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Fr. Gibbons 'to Head Boston College High Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons, S.J., principal of Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River since July 1970 has been appointed the new principal of Boston College High School in Dorchester, Mass. Public announcement of the key appointment was made in Boston on April 2 by Rev. Raymond J. Callahan, S.J., President of Boston College High School after the proposed change had received the approval of Very Rev. Richard T. Cleary, S.J., 'Provincial of the Society of Jesus of New England.

Boston College High School was founded in 1863 by Rev. John R. McElroy, S.J. and for 87 years was located on Harrison Avenue in the South End of Boston. In 1950 the move began to its present location in Dorchester. B. C. High curr:ently

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enrolls 1150 young men from Boston and the surrounding cities and towns. The school :s staffed by a faculty of 75 Jesuits and 25 laypersons.

Fr. Gibbons is himself an alumnus of the school. He graduated in the class of 1947 shortly before entering the Society of Jesus. He was ordained to the priesthood by the late Richard Cardinal Cushing on June 18, 1960.

After completing his graduate studies in physics at Fordham University. Fr. Gibbons returned to the faculty of BaghTurn to Page Two

Orphan Aid To Continue Even if U. S.-sponsored mercy flights of Vietnamese orphans to this country are interrupted, the work of Friends of Children is expected to continue, said Gerald Santos of Little Compton, who with his wife is area coordinator for the organization responsible for 90 per cent of Vietnam adoptions here.

"We expect that the Vietnam government will return to its former policy of permitting adoptions on an individual basis," he said.

Santos emphasized the need for supplies and cash contributions remains acute.. in Saigon orphanages.

"We're not 100 per cent sure of supplies getting through, although up to now we've had a Tum to Page Three

The opening meeting to launch the thirty-fourth annual Catholic Charities Appeal of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River wi:ll be held on Tuesday, April 15, at Bishop Connolly High School auditorium in. Fall River at 8 p.m.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will be the keynote speaker. This is Bishop Cronin's fifth year as Appeal chairman. More than 900 clergy, religious and laity of the diocese will be present. The Special Gift phase o{ the Appeal wi-11 be conducted from April 21 to May 3. The Parish house-to-

Special Gifts April 21 - May 3

Rev. Armando A. Annunziato, director of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, will explain the work of St. Vincent's Home, one of the beneficiaries of the Appeal.

Edward F. Kennedy of Taunton, this year's diocesan lay chairman, will stress the role of the laity in the campaign for the two phases of the Appeal.

Kennedy said: "I hope to see every priest, religious and eight

18th Anniversary With this issue, The Anchor, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River, begins its nineteenth year of publicatton.

Founded by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D.~ Fourth Bishop of Fall River, it has sought "each week with pictures, news and views to bring us closer together and improve our spiritual and social customs. I am sure," the venerable bishop stated, "The Anchor will find an honored place, like the crucifix, in every home throughout the Diocese."

Door - to - Door

,May 4-14 house campaign is set for Sunday, May 4 from the hours of 12 noon to 3 p.m. This phase of the Appeal ends officially on May 14.

Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese, will deliver the opening prayer and Rev. Msgr.

Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., will give the final prayer at the meeting.

The first issue, published on Thursday, April 11, 1957, announced the preparations for Holy Week, the appointments of Rev. John T. Higgins as pastor of S1. Augustine Parish, Vineyard Haven, and Rev. William D. Thomson as administrator of S1. Mary Parish, Norton. It also published the decree establishing S1. Augustine Mission, Vineyard Haven, as a parish, and announced the dedication of S1. Mary Parish Church, Hebronville, with Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher as pastor.

Cardinal Wyszynski, hero patriarch of Poland, was also to make his epochal visit to Pope Pius XU following his release from confinement under Communist domination.

Two of the original staff still weekly labor at the tasks given them on The Anchor by Bishop Connolly: Rev. Msgr.

Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A., and Rev. John P. Driscoll. Attorney Hugh J. Golden, Managing Editor, died in 1970.

Schedule Adult Confirmations

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD At the request of Gerry Studds, Congressman of the 12th District, a copy of the Mooring article entitled "Save the Fleet" has been placed in the Congressional Record: "Support for the 200-Mile Fishing Limit. In the House of Representatives, Wednesday, March 26, 1975. Mr. Studds.

"Mr. Speaker, the following is an article which was written by Rev. John F. Moore and published by The Anchor, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River.

"Rev('rend Moore offers a strong and eloquent call for the quick passage of legislation to extend the U.S. fisheries jurisdiction to 200 miles. I want to thank Mrs. Katherine Nowak of Marion, Mass., for bringing this article to my attention and I believe that it will be of great interest to all the Members of the House of Representatives."

The article was published in full in the Congressional Record.

members of each of the 113 parishes of the diocese present at the kickoff meeting."

Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, will explain the theme, techniques and mechanics of the campaign. A coffee hour will follow 'the meeting.

Music wiH be provided before, during and after the meeting by the Bishop Feehan High School band.

ATTLEBORO AREA CCA DIRECTOR WITH BISHOP:

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, discusses with Rev. Bento R. Fraga, pastor of Holy Ghost Parish, Attleboro and Area Director for CCA, plans for coverage of the Attleboro Area for the 1975 Catholic Charities Appeal.

The Chancery has announced that Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will celebrate. a Pentecost Mass and administer the Sacrament 'of Confirmation at St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, May 18, 1975 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

Adult parishioners who for some reason have had to delay their reception of the Sacrament are urged to -contact their parish priests to make arrangements for the Pentecost -cathedral ceremony.

A brief catechesis should be undertaken between the adult candidate and the parish priest.

Forms have been sent to each parish rectory to facilitate arrangements for the rec~ption of this Sacrament.

The Sacrament of Confirmation completes the Rite of Initiation for a Christian. It .recognizes a layperson as a responsible adult, called by the Father as brother or sister to Jesus Christ in Baptism, fed and strengthened by the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Church has always given a particular importance to this sacrament as the foundation of Catholic Action, the layperson's call to give witness to his Christilln life.

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Dr. Kubler-Ross Slated to Speak In Fall River Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and authority on psychological ha1ldling of the dying, will be the chief speaker :It a program marking the 87th anniversary of the Family Ser· vice Assn. of Fall River at 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 28 in the auditorium of Diman Regional Vocational High School in the city.

Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, director of the department of pastoral care at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, is informing area clergy of her lecture, which will be directed towards workers in the fields of health, social service and counseling, but will also be open to the public.

Praises Home On a previous visit to Fall River, Dr. Kubler-Ross visited the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home for terminal cancer patients and spoke of it highly on a subsequent appearance on a Roston television station.

"It was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen," she said. "The patients were happy, the nuns were so open and cheerful and the place looked so beautiful, with flowers and colored sheets on the beds."

Newark Advocate Latest Tabloid EAST ORANGE (NC) - The Advocate, weekly newspaper of the Newark archdiocese, will adopt a tabloid format with its issue of May I, according to an announcement by Joseph R. Thomas, editor.

The newspaper is the second diocesan paper to announce such a change in recent weeks. The Tablet of the Brooklyn diocese became a tabloid on April 3.

This is the first major format change for The Advocate, which was founded in 1951. For three years it publshed a weekly tabloid magazine but that was discontinued in 1969.

The paper will also adopt a wide - column editorial format, using a four·column page, although it will <:ontinue to sell advertising in the old width as well as the new.

Necrology APRIL 18 Rev. Hugh B. Harrold, 1935, Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield 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 St., Maryland Rev. James E. O'Reilly, 1970, Pastor Emeritus, Mt. Carmel, Seekonk APRIL 22 Rev. Ja~es L. Smith. 1910, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton Rev. Thomas F.' Fitzgerald, 1954, Pastor, St. Mary, Nantucket

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Bishop Durick of Nashville Retires To Devote Lif'e to Ministry With Prisoners WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope Paul VI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Joseph Durick of Nashville, Tenn., 60, who will devote the remainder of his ministry to work with prisoners and their families.

Bishop Durick will be succeed by Msgr. Niedergeses, 58, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul's parish in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Pope Paul has also named Auxiliary Bishop F. Joseph Gossman of Baltimore, 45, bishop of Raleigh, N. C., and Msgr. Robert Gaughan,53, vicar general of the Greensburg, Pa., diocese, auxiliary bishop of that See. Bishop Gossman succeeds Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, who died last Decem· ber.

The resignation and appointments were made here by Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States.

Bishop Durick in 1973 called for sweeping prison reforms in Tennessee and urged state officials not to reinstate the death penalty. "Let us treasure life, . not gamble with it," he said then. He called for increased visiting rights for prisoners, including private visits of husbands and wives. "This arrangement would recognize a fundamental human right in marriage," he sa,id.

Conjugal visits, he said, would help reduce the "problem of sexual maladjustments" among prisoners and "might stem the otherwise signifkantly high rate of divorce" involving prisoners.

Bishop Durick also called for adequate health, counseling, educational and spiritual care and urged an end to all discrimina-

BISHOP JOSEPH A. DURICK Hon, including religious discrimina,tion, in prisons.

On Christmas 1973 he spent the morning with prisoners. "I thought it fitting," he said, "to spend part of this joyous celebration with the men who have (one thing) in common with Christ that many of us do not

Left With Hope Divorced Catholics of Columbus Diocese Talk Over Concerns, Needs

COLUMBUS (NC)-They came with a feeling of apprehension.

They left with a feeling of hope.

For two hours 150 divorced Catholics from 49 parishes of the Columbus diocese shared in a Bible service; aired their prob· lems, concerns 'and needs in group session; and met to share the fruits of their brains.torming-resolved to take positive Continued from Page One action which would bring them dad College in Baghdad, Iraq. back into the "main-stream" In August 1969 the government of the Catholic Church. seized Baghdad College and exThe Sunday afternoon session pelled all Americans from Iraq. was sponsored by the diocesan Fr. Gibbons returned to the Family Life Bureau, encouraged States and taught for a year at by Bishop Edward J. Herrmann Fairfield College Preparatory of Columbus, who felt the need S<:hool before assuming the pofor this apostolate and backed sition of Principal of Bishop Jerome Stluka, director of the Connolly High School. bureau, and his staff.

While in Fall River, Fr. GibIt is estimated that in most bons has been on the Board of diocesan parishes at least 10 per Directors of the Citizens' Scholcent of the congregation is diarship Foundation and has served as Chairman of the vorced. Most continue as single Awards Committee. He has also parents-often shunned by family, old friends, and other pabeen on Board of Directors of rishioners.

People Inc., the vocational reDistress habilitation center for the handiThose who remarry find their capped and retarded. children greatly distressed beHoly Cross Trustee cause , while they are encourBesides these 10cal activities, aged to go to the sacraments, Fr. Gibbons is a Consultor to mother and father are prohibited the Jesuit Provincial of New from doing so.

England, a Trustee of the ColThe needs of children were lege of the Holy Cross in voiced in all several discussion Worcester, and a Trustee of groups. Parent-child relationBoston College High School. ships need study, those attendFr. Gibbons is expected to ing said. The single parent needs take up his duties at Boston to know how to cope with the College' High School in August. problems anc hurts the child encounter!> in the community. ' Search Committee Many, whzn they were going Rev. Charles A. MacMullan, S.J. has bzen appointecl Chair- through divorce, found they man of the Seerch Committee could go to the parish priest to fm' thz new· pri:1cipG'.l of Bishop discuss any problem ~ except ::onnolly :Jig{j School. It is ex- those related ~c divorce.

Many pl'iests try to guide the :>ected that the work of the ::ommittez will take four to six divorceQ compassionately. Father weeks and that Fr. Clea::y will ' Stluka said thz age of the pi·iest be able to appoint the new makes no diGerence. Background, training and study are ' principal by mid-May.

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have: society has legal'Iy judged them to be criminals, as society once illegally judged the Savior to be a criminal."

Commenting on his decision to work among prisoners, Bishop Durick said on his retirement: "I intend to move into this new field of endeavor after a· few months of preparation, because in recent years I have seen firsthand the heartshattering despair of those men and wOI1j1en we have locked away in our prisons. I have seen the erosion of their hope and the resulting alienation even extending to their families. And, saddest of a1l, I have seen so many of us who are free do little to bring solace to those who are not free.

Therefore I have concluded that I will devote the remainig years of my pastoral ministry to the pastoral care of prisoners and their families."

Bishop Durick, a native of Dayton, Tenn., was ordained in 1940, named auxiliary bishop of Ala:,in Mobile-Birmingham, 1954, and coadjutor bishop of Nashville in 1963. He succeeded to the Nashiville diocese in 1969.

more important for counseling.

He pointed out that one diocesan priest in his 70s is widely known for his compassion and understanding of the needs of the divorced.

The Sunday meeting grew from a suggestion of a local divorced woman who had been in contact with Father Stluka and Bishop Herrmann over the past several months.

Overwhelming Response There was no way of knowing what the response would be. At first Father Stluka, program developer Sister Theresa Martin and program coordinator Marcia Verhoff felt that could each handle a group of about 10 or 12.

When the phone in the Family Life Bureau did not quit ringing for two weeks prior to the session, they began to plan on a larger scale.

Four priests and three Family Lif~ staff members were pressed into service to chair seven groups of more than 20 members each.

Ms. Verhoff sai9, "It was an overwhelming experience."

Father Stluka started the Bible service with' 'a plea for forgiveness for the lask of concern and insensitivity which priests and other Catholics had shown toward the divorced. He expressed the bishop's hope the gathering "would be a fruitful start t@ a much needed ministry."

Reports Vietnam Bishops to Stay In Dioceses VATICAN CITY (NC) - The bishops of Vietnam have not and will not leave their dioceses "regardless of how the situation in their country may evolve," ac· cording to a declaration of Arch~ bishop Paul Nguyen van Binh of Saigon as paraphrased by Vatican Radio April 4.

The broadcast said that according to Archbishop Binh this decision had been reached by consensus of all Vietnamese bishops at their plenary session last January.

Vatican Radio said that the bishops felt that the Vatican wanted them to follow this line of action.

Vatican spokesman Federico Alessandrini confirmed the Vatican Radio report, and said that the bishops will remain in their dioceses as is normal under such circumstances.

Meanwhile the Vatican daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, April 5 decried in a frontpage comment the effects of the war on the defenseless, especially children.

Sorrow, Prayer It also decried the tragic crash of an American transport plane carrying Vietnamese orphan children to homes in the United States.

"One gets the feeling that words are useless," the comment read. "Sorrow and prayer are the only effective ways of participation in regard to this huge crime perpetrated by war, by every war, but even worse when war indiscriminately strikes masses of defenseless citizens and among them the most defenseless: the children."

It continued: "In the tragedy of the Asian people, these innocent victims cry out to heaven, victims whose tortured faces are in full view through news rep'Jrts as both an invocation and condemnation."

Noting news reports that 2 million South Vietnamese children are in need of various types ot help, the paper asked: "Is this not a crime of humanity?"

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Diocesan Women To Aid Planning For NCCW Meet

_Birthright Offers 'Who Shall Live?'

Mrs. Richard M. Paulson, pres· ident of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and a member of Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton, has been named to serve on the elections committee making preparations for the 37th conven· tion of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), to be held Nov. 7 to Nov. 10 in Portland, Ore. Serving on the resolutions and by·laws revisions com· ' tions and by·laws revisions com· mittees is Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, diocesan first vice-president and director of the Boston Province of NCCW. She is a member of St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River.

Any diocesan woman wishing to attend the convention may obtain further information from her affiliate president or from Mrs. Paulson.

Mystery Play On Cape Cod Camp Trinita in Connecticut, operated by the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, who work in Hyannis, Centerville and Wareham parishes on Cape Cod, will benefit from a performance of a medieval mystery play, "The Mystery of the Mass," to be presented in the sanctuary of St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17. Tickets are avail· able at Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, St. Francis Xavier rectory and St. Francis Xavier Missionary Cenacle in Hyannis.

The play, directed by Ernst Jurina, has been performed in Europe and throughout the United States. The public is invited to attend the Cape showing.

Orphan Aid Continued from Page One perfect record of shipments arriving," he said, "but there's nothing so portable as cash!"

He explained that donations of money are cabled to a Saigon branch of an American bank and are immediately credited to orphanage accounts.

"We are an aU·volunteer organization and contributions go 100 per cent to the orphans," he stressed, adding that such dona· tions are tax-deductible.

Gifts may be sent to Friends of Children at Willow Avenue, Little Compton, R. I., he said..

Another agency active in aiding Vietnamese children is Catholic Relief Services, the official welfare arm of the U. S. Catholic Bishops.

Us activities are of particular interest in the Fall River ,di· ocese, since its orphans' program in South Vietnam iscoor~ dinated by Sister Eleanor Mc· Nally, S.U.S.C., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew McNally of Swansea. Her work since last August has involved upgrading of health and living conditions in the 125 orphanages through· out the country as well as supervising placement pro,cedures for children released by the Saigon government for adoption in the U.S. Donations for her work may be sent to CathoHc Relief Services at 1011 First Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022.

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"Who Shall Live?" will be the topic of an educational workshop to be sponsored by Birthright of New Bedford at St. Francis Xavier School Hall, 223 Main St., Acushnet, at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 15.

All are invited to the program, presented by Rev. John J. Steakem, chaplain and head of the • religion department of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

The workshop has grown from material presented to Stang juniors and seniors by Father Steakt:'m in conjunction with Mrs. Rose Grant of the school's biology department.

A coffee hour will follow Tues· day's program.

GOLDEN JUBILEE AS K OF C CHAPLAIN: Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, seated, receives a 50-year certificate for chaplain of Knights of Columbus at presentation ceremonies in Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven. Officers of McMahon Council, New Bedford making the presentation to the retired pastor of St. James Church, New Bedford and knight for 60 years, are: Alfred Martins, Grand Knight; Severo G. Alfama, Faithful Navigator; and Frederick Murray, Comptroller.

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Plan Discussion of Priestly Formation WASHINGTON (NC)-Representatives of the U. S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on Priestly Formation will hold hearings on the revision of "The Program of Priestly Formation" in the United States during the coming annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). ' Announcement of the hearings during the March 31·April 3 NCEA convention in AHantic City, N. J., was made here by Msgr. Robert E. Bacher, executive director of the bishops' committee.

"The' Program of Priestly Formation," prepared by the bishops's committee in collaboration with the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, is the basie training program for all future priests, diocesan and Religious, in this country.

On Jan. 18, 1971, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Ed· ucation approved the U. S. pro· gram for a fiive,year periOd. Work on revision of the current program began early in 1974, and the first hearings were held at last year's NCEA convention in Cleveland.

A working paper of rev.isions, which has been sent to seminary officials and others concerned with priestly formation, will form the basis for the Atlantic City hearings. The paper was prepared by the bishops' committee as a result of tJ;1e Cleveland hearings and consultations 'conducted during the past year . with bishops, seminary personnel, and a number of organiza· tions.

The format for the hearings 4nvolve a series of panels for each of the three levels of seminary formation.

The first panel, on the high school seminary, will be hero April 1. The panelists who will receive testimony that day are Archbishop Ignatius J. Streck· er of Kansas City, who is a

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The panel on the college level of seminary training will be held

April 2. The panelists for this session will be Bishop John A. Marshall of Burlington, Vt.; Msgr. Vincent Burns, rector of Overbrook Seminary in Philadelphia and chairman of the college subcommittee, and Msgr.

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Tragedy -

Survey Indicates Priests Satisfied With Life Style

Charity

The word "tragedy" seems too slight a one to bear the terrible burden of what is happening in Southeast Asia. . Present commentators and future historians are faced with the task of asking questions and seeking answers and trying to assess the United State position in the whole matter.

Bu now-at this moment-people are 5uffenng and dying and the debate about whether this nation' should or should not have been involved and in what measure must yield to what should be a world-wide effort to do something about the situation.

Politically, the big nations must use their good offices to try to negotiate some sort of peace. It is unfortunate that Waldeim of he United Nations sees no place in the issue for the group that he heads. Once again, as in the Hungarian matter, the UN will suffer from this failure to act.

As soon as the dust settles, the nations of the world must face the problems of hunger and sickness and resettlement of vast numbers of people. It can only be hoped that the help will be proferred-and accepted.

In the meantime, the relief agencies that are active are a source of consolation especially to those who have contributed to them. Catholic Relief Services, the American Catholic overseas relief 'arm, is doing a monumental work of charity. Those Catholics who gave a donation to the agency on a designated weekend and thought no more about it should review what they have done and have enabled their charitable arm to do. Amid the tragedy the work of charity is the one gleam of light in the darkness.

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Religions in Schools One observer at the National Catholic Educational Convention has commented that he brought three themes from many of the sessions that he attended: there is no substitute for the academic basics of reading and writing and arithmetic, and all techniques and approaches are well used in promoting these in our schools; there must be a consciousness of discipline, a concern that is becoming a source of ever-increasing work in other school systems, but a discipline rooted in self-discipline and concern for others; and, finally, the Catholic schools must keep insisting on their "difference where it counts," the inculcating of spiritual values, the education of the whole person.

The areas he speaks of are academic, emotional and spiritual.

They continue to point up the value of the Catholic school system. . The great concern hanging over the system is the availability of religious to staff the schools.

There is no question about the dedication of the many men and women lay t~achers who are doing· much to strengthen and contribute to the Catholic school system.

They have the great value of showing their students that the lay state is capable of living the Christ-like life and that religion is not the exclusive province of religious men and women.

At the same time, the presence and activity of the religious are of inestimable value in the Catholic school.

The concept of total dedication and commitment by vow is a powerful one and has to make a strong impact on student minds which have witnessed all too often work begun but not finished, promises made and not kept, standards ~proclaimed and soon abandoned, people for sale and easily bought.

The religious stands for love of God and neighbor that does not count the effort or begrudge the cost.

Such dedication and commitment the Catholic school needs.

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Who· Is To Blame?

The present disintegration of what we today know as South Vietnam has given rise to the old game of accusation and guilt. Mr. Ford, a long time supporter in Congress of the "domino theory," has indirectly attempted over the past few weeks to place the blame of the collapse of this The futility of French colonialism became an American cruartificially created state on sade to save the people of South Congress and its refusal to East Asia from themselves. appropriate more aid to an inefficient government.

At the same time the hawks of this land now attempt to bury their heads in the sand of e~cuses while Ihe doves flap their wings in the wind of self-incrim·ina-tion. In short, the total national reaction to this international horror show is not only childish but not worthy of the blood of the thousands of Americans who died in vain.

What began as a civil war became the stage for the players of colonia'iism, communism, nationaHsm and even Americanism.

With the trite and archa-ic mentality of divide and conquer, the world powers like a wrestling tag team began to give the wor,Jd a show that was only a shame and a farce.

China and Russia, the modern colonialists, entered the world ring to face first the French and then the Americans. The peoples of China became the mere pawns in the bloody chess game of war.

The cruel and vicious Russian bear allied with the equally vicious Chinese tiger once more gored their hands in their attempt to -impose a new world order.

Ploughshares or Armaments? Which?

When the French had the courage to realize their own limitations the big hearted Americans had to have their day.

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East Asia reverts to the carnage of civ,il war and as we should remember from our own national experience, nothing is more vicious and vengeful than brother kil'ling brother.

The innocent are slaughtered and the wail of the orphan and the widowed becomes the ghostly cry of truth heard throughout the land. For in the end, the entire experience in South East As·ia is nothing more than another chapter in the blood history of man's inhumanity to man.

In this context we are all to blame for the present carnage

SAN ANTONIO (NC) - The priests of Texas are "fulfilled, are not lonely, are not concerned about celibacy," according to a report on a survey given at a clergy meeting here by Father Robert Wilson.

The Fort Worth diocesan priest said that the findings of the "Survey of the Priests of Texas on Morale" show that the priests "are men of prayer, have their work satisfaction, are satisfied with supervision and are content with the priestly life style."

The survey questioned the priests about loneliness, feelings about ceHbacy and marriage, prayer, satisfaction with work, authorities and supervision, understandings of the Church, and priestly life styles.

On celibacy and marriage, 44 per cent responded, "Decidedly yes or mostly so," to the statement: "I think the Church law regading celibacy should be maintained." Forty-four per cent answered, "Decidely no or mostly no." Fourteen per cent of the statewide respondents were undecided. Twenty-two per cent responded, "I probably would marry if Church law permitted."

Fifty,seven per cent said no.

Nineteen per cent were undecided.

In the area of prayer, 71 per cent said that "in recent years of my priesthood I think I could be called a 'man of prayer,' and I am comfortable in leading the people in prayer." Ninety-two per cent identified the celebration of Mass as "consistently meaning a lot to me spiritually."

Work satisfaction shows practically no decline over the years in the priesthood. Ninety-one per cent said: "When I was first ordained I loved my work." Ninety per cent said the same about their recent years of priesthood.

The survey showed a majority satisfied with the support and encouragement from superiors. that engulfs the innocent. Tanks and guns have never been the instruments of peace. Their very reason for existence is destruction and desolation. The mind of man can never free itself to develop and promote efforts for lasting peace while it is encased in the armor plat'ing of war.

Why then can't the human spirit that produces weapons of death also bring forth into reality the means whereby man may live in peace? Man and nations can spend their energies and monies to destroy. Why can't they give the same energies and monies to create?

Some might say these are the thoughts of a dreamer. If so, it ,is about time that the people of this land and this earth began to dream. Dream thoughts of hope rather than despair, dream for days of light to dispel the horrors of the night, dream the impossible dream of Peace for all men.

Until each and everyone of us dare to turn the weapons of war into ploughshares then man wil'l continue to slaughter his fellow man rather than till the field that wi'll nourish the seeds of Peace. As a nation we certa·inly should have learned this lesson from our involvement in South East Asia.

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Priest Calls Self-Doubt Greatest Problem For Divorced Catholic ST. PETERSBURG BEACH (NC) - Self-doubt is the biggest single problem for divorced or divorcing Catholics, according to a priest who helped found one of the first Catholic programs in this country that works with both men and women who are

Selected as Board Member of Year ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-Thomas M. McDermott, president of the Philadelphia archdiocesan board of education since 1971, was honored as Board Member of the Year April 2 at the 'annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) in Atlantic City.

McDermott was honored for his "significant contributions in the areas of school finance, public-Catholic school cooperation. and in the advancement of the Home and School movement and student recruiting programs," according to Dr. Mary-Angela Harper, executive dirE:Ctor of the National Association of Boards of Education, an NCEA department. He has been a member of the Philadelphia archidocesan board of education since 1967.

separated or divorced.

"Helped" is a key word for Paulist Father James Young. 34.

He refuses to take the credit for the divorced Catholics group at the Paulist Center in Boston.

"I worked with the lay people who started it," he said. "But it was their responsibility, it was their doing. I just serve them, sort of in the role of advisor or pastor." ,Father Young was in St. Petersburg Beach during the 1975 convention of the National Federation of Priests' Councils (NFPC) to help advise priest-delegates there in dealing with reconciliation between the Church and divorced-remarried Catholics. In an interview with NC News he described his work in Boston and his views on the pas路 toral needs of divorcing or divorced Catholics.

"The people we see most of are people who are going through the process of separation and divorce," he said.

"They've already made a decision to end their marriage."

The primary pastoral job at that stage, he said, is to provide support for a person going

througb a major transition in life, helping the person to cope with it.

"Their biggest problem is selfdoubt, anxiety over whether they're doing the right thing," he said. "They need to test their decision.

"An interesting thing is the number of (marital) reconciliations that occur," he said. In two recent seminar groups on separation at the Boston Paulist Center, involving about 15 people each-, Father Young said there were three reconciliations among participants in one semi-

nar and two in. the other.

"In terms of the Church, the first question is often, 'Am I excommunicated?' There is a sense of alienation from the Church, a feeling that 'The Chur~h is for happy couples that

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are making it, and I'm a marked person, a failure.'

"There no excommunication attached to divorce," Father Young said emphatically. "In the U.S. Church since 1884 (the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore) there has been an excommunication attached to remarriage" of a divorced person.

One of the problems with the law is what Father Young calls "creeping excommunication." "In the popular mind," he said, "the excommunication has become attached to the divorce, not to subsequent remarriage."

Fr. Conway Executive Secretary For 41 st Eucharistic Congress PHILADELPHIA (NC) - As coordinator of the Philadelphia observance of the Holy Year, h~ was responsible for scheduling both major diocesan events and individual parish celebrations and pilgrimages - a schedule spanning several months which drew a taped measure of praise from Pope Paul VI. Now, he is executive secretary for the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, to be held here in August 1976.

Father Walter J. Conway is no stranger to mammoth archdiocesan organizing projects. Nor is riC a stranger to service to the archdiocese.

A Philadelphia native, Father Conway has served the archdiocese in various capacities since his 1948 ordination from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook. He alsQ h'olds a degree in canon law from Washington D.C.'s Catholic University of America.

From 1951 to 1958, Father Conway served on the faculty of Roman Catholic High School.

He was appointed secretary of the archdiocesan tribunal in

1958, named defender of the bond of the tribunal in 1963, and made a prosynodal judgc of the tribunal in 1972.

Father Conway was elected to the Council of Priests in 1967, and served as chairman of that organization from 1971 to 1974.

To Coordinate 'Activities It was the Holy Year observance, a project given to the Council of Priests to develop by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, -that Father Conway was first called upon to coordinate.

"The main phase was one of getting to the people," Father Conway recalled. "A committee of priests sent out letters and brochures to parishes; we scheduled major events such as the Pilgrimage of Hope, in which Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Archbishop Fulto!1 Sheen took part; we helped to schedule pilgrimages, holy hours and special liturgies for parishes and organizations, all clima楼ing with thc Holy Rosary Pilgrimage for priests at St. Charles Seminary and the special diocesanwide celebration at the Civic Center on the feast of Christ the King."

The success of the Holy Year observance led to Father Conway's being appointed to his Eucharistic Congress post. Together with 10 major committees involving more than 400 clergy, Religious and lay per. sons, Father Conway is responsible for planning and coordinating all activities for the weeklong world gathering.

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Stl1esses Food Is Gift of God

Good Marriage Infl,uences Children, Gra,ndchildren

ST. LOUIS (NC) - Food must be recognized as a gift of God and not as a commodity, the executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Father John J. McRaith, told a meeting here.

"God gave enough gifts for everyone," he said, "the challenge is in sharing the gifts."

Father McRaith spoke at a one-day Archdiocesan Council of Laity Conference. The meeting centered on "Reconciliation-A Challenge." Speakers and workshops repeatedly highlighted tlte part played by "sincere reconciliation and renewal" in various facets of Christian living.

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each other anyway.

They never had much money.

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or ill relatives they cared for, often having those people move in with them.

They had difficulties, hardships, tragedies big enough to destroy other marriages.

But they have always been if}tensely happy'. with each other.

I've never heard either one of them say a harsh word to-or about-the other. This has been out of strength. rather than weakness.

He summed it up one time: "There are so many things we agree on, why pick on the differences?"

Working Together Certainly there have been differences. Two strong-willed individuals don't automatically agree on everything. But the. thing they did agree on, always, was that they were working together.

They are so idealistic about their marriage it almost sounds like two day-dreaming kids. But they are about to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

She's not too enthusiastic about admitting she just turned 78. "That sounds old." Nevertheless, one of my teen-age daughters had an assignment from school .to interview older people, and she chose this couple.

During the interview, he was answering a series of questions.

"What influenced your life most; family, friends, business?" . There was no hesitation.

"Family."

"Because I married an angel!"

They've taught their attitude toward building a marriage.

Their daughter is now finding the same happiness and growth in her own marriage ... a love, joy, and mutuality that's building and deepening over the years.

Based on what I read in my teen-ager's report, I beljeve their attitude on marriage will influence her life, too.

There must be great comfort in seeing your virtues passed on to "your children and your children's children ..."

Our children are fortunate to have known them.

I feel deeply blessed to have them as my parents.

Schedule Conference On Capital Punishment.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Council of Catholic Laity will sponsor a Conference on Capital Punishment at Notre Dame, Ind., March 23-26.

The conference, whose theme is "punishment in a 'Civilized' Society," will be conducted at the Center for Continuing. Education at the University of Notre Dame.

'Roger L. Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr professor of social ethics and acting president of Union Theological Seminary, New York, will be the keynote speaker.

Other scheduled speakers will include Dr. Karl Menninger, chairman of the board, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kans.; Patricia McNeal Dolan, professor of history, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., and Robert K. Thomas, professor of anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit.

Convicted Employees Appeal to Pope Paul

VATICAN CITY (NC)-lihree men' convicted of stealing gold and silver medals from t}1e Vatican Apartment of Pope Paul VI have appealed for clemency to the man they robbed.

Vatican spokesman Frederico Alessandrini said March 11 the Pope has not yet made any deVatican Commission cision on the appeal. The men were former telephone techniStudies Women's Year cians at the Vatican. One reVATICAN CITY (NC) - The ceived a sentence of three years, Vatican's Commission for the one of 14 months and one of Study of Women's Role in Soci- nine months for breaking into ety and the Church is organizing the papal apartment and the a mid-April meeting to discuss apartment of the Pope's secrethe Church's response to the tary, Msgr. Pasquale Macchai.

United Nation's sponsored In'J1he trio faces another charge: ternational Women's Year. robbery of the Vatican adminis路It will also discuss the posi- tration building in the summer tion of the Holy See's delegation of 1970. It is alleged that the to the UN conference on women men, aided by two Vatican in Mexico City this summer. The policemen, made off with stamps Vatican's delegation to the con- . valued at about $110,000 and ference will be chosen by the cash and checks worth about papal secretariat .of state. $16,500.

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FOOD DAY: The symbol adopted for Food Day, April 17, 1975, was meant to stand for whatever the viewer sees in it, according to a Food Day spokesman. Many Christians may see the symbol as a host in a chalice, the Bread of Life. NC Photo.

Food Day Program's Aim to Educate People About Food And Its Implications in Daily Living WASHINGTON (NC)-"Eating is one of the most important things you do," says a voice on a radio commercial, with the music of "Food, Glorious Food" from "Oliver" .in the background.

"But did you ever stop to think about the food you eat?" the message continues. "Where it comes from, what goes into it, why it costs what it does, why some people have more food than they need and others have none at aU? "On April 17, we're going to take one day to think about questions like that, and try to come up with some answers.

Food Day, April 17, all across America. For -information, write Food Day, Washington, D. C., 20036."

The commercial is one of several prepared to focus attention on Food Day, which might be considered to be to food policy what Earth Day is to the路 ecology movement.

The purpose of Food Day is to educate people about food and its implications and organize them at the local level to deal with questions involving food, according to Michael Jacobson, Food Day director.

In Public Interest Jacobson said the idea for the <lay originated with the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Ralph Nader spinoff organization that has been concerned with nutritional issues, as well as other areas, since it began four years ago.

"We wanted something broader than just specific studies," Jacobson said in describing the

variety of approaches involved in Food Day. Teach-ins, fairs and talks will highlight Food Day activities, but other projects are also expected. These, he said, include: -Efforts to introduce nutrition education programs into schools and colleges.

- Protests against "food taxes," sales taxes on food, which hit the poor the hardest.

- EstabJ,ishing food cooperatives.

-Lobbying for a percentage of nutritional foods in vending machines on public property.

-Fund-raising for relief efforts for the hungry abroad.

About 30 per cent of the Food Day activities involve church groups, according to Susan Wager of the Food Day staff.

Methodist an<l Lutheran churches are most heavily involved, she said, with about five per cent of the total effort coming from Catholic churches.

Father McRaith said that "justice, and work in behalf of justice, is not a choice, but a demand. There can be no reconciliation until we remember what we bave done, repent, and on the basis of repentance, change our behavior."

He said Christians can no longer be content to sit back and be part of institutions and organizations that are unjust. He called on Christians to become involved in government food policies, especially those concerning food distribution and use of land. He said he hopes that the involvement would be reflected in new policies.

Trains Extraordinary Ministers of Eucharist LOS ANGELES (NC) - Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Angeles has established an archdiocesan program to select and train lay persons as extraordinary ministers of the eucharist for t~e sick and elderly.

The cardinal established an Office for the Extraordinary Mininster of the Eucharist to the Sick and Elderly and named Father John M. Young to direct the program.

Seminars will be provided at various centers in the archdiocese to provide the extraordinary ministers with a tbeology of the Eucharist and contemporary liturgical practices, Father Young said.

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Lists What Can Be BouQ,ht With Price of One Dress

Use of Prayer (lards Incr-eases

The dress looked like a pink cloud, something that fairy tale princesses would wear to that special ball and as I gazed at the price tag I realized that only real, honest-togoodness princesses could afford it, for the tag read $565.

How in this world of today, bedeviled by sky-high unem- French women in Paris was that they seemed to value the clothes ployment, record food prices that they had and a very good and famine, does a dress of item became an important friend

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feel no guilt in spending it on ~omething so frivolous.

That amount would keep a family of five ·in groceries for it month, provide aid to overseas child relief funds (the value of which is being brought home with full impact in the plight of the Vietnamese orphans) pay school tuitions, heat a home for a year and on and on, rather than to pay for a dress to shine for one night on a dance floor and spend the rest of its life hanging in a closet.

While most of us never would or could think about paying such a price for one article of clothing, it is still mind boggling to imagine that some people do.

When we were in Paris a couple of years ago (seeing we had visited Joe's ancestral land of Portugal, he felt we should visit my ancestral background of France, but that's another story), I saw many small boutiques that featured such designer names as Dior and Chanel and it was nothing to see $500 price tags on these items in a city where the average worker was making $80 a week.

Valued Clothes I agree with Mary Carson's column last week that spoke of some of the good points of the recession-perhaps of tnem will be to help us get our values in the right perspective. One thing. I did notice', about t1Je

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KALAMAZOO (NC) - A permanent diaconate program for Spanish-speaking men has 'been launched by the Diocese of Kalamazoo.

Fathoer Eugene A. Sears, diocesan chancellor and director of the three-year program, said the deacons will minister to the estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Spanishspeaking in the nine-county Michigan diocese, where the number of Spanish - speaking Catholics increases dramatically during harvest time in this fruit belt region of southwestern Michigan.

Sixteen men have begun studies. meeting one weekend a month at Nazareth College hoere under the coordination of Father Thomas Bissonnette, a priest from the Detroit archdiocese who speaks fluent Spanish.

to be cherished, worn and loved for many years.

We Americans had almost got into the disposable clothing business where what we wore one season -could not possibly make it into the next because it wasn't fashionable. Now we're interested in recycling clothes, and in a future column I hope to pass on some tips to you.

While I'm glad to be able to view such beautiful confections as the pink cloud, I'm also glad that I'm able to view it with objectivity as a work of art, such as a beautiful oil painting.

Of course, I can't help but wonder about the imaginary woman who could afford such a dress and what she does with her old clothes!

Workshops for Adults Working With Young WASHINGTON (NC) - The Youth Activities Desk of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC) Department of Education is sponsoring six regional workshops this spring for adults involved in youth ministry on the parish or diocesan level.

The four-day workshops are designed to help those who work with youths to improve their skills in dealing with youngsters.

Father Rudy Baranek, USCC representative for youth activities said the regional workshops are the third phase of a threepart program called SPERO, d'~­ veloped over the past two years

by USCC Personnel and Univer· sity Associates of San Diego, Calif. . ..

SPERO, the Latin verb "I hope," is an acronym for Sensitiveness, Participation, Experiment, Responsibility, Openness.

Urges More Involvement

By Nuns in Ministry PHILADELPHIA (NC)--Nuns shouta becorn,e more involved' in the evangelical ministry of the Ch~cft,.. Sisrel' Elizabeth Carroll said'. at Ii ~O,r~Shop -here. To do that, howeve-r, they must "explode the nwaning of the word ministry to lnclUde women Re· ligious," she added.

Speaking at a four-day Evangelization Conference, Sister Elizabeth Carroll, a staff associate of the Center of Concern in Washington, D.C., said that evangelization must take place in an atmosphere of "communion" -communion of ourselves with the whole human race, and communion of the human race with God. Through our social concerns, she said, we achieve the persona) and social transformation needed to gain God's grace for evangelization.

Sister Elizabeth is a former superior general of the Sisters of Mercy of Pittsburgh.

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AT CONVENTION: Sister Mary Lawrence and Sister Mary Felicitas of St. Stanislaus School, Fall River, inspect new Sunday missal at exhibitor's booth at National Catholic Educational Assn. convention held last week in Atlantic City. The Sisters were among 15,000 educators from throughout nation in attendance at annual conclave.

Miss America Speaks Returns to Atlantic City in Role Of Adviser to Conventioneers ATLANTIC CITY (NCl-Miss America of 1958, Marilyn Van Derbur, returned to the Broadwalk and Convention Hall of Atlantic City with advice for Catholic nuns and lay teachers about how to motivate students to think of themselves as "important, worthwhile humail beings" rather than as "failures."

Miss Van Derbur, who is adjunct assistant dean for student affairs at the University of Denver in Colorado, spoke at the 72nd annual National Catholic Educational (NCEA) convention.

Part of her theme-the impact of the teacher on the lives of the pupils - was discussed in quite different terminology the same morning (April 1) by Cardinal George H. Flahiff of Winnipeg, Canada. The spoke of the "reaffirmation" of the Christian vocation by members of Religious communities as they pursue their tasks in religious education.

"Motivation is the greatest single need in students' lives today," said Miss Van Derbur, who after capturing the Miss A'meric/l crown went back . to, studies at the University of COlorado and graduated Phi Bet~ Kappa.

She told how she developed a series of eight mini-course films for use by teachers to inspire youths to make the most of themselves, accept failures, set attainable goals, believe in themselves, and accept the things they cannot. change.

Researched Motivation She ended her presentation singing "The Impossible Dream" from the musical Men of La Mancha. She received sweeping applause from an audience of more than 500 teachers. most of them nuns.

She complimented the teachers for going back to class "day after day" not knowing how they were really affecting students or whether they were g,iving their young charges reasons to go forward in life with new hope.

She gave many case histories of people who failed at some point in life but later made their mark - among them Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Flip Wilson, Babe Ruth, and John F. Kennedy.

Miss Van Derbur noted that for three years she researched motivation while she taught in four different schools in Arizona and Colorado.

The result was her minicourse in which, through the Marilyn Van Derbur Motivational Institute in Denver, she has passed her knowledge along to teachers at professional meetings. The institute has a booth among the more than 400 exhibits at the NCEA convention.

Cardinal Flahiff's talk drew a positive' reaction from another audience of nuns as he praised the Catholic teaching apostolate and reviewed the Second Vatican Council and subsequent Catholic documents detailing the renewal of religious commitment in the modern age.'

CINCINNATI (NC) - One religious enterprise that has t;hown no decline-in fact, it's on the uT)swing-is the Cincinnati-based Markham Prayer Card Apstolate.

Close to 1.25 million cards'! new record-with the apstolate's basic prayers of faith, llOpe, love and contrition were ('istributed throughout the world ;n the past year.

The little cards went to missions, hospitals, nursing homes, convert classes and county fair booths to be given out by members of the Legion of Mary, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and other volunteers.

Franciscan Sisters of the Poor at their Cincinnati area headquarters, St. Clare's convent in Hartwell, are in charge of printmg the cards and distributing them. They have sent out close 1.0 20 million cards in the 44 years of the program.

Father Herman H. Kenning is (;irector of the apstolate, found· ed by the late Msgr. Raphael J. Markham, seminary professor and chaplain at St. Clare's convent, who composed the prayers nearlv half a century ago.

The prayers originally were intended as spiritual aids to dying persons who lacked religious education. In the years since Msgr.

Markham composed them they hilve been translated into approximately 35 different lan~mages. including Russian, Gaelic( Hindi, Swahili, and the Scandinavian.

There are large-type cards for those with poor vision and Braille copies for the blind.

Father Kenning's report of the apostolate's activties for 1974 showed that Mrs. Raliph Egan of Scarborough, Canada, was responsible for distributing more than a quarter million of the prayer cards throughout Canada.

"Many cards are sent to fort'ign missionaries, who find them very helpful in their work," Fa. ther Kenning reported.

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Bishop Asserts Church Is Ready To Aid Refugees

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"We in America cannot be de· tached or indifferent concerning what is now occurring in Vietnam . . . we cannot responsibly turn our backs as a nation on a situation we have helped to create."

A similar concern was ex~ pressed by John McCarthy, director of the USCC Division of Migration and .Refugee Services, who said his and other church ngencies had received "tens of thousands" of offers of homes for Vietnamese orphans and homeless children. He expressed confidence that U.S. Catholic Church structures had an "absorption capacitv" for many thousands of Vietnamese refu· gees, both children and adults.

"As in similar emergencies in the past, the Church in the United States stands ready to help in this emergency," McCarthy said. "We are already involved in preparations to assist in receiving an anticipated influx of refugees. We cannot dictate policies to the U.S. government, the United Nations, or any other governmental or intergovernmental body. But we are ready c:nd willing to render the maximum assistance which it is in (Iur power to give."

Archbishop Named To National Office WASINGTON (NC) - Archbishop William W. Baum of Washington has announced the appointment of Father W. Ronald Jameson of the Washington archdiocese as executive assistant to the Committee on Spiritual Renewal lind Preparation of the 41st International Euchar· istic Congress, to. be held in Philadelphia in August 1976.

Father Jameson will bave an office in Philadelphia and will reside at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in that city.

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"We are deeply concerned over the humanitarian aspects of the deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia," said Bishop Rausch, stating the U.S. Catholic Church's readiness to "expand existing programs or to establish new ones" to help the refugees.

"We are hopeful that our government will seriously consider the advisability of providing a future life in the United States 01 other countries for those whose lives may be in danger by a Communist takeover in South Vietnam."

With his letter, Bishop Rausch enclosed copies of a Good Friday statement by Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin, President of the l'\ational Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB and the USCC) in whIch the archbishop declared: Similar Concern

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NEW HAVEN (NC) - Some advertisers in an issue of the National Lampoon that the head of the Knights of Columbus called "a blasphemous derision of religious beliefs and values" have said that they will re· evaluate use of the magazine for their ads.

John W. McDevitt, supreme knight of the K. of C., a 1.2-million-member international Catholic fraternal society with headquarters here, had written to 16 major advertisers in the Decem· ber 1974 issue of the National Lampoon, a self-styled "humor magazine," to protest the use of their advertising money to support the publication.

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McDevitt said here that reo sponses to his letter ranged from expressions of positive concern to "business as usual."

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: Their new surroundings create wide-eyed looks in these young, homeless South Vietnamese children as they peer from a small coastal vessel w:hich brought them and their families to Vung Tau not far from Saigon. Bishop James Rausch said in letters to President Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger that the U.S. Catholic Church is offering help for Vietnam refugees.

Catholic Aid Ag'ency To Stay in Vietnam Larger Staff to Serve Regardless of Regime NEW YORK (NC) - Catholic our staff will be safe and that Relief Services, the overseas aid we can see for ourselves that agency of U.S. Catholics, is will- the commodities and funds get ing to continue its massive reo. to the refugees."

Moral Responsibility lief work in South Vietnam and Cambodia whatever regime is in Father Charlebois said CRS power. "has a tremendous moral respon"We ask only two guarantees sibility to make sure that the from whatever government may five dollars Mrs. Murphy gives be in authority," said Father the world's poor actually reaches Robert L. Charlebois, Catholic the refugee at the rice roots Relief Services' regional director level and that no government or for East Asia and the Pacific. individual becomes richer be"The safety of our internation- .cause of her, or misuses the doal staff must be assured, and our nation she has made for the love international staff must be able of Christ." to monitor and account for the CRS has been cooking 119 expenditure of commodities and tons of rice daily in Cambodia funds in. the refugee areas, re- and feeding "close to half a milgardless of who controls them." lion" in Cambodia's secure areas, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Father Charlebois said. i~ "boping to gear up to provide "We have a full spectrum of for a half-million additional refu- relief operations tbere, including gees" in Vietnam, Father Char- hospitals for rocket victims, lebois said. starvation medical teams in the "This is over and above our present work in child welfare, Wealth nutrition and medical relief.

Let not the nation count "We are trying to assemble wealth as wealth; let it count the extra staff right now." righteousness as wealth.

Father Charlebois said there -Confucious were no plans to evacuate Catholic Relief Services" 157 emp!oyes in South Vietnam or 347 LET'S GO & ENJOY DANCING-SAT. NITES TONY RAPP--ART PERRY employes in Cambodia "until the Band of a Thousand Melodies security situation demands the PLAYING PRETTY FOR THE PEOPLE AT April l2-V.F.W., Ports.-Am. Port. Vets, evacuation of the American em· F. R. l2-St. Mary, Newport-K of C. bassy."

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provinces, our soup kitchens all over the country, and water trucks to keep people from dying of thirst."

He said the rice cooked and dIstributed by CRS in Cambodia is turned over to CRS by the U.S. government's Agency for International Qevelopment. Commodities distributed by CRS "come from the U.S. government and a multitude of other private and public sources," he noted.

Thirteen of the CRS employes in Cambodia are U.S. citizens, as are 10 of those in Vietnam.

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Auxiliary Bishop Makes Promise, Asks Favor FRESNO (NC)-A young California priest began his life as a bishop in the San Joaquin Valley by asking a favor and making a promise. The promise uf Bishop Roger Mahony, ordained auxiliary bishop of Fresno by Bishop Hugh Donohoe of Fresno 1n a Spanish and English ceremony, is contained in the motto he has chosen: To Reconcile God's People.

"My commitment to all of you today," he said at his ordination, "is founded upon the challenge of building up the body of Christ through self-service and pastoral charity and through the ministry of reconciliation."

One sign of reconciliation was to have occurred in the Offertory procession. United Farm Workers of America union leader, Cesar Chavez, and his wife.

Helen, were to have brought up the gifts together with Mr. and Mrs. John Giumarra, Jr., a leading spokesman for the California grapegrowers.

Chavez, however, sent a teiegram to Bishop Mahony saying he would be unable to attend because of the death of his nephew, George Lastra, in San .Jose.

'Accept Me' Bishop Mahony's request fur a favor was voiced in Spanish.

"You are the most affectionate people," he told the crowd in Selland Auditorium. "You know that even though I am not of your own race, I have always loved you much and have identified myself with you. Because of this I wish to ask you a great favor, that you accept me and receive me as your son and hrother."

Bishop Mahony's plea was met with an affirmation of tumuItuous and prolonged applause.

Continuing in· Spanish, the bishop said: "Together with you I shall work to extend the kingclom of Christ in the ministry of reconoiliation."

Bishop Mahony ended with the traditional Mexican cry: "Long live Christ the King and Our Lady of Guadalupe."

Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States,· presided at the ceremony.

Says CIA Activities' Hurt Missioners CHICAGO (NC) - The covert activities of the CIA to "destabilize" Chile's government have hurt the credibility of American missioners in Latin America, according to journalist and Latin American expert Gary MacEoin.

MacEoin also said American missioners have knowingly and unknowingly provided information to the CIA in the past.

He made his comments in Christian Century, an ecumenical weekly opinion journal published here.

Based 01'1 contacts with missioners and members of mission organizations, MacEoin concluded that the American missioner has "suffered a loss of credibility" as a result of CIA efforts: "As a citizen with pride in his country's reputation as a lawabiding nation, he has typically 'identified himself With his home government and its politics. Now he has lost moral standing.

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of their profession, . . . constitute the most im~ortant U.S. presence around the world" and should have been listened to when they made their protest, MacEoin said. There are 2,225 Catholic and 9,000 Protestant missioners in Latin America, MacEoin said.

In recent related developments, representatives from the Maryknoll priests an::! Sisters of the National Council of Churche3 testified against the nominations to higher posts of the U.S. ambassador to Chile and bis first deputy at the time of the coup against Marxist President Salvador Allende.

The missioners said the appointment-Ambassador Nathaniel Davis as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Harry Schlaudeman as ambassador to Venezuela-would raise fears of similar CIA covert operations in those areas.

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Lauds Chicagoans For Generosity CHICAGO (NC) - Pope Paul VI has commended the generosity the the people of the Chicago archdiocese in the-- Freedom from Hunger collection, which received $1.5 million.

The collection has been presented to Catholic Relief Services, the overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics.

The Pope sent a telegram to Cardinal John Cody of Chicago commending the people "for the singular generosity that they have shown this year in giving aid in Christ's name to their brethren in need, invoking upon all aSS9Ciated in this expression of Christian love and fellowship a bountiful recompense from the Lord."

Cardinal Cody called the collection "the greatest success story in the history of the archdiocese."

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Synod of Bishops Booklet Published WASHINGTON (NC)-"Synod of Bishops-1974," a compilation of material from the international gathering of bishops at the Vatican last fall, has been published by the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC).

The 87-page booklet includes Pope Paul's opening address to the Synod, the Declaration of the Synod of Bishops, the statement on Human Rights and Reconciliation, Reflections on tbe Synod by the American delegates, letters froni the Synod by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, and the "interventions" of Cardinal Krol, Cardinal John Carberry of St. Louis, Cardinal John Dearden of Detroit, Archbishop John R. Quinn of Oklahoma City and Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati: "Synod of Bishops - 1974" may be' purchased from thc USCC Publications Office for S 1.50. Bulk rates arc available.

"A new gap has o~ened between him and the people he seeks to serve, a service which involves daily sacrifice for him.

If his work is not to suffer; he must take positive steps to bridge that gap."

MacEoin also criticized the secular pre3s for failing to cover a letter to President Gerald Ford from more than a dozen mission organizations protesting the President's defense of CIA covert operations in Latin America.

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The Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of Darish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be included, as well as full dates of all actiVities. Please send news of future rather than past events.

Wain's Book Covers R'iches Of Samuel Johnson's Life

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO Knights of the Altar will leave the schoolyard at 6:30 P.M. tomorrow for a swim outing tit Attleboro High School.

A Christmas bazaar committee meeting will take' place at 7:30 P.M. Sunday, April 13 in the school. All volunteers are asked to attend. In connection was not a raconteur or a maker VERY REV. MICHEL DORAN with the bazaar, donatil;ms of of epigrams. His talk was imyarn are requested and may be pressive because of his complaced in a box which will be mand of information and the available for that purpose at the power of his reasoning. back of the church on Sunday.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, Johnson's money, such as it NORTH DARTMOUTH was, was not spent on himself.

The Women's Guild entered In accordance with the demoSomeone said of him that he its sixth year last night under cratic process established by St. dressed and lived like a beggar.

He was extremely generous. His Dominic in the early 13th cen- .the leadership of Mrs. Leonard compassion for the poor was tury, the Dominican Friars of S. Crane, newly elected prescontinuous, and he was always St. Anne Priory in Fall River ident. Supporting her will be giving to the needy, and even have elected a new prior to head Mrs. Martin E. King, vicetook some of them into his home their community in the person of president; Mrs. William Harrison the Very Rev. Michel Doran, and Mrs. John J. Wade, secreas permanent guests. taries and Mrs. Kermit Cozzie, O.P. In 1766 he had'the good fortreasurer. the Province of QueBorn in tune of making friends with a married couple, Henry and Hes- bec in 1915, Father Doran re-. OUR LADY OF LOURDES, ter Thrale, who provided him ceived his secondary education TAUNTON, The annual parish penny sale hospitality for the next 17 years. at the Seminary of Rimouski, slated for 8 P.M. Saturday, is after which he entered the noviBy this time, too, he had met James Boswell, who was to be tiate of the Dominican Fathers April 26. Prizes will include food at St. Hyacinthe, Canada, in Au- baskets, sweet bread, bottles of his bi{)grapher. gust of 1934. He pursued his cheer and toys. A white elephant Johnson earned enduring fame theological studies at the Domin- table and a money raffle will by his own work, but it was Bos- ican House of Studies in Ottawa be added attractions. well who immorta~ized him in a and was ordained June 24, 1939.

ST. PAUL, biography which ranks with the Father Doran holds a degree TAUNTON greatest ever written. in theology from, the Dominican The Folk Music Club of TaunAlthough aging and ill, John- House of Studies in Ottawa and ton High School entertained at son still produced books of rare a doctorate in philosophy from last night's meeting of th.e quality: for example, his Lives the University of Montreal.

Women's Guild, to which all of the Poets, his scholarly edition He taught at the Dominican women of the parish were inof the plays of Shakespeare, and House of Studies in Ottawa from vited. his Journey to the Western Is- 1953 to 1957 and at the Univer- ST. MARY, lands of Scotland. sity of Sherbrooke from 1969 to NEW BEDFORD 1970.

Care of plants will be disLooked to Heaven He has served previous terms cussed at the Women's Guild He had Christian instruction as superior at Dominican houses meeting to take place at 8 P.M. from his earliest years, and was in Quebec and Lewiston, Me. Monday, April 14 in the school a believing and practicing Chris- and was also preacher and chap- on Illinois St. tian all his life. He read widely lain at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall The unit's annual rummage in theology, and knew the Bible River, and St. Marie's Hospital, sale is set for 10 AM. to 6 P.M. Lewiston. through and through.

Thursday, April 24 and Friday, He did not expect earthly hapApril 25 in the school gymnapiness, but looked to heaven for sium. Those wishing to make peace and joy. He had a keen donations may contact Florence sense of standing under the Lavoie, telephone 995-1298.

SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-Exjudgment of God, and was always expressing contrition for ecutives from the nation's Cathhis sins. He feared death, not the olic hospil4.l and long-term care process of death, but the judg- health facili/ties will meet here June 1-5 for the fourth annual ment which would follow it.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A pro.Wllen, in 1784, he knew that Catholic.~ealth Assembly. po~ed meeting between President .

'The five-da,y meeting is' conhe was dying, hee'refused all {)pi. Gerald Ford and lea~rs of the Ines, for, he said, "I have prayed ducted by the St. I,.ouis-based National Conference of Catholic Jhat I may render uPiny .soul Cathoilc I.J.QSpital Association. .About .~,200 'Religious" priests. Bishops (NCCB) is still up in' tn· ~d unclouded." ars last and laymen·who serve· as hos- the air: wOrds were spoken to a 'stranger The White House says it is trustees. administrators, pital who had intruded upon his sickmerely waiting for the bishops major superior, diocesan coordi. room: "God bless you, my dear." to suggest possible dates for nators and pastoral care d.irecJohnson's life was difficult, tors are expected to attend. the meeting. but rich in many ways. It was The NCCB general secretary, Program topics will explore rich, for example, in accomplish- the issues facing Religious- Bishop James Rausch, asks, ment. It was Iich, too, in friend- sponsored health facilties, in- "what meeting?" ships. Among his friends were cluding: "Hospitals, Physicians The problem is that the White Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reyn- and Social Responsibilities;" House and the bishops have each olds, the actor David Garrick, "Can the Voluntary System Sur- proposed a different type of Oliver Goldsmith. vive?;" 1md "Neo-Morality-Some meeting, and Bishop Rausch beMr. Wain manages to cover Perspectives on Not Dying." lieves the bishops never received and interrelate all the riches of The opening Mass is set for a response to their original reJohnson's life. He also places the June 1 at 5:30 P.M. Plenary and quest. man exactly in his own time, interdisciplinary sessions will A meeting was first proposed showing us the society in which start June 2 at the San Fran- on Dec. 9 when Bishop Rausch, Johnson moved, the principles cisco Hilton Hotel and Tower urging the President to consider informing it, its functioning on and continue through Thursday, the policy on the world food different levels, the climate of June 5. crisis adopted by the bishops at thought.

The Cathoilc Hospital A5so-. their annual general meeting in Some of Mr. Wain's interpre- ciation represents 870 Catholic- November, suggested a meeting tations can be challenged but his sponsored hospitals and long- between the President and sevhealth care facilities eral bishops to discuss the food book is worthy of the genius it term issue. throughout the United States. celebrates.

A grand book about a great man is John Wain's biography Samuel Johnson (Viking, 625 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 388 pages. lllustrated. $12.50). In his day and long after, Johnson was recognized as a lawgiver in everything concerning Enconversationalists. He spoke as glish literature. He was also cogently as he wrote, and for an exemplar of Christian the same reason-he had superb conviction. Both aspects of contml over what he knew. He the man are well brought out in this book.

Johnson was born in 1709 in Lichfield, a town in the English

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His formal education was sketchy. The schools he attended as a boy were mediocre, and as a young man he had a 13-months stay at Oxford. How, then, did he become so remarkabl{y learned?

For 'one thing, there was the fact that his father was a bookseller, and Johnson thus had a variety of books ready to hand.

F{)r another, he spent time in the company of men of fine minds and taste. He made the most of both opportunities.

After his short time at Oxford, he tried school teaching.

At this he was not adept, and his grotesque appearance counted. against him. He began to write for a local newspaper, and did some translation.

He married a widow much older than himself, and with her money he opened a school of his own. This was a quick failure.

Now desperately poor, he decided to go to umdon, where he might .~ a living by his pen. He wa~l:aken on by a publisher, for 'Whom he did hack work. .,.

A change .(fit the better occurred when, ·tn'.·1746, he decided to compile a dictionary of the English languap.;. ,A consortium of publishers qieed to subsidize the project. Johnson labored at it for nine YeMs and produced a masterpiece ~ts kind.

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Meetine Plans Still Uncertain

HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM The Association of the Sacred Hearts will conduct a food sale on Saturday and Sunday, April 19 and 20.

The proceeds will underwrite the travel expenses of a Belfast child selected for the Cape Cod interfaith program to give youngsters from war-torn Belfast love and family life next summer.

Mrs. William F. Kelly, Mrs. Albert Leate and Mrs. William McCarthy are members of the nominating committee scheduled to present a slate of officers for 1975-76 at the annual meeting on May 6.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FALL RIVER "The Mystery of the Holy Mass," a medieval mystery play, will be presented in the church at 7:30 P.M. tomorrow. Tickets are ava,i!able at the parish credit union, 722 Bedford St. ST. PIUS, X, SOUTH YARMOUTH The Women's Guild will meet at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday, April 15 in the church hall. A style show will be presented by members and guests are invited.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER Parents are invited to attend a penance service for CCD children preparing for reception of First Communion. The servke will take place at 10 AM. Saturday, April 12.

A parents' meeting will take place at 7:30 P.M. Sunday, April 13 in the school, with Rev. Robert McIntyre presenting the second in a series of talks on children's behavior.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. HYANNIS A special guest at the 50th anniversary banquet and installation of officers of the Women's Guild will be Mrs. William Fitzgerald, the unit's first president. Now 93, she is still an active parishioner and wm be present at the celebration scheduled for Thursday, May 15 at Dunfey's Hyannis Resort.

'Planned for Saturday,. Apriil 26 is the guild's spring rummage sale, and a Communion breakfast will be held following 9 AM. Mass this Sunday at Mitchell's Restaurant, Hyannis. Rev. John F. Andrews will discuss the history of Catholics. on Cape Cod. . .

Boy Scout Troop 63 will sportsor a,spaghetti supper in the parish center beginning at 6 P.M. Saturday, -April 19.

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Asserts Gregorian Chant Glorious Musical Tradition

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.I miss' Gregorian chants.

1 miss them so much that I have a couple of albums of records that I play often. I am told these albums sell very well. Banished from church ,the chant is prospering in the record stores. I am disturbed How very Protestant of us. that we will shortly have a There is no reason on God's whole generation of clergy earth why you cannot have who know nothing about chant and gospel music side by chant, who will not have fallen asleep at night in their seminary days with the melodies of "Alma Redemptoris Mater" or "Ave

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REV. . ANDREW M. GREELEY Regina Caelorum" echoing in their heads.

What will such clergy say when the laity of the future asks them what ever happened to the Gregorian chant?

They will reply doubtless "Gregorian WHO?" I do not feel nostalgic about chant. Catholic nostalgia (a la Wilfrid Sheed's "Three Mobs," Gary Wills' "Bare Ruined Choirs," Caryl Rivers "Aphrodite at Mid-Century," and John Powers' "The Last Catholic in America") laments for the dear, dead past. Plainsong is not dead.

It is a glorious musical tradition which will be studied, listened to, and appreciated as long as European music is known to humankind. The Church may have abandoned it, but that does 110t mean chant is worthless; it means only that American Catholicism has once again characteristically thrown out the baby with the bath.

Side by Side We entered the ecumenical age with counter-Reformation mentalities. Change meant to exclude not include, it meant to reject not to accumulate, it meant to repudiate not to combine. If you were going to have a new liturgy, you had to get rid of as much of the old as possible. If there were to be folk music and guitars at mass, there could be no plainsong, if you were going to have an English liturgy, then every least bit of Latin had to be extirpated.

Catholic University To Honor Prelate WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be awarded the first President's Patronal Medal and an honorary doctorate at the Catholic University of America here April 16.

The President's Patronal Medal will be awarded annually to persons who have made outstanding !Contributions to the Catholic Church.

Archbishop Sheen has served as auxiliary bishop of New York City and bishop of Rochester, N.Y. His programs were broadcast

by NBC radio for more than 20 years (1930-52) and via nationwide television for about 15 years (1951-66).

side. When Bobby Vinton can sing part of the latest country and western favorite in Polish, we should be able to have an English liturgy with Latin hymns. Why can't we have Latin hymns at mass? When the Latin liturgy first came into existence it retained the Greek of the Kyrie.

Sing Them in Latin It is part of the exuberant genius of Catholic Christianity to pull everything together, but not to exclude and fragment.

James Joyce said that Catholicism means "here comes everybody!" It also should mean, "and they're bringing everything!"

We may not have enough mU5icai talent just now to write new music in plainsong. Some of the older music admits of translation, but the "Ave Maris Stella" and the "In Paradisum," for example, probably do not. So sing them in Latin. It's a nice language and it won't hurt you.

The past resistance to chant is understandable. We were unsure of the permanence of liturgical reform. Diocesan chur'ch music commissions were often hotbeds of creepy reaction. To say anything nice about the old liturgy seemed like giving something away to the traditionalists and other· hyperconservative groups. But now that we know the new liturgy is overwhelmingily accepted, we can go back to the old and select from it whatever we need or might want to use.

Vital Tradition Chant is not beautiful because it is old. It is beautifUl because it is beautiful. We return to it not because we are sentimental about 'a dead past but because we admire a vital tradition which can contribute to our own growth in worship in the present and is part of the heritage we wish to pass on to the future.

We have moved from uncritical acceptance of the old traditions to uncritical rejection of them, from barbarism to dec'adence without ever pausing at civilization. The result is liberation theology, tongue-spea~ing, principle antiintellectualism, confrontation, pseudo-sincerity, pop psychology, and music which is simultaneously unsingable and worthless (with or without the omnipresent guitar).

What a sad, rigid, ugly narrowness for the heirs of the richest religio-cultural tradition the world has ever known.

We might ponder the thought that they will be singing the "Ave Maris Stella" long after they have forgotten about Garry Wills and liberation theology And they will write us off as the uncultivated boors that we really are.

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SUPPORTING BISHOP REGAN'S HOSPITAL: Fr. Lee McCarthy, M.M., consultant to the committee; Mrs. Mary Boris, international market chairwoman; Mr. Ray Callebaut, brunch chairman; Margaret Harrington, international market committee person; and Fr. Lee B. Shea M.M., New England Director of Development.

Benefit for Bishop Regan1s Hospital The Friends of Maryknoll are sponsoring a Champagne Brunch to be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Boston on Sunday, April 20 from 12 noon until 4 P.M. The proceeds will benefit the Christ the King Hospital in Tagum, Davao, Philippines.

The hospital is overseen by Most Rev. Joseph W. Regan, M.M., a Maryknoller from the Fall River Dioces~. His mother, Mrs. Mary M. Regan resides at 120 Chestnut St., Fairhaven and will be 104 years old this.July.

His sister is Sr. Rita Marie, O.P., a Maryknollcr serving in Taiw.an.

Bishop Regan spent 22 years . in China until he was expelled by the Communists in 1951.

In 1954, he was assigned to the P.hilippines and eight years later became the first Ordinary of the newly formed Diocese of Tagum.

Specifically, the funds will be used to underwrite harelip operations which cost $100 per patient and are quite common to that area of the world.

ica. In addition, a sampling of Philippine music and dance will be perform~d by native artists.

The Maryknoll Fathers are an American order of Roman Catholic missionaries who are headquartered in New York and have New England houses in Brookline and Hingham. They have

been active in establishing hospitals, schools, and missions on the continents of Asia, Africa, and South America.

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A highlight of this gala event will be the International Marketplace which will feature arts and crafts from the countries where Maryknoll has missions in Asia, Africa, and South Amer-

Personal Prayer I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers ... Unable either to 'say them all or choose between them, I do as a child would do who cannot read - I say just what I want to say to God. quite simply. and He never fails to understand."

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At Glastonbury, we share in creating a life that has meaning and is satisfying for all 1.0110 live here. Perhaps you can participate. Call or write: Vocation Director, Glastol]llllry Abbey, 16 Hull Street, .Hingham, Mass. 02043 (617) 749-2155.

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Replies to Archbishop's Criticism of Conference Tom Wicker of the New York Times remarks in his new book on the Attica prison riot, "A Time To Die," that "hell hath no fury like a bureaucracy defending itself." He is referring specifically to the unwillingness of the officialdom at Attica to involved ,here is a basic disconsider a demand-no mat- agreement between the Archter how justified by the evi- bishop and myself over the defidence-for the removal of nition of the term "socialism." one of its own. "That," he says, "would be to concede that the man and the bureaucracy had been wrong in the first place."

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As a long-time ecclesiastic3! hureaucrat, I know exactly what Wicker is driving at. It is perfectly true that every bureaucracy tends to go on the defensive when it thinks that the system itself or one of its functionaries is being unfairly criticized.

Frankly I reacted that way instinctively when I read a new~; summary of Archbishop Robert Dwyer's allegation at the recent Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation Leadership Conference (MFLC) in St. Louis that some of my confreres at the United States Catholic Conference (U.S.C.C.) ("the very fountainhead of American ecclesiastical bureaucracy, the centerd powerhouse on Mass. Ave. in Washington, D. C.") are advocating state socialism as a means of achieving justice and peace in the wor1rl. Archbishop Dwver, who recently retired as the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., said, among other things, that one of the agencies in the U.S.C.C. "calls for the dismantling' of our democratic free enterprise, modified capitalistic system in favor of a socialism so strongly impregnated with basic Marxism as to make that thoroughly unsavory character, Marx, rub his eye."

Sense of Humor On first reading, I bristled at this sweeping allegation, but I quickly got over my bureaucratic pique and fortunately regained my sense of humor. As a friend of Archbishop Dwyer, I am not disposed, then, in my present mood to respond to his criticism of our staff with the "fury" which Mr. Wicker has desribed as being characteristic of bureaucrats. I should simply like to say-not contentiously, but in the spirit of open dialoguethat I completely disagree with the Archbishop. I have been on the conference staff in Washington for more than 30 years. If anyone here "in high position" has ever advocated anything comparable to state socialism, he has managed to do so without my knowledge and has adroitly covered his tracks with all of the finess of an experienced se· cret agent for the CIA or-more to the point, I suppose-for its counterpoint in the Soviet Union.

I suspect that what is really

As indicated above, I don't know of any agency within the Conference or any individual "in high position" on the Conference staff, past or present, who has ever directly or indirectly advocated anything that even comes close to falling within that definition.

Nine Encyclicals This brings me logically to my sound point of disagreement with Archbishop Dwyer's speech at the MFLC that the Church has condemned socialism in all its manifestations since the time of Pope Leo XXHI. According to the Wanderer's summary of his talk, he cited nine separate papal encyclicals in which socialism is denounced. The common teaching of the Church since the late 19th and early 20th century, he told the MFLC, has always condemned socialism, yet we have men in the Church in positions of power who blithely ignore these "doctrines of the Holy Sec." I trust that the Archbishop will not take it amiss if I say very pointedly that, in my judgment, that's an unfortunate oversimplification of the Church's teaching on socialism. The type of socialism condemned in the encyclicals of recent popesnotably, for example, in Pius Xl's Quadragesimo Anno - is very carefully defined and is not to be confused with a variety of other forms of socialism which are compatible with the teaching of the Church.

-Father Oswald von NellBreuning, S.J., a recognized authority on Catholic social teaching, makes this distinction very explicitly in his article entitled "Socialism" in the monumental "Encyclopedia of Theology" edited by Father Karl Rahner and published within recent weeks in an English-language edition by the Seabury Press. Nell-Breuning, who is reported to have had a hand in the drafting of Quadragesimo Anno and has written an extensive and very authoritative commentaries on the encyclical, says that the type of socialism condemned by Pius XI was one that was based on a purely utilitarian view of man in society and could only be given effect by coercion on a grand scale, "since no basis for legitimate auhtority is provided and the autqority of God if; thus excluded from society. Such a contention is obviously incompatible with the Christian idea of man and the world.. ."

Judgment Impossible At the end of his article in the Encyclopedia of Theology, NellBreuning remarks that "Now that movements have arisen, in the newly independent AfroAsian countries, which regard themselves as 'socialist' but have almost nothing in common with what has been known pre-

• Plan to Memorialize Minorcan In ST. AUGUSTINE (NC)-Descendants of original families who settled here in 1777 will mark their staying power and Christian traditions here in April, in ceremonies to memorialize their ancestors, the Minorcans. The ceremonies are consider,ed part of the U. S. obi· centennial celebration.

Minorca is the second largest of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain. The British governed it, when, in 1763, Florida was ceded by Spain to England in exchange for Havanna, Cuba.

To exploit its newly acquired colony of Florida, Great Britain made large land grants to wealthy entrepreneurs. One of these, a Scottish medical doctor named Andrew Turnbull, in partnership with men in London, obtained more than 100,000 acres south of here at Mosquito Inlet.

Dr. Turnbull named it New Smyrna and recruited 1,400 persons, mostly Minorcans, and a few Greeks and Italians, to farm the land. Five hundred blacks he had purchased in Africa to do the harder labor in Florida died when the ship went down.

Nearly 200 more people died on the three-month voyage in eight vessels of Turnbull's private fleet, but he landed with more than 1,200, making his the largest emigration to the New World up to that time.

Two priest; from Minorca came with the settlers, who were Spanish Catholics in tradition and heritage, and who spoke Catalan. One of the priests, Father Pedro Camps, worked as a missionary to the new San Pedro parish he founded for 22 years: 10 in New Smyrna, and the rest of the time in St. Augustine, to which he transferred the parish in 1777.

Two Bishops The other priest, an Augustinian monk named Father Bartolome Casanovas, was deported

by Turnbull six years after the colony was founded in New Smyrna in 1768. Father Casa· novas' was accused on insubordination to the overseers. His "crime" was that he tried to better the oppressive conditions for the settlers.

By 1777, the Minorcans had had enough of the brutality, especially since they had left Minorca in the first place for greater religious freedom. They complained to the British governor of St. Augustine, who ordered that they be released from their agricultural contracts to Turnbull. Thus 600 people, the remnant of the large group that came to Florida in 1768, moved with their parish priest, Father Camps to resettle in St. Augustine. They kept their Catalan language and customs even when St. Augustine became a

joratively as socialism, even in the broadest sense, it is less possible than ever to pass any global judgment on socialism ... were the Church to condemn 'socialism' in general, the result in these countries would be the most baneful confusion and dismay."

Not only in "these countries," I would add, but in the United States as well. (© 1975 by NC News Service)

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MONUMENT TO MINORCANS: This bronze monument to Minorcan immigrants who settled in Florida in 1777 will be .unveiled in St. Augustine, Fla., April 24. The statue, sculpted in Spain by Josep Viladomat, shows Father Pedro Camps, who came with the original group of 1,200 people. He is holding a missioner's cross and surrounded by a symbolic Minorcan family: a young man and young woman, standing; an older man kneeling; and an older woman, seated, holding a baby. Minorca is an island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. NC Photo.

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From their families came two pioneer bishops in Texas-Bishop A.D. Pelicer, first bishop of San Antonio, and Bishop Domink Manucy, first vicar apostolic of Brownsville, predecessor to

the bishops of Corpus Christi.

Another descendant of the orig· inal Minorcan settlement in New Smyrna and St. Augustine was Stephen Vincent Benet, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author of thl"20th century.

Monument to Mark Mauthausen Deaths NEW YORK (NC)-The 30th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, May 5, will be marked by the laying of a cornerstone for a monument to the thousands of Jews who died there.

Mauthausen, about 100 miles northwest of Vienna, was one of the largest Nazi extermination , centers.

The monument in the form of a seven-armed menorah, is the project of a special committee of Jews stil'l living in Vienna.

Jhe cornerstone-laying ceremony will be attended by Otto Roes-ch, Austrian minister of interior, as well as by other Austrian dignitaries and the leaders of the Austrian Jewish community, according to the Mauthausen Monument Committee in New York.

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By ANGELA M. SCHREIBER The children were finally settled for the night. And I had begun to read the paper when there was a knock at my door.

H was Pat, one of my best friends. She look distraught.

She had no sooner sat down when she began to sob. "Forgive me," she said, "but I simply cannot bear this burden alone tonight. I don't want to go home -not now, not ever. But I know that eventually I must."

I assured her that I would listen and help if I could. She looked at me through her tears for what seemed a long time.

Finally she spoke, "My marriage has had it. After 25 years, that's a horrible statement and the most difficult one I have ever made in my life."

"But, Pat, why? I've always thought you and John had one of those rare, perfect relationships," was my puzzled reaction.

"In so many ways, it is. That's the pity. We have a lot to talk about and we share the samt: interests. He couldn't be a better father. I think our being completely in tune with each other on how to raise the children is responsible for how they've turned out. There's certainly no problem with them."

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Openness She turned away and said softly, as though she were talking to herself, "No-the problem is with us. We're polite to one another. But we're just like two acquaintances who happen to live together. When it comes to talking about us and knowing one another on a deep level, there's nothing there. I've tried to avoid thinking about it, but I can't any more. It's been close to a year now since he's shown any affection beyond kissing me on the forehead goodnight."

I suggested that this might be the time for her to bring their problem out into the open with him. She did. But he would only tell her that it was something he had to solve himself. And when she insisted on a better answer, he finally told her there was a part of himself that he would never share with another.

From there, they went to a marriage counselor. He denied that a problem existed. Nevertheless, they went for several sessions.

One of the positive things that came to light was that he resented how she handled money.

John was frugal and Pat tended to spend money without a great deal of thought. Neither felt they had lost their love for the other.

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"Needles In Pins

By GERARD A. POTTEBAUM Remember the old expression, "Needles 'n pins, needles 'n pins, when a man marries his troubles begins..."? I vaguely remember some hand gestures that went with the word, which ended with "Thumbs, fingers, break loose."

I remember even less what it all meant, except that it carried a rather ominous message of warning, delivered with good humor, a wink of the eye. So whatever its meaning, the impression it leaves now still makes sense, 20 years into marriage: This is a serious strange experience. It's not unlike the feeling one has when your arm has gone to sleep because the blood didn't circulate through it properly, and as circulation resumes, you get a sensation that is both prickly and tickly. It's not an entirely pleasant sensation, nor is it entirely painful. And it's not somewhere in between. It's both at the same time.

Living closely with someone is such a unique experience; in need one can never really look to the outside for help. It has to come somehow from within the people involved. Similarly, 9ne can never really inform outsiders or share with outsiders the joy of such an experience. It's never the same when it is brought outside the two people who are within the experience.

That's probably what another expression means which accompanies many couples: "I wonder what they see in each other."

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Meanwhile, your partner is going through the same experience in relation to you.

Living close to someone is an experience in sharing darkness.

You know the other person is there, and although you can't always see the other clearly, you know you're not alone. Just being with you in the darkness is light enough, all you can expect.

As your lives unfold you meet other people whom you find share the same darkness. The closeness you allow yourself to feel with other people makes you examine the quality of your love for your partner.

This closeness is often proportionate to the security of the love you enjoy with your partner. At the same time, the experience you have enjoved with Turn to Page Fourteen

.A Study of the Sacrament of Marriage

,In the' 12th century theologians were trying to decide which of the many rites and ceremonies of the Church were sacraments or effective signs of the operative presence of the

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Holy Spirit. They had no difficulty in deciding on six sacraments, but they were not so sure about marriage as the seventh.

A century earlier the Albigensan heretics regarded marriage as a sacrament of Satan. They contended that by entering marriage Christians made a pact with Satan to perpetuate by way of procreation the imprisonment of the soul in the flesh.

The Church's off.icial responc was that marriage was good and that married people could go to heaven. The Church said no more is needed than that needed to be said at the time.

Some theologians believed that marriage was good because it was a remedy for concupiscence (sexual desire) in the sense that it channelled the unruly sex urge of men and women towards a single 'lartner. But it was difficult to see how marriage could be regarded as holy, much less a sacrament. For many marriage was regarded as a concession to weakness. After all, as Abelard

CHRIST'S ROLE IN MARRIAGE: "For Paul, marriage is the symbol or sign of Christ's union with His bride, the Church." A cross-shaped window, symbolic of Christ's role in their marriage frames a wedding ceremony in Florida. expressed it, there is nothing heroic about marriage that merits grace.

The true heroes in the Christian community were those who dedicated themselves to the

II The New Liturgy: Yes or No? II Columnist William F. Buckley, in his syndicated article of Jan. 16 entitled, "Anglican Agony," made it very clear where he stands with regard to our revised Roman Catholic worship.

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CHAMPLIN "As a Catholic, I have abandoned hope for the liturgy, in the typical American church, is as ugly as a maladroit as if it had been composed ... for the purpose of driving people away."

Buckley apparently also feels that the reformed rites are the real cause~ of that substantial erosion in church attendance we have experienced over the past decade. He wrote: "Incidentally, .the modern liturgists are doing a remarkably good job, attendance at Catholic Mass on Sunday having dropped sharply in the 10 years since- a

flew weU-meaning cretins got hold of the power to vernacularize the Mass, and the money to scour the earth in search of the most unmusical men and women to preside over the translation," I know that Mr. Buckley speaks for many fellow Catholics who personally don't like the new liturgy and blame it for the decline in numbers at Sunday Mass during the last 10 years.

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Lord in religious profession as monks and nuns. Accordingly, some decided that the taking of religious vows should be the seventh sacrament.

Defined as Sacrament When all the discussions of the theologians of the West and of the East were ended, the Church of the East and the West in the reunion Council of Lyons II (1274) solemnly defined that the number of sacraments of the New Law is seven and that the seventh is the sacrament of marriage.

The Church does not make up her dogmas but simply defines what Christians have always believed to have been revealed by God. The Council of Trent states that the sacramentality of Christian marriage is "suggested" by the Apostle Paul when. he says that marriage is a "great sacrament, I mean, when seen in relation to Christ and the Church" (Eph. 5:31).

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Study of the Sacrament of Marriage

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Continued from Page Thirteen hoI or sign of Christ's union with His bride the Church. The word Paul uses for sign 'or symbol is "mystery." It is interest· ing however that when Christian writers of the early Church translated the "mystery" of Paul, they felt that they had a Latin word which was perfected suited to express of fullness of Paul's idea. The word was "sacramentum" or sacrament.

The basic meaning of the word sacrament for pagans and Christians was a sacred commit. ment, an oath, a solemn engage. ment, a vow, which has God or or the gods as witness and guarantor. The sacred commitment made by the pagan in the mystery religions of the day was called a sacrament. Similarly the commitment made to Christ in the initiation rite of Baptism was called a sacrament.

The marriage rite celebrated around the hearth or fireplace, with the household gods as witness, was called by pagans "the sacrament of fire and water." Simiil~ly, the sacred commitment made by the Christian bride and groom-often in the context of the nuptial Mass -was called "the sacrament of the marriage covenant." Yes, marriage, like the other sacraments, was celebrated quite early as part of the Liturgy of the Word. .

Covenant Marflage Today we speak of marriage as a contract. But in the early centuries marriage was called a covenant (foedus) a word that means to trust and to entrust oneself completely to -another.

They contract or diminish the terms of the agreement to em· brace the total giving of oneself to the other. Contracts are for a definite period of time. Covenants are forever.

There is, then, something heroic about covenant marriage, about marriage as a sacrament.

Christian marriage is hardly a concession to weakness. Weak people don't enter covenants; they make contracts. Children who know the value of a penny can make contracts. Covenants

Catholics Increase In Legislature ST. PAUL (NC) - Catholics form the largest .reported religious affiliation in the Minnesota legislature, according to a directory released by an agency of the University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service.

The Minnesota Analysis and Planning System (MAPS) direcitory shows that among 1461 state legislators who reported their religious affiliation, 10 senators and 45 representatives ar~ Cacholic.

The number of listed Cath· olics has increased by 22 seats since the 1973-74 directory, ac· cording to a story ,in the Catholic Bulletin, the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocesan weekly.

'In the last session, Lutherans reporting their affiliation made up the largest group, with a total of 41 seats. The 1974 election increased their number by 11. but that is still three less seats than the total number of Catholdcs listed by MAPS.

are for adults, for those who are physically, emotionally and spiro itually mature.

It ,is somewhat ironic that the· ologians on the Continent were asking whether there was anything heroic about marriage, while English Catholics in the diocese of Salisbury were promising "to 10ve and to cherish" each ocher in sickness and in health, for better or for worse," until death do us part." And so o~en, the w.ay in whic~ the faithful p~ay IS a better witness to the belief of the Church than the speculation of theologians.

Council's Decision In discussing Christian marriage, the Fathers of Vatican II debated whether th~ should use the word covenant or contract. By a majority vote of some 2,000 delegates to 200. they decided that marriage would be defined in the covenant !anguage of the liturgy and not m the I~gal lan~u~g: of cont~act. ~cc.?rdm.gl~, C,lflst!an m~rnage I~ an mtlll~ate commumt~ of life and marfled love, established b~ the Creat~r a~d governed. by HI~ love, which IS. brought mto bel?g by the marnage covenan,~ of Irrevocable personal con~ent.

(On "The Church in the Modern " World,': No.. 48).

M~rnage IS not. only a refle~~lOn of .the ~ovmg covena~.t ~m~mg"Chflst ~~th ~he C.hurch ; It IS a participatIOn m that covenant." (Ibid.) Marriage is not merely a symbol or sign of Christ's covenant; it is an effeclive sign or sacrament of Christ's grace, which, in the words of the Council of Trent, "perfects natural love, strengthens the indissoluble unity of the marriage bond, and ·sanctifies the spouses." Marriage, in a word, is a graced covenant or sacrament of the New Law.

Needles In Pins Continued from Page Thirteen your partner provides you with a standard for judging the qual· ity of your love for other people. If you are loving your partner well, chances are you're cap· able of 'loving others well and in way that should not threaten your marriage relationship.

Some people feel threatened when their partner comes to develop a close friendship with another person, be they of the same or opposite sex.

The threatened person may be thought of as possessive of one's partner, or insulted by the thought that their partner is not finding in them everything one could desire. For whatever reason the person feels threatened, the experience provides an op~ portunity for the couple to examine the quality of their relationship, -and to expand still more the breadth of their love.

Such feelings of love-threatened are not limited to people who are married. The same feelings come to the relationship of single people, perhaps in more intense ways than for the married. There's needles 'n pins in every personal encounter, not just when a person marries. The advantage married folks haveif they've allowed their relationship to reflect care beyond tthemselve5---'is that they can look back at their once overwhelming worries ... and wink.

CHRIST IN MARRIAGE: "Some social scientist ought to survey couples married in the last few years according to .the renewed Catholic ritual ... These men and women presumably read through the liturgical texts . . . selected the ones they preferred, and arranged with the celebrant their own ceremony." A modern couple adds a new option in the wedding liturgy in New Orleans.. They light a candle together to signify the presence of Christ in their lives and to symbolize the sacredness of their love for one another. NC Photo.

The New Liturgy: Yes or No? Continued from Page Thirteen indicates Buckley doesn't represent . the thinking of most American Catholics and has falsely diagnosed the decrease in participation at Sunday liturgies.

A preliminary report by Dr. McCready to the FDLC's board of directors in January revealed these attitudes of nearly 1,000 persons interrogated.

"Saying Mass in English in· stead of Latin"-Approve 82 per ·cent; Disapprove 17 per cent; No opinion 1 per cent.

Guitar music during Mass"Approve 64 per cent; Disapprove 32 per cent; No opinion 4 per cent.

"Handshake of peace at Mass" -Approve 77 per cent; Disapprove 17 per cent; No opinion 6 per cent.

"Reducing number of liturgical activities, like rosary devotions, novenas and benediction" -Approve 37 per cent; Disapprove 55 per cent; No opinion 8 per cent.

Reasons for Absence With regard to the deeper issue-an explanation of the Sunday Mass decline-only 7 per cent of the respondents mentioned changes in the liturgy or in the Church itself as having any influence on their decisions to attend worship services less frequently.

On the contrary, the reasons offered most often were:

* Laziness; too tired; lack of energy. * Have to work' on Sundays; too busy with housework or job. * I wQrship God in my own way; I do not need the Church.

':' I have no interest; no desire to go to Mass.

'I cannot get to church; I have no car; I am too old or sick.

This survey obviously tells us we must search deeper to explain the decrease in Sunday Mass attendance. A changed liturgy is hardly the cause; perhaps those reforms have even helped stem or diminish the decline.

Some social scientist ought to survey couples married in the last few years according to the renewed Catholic ritual for that sacrament. These men and women presumably read through the liturgical texts (in the vernacular, of course) prior to the wedding, selected the ones they preferred,( and arranged with the celebrant their own ceremony. The results of such a questionnaire would, I am sure, prove just how successful this facet of the liturgical renewal has been in the United States and support the more general evidence gathered by Dr. McCready.

Continued from Page Thirteen Their situation improved and they quit going to the counselor.

But less than a year later, their marriage began deteriorating again. Neither John nor Pat brought the problem out into the open this time. They simply shared living quarters, politely conversed when the occasion demanded, and spent their free hours going separate ways.

What a sad ending to a marriage relationship! Yet, that is precisely what it was-an ending of a marriage despite the fact they continued to live under one roof. Why did it happen?

Perhaps it happened because Pat was afraid to look deeply within herself for fear of what she might find. Certainly neither of them had. the persistence to pursue their problems. And a few sessions with a marriage counselor was insufficient for a last· ing effect.

-A successful marriage con· sists of so many things-stimulating conversation, mutual interests, physical closeness, shared thoughts. If any of these things is missing, love withers and finally dies. Love between man and woman demands the complete circle if they are to know its fullness.

'Perhaps the most difficult thing for two people to do is to tear away the barrier to their innermost thoughts. Yet, that is exactly what marriage demands, But self preservation is strong in each of us. Revealing our in· timate thoughts to another is frightening. We're terribly afraid of being laughed at or, worse, rejected. But I think it must be rare for anyone to ridicule or reject the person he loves. All of us have flaws. And when we discover that the person we married is not perfect after all, our own imperfections should be easier to face. We even find that we can eliminate some of them.

And those imperfections that ·remain tend to grow less imperfect. Even a trag-ic flaw can be dealt with where love rules.

A deep meeting of minds is the marriage base. I think that most of the time this exists in the beginning of marriage. But as children are born and careers are built, that basic closeness can be easly obscured.

Many of us forget to nourish the roots of marriage. And in John's and Pat's instance, they failed to nourish the roots be· cause he was probably unwilling to reveal that secret part of himself, and she was probably unwilling to face her faults as her husband saw them. So they each closed their respective doors.

Their choice resulted in starving their relationship to a point where it could not come back to life.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

American Priest B'ecomes Pastor Of Easter Island

IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

EASTER ISLAND (NC) - A missionary from New York City has become resident pastor for life of this remote Jsland in the South Pacific after a death bed promise to the German priest who served the islanders for 33 years.

Taunton Leaves Conference; Others May Assess Positions

Both the new pastor, Father David L. Reddy of Staten Island, and the old Father Sebastian Englert of Bavaria, had joined the Francircans, studied anthropology and history and were assigned missionary work in Chile. But Father Reddy did not know the German missionary to Easter Island until the latter made an appeal to religious congregations in the' United States from his deathbed at a hospital in New Orleans. He was dying of cancer.

Taunton High will apply for admission into the Old Colony League. What has been rumored the past few weeks was recently confirmed when Taunton officials announced the school's intention to withdraw from the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference league had been successful. and seek a new league affili- TheFrom a mechankal standpoint ation. The ramification of the league is functioning well, Taunton's decision may be in spite of the fact that league widespread as other Conference schools reassess their positions.

Controversy is nothing new for the fledgling circuit. The league weathered poor press, legislative intervention and internal dissension while in its formative stage. Yet, in spite of the obstacles, hard work and dedication brought the league into reality.

The Conference's expressed purpose was to bring about equitable competitive playing conditions for its members.

Through the utilization of the divisional concept this was achieved. No school had dominated any sport iii any division.

officials are faced with the problem of keeping 26 schools content. Admittedly, there have been rumblings with each realignment. But, individual desires have always given way to majority rule.

Taunton's dissatisfaction reportedly is two fold: schedule and travel. Complete schedules are not available in any sport under the present divisional structure. Athletic directors must fill the vacancies with nonleague opponents. Taunton's contention, and justifiably, is that suitable opponents within a reasonable proximity are difficult to find.

Problems: Schedule, Travel, Realignment Membership in the Old Colony League would resolve both problems for the Herringtowners.

There are presently eight schools in the OCL. The addition of Taunton would allow for two non-league games in football and only four in basketball and baseball.

The question is whether or not Taunton's action is a harbinger of things to come. There have been numerous rumors of Conference teams investigating possibilities.

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of teams within divisions takes place every year or two. Each time various schools express their displeasure.

Taunton has never objected to its placement and it is obvious that the decision to leave the Conference did not stem from its alignment in the large school

division. But, such is not the case with other schools.

To date schools who felt they had been misplaced voiced objection and then suffered silently. They may begin to look outside the Conference for alternatives.

This is realignment time for basketball. The decision reached by the league at this time may be critical. Basketball has been one of the most difficult sports to align in the past, and indica· tions are that there will problems again this year.

League members, like Taun· ton, who favor larger divisions with more league games are caucusing for a three divisional alignment that will best suit their needs. While others, primarily the smaller schools,' argue that three divisions will create imbalance.

A.Do's Purpose Alternative Hoop Plan Originally the Board of Governors voted to retain the status quo with four divisions. The Standing Committee, athletic directors, voiced displeasure and have presented a three divisional alignment they would like to see adopted.

The athletic directors' plan calls for re-evaluation at the end of two years. It also includes Taunton. Whether Taunton's decision will cause the Standing Committee to review the situation is unczrtain. What is certain is that thz proposal will not be ),"2ceivec; well in some quarters. ~;~

the surface it would appet?] that neither Barnstable 110r ~':":~ol~r 7£L.1i1y :~-~igh of Kevl 3e{·· Io:':. v.'oi.~lt. be c:rLlZrlt. }If.!~'· stabie is ti12 Oi1)Y Cape ::es.n:; lL the division and would he.v€ to travel ta NeW Bedford for its

closest game. Little Holy Family is again among giants.

When the Conference was first established Holy Family by virtue of its winning tradition was placed in Division I. The Parochials suffered. Have sufficient changes taken place within the past three years to warrant Holy Family's move back into the large school bracket?

It is relatively easy to align the top five or six teams. The problem arises when trying to draw the line between Division I and II. Likewise, it is difficult to delineate between the bottom of Division II and th~ top of Most schools in Division II would be satisf.ied with thei;ali.::;nment. ':'he sma!!e: schools iT: uivision III, hO'ijJe.,e~. me.y have an objectiOl: to some schools being placed in theii" b~ackE}t.

RETIRED PRIEST IS RACING SKIER: Father John H. Callahan, 70, ready for a skiing race near Aspen, Colo.

He took up racing on skis. only after his retirement last year from a parish in Milan, Ill. He is also a circus buff and has driven a tractor in Milwaukee's Schlitz Circus Parade in recent years. NC Photo.

Padre Sebastian, as he was known to the islanders, had come to Easter Island in 1936.

Besides serving as pastor there, he did extensive research and wrote several books on the Polynesian inhabitants and the island's burial platforms and giant prehistoric stone statues surmounting them.

'Uncrowned King'

Wins Bronze Medal 70-Year-Old Colorado Retired Priest Is Ski Racer ASPEN (NC)-The fact that Father John H. Callahan is a 70-year-old skier is reason enough too commt. nd the retired priest fgr his agility and courage.

But racing on skis?

Yes, the gray haired priest, who retired as pastor of St. Ambrose parish at Milan, Ill., last year, recently vacationed in this skiing capital of America where he took up racing.

Father Callahan entered a NASTAR (National Standard Race) event at Snowmass, one of the four major ski areas here.

He got through the giant slalom zig-zag course fast enough to win a bronze NASTAR medal, one of the oldest individuals in the United States to have done so. He didn't qualify for the Schlitz/NASTAR Finals, at Steamboat, Colo., April 4-5.

However, some 60-year olds (and other men and women age 19 and up) competed for the national recreational ski racing titles, sponsored by the Jos. Schlitz Brewing' Company, Milwaukee.

Ski Racer Although Father Callahan has been skiing since 1951, this winter's trip to Aspen was the first time he tried racing. One thing he tried was to get back on skis 10 years ago after severly injuring a knee and leg while skiing at Sun Valley, Ida., in 1955. "':-he doctor told me then that I'd never ski again, an(, he might have beer L"ight Cl.t the time," Callahan said.

"But friends as;<ed me to go skiing ",ith therr. ~ C :'ea,s £fter that injui"y. ~'ve hen sldins every winter since."

Father Callahan also is known in America circus circles. In reo

cent years, he drove a Caterpillar tractor as a "roustabout" for Milwaukee's Schlitz Circus Parade. He was one of scores of volunteers who got America's largest circus parade moving.

J\round the "lot" in Milwaukee he was known as "John," "Callahan" or "Father." His covolunteers affectionately called him a true show bum, a man who knows circus and circus people.

Circus Interest His circus interest first began in Florida in 1940 when he met Edward F. Kelly, then a vice-president of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

That friendship led to an abiding interest in circuses and to other friendships with performers.

"Oh, I baptize them, marry them and even bury 'em," the priest said. Recently, King Bros. Circus doubled back to Milan after playing there so Father Callahan could baptize a newborn circus member.

Father Callahan was ordained in Peoria, 111., in 1932. He was a chaplain with the 5th Armored Division in Europe, joining the outfit during the Battle of the Bulge. He left the Army as a lieutenant colonel after five and one-half years of service.

After retiring last spring, he moved to St. Anthony's Continuing Care Center at Rock Islanci, III. Thej,"e, he sometimes serves as chaplain, but most of the. time he's just retiree., as are a great many othe::' 7C-year-olo.s, except that he says daBy Mass.

Xe spends time going to citcuses, taking an occasional trip to Barbaboo, Wis., home of the Circus World IViuseum, and working out and swimming at the Rock Island Athletic Club.

Anthropologist and explorer Thor Heverdahl called Padre Sebastian "the uncrowned king of Pascua," Spanish for Easter.

-Father Reddy, now 50, learned of the priest and came to New Orleans from Buffalo, N. Y. The two priests held long conversations about the ,island.' Before dying in 1969, Father Englert told him: "Take Pascua for me, it is yours."

In following this spiritual last will, the American priest obtained permission from his Franciscan super,iors to go to Chile.

He spent almost a year in Easter Island between 1970 and 1971.

He then went for further studies and work to Southern Chile, where Franciscan missionaries care for the Araucanian Indians.

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He returned to Easter Island in mid - Februray, to take charge of the small parish· of 1,600 people. Some 98 per cent attend Sunday-services, a measure of religious practice unusual for South Amerka.

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THE ANCHOItThurs., April 10, 1975

Urges Education At Parish Level

School Policies Support Open Enrollment

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Citing Church teachings and school en· rollment statistics, the U. S. Catholic Conference (UseC) has assured the Internal Revenue Service '('IRS) that Catholic schools do not discriminate against minor.ity group students.

"The Catholic school system is committed by deep and abiding . Church policy to refrain from racial discrimination" and believes that "reasonable methods necessary to implement policies of nondiscrimination should be followed" according to a letter to IRS from Eugene Krasicky, USCC general counsel.

The letter was a response to proposed regulations issued by I~S to guarantee that private schools receiving tax-exempt . status were obeying federal civil rights laws. The regulations basically 'require proof of hondiscriminatory admission, hiring and loan and scholarship policies, and action to publicize those policies.

The new regulations were apparently drawn up in response to a U. S. Commission on Civil Rights report that criticized IRS enforcement of civil rights'laws.

The commission report, issued in January, was fairly specific in directing criticism at "segregation academies" - private schools, generally in the South and sometimes church-runwhich practiced discrimination while holding tax-exempt status.

Krasic~y said "the parochial school is significantly different from the average private academyh and that "uniform guidelines designed to apply to private academies ,might lead to unnecessarily .bul1jensome impositions" on parochial schools.

For example, he said, the regulations require all catalogues and brochures published by a school to announce a nondiscriminatory policy. "Catalogues and brochures are completely foreign and unnecessary" to the 10,000 Catholic parish schools which are "maintained by a parish church primarily for the children of local parishioners support the school," who Krasicky said.

He also said a requirement calling on schools to advertise their nondiscriminatory policies in newspapers serving their communities could cost U. S. parish schools as much as $3 million.

Krasicky said advertisements in parish bulletins and diocesan newspapers, plus informing local minority leaders of nondiscriminatory policies would be sufficient notice.

Another proposed regulation would require schools to make available to IRS "copies of all materials used to solicit contributions and all contributions received." Krasicky said this would mean IRS could audit church funds, 'a practice severe· Iy limited by present laws. He said such audits seemed to apply to private academies, not parish schools.

Loneliness Loneliness is the stuff of hell; it is a big price to pay for power and glory.

-Vann

ATLTANTIC CITY (NC) Members of Catholic boards of Lducation were challenged here

by Sister Elinor Ford, superintendent of schools in the Arch· . djocese of New York, to become "spra-thinkers" in solving and lea<ijng programs at the parish level to achieve the goal of total Gatholic education.

Central to the obective of kindergarten - through - adult programs, she said, is the parish srhool. This school, she added, should provide the resources to bring all groups of the parish together in a common effort to offer education. to all who need it.

NCEA SCENES: There's more to attending the National Catholic Educational Association than just hearing speakers. These two Sisters show some of the sidelights available. One checks a book display with new offerings and another enjoys a stroll between sessions along Atlantic City's famous boardwalk. NC Photos.

Educators Voice Cautious Optimism ATLANTIC CITY (NC) - One of the most popular posters the mms were buying in novelty shops along the Boardwalk of Atlantic City during the Easter week 72nd annual National Catholic Educational Association convention was the one with the marmalade cat clinging to a bamboo pole, and the words: "Hang in there, baby. Friday's coming."

The words, curiously sum· marized a mood of cautious optimism, voiced by clergy and laity here, about American Catholic education generally. The note was sounded in a welter of speeches-many of which were otherwise incomprehensibly full r:f professional jargon-but more often in the semi·social gatheriTlgs of the educators, at lunch or over cocktails.

The educators seemed to be ~aying t~at the end of a long dark tunnel had been reached.

A decade of deep gloom about finances, morale, faith, buildings, the teaching apostolate, enrollments was passing.

Educators, indeed, the Cathoiic "system" itself must be doing something. right, they mused.

And after quite a while of feeling slightly unwanted on the American educational and reliligious horizons, the educators were rediscovering the uniqueness of their calling and the vrorth of their teaching commitment to the ranks of the people of God and society in general.

"The optimism is very noticeable at this meeting," reflected Bishop Raymond J. Gallagher of Lafayette, Ind., retiring board chairman of NCEA, in an inter· view with NC News Service.

"It's a sense, I think, that the worst of times is behind us, of greater spontaneous school support from Catholic families for

Catholic schools, and a feeling that tbe schools are worth preserving."

The NCEA convention, with its theme of "Seeking a Just Society," appeared to some to go far beyond the boundaries of classroom, Religious community djs~ipline, diocesan school syst.ems and all the other inside things associated with Catholic education. Why should it be conconcerned with, say, the aging, world hunger, racial injustice, the United Farm Workers of America, poverty, the ecclesial role of women and so forth?

Would it continue to do so?

"Education," continued Bishop Gallagher, responding, "is an essential to the formation of life patterns, lifestyles, life goals.

Many of our problems of justice arise from myth, prejudice and half-knowledge. Education can lead to the substitution of knowledge for prejudice."

Morale among the educators has been boosted by a number of factors. Recent NCEA figures indicate that the decline in schools and pupils has decreased for three' consecutive ·years.

There is greater appreciation of

the unique quality of education where the worth of the individual pupil is recognized.

The teaching Sisters, their numbers .thinned from drop-outs, are better trained professionally and, since Vatican Council II, more revitalized-if that is possible-in their Religious vocations in a renewed Church. Lay· men on school boards and in classrooms have injected the freshness of a differ-ing view of the educational" challenge as well as hard-headed business know-bow, enriching the whole process.

Addressing 200 persons at the ,mnual luncheon of the National '\ssociation of Boards of Education of the National Catholic Educational Association, Sister Ford urged them to become "change agents" so schools can meet the need for comprehensive education as outlined in the U.S. bishops' pastoral, "To Teach as Jesus Did" and other major Church pronouncements.

"Sister Ford suggested that alternatives to present activities iTl the parish should be fully considered. If they work, they should be retained, she said.

The New York school leader cited the possibility of establish· ing pre-kindergartens at the ~chool, with senior citizens in charge. In this way, young mothers would be free to serve in the school itself as teacher aides, or Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) teachers or pari'3h resource persons.

Sister Ford said that a pilot project will be started in the New York archdiocese next year where one school will reschedule the school day to end at noon.

During the afternoons, it will be open to public school releasedtime classes and adult educational programs.

The older children of this £chool would work with the CCD students and with adults, sharing their Christian faith with them.

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