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Teaching Must Adapt To Known Theology NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The leaching of Catholic doctrine must take changing theological . views into account, Sulpician Father Raymond Brown told delegates at the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) here. In his keynote address on "Catechetics in an Age of Theological Change," the Scripture scholar blasted "the archconservative section of the Catholic press," which he said "has usurped the authority of the Church's magisterium to judge what is orthodox in theology." Father Brown praised the U. S. bishops' recent document, "Basic Teachings for Catholic Religious Education," as an important and much-needed statement. But, he said, "arch-conservatives" are trying to misuse the document to destroy contemporary theological investigation. . He accused them of trying

"to turn the clock back on genuine theological progress" and said that if they succeed in manipulating catechetics to conform to their views, they will create "a future generation of youth that will be even less at home in the Catholic movemen~s of this century than their parents are." Although Father Brown's attack on arch-conservatives was almost certain to capture' the most attention in the media, it was a relatively small part of his 20-page speech. Father Brown compared the present "crisis in theology" with the great upheavals in thought from the fourth to the sixth centuries and during the late Middle Ages. And in every period of major theological change there has been resistance to the new ideas and the new knowledge that Turn to Page Four

TEACHER AND PUPIL: Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, gives Holy Communion at Monday's Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, to Miss Anna G. McCarty who t~ught him Latin at B.M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River after his arrival as immigrant from the Azores to Fall River.

Special Gifts Phase Underway A volunteer group. of special gift solicitors, numbering over 850, is in the midst of the first phase of the annual Catholic Cha,rities Appeal of the diocese of Fall River, now in its thirtysecond call for funds to sustain the charitable, social servic~ and other worJ(s of the apostolate of the diocese for all the peoples of southeastern Massachusetts. Over 4,225 contacts are being made to professional, business, fraternal and industry leaders affording these groups the opportunity to contribute .to the institutions rendering these vital

Nationally Renowned Educators to Speak The Catholic Education' Convention of the Diocese of Fall River, convening at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro on May 3-4, will be fortunate to have nationally renowned educators participate in it. Rev. Alfred McBride, O. .prem., one of the country's foremost . contemporary commentators on Religious Education and the author of a syndicated column which appears in The Anchor heads the list. Director of. "Travelling Workshops" on the Bishops' Pastoral on Education, he is currently Executive Secretary of the NCEA Department of Religious Education. Father McBride will speak on the adolescent faith-response (Thursday afternoon) and on practical implications for Catholic education of the recent Bishops' Pastoral (Thursday eve· ning).

Rev. Russell M. Bleich, well known for his efforts to develop the concept of a "Community of Faith" through schools and religious education programs, has given workshops in many dioceses and is presently conducting several large regional workshops in various parts of the country. He is 'Superintendent of Education for the Diocese of Dubuque, Iowa, and Secretary of Department of Chief Administrators, NCEA. He will give two sessions on Community of Faith, one introductory session and one work session, on Friday. Robert N. Lynch is Executive Director of Parents for Non Public Education, responsible for designing and developing support for the present Tux Credit Legislation. He' will speak on the prospects and implications of Tax Credits Tum to Page Three

services to all people, regardless of color, race or creed. The first returns of special gifts are heartening.This indicates a cordial reception to the solicitors and a generous response by the donors to the beneficiaries of the Appeal. The same enthusiasm and response will be evident when the second phase of the Appeal is 'conducted on Sunday, May 6. This phase will be held

between the hours of 12 noon and 3 P.M. when 16,800 parish solicitors will visit 104,500 homes in t.he 115 parishes of the diocese. The solicitors in the special gift phase are requested to make their returns speedily to their respective area ~eadquarters by Saturday, May 5, the official closing date of the first phase of the Appeal.

Diocesans Take Part In Bishops' Meeting representative religious and laity will convene with the bishops and selected clergy of the area for sessions addressed to two thorny contemporary concerns: Marriage and Family Life and Youth in the Church. The Convocation, which will be held at Mont Marie, a spa.cious religious house in Holyoke, has been arranged by a special Liaison Committee, working un· der the direction of the Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, Bishop of Worcester. St. Joseph Accompanying the Most RevMost Rev. Daniel A. Cronin erend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop will 'be principal celebrant and homilist at a Mass of Thanksgiv- of Fall River, and the Most Reving to be celebrated at.11 Sun- erend James J. Gerrard, Auxilday morning at St. Joseph's iary Bishop, will be a number of Church, Fall River, as part of the participants from the Fall River parish observance of its centen- Diocese. The Rev. George W. Coleman, President of the Diocnial year. Concelebrants will include for- esan Priests' Senate, assistant at mer parishioners now ordained Our Lady of Victory Parish in and former curates, as well as Centerville; the Reverend MonMsgr. George E. Sullivan, pastor, signor John E. Boyd, Director of and Rev. Martin L. Buote and the Fall River Catholic Welfare Rev. Kenneth J. Delano, present Bureau and pastor of Saint Patrick's Parish in Fall River, and curates.. The "Missa Simplex" in honor the Reverend Robert J. Brennan, Tum to Page Two Turn to Page Five

In conjunction with ·the Spring Meeting of the Bishops of Region I of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (Region I encompasses aU of New England), there will be a Regional Convocation. Beginning Friday, May 4,

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Celebrate Two Centennials St. Patrick A Mass of Baptism will be celebrated· at 7 tonight at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River, 100 years to the day from the par: ish's first baptism ceremony. In 1873, April 26 fell on a Saturday and two baby boys were the first recipients of the sacrament. They were James, son of Daniel and Catherine (Sullivan) Harrington and Norbert, son of John and Elizabeth (Lehan) Byrne. The baptizing priest was Rev. John Kelly. At tonight's Mass three boys and a girl will be1;>apiized by Turn to Page Two

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Continued from Page One of Pius X will be presented by the St. Joseph Choir directed by Eugenie Dufour Archambault. Engish translations for the original Latin of the Mass have been supplied by Father Buote. , Other selections to be heard will include "Let There Be Peace on Earth"; "Sing, Rejoice" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Bach; "The Lord Is Risen to Life," "Christ Our Lord and Brother" and "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones." Mrs. Archambault will accompany the singers on the organ and, for the processional and Communion hymns, on a harpsichord loaned for the occasion.

Plan' Auditions For Diocesan Chorale The Diocesan Choir Directers' Guild announces it is forming a Diocesan Chorale. The purpose of the Chorale will be primarily to demonstrate liturgit:al choral music throughout the diocese in conjunction with the work of the Guild. In order to achieve this goal it will be necessary to hold auditions in the five major areas of the diocese during the week of . April 30. Rev. William G. Campbell, director of the guild, announced the following schedule for auditions: Monday, April 30 ... Attleboro, at St. John the Evangelist. Tuesday, May I .. , Hyannis, at St. Francis Xavier Church. Wednesday,' May 2 ... Fall River, at Holy Name Church. Thursday, May 3 ... New Bedford, at St. Lawrence Church. Friday, May 4 ... Taunton, at Cassidy High School. All auditions will be held at 7:30 in the evening. Additional objectives of the Diocesan Chorale are: -to encourage other~l through a sincere concern for the sacred liturgy; -to assist in churches which do not. have choirs for special events; . -to join choirs in interfaith celebrations; -tQ recognize through excellence in performance the music treasures of the past as well as contemporary - choral church music. Eligibility requirements for membership in the chorale are: ~a'bjJity to be proficient at sight singing; -good vocal quality; , -recognition of liturgical correctness. -allotment of time necessary for regular rehearsals; , -firm commitment to achieve the objectives stated. Father Campbell announced both the objeot,ives and the eligibility requirements in a letter to all organist$' and choir directors, explainirrg that while the requirements ate demanding and the objectives.lofty, in striving for excellence we will achieve our goal without having to accept mediocrity., ,Anyone interested in joining the chorale who meets the eligibility requirements is invited to audition at the time and place most convenient to him or her.

Necrology MAY 6 Rev. Thomas P. Elliott, 1905, Founder, St. Mary, Mansfield. MAY 9 Rev. 6J.E. Theodule Giguere, 1940, Pastor, St. Anne, Nnw Bedford. Rev. John P. Clarke, 1941" Pastor, St. Mary, Hebron ville.

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EASTER SUNDAY MASS FOR SHUT-INS: Bishop Cronin offered the TV Mass over Channel 6 on Palm Sunday morning for the sick and shut-ins throughout the Diocese. Rev. John J. Oliveira, secretary to Bishop Cronin assisted the Ordinary at the Mass.

Senate Discusses Pas.tora I Evaluation The final report from the Pastoral, Evaluation committee highlighted the April meeting of the Senate of Priests. Beginning its work in September 1972, the committee has been engaged in research and communication with other dioceses where similar programs have been inaugurated. The proposals of the Senate are in keeping with the suggestions of the national committee on Priestly Life' and Ministry. The national committee pointed out that "evaluation is intended to help the priest grow, both personally and professionally. It aims to strengthen the priest' through his interactiWl with his people and others involved in the evaluation process." The proposals of the Senate concern the planning and implementation of this process of evaluation. They have been forwarded to the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, for his consideration and 'action. Rev. Donald Bowen presented a progress report f!'Om the Priestly Renewal Committee. He stated 'that plans are being made for the priests' a.nnual fall retreat. It is hoped that two week-long retreats will be available for the priests, thereby providing-options both as' to the time of the retreat and as' to the type of retreat offered. NFPC Report ....The Fall River Senate was represented at the annual N.F.P.C. House of Delegates Meeting by Rev. Thomas C. Lopes.' He ex-

Vincentians to Meet The Fal1 River Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will hold a Mass, supper and meeting beginning at 7 P.M. Tuesday, May I, with members being guests of the Notre Dame parish conference. Mass will be said at Notre Dame Ohurch with the supper and meeting to take place at the Notre Dame St. Vincent de Paul" Store, 17H9 Pleasant Street.

pressed his gratitude to the Senate for being given the opportunity to atend the meeting, which he characterized as being posi.tive in tone and hopeful. The opening address, given by Bishop Remi J. DeRoo of Vancouver, B.C., set the theme of this meeting, which dealt with accountability in the Church. Bishop DeRoo spoke of accountability as a way of being, a life ,style expressed' beautifully through the Biblical convenant theme. Personnel Board The Senate also received a report from Rev. John J. Steakem, chairman of the Personnel Board. He described the Board's function as being twofold in nature. The f.irst function is to serve the Bishop of the' Diocese in an advisory capacity, assisting him to use the talents of the priests in such a way as to serve the best interests of the Church ,in Fal1 River. The second function is that of serving the individual priests of, the Diocese in ministering to the people of God. The Senate expressed to Rev. Ronald A. Tosti its sincere thanks and appreciation for his untiring efforts on behalf of religious education. It also expressed the hope that the groundwork he has laid and the direction given at the CCD center will be continued.

Boy Scout Retreat With the theme "Shout Hosanna," New Bedford Scouts will hold a retreat this weekend at Camp Noquochoke, led by Rev. Roger D. LeDuc, area Scout chaplain. The program will 'begin tomorrow night with registration, 'an intmductory session, and blessing of campsites. Saturday's agenda will include games, stations of the cross, viewing of a vocations film, a living rosary and a campfire program. Sunday morning will see a flag raising ( ceremony, closing Mass and presentation of awards.

The Senate then passe:! into informal session and heard a very informative presentatiori from Mr. Joseph J. Reilly, executive director of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference. Mr. Reilly spoke of the format,ive stages of the Conference and reported on the accomplishments of the Conference during its first year of existence. The presentation was wel1-received by 'the Senate and doubtless will have an effect upon the Senate's direction ,in the future when dealing with problems concerning social justice.

Southwest Bishops Endorse Boycott SANTA FE (NC)-Five bishops of the Southwest have endorsed the boycott of the Farah Manufacturing Co. of El Paso, Tex. which has been charged with violating law by interfering with union activities. The bishops said they supported the boycott against the clothing manufacturer "so that <:/ the basic human rights of collective bargaining and unionization might be recognized and allowed to become realities for the workers and the strikers of the company." The.j>relates who endorsed the boycotf were Archbishop James Peter Davis of Santa Fe, N. M.; Bishop Edward McCarthy of Phoenix, Ariz.; Bishop Francis Green of Tucson, Ariz.; Bishop Jerome Hastricn of Gallup, N.M.; and Bishop Sidney Metzger of El Paso, Tex. . The bishops announced their support of the Farah boycott at a meeting here with priestsenators from the Santa Fe Church Province. Bishop Metzger an early supporter of the boycott, expressed pessimism about the possibility of an immiment settlement of the controversy involving Farah and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

Continued from Page One Msgr. John E. Boyd, pastor. They are George, son of George and Shirley (Medeiros) Cartin; Michael, son of Michael and Mary Alice Olsen; Todd Michael, son of Daniel' and Margaret (Lima) Oliveira; and Sherry Lynn, daughter of Edward and Deborah (Fournier) Belshaw.

Archbishop Named To Congregation WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati has 'been named a member of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, according to an announcement by the apostolic delegation in the United States. Archbishop Bernardin is the first American below the rank of cardinal to be appointed a member of the congregation. , The other American members of the congregation are Cardinal John Carberry of St. Louis, Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore; and Cardinal John Wright, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. The Congregation for Bishops is 'involved in naming bishops, the establishing of dioceses, studying reports on the conditions of dioceses, and publishing and circulat,ing documents through national episcopal conferences..

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MILWAUKEE (NC) - The School Sisters of St. Francis donated $7.7 million in services to the U. S. dioceses they work in during the current fiscal year, a study made by the Sisters shows. The survey of about 1,400 Sisters in their seven U. S. provinces compared their salaries as teachers, administrators, homemakers, social workers and health workers with those of laywomen in similar positions. Each Sister was asked to fill out a questionnaire listing her cash salary, fringe benefits and the salary that' a person of similar training and experience received in a comparable job. Computation To compute a Sister's earnings, the study added the amount for convent housing, automobiles and any other special benefits to the stipends paid to the Sisters. The difference between this total and the total of the equivalent lay salary Is the Sister's contribution to the diocese. The total of the salaries that would be earned by lay persons in similar positions was $13.8 million. The total of the Sisters' earnings and benefits was $6.1 million. About 1,000 Sisters gave $6.6 million in contributed services in schools, most of them in parishes. Of this $4.3 million was contributed in elemetary sohools and $1.2 million i.n high schools. Another 160 'Sisters are home~ makers and most of them in parish convents. They contributed $196,338. More than 20 per cent of the teachers and homemakers are 65 years of age or older, or beyond the retirement age. More than 100 Sisters are involved in health care. Most of them, however, earn the same salaries as their lay counterparts. These Sisters supply a greater proportion of community funding and enable school Sisters to contribute more to the school system. The School Sisters of St. Francis serve in the archdioceses of Milwaukee, Dubuque, Los Angeles, Omaha, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, New York, Santa Fe and Indianapolis and in the dioceses of Des Moines, Great Falls, Lincoln, New Ulm, Green Bay, Sioux Falls, Tucson, Covington, La Crosse, Madison, Superior, Davenport, Marquette, Natchez-Jackson, Oakland, Phoenix, Reno, St. Petersburg, Santa Rosa, Fort Wayne-South Bend, Gary, Jefferson City, J9liet, Peoria, Rockford and Springfield.

Weekly Appeals Ban VIENNA (NC)-The ban and confiscation of a recent issue of the Yugoslav Catholic weekly Glas Koncilia (Voice of the Council) has been appealed by the publishers, according to reports reaching here. The ban was ordered by a Belgrade court because the weekly-the Zagreb archdiocesan paper - allegedly published "provocative" articles about the situation of the Catholic Church in Communist countries.

THE ANCHORThurs., April 26, 1973

Nuns' Services In U.S. Total $7.7 Million

REV. THOMAS SULLIVAN

ROBERT N. LYNCH

DR. GEORGE ELFORD

Nationally Renowned Educators to Speak Continued from Page One (Thursday evening)-a must for pastors, teachers and school board members. Rev. Thomas Sullivan, the author of "Focus on American Catechetics" and several other publications on religious education, is Associate Superintendent for Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Chicago. President of the NCEA Departmerit of Religious Educators, he will speak on how to'evaluate religious education programs

(Friday morning) and will give The researcher will also outthe final talk of the convention line the new approaches to the on how to relate the General parish administration of religious Catechetical Directory to every- education (Thursday afternoon). day religious teaching (Friday This is especially important to . those in charge of parish reliafternoon). Dr. George Elford, the Direc- gious education programs. tor of Research for NCEA, is Dr. Virginia Biggy, formerly well known for his articles in an administrator in the Concord America and his talks at national Public School System, is presentmeetings. He will speak on ly in charge of the student teach"What Makes a School Catholic" ing program at Lowell State Colwhich is a report on a practical lege. instrument he has developed She has served as consultant (Thursday afternoon). for innovation in schools throughout New England and will speak on "The Elementary Teacher of the 70's" on Thursday afternoon. Other topics planned for the investment they are making or convention are: individualizing being asked to consider." math in primary grades; art The report also said: "There workshops; recognizing learning is no doubt in the minds of par- disabilities; career education in ents that the primiuy rea~on for. high school; Christian humanism sending . a child to Catholic and the humanities program; school is for the religious train- drug and drinking behavior pating-to learn his faith'-for the terns of students; high school basic foundation in the Catholic math; moral dimensions of current social programs; values in faith." Many parents misunderstand Catholic education; preparing for and are confused by the atmos- First Communion and Penance. phere of change in today's Church, the survey indicated. "They believe their children are confused and are not getting the straight 'black and white' Franciscan Friars, 600 'Pleasant St., New Bedford, Mass. basics of the Church." ~ ~ Taught by Sisters

Qua Iity of Catholic Ed ucation Influences Parents' Attitude CLEVELAND (NC) - Whatever their income level, parents of children in Catholic schools, while primarily concerned about tuition, don't mind paying it if they believe they're getting something "above and beyond what the public schools could offer." This conclusion is indicated by a survey of attitudes of Catholic parents done by the research department of Marschalk Company, Inc., an advertising agency. The survey was done in preparation for Catholic Education Month. For the survey, five groups of 10 to 12 persons were interviewed. One included Catholic parents with children enrolled in grades 7 or 8 in a Catholic school; a second had children enrolled in the same grades in public schools; a third group was composed of Catholic parents with· children about to enter school; the fourth and fifth groups were seventh and eighth grade Catholic students in Catholic and public schools, respectively The group interview technique is used to learn expressions that people use in discussing a subject, a Marschald spokesman explained. These expressions are used as guidelines to find out what people are thinking. Thetechnique is not designed to determine what percentage of a group holds a given attitude. For Religious Training' The average annual family income of the groups surveyed ranged from $10,000 to $14,000. All groups were suburban residents. "If there are questions or doubts in parents' minds regarding the quality of either the academic or religious teachings in Catholic schools," the survey report said, "there will also be doubts about the value of the

Five ordinations to the Holy Priesthood will take place at Holy . Cross Church in South Easton on Saturday, April 28. The Most Rev. ·Lawrence L. Graner, C.S.C., D.D., formerly Archbishop of Dacca, Bangladesh, will confer the sacrament of orders on the following:The Rev. Hugh Cleary, C.S.C., Scottsdale, Ariz.; Rev. Donald J. Grimes, Providence; Rev. Robert A. Krieg, C.S.C., of Westport, Conn.; the Rev. Robert W. Lozinski, C.S.C., of Adams, Mass.; the Rev. James L. Rebeta, C.S.C., of Rye, N. Y.· The five new priests are graduates of Stonehill College, Class of 1969, which they -joined to enroll in the Holy Cross Fathers Seminary at Easton. All pursued advanced theological studies at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend. Father Cleary completed his deacon internship program at Sacred Heart Parish, Notre Dame. Father Grimes has been teaching with the theology faculty of King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and has served as a counselor in the college residence hall. Father Krieg, after ordination, will return to the' University of Notre Dame to complete requirements for his doctorate in historical.systematic theology, after which he intends to assume a career in college teaching. Father Lozinski, during the past year, has served at the Holy Cross Parish, South Bend, Ind. Father Rebeta, in June, will assume the position of chaplain in the Pastoral Services Dept. of Saint John's Hickey Memorial Hospital in Anderson, Ind.

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Many interviewed parents believe that the Church has become "too lenient" and that there should be a return to specific laws that tell people what they should and shouldn't do, the survey report said. Parents interviewed said they wanted their children in Catholic schools to be taught by Sis-' ters, especially in religion classes. They felt that there are too many lay teachers in Catholic schools, most of whom are not qualified as ,those in public schools. If their children are going to be taught by lay teachers, the parents believed, it would be better and cheaper to send them to public schools. Convincing parents of the value of the religious training given in Catholic schools, the survey report said "requires 'grassroots' seIling, person-to-person explanations of what is being done, why it's being done and the overall objectives .of the religious training programs. This may require discussion from the pulpit, recruitment of already 'sold' par. ents to sell others, greater emphasis on parent· involvement in the schools with specific objectives for them to reach."

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MU,st Adapt to· Changes, in Theology

Paul Blan'shardJ, Atheist, 'Publ'ishes Autobiography

Continued from Page One were being put to the service of Christianity," he said. Only those unaware of the great theological changes in the Paul Blanshard describes himself as "a religious and past will be astounded by theopolitical muckracker" and is hilled by his publisher as the logica I changes in the, present." Father Brown, who is the only "Dean of American controversy." He has just published American member of the Pontifihis autobiography' entitled "Personal and Controversial." cal Biblical Commission and Now nearly 81 years old, who will be visiting professor After reading 'his autobiogBlanshard is still in full pos- raphy, at the Pontifical Biblical InstiI can't help but conclude session of his wits. and con- that his avowed preoccupation tute in Rome next year, cited the tinues to wield a skillful pen. with sex ("one of the three core example of recent biblical scholOne gets the impre!lsion, how- issues in his life") accounts in arship ,to show that the Church using, contemporary ever, that having' published his large meas~re for his deep-seated favors knowle~ge and tools in theolog"utterly frank" memoirs and phobia against: Catholicism. A with eternity staring him in the few excerpts from his autobiog- ical investigation. "Between 1905 and 1915 the raphy can serve to illustrate the Pontifical Biblical Commission in point I am trying to make in this Rome issued a series of conserregard. ' By vative decisions on the composi"The great unfinished business tion and authorship of the of the Council/' he says, "was MSGR. Bible," he said. sex. I suppose that those twentyCites Pope John five hundred celibate bishops, GEORGE~. He then cited a series of sittini~ in their upholstered bleachers in their lace trimmed events, starting with Pope Pius HIGGINS robes, constituted the most' XII's 1943 encyclical on the powerful anti-sexual body in the study of the Scriptures, which he said showed that the Church world." has made "an undeniable aboutface, he may be contet from how Yellow Journalism face in attitude towad biblical on to sit In the sun and watch Blanshard is entitled to his criticism." the parade go by. "This dramatic change of poI wish him health and happ'i· own opinion on this matter. But sition was tacitly acknowledged it's one thing to disagree with ness in his declining; years. In in 1955 by the secretary of the the course of reading his auto- ' the Church's traditional teaching Pontifieal Biblical Commission on sex morality and something biography I even had the feeling who stated that now Catholic at times that 'lowed him a per- else again' to say that whereas ACTING PRESIDENT OF NCEA: Father John Myers, scholars had 'complete freedom' 'VI was obviously "Pope Paul sonal apology for having been acting president of the Nationai Catholic Educational Aswith regard to those decrees of so severe in my critidsm of his frightened of sex ... , "his pre1905-1915 e~cept where they sociation, said that the theme of the NCEA's 70th annual decessor, Pope John, was alleged . several books on Catholic issues.• touched on faith or morals (and convention, "Religious Education: Building Values and to have' had two mistresses Much as I like him as a person, very few of them did)," Father Meaning," was chosen because value building is important respect the sincerity of his con· briefly when he ,was very young Brown said. before he became a priest, but victions, honesty compels me to But because theologkal in a time when people feel turned off by the Church strucsay that apologies are not in no such rumor ever circulated thought in Scripture and other tures. The conv~ntion, opened in New Orleans Monday. about Paul." order. That's yellow jour.nalismof fields is changing; the Scripture _ Opposes Religion the worst possible type. I am professor· said, there ,is a serious the same time there is· a basic conservatives who'daim that the basic,teachings, tepr~seht'''a c'onterribly disappointed that 'Blan- problem in the formulation of validity to past for~ulations. . I am willing to admit that "Precisely because past formu- . demnation of modern theology." shard put his name to it and ,Catholic doctrine. He quoted much of what Blanshar:J said in even more disappointed that his from Pope John XXI,JI's opening lations reflect a valid if limited "An effective way for teachers criticism of Catholicism 20 years grasp of divine truth, we can use of Catholic doctrine to combat publisher'let him get by with it. speech at' the Second Vatican ago or more was objei:tively true . those formulations, provided this divisive tendency is to folDitto for the following state- Council: and, by today's standards, would "The substance of the ancient that we are aware of both their ment on Mariology: "From long low the lead the bishops have undoubtedly be considered rathexperience I have discovered doctrine of the deposit of faith validity and their limitations," given us," the theologian said. er tame. He goes out of his way that no other type of comment .is one thing, and .the way in he said. to make this point in the course "Teachers should present in on 'Catholicism arouses such which it is presented is another." Bishops' Document of his autobiography. catechetics the fundamentals the Father Brown saId biblical white heat as an alleged slur on But the fact remains that the Virgin Mary. Is this because scholars in recent' decades have . Father Brown praised the U. S. bishops have underscored in their what he says about Caiholicism celibate priests have developed recognized'that the words of the bishops' recent document "Basic document, and yet' at the same in his autobiography still leaves a substitute sexual fixation on Scriptures-although they are the Teachings for Catholic Religious time pedagogically prepare the much to be ~e~ired. Blansh~rd the Virgin Mary? I suspect so, revealed word of God-are lim- . Education." students for a future encounter has persuaded)himself, that he and later on I was to say so." "Filrst of all, the bishops have with theological discussions ited by their historical context. is not and ne~er has been antiParticular doctrinal statements taken an admirable step in in- about aspects of doctrine that Blanket Statement Catholic. Frolfi' one point' of by the Church, he said, are "un- suring that our catechetics the bishops have left open." view, that's p¥obably an objecshould communicate content as der a similar l)istorical limita"To neglect either the heritage There are many other statetive statement~1of fact. well as attitude," he said. tion." of the past or the contributions ~: . ments of this type in Blanshard's As an avowed atheist, he is autobiography. He caps them all "Second, the bishops have exTeachers' Problem of the present is a failure in relopposed to all"forms of religion. off with a blanket statemen.t to igious education," Father Brown The idea that a past formula- pressed their basic teachings in There was a ti';lle when Protes- the effect that the Catholic tion of. doctrine can be modified a way that shows a sensitivity concluded. tants and Jews. found this hard Church is "still the baldest, 'most does not mean that it was about both the validity and limto believe. Blanshard has now unashamed, most absolute dic- wrong, Father Brown said. Rathitations of past conceptions of made it a matter of public rec- tatorship in the world." • er, it is a matter of theologians doctrine. They cover the neces- "N""':"'H""T"~""; ord. I suppose it was this one , "bringing. the Church to distin- sary span· of Christian teaching _ . statement, more than anything guish between those elements of ... Yet, as far as I can see, the Preoccupation With Sex else, that made me change my previous formulations which are bishops have taken care not to _ J. TESER, Prop. _ He says in his autobiography mind about apologizing to Blan- permanently helpful and those include in the formulations of : .7:ESIDENTIAL : these ancient doctrines phrasings that he can "see little to choose shard. In the light of that state- elements which are so time-cOlldiINDUSTRIAL : between Catholicism and Protes- ment apologies are not in order. tioned that they can 'best be dis- that would hinder the legitimate : discussions of modern theology." : COMMERCIAL: tantism theologically. CatholiIt's too early for that - but pensed with." - 253 Cedar St., New Bedford cism is more dangemus than maybe it's not too late. Who But when this sort of theologFollow Bishops Protestantism to 'democratic in- knows'? Blanshard may still ical questioning is going on, he 993-3222 Father Brown scored the arch- stitutions because xt stands come out of retirement long said, it makes it very difficult for .,~""""-"-,------_. wherever possible for state reli- enough to say something a little the religious educator to teach gion and a reactionary family more objective about the' Cath. doctrines. code, but the intellectual creden- olic' Church. BAMBOO "Because theologians are retials of both major branches of I hope he does, but even if he thinking aspects of past doc, AQUARIUM Christianity 'are equally defec- fails to do so, I wish him every trines, are teachers of doctrine \ ',;, New England's Most tive." In the following paragraph blessing in' the twilight years ,of to become tongue-tied as if there Beautiful Aquarium h~ pays respects, in a similar his life. 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'Conscience Bill' HARRISBURG (NC) - The State House of Representatives here is considering a bill that would allow hospitals and medical personnel to refuse to participate in an abortion. The "conscience bill" would also cover other medical procedures that are contrary to the reli~ious, moral and professional standards of the personnel or hospital.

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Survey Opposes 'Mercy Killing'

PRELATES PRESIDE: Prelates of the Diocese of Fall River gather to preside over the homecoming Mass of Thanksgiving for His Eminence, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston. Left to right: Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River; Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River; Cardinal Medeiros; Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Former Bishop of Fall River; Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, Vicar General.

Diocesans Join Bishops at Convocation Continued from Page One ette Street, North Dartmouth. C.S.C., assistant at Holy Cross Mr. Lambert served as the lay Parish, South Easton, will be chairman for the 1972 Catholic delegates at the Regional Con- Charities Appeal In the Diocese, vocation, as will be Sister Car- and Mrs. Quirk has been active men Joseph, S.U.S.C:, of the in the Diocesan Council of Cathstaff of the Regina Pacis Center olic Women, ha,ving served as in New Bedford and Sister Mau- President of that organization. reen Hanley, R.S.M., Principal Mr. Zaida is a student at Stoneof Nazareth School in Fall River. hill College in North Easton. Brother Thomas Mulryan, C.S.C., The gathering will consider a Holy Cross brother on the fac- . Christian family life in contemulty of Coyle-eassidy High I)orary society and the ways in School in Taunton, will serve as which today's youth challenge a delegate from the Diocese, too. the Church and its pastoral minLay Representative istries. These topics were seLay representatives in the Fall lected by the National ConferRiver Diocesan group' include ence of Catholic Bishops for conMr. Raymond E. Lambert, 230 sideration in spring meetings Elm Street, North Attleboro, across the nation this year. The Mrs. James H. Quirk, 22 May- expectation is that the broad flower Terrace, South Yarmouth, representation at the var,ious reand Mr. Robert Zaida, 37 Juli- gional convocations will help

Respect Life Week in Montana Stresses 'People and Crime' HELENA (NC) - The second Respect Life Week in this state was focused on the issue "People and Crime." The week--developed by an ad hoc committee under the Montana Catholic Conferencewas endorsed by the Montana Council of Churches and Gov. Thomas Judge issued a proclamation designating April 1-7 as Respect Life Week. The program stresses "reconciliation" between criminal and crime victim, highlighting increasing concern in church circles across the nation about crime and penal reform. "This program is not intended to solve crime," said one of the program's numerous publications, "A Program for Awareness." "Nor is it intended as a 'howto-do-it' .in crime prevention, criminal rehabilitation or law and order. Rather 'Respect Life: People and Crime' is an effort to awaken the Christian conscience in Montana to our responsibility as God's people to bring recon-

ciJ.iation to our society." The program hopes to achieve its aim through dissemination of varied publications, several television programs, and observances in communities, schools and congregations. The efforts are basically educationai, hoping to arouse the state's citizens to deal with crime through recognition of- its causes: urbanization, affluence, public tolerance of crime, alienation of youth, changjng moral standards, lack of education and job skills, social -isolation, aleohoi and drug abuse, and family disintegration. Climate of FeDI' The efforts also emphasize the impact upon the criminal of prison facilities and the current parole system. In essence, the program affirms the need to overcome the climate of fear and decrease the incidence of crime through improved community assistance for criminals and through efforts to ameliorate the conditions breeding crime.

provide many useful insights to the nation's hierarchy. It is anticipated that some attention will be devoted to the pro-life concerns of the Church during the Convocation. The Fall River Diocesan delega'tion has held preliminary meetings to review material provided by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Father Coleman has chaired these preparatory stages of the local group's participation in the meeting. Reverend Monsignor Anthcmy M. Gomes, Director of the Diocesan Family Life Bureau, and Reverend Paul F. McCarrick, Diocesan Director of the C.Y.O., have contributed to the local preparations, drawing upon their experience in the two areas of consideration. Archbishop John F. Whealon has sought special prayers from all contemplative communities of religous in the New England area, seeking the special guidance of Almighty God upon the deliberations. Bishop Cronin and Bishop Gerrard will remain at Mont Marie after the close of the Regional Convocation on Sunday, May 6, 1973, for the spring meeting of the Bishops of Region I.

A majority of Americans believe that a patient with a terminal disease should have the option of telling his doctor that he wants to die rather than have his life prolonged, according to a Louis Harris survey. The survey reports that by 62 to 28 J.,ercent, Americans expressed the belief that the patient ought to be able to give his doctor these instructions when no cure is in sight. However, euthanasia, under which a patient who is terminally ill can "tell his doctor to put him out of his misery," is opposed by 53 to 37 percent, the survey shows. Those opposed to euthanasia gave the main reason that "death should be left to God or to nature and should not be controlled by man." Others said that euthanasia "puts too much of a burden on· the doctor forcing him to play God." Another reason was that "it would be just plain murder and that is wrong." The minority in favor of euthanasia argued that "It is the patient's life and the choice should be left to him." Another . reason was that "anyone is entitled to put a halt to suffering that can only end in death anyway. " The survey showed 40 percent agree with the statement that hospital patients "are sometimes neglected or even victims of malpractice," compared with 48. percent who say it happens rare· ly. The survey indicates there is evidence that patients want more information from hospital authorities and more control over the medical treatment they receive. The most substantial criticism is that hospitals are "understaffed, especially short of doctors," a comment coming from more than haif of those who charged neglect. "Lack of dedicated personnel" was cited by about 25 percent. The American Hospital Association recently issued a proposed patient's "bill of rights" in an effort to spell out what can and cannot be done patients In hospitals.

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Continuing Easter The fact of the ·Resurrection of Christ is so great a reality in the lives of Christians that the Church urges us not to try to contain it ,within a single liturgical celebration nor within a single day. These. days that follow Easter Sunday prolong the feast, enter day by· day into its significance, encourage Christians to exuftt in the reality that spells out their lives now as resurrected men and women, united to Christ, sharing in His victory over sin and death, walking now in His light until the day when He presents us to the Father. in the heavenly kingdom. Easter is a happy day. People still like to dress in their newest and best on that day, perhaps not understanding that the very newness of their garments is the ancient symbol of the new life in Christ that they have assumed through His resurrection. Easter is a time for family gatherings and visiting in an atmosphere of peace and joy. That peace and joy are but· reflections of the' virtues that Christ extends to those in union with Him, a union brought about by His suffering and death and resurrection and our incorporation into these saving events of Christ. The resurrection symbol is that of the lighted Paschal Candle. The reality is that Christ is the light of the· Christian's life, illumining his' way along: the pilgrimage of life and guiding him through faith in the ways of God. No wonder that the Church prolongs this feast, for it encompasses the entire life of the follower of ChristOIfe dead to the past slavery of sin and death and alive to God in Christ Jesus under the guidance of. the Spirit. The life of the true Christian is indeed a continuing Easter. I

Fact and Fancy A few years ago there were wild stories circulating about the number of drug addicts in the nation and in the military service in Vietnam. Mothers and fathers with sons in the army were upset and disturbed at the statistics , thrown around. There was always the suspicion that distortion was entering the picture but assertions along these lines were met with the charge of "whitewash." Now statistics have been revea.led indicating that of the 300,000 Army enlisted· men who served in Vietnam between 1970 and 1972, fewer than 4,000 are civilian drug addicts. :Even one drug addict would be too many, but the figures at least place the situation in a proper prospective. The drug addiction rate among Vietnam veterans is 1.3 percent, the same rate of drug users found among youths exami'ned for military service. The conclusion is that drug addiction in Vietnam was not the wild figure given a few y,earsago and that returning Vietnam veterans have not swelled the ranks of civilian addicts. . This is an (example of how judgement so often must be suspended ·at the first appearance of a story. It is not that the reader mu!!t be cynical but just aware that' first reports have, a· way of being out of proportion and. given to exaggeration. This is thE! glory of a free press in a country and also points up to the need for reading-one can follow up on reports and after the dust has settled can discern what is fact and w.hat has been discarded as fancy. Truth has a way of coming out and a free responsible press has a way of getting at the truth and publishing it.

NORFOLK (NC)-Torture and almost seven years in a Communist prison only made his faith stronger, according to Cdr. John H. Fellows of Virginia Beach. The Navy pilot who was shot down over North. Vietnam on August 27, 1966, told the student body at Norfolk Catholic High School that he was bound with ropes and his arms twisted behind him. "I remember saying a very fervent prayer and 1 ask~ God to help me. 1 couldn't take it any longer. Thirty minutes later they took the ropes off." He and other prisoners communicated by tapping on the cell walls. . "When t1]at first tap comes on the wall you have to have faith in that man," he said. His faith 'in his family also helped him to survive. "I knew they would help each other out," he said. "This made my job easier. I worried but I never let it bother me." Fellowes, a native of Tuscon, Ariz., was listed as missing in action for four years. He told the high school students that .each should imagine his father· was gone and "you have no idea of what happened to him."

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name." As the song says, "those were the days my friend, I thought they would never end." Yet for many of us they somehow have ended. However when we drive by the old parish church memories once more flood our hearts and minds with another smile or another tear. Realize it or not, the old parish church is a part of us, a segment of· our life fabric that will not be put aside by the rush of our present living or the haughtiness of a new life style.'

The Old Parish was Built in Sacrifice In the terror of flames and the vengeance of destruction· an old parish church passed from its hilltop into the rubble of ashes and smoking cinders. When Saints Peter and Paul Church in Fall River was destroyed by fire two weeks ago not only did OFFICIAL ~WSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER the city .lose an architectural Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River monument but also a temple of 410 Highland Avenue memories and love. When an old Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 parish church is destroyed so , are many of the symbols and PUBLISHER signs of people. In the case of Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. St. Pete's as it is commonlv GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER titled, we can rightly mourn th~ passing of lost art and architecRev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shcilloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll ~ Leary Press-Fall River ture but what one really laments

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For many of us the old parish is a collection of memories that sweep the years of our life into a mood of reminiscence and nostalgia. We might find ourselves caught up in the trends· of surburban living and new found affluenee but every now and '. then our thoughts return to returned t? God In death. The the days of· youthful bliss many stones recalled over the kitchen table about the antics of and family happiness. Some- Father so and so or the care and

is love's labour lost. Each parishioner and former parishioner lost a little bit of themselves. Just to think of parents and grandparents slaving' in the sweating cotton mills of Fall· River ten or twelve ,hours a day and then with their pittance of pay, sacrificing and going without to build such a magnificent church' building is in itself a testimC1ny of faith and love to their church. A faith and love that some of their own daughters and sons now brush aside in snobbishness and very culpable ignorance. A faith and love that somehow is renewed in the

The only news he got of the United States was relayed by his captors and was about disturbances here. "Never once did we lose faith in this country. Above all, we knew we would be brought out. Had it not been for the December bombing I would still be in Hanoi," said. Fellowes, whose daughter, Kathy, is a sophomore at Norfolk Catholic, said that "war is the most barbaric way to solve problems. However, Communism is out to destroy the world. We cannot permit Communists to take over the small countries." Fellowes criticized Jane Fonda and former U. S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark for their peace trips to Hanoi· .

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flaming crucible of destruction and sorrow that will be hopefully restored and revitalized. Most of us take so much for granted. Often it ta~es· a tJ;'agedy or a disaster to make us realize the gift that was ours, especially in the old parish. To be sure, SUCh. is the case with many whose first home in the faith was St. Pete's. And . for some perhaps it will be a moment of renewal and rededication to the living witness· of faith in their own lives. The old parish never really dies, it lives in each and every one of us who pause for a moment and reflect that our faith and trust in God should never die. The old parish never dies when we once more stumble through the broken pieces of stones of· our own Iiv. ing and rebuild once more the living church of spirit and truth. The old parish lives in the hearts and minds of those who are not afraid to remember and recall the dedication and devotion of those who worked so hard, laboured so long and prayed so fervently that we ourselves might become a temple of the living God. It is in this way that St. Pete's wiH never die.

Says Closing Tax Loopholes Could Stifle Welfare WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, speaking on behalf of 42 voluntary agencies for overseas relief, said that millions of needy persons may become unintended victims of legislative plans to wipe out tax loopholes. Bishop Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), expressed this concern in testiinony before the House Ways and Means Committee which is seeking to eradicate the "loopholes." Ways and Means has as its basis in seeking equitable tax laws the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which Bishop SwaFlstrom said has in 'itself drastically shackled xoluntary welfare agencies serving the poor. -As an example, he pointed to the Reform Act's reduction of gifts, particularly from the pharmaceutical industry, to voluntary agencies serving the world's poor. Obstacles to Welfare Bishop Swanstrom said he was also concerned over proposals for new laws based on the 1969 Tax Reform Act, some of which he saw as further obstacles to the welfare agencies working abroad. He said that the 42 member groups of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service believe that no one stands to gain from' curtailing charitable contributions. Any savings to the taxpayer derived from slashing charitable contributions would result in insigni,fi<;at;lt ci)ange in revenues for the U. S. government, he . said. "To cut or further reduce tax deductions for charitable giving hardly reflects the traditional American concern for the less fortunate," Bishop Swanstrom said. "Our anxiety is caused by the fact that, unintentionally, those interested in eliminating unjustifiable loopholes in the tax laws may adversely .affect the programs of voluntary agencies and therefore do serious harm to the tens of millions ,of needy who depend upon them:" . Incentive 'to Donors Bishop Swanstrom commended the efforts of the committee to seek equitable tax laws, but added that "we do not believe charitable contributions for fulfilling human needs represent a tax 'loophole,''' One change brought about by the 1969 Tax Reform Act's charitable contribution provisions affected the contribution of goods. Prior to the act, a taxpayer was allowed to deduct the "fair market value" of such contributions. Now he is limited to a "cost" basis deduction. As a result, testified Bishop Swanstrom, the size of gifts of inventory or other income prop· erty that voluntary agencies received J2rior to the enactment on property contributions has "significantly diminished." Bishop Swanstrom said the American Council favors an amendment to the Tax Reform Act that would eliminate loopholes and unwarranted tax benefits, while continuing to provide incentive to donors of property contributions.

THE ANCHORThurs., April 26, 1973

Served 77 Years In Priesthood

HOUSTON COMMUNITY: The Cenacle Sisters of Houston, who have had a communal form of government since 1970, are all chiefs, but no Indians. Three younger members of the community talk with Sister Elizabeth Young, 84, who established the Cenacle Sisters in Houston in 1955. Standing from left are: Sister Elizabeth Mozina, Sister Emily Katz, and Sister Jo Ann Viviano. NC Photo by Frank Grizzaffi.

Entire Community ,Makes Decisions HOUSTON (NC)-They are all . con, and the group discusses the chiefs and no Indians. question. But for the Cenacle Sisters of The key to the process, the Houston communal government Sisters say, is "discernment." works. They have no superior, This means combining discusand when decisions must be made sion and prayer before reaching the community decides together. a decision. \ Each of' the 10 Sisters, ranging "After this prayerful process, in age from 34 to 84, has her the community wHI take a conown areas of responsibility with- sensus but not a vote," said in the community. When the com- Sister ·Elizabeth Mozina, a 25munity meets to discuss an issue, year member of the community the Sister in charge of tnat area and retreat directress at the Cenwill present the facts, pro and acle Retreat and Christian Life Center that the Sisters run here. "It is a struggling process but Cardit:lal Medeiros a hopeful situation," was the Honored by Pope view of Sister Emily Katz" a VATICAN CITY (NC)-Three member of the Cenacle Sisters Americans were among the num- for-36 years. She 'is in charge of ber of cardinals and archbishops individual counselling and group Pope Paul VI named to be .mem- work at the center. bers of top Vll;tican administraThe Houston community was tive offices. established in 1955 by Sister Cardinal Humberto S. Medei- Elizabeth Young, who is now 84 ros of Boston and Archbishop years old. There are almost 400 William W. Baum of Washing- Cenaole Sisters in the United ton, D. C., were named members States, and each community is of the Congregation for Catholic free to choose its own form of Education. Archbishop Joseph government. Bernardin of Cincinnati was 'Growing Process' named a member of the Congregation for Bishops. The apostolate of the Cenacle The new appointees have full Sisters 'is faith formation, privoting rights and attend the marily through retreats and reliplenary session of the congre- gious education. The order was gations. founded in France in 1826 by St. The congregation for Catholic Therese Couderc. Education deals with matters in"We inherited a monastic volving seminaries and Catholic framework as a basic structure," universities and other institu- said Sister Jo Ann Viviano, 34, tions of higher education. The the youngest member of the Congregation for Bishops deals Houston group. She said in the principally with the nomination past decisions were usually of new bishops, the establish- handed down to the community ment of dioceses and related by the superior. Under the COInmatters. munal government, she added,

"is a longer but a growing process," The change in government is just part of a broader change in life-style for the Cenacle Sisters in Houston. Sister Katz said that she is "very happy with the new thinking and freedom. It has helped me 'to expand more completely, to be more open to other people. In the past we were encased in ourselves too much. While we helped people we dIdn't go to them as freely as we <10 today. It wasn't always easy to make the change after all those years of rigid structure. It was painful at times to leave the old but I'm very happy now,"

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SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-Fr. George Matthew Trunk, a priest for 77 of his 102 years, died at the rectory of Nativity Church here Maroh 11. Father Trunk's long life ~as dedicated to serving the religious needs of thousands of people, but he also found time to paint and write a weekly newspaper column. He was born Sept. I, 1870 in Bace~Fask, Austria, and studied for· the priesthood at the diocesan semi-nary in Klagenfurt. On JuIy 17, 1895 he was ordained and he served as assistant priest and pastor at various churches in that diocese. He came to America in 1921 and his first post was that 0 f administrator of a German national church in Berwick, N. D. In 1924, Father Trunk was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Leadville, Colo., and he served there until 1946. While in Leadville, he painted a series of new testament scenes on the walls and ceiling of the church. It has since been declared a National Slovenian Monument. Father Trunk came to San Francisco in September of 1946 following his retirement from the Leadville parish. His more than quarter century of residence at Church of the Nativity was s;Jent serving the needs of Croatian and Slovene Catholics.

Nazarene Highlights Caracas Holy Week CARACAS (NC) - Ha'lf-a-million pilgr.ims paraded on Wednesday of Holy Week through the Shrine of St. Theresa here in Venezuela to attend Masses and receive Communion in honor of the Nazarene. St. Theresa's is famed for the Nazarene-a 17th century sculpture of Jesus as He was led to his trial. It has become the focus of Holy Week devotions in thi,s archdiocese of two million Catholics. Since firemen banned the carrying of lighted candles after a 1952 fire that killed several children, aB candles are left at the door of the shrine and later melted into four large candles that burn throughout the year, in front of the Nazarene.

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CARACAS (NC) - Sociologist Jesus Salazar said 500,000 poor children have been abandoned in Venezuela and 300,000 do not know their fathers. In a study on family life sponsored by the Central University he're Salazar: listed separation and divorce, illegitimacy, unemployment and poor marriage preparation as causes of child abandonment.

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HARRISBURG (NC) - Pennsylvania state officials are withholding payment of $24 million to the state's nonpublic schools pending a possible rehearing of a U. S. Supreme Court decision ordering the state to pay the money.

This week, while in Boston for the marathon, we dropped by a cosmetic store that features natural cosmetics. It's a delightful place filled with great smelling (lemony, strawberry, etc.) creams and oils, all with a nonalcoholic base. Charming circular put on. Tbis resulted in encountry check tabledoths in could larged pores which, once acshades of pink, green and quired, require a great deal of yellow cover a number of care even to diminish a little. round tables where the bottles and jars are displayed and all in the atmosphere is fresh and clean..

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Naturalness and baclt to na路 ture have become the bywords of the young and I'm sure is one , of the reasons that a line of cosmetics with this idea in mind has become so popular with the college students of the areo\. ,The salesgiris who waited on us showed one of my daughters how to apply some of fhe products was quite delightful, certainly one of the, "now" generation, but still intelligent and patient enough to stress the cleanliness routine of s!<in care rather than the cover-up aspect. Keep Nice Skin How I wish that this sensible outlook on skin care had been around when we were young. The only thing we knew at that time was that if we had troublesome skin we covered it with as many layers of make-up as we

Oppose Strip Mining In Appalachia Region PRESTONSBURG (NC) - The Catholic Committee on Appalachia (CCA) has voted to urge U.S. Qioceses holding stock in companies in strip mining in Appalachia to give people of the region a voice in the companies' activities. Strip mining, or open pit mining, has been criticized as damaging to the environment. The CCA voted to ask dioceses to review their diocesan investment portfolios to .deaermine whether they hold stock in companies engaged in strip mining in Appalachia and to give their rights to vote at stockholders' meeting to Appalachian people directly affected by the mining. The CCA is an organization of bishops, priests and laity of the 13-state Appalachian region.

Hyacinth 0 of I Hyacinth Circle 71, New Bedford Daughters of Isabella, will attend Mass and corporatE: Communion at 9 A.M. Sunday, April 29 at Holy Name Church, New Bedford. Breakfast will follow at Thad's Steak House, with Edward Sweeney, chairman of Big Brother and Big Sister programs for New Bedford, as guest speaker. Members may bring guests, and reservations should be made with Doris Kawa, regent.

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With the emphasis on cleanliness rather than camouflage, the young people oftoday will h~ve a chance to keep their skin as nice as it was when they were youngsters; The salesgirl at the natural cosmetic 'store explained that while the young people of today 'certainly don',t need a .make-up base or make-up, they should use a moisturizer to keep out all the pollutants in the air: "The moisture lotion acts a bit like a plastic wrap on the skin," she explained. Overcome ,by the delicious make-up, one has to watch a tendency to overbuy and buy and buy. Stating that they use only natural vegetable and fruit oils in their cosmetics, the owners would agree, I'm sure, that once you, use t:heir products you'll return for more, and this is why they don't push their products but let them do their -own selling.

Ask Canadian Catholics To Aid Handicapped OTTAWA (NC)-The presi~ dent of the Canadian Catholic Conference of bishops called on Canadians to insure that the' handicapped "are completely accepted and at home in our society. "We must try to understand the handic~pped, to accord them ' the highest respect . . . in a word, to love them," said Bishop William Power of Antigonish, ~" N.S. "The Handicapped in the Family of Man" is the theme of this year's Respect For Ljfe Day in Canada, to be held May 20. This is the third Year the bishops of Canada have encouraged stud.y, reflection and action on respect for life. Former themes have been "Life of the Aged."

Creative Services Office Moves to Washington NEW YORK (NC)-The U. S. Catholic Conference Division of Creative Services will move from New York to usec headquarters in Washington. Robert B. Beusse, USCC Secretary for Communication, said the move will place the division "closer to the conference's principal offices at the center of the programs it serves." The .division, a part of the Department ilf Communication, provides informational, educaNonal and promotional support to major conference-related activities, including the Campaign for Human Development, the u. S. Church's national anti-poverty effort, and Respect Life Week, an observance inaugurated last year to call attention to the dignity of human life.

. The U. S. Supreme Court decided in June, 1971, that Pennsylvania's "purchase of service" agreements with non public schools involved "excessive entanglement" betweell' church and state and were, therefore, unconstitutional. But the court ruled April of this year that the state could pay $24 million that the schools would have received in the 197071 school year. The court said it would be unfair to deny the first year's payments after the schools had planned for them and had performed the 'reimbursable services.

EASTER COMMUNION:, Pope Paul VI gives Communion to Asian students who were among thousands packed into St. Peter's Square for the Pontiff's open-air Easter Mass. An international broadcast of the 'Pope's plea for peace followed, in which the Pope specifically prayed for "true reconciliation in justice and char~ty" in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Northern Ireland. NC Photo.

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Fixes Attention on Situations In World's Troubled Spots VATICAN CITY (NC) - The "May the voice of violence be路 Holy Land, Northern Ireland and come silent and may there be Indochina were the trouble spots heard instead the voice of wisin today's world on which Pope dom and good will and may the Paul VI fixed his attenti,on on official proposals which, as is Easter Sunday. well known, have recently been Climaxing a week of cere路 made offer a favorable basis for monies in Rome, Pope Paul VI a joint effort which will open the celebrated Mass in -, St. Peter's . way for true reconciliation in Square on Easter arid then de- j~stice and charity." livered his Easter message and The Pope said that in Indoblessing at noon from the basil- china "the hopes which were ica's central balcony. only recently enkindled for an In his traditional Easter mes- end to the years-long conflict sa'ge , which has always liad as are still exposed to the rough its central theme the peace winds of an uncertain situation Christ desired for the world, the that makes them fragile and Pope noted sadly that there are unsure." many parts of the world that contain centers of 'strife and Action situations of injustice which proTalk that does not end in any voke reaction and revolt." ki~d of action is, better supHoly Land pressed' altogether. . Singling out three trouble -Carlyle spots, the Pope spoke first of the situation in the Holy Land. "May our greetings," he said, "go to the land where the Lord Jesus was born, where he taught, suffered, died and r.ose again; that land where His greeting of peace resounded so many times and from which it spread to the whole earth; that land, alas, where peace does not yet reign." Northern ,Ireland Turning to "the beloved people of Northern Ireland," Pope Paul said that "the intolerable and distressing state of affairs unhappily continuing there is an affront not only to humanity but to the <;hri$tian name ...

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Enioy Child As IsCra,nky Tod,dleir In the supermarket a few days ago, I saw a young mother trying to control an over-active two year old. The boy wasn't really being bad. He was just tired and wanted, to sit on the floor;, his mother wanted him to stand between her and the cart. He stood there for a few min- of enthusiasm ... and still contheir parents absolute auutes, then started swinging sider thorities on every new bit of on the handle of the shop- learning that stirs their curiosity. ping cart. The mother smacked him, and changed a tired little boy into a tired crying little boy.

By MARY CARSON

Early school years are a trial, but the children still need us . . , at times for too many things at once. Yet, even the most hardboiled among us \;Vants to be needed. Adolescence can be infuriating, but also satisfying. Seeing our children's personalities develop into maturity, we know they are trying to become good, independent adults . . . which is the ultimate goal of parenthood. We must find the joy in every day ... and appreciate it while it's ours. Too' quickly it's gone. And the opportunity will never return. Then when we watch them get married, the tears won't be remorse for joys missed. The tears will be happiness for a job well done.

THE ANCHORThurs., April 26, 1973

Urges Christians Work for P,eace

/ ONE HUNDRED YEARS: Celebrating hundredth birthday on ,Good Friday was Mrs. Mary Louise Rheaume of Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford. The longtime reside.nt of Sacred Heart parish, that city, is congratulated by SISter Mary Margaret of the Grey Nuns staffing the Home.

YOUNGSTOWN (NC) - The Youngstown Diocesan Pastoral Council called on fellow believers and "all men who care" to work for peace through justice. In a 25-page statement, "Peace: A Challenging Priority," released here on Good Friday, the pastoral council outlined Church teachings on peace and justice and challenged Christians to develop attitudes and actions that would contribute to peace. "Our message is simple," the council said. "Peace is possible because it is God's will and plan. But because we are the channels of God's work in the world, peace depends on each one of us. We are caned by God to be peacebuilders." In a section on "The Practice of Peace" the. council suggested areas of action ranging from family life and business and union relationships to national and international action in politics and economics. It called on Christians to develop a sense of solidarity with all of the people in· the world, to adopt simpler life styles, and to be "more generous in sharing our abundance." Established in 1966, the 22member Youngstown council was one of the first diocesan pastoral councils formed in the United States. Although the Youngstown council has issued statements on individual issues, Msgr. J. Paul O'Connor, council vice-chairman, said this was the "first major statement" by the council on broader issues.

I felt sorry for the kid. He was just too tired and bored to be there in the first place, and he was in trouble partly because his mother was tired, too. But I felt even sorrier for his Sister Tells Conference of Vicars mother. She obviously was not enjoying her shopping trip . . . Bishops Don't Take Women Seriously Mother Teresa Awarded or her young son. ALBUQUERQUE (NC)-"Bish"The biggest move in women's As we stood together in the $88,000 Prize ops have not taken women serio ministry," Sister Aquinas said, check-out line she said to me, "I LONDON (NC) - Mother Te- ously," particularly nuns en- "is from the classroom to the recan't wait till he grows up...." resa of Calcutta, foundress of gaged in new forms of work, a ligious education program, reBetter Time? the Misssionaries of Charity, was leader of the Sisters of Mercy treats, campus and hospital minIt started me thinking that too awarded the $88,000 Templeton many mothers spend too many Foundation "Prize for Progress told a national meeting here in isters, social and ghetto work." New Mexico. She said, however, that some days looking forward to a better 'in Religion," it was announced Sister Thomas Aquinas, a gen- Sisters are not supported in this time. here. . "When he sleeps through the She was awarded the prize, eral director of her order, spoke work by priests and bishops. night., . . ." the announcement said, pecause to a National Conference of Vic- Some become alienated and seek " "When he's trained "she has been instrumental in ars for Religious that included ministries outside the Church "When he's in school. " widening and deepening man's about a dozen women who serve she said. Sister Aquinas, a past presi"When he goes away to col· knowledge and love of God and as associate vicars. in U. S. dioceses. dent of the Leadership of Women lege. . . ." thereby furthering' the quest for Treasurers Meet. Sister Aquinas said that Sis- Religious, said that in spite of And when he walks down the the quality of life that mirrors has been these problems "much ters have become more involved Regional treasurers of the aisle with his wife - then the divine." we'll cry, "Where did the time Prince Philip presented the in ministries since the Second accomplished and the Church is Leadership Conference of Womgo?" prize money and a silver medal Vatican Council although she ac- recognizing the many talents of en Religious met earlier this month at Mont Marie, Holyoke. The time went into anticipa- to Mother Teresa in a ceremony knowledged that the Council women." In a rare appearance outside Among participants in the weekFathers rarely used the term tion of happier or easier times to at the Guildhall here April 25. her cloister, Mother Mary Fran- end conference, which, considcome. And the constant "lookThe 62-year-old Albanian nun, "ministry." When it was used, ing forward" blinded us to the who was born in Yugoslavia, 'it referred to priest rather than cis, abbess of the Poor Clare ered social security and insurMonastery in Roswell, N. B., ance programs for religious combeauty and wonder of each day. came to India as a member of Sisters, s he said. Only One Chance Since the Council, she' said, spoke to the vicars about the munities, were Sister Kathleen the Irish branch of'the Institute Certainly every stage of a of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sisters have begun to work in need to understand and appre- Farley, RS.M., former principal of Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall child's development has its prob- known as Loreto Sisters. She pastoral team ministries, usually ciate the contemplative life.0 . She pointed out that Vatican River, and now provincial trealems. But it also has its good taught for some years at fash- initiated by the nuns themselves, points. If we don't take time to ionable Loreto House, a girls' that combine 'the talents of 11 spoke about the importance surer of the Sisters of Mercy, of both the prayer-oriented min-, Cumberland, R. I.; and Sister appreciate them when they are college in Calcutta. Depressed pr,iests and Sisters. istry and the active ministry. Mary Jean Audette, S.U.S.C., with us, there won't be another by the dying and destitute on Father William Hughes, presi- provincial treasurer for the chance. city streets, she obtained perdent of the Conference of Vicars, Sist.ers of the Holy Union of the Just as we can't go to a con- missionn to start a new congre- Bishop Named Vicar explained why ministry was Sacred Hearts, Fall River. Sister cert with a toddler, we can't ,gation, the Missionaries of CharFor Spanish-Speaking chosen as the theme of the April Kathleen is secretary-treasurer of take our grown children for a ity. the Regional Treasurers organLOS ANGELES (NC)-Cardi- 8-11 meeting. walk in the park. "Vatican IiI gave several direc- ization, and Sister Mary Jean nal T.imothy Manning has As wearying as it can be get- Resettling Refugees named AuxHiary Bishop Juan tions to ministry," he said. "As was program chairman for the ting up for night feedings, Arzube, a native of Ecuador, ministers of the word, we must weekend meeting. there's a moment of peace, joy Given Top Priority ROME (NC) - Caritas Inter- episcopal vicar for the Spanish- be sensitive to many more needs and contentment, feeding a new nationalis - the international speaking people of the Los Ange- of peoples. The Church has sumborn baby in the still solitude. Indiv:duaUty Catholic charities organization.:..... moned every Ch"ristian to beToddlers can be exasperating, les archdiocese. has given top priority in postThe same disappointments in come active and share responsibut they are eager to learn, full Bishop Arzube said that, ac- bility for decisions. We need life 'will chasten and refine one war Vietnam to the resettlement of refugees. cording to his study of popula- new structures to implement man's spirit, embitter another's. A meeting of the organization's tion statistics, approximately this· new vision." Catholic Daughters -Mathews emergency commission on April one of every five Californians is To Mark Anniversary 11 authorized the immediate dis- Spanish-speaking. Los Angeles UTICA (NC) - The Catholic patch of $100,000 to Vietnam for County's population is 18 per Daughters of America, a 200,000- the purchase of tools and seeds, cent Spanish-speaking. member organization of women, as well as the sinking of wells He plans to establish regional will celebrate its 70th birthday in six villages destined to accomcommittees or councils of priests, • Savings Bank Life Insurance June 17 in Utica, the city in modate a total of 25,000 war refReligious and 'laity to implement which it began. ugees. • Real Estate Loans existing programs for the SpanThe national observance of the Msgr. Georg Huessler of West • Christmas and Vacation Clubs day will be marked with Mass in , Germany, president of the emer- ish-speaking'and to develop new ones. Utica's Our Lady of Lourdes gency commission of Caritas In• Savings Accounts Church. There will be other ternationalis, said that the new Father Alfred Hernandez, • 5 Convenient Locations celebrations by local CDA units program "to help the people' of chairman of the priests' senate around the country. Vietnam win the peace" is more committee on service to the NEW' BEDFORD The CDA began in 1903, with important that the organization's Spanish-speaking, will assist 60 members. It was started by aid to wartime Vietnam, both Bishop Arzube as coordinator of the Utica Knights of Columbus. North and South. the new office.

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Jesuit Liturgist Asserts Reform Has Just Begun MILWAUKEE (NC) -~ The Church is "only at the very heginning 'of the contemporary liturgical movement inasmuch as we have merely begun to clear the decks," a noted Fturgist said here. . Since Vatican Council II, the liturgical movement has been largely "a pruning away of the needless additions of many centuries," Father John Gallen of. Woodstock College in New York told an interviewer here. The real work is still ahead, the Jesuit said. "We as an American people need to find a more art:culate awareness of how God speaks to us in our time," the liturgy professor said. Until now the Church has been too busy with the complicated matter of J;eacting against the old forms. There has been too much replacing old rules with new ones, he said. "What is important is to discover what faith experience is and then see how liturgy can express that experience," he asserted. Deepens Experience For example, the celebration of the Fourth of July is a typically American non-religious litur.gy. What happens on that day is the American people give expression to ,a uniquely 'AmElrican experience. The fireworks. picnics and parades are ways of celebrating the "American experience" and the celebl'ation deepens that experience. "The whole complexus ill like celebrating religious experience. Like every other ritual which spells out in action the meaning of an event, liturgy bring!l out and deepens an experience," he stated. Liturgy isn't an 'exclus;ively Roman Catholic phenomenon, the Jesuit pointed out. "The day of the Robert Kennedy funeral, for instance, was an all day long liturgy for Amer.icans. They celebrated their ex- . perience of Robert Kennedy and that celebration drew Americans together as. a people," he said,' Hymn Singing The Old Testament is a bundant Woith examples of the pElople of Israel celebrating how God lived and worked with them, At one point David was so "turned on by God" that he was not content to just stand before the Ark of the Covenant but was l;ompelled to dance in reverence. He was so captured by the abounding vitality and the power of God that he danced to celeblrate the vitality of life. "In a more Christian context, St. Francis of Assisi was so excited by the presence of God in creation that he was continually" singing a hymn of praise. That is the meaning of contemporary ritual and liturgy-to go around hymn singing," the priest said with a smile. "Unless I experience God's richness in life I really don't have much to celebrate," he saH

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YOUTHS WITH. CAUSE: Dedicated to struggle against abortion legislation are Robert Simmons, left, and Michael Vandal, organizers of Massachusetts Youth For Life, group seeking to advance pro-life cause by educational, political and direct aid means. Vandal has taken year's leave of absence from studies at Boston College to devote full time to effort.

Teenagers Devote Energies to Pro -Life, Hope to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling the troops on the pro-life side . me; and second, I decided to BY PAT McGOWAN have been tempered by the long fight abortion in Massachusetts Mike Vandal and Bob Simmon~ . are 1~ and 18 respectively, both marches, the fasting, the indig- by any means possible." Last September, he said, a nities sometimes heaped upon college freshmen. At an age when few young men are con- them and they have survived the magazine article on the political cerned with much beyond their heat of summer and the cold of aspects of abortion legislation personal horizons, they are en- winter. We are moving out of upset him to the extent that he gaged heart and soul in the Valley Forge-hard .battles and organized Fall River Youth FOR struggle against legalized abor- victory in amendment of the Life, which was very active in voting strength tion. As founders of "Massachu- Constitution lie, immediately mobilizing ahead. To be a against the abortion question on part of this, a setts Youth FOR Life," an outgrowth of "Fall River Youth full time worker, should be an the November ballot. "Fall River FOR Life," they are scouring the education in itself _.. Two years voted against it more heavily state for support, both moral and from now we will either have than almost anywhere in the won or preservation of the life o state," he said with pride. financial. After the Supreme Court aborSo· committed is Mike that of the u'nborn will be beyon9 our tion decision in January, Mike last week he cut short his fresh- grasp." 'It is the sense of urgency in and Bob expanded their organman year at Boston College to devote full time to the pro-life the anti-abortion struggle that is ization to. the state level. They cause. He felt that the impor- felt strongly by Mike and Bob'. hope shortly to open headquar"What we need," sajd Mike, ters in Fall River, Boston and tance of the political struggle against the Supreme Court deci- "is either a reversal of the Su- either Worcester or Springfield. sion legalizing abortion was preme Court decision or a con- In Fall River, they note, there is such that he could not even af- stitutional amend~ent declaring already a nucleus of members, ford to finish the academic year. that the unborn child is a person while Mike counts about 200 He was supported in his decision from the moment of concepFon supporters in Boston, whom he by Dr. Joseph R. Stanton, father and as such must be afforded the rallied while at Boston College. Mailings, said the youths, are of 12 and former president of the protection 'of the Bill of Rights...· He expects to devote himself sent from St. Joseph's Hall in Value of Life Committee, headto the crusade for the next year, Dartmouth, where Rev. Philip quartered in Cambridge. Dr. Stanton advised Mike to Bob, a freshman at Suffolk Uni- Kelly, C.S.C. is among their supweigh the matter with his par- versity, will remain in school, porters. They see their organizaents and, college advisors, then' but his task is financial. He will tion as having a threefold funcadded "If the above conditions attempt to raise ·funds to under- tion: educational, political and are met ... I would tell you Jhat write Mike's travels within the help-giving. Of the third function, Mike the pro-life cause desperately stat'e, to pay for frequent mail,needs people .your age, your ca- . ings to Youth FOR Life members, noted that' he doesn't see it 'as pabilities and your dedication to and to meet· the rent of store- duplicating efforts of other work full time-full time and a front headquarters the organiza- groups, "As young people we half. Close involvement full time tion hopes to open in three areas can often reach those in our age group more easily than older will make .you a participant of the state. In Fall River people. Many students are desrather than an observer in one of Mike and Bob met as students perately looking for guidance the greatest social movements since opposition to slavery. at Bishop Connolly High School, and leadership." In Trenches Fall River, from which they gradCake Sales "While others in college uated last June. It was at ConParenthetically he noted that will be studying social move- nolly, two years ago, recalled in an apparent swing back to traments," declared the physician, Mike, that he "made two com- ditional values, students in one "you will be in the trenches mitments. First, I decided to Boston College dormitory last within sound of the guns in the register for the draft as a con- year ·requested that a priestwar to save the unborn. All that scientious objector, since I could counselor be assigned to live in has gone before is preliminary- not justify the taking of any their building.

MADRID (NC) - The Spanish Medical Association has condemned abortion on demand as "a nefarious crime," A statement at the end of its annual meeting said its condemnation of abortion practices "stems from the principle that the human person even in the embryonic stage, is absolutely invIolable... The fetus, "conceived as a human being from the beginning, has basic rights that cannot be violated or tampered with," the. statement added. In January the review, Med. ical Tribune, said that in spite of strict legislation, about 100,000 abortions a year are being, performed illegally in Spain, placing the figure between f() and 18 per cent of all live births. At the time several doctors formed a pro-life committee and said their aim was. "to show the public that abortion on demand is brutal murder," . .The national Catholic magazine, Ecclesia, commented on what it called "a world epidemic against the sacred' right to be born," "The epidemic is most virulent in societies with Christian traditions," the magazine wrote. "There is no man, or science or medical proof to justify the intentional elimination of innocent lives." Asked about practical moneyraising plans, Bob said that - he has high hopes for cake sales which he will request schools and parish organizations to conduc't. Already organized is a dollar-a-month club with some 50 members. Mike and Bob are themselves available for slide lectures to schools, guilds and other organizations and can be contacted at P.O. Box 1487, Fall River 02722. They will be present at a debate for students representing both sides of the abortion issue on Thursday" May 17 at . Bishop Connolly High School. Bob, a member of Santo Christo parish, Fall River, and Mike, St. George, Westport, both say their families back them in their unusual avocations. "I'm number five of nine children,". noted Mike, "so you can see how my parents feel," He said that he is opposed to bumper stickers reading "Abortion Is Murder," "You get nowhere with that approach," he pointed out. "You can't go around telling people they're murderers. It's not constructive. We must offer help and compassion and always hope that people will change." When he returns to Boston College he will complete his degree work in psychology and theology. He's not worried about a future career. "I think the Lord will guide me and whatever I should do, I will."

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Many Fol,low Gc)spel Path In Spite of Rest' of Us Often we critic:ize our Catholic leaders for silence in the greater world outside our Church, for taking refuge in purely Catholic discussions and problems while the big problems of mankind remain "other's problems". Yet, when a leader does submit a ser~ peace march, we turned our vice to our country as well \ abacks on them, too. If they conas to our Church, we have demned a pastor for working a tendency to ignore it. with CO's, so did we. If they

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greater circle of mankind. I suspect we're much more comfortable talking about nun.,' habits, for instance, than about clothing the naked. Perhaps our endless discussion over the pill helps us to ignore the realities of overpopulation in India and South America. And how many of our eHorts to house' the homeless have been preempted by efforts' to school our baptized first? For a long time, any Catholic leader who chose the world as his vineyard, working for peace, justice or the poor, automatically dircredited himself in our own Church. His fellow priests, nuns, and bishops either attacked him or withdrew from him, leaving him alone and lonely in his apostolate to peace or poor. Cue from Leaders And we, the laity, d"dn't behave more Christianly, though we should have. Living out here in the world, we are aware of the value and needs of peoples who aren't Catholic, people who need housing, people who need counselling. Maybe they don't go to our Church, but: they live in our block, work in ~ our buildings, and play with our kids.. Still, we, took our cue from our leaders. If they discredited a priest or nun for taking part in

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preached against fair housing, migrant exploitation or Indian reparations, we nodded in oar pews, comfortable once again in our complacency. In this way, we failed our more courageous leaders but they kept coming. Today we find ourselves with outstanding men like Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, ex-chairman of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, a unit that has been fearless in its exposure of racism at the expense, perhaps, of political benediction. Fathe·r Hesburgh exemplifies the kind of leader who can lead both within his Church, as President of Notre Dame, and within his world. Then we have Bishop Patrick Flores, another man who perceives injustice and risks popularity by pointing out our lack of Christian response to it. I'm sure his well-publicized speeches have earned him a good many nasty IE~tters. Here's one public thank you to offset them a little. Thank You And there's Bishop George Evans of Denver who has worked tirelessly for low cost housing for families who can't afford other. This apostolate has fought its way through zoning commissions ("Put the poor somewhere else, not: in our town."),. government red tape, and neighborhood protest without becoming utterly discou·raged. It is now facing a tremendous cutback or even a cessation in federal funds as a result of budget cuts and Bishop Evans has openly and courageously questioned som~ of our national prerogatives. To all these men, thank you. They are only three. There are many more, and many women in our Church who have followed the dictates of the gospels in spite of the'rest of us. We have outstanding laity implementing gospel principles in their spheres of life. They may not be labelled Church or Catholic- in publicity but they serve as witnesses just as the priest, nun, or bishop serves.

BISHOP CRONIN MEETS CAPE COD AREA LAY CHAIRMEN: Present at an area meeting for the Catholic Charities Appeal' for the Cape 'were the priests, area and parish chairman of the parishes. All the parishes were represented at this organizational meeting for the Special Gifts Phase of the Appeal scheduled for April 23 to May 5 and the House-to-House Appeal on May 6 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. The above photo left to right: Arthur E. Wills of Buzzards Bay, area'lay chairman for upper Cape; Mrs. Gilbert J. Noonan of Falmouth, lay chairman for middle Cape; Bishop Cronin; John Coyle of West Dennis, lay chairman for lower Cape. ~

Maryland Rejects Liberal Abortion Law ANNAPOLIS (NC)-The Maryland House of Delegates has rejected a bill -that would have given >the state a new abortion law, in effect killing the liberal measure for this legislative session. o The House vote was 65-61 in favor of passage of the m,easure. However, approval of bills requires 72 votes, a'majority of the House's full membership. The vote, taken April 3, represented a decrease in support for the bill, basically designed to reconcile state law with the U. S. Supreme Court abortion ruling in January. Less than 24 hours before the 65-61 vote was made, the House had voted 71-65 in favor of the measure, failing by only one vote for passage. The bill killed by the House would have provided that abor·tions be performed by a physician in a licensed medical facility during the first six months of pregnancy In the final pregnancy trimester, the bill stated, abortions couLd not be performed unless the mother's life or health is jeopardized. Catholics Oppose

The Supreme Court, similarly, placed few restrictions on the For all these, named and anon- performance of abortions, giving ymous, I say a humble prayer of women an unlimited right to the thanks. It is people like these operation until the final pregwho ma~~e Christ believable and nancy trimester is reached, durour purpose as Christians cred- ing which states may stipulate ible. the operation is illegal except when needed to preserve the mother's life arid health. Capsule Review: Prayer, by Catholic legislators, aided by Ma·rtin J. Kirk C.M.F., is a sim-, pIe approach to' the problem of James E. Shaneman of the Marypraying today. This $.75 pam- land Catholic Conference, voted phlet talks about "conversing overwhelmingly against approval with God," and praying more of the abortion measure in the rpeaningfully. It will surely help House. those readers who have given The legislators had done so up old prayers but haven't despite the fact that Shaneman adopted B,ny new ones. Claretian had ran·kled many of >them with Publication, 221 W. Madison St., the reported assertion that CathChicago, 60606. olic legislators voting for the

measure could risk automatic excommunication from the Church. Shaneman later stated he meant the excommunication might have applied only to those legislators who actively supported the measure and not merely voted quietly for its passa~e. Unclear Law It is unclear what law now governs performance of abortions in the state. The current statute, imperiled by the Supreme Court ruling, states that abortions can

Bishops Urge End To Anti-Semitism PARIS (NC) - A group of French bishops issued a document urging an end to antisemitism. "The Jew merits our attention and our esteem, often our admiration, sometimes our friendly and brotherly criticism but always our love," the bishops said. The document, "Pastoral Orientations . on . the Attitude of Christians toward Judaism," was drawn' up by a study group at bishops. It reflected the 1965 declaration of the Second Vatican Council on the Jews. That qeclaration absolved Jews from guilt in the death of Jesus. The chief rabbi of France, Jacob Kaplan, called the French document "a great act by the Church toward which Judaism is greatly sensitive."

be performed up' to the 26th week of pregnancy if the pregnancy results from rape or threatens the life or mental health of the mother. After the 26th week, the operation is only permissible if the mother's life is endangered. Supporters of th~ legislation that would have reconciled state abortion regula,tions with the Supreme Court ruling had claimed the Supreme Court ruling left Maryland with no restrictions on abortion. Opponents of the defeated legislation asserted ,the high court ruling left parts of the current law intact. Maryland Deputy Atty. Gen.' Henry R. Lord indicated he was unsure whether the Supreme Court ruling invalidated all of the current law. However, he said the high court's decision would provide "a very good defense" aga'inst prosecution under the existing law.

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Marilyn Requests Women To Cont,ribute Recipes

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO The annual Minstrel and viuiety Show, "Sentimental Journey", will be 'presented. at 7:30 on Saturday and Sunday nights, By Jo(~and Marilyn Roderick May 12 and 13. Tickets are $1.50 ST. PIUS X, for adults and 75c for children As a good and conscientious father, I am thankful SO. YARMOUTH that the weather last week was so beautiful, otherwise The Women's Guild will hold and may be obtained at the recits annual Spring Luncheon Card tory or from any member of the children would have been trapped. i~ the 'house and I Party at Patti's Rib House, West the cast. would have had to become the mean ogre that I prefer Rev. Robert Donovan of St. Dennis at 12 noon on Monday, not to be. With good weathJohn's Parish, Attleboro will be April 30. the guest speaker at the meeter the children were active the diocese - Nantucket ~ Mrs. Please call 394-7892 for reser· Kay Mack, who asked that The ing of the parents of this year's and released their energies Anchor perhaps print a full page vations. first Holy Communion Class at through exercise rather than of meatless or inexpensive rec7:30 on Sunday night, April 30. in arguments with each other. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, ipes. Mrs. Mack is the mother Gowns will be distributed at FALL RIVER' of eight so she certainly is feelI took advantage of the unthis meeting. Children of Mary will attend Troop No. 37 will leave on seasonable warmth to do much ing the 'pressure on the economy 9 AM. Mass Sunday, April 29. Friday, April 27th for a weekend of the Spring work in the garden of the ,American family ·today. A meeting will follow. Members of camping at Camp Yawgoog. which is so necessary and which Asks for Recipes will be present at a televised used up all of my energy. When The members of the bowling Mass Sunday May 6 and at their , league wlil ,hold their annual I came into the house I.had very In answer to Mrs. Mack's re- MEDALIST: Father John A. annual Mother's Day Mass at banquet tomorrow night at 7:30. little vitaHty remaining and the quest, I would be delighted t~ O'Brien, 80, author in resi5 P.M. Sunday, May 13. children could have blown up publish any recipes that .my dence at the University of The annual blessing of autos the place without distaurbing readers have come across and Notre Dame, is the first is slated for 1 P.M. Sunday, May HOLY NAME, me. found palatable, to help all of us RIVER, \ priest to be awarded the 27 in the church parking lot. . FALL The National Theatre of New Nothing furthers domestic through these days of extra· The Holy Name Society will tranquility more than physical ordinary prices. While at this Laetare Medal of the univer- sponsor a whist party at 7:30 York will present "Tom Sawyer" fatigue and weary bodies; a moment I haven't had the op- sity. The award was estab- P.M. Saturday, May 19. Atten- at 12:15 P.M. today in the school sleeping child is a quiet child portunity to ask my editor about lished in 1883 to honor out- dance at a baseball ga~e in Bos- auditorium. Tickets are available and parents can take pride in a whole recipe page; I could standing lay Catholics, but ton is slated for Sunday, June a~ school and will also be sold at the door. having the foresight to allow promise that they would .be its scope was enlarged in 24. their offspring to wear them- ,tried and printed. individually, The Council of Catholic Woif not in a group. So, if any of 1968 to include priests and selves out. men will hold its annual mother- MT. CARMEL, Jason was at his best. He was the women across the diocese Religious. NC Photo. daughter breakfast and meeting NEW BEDFORP so active that he didn't have Hie would look through their files following 8 AM. Mass Sunday, The parish PTA will meet at energy to resist his bath. Jhe and share some of their favorite May. 6. 7:30 on Sunday evening, April girls ran hither and yon on low cost or meatless meals with Holy Rosary Sodalists an- 29 in the school basement. their bicycles and except for others, I'm sure it would be apnounce a penny sale at 7 P.M. The meeting will consider . occasional complaints of stiff- preciated by all. Friday, June 22 in the church nominations for new officers.. As we went through a week of SANTO DOMINGO, (NC) ness in the legs, they were exhall. ceptionally quiet the whole meatless meals .(and presently Government attempts to muzzle HOLY NAME, week. Marilyn emerged only at our house we're trying to ob- the press could end by curtailing ST.. LOUIS DE FRANCE, NEW BEDFORD occasionally, as she was in the serve meatless Tuesdays and religious freedom, 60 priests, SWANSEA Plans are being completed for midst of Spring cleaning, All in Fridays) our ingenuity and re- Religious and seminarians said Parishioners will mark the sil- a yard sale to be held in the all it was the kind of school va- sources were called upon and here. ver jubilee in' the priesthood of church parking lot on Saturday, cation that was memorable for many of us found that we enjoy, Joining efforts by newsmen, their pastor, 'Rev. Louis Boivin, May'19 from 10 to 3. "I ';. " the feeling of "trying to save." peace and quiet. the group said a free press and at a Mass, reception and dinner Articles for sale may be left ~onsumer power has only beWhen I was a. boy 1 heard other communications media Sunday, May 20. The concele· at the annex between 6 and 8 a great deal about "avoiding the gun to come to the fore but the "have .been thus· far the best brated Mass is scheduled for 11 P.M. on Mondays and Fridays occasions of sin"; in marriage only way we are to make it deterrent against the worsening AM., with the reception and din- . from now until the sale. there is a great deal to be said count is if we stick together and of conditions that will destroy ner to follow at Venus de Milo For further information call about "avoiding the occasions of let those in the government coexistence and human dignity." restaurant. Chairman of the pro- Martin Barry at 994-6726; Walconflict." Conflict in family life know that the people will just Dominican President Joaquin gram is Rev. John FoIster" aid- ter Carter at 994·0284 or Romeo is inevitable but the kind of not accept the increased cost of BaoJaguer sent congress a pro- ed by Anita Boulanger and Leo Magnant 993-2818. weather we had last" week is an living without a struggle. It may posal to curb newsmen's access Parent, co-chairmen, Rita Levesexcellent deterrent to unneces- cause .some moans and groans to sources and publication of que, secretary, and Albert Lamsary confrontation. With a con- from the men in the family who materials which could allegedly· bert, treasurer. Master of cere- NOTRE DAME, tinuation of such weathllr par- are ,accustomed to steak but endanger national security. He monies will· be Normand Le FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women ents could emerge from the once they see that grocery also ordered that coverage of an Comte. Eight parish organizagrouchiness of winter to the money going a longer way, they army operation against a small tions are represented on various will hold its regular monthly pleasantness of Spring with a too may learn to enjoy tuna guerrilla force which Ianded here planning committees. A second meeting at 7:45 on Monday evecasseroles. minimum of effort! in Febmary shoul<i be based on organizational meeting is an- ning, April 30 in the Jesus Marie nounced for 8:15 P.M. Monday Auditorium. Here's one recipe we used· government releases only. In the Kitchen The guest speaker will be Mrs. night, April 30 .in the school with a cheese souffle and a -. basement. Balaguer, however, withdrew Katherine Friedman and her salad to' make not only· a meatWell, the mell-t boycott is temtopic will be "Life is Mostly porarily over but whether it was less meal but an inexpensive one the pr.oposal after strong opposition from both local journalists ST. KILIAN, What You Wear." successful remains to' bE! seen. as well. and the Inter-American Press NEW BEDFORD Mrs. Gerard Dextraze, chairOne measurable result that I feel Tuna Potato Puff Association. Instead, he estabman for the evening has urged· . The Women's Guild plans a came out of the week and the Iisheda censorship desk in the all members to bring canned whist party for 8 P.M. Saturday, events leading up to it was that 2 eggs executive office with senate ap- April 28 in the school basement, goo<is in order to fill the baskets as consumers, housewivE's and Y2 cup milk provaL at the corner of Earle Street and being prepared for the May Incooks' we have all become much 2 cups soft breadcrumbs Ashley Boulevard. Chairman stallation Communion Breakfast. more aware of careful shopping. 1,4 cup minced onions Such moves, the 60 priests, Yvonne Blais will be aided by 2 Tablespoons minced pars- seminarians and Religious said, I had a delightful note from her committee and announces Persistence ley a woman at the' far reaches of "are worsening our alrea4Y difthat refreshments will be served Y2 teaspoon salt ficult conditions, and soon reliEven in social life, it is persisand many prizes awarded.. Y2 teaspoon dry mustard gious preaching will come under tency which atracts confidence Rejects Request %teaspoon pepper . such adverse restrictions." more than talents and accom· SACRED HEART, WASHINGTON (NC) -- The ··2 (7 ounce) cans tuna plishments. Catholic sources have been de- TAUNTON U. S. Supreme Court has reo 3 cups seasoned cooked mash· -Whipple nouncing economic and social Preparations are under way for jected - a request by the state ed potatoes of Connecticut that· it take a Y2 cup shredded American policies of the government for observance of the parish centenseveral years. ' nial, with. an anniversary ban~ second look at abortion -- this cheese quet and ball slated for Friday, time viewing,' medical evidence 1) Blend eggs, milk, breadJune 8 at Venus de Milo restauincluding photographs of unborn crumbs, onion, parsley and seaTrain Educators rant, Swansea. A cocktail hour babies. The new action had the sonings. NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The will be held from' 6 to 7 P.M. effect of upholding the. court's 2) A<id tuna and turn into a Catechetical and Pastoral Insti- followed by the banquet. Jan. 22 ruling that sharply limit9 inch pie plate. !ute of the South (CPI) has esHonorary chairmen of the ared the rights of states to restrict 3) Bake in a 350· oven 40 tablished a black scholarship rangements committee are Rev. abortions. Lawyers for Connecti· cut ,had argued that medical minutes. Remove from oven. In- program to train' future black Walter A Sullivan and Rev. Edevidence not made available crease heat to 550. Pile potatoes leaders in religious education. ward J. Byington. Chairmen are 303 IYANOUGH ROAD in previou~ abortion cases shows on top of tuna mixture, sprinkle The program is being adminis- Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. FJaimthat life begins at conception with cheese. Place under broiler tered by CPI in cooperation with ery, aided by, a large committee. HYA.NNIS, MASS. and that the unborn child is' a or in oven until cheese reaches Xavier University of Louisiana Music for the evening will be TEL. 775-0081 melting point. Serves. 6. here this summer. "citizen;" by Jack Shea~s Tempos. Publicity chairmen of parish 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. .

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Christian Must Exemplify Giving More for Needy

.Final Translation Of New Missal Expected in 1974

When the leaders of the Church of England held a

collective examination of conscience last year-with strong ecumenical assistance-one of the conclusions reached in their working groups was that, in the light of deepening world poverty and the grow, ing pressure on energy and sically hostile to public redistriresources exercised by "con- bution of wealth-by way of the tax system-has in recent years sumerism" among the affIu- allowed "tax reforms" to go through which actually increase the incomes of the very wealthy and cut back on the revenue available for helping the poor, at home or abroad. Phrases like "the tax bite" or "the govern::J;:r~~;:~;K'D~~1~·~'S:K«';i'! ment's hand in your pocket" have been invented to make it seem as thoiJgh taxes, even when they bring education, help the old, the By sick and the blind,are in some ways disadvantageous whereas BARBARA private "spending" income, part of which goes to finance the adWARD vertising industry that persuades one to spend, is in some metaphysical way better and more free. All this is a possible secu. lar outlook. The trouble is that This, essentially, is what the it is not Christian. Church's Synodal Document also So the affluent Christians concalls for. It is very likely to be discussed again when the Synod front a special temptation and meets' next year. It is moving to hence a special challenge. Their the center of Christian preoccu- response can take two forms. pation. But so far nothing very The first is to become discriminating judges of their country's concrete has emerged. The chief reason has, of course, tax and redistributive system. already been mentioned in these For Christians to join in the columns. A general "standard of parrot cries against taxation is. sparingness" is difficult to apply immoral. Taxation is the chief among all the infinite variety of social instrument for securing climates and cultures of the distributive justice. human race. It is also often diffi. If, after studying the country's cult to strike a balance between budget and, as ,groups, inviting the material resources needed to local congressional representacarry out a job well and the ex- tives to discuss it with them, tras which are luxury, not ne- Christian citizens decide that, cessity. Yet, the effort must be for example, more resources are made, particularly by the afflu- needed for the nation's desperent Christians of the West. ately run-down inner cities or for the Third World's urban criSpedal Pressures sis and that nothing less essenThey are subjected to quite spe- tial remains to be cut out of the cial pressures to go on increas- budget, then they have a duty to ing their claims on life. For the raise their voices both for more last 25 years, the economic sys- expenditure and, when there is tem has received its chief stim- no slack in the economy, for ulus from a steady expansion of more taxes on wealthier people consumer demand and the vast to offset the expenditure. Who powers of advertising are there hears from the Christians in this to make sure, according to a law hardheaded ,1>Ut compassionate not yet propounded hy Professor way today? How many even Parkinson, that "needs rise to study their country's public exfill the income made available." penditures? How many simply And "needs" is an odd word to sound off aganst taxation as a . cover many of the transient fash- conditioned reflex betraying toions and singularly undurable tal acceptance of secular stand"consumers durables" - lawn ards? mowers, dishwashers, joggers, snowmobile,~ and, above all, Examine Standards trade-in cars - which burn up The second possiblity is more energy, litter the country with waste and suck in non-renewable varied and personal. It is to examine, as a Christian family, resources. our own standards and ask what Not Christian could he spared for the poor. A . Moreover in some of these so- number of Christian leaders in cieties, a political philosophy ba- Britain are suggesting a selfimposed 10 per cent levy on taxable income - in this way, rich tax payers can contribute more. De Sales Award NEW YORK (NC) - Arch- This is in line with ancient bishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Christian tradition in which we Cincinnati, Prof, David Host of "tithe" ourselves in -recognition Marquette University and Msgr. of the fact that all we have and Francis J. Lally, former editor all' we are comes to us from the of the Pilot in Boston, have been hand of' God. In accepting some chosen as judges for the selec- such standard, we recognize in a tion of this year's St. Francis de concrete way our stewardship Sales Award of the Cathol'ic for all we possess-not ours for Press Association. The three new simple personal exploitation and judges join two judges from last enjoyment, but· ours as citizens year in choosing the winner of of a heavenly community where the award, given each year for love and justice reign and which, the outstanding contributions to in praying "Thy Kingdom come," Catholic journalism. we are called to realize on earth.

ent, it was time for Christians, as an issue of fundamental witness, to adopt simpler standards, to give more, demand less and set an example of generosity and plainer living.

HELPING HANDS: Father Peter Rogers, O.M.L, New Orleans Police and Fife Department chaplain, carries an elderly person to safety. NC Photo.

'Scavenger Journalism' Wall'Street Journal Attacks Italian "Confession' Revelations NEW YORK (NC)-The Wall Street Journal has attacked the book published by two Italiall journalists who made tape recordings of faked confessions to 632 Italian priests as "scavenger journalism." "The stunt repeatedly violated. and mocked a sacrament that millions of people the world over regard with reverence," the Jou-rnal said in an editorial. Conceding that experimentation is essential to progress, the Journal editorial said "it is necessary not to confuse desecration with experimentation, sacrilege with boldness or nihilism with liberation from meaningless taboos. It is equany important not to encourage those who do confuse them." Noting that the journalists

would not have "tried their stunt" if they expected disapproval, the Journal asked: "Did they seriously expect the priests, in the solitude of the confessional, to impart advice sharply different from the public doctrines of the Roman Catholic religion? Wasn't their motive more likely voyeurism with sham-religious overtones? "The harm this kind of violation does is not to the Church or to institutionalized religion. Rather, it is to the fragile social bonds that hold our civilization together." In Calcutta, Amrita Bazar Patrika, one of India's largest national dailies, owned, published and edited by Hindus, called the action of the Italian journalists "reprehensible beyond all doubt."

WASHINGTON '(NC)-The final Engl·ish translation of the Church's official sacramentary or altar missal is in its last stages and should be published some time in 1974, the secretariat for the U. S. Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy reported here. Father Frederick R. McManus, director of the secretariat, said that the definitive English edition is now in its final stages of revision. He gave his comments after atending a meebing in Chicago at which three liturgical publishers from America and one from Ireland discussed the style and format of author,itative editions of the sacramentary, which they expect to begin publishing next year. The translation of the new Roman Missal, which was pubLished in Latin by Pope Paul VI in 1970, is being made by the International Committee on Eiglish In the Liturgy (ICEL), a working group responsible for translating liturgic!!l prayers for the English-speaking world. After the rCEL completes its translation, ,it must still be approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), the policymaking body made up of all the U. S. bishops. The bishops' appr<>val must also be confirmed by the Vatican before it becomes the official altar missal for the United States. New Breviary Father McManus stressed that the new sacramentary will involve no changes ,in the order of the Mass or in the responses, acclamalions or prayers of the people. Until the new sacramentary is approved and published in 1974, U. S. priests can use either the 1966 sacramentary or the provisional sacramentary for Sundays which was pUblished in 1972 by the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy. Father McManus said the publishers' meeting in Chicago also discussed plans for publishing editions of the new English breviary or liturgy of the hours, which is expected to be completed in English translation by the end of this year. If officially approved, the hreviary' wdll be published in 1974.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH I

God Is Our Solid Base

We can never name God properly'. No matter what we try to say about him there is always something wrong with it. Vet' we can never stop trying to talk about God. When we call him "the Holy One," we really are saying that I he is so far apart and so differ, ent that any'words we use about ;. him tenl! to lose their proper · meaning. When we call him "the Lord," · we really are saying more about ourselves' than about him-sim· ply confessing that all our world belongs to him and depends on I him in every way; admitting that · all we do and all that happens takes place only with his lmowledge and consent. Since we cannot talk about God directly and properly and clearly, we resort to picturewords. The Bible does this all the time. For instance, the Bible calls God "the Rock."

. But even an inspired pictureword lilke that one gives us little information about God himself.

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FR. QUIENTIN QUESNEll, S.J.

M()stly it tells us. about God's relation to us, or rather our relation to God. He is our rock,

"Everything is flowing!" "All things 'constantly change!" Three thousand years ago a Greek professor, named Heracbitus, taught

catch fully what happens before them during the celebration. Alternatives Are there any alternatives? The two suggestions which follow do not exactly resolve the difficulty, but they can promote the kind of uncomplicated response we seek. First, repeated use of the same melodies for pivotal parts of Mass until they can be sung from memory by the congregation. Those sections would be, for example, the "Holy, holy, holy Lord," the mem9rial accla. ~<_./,,<_, ~ -':' ,:;:f'J'1 FR. JOSEPH M.,"#;.'J mations and· great: Amen, the "Lamb of God" and perhaps the CHAMPLIN "Our FathElr." This may appear either an unrealistic task or a procedure sure to produce through extendI am not here :about to argue ed repetition an irritating borefor the immediate (or eventual) dom. My experiences in two elimination Of hymnals· and hand quite distinct parish circummissals nor will I. take sides in stances indicates it is neither. the debate about including or On the contrary, congregational excluding texts from monthly singing has been strongest premissalettes and weekly Mass cisely during those portions of· leaflets. Instead, it. is merely my . eucharistict celebrations. Secondly, frequent employcontention that in the ideal set ting worshipers would have no mentof antiphonal and litany 'need of such printed matter to type songs and prayers. Thus, the responsorial psalm help them pray pUblicly. following the first scriptural A few mustrations may prove reading at Mass, really designed my point. for singing, not recitation, works Those who have celebrated well when done according to special children's Masses lmow such arrangements by composers what a potential disaster song like Deiss 01' Gelineau. In this apsheets or Mass leaflets are in the proach, a cantor or the choir hands of grammar school young- handles the verses, the congresters. These pieces of paper gation sings the antil)hon or remake excellent airplanes, double frain. The latter are easily beautifully as fans, fold il1 an memorized and repeated perhaps infinite variety of ways and pro- a haff dozen times. People in the' duce a funny sound when waved pews gain {:onfidence with each . back and forth. reiteration of the' refrain and the Groups at weddings or com- strength of their response manimunal Baptisms are not inclined fests this. Litany-Type Prayer to fashion paper toys out of parThe revised American edition ticipation booklets. But these people do have a tendency ~o to of the funeral liturgy is another fix their attention on the pub- illustration. After Mass at the lished text that they fail to Turn 'to Page Eighteen

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he is for us "a rock of salvation," a "rock of refuge," our "roc;{y fortress." God Stands Firm God our rock is the solid base on which we can always find a secure place to stand. When everything else about us seems to be shifting, sliding, changing, fading before our eyes, God stands firm. He is always there. Taking our stand on him, we know where we are. Something permanent holds us up; not 'just slippery mud or shifting, sliding sand. Not the treachery of Turn to Page Seventeen

God--Our. Rock of Refuge!

ISinging And Praying By Memory I In the midst of all the contra, 'versy 'over what type of participation a'ids serve best the cause of good liturgy, I think a Pundamenta! principle can be overlooked. That truth, it seems. to me, is this: people worship better when they have nothing iru their hands, when songs and w.ords spring directly from the heart and not out of the printed page.

God--The Rock!

his students that all of reality is in constant flux. Nothing is stable or solid. Life, he said, was like a river. Vou could never step twice into the same river because during. the time you stepped out, the flowing water your feet had first touched would have passed by.

FR. CARL J. . PFEIFER, S.J.

RETREAT TO SIMPLER LIFE: "Some have chosen to leave this mad world behind and retreat to .simpler and and older life styles ..." In Darlington, Wis., Orville and Mary Gille occasionally retreat to the spare room of their farm house which they have furnished the way it was when they married in 1935. Gille brings in an armload of wood for the stove on which his wife cooks a meal for old times' sake. NC Photo.

In many ways the insight of that old philosopher describes well ouf present situation of rapid change. Not· only does everything seem to be changing, If there is anything that clear- communicated in turn almost inbut the speed of change is accelly marks the times in which we stantiy. erating. Stability and Serenity Change at so rapid a'pace can live dt is the fact of change. Not that change itself is new; it is But what of the effects on us be quite unsettling. It often seems as if there is nothing to an essential element of all ere- of all these changes? The- reaehold onto, nothing stable or ated things. But our age is dif- . tions' are as many and as varied solid. "Everything is flowing!" ferent: the changes thllt are. . as the changes themselves. Some It is not surprising that many occurring are extensive, funda- people are apparently unaffected, Catholics, c~ught up in the turn- mental, and they are taking and even comfortable with change. But for most, the upover of experiences in most place with unsettling rapidity. heaval is at least disconcerting areas of life, look to their if not frightening. Some have Church for security. At least chosen to leave this mad world here, in the Church, there will behdnd and retreat to simpler be stability and security. Howand older life styles on "new ever, Catholi.cs are often dis- By frontiers," in communes or reliturbed to learn that change is gious sects. .a very real part of the Church, BRO. JAMES P.~ Others nostaligcally recall and too. A few moments of reflection CLIFTON insist on the "good old days," in ' on the Catholic Church we exan effort to close out the reality perienced twenty years ago and that is preSent and future-and the Church we experience today certainly more demanding. Even suggests the staggering scope of Furthermore, no one and no the search for "law and order" change in the Catholic Church. thing is so sacred as to ·be able at some level is a reaction to Change: Confusion to escape the effects of these forces of change that are seen as Change in the Church is some- changes. Institutions, customs, threats to 'well-established and thing the average Catholic has values-all are changing or at comfortable values and ways of not been prepared for. We have least are being challenged to' doing things. There are some looked upon the Church as a change. ways of handJoing disturbing rock of refuge, the storm-tossed In addition, w'e are acutely, change. Each of us -in some fashbut solid ship of Peter. and even painfully, aware of the ion handles the changing surThis conflict between experi- changing world around us. Be- roundings so as to establish enced change in the Church, to- cause of the phenomenal ad- some stability and serenity in gether with the expectation of an vances in communications, we life-real or imaginary. unchangeable Church, is at the are quickly informed of what.is The Judaeo-Christian tradition core of so much confusion and happening not only on the na- has found its ultimate source of suffering in the Church today. tional but also on the world-wide stahility in God. And in this Many Catholics do not know scene. Sometimes the instant there is a paradox. For the Rock how to reconcile the change they communication of events trig- which provides safety and Turn to Page Eighteen gers other events that will be Turn to Page Seventeen

THE ANCHORThurs., April 26, 1973

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Most letters that I get from priests are nasty. I don't mean that most priests are nasty, just that most of them who bother to write t.o me are nasty. But here was one letter I received recently that exceeded even the normal level of clerical anti-Greeley nastiness. The writer had data about the present situation and discovers (not unsurprisingfound a quotation of mine in Iy) that the present situation is which I made an easily doc- not the 'same as the ideal which umented social science as- was postlilated for the past. sertion that there was no reason to assert that young people were any more given to sexual mis-

Then one announces with sAock, surprise, or joy (depending on one's perspective) that one has encountered a "revolution," and the New York T.imes writes an article 'about it. (And' ,if the "revolution" is sexu'al, Playboy By and Psychology Today will pick it up too.) The "good old days" fallacy, REV. however, does not have a great ANDREW M. life expectancy, because national surveys began in the 1930s and GREELEY were quite extensive by the 1940s. Thus there are "benchmar,ks" against which the present situation can be compared. behavior today than they were The crHical question, then, for twenty, thirty, forty, or even a the Sorensen Report and for my . hundred years ago. nasty priest correspondent is He had also clipped a news· whether there was anything in paper account of the so-called, the late 1930s or early 1940s "Sorenson Report" that purports that represented a different level to be a serious study' of the sex· of sexual morality than that ual mores of American youth, which is to be observed among The conflict between what I was young people today. A recent reported as saying and what the work (reported in the April issue Sorenson Report was reported as of Human Behavior) by two so· saying was sufficient grounds ciologists at Michigan State, ,for this particular priest to aim Arthur Venner and Cyrus Stewhis venom in my direction. It art, compared the sexual behawas not necessary, apparently, vior of a large sample of young either to get the full context of people with that reported for my remarks or to read the 1943 by the Kinsey studies and Sorenson Report.. calls into serious question the . ''As'' for "the' hitter;' 1 {!linK' it"so<~ll'ed ··sexuarrevol~tioil." can be said that it is a shoddy As the ~ditors of Human Beand second rate job that unques- havior note, "Compared to tionably will be destroyed by re- earlier studies, today's teenagers viewers in the serious and schol- ha",e little more, or no' more exarly journals. I am not suggest- perienee with intEJ'fcourse dtself ing that American young people than do other generations of are particularly virtuous in mat- young men and women from ters sexual, but a decline from 1943 onward." Arid "Since World previous virtue is surely not War H, everything - including proved by the Sorenson Report, the population count and the nor indeed is anything very re- cost of being - has risen faster liable said about the sexual con- than the incidence of adolescent duct of young Americans in that sexual experience." book. Always a Minority The "sexual revolution" is a Why, then, the mytn of a myth, pure and' simple. If by sexual revolution? It is great "permissiveness" one means that press copy and has marvelous certain segments of the human appeal for curious adults who body (almost always female) can identify in their fantasy lives now appear in respectable mo- with today's presumably Iibertion pictures and respectable, ated youth. It is also useful for magazines where they did not those social science textbook appear a decade or two or three writers and theologians who ago, then we did have a sexual somehow or other have perrevolution. But there is no par· suaded themselves that a change ticular reason to think that in sexual behavior represents slightly more public display of evidence of human progress-the human sexual anatomy has any only evidence left in a world effect on sexual behavior. Most which .is rapidly losing faith in young people, indeed most hl,l' the dogmas of evolutionary man beings, don't need Pent· progress. It would be inconsidhouse or "Deep Throat" or Play· erate, I suppose, to take their boy or "Last Tango in Paris" to myth away from them. become sexually aroused. There never has been a time As far as human sexual beha- when chastity was easy or popuvior is concerned, the sexual lar, and the only trouble with the revolution is largely the result myth of the New Permissiveness of the "good old days" fallacy so or of· the Sexual· Revolution is common in popular social sci- that it makes chastity a little bit ence-and not infrequently in harder for those young people serious social science too. (For who would like to practice it example, one need' only look at but are persuaded by the myththe works of Charles Glock on makers that somehow or other they are old fashioned. Statis'religious behavior.) One first assumes that in the tically, what is old fashioned is distant or remote past there was promuscuity. The chaste have a time when people were virtu- always been a minority and still ous (or religious. or patriotic, or are. what~ver else), then one collects ©1973, Inter/Syndicate

SOLIDARITY: God our Rock is the solid base on which we can always find a secure place to stand. When everything else about us seems to be shifting, sliding, changing, fading before our eyes, God stands firm. The towering shrine of 51. Michael on the Needlepoint in Le Puy, France, celebrated its 1,OOOth anniversary 11 years ago. Built atop a needle-like stone formation, it is accessible only by 268 steps cut from the side of the rock. NC Photo.

God Is Our Solid Base, Continued from Page Sixteen watery depths (the Israelites were deathly afraid of traveling on water). But unshakeable rock.

everlasting hills, the immortal rock.

Continued from Page Sixteen strength for the fears of man is a living rock. He is the creator of those things and forces that are of their very nature changeable. For them, not to change means stagnation and death. His plan, of course, is that all of his creation, especially man, will change and move in the di-. recuion which he has ordained. What makes change frightening is that other forces-selfishness, greed, ignorance - vitiate the good that change can produce. Even change itself can become' destructive and evil when it be· comes a god, when it becomes an end -in itself. Man's Rock There is one aspect of move· ment and change, however, that persistently touches us all. Paradoxically again, while we recognize that creatures that do not change are dead or dying, all changing creatures ultimately move toward death. Underneath all of modern man's anxiety about times that are "out of joint" is that fear-the fear of dying societies, customs, institutions (even the Church itself), values and man himself. It is precisely in such circumstances that the Christian must recognize God as his Rock. He alone stands firm above his changing creation, supporting those who rely (on him and promising only good to those who trust in him. Such trust, however, is not a call to passivity or indifference. The Christian must work for those changes that the living Rock demands. He must engage himself in God's creation but always in a critical and constructive manner. Finally, he must not despair of this world and its movement toward God's mysterious goal.

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Galbraith Writes Report On ·Chinese Economy Last September, John Kenneth Galbraith, together with· two other leading American economists, paid a brief visit to tl;1e People's Republic of China. This was arranged by the Federation of American Scientists. Its purpose was to give these experts a picture of the Chinese economy. . developments and techniques in the West and have adopted many Professor. Galbraith reports ofthese. his findings in A China But his comparisons are morc

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with the Communist states in Europe than with the democracies of the West. And he concludes that the Chinese system operates more intelligently al}d more productively than do those of the European Communist regimes. This is not a book of charts and statistics. It is in some part a . travelogue, in 'some part a sympathetic account of the, Chinese people. The author is not endorsing Chinese Communism, or any other brand, but reporting what he saw of the social workings of an economy which is Marxist with a marked Chinese accent. Hour After lHour A social milieu utterly different is reflected in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 757 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. $7.95. Illustrated). This book comprises some of the diaries and letters of Mrs. lindbergh in the years 1929 to 1932. From these letters and diary excerpts we learn a great deal about the author, her parents, her sisters and brother, and certain other people. But we see very little of Colonel Lindbergh. From the outset of their marriage he in structed his wife in methods of evasion when dealing with the public or with such of its representatives as reporters, and impressed on her the necessity of extreme caution in writing even to close relatives. A large part of the book is taken up With description of flying in various kinds of airplanes and in gliders. Lindbergh' was engaged in mapping air travel routes in this country, the Caribbean, parts of South America, Alaska, the Orient. His wife accompanied him as he went about this task, anq she gives us an excellent report of its hazards and its' delights. '

MARCH FOR MANAGUA AND MILKSHAKE: 'Eighth graders from St. Thomas complete picture of the Chinese More Parish in Long Island march along a four-mile route to raise funds for victims of economy.' They had but a. peek the earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, and for Operation Milkshake a food program for at it. Professor Galbraith wonders, for example, how· repre50,000 Vietnamese children. NC Photo. sentative of all the communes was the one which he inspected. This was a guided tour, and a restricted one. Besides, the Continued from Page Sixteen suggests growth-change-as a Christ, the Son of the Living Americans had no access 1.0 nasign of health and vitality. How- God" (Mt. 16: 18)-is the secure experience with the ideal of untional economic ·figures; even changing stability _ they have ever an understanding of doc- rock on which the Church is Chinese economists, it appears, trinal development needs to find built. come to expect. . rio not see these. Jesus' promise is no less true The key to dealing with the roots in personal attachment to Professor Galbraith's conclutoday. The Church will remain conflict can be found in an un- God in faith. sion is that the present Chinese true to Christ's commission to Faith Encourag2s derstanding of the Church's idea economy works-for the present the extent that Catholics grow o( the development of doctrine. Chinese. It produces about the in a more mature faith in God. What does not change but That the Church should grow same amount for everyone. All "With you, my highest 'g'oOd, my alone provides the ground of seand develop-change-is a sign are employed, have enough to curity and stability is God. God God, with you I am ·secure." of normal, good health: cat, and are adequately clothed. alone is the "Rock" (2 Sam. (Ps. 73). Income is low, but so are prices. It is sobering to recall the ex22:3). Already in the Old TestaMedicine and medical care cost citing symbols' Jesus uses of ment the Jews learned that very little. For the masses, there Gorl's kingdom here on earth. It faithfulness to their tradition in- Expect to Double has been anjmprovement in the is like a "mustard seed" (Mt. 13: volved development and change. standard of living. 31-32), !:ike "yeast" in dough They clung to God, their Rock P'aper's Circulation OMAHA (NC) - Archbishop (Mt. 13:33-34), like a "grain of of refuge. Faith in him carried Every.thing is carefully o:rganDaniel E. Sheehan of Omaha has wheat" (In. 12:24). Each symbol ized and controlled. There is un· them through upheavals in their announced a program that would remitting indoctrination, but religious life that makes our. establish an archdiocesan desome flexibility in practice. Evpresent time of change in the partment of communications and eryone is assigned to a job and Church seem ,insignificant by more than double the circulation must stay with it. A six-day Continued from Page Sixteen comparison. of the archdioce3an news;>aper. work week prevails, and there rite of final farewell, the official The Gospels describe Jesus' Under the plan, the archdioare no vacations except for peoritual offers an optional litany telling Simon that from now on ple employed in a place remote of invocations to Jesus Christ. he is to be called "Peter," mean- cese's film, television and radio from where. their families live. "By your coming as man, by ing "Rock." Upon this rock Jesus activ,ities will be enlarged and The caliber of m'anagement in your birth and burial, by your will build his Church. Notice that The True Voice, the archdiocethe factories and on the c:omrising to new life ..." The con- the Church is not the rock. san newspaper, will go ,to a "full munes seems to be more than gregation supports each with a Peter's faith - "you are t~e coverage plan" that will place it in all Catholic homes in the competent. plea, "Lord, save your people." archdiocese. Circulation is exRare Spirit Glows Professor Galbraith notes a It requires only a sentence of Elect First Abbot pected to rise from the present phenomenon which others have explanation by the celebrant A first child was born to the 22,000 to 50,000 when the plan is PECOS (NC) -'A 38-year-old reported: namely that intellectu- Lindberghs in June of 1930. They ("Please respond, 'Lord, save als and students are requirei to were often separated from this your people' after each of the Benedictine monk was elected implemented in September. spend part of each year working small son because of their flying following petitions") to elicit the first abbot of the Benedictine Archbishop- Sheehan made the abbey, Our Lady of Guadalupe, decision after the Senate of in industrial plants or in agr:.cul- expeditions. In March 1932 the desired united, vocal reply. ture. There are factories con- child was kidnapped and this In the new liturgy for Baptism, here in New Mexico. Abbot- Priests voted 20-2 in favor of the nected with universities, middle crime was a national sensation. we have an additional instance elect David Geraets earned a plan. A recent survey of parish schools, and communes. Conse- For many weeks there was hope of litany-type prayer. One invo- doctorate in missiology at the leaders and other readers indiquently, everyone partiCipates that he would be' returned un- cation of God oyer baptismal· Gregorian University in Rome. cated overwhelming approval of in a number of kinds of work, harmed. Ransom money was waters calls for a suitable accla- In 1969, he came to the Pecos The True Voice. The archdioand people engaged in, seasonal paid. But in May his body was mation like "Blessed be God" monstery, where he served cesan development office conas superior. work like agriculture, are kept ,found not far from the family after every decla;ration by the briefly ducted the survey for the senate. / busy all year. home. priest 01' deacon. Again, a single It is not morbid to say that sentence by the celebrant inIndustrial Growth this is the most impressive part forming the community of the China was not entirely new to of the book, for it details not proper reply and encouraging it, Professor Galbraith. He had been only the agony which Mrs. lind- will bring an excellent reaction. there once before, in 1945. Not bergh endured,' but the growth surprisingly, he finds the country which sprang up in the ruins . greatly changed since then. The which the ordeal inflicted. Her Three months after the death industrial growth is astonishing. express hope that reading of her ' of the first son was confirmed, a COtltractors Since 1913 Now, according to him, there is pain and loss may be of help second son was born to the Lind.nothing much that China does to others upon whom these fall, berghs. Would this mean getting not make, at least in some quan- is not misplaeed. It is here that back, after nightmare, to the old 699 Bellville Avenue tity. Although cut off from most her rare spirit glows as nowhere life? There could be no return to New Bedford of the world for decades, the else, and maturity succeeds that. Another, different phase Chinese have kept, informed of green girlishness. ,had begun.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Apr. 26, 1973

SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

League's Twenty-four Teams In Diamond Action Saturday The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will return to the inter-divisional schedule Saturday when all 24 league baseball teams will be in action. The Saturday contests have been arranged with the hope of providing fans a better opportunity to see their favorite team. Follow- the win does not count in the Conference standings it does ining the weekend games all dicate Dartmouth is a power to league teams will resume be considered. In its divisional divisional competition on Tuesday with a full slate of games in the four brackets. Saturday's pairings will bring together some old rivals as well as new match-ups. Judging from the results of the early season games, both inter-divisional and non-league, everyone is out to make their mark early. Two of the most noteworthy performances were the no hit games pitched by Roy Tangen and Charlie Powers. Tangen fired his masterpiece in the first game of the campaign for Dartmouth against Somerset. While

The results of this game as well as the surprise showing of Bishop Connolly High of Fall River and New Bedford Vocational denotes another close race is in the offing. Powers pitched his no-hit, norun game against the usually strong Bishop Stang High Spartans from Dartmouth. The southpaw was never in serious trouble as he controlled the Spartans from start to finish.

Divisional Play to Resume Tuesday With Fairhaven in the same division as Case, Dartmouth, Connolly, Voke and Stang there is sure to be plenty of action hefor? the Division C pennant race IS over. The Blue Devils will travel to Attleboro Saturday morning to meet Bishop Feehan High in the only morning contest on the docket. .In afternoon action ~artmouth Will host Lawrence High of Falmouth, an old Cape~ay C:0nference foe. Holy .Famll~ High of New Bedford Will be. In ~omerset to.do battle WIth Its old Narry nval. With the emergence of the Conference this scholastic year many new pairings have come into play. Among those schools meeting for the fir$t time on the diamond are Dennis-Yarmouth at Attleboro, Bourne at Diman Regional Vocational in Fall River, New Bedford Vocational at

Westport and Case at Norton. Other games scheduled for Saturday include Dighton-Rehoboth at Taunton, Wareham at Seekonk, Bishop Connolly at Taunton to play Msgr. CoyleBishop Cas~idy High. Old Rochester of Mattapoisett at New Bedford to meet St. Anthony's and Stang at Barnstable. When the schools' return to divisional play Tuesday Taunton will be' at Attleboro, Seekonk at Feehan and Coyle at Somerset in Division A. The Coyle-Somerset game may be a predicator of the eventual division winner. Dighton-Rehoboth will be at Westport, Norton at Diman and Holy Family will meet intra-city adversary St. Anthony's in. Division B. Westport surprised last week by coming from behind to defeat Diman. A victory over D-R will solidify the Villagers pennant chances.

Schools Offer Comprehensive Programs In Division C New Bedford Yoke will host Stang, Case is at Fairhaven and Dartmouth entertains Connolly. All are important games. In the Cape bracket, Division D, Barnstable is at DennisYarmouth, Wareham at Bourne and Old Rochester at Falmouth. Earlier this season this writer alluded to the number of ath-. letes who participate in schoolboy Sprin~ sports. While it was mentioned that this is the busiest time of the, year for interscholastic athletics no details were given. To illustrate the scope of the athletic look at Dartmouth High's schedule for the week of April 23-28. The varsity baseball team has three games: Monday against Somerset, Wednesday with Fairhaven and Saturday against Falmouth. On the same three davs the Junior Varsity baseball teams. play the same schools while the

game with Case High of Swansea, Dartmouth lost a heartbreaker 4-3.

freshman teams play Somerset on Monday, Fairhaven o.n Wednesday and Wareham Fnday. In the meantime the Indian trackteam meets Somerset Monday and will participate in the State Relay on Saturday. The boys tennis team has matches scheduled with Barnstable Monday, New Bedf'ord on Tuesday and Thursday with Coyle. Not to be outdone the golf team has three matches on the docket for the week. In all, Dartmouth boys will participate in 17 contests this week. Boys of all ages and abiliities will have the opportunity to compete. Dartmouth's program is similar to the Spring schedule at many area schools. These programs are comprehensive and designed to give all youngsters who desire an opportunity to participate in the sport of their choice.

PRO-LIFE SINGER: Folksinger Barbara Breuer-Sipple will be the vocalist on a record album being produced by the National Youth Pro-Life Coalition. It will be relseased on May 1 and will be accompanied by a 16-city promotional tour. NC Photo.

Folksinger 'Sings for Life' on Album ROCHESTER (NC)-A rightto-life group 路here is following the pattern of other' protest groups by sponsoring an album of "ten songs for life." The album, "Barbara Sings for Life," will feature Barbara Breuer-Sipple, a religious folksinger and composer. It is sponsored by the National Youth ProLife Coalition (NYPLC) here. Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers, advisory board member of the NYPLC, said the record will be released in May and will be promoted by a 16-city tour through the Northwest and Midwest by the young singer. A group of children, the Lollipop Express Chorus from Willingboro, N. J., 'Vill arso be featured in the album Miss Breuer-Sipple will give her share of proceeds from the album to the NYPLC. . "The abortion issue has come very close to my life," she said. "I'm not proud to admit that I

Cleveland Weekly's Circulation Climbs CLEVELAND (NC)-The circulation of the Catholic Universe BulleNn has topped the 80,000 mark, registering the first such gain since the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the paper's general manager reported. Ralph A. Kraft said the Cleveland diocesan weekly's circulation climbed to 80,031 with the April 13, 1973 issue, an increase of 5,757 over last year's count. Kraft said a recent student campaign brought in 44,432 subscriptions, the Parish Coverage Plan 24,101, and response to coupons, cards distr,ibuted in churches, and direct mail acc!lunted for 11,398.

MILWAUKEE (NC) The priests' senates of the archdiocese of Milwaukee and the dioceses of Green Bay, LaCrosse, Madison and Superior and the religious council of the American province of the Salvatorian Fathers have formed the Wisconsin Conference of Priests' Councils. (WCPC).

jar the apathy just enough to make people w!1nt to f,ind out." When she discovered what was involved in an abortion, she said, "I was horrified. I have never met a single person who was well informed on this subject who favored abortion unless they were making money from it." Miss Breuer-Si:-ple first got involved with the NYPLC when she sang her own composition, "Song of the Unborn," at the NYPLC's National Rally for Human Life in Washington, D. C., last year..

The goals of the WCPC are to share experiences and ideas; to initiate collaborative projects among the priests of Wisconsin; to develop more of an impact through a common voice; to develop input for regional and national meetings of bishops. The issues on which the WCPC will initially focus are the continuing education of priests; communication and cooperation in the Church of Wisconsin; priestly motivation and accountability; the spiritual development of priests; liturgical and catechetical renewal; ministry for social justice; and recruiting vocations to the priesthood.

"As the rally progressed," Dr. Jilgers said, "the crowd was growing impatient with the long list of speakers. . . . She sang very softly and the sound began to entice the crowd's attention. Her voice was indescrIbable, velvety, poignant, .something angelic; I've just never heard anything like it." Dr. Hilgers said "Song of the Unborn" will 'be on the album. Among the other songs, he said, will he "Hold On," "Echoes," "Take My Hand, I'm a Child of God," "Sound of Love," and "A Song for Life." The record is being produced by Lazarus Product:ions.

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No Warehouse Showroom anywhere has the va~t display of Name Brand furniture that you'll find at Mason's in fall River. And with our everyday low warehouse prices you can select the furniture of your dreams at s~vings you never dreamed possible.

"New England's Largest Furniture Showroom"

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