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Bishop Cronin Hails CRS 'Lenten Appeal
American Laity Express Their Major· Concerns \
DUBUQUE (NC)-Life in the home-the disintegration of the American family, the problems . of youth and the importance of religious education-are among the major concerns expressed by nearly 8,000 laymen and women responding to a survey here. A comprehensive opinion survey just released here reveals that Catholics.in the Dubuque archdiocese are also concerned about the decreasing number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life; the Church's lack of social concern and the confusion of Catholics over changes made in the Church since the 'Second. Vatican Council. According to the survey, the Catholics in the archdiocese overwhelmingly believe their religion has a strong effect on their daily :lives. They reported strong support for Catholic schools and education programs' and almost· no reservations about ecumenical contact with churches and individuals of other faiths. The survey indicated strong·
A clear majority (83 per cent) concern over young people. Three-fourths of the respondents felt that Catholic schools were agreed that "young people have worth supporting, and most (77 less' regard for the Church today per cent) felt that parents should than 10 years ago" and that be more aware of the content of "young people are losing respect their children's religious education. for rightful authority." Eighty-five per cent believed In one section of the survey, that the Church "plays an im- Catholics were asked to rank 10 portant part ·in shaping the life areas of concern in the Church of the world community." How- today "according to the priority ever, only 52 per cent felt that you think should ·be given to the Church should "express her each." The 8,000 respondents 'views on day-to-day social and ranked the issues as foHows: political questions." problems of youth, decreasing Ecumenically, only 22 per cent llumber of vocations, disintegrafelt that "prayer and cooperation tion of the family, religious eduwith Protestant churches tend to cation, lack of social concern deny that the Catholic Church is (race, poverty, peace, etc.), conthe one true Church," and 93 'fusion of Catholics regarding per cent agreed that Catholics, changes in the Church, greater Protestants and Jews should emphasis on spiritual renewal, work together on community adult education, more meaningful Masses and better preaching. problems and projects.
The Catholic Overseas Relief . the aid of Vietnamese, Biafrans, Services will seek support from Pakistani and Indians in Banglathe parishes and chapels of the desh, homeless South Americans Diocese of !Fall River, and lin the Christmas Managua, Nicathroughout the country, with ragua earthquake-all last year a special collection at all thanks to last Lent's generous Masses on Saturday, March 31 collection. and Sunday, April 1. In a special lenten letter, BishUrging an earnest support for op Cronin wrote: the American Church's worldThe recent Consistory has wide charity especially at times given us all a wonderful vision of sudden and tragic emergency, of the universality of the Church. Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Our Holy Father has elevated S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, VATICAN CITY (NC) - The 23, it was explained by the Vaturged all to combine earnest to the Sacred College of CardiVatican has ruled that anyone ican press office. nals prelates from every part of charity and lenten penance to The excommunication decision violating the seal of Confession the world. Pilgrims from many be of assistance. was announced after newsstories by making recordings of Connations have visited Rome for fessions or publishing the texts in the Italian press reported the It was the CRS that rushed to this glorious celebration, jourof them is automatically excom- forthcoming publication of an neying to the center and to the Italian book entitled "Sex in the municated. visible Vicar of Christ, in an outpouring of faith and loyal devoThe warning of excommunica- Confessional... The book, the work of two tion. Our own -local pride in' tion was published March 23 by witnessing the elevation of Carthe Doctrinal Congregation, the Italian journalists, consists of Special Gifts dinal Medeiros is, then, an eleChurch's top administrative the texts of 112 tape-1'ecorded ment in this magnificent worldoffice' dealing with matters of Confessions conducted throughApril 23 - May 5 Church, officials are worried wide moment of joy. faith and morals 'and specially out Italy over a four-year period. about the effects of the proposed charged with the defense of the The authors of the book said the The consequences of the mark Confessions were staged without Nixon Administration budget for of "Catholicity" or universality sacrament of Penance. Door Door 'the knowledge of the confessors the 1973-74 fiscal year, which which characterizes our Church, The sanction of excommuni- and the contents of the Confeswould abolish or cut back 100 Turn to Page Two cation went into effect March sion were so arranged as to conMay 6-16 social services, construction and centrate the confessor's attention sOOool aid programs. on various sexual problems. Fear . over the budget is The day after the Doctrinal great in some dioceses, which Congregation announced the aucould lose hundreds of thousands tomatic excommunication of of dollars .in federal aid. those taking part in faked ConThe budget, according to ad~ fessions, the censures were exministration officials, would tended to include sellers and adsave the government $39 billion vertisers of such works. by abolishing' or trimming proCensures of excommunication, grams that aid the unemployed, the Doctrinal Congregation tenants, students, veterans,' the stated, apply not only to the mentally ill, farmers and small authors and editor, "if they fail businessmen. to take steps to remove their In the Philadelphia archdioTurn to Page Four cese, church officials have estimated Jilie potent·ial loss of $1 million 'and the elimination of several programs if the budget emerges from Congress intact. And in the Chicago archdiocese, the lrargest in the nation, officials foresee a loss of almost Rev. William G. Campbell, di$1 million in social servke prorector of the Diocesan Choir Digrams alone. rectors' Guild announced that "It's very crude," said Father the guild will sponsor an afterWilliam V. Macchi of the Oaknoon workshop on Sunday, land diocese's Catholic Charities April 1st, from 2:30 P.M. to 5:00 Office, which may be affected P.M. at St. Pius X Church, South by the proposed budget. Yarmouth. The guild, established "There was no evaluation of in 1972 as a vehicle'for promotwhich programs were good, ing the study and improvement which weren't. At worst there of sacred music in the new liturshould have been a phase-out gy, has assisted church musiMAKING PLANS: Greater New Bedford Area prepares for the upcoming Catholic period." cians in the Fall River, Taunton, , The churoh offoicials agreed Charities· Appeal. Left to right, Roland R. Loranger, Area lay chairman; Bishop Cronin; Attleboro, and New Bedford with Father Macchi. Rev. Roge.r D. LeDuc, New Bedford Area director; and 1973 diocesan lay chairman Joseph areas through a series of workH. Feitelberg. Turn to Page Two Turn to Page Six
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Thousands ,Greet Cardinal Aponte In Puerto 'Rico'
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The Fourth Sunday of-Lent is the tradWonal occasion for the Annual Collection fbI' the, Bish.(lPS' Overseas Relief Service. An opportunity is provided for those' of us who enjoy a full measure of material blessings to share our munificence with those who are in need. The Overseas Relief Service responds to disasters and to ,tragedies, earthquakes, floods I(lnd the like, and helps to maintain those whose misery, less dramatic in origin, is nonetheless very real and very distressing. Lent, we know,' is, a Season of Penance and Charity. A gift made in the name of Our Divine~ Savior can,in its motivation nnd its generosity, effect reconciliation 路and atonement. 路In the Lenten spirit of following Christ, Himself, I urge your generous re" sponse to this collection which relieves the sufferings of our fellow men through the universal Church, 'Devotedly yours in <;:hrist"
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DANIEL A. CRONIN Dishop of Fall River
Budget Cuts Continued from Page One Bishop William G. Connare of Greensburg, Pa., chairman of a Pennsylvania interfaith group, said, "Re-examination and reform of federal funding formulas for existing programs is desirable but, programs should not cease while this re-examination takes place. Further, any examina,tion should include ,the Congress as well as the administrattion. Un51ater'al administrative action terminating authorized programs is unconscionable." In Philadelphia, the program that would suffer the most would be diocesan library development. Other programs possi.bly affected are Operation Discovery, an inner-city training program; the Neighborhood Youth Corps that employs innercity youths, and a ,day care program" ' Sister Mary Arthur, archdiocesan I,ibrary services director, said subsidies for the past seven years ranged from $193,000, to $512,000 f()r school libraries under Ti,tle II of the Elementary and Secondary Educ'ation Act. The aid helped establish 269 new libraries.
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SAN JUAN (NC)-This centuries old city gave a warm welcome to the first Puerto Rican cardinal, with thousands of peop!e 'joining civil leaders at the airport, the festive streets and city hall. Governor Rafael Hernandez told Cardinal Luis Aponte'of San Juan that "you belong to every one of us, regardless of religious denominations, because you embody the best virtues of our people." As he stepped from the plane, the band of the National Guard of which Cardinal Aponte was once chaplain, played the typical Puerto Rican song "Jibarito"the farmhand - to evoke the prelate's first words upon .learning of his appointment to the College of Cardinals: "I am the first Jibaro cardinal." "This is not a personal honor," he told the g'reeting crowds here. SLATES FOR SUCCESS: These Indian sch olboys travel the road to success by use "The honor belongs to the people of old-fashioned slates. Through, Catholic Reli楼 Services collection, which will be taken of Puerto Rico who for centuries up this weekend in all parishes, 39 cents will buy a Third World child a school kit con- have preserved and increased taining four notebooks,' ink and inkwell, penh I lder and three points, chalk and writing their Christian faith." slate. NC Photo; . He asked them to "work for greater unity and charity in all orders of life, for the everyday struggle toward greater material progress, spiritual development 'fhe American Indian Move- poverty agency, an $29,850 in ization and the St. Paul ahapter. and maturity." Bridge for Dialogue ment (AIM), the controversial earlier gramts from the St. PaulHoweV'Cr, earlier activities by Cardinal Aponte said Puerto organization which has held Minneapolis 'archdioqese, through local AIM members, such as the Wounded Knee, S. D., for weeks, CSF and its Urban fffairs Com- 1971 takeover of a naval air base Ricans should make efforts to bewas defended by reli~ious organ- mission (UAC). at the Minneapolis-St.Paul Inter- come even more wha't "the Holy izations that have given money Father Edward J. Flahavan, national Airport, had prompted Father defined in referring to us to the group in tlhe last few director of the St. P~uI.Minneap颅 two local parishes to stop par- as a bridge for dialogue between years. ol,is UAC, said the ~rchdiocese's ticipating in the CSF collection. the Americas" Puerto Rico shares 'Most recently, the Christian funding of AIM had, nothing to Wrobiewski said ,this was dis- U. S. and Latin American culSharing I~und (CSF) of the St. do with Wounded Mnee. cu~sed by the CSFboard befor~ tures.. From the airport the cardinal's Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese Al Wrobl.ewski, JUAC staff the vote. The board, which, invoted March 19 to provide the member' and comm nity liaison cludes strong gr,assroo:ti;repre~ motorcade drove along the main St. Paul chapter of AIM with for the Chri9tian SHaring Fund, sentation, nevertheless agreed by street of downtown San Juan I ' $15,000 to continue its local pro- told NC News there "almost by a 3-to-l margin to continue amid cheers of onlookers, the grams for the next year. tolling of bells and the waving no dis'Cussion" of W9unded Knee funding St. Paul AIM. Included in previous grants in the CSF decision Ito continue Iih 1971 CHD gave AIM of flags. At city hall Mayor Carfrom relil~ious sources is over funding of the St. ~aul chapter $40,000 to help develop AIM los Romero Barcelo urged the cit$100,000 from Catholic agencies of AIM. "It was cl~arly under- chapters around the country. In izens to honor the occasion by -$80,000 from the Campaign stood" by everyone, he said, 1972 it gave another $40,000 to pledging greater help for the resfor Human Development (CHD), that there was a cleat doistinctio:l AIM's Indian Survival School, an toration of San Juan's 450-year~ the U. S. bishops' national anti- hetween AIM's natitnal organ- "alternative school" in Minneap- old cathedral. olis which specializes in educatCardinal Aponte said he will ing Indian youngsters in Indian be glad to celebrate the silver Theat~re history, culture, religion and art. anniversary of his ordination as a priest in April 1975 "at a totally restored church." He then N,ecrolCJlgy MIAMI (NC) - A campaign offices of Mayor Jo n Orr and walked to the cathedral to intone against obscenity here took a, Dade County Corrtmissioners. MARCH:IO a Te Deuin. Rev. Aime Barre, 1963, On bi:barre twist as the owner of a Churches of vari+us sects, theatre currently showing a por-members of the Knf~hts of Co- Sick Leave, Fall River. nographic film joined irate citi- lumbus and the Datle County Hit Alien Bill MARCH m zens in seeking an anti-Obscenity Federation of wombn's Clubs Rt. Rev. George C. Maxwell, NEW YORK (NC)-Immigraordina~ce in Dade County. '. joined the fight., t, 1953, Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, tion officials of five Catholic dioA fIlm declared pornographiC Special Assistant State Attor., Fall River. ceses in the New York metro-_ by judges in. Miami Beach a~d ney Leonard Rivkind,\who heads APRIL 1 politan area criticized a bill in New York City began a r~n m a volunteer task force on pOI'Rev. George A. Lewin, 1958, Congress designed to cope with an unincor'ported~ area of the nography, said that f'there are Pastor,' St. Mary, Hebronville. ' illegal aliens: They said the bill county, which does not have an obscenity laws all over the U. S. APRIL 2 submitted by Rep. Peter Rodino anti-obscesnity ordinance, in late which are being enfo~ced. Every Rev. Adolph Banach, OFM (D-N.J.) would cause "frreparable Febr~a.ry. \ state has such a law except Ore- Conv., 1961, Pastor of Our Lady harm to hundreds of thousands WIlham Ly~en, owne.r, of the gon which is now 40nsidering of Perpetual Help, New Bedford. of people who live in the metrotheater, showmg the film, told passing one. Florida is :the only politan' area." It is believed that APRIL 9 The Voice, the newspaper of the other state that has ho protecRev. Cornelius McSweeney, more than a million persons of Mia~i. ,archdi~cese that,- he is tion in ,thiS area at thejl moment," 1919, Pastor, Imma<:ulate Conquestionable entry status live in "defm'ltely agamst pornography" he said. ' , the United States. A large perception, Fall River. a?d said :'we.. don't want this Weakening Morality Rev. Edward F. Dowling, 1965, centage of them, perhaps 30 to ,kmd of thmg. . " I 40 percent-live in and around Lyden said he leased the the- . .Florll:la s prosecut~fls. are en- Pastor, Immaculate Conception, N~w York City. atre to a New York corporation Jomed hy a federal dlstnct court Fall River. APRIL 10 while it was under constr~ction. from pro~ecutin~ ca~e~ under Rev. John P. Doyle, 1944, PasAt completion about four months the .state s ?ntl-ob~dmty ~aw ago, ,he disc:overed that the cor- p.endl~g a ruhng on It1 constltu- tor, St. William, Fall River. poration had sold the lease to a tlOnahty by the U. S. S,upreme APRIL 11 Inc. Rev. John F. Downey, 1914, ',Fiorida corporation, he said. Court. Led by members of Miami In a recent pastoral ~etter, the Pastor, Corpus Chri:sti, SandFuneral Service Archdiocesan Council of Cath- bishops of Florida hlad urged wich. Edward F. Carney olic Women" the campaign for a their people to fight potnography APRIL 12 549 County Street county ordinance against ob- which they said was Weakening Rev. Louis N. Dequoy, 1935, New Bedford 999-6222 scenity has resulted in hUndreds "public morality and phblic wel- Pastor, Sacred Heart, North AtServing the area since 1921 of letters and phone calls to' the fare." tleboro. -
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Asserts Bishops Plan to Expand Pro-Life Effort WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishopelect James Rausch, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and' U. S. Catholic Conference, has disclosed the bishops' organizations are planning expanded prolife activities. The efk>rts, coordinated by his office, would be not only a response to the U. S. Supreme Court abortion ruling, but would include "positive ways" to abet respect for human l·ife, Bishopelect Rausch said. He said they would include the use of pro-life material into the current programs and the development of new programs 'emphasizing respect for human life. "The Supreme Court decision on.abortion was a beginning, not an end," the bishop-elect asserted. "The pro-life movement in this country has just begun to f,ight." Current Plannblg He said the NCCB and USCC have a role to play in pro-life efforts "and the planning and action now under way within the conferences are intended to make sure this role is carried out as effectively as possible." Current planning at the staff level, he said, would be supported by a discussion Of pro-life activities at the 12 regional meetings of the bishops in April and May this year. ''The thrust of the present and projected activities is aimed not just at developing 'a response to the Supreme Court's tragic action on abortion, but, more important, at dev,isillg new, posilive ways of encouraging respect for human life-before birth and after - in American society," Bishop-elect Rausch said. Respect Life Week "We expect that many different NCCB and USCC agencies will introduce the pro-life. theme into their program and activities," he said. "The issue is relevant to the conference's work in many fields-education, so. cial justice, health affairs, com-' munications, law and public policy, family life youth and others." "The dignity and value of human life 'are being seriously challenged in our society," Bishop-elect Rausch said. "The Supreme Court's abortion decision and the ready acceptance of abortion by some persons are a particularly alarming illustraNon of the tendency to take a casual approach to the sanctity of human life. In cooperation with other concerned individuals and groups, we intend to do our part to reverse this trend."
Makes Human Fetus Experimental Animal WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Supreme Court decision on abortion made the human fetus "a new species of experimental animal," according to the director of the Kennedy Center for Bioethics at Georgetown University here. Writing in Hospital Progress, the journal of the Catholic Hospital Association, Dr. Andre E. Hellegers predicted the court'decision "will not necessarily affect Catholic hospital practice." He said, however, that it "is almost bound to affect research in fetal physiology." .
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More Seeking Alternatives to Abortion IBirthright of Cape Cod l ....... ,.,,,, .. ,,,
Birthright of Cape Cod, a nonprofit, non-denominational,' prolife, chapter of the national or.ganization offering the alternatives to abortion to women troubled by an unplanned pregnancy, finds itself busier than ever since the January Supreme Court ruling on abortion. "Although we advertise the alternative sQlutions to abortion, we do receive some calls asking for abortion referral," says Mrs. Susan Anderson, director of the Cape chapter."We are finding, however, an increase in .callers that need our services and are planning to see their pregnancy to term." Birthright recognizes the impact that an unplanned pregnancy has upon a young unmarried girl, or the mother of seven. A girl or woman facing an unplanned pregnancy ,is possibly facing the most serious personal crisis of her life. Her problems are the reason we are here. We will co-ordinate all the assistance she will need to see her pregnancy through. We are a source of medical care, legal aid, financial planning, a home away from home, employment, and clothing. We are more than just a pregnancy counseling service, as we counsel on a ,one-to-one basis with each caller. She does not get shifted from person to person, or agency to agency, we :will give her individual attention on a friendship basis. The .counselor she meets and ~alks with becomes a new friend she can share her confidences with; she goes with her to any appointments she has, and ,is by her side throughout the entire pregnancy, and afterwards as she gets her feet back on the ground in planning for her future. The father of the child is also offered counseling should he want ,it, and is given guidance as to his rights and responsibility regarding his child. Parents often times need counseling to help them face the many problemsthey encounter, and if in-depth family counseling is required Birthright will put them in touch with . the community &ervices available. Birthright of Cape Cod is staffed by warm, compassionate women, who are not professional counselors', but are well trained to be of service to a pregnant girl or women. Counselors offer her their love and concern, she finds She has someone with whom to discuss her feeJ.ings about herself, her hurts, her needs, and her burdens. We at Birthright are unique in this respect. We are not a statistictaking agency, we are people who care about people. For' the girls and women unable to cope, it may seem as though they have burdens unable to handle alone. They often feel driven to abortion because they can see, no other way. Birthright has proven there are other solutions to her problems. We care about her and her baby. We 'are a source of guidance to professional counseling regard,ing her decision for the future of her baby, a personal decision that requires professional help.
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Hospita I Board Affirms Stand Against Abortion CINCINNATI (NC)-The governing ,board of Good Samaritan Hospital here, one of the largest privately-owned hospitals in the nation, has 'passed a resolution affirming that it will not permit abortions. "No medical procedure, the sole purpose of which is to deprive a fetus or an embryo of its life, shall be performed" in the hospital, the resolution said. Good Samaritan is owned and operated :by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati. The board's resolution, passed March 13, said that "any deliberate medical procedure, the sole purpose of which is to deprive a fetus or embryo of its life, is in violation of the principles of the Catholic faith and the Godgiven right to life of all human beings." Since the .hospital "is legally permitted to and obligated to make such rules and :regulations as are reasonable to promote the protection and saving of human life," the resolution said "no medical procedure, the sole purpose of which is to deprive a fetus or an embryo of ·its life shall be performed in the hospi· tal." The resolution provided that the ban against abortion would be publicized among hospital staff and patients and would be sent to members of the Ohio congregational delegation and of the Ohio state legislature.
Seminar on Prayer
NO CHANCE FOR LIFE: Shown is 14 week-old aborted fetus. Pro-life groups are trying to defend sacredness of lif~ from its very inception. NC Photo.
JERUSALEM (NC) - Ch1'istian and Jewish scholars will take part in a seminar on prayer here July 9-Aug. 15. The seminar is on "Contemplative prayer and the study of the spirituality of the monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."
We have seen lives trans- aware of our needs, whether it ' formed as girls and women face be volunteers, homes, or fi- . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - . their decisions with courage and nances. He has provided for The Daughters of dignity. We have seen faces dis- Birthright of Cape Cod for eight traught with loneliness and con- months now, and has seen seven St. Paul fusion, changed to faces that babies born in that time. We serve them all •••. smile again, and have a new give humble thanks to our Crepeacefulness restored from with- ator for all things, and for the AdUlts. in. They have the peace of many wonderful people who knowing they gave the gift of have helped us do His work at The Slt~ Prisoners life to the child whose life they Birthright of Cape Cod. Young poople Two new Birthright groups F'mi'ies began. The essence of our service have opened in Massachusetts, 111e poor The -4r tl e is love. Creative Iove that al- one in Lynn and one in Hingwith the gift of the Word of Gad; with ways preserves the dignity of ham. A new group is also formthe Truth "that makes men free" those we love, and redemptive ing' in New Bedford and should These contemplative·active missionaries love that flows through us from be opening in the near future. have unlimited horizons to affect the 'Iives of millions through the Press, Birthr,ight of Cape Cod Cod Jesus Christ who came to reFilms, Radio. TV, Cassettes, etc. store life to the lost sheep who has an office at 328 Winter Why nllt share in an all·embracing apos· tolate? Serve the People of God and the had strayed from the pasture. Street in Hyannis and the world in the opostolate of Social Com· munications. For Information Write To: Birthright is the work of the phones are manned from 7 to 9 DAUGHTERS OF ST. PAUL Holy Spirit and is under His P.M.' Monday through F.riday 50 St. Paul's Ave., Boston, Ma. 02130 and on Monday afternoons from guidance and direction. • ~ame .. .. . We are often asked how we 12 to 2 P.M. The number to call ~ddress . ....................................................... Zip ..... can afford to help these girls for assistance or further infdr~ge .. and women, where we are a non- mation is 771-1102. profit organization. We don't hold bake sales, we don't have fund-raising c.ampaigns as many Are You Considering A Boarding School nonprofit groups do ... we depend on the Lord for every pen. : For Your Daughter ? ny that comes to us. It may seem fool-hardy to many when The Country Day School of the Sacred Heart they' find this out, but not to NEWTON, MASSACHUSEns Birthright. We know He will (lO minutes from Metropolitan Boston) provide for us, as this is His Grades 7·12 Boarding: Grades 9·12 work and He values the lives of' the unborn children' he created. FOR INFORMATION: Director of Admissions We have a wonderful heavenly 617 • 244 .' 4246 Country Day School of the .Sacred Heart 785 Centre Street Father who spea~s to the hearts OR WRITE: Newton,Massachusetts 02158 of others and makes them .........................
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 29, 1973
Questions Role of Church In Political, Social Order What role can the institutional Church and its mjnisters (priests and nuns, for example) rightly be expected to play in the political and social order'! Should the priest be content simply to preach the word of God-with all its social implications-or should ' . he be a militant political and lows: "The necessity of formin,j social activist? And if he de- Catholic interest groups ,in the political arena and, ,the need for cides to play the latter role, recapturing the mystic 'and' the should he go for broke and adopt a do-or-die partisan position on specific social or political issues even if this involves the ,;ttt1f:1ItMK8'i'%~igttIt;M By
GEORGE G.
HIGGINS
,risk of splitting the community, in which he is called upon to exercise his priestly ministry? I have heard these and a numher of related qu~stions debated from every conceivable point of view and I couldn't begin to count the number of hours_ I have spent reading about them in learned books and periodicals, Suffice it to say that I have collected more material on this , particular subject than on any . other subject I can" think of at the moment.' .' Contra~ictory ,Positions" Even at that, however, 'I have' yet to formulate, to my own ~atisfactio;'l, 'anything like,'a' clear-cut universally applicable set of answers to the questions raised above. In other words, 1 am still somewhat ambivalent in my own thinking 'about the role of the institutional Church and its ministers in the political and social order. While I find it easy enough'in my own case to decide pragmatically on a specific course of action-even militant action-in a particular set of oircumstances or in the face of a particular controversy, I am not prepared to come up with an all-purpose .formula or theoretical rationale which might be applied straight across the board on all conceivable issues. Since misery loves company, it comes as something of a relief to discover that some of my fe1'low.catholics appear to be even more ambivalent in this regard than I am. Take, for example, the delegates to the recent national Assemb1y of Perfectae Caritatis, an organization of nuns which emphasizes the traditional values in reHgious life. If press reports on their' Philadelphia assembly are to be credited, the delegate!:, appear to have taken two somewhat contradictory positions on the role of the institutional Church (and the role ,of its ministers, includ~ ing ,professed Religious) in the political and social order. Two Statements On the one hand, they criticized "an _unbalanced emphasis on the socia'! gospel." On the other hand, th~ir wrap-up statement summarizing the speeches delivered at their Assembly placed great emphasis on the need for political action. The statement reads, in part, as fol-
sacred in our worshop were hailed as necessary to prevent the coming of a godless secularism tJ:tat would suffocate the spirit,in American life." , The statement doesn't indicate the range of probl~ms to which these "Catholic' interest groups in the political arena" would be expected to address themselves, I think it's a 'fair guess, however, that the Sisters were referring specifically to abortion and school aid. If Catholic interest groups in the political arena can do aitythingeffective with regard to these two pl'oblems, more power to them. But my question is this: ],f it is properor, in the Assembly's language, l1E;cessary'-for Catholic interest groups to take a political stand on these two issues, why, then, ,did the delegate5'~ to the Phila-. delphia Assembly feel constrained to sound such a solemn warning against "an unbalanced ('mphasis on the sccial gospel?" Follow Logic ]n other words, why pick and choose in such an arbitrary ,fashion between those issues which call for poiitical action ,and"thqs.e 'which-in the opinion of the Assembly-do not? If it is' proper for the institutional Church and its ministers to get involved politically on some issues~abortion and school aid, for example-why shouldn't we also get involved politically on other economic and social issues -housing, slum clearance, racial discrimination, health care and farm labor, to cite but a few examples? It's interesting ,to note that there has been a good deal of talk in Catholic circles about civil disobedience in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's recent decision on the abortion isue. That's aH fine and dandy - presuming that the people who talk this way really mean it and are prepared to follow through on their commitment. In my opinion, that's a rather big presumption in many casesbut only 'time will 'tell. MeanwhiJe, if we are going to advocate civH disobedience, we had better be prepared to be abso" lutely consistent in this. regard and to follow the logic of civil 'disobedience wherever it may lead us. Papal Concern Let it be perfectly' clear that I am not trying to start an argument with Perf~ctae Caritatis on this or any other issue. lam simply miing their recent Assembly statement as one more indicatIon of how difficult it is for most of us - present company included--to arrive at anything like a completely satisfa::tory answer to the question which was raised in the opening paragraph of this column: What is the role of ,the institutional Church and its ministers in the political and social, order? I
CIRCLE Olf LIFE: This bracelet, borrewing from success of Vietnam Prisoner of War bracelets, was cll'esigned by Mayo Clinic Dr. Thomas Hilgers to protest Supreme Court dedsion. It feat~res a circle of life and the alpha and omega-symbols of beginning and end decision. . . . -and date of
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don't claim to know the answer to this question, bJt I do know that it will 'be a sorty day Jndeed for tile Church in Ithis country if we ever get the ,reputation of being. a .one-issue lor two-issue or~aI11Zatlon.
One final word. The statement issued by PerfectaJ Caritatis a-t the conclusion of its resent As· sembiy claims th1at, there is "growing ·,papal c~ncern about the loss of faith and the unbalanced emphasis 0r.! the social gospel." I am not sure I know what that means. If it means .that social action shouldrf't be emphasized to th~ neglect of prayer, for examplT' that's one thing. I would expe9t the papacy to be concerned ab?,ut this kind of "unbalanced emp.hasis on the social gospel." Tha9 simply isn't true. To the contrary, the papacy never tires of saying that Cath· olics are putting tdo much emphasis on the sociallgospel. That simply isn't true. To the contrary, the papacy nrver tires of saying that, CatholicsI 'should become more, ratherl than less, ·involved in the field of social I action. ' ( © 1973 NC Features)
confessions reveal a wide adivergence among confessors in approaching the problems poS~ by the penitents. One of the authors, Norberto Valentini, m~in~ tains he did not violate the secrecy o~ the confession because ~h7' "Cohfessions were. "w~r~ed out beforehand in cold blood' on cho~n .subjects." " . .. The Minch 23 declaration of the Doctrinal Congregation is
Bishops, p,'iests See New Cooperation DETROIT (NC)--The National F d . fP . ,C e eratlOn a nests ouncils is moving into a new era of collaboration with "all segmentg.of the Church" ,and particularly with the U.S. bishops, Father Reid Curtis Mayo, president;,told the NFPC house of delegates at its sixth annual meeting here. In the annual presidential "state of the federation" summary, Fr. Mayo depicted the federationcomprising 131 member councils -at a "recor,d high" in numbers, gaining in trust from bishops and having a greater impact among priests generallv through the professional services it has ini· tiated. -----
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aimed at closing that approach. That declaration, signed by the congregation's new secretary, Dominican Father Jerome Hamer, states: "Anyone who defames the sacrament of Penance by making a tape of Confessions, either .true or simulated, and .anyone taking part· formally in this or similar publications, as author or assistant, puts himself outside of the communion of the Church; that is, he incurs excommunication ipso facto ..." . Firm Stlpld The Doctrinal Congregation's statement, however, provides that the automatic excommunication can be lifted "15y any priest legitimately authorized to hear Confessions" if the penitent shows that he is worthily disposed to receive ahsolution. In recent years the 'Doctrinal Congregation, the present form of the older Holy Office, has veered 'away from 'invoking drastic sanctions against a number of offenses or doctrinal dan:gers, but in this case it was clear that the Church's top' administrative level decided that it 'was time to stand firm.
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CCD Diocesan Head Urges Area Families To Take Advantage of Coming Con,gress Many delegates from the Fall River diocese' will be among 8,000 cler,gy and lay leaders from throughout the six New England States who will gather at the University of New Hampshire this summer for the 27th annual New England Congress Qf Religious Education. Beginning' Aug. 24 the threeday meeting will be hosted by the Diocese of Manchester with James A. Rowntree of Pelham, N. H. acting as general chairman. The major theme of the Congress will be "The Glory of Your People," focusing on the family and its primary role in relgious education.
ST. LOUIS (NC) - The St. Louis archdiocesan school board has launched a program to recruit more first graders for Catholic elementary schools. The program, "First Things first," is aimed at increasing the percentage of families, in each pa'rish with a grade school, who enroll children in the first grade in Catholic schools. First grade enrollment has been declining here for the past several years The locally initiated and plat:lned recruitment program is being launched now to coincide with a national "Choose Catholic Schools" campaign under the sponsorship of the U. S. Catholic Conference and the National Catholic Educational Association. The campaign seeks to publicize the merits of Catholic schools and increase their enrollment. The principal recruitment method to be used here will be a personal call on each family in the parishes who has a child of first grade age. A recruitment committee established by the school board with the support of Cardinal John Carberry planned the program. The committee sent a letter to all pastors saying that "recent statistics show that we are reaching abo.ut half of the Catholic children Who are ready for the first grade each year. We are sure that you will agree that· some effort must ·be made to reach the other half, if we are to be able to help those children and the society into which they will grow." The committee safd aN families in each parish with a grade school that have children of first grade age should be identified and be visited by a parentpreferably a mother-of children in the parish school and a teacher. Calls should be made "between now and around Easter," the committee saic,l, "because par• ents are making their decisions now." The committee said the caNers should: Explain the religious and academic advantages of Catholic elementary school; Give parents a small brcchure \ about the parish school and a copy of the Missouri bishops' recent pastoral letter on the religious education of the youtlg; Provide any assistance necessary to help a parent enroll a child.
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of seminars and workshops deal, ing with special topics in theology, psychology and sociology.. In addition, the program organizers have already contacted several national and internation~ al authorities to arrange speaking engagements.
Push Recruiting For First Grade FATHER TOSTI , As in previous years, the Congress will follow a basic format
Seminars, Workshops Registration materials and further information on events planned for the Congress will soon be available through the religious education office of the Diocese of rFall River or through the Division of Continuing Education at the University ,of New Hampshire. Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, director of religious education for the Fall River diocese, has ur,ged families to take advantage of the opportunity to attend this important meeting. Emphasizing the significance of the family theme in the Congress, he commented that religious education ,is most deeply and lastingly learned within the family group.
Court Sees Unfairness To Nonpublic Students ST. LOUIS (NC) - A federal appeals court here has ruled that federal education funds are being arbitrarily denied to students in nonpublic schools in Missouri. The decision clears the way for public school teachers to enter nonpublic schools during the school day to provide programs such as remedial reading for educationally deprived nonpublic school students. In a separate action, a state official ruled that students in nonpublic high schools ilTIay attend some classes in public schools on a dual enrol·lment or shared time basis. In the court case, the state board of education had argued the state law. prohibited non public school students .from participating in the program except after school hours. Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act required programs for students in nonpublic schools comparable to those provided for public school childlen "with needs of equally high priority," according to U. S. regulations issued in 1968. The Missouri case was brought .by a group of students and their parents from Kansas City where $50 per pupil is spent on children in Title I programs in nonpublic schools as opposed to $275 for public school students. Most of. the money from the Title I program is spent on teachers and teacher aids. The court found that while comparable equipment, materials and supplies were given in Missouri, the sharing of personnel service was excluded.
Vincentian Meeti,ng The monthly meeting of Fall River Particul'ar Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will be rheld on 'Puesday evening, April 3. Mass will be celebrated at 7 P.M. in conjunction with Frejeric Ozanam Novena. The meeting will follow at St. Anne's School.
The court scored the lack of cooperation between public and nonpublk school personnel which had led to the neglect of "the only intended' beneficiary of the act - the disadvantaged child." Open School In a related action, state Att. Gen. John Danforth ruled that a student between, the ages of 16 'and 21 has a -right to attend a public school for part of the school day "and to take any course which he would be entitled to take were he a fulltime student." The decision clears the way for students in nonpublic schools to take courses in public schools. The 16 to 21 age bra-cket was specified because present Missouri law does not allow students under 16 to attend more than one school to fulfiN requirements for Missouri's compulsory attendance law.
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TALLAHASSEE (NC)-Governor Reubin Askew of Florida has been named honorary chairman of the Key 73 program for his. state. A Presbyterian layman and an elder of his own church, Governor Askew' said he felt that Key 73 was authentic since it "sprang from the grassroots and that it is proceeding without a superstructure." Key 73 is the massive evangelistic program in whioh hundreds of Christian churches and organizations, including some 40 Catholic dioceses, are attempting to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to everyone on the North American continent. In speaking to a Key 73 task group here, the governor said he was a committed Christian first and so was willing to bear witness to that fact. But he also had to recall, he said, that he was governor of all the people and had to respect all their beliefe and be sensitive to them,
WASHINGTON (NC) Twelve regional meetings of the U. S. Catholic bishops will be held in April and May to discuss, among other subjects, "Christian Marriage and Family Life" and "Youth and the Church." In addition, the meetings will consider the subject of abortion in connection with the marriage and family life themes..and other topics, some of them relevant to the regions where the meetings will be conducted. The meetings will be organized on a geographical basis corresponding to the 12 regions of the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops. Reports from the regional conclaves will be submitted to the NCCB administrative committee, which then will refer them for action to the bishops general meeting here in November. The regional meetings replace the spring general meeting of the bishops that had been held in previous years. The ma.jn topics for the conference were chosen by a mail ballot of the bishops. Region I (the New England states) meeting will be held May 4-6 at Holyoke, Mass. with Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford as chairman.
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Keep the Spotlight On It the Watergate incident had been scripted by, a budding Hollywood writer he would have it returned to him as. a bit too much. This type of' escapade is a far cry from the integrity in government' that most citizens would like to think is the way things are ordinarily run. But the present case gives everyone a tinge of cynicism and makes one wonder what kind of games grown men are playing at. It becomes either a cloak, and .dagger operation or a, s'pect~cularly mounted selling campaign when a person runs for office. When will people just rely on truth and sincerity and the innate ability of people to know when they are being conned and when they are hearing reality. We ,must rely on our communications media to keep the spotlight of reporting on all aspects of public life and officials. These latter need the spotlight-for their own self-esteem and to give the rest of us the light by which to watch them. . /
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There was a time in this country when any derogatory usage of the letters FBI referred to the Foreign Born Irish. However it noW seems that this rather negative connotation has been ~xpanded to envelope the Federal Bureau of Investigatiort itself. The recent hearing~ concerning teau's -involvement in, political the permanent lapPointment activities. The hearings of the of a new acting leader for Senate's Judiciary Committee
Continued from Page One shops for organists, choir directors and choir members. Father Campbell, assistant pastor at Holy Name Church, Fall River, also serves as music consultant on the Diocesan Divine Worship Commission, and is diocesan director of music. Having visited over 40 parishes in the past few months to discuss with pastors and musicians the new document, "Music in Catholic Worship," published 'by " the Bishops Committee on the Liturgy, Father Campbell is aware of the musical problems and hopes that these area workshops may cure some of the ills that exist. At the Cape Cod meeting, there will be a display of 'the latest publications of World Library of Sacred Music and Gregorian Institute of America, ~ome of which will be sung by those attending the workshop. The Cathedral Choristers of Fall River will demonstrate diJferent type's of music applicable to the liturgy, such as responsorial psalm singing, Masses, etc. David R. Caflrier, ol'lganist and choirmaster at St. Mary's Cathe,dral, will direct the choristers. Other musk and seasonal missals, plus some monthly misallettes will be available for review. Plans are being made for a choir festival in May in the Cathedral in Fall River, at which .all choir members will participate. Details of the festival will be announced at the workshop on Sunday. Father Campbell encourages .all those involved in the music programs throughout the Cape Cod area to attend this meeting at Pius X, South Yarmouth. This would include' choir members, cantors, song leaders as well as organists and choir ~irectors. 1IIIIIIlIIllllIIIIUlllllllllllllmlmlllllllllm,mllllllllllllllllllllllIlIllIlIlUlllUUllUllllll1Ullll11
From the rising national crime rate there can be little doubt that many local governments have neither the ability nor in this most necessary national have brought to light the fright- some cases the will to meet the security force has certainly ening fact that this internal na- onslaughts of self destruction. brought to light al most danger- tional police agency has some" The f.ederal government then beous and alarming! development. how allowed itself to be swept comes the hope' of secure police On the surface the issue seems by the tides of political' contro- protection. But how can this protection be achieved if even the to be in referende to the Bu- versy. national police force allows itself. An Impartial Force to become unduly influenced by The fact of a single man's an impartial forc,e in the search politics? A national political police nomination to head this organ- for facts upon which judicial deization . is now dot the issue. cisions were to be made. Its rec- force has no room whatsoever What seems to bJ at the heart ord is an outstanding one, set in a democracy. It is thepuhlic of the matter is whether the FBI as a model of self government responsibility of each and every will he influenced hy political ,in a free society. Yet it now citizen to be not only aware of motivation. The fundamental seems just like so many other' such developing trends but also problem at hand, then, is the governmental agencies that have to counteract this imbalance of question referring to' the proper grown into a va!;t investigation national justice, Too many men role of a national police force in army far exceeding their original have died, too many citizens a democratic society. Is the FBI purpose of intent. No doubt the have wept, that this nation to be a police pow~r that wavers internal security problems of might be free. Free not only prejudicially with leaCh political World War 'II and successive from external domination by a shift of the party in national wars have ·hastened the expan- foreign power but also from any I sion of the FBI. But where does threat of- internal subservience, power? . it stop? What are its proper lim- or a police state. Over the years this organiza- ,its? Who is to hamess such poLet us pray that the secret tior; has been corlsidered to be tentially dangerous power? police of a Communist Russia or a Nazi Germany will never beof Free Society come in any .shape or form a A free society d~mands a free commune, If the governmental reality in these United States. freedom agencies of a free people waver It can happen here if we ignore people. To be slure, • I must not become l~cense. This is from the balance of impa'rtiality developing trends and allow true not only 'of the people but then the scales of justice, free- ourselves to be reduced to also the organizatibns that they dom and personal security are the state of national indifference have freely chosen Ito insure the endangered. The fundamental and apathy. Let us be aware safe1guard of freeddm. A balance constitutional rights of the that any political threat to indimust always be mkintained that American people would be ne- vidual liberty in this land is in this nation will bJcome neither gated if the FBI found itself de- itself a threat to the totality of our democratic institutions. • <igid poHee st.,e\"o, • chaotic veloping into. police fnree.
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Priest's Amnesty Radio Message Draws Dissent WEST SPRINGFIELD (NC) A Passionist priest has stated that his radio editorial favoring amnesty for some anti-war exiles and draft resisters has raised protests from listeners across the nation. Father Schweinberg is director of the Passionist Radio-TV Center here and a consultant on radio and television to the U. S. bishops. The editorial was aired on his religiously - oriented Crossroads program, picked up by more than 500 commercial radio stations in the United States and abroad. The editorial was written and recorded before the return of U.S. prisoners of war from North Vietnam. The timing apparently made listeners more emotionally charged about the question of amnesty, said Father Schweinberg. The priest. said he received more than 100 letters and phone calls, most of them negative to this editorial on amnesty. In the editorial, Fr. Schweinherg praised the efforts of the U. S. government to negotiate aid for the restoration of North Vietnam.
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GYM COACH: Christine Stanton, Bridgewater State College physical education major, coache:;; 'volleyball players from Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton, during Southern District Conference meet at Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River.
Bishops' Position "But," he said, "we are disturbed by another plea for reconciliation that has been completely rejected by our President-a plea on the part of draft'resistors and anti-war exiles." A Massachusetts woman wrote: "How do you think mothers and wives who lost sons and husbands feel about people talking amnesty for draft dodgers? Perhaps it is easy for priests and bishops to -preach amnesty because they were not drafted and few, if any, lost their lives in Vietnam." . Father Schweinberg said his position on amnesty is in line with the position of the U.S. bishops who urged an adoption of partial amnesty. But many of the letters and phone calls responded negatively not to his words but to the term "amnesty," he said. "People hear what they want to and react as they want to regardless of what you say sometimes," said Father Schweinberg.
Archbishop Baum' Installation May 9 WASHINGTON (NC)~Former Bishop William W. Baum of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., is scheduled to be installed as arohbisijop of Washington at St. Matthew',s Cathedral here May 9. The 46-year-old prelate was named archbishop March 5. by Pope Paul V,I, after the Pontiff accepted the resignation, for reasons of age, of 76-year-old Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle. . Archbishop Baum, a native of Dallas, Tex. and a pI1iest for 22 years, has been bishop of the. Missouri diocese since 1970. Before that he held pastoral and teaching positions. He was also a delegate to the World Synod of Bishops in 1971. He is a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' administrative committee and cha,irman of the bishops' Ecumen.ical and Interreligious Affairs Committee.
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Chris- Stanton Says Physical-Ed Coach Helps Students with Life Problems By PAT McGOWAN Most high school girls hate gym and dar-khaired Chris ..Stanton of Holy Name parish, Fall River, sees it as a challenge to change their viewpoint. , The 21-year-old physical education major at. Bridgewater State College says that good sportsmanship and team spir,it learned in gym classes can carry over into other life situationsbut the problem is to convince teenage' girls of this. There will be a lot more time for gym teachers to do their convincing come next year. when a state law requiring daily instead of weekly physical education classes will go into effect. Chris says that colleges such as Bridgewater are ready for an an- . ticipated demand for gym teachers and are busy preparing graduates to do far more than coach games or lead exercise sessions. Student Problems "Most gym teachers also teach health courses," said Chr.is, "and they are the natural ones for students to come to with problems. Another reason for this is that gym classes tend to be informal and students and teachers develop a closeness not found in regular classroom situations." Already, she said, she has had experience with student problems, including' the classical ,identity crises of adolescence, drug-related difficulties and . home troubles. She said, however, that students most affected by a gym teacher's influence are those on varsity squads. "They are really interested in sports, they want to participate, and they respect the coach. You can say to them, 'Do it this way, or don't play.'
You can't do that in the regular most dangerous of women's gym classes." sports. "I love it," says Chris, Chris, a 1970 graduate of her eyes sparkling. She said she Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall had never heard of the sport nor . River, where she was president even seen a lacrosse stick before of the athletic association, said . going to Bridgewater, but she's she "owes everything" to Mrs: now a member of the college Marie Snyder, longtime gym varsity squad. She noted that teacher at the girls' school. "She the game is played quite differis an ideal person, as a teacher ently by men and women. "With and a coach, and I really looked women it's a game of skill, with men -it's simply a game of up to her." power." Coaches Coyle-Cassidy Chris notes that Bridgewater The Bridgewater junior is in is an outstanding college for her second year as a coach for prospective gym teachers. "You girls' athletics at Coyle-Cassidy learn about every sport, and the High School, Taunton. She says teams are excellent, usually .it's a fine art dovetailing her coming in first or second in all own school schedule with the their contests." Coyle-Cassidy sports program, Unseen Workers plus participation in varsity She put in a word for behindsports at Bridgewater, the latter enta.i1ing much travel to other the-scenes workers who contribNew England colleges for away ute to the strength of varsity games. teams. "At Coyle-Cassidy we A more personal problem have scorers, timers and mancomes up when Coyle-Cassidy agers who do a lot of work meets Sacred Hearts Academy, without much recognition-but its traditional rival, in Southern we couldn play without them. Distrkt Conference girls' ath- We have a statistician, for inIetics. "It's hard to play against stance, who ~atches and charts your alma mater," concedes all games. When we meet a team Chris. But it hasn't deterred her. for the second time, it's a treBoth last year and this year her mendous help to know how the players work together, and what teams have defeated SHA. strengths and weaknesses we Chris' own favorite sport to should anticipate." play is volley;ball, and her favThe SHA graduate mentioned orite to coach is basketball. "It's hard to coach your own favorite SHA's traditional gym meet as sport," she maintains, "because contributing greatly to school inyou catch yourself expecting terest in athletics. Coyle-Cassidy college-level skill from high has a "Gym-Jam," she said, school players. In basketball I which is on much the same can relax and concentrate on order as the Fall River event. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. strategy when I coach." Thomas L. Stanton is one of six Another favorite sport is la- children. A brother, Thomas; is crosse, one of the roughest and a sophomore at Bridgewater State College, a sister, Phyllis, carries on the tradition of leaderLaziness ship as captain of the school at If you sleep till noon, you have Sacred Hearts Academy, and no right to complain that the Nancy, Joseph and John are days are short. -Fuller pupils at Holy Name School.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP (NC)-Loyalty to l:ihe local 路bishop received strong emphasis at an Eastern regional conference of the Catholic charismatic renewal movement" here in New Jersey. Nearly 2,000 leaders from Catholic Pentecostal groups in 13 Eastern states, Canada and Puerto Rico attended the SP.Ssions at Immaculate Heart Academy. Jesuit Father Harold Cohen of New Orleans'urged prayer groups to have direct contact with local bishops "to assure him you aren't an underground group. And the bishop will be glad to know there's a group of people who specifically want to be obedient to him." Father Cohen, student chaplain at Loyala University and head of the pastoral team for the charismatic community there, described his own contacts with Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans. "Obedience is not espeoially esteemed today," he added, "but it's very important."
President to Seek Tax Credit Law WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon has announced he will ask Congress this year for legislation providing an income tax credit for parents whose children attend nonpublic schools. The president supplied no details of his assistance plan, which was mentioned in a 5,OOO-word message on the economy that he sent to Congress. However, Nixon Administration" officials e ' " had suggested that any tax credit plan for parents of nonpublic elementary and secondary school children should give a 100 per cent credit up to $200 for each student a year. The administration's su:>port for tax credit legislation has been expressed by the president himself on many occasions. In April, 1972, he told the National Catholic Educational Association convention in Philadelphia that he would recommend to Congress "specific measures designed to preserve the nonpublic school system in the United States."
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need a lot of fuss, time (of which I have none) or, for that matter, concern. Between sets, if the end st;arts to, pop out, I pop in a few more bobby pins, put a ribbon around the' wilting b~n and at least feel presentable until I can get back to my favorite hairdresser. While your present hairstyle is _ no doubt the one that' suits you' best, you will 'probably want to try one of Spring's new shorter shapes and if you're adamant about' not cutting your crowning glory, you can always buy a short-styled wig.
shampoo and hair-care Clean hair will be the vogue, hair that ~ings and sways (like Sammy Kaye) will Scores Gevernment be the "in" thing and some hairdressers are even predicting that Farm Policies WASHINGTON (NC) - The only the older customers will stick with the regular wash and family farm is "the cornerstone set. Many think that younger of life in rural America," Archones will require "super cuts," bi,shop Ignatius J. Strecker of scalp treatments and other spe-' Kansas City" 'Kan., told the Agcial things that will keep hair 'rlcultureand Forestry Commit· tee of the U. S. Senate. healthy as well as goodlooking. Archbishop Strecker, who is Foundation First president of the National CathLike the cosmeticians, the hair olic Rural Life Conference industry and the hairdressers are (NCRLC), testified before the realizing that underneath all the, senators at the invitation of frills the basic foundation' is still committee chairman, Sen. Hermighty important. We teased our man E. Talmadge (D.-Ga,). hair, sprayed it until we were In his testimony favoring regiving Mtlrie Antoinette competi,newal of' the f970 Agricultural '. tion and then expected it to act Act, the archbishop scored gov-' as it did when we were sweet 16. (of course,' I must admit that I ernment programs and po1icies which favor large corporation never had hair that behavedfarming and neglect or discrimwhen other girls had feather cuts inate against small family farm-' my hair looked more as if a ers. "The family farm is. a vallawnmower had cut it, when the uable sodo-economic institution, , Italian boy look was in vogue, affeeting ,the welfare of the fammy hair looke more like Anna ily, society and the agricultural Magnani's than Gina's). It really economy," said the runil life wasn't until teasing came into leader." , being that I was able to keep a set but the resulting effect was that my hair very often, 'between Sister Schw':Iger Named sets (or after a strong wind storm), looked as,if it were com- Permanent Director WASHINGTON (NC) - Sister peting with a bale of straw. Virginia 'Schwager, acting diLikes Chignon rector of the Division of, Health People who see me often rear:. Affairs, lJ. S. Catholic Conferize that despite changes in styles ence, has been named permanent for the past three years. I have director. The announcement was made by Bishop-elect James S. Rausch, Anti-Abortion Agency General Secretary of the USCC. Gets $20,000 Grant He said that since Sister Virginia ST. LOUIS, (NC) - The St. was named acting diTector last Louis archdiocese has made a April, she has "demonstrated $20,000 grant to launch a new 'outstanding ability and an unagency to coordinate educational usual gr'asp of the wide and and action programs aimed at often complex field of health concerns," opposing abortion. Sister Vdrginia, came to the Cardinal John Joseph Carberry, speaking at a meeting here U. S. Catholic Conference from to form the group, said the, Su- Seattle where she was ac\minispreme Court abortion decision trator of' Providence Hospital. In did not end the struggle to pro~ that post she ,supervised a $12 'tect the' rights of the unb9rn. million hospital expans}on proRather, he said, it signaled the gram. start of such an effort. The Sisters of Providence J'he new.Pro-Life Committee nun is a past president of the will be funded initially by a $20, Association of Western Hospi000 grant from the 1973 Arch- tals, a fellow of the American diocesan Development Fund, a College of Hospital 'Administraonce - a - year archdiocesan fund tors, and the author of numercampaign. . ous articles on health. produ~ts.
POOR MAN'S SUPJ~ER FOR, LENT; Every Wednesday during Lent] members of Ascension Parish in St. Louis are invited to a ',Poor Man's Supper'" of soup" bread, butter, and! milk, coffee or tea. -The meal is intended "to convey the idea of sha~ng with the' poor," 'and pari§~ioners are' asked to pay what they want for it. The money is being given to the Carripaign for Human Development. NC Photo.
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PITTSBURGH (NC) - An inservice sex educatihn course for public school teachhs sponsored and financed by PI~nned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh was attacked by pro-lif~ groups here. The attacks came after a school teacher strorlgly questioned the program at la meeting of tlie Pittsburgh boar.d of public education. Paul E. Francis, a teacher at Latimer Junior High School, charged that the eburse, aimed at health .teachers,1 marked the first step in a plan to filter Planned Parenthood's pro-abortion and pro-contr~ceptive philosophy into publi9 school sex education. I Mary Winter, president of Pennsylvania's Women Concerned for the UnbornC~ild (WCUe), questioned the in~olvement of Planned ,Parenthood! in the program. "Sex education is not Planned Parenthood'b area of expertise," she said. "1rheir area is population control ahd abortion." Judy Fink, a leade~ of Pennsylvanians for Human 1 Life (PHL), said she could see nothing at all about responsible Pfrenthood in the teachers' course. She had looked over the cout-se schedule, she said, and it se~ed to con, centrate on areas suth as contraception and steriliz~tion. 'Healthy Attitudes' For attending nink sessions of the ten-session coutse. teachers earn $150 from Plat!ned Parent· hood and one incr ment credit which can lead to higher salary level from thd Pittsburgh board of education. I" The course is desIgned to de-
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velop "healthy attitudes toward sexuality and sexual responsibil. ities." said Francis. But '!what do' the board and Planned Parenthood mean by healthy atti-' tudes?" he asked. "It is a subjective term and leads naturally to an exploration 'of values: What is considered healthy and by whom is it considered s6?" he asked. In reviewing the course titles, he found they "seem to center around birth control or methods of contraception. Again the program seems to be interfering in the area of values." He questioned one topic. "methods of birth control," with a sub-topic "surgical procedures" would mean vasectomy; tubal ligations, "or does that particular phrase refer to abortion?" One cannot teach about contraception without giving it the schools' "stamp of approval on the activities in which the contraception is used," Francis stated.
Mayor Names, Jesuit To Education I~oard SAN FRANCISCO (NC)- Jesuit Father Thomas' A. Reed, who nearly won election to the San. Francisco Board of Education last year, was named a member of the board by Mayor Joseph L. Alioto. ' Father Reed, 55, a native San Franciscan, served as principal of St. Ignatius High School for many years and is now a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. In last year's first election of members to the bo,ard of education, Father Reed missed being elected by 1,300 votes. Father Reed went on record as being opposed to the busing of young school children, a very sensitive issue in the last election. He has since stated that busing seems to have worked out fairly, well. '
, TORONTO (NC) - Coalition , for Life, the first Canadian or· ganization aimed at campaigning politically at the federal and provincial leve\s to' strengthen legal ' protection for the unborn, was formed here, recently. Coalition For Life will also fight the rising numbers of abortions "thTough the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary," according to a Coamion spokesman, Mary Matthews. Mrs. Matthews who is also first vice-president of the na· tional council of Catholic WornEm's League, said the organiza'tion is not 'controlled by any political party or religious affil, iation. ' ' " "It exists solely to urge and promote legislation which will guarantee that every human being, born or unborn, \shaU enjoy the protection of the law." She explained that although the Coalition is concentrating its efforts on tl}e protection of the unhorn, it is also concerned about the danger to those who "could be destroyed for someone's convenience. We have to realize that abortions are 'going to lead to euthanasia at the other end of the ,scale. The l,ives of those in the mIddle-the handicapped and retarded-and also in d~nger when society condones killing an un· born person fo'r somebody else's need."
Workshop to Explore Christian Views of Mary WASHINGTON (NC) A workshop on "The Virgin Mary in Ecumenical Perspective" wiil be held at the Catholic University of America here June 11-15. "The whole matter of the Virgin Mary has for centuries been a sign of division among Christians, especially in the West," said ,Father Eamon Garroll, chairman of the workshop. "Roman Catholic teachings about the mother of the Lord and Marian devotional practices have seemed to Christians in the Reformed tradition as without bib'lical warrant, even as imperilling the centrality of Christ and the GospeL" The workshop, Father Carroll said, will examine "some of the hopes and difficulties for Christian unity 'in this sensitive area."
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hurt 'to keep our "spiritual houses" in dyin' order. I don't know if the story about the lady {rom Vermont is true, but another story involved a friend of mine . . . and it is true! He was a newspape'r photographer. One afterno,on he was talking to a co-worker who admitted he was a fallen-away Catholic. My friend mentioned that he was going to stop on the way home and go to Confession. He invited his co-worker to come along. The man hesitated: "No ... I have a long trip home." My friend said, "One of these day's you're going on the longest trip of your life. You should be ready!" They both went to Confession. Later that same evening, my friend was called to photograph a disastrous fire. As he ran to the scene, he collapsed and died. His co-worker told me how well my friend was prepared for death. May Be Easier If we stop to think about it, dying may be easier than being a survivor. A neighbor of mine had been vigorously healthy. Without warning, he dropped dead of a heart attack. At ,the wake, his son commented, "There's no easy way for the family. If he had been sick and we were expecting it, our loss. would be just as great
Puerto Rico Youth Rally Protests Abortion Ruling SAN JUAN (NC)-Thousands of Catholic youths marched 50 miles to the Capitol here to protest permissive abortion laws. Posters referred to the U. S. Supreme Court decision striking state laws Jan. 22. Youth for Catholic action organizer Raymond Gonzalez told the rally the young particularly was affected by such decision. "We have to defend the rights of every human being, in or out of the maternal womb," he added. "Only God is the lord of life and only he' can dispose of it." The week before the rally the bishops of Puerto Rico issued a strong protest on the court decision, an4 warned that its reasoning could lead to euthanasia.
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ca of the official statue of Our Lady of. Fatima venerated in the Chapel of the Apparitions at PHILADELPHIA (NC) A Cova da Iria, Fatima - is in community group funded by the Taunton. It will remain at the U. S. Bishops' Campaign for Immaoulate Conception Church Human Development (CHD) is there until Saturday, March 31. developing cooperation among residents of black and white Two such statues are in the neighborhoods here to obtain Fall River Diocese, one in Fairbetter housing and -city servhaven and the other on Cape "easy" for the person who is ill. Cod. ices. When my 37-year-old sister-in"I don't want to give the imIt is the hope of many that law knew she was dying of can- Taunton may have its own pression that there is a great deal cer, she said路 simply, "I'm not "PHgr,im Virgin" together with of togetherness on this," said frightened for, myself. I only its Men of the Sacred Heart and Miss Sandra Williams, a young feel bad that I'm leaving s~ Ambassadors of Mary, volunteer black who is an organizer for much work for Joe. The children guards of honor. the North Central Community are so young." Organization (NCCO). Every Saturday, at' an ap"It's only the beginning. The pointed time, these volunteers Special Beauty important thing is that the comIn spite of the loss, the heart- go to the home that that week munities are talking and that ache, and suffering of the sur- enshrines the "Pilgrim Virgin." they are ,identifying common There, kneeling with the host viv,ors, it's possible for death to goals." family, they recite the Rosary have a special beauty. The communities are the black My father-in-law enjoyed play- and Prayers to the Mother of area of north Philadelphia and ing the piano. On his days off God, the Litany of the Blessed an adjoining white area. The Virgin and an Act of Consecrafrom wprk, he practiced his neighborhoods share an elected f favorite selections by the hour.' tion to Jesus through Mary. member of the City Council. Then, they cover the "P,j\grirri One of them was "The Lost They also share problems. Virgin" and cany the statue to Chord." "What these communities It is a song about an organist their cars and drive on to the have learned is that they share who accidentally played a most faJ11i1y that will next host the the same powerlessness," said beautiful chord. ~or all his at- statue. During this transit jourMiss Williams. "And so, if we tempts, he couldn't find it again. ney tbey recite their "Rosary on have the neighborhoods organHe became convinced he'd not Wheels." BLESSED VIRGIN ized, some joint ventures would At th~ next home, they set up hear it until he reached Heaven accomplish common goals. You the statue in a prepared shrine, and heard the 'angels singing. Who knows, Taunton may see, behind the fear and apathy, One afternoon Dad went to kneel with the family, recite the soon have its own "Pilgrim Virwe all have the same concerns." visit a life-long friend who had Rosary and other prayers to Our gin." If you are interested, One of those concerns is housjust bought a fine electronic Lady. please write to The Ambassadors The "Guard of Honor" reminds of Mary, c/o Mr. Ed Bayle, 12 ing, specifically what hap"1ened organ. His friel'\d invited him to the family of their obligations Power Ave., Taunton 02780. Tel. to north Philadelphia residents play it and Dad was delighted. when they were displaced by reThe room filled with the music toward the "Pilgrim Virgin," 823-1257. development directed by the namely, that the Rosary will be of "The Lost Chord" ... the song Franklin Town Corporation. The of a musician who longed to recited ata fixed hour every NCCO made sure, through City day, friends and neighbors will Seek Improvement hear the angels sing. Council action, that what hap"That soundei! wonderful," his be invited to join them. No dona- In Youth Programs pened was good. friend said. "Would you like to tions or charges are involved. CHICAGO (NC) - A commisOn the follawing Saturday, the play it aga,in?" Dad smiled and said, ,"No, Guard will return to bring the sion of the priests' senate here Welfare Disclosure Bill has handed out a report card I'm a little tired. I think I will statue to 'another home. with failing grades to youth progo home."... and slipped to the The first idea for the "Pilgrim grams in the Chicago archdio- Draws Priest's Ire floo,r, dead. Virgin" was this: most people LANSING (NC) - If Michigan Death ,is not always beautiful. cannot journey to ,Fatiana; so the cese. were to require public disclosure "F,rankly, :the picture is not an Death 'is not always easy. But Virgin comes to them. of names of welfare recipients, every one of us must die. It is Two such statues were repro- encouraging one," the commis- it would be another "psychologsion said in a report to the good to think about it occasion- duced, one for the East and the ical clubbing and scapegoaNng ally ... to prepare for it. other for the West. Soon the in- Presbytal (priests') Senate. The of the poor," a representative of commission concluded with recternational statues could ,not the Michigan Catholic Conferkeep up with the scheduled vis- ommendations to improve youth ence declared. Oppose Banning Hiring its; each country, diocese and programs. Father Richard Groshek,' asso"During the last 10 years, ciate director of the diocese of even parish reproduced its own Halls for Workers MIAMI (NC) - A committee "Pilgrim Virgin." Mary was hur- Httle, if any, progress has been Lansing's Social Community of Florida civic, social and reli- ryIng about the world collecting made in ,any area as far as the Service office, has termed such gious leaders has anounced its prayers and sacrifices in repara- Christian formation of, youth is a disclosure "extremely unfair" opposition to a bill before the tion for the sins committed concerned," the rreport said. "In and >an invasion of privacy. fact, in most areas there have state' legislature that would pro- . against her Divine Son. Father Groshek was speaking ,been drastic cutbacks in the about a bill 路that would make The "Ambassadors of Mary" hibit the use of the hiring hall apostolate." for farm workers. were founded in 1946 to take on available to the general public As examples, the report cited the names and addresses of welOne 'member of the Florida the travels of the "Pilgrim VirCommittee ,for Farm Worker gin" as a MarIan Year project. what it oalled a "lack of growth" fare recipients. Justice was Archbishop Coleman In 1954 they bll!ssed their first in diocesan Confraternity of The bill would require that F. Carroll of Miami, who had statue ,and sent it on to Chicago Christian Doctrine (CCD) youth each month the state print in a Joined with his fellow bishops homes. The schedule grew im- programs. Other programs, !juch newspaper of general circulation of the state in previously issuing possible, so' more statues were as Young Christian Students and of each county the name and a statement that urged the state reproduced and more organiza- Young Chr,istian Workers, have address of the recipient and the almost disappeared, the report kind and amount of assistance legislators to use "great pru- tions formed. dence" in limplementing the state Participation in the "Pilgrim said. received. ' right-to-work law. Virgin" project is open to all by: I-Accepting the ,invitation to The committee feels the bill's prohibition against hiring halls visit the "Pilgrim Virgin" and for farm workers Was an attempt join in the Rosary whenever it to prevent the United Farm is in the home of a neighbor or Workers Union from organ.izing' friend; the field laborers. Currently; the 2-Asking to have the "Pilworkers are employed by agri- grim Virg,in" to come to your ROUTE 6--between Fall River and New Bedford cultural companies through labor home for one week; Icontractors called "crew lead3-Qffering yourself as a ers," who allegedly exploit the ,member of the Guard of Honor I- One of Southern New England's Finest Faciliti,es workers. for yet another "Pilgrim Virgin" Roberto Acuna, a UFWU offli- since the statue will not be sent Now Available for cial and m..ember of the Florida out until there are fervent and Committee said, "The only way self-sacrificing Catholic laity to give the migrant workers jus- who' will be completely respontice is to get rid of the crew sible for the pilgrimages. SaturFOR DETAILS CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 leaders who run more of a slave day is Our Lady's day, 'and that system than a hiring system." must be the day of pilgrimage.
Death. The word itself seems so forbidding. Nobody wants to talk about it. Yet, we all have to die and Lent' is an especially good time to reflect on death, and to pre,路 pare for it. One story about preparing for death involves a little lady from Vermont who kept house immaculate- ... and he would have had to suffer. I'm grateful that it was ly clean and tidy. Asked why easy for him." she did it, she said, "Every It is possible for death to be
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Union Celebrates First Birthday Of Contract AUBURNDALE (NC) - While lettuce growers and the Farm Workers Union battle on the west coast, the union has just celebrated the end of the first year of a contract with a major east coa~t citrus grower. Both UFWU representatives arid officials of Coca Cola Foods agree that the contract, the first farm labor contract in Florida, has worked well. . "From a ma~agement standpoint the agreement has been going very well," said W. M. Kelly of Coca Cola foods here. "There have been problems, of. . course, but they were anticipated," Kelly said. "Such contracts· being entirely new to the citrus industry, we set out something to start with and then to interpret it as time went along." Coke, one of the largest citrus growers and· processors in Florida, signed the agreement with Cesar Chavez' United Farm 'Workers Union in March 1972. Cites Progress . Mac Lyons, UFWU representative in nearby Haines City, sl!-id that although the~e have been normal first year problems, "they have worked out well and there has been progress." The two men said that the labor supply and calibre of the worker have not been a problem arid Kelly said that "there has not been nearly the turnover in . labor as in years past." The initial UFW-Coke contract called for a base rate of 40 cents per box for oranges, a week's paid vacation for employees working 100 or more days,.sick leave benefits and paid holidays -none of which had previously been available to citrus or agricultural workers in the state. Coke had begun"a long rarige pllin to stabilize its work force just prio"r to the arrival of the union, and during the past. year it set up, three community development corporations for the farm. J workers. One of these corporations at Frostproof, Fla., involves no~ only homes but also a child development center, library, med· . ical clinic and recreation cen(er.
Brazilian Prelates 'Seek Gains for Poor SAO PAULO (NC) - Brazil's bishops have asked. that the poor get a larger share of this country's economic boom as a matter of human rights. '. "We acknowledge the evident effort by government authClrities to bring the underprivileged into the mainstream of society, hut a greater share must he given to the poor ,if we are. to have social integration in addition to mere economic growth," the bishops said at the close of their biennial meeting here. The 210 prelates, assisted by 30 priests and lay experts, dealt at length with the United Nations Declarabion' of Human Rights, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in December. The meeting was attended by a Vatican envoy, Bishop Ram~n Torella, vice-president of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace.
GENEVA (NC) - The world monetary crisis has forced. the World Council of Churches EWCC) to shift an important an· nual meeting from Helsinki, Finland to its Geneva headquarters. "We are in an acute financial position," a WCC spokesman said.. The WCC general secretary, the Rev. Philip A. Potter, said: "The issue before us is not one of solving a crisis but how we can effectively adjust ourselves t.<> a continuing crisis." Orders have gone out to all WCC departments to tighten their belts "and examine ways of cutting down spending on admin'istration and travel." By switching its A~g. 22-29' central committee meeting to . Geneva the WCC ·plans to' save about $90,000. "Th,e Swiss franc value of the council's 1973 budget of just under $2 million," the wee said, "has been cut 12 per cent by the money crisis between Europe and America and Japan"a loss of almost $200,000. The major saving will come in transport fees for the 120 central committee members and their staffs. "The committee's members are representative of the various geographical and confessional groupings in the World Council 263 memher of Churches' churches," the spokesman said.
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LONDON (NC)-"Investment in Racism," a pamphlet pubHshed here hy the Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Council of Churches criticizes Church investments in companies it claims profit from South Africa's apa,rtheid policy. The pamphlet said that· there are more than 500 British companies with subsidiary or associate companies in South Africa. Such companies, it said, provide South Africa with about 60 percent of ,its foreign investment. and gain their annual profits by collaborating with that country's radst policies. "Sepa,rate fadlities, job reservation and African wages below the poverty line are features' of this cooperation," the pamphlet said. "Average per-capita income 'of Africans is 8 Rercent of that of whites. In' Johannesbur,g nearly.' 70 percent of Af.rican families have incomes below the minimum subsistence level" of about $60 per 'month.
PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Jews with the subject of the holo· or callousness, he said. However, must continue to impress on so- caust," Father Flanner said, but Father Flannery said, others are ciety the horrors of the World "it's a kind of pretending of guilty of "a certain pHychological War II death camps because which we've had enqugh." complicity" in a persiistent atmoChristians persist in attempts to The faot is, he added, that "for sphere of anti-SemitiHm. "dow~?lay and "minimize" the no reason .at all an attempt was The complicity, which may a~roclb;s, accordmg to ~e U. S. ma?e to kIll off a whrle ·people, take the fOIm of silence when bIshops expert on JudaIsm. whIch people have been recog- anti-Semitic statements are made • "The Jewish peopl~ can begin nized throughout h?sto~ as or jokes about the Jewish peo:' to forget. l~bout th.elr troubles ,chose~ by God to ca,r;rr H~s ~es- pIe, "appears infinitesimal but when Chr~~t.lans begm to remem- sage mto the world. .ChrIstlans, when multiplied by millions it ber them, Father ~dward Flan· . however, frequently a~sume that creates an ... atmosphere." .nery, head of the bIshops' secre- "Jews should have dIsappeared Mockery .tariat for Catholic-Jewish rela- with the coming of dhrist," he He concluded by Haying that He is not laughed at that tions, ,told a group of teachers said. I "great strides have been made from archdiocesan· schools h e r e . ' in the last five years" in the area laughs at himself first. . -Fuller The group also saw an exhibit Ignorant of Facts. of Christian-Jewish relations but l enti~led "T~e Hol?Cau.st a,n.d the Jews have suffered t roughout that Christians "geillerally igResIstance,. a plctonal hIstory history, Father Flanrkry said, nore" the l!-r'ea and "the initiaof the Jews in Nazi-occupied but the accounts' of t~at suffer- tive is ~p to the Jews." CONRAD SEGUIN Europe. ing cannot be found in Christian BODY COMPANY The exhibit is sponsored by writing. The priest sa d, he had ; ; Aluminum or Steel the Memorial Committee for the ,to read Jewish source to learn : .944 County Street Six Million Jew'ish Martyrs and of many· of <the suff!rings in- 'NEW BEDFORD, MASS. will travel to other U. S. cities. flicted on the Jews by ~hristians. : SH EET ME:TAL : 992-6618 'Kind of Pretending' In the centuries beftre Hitler,: . J. lESER, Pn:>p. . : "If Jews are struggling with the 7 to 10 million Jews w re killed, : RESIDENTIAL : fact of the Holocaust and trying- he said--many becaus they re-: INDUSTRIAL : to understand ·it,.Christians are fused to convert to ca~hoHcism.: . C9MMERCIAL: not," said Father Flannery. Many Christians are ignorant _253 Cedar St., New Bedford _ There seems· to be in the of these facts, thoughl their ig-: 993-3222 : Christian community, a "tedium norance is not based tin ill will ~ , ~
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Bill on Illegal Aliens Criticized NEW YORK (NC)-Immigration officials of five Catholic dioceses -in the New York metropolitan area have sharply criticized a bill in Congress designed to cope with .illegal aliens. They said the bill submitted to Rep. Peter Rodino, (D.-N.J.) would cause "irreparable harm to hundreds of thousands of people who live in the metropolitan area." It is believed that more than a million persons of questionable entry status live in the United States. A large percentage of them, perhaps 30 to 40 percent-live in and around New York City. Many have comc from Haiti, Ecuador, Colombia and Santo Domingo. At a press conference in I3rooklyn, Father Bryan J. Karvelis, chairman of the immigration committee of the Spanishspeaking apostolatc of the Brooklyn diocesan immigration office, said the Rodino bill does not contain "any mention of relief from expulsion of the alien in our country who has established cquity ,becausc of his labors, who has established a home, created family ties and made special contributions to the com, munity in which he lives." Many aliens, Father Karvelis said, are hard-working people who are supporting their families by working at menial jobs. "That kind of industriousness should not be J1enalized.
Survival Kit Issued For New Yorkers NEW YORK (NC) - A 291page compendium of phone numbers and addresses' for New Yorkers wishing to "survivc" the bigness and inefficiency of Gotham lists 37 religious agendes among the organizations people here turn to most fre-, quently for help. The paperback volume, "Call for Action: A Survival Kit for New Yorkers" is into its second printing within a month. The book was compiled by volunteers who for 10 years have 'answered phones for a local ombudsman radio program. Their queries range from where to go to get a tree planted or a street pothole filled to suicide prevention. Catholic Charities of both New York cnd Brooklyn are given prominent listings alongside Dial-a-Prayer and Help Line Telephone Center, both Protestant services and several Jewish agencies.
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WRITER OF 'MORALITY:' Charles Peters, 21, of University of Connecticut, has written 'Morality,' a religious mU$ical which will probably be the cleanest show in town when it plays in New York at the Greenwich Village theater. The public, and especially youth, seem greatly interested in this type of presentation. NC Photo.
NEW YORK (NC) The world's .first Polynesian cardinal, from remote tropical West. ern Samoa, paid his second visit to gray and cold Manhattan and -brought with him a message of good will from Catholics there to Catholics here. Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u of Apia, was greeted at S1. Patrick's Cathedral by Msgr. James F. Rigney, administrator, in an unannounced appea'rance. Surprising clergy and visitors alike, he toured the building and recalled how kindly he had been received two years ago when he visited S1. Patrkk's with a group of young Samoan singers and offered Mass there. Cardinal Taofinu'u was ele· vated at the recent consistory in Rome. He stopped over in Boston, New York and Detroit on his return journey to .the South Pacific. The new cardinal observed that missionary dioceses are dependent on the more developed dioceses, and urged continued sacrifices for the missions. "Sacrifice, after a'1l, is the language of love, and it is in love that our unity is most perfectly expressed," he said. "WhHe Samoa is small, the hearts of Samoans are big, and so our greeting is one of unbounded ·affection."
Opposes Coercion in Conversion Efforts NEW YORK (NC)-The Rev. Billy Graham has repudiated "gimmicks, coercion and intim'idation" and called for Gospelbased "persuasive invitation" in
Christian evangelistic efforts. Mr. Graham's remarks were immediately hailed, by Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee in New '>
Notre Dame Professor Asserts War in Ireland Basically Colonial
CINCINNATI (NC)-The prospect of seeing 'burned out homes and empty streets was "too ~e pressing," so Father Ernan McMullin decided not to visit his home in Ireland this year. The trip would' have been a simple one for the University of Notre Dame philosophy professor to make on his way back to the United States from recent lectures in South Africa.' But Father McMullin's native town of Ballybofey in Donaga is near the border which divides Northern Ireland from the Irish Republic, and he knows people and places on both sides of the border and both sides of the war that is tearing the country apart. From the perspective of more than 20 years abroad-taking a Reveal Pontiff's Use doctorate at the Louvain in BelOf Communist Help gium, lecturing in Russia and VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope South Africa and teaching in the Paul VI's use of an Italian Com- United States-Father McMullin munist leader to deliver a peace is critical of all parties to the appeal to Hanoi in 1966 does dispute. "Basically it's a colonial war, not mean that the Catholic Church has changed its attitude not a religious, one," he told an toward atheistic Marxism, ac- -interviewer here. The priest, who cording to an influential mag- was here to give a lecture, explained that the turning over of azine published by the Jesuits. The article, in the most recent Irish lands to Scotch 'and English issue of Civilta Cattolica, discus- settlers in the early 1600's was sed a news.report, later confirm- at the root of the bitterness. ed by the Vatican press office,_ "The Irish refer to King James that the Pope had sent a memo- the First's action as a 'plantarandum to the Communist gov- tion' of foreigners;" he said, and ernment of North Vietnam plead- their descendants are still coning for a peaceful settlement of sidered "outsiders." "But it has been in the interest the Vietnam war and pledging of the governments of Ireland, his impartiality.
North and South, and 'of England to keep the bitterness alive", he said. "There never has been a time when,the three governments haven't found it politically desirable to keep Ireland divided." He cited the founding of the Orange Order by the British government -in the last 18th-century as a classical example of political action to stir up "the old bitterness" between Protestants and Catholics. But the government of the Irish Republic at Dublin also has been at fault, Father McMullin believes. Over thf,! years its political leaders have lacked the degree of statesmanship that would have helped the country rise above d-ivisive slogans and old antagonisms, he said. Father McMullin emphasized that the economic aspect of Ireland's trouble also must be kept in view. He cited the "slums of Derry and' Belfast" where "de· spair and bitterness" .have flour-ished since the 1920's, and the high unemployment rate in those industrial towns of the north.' Moreover, housing and jobs have ,been far scarcer for Catholics -in Northern Ireland because of gerrymandering of political divisions to favor Protestant and' Catholic labels," he said, "because it gives the wrong impression. Not in any sense of the term is it a religious war. It's economic, and basically a colonial war."
York, who said they helped Stress Cooperation overcome misunderstanding between Jewish and Christian lead- With U. S~ Bishops ers over Key 73, a ProtestantDETROIT (NC)-The National Catholic evangelical crusade. Federation' of Priests' Councils Symbolic of that lll'iSunder- is moving into a new era of colstanding has been the recent laboration with "all segments of conflict between the American the Churoh" and particularly Jewish Congress, another New with the U. S., bishops, Father York-based group, and the U. S. Reid Curtis Mayo, president, told Navy over purported Navy pro- the NFPC house of delegates at motion of conversion efforts by its sixth annual meeting here. Key 73. In the annual presidential Mr. Graham made his com- "state of the federation" summents, which were made avail- mary of past achievements and able by the American Jewish' future NFiPC goals, Father Mayo Committee here, because he depicted the federation - com· sa'id misunderstandings between prising 131 member councils Christians arid Jews over Key composed of 94 senates, 31 dioc73, which he supports, "have be- esan associations and six relic,ome a source of concern to gious 'orders-at a "record high" me." in numbers, ga-ining in trust -from bishops and having a great"Just as Judaism frowns on proselytizing that is coercive, or er. impact among priests generally that seeks to, commit men through the professional services against their will, so do I" the it has initiated. At a press co.,nference afterevangelist said. "Gimmicks, coercion and intimidation have had ward, Father Mayo and Father no place in my evangelistic ef- John Fagan of Brooklyn, former forts, certainly not in historic NFPC vice-president, spoke of biblical evangelism .. , The Gos- the federation today as "more pel's method is persuasive invi- representative" of the nation's 53,000 Oatholic priests than two tation, not coercion." Saying he understood Key or three years ago. While it has 73's purpose was to call men to money problems, the clergy genChrist without aiming its efforts el'ally appear "better disposed" at any specific religious group, to it, they said. They acknowlGraham said in his own evan- edged, however, there is still gelistic efforts "I have never felt sharp criticism and suspicion called.to single out Jews as Jews, of the federation in some nor to single out any other par- quarters. ticular groups, cultural, ethnic or ~ligious." He said God "always had a special relationship with the Jewish people." . Over 35 Years of Satisfied Service Superfluity Reg. Master Plumber 7023 When two men in business JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. always agree, one of them is 806 NO. MAIN STREET unnecessary. Fall River 675-7497 -William Wrigley Jr. • ••• + •••••••••••••••••
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese ofFal! River-Thurs. Mar. 29, 1973
Child Has Good Questions, Some Adults No Answers , A blizzard, a flood, an earthqua}{e, a plague ..'. what do we call them? Acts of God. A building, a miracle drug, a spaceship, a victory·... what do we call them? Acts of man. No wonder our children wonder about God. One of the most profound yet simwhat's going on at work, plest sentences in the Gen- about in Washington, on TV and on the eral Catechetical Directory moon, but they aren't interested goes like this, "The child in what's going on in their seeks to understand the religious life of adults." That's not very reassuring. It's not very reassuring be-
Church. They wouldn't miss Time magazine but there hasn't been a religious pel'iodical in the home for years. The child see'ks to understand if his parents really believe or if they just want him to believe,' sort of like insisting 'he drink By milk while they don't. I~ milk is that great for you, why don't DOLORES you adults dl'ink, it? The chilo senses adults want him to be CURRAN religious for some ulterior motive such 'as parish approval, fulfilled parental ,responsibility or family pride. He doesn't see the adults around him openly cause while children are seeking loving God or even praying to BISHOP HE~D AT INSTALLATION: Bishop Edward D. Head is surrounded by a and faHing to understand the him. He seeks a reason for their religious life of' their parents, embarra'ssment during reHgious festive display of flowers as he concelebrates a Mass at which he was installed as the their parents are trying to in- celebrations like First Commu- 11th bishop of Buffalo, N.Y. The 125-year-old diocese in<;ludes eight counties in western tensify the idea that religious nion and Penance liturgies. education is really for children. He wonders why his parents New York. NC Photo. The child seek's to urider~tand can't discuss moral questions why his parents bother with with him. 'When he asks them Mass, for example, when they about the morality of capital get less turned on by it than ,punishment, abortion, starving BUFFALO (NC)+BiShOP Ed- -but ,always in the end, one crozier. This is the ornate and they do over the football game peoples, war, race war, and ward Dennis Head told the con- family." traditional shepherd's staff and later in the day. How can their other everyday topics to the TV gregation 'at his iristallation as The Buffalo diocese-one of symbol of his leadership of the .parents tell them God is the ~id, he finds them stuttering bishop here that he :came "not to the largest in the -nation-covers Christian flock committed to his about ".". the Church says ..." be served but to serve" his new eight counties of western New care. most important thing in life? The child seeks to understand This tells him clearly that they "family"-theDiodese 'True Shepherd' ·of Buf- York state-:6350 square miles • I why his parents send him to, have few convictions, jlist some falo. The new bis})op, formerly and a total population of about "In Bishop Head you have a other people to learn about God reasons memorized but not in- an auxiliary in Ne~ York, de- 1:8 million, including 931,000 true and faithful shepherd who but they take, him camping to .ternalized. ' has come to serve ..." Cardi':lal scribed Ohurch inktitutions as Catholics. learn about nature, take him The diocese, Bishop Head said, Cooke said. "His loving pastoral "the outward signs !and channels What Was Wrong? travelling to learn history, and of the inner life Of love that has "is a family that has been' care will reach out to touch all .When the child asks the ques- impelled the church in Buffalo strengthened and enriched as a your lives' and I have no doubt take him to the bank to learn about money. If religion is im- tion, "Why is abortion murder to teach, to heal, Ito form, to result of the ethnic and racial that the clergy and religious and portant, why don;t his parents but capital punishment isn't?", strengthen and to serve. mix of the Poles, of the Italians, faithful people of this Church of I take part in it, the child won- 'he is seeking honest information. of the Irish, the Germans, the Buffalo will grow in wisdom and "This is the ohurch. It is a serWhen the adults around him ders, Hungarians, the blacks and the grace and strengthen WIth his we-jhst as Christ vant churoh. react angrily because they can't Spanish-speaking --each ' bring- help and under his guidance." Why Not God? answer, he wonders what was -you and l-have'lcome not to ing its' own beauty of culture The installation ceremony in to ~erve; not to be served but The child seeks to understand wrong with the question. Even- be ministered untol but to m~n and treasury of faith and tradi- St. Joseph's Cathedral and the tion." . Mass which' followed occurred why his parents, talk about tually, he figures out that the ister." . adults go mad because he put Tille essence.of the installation on the church's Feast of St. JoNixon and Carson but: never Bishop Head described the ceremony came when Cardinal seph, patron of the diocese. about God and Jesus. They talk them on the spot, that they don't have an answer and that it will Buffalo diocese as f"one in pur- Terence Cooke of New York esBishop Head was principal be best to avoid such moral pose, one faith, one church and corted Bishop Head, one of his celebrant at the concelebrated Budget Cuts Hurt questions in the future. fam'ily of God. On~ family-yet former auxiJjary bishops, to the Mass which followed his installaThen he seeks to understand •. having many members-of dif- cathedral on the gospel side of tion. Concelebrants included his I Anti-Drug Efforts, why religion has to create bar- ferent ages and temperaments; the altar. Canopied, it is raised auxiliary bishops, Bishop Pius A. WASHINGTON (NC) - The riers between his parents and one family yet having sons and three steps above the sanctuary Benincasa and Bishop Bernard, Nixon acLministration's recent himself. He senses that it, has daughters of varying talents, infloor. Above it was displayed J.'McLiiU~lin. Bishop Head sucbudget cuts have harmed efforts sometimes created tensions be- terests and accomulishments. One the bishop's coat of arms. ' ceeds the late Bishop James A. by Catholic schools and other tween his,mother and his father, family with differbnt and, at As the bishop was seated ·the McNulty, who died Sept. 4, 1972 organizations to combat drug and he knows that there are a times, divergent p~i'nts of view cardinal placed in his h~nds the at the age of 72. ~buse, the national coordinator lot of things you don't discuss of the Catholic office of Drug with Grandma 'and Grandpa beEducation (CODE) said here. cause "they don't understand the Protect your homc~ while away ! A move to restore some of changes." the funds is, however, gaining After just so much seeking momentum in Congress, the co- without success, the child stops ordinator, Father Roland Mel- seeking and the adults say sadody, sa,id. ly, "Well, we tried. We sent him F'ather Melody referred espe- , to religion class and saw, that cially to the U. S. Office of Edu- he got to Mass every Sunday. cation's mini-grant' program, What more could we have done?" which has provided funds for tl'aining community leadership Capsule Comment: Week of teams to mount coordinated re- Fire by Rev. Ernest Larsen is a sponse to local drug problems. poignant and visually touching The budget cuts left the program book to read and discuss dUWng without appropriations for the Holy Week. Father Larsen aptly coming fiscal year. takes human experiences, I.e.; • Turns lights. on and off automatically "Numerous OathoHc projects aged loneliness, cracking marand organizations, including riages, illness, and applies them • Discourages burglary and vandalism , schools, haye used the mini-grant to the Christ experience of Holy program effectively to train par- Week. A lovely Easter gift but ents, clergy, teachers and stu- give it early. Buy one for your dents in ,the monumental task of family, too, and read it together. dealing effectively with drug $4.95; Paulist Press, 400 Sette ~, , abuse," Father Melody said. Drive, Paramus, N. J. 07652.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 29,1973
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Todayls 'Yo'uth Are Mature, Hardworking,: Re'sponsible By Joe
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Yesterday I went to the eye doctor to have my eyes checked and I was told that my problem was one of advancing age and not of any physical defect. This was hardly what I wanted to hear. I certainly did not want to end up wearing glasses but I didn't a young group we will particularly relish the idea ducing all be proud of in the future. that I'm getting older. By the In the Kitchen time I arrived home it was
ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will hold its meeting on Monday, April 2, at 7:30 P.M. A baby photo. judging contest will follow the business meeting. The Communion Supper wm take place in May.
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close to five o'clock. One never realizes the warmth Marilyn was at the hairdresser that one meets in a hospital until and I was a bit famished. When one's own family has to use its I walked into the house, the first services. ~ast week one of our thing I saw was that the girls ' daughters had very bad stomach had prepared dinner and set the pains that it was thought might table: Right then and there I indicate appendicitis. Fortunately made up my mind that there after a few days of tests, this are some compensations for get- possibility was ruled out and a ting a little older, because as we very minor ailment was found to progress in age, so do our off- be causing Meryl's problems. spring, and they become more While undergoing the days of and more responsible. ' anxiety, I was truly amazed at the concern and attention shown . 'More Responsive by everyone in the hospital from Our young people never fail to those in the admitting office to amaze me. As a whole they' are the chief surgeon. We hear so far more responsive to the needs often about the impersonalities of others than I ever remember of our institutions, the regimenbeing when I was their age. Cer- tation that has replaced' medical tainly they do far more work in care, but if this is truly 'so I saw the house and in school than we no evidence of it at St. Anne's ever did as children. I constantly Hospital. hear adults discuss how much Because Meryl was the only they worked when they were teenage girl on the adolescent young, but I wonder whether the ward, the Supervisor in charge work they did was really compar- of students nurses assigned one able to what the responsible delightful young lady, Patricia young pel?ple of today do. It is Sullivan, just to be with Meryl. certainly far more than I did! Pat's charm and empathy for Our girls are almost totally in- another young lady did. much to dependent'at the advanced age boost Meryl's spirits and 1 know of 12, and 13. They both cook it was with regret that she left· when Occllsion demands, are both "her nurse" to come home. . excellent cleaners, and can do alEven among mothers of pamost any household chore as tients there develops a certain well as their mother and myself. It seems to me -that our par- camaraderie, a concern for' the ents demanded very little of us children of others as well as your when we were young. My chores own. Having a child in the hosincluded taking out the trash, pital is quite an experience, you cutting the lawn, watering the pray'a lot, rearrarige your own garden, etc., but rarely was I ex- values a bit and even pick up a pected to do very much in the little more faith in your fellow house. My sister did even less man. Now that I'm planning meatthan I. For both of us, childhood less /meals for the first week in was a time for leisure and keepApril, I'm looking for some fancy ing out of the way of adults. We were seen but not heard; as such, ways to perk up vegetables. This delicious treatment of potatoes it was a fairly pleasant youth. was sent, to me by Mrs. Evelyln Different Row Pursley of, Mattapoisett. Mrs. The young of today have a far Pursley teaches gourmet cooking different row to hoe. They are classes and offers this casserole given far more work in school, as one of her students' favorites. As an extra recommendation I their roles in their families are more significant and they mature might add that my' children also , enjoyed it. a great' deal more quickly than • young people of the past. Unfor, Gourmet Potatoes ,tunately, for many of the young 5 or 6 medium potatoes such roles are too difficult. They 2 cups sharp shredded cheese fail and then show all the signs 1,4 cup, butter of frustration with society and 1 Y2 cups dairy sour cream at themselves which, arise from their failure. But for those who room temp. If.J cup chopped scallions can rise' to the task, the .chal% teaspoon pepper lenge of modern living is pro'1 teaspoon salt' 2 Tablespoons butter 1) Peel and cook potatoes unPriest Released BILBAO (NC)-The pastor of til tender. Whip fluffy with beata rural"parish here in Spain has er, or electric mixer. ' 2) In saucepan over low heat been released after police failed to link him with terrorists of combine cheese and butter and , the Basque separatist movement. stir until almost melted. Remove Father .Jose Antonio Zabala' of from heat and blend in sour' Dima was one of some 50 per- cream. 3) , Add onion (scallions) salt sons arrested for allegedly helping the militants.' Police raids and pepper. Fold into potatoes. 4) Put into a 2 quart casserole. followed' the 'release jn February of kidnapped industr,ialist Felipe Dot with 2 Tablespoons ,butter 5) Bake 25 minutes at 350· Hua,rte.
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ST•. JOHN THE BAPTIST,' CENTRAL VILLA{rE The Ladies Guild will hold a Scholarship Whist on April 10 at 8 P.M. in the Parish Hall. Refre-lihments will follow and all are welcome to attend.
NEW DEAN:~ather dolman J. Barry, 51, is the dean of the new Schoel of Religious Studies to b~ opened at the Catholic University ,of America ,in Washington, D.C., in Septemoer. Father Barry was president of St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn., from' 1964-1972. NC Photo. '
OUR LADj( OF LOURDES, ,TAUNTON The parish will sponsor a' penny sale and "vililage fair" Saturday, March 31. Doors will open at 6:30 P.M. and the sale will begin at 8 o'dock. Booths will include white elephant, cake, candy And food baskets" and a variety of free door prizes will be awarded.
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Urge~ Reviva I Of Dialogu,e ' CINCINNATI (NC)-Dialogue between Christfans land Jews is,' "the most important: item on the ecumenical agenda" and needs to be revived from the! silence ,into which it has "stumble::l," the leading U. S. Cath&lic spokesman in the dialogue, said here. The stumbling block for Christians was the state of Israel, Father I;:dwa,rd H.~ Frlannery, executive secretary df the U~ S. bishops office for CathoHcJewish rela,tions, tol9, ,an interfaith audience at Xavier University here. After. tl).e '''trem~ndous breakthrough'''' of Vatican Council II, which launched the dialogue in 1965, ISraelis f~<:ed the "threat of another genocide" from ,the Arab, nations in 1967, Father Flannery said. "Jewish ecumenists iIi alarm turned to their Christian friends, looking for some kind , of moral and even verbal support. They didn't receive it. There was another silence of the; churchesat least on the off~cial level," F.ather Fla,nery said.: Some indiVlidual I churchmen did speak out, he acknowledged, but Jews involved in the dialogue never,theless ~ere "disappointed and disillusiOned." In 1967 Israel me~nt virtualIy nothing to Christian~, who saw ,it as "a small Mide~t state of doubtless origin, in trouble with its neighbors," he sai~. I But -to :the Jews,the Jewish nation meant "everything." Creation of the nation, he said, had "fired .the hearts of Jews everyI ' where," and they sayv it as tjle Pmmised Land, "a :promise of survival and a new source of Jewish identity... · 1
Firm' Sold NEW YORK (NC)-Sheed and Ward, Inc., a major publisher of Catholic books for 40: years, was sold to Universal Pres~ Syndicate for an undisclosed SUI;n. The neW president and editor.in-chief of Sheed and Ward will, be James F. 'Andrews, 36, executive vice president of Universal' Press Syildica~e and a former managing editor of Ave Maria magazine and the National Catholic Reporter. Andrews was a Sheed and 'Ward editor in the mid-60s.
ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A series of Lenten lectures for adults is held at 7:45 each Wednesday night in the school hall. The public is' invitEld. ' , Preparations for a parish pilgrimage to Poland will be furthered at a meeting to be held at 4 P.M. Sunday, April 1 in the hall. Folk Masses are celebrated at 7:15 P.M. Saturday' and' 11:15 A.M; Sunday~ ",,,,';, .. A penny sale will take place at 7:30 P.M. Saturday, April 7 in the hall. Tickets are available from Helene Boyko and at the rectory. Bingo is played each Tuesday night at the parish center. Doors are open at 5 o'clock. SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER - Officers of' the Council of Catholic Women will be installed Sunday, April 1 in ceremonies at White's restaurant, North Westport. In charge of arrangements is Mrs. Mary Alfonso, aided' by Miss Beatrice Cournoyer and Mrs. Lorraine Lima. Busses will leave for the restaurant from the church at 6:30 P.M. The unit plans a ,Communion breakfast ,following 9 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, April 15. Members will meet in the downstairs hall at 8:30 A.M. for procession into the church. An Alm,ac's dinner party .is, scheduled for 12:30 P.M. Wednesday, April 18, in the hall. Mrs. Lima is chairman. 'The next regular council meeting will take place at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, April 10 in the hall.
ST. ANN, RAYNHAM The Ladies Guild will sponsor _, a whist party at 8 P.M. Frid~y night, April 6 in the church hall. Refreshments ,will be served. SACRED HEART, NEW BEDFORD ,Officers of a newly formed Couples Club are Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Seguin, presidents;· Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dupuis, vicepresidents; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson, secretaries; Mr. and . Mrs. Donald Desautels, trellsurers. . A spaghetti supper and, dance are planned for April with fashion shows and a penny sale slated for a later date. The unit presented Rev. Ernest Blais, pastor, with a $600 contribution towards a parish center fund as a result of' its first money-raising project. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will' stage a fashion show of "Brides through the Years" at 8 P.M. Monday, April 2 in the church hall. HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Girl Scouts and Brownies will go roller skating at 2:30 today. Drivers are needed and may volunteer by calling Mrs. Tessier at 675-7952. Project Leisure will sponsor a lecture by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg at 2 this afternoon in the school hall. Refreshments will be served. OUR LADY OF HEALTH, FALL RIVER . The Holy Ghost Society will hold its monthly meeting follow'~irig 8 'A.M. 'Mass' aild: a 'bre~kfast, Sunday, April. 1. Committees will be chosen for the Feast of the Holy Ghost and members are requested to bring gifts tor use at the bazaar held ,in connection with the feast. The Holy Name Society will meet Sunday, April 15. Rehearsals are in progress for a Passion Play to be presented Saturday and Sunday, April 14 and 15. Those interested in participating may contact Ronald Pacheco at 674-0791. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER The CYO will sponsor a fashion show at Venus de Milo' r.es- . taurant Wednesday, April 4. Holy Rosary Sodality members' will receive corporate Communion at 8 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, Apr.il 15.
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Justice Must First Appear' In. Christian Commu.nity
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The Bishops begin their examination of what must be done to realize the practice of. justice (Chapter III of the Synodal Document) by confronting Christians with their basic responsibility to the Church of which they are members. In fact, they are the Church, the "People of God" earth's resources. To adapt a in its active, effective pres-¡ telling analogy first used by the of Notre Dame Unience in the world and their President versity, Father Theodore Hes-' concrete response to the rules of Christian living entirely determines the effectiveness of the Church's witness.
By BARBARA WARD
We cannot preach the love of Christ and machine gun fellow Christians assembled in funeral procession-as occurred recently in Belfast. We cannot claim to follow Christ and leave millions of ,the world's children to go hungry to sleep-as we do every night. In the Bishops' words: While the Church is bound to give witness to justice, she recognizes that anyone who ventures to speak to people about injustice must first appear just in their eyes. This, frankly, is an aspect of our Christian life that we can easily forget. We do not, as it were, see ourselves as people who carry or fail to convey the word of God in the whole deportment of their daily lives. Can we honestly say, looking at the record of the so-called Christian peoples of Europe and North America, that anyone would very much recognize in us the followers of our Lord? Any Difference? We are, together with Latin America, the only nations who claim a Christian heritage. Would anyone, coming from another planet guess the difference? Would they say, as was said of the early Christians: "See he'''' they love one another." Would they note our generosity, our compassion? Would they comment on our strict justice in sharing the earth's resources, in renouncing greed and rapacity, in ensuring just prices for the goods we buy and just distribution of the goods we produce? The questions are laughable. If we reflected for a moment-
which we do not-on the world's situation, we would he compelled to realize that these same Christian peoples who claim with pride to be the children of God's promise, control and do not share the great bulk of the
P'lan Annual Meeting HONOLULU (NC) - The Natiol1al Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists will hold their annual meeting here May 6, the guild announced. Among the topics will be: What goes on at sex therapy dinks, and the understanding Illnd treatment of depression of the Religious.
burgh, if we conceive of our planet as a space ship and the various human communitiesAmerica, Europe, Russia, China, Asia, Africa arid Latin America -as seven astronauts, the first three of them are '-consuming neai'ly 80 per cent of the space ship's supplies. The rest, who represent nearly 70 per cent of the world's peoples, struggle along with the remainder. But if nothing changes, 10 years from now the ratio may be nearer 90 per cent .of the supplies for the three astronauts. This does not presage a sa'fe or successful journey for our planet. Yet the 'bulk of the high consumption "astronauts" make some claim to Christianity. How then will the Church of their allegiance be judged? It Is Unlikely It is this exemplary character of Christiari living that compels the Bishops to begin their analysis of Christian action with "an examination of the modes of acting and of the possessions and Hfe style found within the Church herself." Justice must be seen to be done first of all in the area ,in which Christians have complete capacity for 'action-and that is within .their own community. If they cannot achieve exemplary conduct there, it is unlikely that they will have vision and drive enough to carry their justice up to the planetary level.
So the Synodal Document takes up in the Section, "The Church's Witness," a number of issues of justice inside the Church where there can be immediate and perfectly controllable responses to God's just commands. Christians, after all, do not influence all the movements of world trade and world investment. But they do control the salary scales and the opportunities for further development of those who live and 'work in the Church. This is where, in the widening range of human justice, the Church as institution must begin. Two kinds of justice are involved-as indeed they are at every level of policy and action. The first is a kind of basic material justice, to have economic secur.ity and the chance to serve and achieve wider responsibility in return for successful and conscientious work. The second aspect flows from th'is. It is the right to participate responsibly in the work to be done, to help in decision-making, to be consulted and respected and to playa part"in the creative shaping of the communities and institutions of which all is a part. The Synodal Document takes up both issues in order to suggest to the Church a "life style" which shows clearly that justice is being done. '
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NEW MEMBER: Cardinal John J. Krol, Archbishop of Philadelphia and president of the U.S. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, is one of eight new members named by Pope Paul VI to the Doctrinal Congregation, formerly called the Holy Office.
Green B~yToAdd School Grades GREEN BAY (NC)-The decline in Catholic education, marked by school closings and diminishing enrollments, has reversed slightly in this Wisconsin diocese. Eight schools in the Green Bay diocesan school system plan to restore grades previously eliminated, and six schools have reinstated grades during the current school year. .In Green Bay, St. Matthew, St. Philip, St. Agnes and St. Jude schools will bring back the first grade in September. St. Joseph in Green Bay and Holy Cross at Bay Settlement will revive the seventh grade in September and the eighth grade in 1974-75. Holy Rosary in Kewaunee and Holy Cross in Mishicot are planning to restore the first grade in 1974-75 and Holy Name in Kimberly plans to reinstate the seventh grade in a year or two. This year, Sacred Heart, Oshkosh, St. Mary, Peshtigo and St. Paul, Minitowoc brought back the first grade and St. Joseph, Appleton started a kindergarten, the only one in the diocese. St. Anthony, Neopit and St. Joseph, Keshena brought back the seventh and eighth grades this year.
Spaghetti Supper St. Catherine's Fund Raising Committee will hold a spaghetti supper and whist Saturday evening, March 31 in the hall of Dominican Academy, 37 Park St., Fall River. Supper will be served from 5 to 7 with the whist to follow at 7:30. Bingo is played every Friday night at 7 at the hall.
WASHINGTON NC) - lawyers representing three Catholic and two Jewish schools told the U. S. Supreme Court that a New York law giving money to nonpublic schools merely assures compliance with state requirements. The lawyers asked the court to declare constitutional New York's 1970 Mandated Services Act, which had provided $28 million a year to nonpublic schools in payment for performing recordkeeping and other services required by state law. A three-judge federal court declared the law unconstitutional last April and halted the payments.â&#x20AC;˘ Porter R. Chandler, representing Cathedral Academy, St. Ambrose School and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, arid Julius Berman, representing Bais Yaakov Academy for Girls and Yeshivah Rambam, argued that the public and nonpublic schools of New York state comprise a single system of education under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents and the Commisioner of Education. State Law Requirements State law, they said, imposes "a long list of requirements" on nonpublic schools and authorizes the regents and the Commissioner of Education or their representatives to "visit or examine any institution as often as desired" and to suspend the charter of any institution found in violation of state laws or educational requirements. The Mandated Service Act reimbursed nonpublic schools for record-keeping required by the state in the amount of 15 cents per day of attendance for pupils in grades one through six and 25 cents per day of attendance for pupils in grades seven through 12. This amounted to $27 per elementary pupil a year and $45 per secondary pupil a year. Previous Decisions The attorneys pointed out that studies had shown "that the schools incurred greater costs in providing the various neutral, nonideological services than they were reimbursed for under the act." The money thus could not have been used for religious purposes, they argued.
They noted that in the case of Lemon v. Kurtzman the Supreme Court: had recalled that its previous decisions "have permitted the states to provide church-related schools with secular, neutral or nonideological services, facilities, or materials. Bus transportation, school lunches, public health services, and secular textbooks supplied in common to all students were not thought to offend the Establisment Clause." The services for which the Mandated Services Act reimbursed New York nonpublic schools are secular, neutral and nonideological, the attorneys maintained.. Coalition Opposes Furthermore, . the Mandated Services Act, they said, did not lead to the "excessive entanglement" of church and state that the Supreme Court had prohibited in an earlier decision because "whatever surveillance is involved herein has existed and been carried out as a result of the long-established procedures under the compulsory education laws, not the enactment of the Mandated Services Act." Arguing for the Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, a New York state coalition of 36 civic, religious and educational organizations which had brought the original suit aga.inst the law, lawyer Leo Pfeffer claimed that there is no way to make sure New York state funds allocated under the law are used for non-religious purposes. Any effort to determine whether the funds are promoting religion would involve the state in unconstitutional surveillance of nonpublilc schools, he said. The act cannot be enforced, Pfeffer claimed, "without either subsidizing religious or entangling the state in religion" and both alternatives are unconstitutional.
For Diabetics A new organization, the Greater Fall River Association for Parents of Diabetic Children, will meet at 7:30 P.M. Wednesday, April 11 in the cafeteria of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Parents and other relatives are urged to attend. Information will be given on techniques and treatments available for such children.
The Parish Parade OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD A Parish Retreat Mission will be held this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with services conducted by Rev. George Taraska, O.F.M.Conv. On Friday and Saturday Masses in Polish will be at 7:30 and 9 AM. and in English at 5 and 7 P.M. Sunday Masses will be at 7:30 and 9:30 A.M. in Polish, and in English at 8:30 and 11 A.M. Closing Mission service will be Sunday afternoon at 5 P.M: ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER Mrs. Mae Smith, Mrs. Thomas Callahan and Mrs. Oscar Granito will host a Card Party this Sunday afternoon at 1:30 in the Center. The next meeting of the Women's Guild will be on April 11.
OUR LADY OF FATIMA, NEW BEDFORD Our Lady of Fatima Women's G~ild will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 3 at 8 P.M. in the pa,rish hall. Miss Evelyn Geary will speak and demonstrate makeup and its application. All members are urged it "a medieval anachronism."
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Why call Jesus "the suffering servant?" The idea comes from \ two places in the Bible. First, from his own words in the Gos, pel "Who is greater?" he asked the disciples at the Last Supper. "He who sits at table or he who serves? But I am in your midst as the one who serves you." He shows himself aware of how str.ange the title is in this instance, They had always called him Lord. And he was their Lord. But he was a Lord who served his disdples. He made himself the servant of those who were his servants. "It will go well with those servants whom the master finds wide-awake on his return, I tell you, he will put on an apr,on, seat them at table, and proceed to wait on them." He had a reason for speaking this way and showing himself in this role. He revealed it to his followers that same night before he died. "You I8ddress me as 'Teacher' and 'Lord," and fitt<ingIy enough, for that, is what I am. But if I washed your feet--I who am Teacher and Lord~then you must wash each other's feet." Lesson of Love He served those who called I
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Elements of Eucharistic Prayers II "Is it okay to use eucharistic General 'Instruction (ArtJicle 55). prayers other than the four we Then it will be possible to evalnow have in the altar missal?" ,uate how well or how poorly One of our young priests innovative ones adhere to the asked me that question the other Church's 'Present liturgical guideday following a religious educa- lines. tion conference in Utica, N. Y. Thanksgiv,ing. We should note. His is a fairly frequent inquiry, that the eucharistic prayer actubut we kinow that some of the ally begins with the introductory clergy don't even bother to ra'ise dialogue before the preface ,and the issue-they are, and have conthnues through the Amen before ,the Lord's Prayer. Hence :;.~C\ the preface is intimately linked with that which follows. In' this section, the priest, speakinng in our name, praises the Father and FR. JOSEPH M. r4 ' gives him thanks for his overall '\ work of saving us or for some CHAMPLIN particular aspect of it (the day, the feast, the season). Acclamation. United with the angels, all present (priest and been for a long time, employing people, not just choir alone), various unofficial, non-approved sIng or recite the "Holy, holy, holy Lord," This forms a retexts in this part of the. Mass. Eucharistic 'Prayers of that sponse to the celebrant's call for type abound. The interested per- words 'of praise and thanksson can find them published in giving. Epiclesis, An obviously techhard back volumes by commercial firms or stapled together nica.J term from the Greek deand privately distributed through noting "a calling upon" or "a the underground railroad. Some calling over here," it categorizes are quite good; others leave a portion which invokes God's much to be desired. Almost none power, especially in referen{;e to enjoy official approval (we will the Holy Spirit. These invo{;alook at one exception, the "Bel- tions ask that our gifts of bread gian Euoharistic Prayer for Chil- and wine may become Christ's dren," next week). Nevertheless, body 'and blood; they also 'plead both the Holy See' and national that, Jesus may be a source of bishops' conferences apparently sa.Jvation for those who receive cOll1template the future autho- him)n Communion. rization of additional "canonS." Command Evaluation 'InstItutional narrative. "The In evaluating these texts, I Last Supper tis made present in think we ought to keep in mind the words and actions of Christ the chief element's of- a proper when he instituted the sacraeucharistic prayer as outlined in ment of his passion and resurthe reformed Roman Missal's Turn to Page Eighteen
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Majority Approved Action To Defend Southeast Asia
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The Catholic Church, to whom witch hunts are not unfamiliar, now seems to be in the midst of yet another. Father Philip Berrigan announces that the returning POWs are war criminals and priests and seminarians in Denver protest against the hiring of ' a retired colonel as a public disagrees is both ignorant and in relations person at the Den- bad faith-in' short, a sinner to be condemned. ver seminary. Apparentl~, But was the war that clearly these worthy clerics think that all professional soldiers f:ihould starve to death. In the strict, legal sens:) of the
an immoral war? I do not deny tJ1at a case can be made for the proposition that it was. My own hunch is that it was because the means used -exceede:1 the appropriate proportion for the good ,to be obtained and the harm to be avoided. But all such By a plausible case can do is justify a. person's refusing to serve in the war. It is not, I think, strong REV. enough to be so self-evident that ANDREW M. others are to be wl1iUen off as war criminals because they do GREELEY not share the same factual judgments or moral evaluations. For a plausible case oan be made that the war was justified word, most of the POWs at:e not to resist the expansion of a towar criminal,s. Despite Commutalitarian tyranny. If the Saigon nist propaganda, most of the regime is not exactly democratic targets deliberately bombed dur- it at least has the advantage of ing the war were military tarbeing inefficient. An inefficient gets. H the United States had dictatorship is much to be predeliberately embarked on a pol- ferred to an efficient one. There icy of exterminating the Viet- can be no pretense that the Rusnamese population (which would sia of Joseph Stalin was an aphave been a war crime) it could propriate ally, in 1942. , have done a much quicker and I am not convinced of the more 'efficient job. Indeed, it is logic of this argument regarding very likely that we were even South Vietnam, but I think it more careful to minimize civilian must be insisted thattJ1e overcasualties than we were in whelming majority of the AmerWorld War II. ican people were convinced of it If the returning POWs were· in 1965. The war was entered for war criminals simply because a very moralrElason: To defend' they were military aviator3, then Southeast Asia from Communist George McGovern was also a tyranny. .rt may not be Father war' criminal in World War II. Berrigan's morality or the "AcaIndeed, he was probably more demic Eight's" morality, and it of ~ war criminal be::ause much may be based on a misreading less, care wa's possible about of the situation, but the decision hitting civilian targets in those nevertheless was a decision <lays of "saturation" bombing. based on a moral judgment. Does Father Berrigan suggest One Morality that the Senator was a war crimLike all fanatics, the Catholic inal? But, it is argued, the war was radicals cannot abide moral aman immoral war and anyone who biguity or the uncerta}nty and partioipated in it was immoral. obscurity of judgments that Thus, the POWs and the unfortu- have to be ,made in a difficult na1te colonel were war criminals and complex world. There is even if they never dropped a only one morality-their own. And everyone else is a sinner bomb. and must be punished. Moral Reason I am not exactly an admirer Here one gets to the nub of of certain types of the military the fanaticism of Berrigan and mind. But in the world in which the Catholic radicals. They are we live, one cannot dispense not only sure that they have the with the professional military. correct factual information about Many of them are unselfish huthe war; they are also sure that man beings who have dedicated they have made the only correct their lives to the service of their moral judgment. Anyone who country as they see that service required. To make a class judgment against them is an act of Spanish Women Aid intolerable prejudice and bigotry. It is to be hoped that Widows in Biafra' Archbishop Casey of Denver reMADRID (NC)-An ecumeni- sists the 'pressures put on him cal group of 100 women has un- by the bigots in his diocese. dertaken to help "the many widThere is, however, a solution. ows left by the tragic war of The sob sister from the New Biafra," a representative of the Yorker who canonized Father Spanish Reformed Episcopal Berrigan ,tells us that in his presChurch said here. ence one feels like ,falling on Members of this church as one's knees and seeking absoluwell as Catholics and members tion. Perhaps we could assemof Spain's Evangelical Church ble all the POWs and the Denclimaxed several days of fasting ver colonel in Father Berrigan's with a Day of Prayer, and sent presence. They could fall on their f.irst contributions to a their knees and seek absolution; Christian relief center in Nigeria. then he could impose a suitable The Afri,can nation was torn by penance ,and impart absolution. Then they would be morally civil war upon the secession of Biafra until the'defeat of the Bi- clean again. © 1973, Inter/Syndicate trans in 1970.
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LESSON OF SERVICE: "You address me as 'Teacher' and 'Lord' and fittingly enough, for that is what I am. But if I washed your feet-I who am Teacher and Lord-then you' must wash each other's feet. (NC sketch by Eric Smith)
Jesus Came To Serve Continued from Page Sixteen are to learn from him. "Love one another as I have loved you. There is no greater love titan this; to lay down one's life for one's friends." "He laId down his 'life for us; we too must lay down our lives for our brothers." A second, older source for the idea of "suffering servant" is .the one whi,ch the New Te3tament writers found in the 53rd chapter of the Prophecy of 1saiah. According to Isa.iah, when "the righteous one, God's servant" comes, he will be "spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity." He will "bear our iniquities and carry our sorrow." He will be "pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins." He will be "counted among the wicked," "oppressed 'and condemned," and "by his stripes we are healed,"
fy many. He shall bear their guilt." This .was Jesus' service. He would suffer and die for us. "The Son of Man has not come to be served but to serve-to give his Hfe in ransom for the many," How was this a service? We will find out only when we let it transform our lives. Jesus accepted suffel1ing .and death for himself in the convict'ion that his doing so would win strength for us to understand and accept them too. Through his acceptance, in loving obedience to his Father, he came to resurre::tion and life. So can we in him. "Once you know all the3e things, blest will you be :if you put them 'into practice,"
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NEWARK (NC)-TJ1e Newark Housing Authority has moved to The servant "had done no evict some 1,200 tenants from wrong, nor spoken any false- ·its housing projects, among them hood," But "though he was Father Thomas Comerford, a harshly treated, he submitted leader in the rent strike which is and opened not his mouth. Like the cause of the NHA a'ction. a lamb led to slaughter or a Each of the 1,200 tenantssheep before the shearers he was the great majority of them from silent," For "he gave his life as Stella Wright Homes, the project offering for sin," "The Lord laid where Father Comerford liveson him the iniquity of us all," will receive a summons to apHe was "smitten for the sin of pear in Essex County court and his people," and "through his show cause why they should not suffering, the servant shall justi- be dispossessed for non-payment of rent. The rent strike at Stella Monitor Editor Wright Homes is the longest in Receives Awa rd the country and will enter its NEW YORK (NC)-Erwin D. third year in April. Father ComCanham, editor-in-ohief of the erford, who helped organize the Christian Science Monitor, has Stella Wright Tenants Associareceived the Charles E. WJlson tion, and Toby Henry, an'other Memorial Award for his "reli- rent str.jke leader, recently gious dedication, distinguished served 90~ay terms for concareer, and concern for human- tempt of court after returning to tenants rent money they had ity," It was the first of an annual been holding in escrow. The award to be offered by Religion money was returned when it apin American Life (RIAL), an peared that the courts would inter-reLigious organization of order it turned over to the professional people who volun- NHA. teer services to their churches Tenants of the seven-building high-rise project ,in Newark's and communities. Canham, a Christian Scientist, . inner-city have been withholding is the first recipient of the award. rents in an effort to force the He was chosen by a special com- NHA to make needed repairs mittee which includes Arch- and provide better security in bishop Joseph L. Bernardin of the buildings. Some 1,600 peoCincinnati; former justice of the ple, most of them black, reside U. S. Supreme Court, Arthur in the project. Father Comerford Goldberg; and Dr, Cynthia C. received permission to take an Wedel, former president of the apartment there while assigned National Council of the Ohurches to Queen of Angels parish, of Christ in the U.S.A. which includes the project. Lesson of Acceptance
Continued from Page Sixteen nature-god, similar to, the old pagan one, wherein man is subject to the inevitable cruelties of the turning of the globe. The mills of the gods grind slowly but surely, and every so often his people are fed to the crushing gristle of the stones. Abraham Heschel, on' the other hand, with fidelity to an Isaiah, looks rat!ler to the rebirth of his people in Israel. He acknowledges the holocaust as a redemptive death that led to the resurrection of his people once more in the holy earth. He sees meaning in the tragedy and the return. It· is meaning, not only for the Jewish community but f.or all men tormented by personal suffering. Israel is for him, "an echo of eternity," speaking to the world of the ultimate beneficence of the God of history. Source of Hope Jesus as the suffering servant, offers ultimate hope to everyone trapped by personal suffering and numbed by what appears to .be the total loss of meaning. Suffering of itself, of course, has no meaning. Pain is a fact. Meaning comes when we personally relate it to the quest for a reconciled wor·ld. We all know that sin abounds in this world, and th,at sinners are notorious for their indifference to accountability for their. deeds. The sinner harms persons and causes them pain, but does not remain to heal and take responsibility for the reconcili'ation. The suffering servant offers his pain as an act of healng love to bring persons together again. Isaiah says it best. , Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;_He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised by our iniquities; Upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5) The temptation is to give up too soon, to lose heart because we don't see results right away. Yet the martyrdom of Jesus did produce' results of abiding radical hope and love in our midst. He remains the enduring embodiment of all that is most decent and fraternal, despite sinners' persistent efforts to rid the world of this confidence. Isaiah sums it up: He shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; he shall see the fruit of the trouble· of his soul, and be sadsfied. (Isa~ah 53:10, 11)
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, is not meant to be Continued from Page Sixteen the sharpness and dullness of joy ev~n in the midst of sorrow. "a line"by-line exegesis of the on: is satisfa'ctorily handled, classroom, beside t.he hospital pain suggests that suffering is . text" or "to make concrete' ap- 'though not settled. . Hence the 'Publication of The bed) should begin with the humnot wholly senseless. Somehow Opportunity to Teach plications to lOCUlI situations.. Knowing Jesus, who suffered particular texts and series, or Revised Standard ]Edition Com- bling admission ofi sufferin'g's his suffering sheds light on the with and for us, is the key to specific difficulties which cate- mon Bible (William Collins Sons, mystery. The book of Job in the meaning of our suffering. 215 Park Ave., S., New York, Old Testament is a! remarkable The New Testament identifies dis,covering meaning and hope chists face." N. Y. 10003. $7.95 cloth, '$4.95 testimony to the in~dequacy'of Jesus' with the "suffering ser- in what appears so utterly. senseHistory of Directory ' an d ~rgumen, ' t t '0 vant" described by the prophet ,less: As the Second Vatican paperback). Solves Problem reason, I oglc The directory itself is "neither , 'Plumb the sorrows of life. After Isaiah Os. 52:13 -- 53:12). As Council teaohes - summing up a catechism nor a textbook but Certain books, and portions of long discussion, Job ~inally bows God's "suffering, servant" Jesus centuries of Christian experience a, set of, guidelines delineating books, of the Old' Testament in silence before the mysterious bears the weight of man's agony, and faith-"Through Christ and principles, setting goals, suggest- which the Catholic Church has presence of God in his life and takes upon himself the depth of :in ChrIst, the riddles of sorrow ing means." It is expected that held to. belong to the biblical places himself trustingly I in misery each person experiences and death grow IlJeaningful" each episcopal ,conference will canon, are not to be found in the God's hands (Job 38:42). We do in some form or other. His mo- (Church in Modern World, 21). draw up its own catechetical di- Hebrew canon and were rejected well to' begin where Job, con- tive: to be of service to suffering For he passed through the experectory after the example of the by the 16th century reformers. eluded his search, silent before mankind. The outcome: the con· I1ience of pain into 'a richer, new general one and suitable to local On '.the'" other hand, 'there are the mystery of Go~'s involve- viction in faith that all suffering life -in which he shares with usconditions, and that in the terri- books which the Catholic Church ment in human pain: I borne' out of love and service a life ultimately flowering into tories of the several conferences does not -consider canonical, but I can be creative of :new life and a situation in which "he shall catechisms will be composed in which have appeared as 'appenEncouragirtg wipe away every tear from their accordance with the conference dices in translations of the Old eyes, and there shall he no more ' ! guidelines. Perhaps nothing is' more COmTestament. ' death or mourning, crying out or Father Marthaler, who is pain" (Rev 21'.4). The newly prepared Common forting and encouraging to peoContinued from Pa.ge Sixteen chairman of the Department of Bible solves this problem by in- PIe f ac ed WI'th t he 'mystery 0 f Religion and ~eligious Education eluding all the books or portions suffering than the st*rtling real- rection, when under the appearThe religIous educator has the at Catholic University, gives us of books on the canonicity of ity or Jesus' suffeting. Many ances of bread and wine he gave opportunity and privilege of en,the history of the General Cate- which there is not general agree- Christians find it harp to belieye his Apostles his body to eat and, abling others more ,honestly to chetical Directory, from its gen-' ment. But these are set apart in that Jesus Christ really suffered blood to drink and commanded face the mystery of suffering in esis in the preparatory work a special section between the physical and emotional palin. The them to carry on this mystery." the light of Christ, the "suffering - for Vatican h, down through the Old Testament and the New. Scriptures movingl~ portr~y Anamnesis. "Do this in mem- servant." United with him, the many stages of its development, Thus, the Old Testament, as it Jesus, like us, suffering at times ory of me," our Lord said, and Christian who knows suffering, to its final shaping and publica- appears in this edition, consists intensely. "He leamed obediente here 'we "recall" his passion, ca.n say with St. Paul: "Even t·ion in 1971. of the great body, of writings in the school of suffer-ing (Heb resurrection, ascension and look now I find my joy lin the sufferHe then outlines the directory, which are commonly accepted 8:8). The physical agohy of bei~g forward to Christ's second com- lng I endure for you. In my own showing the specific character as canonical. And the New Tes- qeaten with clubs, pierced with ing in glory. flesh I fill up what is lacking in and concern of each qf its sec- tament is intact. The Old Testa- nails, and hung fro~ a cro~s the sufferings of Christ for the tions. Thereafter comes the doc- ment materia.1 which is cLiffer- were very real. The emotional Offertor~l' sake of his body, the Church" ument itself, printed in full. ently judged by different Chris- anguish of fear, loneliness, reo Offering. This is the real Of- (Col 1:24). With Christ our suftian groups is 'Printed in a place jectlion, depression were equally fertory of the Mass, not the ferings can open our hearts to Excellent Work • I earlier section traditionally service and love. On facing pages, we are given apart, wl',th specia,l page nu·mber- painful. A glance at the crucifix on the called that during which we a section of the directory and ing. This, then, is a Bible for all wall of every Catholic hospital bring forward and present the Father Marthaler's commentary on that section. His commentary Christians, and it has the approv- room does not give a [logical d- bread, wine and monies. Here is not casual, and it ,is not parti- al of Cardinal Koenig, president _ planation to human s~ffering. A instead "the Ohurch and in parONE STOP san. It is plain that he put an . of the World Catholic Federation catechism lesson on ~esus' pas- ticular the Church here and SHOPPING CENTER sion and death fails to rationally now assembled~ffers the Vicenormous amount of reading and for the Biblical Apostolate. Universal Appeal 'expla'in human pain. I But faitp tim to the Father in the Holy • Television • Grocery consultation into the formulation • Appliances". Furniture The Jerusa·lem Bible has at- and hope evoked by the reaIiza" Spirit." Our gift now is a divine of his commentary, which is notable both for its learning and its tained remarkable popularity, tion that God's own son shared one, not the good, 'but human, 104 Allen St., New Bedford limited items presented beforeboth because of its intrinsic concreteness. . 997-9354 "'''' ''' : ''''''.,'''''' ''''''.... hand. He points out that the intent merits and because of it as Amer!!~~crcessions. The whole of the directory is "to prov,ide ican publisher's have brought it As usual with the Image series, Church of' heaven and earth eelthe basic principles of pastoral out in a number of distinct theology and not pedagogical editions', each calcul~ted to fill a these books are attrattively d~- ebrates eaoh EucharJist. At this signed and practical: in form. point we pray though the saints theory. Its stress on pastoraJ ac- particular need. tions puts the CCD very much in Now The Oid Testament of Paper and print are. !good, thy and speak in behalf of those the mainstream of the modern the Jerusalem Bible is included books handle well, and they wilt living and dead. catechetical movement." -in the ·Image Books p£lperback survive much use. It may be that Final doxology. "The praise One hopes that this excellent series. It is issued in four vol- people. will read the Old Testa:- of God is expressed :in the doxpiece of work will be openmind- umes, each costing $1.95. Vol- ment more if given it, as here, in ology which is confirmed and edly rec~ived, closely studied, ume. one goes from Genesis to several volumes. Not to have the concluded by the acclamation of and thoroughly discussed. If it is, Ruth, volume two from I Sam- whole mass of it thrust upon one the people." A congregation's 303 IYANOUGI:I ROAD the nature, the spirit, and the uel to II Maccabees. Volume at once, but to be able to take "Great Amen" therefore should contents of the directory will. three from '.Job to Ecclesiastlicus, up a rather small volume at ~ be 100~d, dear, (ideally) sung, and HYANNIS, MASS. be well understood, ~nd it can volume four from the Prophets time, makes it somehow more repeated enough time" to give it TEL. 775-0081 appealing.' power and foree. be. use~ as..it was mea,nt to, be:' to Malchi. ~peclive:' It
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SCHOOLBOY S'PORTS
Charge Schools Slight Chicanos In Classroom·
.IN THE DIOCESE By PETER J. BARTEK
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Golf Teams To Compete in S.E. Mass. Loop Golf courses throughout the diocese will echo with the sound of tee shots and occasional "tree" shots for the next few weeks as aspiring young golfers vie for the positions on the twenty schoolboy golf teams that will compete in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference. tleboro, Barnstable and Dennisamong other area The circuit will commence Yarmouth schools more often than not play on April 23, with nine come up with a strong represen-
matches in three divisions. The tation in State competition. larger and more successful golf However, with the emergence schools in ~he eastern sector of of the new Conference competithe . diocese will play for the Upper Division East crown, tion will take on a new dimenschools with approximately the sion. In keeping with the express same qualifications in the West purpose of the league, the strongwill.battle for the Upper Division er schools will be competing West title and the smaller against one another while those schools will meet for the Lower schools that have enjoyed little success in the sport will strive to Division championship. Schoolboy golf, alt1}ough it - develop their programs against does not receive the publicity opponents with similar problems. that track and baseball do, is an Dartmouth, Barnstable, Dennisestablished sport among local Yamouth, Bishop Stang High of secondary schools. The old Bris- Dartmouth, Lawrence High of tol County Golf loop and Cape- Falmouth, Old Rochester of Matway Conference produced many tapoisett and Bourne will comexcellent schoolboy golfers. At- pete in Upper Division East.
Coaches Must Bart.er for Practice Space Upper Division West includes Somerset, Seekonk,- Bishop Connolly High of Fall. River, Dighton - Rehoboth, Attleboro, Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro and Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High from Taunton. The remaining schools who will be playing in the Lower Division are Taunton, Norton, Holy Family High of New Bedford, Fairhaven, New Bedford Vocational and Wareham. • Home-and-home matches are scheduled in all divisions. Thus, clubs in the Upper bracket will have 12 league contests while those in the Lower group will play 10. Each season brings a new excitement to the scholastic sports scene. In the Fall and Winter football and basketball reign supreme, but when Spring comes a new dimension is added, particularly ,if Mother Nature is
not very cooperative. The picture is much the same in all schools as the coaches of various sports barter for space to hold indoor practice sessions. Gymnasiums, stairways, corridors and any other available space is converted into an ath. letic area. The schools generate with enthusiasm as the atpletes attempt to get an edge on their opponents. When the weather finally breaks, golfers, trackmen, tennis players and baseball men all move outside to start the year's busiest season. The Southeastern Massachusetts Fonference will sponsor all Spring sports. Competition should be as keen in these activities as it was in football and basketball. A successful season would be a fitting climax for what has been an exciting scholastic year for the new circui~.
Evaluation of Hoop Alignments Underway While the Spring activities are in progress, the league members will be reviewing the results of the completed seasons. Particular attention will be paid to the evaluation of the basketball campaign with the hope of f,inalizing the alignments for next Winter. The league operated this year under a one year alignment in basketball. It is believed, in some circles, that obvious discrepancies did exist in the placement of a few schools within divisions: Each member school will be allowed, at this time, to make its feelings known regarding its aHgnment. If too many schools voice opposition to the present structure, it is likely that a new format will ·be adopted before
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LOS ANGELES (NC)-Public schools an<J their teachers in the Southwest neglect Chicano students and show favoritism toward Anglo students, the U. S. Civil Rights Commission has reported. There are gross disparities in favor of Anglos-white children whose first language is Englishthe commission said in releasing a report on teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom. This comparative neglect in the classroom is "likely to hinder seriously the educational opportunities and achievement of Chicano pupils," the report said. The commission was created in Washington, D. C. in 1957 as a fact-finding agency concerned with the rights of minorities and women. The commission's findings on Anglo and Chicano students are based on firsthand observations of 430 classrooms in 52 public elementary and secondary schools in California, New Mexico and Texas. Need Basic Changes Among the findings in the report are that: Teachers praise Anglo students 40 per cent more often than the Chicanos. Teachers utilize the ideas of Anglo students 40 per cent more often than the Chicanos. Teachers respond "positively" to Anglo students 40 per cent more often than to those of Chicanos. Teachers direct questions to Anglo children 20 per cent more often than the Chicano youngsters. "The total picture that emerges from this study of classroom interaction is one in which Mexican-American students are ignored compared to their Anglo counterpart," the report said. The' commission report saId the schools will continue to fail in helping Chicanos unless basic changes are made in the educational programs and in the way teachers are trained.
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·Priest .Preditts M~jor Changes In Canon Law DETROIT (NC) Major changes in canon law are nearing the final' stages of prepara, tion, according to a leading canon lawyer. They include establishment of an independent court system to· arbitrate disputes arising out of the exercise of administrative authority and the setting up of "accountable" procedures for. selecting !bishops. In both instances, Father Thomas J. Lynch, executive coordinator of the Canon Law Society of America, told a work. shop session of the National Federation of Priests' Councils here, efforts hilVe been made to preserve rights and show that '~ac countabHity is· accepted in contemporary Church life . . . as a reality." The proposed norms for the in- . dependent adlpinistrative courts, he said, are the' t'esult of two 'years of work by a papal coin. mission and are awaiting papal . approval. Three American scholars, he said made an "extra. ordinary contribution" to com~ . piling them.
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