03.15.73

Memories of Rome and the Cardinal The events surrounding the elevation to the College of Cardinals of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, provide a kaleidoscope of memories for the 360 or so persons from the Fall River Diocese who made the pilgrimage to Rome for the occasion.

Mass on Sunday afternoon at the church of St. Mary Major provided a striking contrast between this most richly decorated church in Rome and the humble man calling upon his brothers and

sisters to increase in faith and hope and love of God. .

On Monday morning there was excitement on entering just inside the gates of Vatican City, the new Audience Hall, a marvel of modern construction designed by famous Italian architect Nervi.

Bishops Cronin and Connolly and Gerrard received a tumultuous welcome from their fellow diocesans as they entered the hall and the expectation was great when the .older members of the College of

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Charities Appeal Parish Chairmen To Meet in Five Area Conferences Bishop Daniel A. Cronin anThe annual kick-off meeting nounced ·today that meetings of f,or aU priests, religious and laity pari9h lay cha'irmen of the 1973 Turn to' Page' Two Catholic Charities Appeal will be held in five areas of the diocese.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, said that lay chairmen and priests of the 115 parishes of the diocese will meet with Bishop Cronin, Joseph H. Feitelberg, diAn anniversary' dinner dance ocesan lay chairman, area lay Sunday at Venus de Milo reschairmen and priest directors of taurant, Swansea, will begin the Appeat observance of the>100th anniverThe meetings are scheduled as saryof St: Joseph's parish, Fall follows: Cape Cod and the' River. The principal speaker will Islands, Thursday, March 22, be Msgr. Daniel oF. Shalloo, gen7:30 P.M. 'at St. Francis Xavier eral manager of The Anchor and Center, Hyannis; New Bedford pastor of Holy Name parish, also area, Friday, March 23, 7:30 FaH River.

P.M. at .the Kennedy Youth CenMsgr. Shalloo was an assister, County Street, New Bedford; Taunton area, Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 P.M. at Marian Manor, Taunton; Attleboro area, Friday, March 30, 7:30 P.M. at Madonna Manor, North Attleboro; Fall River area, Monday, April 2, 7:30 P.M. at the Catholic Memoriall Home auditorium, Fall River.

The purpose of these meetings is to plan the theme, mechanics and procedures for the thirtysecond annual Appeal for support of diocesan 'Pf()jects in the field of charity, mercy, social services and other works of the apostolate.

Cardinals took their places to await the arrival of their new brothers. Cardinal Villot, Vatican Secr~­ tary of State, made the announcement in such flawless ancl. effortless Latin that even those unfamiliar with the language seemed to be able to follow the report he gave of'the earlier private consistory with the Pope.

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Dollar Devaluation Poses Threat 'To Mission- and Relief Work The 10 per cent devaluation of the U.S. dollar will cut into overseas missionary and relief work by American Catholic agencies, but the extent of the impact cannot be measured yet, according to top Catholic officials questioned by NC News.

Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), said the lessened value of the dollar will directly .affect some programs l'Ht touch on others. only indirectly.

"About one million dollars worth (of CRS annual expenditures) is in materials from the U.S. - medical supplies, clothing and the like," he said. "This isn't changed by the devaluation.

But then our. shipping bills are paid in U.S. currency, so it may cost more to ship these materials." . .

The CRS supports programs in 68 countries around the world.

"Naturally, these programs will all be affected in some way," Bishop Swanstrom said.

"Many of our programs involve the direct sending of U.S. dollars abroad," he said. "The value of those dollars is' now decreased."

Father Joseph Connors, executive secretary of the U.S. Catholic Mission Council (USCMC), national coordinating agency for missionary activities, said that the effect would be tremendous.

"The World Mission Fund, which runs about $34-million to $36-million per year, receives half its money from U.S. donations," Father Connors said.

"That means with the American dollar cut by 10 per cent, the whole fund Is reduced by five per cent.

St. Joseph's Marks. 100 Years of Service To Catholics of Fall River's North End

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tant at St. Joseph's for 19 years, 'longer than any other curate in the 'Parish history. Judge James P. McGuire, a longtime parishioner, will be master of ceremones for the evening, expected to be attended by nearly 1000 past and present members of St. Joseph's. Guests of honor will include Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop James L. Connolly and Bishop James J. Gerrard, as well

as alI past curates and parishioners who have entered religious life.

Other anniversary events will be a Mass of Thanksgiving at which Bishop Cronin wi'1l be principal celebrant, to take place Sunday, April 29; and a gala outdoor bazaar, scheduled for Saturday, June 30.

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Ceremony

Bishop James J. Gerrard will preside at an Acies ceremony for active and auxiliary members of the Legion of Mary at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, March 18 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

"If you look at it one way," he continued, "Americans deserve a pat on the back for this tremendous contribution. But if' you look at it from a different angle, remember that a single F-111 fighter plane costs something like $14-million. That Turn to Page Two

Ozanam's Cause Aim of Novena

By Soc:iety During the period March 31 to April 8, Vincentians of the Fall River Diocese will conduct a novena for the' beatification of ,Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

The members of this society hold in reverence the name and the memory of this truly great - ,layman; and they hope that, through this novena, all parishioners will join in prayer that' Ozanam will some day be raised to the altar.

Some steps in this process have already been taken. -In 1925 the beatification cause was formally hegun. Then in 1937 the postulator-the Church official in charge of the matter-advised that "miracles due to the intercession of Frederic Ozanam would have to be produced."

In 1954, the Marian year, and a year after the centenary of Ozanam's death, Pope Pius XII gave his .placet to the decision to proceed with the introduction of Ozanam's Cause. Since then the Society of St. Vincent de Paul all over the world has red'OUlbled its prayers to promote the Cause of Ozanam.

In the United States the Superior Council .established in 1963 a national committee "to promote among the Councils and the Conferences of the United States the Cause of Frederic Ozanam." And this year the Superior Council sponsored a perpetual novena and assigned different periods to different sections of the country. Fall River Turn to Page Four

Consistory on TV PLANNING CENTENARY: Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, pastor of St. Joseph's Parish, Fall River meets with Francis X. Montie, general chainnan; Robert J. Gagnon and Margaret M. Dorsey, Dinner Co-chainnen in preparing for the lOOth anniversary of founding of the parish:

TV Channel 6 will present a documentary at 10 o'clock tonight on the Consistory at which Cardinal Humberto Medeiros was elevated to the College of Cardinals.

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Devalu~tion

A series 'of 'instructions on the sacrament of penance will be offered every Thursday and Sunday during Lent at La Sale~e Shrine, Attleboro. On Sunday afternoons the program will be· gin at 3 P.M., followed by Benediction and ,blessing of the sick.

The Thursday program will beg.in at 7:30 P.M. and will be followed by a concelebrated folk Mass led by Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S., shrine music director.

Daily Masses during Lent are celebrated at 9 A.M. and 12:10 and 7:30 P.M. Confessions are heard daily, and a lending library 'is available for spiritual reading.

Continued from Page One means Americans are contributing to the World Mission Fund just a little more than the cost of one fighter jet - and that's pathetic.

"Of course, you have to add to that the untabulated donations to individual missionary societies, which are probably equal to the amount; given to the World Mission Fund, and the donations' to relief, agencies.~' Near East Welfarre Father Con'nors said that be- • sides the immediate impact of the .present dollar devaluation another major problem arises from the American styl€l of giving to the missions. "~nflation has bee I'! hitting away at us steadily," he said. "But many Catholics who regularly dropped one dollar in the basket for any ~pecial collection back in the 1940s, still give the ~ tandard gift of one dollar today - even ,though the price of everything else has doubled, tripled, or quadrupled ...· The Catholic Near East Wei· fllre Association will suffer a direct 10 per cent cutback in ser· vices unless it raises additional revenues, according to it!; director. Msgr. John Nolan.

"Our purchasing power is lessened by 10 per cent," said Msgr. Nolan. "All of our programs operate on direct funding to buy supplies ,and services in t.he 18 countries we serve.'" '.

Msgr. Nolan said that last year the association, which depends almost entirely on U.S.' donations, "supported 2,600 seminarians in 47 seminaries, 1,700 girls studying for the Sisterhood in 81 novitiates, and 4,200 needy children through the person-to· ,person needy child progrnm. It also built 25 mission chapels and repaired 50; built seven complete new parishes, 15 model farms and 135 homes for' poor families."

Stipends The mission.-sending societies will also feel, the pinch. "We send out some $14,000 a month in Mass stipends alone," said Father Francis Kamp, head of the mission office for the Society of the Divine Word.

Father Kamp said missioners would feel some tightening in day-to-day living expenses, "but they can live with that. The real problem will be with major projects, particularly construction, where a substantial amount of money has been laid out for a specific purpose and now the money is worth nine-tenths as. much."

"The needs in the mission field have been growing," said Father Connors, "and the dollar has not been getting any bigger with inflation and rising' ,costs all over the world. Now its value is cut by 10 per cent al!llost across the board - it certainly doesn't help us... ·

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SHOWS NEW RING IN BOSTON: Cardinal Humberto Medeiros arrives Sunday at his Boston Archdiocese where he shows newsmen the ring presented by Pope Paul to all new cardinals at a consistory in Rome last week. The cardinal told the crowd greeting him that he brought them "special blessings" from Pope Paul. NC Photo. ,-\

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Continued from Page One by the entrance of the Holy Father in simple procession from the side, .very little pomp, but a scene awesome in that he was there, a slight figure extruding warmth and serenity and grace as he walked in small steps to the center of the stage and' saluted his eheering children and the Cardinals assembled with him. This was Peter, this was the foundation stone of Christ's Church, and it was very easy to see this in the person of Pope Paul for he is a man in this world but one who seems always to be in communication with the next, 'caught up in God. Who can forget the new Cardinals kneeling before the Pope to receive the scarlet scull cap and biretta to the cheers of their accompanying pilgrim~. Who can forget the loud cheers of the people for the two African Cardinals who seemed to be adopted by the crowd since they would have few of their people with them. And then came the Archbishop of Boston and all prejudice aside it was evident ,that this' was the man who received

HElcrology MARCH 27 Rev. James W. Conlin, 1918, Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset.

Rt. Rev. Antonio P. Vieira, 1964, Pastor, Our Lady of Mt.· Carmel, New Bedford. ' MARCH 28 Rev. Alfred J.Levesque, 1960, Pastor, St. James, Taunton.

MARCH 29 Rt. Rev. Edward J. Moriarty, 1951, Pastor, St. Patrick, FaIl River. ' Rev. James H. Carr, S.T.L.,' 1923, Assistant, St. Patrick, Fall River.

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the loudest applause, the warmest accllimation, and --..: in honesty - a little extra time with Pope Paul.

Monday .afternoon's Papal Mass at St. Peter's· was another unforgettable event. The new Cardinals concelebrated with the Pope who again impressed by the gravity' of his appearance and the depth of his spirit of recollection. He seemed in almost visible communion with God. Surely one of the most striking moments of the week was when the Pope pl~ced the speciallymade oval gold cardinalatial ring on each Car9inal's finger with the awesome, words - Receive this ring from the hand of Peter and know that your love toward the Church will be strengthened by the love of the Prince of the Apostles. It Was a meaningful moment and Cardinal Medeiros recalled afterwards that he thought of that moment a few years ago when Pope Paul stooe: in Geneva before representatives of the World CounCil of Churches and said simply, Je suis PierreI am Peter.

The days following the elevation of the Cardinals were busy and full and happy ones but, in a sense, anticlimactic. People enjoyed the various receptions, the Masses at St. Clement's and St. Susanna and the Chair of Peter, the sight of Car~inal Medeiros on ceremonies or walking with his brothers and 'sister on sightseeing tours, but they had seen what they came to see - their relative and friend and priest and brother in the Lord had been associated to the Holy Father as a special councellor and helper.

They had been ,made happy by this. And that was enough. As the Cardinal's sister said so sim· ply, He has always brought such happiness to us, and honor to

our family. Those who know Cardinal Medeiros can :3ay the same thing, He has brought happiness to those' who know him, and, 'it is the happiness of knowing a man of God who lives to bring to others the happin,ess and holiness that he himself possesses because he knows and serves God. And he surely has brought honor to the Fall River Diocese not only for the exalted position that he has reached but for the qualities that led the Holy Father to make him a Cardinal, qualities that so many persons in the Diocese have been tou.ched by in their pilgrimage toward God. These are the things that those who went to Rome think on.

Faith Festlivl:d A faith festival open to all

will be held at 8 Sunday night, March 18 at St. Anne's Church, Fan River. Featured will be a massed ecumenical choir directed by Mrs. Marian W. Van Slyke, a brass band from the Musicians' Unron, a folk singing group 'led by Rev. WaItelr Wnek cf Union United Methodist Ohurch and a drama dealing with the passion of Christ presented by the Fisherman's Players.

Continued from Page One of the diocese wiH be held on Wednesday, April 11 at 8 P.M. in Bishop Connolly High School auditorium, Fall River. The Special Gifts Phase of the Appeal will extend from Monday, April 23 to Saturday, May 5. The parish house-to-house campaign will be launched Sunday, May 6 from noon to 2 P.M. or from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. The parish level campaign will end Wednesday, May 16.

Pope Paul Awarded Colombian Prize BOGOTA (NC) - The Colombian Red Cross awarded its 1973 Peace Prize to Pope Paul VI. The Pope donated' the prize' money to the Children's Institute here. .

Red Cross officials said the Pope was chosen for "his efforts to achieve a lasting peace in the world."

The apostoLic nunciat!lre here said the Pope kept the document honoring him, but returned the $1,000 check to the Red Cross tor the children's aid group.

Benedictine Oblates Benedictine Oblates will hold a day of recollection SUl)day at Portsmouth Abbey, R.I., beginning with Mass at 9 A.ft1., fOI. lowed by breakfast and a con· ference at 11 A.M. Dinner at 1:15 P.M. will be followed by conferences at 2:15 and 3:15, and a closing Benediction service.

Oblates may bring' guests and further information is available from the abbey or Mrs. Frank.

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New Archbishop Of Washington Stresses Gospel WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop William Wakefield Baum, named to succeed Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle as archbishop of Washington, said he will come to the nation's cap~tal to "proclaim the Gospel, perform the liturgy, and remain ,involved in ecumenism." . "I feel overwhelmed at the thought of coming to Washington," said the 46-year-old Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo. "I hope and pray I will be a good bishop and a good pastor."

Bishop Baum was named by Pope Paul VI to succeed the 76year-old Cardinal O'Boyle who in April, 1971 offered to resign at the mandatory retirement age of 75. But Pope Paul did not accept the cardinal's resignation until March 3, 1973. Two days later, at the consistory in Rome ,he named Bishop Baum as the Cardinal's successor.

The nearly two-year delay had caused speculation inside and out of Church 'circles as to who would be the newly appointed archbishop of Washington. But the delay itself was not so sur-' prising in that the Vatican has put increasing importance on Washington which only 25 years ago became an archdiocese. . "I am delighted that Bishop Baum has been chosen by our Holy Father to be the new archbishop of Washington," said Cardinal O'Boyle. "It is indeed an excellent appointment."

Fundamental Concern "I can only say," said Cardinal O'Boyle, "that the archdiocese of Washington is truly blessed to have Archbishop Baum as its spiritual leader in the years to come."

Bishop Baum praised his predecessor, saying, "I have a great love and respect for Cardinal O'Boyle. I am deepliy grateful that I will have the advantage of his counseling when I come to Washington.

"One of my tasks will be to come to know the priests and the people of the archdiocese of Washington." He said this included black Catholics, some of whom were hoping for a black prelate to succeed Cardinal O'Boyle.

"I hope the blacks will accept me as their friend and brother," said Bishop Baum. "And I believe that theY" w.ill. Our goals are essentially the same. I promise them my services, and hopefully we can serve together."

WHh regard to the Gospel, Bishop Baum said that evangelization for ,the Church ,is "one of the most fundamental concerns of our time."

Charities Agency Announces Change WASHINGTON (NC) - Matthew Ahma,nn 'has been named to the new post of associate secretary for governmental relations of the National Conference of Catholic Charities here.

Ahmann has directed the Commission on Church and Society of the San Antonio, Texas. archdiocese for the last four years. He is a former executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice.

Bishop Connolly Publishes Anecdotal Hi~tory of Diocese of Fall River

BY PAT McGOWAN What docs a Bishop do. in retirement? If he's Most Rev. James L. Connolly, former Hishop of Fall River, he writes an anecdotal history of his diocese.

Just ,issued lis "The Diocese of Fall River," 61 pages of loving descl1iption ,and discussion of the portion of the Lord's vineyard tilled for 25 years by Bishop Connolly.

As the holder of a doctorate in history, the Bishop goes back to beginnings, even for what he refers to as "a memoir that I just sat down and wrote." He begins his booklet, which is dedicated to Auxiliary Bishop James J. Gerrard, also retired, with a sketch of early explorers of the area, starting with Miguel cortorreal, '1>el,ieved hy scholars to have sailed in the Dighton area in 1511.

BISHOP CONNOLLor Tracing the forebears of the . ethnic groups represented in tne Fall River diocese today, was told by John F. Kennedy of the Bishop lists Irish, French his plans to run for the U. S. Canadians, English, Italians, Senate.

Poles, Lebanese, Cape Verdeans, "What do you think of my Germans and Portuguese, for all chances?" queried the young of whom national parishes were man. estabLished. He notes that early "Easy," responded the Bishop.

19th century Irish Catholics on "All you have to do is court the Cape Cod, among the first immi- French-Canadians, they traditiongrants,- had 'to walk to Boston, ally are Republlicans."

Providence, Newport or Fall This 'he did, recalled the BishRiver for Mass before churches op, "and became a 'shoo-in.''' were buiilt in their area.

Some time later, relates the booklet, Ambassador Kennedy Not the First For a 'long time it was thought requested the Bishop to contact that Fall River was the f,irst dio- him. When the prelate did so, cese erected by Pope Pius X, but Kennedy came straight to the Bishop Connolly has ascertained point.

"I'd like' to do something for that a Canadian diocese took the diocese," he' said. precedence, and he makes note The result of the conversation of the fact in his booklet. He speaks of ,the first diocesan shep- was the Kennedy Center in New herd, Bishop Stang, with admira- BecIford, enjoyed annually by hundreds of youngsters and Ilion. . adults.

• "Sensitive to the presence of so many of Portuguese extracSchool System tion, he promised that he would Bishop Connolly devotes a speak their language within the section to the diocesan school year. And he did. The matter of system, with emphasis on dts communication with Franco- high schools, then tums to the Americans was easier. He had administration of Bishop Feehan, the facility already.'" who served the diocese for 27 On at 'least ,one occasion, how- years. He notes that the "Benevever, Bishop Stang must have olent Bishop" founded three orheen taken aback. He asked a phanages and that 36 new parfrank French-Canadian how he ishes were erected durin'g his felt about the new Bishop. Not term of office, "all with churches knowing to whom he was speak- constructed of wood, and much ing, the man responded candidly, too small."

"They played us a dirty tI1ick.

Bishop Feehan was followed They sent us a German. It should by Bishop Cassidy, who had been have been Msgr. Prevost!" his auxiliary. A strict teetotaler, Among important accomplish- at his consecration banquet, the ments of Fall River's first Bishop new Bishop drank the traditional was the founding of St. Anne's toast to the Holy Father in gInHospital, 'still the only Catholic ger ale. hospital in the diocese. He also made the diocese the second in Bor.edom the United States to insist upon Woe unto them that are tired the teaching of catechism in all parishes. Upon the Bishop's of everything, for everything will death, however, notes Bishop certainly be tired of them.

-Chesterton Connolly, the embryo CCD languished, not to be revived until 1933, and then only for a brief period.

BAMBOO In 1954; though, its time had AQUARIUM come and there are today, writes '~ New England's Most the Bishop, some 70,000 children enrolled in CCD classes throughBeautiful Aquarium out the diocese.

75 TANKS FOR YOUR Kennedy Gift SELECTION The Bishop relates that while 761·7690 in Palm Beach, Fla. tin 1952, he Wide Selection of Accessories ,was invited to play golf with 25 Years of Service to the Public Amhassador Joseph P. Kennegy, 726 WASHINGTON STREET a summer member of the Fall Route I, So. Attleboro, Mass.

River diocese. While playing, he

Among Bishop Cassidy's accomplishments was a broadening of the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the establishment and encouragement of homes for the aged in Fall River, Fairhaven and New Bedford. The work for the aged was continued

by Bishop Connolly with the cpening of homes in Taunton and Attleboro.

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St. Cloud Priests Leave NFPC

ST. CLOUD (NC) - T h tJ priests' senate of the St. Cloud diocese voted 8-7 to disaffiliate with the National Federation of Priests' Senates (NFPC)).

In a letter to NFPC president Father Reid C. Mayo, Father Raymond Lang, president of the St. Cloud senate, said the group has been "wrestling for over a Both the homes for the aged year" with the decision whether and the four diocesan schools for it should break away from the the mentally retarded are bene- national organization.

He said a number of reasons ficiaries of what has become "the most colorful and successful entered into the decision, includsocial event in our diocesan dis- ing: Support for disaffiliation by trict," the annual Bishop's Ball, a highlight of the winter season. Bishop George· H. Speltz of St. Cloud.

"All residents ,in our homes· A poor image of the NFPC in for the aged have, these past 10 the national press because of years, assurance that they will controversial statements and pobe cared for to the end," writes sitions taken at last year's NFPC the Bishop, explaining that each convention in Denver. home has facUities for the chronA general feeling that the ically ill. need and usefulness of the NFPC was lessened by the U. S. bishMany Ordinations ops' decision to establish a perIn a fiinal section of his book- manent committee and office for let, Bishop Connolly notes he has priestly life and ministry. been privileged to ordain 230 Father Lang said the vote to priests, 130 for the diocese and' disaffiliate merely "formalized" 100 for religious communities. a decision already made by most 'lte comments approViingly on the of the diocese's priests. When background and activities of his the priests were asked to pay successor, Bishop Daniel A. Cro- their annual dues for the NFPC, nin, and closes with the personal he said, there was "a positive rereflection: "So ends the history sponse from only 49 priests. The of the diocese for the present. It diocese has 145 diocesan priests has always been characterized and 155 Religious order priests. by strong faith, zeal for the house of God, and concern for Faults neighbor to the end of making , I can pardon everybody's misthis earth a better place to live takes except my own. in."

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A Warm, Joyful Welcome Home, Your Eminence Humberto Cardinal Medeiros

May you enjoy many fruitful, pastoral years in the Vineyards of The Lord.

May the Lord Richly Bless Our· Own Cardinal

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Abets NFPC's Involvement In Field of Social Action Two or three weeks ago I spent a very pleasant evening at- the usec Staff House in Washingto Il , with the new President-Father Reid Mayo of Burlington, Vt.-and several of the top officers of the National Federation of Priests Councils. They had ' ,been in Washington for a making any such distinction. He' simply can',t find anything good couple of days attending a to say about the Federation. He national inter-faith seminar is absolutely opposed to the oron social legislation. At the invitation of one of .the priests on our ovvn Conference staff, they were kind enough to pay

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us a social visit and give us a run-down on the results oj' their meeting and current developments in NFPC. It was a very enjoyable evening, and I must say that my confreres and I were favorably impressed by ,Father Mayo and his associates, some of whom we had already had thc opportunity of meeting on previous occasions. You couldn't hopc ,to find a more dec!icated group of priests anywherc in thc United States.

The day after wc met with them, I happened, by sheer ,coincidence, to read a lengthy article on NFPC by Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. in the March'l issue of The Wanderer. Judging from the antagonistic tone of this article, I can only assume that Father Baker would have felt completely out of place if, by chance, he. had wandered into our get-together at the Conference Staff House. To put H as mildly as possible, he doesn't like the Federa,tion.

Extremist As a mattcr of fact, I think it would be fair to say that he looks upon it as an extremely (I almost said' diabolically) dangerous organization and is doggedly determined to do everything within his power to drive it out of business once and for all. This is not the first time he has publicly attacked the Federation, nor will jot be the last. My guess is that he will have more to say about it at the time of its forthcoming na- tional convention In Detroit. • It goes without saying, of course, that Father Baker is fully entitled to follow the dictates of his own conscience on this matter.. His blunderbuss and at times ra·ther mean-spirited indictment of NFPC in his Wanderer article stri~es me as being grossly overstated. For present purposes, however, that's neither here nor there. Suffice it to say that, Father Baker to the con,trary notwithstanding, many obs'ervers (including, as he hims(~lf sorrowfully admits, a, sizeable number of bishops) are in general, favorahly disposed towards the Federation, while reserving the right to disagree with .jt on specific policies and issues.

Father Baker, for his pan. se~ms completely incapable of

ganization - lock, stock an::! barrel-and has convinced himself, and would now like to persuade the bishops, that it has 'no theological '1egitima~y and, for that reason among others, should be 'officially proscribed.

Theological Nonsense To my personal kriovvledge, any number of reputable theolo-, gians completely disagree with him in ,this regard. But, again', that's beside the point of this particular column. '1 am not concerned at this time about Father Baker's over-kill a,ttack on the Federation. That's something for the officers of the organization to contend vvith, I might add that they strike me as being fully capable of taking care of themselves. In other words, they really don',t need any assistance from this end of the line.

For professional as well as personal reasons, however, I am very much concerned about Father Baker's deliberate attempt to smear the Federation for its involvement il) the field of social action. He is perfectly free to disagree with any or all of the organization's policy statements on particular social or political issues. On the other hand, to leave ,the impression tha't, on >principle, there is,something wrong about Its taking a public stand on issues of this kind is the sheerest kirid of theological and pastoral nonsense, Incidentally I find it almost impossible to believe that Father Baker is really convinced of what he ,seems to be saying in this concept. As a professional theologian, he simply .can't' be serious when he implies that, on 'principle, the NFPC should refrain from getting involved in social issues. What he means, I suspect, is that he disagrees vvith what the Federation is saying about these matters.

Msgr. MacDonald Let me repeat that he is fully entitled to his own opinion in this regard. He simply has to be kidding, hovvever, ,when he suggests, for example, that the Fed-, eration has no right to be sup-porting Cesar Chavez and his United 'Farm Workers Union.

As one who has had at least a modicum of experience in the field of social action; I regard this as an insult to my intelligence. Since Father Baker is fond' of quoting ithe bishops when it suits his purposes, I might add that I also find it ,rather insulting to those members of the hierarchy vvho wholeheartedly agree With the Fedemtion on the two issues referred to above. There is no need to mention these bishops by name. Father Baker knovvs who they are as well as I do.

One final word. Father Baker's unfriendly reference to my Conference colleague, Monsignor, Colin MacDonald, is - whether wittirtgl,y or not - grossly mis-

Ecumenical Depi'c:tion of Passion Presentcltion Slated flor Sunday Night I should say, participant in the The Passion, a dramatic poem evening.

by Richard D. Waters, will be "Always Jesus is shown through presented by the Greater Fall the eyes of individuals who run River Clergy Associlltion on Sunthe gamut from love to hatred day evening March 18 at 8 of him. A religionist sees him. as o'clock in, St. Anne's Church, a stranger in our midst who Fall River, and performed by the walks not the path of our God, Fisherman's Players of Cape Cod, but follows the course of the with a number of local residents foul and the infamous. Mary as members' of the cast. The proMagdalene sees him as a man duction is ~ deeply moving and above men, walking the earth important event theatrically and as no other mal) has walked it. religiously. The evening has been When Pilate beholds Jesus for designed to telebrate the ministry the first time, he feels as if Caeand sacrifices of Jesus, and ~he 'sar has entered the hall" a man combined efforts of local church· greater than Rome itself. Judas es and citizens will contribute despairs over him as a promised ,.' to its success. king of Judea who has turned Featured ~ilI be a massed eGUflute player to soothe the minds menical choir, conducted by Marof wanderers and vagabondS. ian W. VaT\ Slyke, director of "Mary the mother remembers music at First Baptist Church; a him as a child gathering the alcombined folk group with Rev. mond blossoms in his hands and Walter Wnek, of Union United covering his face with the petals, Methodist Church; the First Bap" , . as if he would embrace with tist Folksters directed by Ruth his love all the trees of the Hathaway; the Sacred Heart world. My son' is a longing Singers conducted by Sister Ba,rFATHER DeMIELLO lodged in the heart, he is all of bara; a brass band by the Muus, longing for the stars.' " sician's Union; and organist NorThe Clergy Association and mand Gingras, all of Fall River. past twenty years, and it seems Rev. Arthur deMello, president to get better with '3.ge. It is a the Greater Fall River Council of the Clergy' Association, speaks sensitive and' reverent :rendering 'of Churches have combined a of the evening with unusual en- of certain themes from and great deal of effort to bring a , thusiasm. "This ·is one of Mr. ,-events in the life of' Jesus, and unique and very special experiWaters' best ~orks. He has been he brings all of his 1talent to ence to greater Fall River resi. performing The Passion in a va- bear as he brings these events dents.' It is an experience to be riety of productions over the alive for the viewer, or perhaps shared by all ages.

Ozanam's C:ause Aim of Society Novena Continued, from Page One diocese vvas' given the period March 31 to April 8.

Frederic Ozanam (1813-1853) was a remarkable 1man who might be considereCl a modern man even though he lived mow than a century ago, Ozanam saw the poverty that existed in the world, so he went to the ,poor and did what he CQuId to reli~ve their misery.

Ozanam vvas challenged by the anti-religious spirit that seemed to infect the Iyouth of his day and resolved to solve this problem by the example of good

works, and not just words. Note well that these conditions exist today.

Ozanam was the inspiration that led to the formation of the first conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He was the aclmowledged leade'r of that small group of university stl,ldents that started a charitable organization that is known throughout the world.

Frederic Ozanam was many things-a distinguished scholar and writer, a professor at the Sorbonne, ari historian, a lawyer, a devoted father, a crusader for

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misleading, He comes within an inch of suggesting tha't Mosignor MacDonald, as Secretary of the bishops ad hoc Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry, is involved in some kind of underhanded plot to advance ,the allegedly nefarious interests of the NFPC within <the structure of the Committee. He 'says, in this context, ,that Macponald is Chairman of the ad, hoc Committee, He is wrong about that. The Chairman of the Committee is Archbishop Hannan of New Orleans, and he' is an excellent Chairman indeed. If Father Baker has any <complaints about ,the work of the Committee" he ought to address them to the Archbishop--not to Monsjgnor MacDonald.

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For my own part, speaking as one who has 'attended all its meetings, I have, nothing but the highest praise fpr the ad hoc Committee and for the manner in which Monsignor MacDonald has carried out: his secretarial duties. As a matter of fact, I would say that it's by all odds one of the best committees I have ever been associated with dUI'ing my 29 years at the Conference.

As 'long as Fa,ther Balcer felt compelled to criticize the Committee in the course of his Wandererarticle, it's a pity Ithat he didn',t make a greater effort to inform himself about its operations.

Be that 'as it may, there simply has to be a better way of debating th,e pros and cons of NFPC than the destructively polemical way that Father Baker has chosen to follow. He thinIcs and writes about the Federation in completely black and white terms and, as indicateq above, seems hell-bent on driving it out of business. In my opini'on, that's a complete waste of time on his par,t. It serves no purpose whatsoever except to sovv the seeds of suspicion and disunity in tHe ranks of the American c1ergyand God knows we a1lready have enough of that.

social justice, and, above all, 'a man of faith. This man was the inspiration for the start of the Society in 1833, and he continues to inspire the Vincentians of today. That is why the Society is pra,ying for his beatification.

But it requires more than just the prayers of Vincentians to accomplish this. It needs the prayers ,of all who know of the life and vvork of Frederic Ozanam, and seek graces through his intercession. During this novena parishioners throughout the diocese will be informed of this Cause for Ozanam and will be invited to unite in prayer vvith Vincentians that this' holy servant, Frederic Ozanam: will be raised by the Church to the honors of the altar.

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See Tax Status Of Churches In Danger NEW YORK (NC) - The Lutheran Council in the U. S.A. ended its annual meeting here in a mood of anxiety over the possibility that federal tax policies might undercut the work of churches 'and other voluntary agencies.

The theme was reiterated at a closing dinner by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley, director of religious and civil liberties for the National Council of Churches, and Gordon Manser, interim executive director of the National Social Welfare Assembly.

"Voluntarism, as we have known it, is in severe peril," said Manser, citing government concern over lobbying by voluntary groups and the money shortage as reasons. No one, he observe:!, has legally defined the tax code terminology exempting nonprofit agencies as long as no "substantial" part of thelir income is used to influence legislation.

Special Consideration "No one has ever really defined what 'substantial' means.

There is selective enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service of this provision," he said.

Mr. Kelley saJid churches, unlike other {;harities, are entitled to special consideration in tax exemption because of the First Amendment religious freedom clauses.

"Perhaps," he said, "tax exemption is given to other charities because they ren:!er services whioh would otherwise have to be paid for out of tax funds. But the government may not set up, finance or operate a church."

Scores Abortion 'Package Tours' DUBLIN (NC)-Mrs. Meredie O'Donoghue of Cork claimed British abortion clinics have been approaching Irish doctors and offering them special "abortion package tours" for pregnant girls.

Mrs. O'Donoghue said that the abortion clinics had told the Irish doctors that girls could have a two to four day "holiday" in London or Birmingham for $375-$450. .

The Cork woman said she had spent a month in England and Ireland doing research for an Irish TV program. The program is believed to be preparing detailed revelations about "the Irish Coonnection" in relation to Britain's ahorition clinics.

Offers of abortion deals are said to have been made to Irish doctors by telephone, with explanatory literature being made available later. The price of the package would cover a flight from Dublin or Cork to England, a taxi from the airport to a nursing home and the fees for the operation.

The Irish Medical Union has no official knowledge of British abortion clinics seeking business in Ireland but individual doctors have voiced their protests at the extent of the practice.

Last year, Dublin medical circles were shocked when it was revealed that British abortion clinics were offering payments of several hundred dollars to Irish doctors prepared to fly to Britain on weekends to carry out abortions at clinics and private homes.

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Missouri Law Still in Effect

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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER FAMILY: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beliveau of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, with their children, W. Clark, 11, and Michelle, 6, are enthusiastic promoters of Marriage Encounter, a weekend program designed for couples of any age and being offered in the. Fall River Diocese at Stonehill Retreat House, North Easton, a.nd La Salette C.enter for Christian Living, Attleboro.

Famed Marriage Encounter Program Here in Attleboro, J.Vol·th. Easton Bertha and Dick Beliveau of Our Lady of 'Fatima parish, Swansea, have a very good thing going, and they want to share it with others. They'll do so at a program scheduled for 8 Sunday night, March 25 at United Methodist Church, 821 Read St., Somerset.

"We'd like couples to attend who've got good marriages and would like to make them better," said Beliveau. What they'll hear is an enthusiastic explanation of Marriage Encounter weekends, a nationally. famous program for couples, which is just getting underway in the Southeastern Massachusetts area, with weekends scheduled regularly at La Salette Center for Christian Living in Attleboro and Stonehill Retreat House, North Easton.

Altho",gh Encounters were originated by a Spanish priest, they are not just for Catholics.

"Anyone would feel comfortable in the program," -says Mrs. Beliveau.

She and her husband find it difficult to explain what it is about the Encounter that arouses such tremendous enthusiasm in participants. "It's the people, and the spirit that's created," they say.

One to One Essentially, the program provides time for couples of any age to reflect together on what their marriage means to them. Talks are given by several couples who have already made the Marriage Encounter, followed by "dialogue periods" between husbands and wives. Various techniques are taught for developing communication, and there is a follow-up program of weekly or monthly

meetings. It is also highly recommended that spouses take time daily to share feelings with each other.

The Beliveau's two children, Clark, 11, and Michelle, 6, are also in on the act, participating in a weekly family conference.

"They don't let us forget it," said Beliveau. "They enjoy sitting down and discussing how we all feel about things."

He said that· "encountered couples," as they're referred to in the movement, develop greater sensitivity to the feelings not only of each other but of those outside the family. "You care more - you're more concerned," he summed up.

Minnesota Ratifies Rights Amendment ST. PAUL (NC)-Minnesota has become the 26th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

The state senate pas3ed the measure bya 48-18 margin on Feb. 8. Earlier the house had approved the amendment 104-28.

Twelve more states must approve the amendment by 1979 for it to be added to the Constitution as ,the 27th Amendment.

The terse amendment, which was approved" by the U. S. Congress and endorsed by President Nixon in 1972, states: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."

Its passage had been opposed by the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, which had said it feared the measure would "open a Pan· dora's Box of legal complications."

The program has been active in New York for several years, he said, and has been the subject of various articles in national magazines. In New York, he commented, there's a sixmonth waiting list of couples wishing to make the Encounter, even though some 20 programs are offered' each weekend, with 26 couples in each group.

"They take over motels for the programs," he said, "and over 500 couples are reached ~ery weekend." The movement has produced such spin-offs as pins, tie-clasps, bumper stickers and plaques, all designed to help the encountered recognize each other.

The Beliveaus made their Encounter last September. Since then, they say ,"We've grown closer - and we were unaware we'd grown apart." They, together with Mr'. and Mrs. Russell Jennings of United Methodist, will be the speakers at the March 25 meeting.

Until their Encounter, they said, they had not been especially involved in church-related activities. Now Beliveau is a parish lector and Mrs. Beliveau is a volunteer at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. But for both, "Marriage Encounter is our big thing," and they're anxious to spread the word.

They note that making the weekend doesn't obligate people to attend follow-up meetings.

"You only do what you want to do." But they feel that even if participation ends with the formal program, Mariage Encounter can add tremendously to the best of marriages. For those in disrepair? "It's not designed to patch up problems - but it can't hurt," says Beliveau.

JEFFERSON CITY (NC)-Mis· souri' Atty. Gen. John C. Danforth has stated Missouri's stringent abortion Jaw "remains in full force and effect" until the completion of litigation against the, statute in federal court.

The state official, who is also an ordained Episcopalian minister with a strong personal aversion to abortion, said "anyone pract'icing abortion will be aoing so at their own risk."

Danforth made his comments at a news conference here after the U. S. Supreme Court rejected petitions for rehearing of its Jan. 22 abortion ruling and directed federal courts in eight states, including Missouri, to reconsider earlier decisions on the state's abortion laws.

In Oct. 1972, the Missouri Supreme Court, by a 6-1 yote, upheld the state's 138-year-old abortion law banning the operation unless the mother's life was endangered by continuE!d pregnancy.

However, the Supreme Court's direction now places the abortion statute before the U. S. District Court in Kansas City for legal interpretation.

Catholicism Vital To Christianity AGRA (NC) - The future of Christianity in India depends largely on the Catholic Church, said an Anglican bishop leaving India a;fter several years here.

Speaking to an assembly of the c:lergy before his de,arture, Bishop J.A. Christopher said it is common knowledge that the Catholic Church develops and flourishes like the banyan tree.

Bishop Christopher praised the missionary activity of the Catholic Church and said the faith in God and selfless spirit of the first Catholic missionaries must guide all Christian missionary activity.

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Indian Violence With incidents of violence in Sou.theast Asia becoming fewer, there' is still violence iIi the world, an~ attention is drawn on the international level to the senseless violence in Northern Ireland' and, here at home, to such things as the Wounded Knee drama.

There is no denying the fact that the treatment of the American Indian is one of the most shameful aspects of this nadon's history. It is almost ineonceivable how this segment of the nation could be treated so disgracefully and for so long a peJiod of time. And it is well within the understanding of many that such repression could caUSe the buildup of frustration and tension.

But is violence the answer?

The Indians have made their point. They have awakened the consciences of many citizens and the notice of the Federal government. They have seen their plight well laid out on the front pages of the great newspapers of the country.

Isn't this the time for parley, for working out legitimate grievances and seeking long-range, solutions?

It would seem that now is the' time for this,- and the public has reached a state of awareness that the Federal representatives will· not be all<;>wed to talk' with forked tongues.

But violence and the threat of violence are self-defeating. Most people can understand a dramatic incident rai:sed to bring attention to a forgotten or neglected situation that cries out for remedy. No one will accept the use of violence, and its threat will only tum off those' who would otherwise be sympathetic.

The country owes the Indian much. Now is the time for 'him to make, the legitimate demands that surely will be listened to. But the story of violence is from another era that people today are weary of and will reject.

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ST. JOSEPH Protector of Universal Churc'h

Joseph as Teacher This is an age of the public relations man, of the desire for exposure and coverage. It is in startling contrast to that "just man," Joseph, whose feast the Church observes on Saturday. Joseph was forgetful of self and lived to be of service to Mary and to Jesus. He continues to serve the Church today as 'its patron and protector.'

Lent would be a good time for many persons to imitate this humbleness of Joseph, to seek to serve others more and be less concerned about themselves. Humility is not thinking that one has little but" rather, IS putting one's talents and concern at the service of others, in realizing that God wishes to work in and through the service that is given to others.

When a person is filled with his own importance then . there is little room for God and little thought of others.

When one becomes aware of God, then he Ullderstands his own littleness and he strives all the more to give this. littleness back to God and in service to God's children.

Yes, St. Joseph has much to teach this age. ' A worthy work during Lent would be to seek the assistance of St. Joseph, the patron and. protector of the Church, to make one more aware that each fOlIower' of Christ must try to become Christ-like within himself' and then point the way to Christ for others. This work begins when one empties himself of foolish self-centere~ness and opens himself to the presence and activity of God. Joseph' did this in his own life on earth. He opened himself to the Will of God in and for his life.

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The Cardinal Certairtly, even for us who could not travel to Rome, this past w~ek was a glorious and exciting page in the history of' the Church.· The splendor ,of St. Peter's and the glories of. ages past were in sharp television contrast to the simplicity of devotion and the humility of joy that short duration of time i:; in itself a historic first in the Church of was expressed in the eleva- the United States. tion of Archbishop HumberIn most circumstances, candiI

to Mederios to the dignity of the dates for the red hat have either Cardinalate. For himself and h~s . been life-long member!> of the family it was ,once again the true curial family or have been resiAmerican story of the' immigrar.t dential bishops in a major see church in'this land. A story that for a number of years. The swift was once again made new. for rise in the church of Cardinal , all of us whose parents Jour- Medeiros in such a very few neyed to land' of opportunity. years is an unique person!!1 For the many from this area achievement. In fact it is more who traveled to the See of Peter, than that; it is the work of the it was anun:forgettable experi - Spirit. Within' all this turmoil of ence to be cherished as long a3 events, this outpouring of perthey live. For all of us in this sonal honors, the Cardinal has diocese it was a moment of per- remained in a very rea:! way a sonal pride and renewal of spirit. parish priest. The ten'itorial limTo recall that just seven years its to be sure have expanded, ago, the Cardinal Archbishop o~ the responsibilities of office have Boston was a, pastor of St. Mi.. multiplied, yet we still see the chaels Church in Fall River al- personal warmth and concern of most seems to be beyond belief a pastoral-oriented man shine From parish priest to a Cardinal forth-surpassing even the splenof the ¥oly yhurch in such a dor of <;ardinal red.

Cardinal Medeiros - Ever the Pastor Cardinal Medeiros is still the same pastor who walked the streets of the north end of Fall River smiling 'Yith his parishioners in times 0lf joy an'! cry,ing with them in their days of sadness. He is still the sympathetic chancellor who greeted his fellow priests as brothers when they came to his office for help

and direction. He is still the same Bishop who sympathized with the oppressed migrant farmers of southern Texas, caring in a very special way for the underdog and the less .fortunate. He is like this because to alll of us, who have been touched by him, we realized that above all thiS world's glories, he is a w.ise and

Priests and people of the South end of New Bedford ha~ heen holding significant meetings with <the aim of encouraging growth' in spirituality and a greater sense of Christian community. . _ Our Lady of the Assumption Church was the scene of an evening of disoussion on the theme, "Emmanuel-God with us." Rev. Joseph' McGuire of St. James Church was the speaker and 120 people participated in the discussion that followed and that concluded with Mass celebrated by Rev. Ambrose Forget, SS.CC. pastor of tlile host Church.

The second evening of· recollection was held in St. James Ohurch wlith Rev. Benedict Folger, SS:CC., of Our Lady of the Assumption Church, as speaker.

The theme was, "Christ is counting on you," and the 90 people present responded with posters to express their reactions and ideas. The Mass was celebrated

by Rev. James McClellan of St. James ChuIlCh. A speci~1 Lenten program is now being prepared and will be held. on the first three Sundays 'Of April with each session beginnging a't 7:15 P.M. and concluding at 9:15. The general theme is, "Whatever happened to confession?" and the first session wJH be !held in St. James Church Hall on Sunday, April 1.

This will stress '''Where We've Been," and will give a view of the Sacrament of Penance in the early Ohurch and in' history.

There will be a question. and answer period.

On Sunday, AprH 8, the pro'gram "Where We Are," will be held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Sdhool. There will be a panel which wJll consider the ed'ucati'Onal, psychologicaI and spir·.jtual aspects of Confession.

On Sunday, April 15, St. Lawrence OhuIlCh will .sPonsor the final program, "Where We're Going," and wm present 'a Penitential Service with the opportunity for individual confessions.

AlI three sessions are open to the public. prayerful man. It is these two qualities that have made him great. His search for knowledge, his respect for learning, have helped him understand how little man actually knows. His sincere and honest realization of God's will have brought to him a deep and abiding' prayer life that certainly is the sustenance and substance as he faces the challenges of his office in' the Church.

In these troubled times in the Church and in the world, it is not only ~omfcirting to know but also an abiding consolation to know that Our Holy Father has placed Archbishop Medeiros' in such an important leadership role. He now not only belongs to his family, his friends and his diocese but to the universal church, to the' world. As such lie will be a firm anchor and a . harbor of assurance in the everchanging tides and currents of world events. His red hat gives . him a dignity of universal recognition but it is his personal qualities of. prayer and wisdom that give to each one of us a path to follow, a guiding light, a bea:con of hope.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese ofFal! River-Thurs. Mar. 15, 1973

PLAN OBSERVANCE: Parishioners active in planning centennial observances for St. Joseph's parish, Fall River are, left, front, Thomas J. Sullivan, Rev. Martin L. Buote, John T. Scanlon, second row, Carol A.

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O'Connell, Julia M. Harrington, top row, Bernard J. Tomlinson, Clement J. Dowling; right, from left, John F. Mahoney, Alfred V. Jones, Valarie A. Foley, James H. McKenna, Rev. Kenneth J. Delano.

St. Joseph's Parish Mark's lOOth Anniversary with Dinner-Dance Continued from Page One Parish History A history of St. Joseph's has been ·prepared by Miss Valerie Foley for inclusion in a souvenir booklet to be distributed Sunday.

She notes that the parish was' established in the spring of 1873

by Bishop Hendricksen of Providence, to whose diocese Fall River then belonged. Until that time Catholics 'in the north end of Fall River had attended St. Mary's Church.

"The ~ev. Wmiam H. Brie, formerly of Harrisville and Slatersvi'lle, was named the first pastor," writes Miss Foley. "On Low Sunday, April 20, 1873, he celebrated the first Mass for his parishioners lin his home, the former Lelyand House, Iocated on North Main Street, just north of President Avenue. There was a congregation of between 30 and 40 people."

A temporary church was housed in a Vestal Street building for nearly four years; then was moved to a lot that Father Brie had purchased at North Main and Weetamoe Streets.

Even with additions, the original church proved too small, and in 1880 ground was broken for the present St. Joseph's. The cornerstone was lU'id on August 15 of the same year by Bishop Hendricksen, but eight days previously Father Bric had died of a heart attack. His funeral, noted a booklet prepared for the parish's golden jubilee, "occasioned without question the greatest outpouring of people of all faiths that the northern section had ever witnessed, for -the deceased had a city-wide reputation for puiblic service."

For the second time death clouded rejoicing when the second pastor of St. Joseph's, Rev. Andrew J. Brady, died just before the present church building was dedicated. His funeral on Feb. 20, 1885 was the first religious ceremony held in the church.

He was succeeded by Rev. Bernard Boylan, who served the

parish for 41 years. Early in his later sold when space was made pastorate the number of French available in the school~ renoCanadian members of St. Jo- vation of the church interior, seph's grew to such an extent and 'opening of the convent for that a new parish, St. Mathieu's, Sisters serving the parochial was formed to serve them better. school.

Also during IFather Boylan's The diamond jubilee of the pastorate the present rectory parish was marked in 1948' and was 'Purchased. It is interesting in 1954 women·and men of the to note that in 1889 the large parish were organized into a three-story building cost be- Women's Guild and a Men's Club. Both organizations were tween $8 and $9 thousan:i.

An important event took place very active, with the women in 1907, when St. Joseph's sponsoring study clubs, buying school opened, to be staffed by and keeping in repair the sur-, Sisters of Mercy throughout its plices and cassocks of the. altar 63 years of service to the par- boys, buying uniforms for the ish. The Sisters traveled to the parish basketbaU team, and north end daily from Mount St. helping needy families purchase Mary Convent on Second Street clothing for first communicants, until in 1949, the parish opened ,in addition to working for the . Rose Hawthorne Cancer Home its own convent. and area hospitals.

Social Life Special projects of the Men's "Socially," writes Miss Foley, "the parish left nothing to be Club have included St. Patrick's desired. There were bazaars, Day suppers, annual parish picsupp-ers, dramatic entertainments nics and the yearly erection of a and the annual excursions. The tremendous outdoor crib on the first boat excursion to Crescent rectory grounds.

Gift Statue Park on the steamer "King Philip" took p'lace in 1895. This anIn 1956 Fa'tlher Lyons marked nual affair became a big event .his golden jubilee in the priestin the lives of the parishioners hood and in addition to tenderold and young. It was terminated ing him a gala reception, parishonly when it became impossible ioners presented him .with -a to charter a boat during World statue of St. J'oseph the Worker which holds -a place ~f honor on War I." The golden jubilee'of St. Jo- tlhe lawn next to the church.

In 1961 Father Lyons passed seph's in 1923 was marked by spiritual activities, including a away and was succeeded by Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated Msgr. Sullivan, who made it his

by Bishop Daniel F. Feehan; a first care to renovate the paroHigh Mass for parish children chial school. It was a sad blow and a requiem Mass for deceased to the parish when in 1970 the decision was made, due to the parishioners.

In 1925 Father Boylan died, to mounting costs of providing be succeeded in January 1926 by Catholic education, to close the Rev. Edward Carr, who had sdhool, which is now rented by among his curates the young the City of Fall River for public Father George Sullivan, the pres- school classes.

In 1967 St. Joseph's organized ent pastor of st. Joseph's. Father Carr served St. Joseph's only a a parish council, one of the first _ - year before being transferred to in the diocese to do so and over the years it has served well as Sacred Heart Church.

The next pastor, Rev. Joseph an advisory body to the pastor.

P. Lyons, was at St. Joseph's Also in 1967 came the raising from 1927 until his death in of the pastor t'o monsignorlal 1961. His long pastorate was rahk, marked by parishioners marked by many accomplis,h- with a recepUon, a Mass of ments, including purchase of a Thanksgiving and presentation parish hall on Brightman Street, of a plaque to the new prelate.

In its 100 years, St. Joseph's has been served by six pastors and 35 cura,tes. Presently assigned to the parish are Rev. Martin L. Buote and Rev. Kenneth J. Delano.

The parish has been notewor'thy for the number of _its members who have entered rei!gious life as diocesan an:i order priests, as Sisters and as BrotJhers.

"In the first hundred years of its existence," concludes Miss Foley in her booklet, "St. Joseph's parish has been rich indeed in the talents' and administrative qualities of its six pas-

tors and in the dedicated hard w,ork of its 35 curates who comforted their people when they were distressed and rejoiced with them when they were happy. Under such guidance, the parish has had its joys and its sorrows, its hopes and its disappointments, its successes and its failures.

"Happily, t~e parishioners have retained their sympathy for the unfortunate, their charity for all and their distinctive inimitable warmth. This last trait, missed most by people who have moved away, has always characterized St. Joseph's parish."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 15, 1973

Fak,e Posi'es, Plain Jewe:lry Imp,ort,ant to ·Spring Styl,es This season you've got to have couth and that should ,be spelled with a capital "C." There are many external pressures affecting the look of spring 73-a desire for a more classical look-a glance back at the forties....:..and an even farther backward step trary, there is a much more into the twenties of the feminine, look-your-age, mature"Great Gatsby" era. is-beautiful look than we have "Pull everything together" had for many and many a moon. is the message and even the designers are supplying the'ir customers with a coordinated look.

No need to search out the per-

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feet belt or scarf-the dress now comes with its own, and sometimes even a fake flower for an added accent.

There are fake flowers everywhere-on the band of dip-brimmed bretons, at the neckline of of a blouse, or at the waistline of a floating evening gown. I saw some of the loveliest fake flowers imaginable but since for the .price of· one small gardenia I could buy three or four real rose bushes, I passed them up, - Fakes Revive While most will proba91y not be so perfect as those handmade by the Parisians, there will be a great revival of fake flowersagain a fashion that has remained dormant since the forties.

However, like everythig else, there will be no doubt that the posies of the seventies wiH cost considerably more than those of the forties, Look for suits - soft jackets with even softer skirts. Note that the jacket will tie with its own fabric belt. Possibly these suits will be bought as separates, with the blouse being sold right alongside the jacket and skirt.

Colors for these separates will be muted earth shades; beige, sand; white and earthen grey. , These are very ladylike colorsthank goodne~s-and it honestly looks as if there will be a return to this type of look with nary a backward glance at ethnic flashions or the emphasis on yo~h. ' This doesn't mean that the return to the classics won't make women attractive-to the con-

Uses Tape Recording For Lenten Pastoral PEORIA (NC) - Thanks to a miracle of modern technology . Bishop Edward W. O'Rourke was able to preach at all the Masses in all 170 parishes of the Peoria diocese on the Sunday before Lent.

The diocese's 214,000 Catholics were able to hear their bishop speak via a tape recorded message that replaced his traditional written lenten pastoral letter.

In the serman which lasted 12 minutes, the bishop called the people of the diocese to conversion, prayer and penance.

Simpler Jewelry As we relegate to' the back of the closet our layers and chains we will find that the new lovely fashions (:all for simpler jewelri-one good pin-a very special pendant and of course those ladylike Grace Kelly type pearls, longer, a bit larger, but pearls nevertheless and with them those special button earrings (again keeping up with inflation, these will be a bit 'larger too).

Ivory, wood and pure metal will turn up in rings, pins and even belt buckles. With an emphasis on our own hi$tory, well-made Indian jewelry will become very important. ' In speaking to charming group of area women recently, I ended with the message that Spring '73 will be a season when we will have everything going for us to make us look like feminine, attraetive women; and this is really what clothes should be all about.

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Collect School Supplies For Quake Survivors NEW YORK (NC) Girl Scouts from the Blessed Sacrament parish here have collected school supplies for school children in earthquake devastated Managua, I\"icaragua.

The collectian was sparked by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) new youth involvement program, Operation: Put-It-AIl-Together.

The program appeals to American youth to help the needy of other countries. ,CRS headquarters here reported that the youth activities across the nation have been varied.

"Some are holding bake sales, others are sacrificing Saturday afternoons to wash cars; 'a canfirmaNon class in Long Island plans a walkathon during Lent," the CRS said.

Tax Credit Bills Filed in Wisconsin MADISON (NC) - Two biBs have been introduced in the state 'legislature here to provide tax credits for parents who pay tuition for children attending nonpublic schools.

The 1?ills, which are substantially the same, would provide an $82 tax eredit per pupil to parents of elemeptary sch~ol 'students and $128 for high school students in the first year. ,The bills provide 'a tax credit per pupil in el'ementary schools equal to nine per cent of the per pupil cost for public elementary schools. The basis for the tax credit at the high school level is 14 per cent of the cost· for public 'high schools.

The bills' would also apply to parents who pay tuition for their children attending 'public schools outside their own school districts.

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RECEIVES AWARD: Lorraine Medeiros receives award from Lionel Souza, third district vice-president of the Americ.an Civic teagt:e at ceremonies held Saturday night at Lip.coln Park Ballroom.

State-Wide Portuguese Civic LeaglJ~ Hqnors ~ishop Gerrar~ High Senoor Lorraine De Medeiros, a senior and first. year student' of Portuguese at Bishop Gerrard High School;1;'all River, has been awarded sec<;md priie in the essay contest· sponsored by the Massachusetts Portuguese Civie League in ho~or of Peter Francisco Day. I The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel De Medeiros of 1459 Plymouth Avenue, Fall River, is an honor student and has par·, , ticipated in the Glee Club, Drama.

Club, and Intr~murals..

She is at present Ii member of the Liturgy and French Clubs.

She enjoys music, reading and chess. .

A recipient' of the Marian

Urge Comprehensive Religious E9ucation LOUISVILLE, (NC)-In a joint pastoral letter, the bishops of Kentucky and Tennessee called on all parishes to develop a comprehensive rel'igious education I program for "every age group."

Addressing the 437,000 Catholics in the twd states, the bishops said they: have been "increasingly concerned over the problem of communicating the word of God through religious education in th¢se times of continued and so~etimes drastic change."

They cited ;"recent developments" in religious education "which bring us new and rich opportunities of deepening our understanding and love of the word of God." I In the pastoral the bishops pledged themselVes to the support of Catholic' schools and stressed that adult education is "not at the periphery of the Church's educational mission but aF its center."

Medal for Girl Scout: Activities, Miss De Medeiros will be one of ten members of Bishop Gerrard High School traveling to Portugal in April.

Heckler Bill Proteds Hospital Emplo)'esi WASHINGTON (NC) '7 Congresswoman Margaret M. Heckler· (R-Mass.) has introduced a bill that would give hospital employes the right to decline partidpation in abo!ltions as a matter of conscience.

The Greater Fall River Coun'cil of Camp Fire Giris, which serves Fall River, Somerset, Swansea, Westport, Freetown,' and Greater New Bedford announces the following calendar of events for the observance of the 63rd Anniversary of the founding of the Camp Fire Girl Organization, from March 18 to the 25th. .

An Interfaith Worship'Service will be held at the Adas Israel Synagogue 1647 Robeson St., Fall River, on ·Sunday, March 18 at 3:00 p.m. Mrs: Robert Lapre a'nd Mrs. John Sul1ivan are cochairmen. They are being assisted by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg and Rev. Arthur de Mello of St. John of God parish, Somerset. ' At Sacred Heart On Thursday, March 22nd, the Second Annual Awards Night Dinner will be held at Venus de Milo at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available from co-chairmen Mrs. George Duclos or Mrs. Lionel Greenwood. Tickets are also available at the council office at 101 Rock St. before March 16.

Candy sale awards and awards for service to the council will be presented at an' Awards Ceremonial following the dinner.

To close Birthday Week, the Leader-Sponsor Association is planning "The Camp Fire Expo" at Sacred Heart School, corner of Pine and Linden Streets in Fall River from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Displays to tell the, story of Camp Fire will be featured by individual groups. Entertainment will be presented by the girls between 2:00-3:00 p.m. Mrs. Virginia Hamal is chairman and is . heing assisted by co-chairmen Mrs. Laurienne Marceau and Mrs. Dottie Correia. The event is opened to the public at no admission charge.

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"The federal government: should never be a party to forcing hospital personnel to perform tasks they. find morally abhorrent and repugnant," Mrs. Heckle.r said.

"Conscientious objection to the taking of the unborn life deserves as much consid'eration and respect as does conscientious objection to warfare."

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THE ANCHOR-

Thurs., Mar. 15, 1973

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Catholic Women Set Lent Series

No matter how early I get my kids up in the morning, they're frequently late for school. The usual reasons· are that I can't find the car keys; someone can't find a book; another can't find shoes; or another can't find the last answer on the homework she should have completed swear,' the cat Was laughing.

One of the kids offered, the night before. All these "Mommy, I'll get him out. He "can't find" excuses get pret- likes me." I couldn't imagine

Fall River Catholic Woman's Club will sp01)sor a Lenten series open to the public at the club· house, 742 Rock St., at 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, March 21, March 28 and April 4.

Speaker will be Rev. Hugh J. Munro, curate at St. Louis Church, Fall River. A native of Boston, he is a graduate of St. Anselm's College, Manchester, N.H. and has 'done graduate study at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. Father Munro has served in home missions in the midwest and southwest United States and at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Osterville, and St. Mary's parish, North Attleboro, before being assigned to Fall River.

ty dull after a while ... dullhopeless-and exasperating!

But the other morning, we had a new one. I had them all

that cat liking anything.

My daughter didn't even have to crawl under the car. All she said was "Comere, Fluffy" anti the cat obediently pranced out.

He stuck out his tongue at me! .

My daughter carried him bac!, to his own back yard.

By But cats can run faster than kids. Before she was half Way MARY back, the cat was under the car again.

MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS: Sisters Catherine, CARSON This time, after my daughter left, ' and - Hortense are among the thousands lining the Mrs. Michael J. McMahon is retrieved him, I took him home chairman of the series. streets of New Orleans for the Mardi Gras parade.

They locked him in the neighbor's caught plastic and paste necklaces tossed from carnival garage. floats and will use them to make math teaching tools and Spanish Bishop Aids As we drove to school, I told in the car and just as I was Rosaries for the missions. The Sisters teach at St.' Louis about to start the motor, the the girls to explain to Sister.

Illegal Strikers There Again neighbor's cat ran under the car.

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BILBAO (NC)-Bishop Antol~he following morning, the At that time of the morning, nio Anoveros of Bilbao directed cat was there again. . l"m not enchanted by little girls that the first lenten collection That night, instead of leaving crying, "Mommy ... look out for in the diocese's 272 parishes be Fluffy." In fact, at most times, the car on the driveway, I given to a fund to support strikparked it in front of the house.

I'm not too enchanted by Fluffy.

School Aid Decision Puts Parents ing workers in this industrial Fluffy wasn't quite as dumb I decided that if I started the· l In IThree-Sided Vise city of a million people. as I gave him credit for.

He not motor, Fluffy would dart for WASHINGTON (NC)-Parents tection of the law guaranteed by safer quarters. Fluffy has a rep- only found the car, hut I was "This is our Christian duty, to utation for many things, but be- beginning to think he could tell of nonpublic' school children are the 14th amendment. tend to the needy," he wrote. ing bright is not one of them. time. It didn't matter how early caught in a "three-sided vise" as I started chasing him, it took till a result of a count ruling which He wouldn't budge.

10 minutes after school started outlawed Pennsylvania's parent Has Claws to get rid of him. reimbursement law, according to The kids were upset ... not That afternoon the kids told a brief filed with the U. S. Subecause they were late, but be- me, "We need a note why we're preme Court. cause they thought I was going late for school every day." . T.he brief was filed by the at\0 run over the dumb cat. (They "Dear Sister, Every morning torneys for parents seeking re<Iidn't say he was dumb. I said there is this cat ..." versal of a ruling which banned it.)

The moral of the story: I al- payments up to $75 for tuition I got down on all.fours along- ways try to be completely truth- paid for grade school stulents in side the car, and found the cat ful. But "Mother o.verslept" nonpublc schools and up to $150 .. very contentedly licking his would have been a more expe- for high school students. paws. ddent excuse for the lateness.

The "vise," according to the Edu~ational "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty ..." The Sisters would have thought brief, is made up of "legal comI kept coaxing, reaching out I was overtired, or irresponsible. pulsion, conscience compulsion with my' hand, trying to grab his Eith-er would have been better and economic compulsion." little neck. than their thinking I'm nuts.

"The compulsory atttendance Fluffy simply backed off a bit, laws require them (the parents) till he was positive I couldn't - under criminal penalty - to reach him. He continued to lick Decries Pessimism SUMMER SESSION, '73 send their children to schools," his paws.

On Population Growth the brief noted.

I found his weakness. I went "Their consciences command MELBOURNE (NC)-A U. S. An Invitation to ...

"Pssssst!" He jumped back sevthe, in pursuit of intellectual Catholic sociologist and one of eral inches, within jreach from LAY PEOPLE - SISTERS - PRIESTS - SEMINAR~ANS Australia's leading Catholic ac- good or moral goals, to, choose the other side. " tionists decried the "pessimism" schools other than those proI went carefully around the of libertarian movements at a vided by the state," it adds.

A New Way ... car, and made a fast pass. I However, the brief says, "the "population and ecology" conferto listen to the voices of the city nearly had his paw, then learned ence held as part of the 40th burden ·of paying fior public he's got claws.

International Eucharistic Con- education (through taxes), while An Integrated Experience\ Smugly, he moved out of at the same time paying for edgress here. reach, and sharpened his nails in living in a city community Dr. Sylvester P. Theisen, pro- ucation of their children in on the concrete driveway. learning through an interdisciplinary approach in schools chosen ,according to the fessor of sociology at St. John's The kids were whimpe\1ing; University, Collegeville, .Minn. dictates of conscience, is a the clock. was racing and I Distinguished Planning Board and Mr. B.A. Santamaria of Mel- . heavy 'burden, rapidly becoming Includingbourne 'agreed that it is "a con- impossible (for most parents) to Rev. Michael Groden~ Director, Urban Planning Office, flict of philosophies" rather than carry."

Lay Leader Scores Suit The brief argues that the reimArchdiocese of Boston food shortages or pollution Against Prayer Service Sr. Marie Augusta Neal, Emmanuel College which is inspiring advocates of bursement act should be reinPLAQUEMINE (NC)-An offi- zero population growth through stated because it "involves no Dr. Harvey Cox, Harvard School of Divinity relationships - 'entangling' or cial of the Catholic Daughters of birth control and abortion.

About the Options ••• America has attacked a lawsuit Theisen said that "during the otherwise - between the state filed by atheist Mrs. Madalyn last few years, prophets of doom and schools." The Supreme Master of Arts Degree in Educational and Pastoral Murray O'Hair against President have warned us that famine will Court has barred such ChurchMinistry Nixon for permitting worship be the grisly end of over-popula- state relations.

Certificate in Educational & Pastoral Ministry 'Nor does the legislation vioservices in the White House. tion."

Certificate of Advanced Educational Specialization Mrs. Winifred L. Trabeaux, "Those of us who claim that if late ~e "priqlary effect" test set act'ing national regent of human beings work with dili- up by the Supreme Court for Fees. the 225,000-member organization gence and imagination, they can such aid, 'the brief states. "Act $~O per course credit said here jn Louisiana that Mrs. produce abundant food for all 92 has no primary effect which $45 per week, room & Board O'Hair's lawsuit "deserves, at people, are ridiculed as living in advances religion," the brief arthis point, no more than a big a world of fantasy and escapism. gues. "It awards no subsidy to - FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE: yawn."

However it is the optimists in any school. It pays no tuition to SISTER HELEN WRIGHT, Director "On this issue of White House this matter who are the realists, any school, directly or indirectProgram in Educational & Pastoral Ministry Summer worship," said Mrs. Trabeaux, and it is' the pessimists who are ly."

According to the brief, the Emmanuel College "President Nixon has the full the escapists retreating into a support of the Catholic Daugh- world of fantasies," Theison parents intervening in the case -400 The Fenway, Boston, Mass. 02115 have been denied the equal prosaid. ters of America."

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Support Bishop On Vietnam Aid ROCHESTER (NC)-Two-hundred and forty-five priests and ,deacons here signed a statement

by Bishop Joseph L. Hogan of Rochester urging generous post路 war aid to Southeast Asia and amnesty for con~cientious objectors.

The signed statement, along with an appeal 'for contributions to a Vietnam Orphan's Fund, appeared as a center spread in the Courier Journal, Rochester's diocesan weekly.

In an earlier letter to approximately 450 priests -in the diocese, the bishop had asked their support if they agreed with the statement.

"I am more and more convinced," he said, "that we who are ordained to be moral leaders in the Church of God must speak clearly, forcefully, and publicly against injustice and for justice, against war and for peace,路 against death and for life."

Most of the priests who disagreed with the statement and some who agreed had difficul- ' ties with the portion of the statement proposing amnesty.

"We urge government officials and all Americans to respond to those young men who have refused to participate in this war for . sincere reasons of 'conscience," the statement said. "In a spirit of reconciliation and with sincere respect fOT their witness to conscience we ask that amnesty be granted them."

O~e priest who objected said: "Amnesty for genuine conscientious objectors, yes. But not for those who, whatever their motive, or by whom inspired, have torn a great brea~h in this country, 'threatening the very existence of authority and government."

By JJOHN P. KENNEDY DUNEDIN (NC) --: A man of deep spirituality who swings a ANAHEIM (NC)-Neither the pick or an axe for hours in technology of the older genera-. steamy tropical heat, a strong, tion nor the counterculture of serious personality who yet runs the young have succeeded in his own private dancing satisfying the deep hungers of troupe-that's c;ardinal Pia Taothe human spirit, Cardinal Tim- finu'u of ~pia Western Samoa, othy Manning told 7,000 high who joined the college of cardischool students here. nals at the March 5 consistory.

Cardinal Manning delayed his As he arrived in Rome to be trip to Rome for the consistory named a cardinal, he must have that would elevate him to the thought of his last visit there college of cardinals in order to when he brought his troupe of participate in youth ,day of the young Samoan men 'and women Congress of' the Los Angeles dancers to perform before Pope Confraternity of Christian Doc- Paul VI. trine.

I first met him just after he Only love, the love of God, ,had been named a cardinal, he can satisfy the longings of the 'had been named bishop of Apia human spirit, ,the new cardinal , in 1968. He swept through New told the teenagers.

Zealand full of hope and plans_ "Technologically we've per- for his diocese. . fected the computer," he said.

Then last OctOber I lipent one "We've decided we can satisfy of the busiest and most hectic' every human need through, ma- weeks of my journalistic life as chinery and tec'hnology. his guest while on a tour of the Dachau, Nagasaki and Vietnam Church ,in the Pacific. When, I are the climax of what technol- flew out there was little of ogy has done to us."

Samoa that I had nbt seen, and 'God's 'Answer' most of it with the Bishop himCARDINAL PIO TOAFINU'U "The counterculture created self along. On one occasion we by your generation is a revolt even managed to get ourselves against the insincerity and phon- bogged down in a jeep on the the project', became appare:lt, Australia, and used the occasion iness of many of the things pre- outer reaches of one of his big and he knew the people's inter- to make' an impassioned appeal est and enthusiasm' might flag. for workers for the missions. sented to you," Cardinal Mahn- development projects.

Now the project, which lies on One result of this ha.s been a ning said. "It has tried to satis'Father of Samoa' the other side of the range from steady stream of new orders into fy man's hungers in psychedelic Even before the Pope named where Robert Louis Stevenson is Apia. But the core of the Church drugs, -in protests, in freedom him a cardinal he enjoyed tremarches, but 'it has failed to mendous prestige in Samoa. buried, -is, thriving. Plantations , there still remains the Marist are being deyeloped and a thriv- 'Fathers, the Marist Brothers of quiet the hungers."

Gov~rnment openly ca'lled him "We have dese.crated the earth "the father of Samoa." It was ing dairy herd has been estab- the Schools and, Mi:.si()nary Sisters of the Society of Mary. ; as at Nagasaki," the cardinal 'their way of ex:pressing their ap- lished, Headquarters of the project said. "And what is God doing? preciation of his drive to help He's sending new and brighter his ,people help themselves. One include a simple roomwheI1e the Bishop Urges ~~ore , cardinal qn bunk down 1f he flowers upon it." l of his few grumbles is, that "You are God's answer to all Western Samoa's head of state wants to work late and stay Foster Homes the ages gone by," he ,told the insists that. he attend all state overnight. The walls are covered ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)with charts and statistics, ke:?t Bishop WalterP. Kellenberg of teenagers. "We are here to make functions as his chaplain. constantly up to date, and whieh Rockville Centre, N. Y., has an act of faith in you. You are And not only himself. No maCounsel . the Church. We place ourselves jor occasion In Samoa Is com- record every facet of production asked pastors to encourage inWhen you see a good man, for research purposes. ~t your service." ,volvement of parishioners in the plete without a performance by think of emulating him; when Shepherd At the conclusion of the Mass' the new cardinal's ,troupe of"very necessary program of fos"' the Cardinal cancelebrated wi<th young men and women who speBut as well as developer and ter care" for neglected and tru- you see a bad man, examine your own heart. some 30 young priests active in ciailize in Samoan songs and administrator, he Is 'also bishcp ant teenagers on Long Island.

-Confucius youth work. The 7000. youths in dances. They have toured Eu- and shepherd. He enjoys tremenThe social services programs the arena gave a tumultuous rope and the Un:ited States as dous rapport with his people, in Nassau and Suffolk: County cheer for the cardinal. well as perfoI1ming pefore the and his own 'deep spirituality ~s "now stand in critieal need of' Pope. The cardinal formed the a reflection of the intense faith married couples, between the troupe' bec:ause he was con- of the Samoan Catholic. Mass in ages of 25 and 55, who might be Congress Informed cerned that the riches of Samoan Samoa is .an, enriching, moving willing to offer parental love Of Bishops' Views. culture should not be lost before experience that is in striking and concern to the children (esWASHINGTON (NC) - The the increasing impact West- contrast to ,the matter-of-fact pecially those between ages 12approach that one aU tooofte::l 18) who are wards of the family ,general secretary of the National ern ideas and habits. finds in Western c~untries. court," said the bishop.

Gonference of Catholic Bishops Development Pr9ject I was with him the day that "To participate in this pro(NCCB) has reminded all memA big man - he ,is about 6 bers of Congress that the na- fee't, 3 -inches tall ancl' massively Mother Mary !Agnes of the Little gram, without concern for race 303 IYANOUGH ROAD tion:s bishops are dedifated to a built-CaI'dinal Taofinu'u has 'a Sisters of the Poor was fataH'! or creed, is a Christ-like endeavlasting peace in this country and tremendous capacity for work. stabbed by a! deranged man ii, or," he said. "To open one's HYANNIS, MASS. in southeast Asia.

He is on the move from dawn the main street of Apia. In the home to the homeless is a corTEL. 775-0081 "The hoped-for return of peace WI dusk among his people and, tragic hours that followed, the poral work of mercy." cardinal prayed with his people, places high on our national a'gen- at every opportunity, he is off da the efforts required to achieve to the 3,000 'acres of. jungle calmed those of them who reconstruction and reconciliation covered hillside behind Apia that wanted vengeance on the man in our own country and in South- ' he has been clearing as a devel- concerned.

Samoa has *bout 40,000 Catheast Asia," Father James S. opment project to sho~ his peoRa'usch said in a lettter to all ple what call be done with their olics, served by ahout 40 priests the bulk of I them Society of congressmen. land.

Enclosed with the letter was . "When I was there the bulk of Mary Fathers., His chancellor is a copy of the bishops' resolution this land had been cleared, and -an American, Father E.C. Jepon "The Imperatives of Peace," workers on it told me how the son, S.M., frortt West Virginia.

When Savin拢ls and Dividends left on deposit In 1970 Pope Paul stopped off adopted at their general meeting cardinal himself had engaged in 2 and ~l y'r. Term Deposit Certificate 6% in Apia on hi~ way to Sydney, here last November. hard physicalI la'bor. There were Now Yields 6.27% Also enclosed was a statement -,two reasons for this. One, and I , to 2 yr. Term Deposit Certificate 5%% issued Jan. 24 by Cardinal John the lesser, is that he dislikes Now Yields 6.00% Krol of Philadelphia, president pomp and ceremony and enjoys 5~% 90-day Notice of the NCCB and the United getting away from it all. The Now Yields 5.73% States Gatholic Conference, fol- other, and more important, is 5~% Regular SOlvi!'!9S lowing' the announcement of the that it was his way of stressing , J. 'lESER, Prop. , , Now Yields 5.47% Vietnam cea.sefire. Both the bish- the dignity of labor and of show, RESIDENTIAL I ' Compounded C,:mtinuously and payab~e monthly ops' resolution and Cardinal jng his people the importance he : INDUSTRIAL : Bank by mail - it costs you nothing Krol's statement stress the need attaches to it. : " COMMERCIAL: for.. action to bind up the wounds He was well aware that it , 253 Cedar St;, New Bedford' of war in the United States and would be some' time before the , 993-3222 , , 307 MAIN sr.. SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS. 02664 in Southeast Asia. fruits of wha,t he was doing on

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School Officials Ask Priority For N'eedy WASHNGTON (NC) - Economically and educationally disadvantaged children should have first priority in federal aid to education, said Dr. Edward R. D'Alessio, director' of the elementary and secondary education division of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC).

In testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee.

D'Alessio urged an extension of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

He and other Catholic school representat:ives 'also asked for modifications in the administration of the program in order to insure that nonpublic school children would .participate in ESEA aid effectively and equitably.

The USCC official said that such participation was the clearly expressed intent of Congress when it first enacted the program.

D'Alessio was accompanied by a number of Catholic officials including several administrators who test:ified to both the successes and difficulties they have experienced in trying to facil·itate nonpublic school participation in ESEA programs at the state and local levels.

1wo Cathedrals to be Represented .'

In Parade Reviewing Stand NEW YORK (NC) - When the St. Patrick's day parade marches along Fifth Avenue here ranking' clergy from two St. Patrick's Cathedrals will be in the reviewing stand to watch its progress.

Cardinal Terence Cooke of St. Patrick's, New York will be joined by Dean V.G. Griffin of St. Patrick;s Anglican Cathedral of Dublin for the March 17 event.

The gesture is more than one of simple ecumenical friendship at a time when Irishmen, Catholic and Protestant, are killing each other in civil strife.

Cardinal Cooke, Msgr. James F. Rigney, the cathedral administrator here and Dean Griffin are all active ecumenists.

Dean Griffin believes St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin is really a national cathedral which should be shared by all Christian faiths as a "visible witness to our unity and brotherhood in Christ."

THE ANCHORThurs., Mar. 15, 1973

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F'orm Coalition On Investments CHICAGO (NC) -:- A coalition of 10 Catholic organizations has decided to conduct a series of "traveling symposiums" across the country on the ",theology of Church investments."

The group, called the National Catholic Coalition for Responsible Investment, said it would hold symposiums "in any area principally for those charged with the responsibiLity of Church investment," including "bishops, major superiors, chancellors, treasurers, advisory councils, investment hrokers, bankers."

The first symposium will be in Alverno College, Milwaukee, on April 9 and 10. The Corporate Information Center, a unit of the National Council of Churches, wiH run the meeting.

"First, we shall present some background," said Father Dale Olen, the direotor of the Capuchin Office of World Justice, one of the sponsoring groups.

"Then we hope to break up into small groups, where alternatives may be offered to present investment policy. No one is going to say: "This is what you will have to do.' Hopefully, the organization or institution with stock investments will be able - to look into their portfolios and establish policy on how to invest."

Father Olen made his comments in Priests-USA, the newspaper of the National Federation of Priests Councils. The NFPC is another sponsor of the symposiums, along with the Leadership Gonference .of Women Religious, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the National Association of the Laity, the National Assembly of Women Religious, Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry, the Task Force on Corporate Review, the Corporate Information Center and the National . Catholic Conference on Interracial Justice.

Famous Edifice Although Angelicans form only five per cent of the religious community in the Irish Republic, their cathedral-where Jonathan Swift was once dean-is a famous edifice. Dublin's Catholic community has a pro-cathedral.

Both St. Patrick's, New York, DEAN V. G. GRIFFIN· and St. Patrick's, Dublin, are More Funding being restored, but can hardly Noting that nearly half a mil-' lion students are enrolled in compare in age. The cathedral his horses there-and the Lady meeting place and, indeed, has CathoHc schools in inner city here is engaged in raising $700,- Chapel was used by the French within its walls, the ethos of areas where concentrat·ions of 000 to $800,000 to pay for in- Huguenots for worship from both the Celtic and Anglo-Irish traditions." the educationally disadvantaged terior renovations for its cen· 1666 to 1816. tennial in 1979.

Tradition, Ecumenlsm are found, D'Alessio told the The Dublin edifice, built on Diocese Protests committee that Catholic leaders Dean Griffin is visiting the swampy land and an underhave expressed a. commitment to States March 9 through 23 to Aid Moratorium continue and even expand the ground river called the Poddle, help raise approximately $625,CAMDEN (NC)-The Camden is believed to be the site where service to nonpublic students 000 for the St. Patrick's Cathe- diocese has protested the U. S. St. Patrick baptized converts to that these schools provide. dral Restoration Fund in Dublin. government's action in placing a "We feel deeply the necessity the Christian faith. A church has Contributions so far have in- "moratorium" on new commitstood there since the 5th centl\ry, for more adequate funding for cluded some $2,500 from the ments of federal housing funds and a cathedral since 1213.

The the Elementary and Secondary Gaelic Athletic Association, for low and moderate income Education Act, particularly for edifice has been a fortress, a whose Catholic membership sup- families. those titles directed toward the . prison, a court of law and a uni- ported the Anglican cathedral to Terming the Nixon Administraeducationally disadvantaged," he versity. Oliver Cromwell stabled keep alive both the Irish tradi- tion's action "the greatest execusa·id. tion and ecumenism. tive blow to hit housing in AmerAt the same time, he noted Dean Griffin is a member of ican history," a statement of the there 'are still serious problems Names President the Irish Joint Protestant-Roman diocesan Commission on Social in the effective participation of Cathol·i,c Committee, whose aim Justice called for an "immediate LORETTO (NC)---'Father Sean nonpublic school children in MELBORNE (NC) Three is "to investigate how coopera- halt" of the moratorium so that M. Sullivan has been named nearly all ESEA programs. thousand persons attended the tion in social projects and edu- the people who are living in sub- president of Saint Francis ColD'Alessio said Title I of the cation can be furthered." standard housing or housing they lege of Pennsylvania, it was anESEA program, aimed at cor- ordination of three bishops in In a brochure about the fund can no longer aHord will not lose nounced by the college's board St. Patrick~s Cathedral here while recting educational disadvanhundreds more watched the cere- drive, he wrote that St. Patrick's hope for 'better and more eco- of trustees. Father Sullivan betages, has been of great valul Dublin, "has an important part nomical housing. gan serving as acting president to some children in nonpublic mony on closed-circuit television to play in promoting mutual un·' Formed in June 1972 by Bish- when he came to the college last outside. schools. But, he continued, CathOrdained as auxiliaries to Car- derstanding and reconcili;ltion op George H. Guilfoyle to "pro- December. He was director of olic school youngsters in many mote human dignity," the 30- interdisciplinary studies at the dinal-designate James Knox of between all Irishmen. parts of the country have not "It shoUild be a national cathemember commission is made up College of Steubenville, Ohio, bebeen permitted to participate in Melbourne were Bishops John A. dral," he said, because "it is ,the of priests, Sisters and laity. fore coming here.

Kelly, Eric G. Perkins and ThomTitle I programs despite their as F. Little. eligibility.

The principal consecrator at the ordination, one of the events Protect your home while awa'y !

Students Campaign - of the 40th International Euchar· istic Congress, was Cardinal desAgainst Abortio~ ignate Knox, with all 40 AustraINDIANAPOLIS (NC) - Indi- lian bishops as coconsecrators. ana college students have started The three new bishops received a statewide organization to sup- rounds of applause when they port a consNtutional amendment entered the cathedral and when protecting the rights of the un- they left. born. .

Many of the cardinals and the Mark Souder, a University of bishops attending the Eucharistic Notre Dame graduate student, Congress attended the bishops' said the Student Coalition for ordination, including Cardinal the Human Life Amendment will John Cody of Chicago and Amerhave chapters at Notre Dame, ican Cardinal John Wright, prePurdue University, Lafayette; fect of the Vatican Congregation • . Turns lights on and off automatically and Indiana University campuses for the Clergy. at Indianapolis, Bloomington and At a luncheon after the cere• Discourages burglary and vandalism Fort Wayne. mony Cardinal Lawrence Shehan Souder said that while other of Baltimore, Pope Paul's legate, pro-life organizations are aimed or personal representative, to the pr·imarily at adults, the newly- congress, greeted the new bisformed group will center on a hops and the Protestant church student protest against abortion. leaders who attended.

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Not 'Why Abort'ion?' But 'Why Not Children l' "Mom, what'~ abortion?" .

Children have a way of getting to the nub of a question. An hour after asking. the above this child asked the key one, "Why' don't grownups want children anymore?" .

It's a slant we've managed chism and later in Humanae to overlook in the' whole' Vitae, are ignoring both to limit abortion picture. Why aren't their families, let's research why. we focusing' on that ques- Let's stop telling them why they tion? And dealing with the answers we might get? To ..attribute abortion to selfishness alone is facile. Selfishness is

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aren't h.aving children and start asking them.

I suggest we might find a variety of reasons ,either ,than selfishness or selflessness. We might discover that parents don't need children today as they did in an earlier day, i.e. for old age security or for carrying on the family farm (selfish reasons, perhaps?).

We might discover that parents have been so universalIy blamed for society~s ills that they themselves feel incompetent in rearing children who will be a positive force in the world.

If they don't risk rearing a failure, they can't be blamed for adding to the world's problems.

dished up as a universal motive for a, number .of today's controversial subjects: euthanasia, pacifism, birth control, failing voca,tions, women's, movements, etc.

Some Voids?

Selfishness is an easy motive We might discover that parto attribute because it is judgmental. Anyone can judge an- families weren't what we preother's motives. It's more diffi- tended they were. Statistics hint that children from big families cult to discover them. don't have big families. Why Similarly, selfishness in the form of population control, is not? Perhaps some of today's too easy an answer. I don't buy parents are limiting their fameither as the major reason why ilies precisely because they came young couples are choosing to from big families and felt some voids. have few or no children.

We might discover that parW& Catholics haven't faced the problem at alI. We've spent ents can't enjoy tlleir children our energies fighting abortion because while society has given rather than giving parents the children a new freedom, it has confidence to want and to rear retained for parents the old man. children today. We've pretended date qf rearing obedient, respon. that abortion is our greatest en- sive, religious and patriotic emy, that if we kill abortion we children. This puts the burden wJ1l once again view procrea- on parents of offsetting cultural tion as the primary purpose of influences on their children ... marriage and idealize the large an impossible responsibility.

Catholic family.

Since parents haven't heard Yet Catholic maternity wards that it's impossible, they keep continue to close. The Catholic , trying and failing, treadmill of birth rate has <Iropped dramat- frustration that keeps them from icalIy and alI surveys indicate enjoying a natural· intimacy. that Catholics are usng contra- with their children. ception as widely as 0'00'It mystifies me why we don't Catholics, What happerie:l? take one or two of our antiabortion ,committees and devote Start Asking them to pro-child committees.

These Catholic parents were Instead of always stressing the reared with a no-nonsense doc- horrors of abortion, let's start trine forbidding contrac:eption. pointing out the 'real joys of livThey learned the solid catechism ing with children. answers and they understood If there aren't any, as some where they would go after death will claim, then let's start workif they defied Church teachings. ing on the subject from that Still, they're defying them and angle. Why aren't people enjoyremaining, in conscience, Cathing children? Why do married olic. Are they selfish? Stupid? couples dread' parenthood? Why WC!rldly? are children considered someIn 'our Catholic adults, edu- thing to E,ndure until they grow cated early in Baltimore Cate- up? Why dOI!"t parents accept children for what th~y are?

And that includes alI people, not just parents.

FROSTBURG (NC)-Mary C. Kanane, national regent of the Capsule Review: Catching up .Catholic Daughters of America, on Catechetics by Albert J. has- announced she has named Shamon; Quoting from the back Madeline O'Connor of Frostburg, cover, "Today's parents are Md. as national director of the c1l1mor'ing to know what's going Junior Catholic Daughters of on in the religious classroom.

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AT, WHITE HOUSE WORSHIP SERVICE: Msgr. John Kuhn of St. Matthew'~ Cathedral talks with President and Mrs. Nixon Sunday after the priest gave the prayer, sermon and benediction at a worship service in the White House. Msgr. Kuhn told the 250 persons in attendance: "Now is your task . . . . to inspire those social stru~tures, to create those national institutions and to encourage and regulate that public way of life which will sustain a truly human culture, a culture open to the diVine. NC Photo.

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Urges N1ixon to IPlrotect the Poor' WASHINGTON (NC) - '''Your task can be summarized as this: the protection of the poor," a priest told President and Mrs. . Richard M. Nixon and about 250 guests at an ecumenical wor· ship service in the White House.

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Msgr. Kuhn took his theme gressmcn and members of the . press, was Msgr. John 9. Kuhn, from the Old Testament ,text repastor of St. Matthew's Cathe- lating God's convenant with credral, Washington. He empha- ation after the great flood. He sized that by "the poor~' he said the free gift of life by God meant "not only those who lack gives a dignity to creation and offers a challenge to man, esmaterial needs, but those who pecially to the nation's leaders. are spiritualIy poor."

Challenge "Your challenge is this: to cre· ate and support the social conditions which honor and reflect this convenant, this treaty, this the explicit decla:rtion of pon- order between God and his cretifical impartiality toward the ation," he said.

North Vietnamese and of his deHe stressed that there is a sire to contribute, without ary common 'religious dimensi~n in political goal, assistance and aid man that is an essential part of in the hope that every difficulty human dignity.

"The defense of this common and diffidence might be overreligious dimension as an elecome.'

"The VietnamesE: did not con- ment that makes true human excentrate greatly on the points of istence is. one of the most urthe memorandum (which did not gent challenges to our modern contain a clear condemnation of sotiety, perhaps the most urgent, wounded as it is by a crippling aggression) as much as they did and realIy deadly secularism," on the constructive palrt, that is, Msgr. Kuhn said. the part which indicated a formula for peace to be based on honor and on the inseparability of the 'Vietnamese nation'."

LONDON (NC) Ca'tliolic Pope's Peace Efforts Church authorities in England Paese Sera also reported the have sold some 22,500 shares in well-known offer of Pope Paul South AfriCan gold mines be• to house the peace talks in the cause of anti-black racism in the Lateran Palace ,or in other Vati- industry, it was reported here. can buildings. The peace talks, This move by Catholic authorihowever, were held eventually ties was mentioned at the Genin Paris. eral Synod of the Church of EnPaese Sera commented that gland during a row over the Anthe offer was not ac.cepted by glican Church retaining 70,000 the Communists because of shares in the South African comItaly's ties with the United pany, Consolidated Gold Fields.

States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (:~ATO).

This attempt to contribute to a peaceful solution by direct contact with North Viet~amese Aluminum or Steel leaders is the most recent pub944 County Street lic report of Pope Paul's peace NEW BEDFORD, MASS. efforts.

9q~·6618 Throughout the long war years, Pope Paul repeatedly used every avenue of contact available to him to attempt to persuade l€aders on both sides to resolve their difficulties by negotiation instead of war.

Vatican Used Italian Comlmunists To C~mmunacclte With Hanloi VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican used the Italian Communist party leadership in late 1966 to communicate with North Vietnam in one of Pope Paul's . attempts to bring about a peaceful settlement of the war.

A secret peace overture of Pope Paul Was revealed Feb. 20 by th€ ROljOe leftist newspaper Paese Sera. It reported that Ital· ian Communist party leader Enrico Berlinguer carried a peace memorandum drafted by POPEl Paul to Hanoi in December 1966 and deliV'Cl"ed it to North V.iet· namese President Ho Chi Minh.

Berlinguer at the time headed an Italian Communist party mission to North Vietnam; .

Vatican Pfess spokesman Frederico Alessandrini later confirmed the' report, saying that "with the intent of reaching all parties invol~ed, according to the wish of. the Holy Father, the Holy See used every means it could to init'iate the desir€d contacts."

Pope's Desire Paese Ser~ said the memon.ndum, in French, "was delivered to the (Italian) Communist delegation in a discreet, but not hidden, manner on the eve of the delegation's ideparture. It was a sign of the ~ope's desire to contribute to the construction of an honorabl¢ peace capable of guaranteeing order and prospE'rity to the populations of both zones of Vi~tnam, according to a spirit of justice anc~ concord."

The Rome newspaper reported: "The memorandum contained r

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Better Acknowledge 'Crime Than Pretend It Isn't

Pubiicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit n(!ws items for this column to The Anct,or, P. O. Box 7, Fall Rive·r 02722. Name 'If city or town should be included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please sen,j news of future rather than past events.

By Joe and Marilyn Roderick One of the most revealing and pleasing aspects of our trip to Paris was the complete safety on the streets that people enjoy in most European cities. Two years ago when we visited Portugal we experienced the same feeling of safety whether during the or any of the other state schools day or at night. ' for the retarded, is .located. But I am not an alarmist, nor the recent survey on one of thc do I concern myself with my TV stations indicates the terrible own personal safety, but it's another matter where my wife or children are involved. I admit now that we were rather silent about the fact tha,t we were leaving the country for fear that our house would be broken into or our children hurt.in our absence.

Since our return we have had incidents two' neighborhood which were rather frightening.

Last Sunday Melissa came home quite disturbed that she had been asked to leave the drug store rather brusquely by the pharmacist. As it turned out, he was in the process of being held up at gun point and had sent the children out of the gtore in order to protect them.

On Monday, a day'lafer, our corneJ;' variety store was held up, again by a gunman. This store is three doors away from our home and is one which we often patronize. The time of the ho'ldup was 4:45 in the afternoon, a time when the store is chockfull of children.

Police Needed There are no e!lsy answers to our problems, but there are some easily perceived differences between our system and those of European countries. Fil'st of all, in both countr,ies we visited, police were highly visible.' In Paris, they were on the streets at every turn. I have never seen so many policemen. Their very presence is certainly enough to deter crime. In this country, or at ,least in my area, police no longer walk the beat and are no longer visible. Their presence' is missed.

A second major factor lies in the attitudes of officials. Here we pretend that there ,is no problem and quote statistics to prove that in fact, crime is disappearing. In Europe every effort is made to recognize the extent of the problem and to face up to it. It is much Hke the treatment afforded an alcoholic; it cannot , be begun until the alcoholic admits to himself that he has a problem.

In the Kitchen Now that the Lenten season has begun, what better time to turn inward and examine our lives? Are we concerned- with our fellowman or do we \ only care about those things that affect us directly, are we so materialistic and pleasure-oriented that the sorrows of others only touch us when we come into personal contact with them and even then are quickly forgotten.

I received a very poignant letter from R. Cobb in Barnstable that could give each one of us a message this Lent. It read. as follows.

"Dear Marilyn Roderick: '~I don't, know whether the Fall River dioceseencompases the J area in which Belchertown,

need of the residents, by which the lack of staff members can be augmented by volunteers.

"Won't you, in· your column, suggest that private schools, public schools, CYO's and CCD pupils can perform a most Christian act of love by visiting, "rapping," playing with· the children in these institutions? " 'Whatsoever you do for the least of mine' ...

"It ,is conviJ1cLngly proven that person-to-person attention is the most successful therapy."

NAMED: Rev. Msgr. Raymond.W. Lessard, 42, of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops, fprmerly of the Diocese of Fargo, N.D., has been named new bishop of Savannah, Ga,. NC Photo.'

ST. PATRICK, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold its annual· public Guildola at 8 Monday night, March 19 in the school auditorium. Mrs.· Robert Regan, chairman, announces that those wiShing to donate gifts or help in any other way may contact her or any guild officer or board member.

Gifts. may be brought to the school the night of the ,event.

'Tickets will be available, at the door and winners need not be. present to receive their prizes.

Refreshments will be served.

ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD A St. Patrick's Day whist party is slated for 8 P.M. Saturday, March 17 by members of the .Women's Guild. To take place in the school basement on the corner of Ashley Boule':,ard and Earle Street, the event w,iJI feature prizes and refreshments: In charge of arrangements are Hilda Babiarz and Nora Richard.

ST. CASIMIR, NEW BEDFORD The Couples Club will sponsor a whist party at 8 Saturday night, March 24 in the parish hall, 2056 Acushnet Ave. ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY SS. Margaret-Mary Guild has installed as officers for the coming year Faith Finnerty, president; Mary Welch, vice·pres~­ dent; Marilyn Lakin and Grace Murray, secretaries.

The guild will sponsor a luncheon Thursday, April 5 at the parish center. Tickets are available from all members.

A bag auction will take place at the next regular meeting, set for Wednesday, April 4 at the center.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS The Women's Guild will meet at 7:30 tonight in the parish center. The program will begin PAMPLoNA (NC) - Nineteen with a Mass and the following priests in this Basque diocese meeting wi'll feature a candlewere called by police to explain making demonstration by Mrs. Reach Out a Sunday sermon asking for the John Eiler. Guild members from Each one of us can take the end of special courts for "polit- Barnstable will provide refreshmessage that this letter conveys ical cri~es" and the release of ments. and translate it into our own political ! prisoners.

A penny sale will take place Under 'a Vatican-Spain ,-ccord at 7:30 tomorrow night in the ST. JOSEPH, personal way of helping the "least" of His 'children. Iwn- the priests can be brought to center, willi members requested ATTLEBORO the special' courts to bring donations to tonight's ically, the rewards from reach- trial bef~re Knights of the Altar will meet I ing out a hand are generally only if authorities obtain permis- meeting. New clothing and at 7 tonight in the school.

Jose Men· ,canned and bottled goods are greater than we could ever imag- sion fromI Archbishop Lenten talks will be given at' ine. This Lent, perhaps each dez Asen,sio. needed. Mrs. Yvette Gregoire, 7:30 P.M. for the next two WedIn a I joint sermon the, chairman, heads a large commit- nesdays in the parish hall by one' of us could reach out to touch at 'least one other life and priests said that while the tee and may be called for penny Rev. Ronald A: Tosti, diocesan bring a little hope into it. Who- recent kidnaping of an industrial- sale information.

CCD director. ever R. Cobb is~he or· she has ist wasc9ndemned by many, "no Lectors will meet at 7:15 P.M. A guild Commun:ion breakfast one spoke of the violence of opa message worth listening to. is slated to follow 9 o'clock Sunday, March 18 in the. school. pression against the people ...

This , dessert was Mass Sunday morning, April 1. .High School CCD students will , -featured on the cover of a leatling food mag- who cann'ot protest for they la.ck The meal will talce place· at East meet at La Salette retreat house azine and just looking at the representation and 'the free chan- Bay Lodge, Ostervme, and reser- at 7 P.M. Sunday for a discuspicture was enough of an inspi- nels to voice their feelings." vations may be made with Mrs. sion of the sacrament of penThe sertnon also voiced the ration to send me to the food Peggy Charpentier, chairman, or ance.

Parish Girl Scouts will attend store for the ingredients 'and hope "th?t soon oppression of members of her committee. back to the kitchen to whip up the wea,k will cease, the people ' A nominating ,~ommittee is in 6:30 P.M. Mass Saturday with this very elegant creation. Easy will be able to freely join their process of choosing a slate of ,:. their parents, then attend a to make, but truly rich and ex- own assqciations, to use free candida,tes for guild offices for party in the parish hall. speech and to work for the liberpensive-a party dessert. the 1973-74 season.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL ation of the working man."

Chocolate Coronet HELP, NEW BEDFORD The sermon was criticized by HOLY NAME, 18 lady fingers split (tvyo the Priests' Association of St. FALL 'RIVER Members of the Women's Guild Francis Xavier, a conservative packages) A rummage sale will be heM will receive corporate Comn'lucalled it "entirely at ·the parish school from 4 to onion at 8:30 Mass Sunday ,mornlf2 cup medium ·dry sherry or group, which I out of the bounds of the G:>spel 6 P.M.. Friday, March 23. Mrs. ing, March 18, previously me~t­ orange juice 1 pound of softened cream and the teaching authority of the James Charette may be con-' ing in the church hall.

Church." The association, re- tacted to have donations picked The unit is sponsoring a meat cheese portedly having some 500 priest up.

3~ cup granulated sugar pie supper at 6 P.M. Saturday, members 'in Navarra province, liz teaspoon salt Parish Girl Scouts request March 24 in the hall. A card asked ar~hdiocesan authorities 2 teaspoons vanilla extract volunteers to aid today in prep- party will follow at 7:30 P.M. for a clarification "to ~lear 3 eggs, separat~d Members and guest~ will aration of ,refreshments for a 3 packages (4 ounces each) up the' cdnfusion sown by the square dance to be held tomortravel to Providence Wednesday, sweet cooking chocolate, melted sermon." , March 28 for a program of parThe daily Navarra Thought said row night. Those interested may ticular Polish interest to be preand cooled. the sermon was an example "of contact the troop leaders.

2 cups heavy whipping cream, sented 'at Veterans Memorllil the kind of preaching that makes ST. ANNE, whipped ' Auditorium. lf2 cup semisweet chocol'ate a direct ckll for violence ... for NEW BEDFORD Turn to Page Fifteen political e~ds." pieces melted and cooled A combination calke sale and coconut ham and bean supper will take confectioners' sugar ATTLEBORO'S place from 5 to 8 P.M. Saturday, Seek School Aid 1) Arrange the ladyfingers, Leading Garden Center March 17 in the sehool hall. ProANNAPOLIS (NC)-Religious rounded side up, close together ceeds wiH benefit the school. A on ba,king sheet. Sprinkle with organizations led by the arch- limited numb,er of tickets will diocese of I Baltimore have asked sherry llsing a spoon. Arrange be available a,t "the door. around outside rim. of 9 inch the Maryland General Assembly South Main & Wall Sts. springform pan. Put remaining for $10 to $18 million in aid to ST. STANISLAUS, ladyfingers on the bottom of the nonpublic $chools that would in- FALL RIVER clude textpooks, auxiliary ser, pan.

Open to all is the annual Lenvices and' transportation pro~ ten adult education course, be222-0234 2) Combine the cream cheese, I sugar, salt and vaniHa, beat un- grams. ing held at 7:45 evelry Wednestil well 'blended and smooth. day night in the sehool ha'll: The Add the egg yolks and beat until 1973 topic is "Questions CathI smooth.

6) Remqve rim, with back of olic Christians Most Frequently 3) Blend -in the semi sweet spoon ma'ke slight indentations Ask." chocolate. on top. ' A, jubi'lee penny sale will be _ 4) Beat egg whites until stiff 7) Add i4 Tablespoons warm held in the haM at 7:30 P.M. Cleansers • •• and fold· in with the whipp~d water to ,semisweet chocolate Saturday, April '7, with Mrs. ,'cream into the chocolate mix-- and stir uiltil smooth. Pour on Helena Boyko as chairman.

94 TREMONT STREET lure. top of. cake and springle with Tickets are available from comTAUNTON, MASS. 5) Pour or spoon into spring- coconut. Btush ladyfingers with mittee members an.d will be sold Tel. 822-0621 form pan and chill until firm. confectioners' sugar. at the door.

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tian funds in this country made a considerable contribution to education at every level. The question is, could they do more

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to make race relations less hateridden and full of fear?

One answer could lie in a basic rethinking of the teaching of black history and blac:k culture so that every child, every student, black or white. knows the reason and the reality of America's profound involvement in the racial issue. Unless the agony of the slave trade, the heroism of pure survival in black servitude, the depths of oppression of black by white (which lasts to our own day) are understood, no white cit,izen can grasp the miracle, generation after generation, of black patience and fortitude. Nor can he grasp the present drives behind the search for black dignity and identity.

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in a dark cave while the crowd of white Americans stream by outside. ' They look as though they can see and hear. So the black citizens speak up and try to explain that to the core of their "entombed souls," they are inhibited in "their natural movement, expression and development." Yet if these gifts of theirs could be released, they would enrich not only themselves but the whole of society.

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Nobody I,istens. The white crowds surge on. Then the wounding truth begins to come clear. "It gradually penetrates the minds of the prisoners that the people passing do nqt heat; that some thin sheet of invisible plate glass is between them and the world."

So the black citizens speak louder. They shout, they gesticulate. But their' gestures look comic. The white crowd stares briefly and goes on passing by.

Finally, as Dr. Du Bois wrote decades ago, in a tragically prophetic sentence, the black citizens "may even, here and there, break through in blood and disfigurement and find themselves faced by a horrified, implacable and ,quite overwhelming mob frightened for their own very existence."

This is the bleak confrontation, the non-dialogue of the deaf, which new forms of Christian education have to overcome.

It could perhaps be a particular responsibility of parochial scools and Catholic high schools and colleges. After all, the Christian faith is deeply rooted in a sense of history. Many of the national communities - Irish, Italians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians-who often make up the immediate neighbors of black communities, have been nourished and strength ened by their own historical memories - the tragic exodus after the Irish famine, the long struggle to preserve a Polish identity between giant imperial neighbors, the ardors and hopes of Italian reunification.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, CENTRAL VILLAGE The Ladies' Guild will sponsor A parish committee will spona scholarship whist party at 2 sor a dinner dance from 7 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. Saturday, April Sunday afternoon, March 18 in 7 in the school auditorium. A the parish hall. Refreshments wiIl be served and the public is roast beef meal will be served and music will be by the Art welcome.

Perry band. Tickets are available ST. MICHAEL, from committee members and FALL RIVER The Home and School Assofrom Mr. and Mrs. Edward Michciation is planning a Spring no, chairmen.

The committee also plans a fashion show and dinner at 6:30 Las Vegas night in the auditori- P.M. Wednesday, March 28 at um at 7 P.M. Saturday, March Venus de Milo restaurant, Swan24. The public is invited Im1. sea. Three grand prizes and further information is available many door prizes will be awardfrom Ernest Lavoie, chairman. ed.

Gerald Cloutier, association Pack 50 Cub Scouts will hold a pack meeting at 7:30 tomor- president, is general chairman of the event, aided by a large row night in the school cafeteria.

Cubs and their families will meet committee. Tickets are available in the schoolyard at 1 Sunday from committee members and at afternoon for 'a trip to Touro the school.

Synagogue and the Old Colony, ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Statehouse, Newport.

A "Sew-Your-Own" fashion The parish committee will meet at 7:30 Monday night, show featuring models wear,ing March 19 in the ,school activity their own creations will take room, at which time Red Chair place at 8 Friday night, March Club captains should pick up 23 in the parochial school ,hall.

Mrs. James Steadman is chairmaterials for the next club. , Boy Scout Troop 50 will hold man.

Rehearsals for the 12th annual a court of honor at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, March 20- in the school. parish musical entitled "The Some tickets are still available Fabulous Yeal's" are now being for a bus trip to New York conducted under the direction of planned for Saturday, March 31. Mrs. Ralph Souza, Mrs. NapoDepal"ture will be from the school leon Bussiere and Mrs. David at 6 A.M. Further information ' Buokley, Warren E. Johnson, ticket is available from Maurice Franchairman, has announced that coeur, chairman.

Cadette Girl Scout Troop 1147 tickets for the show scheduled will hold a cake sale after all for Friday through Sunday, April Masses Saturday, March 31 and 27-29 in the Dartmouth High School Auditorium are now Sunday, April 1. available. There will be special ST. THOMAS MORE, tickets for children.

SOMERSET Bingo is played every WednesMrs. Josephine Correia has day evening in the school hall, been named chairman of the with an Early Bird game beginnominating committee for the ning at 7 o'clock.

During Lent daily Mass will be slate of officers to serve during celebrated at ,5 P.M. and 7 P.M. 1973-74.

Mrs. Mary Heroux, chairman, ST. JOSEPH, has announced that the annual NEW BEDFORD hanquet will take place on May An interfaith concert will be 10. Final plans for the affair will presented in the church at 8 be reported at the April meeting. o'clock on Sunday evening, March 18.

ST. PIUS X, The United Presbyterian SO. YARMOUTH' Church Choir of Newton will The monthly meeting of the join the choirs of the parish in Women's Guild scheduled for presenting the concert.

7:30 on Tuesday evening, March SANTO CHRISTO, 20 will feature a "Silent Auc- FALL RIVER tion."

A malasada supper originally Mrs. Ambrose Gagnon will announced for 6:30 P.M. Saturhead a large refreshment com- day, March 17 will be served mittee for the meeting. â&#x20AC;˘ from 5 to 7 P.M. on that date

by Members of the Coundl of OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, Catholic Women. A penny sale NEW BEDFORD will follow the supper.

Boy Scouts of Troop 11 will ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, sponsor a ham and bean supper NEW BEDFORD from 5:30 to 7:30 on Saturday A whist party will be held in night, April 7 in the school base- the church hall at the corner of ment. Tickets are 99c and may Mill and Newton Streets at 8 be obtained from the scouts or P.M. Friday night, March 23, at the door on the night of the under chairmanship of Mrs. supper.

Bertha Bessette.

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Recently in this column we looked at some of the, direct, personal things which Christian neighbors and unofficial bodies and institutions might do to create a more human fellowship between black and white citizens. One of the areas in which immedi' ate progress could be made in which he describes the plight is in the curriculum of of his people as that of standing schools and colleges. Chris-

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TO PLAY: Brian Medas, classical guitarist, will be heard in concert at 8 Tuesday night, March 20 at Salve Regina College, Newport. A student at North Carolina School of Performing Arts, he has studied guitar since the age of 10. A graduate of Bishop Feehan High School, ' Attleboro, he is a resident of North Attleboro. His program will include music from the Renaissance to contemporary times.

Law School to Vote On Bargaining' Unit WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has called for a vote by faculty members of the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law to determine whether they want the'Law Faculty Bargaining Committee to represent them in employeremployee negotiations.

If the law school faculty decides to be represented by the committee, it will be the first time in the university's history tha,t any of its facul,ty members will have a collective barga'ining agent, said Xaverian Brother Columban Conway, executive assistant to CU president Clarence Walton.

Unless the patterns of African culture are studied-its communal roots, its viv,id music and dance, its profoundly spiritual awareness of reality-the danger is that white men will continue to look on black men simply as blanks and ciphers.

The great Belgian scholar, Father Tempels, needed a lifetime of research and 11 volumes of analysis to describe the religious philosophy underlying Bantu culture. He found it to be one in which great subtlety was combined with enormous zest and respect for life. Yet how many whites grow up to think of their Dr. C. Joseph Nuesse, execublack neighbors - when they tive vice president and provost think of them at all-as simply at CU, said the university has going, at one or two removes, 'Common Humanlity filed a motion for reconsiderafrom primitive animism to a modern miscellany of undesirable But to this sense of history ti6n challenging the NLRB's decults? could be ended, in well-designed cision.

How many ask whether a so- , teaching, comparable epics of the "Collective bargaining on the ciety like ours, dominated by Afro-American past - the fight labor-management model that is technology and' the cult of per- against enslavement, the struggle assumed by the NLRB appears sonal success and high consump- to end colonialism, the search for to be radically inconsistent with tion, might not be vastly en- cultural self-affirmation. the collegial model of university riched by Africa's traditions and Nor is this parallel experience governance in which authority culture which emphasize in man of whites and blacks simply a and respons,ibility are widely his creativeness and his vital en- matter of history. The effort to , shared with members of the facergy and which put his life- establish what dS called "black , ulty and, to a more limited exenhancing gifts far ahead of the power" is not all that different tent, students," he said. goal of sheer physical accumu- from, say, the consolidation of lation, the piling up of artifacts Tammany in New York or the and consumer goods? rise of the Boston Irish. The But little of this is known. The point is to underline the common If Christians do not take a lead wall of Jgnorance, ,behind which humanity of all America's plural in this kind of education for all, citizens, white and black, groups, to use all- the resources understanding, who will? After have 'been raised, cuts off the of education to break through all, they worship a God who is vital interchange of knowledge, the "plate glass" divisions, to es- strictly color blind. He has only understanding and human sym- tablish the black citizen as a one criterion of neighborlinesspathy. Years ago, one of Amer- child of God with a past history, love and respect-and only one ica's great Negro scholars, a present culture, and a future yardstick for damnation - fear W.E.B. Du Bois, wrote a book hope of responsible power. ' and hate.

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God/s Word Became Flesh God's truth is forever. His mind does not waver or change.

We may understand a little here, a little there, about this or that.

God understands everything about everything. He alw~ytS has and he always will.

God knows all there is, and it all exists because he knows it.

The little truth we arrive at with so much labor is possible because ultimately the world makes sense. But ultimately the world m,akes sense because H is made according to the measure of God's truth, and God's truth abides. . This truth, that is the measure of everything else, is God. Things are what they are because God is what he is. Nothing exists except as God knows it . and has fashioned it according to the measure of his own perfect knowledge and wisdom.

His knowledge and truth and wisdom are his very life. He shares that life with us in dif路 ferent ways.

Light of God He puts into each of us a deep desire to know and understand.

Our hunger for truth is a hunger for the full life that is his own.

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on, see the light, understand something which was .at first a puzzle. That pleasure is a tiny spark of God's full life and light.

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"Credibility gap" is a rather recent phrase describing a very ancient phenomenon. The credibilty gap is 'simply the gap that is often experienced between wha't people say and what they really think, between their words and their actual intentions. Perhaps we experience this gap more acutely because

we are so. flooded with dubious words on I TV and radio, in magazines and newspapers. So much of what' we hear tends not to be believed, I whether it be the

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question$ about everything, dreaming. If we follow where this light within us moves and leads, w~ are on the road to life.

The end ,of that road is, perfect life with IGpd. We mllY disregard that light: within u~, but it n~ver goes out completely. It continues to shine and attract us along the way of life towatd God. In the lon;~ run, light is :always stronger than darkness.' , Prophets Speak Anoth~r way God shares his life with i us is by teaching us.

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two decades might well be the, greatest understatement of the century. ~Many priests in those years .abandoned the breviary,. some began to look upon their work as their prayer, others gave up the formalized meditation. I think it is clear to some observers of the' scene that we are now experiencing among priests young and old a return in modified fashion to the divine office and a great concern about By interior prayer.

Meditation FR. JOSEPH M. In its Dec. 11, 1972 'issue, the CHAMPLIN New York Times carried an article; "Thousands Finding Meditation Eases Stress of Living."

An estima'ted total of 175,000 ran to the chapel for a few min- Americans, according to the utes of morning prayers (in Lat-' Times, have in the last few in) and a half hour of private years taken up the pracHce of "transcendental meditation." The meditation.

This writer spent most of the person leading the others in this latter period on his knees-not method is not a Jesuit skilled in out of any desire to impress the Ignatian Spiritual ExerCises, others or because of purely as- nor a Benedictine monk versed ceHcal motives, but simply from in the divine reading ("lectio the practical necessity of trying divina") of: his founder, nor a parish priest trained in the semto stay awake.

We were taught and expected inary, but an Indian physicistto meditate. Our spiritual direc- turned-Hindu monk 'named Mator helped us every other day harishi Mahesh Yogi.

A 32-year-old Connectkut exor so with points for reflection the night before and occasional exutive follows' the suggested thoughts during, Ithose .sleepy program, awakes at 6:30' A.M., morning moments. It was 'as- props himself upon his bed and sumed, of course, that this train- spends 20 minutes letting his ing prepared us well for Hfe.Iater mind dwell on a meaningless . as a priest and we then would sound known as a "mantra." He faithfully spend time daily 'in repeats the process in the evesome type of personal, private ning before dinner either in his office or home. What has this mental prayer.

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Our seminary day in the early 1950's began at the awful hour of 5:30 A.M. when a horrendous bell blasted it's' "time to get up" sound throughout the corridor and brought most (not all) of the students out of dreamland , into the cold, dark realities of life . We quickly dressed, washed and

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words of *dvertizers, politicians, or official~. , The me'ssage of Eliza's song in "My Fair Lady" expresses a common desire of people' today as in every age: "Words, words, words ... don't tell me, show , me!" Som~how actions not only' speak louder than words but: are usually mhch more convincing.

The 'de~aluaNon of the word in our experience because of the credibility I gap. felt in con':emporary society can make it doubly difficult to appreciate Jesus as the "W;ord of God." On the other ,ha~d the very phrase "credibili~)\ gap" may be a key to our understanding of what is implied when Jesus is spoken of as God'S Word." dedibility Gap Long befpre the twentieth century there has existed an experienced crJdibility gap between man and Ood. Man's experience has always. occasioned doubts, questions and unbelief as well as faith in God. History records voice after Ivoice lamenting with Job that God's words are not believable. : From God's side, as one looks back throu'gh history, one. discovers an :escallating effort on his part tal bridge that gap, to convin~e mankind that he really means wha~he says-that he cares for Jnd \about man with might and tompa3sion-that his word does reflect his intentions, namely to free man from all that limits the fullness of life. , His first ,word to man is creation itself.: "God spoke ... Hnd Turn to Page .Eighteen "

COMMUNICATION FAiLURE: "In one of the Peanuts cartoons, Lucy is shown leaning on the edge of the grand piano while Schroeder is intent on playing Beethoven.

Lucy asks him, several times with repeated intensity; "Do you think I am the most beautiful girl in all the world?"

In one of the Peanuts cartoons, Lucy is shown leaning on tJ:1e edge of the grand piano while Schroeder, head down, is intent on playing Beeth<,>ven.

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you think I am the most beautiful girl in all the world?" Eventually, the annoyed Schroeder 'looks up at her and says, "Yes." Lucy mopes away disconsolate, saying, "Even when he says it, he doesn't say it." , The story illustrates two points about cDmmunication.

First. words today are often so empty of meaning that they fail to communicate anything. Secondly, body talk is a strikingly effective communicator. The face of' Schroeder was saying, "Lucy, go away, you're bothering me," even 'as his lip syntax and grammar was telling her about unparapeled beauty.

Practically every social commentator today tells us of the breakdown in cQmmunicationsan expression made especially powerful in Paul Newman's portrayal of "Cool Hand Luke."

Plainly,' what it means is that we are experiencing a crisis of love for each other. Love is the perennial human problem, but today [t seems to be more so ~han ever.

What makes the quandry more confusing is that we keep on using love talk on our lips while our body talk literally screams the opposite.

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"Straw Dogs," "Dirty Harry," and "Clockwork Orange," offer unrelieved, violent body talk.

The literary scenario, the lip talk is barely memorable as we are treated to the sight of people raping, butchering, and ripping one another up. The sight of communication in terms of mutual savagery ma路kes 'painfully clear what more sedate commentators have been trying to say.

Since love isn't working, why not try unrestrained hating?

The Bible. calls Jeslls the Word of God. That's a way' of saying that Jesus is the one person who ' has not failed to communicate.

Furthermore, he is as successful in lip talk as he is in body talk.

He proves that love works, whether through that glory of man - human eloquence - or through the altruistic maneuver, ing of the human body.

Words of Power His WOI'ds are not mere conventions of speech; they create, heal, convert and inspire. When his Father spoke, something beautiful happened in the world.

Let there be light. Let there be valleys and streams. Let there be man.

Jesus speaks to a cripple and the man stands and walks. Jesus speaks to a corpse and the cadaver rises to new life. Jesus speaks to Magdalen torn with personal guilt and shame, humiliated by the justified and ostracized by the pure. After she hears Jesus, she stands proud and reborn, suddenly aware of herself as a person of dignity, as one forgiven and invited to a Hie of integrity.

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If American liberalism wishes to regain its status as a movement for all the people of the United States instead of remaining a doctrinaire faction seeking power so that they might punish a guilty nation, there are three problems to which it ought to address itself with its creative intel- caricature of a liberal, recently told us in The New York Times ligence, which is ultimately Magazine how delighted he was its decisive asset over con- that his children, who had been

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1. The question of making bureaucracies responsible and responsive. Government bureau- .

mugged several times, were not turning into bigots. That is nice for him (and the children), but another possible alternative would be to stop the mugging.

I daresay that the blacks in New _ York City (or any other major city), who are the most fre::Juent By victims of mugging, are not turning into bigots either. Unlike REV. .

Mr. Hentoff, they don't have the deliciously painful option of ANDREW M):! moving away from mugging or offering their children up as GREELEY sacrifices to their liberal guilt complexes. One imagines that many blacks (indeed almost all of them) are quite unaware that cracies seem to think that the people exist to serve the govern- law and order is a conservative ment instead of the opposite. issue.

Liberals like Mr. Hentoff Government bureaucrats are no GOD'S LIGHT: "A ray of God's full light shines would have us believe that soworse and no better than the within our minds ... We· may disregard that light within cause crimes cial problems rest of us; the problem is not say why the (though they never us,'but it never goes out completely. It continues to shine with the humans involved but vast majority of the poor do n:lt and attract us along the vyay of life toward God. In the with a narrow, rigid, and inflexible system which rewards those become criminals). They seem long run, light is always stronger than darkness." Sunwho are indifferent to the hu- to think that suffering crime in light breaks through a dark sky behind the steeples of man dimension imd punishes silence is a price we must all a church in Milwaukee. NC Photo. those who think for themselves. pay for the social injustice The big advantage in dealing which exists in the country. Unwith a precinct captain was that fortunately, we do not have a you had something he and his ghost of a chance of eliminating those who believe will seethe Continued from Page Sixteen organization wanted-your vote. social injustice until the crime Most of us have nothing that a situation is brought under con- and in many ways God spoke to glory of the only Son of God. government bureaucracy wants,' trol. And the innocent mugging our fathers by the prophets ..."

This is what John tried to tell victim-black and white-may and there· is not need for the (Hebrews 1,1). But the word, people, and what the whole Gosbe excused for thinking that he bureaucrats to treat us with respoken only by messengers,' is pel will be a,bout. The life we see spect and helpfulness. SOl;11e do has been the victim of injustice. easy to neglect. in the Gospel is the measure of Social Programs and some don't, but those that One day God sent another 'all our live>. I 3. Finally, ways have to be do are hardly likely to be remessenger, the greatest of the The way Jesus went is the found to deal with the various prophets, John the Baptist. John way God calls us all to go. It warded for their efforts. chronic social problems we face came to tell about a new way takes the eyes of faith to see No Simple Solutions Nor are private bureaucracies and at the same time distribute God would share his life with the value of this single human any better, as anyone who has equitably the costs of social us. From now on, John said, be- life. That faith must overcome had to deal with the big auto programs (eliminating those pro- sides giving us minds to think even the shock of the cross. companies well. knows. If you grams that clearly don't work is with and messengers to listen to, But those who can see God's are offended by Ford, take your part of it too). One such solu- God would do more. God's own message to us there. God's word business to GM. Ford doesn't tion was the Moynihan welfare Light, Wisdom, Truth, would in the flesh, will be blessed with care, because it figures it will scheme which the liberals glee- come pel1Sonally into our world. one blessing after another. They pick up someone who has been fully struck down because it John was trying to prepare peowill be able to do what no man (lffended by GM. Better to spend didn't go far enough. That it ple, so that when that light did before them ever could. They money on advertising than on went further than anything else arrive, all might recognize it for will see God. helping customers. (1 recently was scarcely the point to the what it was. lost the keys to my car and dis- "all or nothing" boys. They took Well, God's truth and light covered that the dealer from nothing, thank you.

University Hospital did come personally into the The evidence is c1ear-despite world. (God's truth, remember, whom 1 bought it had lost the· records.. Until I found the equiv- the conventional wisdom-that is God.) He came, but the world To Refuse Abortions WASHINGTON (NC) - The alent to a precinct. captain, it the American people are willing still did not receive him. He looked like my car Was to be to pick up the tab for s·ocial came to his own people, and president of Georgetown Univerversity has restated the school's forever locked and inaccessible. reform legislation, but they will they did not really want him. opposition to abortion and Or as one helpful service man- do so only when they are perStill, some did receive him. ager told me, "You might as suaded that the programs in Some did recognize him aryd be- stated that no abortions will be well tow your car into the lake." question ,work and that the costs lieve. Those who did received a performed at the university Out of gratitude to the proto- are not imposed on certain wonderful gift. He made them hospital.

"Specializing as it does ,in typical precinct captain, I won't groups that are favorite victims able to become sons of God! By say whether it was Ford or GM. of the liberals (like "ethnics" so simple a thing-believing rec- fetal physiology, Georgetown It doesn't matter. As far as re- and "hard-hats). Instead of ognition of God's light and truth University, probably more so sponsiveness goes, they are no imaginative and innovative pro- before their eye3 - they were than almost any other univermore in competition than they grams, the people are offered born to God's life! Not born by sity, is aware of the biological facts regarding the beginnings of are in price. Nor for that matter quotas (or "affirmative action" natural means of a human father is any large corporate institution to use the polite euphemism) and mother, but born this time human life," Jesuit Father Robert Henle said.

-including, be it noted, the and busing - crackpot schemes of God! "From the moment of concepRoman Church.) which don't work and which seNeed of Faith tion a new biological entity exThere are no simple solutions lect certain groups to expiate ists. This entity cannot be conto the problem of bureaucracy the guilt the liberals feel but can So God's word became flesh. out of control, but what else do hardly be expected to pay for No longer need it be passed sidered as physically identical we have liberals for if they are themselves. along by messengers. It walked with the mother's body."

If Edward Kennedy - or any not busy trying to think up among us. The truth of God, "Since this life entity is clear· solutions? Let us hope that what other liberal-can come tip with measure and norm of all that ex- ly within the development of the is forthcoming will be more persuasive solutions to these sists, became a man and lived human species, it is obviously practical than a suggestion that problems, there will be no trou- with us. nothing other than a human we all decamp to communes. ble with John Connally in 1976.

The G03pel will s~ow that being," Father Henle said. "It's Otherwise, the liberals might man, tired and hungry, weeping, destruct-ion is the destruction of Suffer in Silence 2. Crime. The liberals have just as well stay home like they scandalizing his enemies, loving human life and is murder. Mur· given this one away to the con- did this time. his friends. In the grace and der cannot be justified by a legal servatives. Nat Hentoff, the .self© 1973, InterISyndicate truth of those human realities, fiction."

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Continued from Page Sixteen the words of Jesus create wonder in the life about him. His words bristle with power. The Samaritan woman changes. No longer is she a woman whom men always betrayed; she knows a man who communicates shining trust and irresistible vision.

Christ is the Truth No man has ever spoken as this man has. That's what they were saying after a sermon of Jesus. Speech was not cheap on his lips; it was gold. But, just as important, his body talk matched his words. Artists have struggled to limn the utter honesty of the face of Christ. Jesus not only spoke truth, he was the truth. Radical candor, so much beloved of our mod generation, was ordinary good form to Jesus.

In our own day, lip talk sputters to a halt as violent body talk tries to get messages through. Some marriage counselors even advocate programmed conflict and hostility.

Hostility therapy, unembarrassedly, schedules pillow thumping and other forms of improvised tantrums.

Curiously, there is a similar progression in Christ's life, but with a special reverse. In the hour of his PasJion, his eloquence is quenched. He stands , silent before Pilate. Now he lets body talk take over. 'f.here is violence. But the violence is not performed by Jesus.

He offers his body to the hating violence of others, that as they pummel him, he may, through the speech of death, instruct the world about the supremacy of love. The word of the Cross is that love must absorb the violent hatred of men and thus destroy it, so that the transfiguration of the hater may be brought about.

Because of Jesus' s:;>eech, in creative eloquence and saving 'behavior, we know what our word ,should be. He makes it possible for us to talk in healing, creative and inspiring ways, and to love unto death if necessary.

Let that Word become flesh in you.

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The leader works in the open and the boss ,in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives.

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Monumental Book Gives John Brown's Backgr,ound

Continued from Page Sixteen it came to be." Men of all ages and regions' have looked at themselves and all that God has made and concurred with God that "It is good, .very good indeed,'? From the beauties of creation they were -led to recog· nize' and believe the Creator. But there were ambiguities. Not all seemed good. Nature, including rna·n, could be cruel, harsh, de· ceptive.

The name of John Brown resounds in the American popular imagination. Yet to most, John Brown is like a meteor which flashed across the seene in the late 1850s.

It connotes the battling in the Kansas territory between the proponents anti the opponents of" slavery, and the transgressors of the law. At 21, he met a fugitive slave for the . raid on HarPer's Ferry in first time. The idea of slavery 1859, for which John Brown was monstrous to him. was hanged. ' For us, Brown is like a meteor which comes from nowhere, flames briefly in its trajectory,

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In 1825, he moved his family to Pennsylvania., where he prospered. His first wife died, and he married again. In 1835 he was back in Ohio, where, avid for gain, he plunged into land speculation. The panic of 1839 wiped him out. Later, he made a fresh start on a farm in upper New York State.

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This was shortly before he de· termined to devote himself ex· KENNEDY c1usively to warring on slavery.

When he moved to Kansas, in 1855, walking beside his wagon for' most of the 550 mile' trip, he then utterly disappears. We brought with hi~ a large supply know nothing of his antecedents, of arms and ammunition. It was little of his character or his con· his explicit intention to fight, text. We think of him as a freak- and kill if need be, those who L.,h phenomenon, an unrepresen~ were insisting that· slavery tative fanatic, in no way typical should ,prevail there. As he and hardly even explieable. reached Kansas, in rain and Richard O. Boyer holds, in The mud, the account breaks off. ,Legend of John Brown (Knopf, In general there was bitter di501 Madison Ave., New York, vision between North and South N. Y. 10022. $12.50. l1\ustrated) on the question of slavery. True, that this prevalent suppositfon is some in the North favored, or completely untrue. His book, he did not' object tq, slavery, and says, "concerns the time and its some profited from it. In the temper, the long cold war over South, by no means did everyone slavery between' South and approve of slavery, nor did North, the large and violent land everyone endorse the idea of se· steeped in almost permanent cession from the Union in the crisis that formed John Brown event that strong measures and .his contemporaries." against slavery were taken.

By 1860, there wer,e four'milPersonal History lion slaves in the' South, and Brown lived for 59 years. The their value was put at two bilpresent work, one of over 600 lion dollars. They were seen, as pages, deals with the first 55' property, like land or I,ivestock, of those years. A second volume and the argument was that the will cover the climactic events Constitution gilaranteed the sa. in Brown's life, from 1855 to credness of property. It might 1859. Glimpses of these events not be alienated. The importa. are given here, but the focus is tion of slaves had long since on what led up to tl}em. come to an end. But the breedWhat led up 'to them is found ing of slaves was highly profitin Brown's personal history, able. Virginia, for example, sold which is microscopically ex- some 9,300 slaves to the Deep plored, and in social ancl polito South each year. ' ical developments, in economic 'trends, in the divergent attitudes Rising Agi'tation ' and visions of distinctive ArneI" The South was predominant in ican types, and in much else. the federal government, and the John Brown was born in Tor· 10,000 'large slaveholders' were rington, Connecticut, hi 1800. the most powerful men in the His forebears were among the country. It was proposed by earliest settlers of New England. some of them that all of Mexico , When he was five years old, his be annexed, that Cuba be seized, ,tamily set out .for the Ohio wil· ' . that Central America be invaded, derness. The journey took 48 all with the object of extending clays. Existence on the frontier a slave empire. Nicaragua was, was hard and chancy. Support· in fact, taken ove'r and held for ing the Yankee pioneers was a time by a force of Southe'rners. . the Calvinist religion which they In. the North, there was rising brought with them. It Was of agitation against the continucruci~1 importance to them, and ation of slavery. the abolition· John Brown was raised on literal ists, appealing to a Higher Law, interpretation of the Bible. became ever more numerous,and more, clamorous. John Brown's' Devoted Husband father was of their number, and At 16, he came East to' school, Brown himself was for years it with a view to entering the min· regular reader of tl)eir literature. istry. His poor eyesight hampered As early as 1837 he had said him in studying, and he soon reo aloud in church, ;'Here before turned to Ohio. At 18, he opened God, ;in the presence of these his own tannery, and at 20 he witnesseses, I consecrate my life was a devoted husband and to the destruction of slavery." fa,ther.

He was not the first to resort A young' man of rigorous to violenee in this fierce quarrel. righteousness, he worked strenu· Indeed, in the United States of ously at catching and reforming his time there was "a frequent JOHN S.

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WASHrNGTON (NC) The U. S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for a NJtional Catethetical Directory is seeking a project director fot the publication.

Archbi~hop John F. Whealon of Hartford, Conn., committee chairmanJ disclosed the co:nmit· tee's need far a project director in a lette1r inviting recommenda· tions for candidates sent to bish-' ops, dioci'san education superintendents, catechetical institutes and religious education ce:11:ers, religious textbook publishers and interested; organizations.

The person sought for the post, said Arc~bishOP Whealon, must be "skille<l in catechetics, dedicated to the Church, and able to perform ~ vital service to the Church in! this special capadty."

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willingnes~ to bring almost any issue, poli'tical or personal, to a mortal ertcounter." Brutal violence' eX~loded even in the chambers !of Congress as the is· sue was debated, and like vioI lence f1ar~d through the tense and troubl,ed land..

Complex Human Being I It is Mr. Boyer's contention (and he ~akes his case) that "John Brown was never an un· changing tnonolith ... he was a battlegrou*d, a microcosm of the wider one Ishaking the nation ... he fluctuat,ed constantly betvreen his desire Ito give his whole life to the str",ggle against slavery and his ache to dominate in the world of b:usiness."

John Brown as a complex human bei6g is made real and plausible oy Mr. Boyer. And so is the background' .of the man and his cause.

This is ia dense, convoluted book, whi~h could have been made sharper by the elimination of some. repetitions, a more direct style, and a simpler, clearer organizatio~ of its matter. Still, since it was: Mr. Boyer's intention to present !a fiendishly involved subject in ia fair and balanced way, he iSI probably entitled to exemption ~rom carping.

With its· sweeping surveys, its large gallery of detailed portraits, its close e*amination of issues, this book lis monumental and never boring.

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So God sent men, Abraham, Moses, David, Jeremiah, and scores of others, voicing ever more convincingly the word about Himself--that he was a God of peace," freedom, life and love-that he really cared for and about each person, that he was mighty and merciful. Many listened, and believed; but many, found it incredible and the words didn't seem 'to fit their experience. In spite of God's efforts through creation and the prophets to communicate himself with man; there still existed a credibility gap.

Finally he sent his "Word" in person, ,"In time!: past, God spoke in fragmentaJry and varied ways to our fathen through the

Prayer,' W,~rship Continued from Page Sixteen I'm 'happier, I think more clearly and work more efficiently, I find myself more involved in helping other people, I've learned to deal with stress, and at the end of the day I have more energy left over for my family.

The Times n01~ed: "Maharishi and his followers are emphatic that transcendental medita'tion is not a religion. They say it requires no ideology, that it is compatible with all of the great religions and, if ,anything, tends to make meditators more serious about whatever faith they come to it with."

Personal Prayer I f\ind the link between my seminary past and today's transcendental meditation obvious, if strange, with clear similarities of approach and differences in content.

Is there any connection between these developments and public worship? Of course. The liturgy is pubEc prayer, and all prayer must come from the heart, be infused with an inner spirit <>1' it oecomes a mere "noisy gong, a clanging cymbal."

From these considerations flow two pragmatie liturgical consequences.

First, private, ililward oriented ~oments of personal prayer and meditation form the best possible and even an ,essential prep· arationfor outw.ard, community worship.

Second, those periods of silence caUed for in the revised Order of Mass provide an oppor· tunity for brief intervals of such prayerful reflectiion. Pauses of sufficient length, f.or example, after the readings, the homily, Communion obviously will not enable practitioner:; of transcendental meditation to dwell very long on their ";I1lantra," but it should give worshippers the occasion t<> let God's Word and Eucharist sink into th'e depths of their being.

prophets; in this, the final age, he has spoken to us through his Son" (Heb 1:1) "The Word became flesh, and made his dwelling among us," (In 1:14).

Jesus i,s the Father's most exhaustive effort to communicate with man to bridge the credibility gap between himself and man. This was the ultimate effort to "show us" what his "Word" really meant. Here among men was the "Word of life" so close that St. John could speak of "what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes what we have looked upon and our hands have touched" the. word of Efe, (I Jn 1:1).

A prayer I've recently heard catChes John's insight: .

Father, you have sent your son for just one purpose to fulfill the promise you made to man from the beginning, to bring us a love so powerful and so beautiful, so real and so much like us, that we could become one with him and live like him, And you fulfilled this promise, you sent your son, and He loved us ,totally.

He gave his life for us, And he gave himself for us, so as to be always present within us, around us, and before us.

Word of God That prayer suggests to me the notion behind calling Jesus, the Word of God. In him we hear not words about God, but we hear and see God himself in .human form, giving evidence of God's promised love. There is no gap between word and real· itv; the reality of God is his Word.

The Church teaches, following the Scriptures, that Jesus is so perfect an ex:-ression of who God is and what he is like that he captures the fullness of God's reality, sharing the very' nature of the Father. A W<>rd like that is unique. No human word can capture fully the reality of the person speaking it. Je3US is the Father's final bridging of the credibility gap. "If you .see me, 'you have seen the Father," Observing Jesus stilling the waves and wind, forging the sinner, healjng, the tormented, curing the blind and lame, is the way to find believable what God says of himself: "I have loved you with an everlasting I<>ve" Jer 31:3).

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'SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER 1. BARTEK Norton Hiah

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Taunton Hoopsters Rewrite School's Success Ch~pter There are many schools in the diocese which have never qualified for the state basketball championship layoffs.

More have never won the cherished title. Taunton has participated in the glamor event, but that was over thirty years ago. It has never won Overall team size and balance the champions crown. Taunhave been the keys to Taunton's ton basketball history has al- success thus far. Junior center ready been rewritten this Jim Cunningham has controlled

year. The events of this week could prove a fitting climax 10 that new chapter.

Coach Bob Reddy's club has already advanced further in tourney play than any other.

Taunton hoop team. The Division I South champions will capture the state crown if they can garner two more victories this week.

At this writing the Tigers are preparing for their semi-final showdown with Division I North t.itlist Wakefield. A Taunton triumph in that contest will thrust the Reddymen in the finals against the winner of the West-Central Massachusetts playoff. The finals will be played Saturday at Boston College.

The Tigers who finished second tei Bishop Stang. of Dartmouth in Division I of the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference have come on strong in the tourney. Big Walt Harrigan led the way thus far earning the most valuable player award for his efforts in South division games. However, the big 6'4" forward has received plent.y of help from his teammates.

the boards and scored well in all tourney games to date. Brad Smith, who teams with Harrigan in the forecourt, has come up with the big play when needed.

Fred Correia and Matt Wayslow combine to give the Tigers a strong backcourt both offensively and defensively. Correia, a senior, is an excellent outside shooter who can take up the slack when the big men are bottled up.

Harrigan, Cunningham and Wayslow are all underclassmen.

Their exposure and success in tournament competition this Winter will make the Tigers that much tougher next.

Whether the Tigers win the state championship or not, they have won the hearts of all Tauntonians with their exploits.

Twenty-one buses loaded with Taunton fans traveled to Boston last week to cheer their favorites on to victory. Many stores in the Silver City are displaying large signs congratulating Coach Reddy and his players on their accomplishments and wishing them continued success.

New Hope for Durfee and, New Bedford At the annual March meeting of the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference held this week applications for membership were read from Durfee High School of Fall River and New Bedford High. Both schools have been denied admission into the league in the past. However, things may be different this time.

The circuit did not take any action on the petitions at the March meeting in accord with its Constitution. It did, however, adopt amendments which could pave the way for the admission of both schools. A vote on Durfee's and New Bedford's petitions will take .place at the

scheduled May meeting.

An amendment to Article II Section II of the Constitution which reads, "In consort with the constitutionally stated policy of providing equitable competitive athletic conditions, it is understood that no team is guaranteed a full athletic schedule because of membership in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference. It is also understood that teams will be scheduled for games of a fewer number than other teams in the Conference, when in the opinion of the Board of Governors for Athletic Affairs, that this will promote equitable competitive athletic conditions," may be the key.

Arrangement Not Perfect But Better The adoption of the amendment does not guarantee either Durfee or New Bedford admIssion into the Conference. That will be decided in May. What the amendment does do is to allow for any school that is particularly strong in one sport to still gain membership and participate in other sports. _ If New Bedford and Durfee d1) gain the approval of the membership, for example, they may be scheduled for all girls' sports and all .boys sports with the exception of basketballl. In basket-

ball the schools could be placed in a separate division and have to schedule all non-league games.

Such an arrangement, while not perfect, is more equitable and would benefit both the Conference and the schools in question. The league would gain new members thus allowing for more flexibility and more competitive conditions. The schools could participate in some Con'ference games thereby_ reviving old rivalries, decreasing travel expenses and stimulating interest within their schools.

AMBULANCE-DRIVING PRIESTS: Father Donal Sheehan, left photo, races out of an ambulance and Father Cornelius Healy helps put a patient aboard an ambulance after giving him oxygen. The two priests drive the emergency vehicles for the Atlantic City Volunteer First Aid Corps in addition to their regular duties as associate pastors in area parishes. NC Photo.

Priests Serve as Ambulance Drivers ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-When you call an 'ambulance in this famed resort city, there's a pretty good chance that you'll get a priest, too. . ~ Two of the ambulance drivers in the local volunteer first aid corps are priests: Father Cornelius Healy and Father Donal J, Sheahan, both associate pastors at local churches.

The priests told the Catholic

Star Herald, newspaper of the free of charge. Most of the peoCamden diocese, that they joined ple who live in Atlantic City the ambulance service which pro- are black, Puerto Rican or senvides free round-the-clock ser- ior citizens, and many of them vice, to help serve people, par- . do not have a lot of money." ~icularly the poor. "'This is a tremendous work," After an earlier ambulance Father Healy said. "We average . service closed, Father Sheahan about 5,000 calls a year. Sometimes when I am working we said, have as many as 15 calls in a "There was a great need for ten-hour period." a volunteer ambulance corps Many of the calls are to aid which would transport people the elderly, lying stricken and alone, some for long times before they are discovered, Father Healy said,

Catholic Students Ask Court To Stop Blasphemous Articles A-LBANY (NC) - A group of Catholic students have asked New York state's highest court to stop two college newspapers from publishing "anti-Catholic" and "blasphemous" articles.

The cases involve articles in The Rkhmond Times, the newspaper at Richmond College, and the Dolphin, the newspaper at Staten Island Community College, two public. institutions in New York City, The Dolphin article attacked beliefs of Catholics, called Mary "a frustrated virgin" and described the Church as the "holy mafia" and the "cancer of society."

The Richmond Times article described the Crucifixion in terms that the group of students considered blasphemous and obscene.

After college administrators refused to discipline the newspapers five students filed suit..

A lower court judge agreed that the articles contained "derogatory and blasphemou,s references to religion" and violated constitutional provisions that the state should maintain "absolute neutrality" in dealing with religion.

That decision was overturned on appeal. The second court

agreed 'with the college administrators that once a student newspaper has been created the administration can not restrain the editors' free-' dom of expression.

Jews Support Catholics In a~pealing that decis'ion to the state Court of Appeals, the students pointed out that the two newspapers are tax-supported and bear the official sponsorship of the City and State of New York. The colleges provide the newspapers with ofC,ices, telephones and faculty advisors. As arms of the state, the newspapers may neither oppose nor promote religion, the students claim, The students argue that "the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech does not protect speech which invades the constitutional rights of others."

Supporting the Catholic students in this court case is the Staten Island Council of Jewish Organizations. They also submitted a brief to the court in which they say that the Catholic students' freedom of religion is being infringed upon, since the students, through mandatory taxes and student fees, are forced to support publications which belittle their religion.

Because he must occasionally administer the last rites, Father Healy carries a sacramental kit with him in the ambulance. Both priests give final saoraments to the dying and they said that patients are frequently comforted by the knowledge that a priest is with them in the ambulance.

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NEUQUEN (NC) -- .Bishop Jaime de Nevares of Neuquen refused to attend government ceremonies opening the huge hydroelectric complex. of Chacon in the latest of a long series of ~lashes with the Argentina gov-

ernment over labor grievances.

He protested the "lavish expenditures" of the opening ceremonies:'He said he was just back frOm a pastoral tour (during which I have seen families starving because of .setbacks in the

citrus fr4it industry."

Earlyfn 1970 Bishop De Nevares protested police intervention against some 1,700 strikers at the !hydroelectric complex, and was active in providing food and motal support for their

families. Many of them were workers who had eome here illegally from neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia.

The prelate later charged that a government agen~:v. Hydronor. has failed to honor the terms of

a settlement and refused to rehire the strike leaders.

The Chocon complex near the southern Andes was built to provide power to a vast region of Argentina, including. Buenos Aires about 850 miles away.

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