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Holy Father Reviews Epoch of Vitality VATICAN 'CITY (NC) - Despite the suffering and inner con- . flicts troubling the Catholic Church the present time is nevertheless "an epoch of extraordinary vitality for the Church," Pope Paul XI told assembled cardinals in Rome. In the talk, Pope Paul reviewed a number of problems both inside the Church and on "the chessboard of the world" as well. He specifically singled out northern Ireland, the Middle East· and Portuguese Africa. Although the panel speech contained nothing startling or new, it nevertheless served as a sort of round-Up of topics that obviously had been on the Pope's mind over the past several months and most of which he was, in one way or another, touched on before. Noting that the opening of the Holy Year with its twin themes of renewal and reconciliation is only months away, the Pope first talked of how true observance of the Holy Year can

help solve some of the evils in society today. "Man's condition is very uncertain," he said. "Violence in all ,forms degrades him and drags him down to the level of a pawn in a blind cbess game and not infrequently destroys him 'ruthlessly and cruelly," he declared. Man is also being manipulated by mass media and "the consumer society makes him the slave of artificially created needs . . . Man is above all conditioned today by a materialistic atmosphere from which he cannot free himself." To counteract all the'se forces, the Pope continued, the Church has the mission of preachil'g that man is made for the true, the good and the beautiful. He added: "In accordance with her religious and human character she is at the disinterested service of mankind, all mankind, without distinction of mentality, race, religion or culture. She is there as Turn tofPage Four

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His Holiness Pope Paul VI has hestowed Papal Honors on five priests of the Fall River Diocese. The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, announced the ecclesiastical honors on Sunday, June 30, 1974, the Anniversary of POPe Paul's Coronation. Named by the Holy Father as Pre'lates of Honor of His Holiness' were Reverend Monsignor Luiz G. Mendonca, Vicar General of the Diocese and Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford, and Reverend Monsignor Henry T. Munroe, Officialis of t'he Diocesan Tribunall, Episcopal Vicar in the Attleboro-Taunton Vicariate, and Pastor of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro. In addition, P,ope Paul has designated as Chamberlains of His Holiness the Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Harrington, Diocesan, Chancellor, Reverend Monsignor Patrick J. O'Neill, Diocesan Director of Education, and Reverend Monsignor John J. Regan, Rector of Saint Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. Announcement of the honors bestowed upon the Diocesan clerics came on the eleventh anniversary of the succession of Pope Paul to the See of Peter. All the new monsignors are close collaborators of Bishop Cronin in Diocesan administrative and apostolic endeavors. In addition to the note of personal recognition inherent.in the bestowal by Pope Paul of the ecclesiastical honors on the five new prelates, the Holy Father's initiative is understood as a mark of esteem and a source of encouragement for the entire Diocese.

Bishop Cronin will install the new monsignors. Plans for the installation ceremony, which will

be at Saint Mary's Cathedral, have not yet been announced. Turn to Page Two

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Monsignor Munroe

Monsignor Harrington

Monsignor O'Neill

Monsignor Regan

Year Recalls 7nose of Past

MOLY YEAR: Pope Paul reads from a talk given on the day he issued papal bull officially proclaiming 1975 as a Holy Year with twin themes of renewal and reconciliation.

Barrett McGurn covered the 1950 Holy Year in Rome for the New York Herald Tribune and here recalls memories of that event in view of the upcoming 1975 Holy 'Year. Author of "A Reporter Looks at' the Vatican" and "A Reporter Looks at American Catholicism," McGurn has also 'been with the u.s. State Department and is currently public Information officer for the U.S. Supreme Court. The approach of another Holy Year, in 1975, recalls vivid memories of the previous one, 23 years ago. Those in this country who have two full years of f~sci nating events ahead of them, the Holy Year in 1975 and the American bicentennial in 1976, may be interested in some of what went on in Rome in that other most recent Holy Year. One of my earliest sharp memories concerned a problem of news coverage. The Vatican press office was only a half dozen years old and had limited experience with handling the world press. An initial problem was how to assign space for the press

in the stand which had been constructed inside the great porch of St. Peter's Basilica looking down on the IS-foot tall "Holy Door." The Pope's act tn opening that door was to be the first event of the year. Perhaps some of those in charge remembered 1933 when there was a Holy Year for the 19th centenary of the Crucifixion. It was during the depression and only a few score thousands made their way to Rome in the course of the year. The news media paid little attention. But much had changed since 1933. Transoceanic air travel had come in. So had television. News coverage of E.urope in the wake of a world war had become far more intensive. So it was more with astonishment than rage that foreign correspondents of the world heard the press office's decision: half the press tribunal would be apportioned out among the representatives of the Catholic press and the other half would go to the rest: to the world news agencies, the correspondents of the major newspapers of a score of countries, and

all the international television crews! The calm with which the news initially was received was followed promptly by a storm. A new plan had to be drawn up. As it worked out, so many of us finally were jammed into the limited spaces of the stand that we barely ended up with, peeking space and were hard put to it to scribble a note. What the press office planners had not realized was that the Holy Year. only the third in this century and merely the" fifth since 1775, was an occasion of immense interest throughout the Western world. The origin of the Holy Years was in 1300 when the turn of the century had caused vast excitement and fervor in Europe and, at gradually more frequent intervals, the Holy Year series had continued since. The Holy Door opening ceremoTum to Page Five

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 4, 1974

Education Official Stresses Catholic .Responsibility for Public Schools

Honor Diocesan Priests Continued from Page One

Parish, Attleboro, where he is presently pastor, The new monsignor ha~ also served as nolary and set:reta~y of the piocesan Tribunal before assuming its leadership as Officialis. '

Monsignor Mendonca Monsignor Mendonca, the son of the late Luiz G Mendonca and the late Maria R, Almeida, was 'born on Sept. 26, 1919 in New Bedford. A graduate of Holy Monsignor Harrington' Family High School, New Bedford, he attended the Seminary 'Msgr. Harrington, the son of ,of Angra, Terceira, Azores. the late Edward J. Harrington Ordained in Mt. Carmel and the late Esther F. Yates, was Church, New Bedford on June born July 28, 1938 in New 10, 1944 by Bishop Cassidy, he Bedford. . was first assigned as an assisA graduate of Holy Family tant to Santo Christo Parish, FaH High School, New Bedford 'and River. Monsignor Mendonca also Holy Cross C01'lege, Worcester, served as an assistant at Immac- the newly named Papal Cham- • ulate Conception Parish, New befllain attended the Theological Bedford; and Mt. Carmel Parish, College at Cal'hoHc University, New Bedfprd. Washington. REV. JOHN J. MURPHY On Sept. 26, 1962, Monsignor Ordained on May 30, 'l964 by Mendonql .was named adminis- Bishop Connolly in St. Mary's trator of Our Lady of Health Cathedral, Fall River, Monsignor Parish, FaI'] River, and rwo years Harrington was immediately aslater was tJ'lansferred to St. An- signed as assistant pastor at St. thony's Parish, East:' Falmouth Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis. Rev. John J. Murphy, C.S.C., where he served, as pastor for On Feb. 2, 1967 he was transtwo years. , ferred, to the Imma'culate Con- pastor of Holy Cross Church, On 'Oct, 27, 1966, Monsigno'r ception Parish, Fall River and .south Easton, marked his silver Mendonca was named as pastor remained as an assistant there jubilee of ordination at a conof St. Michael's Church, Fall unUI he was assi~ned to study celebrated Mass on June 22, folRiver and became the successor Canon Law at Catholic Univer- lowed by a reception for parishioners, family members and of Cardinal Humberto' S. Medei- sity. ros, when the former Fall River In addition to parochial as- friends in the church hall. Son of Mrs. Ma'ry Murphy and chancellor and pastor left the 'signmtmts, Monsignor Harrington Diocese of Fall' River to become served as Cape Cod Area CYO the late Patrick Murphy of the second 'Ordinary of he Dio- director. Watertown, Mass., Father Murcese of BrownsviHe iri Texas. In 1969 Monsignor Harrington , phy is a 1938 graduate of BosOn April 12, 1969, the newiy 'received a Licentiate in Canon ton College. After two, years named Papal Chambel'llain was Law and was' appointed as viee- teaching in the Watertown school transferred to St. John of God chancellor of the Diocese of system, he was employed by a Parish, Somerset... FaN River and Episcopal Secre- Boston construction company until he !began graduate study at In 1967, Monsign'ol' Mendonca tary to Bishop Connolly., was 'named a memher of the DiOn May 14, 1970, he was the University of Notre Dame. 'ocesan ,Board of Examiners of named, Diocesan Chaplain of the . He entered the Holy Cross the Clergy. ,Comitium of the Legion of community at Notre Dame and was ordained in 194!) by Patrick Mary. Monsignor Munroe On Feb. 4, 1971, Bishop Cronin Cardinal O'Boyle at the National Very Rev. Henry T. Munroe, named Monsignor Harrington a Shrine of the Immaculate ConDiocesan Officialis--Chief Judge Consultant on Canon Law to the ception, Washr'ngton, D. C. Family Rosary -was born in Fal~ River on Nov. Diocesan Committee for Divine As an associate of Rev. Patrick 21, 1928. He is the"s9n of the Worship. Peyton, CS.C. for 10 years after late Henry T. and the late KathMonsignor O'Neill his ordination, Fathesr Murphy ryn ~Burns) Munroe. aided in directing Family RosAflter 'attending St. Joseph' Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Diocary Crusades throughout the Parochial Schoul in Fall River esan Director of Education, the the new prelate studied at Msgr: son of the late Patrick and the United States and ;0. many forCoyle High School in Taunton late Sarah (Ooogan) O'Neill; ~as eign countries. ,Fr0111 1954 to and Providence College. born in .Fall River on March 9, 1959 he directed Family Rosary international headquarters in AlHe preparedrfor the priesthood 1931. at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, After attending Sacred Hea'rt bany, N. Y. The jubilarian was appointed and was ordained a priest on Parochial School in Fall River to the provincial council of the Nov. 30, 1953. 'he studied at Msgr. Coyle High Msgr. Munroe has served at School 'and Our Lady of Prov- Eastern.~ Province of the Holy Cross F-athers in 1958 and he Holy Name' Parish in New Bed- idence Seminary in Warwitk. also served as editor of "The ford and St:'John the Evangelist Msgr. O'Neill has served at Eastern 'Province Review," a Immaculate Conception Parish, community pubilication. He folSt. William Parish and Catholic lowed that assignment with six Necrology Memorial Home in Fall River' 'months as rector of the Holy St. Thomas More Parish, Somer~ Cross Seminary in North Easton JULY 14 set, and Bishop Stang High and in 1968 'he assumed his presRev. Nicholas Ft!tt, SS.CC., School, No. Dartmouth, where ent post in South' Easton. 1938, Pastor, St. Boniface, New he is presentlY,chapl'ain. Father 'Murphy is chaplain of Bedford After s,erving as Acting Super- the Knights of Columbus in Rev. Edmund J. Neenan, 1949, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Oak intendent of Catholic" Schools South Easton and a member of 'and then Superintendent, he be- the board of advisors for DominBluffs came Diocesan Director' of Ed- ican Academy, Plainville. JULY 16 ucation with the reorganization Rev. Bernard Percot, O.P., . of the educational apostolate in 1937, Founder, St. Dominic, the Fall River Di'ocese in 1973. Swansea 'In 1968, he was named a member of the Advisory Council for J~LY 17 Title HI, ESEA Project; EducaRev. Willial11 J. Smith, 1960, tional Consultant in 1971; VicePastor, St. James, Taunton President of the Superintendents' Division of the National Catholic INCOU'ORAH 0 JULY 18 Educational Association in 1971' Rev. Adalber,t Szklanny, 1968, FUNERAL and is presently the President St. Patrick,' Fall River SERVI'CE of the Department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Educa. ' tion, N.C.EA THE ANCHOR The new prelate also served as Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. HY ANNIS 775·068" Mass, ,Published every Thursday at 410 a member of the Teachers' CertifHighland Avenue, Fall River. Mass. 02722 South Yarmouth 398-2201 lly the Catholic Press of the Diocese 01 Fall ication Committee for the State Harwich Port 432·0593 ' River. 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WASHINGTON (NC) - Those responsible for the Church's educational mission should see ,their responsibility "as extending not only to Catholic schools and to CCD (Confraternity of Christian ~ Doctrine) but to the public schools as well," according, to a ,leading Catholic education officiaL The official, Msgr. Olin J. Murdick, secretary, for education of the U:S. 'Catholic. Conference, spoke on "Religion -and Public Education" at the 15th annual religious education workshop jointly sponsored here by the Catholic University of America and the National Center of Religious Education.CCD., About 31 persons attended the six-day workshop, which was staffed principally by Dr. Nicholas Piediscalzi and Dr. James Uphoff, co-directors of the Public Education Religious Studies Center 'at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Msgr. Murdick said that those responsible for the Church's educational mission should regard the public schools "not primarily as organizations ... for purpose of religious instruction, nor

as instrumentalities to be controlled for some ulterior ecclesia~tical purpose, but as institutions which belong to the community as a whole, a community which has many values and' many concerns, religious, moral, spiritual, aesthetic," Those concerns, he said, may be "variously expressed, some contradictorily so," but all answer "the deep needs of men, needs which demand a public education whi.ch is free and ready to respond to those needs." Because only half of the 10.5 million Catholic children ages 5-17 who are enrolled in, public schools are receiving any formal religious instruction, Msgr. Mur- ' dick said, "it should be obvious why the Church ought to be concerned about religious and public education."

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Four Teachers In Fall River Are Honored

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Sister Marie Roland, O.P., SisLorraine Beauchesne, D.P., Mrs. Mary Jane St. Denis and Andre Provost, members of the l~aching staff at St. Anne School, Fall River, have been chosen outstanding elementary teachers of America for 1974. Nominated by their principal, Sister Frances Theresa, O.P., they were selected for this honor on the basis of professional and civic achievcments. Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America is an annual awards program honoring distinguished men and women for'exceptional services, achievements nnd Icadership in the field of elemcntary education. Biographies of those honored are featured in an awards volume. t~r

Stonehill Holds Clergy Week Among priests from the Fall River diocese attending a New England Clergy Conference held recently alt Stonehill College, North Easton, were Rev. Raphael Flammia, SS.CC., pastor of St. Anthony's parish, Mattapoisett; Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, pastor of St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford; Rev. John J. Steakem, assistant at St. Julie Billiart parish, North Dartmouth; and Rev. Lawrence Sullivan, C.S.c., Holy Cross Retreat Housc, North Easton. In all, about 100 priests from the United States and Canada attcnded the six-day conference, which was designed to keep attendants abreast of recent developments in theology and pastoral ministry, with special emphasis on the role of counseling in minstry. New Approaches Among seminar topies was "Death and Dying," which examined ways in which a priest can cope with death in a pastoral counse\.ing situation. Rev. Thomas C. Oddo, national secretary and chaplaip to the Boston chapter of Dignity, a national Catholic organization concerned with homosexuality, directed a wOl'kship dealing with new approaches in pastoral care and counseling of homosexuals. Other topics covered! during the Institute were social and ethical dilemmas arising from the new biomedicine, and the changing roles of women in the Church. Other religious conferences scheduled at Stonehill College this summer include a workshop focusing on special religious education for the mentally retarded, July 7-12, and a session for religious education teachers, July 21-26.

Heads Committee NEW YORK (NC) - Jesuit Father Patrick J. Sullivan was elected by the board of directors of Religion in American Life (RIAL) to the post of chairman of the RIAL Media Objectives Committee. Currently serving as director of the Division of Film and Broadcasting of the U. S. Catholic Conference, Father Sullivan has served for the past two years as a vice-chairman of the Media Objectives committee.

1974

'SERRA BISHOP'S NIGHT: Serra Club of New Bedford honored Bishop Cronin at its annual Bishop's Night. Shown with the Bishop are the newly-elected officers, left to right, First Vice President Gilbert J. Costa, Second Vice President Dr. William F. O'Donnell, Bishop Cronin, and President Arnold Parsons.

Hon.or Diocesan .Priests Continued from Page Two of Massachusetts and as Chairman of the Commission on Independent Schools cif the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In June 1957, t,he new prelate was gran-ted a Master ot" Education from Boston College. In June 1966, the same institution granted him a Doctorate in Education.

Monsignor Regan' . The son of the late Raymond and the late Gertrude (O'Neil) Regan, Very Rev. John J. Regan was born in Taunton on June 16, 1927. Following studies at St. Mary's Parochial School in Taunton, the new . prelate attended Msgr. Coyle High School and St. Charles Seminary-College in CatonsviBe, Md.

Msgr. Regan prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordain~d a priest on May 22, 1953. The new prelate has served at St. James Parish, New Bedfora; Sa'cred Heal't Parish, Fall River; St. Patrick Parish, Falmoutlh, and is presently Rector of the Cathedral in Fall River. Msgr. Regan has also served as Cape Cod Director-Special Gifts-of the Catholic Charities Appeal; member of the Diocesan Commission for Divine Worship and Financia.l Administrator of The Anchor.

Controversy. Over Christians Flares in Israel Parliament JERUSALEM (NC) - A controversy over Christian pilgrims and missionaries flared in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) after Israel's tourism minister Moshe Kol condemned the Tel Aviv rabbinate for barring a Christian group from holding a dinner in. a Tel Aviv hotel. . Tbe minister's warning against taking punitive action against Christian pilgrims brought protests in the Knesset, highlighting the continuing controversy over the Christian presence in Israel. The Jewish National Religious party (NRP) called on the gov~ ernment to pass a law against Christian missionaries who preach in I&rael to adults and youths alike. Rabbi Schlomo Lorincs of the NRP, accused the tourism ministry of aiding and abetting an apostate Jew who h·ad become a Christian and was prea'ching Christianity. He accused the ministry of leading the Knesset astray when 4,000 Pentecostal Christians came to Jerusalem this year for the Holy Spirit Conference. He also gave an example of the correct Jewish behavior: the kibbutz Me'uhad rudely ejected a volunteer when they discovered he was a "Christian missionary." Kol replied angrily in the Knesset to Rabbi Lorincs: "You are trying to turn this country into a medieval land." ·Ben Meir, of the NRP, shouted at the top of his voice: "Christian missionaries themselves are trying ,to revive the medieval practice of apostacizing."

The tourism minister declared that he is absolutely opposed to Cbristian mlssionar:y activity of any kind. But he pointed out that Christian pilgrims are welcome. During the June war of 1967 and the October war of 1973 Christian pilgrims did not slacken off, whereas Jewish tourists from a number of countries were reluctant to come.

CHICAGO (NC)-Scrra Inter· national will hold its 40th anni· versary convention in London from July 14-16, it was an· nounced here by President Albert E. Maggio. The organization, composed of Catholic lay leaders, describes its objectives as "the fostering of vocations to the priesthood and Religious life and the development of Catholic lay leaders to help themselves and others to realize their own Ohristian vocation to service." 'Serrans from 28 countries are ~xpected to· attend the convention. With a theme of "All peoplc share God's love," it will feature various lay and Clergy speakers including: August Vanistendael, Secretary General, International Cooperation for Socio-Economic Development, Brussels; Cardinal John Wright, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy; and Sister Margaret Brennan, executive committee member of the International Union of Superiors General in Rome. Cardinal John Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster, Archbishop Teotimo C. Pacis of the 'Philippines, and Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan will be principal concelebrants of Masses during the three day convention.

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Total Days = 182 Holiday or vacation; no school session Professional day; schools close 'at end of morning session for staff in-service programs End of Quarter. Examinations given during this week; report cards issued within week following. Good Friday Catholic Education Convention

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 4, 1974

Monuments as Teachers All over the country, Fourth of July celebrations will take place' and usually the festivities will ~e held at a monument. How seldom do people examine monuments. They are-well, just there. They may be of greater or lesser distinction artistically-more often than not the latter. And they may commemorate events that are part of the historical heritage of the nation or individuals who played large roles or small or forgotten ones in the development of the United States.

But monuments have much to tell. They tell, of course, the obvious tale that at some time or another someone cared. But it has also been well said that monuments are "moving reminders of a simpler world of civic amenity and of national pride.". Civic amenity. The very phrase has an, old-fashioned ring to it. It harkens back to the era wheri citizens· were thought of as counting, each one, and where duty to the community was taken as the accepted rule of life. It speaks of the time wheri the comm'on good was not only considered the ideal but the working platform, and of the time when elected and appointed officials were considered-and considered themselves to be-civil servants. Civil. Servants. It speaks of a time when each person took the com~unity to be his own and was concerned about the condition of its streets and sidewalks and parks, its progress and striving for excellence. Communities thought in terms of culture and refinement of tastes as well, as of economic success and progress in technology. And the sign of growth and development was civility, dvilization, culture. Today there have been fantastic strides in technology, in material progress, in growth and development of a high standard of living. But the Chief Justice of the United States must stand before an audience and plead for a return of civility. There is great growth in buildings-but whole crews of men must work at the endless task of erasing graffiti that shrieks violence and visual pollution at every turn. There is the boast of ever-expanding educational facilities but school personnel must include security guards to safeguard the corridors of large city schools. And the whole scene of public service is looked upon with a jaundiced and skeptical eye by all'too many citizens who have become embittered by the lack of both civility and service in their public civil servants. The past speaks to us of the old-fashioned reverence for country and today's citizen is vaguely aware that this is a desirable virtue but he feels a measure of shame in professing it too openly. ( But there is nothing wrong:'-'indeed, there is much good-in re-awakening the sentiments of an earlier age. There is much good in recalling the basic virtues which the Founding Fathers of this nation saw not as mere principles to mouth but as the basis of a new nation and its people. The past has much to teach. And it is often the homely heritage from the past which enshrouds a cherished ideal that a present age would do well to discover, to revitalize, to dress up in th~ modern idiom, but to take to heal-tand to make part of the current American' dream and' ideal.

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satisfactions but also full of sacrifice and renunciation, which,. can only be faced by those who can give themselves with tranquil and courageous enthusiasm to. the mission of bringing to their brethren the certainties of faith." Internal Aspects In th<l last part of his comments on the internal aspects of the Church, Pope Paul spoke "the sufferings, the 'limitations and the pressures to which the Church is still subjected today in various parts of the world ..." Yet, he added, "even .from that oppression and silenct; there sometimes succeeds in reaching us the testimony that the Church is surviving, indeed that sometimes she is living a life that keeps pace in its tenacity and genuineness with the darkness that surrounds her .. ." As for the world at large, Pope Paul spoke feelingly of the suffering of the drought victims in Africa, and of the "continuing tragedy and outbreaks of violence in Northern Ireland as well as the many other still painful points on the chessboard of the world." Middle East The Pope also devoted special thoughts to the situation in the Middle East and spoke of "the new light of hope for peace" there. He also directly referred to the problems, "so difficult and so sad, concerning the destiny of the Palestinian peoples." 'Expanding on the plight of some millions of Palestinian refugees, Pope Paul declared: "We are animated hy sentiments of sincere friendship toward all the peoples of that glorious and tormented region. We are equally sensitive to the rights and legitimate aspirations of each of them. We share wi'thout distinction in the sorrow of one side and of the other when they are struck by violence that creates victims also among the innocent and defenseless. "We cannot but lift up our voice again, as an echo of mankind's conscience and its need for pustice, on behalf of so many human beings who are also expecting from peace the end to a situation of neglect and of suffering that has been going on for them for too long." Great Jerusalem Still on the subject of Middle East problems, Pope Paul once again alluded to the special problem of Jerusalem, a theme which has become a common note in many of his major discourses. "We must add a word about Jerusalem," he said, "to renew our hope that in accordance with the just solution which we wish for, the holy city may not ~e main a cause of lasting rivalry and continuous revenge for the three ·great spiritual families which look to it as the center of religious and zealous affection, but that it may become a sign of peace and of concord." Portuguese Territories Lastly, he expressed hope for just and peaceful solutions for people in Portugal's African territories of Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The Pope said that his position regarding relations between the local populations and the Portuguese government have been "crystal clear." He said it is "to encourage a free and responsible evangelization and at the same time the civil develoPl11ent of the territories in question....

Epoch of Vitality Continued from Page One . not let slip the opportunity to a presence at once disturbing and introduce the men ,and women beneficent, as the privileged of our day ever ,'more actively meeting place of men with God' into the dynamism of the and with one another, for the Church's life by the mea'sures it discovery of that which ennobles takes in the liturgical and docthem and unites them, ma'king trinal fields and by its provisions ,for catechetical, organizational them 'brothers." and social renewaL" True Vitality Priestly Vocation Pope Paul referred to the "joy of meeting almost every day" Passing from observations on with bishops from all parts of the laity, the 'Pope next adthe world who report to him of dressed his thoughts to priests "the innumerable and ever new and the call of the Holy Year testimonies" of the vigor and to them to examine clos~ly their ' "inexhaustible vitality of the own vocation. Church." Even 'though there are He declared: grave problems, nevertheless "We know how the sometimes there is much which gives 'great " tormenting .search to find their hope and optimism, he said. pl!ice iri the community has led The Pope then turned his at- some priests to confuse their tention to various internal as- particular mandate wi.th a role pects of the Church which have that is social, political and pragbeen very much in his mind.' matic.It has .induced them to Doctrine-Morality imitate the world and to immerse He first touched on the field themselves in secularism. We of doctrine and morals.,.In this would like to say to 'all priests, area, he said, "there is certainly as an encouragement to the ferno lack of dangers and devia- vent and as a caution to the tions and we incessantly call the restless, that the only identity attention of all our sons and for us is that which we have with daughters to them ... But even Christ. He is our model-he who . on this highly delicate point it is poor, humble, sacrificed, inseems to us that the effort of tent only on the glory of the reconciliation characteristic of Father and the salvation of the Holy Year must make itself souls.". felt. Vo,cation Crisis "The Church musl more clearThe vocation crisis also came ly rediscover. her identity in the in for papa! comment. unity for which Christ prayed at The Pope gave several reasons the Last Supper. All the currents for the crisis. The main one, he existing within the Church must said, is modern man's lack of make a sincere effort to redis: "the time and taste for intimate cover 'themselves in the unequiv- meditation, for that interior siocal and organic, indissoluble lence in which alone it is possiand unrenounceable unity of ble truly to know ourself and faith and the charity." to hear the voice which· for smne Faithful Laity ta'kes the form of the persuasive Touching on the. role of the invitation: Come follow me!" laity today in the Church, Pope Other reasons he gave includPaul declared: "We ought above ed widespread secularism and "a all ask ourselves how we can sense of uncertainty, a provisionassist the faithful laity in admit- al element as :it were." By this, ting them to an effective and he explained, he meant "an outever more intense participation look that'is encouraged by a cerin the life of the Church. , tain theological approach. It de"The Holy See, alert as it is ters people from undertaking a to the signs of the· times, does life that is indeed rich in spiritual'

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Reporter Barrett McGurn Recalls Memories of 1950 Holy Year Continued from Page One ny dated to 1500. For the television crews especially it was a rare opportunity to portray an ('vent of ancient origins, a colorful and devout ritual reflecting old and deep religious sentiments. At the opening ceremony Pope Pius XII, a tall, gaunt man, sat white-faced on a throne beside' the "door." It was not really a door ,but rather a space on the basilica wall which remains bricked up from one Holy Year to the next, generally for 24 years. (There had been no Holy Years in 1800, 1850 and 1875 because of troubles inside the italian peninsula, but the quarter-ofa-century rhythm had. been respected with few other variations ev路er since 1475.) As prayers were recited the Pope stepped from the throne to strike the "door" with a silver hammer. Masons had chipped away the sides in the days just beforehand so that the slab fell away into the interior of St. Peter's with a soft swoosh. The Pope walked through and history's 25th Holy Year was under way. The occasion was Christmas Eve 1949. The Holy Year went on until the following Christmas Eve wb:m a reverse ceremony was held. For seven minutes monks, princes, Swiss Guards filed out through the special doorway. The Pope came among the last. nhe Pontiff knelt on a white piHow to smear mortar on three gilt bricks and attendants swung a cloth into place to symbolize the brickwork laborers would put in place in succeeding hours. The year was over but in between there had been dozens of memorable moments. Cardinal Spellman One was when Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York came at about Easter time of 1950 with a New York pilgrimage. The custom was to precede each group with a 'tall black cross as the symbol of faith. One of the New York visitors bore the appropriate cross. Also in the line, however, was a retired policeman from Gotham carrying the American flag. Inside the basilica the party marched. Next day Msgr. Ludwig Kaas, a former refugee from Hitler's Germany, published a proclamation as the supervisor of St. Peter's. No one, he said, was to bring flags of whatever nation into the basilica. The rule held for the hundreds of thousands from all over the world who followed during tl-.路e year but, in any case, the New York pilgrtms had done it <;Ill as they had seen fit. In 1925 about 434,000 went to Rome for ,the Holy Year, about 40 per cent of them italians. In 1900 the figure was about 300,000. Those had been small events compared with 1600 when three million came, but by Springtime it was clear that no Holy Year since 1300 would compare with 1950. None of ,the 60 million Catholics of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other parts of Communist Eastern Europe were able to come. British, Argentines, Germans, Dutch and Spanish bad currency problems. But even so a recordshattering four million made the'

journey, according to the final estimates. Four Churches As in all 'Holy Years since 1373 the pilgrims prayed in four ancient churches dating to the first Christian centuries: St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John Lateran (residence of the Popes for the first 1,000 years of above-ground life in Rome), and St. Mary Major, the largest Rome church de:iicated to the Madonna. In each of the churches there were his'toric memories such as Charlemagne's coronation in St. Peter's in the year 800. The 1975 visitors will have all those to recall and others which are new, for it is in St. Peter's that Pius XU and John XXllI now lie buried, it is in St. Peter's that the historical Second Vatican Council was held during the 1960s and it was after one vesper service I recall in St. Paul's at the start of the seventh decade that Pope Jol-,'I\ summoned his ecumenical council. Dogma of Assumption Pope Pius XII used the 1950 Holy Year for more beatifications and canonizations than in the previous 17 years. Fourteen women and 11 men, 11 of them Italian, nine French including Queen Jeanne of Valois of the 15th century, three Spanish, one Canadian" and one Ecuadorian, were raised to the honors of the altar. The Pope tried to receive every pilgrim in audience and he granted 6,000 such receptions, speaking at the greater share of them. A climax, announced on short notice, came in the fall with the proclama路tion of the dogma of the Assumption, only the first time in nearly a century and the second time in history that a pope had poclaimed a <:\ogma without the concurrence of an ecumenical council. We were told at the time as hotels filled as far away as Ostia and Tivoli on the two sides of Rome that the Holy Year committee had asked 50,000 prospective pilgrims not to come for the ceremony. St. Peter's, designed by Michaelangelo to embrace the whole of Christendom (with space for more than 30,000) had long since failed of its purpose; the dogma ceremony was held on the front steps in the benign blue outdoor climate of Rome before a throng a quarter of a mile deep reaching to the Tiber River.. Inflation Absent Americans, enjoying a then happy dollar exchange rate, filled the luxury hotels of Rome, while slim budgeted travellers from a Europe not yet recovered from World War II spent $1.60 a day for food and spartan lodging in a tent camp for 2,000 set up by the Holy Year committee. Others fanned out at like low costs and austerity through monasteries and government buildings which the Italian prime minister had allowed to he used. Some pilgrims paid nothing at all. The Holy Year committee, anticipating few acceptances, had promised free board and lodging for anyone who walked or bicycled from outside Italy and two llolthree day!> f:or Italians depending upon how many scores of miles each of them had come. By August, 80 to 100 such pilgrims were arriving each day. By

centuries) handed out new shoes to some of the walkers. An effort was made at the start to keep a record .of each of the unusual travelers but there proved to be too many of them. Among those who were noted, however, were Valerio Guerreri of Milan who roller-skated from home half the length of Italy, announcing on arrival that he had even slept with' the skates on. and a man and eight womer who marched non-stop 75 mile~from Terracina, Italy. The hitch-hikers and other walkers finally attracted so much news attention that Msgr. (now Cardinal) Sergio Pignedoli, director of the Holy Year events, philosophized about them. Perhaps, he said, the "anachronism" of foot travel is an effort of modern ma'n to "take up an old friendship with the mountains and the road, and the good and beautiful things of the life of the country." Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster, the aged archbishop of Milan, used the Holy Year to reminisce about two earlier ones he had known. The 1950 pilgrims, he said, were more devout. For that he was grateful.

Typical Holy Year Scene Before St. Peter's the time the Holy Door was sealed 10,000 had come on foot, many of them winding up as committee guests. True Pilgrim I went with one such traveller on his call on the Pope. He was John F. Stabl, 68 of San Francisco, a retired postal clerk who enjoyed walking. He told me that he had done the Mexico-Panama trip on foot in both directions and that it had been past midyear when he had decided on the walk to Rome. He took a ship to Portugal, setting out on shoe leather from there. No better financed than the birds of the air, Stahl had accepted and indeed had invited handouts of food and smaLl change along the way (his main expenses were postcards and stamps). The walk from Portugal .had taken a day less than four months. Stahl limped into Rome just as December began. He told me that he realized he hao started late. "I knew I'd get some draughty nigJ:1ts," he said, "and I did. Last night (the final night out of Rome) I slept in a stable with 100 heifers." A bearded shabby man, Stahl was given a place of honor in the front row at a papal audience. I watched as the tired Pope shook hands briefly with the weary walker, passed on to the next, hesitated, evidently remem路 bered the Stahl story and then came back to teLl him something. "Lungo viaggio!", tbe old postal employe told everyone later. "He said to me, 'Iungo viaggioyou had a .long trip!' " The brief contact with the Pope made the journey for the antique pedestrian but the ordeal left at least a temporary mark.

. "I notice," he told me candidly, "that I do feel unusually tired most of the time now." Unusual Travelers Besides giving meals and lodging to the foot travelers, Prince Nicolo Borghese and other members of old Roman noble families working on the Holy Year committees (loyal to a tradition of

The 1975 Holy Year will add another chapter to a story now nearly seven centuries old. Surely there will be differences. Rome has more hotels and the political and financial barriers which stemmed part of the 1950 pilgrim tide will have less effect this time. The sobering shock of war will be more remote but many of the same motivation which impelled other generations of travelers to journey ,to Rome wiU inspire others to do so this time too, thousands no doubt by jet, hut, it's a good bet, many by foot as in every jubilee year since Boniface VIII summoned the first in. 1300.

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NEW YORK (NC) - Leaders of a Catholic peace group in the United States have issued a statement .condemning abortion as "morally intolerable." Issued by the Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF), the statement also calls on Congress to provide constitutional protection for the lives of' unborn fetuses. "It should not seem exception. al that Catholic pacifists take a strong stand against abortion and its easy accessibility," said Thomas Cornell, national secretary of the CPF. "We are pacifists because we 'believe that God alone has dominion over human life." "We make this statement to protest a policy and a practice," the CPJ;" statement said, "not to condemn any individual for a tragic decision she or he may have felt forced to make, just as i'n our protest against war and its destruction of human life, we pass no judgment upon the individual soldier who acts in, good conscience." The statement also asks that the 'government provide alternatives to abortion to those who might look upon abortion as a . solution to pro!?lems.

Horticulture, both indoor and out, has become the main topic 9f discussion even in the most youthful groups.. No more are plants and the care of a garden relegated to the males of the family or the blue-rinsed, gentle ladies who enjoyed gardening as a restful· pastime. Everyone is ers printed on their fabrics. They' are soft I(lnd graceful for suminto the horticulture bit and· mer, ever so much cooler' than young and old alike do their pant outfits, while at the saml:

"plant" thing. ' . time much more feminine than But those of you who do not miniskirts. have the time, inclination or par· What do you use to top such ticular sensitivity to make in- skirts? Again it is your choice: tank top or T-shirt, matching ,blouse or jacket, cqntrasting shirt or cut-off jacket. Because of its longer length By 'and fluid I!nes this style has a look of the thirties hut the girls who are. wearing it,especially MARILYN abroad, are as modern as today. While many of these skirts RODERICK gracefully dip to a point almost as low as -that old-fashioned Edsel, the maxi, they don't seem to door, or outdoor gardening your be meeting with the same oppothing-fret . riot,. the world' of sition '8S that fashion. fashion has come to your rescue , Halter Tops and flowers will hloom in 'If you hav~ a'ny doubts about a'bundance on your. summer the raging popularity· of the floclothes, especially the flowered ral look this -summer, just peer skirt. into any fashiOn boutique and Flower Fad you'll notice that there are more The flower fad started, as flowers hlooming there' than in have so many others, in the city your favorite greenhouse. . of Paris, the Italian designers MallY of the longer skirts that joined in with tJheir versions, and will ,be worn for evening wear finally it reached the mecca that are topped with halters and then r.eaches us-Seventh Avenu,e. for more formal occasions with Not gathered at the waistline a longer jacket. All in all,' this like the broomstick skirts of old, return to a skirt length and its these new designs have either an popularity has even convinced A line or bias cut that adds to some fashion theorists that there' the floating quality of the flow· will be a decline in the increasing demand for pant outfits. On that fashion prediction, I Funds for Child reserve judgment:

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NEW YORK (NC) - A $1.33 million grant to help upgrade child welfare facilities in Vietnam has been made to the Cath· olic Relief Services (CRS) by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). . The grant 'was given to CRS, the overseas aid agency of U.S. Cathol'ics, as one of a series of grants AID is providing to develop. a comprehensive $7.2 mil· lion child welfare program in Vietnam. The- overall program is aimed at assisting the Vietnamese in improving orphanages and day· care centers by providing nutrition and pediatric care. It will also offer economic aid to wid· ows, help handicapped children, ~nd develop more effective intercountry adoption services. At present, CRS aids approximately 20,000 orphans in 121 orphanages in Vietnam. Last year, CRS helped an estimated 20 million men, women and children in 75 countries with disaster relief, rehabilitation and development programs.

Summer Party The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will hold its 16th annual slimmer party to benefit the Mary E. McCabe Nursing Scholarship ·Fund on Satur:day, July 13 at the summer :home of Mary McCabe, 23 PiI. grim Terrace, Marshfield Mass. Games and swimming will be enjoyed preceding a buffet supper to be served at 6. The event is open to friends of members.

USTENING FOR HIS VOICE?:' Boys dressed in Old Testament style headgear take a close look at a turtle during' a summer session at Our Lady of Lourdes parish in LOlJisville. Maybe they were listening for his voice, celebrated in the biblical :description of spring, "The flowers appear on the earth. . the voice of the .turtle is heard in our land." .

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CAMDEN (NC)-A Campaign domestic services offered to elifor Human Development (CHD) ents will include light cleaning, grant of $7,492 has been ap- preparing a hot meal for the day proved by Bishop George H. and leaving other meals in the BOST9N (NC)- Sister Mary Guilfoyle of Camden for the refrigerator to be easily heated, Hennessey, a member of the Re- Community Worker Project of encouraging nutritious meals; ligious of the Cenacle, has been Bridgeton, which will provide talking the wash to a' laundromat, appointed director of the Boston . domestic and para-domestic ser- ironing of small clothing articles, Theological Institute (BTl), an vices for sick, aged or handicap- and some shipping of perishable ecumenical' cluster of eight Cath- ped persons. items. olic and Protestant theological The funds for the grant are Other domestic services to be ,faculties in the Boston area. In the past year Sister' Hen- from the 25 per cent of the an- offered will include accompanynessey has Ibeen acting director nual CHD collection taken up in ing client to a clinic, dentist, etc.; of the BTl, following the re- Catholic churches throughout the assistance with personal corretirement of the institute's first United States each fall. The na- spondence, purchasing of small director, Dr. Walter D. Wagoner, · tionai office of the Campaign for items and similar tasks as Human Development receives 75 assigned. in June, 1973. The community worker will reSister Hennessey, a graduate per cent of the funds for national of Rlidcliffe College, has received distribution, while each diocese fer requests for social services a master's degree ·in counseling retains the remainder for local to the proper agency. These distribution to self-help commu- may include' public assistance, psychology. nity projects that are not being. housing, food stamps, Medicare, subsidized by public or govern-' Medicaid and Social Security. Parishioners Man me!ltal agencies. Recruitment of community Convention Center The CHD grant will fund the workers will be from among the FORT WORTH (NC)-A group project for the 'first year, giving unemployed. of parishioners from St. John the the project time to establish a Apostle par-ish has earned"' ap- record of success that is ex- ~•• ## . ...#....#""#.## . .#""#""#,• • proximately $100,000 for their pected to lead to funding by parish in the past five years.. other private or public agencies The project began when the in future years. \ Tarrant County Convention CenThe Community Worker Proter was opened in 1969 with the ject will ofter domestic and huneed of between 100 and 400 man services that are often unworkers to man the concession' · available to people in need stands.. 'through any other agency. The St. John's parish was told it could take on the job if it could University provide the manpower. A university is, according to ,T,he appeal went out; almost 300 parishioners responded, and the usual designation, an arma though some of the faces have mater, knowing her children one changed through the years, the by one, not a foundry, or a mint, number of workers has remained · or a treadmill. fa,irly constant: -Cardinal Newman

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Readers Send $80,500 For Famine Victims LOS ANGELES (NC)-Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Ang.eles has forwarded the. d.onahons of. readers of The Tldmgs, the archdiocesan weekly, to four African dioceses whose people are suffering starvation because of the famine in the sub-Sahara region. ; The Tidings initiated its appeal for help to famine victims in its issue of May 3. In the ensuing six weeks readers mailed an average of $12,000 a week on donations directed to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith here. Donations as of noon June 19 totaled over $80,555. Cardinal Manning has forwarded the funds to Cardinal Paul Zoungrana of Ouagadougou, Upper Volta; Archbishop Luc AJugust Sangare of Bumako, Mali; .Bishop Georges Biard of Mopti, Mali; and Archbishop Rotoli Ippolito, aspostolic nuncio, Addis Abaha, Ethiopia. :.'

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By MARY CARSON In order to get maintenance done, some convents might begin trading sisters the way the ball clubs trade players. One "all around handy sister" would be worth more than a sister who can only do plumbing or carpen· try. Can you imagine the dilemma of a Mother Superior who has to choose between a Sister who can organize a CCD program and one who .can fix anything that breaks? Since I have 20 years experience as a mother fixing things around the house, I thought it \yould be nice to pass along my tricks of the· trade to sisters who need this training. My advice will also be valuable to pr.iests, bachelors, women who live alone, and other mothers who are not as handy as I am. 'Fathers, of course, don't need my advice. Fathers knowhow to fix everything ... they just are never around when something needs fixing. My first piece of advice is never rely on one of those "how-to-do-it" repair books that are so popular. I once tried to repair a leaky faucet in the upstairs bathroom. fol·lowing the instructions in one of' those books. First I shut off' the water at the main valve in the basement; then I went upstairs and removed the stem from the faucet. While I was reading th'e book, learning which side of a washer

Tells Nuns Minister To Nation's Structures WASHINGTON (NC) - Christians must minister to the political and economic st.ructures of society as well as to .individuals, Rep. Andrew Young (D-Ga.) told a group of Sisters here. Tohe 43-yea·r-old congressman, an ordai·ned minist.er of the United Church of Christ and a veteran civil rights advocate, told about 200 Sisters and several priests and lay persons that preaching without some political activity can often be fruitless. "In the South," Young said, "I found that to prea'ch every Sunday that men are children of God ·while they are being treat.ed as something less than real persons was counter productive.

was turned off, he just went down to the basement and turned it back on. Back upstairs in the bathroom the water hit the ceiling and • read that silly book frantically but couldn't find anything in it that covered the situation. Since that day, I have mistrusted those books. Instead I use my own clever, commonsense approach to any situation, and I have found the .real key to success in the field of household repa,irs is "don't panic." For example, suppose the Bishop is due to visit the convent in just 10 minutes and Mother Superior finds a stain on the parlor carpet. The worst thing the resident Sister Fixit can do is panic. Light Candl!! Remain'ing perfectly calm, she should first find out what caused the stain. Working quickly, but cooly, she can then create a pattern of matching stains over the entire carpet. Or suppose you discover a hole in the wall. The solution is obvious ... hang a picture over it. In my house I have pictures hanging behind five doors, right at the spot where the knob hits the wall. When people ask, I calmly explain it's a chic new decorating scheme I'm experimenting with. Here's another example of coolness in the face of adversity. A fuse blows. Now, if you read one of those silly repair books, you might go stumbling around in the basement looking for the fuse box. 'But any Sister Fixit who uses Mother Carson's cool, clever approach would simply light a few candles and tell other nuns she is creating an atmosphere more conducive to medit'ation. I have ,hundreds of other bits of advice that I could offer to potential Sister Fixits, but my typewriter just broke....

Prelate Challenges Moslem Charges ROME (NC) An African Catholic archbishop has challenged Libyan President Muammar el-Qaddafi's anti-Christian sentiments and suggested African Moslems shpuld take a look at their own history before at· tacking Christians. Archbishop Bernard Yago of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, writing in the national Catholk Italian newspaper Avennire, took issue with a charge made by EI Qaddafi last March. 23 that Christians should be thrown out of Africa because' Christianity "has been used in black Africa to work for the destruction of the African people." • The archbishop replied to the Moslem leader's assertion: "May I say that a Moslem ·is a person who is poorly adapted to give lessons in liberalism and tolerance to the Christians of black Africa.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The first Catholic boarding school for girls in the 13 original colonies celebrated its 175th anniversary here June 24. Georgetown Visitation Convent and School, which was founded in 1799, a year before the city of Washington, was established by Father Leonard Neale, the fourth president of Georgetown College, now Georgetown University. Later, Father Neale became the successor to Archbishop John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore. Although the students studied a wide variety of subjects, there was little else to do at the school during the early 1880s.

OLDEST ALUMNUS: Harry J. Butler of Holy Name parish, Fall River, was oldest alumnus of Holy Cross College, Worcester, present atrecen,t alumni reunion attended by 1000 graduates. A graduate of class of 1909, he was accompanied by his wife Stella. Both are retired after longtime careers as high school teachers in Fall, River and Fitchburg.

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If· her parents arranged it, a student might go out only once a month, and only during the day. Visitors could not stay longer than 15 minutes, and a nun was always present during the visit. Wednesday and Saturday evenings were set aside for recreation. During the War Between the States, the convent and school were among the few large buildings in the area· that were never used as military hospitals. Union Gen. Winfield Scott had pleaded for exemption of the school because his daughter.' Sister Emmanuel Scott, was buried in the convent's cemetery.

The original building was completed in 1817. But one of the more interesting buildings on the campus is the St. Bernard Libra, ry which before 1895 was a cow barn. ·It now holds 18,000 volumes. Today, the Georgetown Visi· tation Preparatory School has a student body of 360.

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Italian Franciscan Priest .Honored At Israel's Shrin'e of Yad'Vashem JERUSALEM (NC) - Israel's morial. With vigorous religious memorial to the Holocaust, the genius, the Jews have transshrine of Yad Vashem, has con- formed an historical record into ferred the honor of "Righteous an event. As people walk Gentile" on Italian. Franoiscan through the shrine, men' and women display tears' of anger Father Rufino Nkcacci. 'Father Miccacci helped save or humiliation. Later, in the out300 Jews from persecution by side sunshine, their nervous the Germans during WorJd War laughter is of persons recovering n by hiding them in a monastery. from deep stress. . By .dressing them in Franciscan robes and teaching them how to ,behave as monks, he. was able to protect them from the many searches of the friary by German WASHINGTON (NC) - Dr. soldiers. Father Nic:cacci also Mary-Angelill Harper has been afded in the religious needs of elected full-time executive dithe refugees and even organized rector of the National Associaclasses for the children. tion of BoardIs of Education Father Niccacci is now work- ~NABE), a commission of the ing in the Franciscans' Assisi National . Catholic Educational province ilt· his hometown of Association (NCEA). Deruta, Italy, where he is· atDr. Harper, the first elec~ed tempting to estahlish an ecumen- and immediate past president of ical .institute for old people both' NABE, was elected to her new Christian, Jews. post during the association's Many of the Jews he pro- general business meeting at the tected in the war now live in · NCEA's annual convention in Israel. Cleveland. The shrine of Yad Vashem is Dr. Harper is weB known in evidence that the massacre in the area because she was the Nazi Germany was a powerfully . keynote speaker on May 6, 1972 formative force in Israel's ideol- at the Fall River Diocesan Cathogy and that the nation is deter- olic Education Convention at not be forgotten. By Bishop Feehan High School, Atmined it government order a' permanent tleboro. Her topic was "Total shrine was erected some years Religious Education." ~ ago .on the "Mount of RememDr. Harper, 47, has been a brance" to commemorate the genocide of Jews during Hitler's · teacher and chairman of the department of philosophy at Dunregime. barton Co1'lege, Wa·shington, D.C., To many Israelis, the Nazi ·and is now a member of the. persecution is an event of shame, philosophy faculty at American and they would prefer to forget University, also located here. about both the personal memory She has also been president of and the racial humiliation it perthe board of education of the petrated. But the leaders of IsWashington archdiocese and was rael have expended some of their a V'atican-appointed internationbest brains, much money and al expert at the World Congress resolution to insure that the of the Lay Apostolate. "'Holocaust," as it is refer~ed to in Israel, is not forgotten. The mind and persollaHty of modern Israel can be touched in an agonizing and disturbing way with a visit to this national shrine in' West Jerusalem. Yad 102 Shawomet Avenue Vashem is no ordinary cold meSomerset, Mass.

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EAST BREWSTER IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00 AM. Saturday Eve.~5:00 and 7:30 P.M.

BUZZARDS BAY ST. MARGARETS Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12 noon and 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:3~P.M. Daily-8:00 AM.

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CENTERVILLE OUR L l\DY OF VICTORY Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P..M. Daily-,..7:00 and 9:00 AM. First Fridays-Ultreya-8:00 P.M.

OUR LADY OF HOPE Masses: Sunday-IO AM. and 4:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M.

MONDAY. thru SATURDAY

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS ST. THOMAS CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, II: 15 AM. Saturday-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Effective June 22-Subject to change

HYANNIS ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, II :00, 12:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 .and 8:00 AM.

YARMOUTHPORT SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:00 AM. Saturday. Eve.-5:00 P.M.

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MARION ST. RITA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00, 11:15 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-8:30 AM. Friday-Benediction & Rosary 7:00 P.M.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST' Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11 :00 AM. Saturday at 5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-:-9:00 AM. Sunday Masses Parish Hall: 9:30 and 10:30 AM.

CHATHAM HOLY REDEEMER Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11 :00· A.M. 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-9:00 AM. Full schedule begins June 22-23

ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M.

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tor, the 4th-century apostle of Armenia, had a vision of Christ: Khor Vireb, also associated with the life of St. Gregory and Kedhart, a shrine in which accord'ing to tradition there was preserved' the lance which pierced Christ's side. According to Vatican Radio, the pilgrimages "climaxed with th~ celebration of the Liturgy by Orthodox priests and, almost always, with the administration of Baptism and Confirmation."

EAST FREETOWN OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHAPEL Masses: SundaY-9:00, 11:00 AM. Saturday .Eve.-6.:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM.

MATTAPOISETT ST. ANTHONY, Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00 (Folk Mass), 11 AM. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday-8:00 A.M. - 4:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 and 9:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.)

NANTUCKET OUR LADY OF THE ISLE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:30, 11:00 ·AM. and 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:30 AM.

SIASCONSET, MASS. UNION CHAPEL Masses: Sunday--:8:45 AM. July and August

OAK BLUFFS SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:15, 10:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM.

ORLEANS ST. JOAN OF ARC Ma:i'3es: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. Saiurday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena-Wednesday Morning Mass at 8:00 AM.

Liturgy Group Approves English Texts WASHINGTON (NC)--The English translatJions of several major liturgical texts were approved here by t.he Advisory Committee of the International Commission on English in the .Liturgy (ICEL), the official body ~stablished by ,bishops of II English-speaking countr.ies to develop English translat,ions for the new liturgical texts set by the Vatican. The ICEL secretariat here announced that translations were

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 4, 1974

Pax Christi Representative Says Peace Movement Shows Vital Signs

texts can. be used in a country, the bishop~ of that country must vote for them by a two-thirds , majority, and then the VaNcan MILWAUKEE (NC) - For must ratify the bishops' decis.ion. those who assumed that with the An exception is the draft cessation of overt hostilities, the translation of the new Penance peace movement is dead, comes rite. A temporary text, it may be the news '''hat far from being approved for use by the exec- dead, the peace movement is utive board of a bishops' confer- merely growing into adulthood, ence. The provisional text will intensifying with stronger roots, undergo comments and crit- evolving into a way of life. icisms from b>ishops and consulSuch assessment was indicattants. ed by Rachelle Linner, a young and attractive representative of' Pax Christi USA, the American branch of the international Catholic peace movement. She spoke here at St. Benedict the Moor parish, at Casa Maria CHILMARK community and to tr.,e peace eduCOMMUNITY CENTER cation committee of the Justice Masses: Sunday-7:00 P.M. (Beginning June 30) and ~eace center. In her travels about the counWAREHAM try, the 24-year-old said she sees ST. PATRICK that there is a quietness and reMasses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00,10:00,11:30 AM. flective nature in the peace and 5:00 P.M. movement now. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 6:00 P.M. "They were louder during the Daily-7:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. Vietnam war - and many are Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament now burnt out because, I believe, follows the 7:00 AM. Mass and continues they were not sufficiently rootuntil 7:00 P.M. ed. The people coming into the 'Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses movement now, and those who Tuesday: Mass of Peace and Justice . lasted, have firmer spiritual 7:00 P.M. roots." Schedule for July and August

approved for: the first volume of the Liturgy of the Hours (formerly. called the Breviary or Divine Office), the Rite of Religious Profession, Holy Communion and the WorEhip of the Eucharist Out&ide Mass, the Rite of Ordination of Deacons, Presbyters (Priests) and Bishops, and the draft translation of the new . Rite of Penance. . The English texts will now go to the ICEL-member national bishops' conferences. Before the

Mass -Schedule for Summer Season NORTH EASTHAM CHURCH OF THE VISITATION Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.·-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. OSl'ERVILLE '" OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. Confessions: Saturday·-4:00 - 5:00 P.M. 'SANTUIT ST. JUDE'S CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 AM. Saturday.-5:00 P.M. Confes~ions: Saturday--4:15 - 5:00 P.M. MASHPEE QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M.

WEST WAREHAM ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday-7:00 P.M.' Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Schedule for July and August

POCASSET ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30,10:30,11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:30 A.M. Confessions: Saturday - 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. and following 7:00 P.M. Mass

WELLFLEET OUR LADY OF LOURDES Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:30, 9:00 A~f.

PROVINCETOWN ST. PETER THE APOSTLE Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM., 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. and 5:30 P.M. Confessions: Saturday-4:00 - 5:00 P.M.. SANDWICH CORJ)US CHRISTI Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. and 12 Noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. SAGAMORE ST. THERESA Masses: Sunday-8::l0, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. SOUTtI DARTMOUTH ST. MARY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. & 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. Saturdays only-8:00 AM. SOU1'H YARMOUTH ST. PIUS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00. 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 AM. 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM. BASS RIVER OUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM. D~i1y-8:00 AM: VINIEYARD HAVEN ST. AUGUSTINE Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:30. AM. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M.· Daily-8:00 AM. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions: Saturday-·2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

TRURO SACRED HEART . Masses: Saturday-7:00 P.M. NORTH TRURO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11 :00 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. . WEST HARWICH HOLY TRINITY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00. 10:30. 1":00 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 AM. & 7:00 P.M. First Friday-Mass and' Exposition 11:00 A.M. DENNISPORT

UPPER COUNTY ROAD OUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8;30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. WESTPORT ST. GEORGE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:45; 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. WOODS HOLE ST. JOSEPH Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses

She said some of the movemcnt members would see nonviolence as a tactic for demonstration purposes. Non-violence would then be something tem· porary and practical. But others go mucb deeper. "The reason they've made a commitment to non-violence is beliefs and values which would prevent them from injuring an· other person. or' allowing injury to continue once they saw it. This would all come from a theological base rather than a political understanding of the situa· tion." Miss Linner said Pax Christi has about 400 members nationalIy. The majority is either over 30 years or were never involved in the old peace movement before but had been beginning to raise questions about personal responsibility.

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Says 'Commonweal' Needs More Clerical Cooperation My father used to say when we were kids that he would consider the money he had put into our education well spent if, throughout our adult lives, We would get impatient when the "Commonweal" and "America" were held up in the

mails and were late in arriving. That was his way of saying symbolically that formal education was a waste of' time and money unless it resulted in a taste, and preferably in a thirst for at least a modicum of serious reading. It was also

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his way of saying that the "Commonweal" and "America" were among his favorite weeklies and that he found it hard to imagine how anyone could possil>'ly get along without them. During the intervening years, both magazines have had their ups and downs, but I, for one, couldn't get along without them and, though I don't always agree with them, I still get impatient when they arrive late-which, given the sad state of the ·U. S. postal system happens much more frequently than it used to in days gone by. . .All this is by' way of congratulating one of these two weeklies - the "Commonweal" - on its 50th anniversary. The celebration is now in progress. May it have many happy returns. I realize that a certain number of "C'ommonweal" erstwhile fans have lost interest in the magazine and, if they are still subscribing, cou'ldn't care .Jess if it g~ts to them late. Some think it is too conservative, some too Hberal. Still others feel that it has simply ouNived its useful-

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ATLANTA (NC)-A resolution calling for expanded priestly cdc ucation and the inclusion of contemporary religious education as a part of the curriculum of every Ameraican school of theology was approved by the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education (NCDD) during their annual convention here. In concluding a four-day indepth session on the topic of total religi04s education. the 350 delegates adopted several resolutions 011 religious education. The resolution on the currkulum in theology schools went through many amendments before the final version was approved. It called for the systematic evaluation of the office of pasto~ and those in special ministries, stating that "where such t:\'uluation programs exist, the person's efforts in total religious education constitute a criteria (sic) of this evaluation."

ness and should be allowed to die a natural death. Rodger Van Allen, author of a recent history of "Commonweal,"doesn't share this opinion, . nor do I. Mr. Van Allen says at the end of his comprehensive study ("the Commonweal and American Catholi'Cism," Fortress Press, PhHadelpjhia) that the magazine's track record has been remarkably good. "One would think," he writes, "that simply on the basis of its record it would be accorded a . . special hearing in Catholic cirSAN JUAN FIESTA: Cardinal Luis Aponte, Archbishop of San Juan.. Puerto Rico, recles at least. On the contrary, however, it is still in an outcast ceives the offertory gifts from two Mass participants during New York City's San Juan . position there, and is banned Fiesta held on Randalls Island, under the Triboro Bridge. The cardinal called the celebration from the magazine racks of of the feast of St. John the Baptist a day of unitt for Spanish-speaking people. NC Photo. many Cathol'ic churches. .In the McCarthy era, the. House UnAmerican Activities Committee 'was fond of speaking of people as being 'prematurely antifascist' which they equate with communist. Apparently one was pennitted to be antifascist as long as By PAT McGOWAN and whatever. else is. involved in 'Iast week when a volunteer who one waited' until this position The ·ancient Christian symbol hamMing a: particular problem. usually visits an elderly lady on was officially permitted and rec- of the fish bas a 20th· century· What are needed, however, are Sunday afternoon was delayed ognized. Similarly, 'even though meaning in Fall River, Swansea new Fishers, lots or' them. Es- unti~ early evening. When she ara'imost all the major stands of and Somerset. It's the insignia pedally in the summ'er, says rived the. patient' had tears in the Commonweal have been vin- of some 120.good neighbors who Mrs. Ru~alevige; ranks tend to her eyes. dicated, it seems to boe resented can be called on' for services thin out, .although calls for help "I thought I'd done something rather than admi'red in official such as emergency babysitting, do not. The main area where to offend you, and that: was why Catholic circles." provision of meals and last- help is needed, she stressed, is you hadn't come," she said. . I am not so .sure that that's 'resort transportation. that of transportation.. universally true. I know a good Spearheaded by energetic Sue "We do !)ur best to suggest Another means of providing number of people in "official Rudalevige, 'wife of the pastor aJternative. possibilities to call. companionsh~p suggested by Mrs. Ruda~evige is that of taking an Catholic circles" who are com· of Somerset Methodist Church, ers," she said, "because drivers elderly person along on a shopmitted "Commonweal" support- 'Fish has been in operation fQr' are in such short supply, but . ping trip or other errands. "Some ers. They may not al,ways agree a little more than. two years. In there are always oases of gen· Fis!:l' drivers take a shut-in just with the magazine, but they cer- that time it has met all manner 'uine ~eed, and we can really use for -the ride when they are ta'king tainly don't "resent" it. On the of human needs, ranging from ~e;t.~olunteers in this depart- other people to doctors' offices, other hand, I am sure that there emergency housing for the dis· and' so forth," she said. "It's a are some among the powers-that- possessed to simple companion. Also needed are "meal volungreat idea for someone who be who do resent it fbr one rea· ship for lonely oldsters in nurs- teers," said Mrs. Rudalevige. dtherwise would seldom leave son or another. That's their prob- ing homes. ., These are people who provide home." lem, and one that they will simThe Fish name comes fr,om the one or two casseroles a month A Flower ply have to work out for· them- insignia scratched on the walls for use by people who may be selves as best they can. Keeping the Fish swimming is of Roman catacombs to identify too old or ill to cook adequate Urges Support meeting places of' the early meals for themselves or by fam- a large order, admitted Mrs. For my own part, I happen to Christians. It was chosen at that i1ies where the homemaker may Riudalevige, but there are comagree with Mr. Van Allen when time because the Greek letters he in the hospital or unable to :pensations. One came last month, she related, when a vol: he says that the "Commonweal for "fish" are an acroynm for function for other reasons. Such cass'eroles may be unteer aided a man with a bad has been perhaps the most impor- "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savtant symbol and achievement of iour." brought to Sacred Hearts Acad~ heart in moving from one apartthe Americ"an Catholic la'ity. It Not Simple emy convent on Prospect Street, mimt to another. His Uttl\e girl has not worked consciously Basically, Fish attempts to Fall River, where the Sisters was on the scene .and very imtoward that· Claim, and has no supply old-fashioned neighborli- have VOlunteered use of a large pressed by the help her father was receiving. Finally she slipped hang-up of lay triumphalism. It !less on an area-wide scale, said freezer. for food" storage. has had fraternal clerical coop- Mrs. Rudalevige. But whereas in "It's not hard," pointed out out, returning with a wild flower erators from. the beginning and a simpler age, needs were met Mrs. Rudalevige, "to make a which she presented to the now has its first clerical staff very informally, today's Good 1it't1e extra when you're prepar-· Fisher. member ..., but its historical Samaritan seems to require a ing a casserole for your own "Thank you," she said. significance is that of an inde- 24-hour telephone answering ser- family, pop it into an aluminum pendent lay achievement." vice, a corps of telephone work- pan (so you won't worry about The Commonweal needs-and, ers screening requests for aid, dishes being return~d) and take in my opinion, richly deserves- and the actual volunteers who it to the convent at your convenmuch more fraternal clerical co· fulHII the' requests. ience." operation, if only in the form of Juggling assignments, allowAnd since Fish has commitnew sUbscriptions to make up for ing for volunteers' vacations and ments to provide two meals a 'the narrow-minded clericalism of ensuring that people are avail- month for 14 families. plus emerthose in our ranks who have ,able for service at all times is gency food requests which may banned it from their parish mag- almost a job for a computer, ad· come in at any time, it is easy to azine racks. It can also use more mits Mrs. Rudalevige, who issues- see that here is an intensely YOU'LL cash contributions· to its 50th a. monthly Fish bulletin to keep' practical application of the Gos-81 anniversary fund to enable it to volunteers up to date on proce- pel admonition to "feed the TICKLIDI . survive the ravages of inflation. dural changes and news of activ: hungry." ' In brief, now is the time for all ities. _ 'When I Was Lonely. ~ .' fre. d.llv.ry-Call good clerics and for the laity as Not Money, People Also straight from the Gospel well to come to the aid of a magThus far, she says, Fish has is a' new Fish project, that of azine which has served American· not 'had money problems, with "adopting" people in .nursing Catholicism-and American soci- many FaLl River churches con- homes, who in many cases have ety in general-exceedingly well tributing funds to pay telephone no visitors whatever. A poignant 373 New Boston Road . during the past 50 years. and postage bills and volunteers example of how much such visFall River 678-5677 (© 1974 NC News Service) contributing gasoline, time, food itors mean to patients was given

Ancient Christian ~ymbol of Fish Takes Modern Meaning In Greater Fall River .

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Exi Ie Cond ucts Rights Crusade Against Jaih;

Mixed-Race Filz~n Family Exemplifies Devotion' to Religious Princ~ples

THE ANCHOR-

Thurs., July 4, 1974

Grace, Suffering Are Compatible, Pope Asserts

MIAMI (NC)-When a' comPEORIA (NC)-A rambling 10mitee of the Catholic bishops of room house here is hung with the United States considers the banners that pro.c1am God's love. VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope treatment of political prisoners It has a wide~ shady front porch Paul VI explained that .the . in Cuba, the documentation pre- an:! sunny backyard dominated Ohurch continues even after its sented to it will be the result of tby a h,omemade beach-14 tons triumphal beginnings at Pentea long campaign waged primarily of sand in' a sandbox.. cost because grace and suffering are not mutually exclusive. hy one Cuban exile in MiamiIt is the comfortable backdrop Dr. Humberto Medrano. for F Troop, a mixed race family "The coming of the Holy Spirit Dr. Medrano, former managing of four boys, two 'girls,. a mother doe not take the cross from the editor of Prensa Libre, once the and a father with an unusual human condition," he told a genlargest newspaper in Havana, capacity fqr love, and patience, era'l audience June 26. fled Cuba in 1960 when his and generosity and devotion to "For now let it suffice to probuilding was surrounded by religious principles. pose this reply for the consolaCastro troops as a result of his tion of those who are experiencanti-Communist editorial stand. F (for Filzen) Troop could well, ing the ineffable good fortune A man of intense dedication .be C (for Christian) clan because of grace and the no less mysteand dignity, Dr. Medrano speaks the emphasis, ac<..'ording to chief rious good fortune of suffering. with an emotional tremble in his' trooper Bernie Filzen, is, on Not only can the two experi. b . ·ChrisL ' VOIce, I ut IS not one to go about ·'We are a Ch TIS . t'Ian Ilouseences co-exist but they are combombing local offices or ships. patihle, that is, they can be cohold," he said. '''We're a ChrisHe is a man dealing with the ordinated in a plan of goodness h . tian family that happens to pracuman equation,' trying to get tice its faith within the confines and of salvation, a plan whose the community of man to listen wisdOm and harmony the Lord to the pleas of prisoners them- of the Catholic Church. will one day, we hope, unveil to selves. He is a journalist and forThe entire family - Bernie, us." mer lawyer dealing with facts Patty, 'Kathy, Mike, Mark, Gary, as nearly as he can obtain them Tim and .Sherry-goes to 10:30 Began Life on scraps of paper smuggled out Mass at St. Mark's,.• but Patty The Pope had begun his audiof Cuban prisons, or interviews splits from the group to play Qnce by speaking of the gifts with former prisoners escaped with guitar for the service. given the Apostles at Pentecost 'For a father who chose to to the U. S. The waHs of his and the mass conversions they office are lined with plaques and' raise a family that has, does and achieved. awards for his endeavors and will continue to meet -problems "In this way the Church triwritings. because four of his adopted chilumphally began her life, her his"I have n'o relatives in pris- dren are black, Filzen maintains tory," the Pope commented. ons," he said. "I am simply op- an air of unassailable calm. '.,).. 't.. "" "But we must immediately inposed to tyranny of the right or "F TROOP" AT HOME: Mrs. Patty Filzen sings for tegrate this vision with another, Positive Thinking lefL As editor of Prensa Libre 1 husband Bernie, daughter Kathy, and the five adopted no less attested to by the word opposed the Batista regime and "We've learned not to look for was interrogated three times. problems because then we get members of "F Troop"-Mark, Sherry, Tim, Gary and Mike of the Lord, by his example, by Then when Castro's communism too concerned about the neg- in their home in Peoria, Ill. "F (for Filzen) Troop" "is just the economy of salvation. It is came in, I opposed that too, until atives," Filzen said. "And we've like any normal family," said Bernie, but the emphasis the vision of pain, of persecution and of death. This renders dra· I had to flee." learned the positives far out- is on Christian living. Prayer is an important part of their matic the life-story of each of Started In 1961 weigh the negatives." lives. "We thank God for everything ... even the curtains," Christ's followers, and the whole Medrano worked in the U. S. Kathy, the lO-year-old daughstory of salvation as it unfolds in as a cab driver and then as a car ter, was born to Mrs. FilIzen in said Mrs. Filzen with a laugh. NC Photo. time. salesman night and day to September, 1962. But the other "The cross dominates this vihave seen them achieve his present position as five children were all adopted. that he and his .wife have applied neighbors sio'n." to he foster parents to more. "marching" to the store, Filzen at manager of a used car firm. All the adoptions were com"We're just like any normal . the head of the line, his troops Though he speaks eloquently and pleted through the Catholic Sofamily," explained Filzen. "The in single file behind him. movingly in English, his wife, cial Services offices in Peoria. Secular Institutes children play together and fight Mignon, helps him translate let"I'm damn proud of them," Family and friends; though DETROIT (NC)-The National together ... They get a small al- said Filzen. "We're not strict disters and writings of his organization, the Committee to Denounce first surprised, responded quickly lowance and each has small ciplinarians but neither of us Center for Church Vocations here, in colllliboration with the Cruelties to Cuban prisoners. The , and favoraJbly to the new Filzens. duties to perform; with that will tolerate poor behavior." U. S. Conference of Secular Incommittee's actions have resulted Why did the Filzens reach for many all the same age you have And as might be expected, the stitutes in Bethesda, Md., has in condemnation of Cuba by the so many 'youngsters? Do they to get at least halfway organized family prays together. that much? love. little children published a 14-page Directory of or you're in trouble." Organization of American States "Can't 'stand them," laughs Prays Together "We thank God for everything Secular Institutes with Founda(OAS) and protests within the. The family spends much time before supper, for guests we have tions in the U.S.A. The booklet the United Nations and now con- ,Filzen jokingly, and promptly sideration of the problem by the proves the opposite 'by adding ,playing in the ·backyard, but at dinner, even for the curtains," describes the 16 secular instilaughed Mrs. Filzen, who has tutes in the United States and American bishops. always matched her husband in provides a bihliography of books, "I started to denounce the Christian involvement. She was. art'icles and documents dealing atrocities in 1961 in Diario las recently appointed extraordinary with secular 'institutes. Americas ... and gathered informinist~r of CQmmunion at her mation and sent it to the UN ALBANY (NC) - The New York and the 33 bishops of New parish. Commission on Human Rights, the International Red Cross and York State Catholic Committee York state. Does ·Filzen anticipate any (SCC) has opposed a bill rending the 04'\S." "Our committee expresses its problems? But response was a long time in the state legislature which opposition to this bill and we Only one, he admitted, and I wOll/ld estahlish legal penalties urge that it not be favorably in coming. "The UN was polite but cool for employers who knowingly acted upon," the committee's let- that financial. Since Sherry, Complete Line Mike, Gary and Mark will all for years. But in 1!}72 I sent a employ illegal aliens. ter to Whiteman said. The pro- start first grade this fall, he Building Materials cable about a student leader In a letter to Michael White- posed ,bill, known as the Knorr- cannot help but face the fact in Cuba who was beaten because man, counsel to New York Gov. Field Bill, "attempts to act in an 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN of his hunger strike and warned Malcolm Wilson, Charles J. To- area of law which is and should that 12 years from now they will 993-2611 he would die if they didn't inter- bin, secretary of the SCC, which remain the province of the fed· all start college together. vene. Thirteen days later he represents the state's bishops, eral government," the letter died." said that "we are especially con- said. Some officials began to listen cerned with the thrust of the bill Tobin's letter added that there then to this one voice crying because of our deep commitment Color Process Year Books is a strong possibility that the out about human rights. to help itllegal aliens." measure is unconstitutional, and "I have supplied documentaBrochures Booklets "To penalize employers would cited a similar bill which was tion, names, dates and places all along, and this is what I pretend to drive illegal aliens to em- held to be unconstitutional by a sented to the U. S. Catholic Con- ployments where the employer is . California court. ference's Division for Latin insensitive to law violations," America, headed by Father Fred- Tobin said. Career erick ·McGuire." Whiteman had previously reIt is one of the conditions ina F F S,E T - PRINTERS· - LETTERPRESS quested an analysis of the pro- separable from a public' career GraCf~ 'posed bill as well as the recom- to be often misunderstood, and l·ll COFFIN AVENUE Phone 997-9421 He rides at ease who is car- mendations and comments of the sometimes judged unfairly even New Bedford, Mass. ried by the grace of God. committee, which includes Car- when understood the best. -Thomas a Kempis dinal Terence Cooke, of New -Lord Acton

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Speaight Writes Splendid Biography of Bernanos

ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER New officers of the Women's Guild are Mrs. Louis Castanzo, president; Mrs. John Synnott, vice-president; Mrs. Thomas Callaha,n, treasurer; Mrs. Thomas Smith, secretary. The unit will sponsor a sidewalk sale at the Fall River Shopping Cent,er from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.' Saturday, July 13. Members and other parishioners are asked to donate eakes, plants, arts and crafts items, toys and white elephant goods for this event. Volunteers will also be needed to assist on the day of the, sale.

, Among the great writers of the 20th century, Georges Bernanos must rank high. He has been dead for almost 30 years and the world has changed ra~ically in that interval, yet his prose still has sinew and stmg, and the themes he dealt with are still pertinent. suit in a :purification of France. This is because this out- But the peace which followed he standing French novelist considered a betrayal, and after addressed himself to funda- the'shameful Munich agreement mentals. For example, he saw the world and manIcind as stron'gly affected by original ~in. He attacked impostures and hes.

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He was preoccupied with the mystery of death. Facing the abyss, he, was borne up by Christian faith. A man of genius, he was a thoroughly convinced C~tholic ~ho followed a daily routme of piety such as the simplest person might use. He was a fierce controversialist, engaged in one battle af.ter another, and a master of 'invective, yet there was about him a sweet and sunny charity.. All thi's, and much more, is brought out in Robert Speaight's splendid biography, Georges Bere nanos (Liveright, 386 Parke Ave. S., New York, N. Y. 10016. 285 pages. Illustrated. $8.95). Debut as Journalist Bernanos was born in Paris in 1888. His family was comfortably situated and had a place in the country where he spent much of his youth. At the age of 13. he read straight through the works of Balzac, which exercise influenced him as a writer-toJ\)e but had not ill effect on his solid faith. He first attended a Jesuit school in Paris, thereafter was briefly in one or another minor seminary, finally got to the Corbonne, where he took a degree in literature and in law. By this time he had already made his debut as a journalist. This was under the banner of the Action Francaise, that peculiar movement which was con-' demned by Pius Xl in 1926. It aimed at defending "the pure citadel of the French state and society." It was monarchist and nationalist in the sense of excluding every alien element. It regarded the Church as a Ibastion of the traditional order, a~d championed it as such. Some of its leading figures were atheists, but they saw the Church as useful in 'Preserving the temporal good to which they were devoted. Bernanos eventuaHy broke with the Action Francaise as its inconsistencies became indisguisable. 'But he remained a staunch conservative battling to the 'last t against ·the leftist forces which he saw disintegrating both the Church and France. Complex Life He was a ,soldier in World War I, which, he believed would re-

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild is sponsoring a s'cholarship fund in honor of Mrs. Rose E. Sullivan, the first president of the guild and a most active cooperator in all guild affairs for the past 25 years. Donations may be forwarded to Mrs. Willard Piper or Miss Grace Dunn, co-chairmen or any of the following committee members: Miss AJlice Harrington, Mrs. Robert Nedderman, Miss Lauret· ta Norton, Mrs. Louis Cunha; Miss Margaret Tolan and Mrs. Edward McGrady.

of 1938 he left the country, settling in Brazil, where he passed the years of World War II. He CORPUS CHRISTI, returned to France in 1945, at SANDWICH De Gaulle's urgent invitation. The annual parish summer fair 'Once again, he expected a resurWILLIAM E. BARNES under the sponsorship of the rection of the ideal France. He Women's Guild will be held from was bitterly disappointed. He ST. GEORGE, 4 in the afternoQn until 8 in the died in 1948. DARTMOUTH Although he engaged in polemNewly installed officers of the evening Sunday, July 7 on ics throughout his adult life, he Couples Club are Mr. and Mrs. Jarves St. 'Features will include games, was principally a novelist. Only a Rev. Giles Genest, M.S. supe- Adrien Durand, presidents; Mr. .few o.f his works of .fiction have rior of La Salette Shrine, Attle- and Mrs. Armand Duquette, vice· pony rides, a mystery table, been translated into English: Bui boro has announced the appoint- presidents; Mr. and Mrs. Robert homemade food and articles, these few made a great impres- ment of William E. Barnes to the Lavoie, treasurers; Mr. and Mrs. white elephant table and a snack sion when' they appeared in newly created position of admin- Joel Sunderland, secretaries. bar. In case of rain, the event will translation. And the best of them, ,istrator. The unit will hold its first fall ·when taken up toi:!ay,. have the In making the announcement, meeting at 8 P.M. Monday, Sept. be held on the following Sunday, power to grip the reader. Father Genest stated, "We con- 9 in the school hall. Membership Ju,ly 14. The most celebrated is The sider the appointment of Bill is open to any couple in the parDiary of a C&untry Priest, which Barnes as a very positive step in ish.. Sodal events for the year ST. JOSEPH, Macmillan reprinted as a paper- solidifying the temporal needs of will begin Saturday, Sept. 21 ATTLEBORO Donations for the coming sllmback as recently as 1967. This the shrine. His mandate will inwith a danee at the school hall mer festival may be left in the looks piercingly at human cor- volve all business, financi'al and on Route 177 with music by the school building any evening beniption, at the ambiguity of life, public relations aspects of the Roman IV. The public is invited tween 6 and 8 during the week the tedium of a mediocre exis- shrine community." to attend. of July 15. tence, the power of evi'l, and the Whalers Founder OUR LADY OF ANGELS, Parishioners wishing to volun: indomitlllble force of faith and One of the original founders teer as workers for' the affair love in the face of weakness and of the New England Whalers FALL RIVER Parishioners will observe the are requested to cail Mr. and perversity. Reading it is stili an Hockey Club, Barnes was its exexperience hoth wringing and ex-' ecutive' vice-president, directly Holy Ghost feast Saturday and Mrs. John Ferns at 222-5192; alting. responsihle 'for marketing and Sunday, July 13 and, 14, at the Mr. and Mrs. Norman Santos at club grounds. The Holy Name 222-4169; or Father Normand at President's Men corporate public relations. Society will sponsor a Red Sox 226-0197. A graduate of La Salle AcadWhat would Bemanos have trip to Boston SundaY,July 28; mad~ of Watergate? He probably emy, and Providence College, and celebration of the par.ish's in Marion with his Barnes lives would have given a disdainful patrona'! feast is sef for Thurs- Brother Receives shrug, since he was prejudiced wife, the former Martha Ann day through Sunday, Aug. 8 Honorary Degree against democracy. But. he might Hunt, and their five children. through 11. PITTSBURGH (NC)-A Holy well have applauded the work of ,;tl"""""""I"IIIIII"'I1"'"'''IlI''''IIIIIIIIII'''''''"""ll''''''ll,.,mtll''''''I'''''''''''''''''''' Ghost' Brother who has served two journalists whose persisas a chef, football team dietician tence had much to do with u!1- charge which they uncovered had Abigail McCarthy , to . be confirmed by two other groundskeeper at Duquesne covering the scandal. At Vatican Meeting and University here for 50 years, reThese two are Carl Bernstein sources. This was in the interest ROME (NC)-Abigail McCar- ceived an honorary doctorate and Bob Woodward: of the of accuracy and fairness. Any ir-, thy, a moderate in the women's from the university. responsible allegations would de'Washington Post, who describe equality movement in the United . their 'Piece ,.of inve8tigative re- stroy their credihility.. Brother Marie Gerard Keating, States, was an invited guest at They were constantly checked porting in All the President's who is normally known as a recent· plenary session of the Men (Simon and Schuster, 630 ,by editQrs and executives of th~ Vatican's Council 'for the Laity. "Brother Jerry," received the paper. AI,ways there 'were scru!Fifth Ave., New YQrlc, N. Y. 349 doctorate of humanitarian ser'PIes and doubts which had to be The council met to study' its parpages. Illustrated. $8.95). t'icipation in the United Nations' vice at the Duquesne commencecarefully considered. There were ' When the Watergate break-in International Women's Year to ment. 'occurred in June 1972, it was warnings th.at they were under Father Henry J. McAnulty, Dube observed in 1975.' ' treated by the paper as a local surveillance, even that their lives Mrs.. McCarthy, the legally 'quesne president, said that "stuwere in danger. They persisted, story of no special significance; separated wife of former y. S. dents exposed to Brother Jerry's that is, as just another /burglary. often thwarted, always exSenator and ex-presidential con· philosophy have learned more hausted. \ Bernstein and Woodward were tender Eugene McCarthy, arrived from him than they ever could In Public Interest young reporters, and their asin Rome ad'ter attending a "Con- have in the classroom." signment to the story was rouTheir story runs to the begin~ sultation on Sexism in the 1970s" "Our students have learned tine. They had not worked to- ning of the present year. But the in Berlin, sponsored, by the from him four virtues-simplicgether, and neither had much re- Watergate story did not stop gard .for the other. In fact, there there, and where it will stop no World Council of Churches June ity, honesty, love and humor," was a certain anti,pathy between one ,can tell. It might be thought, 15-21. At the Berlin conference Father McAnulty said. The presshe represented t,he U. S.. move- ,jdent described Brother Jerry as them. They had no knowledge therefore, that the book is simply . whatever of the inner workings a rehash of familiar material and ment called "Church' Womel1 a man without guile, totally honnot a complete account of the United," of which she is a vice est and the possessor of a keen of the White House. Few Tips whole matter. 'But it is not the president and one of the· first sense of humor "except when They took the assignment al- former, and it does not pretend four Catholics to be admitted to playing cards" at which he is its governing board. very skilled. -I l most gcudgingly. But. then, bit by to be the latter. bit, there surfaced details (such It is, rather, an exemplification as the money on the arrested of the press at work in the pubhurglars) which suggested that lic interest. As such, it deserves something more than small stuff and repays attention. The press was involved. The two reporters in this instance, and in the persons of the authors,' got behind began to dig. IINDUSTRIAL' and DO~ESTIC They did a huge amount of tel- the formidable facade of govephoning. They visited at their erment and found things which homes people who might. be were improper and which might sources of information. They de- have been fateful for our politveloped contacts in the govern- ical system .if undetected and ment. The tips they got were unchange'd. 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KNOW YOUR FAITH Who Needs Liberation 'I By GERARD A. POITEBAUM One thing is clear: The non· working wife is respectable in our society. The non-working husband isn't. The wife may choose to work or not to work outside the home. The husband doesn't enjoy this choice. He has to work, or he's thought to be a bum. In this sense, the husband, not the wife, needs to be lib· crated. So the focus of this arti. c1e on the non-working wife will be: How' can' she liberate her husband? For one thing, she can take the pressure of consumerism off of him which makes him work harder in order to make more money so that they can buy more things for themselves and their children. She doesn't r·elieve this pressure automatically by taking a job. Although this may be an alternative, it could backfire. Her working could make him feel even more pressured. Also, by taking on a job, she rUlls the risk of becoming herself enslaved. There are other, and less risky ways, of liberating husbands than by taking on a job. Boredom Wives can help to liberate their husbands by expanding their husband's intereHts beyond his job. This can be done by developing one's own interests and sharing these with the husband. Some wives take on volunteer work with the very young, the handicapped, the elderly, and children in schools. Such activi-

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ty both provides needed services ·for 'others and enriches the wife by broadening her exposure to people she might not otherwise meet. Other wives qevelop talents they may have in arts and crafts, dance, and other creative expressions. They expand their avenue of self-expression and their consciousness of life beyond the reaches of their vacuum cleaner. The non-working wife who does not exploit her chances of developing herself as a person eventually creates for h-erself and her husband a household full of boredom. Such a place is not very exciting to come home to. Eventually the husband realizes the narrowness of his life at work, that the meaning of his life is deeper than his productivity. If he turns to his spouse for meaning, and finds there an even narrower life, he is doubly enslaved, and soon begins to seek a way out . . . if not out of work, out of marriage. A husband can survive a dull job. He has little chance of surviving a dull wife. Detachment: Liberation All of this does not mean to place the entire responsibility of giving life meaning on .the wife. The intention is to point out that the wife who does not work for pay is in the enviable position of sustaining in the human commu. nity a spirit that cannot' be bought. This is not a variation Turn to Page Fourteen

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My poor, poor wife. She has never worked a day in her life. The two mothers in the kit- She wouldn't be so poor if she chen to whom I happened to had-nor so rich. She read mention this subject of the non- through the whole Encyclopedia working mother protested in uni- Brittanica, for instance, while son that they had never met any- she 'was nursing her bahies. body like that. The first point is: (Well, not the math part, she There is no such thing as a non- says.) Nor does she have any working mother, and the whole intention as far as I can tell of I idea and its implicatior{s are re- starting to work as soon as the sented by some of the finest last child has been raised. I can people on earth. think of a hundred jobs she would Still, it is understandable why be good at, really qualified for, in a society in which babies have but it is no go I am sure because a bad press, motherH would too. she will always have too many It follows that where there is things of her own to do-to give no respect' for babies, there is up her freedom to a job. She no respect for sh-eer motherhood just happens to be an unreconeither, for that kind of mother- structed, non-working mother, hood whose occupation is merely her own kind of liberated free mothering. woman. The whole ambiguous notion Wife-Mother of the non-working mother can Sometimes when I read that also be explained from another' point of view. The basically false this or that young thing is bored and insidious values we place being "just a wife and mother," on money in our society natural- I think of my wife and wonder ly demeans the work of the non- what the boredom is all about, working mother. Everybody where it's really at. Is it perhaps knows that ours is a money econ- a condition predating motheromy, and what is anything worth bood, a symptom of a materialthat cannot qualify for so much istic, ad-oriented, consumer-eduan hour, that cannot be meas- cated culture that can only fight ured in dollars and cents, that boredom with more acquisition? cannot lay claim to having been Does it reflect on being "wife bought and sold in the market- and mother" or on being unwillplace and reported on the income ing or unable to face the sheer tax return? How long can you reality of self and in the Chrisgo? The IRS isn't even interested. Turn to Page Fourteen

The Professional Mother -- Her Time Has Come Maureen used to teach skiing to retarded youngsters and she loved it but when her first child came she quit teaching. "I really wanted to stay home with young children and, of course: there was the guilty thing. The good mother felt guilty if she didn't stay home."

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She wiped the rim around the kitchen t8Jble and smiled, "But what happened? Now we're made to feel guilty if we're satisfied to stay home. We're caught between generations again." How well she said it. Thou· .sands of mothers are caught between the attitudes of two generations: One that says "motherhood is all" and the other that says "motherhood isn't enough." To further complicate things there's a third generation coming up. What's their future attitude toward motherhood likely to be? 'Few mothers are so exploited or so albandoned as the stay-athome mother today. She is relegated to the' lowest position on the prestige ladder by men and women alike. She is the one con· tent to wipe noses, clean spills and hear tattles 15 hours daily without complaint. "How can she stand it?" ask "with it" adults in disdain. Part of this attitude is back- . lash at the women's mags and TV serials which fraudulently portray the stay-at~home mother's life. So many girls are brought up on this kind of propaganda that when they discover Hfe at home isn't one long patio luncheon, they feel cheated. Or worse they feel failures at not being alble to produce tha.t kind of life. So they go to work where they can achieve a certain amount of success. Guilt Complex Forgetting the emotional apple pie and motherhood myth, let's ponder the real values of' the stay-at-home woman.' If society doesn't make her feel guilty about it, she's apt to be the single relaxed figure for children and husibands in an ever-fast paced culture. Courses in Transcendental Meditation are becoming popular at $200 a family to learn what these mothers already know: Slow down, enjoy, take time to smell the flowers. We working mothers who are tempted to patronize our peers at home need to tbe made aware of a few truths. Without the stay-at-home mother, we would be helpless. We depend upon her for bed and sympathy when our children are sick. We expect her to be at home to meet our children after school-an opportunity she wouldn't miss. We ex-

STAY-AT-HOME MOTHER: "If society doesn't make her (the stay-at-home woman) feel guilty about it, she's apt to be the single relaxed figure for children and husbands in an ever-fast paced culture." A mother consoles a tearful child. NC Photo. pect her to be den mother for OUR boys, collect cancer funds for OUR community, and run the school library for OUR cnildren. T·hen we hestow on her the greatest insult-a second-class status in the eyes of her children. She can't quite make it out there in the world, we .Imply, so she's left at home to mother. Sociologist Leonard Benson points out "... the woman ~ho 'makes it' in the ma.le stronghold is clearly the prototype for the brightest and most highly motivated teenage girls today, and the trend is more of the same." ProfE:ssional Parenthood If the trend is such, we need no crystal hall to tell us the future image of motherhood. Either

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Continued from Page Thirteen Toner's suggestion of professiimal parenthood in "Future Shock" is needed now. The stayat-home mother should be con-, sidered a professional mother who achieves where many bio. logical mothers cann<;>t. She has certain attr~butes missing in many working mothers: patience, contentment, listenability, a sense of leisure, and constancy. As a professiQnal, she deserves a professional salary and prestige. She should ibe paid well for her services, not as babysitter but as para-professional. She should be paid for scouting and schooling activities ,by the working mQther who hasn't enough time to volunteer but has enough to enroll her children. ' , All mothers should not stay home, .particularly tho,se who are , poor and those who are unwill"'j ing mothers. But good mothers ;'1 should stay home if they want . to without being labeled secondrate. H we accord the mother at home the professional status she deser-ves she will be able to take new pride in h~r role. She can stop apologizing for "just mothering" the nation's children and can serve as a model for our she VALIANT WOMAN: "Still it is understandable why girls who really do see a future in a society in which babies pave a Qad press, mothers ·in the home. It depends on would too." A young mother ~arries her baby along in a whether or not we're willing to back pack, NC ·Photo. stop exploiting her.

WASHINGTON (NC) - "The pand their size and destructive basic question of the post-mod- power. ern age is whether we can de· Vietnam Experience velop the moral capacity to control the power we have created," "The dynamism at work is the Cardinal John Krol of Philadel- logic of '<Ieterrence, but this logic phia told the inaugural meeting ,has its moral and. political here of an ecumenical study limits." group on warfare. The second motivating force Sponsored by the U. S. Cath- which prompted the convening olic Conference (USCC), the new of the study group,he said, was study 'group on International the "Vietnam experience." Laws of Warfare heard Cardinal That war/ Cardinal Krolsaid, Krol, president of USCC, address raised questrons concerning the the topics of international law basic reasons for the conflict and and the morality of modern war- t'he manner in which the war fare, the two topics the study was fought. 'group will be most concerned Those were questioned, he exwith. plained, because of the large This question, he said, is espe- number of civilian casualties, the cially important in light of the use of anti-personnel weapons massive destructive power repre- and the trend toward totally sented by nuclear weapons, mechanized warfare. which are usurping resources "The questions touch the prinwhich could be used to remove ciple of proportionality; the pro- I the causes of war, injustice. tection of civilian life and the Establishment of the study political pur-poses ,,,,~~or which group, Cardinal Krol noted, force can he used he stated. stemmed from two motivating "Our purpose is not' to have .the causes. symposium deal principally with lihe first, he pointed out, was Vietnam: 'but to analyze the to prevent nuclear weapons from kinds of moral -issues which unever being used. conventional wal'faTe poses." "Statesmen, analysts and plain people all. acknowledge that no rational political purpose could ever :be served .by breaking the ELECTRICAL • • • nuclear barrier," the cardinal Contractors Jesus' own ~lVords a mother hen Continued from Page Thirteen noted. "Yet, ,continue not only to CHICAGO (NC)-Father James "gat,hering her chicks under her produce Qur weapons but to ex· F. Maloney, a former editor, has tian sense, giving of oneself? wings." Still, the question of nonbeen elected provincial superior True, Jesus spoke of God as of the Claretian Fathers' eastern working mothers raises two his :Father, which .He really was, ,basic considerations: 1) Some province. but Mary was' His real' mother. mothers really have to work outContinued from Page Thirteen An associate pastor of Our The human mother was much on the, stupid observation one LadX of Guadalupe ,Church in side the home, to be gainfully more important to "the economy that is, to have a job employed, . often hears expressed: that a Chicago, Father Maloney was of the incarnation" than the or for the sake of supporting 944 County St. husband could never afford to elected ,at a meeting or'. the human father. New Bedford , pay his wife for the work she Claretian provincial chapter, in helping to support' the family,' 'It is true that Jesus was a or even for the sake of their own 992-0560 : does. That is demeaning. It is St. Louis. man, Son of God who revealed typical of the mentality that val·Born in Chicago on July 9, sanity. It is hard to argue with ues a person for what he pro- 1933, Father 'Maloney was ed- any of that. 2) Some mothers and God to us as "our Father," but duces, and his product for what ucated at the Catholic Univer- a segment of women generally there is no sex in God and God it ,brings in the marketplace. The shy of America, Washington, feel that a job is necessary in is Mother too: "This, then, is See Us First person who does not work for D. C. He was .ordained on June order to he equal to' men, to be what I pray, kneeling before the pay sustains in the community II, 1960, and from 1960 through Hberated, to be independent, to Father, from whom, every family, a spirit without which we could 1970, he was codirector of S1. escape second-class citizenship. whether spiritual or natural, See Us Last not survive: the spirit of cele· Jude League and the National Women's Hb is a complex issue, takes its name." (Eph 3:14-15) we, all know, and it is necesas bration. It is this spirit -people Shrine of S1. Jude at Our Lady of But See Us follow when they take a holiday Guadalupe Church where he also sary to sift it out carefully in . Urges Cooperation order to talk about it at all. . from work that is income pro- served as an associate pastor. Who is there with soul so dead ducing. In 1971-1972 Father Maloney who would not want women lib- Among Nations BELMONT (NC) - Political That is the character of cele- was an associate pastor of S1. erated if they are enslaved? Who bration: people entering into non- Joseph Church in Amarillo, Tex. would not want his daughter to integrity at home and internaproductive activity in the sense returning to Our Lady of Guada- be able to be a'lawyer or doctor tional cooperation abroad are that an income-producing or tim- lupe Church in 1973. He has if ,she wants to, just as much as major challenges to U;S. leadergible commodity is its outcome served as editor of Todayand as a son? Still, 'being wives and ship, Archbishop Joseph L. Berand its purpose. In celebration, an associate editor of U. S. Cath- mothers, husbands and fathers is . nardin of Cincinnati told the people set aside the business of oBc, national Catholic magazines so essential to'being human. Isn't 1974 graduating class at Belmont Abbey College here. making deals, of assuring published by the Claretians. the word "liberated" from mothPreaching the baccalaureate Also elected at the chapter erhood-and, yes, fatherhood too oneself a return for services rensermon at the Benedictine coldered. People who are in touch meeting in S1. Louis were four -:-mutilating? lege, the archbishop urged grad1001 Kings with this spirit invest themselves consuftors who, with Father Ma... Valiant Woman ,uates to view meeting the chalwith no strings attached. Cele- loney, will comprise the ClareWhat we need to do most of. bration has no goals to achieve. tian provincial government: Fa- all is restore to woman - wife lenges as an application of NEW BEDFORD Christ's commandment of love. It enjoys its own' worth, as does thers Severin Lopez, Mark Brumand mother-the dignity which "Christ's new ,commandment: the person enjoy his own worth. mel, Martin Kirk and Joseph Scripture from the beginning to love one another, constitutes a Peplansky. Open Evenings end accords to her, often with new challenge to every new age The person who works without nuances of pre,-eminence over \ of Christian people," he said, pay constantly reminds us that ....................... man: Adam is men~ly "of the neither the work nor the product Passionists Reelect 11II1II1II1II1II1II1I11"'11"'11"'1.1"'1111""III~II"''''IUIUIIIII'"IUllllUllUIIIU11111111I111I11111111I11I1 earth," but Eve is the "mother of one's effort describe the value of all living." The valiant woman of the person. Rather, the treas- . Eastern Provincial UNION CITY (NC)-Passion- comes to us as a v~ry industrious, ure valued is the person and the people served, human life itself. ist Father Flavian Dougherty has ingenious, capable, seLf-sufficient, In celebration, we articulate our been reelected provincial of the non-working wife and mother, belief in life. We detach our- Eastern Province of the Passion- while her husband \IDerely sits ======' Dispensing Optician selves from gainful activities. ist congregation with headquar- among the senators in the gates. . When the sacred writer Such detachment can be a lib· ters here. ,Father Dougherty's new term wanted to draw us a picture of erating influence on those who cling to the style of work which will be for four years after an God's concern and love, it was demands full pay for services init.iai six-year term. He -is a in comparison to mothers: a performed. 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New Times Article Shows Anti-Catholic Bias Lives

A number of people are not prepared to believe that anti-Catholic bigotry is still strong in American society. Let me cite two recent articles that should eliminate any doubt. I shall discuss one here and the other in a subsequent column. In the leftist. journal "New Times" of May 17, a to be married men and have a family more than the Irish." character named Robert An- Anson adds, in a non sequitur son produced a piece called that would surely be applied to

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In it, he asserts, among other things, that "Catholic lobbying applied much of the grease on

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the slippery slope that led to Vietnam. Few people remember that Ngo Dinh Diem was an obscure exile living in a Maryknoll seminary in New York. until Francis Cardinal Spellman made the right introductions to John Foster Dulles. One can also wonder what the course of U, S. involvement in Vietnam would have been had most of the 9,000 refugees who left North Vietnam in 1954 been Buddhist rather than Catholic." Mr. Anson (whose credentials, according to "New Times," are that he went to Notre Dame and that he is Irish) is a slippery fellow. He doesn't come right out and say that the Catholic hierarchy got us into the war, he merely broadly hints at it-and a hint is all the elitists who edit and read "New Times" need, since they already have a strong propensity to see Catholic plots. lurking all around the environment. In fact, there is l~bsolutely ~o evidence in any of the published studies - David Halberstam's book, the Pentagon Papers, etc. -of any Catholic hierarchical influence on the long line of tragic Vietanam decisions. On the contrary, most of those decisions were made by elitist intellectuals who were a generation older than the "New Tin'ies" crowd.

no other group in American society, "In short, since Puerto Ricans are Latins, they must be lovers. And the Irish Church has no room for lovers." Mind you, he is saying that the celibate tra: dition is not an ancient and powerful one in Spanish Catholicism, and the Irish celibate clergy do not know how to love. Nasty Crack 'Presumably, Irish married laity are not lovers either-despite evidence that levels of husbandwife interaction are higher among the Irish thll11 among other ethnic groups and despite the whole bawdy tradition of Irish culture (for which see Bryan Merryman's "The Midnight Court" or the writings of George Moore). Again we have the clever turn of the phrase, the calculated'smear, the nasty crack well designed to sell an article to the nativist !bigots who run "New Times." . And, "American Catholicism today is as Irish as Catholicism has always been: conservative, intensely nationalistic, puritanical, obsessed with the continuing struggle between absolute good and absolute evil." The number of wild comments in that sentence is mind-boggling. Catholicism has always been Irish? That will come as quite a surprise to the Roman Curia and to the French and German intellectuals. Maybe he means American Catholicism? This will come as very interesting news indeed in the chancery offices of the archdioceses of Philadelphia and Boston, to say nothing of Brooklyn and Cincinnati. And nothing has changed in American Catholicism? Good heavens, where has Mr. Anson been for tbz past ten years? ~ppalling

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And the Irish conservative? Compared to whom? Presumably compared to the intellectuals and Deliberate Smear would-be intellectuals on "New Furthermore, there is substan- Times," since when the Irish are tial evidence in the research of compared with every other Professor James Wright, of the American reIigio-ethnic group University of Massachusetts, that they are more liberal on almost Catholics were more like.!y than every statistical measure availthe average American to oppose路 able. They have also been the the war in Vietnam from the be- leaders of the liberal reform ginning. My own research shows movement within the Church. that Irish Catholic:s were partic- One need only mention names ularly strong in their opposition like O'Gara, Callahan, Egan, Higgins, Berrigan, Ryan~ Muldoon, to the war. Mr. Anson has engaged in a Ireland, Keane, England to prove smear-a deliberate smear of the that Mr. Anson doesn't know sort that the late Senator Joseph what he is talking about. Still, he gets printed in "New McCarthy practiced. Because some of the South Vietnamese Times." I repeat, could anyone are Catholic and hecause Cardi- write an article about blacks or nal Spellman knew Diem, the Jews that reveals such appalling II'ish Catholic Church is respon- ignorance and still get published sible for the Vietnam war. I can in an elite journal? just imagine "Ne,w Times" writIf that isn't prejudice and biging something like that about otry, then those traits just don't blacks or Jews. exist in American society any He quotes a priest as saying more. of Latino Catholics, "They like 漏 1974 yniversal Press Synd'c'te

SOC(:ER "WORSHIPERS": Soccer followers are known as a special breed of passion~ ate fans, who are occasionally accused of worshiping their favorite sport. Although this may look like the ultimate expression of this worship at the World Cup championships in Frankfurt, West Germany, actually it is a closeup of part of a field formation by students. They arranged their bodies to form the emblem of the games. NC Photo.

Missionary1s Beatification Cause Opened VATICAN CITY (NC) - The beatification cause of an Italian missionary priest who died in 1952 and founded a worldwide organization of priests united to help the missions with prayers and donations has been opened solemnly at Naples. The cause of Father Paolo Manna, a member of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.), was opened by Cardinal Corrado Ursi of Naples in the presence of Brazilian Cardinal Agnelo Rossi, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Father Manna is remembered mainly for his founding of the Missionary Union of the Clergy in 1916, which had as its goal the arousing of deep missionary zeal in priests. The new initiative met with ea,rly success and quickly spread to most Catholic nations outside of Italy. In 1956, four years after Father Manna's death, Pope Pius XI'I raised the union to the status of a pontifical society which is today known as the Pontifical Missionary Union, Father Manna was born at Avellino, near Naples, on Jan. 16, 1872. At the age of 17, he entered the Salvatorian Congregation and began studying for the priesthood in Rome. Poor health, however, required him to leave the Salvatorians and during his recovery he became determined to work as a missionary. As a result, he entered the Milan Foreign Mission Society, which later became the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions. He was ordained at the age of 22.

In 1895, he was sent to Burma a'nd worked among the Ghekkus and Balms for 12 years despite poor health. Twice he was forced to return to Italy for medical treament, and in 1907 had to return permanently because. of tuberculosis. The rest of his life was devoted to stimulating interest in and support for missionaries in the field.

thus establishing the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions. In 1937, the Vatican's missionary congregation set up an international secretariat of the missionary union and appointed Fa路 ther Manna as its first general secretary. In spite of his fragile health, Father Manna lived to the age of 80, dying on Sept. 15. 1952, in Naples.

He proposed the idea for the for-maHon of a Missionary Union of the Clergy as one means of gaining the interest and active aid of' priests throughout the world. Pope Benedict XV approved the statutes of Father Manna's union on Oct. 23, 1916. In 1924, Father Manna was elected superior general of the Milan Foreign Missionary Society and two years 'iater he obtained permission from Pope Pius XI to unify it with another group of priests located in Rome

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Drug Treatment Program Studied At Georgetown WASH1NGTON (NC)--A fam· i1y crisis may trigger drug abuse in many young offenders, ac· cording to a recent study of a drug treatment program by Georgetown University here. .or. Lil'ian R. Winer, clinical instrudor in psychiatry at Georgetown, s.aid: "We found that 70 per cent of the graduates of the program and 61 per cent of the dropouts identified a family crisis as occurring within the two years before their initial drug abuse." Although the study does not draw conclusive results, Dr. Winer expressed her hope that continued study . would define the possible relationship a little more clearly. . The study followed up and measured the effectiveness of treatment on a group of suburban, upper middle class, drug abusers, the majority of whom were white. The individual studied had taken part in the Crossroads Drug Abuse Treatment Program in Fairfax County, Va., sometime between 19.70 and 1973. The majority has used heroin and all, were users of more than NEW MAJORETTES: These lassies will keep the batons twirling at FeehaJ) High one hard drug such as LSD, am-, phetamine, cocaine, methadone. School, Attleboro, for coming school year. From left, front row, Cheryl Viens, first lieuOther results of the study tenant; Carol Sedlak, head majorette; Terry Castro. Center row, Rae Ann Gilmore, first showed: . lieutenant of drill team; Lynn Mondor; Carol Moore, head of drill team. Back row, Do-Parents of graduates and lores McDonagli,Rose Mary Healy, Julie Zachman, Michelle Nadeen. dropouts o( the program were simBar in background and use of alcohol and drugs, but the parents of graduates were better educated. VATICAN CITY (NC) - ,The tion.That is 'why we encourage this is a qwestion of honesty National Need disappearance of Catholic educa- you to strive so that Catholic toward the parents and towa~d schools may be seen as places of the students." , -None of the grandparents of tion "would be an immense encounter -for those who want to the graduates abused drugs or loss," Pope Paul VI said here. The Pope then voiced what he "With its millions of students, bear witness to Christian values caHed "a second conviction, alcohol, but 21 per cent of the dropouts had a grandparent who Catholic education today renders in all education. linked to the preceding one," he services so special that everyhad abused aloohol 'or drugs. "This demands that the per- said: -Graduates tended to be old- body can see - and especially sons placed above such institu· "In these times when sciener, married, high school gradu. Christians-that its disappear- tions be able to choose their tific humanism threatens to cre· ates; in contrast to the younger, ance would be an immense loss," teaching personnel. A Christian ate a spiritua'l void, the purpose single, high'schoOil dropouts who Jhe Pope told Christian edNca- school must have Christian of Catholic education must be ', were dropout!i of the Crossroads tors. teachers and must he solicitous maintained with unfaIling vigto partic· He was speaking program. for their permanent formation: ilance. -Treatment appeared to be ipants in the ninth international most effective for those who congress of the Internatior:tal were self-referred, but the court Office of Catholic Education. He warned against slogans referred individuals also showed branding Catholic education as improved patterns of drug abuse. olass·conscious, mediocre,' ,or "Most people assume that drug claiming that it tends to preserve treatment programs are work- society's defects. ing," Dr. Winer said. "But there' Some critics of Catholic is a national need to knoW' i,f schools in the United States such programs really are being have charged that parochial effective or if we;re whistling in schools have become havens for the dark ana need to change." whites trying to escape desegreThe'study was undertaken by gation efforts. Some haveaISo Georgetown's F~mily Division of charged that because of increasthe Departme,nt of Psychiatry. ing tuitions only the wealthy will be able to attend Catholic. schools. Stresses Hertiage "Rejection of any Chr,istian SOUTH BEND (NC) - Cardi- institution betrays a false and nal Jozsef Mindszenty, former dangerous view of the Church cif primate of Hungary, urged Hun- Christ," he continued. garian-Americans here not to for"Must we say again here that get their language or cultul'a.[ we rightly appreciate the work heritage. The 82·year-old cardi- accomplished by so many Chris· nal recently removed by POjle tians in state education in variPaul VI as archbishop of Eszter· ous nations? But we equally em~ gom, also warned the' several phasize that pluralism in educa· hundred parishioners from two tion is' part of the logic of the predominantly Hungarian-Ameri- cultural pluralism of our civiliza~ can churches here that parishes with ethnic backgrounds may be . People dying out. He further emphasized The world is only peopled to that he is concerned about human rights, rather than rights of people heaven. Hungarians only. -St. Francis de Sales

Pope Paul Defends 'Catholic Edlucation

EATON CENTER (NC) - An Episcopal clergyman who describes himself as a recovering aicoholic told a meeting here in New Hampshire on problem drinking that churches must plan strategies to prevent abuse of alcohol: Episcopalian Father David A. Works, ,executive vice-president of Boston's North Conway Institute, an ecumenical research and action association that sponsored the meeting, told religious lead· ers, medical and mental health professionals, educators and gov· ernment experts that "we have lived through the drug scare, now we are ready to clarify some answers on the nation's number one drug issue-problem drink· ing." Father Works said that, in a sense, medical and religious com· munities have "succeeded too wel1'~ in informing the public of .problem drinking. "We have educated the public to understand that alcoholism is a disease, not a sin or a crime," he said. However, "people now think that there is no more problem, that we can turn it all over to the government rehabilitation fa· cilities or to Alcoholics Anonymous," he emphasized.

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Named to Council SPOKANE (NC) - President . Nixon has appointed Father Michael O'Neill, superintendent of education for the Diocese of Spo-. kane, to a national advisory council on innovative education. Father O'Neill was named to a three-year term on the 12member N~tional Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services, whose task is to advise, the President and Congress on the operation of programs funded by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Title III provides approximately $150 mil· Hon a year for innovative educa· tional programs. The Spokane priest will be the only non-public school member on the· council.

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