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WHEN SOMEONE IS ILL •.• CALL A PRIEST: The new Rite of the Anointing of the Sick permits all types of options to bring the consolation of Christ ·to the sick or injured. Left, in an emergency situation, Rev. John R. Foister, Fall River Fire Dept. Chaplain, administers the Sacrament to a trapped victim before extrication can begin, assisted by Kenneth Rex,
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Pope Asks Liturgy Liven Up Lent VATICAN CITY (NC)--Gath· that are not popUlar with modolics should liven up Lent with ern man," he continued. intelligent use of the liturgy, Turning to the actual con· Pope Paul told thousands at a ferral of ashes, the traditional general audience at the Vatican . act for many Christians on the first day of Lent, the Pope said Ash Wednesday. The Pope also urged Chris- that ashes are really a sign of tians to wear their Lenten ashes hope. with optimism because, although "Convince yourselves of the they remind man of death, the sincerity of .the Church in thought of eternal life should be preaching penance," he said. a cause of joy. "The Church speaks of death The liturgy of the Church, the with this immediate correction Pope said, is like a beautiful on this desperate concept of our music composition, composed of true destiny: life in Christ will many parts. be victorious." "The liturgy," he said, "rises At this point the Pope's voice not only like an incomparable rose with enthusiasm and he rework of art for its val'iely of peated that life will be a victory. At the conclusion of the audithemes divine and human, but offers ... to the faithful the pas- ence the Pope greeted in English sibility'of participating in a members of the Consortium Permarvelous and complex celebra- fectai Caritatis, an organization tion. of women Religious largely from Use the liturgy intelligently, the United States meeting in the Pope added, to avoid the Rome. "routine sameness and monot· The ·Pope said he recalled that ony" of spiritual expression.. Pope Pius XII often praised "the Lent is difficult, it is a time value and importance of Reliof penance and fasting, a time gious life and, in particular, the of prolonged prayers and re- beneficial results that accrue to. course to the sacrament of Pen- the whole Church in America ance, he said. through the persevering dedica"Lent is an act of humility, of tion and humble service of thouconversion and contrition, things sands of Sisters."
Capt. John Kenyon and Richard Soares of Rescue 1. Right, Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Chaplain of St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River, brings the Sacrament in a more ideal situation to·Mrs. Agnes Heffernan, assisted by Miss Susan Booth, R.N., Sister Rita Marie, staff member of the Pastoral Department' and Sister Elaine Heffernan, a member of the family.
Anointing of Sick Is Christ Present To the III, Injured By Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, J.C.L. Simply to page through the Gospels is to encounter repeated instances of the special ministry . which Our Divine Savior exercised in behalf of the sick. Just as was foretold in. the prophecies about the Messiah in the Old Testament, Our Lord brought sight to the blind, strength and vigor to those whose limbs were crippled and useless; He cured the sick, He raised the dead. In short, He showed a remarkable love and concern for those who were afflicted by illness and disease. He responded to their faith with great affection and very frequently with a miraculous restoration to full health. We know that the sick flocked to Him and found consolation. When they themselves were too weak to aproach Our Lord, frequently they relied upon friends, neighbors and relatives to bring them to Him. The Church which Our Divine Savior established has continued His healing ministry to the sick. Unceasingl~, the Church has commended to God's mercy and
Elementary Schools Registration Catholic elementary schools of the Diocese will hold regis. tration again this coming weekend, March 9 and 10, for pupils entering kindergarten and first grade as well as for transfer students into other grades. Parents should check with the school of their choice for times of registration since Mass schedules affect registration hours.
love those who suffer from disease. Throughout the long centuries which have intervened since Our Lord ascended to His hea'venly glory, the Church which' He founded has exhorted those who are suffering from the pain and anxiety of physical affliction to associate their trials and sufferings with the Passion and Death of Christ, to participate in His redemptive work. Sickness, therefore, is not in any sense a punishment for sin, nor is it the capricious result of misfortune. Rather, it can often be. the occasion for meriting
many graces and spiritual blessings. On a moral level, many reflections of Christ's own love and concern for the sick have emerged in the history of the Church, especially in the devotion to the magnificent' apostolate of care for the sick. Here, today, in the Diocese of Fall River, institutions for the care of the elderly, the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, the Madonna Manor in North Attleboro, the Marian Manor in Taunton, the Sacred Heart Home in New Bedford, and Our Lady's Turn to Page Eight
Catholic-Lutheran Scholars See Papacy as No Barrier In a statement entitled "Ministry and the Church Universal: Different Attitudes Toward Papal Primacy," a joint commission of U. S. Roman Catholic and Lutheran theologians have concluded that papal primacy - a major issue in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century -need no longer be a "barrier to reconciliation" of their churches. Among the most significant agreements in the "Common Statement" where the scholars foresee the day of the Catholic and Lutheran Churches being part of a "larger communion," autonomous but linked by common recognition of the Pope as a visible symbol of their underlying unity, were: -"Christ wills for his church a unity which is not only spiritual but must be manifest in the world. -"Promotion of this unity is incumbent on all believers, espe~
cially those who are engaged in the ministry of word and sacrament. The greater the responsibility to seek the unity of all Christians. -"A special responsibility for this may be entrusted to one individual minister, under the gospel. -"Such a responsibility for the universal church cannot be ruled out on the basis of biblical evidence. -"The Bishop of Rome, whom Roman Catholics regard as en· trusted by the will of Christ with this responsibility, and who has exercised his ministry in forms that have changed signifi. vantly over the centuries, can in the future function in ways which are better adapted to meet both the universal and regional need of the church in the complex environment of modern times," "We do not wish to understate Turn to Page Four
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Farah Strike, Boycott End; Church Pressure Cited NEW YORK (NC) - The bitter Farah strike and boycott, which was supported by many bishops and church groups, ended when the clothing company agreed to allow unionization of its plants. The settlement of the 21month-old strike was announced here Feb. 24 by the Farah Manufacturing Co. and the Amalgamated Clothing WOI'kers of America (ACWA) after it was learned that more than half of Farah's employees had sig!1ed union cards. The nationwide boycott of Fara~ clothing products, led in many areas by Catholic bishops and numerous church groups, was the factor "that made the difference" in, bringing a settlement according to Father Donald Bauer, a priest who has been working full time with the ACWA in the un- ' ionizing effort. Farah agreed' to accept a card count made by El Paso mayor Fred Hervey, and the tally showed 63 per cent of the employees favored the union. The count showed 4,761 wanted' the AEWA as their bargilining agent and 2,492 indicated no prefer. ence. At a press conference here, Farah president Willie Farah. ACWA president Murray Finley, and ACWA secretary-treasurer Jacob Shienkman formally announced the agreement in a joint statement. The ACWA, they said, had agreed' to end the strike against, the Farah plants, where over 2,000 workers have been on strike since May, 1972. The ACWA also agreed to inform all retailers that the boycott of Farah products has heen called off. Terminate Lawsuits Farah, they said, had agreed to admit the ACWA as bargaining agent for employees in all of the Farah plants, and it agreed to rehire those on strike. Both sides agreed to terminate all pending litigation surrounding'
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An open basketball tournament sponsored by the, C.Y.O. is scheduled to be held at the Kennedy Center in New Bedford beginning on Sunday afternoon, March 31. Directed by Chester Lizak, an assistant sports director for the C.Y.O., it will be limited to eight teams from Southeastern Massachusetts. Semifinals will be played on Tuesday, April' 2 with the championship contest arranged for Wednesday evening, April 3. Trophies will be presented to each member of the winning quintet. An all-star squad will be selected and special awards presented. In High School T~re will be no entry fee. The only eligibility requirement will be that all players are currently enrolled in high school. Entries, with the names of every player and the name and the address of the coach may be sent to Chester Lizak, 403 Anawan Street, Fall River. The entries will, be seeded and the top eight will be chosen to compete. Deadline for entries will be Wednesday, March 20.
the strike and boycott. Farah had anti;'boycott suits pending in 17 cities around the country, and several unfair labor practice suits against ,Farah by the ACWA were before the Na,tional Labor Relations Board (NLRB) or at , v'arious stages of .appeal. In the course of the strike Farah was forced to close two plants in San Antonio, Tex., and plants in Albuquerque and Los Cruces, N.M., and Victoria, Tex. Its work force dropped from 10,400 to just over 6,000. Farah's sales dropped $10 million (to $155 million) in 1972, and in the first half 00973 the company lost another $10 million in sales.' End Bitterness After the settlement, Bishop Sidney Metzger lilf El Paso, the leading religious supporter of the strike-boycott, called for an end to the "bitterness, hatred and the mistakes that have occurred in this dispute". and urged labor and management to "work hand in hand for the good of each other and the good of the community." He hailed the settlement but said he feels "no personal elation of victory in a struggle which has caused so much suffering." "It is the Church's role to speak to the conscience of all men," Bishop Metzger said. "In the present dispute we have spoken to the conscience of management in behalf of the rights of the workers. Now we must appeal to the conscience of both labor and management as well as to the conscience of the community at large, 'both civil and religious."
All Are Invited To Lent Series A Lenten series in progress a~ St. Mary's Church, New Bedford, is open to all areas residents, it has been announced by program directors. The series is scheduled for 7:30 each Friday night of Lent and will include Mass celebrated in the church, a homily by the speaker of the evening, and a discussion period and social hour in the parish school following Mass. Tomorrow's speaker will be Rev. 'Peter N. Graziano of St. . Thomas More parish, Somerset, who is president of the diocesan priests' senate. His topic will be What's Right, "Conscience: What's Wrong." Father Genest Rev. Giles Genest, M.S., director of La Salette Center of Christian Living, Attleboro, will discuss prayer on March 15; and the speaker for March 22 will be Rev. Richard Beaulieu, chaplain , of Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, who will have as his subject "What Is Happening to Our Young People?" "Isn't Everything True in the Bible?" is the topic chosen by Rev. Marcel Bouchard of St. Joseph parish, Taunton, for his March 29 homily;' and the series . will be concluded by Rev. Kevin F. Tripp of St. John Evangelist parish, Attleboro, on April 5, with a consideration of the joyous aspect of death.
Series on Penance In New Bedford ST. PETER'S ROLE DISCUSSED: St. Peter holds the keys of office in this well-known and- venerated statue in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In a common statement, U.S. Catholic and Lutheran scholars, in studying the role of the Pope, have affirmed that the New Testament images of'Peter outdistance the images of the other Apostles. NC Photo.
Religious Order Sells' Novitiate NEW YORK (NC)-The former novitiate and .juniorate of the New York province of the Christian Brothers in Barrytown, N. Y., has been sold for $1.5 million to a church group whose Kor~an leader has become prominent as a backer of President Nixon. Brothers at the provincialate here and in Yonkers confirmed that St. Joseph's Normal Institute in Barrytown, which had been used for '39 years as a novitiate, juniorate or prepariltory high school, and residence-for retired Brothers has been sold to the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, also known as Unification Chu~ch ~nternational.
The founder and leader of the Unification Church, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of Seoul, South Korea, ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times last November urging Americans to forgive and love President Nixon. Earlier this year, his followers s'taged a number of proNixon demonstrations around Washington, D. C. Commenting 01'\ reports that some Christrian churches in the United States and Korea regard
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The New Bedford Lenten Series continues this week with a second seminar on Sunday evening, March 10, at Mt. Carmel School Auditoriu,m from 7:30 to 9 P.M. Father Nicholas, O.of.M. Conv., of St. Hedwig Church, New Bedford, 'will speak on <;oni!'ition,' "Am I Really ~'orry"" in this series which 'is' centering on, the Sacrament of Reconciliation. On March 17 there will be a discussion on some of the problems of the Sacrament of Penance, and on March 24 there will be a Penance Service to bring the series to a close.
Cape Cod Parish Plans Penny Sale Sandwich's Corpus Christi Women's Guild is sponsoring a Penny Sale which will be held Friday evening, March 15, at 8 P.M. in the Henry T. Wing School on Route 130 in Sandwich. The Cape Parish invites all to come and indications are that there will be many prizes, door prizes and a raffle as well.
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African Cardinal Sees Increase In Conversions NEW YORK (NC) - The biggest surprise encountered in the United States by Cardinal Maurice Otunga of Nairobi, Kenya, is finding such a large number of priests and nuns leaving the religious life. "We are still having mass conversions," the cardinal noted, adding that there werEl 21,000 Baptisms in the archdiocese of Nairobi in 1973. There are approximately 250,000 Catholics in the archdiocese. Cardinal Otunga, who is in this country on a six-week trip to thank American Catholics for their aid to his archdiocese, is the son of the last of the great paramount tribal chiefs of Kenya. Born in 1923 and baptized in 1935, Cardinal OtungEl became a Catholic despite strong family opposition. The Church in Kenya, Cardinal Otunga said, is "blossoming," and he is "very optimistic" about its future, which he termed the "crowning of the missionary effort." Some reasons for 'the Church's growth, he said, were t.hat nonChristians in Africa regard Christianity in a positive way, and "in spite of the problems in Africa, most governments in Africa are well disposed to integrate Christianity." "Vocations are blooming," as a result, the cardinal added. "One element that you can't explain," the cardinal said, "is God's grace. The other is that people see something better in Christianity than they do in paganism or animism,'; the two predominant beliefs of people in Kenya, Animists are spirit worshippers. Native Born Clergy ·Currently about 40 per cent of the clergy in Africa is native born, he noted. But in Kenya, the number is about 20 per cent. In 1963, Cardinal Otunga pointed out, there were 28 seminarians in Kenya. Today there are more than 200. Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York offered Cardinal Otunga an unspecified number of scholarships for Kenyan seminarians and lay persons to attend school in this country. The new native priests, Cardinal Otunga said, will continue the job of "planting and deepening Christianity" which the missionary priests have begun. Backbone of the Church's teaching in Kenya, he explained, is the lay catechist - usually a man-who trains full time for three years before he can begin his teaching duties. Approximately 400 formerly Catholic schools are now run by the government, he said, and all government-operated schools teach religion.
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CARDINAL IN HARLEM: Auxiliary Bishop Harold Perry of New Orleans, left, and Cardinal Maurice Otunga of Nairobi, Kenya, greet a parishioner after Mass at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Harlem. The cardinal said in an interview with NC News that he has been surprised by the large number of priests and nuns leaving the Religious life in the United States. He said that his diocese is still experiencing mass conversions. NC Photo.
Pope Stresses God's Love Is Essential VATICAN CIlY (NC)-What is the essential, central characteristic of Christianity, Pope Paul asked at a weekly general audience here. His reply: that. God loved us so much that He allowed His only son to die for us. "The secret of Christianity," the Pope said, "is the salvific love of God and therefore 'of Christ who 'loved me and sacrificed Himself for me,' "The incarnation and the Christmas crih led ,to our redemption. "Two mysteries these, one of life and one of death,
which become integrated in the drama of love. The Pope explained that human reason is confounded by the mysteries, by imponderables such as God; and that philosophers have through the ages wrestled with the problem of what man is. However, the Pope said, St. Paul gave us a key to understanding Christianity when he said he was sent "to announce the mystery kept hidden for centuries" and that Christianity announces the "eternal secret of God, the salvation of mankind." In this light, the Pope said, we
New York Senator Is Convinced Pro-Life Am'endment Possible
WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. James L. Buckley is convinced that a constitutional amendment against abortion can be passed b4t he thinks that debates over the precise wording of the amendment is "energy wasted." The Republican - Conservative from New York, the author of a human life amendment, said that arguments over the wording are "a diversion" from the real task of simply getting Congress to consider an amendment. And Buckley warned that if an amendment reversing the 1973 Supreme Court 'abortion decision "is not ratified in the nex't two or three years, it won't be done at a'll," Announce Lenten Buckley's amendment, which Radio Series NEW YORK (NC)--The Seven was scheduled to be the subject Last Words of Christ form the of Senate hearings March 6 and basis for a series of Lenten talks 7, has been criticized by some aired on the NBC radio program opponents of abortion because it "Guideline" on the Sundays of does not define when human life begins. This, the critics say, Lent. . would allow courts to permit Jesuit Father Charles F.X. Dolan, vice president of St. some abortions. The ·amendment Peter's Preparatory School, Jer- has also been criticized for alsey City, delivers the series talks. lowing abortions to save the life "Guideline is produced in con- of the mother. 'Most Fool-Proof' junction with the U. S. Catholic Buckley said that oppopents of Conference's Division for Film abortion can deal with the speciand Broadcasting.
fic wording of the amendment later. "We've got too important a jo1:l in persuading Congress to waste energy quarreling about t,he words of the amendment," • he said. "I'm certainly not locked in cortcrete to the wording of my amendment." "I obviously introduced that formula which I considered most fool-proof," Buckley said, "but the final wording that comes out of committee," Buckley also defended the exemption clause in his proposed amendment which states, "This Article shall not apply in emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother," "Under any system we've had historically," Buckley said, "abortion has been considered licit to save the life of the mother. "In the process of saving the life of the mother abortion can be permitted within the limits of due process."
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can understand that we are men who are the object of divine benevolence. "We can therefore conclude," the Pope added, "both for our happiness and for our sense of responsibility, that we are loved by God. He has first loved us, without our deserving that love but being entirely in need of that love," Three U. S. bishops were at the audience and the Pope introducec;l them by name, as he does for all visiting bishops. They were Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City, Bishop Andrew Grutka of Gary, Ind., and Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the National Conferenc€: of Catholic ·Bishops. Following the normal prac'~ice at papal audiences, all bishops present joined the Pope in giving the final blessing.
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has announced that the 1974 session of the World Synod of Bishops will open in the Vatican Sept. 27. This will be the fourth synod session to be held since the close of the Second Vatican Council, called to discuss in the major problems of the Church collegial form, that is, the bishops of the world in conjunction with the Pope. Previous synod sessions have considered such topics as the collegiality of the bishops, the role of bishops' conferences, the ministerial priesthood and world justice. As has already been announced, the theme of the 1974 synod will be evangelization, that is, spreading the Gospel message throughout the world.. Bishops' conferences have been meeting the past year to prepare their recommendations for the formulation of position papers, which in turn will launch the discussions in the synod itself. .It is anticipated that the synod will run about a month, although the 1971 synod lasted five weeks and many delegates thought that was not sufifcient time. However, the selection of only one topic, evangelization, should speed the synod's conclusion.
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SYRACUSE (NC) - Mother Marianne Kopp, the American nun who succeeded Father Damien The right ordering of one's life demands that, there be DeVeuster as spiritual leader self-discipline and this means being able to say "no" to of the Molokai leper colony in oneself and even to what is good so that there is the strong , Hawaii, will one day be declared a saint if the wishes of the' and quick abjlity to say "no" to what is evil and ~o control Franciscan Sisters here are ful· 'the appetites and inclinations within oneself. There must be fHled. the ability to say "no" to the things that tend to enmesh one According to Mother M. Viola, too deeply in the world seen to· the exclusion or neglect of superior general of the Third the world unseen. . Order of St. Francis in Syracuse, the Vatican's Congregation of In past Lents the Church has stepped in and has told Rites has agreed to consi~er the us when and' how to say "no." There was always encourPERHAPS IT cause for beatification of Mother Kopp and,has given ,the religious agement to' voluntary sacrifice but there was mandated WILL BEAR order permission to submit pre· sacrifice. FRUIT••. liminary research for that pur~ pose. Beatification is the first During recent Lents the emphasis has been on the spirit step toward canonization, the of love rather than on that of law. Catholics have been process by which the Church encouraged to make their own sacrifices according to officially declares a person' a their individual needs and the inspiration of God. " sai.nt. Franciscan Sister It .is salutary in this first full week of Lent to ask Born in Germany Jan. 23, if this is being done~ 1838, Mother Kopp grew up in Utica, N. Y., after her parents Responsible freedom is a responsibility. It means that moved there in 1840. She joined one takes on his own shoulders the burden of decision the Franciscan Sisters of Syrand follow-through:' It m,eans that a person must accept acuse in 1862 and was mother honestly that he needs sacrifice in his life..This is the general of the order from 1877 proof of love, and it is proof of the love of God. It is the to 1886. In 1883 she led a group of six undeniable means of curtailing oneself and this is necesSisters to Hawaii to establish sary if there is to be room for God in one's life. It is a mission there and within two proof of atonement of past faults and a strengthening years had started a school and against sin in the future. It is proof of love of neighbor hospital on ,the island of Maui, since sacrifice always implies giving less to oneself and besides stafifing the leper receiv.• . ing station at Kakaako. more to God and neighbor. . In 1888, the year before The honest Christian must, at this' beginning of Lent, Father Damien died of ,leprosy, she joined him on Molokai. For ask' if he has begun Lent well. Is there renewal in the life the next 30 years she worked ofprayer? Is there a more conscientious doing of the spiritual among the lepers in advanced and corporal works of mercy? Is there the pinch of sacrifice stages of the disease, ~lthough in one's life? ' C;:ontinued from Page ,One would include, the Lutheran she herself never became a vic· our remainig disagreements," the churches. tim. She died at the mission Responsible freedom asks these questions and seeks statement goes on. "While we "If they are willing to open there August 9, 1918. ,honest answers. have concluded that traditional discussion regarding the concrete Mother M. Viola said she is sharp distinction between divine . implications of such a primacy planning to go to Rome short,ly and human institutions are no to them." to begin the preliminary research Catholic Church longer useful, Catholics continue process. Franciscan Father AnThe protests of the late 1960's seem to have given to emphasize that papal primacy The members of the joint com- tonio Ricciardi will direct Mother way to a new spirit, a willingness to listen to reason, a is an institution in accordance mission also had questions.of the Kopp's . beatification process in Catholic Church: Rome, she said. willingness to, strive for reconciliation. This is a welcome with' God's will. "If, in the light of our findings, , "For Lutherans this is a secdevelopment. . ondary question. The one thing it should not give high priority . . Hopes for Solution All along thinking people have realized that there is a necessary, they insist, is that in its ecumenical concerns to VATICAN CITY ~NC) - The papal primacy serve the gospel the problem of reconciliation firm distinction between a legitimate protest working out and Vatican, in an au~horitative note that its· exercise of power with the Lutheran churches. in a legitimate manner, and that protest which is just not subvert Christian freedom. "If it is willing to open dis- published in its daily newspaper, another name. for anarchy I and the depriving people of "There are also differences cussions on' possible structures said it has refrained from taking which we have not yet discussed. for reconciliation which would, a public position on the efforts their rights. "We have not adequately ex- protect legitimate traditions of of Spain to expel a bishop in As the American patriot and writer, James Otise, plored to. what extent the exist- the Lutheran communities and hopes that the interested parties may "reach a satisfactory soluwrote some one hundred and ten years ago, "Tyranny is . ing forms of the papal office are respect their spiritual heritage. tion of the grave dispute," open to change in the future, nor "If it is prepared to envisage to be abhorred whether it be in the hands of one or of have we yet touched on the sen· the po'ssibility of reconciliation few or of the many." sitive point of papal infallibility, which would recognize the self· "Trust in the Lord who taugqt by Vatican Councils I and government of Lutheran churches .Now it is a sign of maturity that those with differmakes us one body in Christ will within a communion. II. ences seem willing to sit down and seek reconciliation. This "Even given these disagree· "If, in the expectation of a help us to risk ourselves on the seems to be taking place in the world of international ments and points yet to be ex- foreseeable reconciliation, it is yet undisclosed paths toward affairs. It is also taking place in other areas as well. amined, it is now proper to ask, ready to acknowledge the Lu· which His spirit is guiding His And when it comes to the area of religion the, spirit of in the light of the agreement we theran churches· represented in Church," Many Endeavors reconciliation must be accompanied by spirit of truth, the have been able to reach, that our dialogue as sister-churches This joint commission is but our respective churches take speare· already entitled to which acceptance that all reconciliation is bUiit on people of cific actions toward recqncilia- some measure of ecclesiastical. one of the many engaged in g90d will drawing closer together by drawing closer to tion," communion," theological dialogue with repreGod and His Will and His revelation. Lutheran Church sentatives .of the Episcopalian, Conclusions The U. S. scholars then con· Presbyterian, United Methodist, The scholars asked the Luther· an churches: Disciples of Christ and the. cluded: "If 'they are prepared to affirql "We believe that our joint Orthodox Church. with US that papal primacy; re: statement reflects a convergence The commission was com· newed in the light of the gospel, in the theological understanding posed of 13 Roman Catholics and need not be a barrier to recon- of the papacy which makes pos- 13 Lutherans. It was appointed ciliation. sible a fruitful approach to these' in 1965 by the National Commit"If :they are able to acknowl- questions. tee of the Lutheran World FedOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE .OIF FALL RIVER "Our churches should not miss eration and the Committee for Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall Rivel edge not only the legitimacy of the papal ministry in the service the occasion to respond to the Ecumenical and Inter-Religious 410 Highland Avenue . ,of the Roman Catholic commu- will of Christ for the unity of Affairs of the National ConferFall River, Mass. 02722 675·7151 nion but even the possibility and his disciples. Neither church ence of Catholic Bishops. The PUBLISHER . desirapility of the papal ministry, should 'continue to tolerate a Lutheran delegation includes Most Rev. Donil~1 A. Cronin, D.O.,. S.T.D. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. 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Says Support For Pro-Life Is Growing,
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LOUISVILLE (NC) -- Chances' are "excellent that Congress will approve a pro-life amendment to the Constitution, according to an official of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). Dr. Mildred Jefferson, who teaches surgery at Boston University and who is vice-chairman of the board of directors of the NRLC, told the Record, the Louisville archdiocesan newspaper that more congressmen are supporting the proposed amendments. Although she would not predict when Congress would vote on an amendment, the Boston physician indicated that many in Congress are "coming to the awareness" that the majority of Americans do not approve of abortion and the congressmen are consequently "sensing the political realities" of supporting the proposals. The Senate subcommittee on constitutional amendments has tentatively set March 6 and 7 for hearings on pro-life amendments to the Constitution. However, the House of Representatives' subcommittee on constitutional amendments has set no date. Step Backwards Aid for priests and religious Obstacles encountered by the pro-life movement, Dr. Jefferson . experiencing emotional, spiritual said, are the news media which or vocational difficulties is oftend to "minimize public expres- fered by the newly-opened sion" on abortion and give dis- House of Affirmation in Whitinstorted accounts of the movement. ville, Mass., the only therapeutic center of its ,kind in the world, "We have to insist on a balwhich has been in operation anced and fair presentation to since last fall and 'which offers the public," she said. residential care to religious and In a talk delivered at Louisclergy. ville's Spalding College, Dr. Jef.. Plans for the house were outferson ~aid thaithe use' of medlined last summer in Fall River ical procedures such as abortion by its medical director, Sister to help solve social and economic Anna Polcino, M.D. of the Mediproblems "is a step backwards" cal Missionaries of Mary. Today for the medical profession. wbat were hopes and dreams at "People are no longer pro- that time have become a reality. tected," she declared, "when The house, a former Episcophysicians use their methods to solve social and economic prob- palian retreat center, set in 11acre grounds, is the outgrowth lems." of a consulting center for clergy The Hippocratic Oath, she and religious started in Worcesnoted, requires physicians to proter in 1970 under sponsorship of tect life and not ·to kill, which ·Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan. As is the result of an abortion. Sister Polcino and her co-work"There's no way acceptable to er, priest -psychologist Rev. get rid of a baby," she added, Thomas A. Kane, Ph.D., worked "and to make this a good thing." with emotionally ill religious, Supporters of abortion, Dr. they realized that beyond clinic Jefferson 'said, focus on other facilities, what was needed was aspects such as the number of "a total residential therapeutic illegal abortions and the result- and educational program for reliing deaths "to make the act gious professionals." acceptable." 'Affirmation Approach' However, this argument, she Their concept has been suppointed out, ignores the risks asported by John Cardinal Wright, sociated with any abortion, first Bishop of Worcester and whether legal or illegal. The now Prefect of the Sacred Conrisks of hemorrhage and infecgregation for the Clergy. It is tion remain, she explained, re~ based on the work of two intergardless of the talent of the nationally known psychiatrists, physician. Dr. Anna A. Terruwe and Dr.
Africa Suffers From Injustices Of Colonialism SASKATOON (NC) - "Africa has undergone one kind of injustice after another," Bishop Peter Kwasi Sarpong of Kumasi, Ghana, recently told a gathering here. Africa, the bishop said, has suffered drought, mental attitudes that militate against material progress, and man-made problems such as corruption. Colonialism, he said, has worked grave injustices on Africa. "Colonial education has made us mistrust our values," said Bishop Sarpong, "values such as honor, 'gratitude, hospitality, communalism, chastity. And nothing is taking the place of these values."
HOUSE OF AFFIRMATION
New Center Serves Emotionally Disturbed Priests, Religious with Total Program
Masses at Airport NEWARK (NC)-Sunday Mass is being celebrated at Newark Airport forworkersand travellers. Arrangements for the Mass at the new $500 million airport were made by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with the cooperation of Eastern Airlines, which leases the area where the portable altar is set up.
Secret God is a secret audible only when self is silent. -Maurice Zundel
Conrad W. Baars. The latter, whose research on the causes of emotional immaturity and illness in priests and religious has been termed by ·Pope Paul VI "a special gift to the Church," has given up his private practke to become the physchiatric director of the House of Affirmation. Chief means of treatment used at' the house, organizers explained, is "the aff.irmation approach," a common sense method designed to provide a troubled individual with a good self image which will lead to insight into his or her problems' and ability to overcome them. Group thera-
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py, self help and community concern are stressed, and the healing power of the liturgy, daily concelebrated by priest-patients and priest-staff members, is fully recognized. The House of Affirmation is important to laity as well as religious, its organizers feel, "because the healthy religious personality is such a source of strength and' 'faith for' them." Accordingly an auxiliary group known as the St. Theresa Guild has· been established, through which lay people can offer spir-
itual and material support to the house. Information about the guild and all house programs, which also include outpatient psychotherapy, career development workshop, communication laboratories, assessment services for candidates to the priesthood and religious life and facilities for professional gatherings in the fields of theology, phychiatry and philosophy is available from House of Affirmation, 120 Hill St., Whitinsville, Mass. 01588, telephone 617-234-6266.
Bishop Sarpong was in Canada to speak to groups in the Ten Days for Development, an ecumenical program to' help make Canadians more aware of the situation in the Third World of underdeveloped nations. Africa, the bishop said, has has been forced to go through the industrial revolution within a few decades, and in its burgeoning cities alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution and unemployment are increasing. Still in Slavery
"Aid, given ostensibly as an act of mercy," said Bishop Sarpong, often only supports enterprises of the countries that give it. Aid is a humiliation to us." He said he resents aid earmarked for family planning "while people are dying of diseases which could 'be curtailed." Colonial powers have thrown together people of different backgrounds and divided people of one tribe. "We have inherited political systems which are alien to us and the result is confusion. • ~ttempts to govern our own affairs are labelled as socialism, children whose parents object communism," the bishop said. to such a program," said Msgr. "Slave trade may have been Spiers in CEF's monthly publica- abolished," he said, '.'but, in fact, tion. Africa is the slave of the United The parents' brief shows why States and Europe." some parents throughout the country are protesting the proliferation of .sex education courses, Msgr. Spiers said, noting that the brief contains teachers' testimony that the courses include "complete mechanics of the act of intercourse, as well as the place, position and the use of sexual organs in the act of copulation."
Rights of Parents in Danger In Public School Sex Classes WASHINGTON (NC) - The right of public school pupils and parents "not to have their sexual morals and mores dictated by school officials" is at stake in two Michigan law suits, an official of a national parents' rights organization said here. Msgr. Edward F. Spiers, national executive director of Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF), a non-sectarian group supporting parental freedom of choice in education, said that in one case filed in a' district federal court, proponents of unlimited sexual education, represented by the Population Law Center of San Francisco, are seeking to "establish a new state orthodoxy in sexual instruction and impose the sexual opinions of secular humanism on all public school students and parents." In the other case, in the Michigan Court of Appeals, a group of Howell School District parents are challenging the constitutionality of the ·1968 Michigan sex education state on the grounds that it interferes with family privacy, denies religious liberty to p.arents and children. and establishes a religion of secular humanism in the schools. "If successful, this suit would remove sexual education from Michigan schools and not be sat-. isfied with mere exemption of
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Surprise Dinner Mak'es Mom Glad She's Pa,rent Several times in the past I have written about some _ things my teen-agers do that drive me wild. But every once in a while, they do something I find very touching. My husband has his office at home. Yesterday afternoon work piled up which had to Then I heard my 15-year-old be taken care of before he . daughter telling the rest of the could quit for the day. I was family, "You kids go on upstairs helping him finish, but it was now. Just let the two of us getting closer and closer to supper-time. The kids were hUligr)'. X had planned on having hot dogs that
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night, and asked one of the girls to start heating them. The frankfurters were ready ... but my husband and I were not finished working. I told the kids to go ahead and eat without us. We'd get a bite later. Then our 18-year-old son stepped into the office. "When will you and Dad be finished'~" "I don't know ... another hour or so. Didn't you kids eat?" "Sure, we ate ... I was just wondering about cleaning up?" That puzzled me. It WW:i,'t his night for dishes. Twenty minutes later, he was bUl-k in again, "When wili you be ready for supper?" "I really don't know. Wil have to finish first'.. '. but what's the problem?" 'You'll Find Out' "Oh, nothing. Vou'll find out." An answer like that give;; me about as much peace of mind as, "Get a good night's sleep ... I have something I want to tal~ to you about in the mornipg." I headed for the kitchen. , He stopped me. "Don't go out there. If you need anything, I'll get it for you." , Another ten minutes, and he was back again. "Cam you work for another 40 or 45 minutes?" That seemed to about. match our work ... but didn't answer what was going on.
Report Spanish Bishop Under House Arrest BILBAO (NC)-Bishop' Antonio Anoveros of Bilbao and his vicar general Msgar. Jose Angel Ubieta Lopez, ~ere reported to be under virtual house arrest here. The police "recommended" that the bishop and his Slide not leave his diocesan residence. The Spanish government is reported to be trying to initiate judicial proceedings against Bishop Anoveros for a sermon in which the prelate called for more freedom for the Basques in northern Spain. Since Gen. Francisco Franco took control of the country in 1939 no bishop has been arrested, and the 1953 Spanish-Vatican concordat states that the Vatican must give it permission before a bishop can be arrested.
finish." The oldest boy, and the oldest girl were in on it together ... We finished our work. "You can't come out yet. Give us another five minutes." ,Five minutes later we had the answer. We found candlelight, and the table set with the good china and silver. They had marinated a steak and broiled it, baked potatoes and the piece de resistance he had called his girl friends mother to get her recipe for spinach souffle, something I had never made. Every Detail I don't think I had all the ingredients in the house. He must have gone out and shopped; They even had a celery and olive tray ... and, hot coffee cake for dessert. They had taken care of every detail. As soon as we were settled, they said to call them when we were through. They'd come and clean up the kitchen again. And the two of them went upstairs with the other children, leaving us with a most delicious candlelight dinner ... all to ourselves. They had eaten hot dogs themselves, cleaned up the kitchen, then cooked dinner for us. They're great kids! From the time they were safe around the stove, I had been letting them cook whenever they wanted to. There were some disasters, and it had been a mess at times. But there were enough successes to keep them, trying, and to build their confidence. The dividends are now returning. They're good cooks. But the thoughtfulness, to have done all that on their own, is one of the great joys of my marriage.
Oppose Inter-Faith Dialogue in Schools BELLEVILLE (NC) - A plan to bring clergymen to public high schools to establish a religious dialogue with students has been sternly opposed by a Jewish organization and by' proponents of church-state separation. As a result, the "religious contact" program fostered by the Belleville Area Clergy Association for the 6,200 students of the two senior public high schools has run into trouble. Proponents of church-state separation ,and the area AntiDefamation, League of B'nai B'rith chal'lenged the whole idea". 'They said they received complaints about the proposed program from Belleville area residents. ' According to the plan, con~act was to be restricted to spiri,tual, not educational, matters. Ministers of all faiths, including Oatholic clergymen, were to volunteer their sen~ices for about two hours each day during lunch periods.
FAMED DIRECTOR'S WORK: Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Leaud act out film within film in Francois Truffant's "Day for Night," chosen as one of two best films of 1973 by U.S. Catholic Conference division of film and broadcasting. NC Photo courtesy Warner
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Asks Encouragement of Pr,ayer Grou,ps BOSTON (NC) - Make yourselves available to charismatic groups, Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston urged his priests. In a letter to all the priests of his archdiocese, the cardinal said hemet with the leaders of the larger charismatic prayer groups in the area. last November. "They 'seem to be very anxious to contribute parish life and to receive help and encouragement from parish priests," he said. "They also: evince great zeal for constructive service." , Citing the "essential' role we share for people who want to live a deeper life in Christ," the cardinal called on his priests to show a"genuine interest" in the charismatic groups and to "help them find a home in our existing parochial life." "It i~ possible that at times very good people may place a devotional emphasis on what is more extraordinary or secondary, rather than on what is central," -he wrote. "But these prayer groups seem to seek inter/este~ arid sympathetic help in discovering the deeper gifts of
Board Pays Tribute To Bishop Dempsey WASHINGTON (NC)-Tribute to the late Bishop Michael R. Dempsey, former na'tional director of the Campaign .for Human Development (CHD) was paid here by the Administrative Committee of the National Conference of Bishops and the National Board of theU. S. Catholic Conference. Bishop Dempsey, the statement, said, was "a ·'true 20thcentury apostle to the poor. QuietlY, self-effacingly, seeking no personal recognition or reward, he gave unstintingly of himself to the poor and disadvantaged, testifying by his life that he truly recognized them as his brothers and sisters in Christ."
for sound doctrine and spiritual guidance. "It will often be the painstaking and understanding service of a priest that will strengthen what is of God and clarify what Vatican Radio to Aid is to be avoided in a charismatic prayer community," the cardinal Holy Year Pilgrims wrote. STQCKHOLM (NC) - Holy "The Catholic charismatic reo Year pilgrims in Rome will be able to get tips on what is going newal, a movement that began on in the 'City as well as other in the mid-1960's, has become ininformation from various lan- creasingly popular in this counguage FM broadcasts on Vatican try. In the New Testament, St. Radio, according to Jesuit Father Paul listed numerous special Robert Tucci, who heads the charisms, or gifts from the Holy Spirit, such as prophecy, speakradio. ing in tongues, arid interpreting Father Tucci explained in an tongues. While he encouraged interview in Katolsk Krykotid- the gifts, he warned that they ning (Catholic Church News), the. must be used for the good of the Stockholm diocesan magazine, community and that they could that he hopes to expand Vatican not become a substitute for faith, Radio's' FM broadcasting in hope and love. Rome in order to' have continuA numbel; of U. S. bishops ous programs of good music and have expressed a cautious optinewscasts and thereby attract more listeners in the Rome area. mism about the movement today. "The short-wave broadcasts of Vatican Radio, however, are the WINDSOR MUSIC 993-6263 most important ones," said 6 Orchestras Available Father Tucci.
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Spring's F,as,hi,o,n Messa,ge Is Co,lor Coordination
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With the big fashion message for spring '74 coordination from top to toe, color is going to be all-important. There are two very important plusses that you get when you do limit your wardrobe for a season to a few colors. The first is versatility "and mileage and the second a wardrobe. Team it up with a soft shirt, cashmere sweater, loose pulled-together look that is jacket, or fitted blazer and you very much of today. Using have a great many different outthe first as a criteria for buying, you will find that your clothing dollar will go further because you can limit the number of ac-
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cessories you buy and you'll be able to interchange skirts and tops for a wide variety of looks. The second, the pulled-together look, is very flattering and slenderizing, which certainly makes it worthwhile considering. 'Straw and SiIlc' With color playing such an important part in any woman's plans for spring, It's also important to know what specific colors will herald spring '74. One whole rainbow of hues already appear· ing in the stores are thos!l called "straw and silk" colors, which convey texture as well as huelinen, natural, wicker, bamboo, . cornsilk, cream. Starting with a creamy , almost oyster white, they graduate in shades up to a lovely caramel. Naturals will be a word that is coined to describe them and while they are lovely and flattering they are also basic, which again helps stretch your fashion wardrobe and clothing dollar. Porcelains are another collection of shades or tints that wiil show up in everything from dresses to jeans. These tints have such familiar names as peach, coral, shrimp, salmon, orange, lemon lime, pink, robin's egg blue, aquamarine, and sea foam· green, but their fashion message is as new as the latest. on Water· gate. Because of the "all-of-a-color" look, the skirt will play an important part in any smart girl's
Diocese Participates !n World Exposition SPOKANE (NC)-The Spokane diocese has initiated low-key but substantial participation in the city's world exposition - Expo '74-May through October. Developed and carried' out through the diocese's pastoral council, the Expo program includes: Distribution of at least 60,000 color brochures to Expo sites, hotels, motels and churches; the brochures carry a map of Spokane with church addresses and Mass schedules, as well as information about the area; Heavy participation in Expo '74's Chaplain of the Day program which will send pairs of clergymen to cover the fair· grounds in two daily six-hour shifts.
fits for the price of one or two. Navy Blue Navy blue has been a spring favorite since bread was .26 a loaf and that was certainly a long time ago; and this season it is still on the favorite list. That little navy blue number with spanking white collar and cuffs (a la' Kitty Foyle) will become a collector's item and if you're opting for a suit for Easter, think in terms of a navy blue jacket dress. While red and white are the natural ingredients to team up with this color, green has a fresh spring quality as a navy accessory. Remembering back to the sixties when Jackie Kennedy made a pink suit an important selling item, one has to agree that a colorful spring is a must, especially here in grey New England.
Three International Meetings Planned VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Vatican is sending representatives to three upcoming international meetings in Geneva, New York and Washington. American JesL!it Father Philip Land of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace and Msgr. Silvio Luoni, the Vatican's pennanent observer at the Geneva oUice of the United Nations, are attending as observers UN Oonference for Commerce and Development at Geneva Feb. 422. This will be the third session of the conference, commissioned to elaborate on the rights and economic obligations of nations.
Vatican Radio Editorial Defends Solzhenitsyn VATICAN CITY (NC) - A Vatican Radio editorial rushed to the defense of a "grand writer of international fame," Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who, it said, "was arrested for having informed the world of the repressive measures of a regime and who has been expelled from his country." The Vatican Radio editorial was aired Feb. 13, the day after the Nobel prizewinner was arrested in Moscow and the same day he arrived in West Germany. The editorial did not comment on his expulsion from the Soviet Union but said in his defense as a writer: "He has done nothing more than report in his book ("Gulag Archipelago") the crimes already known and denounced by the regime itself in a well known and recent congress." (That referred to the denunciation by the late Soviet Communist party head, Nikita Khrushchev, of tactics of terror carried out under Stalin, tactics which Solzhenitsyn suffered painfully and which he has recounted in several earlier books.)
SHOWS VALUES: Emigrant growing old, Max Von Syndow, and wife, Liv Ullmann, are shown in Jan Troell's "The New Land," chosen as one of two best films of 1973 by U.S. Catholic Conference division of film and broadcasting. Film shows values knitting together community of Swedes building new Life in America. NC Photo courtesy Warner Bros.
Fuel Problems Add to 5 ch'ools Bu,rd'en Most Catholic schools across Sister Mary Eleanor is princithe nation seem to be holding pal of Mount Saint Benedict their own against the fuel crisis, High School in Crookston, Minn., although the school officials are one of the coldest areas in the keeping their fingers crossed . nation where 30 degrees belowabout making it .through the zero temperatures are not uncommon. school year. There were no reports of any Doors at Mount Saint Benedict serious curtailment of classes in that are not necessary as fire Catholic elementary and second- exits have been sealed up with' ary schools other than extended plastic sheeting to keep out the Christmas vacation days which • were expected to be made up at Canisius Alumni Honor the end of the school year. Extra courses, such as Sunday Notre Dame President BUFFALO (NC)-Father TheoConfraternity of Christian Doctrine classes, ,seemed not to be dore M. Hesburgh, president of affected seriously by the crisis. the University of Notre Dame, Often it was a case of resched- has been awarded the Peter uling classes to make better use Canisius Medal from the Canisius College Alumni Asociation here. of transportation and heating. The medal has been awarded Daylight Saving The new daylight saving time since 1957 to "an outstanding was one of the biggest com- individual who has made subplaints from Catholic school offi- stantial contributions to the ed· cials, who said they were con- .ucational, spiritual, social cultucerned about traffic safety for ral, and intellectual advancement children who have to leave for of mankind and whose career school before daylight. But most and achievements constitute a of the officials said they realized . challenge and an inspiration to that public school children had the youth of America." to face the same problem.
Catholic Conference Expands Services WASHINGTON (NC) - Services to Spanish-speaking Catholics have been increased by three divisions of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USeC), the national-level action agency of the Catholic Church in this country. The National Catholic News Service is offering a weekly round-up of national and international religious news, called "Resumen Semanal de Noticias." A.E.P. Wall, editor-in-chief, said, "All of us on the NC News staff realize that we must give greater attention to the needs of the Spanish-speaking. Our new column is a. step in that direction." The publications office of the USCC recently released its first Spanish-language publication, the recently approved American bishops pastoral on the Blessed Virgin Mary.
drafts. After classes and on weekends when the school is not occupied, drapes are hung as partitions in the halls to break down drafts. 'Plenty Around' Sister Mary Eleanor said that during classes the girls, who normally wear uniform skirts, have been given permission to wear slacks in the classrooms, where the temperature is kept at 68 degrees. Boys and girls are allowed to wear light jackets in the classrooms. Father Stanley Bourassa, superintendent of schools for the Crookston diocese, said that getting heating fuel for the schools has posed no problem thus far. "There seems to be plenty of fuel around," said Father Bou· rassa. "But I must say we were worried when we were first warned of possible shortages. II
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Pontiff Defends Man's Absolute Right to Live VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI defended man's "inalienable right to live from the first¡ moment of his existence" at an audience Feb. 27 given to an international group of scientists. Speaking in Fren.:h, Pope Paul told his visitors, among them seven Nobel prize winners, that the Church favors t:'leir research, He said that their attempts to define "with the greatest precision possible the complex laws governing the physical and biological universe is already a search for truth that gives homage to the Author of nature and also to the' human spirit that participates in His wisdom." Global Conl:ept 'Many contributions to this search come from different sources, the Pope noted. In addition contributions from the fields of science and medkal research, contributions must also come from "the philosopher, politician, lawyer, as well as from, we think, the moralist and the theologian." "In this field, in fact, the Catholic Church has a global concept of man that is the basis for its attitudes toward real problems," he said. "The Church is , pleased with the dominion that man acquires over his lift, not to change it for his pleasure but t'J expand on it according to all the possibilities written in its nature." " The' Pope added that the Church "is concerne:i with the ,quality of life on all its levels because all are arranged according to the spiritual vocation of man," Sacr'ed Character "The Church recognizes therefore man's inalienab:e right to live, from the first moment of his existence - a right which no human can set aside - a right which applies aJso to his fellow men and, above all, to his family, and to the conditions necessary for a truly human life." Pope Paul concluded his observations by telling the scientists that "the Church thus puts the problems of life in the light of a faith that reveals the full sense of man on the path of a long experience of an assent to life." To his visitors, whom he acknowledged were "j":.lstly concerned with the conditions on life for future generations," the Pope expressed both his esteem, and interest in their work, adding that he hopes it will contribute to a "high service for humanity."
,Urged to SUpp4nt Nonpublic Education ROCHESTER (NC) -,'A Jesuit educator has urged Catholic, Protestant and Jewish parents who send their children to, religious-oriented schools to be prepared to make sacrifices if 'they wish to continue that education. Father Virgil Blum, ;professor of political science at Marquette University in Milwaukee, asked the parents to '''recommit'' themselves 'to such education even if they lose present court battles over government aid to nonpublie schools.
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COMFORTING SICK.: Left photo, Sister Marie Cordis, a.p. of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River sees to the needs of Raymond Albert, her four-year-old patient,
as Sister Mary Daniel, a.p. bolsters her comfort. Right photo, Sister Marie Cordis, a.p. is a helpful joy to Robert Roach during his convalescence.
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for the sick. After much study Continued from Page One Haven iJt Fairhaven, tangibly and experimentation, the latter witness to the concern of the carried on especially at the great Church that Christ's healing Marian shrine which is so intiministry be perpetuated. Saint mately associ.llted with the aposAnne's Hospital in Fall River tolate to the sick, Lourdes, a new and the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Rite for the Anointing of the Sick Home in the See City embody was formulated. New Rites the same imitation, of Our Recently the Holy See has Savior's example. On a personal level, priests published the new ritual for the and religious and faithful laity- administration of this Sacrament. all, as they minister to those Our Holy Father Pope Paul VI who are sick - respond to has, at the same time, promulChrist's injunction to do as He gated a special instruction on did. Physicians, as they practice the nature and significance of their medical art to relieve and this Sacrament for the sick. comfort the sufferings of paSpecial emphasis has been tients, nurses and technicians, as given to the precise point that they devote personal and pro- this is a sacrament 'for the sick. fessional attention to the sick, It should not be delayed or postmQthers and fathers, children, poned until de'ath is pr.oximate or husbands and wives, relatives imminent. To underscore this and friends who visit and com- point, the very title of the sacrafort and care for ailing or elderly ment has been changed. It is loved ones and neighbors, all the "Anointing of the Sick." No these people, in a profound longer do we refer to this rite as . sense, can carry on Christ's heal- "Extreme Unction." ing ministry. Paul Paul has revised the esSacramental Level sential words which lie. at the On a sacramental level, the very core' of the sacrament. The Catholic Church preserVes a rich "'form" of. the sacramental rite heritage and dispenses treasures now reads: of grace in the ministry to the (As the forehead is anointed:) sick. Especially is this noted in "Through this holy anointing, the Sacrament of the Anointing may the Lord in His love and of the Sick.' mercy help you with the grace of "Is any man sick among . the Holy Spirit. Amen." you?" asked Saint James the (As the hands are anointed:) Apostle in his Pastoral Epistle. "May the Lord, who frees you "Let him bring in the priests of from sin, save you and raise you the Church and let them pray' up.' Amen." over him, anointing him'with oil Hands and Head in the name of the Lord; and the The new sacramental form is prayer of faith will save the sick based upon the passage from the man, and the' Lord will raise him Letter of Saint J!imes in the New up ..." Testament ,and upon the docThus, we know that from the trinal teaching about this Sacravery earliest days of the Church, ment which was proposed at the the Sacrament of the Anointing Council of Trent. of the, Sick has beenadminisIt is interesting to note that tered, in Our Divine Savior's the Holy Father has prescribed name and by His power. only the anointing of the foreThe Constitution on the Sa- head and the hands of the recipcred Liturgy of the Second Vat- ient. Previously, it was the pracican Council included a call for tice of the priest who administhe renovation of the sacramen- tered this Sacrament to mark the tal ministry of the Church to and five senses of the person who
was being anointed with the .ularly the "matter" used in this Sacrament wiII be precisely that holy oil. This change seems to be a per- blessed during the solemn days fectly natural modification of of Holy Week by the Bishop. the sacramental ritual, however, Many Modifications for when persons are attending The holy anointing takes a sick relative or friend, isn't it place within the context of a customary to have a touching of the forehead, a holding of the : rite or celebration which can now be adopted or modified to hands? the particular circumstances of Blessed Oil the sick person. The priest who The oil used in the Anointing administers this Sacrament may of the Sick, called the Oil of the select from a wide variety of Sick, is blessed by the Bishop prayers and Scriptural readings during the beautiful ceremonies in preparing to celebrate the of Holy Week. Then it is distrjb- rite. uted to all the priests of the DioThere are numerous options. cese, to be dispensed, along with It is most desirable to celebrate the other blessed or consecrated th!,! Sacrament of the Anointing oils which are used in the sacra- of the Sick with a true "celments of Baptism and Confirma- ebration." Friends and loved tion, all through the year in . ones should participate in the every corner of the Diocese. rite; their special role is to comA beautiful prayer of blessing mend the recipient of the Sacrais recited over the Oil of the ment to the mercy and love of Sick. The modern formulation of God. this blessing is based upon a The Sacrament has been prov,ery ancient prayer, in which Turn to Page Nine the Holy Spirit is invoked as the healing and strengthening Agent of Divine Power and Grace. In cases of true necessity, the new ritual provides for a blessing of the oil to be used by the priest who administers the Anointing of the Sick, but reg-
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CELEBRATE THE ANOINTING: The Anointing of the Sick is to be brought those who are ill at the very beginning of their sickness so that the Lord may comfort them and that they may consecrate their carrying of t.he Cross of suffering to the benefit of the Church. Here, Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, assistant pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville, helps Mickey Burke of West Barnstable do just that. Left, a joyful and
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hopeful greeting; center, the imposition of hands from the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick; right, the administration of the Eucharist. Father McMorrow uses his left hand throughout the rites because. he is himself handicapped and has known the consolation of the Anointing of the Sick.
Anointing' of Sick Makes Christ Present
NEEDED CATECHESIS: In the administration of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, as in all sacraments, a friendly pastoral catechesis is to be expected so that Christ's presence may be easily recognized, appreciated and accompanied by sincere human efforts.
Faculty Urges Eligibility of '-aYll1en For Notre Dame Presidency NOTRE DAME (NC)-A reFather Hesburgh was apquest that laymen be made el- pointed president in 1952 but igible for the post of Notre Dame has given no indication that he university president has been is thinking of stepping down. made by the faculty senate here Father Charles Weiher, a philin a move some observers see . osophy professor, said that he as a swipe at the university's voted against the proposal beprovost. cause he felt "one shouldn't The faculty senate voted 15-10 vote to make decisions on the to ask the university trustees basis of personalities." and fellows to abolish the reFinding a qualified person to requirement that the president be fill the post of university presa member of the Holy Cross ident, Father Weiber noted, is Fathers, who operate the institu- difficult regardless of whether tion. laymen are included or excluded. If ever a lay president were Two faculty members disagreed, however, about whether needed, he contended, the board the measure was aimed at the of fellows who retain the authorpr9vost, Father James T. Burt- ity to amend the prerequisites chaell, who is second in com路 for the university president, mand. to the president. Father would voluntarily make the needTheodore Hesburgh. ed change.
Continued from Page Eight vided by Almighty God as a means of strengthening and encouraging those who, because of the ravages of illness or age, might otherwise' experience pangs of despair or loss of hope. What more appropriate way to reinforce the effect of the Sacrament could there be than to surround the recipient with friends and loved ones who are praying with and for their sick loved one? Seriously III No sacrament is a casual or routine matter. The Anointing of the SiC;k is to be administered to those who are. in fact, seriously ill, to those who are' actually weakened by the onset of old age. In this regard, a prudent and probably judgment is always to be made. On the other hand, the Sacraments should never be delayed or postponed through the various stages of .an illness until all 'hope of recovery is lost. Restoration to full health is one important element in the prayers and the significance of this Sacrament, and is frequently verified as an effe'ct of its reception. Pastoral experience confirms the idea that the recipient of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is never frightened when the rite is administered, but rather derives considerable encouragement and consolation from this ministration. Friends and relatives of a sick person should appreciate the fact that at the very onset of any serious illness, the appropriate time for the administration of the Sacrament of Anointing has arrived. Holy Viaticum The sick should frequently receive Holy Communion. Those who are in actual danger of death are all the more strengthened and refreshed by the Eucharist; in such instances, Holy Communion is called "Viaticum." The Holy See has, along with
the revised Rite of Anointing, published a practical "handbook" for pastoral care of the sick, in which there is a revised form for administering the Eucharist to the sick and beautiful new forms of prayer to accompany the administration of Viaticum. Prayers to be recited on the occasion of a simple visitation of the sick are provided, and there is a formula of prayer with which to commend to God's mercy those who are dying. Priests in parish ministry and those serv:ng hospitals, nursing homes and similar facilities wJll be delighted with the new resources which the Church has provided for them, and the pastoral ministry of the sick will be greatly enriched as the new Ritual becomes available and is introduced into practice. True Responsibilities The treasures of the Church are to be applied, not stored away; they must be used for the comfort and consolation of the sick and the elderly. Thus, a serious responsibility rests with
Love Every creature, being a .more or less remote derivation of infinite love, is therefore the fruit of love and does not move except through love. -Pope Pius XII
those who care for the sick to alert the parish priest to any instance of serious illness. The priest in the parish or institution should be advised of any such situation, and here the initiative .must frequently rest with loved ones and friends. It is never appropriate to delay in advising the priest about sick and elderly members of the parish. Sacraments are for God's people. The ministry of comfort which the Church carries on in perpetuating the healing ministry of Christ Himself must be exercised to be effective. Often it is friends and members of the family who provide the occasion for the exercise of this ministry; and in doing so for sick loved ones, friends and relatives, do Christ's work, indeed.
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Stresses Public Mora I Problems Interest Ct,urch NEW YORK (NC)-Unless the more affluent nations of the world are willing to share their wealth and technical expertise with developing nations, the world will meet disaster caused by exploding popu).ations'. This is the conclusion drawn by Jesuit Father Robert L. Faricy in an article entitled "Population and the Quality of Life: a Theological View" which appeared in the February issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. The article, said Father Faricy, a professor' of theol,ogy at Rome's Gregorian University, was an effort to study the population problem in ,a theological context, ari aspect of the problem' that has largely been ignored. Before considering the population explosion, he snid, it should be noted that most of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing nations and not in the economically advanced countries. Some people, FB:ther Faricy pointed out, contend that the Church should not concern itself with public morality but should limit to saving the souls of individuals. Two Basic Teachings "The Catholic Church has never taught a simply private morality," he wrote. "On the contrary, it has always, and more and more in recent times, spoken out on, for example, such public moral problems as those of war and peace, social justice, economic development, and racism." Two basic teachings of th~ Church are relevant to the population problem, he said. The first is the Church's concern with the intrinsic value of human life; the other is its concern for the quality of life, especially that of poor people and developing nations. Any population policy that contradiCts either the value of human life or any nation's cultural heritage must be condemned, Father Faricy said.
Ireland Plans Bill On Contraceptives DUBLIN (NC)-The Irish government has decided to introduce its own bill regarding the importation and sale of contraceptives, it was announced here. . The official announcement said that the ruling last December by the Irish Supreme Court that the law forbidding the importation of contraceptives is unconstitutional had led the government "to introduce a bill to provide for the necessary change in legislation arising out of that decision." The Supreme Court decision did not affect the ban on the advertisement and sale of contraceptives. The government, which is a coalition of the Fine Gael and Labor parties, said it intended to allow party members in parliament freedom to vote on its bill without party instruetions. The annual conferences of both partie~ have decided in favor of changing the law.
ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY 5S. Margaret Mary Guild met yesterday holding a business session and hearing entertainmellt by representatives of the De Rossi School of Music of New Bedford. The guild will sponsor a public whist party at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon at the CCD Center on South Boulevard, Onset. Florence Sullivan will be in charge of arrangements.
OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, NEW BEDFORD The parish. will sponsor a malasada supper and entertainment program from 4 to 7 P.M. Sunday, March 17 in the school basement. ' ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD A Shamrock Festival is planned by the Couples' Club from 8 to midnight Saturday, March 23. The Silverliners will provide music for dancing and a 'buffet will be served. Reservations may be made by calling 995-0796 or 995-6300 before Wednesday, March 20.
ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The CCD will sponsor a cake sale in the parish hall at all Masses this weekend. Proceeds will supplement registration fees charged students. Knights of the Altar will meet in the school from 7 to 8:30 tonight. Boy Scouts will hold an overnight camping trip this weekend, leaving from the parish yard at 9 Saturday morning.
ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild will meet at 8 Monday night, March 11 at the church for a Mass to-be celebrated by Rev. George Harrison. A business session and social hour will follow in the school hall on Illinois Street. The guild will sponsor a "fashions' for funds" styie HOLY NAME, show at 8 Wednesday night, FALL RIVER Volunteers are needed for the March 20 in the school hall. Re. choir for Holy Week and Easter SYMBOL OF PRIMACY AND CHANGE: The golden freshments will be served and a services and those interested are door prize awarded. Tickets will and silver,coronation tiara of Pope Paul VI is on display ,at be available at the door or may requested to call Mr. Edward the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Wash- be reserved by calling Mrs. Leo Peters at telephone 673-9089. Reington, D.C. The crown, a symbol of papal primacy, is also LaBonte, telephone 995-5781. . hearsals are held from 7 to 8 P.M. each Monday in the choir that of fatherly concern since the Pontiff sold it as a gesture Rev. Peter N. Graziano, presloft. of help to-the poor. ' ident of' the Diocesan Priests' A teenage drop-in center is Senate, will speak on conscience held from 7:30 to 9 P.M. each at tomorrow's Lenten forum. Monday in the school hall. His homily during a 7:30 P.M. A rummage sale and flea marMass will be followed by a ket are planned for 10 A.M. to r question period and refreshments 6, P.M. Saturday, March 23. in the school hall. Religious Leaders Unite to Restore Donations may be left at the school hall during the preceding ST. MARY, Integrity to Government week or will be picked up if NORTON WASHINGTON (NC)-An in- of Ithe critical issues in the presThe Catholic WomEm;s Club donors contact Mrs. James Chaterdenominational association of ent crisis in government. announces a whist party for 7:30 rette at 678-4637 for rummage religious leaders' who hope to "The current crisis is clearly' P.M. Thursday, March 14 in the items and Mrs. Thomas Stanton,' restore integrity to government a moral as well as a constitu- parish center on Route 123. Spe- 678-1797 for flea market items. has been formed here under the tiona I one," according to a stateHoly Name basketball team cial prizes, including a handname of the Religious Commit- ment mad~ by the committee. made afghan, will be raffled in members in grades 7 through 9 tee For IntegrIty in Government. "The religious community has a addition to players' prizes. Gift and all fathers of the parish are The committee will be com- unique obligation to clarify the donations may be left at the rec- invited to participate in a fatherposed of Washington~based reli- critical moral issues involved." tory or the parish center. or will son-faculty basketball game to gious staff personnel and sponOther objectives of the com- be picked up if donors make ar- be held from 2 to 4 P.M. Sunday, sored by prominent national reli- mittee are: rangements with Ruth Yelle, tel- March 31 at Bishop Connolly gious leaders, including two ~Justice for President Richephone 222-5096. Refreshments,' High School. Those interested Catholic bishops. ard M. Nixon and the people, in- will be served. should' contact Sister Barbara The first objective, the com- cluding support of an orderly at telephone 674-9131 by Monmittee said, is the clarification and expeditious inquiry by the ST. THOMAS MORE, day, March 25. Tickets will be House Judiciary Committee to .SOMERSET available at the door or from determine whether grounds for The Women's Guild will meet Holy Name students. Hospital Celebrates impeachment of the President at 8 P.M. Thursday, March 14 in Turn to Page Eleven exist; the parish, hall for a craft dem-
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Most people have a hobby of sorts or keep telling themselves that they ought to develop one for therapeutic purposes. I get my rainy-day kicks out of reading almost anything I can lay my hands on in the field of American labor history. When people tell me they find this a bor- that unions could never have their present power ing subject, I advise them not achieved without public support, has set to feel badly but to go right out "to disabuse the public mind
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bling in labor history as an extra-curricular avocation has it all over stamp collecting when it comes to dealing with people like the distinguished edlitor and journalist, John Davenport, who seriously argues in a major book review in the current issue of Fortune magazine that we ought to turn the clock back half-century or more in the field of labor legislation and return to the so-called open shop. Mr. Davenport, a veteran commentator on socio-economic 'problems for number 'of bigtime publications, takes his cue from a new book by eeonomist W. H. Hutt entitled "The StrikeThreat System" (Arlington House, 81 Centre Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. 10801, $11.95). I haven't been able to secure Professor Hutt's eccentric opus (the publisher's phone is unlisted) but assuming that Davenport summarized it accurately in, his lengthy review, I know it will turn me off when I finally read it. As the title of his book is meant to suggest, Professor Hutt's basic argument is that the strike-and even the threat to strike-should be outlawed as a form of conspiracy against the public interest. To this end, he recommends that all federal labor legislation enacted in this country since the turn of the century (including the National Labor Relations Act) be repealed forthwith. According to Davenport, the professor is persuaded that "in the long perspective of history this whole body of legislation will be seen as a tragic turning." Unrealistic To take its place, Hutt urges the enactment of an Emancipation of Labor bill, insuring "the right of every person to accept any lawful employment" on terms that "will enable him to better his condition or prospects." In other words, he wants to do away with collective bargaining in every shape or form and return without delay to the open shop. This is the most 'unrealistic proposal I ,have encountered in many a long winter. In fact, it reads like an excerpt from Alice in Wonderland. In concluding his enthusiastically favorable review of "The Strike-Threat System," Mr. Davenport says that Hutt, realizing
of myths and illusions about the nature of unions, and to show that the market economy, far from being an exploitive system, is the road to freedom and higher standards." Anyone who has ever done even a m04icum of weekend reading on labor history will be torn between laughter and tears on reading this astonishing statement which completely ignores the evidence of history and casually rewrites the' record of labor-management relations in this country to suit the professor's antiquated and highly doctrinaire taste. Furthermore, no reasonably well - i n form e d American needs to be told what Hutt and Davenport are' advocating - a return to the most primitive form of 19th century laissez-faire economic individualism-runs completely counter to the social teaching of all major Christian churches and the parallel teaching of the Synagogue. Dangerous Scheme What Professor Hutt and Mr. Davenport are advo~ating, whether wittingly or not, is a massive social revolution which could rip this country apart at the seams and destroy the American economic system which they claim to be protecting against the damaging effects of collective bargaining. I find it almost incredible-in the most literal sense of the word-that Fortune, of all' magazines, should, in effect, have given its blessing to such a fanciful but potentially dangerous scheme. . Over the years, the editors of Fortune have shown a high degree of sophistication in dealing with the subject of labormanagement relations. I have always been under the impression that they had gracefully come to terms with the fact that we are living in the 20th, not the 19th or the 18th century, but after reading Davenport's review of Hutt's extraordinary treatise, I am not so sure. Anti Trade Unions Mr. Davenport says, in the final sentence, that anyone who , reads Hutt's book will never be quite the same again," In my own case, since I am still waiting for the publisher to send me a copy of the book, it's too early to tell whether that's really so or not. This much, however, 'is certainly true: Any labor leader who reads Mr. Davenport's review will most assuredly never be the same again. He will probably end up with a serious case of paranoia at the thought that the most prestigious business magazine in the United States has given top billing and generous coverage to a book which openly calls for the complete demolition of the American trade union movement and the instant repeal of everything that movement has fought and bled for during the past century or more. That's enough to drive any
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PRO-LIFE: Dr. Mildred Jefferson, official of the National Right to Life Committee, says that chances are "excellent" that Congress will approve a pro-life amendment to the Constitution. NC Photo.
Cardinal Urges Priests Stress World to Come BOWLING GREEN (NC)Priests should give new emphasis to preaching and that preaching should deal with "the life of the world to come," Cardinal John Wright said here. "Does the concept of the world to come ring in your words, in your hearts, in your minds," Cardinal Wright asked a meeting of priests from the Louisville church province. The idea of theinvis~ble world to come, he said, needs to be developed. This Cardinal Wright said, will automatically lead to preaching about the angels, the Blessed Mother, the Holy Spirit and the saints and martyrs who willingly accepted death to enter the kingdom of God. , Other Themes Cardinal Wright said this theme came from the writings of St. Paul and he suggested two other themes from St. Paul: "the total Jesus Christ, the suffering Jesus Christ, the triumphant Jesus Christ," and tbe activity of Christ in history. Cardinal Wright, head of the Vatican Congregation of the Clergy, quoted a recent statement by Pope Paul VI which said that the primary duty of priests is announcing the word of God." The Pope, has said that along with the celebration of Mass preaching "is the most pertinent preoccupation of the Church at (this) moment," the cardinal said. Evangelism has been chosen by the Pope as a theme of the next world Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Wright said. Evangelism "is the promulgation of the message of Jesus Christ transmitted through the Church as heralded" by preachers, he said. -
otherwise perfectly sane labor skate right up the wall and completely over the hill-either to the barricades or to the nearest mental institution.
ST. ANN, RAYNHAM Ladies' Guild members had a corned beef and cabbage dinner in the church hall last night, with Miss Barbara O'Brien of the Bristol County Extension Service as guest speaker. ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT A "Sew into Spring" fashion show is scheduled for Friday night, March 29 in the school hall by the Women's Guild. A social hour will begin at 6:30 and tickets will include refreshments. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Evonne Lavoie, telephone 636·8053. "International Review," the parish's annual variety show will be held at Westport High S~hool auditorium Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5. Tickets are available at the rectory or from Lorraine BussieI' and Connie Souza. Las Vegas Nights are planned for Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June I, in the school hall, with Mrs. David Buckley as chairman. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The Women's Club will sponsor a public whist at 8 P.M. Monday, March 11 in the school basement, UO Dover St. Mrs. Frank Galvin and Mrs. Ernest Boulay are in charge of arrangements. ST. ANNE, FALL' RIVER A dinner dance will be held by the Red Chair Club at 7 P.M. Saturday, March 9 in the school auditorium. The board of education will meet in the rectory at 7:30 P.M. Monday, March 11. Tickets are avail'able at the rectory for "An Evening of Music with Father Pat" to be offered by Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S. , singer and composer from La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, at 8 P.M. Sunday, March 17 in the school auditorium. The parish sponsors bingo each Wednesday night at 7 in the auditorium.
For Housing LONDON (NC)-Hundreds of acres of valuable building land are to be released by Catholic authorities in Britain to provide houses for rent. The British bishops have formed a new housing association-still to be namedto develop and manage land made available by dioceses and Religious orders to help meet the housing shortage in Britain.
ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will hold a business meeting, followed by a wig fashion show, at 7:30 P.M. Monday, March 11 in the church hall. Ms. Marge Briely of New Bedford will snow the wigs. Members are requested to bring religious items, jewelry and head scarfs for donation to the missions. A scheduled hobby night has been postponed to the April meeting of the unit. ST. ANNE, NEW BEDFORD The parish scouts will sponsor a ham and bean supper on Saturday night, March 23 from 5 to 8 o'clock. Tickets will be sold at the door and they will be $1.50 for adults and one dollar for children. During the evening, a cake sale will be conducted under the same sponsorship.
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Theologians Discuss Papal Infallibility MARRIOTTSVILLE (NC) Ca'tholic and Lutheran theologians met at the Marriottsville Spiritual Center here in Maryland to discuss papal infallibility, a topic that has long divided their churches. It was the 18th meeting of the National Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue, co-sponsored by the U. S. A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation and the (Catholic) Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.' Jesuit Father Avery Dulles of Woodstock College, New York, and Lutheran theologian Dr. George Lindbeck of Yale Divinity School presented study papers for the five-day meeting. Since the dialogue began in 1965,' participants have reached agreements on the Nicene Creed, Baptism, th~ Eucharist and ministry. At their meeting last September they concluded their formal discussions of papal primacy and announced they would move on to the topic of infallibility.
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Book F,ocuses on Rome's Strugglle With Facism It has been a.sked, often and indignantly, why Pope Pius XII did not speak out vehemently against the Nazis' treatment of the Jews. Certainly he condemned this crime more than once, for example in his Christian message of 194?, of which a· Nazi analysis two .dominant figures are, said, "Here he is clearly of The course, Pius XI and Pius XII. speaking on behalf of the Pius XI was crowned early in Jews." But the criticism as- 1922, at a time when Italy was serts that he coufd, al)d should, have been more direct and forceful in his utterance. In his defense, it has been said that he
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knew that such methods would only have driven' the Nazis to worse excess. This argument has been ridiculed. But it has weight, as may be seen in an extraordinary new book, The Vatican in the Age of the Dictators by Anthony Rhodes (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 383 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. $12.50. Illustrated). Cited therein is what happened in Holland in 194~:. In Holland there were many baptized Jews. They had been exempted from the roundup of Jews by the Nazis. In a joint telegram, the Catholic bishops. and the authorities of the Reformed Church of Holland protested to the local Nazi chieftain against the deportation of Dutch Jews, and threatened to make their protest publiC. Pope Proved Right The Nazis said that baptized Jews would be spared if the churches' threat was not carried out. The Reformed Church remained silent. But the Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht issued a pastoral bluntly denouncing the persecution of the Jews. All baptized Catholic Jews were then arrested and sent to the death camps. The baptized Protestant Jews were spared. Pius XII was proved right by this and other events. Two Pop,es Mr. Rhodes's book ,focuses chiefly on the Holy See's struggle with Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany. To a lesser extent, it treats of troubles with Soviet Communism. But it surveys as well relations with France, Spain, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Japan and, Mexico.
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NEW YORK (NC)-The Division for Film and Broadcasting of the U. S. Catholic Conference has chosen "The New Land" and "Day for Night" as the best films of 1973. The film office also granted a special citation of merit to the late director John Ford for his unique way of "cel: ebrating the spirit of man" in film. .
VATICAN CITY (NC) -Pope great world fund to aid the many Paul. VI has praised a study plan needs for nourishment, clothing, of Latin American foreign minis- housing and medic\ll care which ters to devote part of their arma- afflict so many people! ments allocations to human Recalling that appeal made in development. Bombay, Pope Paul said in his In a cable sent to foreign min- 1967 encyclical that with all isters of 23 Latin American M- the charitable works waiting to tions and U. S. Secretary of be accomplished "every exhaustState Henry Kissinger meeting ing armaments race becomes an in Mexico City Feb. 19·23 the intolerable scandal." Pope said he was pleased to h~ar In his cable to the foreign minthe ministers were studying pro- isters in Mexico City, the Pope posals to convert part of the de- said he offered "fervent hopes" fense budget of each nation "to and "our prayers to the AI· works of a social and economic mighty" that the decisions of the nature." ministers would indeed alleviate The 'Pope said he had himself . suffering in the world.. proposed such a plan "on reBefore leaving for the meeting peated occasion... and had in Mexico City, the foreign mincalled on all nations to dedicate ister of Peru, Gen. Miguel part Of their defense monies to Angel de la Fl'or Valle, formally works of human promotion and proposed that the governments development. " The Pope first. proposed set- of Peril, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela and Bolivia ting up a. world fund to clothe, stop buying arms and dedicate feed and give medical care to the needy in his encounter with "greater financial means toecothe international press in Bom- nomic' development" in their respective nations. bay, India, on Dec. 4, 1964, and repeated the idea in his 1967 encyclical, on the development of Lutheran Services peoples. Spe51king to journalists at the In Soviet Union HAMBURG (NC)-A Lutheran Eucharistic Congress in India, the Pope gave them his "sp'ecial pastor who spent several years in Siberia reported to a meeting message for the world." "(Let) nations cease their race here in West Germany that alfor arms and instead dedicate though Lutherans no longer have their resources and energies to an organized church structure in fraternal assistance to develop- the Soviet Union they continue to gather for services and coning nations. "(Let) every nation, cultivating duct Baptisms and other religious activities. thoughts of peace and not of Pastor Eugen Bachmann said affliction and war, make available a part of the monies des- that in spite of persecution by tined for arms to constitute a communist authorities, an organized Lutheran church of citizens of German otiginexisted until 1941.' That institutional structure, he said, was broken up when the Soviet citizens of German origin were moved to the center of the nation and to Siberia.
in turmoil. A few months later, Mussolini came to power and the fascist state was inaugurated. Since 1870, the Holy See and SPEAKER: Hon. Milton R. th~ Italian government had been Silva, Presiding Justice of estranged. But Mussolini entered into negotiations for the settle- the Se'cond Bristol District ment of their differences, and in Court, will be feature speak1929 the Lateran Agreements er at the March 10 testimowere signed, solvjng the vexed nial at which Very Rev. Luiz .Roman Question and establishing G. Mendonca, V.G., will rethe territorial sovereignty of the ceive Portugal's decoration, Holy See in Vatican City. Relations did not remain The Military Order of Christ. friendly. Mussolini by degrees Testimonial is tendered by showed his totalitarian intenparishioners of St. John. of tions, claiming for the Fascist God Parish, Somerset, to state all control over the young, using verbal and physical abuses Father Mendonca who has against the Church, advising the been transferred to Mt. CarNazis how .to handle the Church. mel Parish, New Bedford. .Concordat Advisable In 1933; Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. He was eager for a concordat with the Holy See. 'fohis, he felt, would WASHINGTON (NC) Sen. lend him respectability; it could .also help him get control over James L. Buckley said here that the Catholi~ Center Party, which the dismissal of Cardinal Jozsef was truly democratic and. had Mindszenty marks the end' of an era during which the cardinal 92 deputies in the Reichstag. The Holy See, for its part, has symbolized to the world considered a concordat advis- "the unyielding, uncompromisable as a means of legai protec- ·ing, splendid defiance of nazi and tion of the interests of German communist tyranny. In remarks on the floor of the Catholics, should the worst predictions of Nazi performance Senate, the Conservative-Republican senator. disagreed with prove true. A concordat was signed six those "who say that the kind of months after Hitler's inaugura- anticommunism represented by tionas chancellor, and after only Cardinal Mindszenty is no eight days of negotiation. This longer fashionable, that it is a haste. seems. incredible in retro- 'relic' of the 'cold war.' " BEFORE YOU spect. And its inadvisability was According .to the New York BUY -TRY soon established in fact. For in senator, history will see "Mindsshort o~der, Hitler demonstrated zenty's majestic fortitude ... as that he would use the concordat, one of the few truly honorable where he -could, to his own ad- acts of our time." vantage, but would so interpret. Buckley, a Catholic, called the supposedly protective provi- Pope Paul's decision to remove OLDSMOBILE sions that the Church would the cardinal as head of the Esz67 Middle Street, Fairhaven have' no protection at all. tergomarchdiocese "one made strictly wIthin the Roman CathIncursion Possible Why the accommodations with olic Church" and would not comCONRAD- SEGUIN Mussolini and Hitler? To some ment on it as such. He added extent, Mr. Rhodes contends, be- that, although Cardinal MindsBODY COMPANY cause of concern by Pius XI and zenty had been dismissed, he Aluminum or Steel his secretary of State, Cardinal would not be forgotten. 944 County Street Pacelli (lilter Pius XII) over what NEW BEDFORD, MASS. would result from a Communist Memory of 1~lack 992·6618 incursion into Europe. It cannot be forgotten that this was a pos- President Honored sibility in the turbulence followWASHINGTON (NC)-Georgeing World War I, and it became town University has. issued a a grim reality after World War II: commemorative magazine honorHe had to maintain this inde- ing Father Patrick F. Healy, S.J., pendence of the Church and to son of a black ex-slave woman serve the good of Catholics in and Irish father, who in 1874 .whatever quarter. He also had to was installed as president of the promote and defend moral princi- university. ple, and no one was fully satisFather Healy was the first fied with what he said in this re- black to head a major, predomgard, because everyone wanted inantly white university in the INDUSTRIAL· and DOMESTIC his own course to' be justified United States. and the adversary's censured. The special issue was pubAfter threading his way lished by the Patrick J. Healy, { through the labyrinth of the S.J. Commemorative. Committee events in the period under study, at Georgetown for the hundredth Mr. Rhodes comes to conclusions anniversary of the presidency of far more favorable to Piu$ XI the black Jesuit who is also said and Pius XII than their ill- to be the first U. S: black to 312 Hillman Street 997·9162 New Bedford informed detractor.s wOldd like. earn a Ph.D.
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KNOW YOUR FAITH AU Christians Must Be Peacemakers
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"Pray for Peace? No-not unless you are willing to work for peace!" That sentiment might read like a poster in some wayout peace march. But it does seem to be the blunt Gospel message that we Christians need to hear today.
Father Joseph Nolan has been writing and speaking nationally about the liturgical renewal for over a dozen years. Currently he prepares a well received "Service for Preaching and Worship" called "Good News" which comes out of the Franciscan Communications Center (1229 South Santee Street, Los Angeles, California 90015).
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FR. JOSE~H M. ' . CHAMPLIN We have become so dulled in recent years by wars and preparations for war that we tend to forget that active working for the cause of peace is not a job for only a few Christians. It is a task for each and every follower of Jesus, an imperative for the whole Christian community. Some Christians think that each member of the Christian community should be primarily concerned about being at peace within himself and about relating peacefully to family and friends. Peace among nations is seen as too big a problem to get worried about.. ;.. But such an approach simply misses the major challenge of our times-the threat that war will destroy life on the face of the earth unless we destroy the institution of war. No Christian can ignore this challenge. As the Second Vatican council stressed, it is our clear obligation to "strain every muscle" to completely outlaw war. Encyclical Being a peace-maker means actively promoting an order which enables peace to flourish. This is an order whieh Pope John XXIII described in his 1963 encyclical Peace on Earth as "founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, put inj;o practice in freedom." Concrete Value$ What do these values mean in the concrete for us Americans? -Respect for truth means that we are sensitive to other nations' perception and practice of truth. We have to avoid narrow "America First" attitudes. Justice demands that the unjust gap between the rich and the poor be lessened by effective means. We must recognize how difficult peace is in a world where Americans, six per cent of the world's population, consume 40 per cent of the world's goods. Promotion of peace has to mean the justice of a more "sparing and sharing" life style. Charity comes alive in the ability to forgive and to avoid labels or prejudices. A blind "anti-Communism" that refuses to see changes in the world or denounces as subversive any efforts to better the lot of the poor is one example of a iack of this
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and evaluations from past celebrations plus possibilities for future liturgies. So often, we hear or read about a particularly imaginative notion but have no simple sys· tem to store this for use at the appropriate time. The concept gradually fades from our memory and we have lost something that could have proven highly beneficial for the worshiping community. A filing arrangement of this type would make it relatively easy to cut out or write down the idea and drop that into the pertinent folder for later implementation . Liturgy Planning
This column fits into such a "file away for the future" category. The article will describe In addition to suggestions for our Advent program and, althe Sunday homily, each month though certain elements could be Father Nolan offets creative incorporated into a similar Lenideas for improving worship on ten series, it obviously would the parish level. One highly find a more natural home in a practical recommendation urged Christmas preparation setting at priests and worship teams to the end of 1974. maintain a Church Year liturgy In our pre-Advent liturgy planfile. ning session, we decided this Folders for major feasts (e.g., year to accentuate four "P's" on Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, those Sundays prior to Christmas Thanksgiving), seasons (e.g., -prophecy, preparation, peace Lent, Advent, Paschal Time), and and prayer. The cover for our participation 'HOUSE OF PEACE': Being a peacemaker means ac- special occasions (e.g., Penance leaflets repeated these words services, graduations, First Comtively promoting an order which enables peace to flourish munion) would -contain materials each week with specific quota... (including) promotion of the United Nations, as insistenttions establishing a theme for ly urged by all modern popes. A dramatic angle highlights the pa'rticular Sunday. Thus, since we were treating prayer on the impressive simplicity of two buildings at the United Anglicans Disturbed the last weekend before this Nations headquarters in New York. In the foreground is the Over Abortion Act feast, our folder inculded these dome of the General Assembly and in the background, the LONDON (NC)-Anglican disfew words from Thomas Merton: quiet over the working of Secretariat. NC Photo. "The secret of prayer is a hunBritain's 19(j7 Abortion Act and ger for God and for the vision the' increasing number of abor·· charity that seriously hinders the since The Church Today called of God, a hunger that lies far the arms race "an utterly treach- tions being performed each year deeper than the level of language cause of peace. will find expression at the next Freedom is promoted in the erous trap for humanity." or affection." Support of conscientious ob- meeting of the Church of En· willingness to allow others to gland's Gener-al Synod, to be Sunday Themes be different. We Americans have jection to military service, ento realize that our way of doing dorsed by the U. S. bishops' held here Feb. 19-22. The First Advent Sunday In the agenda is a motion by things is only one way among statement on "Human Life in zeroed in on prophecy. It was Anglican Bishop Eric Treacy of Our Day" (1968). many. not difficult to leap from JereFostering of a strategy of non- Wakefield acknowledging widePoliticking miah and Jesus into a treatment "Politicking for peace," is as violence, as urged by the 1971 spread anxiety on the question Turn to Page Fourteen in Britain and urging the goV>needed as "praying for peace." World Synod of Bishops' stateernment to change bath the law A few areas for this politicking ment, Justice in the World. Promotion of the United Na- and the way in which it is ad-_ have been suggested by recent ELECTRICAL tions as insistently urged by all ministered. Church statements: ~ . Contractors Suoh changes, the motion says, Promotion of disarmament, modern Popes. should have regard to the need . ''to recognize the in'terests of both the mother and the unborn VILLANOVA (NC)- Student tinue, but that the pro~ests will child," to elimina~e the "man· sit-ins and rallies, touched off remain nonviolent and will prob- ifest abw)es" ·connected with abortions carried out in private by' the temporary suspension of ably take less dramatic form. The incident which triggered dinics for payment, and to in16 Villanova University undergraduates, have resulted in some the demonstrations seems to be sure protection of. the interests 944 County St. university concessions to student largely settled. In January, 16 of doctors and nurses who, as New Bedford students were temporarily sus- they are legally entitled to do, demands for more rights. 992-0560 pimded after campus officials in- refuse to take part in abortions. Students have been granted a . vestigating a burglary found greater voice in determining facmissing university office equip- r. ulty rank and tenure as a result ment and small quantities of of the protests and have been marijuana, cocaine and hashish promised ·more communication in a student's .room. Questioning with the board of trustees. But of the students who lived in the the central demands-new rules room led to the suspense of on dorm visits by members of at others charged with trafficking the opposite sex and university in drugs, a university spokesman acceptance of a studen~ bill of said. rights-have not .been met. The incident has largely been A student spokesman said that forgotten now that most protestdemonstrations, which have in- ers feel that the suspended stu115 WILLIAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. cluded overnight sit-ins in the ad- dents have been given due process. ministration building, will con·
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Sheed Stresses Role of Reading In Christian Life
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Mar. 7,1974
Cogley Has Exaggerated Notion of His Importance
·PHILADELPHIA (NC) - "Putting on the mind of Christ" ought to be made easier by reading, Frank Sheed, a septuagenarian author and publisher, told the annual Catholic Authors' Luncheon.
W~en John Cogley decamped from the Catholic Church he affected the pose of making a quiet, personal decision which he was almost reluctant to announce. The statement he finally issued ;had about it an air of hesitancy, as though he had been forced into issuing it against his better nicely without it in the future. It also had rather different atti· judgment. He assured every- tudes. on sexuality in the past one that he had no grudge and probably will have them
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we should not have accepted that promise. at face value. Such a person must justify himself both in his own eyes and those of others. Full justification can come only when others follow him into apostasy. There was every reason to expect that Cogley would not tnaintain his silence.
again. Mr. Cogley shows how much of a pre-Vatican Catholic he really was, for in the Church before the Council we were taught that these two positions were the esssence of the Roman tradition-not so much explic· itly but by the under-emphasis of everything else. The Council forced us to take a much more historical approach to the Church. If it could change in 1963, it had changed before. Once we looked at change through the centuries we realized' how narrow our nineteenth- and early twenties-century view of Catholicism was. Some of us were able to transcend that view. Clearly, John Cogley was not.
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ing of one's mind on a mind richer than one's own," Sheedco-founder of the publishing firm of Sheed and Ward-lamented that muctt that seems like real reading is mere pastime reading in which "we read -because we can't bear our own company for very long." The "human race is inventive in finding things to do which are equal to nothing to do," Sheed said. Putting some reading and some visiting into the category of "nothing to do," he noted, "Given that we find our own company intolerable, we assume that others will enjoy it, and they do because they can't bear their own." Sheed criticized classes held to teach faster reading. "If the purpose of reading is to kill time," he said, "such classes require you to do twice as much reading to kill the same amount of time." Real reading, Sheed· said, should either increase knOWledge or en· rich and develop the mind with which one increases knowledge. Novelists 'should read theology, he said, because without it, "their novels will be shapeless." He urged theologians to read novels, because, without them, "theology will be bloodless." Urging his audience to be at. tentive in reading Scripture, Sheed lamented the fact that "we tend to hear and read Scripture in a state of pious coma. <
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Continued from Page Thirteen of the commercialism frequently In his Times article he has surounding this, season. We the usual ~mide Catholic liberal urged' a simpler, slower, more comment about the number of spiritual approach. Comments books I write. ("He writes more from many parishioners, includbooks in a year than most people ing high school students, indican read.") I must confess I get cated our arrows, while gentle just a little fed up with this and indirect, were still very And sure enough he did not. crude humor. When such jokers much on target. In a long column in the New are able to find serious defiThe Second Advent Sunday York Times Op-Ed page, Cogley 'ciencies in the' quality of my took preparation as its motif. If returns to the reasons for his work, I will take them seriously. Christ were to come into our .departure. It is a su.btle job done . Until then' I will write off their house today, the preacher reby a clever journalist. The style cute little cracks as blatant envy. marked, what sort of a reception is low-key, almost hangdog. " As Dan Herr remarked to me would he receive? There is much about freedom of The Third Advent Sunday ad" the day the Cogley apologia apconscience and peace during the last years of life (and who would peared, if he had taken time to dressed itself to peace and the read a few books (not necessarily sacrament of penance. The sumdeny either of these rights?). mine) he would know what Ca- mons to an honest admission of But the key point in Cogley's tholicism really is and wouldn't guilt and sinfUlness linked with argument is the equation of the be' jousting with ghostly wind-' the encouragement to "come home" brought huge crowds to Catholic theological tradition mills. our confessional box and room with papal authority and the Objective Order the following weekend. birth control question. The implication is obvious: anyone who is Again this year we employed Mr. Cogley, it will be argued, troubled about the current ex- acted in good faith. I don't doubt an Advent "tree," a triangular ercise of papal power and the it for a moment. So did Egil wooden candlestand, beautifully limitations of current sexual Krogh. But there is an objective decorated with purple flowers teaching ought to follow Mr. order of behavior as well as a and located in a side niche. Cogley out of the Church. Of subjective one. Breaking and Each Sunday two persons, walkcourse he doesn't say as much, entering is a violation of the ing ahead of the gift bearers, but unless this is his point, why law no matter)low sincere you carried candles to the sanctuary. write the, article in the first , may be..Leaving the Church for They lighted these from tapers place? Why perpetuate the no- stupid reasons is leaving the on the front altar, moved over tion that these two issues are so church for stupid reasons no to the tree and passed on the central 'to the Catholic tradition matter how sincere you may be. flame to first, two, then four, that if one is troubled by them Mr. Cogley takes himself with there is nothing to do but. leave the utmost seriousness. He althe tradition? ways has. He is completely withI have no desire to engage in out humor and always has been. an attack on the Anglican tradi- His liberal admirers have made' tion, but I would imagine that him into a little tin god who is there are certain flaws in its above and beyond criticism. He current manifestat.ions too. I walked out of the Church of his hardly think Mr. Cogley would ancestors for reasons that are deny that. But these flaws are theologically absurd, and pompsomehow or other not essential ously believes that the rest of or Mr. Cogley would be unable the world is interested in this to join. However, since he has awesome decision of his. left Catholicism, it follows that In fact, he is a vain little man the present style of teaching on with an e;x:aggerate.:i notion of sexuality and authority are indeed essential to the Catholic his own importance. Now he has deserted us. The vanity and tradition. shallowness displayed· by the Historical Approach Times article is evidence that a lot of us deceived ourselves would suggest that this is about him. I O'1ce lamented his not the case. The Church got departure. Now I think we might along quite well for 1800 years be well rid of him. without the current kind of © 1974, Inter/Syndicate papal style a~d can get along
next six, and finally eight candies on each arm of the triangle; The central, top, Christ taper was ignited on the feast itself.
Lay Participation Following a pattern established the year before, we asked different representatives of the parish to be candle bearers. Grammar school children had the honor the initial week; high school pupils, the second. On the third Sunday we tried an experiment and asked a grandparent and a grandchild to fulfill this function. The response was particularly gratifying.' For the final Sunday, I personally called eight young people in their late teens or early 20s to carry these Adv.ent candies. They accepted immediately, came early before Mass to learn their roles and must have inspired the congregation as they walked down the main aisle and helped us complete the final preparations for our Lord's coming.
Sacrifice There is no Christian clearly revealed as this, spirit of every Christian a spirit of sacrifice. -P.A.
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SCHOOLBOY S PORTS IN THE DIOCESE By PETER J. BARTEK
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Changes Made to Strengthen S.E. Ma&s. Grid Conference
Seminar on Mary Plann·ed for May SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A· sky (Orthodox), Servite Father seminar entitled "The Virgin Neal Flanagan and Dominican Mary in Ecumenical Perspective" Father Frederick M. Jelly. will be held at St. Boniface "The whole matter of the VirMarian Center here from May gin Mary has for centuries been 13 to May 17, it was announced a sign of division among Chrisby Carmelite Father Eamon R. tians, especially in the West," Carroll, seminar director. said Father Eamon. "Roman Ecumenical speakers will in- Catholic teachings about the clude Dr. Toivo Harjunpaa (Lu- mother of the Lord, and Marian theran), Dr. Shunji F. Nishi (An- devotional practices, have seemed glican), the Rev. Leonid Kishkov- to Christians in the reformed
tradition was without biblical 'warrant, even is imperiling the centrality of Christ and the Gospel. It is the aim of the seminar to examine from various Christian viewpoints some of the hopes and difficulties for Christian unity in this sensitive area." The seminar under the auspices of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C., may be taken for graduate credit.
The Southeastern Massachusetts, Football Conference will conduct play in three divisions again next Fail; however, the new campaign will bring with it some modifications. In keeping with constitutional guidelines the circuit has evaluated the results of the past two grid seasons schools will vie for three diviand made changes which of- sional championships with newcomers Durfee High of Fall River ficia s believe will strengthen and New Bedford entering Divithe Conference. The changes include the aemission of two new members, realignment of all three divisions' and a new attitude toward inter - divisional games. The conference operated with twenty schools competing in three brackets for the first two football seasons. Teams were originally placed into groups according to strength, size and geographical location. The same factors were taken into consideration this time around. In the Fall of '74 twenty-two
sion I. Both schools were officially admitted to the Conference over a year ago, but because of the two year gridiron schedule did not compete in the loop last Fall. With both city schools being placed in Division I during the realignment proceedings changes were made in all divisions. Division I will continue as an eight team bracket, Division II increases from seven teams to eight and Division III remains a six school division.
Revise Policy on Interdivisional Games ·Under next year's format each school in Divisions I and II will be scheduled for seven league games while Division III members will play five. According to the Massachusetts Secondary School Principals Association high schools may play ten regularly scheduled football games beginning in September of '74. Conference teams will eomplete their schedules independently. From the time the new league was formed, there has been varied opinion on interdivisional games. From a scheduling standpoint it is advantageous for the league to schedule as many games as possible; there is then little difficulty filling open dates. On the other hand, many league members feel that in assi&ning the additional games many mismatches may result. The circuit dropped the con· cept of interdivisional games in
both basketball and baseball a year ·ago. It followed suit this year and adopted the view that interdivisional games in football should only be scheduled with the approval 6f both schools. Under htis p'olicy schools. who wish to ·maintain rivalries with neighboring schools who are not in the same division may schedule them on open dates. Next Fall Durfee. and New Bedford will replace Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton and Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro in Division I. Both diocesan schools will compete in Division H. The decision to move the two diocesan schools down a division was based on the won-loss records of both over the last two football seasons and their en~ rollment figures. Feehan has 234 boys enrolled in grades 10-12, Coyle 201.
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join Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth, Bourne, Fairhaven and Seekonk. Enrollment figures for these schools show Fairhaven the largest, Coyle the smallest. The Blue Devils have 372 boys eligible, Seekonk 320, Case 279, Bourne 265, Stang 260, Wareham 213, and Coyle 201. With Wareham and Case moving up, it was necessary to move two schools into the "small school" bracket. Dighton-Rehoboth and Dennis-Yarmouth Regional will now compete with New Bedford Vocational, Diman Regional of Fall River, Old Rochester of Mattapoisett and Norton. The largest enrollment differ. ence exists in the third division where figures range from 640 to 181. Diman is the largest, Norton smallest. Dennis-Yarmouth has 550, Dighton-Rehoboth 369 and Vocational 345.
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Deluxe Triple Dresser Bedroom Suite
Quaint Early American 3Pc. Bedroom
The charming Triple Dresser has 2 doors with 2 concealed tray drawers, 6 regular drawers and a unique Landscape Hutch Mirror; commodious Door Chest with con· cealed tra}' drawer and 2 reg~/ar drawers; Full or Queen Size $ Cannonball Poster Bed. All 3 pieces only .. t ••••••••••••••••••••
Handsome hardware . .. intricate detailing . .. deeply grooved and shaped pine pil· asters mark Providence Pine. This' grouping consists of a large 7·Drawer Double Dresser with Framed Landscape Mirror; Chest of Drawers; Twin, Full or Queen Size Headboard Bed. All 3 pieces exactly as shown are yours foronly .....................................•.•..•.• ..•.•.•..•.•..~ .
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Twin or Full Size Canopy Bed With Frame $199
Bunk Bed With Guard Rail and Ladder $199
See More ... Get More ... Save More! Hutch TOil $89
Large Hutch $109
Hutch Top $89.
Drawer Bachelor Chest
Door Hutch $139
Door Bachelor Chest $99
Dresser Base $l19
Corner Cabinet $99
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Student Desk $119
Gentleman's Chair $49
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