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Bishop To Portugal For Migrant Talks

An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 6, 1972 PRICE 10¢ Vol. 16, No. 27 © 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per year

Professional in CCD' Still Needs Volunteer LOUISVILLE (NC) - While religious education programs are using more professionals, the parish CCD volunteer is not on the way out, according to a top religious education official.

"We need total participation" in religious education, Father Charles C. McDonald said in an interview here. "I see professionals becoming managers of teams and ,working with volunteers. I see professionals enabling volunteers to become more effective and to have a voice in religious education."

Father McDonald, a priest of the Louisville diocese, is director of the U.S. Catholic Conference's Division of Religious Education-CCD. Father McDonald was named to his new post in June after serving for a year and a half as executive secretary of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of CCD in Washington.

Discussing religious education needs across the country, Father McDonald said a top priority on the diocesan level is "to develop more systematic organization in order to exert more control over the situation and to enable volunteers to be more effective."

Local offices "seem to be too concerned with production of services," he said. "They should be more concerned about organization of people . . . trying to

Pope Paul Plans To Stay in Role VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has firmly squelched news reports that Pope Paul VI plans to retire when he becomes 75 years old in September.

Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, papal ~ndersecretary of state and intimate aide of Pope Paul, authoritatively denied retirement plans in an interview on Vatican Radio.

"The Pope has never given any reason to think that he would retire at the age of 75," said Archbishop Benelli. "Moreover, he has declared expressly that he will not 'do so."

Archbishop Benelli told the Vatican Radio interviewer: "I am not here to repeat the various reasons why the Pope considers it his duty to remain at his post as '-,the 'Servant of the Servant Turn to Page Two

mobilize resources in the community."

Other needs he cited are "dealing constructively with the polarization that exists" among people and a better "integration of liturgy and catechetics."

Concerning polarization, Father McDonald said reli'gious edu-, cation is "a very hot focal point of the struggle taking place in society at large." What is needed, he continued, is "reconciliation and interplay . . . a matter of where you don't alienate a lot of people."

Father Mc'Donald said development of specific programs is not foremost in his thinking now.' "I would like to bring to the national scene the involvement we have created" through the National Conference of Diocesan Directors of CCD, he commented.

He said the Vatican's General Catechetical Directory, published last year, refers to local religious Turn to Page Two

TO VISIT PORTUGAL: Bishop Cronin details itinerary of his trip to the Azores, Terceira and Lisbon to his traveling companions, Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, center, pastor of St. John of God Parish, Somerset and Vicar General of the Diocese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at CoyleCassidy High School and assistant at St. Anthony's Parish, ' both in Taunton.

High Court Plans Major Review WASHINGTON (NC)-The Supreme Court has set the stage for a major review of the nation's obscenity laws next October.

The review, involving six different cases, will attempt to an-

swer such questions as: Should a national standard take precedence over state standards in the area of obscen, ity?

Can a state close theaters showing "adult" films?

Fall River Man to Africa For Catholic Relief Work James M. Harkin, the son of Thomas F. and Alice Shaw Harkin of 22 Byron St., Fall River and members of St. Patrick's has been assigned parish overseas duty with Catholic Relief Services in Senegal, West Africa, Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of the American Catholic overseas aid agency, announced here today.

He will be accompanied by his wife, the former Lucille Boilard of St. Louis de France Parish, Swansea. Mrs, Harkin is graduate of Regis College, Weston and received a master's degree from Tulane University, New Orleans. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Emile Boilard of 110 Buffington St., Swansea.

Harkin, who currently resides in Syracuse, will begin his new program that benefits some 50,000 impove;ished men, women and children each year throughout Senegal. .

His duties will include the supervision of food, clothing am~ medicine distribution programs.

He will also organize and im-

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will go to Portugal next week to at· tend meetings of the Portuguese Episcopal Migration Commission which will discuss the pastoral care of Portuguese migrating to the United States., The meetings ,will take place on July 13 in Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, and on July 17 in San Miguel, Azores. Called by Most Rev. Antonio dos Reis Rodrigues, Bishop of Mandarsuma, the meet· ings are concerned with Portuguese emigration to the United States and Canada and will in· quire into the possibilities of mutual collaboration in their ,pastoral care. Host Bishop will be Most Rev. Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho, Bishop of Angra. It is expected that bishops or their representatives from areas throughout the United States and Canada that have large Portuguese settlements will attend.

Bishop Cronin will be accom· panied by Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor of St. John of God Church, Somerset, and Vicar General of the Fall River Dio-_ cese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton.

En route home, the Bishop and his traveling companions will visit continental Portugal.

plement socio-economic d~vel­ opment projects which provide work and training in skills that help the needy to help themselves toward, future economic viability and improved living standards.

JAMES M. HARKIN

Harkin served previously in Senegal from August, 1968, to July, 1970, with the U.S. Peace Corps, and after a year as a teacher in New Orleans, he enrolled at Syracuse University as a Maxwell Fellowship student.

He received his bachelor of arts degree, with magna cum laude honors, from Providence College in 1968.

Catholic Relief Services, the largest private voluntary overseas aid agency in the world, conducts programs in 70 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 30 million needy people, of all races and religions, benefit from the agency's programs each year.

Mr. Harkin has four sisters.

They are Mrs. Mary Caron of Berkeley, Miss Ann M., a senior at Roger Williams College; Kathleen A., a sophomore at Fordham University; Joan C:, a freshman at' University of Massachusetts.

He has also one brother, Thorn· as F. Harkin, Jr., a junior at Durfee High School.

Can the federal government allow interstat~ shipment of obscene material regardless of whether it is to be sold or used privately by the shipper?

Can the government seize material as obscene if it was imported for the private use of the importer only?

The proposal for an all-out review of the nation's obscenity laws stems from several unsettled court cases, many of which involve disagreements between state and 'federal interpretations of the same law. In Georgia and Virginia suits have challenged the state's authority to condemn books and films felt to be obscene if that material is not shown to juvenile audiences.

An even larger question has come from CaHfornia: what community's morality is to be used as the community standard to be used in judging what is obscene?

Further complications in the obscenity dispute have arisen when the Justice Department disagreed with a Los Angeles court decision that it is not illegal to possess obscene material for private use. The federal government maintains that it has the right to seize the material but does not have the right to punish the owner.

In Wisconsin, another statefederal dispute has arisen in ,the case of interstate transport of "obscene" materials. A WIsconsin court dismissed a case involving the transportation of 83 obscene films from California.

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See Uses Bishop Selection Rules

Votic~n Observers to Participate In Co~ference on Security

CINCINNATI (NC) ~ For the first time, a U.S. diocese is using the new Vatican guidelines for consultation on the appointment of a new bishop.

The process of finding a successor for the late Archbishop Paul Leibold of Cincinnati is secret. ' Referring to the gUldeiines published in MIlY, Msgr. August J. Kramer, interim administrator of the archdiocese, said "we have illready set some of this in motion."

But he told the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council everyone involved in the consultation is required to keep the matter secret.

The Vatican document declares that secrecy ''is demanded by the . very nature of the matter and by the respect due to the· persons being considered."

Msgr.Kramer also told the council that the consulting is to be done "individually, not collectively;" and that the effort is not so much to obtain a list of names but to determine the needs of the diocese arid the type of person qualified to fulfill them.

The report of his. consultations will be given to the apostolic delegate in the United States, Archbishop Luigi Raimondi.

When a bishop is to· be appointed, the Vatican document says, "the poptifical representative," who in this instance is the apostolic delegate, asks the adminis-' trator of the diocese "for a full and careful report on the condition and the needs of the diocese. The 'clergy and laity" especially through their canonically established representative bodies, may also be consulted, as well as Religious. "

ROME (NC)-Vatican; obser- could produce "some visible revers will Iparticipate in the suIts which can contribute conConference on Security and cretely to. international security Cooperation in Europe, scheduled and encourage the efforts to make the conference itself a first to be heldtnext year.

Archbish p Agost.i:lO ~asaroli, in a series of similar gatherings."

"Archbishop Casaroli said the secretary 0 the Vatican s. <;:ouncil for the ublic Affairs of the- conference should spell out a Church, in ~n interview with tht;! balanced arms reduction "for all Daily. Amirican, an English- European countries and all types language. a.per pu?lished in of arms," as well as reaffirm "at ,Rome, sa1d that Vatican repre- the same time that the disarmasentatives are expected to take ment process must not produce part in the I.prepar~to~y ~eeting 'imbalances' to the detriment of to be held in Helsmkl, Fmland, . any participant or group of parlater this y~ar, as well as in the ticipants." coriferen~e ftself. .. " .The Vatican diplomat also called Archblshqp Casaroli IS among for a."study of the means to the. Vaticanis top diplo~a~ic n~- avoid or solv<e conflicts." Noting gO~lators ard a specI~lIstm that in the past guarantees to NEW BEDFORD SE:RRANS HONOR BISHOP: PrinE~stern E~ropeall affairs. H.e. respect other countries' indepen- ~ipals present at the club's annual event of honoring Most said he thllkS that the summit dence or to refrain from inter. Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Ordinary of ~he Diocese of Fall River, meeting in Mosc?w. a~d the ferring with internal affairs have. were: Atty. Maurice F. Downey, outgoing president·, Bishop agreement 011, limitatIOn of been ignored, he said: uc1ea.r arms has "H~wever often such pledges' Cronin" the honored guest; Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, strategic helped c.rea~e a climate favorable may have been broken in the ,AWdliaryBishop of Fall Ftiver and pastor of St. Lawrlence's to holdmg a E~ropea~ confer· past, the Holy See feels that it' Parish, ,New Bedford; Clinton Rimmer, newly elected presi~:~: to d~ I with major prob- would be, niost helpful if the d~nt. ' . '. .. .conference approved an 'ethical The archblshop warned agamst code' of int fib h . expecting erna IOna e aVlOr. 0 much from t h e " conferenc.e, which has had the Such a d~cument C.OU~d h~ve warm supp rt of most commu- a moral and also a practical ImToronto Shoppers' Drop-i-n Retreat' nist countriJs in Europe. He said pact, particu!~rly if drafted. in that disappdintment miglit result rather specific t~rms which From Downtown Bustle if pepple etpect too much. "In would also take m~o account TORONTO (NC) - The Shop"Our society is pretty,' comview of th~ different political .~ome rece~~ sad expenences here . pers' Drop-In downtown Toronto mercial," he said. "And it is im- regimes prJvailing in Western m Europe. ' is like an old-fashioned "comer portant for people to see themand in .'Eas~ern Europe, respecstore." selves as people." tively, the limpact and conse· It has an informal.atmosphere, The Capuchin priest and his quences co~ld not be the same everyone is known by his first volunteers try to show about 50 on both sides," he said. name, and there's a sympathetic people who drop in five days a 'E~< ieal Code', .

If the c nference, however, WASHINGTON (NCr - Pope ear when someone wants to talk week what Christian living is all were well repare.d, he said, it Paul VI has accepted the resig- about his· problems. about and that others believe in nation ,of Bishop Albert L. Fletch· Capuchin Father Joseph M.ac· them. He tries to build hope and n er, 75, of Little Rock, Ark., for Donald describes his drop-in as seCurity into the people he works reasons of health and age and "a retreat" from the bustling me -with.

Continuetl from Page One named ,as his successor Msgr. of Yonge Street, one of the ·city's Father MacDonald, a shy but friendly man of 38, makes visieducation ohices as being part Andrew McDonald, vicar general busy commercial thoroughfares. of the "diodesan curia," adding of the Savanriah, Ga., diocese.

And in his contacts with visi~ tors welcome with a cup of cof"this is the brganization through The resignation and appoint- tors he tries to encourage in fee or tea.

Seven years a priest, he has . which he (the bishop) teaches." ment were announced hereby them a sense ~f worth,. . . as a "A lot ofl work needs to be Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, ap- person, not as an item of com- taught high school, worked at the Good Shepherd Refuge, been done" to d~velop this, Father ostolic delegate in the United' mercialism.. chaplain at the Port of Toronto, McDonald said, since in rriany States. and has spent three years at Bishop-elect McDonald, 48, is cases now the religious educaPla~ls Shoppers' Drop-in. tion office is not considered to a native of Savannah,where he be part of the "diocesan curia." attended Marist Grammar School.

Continued from Page One He said he believes that in the He said he OUld like to build He studieeJ ·at seminaries in Bal- of God'even after having reach- Church "we stress the social this idea at the national level timore, the Catholic University ed 75 years of age."

Gospel too much." Priests, be HY ANNIS 775-0684 'and also fatilitate dialogue be. of America in Washington, D.C., The archbishop, one of- the top said, generally, try to help people South Yarmouth 398-2201 tween bishops and religious edu-· and the Lateran University in officials of the papal secretariat socially. He sees himself more 'Harwich Port 432-0$9:1 cation directprs.

Rome, whre he· earned a doctor· of state, said he thought it ve,ry as an evangelist.

Father MfDonald said there ate in canon law. He was or- strange that rumors continue to "I preach and I pray," he says. now "seems ~o be a growing sup- dained in .1948, has held a vari- circulate about the possibility of , "I can identify with those I'm C~ port" for C~D at the local level. 'ety of diocesan posts and also the popes retirement. "The,se helping-I'm not a case worker.

Inc. Diocesan dir ctors, he added, are ' served as pastor of Blessed Sac- rumors have never had any I try to re·create and' re-chal"becoming c ncerned about nat- rament Church since 1963; lenge. foundation," he declared.

Funeral Service" ional matte IS" and they "will Bishop 'Fletcher, the first na· "The answer is with the Lord.

The 51-year-old archbishop is Edward F. Carney have to stand togethe'r to exert tive Arkansan ever named a bish· among the most influential pre- We. should introduce people to 549 County Street influence on] religious education op, 'was borni in Little Rock , the Lor.d. It is a good thing the New Bedford 999·6222 in the futur . " , "where he attended college and lates in ·the Vatican, a member Church is chang'ing-where there the seminary. He' was ordained of the inner' circle of advisers· is life there is change.

Serving the area since 1921 . ,in 1920. He served as president and aides to Pope Paul and has N,crol~gy of Little Rock College until 1925 a reputation of never sayIng anyULY 7 and then taught theology at St. thing publicly without having fully weighed its consequences.

Rev. Jam~s E. Lynch, 1965, John's Seminary until 1939, , Asked about the Pope's 'health, First pastorj St. Joan of Arc, when he was named auxiiiary Orleans. ' bishop of Little Rock. He became the archbishop said that "Ule. ULY 8 bishop in 194El on the death of Pope is very well . . . The intense activity he carries on every Bishop John B. Morris. .

SERVING ALL FAITHS Bishop Fletcher will continue day is the best proof, and it can Rev. Edward J. Murphy, 1887, as administrator of the diocese easily be verified, of his excellent Pastor, St. ~ary, Fall River, , JpLY 10 until Bishop-elect McDonald's health."

Speculation on the possible reRev. Pie ·Marie Berard, O.P., installation. tirement 'of Pope Paul has heen frequ.ently .aired in the press for Aid to Burundi the P;ist several years, despite NEW YORK (NC)-The Cath- persistent denials from Vatican . Sumner James Waring, Inc./Thomas J. Ashton & Son, Inc. olic Medical Mission Board here officials.

C:ITY LOCATIONS 'has donated medical supplies The'rumors started in 19E16 Second Class ptstage Paid at Fall River, 178 Winter St./466 North Main St.. Fall River Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 worth $10,784 for victims of when he implemented norms pubHighland Avenue, Fall River. Mass. 02722 SUEIURBAN LOCATION' tribal fighting in· the African licly recommending that bishops by the Catholic P 5S of the Diocese of Fall 189 Gardners Neck Road, Swansea, River. SUbscriPti01 price by mail, postpaid nation of Burundi: . retire ,at the age of 75. ' $4.00 ,per YUl., .

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Growth, of SMU's, 'School of Nursing Due to Spirit of Domicion Nun She is a Burgundian.

When she laughs - which is often - her eyes reflect the warmth of the late August sun that ripened the grapes in the v~neyards of her native "la belle France." When she walkswhich is usually fast - she strides with the enthusiasm of a Gallic miss anticipating the excitement of the village wine festival. When she talks-in accents that conjure images of poplar - lined country lanes and names like Dijon, Chalon, and Nuits St. Georges-she bubbles like the sparkling spirit that bears the name of her birthplace.

She is also a nun, and as American as a chocolate cakewith a prayer candle on it. She owns a dog which she did not name Cognac." To prove her Americanization, she calls i~, "Whiskey."

Nearly any day she can be seen, white and black habit ·flying, hurrying across the campus of Southeastern Massachusetts University to her office on the third (Ioor of the Administration Building. Sister Madeleine Clemmence Vaillot, Dean of SMU's College of Nursing, is a lady on the move.

Almost single handedly this petite package of dynamism brought the College of Nursing from a scarely noticeable bandage on the burgeoning body of the young University to a viable factor in its educational process.

It has grown since 1968 from four transfer biology students to an enrollment of 119 today.

This spring, Sister Madeleine had further cause to celebrateperhaps over a modest glass of vintage Burgundy, She graduated her first class of 15 students and received a grant of $80,000 from HEW. It was a long and sometimes arduous trip for Sister Madeleine from the walled town of Villeneuve-sur-Yvonne, dating back to the 10th century, to the space-age cement buildings of SMU. She smiles a tender faraway' smile when she talks about the ancient fortifications, long ago turned into gardens, among which she grew up.

"It was wonderful. Burgundy was country. We lived in a small town in a part of Burgundy that was a very old civilization. If you remember your first year Latin, she said, "about the Gallic Wars-well I was brought up a few miles from where Vercingetorix surrendered to Ceasar and also where the Second Cru· sade was preached in Vezelay

by St. Bernard in 1040. So it really gave us the role in history that maybe we miss over here."

Villeneuve - sur - Yonne (New City on the Yonne River) is one of hundreds of "New Cities" in in France dating from the 9th and 10th centuries when the people freed themselves from tile feudal lords and set up fortified communes.

The Velleneuve signalled the end of feudal times and t he emergence of the bourgeoisie or Jrliddle class.

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She sums up her early girlhood in World War I with Gallic humor. "I was torn by the idea of being either Joan of Arc or Edith Cavell. I thought we would have to take to the woods and I kind of liked the idea."

"We were sl:lrrounded by

of Nursing at St. Anne's Hospi- throats to chest pains. People tal in that city until she took evidently save up their symptoms over SMU's College of Nursing until their day off; on 'Saturday in 1969. at one hospital, 80 per cent of When she first came over, the cases crowding the emerSister, as she's known to most gency room are self-referrals. everyone on campus, had diffiAs youthful in spirit as the culties with the language.An in- blush of spring on a Burgundy veterate knitter of things for hillside, Sister Madeleine neverfriends, she says: "Because I theless is concerned with the couldn't understand English very problems of geriatrics. well, I threw away the patterns "Nursing can help a great deal and learned to knit by eye." in helping to keep the elderly In the meantime she learned from being discouraged," she English quickly, built up an im- says, putting a lilting upward pressive list of academic creden- accent on the last syllable, "and tials: a Ph.D. from Boston Col- helping to make them want to lege, an assistant professorship live." in the graduate department of "But there are so many quesnursing at Boston College and a tions that need answering," she visiting lectureship at Yale Uni- continues, and a tiny frown of versity School of Nursing. puzzlement dimples her forehead.

Sister Madeleine has led her "Fot instance, why is it that the College of N.ursing at SMU with creative people of this world a dedicated belief in its involve- seem to live longer than othersment with the community. Twice the Charlie Chaplins, the George a year she holds nursing confer- Bernard Shaws and, "of course ences on campus to which she she hastens to add, "the Maurice invites more than 200 nurses Chevaliers."

Not all of Sister's time is defrom hospitals, extended care facilities, health agencies and voted to problems of SMU, the nursing homes in southeastern community and the aging.

Massachusetts. The conferences Known to some on campus af\ are planned with thfil complete fectionately as "SMU's Flying cooperation of local hospitals Nun," she may be off to South and nursing agencies.

America' to serve as consultant "Improvement in health care to the fledgling School of Nur-. in our community," she empha- ing at the University of AntioSISTER MADELEINE CLEMENCE, O.P. sizes, "goes hand in hand with quia in Col"'Ubia and to a nursthe growth of the college. The ing convention in Chicago a beauty," Sister Madeleine remi"The walls of our home were quality of the curriculum and short time later. nisces. "All around us there was three feet thick-very good for the caliber of the students eduTo honor her first graduating beautiful countryside and also setting up a dark room. My cated at SMU will, hopefully, class of 14 nurses, Sister Madesome of the most beautiful first camera was very primitive, contribute to better health care leine brought in the top nurse cathedrals and churches in just a' box with a hole in one for all the people of this area." in the U. S. to receive an honFrance. And then, my guardian, end-a simple camera obscura.

In a senior course entitled orary degree at this spring's my uncle, was an ar,chitect and I remember I had to hold my "Nursing and the Community" commencement: Admiral Jessie· gave me a very good sense of finger over the hole until I was Sister Madeleine's students pur· M. Scott, Assistant Surgeon aesthetic values when I was a. ready to take the picture. But sue projects in the community. General and chief of the Division young girl."

I wo'n some prizes from E~stman One of them, doing research con- of Nursing of the U. S. Public It's not surprising then that Kodak." that Health Service. cerning the different ways Sister turned to photography at Sister Madeleine is considered Sister, a lady on the go who John Q. Public obtains medical a very tender age. quite a capable photographer care these day~, came up with a expects to expand her college and particularly enjoys filming to 400 students within the next landscapes,' animals and her startling conclusion: in areas few years, lives with four other where the doctor shortage is sister nuns. acute, more and more people are Sisters and a Mother Superior Before entering the Dominican using the emergency room of the in Dourdan, near Dighton, simorder at the age of 22, she translocal hospital as their family ply and with Burgundian fruWASHINGTON (NC) - The planted herself from the rich doctor for everything from sore gality.

Knights of Columbus have do- earth of Burgundy to the intelnated $100,000, to the newly lectual atmosphere of Paris formed Parents for Nonpublic where she received her degree DAUGHTERS OF S1. PAUL-4:omblne a lite of from the Universite, the oldest Drayer dnd ~ction. Bringers of the Gospe' MesEducation. sage to souls everywhere by means of personal Robert N. Lynch, executive di- and most prestigious in Europe. contact: Pauline Misslonanes labor In 30 Nations.

There followed a year as staff rector of the new Catholic orMembers witness to Christ in a unique missionganization, said the association nurse at a hospital in Tours and propagation of ..the printed Word ot ';od. The Sisters write. illustrate pnnt and bind their own was formed to lend support to then, in the year 1936-not a and diffuse them among people of an interfaith group called Citi- good vintage year for peace-a _ publications all creeds, races and cultures, Young girls. 14-23 zens Relief for Education by In- tour of duty at the Hospital 'nterested in this vital Mission may write to: Francois in Barcelona, Spain, come Tax (CREDIT).

REV. MOTHER SUPERIOR 50 St. Paul's Ave. Boston Mass. 02130 CREDIT seeks to obtain relief smack in the middle .of the Spanthrough income tax credits for ish Civil War from which she parents who send their children finally escaped via a Spanish port by destroyer. to nonpublic schools.

With the. outbreak of World l The group, headed by Rabbi Join II , after a three-year stopWar Morris Sherer of Agudath Israel l BISHOP H. S. MEDEIROS of America, stresses the human over as head nurse at the Clinica right of parents to educate their della Presentazione in Rome, I on the children according to their re- Sister Madeleine came to Amerligious conscience and empha- ica to settle with her Dominican sizes the value of nonpublic Sisters in Fall River.

She was director of the School schools in a pluralistic society.

Commenting on the $100,000 FROM BOSTON grant, John W. McDevitt, chief CONRAP SEGUIN I executive officer of the Knights I 16 days OCTOBER 7 of Columbus, said "Nonpublic BODY COMPANY II I schools are performing an imRome Lisbon - Fatima - Naples Aluminum or Steel I portant service to all Americans 944 County Street From $795.00 . . . however, rising costs are NEW BEDFORD, MASS. placing an increasingly intolerExtensions Available Reserve today 992-6618 able burden on these schools and their supporters.", 'Parents for Nonpublic Education has been endorsed by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia and Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York.

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Sees ontinuing Debate About Future of Socialism Michael arrington, who' has been a leader of the socialist move ent in the United States for many years, is best known erhaps as the author of "The Other America," which was n only a best seller in its day but is also , credited with hkving ~parked the so-called War on pov- favori.ng ~ocialism for ~atin rt I the ldng ruhhow- Amenca-Is rat~e:r dramatically

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indicative of thiS trend. Those Catholics in the United States book entlt.led oClalism (Sat- who may be inclined to write off urday ReVIew PiSS, New York, this particul.ar meeting as a ragemm'ffsm::CmIY_ ,. . tag gathermg of unorthodox Christian radicals or revolutionaries have something to learn, I By think, from a lengthy document, on socialism issued by the Fr~nch MSGR. hierarchy at the very time that "Chr~tians for Socialis~" were GEORGE G. meeting in Santiago.

This French document (intenHIGGINS . tionally dated May 1, the traditional feast day of the inter~w~. national working class) is entitled $12.50) wil1 und6ubtedlY be re- "First Reflections of the Episgarded as his ~ajor work and copal Commission on Working .his principal cla m to fame as Class Affairs in Dialogue With a writer and s cial reformer.

Militants Who. Have Opted for Harrington is a dreamer in Socialism." The full text is rethe best sense of the word, but printed, in French, in the May 21 he is also a hard-headed real- edition of "La Documentation ist. .While convinped in his own ' Catholique." An adequate sum.' mind that SOcialf·sm (democratic mary, in ~nglish, is available in sodalism, be. It oted) is desir- the May 20 edition of "The able and necess ry, he knows (London) Tablet." very wel1 that i is not ineviThe document is addressed to table and is the first to admit the bishops of France by an that, if it starts 'Irom the wrong Episcopal Commission (of 15) premises or tak!es the wrong' presided over by Archbishop turn, it can betome-and, in- Maziers of Bordeaux. The predeed, has becom~ in many cases amble states ~hat the Commis-a curse to hJmanity rather sion wished merely to "hear the than a· blessing. views of militant Christian Harrington is Iso very real- workers and to respond t~ their istic concerning the future of questions." sociaiism in the United States.

Radical Break ·While arguing in his new book that "most of th people in the The Commission reports that world cal1 the hame of their al1 of the workers consulted had dream 'socialis~:" he notes rejected capitalism and had that the United States is the adopted a form of socialism. For "great exception" in this regard. them, a unified human developThe U.s., he s ys, is "almost ment was possible only by means the only country on the face of of socialism. Most of the workthe globe where socialism' 'is a .ing class leaders believed that bad word." the transition from capitalism to socialism would involve a Option for 'hristians radical break. They were in prinThis being the case, H-;'rring- ciple against the use of force, ton's book-the best thing of its but were afraid that. the resist.kind on the marktt_iS required ance of the ruling dasses would reading for seriou ~minded Amer- ma~e violence inevitable. icans. I say this not because I The Commission then went on am interested in promoting so- to say, in its owil name, that cialism in the Uni~ed States, but "there are major elements of because I am convinced that we Marxism . which have been Americans owe it to ourselves adopted by Christian workers, to try, at the ve1least, to un- and which do not seem to be derstand why soc~'lism has such incompatible with their faith." great appeal in m ny if not most It concluded that "the economic countries of the orId. and political system of socia1ism .In this writer's judgment, is whol1y reconcifilble with-ChrisHarrington is unboubtedly cor- tianity, so long as' human rights reet in arguing t~at it has such are guaranteed . . . This first ·an appeal and that "it's tremen- attempt at discussion with milidous resonance ObJ~iOUSIY tel1s of tant Catholic workers who have . a deep yearning f r fundamental chosen socialism shows us yet change among hu dreds of mil- again how distant despite al1 lions of people" good will - we are from the Perhaps the cle rest sign that working class, its language, cul· its appeal is growirg rather than ture, spontaneous responses and deelining is the falt that so many basic aspirations."

Catholics 'in other lands are now 'Careful JUdgm~nt' openly espousing some form of This conclusion will undoubtsocialism or, Shoft of that, are at least openly' c ,ntending that edly come as a surprise to many democratic social'sm is a per- American Catholics and a severe fectly legitimate 0 tioit for com- shock to others. They will want mitted Christians. to bear in mind, however, that the members of the Commission .

French Document were doing precisely what Pope The recent "dhriStians for Paul VI advised al1 Christians to socialism" meeting in Santiago, do in his Apostolic Letter of May Chile-which wen on record as 15, 1971 commemorating the

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ST. JOSEPH, AITLEBORO Members of the CYO have scheduled a weekend camping trip starting Friday and ending Sunday at the summer camp of Richard Boucher, who will also supervise the' project.

The Norton Country Club will be the scene of the four division CYO golf tournament planned for Wednesday, July 12. The . cut-off age is 26. Fee which includes lunch will be $2.00

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Plans are being formulated by the board of directors for a ·lawn party on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 28, 29 and ao to be conducted at the corner of Reed St. and Braytgn Ave. James O'Neill of Swansea R., 'will serve as chairman and Mrs. Arrangements Made Raymond Lapointe as secretary.

The following are serving (In For Sudan Relief NEW YORK (NC)-The Suthe board: Leo Barboza, Lionel Medeiros, Frank Medeiros, Mrs. danese government and three reManuel Nogueira, Miss Ann ·ligious relief organizations, inMonteiro and Mrs. Frank Thom- cluding U. S. Catholic Relief Services, agreed on terms for deas. livering aid to· about 500,000 Meetings will be held every PROPOSAL: Henry A. Rarefugees in three southern provmirez, Chairman of the Cabi- Wednesday night at 7:30 in the inces of the Sudan. net Committee on Opportun- rectory in order to finalize plans The agreement was signed for the affair. Proceeds will be ities for Spanish Speaking used for the building fund for here . in the office of Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive People calls for more Spanish the new church. director of CRS. Abdalla elspeaking bishops in the Uni· Sheikh, Sudanese information ST. MARY, ted States. NC Photo. minister, acted for his governNEW BEDFORD The annual parish picnic will · ment; Wilhelm Van Hoogstraten Ministry Is Model be held from lOin the morning represented Church World Servto 7 in the evening on Sunday, ices and Bernard Confer repreIn 'P'eace Education July 9 on the grounds of Olir sented Lutheran World Relief..

SYRACUSE (NC)-The recent. Lady of the Lake Camp,. East Under the provisions of the contract, Sudan authorities will ly formed Catholic Justice and Freetown.

Peace .Education Ministry here .waive import duties on the car-.

Parishioners and their families is being used as the model for goes of food, clothing, medicines, an ecumenical program teaching ar.e requested to furnish their tools and other equipment en own lunches, tables and other opposition to all wars. route or awaiting shipment to needed items for the fun-filled the area.

Headed by Father Richard Os- day.

They will also be responsible borne, the Justice and Peace EdThe program under the super.-' for transport of. the supplies ucation Ministry in the Syracuse diocese will soon spread vision of the :ommittee will in- from the port, and their di'stribulocal· communities this philosophy into the Protes- clude a father-son softball game tion to tant and Jewish communities. at 10:30 and a variety of races through the recently established and games with prizes to be The proposal to extend Father ·awarded at the conclusion of the · Relief and Rehabilitation Council of the newly autonomous south-.

Osborne's program was made by program. ern region. Visas and permits an ecumenical task force headed For further information· please for field workers of the three· by the Rev. Paul Flucke, pastor relief organizations will be expeof Plymouth Congregational call 995-9249 or 995-2044. dited, although these staffs will Church here. Father Osborne OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, be limited in number. worked on the task force with FALL RIVER . representatives from the EpisThe Feast of the Holy Ghost copal, Lutheran, Jewish, United will be held on Saturday and P'olitical Prisoners Church of Christ, United Meth- Sunday, July 29 and 30 at the O~ Hunger Strike odist, United Presbyterian, and Portugese Social Club on Flynn SAO PAULO (NC)-Political American Friends Society com- St. prisoners in Sao Paulo, including munitities.

The crowning will take place three Dominican Brothers, went during the 11 o'clock Mass on on a' hunger - strike to protest eightieth anniversary of Pope Sunday morning, July 30 ~n Our poor jail conditions.

As the strike reached its tenth . Leo XIII's great social encyclical, Lady of the Angels Church and start at 1 a procession will day, the Brazilian Bishops ConRerum Novarum. o'clock.. ference mediated with the minisThat is to say, they were exAll are invited to Soupas all try of justice to urge improved ercising "careful judgment" in Sunday. conditions. distinguishing.. between those forms and features of socialism· which are compatible with Christian social teaching and those which are not. This kind of careful discernment, the Holy Father noted in his Apostolic Letter, will enable Christians to [)ISPENSING OPTICIAN see the degree of commitment Complete Optical Service (to socialism) possible along these lines, while safe-guarding ][97 Bank St. (Corner Purchase) the values, especial1y those of Fall River Tel. 678-0412 liberty, responsibility and openHours: 9 - 5 Mon. - Fri. Sat. 9 - 2 ness to the spiritual, which Friday Eves by Appt. Closed Wed. guarantee the integral development of man," This is what the French Commission set out to do and what.

Michael 'Harrington has also attempted to do-and, in large Show you really care by mailing measure, has succeeded in doing CHRISTMAS CARlOS from ST. PETER'S ,......in the book referred to above.

A careful reading of the French An imaginative. way to remember. relatives and friends at Christmas! Distinctive cards! Meaningful Vatican stamps! document and of Harrington's Cards and envelopes fully pe'rsonalized in your own handwritbook will help American readers' ing! Individually airmailed from Vatican City! Write today for free information: . to play a more intelligent and more constructive role in the POSTMAR:K: VATICAN continuing world-wide debate Suite 142 about the future of socialism as 145 East 27th Street • New York, ~ew York 10016 a visible and legitimate socioeconomic system. .

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 6, 1972

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Waldheim Sends Mission to Burundi UNITED NATIONS (NC) -UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is sending a three-man mission to Burundi to discuss with the government the extent and type of relief measures to be undertaken in the wake of the recent tribal conflicts.

Waldheim pointed out that UN help to any member country can be extended only by invitation from its government. No such request had been received from Burundi, he said, until he had arrived in Rabat, Morocco, and had a conference with Artemon Simbananiye, Burundi's foreign minister who was there for the

meeting of the Organization of African Unity.

As a result of their talks, arrangements for the exploratory mission were made, Waldheim said. Upon its return and after hearing the members report, he said, decisions will be taken about the nature and form of aid the world organization can extend, probably through the UN High Commissioner's office in Geneva.

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The answer is easy: they welcome the opportunity to do something needed where it's needed.

Sometimes, besides, they build the church in memory of their loved ones, name it for their. favorite saint. ... Where is a new church needed?

In hundreds of towns and villages in our 18 country mission world. In Perakam, South India for instance.... The parishioners have tried for several years to build a church on their own.

They have pooled their meagre financial reo sources as well as their physical energies. The poverty of the parishioners prevents continuation of the work. You can complete this church all by yourself for as little as $2,900! You'll be doing something needed, where it's needed, for Christ-and for people who cannot do for themselves...• Do something at feast, as much as you can ($100. $75, $50, $25, $20, $15, $10, $5, $3, $1) to help build this church! Your gift of any size will be a Godsend! ••. Have you been looking for something meaningful to do? Help these people build a simple but lasting church.

Father Chittilapilly,. the pastor of Perakain, will write to thank you on behalf of his people. We will send you a sketch of the proposed church, when we thank you.

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Archbishop Mar Gregorios will write personally to say where he'll locate it if you enable him to buy ($975) two acres of land as a model farm for a parish priest. Raising his own food the priest can teach his parishioners how to increase their crop production. (A hoe costs only $1.25, a shovel $2.35.)

For .only $200 in India you can build a decent house for a family that now sleeps on the sidewalks. Simply send your check to us. Cardinal Parecattil will write to thank you also.

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ROSE HAWTHORN HOME HAS VISITOR: Home's staff meets with Bishop Cronin during· his visit with the patients. Front: Sr. M. Dolores, Sr. M. de Montfort, Sr. M. Daniel, superioress, Sr. M. Matthew, Sr. M. Denise and Sr. M. Albert. Rear: Sr. M. Edwin, Sr .M. Bernardine, Bishop Cronin,. Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, chancellor and chaplain at the home; Sr. M. Margaret. Center: The Ordinary of the Diocese distributes Holy Communion to patient with the assistance of Father Harrington. Bottom: Following the Mass, Bishop Cronin enters the sun porch on his rounds of the home. Witnessing the visit is Bruce Zcaplla, an orderly, standing. ,.

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It is i~eresting to hear the rallying cries that rise up

regularly, p omising all s.orts of new hope for the Catholic Church in e United States. . The la est one seems to be that almost all ills will be cured if bishops are elected by the people. ' It is tI1Ie that in the early Church this was the method' of selectionf It is also-true that the communities in the early' Church we~ reasonably small· and in such a small group the process of electing a bishop was a fairly easy one With. the deserving en standing out quite clearly. '.

New atican directives for the selection of bishops · urge consultation with laymen, priests and religious. At least fifty Ameribm bishops-and the Diocese of Fall River did this several years ago-have asked priests to send in recommendations for bishops, and some dioceses have asked laity and religio s for confidential suggestions. ' So the process is being opened to wider participation.

But im gine.the prospects if the whole thing came down to a matter of election? .

James Michael Curley once said that the only thing lacking in ~is own education was four years of theology. · Imagine t ] activity of an election for. bishop. Television networks ould bid for convention coverage rights. (That might be of m,ore than casual interest' to a diocese in finan· cial straits.) Parties cQuld be formed backing different candidates. A gr at challenge would arise in the matter of raising money for bewspaper and television promotion. .

Men b~ing considered for the post would submit. themselves to television interviews. Careful distinctions would have to b~made between the man who presented a good image and ielded questions well and the man who lacked chari~ma b t could do the job. ' .'

And Iho would vote for a bishop? Would it be a baptism cettificate or a confirmation record that would serve as voting credentials? Or would it be regular Church attendance knd, if so, how to keep a record of this? , FatherJAndrew Greeley, the sociologist, has been on the election of-bishops-kick for a while now. He is ~minenf in his field and has written excellent artides.Once in a while he se ms to stub his toe and when he said, as he did, that bishops in the United States' are intellectually and Rev. Jo.hn F. Moore, B.A., M.A., M.Ede spiritually aJnd morally bankrupt then one·would have every reason to sfspect that he is not all that objective when it comes to~ t matter of bishops.

As a atter of fact, a clerica~ member of a religious By the first amendment of our national constitution, group that oes elect its bishops has given this word of the people of this land have been guaranteed freedom of advice: Do 't jump at this thing too quickly; we usually the press. This past week, the Supreme Court again upheld end up electing someone whom no one has anything against, this freedom by indicating in its decision the basic concept a ·nice guy, hnd some one who wi!l leave us alone. of all freedom, that a free Hardly he qualifications for a successor of the Apostles. .press is a responsible press lective; How often in daily living of electing 'bishops could with basic duties and obliga- do we hear the all-too-familiar . So the present rallying ht 'tl'ons l'n'cumbent on all citi- quotations "I read it in the · an d th oug. un d oubte dl s t and a great d ea1 more scru t my newspaper" or "I saw it on TV." ~~t~1f izens of hAmerica for the common •"z·vz·n , J' .., h Very often w~en they quote

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Georgetown Names New Directors WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Edmund G.' R.yan, S.J., has been named executive vice-president for educational affairs at Georgetown University here as part of an administrative restructuring of the Jesuit university's board of directors.

Father Ryan, former executive vice-president of St. Peter's 'College in Jersey City, N.J.,' will serve as deputy to university president Father R.J. Henle in educational matters.

Three additional executive vicepresidential positions were ere· ated in the restructuring. These vacancies have been filled with personnel already in the administration. The new executive vicepresidents are James F. Kelly, administrative affairs; Matthew F. McNulty Jr., medical center affairs; and Malcolm C. McCormack, university relations.

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Ianes are b .ngremoved or Sh'IeIde d b y guardral - In addl'tl'on, those'and w.ho do hold . d f . . dl l' h' C . b away supp rts are emg use or SIgns an 19 ts. urves this view would, to a gr~at exare b eing gr oved f or b etter traction. Freeway me d ians h ave tent, now lead us. to believe that concrete b a .ers to prevent crossover aCCl'dents. H'19h ways the basic free dom 0 f t he press d are outline with reflective markers and stripes in the has been impaired an d 1essene.. h f h center and on the edges. Plants and fenCing shut out onThere are many ot ers w 0 ee l coming heatllights from parallel roads. Signs have been that thi~ decision of the Su~ preme Court has once more improved a d safety inspections made more frequent. renewed and revived a basic conAll the e safety factors can be imitated with profit. cept applicable to all' citizens But th individual driver must also' be aware of his of this country, namely, that to grave respo sibility and take his driving as a matter of be free one must be responsible' and accountable. The notion that conScience. I hich it i s . . true fr'eedom' resl'des l'n a completely non-accountable news - - -.... I , media is only to encourage limit-

the news media as an authority for their own argumentation they fail to realize that their local newspaper or tele'li1sion station is nothing more than the ' mere _ spokesman for a local power-block. From t he, b'las 0 f a local rural newspaper to the garish news room 'of one of our television giants; the news media in general foisters its own views, opinions and judgments on an unsuspecting and credulous pub-. lie.

How many reporters must be careful not to offend the newspaper owner and/or his friends?

How many newscasters are . 11 merely reading a philosophlca y edited script? How many editors must always be aware of that

a ~~~:~::~~ be sure, if the.y are honest and sincere, should not become the victims of private whims and personal fancy -:-be it their own or their employer. tho If theydsubmit d f themselves . to IS stan ar 0 reportmg they most certainly have lost their own freedom. No Constitutional . amendment and, no Supreme Court decision can help such a man in his search for basic independence and fundamental liberty.

True Freedom is to' be a certain paradoxical harmony of independence and dutie~i>ower and impotency, autocracy and service. Yet, it is in this paradox that each and every member of the press should live, serve, re-

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CHEYENNE (NC)-The priests of the Cheyenne diocese have voted to limit the' tenure of pastors and to require all priests . , to retire at. 75.

The new policies say that, priests under 60 wjll be limited to a maximum of two five-year terms as pastors. Assignments of older priests will be changed only if the bishop ,believes they "are needed in an alternative assignment."

Priests of the diocese approved the new policies by a 40-15 vote in June, following six months of consultation with priests, Religious and laity. The policies are effective this Fall.

The guidelines include a maximum four-year term for assistatit pastors and provide for voluntary retirement at 70. A monthly retirement benefit of $250 will be provided by the diocese.

Before they were approved, the" new policies were reviewed and approved by the diocesan pastoral council.

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CINCINNATI (NC)-The Cincinnati Archdiocesan Pastoral Council has approved grants of more than $350,000 to help 16 inner city. schools survive at least for the coming year.

At the same time the council indicated that it will develop long-range plans for the continued existence of the needy schools.

The council adopted unanimously a report by its inner city school committee cal1ing for outright subsidies to nine' parishes and creation of a reserve fund for seven others.

Paul C. Mecklenborg, committee chairman, said that subsidies to nine parish schools will total $287,050. Reserve funds for the other seven amount to $80,600.

Mr. Mecklenborg explained that the latter schools are uncertain about their financial needs in the year ahead.

"The primary concern of the committee was to keep the inner city schools open in 1972-73," Mecklenborg said. "While it is recognized that this first attempt was, at best, a stop-gap measure, the committee feels that considerable progess was made" in the three months since the committee began work.

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OAKLAND (NC - Priests in the Oakland diocese may preach on some political topics, but they must give opponents equal time, according to guidelines approved

by Bishop Floyd Begin and the Senate of Priests.

The guidelines allow priests to use the pulpit to discuss "moral issues with pclitical implications" and their own applications of moral principles in political areas.

But in such cases, the guidelines say, the priest should "provide a forum for discussion after 路Mass or on another convenient occasion so that persons with differing viewpoints may freely exchange thoughts and understand the reasons behind each other's conclusions."

The guidelines say that while priests should preach the social doctrine of the Church clearly and forcefully, they must not use the pulpit "to argue personal judgments on partisan politics."

The guidelines also tell priests that when they apply moral principles to politics in a sermon they must "make it clear whether their application is that of personal judgment or of a higher ecclesiastical authority."

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Parents Charg'e Civil Liberties Union With Discrimination PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Parents of nonpublic school students have charged that the Ameriean .civil Liberties Union (ACLlD supports religious discrimination by opposing aid to nonpublic schools.

-The parents group has filed a federal court brief here in an I;\ttempt to intervene in an ACLU suit challenging a state law providing aid to parents of nonpublic school students.

The brief argues that parents of nonpublic school students are路 governed by two absolute commands: "the Compulsory Attendance Law and ... their religious conscience."

Pennsylvania's Parent Reimbursement Act (Act 92) provides public welfare benefits to parents who suffer economic hardship .by sending their child to nonpublic school while financing public schools with tax dollars, the brief states.

According to the parent group's lawyers, those objecting to the law "say that these parents must be excluded from participation in the public welfare benefit . . . solely on the ground that their children fulfill the Compulsory Attendance Law requirements by attendance at religiously affiliated schools." Thus, "they set up religion as the standard for determination in public welfare ben~fits."

Equal Opportunity This, the lawyers argue, is in direct violation of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law.

According to the attorneys, parents of nonpublic school pupils 40 not seek a subsidy for religion. They merely want equal opportunity to receive public welfare benefits.

In the brief, the parent group explains that if "the Legsilature . . . has determined to provide public welfar~ benefits to all

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parents within a rationally determined class, the court may not路 impose a standard which will disqualify certain parents from participating in those benefits" simply because they choose "religious schools for their children, which public policy says are acceptable schools."

The parent's attorneys conclude that "since the court may not dispute the legislative judgment that a vast number of parents of nonpublic school children actually need the payments . . . it is clear that the exclusion . . . of those parents . . . will impede them either in obeying . their conscience or in obeying the law."

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-Missouri's first attempt to provide aid to children in nonpublic schools has been challenged in a suit filed here.

The suit seeks to block distri.bution of textbooks to nonpub路 lic school students under the state's free textbook program.

'The law, due to go into effect Aug. 13, would have public school districts purchase books with state funds and loan them to nonpublic schools.

In the past, only public schools have received free .'text books from the state fund, which is fi路 nanced by a special tax on outof-state insurance companies doing business in Missouri.

Someone s finally listening. Consumers take heed, "no .longer are yo a lone voice crying in the wilderness o~ ';Ininterested top brass." Hopefully, all the years of takmg it on the chin are over for the consumer because laws to protect the p blic are appearing on Ie islative rolls Women Voters, Citizens for Citizens and other concerned' city across the co try. Now, at agencies). least, the buy r will be able Apparel Care

to have a fifty- ifty chance to get what he p ys for, be in- formed how to' are for it correctly and all i all get' a fair shake on the b ying end.

Consumer Protection courses are being offered in area colleges, consumer information columns are spring up in newspapers and the big push' is on to inform the consumers of their rights. , One important law has recently been passed by the Federal By Trade Commission-a law requiring manufacturers to sew in MARILYN "care labeling directions" iri each of the garments that they manu-.

RODERICK facture. Basically, this sounds easier than it is because now the manufacturer must not only be concerned with the design of .Consumers, no longer are will- the garment, he must also be - ing to be fooled I' cast aside as ' aware of the perf()rmance of the second class citi ens. When they material that' he uses" in the receive a piece l' inferior mer- item. ., . chandise, sign a ontract,.or even . Hemus't' know how this materconsider a large purchase they ial acts with certain temperawill now be in rmed of their tures of water and methods of ,rights and they ill have some- laundering or dry (:Ieaning. While one to turn to. this certainly will be an annoying New reed nuisance as far as the manu"Younger, shr wder, better in- facturer,is concerned, it is going formed' and mol' suspicious," is to be a big plus for the buying the way Willi m M. Batten, public. :1 chairman of J. . Penney Co., describes the n w young conDe,legates sumer who is i a large part Catholic responsible for ese strict new At Swedish Meeting protect the regulations tha STOCKHOLM (NC)-The Cath'. public. "They 1'0 a new breed. ,olic Church will participate ofTheir tolerence is down. Their ficially in a meeting of all Swe~ expectations are up. They will dish churches to be held in not be kicked .a ound the mar- Gothenburg Aug. H-13. ketplace."

There will be 36 Catholic deleBecause of the pressures exer- gates at the meeting, called "G cised by these oncerned indi- 72," which is being organized viduals, offices of Consumer by, the Swedish Council of Protection are pening up in Churches. The Catholic Church .major cities acr ss the co'untry. has been a full member of the Here in Massach setts the office . council since Jan. 1 of this year. is part of the At orney General's Plans for the meeting were made - office, with satel ite offices scat- during the 1968 assembly of the tered throughout the state. 'Pres- World Council of Churches at ently an office to handle con-. Uppsala. ' sumer complain s is being 01'In describing the purpose of gan'ized in New Bedford. This the meeting the late Lutheran office will be fun ed through the Archbishop Ruben Josefson of Attorney GeneI' I's office and Uppsala said that it "will take staffed with Ie I' help plus a 'up some of the most burning knowledgable tr ined staff. Als,o problems that churches and indiin the offering i a' smaller Fall vidual Christians are trying to . 'River office that ill open in the solve at present. They are all in Fall to be' staffe with volunteer some way variations on the idea workers (this h s come about of estrangement: toward your through a united effort put forth own' 'established' church, beby the Fall Ri er League of tween Christians of different., traditions and confessions,in ,reLauds Reconsideration lation to the immigrants who are taking root in our country, and, Of U. S. Inv Ivement finally, toward global moral WASHINGTO (NC) - The Senate has take a "responsible questions and future problems."

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approach" in pas ing a motion to postpone a deds on on financial cutbacks in Unit d States donations to the Un ted Nations, a U. S. Cathol c Conference (USCC) spokesm n said here.

In a letter to en. Allen Ellendel' (D., La.), c airman of the Senate Appropri tions Committee, Father Jame Ra,usch, USCC associate gene al secretary, praised the Sen te action, calling ita reflecti n of "the con-: cerned ,support or. the U. N., for which Pope aul and other church leaders h ve consistently -. (failed."

Catholic; Confer~nce Has New He,od LANSING (NC)-Thomas OM. Bergeson, acting executive director of the Michigan Catholic Conference since Feb. 1, became executive director on July 1.

Bergeson, 46, joined the Confe~ence in 1966 'to establish its retirement program. He will continue to head the program.

Bergeson succeeded Peter V. Hasbrook who' resigried to become president of a computer service company.

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Filing the suit were Philip J. ,Paster, a St. Louis lawyer, and James F. Hornback, executive secretary of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. They filed the suit on behalf of their sons, who are PILGRIMAGE STATUE OF VffiGIN IN NEW BEl)路 public school students.

The suit claims the new law FORD: The consecration of the family to the Sacred Heart violates church-separation proand the enthronement of the statue of the Virgin Mary took visions of both the Missouri and place in the home of Miss Izaura King of 7 Bonneau Ct, United States constitutions. UsNew Bedford , a member of the Immaculate Conception ing public funds for books for Parish, in ceremonies presided over by Rev., Alexis C. Wy- non-public school children, acgers, SS.CC., chaplain at the Sacred Heart Home, New cording to the suit, will "adversely affect the rights, beneBedford: fits and privileges" of the plaintiffs.

Among the arguments made in support of the legislation was that although the special tax Mrs. Shriver Urges Adoption Campaign produced $12.3 million in revenue last year only $9.2 million ,As Way of. Fighting Abortion was used for public school textATLANTIC CITY (NC)-Mrs. are "desperately wanted by books. Cost of purchasing' books Eunice Kennedy Shriver pro- ,thousands of Americans who for nonpublic school students posed a campaign to fight abor- cannot have children' of their was estimated at $1.2 million and tion by recruiting one million own." could be met by using the surpersons willing to adopt "unShe warned the delegat~s that plus funds. wanted" babies. those who joint the campaign "'One million for Life' would must be willing to adopt handibe clear evidence to every capp,ed babies and babies of a:nmother-to-be that the child-even other race. "But if, we believe if undesired by her-is wanted in life," she said, "we cannot by a 'family willing' and able to draw the line of color or intelraise it as its own," Mrs. Shriver lect or fitness. We must be on told delegates to the first annual the side of life all the way."

If the campaign succeeds, Mrs. convention of Birthright-USA here.

Shriver said, the "unwanted Mrs. Shriver urged Birthright baby" argument will have been to register couples wishing to answered and abortion advocates participate in the campaign, and will have only the argument the 150 delegates agreed to pre- "that life can be taken for the sent the proposal to local Birth- simple convenience of others." right groups. ' , , ~ , Mrs. Denise Cocciolone, Birth- ~."'~"", ""', , , ".,', right executive director, said the organization would act on the proposal later. ' INDUSTRIAL, and DOMEST'IC "One Million for Life" would be an answer to claims that abortion is the only solution to the / problem of an unplanned pregnancy, Mrs. Shriver said.

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Mrs. Shriver said that through" out the nation the number of babies available for adoption "is dwindling drastically" and babies "

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LAKEWOOD (NC)-The Rabbinical Council of New Jersey adopted resolutions opposing liberalized abortion laws and favoring tax deductions for parents of students in non-public schools.

The council represents Orthodox Jewery in New Jersey. In its resolution on abortion, it stated that the termination of pregnancy could be justified only when its continuation endangers the life of the mother.

That had been the law in New Jersey until this Spring when a three-judge federal court said the law was unconstitutional because it infringed on the rights of women and their doctors.

New Jersey is appealing the decision and in the latest development the federal court declined ~o enjoin New Jersey from enforcing the law while warning that its ruling applied only to the seven doctors who were parties to the original court challenge.

But it warned those doctors that if their challenge was overturned by a higher court, they would be subject to prosecution for abortions performed during the appeals precess.

Meanwhile, the state attorney general's office has instructed county prosecutors to keep a record of abortion complaints in their areas, but not to seek indictments until the court issue has been settled.

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I'd like an explanation of the effects Daylight Saving Time has on children. There should be a normal 24 hour cycle to the needs for food and sleep. Calling an hour by another name should not change that cycle. So how come when you move the clocks and add an extra hour of one of them is back in, yelping.

"Mom, I was minding my own daylight to the evening, the business . . . and she squirted kids wake up earlier in the me with the hose. '. . and I'm soaking wet . . . and I'm freezing! Mom, make her finish the job by herself.;' "Get back out there, and stop the nonsense." ~,;milliil Two minutes later, the other one is in. The melody sounds the same. "Mom, I was doing - By my share . . . and he soaked me with the hose . . . and I'm freezing. It's cold out tonight.

MARY Mom, please, can't we do it tomorrow? It'll be warmer during CARSON the day."

Feeling sorry that they are so chilled, I relent . . . with the ~ll:~Wi$Wllil!a promise that it will be done the in autumn, they get up earlier, following afternoon without any stay up later, and are always 'arguments.

"That's great, Mom. As long hungrier. If this keeps up, in exactly 2Y2 more years they will as we don't have to wash the be awake 24 hours a day, eating' car, can we go swimming?"

I find my own reactions to nine full meals with six betweenDaylight Saving Time rather , meal snacks.)

Whether it's the effect of solar mixed, too. There are many energy from that late evening evenings I wish it were dark 'sunlight, or just normal kid en- earlier; things would settle down thusiasm, I don't know. But,' I earlier. do know that when the sun Summer Sunset shines after supper, life is difBut then there are other eveferent. nings when my husband and I "We can't go to bed yet ... steal a few minutes from the it's still light out!" endless chores. and walk through "It's nine o'clock ... it's bed the yard together. The yard is time!" much the same as it's been for "But the sun didn't go to 'bed 18 years ... but in the evening yet." it looks different. It's lush, glow"Well maybe the sun's mother ing in the soft pink light. isn't tired . . . but your mother We sit together, and share a is! Now get to bed! Good Night!" few moments with the evening 'Listen for It' song of a bird, and the background music of children's But that only works with the little ones. With the other chil- laughter. These evenings are dren, I find a very mixed reac- stolen moments for them, too.

The sunset seems to linger, tion to all those extra hours., just to give us a bit more time The mixture is' in what I think to enjoy it. I'm sure if God should be done with those hours wanted to, He CQuid have de. . . and what they think.

"Hey, Mom' ... all the kids are signed some other lighting playing baseball. Can I go?" ' system of the world, But each "How can they be playing? time we watch a' long summer sunset, I'm glad he didn't.

It's too dark to see the ball."

"We listen for it!"

"If you have that much energy, Paraguayans Resent why don't you mow the lawn before this place looks like the Drug TraffiC Charges WASHINGTON (NC) - The lost forest?"

Paraguayan government has re"It's too dark to see."

"Well .... listen for it ... you quested "formal and explicit" can hear the wind rustling explanation of charges that high officials in Asuncion, its capital, through the weeds." are involved in the international Same Melody drug traffic.

They go out the door armed Paraguay's Ambassador Roque with pails of !'loapy water, rags J. Avila asked U.S. Secretary of and brushes. ,Three minutes later State William P. Rogers to issue "an official word" regarding the ,drug charges by Washington colMove National Vocation umnist Jack Anderson.

Center to 'Detroit The Paraguayans base their CHICAGO (NC)-The National complaint to Rogers "in this Center for Church Vocations will serious instance, on the fact that move its office from Chicago to Anderson claims to draw the inDetroit with the appointment of formation from a report by' the U.S. government's Central Intela new executive director.

Father Edward J. Baldwin of ligence Agency."

The regime of President AlDetroit will succeed Father John J. O'Neill effective July 15. The fredo Strossner has also been new office will be in the Detroit accused of persecuting Church personnel and lay teachers, parauxiliary chancery building.

The vocation center was found- ticularly those engaged in rural ed in 1969 by the National Con- progress, by Paraguay's bishops.

In recent years it has expelled ference of Catholic Bishops, and the Conferences of Major Su- several priests on charges of subversion. periors of Women and Men.

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HAPPINESS IS ..... Pope Paul has often commented on the' "immense pleasure he receives when surrounded by innocent, happy, carefree and noisy children." NC Photo.

Fri,ends Children Seem To Talk Easily When Visiting With Pope Paul VATICAN CIlY (NC)-"Is it true, Holy Father, that you feel all alone?"

To this question, asked by a little Italian boy at a recent audience, the Pope replied to thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square recently that he never felt alone during his many audiences for children.

T!le Pope drew a big laugh from the crowd in recounting the instructions by another little boy who presented him with a tiny lamb at a recent audience.

"This is for you, Holy Father, but don't you kill it," the boy said.

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Spanish Speaking Support Fi Ims DENVER (NC) Spanishspeaking audiences in the United States are paying $5 million a year to see Spanish-language movies, and high among them . are those with a religious theme.

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by Azteca Films of Hollywood, a distributor of Mexican-produced full length movies, show that "Jesus Our Lord" and '''Heaven and You" grossed a large proportion of the total, with "Zapata" leading in popularity.

Emiliano Zapata was a leader of the Mexican revolution earlier this century. He fought for the rights of the landless farmworkers.

"Heaven and You" deals with the life of a young priest who tries to help a band of young rebels. "Jesus Our Lord" stresses Christ's compassion for those who struggle for a life of human dignity.

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Board Resign's Recalling those visits of the ALBUQUERQUE (NC) - The children, the Pope said: eight members of the Sante Fe "My dear little children, you Archdiocesan Personnel Board are indeed very near us. You resigned after Archbishop James surround us with your life, with P. Davis announced the newest your youth, full of open-mind- list of clergy appointments. edness and hope."

Father Robert Sanchez, chairThe Pope said he is grateful man of the board, told the News to the young for their visits and pay, the Catholic weekly here, said he interprets the visits as a that many of its recommendagenuine effort "to keep us com- , tions had not been followed in pany." the assignment list, but he dePope Paul spoke only of the nied that this had caused the young during his five-minute resignations. speech, confining his remarks to "The board felt it had put a the "immense pleasure" he, receives when surrounded by lot of effort into the recommen"these innocent, happy, carefree dations, but the archbishop had the final decisions, and we reand noisy children."

The Pope concluded by telling spect them. He often has information we do not," Father Santhe young: "Be happy in your youth, and chez said.

He explained that the board as you grow up know how to conserve that youthfulness in had extensive personal interyour faith, in your purity, and views with priests, and open disin your ability' of playing and cussions about their qualificalearning." tions for particular assignments.

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THE' ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 6, 1972

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Solid fami y life is, sustained by a simple motion, complexly defined, call d love. Now the Ainerican ho e may be unraveling the splic of unity nurtured by genuine 1 ve. Magazine articles are droo ing with love. You get the impr ssion we're going to love each ther to pleces. A saving conce t, b:ut sadly untrue.

What prev nts this .maximum realization' 0 mutual charity, especially in the family, is the pre~alence o~ soupy, saccharin rhetoric prea hing a shallow and wearisome go pel that will never replace con ideration, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, patience, forg~eness, respect and perseverance-rthe grlt and guts of honest lovp. .

I'm talking about the love that dedicates a ~ther to earning a living, devote a mother to her . family, and' spires the children to accomplish ent.· Sefishness uDo your 0 n thing" is a good philosophy w en kept within the 'limit of love.- We should do our own thing, b t not at any cost, The last phr se is most important. If mem ers of a family do their own thi g at any cost, they enter the re 1m of selfishness.

And selfishne s is a binding and ".joyless slave . Selfish people, parents or children, destroy family living nd are also more' vulnerable to drug abuse, because drugs re a self-centered scene.

I asked a 1 -year-old girl, who was a heavy arijuana smoker:' "Why do you ink your parents don't want y u to become involved with grass?" Without much hesitati n she answered: "They say it' illegal, that I'll get in trouble in school, and I'll probably go on to something worse."

"Do you r ally believe those are the reas ns your parents have for not anting you to get involved?" I asked. She answered, "Yes.' "Here you re 15 years old," I replied and 'I'll bet you can't count the tim s you sat around with your bu dies rapping how

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and pain of life. Through' misguided love some parents sap the strength of their children and force them to face life weakened and maimed. Such children' are perfect prospects for the .easy "cop out" which may very well be drugs.

Understanding In order to achieve, anything near the love I mention there must be communicatio.n in the family. We've been brain-washed into believing that communication means to agree. If this were tnie, communication would be . almost impossible, especially between parents and children.

Communication means to understand why a person' is saying or doing something; we don't necessarily have to agree with it. Parents must take the time and make an effort to listen and trY to understand. So many people have something to sell today, so many are fanatically pushing a cause, so many are filled with a neurotic obsession to be heard.

Gift~ with a self-styled charisma some people are always ready, able and obligated to straighten you out.

But nobody has time to listen.

If we did, the generation gap in the family" would not be such a chasm. Even the young people, immersed as they' are in the crusade for communication, have forgotten the art of listening.

And if we don't listen how can we hear the sounds of love.

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But all that comes across to you are two people curtailing your freedom."

tal guidance and responsibility.

That would not be love at all.

Example This point is well illusJrated by the story of the scientist watching .a butterfly emerge from its cocoon. The poor butterfly -struggled desperately to get free. The pain seemed so Loving great, the young scientist took a We have to start loving each knife and made the hole at the end of the cocoon a little bigger other again.

The affectionate expression of so that the butterfly could slip this love is also markedly absent out. He had ended the butterfrom many American homes. We fly's struggle, but when the butare practically the only country terfly emerged from the cocoon in the world where a son and it was a cripp1e. It's wings were father are embarrassed to hug misshapen and it couldn't fly. All each other after the boy .is 12 it could do was flop aroul1d on years old. That's how sophisti-· the ground and wait to die. Incated and stoicaJ we've become. stead of being a friend to the More 'than one addict has told me that he was never sure of WEAR parental love. 'The willingness and freedom of children and parShoes That Fit ents to demonstrate their love ''THE FAMILY SHOE STORE" affectionately is one way to remove such doubt.

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There appea s to be little dis_ satisfaction w th the screening procedure amo g the Greek Orthodox hierar y. In an interview publishe in May Ar:chbishop lerony os of Athens emphasized that the church had gained freedom of action with the riSht to legisla e on its own affa1rs.

"Already," h said, "thanks to the Constitutio al Charter of the Care must be taken by parChurch in 1969 all church membersare settle by the church ents, however, that these, exterwithout the pa ticipation of the ,nal signs of love are not merely substitutes for. necessary parenstate."

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butterfly, the scientist had been an enemy.

How often do parents feel the same way about· their children?

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Alternative: Practice, Not Theory, of ChrisJtian Living "Father, I can't get my kids to go to Mass any more." I usually react to that statement by asking, "00 you go to Sunday or daily Mass yourself? Fathers plead early and long hours of work as an excuse for not going faithfully. Mothers reply: "I was told I'd be a better wife if I stayed home and tended my fam~ ~ly." I wonder how many more eggs have really been fried or bottoms powdered since that piece of advice became general law?

Young ,people are not losing their faith, they're losing respect, respect for parents who lack conviction in the very things they accuse children of ignoring.

Parents wail about religious yesterdays--cries that are unsubstantiated by present performance. Certainly, religious aberrations of the past should not be defended, but there was much that was reasonable and good.

If parents preserved the good things in practice, not just words, the kids still might not follow them to Mass next Sunday, but the parents' example would be a steadying force in years to come -especially when the children grow to realize that healthy change can only take place in the present when there is a wholesome respect for the past and tradition.

Crisis Young people are going through a faith crisis and I can understand why. I may not always agree with how they express it, but I do try to understand. Therefore, I feel I can communicate.

They are growing in an anxious and desperate society, a cultural giant mystified and unable to cope with its sudden growth.

Nothing seems permanent. The ground is shifting and dogmatic mortar appears to be coming loose between the granite blocks of religious truth. Mysteries are shattered everyday; medical science is on the brink of breaking the genetic code; men are walking on the moon. The sudden and brilliant flash of human progress has blinded many to. the steady light of the world.

And, usually, the ones most impressed are the young.

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Wanted to Imitate Attack on Pieta COCHIN (NC)-A 30-year-old man who broke three statues in a church here in India told police he had heard of the attack on the Pieta statue of Michelangelo in St. Peter's Basilica and wanted "to do something similar."

After the' congregation had left the church following a Sunday Mass, the man jumped onto the altar and knocked down statues of Christ, the Blessed Mother a¡nd St. Joseph. The statues broke into pieces when they hit the floor. The man then attacked the sacristan with candlesticks.

Someone rang the church beIls and a group of the congregation who returned finally locked the man in a room. He was then taken into custody by police.

ment are not the same. Young people may have knowledge but wise parents must help them make wise choices.

I believe kids today are intelligent, idealistic, and generous, and they long for commitment to a truly great idea or cause. Their whole being cries out that the products of technology are not enough. There must be more to life than that. They really long for spiritual insights. They want to get deep down inside themRed, raw nostrils selves and scoop up handfuls of -sniffin!: coca.ine their own religious identity. They want to take mystical leaps into the hidden places of their being.

At times their efforts are abrasive and unorthodox to us, but we must ~ try to understand the underlying motive.

Profuse perspiration and body odor -amphetamines Growing Pains Every young generation goes through its own physical and emotional growing pains. The present one has the added ohalLon!: sleeve !:arments worn constantly lenge of dealing with the pubesto hide nel'dle "tracks" cent pangs of a modern Church -heroin or methedrine and a democracy in the adolescent stages of its development.

With this in mind, parents do not always have to agree with their children, but they must try to understand. Then, maybe, the Tremor of hands kids will start looking once again -amphl'tamines to the family, the school, and the Church for some answers. Answers they'll never find if they slip off into the drug scene.

Dicwramofa druuabuser Runnin!: nose -heroin, morphine, codeine

Constant lickin!: of lips to kel'p them moist rl'sultin!: in chapped raw lips - amphl'taminl's

Drastic loss of wl'i!:ht - heroin, opium

Sun!:lassl's worn at inappropri.ltl' timl's and places hid in!: dilated pupils - LSD

Sta!:!:l'rin!:, disorientl'd -barbiturates

Thp,(, an' a fp\\, of tIl(' ,igns that may indicdtp thdt a young p('r,on nlLdd b(' abusing drug, or u,ing narcotics. \Vhil(, tlws(' ,ymptonb are mit proof of drug abus(' (most could occur for ,ew'rdl otlwr r\'a,ons). tlley should s('r\,(' to al('rt pdn'nts and fri('nds that a probl('m may ('xiq.

If you'r(' not surp, t;llk with your family physician. If you SLhPPCtâ&#x20AC;˘. ask your child point blank, "An' you taking drug,!"

It's a sad thing to haw to a,k someone you love, hqt .,aying "Goodbye" is ('ven sadder still.

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.TH ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs.~ ~uly 6~ 1-972

Cites Troubles in PriesthC)od, Stre'sses Need For Vocations

S.uggests Church S,ocieties, Help Alleviate Loneliness The orId is full of dichotomies. Last month I heard a regional board of altar society women wondering aloud wQat they could do as a group tQ give themselves a purpose. App rently, ·women aren'(.j~jning just to join 'any more. At 0 e time the parish . school hel them together.

On':. one hand, we're looking At anoth r time, entertain- for ct:edible Christian activities for the altar society and on the ment need kept the organ- other,··.:we're paying people to ization viabl . Any Catholic who moved into own had an automatic "club" Bridge, fashion shows and b zaars met the needs

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-call our lonely oldsters. How myopic:..we've become~ We've become ", so institutional-minded that we:can't consider the idea _w;~~=~.:::""", of being 'responsible ourselves for just one.' other person in need.

If we can't put it in the budget and the minutes, it's not ChrisBy tian action.

Work at the Roots DOLORE We have an epidemic of loneCURRAN liness loose in this country. So serious is it becoming that we're beginning to make money off of it. "Pay us and we'll call that lonely old widow' who of Catholic omen. I've said it doesn't have any relatives who before here b t so accepted were feel duty bounq to check up on . these three ctivities that one her." Duty begone! We're Chris. woman said 0 me, "You don't tians, not bureaucrats. If there's play bridge? How can you be a need, let's fHl it and stop worCatholic and not play bridge?" rying about boards, resolutions, Yesterday read our Sunday officers, budgets and pul?licity. paper's want ds under Personal. Let's abandon ,all those in favor I wasn't look ng for any anony- 'of people. mous messag but I find a whole . . I'd like to set all the church , spectrum of r, e passing through women's societies in this country abandon all other projects for the Sunday P rsonals, . . There' are the "Get Rich the next five years and spend Quick" offer trying to meet their efforts in alleviating the some poor suI's dream. There causes of loneliness. Not just are th!,! "pers nal advice" offers 'loneliness for the ,old, . although . for those wh are afraid of or they are the most lonely, but can't afford p ychiatrists. There also for the divorced, the retard-' are those sad leas from parents, ed, the alcoholic, the imprisoned, "Do'nnie, plea e come home. We the hypocondriac, the beaten. child, the unloved child, the solmiss you. All s forgiven." dier, the celibate, the insecure, Christ an Action the addict and the failure. . There are a s speaking to the .Until we work at the roots of metaphysical, the pornographic, some of these term'imll cases of the vegetari n, the unwed loneliness, we won't get beyond mother, and t e ·lonely. Most of the "pay us to caU him" stage. all, the lonel . The dating bu- '1 am sure that many desperate- . reaus do a hea business in the ly lonely people will welcome a Sunday Per onals: "Lonely call from· a commercial outlet rancher, 50, eeds petit non- or from a patio roofer, for that smoking wid w. Call Date-a-' matter. A call indicates life, ../ . match"; or '.'Tired of sitting something that the lonely have home on Satu day night? So is lost. the one desti ed for you. Call Ju~t One Person . Computer-Wed" And so on.

But to use a call as a substiBut the ad I saw yesterday really tears at my heart. Here it tute for people is not only de. meaning, it is unchristian. In a is: "Friendly· V ices Gives Your .nation filled with Christians, we Loved Ones P otection. Friendly have enough people "looking for Voices is a ew- organization Christian activity" to adopt that calls your loved ones daily. every lonely person in the land.

Talks with the to be sure they Just one person. We don't need are all right. e call older peo- to get an orga'nization together ple and anyon who is confined and get lists of lonely. We to their home or who simply know the lonely. If we are new gets lonely. T is is a 'Lifeline' in and aren't aware of some of for them andl ou will be more the people, we can give a call to comfortable k owing they are local nursing homes, welfare ofReasonable fices, jails, school counselors, .contacted da Iy. hospitals, and discover the rates," needs.

Discovering the needs isn't· New irector" enough, however. Meeting the WASHINGT N (NC)-Father needs of just one lonely person Edgar Holden h s been appointed is enough. It will give more' purdevelopment di ector of the U.S. pose to the Christian's life than Catholic Conf rence's Division all the bridge luncheons ever for Latin Arne ica. Father Hol- devised. den, a· Francisc n, had been de- .

That's because we're baptized velopment dire tor at the Center Christians, responsible for one for Applied esearch in the another. It's because we take Apostolate her and was direc- seriously Christ's words, "I was tor of his com unity's mission a stranger and you made me . development ogram' for 2'1 welcome; naked and you clothed years. He repl ces Kenneth E. me, sick and you visited me, in Boxler. prison and youcslme to see me,'.' ,

ELECTED: Bro. Alphonsus Dwyer, CFX, has b~en named provincial of the Arne ric a n Northeastern Province of the Xavierian Brothers with headquarters in Newton Highlands. The new leader has held teaching and administrative positions in the order since his entrance in 1938. .

Prelate Stresses Youth's Idealism MAROUBA JUNCTION (NC) -Archbishop James Freeman of Sydney said there is "a' solid strain of idealism and generosity" in\modern youths and that "we ask and expect too little" of them.

"If rather than being turned in on themselves by selfishness within or by criticism from without, they could be made to see' the claims of Our Divine Lord as a challenge to their idealism, the needs of their fellow men ·as a challenge to their generosity, and the decadence around them as a challenge to their dignity, they would startle us by their response, the Austra}iian prelate told a school ceremony ·here. . "That growing boys and girls today have difficulties cannot be denied," the archbishop said.

"Some. roundly condemn them and leave it at that. Others claim that they cannot understand" them, and make no effort to try," The archbishop said that there are many youths "who in spite of the world in which they live are models of generosity and integrity.

"If they are seldom heard of it is often because the news media do not always consider them -newsworthy."

In addition to the normal difficulties of adolescence, he said, the young person today "has to contend with a mass-market which tries to promote him and his fellows into a lucrative proposition in terms of dress, amusements and attitudes.

"He has to contend also with the demands of his own peer group, which often makes .demands on him that border on tyranny, even in matters of religion and morality, and which try to reduce ~im to a rigid conformity."

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Rather than celibacy, he attributed .the exodus of priests to "a combination .of reasons" - a sense . of powerlessness, little voice in important decisions and· unclear goals in s0!l!e jobs.

On vocations, he said a sharp change in structure and attitudes is required to reverse the present picture. . Offering a mild defense for the controver:sial . vocations ad in Playboy magazine several months ago, he said the Church is "using every means available" to increase vocations. Acknowledging "a little static" over the ad'!! appearance -in the magazine, he said "most priests simply laughed, sOIJ)e were uptight."

Minority Groups He said the ad did bring results, possible 12 serious candidates for the priesthood, and said a partial explanation for the ad's success in such an unlikely medium -is a revolt again~t "a society getting sick with itself,"· He also predicted a larger role for women in Church activities, although not necessarily ordination to the priesthood. .He said there was a good possibility of the ord-ination of married men ·within the next 20 years.

On the issue of vocations among minority groups, he said the Church has been "largely neglectful," He called for more bishops from minorities; particularly blacks 'and chicanos.

Msgr. MacDonald's cautious optimism paralleled the analysis of Serra President Edwin Borserine; who told delegates Mon, day that "Serra's work is just beginning."

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Msgr. Colin Macponald, who heads the U. S. bishops' office studying the priesthood, said he has found "a renewed sense of hope and confidence" among American clergy, but he sees no cure-all for the problems affecting the priesthood.

Responding to questions from the press, Msgr. MacDonald said,. the bishops' studies have shown that the Church in the United States loses 2.3 priests for every newly' ordained one. He quickly Elxplained that the figures include priests who retire or die, as well' as those who leave the priesthood for personal reasons. .He sees the trend continuing and said he doesn't "know when we will reach the bottom," Authority Issue The priest said the Church is "still in troubled waters," naming the period from 1966 to 196~ as the most turbulent years for the priesthood in a genera.l period of unrest following the Second Vatican Council.

Authority in th.e Church·-not the question of optional celibacy is the biggest issue with priests, Msgr.. MacDonald found in his travels, which have taken him more than 85,000 miles during the past year in his role as executive dire~tor of the Office for Priestly Life and Ministry.

In his talk· to Serrans, the priest .said the desire to marry can often be the last straw, prompting those already pll:!gued by loneliness and discouragement to leave the priesthood.

Combination of Reasons Both studies and talks with priests -around the country have confirmed his belief that celibacy is far down the list of major problems of priests. But celibacy can become "the end factor" when accompanied by "dominant problems" of loneliness and dis-

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Cardinal Ricketts Asks Rotarians Aid Third World

THE ANCHORThurs., July 6,

HOUSTON (NC)-The future of humanity depends "to a great degree" on the countries of the Third World, the underdeveloped ~ations, an archbishop from Latin America told the convention of Rotary International here.

Cardinal Juan Landazuri Ricketts of Lima, Peru, told the Rotarians that he comes "from a country which belongs to the socalled Third World or is in the process of development," according to the Texas Catholic Herald, diocesan weekly here.

"I do not mean by this that it is the only problem of humanity," Cardinal Landazuri said.

"But I have the personal convic~ tion that this problem is the most urgent since it affects two-thirds of humanity and even its own survival. And such a situation of anguish cannot but affect the developed countries inasmuch as their' own well-being is conditioned by the growing integration of all peoples. ."It is within the countries of the Third World and in their turbulent awakening toward an integral development that the future of humanity is at stake to a great degree," Cardinal Landazuri said.

The Rotarian ideal of "service and fraternity," he said, can help solve the problems of developing U.N. ENVIRONMENT TALKS: Ambassador Alfonso Santa Cruz, of Chile, chats with nations.

Father Henri de Riedmatten, head of the Vatican delegation to the U.N. environment conIdeal of Service Citing the problems of poverty, ference, during a break in the proceedings in Stockholm, Sweden. In a speech, Father illiteracy, . and malnutrition. de Riedmatten stated "Harmony can be restored between men and nature." NC Photo. throughout the world, he said, "We cannot remain indifferent before such an unjust situation which affects millions of human He urged the conference to re- 10Wl mystery of molecular chemBy RUNE THURINGER beings, living in misery, hunger, member "those living in the istry . . . impinge on the fine and subject to oppression. It STOCKHOLM, Sweden (NC)- slums, the workers in conditions balance and mechanisms of the will be precisely those who pos"Harmony can be restored be- of starvation or brutalization total system in ways and with sess an ideal of service and fratween men and nature" only if and the innocent victims of wars consequences that we too often ternity who will seriously ponder are in no position to judge." these problems and will struggle man is willing to be more in- and conflicts." stead of wanting to have more, One point is surely clear, more generously to find a soluVatican Concerned . the head of the Vatican delegaWard said. "There are limits. tion.

"Sometimes we may have the tion recently told the United Father De Reidmatten con- 'Phe biosphere is not i'bfinite.

Nations Conference on the Huimpression that the most practicluded by saying that the Vati- Populations must become stable. man Environment. cal help to be extended to a discan is concerned and feels re- So must the demands they make.

"The present technological tant country is a financial consponsible for the deterioration "But in that case, whose uptribution or a contribution of civilization has compromised the of monuments and works of art. ward aspirations must first be basic interrelationship between material goods. It goes without The Vatican museums, he said, checked? Given finite resources, saying that these aids are of im- man and his environment," ,have launched scientific studies we cannot evade this basic social De Riedmatten told Father Henri mense value. But of greater on how to preserve better suoh issue. Where are the restraints value would be a change of men- the meeting, and has made man works. to be put? What is to be retality with regard to the most want to have more.

Vatican laboratories, he said, duced, the luxuries of the rich De Riedmatten also Father serious problems of humanity. have developed an electrochem- or the necessities of the poor?

The well-being of mankind will heads the Vatican's Cor Unum ical treatment of bronzes that What are the pr路iorities-a deoffice, which coordinates the follow from that change of perlessens the effects of corrosion. cent human environment for the spective rather than from any work of Catholic relief' agencies at the environIn another talk whole human species or riohes throughout the world. concrete help."

Environment and development, ment conference, Barbara Ward, for some and squalor for the the priest said, are not two in- British Catholic economist, listed majority? . . . as nations, as a Colombian Bishops dependent values. "Every attack three concepts being forced upon planet, we are compelled to conon the environment," he said, us that offer us "a startling front the fundamental issues of Return to School break from past patterns of choice and justice."

MEDELLIN (NC)-Colombia's "reveals an imperfect conception thought and accepted wisdom.

60 bishops are going back to of development. ... Environment Collective PoUution -It is possible to make the school for refresher courses and the proper management of it earth a planet unfit for life; It is true, she said, "that the taught by theologians and others, are' indeed a part of develop-There are strict physical including French Cardinal Jean ment, influencing in a decisive "limits to growth" and popula- cumulative effect of the separate actions of separate soverign manner the satisfaction of man's Danielou. tions "must become stable;" governments can, over time, infundamental needs: survival, For five weeks in July and -The "effective' instruments jure the basic national needs of August the bishops will attend health, education of the indistudy sessions and workshops on vidual-the cultural and social of judgment, decision and action all of them. are separate national governVatican II Church renewal direc- balance of the nations."

"If our 'airs and oceans can ments" and nations must act to- stand only so much strain before De Reidmatten critiFather tives as they apply to Church cized the lack of young people gether to prevent "a creeping they lose their capacity for selfneeds in Colombia. participating in the environment planetary disaster." purification, it will help no govAmong the lecturers, besides conference.

The implementation Ward said that "air, soil and ernment to say that others were Cardinal Danielou, are路 Bishop Eduardo Pironio, secretary gen- of the things discussed at tne water form a totally interdepen- responsible. The most flagrant eral of the Latin American Bish- conference, he said, will depend dent worldwide system or bio- case is clearly the risk of nuclear sphere sustaining all life. ops' Council; Father Roger on the yo~nger generations. conflict and planetary nuclear The worst pollution, the VatiThe economist, also a column- pollution. We may rejoice that Vekemans, a sociologist; Father Joseph Ratzinger of the Univer- can representative said, is mis- ist for NC Features, said that a number of intergovernmental sity of Regensburg, Germany; ery, and "the most destitute are "our suddenly and vastly in- agreements now limit atomic and Colombian theologians, suffering the heaviest from the creasing numbers, our enormous t~sting in the air, keep nuclear Fathers Alberto Galindo, David deterioration of the environ- rise in the use of energy, 路includ- weapons from the seabed, outer Rapkin and Fernando Velasquez. ment." ing nuclear energy, and our fabu- space and Antartica. . . .

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Private Colleges Get $7 Million TRENTON (NC)-A law providing $7 million in state aid for private colleges was signed

by Gov. William T. Cahill.

The aid measure stemmed from lengthy negotiations between representatives of the State Board of Higher Education and the New Jersey Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Negotiations for 路the private schools were carried on

by Father Edmund G. Ryan, S.J., executive vice-president of St. Peter's College, Jersey City.

Under the new legislation, private colleges will receive a $600 bonus for each additional state resident they enroll over the preceding year, and a subsidy for each holdover state resident student-$175 for freshmen and sophomores and $225 for juniors and seniors.

The law also enables the' state to purchase specialized graduate school services from private universities and to reimburse the schools for certain types of office and library equipment and supplies. "'lllIIIIlIIIIIIII1ll111111111l111l1l1ll1l11111'1111"11111111111l'1111111111111111ll1llIlluml"1111111111111"

"But we could collectively pollute the planet not 'with a bang but a whimper'-by the small, steady accumulation of longlasting poisons and pesticides, or chemicals and tailings, of eroded soil and detritus and reach, almost inadvertently, a creeping planetary disaster to which all have separately made their cumulative contribution. No single nation can avert this risk as numbers and activities rise. Its control will be achieved by nations acting together-or not at all. . . .

"The relentless pursuit of separate national interest by rich and poor alike can, in a totally intendependent biosphere, produce global disasters of irreversible environmental damage. . . .

"We can damage the entire biosphere. Resources are not unlimited. States acting separately can produce planetary disaster."

Ward said that "the great ethical system of mankind-in India, in China, in the Middle East, from the benign wisdom of Confucius to the passionate so-. cial protest of the Hebrew prophets"-all seek "to express an underlying moral reality, that we live by moderation, by compassion, by justice, that we die by aggression, by pride, by . rapaCity and greed."

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Pro ucts ofSea and'Gardens.' ' Hel s for Happy Summer 'By Joe and Marilyn Roderick of the joys of the garden can be found in reproducing lants of ~ome value so that from one plant you can end up with twenty or more over the: years. The process of 'repr duction is ordinarily slow but with some plants a great eal can be done in see to it that our summer life -is a short eriodof time. We a more carefree one than our have al ays been very suc- winter one, especially in the area cessful ith azaleas and our ·of food:

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Garden Fresh There re a number of ways As the roadside stands fill up to reprod ce azaleas - but the easiest a d most successful is with the bounty of the summer through ounding. The process garden, we find that most of is simple. Merely take a branch these vegetables and fruits need whicn fal s close to the ground little adornment-their freshness and impl t the stem poition in . and natural flavor are enough. the grou d so that the leaves Here you <:an cut down on the rise up a ve ground. This can work. . Serve your famliy these be done b using a stake to hold foods at their peak and leave' all the stem down (I use a bent the fussing for ,the dull winter clothes ha ger in the shape of a months.

Another delight, especially in U upside own) which holds the this area is the abundance of stem in lace.

The ne t step is to mound fresh seafood that is available. good soil ver the stem (a hand- Scallops, cl~ms, lobster (if you ful of pe t moss can be added can afford to spend your weekly to the soil and place a flat rock food allow,ance on one meal), over the ound. The rock only cod, salmon-the list goes on and serves to urther the branch in on and the pleasures do too.

July and August are the place. In a year or two, the will take root and months when cooking should be azalea sf produce it own rooting system kept at a minimum and our and may then be disconnected accessibility to the bounties of from ,the other plant to be re- neighboring farms and waters can do nothing but help us in planted in the garden. this area.

P inIess Work This is the season when we This me hod works extremely can't get enough of the just well and i painless. Nothing else need to b done until the time bounty of the sea, therefore we the plant s to be moved., From are always looking for unusual a beginni g of one azalea it is ways to· serve them. This folconceivabl that one can repro- lowing recipe comes from Mrs. duce as m ny as ten full-grown William Ferry of Dighton and I specimens in five years. In 'our came across it in a gem of a garden we have at least ten full- cookbook, the Dighton Historical sized Mill s which were repro- Society Cookbook.

Stuffed Quahogs' duced in t is way and a number 1 med. onion ' of smalle plants which will reach full size in a couple of' 8 stalks of celery 10 medium quahogs (cooked) years.

1 egg In the Wtchen 16 slices old bread or The ba is for reproduction, % Ib.soda crackers 2 to 4 teaspoons (depending on however, h s to be a full-grown taste) poultry seasoning parent pIa that is in good con1 Tablespoon parsley dition an a 'stem which ill Y2 to % cup juice from quahog re~sonably tender and not an 1 teaspoon red ground cayenne overgrown, older stem. The more pepper or Y2 pound chourico ,florid the tern, the bigger the 1) Grind the onion,celery plant that can be reproduced and the qui ker the plant will be and quahogs together. productive.

2) Mix with this mixture the Summert me is fun time. The remaining ingredients and moisttime of. th year when we get en with enough hot water to some of t ose books read that make it have the consistency of we wanted to read, manage to dressing. ' 3) Fill the shells, close and attend som of the areas' summer theate s, and all in all live bake in a 350· oven for 45 mina much m re casual existence utes. , than we do uring the hectic fall, winter, and spring seasons when Violence Postpones sociai oblig tions overwhelm us.

If I beii ed in reincarnation Solving I~roblems VATICAN CITY (NC)-ResortI would sw ar that at one time or other I' been a seagull for ing to violence only postpones an nothing rna es me feel more at equitable solution to problems, a home than walk along a sandy Vatican Radio editorial.stated in beach and the sound of the commenting on the ceasefire orwaves po nding against the, dered in North,ern Ireland by the shore of an number of beauti- militant ProvL'iional wing of the ful beaches in this area.. 1 keep Irish Republiean Army (IRA).

The so-called Official wing of . suggesting 0 Joe that it might be fun to ecome beach bums the IRA ordered « ceasefire in and let the est of the world go May. by but pro ably the dreaming "One can only hope that the , about this i more fun than the parties (Catholics and Protest-actual livin of it would be. ' ants) in' Northern Ireland' profit While rno t tif us can't spend from the truce by convincing the whole ummer walking the themselves that the ways of.viomiles and m les of sand to forget "leil'ce o<orify' "liostpone" 'equitable the troubles of the world, we,can solutions," thl~ editorial said. r

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DISCUSS PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AID: White House: Cardinal John Krol, of Philadelphia, center, and John Gurash, left, are shown at the White House (6/22/72) as they discussed possible aid to parochial schools with PrE~sident Richard M. Nixon. NC Photo.

Nixon, Endorses Tax' C:redit ,Legislation, WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon told Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia at a meeting here that the administration has' . endorsed· legislation proposing tax credits for parents of children attending non-public schools.

At the White House meeting, John Gurash, chairman of a Philadelphia archdiocesan committee that analyzed the financial situation of Catholic schools there, presented a copy of the committee's report to the President. The report predicts that Philadelphia Catholic schools, now $4 million in debt will be $55 million in, debt by 1975.

"The President was extremely sympathetic" to' the plight described by the report, Cardinal Krol told NC News.

Noting that the President has in the past endorsed the principle of aid to non-public schools, Cardinal Krol said that Nixon "used the occasion of this meeting to take a second step."

The President told the cardinal and Gurash that Caspar W. Weinberger, director of the Office 'of Management and Budget, had written to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D.Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, to express the administration's support for "the intent of H. R. 13495."

That bill proposes a limited credit against individual income tax for tuition· paid for the nonpublic and elementary and sec'ondary education of dependents. ."Alternatives to the public

school which support the diver- induce schools to' raise tuition sity ,of our society should be" rates in order to increase their preserved," Weinberg,er told revenues by capturing the credit.

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"In so doing, the schools Specific Legislation would reduce the number of low The significance of the letter, and moderate income families Cardinal Krol sai~, is that it who could afford to send their "puts the; administration. belJ.ind '_ childr~n _to nonpubli,c scl!pols. specific legislation." Weinberger, ,The '100 per cent up to $200' he. said, is "an administrative credit gives dollar-for-dollar Republican supporting the con- credit and may thus completely cept of Mills' bill." The cardinal or nearly completely pay for tuipointed out that in Jhe letter tion in the case of many low "some modifications are sug- income families with children gested and recommended with having scholarships or attending . the hope of improving tlhe bene- low tuition schools." fits proposed by the bill."

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Problems of Modernization Seek Bil ingual Bishops Far 'Harder than Expected Spanish-Speaking WASHINGTON (NC)-Leaders A unanimously passed resoluDivision. officials estimate

When in the Synodal Document, "Justice in the World," of the country's 14-million Spanwe turn to the section "the right to development," we en- ish-speaking Catholics want more counter a lot of extremely difficult, dense writing in whiCh Spanish-speaking priests apthe. effort is made, in ,a few paragraphs, to describe all pointed as bishops in every diocese with 35 per cent or more of the current dramas and di"Hispanos." state, flirting with old fashioned lemmas of the developing imperialism-with fleets in the Mexican Americans, Puerto nations. At the core is their Indian Ocean-and reluctantly Ricans and other Latin Amersearch in the last half of the conceding to its people the cars ican immigrants are called "His-

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But even if the language is very difficult, what is being said is of decisive importance for Christian conscience and human destiny. First of all, the text reminds us that the old 19th century idea of progress-the "de- terministic and automatic notion of progress"-is simply no longer credible. However much the thrusts of market economies or of socialistic states suggest that every nation will, in some predetermined fashion, move away from subsistence agriculture to high technology, from early death to good health, from illiteracy to education, from backbreaking work to pressing buttons and flicking switches, this is not in fact the way things happen.

Two Kinds of Progress By something of a simplification we can say that two kinds of "automatic progress" have dominated men's minds in the recent decades. We can look first at the Marxist version. Each society, Marx maintained, had within it the seeds of its own' disintegration and its replacement by new social forms.

Under feudalism, for instance, the merchants, lending money to kings and profiting from the rivalries of the barons, grew strong and pursued the capitalistic system. But within that system, the massing of workers in factories, exploited, underpaid, growing continuously poorer as the rich grew richer, could lead to explosive revolt and the birth of the socialist order. Hence, howev.er, the newer laws of disintegration would cease since, under socialism, no one could use economic power to exploit others . There could be no more revolts. All' would share, "from each according to his capacity, to each. according to his needs."

Of course, after 50 years of Russian communism, we know that this kind of automatic progress does not take place. The concentration of economic and political power 'in a Byzantine bureaucracy produces a slow moving, centralized, traditional

Egoism Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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and consumer goods the Atlantic states have long enjoyed.

In short, the vast revolution, the visions' of Marx, the dreams of Lenin, the ugly terror of Stalin, are all producing a bureaucratic vision of marrying and love, it is an anti-climax.

As a_ version of the future, it is frankly rather a bore.

Not China Either So radical hopes have shifted to China where certainly cleanliness, order, shared poverty, factory managers cleaning floors and barefoot doctors in the countryside make up a more .attractive and puritan picture.

Yet here too the hold of history and the emergence of tradition suggest not the automatic progress of all mankind under China's "revolutionary vanguard," but a hard struggle to prevent the ideals of 1949 from being swamped by "Mandarin" bureaucracy at home and by typical Gr~at Power interests abroad.

It was hardly the heroic Chinese supporters of the downtrodden peasantry who supported Yahya Kahn's attempt as President of Pakistan to suppress by massacre the poorest peasants In the world, the tragic peo- . pIe of Bangia Desh.

But what of the market economies? We too had our theory that with enough capital mobilized at home, with a critical in. put of foreign aid, the developing nations would follow us through "stages of growth" from subsistence to preparations to take off to sustained growth to high c(\nsumption. Then finally the whole world would enjoy versions of the Atlantic economy of mass consumption.

But two things have happened.

On the one hand, the rich nations' contribution of capital has not grown. On the contrary, official aid to development is now less than 0.3 per cent a year (during the Marshall Plan, America gave away 2 per cent of a much smaller GNP).

Not Automatic Moreover, the obstacles to modernization - high population growth, an exploding labour force confronting industry that requires more machines than men, vast urban migrations and steadily rising unemployment - all prove that the tasks of modernization are longer and more difficult .than the theorists imagined. Above all, they are' not "automatic" in any sense.

So we face the fact, as the Synodal Document reminds us, that all theories based on the idea that "history will do it for us" are exploded. Development is not wafted to us on the wings of chance or resolution or as a by-product of pursuing the eco~ nomic interests of already rich lands. It is a task, a duty, a destiny, a right, a "categorical imperative." It passes to us the stark question: What will we do?

tion stated that "every diocese which has a population of 35 per cent or more (of Spanishspeaking) should have an Ordinary-bicultural and bilingualor, in the absence of an Ordinary, an auxiliary bishop with full authority to work with the Spanishspeaking community."

Sedillo stressed that this Is the first priority of efforts in Spanish-speaking communities in the immediate future.

"For the first time in the history of the C3tholic Church in the United States, Hispanos from Boston to Wyoming, and Miami to, California are making united efforts toward thIs goal," he said.

Notably absent at the Encuentro was the word "Chicano" which in the past has been used for members of the MexicanAmerican community. Leaders explained this by ~aying they are seeking to make the larger Spanish-speaking cultural community, including Puerto Ricans and others, the focus of their efforts.

there are 20 U. S. dioceses where more than a third of the Catholics speak Spanish.

"Should the Church in the United States have a separate set of con.cerns and pastoral directives for the Spanish-speaking?" Sedillo asked. "Should it establish a group of bishops enpanos" because they use the tirely devoted to their spiritual Spanish language and share cul- and social needs?" turid traits inherited from their "The discussion showed an Iberian ancestors. evident frustration that the Religion is one, and whether Spanish-speaking community is or not their ethnIc characteristics . not being served adequately by will survive for several more the present structures of the generations, they want special Church in America," Sedillo said.

At one of the sessions Auxilattention from the Church. iary Bishop Patrick Flores of The desirability of such special San Antonio, Tex., remarked attention was one of the most that "we have been victims of hotly debated topics at the first oppression, discrimination, semiEncuentro Hispano de Pastoral slavery,. poorly paid for our held here, according to Paul Se- work. . . . And yet the Church dillo, head of the Division for the keeps silent."

SpanIsh-Speaking of the United First PrIority States Catholic Conference (USCC). The division sponsored Evidently Spanish-speaking the meeting of some 250 leaders leaders want more spokesmen in mid-June. like him.

Ifour kids don't take~, then howcome there's snell a serious drug problem?

A lot of good kids are using drugs. Our kids.

Niee kids. And Ihey're laking lOiS of lhem. They sniff them. They smoke them. They shoot Ihem with needles in") veins. They swallow them. The)' gel so they ean't live without them. They get hun.

Pushers gel rich. And Ihe kids'? They die. Or . mayhe even worse. Ihey damage Ihemselves forever.

What do you know ahoul drugs'? Do you know what speed is'! What il can do'? What LSD is'! H,,,,

Ihis Provinee so all you have In do IS pic'k Ihem up.

You don'l have to huy anything. You don't even have to asl< for them. Just pick up Ihe pamphlel' and read them until you stan 10 understand some of the Ihings Ihal an: going on.

Then ,tan looking around you. Seriously. l.ook for kids whose eyes look lilo.c thc-y'n: SOIllC,," hl'fC else. They probahly are. Look for kid, who are horrnwin!! more money than is usual. Kcl'p on looking and looking and looking. And Ii'ten. LISten 10 whatlhe kid, have to sa~. Wh~ Ihe~ arc sa~ ing II. Then sian doing ,omelh ing. Because tha"s what this whole thing is aOuul. Doin!! smllclhing ahoUI a serious and widespread problem.

Seriou, hec'ause thi, problem i, self·inll.c'led.

Serious because sOTllcwhcrc stlllk,thin!!. is \'en V"'Hl!!. when the alternative is a oru!!.. S\.·rillu,~hccau~l.·;1 101"of good kids arcn'c so !!OOU ;:;n~ more.

They're our kid,. I.e", help them. ~ollighlthem.

it few.:I!'>? 00 you know what amphetamine!'! arc"!

Heroin'! Cocaine'? Mescaline') Hashish'? DMT'?

Do )'OU know what a "head" is'! A .. Hi .. ··! A "Drop",?

Or --Ac'id"'! Well. you should know. All of us had heller find out and we'd heller lind oUI fast. just whal we"re doing. And no one i~ immune Ixcau~c drug ahuse is happening everywherc.

We're trying In help. We've put allihe drug facts we can Ihink of in easY-lo-read pamphlels. And we've pUlthe booklets in almost every drugstore in

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image we might place on, a certain task.

Today's Demands In the past, we have acted pretty much on the premise that certain traits and abilities are particular to one or the other . of the sexes. Under examination,

Where is the logical· place to begin such a subject? Where else but with the woman. In our present society, woman is faced with -all sorts of conflicting signals about her role. The media presents her with so many varieties of life styles and diverse values, that what she sees is confusion. She reacts, and feels pressured. If she operates on emotion, she is called a reacThe speed limit is set at 70 and how our limits are detertionary female; if she operates by logic, she is called unfeminine. m.p.h. What is the challenge in mined.

It is relatively easy for many The most obvious example is trying to exceed it? The answer perg,:>n to could ,vary from one of us to realisticaIly see our talthe woman's movement-which carries both positive and negative the next. For one it could be ents as well as our shortcomings. forces. On the positive side, it see how often it can be done We can spend a considerable attacks discriminatory laws and before the highway patrol im- amount of time charting assets unequal occupational opportuni- poses a fine. 'For another it anc;l liabilities from our personal" ties. To accomplish this, women could be the fact that the road reflection. We can obtain quite are seeking the help of men. On is a straight road clear of water an adequate picture of ourselves the whole, this is fine with the or ice. For another it could! be a from the inside out. That picture men, especially if the battle is defiance of law and authority. does not always match the one which others see as they look at fought out there, somewhere, us from the outside. without getting too close.

It seems a natural desire for However, the movement preBy many people to want to lead 'sents a negative tone when it others to something. Many of turns its attention to the role us try to convince ourselves that structure in marriage and family JOAN we can save the world by reachlife. Then we are no 'longer askHEIDER ing the masses. We drive hard ing men to help us correct social daily to collect the data and inequities, but to be themselves techniques with which to imthe object of our actions. press our audience.' We have Equilibri~ Upset The fact that limits are set is untiring energy for this.' producThis comes too close to home.' a fact of life. We- need .limits. tion package which we will hand The security of programmed learning from past generations is Some of our limits are imposed out. Nothing is too milch for no longer adequate. Equilibrium from outside ourselves. Other the cause.

Limit and Elimination is upset. .No matter what value limits we impose upon ourTh~ area we need to'limit to judgments we have chosen, we selves. The consideration ·we must prove them right, if only have to make is not whether we make this possible is the are~ of .Turn to Page Eighteen - for our own peace of mind. ,We need limits, rather what, where, ask ourselves questions like: Who are we? What are we doing?

And why?

Frequently the one asking th~ questions is the male of the spe~ cies. He is also confused. He A famous radio announcer tion. thought, this whole man-woman once made weekly "Predictions Now I go out on a limb again thing was pretty predictable. of Things to Come." I am not and suggest that a companion Now he finds that the words he sure he gave faithful reports on volume, "Christian Readings," has been seeing in print may be- the accuracy of his glances into also produced by the Catholic. come part of his life. Words such the future, but those' sometimes Book Publishing Company in as: "her self-fulfillment;" "her well-founded, sometimes wild New York, will meet with comcareer;" "the problem ofhan~ guesses certainly kept listeners parable success. This means dling separate' incomes;" "the interested. In this week's article, that it, too, should assume a sigoption of being a working I want to comment on a past nifieant and integi'al role in the mother;" "continued education;" prediction of my own and offer prayer life of many priests, reli"shifting role responsibilities." one for the coming months, gious and .lay persons.

No wonder he's frightened.

Just prior to last Christmas I Somewhat Awkward His mother didn't talk this way.

The volume (paperback, $3.50) After all, he was raised to be is first in series which will cover looked after. Now he finds himthe -two-year cycle of biblical exself with a whole new set of By cerpts as listed in the American rules. He is told marriage should Interim Breviary. In addition, be a partnership: -1:/Wo equal this .particular text, which runs FR. JOSEPH M. partners should blend their tal.lor four months from Easter to ents; each of them is somewhere CHAMPLIN : the 17th Sunday of the Church ' in the process of maturing; and Year, includes a different non· each looks to the other for acbiblical passage for each day of ceptance, ,affection and encour· that period. Subsequent similar agement.

Certain things are inherent in wrote in these pages that the editions will be issued at interthis plan: ' "Prayer of Christians" or "Amer- vals later until the total two year 1. When it becomes necessary, ican Interim Breviary" wo~ld pattern is in print.

The "Prayer of Christians," one party would carry the load· "enjoy great success around our of the other. . nation." I also ventured the view for all its excellent qualities, 2. The husband and wife that both clergy and religious limps rather badly in the Office should be secure enough in· brothers or sisters would quickly of Readings. The person praying themselves to tolerate the exist- . make this volume "a regular and this breviary either repeatedly ence of this equal partnership. important part of their daily reads the few biblical and non3. That the responsibilities of schedule." - Initial sale of this biblical selections contairied in home and family be' divided revised breviary (over 30,000 that relatively compact book or agreeably between, the partners according to reliable sources) must look up the specific scrip-regardless "o~ the male/fe~ale confirms, I believe, my predicTum to Page Nineteen-

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SION BY TIME: Traveling takes us into difones, adding to the confusion of time. Sesame gh its unique style of presentation, has been up some of the confusion reigning in' children's any topics. In one dialogue, they attempt to confusion surrounding Daylight Saving Time. and clocks are set to· different time zones. Because the sun travels from east to west, so must the hours 'be adjusted so that .when it is noon in New York it is still morning in California, So everyone set their watches to Seasame Street time which is two o'clock.

(One of t e more confusing things to ad ust to dilring the summer mont s involves timeespecially wh n we start dealing with Daylight Saving Time. Are we one hour ahead, or behind, the next state. Traveling takes us \ into different ime zones, adding Grover: Now we are all happy. to the confusi n,' Seasame Stree', through its u ique style of pres- ,Oh, }-Jerbert, you are such a entation has een able to clear .. good expert.

Herbert: Well, don't forget to up much of t e confusion reigning in childre 's minds on many set your watch~s back one hour topics. In this dialogue, they at- tom?rro~... ? tempt to c1ea up the confusion BIg BIrd. Why. . . surrounding Daylight Saving , Herbert: ~ecause t?at It. IS the Time.) end of DaylIght SavIng TIme. Hellooo, ev rybodeee. This is Gr?ver: ';hat do you mean, your old pal, rover, Yeah. And HerbIe baby. today we are oing to talk about . Herbert: Wel.l, Grover, Daytime. Do you know how to tell hght SavIng Time mea~ that time? Are you ure? Do not make yo~ allow yourself more suna mistake. W at is it, Big Bird? shIne .hours.

Big Bird: W 11, that's easy. I'll ' Erme: Sort of like sunny in check my wat h here. It is three the bank. .

Ber~: ErnIe.. o'clock.

Cookie Mo ster' Oh no no Erme: Rays III pay, no. It. is four o'c1~ck.·'Tim~· fo; Bert: ERNIE! cookies.

Herbert: Anyway, last spring Ernie: I'm s rry, but it is two you set your clocks ahead one o'clock. hour. Which means the light you used to have at five o'clock, you Bert: No. 0 e o'clock.

Grover: Wa t a minute, wait get at six. In addition, the roa minute (whi h is 60 seconds). tiltion ~f the earth brought even . Something mu t be wrong. Your more hght as June aproached.

All: Huh? mommies wo ld not be proud of you. Accord ng to my watch it Herbert: Trust me. So now we is Thursday. . come to winter, we put the hour Big Bird: it. Let's ask the back So now it will be lighter expert-Herbe t Birdsfoot. in themorriing and darker in the Herbert: The difficulty you are . evening.

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in the village, Rosa Maitland, leaves for an extended stay in Canada. Margaret goes up to London for a few days to see Rosa off.

Returning home, she notices some minor items in the house whic!l are not now as she recalls leaving them. But when a neighbOr, Major Felix Palmer, drops in, speaks of dangers even in so quiet an area as theirs, and offers any assistance she may need in an emergency, she is annoyed and virtually dismisses him.

But then she has to summon him in the middle of the night when she suspects that there is an intruder somewhere in the house. Palmer comes, they make a search, and in the attic they discover a girl of 16 who says her name is Chris. She is one of those scrawney hellcats with mesmeric eyes whom one meets quite often in fiction.

Palmer is all for calling the police and turning Chris over to them. But Margaret demurs, Something about Chris appeals to her. She decides to let the girl stay with her for six months, an arrangement which Chris's father later approves. Palmer, on the other hand, could hardly disapprove more.

Altruism is not the governing factor in Margaret's decision.

She is lonely and needs someone to need her. Chris seems to fit the bill perfectly. Margaret will look after her, give her advantages, improve her.

Chris is not abjectly grateful.

She takes all that Margaret offers,'but is often sullen and edgy.

She begins t::> manipulate the older woman. The reason for her conduct slowly emerges.

With Chris when she entered the empty house, was a young man, Ray Halloran. They were fleeing from the police when they came upon this perfect hiding place. Hailoran is still concealed on the premises.

Margaret accidentally finds him, and the two make her their prisoner. They ingeniously manage to keep the village from knowing her plight, and plan to dispose of her. You must read the book if you want to know how this situation is resolved.

Literate, Entertaining Is it worth reading? Well, more than 35 years ago I saw a play, entitled Kind Lady and

too plausible, and of very minor importance. The same can be said of this book.

Margaret Starr is in some re- , spects admirable. Certainly she is a kind lady. But she is not very bright, or at least she is not at all prudent. One can , credit her with charity for seeking to. help ~omeone who invaded her home. But not' incompatible with charity is consultation of the police on the occasion of a crime.

But maybe the decision not to get in touch with the police was made for Margaret by the author.

After all, how could the plot have thickened and the suspense tautened if a call had been put in to the police when it should have been-right in the middle of page 45?

In the case of Chris and Halloran, Miss Godden manages to convey an intense sensual relationship without going into anatomical sensationalism. Not so Joe McGinnis, author of The SeIling of the President, in his first novel, The Dream .Team (Random House, 457 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. $5.95).

The most frenetic passage of the sort comes at a point where such story as there has been is suddenly collapsing. But even the very blue business does not disguise the collapse.

The narrator is, a writer who has had an outstanding success with his very first book. He is nearing the end of a long and exhausting promotional tour. In San Francisco he is interviewed by a girl reporter named Jennifer and by a nasty radio celebrity named Barnaby Blaine.

Week in Florida Blaine and the writer - find that they have in common a passion for horse, racing. On the spur of the moment the writer joins Blaine on a trip to Florida, for a week at the Hialeah track.

The writer telephones his wife, in the East, to tell her his return i.s delayed, anri then takes Jennifer with him. There is to be "wild and sudden fun with strangers." But there isn't.

The idyllic week in Florida turns into disaster. The incessantly babbling Jennifer drives the others to distraction. She is always saying things like "I have such enormous potential . as a human being. It would be criminal to waste an ounce."

And, "My weaknesses are ,hard to figure out . . . I look in the mirror. I look into my soul and what I see is so good it scares me'."

Blaine says far less. But this supposedly foc!proof system of betting, based on archives and calculations rivaling the Pentagon's, doesn't work. The writer, weary of Jennifer, losses heavily at the track as the rain pours down day after day.

There is an unexpecten twist at the narrative's conclusioDl,· clever but insufficient to revive

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Margaret Starr, a middle-aged English widow, is the pivotal character in Jon Godden's new novel, Mrs. Starr - Lives Alone (Knopf,501 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022. $5.95). She does indeed live alone, in a spacious old house in the Kentish . countryside. She gets into adapted from a novel by Hugh . I h Walpole, which bore many simitrouble not entIre y as t e larities to Miss Godden's novel. title suggests, because she It was literate, entertaining, not lives alone.

She has two sons, both far away, one in Malaya, the other in Africa. Her only close friend

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MOTHER'S ROLE: When speaking of the evolving roles of husband and wife ip marriage, the logical place to start is with the woman, says Mrs. Joan Wren. She ,points out that today's woman "should be in the middle of things, getting involved; the secret of her success is openness~the willingness to assume many roles."

Husband and Wife in Marriage Continued from Page Sixteen before. Women can support themselves, be free to travel, and pursue their own interests.

They no longer search out the social and financial security of marriage as a matter of survival.

For the guy~the world is his oyster. It's made for bachelors.

Why should he complicate his life by assuming responsibility for anyone else?

So just in getting married, this couple takes a stand. Hopefully, they have looked at themselves and their life together through the eyes of reality. They have at least begun to know the other person's true self.

They will need a strong selfimage and enough confidence to responsibility add the names "husband and father," "wife and mother" to their identity. It is in these words, "father" and "mother" that we find the real challenge. In very few ways will the world of our children compare with the world of our childhood.

Creative and Confident A parent today only begins their job .by feeding, clothing

and loving their children. Parents today must prepare their children to meet a most changeable world. Many of the patterns of their society, and the jobs they will hold, don't yet exist. So, the most creative, confident and secure people will survive best.

Think for a moment of the magn'itude of the situation. Before we can be loving, we must have been loved. Before we can be accepting, we must first have felt accepted. And before we can instill security, we must first, ourselves, be secure.

Those who deny that the roles of wife and mother can be "fulfilling" are terribly misguided.

Today's woman should be in the middle of things. She should live in the moment, be interested, and respond by being involved.

She shares all she is with those she loves, and-as a resultbroadens their outlook. The secret of her success is opennesswillingness to assume many roles.

How long will' it take fo adjust our image of "husband" and "wife"? Probably a long, long time.

the reader's interest. Some funny lines and sequences are to be found in the book, but most of it is like the track at Hialeah during the nightmare team's, stay.

Dead of the House Hannah Green's The Dead of the House (Doubleday, 277 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. $5.95) is presented as a novel, but actually comprises three lengthy sketches drawn from "memory, record, and imagination."

The narrator is a young woman named Vanessa Nye, who has been brought up in a small town near Cincinnati and has summered for years in the Michigan woods. The focus of her recollections is her Grandfather Nye and his house.

Grandfather Nye has always been interested in his ancestors

and in the history of the region where he has spent his many years. He has taken pains to trace the family back through several generations, and he delights to tell who they were, what they did, and what happened to them. At several points, the book is, as it were, turned over to him for one of his recitals. ' The more intimate and human side of the Nyes and their relatives comes out in Vanessa's observation of her own generation, and, her grandparents' generation.

It returns one to previous periods in American history the Cincinnati and Ohio River country, for example, of the time of William Henry Harrison. It is good, too, in its depiction of times less complex and perhaps more innocent than our own.

Continued from Page Sixteen Big Bird: Who started this?

Herbert: Well, Ben Franklin :;;uggested it in 1784.

Ernie: Add a year to it so you have more daylight.

Bert: Ernie, will you stop it?

Herbert: But the idea didn't catch hold until this century.

Ernie: Add a decade or two.

Herbert: England used the idea first. It was adopted during the. war years to allow for more productivity. Other countries picked it up and America started it in the Forties.

Big Bird: But what has this got to do with us? We don't work.

Grover: I know, B.B., but the system allows us to have more time to play and be together with our daddies and mommies. We can go outside and romp.

Ernie: Romp? Like in Romper Room?

Bert: Yes, Ernie. The hour gives us time to play during the summer. During the winter when the yecchy snow is around, we don't need it.

Grover. And the children love the hour because they stay up later and do not go to sleep when it is light.

Big Bird: 'Maybe the mommies are happy when Standard Time returns.

Grover: So we should all thank Mr. Franklin for the idea which allows us to have fun in the summertime.

Bert: So, Ernie, now do you understand it?

Ernie: Sure. But, tell me, where do we get that extra hour?

Bert: Oh, Ernie.

Nun Administrator Of County Hospital CINCINNATI (NC) - Sister Mary Antonita Mettert has been named the first nun - and the first woman-to serve as administrator of Drake Memorial Hospital, an institution ~or the chronically ill operated by Hamilton County.

The 44-year-old Sister will turn over her $20,000 a year salary to her community, the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor.

Robert Reckman, Hamilton county commissioner, said he saw no church-state conflict in Sister Mary Antonita's appointment. "I 'just see this as the appointment of the best possible person," he said.

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HE ANCHOR-Diocese of ~all River--Thurs., July 6, 1972

Po uJati,on Controllers' Ha e Other Things in Mind very much afraid that the recent statement of the .

Americ hierarchy on the report of the President's population c mmission went largely unnoticed even by American Ca holies. The credibility of the Church as a teacher of sex a d morality has been In an art:lcle of the same issue, so <lama ed that even devout Samuel McCracken quotes one Catholic respond with a of the population enthusiasts, mild "h hum" whenever the a certain Martha K. Willing, as bishops s eak out on such matters.

Such a ituation is unfortunate because owever serious world-

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wide problems may be and h wever desirable some kind of z ro population growth will ultim tely bElCome in this country, any of those who are so enthu iastically supporting population limitations have other things in mind.

Norman Podhoretz, 'the editor of Comm ntary, recently made some telli g points on the subject in th May, 1972, issue. He writes: "A ter all, the intellectual leaders of his movement are not pure popu ation controllers concerned on y with numbers and willing to let a stabilized or 'reduced p pulation do what it wanted w th space which had been secur d for it. They tend to hold stron views on the nature of the go d life, and most of eir own admission, them, by would be singularly unhesitant about imp sing these views on others if ey were ever given the chance."

Podhore goes on to describe a meeting e attended in which a number of scientists argued for "positi euthenasia"of mon, goloid inf nts.· "One very distjnguished scientist," Podhoretz says, "told me he saw no reason why anyon who accepted abortion shoul balk at infanticide, particularl when the infant in question ' as known to be defective, wh reas fetus to be aborted may b nermal and sound."

Soci ist Agencies Podhoret 's reply is at least as forceful s anything the Catholic Church has ever said on the subject of • right to life." "'Certainly,' I sid, 'mongoloids are defective, b t so are many other kinds of pe pIe. Some are blind, some are eaf, some are halt, some are I mC', and some have missing li bs. Some are given to madness and some are prey to disease. f mongoloids can be put to deat , why not these and these? Wh not everyone 'who fails of bsolute perfection?'

Not overly bothered by any of this, he sh ugged and went on to tell me colleague of his, a molecular b ologist of the greatest renown who believes that no newbor infant should be declared hu an until it passed certain test regarding its genetic endow ent. If it fails these, tests, it forf its the right to live/" .~

wondering whether those with a strain of diabetes in their genes should be permitted to have children. Mrs. Willing concedes that we can treat such people now and that they can be "valuable and happy citizens," but, she says, "in a disruptive natural or unnatur,:l1 disaster, this vulnerable population would not make it. 'Why, then, encourage, or permit them to expand their numbers."

McCracken notes ironically, "It is possible to distinguish this passage from your stock socialist in one way only: Mrs. Willing does not think that defectives are limited to a particular race."

Genetic Endowment Test I suppose I feel particularly threatened by this kind of eu- genies because there was some diabetes in my family backOUR LADY OF THE ATONEMENT , ground, and neither I nor my sisters nor my nieces ~nd nephews would be permitted to live in a society which Mrs. Willing' and her friends controlled, But then, gentle reader, I wouldn't be the only one. You

By Titus Cranny, S.A. refer to Mary: the Mother of probably wouldil't make it either.

God and the -Mother of the Let us put together several Church.

Are you lefthanded or near sighted? Is their a cardiac con- names, Nazareth, Bethlehem, the Mother of All dition in your family back- temple in Jerusalem, Cana, in The role of Mary in the life Galilee, Calvary, the Upper ground? Do you have a tendency of mankind is supported by the toward obesity? Do you have Room, the Book of Revelation.

Then we ask the question: how words of holy scripture We have the Rh factor in your blood? are these words related? What historical facts, but they ,are not If you have any of these liamerely details of history. They bilities, beware; you might not do they have in common? reveal Our Lady's character and be put to death, but you will not The answer is: they relate to be permitted to expand your the Virgin Mary in a unique her part in the salvation of men. numbers. If you are so pre- way' biblically, theologically and She is a common Mother for all sumptious as to have children, spiritually. Mary was the maid men because she is the Mother they will not be permitted to of Nazareth who received the of the divine Redeemer who died t for all men. live unless they pass the Gene- message from heaven that she tic Endowment Test. ' Pope John XXIII was fond of would be the Mother of God. She One might wish that the gave birth to that Son in the speaking of this dual motherhood bishops showed more awareness village of Bethlehem. When at of Mary. Thus he stated: "The of population problems, but on the age of twelve he was' lost Mother of Jesus who is our the "right to life" issue they are she found Him in the temple in Mother too-oh how I love to solidly on the side of human . Jerusalem teaching the doctors associate these two tiilles!-is dignity and freedom. Some of and the wise men. She was pres- one of the richest sources of their opponents, no matter how ent at Cana for the wedding consolation, the richest after liberal or progressive or ecologifeast, as was He. When the vin- Jesus, who is oj Hi~ very nature cally conoerned they may be, are tage ran short she turned to light and life. She is rich in combut one step away from being Him: "They have no wine." It fort and joy and encouragement Nazis. was a woman's concern for an for all the children of Eve important part of the nuptial who have become her ehildren City to Aid Parish feast. Then she spoke to the head through the redemptive sacrifice waiter: "Do whatever He tells and will of Christ. This explains School Student~ , the whole world's devotion to the you."

ELIZABETH' (NC) Some Virgin whom her saintly cousin On Calvary Mary stood at the Elizabeth truly hailed as 'blessed' $500,000 in public funds will be earmarked for services for stu- cross when her son was crucified. in reply to Mary's confession of dents at parochial schools here. She suffered and died in spirit humility in the Magnificat, which ClimaXing a .long series of with Him. If He is the Master- remains the everlasting eanticle votes and meetings, the City Martyr for all the world, she is of .mankind redeemed, the song Council approved restoration of the Mother of all martyrs who of the past, present, and future." the $500,000 to the school bud- ' gave their lives for God and reMother of Unity get. While approval of the school ligion. She is the first member Fr. Paul James Franci!l, S.A., board is necessary, this is con- of the Church, not in time but sidereda formality now even in . holiness and excellence; she who founded the Society of the though the board had cut those is the Mother of the Church. ,She Atonement at Graymonf, Garreceived the Holy Spirit in a rison, N.Y. was fond of stressing funds from the budget earlier.

The original budget, drawn up special way in the Upper Room Mary's role in salvation history. in February, had included $505,- at Pentecost. • He' called her Our Lady of the 000 for services as remedial inMary is the "great sign" which Atonement to emphasize'her part structors, physical education appeared in the heavens as the in the mystery of salvation. Then teachers, audio-visual aids and Book of Revelation tells us-"a he added that she is Our Lady , supplies. Provision for that bud- woman clothed with the sun." of the At-one-ment, of Unnty and getary item stemmed from talks Some hold that this passage does Reconciliation. She is the perfect between school board members not refer to Mary but only to model of man's relationship with and parochial schcool officials. the Church. We think it does God.

Continued from Page Sixteen daily interruptions of seemingly unrelated consequences. We cannot take the time out for coffee with the person who simply wants coffee and light conversation just for the sake of being in our company. We. also have to greatly limit our natural need for rela'xation.

If the limits we have to set make us appear less human and more mechanical; then we have set the limits in the wrong areas.

If the only way we can become "outstanding in our field", is, to leave other persons standing out from our concerns; then our limits are misplaced.

The fine imposed is a gradual person by person withdrawal from ours as a life-style to be follow·ed. If the only way we aim to be "outstanding" is by incessantly working on thEl me-' chanical methods; then the straight, road of analytical de-. velopment will be an unreasonable idea to those who value the ,human person in the message. If the ,only way we can be recognized as "outstanding" is in the tensions we display; then our defiance of the law of human nature and its needs will soon be seen by all.

There is no doubt that man is limited in what he can qo. How he limits and who he eliminates in the process should be his guiding lights.

Throughout All History of Humclnity ,Father Hesburgh Marks Anniversary SOUTH BEND (NC) - Father Mary Remains The Unique Wornan

Theodore Hesburgh marked his 20th .anniversary as president of the University of Notre Dame on June 28 'and, in an interview with the Associated Press, stated: "I can't think of a time when I didn't want to be a priest. This means more to me than anything else."

The 55-year-old Hqly Cross priest, who holds the chairmanship of the U. S.' Civil Rights Commission and some 40 honorary degrees, said that Notre Dame's students and campus and he himself - have changed' over the past 'two decades.

"The students have changed because the world has changed, but I think they have come through it surprisingly well despite all the problems they have faced," he said.

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Mexicans Worry About Increase In Pop..-Iation MEXICO CITY (NC) - The Mexican government has announced ·plans to start a family planning campaign in 1973 to cut back a yearly crop of 2.2 million babies.

Mexico now has 51 million people, compared with 26 million in 1950.

"But we will IlDt allow the least intrusion into human dignity and family privacy," said Dr. David Fragoso Lizalde, in charge of the maternity department of the Mexican health ministry.

President Luis Echeverria, who earlier voiced doubt that birth control measures could succeed in a country where most families traditionally have many children, has been talking more and more about family planning.

Because about 85 per cent of Mexicans are baptized Catholics, government officials have avoided the term "birth control" and have let private groups do the program's spade work. . 'Need Advice' Thus the announcement of the 1973 program came after seven years of activity by the Foundation for Population Studies, which has operated 55 birth-control clinics around the country.

It has a budget of $1 million, half from Mexican sources and half from such groups as the International Planned Parenthood Federation. It claims to have aided some 150,000 of Mexico's 10 million families.

The foundation's director, Gerardo Cornejo, said recently that Mexico's demographic "explosion" could lead to violence.

"Mexico City alone, he said, will have 28 million people by the year 2000, according to present population projections.

It will be impossible to find' enough housing, jobs and services for so many people, Cornejo said. "We just will not have the resources."

He quoted from surveys by the National University here saying that 72 per cent of Mexican families "\1rgently need advice on family planning.

Face Opposition "For a more rational and manageable growth, we need the ' over-all assistance of government agencies," the foundation's head· said.

Health ministry officials claim that todaY.'about 20 per cent of pregnancies end in abortion, adding that this is one of the reasons a planned parenthood program is necessary.

Other government agencies pointed out that most of the average daily 6,123 live births in 1971 were in rural areas where the average monthly family income is $80. .

Family planners face opposition from various quarters, although they recognize social and religious traditions are the highest hurdle.

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CENTER WILL BE MISSED: Irish immigrants in the large industrial city/of Burmingham, England will miss the Irish Welfare Center-a combination store and social service facility run by a Catholic priest and nun from Dublin. Sister Dominic Savio stands in front of the center which will be torn down later this year. NC Photo.

Irish Immigrants Will Miss Center BIRMINGHAM (NC) - Irish immigrants in this large industrial city in the English Midlands will miss the Irish Welfare Center-a combination store and social service facility run by a Catholic priest and a nun in Dublin. Later this. year the center will fall prey to the bulldozers.

And all of this is only part of what was being done. In addition, bread was delivered twice weekly to 25 families, a surprising requirement in these affluent

Continued from Page Sixteen tural passages in an available Bible. The latter alternative, somewhat time-consuming and awkward, also eliminates a planned program of readings from contemporary and ancient Church writers.

"Christian Readings" solves the difficulty.

Rome's General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours outlines the function of biblical passages in our breviary. "The reading of sacred scripture has been traditionally performed in public during the liturgy, not only. at eucharistic celebrations, but in the Divine Office as well.

It should be held in esteem by all Christians. The Church proposes it not suit the choice or inclination of individuals, but to enable the Bride of Christ to unfold the whole mystery of Christ . . . Moreover, in liturgical celebrations, the reading of sacred scripture is always joined to prayer (especially the psalms) be more fully understood and become a greater aid to devotion because of the reading."

Ideal Possible A prayerful, reflective reading of the whole ·Bible according to a carefully integrated system seems to be the goal here, an ideal now easily possible with this new publication.

For centuries, however, the breviary has likewise incorporated into the Office of Readings passages from Church Fathers or writers plus selections which "discuss the saint being celebrated or which are rightly applied to him, whether an excerpt from the saint's 'own writings or a narrative of his life." The Church draws upon these commentaries, "brought forth in every age," so we may acquire an ever "deeper understanding of the holy scriptures."

"Christian Readings," following that tradition and those principles, includes the best of the past and the present for these non-biblical texts. St. Augustine is there, and Thomas Merton; St. John Chrysostom and John Courtney Murray, St. Thomas Aquinas and Barbara Ward, Cardinal' Gibbons and Cardinal Suenens, Pope St. Clement of Rome (third successor of St. Peter) and Pope Paul VI, Documents from Vatican II and the recent General Catechetical Directory, St. Francis of Assisi and Pope John XXIII.

on a regular basis in certain homes."

Additional Burden Birmingham has an Irish community of more than 100,000. time~.

The vast majority do well. Bll.t "The reasons vary," said Sis- there are always the others ter Dominic, "but one might sim- the tiny minority that for one ply be that the father of a large reason or llnother cannot surThe center, which opened dur- family just .drinks all of the vive despite state welfare-and ing the large influx of Irish ref- household's'income and leaves these are the people most in need ugees during the mid-1950s has his family destitute. Bread, clo- of the center's many services.

In addition to being a headhelped thousands of immigrants thing, second-hand furniture quarters for social welfare, the all of these things are required with housing, financial assistance center also sells religious goods, and employment, to say nothing Irish records and knitwear. This of making the newcomers welAsks Church Help helps to earn part of the money come. that keeps the center going. The Supporters of this small, Spanish-Speaking' rest must come from donations cheery center hope that some of WASHINGTON (NC) - The and fund-raising.

The present situation in Norththe $650,000 raised by Irish bish- Catholic Church "is the Mother ops last year for welfare work who should cry out in defense ern Ireland has thrown an addiin Britain will be devoted to pro- . of her Spanish-speaking children tional burden on the city of Birviding a new and more ambitious who are oppressed," Auxiliary mingham, which has to bear a Birmingham center.

Bishop.Patrick Flores of San An- significant influx of refugees.

Many of them come with very tonio, Tex., said here.

"Anyone who thinks that the little in their pockets. Without a "We have been victims of op$5,000 Or More social welfare state has solved permanent address they can reOn Equity In Your Home all the acute poverty problems pression, discrimination, semi- ceive no social security benefits You May Use The Money should spend a day with us," said slavery, poorly-paid for our work. and it is often difficult to find a However You Wish.

Father John Mulvany, the cen- We have lived in conditions' landlady willing to take in an ter's director. He and Sister Dom- sometimes worse than the ani- entire family.

AVCO FINANCIAL inic Savio, a Dublin-born social mals in the ZOO," he stated, " ...

This is the sort of apparently SERVICES worker attached to the center, and yet the Church keeps silent." insoluble problem that the Irish 71 William St., New Bedford know the true sifuation - and Bishop Flores was a major Welfare Center deals with week994-9636 have to live with it. speaker at Encuentro Hispano de ly.

Pastoral-a June 19-22 workshop Bread Delivered on ministry to the Spanish"Last year," said Father Mul- speaking community sponsored vany, "we dealt with 1,553 cases by the U. S. Catholic Conference for the Spanish-speakNew Superintendent and made more than 3,000 house division ing. visits.

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