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Ship Anti-Typhoid Drug • To Allay Fears In Peru LONG BEACH (NC) - Ten thousand vials .of a typhoidpreventing drug have _been airlifted to the earthquake-ravaged area of Peru, allaying fears of an outbreak of an epidemic of the disease. The vials of the drug, chloramphenical, were donated by the international Rectifier Corp., based in Los Angeles, through its subsidiary, Rachele Laboratories here. Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, who in 1958 founded the Misionary Society of St. James, composed of U. S. priests who worked among the underprivileged in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and other Latin American areas, was instrumental in obtaining the important donation.
to. Eric Lidow, president, International Rectifier Corp., said: "I founded the St. James Society for priests who would give a few years of their priesthood to these' poor people in, the slums of South America. Today, the society has about 100 priests 'lmd a half-dozen churches, rectories and clinics." Difficulty Cardinal . Cushing described the difficult task facing' the priests in caring for the injured. and homeless of Peru. "They need help and now; you have answered that need. I offer my heartfelt thanks," he wrote. Lidow said: "The tragic cons~ quences of a disaster like the Peruvian earthquakes can multiply over the following days and Nee~ecl weeks, unless food, potable water Rachelle Laboratories is one and vital 'medical supplies are of only two U. S. basic manufac- immediately made available. The turers of the life saving drug, enormity of this South American now desperately needed in Peru tragedy requires a fast and efwhere contamination of fresh fective response by anyone in a water supplies has raised fears position to assist." of a large-scale typhoid epidemic. . The injectible vials are being The donation was made flown by National Airlines at no through the joint requests of the charge from Los Angeles to Massachusetts Governor's Coun- Miami, and will be carried from cil, and Cardinal Cushing. there by APSA, the Peruvian Cardinal Cushing, in a letter airline.
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HOMELESS: Only rubble remains of what was once a poor home as these Peruvnans try to survive the damage done by recent earthquake. Over 50,000 persons were killed and hundreds oftho,usands more must be rehabilitated through help given through Latin .American Collection to be taken up in Diocese on Sunday.
Appeal for Latin America Peruls Need Emphasizes .
Since May 31st when disas- , homeless. The supplies are distrous earthquakes shook North- tributed by Caritas/Peru in cowest Peru, Catholic· Relief Ser- operation with the Peruvian' vices (the overseas aid agency Government, and the United of American Catholics) has made States Embassy in Uma, under available more than 1,385 ions of the supervision of Cathlic Rerelief supplies valued at approx- lief Services' staff based in Lima, An opportunity tc underwrite imately $1,675,000 to the victims who number .almost 800,000 this relief program further will be afforded Catholics of the Fall River Diocese this coming Sunday when the Latin American Collection is taken up in all churches and chapels of the Diocese. While the collection is for The Catholics in the Fall River Latin America in general, the Diocese have responded most emphasis this year is on Peru generously to the Bishop's an- which is still trying to recover nual appeal for our lesss fortunate neighbors in Latin America. This year, however, the 'tragic earthquake in Peru that has transformed poverty into dire destitution for thousands of Peceeding Rev. Anthony Pohle, ruvians renders this year's reSS.CC. who has been assigned quest as an appeal for thousands CHICAGO (NC) - A plan for to missionary work in the 'Ba- of famine-stricken and homeless Catholic sschool students and hamas. fellow-Catholics. teachers to become public school The assignment' is effective In a pastoral letter read in all students and teachers for up today, Thursday, June 25. the churches ani:! chapels of th~ to four months beginning next Very Rev. Edmund Szymkie- diocese over last weekend, Bish- Fall has been proposed to the wicz, O.F.M. Conv., provincial op Connolly stressed the fact public school .board here by superior of the Conventual Fran- that. "most men and women in Father Robert Clark, Chicago ciscans has nominated Rev. Latin American lands eke out a archdiocesan school superintend. bare existence and are tormented ent. Turn to Page Two by disease and weakened by The proposal came in the poverty. These are our brothers wake of a financial crisis facing and sisters in Christ." non public schools when the IlliThe letter follows: nois legislature turned down Beloved in Christ: bills providing state aid to the We have long been inter- schools. . ested in helping our less favored Archdiocesan school board ofCatholic brothers to the South ficials said, at the height of the of us. Thanks to our Catholic school aid fight, they might be Relief services, our sympathetic forced to close down all 422 support has beel,l wisely admin- Catholic schools in the archdioistered. But the end is not yet.' cese in September and October Not more than two weeks ago, -a situation which could overthe world was shocked to learn tax already overcrowded public of the devastating earthquake schools. in Peru, where whole communiFather Clark told NC News an ties were engulfed with resultant informal survey conducted by injuries, destruction, penury and each pastor in his respective parTurn to Page Six ish indicated that 73 per cent of the parishes polled were op: 9 "".9 posed to closing. Summer Mass times for vacation He said his new plan--cal!ed area churches are Iistell1 on Pages "Operation Partnership"-would provide that parents of st:adents Four and Five. in Catholic elementary schools FR. FORGIT, SS.CC.
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Two New Bedford Parishes Receive New Pastors Bishop Connolly'has approved the nominations made by the provincial superiors of two religious orders that effect a pair of parishes in New Bedford. Very Rev. Fintan D. Sheeran, SS.CC., provincial superior of the Sacred Hearts Fathers has nominated Rev. Ambrose Forgit, SS.CC. as pastor of the Assumption Parish, New Bedford' suc-
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Abortion Law Endangers Hospitals CINCINNATI (NC)-The current trend to amend laws resulting in abortion on demand poses a critical problem for Catholic hospitals, which may even force them to close, warned Father James McHugh, director of the Family Life Division, U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC). The priest made that warning as he addressed the Conference of Bishops' Representatives for Turn to Page Seventeen
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THE ANCHOR-Diocesq of Fall River-Thurs. June 2~, 1970
Absence of Concern for Protocol Prais.ed in Lodge Appointment
26· Men H·alf~·Way': To Deaco'n Goal .
WASHINGTON (NC)-Twentysix men have reached the halfway mark in their modern pioneering goal to become perma-., nent deacons of the Church.. The program here is one of four in the country where men ,are training to join the ranks of the revived diaconate of the' Church. The other centers are in Detroit, ,Mich., Collegev~lle, Minn., and Orchard Lake, Mlc~. The training program here IS conducted by the Josephite Fathers at the community's s~minary. The 26 are trainin~ ,!,o assist priests and after ordInation next June as deacons, will be able to baptize, witness marriages, distribute Holy Communion and preach. The 26 candidates come from varying backgrounds, with educational levels ranging from eighth grade to college post graduate. All but one are married and all but one of those married have children. They also come from different economic and social areas, from the inner city to the affluent suburbs. There are engineers, lawyers, college. professors, a security guard, audio-visual specialist, salesman and a newspaper editor. . The 26 include· 17 from the Washngton archdioces!!, seven' from Baltimore and fwo' from the Richmond, Va.; diocese. Goal Under the stress .of two nights a week at class and study. at home,' the!TIen, their wives and families are working towards a common goal. Four retreats a year are held for the men and their wives "who share an el)thusiasm for the program." In their first year, the diaconate candidates study Scripture, spiritual life, culture and society, catechetics and preaching. The
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Day of PrQlyer June 28 - Our Lady of the ~ssumption, Osterville. St.Hyacinth,New Bedford .. July' 5-St. Mary, South Dartmouth. St; Elizabeth, Fall River. THE ANCHOR Second Class Post~ge Paid at Fall River. Mass Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02722 by the Cahtolic Press of the Dlo~ese of Fall River. Subscription price by mall, postpaid $4.00 per year.
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second years is an extension and broadening of the first. ~ The program is geared ,to the demands of a creative approach to the revival' of the. permanent diaconate and doeS not requir;e a college degree. . ' Father Paul A. Downey,'S.S.J., program co-director s~id the program though a prototype, has prov~d successful and' will be used for the second class of first year candidates il) S~ptember. . Program , ~ The program, stressing pastoral work and Scripture rather ~EV. JOSEPH L. POWERS than theology and philosophy, was . formulated with care, Father Downey said. The program planners sought a curriculum that would neither. overwhelm the· less educated nor Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, recently bore the college educated, he appointed Diocesan Director of added~ . There are eight black candi- the Confraternity of Christian dates in the program. Both I blac~ Doctrine, will serve as chairman and white candidates have van- .of a committee that will honor ous backgrounds and academic his predecessor, Rev. Joseph L. Powers ·at a reception scheduled preparation. "Thus the deacon will inoeed for 3 to 5 on Sunday afternoon be a servant of the com~unitr at the CCD. Center at 446 Highfrom which he came ~nd into land Ave., Fall.River. All CCD' workers' have been which he' may be' returJ:led," invited. Following the reception, Father Downey said. , Some deacons will work in the Diocesan Board and Staff, the inner city, othen' in the sub- plus friends and relatives will urbs. Father Downey said they attend a testimonial banquet at will be assigned where they will White's at 6:30. Father Powers graduated from do the most good. Coyle High School, Taunton and received his training in the classics at Providence College. His I . philosophical . and t~eological If"\r:m ft".cll.~tR\n Vi courses were undertaken at St. U~U ilJI""'lJ 11 ~~ Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. . ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)Following ordination on June Bishop Walter P: Kellenberg of 15 1946 by Bishop Cassidy in Rockville Centre has issued a set St: Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, of 10 guidelines for Cathlic ,med- the former CCD director served ical and paramedical personnel as assistant at· St. Patrick's, . who may be affected when 'New Falmouth and St. Joseph's, Taun· York's eased abortion law be- ton. comes effective July 1. In Feb. 1957, Bishop Connolly The bishop reaffirms •. the named Father Powers Diocesan Church's position against. abor- Director of the Confraternity of tion, reminding of. the immoral- Christian Doctrine, a position he ity involved in the "killing of has held until the recent appoint· the innocent, born or unborn." ment of Father Tosti as his sucHe emphasized' that the ,r,tew- cessor. law does not impose an oblIgaFather Powers served as chaption on anyone to perfor~ an lain at Bishop Stang High School, abortion act. He reminded that No. Dartmouth for four years Church law "states those ;who and in 1964 was named to the procure abortion, not excepting same position at Bishop Feehan the mother, incur, it' the effect is High School, Attleboro. produced, an excommunication." In 1969 he was appointed ad· Bishop .Kellenberg also coun- ministratdr of St. Mark's Parish, seled· that Catholic medical or Attleboro Falls, a position he still paramedical personnel shou.ld n?t holds. "participate in any capacIty In an abortional act,". including Necrology care for a patient "before or after" an abortion, nor sh~uld JUNE 26 they advise.a person seeking an Rev. Charles P. Gaboury, 1931, abortional procedure. Pastor,. St.. Anne, New Bedford.
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Priest· Loses Life In Resc.ue Attempt DES MOINES ('NC) - Father James Rasmussen drowned in a gravel pit pool near here w~en he tried to save another SWIm. mer who also drowned. . The 45-year-old priest, head of the mathematics department at Dowling High School here iind pastor of a church at St. Marys, Iowa, tried to rescue a victim identified as Richard Ap.nis, .21, of Colfax, Iowa. The swimming hole was located about a qua~ter mile north of Colfax.. : Father Rasmussen, ordained in 1953, was a Navy veteran: of World War II and a member, of the Des Moines Scuba Diy,ing Club.
JUNE 2i Rev. John Corry, 1863, Founder, St. Mary, Taunton; Founder, St. Mary, Fall River.
NEW YORK (NC) - Absence - Mr. Lodge will car.ry out his new of "excessive preoccup~tion in assignmen~. It POInts a w.ay o~t Rome or elsewhere with diplo- of excessIve preoccu~atlOn. In matic niceties'" in the appoint- Ron~e ~r ~Isewhere With dlploment of Henry Cabot Lodge as matlc n1cetle~ that seem less and President Nixon's emissary to less approprla~e as appendages Pope Paul VI. was lauded by a to the dChurch s Ideffort to serve Catholic· . magazine published t~e mo ~rn wor.. . "American Catholics, on the h ere. . t 0 be h a d" . . . _ whole, see no gam S_elf.apPolllte~ . VatIcan ex at either the Rome or Washingperts had long Insl~ted that the ton end Of the line-from instiHoly See would never go along tuting formal diplomatic relawith .any arrangement fO~. cO~f tions between the United States munications. beh~een Imse· and the Holy See." and the U~lted St~tes. short of New York Republican Sen. Jacob K. Javits also offered a a formal dIplomatic link. "Whatever the basis for ~hat favorable view of the appointclaim, someone in the VatIcan ment. He said: "The appointment obviously decided it no longer of the United States envoy to applied," said the Jesuits' Amer- the Vatican continues a line of ican magazine in its June 20 communication which is a valuissue; able contribution to the efforts "Most Protestant comment on of the United States to peace in the White House action remains the world. "For the Vatican is the seat of cool and detached," America continued. "If one or two invet- the Pontiff, who is regarded erate watchdogs at the church- throughout the world as a major state gate loudly cried alarm, voice among .mankind for peace most Americans took at face and humanity." value Cardinal John Dearden's remark: 'American Catholics do not consider that it implies or should imply any 'change in the Continued from Page One traditional and mutually beneficial relationship between church Cyril Augustyn, O.F.M. Conv., assistant at St. Hedwig Parish, and state in our country.' "They saw, as we did, possible • New Bedford succeeding Rev. benefits, maintaining regular Herbert Skurski, O.F.M. Conv. contacts with the Holy See to who has been assigned to duty promote world peace and com- elsewhere in the province, out· side the Diocese of Fall River. mon humanitarian. aims." The assignment becomes effec'Valuable Contribution' tive on Monday, June 29. Father Forgit, a native of "In our opinion," the maga· zine concluded, "the real ad- Worcester, was ordained in 1955. vance for the Holy See relates As well as doing missionary to the arrangement under which work in Puerto Rico, the newly named pastor of the Assumption Parish has served in the Parishes B~(lJck Leader·Asks of Holy Redeempr, Chatham; Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; !FOil' 'Real AiCtiotl'il' and Holy Trinity, West Harwich. VILLANOVA (NC) - A direcHe also served for eight years tor of the Black Economic De- in administrative work in the velopment Conference made an office of the Provincial of the unscheduled appearance at a Vil- Sacred Hearts Fathers, Fairlanova University theology con- haven. ference here and blasted the failFather Augustyn was born in ure of churches and Christians to New Bedford on March 17, 1928 come to grips with the problems and was ordained on June 29, of racism. 1953. In addition to his priestly Muhammad Kenyatta told·a duties, he has taught at Bishop group of '200 priests, religious Ryan High School, Buffalo and and lay people not to "sit here Kolbe High School, Bridgeport. and (delude) yourselves, but to He will report to his New Bedbe about real action even as Christ .was." He also' charged ford assignment on Monday, that some of Philadelphia's lead- June 29. ing churchmen were racists. Before Kenyatta's interruption, .World Council of Churches' genD. D. Wilfred C. eral secretary, the Rev Dr. EuSullivan Driscoll gent Carson Blake, told delegates to ·the meeting that the churches were in danger of. becoming reFUNERAL HOME actionary .forces. He said .th.at 469 LOCUST' STREET only involvement in economIC, political and social crises could FALL RIVER, MASS. keep the churches abreast of t~e 672-3381 times. .
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Newa rk Prelate Scores Critics Of Pope Paul NEWARK (NC) - Critics of Pope Paul VI were 'themselves criticized by Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty of Newark in a sermon at a Mass marking the 50th anniversary of the Pope's ordination. Bishop Dougherty spoke, at Sacred Heart Cathedral where Archbishop Thomas A. Boland was chief concelebrant 01" the Solemn Pontifical Mass. Calling kindness, patience and benignity marks of the love of God which St. Paul said has been poured into us, the bishop said that much of the criticism of the Pope is not marked by this spirit. Rather, he said, criticism 'is stamped "with 'all too human marks of arrogance, cynicism and outright malice. It is shameful because it is an offense against a venerable and holy person, and because it is not a witness to the spirit, of Jesus, but to the spirit of the world, the spirit of a shabby and sick humanity." Faith of People No man, he said, is above criticism, but every man on earth "has a right to be spared perverse and cynical criticism." Bishop Dougherty contrasted his experience in reading "the sophisticated Catholic press" and his contacts with his parishio!,!ers in Short Hills where he has been pastor for a year after resigning as president of Seton Hall University. He said that he looks in vain for authentic witness to the love of God, but finds it in the faith of the people.
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia was honored here for his service to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. The cardinal, who served as president of the board of direcMOORESTOWN (NC) - The tors in 1968-69, was presented statewide Knights of Columbus with a "Citation for Extraordi- council has criticized the New nary Leadership" and a testimo- Jersey Education Association for nial of appreciation by Gene- opposition to a state funded vieve Blatt, the board secretary- non public school aid program, treasurer. warning that New Jersey taxFounded in 1965, the center is payers may be burdened with an a national. cooperative venture additional $250 million tax bill of U. S. Catholic bishops, reli- unless the aid is forthcoming. gious communities and lay orThe K. of C. council, with ganizations, researching In mod- headquarters here, represents ern techniques and scientific reo some 55,000 members who supsources to further the Church's port a measure approved by the social and religious mission. legislature which would provide Cardinal John Carberry of St. '$9.5 million in aid to non public Louis has succeeded Cardinal schools. Krol as board president. The council charged the education association's opposition the measure, on which public Archdiocese hi) Opeli'i to hearings are slated during the Summer months, is a "callous Due Process OfHce disregard for the problems of CHICAGO (NC) - The Office taxpayers." of Conciliation and Arbitration, designed to carry out. a due Sees Ne Change process program guaranteeing DETROIT (NC)-Cardinal John all Catholics in the Chicago archdiocese an impartial hearing on Dearden of Detroit, commenting personal grievances, will be on the Henry Cabot Lodge appointment as regular presidential opened here. The program has been ap- visitor to the Vatican, said the proved by Cardinal John Cody assignment means no change in on a one year experimental basis. traditional American churchFather Robert A. Reicher, 43, state separati,on. In a statement widely experienced in concilia- as president of the two nationtion and arbitration of labor dis- wide coordinating agencies of putes, will head the office with American Catholicism, the carahe title of executive secretary. dinal said: "It is a matter inIF'ather Reicher'served as secre- volving Mr. Nixon and the rewry of a. committee established sponsible Vatican authorities, by the cardinal rast year to con- and does not directly involve £llder 0 due process plan. The either the National Conference w01I'k of the committee paved of Catholic Bishops or the el'l'e way for inauguration of the United States Catholic Conference." p:."e~a pJ'otp'am.
Score Opposition to Private School Aid K of C Criticiz'e Education Association Stand "If the New Jersey Education Association has its way, the people of New Jersey will be burdened with an additional quarter of a billion dollar tax bill for the support of public schools," the K. of C. statement said. "It's frightening enough that the Education Association wants to deny many thousands of New Jersey residents their I constitutional right to freedom of
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choice in education," said Frank J. Brady, state deputy. "In addition to this, the association wants to deprive the existing non public schools-CathoIic, Protestant and Jewish~f the state funds which are needed if these schools are to survive. And the impact on the taxpayer would be tremendous. "Without some support fro~ the state, our non public schools may indeed have to close their doors. As a result, the taxpayers of this state will have to accommodate approximately 300,000 additional students in our public school system at a cost of $200 million per y.ear. "It should be pointed out that costs for adequate facilities and other needs would bring this total to well over a quarter of a .billion dollars. "The Education Association, in this particular case, is being irresponsible, shortsighted and, selfish," the statement added.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. JUr,'Ie 25, '1970
Schedule for S~mmer: Season BREWSTER
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OUR LADY OF THE CAPE Masses: Sunday8:30, 9:30, 10:30",11:30 A.M., arid 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. , Confessions: 4:00-4:30 and 7:00-7:30 P.M. '
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Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00,.10:00, 11:00, 12:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.' Daily-7:00 and 8:00 N.M. Confessiori$: Saturday-4:00-5:00 P.M. and after 7:30 'P.M. Mass MELODY TENT
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Masses: Sunday~:OO, 10:00 AM. Daily-7:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M.
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ST. MARGARET'S Masses: Sunday--8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12 noon and 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P:M. , Daily-7:00 AM. , Saturdays and Holydays--8:00 A.M. Confessions: Every Saturday 4:00-5:00 and 7:00-8:3Q P.M. ONSET
ST. MARY-STAR OF THE SEA Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, II :30 A.M. Daily 9:00 AM. Saturday-6:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday 3:00-4:30 P.M. Holy Days-Before Mass
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OUR LADY Of VICTORY Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM. WESY BARNSTABLE
Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00; 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 , A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. Da'ily-7:30, 8:30 AM. Confessionsf 4:00-5:00 P.M., 7:00-8:00 P.M.
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HOLY REDEEMER Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Saturday Evening-5:00 P.M. Daily--8:00 AM. SOUTH CHATHAM
OUR LADY Of GRACE Masses: Sunday--8:30, 9:30, 10:30,_ 11 :30 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily--8:00 AM.
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Masses: Sunday--8:00, 9:15, 10:30 A.M. .Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.i.1. Daily-7:00 A.M. ORLEANS·
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Masses: .SundaV,--8:00, 9:00. 10:00, 11 :00 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily--8:00 AM. N.ORTH EASTHAM'
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ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:30 P.M. ( , Daily-7:30 A.M.
Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00,11.:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. Daily-7:00, 8:00 AM. Confessions: Saturday-3:30-4:30 First Friday:Confessions-Thursday 7:30-8:30 P.M. First Friday Masses: 7:00 AM. and ·5:30 P.M.
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lFLOATlNG PERU RELIEF STATION: A mother and daughter, survivors of the massive earthquake which ravaged the northern coast of Peru, eat a meal on the relief ship, U.S.S. Guam, near Chimbote, Peru. NC Photo.
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OUR LADY OF HOPE Masses: Sunday-9:30, 10:30 AM.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. . Daily-9:00 A.M.
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ST. JUDE'S' CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 Masses: Satur<;lay-5:00 P.M. . Confessiops:: Saturday-4:15-5:00 P.M. POPPONESSETY
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ST. EUZABETH Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 'P.M. Daily-?:OO AM., Confessions: Saturday-4:00-5:00 P.M.
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respected tradition in the Church which sees the per~onal conscience of the individual as the immediate arbiter of moral decisions." "The right, indeed the duty to follow one's conscience is an essential teaching of the Catholic Church," he stated. He quoted from teachings of the Second Vatican Council and from the 1968 "Human Life in Our Day" pastoral letter of the U.S. bishops in which conscientious objection was discussed. "From what has been said, I feel it is evident that Catholics indeed may be conscientious objectors," Bishop Russell stated.
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RICHMONq(NC) Bishop John J. Russell of Richmond has sent letters to draft board officials throughout Virginia, advising them of Catholic Church teachings which permit Catholics to form selective conscientious objections to military service. "It is my hope that this position will be considered and that all objectors be' judged according to the honesty and sincerity of their beliefs," the bishop wrote. In addition to the draft board officials, the bishop also sent copies of his letter to President Nixon and U.S. Sens. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and William B. Spong of Virginia. In his letter, Bishop Russell said,. in the last few years there have been many "heated discussions" .on issues of war, peace and the draft and many "fundamental religious principles have been overlooked." Explaining the Church's position regarding selective conscientious -objection, Bishop Russell acknowledged that traditionally the Catholic Church has never been considered a "pacifist sect" The bishop added that "neverthe less there is an ancient and
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Analysis Reveals Unemployment Hits Skilled White Labor Hardest WASHINGTON (NC)-Hardest hit by the nation's sharp rise in unemployment this year are the skilled white workers in aircraft, aerospace, weapons and auto industries in the Midwest and on the West Coast. According to an analysis by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cutbacks in the defense and aerospace fields have possibly been "primary factors in halting the growth of factory employment since mid-1969." The housing slump and slower auto sales have also added to joblessness which has climbed. from 1.3 million to 4.1 million persons so far this year, it said. A White House economist has conceded that unemployment will hover around the five per cent mark for the rest of the year. "One of the suprising facts about the recent rise in unemployment has been the extent to which it has affected workers in high skill jobs," the bureau reported. "The jobless rate for the pro-
fessional and technical group has now returned to a level last attained-and then only a very brief period-in 1963," it said. The rate was then slightly over two per cent. Unemployment among bluecollar workers climbed from 4.3 I:eJ." cent in December to 6.2 per cent in May, with the sharpest rise also among skilled em. ployees, it said. It pointed out that Negroes have been less severely affected by unemployment primarily because they have never been largely represented in industries showing the substantial job losses since last year. Industries "bearing the brunt of the slowdown" are concentrated in the Midwest, "especially in the East North Central area and the Pacific Coast," it said. In the last 10 months employ: ment has dropped 21.1 per cent in ordinance and accessories, .9.1 per cent in ~ircraft and parts production and 13.2 per cent in motor vehicles. and equipment.
Fr. Connors Heads Mission CouncH
SPECIAL PHOTO COVERAGE: Auxiliary Bishop Thomas E. Gill, of Seattle adds a camera, light meter and photographer's equipment bag to the pectoral cross around his neck as he takes a quick picture outside St. James Cathedral, Seattle. The occasion was a Mass .of Thanksgiving for 15 priests marking sacerdotal jubilees. NC Photo.
Schedule for Summer Season SANDWICH
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:30 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. SAGAMORE
ST. THERESA'S CHURCH Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. SOUTH DARTMOUTH
ST. MARY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 7:30 PM Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. Saturdays only-8:00 AM. SOUTH YARMOUTH
ST. PIUS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15. 11:30 AM. A.M., 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M.
OUR LADY OF ']fHE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30 Daily-7:00 A.M. VINEYARD HAVEN
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NEW YORK (NC)-Members of the U. S. Catholic Mission Council meeting here elected Father Joseph M. Connors, S.V.D., twice provincial superior of the northern U. S. province of the Divine Word missionaries, as the council's executive secretary. Father Connors, 44, founder and past president of the Christian Preaching Conference, will guide the council's work for its first three years. His ,first job will be to organize the council's administrative center in Washington, D. C. The 35-member council, established as a result of the Second Vatican Council's. decree on the missions, will provide a forum and organ for the evaluation, coordination and fostering in the United States of the worldwide missionary effort of the Catholic Church. It is composed of the members of five separate committees.
Archbishop Announces Statistics â&#x20AC;˘ For Catholics In South Vietnam
SAIGON (NC)-The Catholic population of South Vietnam increased by about 100,500 in the ST. RITA two-year period from July, 1967, Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30,10:00 AM. to July, 1~69, and Catholics now Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. number over 1.7 million in a Daily-8:00 AM. total population of about 16.5 million, Archbishop Henry LeWELLFLEET maitre the apostolic delegate for Vietnam and Cambodia, anOUR LADY OF LOURDES nounced. Masses: Sunday-7:00 8:00,9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. In mid-1969 there were 1,917 Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. priests, 1,517 of whom were Daily-7:30, 9:00 A.M. Vietnamese diocesan priests and 224 Vietnamese members of ReTRURO ligious communities. There were 176 foreign priests. SACRED HEART There are four major semiMasses: Sunday-9:00 AM. naries in the country, with 743 Saturday-:-7:00 P.M. students, and 18 minor seminaries (one in each diocese), NORTH TRURO with over 3,600 students. OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP About 150 major seminarians Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 A.M.. are on probation, which means that they work in a parish for Saturday Eve.-6:30 P.M. one year before receiving minor orders. CATHOLIC CHAPEL-SOUTH WELLFLEET MARfON
Each dioce3e maintains both elementary and secondary schools. In mid-1969 the Church conducted 1,030 elementary schools, with 258,409 Catholic and 97,347 non-Cathorlic students. There were 226 Church secondary schools, with 83,827 Catholic and 70,101 non-Catholic students. Archbishop Lemaitre announced also that the Church maintains 41 hospitals, with over 7,000 beds; 239 dispensaries that treated over 2.5 million persons in the two-year period covered in the report, 36' maternity clinics, nine lesprosaria treating about 2,500 patients, 82 orphanages with about 11,000 orphans and 29 homes for tre aged.
Private Judgment Private judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration. -Benson
Masses: Sunday-9:00 A.M. WEST HARWICH
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Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 noon and 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. . Confessions: Saturday-4:30-5:30 & 7:45-8;30 P.M.
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Bishop's Letter
Voucher .Plan The Dean of the Harvard Graduate' School of Edu~ cation" Theodore it Sizer, has written to The New York, - Times in defense of a "voucher" plan in eduaction. A group of- Harvard researchers has proposed -that the Fed, eral Government, beginning in the Fall of 197i~ woulq give parents in a given area one voucher per elementary school age child equal to the amount spent by neighborj hood public schools for educating each pupil. Children would then be entered in any area public school or in any area private or parochial school that would choose to participate in the plan., ·The parents would then turn the voucher over to that school which would present it to the government for reimbursement. _ ' , The plan would give parents, more freedom to choose , where their child goes to school and. would provide fi~ nancial assistance needed to upgrade education program~ in all participating schools. , Dean Sizer, argues, in defense of the plan that it would have, on the elementary school level, the same effect that the G.!. Bill of Rights had on the college level...... a strengthening of all school systems. . The Dean further reasons that a school 'system is strongest when it is supported not by, just one type of financial aid-direct support; in, the case of the public schools-but by direct aid plus tuition aid plus private donations. In this way a school system has total accountability to no one single source of support. Under the prqposed plan, a voucher scheme would allow a beginning of tuition aid to the public schools. The use of voucher aid by low income' families would provide financial assistance not only to private schoo~s but would be a flexible fo~ of aid to individual public schools in addition to their local direct· support. Dean Sizer says that it is true that the voucher plan can help independent schools as well as public schools, just , I as the G.!. Bill of Rights helped ,Stanfor.d and Fordham as well as City and State colleges, but this ~nriched bo~h sectors. As ,Dean Sizer states, "there is implicit public support (through tax abatement) behind every existing independent school and public control, albeit modest, through state and local regulations. We need a spectrum of educational institutions, giving families a variety of schools within strict, constitutional' limits. The public schools, with their base of local-support, will always have a fiscal advantage. They should be able to 'compete' magificently."
Advises Hospital : Officials Mee.t Public's Expectations
CINCI~NA TI (NC)- Delegates to the 55th annual Catholic Hospital Association convention here were challenged to develop a comprehensive plan to meet the public's health care expectations. "If we fail to meet these expect!ltions, they will be met by a health care system' devised, regulated _and supported from outside our present one," warned Jack A. L. Hahn, convention keynoter. He is president-elect of the American Hospital Association and president of the Methodist Hospital of Indiana in Indiananpolis. . In advising some 5,000 con-ventioneers to use their resources to meet "health needs of the people both inside and outside hospital walIs," Hahn al"We don't have too many people," Secretary of the so urged them to share the reo Interior Walter J. Hickel remarked recently, "The trouble sponsibility in upgrading ,community, standards· and solving , is that they're concentrated in the wrong places." related social, problems. The statistics prove his point: ~9 per cent of the r)aHe said he envisions neightion's area is still classified as farm land although only a borhood health centers to meet the demands of a 'growing popufraction of it is needed -for, agriculture and ony 5 per lation "in an economical and ef' cent of the nation's population lives on it. fective manner which doesn't Meanwhile 80 per cent of the nation's population' is duplicate sophisticated service provided in the major hospital crowded into less than 10 per cent of the land area. : There are II acres of land for every man, woman center." Hahn cited the "two major and child in the country, but most people exist on only concerns of the health care field today" as .cost and availability a few square yards. relating to an acute shortage of The problem facing this nation is not one of too many health personnel. people but one of a concentration of people in urban cen"The rising cost of hospital ters with resultant problems of pollution, tensions, tax care is fast becoming one of our nation's serious domestic Durdens, deteriorating living quarters. problems," he said. Nationlll1 Insurance Costs are soaring "at a (rightening, rate," for which he blames unionization,. an imbalance in ,consumers' costs and wages and unnecessary hospitalization fostered by insurimce- companies. He said these causes are OF~ICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OFFAU. RIVER compounded by retrospective rePublished weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River . jection of extended care services . by Medicare {lnd Medicaid. ' 410 Highland Avenue .. "We must rever~e this pattern," said Hahn" adding that Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 'reduction of Medicare and acute PUBLISHER inpatient hospital -stays by one day would mean' an· annual savMost Rev. ~ames l. Connolly, D.O., PhD. ings of some $1.7 billion. GENERAL MANAGE,R ASST. GENERAL MANAGER "Americans have properly ,decided that high quality health Rev: Msgr. Daniel F. 5holloo, M.A. . Rev. John P. Driscoll care is the right of everyone" ~Leary Press-Fall River including those who cannot
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meet their part- of the cost," Hahn said. He added that ,"the advent of some form of national heaJth insurance is probably inevitable ,during the next decade." The new president, Msgr.Edward E. Michelin, told Catholic hospital personnel that in addition to concern for a person's development and well' being, they must witness to the world their respect for life and human dignity. 'Beacon of Light' Msgr. Michelin, director of hospitals of the Natchez-Jack· son diocese, said the association stands "as a beacon of light for Christ and Christian values" in a time when "there is a growing evidence of a lack of respect and a tragic insensitivity to the mystery and dignity of ' human life." The monsignor succeeded as president Sister M. William Joseph Lydon, who reminded ,the group that their association is dedicated "not only to provide health care services but to promote Christian community.'"
Continued from Page One disease. ,We have assurance from Bishop Swanstrom that "food, medicines and clothing have been supplied. But a letter from Cardinal Dearden of Detroit emphasizes the fact that a great deal of assistance will be needed for rehabilitation. This is but one want in South America, caused .by a tremblor, as an' earthquake is calIed. But, tragic as this was, it is little in comparison to the daily-life uncertainties for food and clothing and work that hold down the poor-and make the work of our clergy, religious members of the Peace Corps, and volunteers, serving as our emissaries, most important. The basic needs go , on. Most men and women in Latin American lands eke out a bare existence, tormented by disease, weakened by poverty. These are our brothers and sisters in Christ. We cannot, we must not, refuse to reach out a helping hand to them. What we have done thus far has not healed th~ , unfortunate conditions in which they live, but it hS5 ,saved them from the clutch of .communism. On next Sunday, June 28th, collections will be taken up in all churches and chapels of the 'Diocese. Having regard to general circumstances, and those special to Peru, I urge that all contribute generously. We have our own troubles indeed. But they are slight compared to our ability to help men and women in dire need. Be sure that God will not be outdone in generosity, especially when what we do is prompted by love of the brethren. FaithfulIy yours in Christ, ~ James L. ConnolIy, Bishop of Fall River.
Earthquake Continued from Page One the world who advise the New York office, under the directorship of Most Rev. Edward E. Swanstrom, as to the needs of the area in distress. Californian Antonio Salazar is head of the agency's programs in Peru. He has made daily reports to Bishop Swanstrom on conditions in the earthqake-ravaged northwest sector of Peru. His assistant and fellow-Californian, Timothy Sharon, provides on-the-spot evaluations froin the disaster areas and together they decide on priorities. Based on their daily reports, the New York headquarters staff purchase, pack and ship by air the urgently needed relief supplies. - Bishop Swanstrom announced today that his agency "would continue to do everything possible to alleviate the suffering of the earthquake victims."
Sister William Joseph, provincial administrator of the Sisters of Mercy at DalIas, Pa., recommended that the office of president be opened to lay members as well as priests and Religious. Urge New Social Other highlights of the con- . vention included a resolution by Policy for Canada the delegates calling for "speciOTT AWA (NC) - Members of al protection" for all human the Canadian Catholic Conferlife, including that of the un- ence and the Protestant Canaborn child. The association . dian Council of Churches urged pledged .support of its 900 mem- '" the nation's Senate to set up a ber health care institutions in new social p'olicy for Canada, a exer~ising their "right to refuse policy that, would make "human to cooperate in__the termination well-being the first publicpriof innocent life." ority." Speaking at a special Senate committee meeting, the churches' Resigns Post representatives urged establishCLEVELAND (NC) - Father ment ot a national social counJoseph O._SchelI, S.J., 56, has re- cil to determine government sosigned as president of John Car- cial policy. . roll University here for health They also urged regular costreasons. The board of trustees of-living increases in social sehas named Father Henry F. Bir- curity benefits, a wider range kenhauer, S.J., acting president of unemployment insurance benand appointed a search commit- efits, national plans for a guartee to recommend a Jesuit suc- anteed annual income and coorcessor to Father Schell, who was dination between social policies president for ,three years. and taxatil)n measures.
New Bedford Sister of 1tlercy Princip~l Preparing for .Missionary . 4ssignment
Plan to ~an Bias Against Women In Fed~~al Jobs
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Detailed By Ellen Andrew guidelines to eliminate disROME (NC) - Israeli Foreign . The life of a dedicated Sister crimination against women in Minister Abba Eban, in Italy for a three-day official visit, said he federal-paid jobs have been is- of Mercy turns in many ways, had touched on the problem of sued by the U. S. Labor Depart- like spearheading a drive to keep a parish school open one year the administration of the Holy / ment. Places during his talks with italThe guidelines prohibit dis- and teaching Indian children in ian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro. criminatory techniques such as Central America the next. Such is the case with .Sister He told reporters on the last news;:apers advertising labeled day of his visit that he had remale or female unless sex was Mary Eva, R.S.M., former prinferred to his statement of July, "a bona fide educational qualifi- cipal of the St. John the Baptist 1967, that Israel "does not claim School in New Bedford. cation." exclusive jurisdiction and conShe is heading for· an assignAlso forbidden are penalties trol" over places sacred to Chrisfor women taking time off to ment in the Fall as a teacher at tianity and Islam. Such control bear children and denial of em- a government-sponsored cooed should be shared by "those who ployment to women with young high school for Indian children hold. them holy," he said. children "unless the same exclu- at Orange· Walk in far-off British Honduras. sionary policy exists for men." Eban remarked that to the "This is something I've always In releasing the rules at the . best of his knowledge this posiWhite House, Elizabeth Duncan wanted," Sister Mary Eva said tion, since reaffirmed,' was Koontz, directer of the Labor the other afternoon in the bustle unique in history. Department's women's bureau, of her office in St. John School "This, I believe, is the only called them "a most appropriate as she busied herself with the time a government in Jerusalem milestone of wom~n's progress." close of the school year and her has declared its readiness to No Set Rules . trip. find, a juridi~al solution to the Mission Volunteer The rules, which ban bias by problem of the Holy Places." "I've volunteered for such missex in jobs, wages, hours, seniorHe said his schedule in Rome sionary work a half-l;iozen times ity and retirement, were the rehad been so crowded it had left sult of a presidential task force in recen~ years. I finally got my him no time to confer with any review of women's rights and call and I'm grateful." official of the Holy See. Si:;ter Mary Eva already is at responsibilities submitted to the The Holy See has been calling Nixon administration six months the University of Dayton in Ohio for the guarantee of free access where she will take a five-week ago. to Jerusalem and the Holy A presidential directive against course at its Mission Institute. Places by a supranational ausex discrimination in govern- A quick trip back to New Bedthority. ment work contracts has' been ford late in July and a visit to on the books since 1965, but un- her home in Westerly, R. I., preCursiHistas Meet til now there have been no pub- cede her departure for Central America. Iiclv set rules. ~ n Mexoe,:~, City It is a two-year assignment With release of the new guidethat could stretch into four or 'MEXICO CITY (NC) - "The lines the American Associatime has come to free Christ tion of University Women re- five years. SISTER MARY EVA, R.S.M. British Hoduras is a colony from being nailed to the cross ported results of its study in Jio that His arms can freely which 84 per cent of the women that belongs to Great Britain; Eva added. "Naturally I'm sorry "It will get worse before it and 77 per cent of the men however, it is in line for inde- to leave. The result.; of our drive gets better. I still don't see embrace all of mankind," 40,000 members of the Cursillo moveamong 7,000 respondents to a pendence in a couple of years. last Winter are gratifying. Catholic education phasing out, ment were told here at their ouestionnaire said women were But how smooth this goes rethough." ' Our bills are paid; we pulled . second world ultreya, or meetdiscriminated against in the bus- mains to be seen. Sister Eva look.,· forward to through .the school year very "There is a lot of communist ing. iness world. the day she might "come back comfortably." activity there," Sister Mary Eva Mexico City Newsman Tomas It wasn't so last January. It to St. John's." pointed out. "It could be a Perrin told the members, called was only after nearly 100 per Children's SUPlPor¢ touchy spot in time. cursillistas, that the time has Plan Newspaper cent of the parents of the chil"Yes, I'd like to return here come "to make the face of New Mercy Mission dren attending St. John's over- some day, and teach again." For Teenagers Christ smile and those of His "Orange Walk is the newest She is taking with her to brothers both inside and outside HUNTINGTON (NC)-A week- of the Sisters of Mercy's mis- whelmingly decided to keep the school open in the face of a proOrange Walk "a sizable donathe churches." ly newspaper geare1 to the Cath- sions. It is a very small town, In a radio message to the ulolic junior high school students actually a village, whose high jected $18,000 deficit that there tion of money from the children was hope. of St. John's. It will be used for treya, Pope Paul told the memlevel will be published this Fall. school has 200 boys and girls, St. John faced the dilemma of the needs of the children in my bers to show the world the true Father Albert J. Nevins, M.M., a staff of four Sisters. of Mercy new school. face of Christ. editor of Our Sunday Visitor, and a couple of lay teachers." other Diocesan schools with an "I will tell them the St. John's "emergency legislative com11JitWhen the Pope's message was national Catholic newspaper, Sister Eva will teach religion tee" of parents. They got behind children wanted to help. This is heard, the huge crowd in this said the new publication will be and art. a pledge Program with a budget their way of doing it. city's main bull ring burst out known as The Young Catholic Her new assignment is on the "I take with me a lot of happy with cries of "Viva Cristo Rey" Edition of Our Sunday Visitor. Caribbean Sea, east of' Guate- system for school support espememories. But I can't have' my and "Viva el Papa" ("Long . live Robert Willems, an editor of mala. British Honduras is 8,867 cinaIly for non parishioners sendcake and eat it, too. I can't have Christ the King" and "Long Live Young Catholic Messenger, which square miles in size. More than ing their children to St. John's. everything. The rest is history. The rethe Pope"). recently ceased publication in 103,000 people live there which "I'm grateful to my commuDayton, Ohio. will be editor of is just about the population of sponse was beyond the expectations of Sister Mary Eva' and the nity for the opportunity to serve the new publication. the City of New Bedford. ad hoc group headed by Harold God in this way. Father Nevins said Our SunMost of the people are Ne- E. Carpenter, vice-president and "This is something I've wanted day Visitor for some time had groes and American Indians, and for years." been planning such a publication they grow bananas, sugar and general manager of Radio Sta3 5avDngs Plans for today's teenagers. He said fruit. Parts. of British Honduras tion WNBH in New Bedford. Mome Financing "The children and parents are the new paper wili emphasize. are low and fertile, and much of religion, current concern topics, it is covered with fore'sts of val- very co-operative," Sister Mary ' news background, personalities, uable mahognay and logwood. Eva said at the time. ONE STOP She pointed out, however, that book talk and teenage culture SHOPPING CEN1l'ER Pirate Hideout state aid will have to be forthand entertainment. Off the swampy coast are coming on a long-range basis if • Television • Grocery dangerous. reefs that were used the school is to survive indefi• Appliances • Fruniture Hits Proposed Cut long ago as hideouts for pirates. nitely. 261 Main St., Wareham, Mass. 104 Allen St., New Bedford The parish now has a School The climate is hot and damp; Telephone 295-2400 I n State Relief often the temperature goes over Board and a new principal (SisBank·By·Mall Service Available 997-9354 GREENSBURG (NC) ~ The 100 degrees. ter Marie Christine) who, in the Greensburg Diocesan Human ReThe British have ruled British words of Sister Eva, will "carry lations Commission deplored as Honduras since 1783. on the fight against the financial "completely immoral and cal"My two years at St. John's pressures in Catholic education lous" a proposed $73 million cut- have been memorable,". 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It may seem ,ridiculous to be ordering bulbs in June, ' but I have just completed my annual order for the Fall. Gardening is as much a preparation fO,r the future as it ~s enjoyment of the present. This year we~'are restocking two sections of the garden with daffodils and tulips, and plan mind at the time. A perfect day but produce a perfect to set out some miniature. can't-help meal even if the only thing you narcissi and crocuses for the have to eat is peanut butter and' ,rock garden. We ordered two dozen daffodils for a garden which measures about four by ten feet. These will be planted in groups of three which will give us eight clusters of daffodils, a reasonable show. Daffodils are so bright and cheerful that they can be planted in reasonable numbers without detracting from their effect. Tulips are a different matter. They should be planted en masse, all of the same color to produce a 'good effect. For the same garden we are ordering four dozen tulips which will be planted in a fish-tail design. We· are also ordering a few dozen crocuses to add to our present stock. These we order year after year and plant in masses for the greatest effect possible. They reappear, every year, are no problem .in the garden and are as satisfying as any other plant in the border. ' There are advantages to ordering early. The bulbs you get are usually the best of the stock. They are separated early and packaged for mailing in the·' Fall before the rush is on. With the price of bulbs what it is today the quality of the bulbs one actually gets is an overwhelmingly important consideration. In the Kitchen Picnics and Summer do seem to go hand in hand. When the nice weather come~ along the children (Melissa and Jason especially) make daily request for picnics, even if they're only as far as their own backyard, Most of the time picnics are a lot of fun; for somehow the food seems to taste better when it's eaten in a more informal atmosphere. I certainly don't consider myself an expert on' what to take to a picnic. I'm the type that forgets the salt when you have hard boiled eggs or_ the knife when you've brought a whole watermelon. Nevertheless I remain undaunted and. I'm determined to 'improve on my piCnic recipes. No more will I decide to take chicken only to find that the only pieces I have are stm in the freezer or plan on sandwiches when not a slice of bread can be found in the a r e a . , Today, I often wonder why the lunches I pack for the great outdoors don't taste so. good as those my mother and grandmother used to pack when I was a youngster. '. I can still taste my grandmother's coffee. She used to fill a huge vacuum jug with the hot liquid heavily laced with sugar and evaporated milk. I 'don't think any coffee that I have had since was as delicious as that particular brew. , Perhaps it was because it was the only time I was ever allowed to drink coffee and' this' forbidden beverage tasted better because my taste for it was so unjaded. A great deal of the enjoyment of eating in the great outdoors, has to do with your frame of
jelly sandwiches while caviar and file mignon can leave a b(tter taste if the children have been miserable and nothing has gone right. : This Summer I vow to try and dig up some picnic recipes th~t are easy to prepare, yet tasty. : Use this recipe on 'the day you remember to defrost the chicken. Picnic Chicken Virginia y:! cup butter or margarine , 1f.l cup pean~t butter % cup milk 1 teaspoon salt . 6 Tablespoons cornmeal 6 Tablespoons flour 6 drumsticks 1 teaspoon paprika 6 broilers-fryer wings 1) Put butter in foil-linetl, 15y:! by lOy:! baking pan. Sit in 425 oven for 5 minutes or until butter melts. Remove from ove_~.· 2) Blend peanut butter and milk until smooth, stir in' salt. 3) Combine flour, cornmeal and paprika. Dip chicken pieces in peanut butter mixture then roll in flour mixture. : 4) Place coated chicken ih melted butter and bake in ,8. 425 oven for 20 minutes. Turn chicken and bake 15 to 20 min'- , utes longer. \ 0
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Relief Agency' Helps Cambodian Refuges SAIGON (NC)-Cathdlic Re'lief Services, the' overseas aic;! a~ency of U. S. Catholics, is as" sisting about 200,000 refugees from the war in Cambodia, the agency's local director saic;! here. ' Father Robert L. Charlebois~ of Gary, Ind., program director for 'Vietnam, said the agency is . now negotiating with the Cam" bodian government to establish a relief and, rehabilitation prot gram for all refugees in that country. i Approximately 96,000 persons are crowded into 20 refugee camps in Camboc!.ia.
Urban Coalition Starts Medical" Aid Projects
BATON ROUGE (Nq-A'bill providing state financial aid to private schools squeaked through the Louisiana House of 'Representatives by a vote of 53-50. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Richard Guidry of Galliano, is backed by Citizens for Education Freedom, national non-sectarian organization seeking equal' treatment for students of all schools. For the last three years it has been pushing for sucn legislation in Louisiana, A similar bill already has been debated on the floor of the Senate, but a vote has not yet been taken. URBAN TASK FORCE TALK: Three participants in The 53 favorable votes reprethe United States Catholic Conference (USCC) Task ·Force sent a bare majority of the on Urban Problems get involved in animated conversation House, the smallest number of votes for passage of a measure. during' a break in the schedule. They are, from left, Father The Guidry bill provides for 'Geno C. Baroni, Program Director, Sister Mary Michele. establishment of a special fund Craig of Philadelphia, and John H. Rarzyminski, President in the state education department to pay salaries of non pubof the Pan-Slavic Alliance in Pennsylvani~~ NC Photo. lie school teachers for instructing in secular subjects. Emile· Comar, CEF director here, estimated the bill would cost the state about $15 million Expert in Handwriting Analysis Turns a year, or' $100 for every child in non public schools. He said Hobby Into Career this compares with $569 per YORK (NC)-Bill Ryall is a horn leader '- the other to a child a year, which would ,be the graphologist. He's also a happily saintly person. cost if non public school pupils married Catholic, father of five, He was right-the first was had to be absorbed into the puband a member of St.' Joseph's the handwriting of Adolf Hitler, lic school system. parish here in ·Pennsylvania. the other, that of Blessed Mother A quarter of a century ago, Seton, a caMidate for sainthood. Ryall was stationed' on a tiny Endorse Conscientious Ryall contended: "Handwriting Pacific island near New Guinea, . is an exact science, particularly serving his country in World so because of the careful studies Objection Principal War II. Somehow he came made by Europeans." The analyNOTRE DAME (NC)-Thirty across a book about handwriting sis, he explained in detail, is members of the University of analysis - or, more formally, reached by a study of how cer- Notre Dame's theology faCUlty graphology. tain letters in handwriting are including university president ·He read and reread the book formed -like open or closed Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, and became fascinated with the "o's" crossed "t's" - how the C.S.C., issued a statement here endorsing the principle of selecscience. In a short time he was writing is 'slanted, and so on. tiv~ conscientious objection. able to make a Close analysis of He said handwriting analysis All but two members of the all 32 men stationed on the tiny which is based in logic someisland with him-to their amaze- times discloses characteristics in theology department signed the statement, which urges revision ment. a person which other profesWhat started out as a hobby, sionals, such as psychologists or of Selective Service regulations with Ryall 'turned into a career. psychiatrists, are unable to un- to allow conscientious objection to a particular war. At present, Today he writes' a column syn- cover. federal law requires opposition dicated in.15 newspapers about to "war in any form" in 'order handwriting analysis, and lecto be classified as a <;onscientious Labor Lead'er Says tures extensively on the subject. objector. In a display here of his anal"A Christian, applying honestyses, Ryall looked at a couple Poverty Is Pollution' ONAWAY (NC) - The new ly the 'just war' standards, may of 'samples of handwritings, concluded one sample, belonged to president of the United Auto properly conclude that he cana highly emotionally person,. a Workers' union told a United not participate in the kind of Nations symposium on the en- war he now faces," the Notre vironment here in Michigan that Dame statement declared. Nun Heads Catholic poverty" and deprivation are "Indeed, sobel' attention to the among the most dangerous forms reality of contemporary war, its Hospital· Association of environmental pollution.' goals and methods, makes its CINCINNATI (NC) - Sister Urging elimination of both, moral justification increasingly Mary Maurita, assistant to the Leonard Woodcock added that dubious" director of the department of "without a vigorous push for an health affairs, U. S. Catholic economy of equal opportunity Conference, is the first woman and distributive' justice, the BEFORE YOU to be named executive director chances for environmental sanof the Catholic Hospital Associa- ity may well be lost." BUY -TRY tion. /, Woodcock, elected al,lto workSister _Maurita, also a staff ers union head after the accidenmember of the Sisters of Mercy tal death of veteran leader genera1<ite in Bethesda, Md., was Walter, Reuther, told delegates !lppointed !lnanimously by the from 27 nations that much of OLDSMOBILE 18-member board of trustees what passes for environmental Oldsmobile-Peugot-Renault meeting dllring the association's control is merely "the cosmetic 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven 55th annual convention. approach for beautification." , Her new duties, effective Sept. I, will be execution of all policies and programs as they relate to the 900 ;member health care facilities lo~ated throughout the United States. and the' administration of services performed by INC. the professional staff at the national office in St. "ouis. She 'replaces Father Thomas J. Casey, S.l., who has been appointed assistant to the provin-. cial for the pastoral and social apostolates of the Missouri Province--of the Society of Jesus. § §
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Funded with $2 million -provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity; officials of the Urban Coalition here announced launching of a' new program ·to attract medical: professionals in the nation's poverty areas. ' "This is not just a project to: supply more health care person-, nel,' but to place' them in the. areas that require them most,'" coalition chairman John W.' Gardner explained. Program director Dr, George. Silver added that the coalition, expected to have 40 to 50 people \ working within a month. He also: announced that the Urban Coali-; Duty tion would help schools recruit, and. train low-income Americans ~ In doing what we ought we who want to work in the health: deserve no praise, because it is field. " , our duty.
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Experienced Travel,ers Give Advice,on Clothing Problems
Adults Oppose Campus Strikes
As vacation time draws near more and more people are contemplating a trip abroad. This year in the school that I teach at two of the girls are planning on exploring the Old World while two others who have traveled extensively have been helping them with their experienced to handle alone. (Single girls d' Wh k could follow suit here.) a VIce. at to pac seems Mrs. Balthazar (Connie) is alto be the biggest problem so using Arthur Frommer's book facing any female planning on traveling anywhere. Women everywhere want to look their very best and the thought of traveling throughout the continent looking a mess is enough to throw cold water on any trip plans. My principal, Miss Eleanor Lenaghan, has tra,,:eled both at
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home' and ,abroad and when asked what she felt were some essential items that a female traveler must take with her she stressed a rain hat, rain coat, one dressy sweater, one every day sweater and just' a couple of pair of shoes (She mentioned the fact that shoes can always be resoled and reheeled, while you wait, so why burden yourself with too many pair). These items, of course, would go along with a minimum number of drip-dry dresses. Miss Lenaghan also added that because so many travelers carry luggage that is similar 'she always ties brightly colored ribbon on the handles of her suitcases, thus facilitating instant identification of onc's own luggage. One more tip that she gave that should prove invaluable to this Summer's travelers was to pack just what one would need for overnight in a separate small suitcase; then if you stopped at a hotel for just overnight this would be the only bag that you would need to open. Lightweight Luggage The first grade teacher in our building, Mrs Arthur Balthazar, has bought quite a few drip dry outfits and these are the dresses she plans to use during her entire 24-day stay in Europe. She did mention that both she and her husband had bought lightweight canvas-type luggage. As they will be hopping on and off trains and planes they felt that this, would be the most comfortable type for them
FDA Issues Warning On Contraceptives WASHINGTON (NC) - Longawaited warning about oral contraceptives by the Food and Drug Administration has been summed up here as: "These drugs work, but don't take them without a doctor's supervision." Thls·message to the estimated 8.5 million American women . using birth control pills must be inserted in each pill package by manufacturers within 90 days of the June 11 FDA warning. The package insert will also declare that the pill is a powerful drug that can cause side effects for some users, that it should not be used at all by some women and that the most serious known side-effect is abnormal blood clotting, which can be fatal.
Europe On $5 a Day as her guide to packing because it contains both a clothing list for Summer packing and one if you're touring the continent during the Winter. Again one can't help b1,1t be impressed by the fact that in the lists it is stressed to keep packing down to a minimum. Dark Colors In glancing at Frommer's book that Connie loaned me I found that the feature I enjoyed most was the recommendations from readers found at the end of each article. One letter in particular caught my eye. It was written by an American tourist who had found that dressing in dark colors never looked soiled; the second, and this one' could escape a novice traveler, she ,noted that in dark clothes one was more often than not mistaken for a fellow European and the courtesy she was accorded because of this was well worth giving lip bright colors for. Miss IIda Brum, my children's godmother, has just returned from a tour of Portugal and Spain so I felt her travel and packing experience would be quite recent. IIda surprised me a bit when she said that on this particular tour she could have used more cocktail or dinner dresses than she had taken. 50a9 Important "I took three dresses for evening but in these countries dinner is quite late and quite dressy and quite a few women in the party felt that they would like to have' taken more changes for the evening." She went on to say that she found any fabrics with polyester on the label great, especially for shedding wrinkles. Soap was another item that she felt she should have taken more of as European baths are quite generous with towels but completely forget the soap. These diverse opinions do come together at one point and that is if you want to look your best while traveling don't forget your drip-dries but add a couple of extras, just for your own morale.
Bond Warns on Racism In Integrated Schools WASHINGTON (NC) - Georgia's only black legislator warned members of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity here that- blacks in so-called integrated schools will not put up with discriminatory practices when school reopens in the Fall. State Rep. Julian Bond told committee members that blacks' new militancy will lead to action against biased tests, segregated classes, exclusion from sports and extra-curricular activities and the singing of Dixie as an anthem at sports events and assemblies. Charging that President Nixon's proposal to spend $1.5 billion on school desegregation "smacks of a political payoff," ,Oond urged that the money be spent by interracial committees and used "as a resource for in· novative quality· education."
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PRINCETON (NC)-"Do you agree or disagree with college students going on strike as a way to protest the way things are run in this country?" This question, asked of the nation's adult population in a Gallup Poll, resulted in an answer that 82 per cent were opposed to student strikes as a way of protest to U. S. military involvement in Cambodia. A 40-year real estate brokt:r put it this way: "There are constructive ways for students to protest and still go to class working for candidates, for example. Disruption is out in my book." A total of 1,439 persons over age 21 were selected to be interviewed in the recent survey.
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Action In Cambodia SAN ANTONIO (NC)-Retired Archbishop Robert E. Lucey in a sermon here defended U. S. military action in Cambodia as necessary to protect American troops and their Southeast Asian allies. The former a~chbishop of San Antonio also lashed out at antiwar critics demanding U. S. withdrawal from Indochina, saying they are unable to tell the difference between a moral war and an immoral war. "At times our country has indulged in the questionable lux~ ury of isolation and neutrality," he told Air Force servicemen attending a Mass at Lackland Air Force, Base chapel. "But I hope· that we have learned that the easy way out of an international dispute doesn't work," he added.' "Neutrality in the face of an international crime is itself a crime when perpetrated by a major nation." During the Johnson administration, Archbishop Lucey backed U. S. military involvement in Vietnam saying it" was moral. He was one of President Lyndon Johnson's official observers of the South Vietnamese elections in 1!;)67. 'None So Blind' Citing the repeate<l. communist attacks on South Vietnam from sanctuaries in Cambodia, Archbishop Lucey told the USAF personnel that President Nixon had "no other choice" when he. ordered troops into Cambodia. The Archbishop acknowledged . that "millions of Americans" oppose U. S. involvement in Indo china. But he said such opposition by "so many religious leaders, so many college presidents, so large a group of university faculties ,and business leaders 'who cannot· tell the difference between a moral and an immoral war surpasses understanding." In a stinging rebuke of war critics, Archbishop Lucey said: "Unjust agggression and brave self-defense are miles apart in the scale of moral values, but, there are none so blind as those who will not see'" * '" Quotes Pius XII "The most incredible attacks on our government and our foreign policy have been made by certain leaders in Washington. , It is no wonder that" millions of honest Americans have been shocked and confused by the reckless fault"finding perpetrated by· these men." He said the United States was . duty-bound by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty to provide economic and military assistance to Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam if requested. "Since 1954 our 'country has had four presi.dents," he said. "All of them saw the necessity of giving economic and military aid to South Vietnam. Who shall say that four presidents were wrong?" . - He said more attention should be paid to the teachings of Pope Pius XII who, during World War II, "recognized that sometimes men must fight. and die so that liberty and justice shall live."
Orders InteS]rataom SCRANTON (NC) - Officials of the U. S. justice department filed a consent order in the U. S. District Court here 'ordering the developers of a' nearby recreational community'to actively recruit Negroes as employees and as lot purchasers.
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MONTREAL (NC) - A veritable Pandora's Box of opinions on the role aDd, future of. the French-Canadian Catholic layman in his Church and worla is being opened here by an I IImember inquiry panel. Known as the Dumont Cbmmission (after its president. Fernand Dumont of Laval Unirer-' sity, Quebec), the board has been' holding .public hearings .eyery weekend since early January in 36 predominantly French-speaking dioceses to' sound opinio~s. The hearings have be.com~ an exciting topic of' conversation among Canada's 5.7 million French-speaking, Catholics, ; the vast majority of them in; the province of Quebec. The findings of the hearings, together with in-depth sociological' case studies of laymen's groups- and a series of "spiritual itineraries" of individuals, I are expected to be completed: by April 1971 for presentation to the Canadian bishops. I According to Archbishop Joseph-Aurele Plourde, presiflent of the Canadian Catholic Conference, the' findings of: the Commission are expected to be "very helpful" in the exploration of grass roots'views on the' role and structuring of a Canadian Pastoral Council, now under study. --. The commission grew out of a dispute over finances ;four years ago between French-sector bishops and veteran Catholic Action leaders over projects, purposes and the very identity of Catholic Action and the lay _ I apostolate., Church officiaJs had 'suggested very strongly that Catholic' Action group~ stop functioning. !Participation of Laity • A liaison committee looked into the matter'! The Canadian episcopate approved at its: plenary assembly of April 1967 the establishing of a study commission to examine 'Catholic ~ Action's future. .
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The commission;s mandate was subsequently broadened "to, examine the participation of the laity in the mission of the Church," as well as to analyze where Catholic Action groups, which are strong in French dioceses but relatively weak in the English sector, stood in the post-Conciliar period. . Already more than 700 briefs, ,letters and tape recordings of discussion groups have been re'ceived or heard by the commission. -
Ask Bishops Oppose Golconda Movement MEDELLIN (NC) - A newly formed group of conservative priests in the Medellin archdiocese has asked the Colombian bishops to condemn the contromovement versial . Golconda which has been agitating social and economic reforms in the country. ' The new Movement for Christian Social ,Thought charged that priests in the Golconda . movement have caused "anguish and confusion" among Catholics. The Golconda movement was founded in December 1968, by Bishop Gerardo Valencia Cano, who heads the apostolic vicari.ate of Bonaventura, and 49 other priests. ' The group, named· for the resort town in which it was founded, describes itself as "a revolutionaty front" aimed at ending "domination by a privileged minority in eolombia."
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BILBAO (NC) .:..... Protesting against recent arrests of nine of his priests, Basque Bishop Jose Maria Cirarda suspended all public celebrations of the feast of the Sacred Heart in his diocese. Earlier he had said Mass in several parishes whose priests had called off Sunday services in a show of solidarity with their imprisoned colleagues. In a pastoral letter, released to newspapers and read in all . the 270 parishes of his See, Bishop Cirarda said the, arrests endanger "the liberty of the Church". He considers them violations of Spain's concordat with the Holy See which prohibits arrests of priests without permission from their bishops. The nine priests were arrested earlier il} June on charges of reading to their congregations a document alleging police torture of Basque nationalists. The document was prepared by five other Basque priests who last year went on a hunger strike to protest social and political conditions in the region. The government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco has always experienced difficulties with the Basque region, which seeks to retain its traditions and language. The Basque provinces in northwestern Spain include some of the most industrially productive areas of the country.
Relief Workers See Destruction in Peru
CHIMBOTE (NC)-A two-day tour of the Casma-Chimbote disaster area by the first Catholic Relief Service assistance teams to reach the earthquake-torn region showed massive destruction and misery.' Rocco Sacci of Yonkers, N. Y., information director who flew down to help coordinate the Future of Church work of the U. S. Catholic relief "The commission has come up agency, reported almost total with some surprises," observed loss of Casma. Chimbote was Champagne, for 10 years an ofhalf destroyed in the ruinous ficial of Catholic Action's Adult May 31 earthquake but was still Movement. ' functioning. "A number of groups not ofDigging out was in progress ficially organized in, the Church caine in to express themselves. all around Chimbote, a vital port I think this is proof that people city and the heart of Peru's are interested in the future of fishmeal processing and manuthe Church. They have some facturing industry, The city was criticisms-and they are not as, without water and the greatest fear was that epidemic!! could ,disinterested as some think." sprout and kill survivors the There'is also a feeling among eartquake left' still alive. many French Canadians "that maybe it's our last chance to produce 'changes in the structure of the Church. Oh, they'd continue to believe in the Gospel, in Christ, all right, but'" '" * Commission members include DRY CLEANING Claude Ryan, influential editor and of "Le Devoir," the president of FUR STORAGE a smelter workers federation, the executive secret~ry of the 34-44 Cohannet Street teachers' union of Montreal, a Taunton 1 822-6161 university student, and a bishop. All are being carefully synthesized by Jacques Champagne, commission secretary, and an. overworked staff at the modest former Catholic Action secretariat headquarters on the second floor of a converted house on St. Hubert Street in the French part of Montreal. '
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Charities Official Asks Immediate Welfare Reform ,WASHINGTON (NC)-Millions will remain on "the present inadequate and sometimes inhumane" welfare system, unless immediate action is taken on President Nixon's revamped welfare proposal. ' This warning was issued here by Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran, secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, to the Senate Finance Committee. He urged the committee to reopen .hearings on the welfare proposal, improve its questionable parts and report it to the full senate bEfore the end of July. The proposal's "deficiencies should be corrected and it should be enacted this year," he said in behalf of the principal coordinating agency for the nation's Catholic social welfare. New Program "The administration has made a more than superficial effort to answer the objections of the Senate Finance Committee," Msgr. Corcoran said' of the Pres-. ident's revised proposal which would replace Medicaid with a new national' health insurance plan for the poor. The revision comes 10 months after Nixon proposed his original family assistance plan known as H.R. 16311. The new program, geared, to satisfy: complaints chiefly' from Republicans and conseI:vatives, is designed to overcome fears that the plan would penalize families trying to increase their incomes while receiving assistance. The proposed amendments are designed to in'crease work incentives. The plan also provides a sliding scale for rent subsidies to the poor, eliminating federal matching assistance to states for families with unemployed fathers. Needs Study The chief change proposed by the President was for a pre-paid insurance program under which poor families with children would pay some premiums that would buy insurance covering their hospital and doctor bills. Now under Medicaid, such bills are submitted item by item to the government-a procedure some say has given doctors and hospitals no incentive for holding down their bills. "Most of the changes announced by the administration seem to be valuable although the legislation itself must be studied carefully," said Msgr. Corcoran. He said, however, that "some of the changes are disappointing" such as the elimination of matching assistance to unemployed fathers for whom welfare payments will 'be reduced from the original provisions of the bill."
Challenge Schools' Yule Observance RUTLAND (NC) - A Rutland newspaper editor and his mother have opened court action against municipal and sehool officials here in Vermont in an effort to end observance of Christmas in local public schools. Kendall Wild, editor of the Rutland Daily Herald, and his mother Elizabeth initiated the court action on the grounds that observance of Christmas in the schools violates the U.S. constitution and the Vermont state constitution. More than 25 summonses were served against the town's mayor, school superintendent and other public authorities.
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CHURCHMAN OF YEAR: President Richard M. Nixon shows the citation naming him Churchman of the Year after receiving it from the 1969 holder of the title, Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney. On hand at the White House are, from left: Father John A. O'Brien of Notre Dame University: W. Clement Stone, president of the Religious fIeritage of America Committee, and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos of New York City. ,NC Photo.
Religious Heritage Honors Presidenit Nixon Named Churchman' of the Year WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon has, been named Churchman of the Year and lay Catholic leader Mrs. Anna Mae Moynihan, Churchwoman of the Year, by a nonprofit religious group. In making the awards, Religious Heritage of America, Inc., hailed Nixon "for creating an atmosphere in which we in America can return to a spiritual renaissance." It praised him for taking Sunday worship to the White House. Also honored by the nonprofit group dedicated to preserving Judeo-Christian ideas :was Father John A. O'Brien, research 'professor of theology at Notre Dame University. He was first to be elected .to the organization's hall of fame "for his outstanding contributions to the religious, life of America for more than 50 years," The organization named Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, the Clergyman of the Year. The organization's delegation to the White House for the presidential presentation included
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award winners here for its 20th annual National Leadership Conference and awards program. In addition to the award, the President was presented a 10point program to "sell America to Americans," The program designed to enc,?urage "a positive American attitude" followed a White House request to religious and lay leaders to help achieve peaceful discussions and renewed national appreciation of the spiritual values of the nation. Also accompanying the delegation was long-time Nixonfriend W. Clement Stone, president of Religious Heritage of America. He cited Nixon's 23 prayer meetings in the White House since his first Sunday in
office, with practically every major denomination represented, including Judaism. Although many religious leaders have praised Nixon for the, services, he has ~lso been criticized for encroaching on the constitutionnal demand for separation of church and state. Religious Heritage of America, Inc., presented the late Dwight D. Eisenhower with the same award when he was president.
Charges Students Misuse Privulege
WASHINGTON (NC) A Northern Virginia congressman charged here that Georgetown University students misused the school's postal privileges and Proposed Merger threatened its tax-exempt status by mailing fliers attacking the Report Premature Nixon administration and the NEW YORK (NC)-Published congressman at reduced postal reports of a proposed merger be- rates. Republican Joel Broyhill tween the Catholic Press Association and its, Protestant-Ortho- charged that the flier violated dox counterpart; the Associated postal regulations limiting use Church Press, are premature, of- of a non-profit organization ficials of both groups indicated. mailing permit to nonpolitical, organizations. A university Both organizations have been spokesman said that the mailing cooperating informally for years, resulted from "ignorance" of and recently their cooperation postal regulations on the part of Predicts Changes has taken on a more official a student volunteer. tone. Last year, for example, The student's offer to make For South' Africa members of both organizations up the difference between the DURBAN (NC) - Archbishop ming1E!d at a joint convention in requced-rate postage and reguDenis Hurley, O.M.I., of Durban Atlanta. Plans now call .lor simi- lar postage was rejected by the called the 1960's the decade of lar mingling at it 1972 joint con- post office here. the death throes of apartheid, vention in Buffalo and a 1973 The flier, sent to 1,600 Georgestrict racial segregation, and joint convention in Minneapolis. town undergraduates living in predicted dramatic changes in But both organizations are the Washington area, asked if South Africa in the decade said to be a long way from merg- students were "fed up with Dick, ahead. ing. Executive secretary James Spiro, and Co., Unlimited?" It Speaking at a meeting of a A. Doyle of the Catholic associa- , then urged students to work to group that raises funds to aid tion told the NC News that talk dump Broyhill in the November colored (mixed race) persons in of merger is premature, but election. ' Natal province, the Archbishop added that officials of both described apartheid as. "a plan groups have been looking into to bring about an impossible, the possibility of "joint funckind of separation between the tional relationsh!ps," different communities of t):lis country, who are in fact closely Abbot Elected integrated in a common economic ~nd cultural effort," ST. LEO (NC)-Father Fidelis Archbishop Hurley said that Dunlap, O.S.B., was elected ab7 Perry the country's "dynamic econom- bot ,of St. Leo Benedictine abbey Avenue ic growth" had reached a stage here, succeeding Abbot Marion where there can be no turning Bowman who resigned last Aug: back, no side-tracking or stop- ust after 15 years in office. FaTauntonMass. ping it. This economic growth, ther Dunlap, wlio took over his 822-2282 he said, is "going to bring the new duties shortly after election, South African people together in has been librarian of the abbey , and of St. Leo's College here. a common prosperity,"
NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Press Association has announced its opposition to the Senate version of a postal reform bill, claiming it would "force discontinuance of many of our member publications," The bill under consideration (S-3842), dubbed the McGeeFong bill, would phase out preferential rates for nonprofit publications in the second and third class bulk mail categories over a 10-year period, beginning in 1972. Dioeesan newspapers are in the former category. "The Catholic .Press Association has long been in favor of postal reform, but we are opposed to the Senate version," the CPA statement said. "Congress has traditionally 'been most generous in establishing postal rates for nonprofit publications," the statement continued. It cited President Nixon's April 16 message to Congress that "the mails will be completely self-supporting except for continuing appropriations to reimburse the postal service for revenue lost on mail carried for nonprofit organizations and other groups entitled by law to use the mail free or at specially reduced rates," Telegrams protesting the "phase-out" provision were sent to the members of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee during the recent CPA convention in Chicago. The telegrams were signed by Joseph A. Gelin, press association president. Gelin is managing editor of the Universe-Bulletin, newspaper of the Cleveland diocese.,
Education Directors Attend 'BriefQng' CHICAGO (NC) - Adult education directors and representatives from national agencies with similar programs exchanged ideas at a "briefing" here sponsored by ti)e fledging U.S. Cath olic Conference division for adult education. Established last January the new division is a clearingthouse of information for ai:lult education programs in dioceses and parishes. The division is concerned with "adult religious education broad-_ ly conceived," according to Larry Losoncy, director. "Dioceses diversified approa<;hes to adult education-that's why our division's spectrum is so broad," he said.
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Weekly Effort Has Fringe Benefits, !Perils came back, the column "had simply got lost in the shuffle" At PM, he reports,- "not to appear could mean to disappear." In any event, he 'was glad to be rid of his assignment. "For me," he says, "the column had gone on just long enough; beginnmg as a kind of romp, it w~s, in its dependence on bright ideas, ~ beginning to be a chore:" Does More Reading In my own case, it became a chore in mu'ch less than six months and has remained, a By, chore ever since-only more so. On the other hand, it's the kittd of chore that has its own (nonMSGR. pecuniary) compensations or r~ wards, and, for this reason, GEORGE G. among others; I have opted ito stick with it until the bitter end. In other words, I plan to hold HIGGINS on to my NC franchise until the powers-that-be move in on me by stealth and -take it away by 'house operated at a loss by an sheer force. I ' inexperienced British couple, who Not the least of the incidental having read articles of his ad- compensations or fringe benefits vising British and Mediterranean referred to above is that aryon€: governments how to put their who writes a regular column affairs in order, hopefully show- over an extended period of time ed him their financial accounts, is almost compelled, in spite ,of written, for the most part in himself, to do a little more serired ink. ous reading than he might otherSomewhat taken aback by this wise be prompted to do. embarassing show of Confidence Not that reading doth a col1n his financial and managerial umnist make-but, other thi~gs skills, he had to explain that "in being equal, it helps to pnme the paper world of journalism the pump and, once it has been it is often easier to resolve the primed, helps to keep the, well problems of a continent than to from going dry., - I make sense of one's private life." Secondly, wri,ting a column is Mr. Alan's self-effacing mod- an inexpensive form of, psychic esty about the limits of his own therapy, a safety valve that keeps profession is matched, even clos- the lid from blowing off the er to home, by something that boiler when the goiQg gets; a the well known American liter- little rough. ary critic Louis Kronenberger Pledge for Future says about columnists in his reOn the other side of the coin, cently published memoirs, "No the perils of doing a weekly Whippings, No Gold Watches" column are many and variedf(Little, Brown and Co., Boston, almost as numerous, some would $6.95). ' probably' contend, as the pro-' At one stage in his long and verbial sands on the seashore. distinguished career, Mr. Kronen~ Ray Alan and Louis Kronenberger was invited to write a berger, in the quotations cited column for PM, a liberal New' above, have alluded to just I a York daily which flourished, after few of them: generalizing from a fashiQn, for a couple of hectic ,the depths of one's ignorance years during the early days of and inexperience about the probthe Depression but never really lems of the universe; turning the lived up to its promise -and has pen into a slingshot; making fun long since gone the way of all of popular idols or, in Kronenbut three of Gotham's daily berger's words, turning the high papers-namely out of business. hat into a dunce cap; trying 'to PM's unexpected invitation. be perky or sassy or, worst ~of Mr. Kronenberger reports, had all, trying 'to be funny. Mr. Kronenberger says that "a dangerous lure", about it. "Here," he thought, "was the virtually ,everyone, at some time ideal place to be perky and in his life, wants to run the risk sassy, and hope to be ,funny; the of making all these mistakes and chance to turn the pen into a others too numerous to mention, slingshot, high hat into a and, 'in his opinion, should give dunce cap; to be briefly auto- it a try "if only to have done so biographical, or fictional, or sat- and know better." irical; and on occasion to be 'serFor my own' part, I must confess to knowing better, but, havious. "In any case, a column is ing decided' not to call it quits, something that virtually every- I can only resolve and hereby one at some time wants to try publicly pledge on my silver ~n his hand at, and should-if only niversary as a columnist to to have done so and know bet- watch, my manners more careter." fully, in the days or months 'or Best Policy years that lie ahead. , By sheer coincidence, these First Person Singular two quotations fro'm experienced , One final point. In reminiscing scribblers who apparantly are about the past 2~ years: I have committed to the principle that consistently used the first perhonesty is the best policy-or. son singillar, and for this I offer in any event, the better part' of no apologies. I realize, of course, valor in dealing with the enemy that m'any people - ' including --came to my attention just as I some of my own friendly critics' was rounding out my twenty- --are strongly of the opinion that, fifth year as an NC columnist. for the sake of greater obj'ectlyWhen I first read them, I was ity, columnists .should write tempted to turn in my, uniform clusively in the third person. i and call it quits-approximately I have never agreed with this 24'12 years too late, if Mr, Kron- opinion, but I wasn't sure:' I enberger's considered opinion on knew exactly why until' I read the, matter is to be taken as a what Louis Kronenberger had ~ to working rule of thumb. say about it on the basis of his He tells us that he wrote his 'experience 'as' a 'columnist artd PM column for six months and critic. Now I know. then went on vacation..When he Mr. Kronenberger recalls in ~is I Ray Alan, a working journalist on Fleet Street in London and the' author of a fascinating book about contemporary Spain, "Spanish Quest," is one member of the Fourth Estate who doesn't take either himself or his profession too seriously. He reports in' his new book that, while traveling in Spain a few years ago, he stopped on the Costa Brava at a small guest
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memoirs that, at one time in his 'career, he was simultaneously writing reviews of the same play for two publications, Time magazine and PM. He wrote his PM review in tne first person and his crime reviews in the more impersonal third person singular. On balance, he thinks that the PM re'views were more objective, and this for the following reasons: Instead of Pre.teriding ~'For the first person, it may bristle with ego andJ?e blatantly opinionated, is in the final reckoning modest, since, whatever his tone; a man is speaking only for himself; and where his is a housebroken ego,he tends to spotlight the iimits o( judgment by larding his reviews with "I ,think' or 'in ,my opinion' or 'speaking for myself. "Such admissions, or call them deviations, humanize and warm a reviewer's praise, as. they moderatehis strictures. A tight style combined with a from-on-high third person tends to do just the opposite: it makes real, but not rhapsodic praise seem lacking in warmth, mild praise near·neighbor to mockery, and adverse criticism shriller or harsher than it is meant to be." I fully agree with Mr. Kronenberger in this regard and lhu's, for better or for worse, until death or impeachment or forced retirement do us painfully part, I shall probably go on speaking to the readers of this column (if there are any left after all these 'years) in the first person singular instead of pretending, by the use of more impersonal forms of speech, that I am authorized to represent the official point of view of some anonymous corporate entity.
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SPOKANE (NO) - A" 'disabled Vietnam veteran, attacked by student strikers as he attempted to go to class at Jesuit~operated' Gonzaga University here May 5, has announced formation of a students' 'rights group designed to protect the educational process from disruption by caPlpus radicals. Robin Yount, twice wounded during fiye months service with the infantry, organized the Stu· . dent Educational Rights Foundation to provide legal assistance to students, and schools who feel they are challenged by campus, disturbances. Yount says his nonpolitical group will: Advise and protect students whose education is interrupted by campus disturbances.
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Dutch Catholics Plan' Natio.,al Press Center AMSTERDAM (NC) - A new press and communications office for the Church in the Netherlands is being established by' a groQp headed by Bishop Theo· dore Zwartkruis of Haarlem and Harry Van Doorn, head of the Dutch Catho'lic R.adio Corporation. The fund-raising unit has'been named the Cardinal Alfrink . Foundation, in a move honoring the 70th birthday this Summer of Cardinal Bernard Alfrink of Utrecht., ' ./
Support schools b,ei'ng pr~s sured by minority groups to disrupt the· etablished course of education. Challenge school administrators Who amend teaching programs in favor of a school term. Ordinances Unclear Influence legislation protecting the school and non-dissenting students' rights to 'an education. Yount said local prosecutors' offices are often too overworked to prosecute cases involving campus unrest. and too often school and state ordinances are unclear. "That is why we are starting our foundation," he added'. "We think students should have immediate access to legal advice and they should not have to pay the fees that are charged by some attorneys."
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THE ANCHORThurs.• June 25. 1970
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"Most of them were members of the thriftless, less desirable class and though ''they lived in extreme squalor they seemed to be, in their own way, comfortable. They do not care about the shabby apartments in which they live. They look forward to the time when they can afford a the most prosperous and, wellthree room apartment and to-do suburbs in our country. Or, if it is not their grand-. they, would never willingly children, then one must assume
leave, their beloved ghetto." Shiftless. undesirable, indifferent-this could be a description of any poor group in contemporary American societyAmerican' Indians, Mexicans, PlJerto Ricans, or blacks. They are the ones who Edward Ban-
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field, in his recent book The Unheavenly City, suggests may well be beyond any kind of help. They lack the ability to postpone immediate gratification for some future hope of improvement and are, if Banfield is to be believed, destined never to break out of the iron grips of poverty. But it is not the American Indians or the blacks or the Spanish speaking, not the migrant workers, not the abject poor of contemporary American cities that are described, and it is not even, the nineteenth, century Irish who, as readers of this column are well aware, were accused of absolutely eveything of which today's poor are accused. No, it is another immigrant group being described, a group which today is thought by everyone to represE'nt the epitome of thrift, industriousness, sobriety, and ambition-the Germans. 'Germans Shiftless'? One is staggered by such a Quote taken (with slight editing) from Father Jay Dolan's recent study of the Catholic church in New York city during the first half of the nineteenth century. That the Irish could be accused of being "shanty" is credible, but that the Germans could be considered shiftless, unambitious or lazy seems, from the perspective of our time, to be absurd. The point of the Quote of course is not to criticize the Germans or the Irish or the blacks or the Indians or the Mexicans or the Puerto Ricans, for that matter. The point is rather that no immigrant group to the American cities ever looked particularly good during the initial transition era after immigration began. Professor Banfield suggests that the urban poor of the nineteenth century not only died, but they died out; he argues that since they lacked the ambition to break out of the culture of poverty, and since there is no evidence of their offspring still within the culture of poverty, obviously they did' not reproduce themselves. In Evidence Today It is a Quaint line of reasoning but, as an altemative hypothesis, one might suggest that the grandchildren of the shanty Irish and the shiftless Germans are very much in evidence in
that the Irish and German suburbanites appeared on the scene by spontaneous generation, which would be Quite a feat even for such talented. ethnic groups. I do not wish to be too critical of Professor Banfield's The Unheavenly City. Though the book is badly flawed by its tendency to push the "lower <;lass" theory further than anyone has ever pushed it, still raises many important issues about urban problems and serves as a marvelous antidote to those who think that there are simple, easy solutions to the difficulties of the city. He is also correct in noting that indifference, apathy and shiftlessness are part of the problem of poverty. The record of the shiftless Germans and the shanty Irish would indicate that these need not be insoluble problems, not at least for most human beings Instant' Solutions One of the currently fashionable cliches says that if we could put a man on the moon we ought to be able to solve the problems of poverty (or pollution or any. other problem with which the nation is faced). 'The only honest reply is to say that putting a man on the moon is child's play (probably in more sense than one) in comparison with the' problems of poverty and discrimination. To get a man on the moon one had to solve problems of power and engineering, which are well within the limitations of present human knowledge, but the problems of the urban slums require skills, competencies and knowledge that we do not at the present time have. Demands for instant solutions by militants of the left or' the right are demands than cannot be met. In our age of slogans and cliches there seems to be no middle ground between saying that we have solutions that will work- and saying that no solutiOn is possible. ' One either demands, as do· the young radicals, ·that American society solve the problem of poverty and hunger at once under pain of rejection or one looks at the complexities, as does Professor Banfield, and concludes that we have no choice but to wait for the urban poor to die off (though Banfield laments that modern medical progress seems to have reduced the serviceability of such a solution). Sees Hope There was a time when it was possible to be a social reformer and acknowledge' that progress would take time, effort, energy, resources and, above all, patience. But patience has gone out of fashion. Instant solutions or despair-that is the alternative. However, one might be forgiven if one would hazard the guess that it is at least possible that by the time the Republic celebrates its three. hundreth anniversary-if it has not been torn apart by civil war or destroyed by senseless foreign involvements or choked to death by its own affluence-a good
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NEW YORK (NC) - Father Daniel L. Flaherty, S.J., for the past five years executive editor of America, the national weekly of opiniol) published by the Jesuits, has been named director of the John LaFarge Institute, a conference center located in America House here. The appointment was announced by Father Donald R. Campion, S.J., president of America Press and of tre John LaFarge Institute board. }o-ather Flaherty will succeed Father Thurston N. Davis S.J, who resigned to accept an appointment as assistant for development to the director of the Communications Department of the U.S. Catholic Conference. The John LaFarge Institute was established by the editors of America out of respect for the memory of their colleague, the widely known' priest, author, journalist' and pioneer in the fields of interracial justice and inter-religious relations. The institute came into existence a . year after Father LaFarge's death in 1963.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHALICE: Joseph Lima, faithful navigator of the McMahon Council, New Bedford examines the chalice that' is annually given to a priest, prior to the presentation of it to Rev. Thomas J. Rita, New Bedford native, and presently assistant at 51. Mary's, Mansfield.
Stonehill College to Inaugurate Evening Division Credit Stonehill College will open an evening division in September, 1970, with credit courses leading to undergraduate degrees. Since' its foundation Stonehill has served the local comm'unity with general-interest, business and special-interest evening courses on a non-credit basis with an average enrollment of approximately 1000 persons a year in this program. The College now hopes to enhance this community service by offering adults in its vicinity the availability of credit courses . and the potential of obtaining a college degree. The Evening Division will operate a separate structure from the day program and will be a part of the Division of Continuing Education. Although admissions procedures will differ somewhat for the evening college due to varying circumstances of previous education of adults, the standards of curricu o lum and instruction will be maintained at the same level as that of the regular day college. The academic dean of the evening school will be. Rev: Peter J. Donahue, C.S.C., M.Ed., S.T.M., who takes up his duties at Stonehill next month, coming here from Catholic University. Father Donahue has had extensive experience in school administration, having directed the curriculum at Notre Dame High School- in Bridgeport, Conn.-
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Urges Observance . Of 'Fast Sunday' CULVER CITY (NC)-A suggestion has been made here in California that American Catholics observe Nov. 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day, as' "fast Sunday." The suggestion calls for giving "mother a rest from the kitchen," serving the simplest of meals and donating the savings "from this small sacrifice, along with whatever else y<e can spare" to a nationwide collection to aid . the poor. Dale Francis, publisher, in a column in Twin Circle, national Catholic newspaper, made the suggestion. He said "fast Sunday" could augment the plan of U. S. Catholic bishops to conduct a collection on the Sunday before Thanksgiving in all Catholic parishes to aid the country's poor. The bishops have set a $50 million goal for the collection. '
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10 inches in the chest; and the hem was closer' to her ankles than her knees. When I complained to the ,uniform company representative, she' countered. "That's how sister says they're- supposed to fit." The most unchanging teaching in Cahtolic Schools is the infallible power of the two words, "Sister Says." If "sister said" the grass was blue, the children would believe it, imediately look to the . grass to turn blue - and the grass just might clo it. It seems that the range of authority covered by "Sister Says" covers everything from astrology to zoology, and my' children accept it without a question. But, I find a conflict arises 'because what "Mommy Says" doesn't always agree with what "Sister Says." Guaranteed 'Washable' It was bad enough getting "Sister Says" from my children; now I was' hearing it from the fitter. I didn't believe' her, though, because it soon became obvious that she just did not want to exchange the unifor.m. . In my earlier days, I dutifully bought school uniforms as required. Trusting the tag, I put "guaranteed washable" navy Dlue . Rants into 'the machine. They came out looking like a limp rag completely covered by little lighter blue bits of fuzz solidly locked onto the fabric. I learned' they were, only guaranteed "washable."" No one had claimed anything about pilling or their ability, to retain any body in the fabric. So the' conflict arose because "Sister, Said'~. uniforms had to be bought through school -and I kept trying to buy anything that would come close' to matching, as long as I didn't have to go through' the frustra-
If "spirituality" (our life in God with others could be' thought of as having Seasons, Fall-Winter.;,.-and Spring would be easily recognized.
FALL has Halloween and giving children free treats. All Saints and Souls days remind us of our spiritual ties with others. We pray for them, and they pray for tis. New energy sprouts with vacations over and school beginnings. And nature refreshes our outlook on life with harvest festivals, apples, pumpkin pie and colored leaves. . WINTER spirituality is' best of all for sharing and glvmg to others. November means Thanksgiving. We recall our many bless- . ings; share a meal in celebration together; and gather food and clothes to give to the poor. '. December carries th~ spirit of Christmas. Everyone thinks about giving gifts to others. Family ties are the closest .at Christmas. Whether religious or commercial, carols-bells-and colored lights ring out the message of Christ's birth and peace on earth. We say then. If only this spirit could last all year long! Finally, New' Years gives us hope, new beginnings, resolutions and celebration.
Rebuff Efforts; To, Settle Strike
Former Prisoner M~ll'ks Anniversary
CALEXICO (NC)-Members of a U. S. 'bishops :group , seeking settlement of a' strike between unionized 'farm workers and melon growers ~in this border area were rebuffed by growers. The 'motel where the group was staying was picketed by young people hired by growers with signs reading "Catholic Bishops Go Home." At one growers' office where the group had ,been received earlier, a woman ordered the group off the property and told ·them:. "You should be teaching religion and . should stay out of the farm labor problems.". Auxiliary Bishop Joseph F. Donnelly of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the group named by the U. S. bishops seeking to settle the strike, told a press conference: "I regret to report that we have made very little progress and that we have not been well received by the official spokesman for the growers." The bishop stated when they sought out ~he growers spokesman "we were given to understand, in no' uncertain fashion, that any efforts we might make w.ould not receive their cooperation." Bishop Donnelly was accompanied here by Bishop, Hugh A. Donohue of Fresno, and by Msgr. George G. Higgins, director, urban life division, l:J. S. Catholic 'Conference, and Msgr. ·Roger Mahony of Fresno.
GLENDALE (NC)-Father John Houle, S.J., who survived four tortuous years, in a Chirlese communist prison:. celebrated '25 Germans Schedu.le years in the' priesthood' with a' . Mass of thanksgiving at his home ' Interf'oith Meeting parish, Holy Family, in this Cali-' BAD GODESBERG (NC) - A :. joint ecumenical meeting will be fornia, community. The Jesuk missioner was: ar- held in June, 1971 at Augsburg rested by the Chinese Reds in by· the Central Committee for Shanghai on June 15; i952.:He· Gennan Catholics, the national was in prison for two years i be- lay organization and the Protfore he was brought to tfial l on estant congress called the Kirch- ' Oct. 20; 1955., : .. entag. . Migrqnt Services' 'He recalled that the prosecuThe joint meeting will discuss Receive $700,000 tor made· "two speeches to: an the Church and problems of WASHINGTON (NC) - Office empty courtroom" accusing >him i faith, religious, services, the sinof Economic Opportunity direct- of helping spies and spreading gleperson,social ,minorities, or Donald Rumsfeld announced rumors. He was sentenced. to for~ign workers and developapproval here of a $700,000 grant, four years in prison, but was ment aid. The four-day meeting will be to United Migrant Opportunity released and expelled from ithe divided into 'two sections. SesSeryices, a Wisconsin agency re- Country in June, 1957. locating migrant farm workers', Father Houle, now, stationed sions on June 2 and 3 will conin better jobs and housing. at Blessed -Sacrament Church, 'sist of w'orkshops and those on The grant will be used to house Hollywood,. Calif., works on [be- June' 4 and·5 will discuss the and e4ucate some 350 migrant half of California Jesuit mission- papers prepared at the workfamilies. aries. shops. '
. SPRING spirituality begins with Lent. Our thoughts turn to sacrifice, giving, and dying to our petty selfishness. We meditate on the quality of our life. We reflect on Our Lord's passion, suffering, and dying. We celebrate His giving us the Eucharist and the love· which redeems us. Easter celebrates Christ's Resurrection,. the rebirth of nature, the victory over sin, and our rebirth as Children of God. Fall, Whiter, Spring are each enhanced by both religious and non-religious holidays.' Each attune our, disposition to giving to others-to family togetherness-to experiencing God alive in our lives. But Summer spirituality is difficult to describe. The Fourth of July doesn't do what Christmas does. Our thoughts are turned to vacations, travel, outdoors, and rest. It is a wonderful time of the year for family outings, picnics, and neighborhood cookouts. We all need a vacation from work and routine to rest and "recreate" our tired dispositions. But unfortunately for many, unlike the other seasons, summer loses, that spiritual awareness. Spirituality is not a season, a holiday or a disposition. For all ,of life is a' celebration-ali of life is real with the spirit of God. We' cannot take a vacation from God or life, as we cannot take a vacation from loving others. ,Missionaries preach the Word "in season and out of season." They need your support all year round. The suffering poor of the world are poor all year. Christmas is all year-Christ is born in Latin America, Asia, and Africa every day! Easter is all year-Christ suffers today the Way of 'the Cross in two-thirds of the world's peoples. The. missions need your help' this SUMMER more than ever' because it is not ,Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter in the hearts of ,all men, and ~e missions suffer! . . . Have a wonderful summer-have ~ good vacation or weekend rest-you deserve it. But please, remember to give to· others who need your help all year long. Share your blessings! Spirituality' has no season. It has' but one command: "Pray always and LOVlE ONE ANOTHER." , r
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THE ANCHO,R-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. June 25, 1970
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One of the tragic by-products of the war in Vietnam is the number of American citizens-especially young citizens-who think that America's involvement is dishonorable, not mistaken. But America was drawn into Indochina ,as a result of nearly 20 years' experience of "con- Now the struggle has started with Marshal Ky leading tainment"-in other words, again his troops on Phnom Penh. of checking Soviet expan. How to Get Out sionism. It would be pleasant for the world if the Russians had no temptations to expansion. ·It would be pleasant for the Czechs not to be occupied. It would be pleasant for the Jugoslavs not to have to arm a defensive citizen army to the
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teeth. It would - pleasant for South Korea not to fear a renewal of the Korean civil war by a thrust from the North. It would be pleasant indeed if the Middle Eastern vacuum of power on the Arab side did not suck Moscow in. But the realities of the world an overare that Russia is whelmingly large power and either by fear or ambition (or, more likely, by a mixture of both) cannot be relied on to respect other peoples' boundaries. The Europeans have most reason to know this and it is in Europe that "containment" has worked best, keeping West Berlin and Jugoslavia and,· for that matter, Austria in command of their own policies. For America to consider containment a rational policy is not a mark of feeblemindedness or guile or dishonor. It is • simply accepting a fact of life in an anarchic world where a balance of power between the giant states is the only restraint they recognize. The tragedy 'of Vietnam is that it was an area in which containment probably could not work. This was because the war was both a civil war and a colonial war and America blundered 'on to the side of seeming to support the end of the French colonial system and the side which firmly held in the North. In addition, as the Cambodian development has shown, there were shadows of still earlier conflicts flickering over the Vietnamese struggle. For centllries, the Khmers (or Cambodians) have been crushed between the advance of the Thais from the North and the Annamites (or Vietnamese) from the coast. The various peoples of Laos have equally been squeezed by the two dominant tribes. The French stopped all this for 80 years by colonizing e~erybody.
New Diocese VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI has established the new Angola diocese of Benguela and named as its first bishop Father Amaral Dos Santos. The new Portuguese African diocese is centered in the city of Benguela and is formed from territory taken from the already existing diocese of Nova Lisboa ,. (New Lisbon).
This is so desperate and confused' a combination of ancient and modern history, of nationalism and ideology,. of anticolonialism and independence that all clear lines and identifiable strategies are lost in a depth of muddy obstruction as deep as rice paddies after the .) Monsoon. This is where America is caught I),ot in dishonor ·but in confusion, not in "imperialism" but in muddle, not in agression but in deep mistakes. So the intense problem is: how to get out without even deeper trouble. Those who advocate a straight American withdrawal by fixed dates regardless of the consequences are sure'that only such a move will compel the government in Saigon to give up dreams of victory and get down to the political problem of devising a government for' the South in which Buddhists, Viet Congand other strong minorities (or maCHURCH: Survivors of Peru earthquake gather around makeshift altar outside ruinjorities) are represented. Those who see in an uncon- ed church. Substantial amounts of help are needed to provide necessities of life for surditional American withdrawal vivors. Catholic Relief Services will a~d through Latin American Collection to .be taken the certainty of damaging defeat argue that no·· Communist up on Sunday. group has ever respected a coalition and that no American promise of support would ever be believed again. Return to Consultation These are serious arguments which deserve better debate in CINCINNATI (NC) - A priest of the Sisters of Mercy provin- mood of womeri Religious at this America 'than catcalls of "im- closely associated· with work of cialate at Cumberland, R. I., as moment is expectant, looking for perialists" and "fascists" on the nuns in the Brooklyn, N. Y., dio- federation president. leadership in their quest for perone side and "appeasers" and cese reported that a survey disShe succeeds Sister Mary Clo- sonal meaning lind Christ-like "commies" on the other. closed prayer still is rated the tilde Sullivan, major superior of service and union with God. Above all, they demand a new .most important area in the lives the Sisters of Mercy at West "But the light may be blocked attempt to see whether, after of Sisters. Hartford, Conn. by activism and anxiety, by agthe years of bloodshed and the Father- Clancy said to the gravation or apathy, by antagon"Prayer has the most unifying present widening of the war to potential in Religious life today question, "Do you believe that isms and arrogance. They have include the whole of Indochina, because everyone is avidly in- a continuing spiritual program is also been deluged and confused there may not be a return to terested in this most personal, necessary for Sisters?" an over- by fragmented efforts, experiinternational consultation with most sensitive, most central ex- whelming majority answered ments and new ideas. They are the aim of involving the whole pression of their consecrated yes. waiting for an ordered unified international community in some cCfl'Tlmitment," direction, and they most need it said Father Seek Unified Directlollil kind of workable compromise. Thomas C. Clancy, associate "These statistics, plus per- in the very basic purpose of The last time this was tried vicar for Religious of the Brook- sonal experience with Sisters in their lives-their quest for God in the grand manner was, of lyn diocese. different parts of the country, and human fullness," he said. course, in 1954 when the sepaAddressing delegates repre- attest to their hunger for the ration of Vietnam was decreed, senting 15,000 nuns at the fifth spiritual and their primary em. the North remaining with Ho annual Federation of the Sisters phasis on prayer," he said. Chi·Minh, the South under non- of Mercy of the Americans here, Plumbi~g & "We agree," he acknowledged, Communist rule. Elections were Father Clancy disclosed that a "that they are no longer inter(@g guaranteed for 1956 and an in- survey among more than 5,000 ested in 'praying the old way,' ternational interest in the de- nuns in the Brooklyn and Rock- 'reciting prayers,' 'getting prayOver 35 Years velopment of the whole Mekong ville Centre, N. Y., dioceses, ers in.' But they want desperof Sa~isfied Service River basin began to quicken. showed that prayer led the area ately to pray; they know they Master Plumber 7023 Reg. This initiative failed in part of community life answers by a must pray if they are to survive, JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. because the South refused elec- 2-to-l ratio. but they don't know where or '806 NO. MAIN STREET tions. Yet th':! alternative - a Delegates from Australia, what or why to go about it." Fall River 675-7497 decade of war-lead one to ask South Afri~a' and England, as Father Clancy de~lared: "The again: cannot an international well as from 28 Mercy Sisters' compromise 'be tried again? communities in the U. S. and . ~ ' Canada, elected Sister M. Kieran Flynn, provincial administrator Ask Priests Back
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,·Sees' Legislat,ion Pornography Following Commission's Report
Tereska Torres Relates Life of Conve,rt Family The parents, of Tereska Torres, whose autobiography is entitled The Converts (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., N.Y., N.Y. 10022. $6.95) were Polish Jews who. emigrated to Paris after having been secretly 'received into the Catholic , , Church. The author was b o r n ' in Paris and baptized at the' ing out' of Paris,' down, to :St.- ' age of one. She counts her- Jean-de Luz, across Spain,and into Portugal., 1 , ' self Jewish, Catholic, Polish, The father's unit was success-
fully transferred to ScotHmd, and Tereska and her mother made' their way' to Engl~nd, where the girl joined ·the Free French. I' In London, she experienced the relentle,ss air raids and ,was, k1rJll)0iim:rlJ.mmmWfmllj introduced to a far more sophis-' ticated and' far less innocent I life than what 'she had previo~sly known. " MSGR. UYLENBROECK By Marries Novelist: In 1944, she married, only to RT. REV. have her husba.nd taken away,. first by an assignment with'the MSGR. French elements in the invasion - ., . JOHN S. of Europe and, shortly thereafter, WASHNGTON (NC) .,....- Pope by his death at the front. ! KENNEDY In 1945, Tereska gave birth Paul VI's secretary who 'specialto their child, in London, and izes in work of the laity is shortly thereafter' took this 'tiny scheduled to make a whirlwind daughter to Paris, where: the visit of the United States, observing and' discussing activities during the visits which the three baby was baptized. I occasionally made to Poland. After spending many pages of the American lay apostolate. But the fact was' discovered on her own story up to Ithis Belgian-born, Msgr. Marcel by a Jewish journalist who· hap- point (I.e., 1945), the author Uylenbroeck, 50, secretary ,of pened to be in a Paris church gives only the briefest indidtion the Vatican Council of the Laity', where Tereska's father, a fairly of the rest of it to date. We do will arrive in New York,' June well-known artist, was assisting learn that she has since manied 29. He will hopscotch across the at Mass a~d receiving Commu- Meyer Levin, the American nov- country, attending meetings on nion. elist. ; U. S. laity affairs with lay leaders in five cities. One is left wondering whether Happy Tim~s Martin H. Work, executive He published the news, and it the author is still a practi~ing was picked up by Jewish p.apers Catholic. She speaks of religious director, National Council 'of during the war yearS in Catholic Men, here, and only in different countries. A family doubts London. "Little by little I I felt North American member of the storm followed. And even the Paris home was invaded by ac- less need for formalized reli- Pope's Council of the Laity, will gion." It is never indicated t.hat meet M~gr. Uylenbroeck upon qUllintances screaming insults. this trend was reversed. . his arrival in New York and acEventually some s6rt of peace J~mlson i Max company him on hi~ U. S. tour. was patched up. But it was Wilfrid Sheed's latest ndvel, The meetings will be held in hardly to be expected that all would see'the force of Tereska's Max Jamison (Farar, Straus :and New York, June 30; herein the father's contention "that by be: Giroux, 19 Union Square, West, nation's capital, July 1; Chicago, ing a Catholic he was a more' N. Y. 10003. $6.50), is about a July 2; Los Angeles, July 3 and critic who does not confine' his San Francisco, July 4. complete -Jew." criticism to the plays and moyies The monsignor will leave San The years of Tereska's child- he ,r~views, ,the former for a hood and girlhood were before slick weekly, the latter for a Francisco July 5 for a trip to World War II. There we~e happy butcher paper weekly, I ' Tokyo and the Far East. times in Paris, where she attendWhen we meet him he is ed a very proper convent school; married for the second time, land in Lectoure and Heas in the Py- to this wife, ,Helen, he applies, renees, where she spent idyllic as all else, severe critical standvacations; 'in a chateau near ards. It is hardly' surprising that Lyon, where other enchanted this does not' make for a happy ROME (NC) - Several Italian Summers were' passed. union. , . Catholic lay leaders have asBut what may be surprising is sailed pending divorce legisla- . Flees to Portugual .But' then the name of Hitler the fact that Helen masters I the tion as a false remedy that', cropped up ominously, and his critical trick and,' to Max's fUry, would cause more social problems than the ones it 'claims to hatred of all Jews was shrilly turns it scarifyingly on him, He leaves, takes up with' an- solve. .. sounded. There was a threat of war, but it receded, only to re- other woman, ·is promiscuous They called for' "the necessary turn and prove all too true a along the lecture circuit, is bitter and expected reform of family because Helen, is not bey:ond year .later. , having an affair of her dwn. legislation" and said the CathoFor Tereska's family there was Eventually there is taming ,'and lic community would "face its the agony of what might be hap- reconciliation, with Max leaving own responsibilities'" in this repening to their close relatives journalism for awhile to resOme gard. --In Poland. 'They themselves sep- , teaching. The statement was issued as arated, the father going to join a the Italian Senate prepared to Hurt of Truth , Polish army being organized on open final debate' on legislation In the end"" thanks largel~ to to introduce divorce into Italy. French soil. In a few months, came Hit- the commercial success; of , The lay leaders said they' reler's defeat of France. This sent Helen's book on gardening, they' spected, 'others' ,opinions but live stuffily in· the suburbs, with Tereska and her mother hurry- . : / Max commuting to the city' for were "also aware that we must occasional critical forays." i ' give our own contribution to common reflection and decision." In. Two Languages This is. black, and sometitnes They criticized the proposed BARCELONA (NC) - Bride brutal, comedy, steeped in p'ain, law on divorce "as gravely and bridegroom started their dis- merciless in, its pinning 'and agreements right at the altar- p,robing of a peculiar species. harmful for the entire society," the Mass had to be said in two There are· telling blows at ~ari . and said that while Christian languages. Nuptial Masses are ous types on Broadway and: the principles guided' and strengthened their opposition to divorce, I offered here either in Spanish or academic scenes. such opposition was founded in the local Catalan of this The characters' best broJght "on reasons and 'valu~s 'of a civil strongly separatist region..Rosa off are the two young son~' of and social nature." Maria Garciano Goni, daughter Max and Helen, and the troubled of the Spanish Minister of the relationship between the sep- .. Interior, insisted on Spanish. arated husband and the boys he ,Brevity Xavier Ribo Masso, from a fam- visits periodically is superbly . I have -made this letter longer ' , ily of Barcelona industrialists, depicted. than usual because I lack the was adamant for Catalan. SoluThe hurt of truth is in ~his time to make it shorter. tion: use both lal)gu,ages. unusual novel. -Pascal and French. ' Her parents did not dare tell their respective parentS and fami1ies of their conversion, for they knew that this would be fiercely resented. And they induced their daughter never' to mention ,it
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NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Father Morton A. Hill,: S.J., member of the 18-man Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, said here he fears the cOll,lmissipn's scheduled report will result in legalization of pornography and obscenity in the United States. "I'm afraid it will legalize the whole thing," Father Hill said. "I'm afraid it will make another Denmark." Denmark has legalized pornography ~ith provisions against public display and sale to youths under 16. The priest expressed his fears about the commission report during a press conference· at Loyola University prior to an address to a meeting of the National !nstitute for Religious Communications. Ultra.Liberal Makeup The presidential commission, which was established in 1968, is scheduled to release its report in August, but Father. Hill said it has yet to reach the rought draft stage since individual panel reports are still outstanding. , Although the report is in its early stages, Father Hill said he is convinced the ,"ultra-liberal" makeup of the commission will result in a ,report "that will make no 'recommendations that will solve our (obscenity and pornography) problem." Regarding the commission's attempts to determine if obscene or pornographic material is or is not harmful, Father Hill contended such a determination cannot be rriade. But he added that he expects the commission will find obscenity and pornog-
Requests Dialog~e With Candidates CUERNA v ACA (NC)-Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca ha.~ requested an ,"open dialogue" with presidential candidates on Mexico's anti-Church laws. Because many of the laws in practice are now largely ignored, hte bishop charged that the laws "force upon citizens a steady diet of fiction and civic immaturity." Bishop Mendez presented his request personally to Luis Echeverria Alvarez, presidential candidate of the Partido Instituctional Revolucionario, during Echeverria's campaign visit to the town of Anenecuilco, in the state of Morelos.
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New Rochelle Has Layman President NEW ROCHELLE (NC)-Dr. Joseph P. McMurray, 58, president of Queens College, New York, since 1965, is the first layman president of the College of New Rochelle. He was named to the post by the college bOflrd of trustees. His appointment breaks the succession of Ursuline nuns who have headed the women's college here since 1950. He succeeds Sister Theresa C. Falls. Dr. McMurray will continue in the Queens College post until his successor is named. His varied experiences include serving as a banking counselor for several foreign nations; serving in special assignments for the federal, New York state and city governments. McMurray is a native of New York City and an alumnus of Brooklyn College.
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OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD The new slate of officers has been installed for the coming year. They are: Mrs. Helen Bobrowecki, president; Mrs. Pauline Waclawik, vice-president; Mrs. Stephanie Pilat, recording secretary; Mrs. Stephanie Smith, financial secre· tary; Mrs. Flora Gonetz, treasurer; Mrs. Nellie Zerbonne, auditor.
ST. JOHN, POCASSET A "Fire Cracker Fair" will be held from 10 to 4 in the afternoon on Saturday, July 4 on the church lawn. It will be open to the public and there will be something of interest to everyone. CORPUS CHRISTI, SANWICH The Women's Gulid will conduct their annual Summer Fair on Sunday, July 5 in the church parking lot from 4 in the afternoon to 8 in the evening. . Marie Hamlen, chairman of the affair, has announced that there will be pony rides, cotton candy and games for children, plus a special attraction this year that will be a booth where Miss Joy' Anne McConnell will cut out silhouettes of children. The various tables and their chairmen are: Mariann Valentini, plants; Cleta Sawyer,' white elephant; Jean Osgood, homemade articles; Anita Bangs, 50c mystery gifts; Katie Jones, children's grabs; Tina Hilliard, religious articles. In case of rain, the fair will be held on the following Sunday, July 12 at the same time. ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The parish pre-festival auction will start at 10 o'clock sharp on Saturday morning in the parish center on Rockland Street. A "Welcome Home" Mass will be offered on Monday morning at 10:45 on the occasion of the arrival of Father Kaszynski and his 35 companions who have just completed a three-week tour of Poland, Switzerland and England. The highlight of the trip was an audience with Stephan Cardinal Wyszynski in Warsaw. All parishioners and friends are invited. MT. CARMEL, NEW BEDFORD The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts are sponsoring their annual clamboil that will be served between 5 and 7:30 on Saturday night, June 27 in the school basement. Manuel Ventura, chairman and Joseph Bettencourt, cochairman have announced that tickets are available from the parents of the scouts. ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD The following will serve as officers of the Women's Guild for the coming year: Mrs. Hilda Babiarz, president; Mrs. Nora Richards, vice-president; Mrs. Marcella Landry, recording secretary; Mrs. Yvonne Blais, treasurer; Helen Viveiros, publicity. ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY Miss Faith Finnerty will be chairlady for the food sale to be held at the church after the 7 o'clock Mass, Saturday evening, June 27. OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER On Thursday night, July 23, the Holy Rosary Sodality will sponsor a public penny sale at 7:30 in the parish hall. The next meeting of the committee for the Feast of Our Lady of the Angels will be conducted at 7 Qn Sunday evening, July 12.
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WHERE 'NOW: Survivors of earthquake-ravaged northeast Peru wonder where to go now as 50,000 were left dead and half a million left homeless. Latin American Collection will aid them to rebuild lives. '
Doctor Criticizes Attitude ·-Toward Dying Asks Chaplains Seek Patients on Greatest Ne·ed CINCINNATI (NC)-A woman of the attitude taken by relatives psychiatrist, devoted to easing and friends, as well as profes· last days of dying hospital pa- sional persons, toward the dying. tients, advised Catholic Chap· She said people are reluctant lains seeking patients in greatest to talk to dying patients about need of their ministry, to look death "under pret,ext of trying in rooms at the end of hospital to help the patients." hallways. She said about half of the paDr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross said tients she interviewed for her in those rooms chaplains would book had not been told they find patients with terminal, ill- were dying, but "not one of the nesses, who often receive the 400" was unaware of his conleast attention from hospital dition. personnel. 'Stick It Out' Speaking before the fifth anNo one has to be told he is nual National Association of Catholic Chaplains convention dying," Dr. Ross said. "They' tell here, Dr. Ross, assistant direc- you." tor of psychiatric consultation She re,called patients who said and liaison service at the Univer- . they were aware of having a tersity of Chicago, said "dying pa- minal illness, but knew relatives tients are terribly lonely and iso- and friends "didn't want to talk lated." about it." 'Trying to Help' "Many of them are treated as Second Disturbance if they have a contagious disease," she said, adding that in Ends With Arrests some hospitals nurses' rounds WASHINGTON (NC)-Pentaare changed to avoid dying pa- gon guards arrested a Washingtients. ton Episcopalian priest, II other Swiss-born Dr; Ross, author of adults and a 13-year-old boy as "On Death and Dying," a book members of the group attempted detailing her five-year study' of to celebrate mass on the consome 400 dying hospital patients course of the Defense Departand their families, was critical ment's headquarters. Father William Wendt, pastor Helped .Seminarian of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church here, was the second Attain Priesthood episcopal priest arrested in two DETROIT (NC)-Father Hip- days after tryipg to celebrate polytuus Omodoi, 39, is a priest mass at the Pentagon. A day in Kampala, Uganda. On a visit earlier, Father Malcolm Boyd here, he met for the first time and a group of friends were arMrs. Victoria Lukasik, 75, a rested as they began offering widow. She had made it possible mass. for him to become a priest. Adults involved in both inciMrs. Lukasik came here from dents were charged with creating Iopczyce, Poland. After her a disturbance in a government husband died in 1940, she building. They were released on found work. When here two their own recognizance pending daughters and son had grown, trial. she took on the obligation of paying for the education of a 'Preserve ~yth' seminarian in Africa. WASHfNGTON (NC)-George For 12 years, she and Father Omodoi corresponded. He came D. Fischer, National Education to this country last year to study Association president, told a at Spalding College, Louisville, Senate committe here the racial Ky. On a trip here a meeting and educational policies of the with his benefactor was arranged Nixon administration are enthrough the archdiocesan office couraging "entrenched racists." fo the Society for the Propaga- Fischer charged integrated tion of the Faith. schools in the South are still preserving the myth of white "It was a very happy moment supremacy and black inferiority. for' me," said the priest.
Patients want to be told if they are dying, she said, but advised they be told "slowly, gradually, allowing time for them to digest it 0:< " 0:< and they want to be allowed some hope, the most important aspect of patient care." Dr. Ross told the 160 Catholic chaplains: "This is where you come in. You can give assurance (to the dying patient) that you will 'stick it out with him."
En'dorse Prelate for Nobel Prize CHICAGO (NC)-The Christian Century, ecumenical Protestant weekly published here, has editorially endorsed what it called a "world-wide campaign" to commend Archbishop Helder Pes· soa Camara of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, for the Nobel Peace Prize. The influential journal called the Brazilian prelate "an eminently worthy choice for the Nobel Prize-if not, indeed, virtually an inevitable choice." Archbishop Camara, the edi· torial said, "deserves recognition for his work among Brazil's poor, his efforts to bring about land reform, his role in the formulation of Vatican II's statements on social justice, his contribution to international understanding." Terming him "Latin America's leading advocate of nonviolent social change," the journal prais· ed the 61-year-old Brazilian arch· bishop for courage in condemning the Brazilian governments al· leged use of torture on political prisoners.
Continued from Page One Health and Hospitals at its meet-· ing here on the occasion of the Catholic Hospital Association's (CHA) 55th annual convention. Father McHugh told the bishops' representatives for health and hospitals that a new policy statement proposed by the American Medical Association's board of trustees, for endorsement by the AMA house of delegates contains "a logical inconsistency." "On the one hand the statement maintains that the decision to have an abortion should be left to the woman and her physician. In the very next sentence, the statement maintains that no hospital should be required to admit a patient for abortion," Father McHugh observed.
Leasing Plan Continued from Page One Father Clark said enrolling the children as public school students would make the board eligible for reimbursement from the state for new pupil expenses. This would mean the board itself would not incur any added financial burden. The plan would be in effect only during September and October if Catholic school children were enrolled as full-time public school students, and from September to December if they were enrolled as part·time students. Father Clark said religion classes would be taught before or after school if the full-time plan was adopted, and during the latter half of the day if the part-time plan was approved.
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F'inanci.al Report Shows Diocese Fiscally Soun'd PORTLAND (NC) - For the first time in its 117-year history, the Portland diocese has issued 'a public financial report covering income and expenditures of the chancery, parishes and other , offices. -' Bishop Peter L. Gerety, releasing the report in a letter pUQIished in the Church World, the diocesan newspaper, said the diocese "is in a fiscally sound condition as a result of the generous support" of the state's 270,000 Catholics. ' The report, accompanied, by charts showing both percentage and dollar figures showed receipts for the last fiscal year totaled $8,261, 535 and expenditures, $7,448,567. For the past few months the diocesan finance office has used new methods of budgetary coqtrois and of fiscal reporting. The new system involves a computerized program for the 142 parishes in the diocese encompassing the entire state of Maine and including 78 missions and sta, tions and 35 elementary schools and some '14,000 students.' . Campaign Goal Also in the financial statement is a progress report on the bishop's campaign which was set in motion in 1968 to raise $4.25 million over a three-year period. As of April 10, 1970, it had realized a total of $2,106,924. Bishop Gerety said "as of the moment, more'than 50 per cent of the campaign goal" has been reached. As of Jan. 31, 1970, a total of $1,376,175 from that campaign had been exp'ended for various church services and programs such as the priests retirement home, cathedral renovation, homes for the elderly and unwed mothers and camping for underprivileged children.
I REFUGEE CAMPS:" Commune camps rose overnight in hundreds of isolated spots in Peru as the refugees sought comfort in the company :of their plight-stricken neighbors. ,
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OTTAW A (NC) - The Canadian Cahtolic Conference 'disclosed here that the Vatican's doctrinal congregation plans soon to modernize procedures for getting priestly dispettsations. ' In a letter to the Conference president, Archbishop Joseph A. Plourde' of Ottawa, doctrinal congregation secretary Archb'ishop Paul ,Philippe said that :the changes would be primarily' at the diocesan level. : Archbishop Philippe's letter also indicated that the form ~ur-
Dioctes~nll leYe~.. , 5-e(retoll'y rently used in applying for clerical dispensations was experimental and would be based on experience over the past few years. , The Vatican' official explained to Archbishop Plourde why action on pending dispensation applications has been slow. According to Archbishop Philippe, the number of applications received overwhelmed the small !ltaff in Rome that processes the necessary paperwork. He added that because the dispensation procedure is relatively new, an
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Continued from Page On~ From 1942 to 1950, Father Lawler served in Bolivia and was then named to his present! assignment in Lima, Peru. The letter follows: "Yesterday Victor Chump!taz came into the office, pointed to . LOS ANGELES (NC)-Leaders of 40,000 California Knights of his black tie and said 'Father Columbus expressed indignation what should I do? My, parents, over a California Supreme Court my two older sisters and my two ruling that the killing of a viable younger brothers are amortgst fetus is not murder under Cali- the dead in Huaraz. The news was just 'confirmed this mornfornia law. The K. of C. protest was made ing. My fiancee's family lives in in a telegram to California Atty. Casma and she's had no wbrd Gen. Thomas Lynch. The 5-2 at all from them yet. ,AND we're court ruling came in a case in- supposed, to be married tomor-· volving Robert Harrison Keeler, row.' The marriage has b~en ! charged with murder of a viable postponed 'til later. Aftermath of Quake fetus and aggravated assault on his former wife, Mrs. Teresa "The aftermath of the horrifyKeeler. , ing disaster that hit Peru, 12 Mrs. Keeler, pregnant by an- days ago becomes more and other man, it was charged. was . more an intimate part of our beaten by her husband, who lives as the days go on. On the stomped her in the attack on afternoon the quake struck, the the fetus. Soon after the beating, people of Lima pa'nicked and Mrs. Keeler delivered a stillborn went ,crying, screaming and girl, about eight months, weigh- praying into the, streets. ing five pounds, whose head was "The earth danced its deathly fractured. waltz for 42 interminable secThe court's majority opinion, onds. Emotions continued' to said: "For a court to simply de- show long after the trembling clare by judicial fiat, that the stopped. time has now come, to prosecute "Everyo~e was sure that Lima (for murder) one who kills an had been the epicenter but! as unborn but viable fetus would the results showed only building indeed be to rewrite the statute- cracks, broken windows, books under guise of construing it." and wall pictures on the fh~or, Justice Louis' H. Burke, in a we began to have our doubts. minority opinion, asked: "What "The following morning comjustice will be promoted *... * unications were restored with by construing 'human being' as the departments north of Lima, excluding (the baby girl in th~ and the picture of horror began case) and' her unfortunate suc- to take shape. First it was the cessors? Was the defendant's seaport of Chimbote: 90 per cent brutal act of stomping her to of the city destroyed, over I,QOO' death any less an act of ,homi- dead, including two North Amercide than the murder of a ican nuns. The second f1oor ..of newly born baby?" their, newly !?uilt convent, pan-
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caked down 'squashing the first floor. Another of the Sisters is here now hospitalized with what they fear is a broken back. "Then came the worst news of all. Every city and town in the CallejoQ de Huaylas destroyed or buried under' the mountain-slides that resulted from the earthquake. It's estimated now that the death toll will pass the 50,000 mark-Lima still does not have contact with many areas. . "Meanwhile the country has' united as never before. Everybody wants to help. Our parish has been named as a reception center. Daily we receive canned foods, used clothing, medicines, etc., and our parish groups sort' them out and prepare them for shipment to the disaster areas. Orphaned Children "The retreat-house owned by the' parish has been outfitted to receive_36 orphaned children. They'll be housed, clothed and fed until our Social Service office can study and recommend the h'omes that wish to take them in for adoption. "We fores'ee that this plan will last for eight to 10 'months and will demand a lot of time and sacrifice-but feel that it's the least that ttAe parish can do. The first group of children is due to arrive tomorrow."
Scoress lDefamafrion SAO PAULO (NC)-The president of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference h~s said that the government cannot be held responsible for isolated cases of torture. Cardinal Agnelo Rossi of Sao Paulo also condemned what he called "the campaign of defamation against Brazil carried on by certain foreign newspapers."
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efficient processing system has no~ yet been fully devised. Earlier, the Conference had moved to speed up the process of granting Canadian priests dis· pensations from various priestly obligations. Bishop G. Emmett Carter of London, Ont., was sent by ,the conference to speak to Pope Paul VI and other Vatican officials about the problem of giving priests fast action on dispensation applications. Bishop Carter discussed the problem with Pope Paul; with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Jean Villot; with Cardinal John J. Wright, prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy; and with Archbishop Philippe. Bishop Carter also brought with him a list of Canadian priests awaiting Vatican action on their dispensation requests. Following Bishop Carter's visit and Archbishop Philippe's letter of reply, Archbishop Plourde announced that the conference would take steps at the national level to help improve the situation. 4~e~'~
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Urban ,blacks and whites, ought to quit fighti'1g each other, but should unite and battle their "real enemy" - the established power structure, a Cleveland city councilman said here. Speaking at Catholic 'University here to participants in a workshop on urban ethnic community devl'llopment, Anthony Garofoli asserted that the power structure in Cleveland has always been WASP (white-Anglo-Saxon Protestant), even though 60-65 per 'cent of the city's population is made up of people with ethnic' backgrounds.
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Negro Married Melil Get More Income WASHINGTON (NC) - Negro married men moved toward parity with whites in new blue collar jobs during the past decade, according to a U. S. Census Bureau report. Between 19601 and 1969, NeerQes got 28 per cent of the new craftsmen and operative openings going to family men although they represent only 11 per cent of the population. Those openings include industrial workers and specialists such as carpenters and plumbers, but not sales workers or laborers. ' During the same period, the median income of the married Negro blue collar worker jumped 44 per cent while income for white married men in the same occupation rose 27 per cent. The unpublished repprt was prepared by request and expense of Star Levitan of,George Washington University's Center for Manpower Policy 'Studies. It dealt only with the earnings of husbands and did not include the 30 per cent of the nation's five million Negro households headed by a woman..
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Urges Veterans To Seek Justice In So. Afrca VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI told a group of war veterans from South Africa that he hopes they will make "personal contribution to the reign of justice" in their country and in the world. The Pope did not refer specifically to the racial problems in South Africa, which has adopted the policy of apartheid, or strict racial segregation. But the Pontiff spoke to the 260 veterans (June 11) on the themes of justice and peace. Speaking of the return of the war veteran's to Italy, the Pope said: "Our immediate thought is for your beloved dead, those whom you have come to honor by your visit. We join you, in prayerful and affectionate commemoration of them as they lie interred in the soil of a nation other than their own, in the hope of resurrection." Then he immediately turned his thoughts to peace and war, saying: "At the same time our meditation is concentrated on the malice of war and on the great blessing which is peace. Like yourselves we know the disastrous reality which is war." Justice, Peace The Pope repeated the vision of the Old Testament that looks forward to the day when peoples "will hammer their swords into ploughshares, their spears into sickles." But it was at the conclusion of the talk that Pope Paul introduced the twin theme of justice and peace. Repeating the words of Pope Pius XII-"Peace is the work of justice Pope Paul said: ,"We hope' that you,dear friends, will make your personal contribution to the reign of justice in your country and in the , world. Through this you wilt hasten the day of that blessed vision, the day of peace."
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RELIEF SUPPLIES: Catholic Relief Services personnel inspect part of cargo of medicine and foodstuffs worth $195,000 which was airlifted from New York to aid earthqu~ke victims in Peru. Latin American Collection Sunday will help keep supplies coming.
Study Theolo,gy,of Permanent Diaconate Committee Discusses Basic Questions WASHINGTON (NC)-A commitee of scholars has begun its work to probe the theology of the "permanent diaconate"-a vocation possibility for both married and unmarried men ordained to the level of orders just below the priesthood. The U. S. Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate had asked the Catholic Theological Society of America to establish the committee, so that the theology of the diaconate can be studied while 'work to set up diaconate programs continues. The six theologians used their first meeting, held here recently, to decide how their study would proceed, and for a free-wheeling discussion of basic questions on the deacon and his role. Included among their observations were: "There has to be some guidance from the New Testament. It can't be completely arbitrary." Different Roles "From Luke we learn that the Church can set up separate branches of ministry, including one for material service." "Why should a man be or-
Wayne. Says "P'orno' May Ki II Movies LOS ANGELES (NC)-Academy Award winner John Wayne said here current pornography may kill the movies before the fad dies out. The 1970 best actor Oscar winner and top box office a.ttraction for two decades said the "fast buck" operators now are' "cashing in on pornography and depravity." "I figure it will take about another year for everyone to have seen enough of these sick pictures-then look out. The public will start doing something about them," he warned. "The moviegoing habit will be lost from our social life."
dained a deacon if all he is going to do is financial work for a diocese?" "In order Lo fill out the hierarchy of services and be strengthened by the 'imposition of hands' (grace of ordination)." "The Church can designate many different roles' for deacons." "I would like permanent, deacons to have some connection with the Eucharist. I don't think we can get away from that."
Settle Mel~n Strike In Se'cret Meeting EL CENTRO (NC)-A $30,000a-day melon strike was settled in a recent secret meeting of representatives of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, and a major melon grower. In these negotiations, an Imperial Valley grower, Abatti Brothers Produce Co., agreed to negotiate a contract" if his workers vote to be represented by the union. Should the union lose the vote, it pledged to stop for one year its attempts to unionize Abatti workers. The agreement was the first of its kind.
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BOGOTA (NC) - Colombia's President·elect Misael Pastrana Borreno, who will take office in August, has declared his opposition to any state policy of birth control. He said he wi'll not be a "party to any state policy of birth control * * * not only beecause of my personal religious convictions, but also because I know something about our rate of population growth, and must seek a solution suited to our national situation."
Attending th,e first meeting Father Thomas E. Clarke, S.J., of Woodstock (Md.) College, chairman; Sister Agnes Cunningham of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Ill.; and Fathers Edward Echlin, S.J.,· of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio; John Hotchkin, associate director, of the U. S. Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs; Harry McSorley, C.P., of St. Paul's College in Washington, D. C., and James Reese, O.S.F.S., of De Sales Hall School of Theology in Hyattsville, Md. Four Questions Father William Philbin, executive director of the Bishops' Committee on the Permanent Diaconate, was also present. The Bishops' committee has asked the six scholars to tackle four basic questions in their theological probing: What is the role of the deacon and how far do his powers extend? Should deacons administer the sacrament of the anointing of the sick? Should there be temporary as well as permanent deacons? Should women be ordained deacons? . The six scholars plan further meetings during the Summer.
CHICAGO (NC)-A physician, a psychiatrist and a minister agreed here' that when dealing with a person suffering from grief, the keys arc to assure the person the situation is not unique to, him and encourage him to talk about his grief to avert compounding the crisis. Aid in a crisis situation in as short a time as possible, according to Dr. Herald F. Jacobson, psychiatrist at Los Angeles Psychiatric Service. He was one of three panelists discussing grief at a conference on religion and medicine in conjunction with the 119th annual convention of the American Medical Association. A Lutheran panelinst, the Rev. Granger E. Westberg, said it is the joint task of minister and doctor "to teach people in advance of their 'earth shaking' loss that they must work through their grief, that grief is normal. It is healthy. It has healing qualities. It can actually be 'good grief,''' When !" person is in a state of grief, he explained, he must be made to see that an adjustment .to a new way of life is necessary. "We affirm reality. We can say that in some ways our grief experiences have been good," added Rev. Westberg, of the Hamma School of Theology, Wittenberg University, Spring. field, Ohio. Chicago physician Paul S. Rhoads summed up the physi· cian's role iii times of grief saying "those we serve do not ex· pect 'miracles from us, much as they hope for them. But they do expect understanding and sympathy bestowed with the dignity that all human relationships should have,"
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Ch«!plain Honored ATLANTA (NC)-Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Edwin R. Chess, chief of U.S: Air Force chaplains, re'ceived an honorary doctorate of laws at· graduation e~ercises of Atlanta Law School here. Ana· tive of Chicago and a priest of that archdiocese for 33 years, Msgr. Chess has been chief of Air Force chaplains since 1966.
ST. PAUL (NC)-All 20 high a policy requiring that a school schools in the St. Paul-Minne- come up with a balanced budget apolis ar~hdiocese system will to insure operation in the next remain. open in the 1970-71 school term. school term, although only five Han Reiss, the board's finance met standards for_continued op- committee chairman, said only. eratic)n prescribed by the arcJ:1~ , five schools presented balanced diocese. ! budgets. The Sisters of St. JoThe decision to continue oper- -seph, who staff four' schools, ations of the 20 schools, was and the Sisters of the Visitation, made by the archdiocesan board who staff two, pledged their of education. ~. , communities would make up any In January the archdiocese s~~ , . deficit in 1970-71 operations. I
Reiss said. Three schools reported they will face a deficit operation in the next school year, Reiss said, while one school reported it was anticipating a $55,000 surplus next year. , , The board said it weighed the 'entire situation against the policy established in January and by a vote' of ;·3 agreed to keep all 20 schools operating next vear.
LUANDA (NC)-The first Negro bishop in .Portugal's African territories since the 16th century has been consecrated here. Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Muaca of Luanda was consecrated here by Archbishop Manuel 0Nunes Gabriel of Luanda, Bishop Daniel Gomes Junqueira, C.S.Sp;, of Nova Lisboa and Bishop Jose Francisco Moreira dos Santos, O.F.M., of Carmona e Sao Salva· dor.
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