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The Society of st. Vincent de" Paul of . the Diocese of Fall Ri vel' will sponsor the Nol1theastern Regional Conference this year, May 23-24-25. Purpose of annual conferences is to strengthen the society in New England and New York so that its members can better 'serve their less fortunate brethren. The first regional conference. was held in Albany, N. Y. in 1966, followed by conferences in Springfield in 1967, and in Garden City, N.Y. in 1968. This year, all the conferences of the Society of S1. Vincent de Paul in the Diocese of Fall River are planning for the arrival of Vincentians coming from all the dioceses in New England and New York. Accommodations for H. Frank the out-of-town guests will be
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Says School Mergers M,ay'Solve Problem MILWAUKEE (NC)-The future of Catholic schools lies in being able· to look beyond the parish concept to the broader picture of serving an area by consolidating and pooling resources, says Archbishop William E. Cousins of this city. Addressing the League of Catholic Home and system, much like the two-party School Associations, the Wis- system in politics, Archbishop said. Both, he noted, consin prelate stressed the Cousins a.re needed for the community.
urgency of this change from a "parochial-only" perspective on ,the part of priests, nuns and laity. "I can't consent to the idea that we are licked," the Archbishop asserted. "We cannot possibly think of closing our schools, not only because of OUIf stake in the cause of education, but also because of our responsibility to ·the community." He observed tha.t if the Church withdraws from some areas, "there would be many districts which would become bankrupt tomorrow." The private and public school dual contribution is a package
Father Almeida Named Taunton, Parish Assistant The Chancery Office today announced the transfer of Rev. George Almeida, assistant at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Fall mver to St. Anthony's Parish, Taunton. The assignment will be effective on Wednesday, April 9. Turn to Page Two
provided in Fall River. The study sessions will be conducted in Bishop Connolly High School and will include .the following topics: 1. The SpirituaUty of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul with Rev. John P. Klein of Pittsburgh, Pa. as moderator. He is the vice-postuICiitor for the cause of Frederick Ozanam. 2. The role of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and other private agendes in the field of chanty when dealing with public ,agencies. Walter Sullivan, director of public welfare in New Bedford will explain the work being done by the public agencies. 3. The role of the Society of St. Vincent de' Paul when disReilBy Turn to Page Two
Fr.. Robert J. Laughlin Serving in Vietn,am Rev. Robert J. Laughlin, a dio(:esan priest serving in the. Chaplain's Corps of the U.S. Army, is now with the American troops in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. Captain Laughlin's present assignment, about midway within the territory of the South Vietnamese is in a heavily-Catholic populated Seminary, Jamai~a Plain and John's SemlnBlry, Brighton. area. The son of John F. and S1.The Taunton chaplain was orMarjorie J. Dooley Laughlin, dained on -May 11, 1963 dn St.
"But how do we ·get people to leave the parochial concept?" he asked. "Mind you, I'm not cri ticizin~ t.he; loyalty ,that people have to ,their parishes. This loyalty is ,what made the Church thrive in America. "It would seem almost heretical to ,them to think in terms of ·an education system that does not involve the parish," the Archbishop continued. "Yet, is 'f.urn to Page T.wenty
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members of St. Mary's PariSh, Taunton, 1sa graduate of Monsignor Coyle High School, and attended Cardinal O'Connell
30,000 Y()uth Demand Decency MIAMI (NC) "We're not against anything. We are. for something," 18-year old Julia James commented as 30,000 young people rallied in this Florida City's Orange Bowl to support a crusade for decency In e,ntertainment--on the stage, in the movies and over television. The tremendous turnout contrasts markedly with the scattered handfuls of so-called "freedom" seekers who have gained national attention in the mass media. The Miami rally was relegated to "buried" cover-
age in some of the nation's newspapers which have given unlimited space in ballooning sit-ins by small groups throughout the nation. . "I believe this kind of movement will snowball across the United States and perhaps around the world," said Jackie Gleason, national known entertainer who supported the crusade by his attendance a't the rally. "I think it's great, there should b'e more ,things like that," opined Tony' Butula of The Lettermen. Teenagers organized the rally
after Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, was charged with indecent exposure during a Miami concert on March 1. Six warrants have been issued for Morrison's arrest. Teenage speakers gave threeminute talks on God, parents, patriotism, sexuality and brotherhood, sandwiched between appearances by professional entertainers who donated their services. "Five virtues" selected as the keynote of ,the rally were: "Belief in God and that He loves us; love of our planet and C'Ountry; Turn to Page Twenty
Mary's Ca.thedral, Fall River by Bishop Connolly. In addition to his assignment in Taunton, he also served as assistant at OllJI' Lady of the Angels, Fall River. His fimt military assignment was to Fort -Bliss, EI Paso, Texas where he served as a post chaplain to the Army Air Defense since last May. During his seminary days, he served as a counselor at Cathedral Camp for seven seasons and at St. Mary's Home Day Camp, New Bedford, for one. Seven other members of the Fall HiveI' Diocesan Clergy serving in the armed forces. are: Army. Air ·Force: Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Denehy, Rev. Louis J. Joseph and Rev. James F. Greene. Army: Rev. Francis X. Wallace. Navy: Rev. Benoit Gallant, Ilev. ,John W. Pegnam and Rev. Richard P. Demers.
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Entertainer Apologizes NEW YORK (NC) - Bill Cosby has apologized to NBC viewers who were offended by his "Tonight Show" monologue on hi:; first visit to a Catholic Mass. Cosby, acting as the "Tonight Show" host during Johnny Carson's vacation, received complaints from viewers about the content of the comedy piece. Several cuts were made in the m~>nologue and, according to one "Tonight Show" spokesman, most dealt with the word "God." This censorship, however,_ is 'not acknowled,ged by the NBC office of press information. In that office, a sPokesman said that the cuts were made according to "standard broadcast guidelines." .The press information spokesman explail1ed that he could not disclose the material Turn to Page Seven -
Nationwide Sc,hool Closings Continue WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop Clarence E. Elwell of Columbus has announced' plans to" build four new high schools and officials of the Wilmington Diocese have detailed plans for a new $6.8 million high school complex to open this Fall. These positive. developments partially The 'action is basically a matter of replacing inadequatefacilioffset school closings, con- ties with modern structures. solidations and grade cut"It is not' my objective to backs which have totaled about 60 in other U.S. dioceses during the present month. The new school buildings planned in four areas of the Ohio diocese do not represent four new schools, however. Bishop Elwell noted Catholic secondary education already exists in all but one of the areas involved.
rpursue development but to complete a program already well established," the Bishop said. "We have one of the most developed systems of interparochial high schools among all the dioceses in the country." Bishop Elwell believes the 'present trend toward school conTurn to Pa~e Twelve
Surprising Statistics WORCESTER (NC)-Forty-three per cent of the Catholies in the Worcester Diocese here in Massachusetts never heard of Vatican Council II according to the results of an extensive survey conducted in t'his representative U.S. See. "The report reveals," says Bishop Bernard .J. Flanagan "some very startling data with respect to the impact of Vatican II on our lay people. "We will need further study in depth, aided by the advice of experts, to determine· the full dimensions_ and implications of ,the survey in its mar.y areas of inquiry before deciding what steps must be taken in terms of action upon the findings," Bishop Flanagan declares. Turn to Page Six
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Graduate rheological· Union Names Jesiuit as Staff Dean' BERKELEY (NC} Father Joseph B.. Wall, S.Jf, has been named aSsoCi'ate dean of the Graduate TheOlOgi~al. Union here, -it 'was announfed' by Dr. 'John DHlenberger, plfSideI1lt. The 52-year;.0IdJ~~~ittheologian will assume ftlltime responsibility for the theological union's academic pro ram in -the F-all. A member of he union's graduate faculty for the past' three years, -he is al~b professor of historical and dO~'mati'c theology alt Alma ColI ~ge, Jesuit theological training nstitute in Los Gatos, Galif. The Graduate Theo ogical Un-
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Mrs. Margaret Ph tan, noted Irish :historian, will speak on "Ireland Yesterday a d Today" on Wednesday, April ~ at Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall.lRiver. A niece of the ~ltte Sister Adrienne, Marie, academy principal for many years, ~Mrs. Phe,Ian is chairman of Kilkenny Archaeological Socie y. and a member Of. many lris~ ,hist.orical organizations. She ~Jll accompany her lecture wit!l slide:., of anci~nt art treasures jand mode,rn Improvements anr !estorabons of historic sites,
ion opened in 1962 with four area Protestant seminaries participating. U now includes 10 other Protestant~ Catholic and .Jewish organizations and has been described,'by the American Association of Theological Schools as "the most ecumenically inclusive c~nter for theo10gicaI education in the world.'"
Father A\~meida Continued' from Page One Father Almeida is a graduate of Attleboro High School and attended St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, Conn., ror his. training in the clas~i~s. ;.,' , .' ..... His philosgphicaI and theolog- _ ical S1tudies· were .made af St.. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and Our Lady of ,the Angels Seminaroy, Albany, N. Y. Father Almeida was ordained by Bishop Gerrard on .May 1, 1965 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. He :has served as an assistant at St. Michael's Church, Fall River; St·. Anthony's, Taunton; Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs since his ordination.
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SPEAKER: Rev. J. Bryan Hehir of the John F. Kennedy Institute on Government and Politics at Harvard University will speak on "The Church and International Affairs" at the final session of the series on "The Church and Modern Man" in St. Patrick's School Auditorium, Fall River, at 7 ,on Monday night. '
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NEW ORLEANS (NC) - A convention designed 'to investigate new ways of communicating the GO$pel,in the liturgy and in preaching wili beheld, here April 7 to 10 under the sponsorship of the Christian Preaching Conference, formerly tlie Catholic Homiletic Society. The programs will include a seminar, led by Auxiliary Bi~h op Harold Perry of New'Orleans and Father John Shocklee, on preaching to the disenfranchised and demonstrating three audiovisual liturgies of the -Word related to the issues of racial inequality and social concern. There will also ,be demonstrations of mass media that can be used in retreats and missions: Several lab sessions using videotapes for sennon improvement will permit those attending the convention to, receive professional criticism of their communication skills.
CRS Worker Wil'i,s Macalester Honor ST. ,PAUL (NC)-A 24-y~ar old worker for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was one of fi've young people t'lroughout theworld to receive the second annual International Distinguished Service award of Macalester College' 'here. The awards were made during a recent program at the college. Recogn:itionis given by the col~ege to five persons who have "made significant contributions to interriatiopal understanding, intercultural assistance and human brotherhood.'" "
. ROME (NC)-Josef Cardinal tolic administrator of Prague, Frantisek Tomasek, Ber-an, exiled archbishop of Bishop would seem to think so, for his Prague, lives .for the day when he can return to his own people. revelation that Cardinal Beran His anxiety is all ,the more , is suffering from a critical illness is generally taken as an apacute because of his age-he's 80 -and an illness that his closest peal to the government to call associates don't want to talk the ailing archbishop of Prague home. ahout. . Liberal leaders of the Prague That Ca.rdinal 'Beran longs to regime are under 'heavy pressure go home is no secret. He spoke of his desire when he broadcast from without-the Soviet Union to ,the people of Czechoslovakia ' -and from the regime's Stalinist minori'ty. A ,determined camin Janunary, to urge the youth paign to undermine the people's of the nation not to repeat the cO,nfi,dence in the ·present liberal self-sacrifice of Jan Palach. ascendance has .been under way But that sarne broadcast spoke since the Soviet occupation in of his serious illness, although August. the cardinal .himself said not a word about it. His difficult Cardinal ~eran's return might b rea t h i n g , clearly heard ,be taken by the Soviets as a throughout the broadcast, spoke Iprovocation' and seized by the for itself. Stalinists. 'as still another sympYet he has not ,allowed Ihis illtom of the liberal leadership;s ness to slow him down. He can "rightist opportunism." , . ,be seen ,regularly 'at pontifical functions in the Vatican and at devotions in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. His correspondFRIDAY - Friday of Passion ence is punctual, as all who corWeek. III Class. Violet. respond with him can testify. 'SATURDAY-5aturday of Pas- . Despite his illness, he readily sion Week. IU Class. Violet. SUNDAY-Palm Sunday, Secaccepts engagements to speak ond Sunday of Passion tide. I and to preside or officiate at religious functions. Class. Violet. Mass' Proper; Reading of the Passion, Creed. But all these engagements are MONDAY - Monday of Holy a.ccepted with the understanding Week. I Class. Violet. that he may not be able ,to keep them. He is awaiting word that TUESDAY - Tuesday of Holy ,he C'an return ,to Czechoslovakia Week. I Class. Violet. Mass Proper; Reading of Passion. where he ,had beem living in con~ WEDNESDAY - Wednesday of finement until his dl'amatic ;release and summons to Rome four Holy Week. I Class. Violet. years ago to become a cardinal. Mass Proper; Reading of Passion. Soviet Pressure '. THURSDAY-Holy Thursday. I Will 'Czechoslovaki,a's: regjme Class. White.· Mass. Proper; ever allow him back? The apos-. . .' . Glory; Preface of the Eucharist. .
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New O·rleans Needs: Help
Schools Will Continue BATON ROUGE (NC)-Bishop Robert E. Tracy has declared "the Catholic school is still very much a part of the American picture," and pledged they shall not pass away in the Diocese of Baton Rouge. "The diocese ~ ~ ~. has ,been and still is determined to continue to do its very best to educate its children, not only as canon law requires 'in schools which are in no way inferior' but which are clearly superior on several important aspects." Bishop Tracy made tjle comment in a statement on the state of diocesan Catholic schools and their prospect in 1969-70. He said the Baton Rouge Diocese organized its parochial schools 'basically to aid the first teachers, the parents, in carrying out the learning process. "Thus the religious school becomes the hub of a wide scope of learning, religious as well as secular," Bishop Tracy declared. "When a boy or girl is old enough to treat reading and writing with academic respect, the parents of our diocese believe it is time for the same respect to be paid to the truths of religious. "But it would be too narrow a view to imagine that all this formation results merely in some purely sectarian advantage to the Church," Bishop Tracy declared. "Actually, any well educated man or woman of whatever religion becomes a powerful influence for good in providing the community with resources of a high order and in elevating the whole tone of society. Community Disaster "To build 30 elementary schools, junior high school, and eight senior high schools 'serving 14,600 students has been a mighty task for our priests, religious and people. And to administer them and teach in them the diocese has had to assemble a small army 'of more than 600 priests, B.rothers, Sisters .and laymen, high in ability and dedication but low, I am afraid, on salary ch.ecks." "MeanWhile,"
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to Hear Trappist Monk Father Vincent Dwyer of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, popularly known as Trappists, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Priests' Study Group of the Fall River Diocese to be held a,t 1 tomorrow afternoon at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River. . Father Dwyer's topic will ,be "Contemporary Approach to Spirituality." It is his 'belief, it is noted, "that in the current age of renewal in which much of the traditional approach to spirituality has been rejected by many as outdated, no one has offered a workable substitute that will speak to 20th century man in his own language." The monk will attempt to offer some suggestions in this regard, drawing on research for his doctoral dissertation on the topic. Father Dwyer is a former Navy submariner who worked for several years among the poor of Chile before entering the Trappist community in 1956.
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NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Parochial schools in the New Orleans archdiocese will open on schedule in the Fall, according to Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, although due to local circumstances, a school or two may be closed or consolidatea with a neighboring school. But, the archbishop warned,
noted, "our parents, keenly aware of taxes, but willing to pay to maintain our public school system, are digging down even deeper to provide the cost of our schools in which religion can be the center of a child's education." "Such formation, such education provides a most effective dimension to a person's whole ability not merely to serve his church but to advance his community," Bishop Tracy stated. "Not only the church but ~he whole community would suffer disastrous loss were such education ever to pass away. "But it will not' pass away.
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Apathy Toward Cities And Schools NEWARK (NC)-A temporary black takeover of a ·building at Rutgers University here was used as a springboard' for an attack on legislative apathy toward educational problems' of the cities by particIpants in a churchsponsored program here. The participants said the Rutgers demonstration "was as illegal as the Boston Tea Party," but "must be seen in the same context of angry people protesting discrimination." The statement was released by Father John L. Paprocki of the Pope Pius' XII Institute, co-director of the Urban Training Institute of Eseex County, a training program for Newark and suburban residents seeking to bring about a change in urban conditions. Some 400 persons participating in tqe program, sponsored by the Pope Pius XII Institute and the Newark Council of Churches, said state legislators ,who have criticized Rutgers' handling of the building takeover "do not seem to understand that they, in fact, are largely responsible for the public school crisis in New Jersey." Need Action "They are the irresponsible ones for they continue to fail to provide the necessary funds for excellent and equal education for the youth of the state they represent," the statement declared. The statement said last Decemoer the boards of education of the state's largest cities invited all: the legislators to meet with them but out of 120 legislators only seven attended. At the meeting, the educational needs of the cities were discussed, the UTI statement said, adding that in the face of these needs "none of our legislators even introduced the kind of legislation that deals realistically with this emergency situation." "We do not need any more studies," the statement said. "What we need most now is not calm reasoning together but action ¢ '" "."
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True ·Edllllcation "Our whole character as a people, our entire history as a nation, our constant· outlook as civilized, cultured and educationally sensitive and conditioned indi viduals-all of this loudly proclaims our message as Americans: "Let no true education-public or private-which is of the people, by the people,' and for the people ever perish from this earth."
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'Find New Home For Students BALTIMORE (NC) - Plans are being completed to move students from the nation's oldest Catholic seminary in the downtown section here to St. Charles College in suburban Catonsville. The seminary operations at St. Mary's Seminary on Paca Street, founded in 1791, soon will be discontinued and its students will attend classes in September at St. Charles, .the Sulpician Fathers disclosed. The Sulpicians have been offering preparatory seminary courses at St. Charles; the junior and senior years of college at St. Mary's, ·Paca Street; and the school' of theology at St. Mary's' Seminary in the Roland Park section here. Beginning this Fall, the St.. Charles campus will include all four years of college. Theology will still be offered at the Roland Park Semina,ry. Two historic buildings at the seminary on Paca Street will be retained - the Motlier Seton House and the seminary chapel. Blessed Elizabeth Seton started .the nation's first parochial school in the house. The Gothic revi val chapel was dedicated by Bishop John Carroll, this nation's first bishop, in 1808 and was renovated last year.
ance. In a letter to clergy and religious, he noted that public celebration of Penance in the past few years has proved helpful for some in their spiritual development. While this is understandable, he said, "it is nevertheless true that the priest should carefully prepare the participants in such a celebration, so that they may experience an increased awareness of -the social dimensions of human guilt; the part played by each in the continuation of sin in our communities, and the great task that faces each of us in effectively meeting the concrete implications of one's responsibilities." The bishop stipulated that public celebration of Penance in the diocese is always to be governed by the following norms: general absolution is never given; the w.ords of absolution are never to be used as prayers during such public celebration; those who wish to receive the Sacrament of Penance at such celebrations are given the opportunity to do So privately; and the priest should be vested in cassock, surplice and stole.
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Fr. Serra Memorial Dedication Sunday SAN MATEO (NC)-A sixfoot redWOOd bust of Father Junipero Serra, founder of California's missions was dedicated here Sunday in ceremonies marking the city's 75th anniversary. The huge redwood carving is a gift to the city from members of the Serra Club of San Mateo, a lay group which fosters religious vocations. It is the work of sculptor Kenyon Kaiser.
"we cannot continue indefinitely without aid from the state we serve." The archbishop attributE:d the continuing operations of Catholic schools to the result of "sacrificial giving 'by our people 0) 0) ~" "We reaffirm our support of the Church's dedication to the education of youth with its consequent contribution to 'the community welfare," he said. "We pledge to continue to the limit of our ability the long and produc:tive tradition of Catholic education in this archdiocese. "It is obvious to me that, as the costs of education continue to rise, only a contribution on the part of the entire commu,nity will assure the future operaticm of our schools." Costs rose 1'l per cent in the past year, he said, and predicted the same rise this year. The archbishop said: ."We cannot control the spiraling costs of living, including that of education," he went on. "A rise in the cost of public education imposes a double burden on the Catholic parents who support by their taxes the public school system and by their contributions the private school system. "Their willingness, and our willingness, to continue our schools will be futile when the costs are impossible to meet." "We stand ready to collaborate in any mutually beneficial arrangement with the public schools," Archbishop Hannan said. "We have demonstrated our sympathy and support for the needs o~ public schools by by supporting the sales tax in Orleans parish in 1967 and a recent bond election. "We ask, in justice, consideration for the needs of the young citizens being trained in our schools. I am sure that this community with its high regard for justice and freedom under law will give them the justice that is their due."
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Bishop Staing Alumni Group PI@ns Seventh Annual folk Festival On Saturdly. Night
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Alumni of Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will hold ~eir 7th annual Southeastern Mass. Folk Festival at 7 :30'. aturday n~ght..Proceeds will ?enefit the alumni scholarshl fund, WhICh gIves Stang semors a start in college and thirl year the winning folk gro~p will re- High, under t~e co...g~onsors~ip, ceive a $100 awal1d. Tickets of the schools IgnatiUs GUild will be available a~'the Stang and Loyol'a Club. . door on Saturday ¢ight, so if There'l~ be a m~tinee of Mt. you're looking for ~ goud way St.. Mary s production of Snow to spend the evenin • here it is. White and the sev.en D\.varfs a.,t Sixteen Dominica 1 Academy 4 this ,afternoon for the benefit students will repres nt the Fall of grammar. school students. River school a,t th'a Regional The pro?uctI?n was p.resented Science Fair upcom!lng. Senior ~~r the fIrst tll?e last mght 'and division entrants ~ill be Pat It 11 be on ·agam at 8 tomorrow .Leduc, Susan EO~in, Paula night., Tickets. are, availa~le Hamel, Jeanine Le~andre, Mi- from all Mounties, and lead~ng chelle Turcotte, Je nine Dore, parts of those of S~ow Whl.te, Elizabeth von Trapp, Elaine La- pl~ayed by Anne BIbeau, ~l,th pointe and Marilyn ~;authier. NIcole Letendre as her prInce. Junior entrants include Cheryl Romanowicz, Sher'l Nowak, Denise Jette, Jane R vard, Cynthia Raposo, Paulin Dion and Deborah Bouley.
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Career Da Boys of Prevost a d Connolly Highs in Fall River at,tended a Career Day sponso ed by the Prevost National Ho or Society in the Connolly audit rium. Professions represented anged from aeronautical engin ering to oceanography, jour lalism and dentistry. The program be an with a panel discussion on basic vocational choices: ma1iage, religious life or milit ry service; and continued with f ur sessions during which studen s could attend lectures and discussion periods, on professio1ns of their choice..In charge o~ the ambitious program was PfUI St. Laurent. Faculty advis r for the NHS is Brother Do ninic Monfette. Less weighty matt rs occupied the stage at Jesus-]ary ' Academy, also Fall River, where dads and daughters enjoy ~d a dance. Cro:wned king and q,ueen of the evening were Dad Gerard Goyette and Daughter R m,ee. Also at JMA, re ent college acceptances include Diarte Froment and Janice Deschenes, Bridgewater State and SMTI; Eli:r.abzeth Dubois, Waterbury School of Nursin'; Jeanne Phenix, Campbell School of Business. And Prevost hael! a Spring Mixer not long Since1.With music by the In Corporat on. Chairman was James For I, aided by John Hogan, Edwar Larue and" Earle Flynn. The Prevost YCC. is readying its anilUal passi~m Play for Holy Week presentapon. It will be seen at several p,arishes and schools.' . Second Plal,e Those champion 1ebaters at Holy Family in N w Bedford came in second plac~ in. a tourney at Rhode ISlafd College and Marie Hodso, Marsha Moses and Karl Fry el received speakers' awards. Also at HF, serr:JClub members sponsored an address on housing by Walter ughes, New Bedford city counbllor. The glee club will be heat'd at a 'First Mass Sunday, May 4'IAnd recent acceptances include Carol Fortier at N~w Engl3nd Baptist Hospital and New England Deaconess; and Jam!s Berry at Stonehill. Pop Conce t The BC Band was '1eard in its second annual pop c mcert Sunday night at Bisho Connolly
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HARTFORD (NC)-"The true spirit of the Gospels is needed in our nation today," Archbishop John Francis Whealon, 48, asserted as he became spiritual head of the Hartford archdiocese. He was installed recently by Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate in the U'nited States, at ceremonies in St. Joseph's Cathedral here. >
"As the first President in his last address and the last President in his first address have reminded us, the 'pilings on which American democracy is built are moral and religio\ls," Archbishop Whealon said. "T,his beloved country of ours, recently described as 'ragged in spirit,' demonstrates 'the weird and exotic ephemera of a rich, insecure, bored, anxious, hysterical society,'" he declared. Potent Med,icine Archbishop Whealon said that . in many Americans today there can be found a "sense of rootlessness and helplessness of the individual,' an anxiety bred from loss of community." He said there can be noted a "devaluation of all standards and the boredom with everything,even life itself." "The spirit of the New Testament provided antiseptic and medicine amid the decadence of the Roman Empire," the archbishop said. "That same New Testament spirit has the .potent medicinal qualities required to overcome the decadence in the body politic and in our individual lives. ' "If it is true that the book titled Excellence was thrown ~way in this nation 10 years ago, then we need to study the New Testament whose sub-title is 'A Life of Excellence.' "
Theologian Receives Yale Fellowship MILWAUKEE (NC) -,-Father Bernard J. Cooke, S.J., chairman of the theology department at Marquette University here and a member of the U. S. Bishops' Committee for the Study of the Priesthood, has received a fellowship f'rom Yale University where he will engage in research on the theology of the priesthood.
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A Summer Catechetics Institute at Stonehill College, North Easton, will be' held from Sundday, Aug. 3 through Friday, Aug. 8. Designed as a program of renewal in religious educa\tion, this year's Institute will feature the following topic areas: Psychology of Child and Adolescent; Modern Catechetics; the Art Film in Teaching Religion; Re:' ligion through Literature; MultiSensory Aids; Parent Education; Creative Dramatics; Art in Religious Education; and Liturgical Participation. Sister Francille Sister Mary Francille, C.S.J., assistant professor of theology at Regis College, Weston, author and lecturer, is the Institute Director. Lecturers will include. Dr. Thomas E. Caulfield, graduate of Harvard Medical School, general practitioner in psychiatry for 14 years; and William J. Reedy, vice-president, director of Catechetics, William H. Sadlier, Inc., author of numerous textbooks for high school religion. There will also be eight workshops, each to be directed by a leader in religious and catechetics teaching. Other participants will be: Rev.. Francis V. Strahan, who will direct the liturgy for the Institute. Father Strahan is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and Di"Homemaker service programs rector of Music, St. John's Semcan be utilized to prevent the inary, Brighton. pIacement of children due to Film Director is Sister Mary physical or mental illness of the Hortense, S.U.S.C., English Promother," the statement continfessor, Sacred . Hearts College, ues. "Families can be helped to Fall River. She has done gradstay together in the face of other uate work in' film education at emotional stresses through the Harvard, Oxford and Syracuse placement of a homemaker." Universities. More than 300 Sisters frQm The Commission on Families foreign lands, the Canadian and Children issued its stateProvinces and throughout the ment endorsing homemaker service at the conclusion of a two- . United States attended last year's program. day session here. Brother John Weihrer, C.S.C., The commission said H generDirector, Division of Continuing 'ally recognizes "that while the Education, Stonehill College, is needs for homemaker service are coordinator of the institute. tremendous the actual provision of the service on ,the part of both public and voluntary agencies is tot1!lly inadequate.
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Catholic Charities Conference Endorses H.omemaker ServiCe Expansion CHICAGO (NC)-Strong endorsement for the development, promotion and expansion of .homemaker -service was made here by the Commission on 'Familie.> and Children of the National Conference of Catholic ,Charities. Homemaker service is one of the core services offered by social welfare agencies. It is a community service ,that employs 'personnel to furnish home-help services to families with children or to convalescent, aging, acutely or chronically ill and disabled persons. Its primary funcUon is the maintenance of household routine and the preservation or cre, ation of wholesome family living in time of s1Jress. Stay Together "At a time when remedial progr,ams of welfare are being misunderstood by many of our citizens," a commission statement declares, "it is important' to stress the preventive aspects of this valuable service:
Brothers Donate Po rish Sites ST. AUGUSTINE (NC)-,A 20aCre tract near Gulf Breeze has been donated to the St. Augustine diocese ,as ,a new parish site, Bishop 'Paul F. Tanner has disclosed. Andrew Mettenberg of Keokuck, 'Iowa, 'and his brother, Joseph, ,of Donnellson, Iowa, donated the land in memory of their late brother, Sylvester. The Florida ordinary said he expects the parish will ma.terialize in five years and will be designilted 'as St. Sylvester's. In the St. Petersberg diocese, Bishop Charles B. McL'aughlin disclosed a 10-acre tract in the Spring 11ill community has been donated as a parish site by the MackIe brothers real estate development firm of that community.
No Other Way, All that I am and shall be I' am and shall be of necessity, and it is impossible that I should be otherwise.-Fichte.
"We respectfully urge community welfare councils, Catholic Charities, volnuntary and public agencies to examine their homemaker service programs in. order to discount the many areas of unmet needs; ·to stimulate county and state boards to 'avail themselves of federal resou~ces; to initiate and interpret within the community a conviction of the value of homemaker service; and to work for ,the etablishment and/or expansion of these services," the statement said.
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For Funds ST. PAUL (NC)-Opposition and support have been expressed in &tatements by organizations in the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese following announcement of allocations of $3.5 million sought in the archdiocesan fund drive. The Twin Cities Catholic Interracial Councl (CIC) the Association of Christians for Church Renewal (ACCR), and Concerned Christiians (CC) issued statements of opposition. The archdiocesan .priests' senate announced its support of the drive.. The CIC board of directors' statement, which _ listed 470 members, questioned "the priorities and amounts of money allocated" in the appeal. It charged the alloca.tions contain "no clear response to the urgency" of needs "of the powerless people of the metropolitan area." The statement referred ,to a CIC letter sent to Coadjutor Archbishop Leo C. Byrne of St. Paul and Minnea,polis in February, which promised board opposition to the drive unless "full disclosure of priorities," made in advance, would include an allocation of at least 50 per cent of pledged monies for ",the poor as represented in agencies which are self-determining." Urge Cooperation Shortly after the CIC statement was issued, the archdiocesan priests' senate passed a resolution in support of the drive. It urged "cooperation of the priests and faithful of the archdiocese to the best of their ability," The priest senators heard spokesmen for the appeal, and then, according to their statement, expressed conviction that many areas of archdiocesan needs have been neglected for lack of funding, so that now the community must face hard questions of financing. ACCRannounced its opposi,tion to the drive, calling on all laymen to "withhold their funds from the drive and, instead, to direct their financial support to other organizations," ACCR reports a current membership of some 70 to 80 young adults, a third of whom are college or university students, announced intentions of picketing and demonstrating in March against the drive.
Criticizes Attempt To Tax Charities TALLAHASSEE (oNC)-A Florida Catholic Conference official has criticized a ·bill which would a'bolish the tax exempt status of charitable institutions as hurting agencies whioh perform needed social services for Florida citizens. Thomas A. Horkan, Jr., executive secretary of the Florida Catholic Conference, issued the statement about the tax ,bill offered by Rep. Carl Ogden of Duval County, which would exempt only schools, hospitals, and houses of public worship. Horkan made the statement as the ad valorem tax committee planned sub-committee hearings. Horkan said that, under the proposed law, "homes for dependent children, for unwed mothers and for retarded children, as well as Catholic charities facilities, would be taxed." He emphasized that these facilities "are performing community services which are the obligation of society itself,"
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AT MEMORIAL HOME: Newman Association members from Bristol Community College entertain guests at Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Program included songs, skits and dances. Rev. Harold J. Wilson is association chaplain and Sister Teresita, S.U.S.C. is an advis~r. James Haskins directed the production.
BCC Newmanites Arrange Seder Supper Rabbi to Explain Ritual Meal Tonight Newman Association members of Bristol Community College will hold a Seder Supper at· 7 :30 tonight at St. William's parish center, iFall River. Explaining the ritual meal will ·be Rabbi Norbert Weinberg -of Congregation Adas Israel. The unit will :hold a regular meeting tomorrow night at which officers will ·be elected
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ATLANTA (NC)-A preliminary outline of a plan which eventually may unite nine Protestant denominations into one 25-miliion-member church was disclosed at the annual Consultation on Church Union meeting here. The Rev. Dr. William A. Benfield, Jr., chairman of the plan of union commission, said the outline is the result of seven years of work by more than 100 leaders in the nine denominations. He said additional work remains to be done and 'the ratification of the plan would not be considered for 10 years or longer. The denominations involved are the African Methodist Episcopal church; the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church; the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ); the Christian Methodist Episcopal church; the United Methodist church; the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern); the Episcopal church; the United Church of Christ, and the United Presbyterian church.
followed by a social hour at St. WilHam's center. The association will sponsor a speeoh a,t 101 Tuesday morning, April 22, 'at ,the college by a representative of ,the Baha'i faith. Egg RolR A children's E'aster egg roll will be sponsored Holy SaturST. PAUL (NC)-"First priority in our archdiocesan fund day, AJpril 5, at the home of Mr. raising plans" is focused on sup- and Mrs. J,ames Pelletier in port of the 81. Paul and Minne- Little Compton. Also on the April agenda will apolis 'a'rchdiocesan Catholic school systems, .both elementary be the escorting of elderly and secondary, Coadjutor Arch- guests ,to a Fall River Symphony Concert 'a.t Ziskind auditorium bishop Leo Byrne said here. At a press conference Arch- and presentation of a variety 'bishop Byrne said he "must' show at Wedgemere Nursing state in no uncertain terms" that Home in Taunton. The show, which has already been 'staged purpose. "The other needs are impor- in Fall River, will be repeated tant and worthy of support," he at the Catholic Memorial Home said, but the schools, "particu- in May for residents of Fall lady our 22 secondary schools, River Manor Nursing Home. A joint prayer 'breakfast with need immediate financial assistNewman members at SMTI will ance," Archbishop Byrne's statement ,take :place Tuesday, May 6, and was in relation to the Archbish- the association's bi-annual "Days ops' Appeal, which has come of Friendship" are scheduled for under fire from groups contend- mid-June. A continudng project is the ing that allocations of funds for supervision of a ,weekly swimthe poor are inadequate. Funds for the schools, Arch- ming session for retarded chilbishop Byrne said, will go dren at Fall River Boys' Club. towa'rd current and future operating costs, which "tuition can no longer meet," "A raise in tuition rates is not the answer," he added, 'because higher rates Excavating would mean that fewer parents could aHord the cost of Catholic Contractors education for their children. "Thus this appeal has been 9 CROSS ST., FAIRHAVEN precipitated ,basically by the 992·4862 financial crisis facing our schools," the prel'ate said. "We have turned to our people for heslp. We are confident that this ELEC'll'RICAL help is forthcoming through this Cont[j'tllc:tors appeaL"
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One aspect of If religio~s ~6cation. that is no.t dis~us.sed very much today iSI that thIS IS a calhng. God fIrst mVltes a young man or wo~nan to serve Him ~s a.priest, a brother, a nun. And the perron responds and IS gIven the grace by God to live the life that will bring one closer to God and give to' others a mo Iel for Christ and Christ-like service. All too often i a vocation equated with a job. And the danger following t is concept is that it doesn't make much difference how ofte and even if, one changes his job or not:' A religious de Hcation is not lightly undertaken, by a person. His final c )mmitment does not come at an immature age. It comes only after long years during which he is questioning him~elf - and others are questioning and evaluating him as ... ell. , Once undertakbn, it is a commitment. While there may, be an exceptional ~ase when a priest or nun or brother finds after living ~lis vocation for a time that he cannot continue in it, this lis an exception. It would' be most unfortunate if recent articles gave the impression tha~ the doors out of convents and ,rectories 'and monasteries WiJlere jammed ope~ with people leaving. This simply is not iO. Some are leavmg. S,ome have always been leaving. perh~PS more are leaving now than in other times. This is the price of renewal - people hold up the mirror and someti es in panic or in discouragement or i.n a display of immaturity flee what once seemed to be theIr vocation. But if a vocat'on is a calling by God, He will support and strengthen wh Lt He, after all, initiated. '
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Two Types, of ,Religion Theologians Jnd sociologists attending a five-day symposium in Ro e on atheism heard Professor Thomas 'Luckml;tnn of the University of Frankfurt predict that two types of religron are coming about. For some peo~le, there will be the construction of a private set of ultimate values which will not fit into an already established church. For others t 'ere will be; after a period of doubt, Rev. John F. Moore, St. Joseph's, Taunton the acceptance of system 'of ultimate values that can be B.A" 'M.A., M.Ed.' expressed through an existing church. I Actually, this is true' alreaoy. Some people :ut the beliEifs of religion to fit their 'pwn likes and Iiv;s. A' reflection of this is seen in the many writings tod y whel}. people are picking and choosing what to belie~e and what to reject, what to incorWe seem to panic when events strike at home. porate into their lives and wJ1at tO"brush aside as irrelIn the last few' months, a well organized group of evant 01' unaccept ble.' " "". rabble rousers have effectively caused turmoil, and havoc, There are Ca holics who think and write, this way. in some of our area educational institutions. The public, How truly "Catho;'c" they are is hard to say: If Catho-' rather than recognizing the licism is a commu ity of belief founded by Jesus Christ' facts of the matter, fled in From what? They really can't and living as the xtension of Christ in time and holding retreat-like the big ele- explain! Their phony liberalism is a fast to. certain unchanging and unchangeable principles, phant fleeing from the roar- farce. then those who p~ck an~ choose jU,st db not seem to fit ing little mouse; They deny' freedom to others into the communitr. They have son:te things, perhaps even 'Let's take a look at these self- in every overt act they perform., They openly discriminate many things, in 5ommo,n With, the Church but they are ,appointed ,education reformers. in 'the selection of members, and soloists in matterj religious. I They cry that only in non- consistently' deny the' essential There are ma;ny other' people who are members of conformity ,and independent ac- freedoms of the majority. Freethe Church-somel believing and practicing, others be- tion can we really be worthy hu- dom of assembly, freedom of l cticing, others non-believing but prac- man beings. Yet, these same movement, freedom of education lieving and non-prr people are the most conforming and basic individual freedoms ticing. of all from their narrow minded are completely- foreign to this Those who b 11.ieve and practice their religion are to negative views ,to their ill-fitting' neo-fascist ideology. be encouraged anld supported in their sincerity. uniforms. What 'makes fools of mortal Those who b~lieve but do not practice must realize The 'granny ,glasses, the long men is ,that we take them seri~ that while they hare faith'they do not supplement it with hair and the dirty feet are com- ously. We are to blame for the the living out of the faith and this bodes ill for the faith bined to create a uniform even attention they receive. they have. ~ more conforming than any' Left to their own devices and school uniform. machinations, they would perish. Those who pr Lctice the externals of religion with,out As to independence of action, The mass media-radio, teleknowing reasons f l' the faith that is in them need educa- this is a joke. They are ex- vision and newspapers-encourtion and insight t give deeper roots to their belief. tremely dependent in ,their cry age their development in their for independence. insatiable search for the sensaThey want to make men free. tional.
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These anarchists gain a :free istence will accomplish very voice and free publicity at the little. Look ,at the facts and the expense of the general public. faces and expose them as they really exist. It seems that only the idiot reOFFICIAL NEWSFiAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER ceives news coverage and the In school 'a£ter school, it is Published weekly bY!The Catholic Press of th~'Diocese of Fall River sane man is 'a forgotten entity the same faces and the same 410 Highland Avenue ' because he refuses to act like trite phrases that continuously Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151' a moron. re-appear. We now look only PUBLISHER It is a shame that so' many at the angry mob or the shoutMost Re~. James L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. 'get taken in' by so few. ing crowd. We fail ,to look beWhat can we do to aid in the yond the obvious, for the organGENERAL MJNAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER self-destruction of ,these 'under- izers and leadership, that is beRt. Rev. Daniel F. halloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll _ground' organizations? hind this entire movement of MANAGING EDITOR interFirs,t, we must become student unrest. Hugh J. 'Golden, LL.B. ' , ested. Just standing around and • Next, we must counter-act ~leary Press-Fall Riv.r _ , bemoaning the fact of their ·ex- their negative approach' to life
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with positive policies and actions. Let your local newspaper and television station know what you think about -the way they handle such stories. Propose some alternative news items. Know what is going on in your ,community. -Block the leaks and 'fill the gaps that these campus clowns seek. Finally, interest yourself in what ·the majority of young people are saying. Don't shut them off. Too often we lump all teens and college students in the same mould. This is a gross injustice. All are not alike. Give the young people, who are really trying to be good citizens, a real chance for success. A helping hand and encoul1"-, aging words will have a greater effect than 'a thousand demonstrations if they come from a sincere heart 'and a reasonable mind. The security of your future depends on how you act and react today.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Riv3r-Thurs. Mar. 27, 1969
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NEW ORLEANS (NC)-When religious communities get in' tune with the style of the times, vocations will increase, the executive secretary of the National Sister Vocation C{lmmittee said here. Sister Louise Gleason, addressing some 400 participants in the National Sister Vocation conference said: "It is up to us to identify religious life with its real worth, not its works or services." "If the young do not see the example of dedicated living, (If sacrificial challenges, ·they look for .it in secular challenges 0) Q 0;0 the Peace Corps, VISTA, and o ,t oh: e r 'goV'ernment-sponsored goodwill programs." Sister Louise said the 'vocation crisis is really a crisis of image. "The problem today is that we are so worried aoout what others are doing that we have taken our eyes off the horizon. We are Iooking back," lPractican Aspects The real gist of the conference were the in-depth workshops'on application forms and interviewing applicants for ,the religious life, according to the conference chairman, Sister Maureen Bannister. A copyrighted 61-page ,booklet of application forms drawn up by the National Sister Vocation 'committee .in conjunction with the DePaul Hospital Community Mental Health center was distributed to all participants as a basis for continuing discussions. "There was a real need for a workshop such as this, which would deal with the practical aspects of vocation work," Sister Maureen said. "Even the talks • scheduled were all practical in dealing with the work of vocation directors and formation teams."
Cosby Apologizes Continued from Page One that was cut because tha.t "wo'uld destroy .the effect of having it edited in the first ·place." Cosby's monologue dealt with an "outsid'er's" view of a Catholic Mass. .CQSby's wife is a Catholic. He was relating his experience in ·going to church with her. One comment C{lsby made likened <the h{lst to "pizza without the tomato sauce." The monologue did offend some viewers, the NBC spokesman admitted, but he said he felt that ,the viewers misinterpreted wha1: Gosby was saying. The NBC spokesman noted that Cosby has used the monologue many times before and has had "great success" with it at Catholic colleges 'and universities where "nuns, 'PJ'iests and students seemed <to find it very funny." In his statement, Cosby said that 'he most sincerely apologized to anyone he might have offended.
Urge$ Holy Week Truce in Conflict NEW YORK (NC) -The national secretary of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association proposed here a Holy Week cessation of border hostilities between the Arabs and the Israelis in the hope that such a ceasefire might help pave the way for peace talks. Msgr. John G. Nolan, who is also president of the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, said that Moslems have a deep reverence for both Moses and Jesus.
Since the application booklet was taken home by the conference participants, representing some 70 orders in 45 states, Sister Maureen is hopeful that the' forms it contains will be put to use in some way by a number of religious orders.
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PLAINFIELD (NC)- A priest told the Plainfield board of education, that racial disturbances which have plagued this New Jersey city's school system this year stem from the board's failure to institute necessary changes. Father Frank D. Testa of St. Bernard's parish said the underlying cases are long-standing complaints about the lack of flexibility in the Plainfield school system. The local high school was shut for .six days after a wild melee between blacks and whites in the school auditorium. Absenteeism was high when the school reopened. The disturbances at the high school are a reflection of earlier disputes over control of educational policy. The Plainfield school board, like the boards in many larger cities, is an appointed body, but black groups have been asking for an elected board. Techniques Fail When city offici,als declined to give up control over appointments, some groups joined to hold a rump election in the street outside board offices last Fall, When disturbances br{lke out among the students, both Father Testa and Father Joseph A. Stulb of Newark, recently named vicar for the inner-city apostolate in the Newark archdiocese, .attempted to be of help. But both admitted that techniques which had been useful elsewhere would not have worked here because city clergymen are unknown to most of the students. An observer said part of the trouble stems from a white insistence on excellence which works to the detriments of blacks, who do not get sufficient counseling and help and are thus shunted into courses which do not provide college training.
TAKES VOWS: Sr. M. Denise Paul of the Holy Spirit, O:Carm. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bourbeau of St. Joseph's Parish, Fairhaven, recently took vows as a Carmelite ~ister for the aged and the infirm.
CHICAGO (NC)-The Chicago archdiocesan board of education voted to ask the city board of public education to permit Catholic school youngsters to receive as much assistance as they are leg.ally entitled to under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The board acted after hearing a summary of a report of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children recently submitted to President Nixon and the 91st Congress. The report showed that some 37 programs for Chicago were approved and funded by the federal government under Title I of ESEA-which is the largest of federal aid to education programs established undef the act and is aimed at upgrading the education of children living in poor areas. The program is administered by the city's board of education, w;hich is supposed to include
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Protest seems to be the word for the week and now not only is' it used in reference to the college campus but to the high school ne as well. College students are staging sit-ins for curric~lum control, hiring and firing power 'and anti-war attit11des, but the high schoolers ppear to to make them conform and look be mostly concer ed with like everyone else, but aren't they doing the same thing whe,n what they are bei g forced they poke fun at ties and short, to wear (or what the feel they haircuts.' •, are being forced to we 1') by that Why is it going 'to be easier ' d i rt y phrase,' for them to learn in an atmo-' "the esta'blishsphere of s~ndals and beads,' ment." Across rather than in' one where clothes the nat ion, are a Ibit more conservative? school officials Shocking pink tight bell botto'ms are trying to don't appear to do a thing for hold their own academic excellence. and in· most Discipline ,in ,.dressing and cases they are learning appears to ,be the subdoing a good .ject that these young people are job of being throwing to the winds. No one fair, but firm. likes to be disciplined or to exAs a teacher . ercise self-discipline but it cer(and I certain. . tainly would be an even sorrier ly don't consider myse~f a pun- world,if everyone were' allowed tanical one), I feel th~)t female to do just as he or. she. pleased. students' skirts and dresses Clothes Are Fun (when viewed from th J front of Clothes can be fun and oddly the room) couldn't e much enough this younger generation shorter' w.ithout endir up as is the one that made us realize long b e l t s . , it. Never have the youth of the Even I, as a woman i structor, world had so many opportunities find it a bit embarrass'ng to say to express themselves both vothe least, to teach a cl ss where cally and visually, as during the most of the girl stu euts are sixties but along with this greatslouched in chairs, qui 'e oblivi- er freedom they must also realous to the quantity 0 unmen- ize that they have a greater retionables they are sho ing. sponsibility. ' If minis are here to tay, perFortunately the extremists, haps we should im;ludel a course both on the campus and in the in "how to sit properly" in our urban high school, are in the curriculum. Some of t profes- minority. True, they reap the SOl'S lecturing in amp itheatres headlines \but any of us who have ,been known to refer to comes into cont~ct with young them as "thigh" rooms, and not people finds the majority to be without overtones o~ disgust. concerned, i'ntelligent youngOf course I'm sure that my sters who 'can put clothes in over-thirty. attitude t.ha '.linger,ie their proper perspective and is for weanng, not VIe Img, wolll also understand the value of be noted by those on ~he other education. 'side of the generation; gap as just one more mildle-class Commission to Study hang-up.' ' . S h I A'd Hair' (the growth on he head Pr1vate C 00 I and not the off-Broadw y show) ANNAPOLIS ,(NC) Gov. is what is griping t~e male Marvin Mandel of Maryland has members of the youngEjr gener- named a 17-Illember commission ation. They want to we~r it long to study the problem of extendand flowipg and the sc 001 offi- ing state aid to financially hardcials just can't see the harm of pressed private schools in Maryit (neither can I). Most of them look like Prince Valian as it is land. Milton S. Eisenhower, retired but evidently Lady G diva is president of Johns Hopkins Unithe effect that they're striving versity in Baltimore and brother for. of former President Eisenhower, Sauce for the G se was named commission chairSpokesmen for the a vocates man. The governor did not -set, of "anything goes" fo school a deadline for the commission's clothes claim that the square final report, but asked for a administrators and teach ~rs want preliminary report early next, year. Eisenhower currently is chairSchool Plans Unrsual nan of a commission named by former President Johnson studyE,ducation Experi"1ent ing the violence that followed MILWAUKEE (NC)-.JA: com- the assassina1'ion of the Rev. Dr. pletely reorganized ed~cational . Martin Luther King, Jr., last program will be introdU5ed next April. That report is nearing. Fall atSt. Elizabeth s~hOOl in completion and it is expected the the center city here. A~ng the Maryland study will be launched innovations. the teachi g staff about June 1. will include Sisters from 10 different religious orders, .nd the layman Heads Diocese students will take PhYSiIl educational classes at a neig borin. g Business Office YMCA facility. FORT WAYNE (NC)-Joseph The plan 'was develop d dur- Barbieri, Jr., has been appointed ing the past year by a policy- administrator of th'e newly esmaking lay board with t e help tablished business management of local educational. exp rts'and department of the Fort Waynecommunity representativ lS. South Bend diocese. Bishop Leo Believed to be the only opera- A. Pursley said the new office tion of its kind in Wi consin, will Oversee and implement all and possibly in the United business activity in the diocese. Barbieri, an alumnus of the States, the school will f mction with a full time admini ,trator, .University of Notre Dame, has rather than a principal, ssisted been associated with a number by a, faculty chairman and 'a of nationwide business firms for community relations ch irman. more than a decade.
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StiU Battling ,Wisconsin Organization Seeks Help For Nonpublic School Pupils' MILWAUKEE (NC) - The Citizens for Educational ':Freed'oni organization' is only as old as some of the youngsters it is' trying to help, but its leaders are seasoned veterans of several battles to gain justice for private education. Currently, Wisconsin CEF forces are seeking legislation that would provide $50 for each youngster attending non-public grade schools and $100 for those in .high schools. The bill was introduced recently in the state senate but the outcome seems unpredictable. , With only mild opposition, at least until recently, CEF spokesmen are optimistic of another victory. Yet, none is more hopeiul than the president of the state CEF federation, Richard F. Tyson of Milwaukee. In an interview he singled out, three factors for his optimism: Solid support from an increasing number of parents who have joined CEF and a number of legislators throughout the 'state: Diminishing opposition to the lon~-standing issue .involving the separation of church and state; " An economic arguJ!lent which
is overhelmingly in favor of the tl.:!jtion grant program. Much Cheaper. Through a series of rallies in various parts of the state, CEF, has informed parents and legislators that economically it would be much cheaper to enact tuition grant iegislation thao to ignore it or defeat it and face the, possibility of hav.ing all 231,000 private school pupils ~ transfer into pubic schools. Nonpublic schools, most of which are Catholic, have been closing rapidly in recent years due to' financial problems brought about by a declining number of teaching Sisters and . the inability to afford lay teacher replacements. The cost of the tuition grant program, which would go into effect July 1, has been estimated' at $13. million annually. This would represent a savings of some $160 million in operating costs plus projected capital expenditures of' $600 million if current nonpublic enrollments would be maintained. ' .
LOS ANGELES fNC)-Msgr. James B. Clyne, superintendent of elementary schools in the Los Angeles at:chdiocese, said a "middle school" concept will be launched in selected inner-city areas of the archdiocese next Fall. The middle school will enroll only seventh .and eighth grade children where formerly there was an eight-grade program. Msgr. Clyne said the curriculum of the two remaining grades will be expanded and enriched to meet the needs of the children. "It is widely known," he stated, "that stuaents at seventh and eighth levels follow a pattern of maturation, both physical and intellectual, which differs sharply from that of lower grade pupils. The middle school represents a carefully planned attempt to capture that pattern, enrich and enlarge upon it, and direct the energies and capacities of these early teenagers t9 maximum achievement." Grouping these -pupils in a distinct and specialized school, he continued, will provide an opportunity for a new category of schooling-one that will per,mit departmentalized instruction, a specially trained faculty, a broader scope of elective courses such as introductory laboratory science, training in business machines and practices, home economics courses, and' specially weighted courses in the language arts and mathematics.
Nun Sounds Alarm To Rout Burglar PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A burglar terrorized two nuns when he entered a Germantown convent but fled when one of the Sisters broke 'away and rang a bell to awaken others. Police said the intruder slipped into the convent through an unlocked rear door shortly after 3 A.M.
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Says Men of Today Lack Respect for Authority
Wom1en's Council Names Chairmen
By Joseph and Mm'ilyn Rode1'ick
WASHINGTON (NC) - New chairmen have been named for the International Affairs Commission and the Organization Services Commission of the National Council of Catholic Women. Margaret M. Bedurd, sociology professor at the College of New Rochelle, New York, has been named national chairman of the international affairs g,roup, succeeding Mrs. Edgar Boedeker of St. Louis. Mrs. Robert Florian, Organization Services Commission chairman of the Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, has been named chairman of the national body, succeeding Mrs. Louis Sweterlitsch of Coraopolis, Pa. National chairmen work with national staff members of the women's council in developing programs for the 12,000 offiliated organizations that comprise the NCCW federation.
A quick perusal of the weekly magizines and· daily newspapers leads one to the conclusion that more bad things are happening than good things. It seems to me that we are badly in need of heroes and heroic deeds. It is almost as if we have lost faith in others of loftier also be found on a Seder table statures to make decisions and this is symbolic of the lamb for us but we have increased sacrified in the Temple in Bibour faith in our equals. Students everywhere are rebelling against the authorities and have lost faith in anyone but themselves to make decisions. W.hat is frue for students Is equally true for political parties, teachers, college faculties, the poor, etc. We have lost the ability to look up, our vision is limited to our own level. Fewer Crises This leveling of vision has very serious defects. There Is no expertise better than our own. This has probably come about because of prolonged prosperity and fewer crises ·in our national life. This statement of fewer crises may seem ridiculous in the light of the war in Vietnam, but many observers have felt· that the war has not really been a crisis in the minds of most Americans. For years our people looked to their leaders----during the depression, the second World War, and the Cold War-with blind acceptance. Suddenly it seems the pressures are not so great, the leaders do not emerge and we are satisfied with our own solutions. Coupled with our lack of respect of authority is our desire to do things immediately and with Immediate effects. In this latter respect Eric Hoffer is worth quoting;· "Some generations have patience and some are without It. This.is one of the most crucial differences between eras. There Is a time when the" word 'eventually' has the soothI?g effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes bitterness and scorn." The time for bitterness and scorn ,would seem to be at hand. in the Kitchen As we are celebrating our joyous holiday, Easter, the JewIsh members of the community are celebrating their Passover. In their calendar of religious celebrations this is one of the happiest. As In many of our relgious holidays, food plays an important role In the observance of Passover, with most of the ceremonies centering around the Seder table. On this table are the family's best china and crystal, their most .precious heirloom tablecloth and the foods that make this such a meaningful meal. Each item has a reason for being there, other than to satisfy hunger. Matzo, the unleavened bread, is there to represent the bread of the ancient Israelites because they fled from slaver; in. Egypt. over 3,000 years ago, without time to let their bread rise. Symbolic Lamb Haroset is also served, a thick paste of chopped apples, walnuts, sweet wine, honey and cinnamon. This. is used to resemble the mortar used by the Israelites in building cities as slaves of the Pharoah. Some form of roast lamb will
lical days,. Betza is there too, this is a roasted or hardboiled egg that is dipped into salt water to recall the divided waters of the Red Sea; and Moror, bitter herbs, often >borseradish, recalls to the Jewish family the bitter slavery that their ancestors suffered in Egypt. In many Christian homes a Seder table is set to celebrate Holy Thursday, for this is the day that our Lord turned bread and wine into His body ,and blood. We've celebrated this supper at our house and while it doesn't work as well as we would like, it still gives ,this day a little more meaning while at the same time our children get a brief history lesson on the Hebrew people. Ecumenically speaking, it certainly doesn't hurt our family to have a nodding acquaintance with the customs and beliefs of those of other faiths. Not if all men are to live together as brothers. If my eyes light on chopped liver on a menu, there's no second thought about what appetizer I'll choose. This is one dish beloved by Gentiles and Jews alike. Chopped Liver 1/2 _ cup or chicke~ fat Ih cup diced onion 1 pound chicken li vers (broiled) 1 hard-cooked egg 1 teaspoon salt ~ teaspoon pepper 1) Heat oil or fat in a heavy skillet and saute the onions for 5 minutes. 2) Let the onions cool in the skillet. 3) Grind or chop together the livers, egg and entire contents of skillet. Add salt and pepper. Chill. 4) Serve on lettuce or in a sandwich.
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Schedule Meeting On' Religion, Peace PITTSBURGH (NC)-Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh has asserted ,that a "solid passion for peace" now exists among religious leaders throughout the world. Speaking at a .press conference here, Bishop Wright pre-, dicted that a "new theology of peace" will emerge from a world conference on religion and peace scheduled to be held in Kyoto, Japan, in September, 1970. The Pittsburgh bishop recently returned from an advisory committee meeting in fstanbul, Turkey, where ,plans were made for the conference. Kyoto was chosen as the site of ,the conference so that the peace meeting will coincide wi,th the world's fair, Expo '70, scheduled to be held there next year, Bishop Wright saidf
He added that Japan is a neutral country-both religiously and politically-where Arab and Real Test Jew can meet. He said that JaTo act cooly, intelligently and pan's experience with the horprudently in perilous circum- rors of nuclear 'war has inspired stances is the test of a man and . in that nation a desperate' quest also a nation. . -Stevenson for peace.
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SEMINAR FOR EDITORS: Among the high school editors at· 'tending, the seminar on journalism at the No. Dartmouth Diocesan High School, were, left to right: John Medeiros, Fairhaven; Dione Froment, Jesus Mary Academy, Fall River; Nino Carroll and Mary Ann Adamowski, co-editors of the Stong High publication. '
Campaign Catholic Women's Hono~ Society Works to Save Higher Education DETROIT (~C) Karpa Gamma Pi, national Catholic college women's honor society, has mounted a nationwide campaign to help solve the financial problems of private higher education. Co-chairmen of the Kappas' National Education 'Project are Mrs. Joseph Hansknecht, Jr., and Mrs. Lawrence Mailloux of Detroit, who have long worked to promote legislation to benefit private institutions of higher learning. , Mrs. Mailloux said the present project is the result of a lengthy study in this area, that consisted in meetings probing the problems of Catholic education. "The fact became more and more clear," she said, "that plain old money was the root of most of the problems. . "As costs continued to rise, the people were allowing their confidence in the value of Catholice education to erode under the encroaching tide of financially impossible,' " Mrs. Mailloux stated. "However, we also began to learn that others were becoming alarmed at the bleak future facing all private education with the ultimate result being the. loss of freedom of choice in education," she said. Enrollments Decline The present financial crisis in higher education is acute. The enrollments in private colleges have been steadily declining because of rising tuition costs. State tax funds' for 'public higher education have increased by 214 per cent since 1960. To achieve some balance between public and private education, several states have en-
acted tuition grant programs, but Mrs. Mailloux s'aid the Kappas believe. it imperative that such legislation be nationwide. The long-range program of the Kappas' National Education Project has as its purpose: To work with colleges in preparing public understanding o~ the economic and cultural contribution made by the private college. To promote cooperation among independent colleges withiri each state. To act as a clearinghouse of information on developments in new proposed legislation, state to state. To capitalize on their ability to promote pending legislation through the many citizens groups in which individual Kappas have some influence.
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If you are the only parent living with your children, we suggest the One-Parent Family Plan. Th~ covers you and all eligible children living at home between 3 months of age and under 19. Under this plan, of course, future additions are not included since DO maternity benefit is provided in the OneParent Family Plan. You pay only $5.95 a month and you get your first month for only $J.OOI
INDIVIDUAL PLAN $5,000 MAXIMUM , PAYS YOU: $100 weekly . ($14:28 daily) extra cash Income while you are hospitalized. If you are living by yourself, orwish to cover only one family member, you will want the Individual Plan. You pay only $3.25 a month and you get your first month for only $1.001 (NOTE: See below for over·65 rates and how you may enroll parents who are over 65.)
cover any accident immediately, the very dayyollr polit;y goes into effect-and any new sickness which begins after your policy is 30 days old. There are only these minimum necessary exceptions: pregnancy or any consequence thereof (unless you have the All-Family Plan), war, military service, nervous or mental disease or disorder, suicide; alcoholism. or drug addiction, or con'ditions covered by Workmens Compensation or Employers Liability Laws. You are free to go to any hospital of your own choice that makes a charge for room and board, with these exceptions only: nursing homes, convalescent or self-care units of hospitals, Federal hospitals, or any hospital primarily for treatment of tuberculosis, alcoholism, drug addiction. or nervous or mental disorder.
Special Note If You Are Over 65 . During this limited enrollment you can get the extra cash protectioll needed to fill the gaps in Medicare simply by filling out the Enrollment Form on next page withollt any other qllalijicati01IS! The Hospital Plan for Catholics not only accepts yoil regardle~s of age, it gives you hard·to-find extra cash protectioll during the high·risk senior years at a cost withi,,' )'Ollr means. . If you are over 65 now, or when you be-
come 65, the following modest monthly increase applies. (This is the only increase that can ever be made as long as you continue your policy in force): Female on All-Family or Husband·Wife Plan .. , ..... ADD: $2.25 Female on One-Parent Family or Individual Plan ADD: $3.00 Male o.n any Pl~n :., ADD: $3.00
'Are Your Parerits Senior Citizens?
Your "Health-Bank Account" He.re's a wonderful benefit, no matter which plan you choose, almost like an extra"Bank Account." When your policy' is issued, your insurance provides up' to $10,000, $;],500 or $S,OOO-according to the Plan you choose. This is your "HealthBank Account" Then, every month your policy is 'in force, an amount e/qual to your regular monthly premium (including your first month) is actually added to your maximum! When you have claims; your· benefits are simply subtracted from your "ac-
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PAYS YOU: $100 weekly . ($14.28 daily) extra cash 'income while you are has· pitalized. $75 weekly ($10,71 daily) while your wife is hospitalized. $50 weekly ($7.14 daily) for each eligible child hospitalized. If yours is a young growing family, we recommend the All-Family Plan. You and your wife are covered at once for accidents, for sicknesses which begin after your policy 'is 30 days old, and for maternity benefits after your policy has been in force for 10 months. And all your unmarried dependent children - between 3 months of age and under 19 are included at no extra cost as long as they livo at home. (This includes not only your present children but any future additions.) You PllY only $7.95 a month and you get your flrs~ month for only $J.ool
If you;as husband, father and breadwinner are suddenly hospitalized, your income stops, your expenses go up. Even if you have some kind of "salary insurance" it probably wpn't come close to replacing your full-time pay. If your wife is suddenly hospitalized, who will look after the family, do the laundry, the marketing, the cleaning? You may have to take time off from your job-or hire domestic help. If one of your children is hospitalized, you'll certainly spare no expense. If you're a sen-
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Even though your parents are covered by Medh;are, a serious condition requiring lengthy hospitalization can mean the end of their reserves and loss of· independence. To honor their independence and safeguard your own reserves, enroll your parents in the Hospital Plan for Catholics during this
limited Enrollment. Have the parent to be enrolled complete and sign the Enrollment Form, but enter )'Ollr address c/o your name. (Example: c/o John Jones, 120 Main Street, .Anytown, U.S.A,) We will send the policy and premium notices to you. Just enclose $1 for the first month:'"
" Accidental D.eath Benefit On All Four Plans In the event of the accidental death (within 90 days of an accident) of any person covered under the' Hospital Plan for Catholics, $500 will be paid to· any beneficiary you
wish to name, s\!bject to the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy. You may, if you wish, name your parish as your beneficiary.
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of FaU River-Thurs. Mar. 27. 1969
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18 Important Questions Answered ABOUT THE NEW HOSPITAL PLAN !FOR CATHOLICS I. What ;s the Hospital Plan for Catholics? The Hospital Plan for Catholics is a brand· new, low·cost health procection plan-created especially for Catholics-that pal's exIra cash ;ncom,e direct to you when covered accident or illness hospitalizes you or a member of your family, 2. Why do I need the Hospital Plan for Cath· olics in addition to my regular insurance? Probably your present hospital insurance won't cover all l'our hosnital expenses, but even if it does, you will Jlill need help to cover all YOUt household expenses when you are hospitalized, 3. Can I collect even though I carry other health insurance? Yes, the Plan pays you in addition to any health in, surance you carry. whether individual or groupeven Medicare! And all your benefits are tax·free! 4. Is there a lot of red tape to quali(y? None at all. You r only qualification is to complete and mail your Enrollment Form by the deadline date shown on the form below.
S. Which plan should I choose? You may choose any of four low·cost plans-you can actUally select the oxacl plan that suits you best! If yours is a young, gtowing family, we recom· mend the All·FAMILY PLAN. You and your wife Bre covered Qt once for accidents, for new sicknesses, which begin aftet your policy is 30 d~ys old, and for maternity benefits after yOUt policy has been in force for 10 months. All your unmarried dependent children (and future additions) between 3 months and under 19 are included, at no extra cost, as long as they live at home. If you are the only parent living with your children, we suggest the ONE·PARENT FAMILY PLAN. This covers you and all eligible children living tlt home between 3 months of age and under 19. Undet this plan, of course, future additions are net included since no ma~rnitY benefit is provided in the ONE·PARENT FAMILY PLAN.
count"-much like putting money iIi and takingit out of the bank. Peace Of Mind And Security
For as long as you live and con~inue. to pay your premiums, we will never cancel or refuse to renew your policy for health reasons-and we guarantee that we will never cancel, mo~ify or terminate your policy unless we decline renewal on all policies of this type in your elllire state or until the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy has been paid. Extra Cash In Addition To Other Insurance
Yes, the Hospital Plan for Catholics pays you in addition to any health insurance you carry, whether individual or group-even Medicare! Furthermore, all your benefits are tax-free! Of course, you may carry only one like poliCy with Mutual Protective. Surprisingly Low Cost Membership in the Hospital Plan for Catholics costs considerably less than you might
, If you have no children, or if your children are grown and no lonJ.:er del'endent un you, you will want rhe HUSBAND-WIFE PLAN. Or. if you are living by yourself, you will want the INDIVIDUAL PLAN. 6. If r become hospitalized. when do my bene· fits begin? . On a// plans, your cash benefits are paid from the very first day you enter the hospiral. for as long -and for as many times~as you are hospitalized, up [0 the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of the plan you choose. 7. How much Can I be paid in a Carholic hos· piral? Each plan has its Own "Aggregare of Benefits," what we call the maximum. For example. under the ALL·FAMII.Y PLAN. tho maximum iJ $ 10,000-$ 100 a week ($ 14.28 a day) extra cash income while you are hospital. ized. $75 weekly ($lll,71 daily) while your wife is hospitalized, '$50 weekly ($7.14 daily) for each eligible child hospitalized. Under the ONE·PARENT FAMILY PLAN.lhe maximum is S7.500-$IOO weekly ($14.28 daily) while you are hospitalized. $50 weekly ($7.14 daily) for each eligible child hospiralized. Underrhe HUSBAND·WIFE PLAN, the max;mum ;J $7.500 - $100 weekly ($14.28 daily) while you are hospitalized. $75 weekly ($10.71 daily) while your wife is hospitalized. Under rhe INDIVIDUAL PLAN. Ihe max;· mum is $5,000 - $100 a week ($14.28 a day) while you are hospiralized. 8. Must I go to a Catholic hospital to collect benefits? No. you will be covered in any hospital of your cboice that makes a charge for room and board, excepr nursing homes. convalescent or self·care units of hospitals, Federal hospitals. or any hospi· tal primarily for the rreatmenr of tuberculosis, drug addiction. alcoholism. or nervous or mental dis· order.
expect. Regardless of your age, size of your family, or the plan you select, you get your first month for only $1.00. See box on preceding page for low rate of plan that suits you best. How Can We Do It? . How can we offer so much for so little? The answer is simple: We Ilave lower total sales costs! The Hospital Plan for Catholics is a mass enrollment plan-all business is conducted directly between you and the company by mail. No salesmen are used. No costly investigations or extra fees. It all , adds up to real savings we share with you by giving you top protection at lower cost. '.
A Respected Company
In addition to the exceptional advantages of the Hospital Plan for Catholics-you get something even more valuable: Your policy is backed by the resources and integrity of the Mutual Protective Insurance Company, "The Catholic's Company," specializing in low-cost protection for Catholics
9. When does my policy go intO force?
Then. every month your policy is in force, an It becomes effective the very same day we receive amount equal to your regular monthly premium (including your first month) is actually added to your Enrollment Form. Accidents rhar occur on or your maximum. When you have claims. benefits after that date are covered immediarely. After your are simply sublracled from your "account:' policy is 30 days old, sicknesses which begin there· after are covered. Under the ALL-FAMILY PLAN, 14. Are there any other unusual benefits? childbirth or pregnancy Or any consequence there· Yes. In the event of an accidental death (within of is covered after your policy has been in force 90 days of an accident) of any person covered, for 10 monrhs. $500 will be paid to the covered person's bene10. What if someone in my family has had a ficiary (you may name your parish as beneficiary health problem that may occur again? if you wish) subject to the maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy. Any covered family member who has suffered from chronic ailments in the past will be covered for 15. Will my claims be handled prompdy? these pre-existing conditions after he has been pro' Yes, With your policy. you will receive a simple. tected by the pol icy for two years. easy·!O-use Claim Form. Your claims will be proc· II. What' conditions aren'r covered? essed quickly and your checks sent direcdy to you. Only these minimum necessary exceptions: preg- • 16. Why are the premiums in the Hospital Plan nancy or any consequence rhereof (unless you for Catholics so low? have rhe ALL-FAMILY PLAN). war, military You actually /let all rhese benefirs-at such a low service, nervous or menral disease or disorder, cost-because Ihis is a mass enrollmenr plan-and suicide. alcoholism or drug addiction, or any Con· no salesmen are used. Our volume is higher and dition covered by Workmen's Compensation or , our sales costs are lower. Employers Liability Laws. 17. How much does my first month COSt? 12. Can I drop OUt any time? Can you drop Only $1.00. regardless of your age, the size of me? your family or rhe plan you select. After rhe first We will never cancel or refuse ro renew your month. if you are under 65. you pay only these low policy for healrh reasons-for as Ion!! as you live monthly rares: only $7.95 a monrh for rhe ALLand continue to pay your premiums. We guaranree FAMILY PLAN; only $5.95 a month for the thar we will never cancel. modify or terminate ONE·PARENT FAMILY PLAN; only $5.75 a your policy unless we decline renewal on all poli· month for the HUSBAND·WIFE PLAN; only cies of this type in your enrire state or until the $3.25 a month for THE INDIVIDUAL PLAN. maximum (Aggregate of Benefits) of your policy (When you are over 65, premiums increase. See has been paid. You. of course, can drop your pol· modest increase in box at left.) icy on any renewal dare. 18. Why should I enroll right now? 13. Why is the Hospital Plan for Catholics almost like having an exrra "bank account"? Because an unexpecred sickness or occident could strike withour warning - and you will nor be When your policy is issued. your insurance pro- covered uncil your policy is in force. Remember. vides up to $10,000. $7.500, or $S.OOO-depend. if for any reaSOn you change your mind, you may ing on rhe Aggregate of Benefits of rhe plan you return your policy within 10 days and your $1.00 choose. This is your "Health·Bank Account." will be refunded immediately.
all acrosS America for over 35 years. Catholics everywhere, possibly right in your own community (including many priests), know of us and may be insured by us. Many Catholic school children have for years enjoyed Mutual Protection coverage. Serving policyholders throughout the United States direct by mail, Mutual Protective has its headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, where it is incorporated and
Doesn't it make good sense for you to be protected by the Hospital Plan for CatholicS', should you or a member of your family be suddenly hospitalized? Why not take a moment now to fiU out your Enrollment Form and mail it promptly with only $/.OO-"introductory" cost for your first mOilth's coverage. Monel'·~ack Guarantee
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When you receive your policy, you'll see that it is direct, honest, easy to understand. But if for any reason you change yO"7 mind, you may return it within 10 days and we will promptly refund your dollar. Please Note: Because this is a limited enrollment, we can only accept enrollments postmarked on or before the date shown below. But please don't wait! The sooner we receive your Form, the sooner your Hospital Plan for Catholics will cover you and your family. We cannot cover you if your policy is not in force!
No Red Tape-No Salesman Will Call
If you enroll now, during this limited enrollment period there are no other qualifications other than to complete and mail the EnrolIment Form below. We will issue yolU' Hospital Plan for Catholics (Form P147 Series) immediately-the same day we receive your Form. Along with your policy, you will receIve an easy-to-use Claim Form, Any time you need your benefits, you can be sure that your claim will be handled promptly.
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THE ANCH' R-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 27, 1969
The Parish Parade. Publicity chairmen f parish organizations are aske I to. submit news items for this c lumn tl1 The Anchor, P. O. Box 7 Fall River
02722. OUR LADY OF A GELS, FALL RIVER Children of Mary announce a penny sale at the parish hall Friday, April 25. Parishioners and friends are invied. The unit will hold a Childr n of .MarY Feast at the 8 o'cloc Mass Sunday morning, May 11, followed at 6 'the same eveni gby a banquet at the hall. A cake sale is planned fpr June. The Holy Name Society will sponsor a Communi nbreakfast Sunday, April 13 a d an "oldfashioned social" Sa urday night, April 19. HOLY NAME, FALL ~IVER . The Ecumenism ommittee of . the parish' council ill sponsor an open house in Hi church and school ~rom 7 to 9 S nday night, April 13. Par,ishione s are urged to bring a non-Catiholic friend for this guided to?r.' Refreshments will be se~ved in the sShooi and the Sist~~ and priests will be present at th· social hour . to answer questions. .
ST. MARGARET,. BUZZARDS' BAY Members of SS. MargaretMary GuIld will form J1Good Friday guard of honor. for St. Margaret and St. Mary churches. Executive board member's met last night at the 'home of Mrs. John ,McManus.. The next regular guild meeting will' take place Wednesday nig,~t, April 2. SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER High seho.ol CCD students will meet' at 5 Sunday' afternoon, March 30 in the school basement. A folk Mass will conclude thek program at 7:30. The 'adult choir ,will meet at 7:30 tonight in the church. · A penny sale is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29 and 30, ,at the school. . IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, EASTON
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BISHOP McCAULEY
Americans Serve Uganda Mission When Pope Paul VI flies to Uganda for -his African visit -in July he will find more than 100 American missionaries working there, representing six groups of American priests, 'eight sister-· hoods and 'three groups of Brothers.
Approves Modern' New.' Testament\
Diocese Reports Financial Status
education in this Pennsylvania GREENSBURG (NC)":'-' Children in all elemel1tOO'y schools of - See. Some schools in 'the diocese the Greensburg Diocese will be will accept non-grading .100 per allowed to progress at each indicent while others will adopt the vidual's rate of learrung through program gradually, Sister bethe initiation of 'a non-graded lieves. All diocesan elementary educational program. schools must implement some In this type of schooling, the type of non-graded program by child is placed in a group where September 1969, she added. he is most comfortable according to his potential. In doing so, the effects of competition are eliminated a nd each child assumes full responsibility for his own learning, There is no top or bottom of WORCEST'ER - Rev. Georges the class and parents can be asL. Bissonnette, A.A., the first sured of ,their chiLdren's continpresident in the 65-year history uous progress. of Assumption College to be "The Office -of Education has elected by a lay-'cleric board of encouraged non-g~aded protrustees, will be inaugurated grams for some years,' but now Tuesday, May 6. we feel it needs a little more The 12th president of the colemphasis," says ,Sister Mary lege, Father Bissonnette reMcClory, associate director of ceived widespread attention the department of 'elementary . when he was elected last October by a new lay-cleric board of tr.ustees made up predominantly of laymen. Previous presidents had been appointed by a five-man board made up solely COVINGTON (NC) -Mother of Assumptionist priests. Main Address Mary Gertrude Dunn has anA large number of alumni, nounced that the Sisters of ~he Visitation will discontinue op_· students,' parents; officials of colleges and universities, and eration of the girls' boarding representatives of learned socischool at Cardome Academy, Georgetown, Ky., in June. It eties , as well as civic of.ficials are expected to attend. Father will become a Montessori' school specializing in the education of Bissonnette will deliver the mai'n address.' . pre-school youngsters. A former professor and acaMother Gertrude cited spiraling costs, insufficient personnel demic dean of Assumption, he received international headlines and the decreasing needs for in 1955 when he was' ousted 'boarding schools as. major facfrom ,the U.S.S.R. At that time tors underlying the decision. he was serving as Apostolic AdShe also said it was aimed at ministrator of the U.S.S.R. and allowing the. Sisters to, strive for th~ objectiv~s set ·forth by. the Catholic 'chaplain to the diplomatic ·colony ih' MoscoW. His' Second Vatican" Council, whereby book, "Moscow Was My Parish," religiqus communities must dipublished in 1956, was widely rect their work towards spiritual acclaimed and later was transrenewal and adaptation to the lated into French. needs of the times. She said, boarding schools were an unplanned outgrowth Rnchm~md of the work of the Visitation Sisters, who will now return to some of the original desires of RICHMOND (NC)-Richmond their founder, St. Francis de diocese priests get a $1,200 anSales, including tutoring, catechetical work, assistance to the nual salary increase effective aged, and the education of very April 1. Under the new scale, recommended by' the diocesan small children. council of priests, pastors get The Montesssori day school, for children aged'two-and-one- $3,000 a year assistants, $2,400. Tied in with the raise is a polhalf to five, will lie a first step in this direction, Mother Ger- icy revision governing stole fees -offerings made to priests at trude said. weddings, baptisms and funerals -which provides the fees· will go to parish funds, rather than distributed to priests in the poorer parishes. . Stipends for Mass intentions NEW YORK (NC)-Seminarians of the New York archdio~ will continue to be received by cese have issued a report calling the celebrants, while offerings for major changes in theological for annual novenas will be abolished. ' training, including creation of a council that would give students a voice in running the seminary. The report was issued by the NEW RATES!! student council of St. Joseph's Seminary, major seminary of Regular Savings 5% the archdiocese in suburban Yonkers. It was based on a ques90 Day N6tice 5%% tionnaire submitted to the student body last -December. Systematic 6% The seminarians urged more Daily Interest % ·contact with non-Catholic educational insti-tutions; an 'end to Term Certificate 5V2% compulsory' daily Mass requirements; elimination of 'numerous rules of cbnduct on campus; and' experi!l!.entation . with / small groups of students living in offca!'llpus communities.' Bank by Moil The students asked . that daily we pay the postage attendance .at Mass be made optional'rather than mandatory, to • SOUTH YARMOUTH • HYANNIS enJ.1ance the "spiritual 'matura· • ·Y/lRMOUTH. SHOPPING. PLAZA . tion of .the individual and the • OSTERVILLE • DENNIS PORT. community.",. ~
Will Inaugurate New President
Marking the conclusion. of the Easton' Church' Basketball League's 10th season, a b;;mquet and recognition program will be held at 6:45 tonight in 'the parish hall. Boys, girls ,and <parents will be honored ~and the featured. The largest American contin· speaker will be Sam Jones 'of gent consists of 26 priests, 14 the Bostod Celtics. Brothers and six Sisters of the Organizers' note' that the Congregation of Holy Cross, ST. PATRICK, league :is ecumenical and ·that Notre Dame, Ind. Bishop VinWAREHAM over 150'\ boys played in. its cent McCauley, C.S.C., a native games during the past sea,son, The Women's Guild will preof Council Bluffs, Iowa, is Bishwhile 50 girls participated· as sent slides .on the invasion of opof Fort' Portal, where Sisters Prague at an open meeting at cheerleaders. Stanley BUrt is of Philadelphia operate a hospi8:30 Monday nigh, April 14. league chai.rman. tal. Members of SS. M rgaret-Mary OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, Catholicism was introduced Guild of Buzzards ayand OnOSTERVILLE . into Uganda in the 19th century. set will 'be special uests. . The Spring luncheon-bridge of Today Catholics number more the Women's Guild will be held than' 2,500,000 in a'totai popula-' ST. MARY'S CATH DRAlL, . Tuesday, April ,8, 'at lj:ast 'Bay tionof' about s'even nlillion peo':' FALL RIVER · Lqdge. Preceded .by· a social pIe. Archbishop Emanuel" 'K. The newly-orga 'zed school hour, the luncheon will be Nsbuga of Kampala heads the board has as' presi ent, Donald' served a.t 1 o'clock. A door' prize hierarchy of Uganda; five of' 11 Carroll, aided by R bert Mitchwill be awarded. . suffragan bishops are natives of ell, vice-president; rs. Louise Mrs. John Shields and Mrs. this cquntry. McCarthy and Mrs. Nancy RaFr,ank Harrington head a large The. first African bishop of posa, secretaries;J mes Diskin, 'arrangements committee, from ,modern' times was a Ugandanauditor; Mrs. Elean r Levesque, all of whom tickets are availthe late Archbishop Joseph Kipublic relations cha·rman. able. wanuka of Masaka,consecrated IMMACULATE CO by Pope Pius XII in 1939. ST. MARY, NORTH EASTON The Martyrs of Uganda, 22 -~0FAIRHAVEN young Christians who gave their A Spring. concer, postponed " A Laugh~In Variety Show from an earlier d te due to will be "sponsored by parishion- . lives for the Faith, were canonweather conditions, m be preers at 8 Saturday 'and Sunday ized by Pope Paul VI on June 3, 1964. sented·at 8 Satli day night, nights, April·l9. and 20 'at ElizMarch 29 by lheWo ne,n's Guild. 'abeth Hastings' ·Junior High The present flourishig cimdiArtists will includ ' Miss Doris School. Pro,ceeds will reduce the tionof the Church -in Uganda is evidenced. by its 237 parishes Tirrell, Walter Lendl'Mrs. Marchurch debt. garet Carver, Mrs. Helen TibMalcolm Tripp -is dkector and manned by 808 priests. More bets, Arthur Illsley, pavid Ben- Mrs. Lucien -Dlugosinski and. than 1,500 elementary and secjamin and Charles ozell. TickMrs. John Wojcik are ticket coondary schools under catholic ets are available' from guild chairmen. Tickets are also availauspices are educating more members and will llso be sold able a.t the rectory ~ ..Rev. Rich-a,rd than 250,000 students. at the door. Refres mients will Lynch, 5S.Ce., -honorary chairfollow the concert. man, is also in charge of 'advertising for a program book. Organ'izers that if I .announce . . response warrants, .repeat perNEW YORK '(NC) - Richard formances will be held the Continued from age One Cardinal .cushing of Boston, has weekend of April 26 and. 27. solidation must be f llowed. He granted his approval (imprima'tur). to Today's English Version added that all ClthOliC. high of the New Testament; published schools must e.ven.tu. llY. be operated on a regional bl\sis. 'by the' American Bible Society. The $6.8 million St. Mark's , Announcement that the bestSPOKANE (NC) -'Sufficient High School' 'compl oX in Wilselling New Test;:lment, popularassets offset liabilities in' the mington will have' I faculty of ly known as "Good News for Spokane diocese,. a financial. re13 lay teachers, two prie'sts and , Modern Man" and firsfpuolished 19 Sisters from .s' different port maoe 'public her~ disclosed. in 1966, had received the cardiThe report, s):l.owirig a $2,746,300 religiouscommunitie '. St. Mark's nal's imprimatur was made here will fea.ture flexible scheduling, surplus, is the first pub~ic report by the -Rev.· Dr. Laton·E. Holmon finances made by' the diocese. small group instructi n and oth"The financial condiNon' of the gren, a general -secretary of the. er inQoy.ative educa' ional techdiocese is good, largely' because Bible society. niques. of the DDF '(Diocesan DevelopThe TEV New Test¥J.ment, Pre~ent pl1111S call for a Sep- ment Fund) campaigns;" Father which leads annual book sales temi?er opening ',wit 'a class of Theodoric deJon'g, Spokane di- in the. U. S.,has been widely between 400 !lnd 45 Freshmen: ·.ocesan ·comptroller,. said: "The used by persons in Cbfistian Tuitiori~nd fees wi 1 total $3.50": diocese ·has. been able ~osupport . education at all lev.cls, i~'cluding per stlldent ·but ',eff tots wi.ll.. be ...existing,::al1d: "new, programs Roman' Catholic teachers and made to helpqualiff d,,~obr s~u-. :.: witho.ut' ad.aitjoijaFappeaJs.", priests. A total of more than 14.9 dents toati~rid -tile . ~ho.01, P9S,.;;;:::i"·'-TheJ·.ch)ort:sh6W.&· the. ~pokane Il).illion copies have' been circu- . sibly ai~<;d:, by: p'<!r' h ..scholi1r':;dioc.e,s~<):las, :aisets/of~$5,92~,400, lated since it was first published ships. . ,. '" . and lfaIJilitiesto't.iling $3)83,100. ih Sepfember, ·1~66. " ~.,;
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BALTIMORE (NC) Plans for the nation's first regional arbitration board to settle dis put e s between priests and bishops have been approved by the bishops and representatives of the priests of the BaLtimore archdiocese and the Richmond, Va. and Wilmington, Del., dioceses. Approval by the Wheeling, W. Va., diocese, the other diocese in the Baltimore province, is expected soon. Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore, Bishop John J. Russell of Richmond and Bishop Thomas J. Marda,ga of Wilmington have already ap.proved the proposal, which was drafted by representatives of the region's priests. Bishop Joseph H. Hodges of Wheeling has substantially agreed to the plan and is expected to express official approval soon, according to Father William F. Burke, vice-president of the Baltimore Senate of Priests and communications chairman of ,the National Federation of Priests Councils (NFPC). 'Model Program' He described the proposed board as "unique" and said it is being recommended to NFPC as a model program. Details were circulated to priests'. councils and assodations throughout the nation 'in a recent NFPC publication. The priest said a referendum now being circulated tQ priests in the region asks them to vote on the proposal and to bind themselves to the arbitration procedures it ~rescribes. If established/ the board will be made up of three pl'iests (two diocesan, one religious), layman and one nun from each diocese, and all bishops and resident provin~ials in the dioceses.. From this board a three-man he'aring panel will be drawn whenever a dispute ,is to be decided. These three will be a priest (diocesan or Religious depending on the nature of the case), a layman or Religious, and a bishop or provincial. Secret Hearings The plan stipulates that the panel should not include persons from the same diocese as the disputants and, if possible the three should be from different dioceses. The panel may ,have the assistance of ex'perts in whatever field the sItuation may demand but they are to act as advisers only. Other operatng procedures contained in the plan are: The hearings are to be secret. The presumption of innocence ,is always recognized. In all procedures in which pen'alties may be imposed the accused will not be deprived of any right, office or communion wi,thin the Church except by due process of law. Results of the ,arbitration may be made public at the request of one of the parties. Recourse to the board should be the last step 'in the a,ttempt to settle a problem. Machinery is suggested to de'al with grievances on· the diocesan level. It is recommended that' regular channels to ,the board be made available in Ithe event this fails.
Little Tried Man's capacities have never been measured. Nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.-Thoreau.
Y'Ou~g Ai~ 'Force Sergeant Beg~ "A-jd for 150 Vietnamese l(ids 'Who' Have Nothing at All' fly Pat1·icia. Francis
The first Sunday he was in Vietnam. Sgt, Adalino "AI". Cabral of New Bedford "met" the nuns and children with whom he was to spend most of his free time during his tour of duty there. "It was at Mass my first Sunday," he recalls. "The priest talked about Love of the Cross Orphanage in Tan Binh-and I got involved." Cabral's involvement ranged from "helping to build, paint, anything, they needed, because the nuns couldn't really do much manual work," to "trying to teach the boys baseball and trying to teach the girl'S how to play jacks." The latter, the young Air Force sergeant admits, "was pretty hard. My sister taught me." . Cabral, 23, a parishioner of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception church, arrived home two weeks ago to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manual R. Cabral of 511 North Front Street, and his brother, Oliver M., and sister Dorothy. Another sister, Maria, Mrs. Joseph Gale-" go, also lives in New Bedford. A graduate of New Bedford High Schaol, Cabral went into the Air Force right after graduation. He will complete his final six months at Travis Air Force Base in California. Then he "hopes' to tryout junior college, something in business." Didn't Have Anything However, as much as he is looking forward to the future, Al Cabral's thoughts keep going back to the 150 YOl"ngsters at Love of the Cross. "They were nice little kid'S," he says. "And they. didn't have anything. "They and ,the nuns and Father Han, the chaplain, are refugees from North Vietnam. They're under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Nha Trang, about 35 miles north of Cam Ranh Ba'y -(where Cabral was stationed with the 12th Transportation Squadron)- but anything we have, they don't." The need of his y()ung friends plagued Cabral and he decided to do something about it. He wrote home to his family telling them about the children and their poverty. He wrote to The Standard-Times and radio stations in New Bedford, asking them to pass on his plea for help for the youngsters. The response was "fantastic," he says. "I couldn't count the things that came in. We received so much from GreatE~r New Bedford we were astonished - and every single thing was used. "My mother actually went around asking everyone she knew, relatives, friends of the family, any()ne, to send what they could. She did quite a job. My whole family did, for that matter." But it was the generousheanted strangers who "really shocked" Cabral. "They weren't people we knew or anything.' They just heard ·there was a need, and they sent things." The children benefitted. "One day, maybe we'd get one
File Bill to Double Tuition Deduction ST. PAUL (NC) - A second ·bill that would raise the state income tax deduction that may be claimed for tuition and transportation cost of dependents attending elementary and secondary schools has been introduced in the Minnesota state legisla. ture. The bill would raise the deduction maximum from the present $200 to $400.
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box and the next day get four. 10 or so nuns who care for them. It was continuous." "We don't realize here how However, now that he is gone, much we have," ,he says. "Then Al Cabral continues to worry 'you see people like that who about his young friends. have nothing at all.", "They need everythingPackages for the children may clothes, canned goods, toys, toi- be sent to Love of the Cross Orletries. People there can't help . phanage, c/o Base Chaplain, much and there's -nobody else APO San Francisco, Calif. 96326. to help them." . They may weigh up to 70 pounds When he left Cam Ranh Bay, and total 100 'inches in size. "other GIs who are interested" took over the "helping hand" role Cabral played for a year. But, he says, "we had no response unfortunately from other home towns we wrote to." Cabral hopes the donations of food and clothes and medicines from this area - will keep on flowing to the children and the
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To Parents MILWAUKEE (NC)-Wisconsin State Sen. Marlin J. Schreiber said he supports state grants to parents of private scho?l children to save the public school system. Speaking on a local TV program, Schreiber cited financial problems of the .public schools, lowering of. educational standards in public schools and the large number of children behind in basic subjects as the basis for the assertion that public schools are in trouble. He said closings of nonpublic schools and transfer of their pupils Ito public schools increased the public schools' problems. . The parents of private school children, he said, "can no longer afford the overburdening tuition amounts they are paying." Schreiber said he would introduce legislation which would give parents $50 for each child in a private elementary' school and $100 for each child in a private high school. He said the grants would cost $13.3 million. Mrs. James B. Ricketts, a member of the board of directors of the Greater Milwaukee Council of Churches, denied that private schools have a claim on public funds. She said the grants would encourage parents dissatisfied with public' schools to withdraw their children and set up highly selective private schools.
Calix Society Seeks To Help Alcoholics MINNEAPOLIS (NC) A drive ,to raise $25,000 is being conducted 'by the Calix Society, a Cath()lic organization for the spiritual development of alcoholics. The organization is seeking funds to provide a full-time salaried secretary and for extension work of the society, which now is established in the U. S. and four other countries.
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By Barabam W m'd . However mu h we may keep faith with the idea of building: a genuin! world community, faith without works is a barren road, he immediate practical problem is how, given our vast ivisions and murderous hostilties, we can move forwa , a step \ or two at a tim , 'toward forts can' be launched - and workable interna 'ional ar-· launched in time. rangements. One field has ~nte~tional Agencies
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Christianity, peeled down to its innermost core, is not a religion solely consisiing of .sermons or pious thoughts or isolated prayers. Rather, it is a relildon of ACTIONl As Jesus has said, tT'd " . ~ompe live al ~glv1Og .IS a ree"If you love me, keep my commandments." Ipe for peace. VIOlence IS always Our eX'ample for this ".christianity-in:action" is the person an invitation to intervention. If of Jesus 'himself. The evangelist says of him simply: "He went unrest rises, the fortunate want around doiri,g ·good." Christ's worc;ls, Christ's prayers are beautia return to sta,tus quo, -the miser. ful ,and inspirational. But they wOl\ld mean nothing if they had able want more. vlole~ce. . not been accompanied by a lHe dedicated to the service of athers. If the Great Powers, America During Lent this column has' urged you to think about . and Russia, continue to feel a the missions, to pray for them, to listen carefully to the call profound stake in opposite sides -America in "stability," Russia of Christ in far-off lands. But the time has now come for all in "revolution"-they can both of . us to ACT upon these words, to give life and meaning to b' these ideas. 'ecome VIC t'Ims .0f -th e Ioca 1 groups th~y have '~egun to hel?. "Action demands sacrifice" is the universal complaint. This .Local rI v~lry Will explode In is true. But no one, not even Jesus, said ·that the life of a Christian Wider conflIcts. The confrontawould be ea.sy. Ours is not a comfort-able religion. Still, if we t'IOns 0 f V·Ie t nam, or th e M'd'dl I e truly want to give life to the words we :profess in the Creed, East-even though they were we must show an active concern for our world· brothers, even t 1 h d' th f' t ' 1 no aunc e 10 e Irs pace at the cost of personal hardship. by rival aid~giving_ could be UGANDA PRELATE: ArchbishLife in the missions is real. '['here is JOY, and there is sorrow. repeated ,all through ,the develop Emanuel K. Nsubuga of Very often, there is frustration. Children are starving, but there oping continents. Kampala. Uganda. heads the \ is not enough food ,to go around. Disease is rampant, but there Can't Give Up are not enough doctors or drugs available. Men and women are The answer to this risk, of hierarchy of Uganda. where Pope. Paul VI will visit in July.' denied the .opportunity to study the Faith due to lack of lay multiplying areas of confrontacatechists and priests. At the same time, many young men are tion in the developing world is turned away from seminaries because they simply cannot afnot to 'give up strategies for deford to keep them. velopment. Neither side is ready Who can -change this situation? YOU! Take this final week to leave the field of influence of Lent and use it to act - to sacrifice - on be'half of your fellow and economic interest entirely man. Remember that Christ "suffers" not just in the Uturgy of to the other. SAGINAW (NC)~A DominHoly 'Week, but that He is suffering daily in the poor and afNeither can agree to abandon ican min has joined the faculty flicted ·around the world. Make some special sacrifice this week the Third World ,·,to starvation of the new Saginaw Valley Colsince, in spite of endless hypoc- lege, a public institution in n~ar for the missions, and make it a truly holy week..ACT NOW! risies, hoth societies are dedi- by University Center here in SALAVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society cated to ,a humanitarian view of Michigan. for the Propagation of the Faith. Please' cut out this column and world order and 'both are having Dr. Alice Anna O'Rourke send your offering to Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara, trouble. woith a new generation (Sister Mary Martinice), . 45, National Director, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N:Y. 10001, or ,of young 'people precisely be- will be' an associate professor directly to your local Diocesan Director, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond cause of the gap between ideal of history. T. Considine, 368 North Main Street, Fall River, Massachusetts and achievemerit in' modern 'Dr... O'Rourke, who now re02'720. . technological society.. sides at the Dominican EducaBut there is a way in which a tion Center, Sinsinawa, Wis., policy ,of "defusing" local crises and is a member of the general This is for two r asons. The of their explosive possi,bilities council of the Sinsinawa Dominfirst is that if pre ent trends could -be combined with a modican Congregation, will ·wear lay continue, the chane s are high est practical advance _toward a dress while teaching at the colof a real deteriorati n of con- functioning world order. lege. ditions in the devel ping contiThis would -be an agreementThe first nun-teacher at the nents. Population go s up. Agri- between the Two' Great Powers college attained a near straight culture does not expa d, for lack -possibly as part of an effort oiof capital. Poverty-stricken peo- de-escalation in armaments--to A average during her own colRICHMOND (NC) - Virginia cloud the real issue here," Spinple stream out of the static farm transfer' to' the aid effort. re- lege student years. Her teach- legislators have been told that ella stated. "This is not an issue regions-as they 0 in the sources savel! ·by scaling down ing career dates back to 1942. Catholic schools in the state between church and state. It is She holds a .master's degree United States from labama or the arms race, to ohoose interfrom the Universi,ty of Notre may be forced to close unless an issue between school and Mississippi~and pile up in the state, and more appropriately, national agencies such as the Dame and a doctorate from the public aid is provided. cities, which are no yet ready United Nations Development' The contention was made at a between child and state." University of California at to supply them with jobs. Program (in which both are al- Berkeley. She was dean of wo- hearing of the education commitBut opponents insisted to the 'l'he strains and v olence that ready represented) to adminis- men at Rosary. College, River tees of the Virginia Senate and committees that any change in Americans see growi g -in ghetto teran agreed proportion /,of Forest, 0)11., from 1958 to 1960; the House of Delegates. The leg- the constitution would violate cities - where blac { migrants assistance and to adopt, formaliy . 'and earlier' was chairman of the islature is in special session to the church-state separation prj,nconfront.rates of un mplGYment and explicitly, an understanding college's department of history. consider extensive revisions to , ciple. the state's constitution. \ which may be above 30 per cent ' that neither side will exploit W.S. Southgate, representing Nicholas A. Spinella, attorney for adolescents--co d develop local problems which may arise and member of the Richmond Americans United for Separainto "ghetto contine ts" where during the development process. diocesan school board, urged tion of Church and State, argued the tragic torrent of moving Such undertakings perhaps aid to church-related the legislators to recommend re- that people ruins and empties the fall short of a full cooperative On scpools would violate the cla.\.lse moval of provisions in the prescountryside while r ining and effort for world development. CLEVELAND (NC)-Experiin the constitution prohibiting overcrowding the c·ties. They are nearer to a parallel ap- mental funeral rites, introducing ent constitution prohibiting ·aid establishment of a religion. He The 5,000 new mi rants who proach. But they mi~ht prove innovations at the wake, church to church-related schools. Mounting costs, he said, have also contended that by aiding come to Rio :de Ja eiro every a means of localizing' conflicts service and cemetery service, church-related schools, the state week leave misery , ehind-and and keeping' the over-large have been started ,by 96 parishes jeopardized the future of such would be "perpetuating religious_ with the permission of Bishop schools. then find it again. In these con- players out" of the 'bail game. "At some time in the future, segregation." Toward Cooperation Clarence· G. Issenmann. ditions, the· objectiv conditions James H. Smylie, professor of This is not a. completely .polly.,. Purpose of the experiments is some form of state aid to stufor development te d to grow worse unless 'greater counter ef- ann.a wish. The Soviet Union is to settle on a rite to be used uni- dents attending these schools church history at Union Theoa partner ,in the U.N.D.P. and fqrmly in the diocese, and in may be required' in order to in- logical Seminary, Richmond, argued that \ while " private other U.N. agencies. American time, in the entire Church. Fifty sure the survival of education schools perform a public good, Vincenti~ns tr» ,and Russian development pro- other dioceses in the U. S. and in Virginia," Spinella said. they. are not public schools and T,he monthly mee ing of the grams have co-existed in devel- other parts of the world also are Between Child. State He called for aid in transpor- should not look to the state for Fall River Particul r C.ouncil, oping countries-in Egypt, for participating. Society of St. Vince t de Paul, instance, or Iran. A sizeable . The family of the deceased tation, t~xt books, shared time support. will be held Tuesd. y evening, part of the current needs of de- will decide whether' the new or and health and welfare services "I do not want to pay for an, April 1 at 8 o'clock. ass will be \ veloping counfries--roads, pow- traditional service will be used. which are now denied students other man's religious institutions celebrated: in' St. Patrick's er, schools, urban plannihg-be-, The experimentation is aimed at in church-related schools here. and I do not want to be coerced Church {the lower hurch) at long in the main to the public a more clear expression of "the He denied' that furnjshing such into supporting my own," Smy7:30 and the meeting will follow sector in both American and paschal character /of Christian aid would violate the principle lie said. "It is good for the health in the school hall on Slade Russian society. But these coin- death." Hope and joy are to be ·of church-state separation. of religious institutions that Street. Parking facili ies will be cidences do not yet add up to emphasized 'in the new funeral "The church~state issue has . they keep their hands out of the available in the scho I yard. genuine coexistence. been used as a smokescreen to public coffers." rites. " been little. explore , althou.gh some workmg exa pIes eXISt. This is the field' f . t t'. 1 ~ 10 ern: IOna , e ; e 0 p - :.' ~hen hProgrtamds. . J.' ey ave en ed in the past 15 t b ye.ars. 0t' e seen as I'!S ~ut 0f rIva y mendS at' n Mcomhpe I-f Ion. uc aid 0 American has been "sold" to Congress on th e g roun d s th t l ' de . . t a, nomic assls. ance, n w y 10 pendent nations wou d fall prey' tIl C . t k o a oca ommums; a e over. But eq~ally a lot.o Sov,iet aid -to IndIa, to AfrIC and now, conceivably, to Lati Americahas been given sim ly because the Atlantic. states ha established the patte!-,n and G eat ~owe~s were felt. to need a foreign a'ld program 10 the. sam ~ay that t~ey ne~d.a navy or an 1OternatIonal alrl1Oe. Perha,ps ·this com etition has had its valuable side. Part of the assistance which as raised s.kills, ,built roads" provided power and fed -babiesl from Guyana to Ghana woul not have been forthcoming ithout the rivalry and the ch llengebetween the Great P w~rs. But this' does not mean hat we can accept the s\lme P ttern as a sa·fe one for the Seventies. Ghetto Conti <ents
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Archbishop Raimondi Cautions Advocates of Radical Change HARTFORD (NC)-Arehbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States, cautioned promoters of "radical change" to Ibe wary of making "shallow and rash judgments that can result in serious misunderstandings of the Church's nature 'and aims." Speaking at the installation of Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford in S1. Joseph's eathedral ,here, the Apostolic Delegate underscored: "The Jnheritance of the Church is not the accumulated human wisdom of the eenturies; rafJher, it is the continuation of the work of Christ through the ages, with His continuous presence, vivifying and renewing her, giving ·her strength and sustaining her." Archbishop Raimondi said there are some who limit themselves to "a surface consideration of things," and others tempted to confine the Church's revelance to an institution which accomplished great things in the past but cannot now find a place in the lives of the people. Rash Judgments "Some ask themselves: Is the Church still a living and viable institution? Much is spoken about renewel and we even hear voices declaring that re.newal is not enough; these either promote the idea of a radical change, a change that would affect the very essentials of the Church, or they advocate an outright fading away," Archbishop Raimondi said. "We suppose that such shallow and rash judgments are the result of a serious misunderstanding of what the Church, its natu.re and its aims "are," he continued. Archbishop Raimondi said the day-to-day problems of Ufe draw attention more to the struggle individuals and society are undergoing, than to the underlying spiritual realities. . "So, also, we witness the efforts of some well-meaning persons to see that the Church is involved in these problems whioh more acutely afflict humanity today: poverty, famine injustice, racial inequities, un~ rest, war and so forth," the archbishop continued. . "They would measure the action of the Church to the extent that she participates in these efforts to eradicate from the earth such conditions as prevent great numbers of human beings from e?joying what is the full expresSIO? of their basic rights, aspir~tlOns and ide~ls, their total dignity and fulfillment. "The truth of the matter is, of course, that the Church is most sensitive to these very problems," Archbishop Raimondi declared. For decades the ·Popes have called attention to suoh problems, trying to form the Christian conscience to work for elimination of conditions contrary to ,human dignity, he said. The Second Vatican Council worked along similar lines. "This is a most serious and urgent duty of every member of
'Silent Reflecti·on' Favored in Illinois
SPRINGFIELD (oNC) ~ A bill permitting a period of "silent reflection" in Illinois public schools has passed the state House by a 125 to 32 vote. A similar measure passed earlier by the Senate called for a period of "silent prayer" 'but the House changed the wording to "reflection."
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the Church in whatever position he may find himself," the archbishop said "However, the fulfillment of these duties must never obscure the fact that each Christian is, before anything else, a bearer of Christ and a witness to Him, to His 'doctrine His life and His salvific mission: "The Christian must see the human problems with the eyes and the heart of Christ, and treat them accordingly whether with respect to himself or surrounding society."
Publishers Probe Downward Trend In Circulation WASHINGTON '(NC) Officials of Catholic newspapers are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the downward trend in circulation being experienced in many dio... ceses. Apathy on the par.t of both laity and clergy, as well as fierce competition for the readers time, are among some reasons cited for this increasing decrease. These were among the findings of an informal survey of diocesan newspaper officials in all areas of the country con'ducted by NC News Service. Catholic newsmen are not totally pessimistic, however. They are searching for ways to overcome the trend. Several of those questioned think a possible solution would be to merge diocesan newspapers into regional groups. Almost all officials contacted in the··survey· agree that the 100 per cent coverage plan is a good thing for the Catholic press. The blame for the decrease in circulation was put on just about everyone and everything, from bishops to editors and from poor promotion to inroads 'made by television. "I feel very strongly that the hishops haven't taken a good look at the situation," declared Chester A. Beatty, business manager for the Tablet in Brooklyn. Many bishops as well as other persons do not recognize the importance of the diocesan press as a communications tool, he said. Cooperate WUh Bishops An executive editor who asked his name be withheld said "some papers are folding because the editors have been irritating their readers." He cited name-calling, not the coverage of controversial subjects, which always is bound to irk someone. "Editors should cooperate with bishops instead of fighting them," said the publisher of a large diocesan press. . He said Catl~olic newspapers should be presented as house organs, "but editors want freedom instead." He said editors should remember that their newspapers exist only to serve the Church. "Some bishops," the publisher continued, "are withdrawing their support of their own diocesan press because they do not approve of its editorial policy. "Most people," he said, "are with the bishops. They are loyal to them. Editors should keep 'this in mind." Father Ti)omas R. Leahy, executive editor of the Catholic Herald Citizen in Milwaukee a diocesan newspaper that ha; a growing circulation, said the success of a diocesan newspaper "depends on the attitude of the bishop. If he's backing it, it has a better chance of succeeding."
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CHARITY O~ INMATES: Members of the Bristol County House of Correction, New Bedford, sponsored a clothing drive for the needy on the feast of St. Dismas, the Good Thief, and their ~o\nations are admired by John M. Newby, chairman of the Drive; Robert E. O'Grady, New Bedford Junior Chamber of Commerce; John W. Thompson, director of education at the institution.
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C ordinal Considers August Retirement CAMBRIDGE (NC)-Richard Cardinal ~ushing of Boston has indicated he is considering the possibility of retiring in August rather than waiting until he is 75, as he had planned earlier. The cardinal is now 73. The cardinal indicated his possible August retirement while speaking at a dinner sponsored by the Ft:iends of Michael Neville, a deceased local political figure. The organization gave $10,000 to Cardinal Cushing to aid him with his charitable works. The g~oup has now given $200,000 in - gifts to the cardinal over a number of years.
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one could see within the severe Vatican walls was the sensational arrival this morning of iBuffalo Bill at the head of his Indians and cowboys." The present L'Osservatore Romano remarked that its ilredecessor of 1890 "never published a single line" about Cody and his troupe because they did not come on a special visit, nor were theY il}vited through protocol. " Buffalo Bill, born in 1846, was baptized a Catholic Jan. 9, 1917, by Irish-born Father Christopher V. Walsh, then an assistant at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colo., after he had ,been summoned to Cody's deathbed by his wife, who was a CatoIlc. Cody died the following day.
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But Even Buffalo Bill Couldn't Change Vatican Daily's Policy VATICAN CITY (NC)-Even Buffalo Bill Cody and a band of cowboys and Indians could not sway the Vatican City daily from its strict editorial ,policy. This emerges from a recent account in ,the daily L'Osservatore Romano, recalling the visit of Cody and members of his Wild West show to the Vatican in ,March, 1890.' Cody and his troupe had received permission to attend Mass at St. Peter's for the 12·th anniversary of Pope Leo XIIJ:'s coronat!. A correspondent for the New York Herald ·at that time wrote: "One of the strangest sights
NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Impatience with the pace of Church efforts to combat discrimination and to develop programs to aid members of minority groups was reflected in resolutions adopted in a Southern regional meeting here of Urban Task Force coordinators and other human relations specialists. Scoring the failure of Churches and Church agencies to risk involvement in controversial programs treating urban problems and racism, paI'ticipants called upon religious agencies to reassess their human and material resources in an effort to combat these problems. They called for a "total reassessment by the Catholic Church -of human materials and financial resources and a substantial reallocation of these resources to carryon pr.ograms to combat racism and the lack of shelt"er, health care, and jobs which afflict the poor." Among suggestions in the resolutions were "programs within parochial schools to combat racism, annual workshops for bishops and religious superiors conducted by professionals in social action problems and programming, and development of a more adequate theology for Church involvement in social problems."
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BASKETBALL OACHES: Brother Martin Gomes, 55.CC.,left, and Brother Willia Petrie, 55. CC. instruct prisoners at Bristol County House of ,orrection in fine points of ,basketball. 5eminarians have been working in Our Lady of Assumption parish, New Bedford, and also visiting area hospitals and House of Correction
Seminarian Proceeds 0 Exhibition Basketball Game To De ray Education Expenses Bouncing a asketball along a court-and hopefully into a basket-is 't the. normal way of helping finance a young seminaria 's education. But for the Antonio Gomes family of New edford, it seemed the most logical. So Saturday night, Vocational had played before." High School's Hammond The basketball court "is beauGym was setti g for a tiful," Brother Martin says. "Brother Martin omes Ben': "And it is the center of activities efit Game," a bas etball game ,that really bring ,the boys tofeaturing Yoke pIa ers on one gether. They have 'a 'league of side of the court a d a Gomes their ;own .and they work at it. There 'also ·are facilities for family team on the other. ,The Yoke players pinned on a handball and weight lifting and new name for the ni,ght, The the boys all seem to participate Crusaders. Actually the team is in things ,that go on at the gym.". He 'and Brothel!" William Boys at Prayer at St. Vincent de Paul Health Camp - Westport the school's varsity team. The Gomes playe s were just worked 'at Our Lady of the AsOne of the 31 Agencies' Assis~ed by the Catll10lic Charities Appeal that: Four Gom Brothers, sumption last Summer imd visitMartin, ,paul, 'Step en and Ed- ing jail "was one of the works mund and several ousins. T,he we took up then." Last ye·ar's work, however, coach? Brother G mes' father, Tony "Geech" Go es, one of was confined mainly to visiting the 'aU-time athlet c greats at prisoners."Lt. ,wasn't as ex,tensive as this year." Yoke in another a. lP~edges of or more accepted Brother Martin and Brother The score? It en ed up 76 to William "also visited the hospi62, with the Gomes .agers loping tals, St. Luke's, Union and Doc- . to a win over the rusaders. For Brother. Go es, who re- tors' Chronic." Newspapers Publicity for Donors of .or more In addition, they assisted at turns to the Sa ed Hearts Fathers Seminary in Jaffrey, all the Masses at, Our Lady of N. H., .this week, Ith workout on ,the Assumption, preached at the basketball co rt wasn't a Masses and baptized. . novelty. Fifty Babies lFor the last two months, he Brother 'Martin, who is the and fellow 1gemi~6rians have product of a large 'and close knit been living and wd~king in the fami,ly, sounds pretty proud as New Bedford area, getting used he .reports he now has baptized to "what the priest ood entails, "45 01"50 .babies." its responsibilities 'and priviHe and Brother William will leges. be ordained at St. Mary's Church On-the-Job T aining in Fail"haven, part of the order's "One of the big t ings is hav- effort "to have men ordained ing tile opportuni y to work locally," Brother Gomes says. wLth men who ·ar ordained," Brother Petrie's family will Brother Gomes s ys. "In the . come from Phoenix for the big T seminary chances ·f I" actual on- day. the-job training re limited. Fo88oWNI1J@ ,A few days before the basketHere we had a c ance to see ball game that ended his student what we're going t face." The of Fall days in New .Bedford, Brother oDuring ;his tern rary tour of Martin was asked which team duty at Our Lady of the As- was going to win. sumption Church, his parish "Easy," he replied. "The team chul"ch, he and I classmate .wIth the most points." CASCADE DRUG co.. MacKENZIE AND WINSLOW, iNC. He paused for a moment beBroth.er William P?t~ie of Phoe~ MASON !FURNITURE SHOWROOMS EDGAR'S IFAn.L RIVER - BROCKTON nix, Ariz., spent a ood part of fore adding,"but I know what R. A. WHiRR COMPANY their time in jail, ,the Bristol my father will say if our team GLOBE MAi\'IUFAC,TURING CO. County House of Correction doesn't end up wHh the GILBERT C. OLIVEIRA INSURANCE AGENCY INTERNATIONAL LADiES GARMENT that is. ' most" * " SOBILOFF BROYHERS "We occasionall worked in WORKERS UNION There are many ways to help STERLING BEVERAGES, INC. the gym with .tte fellows," finance a seminarian's educa- LOUIS HAND, iNC. SULLIVAN'S Brother Martin say. "We offici- tion. ated, wen.t over. orne of the ·For the Gomes' family, though, fundamentals of ba ketball with basketball has been such a way r··········Taunton _._••••••} North Attleboro---~ them. sunprisinglry we found of life, it seemed ;the only reaJEWIELED CROSS COMPANY, INC. MOONEY AND COMPANY, INC. quit, a t,w gOOd ay"". Many sonable choice.
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Suburbanites Must Help Build United Metropolis
Vatican Source Says Holy Father Satisfied With U.5. Relations
Hy.Msgr. George C. Higgins Di1'ector, Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C.
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Protestant organizations in the United States that have been protesting to the U. S. government against the possible creation of diplomatic ties with the Vatican can stop their fussing. Even if President Richard M.
Last week's Yardstick suggested that the inhabitants of upperclass suburbs are on trial at the present time with reference to the urban-racial crisis- if only because of the fact that, by comparison with people who are caught in the inner city, they must be thought of as belonging urbia, and turn our attention, in to a privileged class. That the first instance to the overall which ought to was not meant to suggest relationship exist between the city and sub-
that there is anything wrong in itself with people's desire to "escape" from the inner city or even the outer city. As John M. Ducey, presIdent of the Institute of Ul1ban Life in Chicago, has pointed out, people like to live in suburbs particularly families wit h children. They, place a value on the Identity which a resIdentIal area obtains from havIng a name of Its own and a government of its own. They like the Idea that their neighbors are people like themselves with similar incomes, similar attitudes toward the importance of having good public schools, similar mores. These, he says, are normal human desires. It would be unwise, as well as impractical, to attempt to effect any radIcal change in them. House Divided I can agree with Mr. Duceyup to a poInt; but I must also concur with him when he hastens to add that "these normal and praiseworthy aspirations are the very basIs for the development of the antipathy of the, suburbanite towards the city and its residents." To the extent that this antipathy exists in suburbia, and, more significantly, to the extent that It Implies 'a lack of concern about the problems of the inner city or a conscious or unconscious desIre on ,the part of white mIddle class or upper class subu~banites to Insulate themselves from other races or other social classes, It can hardly be defended eIther I'n terms of the American ideal or in terms of Christian social ethics. The problems we face, then, as Mr. Ducey has suggested, is to prevent the development of a house divided, a metropolitan community split by invisible political boundaries Into the city dwellers and the suburbanites, the haves and the have nots, the whites and the non-whites-into "us" and "them." .Let us leave aside for the moment the problem of racial isolation, which is built into sub-
St. Peter's Makes ROTC Voluntary JERSEY CITY (NC) -The ROTC program at St. Peter's College here has been placed on a voluntary ,basis by the Jesuit school's board of trustees. The board acted on the recommendation of the faculty senate, which suggested that the curriculum commiUee consider the possibility of offering academic credit for some ROTC courses. ROTC 'had 'been a mandatory program for freshmen and sophomores at S1. Peter's. Students have been agitating for the removal of the requirement. While dropping the mandatory nature of ,the program, the trustees said they considered the continued presence of the military science department "important" to St. Peter's.
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urbia. The article on suburbia in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences makes note of the obvious BISHOP OF ALBANY: The fact that "all the suburbs comMost Rev. Edwin B. Broderick bined decentralize only a frachas been named by Pope Paul tion of society's total functions and thus remaIn fragmentary VI to be bishop of Albany, and dependent communities. succeeding the late Bishop Wil"They have fewer major insti- liam A. Scull v , who died Jan. tutions than independent towns 5, 1969. Bishop Roderick has of equal size, because the city been rector of St. Josephs Semperforms part of their commuinary, Yonkers, N.Y., since 1964 nity functions, and 'because they and since 1967 has been auxlack independent hinterlands. iliary bishop of New York. Suburbs can exist only by virtue of a set of continuously active connections with the city." This being the case, the inhabitants of suburbia, it seems to me, have an obligation in simple justice-to say nothing of their CHICAGO (NC)-A report in own self-interest ,in the matter a Catholic publication that a -to build a united 'metropolis; Cnicago missioner in Panama clties and suburbs where people was subjected to a trial and live in trust and sympathy; subsequently cleared of heresy where common problems are charges was characterized as met with cooperation, not dis- "absolutely" untrue in a Chicago trust; where each considers the chancery statement. other a neighbor. The report was published in Bonds 01 C@nscience Overview, publication of the Mr. Anthony Scariano, who Thomas More Association here. represents a Chicago suburban It was stated that in 1968 Father area 'in the Illinois State Legis- Leo Mahon, a missionary in lature, put it very well when he Panama, was subjected to hersaid recently that we must de- esy charges and cleared at a velop "bonds of conscience" be- trial. tween city :and suburb. The Chicago archdiocesan A half century ago, he poirited statement sai~: "The chancery out, the settlement house spokesman states in response to reached a helping hand into our inquiries about an item in the poor neighborhoods, helping es- publication Overview (March 15 pecially the young. issue) that there is absolutely Today the suburbs must join no truth to the writer's story of the city in the assault on pov- her e s y accusations levelled erty, because we all have a com- against Father Leo Mahon, a mon stake in this generation . priest of the Chicago archdiogrow.ing up in highly complex cese. metropolitan society without the "To say that Father Mahon, education or emotional' resources . who has been serving in the to find a decent and dignified archdiocesan mission in Panama place in it. Those who live in has ,been subjected to a heresy the suburbs must create a 'bond trial there, is not only contrnry of conscience with those in the to fact, but grossly unfair and central city whose needs are so hurtful both to the individual great and whose chances lire so and to the archdiocese." small. Mr. Scar.iano concluded by suggesting that "perhaps the best way to break down artifiWe boil at different degrees. cial barriers is in housing where -Emerson artificial restrictions ,have tended to create two societies within the metropolis." Blind Protest Here again we have to break a vicious circle. ,Riots in the inner cities intensify the suburban Over 35 Years fear of the ghetto dweller and of Satisfied Service make a racially integrated Reg. Master Plumber 7023 housing program much harder JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. to secure. Yet the more we build 806 NO. MAIN STREET walls around the .inner city, the Fall River 675-7497 more we ,pen up explosive forces that will erupt in viouence. Violence is often a form of blind protest, a desperate attempt to call attention to an intolerable situation. In the short run we must use every measure Aluminum or Steel to keep or restore law and order. 944 County Street But the time is past for stopNEW BEDFORD, MASS. gap palliatives rushed out each 992-6618 Spring in 路the effort to head off the disorders of the so-called "long, hot Summer." , Now is the time to rebuild America physically, economically, morally and spiritually. This challenge must be met, whatever the cost.
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for black' ~aduates of high schools in Washington. A student-to-student scholarship committee has set a goal of $20,000 to be r.aised by late April. Each of Georgetown's 4,100 undergradutes is being asked to donate an average of $5 to the fund. The student action follows a similar voluntary prog,rnm by 90 lay teachers and 40 Jesuit instructors who pledged more than $45,000 in a faculty scholarship drive last year. Student leaders of the latest black scholarship program said asking students to contribute about $5 each "is entirely reasonable and not out of line." "If we don't help in a small way, how can students honestly criticize Georegtown's administra,tors or faculty for' not doing, enough to solve our urban and racial problems?" ask' Philip Ptacin, a Chicago junior, who :is co-chairman of the student scholarship committee. 'J.1he drive is being coordinated with Georgetown's 900-member freshman class, which earlier h'ad set a goal of $4,000 for scholarshi,ps for two blacks. The freshmen began their drive earlier and raised about $600 in the first three days. They have incorporated their effort into the $20,000 goal.
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Pope VI does not. That does not mean that if the U. S. Government insisted, Pope Paul would refuse outright. It does mean that any diplomatic overtures from the U. S. Government would be met with resist.ance from the Holy See. And given the fact that many Americans, including Catholics, are opposed to the esablishment of U. S.-Vatican diplomatic relations, President Nixon would have to be very powerfully motivated to insist. So far, President Nixon has only indicated that he wants "that line of communication"with the Vatican - kept open, and that ways of keeping it open are "under study." An authoritative Vatican source in a position to know denies that the question of diplomatic relations "was even hinted at" by either the Pope or the President during their talk of more than an hour, March 2. The same source confirmed what has long been said in Vaticain circles: that Pope Paul is highly satisfied with the present cordial relations would be far outweighed by the discord they probably would provoke among Americans. 'Excellent Rapport' The Church enjoys full freedom in the U. S., where laws even guarantee its right to carry out its activities. President Nixon's own direct contact with the Pope was, by his own warm acknowledgement, highly satisfying. The same Vatican source commented that there was excellent rapport between the two men. Of course, there could not have been a perfect sympathy of views because. one is a spiritual head and the other is ,a material chief. In this jet age, the President of the U. S. and the Pope have ample facilities ,to engage in direct conversation if they feel the need. President N.ixon showed at the end of his conversation with Pope Paul that he intends to do just that. , "I will come back to see you," Mr. Nixon told the ,Pope on taking leave of him.
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Guzman's 'Camilo Torres' Locks rder, Proportion'
ROCHESTER (NC) - The as'sociate superintendent of schools in the Rochester diocese said the material of a recently introduced sex education program has been under "steady revision and rewriting" but "there is no intention to withdraw the course totally nor suspend the program right now pending a change of the syllabus."
By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy Camilo Torr s was shot to death a little over three years ago. He w s a priest who sought to effect a revolution in Columb a. Having failed to Ret the masses in motion toward a seizure of power he asked fol" and was granted a return to the lay state, joined the g errillas in to a scientific study of the realthe hills, and was killed in a ity of Colombian society. And' almost at the start of the latter skirmish between an army year, Camilo was killed.
patrol and his gu rilla band. Many in Colombia hoped that his death would mean an end to his, name and his cause. But a recent news item datelined Bogota says that his memory "stands out sharply in the controversy raging throughout Colombia Q v e r alleged Communist infiltration of the. cler y." One archbishop is quoted as complaining of a gro p of priests "with revolutionary ideas'" '" '" contaminated by Fat er Camilo Torres." In view of the ap arently increasing importance of Camilo Torres, it would be g od to have a clear, critical acc unt of his life and endeavors. But none such is yet available in English. Some months ago, a small, scrappy volume was published. And now comes Ca ilo Torres, a lengthy work by G rman Guzman (Sheed and Wa ,64 University Place, New ork, N. Y. 10003, $6.95). Brisf Summ Guzman is a Colo bian, who • was ordained a priest in 1936. He is now teaching in exico, and the sketch of his car er printed on the jacket leaves ome doubt as to his present st tus in the Church. His biography's pri lcipal fault is its deplorable lac of order and proportion. In book devoted to one man, one might reasonably expect a connected and detailed review f his life. But the nearest a proach to that here is a summa y supplied by the subject's other and covering a little mor than two pages. From it, we learn. t at he was born in 1929, that he lived several years in Europe during his childhood, that on hi return to Colombia he did oorly in school, that he quit aw' school after one semester, t ,at he then decided to become a ominican, but went to the dioc san seminary because this is what his mother preferred. There is nothing about the da'te of his ordinatio . We are told vaguely of hi graduate work in Louvain, and of his appointments when that was completed. Passi,onate Ora ory The book is chiefly concerned with the decade 19 6-1966. It was in the former ear that, while at Louvain, Ca ilo organized a group of Colo bian students who pledged, hemselves
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Father Daniel Brent .addressed critics of the program at meetings in Rochester and Auburn. The program was begun in Catholic elementary schools last Fall. "We think this is an excellent program - perhaps one of the . FOOD GET,5 THROUGH: Fr. best in the country - and we Dermot Dorah, the Holy Ghost have studied many," Father father who has spearheaded Brent said. "But it's not a sacred the drive to airlift food to the cow. The syllabus committee starving people of Biafra, says has had changes on the drawing that "every ounce of food that board for some time. We remain get;;. through the (Nigerian) open to the continuing suggesblockade gets into the stomachs. tions and criticisms of parents of the starving children." NC whose children are receiving' the course." Photo. '
If'the author, electing t6 concentrate on that decisive 10-year period, had followed a pattern both logical and chronological, the book might still be valuably informative. But he seems to abhor a methodical. arranging of facts. He goes oU info passionate and extended oratory. Or he in-' dulges in repetitious documentation, which wears one out as it hammers the same point. Meanwhile, the man and what he was up to are lost to sight for long stretches. ' Catho~ic Hopeless State The book does give some small picture of the social condition of Colombia, with the wealth concentrated in a very, SAN FRANCISCO (NC) few hands (24 families' are said to dominate the country), and -Father John Hotchkin, asand the great masses existing in sociate director of the U.S. misery. The Liberal and Conservative Bishops' Committee for Ecuparties alternate in'-power, in a menical and Interreligious Afgame of musical chairs which fairs, hailed as "a very encouralways .leaves the worker and aging encounter" a meeting here the farmer without a seat or a . 'between Roman Catholic and share. All attempts to bring Lutheran theologians. about social justice have failed, , The three-day meeting, on the through betrayal or -violent re- subject of church traditions of ministerial service, marked the pression. It was against this monstrous beginning of the fifth year of and seemingly hopeless state of doctrinal dialogue between theaffairs that Camilo Torres ologians of the two church,es. Participating in the consultahurled himself. He said he was, and had to be, a revolutionary tion were eight Lutheran and as a Colombian, as a sociologist, 12 Catholic scholars and church as a Christian, and as a priest. officials, representing the cosponsoring USA National ComAnd he did not draw the line' mittee of the' Lutheran World at violence, saying that the rul- Federation (LWF) and the U. S. ing class opted for it first and, bishops' ·committee. while using it, could not object . lLevel of Accord to a response in kind. "This meeting, our second. on . Camilo sought to bring togeth·the ministry, was a very ener all the fragmented elements couraging encounter for all of and forces favoring complete us ,because we began to social change in Colombia. glimpse the convergence of eviEffective Christian dence from the studies of the Another embattled clergyman early Church and insights genis the subject of In the House of erated by contemporary theolothe Lord (Knopf, 501 Madison gians," Father Hotchkin said. Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022, "We hope this series of dia$5.95) by Robert Flynn, who logues may overcome obvious will be remembered as the au- difficulties we anticipated and thor of an impressive first novel, reach a new level of- accord North'to, Yesterday (1967).' bet'ween Lutheran and Catholic This time, he is writing about theologians, just as our .earlier Pat Shahan, 35, a Protestant work on the Eucharist was sucminister in - an American city, cessful 'in this regard," the married, the father of two chil- priest stated. ' dren, and pastor of a church whose denomination is not specified. He is a man of faith and of FORT WAYNE (NC) - The haunting self-doubt; He is beset by problems and by people. In 15th National Catholic Gu'idance the course of a couple of days, as Conference convention scheddepicted by Mr. Flynn, he runs uled March 29 and 30 in Las Vegas, Nev., will center around the gall}ut of both. This is not a pietistic exercise. the theme, "Focus on ContemIt is realistic. Everything about porary Problems." The Fort Wayne-South Bend it rings true, even Pat's exchanges with the Lord (some- Diocesan Guidance Council, host what in the manner of the Ital- to the convention, announced ian, Don Camillo). For all 'his keynote speakers will be Fathers fumbling and his a'cute sense of John McLaughlin, S.J., assistant failure, Pat comes' through as editor of America magazine, genuinely good, and an effective who will discuss "Sexuality imd Christian. the Communication of Self," and Mr. Flynn is here working a Carlo Weber, S.J., assistant provein quite different from the fessor of. psychology, Loyola one he explored in his first (or University, Los Angeles, whose first published?) book. But his topic will be "Winds of Change: ' writing is as pointed and pun- Freedom, Responsibility and the gent, his creation of character Young," in which he is expected and mil-ieu is as expert, and his to touch on drugs use among impact is as strong and sure. teenagers.
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Demand Supervision The sex syllabus has come under sharp attack from Father John Nacca,\pastor of St. Francis of Assisi church, Auburn. In two successive Sunday sermons he told parishioners that the diocesan program should be halted because it was "needlessly de-
.Cleveland Diocese, Teachers in Accord CLEVELAND (NC) - Agreement has been reached here between the Cleveland Diocese Board of Catholic education and the CathoUc Elementary Lay Teachers Association (CELTA) with a contract that provides a starting salary of $6,000 a year for, teachers' with a bachelor's degree and state certification. The salary increases over a 12-year periOd to $9,240. The $6,000 starting figure is an increase of $200 a year over last year's·salary. For teachers with a master's degree and certification, the starting salary will. be $6,600, rising over a 12-year period to $10,2qO.
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tailed" and a "colossal failure from the child's psychological and emotional point of view." 'Father Nacca found the support of 18 Auburn-area doctors and some parents in Auburn and Rochester who have written to the diocesan Pastoral, office and the Education Office. They are demanding suspension ~f the sex courses in the elementary grades and a thorough review of the classroom material. 'lIelp to Promote' Six other Auburn pastors publicly upheld the program. Their signed statement defended "the competency of the Church as the teacher of morality" and added. "We will help in any way to promote and deepen the effectiveness of this program." The program material was to be taught in various class subjects as opposed to being a separate sex course. The committee, commissioned by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Msgr. William M. Roche, diocesan superintendent of 'schools, comprised seven parents, three priests, and three Sisters. Their first syllabus, tested in a pilot program in 13 parochial schools a year ago, was revised and adjusted during the' Summer before being offered to the whole school system last Fall. R~cently the ,Syracuse diocesan school system, borrowing the Rochester diocesan syllabus for a pilot program in a few schools, began preliminary meeting with parents' group. But lay criticism sent to the diocesan consultors of Bishop Walter A. Foery prompted a termination of the program for "restudy."
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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN Tl:lE DIOCESE I
Baseball coaches generally are a pessimistic lot,' and, at this time of the year, their universal cry is "I don't' see how we can be ready for the opening game if we don't get a break from the weatherman." The vanishing remnants of the three late other title contenders. W·i n te l' snowstorms, the theNorth Attleboro - which rewarmest weather since last joined the Hockomock at the year and the budding crocus start of the present school year indicate that it will not be too -made very creditable showlong ,before the coaches lead ings in football and basketball in their charges from the indoor the Hockomock. Many think they gymnasium to the more gruel- will make every post a winning ling outdoor diamond sessions. post in 'baseball. It is true, however, that the There are converse situations weather has delayed the three at Oliver Ames in North Easton schools within, the diocese who and Mansfield. Six returnees are pointing for the Hockomock comprise the nucleus of Coach League championship this Bob (Buddy) Wooster's Oliver Spring. Ames aggregation which finNorth Attleboro is being ished in a low slot last season 'touted' as one of the three which was used primarily to clubs to bea,t in the run for the provide young players with exHockomock flag. North-which perience. competed for a number of years' Mansfield, on the other hand, in the tougher Bristol County runner-up with a 16-5 record circuit-is making its debut in last year, will have to find a Hockomock baseball competition, number of replacements for .the and looms brightly' on pa.per boys who did so well in '68. as the other two pre-season Mansfield probably will be dofront-running favorites, Canton ing this year what Oliver Ames and Franklin, are considered sought to accomplish last year.
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His older brother, Frank is a teacher at Dighton-Rehoboth while his older sister, Delia, is a housekeeper at Martha's Vineyard Hospital.
During this past ice season, Bob scored 12 goals and came through with outstanding efforts In key victories over Boston College (3-0), Yale (11-1), New Prep (2-1) and Harvard (4-3).
Sisters Pat and Martha are Massachusetts 'athletic honor students, Pat, a freshman at Bob is the oldest of four roll. UMass while the latter is a sen- Whelden children and hopes to Duart, a sophomore, was a ior at Martha's Vineyard High be a professional skater, coach leading scorer on the Redmen's School. Monsignor Leo J. Duart or go into business upon graduacross country and indoor track of St. Peter the Apostle Church tion. Debbie (junior) and Don team and was a main factor in in Provincetown is young Du(freshman) a.ttend Lawrence the school's_climb to the Yankee art's uncle. High while Lee is a seventh Conference Indoor track chamUpon his graduation in 1971 grade student in the Falmouth pion;hip, this past season. Intermediate school system. Whelden was the leading Leo hopes to become a physical Heading Bob's list of many educa.tion teacher. scorer for Freshman hockey awards is the fact that he has team, which posted its best recWhelden is the son of Mr. and been the only Cape Cod boy ord (10-2) in history. Both are Mrs. Robert L. Whelden Sr.', 6 ever named to the Boston Globe expected to star for years to Stowers Street, F,almouth and is All~State High School Hockey come. a member of St. Barnabas team. He accomplished the feat Duart is the son of Mr. and Church. in 1968. Mrs. Francis Duart, Edgartown A 1968 graduate of Falmouth In addition to skating, Bob Road in Tisbury and is a 1967 High School, Whelden played likes to swim and, like Duart, graduate of Martha's Vineyard hockey and basketball for the is also musically inclined. The Regional High. He is a member .Clippers and received an athpiano, guitar and organ are of 8t. Augustine's Parish in letic,scholarship to UMass. among his favorite instruments. Vineyard Haven. During his f,our-year stay at Famous University the Vineyard school he .was a member of the track and basketIn Financial, Trouble ball teams. Track was his first 3 Savings Plans MADRID (NC)-Plans to keep love, however, and Leo particithe financially-troubled UniverHome Financing pated in -three events. sity of Salamanca open at least Besides the mile and two-mile, which • are his specialties at until the Summer were made UMass, he also threw the discus. here by the Spanish Bishops When the track season· was over, Conference. The 725-year-old institution, he turned his attention to the Mansfield Facing Rebuilding Job long distance running' of -the once considered among the best Junior John Coe is back to first sacker Bob Souza, one of cross country sport. in Europe and a training center 261 Main St., Wareham, Mass. handle the catching duties and the league's leading hitters last In his Tisbury home, Leo for professors sent to Spanish Telephone 295-2400 Co-Captain Senior Bill Thomp- Spring and center fielder Dan· boasts the spoils of victory in the America, is now mainly a theoBank·By·Mail Service Available son, his team's leading batsman Sullivan. All three are Seniors. form of an overcrowded trophy logical school. last year, will take care of the Rick Lambos, a senior, appears· case which he built himself. left field assignment. to have the edge' on the third Among his many awards are Thompson, in addition, will be base job and Tony Florencio, a the Raymond Fontana Trophy, 0 called upon to do some pitching sophomore, has been impressive which he won in Holyoke in along with Bill Clay and Bill in the indoor sessions in the' 1968, The Hamilton Smith Ralph. catching department. Award for a fourth place finish Savings Bank Life Insurance Dunn has. problems at the in the 1968 Greenfield YMCA Starting his second year at the helm, Coach Jack Dunn is other four spots, and; has no six-mile event and a third place Real Estate Loans confronted with the toughest idea whom he will be using in trophy 'for his performance in Christmas and Vacation Clubs· assignment of the three schools these positions when the um- the 1967 8t. Patrick's Day Road located within the diocesan ter- pire calls "play baIl" in the Race. Savings Accounts ritorial limits who compete in opener. Mansfield's baseball In addition to running, which 5 Convenient Locations the Hockomock. prospects, at the moment, cast he does all year round, Duart He has only three lettermen doubt on whether Dunn can enjoys playing golf and plays around which ,to mould this keep intact the school's record both the harmonica and guitar. NEW BEDFORE) Spring's aggregation. They are: of a winning season in all sports He is the second of two Duart Bob Monville, catcher who will which has been accomplished boys and the third of five children. double as a pitcher this season; during the past three years.
Coach Bob Guthrie's Red Rocketeers, who compiled a 6-8 Bristol County record last season to finish mid-way in the standings, will. combine an excellent defense with speed in their quest for the Hockomock pennant. Paul Tetreault is a classy shortstop who will be the steadying influence and anchorman in North's infield. Sophomore Doug· DeNardo, who teamed with Tetrault last Spring to providEj a strong keystone combination is back: at the second base position with much more experience in his p'romising high school athletic career. It has long been said in the major leagues that "you 'have to be strong up the middle" in order to finish at or near the top. Mike Kapitan is Guthrie's solid returning receiver and Sophomore Bob Ward rounds out the middle line in center field. Junior Kapitan was last year's leading team hitter while Ward's all-around ability was encouraging as a Freshman. North's most pressing prob-
lem this season is finding a replacement for right handel' Steve Stack who bested always strong Durfee in a 22-inning BCL encounter last year. Righthandel' Rollie Provost, the No. 2-rated hurler last Spring, looks like Guthrie's best flinger this year. Outfielder Keith Gibson· will be following the lead of Bosox Ken Harrelson "(hen he switches back to first base' this year, giving the North mentor strength at three of his four infield posts. The experience gained in '68 is what Oliver Ames hopes will lift its fortunes this time around with six lettermen ready to st~p into as many positions. Wooster is a little more fortunate than Guthrie insofar as the infield is concerned since Oliver Ames will have veterans at all four positions. They are: Junior John Miller, who will be handling the first base duties for the third straight year; Co-Captain Senior Paul Bodio at second; Junior Dale Guglia, at shortstop and Senior Jim McMenamy at third.
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R-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar.. 27,1969..
Report Pr gress at Conference Of Prelat S, Black Priests
NEWARK (NC)-An or-
DETROIT (NC) Representa- Brother Joseph Davis, S.M., of ganization known as United tives of the nation's bishops and Dayton; Ohio. Father Charles Black Catholics' continued the Black Catholic lergy Cau- - Burns, field director of. the Urcriticism of Arc h b ish 0 p eus (BCCC) held a private . ban Task force of the USCC, also Thomas A. Boland, releasing an meeting here and ater issued attended the meetirig. 11-pagestatement whicl1 it separate statement indicating The bishops' statement .said termed a response to the archprogress had ,been ,ade in ,the the meeting with the BCCC had bishop's defense of his See's recattempt to set up a office for been fruitful. -It said the, BCCC· ,ord in racial matters. . . Black Catholicism J.n the U. S. officials had de'veloped in a ~on Archbishop Boland's defense Catholic Church. structive way the proposals they was issued early in January The BCCC, a yea -old organ-' had earlier submitted to the 'after 20' priests working in ization of some 85 egro priests liaison committee of the NCCB,. inner-city areas had charged and Brothers, has b~en petition- and had provided a good basis him with having racist attitudes. ing the ,bishops to Jstablish an to move ahead' in .a positive The UBC statement was reautonomous office hich would fashion. leased by Willie Wright, head of . have authority to fo mulate pro.'Very Promising' the United Afro Association and grams 'for action' i the black Father Lambert released a a parishioner at Queen of Angels Catholic community. statement for the black priests parish. Five of the 20 priests Officials of the B CC recent- saying: "The co~sultation soundmaking the charges against the ly sent a letter to Archbishop ed very promising. Only time archdiocese are stationed at John F. Dearden of Detroit, wHI tell how fruitful it has been. Queen of Angels. president of the National Con- The three bishops on the comWright declined to reveal ference of Cathol c Bishops mittee showed a desire to unUBC membership figures but (NCCB), complaini g of the bishops' apparent u willingness derstand the problems of the said the organization was black community as well as formed a year ago to combat ......... to enter into me ningful and some understanding of those Church paternalism toward and on...going co munication problems. We hope the rest of blacks. ' with us." the hierarchy will respond as UBC, noting that its support TOo Recommend Action .PLAN CONCERT: Normand Gingras, left, music director for favorably." ~ of the priests is well known; said The meeting was held after St. Anne's Church, Fall River, confers with composer C. Alex- its dissatisfaction with the archArchbishop Dearde appointed The black priests' appraisal of a committee of threbishops to the 'meeting contrasted with' ander Peloquin, whose new work, "Jesous Ahatonhia," will 'bishop's statement has not been talk with the black priests and their view of a meeting ·held in be premiered at a Palm Sunday concert at St. Anne's and is expressed because it hoped that recommend action t the bish- Washington last January. with discussions with the archbishop dedicated to Gingras. ops. th~, U. S. bishops' liaison. comwould lead to change. . The bishops att nding the mlttee. Father Cla'rk said the But, it added, "the discussions meeting were BiSh~P Peter L. liaison committee members were with the archbishop have given Gerety apostolic a ministrator' not ",perceptive" enough to realus little evidence of his sincere of the! Portland e. diocese ize the need for "new structures" understanding of our problems, chairman; AuxUlar B ish 0 ~ in the black community. o'f our point of view, of the isSt. Anne's ,~hoirto Present Program Harold R. Perry of w Orleans, "But these three, in my opinion, sues involved." the only Negro me ber of the were really trying hard to unPalm .sunday Night in Fall River Wright is one of 12 laymen U. S. hierarchy; an Auxiliary derstand," Father Clark· said and six priests who have been by Faure; and "Le Christ s'est As part of the observance of Bishop Joseph F. onnelly of after the meeting here. "They meeting with. the archbishop Hartford, Conn., c airman of were really fine anc;i I was im- the 100th anniversary of St. fait vktime" and "Jerusalein" . periodically since the charges Anne's ,parish, Fall River, Nor- by Gounod, sung by the adult were first aired. The holding of the division of urba life of the presssed with them." mand A.Gingras, parish organ- choir. U. S. Catholic Confe ence. Gingras wiil offer "Incanta- such meetings was among seven ist and ohoir director," will pll'eThe BCCC was re resented by demands made on the archbishsent a program of ,baroque and tion pour un Jour Saint" and op, who has also acted on some Father Rollins Lamtiert of Chi"Chande Paix" 'by Jean Langromantic music from 17th cago, chairman; Fat er Donald of the othel demands and has Continued from Page One Clark of Detroit,' idwest re- it not "true that we could serve through 20th cel1ltury Frenoh lais, blind organist from the named an episcopal vicar for the Basilica of St. Clothilde in Paris composers at 8 Palm Sunday 'gional chairman; F ther Law- a particular area better if inner-city apostolate. who gave the dedicatory recital night in the church. rence Lucas <?f New ork, East- pri~s.ts, Religious and laity In their statement, the United A highlight of the oprogram for St. Anne's organ in 1964. ern region chairm n; Father would think of a central school Black Catholics said "the entire The "Incantation" makes use of Raw,lin Eriette of B ton Rouge, operated for two, three or four will be the first performance of a new arrangement of "Jesous Gregorian chants from the tone of the archbishop's letter La., Southern region I chairman; . parishes?~' he asked. shows an atitude of paternalism Ahatonhia" ,by C. Alexander Easter vigil service. Noting that ·iri the Cities many towards the black community." The adult choir will follow Peloqui~. The composer has parishes are located within a with "Dexltera Domini" by Cesar They said the established means dedicated the work, originally a few blocks of each other, ,the Franck and with ,the Peloquin. of communication have been Archbishop pointed out that they carol taught· by Jesuit mission- composition. The concert will tried and have failed to bring Continued from age' One ar.y Jean de Brebeuf to 17th love of our family; r verence of were originally founded to serve century Huron Indians, to Gin- close with "The Battle Hymn of about results. one's sexuality, and equality of national or ethnic groups three the Republic" by the combined gras. or ~our generations ago. all men." choirs. Archbishop Cousins stated he Organ Selections "Sex is definitely being exA graduate of Boston UniverThe program begin with sity, Gingras made a further ploited and it is bee use society does not like '''grant benevohas been losing its re erence for lence," and said he hoped "we two organ selections by Gin- study of musiC in Paris.' He has one's sexuali'ty," iss James don't ever have to' resort to a gras: ".chaconne in G Minor" by been choir direotor and organWASHINGTON (NC) - The federal or state paternalism," Couperin and "Basse et dessus istat St. Anne's Church for 11 said. ex~cutive director of Citizens The originator of the rally, . adding ,that any assistance' de trompette" ,by Clerembault. years and he also teaches music Mike Levesque, 17,' senior at granted to 'One segment of the It will continue with selections to the upper grades .of St. Anne's for Educational Freedom said Miami Springs High chool, said school system must be granted from a Mass by Charpentier School and is choral director for programs of the Elementa,ry and Secondary Education Act of and a "Laudate Dominum" by SMTI. the idea grew 'Out of a Catholic to the whole package. 1965 (ESEA) have succeeded "in "In ,the- present proposed leg- the same composer: These will 'youth group discussi n two days bringing the public and nonafter the. controve ial Doors islation - for ,tuition grants to be sung by the c.ombined adult Plan New Committee public schools together in a concert. " students in ,private schools - , and boys' choirs of St.. Anne's long-needed spirit of cooperaLevesque said he as thrilled' we're getting plenty of opposi- totaling 60 voices. On Christian Unity tion and mutu'al understanding." by the rapid gro th of the tion,~' he noted. "Our state laws The second part of the proBURLINGTON (NC) - Msgr. William G. Polking, in a statedecency movement a d the sup- make it difficu"u. . gram, drawn mainly from roport it gained from a ults. . "But perhaps it is, time for a -, mantic French composers of the Edwin T. Bucklli!y, chairman of ment to the House Committee on The crowd was a out evenly study on what the principle of 19th and 20th centuries, will in- the Burlington diocesan ecu;'" Education and Labor, called for menicalcommission, 'said here an extension of ESEA programs split between teen gers and church and ,state separation elude "Cantique de Jean Racine" he is hopef.ul the diocese can and asked that they be given adults. really mean." The principle has send delegates to a newly greater funding. Another member 0 the exec- been "reverse<j." from the intenformed committee on Christian First President utive committee, A an Hosen- tion of ,the country's founders, The committee is holding unity to be established by the hea,rings on legislation to exthaI; 16, said telepho e' calls and he said. Vermont .Ecumenical Council-' tend ESEA, the major instruletters poured in fr m around When the princi'ple was first ·At Catholic College DUBUQUE (NC)-Dr. Rober.t an affiliate of the Vermont ment for federal aid to elementhe country from tee age groups. invoked, he explained, it was to interested in the movement. protect people who were refu": J. Girous, vice-president for ac- ChUrch Council, interfaith group. tary and secondary schools. The VEC,' at a meetiQg of Hs ademic affairs of St. Michael's He said, "We're g ing to 'try gees forre1igious reasons. Nonpublic s c h 001 students "They 'had as " thej,r first College, Winooski, Vt., will tali:e executive board, moved to es- share in ESEA funds under to come up with so e kind of international youth org,aniza- thougl:its that no religion be ilU- office as president· of Clarke tablish a committee on Christian Title I, services to disadvantaged 'unity in Vermont to "explore the children, and both students and Hon. It could really ti the world posed by the state," he said. College here in Iowa J4ly 1. together. "The principle is ,that the state Dr. Girous, who becomes the' processes that lead to Christian teachers in nonpublic schools "The ,youths start out with be separ.ated from ,the Church, first lay president of the 126- . unity" in the state. It called for benefit from Title II (library something like this; a d 10 years not that the Church be divorced 'year-old liberal arts college for .formation of a committee made mate,rials) funds. ' from no~ when they get a little from the community." Catholic school spokesmen, ·women, was elected by a pre- up of at least two representaolder, who knows hat could dominantly lay board to trustees. tives of any ChrIstian denom- led by Msgr. James C. Donohue, happen." He succeeds Sister Mary Bene- ination in the state interested director of the Division of Ele-· 'Wise Man Many organizations inclUding mentary and Secondary Educadict, who has, held. the office in pursuing Christian unity. major religious den minations, The new committee will be tion, U. S. Catholic Conference, Only madmen and fools are since August, '1957. contributed to t e rally. pleased with themselves; no recently appeared ,before the The college, wt'th 'a present open to all full members of the American Legi'on members wise man is good enough for enrollment of 1,075, is conducted VEC, its affiliates--and to non- committee to ask for an extenpassed out 10,0 0 small his own satisfaction. ,by the Sisters of Charity of the participating Christian denomi- sion of and improvements in the program. American flags. -Whichcote. Blessed Virgin Mary. nations.
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