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Appeal Kick-Off Tuesday Falmouth Lay- Chairman Expects Greatest .Response Ever Over 800 members of the clergy and the laity of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River will be present at

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the opening meeting for the 1969 Catholic Charities Appeal campaign scheduled for Tuesday night, April 15 at 8 in the', auditorium of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.The Special Gift phase of the Appeal will be conducted from April 21 to May 3. The Parish house-to-housecampaign is set for May 4 to May 14.

Atty. James H. Smith of Falmouth, 1969 Lay Chairman of the Appeal, will direct his talk to the large number of laymen and laywomen to be present at the session. Atty. Smith said, "We must appeal to the laity of the diocese. The heart and

the success of the Appeal is in the parish and with the laity."

Thirty-one agencies, contributing services to the community, benefit from the funds collected from the Appeal.

Most Reverend James L. Connolly, Bishop of' Fall River and Honorary Chairman of the Appeal, will give the keynote speech of the evening in the twenty-seventh year of the Catholic Charities Appeal fund drive. The community services given to the southeastern Massachusetts area by the 31 agencies presently serving all peoples from infants to senior citizens, Turn to Page Three ~1II111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111III III11II11111111IUIII1111111111111111111III11111111111111111111111111111111111III III IE

Edward B. Hanify Chairman Of Human Life Foundation WASHINGTON (NC)-The independent, non-profit Human Life Foundation has been organized to sponsor and stimulate research into and carry out educational programs related to medical, psychological and sociological aspects of human reproduction. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops at its November, 1968, meeting decided to launch such a foundation as a response to Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control, Humanea Vitae, in which he said: "It is particularly desirable that, according to the wish already expressed by Pope Pius XII, medical science succeed in providing a sufficiently secure basis for the regulation of birth, founded on the observance of natural rhythms."

Chairman of the foundation's 12-member board of directors is Attorney Edward B. Hanify of Boston, a Fall River native, who explained that the Human Life Foundation will be initially financed by the bishops, who pledged $1 million for the purpose last November and added that other sources of income are also being sought. Hanify is a director of the American TeleTurn to Page Six

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I I-/esburgh Praises Changes DETROIT (NC) - The president of the University of Notre Dame said recent structural changes in Catholic colleges and universities have assured that faculty' members are no longer "second-class citizens, the hired hands who did the work, but made' none of the decisions."

Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., told the 66th annual con· vention of the National Catholic Educational Association that the changeover from clerical to lay governance at such universities as Notre Dame and St. Louis is one of the most significant basic changes in Catholic institutions of higher learning.

"The important point is not that these changes were a long time coming, but that they are here and that our institutions

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are immeasurably better and ties, Father Hesburgh cited' the and stronger," he added. growth of documents which de"Our lay trustees have given lineate how the faculty exercises great strength and dedication to its decision-making power in the our institutions," Father Hes- academic area, such as appointburgh said. "They are no less ments, promotion, tenure, curricCatholic than we; sometimes pos- . ulum, academic freedom and due sibly more so. We have more process. freedom for good and honest "All this," he admitted, "will intellectual endeavor than ever sound strange to other institubefore. We have more moral and tions who so legislated their affinancial support. fairs several decades ago, but "Our special juridical and in- again, this must be seen against stitutional status is much more the background of change in the visible and clean-cut vis-a-vis the Church and its institutions.

Church and the state. We have "The important point now is more freedom for untrammeled not that these changes were a priestly and religious service long time in coming, but that * * * Professionalism is the new they are here ':' * * and that our emphasis, not blind and often institutions are immeasurably uncomprehending or mechanical better and stronger because of or unmotivated obedience." this basic structural change."

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Fair Winner Carol Vasconcellos of Mt. St. Mary's Academy, Fall River, Places First Among 200 Contestants EDWARD B. HANIFY .

Diocesan Priest Attending Holland Liturgy Conclave Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, assistant pastor of S1. Patrick's Church in Fall River, is participating in an invitational symposium on pastoral theology at John XXIII Seminary, Heerlen, Holland. Fr. Tripp will be one of 45 participants from 17 nations invited to the symposium sponsored by the butch, English and French Catholic hierarchies and the

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The participants include academic theologians, ministers involved in pastoral work and people involved in seminaries.

The symposium is intended to help build new models for pastoral structure and to help reform ministerial training in the p-erspective of the new models.

The symposium will hear reports from the various nations about experiments being carried on there.

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. A sophomore at Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall River, topped 200 students from 15 communities to win the annual Massachusetts Region III Science Fair, held last weekend at the Dwelly Street Armory in Fall River.

Carol Vasconcellos, with 29 other award winners, will represent this area at a state science fair to be held this month at MIT. Her winriing project was a study of plant cancer and the relationship between sap and .tumor proliferation in carrots.

She received a $100 scholarship award.

Noteworthy, said Sister M. Albertus, R.S.M., an awards di~­ tribution chairman and member of the science faculty at Mt. St. Mary, were the many science fair participants from diocesan schools and the excellence of their exhibits. She also said that judges commented favorably on the high level of enthusiasm among the students.

'Other winners from the diocese . were Paula Hamel, who merited a' $50 bond from the . Bristol South District Medical Society; and Diane D~smarais,

Mt. St. Mary and Eileen Anderson, Bishop Feehan High, Attleboro, who received $50 and $25 bonds, respectively, from the Dental Society. A Dental Society bond winner in the junior division was Deborah Boulay,

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Jeannine Letendre, Dominican, was a winner of a Fall River Teachers' Association award; and Elizabeth von Trapp, also Dominican, received the Dr. Levine Trophy for her project, "The Lonely World of the Deaf."

A plaque from the Women's Auxiliary to the Massachusetts Veterinarians' Association went to Kathleen Sedlak, St. Mary's School, North Attleboro.

Other regional representatives at the MIT fair will be Cynthia O'Connell, Mount; Patricia Leduc, Dominican; Jeannine Dore, Dominican; Thomas Burda, Feehan; Mary Sedlak, Feehan; Anne Bibeau, Mount; Jane Charette, Mount; Dawn Hannafin, Mount.

Also Suzanne Paquette, Mount; Susan Ealin, Dominican;, and Sharon Woyciechowski, Mount.

In addition to Sister Albertus, Sister Louise D. Synan, O.P. served as an awards chairman.

Over 100 teachers, research workers and business men were judges for the fair, which covered the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, earth science, mathematics, biophysics and biochemistry.

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OFFICiAL Diocese of Fall River APPOINTMENT Rev. Thomas C. Mayhew, assistant at St. Joseph's, No. Dighton, as CCD Director of Taunton Area.

Appointment effective Friday, April 11, 1969

~~~~~ Bishop of Fall River. ~ Special Gifts Drive Starts April 21 The Special Gift Phase of cial Gifts phase are Fall River, the Catholic Charities Ap- . New Bedford, Taunton, Attie'. boro, and the Cape, and Islands. , ' . peal of the Fall River DIO- This campaign for Special Gifts cese begins Ap'ril 21 and serves as a barometer for the ends May 3. This appeal is made to fraternal, professional, bus· iness and industrial organizations. Since the Charities Appeal provides services to all. in the community, these groups mentioned in the Special Gifts category are interested in s~pporting community services. The six areas of the diocese in the Spe-

Fr. Hesburgh Continued from Page One and autonomy of Catholic ,univerisities is an uphill task. ' ,"No matter -what many professors, Catholicaild n6n'·Catho' lic, who have taught with us and in other types of universities, say r,egarding the complete freedom and autonomy they find in' our institutions, there is always the iurking suspicion that somehow a Catholic college or university cannot really be free and autonomous. We seemed t~ be tagged with thought control no matter what we say or do."

He emphasized the central position of theology and philosophy, noting that the special contribution of Catholic institutions of higher learning to the intellectual life of the nation might well be their insistence on the consideration and discussion of ultimate questions and values.

To accomplish this, he stressed, theology "must enjoy the same freedom and autonomy as ,!iny other university subject because, otherwise, it will not be accepted as a university' discipline and, without its vital presence in free dialogue with all other university disciplines, the university will never really be Catholic."

Senate Me~ting The Priests Senate of the Diocese will meet on Friday afternoon, April II, at 1:30' in the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River.

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St. John the Baptist, Fall River.

April 27-Qur Lady of Fatima, New Bedford.

St. Michael, Ocean Grove.

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house-to-house parish appeal beginning May 4 and ending May 14.

His Excellency James L. Connally, Bishop of Fall River, han· orary chairman of the Appeal, has sent personal letters to the Solicitors. Many have already acknowledged their willingness to take an active part in the Special Gift Phase. Names of contributors will be assigned to each Solicitor in his area. The Solicitors 'will ,hold a "pep" meeting with their area ,prie~t. director, emphasiz,ing t1)e, slogan, .o~ the Appeal '"'? "Ev~~y.:gift makes a difference. ., ' It is hoped th'iii with new emphasis placed on the Special Gift Phase of the Appeal this year, a successful campaign will be st!lged by all solicitors. The 600 solicitors will make 2225 contacts in this phase of the appeal. Their success will give encouragement and confidence to the parish solicitors when these 14,125 solicitors contact 95,250 homes in the diocese on Sunday, May 4 from 12 noon to 3 P.M.

Mass Ordo FRIDAY-Easter Friday. I Class.

White. Mass Proper; Glory; Sequence; Creed.

SATURDAY-Easter Saturday.

I Class. White. Mass Proper; 'Sequence; Creed.

SUNDAY-Low Sunday and Octave Day of Easter. I Class.

White. Mass Proper; Glory; Creed; Preface of Easter.

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III Class. Red. Or St. Tiberius and His Companions.

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Assignment The Most Reverend Bishop has approved the appoinment by Very Rev. Daniel F. McCarthy, SS.CC., Provincial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers, of Rev. Roger Doherty, SS.CC. to St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, replacing Rev. Michael Kelly, SS.CC.

CHARITY-MINDED: Members of the Catholic Charities Appeal Steering Committee of the New Bedford Area are: Richard Fontaine, Mrs. Edward F. Harrington, Rev. Edward C. Duff)!, area director; Atty. Th0'IlasF. Burke, Miss Marie Ham pson, Atty. John A. Tierney.

Suggests' Competitive,' School Systems Improvement in Education Quality Likely DAYTON (NC) ~ The regional· chairman for the Nationiil Alliance of Businessmen said here if, parents were able to choose be:' tween sending their children to public or private schools a,t pub~ lic expense, the quality'of American education likely' would be - .. improved.· "..

Robert S. Ingersoll, Chicago corporation executive, told the Dayton Alliance of Businessmen the concept of "parallel, competitive systems of private and public schools ought to be explored."

He suggested that the "vehicle of tax credit" might be employed in establishing new policies in supporting education.

The availability of a choice between private and public schools might improve both systems in quality "as schools vie with one anoth'er to attract 'and hold pupils,'~ Ingersoll said, is far short of achieving a "true quality of life for our people." To achieve that would require that every'one· be supplied "with freedom imd basic security, a meaningful job, a healthful environment, the opportunity for a good education and acceptance as an individual."

Five major groups that can

Fr. Kevmn Tripp Continued from Page One Fr. Tripp, one of four Americaris attending, will report on experiments in ministerial training in the U.S. There will be general sessions with "inter-disciplinary" discussions and sectional meeting for specialists.

Fr. Tripp, ordained in 1968, is a graduate of St. John's Seminary, Brighton. He is a member of the Theological, Education, Commission of the Division of Higher Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ.

A natiye of New Bedford, he holds a M.A. degree .in Liturgical Research from the, Univer~ sity of Notre Dame. He is a consultor to the American Bishops Committee on the Liturgy, and in 1967-68 was the first Catholic resident of the National InterSeminary Movement, an 88-year old ecumenical movement among seminaries.

have a significant impact on soThe church has failed to resist ciety's problems in the days ) the process, and now must face ahead, Ingersoll said, are govern- the "moral questions of discrimment, labor, education, the ination in housing and job opporchurch and business. tunities; the hatreds that build The view of the church as re- each day, and the violence that sponsibl.e for "inei)'s souls" but has come to mark our lives," Innot for men;s,society," is' no gersoU asse!;t~d.·, " longer adequate, he stated. ", Chllrch leaders now must focu~ ,"Man's society. and his' soul on' the need for compass"ion for are too closely interwoven in those in society with whom we modern life," he said. "One of have lost touch, who need comthe most important jobs for the passion just as much as the fronchurch today is to become in- tier family needed help from its volved in itself; el)courage the neighbors, he continued. involvement of others and pro"In this effort, the church must vide the strong moral foundation provide the individual strength, upon which involvement is the twinge of conscience, the built." identification with society's problems (which are) so badly needed," he said.

Necrology Ingersoll is a vice-president of APRIL 18 the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Rev. Hugh B. Harrold, 1935, and a trustee of the CongregaPastor, St. Mary, Mansfield. tional Church.

Rt. Rev. John F. McKeon, P.R., 1956, Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford.

APRIL 20 Rev. Edward F. Coyle, S.S., 1954, St.- Mary Seminary, Paca Street, Maryland.

APRIL 22 Rev. Jam,es L. 'Smith, 1910, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton.

Rev. Thomas F. Fitzgerald, 1954, Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket.

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J EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN RECEIVE CONFIRMATION: Stang High School, No. Dartmouth, has seen the culmination of their catechetical work ·for exceptional children realized at the administration of Confirmation by Bishop

Philosopher $ays 'Rule of No Rule' Now Minor Cult NEW YORK (NC)-"The

rule of no rule, norm or principle has become a minor cult," a veteran philosopher , told members of the American Catholic Philosophical Association here.

Speaking at the ACPA 43rd annual convention, Father Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., attacked the notion of' the "autonomous conscience."

Father Ward, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of 'Notre Dame, received the group's Aquinas Medal for contributions to philosophy.

"Conscience has often been seen as a person's practical judgment on what to do or not to do in here-and-now circumstances, a judgment allegedly presupposing a norm," he said.

"Popular theory short-circuits the norm and makes conscience autonomous," he added in a reference to "various popular writers" who have opposed the Church's teaching on birth control.

The practical effect of the theory of the autonomous conscience, the priest said, "would be anarchical-there would be as many standards as there are men."

Father Ward also criticized what he called "the love philosophy." The new morality, the priest said, "is love and situationist. Love will find the way in every particular situation; because it has a built-in compass, love will 'home' intuitively on the other's deepest need and can allow itself to be directed completely by the situation, with nothing prescribed except love."

D of I Party Assumption Circle No. 74, Daughters of Isabella'l,will sponsor a "Dessert Card Party and Penny Sale" at the Catholic Community Center, Franklin Street, Fall River on Monday evening at 8. Tickets are one dollar and will be sold at the door.

Members are asked to bring a prize and a grocery item for the food basket which will be the door prize.

Co-chairmen for the event are Mrs. Mary Lou Silvia and Miss Mayre Clarke.

Connolly. Left: Diane Schneider, Stang student and a sponsor, assists Christine Pedro; Joseph Arruda checks the program, with David Lajeunesse, also Stang student and sponsor. Bishop Connolly confirms a member of the class.

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CLEVELAND (NC) - Father Edward H. Flannery, executive secretary of the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the U. S. Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said in an interview here that "while black anti-Semitism should not be minimized, it is nevertheless not as potent as white anti-Semitism."

"There has been an increase in black frustrations in recent years and an accompanying increase in black anger against white," he said. "The Jew has received the brunt of this anger since he is the most visible white man in the experience of the most blacks."

"But for the black man to blame his troubles on the Jew is deceptive," Father Flannery pointed out. "In fact, the Jew has helped the cause of blacks throughout the years perhaps more than any others."

"I find very disturbing," he continued, "a frame of mind among black and white youth which I can only describe as anti-Israeli and very nearly anti-Semitic. These young people feel Israel has no right to be in the Mideast. They think of Israel as a tool of capitalism.

These are simply not the facts."

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"The point is often made that Jewish people are paranoid with respect to anti-Semitism," Fr. Flannery said. "The observation is unfair," he added.

"The Jews have an acute sense of the Holocaust, a genocide of six million Jews in our own lifetime," he explained. "They are determined that there will never be another Holocaust, and they react with anxiety to anything that might resemble the recurrence of anti-Semitism."

"This anxiety is real, not paranoid," Father Flannery contin-

Appeal' Meeting Continued from Page' One have had an enormous economic impact in this section. The comfort, care and solace brought to thousands of people over the years, should be enough reason to instill the desire to give to the Appeal.

The children of the Nazareth Hall School for the exceptional child, Fall River, will perform with a skit which should prove interesting to the gathering at the meeting. Our Lady of the Angels Church Band, Fall River, will provide musical selections prior, during and after the meeting. A coffee hour will be served in the cafeteria of the school for the eight representatives from each of the 111 parishes.

Students at Connolly High will give a guided tour of the new school for those who have not viewed the school. Ample parking space is available at the school.

ued. "Unfortunately, Christians generally have no sense of the Holocaust.

"They properly regret it, usually tried to minimize it, and want to hear no more about it.

It is easy to see how difficult it is for Christians and Jews to communicate with so serious an imbalance of concern."

Father Flannery, whose office is at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N. J., ,was in Cleveland to address the Cleveland district of the Zionist Organization of America and the delegate assembly of the Jewish Community Federation at Birth Emeth Temple.

·Cana Conference At Mattapoisett The second in a series of Cana Conferences for married couples will be held at St. Anthony's Church, Mattapoisett, on Sunday , night at 8.

This conference will deal with the duties of parents towards their children during the period from birth to puberty.

Rt. Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Family Life Bureau is conducting the series.

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Students Protest DUBUQUE (NC)-Virtually all 1,550 students of Loras College here boycotted Classes in support of the student senate's protest of what it termed a lack of communication between administration and students charging this has resulted in the administration's failure to respond to student grievances and questions.

A pre-Cana Conference for engaged couples will be held at Sacred Heart School, Fall River, at 7 Sunday night, April 13.

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ApproY'e Joint Urba n Office BALTIMORE (NC)-Formation of a Joint Office of Urban Affairs has been approved by leaders of Baltimore's major Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox and Jewish faiths and denominations.

The executive heads of the Baltimore JUdicatories-19 religious leaders including Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, whose jurisdictions take in metropolitan Baltimore-took the action at their semi-annual meeting at the Catholic Center.

The Baltimore archdiocese and several of the other religious bodies already have professional staffs working on urban problems.

According to the new plan, these staffs will begin now to work together to develop a metropolitan strategy for the mission of the churches.

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ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY The Women's Guild will contribute pastries to Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wednesday, April 16, with Mrs. John Waters in charge of delivery arrangements.

A nominating committee to prepare a slate of officers for the coming year is headed by Mrs. John Cummings; and newly elected auditors are Mrs. John Gray and Mrs. John Waters.

Mrs. William Brady will chairman the annual Spring rummage sale from 9 to 1 Saturday, May 17. The event is tentatively scheduled for the new parish center, for which members have voted to donate table cioths for meeting room tables.

The guild executive board will meet Wednesday, April 30 at the CCD Center in Onset with Mrs. Waters as hostess. The next regular meeting is slated for Wednesday, May 7.

Offer Musical Comedy, 'Oliver!,' At 8 ,Tonight, Tomorrow Night At Attleboro's Feehan H'igh" At 8 tonight and tomorrow night students at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro will present the, musical c9medy "Oliver!" with a cast of over 80 students. The production has been directed by Sister Mary Evangela and Mrs. Raymond Amadio and seniors Gail Gingras and Spanish students: they'll enterat St; Josep\'1's orphanage Sharon LaPorte have been tain on Monday and on Wednesday in charge of dance numbers. they'll take off for: New York to Leading roles have gone to Cyn- visit the Spa,lJishMuseum and thia -Benson, as Oliver~ Peter see ".lVIan froin La Mancha."

Murphy, Fagin; Katherine Pollis, "':\\1ednesday, April 30, new Nancy; and Brenda Chilli, Artful Spanish Honor Society members Dodger. will be initiated in chapel cerePlaygoers will enjoy in the monies, followed by a reception auditorium foyer an exhibition of in the school cafeteria. To be reFeehanites' work in applied and ceived are Anne Moniz, Beverly fine arts., Baldai{l, Maria Leonardo, )Nancy Students at Coyle High in Morris, Donna Berube; Lois Taunton, like Cassidyites at their Faria and Vicky Rezendes.

Tenlllis Today sister school, are now enjoying a new student lounge. this year's The boys' tennis team of Holy major student council project. To Family High in New Bedford will complete its glories, the boys meet Fairhaven High in a match have set their sights on a. color 'today at Fairhaven. This is one TV, to be obtained with green of the first matches of the Mass. stamps-so if you have any of Interscholastic Tennis ,League. these adhesives looking for a Also playing today will be Durhome, you know who'd appreci- fee at Coyle. ate them. ' Girls' matches will be held Girls at St. Joseph's High in Tuesday and Thursday, April J5 Fall River have finished work on and 17 and three matches are their yearbook and nothing now slated for May. This is the first remains but to sit back and competitive year for Holy Family await delivery of the finished girls. Their opponents will be product in June. A profitable Barnstable, Dartmouth, Falcake sale was one means by mouth, Old Rochester and New which they added their pay-the- Bedford. printer fund.

Alumnae of Mt. St. Academy, Spanish Fiesta Fall River, plan a white elephant Vengan a la fiest en abril! and thrift sale Saturday, May 17 That's what senoritas at 'Sacred in the school cafeteria. Coffee Hearts Academy in Fall River will be served during the all-da'y are saying. Members of the affair. Donations of clothing, Spanish Club and the Spanish furniture, household goods, bricHonor Society are presenting a-brac, books and toys are weltheir second annual fiesta at 8 come and may be brought to the this-Sunday night in the school academy. A planning meeting gym. It'll include a short play, will be held at 8 tonight at the skits, native songs and dances, school. with students impersonating the The second in a series of seven Mexican Mariachi. science forums was held recently You won't need to know in the physics lab at Bishop CasSpanish to enjoy this evening in sidy High in Taunton. A lectureMexico, stresses Sister Carmen demonstration on' "Heats of Joseph, club moderator. There'll Fusion and Vaporization" 'was be an interpreter on hand to conducted by Maureen Leger and translate for norteamericanos. Sharon Murphy, both seniors.

Fiesta proceeds will aid LatinCamelot is the, theme chosen American missions' and the SHA by Dominican Academy seniors building fund. in Fall River for their senior Also on the agenda for the prom, to be held Friday night,

The Parish Parade ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Parvuli Dei awards have been presented to Richard Benoit, William Contois, Walter Sylvia, Peter Desrosiers, all members of Cub Pack 56.' One year Scout Mass attendance awards were merited by Michael Cejka, David Fortin.. Desrosiers~Raymond Harding, Gregory Jarosik, Bruce LaBossiere and路 Patrick Tucker.

Two year awards went to Joseph Harding, Jeffrey Pond and Anthony Rose. Mrs. Raymond Harding received a Den Mother award for attendance. ' ST. MARY'S CATIllIEDRAL, FALL RIVER . . , The Fun and Frolic Singers, sponsored by the Women's Guild, will entertain at 3:30 and 7:30 Sunday afternoon and evening, April 13, at Mt. St. Mary's Academy. Tickets are ,available at the rectory and from area stores.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A CYO spaghetti supper will be served from 5 to 7 Saturday evening. Miss June Whalon is ticket chairman.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET A newly organized Women's Guild has as officers Mrs. Amancio Costa, president; Mrs. Gertrude Cavaco, vice-president; Mrs. Katherine Dankert, treasurer; Mrs. Joseph Viveiros Jr. and Mrs. Jeanne Almeida, secretaries.

The unit will sponsor a dinner dance at 7 Saturday night, May 3 at Venus de Milo restaurant, with Mrs. Alice Arruda as chairman and Mrs. Manuel Nogueira as ticket chairman, aided by a large committee.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER The Summer schedule of Masses will begin Sunday, May 4. Portuguese Masses will be celebrated at 6 and 7 and English Masses from 8 through noon.

Children of Mary activities include a penny sale FridaY,Aprii 25; a mother-daughter banquet at 6 Sunday night, May 11; and a June cake sale.

The Holy' Name Society has scheduled a Communion breakfast to follow 8 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, April 13. Miss Margaret M. Lahey will speak.

ST. JOSEPH, FALL RIVER A parish gala will be held Saturday night at the Coachmen in Tiverton.

The Women's Guild will meet at 7:45 tonight.

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CHIEMISYRY STUDENTS: Among chemistry students at Holy family High School, .New Bedford, ,are from front to rear, Leonard Le Valley, Maurice Gagne, Jim Hayden.

June 6 at Shamrock Cliff, Newport. Closer to hand is Holy Family's junior dance, to take place Friday night, April 18 at Kennedy Center, with the theme "Those Were the Days." Decor will be based on a "quaint and simple New Englan'd village of the early 1800's." Pat Loria is in charge of decorations and Leslie Palmieri heads the ticket committee.'

Easter Sunday saw the Coyle High Folk Group leading song at St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, while in the sports spot light at the Taunton school are Glennu Nieuwenhuis, Joe Janas, Skip Auclair and Steve Slavick, newly chosen track captains; and Chris Read, baseball captain.

Specialized Library Specialized libraries路 aren't confined to colleges these days.

At Feehan they've opened a science-math library for the exclusive use of students working in those fields. Staffed by student volunteers it'll be open nearly every day. ' Cassidy senior Susan Horgan has received a renewable $400 scholarship to Rivier, College, while Lorraine Caron has received a full UMass scholarship valued at $1700.

Christian Action Movement members at Holy Family will hold a cake sale with proceeds to aid in sending representatives to a Summer Institute of Christian Action' to be held in Maine.

A Day of Christian Renewal is also upcoming and a continuing project is volunteer work in an area nursing home.

And intramural basketball league playoffs have concluded at Coyle with the Team Flakes in , first place; Fate of Fall River second; and the Ligs third. Intramurals were directed by Skip Auclair, student council vicepresident.

The Cassidy Student Council will sponsor a Spring dance Friday at school with music provid~d by the' Negative Apple.

And Cassidy debaters have finished the season with an 8 and 2 record, tying them with St. Catherine's of Newport for championship of the Narry

League. Playoffs willl take place tomorrow at Cassidy. The school's outstanding debater is senior Jane Masi, who has won three trophies and a certificate in tournament play this season; and best of all has won a 路full scholarshfp to RIC based oil her debating ability.

Bill Walsh of Holy Family is recipient this year of the King Cager Award from the Panther's Club. It's given annually to the best schoolboy hoopster in the area. Other hQnors for that fabulous Blue Wave included inscribed Paul Revere bowls for Gary Dalbec, Timmy Donahue, John Gushue and Jim Lawless.

John was also named to the Standard-Times All-Star Team and HF Coach Nobrega was named Standard-Times Coach of the Year.

Political Club New Political Club Officers at Feehan are Dennis Dolan, clJairman; Richard Antone, vice-chairman; Young Lew, secretary; Martin Dubuc, treasurer. All are juniors. And co-captains for next year's girls' basketball team are Barbara Barrows and Priscilla Proulx.

Holy Family's glee club will be heard Sunday, May 4 when junior and senior' members sing at the first Mass of Rev. Mr. Martin Gomes.

Also at HF, baseball tryouts have begun. Coach will be John Brennan. And Timmy Donahue and Steve Magnant have been, nominated for Bob Cousy Summer camp scholarships awarded by the Rotary Club.

ST. HEDWIG, NEW BEDFORD The combined societies of the parish will hold their annual Swieconka or Easter Supper at 4 Sunday afternoon, April 13 in the parish auditorium. The menu will feature chicken ana entertainment will follow the meal, to which parishioners and friends are invited. Mrs. Leon A. H,oule is chairman.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, CENTRAL, VILLAGE The Ladies' Guild will meet tonight in the parish hall. A business session will be preceded at 7:30 by a Chinese supper and will be followed by entertainment.

The unit's monthly whist will take place at 8 Saturday night ill the hall, with Mrs. Ralph Souza as chairman.

NOTRE DAME, FALL RIVER' New Parish Committee officers will be installed at a banquet to be held at 1 Sunday afternoon, April 27 at White's restaurant. Presiding will be Msgr. Alfred J. E. Bonneau and Rev. Roger P. Poirier. General chairman is Paul A. Dumais, outgoing council president, aided by other outgoing officers.

To be installed are Normand Clement, president; Arthur Francoeur and Roger Fournier, vicepresident; Dumais, Ernest Plante, Louis Gagne, Charles Lavoie, Leodore Salois and Armand Raiche, directors. Gerard Roussel will be installing officer.

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, I FALL RIVER Msgr. Henri Hamel will present a film at a meeting of the Council of Catholic Women at 7:30 Monday night, April 14 in the church hall. In a business session, new council officers will be elected.

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o[h) ITD ~ [( CC 0tf17 NEWARK (NC) - Archbishop Thomas A. Boland of Newark has asked financially solvent parishes in the Newark archdiocese to assist urban parishes which are in financial need.

In a pastoral letter read in all parishes, the archbishop. said he was approving a proposal made in December by a special committee of the Senate of Priests. He had accepted the proposal when first presented and at that time set up machinery to implement the suggestion.

He said a special fund would be established by the archdiocese, with all contributed monies being placed in it. The fund would be administered by two inner-city vicars he named last month-Father Joseph A. Stulb, administrator of Blessed Sacrament parish, Newark, and Father Thomas W. Heck, director of the apostolate to the Spanish-speaking.

Participation in the program will be voluntary, the archbishop said in his letter, but he urged all parishes which could earmark part of their income for the Church's work in urban areas.

Special Purposes The concern of Catholics, he said, must be "directed toward the poor, the disadvantaged and the distressed."

He said that despite establishment of a central fund, more affluent parishes could direct their contributions to special purposes if they wished.

He specifically cited aid to a particular parish, adoption of a school, or underwriting individual classroom or parish maintenance costs or teacher subsidization.

Three days prior to issuance of a pastoral last November, encouraging a united effort against poverty, the archbishop met with one of the protesting priests, Msgr. Thomas Carey, administrator of Queen of Angels Parish, Newark, and with other leaders of a cooperative housing pro· gram know" as New Community.

At that meeting, Archbishop Boland endorsed the New Community program I and gave permission for a fund raising effort on its behalf.

Urge Stronger Role For p'riests Council PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A group of young assistant pastors in the Philadelphia archdiocese has called on the official Council of Priests "to recognize its role as representative of, responsive to and accountable to the presbyterate."

Criticizing the council's "weak view of itself," the young priests said that the elected body's primary function should be "to help the Ordinary -formulate all pastoral and administrative policies of the diocese and to be responsible with him for the fmplementation of these policies by the curial agencies of the diocese."

"This means," the group's memorandum declared, "the council must make its own hard evaluation of the real needs of the diocese. It must establish priorities and follow through on implementation. Its programs of research and development must be marked by creativity and initiative which demand independent sources of information and thinking."

The memorandum was submitted to the Council of Priests and to John Cardinal Krol.

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V@ Handicapped RICHMOND (NC) - Virginia's General Assembly has recommended that state aid be allowed for education of mentally or physically handicapped children, including those enrolled in church-related schools.

The action to aid the handicapped was as close as the legislature would come to proposing elimination 'of the constitutional barrier preventing state support for students in church-operated schools.

Supporters of parochial schools in the state had urged the lawmakers recommend removal of 'an entire section of the present constitution which permits aid to students in private non-sectarian school. It was under this section that Virginia set up a system of state tuition grants for students to escape racial integration in public schools 12 years ago.

In February, however, a special three-judge Federal District Court here declared the tuition grants-except as they benefitted handicapped children-illegal bethey perpetuated racial WORK OF CHRIST: A Sister of Mercy instructs one of the emotionally disturbed children at cause segregation.

St. Vincent's Home. This is one of the 31 agencies served by the Catholic Charities Appeal.

The legislature voted to revise the section to allow aid to the handicapped and voted by a small margin to remove the word "non-sectarian" from the section.

The changes are part of a special revision of the constitution now in progress. All the constitutionWith the advent of the Catholic Chadties Appeal in the Diocese, attention is fo- al changes will go to voters in cused upon the many agencies aided by this annual response on the part of the faith- November, 1970, for approval.

Activities at St. Vincent's Fall River, Aided by Generosity to Charities Appeal

ful to the needs of others. Among the oldest of these agencies is 81. Vincent's Home of Fall River, established over 80 years ago, 17 years before the Diocese itself was separated from Providence. The purpose .of the home has al- quired placement for purely units where children reside with reasons. This develop- their own mother; ways been to provide ser- economic ment; combined with increased Special education program; vices to children whose health facilities and the declining A Summer camping program. parents were unable to perform child rearing responsibilities.In carrying out this function, St. Vincent's has continued the Church's historical efforts in the field of chiid welfare. These efforts date back to the year 325 when in response to recommen· dations of' the Council of Nicea facilities for the care of children were established throughout the world.

Since St. Vincent's beginnings in 1887, practices in child care have improved with the utilization of increased knowledge about the needs of children and the new technologies in child care. At the time of its establishment, there were hundreds of similar institutions throughout the country.

They housed large groups of children in dormitory living groups, with a heavy emphasis on discipline and' adherence to routines.

These institutions evolved during the 18th and 19th centuries in response to a need for more humanitarian treatment of children. They' were a reaction against the practice of placing children in poor houses or county jails with the criminal, the insane and the physically ill.

ResldentiaU Homes Just as these institutions represented progress in the care of children, a new type of group living arrangement began to evolve in the 1930's and slowly gained acceptance. These were residential homes, which' had varying types of specializect programs responding to the changing needs of children and society. Passage of the Social Security Act of 1935, particlularly with its provisions for A.D. C., meant that children no longer re-

Walks 2,500 Miles To Fatima Shrine FATIMA (NC) - Brother Alfred Winkler, superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross Brothers in Munich, arrived at the Marian shrine here after walking 2,500 miles from Germany in five months.

Brother Winkler, who visited many other shrines and cathedrals en route to Fatima. left Munich Oct. 10, 1968. His pilgrimage was made to fulfill a promise he made after his parents were blown up by a mine as they attempted to escape into West Germany from East Germany.

death rate tended to decrease the These programs are staffed orphan population in the U. S. with social workers, child care Government statistics indicate workers, recreation workers, that presently less than 1/10 special education teachers, and a of one per cent of all children in consulting psychiatrist and psythe U. S. are orphans. The chil- chologist. dren now served by institutions Supplementing these direct are therefore admitted for dif- service programs are training ferent reasons than formerly. and research programs which are Because of these factors, chil- useful in helping to improve the dren require more than custodial quality of service which the chilcare. They require a home con- dren receive. taining adults who will hel~ them Institution Program to mature and in some cases to heal their wounds. Children who One of the major programs at have had painful experiences re- St. Vincent's is presently strucquire more than love and sym- tured around a large group res· ELECTRICAL pathy. They need the services of idence.

Contradors a trained staff operating special . Children are accepted for adprograms designed to meet their mission on the basis of a needs. thorough study to evaluate their The modem child care work- needs and to understand clearly er must· have more techniques at the type of help they will reqiure, his disposal for the daily man- whether only a home away from agement of children than did his home or, in addition, a series of predecessor. He must indeed corrective aids.

Thus the program is designed have a whole array of approaches. In addition, he also to provide both a living experi· requires the assistance of mallY ence and assistance in those 944 County St. other trained persons such as areas of their personality which !New Bedford Turn to Page Eighteen caseworkers, group workers, psychologists and pediatricians.

In accordance with these developments and mindful of its historical heritage, the staff of St. Vincent's Home has been endeavoring to fulfill its commitment to serve the needs of children. .

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'Crucifying .the Church Not surprisingly, Pope Paul, Christ's Vicar on earth, is suffering as did his Master.

If anything could give an added note of authenticity to his role it is this.

The Pope must preach and does preach the words and acts of Christ. These call not only for a rooting out of evil in individual lives and in society, but they set up standards of action and moral values that arouse in this day, as they have in every day. resentment and opposition.

It is -sad that some of the resentment and some of the opposition come from a small' but vocal group within the Church.

And it would be wrong not to' recognize that the number of those either opposing the Pope or simply' refusing to acknowledge him as the 'chief teacher in the Church is small. The Catholic on the street mayor may not be following or even attempting to follow all that the Pope says but he quite fully accepts the Pope's right to speak and his rightness in speaking. . Oppositio'n and just plain indifferen,te to the Pope come from a few so-caned intellectuals and those few who. just cannot accept that what they hold is in opposition to what· Pope Paul teaches. These speak out' vociferously, cling fast vocally to their position, and when their viewpoint is questioned as being out of harmony with what the Pope says take refuge in the retort that he is either just another theologian or else not well informed. Their arguments are neither original nor new.

But it would be well to unqerstand ·that on the whole' the bizarre in religion, the eclectic, the opposition-all are limited to a small group.

In every city and town and village of the Catholic world there are men and women sincerely trying to stay close to God, there are others who believe and make halfhearted or occasional efforts to practice their beliefs, there are the indifferent.

Rev. John F. Moore, St. .Joseph's, Taunton But those "crucifying" the· Church, as the· Pope put . B.A., M.A., M.Ed. . ... it, a'ie really few in number though 'their vg}ce is. }(>.ud . .~ ,t • because they are. given. great press coverage. 'Their very opposition makes them newsworthy. .' .-.:" ." . they exist. They do much harm. They' upset the faithful. They cannot or will not see that they are hurtGo west Y04ng man was the advice Of the 19th cening the Church. But they are comparatively few in numtury editor, Horace. Greeley. Westward we must go to ber. meet the 20th century Greeley, Andrew. As Horace left his mark on the reconstruction days after the Givil War Instability Once again, Statistics indicate. that one, of the major so, too, Andrew is leaving their voices in ecclesiastical procauses of unrest' among Negroes-fatherless families- his mark on the period. of test in negative harangues, a continues to be and to. grow in magnitude and serious':' the modern church recon- voice of reason and moderation struction after Vat i can seems to be iike one crying .in ness. the desert.

II. In 1960, fatherless white families in central city areas Council Father Greeley, in his socioloFather Greeley received his stood at 10 per cent and this figure rose to 12 per cent doctorate, in sociology in 1962. gical efforts-like the good medin 1968. The percentage of fatherless Negro' families in Since that time, he has become ical doctor-attempts to treat . one of the prol,ific and S!ine the lesion, not merely the sympthe same period went from 23. to 30 per cent. of the American toms. He is not afraid, to speak Thirty years ago, noted Negro sociologist E. Frank- commentators his mind but he always does so church. with sincere consideration and lin Frazier noted this instability and, more recently, urHis activity in behalf of the logic. banologist Paniel Patrick Moynihan has reiterated the Church not only consists of a profound He possesses a penetrating weekly syndicated newspaper sense of good judment-a qualcrisis proportion of the problem. column but he is also the author ity so many authors of church Negro fathers must be trained and given the voca- of many outstanding books contional talents to support their families. Welfare systems cerning the church in America. matters seem to lack.

The Catholic Church in Amermust be overhauled to support stability in the family "The Hesitant Pilgrim," "The ica is, indeed,_ fortunate in havrather than to drive a father away. Negro workers must Catholil; Experience" and "The ing a man and priest like Father be given a pay standard equal to that of white workers Crucible of Change" are among Greeley. He is a catalyst for the his more meaningful works. entire church in America in its and this, to a great extent, is simply not being done.

In addition to his newspaper search for meaning in tIle turThese things can and should be . brought about. and book writings, he is also a moil of our century.

Else the Negro is still being victimized and is still lecturer at the University of ChiFather Andrew treats the church, in working out its eternal being lynched, not physically but economically and soci- cago.

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Helping ~hurch Meet Responsibility He never lets his readers forget that he is a sociologist, and, ,treats his subjects accordingly.

We are never led astray or into a maze of verbosity where real . meaning and truth can be lost.

Father Greeley certainly will be of constant aid to today's hesitant pilgrim in this age of literary immoderation and excess.

You should, by all means, read,

his works and writings if you are interested in the church and are seriously concerned with the problems it faces in our society.

Father Andrew provides many answers to questions and a great deal of inspiration to those searching for sane and reasonable answers to their questions.

There are !jome who will not agree with this endorsement,

Erie Installation ERIE (NC) - John Cardinal Krol .of Philadelphia will install Bishop Alfred M. Watson as the seventh bishop of Erie on May 13 in St. Peter cathedral here.

Bishop Watson, who has been auxiliary bishop of Erie since June, 1965, succeeds Bishop John F. Whealon, who· became archbishop of Hartford, Conn.

March 19. and, they have every right to disagree. However, it is well first to remember what you are talking about when you do disagree.

All of us, too often, approach a study with a rather closed mind.

Our environment and, sometimes, our education see to this.

The mind must never be sealed-off from reality.

It must be ready to accept and express new knowledge. This is especially true in the case of the church in modern America.

We cannot afford to be a mere historic entity. Rather, we should be a vital force that shapes and influences. We will not play an effective role in the life of this nation if we remain stagnant and refuse to adapt to our environment.

We must be ever thankfUl to Father Greeley for helping the church to meet its responsibility and duty to the people of God.

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EXORCISM PART OF JOB: Rev. Michael Bellenoit, S.M., left, home on leave from his mission ass:gnment in the Solomon Islands, plans lectures. More unusual are his activities when he's on the job. Center is "devil·devil' house he was

Ask Restoration Of $l28 Million In Welfare Aid ALBANY (NC)-Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders have petitioned Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York to reconvene the State Legislature to consider restoring $128 million in welfare aid cut from the state budget.

"Such legislation is an unbelievable memorial to commemorate the death of Martin Luther King," a telegram to the governor from the Interfaith Legislative Advisory Committee stated.

The Rev. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Father John R. Sise of Albany acted as representative of the diocesan directors of Catholic Charities in signing the telegram. Other organizations which approved the telegram are the State Council of Churches, the Board of Rabbis and the New York State Catholic Committee.

Evidence of Rejection The telegram said the cut of welfare aid from the budget was "monstrous legislation" and was clear "evidence of our state's rejection of poor people."

The committee urged the governor "to show mercy to the poor" and urged that the reconvened Legislature study "every available avenue of fiscal support in order to assure" that the basic needs of poor people are met.

The governor was asked to veto legislation cutting the welfare budget, but the chief executive already has signed into law most of the welfare bill which provides for the $128 million cuts.

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"The winter was ferocious!" No one is· mourning the season just over, but few efforts in developi"ng assistance were happier to see it depart than Rev. Michael Bellenoit, S.M., on home leave from to Asia, Africa and Latin America have received a boost his station in the South Solomon Islands of the South Pacific, where a temperature in from the Ford Foundation in the the 80's is con~ideted a return to the age. Father Bellenoit has been in and around Fall form of a $140,250 grant.

River since last November, The grant funds will support and he will be in the United Mission belI to wake up our 151 tional. boarding school now has the Exploratory Committee on schoolboys and the local gentry. 131 students, although more Society, Development and Peace, States until September of Armed with my flashlight, I could be accommodated, points was established jointly this year. He is instantly march down the gravel path to out the missioner, if more teach- which last year by the World Council available, he said, for slide lec-

the boys' dormitories to arouse ers were available. of Churches and Pontifical ComPromising students said Father mission on Justice and Peace. the occasional sleeping beauties who need more than the stroke BelIenoit, are sent to the newlyThe Ford Foundation believes of a belI to help them face the opened University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands. This the grant also wiII strengthen music.

"Most of them are up and away represents a break with the past the churches' contributions to before I arrive, however, as their custom of sending youngsters to world peace. morning toilette consists in a the United States or Europe.

The committee's program, said "They came back ruined for Frank X. Sutton, deputy vicemere tug at the solitary piece of their own culture," commented wrap-around cloth they wear day president of the foundation's inand night. Bedmaking is likewise the priest. He said that since ternational division, in announcno problem; they ~Ieep on planks . "missionaries have been taking ing the grant, "is an experiment covered occasionally with a na- anthropology courses," tJ1ere's to bring the Christian tradition tive mat as thin as a dry orange been a far greater understanding into relevant application in the of the needs of native peoples. contemporary world." peel.

"Mass is folIowed by a work "We retain their own culture. period, then the clang of our rather than trying to superimpose 'kai-kai' bell summons me to Western civilization."

Resident Cardinal Nevertheless, said Father Belbreakfast. Brother Colin, our EDINBURGH (NC)-Archbish"health expert, has sworn off lenoit, .the Solomon Islanders, in 0» Gordon J. Gray of St. Antoast since he spied one of our common with the other peoples drews and Edinburgh will be the cook-boys holding a slice of of the South Pacific, have taken first resident cardinal for Scotbread over an open fire by means a quantum leap into the 20th land since Reformation days. of his barefoot toes. I have since century. Headhunters only 50 years ago, they're now exposed baptized them Twinkle Toast.

"Teaching, work periods and " to many modern changes.

One of these, notes Father supervision of an evening study period fiII the remainder of the BeIlenoit, is the reformed liturgy.

He telIs of a. class he was preday." paring for changes in the vernacOIL_COMPANY To Guadalcanal ular.

He asked one boy to give In 1965 Father BeIlenoit was assigned to Guadalcanal and the Pidjin English version of "entask of starting the only Catholic throned at the Father's right high school in the Solomons. hand." The youngster's answer Opened in 1967, the co-educa- (guaranteed to set the liturgical reform back 50 years in the Solomons): "Time Jesus him he stop South ~ Sea Streets Urge Sex Education long box belong him close up long good-fella side belong Hyannis Tel. 49·81 In Catholic Schools Favor Course Shift Father belong him."

TORONTO (NC)-The FedeIn Ontario Schools ration of Catholic Parent-Teacher Associations of Ontario requestTORONTO (NC)-"The presFIVE CONVENIENT OFFiCES TO SERVE YOU ed the Ontario department of ent course of study in religious education to urge all new county education in public elementary_ school boards to institute proschools of Ontario should be disgrams of family life and sex edcontinued." . ucation in all Catholic schools In its stead, a program directfrom kindergarten to grade 13 as ed toward "character building, soon as possible. ethics, social attitudes, and The FCPTA also requested moral values and principles" such programs be included in should be established.

OF TAUNTON courses of teacher training inThese are the two key recomW. Main St.-R(i;lynham, Rte. 44-Taunton, Main St. Norton, stitutes, . and they be supervised mendations from the govern- A.M. "One hour later I wreak my by properly trained personnelNorth Dighton, Spring St.-North Easton, Main St. ment-appointed Committee on Religious Education in Ontario's revenge upon humanity by toIl- those .responsible for curriculum Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ing 35 merciless strokes of our plann'ing.

Public Schools. tures to civic and parish grqups, and has already made many such appearances since his arrival here, although he admitted that he was· slowed down initially by appendicitis, which laid him low his first day home.

The energetic missioner is also filling many speaking engagements at schools. To these audiences he emphasizes the importance of having· a sense of dedication in one's life.

He is looking, he said, for particularly dedicated individuals, who might be interested in giving two or three years to the furth,ering of education in the South Solomon Islands. Schoolteachers, married or single, who would like information on this lay missionary work, can contact Father Belenoit in care of his sister, Mrs. Arthur Boutin, 61 Monarch Street, Fall River, telephone 673-1187.

Fall River Native A Fall River native, Father Bellenoit was brought up in St. Jean Baptiste parish, where he was ordained in 1957 by Bishop Connolly in the first ordination ever held in the church. Afterwards he taught in Michigan and Maine until his assignment "for life" to the Solomons in 1961.

For his first three and a half years in the South Pacific, Father BelIenoit worked on the island of Malaita, where his first job was to learn two of the 14 dialects in use among the people.

That done, he proceeded to such unroutine tasks as exorcising "devil-devil" houses fuIl of skulIs of departed devil··worshippers.

The missioner described a" typical day on Malaita in a letter home: "My Baby Ben (or one of our insomniatic roosters) shocks .me out of a sound sleep at 4:45

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Says Fashion Provides Barometer of Times

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What is the definition. of fashion? Webster defines it as the current style of dress or the shape and form of a thing. I prefer the first definition, for I believe that not only is fashion the current style of' dress but that it is also a barometer of the times.. In the first part of word and designers took it up as banner. this century clothing. was . their They freed the bosom, they ornate. This was a carry- freed the hemlin.e, and they freed over from the previous Victorian· era of 'stuffed upholstery and eve n stuffier manners. Those who could af· ford to care what they wore led lives of leisure in the latter part of the eighteen hundreds, therefore ornate d re s s did not hamper their activities.

But women, being women, are always on the lookout for something new and as the new century progressed a restlessness was felt even in the field of fashion. . Women were looking for something to replace the Gibson girl look and they felt they had found it when designers came along with the hobbleskirt.

This was a skirt (quite the opposite of the full skirt of the heroine of Charles Dana Gibson)' that was cut so narrow the wearer had to adopt a gait not unlike that of the Oriental women with their bound feet.' Just how ridiculous this fashion was can be ascertained by the fact that it was criticized by both pulpit and press.

The first World War changed fashion, just as any war does.

War time shortages were felt in the clothing industries. Bright dyes were scarce, drab colors were in because of necessity.

However, along with forcing, women to don uninteresting clothes, World War 1 had a much more far reaching effect on feminine fashions.

Not only were women forced out of their hobbleskirts (how could they ever move fast enough in them to keep up with the rushing pace of progress?) but they were also suddenly allowed .more freedom than they had ever before dreamed of. During the war years they had to take many jobs left vacant by the absentee male and suddenly they found that they enjoyed this new way of life..

Freedom the B~ord They entered the twenties emancipated, they cut their hair short and their skirts even shorter. Gone were the binding clothes of the beginning of the century. Freedom. was the by.

Asks Priests Suggest Candidates fo~ Bishop RICHMOND (NC) - Bishop John J: Russell of Richmond has requested priests of the diocese to express their preference of. candidates for the office of bishop.

Bishop. Russell called for the priests' advice to help him in making recommendations to the Holy See when the bishops of the Baltimore province meet in April. . .

Bishops of a province periodi. cally submit a list to the Holy See for q>nsideration, consisting of three names from each diocese, of priests they regard suitable for the office of bishop.

SAN ANTONIO (NC)-"In the future, Protestants, Catholics and Jews will work together to bring the good life to everybody," Archbishop .Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio predicted at a meeting of Catholic women here.

Archbishop Lucey addressed the 23rd convention of the San Antonio Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women here. Theme of the convention was "Brotherhood."

Noting opportunities in areas of social action through which the more than 350 delegates attending the convention could fulfill their obligations as Christians to give special witness to the brotherhood of all men, the archbishop said "we cann,ot build a' new ·world in a mont~~ but we can build a better world, and that will be a beginning."

Archbisltop Lucey' told the delegates "worship isn't too hard. Pretty nearly anybody who believes in God can get down on his knees and pray.

"But," he reminded the ACCW members, "it is sometimes very difficult to carry out the things that you say you believe in. We have an unbelieving world today, and there are a great many people Who say we don't really accept the things we say our Church teaches.

"Our Church says, for example, to love your neighbor as yourself," the archbishop continued. "We know for a fact that there are a lot of us who don't do that."

\the American female. As unpredictable as fashion is, history is even more so; for who would have predicted that the ~olden days of Gatsby would end In the dying wails of Wall Street. And as this era of gaiety ended, fashion took another look at itself. . Experts claim that skirt lengths and the stock market work in reverse order, when one goes up the other comes down.

The nineteen thirties did not disprove this theory. No more were knees rouged or garters .rol~ed.

The depression was here and all frivolity was gone. Skirt lengths VINCEN'Il'IAN MASS: Bearers of the Offertory Gifts at the dropped as if wanting to keep Mass for St. Vincent de Paul Society celebrated in St. Patrick's pace with the spirits of the coun· Church, Fall River, H. Frank' Reilly, Manuel Sears and Dennis try and it took another World C. Hurley. make the presentation to Rt. Rev. John E. Boyd, War to raise them. pastor and Vincentian chaplain, who offered the Mass.

Start of Pants Shortage of materials caused many a short hemline but even more shocking than the bare expanse of leg was the fact that women took to wearing pants.

New Mexico Priest, Layman Ejected· Rosie the' Riveter started the From State Senate Chamber fad out of necessity and the modern woman' welcomed their SANTA FE (NC)-A Catholic however, that Montoya had comfort for her active life.

Catholic Education Film priest and a layman were worked on his campaign.

Then came 1947, the war was ejected from the State Senate "I don't remember him (Monover, shortages a .thing of the 'chamber here after allegedly toya) saying that," Dow said In Moscow Exhibition past, and the designers were threatening to "wipe oiJt" a sen- about the confrontation with WAS H I N G TON (NC) looking fof.the "new look." They ator.

Montoya in which Montoya ''Toward Tomorrow," the Nafound it when a daring young Father Leonard Baca and Vic- claimed his role in electing Dow. tional Catholic Educational Asdesigner named Christian Dior tor Montoya were thrown out of Dow expressed puzzlement sociation's award-winning film dropped the hemline to the the chamber where they were over Montoya's action because story in Catholic education has -. ankle. attempting to influence senators "Victor and I always got along been selected for show'ing in Moscow next summer as part of Like a flock of sheep the wom- to support a collective bargain- quite good." en of America and the world ing bill for public employes. It During the heat of the argu- a United States Information threw away their outdated eventually was tabled indefinite- ment, Father Baca said he asked Agency exhibition on American clothes and jumped on the band- ly by a 25-17 vote. the senators: "Where is your education. wagon .of changing fashion that Sen. R. Leo Dow said he had Christian The USIA show-Education conscience?"

The was going to rule their attitudes been told he would be "wiped priest claims that one of the sen- U.S.A., will open in the Soviet and budgets for many years to out" if he didn't vote in 'support ators replied: "There is no Chris- capital on July 1. After Moscow come. of the bill. ~ it will go to several other countian .conscience in politics."

When asked by NC News Sertries overseas.

Today we have unisex, the pant suit and the his and her vice if the threat was a physical look as representations of the or political one, Dow replied, "I La Salette Center sixties and seventies. Histdrians . don't know. I didn't take it lightRetreat. Schedule . may well look upon the fashions ly."

Rev. Giles Genest, M.S., direcMontoya claims it was a poof this period as an indication that male and female roles were litical threat. He told NC News tor of the La Salette Center of so overlapping that even fashion Service that while attempting to Christian Living, Attleboro, has convince Dow to 'vote in support announced three special weekbecame neuter.

This columnist, however, still of the bill, Montoya reminded end retre.ats.

Engaged couples are scheduled hangs on to the belie( that fem- Dow tp.at he (Montoya) had been inity and masculinity will hold more responsible than anyone in for the weekend of April- 25-27; firm and that this is just one getting Dow elected. Montoya while family retreats will be con365 NORTH FRONT STREET more phase in the history of how said Dow agreed to this state-. ducted on the weekends of May 16-18 and June 6·8.

NEW BEDFORD we choose to cover our naked- ment. . All interested retreatants are It was' at this point, Montoya ness. .

992·5534 said, .that Father Baca . inter- requested . to contact Father jected, telling Dow that Montoya Genest as soon as possible. . could just as well wipe Dow out Schedule Interfaith of politics.

Exhibition of Art· .'No Christian Conscience' BLOOMFIE~D HILLS (NC)Father Baca told NC News The sixth biennial .national art SerVice that "I did make a threat exhibition, sponsored by Detroit -....:in.a sense." He claim's he told MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS area art patrons and .iridustrial- Dow: "Personally, in my book, list of many faiths will·be .pre- you're wiped out of politics." sented at'· the Cranbrook Acad- And, Father Baca added, Dow emy of Art here.

FOR A WEEK OF "took this 'as a physical threat . Father William B. Davidson, and this was the grounds on RENEWAL festival founder and pastor of' which they evicted us."

INTER..cOMMUNITY (Sisters) St. Anastasia. parish, Troy, Dow declared that Montoya Mich., announced that' Jolin J. was not the most responsible RETREAT MASTER: FATHER HUGH MUNRO, S.M.M. Riccardo, Chrysler Corporation person for getting Dow elected group vice president, was named to the senate. He did confirm, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 8:00 P.M. general chairman of the interfaith exhibition.

THRU SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 9:00· A.M. Cape, Islands The five-week exhibit, free to WELCOMEI Cape and Islands District 5 of the public, will include more FEE $40.00 than 200 works in painting, the Diocesan Council of Catholic sculpture and other crafts. Selec- Women ,will meet at 2 Sunday, OUR LADY, QUEEN OF MISSIONS-CLOSED RETREAT HOUSE tionsof 120 artists from more April 13 at St. Francis X~ier 197 PLEASANT STREET. MARLBORO, MASSACHUSmS 01752 Tel. 485·0740 . than 30 states will be displayed. Church, Hyannis.

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Tells Children How to Start Their Own Garden Plots,

THE ANCHORThurs., April 10, 1969

Teacher Demond Exceeds Supply

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick We recently recevied a call from a little friend who wanted to know when to start her garden from seed. For her and other children who want to start a garden of their own, here are some suggestions: Wait until at least the first week of May before you do trip to the nearest padded cell. makes the heart lighter any planting. If you plant Humor and the dark days easier to bear. before then, the cold will Richard Milnes once wrote-

kill any seeds that sprout. If you The sense of humor is the just want to get started now, choose balance of all the faculties of a small garden, clear it of leaves, man, the best security against the stones and other things and then pride of knowledge and the conask daddy or mommy to turn ceits of the imagination, the the ground over for you. strongest inducement to submit Do this on a day when the with a wise and'pious patience to ground is not too wet or soggy. the vicissitudes of human existWhen the ground is broken, re- ence." move all stones' and then rake Certainly the ability to laugh the soil to remove lumps. Be at oneself is a gift that makes careful not to walk on the garden human existence much easier. too much, or it will become hard Physicians have stated that one again. , of the reasons many young overTry to pick a place for the burdened mothers' have breakgarden where your plants will downs is that life becomes so get at least eight hours of sun overwhelming that there is no each day. The best place is on ' place for laughter in it. Our family the south side of' the house or doctor has a tremendous sense of yard, where the flowers will get eased !Jlany instances when I was the early morning sun. Do not ready to lose my head-such as choose a place where water the thne I telephoned him and forms in pools, or where it will frantically screamed that Meliscollect after a storm. Be careful sa swallowed a penny (she was to find a spot where children will ' about a year at the time and s~owed absolutely no signs of not run through. being bothered by her copper inPlant in May take).

What Year?

When the weather has warmed "What year was it?" ques(about the second week in May), you may plant your seeds. Fol- tioned the laughing voice at the low the directions on the package other end of the wire. This of and be sure to mark the rows so course caused me to do a double you will know where you plant- take, and in doing so I relaxed ed what. Then each day water a bit, could listen calmly to his the seeds lightly with a watering directions, and was able to take can until the seeds germinate care of the situation much better for that little bit of "tension:reand begin to show.

When they begin to sprout, leasing" laughter.

Of course there are days when thin them out so that they do not crowd each other too much. I feel quite "balmy" with my This is important because if the crazy sense of humor. Such a day tiny plants are too crowded they was last Saturday when Melissa (this child is definitely accident will not grow well. prone) was bitten on the bottom Keep the garden free of weeds (not seriously) by our neighbor's because these too will crowd dog. ' out your plants and take away Off we went to our friendly needed food. Expect that insects outpatient department (this for will eat some of your plants, and the 999th time with said child) don't be disappointed if this and all I could think of was happens. Usually the plants "here we are again" and that which survive are good ones and by this time Melissa should be will give you all the flowers you getting discount rates - someneed. thing like three 'visits to the For those of you who haven't outpatient for the price of two. bought seeds yet, you might try As all this was running through marigolds, zinnias, calendula, my mind the nurse was taking nasturtium, beans, peas, cucum- down our life history (Lissa ber, squash, or corn. must have a file there all to herself by now) and I was sitIn the Kitchen ting there giggling.

While I wouldn't recommend This past week the Vatican announced that the marriage smiling your way through all ceremony would be a more liberal your youngsters' mishaps, try it one, with !Jlore emphasis on love at least with the small ones, like than before. On behalf of all the the spilled milk. It's much cheapmillions of brides across the na- er than a psychiatrist, and much tion who will rapidly turn into more fun!

Here's a delightful dessert to wives and mothers, I would like to request that the new wording perk up your April menus. You be love, honor, obey and have a do need a blender to make it, good sense of humor. Without but today no well-equipped kitthe last the others are going to chen should be without this mar路 velous appliance. ' be very difficult to achieve.

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WOMEN'S COUNCIL HEART PROGRAM: PrinCipals in the special' pro,gr,am on heart disease sponsored by St. Anne's ,Council of Ca,tholic WOlTlen, Fall River, were: Rev. Raymond Drouin, O.P., pastor.; Mrs. Albert Auclair, Mrs. Hector Gauthier and Dr. Charles J. Sasson, who conducted the program.

'Sit on Floor Open Chapel for Experimental Liturgies On Boston College Campus CHESTNUT HILL (NC)-The director of Boston Theological Institute, an interreligious alliance of seminaries in Boston, urged a group of Catholic college students here to face the "collapse of expectations" in daily experiences "without becoming listless or cynical, without copping out, without losing serenity and joy and the yeast of love."

Dr. Waiter D. Wagoner, a minister of the United Church of Christ (Congregational), preached the homily during a midnight Mass opening a contemporary styled chapel for experimental liturgies on the campus of Boston College here, which is conducted by the Jesuits. .

Father Francis X. Shea, S.J., executive vice-president of the college, celebrated the liturgy at a cube.shaped, polished aluminum altar. Some 500 students attended the, ceremony, s.itting on the floor of the nearly benchless chapel.

The new chapeL unit is housed in the school's St. Joseph's Chapel, which was completely redesigned and renovated by a group of students.

'Copping Out' Dr. Wagoner described the "copping out" of young and old in contemporary society as a "frenzy, an escape, brought on by not knowing how to cope with the 'ideals of our heritage and our accomplishments ':' ~, '" alongside our corruptions." ' People "cop out," Dr. Wagoner noted, in a variety of ways.

Some people cop out, ,he said, on their expectations by rationalizing middle class mediocrity into a fake ideal.

The speaker said "copping out" can be defined as "hiding somewhere, behind some 'front,' because we don't have the courage or maturity to love people and the world deeply enough to st~y with each other, to slug it out'" ':' * Copping out, then, becomes a soured idealism."

Seek Own Status The vain man hates his like, the exceptional man seeks out his.-Richter.

Urging the students to measure the collapse of expectations in their lives against the range of events leading to the crucifix ion of Christ, Dr. Wagoner said: "We know what those around the original Cross were not then capable of knowingthat througlf His Resurrection grace abounds, and that we can jolly well stop sniffling and get on with it while it is yet day ... get on with our loving and our serving and our trusting in the validity of His expectations of us."

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Religious Education Exchange (REX) established here by the National Center of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine has aroused considerable interest among prospective employers but not enough among applicants for teaching positions, a C C D spokesman said.

REX is a computerized service which aims to bring together those seeking professional help in promoting religious education programs on all levels with trained teachers capable of staffing them.

The National Center of CCD hopes to use REX not only to match job applicants with prospective employers but also to highlight the need for more trained moderators and teachers, better facilities, adequate financing, and more professional, long-term planning for theological studies.

One diocesan ceo director said he could place 15 profes路 sional religious educators if they were available. "The job opportunities for professional coordinators and instructors in religious education have never been so attractive," he said.

Schedule Dedication Of Education Center NOTRE DAME (NC)-Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank and former Secretary of Defense, will be principal speaker at the May 1 dedication of the University of Notre Dame's Hayes-Healy Center for graduate business education.

The $1 million building was a gift from Mr. and Mrs. John F. Healy, who will be honored at a luncheon. Healy, a 1930 graduate of Notre Dame's college of arts and letters, and his wife, the former Ramona Hayes, are owners of a Chicago travel agency.

THE ANCHORThurs., April 10, 1969

Charge Churc'h With Complicity

Testimony Draws Little Response At Hegrings .

WASHINGTON (NC) - The nine demonstrators who broke into Dow Chemical Co. offices have charged the Catholic Church with "complicity" in the "American exploitation of a great part of the world's inhabitants." ' In a letter to all U. S. Catholic bishops, the nine asked the bishops .for support in their protest against Dow Chemical, the chief supplier of napalm for use in the Vietnam war.

The demonstrators, who include three Catholic priests, one nun and several members of the Catholic laity, were arrested on charges of second degree burglary and destruction of property after they broke into Dow offices here, poured blood on files, broke a window, threw documents into the street four floors below and overturned furniture in the offices.

The nine said their action was a protest against Dow's policy of manufacturing and selling napalm for use in the Vietnam war. ·The protesters are out on bail, pending court action. Originally, they said they would refuse bail and would remain in jail fasting until the hearing as a continuation of their protest.

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WASHINGTON (NC) The lack of questions from the four of 25 House Ways and Means Committee members present at tax' reform hearings made it appear that Congress has little interest, one way or the other, about churches and their tax exemptions. " Even Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas did. not bother to stay to hear William R. Consedine, general counsel of the United States Catholic Conference, present a lengthy case for retention of exem'ptions.

Less than half of the Ways and Means Committee showed up for the afternoon session when Consedine pointed out that USCC "seriously" questions some pending U. S. Treasury Department proposals to close tax loopholes.

Consedine said USCC "is eager to cooperate in PJ:oposals to close those tax loopholes," but added concern about the possibility of churches losing their tax exemptions:' No Questions Asked As Consedine's testimony continued, committee members started wandering out of the Ways and Means Committee room, scene of extensixve hearings on tax reform.

At one point, only three members were present while Consedine continuedUSCC's case. One member ambled back in as Consedine made his concluding comments. But no questions were asked.

Committee members seemed to be in a hurry to get through the day's testimony so the congressmen could go home.

Did all this mean that the House Ways and Means Committee has no interest in the churches' tax-exempt provileges?

"No, no. Not at all," Consedine told NC \ News Service.

"They are very busy people," he said. "Our testimony lias all been included in the record, and it is presumed that they will read it."

Oppose Reduction It seems to be a matter of tradition for committee witnesses to read their prepared texts even though hardly anyone is present to hear them. Witnesses can only hope that their testimony actually is read by the members of Congress sometime before voting on legislation takes place.

Consedlne, talking to four congressmen and 21 empty chairs, said "government does not finance the churches and churches do not finance the government."

The separation of church and state, he added, does not preclude government aid to church efforts in education, health and housing.

"USCC," Consedine said, "is opposed to all tax reform proposals that have as their obj~c­ tive the substantial reduction of the income of exempt organizations."

Name Catholic NEW YORK (NC) - Attorney Percy St. Clair Miller, a Catholic, !las been appointed house counsel of the National Council of Churches. The Rev. R.H. Edwin Espy, NCC general secretary, said as house attorney, Miller will be responsible for legal services affecting all aspects of the council's work, and for deciding what matters require the attention of the NCC's general counsel.

BOY OF THE YEAR: Perry Joseph Ludy, 17, of Oxnard, Calif., receives congratulations from President Richard M. Nixon at the White House on being named "Boy of the Year" by the Boys Clubs of America. Perry is an instructor in religious education at St. Paul's Baptist church in Oxnard. NC Photo.

Pass Eased Abortion Law in New Mexico

WASHINGTON (NC) - The New Mexico legislature has passed a relaxed abortion lawthe first such bill to become law this year-over the opposition of many of the state's Catholics.

The bill permits abortions in 54 licensed hospitals when two Puerto Rican leaders are cred- staff physicians agree that a ited with the pioneering efforts. pregnancy would result in that eventually led to the com- "grave "impairment of the physmittee's formation. Their San ical or mental health of the Juan association produced the woman," when the child "probfirst leaders in community work. ably will have a grave 'physical Jose Valentin, top sports or- or mental defect," or when the ganizer for the Latin community pregnancy results from rape or no"w coordinates the competitions incest.

There is no requirement for of more than 100 teams in softball, volley-ball, baseball and New Mexico residency but the bowling. Over 3,000 people are measure does provide that no hospital will be required to adinvolved.

Joe says that sports can be a mit a patient for an abortion.

New Mexico Gov. David F. great tool of apostolate. "You see, Chicago falls big on you with Cargo, a Catholic, did not sign its confusion, problems, tensions; the controversial legislation. He more so for newcomers, and even told the legislature: "I am returning the bill Unmore for those' migrating from countries of simple outlook; ev- signed because I do not wish to erybody is a Catholic, a farmer, give my personal endorsement to this piece of legislation. But at a family man.

"Our teams give them a link the same time, I do not feel that with the Christian community, ~y own personal religious beand eventually a sense of belong- . hefs should interfere with the ing to the 'Big City.' Come May, enactment of this statute."· Since the Governor neither for instance, and we will have a ball at one of the big hotels. vetoed nor signed the bill, it The occasion is the awarding of becomes law in three months. prizes, but the real aim is to It's Character show the local government that we, the poor, are organized, and Happiness is not the end of want a share in decision-making." life; Character is.-Beecher.

Cardinal's Committee Aids· Chicago Poor Archdiocesan Agency S·erves Immig'rants CHICAGO' (NC)-A great majority of the 220,000 Spanishspeaking people in the Chicago area share the needs and anguish of the poor.

But the people-roughly 44,000 families-often find the Church a cultural and social bridge overcoming their isolation as immigrants..

Spearheading the effort is the Archdiocesan Latin American Committee, an agency of jOhn Cardinal Cody of Chicago, headed by Father Gilbert Carroll and Father John Ring. For the hundreds of Latins who call at its headquarters every week, it is simply "the Cardinal's Committee.

It is'a clean, two-story building, contrasting with the rundown structures surrounding it.

It has a chapel, a spacious waiting room and offices. The doors and walls are covered with notices, slogans on human dignity, directions on how to get various kinds of help, sports trophies and vocational exhibits.

Human Needs The many faces and shapes in the waiting room reflect a variety of human needs - they included a young man in shirt sleeves; a couple with a five-year old girl; an elderly.Jady with a teenager; an old man and a woman, probably his daughter; a farm worker, and two young girls. The faces change every hour.

You only have to read> the signs on the offices to guess their business-United Farm Workers, . Sports, Credit Union, Cursillos (Little Courses in Christianity), Employment Counseling, Social Service, Cuban Association, Hermanos de San Juan, "Juventud Revolucionaria" (Revolutionary Youth).

One poster illustrates why they or their parents came to Chicago.

It is a CICOP chart (the Catholic Inter-American Cooperation .Prognim) telling of poverty and lack of opportunity in Latin America.

Sports Organizer Most of the Spanish-speaking came from Mexico; they and thei.r descendents make up the largest group, about 120,000. Then came the Puerto Ricans, with about 80,000 and, in a more recent wave, the Cubans with 15,000.

Other nationalities make up the balance. Spanish-speaking people are predominant in some 40 of Chicago's 480 parishes.

International Team Prepares for Synod

OTTAWA (NC)-An international rather than the usual Roman Curia teaJ;ll is preparing for the special session of the Synod' of Bishops in October.

This information was received here from Father Charles Mathieu, general secretary of the Canadian Catholic -Conference, who is at the Vatican at the invitation of Bishop L. Rubin, per-. manent secretary of the synod.

In a report to the Canadian bishops, Father Mathieu said that the preparatory team is composed of the general secretaries of five ,national episcopal conferences: Bishop Derek Worlock, of Portsmouth, England; Msgr. "LUigi Cardini, Italy; Auxiliary bishop-elect Roger Etchegaray, France; Msgr. Jose M. Eguaras, Iriarte, Spain; - and Father Mathieu, Canada.

The five general secretaries, working with Bishop Rubin, are .charged with preparing the program for the synod and with the functioning of the synod secretariat before and during the actual sessions. They will be present at synod meetings in which 140 bishops from all corners of the globe will convene. NinetyHow Men Judge five of the bishops will be presMen judge us by the success. idents of national episcopal conferences. . of our efforts.-Elizabeth.

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Cardinal Conway Scores Premier For Inaction

A!ttempt to Ke'ep Schools Open

BELFAST (NC) -William Cardinal Conway of Armagh accused the Northern Irish government of Premier. Terence O'Neill of "a lot of fair words and promises but very little action" in the matter of antiCatholic discrimination.

The cardinal said that he believes the premier sought to build a new confidence and trust in the North but that he is "less sure" that O'Neill has the "ability to get the thing done if moderate Unionist (O'Neill's party) opinion does not make itself felt more effectively."

O'Neill, whose policy of gradual concessions to the Catholics has aroused opposition within his own Unionist party, was reelected in February by a narrow margin in a general election he called in an unsuccessful effort to defeat opponents in his own party.

The cardinal expressed his views in an interview with John E. Sayers, editor-in-chief of the Belfast Telegraph.

Protest Demonstrations The cardinal's statements were published as the Northern Irish government mobilized more than 1,000 part-time police of the Ulster special constabulary to cope with terrorist violence that Premier O'Neill attributed to a "subersive organization seeking to disrupt the economic life of the country."

The move followed an explosion that blew up Belfast's suburban Castlereagh power station, causing an estimated $1.2 million damage. The boosted police forces are being used to guard key installations against possible' sabotage attacks.

Since October, 1968, Northern Ireland has been hit by violence resulting from civil rights demonstrations protesting anti-Catholic discrimination in voting, housing and employment.

'Ultra-Left' Cardinal Conway said that it is "very stupid of certain politicians in the North to try to tar the whole civil rights movements with the brush of. the 'ultra-left' element."

He said he agreed that there are in Ireland, as elsewhere, including Great Britain, people who are interested only in using the civil rights movements for their own ends.

Asked if Catholics want the North to dissociate itself from Great Britain and to unite with the Irish Republic, Cardinal Conway replied: "You must remember that attachment to the ideal of a single Irish nation can be very deep in the people's hearts. It has a very long history and it can be just as deeply and sincerely felt as other people's attachment to the Crown and the British connection. Tolerance means acceptance of the sincerity of both points of view." .

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LEARNS TECHNIQUE: As some 800 student and faculty volunteers transferred 82,000 books from' the old to the new library at the College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J., Jonnie Frisbie, weary of the armful technique, tries to learn the trick of balancing books on her head.

Easily demonstrating the head carry are two students from Ghana: Betty Basah, center, and Prudence Naawa. The three girls are juniors at the coll~ge; Jonnie is from Boynton Beach Fla.

Plan Psychological Counsel·ing for Nuns Eight-Member Staff Is fully Professional

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-When Sisters have problems, to whom can they go for help?

Traditionally, of course, Sisters have turned to their spiritual directors or to their superiors for counsel, but in an age of tension in which difficulties are as likely to be psychological as spiritual, a group of Sisters and laymen in the Philadelphia archdiocese have established a new avenue of assistance for troubled nuns, psychological counseling.

Formed under the auspices of Msgr. J. Clement Bennington, vicar general for Religious, Psychological Counseling Services for Sisters includes a staff of five nuns, a psychiatrist, and a husband-and-wife team of psychologists. In his archdiocesan post, Msgr. Bennington deals with more than 6,700 nuns of various religious communities serving here.

Group Therapy Noting that problems among some Sisters have increased since the Second Vatican Council because of the pressures of adjustment to change, Msgr.

Bennington said the new counseling service, which has been in existence six months is designed in' par.t to "help Sisters whose reason for deciding to give up religious life may be only some emotional or psychoCatholic University logical difficulty that has nothing Names Law Dean to do with religious life."

Other purposes of the counWASHINGTON (NC)-E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr., first direc- seling service include the preventor of the legal services program of the Office of Economic OpHail Pope's Visit portunity, has been appointed dean of the Columbus School of KAMPALA (NC)-The head of Law of the Catholic University the Uganda Bishops' Conference of America. expressed confidence that the Acting C.U. rector, Brother people and government in coNivard Scheel, C.F.X., said that operation with the Catholics, will Bamberger will assume office in make the forthcoming visit of August, 1969. He succeeds Ver- Pope Paul VI in July "the most non X. Miller, who was dean outstanding and most memorable' from 1954 to September, 1968. event in the history of Uganda."

tion of mental or emotional illness through group therapy and counseling a'nd assistance through individual counseling of those who have emotional or psychological problems.

The program is not one of spiritual guidance, Msgr. Bennington emphasized.

"It is purely psychological," he said, "and it is conducted by a professional staff of psychologists. Those who need spiritual direction we. send to priests skilled in giving spiritual guidance." .

Protestant Leaders Meet With Bishops COLUMBUS (NC)-Five Catholic bishops of Ohio met with leaders of the Ohio Council of Churches in an exploratory meeting aimed at unity in action.

The meeting, which took place at the offices of the Ohio Cathole Conference here, was the first of a series of top-level consultations to consider ways of relating the work of Ohio Catholic dioceses to that of the OCC and its 17 member communions.

The religious leaders considered ways in which they could work together 'for such goals as racial equality, panel reform and a revised welfare system for the state.

Receives $200,000 For Urban Studies NOTRE DAME (NC) - The University of Notre Dame has received $200,000 from International Business Machines Corp. for further studies on the underprivileged in urban environments.

Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame president, praised the grant as "indicative of the willingness of one of. the nation's most innovative corporations to support pionneering research in the social sciences."

The eight-member, part-time staff is fully professional, and Sisters seeking assistance have a wide range of counselors among whom they can choose.

Self-Understanding The chairman of the counseling panel is Sister Jean McLaughlin of the Sisters of Mercy, a psychiatric nurse at Villa St. John Vian!1ey, Downington, an archdiocesan hospital which specializes in the care of priests and Sisters suffering from mental or nervous diseases.

Dr. Anthony L. Zanni, director of psychiatry at the Downington villa, devotes Tuesday afternoons to the work of the newly established counseling service.

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph O'Connor of Havertown are the husbandand-wife team of clinical psy,l::hologists who are available for consultation by Sisters.

"Psychological counseling· of Sisters," Dr. O'Connor said, is an approach to daily self-understanding so that higher human motives and values may be preserved and so that religious experience may continue."

Set Consecration LITTLE ROCK (NC) - Msgr.

Lawrence P: Graves, vice chancellor of the Little -Rock diocese, will be consecrated auxiliary bishop Friday, April 25 in St. Andrew cathedral here. Bishop .Albert L. Fletcher will be the consecrating prelate.

DALLAS (NC) - A predominantly lay board of education with broad decision-making powers is striving to assure continued operation and high quality for the Catholic schools of the Dallas-Fort Worth diocese.

"Our primary function is the continuance of Catholic education-to keep our schools open," said Robert C. Drolet, board president. "The times are difficult, the costs are exorbitant and vocations are declining. In other words, the means to insure the quality of our schools must come from the layman."

The "decision-making board," as Drolet described it, includes seven laymen and four clergymen representing different geographical areas., The first board of education in the diocese, he said, was appointed in 1964 as little more than an advisory body.

"With the impetus of Vatican II and realizing the necessity of the active involvement of the laity if the schools were to stay open and act effectively, Bishop Gorman in 1967 gave the board the responsibility of writing a constitution and granting itself powers of action," he said.

Drolet said the board functions much as one of a large corporation. "The bishop is chairman of the board; he has the authority to veto a decision, but he has never vetoed a single decision."

form Independent School Association ~T. LOUIS (NC) - An independent Missouri Association for Non-Public Schools (MANPS) has been formed by Catholic laymen from the state's four Catholic dioceses.

Purpose of the MANPS group, a spokesman explained "is to inform and educate state government officials and all the citizens of Missouri to the financial plight of the non-public schools and the consequences to the state's taxpayers should the private schools cease operation." "ames J. Powers, director for federal programs for the St. Louis archdiocesan schools, explained that, while all committee members are Catholic, the association has contacted schoolmen in other denominations. In the near future, they hope to get formal support from other religious denominations as well as private, non-sectarian schools.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr. 10, 1969

Hemorrhage of Resources Accepted Unthinking.ly

By Barbara Ward' '. Clearly, of 'all the things the Americans and the Russians could do together, or on parallel lines,' to keep the. ,planet safe for its' human inhabitants, the most urge.nt and the most immediate is to avoid another upward tWist '. in the arms spiral. An ABM could 'cover the Atlantic shield, beginning at. $5 bil- ment arms budget completely. lion and rising to who knows Extend the calculation to 1980, .what cost is only part of the and the· extra income each year -on top of the present annual combined national income of rising $20,000 billions-would be at least $600 billion a year. Out of an addition on' this' scale, any conceivable arms budget could be carried without disrupting a single other desirable use of, income.

But it is precisely at. this point that some of the deeper evils of our arms race become apparent.

We do not extend to any other, vast social pursuit the largely unthinking acceptance we give to the concept of 4efense. .

We seem' ·unaware-and our leaders do not enlighten us---<,f . the future resources we shall have .available and how many blessed and useful things we , DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES: Signing the agreement at the Vatican establishing the Pope's could do with them - rebuilding cities. for instance, or edu- Oe'velopment of Pe,oples Fund to be administered by the Inter-American Devolopment Bank are, cating drop-outs and the handi- from left: Dr. Felipe Herrara, president 'of the bank: ~ciurice Cardinal Roy of Quebec, president capped, unpolluting our stricken of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace; and Msgr. Sergio Guerria, secretary of the atmosphere, giving· every elderly . A~ministration of the Properties of the Holy See. NC Photo. citizen an income ,which permits Ii quiet bId age .and a dignified death. " But with our mental 'block about virtually every large public expenditure except defense, we .say: "How can we rebuild the BUFFALO (NC)~Tom Mboya, and standards in their lives .... the wealthiest man in society. ghetto when we' ,have such an arms budget?" We do not say: 'one of Africa's famous independ-, I think the world needs very ser- We must reduce everything to "Next year,we shall have $60 ence fighters and a ·key figure iously to examine closely the the least common denominator in society. To my mind, this is billion in new resources. How in Kenya's government, declared whole question of values." where religion is." should they, be spent?':' here that as long as Africans Must Compromise "Any society which throws Could Be Done identify the Church "as a foreign Science and technology may this out (religion) would be so At best we say: "With all this. institution, the Church -will be "bring to us the most exciting bankrupt that its survival is defense spending, we can only . under attack."

The 38-year-old Kenya min- possibilities, but we must never very difficult," he said. afford to· help the poor at home.

During his lecture, Mboya The poor abroad must look after ister of economic development forget being human beings."

Black Africans are demanding suggested that major power tarthemselves." We do not say: and planning,said that "mission"Twice overkill is as good as aries have done a lot of good equality, he continued. "We de- iff concessions are more importfour times overkill. Let us cut work in Africa, but,we agree the mand it as a standard and as a ant to emerging nations than away $20 billion,' add in next time for: missionary Christianity value. We demand it for the traditional forms of foreign aid, poorest man in society, for the that Rhodesian blacks "have to year's resources,' double' foreign has gone." aid, treble the' new cities. pro- . Mboya was responding to an most illiterate man in socie'ty, for die a little" to be free, .that gram, quadruple housing - and while there is need for an urstill come out with a bonus for African priest's question on the gent solution between Biafra and role of the Church in Africa; fol- .Jewish Committee. ourselves." In· short, if we gave Nigeria, the ways of the conferany great human undertaking- lowing I,l lecture on emerging ence table are often slow.

Third World nations at State Salutes Cardinals education, urban renewal, health, . f "I wish we were dealing with anti-pollutlon-: the. instinctive University of New York at Bu ,NEW YOR,K' (NC) The machines or computers; we could American Jewish Committee sa- switch them on and off. But let . acceptance we give to defense- falo. spending, we would scale down Mboya suggested the Church luted the four newly-designated us keep trying," he said, noting recognize the new independence the arms, transfer the .resultant of Africa, that it Africanize its American cardinals imd pledged . that both sides will have to be "our continued cooperation in willing to compromise before saving to life-giving projects and throw in a proportion of the re-. hierarchy and identify more with the achievement of our mutual peace will come. . sources which will be provided lQcal instiutions. "And only then goals.~' by future gI:owth~ We would'de-' ::~,l.. the Church survive in AfriArthur J. Goldberg" AJC presi- . dent, and Bertram H. Gold, execTeachers' ;Boycott . mand from Our leaders some "budget" .of priorities for the , H e pointed but, however, that utive vice president, sent the Averted in Newark .Seventies.. some. sense of how "every' .African country" has ··'ac- following message to Archbishthe role of tHe Church PARAMUS (NC)-A one-day and where so much rising wealth- '.cepted' . . . No .African· country has ops Terence J. Cooke of New York, John F. Dearden Of' Deboycott of teachers at 10 of the ought to ~e spent. ..,.. ,," Over 35 Years 11 regional high schools in the " 'Until we' make' some such cal- suppressed freedom of worship." troit and John J. Carberry of St. of Satisfied Service Newark archdiocese was averted cuius, it. is. not surprising' that Religious' freedom "has been Louis, and Bishop John J. Wright Reg. Master Plumber' 7023 here when the membership of , so manY'young people round the enshrined in every African coun- of Pittsburgh: JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR.' try that I know of.\· ' . the Newark Archdiocesan Teach- '. world find our societygr:otesque"The American Jewish Com., 806 NO. MAIN STREET ers Organization approved a new ly,: ugly. This vast, apparatus of Asked· if the "Church can be mittee extends heartiest c~ngrat- .

Fall River 675·7497 contract negotiated with school we~lth, used so· acceptingly, for ·releven~ to the. str~ggJes of a ulations .and every best wish on destruction, SO grudgingly' for . developmg natton. Mboya re- . your new responsibilitIes. Wf; are officials.

Contract terms were far below the great· cre~tiv~' ,purp'qses .qf '. sponded: delighted to pledge our continwhat the teachers hild been ask- society" finally seems to. them ' , "I do not believe there is any ued cooperation, in the achieveCONRAD SEGUIN ing in most instances but did in- unworthy and despicable. The itope' for a ·society. arid a people ment· of our mutual goals. clude concessions on tenure' and . clutter of consumption, the high- who throwaway ,certain values BODY COMPANY other fringe areas of· employ- velocity advertising, the shining Aluminum or Steel ment. . glass office buildings and, along944 'County Street Schedule Meeting The contract was hammered side, the rat-infested tenements NEW BEDFORD, MASS. out in week-long negotiations -is all this, they ask, so worth NEW YORK (NC)-The Amer992·6618 which took place after NATO of- defending that billions on arms ican Catholic Philosophical As, MONUMEN,TAL WORKS ficials had scheduled a "Solidar- are almost taken for granted? sociation will hold· its' 43rd an184 DARTMOUTH ST. 993-0162 ity Day "to back up their de- Give us ins.tead a picture of true nual meeting Monday. More tharl mands. As negotiations progress- wealth. Give' us ~omething we 800 philosophers~from across the NEW BEDFORD f!d the day was postponed and can fully, respect. But money and United States' and Canada are Opeii Daily 8:30 to 5:30 Sunday 2 to 5 then cancelled when the mem- weapon~ piled up without com- expected to attend the conferOther times by Appointment passion and 'justice command, ence, whose theme will be "Truth ~ership approved the new salary Fine Monuments. Since 1892 neither our lo~alty nor our love. and. the Historicity of Man." schedule.

issue,. the sharp tip of the iceberg .above the diplomatic waters. The icebeI:g itself is " the $120 billion a year spent by ·the Powers on their armaments.

It . is right to stop the. further spending up .of· the arms race which a new set of automatic ,nuclear countermissiles 'would would set in motion. But it is even more urgent to begin going' into reverse, to begin reducing the vast, unseemly burden of destruction carried on by both sides. , Under Article.vl of the AntiProliferation Treaty. both Great Powers bind themselves to take significant steps to limit their own arms. But the clause may simply be the rhetoric of a bargain between two giants who are chiefly concerned with keeping other peoples' weapons under control.

Neither side has said much about actual reductions-by percentages of war· budgets, by types of weapon, by matching withdrawals. Until they do, the hideous bulk of $120 billion worth of weapons will go on throwing a cold and ugly shadow across the. nations' collective lives.

The horrors of this vast hemorrhage of resources are not only the obvious ones - the risk of atomic miscalculation, the escalatory risk, or, again, the sheer, inexcusable waste of so much potential wealth when children go hungry.

The-{act is, oil any calculation of Atlantic national income over the next decade, the Western arms burden can be said to be quite tolerable in financial. terms.

Growing Wealth As this column has pointed out before, Atlantic wealth is growing by at least $60 billlion a year. A couple of years' incre-

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Archbishop Cites Cooperative Plan Among Churches

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NEW ORLEANS (NC) -

Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans said plans are under way for an inter-church federation in Louisiana aimed at pooling efforts of all denominations to solve community problems.

The archbishop referred to the proposed federation in an address to the annual meeting of the Lou,isiana Conference on Social Welfare here.

He said a spirit of cooperation and harmony in civic matters "will be certainly aided by the spirit of ecumenism."

Ecumenism, related to the welfare of the community and the state, Archbishop Hannan asserted, means "sincere appreciation of the respect for the religious convictions of others and a willingness to cooperate in works beneficial to the whole communty."

Racial Harmony The archbishop said important fields of ecumenical endeavor include the penal system of the state and public education.

Of the latter he said: "We have a very serious obligation to pool our efforts to assist the public schools at every level."

But Archbishop Hannan said the cause of racial harmony is the area of greatest ecumenical concern.

"A major change in public opinion cannot occur without the efforts of the churches," Archbishop Hannan stated.

Declares Ecumenism On Firm Foundation BOSTON (NC)-Richard Cardinal Cushing, preaching in the Orthodox cathedral of the Annunciation, . noted that Christian ecumenism has emerged from the "uncertain wilderness, the feeble beginnings of Christian cooperation" and today "rests upon the solid foundations of our respect one for the other and our willingness to exclude from the future the mistakes of the past."

The Bay State Archbishop spoke at an ecumenical doxology in the Orthodox edifice commemorating the 20th anniversary of Ecumenical Patriarch Atnenagoras I of Constantinople.

Catholics and Protestants joined the Orthodox in the tribute. Archbishop Iakavos, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, officiated.

Others who participated included Bishop James K. Mathews of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Forrest L. Knapp, general secretary, Massachusetts Council of Churches; Metropolitan Aimilianos of Seleucia, former chancellor of the ecumenical patriarchate in Constantinople, now residing in this country and Bishop Mark, of the Albania Orthodox Church of America.

New Jersey Dispute Breaks Out Again BAYONNE (NC)-The dispute between parishioners and their pastor in this New Jersey community, barring parish d~legates from participating in the selection of a Newark archdiocesan pastoral council, has started anew.

Father James F.Connollen,moderator for the Bayonne-Jersey City district which is to choose two members of the pastoral council, said the delegates will not be permitted to participate in the district meetings because they were improperly chosen,

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PLANNING FUTURE: National black Siste rs conference (NBCS) executive committee met in Pittsburgh with Bishops Peter L. Gerety, left, and Joseph F. Donnelly to discuss plans for the future. From left the nuns are Sister Shawn Copeland, C.S.S.F., Sister Martin de Porres, R.S.M.; Sister Kimberly Clark, R.S.M.; and Sister Elizabeth Harris, H.V.M. NC Photo.

Conference Leaders Meet With Bishops Ask Central Office for. Black Catholicism PITTSBURGH (NC) - At a meeting in Pittsburgh with two bishops the seven-member executive committee of the National Black Sisters' Conference (NBSC) announced the dates of their second annual conference and declared' their support for the establishment of a Central Office for Black Catholicism in the United' States.

The NBSC conference will be held at the University of Dayton (Ohio) from Aug. 6 to 15.

In addition to the business meeting the Sisters conferred with Bishop Peter Gerety of Portland, Me., and Bishop Joseph Donnelly of Hartford, Conn., rep. resentatives of the National Conference pf Catholic Bishops.

They are ..members of the ad hoc committee appointed by Cardinal-designate John F. Dearden, archbishop of Detroit and president of the NCCB, to discuss the proposal made by the Black, Catholic Clergy Caucus for a Central Office for Black Catholicism in the United States. :The Sisters' committee reported to the bishops that the NBSC "fully supports the establishment of a Central Office and will submit their recommendations to the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus" before the black priests present their proposal at the semi-annual meeting of the NCCB fn April.

Successful Meeting According to Bishop Gerety, chairman of the NCCB's ad hoc committee: "The bishops' committee held a successful meeting with the executive committee of the NBSC. The NBSC is the only organized group representing the thousand or more black Sisters of the United States.

"At the meeting, the Sisters gave us many insights which will help us in the evaluation of the proposal to establish a national offiCe of black Catholicism in the United States. The discussion further persuaded the bishops' committee that the problems in the black Catholic community are acute and demand special and immediate attention."

The NBSC executive committee also completed the organization's permanent structure, discussed projected programs and planned the format for the annual conference in August.

NBSC Goals The purposes of the NBSC are "to evaluate the role of black Sisters within the Church, religious communities, and American society; to deepen our un-

derstanding of ourselves, our people, our heritage and to project ways to help our people become fully free and progressively self-determined black Americans; to determine more effective ways to contribute to the solution of America's racial problem by getting to its roots of white racism."

Ways outlined to "get to the root of white racism" include helping white people deepen their self-knowledge and reconstruct their attitudes about this racial situation, educating black

Sisters to use every avenue to develop culturally mixed schools on the administrative, faculty and student levels and to replace all educational materials with equipment that will communicate racial and cultural solidarity to black and white children.

Another is to create more constructive situations in which white persons can confront black persons who will share with them what black people are all about, what they want and the ways they intend to obtain human and civil rights.

Prelate Cites Grave Responsibility Of'Mass Media Communicators WASHINGTON (NC) - The American dream will explode if it fails, and its ruination will come about if the communications media do not report it or if the media merely ignore the dream in the background of events, Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans said here.

He also said Americans are living in a new era of sight and sound, and pointed out that mass media communicators have a grave responsibility to speak the truth with courage in this new era.

"The ¡use of communications, with their tremendous impact," he said, "demands the most wise and courageous adherence to the truth." ,He pointed to the recent achievement made in space as, a demonstration that Americans "are in the era of sight and sound. The enthusiasm extended far beyond the United States.

"Humanity has moved from the era of the spoken word, to the era of the written word, through the' era of broadcast word (by radio)," he continued, ."to the present era of, sight and sound.

We are in an era of communications by the senses of seeing and hearing-by the press, radio and television."

Theological Dimension This fact, he pointed out, "involves a grave responsibility."

The archbishop said communications is community and "communications have such an impact that they can broaden or circumscribe the outlook and life of the community. This fact is exemplified by the difference in outlook of nations whose communications are hampered or limited and that of countries

where communications are open."

Archbishop Hannan said there is a great theological dimension to his statement that communications is community.

"Without communications," he said, "man is stunted, unfulfilled.

He was born to communicate. He was endowed with senses for rational communication. He was born to communicate with his fellow man and with God." The New Orleans archbishop, who is chairman of the Department of Communications, United States Catholic Conference, put much emphasis on truth.

Relationship With Truth "We must speak the truth with courage," he said. "We must search for the truth with zeal and honesty. The presentation of the truth demands the mind and the will.

"The truth is many-faceted in today's complicated world," he continued. "The truth does not consist in mechanically recording some facts or events. It consists in recording the facts and their relationship with the truth.

The recital or picturing of facts may tell no story-or the wrong story-if the relationship is not established." .

Archbishop Hannan pointed out that "it is the context, the presentation of the fact in its perspective that makes truly responsible reporting."

He said communication is not a simple matter of mechanics.

"It is a matter of' interpreting or presenting the facts according to the principles of the reporter.

Honesty," he added, "consists in reporting things truly as they are seen-but the reporter is always 'a man and his mind and will are always involved."

ST. LOUIS (NC)-The amount and nature of priestly work, in parishes, schools or organizations, is the subject of a questionnaire being sent to all St. Louis archdiocesan clergy by the Archdiocesan Committee on Life and Ministry of Priests.

Purpose of the survey is to determine the present clergy demand and to predict future manpower needs In each parish or assignment.

The 15-item questionnaire asks the number of priests in each parish; the number of yearly baptisms, marriages, etc., in each parish; and hours spent weekly in teaching and in visiting the sick.

The questionnaire also asks each priest if his parish needs more clergy, could "operate competently with fewer priests" or has particular qualities of race, nationality or language which demands special qualifications.

The individual is invited to predict parish needs in the coming five years, or special activities which may require additional personnel.

The survey is the second to be conducted by the Life and Ministry Committee. The first, last Fall, asked each priest about his own background, education, special training and assignment preferences.

Jesuit Asks Hearing On 'Chickendogs' WASHINGTON (NCA-A Jesuit, who is a leading consumer advocate, believes failure of the government to hold hearings in the growing "chickendog" controversy will mean surrender to the meat lobby.

Father Ropert J. McEwen, S.J., who heads the Consumer Federation of America, has made the charge in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin.

At issue is a proposal to liberalize labeling which would permit poultry meat in hot dogs without saying so in large lettering.

The "chickendog" proposal is part of a plan to overhaul federal standards for hot dogs and other cooked sausage products.

It was passed on by the previous Administration which favored a series of public hearings to let consumers have their say.

Plan Reunion Cursillistas of the Fall River area will hold their second annual reunion Saturday night, May 31 at Sacred Hearts Academy auditorium, Pro spec t Street, FaIl River. Chairman of the arrangements committee is John Griffin.

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Bishop B.ernardin Asks Equitable Distribution of Teaching Efforts DETROIT (NC) - Bishop JoHe warned, however, that such seph L. Bernardin, saying it a decisio~ should be made only would be a "tragic mistake" if after consultation with all those the Church were to phase out whose interests are involved. most of its schools, also called Bishop Bernardin said the for efforts toward an equitable . Church must consider its "comdistribution of resources which mitme.nt to the poor" in deterwould give priority to the reli- mining the use Of its resources. gious education of all <;:atholics. "A crucial area, for _ample, is "This mission extends to ev- the inner-city where many of our eryone: to children whether they schools no longer serve an exare in Catholic or public schools, elusively Catholic population to students both on the Catholic * * * In terms of the Church's and secular campus, and to commitment to the poor, should During the recent Pueblo investigations, a 20 year old sailor adults - young -and old - who they not be given a priority and swore before the court of inquiry that it was his faith in God have a continuing need for. reli- therefore a meaningful proporthat helped him to survive the 1 r month ordeal. This young seagious education," he stated. tion of our educational dollar man's struggle epitomizes the life of every Christian-that we Bishop Bernardin, general sec- and personnel? must continue to believe despite trials and discouragement. retary of the United State CathTotal Program The missionary, too. depends on his faith in God to carry Cardinal-Designate Donielou olic Conference, addressed the "Traditionally the vast majorhim through trying days. Listen to what one missionary has opening general session of the . ity of. bur schools * * were for written to us: "The day for me begins at dawn. But it is always a pleasure National' Catholic Educational people of modest means. NoW Association convention here. that Catholics hl;lve moved into •. for me to get out of bed"-the morning humidity makes sleep impossible.

Effectivelnstrumen.t· more ·affluent levels,of . socie~y,.

"I wash, and prepare for Mass. The few villagers who are "I am firmly convinced that WE;) catuiot abandon. the poor WhO Catholic are in the chapel already when I arrive. Together we our schools have shown ,them- need our ,help and. stiH aspire·t,q'· pARIS ('Nc)::-"Last in order of worship the Lord in word and song. These are the most peaceful selves to be an effectiveinstru- tpe titleQf a 'Cht,istianschool'"precedence am~mg. the newly .and precious moments of the entire day. . mentin the fulfillment of the ,s,y~tem," .' . . ' , ' , ·'named· cardinals, Father Jean "After a light breakfast I am off to visit the sick, or at Church~s teaching· mission," _ _ ,'To ~o so, ~?~J4,ereate IJ 'prof:i~ . Daniet(:lU; ,S.J., is considered by Bishop Bernardin said.. "I dC)'not 'l~,: (lfctredlblhty. ~r .,ar..Chureb:· some obseryersone of the great- least· as many as I can vi,;it in, one day. In a nearby hut there is an old man dying' of cancer. He is I)ot Christian, and so he refuses subscribe to the thesis that be- w.hlch; .has so pubhcly',-and .~Q- . est French theologians. cause conditions are differentconsisten~JY,·e.x:pl'esse4. itllco~t . Though: POpe Paul 'VI's choice to let me or the county doctor relieve his pain with prescribed now from what they were when-', ~itme.nt.~(). th~ f)(?pt:~ri4, disap-" of Father Danielou caused some . drugs. His only comfort is the sorcery of the local witch doctor. our schools· were' established, .va~~g~... Bishop, . ~ernar4l1r. . surprise. in France, even to tJ:1e He is a strong old man, and I admire his courage and perseverance.

"In the outskirts of the .village is a leprosarium. I see here they are no longer needed at alt'" sa~~.. .... . . . . .- priest himself, there is a certain the suffering endured by these poor people-the physical sufThe bishop said the Catholic . I thmk that a:q)rollary Whl~~ logic'to the appointment. fering of the disease itself, and the emotional suffering of a school, "coupled with a living' ~Iows frotp :all that I h~ve. Sllid .

French Catholics generally people who still are not entirely accepted In the community. liturgy and parents 'alive to their . IS . that the' t~tal .' educiltlonal .. agree that Father I?anielou is Somehow my words of encouragement sound hollow In the face responsibility as pr.itnaiy educa; .progr~m of a dlOce~e s~ould be. oile of the five great contempoof such anguish. tors of their children;" is a. pOw_c?ordlna~ by one office," the rary French theologians, with "In the afternoon I meet With my newly appointed catechists. erful instrument "for achieving bl~~oP. said.. ,.... . h' Y COP H . the aim of religious education'.

The. day IS over whoen the Fat ers ves ongar, .., \ enn They are only a handful and the work here is immense. There d I ff f h de Lubac, S.J., Domenique are so few Christians in the area. But these catechists are young to develop a living, personal e ucatlona eorts,~·· t e Church ~henu;6.P., andLo~is Bouyer and enthusiastic-a great help to me! faith illuminating the knowledge can.,:>e fragment.ed I.nto separate "Afterwards, I might walk out to several of the outlaying· which students gradually gain entities: eachgomg!1s own way, .

The Pope's choice of Father farm areas. I inquire about the crops. The heavens did not favor of the world, of life and of man. each fIghting for Its snare of Danielotl could have been prekind," . the Church's educational dollar," dieted, if a forecaster had paid us with a .sufficient rainfall this season, and I fear that there will be a great food shortage.

"As important as our schools . ~~reover, he cp!1tinued, the enough attention to the coinci"In the evening I return to my own hilt for supper. I eat are," Bishop Bernardin contin-. I poliCies fo~ such a total program dence between the Jesuit~s ideas ued, "they are still only one in- of educatlO~ should be formu- and· the Pope's preoccupations lightly again. The hot climate does not encourage heavy eating. strument, admittedly the most lated ~y a dlocesa!l board repre- since the Second Vatican Coun- After supper; I remain outside my hut until the late evening hours. effective one, in carrying out the' se~t~t1ve of the 1~lty, <;lergy and cil. Of the five theologians men- I want the villagers to know that I am available at all times. the Church's educatipnal apos. rehglous of the diocese. tioned, Father Danielou is cer- Sometimes .they come to talk. Most often they do not. ' tainlythe one who has worked "It is so easy to get discouarged here. The life is hard; the tolate * * * . hardest at resolving the postroutine is monotonous. But then I think of the words and life of Commitment to Poor Reformed Church conciliar crisis th.e way the Pope Jesus. He never said it would be easy in our efforts to follow Him. wishes it to be resolved.

"Still, if we are honest we I think, too, of all the help the Soicety has given me because must admit that, in an individejects erger In choosing Father Danielou . ' of the sacrifices of my fellow Christians around the world. Beual case, the continuation of a . NEW YORK (NC) --:.. Ranklieve me, this is indeed a consolation! All in all, it is my deep school could mean using a dis.~ d f'l . then, the Pope was choosing his an - I e representatives of the own brand of theologian. But, faith in God ~nd in my fellow man which sustains me in this proportinate share of our tal- Reformed Church in America besides that factor, the notion of rigorous mission." ent and resources, with the re- have turned down a proposed what a cardinal is affected the Won't you help this missionary -and many others like him? suit that the religious education merger ·withh the Presbyterian Sacrifice today!

(S .choice, it is thought here.

U S programs for those who .are not Ch urch In t e . . . outhern), in Catholic schools-both chil" it· was announced by the ReA cardinal is before all else .SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society dren and adults-wouid be im- formed Church's General Synod an outstanding servant of the for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column and Church of ROme. The purple carpaired. headquarters here;' send your offering to Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara, Na"In such a case, then, the dedinals wear signifies their readi· The Reformed Church has .a . th· f h tional Director, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001, or cision may have to be made to total membership . . ness to give elr blood or t e iIi P of 384,750 directly to your local Diocesan Director, The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raydeploy our resources in a radi- 939 parishes scattered across the ope. mond T. Considine, 368 North 'Main Street, Fall River, Massachucally different way," Bishop Bel'- northern tier of the country,. setts 02720. nardin stated. while the Presbyterian Church Diocesan Agency in the U. S. has a membership of 960,776 in 16 southern and' Aids ,Drug Addicts Prelate to Address southwestern states..

PITTSBURGH (NC) The A two~thirds majority of the Fund for the Aid of Neighbors Men's Con~ention WASHINGTON (NC)-Maurice cla.sses - regional governing in Need, an agency of the PittsCardinal Roy of Quebec, Primate umts -..: of the Reformed Church burgh diocese, has made grants of Canada, will make one of his was requ~red to ratify the merg- totaling $10,700, to two projects at rare appearances outside his er. Incomplete returns showed here-a program for treatment of. drug abusers and a group pronative homeland when he ad- that 23 of the church's 45 classes dresses members of the National had vote~ in favor of the merger moting the boycott of California Council of Catholic Men at their and 21 opposed it, a spokesman table grapes.

The Fund awarded $9,200 to biennial convention in St. Louis, said. One' other unit had not yet reported.

Black Action, Inc., a group of April 24 to 27.

In the Presbyterian Church in poverty-stricken residents here, It is expected that Cardinal 115 WrLUAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. Roy will address himself to the the U. S., 57 of the 77 presby- in conjunction with a local Office of Economic Opportunity theme of the 1969 convention, teries - also regional governing "Person-to-Person in the Chris- units - voted in favor of the health committee. tian Community," in selecting union, 18 opposed it and tw,o are It also awarded a grant of $1,'''Ill the topic for his remarks to the yet to ballot. A three-fourths 500 to provide "promotional maON CAPE COD delegates and guests, according to majority is required to ratify the terials" . to the United Farm Workers' grape boycott in the Manley Rice Jr:, convention gen- merger. eral chairman.

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Replace Deaneries The 64-year-old Canadian prel· The Fund for the Aid of NeighBUILDING MATERIALS ate accepted the invitation to DES MOINES (NC) - Bishop bors in Need was established last speak in St. Louis while he was Maurice 'J. Dingman has estab- year; when the diocese pledged 775-0100 in Rome for the meeting of the lished 12 regional communities 10 per cent of virtually all dioWorld Council of the Laity, of in the diocese, replacing four cesan income to the direct serwhich he serves as prseident. The deaneries into which it formerly vice of the poor... It administers invitation was extended by Mar- had been divided. Father Frank this "title" by holding hearings tin Work, NCCM executive direc- E. Bognanno has been appointed at which groups or individuals tor, the only American serving on regional coordinator for the dio- are invited to present an explaAMPLE PARKING the council. ' cese. na~ion of their projects.

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LAFAYETTE (NC)-eatholic school administrators in the Lafayette diocese are urging parents to assume a special responsibility for policy making in Catholic schools here, the diocesan school superintendent said.

Msgr. Richard Mouton said parents, "while not directly involved in the administration of a particular school; can, through the parish school board, take a personal interest and responsibility in their school. They can set standards and establish policies which satisfy their demands and express their considered opinion in the education of their children.

"That is why we say schools need parents, and parents need school boards," the Louisiana prelate continued. "On this prinprinciple has been based our de'termination to have school boards formed in every parochial school of the diocese. To date, of the 53 possible boards, 44 have been formed during the last year; others are now in the process of formation."

Necessity Today Msgr. Mouton said diocesan school officials "believe the board is an effective way, and the American way, of involving paF.ents in the education of their chIldren."

The school boards, he added. "would not have been possible 50 years ago in many areas of the diocese. Today they are a necessity."

The effectiveness of the scho'ol board and the effectiveness of the parents will· '!depend' a .. great deal on the relationship of the pastor to the board." he' noted. "If the pastor has trUly agreed to share his authority and responsibility with the board, he should not dominate it so that no one dares to vote against him.

Nor should he treat it like an advisory board, not even allowing a vote."

Msgr. Mouton said the relationship of the pastor to the board "should be one of membership like the other members, except that he maintains a veto power in matters touching on religion. In time, and with applied good sense, the proper relationship between the pastor and the board should emerge."

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HSINCHU (NC) - An evenincreasing number of priests in Taiwan feel that the reason for the slow-down in conversions here is that Catholics fail to bear witness as a trUly Christian community.

Conversions, which averaged over 17,000 annually for 10 years, have dropped acutely.

Last year there were less than 5,000 adult baptisms.

"I believe very firmly that the reason why the Church doesn't move so fast in Taiwan is not be~ause we don't have enough pnests-we have more than we had at the start of the conversion movement," said Father Jesus Brena Sanchez,' S.J., executive secretary of the Institute for Social Action here.

"It is not that we don't have enough catechists - we have more catechists and better trained than we had some years ago. The reason we don't progress now, I believe, is because our .Christians are not giving the testImony of a Christian community in a pagan society!"

Sister Barbara Mary, S.U.S.C., Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, was among delegates to the first national Sisters' Vocation Conference held in New Orleans. She is chairman of the Northeast Region of the conference. The theme of the conference, "We Believe," was dramatically witnessed as 500 Sisters from 45 states and Canada gathered to study, listen and dis' Sister Maureen Bannister, DC, cuss some of the vital issues Consultant and Sister Dorothy concerned with the developGuilbault, O.Carm., Chairman of ment of the religious life the Southeast Region of the apostolate.'

Speakers included Sister Grace Davis, S.N.D. clinical psychologist, whose topic was "We Believe in Religious Life." Dr. Mottram Torre, Director of the De Paul Community Mental Health Center, New Orleans, presented a workshop on the use of application forms developed by a workshop Committee of De Paul Center and later offered through the NSVC for use by religious communities.

Director's Role Sister Margaret Mary Modde, OSF, Consultant for the North Central Region, spoke on "The Vocation Director's Role on the Formation Team." Sister Louise Gleason, Executive Secretary of the NSVC, delivered an address on "The Role of the Vocation Director."

Sister Jose Hobday, OSF, spoke on "The Young Woman of Today: Pre-entrance Programs".

She is Director of the Christian Life Center in Milwaukee. Sister Mary Finn, N.V.M., Formation Director, presented a talk on "Community Renewal as it Affects the Vocation Apostolate."

Jan Harris, psychiatric social worker, provided an afternoon workshop on "Interviewing". The sessions came to., a close with a' presentatign .ithe Church' Believes in the ReIlgious Life," delivered by Monsignor Alexander Sigur, pastor of St. Genevieve's Church, Lafayette, La.

Voices Appreciation For New Cardinals LOS ANGELES (NC)~ames Francis Cardinal McIntyre has expressed a "deep sense of appreciation" at Pope Paul VI's action in naming four more American bishops to be cardinals.

Cardinal McIntyre issued the following statement: "With a deep sense of appreciation do we learn of the expansion of American representation in the College of Cardinals. The prelates selected are p'aramount in the councils of the Church and will represent Americll under the leadership of our Sovereign Pontiff, as he, in his undaunted courage, perseveres in leading the world to the universal acceptance of God's law and of the respect due our Maker."

ROTC at Niagar_a' On Voluntary Basis NIAGARA FALLS (NC) Following a week-long orderly student protest, the board of trustees of Niagara University here decided to end the compulsory Reserve Officer Training Corps program for freshmen and sophomores.

Father Kenneth F. Slattery, C.M., university president, said the program operated 33 years at the university will be on a voluntary basis. Students of the Vincentian Fathers' institution marched for a week around the clock in shifts on the campus, demonstrating for a voluntary program. .

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NSVC were responsible for the arrangements for this Conference. Sister Jane ·Louise Arbour, CSJ, was mistress of ceremonies.

Archbishop Hannan celebrated the Liturgy and spoke on the importance of the vocation apostolate during his homily. Reverend H. William Reed, Diocesan Director of Vocations, welcomed the Sisters.

Selection -of Candidates On March 13 and March 16 about 250 of the Sisters attended workshops given by Dr. Mottram Torre and Jan Harris on research and techniques to be used regarding ,the application forms being offered to the Sisterhoods.

During the workshop., Sister Frances Marie, OSU, presented major· concepts included in her graduate thesis for a sociology degree at Marquette University.

Her topic was "Research in the Selection of Candidates to Religious Life." Sister Marion Duffy, RSCJ, of CARA, described projects being studied curre~t1y at the research office in Washington, D;C.

Schools. Stay Open G,eo,g,ia ~~rents. Draw Up ,Budget, Vote To Raise Tuition WASHINGTON (NC) - More Catholic school closings and consolidations were announced during the final week of March but Catholic officials and parents also gave signs of renewed determination to prevent anything like a wholesale closure of the parochial school system.

When Father Ralph E. Seikel, superintendent of Savannah diocesan schools, warned that shortage of Sisters and financial problems might force the c1.osure of Pacelli High School in Columbus, Ga., parents of the students listened attentively-then acted.

"It has become apparent that they were not prepared to accept too readily the conclusion that the school must close" Father Seikel said. "They lo~e their school, see great value in it, and they weren't going to call it quits without a fight." " 'Deep Interest' A parents' committee approached the boards of the city'S Catholic parishes, asking each to determine the amount of money it would be willing to budget for the school in the coming year.

The parents then drew up a budget for the school, al10wing for an increased expense for two extra lay teachers .and two Sisters of St. Francis from Pittsburgh.

They then voted to raise school tuition to a point which would substantially increase income without plaqing the school's services out of the financial reach of the vast majority

of parents. The school will stay open.

"I am delighted beyond words by this deep interest in continued Catholic education o:t * * on the part of the people of Columbus," Father Seikel stated. "I hope that parents with children in other schools faced with difficulties similar to those facing Pacelli will be encouraged to similar efforts to solve· them." he

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Prejudice Worst Of Capital Sins HARRISBURG (NC) - The problem of racial prejudice "is so diabolical that it contains within it the worst of the capital sins," said a Good Friday statement by the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, marking the anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Racial prejudice "contains pride, which asserts that one's own race is better; greed, which places more value on property than on people; and anger, which arouses men over disorder but blinds them to human need." the statement said.

It suggested sincerity of faith and legitimacy of Christian witness to the world may be tested at this time, when "exceptional chal1enges are made to the effectiveness of the Gospel and the significance of Christian teaching in the lives of believers."

The conference said this test is "rooted in the problem of racial prejudice, a prejudice which deceptively tests the Christian commandment of love and chal1enges the biblical law of justice."

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GENOA (NC) - Five Molotov cocktails were hurled at the door of the church of Our Lady of Grace in a residential part of Genoa. Damage to the church was light.

A statement fixed to the wal1 of the Italian church read: "The war between China and the Soviet Union is not desired by the socialist peoples of those two countries." This led observers to think the bombing was the work of communist extremists.

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A recent survey indicates that 43 per.cent of the Catholics in the Diocese of Worcester, Mass., have never heard of the Second Vatican Council. A round-up story on this survey' in the NC' News Service reports that some of the priests in the dioin the United States. cese are bewildered over this Left In a New Herder and Herder statistic.. I can't say that I book entitled "A Theology for blame .them. For my own Radical Politics," Novak calls part, I find .this figure of 43 per cent almost incredible - but, given' the credentials of the research tea m that conducted the survey, I must assume that its findings on this and a variety of related questions are substantially accurate. Presumably it would also be fair to assume -that a parallel study of other dioceses in the United States would come up with roughly comparable findings.

If we start from this assumption, however, we can't just shrug our shoulders and let it go at that. We are forced to reexamine some of our earlier assumptions about the response of Ainerican Catholics to the Council. '. Just to get the discussion started, I should like to suggest that the Worcester study throws serious doubt on the fairly widespread assumption that people are tired of hearing about the Council and are straining at the leash to take up-in Vatican III -all of the issues which were left unresolved or unmentioned . in Vatican II. Represent Minority That there are a number of Catholics in the United States who feel this way about the matter - who feel, in other words, that Vatican II is old hat -is undoubtedly true.

The Worcester study, would seem to indicate, however, that they represent a minority of the Catholic population or, to put it another way, that millions of Catholics are not tired of hearing about Vatican II for the simple reason that, incredibly . enough, they are not even aware of the fact that there was such a Council in the first place.

This doesn't mean that better informed and more impatient ..Catholics should stop thinking about the possibility of a Third Vatican Council.

It does suggest, however, that they ought to have a certain sympathy for those in positions of authority in the Church who are faced with the dilemma of how to satisfy the legitimate demands of the avant garde while at the same time trying to minister effectively to the needs of' those who apparently are not aware of what the conservativeliberal controversy over the aggiornamento is all about or, if you will, are not even aware of the fact that such a controversy !

I,. is going on at the present time within the American' Catholic community.

Sense of Tolerance Michael Novak, who might well be characterized as a charter member of the American Catholic avant garde, has some interesting things to say about a parallel problem currently being faced by the so-called Radical

upon the avant garde of the Radical Left - the so-called Pure Protesters - to temper their mor~.I pudtyand their impatient demand for instant reform with a sense of tolerance for ordinary people.

"P\\rity," he says, "in order not to be destructive, must be tempered by forgiveness, gentleness, a sense of one's own dishonesties, a ~ecognition of other human ideals-even of bourgeois ideals, even of middle class ideals, even of coalitionist NCEA IN. DETROIT: As Catholic Educators met in Detroit's ideals." .

This timely warning, it seems Cobo Hall for the 66th annual convention of the National to me, is also applicable, with Catholic Educatio~al Association, plans for the 15,000 expected the necessary modifications, to to attend got a final review from ,left to right: Joseph O'Donnell, the situation faced by the NCEA business manager; Sister Mary De Smedt, 'I.H.M., of Church in the United States at the local committee; Father John' Zwers, superintendent of Dethe present time. troit Catholic schools; and Wayne Stetson, NCEA convention and We also have, our Pure Pro- exposition manager. NC Photo. ' testers and I, for 'one, am grateful that we do. We need such people in the Church, now more than ever before.

All Kinds of People But, like their counterparts in Priest Sees New Golden Age Possible the Radi~al Left, they would be For American Catholicism well advised to take heed of Novak's warning that "moral CINCINNATI (NC)-American haps the greatest in the past 450 purity" in any m<;lvement of reFather Greeley said "we form is a two-edged sword and Catholicism has problems, but years," can lose our nerve, withdraw, many of them are actually signs that "moral outrage,," of which lament or quit, but none of these we have an abundance in the of hope, a sociologist said here. would be the American Catholic Out of its present crisis, he Church at the present time, "may way." said, the Church in this country often become a luxury by which With respect for past ·tradiin the name of humanity (read: may emerge into a "new golden tions, however, and with courage age." . in the name of the aggiornamenand hope in the present and, M. Greeley Father Andrew to) one masks one's hatred of the program director of the National future, he said, today's American people nearest at hand."

The point of Novak's warning Opinion Research Center, Uni- Catholics can direct the Church a new. glorious era. is that if the radical movement versity of Chicago, spoke at the into Father Greeley said he does aims at building a community, its meeting of the Glenmary Guild not believe American Catholicism goal must be a community that here on "The Future of American is finished. although the probincludes all kinds of people and Catholicism." lems are "tough" and "unlikely Calling the present crisis "permust take these people where it to go away." finds them.

Creative Vitality "Such a community," Novak Tip to Ambitious "No exodus is indicated, even points out, "requires a great deal Be commonplace and creeping among the young," he asserted. of tolerance: the sun shines on "No apostasy appears on any inthe just and the unjust alike." and you will be a success.

-de Beaumarchais. dicator. The people may be restMaking the same point in still less, less respectful, more critianother way, he says that "those who seek to bring about human """'11111'1"1"'1111"'''''''''''''''''''11111111''''III"II""I"ll""""!"""",,,'I"'1111111""I'I,n cal; but they are not about to revolution must deal with the fact that they have never even leave. At worst, there will be a very slow erosion ..." human material of revolution: ,heard of Vatican II. People of God human beings as they are."

The priest calle~ attention to Pride Before Fall Moreover, as suggested above, the "many positive signs," inThis is especially true in the the avant garde would also be cluding the enthusiasm of Americase of the current reform well advised to show at least a can Catholics, and the immense movement-the so-called aggior- modicum of sympathy for those amount of creative vitality everynamento - within the Church. who are charged with the re-. where in America."

Father Greeley declared: "PosThis movement needs its own sponsibility of leading and unifyavant garde, men and women of ing a community made up of itive signs far outweigh the neghigh moral purpose. It can even many different kinds of people ative ones in Amerian Catholiuse a certain number of people in many different stages of de- cism. It is not going into a stage who have a sense of moral velopment and with wid~ly di- of dissolution. It may be on the outrage.. verge of a new golden age." vergent interests.

But moral purity and moral To expect pastors of souls outrage, untempered by humility to ignore the wishes of these Always There . and charity-and by a sense of people or to force them into tolerance for the apathy, if you line or to "quench the burning There'is a melancholy which will, of the rank-and-file - can flax" is not a particularly accompanies all enthusiasm. easily degenerate into pharisa- Christian expectation. It has no -Cooper. ical'pride of the kind wpich goes more to do with the Gospel than before a mighty fall. the efforts of those, both in and Another way of saying the out of the eCClesiastical Estabsame thing is that those who lishment, who are trying to siconsider themselves members of lence or suppress the "pure prothe avant garde in the aggiorna- testers" in our ranks. mento ought to think twice beEst. 1897 Both the rank-and-file and the fore they write off those Catho- pure protesters belong to the Builders Supplies lics - and, after the Worcester People of God and' must be study, we know that their name treated with equal dignity and 2343 Purchase Street is legion-who don't share their respect and must be accorded, N.ew Bedford desire to convene a third Vatican in the fullest possffile measure, 996-5661 Council if only because of the the freedo~ of the Sons of God.

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LONDONDERRY (NC)-Some 5,000 demonstrators urging civil rights for Catholics marched through Londonderry's Protestant area unharmed for the first time in the city's turbulent history of feuding between Catholics and Protestants.

Proceeding along the route where a similar civil rights procession erupted into violence six months ago, they carried a red and white "civil rights" cam· paign banner. Fewer than 100 militant Protestants gathered along the way to shout a few jeers, and police kept to the background.

Earlier in the week, Prime Minister Terence O'Neill of Northern Ireland had warned street demonstrators that "there comes a point when lawful protest merges into unlawful intimidation."

He added: "There comes a point when a minority is clearly attempting to subvert the ordinary democratic process and impose its will by any means."

The civil rights marches began last October. Catholics have been demanding fairer treatment in voting, housing, jobs and higher education.

The day after the prime minister's warning to. demonstrators, two Protestant extremist leaders, the Rev. Ian Paisley and Maj. Ronald Bunting, were sentenced to six months in jail for their part in the violence in Armagh in November.

Approves Diocesan 'Shut-in Network', YOUNGSTOWN (NC):""-Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown has approved a proposal by -t~e diocesan pastoral council for a "network of kindness for shutins" intended to provide daily phone or personal contact with "the sick, the invalid, the infirm, the elderly person without a family."

The pastoral commission's subcommittee on the elderly explained that "these people need assurance that someone cares."

The subcommittee said daily contact "can be a powerful factor," and "may be vital in a case where help is needed because of sickness or injury."

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REHABILITATOON CENTER: This SO-room fieldstone structure, constructed in 1902 at a cost of $400,000, and now the LaSalette provincial house in Attleboro, has sheltered some 40 drug addicts since ~ecember and may be developed

Cites Optimism Over Collection WASHINGTON (NC) - The acting rector of the Catholic University of America said the annual diocesan collection for the university has not yet reached the $4.5 million goal established for this year by the American bishops, but said he is optimistic "we're going to come close."

"We have alre,ady received more money than we've ever received in a 'collection before," said Brother Nivard Scheel, C.F.X. The previous year's collection reportedly totaled $2.3 million.

The U. S. bishops, in their semi-annual meeting held in April, 1968, established the $4.5 million goal, a figure far higher than had ever been raised in the history of the pontifical university. For the first time each diocese was assigned a set quota.

Brother Nivard said many American dioceses, including some with financial problems of their own, have been generous in surpassing or meeting the quotas assigned to them. Other dioceses have not met the quota but Brother Nivard said funds often arrive late from some locales.

The annual collection for the Catholic University is held in most dioceses on the first" Sunday of Advent.

Brother Nivard denied a report that the university is suffering financially because some bishops are upset over the fact that some 20 faculty members of the Catholic University were among those who signed a public statement of dissent from the papal encyclical on birth control last year.

Suspend CPA Top Award for Year NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Press Association board of directors has decided to suspend for this year the award, given since 1959 for "the outstanding contribution to Catholic journalism in th~ preceding year."

The board's decision followed a report by the CPA special awards committee regarding the present definition, rules and voting procedures governing the award, a bronze statuette of St. . Francis de Sales, patron of journalism.

into a regional rehabilitation center. Right, Jim Germano, left, executive director bf Marathon House, Coventry, R.I., sits in on Saturday night open house program at Attleboro. " "

La Salette Fathers Take Seriously Gospel Directive ~o Shelter, Aid Stranger' "I was a stranger and you took me in." The La Salette Fathers of Attleboro take the Gospel words seriously and literally. Last December they opened their 80-room seminary to 34 men and women from New York, drug addicts attempting to shake their addiction. They did this on a moment's notice, with the simplicity of the Gospels. They received a phone call from Jim Germano, executive di- niques are used to help members attend these programs, which inou\ emotional. conflicts, clude group discussions, a social rector of Marathon House, a work both personal- and within the hour and a tour of the big prorehabilit(!.tion center for ad- group. vincial house. Attendance has dicts in Coventry, R.I. The 34 had landed on Jim's doorstep after they'd been, notified there was no place for. them in a New. York center. Jim had no room, either -but a week previously he'd met a La Salette missioner.

"Don't hesitate to call on us if you need help," said the priest.

Now was the time. Jim called Attleboro. "They have no money," he warned.

"So, they need shelter now, don't they," responded Rev. Rene Lemoine, La Salette provincial' house superior. "Get them here and we'll find a way."

So the 34 wanderers caine to the shelter of LaSalette, hungry, thirsty and tired. They are still there, co-existing with the 12 priests and seven brothers of the provincial house. "They call themselves a family, and so do we," said Father Lemoine. "We have much to learn from each other. Furthermore, we share a common objective. They seek reconciliation with themselves, with one another and with society. Our existence as a religious community is to carry out works favoring a reconciliation of man with God." Daily Life The guests are for the most part between 18 and 35. They initially caused quite an upheaval -in the life of La Salette, and area friends of the missioners were needed to help supply food and beds for the influx.

However, like the religious, the rehabilitation center follows a schedule. The day begins with a planning meeting, followed by work until noon, an after-lunch seminar on current events, and work again until 6 o'clock.

Assignments include housework, washing, cooking, sewing, ironing, office work and public relations. Evenings bring group sessions where sensitivity tech-

The progr~m works. Jim' Germano says that 22 former addicts have been "graduated" from the Coventry center since its inception in 1967. As in the case of Alcoholics Anonymous, addicts must want to be helped before they come to a rehabilitation center, then they must stay at the center fulltime to participate in the program. Stays often last a year or more.

It is hoped that the La Salette house will be able to develop into such a center. It has accepted a few new members since December and those in 'charge are willing to consider any cases referred to them.

Funds Needed Funding; of course, is ·needed for such a project. La Salette has been more than generous in aiding the center, but the community's help has been on an emergency basis. Rev. Raymond Isabelle, treasurer, comments, "We are happy to have been able to aid our new friends, but as you can well imagine, our food bill has soared! The important thing is that we were able to meet the emergency and now we will seek new means of aid."

At many cent~rs, guests are welcomed to take part in weekend sessions of intensive sensitivity ·training. This serves the double purpose of bringing income into the houses and aiding people in all walks of life to return to their normal activities with a better understanding of what makes themselves and others tick. Center residents participate in these training sessions, thus enabling them to contribute to society and enlarge their own horizons in the process.

Such sessions are in the future for the La Salette center, but already in full swing are Saturday night open houses, beginning at 8 o'clock. All are welcome to

RequestPrciyers In Public Schools SMYRNA (NC) - More than 5,000 Delaware residents have signed petitions asking for voluntary prayers in public schools.

Anthony A. Staite, who said he "had never become involved in anything before this," is the force behind the petitions. He said he was inspired when one of America's astronauts read a prayer from outer space.

His campaign to restore voluntary prayer in public schools, after six weeks, is spreadil)g in Delaware and is catching on in other states.

"I had never written so much as a fan letter," Staite said, explaining his new awareness of involvement.

been about 125 weekly, said Father Lemoine.

Interesting History The house itself has an interesting history. It was built in 1902 as a sanitarium by Dr. Solomon at a cost of. $400,000. The doctor had a large following of patients who' had confidence in Ban Changes herb concoctions and spring BONN (NC)-The Hungarian waters he dispensed, but the house proved too costly a project government has forbidden the and eventually forced him into four newly appointed Bishops and apostolic administrators to bankruptcy.

The facility was then taken make personnel changes in their over by Battle Creek Sanitarium, diocesan administrations, acand later by the Methodist Board cording to the German Catholic of Foreign Missions and the New news agency.

England Deaconess Association.

It had been unused for some five years when the La Salette community purchased it in 1942 for a nominal $30,800, the price including 135 acres of land.

For some time the building was used as La Salette's major seminary, but now the seminari.-AII WYman ans are studying on college cam3-6592 puses and so it was that space was available for the New York CHARLES F. VARGAS wayfarers.

The combination of religious 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE house and rehabilitation center NEW BEDFORD, MASS. "is certainly unique," said Father Lemoine, but it adds further point to La Salette's position as a center of pilgrimage for the New England area. Thousands know it for its year-round outdoor devotional services the retreats and Cursillos conducted at its Center for Christian Living.

Now a group smaller numeri~ cally but no less important is experiencing. healing within its walls, giving the La Salette missioners one more 'way of becom,ing, like their Leader, all things to all men.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr. 10, 1969

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WASHINGTON (NC) The rapid decrease in the number of parochial schcools has coincided with a re-

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The title of father Richard P. McBrien's new book poses a startling question, Do We Need the Church? (Har-, per and Row, 49 E. 33rd St., New York, N.Y. 10016. $6.50).

Many a reader may be initially startled by the argument of the book, which the author describes as "essential- the council as accepting, up to point; the ideas of secular thelya critique of the tradition-, aology, but it is his contention al theology of the, Church." that these ideas must be pur-

By "the Church," Father McBrien means not only the Catholic Church, but also the Orthodox, the Anglican, and the Protestant. Not to .keep anyone in suspense, the answer given to the question-title is "Yes." In fact, , It is "Yes, indeed." But it is conditioned on an exact understanding of the true nature and function of the Church as Father McBrien sees these to be.

His book has a thesis: namely, that "Christians -must be prepared for a Copernican Revolution in their attitude toward the Church • • • The Church is no longer to be conceived as the center of God's plan of salvation • • • The central reality is not the Church but the Kingdom of God." And what is the Kingdom? It is "the reign and rule of God in Christ." This "comes into being wherever and whenever men love one another and accept one another's burdens with a spirit of compassion, concern, generosity, and sensitivity."

In other words, as Jesus Christ said they were to live. "All men are called to the Kingdom; not all men are called to the Church."

The accustomed view has been that the Church is the ordinary means of salvation, 'and as such must strive to grow so as eventually to include all men in its membership. That has been challenged by recent theological developments, and it is to these which might be called secular (not secularist) theology, that the author first addresses himself.

Seeular Mission The opening section of his book considers the secular meaning of the Gospel and the secular mission of the Church, as brought out by a number of theologians, Catholic and nonCatholic.

"Nowhere in the Bible is it claimed that the Church is the mainspring of divine activity in history," Father Me Brien writes.

"The Church is but the world's deacon, a leavening influence in the body of history, serving within and not alongside the structures of the world." .

Its mission is to "make it possible for men to confront the power of the Gospel and thereby enter into the Kingdom of God. "The Church accomplishes this by preaching the Gospel to the poor. and, as often as necessary, in the nonreligious or secular terms which Jesus Himself employed; the release of prisoners and the recovery of sight for the blind >I< >I< * even if they never say, 'lord, Lord.'''

To· perform its missions of proclamation, demonstration and serviCe, the Church must live, in the words of the Second' Vatican Council, as God's Suffering Servant. Father McBrien sees

sued and developed by the theologians.

Bellannine's Writings In the second section of the book, biblical Imd post biblical theologies of the Church are considered. In examining the New Testament witness to the faith of the early Church, Father McBrien accentuates the distinction there drawn between the Church and the Kingdom of God, as indicated above. , MEMORIAL MARCH: Bishop Joseph Durick, right, Apostolic But he brings out clear.lY that, Administrator of the Nashville diocese, which is coextensive as the Body of Christ, the Church cannot be merely '~a humanita- with the state of Tennessee, and Fath~r William Greenspun, rian social agency, or a group of Paulist priest in ecumenical work, are seen marching .in the like-minded individuals sharing Good Friday march in, honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther a common perspective and mov- King, Jr. Bishop Durick was one of the speakers at a rally ing here and there, wherever climaxing the march at the Memphis city hall. NC Photo. "the action is.'''

In taking up the post biblical theology of the Church, he observes that until the appearance Continued from Page Five eludes, in addition to the prinof Gallicanism, about 1300, there may be impeding healthy f\lnc- cipal and teachers, remedial was no theological treatise deal- tioning. Towards this end, a mul- , specialists and teacher aides. ing specifically with the Church. ti-disciplined approach is utilized, However, the majority of chilAnd the first such to be written including social work, psychiatry, dren at'St. Vincent's attend comwere concerned with the author- psychology, special education and munity schools. ity and rights of the Church, Another component of the with matters of power and gov- child care personnel.

Within this setting, the chil- overall program at St. Vincent's ernment. . , this concentration on institu- dren are assigned toone of six Home rests with the Social Sertional structures and juridical living groups on the basis of age vice Department, which has reprocedures was intensified by the and sex. Each group is super- sponsibility for conducting adProtestant revolt, and the clas- vised by a child care worker, mission studies and 'making recsical instance is the writings of usually a Sister of Mercy who is ommendations to the staff about the parental figure responsible the suitability of children for acSt. Robert Bellarmine. for providing such basic services ceptance. ' Advances in Theology as assistance wi~h meals, ~ainEach child is assigned to a Father McBrien traces the con- ten~~c~ of clothmg, recreational case-worker whose twofold task nection between' Bellarmine's activIties,. develo~ment of ~er- is to assist him with problems views and those of Father Sebas- sonal hrglene habits, and asslst- associated perhaps with a tumultian Tromp, a theological advisor wI~h homework. tuous childhood or at least with to Pope Pius XII and' the man ance , . Mor: Important than ,!hese s.er- separation from his family, and said to be principally responsible vices IS the ~anner m which to' maintain contact with the for the encyclical Mystici Cor- they ~re provld~d;. a manner family. . , poris (1943). ' condUCIVe to achlevmg the ulIn the 25 years since the issu- timate goal of teaching the child In addition to working individance of that encyclical there to develop behavior patterns that ually with each child, the casehave been advances in the theol- are personally satisfying and so- worker leads group. discussions ogy of the Church, as can be cially effective. with members of the various livseen from the documents of ing units. Enhancing the' caseVatican II. Male Counselors workers' competence are weekly In the third section of his To enrich the experiences of c0!lsu~tations with a' c.hild psybook, Father McBrien examines the children, the full-time effort ch18tnst and psychologist. those advances' with particular of the Sisters is supplemented Weekly Meetings attention to the teaching of the by part-time male counselors . late council. The various biblical an,d recreational specialists. In In order to c?ordmate th~ efimages of the Church used In regards, to' the academic provi- f~rt~ ~f the vanous pro~esslOnal the council pronouncements are sions of the program, children dlsclphne~, weekly mee!m~s arc taken up, and it is demonstrated with school problems attend held to diSCUSS ~ach chd~ s prothat the way the council used special education classes con- gress and to direct helpmg efthem establishes a development ducted within the institution. forts to are~s where. t~ey may be going beyond what is found in Classes are kept small hi order needed.. There ~re slm.darly ~e~u­ Mystici Corporis. that teaching efforts can be in- lar sessions of m-ser~lce trammg Yet, in the author's judgement, dividualized. The faculty in- for staff members aimed, at dethe council was not conveloping their skills. All these efforts culminate hopefully in an sistent in all its constitutions, declarations, and decrees. In Church the heart and center of '-integrated child and ,eventally a them is found an inconsistent the Christian community. mature adult citizen. mixture of theologies of the He says, "The Catholic beChurch. lieves that the source of unity ih Aims at <:;onsistency the Church is the Eucharist and Archbishop Warns The concluding section of the , that the ministerial or hierarch- Against 'Reforms' book, entitled "Toward' a New . ical foundation of the Eucarist is NEWARK (NC)-In his annual Theology of the Church," aims the college of bishops with the address to the men of the Newark at strict consistency. It looks, ,Pope at the center and head."

Father McBrien's book is sol- archdiocese, Archbishop Thomas first, into the question, "Who should belong to the Church?" idly based and closely reasoned. A. Boland asked them to turn The answer is those whom God He is incisive of mind, unmincing their attention to the legislative calls. Those so called see the in expression. His ability is field because of the possible Church not as an end in itself, matched by his integrity. He put harmful effects of "reforms" but as a means to the coming of his views squarely on the line which have been proposed. for unsparing discussion. His is Speaking at the annual conthe Kingdom.

Father McBrien then asks why a work calculated to stir up de- vention of the Archdiocesan one should be a Catholic rather bate.Let us hope that the de- Council o~ Catholic Men, the than any other kind of Christian. bate will be as well informed, archbishop discussed pending diHe considers the distinctive fea- objective, and dispassionate as vorce, abortion and tax reform proposals. tures which make the' Catholic the 'book which occasions it.

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newed emphasis on Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and other religious formation 'programs in many U. S. dioceses.

Most dioceses are increasing the budgets and manpower given to their CCD centers and sponsoring adult education programs to an unparalleled degree.

A fast-growing number of dioceses or opting for "parish coordinators," trained Religious and lay experts who serve as guiding spirits for a variety of parish religion programs ranging from pre-school to the adult level.

These findings emerged from an NC News Service survey made to learn what was being done to provide religious education for Catholic youngsters affected by the recent rash of parochial school closings.

While the survey found near unanimous accord that religious formation programs are enjoying new dignity and status in U. S. Catholicism, it also uncovered a distinct difference of opinion among the experts as to wheth'er this is a direct result of the parochial school closings.

Definite Reflection "I like to think that what it reflects is an increasing awareness on the part of more and more people that there is a need for total involvement in religious education programs," said Father William Fitzgerald, director of religious education for the Lansing, Mich., diocese.

'Similarly, : Father Joseph P. Herard, director of religious education in the Dubuque, Iowa, archdiocese, said: "School closings have not precipitated this.

But they have added impetus to what was a growing concern."

But one official of the National Center of the CCD in Washington said flatly that the upswing in religious education "is very definitely a reflection of Catholic school closings. I think that this is one of the main reasons there is a whole flock of pastors writing to us now to get trained educators," the official said. "They know their school may' be next to go and they want to be prepared for it."

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The outlook is rather bleak takes on perennial powerhouse Durfee High of Fall River.

A victory for the Crimson should be an omen for the rest of the league.

Almost everyone close to the scene expects New Bedford to make a run for the title, yet, the same people are quick to point out that there are at least four clubs that possess the potential to go "all the way." .

A casual view of the league shows Durfee, New Bedford, Attleboro and Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro as the four top clubs. Msga. Coyle High of Taunton, which is expected to improve tremendously over last

fot Taunton, Bishop Stang of Dartmouth and New Bedford Vocational.

The name of the game is pitching. All contenders have fine. hurlers and at least one "stopper" on their respective rosters.

At New Bedford, Coach John Pacheco has hard-throwing Tom Farias leading the way. The possessor of an over··powering fast ball with pinpoint control Farias is probably the best in the loop.

The all around athlete (AllBristol is both football and basketball) has already drawn the attention of several major league clubs.

Bomback-Duo Enhance Durfee Chances Left-handers Steve Rezendes and Ken Medeiros, along with right-handers Farias, Eric Grimes and Paul Amaral,comprise an' extremely formidable staff, the envy of any high school baseball coach.

Coach Pacheco plans on alternating his pitchers at first when they are not on the mound. John Warters and Steve Knowles will be back at second and short respectively. The remaining positions still are being contested for by a host of talented aspirants.

The New Bedfordites are two and three deep at every position: The major problem confronting Pacheco is to find the best starting unit before the April 17 opener with Durfee.

A brother act may become the talk of ,the league if Coach Joe Lewis of Durfee has his way.

Herman and Mark Bomback, who have been impressive in pre-season workouts, could become the Paul and Dizzy Dean of the BCL. Charlie Duemmel, a proven performer, and Lou Szurleys will give the Hilltoppers ad-

ditional mound strength.

Coach Lewis does not have the New Bedford, depth, but his frO'ntiineperforrriers will riot take a back seat to anyone in the area. Defense and pitching appear to be the Red and Black's forte. These assets coupled with timely hitting and Lewis' shrewd baseball sense make Durfee "tough in any league..

Greater Attleboro fans look to both the Jewelers and Bishop Feehan to give a good account of themselves in the championship race.

Coach Jim Cassidy's Attleboro aggregation will rely primarily on the strong arm of southpaw Dave Soaper, a classy hurler who rates along with Farias as the loop's premiere stopper. .

Rollie Rivard, Ken Furtado and Joe Lanthier make up the nucleus of the Attleboro attack.

Although not as deep in returning talents as some other contenders, the Blue and White will see to it that the eventual champion earns the title.

Must Reckon With Coyle and Feehan Across-town Bishop Feehan High is determined to make a strong bid to retain the pennant it shared with Taunton and Bishop Stang a year ago.

The Shamrocks boast a threeman pitching corps that includes Lance Van den Berghe, Rich Deschenes and Steve Pinocci.

Handling the slants of these young hopefuls will be Dan Lyons probably the best defensive catcher in the circuit.

Around the infield, Coach Tom Maccarone is .expected to go with Rodney O'Brien at first, veteran Tim Doran at short and Ray LaCroix at the hot corner.

Dave Downarowicz and Brian Houghton will probably get the starting nod for center and left field. The second base and right field jobs still are up for grabs.

In Taunton, new Coach Steve Winslow anticipates an uphill struggle for his Coyle High Warriors. But, the young mentor is

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optimistic that Coyle will be back in the BCL baseball- race this season.

The Warriors may not win it, but they'll certainly. have a say in the league's final standings if Coach Winslow's moundsmen perform well.

The bulk of the pitching duty will be handled by Alan Rich and Steve Sabra. Bill Sherry, Bill Lindo and Pete Guresh are also being looked to for turns on the hill.

The combatants are eager to answer the "playball" cry, hopeful that this will be "their" year.

The initial contests which include Stang at New Bedford Vocational, Feehan at' Taunton, Attleboro at Coyle together with the Durfee-New Bedford fray appear to be only the beginning of what promises to be another drama filled Bristol County Baseball season.

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Merrimack College plays its home basketball games on a high school court. For three years, Tommy Ryan made headlines on similar hardwoods.

This past season was like a continuation of his high school career, as the you~g freshman helped guide the North Andover frosh quintet through a highly successful hoop campaign.

The 6-4 first year Somerset native saw considerable action for Coach Charlie Samataro's freshman squad and was among the team's leading scorers.

A '1968 graduate of Bishop Stang School in North Dartmouth where he led the Spartans in scoring in his senior year, Tommy continually impressed the school's athletic brass with his soft-shO'oting highscoring touch.

It was his turn-around jumpers from the head, of the foul lane and feather jump shots from the corners that accounted for a 23 poiJlt - per· game average and pr6mpted Coach 'John O'Brien to call Tommy "one of the finest shooters I have ever coached."

When not gunning from the outside, Ryan would direct his attention to "elbow alley" underneath the basket where he was generally regarded as one of the finest reboun'ders and scrappers in the tough Bristol County League..

Ryan combined both talents to lead Stang to a BCL co-championship and into the Tech Tournament in Boston Garden.

His outstanding play during his final year prompted queries from several interested colleges.

He eventually was offered and accepted an athletic scholarship to Merrimack College in North Andover. Following three years of varsity basketball Tom hopes

Organize to Help Victims of Crime SANTA CLARA (NC) -, Vic'tims of crime will be the benefactors of a new multi-campus organization, Students Helping Other People (SHOP), at the University of Santa Clara.

SHOP's first goal is to raise $100,000, which its members plan to do by staging benefit activities on six California campuses during the next two months.

Although SCU students originated the program, branch units have been formed already in the nearby campuses of Foothill College, West Valley Junior College, San Jose State College, Stanford University and San Mateo College.

SHOP's purpose, detailed in its articles of incorporation by the state as a non-profit, charitable organization, provides relief for: Those who have suffered injury or damage to person or property through crimes and criminal assaults.

Those who have suffered injury or damage to person or property while rescuing another or another's property from criminal assualts or natural calama· ties, such as fires, floods and earthquakes.

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Ryan children.' His younger brother Timmy (13) attends St. Joseph's School in Fall River.

Last summer, Tommy worked for the Town of Acushnet and may return this year.

When not working, he enjoys all forms of water activity including swimming, diving and surfing. But this summer, the lanky Ryan is expected to concentrate on basketball.

He frequently gets together with former Stang teammates Kevin Phelan and Jim Mahoney to engage in a backyard version of the sport.

It may be a bit too early to predict a sparkling college career for young Tom, but O'Brien is pne man who sees his formel\high scoring center developing into a fine all around performer.

"Tommy could always shoot well," said the Spartan mentor, "And he was often very aggressive under the boards. He's got good size and what's more. .. he's still growing. The only thing Tommy needs is more self confidence and seasoning."

As a sophomore in high school, Ryan was a picture of awkwardness. The Spartans were blessed with veteran talent and Tommy's chances of seeing action were less than limited. As a junior, he put on weight, gained some confidence and developed into the team's starting cente~ TOM RYAN The following year as a senior, was voted to several AllTommy to graduate and has expressed a desire to go into the field of County teams and was among the area's top performers. coaching.

Ryan is the. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryan of 133 SeyCommittee to. Study mour Street in Somerset and is a member of St. Thomas Moore Student Grievances Parish. He is the oldest of two DUBUQUE (NC)-Archbishop James J. Byrne of Dubuque, chancellor and chairman of the board of regents of Loras College here in Iowa, has appointed a committee of five board memCHICAGO (NC) - A renewed bers to hear student grievances appeal for additional state funds against the college administrato avoid curtailing its foster . tion.

The student senate had charghome care programs has been made by Catholic Charities of ed that a "lack of communicaChicago in a letter, to Illinois tion between administration and students" resulted in the adminGov. Richard B. Ogilvie.

Msgr. Vincent W. Cooke, ad- istration's failure to respond to ministrator, has, since last No- student grievances and questions. vember, warned the state that In particular, the senate quesunless it increased its financial tioned recent raises in tuition aid to Catholic Charities, it would and board in light of an increase be necessary to close down the in campus security officers.

The senate also charged re-" foster care program and possibly several of Charities' major child quests to loosen restrictions on student dormitory life and for a care institutions. larger student voice in academic Some 4,800 children, would, he and administrative policy were said, be turned back to the state rejected. for its care. Most of the children, he pointed out, are wards of the state.

He said additional funds were NEW RATES!! needed to help Catholic Charities meet the cost of new regulations Regular Savings 5% issued by the state for institutions caring for its wards. The 90 Day Notice 5 Y2 % new rules, scheduled to go into effect in 1970, would require adSystematic 6% ditional personnel, among other Daily Interest % things.

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