers and sisters come into his own life, if he shar.es with them of his substance rather than of his surplus, then he overcomes many obstacles to reconciliation and attains renewal through real detachment. This Year of Jubilee requires of us-a witness of complete solidarity with those with whom Jesus particuarly identified Himself. It will be one of the most significant proofs that we路 can give to our brothers and sisters that this year is "holy" for all mankind. Yes, this is what we ask of you today at the beginning of Lent - a genuine solidariy, a practical solidarity with Christ's poor-and we ask it of you in the name of Jesus. And with deep affection for all of you, our sons and daughters throughout the world, we ,bless you all: in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Pastor Offers Mother's Mass Rev. Ernest E. Blais, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, New Bedford was principal concelebrant at the Liturgy of Christian Burial for his late mother, Mrs. Mary S. Bouchard ,Blais of 40 Lincoln St., Pawtucket who died on Friday. The Mass was offered at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning in Our Lady of Consolation Church, Pawtucket. Interment was at Notre Dame Cemetery, Pawtucket. Mrs. Blais, 81 years of age, was the wife of the late Edgar Blais and is survived by two daughters and four sons. In addition to Father Blais they are: Sr. Ell-a, S.S.Ch., Mrs. Blanche Houland of Cranston, Maurice of Rumford, Alfred of Pawtucket and Richard of Cochituate.
AREA DIRECTORS MEET WITH BISHOP: Bishop Cronin consults the 1974 Catholic Wine, Cheese Charity Report as he plans procedures for the 1975 Appeal. Left to right: Rev. George The third annual wine and F. Almeida, assistant at Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford Area assistant director; Rev. cheese festival sponsored by Manuel P. FerreIra, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, director of the New Bedford Friends of La Salette Shrine, will take place at 8 Area; Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor, Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton, director for the area; Attleboro, P.M. Saturday in the shrine Bishop Cronin, honorary chairman; Rev. Bento R. Fraga, pastor of Holy Ghost Parish, <:afeteria. French, Italian and Attleboro, director of the Attleboro Area; Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of OUf German wines and cheeses will Lady of the Angels Parish, Fall River, Diocesan Director of the Appeal and director of the be served with homemade breadsticks and entertainment Fall River Area.
Bishop Names Appeal Area Directors Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, announced the dates of this year's Catholic Charities Appeal at a meeting attended by the priest directors of the Appeal. The Special Gift Phase begins April 21 and ends May 3. The Parish Phase of the' Appeal starts May 4 and will end on May 14. The mechanics, theme and procedures for the launching of this spring's Appeal were discussed by Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal. This will be the. thirty-fourth annual Catholic Charities Appeal, dating back to 1942. The Appeal provides funds for the many apostolates of charity, mercy and social and educational services in the diocese to all people,. regardless of race, color and creed. Msgr. Gomes announced that Bishop Cronin, now serving for the fifth time as honorary chairman, will be the main speaker at the Appeal kick-off meeting for over 900 members of the clergy, religious and laity of the diocese. The kick-off is Tuesday, April 15 at 8 P.M. at Bishop Connolly Hilgh School in Fall River. Areas The area directors will be in charge of special gif.ts and parishes in their respective sections. Area directors present at the planning meeting were Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. George F. Almeida, assistant pastor of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, in charge of New Bedford area; . Rev. Bento R. Fraga, Pastor of Holy Ghost Church, Attleboro, directing the Attleboro area; Rev. John F. Andrews, assistant
at St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, ,supervising the work in the Cape and Islands area; and Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor, Sacred Heart ,Church, Taunton,
will be offered by Father Pat and the Reconcilers. Reservations may be made by calling the shrine.
handling the work in the Taun- . ton area. Msgr. Gomes, pastor, Gentleness Our Lady of the Angels, Fall The heart of the gentle is the River, is also area director of throne where the Lord reposes. the greater Fall River section. -'St. John Ckimacus
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Vatica n Den ies Report of Heavy Financial Losses
"For Me To Live" The forty days of Lent are meant to draw Christians into the life and suffering and death of Jesus Christ so that they may be drawn into the joy and life and salvation of His resurrection. It is as simple, and difficult, as that. God inspires men to reach out to Him. Then men must cooperate in allowing Christ to be formed within their lives by inviting Him in through prayer, by removing from within themselves any obstacles to His presence there, by proving their love for Him where they are by letting that love extend to His, and their, brothers and sisters around them. These are the traditional ways of observing Lentprayer and sacrifice and the giving of one's self and one's means to others. They are traditional not merely because handed down from one generation to another but because they have been proved through the generations to be a means of holiness. Lent is meant to see people die, die to whatever within themselves is unworthy of Christ. Lent is meant to see people break the chains of sin and selfishness and sensuality and self-centeredness that bind them to their own littleness. It is meant to deliver them into the freedom of the children of God, unite them to Christ Who enables them to walk in safety and holiness the pilgrimage of this life and return to the Father to be with Him in happiness for eternity. Lent is a time of mission for the whole Church. No follower of Christ can absolve himself from entering into it. St. Paul wrote, "For me to live is Christ." Each day of Lent should see the Christian not only saying that phrase but trying to make its meaning a reality for himself.
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VAT,ICAN CITY (NCl - The Vatican has denied a report it suffered heavy financial losses in the collapse of Michele Sindona's financial empire. The denial came after a former Vatican finandal counselor estimated in a magazine interview that the Vatican had lost about $56 million in the Sindona affair. V-atican press spokesman Frederico Alessandrini said that press reports "concerning considerable losses which the Vatican has supposedly suffered in relation to the collapse of banks of the Sindona group has no basis in reality."
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Recently a group of eighteen leading Protestant and Roman Catholic and Orthodox thinkers路 signed an appeal urging Christians to abandon secular influences that are "false and debilitating" to Christianity. REV. JOHN F. MOORE St. William's ChurCh Men and women of religious convictions have long felt that the very commendable desire to make religion relevant to the day has led some people to adopt secular attitudes and behavior in the name of religion. In the process, religion He came to his own and his own received him not. has capitulated to essentially non-religious forces. This familiar bit of paraphrasing seems to fit quite aptly The result has been the emphasis on religion as a cure to the fate of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy national memofor loneliness, a source of strength for the uncertain and rial that has been off the drawing boards and in the planning unsure, an answer to the emotional and psychological ills stages since 1964. Millions of of the day. Religion then becomes the answer to the here dollars have been donated fifteen per cent each year. At while letting slide into the background the hereafter. It and hundreds of architectur- this rate the proposed presidenmemorial will be a little becomes humanistic, stressing the condition of man in rela- al blueprints have been pro- tial more than the size of a local tion with his fellow man, all very well in itself, but to the duced yet the proposed library MTA comfort station. detriment of the vital relation of man to God. Religion in and museum to be buil-t in honor It is truly about time that this this concept loses sight of the transcendent, of the basic of the late president has been thwarted and frustrated by his Commonwealth put an end to stress of its whole purpose. There is a twofold reality that own people. The citizens of this such ridiculous antics and step can never be lost sight of: God is infinitely above His Commonwealth who did so very forward with a firm and stable people but God is intimately concerned and involved with much to b~ing John Kennedy to plan of action to aid the trustees His people. People must respond by reaching up to God, the national politkal attention have of the JFK memorial in their atbeginning and end and way of salvation; and people must re- now become the laughing stock tempts to erect a fitting natheir own petty politics and tional monument to one of the spond by reaching out to their fellows, their brothers and of narrow vision. most distinguished and famous sisters in the pilgrimage through this life and back to God. Time and again the J.F.K. Li- citizens of this state. To continue Emphasize man's relation to God and forget his relation brary Corporation has modified, to be blackmailed by a small. to his fellows and religion becomes unreal, with little revised and altered plans to suit minority of self-seeking locals relevance to life as it is and the world as it is. Emphasize the whims and fancies of the is both ridiculous and foolhardy. locals. Even at this writing, The citizens of Texas, Missouri man's relation to his fellows and forget his relation to God elevent years from the original and Kansas were more than enand religion becomes humanistic, with the emphasis on start of the project, one stone thusiastic supporters in the efsociology. has yet -to be placed upon forts to bring to the nation f.itAnd so these religious thinkers called for a reaffirmation another. As the residents of ting memorials to their former of what Christianity is about-essentially, God's will for man. Cambridge continue to demon- favorite sons, Presidents John-
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strate their unique propensity of continuous indecision. the bite of inflation cuts into the basic funds of the library and museum construction at an estimated inflation growth of
son, Truman and Eisenhower. The wrangling warfare of Cambridge in relation to the JFK Library and Museum is tragic at worst and narrow minded at best.
Massimo Spada, who retired 15 years ago as administrative secretary of the Institute for Works of Religion (often referred to loosely as the Vatican bank) gave his estimate on the Vatican's losses to the Ualian news weekly L'Expresso. Spada branded "absurd" statements that the Vatican lost a billi-on dollars when the chain of banks controlled by Italian financier Michele Sindona collapsed. By his estimate, the Vatican's total liquid assets wouid be half that. Liquid Assets He put the Vatican's liquid assets at about $560 million (350 billion lire), and estimated that the Vatican lost about 10 per cent of that, or $56 million. But Alesesandrini in an oral statement to newsmen, said that the Institute for the Works of Religion's investments in the Banca Unione, one of the Sil'\dona banks, amounted to 5 per cent of the Banca Unione's declared capital. According to the Bank of Rome, 5 per cent of the Banca Union's capital would equal only about $154,000.
Boston. Such a lack of foresight on the part of what is laughingly termed "city fathers" not only can destroy the cultural life of an area but also negate any financial and momentary advantages whieh might benefit the general population of a given city. Cambridge should take heed. On the par-t of the trustees of the memorial, if Cambridge continues to make such a mountain out of a mole hill, then they should build the Museum and L-ibrary in another location in the Commonwealth.
-President Kennedy was seldom seen outside the Harvard Yard as far as the general citizenry was concerned. Hyannisport was the focal point of his life in this state. Why not give serious consideration to this area of the Hyannisport a Priority in Preferences -state which meant so very much It would be worth while to point of the internationally fa- to the late president? realize what the loss of such mous seaport of Mystic ConnecWhatever the outcome cona memorial could mean to the tieut. cerning the site of the JFK meCommonwealth not only in senOf course previous to this loss morial, let's get serious and betiment but also in fact. Within and all its economic advantages, gin to build this living memorial the framwork of a local example the oity also turned its back on to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He one only has to view the loss the famous gift of the Arnold brought so very much to Massato a city like New Bedford of estate and as a result the famous chusetts and Massachusetts has the famous whaling ship "The Arnold Arboretum is now to be done so very little in a positive Morgan" which is now the focal found in the Jamaicaway of way to honor his memory.
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Bishop Praises St. Anne's Ever Self-Renewing Efforts to Care Continued from Page One M.D., John E. Delaney, M.D., Roger L. LeMaire, M,D. and Lily E. Khoury, M.D. It is expected that two additional physicians will join the group in the future. Bishop Cronin's address follows: Once again it is our happy privilege to be present for the blessing of another segment of Saint Anne's Hospital. This time we are here on the occasion of the completion of the new Saint Anne's Hospital Medkal Arts Center, a building which by its very newness signifies that the Hospital itself, old in its tradition of caring for the sick, is constantly renewing itself in its ability to deliver the proper care to patients as a modern health care facility. This new Medical Arts Center will accommodate the Fall River Pediatric Center, about which other speakers during the ceremonies today will comment further. Let me, however, take the occasion to undersC'ore the benefit which will derive to the community at large from the intercooperation of the authorities of the Hospital and the Pediatric Center in such a manner that the care of children will be enhanced and the anxieties of parents will be relieved. Saint Anne's Hospital is intimately connected with the history of health care -in the City of Fall River and the surrounding area. It is even more deeply involved, and a part of the history of the care of the sick, in this very section of the City, the venerable and noble South End. In fact, it is the only acute health care facility in this area. This Hospital has proudly served the people of Fall River for decades, and few indeed are the families which at one time or another have not been the beneficiaries of the health care provided by this institution. Saint Anne's Hospital intends to continue this noble tradition an:! intends to place itself always in the position to offer the best care and service which modern medicine makes possible. Not only does Saint Anne's Hospital intend to continue the tradition of professional, competent and modern health care, but it intends to continue the tradition of offering these services within the context of our Catholic ethical and moral convictions which, after all, is not only our religious belief, but, thank God, our constitutional right. We look back almost two thousand years to the Son of God, made man, Jesus Christ, and realize the effect that the teaching of Jesus has had on mankind in these ensuing centuries. His teaching inspired love of neighbor as our brother under God, respect for everyone's life which is in God's han'ds alone, justice whereby everyone is given what he rightfully can seek, charity and compassion at all times even to those who might consider themselves our enemies. "Feed the hungry ... clothe the naked ... give drink to the thirsty ... bind up wounds ...turn the other cheek ... let the little children come to me... the poor you have always with you ..."-these are the thoughts
of Jesus Christ and the admonitions to good living that He handed on to us. Two thousand years have passed, and when we review these years we realize the evil results, sometimes frightful and that occur down. horrible, through the ages when these teachings are ignored and at times even deliberately despised and thwarted. Particularly in the area of the care of the human person and the protection of human life, need we recall any other example than that most revolting period in history when those under the influence of atheistic nazism ignored the Christian traditions of their beautiful and noble country and carried on the basest and most horrible experimentations and terminated human life callously and without scruple, sometimes even in the name of enhanoing the quality of life or mercifully eliminating suffering. Let us never forget the cataclysm and horror that can result from forgetting that God alone is Master of human life. We review, likewise, two hundred years of history as our nation approaches -its Bicentennial, and we remember the noble ideals that inspired the founders of our country and the hardy, religious men who codified our Constitution. "Liberty and justice for all" was the theme for the foundation of our nation, and indeed 'it is the same for the celebration of the coming Bicentennial. We must see to it that none of the liberties that have been justly ours over these years will ever be taken away from us. One of these .has been the freedom to practice our religion and to live our lives in accordance with our religious beliefs. Our beloved nation, in according us the benefits of freedom of religion, has not only preserved the ideal which it set out for itself, but it has also been the beneficiary of the wholesome contributions of faithful Catholics throughout the years who love their country and their religion, and work for the benefit of the community at large without any distinction of religion, race or ethnic background. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the care of the sick, the dying, the retarded and the elderly. PrOUdly can we say that such has been the glorious tradition of Saint' Anne's Hospital. But again, we must clearly understand that the liberty which our nation has always allowed us in these years, to practice our faith and to make contributions to the community at large within the context of our religious beliefs, should never be permitted to be jeopardized. The United States of America is the land of the free and we intend to keep it that way.
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I do not want this occasion to pass without a special word of congratulations and encouragement to the wonderful Dominican Sisters under whose direction Saint Anne's Hospital operates. Likewise, a word of gratitude and encouragement to the Board of Trustees who have the interests of Saint Anne's always at heart, and to the doctors and nurses who staff Saint Anne's. The administration and lay staff merit our praise always. Let me briefly say that the Bishop of the DIocese is vitally 'interested in the welfare of Saint Anne's Hospital. I want to see it prosper, I want to see it grow and I want to see it continue to provide that health care for which this Catholic h'ospital is so beloved in this City. I -invoke upon you all, partic· ularly on all who have cooper· ated in the building of this Medical Arts Center and upon all who will use it, especially the doctors, nurses and patients of the Pediatric Center, God's choicest blessings and divine favors.
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.6 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 13, 1975 Emotions Run Weary Gamut I'n Do,ctor's Waiting Room
'Issue Staf1em'ent On Aborton
ST. CLOUD (NC)-A society concerned about child abuse must also be concerned about abortion, the 10 Catholic bishops of Minnesota said in a joint In the 20 years I've been raising children, I've spent statement. hundreds of hours waiting in doctors' offices. That's a lot "There should certainly be a of time to think. It causes grey hair, weak knees, and a . concern with the destruction of human offspring before birth" distressed stomach. It's also an endless roller coaster of as well as after, the bi&hops hope and fear, confidence dulum swings ... he's a good said. "On the level of judgment and anxiety, faith and de- man, he's helped us before, he's and justice, the verdict must be pression, love and anger . . . adjusted fees, he has compasthe same in each case. and putting up a brave, sion. "It is wrong to abuse a child, cheery front so the scared born or unborn. It is wrong to My mind does cartwheels, youngster alongside of me can and in between I try to help the limit his or her capacity for hudraw on my strength. man development by maiming or youngster locate the hidden fish I wonder how many times my hook, candle, and comb in the killing. Whether we feel uncomfortable about it or not, it ,is "Find the Missing Things in this wrong; and a society which tolPicture" puzzle. And I answer questions on erates it is unjust." The bishops said abortion was pain, shots, hospitals, and specan issue of social justice. Human ulate if it's "serious" how long growth, they said, was ",a con路 the youngster might be out of By tinuous and orderly process school. from the point of fermization on Mother Gym MARY through the next 25 years or so. Birth is just one stage in that If I look around the room I CARSON process which is programmed see fleeting expressions on the from the very beginning. Birth faces of other waiting mothers is not the beginning of our that indicate their minds are humanity. children were aware that while going through the same acro"Birth is not the beg,inning of I was smiling and chatting with batics. Furrowed brows that a child's rights. He or she dethem, there were tears running straighten . . . glistening eyes serves the respect or protection down inside. Or did they con- that suddenly brighten ... grim FIRST PILGRIMAGE MASS: Members of the Fall River of society as much as the born s-ider the relaxed ease a sign determination that softens into' that I didn't really care they the trace of a smile. Holy Year Pilgrimage will be present in St. Peter's Basilica child or juvenile." Those concerned about social were sick, wasn't worried that The doctor's waiting room is on Sunday morning at 8:00 (Rome time) for the first Mass justice and the rights of the unthe gymnasium for a mother's they were hurt. of the pilgrimage to be offered by the spiritual leader, born, the bishops said, "underThe hours in a doctor's wait- mind. All the emotional exering room can be like walking cises can be considered a waste Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. The photo shows standably seek to correct this the road to Calvary. Though it of time ... or the buildup and Michelangelo's Great Dome and Bernini's canopy over the situation by whatever non~iolent means will be effective." would be a most appropriate strengthening of emotional mus- main llltar. NC Photo. A constitutional amendment will time, it's difficult to pray. To cles. ultimately be necessary to do so, pray I must open my mind to I believe those hours tt"ain a the bishops said. God. And I find it hard to open mother to enable her to love my mind to anything but see- in the face of anger, to hope sawing ghosts of "Maybe it's when offered despair, to believe Sister Hilary Oldest Nun when there is no reason, to trust " Pennsylvania Program Encourages Fear cuts through. I imagine when all is bleak. It may even In Newark Archdiocese Planting Vegetable Gardens all the worst possibilities. Cour- explain why mothers cry in ELIZABETH (NC) - Funeral age floods back and I'm positive great joy. PITTSBURGH (NC) - Penn- money, and get used to the taste services were held at the Beneit's nothing serious. Past expeThose hours are an emotional sylvania residents will be given of good vegetables again." dictine motherhouse here for one rience warns me of the worst; fitness program that provide a the opportunity to help fight The minimum requirement is of the oldest nuns in the United hope that this time will be dif- resiliency to the hard knocks of inflation and feed the needy that participants must grow a States. ferent brushes those thoughts life and the stretch to reach out through a new state program garden of approximately 89 Sister Hilary Wiest died at the away. and hold the hand of God. which encourages the planting square yards. A collection of 10 motherhouse 'infirmary at Ithe age And-just as I start believing of vegetable gardens. Anxiety gnaws. What will the packets of vegetable seeds will of 104. She was the oldest nun tests or x-rays show? Renewed this, the seesaw flips again, and Announced by Pennsylvania be provided to groups or individ路 in the Newark archdiocese. spirit says they'll show nothing. I suspect that doctors who give Gov. Milton Shapp, tne program uals at a discount rate. A native of New York, Sister Weariness takes over as the lollipops are in cahoots with is primarily designed as an inFor those who do not have Wiest joined the Benedictine Sistime drags. Stories of similar dentists. I also wonder if the flation fighting measure. It is land, the State Welfare Office ters in 1890, pronounced her "cases" troop through my head. long wait in medical doctors' being coordinated by the De- is making land available at first vows a year later and final Faith that God knows what He's offices is a system for making partment of Agriculture in con- .many state hospitals. Although vows in 1894. She became the doing brings a moment's peace. more business for psychiatrists. junction with the Department of the land wHl be plowed for free, first member of the community Public Welfare. individuals or groups, will be ever to observe the 75th anniDoes He Know . However, Father Edward responsible for caring for the versary of her Religious com' Pope Paul Stresses Doubt that maybe the doctor Bryce, director of the Pittsburgh land and crops. mitment in 1966. doesn't know starts eroding my Marriage Indissoluble diocese's Office for Peace and nerves. If his report is bleak, . VATI:CAN CITY (NC)-Pope Justice, hopes that the program should we consult another spe- Paul VI told judges of the Sa- will be used to benefit the poor .cialist ... get another opinion. cred Roman Rota that they must and elderly. If his report is good I wouldn't defend the indissolubility of Father Bryce, who is coordiwant another opinion. valid marriages and similar basic nating the program's effort for Where The As my emotions stretch thin, marriage laws which he said the Pittsburgh diocese, hopes that participants will give at I become angry at the long wait. were "beyond dispute." Entire Family He's probably backlogged berpope Paul spoke at length least part of the yield to the Can Dine cause he. was on vacation or in an audience inaugurating a needy. . "Since one of the objectives dallied at the golf course. I new judicial year for the rota, Economically start counting the people, multi- Church court of appeals, which .of the program is to aid the ply by $25.00, tack ori extra for handles marriage cases from poor, we would hope that a portion of the harvest from each FOR shots, x-rays, casts ... no won路 around the world. garden would be contributed to der he can afford vacations and Calling the Rota "irreproachRESERVATIONS a country club. All these people able," the Pope also defended a local parish for distribution to PHONE are sending him. local diocesan marriage tribu- the needy by the St. Vincent de Paul Society," he said. . I wonder if insurance will nals against "certain malicious (617) 67'5-7185 _ "You will not only be helping cover any of it. Then the pen- insinuations and unjust accusathe needy," Father Bryce added, or tions" made against them. "but you'll learn about gardenReligious Freedom Before the Pope spoke, Rota ing, get a good yield, save some (617) 673-0821 The State is acting against vice dean, Msgr. Charles Lethe laws and dictates of nature febvre, said in an address to the Virtue whenever it permits the license Pontiff that marriage court offiReverence for superiors, reo of opinion and of action to lead cials feU "a slight bitterness" minds astray from truth and over accusations that tribunals spect for equals, regard for insouls away from the practict; favored the rich or that they are feriors-these form the supreme "thirsty for power" and try to trinity of virtues. of virtue. -Adler -Pope Leo XIII compete with civil courts.
D·reary .Mo,nth ·of February Id'eal for Improving Self
Arl ington Bishop To Advise Group
I had a lot of comments on last week's column, inwhich I mentioned how depressing February is, a month whose only saving grace is Valentine's Day. Other women also feel t.he dreariness of this time of year when very often your most exciting outing of the week is a trip to the pediatric doing everything that they teach her, it is another good step on clinic. When looking for the road to self-improvement· something positive to say . and the lessons are a bright spot
about the month, I did however realize that it's a good time to start on a course of self-improvement of some type.
By MARILYN RODERICK
I've signed up for a c~urse in yoga and as of this writing I've attended two classes, both of which I've thoroughly enjoyed. Yoga is supposed to be a very relaxing experience and so far I have found it neither strenuous nor tiring. One class member is a charming older woman who has retired to Hve in this area and she too appears to find the breathing exercises and the other yoga movements energy producers rather than something that can only be done by the young in body. While I have very little follow through on doing any exercises (even breathing ones) when I'm on my own, class participation is a good forced motivator! Weight Watchers Two of my fellow teachers are into a weight watcher's program this winter and their great new figures will stay with them through the spring and into the summer, I'm sure. They -too have found that for self-discipline group participat'ion is best, and I have even noticed that they don't appear quite so upset with February as are the rest of us. Another friend is taking make-up lessons, and while it's unlikely that she will continue
Traces World's Woes To Selfishness, Pride VATICAN CITY (NC) - The world's social and political disorders stem from selfishness and pride, Pope Paul VI told thousands of pilgrims and visitors at a weekly general audience. Emphasizing that selfishness and pride are "responsible for the most widespread and serious of human calamities," Pope Paul said: "All the great social and political disorders have their seeds in selfishness and pride, from which so many human instincts and so many actions find their inspiration, but in which there is no longer love. "And even where this sovereign sentiment still survives, dampened as it is by selfishness and pride, it is deformed and depraved. It becomes a collective selfishness, a pride of community prestige."
on the dreary winter lands::ape for her. Quite a few seasons ago I wrote an article about a facial I received as a gift~and that too could be a sparkling event to chase away February or flu blues. It could be a great Valentine gift, why not hint to hubby, and it would look better on you than a five pound box of chocolates. Whatever your bag, yoga, sewing lessons, exercises at the Y, a set of tennis lessons or a $2 course in eveybrow plucJdngself-improvement is good for the morale, the winter doldrums, and even the ecology scene (you improve the scene around you) and lin the long run it's cheaper than a psychiatrist!
37 Million Americans Do Volunteer Work WASHINGTON (NC)-One in four Americans over the age of 14-24 per cent of the population in that age group-performs some form of volunteer work, according to a Census Bureau survey. The survey said 37 million Americans did volunteer work, with a third of those people serving at least once a week. Sixty per cent were active at least once a month. Women accounted for 59 per cent of all volunteers and those people with more education and higher incomes are more likely to volunteer than others, the survey said. During the week preceding the polling, the survey said, more than 15 minion people contributed 140 million hours of volunteer work.
Food Stamp Changes Place Burden on Poor WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) has urq;e1 S1.lnT)ort for legislation to reverse new cost increases in the Foo.J Sta;.lp:; program, charging that, through the increases, "the federal government is requiring those least able to bear an unduly heayy portion of reduced government expenditures." The food cost increases, to take effe·ct March 1, will affect s,ome 94 per cent of the 15 million people in the program, according to a USCC memorandum sent to state Catholic Conferences and other Church agencies. "In order to appreciate the full impact of this decision," the memorandum said, "it must be understood in light of the fact that inflationary food prices over the past year or more have already drastically reduced the benefits of this program and that less than 50 per cent of those eligible are now participating."
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DAYTON (NC) - B i s ho p Thomas J. Welsh, first bishop of the new Diocese of Arlington, Va., has accepted the invitation of the women's division of Retreats International to serve as the organization's episcopal advisor. He fills a vacancy created by the death last October of Coadjutor Archbishop Leo C. Byrne of St. Paul-Minneapolis. Bishop Welsh was identified with the national retreat movement before he was ordained a bishop in 1970. From 1963 to 1965, he served as national moderator for the National Laywomen's Retreat Movement.
ST. JOHN LATERAN: The second basilica to be visited and at which. Bishop Cronin will offer Mass for the pilgrims is scheduled for Monday morning at 9:30 (Rome time) in the Chorus Chapel of St. John Lateran. This basilica, is the cathedral church of the Bishop. of Rome, Pope Paul VI.
'Gift From God' Catholic Big Brother Has Positive Impact on Boy's Life CINCINNATI ~NC) - 'Don Siemers would be the last person to claim he's a psychologist or a social worker. But the positive im:-act he's had on the life of a certain ll-year-old boy could well make a professional envious. The boy, Jerry, has been without a father since the age of six, and Siemers has been his Cath-olic Big Brother for close to four years. Although he tends to understate the role he has played in helping Jerry through those difficult years, Siemers is..overruled by Jerry's mother who thInks of him as a "gift from God," just what Jerry needed and continues to need. "I can't even comprehend what would have happened to him without the companionship Don has offered," she said recently, watching him teach Jerry how to use the calculator on his desk at Franklin Savings and Loan in downtown Cincinnati, where he is treasurer. What Siemers continues to be, she said, is someone for Jerry to talk to, someone who means a lot to him, someone he can do things with in a special way. "Sometimes I think it's more beneficial to me than Jerry," she said, confiding that it is such a relief to know "there's someone else sharing his time with me" in trying to raise Jerry. And sharing time is what Catholic Big Brothers is all about, said Siemers, board member of the organization and its treasurer as well. The 29-year-old bachelor first became involved in Catholic Big Brothers after being discharged from military service and feeling the need for "something to put more positive meaning in my life." He now spends an average of one day a week with Jerrygoing to baseball or football games, 'helping him build his
Population Estimates Revised Downward UNITED NATIONS (NC) For the firs't time in United Nations history, its estimates of world population trends have had to be revised downward. The explanation advanced by the UN Commission for Social Development is twofold. Death rates have not declined as rapidly as had been anticipated on the basis of earlier trends, and there was an "unforeseen sharp decline in birth rates in many of the more developed countries during the most recent years."
model cars and boats, seeing Cincinnati from the top of the city's tallest building, visiting The rate of global population museums or simply tossing a' increase remains enormous, UN baseball in the park. As often as once a month Jer- ,analysts reported, but a slight ry and Don Siemers go to church decrease has been calcula·ted for together and as often as possi- the 1970-1975 period as comble, they end up eating. "That pared with previous estimates. ,include diminishing boy is always bungry," Siemers Factors birth rates in developed counlaughed. Although there is plenty of tries, and the 1971 census in "canned entertainment" available ,India, where totals fell somelike movies, Siemers prefers the what below earHer projections. casual, informal outings with The former 'World total of popJerry because "there's a lot more ulation, estimated at 3,631.8 communication possible." He re- million in 1975 (a 2.04 per cent called the day they took a drive annual increase) has been in his car and ended "way up dropped to 3,621.8 million (a the river somewhere." But it 1.93 per cent annual increase). ·didn't matter what their destination was, he said, because they were really communicating.
Judge Orders Italian Magazine Confiscated ROME (NC) - An Italian judge in Ferrara ordered the confiscation of copies of the Italian news weekly Espresso which carried on the cover a picture of a pregnant woman nailed to a cross. The judge said that the cover showed contempt for religion and was obscene in content. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, had condemned the cover as "shameful and blasphemous." The cover accompanied an article on recent events in Italy related to proposed relaxation of abortion laws.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 13, 1975
Pop'e Paul Opens Special Exhibit
Catholic Papers Seen Necessary Continued from Page One -Copies of the survey questionnaire went to 55,534 subscribers with the Oct. 25 issue of the Telegraph and 5,557 were filled out and returned. William J. Hoben, dean of the UD School of Business Administration and chairman of the Telegraph advisory board's survey committee, said the response of 10 per cent was "double the anticipated response of 5 per cent." Questionnaire Moreover, about 3,600 respondents, or two-thirds of those who filled out the questionnaire, added personal comments, suggestions and criticisms, Dean Hoben reported. He gave the final tabulated results to Telegraph board members at their Jan. 26 meeting in Dayton. Asked to evaluate 18 features and departments of the Telegraph (excellent, good, fair, poor, no opinion, don't read), 68 per cent of the respondents called Father Eugene Maly's weekly Gospel Commentary excellent or good. The column received the highest percentage (39.6) of "excellent" votes among the 18 listed in the questionnaire. Vice rector and professor of Sacred Scripture at Mt. St. Mary Seminary, Father Maly has been writing on theology and Scripture for the Catholic Telegraph since before Vatican II. His column is used in a number of other diocesan newspapers and he is the author of several books on Scripture. The highest combined total of "excellent" and "good" votes went to "news coverage of the archdiocese" which was rated "excellent" by 33.9 per cent of those responding and "good" by 45.5 per cent, for a combined 79.4 per cent in the two ratings. Also near the top of the survey ratings' was the Telegraph's Know Your Faith page, rated "excellent" by 30.5 per cent and "good" by 36.5 per cent, for a combined 67.3 per cent in the two ratings. Local Coverage Know Your Faith articles oc· cupy page nine of the paper each week. They are prepared by writers who are experts in theology, Scripture, moral problems, religious education, family life and other subjects. A committee of the U.S. bishops supervises the preparation of the material, which is distributed by the NC News Service and used in the majority of the nation's diocesan newspapers. Evaluations of "poor" for the three highest ranking features were few, amounting to just over one per cent for Father Maly's column, 2.4 per cent for the Know Your Faith department and 3.1 per cent for news coverage of the archdiocese. Another department that receiveda high percentage of "excellent" and "good" votes was the weekly list of death notices, May They Rest in Peace, which was graded "excellent" by 34.2 per cent and "good" by 33.7 per cent. Classification of Respondents Of those responding to the questionnaire 91.8 per cent were lay persons, 3.9 per cent priests, 3.9 per cent Sisters and 0.5 per cent Brothers. More women
(61.3 per cent) responded than men (38.7 per cent). College graduates among tthe respondents represented 32.8 per cent; another 23.1 per cent reported having had "some college;" 33.1 per cent a high school education and 11 per cent elementary school. Close to 80 per cent of the respondents were over 40 years old: 21.4 per cent from 41 to 50; 22.9 per cent from 51 to 60, and 34.5 per cent 61 or older. At tbe other end of the scale, 14.5 per cent were between 31 and 40, six per cent from 21 to 30 and less than one per cent below 21. Nearly half of the respondents (45.7 per cent) reported that in addition to the Catholic Telegraph they also read two or more additional Catholic publications. Another 28.7 per cent said they regularly read one additional Catholic publication while 26 per cent said the Telegraph was the only Catholic publication they read. More tban two-thirds of the respondents said they weren't the only ones in the family to read the Telegraph. The paper is read by one additional person in 40.7 per cent of the families; by two or three additional persons in 25.6 per cent and by four or more additional persons in 4.8 per cent.
Rome Pilgrimage Continued from Page One a special Mass will be offered for the pilgrims at St. Peter's Basilica at 8 o'clock and will be followed by Fall Riverites mingHng with the thousands in St. Peter's Square for the Pope's noon blessing. Monday, Feb. 17, will bring the pilgrims to the "Mother and Head of the Churches of the City and the World"-St. John Lateran, the Pope's Roman Cathedral. There, the pilgrims will attend a 9:30 morning Mass. They shall also do some sightseeing which will include the Catacombs and the Appian Way. A leisure walk will take the pilgrims to their morning Mass at St. Mary Major Basilica on Tuesday, Feb. 18. After a special 9:30 morning Mass in the Snow Chapel of the Basilica, all will continue sightseeing, this Hme in Vatican City where they 'will see the Sistine Chapel. Wednesday, Feb. 19 will be an especially memorable day for ,the pilgrims will drive to the New Aud'ience Hall for Papal Audiences and will see Pope Patll VI. The day will be com· pleted by visits to Via Veneto, Palazzo Madama and the Borghese Gardens. Thutsday, Feb. 20, will bring the pilgrims to St. Paul Outside the Walls, Ancient Rome and the Colosseum. All will be able to rest a Iit.tIe on Friday, Feb. 21 an.d prepare to return home. A six and a half hour flight will bring all back to Boston on Saturday, Feb. 22.
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TUESDAY'S VISIT: St. Mary Major will be the scene of third basilica to be visited by the Fall Riyer group and the Ordinary of the Diocese will offer Mass at 9:30 (Rome time) in St. Mary of the Snow Chapel.
Nuns Lobby Rate Representatives, Senators on Social Justice Issues WASHINGTON (NC)-Sixteen senators and five representatives scored perfect "positive" ratings on a scorecard of issues on which Network, an organization of nuns serving as political lobbyists, took positions. Network has more than 2,000 members across the country. Six senators and six representatives scored perfect "negative" ratings. All but two senators and one irepresentative with positive scores were Democrats; all but two. senators with perfect negative scores were Republicans. Three Republicans and three Democrats had perfect negative scores. The scores were based on 13 House and 13 Senate votes. The scorecard was published in Network's January newsletter. The newsletter said the scorecard was designed to give a "social justice profile of the Congress.-We tried to select 'tell· ing' votes on bills or amendments. The House voted the Network position on 10 of 13 votes, while the Senate did so on only six of 13 votes. Network positions backed by House and Senate votes included support of mass transit subsidies; a loan to the International Development Association fund, which aids poor nations; manpower training; public financing of elections and limits on financial contributions; reduction in military and defense funds; health planning programs and a halt to fertilizer shipments to South Vietnam, which receives a high portion of the U. S. fertilizer shipped overseas. Network also opposed efforts to end government ability to cut off Health, Education and Welfare funds to school districts practicing discrimination. Votes which went against the Network positions included defeat of defense spending limits, defeat of efforts to control CIA
covert activities overseas and a defeat for increased funding of farm labor housing. Democratic senators receiving perfect positive scores were Alan Cranston and John Tunney of California; Abraham Ribicoff, Conn.; Frank' Church, Idaho; Birch Bayh and Vance Hartke, Edward Kennedy, Mass.; Philip Hart, Mich.; Walter Mondale, Minn.; Quentin Burdick, N. D.; John Pastore, R. I.; and James Aboureczk and George McGovern, S. D. Republicans with perfect ratings were Charles Mathias of Maryland and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. Democratic Representatives with perfect positive scores were Jerome Waldie, Calif.; Sidney Yates, Ill.; Donald Fraser, Minn. and William Green, Penn. Gilbert Guda of Maryland was the only Republican with a perfect positive rating. Republiclin senators with perfect negative ratings were Henry Bellmon, Okla.; Strom Thur· mond, S. C.; John Tower Texas and Wallace Bennet, Utah. Democrats were Sam Nunn, Ga., and John Stennis, Mis$.issippi. 'Republican representatives with perfect negative scores were William Dickerson, Ala. and John Housselot and Don Clausen, Calif. Democrats were Omar Burleson and O.C. Fisher of Texas and Robert Daniel of Virginia.
La Salette Schedule Lenten services at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, will include a day of reparation every Friday during the season, with an opening Mass at 12:10 P.M. followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 6:50 P.M. Eve· ning prayers and a closing Mass will begin at 7 P.M. Lenten serV'ices will also be held at 3 P.M. each Sunday.
VA11ICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has opened a special Vatican exhibition of documents connected with the 25 Holy Years thus far declared by the Church of Rome. They went on exhibition Feb. 7 in an apartment off the Vatican's secret archives. These documents range from the original· buH issued by Pope Boniface VIlI for the first Holy Year of 1300 to the bull of indiction signed by Pope Paul for the present 1975 Holy Year. Pope Paul was accompanied by Cardinal Maximilien de Furstenberg, president of the Holy Year Central Committee; Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli, who had been secretary of the 1950 holy year committee; and Cardinal Paolo Marella, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica. Greeted by Cardinal Antonio Samore, archiv,ist of the Holy Roman Church, ,the Pope lingered over many of the 172 original documents, reproductions and volumes on display.
Faculty at Stang· Gifts Principal A surprise housewarming party at Bishop Stang High School climaxed a recent evening of fellowship and prayer for faculty members, who presented household gifts to new homeowner George Milot, principal of the North Dartmouth school. A Mass in the school chapel celebrated by Rev. John Steakem, Stang chaplain, was followed by a potluck dinner and presentation of the gifts. Faculty members were then invited to join Stang Parents' Club members in the school gymnasium for the organization's annual dance.
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Pope Asserts Celibacy Creates Unique Self-Sacrificing Love VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul, praising. celibacy before hundred!> of priests and nuns about to renew their vows, declared that elected virginity creates a love "capable as no other of pouring itself out freely in service and self-sacrifice." Calling ceHbacy "more a charism than a virtue," he said the service and self-sacrifice made possible by celibacy are channelled toward "ignored brothers in need of precisely that ministry of charity which imitates and, !>o far as possible, equals that of Christ for men." During the ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica on the Feast of the Presentation, Pope Paul distributed hundreds of four-foot candles decorated with hi!> coat of arms. The Mass, renewal of vows, homily and distribution of candles occupied two hours. Quoting St. Thomas Aquinas, the Pope called celibacy one· of the charisms "through which man is moved under a divine influence." He added: "Virginity is not $omething sterile and empty. It is not an inhuman fate, but superhuman, when the flesh is sacrificed to the spirit and the spirit is filled with a love more alive, stronger and more completely filled with God." The Pope called religion a "necessi.ty of existence which no atheism and no secularism can cancel out." Turning to the blessed candles, the Pope called them "symbols of an immolation which, by consuming itself, pours out light from within itself." Light of Our Lady Then he told the Religious:
Governor Lauds Catholic Schools ALBANY (NC)-The governor of New York has praised Catholic schools for being "especially able to foster both innovative ideas and creative teaching to ... elevate the search for humane values to a pre-eminent position in the total teaching and learning process." Gov. Hugh L. Carey, a Catholic elected last November, made his comments in a letter to William Gallagher, executive director of the New York State Federation of Catholic School Parent!>, a group seeking' aid for private educat·ion. "Pluralism in education must be maintained," the Democratic governor said in the letter. "There are many advantages to this statewide system of publ·ic and nonpublic schools in that it gives orderlines!>, direction and cha'racter to the expression and development cf education throughout New York."
Free Prog ram Diocesan official!> of the Legion of Mary announce that they have available a narrated slide program suitable for use by groups wishing to involve parishioners in apostolic activity during the Lenten season. Further informat·ion about the program, for which there is no charge, may be obtained from Robert Hart, who may be reached evenings at telephone 994-7717.
Thurs., feb. 13, 1975
Birthright Story On Channel Six
"We are giving you candles precisely to do honor to your offering of self to the Lord and His Church, to confirm you in this joyful promise and to set on fire within you that charity which not even death can extinguish,"
Early risers in the viewing area of Channel Six, New Bedford, will hear the Birthright story at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, when the telev·ision station's Community program will feature the "right to life" organization which offers pregnant girls and women all necessary assistance in bearing their babies. Program panelists will be John P. Santos, M.D., New Bed· ford obstetrician associated with Birthright, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. .Baker, educational directors of the New Bedford unit. They will discuss the community service aspects of the organization and explain opportunities for area residents to participate in its pro-life program. Other Birthright organizations in the Fall River diocese, all of which offer aid to expectant mothers, are located in Hyannis, Attleboro and Fall River, and are 'listed in local telephone directories.
Later the same day, the Pope again referred to the symbolic meaning of the Feast of the Presentation as he addressed a very large crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square for the noontime . Angelus. The liturgy of the day, the Pope said, "speaks of light, the light of the purification, the light of Our Lady, the light of Christian custom. which we would like to see resplendent in all the people of God," and especially on Religious, the Pope said. "The candle has principally a moral meaning; it is the offering of its own light which, by burning, consumes itself in love and example-the light of holy celibacy on which blows the sinister wind of license and vice, a light which- the Holy Year would like to rekindle and protect with jealous and wise awareness."
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Among the large crowd gathered in springlike weather were many Italian children, costumed to celebrate the prelenten "carnivale," and a pilgrimage group from Mexico bearing a large, elaborately framed image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
FINAL BASILICA ON THE PILGRIMAGE: St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls will be the last of the four major basilicas to be visited and the spiritual leader of the Fall River Pilgrimage will offer Mass at 9:30 (Rome time) on Thursday morning.
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Continued from Page One Father Harrington recalled a talk by Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati at a regional Catholic Press meeting here in which the archbishop said: "Many are suffering from a gap which has developed between what they learned years ago and their understanding of recent development. This gap can be, closed .only through knowledge. which is the basis for understanding. The Catholic press is in a unique position today to provide 'the needed information about our faith and its relevance to the contemporary scene,"
ST. LOUIS (NC) - A threejudge federal court here has upheld a Missouri abort·ion regulation law in what is apparently the first major judicial victory for such a law: since the January 1973 Supreme Court decision !>triking down most state restrktions on abor~ion. Louis DeFeo, director of the Missouri Catholic Conferen~e, said he expects opponents of ele bill to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. "To my knowl· edge," he said, "this is the first court decision in the nat·ion that has upheld an abortion regulation bill to such a degree as this one." A federal cou~t in Penn!>ylvania has allowed a portion of an abortion regulation bill calling for investigat'ions of facilities performing abortions to stand while other restrictions are being challenged in the courts.
Food Stamps Given For Unborn Child SAN FRANCISCO (NC) In a landmark decision, a U. S. District Court here has granted food stamp rights to an unborn child of a eight-month pregnant Daly City woman. Judge Ge6rge G. Harris or· dered the Agricultural Department to permit Mrs. Pamela Hickman an extra $38 worth of food stamps in order that she receive additional nourishment until her baby is born. Under the judge's ruling, the unborn fetus is to be treated as a separate, living human person. Mrs. Hickman is therefore entitled to obtain food stamps for two persons instead of one.
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Aid to Reflection Father Harrington does not downgrade the radio and television medi,a and he sees no need for conflict between them and the print media. But he
Inner City Parishes To Seek School Aid DENVER (NC) - Archbishop James V. Casey of Denver has given inner city pastors permission to seek financial assistance from other parishes ,in the metropolitan area in order to maintain parochial schools and religious education programs. Four inner city schools and 10 parish religious education programs are currently in need of substantial help in order to maintain their educational efforts, said the archbishop in a letter to the priests of the archdiocese. The Denver Metropolitan Board of Catholic Education has been studying for several montfis the feasibility of a parish sub-· sidy program to help meet the rising costs of elementary education.
"A. Funny Alphabet," a threedimensional primer for blind children, is being offered free of charge by the Xavier Society for the Blind, 154 E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 10010. to parents and others working with .the visually impaired. The book, handmade by members of the New York State Columbiettes, features such creatures as furry rabbits .and rough-skinned elephants to enable blind children to experience basic concepts of shape and texture taken for granted by sighted youngsters.
takes issue with those who suggest that reading and the printed word must take a low place in human commuication. The printed word, he pointed out is "available when you want it" and serves as "an aid to reflection," Gratitude "You can stop and think Gratitude tries to return more about what you're reading and go back and read it or discuss than has been received. .....,S'1. Thomas Aquinas it," he said. Also, when it comes to the reporting of complex ideas or activities, they can be treated' Art Perry • Tony Rapp Feb. more fully and carefully in print I-K.C.-Swansea-SI. Thomas More media, he added. I-Poirier Post-Sylvester Sylvia 7-Ln'c'n Pk-Mardi Gras-P.A.C.L.,N.B. The Catholic Press Association 7-Newport Police Ball-K.C. Middlet'wn 9-Lincoln Park-Acushnet Seniors in the U. S., Canada and the 15-SI. Francis Xavier-U.A.W. West Indies includes more than 16-Gaudette's-St. Mary Seniors 16--Suspiro C.C.-James Healey Party 150 newspapers, most of them 16--Jewish Helping Hand 22-K.C. Middlebor~keville Lions diocesan newspapers, and nearly Every Wed.-Senlor Cltlzens-I·S 300 magazines with an estimated WINDSOR MUSIC 993-6263 total circulation of nearly 23 Band of a Thousand Melodies Let's Go Danclng-Sat. Nlte million.
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Laity Explain Changes In Spiritual Practices Religious practices familiar to generations of Catholics have been all but abandoned in recent years. Examples are novenas, regular recitation of the Rosary, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, spiritual reading, among others. This change is attributed to Vatican II. It probably results taneous prayer as one goes about the day's work or recrequite as much from social ation. But all prayer, we are reand cultural ferment. What- minded, requires disposition and
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for? Or are new modes of spirituality developing? Seventeen Catholic lay people, men and women, were asked to explain their own present practice, and their essays are published in On the Run: Spirituality for the Seventies, edited by Michael McCauley (Thomas More Press, 221 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. 237 pages. $7.95). Among the contributors are Rosemary Haughton, Jerome Kerwin, Desmond Fisher, Douglas Roche, Sally Cunneen, and Robert Nowell. They an:! the others have very decided views, are not reluctant to air them, and write them. There seems to be general agreement that the authors have reacted against the separation between religion and life which they experienced in earlier days. They formerly practiced a spirituality which was in a separate, private compartment of their being, with little if any relationship to their lives in the world. They have come to see this as mistaken and sterile, and have given it up in whole or in part.
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Some have gone much farther than others. They have abandoned all old practices as meaningless. They have ruled out all vocal prayer, all set prayer. Or for them a new prayer form is participation in a committee meeting for some good cause. Others find a genuine spiritual dimension and spiritual nourishment in their encounters and relationships with people. Others, who insist that religion must permeate all life and that the love and service of people is a valid and fruitful Christian exercise, do not agree that prayer as such, and other spiritual practices, are to be done away with. Some speak of the value to them of formal prayer, made on bended knees. John Garvey remarks that "the degree to which a person considers prayer important is the degree to which he is serious about his life." Rosemary Haughton emphasizes the wor:th of family prayers. Informal prayer has its advocates, too: that is silent, spon-
The new liturgy inevitably comes up for consideration. Robert Nowell, a convert, says, "... the core of my spiritual life is Sunday worship-joining in the prayers and hymns. listening to the readings from the Bible." < But others complain that the liturgy as we now have it is not expressive of their religious needs or that there is no sense of community in it. John Sprague finds it "next to impossible to pray at Mass ... The impersonality, routineness, lack of enthusiasm and overprogramming turn me off." Curiously, reception of Christ in the Eucharist is hardly noticed. Home Masses have impressed some of the authors as especially satisfying, and a case is made for smaller groups than thespread-out congregation in a large church. Jerome Kerwin remarks, "If this is an age of frustration, it may also be an age of purification ... We must now depend more fully on a mature faith." "Hour Is Now' A mature faith is precisely the subject of The Hour Is Now (Harper & Row, 49 E. 33rd St., New York, N. Y. 10016. 124 pages. $6.95), a superb new book by Cardinal Franz Konig, Archbishop of Vienna. The translation is by Herbert W. Richardson. The Cardinal says that there is a crisis of faith today. Systematic doubt prevails. Men have enjoyed such abundance that they feel they don't need God. There is rush and clamor all about us, and we are caught up in them. It has become fashionable to
hold that the universe and everything in it are meaningless. At the same time, the future evolution of man is said to be wholly within the control of science and technology.
Advance Candidates For Beatificati·on BIBLE VIGIL: Pupils at Dominican Academy, Fall River, marked Catholic schools week with a Bible vigil and assembly program, presented by children in kindergarten through third grade for parents and fellow students. Participants included, from top, left to right, Shael Fournier, Elizabeth Oliveira, Natalie Bispo, Cherie Voltas, Lisa Desforges, Charlene Cabral, Grace Gomes, Laurie Silveira.
Bishop Affirms Value of Individual WASHINGTON (NC) - At a Prayer Breakfast for Life, Bishop James S. Rausch, general secretary of the U. S. Catholic Conference, told the multidenominational audience: "We are united in our belief that the life of each human person is important to God." The bishop spoke to more than 400 persons at the StatlerHilton Hotel here on the morning of Jan. 22, the second anniversary of the U. S. Supreme Court decision striking down most state abortion restrictions. Reminding the audience that the Judeo-Christian tradition holds that "human life is a gift of Go~," Bishop Rausch said: "Each individual's life begins in an act of God's creative love. Each man and woman is made 'in the image of God.' Thus, human life is sacred, and it is one of the sources of human dignity."
A great deal is packed into the pages -of the Cardinal's book. It should be read slowly, with ample time for reflection on the content of each chapter. Th.e meditation which some contributors to On the Run recommend, can be helped by The Hour Is Now.
The bishop stressed that "God's love for each man and woman is unconditional and independent of prestige and worldly accomplishment." He said: "God loves -the powerful and the weak, the young and the old, the healthy and the sick, the famous and the unknown. The call to union with God' confirms the unselfishness of divine love. "Yet, we know that there are some among us who live human life under serious limitations or disadvantages," Bishop Rausch continued. "Lacking some physical capability or intellectual potentiality, their human achievements may be limited. There is a temptation to treat those who are disadvantaged with a condescending pity. And there is also a growing tendency to deny full humanity to the disadvantaged because of their limitations."
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The V.atican Congregation for Saints' Causes has declared the authenticity of two miracles attributed to the intercession of Father John Henry Charles Steeb, a German-born diocesan priest who founded the Sisters of Miser,icordia in Verona, Italy. Father Steeb, who died in 1856, thus moves a step closer to beatification. At the same Feb. 1 meeting of i'he congregation, in the presence of Pope Paul three decrees were issued declaring the heroic nature of the virtues practiced by other candidates for beatification. They are: Bishop Ezechiele Moreno Diaz of Pasto, C;olombIa, an Augustinian Recollect who died in 1906; Sister Maria Dominici, super:ior of the Sisters of St. Anne of Providence who died in 1894; and Cardinal Andrea Carol Ferrari, archbIshop of Milan who died in 1921. Cardinal Ferrar,i was a friend ,and advisor to the young priest Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli who became Pope John XXIII in 1958.
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Stresses Need to Utilize Human Skills, Resources
Bishop Rausch Stresses Role Of Church in Social Teaching
A friendly Catholic editor (anyone who uses the column is friendly in principle, but this man is even more friendly) recently commented that while he agreed with a sociological analysis of mine, I did not take into account sufficiently the work of the Holy Spirit. The point is an important one be- wants to and not when arrogant, self-righteous clerics expect him cause it is paradigmatic for to eliminate the results of their a number of related areas of own disastrous mistakes. human behavior. First of all, in the strict literal sense, the editor is correct. In principle, the National Opinion
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Research Center would be perfectly happy to interview the Holy Spirit should he fall into our sample. Unfortunately, he has not been home when our interviewers tried to call upon him. We assume that he is out in the universe somewhere blowing whither he will, as is his custom. Less facetiously, the operation of graciousness in the universe is simply not measur· able by social-science techniques and cannot be taken into account by sociological analysis even when the sociologist believes-as I do--in the work of such graciousness. More Respect But then neither can anyone else measure the work of the Spirit. Frequently I have been told by priests and bishops that I do not leave room in my analysis for the operation of the Spillit. "The Spirit is still in the Church, Father," they remind me. The implication, of course, is that because of the Spirit, things cannot get as bad as my data suggest they well might. In other words such critics think that the Spirit will become a kind of Deus ex machina who will sweep down out of the clouds and save the day for us. Perhaps. I think those who claim to a knowledge of the Spirit's plans while decrying the sociologist's lack of appreciation for his work could do with a little more humility and a little more respect for the whimsy of the Spirit who blows whither HE will and will not whither those who think they have arranged his timetable for him want him to blow. There are marvels and surprises. The extraordinary event that no one could possibly expect-Pope John, and, more recently, the new apostolic delegate to the United States, are two examples. But there also have been times when people confidently expected the Holy Spirit to pull their chestnuts out of the fire, and he just never showed up. He did not prevent the break between chuTch and synagogue, between East and West, between Protestant and Catholic. He did not save the Church in North Africa, he did not protect the experiments of De Nobili and Ricci from destruction. He Gomes when lft;
Church Needs Planning Most important of all, then, is that talk of the Spirit being at work and not subject to sociological measurement is fre=luentIy (though not, I think, in the case of the Catholic editor who set me thinking about this column) an excuse for dispensing ourselves from our responsibilities for both the mess we are in now and for the obligation to get ourselves out of it. The car· dinal who said that the Church doesn't need planning because it has the Holy Spirit has now gone to his reward, and he was doubtless right in the long run. The Lord Jesus will eventually come back in the Parousia. But in the less 'than ultimate run the Church does need planning; and he who expects the Holy Spirit to provide churches for new suburbs when diocesan nonplanning does not is guilty of the old sin of tempting God. I believe the Spirit is at work though I am not so arrogant as to assume ·that he is more at work in our time than in the past. But such a connection does riot dispense me from using all the human skills and resources at my command to make the work of the Church effective. God grants the increase all right, but only when we plant and water. And if the American Church has major troubles just now, the reason is that a lot of people have neglected the planting and the watering, and are standing around saying, "All right, Holy Spirit, what about the increase?"
c.ost of Living Rise Affects Vatican VATICAN CITY (!'IC) - The Vatican, while granting employ· ees a cost of living increase, has asked heads of Vatican offices to do some serious belt-tightening to improve the current "serious deficit" in the Vatican budget. Papal secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot, in a form letter to heads of the Church's central administrative offices Jan. 16, said that the rise in the cost of living is for the Holy See "an onerous burden, beyond our current (financial) capabilities." Vatican spokesman Federico Alessandrini said Jan. 23, that no layoffs are foreseen at the present tim~. But according to Cardinal Villot's letter, a special commission is being established to study the Vatican's personnel situation. The commission, according to the letter, is to consult with officials of Vatican offices to determine "the exact personnnel situation in relation to real work needs for the purpose of eventually reducing the number of jobs, and effecting suitable transfers to other offices which may have shown a ~reater need, etc."
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SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-The Church's bi·centenn·ial program of liberty and justice for all, "is an attempt to take the concept of the local Church serio ously, regarding one specific as· pect of the life of the Church, namely, its social teaching." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, stressed this in the keynote address at -the annual convention of the National Organization for Continuing Education of the Clergy here. Ninety-four priests from all parts of the country attended, as well as Auxiliary Bishop John Cummins of Sacramento, Calif., cha'irman of the NCCB subcommittee on cont'inuing education for priests. "For the past 15 years in the Church," Bishop Rausch said, "we have averaged a major teaching document on social morality and responsibility every two years. The lineage stretches from Mater et Magistra (1961) through Justice in the World (1971), and includes as ,its fullest and most authoritative expression Gaudium et Spes (1965), the final document of Va·Hcan (Council) II. "These statements are on the relationship of the Gospel to the socio-political order, na,tjonally and internationally, are clearly designed, by style and substance, to be a call to conscience for the institutional Church and for each of us as members of the Church. The call is clear. "'the nature of these documents, however, makes 'it impossible for them to be very specific about the contents of the call. The Hterary style and level of ethical analysis of a document, designed for the universal Church, of necessity, renders it valuable but vague-a statement of general pr-inciples but not a specific agenda for action. To ask more of such a documen~ is to misunderstand its purpose and function in the life of the Church. To understand both the value and limits of Catholic social teaching, how-. ever, in its encyclkal and conciliar and synodal format, -is to be brought face to face with the role and function of the local Church.
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U.S. Missioner Allowed to Stay In Philippines MANiIlJA (NC)-The Philippine government has placed an American missionary priest on probation for three years and confined him to the greater Manila area with the warning that any violation of his probation will constitute "sufficient ground for his outright deportation." -Father Edward Gerlock, a 38year-old Maryknoller from Binghampton, N. Y., had been charged with subversive activity and undergone a deportation trial. Father Gerlock said he had expected to be deported, but he criticized the probation order, handed down Jan. 13.. "I'm glad I'm still here in the Philippines, but the sentence was unjust. The issue never has been my personal issue. The issue has always been how much all of us as Church are responsible for the oppression and the injustice that exists." 'Political Views' The terms of Father Gerlock's probation require him to confine his religious work to the greater Manila area, report to the immigration office monthly, violate no laws and refrain from any activity "inimical to the security of the Philippines." Father Gerlock was arrested Oct. 31, 1973 and charged with having written a position paper for the Maryknoll Fathers' regional assembly which contained "political views and overtones" critical of martial law; with giving moral support to elements of the Federation of Free Farmers undergoing guerrillatype training, and with giving financial help to the wife of an official of that group wanted by the government. Voluminous materials said to be subversive were found at the Social Action Center in Tagum where he was working. His visit to one region was called "very suspicious since this place is known to be a hide-out for the New People's Army." Father Gerlock decided to face' trial rather than leave the Philippines, and remained under technical house arrest at Maryknoll headquarters, near Manila.
Local Church Bishop Rausch said the local Church stands at a given point and place in history. It can incarnate the demands and dimensions of the sooial teaching just as it can -incarnate the celebra-tion of the liturgy in its language and symbols. "The primary purpose of the program, liberty and justice for all, is to provide the Church in the United .States with the opportunity, the conceptual framework and the organizational
process for testing and implementing the Church's social teaching," he said. "The dynamic of this process is complicated. It involves not only testing our cultural situa· tion by the moral wisdom of our faith but also test-ing the adequacy of our moral insight by the concrete, often impervious complexity of the empirical situation in which we seek to achieve justice. Such a task of interpretation and appl-ication -is the work of the community as a whole. It arises first from the experience of Christian life, then from reflection and ministry, we cannot get a clear or comprehensive grasp upon what the local Church in the United States has to learn from the social teaching and what it can add to the social teaching.
Encourages Growth Of Charismatics RUTHERFORD (NC)-Growth of the charisma-tic renewal movement in the Newark archdiocese was encouraged by Archbishop Peter L. Gerety in a homily at a Mass for a pentecostal com· munity here. !Archbishop Gerety concelebrated the Mass with two priest-leaders of the Ignatius House community, one of the more active pentecostal groups in the archdiocese. One of its directors is Father William S. O'Brien, who only two weeks earlier had been named coordinator for charismatic groups by the archbishop. In his' homily, Archbishop Gerety called the charismatic movement "one manifestation among many others of the power of the Holy Spirit." Describing the movement as a "gift from God," and alluding to the appointment of Fa-ther O'Brien as archdiocesan coordinator, . the archbishop asked, "Should I bless it?" He answered: I certainly do. But God Himself has already blessed it far beyond anything we could ever have dreamed of.
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SUggests Honest Appraisal Of Right-to- Life Groups
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Father Andrew Greeley in one of his recent columns gave what he called the litmuspaper test to the pro-life movement in the United States. He said, in summary, that the Right-to-Life people, in zeroing in on abortion, tend to remain silent on other issues involving. the preser- position on abortion. I am simply suggesting that they ought vation of human life. He to address themselves to the isasked specifically why the sue clearly and with a certain Right-to-Life people don't get incensed over gun control, the world food crisis, industrial safety and industrial disease. He also
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chided certain an{)nymous extremists in the pro-life movement for scaring off potential allies by their "rigid fanaticism." Father Greeley's remarks on this subject are well taken-but only up t{) a point. There is no doubt about the fact that some people in the pr{)-Iife movement (some, but not all) have remained silent on gun control, the world food crisis and other issues cited in Father Greeley's column. It is also true that some (but not all) have scarej off potential allies by their "rigid fanaticism." An extreme example will suffice to illustrate the point that Father Greeley was driving at· in this regard. At the pro-life rally held on the steps of the U. S. Capit{)1 on the anniversary of the Supreme Court's abortion decision, one of the participating organizations (to the best of my knowledge, not a Catholic organizati{)n) distributed printed handbills which, in addition to covering the abortion issue, included a sensational attack on Archbishop Casaroli, the Vatican's expert on Eastern European and other Communist nations, for allegedly selling {)ut to Communism. I share Father Greeley's opinion that the proIif~ movement can ill afford to let itself be identified, even indirectly, with this kind of reactionary, rigidly fanatical propaganda totally unrelated to the subject of abortion. Silent on Abortion There is another side to the coin, however, and, I believe the time has come to talk about it candidly. While it is true that some of the pro-life people, in zeroing in on abortion, are prone to remain silent on other issues involving the preservation of human life, it is equally trueand maybe more so--that some (n{)t all, but far t{)O many) of .those who have properly taken a stand on other prO-life issues of the kind referred to by Father Greeley, have remained totally or almost totally silent on the issue of abortion. For my own part, I am simply appalled by the fact that so few American liberals have been willing to speak out on this critical subject. I am not asking them to agree 100 per cent with the Catholic
degree of moral passion from the point of view of their own ethical tradition. The fact that so many of them have ducked the issue completely or have tried to get off the hook by turning it into a sectarian Catholic issue is not at all to their credit so far as I am concerned. That goes not only f{)r the socalled secular Hberals but also, I regret to say, for a significant number of social reformers in the religious community-Catholics, Protestants and Jews alike. Bishop Rausch Bishop James Rausch, General Secretary of the National C{)nference of Catholic Bishops, is one man in par.ticular who has been victimized by this kind of reporting and has the scars to prove it. Speaking at the annual Red Mass in Washington, D. C. {)n January 26 in the presence of a number of government dignitaries including the President of the United States and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bishop Rausch delivered an excellent homily on the subject of human rights. Calling upon the American people to examine the direction our society is taking in terms of justice, Bishop Rausch, whose whole· hearted commitment to the cause of domestic and international social justice is a matter of public record, cited five prin· cipal human rights that are especially threatened in our time: the right to life, the right to eat, the right to economic and social justice, the right of all men to take an effective role in shaping their own political destiny, and the right to religious liberty. H'e built his talk around the statement on human rights adopted by the world Synod of Bishops in Rome last Fall, a document which he described as "a milestone in the Church's association, at its highest levels, with human liberation and the struggle against injustice." Eloquent Sermon Stating that church and civil leaders today are asked, like John the Baptist, t{) prepare the way of the Lord, Bishop Rausch said that the Synod statement means that "to the Church ... work for justice and human liberation is a part of the task. It is so for all the people of good will," he added. In my opinion, Rausch's sermon was an eloquent, forward·looking, and extremely well balanced presentation in defense of human rights and human liberation. I seriously doubt that either President Ford or Chief Justice Burger has ever heard a better sermon on this subject. Unfortunately, however, the sermon was completely distorted by the media and notably, I regret to say by the Washington Post which happens to be my favorite American newspaper. There was only one sentence on
NAMED: Louis Meerts, president of the International Catholic Union of the Press and editor of a newspaper in Antwerp, Belgium, has been named to the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. NC Photo.
Scottish Churches Hope to Unite EDINBURGH (NC) - A plan for union between the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland, the country's largest denomination, and the, Methodist Church in Scotland, one of the smallest, may be presented to both churches next year. Two panels appointed by the churches to draw up unity proposals have met in a three-day conference at Scottish Churches House, Dunblane. They studied replies by Church of, Scotland presbyteries and Methodist circuits to a joint report they pubHshed last year. The Rev. Peter Brodie, convener of the Church of Scotland panel, said: ·'It appears there are no insurmountable difficulties to union and we will hope to present a plan of union to our two churches in May, 1976."
Parish Parade ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO Knights of the Altar will meet at. 7 tonight in the school building. A film on paramedics will be shown and preparations for a penny sale and raffle will begin. The parish Cub Scout pack will hold a blue and gold banquet at 7 P.M. Sunday, Feb. 16 in the parish hall. A parish concert will take place Saturday, March 8. Program sponsors and boosters will be accepted through this Sunday, and concert tickets are available from choir members or at the rectory. abortion in Rausch's 20-minute sermon: "Abortion directly attacks this right (the right to life)." For some strange reason the Washington Post and the media in general zeroed in exclusively on this one sentence and made it appear that the entire sermon was dev,oted to the subject of abortion. They also left the impression that Bishop Rausch had deliberately aimed his remarks at President Ford and Chief Justice Burger and had indicated some plan of action of them to follow. That's absolutely untrue.
ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The Couples Club will sponsor a dance in the school hall at 8 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 15. The public is invited. Refreshments will be available and music will be by "Use Imagination." Motif for . the evening will be "The Fabulous Fifties." Chairmen are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lavoie and Mr. and Mrs. James Steadman. ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, NEW BEDFORD The "Knighters" will play for a dance to be sponsored at 8 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 22 by the St. Anthony High Boosters' Club and the Elementary School Home & School Assn. The event will take place in the church basement and those attending are asked to use the Nye Street entrance. Refreshment will be served and reservations may be made by calling 995-8085 after 3 P.M. ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO A "Sweetheart Cotillion" will be sponsored by the social committee of the parish at 8 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 15 at Bishop Feehan High ·School. A buffet will be served and music will be by "The Four of Us," a group formerly known as the 4 C's. Reservation may be made by calling 222-7135 or 222-9477. ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER Women's Guild members will travel to Warwick, R. I. Tuesday, April 8 for a dinner-theatre presentation of "Godspell." A three-day holiday weekend in the Poconos is planned for April 19 through 21. The tour will include bus transportation, hotel accommodations, meals and guided sightseeing. Mrs. Paul Batchelder is in charge of reservations for both events. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A social will be held in the school basement at 2 P.M. Sunday~ Feb. 16 by members of the Home & School Organization. Tickets will be available at the door and refreshments will be served. The unit plans a Las Vegas Night for Saturday, March 22 in the school hall. OUR LADY OF THE ISLE, NANTUCKET New officers of St. Mary's Guild are Louise Christopher, president; Barbara Butler, vicepresident; Margaret Ann Fleming, secretary; Ann Niles, treasurer.
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD A whist party will be held by Our Lady of Perpetual Help Society at 7 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 15 at the church hall, 235 N. Front St. Refreshments will be served. Mrs. Eva De Gouveira and Mrs. Jennie Tracz, in charge of arrangements, request members to bring donations of prizes and pastry. ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER The parish center will be the scene of a card party to be sponsored by the Women's Guild at 1:30 P.M. Sunday, Feb. 16. Hostesses will be Mrs. Raymond Gagnon and Mrs. John Frain and Mrs. Joseph Amaral and Mrs. Henry Turgeon will be in charge of special awards. ST. JAMES, NEW BEDFORD A Marriage Encounter speakers' night will take place at 8 P.M. Sunday, Feb. 16. Organizers note that the purpose of the program is "to make good marriages better" and all area couples are invited. Refreshments will be served. HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold rummage sale Saturday, a March 22. Further information is available from Mrs. James R. Charette, telephone 678-4637. Altar boys will meet at 2:30 this aHernoon in the church. A parents' meeting is scheduled for 7:15 P.M. Wednesday, March 12. Rev. Robert McIntyre of the Providence Counselling Service will speak. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A Lenten series of Bible study classes will begin at 7 P.M. Wednesday, Feb. 19, continuing weekly throughout Lent. The time for Polish classes has been changed. The new schedule ,is 7:45 P.M. each Friday for beginners and 7:45 P.M. each Thursday for advanced students. A planning meeting for the annual summer festival will be held tonight in the church hall following 7 P.M. Mass. HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM Members of the Association of the Sacred Hearts have unanimously voted to support establishment of a Historic Commission for Chatham. The action is part of the association's program of ciVlic renewal. The commission will identify and record historical assets of the Chatham area, work to preserve them, and coordinate and act as a liaison for local, state and national groups with similar aims.
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KNOW YOUR FAITH Signs of God's Love Signs are an integral part of being human. The falling leaves are a sign of autumn, the first crocus a sign of spring, an embrace is a sign of friendship, a smile is a sign of joy. Our humanness demands outward assurance of invisible realities. When we have hurt another we seek a sign of their for-
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giveness. When we love another we seek ways of signing our love, and we, in turn, look for signs of another's love for us. God, who created us, understands perfectly this need we we have of signs. We are surrounded by signs of His presence in nature, in man, in ourselves. The ultimate sign God gives us is Christ who is a sign to us of God's love for us and of His desire to reconcile us to Himself but Christ is more than a sign, He is the personification of God's love for us, He is God's reconciliation of man with himself. The Church, as the saving presence of Christ in the world,
is a sign of Christ and of the reconciliation He brought about for us. Continuing Signs In many ways the Church, the community called to proclaim Christ, provides us with continuing signs of Christ's love and our redemption. In the Sacraments, which are Christ's actions through his community, we are reconciled, forgiven, strengthened, nourished and commis~ioned.
Through .the Church, community we, so to speak, exchange signs with God. We confess that we are sinners and ask to be reconciled with Him through His community •.. our sign to God. We are given absolution and readmitted to full communion with other members of His body ... God's sign to us. It is thus with all the sacraments we visibly signify our need to God . . . He visibly signifies His response to us. Love: Pilgrimage In this Holy Year the .People of God &ignify their great need for God's mercy and love through pilgrimages, penitential practices and devotions. God signifie's His response through the gift of the Holy Year indulgence. An indulgence is the sign of God's pardon, not granted by the Church but mediated by the Church as God's saving presence Turn to Page Fourteen
II Who Should Teach Religion? By Ms~r. Wilfrid H. Paradis and Sister Mariella Frye, M.H.S.M. (This is the seventh of 17 articles adapted from the text· of the first draft of the National Catechetical Directory. This Directory is being designed to assist in the teaching of religion to all Catholics in the United States today. You are encouraged to submit observations on every aspect of the proposed document.) What are the qualities that the Catholic Church looks for in teachers of religion? These qualities are described in section four of Chapter Four of the proposed National Catechetical Directory. In the introduction 'it is observed:' "All who participate in the catecheical ministry of the Word need to possess certain qualities. The qualities or characteristics described here necessarily point toward the ideal. The lists should communicate a sense of challenge and guidance to all who participate in this ministry." The text continues: "The religious educator must be primarily a person of faith. Faith is not a quality that can be measured on a graded sc~le. . . . Faith is the acceptance and coming to fruit of the divine gift within
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us.... It is an entirely unmerited gift of God." Teacher: Witness The teacher is also a witness to the Gospel. "The summit and center of catechetical formation lies in an aptitude and ability to communicate the Gospel message. . . . This message can be communicated only when the reo ligious educator believes in the Gospel and in its power to transform men's lives. . . . The religious educator witnesses to this transformation by his or her daily life and teaching." Teaching involves witnessing to the Church. "The exercise of the ministry of the Word is not an autonomous activity on the part of the religious educator. It is a sharing in the educational ministry of the Church. The person who chooses to share in this ministry of the Church obviously ought to believe in the Church which he or she represents." Proclaimers Teachers are proclaimers of the message. "If the religious educator is to reflect the threefold educational mission of community, message and service in his or her teaching. It is vital that these three elements be incorporated in his or her own life. "Since Jesus is the fullness of God's revelation, the religious Turn to Pa~e Fourteen
In the proclamation of this Holy Year and in the various sermons and articles about it, very little emphasis has been given to indulgences. Many Catholics are surprised at this. We can remember from previous Holy Years how we were constantly urged to gain indulgences for ourselves and for the souls in purgatory and particularly that we were told what a special opportunity this was to gain plenary indulgences. People are wondering: If it was so important then, why are we hearing so little about it now?
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In this Holy Year we seem to be hearing constantly about reconciliation and social justice, about poverty and world hunger. Actually, this is not as abrupt a change as it might seem. To make this clear, however, it may be necessary to reflect on the nature and history of indulgences. Penance: Reconciliation In the earliest centuries of the Church, believers came to realize that Baptism carried with it the grace of a total conversion and change of life, but that conversion from sins committed after Baptism was not so easy. When an adult is baptized he turns his back on his whole former way of life; it is as though he passes through death to a new life and the change is so deep and so total that he leaves all the residue of past actions in his life behind. When a baptized person sins, a new Baptism is not open to him. Of course, we know that whoever repents is forgiven by God. We know also that the Church has been at pains to help people to repent and to encourage the celebration of repentance. The sacrament of Penance is basically a celebration of reconciliation with the Church and with God, which is intended to make it easier to turn away from sin and return to the new life in Christ. We need a sacrament to make it easier because every sin has consequences and we are quickly entrammelled in them. Testimony of Saints We have spoken in Catholic tradition of "the temporal punishment due to sin" even after "the guilt is forgiven," and we have explained indulgences in terms of remission of that temporal punishment. This may sound to' modern ears like a very vindictive understanding of God. Yet it simply describes what we all know. If I lose my temper and smash a window, I may be truly sorry
SERVICE STRESSES RECONCIUATlON: In this Holy Year we seem to be hearing constantly about reconciliation and social justice, about poverty and world hunger. Chileans, earlier torn by civil strife, unite with their bishops in a gesture of reconciliation during a Holy Year service at the Shrine of Our Lady of Maipu. NC Photo. the next minute but the window must be repaired nevertheless. If I do something to destroy another person's reputation, I may genuinely repent it but I am still left with the burden of trying to restore his reputation. If I live a life that is somewhat less than Christian, I may undergo a deep conversion, but it will take long years of persevering effort to reshape my life style, habits, values and priorities. The lives of all the Saints testify to that. In the early centuries the Church claimed the right, at least in cases of grave and public sins, to specify the works of penance by which such reparation or reconstruction should be begun. The principal works of penance or reconstruction have always been considered to be, prayer, fastin,g and almsgiving, but other kinds of penances such as barefoot pilgrimages, wearing of penitents' garb and various
quite strenuous and painful things were sometimes imposed. At first, these penances were required before reconciliation with the Church (i.e. absolution) was celebrated. But it seems that after the sixth century reconciliation was moved to the beginning, though strenuous works of penance were still imposed. Treasury of Merit Even in the earliest centuries, martyrs and persons imprisoned and tortured for the faith, had been known to intercede for public sinners that they might be reconciled more easily with the Church. In the ninth century we hear of pilgrims to Rome having heavy penances commuted to much easier ones. Then in the 11 th century we know of bishops in France cancelling all or part of the prescribed penances by assuring people of the Church's intercession. Because this was challenged by theologi. Turn to Page Fourteen
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Continued from Page Thirteen educator should be one who experiences a personal relationship with the Lord. "Moreover, . . . the religious educator should not only be acquainted with the Bible but should continuously study it and reflect prayerfully on its message as 'part of ongoing Christian development. ". . . Also, since appreciation of the person and message of Jesus involves the deepening of a living relationship with the Lord, prayer must be an integral part of the life of the religious educator. "... In the teaching message of the Church, the Pope and bishops have a special role to playas creators of unity and official spokesmen for the community. The religious educator must therefore, pay respectful and obedience attention to the teaching authority of the Church. . . . The message proclaimed is the message of the Church." Sharers Religious educators are sharers in the fellowship of the community "To Teach as Jesus Did" says that community is at the heart of Christian education not simply as a concept to be taught but as a reality to be lived. "... The religious educator as one who fosters faith in others is called to build community as one who has 'learned the meaning of community by experiencing it.' ("To Teach As Jesus Did") The pastoral further states that Christian community is fostered especially by the Eucharist which is at once sign of community and cause of its growth. The religious educator ,needs to experience this fellowship through frequent celebration of the Eucharist with others who share this ministry." "... The religious educator is committed to rendering service to the Christian community and to the community at large. The catechist not only responds to needs when asked, but also takes the initiatives in searching out the needs of individuals and communities. "Also as a member of the Servant Church, the catechist is
Refuse Plane Seat To Pieta Defacer ROME (NC) - Lazlo Toth, the Hungarian - born Australian who damaged Michelangelo's Pieta statue in St. Peter's Basilica in 1972, was refused a seat on the airliner on which he was to return to Australia. Italian authorities had ordered the 35-year-old Toth to leave Italy after his release from the psychiatric facility where he had spent the last two years. But a pilot of the Australian airline Quantas refused to accept responsibility for Toth's transfer to Sydney unless an armed escort accompanied him. After being turned away from the flight, Toth said: "For me, having attacked the Pieta signifies having attacked the Vatican at its heart." On May 21, 1972, Toth, shouting that he was Jesus Christ, lea;:ed over the altar rail of the Piea chapel and began hammering at the statue as visitors stood dumbfounded.
involved in 'seeking solutions to a host of complex problems such as war, poverty, racism and environmental pollution which undermine community within and among nations.' ("To Teach As Jesus Did") The religious educator recognizes the responsibility to lead others to a sensitivity to the problems of modern man as they relate to the ideals of the Gospel, helping them examine their accepted ideals and values in the light of the Gospel values of charity, justice, peace and joy." Do you have any comments on the qualities of teachers of religion? Please submit your reactions and recommendations to: Rev. Michel G. Methot 423 Higbland Ave. Fall River, Mass. 02720
ReconciIiation Continued from Page Thirteen ans in the 12th century, there emerged in the 13th century the doctrine of the "treasury of the Church" out of which indulgences could be granted to remit the required penances that were prescribed by the Church in the first place. As everyone knows, there were some bad scandals, in the late medieval Church when indulgences were given for fighting in crusades and giving money to pet projects of the popes that had nothing to do with the poor and little to do with worship. In spite of that, the Council of Trent reiterated that the basic idea of indulgences was sound. The Church has indeed a treasury, which is the redeeming love of God, released into the world by the human response of Christ and the Saints. It is in the light of this that the Church claims that it can make the task of repairing the consequences of sin easier for us. It need not take a superhuman struggle of long fasts, vigils and pilgrimages. to put us into the dispositions to repair the damage done in the world and in ourselves by sin. When, in this Jubilee Year, the Church turns our attention directly to what must be done to repair the consequences of evil deeds in the world, it is precisely because of confidence in that treasury of graces of conversion that we have always hoped to claim by indulgences.
Catholic Schools Precious Resource WASHING..TON (NC) - Catholic schools are a "precious, hard -won resource," said Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), in a brief statement marking the 1975 Catholic Schools Week. He said that since the nationwide observance began in 1973, there has been "a significant growth in appreciation of the unique purpose and capability of Catholic schools." Now in its third year, the annual week-long observance focuses on the positive values and that Catholic contributions scbools provide, not only in religious formation but in general excellen<;e.
BISHOP CRONIN'S PILGRIMAGE AT HOLY DOOR SUNDAY: Most of us won't walk through the door that Pope Paul symbolically opened Christmas Eve. All of us can, in one way or another, experience indulgence as we give of ourselves and receive fullness from God and others. The first Holy Door pilgrim, Pope Paul, is escorted through the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve, and members of the Fall River Pilgrimage will accompany Bishop Cronin through this same door on Sunday morning at 8 Rome time.
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MIAMI (NC)-Expert medical care. charity, and kindness know no language barrier in . south Florida'S' Catholic hospitals. ' At Miami's Mercy Hospital owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, bilingual services abound to meet better the needs of the growing Spanish-speaking population of Dade County. "It is certainly very reassuring to Spanish-speaking patients at Mercy to have these facilities available," Sister Emmanuel, hospital executive vice president expla·ined. "In addition it also makes it easier for our staff to interpret and to minister to their needs." The 580-bed general hospital has at least one Spanish-speaking staffer in each department that deals directly with the patient or patient's family. Bedside cards which instruct patients on the use of the hospital bed, TV and intercom used to summon nurses are likewise printed in both languages. So are the instructions on the telephone receiver. 'Language Bank' Also printed in both languages in the hospital's printing department are patient menus and admitting booklets. English and Spanish-speaking chaplains minister to the' spiritual needs of patients, and Spanish-speaking patients account for 45 per cent of the case load with a similar ratio on the medical staff. The hospital also participates in the Spanish-American Basic Education and Rehabilitation Program providing on-the-job training for Latins. Meanwhile in Holy Cross Hospital conducted in Fort Lauderdale by the Sisters of Mercy of .Pittsburgh, a "Language Bank" offers the servIces of a host of volunteers, some of whom are employed in the 486-bed hospital, and others who live in the area serve as interpreters.
Continued from Page Thirteen ' manded by the Holy Year pilin the world and as minister of grimage. his pardon and remission. Anyone whose physical conIt is a gift given in response dition makes a pilgrimage imto actions on the part of men possible or unduly difficult may that signify their detachment still share in the gift of the from "all affection for 'sin" and Jubilee indulgence by joining their openness to be fully re- spiritually with those making newed in Christ by the grace of the pilgrimage. the Holy Spirit. During this Holy Year the Accompanying Prayers ideal pilgrimage is one to Rome where the _pilgrim may particiIn the case of- the Holy Year pate in the spiritual exercises in or Jubilee indulgence the gift the basilicas and places halFaith is God's remission of all tem- lowed by the blood of martyrs Faith tells what the senses poral punishment remaining for and the special privileges grant- do not tell, but not the contrary sins that have already been for- ed visitors to the See of the of what they see. given. Successor of Peter. -Pascal Our sign of seeking God's States the same In the United mercy is the participation.in a community celebration called by Holy See indulgences may be· the bishops on the occasion of obtained by making a pilgrimage See Us First pilgrimages to cathedrals and to the Shrine of the Immaculate in Washington, churches designated by them. Or Conception it can be a pause for reflection D.C., for those unable to make See Us Last and prayer with a family group, a pilgrimage to the Eternal City. or group of ,students or members Whatever our situation, we of a religious association during are called upon to participate in But See Us a v·isit to the. designated places. the theme of renewal and recIn each case the actions onciliation by this exchange of should be aocompanied by reci- gif.t signs with God. tation of the Our Father, the Creed and praye~ invoking the Blessed Virgin and by reception PRINTING of the Sacrament Of Reconciliation (Penance) and the Holy SINCE 1898 Eucharist, with a prayer for the MAILING intentions of the Holy Father SINCE 1941 and the bishops.
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Conference Season to End With Championship Contest The curtain will close on the regular Southeastern Massachusetts Conference basketball season in three of the four divisions tomorrow with a showdown battle scheduled in Division 1. Durfee High of Fall River who has maintained possession of so doing they would qualify for first place throughout the en- tournament play. A loss will tire campaign could end up eliminate Stang since it will not having to share the crown.. finish the campaign with a 59
Coach Tom Karam's quintet will host Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth in Friday's championship tussle. Durfee, already assured of a post season tournament appearance, presently holds a one game margin over Stang in the loop standings. Regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's contest the Hilltoppers will add another title to its already impressive list. On the other hand, Friday's game could mark the end of the season for the John O'Brien coached Spartans. The Diocesans must win in order to finish as co-champions of Division I. In
per cent winning margin. In their initial meeting Stang shocked the local fans as it brought Durfee's ten game win streak to a halt. That contest was staged in Dartmouth. Durfee will have the homecourt advantage this time. However, that margin could be offset by Stang's need to win. Look for another classic Durfee-Stang encounter with the issue remaining unresolved until the final gun. Can Coach O'Br,ien continue his magic over ~avored Durfee? In other final night Division I aJction third place Barnstable will host Taunton, and New Bedford is at Attleboro.
Wareham Only Unbeaten Team in Circuit The Division IV race was settied last week when Norton ende~ ~iman Regional.Vocational HIgh s hope of catchmg Wareham by defeating the Fall Riverites 66-59. Wareham, however, needed no 'help as it rolled to its eighth straight Conference win. The Division IV champs are the only unbeaten club among the 26 members of the four division league. The tourney bound Cape Codders should complete the league season with a perfect 10-0 mark with games slated against St. Anthony's of New Bedford and Diman this week. The Vikings may be under rated because of their Division IV standing. There are many observers that feel that Division IV is as tough aS,and maybe tougher than, Division III this
year. Take, for example the fact that Seekonk leader in Division HI was upe~ded rather easily last week by Westport who ranks fifth 4n the six team Division IV standings. . .~~reham WIll be the. on~y DIvIsIOn, IV tea~ ap~earmg m the state s champIOnshIp playoff. No other club in the bracket won the necessary number ~f games to qualify. Seekonk appeared to be home free in the Division HI race entering play last week. Then the ceiling fell in on the tourney bound Warriors. First Westport beat the frontrunner in a nondivisional game and before the week was 'over Old Rochester of Mattapoisett had edged the shaken Warriors in divisional competition.
Two Team Pennant Race in Division II The loss, Seekonk's first of the Winter, narrows the gap between the Warriors and second place Old Rochester to one game. But in order for the defending champion Bull Dogs to catch up, they will need some help from either Dighton-Rehoboth or Dennis-Yarmouth. In tomorrow's concluding games Wareham is at Diman Vocational, Norton hosts St. Anthony's and Westport plays at New Bedford Vocational in Division IV. Dighton-Rehoboth is in Taunton to meet host Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High and Old Rochester 4s at Bourne in Division III. The eight team Division II race will continue for another week as it concludes -its campaign next Friday. As predicted the race will go right down to the wire. What has been a four and five team pennant chase all
Winter now has narrowed to a two team affair. Defending champion Dartmouth played Bishop Connolly High of Fall River and Holy Family High of New Bedford last week. It was the week that was to tell the story for the Indians. It did. Dartmouth lost both games and joined the runner-up ranks. Connolly and Holy Family now share the top spot with identical 8-2 loops records. Since they will not meet again this Winter, the champion will be determined by how well they fend off each upset minded opponent. Connolly will be at Falmouth tomorrow while Holy Family is at Fairhaven. Elsewhere in the division Case High of Swansea is at Dartmouth and Bishop Feeha.n High of Attleboro is at S~merset.
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VISITING THE DEAD: A one-legged former Vietnamese soldier visits a dead friend in a shell-pocked house at Hoc Mon, Vietnam, where Communist artillerymen killed eight persons and wounded 15 others in a rocket attack. Hoc Mon is nine miles northwest of Saigon. NC Photo.
Reveal Financing of Directory HOUSTON (NC)-The major funding could be obtained if I cost of financing .the National have time to make the contacts Catechetical Directory (NCO) throughout the country." has been borne by three Amer· Foundations have shown an ican foundations, according to • interest in the project "because the project's director. they feel it is necessary today Msgr. Wilfred H. Paradis dis- to give .a sense of di~ection to closed in an interview here in catechesls, to the teachmg of the the Texas Catholic World, Hou- Catholic faith," Msgr. Paradis ton diocesan paper, that $90,500 related. "I f~lt I ?ould obtain has been spent in compiling the mone~ for thIS proJect, thereby NCD in the past 17 months. releasmg money from the NaHowever $72 500 of that amount tional Conference of Catholic was obta'ined 'from three founda- Bishops for other projects in tions which has 'asked not to the Church which do not have be identified. the same appeal but are important." "Thus .the total cost to the The National Catechetical DiAmerican Church in financing rectory will include directives the directory has been $18,000," and guidelines for the teaching .Msgr. Paradis said. "And I al- of religion to Catholics in the ready have pledges of $50,000 United States. When it is pubmore for 1975. lished in 1976, the directory will "The foundations have a great be the first National Catechetdeal of interest in the project," ical Directory in the history of he noted, "and even additional the country.
ST. MEINRAD (NC) - The church should not sacrifice standards for numbers in trying to deal with the vocations crisis, according to Archbishop John .Quinn of Oklahoma City. "No priest is truly professional unless he is truly priestly, truly the humble servant of the Lord who emptied Himself taking the form of a slave. "When men who do not measure up to these ideals are promoted to ordination, the Church must necessarily suffer and the sword of the Spirit is blunted," Archbishop Quinn told the 10th annual vocations conference at St. Meinrad's Seminary here. Fourteen bishops, three Religious superiors and 27 vocations directors attended. "We must be conscious of the ever-present peril of losing our head in a crisis time and sacrificing standards for numbers," Archbishop Quinn said. The Church has a grave obligation to promote vocations to the priesthood, to inyite and encourage. "We have failed to do this as we should have among the black and Spanish-speaking and also among those in mid-life. But we will only have the num· bers we need to do the work which Christ entrusts to His Church when the screening programs are careful and based on high standard of all the qualities needed to make a true minister -of Christ." "In the screening process and in the evaluation process of the seminary it is necessary to keep some things in mind," he said. "There has to be a clear concept of the primary meaning of the priesthood and the candidates shpuld have to give evidence to themselves and to those who recommend them for ordination that they understand that pri· mary meaning. "The priesthood is- inconceivable without a living spirit of faith, deep convktions about consistent and prolonged prayer, deep conv,ictions about the mystery of the Church born of the understanding of the indestructible union between Christ and the Church. "The rising demand for more professional skills and more specialized ministries among priests deserves nothing but enthusiastic support when it is based on a clear concept of the primary c~lling of the priest."
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NEW YORK .(NC)-The Catholic Church will not ordain women pr,iests "in my lifetime or in your lifetime," Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati told NBC-TV interviewer Jim Hartz on the Today Show here. In the IS-minute interview the archbishop, who is president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), also responded to questions on abortion, world hunger and overpopulation, and the influence of religion on society today. While financial support and church attendance are lower, Archbishop Bernardin said, there are positive factors such as reo newed interest in prayer and spiritual life and new sensitivity to social issues among Catholics. Asked about the Church's
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stand on abortion in the face of rising world population, the NCCB leader said human life is "a gift of God," and the Church will not change its teaching on abortion. Abortion, he said is not an answer to world population, which is a question "of development ... of the distribution of food once it's produced," He said he is "totalIy committed" ,to support of women's rights in the Church and in society. But the specific question of ordination, he said, must face the difficulty "that for nearly 2,000 years the Church has not admitted women to the priesthood, and this. has been presented as stemming from the will of Christ." lIn order to change that tradi· tion, he said, "we would have
to have some kind of assurance that this was not the will of Christ, and I don't think that this has been proved yet." On the practical level he predicted that it would not happen in his own or Hartz's lifetime. Asked about the traditional reluctance of the Church to disclose its finances, Archbishop Bernardin pointed out that the NCCB has encouraged dioceses for several years now to adopt uniform accounting procedures and publish annual reports. Today, he said, "many, if not most, dioceses are now giving a complete financial accounting to the people." He declined to speculate whether the next Pope might be a non-Italian. ",I don't have a crystal balI," he said.
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AMERICAN HOLY YEAR STAMPS: These 11 stamps in various denominations have been issued by the Vatican Post Office to mark the Holy Year. The stamps show pictures of Christ and the Apostles in details from mosaics and frescoes from Rome's four basilicas: St. Paul's Outside the Walls, St. Mary Major, St. John Lateran and St. Peter's. NC Photo..
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Urges President Send Cancelled Grain to Aid Hungry Nations WASHINGTON (NC)~Between 700,000 and 800,000 tons of wheat whose purchase has been cancelled by China and the Soviet Union should now be sent as aid to the world's starving nations, the he?d. of an anti· hunger group saId m a telegram to President Gerald Ford. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, former president of ,the World Council of Churches and now president of Bread for the World, an ecumenical citizens' lobby on. the hunger issue, ~aid the gram sale cancellatIOns give the administration "a new opportunity to increase dramatically its emergency food assistance to countries facing famine." "Let's get the wheat that was destined for the Soviet Union and China to Bangladesh or India instead," Blake said in his telegram. "We urge an immediate commitment of four million addition· al tons of grain toward the 7.5million-ton gap that will spelI out the difference between life and death for millions of people," he said. "Present options you are said to be considering would offer less than 15 per cent of the needed supply." In the last week in January,
China cancelled shipment of 601,000 tons of wheat. the Soviet Union cancelled shipments of 100,000 tons and is expected to cancel another 100,000 tons shortly. Bread for the World and other .. ?roups, mcludmg an ecumenIcal group headed by Father Theodore Hesburgh chairman of the board of the Overseas Development Council have urged the U. S. to SUpply' at least four million of the 7.5 million tons of grain needed worldwide because the U. S. is the world's leading producer of food. President Ford is reportedly about to approve a half million dolIar increase in food aid. A Bread for the World spokes· man said the organization's estimate was that American emer· gency aid would increase by only one million tons, 15 per cent of the seven million tons needed.
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