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Holy Year To Reconcile Manto Man-and to God

sun-splashed Pentecost Sunday, the Pope declared: "It is a great day, this day. because it is Pentecost the birthday of the Church .

"It is a great day, this day, because we begin in the local churches, also in the local church of Rome, the Holy Year ... a year of spjiritual renewal and of An Anchor 0/ the Soul, Sure and FIrm-St. Paul reconciliation on every level where there is need for reconciliation with' God and among Fall River, Mass., Thursday, June 14, 1973. men." $4.00 per year Recalling that the World Coun© 1973 The Anchor PRICE 10~ cil of. Churches originated the idea of praying for peace in Northern Ireland on Pentecost Sunday, the Pope said: Dearly Beloved in Christ, .

"Today there are prayers for The first Penteco~t signaled the beginning of a vib~ant "sea- Northern Ireland where violence son of the Holy Spirit," a season beautifully described by Saint still flares and where there is a Luke in The Acts of the Apostles. This season is constantly being need ·for reconciliation in justice, His Eminence, Humberto CarIn '1969, following the direc- renewed in our Church as, under the guidance and inspiration of freedom and concord.

"Therefore, we also pray for dina-l Medeitos, Archbishap of tives of the Second Vatican the same Holy Spirit, the People of God ever strive to build up that land which is so very dear Boston, will be the principal cel- Council, Msgr. Furtado resigned to us and is still so disturbed ebrant of a concelebrated Mass as' pastor of the Somerset parish the Kingdom of the Risen Lord in a more perfect manner. and suffering." of Christian Burial for Rev. Msgr. which he had founded in 1928 Recently, the Holy Father Pope Paul VI announced that the Augusto L. Furtado, former pas- and which he had seen grow Writing to Cardinal Ugo Poletyear 1975 will be observed as a "Holy Year," a time during which tor of S1. John of God Parish in from 700 to over 2700. ti, who .as papal vicar runs the Somerset today. .

The son of the late Antonio S. a vast movement of interior renewal and reconciliation will take Diocese of Rome, Pope Paul said and the iate Maria E. Leal Fur- place. Preparations for the forthcoming Holy Year begin formally that the local Church of Rome tado, the prelate was born on on this Pentecost Sunday. In particular, spiritual renewal will must lead the way 'in seeking May 5, 1892, at Castillo Branco, take place on the local level, in dioceses and parishes thoughout peace for mankind.

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In his letter dated June 8, Following studies at the Sem- the Universa! Church.

Pope Paul said he saw the pasinary of Angra, he was ordained I am anxious to see the realization, within the Diocese of tors of the world gathered in a priest on June 7, 1917 by Most their churches to launch this Rev. Manuel Damasceno da Costa Fall River, of a true reconciliation during the Holy Year, touching dynamic quest. for peace as a Jlvery one of us. Priests are reconcilers of men; men and women in the Cathedral of Angra. spectacle both diverse and har.

He served on the seminary religious work for the reconciliation of their brothers and sisters monious. faculty for three years and came in .society. What a magnificent manifestation of the deep faith of Cardinal Poletti told thouto the Fall River Diocese in Sepsands of Romans and Tourists Turn to Page Two tember, 1921, where he served' that this Holy year must be " as assistant pastor at St. Michael Turn to Page Three Parish, Fall River until he was asked to found St. John of God Parish, Somerset, in 1928.

The energetic priest was well known for his intimate knowledge of parishioners and his pastoral zeal made him beloved of all ages. _ VATICAN CITY (NC)-Studies One of his greatest contribuof Christ and of His Church tions was in fostering vocations. stemming from the Second VatAll of New England will be eterican Council must now be folnally grateful for his fatherly lowed by a new study of the Turn to Page Two MONSIGNOR FURTADO Holy Spirit, Pope Paul VI told a general audience at Pentecost.

And devotion to this third person of the Trinity must be renewed, the Pope added.

(A week earlier the Pope had exhorted Catholics to renew their devotion to the Blessed Virgin).

WASHINGTON (NC) - The to tax credits for parents 'of non· Speaking four days before new Catholic League for Reli~ public school children.

In asking NCC to review its Pentecost Sunday, the feast of gious and Civil Rights has asked the Holy Spirit's descent upon the National Council of Churches current position, the League the Apostles, Pope Paul noted (NCC) "in a spirit of true Chris- asked the NCC to justify, "the that that feast marked the opentian ecumenism," to review its fact that its member churches ing of Holy Year celebrations in position opposing tax credits to now enjoy with Supreme Court dioceses throughout the world, parents of children attending de- sanction for their places of rengious worship and extensive repreparatory to the observance of nominational schools.

Hgious eduoation programs (Sunthe Holy Year in Rome in 1975.

The statement opposing tax day schools) the tax benefits it Turn to Page Two credits, that was .presented to would deny .to parents of nonthe House Ways and Means public school children at elemenCommittee, said the Catholic tary and secondary schools schools' "plea of economic hard- levels."

Blessing Fleet ship is not convincing in view "We ask that the council be Bishop Cronin will be the of the fact that the sponsoring consistent on these matters or principal celebrant and homchurch has probably the lowest that it candidly acknowledge the Hist at a concelebrated Mass level of per capita contributions true foundation for inconsistenat 1I o'clock Mass on Sunday, of any major church in the coun- cies in its approach to Catholic PLAN FIESTA: It's fiesta time at Regina Pads Spanish June 24 in St. Peter the Apostry." needs and interests. If the NCC Center, New Bedford, where center members and students tle Church, Provincetown.

NCC repudiated that part of is inconsistent as we believe in- from Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, will present Latin Following the Mass, there will the statements as '.' gratuitious" disputable; let it ask itself why." dances at 6:30 Sunday night, June 17. Proceeds will benefit be a procession to McMillan's The league was formed here and unrepresentative of "the the center, providing children's camping facilities and First Wharf where the Bishop will spirit" of the interdenomination- by a group of Catholic leaders bless the individual boats of al council. The council, however, to correct misinformation about Communion clothing. Rehearsing are, from left, Norma the Provincetown fishing fleet.

Gomez, Jose F. Jorge, Margie Velazquez. did not withdraw its opposition Catholic matters.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-While the papal vicar opened the Holy Year observances for the Church in Rome in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pope Paul VI joined Christians worldwide in praying for reconciliation and peace in Northern Ireland.

The theme for th'e Holy Year is Reconciliation. Although the Holy Year will be held in Rome in 1975, Pope Paul had declared that the local Churches - dioceses around the world-would

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launch on Pentecost Sunday an 18-month period of spiritual renewal and reconciliation in preparation for the Holy Year.

Bishop Cronin, respo\1ding to the Pope's energetic appeal, issued a special letter committing the Diocese of Fall River to a special reconciliatory action in preparation for the coming Holy Year.

Speaking to tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square for his noontime blessing on a

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Monsignor Furtado ·Dies·, Somerset Funeral Today

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Continued irom Page One adoption of a priest who could confess: "If I am a priest today, lowe it to that grey-haired old man." The nriest - Humberto Cardinal Medeiros.

Having often. found the young immigrant deeply in prayer at St. Michael Church, Msgr. Furtado took special interest in the youth who confessed that what he wantel;i-and what seemed absolutely impossible-was to be a priest.

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Diocesan Holy Year Continued from Page O~e tlte good people of this Diocese it would be if, during the year of reconciliation, we should see a great harve$t of vocations, to the priesthood, to the sisterhood, to the brotherhood, emerging from our good homes and families, from our schools and parishes.

Our prayers invoke , the' inspiration of the'I Holy Spirit in a most efficacious fashion on this Pentecost Feast. As our first corporate act in anticipation of the coming Holy Year, ,let us begin today to pray and to work for vocations, and to lend them every encouragement. May the day soon come when priests and religious so flourish in our Diocese that all local needs may be: met and that other dioceses and other apostolates beyond our borders may benefit from the devoted service of priests and religious from the Fall River

Diocese.

May the Holy Spirit enlighten your minds and hearts, and warm you with the fire of His love. .'

Devotedly yours in Christ,

'..Bishop of Fa!! River .South Attleboro Parishioners Join Pastor in Cel'ebrating Jubilee On Saturday evening at 7 o'clock, relatives, parishioners and friends gathered in St. Theresa's Church, as Rev. Msgr.

Gerard J. Chabot, pastor of the So. Attleboro parish for the past 20 years, was principal, celehrant of a Mass of Thanksgiving in commemoration of, ,his fortieth anniversary as a priest.

Among the priests assisting were: Rev. Be'rtrand R. Chabot, t.he jubilarian's brother and pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New 'Bedford; Rev. Roger Levesque. assistant at St. The· resa's;Rev. Roland Deschenes, a nephew ,of Monsignor Chabot· and assistant at St. Stephen's, Attleboro; Rev. Marcel Bouchard~ . aSSlsant at St. Joseph's, Taunton.

Rev. Roger L. Gagne, pastor of St. Mathieu's Parish, Fall River and a -tcirmer assistant at St. Theresa.'s was the homilist. Rev. Horace Travassos, assistant at St. James, New Bedford, led the' congregational singing.

•Monsignor Chabot, the 'oldest of seven living -children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chabot of No. Attlebo,o was ordained

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JUNE 24 Rev. Bernard, F..McCahill, 1907, Pastor, SS!; Peter and Paul.

Fall River.

I' JUNf; 25 Rev. Raymon~ J. Hamel, 1960, Chaplain, St. Joseph Orphanage, Fall 'River.

Rt. Rev. Louis A. Marchand, 1941, Pa'Stor, St. Anthony, New Bedford.

Rev. Charles P. Gaboury, 1933, Pastor, St. Anne, New Bedford.

JUNE 27 Rev. John Corry, 1863, Founder, St. Mary, Taunton; Founder, St. Mary, Fall River.

Rev. Dario Raposo, 1933, Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton.

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on June 10; 1933 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall Riverby the late Bishop Cassidy.

As an assistant pastor he served at St. Jean the Baptist, Fall River; St. Anthony's, New Bedford; and St. Joseph's, Attleboro.

Named a domestic prelate with the title of Rev. Monsignor in 1969 by !lope Paui VI, the jubilarian rec9gnized the growth of the So. Attleboro parish and supervised the construction of an ideal parish center' for the instructional and social life of the parishio~ers.

One other brother is in religious life, Very Rev. Luke Chabot, OFM, pastor of Our Lady .of' Perpet.ual Help Parsh, Chateau Guay, Quebec and a sister, Sr. Armande. Marie is a member of the Holy Ul)ion of the Sacred I Hearts.

Following the Mass, a receplion was sporsored by the Confraternity of i Christian Mothers, the Holy Name Society and the So. Attleboro Council No. 5876 Knights of cblumbus.

Members of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers served as 'hostesses and they were assisted

by Cadette Troop 1315 and the Junior Girl Scouts. o

Reaffirms Stand Against Abortion LINCOLN (NC)-Gov. James J. EX'On of Nebraska has pledged to 'send a pers~mal reply to every one of ,the 4,500 families who wrot'e him in support of his stand against, abortion.

He lIJSked that the families wiho wrote t10 him on Good Friday expressing dismay with the Jan-, uary U. S. Supreme Cour,t decision on abortion to be patient while awaiting his personal reply. , "Every letter forwarded with a return addtess will be answered," he saJid. He cautioned that this may take several

DI~CTOR AND ASSISTANT AT SHRINE: Msgr.

John J. Murphy, former pastor of the Church of St. Michael~the Archangel in ·Silver Spring, Md., has been named. director of the Nat~onal Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. His· assistant will be Father Donald Leighton, right, whose most recent assignment was as chaplain at Philadelphia General Hospital.

Pope Invite:s Non-Catholics To Participate in Holy Year VATICAN CITY (NC)~Pope Paul VI said he would like nonCatholics to take part in the fOl'thcoming Holy Year.

the Our Father and of the Credo, and with an invocation ,to the Most Blessed Virgin."

The Holy Year will be held in fRome in 1975, but local preparatory observances began Pente· cost Sunday, June 10.

Renew Devotion

In a letter to the chairman of the Holy Year central committee, Cardinal Maximilian de Fursenberg, the Pope said: "It is our ardent desire that the other followers of Christ and all those who on diverse and ap,parently distant paths seek the one God with an upright conscience and good will should associate themselves as much as they can in this journey toward the founts of salvation with our children fully united to the Church of Peter."

The Pope also received Cardinal De Furstenberg,and the members ,of his committee on June 7.

In his brief speech to the committee the Pope stressed "the exclusively spiritual purposes of the Holy Year and of the entire movement associated with it."

In a letter to Cardinal De Furstenberg, dated May :n, the Pope expressed the hope that the practice of pilgrimages would be renewed in the local churches.

"On our part," he said, "we ask the pilgrims that they pray for our intentions and the intentions of the whole ,episcopal college. Then, that they take part on. the local level in a solemn community ceremony, or make a visit before the Lord, conduding it with the recital or sin~:ing of

St. Anne's Hono1red

·St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, was among institutions receiving 50-year membership certificates in the Catholic Hospital Assn. at the second llnnual wee~. ' .

Catholic Health Assembly, held "My position on the issue of last week in Denver. With heada·bortion was not altered by tihe quarters in St:. Louis, the Cathshocking decision of the Supreme olic Hospital Assn. represents Court. I have publicly stated on many occasions that I am un· 885 Catholic-sponsored hospitals equivocally op~osed to the liber- and long-term care facilities alization of abortion." _ throughout the U. S. I

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The then curate at St. Michael's arranged for the young Medeiros to be enroIled at BMC Durfee High School. The youth respond· ed by doing the four year course in two years, graduating as one of the four highest; he also won a statewide drama contest. Ties remained close between the prelates as the elderly priest watched the youth become a fel· low priest, then his chancellor.

It was a spiritually renewed retiree that rushed to the Fall River Chancery to congratulate' his protege when he was named Bishop of Brownsville, Tex. Joy again shot through he old grey~ haired man when the Bishop returned to New England as Arch.bishop of Boston. None had more memories to fall back on than the retired pastor as he witnessed the installation in Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston,

Continued from Page One It was only failing health that The, Pope observed that the stopped his rushing to Rome to Holy Spirit should be "the prin'witness the young immialso cipal worker for the results hoped for from the Holy Year." grant's elevation to the CardinalHe described these hoped-for ate. He was a concelebrant in fruits as "a renewal of the Chri's- .the Diocese's reception for the tian life" and "a reconciliation of new Cardinal and beamed with pride at the priests' informal reo minds." ception for the prelate. ,New Worship Monsignor. Furtado, 81, re.

He continued: "This too will \ be one of the most exacting and mained a resident of Somerset fruitfUl subjects of the Holy and a parishioner of St. John of Year's own spirituality: the God Parish until he died in hIS Christology and especially th~ sleep on Monday, June 11. ecclesiology of the (Second VatThe funeral Mass was held at ican) Council must ,be followed ·St. John of God Parish, Somerby 'a new studY' of the Holy set, this morning at 10 o'clock.

Spirit, and new worship of Him:' Rev. Bento R. Fraga, long-time This the necessary complement assistant to the elderly pastor, of the counciliar teaching." was the homilist.

The Pope noted that when Christ departed from this world' Youth for Life He left behind "two stewards to €'nsure that His saving work in Massachusetts Youth for Life the world would be done: His will sponsor an information sesApostles and His Spirit." , sion at 10 this morning at the Pope Paul said that the study home of Mrs. Barbara Celia in of the Holy Spirit is a "magnifi· Brookton. Open to all, the discent theological field and ob- cussion will center on pre-natal served that "the Holy Spirit's ac- life anci ways to present slide tion in the ordinary economy of lectures on this topic. Study the divine design is fulfilled in material on the Suoreme Court our souls in respect for our Iib- deci'Sion with regard to a>bortion ei-ty." will be distributed.

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Pope Welcomes Buddhist Leader From Laos VATICAN CITY (NC)-Popc Paul said that he had never neglected anything in his power "to bring about the dawn of peace on all Indochina" when he met with the Buddhist patriarch of Laos, Dhammayana Mahathera, on June 8.

Laos is a landlocked kingdom of the Indochinese peninsula bounded on the east by Vietnam, on the south by Cambodia, ani:! on the west and north by Thailand and ,Burma_ The Pope also told the Buddhist leader: "We know that the painful events of these last years have imposed long and painful suffering. Our fatherly heart has felt them. But at the same time we have held in admiration the dignity and the strength of sO!.li~: with which you have confronted them."

The Pope also expressed the . hope that amicable dialogue and cooperation "may reign between the ancient traditions that yOli represent and the Catholic Church." The Pope said that although the Catholic presence iil Laos is so slight as to be "almost symbolic," yet the Church shares "in all your suffering."

The Buddhist leader responded t.hat although there had been misunderstandings between Catholics and Buddhists in Laos, th(! future is promising.

Promote Solidarity "Some differences exist, to b,~ sure," he said.

"It is also true, without doubt, lhat in the past some misunderstandings arose between the faithful of the two religions, precisely because of a lack of contacts and exchanges.

"But our meeting today is of the kind to promote comprehension, collaboration and solidarity between the two communities."

Catholics in Laos number about 50,000 out of a total population of three million.

Recommend Closing Irish Seminaries DUBLIN (NC) -A report· on Irish seminaries recommended that some be closed and that others be radically restructured bocause of the drop in vocations and ".the enormous amount of overlapping and duplication of effort."

The report, by the Catholic Communications Institute, said that the number of seminarians in Ireland dropped by over 40 per cen't-from 3,409 to 1,917between -1962 and 1972.

The -report recommended that two of the eight major seminaries. in ,Ireland, St. Peter's in We,uord and St. Kieran's in Kilkenny, should cease to function as seminaries.

All Hallow's in Dublin and St. Patrick's in T,hurles should be devoted to educating priests for dioceses abroad, the report said, and only St. Patrick's in Carlow should be used for the education of priests for Irish dioceses.

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Holy Year Continued from Page One not only a hugh influx of pilgrims to Rome, but, on the contrary, a new and great movement of the churches guided by their pastors to meet the Pope ... and meet the local Church of Rome, which must be ready to give to her sister Churches an authentic testimony of faith."

Minnesota Favors Right-to-Life Law

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER OF THE EUCHARIST: J. David Connell distributes the Eucharist to Mrs. Duncan Fadden in Our Lady of Fatima Ch4rch, Swansea during Saturday evening Mass following his commission on June 3 as one of the 22 extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. Celebrant of the Mass was Rev. (Maj.) James F. Greene, .USAF Chaplain, pictured distributing the Eucharist next to Mr. Connell.

Hospital' Rejects Abortion Condition BALTIMORE (NC)-Bon Secours Hospital here, granted permission to build another hospital in HoWard County on condition that it would "make necessary arrangements" to provide abortion and sterilization services to the community, said that it \yould not comply, stating that such a requirement is against state 'law.

The Maryland Comprehensive Health Planning Agency' set forth the conditions April 23 when it granted Bon Secours the certification necessary to build the facility.

Edward J. Donnelly, chairman of . the Bon Secours board of trustees, in a letter to the agency, cited a provision of a state abortion law which stipulates that no hospital is "required to refer to a source" patients seek-

ing abortions, steriliziltion, or artificial insemination.

The c.onditions permitting the new hospital, as interpreted by agency officials, meant that although the hospital would not be required to perform such services, it would be under some responsibility to refer persons seeking such servicas elsewhere.

"Bon Secours has been, is, and will be operated in conformance with Catholic doctrine, morals, ethics and -principles," Donnelly wrote. "A hospital in Howard' County will be similarly operated."

The abortion condition was included in the certification by the state agency after efforts to arrange a' joint venture bet-ween Bqn Secours and Lutheran Hospitals for Howard County failed.

Bon Socours could appeal to

Blind Guild Has Mass Booklet

Lead Poisoning

A free lead poisoning detection clinic for children ages one through six is in operation at the The Catholic Guild for the South End Community Center, Blind of Chicago announces pub- 264 Griffin St., Fall River. Hours lication of a new large type Mass are from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M., Monbooklet designed for the visually day through Friday and from impaired.

7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday.

The Mass Book contains the Parents are urged to take advanOrdinary and Four Eucharistic tage of this opportunity for testPrayers. In addition, the individ- " ing since lead poisoning can ual Sunday and Holyday Mass cause brain damage an(1 eventual Propers are mailed to booklet death. users each month.

Titled "The Family of God ~A• • • •" ' . " . "• • • • • • ~ Celebrates the Eucharist," the booklet is an outgrowth of a 10 month project of the Catholic BISHOP GERRARD : Guild to provide a means for ~ clergy with visual problems to . ~ HIGH SCHOOL ~ be able to continue their min~ Saturday, June 23 : istry. ~ 1:30 P.M. : Further information is avail• Proceeds To Benefit Cheerleaders : able from the guild at 67 W. ~ Please Use Whipple Street Entrance ~ Division St., Chicago, II. 60610.• ~ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •yyy~

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ST. PAUL (NC)-Minnesota is now among seven states which have urged Congress to submit a right:to-Iife amendment to the U. S. Constitution that would nullify the U. S. Supreme Court abortion decision.

But approval by the Minnesota Senate did not come easy, even though the !\inal vote in favor of the resolution was 51 to 12. It was passed earlier by the house, 98 to 21.

The anti-abortion resolution . has been one of the Minnesota sessions' most volatHe issues, cutting across party lines.

Lengthy debate in both houses produced repeated complaints against the lobb}'ling techniques of the state's 'anti~bortion lobby.

The resolution has no immediateeffect on Minnesota's law.

Any constitutional amendment would have to be ratified by 38 states before becoming part of the Constitution.

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State Health Secretary Neil Solomon ~f its stand causes the health planning agency to withdraw certification.

Solomon's decision could be then appealed to a special board of review· and that decision taken to the courts.

Seventy-five per cent of the senior class of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, plan to -further their education according to a survey made at the school.

Graduates will attend four year colIeges, community colIeges, 'schools of nursing, and various trade and technical schools.

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Brownsville Priests, Nuns Follow Migrant Farm Worker F'amilies

Stresses Farm Workers~' Freedom to Choose Union

BROWNSVILLE (NC)-Seven priests- and Sisters assigned to the diocese of Brownsville, which ministers to hundreds of migrant families on their home soil have followed the' seasonal migration of Mexican-A~erican farmworkers to the north.

Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick of Brownsville said four priests, three Sisters and a lay woman will travel with the migrant families to Wyoming, Washington, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio while ministering to their spiritual, physical and social needs.

The active participation of eight members of the shorthanded Diocese of Brownsville indicated a willingness to pursue the important migrant apostolate, Bishop Fitzpatrick said.

"I think this group of priests and Religious is showing that we

On May 9' The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, after hearing a report'from Cesar Chavez on the TeamsterFarm Worker struggle in California, voted ,unanimously to provide a strike fund of $1.6 million to Chavez's organization, The United Farm "It makes no sense in 1973 Workers Union. A few days for the biggest and prob'ably the later the writer of this col- wealthiest union in the world to umn, in the course of a ser- engage in Ii life and death strug·

mon delivered at the annual gle with a' union that can speak Memorial Mass of the Chicago ,for, at most, no, more than Building Trades Council, called 50,000 farm wor:kers-the most upon all of the unions ~ffiliated exploited workers fn the American labor' market.

"I urge you, in the good name name of ,the American labor By movement, now that the AFLCIO Executive Council has acted MSGR. unanimously on ,this matter, to take the leadership in ypur own GEORGE G. community. to help these poor people get organized into a HIGGINS union of their own choice.

"I am speaking very frankly _-*:m:©1N:tnmImKlltm because I think my credentials with that body to follow up on are in good order, "I don't think any priest in the the AFL-CIO's unprecedented action by supporting the UFWU United Stat~s,has done any more at the local level. An abbrevi- than I have to defend the'labor ated transcript of his informal movement, but I will not defend remarks on that occasion is re- the movement in this case unprinted herewith'in the form of less it does: what organized a:1 Open Letter to the 'entire labor has .traditionally done in American ,abor movement. The other struggles of this kind, and transcript reads as follows: that' is to come out four square Avoid Further Harm in favQr of the farm workers' "I am deeply concerned with right to decide which union they want to represent them. what the Teamsters are doing to , Phony Argument destroy the Farm Workers Union in 'California and Arizona. If "The ,argument is being, used that some other union witli more there are any teamst~rs in the muscle, more money,_,more powcongregation' today, I would like er, more 'political influence to tell,them for the record, t h athe t · ." " really i Teamrters, (wh,ich nothing' gives me greater pain' don't have :at the moment in than to get into an argument be· view of what's h'ilPpening in tween two unions.

Washington) could do more for "No one in his right mind these people' economically than wants to enter into a jurisdic: the UFWU Would be able to do tional dispute as an outsider. for them. , "I have nothing whatsoever "That's a phony argument. ngainst the teamsters.

Clearly aside from the fact that ",I think they have ,an effective Chavez' carttracts are better

Florida Abortion Decision Upheld, WEST PALM BEACH (NC)- lie 'matter, and denied bond A state appeals court here up- which would bar the girl from held a lower court ruling denying having an abortion immediately.

The case, heard originally in a an injunction to a 27-year-old father who was trying to pre- juvenile court because the unvent an unmarried 19-year-old born child is legally considered a juvenile, was characterized by girl f~oni getting an' abortion.

The three judge panel reached a the pleas of the father that he unanimous decision basing its was willing to do anything to position on the United States keep the child alive. In the apSupreme Court Jan. 22 rulings peals court he based his position permitting abortions during the on his actual paternity and on a first six months of pregnancy. state statute which compels an The fathet's plea had been re- unmarried to pay ,for raisLng his jected a week before by Orange children. The court 'rejected his County Circuit Court Judge latter point, saying that in this William Gridley. " case there is no contract beIn the appeals Court, Judge tween the unmarried 'Pair to Gerald Mager, joined in the nine raise a chile!. This was in agreepage decision by Judges James ment with Judge Gridley's stateH. Walden and Spencer C. Cross, ment that "the father's right can stated -that "rIO right is more be granted only in the event an sacred than the right of every agreement was made to allow a iridividuaf t<:> the possession and child to be born prior to the time control of his own person." He ' of the actual pregnancy."

Sources close to the case inthus denied the right of a "potential putative father to enjoin dicated that the girl is a Catholic the natural mother from termi- and the man a Baptist. The case vias taken to the courts after the nating her pregnancy."

The Court' also denied the girl refused to utilize the ser'father a rehearing. denied certi- vices of Birthright, an organizafication of the case to the State's tion dealing with problem preg· Supreme Court as an,urgent pub- nancies.

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Vote Strike Fund "One of the proudest moments in the recent history 'of the American labor movement-the movement to which your international unions are affiliatedoccurred last Wednesday, when the entire Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, after.a careful review of the evidence in the Farm Worker-Teamsters controversy and after hearing Cesar Chavez at great length. did something which I do not recall the move· ment's having done in a long, long time.

"Not only did the Council vote to give fl,lll moral support to this cause, but it voted a per capita tax of four cents a memo bel' per month over the next three months, to provide a strike' fund of $1,600,000. This is the

than the Teamsters' contracts, .no self-respecting trade unionist has ever judged the value of a union purely in economic terms.

"He doesn't want to be handed an increase in wages by a paternalistic emplbyer or' a paternalistic union. He wants the rig:,t to have a voice in determining his own 'Wages and working conditions. ThaVs what, this fight is all about. , "The farm workers want their own union. They want a union of their own choosing. They have struggled fori 10 years to get such a union, and it now becomes the re~ponsibility of 'the entire labor movement to see to it that this. the last of the major unorganized groups in our society, is able to achieve the same kind of rights you people'in the rest of the labor movement have had for g~nerations. This is a very important test of the credibility of the labor movement. ' Ba~,ic Goal ' "My reason for Inaking this

here in the Diocese of Brownsville, the home base of so many migrant families, care about the migrants," Bishop Fitzpatrick. stated, "whether they are here at home or in the north following the ,crops."

Migrant families, who are generally loyal Catholics, put a burden on Catholic dioceses of the north when they follow the summer crops, said Bishop Fitzpatrick. "Besides their spiritual needs, they require help in social justice problems," said the b'ishop, "and this group of priests and Religious supplement the work force of the Church in the north~ , The bishop indicated that the Diocese of Brownsville would support the priests and Religious from South Texas with funds for programs for migrants in the north during the summer.

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RALLY ROUND (ELECTRONIC) FLAGPOl,E: An electronic flagpole which automatically raises and lowers the flag at appropriate times, is surrounded by Sister Mary Caroline, Principal, and, members of the Cathedral school_safety patrol in St. P-aul" Minn. The flagpole marks a monument to the 'national founding of school safety patrols 52 years ago when Sist.er CarmeHa of Cathedral school was wor,ried about children crossing a busy intersection and trained eighth graders to guide other children across. The flag in the new pole rides along a slit. in the side. NC Photo.

personal plea (for which I apologize, becaus~ a sermon is not ' proper place ordinarily to do the this sort of thi,ng), is to clear the r.ecord and let it be known that first time that any .farm workers no' one that i ,know of in the ..,,,, '" ",'" ''''''''",'" "" "." . ''''', , "--'-group has ever had a strike fund h h' , th r ht t d out struggle with another union) cure IS 111 e s Ig es egree of such proportions, interested in tangling with the to make sure that these poor exMost Exploited Teamsters or any other union, plaited farm workers get the "I would hope, however, that On the other hand, we are deter- right to economic self·determithis money will not have to be mined to do ~verything in our nation." s~t'..n}}l~~tj!l~ !r~~~eJ.. ~~_i?n., / ~/.~ 'p?~;,~...(i.-~;~_.l!.i,.i~n~~,a.n.s,,'~~, all... , I r}J§~ (1,9l~',Ny, F7_~~.';1!,~:~). , .

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PENTECOST RITE: TfElditional Pentecost Sunday rite of adult confirmation takes place at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Bishop Cronin

Major Superiors Plan ,Assembly WASHINGTON (NC) ,- The Conference 'of 'Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) will hold its annual national assembly at St. Xavier College, Chicago, June 17 to 21.

Two hundred Religious superiors, bishops and non-Catholic observers are expected to attend :the assembly, whose theme will be "The Role of the Major Superior in Fostering the Faith Community."

Speakers will include Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., on "The Ministry of Workshop;" Dr. David O'Brien on "Tradition of the Church Based on the Future," and Ralph MarHn, "The Charismatic Renewal and Development of Faith Communities."

CMSM members will be asked to endorse the executive board's earlier call for universal and unconditional amnesty of draft evaders at the a·ssembly.

CMSM promotes the welfare of more than 40,000 Religious priests anq Brothers in the U. S. It furnishes information and services to its members and provides a national voice for communicating the corporate views .of the major superiors of men on contemporary issues.

Conscience Clause Passed in Arizona PHOENIX (NC)-The Arizona legis1ature on the last day of its session passed 'a "conscience clause" for guaranteeing the right of p.ersons to refuse ,to participate i~ the performance of an abortion.

The clause says that a health worker in an institution which permits abortion, who states in writing an objection on mor'al or religious grounds, may not be "punished" for refusal "to do any act which directly accomplishes or assists in accomplishing the death of a human fetus or embryo."

Dr. Wallace McWhirter,' state vice-president of the Arizona Ri·ght to Life Committee, said he was pleased with the passage of the bill, 'but would have preferred that no grounds be stated, "It 'Puts us on the defensive, when we have a perfect right to refuse to participate in the killing of the unborn," he said.

confirms one of the 74 who were presented to him for the reception of , the sacrament. Right: Section of crowded cathedral for the sacramental rite.

Urge Catholic Hospitals Remain Firm Insist on Moral ,Code in Face of Pressur'e DENVER (NC) - Speakers at the Catholic Hospital Association (CHA) Health Assembly here urged more than 1,200 health care executives to maintain a resolute stand for their pro-life principles against outside pressures and moral challenges.

The advice came from a bishop and a legal consultant to CHA as delegates discussed dilemmas confronting Catholic hospitals and health facilities in the wake of the U. S. Supreme Court abortion decision.

Auxiliary Bishop William E. McManus of Chicago, a keynote speaker, told the gathering that Catholic hospitals "should be ready to suffer because of their unyielding insistence upon their ethical code, regardless of government and community pressure to the contrary."

He commented: "If this suffering should lead to a hospital's demise, it will be, as was Jesus' suffering, a prelude to the supreme sacrifice for the cause of religious truth and morality.

"Far worse things could happen to a Catholic hospital than to be closed for taking a courageous stand ,on the serious and complex moral questions now confronting most hospitals."

William A. Regan, of Providence, R.I., a hospital legal con-

Australia Rejects Abortion Proposal OANBERRA {NC)-The Australian House of Representatives overwhelm'ingly defeated a bill to lessen· restrif;tions on abortion in Australia's Capital Territory.

The vote, 98 to 23 in the 125member House, was on nonparty lines and followed one of the most controversial campaigns at recent years in Australian politics. Supporters and opponents demonstrated for two days outside the parliment building here and legislators said they had received thousands of letters on the issue.

Labor party member David McKenzie, who sponsored the abortion bill, said: "The battle has only just begun."

sultant, predicted that Catholic hospitals will survive provided that every legal instrumentality is used to preserve their First Amendment right to practice religion' in the dispensation of health care.

"In our judgment," he said, "our insistence that everyone using our Catholic hospitals respect and conform to our moral code is generally within the purview of the First Amendment."

"The corresponding refusal of Roman Catholic hospitals to permit abortions on request is intimately related to our First

Amendment guarantee of religious liberty. In my judgement, it will not be held generally to constitute an' unreasonable interference with the public good."

Regan predicted that Catholic hospitals will survive because "our position is one of integrity" and because their services are "sorely needed."

Enabling legislation in the form of "conscience clauses" at both the Federal and State level, as weIr as permissive regulations in health codes, "'{ill result from "our resolute stand in the face of moral challenges," he said.

Voices Opposition To Budget Cuts PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The Philadelphia archdiocese has urged the federal government not to kill programs vital to the poor, and the educa.tionally deprived.

The urging came in an archdiocesan announcement of general opposition to the impounding of funds and to the cutback in some 100 federal programs affecting the poor and the educationally deprived.

Archdiocesan officials here have estimated that in the Philadelphia arahdi'ocese alone, the elimination of educational programs and of others for .the needy and the etderly would result in the loss of $1 million.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The second national "Respect Life" observance, being planned by the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee . for Pro-Life Activities, is to be expanded from a week to a month, with additional provision for year·round activities.

A rather touching though somew~at insignifiqmt scene took place last week at a Moscow art J:l1useum. An 85 yearold man stopped in front of a painting, tears came to his eyes, and with reverent hand he com~itted the unpardonable sin in a museum-and this without any attempt at hindrance from the many guards. and people looking onhe reached out and touched the painting.

The man was Marc Chagall and the painting was one that he had done 50 years ago and h~d left in Russia and had n~t seen since.

It is only a small vignette of life, and yet this does indicate the work of the artist, the, effect his work has on himself, and the effect h.is w.ork has on others. It is a further example of the truism that man does not live on bread alone.

Themes of the 1973 Respect Lile program will be "The Sanctity of Life," "The Unborn," "The Aging," and "Youth." Dioceses, parishes and schools throughout the country will conduct liturgical and educational activities focused on these topics during October.

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The first national Respect Life observance, held during the first week of October, 1972, sought to call attention to the dignity of human life and threats to life in contemporary society.

The promise of past decades was that technology would solve many of the world's problems. They had indeed done much to make man's life easier-some men's lives in some places-but they have also complicated man's life, have contributed to the pollution of his world,have led him to believe that ail the answers were at hand when indeed not even .all the questions had been asked.

The U.S. Catholic Conference's Family Life Bureau is providing support to the bishops' commit-· tee in planning the observance.

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There is as a result a certain cyni¢ism in the world, a certain f~eling ~hat life is frustrating a,nd complicated and difficult, and no one would deny that it is all this. But there are at hand those things that the spirit of man needs, things like art and music and the expression; that these give to beauty and truth.

.Oct. 7, 1973 will be observed nationally as Respect Life Sunday, Msgr. James T. McHugh, director of the Family Life Bureau, said in a letter reporting to . all the bishops on the committee's decisions.

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Such a simple little thing as an aged,artist rediscovering a work of his youth is enough to make others recognize that the spirit of man needs the' truth and beauty and integrity that other men strive to give: And a deepening insight into the spirit of mali should make people understand that there is an ultimate truth and beauty that man yearns for and reaches out for and seeks to discover.

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Graduation from "elementary and secondary schools and colleges has just about been completed. Those who have reached significant milestones in their' education deserve the recognition and praise that they receive. Thos'e dedicated teachers and professors who have giverl so much of themselves to the formation of their students deserve more than the perfunctory praise that ·sonietimes.come~ their way.

These are the men and women who work not on things but on persons. They help shape not only the minds but the whole make-up of their students.

There are many persons who recall with fondness and respect this or that great teacher. Perhaps little is remembered of what the teacher taught-although it all went into the educational make-up of the student.·But the person-. ality of the teacher, the forceo,f the teacher's own interest and enthusiasm, these are the elements that can never be forgotten.

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Those who work with people should never underestimate their own influence. It is easy for them to take themselves for granted as they believe that their students take them for granted. But a person who touches the life of another person several hours a day for several days a week for forty weeks a year has no negligible influence.· Such a, one is truly helping shape a,fllturecommunity. .

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S.M.U. A few short weeks ago, Southeastern Massachusetts University, installed! its second president on its Dartmouth Campus, commencing a new page In the history of public higher education in this area o~ the Commonwealth. SMU has come a long way from spirit and advantage of mind its humble beginnings as a from his investment if he so merger of New Bedford Tech chooses. It is· certainly a credit and Durfe..e Tech. Its new to SMU that it is attempting to campus alone is in itself a won- involve the whole community der to behold with its bold plan· in its educational. and cultural ning and exciting new forms of endeavors.. architecture. But as we know The vast majority of people only too well buildings in them- who live in southeastern Massa.selves do not make a great uni· chusetts are hard working souls versity. 'It is the total approach who put in long hours in the to valued goals among faculty, cities mills and factories.. For students [md administration that years the advantages of even the will make or breaklUl institu- most basic forms of higher edution's reputation as a eenter of cation were unattainable for the learning and intellectual devel· majority of citizens of this area opment. , on a public level. Private educa· A university cannot remain tion was for the few who ::ould an isolated island for the few afford it and yet remains an in· but must seek to involve the teHectualluxury. SMU has c1osc:l total community, always ready the gap in this regard bringing to to improve, expand and encour- the people an opportunity that age the general public to see;{ previously did not exist. Togethknowledge. This is especially - er with other institutions such. true of a university that is sup· as Bristol Community College ported by the taxpayer. The indi- and Cape Cod College, the ordividual who contributes to the nary Working man and .woman support of a school must also now has a wonderfUl advantage . be ll'ble to seek opportunity of of educational advancement.

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Not only has SMU improved the quality of its· 'educational perspective, it also has reached out in a determined effort to involve and inform the entire community. Its various lecture programs ha.ve brought national figures such as Senatolr Gold· water and former Ambassador

Goldberg to its campus in an effort to inform firsthand the people of this area. The university must be commended for its positive approach to enricl1 and cevelop programs in drama and music.

The anouncelllent of the SMU Summer Music Institute and fes·

Msgr. McHugh also said that "program formats are being developed to continue the Respect Life emphasis throughout the year, by coordinating it with Holy Family Sunday, World Peace Day, the Sundays ordinar· i1y set aside for Catholic Relief Services and Campaign. for Human Development· collections.

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tival with such noted names as Dave Brubeck, Boris Goldovsky and Alexander Peloquin should be acclaimed with public support. Any attempt to improve the cultural life of the area is certainly a step in the right direction. The SMU program could turn what is a mere trickle of cul'tural existence into a gushing fountain of enrichment. . .

Certainly SMU must be commended. To be sure, there will. be critics on the sidelines who will look down their noses on our public universities. They will sit on their endowments contributing.little to the promotion of the public good. They are few and deserved to be ignored. SMU has a vital role to play in this community and it must have the public's trust and respect to fUlfill its commitment to higher education.

This university has had to struggle for its very survival from both internal and external interference. It has survived and it will continue not only to merely survive !but to grow and develop into an outstanding national institution with· the support of the people and the leadership of men and women who are dedicated to the highest pursuits of intellectual sincerity and educational -honesty. The foundation had to be laid, the public must now be willing to help build an edifice that Will con· tinue to flourish and thrive among the people of Southeastern Massachusetts. .

Retired Corr'espondent to Live Monastic Life in Switzerland MILWAUKEE (NC) - Albion Ross, former correspondent for' the New York Times and professor of journalism at Marquette University for the past 12 years, has decided to spend the last year of his life "in an atmosphere where the main thing is religion."

Ross, 67. plans to live his retirement with the Bethlehem Missionary Fathers in Switzerland, a Catholic missionary group similar to the Maryknolls. Ross became acquainted with the priest society through a Marquette graduate student who belonged to the group.

Born Episcopalian, (his father was an' Anglican priest), Ross maintains the difference between the ftliths won't hamper his .activities as far as the chores he will be doing for the society. In exchange for room and board Ross plans to do some translating, gather materials for the society's archives and possibly tutor members in English.

In Presence of Christ "I'm two years past retirement," the aging man said, "and I thought this was a good tim·e. to be moving into a useful retirement occupation." .

"I don't know if I'll be able to clo it,' but I want to try to live under monastic rule like any member of the society," he said.

The move, he said is "a layman's desire to be present in a group for which the presence of Christ is taken for granted."

Ross denies being a theologian.

"I wouldn't dream of sticking my nose into such things. Rather I am aware that when one reaches old age what sticks out as essential is the need for the presence

Altruistic Reasons Wrinkled face, deep set brown eyes and bulging cheeks and chin give Ross an almost Hitchcocklike appearance. The large man's fame as a journalist has instilled an awesome fear in undergradthat fear uate students, but quickly dissipates into a deep respect for the man, his background and ability, .a Marquette graduate said.

Ross's reasons for living with a monastic community have an altruistic tone. "I have an aspiration, an idea-I believe it is a very important thing for the old to be able to step down from whatever little thing they are doing to try to be simply useful to somebody. It's very hard for the old to step down," he reflected.

-Ross's monastic dream was conceived about three years· ago when he had a bout with bad health. During that time, he said, he began to daily say' the Divine . Office of the Benedictines as a daily devotion "because I didn't have anything else to do."

"That experience was 'like a pre-run of retirement," he added.

"I would like to see a monastic life appear for old. people, in which Chflstians would move together toward monastic-type communities in which they could take care of each other until such time as hospitalization would be absolutely necessary."

Bishop Receives AFL-CIO Award MESILLA PARK (NC)-Bishop Sidney M. Metzger, who has given his support to striking workers at a clothing plant in his El Paso, Texas, diocese, has been cited for his service to the working classes.

Th'e Texas AFL-CIO presented Bishop Metzger with the St. Joseph the Worker Award. He was here in New Mexico to attend a regional meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

• ,Bishop Metzger was cited for a life of creative, active leadersh'ip in advancing economic leadership and sooial dignity for working people.

Msgr. George G. Higgins, research director for the United States Catholic Conference, praised Bishop Metzger for his "strong and firm conviction in the area of social justice."

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Ross served in World War II as an army captain and later ended up in government services doing communications media work.

State Court Rul'es California Textbook Law ConstitutionaI LOS ANGELES (NC)-A California law which provides for' free textbooks and instructional materials for studentli in nonpublic elementary schools was held to be. constitutional in a state court here June 4.

Judge Charles Vogel upheld California's deputy attorney general, Phillip E. Griffin, who contended that a suit, filed in January by the California Teachers Association (CTA) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), did not present evidence to show the textbooks sup-

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FOOD PROGRAM IN ACTION: Paul Horvat, far left helps prepare food packag~s in a church hall where the Self-HelD Action Center (SHAC) he founded sells small farmers' Droduce to the inner city Door. A refugee from Yugoslavia, Horvat lives in Wilmette, Ill. Farmers from Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Florida are involved in the program. NC Photo.

.Perverted, Demoral ized Bishop Cond~mns Exploitation of Youth In Northern Ireland

LARNE (NC)-Bishop William Philbin of Down and Conor conported any reiigious denomina- demned those who exploit chiltion in violation of either stattl dren to perform acts of violence or federal constitutions. in Northern Ireland.

The CTA-ACLU suit chalSpeaking to a gathering of lenged as unconstitutional 1971 youth leaders here, Bishop Philand 1972 California laws permit- bin, ·whose diocese includes Belting distribution of textbooks fast, said that a section of a and instructional materials to whole generation of Northern nonpublic school students on a Irish children is being perverted basis equitable to that provided and demoralized into habits of for public school students. viciousness and hatred.

• The 1971 law was widely supThe biggest issue confronting ported by groups of parents of. society is not political, social or students in religious schools and economic but moral, the bishop the California Catholic Confer- said. ence.

"We are living in times of criGriffin said that the changes sis which was precipitated by in the education code do not' certain ·groups of conspirators conflict with either the First who determined to defy the will Amendment to the U. S. Consti- of the vast majority of Irish tution or wit.h sections of the' people, North and South, and to state constitution prohibiting ap- establish violence in place of propriations of public money for democratic means as the way to support of religious groups. settle political differences," he The attorney for the public said. school teachers chailenging the This, he said, is a repudiation textbook law did not appear in of .fundamental civil rights and court to contest the deputy at- a rejection of the basic moral torney general's argument. 'precept of Christianity in order Currently, the California state to achieve political ambition. He textbook law provides savings to. maintained that secret armies are parochial school parents of over determined to make normal life impossible until the whole com$3 million annually. . .

Joseph McElligott, education munity surrenders to them.

"Inevitably, conspiracy bred director at the Sacramento-based California Catholic Conference, counter-conspiracy, and murder hailed the decision as being "en- and destructi-on were answered couraging to us to see confirmed 'by murder and destruction," the our convictions that the state bishop said. "If this is war, it is can constitutionally provide sec- indeed, as some of its sponsors ular services and some relief to have said, a war that accepts no nonpublic school students and moral principles. It is a reign of terror conducted with utmost their parents." , e

WASHINGTON (NC) - Congressional passage of the Com- . prehensive Older Americans Act of 1973 was hailed as "most encouraging" by Sister Virginia Schwager, director of the U. S. Catholic Conference's health affairs division.

"This timely action by Congress makes a major advance in the expansion of programs oriented towards improving the quality of life for aged Americans," she said.

The billion-dollar measure would authorize programs expanding services to the elderly in a wide range of fields including housing, transportation, employment and health services.

Sister Vii'ginia singled out for praise the provisions in the bill which address· the acute health needs of the elderly.

"The Senior Health Aids {lrogram under Title VI, for example, will most cert.ainly discourage the practic~ of institutionalizing ~he moderately infirm and disabled, and by the use of home· health assistance, promote not only a greater sense of wellbeing among older individuals, but also allow them to be more actively hivolved' in their community," she said.

"Of great importance too is the coordination of nutritional programs under Title VII of the act which, we are certain, will go far toward responding to the dietary deficiences experienced by . many ~ged." .

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savagery, composed partly of indiscriminate killing and destruction and partly' of selective victimization of individuals.

"An aspect that singles itself out in vileness is the exploitation of children. They are enticed by bribes, by reminc.ers of injustices, lies and threats, and any and every other means into executing infamous orders.

"They are being taught that evil is good and they are made to keep their parents in ignorance of what they are doing, and sometimes their sch'ool teachers are subject to menaces."

Bishop 'Philbin said the vast majority of people throughout Ireland repudiate .and abhor what is being done against them and against all their rights and interests.

ROME (NC)-A concert marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Paul VI will be presented here by composer, pianist and conductor Leonard Bernstein June 23.

The pontiff will attend the concert sponsored by RAI, the Italian radio and television network to be held in the audience hall in the Vatican.

The RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Rome. the Men's Chorus of Boston (formerly the Harvard Glee' Club) and the Newark Boys' Choir will perform Bach's "Magnificat" and an original composition of Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms."

June 23 is the feast of St. John the Baptist, the Pope's patron saint. Pope Paul was born Giovanni Battista Montini.

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Hard to Find Spec,ial Dreiss Amid Profusi,on of Jeans I've heard of searching for a needle, in a haystack but any mother who has gone to look for a graduation dress for her daughter knows that they are harder to find than someone who thinks Watergate is an qpening in a dike.

Oh, there are,a few dresses 'something special when for the teenage market but missing they ignore the softness and the ones I view.ed last week- femininity to be found in a dress. end looked like a cross be- The teen years should be a time tween a maternity dress and one of those sweet little things worn by a girl in an Andy Hardy m"Ovie. Material-wise they. are

for experimentation in styling and make-up until the most flattering of both is found but if the gals insist on opting for a twinny look with all their peers, then any chance for individuality goes ' out the window.

I'm sure many of my readers By can think back to their youthful days and to some of the lovely MARILYN dresses (at least we thought they were lovely). that made so many " I' RODERICK events special in our minds. From the looks of things at this mo· ment our daughters are going to have to think back to a certain even using that cotton material , pair of jeans:-"the uniform of the that we only considered suitable youth of the sixties and sevenI for children's underwear. And of ties.

'CAPS, GOWNS, MEMORIES: In caps and gowns and ready for one of life's memorcourse the prices on these little able days are graduates of Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall' River. From left, Debbie mini dresses range in the high Supermarket Chain Stevens, Gay von Maluski, Colleen Parent, Patricia Remy. $20 _ and $30 range.' This- does Backs Free Elections seem a bit high for a garment SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-The that will be. worn for graduation Safeway sup'ermarket" chain has' and a few Sundays to church. issued a statement supporting Dresses Wilt DENVER (NC) - Sister Mary tory of the association that we guidelines recommended that "free and open elections" to al-' The law of supply and demand low farm Workers to ;Choose Maurita Sengelaub of the Sisters ~1ave had to speak so clearly on hospitals use sample corporate is what is dictating the lack of which union '-they want to rep- of Mercy of the Union holds one tRese matters."

-resolutions to- support their ethdecent 9resses. Our younger gen- resent them. ' As she spoke, she seemed to ical and religious rights under of the most powerful jobs in the ('ration has "turned off" the forThe statetpent by Safeway, Catholic Hospital Association echo a phrase from the morning the U. S. Constitution. The mality of a dress and the manu- which has been attacked in the (CHA). talk of the CHA's outgoing pres- guidelines also supported amend'facturers and buyers are, of ,past by the United Farm Work· Her schedule is full. Her arms ident, Sister Irene Kraus: "'We ments which would add moral cours'e' taking their cue from ,the ers Union (UfWU), closely par·' are frequently loaded with pa- have not been aggressive enough. considerations to the American young consumers, While dresses allels the UFWU's call for elec- pers. On pel' mind are major de- We have power but we don't Hospital Association's "Patients' wilt on the rack the dungarees tions to setqe its dispute with cisions 'affecting the problem- know how to use it. Let us not "Bill of Right." and smock tops,halters and the Teamsters Union over repre- ,laden future of more than 850 retreat in the face of the'dan"We are saying," Sister Sengehlazers hardly have time to get sentation of California farm Catholic health care facilities. gers and the uncertainties that laub said, "that our hospitals folds in them .before they are workers.

Yet, as executive vice-pres- I:e ahead." really have 'had a philosophysnapped up' by eager young Sister Sengelaub noted that, the application and implementa"We see no. reason farm work- ident of the St. Louis-based assobuyers. ers should 'not have equal ciation, she always has time for t!le CHA board, meeting on the tion of the official teaching of Looking hack on my own rights." Safeway said ina full- a word or a bright-eyed smile eve of the assembly, approved the Church-in the provision of grammar sC,hool graduation, I re- page ,advertisement in major with any employee. She began "Guidelines for the Relationship health services. That means we member the pale blue gown I northern California newspapers. her career 'as a nurse-·"and I Between Catholic - Sponsored can not perform abortions." wore for class day. It had a hoop "Because we think it is high time , loved it"-but wound up in ad- Eealth Providers and CommuCatholic pro-life hospital leads~irt and a tiny pink rosebud at ers have several things "going for everyone 'to recognize these ministration jobs in her religious nities Serviced:' the bodice', In retrospect I'm sure facts, we are making this public co~gregation. She has be,en fullfor us," she noted, They are the Support Rights it looked 'a bit corny-especially appeal in support of impartially "time with the CHA since SepThe guidelines urged local .first, ninth and 14th amendments hanging on my 90 pound bony supervised free elections cover- tember, 1970, and in a sense Catholic health facilities to use a to the Constitution, she said, and frame but I thot.l~ht it was just ing .farm worker lab'or con- typifies the changes in lifestyle previously adopted guide "for a portion of the U. S. Supreme elegant. Then your first gown tracts."." and outlook that many Sisters developing a philosophy" for Court's Jan. 22 abortion ruling i really meant sotnething. have undergone in recent years. Catholic health institutions. The protects the right of individuals Dressing down :~eems to be the and institutions to refuse to perParish Suryey Shows Sister Sengelaub, a key figure thing today and'if,i'om the looks form abortions. at the CHA's Catholic Health JDecision Postponed of some of the hliHer and short Liturgy DeiVelopments is articulate with Assembly here, LONDON (NC) - The English sets out for the';t€ens it won't MILWAUKE;E (NC) - Ab"out be ,so much dressing down as half of the parishes in the Mil- reporters,as are her colle:::gues and Welsh Catholic bishops have BALLROOM in leadership posts in the profes"not dressing." i\ waukee archdiocese have women sional association. This chara';- put off joining the British Coun, DANCING cil of Churches (BCC). PreviousJeans, Not ,,Dresses lectors, according to a recent teristic is significant.

EVERY SAT. NIGHT 'ly. usually reliable Church While everyone:, seems to be s\lrvey conduc.ted by a commitIn past years, the CHA war, scurces had said they expected June 16 - The Big Sound of doing her own thing today I do tee of the archdiocesan liturgipossibly lethargic when it: came the bishops' to approve Catholic Al Rainone & his Orch. feel that our young females are cal commission. to direct action and it was not membership in the BCC. At their Your Host-AI Tremblay A total of 156 of the 258 parreally too well known among the recent meeting, however, the ishes in the see replied to the Cleveland Marchers survey which was taken in an Catholic organizations in this bishops postponed making a deRte. 6, N. Dartmouth country, these leaders say. But cision on the matter.

Oppose Abortion attempt to clcirify the state of CLEVELAND (NC)-Abortion liturgical, development in the now the CHA plans on aggres" --is, "humanity's suicide," said Dr. archdiocese and assess and pin- sive drive to let people know Jose Espinosa during a "March point specific liturgical needs on why Catholic hospitals are diffor Life" demonstration here. archdiocesan, district and local feren.t and ,to remind people that Catholic hospitals form one-third Dr. Espinosa, a surgeon and leveL" teacher at Case Western Reserve The survey also showed that of the nation's voluntary hosUniversity, spoke after a line of 30 per cent of the responding pitals.

Leadership Position marchers had filed through a parishes have lay ministers of downtown area. communion, and 66 per cent The rising demand for aborAbortion is a "negativistic, have soine type of communal' tion, euthanasia and sterilization death-dealing, defeatist, solu- penance service. Only five par- has galvanized' its members and tion," Dr. Espinosa said during ishes wanted to se'e an "occa- thrust the CHA into a leadership the rally, which was sponsorej sional" Latin Mass. position in the pro-life struggle Attention School Groups by the Ohio Right to Life SoThe responses revealed that across the nation, Sister Sengeciety. the most important development laub told NC News.

YOU~ Many of the marchers carried of parish worship life should be "The fact that we're giving the Special Arrangements for School Groups signs reading, "love life. It's a "more variety in Eucharistic lit- direction and leadership is sigmiracle." and "happiness is a urgies with local adaptation nificant," she said. "There has FOR DETAILS, CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 encourag~d... baby." been no time in the 58-year his•••••••••

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It came to pass, that early in the morning, .one of. the household had not heard the alarm crowing, nor noticed the fragrance of food rising to his room. Drawing the coverlet tighter around his head, he heard not his mother entreating him to begin the new day. He thought not of glowed in the warm light. And the mother was content. schedules nor the school bus She tended the meat and veg.. '. but dreamed of holidays. etables, satisfied with the whole-

The mother, rushing to his room, grasped the shock of hair escaping the coverlet. ' "Young man, I say to thee, arise ... Luke 7:14."

someness of the fragrance.

The hour was growing late; still the stew resisted getting done.

The mother added more fuel to the fire. The stew scorched.

Taking a fresh vessel, the mother transferred the unburnt food.

By The children milled about her, their hunger gnawing at them, MARY chasing the charity from their words.

CARSON "And as for you, do not seek what you shaH eat, or what you shaH drink ... Luke 12:29."

And the mother said, "Come Much later in, the day, the to me, for I have prepared a mother pondered the events that meal for you." They delayed in had come to pass. She had swept coming. and tidied the household ...

At last, when they were all which she had done the day be- assembled, there was grumbling fore. She had gathered the amongst them, ,as the mother clothing, some of it from under ladled the stew into their bowls. the paHets, and taken it to the The older children struck up Maytag-stream, scrubbing it till lively conversations, while the it shone as the sun. younger children followed the As she was scrubbing, she ex- course of the rims of the bowls amined some of the garments, with their forks. turning them over and over in The bravest of the 路group her hands, calling to mind that' asked, "Are there rolls to go they were the same garments she with this stuff?" had scrubbed the day before "Not by .bread alone shall man which had not been worn but live ... Luke 4:4." , rather, dropped into':' the dust And after the supper was fininstead' of the dresser. ished, the youngest asked to be A vision appeared ... hell-fire excused from the evening ritual. and brimstone!

"Be thou made clean ... Luke "0 unbelieving and perverse 5:13" generation, how long shall ,I be Much later in the evening, the with you and put up with, you? motl:ter .went from paHet to pal... Luke 9:41." let, brushing damp locks from a Now at that time, there was forehead, straightening a covera festival being held. There let, tucking in a little shoulder. would be much merriment, frol"For where your treasure is, icking, and dancing. But the place of the festival was some there your heart also will be ...

Luke 12:34." distanGe from the household.

The son, having reclined under a tree since the first hour, en- Methodists Oppose treated his mother to borrow the Buckley Amendment family chariot.

WASHINTON (NC) - Two "Arise and walk ... L~ke 5:24." national United Methodist leadThe mother went about the, ers voiced opposition to Sen. duties of her household, prepar- James L. Buckley's proposed ing the evening me~1. She pol- constitutional amendment which ished the table, then brought would guarantee the full legal forth' the mug~ and bowls, which status of "person" to the unborn.

In a wire to Sen. Buckley (R., Y.) Mrs. C. Cliffford CumEcumedia News Service N. mings, national president of United Methodist Women, obPlans New Program NEW YORK (NC)-Ecumedia jected that the proposed amendNews Service, an interreligious ment would "restrict a woman's agency that produces religious freedom of choice." She said her programming for radio broad- organization supports abortion casting, has announced a new legislation "similar to that in the program service for this summer. current Supreme Court ruling."

The Rev. A. Dudley Ward, The U. S. Cathdlic Conference, along with two Jewish and 19 generaf secretary of the United Protestant organizations, will Methodist Board of Church and produce and send' tap~d news Society, also wired Sen. Buckley summaries and interviews with to protest the amendment. He church and synagogue leaders said it "would infringe on relito more than i,250 radio stations gious liberty and deny the right in the U. S., Canada and coun- of individuals to make responsible moral choices in this most tries overseas.

Much of the material will be personal area."

One of the co-sponsors of the designed for inclusion in established religious programs already Buckley amendment is Sen. being aired on local stations, Harold Hughes (D.-Iowa), a said Warren Day, ENS director. Methodist.

HAPPY DAYS: Those are graduation smiles on faces of seniors at Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, from left, Judi Dias, Rose Marie Beaudoin, Kathy Connor, Mary Beth Kirkman.

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ROME (NC)- Catholic relief problem of the day" to which der the earth, we should find organizations from. five nations, Christians must not remain in- water for those dying of thirst. including the United States, different.

Recailing that Pope Paul VI pledged $460,000 to buy seeds Father De Reidtmatten said had singled out CRS for special for planting in the drought-, that if we can search for oil un- praise in a recent a~peal for the stricken Hahelian zone of Africa, victims of drought, Father De where milIions of people face Riedmaten told NC News: Pope Paul Names New starvation.

"Yes, your Catholic Relief Services deserve much praise, not At a meeting June 6 of Cor Vatican Diplomats Unum, the Vatican's coordinatVATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope only for what they are doing ing agency for Catholic relief or- Paul VI named new diplomatic during this drought but what ganizations, procurement of represenatives from the Vatican they do so well for so many seeds on the local economy was to Mexi'co and the Philippines around the world."

Catholic Relief organizations decided to be the first priority. , qn June 6. ' from France, Germany, Canada, Msgr. Joseph Hartnett, direcMsgr. Mario Gaspari, underIreland and the United States tor of programs of the U. S. secretary for the Vatican's Counpledged the money for procuring Catholic Relief Services (CRS) cil for the Church's Public Afsor,ghum, millet and corn seeds in three of the stricken sub- fairs, becomes apostolic delegate for the drought-stricken African Sahara nations, said that if rain in Mexico. countries. comes it is absolutely esssntial Named Apostolic 'Nuncio to Father De Riedmatten said to have the seeds on hand to the Philippines was Archbishop that if preparations are not made avoid continuation of the fam- Bruno Torpigliani, replacing in the next two weeks to plan ine that stalks those lands.

Archbishop Carmine Rocco who for the seeding, "next year we CRS enjoys the unique advan- was recently made nuncio to will have the same situation of tage of having permanent aid Brazil. misery and hunger." programs in three of the stricken Archbishop Carlo Martini reIf the rains do not come to the nations: Mauritania, Senegal and cently left the apostolic delega- stricken countries, then the Upper Volta. In addition, CRS tion in Mexico to become arch- seeds will be planted elsewhere workers are conducting a survey bishop of the Italian Archdiocese and the foods brought back, he through Mali, Niger and Chad to of L'Aquila. added. recommend emergency measures to CRS headquarters in New York. '''Unfortunately drought does not stop at the borders of these six countries," Msgr. Harnett said. "We have just heard that Ghana, ~igeria and Lesotho are also experiencing severe droughts."

When Savings and Dividends left on deposit Dominican Father Henri de 6% 2 and 3 yr. Term Deposit Certificate Riedmatten, secreetary of Cor Now Yields 6.27% .

Unum, told a press conference to 2 yr. Term Deposit Certificate 5%% in the Vatican June 7 that the Now Yields 6.00% drought facing the nations' in 90-day Notice 5Y:!% Africa and elsewhere is "the Now Yields 5.73% 5~% Regular Savings.

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Spanish-Trained Priests Needed PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The U. S. hishops have done their best to aid the nation's Puerto Rican community, but one of the handicaps confronting theJ'!l is the "lack of Spanish-speaking priests," according to Cardinal.

Luis Aponte Martinez· of San Juan', Puerto Rico.

Cardinal Aponte, the first native-born Cardinal of Puerto Rico, was here for a two-day visit sponsored by the archdioc-· esan Spanish Apostolate, which coordinates the spiritual care for approximately 75,000 Spanishspeaking Catholics - most of them Puerto Ricans-in the area.

The 51-year-old prelate said that the "real thing woulet be to have Spanish services for those who can't communicate in English," noting that there are some 1.5 million Puerto .Rican Catholics in the U. S. most of whom are concentrated in metropolitan areas. . The Puerto Rican cardi.nal said that he "will be working adamantly " to increase the number of Puerto Rican young who enter the religiQus life. .

Cardinal Aponte a9vised .the Puerto Ricans in the United States to get college educations and to seek help in problems involving their human rights:

Carmelite Robes KARUKUTTY (NC)-The Syrian-rite Carmelites of Mary Immaculate decided, at a general chapter here, to permit the Indianization of their Religious ga~b on an experimental basis.

Instead of the traditional· brown cassock, certain Carmelites will be allowed to wear the saffroncolored robe worn 9Y sannyasis, mendicant Hindu ascetics, or

by Buddhist monks.

YOUNGEST: Father Francis George, 36, has been installed as the youngest provincial of the central province of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate based in St. Paul, Minn. A philosophy teacher, he will be in charge of 249 Oblate priests and brothers in nine Midwestern states: Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota. NC Photo

FINALLY GOT THERE: It took 12 years, but these seniors have reached educational milestone. From left, Michael Donaghy, Ronald Frenette, James Palmieri contemplate triumphant' proclamation on chalkboard ~lt Holy Family High School, New Bedford..

Orders for Pro-Life Brace lets Increase .

ST. PAUL (NC)-Initial response to' the nationwide campaign promo~ing pro-life. bracelets has been so heavy that organizers are already a month behind· in filling orders according to the Minnseota coordinator of one of the sp6nsoring groups.

In a little less than two. months, orders for more than 88,000 Circle - of Life bracelets have bee~ received, Douglas Dahl, state cC;lOrdinator of Save Our Unwanted Lives (SOUL), said.

"The response has been great We've just been snowed under with orders" he said. The national right to life campaignaimed at focusing attention on efforts to overturn the U. S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion~has been. endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee, the National Youth ProLife Coalition and other pro-life affiliates like SOUL. The pro-life bracelet campaign patterned after the success of prisoner of war bracelets in call-

Catholic Agencies Report Declil1le In Number of .Adoptable lBabi·es LOUISVILLt <NC)-Representatives of Catholic adoption agencies ~ttending a national meeting here fpund that the outlook 'for Catholic adoption agencies is "dismal," but not for en·' tirely negative reasons.

The meeting was held here as part of a four-day institute on Services to Unmarried Parents.

It was sponsored by the Commission on Services to Unmarried Parents :of the National Conference of Catholic Charities and the Louisville archdiocesan Catholic Chari~ies Agency.

The outlook. for the agencies was said to be "dismal" because of the ·U. S. Supreme Court's· abortion ruling this year, but the gro'up conelud~d that another reason for the fewer babies availahle .for apoption was. that more women are keeping their babies. .

The combined result is that there will be mo~e emphasis on finding homes for the "hard to place" babies, for example black babies, and possibly the opening of Catholic adoption agencies to Protestants.

'Good Christian Homes' Participants in the meeting ar· rived at three -other general conelusions: A constitutional amendment to alter the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion is 'iyears away."

There must be continuing efforts to aid unwed mothers and renewed efforts to prevent abortions. '-

In a majority of the cities, agencies are currently n.ot accepting applications because of the few <> babies available, but most expect to start taking applications again in about six montl1s. Participants told. of a variety of experiences in Catholic social service agencies around the nation.

On the· question of opening up adoptive services to· Protestant families, the group generally agreed that the wish of the mother was paramount, but as' a representative from the Indianapolis agency put it, "we're looking for good Christian homes."

The group generally agreed with a national profile which showed. that girls who hav·e an abortion are between. the- ages of 18 and 2!) and come from white middle class families. They also agreed that in their respective cities "quite a few" return for a second abortion.

But they als'o agreed there is a trend toward women keepi~g their second illegitimate child.

As pne agency representative quoted one of her clients. "I have to give lif.e in re~um for the baby I killed."

The group also agreed on the necessity of getting anti-abortion information or abortion alternatives into the hands of girls as . early as possible. One said, "It's too late' in high school, we need . to get down to the seventh and eighth graders." .

ing attention to the plight of POW's, originated in Minnesota with Dr. Thomas, a ·physician at the Rocester Mayo Clinic who long has been active in the antiabortion movement.

In addition to calling attention to the right to life effort, the bracelet campaign also is designed to help fund the pro-life movement.

While the vast majority of bracelets have been ordered directly by pro-life groups around the country to be resold 10cal1y, Dahl said that more than 800 orders from individuals have already been processed and another 600 are on hack order.

Dahl, who believes that 1,000,000 bracelets eventually can be sold, said the campaign has already received letters of sl:pport from every state· in the union.

He said the backlog in filling orders should be cleared up w:thin a month.

A separate corporation-Circle of L.ife, Inc., headquartered in Rochester-has been set up to oversee the bracelet sale.

For pro-life groups ordering large quantities, Dahl said, requests should be sent to Cirele of Life, P.O. Box 6524, Rochester, Minn. 55901.

Individual orders should be directed first to local pro-life groups, Dahl said, but in the event that thos,e groups are out of the bracelets, requests can be directed to SOUL, 4803 NicoHet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 55409.

NC News Service While the American Medical Association (AMA) has taken no ·formal stand for or against abortion or the Supreme Court decision relating to it, its president, Dr. Charles A. Hoffman is personal1y opposed to both.

Dr. Hoffman, a Catholic, feels that abortion is not a religious - issue but a moral issue. He feels that abortions will "tend to lower our morals."

"If a girl knows that she can have abortion on demand, she's more likely to be promiscuous and then have less respect for pregnancy," the Huntington, W.Va., doctor told NC News.

The AMA leaves abortion laws to the discretion of various state legislatures. Its position simply states that abortion is "ethical" if it is done in a state where abortion is legal by a physician . and two consultants in an accredited hospital. The physician and consultants must not be forced to perform abortions against their religious or moral convictions.

Dr. Hoffman attacked the rul· ing by the Supreme Court that struck dow.n most ahortion laws by saying the ruling "will accelerate wholesale abortions."

Population Growth . "Our great country can't afford to get to zero population growth," he said. "That wouldn't be good for the country. Wars, epidemics, catastrophic happenings could occur and we'd lose a great deal of our population."

Dr. Hoffman stated that th~ U. S. is "far from zero' population growth" de,spite the decrease in the ·number of children in the average family. He also said the U. S. has "tremendous resources" to provide for· its people ...

"A ·strong country must have reasonable growth," 'he stated.

Finally, Dr. Hoffman said that abortion and' population decrease could "deprive" the nation of "outstanding leaders for the future." ·"Many .of our great leaders came from big families," he said, "and a lot of them were low on the list."

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MISSOULA (NC) - The U. S. District Court decision leaving Montana with no prohibition against abortions, is seen

by Catholics here as "inevitable," according to Father James Provost, chancellor of the Helena diocese.

The court order issued by Judge Russell Smith declared Montana's entire abortion statute unconstitutional.

The Montana law, similar to the Texas and Georgia abortion laws that were struck down by, the Supreme Court on Jan. 22, prohibited abortions except to save the life of the mother.

Judge Smith's order said that the Montana legislature's failure to tailor a new law to fit the Supreme Court decision meant the state ahortion laws were "unconstitutional and void in their entirety."

MEDELLIN (NC)-A Christian Youth'· Council held here in Colombia attracted 4,000 participants-including many from the United States and Canada-organizers said it could open new trails in the youth apostolate.

A three-day rally celebrated :ecently "was above all a frank dialogue between young people and Christ," Father Rafael Garcia Herreros said.

Gabriel Cucalon, an IS-year old youth from Cali in Colombia, confessed that "after this experience with Christ, drugs, hippie life and erotic hang-ups are all left behind."

Seventeen-year old Maria Serna of Medellin felt that "after these three days, Christ ceased ! to be the unreachable person I i thought he was, and became the real friend in my life."

Conscience Clause A Cuban priest who helped OUTSTANDING GRADUATES: Outstanding in the senior class at Bishop Connolly Father The Supreme Court's guideGarcia, thought "this was lines said that states could not High School, Fall River,· are, from left, Warrren Wood, Michael Raposa, Ronald Joseph, an exciting experience." Father interfere with ,the right of a John Albernaz. Wood, 'Raposa and Albernaz graduated with high distinction and Ra- Juan Campos added: "It opened woman to have an abortion posa was valedictorian. Joseph, student body president! was salutatorian. our eyes to the way youth think during the first three months. and react these days. The CounIt gave states the authority to cil could be a decisive factor in interfere with such a decision the efforts at Church renewal." during the second three mcmths The council geared Holy Week only to regulate the medical "In -both cases we are dealing and Easter meditations to curUNITED NATIONS (NC)-"As two-year reports of tlhose adsafety of the abortions. far aJS the Cathoiic Church is hering to the convenUon on the. with pwblems unknown, so to rent situations and problems "Given the recent Supreme concerned, racial discrimination measures each has adopted to speak, to the Holy See," Msgr. faced by youth. After a brief inCourt decision," Father Provost is cotlltrary to its very nature.... implement th'e international Giovanetti Isaid. ~'As the agree- troduction, the debate was left • said, "the' District Court here the Vatican's permanent observ- agreement: ment hetween the Holy See and entirely to the young particdidn't have much option. Now. er to the UN told its Committee The Va/tican's current report is the IAEA (Interna,tional Atomic ipants, who also drafted brief we are concerned with the 'con- on Elimination of Racial Discrim- ooncerned mainly with "pro- Energy Agency) reads, the Holy conclusions. Liturgical services, scienCe clause' legislation." ination. nouncements and endeavors" See 'intends to give its support plays and song sessions featured "Conscience clause" legislation "What the Holy See can do, rather than with legislative mea- and its moral enoouragement' to . young authors, composers and tlhat treaty. The same applies to actors. exempts medical personnel from and dJoes, to eliminate the evils sures. performing or assisting in abor- of racial discrimination is to reo Msgr. Giovanetti pointed out, this convention. I think this has tion and sterilization procedures mind the' faithful of the Gospel' the inherent difference between to be kept in mind when examDoctrinal Manual if such operations are against message, leaving it Ito the bish- tlhe V,atican and other parties to ining tlhe report submitted by the Holy See." FREIBURG (NC)-A new 700· their religious or moral convic- ops to deal willi local situations," the convention. . tions. page theology manual jointly For centunies, he said, the said the observer, Msgr. Alberto written by Catholic and ProtestGiovanetti.

Catholic Church has maintained $750,000 Grant ant theologians seeks to present He was responding to commit- the doctrine of the bmtherhood Appraisement what: the two religious bodies You can tell the ideals of a tee requests to elaborate on the of all men on a global basis and To Notre Dame have in common. Contributors to not restricted rtlo Vatican City by the Vatican report submitted nafton by dts advertisements.

NOTRE DAME (NC) - The the recently published volume as one of !the parties to the Inter- alone.

-Douglas He said that /the Vatican's rati- WiHiam R. Kenan Jr. Charitable present their findings as the, national Convetlltion on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dis- fication of tJhe convention to Trust of New York City has "common Christian faith" in the eliminate ,racial discrimination given $750,000 to' Notre Dame hope of promoting interfaith recrimination.

University for the endownient The Vatican was among tlhe ' was meant mainly, if not exclu- of a professorship, Father Theo- lations by proving new theologieal perspectives. to be of moral value.

The sively, first five par-ties to ratify the dore M. Hesburgh, university objecti~ w,as the same, he' convention, which came ilnto president, announced. force in January 1969. It obliges pointed out, in ilts support of the The grant will be used to es-, treaty on the nonproliferation of the par-ties to the agreement to tablish the William R. Kenan Jr. promote understanding among atomic weapons.

Chair in the department of' soraces and to gll!lllI'antee equaldty ciology and anthropology of before the law in enjoyment of Congress 'Given Tax Notre Dame's College of Arts human rights as well as political, and Letters, Father Hesburgh civil, economic and social rights Credit Proposal for everyone.

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SERVICE itself in proclaiming it defends Payments for higher education, lofty values while curtailing kindergarten or nursery school BUDGET PLANS FIRST: Abbot Edward C. freedom of education. would not be included.

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Catholic Publication Says 6.0,000 Frightened Out of Belfast Homes

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-:-Thurs. June' 14, 1973

Sisters Say There's ·Need To Study Aging Problems This is the last of a series of three columns on the plight of our aged nuns and priests today. The first in F~bruary and the second last week. The 8econd and third columns came as a direct result of mail I received from readers all over the country. \ Today, I am going to let the "~he reli~ious communities, like mme, which are now more than .f nuns spea k or themselve~. 100 years old, were so busy with Below I have excerpted theIr the day-to-day teaching in paroletters. There's nothing I can add to them except, perhaps the suggestion that each reader pon· der them and take whatever a<:·

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A nun from Michigan writes: "You sp.~ke of the sister who asked a1bout buying her .mate·. rials. We, too, as wel1 as all communities keep making things for bazaars and little sales occasional1y. Some elderly sisters enjoy occupational therapy; oth· ers constantly' rebel against it, remembering their once promi· nent role in society and the Church. I deplore the pictures in the papers which portray even great scholarly sisters making paper dolls and flowers. Some have no objections to the idea. however."

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Regional. Office SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A . new regional office for the Spanish speaking, headed by Ecuador· born Bishop Juan Arzube, was . approved by the bishops of Region XI of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops at their meeting here. Initially, the office for the region - which covers' Cabifornia, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, Guam and -the Marshall-Caroline Islands-will be .located in Sacramento, Cal.

DIRECTOR: Father Leo McFadden, an NC News Service correspondent in Rome, has been named director of Villa Stritch, the residence for .U. S. diocesan priests working in Rome. He is a priest of the Reno, Nev., diocese. NC Photo.

chial s<:hools that we never thought of ourselves. Never dreamed of growing old. In theory we spoke of age with grace, . never realizing the economics of our lives. .

Dollar a Day "Probably you are familiar with the monthly salary of the sisters in the rpal~ochial schools.

In each cqnvent approximately KATHLEEN GRAHAM . $120 is set aside for each sister's board and. the maintenance of the house; a certain amount for medicine; a~other amount is sent to. the Motherhouse for food and shelter fori the retired sisters.

Approx!mately $1.00 a day is WILMINGTON (NC) - Kath· given to each sister for her per- leen M. Graham has been apsonal b~dge,t' which takes care of pointed editor of the Wilmington everythmgfrom toothpaste to . diocesan newspaper, Delmarva shoes to habits or contemporary Dialog. clothes, and hus fare."

Miss Graham, 26, comes to her A very aged nun, to judge by new position from the Baltimore her handwriting, wrote, "Teaching little Catholk children was Catholic Review, where she had been a member of the editorial the joy of my long life but I am staff since 1969. She had also so lonely now. I don't get around very well and so few of our old been a staff member of the Mor·· ristown County Record in Mor~ students visit us."

Still andther writes, "The ristown, N. J., and served as a changing na~ure of religious com- free lance reporter and phomunities only compounds the tographer. problem. We are undergoing a Miss Graham is a graduate of crisis as to our meaning and pur- St. Joseph College in Emmits· pose, beliefs~ authority structure. burg, Md. In counselling sisters who leave religious corhmunities, many are wondering about the economic Que~n Names Nun repercussions of' our technologi.Dame C:ommander cal society, '. the complexities of AUCKLAND (NC) --. Queen our times and their own existential realities., They wonder about, Elizabeth n named Sister Mary the deleterious effects of the Leo, an Au<:kland music teacher. rapid secularization of religious a Dame Commander of the Order institutions ,!-nd their own aging of the British Empire, it was an· nounced by New Zealand's gov· problems." . ernor-general. ,Shows Insensitivity

A dame is the female equivA nun, disturbed over a pub· licity photo' of infirm sisters alent of a ,knight. New Zealand used as a come-on for a card is an independent dominion party for retired sisters, ex- within the British Commonplained, "The sister with the we!llth and Queen Elizabeth is walker is close to 95 years of . head of state. age. Imagin~ their being taken Sister Mary Leo, during her 40 from their rest to pose for thou- years as a music teacher, has sands of readers whom they had trained opera singers who have served. . . . I feel this idea performed in the United States, shows grosss insensitivity, that Austria, Germany, Switzerland, our mature sisters should be per- Britain and Australia as well as mitted to rest in their final days, in New Zealand. not to be worried about money."

Her most successful student, Several nuns mentioned the acclaimed soprano Kiri Te Kaproblem that the laity think they nawa, a member of the Maori are . wealthyl "Many laymen people, descendents of New Zealthink that we own hospitals and and's original inhabitants, was .. colleges. We .do administer them named an Officer of the Order and give back one-half our sal· . of the British Empire .by the aries to pay the lavmen in most Queen in the saml.'! honors list. cases. ,But the Board of Trustees is the officiai owner. If Wt: ,;.;t'e to close hospitals and colleges Help Rural Areas today, the courts would have to LIMA (NC) - The National decide under whose auspices Mission Society here said Catha they would cqntinue, if any. We ulics in urban centers dmtribneed an educational campaign. uted close to $100,000 for miss"Most of us are still too busy ions and human / development to think of our terminal days. work in the eight vicariates and We are, ho~ever, money con14 prelatures of the nation's scious, especially when we view rural Andean and Amazon areas. the bleak lives of our older sis- Peruvians have an average inters, near and: dear to us. Please come per capita of $230. The do whatever you can to keep 1973 figures showed a 20 per the subject b.efore the people." cent incl'eas{~ over 1972.

LONDON (NC) - More than 60,000 persons have been frightened out of their homes in Belfast in the past three and a half years, according to the Universe, a British Catholic weekly.

The paper said that that fact is contained in an official report and accuseQ the British government of keeping secret because it considers the report "political dynamite."

"It is the largest exodus of people from their homes in Western Europe" since the end of World War II, the Universe said in a front-page story.

"Intimidation is a major evil, but not until this report was compiled - by a team of researchers from Northern Ireland's government - sponsored Community Relations Commission-was its alarming extent fully realized.

"The report records that 80 per cent of ,the intimidated people - over 48,000 - were Catholics." .

A breakdown of the total disclosed that one in every nine of Belfast's population has been intimidated..

The Universe correspondent in Belfast, Donal Magee, said that. no newspaper has so far been given access to the report, which, ~e added, at the moment is being restricted to government ministers. But he said that he had seen its main findings and recommendations. They make "harrowing reading," he said.

Intimidattion Increases The situation is so serious, Magee said, that the report recommends the setting up of a committee to help the intimidated families. This committee would have powers to take over hotel rooms to shelter distressed families and to requisition' transportation to take them and their possessions to safety.

The report does not specifical· Iy define intimidation but is con-

Cutbacks Distress Church Leaders NEW YORK (NC) - Church leaders must raise their voices :in protest against federal budget cuts that "penalize the most disadvantaged of God's children," a group of Protestant churchmen declared here.

A statement of protest against the federal budget for fiscal 1974 was adopted and signed by the hoard of directors of the Council of Churches' of the CIty of New York.

The church leaders charged .that the budget appears to back away from the nation's historical commitment to equality of opportunDty for all.

"The time has come when the churohes must protest the growing ,tenden<:y of the federal gover:nment to make judgments and adopt priorities ,that discriminate against the poor and penalize the most disadvantaged of God's children."

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cerned'more with the people who have been physically forced out of their homes by mobs like the Tartan Gangs - a junior branch of an extremist Protestant organization-or during gun battles between the British army and the outlawed Irish Republi.can Army (IRA).

A social worker reported that the intimidation is increasing daily and is spreading outside Belfast to provincial towns like lrurgan, Portadown, Craigavon, Lame and Bangor.

'Gravest Challenge' "The situation is causing the gravest concern not only' for' the hardshoip caused to innocent 'families but because of its effects on the mental health of children in overcrowded houses in an unstable environment," the Universe said. / "U is seen that strong government. action is imperative if the situation is to be brought under control. It will be the gravest challenge to the new Northern Ireland Assembl~ (to be elected later in June)." , If the new assembly fails to tackle the problem adequately, 'the report warns, "it could be smaped out of existence."

The'secret report recommends that a special committee handle all matters relating to intimidation, set up so-called anti-intimidation centers and give speedy comfort to displaced families as existing a·gencies for this are inad~uate.

Budget Cuts Hurt Social Agencies PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Church~ related agencies seeking to promote social justice must increasingly "take up the slack" caused by "bankrupt" Nixon Administration sooiai policies, according to the director of the Division for Urban Affairs of the U. S. Catholic Conference.

Addressing an assembly here sl?onsored by the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations, John E. Cosgrove urged .200 human relations workers to work for reinstatement of federal housing program cuts by the Administration. He said urban renewal "probably cannot, and ·certainly should not await the full assessment which was given' as the cause for the morato~ rium," declared by the Administration.

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McCormack Hits Court Decision On Abortion BOSTON (NC)-Former Speak.er of the House John W. McCormack called for a constitutional amendment to protect the un· born and announced his acceptance of an invitation by Massachusetts Citizens for Life t·:> serve on its board of directors.

"I welcome the presence of the pro· life movement in America and I wish to become actively identified with it," McCormack said. "This action on my part is consistent with a lifetime of dedication to good government, which often finds expression in guaranteeing the rights of the weak, the helpless and the underprivileged, with emphasis on the innocent unborn."

McCormack, a Massachusetts Democrat, who was Speaker of the House for nine sessions of Congress, scored the U. S. Supreme Court's Jan. 22 abortion decision.

"To dehumanize life at either extremity or at any point in between for any reason, is incon· sistent with the noble principles and theistic awareness that for almost 200 years now has made this nation the last best nope of peoples everywhere," he sa id.

Basic Right In a statement delivered at a Witness to the Unborn rally here, McCormack called for a constitutional amendment to protect the unborn. The basic right in the Constitution, he said, is the right to life.

"The Constitution is a living document," he said. "Judicial det'ision has hobbled it before as it has tragically hobbled it now.

By due process imd working within the system, by constitutional amendment, the Constitution's basic premise and presumption can, and must he, purified and renewed."

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PILGRIM VIRGIN: Members of St. Joseph parish, New Bedford, venerate Pilgrim Virgin as statue is enshrined in church for· one week. Statue travels to homes and churches throughout the diocese to promote devotion to Our Lady of Fatima and encourage prayer for world peace. .

New York Prelates Ask Full Report Initiate Study on Farah Co. Labor Disput-e ALBANY (NC) - The bishops New of the eight dioceses York state have called upon the United States Catholic Conference to initiate a full study of the

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Prelate Lists Society's Ills CINCINNATI (NC) - Catholic charities programs must correct society's ills rather than treat the effects of those ills, said the keynoter at the third Ohio Institute on Catholic Charities here.

Msgr. M. J. Doyle, Toledo Catholic Charities director, suggested a new answer to the question, "Lord, when did we give you to eat and drink?" 'He said "When you changed those structures that -generate hunger, thirst, nakedness. and loneliness; when you created or operated structures through which men could feed themselves, satisfy their thirst, clothe themselves, raise their families in a community of justice and rove."

WASHINGTON (NC) - Msgr.

Ernest J. Fiedler has been named executive. director of the. U.S. bishops' Committee on the Per· manent Diaconate here.

Msgr. Fiedler, head of the deacon program in the Kansas CitySt. Joseph, Mo., diocese, succeeds Father William Philbin who died in a plane crash last Dec. 8.

Msgr. Fiedler' was born Oct. Msgr. Doyle acknowledged the 19, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri. efforts generated through thp.

He studied at the North AmeriNational Conference of Catholic can College and Gregorian UniCharities and the U. S. bishops' versity in Rome and was ordainCampaign for Human Developed in 1952. started in 1970 through ment, He served in several Missouri . parishes and was secretary for self-help programs to help "the poor to conquer poverty by a seminarians, diocesan director of vocations, and secretary to Bish- sustained individual and group op John P. Cody of Kansas City- initiative."

At the same time he listed as St. Joseph-now Cardinal Cody of Chicago. He also served as problems of contemporary socisecretary to Bishop Charles H. ety: constant threat of war, enHelmsing, present head of the vironmental depletion, permissiveness, violence, "ihe sex revKansas City-St. Joseph diocese.

Msgr. Fiedler was an expert olution," rejecting of objective adviser at the Second. Vatican morality, greedy economics, inhuman treatment of the poor, Council in 1962.

In 1969, he. began a progra.m racism, drug and alcohol addicin pastoral theology at the North tion, breakdown of family life, American College in Rome and corrosion of parent-child 'relaserved as its first "pastor. in tionships, widespread lawlessresidence." He returned to Kan- ness especially among youth, an sas City in 1970 to establish the "unprecedented acceptance of and legalized training program for permanent pornography," abortion. deacons. ., $

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The bishops requested in a • The USCG: received the resoresolution that "a full study and lution in Washington, D. C. and report, with recommendations, began plans to launch a study be submitted as soon as conven- on the dispute. It was expected ient to us and our fellow bishops that the USCC office of urban by the United States Catholic affairs and the office of the Conference."

Spanish-speaking wou~ take The resolution came at the. part in the study. urging of Bishop Joseph L. HoThe strike, now more than a gan of Rochester, who in Febru. year old, has idled some 3,000 ary gave his support to the naworkers who, Bishop Metzger tionwide boycott of Farah, one said, "must earn their bread by of the leading manufacturers of hard work and who often have slacks in the nation. a way of coming to their parish "The Ibishops of New York," priest with personal problems,"' the resolution stated, "at a proIn March, the National Labor vincial meeting' in Syracuse exRelations Board ruled that Farah pressed their grave concern over violated federal law by dischargthe issues of social justice which ing employes anq changing work have risen in the labor dispute rules to hinder union activities at the Farah Manufacturing at its El Paso plant.

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According to the guidelines approved by Cardinal Medeiros, the Boston archdiocesan personnel board will research parishes to determine which ones are suited for team ministries and which ones should continue in the traditional parish structure.

Profiles of parishes which the cardinal approves for team mine" istries will be sent to the priests of the archdiocese, who may then join in groups of two or more to apply for a team ministry in one of the chosen parishes.

The personnel board will review the team applications and make recommendations to the cardinal concerning which team 01' teams might best fit the needs of a particular parish.

After Cardinal Medeiros assigns . a team to a parish, the team meets with the parishioners and with the parish council. It is up to the team, in consultation with the parish council, to determine how the team members will carry out their ministry in the parish. The team will be appointed for a six-year renewable term.

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'I,n' Thing to Do ,Is Raise Your Own .Vegetables" ,By Joe and Marilyn' Roderick By'the time this article appears, roses will be in full bloom and for many they bring the gardening year to its apex. There are few flowering plants that have the impact of the rose and those few do not have: the rose's staying power. We have been gradof year generally turns to ually 'reestablishing roses in time "well, my tomato/ plants arc our garden and in so doing looking pretty good" or "with have stuck pretty much with 14 heads to 3:,box we should get

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Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news Items for this column to The- Anchor, P. 0.' 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.

ST. LAWRENCE, NEW BEDFORD The Flea Market will be held this Saturday at HolY Family Grammar School from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Articles may still be brought in or will be picked up if donors call the Rectory.

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Knights of the Altar will be installed at 5 P.M. Mass Sunday, June 17. A reception 'for the altar boys and their parents will follow in the church hall.

The Knighs of Columbus Communion Supper will be hel~ after the 5:30 Mass on Saturday evening, June 16 at the K. of C. Hall.

Members and their guests are asked to make' reservations early.

The Knights of Columbus will hold a Golf tournament Sunday, June 17.

tJie AARS, ro'ses for the past few a good crop of lettuce out of years. These are roses that have, . those plants."

NURSES' GRANTS: Miss --been picked. by the American I must admit that my thoughts Association Rose Selection Com- don't turn Ito the necessity of Sheila Perry, daught,er of Mr. mittee as top rose for 'their par- planting my own vegetables be- and Mrs.. Edward J. Perry, ticular year. Buying them is a cause Joe and my father-in-law Taunton, is the recilpient of safe bet for most gardeners be- take care of that quite nicely. cause they have proven them· My contribution to the kitchen a $200 scholarship from selves in trial tests in gardens garden this! season was to plant Taunton Catholic Nurses' around the country. basil, oregaro, and lemon balm Guild. A Taunton High Need Care and while these plants appear to School graduate, in SeptemRoses need care if they are to be doing fairly well now, they ber she will enter the Fall prosper and although a great looked pretty sickly at first.

River Diploma School of deal is made of their care (so Nursing, where her sister is Stylish and Economical much so that people are discourMelissa picked a basket of a sophomore. The girls' aged by them) I find whatever · time. I put into them very re- fresh strawberries today,' the mother is also a nUJrse. An- ST. PATRICK, ' warding. First of all, they should ,blackberries' and raspberries are' other Fall River Diploma FALL RIVER ·'be fed with one of the commer- already showing .their· .fonn.

As part of the observance of White radishes are not my fav- School of NUI:sing student, t cial rose fertilizers at least once its centennial year the' parish Miss Patricia Goldrick, was a month from early spring until orite vegetcl:ble, they too ate will sponsor a giant penny sale the beginning of August. I do ready for early picking and fresh, the recipient of a 'second at 8 P.M. Monday, June 18 in this on the firsll of every month, from the ga~den (plus the fact I $200 grant from the Taunton the church hall. Mrs. Robert Re'finishing .on August 1. Feeding don't have to buy them) they'll guild. A $100 grant went to ,gan, chairman, announces that 'should be discontinued then- to make a welcome addition to our Miss Linda Grey, / a sopho- refreshments will be available. allow the, roses to harden off for daily salad. ,While I, wouldn't advocate more at Fitchburg St.ate Col- . · the winter.

ST. PATRICK, Secondly, I spray my roses to that everyone go out and dig up lege.

SOMERSET keep them free of aphids, fungus his or her back yard (this could Services will not he held in and beetles. I recognize that result in all sorts of slipped discs the church Monday, June 18 spraying is controversial but I and pulled muscles if you're not _still feel that spraying is the used to this form cif exercise), Catholic Relief Aids through Saturday, June 23 in 'order to permit installation of .only reasonalble way to ~eep the a few tomat'o plants and cukes African Countriies new walls and a ceiling. There rose insect free. There are com- will'no~only put you in the "in" NEW YORK (NC)-As fam- will be no, vigil Mass Saturday, mercial preparations available crowd at parties, it could also ine conditions worsen every day June 23, and Masses will be rethat serve as all-purpose sprays help the grotery bill. in six countries of sub..Saharan sumed at regular hours Sunc;lay, and are suitable for roses (for Every Sunday morning we end Africa, because 'of a disastrously instance, a ,general fruit tree up at my mother-in-Iaw's house long drought, Catholic: Relief June 24. spray may be used effectively). for a late breakfast. On many of Services, overseas aid agency of ST. MARGARET, Without spraying or at least con-, these mornirtgs she has home- U. S. Catholics; has organized ;BUZZARDS BAY, , stant attention to insects, there baked goodies and the following food distribution programs in The parish will hold a cake is little point in growing roses. recipe is one' the children really Senegal, Mauritania and Upper sale Saturday, July 14 with Mrs. , Nothing is so upsetting as to see enjoy.

Volta. .rohn Gray as chairlady. St. .a rose infested with insects.

A multi-year drought in Mau- Mary's mission, Onset, will hold Cinnamon Bowknots In the Kitchen ritania, S~negal, Mali, Upper Vol- a similar sale· Saturday, Aug. 11, 1 cup milk With lettuce selling at 75c a ta, Niger and Chad, threatens with Mrs. Roderick McGinnis % ,cup ,shortening head and tomatoes 25c each: it's millions of hungry peop,le. In Sen-' ~. and Mrs. George Reid in charge. % cup sugar no wonder that everyone wants egal the food crops ~re reported .' SS. Margaret-Mary Guild has 1 teaspoon, salt to become a gentleman farmer. to h~ve. been c~t .m half. In suspended regular meetings for 2 eggs The Victory gardens of the forMaurltama nnd NIger more than the 'summer with the first' fall 4Y2 cups all purpose flour ties suddenly look good once ,two m.iIIion cattle have died arid meeting' slated for Wednesday, 1 envelope I ,yeast / again and no matter where one there IS talk of governments be- Sept. 12. A luncheon is planned Y2 cup water goes the conversation at this ginning ~ vast air~ift to get the for 1 P.M.' Wednesday, June 20 Y2 cup butter or margarine fo.od whIch America and. co~n. at Dolphin Inn, Taylor's Point.

2 cups sugar trIes of Europe are contnbutmg Tickets are availalble from Faith 2 teaspoonS cinnamon Fears Government Finnerty or Julie McCormiok., 1) Scald the milk, add short- to the rural areas.

Family PI.anning Role ening, sugar, and ,salt, and !?et· CRS has conducted and superOfficers for the coming year vised food programs in Senegal have been announced as Faith WASHINGTON (NC)-A Cath- aside to cool. ' , olic official has advised the U. S. 2) When cool add the eggs and Mauritania since 1961 and Finnerty, president; Mary Mcgovernment not to push the and one cup of flour. Beat until in Upper Volta since 1962. A Manus, vice-president; Grace panic button in its deliberations smooth. ~' . total of 171,000 tons of food Murray and Mrs. Doris Lakin, to extend and revise the Family 3) Add yeast which- has been va'lued at $20.2 miIlioll have secretaries; Mrs. Frank Bowen, Planning and' Popula'tion Re- dissolved in the Y2 cup of water. heen disttil>uted to the popula- treasurer; Doris Bunney, publicsearch Act of 1970.

Bea't well, add remainder of tion of the three countries in- ity.

Msgr. James T. McHugh, di- flour and mix ~o a smooth dough. volved since the institution of rector of the Family Life Division, ST. WILLIAM, 4) Lightly grease top of dough, the pJ:Ograms.

U. S. Catholic Conference, ex- cover and allow to rise until FALL RIVER pressed these feelings in testi- double in ,bulk. Punch down New Women's Guild officers, mony before the SenaJte Subcom- dough, cover' and place in reinstalled in ceremonies presided Reorient Progralms miJttee on Human Resources. frigerator to chill (this recipe LIMA (NC) - Followers of St. over by Msgr. Raymond Consi"Government should assist cou- is so old at this point it says ice Martin de POITes, "Peru's wonder dine, are Mrs. Oscar Granito, ples in achieving their goals, box). worker," are holding an inter- president; Mrs. John Synnott, rather than pose an external 5) Roll out into' rectangle, just American mE~eting here ·ill Aug- vice-president; Mrs. . Thomas norm to which couples are ex- as thick as your pie dough. Cut ust to reorganize their programs Callahan, treasurer; Mrs. Paul pected to conform," he 5aid into strips and tie into bow for the poor. The St. Malrtin de Batchelder, secretary.

"To put it bluntly, we have shape.

The- unit has scheduled a day Porres brotherhoods in Colombia, had quiJte enough of Ithe crisis 6) Dip into melted shortening, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Ven- trip to Provincetown for Sunday, rhetorUc ·that is calculated to and then in cinnamon and sugar. ezuela are participating in the July 22. Buses will leave the idealize the two-child family, to Place on greased cookie sheet congress whi<:h, according to' or- church parking lot at 9 A.M. and the disadvantage of families of and hake in 350· oven about ganizers, will also review youth reservations may be made with more than two children."

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ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO The Women's Guild will hold its annual installation banquet at Sandy's restaurant following 6:30 P.M. Mass Tuesday, June 19.

Reservation's, closing tomorrow, may be made with Mrs. Julien Forget.

The parish will hold its second annual summer festival the weekend of July 26 through 28. Volunteers are now making plans for the event. .

Parish Cubs and Boy Scouts have received the national Pope Paul VI Recognition Award for their religious program in Scouting. The units are tiWo of only four in the diocese to have received this honor.

Parishioners will attend a Boston Pops concert in Providence Sunday, June 17, with busses leaving the schoolyard at 6 P.M. Knights of the Altar will attend a Pawtucket Red Sox game Saturday, June 16, with departure from the schoolyard at 6:30 P.M. The adult choir will meet fo~ a concelebrated Mass, followed by refreshments, at 7:30 _tomorrow night.

Girl Scouts of the parish are in need of volunteer leaders.

Information is available from Anita Duphily or Gert Laferriere.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will hold its installatio'n banquet at 6 P.M. Sunday, June 17 at Valle's restaurant.

The Holy Rosary Sodality will sponsor a penny 'sale at 7 Friday night, June 22 in ~he church hall.

ST. JULIE, NORTH DARTMOUTH The fourth annual Street Fair and Auction sponsored by the Ladie~' Guild will take place on the church grounds on Slocum Road from 10 A.M. through the evening hours Saturday, June 23.

Offered wiil .be clowns, games, prizes, balloons and refreshments as well as 21 !Specialty booths, ranging from a 4-H Club exhibit to home-baked delicacies.

A flower table will feature terrariums, antiqued fruit baskets, planted apothecary jars, dried flower arrangements and shrubbery and flats for outdoor planting.

Afghans, shawl;s, halter tops and knit pocketbooks will be found on a handknits table, while the sewing booth will include long skirts, pants, smocks for teens and tots, quilts, aprons, potholders, laundry bags and other handmade articles. , A Christmas table will offer tree ornaments, angels, decorated soaps and pinecone arra'ngements.

Also available will be candy, book, white elephant, teen, toy, and children's tables, in addition to a barn filled with rummage.

A midway will feature adult and children's games.

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In their search for visible justice within the Church itself, the Bishops lay special emphasis on the role of women. They make up, after all, at least half of the Church's membership. But at no level, from parish to curia, do they carry much official weight In such a social setting, thc in the community of which taboos against feminine activity they are supposedly respon- or authority in any community sible members. In the Syno- were strong. Yet Christ himself

dal Documents, the Bishops call for them to achieve "their own share of responsibility and par· ticipation" both in society and

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the Church. Equally. they recognize that the task of defining women's role is very far from. straightforward. In fact, they have asked a competent mixed commission of religious and lay people to consider the whole issue.

The problem is complex because principle and practice can lie very far apart where women are concerned and practice varies astonishingly from epoch to epoch and from culture to culture. For Christians the prin· ciple is quite clear. Men and women as children of God enjoy perfect metaphyical equality.

In Christ's mystical body there is "neither Jew nor Greek, nei· ther male nor female, neither bond nor free." All are one in Christ. The ultimate dignity of the human creature-union with God-is equally open to all his children and from the Church's origins, sanctity, the hallmark of union, has been achieved by men and women alike.

Transcends Sex The flowering of holiness over two millennia' has raised to the altars of the Church male and female saints, in every category -professed .,religious, conternplatives, missionaries, lay people.

The most precious (Jf all God's creatures, his',mother, has been called by theQlogians the MediaIrix of all gra£e. And in the pro· found mystery of the Trinity, the Godhead itself transcends all limitations of "sex.

The principle is thus clear. But the Church as a human community, is plunged in time ana reflects the attitudes and possi bilities of passing ages. The early Church evolved in the Graeco·Roman world of the East· ern Mediterranean where nomad· ic pastoral conquerors from the North had suppressed the earlier fertility religions in which women had held the r(Jle of priestess and played a dominant part in the farming communities of neolithic society. .

Vestiges of the earlier culture remained in the goddesses, of classical tradition - Demeter, goddess of the harvests, Diana, goddess of the chase. But the conquerors had set up a society of male authority and women led a subordinate and domestic life with the -bearing and rearing of children-a hazardous, life-con· suming vocation-as their chief responsibility.

seems to have broken many of them. He met with women freely and talked with them. He forgave and honored Mary Magda· len. He revealed his divinity to the woman of Samaria and later to Martha. He went out of his way to cure an "untouchablc" menstruous woman.

'Women Remained It was a group of women who stood at the foot of the Cross when all others had fled. One of the earliest witnesses to his resurrection was Magdalen weeping in the garden. Women come and go through the Gospels with the ease and naturalness of those who truly belong. But they were not official disciples nor chosen to be among the Twelve.

In the development of ChrisBISHOP'S DAY: Holy Name School, Fall River, is site for annual Bishop's Day protianity since those early days in gram sponsored by Diocesan Guild for Blind. From left, Rev. Brian Harrington, diocesan Jerusalem, we can perhaps say and Taunton area moderator for blind; Carol Nerney, Sacred Heart parish, North Attlethat the principle of equality and inherited practice of the old Ro· boro; Bishop Cronin; Dennis Polselli, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; Mrs. Francis Mcman world have acted and reo Grath; Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Fall River area moderator. acted upon each other to produce, on the one hand,(the stead· iest growth in responSibility and autonomy for women in any post·Neolithicculture, but at the BOSTON (NC)-Cardinal Hum- lowing Sunday, the cardinal en- Supreme C(Jurt decision limiting same time, a steady continuance berto Medeiros of Boston has couraged Catholics to write or restrictions on abortion, large of traditional restraints.

In Western society, as in most urged the nearly two million phone their representatives in numbers of expectant mothers others, the division of responsi- Catholics in the archdiocese to the Massachusetts House of Rep- will be seeking a-bortions in the bility in society has allotted most support legislation protecting resentatives to express support future "and this demand will of the domestic work to women professional persons who do not for a bill providing such protec- place pressures on. hospitals and -the rearing of families, the car· want to become involved in tion that was to be debated on clinics to provi<!e abortion services as means of preventing ing for the home-and most of abortions, sterilizations or con· June 5.

"This pl'Oposal, if enacted," pregnancy." the public responsibility to men. traceptive services.

In a 'letter read at Masses for Cardinal Medeiros said, "would It could ,be seen as a social reo The cardinal said the pressures flection of a biological fact-that Ascension Thursday and the f'Ol- respect the religious and moral are being exerted "without any conscience of doctors, nurses regard to the moral convictions women bear and nurse the chilo and technicians and would give and religious consciences of the dren and also lack the physique for some heavier forms of work. ' ally possible. The Church's tra- to each hospital the right to es- professional ,personnel and has· But the Church's basic teach- dition of metaphysical equality, tablish its own policy and to de- pitals that are expected to proing of equality has also steadily whether it wears a humanist or . termine, for religious or moral vide these services." modified this picture of physic· a Christian face, is the spur to reasons, not to become involved Without protective legislation, ally subordinate women fulfilling examine what this new role can in abortion, sterilization or con· Cardinal Medeiros warned, traception and this without biologically determined tasks. By be.

AND penalty or the danger of legal "DOCTORS, NURSES offering the religious vocation This is -the challenge which the harassment." MEDICAL TECHNICIANS WILL and, in the Middle Ages, giving The cardinal predicted that, BE HARASSED WITH LAW professed women at the head of Bishops have set to the Commis· convents the equivalent status of sion of Enquiry. In modern in· as a result of the recent U. S. SUITS FOR THEIR REFUSAL TO PROVIDE THESE ELECTIVE abbots (and even bishops) some- dustrial society, in a world which AND NON·ESSENTIAL SERtimes with direct access to the may soon contain seven billion Dissatisfaction in lives which may last people, VICES. In addition, there will be Pope, tire Church gave women All our discontents spring the possibilities of being penalwhat 40 years beyond maternity, the freedom of. their highest vofrom the want of thankfulness ized or discriminated against becation-sanctity-and by doing are woman's responsibilities-in in the world? the Church and cause of such refusal." for what we have.-Defoe so, subtly' ended the concept of biological sex as an ultimate de· terminant of status. It is no coincidence that Western society, Protect your home while away ! with its roots in the Church, is also the culture in which the idea of female emancipation has been most steadily developed.

Cardinal Urges Conscience Bill Support

Two Chahges In the last hundred years, two external changes have modified traditional approaches to wom· an's place in society. One is the industrial machine which greatly modifies the need for physical strength in work. The other and greater is the revolution in health which lessens the perils of child· birth, creates the desire for smaller families-since more children safely arrive-and allows more women to reach old age.

Years and years of female life are thus no longer compelled to be exclusively domestic. A wider role for women becomes physic-

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KNOW YOUR FAITH .Hindu Reverence For Life

The Hindu Religion

Recently some friends of mine returned f~om a trip to India.

They had taken many photographs during their travels and had put together a slide show.

I spent a delightful evening with them viewing their slides and listening to their impressions of life in India.

The religion of Hinduism be· gan to take shape. more than 3,500 years ago when Aryan peo· pie invaded the Indian subcontinent and brough,t with th'em their sacred lore known" as the Vedas, The various parts of the Vedas, especially the Up'anishads, com· " prise the scriptures of this, the oldest major religion, '

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I was struck by the number of slides which in'cluded cows wandering around freely in cities as welI as rural villages, My friends had strong reactions to the cow's, ,quite different .feelings from the respect the Indians showed these

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"fhe 'word "Hindu" is simply a Persian word for the geographical region known as India. Rei· atively few people follow the Hindu way outside of India itself 'but this religion commands the allegiance of about 85 per c~ent of those' living in modern India.

Belief in reincarnation or the transmigration of souls is taken for granted in Hinduism. Each soul (Atman) passes through an endless series of births, deaths, and reincarnat.ions. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam man is born and dies only once.

Closely tied to belief in reincartion is belief in the law of' karma. This law of karma means that everyone reaps what he sows. If not in this life then in the next. If he encounters pocn health, poverty, personal tragedy in this life it is explained as the penalty for evil deeds in a previous existence. According to karma everyone gets what he deserves.

The Valley. of the Jordan To an astronaut looking down on the Middle East .it must appear as if' some giant hand had taken an enormous meat cleaver and brought it down just east of the Mediterranean Sea. The result was the great Rift VaHey, through which flows the Jordan River.

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Caste System The rift, the result of a violent earthquake, begins north of Palestine where it divided a gr~at mountain range into two ranges.

Another aspect of ,Hinduism, related to both reincarnation and karma, has been the caste system, Hindu society is divided into four main castes and as many as 2,000 subcastes.

Highest of the four castes is that of the Brahmins, who are the intellectuals and rulers. Then come the warriors, the mer· chants and farmers, and finally the workers. Even below the lowest caste are the millions of "outcastes" or untouchables.

Membership in a particular caste has ,determined social status, choice of a marriage partner, occupation, eating, habits, dress, and religious practices.

Gandhi took up the cause of t.he untouchables· and called them "harijans" or "children of God." The new Indian constitution abolishes the untouchability but ~iscrimination has not been completely eliminated any' more than it has in the United States.

Viewing Hinduism as the religion of some 450 million people, we can distinguish between the folk religion of the' Indian masses and the Hinduism of the educated' and sophisticated elite.

The latter may see, Br~hman as

animals. For the Hindus of India cows are not raised for milk or beef, but are considered sacred.

Although perhaps puzzling to' tourists like my friends, the sacred cows symbolize one of the profoundest Hindu beliefs, They are a constant reminder of the sacredness of alI living beings.

Protection of sacred cows is to the Hindu an expression of the principle of non-violence ahimsa based on reverence for every form of life.

The great fighter for Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi, described the chaHenging Hindu ideal symbolized by the sacred cows. "Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow, The cow is merely a type for aH that lives."

"Cow protection means prot~ction of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf. Man becomes then not the lord and Turn to Page Eighteen

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Rama or Krishna or some other god. . ~hief ~ttiudes The Hindu passes through fourBrahman's chief attributes are see'n through th~ main trinity of stages of life. The young man is Brahma the creator, Vishnu. the initiated into the religion and represerver, and Shiva the destroy- ceives the sacred thread; he beer, Other aspects of the godhead gins his spiritual journey under are exemplified ,by literalIy mil- the .guidance. of a teacher or lions pf other gods. Some edu- guru. Next come the years of cated Hindus embrace a form of marriage and family, career, and pantheism while others see some commuryity life. distinction between the individ·.

In the third stage, the Hindu ual soul and Bra,hman. ' enters a period of detachment in The average ,Indian peasant, which the former goals of pleahowever, is likely to folIow a sure, worldly success, and duty form of polytheism. Among alI are left behind to pursue the goal the gods he will' choose one as of liberation from the limitations pat.ron and cultivate devotions to of life. In the fourth stage the this god, It might be Vishnu or Turn to Page Seventeen

Today they are called the Lebanon and Antilebanon mountains.

The cleft in the earth's surface extends south, cradling, the Sea of Galilee (675 feet below sea level), the Jordan River and the Dead Sea which at 1,300 feet below sea level is 'the lowest point on the earth's surface.

South of the Dead Sea the depression is called the Arabah and continues to the Red Sea where it creates a finger of the sea known as the Gulf of Awaba.

At the northernmost point of the Holy Land in the land of Dan s.tands the majestic Mount Hermon, a 9,100 foot peak in the Antilebanon range. The Arabs have given the mountain the name of "sheik" because of its year-round ~now cap that re~ sembles a keffiyeh, the white Turn to Page Eighteen

A Family Affair months ago. They planned our 11:15 Sunday Mass and each member of the family took an active part in it.

The Galizias, like 60 other parishioners, had earlier volunteered for this task during a . mini-survey taken at homily time in all the Masses on a summer, weekend. We then assigned a specific Sunday to them and our two Sisters of St. Joseph....,...pari~h helpers-called at the home a few weeks in advance.

A . theme of Baptism, death and resurrection had already been developed for that day. The nuns described this to them, supplied booklets containing the But now that this barber is in Mass texts, and outlined some training for a first try at the possibilities for creative involveBos:on marathon race, he runs ment on the family's part. They alone. returned just before the big ocNancy and Sam, with their casion to check details and finalfive children, did wo~k together ize the program. on a common project several Turn to Page Seventeen Sam Galizia cuts hair for a living and jogs as a hobby. In the wee hours of the morning his attractive wife, Nancy, sometimes joins him on the daily run around Fulton and out into the country.

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Hindu Religion Continued from Page Sixteen Hindu' prepares himself for passage to the next life.

. A Benedictine abbot remarked to me recently that he fmally showed up at an abbots' meeting in a sports jacket (borrowed). For a number of years he had been the only man at the meeting in a black suit and finally began to' feel" out of place. He was somewhat dismayed to walk into that priests and nuns had to be the room in his jaunty phiid different from everyone elseand being different meant lookcoat only to discover that ing different. (How could one be everyone else was wearing a habit.

On some Catholic campuses the younger .clergy now teach

Daily Routine To achieve the desired liber· ation the Hindu employs the various techniques of yoga which means "yoking of the mind to God." These techniques range from those which rely on ppsture and controlled breathing to those which emphasize meditation.

A member of the Brahmin castes follows a daily routine of ceremonial bathing, prayers, sac· rifice, and visits to the temple.

Marriages are usually arranged hy the parents; bride and groom may not even meet before the wedding ceremony.

Hinduism is unusually toler· ant of other religious beliefs.

Many Hindus such as Gandhi have expressed their admiration for Jesus an~ the Sermon on the Mount . without acknowledging the Christian belief in his divino ity.

The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council praised many aspects of Hinduism: ". . .in Hinduism men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an unspent fruitfulness of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek release from the anguish of our condition through ascetical prac· tices or deep meditation or a loving, trusting flight toward God."

different unlelis one looked dif· ferent? After al1, books are to bc judged hy· their covers, aren't they?)

Preently the conventional wis· dom says that priests and religious should be just like everyone else, so they should look just By like everyone else. (And the book is still being judged by its cover.)

REV. This conventional wisdom was . once dissident and revolutionary: ANDREW M. it has succeeded, and like al1 successful revolutions, it must GREELEY now face dissent from those who succeed it. The young priest or religious who wants to look difFAMILY AfFAIR: "Nancy and Sam (Galizia), howclass not only in Roman col1ars ferent from other people, who wants to put on a guru suit, is as with their five children, ... planned our 11:15 A.M. ever, but in cassocks. The students much a: rebel against the previ· Sunday Mass and each member of the family took an acthink it's great..

The chaplain at a secular uni- ous generation as it was against ,tive part in it." Father Joseph Champlin of Holy Family . versity tel1s me that a number its predecessors.

Parish in Fulton, N.Y., talks with Sam Galizia and his But is it al1 a mindless return of the young women who are family during the Kiss of Peace at the liturgy plamled by graduating this year are going to the past? Have we made no ' into the religious orders that progress at all? My own guess is the Galizia family. NC Photo. that some of those who are so wear traditional garb.

And last of al1, I am told that eager to don the habit now are ~ in some seminaries the biretta is as shal10w as those who were so eager to get rid of it ten years in fashion once again.

Continued from P!lge Sixteen a series of Ge'neral Intercessions. ago. In both cases there was lit· At the proper moment she walkLiberals Are Furious tie understanding of the role in Nancy, an artistic' individual human life of sacred persons or who works wel1 with needle and ed to the sanctuary, stood next Not only are young Jesuits of sacred symbols. to the celebrant and read these Catholic Newspaper thread, made a new altar cloth petitions as he held the micro· digging out of mothbal1s the of polyester material for the phone. She then joined the fam· Opposes Boxing iIl~fitting, green-tinged cS;~socks . ReligiC?u~ S~bolism., ; CARAS (NC) - The Catholic event and a banner illustrating of yesteryear, they are also tryAs Langdon Gilkey says in his the various Mass themes. Thus, ily as they returned to the daily La Religion called for an ing to probe deeply into the church's rear, took the wine, spiritual theology of Ignatius of article in the current issue of white for Baptism; a purnle cr"'ss water, altar bread, monies and end to boxing matches in Venezuela as the third vi~tim of the Loyola. Having thrown out most Concilium, the purpose of. reli.· for Lent; black background for brought them forward to the season, 22·year-old boxer Anof our traditions in the middle gious symbols is to remind us death; figures with joined hands altar. tonio Colina, lay dead in a city 1960s, we are now somewhat that the holy is in us and that for the family participation; After Communion it was hospital. our lives are symbols of the holy. green sheaves for a spring sheepishily trying to rediscover Melanie's turn. A freshman in "Two men beating each other Who and what a person is is a Easter resurrection. them. the local high school, she read t.o entertain the public cannot far more effective symbol than Some middle-aging Catholic The Mass was in many ways a. a thanksgiving poem her great-· make a true contribution to liberals are furious. It is a "turn- a veil or a Roman col1ar, still typical family affair. The unexgrand mother had written some sports," the daily wrote. they are useful external signs; ing to the right," a "conservative pected happened, some things years before.

For several years La Religion they are quick, shorthand ways trend," an "attempt to recapture went wrong, we forgot to care has banned advertising and all of reminding people of the escha· the past," or simply a "sel1-out."

Two others, however, stole the publicity of boxing events. It for several details. Yet its warm, I'm not so sure. Undoubtedly tological reality that breaks human quality touched many show (a bad phrase in this consaid Christian moralists have ob· there is a strain in the Pentecos- through to the world in religious .and certainly will not be soon text). Jennifer (age 3) found it jected to boxing because of its symbolism and in the symbolism tal-fundamentalist component of necessary to visit the bathroom high risk of permanent damage. . forgotten by the Galizias. of human life.

The cleric and the American Catholicism just now . in the middle of Mass. "Right to reconstruct past forms, as religious shouldn't be like every· The entire family walked in - now," she shouted to her emin the Chrisone else, but then though one could undo the last the entrance procession with barassed sister. decade of history by pretending tian scheme of things no one four members carrying the altar New p'hone Numbers should be like anyone else.

We Peter, an active, uninhibited it never happened and as though candles.

First rriistake: we neone could write off al1 the uncer- should al1 be symbols. of .the glected to tel1 the bearers where fourth grader was serving as a 679-5262 holy. partner for his brother at the tainties of the present by recre· these tapers should be placed At least some of those who are 679-5263 altar for the first time on a Sunating the form of the much more reexamining the past may-not be or what to do aferwards. Result; day. His presence everywhere certain world of· before the 679-5264 immature or reactionary at all. some momentary confusion. at the wrong time, but always Council. Habits, cassocks, birettas, benediction, retreats, the They may be displaying the first Eighth ,grader Sam, as one with a smile for the congregarosary-al1 of these can easily signs of wisdom; they may have altar boy, Ibore the processional tion proved that this liturgy; become a little more than a flight. discovered that our predecessors cross with Nancy's handsome while family planned, was not from the ambiguous and confus· were not al1 howling savages or banner draped over it. Second overrehearsed. It had the human ing realities of the present mo- superstitious barbarians, that , mistake: we left this matter to characteristics of a home celeFALL RIVER there may have been truths and ment. the last minute and couldn't lo- bration. insights and understandings in cate a suitable standard for the' the past that we have lost. They Return to Past? large cloth work of art. Result: may have discovered that we are But they -don't have to be. not the hinge of history, that the improvisation and a mid-Mass What my middle·aging liberal human race did not come out of adjustment - moving the altar friends fail to understand is that the trees in 1960 and that cross to a forward position for a' young woman to want 'to great traditions cannot and where this banner could be clearwear a religious habit and a should not be written off with a ly ·seen. young man to. want to wear a flip of the page.

All Participate cassock represents a revolt It may be that some of those against what has become the es· Eventual1y the family found taplished wisdom. There was a who are exploring the traditional its place in the front pews. At • BANQUETS • WEDDINGS • PARTIES time when official truth said have reached that stage of wis- the liturgy of the Word, husband dom where they realize that it and wife stepped to the lectern • CPMMUNION BREAKFASTS is not necessary to throw the with Nancy handling the first Opinion baby out with the bath water. scriptural passage (and comFALL RIVER 1343 !'LEASANT STREET Opinion is something wherein Such insight would be a terrible ments), Sam the second.

I go about to give reasons why affront, of course, to my middle673·7780 al1 the world should think as I aging liberal friends.

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Extensive 'Surface, Little Depth in Mcinerny Novel . In The Priest (Harper and Row, 49 E. 33rd St., New York, N.Y. 10016. $8.95), Ralph McInerny has written a macro-novel which attempts to present a microcosm of the Church in .the years since Vatican III The book is more ambitious than successful.· The scene is Fort Elbow, tle depth. It is overloaded with Ohio, a See city. Fr. Frank description,' much of it serving no purpose and having a deadAscue, 28, is returning there ening effect. It is competently after three years of graduate study in Rome. Everyone expects that he will be appointed professor of mora~ theology at the

-written, but seldom quickencrl by genuine art. There are satiric touches which sometimes work out, sometimes conk out.

Dark and Distant The novelist's art is better exemplified on Terence de Vere White's The Distance and the Dark (Gambit, 53 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 02108: $6.95), yet this time out the accomplished Mr. White performs disappointingly. ~ As. usual, ,the setting is his native Ireland. The setting is, roughly. the present, and the agony in the North is background to ¢verything that hap-pens in his section of the South. . Evergard Harvey, aged 50, is Anglo-Irish~'< a member of the gentry. He is handsome and prosperous, devoted to his ancestral acres in County Meth. He. takes a balanced view of the contention in and about ·'Ulster.

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local seminary. But the bishop, who dotes on doing the unexpected and even the inappropriate, sends him to a city parish.

The pastor there spends a lot of time looking at census cards and television. The other assis. tant spends a lot of time as a ham radio operator. Ascue busies himself with. parish visitation and plans a summer program for the children.

His.enthuiastic collahorator in Ihis scheme is Sister Eloise, a with-it nun . .volunteer help is to he recruited by Father Philip Aullard, who is in charge of the Catholic center at the local university.

Sane Progressive Bullard has graduated from clerical 'garb and mouths ultraliberal jargon. He has been having an affair with a non-Catholic girl. Critical of him is Arthur Rupp, a wealthy businessman who heads a group of militant ultraconservative Catholics. Rupp asks Ascue to have a word with his beautiful daughter, Sheila, an airline stewardess who is having an affair with a .divorced man. . Ascue is not ultra-anything; he may be fairly ,.<Iescribedas a sane, responsible progressive.

But he finds himself in the midst of contending .'lextremists and hectic developm~nts.

There is, for example, Iiturgical change, as·.1 well as peace demonstrations, 'ihe birth control contro,:,ersy, the politics of a priests' senate, fhe debate about clerical celibacy. a seminary crisis. These and many more come to a boil in the 531 pages of this novel.

Mammoth Cast The cast of characters is mammoth: .young and old, lay and clerical, chaste and. unchaste.

There is even a Catholic editor, who is something of a fake, or at least a poseur. His ethics are not the Ibest. The' plotting and. subplotting are intricate.

All that happens contributes' to the quick maturing of Father Ascue. Thwarted and disappointed, battered by others, making honest mistakes, bewildered' and tempted, he comes rather' sadly to terms with his vocation and circumstances.

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But the marriage has not been a success. Sally, the second wife, proves to be 'feather-brained, utterly self!sh, snob and a bigot.

She detests, everything and everyone not English or AngloIrish.

She cannot :see why, for exampIe, her husbilnd is on friendly terms with the likes of Maurice McCarthy, a:' young Catholic workman, and why he is concerned about McCarthy's trouble with the local, representatives of a sinister, clandestine organization engaged in violence intended to <Irive ~ne. British out of Ireland.

The concer" for McCarthy's trouble eventually ruins, then ends, Harvey's life. How that comes about is the substance of Mr. White's sltory.

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OSTERVILLE: The Pilgrim Virgin of Cape Cod is honored as statue of Our Lady of Fatima is enshrined for week stay at Our Lady of Assumption parish, Osterville.

From left, Rev. Elmeric Dubois, M.S., Manuel Couto, Mrs. Maebeth C. Leary, Sister Marie, R.S.M., Sister Franees Joseph Leary. Statue will be in other Cape parishes and in homes in succeeding ·weeks. .

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Hindu Reverence For Life Continued from Page Sixteen master of all creation but he is its servant. The cow to me is a sermon on pity."

Non-Violence The Hindu ideal of reverence for all life is translated into nonviolent actions as diverse as abstaining from meat (lest an animal be killed) and the non-violent strategies of civil disobedience designed by Gandhi. The profound Hindu motivation for reverence receives a va.riety of inter,pretations, depending on the theological sophistication of the individual Hindu.

For some Hindus reverence for life borders on superstition or is accepted merely as a traditional practice of 'Indian culture. For others Btahman is a personal God who lives in all that has life.

Whatever the variety of theologieal interpretations of Hindu

reverence for -life, Hindu tradition recognizes life as sacred, as mysterious. ·For Hindus like Gandhi, reverence for life, symbolized by the sacred cows, is a central expression of Hindu faith.

Compassion Nourished on the most popular of Hindu scriptures, the BhagavadGita, Gandhi and billions of Hindus accept as guiding princi;Jle the words of Krishna in the Gita: "A man should not h~te any living creature. Let him be friendly and compassionate to ill I."

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Continued from Page Sixteen The name Jordan is· said to mean "'strongly descending," but in the area. headdress so common Mount Hermon is the tradi- its true meaning is obscure. It's tional northern limit of the con- not difficult, however, to underquests of Josua (Jos. 11:17; 12:1; stand how the pop~lar meaning 13:5), and its slopes have pro- developeq. Above the Sea of Galvided ample material for the pen ilee th~ river rushes throt.Jgh a of psalmists (Ps. 42:7, 133:3; narrow gorge and drops nearly 900 feet in 10 miles. Below the 89:13; 29:6). lake the river descends another River Jordan 600 feet before it empties into From the western side of the the Dead Sea. mountain the Jordan River beThis portion of the river is as gins its journey to the Dead stark as its headwaters are beauSea. It is born of four streams tiful. Father John L. McKenzie fed by heights of the Antilebsays that "the bed of the river itanons, , and its spectacular Vibrant With Wit cascades and torrents are in self is frankly one of the ugliest streams in all nature," One can The story fs told in a series sharp contrast to the lethargic of rather brief episodes, with stream that yields itself to the easily understand the reluctance 'of the leprous Namaan to -bathe frequent shifts from place to Dead Sea after following a serplace, one set of characters to pentine course of .about 250 in its waters. (1 Kgs 5:12) Archeological finds indicate another, aspect to aspect of miles. that the valley was in"terisely culcontemporary Irish life. Tt1e' epi""""'111"":"'11"41)'"'''''<0''1''''1''''''''''''''''"1·111""""""""111","""""'1"1111'1"1 tivated in ancient times but tosodes are !beautifully crafted. day the river valley is almost With a few strokes, Mr. White 'recovery from that coneentraevokes a scene~ probes a person- .tion of emphasis on a single as- useless because its low bed has ality. His· writing is economical pect of what had been an un- made it impractical for irrigation. and vibrant with wit. usually adroit handling of a comThe rift Valley of the Jordan, But there is a slackening of plex theme. that has historically been a bartension as the, book progresses.

-.If the novel does not provide rier rather than a means of comThis is the .result, one judges, of. perfect pleasure, it does offer a munication, nonetheless was a narrowi.ng of Ifocus to Harvey's view of Irish society and of the chosen by God to play an imporrather. implausible infatuation Irish situation from a different tant role in his communication with a friend's 'wife. There is no angle. with man.

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.Pro-Life Groups Plan Me'eting In Detroit Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon will address the dinner meeting of the 1973 National Right to Life Convention on Saturday, June 9, according to the Honorable James L. Ryan, convention chairman.

The convention will be held June 8,9, and 10 in the SheratonCadillac Hotel, Detroit, and will be hosted by Michigan Citizens for Life. Ryan, a Circuit Court Judge in Detroit. is president of the hosting organization.

Senator Hatfield will speak on the anticipated political action process required to achieve a constitutional amendment permitting states to enact legislation concerning abortion-ondemand.

Convention delegates will represent Pro-Life groups throughout the nation, Ryan relates.

General sessions and worksh'op periods will explore citizen programs and safeguarding human rights at all stages of existence.

A notable slate of speakers and panelists froni the legal, medical and ethical disciplines will analyze recent assaults on human rights, including the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Convention will <leal with the very timely questions of proposed euthanasia legislatio'ri, abortion-on-demand 'laws, prenatal genetic identification and, care for the aging.

Judge Ryan stresses the need for concerted citizen action on a nation-wide basis. "We hope this convention will provide a springboard for intensive organization of Pro-Life groups throughout the country," he explains. "Unless we develop a growing awareness on the part of the citizenry, plus have determination to repeal threats to human life whenever they arise, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves."

Reservations for the dinner meeting will be' accepted by the Convention Registration Committee, P. O. Box 900 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48013, telephone 313-641-8884. Attendance fee for the <linner meeting ''is $10 per person; attendance fee for the convention is $25 ~~r person with spouses of regl~trants admitted at no additioHal cost. In order to encourage ~'articipation of younger citizens, "the fee for those under 21 years"bf age will ,be $7.50, according to the registration committee. 'i" , . :1

Xavier Unive~$ity Receives $250,000 CINCINNATI (NC)-The Procter & Gamble Fund will give $250,000 for the support of Xavier University's graduate program in hospital and health administration.

The contribution, to be given in five annual installments of $50,000 each, will finance Xav~ ier's expanded programs to produce more graduates specifically trained in the management of hospitals and health care institutions.

Jesuit Father Paul L. O'Connor, university chancellor, said that the contributions would enable the university to start a program of continuing education for individuals now employed in- hospitals and related organizations, and to start a Procter & Gamble lecture series in the graduate program of hospital administra-

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TRADITIONAL COSTUMES: Men in type costumes worn 400' years ago for Holy Ghost feast on island of St. Michael, Azores, participate in observance at St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River. Manuel F. Sardinha was in charge of celebration.

Rabbi Tanenbaum Lauds Cardinal Shehan BALTIMORE (NC)-A national Jewish leader has credited Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore as being a major force in bettering international JewishChristian relations.

The cardinal, said Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum on a recent visit to Baltimore, played a crucial role in the issuance of the S~cond Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. It was drafted by the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity of which Cardinal Shehan was a member. .., Rabbi Tanenbaum, national director of interreligious affairs of the American Jewish Committee, said that the cardinal had a major role in the drafting of the document and its acceptance by the council Fathers in 1965. Informed sources in Rome at the time also confirmed this.

The rahbi noted in ary interview:"I was in regular contact with him from 1962 to 1965 seeking to address concerns of the Jewish community.

"I will never forget how open, gracious and continuously friendIy he was to the concerns which the late Jacob Blaustein and I brought to him," the rabbi said. ",By his personal authority and influence he was enormously respected." , Humane Decision This respect was instrumental in 1,821 council Fathers voting affirmatively on the proposition that Jews are not to be regarded as cursed by God, said Rabbi Tanenbaum, who was the only Jewish observer at the Second Vatican Council. There were 2,080 Fathers voting.

Rabbi Tanenboum noted the decision was "entirely spiritual and humane," The Vatican docu-

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United' Appeal IRS Withdrawal of Tax Exemption WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a tax exemption appeal

by American United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS).

The 25-year-old organization had qualified as a tax exempt nonprofit corporation since 1950, but in 1969 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue revoked the exemption to contributors on the grounds that AUSCS was devoting an undue proportion of its activities to influencing legislation, in violation of the tax law.

"The withdrawal of tax exemption chills the right of members to contribute" to the AUSCS, said Ed Doerr, educational relations director for the AUSCS. Doerr said the government action constitutes discrimination against small organizations.

Other larger organizations are able to voice their members' viewpoints on public issues more forcefully without losing their tax-exempt status, he said, because the government's criterion for a "substantial portion" of an organization's budget is relative to the size of the budget.

A series of court actions led

to a decision by the U. S. Court of Appeals here last January that AUSCS was entitled to challenge the government's withdrawal of the exemption.

This decision cleared the way for the appeal which the Supreme Court has now agreed to hear. The high court will listen to arguments on the case this fall or winter and will deliver its opinion later.

Doerr told NC News that the 90,OOO-member AUSCS has become more involved in legislative activities since 1969 because it was no longer restricted by. the tax exemption laws.

If the AUSCS wins its case, he said, "conceivably we would have to give up some of our activities or restructure ourselves in some manner."

Doerr said a "substantial chunk" of the organization's annual budg~t of $700,000 goes into the publication of its monthly magazine, Church and State, and another large portsion is used' for court litigation on Church-state issues in various states, for informational programs and for fund-raising.

"After all this, there isn't much left for legislative activities or lobbying, a~yway," he said.

ment, he said, represented an historic turning point in the 1,900-year relationship between Catholics and Jews.

The document said that "Jews should not be presented as repudiated or cursed by God ... "It explained that what happened in Christ's passion "can not be blamed upon all the Jews then living, without distinction, nor upon the Jews of today." It deplored hatred of Jews by any one at any time and called for respect for the Jewish religion.

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ROME (NCr- Thousands of Catholics, :including the mayor of ,Rome, took part in an antiviolence liturgy in the papal cathedral of St. John Lateran to protest a wave of apparently political murders in Rome and elsewhere in Italy.

The "religious and civil manifestation" at St. John's was convoked by Pope Paul's vicar for Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti.

It followed two weeks after two young boY'S died in a bombfire in a Roman apartment. The boys were sons of a neo-fascist leader, Mario Mattei, and apparently had been murdered as a consequence of the killing of a policeman in Milan during a neofascist riot.

Addressing a capacity crowd in St. John's that included Mayor Cielio DMida of Rome, Cardinal Poletti declared: "In the wave of violt'!nce that strikes the population and individuals, we wish-though small and without human resources but trusting that our weak voice may have a wider echo - we wish to say 'enough' to every ex'cess, to all violence and cruelty and to hatred among brothers."

The cardinal warned that "silence in face of the explosion of violence and passions encourages the further imbalance of those devoted to violence."

He added that, as far as "this Rome is concerned, this Christian and civiHzed Rome, we intend today to give an example of brotherly solidarity, of human and supernatural piety which flows from this Lateran basilica, which, since it is th'e cathedral of the Pope, i,s able to give expression to tfue brotherhood of Christians and peoples."

After a recent visit with the cardinal, Rabbi Tanenbaum said: "He was consistently constructive and a positive force in the council. I often think people take for granted this attitude. That's why I wanted to thank him Oppose Restoration again."

During his half-hour talk with Of Death P'enalty the cardinal, Rabbi Tanenbaum, DETROIT (NC)-The board of who was Ihorn in Baltimore but directors of the Michigan Cathis now headquartered in New ,olic Conference has called on York, said they discussed ques- legislators to oppose restoration tions of public morality, abor- o.f the death penalty in this state. tion, right-to-life and "ways to The board said that a return educate and sensitize society- to the death penalty is "a simthe fundamental human values plistic solution and harsh atat stake, the ultimate sanctity." tempt to eradicate problems in The rabbi said he also sup- their complexity." ported aid to non~public schools: "It is clear that the root "We have to find some construc- causes of crime lie within society tive way in accordance with the itself, and their effects will not First Amendment to meet the be eliminated by an act of retrineeds of Catholic and Jewish bution on the part of society," a and Protestant children," board statement said.

He said that the American There is a tendency, the stateJewish Committee has set up a ment continued, to feel that punspecial commission of lawyers ishment for a crime "evens the and tax specialists to explore the score," that society "gets even" possibilities of meeting educa- with criminals, and that the tion needs without violating the death penalty is the only effecConstitution. tive means of combatting crime,"

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. June 14,.J 973.

.We Appeal ToAll lericans of whatever age, race, or creed to join us in endorsing t~efE~nse

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That lU1 unborn child has a right to be born.

That t6e majority of the United States Supreme Court made a tragic, error in saying that the killing bf an unborn child is a fundamental right implicit in the Comititution.

That aOortion "up to seven months" means killing a child up to seven mon~s after life has begun. .That the majority's standard for the protection of life opens the way to the destruction of the sick, the aged - even the merely unwanted citizen: we believe that defenseless human life is life at any ~ge, and must enj~y the protection of our laws.

We believe that· we must begin now to "discover" the rights of the oobom and the ~efenseless just as, Bfter the Dred Scott decision, we IN:gan to "discover" the rights of the black man. We \ask all ~ericans of good will to join us in this declaration.

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