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Rabbi at Catholic Education Convention Assails Erosion of Value of Person

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Catholic Health Care Is Gospel Tradition "In the care of the sick, the Catholic Church has an enviable record. To be sure, this history of ministry to the sick merely carries on in time the very sign of the kingdom which the Gospel itself associate with Jesus, the Lord and Master."

"Those involved in the Catholic health care facility should assist the Bishop in his duty to preach, by word and action, love of the sick, the dignity of the human person, the duty to care for the sick with strictly moral procedures and methods, love of neighbor, the value of suffering in the Christian meso sage, the virtue of Christian hope in the face of the seeming finality of death, the beauty of God's creation in man even when an individual may be laboring under a physical or mental debility, and above all, the absolute dominion of God over human life."

So proclaimed Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, as he addressed the New England Conference of the Catholic Hospital Association in Boston on March 24.

During the tenth annual meet-

ing, the Bishop spoke on "The Relationships of the Diocese to the Catholic Health Care Facility."

"The sick are cured and the poor have the Gospel preached to them. These are the characteristics of the ministry of Jesus of Galilee," the Bishop went on.

"From that beginning, all through succeeding centuries to the present day, ministry to the sick and special care to preach the Good News to the poor have been the hallmark of the Christian endeavor.

"In providing for His people, Jesus left us not only the moral and charismatic example of His own concern for the sick; He provided, in the Anointing of the Sick, a sacramental ministration to complement Penance and the' Eucharist and the other sacraments, a special means of Grace for those distressed by illness."

History has gloriously recorded that dedicated ministry to the sick "has been consistently num· bered among the principal apostolates engaged in by the believers of Jesus Christ."

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ATLANTIC CITY (NC) - A leading Jewish spokesman for interreligious collaboration, Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum for the American Jewish Committee' (AJC), proposed here that Catholics and Jews "come together to discuss the relevance of life issue."

Addressing the opening general session of the nnd annual NaHona. Educat1ional A!jsociation (NCEA) convention, he assailed widespread callousness toward individual human life.

He said this was seen in such events as the rise in violent crime, indifference to famine, the killing of Christians in Suo dan, the non-reaction of many Irish Americans to events in Ireland and the lack of accountability shown by largecorporate interests such as oil companies eager to bilk consumers by claiming to sell domestic oil as imported oil.

Rabbi Tanenbaum said that interfaith dialogue on the prolife issue would be valuable because nationally and interna· tionally "the issue of life as ex-· pendable, callousness, and our preoccupation with material things has killed something

CCA Special Gift Phase April 21 The Special Gift phase of the Catholic Charities Appeal of the diocese of Fall River begins Monday, April 21 and ends on Saturday, May 3. The house-tohouse campaign will be on Sun· day, May 4, from the hours of 12 noon to 3 p.m. and officially it will end on May 14.

The Appeal, now in its thirtyfourth annual call for funds, helps to support the works of charity, mercy, education, social service and other works of the apostolate of the diocese.

The Special Gift campaign is made to fraternal, professional, busines,s and industrial organizations throughout the southeastern area of Massachusetts. Since Turn to Page Two

Birthright Gives Alternative In operation one year this month, Birthright of ·Fall River has compiled a report of services it has given pregnant girls and women of the Greater Fall River area.

Ninety-three calls .were received on the Birthright "hot line" during the year, said Mrs. Russell Partridge Jr., director of the volunteer organization. The telephone, manned from 7 to 9 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday by volunteers at Clemence Hall of St. Anne's Hospital, . Fall River, provides a quick, easy means for women and girls to avail themselves of the housing, counseling, medical, legal and financial services Birthright offers in problem pregnancy cases, said Mrs. Partridge.

Of the 93 calls, 68 were "pregnancy-related," she noted and the remainder were inquiries for information of various sorts.

Of the expectant mothers who contacted Birthright, many needed only referral s'ervices to other agencies, reported the director, but 16 were followed to delivery.

Reflecting changing attitudes towards "single parents," only one baby born to a Birthright mother was made available for adoption, said Mrs. Partridge. All other mothers elected to keep their infants and many have continued th.eir contact with the Birthright volunteers who counseled them during pregnancy.

During the year, continued Mrs. Partridge, four girls were placed in "Birthright homes"

during their pregnancies. At present nine expectant mothers are in various parts of th.e Birthright program.

In a new project, she noted, special prenatal classes for ·Birthright mothers are being offered at St. Anne's Hospital by Mrs. Mariette Eaton, R.N., a member of the organization's board of directors. A new session of the five-class series will begin tonight.

Birthright members have spoken about the organization to nine groups during the past year, said Mrs. Partridge, and invitations from .civic, social or religious groups to explain the program are welcome.

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spiritual inside us." He is believed to be the first rabbi to deliver a major address to the NCEA. He complimented the Amer. ican Catholic bishops' .strong anti-abortion stand as "11 fundamental contribution· to halting the erosion of the dignity of huBut, he added, man life."

"Frankly I am troubled by the way the barricades are mounted and the battle is fought."

Thoughtful and' scholarly dialogue on the issue across faith lines, he suggested, would be valuable, in part because "the Jewish community needs to be awar.e that we have an identical interest to that of the Catholic Church in preserving the sanctity of life, and in viewing human life as so precious that even as a fetus it must be preserved."

Events of the past few years, said Rabbi Tanenbaum, who is national interreligious affairs director of the AJC, have pro-

duced such widespread rootlessness, disorientation and malaise inside and outside the religious community that a time for reassessment of values is at hand.

He cited world hunger, the arms race and the changing technol· ogy of war as immediate problems.

"Religious educators are in a unique role to help educate and motivate a whole generation of young Americans to their profound spiritual and moral obligations in helping avert human tragedy," he maintained.

The kinds of help outlined by Rabbi Tanenbaum as means for young people to help sort out their ethical values in the midst of "suffering materialism, hedonism and even forms of paganism" were two-fold.

"First, he said, "they will need from us a form of moralpolitical help. Of all the groups in American society, our people -the consumers-are the least Turn to Page Five

Pope's 'Easter Message VATICAN CITY (NC)-As the largest crowd within recent memory flooded St. Peter's Square, Pope Paul VI proclaimed in his Easter "Urbi et Orbi" message that Jesus' Resurrection has infused "new, original and inexhaustible life" into a world of dashed hopes.

Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica following an open-air Mass, the Pope told about 400,000 people standing in the sun-soaked square: "It does not matter, brethren, if the experience of the frailty of human powers daily disappoints our fragile hopes for a

stable ordering of human society.

"Nor does it matter if from the very progress generated by modern development and from the sovereign exploitation of the useful secrets of nature there seems to derive for man not fullness or certainty of life, but rather the torment of unsatisfied aspiration. It does not matter.

"For a new, original and in· exhaustible source of life has been infused into the world by the risen Christ."

As street vendors and balloon sellers passed through the fringe of the crowd, the Pope in hfs message "to the city and to the world" called the Resurrection Turn to Page Three

Organize Charismatic Groups Within Diocese Tbe Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement has been organized on a diocesan basis in the Fall River Diocese, following a period during which area charismatic groups worked with groups in the Providence diocese.

With the apryroval of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, two lay coordinators have been named to aid in development of diocesan charismatic activities. They are James Collard, 4 Masson St., Westport, telephone 674-9885, who will serve the Fall River, New Bedford and Cape Cod areas; and Robert Pelland, 106.

Knight Ave., Attleboro, telephone 222-5081, appointed for the Attleboro and Taunton areas.

Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill, pastor of St. John the Baptist parish, Westport, is Bishop Cronin's liaison with diocesan groups. He has issued the following list of charismatic groups to his knowl· edge now in existence, and asks that any not included contact one of the lay coordinators.

Groups in New Bedford are at Our Lady's Chapel and St. Lawrence, St. Kilian and Our Lady

of the Assumption parishes; in Fall River at St. Patrick's parish and St. Anne's Hospital.

Groups are also at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro; Sacred Hearts Academy, Fairhaven; St. Francis Xavier parish, Hyannis; Holy Trinity parish. Harwich; St. AnTurn to Page Four

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'THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., April 3, 1975

Taunton CYOers To End Season With Breakfast

Campaign For Human Development

Congresswoman Margaret Heckler will speak at a CYO communion breakfast at 10:15 A.M. Sunday, April 13 at Immaculate Conception Church hall, 387 Bay St., Taunton. The event will salute Taunton area CYO basketball and volleyball champions in all leagues and mark the closing of the season for those sports.

DIOCESAN REPORT Since last September a total of 10 agencies and planning groups have contacted the Diocesan Department of Social Services and Special Apostolates for information and assistance in filing application for national funding from the Campaign For Human Development. The department has been requested by the National Office of the Campaign to evaluate seven local programs, which are now receiving on-site visitations, so that appropriate data can be obtained prior to departmental evaluation.

All teenagers interested in CYO :lctivities are invited to the breakfast and may previously attend Mass in their own parishes or the 9:15 A.M. Mass· at Immaculate Conception.

The proposals presently being evaluated are: Proposal Project Outreach-

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Area 49 Hillside SI. Fall River

Mothers Association For Self·Help

Social Aid

101 Rock St. Fall River

31,487

Bi-Lingual MultiHealth Center

Economicl Social Aid

Academy Bldg., Rm. 416 Fall River

44,650

legal Aid Assistance

legal Aid

136 Earle St. New Bedford

87,576

Southeastern Massachusetts Advocacy Center, Inc.

legal Aid

16 Water St. New Bedford

68,780

Cape Cod Family & Children's Service, Inc.

Social Development

Greater New Bedford Health Health Center Total fundiilg requested by all groups:

Amount $ 52,500

33 Cove Road Orleans

22,000

222 Union St. New Bedford

107,712 $414,705

Interested parties wishing either to endorse or oppose these programs are invited to contact: Rev. Peter N. Graziano, Director, Department of Social Services and Special Apostolates, 368 North Main St., Fall River, tel. 676-8481 / 676-8905.

New Bedford Parish to Support 'Jesus Week' April 6-11 "It's Jesus!" That sums up the theme of the week of renewal which New Bedford's Our Lady of the Assumption Church will . conduct April 6 to 11. Each evening's program will begin at 7 o'clock in the South Sixth Street Church, located just below County St. near Hawthorn St. The "Jesus Week," as it is called, is a response to the vacuum created by the general dis· appearance of the old-style parish mission. Inspired by what many people have experienced through the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, priests, Sisters and lay people connected with HOPE, a House of Prayer in Convent Station, N.J., have developed the Jesus Week Program and conducted it during the last three years at the invitation of numerous pastors in the New YorkNew Jersey area. OLONs Jesus Week will be the first in New England.

Program Four Sisters will come from HOPE to work with the priests and Brothers of OLOA and local

Necrology APRIL II Rev. John F. Downey, Pastor, 1914, Corpus Christi, Sandwich APRIL 12 Rev. John Tobin, 1909, Assistant, St. Patrick, Fall River A!P'lztE.. E~ Rev. Louis N. Dequoy, 1935, Pastor, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro MIllE.. :5 Rev. Christopher G. Hughes, D.D., 1908, Rector, Cathedral, Fall River APIUIL 16 Rev. Arthur E. Langlois, 1928, on sick leave, Denver, Colorado

. Tickets will be available from Jarish CYO coaches through Monday, April 7 and may also be obtained from Rev. LE!pnard Mullaney at Immaculate Con:eption rectory.

PLANNING: Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish, Fall River, and diocesan director of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, is shown with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, discussing plans on the diocesan level for the 34th annual campaign. This is Bishop Cronin's fifth year as honorary chairman of the appeal.

CCA Special Gift Phase April 21 Continued from Page One the Appeal provides services to all, regardless of color, race and creed, these groups are interested in supporting the Catholic Charities Appeal.

The five areas of the diocese lay people in leading the program. Each night there will first in the Special Gift phase are Fall be a period of prayer and sing- River, New Bedford, Taunton, ing. Next, an instruction will be the Attleboros, Cape and the Islands. The response to tbe given and a personal witness campaign for the Special Gift shared on the theme of the night.

After a concluding period of phase by the donors serves as prayer, there will be opportunity a barometer for the house-tohouse Appeal. for confession, counselling, personal and small group prayer, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, and a social hour in the Church S.T.D.. Bishop of Fall River, honhall. orary chairman of the Appeal, All parish organizations are has sent personal letters to the cooperating in various phases of solicitors of the Special Gift the program. phase. Many have acknowledged On the final evening, Friday,· there will be a concelebrated Mass led by the pastor, Father Raphael Flammia, SS.CC. COUGHLIN Speakers Funeral Home Inc. The topics and speakers for 308 locust Street each night are: Sunday-God's Love; Sister Pauline Cinquini, Fall River, Mass.

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their willingness to take an active part in soliciting tunds from the organizations. Names of contributors will be assigned to each solictor in his respective area.

The solicitors will hold a meeting with each area director.

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, announced today: "Over 800 Special Gift solicitors will make ,,4,125 contacts in this phase of the Appeal throughout the five areas of the diocese. Their success in this phase wm give confidence to the parish solicitors, when more than 17,125 solicitors will contact 102,250 homes in the 113 parishes of the diocese on Sunday, May 4 from 12 noon to 3 p.m."

Graduates of 1965 Graduates of the class of 1965 of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, will hold their 10th year reunion at the Hawthorne Country Club, North Dartmouth, on Aug. 23 of this year. Those interested in attending who have not yet been contacted may call Harry Mosher, telephone 673-6176, or Beverly (Dumas) Guinnon, 636-2414, for further information.

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CHRISM MASS AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL: Bishop Cronin installs two seminarians in the ministry of acolytes during the Mass of Chrism. Kneeling, Stephen A. Fernandes of St. John's Seminary, Brighton and St. Mary's Parish, New Bedford and John A. Raposo of St. Mary'~ Seminary, Baltimore and Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bedford during their induction by the Ordinary of the Diocese. Assisting the Bishop are: Rev. Mr.

Birthright Continued from Page One sectarian and apolitical, with members preferring to direct their energies towards offering pregnant women a positive alternative to abortion rather than to campaign negatively against abortion legislation.

The Fall River Birthright has some 35 volunteers engaged in telephone and friendship counseling, with an additional 20 working behind the scenes in various supporting roles, said Mrs. Partridge. "New volunteers are always welcome," she added.

She is stepping down as Birthright's director, she noted, but will continue to serve on its executive board. Replacing her will be Mrs. Richard Mancini.

Future Plans Birthright is funded through donations and contributions from the Bishops' Campaign for Human Development, said Mrs. Partridge. An unexpected addition to the treasury came from pharmaceutical companies ordered to return moneys overcharged consumers. "Obivously, money . couldn't be returned to each purchaser of the drugs involved," said Mrs. Partridge, "so the funds were given to health agencies and we were among those receiving payments."

With the windfall, plus its other funds, the .Fall River Birthright plans to run a nightly advertisement in the local paper, and to distribute bumper stickers with its pro-life message.

"I'm sure more girls would contact us if they knew of our existence," said Mrs. Partridge.

Those needing the help of Birthright or wishing to offer theirs can call 675-1561 on any Monday, Wednesday or Friday night. she concluded.

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Arnold Medeiros of St. John's Seminary and St. John of God Parish, Somerset, deacon; Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, diocesan chancellor; Rev. John A. Smith, director of vocations; Bishop Cronin; Rev. John R. Foister, associate director of social services; Rev. John J. Oliveira, secretary to Bishop Cronin. Right: Bishop Cronin blesses the holy oils.

Pope Increases Holy Year Appearances K. C. 86 Plans VATICAN CITY (NC)-With the Holy Year just over two months old Pope Paul VI has stepped up the number of scheduled public appearances and reigious ceremonies, giving increasing numbers of pilgrims a chance to "see the Pope."

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the 77-year-old pontiff began holding two weekly general audiences-one for foreigners in the new Papal Audience Hall, and another immediately afterward

for Italians jn St. Peter's Basilica.

On Sunday, March 2, the Pope was scheduled to celebrate a solemn morning Mass for pilgrims at St. Peter's. His original Holy Year schedule, announced months ago by the Central Committee for the Holy Year, noted that the Pope would either celebrate, preach or preside at a public Mass every Sunday in the basilica. Yet, except for special feasts or ceremonies which have fallen on Sunday, the Pope has

Pope Paul's Easter Message Continued from Page One a "victory over sterile and deadening selfishness."

He added that some men, "oriented as they are toward the elimination of effort and duty," are afraid of the Cross which

Terrorists Murder Salesian Educator BAHIA BLANCA (NC)-Terrorists here have kJilled Salesian Father Carlos Dorniak, the latest vicitim in a chain of murder.; that left 103 known dead s;nce January.

Archbishop Jorge Mayer: of Bahia Blanca called the killing "a senseless murder, blackening the humanity of those involved as killers or instigators."

led to the Resurrection and are hindered by it from accepting Christ.

"But not the young," he added, "who have insight into the truth and who are hungry for a happy and sincere life."

The Pope vested in white and in a buoyant mood, said that the Resurrection provides the "example and the energy for the continual moral, spiritual and social renewal of the present life," The Pope also gave Easter greetings in 12 languages. His greeting in Vietnamese was followed by loud applause.

The Easter message and apostolic blessing climaxed the Vatican's Holy Week celebrations in which Pope Paul participated fully.

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Mr. W. Randall Burnip, Din~c­ tor Office of Citizen Participation, Paul A. Dever State SChool, Planner of papal ceremonies Taunton will be the guest speak'OJr have shown concern for cutting at the meeting of F.R. Council 86 corners where possible in order in the Knights of Columbus Hall not to overtax the Pope:s ener. Columbus Drive, Fall River, on gies. Early in the year, when the Monday night, April 28 at 7:30.

Pope was suffering from a slight Mr. Burnip will present a cold, they abolished for several slide presentation which depicts weeks the use of the portable the various programs and acUvthrone and asked the Pope to ities of the school, and WJill ancut down on the length of his swer any questions the audience address to the general audience. might have.

Mr. Burnip has been the DiDuring Lent, two penitential. processions in St. Peter's Square rector of the Office of Citizen which preceded papal Masses ·Participation for the past 5Y2 . were ·Ied by cardinals instead years. Citizen Participation is of the Pope himself. Some have re!oponsible for all volunteers, speculated, however, that, in tours, donations, activities and addition to the strain such a pro- special programs.

The Knights of Columbus will cession might have, security risks in today's violent society also have a special display of were too great to permit the items made by the residents Pope to walk in St. Peter's which may be purchased that Square. evening. The public is cordially invited to attend this presenPope Paul, who likes to meet tation. the public and considers his weekly audience a meeting beLabor tween a pastor and his parishioHe who labors as he prays ners, has expressed his de)'ight lifts his heart to God with his in seeing so many pilgrims. hands.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., April 3, 1975

F'all River Sister Aids in Planning For Symposium

Prolong the Feast It is unfortunate that the purveyers of tragedy very often loudly proclaim the problem and call for solutions which, at times, outrage completely the sensibilities and the moral values of many. But when the problem begins to wane and is being conquered by other means, very little is heard and said.

Just several months ago the attention of the world was called-and rightly so-to the problem of global starvation. One suggestion given to the problem was the use of immoral means to limit population growth. All this was given much publicity.

Now, rather quietly, officials who have been studying the world food crisis have declared that the world is winning the battle against starvation even though much remains to be done especially in the area of nutrition.

An official of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has said in New York that since last Fall the number of people facing imminent death has decreased substantially.

There is still the matter of coping with food shortages on a long-term basis but, according to United States Senator Dick Clark of Iowa, the problem is "clearly manageable."

This is the kind of report that should be given wide circulation. The problem itself was given all sorts of attention last November when the 100 nation World Food Conference took place in Rome.

People who followed the dire predictions issuing from that meeting and those who read the proposals for solutions - some immoral and others depending upon better world cooperation and participation and distribution-have the right to know what has been accomplished in just four short months. A significant answer lay in narrowing of the gap between grain needed to avert mass starvation and grain available. The head of the FAO said that further effort was nee!led to cover the remaining gap.

But it has been demonstr~ted that world-wide attention to a problem and world-wide aid from the "have countries" to the needy countries can accomplish wonders in a short time.

This is no time, of course, for complacency to set in.

There is still need of supplying many areas of the world with aid to keep them from starvation, aid to help them live on a nutritionally sound basis, and aid to help them become self-sufficient in some measure.

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Four Short Months

As the Church urged the observance of the forty days of Lent as a preparation for Easter, so the time after Easter should be observed as an extension of this central reality of Faith.

The fact that salvation comes from Christ and from persons buried with Christ that they may rise with Him to a resurrected life is too vast to be lived in a single feast day. It must be savored and prolonged and dwelt upon at some length.

These are the days for this to be done.

The goodness and peace and happiness that the feast of Easter brings must be seized upon and made part and parcel of one's life.

The light of Christ is meant to burn brightly and always within the souls of those who have truly died with Christ to themselves and have risen with Him to new life as His brothers and sisters and the children of God. This must be thought upon.

And the more this is done the more wondrous is the work of salvation,. the redemption of mankind at the price of the pain and suffering and death of Jesus Christ.

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Organiz'e Charistmatic Groups Continued from Page One .'- deavor, insofar as possible, to thony's parish, East Falmouth; provide guidance and encourageSacred Heart parish, Taunton; ment to participants."

St. Joseph parish, Dighton: St. The Ordinary emphasized that Theresa's parish, South Attle- "the most fruitfUl charismatic boro; and St. Joseph's Hall, renewal is that which is linked South Dartmouth. to the community of Faith which is the parish."

Bishop's Letter Father O'Neill said a close Father O'Neill noted that perlink is still maintained with sons interested in the charismatProvidence charismatics in the ic renewal are invited to conform of shared days of recollec- tact one of the lay coordinators tion, workshops and retreats, but for information as to meeting that the movement has grown to times of groups. He said that such proportions in both dio-' a diocesan convocation of all ceses, it was thought more man- groups is planned at St. Mary's ageable for each to be autono- Cathedral, Fall River, for Sunmous. day, June 22. ,Bishop Cronin will Bishop Cronin spoke to priests preside on this occasion. Moveof the Fall River diocese at their ment leaders from New England annual retreat last September to and the Maritime Provinces of urge their concern for the charis- Canada will meet this weekend matic movement and in Febru- at Bayview Academy, East Provary he mailed to each priest a idence. copy of "A Statement on the Movement Explained ~atholic Charismatic ~enewal" The Catholic Chansmatic ReIssued by the Committee .for newal is linked with the Second Pastoral Re~earch and Practices Vatican Council in the stateof the. Na~lOnal Conference of ment from the bishops' committee sent to priests of the diocese.

Catholic Bishops. . .In an accom~~nYIng letter, the "One of the great manifestaB.I~hop asked all cl~.rgy, espe- tions of the Spirit of our times," clall~ thos.e .engaged In the ~a-declared the statement, "has rochl~l m.Inlstry, to recogmze been the Second Vatican Coun~he sIn~ent~ of those who are cil. Many believe also that the In chansmatIc groups and to en- Catholic Charismatic Renewal is another such manifestation of the Spirit. It does indeed offer Cardinal Deplores many positive signs, clearer in Newspaper Article some groups than in others.

LOS ANGELES (NC) - C!l-r- Where the movement is making dinal Timothy Manning of Los solid progress there is a strongly Angeles has expressed "the in- grounded spirit of faith in Jesus dignation and hurt of the Catho- Christ as Lord.

"This in turn leads to a relic people of Los Angeles" over an article called "The Celibacy newed interest in prayer, both Crisis Grips Catholicism" in the private and group prayer. Many Feb. 27 issue of the Los Angeles of those who belong to the movement experience a new sense of Times.

In a letter to the editor of the .spiritual values, a heightened Times, Cardinal Manning said: consciousness of the action of "The impulse and intent behind the Holy Spirit, the praise .of this article, the extensive space God and a deepening personal devoted to it, the absence of any commitment to Christ. Many, consultation with those who too, have grown in devotion to choose to be faithful to their the Eucharist and partake more celibate commitments and the fruitfully in the sacramental life ignoring of significant news of theChur-ch. events which are sources of edi"Reveren-ce for the Mother of fication witbin the Church-all the Lord takes on fresh meaning these give us cause to wonder and many feel a deeper sense of and a cause to protest. an<t attaGhment to the Church."

Sister Mary Jean Audette of Fall River,' provincial treasurer of the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, i:; co-ordinator of a symposium on the ethical dimensions of investments to be presented Tuesday through Thursday, April 15 through 17 at Mont Maric Motherhouse,' HoLYoke. Serving with her will be Rev. Daniel A. Hart of Peabody, Mass.

The Church's responsibility "to proclaim justice to corporations in which it holds stock. will be particularly emphasized at this study meeting, which is co-sponsored by seven national Catholic groups.

They are the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, National Federation of Priests' Councils, Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry, National Association of Women Religious, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, and the National Association of Religious Brothers.

Theological Aspects "What speciflically we shall be doing during the symposium," said Sister Mary Jean, "is considering theological aspects and possible criteria of responsibl(! investment, identifying problem areas, discussing action options under certain models of invest路 ment, and suggesting possible ways of setting up local programs.

"First there will be background presentations. Then we will form small discussion groups, where alternatives to present investment policies can be studied. Our hope is that Church organizatJions and institutions with stock investments will be better prepared to look into their portfolios and establish their own responsible investment policies.;' Symposium team members are Sister Louise Borgacz, O.P., Assistant to the Treasurer, Domini-can Sisters of Adrian, Mich路igan; Rev. John Pawlikowski, O.S.M., Associate Professor of Socio-Political Ethics at Chicago Catholic Theological Union; James R. Jennings, Associate Director of the Division of JustJi-ce and Peace, United States Catholic Conference; and' Rev. Michael H. Crosby, O.F.M.Cap., staff member of the Justice and Peace Center, Milwaukee.

Further information is available from Father Hart at 17 Chestnut Street, Peabody, MA 01960.

Unemployment Hits Spanish-Speaking HUNTINGTON (NC)~Unem颅 ployment is hitting the Spanishspeaking population very hard because "of language problems, lack of sufflicient schooling and skills," according to El Visitante Domini-cal (Our Sunday Visitor) here in Indiana.

The 20,OOO-circulation Spanish edition of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic weekly, said that "-census after census shows that the vast majority of the 'Hispanos'-as the Latin Americans residing in the United States are kn'own-belong to the lower income groups of the nation .

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thurs., April 3, 1975

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"Ethic of Scarcity" "Second, churches and synagogues have an intellectual-spiriual task in helping to define and articulate 'an ethic of scarcity.'

"How do we tive a meaningful, joyous life with less than we had in the past? What is really \'aluable in our lives? How do we find ways of sharing with the less fortunate-the hungry and the poor-when we have less ourselves?"

The Holy Year of 1975, which had its origins and is described in the book of Leviticus as a period especially dedicated to God, Rabbi Tanenbaum 'noted, is a particularly opportune time for teachers to <:hallenge the young to learn the spiritual lessons posed by hunger and scarcity.

As the NCEA convention as~l'mbled, its leaders anticipated an attendance of more than 12;000.

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Chinese Academ~ Confers Degree On Fr. Bartell The Rev. Ernest .T. Bartell, president of Stonehill College has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the China Academy of Taipei, Taiwan.

At a special -academic convocation held at the College of Chinese Culture in Taipei, Father Bartell was presented the honorary degree in "recognition of his distinguished career and significant contributions to the fields of religion and education."

The China Academy is the preeminent private research institute in the Republic of China.

It is comprised of outstanding scholars from throughout Asia.

The institute is affiliated with the College of Chinese Culture, a private university with an enrollment of 12,000 students.

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Hearings were scheduled during the meeting as well by representatives of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on Priestly Formation, discussing a revision of "The Program of Priestly Formation," the bishops' basic training program for American diocesan and Religious priests.

Stabilized Enrollment The convention was being held in the context of NCEA statistics which in March showed the number of Catholic elementary pupils appeared to be stabilizing after declines since 1965. In the current 1974-75 year these figures placed the tally at 2.59 million students in elmentary schools and 898,000 in secondary schools for a total enrollment in both categories of 3,492,000 students.

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The editorial also appealed to <:hurches "to let their stories be told; their people have to let newspaper editors know that they read such stories."

It continued: "Only then will the further secularization of pUblic life in this field be arrested. Silence about religion in public forums suggests that there are few reasons for serious peoples to take it seriously.

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The editorial questioned "whether many people want to read restaurant criticism about the Nepalese inn where they will never visit" and concluded that space is devoted to such articles "because advertising in such sections is fat and rich, and their editors can fill in the space between with copy for which few presumed readers exist."

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Sister Hand les Marriage Cases

Takes Doing, But She Finds Bright Sid,e to Recession

LOUISVILLE (NC) - Dominican Sister M. Patricia Green handles marriage cases.

She says she feels at home in her new job on the Louisville archdiocesan marriage tribunal (court)-aIthough she is the first nun to work on the tribunal here and one of only a handful of Sisters who do similar work around the country.

One reason she is at ease is her experience in Church law and admiriistration, acquired during the 15 years that she has been associated with Dominican Sisters' governing board.

Another reason is her interest in Churcn. administration and her desire to continue work in this field on a full-time basis when her present term on her order's governing board expires next year. "I see it as a valid apostolate," she said.

Sister Green' started working on the staff of the marriage tribunal about two months ago.

The business recession has hit many people very hard.

If it hasn't touched you, skip reading this column. It won't

make sense. But if you are one of the thousands crushed by financial pressures, you know the ache in the pit of your stomach.. . . the weight of rustic, so much fun ca!TIping the bills you're carrying ... out. the desperation that over-- Or they can remind you how whelms your thoughts. It's it was "back in the good old

imperative that you think positively, .that .you look on the bright side, see ,the benefits from the hardships you are enduring.

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But when every side looks black, it's difficult to see the good.

So, if you are running out of things to -cheer you up, here are a few you may not have tried yet.

Being short of cash has some advantages: No Money There are no arguments with your teen-agers over whether or not a certain movie is fit to see. No money for tickets.

H saves time reading the newspaper. You can skip the travel section, theater reviews, and the dining out column.

All the agony over wardrobe decisions is reduced to "Wear whatever you wore last time," Food shopping is simplified.

It doesn't take long to figure out if it's a good buy on hamburger or chicken. You' can skip every,thing else.

And it's probably been ages since you burnt a roast.

There's no anxiety over whether or not to ask the boss for :l raise. You're lucky if you've just got a job.

There's no need to spend hours shopping for a new car.

And you don't have to fret over re-decorating, or new appliances.

When appliances have given up, and you can't afford to replace them, remind the kids that doing everything by hand was one of the things they found so

Loretto Federation Honors President WHEATON (NC)-The Loretto Foundation has awarded the annual "Loretto Laurel" to Emilie B. Prose, president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae.

The Loretto Federation is an organization supporting the work of the Sisters of Loretto.

The annual award is given "for outstanding professional achievement in meeting today's challenges with a sense of enduring values," said Dolores Kasper, an official of the Loretto Federation.

Miss Prose, recently retired after 33 years as an employee of United Air Lines, received the award at the 24th annual Loretto Benefit Luncheon in Chicago.

days," If your car has died, it has some advantages. You don't have to drive anyone anyplace.

And think of all the money you're not spending on gas, oil. and insurance.

Time Is Free Remember when things were easier. You never had time enough to do the things you wanted. With all the time you have now because you can't afford to do things, you have time to do things you didn't have time for before ... providing they 'don't cost anything.

They can turn off your electricity and your phone. But they can't turn off the sun ... unless it happens to be raining. On gloomy days I wonder if God is tightening up on collections, too.

You'll hang on to your health ... you can't afford a nervous breakdown.

You'll keep your sanity. It takes lots of mental stamina to find the 300th way to fix rice.

And besides, consider what you are doing for your children.

We'll all survive this, and 20 years from now, when our kids have kids of their own, think of the ammunition our kids will have.

Whenever their kids complain about anything, our kids can start to preach, "You children think you have it tough ... well, let me tell you. Back in the days when I was your age, in the recession of' '75, times were really tough ..."

Would you really want to send your kids ,into the world unarmed with that kind of knowledge?

Directory Discussed On TV Program NEW YORK (NC)-Television viewers here were asked for their comments on the National Catechetical Directory, guidelines for the teaching of religion in the United States being developed by the U. S. bishops in a program on WPIX, Channel 11.

An overview of the Directory was presented on the program.

On the station's weekly Community Affairs program, "Contemporary Catholic," Father Kenneth Jadoff, the host, introduced segments of a presentation, by Msgr. Wilfred Paradis, project head for the Directory, and then asked four questions of the viewing audience. Viewers were asked to send written replies to the Office of Religious Education of the New York archdiocese. ,Father Michael Wrenn, director 'of religious education for the archdiocese, will group the replies according to topic and forward them to the national headquarters for the Directory in Washington.

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Inconclusive Debate Disagreement on Priorities, Purpose Of Women's Year UNITED NAHONS (NC) With only weeks remaining before the World Conference of International Women's Year, a notable Iack of consensus of priorities and even aims has revealed itself in this headquarters of the United Nations.

The past few weeks of deiiberation and debate here have been inconclusive, some might say incoherent. At one session, participants seemed to ,iump on their own hobbyhorses and ride off in all directions.

In principle, women everywhere advocate governmental action to bring them into political, economic and social equality with men, which the current International Women's Year was ordained to recognize and emphasize.

A draft plan for prospective adoption at the l'y1exico City conference, which opens June 19, was put together by the United Nations Secretariat at thl:! request of the General Assembly. This draft incorporated suggestions from last路 year's World Population Conference in Bucharest, Rumania, and World Food Conference in Rome. both sponsor~d by the United Nations.

The draft plan envisages a 10-year period. until 1985, to realize the objectives of Inter-

national Women"s Year-once those objectives can be agreed upon.

The plan, reviewed by a 23nation consultative copuuittee under the presidency of Princess Ashraf Pahlevi of Iran, calls for achievement of some minimum goals by 1980. These goa~s are the most widely accepted as im路 perative to the improvement of women's status, and include the eradication of illiteracy, the provision of education and training, and equal pay for equal work.

Wide divergencies of opinion and approach emerged in the exchanges of views among men and especially among women panelists in a program marking International Women's Day. After the t'aped session, par路 ticipants moved off to another room to continue this discussion, and their blunt comments conveyed their disappointment with the exercise. Oriana Fallaci, an Italian journalist, regretted that what was said had not been keyed to the realities of today.

"I love it," commented the soft-spoken Boston native, who still has a Boston accent despite her past 14 years in Kentucky.

"I just love working at the heart and pulse of the archdiocese."

Sister Green works at the tribunal part-time, usually on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but she said she would "be interested" in making it full-time when her term on the order's governing board expires.

Meanwhile much of her time is still devoted to work at thoe Dominican Motherhouse in Springfield, Ky. In addition to her post on the governing board, she is vice president in charge of management for the order and secretary of the Literary Society of St. Catharine of Siena-a job that involves handling canonical and civil matters for the community.

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School Triumphs For Third y,ear

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick Planning a garden for continuous bloom is always a difficult problem, but it can be simplified by thinking in terms of outstanding bloomers for certain periods of the year. In our garden we plan on azaleas for the last week in May and the first couple of In The Kitchen weeks in June.. These are As one of Jason's friends stunning when in bloom and bounded in my front door with add a great deal to a garden. a war whoop as a prelude to We have been particularly happy with the Exbury hybrids we purchased over the past few years. These are deciduous and are perfectly hardy in this area.

They tend to grow tall and to have very large colorful flowers which have a lasting quality.

Our eldest now is five years old, stands five feet tall and is covered with bloom in early June.

Exburys are relatively expensive so we have taken to buying small plants' which we keep potted for the first year and place in a coldframe for the winter.

No Extra Care We are also growing the Ghent Hybrids which again are deciduous plants which produce lovely bloom. We are treating these in the same way. as the Exburys; buying them small,' potting them in good-sized pots in a mixture of potting soil and peat moss, growing them in the Summer garden and then storing them in a coldframe over the Winter. During the second year they are planted directly into the garden.

Other than fertilizing in the Spring and watering thoroughly during the Summer, we give the azateas no extra special care during the year. They have had diseases thus far and in general. are doing beautifully.

The main advantage of the azalea is its magnificent showing when the garden needs help.

Spring flowers are just about passing, the irises have passed their peak and since azaleas grow in semi-shade they brighten up areas that are normally dull and dreary.

his, overnight visit I turned to Joe and inquired, "How come none of our friends asks us to sleep overnight?"

• Most of the children I know, my own included, have sleeping bag, will travel. Not a weekend goes by that I'm not falling over a strange sleeping form or hunting up clean sheets and pillow cases and an extra pillow because John or Jane has de· cided that the atmosphere in my bedrooms is more conducive to slumber than that in their own. (It must be the debris in Jason's room that puts it in competition with Howard Johnson, for it's decorated in early Tucker Street 'dump).

Not that my own won't leave bed and board at the drop of an invitation, because they will, and many Saturday mornings I have to pause to remember just who's sleeping in and who's sleeping out.

My children find other people's beds more inviting while their friends enjoy our beautyrests. One of the reasons, I think, that my own enjoy traveling is because on Saturday morning in a friend's hQuse you can be an onlooker at the game of "What do I have to clean?" while in your own home you're an active participant.

While it hasn't become the thing for adults in our family to share this "sleep-over-at·afriend's-house trend, Joe and I have found a way to effect a change of atmosphere. Every so often we drive up to Boston and stay overnight, free and clear of all our built·in chap· erones, and the change is good.

Perhaps our kids have the right idea, after all.

Schedule TV Program This recipe was given to me' On Irish Immigration

by Mrs. Lillian Ainsworth of NEW YORK (NC)-"The Un- Holy Rosary Parish in Fall River wanted," a one-hour drama dealand it was printed in the column ing with the mass immigration over eight years ago. However, of the Irish to North America it is still the best chocolate pie during and after the great fam- recipe I have ever, ever used, ine of the 1840s is to be tele- so it's well worth repeating. vised nationally on April 16 unFrench Silk Pie der the sponsorship of the 3M 1 pie shell baked and cooled' Company.

1 stick (~ pound) margarine The program is the third in or butter the series: "From Sea to Shining 21.1 cup sugar Sea," produced for sponsorship 2 squares melted chocolate, by the 3M Company by John cooled H. Secondari Productions Ltd. 1 teaspoon vanilla Richard Boone, Ray Milland, 2 eggs FionnuaJoa Flanagan and Ty Har1) In the top of a double din star in the drama relating boiler melt the chocolate. Set the attempt to smuggle a small aside to cool. band of impoverished Irish 2) Cream together in a mestranded in the Canadian wilder- dium sized bowl the shortening ness across the St. Lawrence and sugar until fluffy.

River into the United States.

3) Add the cooled chocolate "The Unwanted" recalls the and vanilla and blend well. period when tens of thousands 4) Add one egg and beat for of the Irish, fleeing starvation 5 minutes (this time is very imand disease, were packed into portant), add the second egg ships bound for North America. and beat 5 minutes more.

Arriving in New York, Boston 5) Pour mixture into pie shell and other ports, they were and chill in refrigerator until turned away because of laws firm passed to prevent the influx of 6) Decorate with whipped cheap labor. cream and shavings of chocolate.

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For the third con!'oecutive YCdr students at 'Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River,. are prize winners in the statewide Petcr Francisco Essay Contest. Judi Martin and Judy Raposa, juniors and first year Portuguese students of Sister Mary Adele Thomas, R.S.M., are first and second place winners respectively for 300 word themes on "The Influence of the Portuguese on American History."

Miss Martin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Martin of Somerset, received a $50 bond and a commemorative plaque, while Miss Raposa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Raposa of Portsmouth, R.I., merited a $25 bond and plaque.

Plan Prosecution AtF,ederal Level

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Likes Sports Program Sister of Charity Coaches Basketball At Iowa Women's College DUBUQUE (NC) -Have you had any stereotype broken lately? WeU if you still picture a nun as the bespectacled teacher in a ,black dress, you can break that habit simply by meeting Sister Jayne Zenaty.

Sister Zenaty, 26, is a person of many talents who illustrates the diversity of ways people can serve other people. A Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (B.V.M.), she is assistant public relations director at Clarke College in Dubuque and coach of the school's first basketball team. The B.V.M. Sisters run Clarke, a women's college with about 650 students.

The team has just finished its season with a record of six wins and nine losses. But the wins and losses do not matter so much to Sister Zenaty as the effort and personal growth of members of the team. "If we do happen to win," she remarks, "it's sort of like icing on the cake." ,For her, -the exprience is more than competition: "Sports are a whole aspect of a woman's development; there is a real grow~ ing experience in learning to work as a team." She believe!?

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lessons learned on the court w.ill carryover into life, and that o the discipline and sacrifice of team effort is fully consistent with education, "If it wasn't in line with the philosophy of the college, I wouldn't want to have it." , Her greatest joy is in watching team members blossom out and become mOore alive because of the experience. "Seeing that happen to one girl makes the whole program worthwhile."

Sister Zenaty sees no incongruity between her Religious life and her job. "Everything I do," she says, "I get involved in with the purpose of serving people."

She committed herself to religious service right after graduating from high school in Chicago. While she went through the formation program for B.V.M. Sisters at Mount Carmel nearby, she at:tended classes at Clarke, graduating from there in 1971 with a major in chemistry.

Then she taught high school chemistry and physics in Wichita, Kan., for three years. In Wichita she was moderator of the yeal'book and photo club.

She also coached girls' volleyball, basketball and track.

ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC) Charges that a Long Island hospital allowed an infant born alive during an abortion to die will be pressed now at the federal level.

John Short of Farmingdale. a member of the Long Island Coalition ' for Life legal committee, plans to file a criminal complaint against Nassau County District attorney, Denis Dillon,' who recently released a report showing that an investigation by his office found no evidence to support the charges that the Nassau County Medical Center failed to provide adequate medical care for a girl child born in mid-January following an abortion.

The investigation c-oncluded that the infant ,died of ex.treme immaturity and not from neglect or the medical treatment reo ceived.

Short also plans to renew a complaint with the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn that the civil rights of the child were violated.

Meanwhile, ,resident doctors at the Nassau County Medical Center who had voted not ·to perform abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy, will resume such procedures up to the 24th week as permitted by 'law.

The action, if implemented, will probably be the end of a court case in Brooklyn that had sought to force the hospital to continue abortions up to the 24th week despite the vote of the resident doctors.

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Diocese Planning 200th Birthday Of Country Rev. Peter N. Graziano, its chairman, recently convened the first meeting of the Diocesan Bicentennial Committee. He reports that members will obtain , feedback from organizations and individuaIs within the diocese prior to developing a program for diocesan participation in the nationwide observance.

Participating in information gathering will be Vito V. Gerardi, diocesan president of the Society of St. 'Vincent de Paul, Mrs. Jean Paulson, president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, Rev. Gilles Genest, vice-provincial of the Missionaries of La Salette, and Alvaro Duarte, president of the Portuguese Youth Cultural'Organization of Fall River.

Sister The~esa M. Sparrow.

R.S.M., coordinator for religious education of the diocesan department of education, will form committees of Catholic elementary' and high school personnel together with parish religious education coordinators to plan school and parish curricula for the forthcoming academic 'year with reference to Bicentennial themes.

Rev. George W. Coleman.

Newman路 chaplain at Cape Cod Community College will consult with club personnel and representatives of institutions of higher learning within the diocese, while Rev. Edward E. Correia, chairman of the peace and justice committee of the Diocesan Senate of Priests, will seek the advice of the senate and work with the department of education in planning an orientation program for clergy and religious men, of the diocese.

Father Graziano said it is envisioned that several parish events and at least one major diocesan liturgical event will take place during 1976. All will be associated with national or state holidays.

The Bicentennial chairman added that the goals of his committee are "to fulfill the desire and need of the American hierarchy to listen to the voice of the people on matters of social justice and to respond to the question of how best can the diocese of Fall River celebrate and be involved in the nation's 200th birthday."

He noted that the celebration will be a "teachable moment," a time to encourage awareness of the implications of the national Bicentennial theme of "Liberty and Justice for All" and to foster a patriotic renewal within the diocesan community.

The committee will hold its next meeting Wednesday, May 7,

For Blind The "Catholic Review," a large-print magazine containing articles from religious newspapers, and other periodicals, is available to the visually handi-. capped from the Xavier SoCiety for the Blind. Information on it and other services to the blind may be obtained from the society at 154 E. 23 St., New York, N. Y. 10010.

'PITTSBURGH (NC) The Gulf Oil Corporation, criticized in the past by church groups for the social consequences of some of its corporate activities, has nominated Sister Jane Scully, president of Carlow College here, to its board of directors.

Nomination in the past has been virtually equivalent to election.

Sister Scully, 57, of the Sisters of Mercy of Alleghany County, who has been prominent in Pittsburgh civic affairs, once participated in a demonstration asking for equal employment opportunity at the United States Steel Corporation.

Sister Scully said she was not familiar wit~ the issue of strip mining on Indian reservations about which three communities of Sisters in Kentucky have expressed concern ,in a proxy resolution that Gulf stockholders will vote on at their annual meeting April 22.

ANNUAL CONVOCATION- OF NFPC: Among the 200 delegates attending the eighth annual convocation of the National Federation of Priests' Councils in 81. Petersburg, Fla. were: Rev. Edward M. Dempsey, provincial representative of Hartford; Rev. Daniel A. Hart, outgoing representative of Boston; Rev. Reid C. Mayo, president of the federation; Rev. Thomas C. Lopes of 81. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford and provincial representative of the Boston Province.

NFPC Convocation' Bids Reconciliation The eighth annual convocation "... proposed a 'rectification of the National Federation of process' that would allow rePriests' Councils held in St. signed priests who wish to 'be Petersburgh, Florida, adopted restored to full active priestly reconciliation as the theme of miilistry within the Church by the 28-page working paper con- .fulfilling requirements which the sidered by the nearly 200 dele- Church would specify.'"

In the area of matrimony, the gates present.

The dominant areas of con- house proposed action steps for cern studied were: distribution of diocesan marriage courts to simworld resources, youth, liberal- plify their work and "compose conservative Catholics. divorced marriage preparation forms that and remarried Catholics, and re- are most sensitive to the dignity of the people." signed. priests.

In discussing the matrimonial In his "call to assembly" on the first morning, Father Reid tribunl\l system, the house enMayo, president, cautioned the couraged the Canon Law' Society delegates that reconciliation is of America to "give highest pridifficult. But, he added, "a sim- ority to research and developple decision forces. itself upon ment of alternatives to the trius: we will be ministers of rec- bunal system." It added: "local onciliation, even though we may councils should involve themsuffer misunderstanding, rejec- selves in new ways of speeding tion and possibly loss of effec- the process and relieving the tiveness in some aspects of our case load of their local tribunals." work."

'The final and most extensive At the close of the four-day meeting, Father Mayo stated that debate occurred when the queshe was convinced that the dele- tion of resigned priests was gates were, "indeed cognizant brought to the floor. The stateof the risks they were assum- ment called for the retention ing," but he added that "they of clerical celibacy "because the were also deeply aware of the realities and the values to which almost limitless possibilities which one can envision when the Priests Protest desire for reconciliation is inspired by a desire to respond Government Raids CORDOBA (NC) - Archdiocto the gospel challenge."

Among the highlights of the esan authorities here in Argenstatements made in the various tina have protested to the Cordoba :provincial government areas considered were: against several police and mil". . . delegates pledged 10% of their respective gross income itary raids, without warrant, for one year to the world's hun- against local parishes. Two of the pastors were manhandled. gry." ". . . called on the Church to Auxiliary Bishop Candido Ruconsider the possibility that 'ex- biolo of Cordoba said he preclusion from the' Eucharist no sented a strong protest to the longer be applied when the par- governor of the province after ties to the second marriage have the raids on parish churches at shown by their lives a sincere El Libertado and Barrio Comerdesire to share fully in the life cial during an alleged anti-terof the Chllrch.'" rorist campaign.

it witnesses are as necessary today as they ever were."

The delegates resolved that member councils, "in dialogue with their bishops, urge that the full rights and privileges inherent in the lay state, by reason of baptism and Christian dignity, be given to all laicized priests."

The statement mandated the NFPC executive board, in liaison with the Priestly Life and Ministry committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, to "facilitate efforts to reconcile and reinstate married priests in appropriate ministries."

The federation represents councils of priests in 45 of the continental states. Only So. Dakota, Missouri and Arkansas do not have affiliated councils.

The Provincial Representative to the executive board representing the dioceses of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the Archdiocese of Boston and the three other dioceses of Massachusetts, is Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, assistant at St. John the Baptist Church, New Bedford.

The two diocesan delegates are: Rev. Michel Methot of St. Lawrence's Parish, New Bedford and Rev. Marcel H. Bouchard of St. Joseph's Parish, Taunton. .

The resolution asks Gulf Lo disclose details relating to prospecting permits and leasing arrangements with the Crow tribe of Southeastern Montana.

Sister Scully told a reporter that material related to the issue had not been available to hert' Affirmative Action

She said she knew a "number of people in management and they felt comfortable with me."

She added: "They know I can do my homework and keep my head together but remain a woman and be a nice person to work with. They know I'm not a radical but that I believe in the exercise of civil right, affirmative action and the rights of persons to determine their own destiny."

Frank White, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a New York organization, affiliated with the National Council of "It's Churches, commented: great that now there will be representation from the Catholic Church on the board of Gulf because Catholic involvement in corporate responsibility has become so strong."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., April 3, 19-75

Catholic Health Care Centers Extend Church's True Apostolate Continued from Page One went on, "it is not possible to write the history of Christianity without recording the inspiring chapters 'Concerned with the apostolate to the sick, anymore than it is possible to trace the genesis of the modern health care facility without studying carefuIly the influence of the Church throughout the centuries in this area of human activity."

No doubt, it was also the parable of the Good Samaritan, the Bishop explained, "so well learned from the Master, that inspired Christians right from the beginning to show special solicitude for lhe traveler whom they sheltered, the poor to whom they gave help, the sick, the maimed, the crippled, the aged, the abandoned children, the lepers, the outcasts, the mentaIly retarded and all God's unfortunate indigents. It was love of Christ that moved them to show charity and fraternal affection for all who needed their help."

Deacons and Service The Church's institution of the diaconate led to the establishment of institutions to care for the sick. These became associated with eccleciastical centers.

"From the beginning, the Church encouraged 'Community assistance to people in need as an expression of the living out of the Christian commitment to love of God and love of neighbor."

GraduaIly, hospitality centers became centers for care and healing of the sick. especiaIly in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries.

"We know from history that Bishops took extraordinary interest in the supervision of hospitals, which were eventuaIly located in monasteries and near cathedrals."

Congressional testimony shows that in the United States alone "presently, over 700 Catholic hospitals provide health care and . related services to millions of Americans each year-Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

"The Catholic hospital system, with its current capacity of 158,000 beds, represents approximately 30 per cent of the acute care voluntary 'beds in the U.S. The complex health system sponsored by the Catholic community-which is a vital part of the overall American health system-treats some 25 million patients annuaIly and, in related systems, maintains homes' for 35,000 dependent children and almost 50,000 aged persons.

Civil Government Relatively recent times have given the care of the sick to the civil government. A public health care facility has emerged.

"This has been a laudable development. It has enabled the community to sponsor the health care facility and to render to the members of the community a greater variety of health care services.

"Furthermore, whoereas before, hospitals and clinics were concerned principaIly with the indigent who could not afford the care that private means permitted, now it has become commonplace for larger numbers of people-if not everyone-to be admitted to hospitals, not only because better services and .techniques are available, but also

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BISHOP CRONIN ADDRESSING HOSPITAL MEETING: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, delivering the keynote address to the delegates at the tenth annual meeting of the New England Conference of the Cathoiic Hospital Association. Seated on the platform is Sr. Mary Therese, S.P. of the Providence Hospital, Holyoke, president of the New England Conference. because modern systems of insurance and pre-payment have made such methods of health care financially feasible."

Truly Catholic "The Catholic health care facility of 1975 (where public and private facilities serve side by side) must always be associated with that long tradition of Christian care of the sick."

Two things must be remembered: "First, Christian teaching and tradition have given a specific and very special meaning to care of the sick. The fact that Jesus Himself took such an interest in the sick means that the aposto· late of bealth care is sacred to our tradition. We cannot disregard our place in this apostolate.

Our apostolate of caring for the sick and preaching the Good News is intimately connected with our imitation of Christ.

"The second point to remember is that history shows us that· traditionally the Bishop has always been intimately involved in the apstolate of health care in that part of the Lord's vineyard entrusted to his pastoral care.... More often, it has been the Bishop's privilege to bless the undertakings of others who wish to respond to a cogent need.

"But it has always been the duty, as weIl as the privilege. of the Bishop to encourage and to foster that care of the sick which not only provides the best care possible, but which stems from a convinced recognition of the innate dignity of man, whom Christ, the Son of God came to save."

Human Life "The care of the sick," the Bishop explained, "is an aposto-

late which, to be sure, is exercised in imitation of Christ, but precisely because of the Christian teaching on the value of human life.

"Christian teaching underscores the previous value of the human person and it vindicates, with courage and without compromise, all the rights due human life from the moment of conception till the moment when God Almighty calls that human being to Himself.

"This teaching enunciates the dignity of man, his rights and the inviolability of those basic rights-chief among which is the right to life itself. From this flows the right to a decent living, to means necessary to sustain life, and therefore the right to good health care.

"This teaching presumes likewise that no one engaged in dispensing health care will impinge upon the rights of others for any reason-however laudably motivated-if it cannot be ethically .. and morally justified.

Bishop Defends "So much that is involved in health care delivery concerns the rights and dignity of men. In turn this produces ethical con'siderations so closely related to the teaching office of the Bishop that he cannot disregard his weighty responsibilities in this area. , "Both his teacbing office and his duty to foster the imitation of Christ require the Bishop ·to be intimately involved in the apostolate of the sick. This is true in general, but particularly in relationship to the health care facilities in the diocese entrusted to his pastoral care.

"It is among his duties to see that the .Catholic health care fa-

cility lives up to what is expected of it in the life of the diocese and the community with regard to ethical practices."

Bishop Cronin then quoted directly from the "Ethical'and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Facilities": "Any facility identified as Catholic assumes with this identification the responsibility to reflect in its policies and practices the moral teachings of the Church, under the guidance of the local Bishop.

Within the community, the Catholic health facility is needed as a courageous witness to the highest ethical and moral princi. pies in its pursuit of exceIlence."

Some Difficulties "In this regard, it is obvious to say that certain surgical procedures are morally unjustifiable, e.g., the readily understandable case of the directly procured abortion whose sale effect IS the termination of pregnancy before vialibity.

"On the other hand, clear cut answers to other situations are not always known. Certainly, it is superfluous to say that rapid advance in scientific knowledge has provided access to new medical and surgical procedures which have ethical implications.

"I feel that it is incumbent upon doctors, nurses and those in charge of healtb care facilities to question procedur~s which have ethical overtones and to resolve properly whatever doubts they have.

"It is likewise incumbent upon Bishops to establish the mechanisms whereby such inquiries may receive 'prompt and competent attention. It is not possible, at times, because of lack of proper personnel, for every diocese to provide this service, but it is not unrealistic to suggest that Bishops of a region should pool their resources of personnel and expertise in order that the best opinions concerning the ethical and moral implications of certain pocedures would be readily available.

Great Witness "The moral evaluation of pror.edures and practices of only licit and ethical means of health care, however admirable and laudable, do not constitute the only distinguishing feature of the Catholic health care facility -although, let me insist, this is a most important cbaracteristic which becomes all the more essential in the light of the existential situation today:" the Bishop went on.

He then listed other aspects of particular Catholic endeavors: protector and defender of the integrity of human life; promoter of excellence in health care delivery; total good of the patient, especially spiritual wellbeing; provider of pastoral care for other health care facilities in thoe community; witness to the ideals of health care and not commerical enterprises.

"Perhaps the simplest way to put it is this," the Bishop concluded, "if you are going to call your health facility Catholic, then be Catholic. This is the essential relationship between the .Bishop and the Catholic health care facility.

"The Bishop wants to know that the facility is Catholic with all that that name implies, and those who are associated with the facility want to be assured that the Bishop supports them in their conviction and commitment."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., April 3, 1975

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Praise for Howard Novel Justified Only in Part

ST. ANN, RAYNHAM The parish will sponsor a whist in the church hall at 8 P.M. tomorrow. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Anna Keough and Mrs. Eileen Alden.

An outburst of praise has greeted Maureen Howard's new novel "Before My Time" (Little, Brown, 34 Beacon St., Boston, Mass: 02106. 241 pages. $6.95). Superior or even good novels are so rare that this reader took up the Howard book with lively expecta- husband or wayward offspring. tions. They were justified, But, in her own way, Laura is but only in part. Laura as unhappy as Millicent.

Quinn, aged about 40, lives And she, like Millicent, pins in a Boston suburb. Her hU!l,.band Harry is a prominent lawyer.

They have two children, Mary who is nine, and Sam who is

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seven. Laura is a 5uccessful writer who, "can turn her pen to anything. The great problems of the day unfelt, half-understood and rendered harmless."

'It is a hot day in summer, Laura is discontented, vexed, and gloomily conscious of growing old. A new burden is about to be put upon her. Jim Cogan is coming to stay with the Quinns for several weeks.

Jim, 17 years old, is the son of Laura's cousin Millicent, a New Yorker. He has been arrested in the company of a fanatical group bent on blowing up the 42nd Street library. To keep him out of further trouble while his case is being prepared for tria,I, he is shipped off to the Quinns.

His presence is disturbing in a way that Laura has not foreseen.

She feels some physical attraction to him. But what really fascinates her is, as she puts it, his being at the beginning of adult life, with choices before him, while she feels aged in spirit. "I want to be as he is now, to crouch at the starting line, and I'm furious that it can't be. It i5 his turn: that's all."

Refuses Warnings Laura and Jim are honest with each' other as with no' ~>ne else.

They talk freely. and the talk ranges over their families. Laura goes back into the past, to her .parents (the father, Boston Yankee; the mother, New York Irish), to her brother Robert, who was killed in Korea.

'Shereca.J)s her youthful acquaintance with Jim's mother, the kind of person Milicent wa5', the kind of marriage Millicent made.

We see more of that marriage close-up. Minicent's husband Jack is an incurable gambler. This addiction dooms his family to a cramped existence in a few rooms in a run-down neighborhood. Millicent is bitter about the disappointment that life has been.

One would suppose that Laura Quinn was far better off. She is prosperous, has a large, glossy home has her writing career, is not threatened by an unreliable

some hope, although of a different kind, on Jim Cogan. But Jim, interested up to a point in her account5 of the pa'st and the lessons to be taken from it, refuses her warnings and reminds her of the gap between them when he says, ",I don't car~. That was all before my time."

'My Real Life' The day of Jim's hearing ill New York approaches. Laura urges' him to run away, offers him money with which to do so.

But he refuses. He says, "I want to go back. My mother and father are pitiful, but I miss them ... I want to see my brother and sister ... I want to see them all. It's an idea you gave me, that it's my life, my real life."

He leaves. Laura drives sadly home from the airport. Standing outside her house, she looks in at her husband and children as they play a game together. She cries, "filled with such pity, such forgiveness." Tl\is is her life, her real life.

What weakens the novel is the shifting of focus fTom one character to another, and the breaking up of the narrative, by the insertion of set pieces which might almost be independent short stories.

It should be noted that aU the principal characters are, or have been, Catholics, and that their religion has no discernible meaning or value for them.

Crime Club Book New York City, a bizarre religious sect, a bombing-all these figure also in Solemn High Murder by Barbara Ninde Byfield and FranY.jTedeschi (Crime Club/ Doubleday, 277 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. 186 pages. $5.95).

This is a murder mystery which builds neatly up to the crime itself, and then goes completely to pieces.

The scene is the Episcopal church of St. Jude, the Martyr, in Manhattan. Its rector is Dunstan Owsley, 52, handsom~, wealthy, inclined to be imperious. An An~ican clergyman, Simon Bede, is visiting Owsley on a mission for the Archbishop of Canterbury. It seems that Owsley is being offered a very high position at Lambeth, with a bishopric in prospect.

All signs aTe that he wiH accept. But before he can do so, fie is murdered, in the Lady Ohapel.

Whodunit?

The solution of the mystery is plausible enough, but the section leading up to it is slack.

There are not enough ,complications to be worked through, and the authors mark time and fill up pages with blather.

MATTHEW HENRY BURY

Taunton Area CCA Chairman

ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold a card party at 1:30 P.M. Sunday, April 6 in the parish center.

Mrs. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Ina Lizotte will be hostesses.

The next guild meeting will be at 8 P.M. Wednesday, April 9 in the parish all-purpose room with Mrs. Raymond Dooley and Mrs. William O'Neil as hostesses.

Committees have been appointed to plan a Communion breakfast and an installatioll banquet. In charge of a nominating committee are Mrs. Anna Chlebek, Mrs. Grace Bronhard and Mrs. Lizotte.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER An evening of western flavor is being sponsored in the school hall by the Women's Guild beginning at 6 P.M. Saturday, April 12. Following a happy hour, a "chuck wagon supper" including ham, beans, potato salad and wine will be served. A square dancing demonsbration and dance featuring the Grand Squares of Portsmouth, .R. I. wdll highlight the evening.

Chairpersons for the evening are Mrs. Edward Nicoletti and Mrs. Theodore Gagliardi, aided by a large committee. Tickets afe available at the rectory or from Women's Guild board members.

Women's Guild board members will meet in the rectory conference room at 7:30 tonight.

The second in a series of talk~ on children's behavior will be presented bv Rev. Robert McIntyre at 7:30 P.M. Sunday, April 6 in the school hall. All are invited, especially parents of primary grade children.

Men and women volunteers are needed to participate in the parish lector program. Those interested may call Bill Renaud, telephone 674-4437.

Clean white or pastel colored cloth is needed by the Women's Guild sewing group to make pads for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop home. Donations may be left at the school during schOOl hours.

Matthew Henry Bury, 94 Dean St., Taunton, a member of St. Jacques parish, has been appointed lay chairman for the ST. PETER, Taunton area in the 1975 Catho- DIGHTON The Ladies' Guild will sponsor lic Charities Appeal. The ana whist at 8 P.M. Tuesday, April nouncement was made today by Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, 8, at the rectory hall on County diocesan director of the Appeal." Street, Route 138. Chairman is Mary Pavoa, aided by Paula TaMr. Bury'will aid Rev. Walter vares and Norma Mello.

A. Sullivan, pastor of Sacred ST. DOMINIC, Heart Church, Taunton, the SWANSEA Taunton area director of the ApThe Women's Guild will be peal. They will· assist Msgr. host unit to the Diocesan CounGomes and Edward F. Kennedy cil of Catholic Women at a ST. JOSEPH, of Taunton, diocesan lay chair- leaders' meeting to be held to- ATTLEBORO The Junior Drop_In Center man of the Appeal. The super- night in the parish hall. wlil have a floor hockey game vision of the two phases of the The annual guild dessert card Appeal-special gifts and parish party is scheduled for Wednes- from 7 to 9 P.M. tomorrow night -will be conducted by Father day, April 23 with Rosemary in the parish hall.

The CCD School of Religion Sullivan and Mr. Bury in collab- Danforth as chairman, aided by oration with Kennedy and Msgr. .Elaine Bento. Donations for the will hold a cake sale after all Gomes. The special gift phase event may be left at the rectory Masses Saturday and Sunday to ,begins April 21 and ends May 3. any morning except Thursday. defray program expenses.

A Mass for the deaf will be The house-to-house parish ap-, Tickets will be available at the celebrated by Rev. St~ven Salpeal will be on Sunday, May 4 door. vador at 2:30 P.M. Sunday in from noon to 3 p.m. This phase The unit's next regular meet- the church. ends officially on May 14. ing is set for Tuesday, Apl'lil 22, Knights of the Altar will meet at which time final preparations from 7:30 to 9 P.M. Sunday in Mr. Bury, a native of Taunton, will be made for the card party. the school. Mrs. Betty Philips, attended Taunton schools and is Planned for May are a luncheon a graduate of Bentley College in Monday, the 5th, a Communion chairman of the Attleboro Bicenfinance and accounting. He is breakfast at Paul Hebert's res- tennial Commission, will speak , first vice president in charge of taurant in Somerset on Sunday, and show a film.

Parish Cub Scouts will sponsales at Reed and Barton Corp. the 18th, following 8:30 A.M. where he has been em?loyed for Mass, and a fashion show at the sor a ham and bean supper from 5 to 8 P.M. Saturday, April 19.

46 years. He has been active in meeting on Monday, ,the 19th. ,Tickets are available at the rechis parish's St. Vincent de Paul Society. He has been a member OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, tory. of the Special Gifts Committee SEEKONK, of the Charities Appeal for many Line dancing will be demonyears. He was vice-chairman for strated by Mrs. Doris Newhall the Bishop Cassidy High School following a business ser.sion of Building Fund. He received the the Women's Guild at 8 P.M. "Man of the Year" citation in Wednesday, April 9 at the , J. lESER, Prop. , 1970 in conjunction with the church center on Route 44. : RESIDENTIAL : National Conference of Christ,i· Refresments will be served by INDUSTRIAL , ans and Jews. Bury is trustee Emma Macedo and Mrs. Angie : COMMERCIAL: , of Bristol County Savings Ban~, Stanzione. Mrs. Donna Motta is Marian Manor and Morton Hos- program chairman for the eve- : 253 Cedar St., New Bedford' : 993·3222 : pital. Active in the Boy Scouts, ning. ~.,""""'-"-""-".

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Says 'Elites' of Catholic Church Ignore Ethnicity

The Parish Parade

I can't figure the Catholic opposition to the "ethnic thing." The rediscovery of ethnicity is one of the major cultural developments of recent years. The American Jewish Committee was deeply involved in the beginning Of the "ethnic revival" and now has a major institute involved in versities have little in the way of ethnic courses. ethnic research and practice.

How come?

The Ford Foundation has A Jewish colleague suggesteJ made grants in the field for the last five years (as I have reason to know). The government is becoming involved· too, and has

that the reason might have something to do with his explanation of why ethnicity dropped from the notice of American sociologists after the Second World War. Ashamed of Pasts?

Iy REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

set up an ethnic component for the bicentennial celebration.

The mass med.ia, while often viewing the subject with distaste, have resigned themselves to its importance (vide Kojac, Columbo, Bareta, etc.)

Younger scholars (many of them Catholic) are pouring out first-rate academic research 011 the subject. When "Ethnicity" began publication a year ago, we were not sure that we could fiJI up a year's worth of issues with scholarly articles. Now we have a backlog of more than a year. Ethnicity has become respectable-almost.

Columnists Dubious Yet the official and unofficial elites of the Church ignore it.

A few pages were conceded in the bicentennial discussion guide, "ethnics" were permitted to testify at the rigged Bicentennial "hearings," but only after everyone else had spoken, and they were cut off because there wasn't enough time. Catholic journals of opinion usually pay little attention to ethnicity.

"America" recently renewed its editoroial warning that "too much" ethnic consciousness was a bad thing. ·Catholic columnists (like the respected Msgr. George Casey) are dubious, "Commonweal" types repeatedly flail Michael Novak for his ethnic themes, Geno Baroni is conveniently ignored, Catholic colleges and uni-

Missioner Becomes Pope's Secretary VATICAN CITY (NC) - A 38year-old Irish missionary priest began duties March 14 as one of Pope Paul's two personal secretaries.

Father John Magee of St. Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions served for six years as an official of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, where he specialized in affairs of the Church in India.

Like Msgr. Pasquale Macchi, who has been personal secretary to Pope Paul since his days as archbishop of Milan, Father Magee wiJI live in the papal apartments, pray with the' Pope in his private chapel, eat meals with him and handle his personal correspendencc.

The students who flocked to a great New York university on the G.!. Bill were mostly Jewish kids from the East Side and Brooldyn" Their teachers were also Jewish but cosmopolitan and sophisticated {one even changed his name to sound as WASP as possible); they were also ashamed at the obvious "Jewishness" of their bright but unpolished students. Parts of the education of this brilliant gen, eration of Ameroican sociologists included an effort to "de-ethnicize" them. It didn't work, thank heavens, and one of those students, Nathan Glazer, would later combine forces with an improbable Irishman to write the turning-point book, "Beyond the Melting Pot." But the attempt was serious.

One of the professors (the namechanger) used to go out of 'his way to violate dietary laws in the presence of his horrified students. He was ortily a few years ahead of them out of the neighborhood, and he was even more ashamed of his own past than he was of his students.

Could it be that the Catholic cultural elites are ashamed of the ethnics because they are ashamed of their own pastsand maybe just a bit guilty at having deserted the neighborhood for the Big World?

Support From Laity The acting editor of "America" is baffled because I say that ·the ethn-ics pick up the tab for t·hat periodical. Presumably, there is not enough income from "America's" failing subscription 'list to pay for the upkeep of the staff or the midtown Manhattan office building in which it operates. But even if there is, the education, the health ca·re, and the support of the Jesuit staff must come out of the funds of the Society of Jesus. Who, for example, pays for the trips to Rome to cover the Synod?

(Although, apparently, some "on the spot" coverage can be done without leaving midtown.) Since the Jesuits have no really big donors and no foundation support, one has to assume that the contributions - of the o'rdinary Catholic laity fund both the Society and its special enterprises like "America."

There is nothing wrong with that, of COUI:se. On the contrary, more power to them. But in the process they should at least remember that it is from the ordinary laity that their support comes.

And try not to feel ashamed of the rest of us. © 1975, Universal P.ress Syd'c'te

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BISHOP LOHMULLER

Philadelphia Set F'or '76 Congress VATICAN CITY (NC) - On the feast marking the institution of the Eucharist, Pope Paul VI paid tribute to next year;.s 41st InternatiQnal Eucharistic Congress, to be held in Philadelphia.

'In the first of two general audiences on March 26, Wed·nesday of Holy Week, Pope Paul told about 10,000 people that the congress would draw people from all over the world.

Of the theme of the congress, "The Hungers of the Human ·Family," the ,Pope said that for "the hungers of the human fam- .. .ily, the Euch~ristic Congress wilt" offer ... the only-the perfectsolution: Jesus Himself who said: 'I am the bread of life.'"

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Admission will be by dish or donation to a potluck supper planned by the Women's Guild for 6:30 P.M. Monday, April 7 in the school hall. Members are asked to ~ontact Mrs. Michael Coughlin, telephone 672-7713, Mrs. James Carey, 674-0205 or Mrs. Philip Serra, 678-6357 to give notification of whether they will attend and what their donation will be. Entertainment will follow' the supper.

A spring musical, "Oldies but Goodies," wiU he presented at 8 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13 in the school hall on Pine Street. Tickets are available from guild members and will also be sold at the door.

ST. MATHIEU, FALL RIVER, The Council of Catholic Women will sponsor a food basket whist at 8 P.M. Saturday, April 5 in the parish hall on St. Mary St. Mrs. Raymond Antaya, chairwoman, will be aided by Mrs. Bertrand Desmarais. Tickets will be available at the door.

ST. ANNE, NEW BEDFORD Cub Scouts of Pack 16 will hold a car wash from 12:30 to 4 P.M. Saturday, April 5 at Levesque Amoco Station, 364 Dartmouth St.

In Philadelphia, Cardinal John Krol said he was "overwhelmed with joy at the support shown IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by the Holy Father for the Eu- . FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will meet· charistic Congress." The cardinal called the congress "a mile- at 8 P.M. Monday; April 7 in stone in the history of the the church hall. Miss Betty SanChurch in the United States." tos will speak on the care of plants and terrariums and Mrs. (I~ . will be held in Philadelphia Yvette Riley will be in charge Aug. 1-8, ·1976.) of refreshments.

After the audience, the Pope received Father ,Walter Conway, ST. GEORGE, executive secretary of the 41st WESTPORT "Hawaiian Luau" will be the iInternaol:ional Eucharistic Congress, and Auxiliary Bishop Mar- theme of a dance' to be sponsored at 8 P.M. Saturday, April tin Lohmuller of Philadelphia.

19 in the school hall by the They were accompanied by Couples' Club. The public is Cardinal James Knox, pres- invited and music will be by the ident of the Permanent Commit- Pearl Harbor Hawaiians.. Retee for International Eucharoistic' freshments will be served.

Congresses. Cardinal Knox, an In charge of arrangements for Australian, is prefect of the Con- the evening are Mr. and Mrs. gregation for Divine Worship John Figueiredo III and Mr. and and the Congregation for the Mrs. Bertrand Leduc.

Discipline of the Sacraments.

During the private audience, ST. LOUIS, the Pope sent blessings to the FALL RIVER A mammoth penny sale will be Archdiocese of Philadelphia and to its archbishop, Cardinal Krol. sponsored by the Women's Guild He expressed great concern for· in the church auditorium at 2 the congress and requested Car- P.M. Sunday, April 6. Mrs. Wildinal Knox to keep him informed fred St. Michel, guild president, is its ex-officio chairman. of developments.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL When shown a copy of ·tlie HELP, NEW BEDFORD congress symbol, two hands surThe ,silver anniversary of Our rounding a host, the Pope Lady of Perpetual Help Society seemed pleased with its modern will be marked Saturday and desi-gnand asked to have a copy Sunday, June 21 and 22 with a of it. banquet at Thad's Steak House, The last International Eucha- followed by a dance at Polish ristic Congress'to be held in the Veterans' Hall.

"Swieconka," an Easter dinUnited States took place in June 1926, in Chicago. It was ner, will be served by members the 28th int~rnational congress. of combined parish societies at 12:30 P.M. Sunday, April 6 at the church hall, 235 N. Front Names Envoy St. VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope A Polish Night buffet and Paul VI has named Cardinfll dance will take place Saturday, Sebastiano Baggio his special April 26 under auspices of the envoy to Brazil's National Eu- Adam Miekiewicz Society of the charistic Congress, scheduled to ,Polish Roman Catholic Union at be held an Manaus July 6-20. 2031 Purchase St, Music will be Cardinal Baggio is prefect of the by the Jolly Bells of New BedCongregation for. Bishops. ford.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The Men's Club will meet at 7 P.M. Sunday in the school hall.

Polish classes have resumed and will meet weekly from 7:45 to 9 Thursday and Friday nights in the &chool.

A Patriots' Day dance will be sponsored by the Men's Club from 7 to· midnight Sunday, April 20 in the hall. A buffet will be served from 7 to 8 P.M. and dancing to the music of the Pawtucket Highhatters will follow. Tickets are available from Henry Parush, chairman, or from any club member; Plans for an August trip to Poland will be made at a meeting to be held at 4 P.M. Sunday, May 4. Further information is available from the rectory.

ST. MARY, SOUTH DARTMOUTH The annual meeting of the Women's Guild will take place at the parish center on Tuesday night, April 8. Final reports for the year will be given, followed by presentation of a slate of officers for the forthcoming season and election of new directors.

An instaBation party will be held at Dugdale's Town House, South Dartmouth, on Tuesday, April 22. Mrs. Edward Anuszczyk Jr. and Mrs. Robert Caron are in charge of reservations.

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ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO There will be a penance celebration and final rel).earsal for confirmation candidates ana their sponsors at 2 P.M. Sunday, April 13. All are asked to meet 'in the school gymnasium at 1:45 P.M. A substitute is required for any sponsor unable to be present at this time: A committee has been formed to plan a Christmas bazaar· for early December. Parishioners interested in giving assistance or donating sale articles are asked to call 226-1518.

SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER A rummage sale sponsored by the Council of Catholic Women will be held from 9:3g. A.M. to 4 P.M. in the parish hall Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10. Mrs. Hilda Silvia will be chairman, aided by Mrs. Mary Almeida and Mrs. Lorraine Lima, co-chairmen.

The next meeting of the unit will take place at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, April 8 in the hall.

ST. THERESA, SOUTH AITLEBORO Terrariums and other plantings will be demonstrated and discussed at a meeting of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers to be held Monday, April 7.

The unit's Christmas bazaar has been set for Wednesday and' Thursday, Nov. 12 and 13. Co· chairmen are Cecile Vachon and Sue Vierra.

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Suggests Committee Action On Illegal Alien Problem

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On March 13 I presented testimony on the so-called "illegal" alien problem before the Subcommittee on Immigration of the House Judiciary Committee. Speaking on behalf of the' U.S. Catholic Conference, I recommended a comprehensive package of ' legislative steps, to be taken I am very conscious of the (~on· cern of our people who are adconcurrently, which would: vacating sanctions. I have spent (1) institute an equitable a great deal of time working on preference system apnlicable to hath the Eastern and Western Hemisphere based primarily on family reunification 'and the admission of refugees;

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS (2) grant adjustment of status t (I all persons regardless of their

country of birth; (3) increase foreign aid and economic assistance to the counIriE's of Latin America in general and Mexico in particular; (4) create 'an across-the-board grant of amnesty with the necessary cut-off date for eligibility and adjustment of status, without chargeability against the nu, merical ceilings.

Following my testimony, members of the Subcommittee raised a number of questions for purposes of qualification. Several of these questions and excerpts from my 'answers are reprinted hE'rewith: Question: You advocate amnesty across-the-board. Do you take into account ... the numher of jobs that are filled by illegal aliens which have been estimated by Immigration to be in the neighborhood of a million?

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Massive Deportation Answer: I might say that my whole background and training has been in the field of labor relations and labor economics. I am ther~ore extremely sensitive to the position of the labor movement on the issue which you have raised. My own instincts are definitely in favor of protecting the rights of our own citizens and of legal alien3 in this country, but I weigh against that . . . what I consider to be the horrendous possibility of our government, on very short notice, deporting ... literally millions of people. What weare trying to do ... is to find a way to resolve the present crisis, and then take whatever steps are necessary to keep it from recurring. But I have to differ with my friends in the labor movement, if any, who would take a stand against amnesty on the grounds that it would hurt our own workers. I cannot, in my own mind, live with the thought of our government carrying out a massive deportation of people who have deep ties in thiscountry today.

Question: But if we were to provide for amnesty ..., would you then approve H.R. 982 (which caUs for sanctions against ('mployers who knowingly hire illegal aliens)?

Answer: Yes, I think I would.

the farm labor problem. On th(' basis of this experience, I am fully convinced that many employers have deliberately entice:\ or recruited illegals to this country for their own purposes. I am quite sympathetic to the position of those who say there has to he a crackdown on this practice to remove the economic motive for hiring illegals; but we are trying to put this matter in a broader t:ontext.

"Employer's Obligations Question: YOll state that thl' employer should be required to inquire of every job applicant as to his legal right to take up employment. What specific affirmative obligations would you impose upon the employer?

Answer: We deliberately avoided that issue. I will be glad to speak to it, but the main purpose of inserting that recommendation in our testimony was te try to reduce to the bare minimum any possibility of the employer using H.R. 982 for discriminatory purposes. This matter is of great concern to many of the Spanish-speaking groups ir. this country. They are afraid that all Spanish-speaking workers - U, S. citizens, legal aliens and illegals - wm be treated alike (and may be denied em· ployment) because of the color of their skin and (they feel) that this would redound to the harm of the whole Spanish-speaking community.

Question: How would you handle tbe ,case of a union which knowingly is seeking to accept in its membership . . . persons they suspect or know to be illegal aliens?

Answer: I think if they did that, a good part of our prob· lem would be over. I do not consider it feasible to use the unions as a means of controlling the influx of illegal aliens. Unions only organize people who are already hired, They cannot go out and organize unemployed masses of people hiding as illegals. If they are here and hired, then it seems to me that the unions ought to be organizing them. I think they can hold themselves responsible for not having done as much of .this as they should have over the years.

But some are doing it now.

Bracero Program In the course of the questionand-answer period following my testinlOny, I also raised a point which was not included in our prepared statement but which I thought ought to be put on the record. In response to a second question as to whether or not illegals are taking jobs from American 'Citizens or from legal' aliens, I cited the inconsistency of those who are saying that we must have a new Bracero program (which would bring Mexican workers to this country under a 'contract between the U.S. and Mexico) or that we must

LA SALETTES RECEIVE DIACONATE: Bishop Cronin ordains two members of the La Salette Missionaries to the order of Diaconate at ceremonies in St. Jos~ph's Church, Attleboro. Kneeling. Rev. Mr. Richard Brochu of Norton, left and William Drapeau of Springfield, the new deacons while standing are the assistants to Bishop Cronin, namely, Very Rev. Armond Proulx" MS, provincial, left and Rev. Gilles Gen'est, superior of the Shrine, right. The altar boy is Brian Bourgois of St. Joseph's Parish, Attleboro.

Vote on Irish Unification Urged WASHINGTON (NC) - Three days before St. Patrick's Day, a New York Congressman introduced a resolution calling for a vote by the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, under United Nations supervision, on the unification of Ireland.

The resolution introduced by iRep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R-N.Y,), who represents Orange, Rockland and part of Ulster counties, also called for discontinuing U. S. military aid and training programs with Great Britain "which are related to the suppression of the minority in Northern Ireland and which are not directly related to North Atlantic Treaty Organization commitments."

It also called .for an .embargo on exportation of all weapons and ammunition to Great Britain which are related to the suppression of the Northern Irish minority and are not exclusively reserved for NATO usage.

Gilman, whose district has become one of New York City's

so-called bedroom suburbs, told the House of Representatives: "The British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland masquerade under the title of 'peacekeeping forces.' But rather than keep the peace, their presence has exacerbated the tense situation. They have become an antagonist in the struggle."

Gilman went on to say that the matter was of concern to the House "because these British soldiers are trained with our assistance for their duty in Northern Ireland."

He added: "They fire our bullets from our guns. Our nation has provoided the weaponry they need ,to continue the suppression of the minority in Northern Ireland, and this unpleasant fact

is highly objectionable to many of our citizens."

Gilman introduced a similar resolution in the last Congress.

A spokesman for Rep. Lester L. Wolff (D-N, Y.), chairman of the House Commtttee on Foreign Affairs subcommittee on future foreign policy research and development, said Wolff welcomes the resolution because it "provides a focus" for the hearings the subcommittee plans to hold on the Northern Ireland sttuation "in April or early May, The Br,itish government has called for elections to be held in late April to a constitutional convention in Northern Ireland to determine the future governmental structure of that region, now a province of Great Britain.

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provide special visas for foreign workers to work on specific crops or in certain areas of the country where there is an alleged shortage of American labor.

I said that I was amazed that .. powerful groups in this country were pushing for these arrangements at a time when the United States is caught up in a very deep recession, In conclusion, I told the Subcommittee that the U.S. Catholic Conference would be strongly opposed to the restoration of the Bracero' program or to the use of special visas for special categories of foreign workers.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Soul of the Liturgy

Whatever Happened to Benediction?

Twenty years ago benediction of the Blessed Sacrament held an important part in the devotional life of Roman Catholics.

1.1 fact, for many this service seemed to hold greater appeal than Mass itself.

By

FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN Today, with the multiplication of evening Eucharistic liturgies,

CHILD AND PERSONAL PRAYEll: "Personal prayer is the life of faith, just as interpersonal love is the communication of faith." A child learns early how to express her faith life in personal prayer. NC Photo.

By REV. DENIS READ, O.e.D.

Why are so many of the Church's services joyless, routine and empty? And what is it that can make the celebration of Mass a meaningful religious experience? It is personal prayerprayer that comes from within.

Personal prayer is the life of faith, just as interpersonal love i~ the communication of faith.

Our developing sciences of religious psychology and sociology point to prayer, service and community as fundamental to the Christian life, very much as hlocking and tackling are fundamental to the football game. In the liturgy, all three of these elements can come together, but it is the s;>irit of prayer that in· spires life into the whole work of the people.

St. Augustine is so important in Christian history becaus~ it was Augustine who realized the importance of interiority in all t he actions and passions of men and women, and it was he who directed the course of Christian spirituality and morality towards its center-the presence of the Trinity in the souls of the faithful. From Augustine's time on. the masters of meditation and (~ontemplation have only underlined his major thesis: The Lord within .is "more intimate t.han any other intimacy, superior to

every other faculty" of the human condition. And it is this basic thesis of the Christian life that Augustine uses as a criterion for discerning truth and sham in every eCclesial reality.

During his own· conversion, the inspiration St. Augustine found in personal prayer caused him to take up the Epistles of St. Paul.

Pauline Enrichment His sensual habits weighed heavily upon him. He was experiencing moral crisis. And as he read, little by little, Paul's writings helped him understand the .grace of Christ that comes to man in his weakness. to show the way to a homeland indistinctly glimpsed ("Confessions" 21,27). Finally, by reading a text of St. Paul (Rom. 13:13-14) at the moment of crisis when he heard "toile lege" in the garden with Alipius, he was filled "with a light of certainty, and all shadow of doubt disappeared" ("Confessions," 12, 29). His "Confessions" are a hymn to the Trinity.

They worked within him and made him what he became. And Augustine's "Soliloquies" are the actual written prayers of a man immersed in contemplation. A great number of learned people seem to forget that all of this great man's tremendous output Turn to Page Fourteen

a vernacular service in which the congregation can actively participate, and mitigated fast regulations that facilitate reception of Communion, the occasions for benediction have tremendously diminished, ever dis· appeared in some parish churches.

A similar shift in attitude toward the reserved Body and Blood of the Lord can be seen in the Church's official documents over that period which talk about the tabernacle and its proper location within a church.

Jesuit Father Ted Guzie in his book, "Jesus and the Eucharist" (Paulist Press, New York, 1974), summarizes those pronouncements from tbe Holy See: "Back in 1957 it was decreed

that Mass should be celebrated on the altar where the Eucharist is reserved; a ,church having only one altar should have the tabernacle· on that altar. In 1964 it was decreed that the Eucharist could be reserved on the main altar or on a truly prominent side altar; Masses could be cele· brated facing the people even with a tabernacle on the altar.

By 1967 the full circle was turned: The tabernacle should not be on the Eucharistic altar; in fact, it should ideally be placed not even in the sanctuary hut in a chapel distinct from the central part of the church."

Papal Document There are persons who deeply regret this demise of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament reserved and the diminution or elimination of occasions for benediction.

They see in this trend a weak-

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How Do You Pray?

By URBAN G. STEINMETZ

In my childhood days, I learned that God is a Perfect Everything.Sometimes, it seemed, He was so· perfect that I couldn't even approach Him except through the liturgy, or through certain set prayers, or through some other person.

It has taken me almost a lifetime to learn He is perfect in another way, too. He is perfect-

The Prayer of Children

By MARY MAHER

The clearest thing about Christian praver is that we pray as God's children! That dimension of prayer is absolutely vast in its implications. Many of us in the years since Vatican II have learned a richer type of prayer by sharing the strengths of other religious traditions. We have learned about praying from within our human center from Zen Buddhism and Yoga types of bodily meditative postures.

We have been introduced to prayer that leads to a non-violent life style from Hinduism. From our Indian brothers here in America we have learned how natural forces such as the sun, land or forest express well the inner states of our being. The Afro culture has taught us that we may dance our prayer. Perhaps many of us need to look again at the distinctiveness of our own Christian tradition.

The disciples of Jesus seemed to pester Him in an effort to get Him to teach them how to pray. At first glance this insistence seems strange. They knew how to pray, most assuredly most of them knew well their Jewish prayer forms. They were not ignorant of the reality of prayer. The Gospel writers seem to make a point of this incident, the disciples asking to learn how

ening of our faith toward the real presence of Christ in the consecrated host.

Others, including some priests, rejoice over the development and a few actually refuse to plan or celebrate benediction in their churches. They consider this devotional practice as detrimental to our belief that Christ is really present in the action of the faith community at Mass.

Pope Paul, in a recently published section of the revised Roman Ritual, "Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist.

Outside Mass," steers a typical middle course through this debate.

The document stat.es there is :no true conflict between the Mass and benedktion or between Holy Communion and the reser· vation of hosts in a tabernacle.

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to pray. Why? We can only guess that they may have known, with the guidance of the Sryirit, how vital this pedagogy of prayer was to be for future generations.

Jesus uses that one word-our -to (1ualify His Father as now ours. That one word means so very much. We are indeed children praying to our Father because in Jesus' resurrection we are given that status of being!

Absolutely amazing! We are chil· dren of God! If we ever internalize that reality I imagine our prayer would be simply the most colorful and all-embrasive aspect of our lives, like fire as Teilhard de Chardin suggested.

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ly approachable. I can talk· to

Him anytime and He will listen.

And if I listen hard enough, He will answer me.

But this two-way conversation with God has some peculiarities.

God, Who in his Son is perfectly human, also has some very human traits. He doesn't like to be told what to do.

I suppose I began to learn about this peculiarity through the people who shared their lives with me in marriage counselling and family enrichment. These people were my friends and teachers, because from them I learned everything I know about loving and living, and quite a bit of what I have discovered about God. And nearly all of them have run up against this peculiarly human perfection of God. He doesn't like to be told what to do.

"Loser's Prayers" It works like this: When I ask desperate people, "Have you prayed for help with your marriage?" The answer is usually "yes," so then I ask, "How do you pray?" In almost every case, the answers sound like this: Turn to Page Fourteen

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Ben-ed iction

The Prayer of Children Continued from Page Thirteen their Father with the gamut of the feelings, hopes, frustrations and joys that they experience in the contour of their lives. The prophets of the Old Testament are "pray-ers" out of the deep emotion and convictions that they had; so were the psalmists.

It is difficult to imagine them constrained to choir stalls and book forms of prayer. As sons and daughters we can pray wherever we are. however we are. Most likely God does not need a rhetoric of prayer from liS; He invites us .to be His own children and share that strong, vibrant life of His. If only we could feel at ease with prayer ;:s found in Ihe heart of instead of as a rest station along the highway of life! ' In order to sustain an aware· IH-'SS that prayer is in life we also need to contemplate, to go apart and ·speak with God alone.

A mother prays with her eyes in the l:'xquisite first act of praise which the sigh,t of her new child calls out. Later those same eyes may pray as she tenderly bathes Ihis same child's fevered face.

A miner prays as he digs his way into the coal mine to earn wages for his family's food. Fingl:'rs can pray on key punch machines or on potter's wheels, with car wrenches or grocery carts.

Expression of Life Prayer is always more than the words we envelope it in; prayer is the expression of how we live. Such an approach to prayer is the expression of how we live. Such an approach to prayer is not far-fetched. Psalm lOR tells us that "1-1 am pray-

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er." Jesus gave us the gentle command to pray always. Of course this does mean that we are always growing more aware that we are God's children. It asks of us a basic identity marc than a methodological set of "how to pray" techniques. It calls us to tbe awareness of what our faith does within us.

We can know that we are praying well if we are growing more aware that we are God's sons and daughters who are daily in need of conversion as well as praise for who we are.

So many of us here in America suffer real alienation. Only the extremely sheltered find it easy to know where and how we belong in this age of technology.

Section three of "To Teach as Jesus Did" opens with a statement about change that affects our prayer, too: "Underlying virtually all {;hanges occurring within the world today, both as instrument and cause, arc technology and the technological world view." Our prayer life has not escaped this influence. We seem called to deepen our prayer now, to reach those awarenesses in ourselves where we call alit all over again, as Ihe early disciples did, "Lord, teach us to pray." We want to experience again how we belong to God as His children so we can get on with t1-.'e building of this 20th century world as the Kingdom begun now.

We just may discover in our sincere search that the Our Father is such a revolutionary statement of Christian prayer that it well may be a marvel if we get beyond the first two words!

How Do You Pray?

Continued from Page Thirteen "Ur~, I go to Mass and CommUllion every day, and I beg God to help George stop drinking," or "I've about given up on pray· cr. I used to be on my knees every day, begging God to help me control my temper. But as soon a~ I get up ~ seem to b~ screaml~g at m~ WIfe and kids."

I sometimes thmk of tbese as "the Loser's Prayers" because all of the people I meet, who create .a Iiv.ing he.1I for themselves In theIr relatIOnships with others, seem to pray that way. ~n essence they say. "God, here I~ the problem. Here is the soluhan. Please endorse my solution."

Contrast this with what I Iik;:.· to call the "Back Up Against Tbe Wall" prayer which every one of you have used at least a time or two. You have this problem. You've tried everything. including Loser's Prayers.

Finally things get so bad you can't think of any solution, so as a last resort you say, "Lord, I don't know what to do. But you do. Please, help!"

No solutions. No directions.

No guidelines for God. In your "Back Up Against The Wall" prayer, you finaIly said, "Let's do it Your Way, God. Not my will, but Your <Will be done." And that, I firmly believe, is why it works. In my own life I can even go so far as to say it always works. Confidence in God But why do we wait until we

have our backs up to the wall to pray that way? Why, when so much experience has taught us it is absolutely impossible to read the mind of another person? Why when we know we are so blind to ourselves? Why, when "just living" has shown us that so many things we thought were faults were actually virtlJes, and many of our "virtues" have become our deadliest sins against others?

And when we say "Lord, I don't know what to do, but You do," isn't that true? As a marriage counselor, people often come to me for advice. I don't even know them. so how can I advise them? If I see them one thousand times, I still won't really know them because no human being can read the mind of another.

But God can. So I've learned to dump the problem on Him in a hurry. I say "Lord, I don't know what to tell these people, but You do." As a result, people often tell me I am a good counselor. I think I am, too, but only because I have learned to bring the First Team into the game.

Maybe if you learn to say often, "Lord, I don't know how to solve this problem but You do," your solution will come.

And when that happens, take time out to say "thank you, Lord."

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SCRIPTURE READING: "The liturgical prayer of the Chur.ch flows from our personal prayer life, and it also nouflshes the growth of meditation into contemplation."

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SouI of the Liturgy Continued from Page Thirteen from the pastoral needs of hIS people and brothers in the priesthood, for Augustine was, above all else, a pastor of souls.

Another saint 'who is known for the art of prayer is St. Terese of Avila. Since her time, teach. ers of the spiritual life put different forms of prayer under two headings: meditation and cantemplation. This distinction is useful as long as we recognize that they are two ,stages in the ordinary growth of the spirit of prayer. The word "meditation" underlines the human activity involved in prayer. "Contemplation" underlines its passivity and accompanying divine activity. Together they add up to personal prayer which is a human activity and receptivity. resu~ted

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The liturgical prayer of the Church flows from our personal prayer-life, and it nourishes the growth of meditation into can· templation. Scripture reading, response to the Word, liturgical singing, periods of silent 'thought, the homily and the actions of the liturgy are all drawing cards calling us to enter into the mystery of God-with-us in the Eucharist. The liturgy of the Eucharist proper and the reception of Holy Communion are invitations to commune with the Lord within as well as among us. The liturgy which does not direct our attention and our lives to this silent communion with the Trinity may be brilliant and ap?lauded, but it is not effective.

For it is the glory of God, the God of our hearts and our souls not the techniques of ex~erts no; the approval of men, which is the purpose of liturgical worship.

This "glory to God in the highest," which brings "peace to His people on earth" is the thrust of personal prayer. It is the secret of personal communal joy in the

Lord. The whole process of Christian life begins with the prayer of a believing person prayer that reaps a harvest of fruits-joy, peace, sweetness. It is our most practical act, for personal prayer alone can form the dispositions which allow public worship, the sacraments, and tbe lives of the people of God to be effectively aimed at their practical end-the salvation of souls.

Reports $8 Million In 1974 Services NFiW YORK (NC)-The New York archdiocesan Catholic Charities office spent $8,237,570 in services in 1974, according to the agency's annual report released here.

The report, noted, however, that a recession-linked upsurge in appeals for emergency finan· cial aid and job-finding assistance from middle class breadwinners vied with the needs of those on fixed or marginal inco~es, which traditionaIly account for most of the agency's services.

In addition, according to Msgr.

James Murray, executive director of the agency, inflated costs have made services more expensive "at the very time when the needs and numbers of the poor are inexorably rising."

Continued from Page Thirteen Instead, these can complement one another, if those who plan and execute liturgies observe t hp proper procedures and keep matters in correct perspective.

I quote the ritual text: "The celebration of the Eucharist outside Mass springs from and directs Christians back to the Mass itself. During Mass the sacrifice of His life, which is made by Christ the Lord, is one with the life-giving sacrament by which in the form of hread and wine He is present with us. And after Mass in church and oratory He is still 'God with us,' Emmanuel, by the same sacramental presence. Day and night He makes His home with us, fuIl of grace and truth.

Spiritual Communion "For this reason it may not be doubted that when the faithful honor the Blessed Sacrament, they are offering true worship to the one, true God, as the Catholic Church has always done. The fact that the sacrament was instituted by Christ to be our food should not detract from this truth.

"When the faithful honor Christ -present in the sacrament, they should remember that this presence is derived from the sacrifice and is directed toward sacramental and spiritual communion."

Next week we will discuss some of the practical reforms the ritual recommends to help us achieve that delicate balance between private and public, liturgical and devotional Eucharistic worship in the Church.

African Bishops Condemn Abortion

vATICAN CITY (NC) - Certain "deviations" from moral law, including abortion, the use of contraceptives, premarital and extramarital sex, have been attacked in a pastoral letter by the bishops of Senegal and Mauritania in Africa, according to Vatican Radio March 25.

The raclio reported that the bishops consider those practices to be a - misunderstanding of what true liberty means.

According to the broadcast, the bishops "wrote in particular that practices once limited and censured, such as relations before and outside of marriage, the use of contraceptives, and procured abortion, today are becom!ng normal practices in the name of liberty and accepted by those who do not expressly foIlow a materialistic view of life.

"In view of an explosion of these deviations, the Church, in· terpreter of the teaching of Christ, has the duty of calling to mind the character of the total and definitive gift of the sexual act which is realized in the exclusive arid indissoluble love of the couple."

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THE ANCHORThurs., April 3, 1975

SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

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IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER 1. BARTEK Norton High Coach

Athletes Share Spotlight During Busy Spring Season At this time every year schoolboy locker rooms resemble beehives with, athletes scurrying in every direction, coaches working frantically at last minute details and athletic directors trying to meet the demands being tossed at them from every angle. It's Spring, the busiest schoolboy athlet- in all four sports. League chamic season. Baseball players, pionships and post season tour· nament berths will go to the trackmen, tennis players and victors. Team and individual golfers will share the scholastic spotlight for the duration of the school year.

To each athlete and coach, his sport is the most important.

There is good natured kidding among all. Ball players charge that those who can not make the team go out for track.

Trackmen counter with allegations that baseball is a minor sport.

But, beneath the surface they are united. Each is contributing to his school. There is a common goal: to bring recognition to their school through athletics.

The Spring campaign com· mences this week with activ,ity

recognition will also be forthcoming.

With the exception of baseball, Spring' sports offer a greater opportunity for individual recognition than the Fall and Winter programs. League champions will be crowned in tennis, golf and track, but the boys will also compete for individual titles on both the league and state level.

Only a few area athletes will achieve champiol1ship status, but that's not important. What is significant is that there is opportunity for all to participate in the sport of their choice, and more and more are taking advantage of the offerings.

"Rule 19" Advantages Subject to Debate New Bedford High, for exampIe, had over 130 boys tryout for the baseball team. Similar turnouts occurred throughout the diocese. The signs are encouraging.

Those younsters who do not make the va~ious varsity clubs will play on the j,unior varsity and freshmen teams. Others will participate in town, church and club programs. Some may even take advantage of "Rule 19" and play on more than one team.

"Rule 19" is the latest controversial piece of legislation -passed by the Massachusetts Secondary School Principals Association relating to schoolboy athletics. What the rule states, in effect, is that any school athlete may play on more than one team during the same season as long as there is no conf1.ict in schedule.

'For example, a boy playing on a varsity baseball team could also play on the local legion

team as long as schedules do not conflict. He may not, however, take part in more than one practice or game per day.

Any player who violates this rule shall be declared ineligible for participation in any high school sport for 90 school days from the date of his last partkipation in the high school sport.

In the past, ,an athlete could not participate in more than one sport or any sport outside of school during the term he was representing the school. As a result boys who wanted to play on local amateur teams at the same time they were playing high school athletics had to choose one or the other.

By way of background many of the better high school hockey players, especially from the Baston area, in the past opted to play junior A hockey rather than high school. The move to change the rule was initiated to encourage them to play high school hockey.

Consider the Boy, School and Amateur Team While the new ruling will allow for dual participation, local schools may draft their own legislation. Many coaches believe a boy should not be allowed to participate on more than one team during a season.

It is their feeling that the young mar:'s bes'~ interest, is lost b~r dual }<",:,tidJ.l[;.Uon.· ~'~1e~'2 2.L"~~ three sides to the "Ru.1<: :'£" Issue. :~iiSi. an{ fo:-em::f:~ G;.,'~ must corrsic,er 'cr'.c ae11e~~, i;~:ondiy t;1C schoo: Em. thin, the i!mateur' Lean:. li!~csc YUtiJ'lt a;.hiete5 wan;: ~c play on as many teams as they possibly c.w,. ;:'hzi'~ love fo:' t'1e sport an," desire to improve 1'1'0vides the incentive for them tc seei( activities outside of school.

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sponsibility to the team he is representing. Can he do justice to both teams?

Coaches of both the high school teams and amateur teams are concerned with fielding the best club possible. Each is faced with the demands of his scheddc, each posseses the desire to v'i:. ant. ead: DUS:. ~,ea; with L2arr~ mo:('s.l€:. The athlete unfor tu:,:atejy is goinG tc De placed in c:. situation where hz can no;: satlsfy Doth.

Lo:a; schools are going tc have '"0 decide for tnemselves .,!hether or no;: "Rule :.S" is cest for their athletes. It would appear, to this wliter, tnat total compliance woulc open the proverbial Pan~ora's box. oo

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FINALISTS: Bishop Connolly High School Players participating in the "Interview" are Robert Bernier, Paul Grillo, seated, Robert Perry. Back: Daniel Lachance, Mark Travers and Michael Bertrand.

Bishop Connolly High Players Are State-wide Finalists' "The play's the thing ..." and " has been for the Players of Bishop Connolly High School these past few weeks. The Connolly students successfully competed in the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Semi-Final Festival on Saturday, March 22.

The troupe won at the Regional Festival at Bellingham two weeks ago and again at the semifinal competition at Stoughton High School. This latter success qualifies the Connolly thespians for the State Finals Festival to be held at John Hancoc~: Hall in Boston on April 1 I. The play produced by the Connolly players was "Interview," a fugue for eight actors, by JeanClaude van Italie. Of the absurdist gendre, it deals with the inability of modern man to communicate with his fellow man, with his tendency to stereotype and be sterotyped, and to deal with the artificial image of a person rather than with the person himself. The ideas are communicated by a series of seriocomical vignettes suggested by the author and devised by the players themselves.

Recognition At each festival the outstanding performers of the day are accorded recognition br a position on the All-Star Cast, an honor comparable to an All~Star team in athletics. At both festivals all eight members of the Connolly cast received such i.ee-

ognition. At the semi-finals the entire cast won a special "ensemble" award for its intricate choreography.

The cast includes Robert Bernier, Michael Bertrand, Paul Grillo, Daniel Lachance, Edward Lambert, Robert Perry, Mark Travers, and Chris·White.

Essential to the action of the play is a precisely timed sound track which was controlled by John Higgins. Michael Fastoso operated the light board.

Other unseen backstage peo'Jle who assisted in the total effectiveness of the play were Norman Blank, Brian Ribeiro, John Faris, and three young ladies from Bishop Gerrard High School, Deborah and Doreen Faris, and Karen Raposa. Fr. William J. Cullen, S.J. directed.

Seventy-two schools across the state entered the original competition. Forty-four were eliminated at the regional level.

Of the twenty-eight remaining, twelve qualified to participate in the state festival at the semifinal level. Bishop Connolly High School is one of these twelve.

As the final phase of their dramatic effort approaches, each of the Connolly Players feels in his' heart the sentiment .. expressed by Quince in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "And I hope here is a play fitted ..."

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Americans have the potential to turn the present world hunger crisis into "our finest hour," according to an off,icial of U. S. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) who has come to be known a,~ "The Noodle Priest."

The CRS official is Msgr. John Ramaniello, a former Maryknol! missionary who received his strange nickname for his ingenious combination of soy flour. fish flour and powdered milk used to make noodles to fee~l Chinese refugees.

"Americans are wonderful; we like to help people," said the "Noodle Priest," who is still spry and alert at 75. "We have our own economic problems; still we want to help our less fortunate brothers. We know ,it's only a small body of water and some real estate separating us."

Msgr. Romaniello went on to praise the work of Catholic Relief Services - the American Catholic overseas aid agencyespecially in the Sahel drought area of West Africa, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Cambodia-"where we still have a small staff and will stay as long a'; we're able."

"We try to be wherever pea· pIe are in need," the former .missionary said. "We have progr,ams we can put into action at a moment's notice, in a disaster such as an earthquake. We have developing programs in which nutritionists teach people how to prepare even local foods to maintain a balanced diet. We have experimental gardens; we're trying to improve the soil and the seeds. We're digging wells and constructing dams to get water to th~ people. But its always difficult to relate back to people here what's being doneelsewhere."

Diocese Elevated To Archdiocese

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VATICAN CITY (NC)--'Pope' Paul VI has elevated the Diocese of San Fernando in the Philippines to an archdiocese and raised Bishop Emilio Cinense of San Fernando to the rank of archbishop.

At the same time the Pope erected Belanga as a new diocese and transferred the Diocese of Tarlac and Belanga and the Prelature of Iba, headed by Bishop Henry Byrne of the Columban Fathers, to suffragans of San Fernando.

Lodge in Rome For Holy Week ROME (NC) Ambassador Cabot Lodge, personal e:cvoy of the ?resitient of '~he ~,h,ited States to ~~ope :.:au; V~, ',,!as in. Rome tc attend :~:oly V.,reel~ ceremonies at the VaticE.n. r~~he embassador called on ?apal Secretary of the \'atic2.n ~ourrcil for the ?ublic Affairs of the Church, befo:'c ';:C',l{)ng Co. Olief vacatior, in Sicily last =~~enry

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The ambassz.<ior die', not have a private audience with Pope Paul on this visit, according to American officials.

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tHE ANCHORThurs., April 3, 1975

Pope Says Arms Sales Multiply Risks of War

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VATICAN CITY (NC)----<Pope Paul VI, deploring the recent intensification of armed conflicts and global tensions, declared that stepped-up arms salt's "feed the conflicts and multiply the risk of war."

In two talks the weekend before Easter, Pope Paul reminded Christians of their duty to do something "positive and specific" to build a just and peaceful world.

In a speech to a study .committee of his own Justice and Peace Commission, the Pope pointed to increased conflict and tensions 'in Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Portugal, the Middle East and Cyprus.

Telling the study committee Cor peace of the sorrow he feels when hearing of today's conflicts," the Pope pointed first to "the agonizing tragedy which the populations of Vietnam are living through these days, where the struggle has flared up again with intensity in defiance of the accords reached."

He continued: "There is the no less tragic situation in Cambodia, the armed struggle which rages in Ethiopia and the tensions which keep the populations of Cyprus divided, not to mention the climate of anxiety which still hangs over the truce in the Middle East. And how can we not mention the situation which is devl'1oping in Portugal?"

This was the Pope's first public comment on Portugal since the announcement Ma'rch IR that the Portuguese Christian Democratic Party would be hanned from upcoming elections, ;i1ong with two parties of the ex' treme left, riva'is of the Portuguese Communist party.

The Pope stressed that while the international communitv should be trying to work together for peace, "we are seeing the birth and the development of dangerous tensions in various countries while the pl'Oduction and sale of armaments continue to grow, to feed the conflicts and multiply the risk' of war."

The Pope called for opposition to "ideologies which inspire such antagonisms." He said that the Church during Holy Year is calling for a "great work of awakening and education so that the People of God' may give its positive and specific contribution for the building up of a more just and pea'ceful world."

Bishop Named Head Of Voice of Africa

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HILVERSUM ~NC) - A Nigerian bishop has been appointed executive chairman of an international Catholic orgeanization called The Voice of Africa.

The 'appointment of Bishop Alex Makozi of Lokoja was made at a meeting of the two administrative boards of the organization here.

The Voice of Africa foundation aims at supporting, encouraging, and fostering broadcasting U·,·roughout Africa. It was set up as a corporation in Liberia in 1948 on the initiative of some Dutch Catholics.

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