Falmouth Attorney Charities Appeal Head D1esignate James H.Smith to Serve as Lay Chairman His Excellency James L. Connolly, D.O., Bishop of Fall River, announced today that Atty. James H. Smith, member Qf St. Patrick's parish, Falmouth, will be the 1969 lay chairman of the Catholic Charities Appeal. The dates for the special gifts phase of the appeal run from April 21 to May 3. The parish fund campaign will be from May 4 to 14. The new chairman, a native of
Fall River and of St. Patrick's parish, attended Sacred Heart parish school, Durfee High' and Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from BQston College, in 1952 'and his law degree from Portia Law School, Boston, in 1957. He is married to the former Margaret Joan Hoss, a native of Augusta, Me. Mrs. Smith attend-
ed Jean D'Arc Acade.my, Milton and Mt. Ida Junior College, Ne·wton and she dQes volunteer work at Falmouth H'ospital. They are the parents of seven children: Terrence, Kevin, Brendan, Shaun, Tracy, Timothy and Kelly. Atty. Smith's parents are Mr. and Mrs. James F. Smith, members of St. Patrick's p'arish, Falmouth, formerly of Holy Name parish, F'all River.
The new chairman attended Reserve Officers Candidate School, San Francisco, Cal. and did graduate work at the Naval Justice School, Newport, R. I. • in 1953 and Bridgewater State Teachers College, Bridgewater, Mass in 1959. Military service, with the rank of Lieutenant, USNR; included: active duty aboard deTurn to Page Six
NCCB Allows English Use In Rites
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Archbishop John ·F. Dearden of Detroit/ president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has announced NCCB's approval of the EngHsh translations of the revised ordination services. The translation will be used for the next few months until the International Committee on English in the Liturgy has submitted its definitive version for approval by the bishops. The Latin text of the ordination services was revised by the Consilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy, acording to Ithe decision of the Second Vatican Council. E was approved by Pope Paul VI 011 June 18, 1968. It is expected that the provisional translation Turn to Page Three
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Panel Head For Nixon Rt. Rev. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Catholic Charities director, has been designated chairman of a national group of Family Life Bureau directors which is conducting a requested study of children for President Nixon's administration. The church group will probe the cultural, physical and psychological aspects of children for the President with a view to improving all phases of their lives, leading to more productive adults for the nation. The Fall River prelate was named to lead the national unit at a meeting in the nation's capital city last week. Msgr. Gomes has been active in the Family Life Bureau of the Diocese, which he now heads, since its founding over 20 years ago. This bureau conducts 'panels for and on youth as well as Pre-Cana talks for engaged couples and Cana talks for married people.
Fr. R. P. Demers M'erits Marine Bronze Star 1969 CHARITIES APPEAL CHAiRMAN JAMES H. SMITH AND FAMILY
President Hails Notre Dam'e WASHINGTON (NC)-President Nixon has blamed violent students protests on a "small, irresponsible minority" and praised the "forthright"stand
Tax R~formers in Congress Probe Church Exemptions WASHINGTON (NC)-Congress has put machineryin-gear which could lead to another attempt. to tax churches and religious institutions in the United States. The House Ways and Means . . Committee, seeking tax reforms , is at present zeromg-m on taxexempt philanthropic foun- rehabilitation agencies in his dations. Rep. Wright Pat- distrIct, then capitalized on ·this man of Texas has advocated vote-attracting largess in seekthat such foundations 'be taxed 20 per cent of their investment incomes. Several members of Congress, notably Rep. John J. Rooney of New York, have complained the tax-exempt foundation dodge has been used by some individuals with political aspirations. Rooney noted he faced such a situation in the last election. He said his opponent established a foundation, dispensed tax-free funds to PQverty, welfare and
ing election. Several other members of Congress have registered similar complaints. From this plateau, it is conceivable the investigation might veer toward the Patman recommendation regarding taxing investment incomes of such huge foundations as }~ord and Carnegie. And later, this inquiry could be directed toward non-religious tax-exempt income derived by Turn to Page Twelve
PARRIS ISLAND (NC)Father Richard P. Demers, a Navy Lieutenant who is a priest of the Fall River Diocese, has 'been awarded the Bronze Star medal here by Major General O. F. Peatross, depot commanding general. Chaplain Demers was cited for "displaying superb resourcefulness and resolute determination" while serving with the Turn to Page Nineteen
President Nixon went on to taken' by the president of Notre say that if American universities Dame. are to be preserved, certain Nixon, in a letter released here, told Father Theodo're M. principles have to.be re-estabTurn to Page Three Hesburgh, C.S.C., that he shared the priest's concern over campus disorders acro,ss the country. Father Hesburgh had warned that students, faculty members or others .who persist in protest activities which disrupt the normal operations of Notre Dame HARTFORD (NC)-The Connecticut Catholic ConUniversity or infringe upon thc ference has declared that the. financial problem in the rights of others there face onoperation of parochial schools has reached a "critical state" the-spot suspension, expulsion and a substantial number of them will be closed within and action by civil authorities. two years unless state aid is ' Mr. Nixon declared in his letThe confer"As Bishops we must be conter that the issues raised by the forthcoming. cerned with the increasingly protestors ranged from minor ence, made up of the Bishop.s academic reforms to major conof the state's three Sees, large percentage of parish budgcerns of national policy. ,has called for support of the ets required to maintain our "But the means some students Secular Educational Equalizaschool system," their statement -a small, irresponsible minority tion Reimbursement Bill which said. "The burden is too heavy -have employed reflect an imis now in the Connecticut Genfor parishioners to bear aOny eral Assembly. longer. The dioceses and parpatience with democratic processes, an intolerance of legitiThe bill would provide state ishes can no longer carry the mately constituted authority, funds for a portion of the tuition load. In effect, it is depriving and a complete disregard for the costs f6r secular subjects taught parishioners of the right to rights of others," he stated. in parochial and other non public choose the type of school system schools. they want for their children." "Violence and vandalism have marked many of these protests, The Bishops reported a deficit "The only remedy available and the rights of the majority of of over $4 million in the elemenfor us at this time is the furnishthe students have been grossly tary and secondary school opering of state aid for secular eduabused." ations in the three dioceses. Turn to Page Eighteen
Catholic Schools in Conn. Reaching 'Critical State'
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NOTRE DAME (NC) The University, of Notre Dame's five black varsity basketball players rejoined
PHILADELPIjIIA (NC) -School officials have declared that the Philadelphia archdiocesan scl1oo1 system is faced with the gteatest financial crisis in its history, and announced the start of a pliblic information program to gain the support of the ent ire community. William D. Valente, president of the archdiocesJn board ,of education which conduct the program, said at a press conference here its ~utcome may determine whether Catholic schools 'will be fdrced to retrench - to accep't fewer students, hire fewer teachers and maintain fewer schbols: Meanwhile, the larchdiocesan director of, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine tevealed that the number of Cath~lic students in public schools ,in the archdiocese has reach~d a record high of 80,000-an II increase of 8,530. , The figure ,corresponds with the decline in Catholic school LENT BEGINS: Paul Cardinal'Marella marks Pope P'auls head with ashes in St. Peter's Basilica ,enrollment reported:: in January before several thousand people gathered for Ho Iy Father's Wednesday general audience. Pope during the past yea 111' alone. Only Paul then di::cussed' the significance of this penit ential ad in his, a~dress 't~ the people. NC Photo. about 58 per cent of Catholic children in public schools of the archdiocese receive part-time religious instructi~n through the CCD, the official noted. The Philadelp.,hia archdiocese currently operate~286 elementary schools, 21 high schools and BOSTON (NC)-The Massa- the main reason for the proposal textbooks to Catholic school stu14 special schools t which to- chusetts Council of Churches is "to prevent ,precipitous action dents, and a bill calling for the gether with private Catholic will 'ask ,the state legislature to on the part 'of -the leg,islature in creat,ion of a study commission schools educate more than 267,- study the possible 'effects of this relatively unexplored area .to examine the effects of a full000 children in five icounties. funding for sectar:ian schools. without, knowing the consesca-Ie closing of the Catholic sysProvide Data quences." tem on p'ublic' 'schools, are cu'rIt wHl'do so because it fears Except for a recedUY, imposed that the atmosphere of financial rently on file in the sta te legisTraditional Opposition· $40 high school regfstration fee crisis surrounding most church, lature. Many bills, including one calland special charge~, such as -related schools might pressure The MCC is unlikely to alter ing for an amendment to the 'book rentals and lab9ratory fees, the le'gislature into ,the passage its traditional opposition to aid the principal finanqial support of '!unwise bills," according to state constitution to permit aid to sectarian schools according to secular schools, a bill pro- to Dr. Nash, but wants the isof the system comes from volun- an MCC official. v'idlng for loans of public school sues made clear. tat:y offerings of Catholic parishThe MCC, which represents 12 ioners. Protestant denominations, is also Among the po'ints the MCC One immediate go 1 of the inestablishing an' ad hoc interwants clarified, he indicated" are Mass Ordo formation campaign is to urge faith committee to look into -the these: Cath?lics to increase their regu- issue. FRIDAY - Ember , Friday in Whether aid \\:'iH open the, lar contributions-to "give more Lent. II Class. Violet. floodgates to a proliferation of Rev. Dr. James Nash, the this week, next week . . . next reJiogious sohools, all. seeking y\?ar, the year after.]' ' MCC's legislative liaison, said SATURDAY - Ember Saturday state SUPPOTt. But the school officials stressed in Lent. II Class. Violet. that the 'burden of rising edu-' Whether public schools would SUNDAY - Second Sunday of be able to support additional cational costs must be shared by Industroalist to Get Lent. I Class. Violet. Mass pupils if Catholic schools closed. business and govermtient in any Proper; Creed; Preface for realistic funding program. Bellarmine Medal Whether aid would damage Sundays in Lent. They said all segrrients of the LOUISVILLE (NC)-J. Irwin public schools by taking tax dolcommunity will be: provided Miller, 'Columbus, Ind., induslars away from them. MONDAY - Monday of Second data on operating co~ts to demtrialist and religious leader, will "As the parochial system conWeek of Lent. HI Class. Vioonstrate the efficien"cy and eco- receive the 1969 Bellarmine fronts greater problems, preslet. ' nomical productivity! of CathMedal, Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan, sure on state government to proolic education; the I resources Bellarmine-Ursuline Coli e g e TUESDAY-Tuesday of Second vide/public aid in a rescue operWeek of Lent. III Class.' Vioprovided the community by, president, has announced. ation may increase," Dr. Nash let. .C atholic school grad6ates; and The BeUarmine Medal is said. "Unwise bills are sofneWEDNESDAY - Wednesday of times introduced and passed in the tax savin~s whic~. taxpayers "awarded annu~ily to 'a person a crisis," he asserted. Second Week of Lent. III would lose If publIc schools "who on the national and interClass. Violet. ' were r~quired to un~e~take the national scene, exemplifies in a educatIon of all CatholIc youngnotable manner the virtues of THURSDAY-Thursday of Secsters. , I justice, charity "and temperateond Week of Lent. 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the team after accepting an apology for being booed during their recent 71-59 defeat by Michigan State. The Negroes earlier sent a letter to the student newspaper saying "We demand a public apology from the student body of the University of Notre Dame for their 'booing when there were five black players in the game against Michigan State." "They said they wouldn't practice or play until' they got the apology and "you can even throw'us out of 5C1:100l." J. Richard Rossi, president of the student body, apologized to the five Negroes, "The student body does not condone thi,s action by students, or other spectators," he said. "As the representative of the students, I wish' to convey the apology of the' majority of the students for the booing and rudeness." Coach Johnny Dee said he did not feel the students were booing the black players. "I would sooner think' that they were booing me," he stated. The five black roundballers are Austin Carr, Sid Catlett, Collis Jones and Bob Whitmore, ,all 'of Washington, D. C., and Dwight Murphy, from Kansas City, Kan.
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference, will keynote the 66th annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association (N CEA), to be held in De- lege and university education, troit, April 7-10. Some 15,- seminaries, special, education, other areas. 000 delegates are expected and Speakers at the smaller con-
at the convention, whose theme is "Catholic Education: Serving a Troubled Society." -Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroi,t, president of the NCCB, will celebrate Mass in Cobo Hall, following Bishop Bernardin's address. Whitney C. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, will talk to the convention on "Order or Chaos in Our Schools." General convention sessions will hear: Father Olin Murdick, superintendent of schools in ,the diocese of Saginaw, Mich., on "Catholic Boards of Education: Structure and Progress;" Father Alfred, McBride, O.Praem., of the Catholic University of America on "Religious Education in a Revolutionary Time;" Mother Cornelia Boyle, prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Elizabeth, N. J., on "Teachers to Serve a Troubled Society." Also Dr. Ralph W. Tyler of Science Research Associates on "Curriculum for a Troubled Society"; and Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher, an authority oru JewIsh-Christian relations, on ''The Catholic-Jewish Encounter - A Service to Chl;lrchand Society". Smaller Conferences Besides eight general sessions, NCEA delegates wiIIattend numerous smaller conferences dealing with elementary and secondary school education, col-
ferences 'will include Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., -president of the University of Notre Dame; William L. Kolb, dean of Beloit (Wisc.) College; T. D. McNeal, vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car' Porters and Father Avery R. Dulles, S.J., professor of systematic theology, Woodstock (Md.) College. The 66th NCEA convention wiII also feature 750 exhibits which demonstrate innovatiVe techniques and products useful to educators.
Bishop Broadens Rule on Sunday Mass Obligation MANCHESTER (Nt)Bishop Ernest J. Primeau announced that Catholics in the Manchester diocese, both
residents and visitors, may fulfill their Sunday and holy day Mass obligation on the previous evening. A year ago, alter clearance with authorities in Rome, this change was' enacted experimentally in resort areas of the state where overcrowding on Sundays makes the liturgical renewal difficult if not impossible. ' In December, an in-depth evaluation by the priests and people of the experimenting parishes revealed not only that the overcrowding -problem had been solved but that many Sunday workers were now particiOn Sunday evenings in March pating in Saturday evening at the First Baptist Church in Masses. North Attleboro, the Human ReIn subsequent discus:;;ions with lations Committee and the North the priests' senate and associaAttleboro Ministerium are spon- _ tion, as well as with the consoring a program entitled: "Our sultors and deans of the diocese, Neglected Heritage-A Study of, the New Hampshire prelate was Black History." encouraged to' make the same The programs will start at change possible in all parishes 7:30. and mission churches. Roman The film strip series, "The authorities gave approval. Black American," was written Liturgical Tradition by Mary E. Greig, Director of Bishop Primeau then addressed Social Studies for the Chicago a confidential letter to all 'parPublic Schools. Excerpts from the play, "In White America," ish priests with instructions to by Martin B. Duberman will explain to the people the theoalso be utilized. The program logical, liturgical and pastoral rationale 'of the ne-w arrangewill be developed as follows: March 2, "African Background ment. "n is certainly part of the liand Colonial Slavery." March 9, "Afro-American Life turgical tradition of the Church to begin the celebration of Sunfrom 1770-1861." March 16, "Civil War and Re- ,days and major feast days with Vespers on the day preceding construction." March 23, "A Transition Peri- -the feast itself," the bishop said in the letter. od: 1877-1930." Stressing that the change is March 30, _"The Struggle for designed for the pastoral good' Civil and Human Rights." Discussions will be under the of the people, he added that, "If direction of Waltern Wnek, Jr., the liturgy is truly to become pastor of First United Methodist 'the summit toward which the Church and advisor to the North activity of the Church is diAttleboro Human Relations rected,' _the proper atmosphere must be presen~ to permit the Committee. The meetings are open to people of God to participate in everyone- seeking the kind of the Divine Mysteries.'~ understanding that will lead to a reconciliation between White Taunton D of I and Black America. Taunton Daughters of Isabella will meet Tuesday, March 18. Vincentian Meeting_ This month members entertained Fall River Particuiar Council, the Catholic Guild for the 'Blind Society of St. Vincent de Paul, at Marian Manor. A potluck supwill hold its monthly meeting fn per was served and entertain8t. William's Church Hall folment was offered by the Singing lowing Benediction of the Most Angels of St. Jacques School. Blessed Sacrament in the church Gifts were donated by Kathleen at 7:45 P.M. Tuesday, March 4. Corrigan.
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OVERSEAS APPEAL: The 23rd annual American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund Appeal to provide support for wor.ld-wide :relief and self-help programs will take place March 9 to 16 throughout the country. Directors from Fall River Diocese recently met in New York to make plans. Left to right, Rev. Francis L. Mahoney of St. Margaret's Church, Buzzards Bay, Diocesan Director Rev. John F. 'Hogan of St. John the Baptist Church, Central Village, and Most Rev. Terrence J. Cooke, archbishop of New York.
Family Life Talks Off for Week Rt. Rev. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Church in Fall River, has announced that the Family Life talks scheduled for March 2 to 9 will be postponed for a week 'because of the snow conditions. The talks will take place every night in- the church from Sunday, March 9 to Saturday, March 15 at 7 o'clock. They will will be given :by Rev. John P, Driscoll, a member of the Family Life Bureau of the Diocese and Assistant General Manager of The Anchor.
Schedule Religious Art Exhibition 'DETROIT (NC) - A national art show ,presenting religious art works from throughout the U. S. will beheld April 1 through May 5 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The sixth biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, sponsored by Det.roit area art patrons and industrialists of many faiths, will feature more than $200,000 .in modern and traditional art by American artists of most major f.aiths.
Families are invited to the talks which will touch upon every phase of family life and will show both parents and children how to contribute' to the good 'of"the -6Jhole family through an understanding of the role of each member in it.
Notre Dame Continued from Page One lished and certain basic rules enforced. He said intimidation and threats run counter to a free society; "A fundamental governing principle of any great university is that the rule of reason and not the rule of force prevails," Nixon said. "Whoever rejects that principle forfeits his right to be a member of the academic community," the President declared. "The university administrator who fails to uphold that principle jeopardizes one of the central pillars of his own institution and weakens the very foundation of American education:"
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English Use Continued from Page One will be published in about six weeks. The Holy See accepted a proposal for a Hturgy for parish missions which will unite the older style of mission with the celebration of Mass ·and has. accepted the proposal for texts for the liturgical observance of Thanksgiving Day. The Holy See deferred 'again the permission to establish cen!tel's of liturgical experiment.
Recollection Day Cape and Islands District Five of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women wi1l hold a day of recollection Saturday, March 8 at St. Pius X Church, South· Yarmouth.
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OLYMPIA (NC) -The pro,posed amendment to the Washington State abortion law, which would legalize abortion in almost all cases, has been recommended for 'passage by the state Senate Judiciary Committee and has been forwarded to the Rules Committe for further 'action, The bill, which permits abort;on when it is requested by the c:xpectant mother and performed by a licensed physician in a certified hospital, has been condemned by the state's four Catholic bishops as well as by state leaders of other faiths. Most relaxed abortion laws, including those already enacted in five states only propose to allow abortion .when, the pregnancy endangers the expectant mother's mental or physical health, when there is a serious risk that the child would be born mentally or physically defecti vc or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. The Washington law, if passed, would be the most lenient in the nation. Present Washington law only ,permits abortion to save the life of the mother. A HOuse bill, identical to the Senate measure, is still before -the House Public Health and Welfare Committee. The Senate bllI must noW be brought up for debate after a vote of the rules committee.
Greensburg Operates Extraordinary Fund GREENSBURG (NC) - -The Greensburg Diocese has initiated a new project, the Extraordinary Fund for Needy Parishes and Other Groups of the Diocese, with $50,000 in diocesan funds. A review board of four priests and four laymen in this Pennsylvania See will analyze requests and allocate grants. The fund will provide "seed money" for new projects as well as aid community and diocesan organizations.
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:INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - The board of directors of the Indiana Catholic Conference issued a statemen.t calling for support of nonpublic school legislation in the present session of the General Assembly. A spokesman for the conference, whose board of directo~s comprises the state's Catholtc bishops, said the statement was occasioned "by the obvious conCl"rn of our legislators to help solve the problems of private schools ,because of their impact on the critical financi~l condition of the loca~ publIc school systems."
Rehearsals are in progress at Mt. St: Mary Academy, Fall 'River, for a production of Snow WhIte and the Seven Dwarfs to be presented Wednesday, March 26, Thursday, the 27th and Friday, the 28th, with the Thursday performance to be a matinee. Tickets will be available at the' beAlso addressing Mount stu, Al dents was Rev. Kevin Tripp' of ginning of next month. so St. Patrick's parish, Fall River. in dramatic mo6d are stu- His topic was the sex education
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forum now in progress at St. Patrick's. German Plays German _students at Prevo.st are preparing plays for presenSays Religious Texts tation under supervision of Dennis Paiva, faculty member. And lean to Sociology at Holy, Family in New Bedford, LOS ANGELES (NC)-Somc Karl Fryzel has been chosen as catechetical texts today are Adjutant Gene1"al of the National Guard for student government SCIENCE FAIR: Among winners of science fair at St, Anne's more sociological than religious, day in Boston. according to the director of the School, Fall River, are, from left, Elaine Letendre, Debra BelongAnother laurel for Karl: he Los Angeles archdiocese's 19,000· h d Poitras Diane Melancon , Therese Melan:;on, . ISuzanne fair to member Confraternity of Chriswon a trophy for ,best negative ,er, RIC a r , Tremblay. The first four will continue to a reglona speaker at a tournament, held tian Doctrine. be he,ld in March. at Boston College High School, "In many catechetical texts 'as well as a certificate with today" said Msgr. John K. Daniel Dwyer for superior negClark~ "there is much watering \ down ~f the content of doctrine. ative debating: Affirmative !lebaters at the event were Marsha This is being supplanted by a Moses and Michelle Dansereau. methodology in which the presThe team took second place entation of essential truths is P~rents Work Out Disagreements overall. . cloth~d in a la~guage that is f~r On Teaching Religion Honor roll studen'ts at Prevost more sociologIcal than reliHigh school with highest honors gious.'" The parents' criticism was that WAUKESHA (NC)-Parishes are -Thomas Barnes, Mark Lynch "To be true to their calling," the texts were lacking in defiand Robert Thibault, seniors; are comprised of human beings, nition and clarity on the same he said, "Confraternity workers and human beings are rarely of David Normandin, Richard 10 points of doctrine that the must make certain that the Garand and Roger Berger, 'soph- , one accord on all matters. child of God knows in simple This is particularly true in an commission 'of cardinals recently omores; John Cadima, Ronald language of his heavenly Father found the Dutch Catechism'to be age of rene,wal or change when Gendreau and Richard Tremand His Divine Son, Jesus Christ; deficient. . Among charges was ,what has been traditionally done blay, freshmen. the' redempti ve role of the that the Benziger texts were High honors went to four for decades ,is face-lifted or "cor,rupting the souls" of the Church for all mankind; the ,seniors, nine juniors" 10 soph- gi ven complete plastic surge'ry. young, and, not providing moral eminent authority of the Holy Some will endorse the change' omores and five 'freshmen. Father who is Peter, and- above with enthusiasm, Others" will ,fqrmatj,o'1' Honors went to seven seniors, . all"'-the power of prayer." Positive Approach three juniors,'j sophomores and view it with fear, even indignaHe' added: " , There was,sharp disagreement ,tion. ' ~.". ., ' nine freshmen. ,,' '\ ' "Our time' with pupils is so. at the :meeting between supportAcceptances at Holy Family One such "touchy" area is the necessarily limited that the good include Daniel Dube, Stonehill; new catechesis and the choice of ers of and objectors to the new Confraternity teacher can do catechesis. Both sides were conTheresa Pryslopski, UMass; Pa- ,texts. Recently a group of parnothing more. Truly we can do triC'ia Kirkwood, SMT!. Also at ents at St. William parish in this cerned wHh instruction of their but little, but let us do that HF, Betty Saulnier won the Wisconsin community petitioned children. Both believed' them-, well." s'elves right. school. homemaker award and its parish school board to drop Father Dean Marek, associate will continue to state competithe texts ,being used in grades Baton Rouge Forms tion. three through eight (Benziger pastor in charge of the par,ish's Confraternity of ehristian DocBros. Word and Worship series). CEF Commission The school board placed the pro- trine program, proposed what BATON ROUGE (NC) -The posal on the agenda for the he hopes is a "positive ap- formation of a 'Baton ,Rouge CEF proach." He suggested that the ~anua'ry meeting. Commission to assist parents in school board prov,ide an opportunity to the concerned parents the attainment of state aid for props, hut it is the whole style children attending nonpublic to attend a seven-week seminar in which we give leadership schools of Louisiana was anNew Jesey Senate which would go through the that we're trying to ohange." nounced here. texts for each grade, including Passes SmlLlt Bill Msgr. Leonard said it is not A predominantly lay group, the PauHst Fathers' text used a question of whether CYO is TRENTON (NC) - Efforts to for grades one and two. the commission will establish relevant but father that the 01"- stem the tide of obscene matecounty chapters and church parAlong with the 'books, the plan ganization must he kept loose rial flowing into New Jersey ish units to promote the goals ~as to scrutinize also the teachenough arid adaptable enough to 'gained impetus. here with Senate set by the Louisiana Federation ers' manuals, and then evaluate meet the needs of youth. ' passage of an anti-obscenity of .citizens for Educational Freeall the mater,ials according to He noted that" programser- measure even while a Superior dom. . ,the 10 points listed by the provices provided through his d:e- Court judge was granting an testers. partment may riot always be injunction against the distribuThe sessiohs' are held weekly acceptable to all dioceses. But tion of a record album cover. in the St. William CCD center. he said national' prog,ramming The measure passed by the can serve as a basis for local Senate by a vote' of 2~ t~ 0 An outline, distributed fo the parents, reproduces from the areas if they are adjusted to in- would prohibit the public dis· teachers' manuals the organizadivid1,1al needs. play of material deemed to be tion of the 'text, its aims, the C 'Mi ti obscene. It is a companion ommon sconcep on approach to be' made, and the measure'to the legislation sen~ doctrines mainly emphasized. CITIES SERVICE He cited a need t<;l encourage to the Assembly a week ,earlier DI~TRIBUTORS The outline then summarizes young priests, seminarians, lato prohibit the sale of obscene the aim of the individual units ity and youth to, get inv.olved material to people under 18 Gasoline of the text, why the aim, and in CYO programs ancfactivities years of age. how; through what activities, because a "vast, majority of Fuel and Range The biIl' adopted earlier' is the lesson is taught. people do have something to modeled after a New York law contribute" to an ,organization. which has been upheld by the Msgr. Leonard indicated that a U. S. 'Supreme Court and the, ELECTRICAL OIL BURNERS common misco.ncep~ion among two measures ,are designed to ~any young prIests IS that OYO Contractors For Prompt Delivery conform to Supreme Court rulIS only a basketball pr~gram. ings indicating that the sale of & Day & Night Service He explained: "A lot of young obscenity to minors and adverpriests have an idea' that CYO tising which panders to sexual is riothing more ,than a sports G. E. BOILER BURNER UNITS program, a basketball league, , appetites. d'O not enjoy constitutional protection. ./ and that they were never ordainRural Bottled Gas Service 'ed to run a basketball league." 61 COHANNET ST Just as Hard TAUNTON Experience'T ~Us 'It is just as hard to do your Attleboro - No. Attleboro Men who hav.e .had, a· great duty when men are sneering at' 944 County St. Taunton "deal of experien'ce learn' not to you as when they are shooting New Bedford lose their temper. -Cherbuliez at you. -Wil,son
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Says Te'enagers Ask More Chance To Plan, Conduct Activities MILWAUKEE' (NC): - Teenagers are less inclined to be joiners, but they want l more opportunity to plim 'and conduct their own activities land programs. Msgr. Th~masJl Leonard, director of the divisiort of youth activities the United Stktes Catholic Conference, said }jere. He spoke 'to directois and lay leaders during a Cath6lic Youth Organization regionai conference. I He told participants tepresenting Illinois, !J:owa, Mis~ouri and Wisconsin that the main complai.nt young people I .,regist~r agamst adult leaders I IS theIr dictatorial attitudes. 'Msgr. Leonard said:: "Organizations, in general'i are in trouble as far as young people are concerned. And, jt would seem that, teenagers : are not as ,interested in serving organizations as they were '10 years ago. ' ! "Ever among youth 6rganiza-, tions, provided we treat them properly our purpose is to serve the needs of youth. 'I Meet Youth's Ne~ds "The biggest single gripe from youth is that their adult advisers or directors are :th,e only ones who can think and. that all the kids have to dol is carry out their programs.) "Young people like adults are not infallible",and I'm ,/not say! • ing we'd be reduced to paSSIve
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FARMINGDALE (NC) Newman Club of the State Agricultural 'and Technical College of the State University of New York was suspended after some 35 students attended a Mass held on Ithe campus. The club's charter was suspended by the college's president, Dr. Charles W. Laffin, Jr., because college rules forbid the use of state education property for religious purposes. Resident Catholics at the college have to travel two miles to the nearest church and the Newman club has held Masses in factories, garages and the homes of faculty members. Four ,to five thousand of the college's day students are Cath'olic, and 300 of its 600 resident students are Catholic. The Newman Club is seeking permission to hold -religious services on campus because students lack transportation to ,the nearest church. The college's action in suspending the club is ,based on a 1958 ruling by John C. Cray, Jr., counsel to the State University, who said that religious services in state 'buildings violated the "establishment of religion" prohibition of the First Amendment to the ConS'titution and also violates state law which forbids the use of state education property for religious purposes. Pemlon ,Unheeded Father Ronald Luka, C.S.F., chaplain of the Newman Club, celebrated the Mass in a dormitory lounge. He said that the students will continue to pressure for religious services on campus and willproba,bly attend future unauthorized Masses on campus. Newman Club president, Miss Sue Munday, said: "We held the Mass ,to bring attention ,to the fact that we've been having Mass In very primitive places." She said that a ,petition asking for permission to hold religious services on campus was sent ,to the college's president last year and was forwarded to Albany with no results. She said the club will hold its meetings off campus while the suspension is in effect, but added that the students expected Ito attend Mass on campus the following Sunday. She said: "If we are asked to leave we will do so. We want to avoid a conf.rontation." <)
Cites Assurances' Of More U.S. Aid WASHINGTON (NC) - U. S. Sen. Charles E. Goodell of New York told a National Press Club gathering here he ,has received assurances that the United States will gi've increased support to relief efforts aimed at helping victims on ,both sides of the Nigerian civil war. Goodell, who recently returned from 'a 10-day trip to Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria which has declared itself independent of the federal state, said that the increased government aid would be channeled through international voluntary relief agencies. The International Committee of the Red Cross and U. S. religious agencies such as Catholic Relief Services, Church World Services and the American Jewish Committee are among the agencies which 'have been sending emergency relief supplies into the war-torn area of Nigeria in an effort to halt mass starvation.
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LOUISVILLE (NC) - Archbishop Thomas J. McDonough has reported that only a modest surplus remains in Louisville archdiocesan funds. Working funds total some $10.5 million, while accounts and loans payable shows obligations of $9.9 million, he detaUed. Archbishop McDonough pointed out it is "not my intention to build unduly large surpluses." But he added that "fiscal stability of the Church in this archdiocese demands the maintaindng of some surplus working funds." The financial report was issued in keeping with .the arch'bishop's promise last October, Archdiocesan Development(Fund campaign, to keep Catholics here informed a-bout activities. He indicated the report is a step in that program and he promised future annual reports, about the archdiocese.
GIFT FOR ASTRONAUT: Pope Paul VI presents Apollo 8 commander Col. Frank Borman one of two photocopies of ancient Bibles as gifts du ring their recent meeting in the Pope's library. Members of the Borman family, from left, are Frederick, 18; Mrs. Susan Borman; and Edwin, 15. NC Photo.
Discusses Labor-ManClgement Relations Bishop Stresses 0 bligations, Rights He cited, however, sporadic NEW YORK (NC)-Tpe chair- for organization among workers, man of the division for urban and we hear (and I think there's efforts - by Catholic churchmen life, department of social devel- some basis to this) that some around the country to help opment, United States Catholic unions are sitting 'back on their workers, and stated that it was Conference, said in a radio in- laurels and not going after the not until the early 19505 that terview here that in Catholic job that still awaits them in or- Msgr. George G. Higgins, director of the division for urban labor education ,programs the 'ganizing the unorganized." obligations and responsibilities, The bishop said he thought it life-formerly the social action as well as the rights, of workers was true that criminal elements department-of the U. S. Cathalways are emphasized. had infHtrated some unions olic Conference "brought us all Auxilia,ry Bishop Joseph F. merely for motives of personal together in Cleveland, and we Donnelly of Hartford, Conn., in- profit and in order to exercise formed the National Social Acterviewed on Guideline, said it rigid control and power, hut ,tion Conference." is essential that the mediator or added that he did not believe arbitrator in a dispute be a per- this' to be so in international son for whom the parties in- unions. volved "have respect, and in Lauds Msgr. Higgins whom they have some confi"I am sure there are racketdence." eers and criminals 'running some Bishop Donnelly, for many of the local unions, and certainly years a prominent figu'1'e in ar- this is a very uncomfortable bitraUon and mediation in New position for the management England, ex,plained !that the that has to deal with them," matters under discussion in he said. such a dispute are collective Describing ,the early years of 'bargaining issues--working out the social 'action movement in the 'practical articles of 'a con- this country, Bishop Donnelly tract and other points that sa,id there were people trying to brought about the dispute ,be- help the laboring man, '''but untween the ,parties. fortunately, I can't say that the The ,bishop cited the -"author- Church was too aCtive in this. ity" of the mediator in such a It was a pretty lonely apostodispute, and noted the effective- late." ness of his 'persuasive ability in , Although social action is noW 'br.inging about a settlement. the "in thing." the bishop remarked, in those days it was the Need Organizing, Asked if he agreed with the "out thing." view that some unions have become too .powerful, Bishop Don- Conn..Abortion Law nelly replied: "I think there are some unions that are very pow- Change Is Opposed erful - -proba'bly too powerful HARTFORD (NC) -The difor .the common good. I think, rector of family life of the Archby and large, though, this so- diocese of Hartford arid memcalled imbalance is not as sig- 'bers of the Family Life Council, nificant as some people would ,couples and priests engaged in want to make it seem. family life work, are opposing "I think there is a vast area proposed relaxation of Connecticut's abortion laws. In a joint statement, they said: Silent Prayer Bill "We agonize with many of our SPRINGFIELD (NC)-By 39 fellow citizens of good will who to 6 the lHinois Senate approved want to help solve our society's a -bill ,which -would ,permit public problems. We pledge ourselves school teachers to set aside a to search with them for solumoment for silent prayer at the tions to these difficulties. But 'beginning of classes each school we do not believe, nor do we day. The bill was sent to the see, that abortion is the soluHouse. tion."
Cites Consequences Of School Closings LANSING (NC) - A booklet urging state aid for Michigan's 315,000 nonpublic school students and underlining the fiscal consequences if aid is not forthcoming has been published by the Michigan Association of NonpubHc Schools. Entitled "The Day the Nonpublic Schools Closed," the booklet says the closing of nonpublic schools in the state would cost Michigan taxpayers more than $1 billion immediately-at least $800 million for new .public school facilities and some $220 million in operating costs The booklet also notes thaI the Joint Legislative Commit路 tee on Nonpublic Schools of thE state legislature has recom路 mended that the state pay fOJ some educational services pro路 vided by nonpublic schools.
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A Real Ptotest , The idealisn't of those college students who are protesting injustices Of various kinds should not be allowed to go to waste. I Indeed, their I protests should be encouraged along lines that will really be effective. . .A striking e,(ample of this has been given to t.he college community ithe world over by a ~r.oup of o~e tho~ sand undergraduates of England's prestigIOus Oxford University. i.. . These students, appalled at the amount of hunger 1n the world ,have not simply mounted a protest. They have not merely raised I thei r voices. They ha ~e ?on~ so~e thing effective - have taken action that.m I~S Idealism and its efficaciousness and its boldness IS qUite breathtaking. They have! pledged a fixed part of their income for the rest of th~ir lives to aid developing countries. Now here is p~otest on a grand and effective scale. Here is acti.on· so imaginative and sincere that it ~akes walking in 'picket lines and seizing buildings and organizing rallies Seem childish and the negative things that they are.. ' . This is Idealistic. It is effective. It pledges a person and his deep convihions not for a single moment or for a single action but :for the rest of his life and for all his actions. I All too often 'the protestors of college turn - in a few years -.:.- into ~icky-tacky people. li~ing tick~-tackY lives with the scope of their concern limited to their own lives and their own: welfare. But not so thi's Oxford pi·otest. It puts itself right Oll the line - for life. This is :.1 real protest. I V· .11! lrst
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Honesty . dema~ds that each Catholic take a look at himself and ask how this first week of Lent has gone. This is an age! when great stress is placed on personal responsibility.i It is an age when muc~ is made of spiritual .maturity.. ~ .' .' " . ..:, But the proof i of responsibility and th~ '.' proof of spiritual maturtiy are not in words alone but I.n deeds. What is being idone ? ' . ' ." . The Catholic must ask hImself how senously' IS he taking positive action to serve God and God's people. He must ask himself h'ow much penance is he doing voluntarily to take the eq,phasis off self and to turn his mind and concern to others. He must ask himself if he is - as he is supposed to be - il} the. process of spiritual renovation this Lent. ; Greater unIon ,with God is lIOW, as it has always been, still the first business of man. . !
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Newmal11 Movement, in 75 Years' Ho.s Spread to 1,250 Campuses PHILADELPHIA (NC)-During the 1893-94 school year, 17 Catholic medical students at the University of Pennsylvania met and formed an organization designed to give Catholic students . "a chance to come" together, to know one 'another, to discuss subjects of interest. to Cahtolic~ and possibly to- .increase somewhat the opportunities for social.life;lIImong strangers coming to PhiiadelphiaY On the advice of their first chaplain-wno . feared that the organization would not surv~ve -the young men called their organization the Newman Club, after John Henry Cardinal Newman, the British scholar-convert from Anglicanism. who had yearned to make. the presence of the Catholic Church felt 'at his own beloved Oxford University. The Chaplain's fears were unfounded-but the name he suggested was inspired - because the Newman movement which began 75 years ago in the stu- . dent quarters at the University of Pennsylvania has now spread to 1,250 campuses with 1.3 miIlion Catholic students. Source of Pride Present at the first meetingwhich the most reliable existing records indicate took place in February, 1894-was a "day hop" student, James Murphy, whose nephew and namesake, Father James Murphy, now, by coinci-· dence, is rector of the University of Pennsylvania's Newman Hall <lnd St. Bede's Chapel: also director of the Newman apostolate at all 51 non-Catholic institutions of higher learning in the five-county Philadelphia. archdiocese.
The distinguished history of (h'e University of Pennsylvania's Newman Hall is a source of pride, but not of complacency; . for Father. Murphy and the stuOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER dents he serves. I . "We get a new gederation of Published weekly by Th~ Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River students every four years," 410 Highland Avenue Father Murphy noted, "and exFall River, ~ass. 02722 675-7151 'perimentation is almost the life's PUBLISHER blood' of' our work." Most Rev: Jpmes L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. 'Insight· Days GENERAL MAN~GER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER The 75:year record of experiRt. Rev. Daniel F. Shallocr, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll mentation and innovation at the MANAGING EDITOR university inciudes formation of Hugh J. Golden, LL.B. n nationally coordinated New. . . . leary Press-fall River : man movement by the late
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IVIsgr. John W. Keogh in 1917; fostering of regional intercollegiate planning. and activity, and a widespread program of orientation for Catholic high school students planning to attend nonCatholic colleges. At the campus level, the more recent "experiments" have inciuded "sensitivity retreats," black-white confrontation, "Insight" day·s'.of recollec~ion. and a student-determfned variety in the celeb'ration of 'the lHurgy (taking advantC)ge of but not exceeding the freedom of choice allowed in Church law). "Today's students," Father Murphy said, "are senstitive, serious and intelligent. Like all students,a large majority of them are disillusioned in some measure with contemporary society; unlike some students in previous periods, today's students intend to do something about changing society." Father Murphy sounds like the reflective Cardinal Newman, and like a newly assigned missionaty; when he describes the Church's apostolate on a nonCatholic 'campus. . 'Most Important' Depicting the Newman movement as "the Church manifesting its presence in the secular academic community," Father Murphy is' quick to point out that the secular academic community is "the ideological frontier of the Church." "The missionary dimension is intensified," Father Mur:phy said in an interview, "as some un iversities 'become' iiruternational in dimension and even more pluralistic in culture." "There are 110,000 international students ,in the United States this year," Father Murphy said, "and the University of Pennsylvania has a large pro·portion of foreign students in its total enrollment. In addition, university administrators and faculty members are called upon not only to advise foreign educators but even to establish new universities abroad." "Allowing for its influence," Father Murphy said, "Penn is the most important institution in the archrdiocese of Philadelphia, To meet the spiritual needs of the 28,000 Catholic students on
Lay'Chairman Continued from Page One stroyer, Korean War; Atlantic and Mediterranean Sixth Fleet; Pacific Seventh Fleet and Forward I Observer, First Marines, Korea in 1953. He is now on Reserve Duty, U.S.N.R. Otis Air Force Base. The young 1969 lay chairman was admitted to the Bar of the State of Maine in 1959. the U. S. Court of MiIi,tary Appeals, Washington, D. C, in 1959, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962, the U. S. District Cour.t for the District of Massachusetts in 1965. and the Supreme Court of the United .States in 1966. He has been in the general practice of law in Falmouth since 1963. Prominent in Cape Area Atty. Smith is the Falmouth member of Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nant.ucket Steamship Authority with past terms as chairman, vice-chairman and secretary of the Authority. He is also a trustee of Falmouth Hospital, Bay Colony Federal Savings and Loan Association, South Yarmouth, and a corporator of the Wareham Savings Bank, Wareham, Mass. He has served as Master of Chancery for Barnstable County. Membership held by the 1969 lay chairman include the following organiza·t'ions: National' Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, director and treasurer of Falmouth Junior Chamber of Commerce, American 'Legion, V.F.W., Reserve Officers Association, Falmouth Yacht Club, Historical Society and Bar Associations of Barnstable County, Boston, Mass., and Penobscott, Maine. Grateful for Appointment Atty.: Smith'f:is' a member of the steering. committee of the Catholic Charities Appeal of 'the Fall River Diocese, an advisory group to Bishop Connolly in the planning of the annual charities appeal conducted in -the Diocese for 27 years. Upon notification of his appointment by Bishop Connolly, Atty. Smith, in a telephone conversation with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, said: "It is a pleasure and an honor to work for the cause of Catholic Charities in the 1969 appeal. As a steering committee member, I am grateful again to work with Bishop Connolly, the clergy and the laity in behalf of this very great ·and worthwhile community effort in southeastern Massachusetts. I am looking forward with enthusiasm to assure a bigger and better .1969 Catholic Charities A,ppeal."
Two Colleges Plan Library Merger BALTIMORE (NC) - Loyola and Notre Dame College here have announced plans for a joint $3.5 million library, merging their presents staffs and collections. Direction wiill be the responsibility of a board of trustees separate from either school. Loyola is a Catholic men's college and Notre Dame a Catholic women's college. . Construction is to begin later this year, with completion scheduled for the Fall of 1971. Colleg~
local non-Catholic campusesfrom post-doctoral scholars at Penn to the "subway students" at the two-year community colleges - there are four full time priest-chaplains, one fulltime Sister, and 21 -part-time priestchaplains.
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Conference Studies Ind ions' Problems LANSING (NC) -The community affairs department of the Michigan Catholic Conference, after a conference on the problems of the state's Indian population, announced plans to support legislation designed to ease the plight of the ,Indians. At the conference, department memb~rs heard three Indian spokesmen and a community relations specialist discuss the immediate problems of the Indian community. They noted that the Indians, many of whom live in rural areas, have the same problems that disadvantaged minorities have in urban areas-poverty, inadequate housing, high unemployment and poor health. The community affairs department said 'after the conference that they would work to bring the Indians' problems to the attention of the public and would support legislation to solve these problems.
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v ATICAN CITY (NC) Concerned with the growing size of recent annual volume'S of the "Activities of the Holy See" (Acta Apostolicae Sedis), the Vatican publishers presented Pope Paul VI with a trimmed-down version for 1968. The publishers described the 1,560-page edition for 1968 as a "faithful documentation of the more important events characterized in the life of the Church during the past year." Despite its numerous deletions, the latest volume is only 120 pages shorter than the 1967 edition, which had 1,680 pages. (i{me from the 1968 volume are listings of activities of such organizations as Caritas Internationalis (International Catholic Charities Organization), the Pontifical Relief Organization and more than a score of other groups. Other Sources The publishers said, however, that activities of those omitted groups are to be included in other publications. As in previous editions, the first section of the volume ch ronicled papal audiences, statements and acts. Some o! these were: New norms for the pontifical household; new rites for'ordinations of deacons, priests and bishops; the papal credo for the people of God ,at the closing of the year of faith; the encyclical Humanae Vitae and the Pope's visit to Bogota, Colombia, for the international Eucharistic Congress. Coun Some of. the statistics. of the Roly See's adtivitiefl, in, 1968 were (fIgures in parentheses are 1967): The ,Roman .Rota, the chu'rch high court, heard 224 (215) cases. All of them except one (two) concerned annulment of marriage. One hundred fifty-two (151) decisions favored nullity of dispensation and 71 (61) were unfavorable. Forty-six per cent (33%) of the causes were treated free of charge or reduced in charge according to the means of the petitioners. Five hundred thirty-four (529) persons were listed as Vatican citizens. This included 31 (28) cardinals, 1.19 (117) diplomatic representatives of the Holy See abroad, 26 (27) prelates and ecclesiastics, five (12) Religious, 54 (same) Swiss guards, and 146 (148) laymen.
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FLAMENCO IDANCERS: Preparing for a flamenco dance exhibition at a 'Spani:>h Fiesta to be held in April at Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, are, front, Colleen Shea, Jane Powers; rear, Debbie Freelove, Lynn Bartleson, Peggy McGraw, Barbara Jennings, Darlene Wilson.
Students Voice O'pinion on Church 'It's God, Yes; the Institution, No' CHICAGO (NC) -They believe in God. but generally don't go to Sunday Mass. They scoff at angels, rosaries and holy water. They tell you' the words "prayer," "confession" and "sin" aren"t in their vocabularies. Asked if the Roman Catholic Church is relevant to them, they'll answer. "It's G()d, yes; the institution, no." Ask them what their concept of God has become, and they'll reply: "I am God." "They" are a group of 40 Ca-tholic students interviewed at random by The New World, Chicago archdiocesan newspaper, on Chicago Catholic campuses from DePaul and Loyola Universities to Mundelein, Barat, St. Xavier and Rosary Colleges. The result was a picture of the first generation of Catholic students to remaiJ1, Catholic in name but ,to prefer to call itself "ChrisUan"-students who claim .the do's and don't's of structured Catholic morality are no longer meaningful to them. Were the answers the students gave legitimately widespread opinion? Several deans of students said "yes." "But there are so many degrees of what you term alienation' from Church' structure," said Sister Sarita, O.P., Rosary's dean of women. Grade School God. 'Out' "Some students are merely searching; some, completely rejecting; a few paying ()nly lip service to religion so that society will accept them, -but most are reacting against the structure * * * though not against God," Sister Sarita added. Miss Mariette LeBlanc, Loyola's dean of women, also agreed: "It is true * * ,~ and most of ,the students not wishing to identify wHh Church structure are not hippie types, either." Do students in the 1960s believe in God and ihe Catholic Church? These answers· were given: "One thing I'm sure of * * * the God from grade school definitely is out," said Kathy Kenzie, 20, Rosary senior. "Something sort of changes w:hen you become a teenager," she said. . . "I mean, if your outlook's constantly changing, your idea of God and your way of looking at Him must be, too."
"God to us is something, someone being redefined," agreed 11a Rae Kesler, 21, MU'ldelein senior. "You hear this rebuttal from theology teachers: 'it's not that you don"t believe in God, you just don't believe in the Old-
Prelate Deplores Discipline Lack BOSTON (NC)-Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston said here that in his opinion the greatest problem of the Church in 'the' future is the breakdown of discipline. Cardinal Cushing, speaking at a ceremony in Holy .Cross Cathedral here, referred to the disregard of authority among many priests and to the fact that numbers are leaving the active ministry. "What is the Church of the future going to be like if its priests have no respect for authority?" he asked. Later, commenting on the recent statement of Pope Paul VI to parish priests of Rome that Christ had set forth a life of celibacy for priests and that to live otherwise "could paralyze the priestly vocation," Cardinal Cushing said: "I submit to the judgement of the Holy Father. Rome has spoken. As far as I'm concerned, the problem is settled."
First Laymen BALTIMORE (NC) - For the first time in history six laymen have been named to the board of trustees of Mercy Hospital here. The six are also the first men and include the first three non-Catholics to serve 'on the board of the 95-year-old hospital conducted by the Sisters of Mercy.
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NEWARK (NC) - Some 150 chanting, singing pickets paraded outside a downtown hotel here where a Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) was being presented to Archbishop Thomas A. Boland of Newark. At one point, about 30 demonstrators entered the hotel lobby and headed for the banquet hall where the award dinner was being held. Police turned them back and ushered them out of the lobby without further incident. The protestors were members of a newly formed coalition organized by independent lay, c:lcrgy and religious groups who <:Iaim a membership of over 2,000. All of them have publicly supported the charge of "racism" mude against Archbishop Boland by a group of 20 priests working in inner-city areas of the archdiocese.' They had claimed in a telegram to the NCCJ that the selection of Archbishop Boland for the Brotherhood Award would be "a sham and a mockery of the word 'brotherhood.'''
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Margo Corton, 18, Barat freshman, doesn't feel students today are turned off completely to God. "There seems to be a need for Him," Miss Corton said. "But I went through a stage where I didn't believe. I think this is a healthy process * 0;0 * I'm a stronger Christian for it." Students who do leave ,the Church, for however. long a period, are~erely taking a vacation from it, was the way Joe Moran, 21, Loyola senior, put it. "We don't find many adults trying to find God in people, 50 we just look at the Church as just anothet segment of the federal bureaucracy we're forced to deal with," said Peter Craves, 20, Loyola senior. Joanne Caput, 21, Rosary senior, added that students in the '60s are looking more inside themselves; they feel the modern Catholic Church is outdated in moving alcng with this new spirit. "The big thing to us now is persons instead of rules," .she said.
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1 HE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Feb. 27, 1969 ,
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,CHICAGO (NC) - Christian "celebration"· retains the human depth and brotherliness of pioneer days even in the midst' of a modern, complicated city like Chicago. A night of singing praises to the human soul and the stand it takes before good and evil was celebrated throughout the meeting rooms, Hlled with the voices of 1,000 participants in the Conference. on Man and the City held here. '\You sing a song, I'll sing a song, we will sing together," intoned the soprano voice of Rosa Page Welch, and 100 voices joined her. The same concert was enacted several fimes as an experience in community singing, symbolizing the ecumenical determination to teach in better w'ays a Gospel' significant to modern man. Along with Negro spirituals, several Mexican melodies and American folk songs repeated the message of hope and craving for fulfillment. The 'singing wa~ a preview to the luncheon Celebration that closed the meetings, with participants voicing the innermost experiences they had during their stay here. in ballads and "haikus," Japanese form of poem.
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before the taxes are deducted). With the suit box under my arm and now my nose in the air I fairly floated over to the toy store to tell Joe ,and Jason of my fabulous purchase. Oddly enough, Joe didn't think it was such a bargain (of course he hadn't been exposed to those $495 Seymour ,Fox's or the $395' Courreges'). In fact, the price so stunned him that he practica,lly 'fell into the gutter on Newbury Street where no one ever falls into the gutter (especially oyer a measly price tag. Of course 1 consoled hhm all the way home with the fact that 1 had purchased quality and that such high quality was. worth eating only hamburgers for the next six months. Because the ensemble was of the palest grey (and because I am an unmitigated slob) the dress part spent a goodly amount of time visiting the cleaners, but not the jacket-that is, not until that fateful day in late December. Of course, 'once before this time I had noticed a few black spots on shoulders of the jacket after I had been caught in the rain but I thought perhaps my hair color had decided to let more than my hairdresser know. ' However it wasn't until the jacket had returned' from the cleaners and I was on my way to a luncheon that I realized htat the fur, or something backing the fur had definitely run, resulting in a shadow of black dye around any part of the' jacket that was trimmed, with the fur. To say 'it was noticeable was an understatement. Let me only mention that this was a bridal luncheon and I got more attention than the bride. Caught in Middle The cleaner blamed the manufacturer, -the buyer for the store blamed the' cleaner, and I, the consumer, am ,caught right in the middle. This looks like a case for Betty F.urness, but she went out with ,the last administration. I returned the suit to the store (with Joc along as protectionConference Urges More this time my ,mother took Jason to the toy.store) and needless ,to Medical Aid for ,lPoor say 'I didn't get the same red INDIANAPOLIS (NC) _ The carpet treatment I got the day I -board of directors of the Indipurchased it. In fact, one gray ana Catholic Conferehce has .haired man kept walking by' called for "a program of medical' muttering that' anyone that aid to the indigent which will be knew anything would realize responsive to the needs of the that one 'removes fur before p,?or:: ' h a v i n g an outfit cleaned. Joe said he would gift me with a Winter 'Suit if-·I wanted to take a jaunt up to Boston and pick one out. Accompanied by Jason we ventur.ed , forth and while I spent oer h a I'd '- earned . money on the second - ,floor designer's salon of one of the supposedly luxury stores of the eastern seaboard,' Joe took Jason over to another store and let him browse to hi~ heart's content. ,I Now, if you're anything like me',' you know that just to stroll through the d~signer's department of one of these 'exclusive stores takes a bit of courage bu~ to ,ask any of the aristocratic clerks to' wait on you takes nerve beyond description. Gen- . erally when they iook down their haughty noses at you, you can't help feeling that your hem has suddenly decided to fall, that there is an eight inch run in your stockings, or that your nose is shining like a beac~>n, , Stunning Prices Fortunately that day' (at least, aUhe time, 1 thought it was fortunate) a darling young girl from their Safari Room'said that she could venture into this realm of such as Jackie 0 and that she could find something [ would like. ' The latter statement I didn't doubt to be true as she ,came out with one stunning ensemble after another and of course the prices were just, as stunning as the garments. After practically falling into a rack of little originals when 1 glanced at ,the price tag of $495.00 on one of, the Seymour, Fox outfits she had brought forth for my inspection, I couldn't help but feel that 1 was really being rather ~conserv ative when 1 did decide to buy a Zelink-Matlik dress an!J jacket.
The board expressed, concern In the case of my' pa rticula r about. a series of amendments suit the Queen.'s dressmaker proposed to the Medicaid bill in couldn't have removed, 'the fur, the House of Representatives which not only trimmed the colh' h lar, but ran' down, the. whole w IC would retain the prognam : length' of' the front of tlle,',iacket, at its present level' of ~xperiditures. As of this writing the ,buyer has reported that the manufacturer James O. Brennan, executive will have nothing to do' with it, director of the confererice, said that the store has had it cleaned the amendments would result in and they think it 'will be all right a decrease in the funding of (time will tell about this). All of medical care for those who this has only cost me four, or five cannot afford it. , phone calls to Boston, three trips "Witl) the rising' costs of med(oh yes I forgot to mention I ical care, it seems both 'unrealhave to go and pick it up) and ist-ic and unwise to ad'opt the' 'two months without my suit. position that better care can, be Heaven may protect the workprovided without raising the ing girl but the life of the conlevel of expenditure's," Brennan sumer appears to be in the opposaid. ' s i t e direction.
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CORNER POCKET: The line seems ok, but 'Sister was concerned about the eight-boll lest she scratch the shot. She made it. NC Photo.
Disguises Problem Father Flannery 'Says 'Polite Anti-Semitism' , Perils Dialogue ATLANTA (NC) "Polite anti-Semitism" in ,the United States has combined with other factors to bring Jewish and Christian dialogue to a "very fragile" stage, a priest warned here. Father Edward H. Flannery said prosperous times in ,America have' prevented anti-Semitism from reaching the point of violence, but at the same time have disguised the problem and made it harder to deal with .. The' executive director of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the U. S, Bishops' Committee for Ecu:menical and Interreligious Affairs said American anti-Semitism is "de-' ceptive" because it does not usually involve direct confrontation bet.ween gen1ile and Jew. Instead, he said, it is characterized ,in attitudes and hate behind ,the back of Je~ish people. Father Flanne~y ,made his comments at a joint meeting of .Jews and Catholics at the cathedral of Christ the King. This was
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Religious Groups Join Project Equality WILMINGTON (NC)-Twen~y-one religious bodies in the Delmarva Pen'insula areawhich includes Delaware, the eastern shore of Maryland, .and two counties in Virginia - have joined to commit their multimillion dollilr pUI'Chasing power to Project 'Equality, a nationwide interfaith program to utilize the hiring and purchasing power of religious institutions to end emplo~ment discrimination. Robert A. Schunn. a Catholic layman and chemist. was elected chairman of the local program, which has headquarters here.
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Practice Inefficiency By Joseph and Ma1'ilyn Rode1'ick A friend o~ce facetiously suggested to me that all newly married males should follow advice which was given , him by a sage relative: when your wife asks you to do anything at all in the house, do it willingly, but make such a mess of it that she will 'never ask you to do it again. decide to give up candy or desThat is, if she asks you to serts orbetwee~-meal snacks. do the dishes, do them will- About the only tning that beneingly, ,but break the best dish. If she asks you to wash the floor, do not hesitate, 'but leave it a streaky mess. In this way she will realize that although you are willing, you are so inept that she is better off i.f she does the work herself. It is too late for me to follow this advice so I am spending the Winter months doing all sorts of jobs I detest. My wife feels that Winter is the time to make up . for, the whole year and so I am now stripping a wall of paper which has ,been painted over and then papered over again. This room will finally be painted again (by next Winter, at the rate the work is progressing now) 'but not until the old paper is completely removed. Now, anyone who has had to tackle the job of taking off paper that 'has been painted knows that the job'is almost impossible. To do -it correctly, on~ must soak little bits 'of the paper at a time in a mixture of water and vinegar so that the paper becomes wet enough to 'be scraped off the wall. The difficulty is that paint is impervious to water' and this soaking process has very little long-term effect. This kind of job requires infinite ,patience (something I have very little of). Spring cannot come a minute too soon. I shall be very happy to escape from our overheated house to the' fresh air, from doing monotonous jobs to getting something worthwhile done in the garden, and from the noise of the children to the relative quiet of the out-of-doors. At any rate, I would suggest that any newly-,wed quickly drop that dish, mess up; that floor and become a helpless husband. Be inefficient, so that your wife can make cute jokes about your having two left thumbs while she does all the work around the house! In the Kitchen I, for one, find it quite refreshing to see Lent '69 ushered in on a note of concern for our fellow man; and an urging by our pastors to adopt a ,positive approach to our Lenten duties rather than the negative one that we of the older generation were so familiar with. In this age of awareness that we are our brother's keeper it would seem quite superficial to
Reports 14 Per Cent Rise in School Cost CINCINNATI (NC) -An increase of 14 per cent in operating ,expenses of archdiocesan high schools is expected in the coming year. A spokesman for' the archdiocesan board of education's finance committee said the perpupil cost in the high schools will go from this year's $288 to $330 next year. Noting that President Richard Nixon and his economic advisors are concerned about inflation because of an annual rise of four to five per cent in prices, the finance committee spokesman said: "People who are concerneq with paying for Catholic education would gladly trade percentages with the President."
fited from this type of sacrifice was the shape of our figures, certainly not the condition of our souls. . One long ago Lent, when I was a very unhip teenager, I was working as a clerk in a downtown store and' ironically was placed on the candy counter when I had "given' up" all such goodies for the pre-Easter season. All I can remember of that particular Lent was the longing of my sweet tooth . The minute Easter arrived on the scene it was the signal for a bonbon binge to end all 'bonbon binges. Any meaningful Christian experiences during 'that time were far outshadowed by my adolescent craving for candy and I felt I was doing something tremendous when there were so many more positive things I could have been doing. Proper Perspective This does not mean that we should not practice self-denial, but that we should put it into its proper ,perspective. Too many Catholics over the years felt because they heard the' rumbling of their stomachs during Lent they truly were being as Christian as ,possible, while their fellow man's well-being was someone else's concern. The spirit of this Lent could be one of brotherhood. The other evening at a gathering the subject came up of helping those souls in the ghettos. A few of us "middleaged matrons" said that, seeing our city lacked a' ghetto, we seemed quite helpless to enter into this spirit, of helping those less fortunate. One of the priests in the group quickly answered that although we couldn't fly to Biafra or drive to Appalachia, we could still find Christ in our neighbor and "our own thing" in our environment. Here's a tasty Lenten dish if you're planning on using a lot of seafood in your menus for the next six weeks.
CINCINNATI (NC)-Alice R. May, veteran social welfare official and former president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, will receive Mount St. Joseph College's annual Mater et Magistra award Sunday, March 9. Miss May, a native of Tiffin, Ohio, retired recently as assistant director of Catholic 'Charities of the Baltimore archdiocese after 20 years of service with the agency. A graduate of Wayne State University with a master's degree in social work from the University of 'Michigan, she was associated earlier with agencies in Toledo, Detroit, Des Moines, Los Angeles and Washington, She was president of the IFCA from 1958 to 1961. The Mater et Magistra medal is given ,annually by Mount St. Joseph College to a woman who ('xemplifies the principles of Christian social action spelled out by Pope John XXIII in his encyclical of that name.
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._..... IN BIAFRA: Refugee children arriving at Holy Rosary Mission in Nguru, Biafra are interviewed by Father John Doheny, Irish missionary who tries to help them. NC Photo.'
Helps Child, Parent Connecticut Catholic Committee Endorses Education Reimbursement Bill
HARTFORD (NC)-The Connecticut Catholic Committee on Education (CCCE) .. has announced its endorseinent of the secular educational equalization ' reimbursement bill recently introduced in the state's general assembly. The committee, whose membership includes professional educators and community leadCLAM PIE ers throughout the state, said Pastry for a two crust pie . passage of the bill would, be an Parsley (fresh if you have it) important step towards helping 1f.J cup chopped onion solve what it termed a' crisis in 3 Tablespoons butter education in the state. 3 Tablespoons flour , The committee called on citi11,2 cup light cream zens of the state to support the Salt bill. Pepper . The proposed ~bill asks that the 2 cups chopped clams (I use state provide an equalization two cans of the minced) reim'bursement to parents of 1) Line an 8 inch 'pie plate nonpublic schools. This would with the pastry and sprinkle cover the portion of tuition costs the bottom with finely chopped for those secular subjects taught parsley. in public schools and which are 2) In a saucepan saute the required by law to :be taught in onions in the butter until soft, non-public schools. but not 'brown. Stir in the flour CCCE co-chairmen Edwin M. as smoothly as possible and cook Jones of Greenwich and Richard for a few seconds longer. Re- T. Scully of Hartford said the move from heat and stir in the committee views the bill "as a cream. Return to heat and' cook constitutional way to help prostirring constantly until thick- vide the children in nonpublic ened. Season with salt and pep- schools in our state with an opper. portunity to secure the secular 3) In the pie shell arrange portion of their education equal alternate layers of the clams and to that provided by the state of the sauce. Sprinkle the top with Connecticut for children in pubsome more of the chopped pars- lic schools." ley. Right to Choose 4) Cover with a top crust, crimping edges to seal. Brush "The rationale of th~ bill," crust with beaten egg mixed they continued, "is that the state requires compulsory education, with a little water. 5) Bake in a 425 oven for and parents in a pluralistic so35 minutes or' until golden ciety have a constitutional right ,brown. to choose between public and 0
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LOS ANGELES (NC)-James Francis Cardinal McIntyre said "prostitution" of communications media by presentation of sensationalism for commercial gain cannot be tolerated. Speaking at a Communion breakfast of the Catholic Press Council here, the archbishop of Los Angeles said the communications industry must understand that freedom stands for good, not evil. He asked the radio, TV and newspapermen to maintain standards of high quality in elements of religion, honesty, justice, loyalty and genuine patrio路tism. In another talk, Father Ellwood Kieser, C.S.P., producer of TV's Insight program, chal. lenged the justification made of objectionable material by producers who say "It's what the people want:' "I doubt that this is really what the people want. The danger is that media will come to dominate and contro~ us, dehumanize us," he declared. Media is for man, he said, not the other way around.
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On all pIans, your cash benefits are paid from the very first day you enter the hospital. as long-and as many times-as you are hospitalized right up to the maximum (Aggregate .of Benefits) of your pill!!. IMPORTANT: Here is another real "plus"-if you have been told that anyone in your family is "uninsurable'" Even if one of youq covered family members has suffered from chronIc ailments in the past, the kinds of conditions that come back again and again or are likely to recur, the Hospital Plan lor Catholics will cover each lamily member lor these pre-existin'g conditions alter-he has been protected by the policy lor two years! But whether or not you have had a chronic ailment, the Hospital Plan for Catholics. will
PAYS YOU: $100 weekly ($14.28 daily) extra cash income while you are hospitalized. If you are Iivinll by yourself. or wish to cover only one family member, you will want the Individual Plan. You pay only $3.2'5 a month and y~u get your first month for only $1.001
(NOTE: See below for over·65 rates and how you may enroll parents who are over 65.)
cover any accident immediately, the very da}' your policy goes inlo eOect-and any new sickness which begins after your policy is 30 days old. There are only these mini· mum necessary exceptions: pregnancy or any consequence thereof (unless you ·have the AII·Family Plan). war, military service, nervous or mental disease or disorder, suicide, .alcoholism .or drug addiction, or conditions covered by Workmens Compensation or Employers Liability Laws. You are free to go to any hospital of your own choice that makes a charge for room and board, with these exceptions only: nursing homes, convalescent or self-care units of hospitals, Federal hospitals, or any hospital primarily for treatment of tuberculosis. alcoholism, drug addiction. or nervous or mental dis-: order. .
Special Note If You Are Over 65 During this limited enrollment you ·can get the extra cash prolection needed to fill the gaps in Medicare simply by filling out the . Enrollme.nt Form on next page wirholit any . other qualifications! The Hospital Plan for Catholics not only accepts you regardless of age, it gives you' hard-to-find extra cash protection during the high-risk senior years at a cost within your means. If you are over 65 now, or when you be:
come 65, the following modest monthly in. crease applies. (This is the only increase that can ever be made as long as you continue your policy in force): Female on AII.Family or Husband-Wife Plan ADD: $2.25 Female on One·Parent Family or Individual Plan ......•.. ADD: $3.00 Male on any Plan ..... " .... ADD:· $3.00
Are Your Parents Senior Citizens? Even though your parents are covered by limited Enrollment. Have the parent to be Medicare, a serious condition requiring enrolled complete and sign the Enrollment lengthy hospitalization can mean the end of Form, but enter"}'ollr address c/o your name. their reserves and loss of independence. To (Example: c/o John Jones. 120 Main Street, honor' their independence and safeguard Anytown. U.S.A.) We will send the policy your own reserves, enroll your parents in . and premium notices to you. Just enclose $1 the Hospital Plan for Catholics during this for the first month.
Accidenial Death Benefit On All Four Plans In the event of the accidental death (within 90 days of an accident) of any person covered under the Hospital Plan for Catholics. $500 will be paid to any beneficiary you
wish to name. subject to the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy. You may, if you wish, name your parish as your beneficiary.
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18 Important Questions Answered ABOUT THE NEW HOSPITAL PLAN FOR CATHOLICS 1. What ;s the Hospital Plan for C~tholics? The Hospital Plan for Catholics is a brand-new, low-cost health protection plan-created especially for Catholics-that pays eXIra cash income direct to yol! when covered accident or illness hospitalizes you or a member of your family. 2. Why do I need the Hospital Plan for Cath· olics in addition to my regular insurance? Probably your present hospital insurance won't cover all your hospital expenses, but even if it does, you will s/ill need help to cover all your household expenses when you are hospitalized. 3. Can. I collect even though I carry other health insurance? Yes, the Plan pays you in addition to any health insurance you carry, whether individual or groupeven Medicare! And all your benefits are tax-free! 4. Is there a lot of red tape to quali{y? None at all. Your only qualification is to complete and mail your Enrollment Form by the deadline date shown on the form below.
S. Which plan should I choose? You may choose any of four low-cost plans-you can actually select the exact plan that suits you best! If yours is a young, growing family, we recom· mend the ALL-FAMILY PLAN. You and your wife are covered at once for accidents, for new sicknesses which begin after your policy is 30 days old, and for maternity benefits after your policy has been in fotce for 10 months. All yOUt unmarried dependent children (and future additions) between 3 months and under 19 are included, at no extra cost, as long as they live at home. If you are the only parent living with your children, we sU88est the ONE-PARENT FAMILY PLAN. This covers you and all eligible children living at home between 3 months of age and under 19. Undet this plan, of course, future additions are not included since· no maternity benefit is provided in the ONE·PARENT FAMILY PLAN.
count"-much like putting money in and taking it out of the bank. Peace Of Mind And Security For as long as you live and continue to pay' your premiums, we will never cancel or refuse to renew your policy for health reasons-and we guarantee that we will never cancel, modify or terminate your policy unless we decline renewal on all policies of this type in your entire state or until the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy has been paid. Extra Cash In Addition To Other Insurance Yes, the Hospital Plan for Catholics pays you in addition to any health insurance you carry, whether individual or group-even Medicare! Furthermore, all your benefits are tax-freel Of course, you may carry only one like policy with Mutual Protective. Surprisingly Low Cost Membership in the Hospital Plan for Catholics costs considerably less than you might·
If you have no children, or if your children are grown and no longer dependent on you, .you will want the HUSBAND-WIFE PLAN. Or, if you are living by yourself. you will want the INDIVIDUAL PLAN. 6. If I become hospitalized, when do my benefits begin? On all plans, your cash benefits are paid from the very first day you enter the hospital, for as long -and for as many times-as 'you are hospitalized, up to the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of the plan you choose. 7. How much can I be paid in a Catholic hos· pital? Each plan has its own "Aggregate of Benefits," what we call the maximum. For example, under the ALL-FAMILY PLAN, /he maximum i1"$1O,OOO-$IOO a week ($14.2'8 a day) extra cash income while you are hospitalized. $75 weekly ($10.71 daily) while your wife is hospitalized. $50 weekly ($7.14 daily) for each eligible child hospitalized. Undet the ONE·PAR~NTFAMILY PLAN, ';;e maximum iJ$7.500-$ 100 weekly ($14.28 daily) while you are hospitalized. $50 weekly ($7.14 daily) for each eligible child hospitalized. Under the HUSBAND-WIFE PLAN, /he maximum is $7,500 - $100 weekly ($14.28 daily) while you are hospitalized. $75 weekly ($10.71 daily) while your wife is hospitalized. Under the INDIVIDUAL PLAN. /he maximr,m is $5,000 - $100 a week ($14.28 a day) while you ate hospitalized. 8. Must I go to a .Catholic hospital to collect benefits? No, you will be covered in any hospital of your choice that makes a charge for room and board, except nursing homes, convalescent or self-care units of hospitals, Federal hospitals. or any hospi. tal primarily for the treatment of tuberculosis, drug addiction, alcoholism, or nervous or mental disorder.
expect. Regardless of your age, size of your family, or the plan you select, you get your first month for: only $1.00. See box on preceding page for low rate of plan that suits you best. " How Can We Do It? . How can we offer so much for so little? The answer is simple: .We have lower total sales costs! The Hospital Plan for Catholics is a mass enrollment plan-all business is conducted directly between you and the company by mail. No salesmen 'are used. No costly investigations or extra fees. It all adds lip to real savings we share with you by giving you top protection at lower cost. A Respected Company' In addition to the exceptional advantages of the Hospital Plan for Catholics-you get something even more valuable: Your policy is backed by the resources and integrity of the Mutual Protective Insurance Company, "The Catholic's Company," specializing in low-cost protection for Catholics
9. When does my policy go into force? It becomes effective the very same day we receive your Enrollment Form. Accidents that occur on or after that date are covered immediately. After your policy is 30 days old, sicknesses which begin thereafter are covered. Under the ALL-FAMILy PLAN, childbirth or pregnancy or any consequence thereof is covered after your policy has been in force for 10 months. . 10. What if someone in my family has had a health problem that may occur again? Any covered family member who has suffered from chronic ailments in the past will be coo,:eted for these' pre-existing conditions after he has been protected by the policy for twO years. 1 I. What conditions aren't covered? Only these minimum necessary exceptions: preg· nancy or any consequence thereof (unless you have the ALL·FAMILY PLAN), war, military service, nervOus or mental disease or disorder, suicide, alcoholism or drug addiction, or any condition covered by· Workmen's Compensation or Employers Liability Laws. . 12. Can I drop out any time? Can you drop me? We will never cancel or refuse to renew your policy for health reasons-for as lonll as you live and continue to pay your premiums. We guarantee that we will nevet cancel, modify or terminate your policy unless we decline renewal on all poli· cies of this type in your entire state or until the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy has been paid. You, of course, can drop your policy on any renewal date. ·13. Why is the Hospital Plan for Catholics al· most like having an extra "bank account"? When your policy is issued, your insurance provides up to $10,000, $7,500, or $5,OOO-depend. ing on the A88regate of Benefits of the. plan you choose. This is your "Health-Bank Account."
Then, every month yOUt policy is in force, an amounr equal to your regular monthly premium (including your lirsf month) is actually added to your maximum. When you have claims, benefits are simply sub/rac/ed from your "account." 14. Are there any other unusual benefits? Yes. In the event of an accidental death (within 90 days of an accident) of any person covered,. $500 will be paid to the covered person's beneficiary (you may name your parish as beneficiary if you wish) subject to the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy. 15. Will my claims be handled promptly? Yes. With your policy, you will receive a simple, easy-to·use Claim Form. Your claims will be processed quickly and your checks sent directly to you. 16. Why are the premiums in the Hospital Plan for Catholics so low? You actually gel all these benefits-at such a' low cost-because this is a mass enrollment plan-and no salesmen are used. Our volume is higher and our sales costs nre lower. 17. How much does my first month COSt? Only $1.00, regardless 'of your age, the size of your. family or the plan you select. After the first month, if you arc under 65, you pay only these low monthly rates: only $7.95 a month for the ALLFAMILY PLAN; only $5.95 a month for the ONE-PARENT FAMILY PLAN; only $5.75 a month for the HUSBAND·WIFE PLAN; only $3.25.a month for THE INDIVIDUAL PLAN. (When you ate over 65, premiums increase. See modest increase in box at left.) 18. Why should I enroll right now? Because an unexpected sickness or accident could strike ·without warning - and you will not be covered until your policy is in force. Remember, if fot any reason you change your mind, you may return your policy within 10 days and your $1.00 will be refunded immediately.
all across America for over 35 years. Catholics everywhere, possibly right in your own community (including many priests), know of us and may be insured· by us. Many Catholic school children have for years enjoyed Mutual Protection coverage. Serving policyholders thro'ugliout the United States direct by mail, Mutual Protective has its headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, where it is incorporated and licensed.
Doesn't it mak~ good sense for you to be protected by the Hospital Plan for Catholics, should you or a mefQber of your family be suddenly hospitalized? Why not take a moment now to fill out your Enrollment Form and mail it promptly with only $/.OO-"introductory" cost for your first month's coverage. Monllly·Back Guarantee When you receive your policy, you'll see that it is direct, honest, easy t9 understand. But if for any reason you' change your mind, you may return it within 10 days arid we will prompf/y refund your dollar. Please Note: Because this is a limited enrollment, we can only accept enrollments postmarked on or before the date shown below. But please don't wait! The sooner w~ receive your Form, the sooner your Hospital Plan for Catholics will cover you and your family. We cannot cover you if your policy is not in forcel
No Red Tape-No Salesman Will Can If you enroll now, during this limited enrollment period there are no other qualifications other than to complete and mail the Enrollment Form below. We will issue your Hospital Plan for Catholics (Form P147 Series) immediately-the same day we receive your Form. Along with your policy, you will receive an easy-to-use Claim Form. Any time you need your benefits, you can be sure that your claim will be handled promptly. '
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Church Tax
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Continued frpm Page One churches and religious and educational institutions. Taxing churches is not a new idea in this country. President James Madison questioned the granting of exemptions to the 'churches. President U. S. Gz:ant demanded the exemptions cease. Even some churchmen consis.tently have argued against exemption. They contend churches should have'to pay for essential services, such as fire and police protection, as do individual citizens. Side Income Some churches, of course, to not depend on these -profit-making financial ventures as much as do other churc1:les. The Catholic Church is reported to have holdings in some housing and
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Exemptions apartment projects. Another example of church investment is the business dealings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), This church owns daily newspapers, radio and television stations, banks and department stores, as well as many other businesses. All profit derived from these holdings are tax-exempt. This is the sort of thing that Congress is expected to look into.
iMMACULATE CONCIEPTION, NORTH EASTON Wo~en's Guild members will present a concert, "Springtime with Music" at a Friday night, March 7 in the church auditorium. The concert wiil feaure ': Miss Doris' Tirrell, 'organist;'1'~"'. Walter Lendk, pianist; and Dan'{-'-~ iel Benjamin, baritone,. Tickets are available from guild mem(. Ie One man is more concerned ·bers and will also be on sale at with the impression he makes the ,hall the evening of the per- It"~ on the rest of mankind, another formance. Dessert and coffee with the impression the rest of will follow the progratn. mankind makes oli him. , ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, -Schopenhauer FALL RIVER The Women's' Guild will meet Monday night, March ,3 in the Shamrock Room of the Corky Row Club. The Pebbles of Sacred Hearts Academy will entertain and Mrs. Dennis Lynch will be in charge of' arrangements. ,New guild officers are Miss Margaret Lahey, president; ,Mrs. Daniel Grace, vice-president; Miss Anne Marie Lingard and Mrs. George Boitano, se,cretaries. THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE DRIENTAL CHURCH OUR LADY OF ANGELS. FALL RIVER I This column's happiest readers are the men, The parish day of prayer will women' and children who know they're needed. be observed Sunday, March 9. The days we're busiest helping others !Ire the The Blessed Sacrament ,will be exposed from noon to 7 Sunday happiest days of our lives.... Who needs you evening. A closing ceremony at most? Surprisingly, God needs you - for in· 7 will include rosary, homily, stance, to help an abandoned orphan become procession and Benediction. An a God·loving, responsible adult. Lepers need adoration schedule will be caryou (there are still 15·million lepers in the ried out by streets in alphabetworld), blind children need you, and so do we. ical order and parish organiza" . Here in New York we are your agents, telling tions will 'also be assigned hours. DO you where the Holy Father says your help is The Holy Rosary Sodality will SOMETHING needed, and channeling your help promptly and sponsor a penny sale at 7:30 MEANINGFUL safely to the people in need.... Want to feel Thursday night, March 20 in the WHILE good right now? Do without/sometHlng you want parish hall. YOU'RE but do not need, and send the money instead ST. PATRICK; STILL for one of the needs below. yOU'll feel good, SOMERS,ET ALIVE The Women's Guild will preespecially if your gift is big enough to mean 'cHAIR OF PETER: Giovanni Bernini, the famous sculptor, sent a fashion show at Venus architect and designer, in 1661 installed this 'reliquary which he a sacrifice to you. This is your chance to do de Milo restaurant in Swansea called the Chair of Peter as a symbol of the teaching authority something meaningful for the world - it's God's, at 7:30 Wednesday night, March of' the Church abov~ the altar he designed and built at the world - while you're still alive. 19. Models will 'be directed by west end of the apse in St. Peter's basil.ic.a. NC Photo. .... Mrs. Charles< Cronan and Mrs.' William Moniz will 'be in charge Only $8.50 gives our priests and Sisters in of tickets. Other chairmen are . LEPERS Shertallay, south India, enough Dapsone 'mit Mrs. William DeMello, special prizes; Mrs. Edward . Tavares, acJe' tablets for 43 lepers for a year,! publicity; Mrs. Lawrence Souza, programs. - Mrs. Albert ChamFbr only $2.50 a week ($10 a month, $120 a poux Jr. will provide' musical year) you can make sure' that an abandoned accompaniment.: VATICAN CITY (NC) - The that carbon 14 tests are being BABIES baby has food, clothing, a blanket and love. OUR LADY OF VICTORY, scientific examination of the so- carried out to determine the age NEED We'll send you a photo of the baby you 'adopt', CENTERVILLE ,called Chair of St. Peter, which of the chair and that they "canYOU tEllI you something about him (or her), and ask Spring Things will be the has hung over the far altar in not be' hurried." the Sister-in'charge to keep you informed. theme of a fashion show to be St. Peter's Basilica for three Msgr. Maccarrone said that the sponsored Tuesday, March 25 by centuries, is still progressing, chair should be considered a o Your stringless gifts in any amount ($5,000, the Women's Guild at East Bay and the 'heac,l of the scientific "cimelio"-a' museum piece or MEET $1,000, $500, $100, $50, $25, $10, $5, $2) Lodge, Osterville. Mrs. Ellis commission promises that all re- heirloom-,-rather than a relic. MISSION will help the neediest wherever they are - in Johnson and Mrs. James Mur- 'sults wiU be made public. He said .it is a symbo.l of the EMERGENCIES India and the Holy Land, for instance~ . phy are co-chairmen, and Mrs. Msgr. Michele Maccarrone, de- teaching authority of St. Peter Norman Boucher will ,tbe com- nying published reports that the and his successors rather than mentator. Tickets are available investigations which ,began in the chair itseif. o Only you can make your will-and do it this THINK week to be sure the poor will have your help from guild members and at local November had been concluded, "rhe historical authenticity of stores. ,OF even afte'r you're gone: Our legal title: CATHOLIC said that new scientific experts the physical chaiI: is a secondary YOURSELF, NEAR EAST WELFARE AsSOCIATION. Also, our priests The annual covered dish sup- had been summoned to insure question," he said. "Even during TOO . per sponsored by the guild will, that the examinations be as the heyday of the Protestant ' will offer promptly the Masses you provide for. take place ~on~ay night, March - complete as possible. polemic against Catholicism, no10'under dIrectIon of Mrs. Wil. liamRockwell ' Msgr. Maccarrone, who m ad- body attacked this chair in St. ~ SACRED HEART dition to being head of this ad Peter's. That was precisely beDear ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND $ _ cause it is such a secondary NO. ATTLEBORO hoc scientific commission is also Monsignor Nolan: FOR: _ The parish CYO will host pr.esident of t~e H~lY See's. Corn- question." He said that there were, howall past CYO members and ad- m~ttee of, Hlstol'lcal SCle~ces, _ Please NAME, visors at a'n "Alumn'i Night" at saId that the names of the SClen- ever, some minor ,polemics on return coupon ---'_ a on Monday night March 3 tists taking part in the examina- the question in the,las(century. with your STREET Members who have films, slides: tions ~ad~een kept secret beoffering However, he would not rule CITY STATE ZIP CODE _ pictures, etc. of past CVO ac- ca~se nothmg w~uld 'bea~~om- out the possibility that tests 'tivities are asked to, contact phshed by revealIng them. would support the tradition that THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION Regis Jette at 699-2115. He said ,that American experts this chair is ,the chair from All teenagers and parents are had been added to the original which Peter 'taught. ' invited to Youth Nightsched-, commission. "Their .names will uled for Sunday night. All will be made public when we publi~h receive Communion in a body the commission findings," he at the 5 o'clock Mass that will said. AUGUSTA (NC) -A bill to MOST REV. TERENCE J. COOKE, President feature guitars and folk music. "All results will be made pub- relax 'Maine's 'abortion law, MSGR. JOHN G. NOLAN, National Secretary Supper and a discussion period lie.' Nothing will be held 'back." which now permits abortion will follow the Mass. Another Vatican source di- only to save a mother's life, has Write: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE Assoc. 330 Madison Avenue' New York, N.Y. 10017 Martin Dubuc and: Joseph. reetly involved in the work of been introduced 'in the Maine Telephone: 212/YUkon 6·5840 Chabot are taking res~rvations the investigation said that'it will Legislature by Rep. Rodney E. now. be finished about April. He said Ross, Jr.
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Churchman Seeks Nixon Influence In Relief Effort N}<~W
YORK (NC)-The director of the overseas relief agency of American Catholics appealed to President Nixon to use his influence to stop indiscriminate 1?ombing and strafing of relief planes flying into Biafra. Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services, told the President unless there is a strafing 'halt, hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children, imperiled by hunger and diseases, will 'be cut off from their only regular source of relief supplies from the outside world. The Bishop condemned the bombing-strafing by the Nigerian air force of relief planes used by church agencies of Europe and North America flying food and medical supplies for the starving and sick in 'blockaded Biafra. Blistering Attacks Speaking in behalf of Joint Church Aid-U. S. A., he said the increased bombing has placed the continuation of the relief airli.fts in serious jeopardy. 'because the relief pilots are unable to complete their mercy missions. ' Four pl9nes operated by the church agencies were severely damaged by the military action a fortnight ago. They will not be operative for several days. The damaged aircraft jncluded three planes under charter to Dutch church groups and one sent by Canair, an interfaith group of Canada. Bishop Swanstrom, who also is president o~rToint Church Aid -U. S. A., a consortium composed of the American Jewish Committee, Church World Service and Catholic Relief Services, not,ed that military action over the Biafran airstrip is so intensive the relief planes have to hold in their patterns for as much as five hours and even then are unable to deliver desperately needed relief supplies. U. S. Policy Review This places the ever increasing danger upon the pilots and crews of the mercy missions that their aircra.ft may run out of fuel before they are able to complete their missoions or return to Sao Tome, the Portuguese island off the African coast where the church relief planes are based, the internationally known American churchman emphasized. In Washington, the State Department disclosed that a review of U. S. policy for supplying emergency relief to Biafra, ordered by President Nixon, is nearing completion. The State Department made it plain the interest of the U. S. in the Nigeria-Biafra civil war is focused on efforts to afford humanitarian relief to thousands of the war victfms. Hand,s Ofr Department officials expressed, doubt that the U. S. will mediate the dispute between Nigeria and secessionist Biafra. This express'ion came in a response to a statement attributed to Col. Odumgwu Ojukwu that the Nixon administratior might be interested in taking on a Nigeria-Biafra mediation role. Ojukwu is the leader of the Biaira regime. The Embassy of Nigeria in Washington denies that the Nigerian Air Force is bombing aircraft loaded with relief supplies for the Biafrans.
Blindness Forgotten in M~gic of Music 'When Tom .Sullivan Sings at Stang
THE ANCHORThurs., Feb. 27, 1969
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Stang seems to be caught up in mood music these days due to the fact that Tom Sullivan sang at the High School's monthly assembly. Tom Sullivan, a native of Milton, is' no stranger to the Fall River Diocese. He spent one summer at Cathedral Camp and has made many friends in, the D.iocese since he sang on the Cape this past summer. He also sang for Father William Norton of St. Kilian's, New Bedford, as the young priest said his First Mass in May, 1967. Tom is a very interesting personality. He has 'been blind since birth, yet this 21 year old man is an achiever.' He graduated from Perkins Institute for. the Blind, spent two years at Providence College, then transferred to Harvard University as an honor, student where he will graduate in the near future. Tom Sullivan is truly a fine entertainer. One newspaperman writing recently about -his· singing said, "Sullivan has a voice that is clear, full, smooth and very controlled. His, range is seemingly limitless. He rattles around in the lower register, then soars into a higher one, a combination of Lou Rawles and Johnny Mathis. Tom also lets his years of classical training show during( a few finishes." Sullivan sings show tunes, soul music, popular hits, you name it and he will sing it. Tom is accomupanied ;by a fellow Harvard man, Chuck Eisenhardt, who shows great talent at the keyboard. Tom Sullivan and Chuck E\senhardt will appear at Stang on· March 14 at 8:00 P.M. Their concert is sponsored .by the Christian Life Community at Stang. Tickets are available from any sodGlist or at the school. We know you will have a great night when Sully sings at Stang.
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ANNAPOLIS (NC) __Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel announced that he will name a special committee to advise him on how far the state can go in providing aid to private and parochial schools. He said the study will take several months and that he hopes a report will be filed in time for action by the 1970 General Assembly. Mandel, who replaced VicePresident Spiro Agnew as governor of Maryland, revealed his plans for the study when asked at a press conference if he favors subsidizing private and parochial schools. "I think it's a very, very difficult problem, from both the legal and the practical financial point of view," he replied. "I think we've got to have a lot of answers. "But I think that in view of the overall ,problem, facing the schools, there are areas now in which some help can be givenareas that do not necessarily create any constitutional or legal problems," Mandel explained.
Hits 'Unjust' Public Opinion of Israel
Anglicans Dropping Anti-Catholic Tone LONDON (NC)-The Church of England has decided to stop requiring clergymen at ordination to publicly accept the 39 Articles of Religion which are strongly anti-Catholic in tone and are regarded by many as a stumbling block to Christian unity. The decision has been made by the legislative body of the Anglican Church. The charter of the Church of England, and its articles, were drawn up in 1562 "for the avoiding of d.iversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true religion." Objection to the articles has increased in recent years and . many Anglican clergymen felt they should not be called. upon to su'bscribe to doctrinal definitions reflecting views formed in the 16th century, a time of bitter religious controversy. The articles denounce the Church of Rome as erroneous in matters of faith and declare,. among other things, that "the Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England."
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Unusual Auction Raises Money For Ruffalo· Inner City Parish ,BUFFALO (NC) - Sacred Heart parish in Buffalo's inner city has grossed some $26,000 from an unusual auction, which included everythil1g from crows to goats and ponies, Father William ·Donohue, administrator, said. Father Donohue said the Buffal0 diocese, after surveying the financial condition of the parish, informed him that while, the diocese would continue to help support it, the parish had to "make every effort to float itself." The dio~ese does support in": nler-city parishes, despite the drain on diocesan finances, the priest said. He estimated that the diocese contributes about $500,000 to this apostlate. ,In an effort to raise some of the money needed to keep his 154-year old church and school in operation, Father Donohue contacted some 200. persons and asked them to donate salable goods or their time to a two-day auction. held in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium.
who gave, a sWt'ater, and Lew Bronstein, a self-proclaimed atheist and Buffalo's best known auctioneer, who donated 20 .ponies, an assortment of goats and his services as auctioneer. Thousands of citizens donated everything from lamps and rugs to an Oriental throne and automobHes. Someone even provided a pair of crows-which sold for $7.
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NEW YORK (NC) - Father Edward Flannery, ecumenist and executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, has told a rally for the defense of Israel here that he feels Israel has been "severely judged by public opinion." Father Flannery said: "I am here certainly a friend of the Jewish people, but I speak not only as a friend but also as a seeker after justice, as one who would render every man his due. This means that I am in no sense inimical to the Arab people or to their legitimate rights and aspirations, even if at this time I must be more concerned with those of Israel."
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Religious soc'Iology-or, more accurately, the sociology of religion---:has gotten off to a rather slow s~art in the United States. There 'are'several reasons for thIS unfortunate lag. On the one 'hand, as Professor Jeffrey K. Hadden points out in' arecentsoC'i- , ologicalstudy of the widen- an integrated, body of knowledge ing gap between Protestant and theory." other words, religion needs clergy ,and laymen "the rel- theIn heIp of trained sodologists
Time 'to' Pray • • •" How often do we complain that we haven't got the time to do this, or the time to do that? How often do we get caught up in the hustle-bustle of modern day living, allowing little time for the truly meaningful things, of life?
atively recent interest of'sociol- aiid, in going to them for their ogists in religious phenomena professional assistance, must be needs· to be prepared to let them set their Somehow, we make the time for, those things we consider emphasized;" In own standards of techni,cal really important: our newspaper, our morning coffee, our TV GUIDELINE SPEAKER: Msgr. o the r words, competence and scientific integprograms. We seem to grant priority to those things~for which "systematic emJoseph C.. Walen, editor of the rity. ' we can find time. pirical studies Western Michigan Catholic, That the contract signed by of religion have newspaper of the Grand It is the same with our relationship with God. If we have the .bishops with NORC was begun to emerge drafted in this spirit is a good Rapids'· diocese, will be the no time for God, it means ,that He has· no importance in our only recently." omen for the future. speaker 9n NBC Radio's ~uide lives. God has in our ,hearts the place He has in our time. On the other Two-Yea", Project line program, Sunday, March I , Lent"is the perfect time to reassess our values and to' put 'hand, as HadThe NORC study will take ap2. NC Photo. our spiritual affairs in order. Lent is the occasion to deepen den ,is comproximately two years. Given our communion with Christ and our fellow man.. Lent is a pelled to st;lte the extent of the current "crisis" time to pray. ve r y frankly, in the American priesthood, this PROVIDENCE (NC) - Provi"the research may seem Uke a century to We ,always seem to make difficulties for ourselves as soon and wri.tingsof sociologists are those of us who 'are im- dence College has indefinitely as we mentiQn prayer. Prayer is nothing more-and nohting less suspended an administration more often either ignored or patient for instant results. order directing resident students ~than conversation with Christ. It is not easy. Lifting anything panned in ~Ugious publications It is import~nt to bear, in -even mind' and heart to God-is hard work. ,But like all worthas the trivial elaboration: of the mind, however, that instant, so- to live on campus and has taken while things, it is worth the effort we put into it. obvious, or shallow in their per- called "commensense" solutions steps to review various social and academic rules. The moves ception of complex issues." Prayer is an essential part of our mission responsibility. to complicated social and reliThis is another way of i saying gious problems f'requently proved followed student demonstrations We must not think that our obligation to support the missions that the religious Establishment, to be worse than no solution at against the regulations. ceases with a monetary contribution. This is. of course, good by and large has been sk~ptical, all. and necessary! But we must also pray for the missions and for not to say fearful, of r~ligljous tians," Hadden points out, "is the' missionaries who, are representing us in far-off lands. We As a. matter of fact, that's sociology and, ;for that reason, precisely why we need the sd- perhaps a more difficuIt task must join with these missionaries in a spirit of prayer as they has g,iven it very little fipancial than carrying a picket sign, the preach the Word of God to those who have never even heard entimc help of trained socioloor even moral support over the gists ,like Father Greeley and his long-range results would seem of God. We must pray, too. for the poor and afflicted suffering course of the years. ' in mission lands. colleagues on the sta,~f of ~ORC to be more promIsing in achievFortunately, however, it would -to help us avoid simplistic ing significant social change." During' ihis holy season of Lent, remember the work being appear that the sociologil1ts and ,"solutions" to problems which, On Opting Out ,done by Qur good missionaries. Pray and sacrifice daily so that the leaders of the religious es- in the absence of their scientific Professor Hadden also cau,all many know the joy and peace of the Risen Lord this Easter tablishment are, at long last, be- findings, we really, cann()t hope tions disillusioned clergymen to Sunday, ginning to come to a meeting of to understand in aU of their think twice before jumping to the minds, hopefully to thelir compexity. the conclusiQn that opting: out of Send your sacrifice NOW. won't you? mutual advantage. the institution offers them the Has Special Interest More and more professional The virtue of patience, then, 'best hope of effecting needed sociologists are now turning is very much in .. order. 'But social reforms. ' SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society their attention to reldgious phe"SmaU cadres of clergy withwhile we are waiting for the refor the Propagation of the Faith. Please' cut out this column nomena and" on the other side out an iristitutional base," he sults of the NORC project, we and'send your offering to Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara. of the fence, ecclesiastical leadwrites,' "would be as powerless. National Director, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.• ,10001. or ers have increasingly begun to might want to ponder some of as any other cadre of individdirectly to your local Diocesan Director, The Rt. Rev. Msgr. recognize the value of sociolog- the findings which, Professor uals ,seeking to eUect change Raymond T. Considine. 368 N.orth Main Street, Fall River. Masical studies in the field of reli- Hadden has come up with in the ,., ,., ,., In part, I am saying sachusetts 02'720. ,/ gion and the importance of sub- study referred to above , "The ,that to walk away £rom the' the' sidizing such studies without at- Gathering' Storm '.in institution of the church is to taching any non-profe'ssional Churches: The Widening Gap abandon, one of the broadest Between Olergy and Laymen" strings to thei~ Il\oney.. I bases of potential support for (Doubleday, $5.95). , '$300,000 ~tud~ : change that ~xists in American Professor Hadden's book, I HOUSTON -(NC)-Msgr. Franing which addresses will "be ' Indicative of this trend was should think, ought to be of spe- scioety.' ' cis T. Hurley, associate, general given. The topics for these have "But ,at the same, time, there the announcement wi,thin'; recent cial interest to two groups in secretary of the ·National Connot yet been determined'. I'll addays that 'the National Confer- particular: 1) Those who may be are limitations on how 'much it ference of Catholic Bishops dition, the, usual noon and late ence o~:. Catholic Bishops has tempted to think' that the so- can be used' unless there is (N'CCB)"said here that parts of afternoon news briefings will' be broad~based support and undersigned a $300,000 contract with , called "crisis of identity" in the the bishops' morning meetings held. the National Opinion Research ranks of the Catholic clergy is standing. Moreover, its effecwill be open to news media. Center (NORC) for a no-strings- due predominantly, if' not ex- tiveness will be directly propor"Every eUort is 'being made," attached scientific study of the clusively, to obligatory celibacy; tional to the extent that the he said, "to pro,vide. the news status and the role of American arid 2) those who think that the rank and' file support' its promedia with interesting and sigCatholic priests. widening gap between the laity grams." . nificant information at every While one swallow obviously and some segment of the clergy T'heo1c)gical Basis stage." The meetings will be held doesn't make a Summer, I think on controverSial social issues Finally, Mr: Hadden-who, I . here April 14-17.. • Aluminum or Steel it can be sa,id that this project can be closed by a heavy dose of repeat, i's completely sympa944 County Street On Tuesday morning, April marks' a permanent 'change for militant activism on the part of thetic to activist clergymen and NIEW BEDFORD, MASS. 15, in the part of the' session the better in the attitude,:of the commited clergy. the causes they are currently es992~6618 open to accredited news personAmerican hierarchy with regard pOl\sing--,has "some se;ious res. Easy Way Out nel, Archbishop John F. Dearden to the value of religious lSociolWith regard to the first point, ervations about som'e of the di- of 'Detroit, NCCB president, will ogy. 1 Hadden makes it very clear that rections in which the new breed speak 'ori the future of the If it measures up professionclergy seem to be heading." the identity crisis of Protestant Church in the United States. ally (and with Father Andrew clergymen is every bit as great It i!! his opinion that "a pasSections of the Wednesday and Greeley' serving as director of as that of Catholic priests-and sion for specific issues has led the project, we can be tertain yet the. overwhelming majority many to pronouncements and Thursday 'morning sessions will that it will), I would antJicipate of 'Protestant clergymen are involvement without paying ad- also be open to news media, durthat the bishops will lend their married. equate attention to the ethical moral and financial support to On the matter of clerical activ- and theological basis of their a number of other scientific so- ism, Professor Hadden-whose action." ciological, studies as tim~ ,goes personal sympathies are comClaim Contested, ' ; . on. pletely on the side of 'm ilitant soNot all of Professor Hadden's Needs Sociologists , cial ,reform-suggests that cler- readers will agree with his comIn any event, I hope so, for ical involvement in specific con- ments on the role of the clergy Professor Hadden is undoubted- troversies, while absolutely nec- in the, area of social change. ly correct when he says' that, essary in many cases, may be Nevertheless anyone who claims whHe some of the criticism di- , ",the 'easy way out" for many of to have a serious interest in rected by ecclesiastics at fact- us and, in any event, is no sub- this problem will certainly want finding religious 'sociology is 'stitute ,for the less dramat,ic to give his new book a very well-founded, "the fact-finding chore of, helping to prepare the ,careful reading. I recommend it endeavors of sociologis,ts can laity' 'to go into the world and , very high'ly 'as an example of clearly be justified and must be make it more humari. ' up-to-date religious sociol:ogy at expanded if we are to establish "While converting tbe Chris- -its very best.
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Group Discusses Right to Die With Dignity ORLANDO NC) The new Constitution for the State of Florida, -hardly a month old, is 'alre'ady up for amendment. A bill proposed by Miami physician and state Iegislator Walter Sackett would insert in the new document words to the effect that a person "has a right to die with dignity." The proposed phrase was debated at length in a symposium at Florida Technological University sponsored by Catholic, Protestant -and Jewish religious leaders before an audience of about 75 doctors, la,wyers, professors, laymen and clergy. The symposium presented experts in the fields of law, medicine and theology. Among them was Father Michael V. Gannon, professor of religion at the University -of Florida, Gainesville.
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Report Praises "I think I have quite a few saints in my group." That's how pretty, enthusI~stlC Catholic Schools Eunice Healey sums up the work of the Homemaker-Home Health Aides of Fall RIver, of whom she's executive director. The aides, 25 strong, are indeed dedicated women, who regard their work of helping families in time of emergency as much more than a way of making money. \ "I'm so grateful to theHomemakers for giving me the opportunity to help oth-
ers," said Mrs. Ruth Kimball, at 67 the dean of the aides, who often substitutes for younger workers laid low by colds or other indispositions. "I don't seem to get sick," she says. Organized in January of last year as a "non-profit community program to assist families and individuals in time of emergency or crisis," the aides give two distinct services. Homemakers go into families where the mother or other person in charge is ill or absent. Their job is to maintain normal routines and wholesome family livViewpoint ing in times of stress. Father Gannon offered the Health aides provide personal Catholic viewpoint, based on care for homebound patients .pope Pius XII and modern morunder a -physician's orders and alists, that "the human person . the direction of a registered has a right not to be down- - nurse. In man~' cases they make graded, through the use of extrait possible for invalids to remain ordinary life support systems to in their own surroundings rather the level of a purely sensory bethan go to a nursing home. ing. He has a right to quality of Far Outnumbered life, as against quantity of life." The aides already on the job Citing a statement from Pope are devoted, Mrs. Healey is Pius XII, in 1957 Father Gannon equally so, but there's a probdeclared that a dying patient lem. Families and individuals in may receive, and the attending the greater Fall River area who physician may administer, anasneed the aides far outnumber thetic drugs for the purpose of the women available. relieving pain even though such Mrs. Healey is constantly on drugs may indirectly hasten the go addressing women's death.'.' . guilds and clubs, she takes toHe mdicated that the present radio and television whenever problem is before us because of possible -but she thinks there may "the technological and medical still be 'women in the area who advances which have marked haven't got the message:"thaf the field of medicine in the past if they have love and willing hundred .years. Were it not .f~r hands, plus free daytime hours, new deVIces and drugs, OflgI- a satisfying new career beckons nated ,by medical science, the them. ' . 'right to die question' would not Many of the present aides are even exist." mothe'rs whose children have Support left the nest. For years fhey've The questions of how one is to . been developing the skills of know that a person is irreversi- homemaking and child, care that bly ill and who is to make the they're now puting at the serjudgment as to when extraordivice of others. nary life support systems should Mrs. Rose Rogers of St. John be set aside kept cropping up. of God parish in Somerset, for ·Dr. Robert Zellner of Orlando, instance, has five grown chilpast president of the Florida dren."I'd never had a job," she Medical Association, said that said, "but I wanted to work and many physicians presently make I saw a newspaper story about such jUdgments, usually with the the Homemakers. I took the advice of other doctors or in training course and I didn't tell consultation with relatives of the my family a word about it. I dying person. oRe added that he was afraid I mightn't get was against the phrase "right to through. But when I got my didie with dignity" because {t ploma, I was so proud! The chilwould not change the responsi- dren said I wouldn't last three bility of the doctor" and because days, and my husband gave me it would ,be especially harmful if a week, but I've 'been on the job the courts judged the phrase in since the Homemaker service such a way that euthanasia or began. I'd recommend this work other forms of kllling innocent to anyone. One thing I like," human life became permissible. she added, "is that there's no pressure on you. You know what you have to do in each home and you just do it." Equally Enthusiastic Equally enthusiastic is Mrs. BOSTON (NC)-Richard Car- Kimball, who was told of the dinal Cushing of Boston and the Homemakers by District Nurses Harvard University divinity who had cared for her husband school library are reciipents of until his death. For -20 years -bequests from Augustin Cardinal she had been registrar of the Bea, S.J., who died in Rome outpatient department at Trueslast Nov. 15. dale Hospital, and she still does Cardinal Cushing was left a statistical work for the departpectoral cross, a symbol of office ment, but after her husband's worn by bishops and higher death she decided that she churchmen, 'under the German wanted to work more directly ecumenists' will. Harvard will with -the people. "The nurses receive "a substantial number of said this job had my name on books from Cardinal Bea's per- it!" she recalled. sonal library," the Rev. Krister "There are so many people Stendahl, divinity school dean, who need kindness, help and said. sympathy as they get along in Harvard gave an honorary years," she said. "Sometimes I doctorate to Cardil,al Bea six just sit down and talk while years ago. I'm doing mending or some such
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PITTSBURGH (NC) - The Pittsburgh diocesan Catholic schools office was singled out for special praise by a national advisory body in a report to President Richard M. Nixon and the 91st Congress. The National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children said the schools office, working with the public schools, has administered a federal aid program for disadvantaged children in Catholic schools better than has been done anywhere else. Involved is aid provided under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. Funds come to the Pittsburgh Public School, which with nonpublic school officials decides on programs for disadvantaged children in all schools of the city. . Coordinator for the Catholic schools program under Auxiliary Bishop :rohn B. McDowell, schools superintendent, is Sister Collette Link. The program is not connected with the War on Poverty, although it does aid many of the same children. It has been providing remedial teaching during school hours, and special equipment and supplies for public and parochial schools throughout the area. The National Advisory Council said it had studied 17 large and small communities and found that only Pittsburgh has done a thorough job of administering Title I aid to nonpublic school children. A major reason, apparently, it said, was that public and nonpublic school ofcials here maintain "regular, cordial and open communication."
Yes and No A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and 'disapproving of other.-Darwin.
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HOMEMAKER-HEALTH AIDES: Giving a much-needed service to the Greater Fall River area are the Homemaker-Home Health Aides. Too, Mrs. Marv Smith, secretarv, consults with Mrs. Eunice Heaiey; executi~e director of th~ aide~. Below: Aide Mrs. Rita Morin feed;; Mrs. Almaza Boulas. Mrs. Peter Khoury, Mrs. Boulas 'daughter, looks on. thing for a patient. I've had them say, 'You do me,more good talking tome than doing my housework!" Mrs. Kimball enjoys the variety of her work, varying from putting a few extra touches on a house where the patient expects holiday company, to supervising menus and cooking for a bachelor establishment. "I'm tired at night, but it's a good tired," concluded the energetic Mrs. Kimball. Enjoys Helping "I enjoy helping people out," said Mrs. Rita Morin of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, whose current assignment is daily care of Mrs. Almaza Boulas, bedridden for many years. "My mother heard about the Homemakers on the radio," she said. "That's how I came to apply. This is a good job if you like to be with people and help them." "I':s not mono,tonous!" declares Mrs. Eleanor Picard, who gives daily care to patients in
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Priest Asserts Christians Show Shade of Hostility Toward Israel
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thurs., Feb. 27, 1969
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, It may be useful at this point to bring together some (~f the ideas explor~d in recent columns. The argument
has been put forward that the preservation of peace over the next decade is ,menaced not only by arms, frontier disputes; national fe~rs and pretensions but also, by the support for a world strategy of inexorable increase of pov- develop~ent, especially for agriculture, haS to meet a deeply erty, misery, malnutrition felt' and widely expressed Chris-
While it is not acceptable to be NEW YORK (NC)-A Catholic priest asserted that in the anti-Semitic, he said, "anti'Christian community ':there is Semitism comes out in veiled a generalized indifference to the ways." welfare of Israel thai shades off The long history of Christian .into hostility," during a discus- . charges of deicide, has to give sion here of the effect of the way to "the Pauline tradition" Middle East crisis on' interrewhich is "a special bond and tie religious relations. • and special predelection of the Father Edward H. Flannery, Church for the Jews," Father executive secretary of the U.S. Flannery said. Catholic bishops' secretariat for Arab Frnstrated 'Christian-Jewish relations, was one of the chief speakers at the Dr. Carlet.ori said: "The Arab session on the Natio~al Conferhas learned to wait. He can feel ence of Christians and Jews time is on his side." headquarters here. . The Arab·a..lso is frustrated and Other principal speakers were bitterly disappointed that Arab the Rev, Dr, Alford Carleton, executive vice president, United 'states were not granted freedom in 1918, and feels "that the Church Board for Worid Minisvictorious Allies robbed him of tries, overseas missionary arm his inheritance," Dr. Carleton of the United Church, of Christ, stated. and Rabbi Balfour Brickner, diDisappointment and frustrarector, COI);Imission on Interfaith tion are "particularly directed Activities, United American Heagainst Europeans" and form'ed brew Congregations. "the stage setting for the reacSome 30 clergymen, representtionof the Arab to the Balfour ing a cross section of opinion, Declaration" and subsequent took part in a free-wheeling, off-the-record discussion of the hostility toward Israel, he said. He called himself "one who situation following the speeches. has made a sincere effort to un;Imprudent' Attack derstand the Arab, who believes Father Flannery called the Isthat he has some success in unraeli commando attack at Beirut dertaking and who believes it "highly imprudent" because "it is well worth the time of all inhurt Israel badly." He added that volved in the situation in the in the Christian community Middle East today to make the ,·there is a generalized indiffersame effort." ence to the welfare of Israel that Arabs feel "unmistakablyshades off into hostility toward perhaps one should say bitterly Israel." -that Israel was created at their N~W MISSiON: 'Bbhop Philip' He claimed that there are expense, and without their conCote, S.J., a native of law- many 'complicated issues insent," Dr. Carleton said. rence, Mass., at age 73 is unvolved in the Arab-Israeli condertaking a'new assignment as frontation but that "the central M. H. Ahmann Heads apostolic administrator of the issue is whether the state of Israel has a right to exist and islands of Quemoy and Matsu, -Checagou Insti,tute located. just off the coast of grow, and I don't mean to grow CHICAG,O (NC)-Mathew H. terri torially." mainland China, where Bishop Ahmann, former executive diHe cited both Christian and Cote had' served as a missionrector of the National Catholic Jewish contributions leading to ary since 1927 u'ntil his exile what he called "the fragility of Conference for Interracial Jusin the late '405 by the Com- Jewish-Christian relations." tice, has announced the formamunists. NC Photo. tion of the Checagou Institute, In the Jewish community, he said ther.e is "an over-expecta- a new organization devoted to technical assistance, research tion" in what diillogue has thus and consultation on problems of far accomplished, "yet that dirace and urban life. alogue has hardly begun," since Ahmann, 37, has spent more 90 per cent of both the Christian than a decade developing speand Jewish community has not ST. PAUL (NC)-The Financial programs .in education, been reached. cial Lay Board of Advisers has housing, employment and health Father Flannery said "some made public the allocation of. Jewish spokesmen tend to overservices. funds to be raised in the current charge the Christian community The Checagou Institute, with $3.5 million Archbishops' Appeal in these crises," and those who headquarters ,here, will continue of the St. Paul and Minneapolis do. by and large, have not, parto focus on the same problem archdiocese. . areas, under contracts and grants ticipated in the dialogue. with corporations, foundations, The board's 'statement said General Indifference community organizations, relimost of the money will, be spent gious denominations and instiIt is possible for a Christian on scholarships' ,and', education, tutions of higher learning. to believe the Beirut incident with 40 per cent of 'the funds was wrong "without being bar'being allocated to ',archdiocesan high schools ':md 21 per cent to red from the dialogue," much less being' labeled anti-Semitic, grade schools. " he declared. ' " In the Christian community, he Some critics' of the fund drive have demanded "a large share declared "there is a generalized indifference to the {latel of Israel." of 'p'roceects" be spent on proHe claimed there is "only a grams for the disadvantaged, rather than on~ what one lay very small minority" of anti'group term'ed "the perpetuation Zionist and anti-Israeli who are of inwardly directed.institutional not, at the same time, reflecting forms." , shades, of anti-Semitism. '365 NORTH FRONT STREET . Father Flannery said the A group called Concerned Christian community has to conNEW BEDFORD Christians announced 'it was tend with "the fruit of estrange992-5534 calling a. 'press ·conference to ment and alienation. that has ,comment on the allocation of been going on ·for 2,000.Years." 09000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ,funds, ,and ,'comments critical of . the .allocation 'were expected from several other independent lay group.s
and jpbless urbanization among tian ,objection. It is quite si'mthe half or more of the, world's ply, that all this talk 'of econompeople who live I.. ic ,assistance and developmen t in the developand the promise of science and· ing continents. technology turns the Christian T his menace 'faith into a sort of materialist may seem less humanism. frightening than If missionaries are more conthe hydrogen cerned about hybrid yields than bomb. But the about the Word of God, where despair and viis their Christian message? 'If olence it enChristians are interested only in genders can es- ' grain harvests, may they' no'! , calate into wider forget the Bread of Life? Irriwar. Most of the gation schemes must not, surely, world's. disordistract Christian concentration ders already occur in th,e devel': from that celestial fountain oping countries. On' present promised to the woman of Sashowing; these disorders are maria, the fountain that "springs certain to grow worse. I up into eternal life." , Yet the situation is not hopeBusy Marthas',' less. One cause of misery-the May' we not become' a lot of deepest-is the growing pres-' sure of population on food sup- ' busy Marthas rushing round the world in relief missions or plies. But with the use of the new technology of improved technical assistance or developgrains-the hybrids-of water, ment projects while the supreme fertilizer and better transport,' Christian vocation, the vocation harvests can be quintupled; a of Mary, which is to attend' to a decisive jump ahead of popu- ,the Word of God and His will for us, is simply lost in haste lation would then be assured. and busy-ness and ~bsorption in So the urgent question must be asked whether it is not luna- the world's affairs? The well-known British writtic to spend $150 'billions every year on arms ,to deal with ,the er, Malcolm- Muggeridge, asked symptoms of disorder 'and not recently, a propos of a book in even $6 billions on the Iagricul- which the duties' of Christian underlined: tural revolution which can be citizenship were the basis of an effective strat- "Would the early Christians egy of rural, regional 'and ur- have felt it their duty to preserve the crumbling Roman Emban renewal.. pire? Of course not." Works of Deathl So today, some may say, ChrisA further question follows. If tian efforts to support policies Christians believe, with Pope Paul VI, that "development is " for development are simply the new name for peace," what shoring up a useless secular are they doing about the present order; Christians should, on the fantastic disproportion, accord- contrary, be turning away from ing to which the rich 'natio'ns the world and proclaiming the spend at least 25 times more on transcendent power, majesty the works of death than on the and mystery of.God. Two Questions means of life? Why are more There are two question here. Cpristian voices not, raised against a further spin to, the up- The first is what we mean, in our wealthy Western societies, when ward spiral of arms? Why are Christian v6ters not we argue against the risk of alhounding those among their lowing our religion to become a Congressmen who allow: Ameri-' materialistic concentration upon can economic' assistance to be the needs of the poor and the steadily reduced? Are Cj1ristians claims of underdeveloped peoorganizing sit-ins in the corri- ples. The second, larger quesdors of ,power? Can we hear any tion' is what, the Gospel means really powerful Christiilll voice when it calls us to the twin duty raised on this critical issue? Are of loving God and' our neighbor. we in fact, as Christians, OprlOS- But let u:? look at our, own,mean' ing aid and development simply ing first. by default? I When Christians say that it is At this point, however; anyone "materialist" to,relate Christianpleading for active, c;hristian ity to development or ec~>nomic assistance 'or, the agriCultim'll revolution, they do' not generally Indiana Churchmen' mean that they are giving up their homes, their jobs, their caBack Rights Bill reel' prospects or their family INDIANAPOLIS (NC)-Three savings and taking off for'the statewide religious organizations nearest Trap'pist monastery. '.In have called for prompt' and fa- other words, they find their faith" vorable action by the state Sen- perfectly compatibile with, their ate on the 1969 civil rights bill. own reasonable, earthly conExecutives of the II'ndiana cerns. Indeed, they would say Catholic Conference, the: Indiana that theirhoJne, their family, Council of Churches and' the In- their hopes and prospects are Need Sisters diana Jewish 'Community Rela- underpinned by their niligion, PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Philtions Council have issued a joint But it must follow from this adelphia's Depa'rtment of Recreresolution supportingl the bill that material concerns become ,ation is. seeking inore than 400 designed to strengthen :the In- contrary to Christianity only Sisters to. assist· 'in inner-city diana Civil Rights Commission. when they :are someone. else's. Summer, programs, it was an, They emphasized that reli- Earthly responsibility is good nounced' by Sister' ~. Regina, of gious organizations "ar~ totally for myself" unChristian if it· is 'Jesus~ ,chairman of the.' Sisters' committed to the ideal and real- directed to'my neighoor, Can Committee' .. of:the 'CiirdinaI's ity of justice for all :ciiizens this reiilly be the Gosp~l"s mesCommissi'on' onHu~:an' Relaunder law." sage'? tions.
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Homemakers Continued from Page Fifteen Mrs. Healey comes to her work as executive director of the aides with a rich background, which includes volunteer social work with a Quaker group for three years, then work with the blind and in poverty areas of New York. Most recently she was a project worker with the Upward Bound program in Rhode Island, but with her husband, Edward J. Healey, a teacher in the Fall River school system. she was happy when the opportunity arose of organizing the Homemakers under sponsorship of Citizens for Citizens and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. "I feel I've found my niche in this work.... she said. As director, she visits families' applying for aid to see what each situation requires, she directs the work of aides. and she follows up cases to be sure that all needs are being met. At present. she said, aides are caring for about 50 families or individuals, seeing most of them every day. Cases include postsurgical care, child welfare, problems involving emotional or mental conditions and, most frequently. care of the elderly. Mrs. Healey stresses that people in need of the services of an aide should contact her agency even if they think they may not be eligible for help. "Often we can advise people of sources they're not aware of... ' The service covers Somerset, Swansea and Westport as well as Fall River, and Mrs. Healey tries to place ai'des in their own communities. She also does her utmost to make hours as convenient _as possible. "We pay $1.60 an hour and traveling costs," sl}e s,ay;>. )nt~e.sted people, or those in need of help, can reach her at the Homemaker office. Room 14, 101 Rock Street, Fall River 02720. The telephone is 672-9841. And all the pay isn't in cash. Ask any of the Homemakers or Health aides already on the job. Extra recompense comes in the form of children's smiles, the thanks of a temporarily disabled mother, the gratitude of an old person enabled to remain in his own home. Treasure in heaven, too. It's a good deal.
Minnesotans Study 'Fair Bus' Bills ST. PAUL (NC)-Companion "fair bus" bills have been introduced in both the Senate and House of the Minnesota Legislature. The biUs assert non-public grade and high school students are "entitled to the same rights and privileges" insofar as transportation is concerned as public school students. The bills specify that when a school district provides transportation, or any part of its costs, for public school students, it must make the same' provisions for nonpublic school pupils. The measures are favored by the Minnesota Catholic Conference and the Citizens for Educational Freedom. A spokesman for the Minnesota Council of Churches said there appears to be "somewhaLdivided" opinions on the issue among the council's legislative committee.
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Criticixe Prelate On Ap,pointments NEWARK (NC)-Archbishop Thomas A. Boland of Newark <lnnounced the appcintment of two episcopal vicars to serve as liaison with the 'black and Spanish-speaking communities here, but was immediately criticized by inner city priests and Negro laymen, who charged the archbishop failed to consult them before naming the vicars.
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Father Stulb is a veteran of seven years work in the ,inner city at Queen of Angels. Father .Heck has spent his entire priesthood working with Spanish~,peaking Catholics. Neither is a member of ,the group which is at odds with the archbishop.
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Jules' Witcover Reviews RFK's Last Cart:lpaign By Rt. Rev. MSg1·. John S. Kennedy A couple of. weeks ago thi,s department discussed a book titled Thirteen :pays and written by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Today we consider another book with a somewhat similar title, 85 Days by Jules Witcover (Putnam, 200 Madison Ave., New . One element in: it 'comprised York, N.Y. 10016, $6.95), Negroes, very obviously people which follows the course of
with acute problems. The other element was the blue collar paign, that for the presidential working class, which, for the nomination, from' mid-March to most part could 'be judged cool, early June; 1968. if not hostile, to Negroes. Mr. . Witcover, But Kennedy won them both, of course,' reas is evident from an analysis views the preof the primary vote. Ironically, Hminaries to the with Kennedy's death, the blue ann 0 u n c e _ collar people turned, in some mel.lt on March instances only 'temporarily; to 16, tha.t KenGeorge.Wallace. . nedy would seek Aware of Danger the Democratic A constant difficulty was Senn 0 'm ina _ ator McCarthy, whose withtion. There had drawal was sought and expected .been weeks and by the Kennedy forces. But m 0 nth s 0 f McCarthy stayed steadily out of agonizing and brain-picking, as reach, and he refused to bow Kennedy' sought the opinions of even though the primaries, with informed people. the exception of Oregon, went He wanted to run, '1Ind his against him. wife wanted him to run. But ,Bitterness between the two there were two principal con-. men developed, and there are siderations holding him back. instances o{ tbis, cited in the One wa,s the fear that his try- Witcover book which were not HIERARCHY HOCKEY: Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumble~on of Detroit, right, team:; with ,ing for the nomination would generally published. strengthen the already, wideKennedy was always 'aware of, Father Kenneth Untener, left, and Father Norma n Thomas in a Detroit hockey game. Probably America's only hockey-playing bishop, at age 38 the youngest of the U. S. Bbhops, he says, "After spread impression of a personal the danger of death to which vendetta, against LyndoI1 John- he was ,exposing hJmself. Once, all, Gordie Howe is almost 41, and I sho,:,ld be able to -hang on as long as he does." NC Photo. son. The other was the fear of in .ahotel room, there came breaking uP.. 'the Democratic word that the police had spotted Party, should Kennedy succeed a man with' a rifle within: range ,in wresting the nomination from' of the room, or of the street to the incumbent President. which Kennedy' was shortly to .' Primary Campaign descend. Mr. Witcover says that ,in the Kennedy ordered, that th~' Judge Hand, in 'an ll-pagc ELIZABETH (NC)--':'Twe~tyAfter World War II, Lithuania view of some intimates, the de- curtains not be drawn and ,that opinion, has now directed that eight years after the' d.eath of a fell into Russian hands and cisive, factor was the' word, on his route not be changed. He Lithuanian 'immigrant; a legacy transmission of the funds was the money; be sent directly to March 10, that the military were often spoke of the uncertainty Bishop Beinoris. His opin'i6n asking the White House for an 'of life, and his attitude seemed which he left to St. Matthew's again delayed a,s efforts were was based on a 1968 State SuRoman 'Catholic Church in Ve- made to determine if the church additional .200,000 'American to. be fatalistic. V'irzhenay, Lithuania, will be existed at ,the time of Andre- preme Court ruling that' held it troops to be sent to Vietnam. 'Quiet, eGntie Man' was possible to send money to forwarded to the man who jauski's death and if it was conThe kick-off of his drive was The hidden qualities of Robcommunist-ruled Hungary a claims to, ,be the bishop-pastor tinuing' to function.' I set for March 13. This :wa~ in ert Kenedy emerged in the comwi,thout having it fall into the of .the parish although LithuanLitigation developed after it advance of the March 12 pri- paign: "the quiet, humorous, hands of the Communist party. mary in New Hampshhe, in even ·gentle man his f,riends ian ·groups in this country have was determined that the parish opposed the transfer of the On the strength of that ruling, still existed but was 'under strict which Senator McCarthY made knew and insisted to unbelievfunds. The legal tangle began control: coupled with testimony verifyan ,amazing 'showing., H, is' not 'ing 'outsiders he really was." when' Antanas ,Andrejauski ing the existence of the parish, true, then, according to the eviIt was seen, for instance, how drowned while on an excursion , Iri 1966, Superior Court Judge he ordered that the funds be dence on which Mr. Witcover empathetic he was to children Kenneth C. Hand ruled that draws, that Kennedy opted to and how he could draw them to to Rye Beach, N. V;, on June 21, Bishop Vincent Brizgys could' sent to ;Bishop Beinoris, who has 1941. A money belt found in his indicated that the moneyrun only 'after the New'Hamp- himself. From a sophisticated send package shipments to the which has now dwindled to shire returns came in. milieu, he somehow couid com- home contained $20,000. In a parish through the United Lith$13,000 because of attorney's Mr. Witcover gives a detailed municate with unsophisticated will dated Jan. 14, 1933, he left uanian R~lief Fund of America. fees and traveling expensesreport on Kennedy's campaign people and secure their devo- the bulk of his estate to the 350year-old church in his birth.. Bishop. Brizgys 'said he had will -probably be used to restore in the primaries of Indiana, tion. Vatican' au,thorization to accept the interior of the ancient Nebraska, and California;, all of He did well' with students, place.' Ten thousand dollars was to 'funds. for the church, but his church. ' which ,the senator won, as he did even when they gave him a hard those in the District of Colum- time. When protesters made im- go·to the church direct; the rest claim was contested' by Bishop biaand South Dakota. Covered, possible a set speech, he' 'would was to be'dtstributed to the poor' Ionas Antonovich Beinoris, who' ' claimed; to be pastor of the par- ~1II1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111L!: too, is the losing effort in Ore- invite questions, and these he of the parish. But on ,June 14, 1941,' seven' ish. gon. ' a n s w e r e d bluntly, for the most day before Andrejauski's death, Effective on Stump part. Germany invaded the Balkan In the main,lthe people's re-, - Error of 'Judgment' countries' and 'under a law ception of the aspirant was all After the California victory, that Kennedy' could have de- as everyone knows, there 'came signed one year earlier by.,PresiDOLAN·SAXOt-l sired. Oregon was an exception, the fatal sho()ting. Of this, of the dent Franklin D. Roosevelt the funds were ~rozen. but Oregon had been described long wait while Kennedy batas one vast suburb, and the sub- tIed for life, of his death and his , urbs were McCarthy,couritry. funeral, Mr. Witcover writes at Robert Kennedy, says Mr. length, turning up some 'partic123 Broadway Witcover, was 'a much more ulars .previously unreported. Continued from Page One 7 emotional person than John F. For example, if plans had not cation of children attending' our § FAIRHAVEN 004·7321 § Kennedy. And he elicited from' been 'switched at the very last parochial schools comparable to VA 4·5000 masses of people a fervor which' moment, ~ennedy would not that state grant made tci'towns his brother never could com- have left the Ambassador ball- for education of pupils- in the mand. Moreover, he haa -issues room by the route on which his public schools," the' Bishops which stirred people. ' . assass,in lurked. stated. . ' Further, on the stump, he was Mr. Witcover believes :that Freedom of Choice peculiarly-and, to some, fright- Kennedy made one colossal er•...r hefacts spea.~ forI' themeningly-effective. He was ac- ror of judgement, and that was Selves; they are grim," the letter • . Sa~ings Bank Life Insurance cused of demagoguery, of inten- in not announcing for the pres- continued. "They demand the sifying the heat of his oratory idi:mcy in the Fall of ·1967. Had· immediate' attention of' your • Real Estate Loans, as the crowd's warmth Worked, he acted then, in Mr. Witcover's group .. The problem is' one we • Christmas a,",d Vacation Clubs on him. ' opinion, he could have s~ized must. all share. It seems inHe himself said that he ap:. the loyalty of the young, and, escapable t1111t ~ou, ci tize~s cif • Savings Accounts pealed best to people who had' because he was so rooted in tra- this state, must take the, ~tepsl • 5 Convenient Locations problems. And it was ob'served ditional politics, could t have necessary to assure the continuthat he drew people who were brought the 'professional around. , ation of a non-public sch'ool' sys-'.' hurt, because he himself was 'That, Of course, is speculation. tern and the guaran tee of the' . "NEW BEDFOR'D ' hurt. And Jhus it was that he The book deals most in fact, and, parents' rights of freedom to was in ,the process of fo~gi'ng a despite. some' weediness, it does ,choose a school for' their chilJN~TITUTION' most curious coalitio~. I this well. dren." "
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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE Br PETER J. BARTEK
Greg Ouellette of Wareham
Breaks Bro"'n Track Records One of the East's Top Long Jumpers
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Area Clubs Eagerly Await Tech Court Tournament There is no 'pending majo'r snowstorm prognostication but the Winter's most sevet:e "basketball blizzard" will strike the Boston Garden next Monday. Ardent hoop fans can only wait for the calm before the storm to pass . while speculating about the gland Catholic Invitational play' f 't' offs in Lawrence. The fired-up chances 0 f .th elr avon es m Spartans disposed of St. John's the upcommg annual East- High of Shrewsbury in the ern Mass. Tech tournament. opening round .but ran out of All but a few teams within gasoline ,in the semi-,finals our diocesan territorial bound- when they were pitted against aries have completed their '68- undefeated Catholic Memorial '69 schedules. This week's games of Roxbury which went' on to will write finis to the current capture the Class A 路honors. campaign when the curtain In defeat, the Dart!lJ,outh diocdrops to end regular season play. esans played one of their ,better The Bishop Stang High of games of the season against the Dartmouth meeting with Fair- Boston combine. Their showing haven is among the remaining was widely acclaimed by tthe contests. Neither will be making press, spectators and followers. the Boston triop as both were Coach John O'Brien was quoted elimina'ted from the Tech as saying: tourney in the last week of "When you lose the type of league compet~on. game we played to a fine team Coach John 0 Brien's proteges like Memorial, you certainly did, however, experience a taste have nothing to be ashamed of. of tournament competition, hav- The boys never quit. I only wish ing competed in the New En- the season was just. beginning."
Capeway and Norry Teams il1l Class C While the campaign is closing, not 'just 'beginning,' O'Brien will attempt to instill the same spirit and determination into his charges in the Fairhaven encounter which promises plenty of action albeit it's merely another game. . Fairhaven, too, enters the final on a high note. The Blue Devils, twice champions of the Capeway Conference, saw the crown slip from their grasp into the hands of Dartmouth this Winter. However, with a few breaks, Fairhaven might have corraled a third consecutive title. Coach Wayne Wilson's stalwarts up-ended loop leading Dennis-Yarmouth on the last night of league play to thwart the Dolphins' pennant aspirations. Dartmouth, meanwhile,
clinched the title, and, at the same time, assured itself of a Tech berth by besting Lawrence High of Falmouth. Dartmouth will prep for the post-season elimination competition tomorrow night when it entertains New Bedford Vocational of the Bristol County League. Coach Al Palmieri's Capeway champions join Dennis-Yarmouth as the circuit's representatives in the Hub tourney. They are entered in the same class as the Narragansett. League cochampions, Holy Family of New Bedford and Case of Swansea. Coach Jack Nobrega's Whaling City Parochials are rated NO.2 in Class C behind North Andover High. Case is in the number three seeded spot followed by Stoughton, Abington and Andover. \
Attleboro Battling for Garden Berth Like Stang, little Holy Family was also aN. E. Catholic tournament competitor and, like Stang, the Nobregamen split two contests. Things looked dismal for the Parochials in semi-final action against Don Bosco of Boston when four of the starting five fouled out. But, a good bench would not let victory slip away as the res.erves held on gamely, edging out a 76-72 triumph over the Roxbury aggregation. The tired Narry co-champs, playing their third game in as many days, were unable to duplicate against victorious St. Stephen's of Worcester in the all-important title tilt although they made a gallant bid to overtake the Worcester club in the final stanza of play. Down by nine points at the third intermission, the New Bedford Parochials rallied to knot the tally at 40-all with two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. The tourney Class B victors put together five straight points to barely eke out a 45-43 win as the Narry club made a valiant effort in the closing seconds.
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Now, it's on to路 the Tech for Holy Family with an 'opportunity to aimex the Class C championship it managed two years ago. Only one other area club is still in contention for a tourney invitation as the season winds to an end. Attleboro, at this writing, is within one victory of joining Durfee High of Fall River, the amazing perennials, in the Class A competition. Attleboro must gain the invite the hard way, that is, at the expense of its arch-rival, North Attleboro. Projecting the result of a schoolboy basketball tussle is as dangerous as predicting the New England weather, but the more astute hardwood 'meteorologists' forecast that Coach Jim Cassidy's Jewelry City proteges are headed for the Garden. Attleboro has turned back North 43. straight times on the hoop court. North was no match for the Cassidymen earlier in the season when it was toppled 71-50. It seems improbable that the Bombardiers will permit North to rip up their Tech tournament ticket.
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While Greg Ouellette is breaking track records at Brown. University, Beverly Ouellette is "breaking her back" encouraging parents to s'how more interest in schoolboy sports. Both are proven champions. The 5-9 Greg currently reigns as the New England long jump champion having shattered Bob Hendon's mark of 22-101/4 set in 1964 with a leap of 23-6% two weeks ago. Ouellette is unbeaten in four meets this season and is the Bruins leading point getter with 26. Coach Ivan Fuqua calls the Wareham leaper, "one of the top long jumpers in the East." ' In addition to his jumping ability, Greg is a strong dash man and has run 50-yards in a sparkling time of 5.4. As a sophomore he was Brown's leading point maker with 41 while the year before, he shattered the' school's 50-yard dash and long jump records. Ouellette is a former track star at Wareham High School and the athletic idol of his mother, Beverly. "We (along with husband, Leslie) followed every track meet through hi路gh school and have attended every nearby college meet," says Mrs. Ouellette, "and, I might add, we are very proud of Greg." Mrs. Ouellette is very proud of the interest the town of Wareham has shown in her son. "When Greg was invited to the Golden West Invitationals earlier this year, word' got around and within a few days friends,
Pope Tells Czechs 'Wait Out Storms' VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul, writing to Catholics of Czechoslovakia, has urged them to "wait under ~he shelter of a pure conscience until the storms that have been unleashed resolve themselves into a breath of air." The Holy Father praised Czechs and Slovaks for showing fidelity to the, Holy See "with words and with courageaus actions," and declared: "Rest also assured that this Apostolic See, within the limits of its' abilities, wants to do its utmost and does its utmost to meet your needs." . After referring to the restoration of the Eastern-rite Catholic Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia-which had been banned snce 1950 and its members pressured into joining the Orthodox Church-the Pope said. "Thus we hope that before long the new juridical structure of the Church in ~lovakia will be implemented. "We are certainly not unaware that those who decide to live piously in Jesus Christ always find themselves in the midst of distress and danger. Nevertheless may you never fail in courage. To act in a manly way, to suffer as the strong, to have a sure calmness, to wait under the shelter of a pure conscience until the storms that have been unleashed resolve themselves into a breath of air, is not all this the ancient emblem of a .-lRa5ue--lv-safre etaoin shrdl virtue that marks you?"
GREG OUELLETTE strangers and various organizations had contributed enough money to fly Greg and his coach to California. I can't say enough about the thoughtfulness of the town people," she concluded. The Ouellette's live at 321 Onset Ave. in Wareham with two of their children.
Marine Award Continued from Page One Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Reg,iment, First Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam. His citation read in part: "He maintained a r.igorous schedule of religious services and frequently travelled over hazardous routes to visit widely dispersed and isolated units. "During Operations Hue City, Houston, Baxter Gardens, and Mameluke Thrust, he not only brought cheerful hope to the injured, but also assisted medical personnel in rendering fiist aid to casualties. Actively participating in his unit's Civic Action Program, he was instrUmental in establishing harmonious relations between Marines and the local populace, thereby contributing significantly to the accomplishment of his battalion's mission. Chaplain Demers, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hector Demers of Taunton is a graduate of St. John's Seminary, Brighton.
School to c;lose MANCHESTER (NC) - Officials of the Manchester diocese have announced that 35-year-old St. Aloysius High School for girls in Nashua will close in June. The decision was reached at a meeting of parents of students and diocesan authorities.
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Geofrey, 15, is a freshman at Wareham (High School while ll-year-old' Melanie is a fifth grade student at Minot Forest School. Eldest son, Barry, attends Wrentham State School in Wrentham, Mass. In addition to track, Greg enjoys golf and bowling and was a member of the Buzzards Bay Bowlaway champion team in 1966. Upon his graduation, the 20year-old Ouellette would like to do 'post graduate work in thc field of medicine. Following his graduation from Wareham High in 1966, Greg received scholarships from the Onset Community Association, Onset Woman's Club and Marceaux Sports Scholarship Committee. Ever since his highschool days, his mother has kept an up-to-date scrapbook on his athletic achievements. She explains her reasons this way. "We, as parents, are very innterested in our son's accomplishments. We have become especially interested in track and would like to see more students participating in the sport." "We've known so many wonderful boys who have been outstapding in high school, later on in college and, in a number of cases, have gone on to prove themselves on a national and international level." "We strongly urge the support and encouragement of all parents," Mrs. Ouellette concludes. With a supporter like that. Greg Ouellette can't help but bc a success.
President Stresses Brotherhood Need NEW YORK (NC)-President Richard M. Nixon, in a special Brotherhood Week message to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, asked Americans to make "a new commitment" to achieve harmony and peace." Congratulating the NCCJ, for its campaign against prejudice, the President called on "each American to reenforce your ranks with the compassionate concern and willingness of spirit that are so vital to a nation truly dedicated to righting old wrongs and healing the wounds of bigotry and hate."
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THE" ANCHOR~"Oiocese of Fall River....:.Thurs., Feb.
27, 1969
MARCH 9-15
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