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Faith-Theology Confusion Sows Catechetica I Crisis

"Faith is a total personal response to the word of God speaking through Jesus Christ.

Theology is some smart guy's scientific systematization of his opinion about the matter and how he explains it to himselfif he does."

To help answer this confusion between theology and faith, the An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-5t. Paul cardinal explained, the 1967 Synod of Bishops decided to make the Congregation for the Clergy responsible for drawing Fall River, Massol Thursday, June 15, 1972 up the general catechetical direc24 PRICE 10¢ o 16 ..... .~Oo © 1972 The Anchor $4.110 per year tory, which was published last year. The cardinal noted that under- the new directory the methodology and pedagogy of of catechetics could vary, but in. it "the content of the faith is set forth."

What the directory said about Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, to become chaplain of Sacred Revelation and about the criteria S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, to- Heart Home in New Bedford.

SPRINGFIELD-Father Alfred than 130 speakers will conduct according to which the Christian day confirmed the nominations Rev. Frederick Meyer, SS.CC., McBride, O. Praem., noted au- more than 400 seminars on all message is to be expounded is of pastors, assistants and a chap- presently assistant novice master tbor and lecturer in the field of phases of religious education. "to be held by all-even the lain made by Very Rev. Fintan at Sacred Hearts Novitiate, catechetics, will be the keynote Father McBride is assistant Ph.D;'S," he said.

D. Sheeran, SS.CC., Provincial Wareham, to become assistant speaker at the 26th Annual New professor of religious education Superior of the Sacred Hearts at St. Joseph Parish, Fairhaven. England Congress of Religious at the Catholic University of . Rev. William McClenahan, Education, it was announced this America, in Washington, D.C. Fathers.

Three new pastors, five assist- SS.CC., presently provincial bur- week by Most Rev. Christopher He has been appointed to direct ants and one chaplain have been sar, to become assitant at· Holy J.Weldon, Bishop of the Roman the Religion-teachers Forum renamed to Fairhaven and Cape Redeemer Parish, Chatham.

Catholic Diocese of Springfield. cently established by the Naparishes.

Rev. James Nickel, SS.CC., The Springfield Diocese is tional Catholic Education Assn.

Named are: presently vocation director at host for the covention, which (NeEA).

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Among his writings are "Hu-. S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has Rev. William Davis, SS.CC., Father Damien Seminary, Win- will attract thousands of laity, presently in Rochester, N. Y., to ona, Minn., to become assistant priests and religious to the Am- man Dimensions of Catechetics" announced the Summer placebecome pastor of Holy Trinity at Holy Trinity Parish, West herst campus of the University and "The Pearl and the Seed," ment of deacons of the Diocese.

Harwich. of Massachusetts on the last the latter a highly acclaimed The assignlllents are effective Parish, West Harwich. catechetical textbo'ok for junior today, June 15..

Rev. Robert Nee, SS.CC., com- weekend of August, 1972.

Rev. Jeremiah Casey, SS.CC., presently assistant at St. Mary pleting graduate studies, to beFather McBride's address on high students.· Rev. Mr. Steven R. Furtado He has also contributed many will serve at St. John the BapParish, Fairhaven, to become come assistant at St. Mary Par- • "Man Fully Alive" will officially open the Congress. It will be articles to Catholic periodicals tist, New Bedford. pastor of Sacred Hearts Parish, ish, No. Fairhaven.

Rev. Joachim Shults, presently delivered on Aug. 25, at 10:30 and newspapers, including The No. Fairhaven.

Rev. Mr. Philip J. Higgins is Rev. Matthew Sullivan, SS.CC., pastor of St. Mary, No. Fair-' A.M. in the University of Mas- Catholic Observer, official news- assigned to Holy Name, Fall preseptly assistant at St. Joseph haven, to become assistant at sachusetts' Hicks Physical Edu- paper of the Diocese of Spring- River. field.

Parish, Fairhaven, to become Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, cation Building.

Rev. Mr. Antone A. Pacheco Turn to Page Six In the next 72· hours more pastor of St. Mary Parish, No. Wellfleet. will work at St. Patrick's Parish, Fairhaven.

Wareham.

Rev. Alexis Wygers, SS.CC., Rev. Mr. Horace J. Travassos presently pastor of Sacred will serve in St. Theresa's ParHearts Parish in No. Fairhaven ish, So. Attleboro.

All are theologians at St. John's Seminary, Brighton.

The deacon Summer progratrlc.~ is under the direction of Rev. John J. Smith, Diocesan Director of Vocations. The program is one in which deacons will fulfill their VATICAN CITY (NC) - The work of preaching, baptizing, adsimple tomb of Pope John XXIII ministering Holy Communion, in the gr<>ttoes of St. Peter's and other parish work according Basilica was covered with flowto their office. ers on the ninth anniversary of his death and pilgrims by the thousands overflowed the facilities of his hometown, Sotto II Monte.

All Vatican offices were closed for the day and more than 20 cardinals were among Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney, the thousands to attend a Mass Director of Cathedral Camp, has celebrated in St. Peter's in the announced that an informal represence of Pope Paul VI. union for former staff members -Earlier in the morning Pope will be held on Sunday, June 25.

Paul had celebrated Mass at his The program will open with a predecessor's tomb. The brothsoftball game between present ers of the late Pope, Zaverio and and former staff members and Giuseppe Roncalli, and other will be followed by a tour of the relatives were present for the camp for former workers and early morning Mass. They also counselors to inspect the many attended the anniversary Mass changes that have been made in in St. Peter's at the close of the camp during the recent years. which Pope Paul embraced them.

At 7:30 Father Mullaney will Thousands of pilgrims filed be principal concelebrant of a past Pope John's tomb in the Mass with former directors.

Basilica's grottoes. They piled The evening will conclude up floral tributes \}'hich, over with a social in the Villa lounge the hours, had to be shifted to POPE GREETS PREDECESSOR'S BROTHERS: Pope Paul VI greets Zaverio Ron- and the showing of movies taken make room for new offerings, incalli, brother of the late Pope John XXIII, while another brother, Giuseppe, right, looks over the years at the Diocesan cluding a basket of flowers sent camp. on following service on the ninth anniv~rsary of the death of Pope John.

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LONDON' (NC)-:-The current crisis in catechetics is due to a crisis in culture and to a "perilous confusion" between theology and faith, Cardinal John J. Wright, prefect of the Vatican 'Congregation for the Clergy, told 900 priests, nuns and teachers of the Archdiocese of Southwark here.

The Archdiocese includes the part of London south of the Thames river.

Our present crisis in culture, "one of those great cultural rev-

olutions which occur every four or five hundred years in history," the cardinal' said, is marked by a shift from "liberal arts, intellectual, personal, freewill civilization" to "an automated, technological, scientific, mechanical civilization."

In a special comment for theologians, the cardinal said: "All I'm asking you to do is not replace the fait~ with your theology. .. The faith was revealed by Jesus Christ. Theology was dreamed up by you.

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Sacred Heart Fathers·Make Cape, Fairhaven Changes

Religious Educators' Congress Aug. 25-27

Four Parishes Have Deacons For Summer

Honor Pope John On Anniversary Of Death

Arrange Reunion Of Camp Staff For June 25

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Pope Paul Sees Mankind Moving Toward Peace

NEW YORK (NC)-In a press conference during the meeting of the general board of the National Council of Churches, the general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, said here that the Vatican's decision not to apply for membership in the World Council of Churches in the near future does not reflect a slackening commitment to ecumenism by the Catholic Church. Some WCC staff members had hoped that a Catholic application for membership would come before the next world assembly of the WCC in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1975, but Dr. Blake does not expect such an application to be on the agenda for that assembly.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-In a world torn· by wars and terrorism, Pope Paul VI sees mankind moving toward peace and rejecting violence.

"This hour in history seems disposed toward the easing of tensions and toward reconciliation and peace," the Pope told thousands gathered in St. Peter's S.Quare for his noonda)' blessing.

This optimism, the Pope said, seems to be justified "by the great new shifting in international life."

Although he did not specify what these are, the Pop'e was probably referring to the recent accords between the· United States and the Soviet Union.

The Pope said he took note of these developments "with great satisfiction" because they are a move toward peace.

Another justification for optimism, the Pope said, is the indignant outcry around the world against the recent "tragic and vile episodes of crime and terrorism."

Dr.' Blake indicated that the last three years have been criti~1 ones for all churches and this may have slowed down ecumenical involvement.

Emerging Ideal s Here again, the Pope was not specific, but he doubtless had in mind the tragic incident of terrorism at the .Tel Aviv airport where 29 persons were slain and scores injured. Still another incident he was probably referrfng to was the recent violent death . of three Italian policemen investigating an abandQnl~d car.

A booby-trap bomb went off in the very faces of the policemen and the shock-waves of indignation rocked all of Italy.

"Disdain for such crimes and' misdeeds grows in proportion to the terror they spread and . . . the' ideals of order, humanity, peace and love are emerging," the Pope said.

"The world needs peace," he added, "but peace needs love."

PERMANENT DEACON GIVES COMMUNION TO HIS DAUGHTER: Rev. Mr. Fernando Vega, 37, the father of six, serves' Holy Communion' to his daughter, Ana, after he was ordained a permanent deacon by Bishop Edw~rd A. McCarthy in the CathedraL of SS. Simon Jude in Phoenix. He 'was one of ten ordained by the Arizona bishop.

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New Yorkers Support Ri,g hts of U.,~I:.orn

NEW YORK (NC)-Doctors, religious leaders and welfare 'recipients are among several thousand persons lending support to a Fordham University Ia.w professor's continued bid to test the constitutionality of New York state's 1970 abortion law.

The support, in the form of amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, came in the latest round of Robert M. Byrn's sixmonth court battle to bring the state's liberalized abortion law Necrology tei Ii tellt based on the Bill of Righ'ts guarantee of "right. to JUNE 18 . Rev. James M. Coffey, P.R., life;~' " .

Byrn's latest move came be1935, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton. . foret;he state's Court of Appeals in Albany where he asked for the JUNE 19 Rev. Hormisdas Deslauriers, reve~sal of of a lower court's de1919, .Founder, St. Anthony, New cision. which 'denied his status of . Bedford. guardian for the. unborn.

La~ December, Byrn was IeJUNE 20 gaily. appointed gua.rdian for all . Rev. Msgr. James J. Coyle, unborn infants of less than 24 P.R., LL.I;>., 1931, Pastor, St. weeks gestiltil;ln due to be . Mary, Taunton aborted in New York City's JUNE 21 " . . . muniCipal 'hospitals, Rev: Desiree" V. Delemarrre, In March, the New York City 1926, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Appelate Court ruled that Byrn's Fall River. ' status ali guardian of the unborn was no basis for a court Rev..Francis D. Callahan, 1948,' . test of the state's 1970 abortion Pastor, St. 'Patrick, Wareham. law.

Rev. Clement Gillgoar, SS.CC., .

Public Support 1964, Pastor, St. Anthony, MatThe seven-judge Court of Appeals in Albany, where .the tapoisett. . case now resides, is the highest appeals court in the state. It has . Principle three possible courses of action He who knows. should rule, in the Byrn case: and he who does not know It could uphold the lower apshould obey. -Italian Proverb pelate court's decision, in which case Byrn and his attorneys could appeal to' the U. S.' SuTHE ANCHOR preme Court.

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Dr. Blake met with Pope Paul after an early June meeting of the World Council of Churches-' Vatican working group which discussed the forthcoming Jakarta meeting.)n the course of the conversation Dr. Blake described to the Pope the financial difficulties' of the World Council of Churches' in recent years. The Pontiff, he recalls, smiled knowingly and responded with the Italian equivalent of "Welcome, colleague,"

city' of New York and the state could appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.

It could overturn the decision and thus restore guardianship to Byrn, in which case the city of New York and the State could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It could turn the case back for trial to the Queens County Supreme Court which appointed Byrn guardian to the unborn.

Meanwhile, Byrn has been been picking up public support . through the amicus curiae briefs.

They are "a body representing , every segment of society speaking from their point of view in support of the unborn is right to life," Byrn said..

Referring to a .brief filed. by a group of welfare recipients, social workers, pastors' and other primarily black Citizens of . Brooklyn's', Bedford-Stuyvestant area, Byrn said t;he briefs "are not merely ones. filed. f?r preso

tuJtion Grant Law To 'Aid Students TOPEKA (NC) - A tuition grant bill passed by the s~tate legislature will provide financial aid to needy students at private colleges in Kansas.

The tuition grant program offers assistance to Kansas resi'dents based upon financial nEled.

The student is expected to pro\ vide the first $450 of college costs. Depending on their income and assets parents are expected to supplement this amount as they are able. . The grant is based on the remaining need and is limited to tuition costs and mandatory fees or a maximum of $1,OPO a YE~ar.

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The briefs, Byrn contends, "are popular in their o-rigin reflecting the feelings of a great many people against the 1970 law."

Clear PreSlentation Among those filing briefs were the Association of Doctors and Nurses Against Abortion, representing more than, 3,000 medical personnel from Nl~w York state.

Right-to-life groups throughout New York state ,and' a coalition of' the Cat:!l.olic Lawyers Guild, the Long bland Lutheran Pastors Conferenc,e and the Rabbinical Alliance of America have also filed briefs.

Byrn said he ill delighted by the support his calle has received from th~se and other groups. He said -he was also pleased that the latest hearing in. the Court of Appeals in Albany has offered the opportunity for a "clear and complete presentRltion of the is.sues' of the unborn."· Byi'n's ·case is basEld on three major·cont~ntions:D1edical evidence proves· thaLt the unborn child" is a human being; legal tradition has recognized and protected the unborn 'child when his' health 'or' safety has been threatened; the '1970 New York abortion law has violated' the protections guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution.

Sister Grace Donovan, S.U.S.C., provincial of the Holy' Union Sisters, with headquarters in Fall River, has been elected vicechairman and member of the executive board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Region One. Members of this region include major superiors of 72 religious communities with motherhouses or provincialates in the dioceses of New England.

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Reunification of Ireland Depends On Giving Workers Better' Deal DUBLIN (NC)-The reunification of Northern Ireland with the I'rish Republic in the south depends on the republic's success "in giving the worker and the common man a better democratic deal ,and a more just accession to social, medical and educational opportuniJty," according to Bishop Cathol Brendan Daly of Ardagh and Clonmaconis.

The 54-year-old bishop,who was born ,in Northern Ireland and now heads a diocese in the republic's County Longford,' spoke at the International Clerical Students' Convention held at Milltown Park here.

Much of the criticism by Northern politicians of life in the repubUc ",is part of the political game of words as the Northerners have always played it," Bishop Daly said. "But beneath the broth of words, there is a solid substream of economic and sociJal realism. What the Nor.th. erner most fears in a reunited Ireland is loss of 'the British standard' of living and socia'l services."

The bishop said that "ProtestaO't worker has much more in common with the Catholic worker, and the Northern with the Southern worker, than they have ever been allowed to believe."

The most urgent and only realistic step people in the Irish Republic can now take toward reunification, he said, "is to work to raise our living standards and improve our.social welfare c~e, thereby making more of a reahty of the ideal of a just society." ,Enabling the common man to have a greater voice in his government and a more just share of social, medical and educational opportunities, Bishop Daly went on to say, "will not be done by the magic of incantatory words like Workers' Republic, but by a combination of moral passion, ' political integrity, honesty and intelligence;. professional competence, skill and hard work."

EnUghtened Judgment Less demagogic and emotional language and more political science is needed, Bishop Daly said, in discussing reforms of the republic's 1937 constitution, which Northern Protestants charge

makes the republic a Catholic "theocracy."

The irish people, ,the bishop said, should decide on proposals for constitutional reform in the light of their well-informed and enlightened judgment as to the sort of society and constitution they consider best for them in 'the world of the late 20th century. Decisions should not pe made on th.e basis of hunches about the kind of changes constitutional f'eforms might "bring' in ,the North," he said. Changes made to please someone, he added, usually fail, because they lack sincerity and are unconvincing. '" ~e 1937 ~~nstltutlOn gives specIal recogmtlOn to the Cathohc ~hurch and. ~a~s of ,the rep.ubhc ban. artifiCIal contracepbves and dIvorce.

Bishop Daly said it would be HAPPy QUARTET: Graduatio.n congratulations are naive to think that legislation plays no part in molding moral exchanged by seniors at Holy Family High School, New thinking or is relevant to Chris- Bedford. From left, Raymond Perry, Janet Dee, Deborah tian moral decisions and beAndrews, Susan Cormier. havior.

'Private Morality' "People have, or should have, Christian convictions and a Christian conscience about matRural Life Conference Members ters of social justice, about just wages hours and conditions of Suggest Recy~lil\g Older People work,' employers' and workers' KANSAS CITY (NC) - The leadership and community ser-, rights and obligations, or about the problems of racism," he said. growing problem of older people v:ice.

"But no one would claim that without social services and "Rural communities depend right mora'l decisions and moral health care should receive the heavily on voluntary organizasame concern given to ecological practice in these domains can tions for many community projsafely be lef.t to personal con- problems according to two mem- ects unlike the professional dibers of the Catholic Rural Life science and that men can simply rectors of large cities. Rural ,be ,trusted to be good and to do Conference. 'areas need the time and talents good in these spheres without "In our age of ecology-concern, of their retired members. Retired the help or constraint of law." might we be ·able to devote half persons- need the challenge of Bishop Daly went on to say the energy to recycling human community service." ' that "when people say that the capital, utilizing retired memApproaches of this type, thestate must leave moral decisions bers of society over 40, as sucreport sa:id, have proved successto religious conviction and the cessfully as we appear to be ful in this rural area, with govjudgment of conscience, it is pre- movJng to recycle old newscisely moral decision in the papers, bottles, and cans," the ernmental grants providing the base for job retraining programs, sexual sphere they have in mind. two said in a report. better health care, and socia>! ''The question which cannot The report was prepared by serWces utilizing talents of senbe evaded here, however, is Father Fred J. Barnett, rural life ior citizens. whether sexual moraHty is purely 'private morality' or whether director for the Jefferson City, The report made a plea for it has· an inseparable social di- Mo., diocese and Joseph C. Meis- recognizing the dignity and u,sener, member of the national rural mension. But surely both obserfulness of older people: "Perhaps vation and reflection show that . life board. to show them (other nations) the there are socially vulnerable and The relatively higher accident success of our economy, of our emotionally defenseless persons rates and lack of social servJces democratic society, we will have needing society's protection pre· provided in rural communities to show greater promise that cisely .in the sexua4 sphere." were highlighted in testimony our system of life has more before Congressman William J. meaning for our people throughRandall (D.Mo.), chairman of the out the years of their lives~" Sub-Committee on Special Studies of the House Committee on Government Operations meet· be a solution if we do not re- ing here. discover and proclaim the iriviolable norm the divine and ReferrJng to a nine-county human impertive: Thou shalt not 'area of Missouri where more than 18 per cent of the 'total kill."

Manzini said that terrorists population is over age 65, the are comparatively few in number report recommended programmed but that they have many sup- community. centers to deal with porters, 'even if they can offer the problems of the aged. no solution to the problems "In rural areas, unUke in against which they are protesthighly organized city society, the ing with violence.

The human spirit is sickened community still often looks to by this violence, Manzini said. the older resident for community Speaking of the incident at the Tel Aviv airport, he said that Visits Orthodox the "conscience of mali' remains VATICAN CITY (NC) - The incredulous at the horror, mad- head of the Vatican s.ecretariat ness and cruelty of this premedi- for Promoting Christian Unity is tated extermination of politically in Syria and Soviet Armenia to innocent persons." return visits of Orthodox leadManzini called on all men to ers from those countries to Pope maintain their confidence in "re- Paul VI. Cardinal Jan Willeciprocal tolerance and the ways brands is the guest of the of liberty" to overcome terror- Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Mar Jacob III of Damascus. ism.

Says Violence Calls for ·Return To Divine Law Against Killing VATICAN CITY (NC) - the only solution to the senseless violence of terrorists is a return to the human and divine command placed on man: Thou shalt not' kill, according to' a front· page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Roma~o, by the paper's editor, Raimondo Manzini. .'

Referring to the recent acts' of terrorists on board airplanes and in the airport at Tel Aviv, Israel, Manzini said: "The justification for viol~nce can be discussed (by the terrorists) forever, but there will never

Courage It is an error to suppose that

courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themse~ves, either in imagination or practice.

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$250,OOO'Given To Bangladesh NEW YORK (NC)-Catholic Relief Services has made a $250,000 donation for Bangdalesh relief projects, according to Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of the American Catholic overseas aid and development agency.

In addition to the grant, 4,000 craftsmen's kits, valued at $50,00'0, will be shipped to the countty. The kits are designed to Implement small industry projects for cobblers, carpenters, masons, tailors and other tradesmen.

With this grant, the Catholic agency has now donated $700,000 toward rehabilitation programs in Bangladesh since the formation of that country in December, 1971.

During this ,time over 15,000 tons of aid supplies, valued at nearly $4 million, has also been shipped. The major portion of the cargo has been corrugated iron and aluminiJm roofing for 200,000 family shelters, purchased with funds .from CRS and the U. S. Agency for International Development.

Plan to Revitalize Preaching Ministry WASHINGTON (NC) r - The National Congress on thE! Word of God has announced plans for a meeting this Fall to "revitalize the preaching apostolate as a means of ministering to the current crisis of faith."

Three priests "with impeccable credentials and impressive records in the preaching apostolate" will participate in the Sept. 5-9 meeting here at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the congress announced.

They are Father Pius Leabel, C.P., of the Christian Preaching Conference; Father Joseph M. Connors, S.V.D., founder of the Catholic Homiletic Society; and Father Jude Mead, C.P., general chairman of the Inter-Community Association of Missionaries.

Physics Grant Sister Mary Agnes, O.P. of the faculty of Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, is attending the summer session of the University of Missouri. She is the recipient of a grant in physics.

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Honest Bargaining'. Solution To Farm' Labor Prob~em On Thursday, May 11, the Arizona State Legislature enacted a farm labor bill which 42 nati.onal religious leaders, meeting in Phoenix a few days later, de~/,:i'ibed as ':'grossly unjust ... and an attack on the aspirations of all farm workers in our nastacked election process' tion." The leading daily, is This the only method of union recnewspaper in Tucson has al- ognition allowed by the bill. so characterized the bill as Card ,check elections and ratifia "repressive" measure and has urged that it be repealed, or at least amended, in fairness to the farm workers of Arizona.

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MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS By contrast the only morning paper in Phoenix - which is owned a'nd operated by the publisher of the only afternoon paper in the same city - is strongly~supporting the bill and is trying to palm it off as a g~eat boon to the farm workers. It keeps saying that the bill guarantees farm workers the right to "free elections," whereas Cesar Chavez is said to be opposed to t'he secret, ballot "because the vote could go against him, 'as he well knows."

Undemo~ratic Procedures The truth of the matter is exactly ·the opposite. That. is-to say, Chavez is not opposed to the sEJcret ballot, and the Arizona farm labor bill, far from guaranteeing farm workers the right to free elections, would make it almost impossible' for them to exercise this right. The Farm Workers Union has charged-and I fully agree--that the election procedures provided for -in the bill are completely undemocratic and are clearly designed to deny' seasQnal and migrant farm workers the right to vote: Unless the seasonal worker has worked at' th~ ranch sometime in the preceding calendar year, he is ineligible to vote in an election.

The grower supplies the Board' with the list of eligible voters.

The union is denied access to the workers· both in the fields and in the camp or camp housing prior to the election.

The board has discretion to separate units of temporary and permanent employes so that one election may not cover all the employees on a ranch.

Objectionable Features The procedure established by the bill would taKe eight weeks or more before an election could be held. In most crops it would be impossible for anyone' but the permanent, mostly white, workers to vote. This section particularly discriminates against Chicanos and seasonal workers.

Even if the workers did elect the union to represent them, once the season was over, the bill provides that the grower can move to decertify the union.

The decertification procedure 'is much easier than the procedures established for a certificlltio.n.- '

cation elections 'are not, recognized. ' In addition to its undemocratic election procedures, the Arizona bill is loaded with other objectionable features which, taken together, fully justify the charge that the bHl as a 'whole is re-' pressive and lends support to the Union's d€~mand that it be repealed. ' Major Crisis In summary, the bill effectively denies the workers' right to strike.

Promotes abuses of the nefarious labor-contractors system.

Renders meaningful collective , bargaining almost impossible by permitting a recaJcitrant grower FEEHAN HIGH COMIVIENtCEMENT: Among the 184 seniors receiving diplomas 'at to drag his feet indefinitely in negotiation:; and by explicitly ex- the Attleboro Regional Cooed High School were: Peter Rollins, Patty Parker, Patti McLear cluding from the bargaining and Philip LaPorte. process a number of items which go to the very heart of labormanagement relations in the agricultural industry.

Bans ,secondary boycotts and PHILADELPHIA (NC) -- High demonstration imaginable. Many $200, and that is $200 more than severely, restricts primary boy- school teachers picketed SS. of our parishioners are senior we 'can afford to sacrifice." cotts.

Peter and Paul Cathedral here in citizens, and one thing they cahReilly said that the issue in Subjects farm workers and a dispute with the archdiocese not take is excitement or even the demonstration was prior notheir supporters to criminal over the status of five teachers the possibility, of exdtement.": • tification by the school system sanctions for actions lawful for -and quickly got into another "As a 'result of your 'picket of· 'conditions which' would lead other ,workers and citizens. controversy with ,the cathedral line," Msgr. -Dolan wrot,e, "word to ,layoffs. Reilly said that the The enactment of this bill has pastor. circulated, and a number of our five -lay teachers had been noti'predictably led to a farm-labor Representatives of the teach- parishioners remained home lest fied on June 1 that they would crisis of major proportions in er's union complained that the there be some disturbance. Our not be ·returning to Msgr. Bonner Arizona. I recently spent several five teachers were told they Sunday collection dropped some High School. days in Phoenix trying t(} get the would not have jobs next' year.

A high school spokesman said feel' of this crisis, and I must School officials said that the that Father Francis H. Sevick, , say that I (:ame back to Wash- teachers were told they would Cleveland Teclclhers O.S.A., the principal, had inington rather depressed. get jobs in other schools.

Piicket Chanc"r], formed the teachers that, acI keep asking' myself how the Msgr. James Dolan, the pas,· CLEVELAND (NC)--Represen- cording to the school's ,needs as growers could have been so illtor, objected to pickets lines tatives' of ..the Clevel~md High I now know them," the teachers advised as to start a. civil war at his parish which he called School and Academy Lay Teach- would not be returning to Msgr. with the farm workers-a war "one of .the smallest and poorest en: Association picketed the Bonner but that he "understood which was totally unnecessary of the archdiocese."

Chancery Building here to call they definitely would be placed and will, in the 'long run, hurt ,"As an inner-city parish," attention to a stalemate in their in another archdiocesan high . them as much as' It will hurt their disadvantaged workers. Msgr. Dolan wrote the teachers contract negotiations with the school."

They should have learned from union, "we have our problems Board of Catholic Education.

The 'contract between the 'the experience' of their ,fellow too, and subsistence is, one of Robert Malecek, .association teachers' union and the secon· growers in California that good- them. Did it ever really occur, to president, said that teachers dary school system calls for 30faith collective bargaining is the you that the American Civil would co'ntinue to picket "on day notice of any condition afonly possible solution to the' Liberties Union or any of the their own time so that no stu- fecting lay teachers in the school other notable organizations who dent is deprived of classroom farm labor problem. syst~m or in individual schools. have voiced opposition to fed- time."

Heavy Price eral and state aid for our schools Malecek - saidnl~gotiations They also should have known , might be a Mtter place to picket broke off 'for a second time bethat anyatten!iJt to undermine than the cathedral parish?" cause it was "obvious that the the Farm Workers Union. by Come to Worship diocese doesn't intend tiC)' move means of repressive legislation Union president 'John Reilly on major, crucial issues." , was doomed in advance to failThose issues, he: added, are ure. The farm workers demon- said that the cathedral was .... Cleansers ••• strated in California and are now chosen for the picket line be- salary scale improvemen1ls, pen94 TREMONT STREET demonstrating in Arizona-that cause it is popularly regarded as sion benefits and family hospithe center of -thearchidocese. talization plan.

He said the diothey have the patience and perTAUNTON, MASS. Msgr. Dolan, said' more than cese was unwilling to bargain sistence to dig in for as long as Tel. 822-0621 . .it takes, to, gua,r~ntee their basic 60 demonstrations·had' been con- on these items. ductednear the cathedraf in the rights.

It took 'them five years to past six years. achieve this goal in the table "Our parishioners come here WE SELL MC)NI:Y, BUT OUR BUSINESS IS PEOPLE grape industry, in California. If to worship, and they have no the bestthingihat ever happened to Cape Coll it 'takes thai': long in Arizona, desire to be singled out for every the industry as, a whole will have to pay a very heavy price, and for that the growers will have much less than five years that the enactment of the Arizona only themselves to blame. .J am not enough of an opti- farm labor bill was a costly miss1~~~tROUTE 28 HYANNIS , mist, however, to think that the take and that the sooner the .bill IJANK BRANCH.OFFICE ROUTE 28 S'O. YARMOUTH Arizona growers will not permit is repealed, the better it will be -775-4500 this to happen. In other words, not only for their workers but I think-or at least! hope-that for the agricultural industry as a "they will come, to realize in whole.

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Catholic Officials Condemn Violence , WASHINGTON (NC) - Two national Catholic officials have called for a "vigorous renewal" of Middle East peace efforts in the wake of the shootings of 24 persons by terrorists at Lod airport, near Tel Aviv.

"We are alarmed and outraged at the cold and calculated manner in which the massacre of innocent people was perpetrated," Father Edward Flan.. nery and James Jennings said in a joint statement.

Father Flannery is executive director of the U.. S.bishops' Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish

Relations. Jennings is associate director of the Division of World Justice and Peace, U. S. Catholic Conference.

While condemning the shootings as "an unbelievable escalation of violence," the two officials said they hope that "in its legitimate indignation at the heinousness of the crime, Israel will not allow itself to adopt retaliatory me~sures that would further endanger life or limb, thus giving new impetus to the spiraling violence that has engulfed the conflivt in the Middle East."

SHE' WANTS TDBE A SISTER THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

BISHOP'S NIGHT AT SERRA CLUB: Discussing the program prior to the opening of the annual Bishop's Night conducted by the Fall River Serrans and their wives are, Bishop Cronin, guest of honor; Gilbert C. Oliveira, a past president and toastmaster of the '-.., affair and Mrs. Gilbert C. Oliveira.

YOU CAN'T GO YOURSELF, SO TRAIN A SISTER

Strong Support for Tax Credits Plan WASHINGTON (NC) - Tax a tax credit law would allow a secular services and teacher salcredits for parents of nonpublic parent who sends his children to ary suppplements 'to be unconschool children, a little-known nonpublic ·schools to subtract stitutional. idea just a few months ago, have half of his tuition costs up to a In the wake of the decision, become a hot topic of discussion maximum' of $400 per child from nonpublic school backers turned in Washington and nationwide his federal income tax. to tax credits as a means of proA parent paying $400 a' 'year viding . assistance to parents in recent weeks, Bills have been introduced in to educate two children .in non- without. falling afoul of th¢ Congress to provide tax credits public schools could' reduce his co.ur~s ..

In a repor.t issued in April, covering part of the educational tax by up to $200, A parent expenses of parents who send paying $1,000 for two children the President's Panel on Nontheir children to nonpublic - $500 each - could cut his public Education urged "prompt , enactmel)t" 'of tax credit legisschools. Sponsors include influ- tax by as much as $500.

The amount of the tax credit, lation by Congress. The panel ential congressmen such as Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chair- would be reduced as,the parent's expressed, confidence that tax' man of the House 'Ways and income rose above a certain 'credits would "meet constituMeans Committee; Rep. Gerald level. No one would get.a credit tional criteria" and, "promote Ford of Michigan, the' House larger than the amount of his the public good by sustaining the current private investment in Minority Leader, and Rep. John tax.

'Promote Public ~ood' '. , nonpub~ic education."

Byrnes of Wisconsin, ranking Serious interest in tax credits ' .. minority member of the Ways and Means Committee. as a form o.f federai :assistance " June Population .

A presidential study group to nonpubhc school parents submitted a report in April dates to June, 1971, when the .', Explosion Month LOS ANGELES (NC)-Telestrongly advocating tax credits. u. s. Supreme Court - in cases And President Nixon, without from Pennsylvania, Rhode Island vision station KNBC here is despecifically endorsing the idea, and Connecticut-held state pro- voting the ,month of June to the has indicated he will give it a grams of direct aid to nonpublic .' "population .explosion." close look.

It· has purchased large news~ schools through the purchase ofA new organization of nonpaper ads claiming that the public school supporters has Portugual's Oldest "population explosion" is a "simbeen barnstorming around the ple, unhysterical fact." The ad country drumming up grassroots Priest Dies 104 announces 36 programs on the understanding and support for AZURARJ\ (NCr:-Father Ser- station in June, plus two docuthe idea. 'atim Goncalves das Neves, Por- mentary specials and features on Tax credits have even come gal's oldest priest, died recently the KNBC news service. under fire from longtime foes of at the age of 104.

KNBC's announcement came public assistance to nonpublic He was born in Azurara Feb. . almost simultaneously with the education.

16, 1868, studit~ in the Oporto report from the National Center seminary, and was ordained in for Health Statistics that the Partial Solution U. S. birth rate is now even lowPredicting the outcome of all September 1892.

After serving in various par- er than it was during the depresthis is tricky, especially in an election year. But the recent de- ishes, he was appointed pastor sion years of the 1930s. velopments have persuaded some at Azurara· in 1900, and served Six months ago the Population observers that tax credits stand here ever since, saying Mass Communication. Center of New a real chance of congressional every day and only recently hav- York sponsored an all-day conenactment and could provide at ing an assistant priest to help ference here together with the least· a partial solution to the him.

National Academy of Television When he was 100 years old, Arts and Sciences. The purpose problems of financially hardpressed nonpublic schools.

Father Das Neves expressed a was to urge the television indusThe bills pending in Congress wish to fly, so the Portuguese try to use its resources to prodiffer in details but follow the airlines gave him a round-trip mote the views of the population same basic pattern. In general, flight from Oporto ,~o Lisbon. control advocates.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River~- Thurs. June 15, 1972

Challenge .01 Excellence A theme that is repeated again and again in all types of commencement addresses is that graduates must always strive for excellence.

It is all too true. .. And yet it is precisely in this area that some educators criticize their own school systems.

When the study of Latin and Greek classics in high schools and colleges was dropped, most people breathed sighs of r~lief and thought it about time that these "useless" subjects were done aWaYwith, giving way to "more practical" courses. But the whole point of the study of Latin and Greek was not to make Latin and Greek scholars out of people, much less to imbue them with a love of Latin and Greek literature. It was not 'to give them knowledge that would be useful'intheir pursuit ofa profession or business or career. It was to challenge them to excellence-:-challenge them to succeed at something difficult s.o that the pursuit . of the excellence, the willingness to overcome obstacles,. would be built into their developing minds.

The reason a person tries to do wen at advanced math . .. or in subjects that he may never directly rely upon in t~e business of. living is the same reason Sir Edmund Hilary gave for climbing Mt. Everest-because itt is there. It comes down to the determination to succeed. The process of suc-. ceeding iii life is directly related to the pursuit of excellence in school and play. But schools had better be sure that .they' are giving students the challenge of excellence instead of just talking about it.

Solutions It is interesting to read how New Yorkers are trying to overcome the aloofness and coldness of big city.living.

They are beginning to have functions on a block 'basis with block parties, block dances, block sales. The neighborhood. is involved with baking cakes and cookies and knitting ,fancy gOQ,ds and concoeting punch. (New York style!) and the-money realized from the affair goes toward beautifying .the neighborhood with trees and flowers or sending youngsters to s~lIrnner camp.

It is all excellent example of how people want personal involvement in the solution of personal problems. . Some problems are so complex that in .the face of a sophisticated society onlly big goverrnnent with its gigantic resources 'can tackle them. But there· are also local solutions .and personal. contributions that can be brought to some. problems. And the block approach shows that people can exercise friendliness and hospitality and kindness and that this process helps them and brings about solutions to situations too.

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Just in passing it may be noted that according to U.S. ~ews & World Report educators were asked to state which of five listed interests showed a gain among college students this year. .

The largest number, 33, singled out politics and 23 marked religion. Rising interest in social life was marked by 12, intercollegiate athletics by 10, and demonstrations by two.' .

The stories and pieturesin the' mass media do not always reflect this kind of a hierarchy of interest so it is well to have' the information brought to the fore by those from the college scene itself.

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Lawyer Compares Current Chllrch Problems.·With '-hose of 1872, ' PHILADELPHIA' (NC) - The problems facing the Church today are strikingly similar to those of 100 years ago, a consti· tutional lawyer told graduates of .St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook.

"I think that today it· is very useful to reflect on· those times of a century, back," William B. Ball said. "We find the Church as a whole (according to the most reliable reports) in its. death throes; We find the new secular faith triumphant in Europe, with science sure to answer man's every problem; we find the state emerging as the wise parent of all men, omnipotent, omnicom·, . petent, and freed at last from the moral impositions of religion."

Ball noted that in th'e 19th century "the Pennsylvania Con· stitution was rewritten to bar sectarian schools from state sup· port: 'Sectarian' was translated 'Roman Catholic' in the parlance of the day."

"I trust that. you see the parallel with 1872: once again, the cry that the Church is falling apart; once. again, secularism largely triumphant, with a revived belief that science will answer man's every problem; and now, the state augmented in its powers beyond anything dreamt of a century ago and an increasingly rigid separation of religion from pubilic aff~irs," he said.

Court's Attitude Ball, who has argued school cases before the U. S. Supreme C~urt" cited a 1971 Sl,lpreme Court decision invalidating state aid to nonpublic schools. The Court cited "the divisive political potential of, these state programs," and said "political division along religious lines was one of the principal evils against which the First Amendment was intended to protect." The Court singled out, according to Ball, religious ~uestions as ones "about which there must be no public dispute."

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tually strikes-as you can plainly see-at the. exerdse of the political rights of speech, assembly, petition and voting,"', including campaigns of .religious groups with respect to Vietnam, St:lnd~y laws, .pro~~bi~i()n, ~el­ fare r.lght.s, raCial, d~s~:rlIl1inatlOn, ~onscle.ntlous

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ceD Congre!;S Continued from Page One "We are indeed fortunate to have a' scholar of Father McBride's stature and appeal as Congress keynoter," said I Father Howard W. McCormi<:k, director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CeO)' of the Springfield Diocese.

"He is undoubtedly among the foremost contributors to the religious ecwcation apCtstCtlate of the' Church in the Uniited States at the present time."

"His presentation a,t the Nation-al Congress on Religious Education last Fall in Miami wa:; one of the most s:timulating talks given. His. insights on the roll~ of faith as the foundation for man fully alive in, the contemporary world will, I'm sure, be most valuable and timllly."

According to Father McCormick, preparations for t:lle August Congress are wl~ll underway. The efforts of scores of volunteer workers are being directed by the Diocesan COD executive board, whose' president is J'oseph J. O'Connor, a principal in the Westfield public schools.

Re'servation' .applications for the New England Religious Education Congress are now available and may be obtained from the Diocese of Springfield CCD office, 625 Carew Street, Springfield, Ma. 01104. .

They may also be obtained from the office of Relgi:ou:; Edu-' cation in our diocese: Rev.. Ronald A. Tosti, 446 Highlllnd Ave., Fall Riy~r 02722.

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LONDON (NC)-The de¢ision of Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster to stop the practice of giving Communion in the hand in his archdiocese aroused some protests from both clergy' and laity.

Cardinal Heenan in a note to his clergy said: "I am personally persuaded that with proper pastoral preparation receiving Holy Communion in the hand need not lead either to irreverence or to a diminuation of faith in the Real Presence." .But in liturgical matters, he said, the opinion of the bishop is not the deciding factor. The national bishops' conference, he explained, can authorize such changes only after a majority of votes has been obtained in a secret ·ballot.

"The bishops of England and Wales," he added, "have· not yet applied to the H9ly See for permission to change the present method of distributing Holy' Communion. After the month of May the experiment of giving Holy Communion in the hand will end."

Earlier, the cardinal in a letter to a member of the traditionalist Pro Fide movement' here, had said that he has "no doubt at all" that Communion in the hand "will soon be universal."

The chaplain at Londop University, Msgr. Bruce Kent, said the majority of students there prefer Communion in the hand at Masses. Some bishops who attended Mass at the university had not objected to Communion in the hand.

He said he thought the cardinal's order would "perplex and disappoint" many.

"If some insist on taking it in the hand it is not my duty to prevent them receiving Communion," Mgr. Kent said.

Several other expressions of disappointment were made. The Grail, a secular institute, has been having' CommuniOn ·in the hand' at its conferences for years and a .spokesman said most members prefer receiving the Host that way.

The Grail's president, Miss Phillippa Stewart Craig, said she was writing to the cardinal expressing members' "sadness."

The Catholic Renewal Movement, which has advocated many changes in the Church's structures and which has advocated the practice for years, will discuss the matter at its next meeting.

Msgr. John Humphreys, secretary of the National Liturgical Commission, said his commission has twice voted almost unanimously in favor of the bishops' getting permission_from the Vatican to make Communion in the hand optional in Britain.

Diocese Established DETROIT (NC) - This city now is the site of chanceries of two Catholic dioceses, one Latin rite, one Maronite. St. Maron's Diocese of Detroit-USA was formally established at ceremonies in St. Maron's Cathedral ~ere.

The ceremonies included the installation of Bishop Francis M. Zayek as the first head of the new diocese.

Seeks Dialogue With Cardinal On Socialism

In Changeable World, Sr. Evelina Typifies Unglamorous Virtue of Faithfulness

THE ANCHORThurs., June' 15, 1972

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BY PAT McGOWAN LEXINGTON (NC)-A federal Sergio Mendez Arceo of CuernaFifty years ago she saw the court here in Kentucky has vaca asked Cardinal Miguel Mir• ruled that a state abortion law anda of Mexico City to open a Sisters on the streets of Fall is constitutional, citing "the unidialogue on Christians and so- River and asked them how she . versal belief in the sanctity of cialism as an effort to avoid fur- could be one. That's how Sister Evelina Rocha, formerly Sister human life." ther polarization of Catholics.

The three-judge panel dis"We Mexicans must see our Maria Jovinien, began her life missed a suit that charged the own situation and try to find as a Franciscan Missionary of 100-year-old law was vague and ways to purge Christian faith Mary. infringed on the rights of "I wanted to go to China," from ideologies, to change that women. image of apparent ties with reac- she said, "but I was .sent back to The judges ruled that "the tionary forces," Bishop Mendez Fall River." With the exception argument of vagueness is nothing said.' . of a two-year novitiate in Canmore than a guise for the plainEarlier Cardinal Miranda had ada, she has spent her entire tiff's belief that the law is too commented on the Christians for religious life in the city. Because restrictive...

Socialism congress held in San- of her knowledge of Portuguese, "The state's compelling reason tiago, Chile at the end of April she has taught- over the years for an interest in this law is which Bishop Mendez attended. first communion classes in I St. adequately manifested by the At the following Sunday Mass Michael's, St. Anthony of Padua, universal belief, in the sanctity of Bishop Mendez was openly crit- . ~t. Elizabeth's and Santo CrJsto human life." the judges 'Said. ical .of some Mexican communi- parishes, and until her retirement cations media "for their biased in 1970 she was also sacristan The Kentucky Right to Life at Santo Cristo. . reporting of the meeting." committee had filed a' friend of Cardinal Miranda had said No tremendous events h~lVe the court brief in the case, acduring Pentecost celebrations marked her life. "It goes by like cording to The Messenger, CovSISTER EVEUNA ROCHA that the Christians for Socialism that," she said, gesturing. "Noth· ington diocesan newspaper here. congress caused some confusion ing special," vent chapel. Space will limit didn't come back," she recalled. "because of the many opinions But her sisters in religion think Not only has she worked in Expelled Bishop voiced there, not all in good faith that a half century of quiet de- Mass attendance' to family and community members, but a reFall River since 1924, but she and some too radical." votion to the littlest members of ception for all Sister Evelina's has always lived in St. Anthony's To Head Diocese .

Eternal Truths the Church is something very friends will follow from 2.30 to Convent, making her by all odds D~R (NC)-An Episcopal Bishop Mendez and four lay special. To prove it and to cele- 4 in St. Francis Hall, directly bebishop who was expelled from it~ oldest inhabitant in point of delegates to the Congress-in- brate her jubilee with Sister hind the convent at 621 Second length of time spent there. At Guatemala last year had been cluding Jose Alvarez Icaza, head Evelina, they are converging on St. Many of the jubilarian's first age 75, however, she's not the named to succeed Bishop Edwin of the Center for Social Commu- St. Anthony's Convent in Fall communicants, now grown up, oldest Sister in the house. That Thayer of Colorado when he renication in Mexico City':""" an- River this Saturday, coming from will take the opportunity to con- honor belongs to a spry 87-year- tires next February. swered that part of the confu- as far away as California, Arigratulate their former teacher. old, Sister Maria, who still works Bishop William C. Fr~y was sion "was caused by some news- zona and Missouri as well as "They often come to visit me," in the convent laundry and pan- expelled, along with Fat~er Jose papers which twisted, omitted from more manageable places she said. try and occasionally even de- Marin, a Spanish Catholic priest, views and. otherwise misrepre- such as New York, Boston and Born in St. Miguel, Azores, livers bread in person to nearby after they had signed a statesented the meeting in order to Rhode Island points. ment calling for an end to terSister Evelina came to Fall River needy families. attack those engaged in Church To Say Mass as a 12-year-old. Before entering Sister Evelina recalls that a rorism in ·the Central American renewal and social reform." .

Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis, pas- religion she was a weaver at streetcar ran down Second Street nation.

The group supported Cardinal Other signers of. the protest, tor of Santo Cristo, which was the' former Charlton Mill. TYpi- when she arrived at the convent.

Miranda's statements on abuses of capitalism and the need for also Sister Evelina's childhood cally, she didn't tell fellow work- . Otherwise, she says, not too including Bishop Gerardo Flores parish, has asked to celebrate ers that she was going to become much has changed in the neigh- of Izabal, were Guatemalans and Christian renewal.

The Mexico City archbishop her jubilee Mass in the tiny con- a Sister. "I just left one day and borhood. Old houses standing therefore immune to prosecution around the convent were there under the law banning political had told Catholics "to set aside activity by foreigners. in the '20s, she said. the extremes and take the signs The statement stressed that From Door to Chapel of the times in the light of eter_ nal Christian truths, in order Somewhat slowed. down by a the protesting clergymen had to spearhead efforts for the true stroke in 1970, Sister Evelina wanted to make "a positive, HAVANA (NC) - Student the late 1950s for the revolution spends most of her time "be. non-sectarian, non-political condefense and development of leader Luis Boitel, a Cathqlic, against dictator Fulgencio Ba- tween the door and the chapel," tribution to peace" in Guateman." said Sister Marceline, superior mala. The protest also called for d~ed at Castillo del prinjiPe tista, but premier Fidel Castro, Seeks Positive Values who ousted Batista, blocked his of ·St. Anthony's. "She answers a return to constitutional order. prison here from wounds reHe. added Church teachings election to the presidency of the the doorbell and devotes much offered clear guidelines to dis- ci~ived during torture for his reCuban University Student Fed- of her time to the contemplative fusal to join "the rehabilitati n" .

I tinguish "between systems which eration because he was not a life---;.praying for those whom it program of the Castro governtruly respect the human person Communist. . m e n t . . \ was her privilege to instruct in and foster a just social order, Members of his' immedi+te the truths of the faith."

Running on the same ticket and those like oppressive capiShe is also a living example talism and communist socialism, family disclosed his death apd with Boitel as vice-president was which treat man as an object.. said that they were not allowed LaSalle Brother Jose R. Villalon, of a virtue very much underrated trample upon his rights and to attend his burial May 24. ~he .also popular in the student pro- in these times-the 'unglamorous site remains unknown to them. test movement. but irreplaceable virtue of faith'plant hate among men."

Boitel completed a 10-year fulness.

In a world of shifting .

Four times since his jailing in "The Church does not approve of the socialist system as such, .1960, Boitel turned down invi- prison sentence in 1970. How- and easily abandoned standards but it does seek out socialism's tations by Marxists to lend his ever, the Castro regime refused we need Sister Evelinas who~' positive values while inviting the talents and prestige to the Com- to release him. Some' months without making a fuss about it, ..........

Christians to overcome its nega- munist cause in Cuba. He was ago he managed to smuggle out remain true for a life of comFALL RIVER beaten, tortured with bayonets a document in his handwriting mitment. tive factors." vividly d~scribing conditions of Cardinal Miranda added and denied food and medical at"Christians must raise above tention according to members political prisoners in Cuba.

The Voice, weekly' of the such contending ideologies (cap- of his family. He weighed 70 Archdiocese of Miami, confirmed italism-communism) and push pounds at death.

Last, April prison officials that "before Boitel's death, his for social and economic moves combining socialization and per- damaged his spine during beat- family had made known his runings; be'sides inflicting bayonet down condition because of missonal responsibility." wounds. When he went into a treatment and hunger in the hunger strike to protest, he was hands of the terror regime of Visit Center transferred to a security cell and Castro."

'The Inter-American Press As· Fourth grade students at St. told "this time we will let you Mary's Cathedral School, Fall die~ no doctors." sociation has established an ad River, climaxed the school year Calls to Miami sought help hoc committee to press for wider with a visit to patients at Hus- from International Red Cross publicity of torture of political sey Rehallilitation Center in the and other world organizations to prisoners in Cuba. city. They presented a musical save Boitel's life. At one point Charity program and distributed gifts to his mother Clara, a widow, said each patient, including items do- she had asked Cas'tro officials There is a loftier ambition nated by the school Mothers' "to execute us together to end than merely to stand high in the Club and. kites made by them- these sufferings." world. It is to stoop down and selves, which were used to decBoitel had been instrumental lift mankind a little higher. orate the center.. in securing student support in -Van Dyke

Catholic "Student Leader Dies From Torture in Cuban Jail

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. June 15, 1972

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S,ewing Tioday Is Easiler And Lots Mo,rle FUI!n As I lay on the still chilly beach trying to pick up an early June tan, I couidn't help overhearing the conversation of the two teen-aged girls lying on the blanket behind ..me. They were discussing clothes. Twenty years or so ago when I was their age, my girl friends and I would have enjoy turning out a beautifully made garment, designer's pat-, been discussing the same terns are still' available. They thing, buf our angle would are challenging, intricate and have varied.

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wholly satisfying to produce, providing you have the time and patience to work on them. The' designer's fashions that Vogue features are always so breathtaking and filled with handsome detailing that they are the clothes you would love to be able to come across in the stores instead of the kookie outfits that fill the racks.

If sweaters are your thing but you find knitting a bore, then you'll be plea.sed as punch by the new knitted fabrics that will be appearing on the market for Fall.

When these fabrics are teamed with some of the new sweater look patterns, no one will know that you're not a whiz at the' knit one, purl two.

Sewing is becoming a fun pastime, influenced by the young to be less frustrating and more productive. Lj}.;e everything the young touch today, sewing is becoming quicker and even more fUri.

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been trying to figure out how we could finagle our parents into buying us some new outfits these young ladies were describing clothes they had made themselves. This younger generation is very creative.

Enjoy Sewing Meryl is again taking sewing lessons, along with many of her friends and they enjoy their in,structor, Mrs. Maurice Clairmont, 'so very much that they f.eel quite sorry her class has been suspended for the summer. While number one daughter may never give Dior .competition with a needle, she does enjoy whipping Music Publisher Says up her own outfits.

There has been such a change Church Killed Latin in attitude toward home sewing ROME路(NC)-Latin has been a in the past 10 years that now it's "dead" language for centuries, a status symbol to say you sew but one music publisher in Rome your own clothes. The youthful thinks the Church killed it only generation likes the idea of in- recently. stant clothes and for this reason' A six-foot sign in the House many of the pattern houlles of Casimiri's main window in' (even Vogue,tbat stalwart of the downtown Rome announced that perfectionist) are showing more the 37-year-ol.d firm will cease and more jiffy patterns and easy publication of sacred music and to, make clothes. sell its present stock at half Designer's Patterns price. ' While it's marvelous to know The firm .was forced to do how to tailor clothes beautifully, the, young people of today sew this, the sign said "because of more for quick fashion at pric:es the ostracism of the Church to they can afford than they do for . the golden Latin language, in perfectly tailored garments' that use in the Catholic world for these many centuries." are going to last and last.'

Sale of the present stock, the For those women who truly sign continued, was motivated "before this iconoclastic ramlittle Relief Seen page places us in the sad position of throwing it out, only to For Catholic Press have it end up ingloriously in WASHINGTON (NC) - While an incinerator." second-class mailers will enjoy an average nine per cent decrease in proposed Postal Service Pope Sendl; Cond~lences rate hikes, Catholic and other non-profit magazines and news- For' Rhodesian Miners papers will feel little relief from VATICAN CI1Y (NC) - Pope a wage increase in their second. paul vi sent his condolences and class rates. promise of prayers for the estiThe Postal Service last year mated 468 miners trapped under- ' .recommended a 331.5 per cent ground after aln explosion in a rise. The Postal Rate Commis- Rhodesian coal mine. sion made a counter recommenReports from Rhodesia said dation June 5 of a 329 per cent the disaster ranks as one of the hike.

But "for all practical purposes _greatest mine disasters of this the rate increas,e that was; pro- century.

A telegram sent by the papal posed last year by the P.o~tal Service will apply,':explairi~d a secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot, said the Pope was procommission spokesman. .

"In the case路 of non-pr.ofit foundly saddened at the news of publications the rate increase the mine disaster. As he expresswill be phased over a 10 yeiu es his solidarity in sorrow and peripd with each year's increase deep concern, he offers prayers being about one-tenth of the for . the victims and implores total. They won't be hit all at God's help for success of efforts once," he continued. ur,tder way to save others." o

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FIRST COMMENCEMENT: Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, combining the former Mt. St. Mary's Academy, Jesus-Mary Academy and Dominican Academy conducted their 'first graduation exercises on Sunday afternoon when Bishop Cronin presented diplomas to the following four girls from a group of 150 seniors: Mildred Sullivan, Susan Rak, Melaine Gagne and Elaine Chouinard.

NEW YORK (NC) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver has accused a presidential commission of tossing ethiCs out the window in recommending wider use of abortion, sterilization and contracep" tive dissemination.

Mrs. Shriver, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, aimed her criticism at the Com,mission 'on Population Growth and the American Future and at the New York Times.

"It is not good enough to have the commission's report' avoid . the ethical implications of its recommendations," she wrote' in a letter to the Times (June 6).

"And it is not good enough to have prestigious newspapers like the, Times support the recommendations of the Rockefeller Report while sweeping its unresolved issues under the rug."

The Commission of Population growth, chaired by JohnD. Rockefeller III, released its controversial report in March, out路 lining what is considered the various benefits of its recommendations. . "The recommendations," the' commission said, "are designed to 1Daximize understanding of human reproduction and its im-

plications for the family, and to improve ,the setting in which children are raised."

The policies, the, commission added, are aimed at facilitating conditions which will "increase ethical responsibility and the opportunity for unbiased <:hoice" in childbearing and child-rearing.

Mrs. 'Shriver- argued: "If ethical principles we have followed in the past ate puritan.ical, outmoded .or out of touch with the times-then let us say so. But let us at least try to develop some consistent new ethic:al ap,

Mrs. Shriver to Address, Birth' Right ConvE!ntion WASHINGTON (NC}-lEunice Kennedy Shriver will be" the keynote speaker at the First Annual Convention of Birthright International to be held tomorrow in Atlantic City, N.J. Bilrthright, an emergency pregnancy service offering alternatives to abortion, was founded in 1967 by Mrs. Louise Summerhill. Birthright has spread ' throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and is planned in Great Britain, Germany and Fl'anl:e.

proaches and not pretend that individual morality no longer matters to the moral fiber of our nation."

She chided the Times for seeming to approve the commission's' statement that abortion is not to be considered a primary means of fertility controlprovided the woman feels so inclined and prefers it to contra-. ceptive methods," she said.

"Our increasing ability to create, prolong and terminate life demands the creation of an ethical framework, for our decisions," she said.

"Should we not reach a better understanding of these issues before accepting sucli recommendations for contx:aception, sterilization and abortion as advocated by the Rockefeller Commission?"

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Representatives. of the religious press have strongly opposed the proposed increases.

The commission recommended total $78.3 million reduction in rates proposed, by the Postal Service, including cutbacks proposed rates for parcel post, airmail letters, post cards and magazines and newspapers. '

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In Sih,ac,k Lalc,king Utiliti,es We have our own brand of vacation fun. It's a little cottage, built up on stilts to prevent it from being washed away by high tides. It stands in the middle of a marshland, on the edge of a salt water creek and is accessible only by boat. There are no trees, no cars, no roads, no tions to take our vacation. The phone..There's no electricity kids love it so much, I'm beginning to think they have salt either, so there are no tele- water in their veins. m::::liimm:::m::

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visions, radios, no lights, except for kerosene or gas lanterns.

There's a well, but its water can be used only for washing. If you heat it, it turns a muddy green.

Drinking and cooking water must be brought from home.

For four generations it's been known as "the shack." Despite the connotation of its name, it has been a haven for our family since my father was young. In fact, he built it wit~, his father over 50 years ago from materials salvaged by beachcombing.

The house stands alone on an island covered by meadows of salt hay. If we haven't had an unusually high tide, the meadows are pretty solid, good for long walks, bird nest hunting, kite flying and unobstructed views of sunsets.

Kids Love It When the tide gets over the meadows, th~ kids can wade for hours in water that never goes above their knees.

And after such a high tide, it becomes squishy goop that the kids love to walk in, and watch it ooze between their toes.

We just manage to get a full week free from business obliga-

The effort to get the children all packed, and enough food assembled to hold our gang for a week was comparable to getting an army ready for maneuvers. Since there are no stores, nothing can be forgotten.

The easiest solution was to make each child responsible for packing his own clothing while I gather the food. I should have checked on what they packed.

One of them arrived with two bathing suits - no underwear, pajamas, dungarees or T-shirts.

He had no intention of doing anything but swimming, so the bathing suits were all he needed.

Requires Planning The refrigerator is a small one, operating on bottled gas, so I brought enough canned goods and powdered milk to last us for a month. In two days, the food SUA GRADUATION: Cheryl Winiarski, Cheryl Domingos, Lynn Sousa and Marywas running low. Salt air does ellen Tansey were among the 75 graduates from the Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River. something to teen-age boys' apI petites.

My husband commuted every other day to the mainland, replenishing the supply of milk, WASHINGTON (NC)-Nearly Campaign funded 231 self·help munications, transportation, and bread, eggs and diapers for the 2,000 requests for funds have projects in a variety of areas: so- economic development. baby. I hadn't planned on her been received this year by the cial development, education, Last year the largest numbeF having an intestinal virus.

Campaign for Human Develop- health, housing, legal aid, com- of proposals came from the ChiThe greatest difficulty was ment, the U. S. bishops' anticano community concentrated in that it took the kids several poverty program. the west and southwest regions. days to settle down. At first The proposals submitted by Ohio House Approves The next largest number was every,thing had to be done, all local poverty groups ask for submitted by black groups.

Tax Credit Bill the time, all day long. They more than the $7 million raised Proposals for grants are being COLUMBUS (NC)-The Ohio went full tilt, swimming, water in the campaign's collection last House of Representatives here evaluated by diocesan campaign skiing, clamming, rowing, fish- year. passed a tax credit bill written directors, 40 members of the ing from morning till night. Then National and diocesan camthey were so overtired, they got paign officials are examining the in response to a court decision national campaign staff. A progiddy ... and trying to get five requests to decide which will be ruling an earlier nonpublic school posal may undergo as many as 63 evaluations before funding is aid plan unconstitutional. giddy girls to sleep at the same funded.

The new bill, approved by an approved. time in one bunk-room is an imThe proposals come from 88 to 5 vote, would provide $61 The campaign has helped bepossibility. groups which have previously million in aid, the same amount gin housing and food coopera'The vacation required constant sought campaign funds - Chiplanning. Even though we canos, blacks, Indians, Puerto appropriated in an earlier plan tives in the rural South, job brought all drinking and cooking Ricans and whites - and from to provide direct reimburse- training for minority workers in water. Rather than try to bring two new groups-orientals and ments to parents of nonpublic urban centers, legal aid groups and drug rehabilitation centers. school pupils. enough clothing for the week, Eskimos.

The earlier law was declared I decided I'd wash every day by The campaign funds anti- unconstitutional by a federal dis- . hand. (It didn't restore my primitive instincts; it just made me poverty projects initiated by the trict court, but the funds remain , $5,000 Or More appreciate my washer at home.) poor. Following an initial. 1970 in the state's 1971-72 budget. It collection ,of $8.5 million, the would have given $90 a year On Equity In Your Home Miles of Laundry You May Use Money grants for each child.

Each morning we filled the However You Wish.

The new bill, which still must Catholic Publications big old wash tub from the well, be approved by the Senate, let it warm in the sun, and did Face Difficulties AVCO FINANCIAL would provide the same amount the laundry. But when the tide SERVICES ROME (NC)-Financial diffi- of money through tax credits on was high, the spout of the well 71 William St., New Bedford was covered; when the tide was culties have placed both English state income, sales, and property 994-9636 low, the well stopped running. language and French language taxes.

One of our neighbors from home Catholic publications in West drove down the causeway which ,Africa in serious difficulties, acruns through the meadowland. cording to the Italian Missionary She knew which shack was Information Agency.

The agency reported that the ours ... it was the .one with the miles of laundry hanging out once flourishing press in Western Africa has run on hard times on the line.

It's a lot of work ... but I love and that several Church publica- • tions have ceased publication or it.

Our kids have learned a love are threatened with possible and respect for nature, a rever- closure in the near future.

The Catholic Congolese weekence for peace, quiet and soli,~ / /1 \ tude. There is a stillness at ly Prensence Chretienne stopped night, interrupted only by an publishing last August because . I. SO We Con All occasional calling of a bird ... of financial troubles. For the and the lapping of waves at the' same reason the permanent ~~ Be Proud dock. council of the West African , VOfOi,r"Home Town" Sunday afternoon came too bishops of the. French-speaking • soon. We were home, scrubbed, countries decided to suspend dressed and in church for the publication of the weekly Afrique last Mass. "Thank you God", I Nouvelle as of June 15, its 25th prayed, "for the shack." anniversary.

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St. Joan of A'rc Sisters Work and Sacriif:ice for Priests Two recent events have played a spotlight on a tiny but important religious congregation in the Diocese of Fall River. On' Sunday, May 14, Sister Dorothy of the SiSters of St. Joan o~ Are, celebrated her silver jubilee' as a member of the religious com· -munity.

News was also received that the Holy See had crowned the growth and vitality of the small congregation by raising it to the ' international status of ~ Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right.

The Diocese of Fall River greatly rejoiced for it is proud not only to benefit of the apostolic efforts of the Sisters but to have had a small part in the founding of the congregation as well.

Just as' holy women of long ago foll<?wed Christ and ministered ,to Him and to His dir.ciples and apostles, the same thing happens today. These devoted reli- gious, in the words of the papal decree, "seek to come to the aid of priests in all their needs, especially in those things that regard the priests' ministry and personal sanctification."

The sisters combine' housekeeping services with penance and ·prayer to make the pJ'iestly ministry ever more spiritually successful.

Begun on December 25, 1914

by Rev. Marie-Clement Staub, an Assumptionist Priest, the tiny group of seven religious has sprung 'from the Diocese of Worcester and grown into some 18 dioceses with servicer. for some 50 houses. At present, the congregation numbers 280 religious with an average of three' sisters in each house.

"There was need in the Church," wrote Bishop Albertus Martin Nicolet, "for religious souls who would pray, immolate, sacrifice and vow themselves to the service of priests, the 'inti. mate friends' of Jesus, thE) im~, plimentors of the redemptive' work on earth. Mary had been the servant of Jesus, the Sover· eign Priest, in the humble house of Nazareth where Jesus had 'grown in wisdom, age and grace ,before God and man' (Lk. II, 52).

Other 'Marys' would continue, alongside the ministers of worship, the work accomplished by Our Lady of Heaven near Jesus."

On, March 2, 1917 Cardinal , Begin of Quebec received the siste~s in his archdiocese' together with th~ Assumptionist Fathers and the Archconfraternity of Prayer and Penance in Honor of the Sacred Heart. In 1918, the headquarters for the community was formed with the establishment of the Generale on the banks of the St. Lawrence River at Bergeville, P. Q. ,_ In 1920, Pope Benedict XV proclaimed ,the sanctity of St., Joan of Arc and the Canadian Cardinal formally accepted the new religious family and its novitiate as part of the apostolic life of the archdiocese.

Year after year brought growth climaxing in the 1960-64 er.largement of the Bergeville facilities and chapel by Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston.

- istry by staffing rectories, con· vents and episcopal residences; retired priests by maintaining a home for them. ' Personally, each sister is also called to offer herself as a penitential victim and offerer of spe· cial prayer for priests. Usually they offer their work of each day for a particular priest-worker in the vineyard of Christ: Sundays, for the Pope; Mon· days, for the' Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops; Tuesdays, for Missionary Priests; Wednesdays, for deceased Priests; Thursday, for Diocesan Priests; Friday, for Priests belonging to Religious Congregations; Satur· days,for Seminarians.

The papal decree elevating and honoring the Congregation of ":the Sisters of St. Joan of Arc , follows: '

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CATHEDRAL STAFF SISTERS: Sr. Dorothy, Sr. ClotildE~, Most Rev. James: J. Gerrard, Amdliary Bishop of the Diocese and former rectolr of' the Cathedral; Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Ordinary of the Diocese; Very Rev. John J. 'Regan, Cathedral rector; Sr. Cecilia, superior; Sr. Corinne. ' The Sisters, now an apostolic When three devoted women force, returned to the Fall River fil st came together to form the Diocese on Nov. 1, 1930 when a nEo IV institute, the Fall River Dio- small religious community estab- , ceue contrib1.!ted one of the zeal- lished -itself as part of the staff ou.: foundresses: Miss Celine of the Notre Dame de Lourdes, Benoit of New Bedford. La,ter rectory in Fall River. when ~he constitutions were apOn Feb. 2, 1939 more sisters proved 'and a first superior- came to take over the household general was elected, again the of the Cathedral Rectory in Fall , Fall River Diocese was proud to ' River.' see Miss Be,noit, riow Sister Joan Again on Oct. 2, 1945 other of the Sacred Heart., the' com- sisters placed themselves at the munity's first head. service of, the Bishop of Fall Of the first seven postulants River by servicing his residence of the religious community, two on Highland Avenue and calling came from the Fall River Diocese. it ,their St. Michael Community.

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In Boston, they also serve at the Archbishop's residence (St. Joan's), the Chancery residence (St. Clement's) and St. Peter and Paul' Rectory.

Religious Sp,iril: The congregation is dedicated first "to the glory of God and the sanctification of its members; secondarily, to permit the sisters to vow thems,elv,es to the spiritual and tempora.l service of priests; ; . in a great love' for the Sacred Hearl."

The sisters serve future priests by working in colleges and seminaries; priests in the ac:tive min-

"The congregation called 'the Sisters of St. Joan of Arc has he~dquarters in the Archdiocese of Quebec, began in this very century thanks to the work and zeal of Father Marie-Clement Tum to Page Eleven

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Previous recipients of the award include former United Nations secretary general U Thant, Dr. Martin Luther King and Yehudi Menuhin, noted violinist. Mother Teresa is the first Indian citizen to receive the award.

The' citation states: "In serving selflessly, without narrow considerations of nationality, caste or creed, and without expectation of public recognition, Mother Teresa has set an example oJ how quiet, dedicated effort cun contribute to the路 promotion of goodwill, friendship and understanding among the peoples of the world."

Starts Congregation The Albanian nun born in Yugoslavia, now 62, came to India as a member of the Irish . branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known here as Loreto Sisters. She taught for some years at fashionable Loreto House, a girls' college 'in Calcutta. Depressed by the dying and destitute on city streets, she obtained permission to start a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity.

Mother Teresa and her nuns since 1950 have rescued 23,000 dying persons from Calcutta streets and helped them to pass away decently at Kali Ghat in a shed donated by the municipality.

The congregation has 315 professed sisters and as many more in training. Dressed Indianfashion in simple white cotton sarees, and barefoot, the Missionionaries have attracted 17 foreigners to their ranks. The congregation now has 37 houses in 29 Indian cities, and since 1945 has extended its work abroad. The first overseas venture was Venezuela, followed

by Ceylon, Jordan, Rome; New York, London and Melbourne.

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Praises Canadian Bishops, Laity VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI told the Canadian bishops he is confident that they "will draw all ,that is good and positive from the new trends" and "reaffirm the doctrine of the Church whenever necessary and with clarity."

Pope Paul made these comments during a recent' private audience with representatives of the Canadian Catholic Conference (CCC).

Noting ,the "winds of controversy" that are sweeping the Church, the Pope recognized the difficulties bishops face in exercising their authority.

"But we are confident," he told the Canadian bishops, "that you will overcome them by a course of action marked by charity, wisdom and fatherly determination."

He also praised Catholics in Canada for their initiatives in the fields of education, social assistance, aid to developing nations, and their "remarkable contribution, in personnel and reJUBILARIAN IS CONGRATULATED: Sr. Dorothy receives the felicitations of Bishop sources, to the great work of Cronin on the occasion of her silver jubilee as a professed' sister. Also present to offer the missions."

Representing the CCC were congratulations is Bishop Gerrard. . Bishop William Power of Antiganish, N. S., president; Archbishop Joseph Fortier of Sherbrooke, Que., vice president; and Father Everett MacNeil, general secretary of English languagesector of the CCC.

Pope Paul Supports World Heart Month GENEVA (NC)-Pope Paul VI sent his "warmest encouragement" to the organizers and participants of World Heart Month, urging Christians everywhere to share in concern about heart disease.

The papal message from Secretary of State Cardinal Jean Villot to the International Society of Cardiology and the International Cardiology Federation, co-organizers of the annual observance. World Heart Month is sponsored by the World Health Health Organization.

Wisdom, self-control, moderation and the proper organization of both work and leisure will help mankind "avoid or reduce the gravity of cardio-vascular diseases, which appear to be on the increase," the papal message said.

'Wonderful Gift' Dedicated to life in the slums, her Sisters conduct 44 schools for 5,300 poor children and teach catechism at 88 centers to over 10,000 Catholic children. They have 11 homes for the destitute aged, and 12 other homes for the destitute dying. In health care the Missionaries maintain 51 leper clinics and 134 dispensaries treating 400,000 patients a year.

Informed in Calcutta that she is the reCipient of the Nehru Award, Mother Teresa exclaimed, "Glory to God, this is a wonderful gift."

No Decision VATICAN CITY (NC)-A joint working group of the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches has announced that no decision has been reached on the Catholic Church becoming a member of the WCC.

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COMMUNITY ROOM: Sr. Cecilia, the superior, takes a message for Bishop Cronin while Sr. Clothilde is occupied with work at the sewing machine.

Sisters of St. Joan of Arc Work and Sacrifice Continued from Page Ten petitioned this Sacred CongreStaub of the Augustinian Fathers gation of the Holy See to fuUy of the Assumption. It seeks to recognize it. The Mother-General come to ,the aid of priests in all has so petitioned with commentheir needs, especially in those - datory letters from the Bishops things that regard their ministry in whose dioceses the institute is and their路 personal sanctifica- active. These Bishops testify that tion. . the religious congregation is well "After many difficulties and instituted, that it observes disanxieties which only emphasized tinct religious tenets, that it is that it was really the work of well organized and that it fulGod, the institute was accepted fills needed works of the aposas a religious congregation of tolate. diocesan status.

"Therefore, this Sacred Con"The Congregation of the gregation for Religious and SecSisters of St. Joan of Arc has ular Institutes, using the facul-

ties granted it by the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Paul VI, foHowing a vote of the Fathers-Consultors at their meeting of February 18, 1972, and after mature judgment, decrees that the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joan of Arc now exists by Pontifical Right and is to be laudably accepted as such by all, the rights of the local 'Bishops safeguarded accordinng to Canon Law. "Given at Rome on the 19th day of March, 1972.

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One of the worst fears we ever wished upon a child was the prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep," with its insidious phrase, "If I should die before I wake." "If I should die before I wake." What kind of loving confidence is that supposed' to instill in the poor child who cereal in bare feet while putting the cat out and she never woke, knows that within a few sec- either then or during the time it onds the light will go out and took him to extract the sharp

he'll' be left with the "ghou- bits of flakes from his tender lies and ghosties .and things that . sales. He was awarded the go bump in the night." divorce.

How else can we prevent rearing future corn flake sprinklers?

We can listen to our kids' .:ears.

What is it -that frightens them By most when the lights go out?

With one of ours, we discovered DOLORES that the shadows the night light produced on the chair backs and CURRAN ., chandelier made her believe there were dinosaurs in the dining room.

We darkened the house, turned .11II1Ii!ilI::Ja~· on the night light and saw it as And to children there are still she pointed out. Sure enough, things that go bump in the night. the shadows' etched a grotesque They see them. They hear them dinosaur along the east wall and they fear them. Our first which she had to face in traveltendency, to laugh off their fears ling from her room to the bath. and fancies, doesn't help' any We changed the location of th~ more than it helps to laugh off night light and our dinosaur bean older person's fear of noises came extinct. 'Then we all in the dark. Adults, after all, are laughed about it, but not before. just grownup kids and they have Faucet Shoots· had their' own nocturnal nervousness pretty well established.

With another. child, it was Fears Grow even funnier. One night after Many.parents want to help a the water softener left its usual child overcome fear of night. gift of air in the pipes, Mike deHow can they do it? By elimi- cided he wanted a drink. "I nating their own fears, for a went into the bathroom and start, or. by concealing them turned on the faucet and it from the children. Anyone who sounded like it was shooting me has ever lain awake hearing so I ran out and decided to go noises in the dark anll lonely to the back bathroom to get a night knows how one's imagina- drink. Just 'when I got in front tion can get carried away. A of the refrigerator, it turned on . creaking tree branch, through and scared me. So I ran back . the process of fear and fantasy, into bed and put my pillow over can' escalate into a legion' of my head and pretended I wasn't marauders bent on dastll:rdly thirsty." deeds. Fears fertilize and grow So we turned out all .the lights in the night. and listened to the faucet and· -To show the extremes adult the refrigerator together. fears can reach, there's the case We should 'understand, too, a few years back where a man that feam in the night are a comsued his wife for divorce be- posite 01\ those poureQ. into us cau!le of her unreasonahle fear during, the day. Allowing.kids to of the dark. So convinced was watch scary shows, whether it's she that she might sleep through just before bed or early in the a possible intruder, she sprinkled morning, takes its toll in night corn flakes in the hallway out- time security. Too often nightside"their bedroom door, resolv- mares are based on daymares. ing thus to hear the crunch of Still, our best solution came unwanted persons. out of one of our kids, the saine Instead, he.! husb!lnd trod tJ;1e one whose head landed under the pillow. He sleeps in a room N"ns Build Hou,sing with his three-year-old' brother, who had a monster on his ceilFor. Senior' Citizens ing. We tried to talk Steve out WHEATON (NC) - Housing of his monster, turning out lights for senior citizens and middle- and saying, "See, it isn't there." ,income families is being built It didn't work. He still saw it. here in Illinois by the Wheaton Sometimes, he didn't want to go Franciscan Sisters. into his' mom in the dark to get The first phase of the $8- a book because of the monster. million· project will include 210 Then, suddenly, we stopped units with comm"unity recreation hearing about the' monster. areas.

Curious, we asked Steve if it The Sisters will also under- didn't frighten him any longer. take similar major housing pro- "Oh, it's gone," he said. "Mike grams for elderly and moderate- shot it."

And Mike had. He saw the income families in Iowa and are now completing a 500-unli: hous- problem and killed it. This satising complex in Denver. .' fied Steve. (We could have done "Use of our property and the that with the dinosaur, I supministry of our Sisters to pro- pose). I'd like to think it was vide an environment for digni- brotherly J.ove that did "if, but I fied Hving is an expanding ser- ". rather suspect the monster was vice concern of our order," said beginning to get to Mike, too.

Sister Virginia Mary Barta, pro- And after all, .they slept in the vincial directress of the nuns. . same, foam with it.

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/ THIRD COMMENClEMENT: Receiving diplomas on Sunday night from Bishop Cronin at exercises conducted in the auditorium of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall ,River .were Paul Morin, Jeffrey Benoit, Robert Texeira and Gary Considine.

Poor Spirit'ual Diet IProduces '50ulbIJrn' HAMILTON (NC)-Be choosy ception, abortion, sterilization, with your spiritual diet, or you masturbation and euthanasia. may suffer indigestion of the Each item is poisoned with desoul - "soulburn" instead of spair." heartburn-the director of comInstead of a simple acceptance munications for the Redemptor. of research statements by some ist Fathers warned .here. theologians, Father Meehan sugFather Matthew Meehan told gested _that Catholics listen to the Knights of Columbus during . their bishops and the rope. their Ontario provincial convenInstead of blind obedience to tion that they should take a hard the philosophy of change that look at the menu of today's questions fundamental social recultures and philosophies,. and lations, "stick to the values you choose "what is good for you know, the prayen: y·ou say, the and your faith in God." "If you don't," he cautioned, "you may well end up with a Methodists ,A4:cept headache and a stomach ache that may give you spiritual apo- Doctrine StCllt.~ment ATLANTA (NC)-A new forplexy."

Heading the menu of today's mulation of Christian beliefs was "goodies", Father Meehan said, approved by a near-unanimous "is a goulash of glib fallacies vote at the quadmnnial Ge'nera! about zero population, contra- Conference of tire United Methodist Church here.

Nei·ther a set creed nor a conUrsulines Forced fession of faith prescribing what the 10.6 million Unitl~d MethodTo Close School ists must believe, the new docLOUISVILLE (NC) - Ursuline trim~l statement is a set of guideAcademy girls' high school h.ere lines for Christian bE~lief. has closed after more than 100 The' guideposts are: Scrjpture, years of operation.

Christian tradition, experience The school, operated by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, and reason. "These four are ingraduated its last class of 94 terdependent; none can be destudents on May 28. Finandal fined unambiguously," the state. problems and a declining .number ment says.

The chief function of the new of Sisters were cited as reasons for closing the school which was doctrinal statement is described as helping churCh members unestablished in 1868.

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Instead of watering down Catholic beliefs for the sake of pluralism and humanism, ~e said, "try the 'Apostles Creed, the sacraments and the teachings of Pope Paul and Vatican II." 'Personal Fulfillment' Father Meehan said that one of the basic problems in making selections from today's menu is an understanding of the semantics used.

"Genocide is now called zero population," he said. "Abortion now talks of fetuses, not babies.

Fornication, adultery, masturbation are now' called personal fulfillment. Downgrading Pope Paul is now. called collegiality. The supernatural is called superstition, including miracles' and Christ's divinity and Resurrection. The kingdom of earth is now the kingdom of heaven.

Prayer life is called copping out.

Theology is now called sociology, psychology and anthropology and opinion polls."

"With all these name changes," Father Meehan said, a person needs to be a "good translater to choose correctly."

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Georgetown Professor Cha lIenges Widgery Iteport on 'Bloody Sunday' WASHINGTON (NC)-A study sponsored by a United Nations affiliate has charged that. British troops fired "recklessly or deIiberately" when they killed 13 fleeing Catholics on "Bloody Sunday" in Londonderry.

The report, by Prof. Samuel Dash of the Georgetown University law school, directly challenges many conclusions in the official inquiry by Lord Widgery, lord chief jOstice of England.

Though identifical information was used for both reports, the Widgery report ignores or glosses over some very basic conclusions, according to Dash.

"I don't want to attribute any motives to Lord Widgery,-" Dash told a press Conference here.

Dash said, however, that the Widgery report completely absolves the British army and leaders of the Northern Ireland government of responsibility for "exposing tho'usands of peaceable .citizens to a high risk of death or serious bodily injury."

The First Batallion Parachute Regiment, to which all killings were traced, had a "notorious reputation in Northern Ireland for brutality to civilians" and are "trained to be quick on the trigger" an~ "to kill in aggressive warfare," Dash continued.

Dash, director of the Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure at Georgetown, and former chairman of the American Bar Association's section on criminal law, said that, though Widgery acknowledges that all of the dead were unarmed at the time of the killings, he accepts the doubtful testimony of paratroopers who claimed they shot only when fired upon.

Criticizes Commanders Dash's report, sponsored by the International League for the Rights of Man, an affiliate of the United Nations, differed from the Widgery inquiry in many of its conclusions. Major differences were:

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- ' specifying the "prin~ipal causes of pOllution," 'the Pope listed "atomic, chemical and bacteriological weapons and countless other instruments of war."

Mankind must learn, the Pope said, to display a corresponsibility toward those sharing a mutual dependence.

At the same time, he added, mankind must offer solidarity to those who share a common destiny.

Bishops Message. Praises Pope's

While Widgery exonerated the WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope British army for the killings, Paul VI's inspiring leadership in calling them within the army's the cause of world peace" and power of self-defense, Dash his "farsighted and courageous accuses the troops of firing leadership" of the Church were "either recklessly or deliberate- praised in a letter from Cardinal ly" and "without justification." . John Krol of Philadelphia.

Dash criticizes the commandThe letter, sent on behalf of ers of the British army for ignor- the National Conference of ing the urgent warning of Lon- Catholic Bishops, marked the donderry's chief superintendent ninth anniversary of Pope Paul's of police, a man whom Dash election to the papacy on June said was experie'nced in separat- 21, 1963. ing Londonderry rioters from Cardinal Krol, president of the peaceful demonstrators. The po- Conference, told the Pontiff: lice chief assured the army that "Among the many major the march would be peaceful and achievements recorded in your asked the army not to interfere, pontificate are the successful Dash said. Ignoring the rec- completion of the historical Vatommendation, the British Army ican Ecumenical Council and the "brought in" reinforcements trained in warfare, Dash said.

amazing dimensions of the implementation of the conciliar decisions and recommendations."

Of special importance, the cardinal wrote, were the two world Synods of Bishops whicp. helped "to actualize the collegial responsibility of. the bishops for the universal Church."

'Impressive Journeys' "Through the synods," Cardinal Krol said, "Your Holiness has direct access to the pastoral experience, the problems, the needs and the views of the bishops of the world."

As examples of Pope Paul's peacemaking efforts, the cardinal cited "the Wor!d Day of Prayer

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Peace Efforts for Peace with its ever increasing impact," the Pope's "personal pleas for peace," and his "unique and impressive journeys to .many parts of the world to bring Christ's message of peace and reconciliation to all men."

"There are reasons to hope and to believe that these efforts in behalf of peace are directing the attention and efforts of world leaders towards the pursuit of peace," Cardinal Krol said.

The cardinal said that all Catholics in the United States "join in pledging you their prayers on this solemn yet joyous anniversary."

'Cover for Terrorists' Dash charges that the rationale used in bringing in reinforcements was not sound because the senior army officers' claim that the march would be used as a cover for 'terrorists, armed with guns and bombs, could not be supported' by Widgery's evidence.

Even if civilian gunmen in the Bogside area occasionally shot at the paratroopers, as Widgery's report claims, Dash finds no reason for the troops to return sniper fire with "aimed or reckless shots at unarmed civilians."

Dash finds little evidence to support the need· for such a large-scale arrest operation when the only violence to troops occured in hooligan activities on the perimeter of the Bogside area. It was suggested that this group could have been photographed for later arrest.

The incident, resulting in 13 deaths and 13 injuries, began as a civil rights demonstration by Catholics Jan. 30 to protest the imprisonment without trial of suspected terrorists under the Special Powers Act. Most of the interned were Cath9lics.

Pope Says Armaments Principal' Cause for Polluted Environment VATICAN CITY (NC)-Weapons of war are a principal cause of our polluted environment, Pope Paul VI told the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

The Pope, in a letter read to the conference on its opening day, said that a poisoned planet can be averted only when man respects the laws of nature and helps his neighbor to total development.

By coincidence, opening day speeches by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme echoed these papal sentiments on war and peaceful de-

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The environment cannot be purified through technical knowhow alone, the Pope stressed, but rather by a trust in the "rhythm and laws of nature."Seek Balance "To govern nature," the Pope said, "means the human race should not destroy it, but perfect it; not transform the world into an uninhabitable chaos but into a beautiful and well ordered dwelling place."

The Pope linked the theme of ecology to that of development, and urged the delegates to the conference to seek some balance between the prosperity of the "industrialized centers 'of the world and the immense peripheries."

The Pope then added: "As has been justly said, misery is the worst of all pollutions."

In separate addresses, Waldheim and Palme called war the most destructive offender against the environment. Palme said that the pollution problems .can be solved only in a world at peace and committed to inte.rnational cooperation..

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Last Summer, knowing that we were going' to be away for a few weeks, we didn't really bother much with the window boxe8 and as a result we missed them. This year we did do something about them', planting them with geraniums; hanging geraniums and vinca. As I sit at everyone of their fiestas are bright with sparkling costumes, my typewriter I can see one soulful traditional music, a samof them and it is delightful. piing of native dishes and an . Window boxes are' simple to care for once the box is installed.

I had mine made 10 years ago and aside' from simple' repairs th:ey are still inta.:t. I usually fill. them with four or fiye inches of coarse sand or gravel and then . add loam mixed with peat ·moss to fill the box to an inch fr~m the top. Plantings are then made ~ after Memorial. Day when the . prices of geraniums falls drastieally.

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The only. problem WIth wm.dow boxes IS that the~ tend to leach because they dram so rapidly and the. plants ~eed some form of. nouflshment :If they· are to survIve the hot d)"y days of summer. We usually use one of the water soluble fertilizers at. least once a m?nth after the. plants are establIshed. . Watering must be fairly conslstent, because the boxes are above ground level, therefore lose the advantages that plants in the garden have in terms of moisture. One' has to watch the geraniums to learn when they need a good soaking SCI that they do not dry out bf begin to lose their rapid growth. Over-watering of' geraniums is poor policy so a balance has to be reached somewhere and this comes through experience anti observation.

Once the boxes are filled and the plants begin to thrive, they are a delight when viewed from in.side or outside the house. They offer tl).!1t little une~pected delight when viewed from the house and at the same time add im1!leasurably to the'· appearance of the house when viewed from the outside.'

In the Kitch~ra , At this' season Portuguese churches. throughout. the area are celebrating the feast days of their patron saints.. Each and

New Orleans .~aper Wins 16 Awards NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The staff of The Clarion Herald, archdiocesan pap~r' here, received a total of 16 awards iri state and local competition.

Photographer 'Frank Methe gathered two first and one secand in the New Orleans Press Club competition, barely missing a sweep in the three categories in which he was '-lligible.

Hal Ledet took a first and two seconds, making the MetheLedet duo the only three-award winners in the city in the 197172 contest.

Executive Editor,Father Elmo Romagosa, took first plaee in the column category and 'Vomen's'~: Editor Florence Herman placed second. Father Romagosaalso took third place for a picture story.

atmosphere that is warm and friendly. Our whole diocese is 'such a melting pot of ethnic groups that I'm surprised more and more of this type .of· thing isn't done.. . .. , OUI' young people who are .growing up in an era of superchange need a little bit of an anchor to hang on to and what is wrong with that anchor being a pride in one's heritage: A month or so 'ago Bristol C~mmiinity College in Fall River held an Iberian weekend, displayi!lg arts and crafts of the peninsula, music played on native instruments and a 'food tasting exhibit that was. "par excellence." Most of the cooking was done by a·young lady in her twenties who is involved with the' Iberian Center at the college and this girl of Portuguese extraction served dishes that would give competition' to cooks brought up in the homeland of these foods.

P d f H 'ta rou 0 erl ge The whole weekend was· a huge success, which proves a point that I truly believe. Those of us born in this country are delighted to sample the foods and cultures of other countries and make it ou)" own. Also it's wonderful to see people being proud o~ their heritage rather than ashamed of it.

I hope more of this pride will rub of!' on the older people and that we will be able to go to ethnie festivals and be served native foods rather than the catered,run of the mill dinners that get served even at this type of event. . '.

One of the joys of. living in a city that could be called a melting pot is that ethnic 'food is easy to obtain. We're. particularly fond of the homemade sausage that" is available at two shops within walking ·distance of our home. This recipe is an easy but tasty way to utilize this delicacy.

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Jesuit Observles AnniverSClries Rev. Wilfrid Bou~ier, S.J., of St. Mary's Church, Boston,' observes. this month his 20th year at St. Mary's, 30th of ordination and' 40th as a member of the Jesuit 9rder. He is the son. of the late Representative J. A Wilfrid Bouvier and of the late Clara Trottier. His father was th.e Flirit Village Druggist, corner of Pleasant and Eastern Avenue, Fall River from the very turn of the century.

Born in Fall River, Father Bouvier' was educated in the Brookline Schools, graduating from Boston. College, Weston College of Theology and University of Montreal; and studied phonetics at Poitiers, in France.

After teaching at Boston CollegE! 12 years, he was assigned to the Italian colony of Boston's, North End, where he is still active.

Chaplaincies have associated him with the 'Boston Richelieu Club, Knights of Columbus and Catholic Daughters. Active in community affairs, ,he "is Chairman of the local Historical Society, and of the Ecumenical Clergy and Lay D~alogue.

His sympathy: for the ill prompted. his founding the Local Chapter of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health; and he is past Pr~sident of the Suffolk County State Community Area Board .of the Departrno~nt of State, which seeks unmet needs in the field of retardation, senility arid alcohol and drug victims, guiding use of federal and State funds.

Secretary of State John F. X. Davoren 'recently awarded him a State Citation' for "Outstar.:ding, extraordinary service to the Community." ,

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ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER Vincentians will meet at 7:30 tonight in the lower church hall.

A pre-festival auction will take place Saturday, June 17 beginning at 10 AM. in the school hall. Refreshmen~:; will be available and. the public is invited.

The Men's Cluh will meet at 7 P.M. Sunday, June 18 in the school hall.

The annual summer festival is slated for Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16, at M'alowa Grove, Tiverton, formerly Urban's Grove. Mrs. JCtseph Gromada is in charge o~ arrangements.

SACRED EAlllT, FALL RIV.R Men of the parish will hold a Communio~ breakfast following 8:30 AM. Mass Sunday, June. f8.

There will, be but one daily Mass during thE! summer months, celebrated at 8 AM. The 5 P.M. daily Mass will be resumed in September.

The second amnual parish . bazaar is planned for Saturday, Oct. 28. A grand :prize of $2000 will be awarded.

Bingo will be held at 7 Wednesday nights in the school, continuing throughout the summer.

ST. JOHN TaE lEVANGELlST, POCASSET The .parish will holds its annual "Old Tyme Fair". from 10 AM. to 4 P.M. TUiesday, July 4 on the church grounds.' Mr. and Mrs.. George Peteira are general chairman. Booths will include country store, stitchery, eatry, "By the Sea ShqppE!," collectibles and usables, bake, flower and pop shops, and va:rious games.

Also planned is a ham and bean supper to be held at 5 Sun- . day evening, July 2, on the' church grounds.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, ' CENTRAL VILLA(j~E A lobster supper will be served from 5 to '1 P.M. S::lturday, June 17 in' the church hall on Main Reservations Road, Webtport. ,. may be m~de '.vith Mrs. Lynwood Potter or Mrs. Arthur Denault. I . New Ladies Guild officers are Mrs. Arthuf Denault, president; Irene Moniz, vicE!-president; Rita Rozinka, secretary; Edna Tripp, treasurer.. They were· installed at a church ceremo.ny, followed by a banquet. .

OUR LADY OF FATIMA, SWANSEA be held in A Whist Party the church hall on Wednesday evening, June 21, .at 7:30. Donation is $1 and includes refreshments and door prizes. Lighted parking area is adjacent to hall.

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ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild announces a whist party for 8 P.M. Saturday, June 17 in the school basement on Earle Street. Prizes will be awarded and refreshments served.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER A preliminary meeting for observance of the feast of Our Lady of the Angels will be held at 7 P.M. Sunday, June 25.

All parishioners are invited to participate in a baseball 'trip planned for Father's Day by tlle Holy Name Society. Ticket price will include game admission, bus fare and refreshments.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, NEW BEDFORD The parish sponsors a weekly beano game on Wednesdays at 7:30 P.M. It will be held throughout the summer in· the church basement on Nye Street.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER St. Anne's Little League will conduct their annual tag day Saturday, June 17.

The Father's Day Communion Breakfast will be served on Sunday morning at 9 o'clock immediately after the 8 o'clock Mass.

Tickets for the Beachcombers Dance scheduled for June '24 are available at the rectory. The' menu will have as its entree a half a chicken.

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I.t Would Be Impossib.le For All to Live U.S. Style

P'raises Buddhism's Spiritual Treasures VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI praised Buddhism for its "spiritual, moral and sociocultural treasures" when he received Thailand's new Buddhist leader here.

The Pope told the Buddhist leader, Somdey Phra Vannarat, and his companions: "We recognize the values of

The Bishops in their Synodal Document "Justice in the World" condemn the "trickle down" theory of economic 'assistance because, as they point out, making a few people very rich at the top of society does not necessarily create enough wealth for the quarter of the people who, in of the average American housemany developing lands are hold.

At the same time, if every cit. already living below the level izen in the world had at his or of decent subsistence at "mar·

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her disposal America's present supply of power per head-the equivalent of 13 metric tons of coal a year-fossil fuels would be running down. Even more serious, the heat given off by generating electricity could even begin melting the polar ice caps.

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. These risks are not immediate because nobody supposes the poor of the world are suddenly .1JI1!::IIIII:!/{·ml!li:I:~m . going to secure America's standginal" standards of food and ards.

But the limits are there, health and schooling. As the just the same.

The material dePresident of the World Bank mands, the use of power, the pointed out in a recent speech to consumption of high protein the United Nations Conference ·food (especially meat) the very on Trade and Development rapid turnover of goods and (UNCTAD) at Santiago, Chile, machines, the consequent waste some countries - among them, and pollution of the world's Brazil and Mexico-have grown waters and skies-all these feao~crall by six or seven per cent tures of a standard of living in the last decade. which the wealthy, largely postMeanwhile the share of the Christian societies now enjoy richest 10 per cent has grown and show every sign of wanting by at least 10 per cent-to well to' increase cannot be extended over a third of all wealth- to the rest of mankind without while the share of the poorest "irreversible damage ... to the 40 per cent has actually fallen- essential elements of life on to below 10 per cent. The tables earth, such as air and water." of the rich may have been load· So what in fact are we saying? ing up with new wealth but very Is the Christian response simply few crumbs have fallen to the to say: "Bad luck. We' made it needy. first. We have the power and reBut this maldistribution is not so'urces to live as we do. But the only difficulty with "trickle you, the rest of God's creatures, down" economic policy. The must live more modestly, conBishops cite' another difficulty sume less and make sure that when they point out: you do not do 'irreversible dam"Such is the demand ... the age' to planet earlto" whole of mankind." (Justice in This is a possible response. Inthe World, P.8). deed, at present, it is the most likely one. Although the 6 per Not Enough cent of the world's peoples who The meaning is clear. If the live in the United States con-' poor are to be fed and clothed sume over· 30 per cent of the and housed only after the kind world's income, the American of enormous expansion of wealth government talks of doing more and consumption that has taken for America and less for the place in the United States' and world. But God said to the man Western Europe, they might find who 'stored his wealth in his that there were not the re- barn: "Thou fool, this night thy sources to go round or that pol- soul is required of thee." lution had created irreversible damage to the air and oceans.

Campaign Organized To give only one example, if every nation tried to imitate Against Abortion WASHINGTON (NC) - The America in passenger cars, there would be at least three and a President's Commission on Pophalf billion cars on the planet ulation Growth and the Ameriby 1990. In that case, gasoline can Future here is feeling the supplies would be' falling and effects of organized letter camgrowing more expensive. And paigns against its pro-abortion the heating up of the atmosphere position. with COl from the automobiles ' .Commission officials reported emissions would be having unpre- that they have received about dictable effects on the world's 500 letters and telegrams opposing their recommendation of entire climate.

Now nobody supposes that six more liberal abortion laws and billion people will have Amer- about 100 favoring it. ica's supply of cars. But carry Abortion vastly outdrew all of the principle a little further-to the other issues discussed in the food, to clothes, to household commission's report. Only 100 goods, to shelter and above all, letters have been received dis· to that most agreeable part of a cussing issues other .than aborhigh living standard-instantly tion, spokesmen said. available ~lectricity - and we President Nixon has criticized could say that the earth's arable the commission's recommendaland and forests would be heav- tions on abortion and on supply· ily strained by next century if ing contraceptives to minors as they had to produce diets equiv- measures which "would do alent to America's steak and ice nothing to preserve and strengthcream or the full textile content en close family. relationships." .'~'.- .~....'

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ELECTED: Paul F. Saint, a 1940 graduate of Holy Cross College, has been elected president of the Worcester school's general alumni association at the annual meeting of the group's board of directors.

Saint, who lives at 19 Fair Oaks Park, Needham,' will head an alumni association of over 15,000 members.

which you are the custodians, and we share the desire that they should be preserved and fostered.

"We hope there will be increasingly friendly dialogue and close collaboration between the traditions that you represent and the Catholic Church."

"Burn" The Missions

Fire is one of those elements in life expressing our feelings and experiences. As a symbol, it can represent a blessing or a tragedy; it can be a light that gUides or blinds; or "a heat that warms or blisters.

Scripture and religious symbolism make use of this dichotomy in fire: God appears to Moses in a burning bush and the end of the world, it is said, will come by fire. Hell is symbolized by fire while the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles in "tongues of fire," We, too, receive this Spirit at Baptism, ConfiramtIon, and in our celebration of Pentecost-and its presence and effect are (or can be) just as powerful and life-changing as the first Pentecost.

I have never seen a flame of fire alight on someone's heael, but I have seen peOple so "on fire with love" that their whole presALBANY (NC)-For the third ence gives out a warmth and light to others. If you have ever ,time in three years, a bill devisited a mission among poor and suffering people, and have seen signed to aid nonpublic schools a missionary working in their presence, you would knoW' what was signed into law and quickly I mean. You would see the Spirit at work in the Sister who challenged in court. reaches out with a smUe to a frightened, crippled victim of leprosy The new law, signed by Gov. who crawled 10 miles to get to the mission clinic. You would hear Nelson A. Rockefeller will prothe Spirit speaking in the catechist, enthusiastically telling a vide more than $40 million in aid Gospel story to a group of friends. You can see the fire of God's to poor and middle income famLove in every missionary who comes home to visit-to beg for ilies with children in nonpublic money for his people-anxiously waiting to return to the missions. schools. .

And yes, I have seen the Spirit in the hearts and minds of so Like laws passed in 1970 and 1971, the. new law was chal- many people, '.not missionarie$, but so in love with God and the lenged by the Committee for world that they give- and really sacrifice to support these missionPublic Education and Religious aries bringing the Good News of Pentecost to the neediest' of peoples.

Liberty (PEARL), a coalition of The Third World peoples need many things: food, medicine, educagroups opposing aid to parochial tion, and social development, and these are being given by today's schools. The earlier laws were missionaries, thanks to your generosity; but above all-you are sharing in their greatest work: bringing the "fire of Truth and struck do:-vn by the courts.

Faith" and the experience of God to others.

The new law will provide: , This Pentecostal Season, I pray that we all receive the Tuition assistance of $25 milexperience of the Spirit who will enkindle in us even more, the lion to families with less than fire of love, and that we will "burn the missions" with that love, $5,000 it year net taxable income. and with the Spirit renew the face of the earth.

Families would get $50 a year It was this Spirit that compelled young Pauline Jaricot 150 for elementary school pupils and $100 for children in high school. years ago to found a society for mission support. Through the Tax credits totaling $10 to workings of the Spirit this Society grew to become the Pope's $15 million to families with gross own society for mission support by the entire Church, the Society annual incomes of less than for the Propagation of the Faith. This year celebrates its 150th anniversary.. May this time of Pentecost find each of you a part $25,000. $4 million for repairs and of this celebration, by your sincere prayers and generous sacrifices maintenance of nonpublic . for the Church's missionaries and the poor they serve. schools in poor city neighbor·' "Come, Holy Spirit; and set us on fire with Your Love."

Please join with us by sending your special gift for the hoods. .: Aid for public school districts missions today. Remember the Society for the Propagation of the affected by the closing of nonFaith when writing or changing your will. public schools.

Aid for public school districts SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society : affected by the closing of non- : , for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column , public schools. and send your offering to Most Reverend Edward T. : PEARL filed suit challenging : , O'Meara, Nationai Director, Dept.

C., 366 Fifth Ave, New , the constitutionality of the law York, NoY. 10001 or directIy to your local Diocesan Director. : in New York City even before : Rockefeller had signed the bill : The Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine : here. , 368 North Main Street ' , Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 ,

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SAGINAW (NC)-Brother Leo K. Gilskey will become superin· tendent of education for the Saginaw diocese on July 17. He succeeds Father Olin J. Murdick, who is now director of education for the U.S. Catholic Conference.

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Family ~ ,R,I~s: Husband .and·Father I Whose Day is it, Anyway? or. Grand . . Theft Puppy II'! . '. . :·BY JAMEST. McHUGa_ '. has before .him many male ".' According to cOIi\;entt6.naf images, 'preeminently his ·father. wisdom and speciatzed··tese&r.ch· He is. also exposed to many fe. findings, there seems t.c(-.be ·tfu:ee male influences, principally his qU!llities that wome~' ·:,usu-aUy mother. Nothing is more delook·fof in their evahiation-:of a structiye'for a young hoy than 'mart . husband ~ materiat'o .-'- the combination of a domineer~ strength, tendernes, and, com- ing mother and an .absentee panionship. . father.

The firs~ of thesl~ qualiti~s-:- -.

The' tr'uiy feminine woman strength~ls too often measured \ exerts the most effective mater?n the physi~al level. What is nal influence by being just wbat really meant IS streng~~ of char- . she is-wife and mother-:...and acter-the ability to distinguish by placing' before her husband right from wrong, and to take and sons her demand tobe'recresponsibili!y fo~ one's. acti??s; ognized. as such.' Correspondstrength ~f emotIOns-the ablhty ingly, as someone 'has observed, to stand alone even whenchal- the best thing:a man can do for lenged; strength of soul' - the his children is love their mother. ability to love and admit to the . . .. need to be loved.

The secQnd quahty. Is.teJ:lderEvery woman has: a right to ness. Too often w,e think ~f this look for this type of strength il1 as synonymous. wI~h effeminacy. a man but she must also realize Tenderness buIlds on strength, that ~hen it is not immediately and we get the. best picture apparent, this does no~ mean that .image of. this. qU~lity in ~he it is absent. Perhaps its presence father With hiS mfant. chIld. needs to be activated, and a good Tenderness in a man dema~ds woman-a good wife-is the one that he be strong, sure of hll~­ who can summon it into exist- self asa man, and aware of hiS ence. This perhaps is the secret and other ~ersons' needs.. .He of complementarity -:- that a must recogD1~e. th~t .the g1Vm.g woman approaches a man in the means a hmltatloD of hiS strength of her femininity, and strength.

In other words, he relates to thereby brings out the best that is in him. another person not from a 'posiQualities tion of power, but from' a posiThis quality of strength is built tion. of recognition, acceptance up in a man from childhood. He Turn to Page Eighteen

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prayer for Friday' in the Third Week of' Lent· 'reads: "May our Lenten fast please you, 0 Lord.

May we keep. ·our :minds free from ·sin as 'We deprive our bodies food." While in fal::t many Catholic Christians continue to give up certain items from the table for this holy .,~ason and the Church still encouragns acts of self-denial as a part of our preparation 'for Easter, the words of that collect simply do 1:10t fit the ordinary, contemporary Amer· ican scene.

Changes in the laws of fast and abstinence 'plus .a ·tendency to follow positive rather than negative practices (e.g., daily Mass, scriptural reading) render

(June 18 is Father's Day. Since it's beginning, "Sanford and Son" has used humor to portray a very close father-son relationship between Fred a.nd Lamont. In this dialogue, we find Fred· berating Lamont :for not buying him a present on Father's Day. And once again; Lamont comes through in the end.)

Officer:' Now, listen, you two.

You call the police 'and then try to out-shout each other. Settle down' and one at. a time tell me what's going on. . Sanford: -O.K.; officer. I'm charging' my son with grand' theft puppy.

Officer: What?

Sanford, Grand theft puppy.

You know, like grand theft auto.

Only it was a pupppy dog. Maybe that should be petty theft.

Lamont: Officer, will you ignore this man who claims to be my father put is actually a screwball in creep's clothing.

Sanford: Say, how would you like a fat Afro lip?, ,Officer: Now, cut it out or I'll haul both of you in. Now, Sanford you tell your story.

Sanford: Alright. What day is it?

Officer: Huh? Sanford: What day is it?

Officer: Sunday.

Sanford: I know, that, but what day is it?' Don't answer; I'll tell you. Father's Day, as in "papa." And on said aforementhe noti.on of "fasting" and "de- tioned Father's Day one Lamont . prive 'our bodies .of food". some- Sanford being my only son and what unclear. The new transili- heir :;;hol,lld ha've bought me a tion of the Latin term probably present. ,But said Lamont .

Officer: Speak English will will speak about our "L~nten observance," a' m'ore .general you. phrase which includes fasting, Sanford: He didn't buy me a but extends to' those other ef- present. Nothing. Zero. Zip. forts common today. among . Big-ought. Empty. Vacuum.

Catholics . durin~ Lent.

Lamont: Pop,. the. officl~r gets Avoid Preoccupation. the idea.

As a second examPle,.' we Sanford: Zilch.

Lamont: Pop! might cite prayers which. ask. that we "despise the things of '. Sanford: So, officer, I took his earth" and "concentrate on the money from the. suga.r bowl and things of heaven." True, today"s purchas~d one' canine from my Christian must follow' the ex-' pal. But when ~ turned my back, ample of earlier days by ,keeping the accused let the dog go. That " eyes on the world t:' come and '>is grand theft puppy and. inva· .! avoiding a preoccupation with sion of my rights.

Officer: When did you turn our temporary life here on earth.

But to "despise" my family, job; back. friends and. pleasures seems a Sanford: Well, it was mOrE~ bit severe, a practical impossi- than a' back-turn. More of an bility, and not even ..spiritually ignore. desirable.. .

Lamont: 'Pop, there's' no such The Vatican II de'cree.on "The a word as ·"an ignore...· Church in the Modern World" Sanford: Sure there is. It's surely does not take such an ap- half of an ignore~amus. Which proach. It opens on the contrary is what you' are. with these observations' about Lamont: Pop, you're gonna "That world which the Christian' .. get in trouble with me. se~s as created and .sustained by Sanford: what are you gonna the' Maker's love,' falien' indeed .ao? Take me ~ver your knee? into the bondage of sin,". yet Maybe I sholJld do' that with emancipated now .byChrfst.·;." you so you don~t forget your The'mariner in which we publicly . suffering papa on Father's Day. Lamont.: Officer, is it my turn pray at Mass should reflect the way we believe in our hearts, to testify? ought to mirror a faith with roots Officer: Go ahead. , in the Second Vatican Council.

Lamont: I came home and Publication of.the revised Ro·· found.my father. w~th a mutt.

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''TV'S SANFORDS: Since its beginning, "Sanford and Son" has used humor to portray a very close father-son relationship although some' of the situations lead up to comic misunderstandings.' Do not forget Father on Sunday, June 18. iNC Photo.

The song "Alfie" ponders life's questions. We ask with the song: .

"What's it all a:bout?" "Is it just for the moment we live?"

"What's it all about when you sort it out? . "Are: we meant to take more than we give, or are ' we meant to be kind?"

elderly, and all those for whom nobody cares. _ Is it necessary to sort it out and label each pile? We can.

Some do. One pile is bundled, tied, .and marked "work." Another "fun." Another "religion."

Good Samaritan Alo'ng side one marked "for me" is one marked "for others."

The piles are stacked side by By side. We feel there is a danger in mixing the piles. The danger ' JOAN is': that- the classifications may' I .. become c.onfused. If enough HEIDER ,j: work and.fUn are mixed, maybe . '. the differertce will become less.

If religion should get mixed 1iWl&Wr.~-:il:i·:ll·lnll!iE! 'with anything else, maybe outFor the moment a p.erson .can siders will no longer recognize do ~ost anything. . I~ is when ',. it.. as. religloI). If what is set the moments l)f daily routine; '.'aside "for ine" is mixed with turn into years of life that things.' \ivhat'is "for others" maybe mine. become more difficult. Our lives . will b~ given away sometime. are a series of moments. .

It does not seem that the Depending on conditions these Good Samaritan of the gospel moments of life can be a taking, lived his life' in compartments. a giving, or a' combination of' He did not have to think about both. Some will take more than . what he should do when he saw . they give. Other~ will give more the man lying in the dust. He than they take. This is the way knew. He acted immediately. we are able to help each other.

In his daily life he evidently A baby is una.ble! to give any- mixed what was his with what thing in return for all he is giv- religion meant in his life. en. This does OI)t mean that his He picked the man up. He parents love him less than they himself tpok him to" a place love the older child who is work- where he .would receive proper ing to help pay his college tui- care. Finally, he picked up the tion. On a broad,er scale this also bill. He shared his time, his talapplies to living with those out- ents, and his finances with someside our families; Those who one in need of them. This is the can should give, help to those meaning of leading others to who have need•....,.t:he poor, the Jesus. This is "what 'it's all disabled, the handlicapped, the about."

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A whole book devoted to a single, conversation-that's what we ge,t in Andre Malraux' Felled Oaks (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 383 Madison Ave., New York, N¥. 10017 $6.95). What makes the conversation perhaps worthy of a book-length report is that ; . the other participant was miration. De Gaulle. an~ Malraux Charles de Gaulle. Malraux exchanged views or Stalin, whom both had met. They found had long been associated him utterly ruthless. Other wellwith de Gaulle. He spent Thurs'-n:l~J~~~ By

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known personages of the midcentury and beyond came up for comment.

In the course of the conversation, Malraux saw that de Gaulle had aged and was in a hurry to get his memoirs written before it should be too late. And looking at the general, he was prompted to make certain obser· vations-not, of course, aloud.

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day, December 11, 1969 with de Gaulle at the latter's secluded home at" Colombey. This proved to be his last meeting with the general. He sensed' that it was such. Perhaps the general did, too. They talked of many other things as well, for example, their own experiences, going back as far as World War I, and coming down to the disturbances in . France in 1968. Napoleon was discussed, and Joan of Are, Clemenceau and Petain.

Inevitably, they kept returning to the subject of France, its mystique and its destiny as deGaulle conceived these. The general drew a sharp distinction between France and the French, although curiously, at. one point he said that the peopie are France." .' . 'Last Europeans'

One was that the general had the qualities of an ancient Roinan. Another was that refusal was a principal characteristic, that he was at ease only when saying, "No." He quotes Soustelle's expression, meant as a compliment, that de Geulle was "toward and against everything."

Austere though De Gaulle was at the last meeting of the two collaborators, there were flashes of .humor in what he said. And on a· table lay some puzzles which he worked with his grandchildren when they visited him.

Most of his reading, he informed Malraux, was now. of poetic drama-Aeschylus, Shakespeare, a little Claudel.

The value of this book consists in its close-up view of one of the great figures of our time.

There is nothing definitive about it, and nothing systematic either, But Malraux does let us see the man, in his own home, in a reflective mood, facing the end of · his life in a solitude starkly contrasting with the place he had · held in the affairs of France and in the world.

COMMEMORATE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF PARISH: Among the 350 who attended the Diamond Jubilee banquet of St. Joseph's Parish, Taunton, were: F. Hamilton Lane, president of parish cOllncil; Rev. Bento Fraga, assistant pastor; Rev. John J. Murphy, pastor; Rev. Ambrose Bowen, former pastor of St. Joseph's; Bishop James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, guest speaker; Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher, former assistant pastor at the jubilee parish; Alfred Cormier, parish chairman of the jubilee committee.

Whose Day is it, Continued from Page Sixteen Sanford: So what? I've seen you with plenty of dogs. Take Sally for instance.

Lamont: That's enough, papa.

Sanford: Sure, that's enough for anyone. She must weigh 250 pounds. She's so fat people think she's a famous star-the Supx:emes.

Lamont: Cut it out. Anyway,

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officer, he got this mutt which must have been 100 'years old and blind and ready to die. Paidmy good money for him. Sure I threw him out of the house.

Right back into the arms of that guy who sold it to Pop and got my money back.

Officer: And where is the money now?

Lamont: Back in' the sugar bowl.

Officer: Look, you two, I'm leaving. Settle this nutty thing yourself. But without yelling.

The neighbors might complain.

Sanford: Neighbors? Who do you think is gonna live next to us Black junkmen?

Lamont: So long, officer. . .

Pop, will you settle down?

Sanford: If only I had a son who respected me.

Lamont: How about a father who respects me? That's what I want. Not one who ridicules me.

- This reader confesses that he cannot grasp the meaning, if any, of much of this highsounding but cloudy talk about Schedule Ordination France. There is a great deal of it, and it is earnest, but it has Of Barrister, 79 an oracular quality which the NORTHAMPTON (NC) - A rude outsider is obviously unNo, No Nanette former London teacher will be prepared to understand. ordained at Northampton catheOf quite another order is Don A conviction that the end of the civilization we have known . Dunn's book, The Making of No, dral June 24 at the age of 79.

Probably the oldest man ever is at hand runs through much of No Nanette (Citadel, 120 Enterto be ordained- in his country, prise Ave., Seacaucus, N. J. the conversation. "We are the Richard Murtagh, a widower, last Europeans in Europe, which $7.95).

As everyone must know by comes from County Galway, was Christianity," de Gaulle . says, a remark which is reminis- now, No, No' Nanette is a musi- Ireland.

He was educated at London cent of some of Hilaire Belloc's cal comedy' first produced in 1925 and revived with astonish- University and was headmaster ideas: .

As for DeGaulle's personal re- ing' success in 1970. It was at two London schools before he ligion, Malroux says, "I believe nothing much to begin with, a retired~ Murtagh then .studied his faith was so deep that it ig- vapid little show, with a dull law in London and later in Dub- Elephants Destroy nored every domain that would book, sappy lyrics, but some lin and last year became an Mission Station put it in question ... His faith passable tunes. Its reception in Irish barrister.

SHILLONG (NC)-A herd of Refusing an offer of an acawas not aquest'ion: it was a 1925 was modest, but it has been about 40 elephants completely given, like France; he did not brought back to spectacular ac- demic appointment with legal destroyed a mission station built practice he then began studyirig like to speak of his religion." He claim and box office returns. for the Nongpylut tribe in the rarely mentioned God, and nE;lver Why? The· usual answer is its for the priesthood at the Jesuit Shillong archdiocese in NorthCollege of Theology, Milltown mentioned Christ. Malroux found nostalgic appeal. It- whisks peoeast India. him to be more preoccupied with ple away to a time of relative Park, Ireland. After his ordinaThe priest at the mission, innocence. It relieves them, how- tion-within six months of his Spanish, Salesian Father Jose history than with religion.

80th 'birthday-he will work in ever briefly, from all the prob.Arminana, said that the mis~ Ebbing of Ambition lems and complications and get:\- the Northampton diocese. sion's school, chapel and dispensary, as well as his own hut, In their talk on that December eral nastiness of the present. It is day, they touched on the United sweet and buoyant and utterly . The war to get the show in shal'e were obliterated.

When the priest began workwas won. But never-ending have States. De Gaulle observed, "De- simple, ing among the Nongpylut people been the hostilities among those spite its power, I don't believe Process of Battling responsible for the production. there were no roads in the area the United States has a longMr. Dunn's minute review of and the people were living in term policy." And Malraux said, .

Well, there was nothing sweet "Ambition has. always existed, or buoyant or simple about get- this unedifying but revealing his- primitive conditions, ignorant of but the nineteenth-century mid- ting the rivival onto' the stage tory is a textbook in the under- modern medicine and agriculdle class and its heir, the United and before an audience. As the side of the theatre, the side which tural methods.

Father Arminana built a small States, made it the central pas- title indicates, the book is con- the audience never sees. Egosion. We may be witnessing an cerned with the process by which mania, jealOUSY, envy, greed, school for them, taught them the show achieved its present treachery, these riot through the how to cultivate rice, drew up immense ebbing of ambition." pages, while in the background . plans for a 30-mile road to the John F. Kennedy was talked production.

So there started a process of there sounds insistently the tin- area, and brought in the more about, and Lyndon Johnson, neiurgently needed medicines. ther with much sympathy or ad- battling which is not over yet. kle of "I Want to be Happy."

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Sanford: Well, you didn't get me a present.

Lamont: Pop, why do you think I cut my date short today?

I could have been out all day.

But I came home to take you to the twilight double-header and treat you to dinner.

Sanford: Huh? Lamont: But you blew it. Flying off the handle. Getting excited. Hollering like always.

Sanford: Well, is the game over?

Lamont: Oh, no you don't. You can't make up now. We ain't going to no ballgames or dinner.

Not until we show each other some love and respect and trust.

Sanford: I trust· you. After all, you're my son. Let me see the tickets.

Lamont: O.K. Hete.

Sanford: Bleachers? Why you cheapie! Where are we going for dinner? The Salvation Army?

Lamont: Happy Father's Day, Pop. Sanford: Thanks, son. Hurry up, let's get going. I want to see if Willie Mays .is really colored.

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Resents Effort·' to Dictate Charisms of As.ceticism It is much to be feared. that we are in for another siege of moralism. A youthful Jesuit political scientist recently argued that priests should not play golf or belong to athletic clubs-not at least if they were "concerned" (which is the latest synonym for "relevant"). Now w~ read in What's more, I intend to go on them. And that will_ the Catholic press about the enjoying make "concerned" young Jesuits great admiration for the go into' paroxysms of priggish-

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Golf, a comfortable hotel room after a dreary meeting, The Leprechaun are all creatures of God and hence good. They are intended to be enjoyed and' the real Bin would be to use them and not enjoy them. If they become burdens, or status symbols, . or compulsions they have been perverted..

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BON VOYAGE: Rev..Ambrose Forgit, SS"CC. says Mass aboard "Nova Sintra" in New Bedford harbor prior to vessel's maiden voyage. She will ply waters between New Bedford and Cape Verde Islands.

Obviously, there are limitations placed on the enjoyment of such good things-limitations of time, taste, responsibility, generosity, VATICAN CITY (NC) - As of St. Peter's Basilica where anything goes, the cardinal. said, ascetidsm, and soCial commitmen.t. But, I would argue, all of thousands of tourists fIocke(~ women in brie:f Summer attire it is possible "to' find in Rome these limitations are a matter of into Rome to launch the long, had been forbidde:rt entrance by times and places of moral indiffer€J1ce, of social protest and personal charism; they should be hot Summer, Pope Paul's vicar guards and nuns on duty. of ·the Diocese of Rome warned letter, the carIn this year's perhaps a vulgar encounter with based on the decision of each centers of vice and drugs." But person as to what is proper and visitors against "immodest dress" dinal said: . appropriate for him in the cir- and "insane pleasures."

"Let me wlelcome you to that is not the real Rome Cardinal Angelo Dell'Acqua, Rome, which gives satisfaction dreamed of by millions of tourcumstan!=es in which he finds . who directs the diocese in the to the noblest aspirations of man. ists, the cardinal said. himself.

There are' some limitations name of the Pope, wrote a let· , But allow me to add: if you love Tourists were asked to respect which are fairly general, one ter that appeared June 7 in the Rome, respect the sacred, char-. the sacred monuments of Rome supposes: a bishop scarcely Vatican daily L'Osservatore Ro- acter 'of the city." and "not to profane' the cJlUrches ought to own a 707; a pastor in mano. with immodest'dress which inGuards at En.trances The cardinal's letter was both a POol' parish can probably do In the modern milieu where cites to evil." without a Cadillac. But under a "welcome to Rome" as well as The cardinal told tourists that most circumstances, any attempt a request for visitors to "respect true physical beauty does not Excellence of one person to dictate that his the sacred character of the city. consist in an "exaltation of the.

In many lines of work, it isn't body" that is contrary to human charism is obligatory for others .,. In a similar letter last A::tgust, the cardinal called for proper how much you do that counts, dignity. is intolerable moralism.

"Do not waste away your days The bishop in question did not dress inside Rome's churches , but how much you do well and of a well-earned Summer vacasay that all bishops should stay after the international press fo- how often you decide right.

-Feather tion abandoning yourselves to at the "Y." It was his charism cused attention on the very steps insane pleasures," the cardinal and he made no judgments about said. others. Neither should anyone Meanwhile, at 51. Peter's and else. But the Jesuit political sciContinued from Page Sixteen entist .was only too' willing to evidence that our culture does other major ohurches, male mllke Bweeping generalizations and appreciation of the other as not lack men of strength, ten- guards are kept busy forbidding' about the appropriateness of distinct and independent. Be- derness, and compalrtionship, but entrance to anyone in brief atathletic clubs for all priests. It tween husband and wife, this al- that both men and women mis- tire. was not enough for him ·to say ways intensifies the man'!: ap- understand these qualities, with Creatures of G(J:d that he does not feel at ease on preciation of his wife whom he the result that Dlen try to hide I don't play either golf or . the links. Everyone should feel sees as possessing qualitie!l dif- . them and women fail to recoghockey, so I guess I must· stand ill at ease. ferent from his own, and capable ,nize them. In reality, for many as a man approved. Except that of calling forth .the best that is men .these qualities: are easily .Looks Suspicious my motives aren't very good. I in him. . called into play by a perceptive quit golf a decade ago when it and loving woman who is secure, It seems to ·me that we should be~ame clear that onLy occapatient and trusting. Unfortukeep our charisms of asceticism Companionship sional random chance would to ourselves. Insofar as they are The final quality is compan- nately, the emphasis on the ever lower my score beneath visible to others, let others see ionship. Despite all the activity male-female polarities leads far 100. And I once.tried to ice skate them and make their own judg- and noise, our world is full of too many women into competibut after an hour of intense ef- ments about whether the. spirit lonely persons. What a girl tion with men, a.nd the consefort was unable to lift a skate . moves them in the same direc-' looks for in the man she wishes quent denial of the sexual difThe Falmouth National Bank from the ice (it was like I was tion (which is what I presume to marry. is. someone who can fetence that makes every manFALMOUTH. MASS 8y <he lillian Green Since 1821 glued down). Do' I get pqints for the bishop had in mind). But if narrow the people-gap, who can woman relationship worthwhile. virtue that comes from inepti- others don't see them, any at- .make ~he whole world present tude? tempt to call attention' to our when he is with her, and paraWhat I do is water !Jki. And virtue and to suggest that they doxically, can shut the whole . . what's more, I enjoy it immense- practice the same virtue looks world' out to preserve privacy and intimacy. . ly, which is even more unpar- dangerously suspicious. donable. I also sail-at considThere is a name for such be-.

Companionship depends very erable risk to life and Iimb--a havior, though It is not a pretty much on communication, w;lich beach boat, characteristically one. Any attempt to equate fidel- . takes us. back to strength and on the Cape dubbed The Leprechaun. And I ity to ~he.gospel with a narrowly tenderness. The strong man is enjoy that; too"":' which is the prescnbed code of legal and as- . not afraid to communicate to rhe Hirlhesf Savings Dividends most unpardonable thing of all. cetiCal be~avi~r can only .. be . open himself to the other 'perAllowed by Law called phanseelsm. The phansee son, even. to betraying his can~ot l~~ve ot~ers t? w~rk out faults. In fact, he may expect 5 ~% -- Rl~gular Savings Anniversary Ma;s theIr spmtual hves 10 dIalogue. a truly wise woman to under.

5 Yl!% -. 91) Day Notice WASHINGTON (NC) -- Arch- with th.e. Spirit. He must replace. stand his fauIis, without equat5 %% -. Ttlrm Deposit Certificates, 1 yr. bishop Luigi Raimondi, apostolic the Spmt and tell others what ing them with weakness. Undelegate in the United States, to do. fortunately, too many women 6% - Term Deposit Certificates, 2-3 yrs. will offer a Mass Sunday, June And we know from hfstory make just that mistake, believing .

Bank by mail - it costs you nothing ." _ 25 at St. Matthew's Cathedral what the pharisees do to those that there is. some special adhere marking the ninth a.nniver- who preach the freedom of. the' vantage in findfng a man's weaksary of the coronation of Pope Spirit and try to lift the burden. ness. '.. . .307 MIAIN sr., SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS. 02664 Paul VI. of harsh legalism.

There 'seems: to be abundant YMCA during the 'Bishop's meeting in Atlanta instead! of enjoying the comforts of the Sheraton.

Now J have the gl'eatest~d­ miration for the toughness and courage of the bishop in. question. Wherever the C'harism of the Spirit moves him to stay is all right with me. His choice of hotels is his business: My problem is with those who would use his choice a~ a model to criticize the choice of others. .

The bishop in que!ltion is a fervent hockey player--which is also to be admired. On(~ imagines that the expense off playing hockey more than offsets the money saved by not patronizing first class hotels. Do the new puritans mean to say that it is all right. 'to play hockey (though don't mention that sport in Chicago) but immoral to stay in Sheratons or Hiltons? Or that a bishop gives scandal when' h~ does ~he latter but not when he does the former? Or that not sleeping in a Sheraton is edifying but not playing hockey is not edifying?

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Mexican Bishops Stress Need To Aid Poor MEXICO CITY (NC) - The high illiteracy rate among Mexico's poor is "but another aspect of social injustice," according to this country's bishops.

The committee on education of the Mexican Bishops' Conference also criticized the ,methods used in schooling the nation's pupils.

"Mere instruction is taken for' education," the committee said in a report. "Decentralization is needed if local schools are to fill pupils' needs. There is too much preoccupation with standardized programs and schedules."

"It is time to recognize the need to make the poor aware of their plight and instill in them the desire to improve it, rather than to continue imparting mere academic· knowledge," the report added.

The committee also criticized communications media "for giving poison, not education" to million's of young readers and viewers by stressing "consumerism and, along with the schools, by fomenting selfishn~ss." .

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Sacram'entary Continued from Page Sixteen !l1an Missal and, now, translation of its prayers for Sundays, holydays and special feasts should help correct some of these obvious difficulties. Furthermore, the availability of 80 prefaces and numerous final prayers or blessings will offer celebrants and worship committees additional alternatives and further texts from which to choose in preparing eucharistic celebrations.

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OFFICE OF XAVIER SOCIETY: A seven-story building in New York is the national headquarters of the 72-year-old Xavier Society for the Blind. It is the hub of production and th~ mailing point for reading and educational material to aid the visually handicapped. NC Photo.

D1iteracy Rate The Mexican government has increased education's share of the national budget from 16 per cent six years ago to 25 per cent Its 47,000 primary and secondary public schools are attended by 8.6 million youths. There are 230,000 students in colleges and universities.

The Church sponsors 2,400 schools, educating about 600,000 p·upils. Most are run by parentteacher groups in order to circumvent laws restricting confessional schools.

There are, however, about 18 million Mexican youngsters of school age, which means that' only about half of them are receiving a formal education. The average illiteracy rate in Mexico is 35 per cent, but in rural and other poor areas it rises to 43 per cent.

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Director of Center Lauds Volunteers

NEW YORK (NC)-Volunteers help put it all together for the Xavier Society for the Blind, the only national Catholic center producing reading and listening material for the visually handicapped.

"Without them we'd fall apart," said the center's director, Jesuit Father Anthony F. LaBau. "Just imagine the patience, the courage it must take to tackle a book of, say, 600 pages."

With a staff of less than a dozen, and a small army of volunteers, the center turns out magazines and books in Braille; large-type publications for the partially sighted; three-dimensional illustrated volumes for the young; and recorded books and articles, on regular tape reels or on convenient light-weight "This' is our greatest injus- casettes. tice," commented Father AntoFather LaBau, who has been nio M. Aguilar, secretary of the director since 1967, told NC bishops' education committee, on News that the volunteers, who releasing its report. "To keep it undergo special training courses, from getting worse, everyone form the bulwark of the center's must help; the government the operation. He had high praise Church and private groups." . for their devoted service - in He said vocational and aca- some .cases for a quarter of a demic education should. be made century-and of the high degree available ,to the poor as well, as of their skills. the 'rich. "So far," he noted, He beamed· with pride in his "universities have been monopo- team . of Braillists-the volunlized by the well-to-do." teers who transcribe a book into The bishop's committee' said the ,~mbossed symbols to be "school reform is 'needed to traced later by the sensitive finchange the system, to stop it gers of blind readers. from preserving the present orLarger~Type Program der and make it play a redeemBecause a volunteer can usuing role" on behalf of the poor.

It added that when "a system ally emborse about five pages of violates justice and human dig- Braille in an hoUl', an average nity, the Church cannot condone book of 800 Braille pages requires 160 hours of work. Total it or cooperate with it." time from transcription to the finished product, including proofAid Victims reading (60 hours), production, PHILADELPHIA (NC) - A and binding (30 hours), in 10 check for $38,589.65, represent- volumes, adds up to 270 hours ing "an expression of the sym- or almost seven normal work pathetic concern of the faithful weeks, for a Braille copy of on.e of the Archdiocese of Philadel- book. phia for the victims of the trials In the center's large-type proand tragedies in Northern Ire- gram for the partially blind, a land" was sent to Cardinal Wil- corps of 150 volunteers tranliam Conway of Amagh by scribes. articles or whole books, on typewriters equipped to turn Cardinal John Krol.

out bold, black texts in quarter-, inch size type for use by those unable to read an average book or newspaper. ,Annually, the group prepares about 40,000 pages of material in this medium.

The three-dimensional books, in enlarged Braille type, introduce blind youngsters to the physical characteristics of birds and· small animals, using the senses of touch and hearing.

Pasted on each page - as in bas relief -- is a furred or feathered model of a puppy, a kitten, a turtle or a chick, whi<:;h the child can explore with his fingertips. The genuine object, alive and squirming, is then put· into his hands, completing the acquaintance and almost invariably delighting the small fry.

Voluntary Contributions The Xavier Society" for the Blind-founded in 1900 by Jesuit Father Joseph. M. Stadelman in the rectory of St. Francis Xavier's in New York City receives no financial assistance from any government or Church agency. It depends exclusively on voluntary contributions ftom private sources.

Study Co~operation With Non-Catholics ATLANTIC CITY (NC) - At its annual state convention the New Jersey Knights of Columbus voted to' set up a committee to study ways in which nonCatholics could cooperate in the work of the Knights.

The resolution called upon the state body to look into "ways and means ... whereby men who are Christians from other church groups and are doing the work of Christ can be allowed to participate in our activities."

In other resolutions, the knights called on local councils to organize a special committee to combat pro-abortion efforts on the community levels and requested councils to ask newspapers to eliminate advertising for X-rated films.

The center's facilities for services to the blind are up to date.

The equipment includes a Braille copier capable of duplicating in two seconds a hand-embossed page of a Braille text t)n a sheet of soft plastic, at a cost of about two cents, and a high-speed machine that makes 12 copies of a master cassette tape (a one-hour program) in five minutes, for loap to a sightless person in the United States or Canada. They are sent free to those unable to pay, or at a moderate fee to those who can.

Catholic Newspaper Gets Nine Awards JACKSON (NC) - Mississippi Today, the newspaper of the Jackson-Natchez diocese, receiyed nine awards, including three first place certificates for best front page, best news story and best use of color. A best overall newspaper certificate was shared with MFC Services newspaper, a monthly publication edited by Jim Cleveland, a , parishioner at St. Richard's in Jackson.

Second place certificates wer,e presented for best' editorial, best graphics display in a newspaper, best photo in a newspaper and best feature story.

An individuai award was presented to Today editor Jim Bonney for a night photo of a fire.

In an excellent move, the United States Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy has published these reformed prayers and prefaces in a booklet entitled "Sacramentary for Sundays."

Designed for optional and provisional use, it contains the liturgical texts required by the priest while at· the presidential chair or the altar. This 300 page, 8y:! x 11" paper cover, plastic comb binding book together with the lectionary will supply all the' offic~al volumes needed for Mass.

The production and distribution of this sacramentary is a praiseworthy move for severalreasons. First of all, it quickly gets into the hands of priests these renewed and innovative prayers. Waiting until all of the Roman Missal is translated would mean a delay of several years for them.

Good Sense Secondly and as I noted in a recent column, the idea of trying out new rites and a fresh translation on a provisional and optional basis ma~es very good sense. A year or two of experience with these items will reveal their strengths and weaknesses.

The 50 experts who for 5 years have been at work preparing an English rendition of the Latin missal I feel sure would agree with me. They and the hardworking Washington staff of the International Committee of English in the Liturgy (ICEL) know their task is a thankless one.

For some reason every bishop, priest and lay person considers himself or herself an English scholar, a competent judge of other's labors to provide suitable tran·slations. Those who did the original work and supervised Its issuance should welcome an interval of testing on the parish level~ . This experimental use will reveal where they have succeeded in producing "contemporary, spoken English of strength-and digJiity" and where they have failed.

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American Trends Institute.'Theme Is th€re an "American" theology emerging 'in the Catholic Church today- Is this 'a wholesome or .a threatening' trend?

These are among questions to be examined in detail by four outstanding scholars at the Fifth Annual Summer Institute For Prrests at Stonehill College, North Easton, the week of June

Po.pe Stresses Fil'iClI Atttitlide 'T'oward Church VATICAN CITY (NC) - The. Church can be criticized, even severly, but the criticism must always be accompanied by a friendly and filial attitude, Pope Paul VI told a general audience, here. ' There are two current attitudes in judging the Church, the Pope said. . One is hostile; the other

is friendly, he said.

"The friendly attitude ... remains objective, indeed critical and, if necesary, severe, But this attitude remains filial," the Pope explained.

This attitude, hecontir..ued, does not seek out the Church's defects in order "to divulge them purposely, or to limit itself to

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Rev. George W. MacRae, S.J., a noted biblical scholar, wjJJ deal with cultural influences on the New Testament. "The starting point," Father MacRae said, "is the realization, that the New Testament does not prc~sent a purely unified theology, since among the factors that determine the specific character ofeach presentation of the Christian message are the understanding and culture of the various churches speaking and spoken ,to."

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In the area of systematic theology, Rev. Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P., of Aquinas Institute, Du,buque, will treat of. a Catholic church in an American <:ulture, shaping an An,erican theology for the future. Father O'Meara noted that "a key responsibility of today's church is to realize and internalize the factor of regionalism so strongly emphasized '

by Vatican II."

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• The historical aspect of the theme will be present€d by Rev. James J. Hennessey, S.J" professor of church history at the Graduate Theological Vnlon in ,Berkeley. - Father Hennessey stated that he will discuss "what the cultural history of this country in itself and in relatilon t!)

Rome can tell us about own' own future as Americans and as Catholics."

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Nevertheless, the Pope con· tinued, this is the same Church founded by Christ to lead men to salvation.

Greeting Italian school children after the audience, the Pope told them "to pray for the Pope and the Church, for peace in the world, and for all little children who suffer."

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Rev. Simon E. Smith, S.J., director of the institute, has selected four theologians llnd biblical scholars, ,particularly equipped, to develop clifferent and chall€nging aspects of the theme for this year's conference: The American Catholic Cultural Experience. Several hundred priests from throughout the U. S. and Canada - are expected to attend.

protest and belittling functions."

The Pope asked: "Are there not jpublications today calling themselves Catholic that are entirely dedicated to such unpleasantries?"

The Pilgrim Church, the Pope said, is indeed composed of men, the best of whom have their obvious defects.

Liturgical practices will' be e~amined by Rev. Lawrence J. Madden, S.J., vice-president of the National Liturgical Conference, who will explore the char- _ acter, structure and performance .of ritual, both religious and secular, in contemporary American society.

"I have chosen this theme for this year's institute," Father Smith said, "because of the significant recent resurgence of'a desire, probably reflecting a real need, for a gen'l;ne indigcmous theology. Some feel this would threaten our 'Roman' identity or end up 'Prot:estantizing' the Catholic Church. Others fnel it is long overdue and have proceeded with their own forms of cultural adaptation, giving little 'heed either to our traditional centralization or. to' deeper theological implications of indf'pendent action," .'

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