07.12.73

Holy See Reaffirms Two Doctrines

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Penance To Precede First Communion A joint General Declaration I".,as been issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy terminating the period of experimentation by which children were administered first Commun ion before first confession.

In last November's executive session of the NaHonal Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United States Bishops petitioned for a two-year extension of the experiment. This present joint Declaration terminates the period of experimentation. A direct call by John Cardinal Krol to Rome, exploring the possibility of an extension, resulted in his being advised that any experiment now in progress is to be phased out beginning with the end of the scholastic year 197273, and no further experiment of this type is to be initiated.'

The Declaration, issued with the approval of Pope Paul VI, notes that the experiment car· ried on in some places by which childrelJ were administered first Communion before first confession was allowed for two years.

It declares now th,at the experiment must come to an end and that the common and general practice now in force in the Church of putting confession before first Communion must be retained.

Some catechists originally suggested the experiment in order to train Catholics as they grow older that it is not always necessary to go to confession before going, to Communion.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the authorization of. Pope Paul VI, has reaffirmed the Church doctrines on the oneness and infallibility of the Catholic Church and the truth of dogmatic formulas. lt also reaffirmed the necessity of the ordained priesthood for the valid celebration of Mass.

In a 15-page "Declaration in Defense of the Catholic Doctrine of the Church Against' Certain Errors of the Present Day," dated June 24 and published July 5, the Vatican explained "a number of truths concerning the mystery of the Church 'which at the present time are begin either denied or endangered."

The "declaration", indicated that the document did not teach new doctrines but it recalled and summarized the Catholic Doctrine which had been defined or taught in former documents of the magisterium of the Church.

Its source-the Vatican Congregation-also showed it as of a universal teaching nature, the declaration stated.

The congregation is the one that renders the closest assistance to the supreme teacher of the Church, having received from him a specific mandate to safeguard in the entire world the doctrine of faith and morals.

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what is contained therein should be held by the whole Church, since it is the Pope that has' orreder its publication.

The document declared: Oneness There is only one Church of Christ, which, "constituted and organized in this' world as a society, subsists "in the Catholic Church."

The Church of Christ subsists one and indivisible in the Catholic Church. Thus it is not imagined to be the collection of all existing Christian Churches or communities; nor can it in any way be adll.litted that it does not now exist at all, or that its existence is reserved for an unforeseen future moment, as the

result of research on the part of all Christian confessions.

Hence, the fact that the Catholic Church is governed by the Roman Pontiff and by the other bishops in communion with him: successors, respectively, of Peter and the other Apostles, to whom Christ himself 'commited the direction of his institution and communion of salvation; The fact that,together with the above-mentioned, only the Catholic Church possesses the entire truth that has been divinely revealed, and all the means which God has esta'blished for the salvation of men.

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Help Offered To Deaf Tots

. A clearinghouse of information for parents of pre-school children with impaired hearing has been organized by Mrs. Catherine POPE PAUL VI Kitchen of Holy Name parish, Fall River, telephone 674-0230.

She is associated with the Southeastern Massachusetts Parents' Association for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children, which l sponsors ,a nursery school for children ages 2 to 4. School officials are currently seeking to enVATICAN CITY (NC) - The tidn was presented at the Vatroll children for the fall term, so Doctrinal Congregation's decla- ican by Ar,chbishop Joseph that confront high problems For the past several months, " that program plans may be made. members of the Sacred Heart school age people.

'J1he school, funded by the ration ,in defense of Catholic doc- Schroeffer, Father Kueng was trine is both a gauntlet thrown not only mentioned, but it was and Our Lady of .Lourdes parA membership card will be Massachusetts Department of ishes in the Taunton area, under given for the fee of one dollar. Special Education at no cost to at the feet of Cathoilc theolo- announced that if he assented to the direction of Charles Mon- Anyone holding a card 'for the parents, is located at the Con- gians - notably Father Hans the contents of the declaration, aghan, have been meeting to or- former drop-in center (known as gregational Christian Church, 'Kueng - and encouragement to , the congregation would drop its the theologians to continue their investigation of his teachings. ganize "Pax," a coffeehouse "The Foot") may exchange it for 1411 County Street, Somerset.

Finally, the Vatican daily which will be open to any high- a "Pax" m'embership card at no The iissociation has also been "intense study (in) exploring school student of the Sacred charge. The new center will be instrumental in the organization more and more the mystery of newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, in a lengthy comentary on Heart, Our Lady of Lourdes and open from 7:30 to 11 P.M. every of classes for deaf children at the Church."

Although Swiss-born Father the declaration, said: United Memorial Methodist par- Monday, Wednesday and Friday the ,Carroll School in Fall River, Kueng was not mentioned by "If this declaration speaks of ishes. through August. There will be no to which transportation is pro- name in the declaration (nor was questions treated by Professor Monaghan, a recent graduate charge on Monday and Wednes- vided for youngsters from sur"any other theologian), it ,is evi- Hans Kueng, it treats of other rounding communities. of Bridgewater State College, is day nights.

Prior to 1969, note association dent many of his views are being problems which were not at all assistant co-ordinator for reliAlso available will be the officials, Southeastern Massa- corrected by the congregation. or but scarcely touched by him." gious education for Sacred Heart consultation services of Craig chusetts children with hearing This is clear from the nature A third section of the declaraparish. Through this job he has Dutra, who is currently working problems had to go to residential of the declaration itself, dealing tion 'speaks of the error that the extensive contact with area high grant to gather and dis- schools for the deaf. Today, due as it does in large part with the true Catholic Church, because school students, and has been under a seminate information on youth to the action of members, "the manifold phases of infallibillity of its div,isions, is still in the working as an advisor to, the programs in the Taunton area area is well on its way to giving and, in the last part, with the dered its publication. coffeehouse planning committee and aiding some of these groups the hearing handicapped a ministerial priesthood. Both topThe centrol point of the confor the past several months. in their planning processes. He chance to live a near-normal and ics were treated by two recent gregation's declaration seems to The C;:Qffeehouse, located' in will assist members of the cof- fulfilling life." and controversial books by b~ a refutation of Father Kueng's Our Lady of Lourdes church feehouse in fund-raising, memviews on infallibility' as recorded Father Kueng.

The organization plans a clambasement, aims to provide a conbership, and community projects. boil and family outing Sunday, In addition, Father Kueng is in his book "Infallible? An Instructive program for the people Working along with Mon- Sept. 30 at Hornbine Acres, Re- mentioned in an explanatory quiry." of the Weir community, offering Father Kueng seems to be inand Dutra will be Robert hoboth. The program will in- note on the, document sent 'to aghan young people recreation, enter,tainment, a base from which to Leonard and Miss Deborah Du- clude games, awarding of door bishops' conferences by the Vat- sisting that the teaching authority of the Church not only has perform service projects and a'- pont, members of Sacred Heart prizes, a raffle and music for kan.

Further, at the end of the press been in error in the past, but reinforcement of their Christian and Our Lady' of Lourdes par- dancing. Proceeds will benefit conference in which the declaraTurn to Page Nineteen the association. values to deal with many of the ishes respectively.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese 6f Fall RivElr-Thurs. July 12, 1973

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M·issioner' Fr. Fischer, CSC I Mass TUlesday Afternoon

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Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, in Hol~ Cross Church, So. Auxiliary bishop of the Diocese Easton *as Rev. Edward Hartof Fall River, gave thl~ final com, _ nett, CSC of the mission house mendation at the Liturgy of staff. Other concelebrants were Christian Burial for the Rev. members; of the mission band George B. Fischer, esc, 73, a and fe\low Holy Cross Fathers.

Born ih Fe Wayne, Ind., on priest of the Holy Cross Fathers Mission Band in Dartmouth, who Sept. 18; 1899; Father Fischer died unexpectedly on Saturday· spent his! early years in' Rochesmorning at the mis,;io'n house ter, N. Y. iHe was graduated from Notre Dame University in Indion Tucker Rd., Dartmouth.

The principal celebrant at the ana with a degree in commerce concelebrated Mass offered at in' 1922 Iprior to entering the 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon novitiate: of the Holy Cross BOARD: Rev., Bento Father Fischer, who also studt ied theology in WashingI-.-:m for ~. Ffiaga, Tauntoll director ·four years,' was \ ordained at of Catho,lic Cemeteries, h.as Notre Dame on June 14, 1929, been named to the board of and spentl the ei:\rly years of his of the Massach.u, , priesthooq in parish work in direct6rs' setts ,.cemetery Association.

South Bend, Ind" and Rochester, I N.Y. He also served as college chaplain at 'Cornell University for a time.

One of 'I the founders of the , Continued from Page One mISSIOn band in Dartmouth, they ,h~d no serious sin to conFather Fi~cher was one of five fess. priests anld four brothers who The i Church teaches that a opened a fuission house in Dart- . bll-ptizep Catholic who is free mouth in! 1934 after his order from s~riOl"s sin may go to Comorganized Ithe band to conduct munion without confession and preaching ,missions along the even i~ certain extreme circumEast Coast and Canada and op- stances' could go to Communion I. erate a semmary. while in serious sin i:f he could nqt firs~ go to confess,iori.

While w1ith the mission band, Father FisJh~r specialized in parAbout this time, the Vatican ish missions and retreats and also allowed, experimentation with conducted 1 retreats for priests first co,mmunion' separate from and religious sisters and confession, the Congregation of brothers. I the Clergy issued a guideline on REV. GEORGE FISCHER catechetics with an appended I recommendation that :first comPop~lation, municants confess their sins befo~eha~d, although legitmate experimentation was recognized. i'However," a <;:atechetical exMEXICO CITY (NC)--Govern-' creation among millions of lowpert adaed, "the sins of little ment organizations are' keenly - income families. interested in Church views re'''Contraceptives are artificial children i may be little sins,' but garding population problems, Dc- and stay attificial. We are just , they arei still sins."

The experiment was allowed in cording to a trend emerging at reaching s~all sectors of the ab6ut ~rie half of the dioceses seminars here and "elsewhere in population,"i a field worker for of the Ubi ted States. Such an ex..

Latin America. an international agency said. . The regional gathering in June This ad~ission in turn gave' periment has now corne to an end: no' hew such ende,avors are of population experts from way to a st~onger interest in the' to be ini,tiated and courses now United Nations agencies and the over-all approach Churchmen in progress for Fall first commu·, International Educational Devel- have been p~oposing for years in nio~ will be allowed to phase opment Fund included .priests some areasl Government and out, i'with appropriate catechesis and lay leaders in the family life other secul~r delegates listened and' pastoral preparation." field from Mexico, Central Amerwith obvioJs concentration to A request 'by the U.S, bishops ica and the Caribbean. the words ofl a priest at the semto lfontin:ue the experiment was !'

The purpose of the meeting was inar: commen<;l,ed 'for their approach to acquaint population workers i but it was affirmed that the Widening Gap , in the private and govE'rnment position :bf the Holy Se,e in this sectors with details of the U.N, "We mustl take the overview matter isi to be followed.

Population Year, but many other that the pobulation problem is important a~pects -On population just part; of Ithe whole situation Hold Discussicln came out of the discussions. ' of inequality.I Sure, we recognize For one thing, birth-controllers the social tur':moil caused byirre- On P~ntecostoliism advocating artificial mea ns ad- sponsible profreation that throws BENETILAKE (NC)-The Penmitted that their methods are thousands or children into the tecostal movement, largely missimply fighting numbers, 110t the world withoJt the parents' will understoql:i by Nx)se not in·basic cultural approach to pro- or ability to 'care for them. But volvlild, needs leadership of the Church 'is also raising its Rries~s to, ;avoid abuses and prevoice against I the social prostra- vent. teachings contrary to faith Necrology tion of milliorts because of social and doctrihe, a clergy meeting at injustice and \ inequalities in the the Benedictine monastery here , JULY 23 system. in Wiscon~in was told. ' Rev. Patrick F. Doyle, 1893, "Take,' for 'example, migration Presente,d as an informational Founder, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall from rural tb urban areas, to meeti,ng for interested clergy, the, River Rev. George B. McNamee, neighboring c:ountries.. Take ra- program was conducted at -tihe cial tensions. ITake the manY'ad- Cardinal ~eyer linstitute by Ben1938, Pastor, Holy Name, Fall versities plaguing family life as edictine Father Henry Nurre, River such. Chang~s in birthrates as prior at the Benedictine abbey, JULY 25 well as populAtion controls often and Fr. Richard Korzinek, pro. Rev. Michael J. Cooke. 1913, worsen these! conditions. What . 'vinci~1 superior of the Olrder of Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River most economic observers note St. Camillus.

'I now is the widening gap beThe movement is called Pentetween rich an~ poor." costal' because many of, those inTHE ANCHOR There were; words of encour- volved seem to have experienced Second Class Postage Paid at Fall Riv~·.

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SS. Peter and Paul parish's annual picnic will move to a new location his year.

Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, general chairman, announced that through the generosity of Rt. Rev. Raymond T. Considine,' the three·day event, Apg. 10, 11 and 12, will be held at St. William's Parish Center, Stafford Road and Chicago St. "This magnanimous gesture is greatly appreciated," the chairman sa,id. "We can now look forward to a bigger and better picnie, which is the major fundraising project in our parish each year,"· b~ added.

Declaring that the kindness of "our neighboring parish is an indication of the solidarity of Catholic parishes in this city," Father Tosti stated, explaining that "the offer to use St. William's facilities was spontaneous with Msgr. Considine."

He added that the generolis offer was unanimously accepted with thanks by the .picnic committee. The chairman said the center's location on a major artery, plus its large parking lot, will, because of its accessibility, attract large crowds.

Rev. Francis M. Coady, SS. Peter and Paul pastor, joined his assistant in lauding Msgr. Considine for coming to the assistance of the parish which lost its church in a fire last April.

"St. William's pastor never stops being kind and generous towards us," he asserted, noting that the organ now being used at Masses in SS. Peter and Paul School basement "is a gift from the good people of St. William's."

Father' Coady said proceeds from the picnic will primarily be used to keep SS. Peter and Paul School open.

Doctor's' Case Prompts Renewed Opposition to "Mercy ," Killing" The recent alleged "mercy killing" by a chief resident surgeon of a cancer patient in Mineola, N. Y. has prompted Catholic leaders to reiterate the Church's stand that such practices can ,never be morally justifiable.

The reaotion came shortly after the chief resident surgeon at the Nassau County (Long Island) Medical Center was charged with murder in the "mercy killing" of a cancer patient ,who had only two days to live.

Father John·L. Paprocki of the Newark, N. J. archdiocese's InstiWte of Social Relations described euthanasia, or the more common term of "mercy killing," as a "license to kilf."

Father Paprocki dismissed a statemen,t made by Dr. Malcolm C. Todd, '. president-elect of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Todd said "mercy killings may have their place, but I do not think the Physician has the sole right to make this decision."

Dr. Todd, a surgeon from Long Beach, Calif., suggested that if euthanasia sl10uld be accepted in medical practice it should be under the control of a commission of doctors, lawyers and clergymen.

But he added, "I don't think we're quite ready to accept this mercy killing as a policy."

Father Paprocki warned that

conceivably such commissions would eventually decide'life and ~eath for other than medic:!l reasons.

"Perhaps they will suggest next that 'commissions' should decide which criminals are~ incorrigible, and therefore expendable, which old, people are useless, and therefore expendable, which minority groups are a drain on the public welfare, and therefore expendable," the priest said.

"We have already witnessed in recent years a sharply increasing disregard for the dignity and quality of human life. There .must come a time when men of conscience dare say 'enough'."

Signs A sign is a thing which, apart from the impression it presents -to the senses, causes of itself some other thing to enter our thoughts. .

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Catholic Editors Score Supreme Court Decision on Sch'ool Aid (NC News Service) would have realized that every "Arbitrary," "alarming," "trag- assertion of ri'ghts by anybody is ic" and "astonishing" were some bound to be 'politically divisive' of the adjectives used by Cath- to the extent that it is resisted olic diocesan newspaper editors by others. But only in the matter across the nation to describe the of parent rights in education June 25 Supreme Court decisions does' the court hold that citizens banning several forms of state have no right to asert their aid to non public schools and to rights." tuition-paying parents of nonFather Edward J. O'Donnell of public school children. the St. Louis Review summarized Many editors took special the political divisiveness arguissue with Justice Lewis F. Pow- ment: "Aid to religious schools is ell J'r.'s opinion, written for a unconstituional, says the court, six-man majority of the, court, , beca'Use it is politically divisive. that "the involvement of reli- It is politically divisive because gious groups and religiously af- some churches are for it and filiated individuals in public is- some are against it. . . . sues contributes to divisiveness 'Shut Up, Catholics' and must be opposed."

"Justice Powell graciously "Since when has the Supreme gives the churches the right to Court become the arbiter of what speak out on matters on which is permissible and unpermissible they already have substantial divisiveness?" asked The Long agreement," Father O'Donnell Island Catholic, Rockville Centre, continued. "That criterion would N. Y. diocesan paper. "The Pow- hardly allow the churches to ell opinion is a blatant attempt speak even of the existence of . to circumscribe religious liberty God." and confine religious activity to Dale Francis, in his editorial the sacristy." column in the National Catholic 'Politically Divisive' Register, called the high court's In a signed editorial Joseph A. view of divisiveness "frightenBreig of the Catholic Universe ing."

Bulletin of the Cleveland diocese "In short, what the Supreme accused the high court justices Court is say.ing is, 'Shut up, of· being "hypnotized by silly in- Cafuolics,'" 'Francis wrote. terpretations of the clause for- . He said that Catholics "can bidding government establish- live with" the court's denial of ment of religion." "equal justice for all school chil''The court, indeed, has added dren." insult to injury by holding that But, he said, "the plain fact is it is "politically divisive" for that Catholics will not accept the parents to ask that they not be implication that they should penalized, taxwise, for choosing keep quiet. They'll speak up, maybe stronger than ever, benonpublic schools," saig Breig.

"If the court were not bemused cause what is at stake here is by church-state separation slo- not just the right of Catholics ganeering, the justices surely but of all people."

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BLESSING OF FLEET: Top, Bishop Cronin, principal celebrant, flanked by Rev. Msgr. Leo J. Duart, left, pastor of St. Peter's, Provvincetown and Rev. John A. Perry, right, assistant pastor, prior to the concelebrated Mass. Center, Bishop Cronin blesses ships of the fleet in Provincetown harbor. Bottom, Fishermen carry the statue of St. Peter in the procession to McMillan's Wharf for the annual blessing of the fleet. More than 4000 attended the affair and witnessed the procession containing six floats and led by the Diocesan Championship CYO Band from Sacred Heart Parish, Roslindale.

SPRINGFIELD (NC)-A bill to partnership or corporation which protect persons and hospitals discrminates in any way against which refuse to participate in persons who refuse to be inabortions has been passed by volved in abortions. both houses of the Illinois state ' The clause includes discriminalegislature and awaits only the tion with regard to hiring and signature of Gov. Daniel Walker promotion practices, along with to become law. advancement, transfer, licensing, The so'called "conscience" bill hospital privileges and staff approvides that "no physician, pointments. nurse or other person who reThe bill allows for compensafuses to recommend, perform or tory payment of a minimum assist. in the performanc: of an -$2,000 or payment equal to three abortIOn . . . shall be liable to times the amount of proved damany person for damages alleged- ages should a civil suit be taken Iy arising from such refusal." to court.

The bill also protects hospitals in the state from the same liability, and goes further to say state licenses ·of persons and hosThe Daughters of pitals cannot be revoked or susSt. Paul pended because of refusal to "permit, perform or assist in the serve them, all .•. performance of an abortion."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rive~-lhurs.

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Says Interfaith C:ommittee Conducted Coach,ella, Poll ,

On April 10, just as the Team~,ters-Farm Workers struggle in the table ,grape industry w~s getting sta~ted, a national committee of clergymen-Protestant, CatholIc, and Jewish-went to Coachella, California :to try to determine I which union the field worki the Valley wanted to , the firms Ithat were, under coners n , tracts as well. . represent them. Our survey, Mr. Gorlion: Are you saying to which was conducted on me that the Catholic Monsignor several different pronerties by subcommittees of the larger interfaith delegation, revl)aled tb3t approximately 85 per clmt of the

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Mr. 'Grami, Oh yes, absolutely I'm sayingi that.

Mr. Richard Chavez: This is what we're dealing with.

Mr. Gordon: What?

Mr. Richard Chavez: This is what we'rb dealing with.

Mr. GraJhi: And he would certainly run ia prejudiced poll.

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1,000 workers whom we interviewed and poUed (by secret ballot) preferred to be represented by the United Farm Workers Union. Less than 15 per cent expressed a preference for the Teamsters.

On June 17 William Gl'ami, Director of Organization for the Western Conference of Teamsters and the man in charg~ of the Teamster's Coachella operation, pooh-poohed the results of this survey when asked about it on a Derait television program hy Lou Gordon, moderator of the program. Since my name was brought into the discussion und since I was accused by Mr. Grami of having enginl:ered a phony survey, I feel obliged-in fairness to the other members of the survey team-to set the record straight on'this matter once and for all.

TV Discussion First of all, let's listen to a of Mr. Grami's conversation with Mr. Gordon as transcribed by the sponsoring station in Detroit: Mr. Gordon: But I address this question to both you and Mr. O'Brien: In April of 1973, which is two· months ago, a poll was· taken by an interdenomination(~1 group of clergymen led b)' Monsignor George Higgins,· who is research secretary of the United States Catholic Conference. It showed that the workers themselves are 85 per cent fllr the United Farm Workers, 7 per cent for the Teamsters, and 7 per cent for any union. Now doesn't that prove Mr. Chavez' point?

Mr. Grami: No, it certainly doesn't. Number one, MonBignor Higgins has been one of the staunches advocates of UFWU that exist in this country. .

Mr. Gordon: But this was taken by an interdenominational group of clergymen.

Mr. Grami: No, no it wasn't.

The poll was taken while J: was present . . . cit was taken only among the people that were at the rallies that were being held in that area. Most of the pllople were fram outside the area when the polI was taken.

Mr. Richard Chavez: Mr.· Grami, I would like to. They went right into the field.

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I thought ne was too smart and too much of a gentleman for that.

I It's obviqus, however, that I misjudged t~e man. He is neither as gentlemanly nor as smart as I J thought he was. In fact, on the matter undJr discussion - the origin and the mechanics of our Coachella s~rvey_his ignora'nce is appalling.1 When backed into- a corner by I the relentless Mr. Gordon, Grami completely Ibst his cool and deliberately IMt the impression I with his Mishigan television audience that I was principally, if not exclusivbly, responsible for the survey. IIf he was, in fact, physically present in Coachella . when the survey was taken, he knows betteri than to say a thing I like that, The fact of the matter is that 1 did not initiate the CoacheHa survey. The: mechanics of the survey were Iworked out by the chairman of the interfaith committee --,. the same man who served as cohvenor of the delegation. In other words, I had no more to do w:ith the survey than any of the other 20-odd members .of the commi'ttee. The fact that I I was delegatrd to announce' the results of the survey to the media was purely fortuitous.

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I am not tr~ing to disassociate myself from 'Ithe work of the committee or from the results of the survey. I Iam simply trying to give credit ~here credit is due.

I say "credit"l advisedly, for in my judgment, Ithe committee did its work very conscientiously and efficiently. Moreover I am perfectly wimrlg to stand by the results. ·of its 'extensive survey. · i.

S IDce th e survey was conducted, I haJe been back to Coachella sev~ral times. The more I see of the situation in the Valley, the mote I am convinced that our ·findings were valid.

Mr. Grami i~ perfecly free to question the re~ults of our infor-, mal poll, but he had no business saying that our survey was a. y h9p}'", PPt':o.<\!lo,pJ ~ At" Pe.~t. ,that

CARDINAL IN BRAZHL: Cardinal Eugenio Sales of Rio de Janeiro, right, greets Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston, who talks with Miss Alice Tavora, the secretary of the 'World Thanksgiving Day Crusade and correspondent for NC News Service. At the m~eting, . a working paper said that future generations of Ameri~~n Catholics will not be likely to accept family values solely based on authority or tradItIon. NC Photo.

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INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - The Kni'ghts·1 0 f Columbus {K of C) , I were urged to take the leadership rOI~ in sponsoring discussions that would emphasize to youth, the moral wrongs connectedwith drug abuse.

Msgr. James P. Conroy, editor of The I Harinonizer edition of Our: Sunday Visitor and former youth columnist, urged the K of C to "bring priests and Religion into, drug, discussio~."

In stressing the difference be· tween sa~ing what is "harmful aIJout drugs" and saying what is mor~Hy '~'wrong" with drugs, Msgr. Coproy said" "thousands of our youth are provided wJth the inost 'expert ,instruction and warning 6n the harmful consequence o~ drugs. But," he con" tinued, "religion in the drug fight; except .in a largely sentimental w~y. is conspicuous by its absenc~." '.

He, noted that while it is not I unusual for priests to be members of . \irug-abuse discuss10n panels, and seminars, these priests us~alIy approach Oie subject on the same level as other professionals, that is, stressing the ~'harmuf"· effects of drug 'abuse..

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Be 'that as it may, if Grami honestly t1ilnks that our findings were invalid-in other words, if he is lionestly convinced that the Teamsters Iare, in fact, the people's chbice in CoachelIawhy isn't he willing to have a secret ballot election conducted under :neutr'aI auspices mu!tually agreeaple ,~o alI parties concerned? The answer, I think, is obvious. H¢ is deathly afraid that the Teamsters would lose out to the United Farm Workers.

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first of alI informed· that the inordinate use of. drugs is morally wrong," he added.

In the "amoral' atmosphere (of today) whether a th'ing is wrong or right is simply thrown out the

Urges Catholics Boycott Lettuce RICHMOND (NC)-The Commission on Social Ministry of the Richmond diocese has urged alI Catholics to boycott lettuce not picked by the United Farm Workers Union (UFWU).

Supporting the statement made by the commission, which has the· responsibility of directing the Church's responses to c:urrent social problems, were Auxiliary Bishop Waiter F. Sullivan of Richmond, administrator of the diocese, and retired Bishop John J. Russell.

The goals of the boycott, the statement said, are to bring free elections to determine whether the Teamsters Union or the l'FWU should represent the farm v,'orkers and to "secure a just and living wage for thousands of farm workers."

Both Teamsters and the UFWU claim to have the support 01' a majority of the farm work-, ers, but the Teamsters were awarded contracts by the growers even though no· elections were held to determine which union the farm workers wanted to represent them.

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window," he said. He cited the Watergate scandal, and the increase of venereal disease as "natural outcumes of our amoral outlook."

Catholic Teaching While saying that it would be difficult to insert moral implications ,int<> any public discussion of' drugs, Msgr. Conroy added that there is no reason why Catholics cannot "introduce ·and estabLish morality as hasic to any discussion of drugs where our own Catholic youth are concerned."

Calling the K of C the only active naNonal organization of men in the country today, Msgr.

Conroy said that they should'initiate discussions for Catholic teachers and parents and ,that a priest should not only lead the discussion but also "contribute knowledge and relevance on a subject about which he is qualified to speak-CathoNc teaching and morality."

But these discussions should be opened also ,to the community at large, he added, saying that' "many a jaded communiy might ... welcome the fresh influence of the Catholic approach under Catholic auspices."

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President ,Dorticos of Cuba Foresees End of Blockade BUENOS AIRES (NC)-Visiting President Osvaldo Dorticos of Cuba said here that as more populist movements like Peronistas reach power, the poliltical and economic blockade against his country collapses.

President Dorticos, who attended the inaugural ceremonies of Peronista President Hector Campora at the end of May along with Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende, added: "There is a new united front growing in Latin America."

He spoke, in an interview with the NC News Service a few hours after Cuba and Argentina reestablished full diplomatic and trade relations, broken since February of 1962. At that time the Organization of American States (OAS)' excluded Cuba from membership on charges of exporting socialist revolution to other member nations. ,A year earlier the United States had severed relations with Cuba as its premier, Fidel Castro, nationalized U. S. properties there and increasingly turned to the Soviet Union for military aid and trade.

Reestablish Relations OAS action resulted in 'practical isolation of Cuba from the rest of the American nations except Mexico and Canada. However, in recent months Chile" Peru, T.rinidad, Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica besides Argentina have reestablished relations with Havana. The Christian Democratic government of Venezuela is making strong representations to lift the OAS 'blockade.

"No question the first months of the U. S. imposed blockade led to serious difficulties in my country," President Dorticos said. "But this policy of isolation, we must stress, has been a complete failure, Ithanks not

only to the solidarity shown by countries of the socialist block, but also to our increasing economic and trade relations with other de~eloped countries.

"Regarding the political ostracism (of the OAS), just look at what is happening now in Latin America."

'New Reality' Taking as an example the advent of socialist and populist governments in Argentina and Chile, the Cuban leader commented: "A new reaHty is taking shape throughout Latin America. Obviously contributing to this new trend is this great popular explosion of the Argentines, this tremendous vitality of a populis,t movement."

Asked about the repeated charges that Cuba has been instrumentalin provoking subversion in other countries, President Dorticos remarked: "Imperialism is to be blamed primarily for the revolutionary movements in Latin America, for they owe their existence and struggle to it. Now, the example of the Cuban revolution has spurred these revolutionary movements, ~nd Cuba has shown its moral and political solidarity with them. However" my government maintains a position of full respect toward those countries' which ,refused to follow the imperialist blockade against Cuba. We have nothing but friendship toward those governments that, in showing sovereign independence of action, have dissented from the aggression of imperialism."

The fact that Argentina has reestablished relations with Cuba, he added, "is a sign that the imperiaHst blockade against our country is collapsing."

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Bishops Oppose Burundi Policies BUJUMBURA (NC)-The bishops of Burundi, where conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes has caused thousands of deaths, have said that policies now in use in the country stress ethnic and tribal differences and militate against national unity.

In a statement published here, the bishops called on Christians throughout the world to help the people of Burundi achieve national unity.

They said attempts have been made to create an atmosphere of pank and insecurity in the coun· try.

"If these succeed," they con-

CHILD WELFARE: Among the 800 representatives at the Northeast Regional Conference of the Child Welfare League of America meeting in Boston were, left to right, John M. Clements, Director of Casework at the New Bedford Catholic Welfare Bureau, Clifford Falby, Conference Chairman and D'irector of the New England Home for Little Wanderers, and John E. McManus, Executive Director of the New Bedford Child and Family Service.

Cites Cooperation Director Explains Operation of Lutheran Resources Commission CHICAGO (NC)-"We must always be in dialogue. And I think Christ wants us to be. In fact, I think we've been too slow about it," said Henry Endress, director of the Lutheran Resources Commission (LRC).

Endress was interviewed while attending at the Conference of Major Superiors of Men being held at St. Xavier College here.

TRENTON (NC) - The State did not outlaw the particular Department of Education three system created by the New Jertimes in the past 90 days has sey legislature and Gov. William abruptly changed gears on New T. Cahill two years ago-a proThe Lutheran Resources ComJersey's program of aid to non- gram that included equipment mission, Endress said, cooperates public' schools-first killing, then loans, special personnel and sup- extensively with the National reviving and finally reshelving plies. Admitting the program's Conference of Catholic Charities the $19.5 million plan. tuition reimbursement phase was (NCCC). The two agencies even Each time" the department was outlawed under the terms of the have offices in the same building reacting to a ruling from a court Pennsylvania decision, New Jer- in Washington, he said. on the constitutionality of New sey officials say nevertheless "We cover, meetings for one Jersey's distribution of public ,there is hope for the other another and if either of us dismoney to the state's 750 nonpub- phases. covers some new information" Iic schools, which are attended As explained by Morton Green- it is shared, he said. by one out of six school children berg, assistant state attorney, The LRC and NCCC receive in the state. general, the June 25 decision proposals from many agencies The United States Supreme technically leaves unaffected an desiring funding. The agencies Court on June 25 rescinded a appeal made by the state after a are then given information about stay of a recent lower court rul- three-judge federal panel ruled ing that had given New Jersey on April 5 that the aid program person to se~, procedures to fola temporary reprieve from an violated the constitutional re- low and the proper way to submit applications, Endress said. earlier decision that banned the quirement of separation of A 'related responsibility, he aid program as unconstitutional. Church and State. said, is' providing basic facts to The same day, the high court "Our position was weakened, struck down aid programs in obviously," said Greenberg, "but governments about the services New York and Pennsylvania, but we shall undoubtedly go ahead performed. by churches, services such as the operation of hospiwith the appeal after first study- tals, schools, and homes for the ing the court's decisions."

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Greenberg said the $19.5 mil'RIO DE JANEIRO (NC) Develop Contacts Thirty-seven years after he ran lion aid program for the 1973-74 year must be scrapped because away from home at the age of "We believe that part of our six, Henrique de Freitas, unem- the appeal to the Supreme Court ployed, came home to his mother. cannot possibly be heard before Victory She got him a job at the neigh- next winter.

If Christ is with us, who is Just how the 1972-73 program borhood church of St. Anthony of the Poor. He lasted four will be dismantled, no one is against us? You can fight with weeks in the job before running sure. The state already has com- confidence where you are sure away again, this time with $300 mitted money for which indi- of victory. With Christ and for -the ohurcr., collection for one vidual school districts already Christ victory is certain. ' -St. Bernard have hired teachers. month. (' J ~.,) '... " .. ',' \~ • .\ ~ . .: I

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tinued, "the result will be revolution, the main object of which is 'the victory of one ethnic group and the social, and even physical, annihilation of the other. Should they fail, repression will turn the v,ictims into martyrs who, in the eyes of their ethnic group which considers it·self attacked in them, provide the justification for revenge and counterattacks in the future.

"Anger, fear, and the collective instinct for self-preservation will do the rest. The political blunders and errors of judgment of both Hutus and Tutsis have been exploited in this respect."

The bishops pointed out that the movements of repression and rebellion that continue to ravage the country should be seen against this background.

Flexible Education Program Offered

BEAUFORT (NC)-A comprehensive but flexible educational job," Endress continued, "is to. program is being made available inform, develop understanding, to the East Coast migrants in to develop contacts so that we -two South Carolina counties can quickly get to the right per- through the efforts of priests, son with the requests so that it Sisters, VISTA workers, the fedgets full cons.ideration and, we eral government, local school hope, some funding." teachers, and volunteer help.

The program is being conductEndress noted that he had ed at Camp St. Mary's, a catebeen invited to attend the chical and recreation camp for CMCM's annual assembly in pre- the diocese of Oharleston. vious years, but he had always Operating for its first full sumfound conflict in scheduling mer, asa school for both miwhich prevented him from at- grant worker children and local tending. This year, however, he children, the camp treats each was able to accept the invitation child on an individual "basis. The from Father Francis X. Gokey, teachers use "open classroom" S.S.E., executive secretary of the techniques of instruction in zeroCMSM and a close friend of Dr. ing in on the needs of each stuEndress. dent.

One of Endress' reasons for • Dominican Sister Ellen Robertattenling, he said, is his "own son, the ,camp's administrator, personal, spiritual development heads the special education staff. . . . we are brothers in Christ, She has over 25 years of teching' and I can learn from you." experience.

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·'1 Once man becomes accustomed to taking God's role into his own hands, then who is to ~et the limits of his I activity.

On' 'the heels of the abortion debacle with' the taking of imborn human life made so very e:asy and quite legal, the next step waH inevitable-the raising of the whole , question of euthanasia, so-called merc~ killing.

Many persons are asking that the matter be thrown open to discussion. Protectors of life W:ill do well to follow carefully the progress of these discuss',ions.

The matter un- for consideration must be well delineI ated. Pope Pius XII has already given the guidelines when he said that extraordinary means ne~d not be taken to preserve the life of a dying person. 'Such extraordinary means would amournt to no more than Ithe prolongation of I the dying process.

This is a far different matter than deciding that an old or sickly person is no longer of use lito society, no long-. er enjoys "quality of life," no longer is able to be aware of his environment in a meaningful wa~, and so should be eased medically into eternity. This hitter situation must b'e labeled Jor what it is-murder, cold and calculating and as brutalizing to those performing and ag~eein~ to the action as it is brutal to the hapless victim. i ' But this is th,e way the attack is continuing-first, against the sources of human life in thel matter of immoral birth' control; then, against unborn human life with legalized abortion; and now, in the new warfare against the old, the senile, the unstable, the sickly, in the s9~called mercy killing drive. .I

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A noted German orchestra cOl1ductqr, Otto Klemperer, has died, And all the notices of his death emphasized the 51. William's Church REV. JOHN F. MOO~E dedication of this man to music, his intbgrity in following the composer's score exactly, his honesty in 'interpretation, 'J ~7 his sheer excellence in all that he did Iand his desire to communicate. this excellence to the musicians who played 'As! we somewhat limply prepare to celebrate the biunder him.

'II cential !of this nation, the people of this country must first It is good that such excellence can ispark the admira- put their house in order. If the Senate' Watergate hearings tion of those who can still appreciate i,l. have made any contribution to the common good of AmerI On all sides these days the cry is heard that all too . ica it would be to point out he said "what a tangled many people no longer take pride in th~ir work. There is . the ti:J.reats and dangers when web we weave when first we bethe longing for the day of the craftsman I who had to satis- choking the very heart of gin to deceive." The gradual revfy his own high standards before satisf~ing those of the ou~ political and eoIistitu- elation of this mystic' web has customer. There is the longing for the a~ticle that will not tional system. Before any flags alrea9Y untangled the burglary f are waved in celebration of th3 of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's all apart while still in, the process of b~ing put together; nation's 'birth, the weeping ro- psychiatrist, the rather shoddy for the repair man who will really com~ 'when asked and mantics 'of the afternoon' soap involvement of the FBI and CIA be conscientious about what he does, for the salesperson operas and the shattered boys of in efforts of political espionage, who actually knows the product and its possibilities and the proverbial political backroom and the fact of illegal contr-ibulimitations. . i should begin to real:ize that, tions to political campaigns by

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Published weekly' by The Catholic Press of the D~ocese ~f Eall River 410 Highland Avenue I, , • Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Doniel A. Cronin, 0.0.,1 S.T.D. 'GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GEt'lERAL MANAGER Rev. Msgr. Da'~iel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll . . . leary Press-Fall River

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Rev. Cyril Augustyn, OFM Conv., a native of New Bedford, and associate pastor of St. Hedwig parish in the same city, was elected provincial definitor and secretary of the Province of the Franciscan Friars St. Anthony of Padua at the Order's Chapter held recently in St. Hyacinth College and Seminary in Granby, Massachusetts.

Father Cyril, son of the late John and Marcella (Dragan) Augustyn, was born in New' Bedford, Mass. on March 17, 1928.

He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Schol and Holy Family High in New Bedford and completed his final year at St. Francis High School, Athol Springs, N.Y.

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Ordained in 1953, Father Cyril was f.irst assigned to the high school apostolate as a teacher in Bishop Ryan High School, Buffalo, N. Y. where he remained until 1969 when he was transferred to Kolbe High School, Bridgeport, Conn. In June, J970 he was appointed associate pastor of St. Hedwig.

-' The newly appointed provincial official has four sisters and a brother in New Bedford. They are Miss Stasia Augustyn, Mrs. Louis (Julia) Swol, Mrs. -Ernest (Sophie) McKay, Mrs. Charles (Jeanette) Holand, and Mr. Thaddeus Augustyn.

Father Cyril will take up residence in provincial headquarters, Baltimore, Md. Replacing him at St. Hedw.ig Parish is Rev. Nicholas Swiatek, OFM Conv., a former teacher at Arch~ishop Curley High School, Baltimore.

The ConVentual Franciscan Friars staff Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in New Bedford, Holy Cross in Fall River, and Queen of the Most Holy Rosary in T~unton as wel1 as St. Hedwig.

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ern spy technology. The constilarge corporations ~uch as Amer- tutional freedoms of individican Airlines. These are certainly uals must be respected' not only evidences of the low level ,to in law but also in fact. Political which> ethical standards have espionage for the sake of politics fallen in many areas of national must have no place in a government, and do' combine Democracy.

These are but a few of many ;lnto a sinister collection which eould threaten the very founda- suggestions that could prevent tions of our constitutional rights; 'another Watergate. And prevent The basic urgency then in the . it we .must. In each century this viewed merely as an error of total Watergate affair is not nation from its ReVOlution with judgement or an act done in merely -to uncover the wrong- England, and the Civil War be.'bad taste.' The more serious of- doers but to deal with> the causes. tween hte states to the crisis of fense is the rather determined If these root-causes are not re- Watergate has had ,to face the efforts to :cover up the break-in. moved and cut away, our politi- gravest threats to its democratic Senator I Sam Irvin, Oia·irman cal system could soon 'be con: ideals. But it has survived and wi1l continue to survive as a of th~ Watergate Senate hearing, fronted by new and greater Democracy .if it is willing to face certainly ~it the"nail on the head threats. , its own shortcomings.

Pre-Electic)n ·Campaign Reforms It is not the most perfect form Political: ethics, as we know, between the politic'al and gov- of government but it surely is depertd to:a great extent on un- ernmental functions of all elected the best one that this present written norms of procedure and officials, but especially the office world offers to freedom-loving these are q,ifficult to change. But ' of president. As leader of all the men and women. In the past, they must be changed. The Con- people of the nation, the Pres- America has always been able to 'I ' gress shOllld issue norms that iclent must be freed from reform itself. Once more it must will be ab~olute for all elected rule of a political party that he be willing to undergo a someofficials. The greed for large rr..ay assume his proper function whoat painful and self-effadng campaign contributions should ir.. government. Above all, the examination to ensure that the be eliminated by a total reform rights af each and every citizen hopes, dreams and ideals of our , in pre-election campaigning. 01' this land must be protected found,ing fathers were. not in There' must be some line drawn from the insidious plots of mod- vain.

Wa~ergate is not just the same All too often the emphasis today is bn the selling job old bag qf dirty politics that we and not on what is being sold. The concern is about the hav~ acqepted as part of the packaging and not the.contents.

I Americanl. political game. Rising to t1:~e surface in this poo( of horAnd so it is well to have held up before the eyes of, rors' is th~ basic issue of apparmen the example of those who still see~ after excellence. ent ,acceptance at the foremost . . k II h b level of government of policeTo t he ancient Gree s this exce ence walil e aim and -0 - stat~ taCtics and methods. The ject of all learning, of all education, of ap living.

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Brazil Prelate Charg"es Police Harass Aides.

RECIFE (NC) - Archbishop Helder Camara of Olinda and Recife said his Auxiliary Bishop Jose Lamartine Soares and other aides were detained for more than three hours by police.

He also said Father Reginaldo Veloso, who run~ several social action projects, was under arrest for several hours at a different site.

Bishop Lamartine and a group of eight priests and lay leaders had been holding a meeting on pastoral problems at the Office of the Northeast Regional Conference of Bishops when they were detained. They were released when federal agents arrived with special orders.

Unemployment, Hunger Observers here said the detentions are regarded by churchmen as warnings from the military after the circulation of a document of the bishops of Northeast Brazil highly critical of the government policies.

The bishops said Brazil's economic boom is benefitting the rich at the expense of the poor, and cited unemployment, hunger and low wages as proof. <> Last year several aides of Dom Helder, as the archbishop is known here, were arrested under charges of subversion. The prelate has incurred government censorship for his outspoken de,fense of the poor.

Charleston Bishop Orders Boycott CHARLESTON (NC) - Bishop Ernest L. Unterkoefler has or· dered Catholic institutions in the Charleston diocese not to buy clothes manufactured by the Farah Co. Bishop Unterkoefler issued a directive saying, "No parish, school or religious institution in the diocese . . . may entef into any argeement to purchase school uniforms or clothes manufactured in working conditiGns where there exists exploitation of labor, a refusal to enter into collective bargaining and a denial of the right of workers to organize."

The hishop issued this directive after it was brought to his attention that at least one of the schools in Charlestown was about to negotiate a deal involving buying Farah slacks from a local merchant.

"Although we have no exact infor~ation on just how many schools in ,the diocese use Farah slacks as part of their uniforms, there were indications that this situation was not isolated. This is what prompted me to 'issue the directive," he said. ,

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Summer Festival A summer festival will be held at St. Joseph's; Attleboro, starting at 4 P.M. Friday, July 27 and continuing from 10 A.M. to midnight, Saturday, July 28 and from 1 P.M. Sunday, July 29.

Features will include homemade foods, games and prizes. Beano parites will be held every Thursday night during July and August and Friday afternoon card parties for senior citizens will resume at 1:30 tomorrow. Cub Pack 37 will hold a family outing and baseball game.at 11 A.M. Sunday, July 15 at Texas Instrument recreation field.

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Welfare Leaders Score Cutbacks WASHINGTON (NC)-Qfficials of the nation's Protestant, Catholic and Jewish social welfare systems have attacked the Nixon administration's moratoriums and cutbacks of social welfare programs. " The welfare officials charged in a position paper that programs to deal with pressing social problems are being prematurely ended, with nothing to replace the programs.

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POWERFUL GROUNDBREAKER: Forgetting about the traditional spade, Sister Mary Yvonne' Gillise, R.S.M., executive director of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich., rides a bulldozer during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 558 bed structure to replace an aging building. Mel Millar is at the controls of the powerful machine as the $48 million project begins. Completion is expected by 1976. NC Photo.

Charges Illegal Use of Name '·Birthright' SYRACUSE (NC) - "I, cateThe director of the Office of goricaBy deny that there has Christian and Family' DevelOpbeen any contact with Planned ment of the archdiocese of New Parenthood for abortion pur- York, Msgr. Hugh D. Curran, poses" said Daniel McMahon, said that the name Birthright president of the board of direc- was adopted in 1970 to publicize tors of Birthright-Syracuse." the Church's activities and its The anticabortion .organization anti-abortion stand.

"At the time," he said, "the official was reacting to accusations made by Birthright Inter- pressure' on women to get 'abornational, an organizaiton found- tions was very strong," and aled by Mrs. Louise Summerhill of though the pro-life services had always been available in the Toronto in 1968.

Mrs. Summerhill had also archdiocese of New York, few charged Birthright-New York people knew about them. and the Syracuse chapter with 'Service Mark' using the name illegally, since The name Birthright was quite it has been registered as a "service mark" by the international .appropriate, Msgr. Curran said, corporation in Canada' and the "because it stated forcefully the position of the Church and in U. S. fact made the Catholic's. antiMcMahon said that "Birthright-, of Syracuse is an absolutely non- abortion efforts quite well known sectarian corporation, which was in the city.

The "service mark" was regisincorporated before the registration of the name 'as a 'service tered after the New York organimark,' " Mrs. Summerhill had also said '$5 Mi'liion Donated that the New York organization was violating the charter of For Quake Victims Birthright International by "ad· NEW YORK (NC)-A total of vertising Birthright as a totally $5.5 million in cash and in kind Catholic operation." She added has been received by the Caththat this "is extremely damag- olic Relief Services (CRS), the ing" and that the organization overseas aid agency of U. S. "is interdenominational and has Catholics, for' the 'relief and realways been," rehabilitation of the victims of 'Very Successful' \ the 1972 Managua, Nicaragua, The board of directors of the earthquake. ' Toronto-bas~d international antiabortion organization decided to Almost 90 per cent of the total retain legal counsel to prevent was raised through appeals in the New York state orgnizations parish churches in 82 dioceses. and others from using the name Thirty-five additional dioceses without being chartered by its sent donations from diocesan funds. ' headquarters.

McMahon, the Syracuse orReconstruction of damaged ganization's officer said that homes, schools, clinics, dispenBirthright has been "very suc- saries, and churches in Managua cessful"in the Syracuse area. is receiving top priority.

He added that the operation is U. S. surplus material such as conducted autonomously, al- bulldozers, trucks, well-drilling though the headquarters are 10- rigs, and tractor trailers has cated in the chancery of the been bought to implement these SyracusE: diocese. ' projects.

zation had been using it for some time, he added.

"I am sure that if Mrs. Summerhill saw what we are doing here, "she wouldn't be worried about the good use of the name" Msgr. Curran said. "It is unfortunate that this should happen at this time," he added.

Birthright has been one of the major anti-abortion organizations in the country and abroad. Since the founding of Birthright Internationa'l," it has grown to include chapters in 300 North American cities and it also has branches in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and England.

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"Responsibilities are presumably being turned. back to the states and municipalities," the statement declared, "but are cut off nationally with no assurance that they will be assumed locally."

Thz position paper was issued by the Interfaith Consultation of Social Welfare, made up of three co-chairmen: Philip Bernstein, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds; Msgr. Law,rence J. Corcoran, National Con· ference of Catholk Charities; and John McDowell, National Council of Churches.

The consultation representatives expressed particular concern over proposed changes in Medicare which they contended "could work severe hardships on many millions of senior citizens living on ftixed incomes."

They said the Administration's estimated sa..vings on Medicare "will either come out of the pocketbooks of the elderly Medicare patients, or will result from failure to seek necessary medical servtices because they cannot afford them,"

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Au,ra -of Mystery Is Lost In 'Nearly 'Nu,de(' St,yles I know the world is ~hanging f~ster than we can adjust to it ~nd that, we just have' to get used to these changes and accept. th~m with understanding-at least that's what- I keep telling myself. HoweVer, the new nudity is just a little too much to I 'take, especially when one mains of ~lne's umbilical cord, has teenagers. Take halters, - especially if one tends to be a little .paunch,''Y as many teenagers for example. A halter is do. , 'I

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But I feril that the pendulum has swung ks far as possible and that it will ~ventually come back to the middle. When the first wave of this' new freedom recedes, per~ap's young women will dress to look good, not for shock effect or because all their peers dress this way, but because they realizelthat they themselves look good in a certain type of clothes.

N;O Mystery When mel1 are asked about the new look of nudity they reply that· it's f,j(te on someone else, but not on arty of t.heir own families, wives I and daughters especially.

I ' ' Certainly, ~ any look of. mystery that clothing could lend to its wearer isj now gone, and with it a certain femininity that even' the staunchest women's libber must admit I is part of being a woman. '

described in the dict,ionary as a girl's blouse, generally with straps leaving the back, arms and midriff bare. This sounds quite harmless and back in the forties these halters really weren't immodest, but today, when worn with low slung hiphuggers, they don't leave a great deal, to the imagination in fact, most of the bottoms are so low that they call for jewels in the navel, just to break. up ,all that bareness.

Sally Rand or Ann Corio I would never make a living today Charges I Agriculture for the streets of our cit)· are as much of a burlesque 'shoow ,as ~irector rtith Bias COACHELLA (NC) - United was an afternoon spent at the Farm Workers Union (UFWU) , Old Howard.

The new nudity makes mini head, Cesar I Chavez, called for, skirts look like Mother Hubbards. the resignatipn 'of California diOnce seen only ,on the beaches, rector of focx;I and agriculture, C. see-through blouses, low-slung BruneI Christiansen, charging slacks or dungarees worn with him with "r~cial h:mgups" that mini-halters are now part of the prevent him I from dealing with everyday street scene, and it's the UFWU "il1 'a meaninful way." not unusual to see some of these ,But UFWU spokesmen ex"belly bare costumes '(m the pressed ho~, that they would . high school and college campus. win their bAttle with growers While I'm sure that people are and the Teamsters Union.

According to Chavez, when making some point with this freedom of dress, I'm afraid it Christiansen visited the Coachella escapes me. Certainly there is valley, the stene of the UFWU nothing attractive about the re- -strike against grape growers who have signed contracts with the Tea1l)sters Union, the state Cardinal Mindszent'Y offiCial spent lonly three hours in To Visit England the valley and did not contact I LONDON (NC) -::- Hungarian the UFWU but "had complete Cardinal Jozsef Miridszenty, now ,consort with !thoe Teamsters." living in exile in Vienna, will Afterward IChristiansen held visit England this month as the two news conferences based on guest of Cardinal John Heenan of his brief visit.

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I Cardinal Mindszenty, arch- Postpone Installation bishop of Esztergom, has been living at V'ienna since 1971, when Of Lousia~a Bishop he left Budapest after 15 years' LITTLE RdCK- (NC)-The inrefuge in the U. S. embassy stallation of B'ishop Lawrence P. f there.

Graves as th~ bishop of AlexThe Hungarian cardinal wiIl' andria, La., sc~eduled for july 8, be in London for three days, from' here in Arkansas, has been postJuly 13. He will celebrate after- ' poned for twd' weeks. noon Mass for the Hungarian On the advide of doctors, Bishcommunity in Westminster Ca-, op Graves, who had been auxilthedral July 14 and wil.1 meet 'his iary bishop of! Little Rock, postcompatriots later in the adjoin- poned the inst~lIation because of ing cathedral hall. an attack of vi~us pneumonia., On July 15 the cardina~ will Installation Iceremonies have offer morning Mass in the cathe- been tentatively rescheduled for dral, in Latin.

Sunday, July ;22, and Monday, July 23, in st. Francis Xavier Summer Party Cathedral, Ale~andria. The dates The annual Summer Party -to will not be fltmed until. Bishop benefit the Mary E. McCabe Graves' is' releaised from St. VinDiocesan Nursing Scholarship cen~ Infirt:narYi here: .

Fund will be held Saturday, July Bishop Graves said hiS condi21 at the summer home of Mrs. tion is impro~ing steadily, but McCabe, 23 Pilgrim Terrace; doctors believe ia two-week postRexhame Beach, Marshfield, ponement of his installation is Mass. There will be swimming, necessary to assure his full reI covery. ~ames and a buffet supper.

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I LI~TLEST LEGIIONARIES: Catherine, Elizabeth and Christina Kiely are the littlest meinbet~ registering for the recent' Legion of Mary Congress in Los Angeles. FathefAedaq Mbprath of Legiion headquarters in Dublin, said that the legion is a young people's organization in Europe and that the average age of senior legionaries in Belfast, North, 'I ' ' ern Ireland, is 23 years. NC Photo. ' . . ,.

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The case "again shows the MOBILE (NC)-Bishop John L. May. of Mobile has called the al- power of government, especially leged involuntary sterilizations when it gets into the area of of clients I by a federally funded - eugenic' engineering, tel1ing peobirth control clinic in Montgom\1 ery "a fOfpt of genocide, almost."

"It's again the same old prob- Senate Bill Identical lem ,of ty:ipg such things to wel- 'To House Version fare," Bishop May told NC News.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. He was, commenting on reports :ressie Helms (R-N.C.) says he that as ,~any as 11 girls may_ has introduced a Senate' bill idenhave beenl involuntarily sterilized tical to a House anti-abortion by the clinic.

Bill because these bills, more An Off,ice of' Economic: Oppor- than other similar bills, define tunity officiaI"said that either the the rights of a person most necessary i parental consent was <:learly. not obtained for the operations Sen. Helms' bill is identical to or the' parent did not understand the one introduced 'in the House the consequences of the surgical, by Rep. Lawrence' Hogan (Rprocedure.'

Md.) shortly after the U. S. SuThe Montgomery agency has preme Court decision in January been sUed,for $1 milli,on by two young black sisters who allege in effect invalidated most state they were ,sterilized without their anti-abortion laws.

Through a constitutional consent. ; People u'nder the "duress" that amendment the Hogan and welfare clients experience, "are Helms bills would preven.t a: fedviatimized," Bishop May said, eral or state government from. "especially' people who are poor ,depriving "any human being,' fmm the moment of conception, and, in this case, black." equal protection of the law."

He' said' 'they, "are very much at th~ mercy" of social workers.

As stated earHer by Hogan, this protection would guarantee , I the rights to life of the unborn, P~iest,~ Oppose B,ias the ill, the aged and the incapaciALBANY (NC) - A resolution tated. calling for I the, entry of women into every,phase of Chureh life, including the priesthood, was defeated by ~he Priests' Senate of the AlbanYi diocese.

The actioh came after the Senate had approved a similalr resolution, whic:h did not mention the priesthood several months ago.

Tha~ re~olution encolJ,raged and promoted "the active participation of women in all proper phases of the life of the Church."

It also opposed "all forms of discrimination based 'on sex.'~ But unlike the resolution which' was Irecently defeated, it did not mention permitting -women to receive Holy Orders.

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In Washington, Sister Virginia Schwager, director of the Division for Health Affairs of the U. S. Catholic Conference called the alleged involuntary sterilizations "a serious example of an attack on the human person."

"This whole matter," she said, "is an appal1ing a'ttack on privacy, innocence and the right of motherhood."

She quoted from 'the ethical and religious directives approved by' the bishops of the, United States in November"1971: "Every patient, regardless of the extent of his physical or psychic disability, has a right to be treated with a respect consonant with his dignity as a person. Man has the right and the duty to protect' the integrity of his body together with all of its bodily functions."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. July 12, 1973

After several hot, humid days in a row, we got some relief one evening last week. It was comfortably cool, with a gentle breeze, 'and a magnificent sunset. I commented to my husband, "Heaven must be like this." One of my younger children overheard me and' asked, "What's heaven really between children.

There will he no arguments like, Mommy?" "Can Grand- between adults, either. pa play chess wit.h Uncle There will be a peace, a con-

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tentment, knowing that all my family is loved; ca,red for; protected, yet free; needed, yet independent.

As I look over the list of things r envision in heaven, it sounds much like things mothers strive for every day.

And possibly that's part of our inborn instinct as mothers . . . trying to make a little bit of heaven here on earth.

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I viSll:llize "Mothers' Heaven" wlwrc: One shoe is never missing.

Socks always match.

I~ooms stay tidy.

Dinnrr never burns.

There are no mosquito biles, 110 scraped knees, nor sunburn.

No hroken hlisters, no hroken legs, nor broken hearts.

Weeds stay in vacant lots, an:.! the bugs that are eating my flowers switch to the weeds .. instead.

No Conflicts J.awns grow to a two inch height ... and stay that way.

There will never he an evening with two conflicting appointments; two ball games, with two children participating on oppoSitl' ends of town . . . both of which I must attrnd.

Clothes will come back from camp having heen worn ... but not moldy.

Clothes will also come back from camp without any collection of wildlife in the pockets.

Pockets will he emptied hefore the clothes go into the washer.

And at the end of each day, the washing' machine will he empty.

And all the laundry folded.

And put away.

Tht' ironing basket will be empty.

Brand-new socks won't suddrnly have holes in them.

All the children will be dressed on time.

And me, too.

My eyeglasses won't disappear.

Nor my car keys.

There will be time to read, before I'm so tired I fall asleep.

New fragrances There will be fragrances never bottled by perfume manufacturers: clean ,sheets fresh from the line, apple pie baking, damp earth, in the early morning, after a heavy dew, a scrubbed and shampooed toddler, in clean pajamas, and that fragrance that fills the air after a thunderstorm. , And those magnificent summer sunsets.

There will be no arguments

Sympathy to Students At Examination Time v ATICAN CITY (NC)-Popc Paul sent a "word of sympathy and good wishes" to students experiencing that "moment of tension and of trial" that is examination time.

The Pope was speaking July I at I-.';s Sunday blessing to crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for the noonday Angelus. After wishing the students well in their examinations, the Pope said he would make "only two side remarks.".

His first was that examinations are not to be found only in school. There is another kind of examination for life, consisting in "a prolonged questioning about the use we make of our gifts," he said. Among such gifts he listed "time, our capacity for development, the ends to be achieved."

His second remark was to express his "high esteem and reverence" for teachers, and for the "greatness and mobility of their mission, which in his moment becomes decisive for the mind and future of their students."

THANKS FROM UPPER VOLTA: President Sangoule Lamizana of Upper Volta, one of the African countries stricken with disastrous drought, talks with Pope Paul in the Vatican. The head of state thanked the pope for helping turn world attention to the problem and for the help sent to his people by Catholic aid organizations. NC Photo.

Hospital, Sisters Take' Anti-Abortion Stand EASTON (NC)-The Sisters of sponsorship shall protect life St. Erancis of Philadelphia have from conception to death. . . issued a strongly worded state- Any pressure to perform aborment against abortion and re- --tions shall be counteracted di· affirmed their position to protect rectly and a decision to relinquish sponsorship, rather than life from conception to death.

The community numbers over destroy human life, shall un1,500 'professed Sisters and is the equivocaliy demonstrate our comsponsoring group for eleven hos- mitment to life." pitals located in Philadelphia; The statement said that oediTrenton, N. J.; Lancaster, Pa.; nary means to sustain life would Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore; be "utilized with every patient Baker and Pendeleton, Ore.; and regardless of age, quality of life, Tacoma, Wash. or the cost involved."

The statement emphasized life Obstetrical services will be as a "gift of God", and said: "We, therefore. intend that all "one of the top priority services" health care institutions under our and will include among others,

Conference Pledges To Fight Discrimination SINGAPORE (NC)-The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) at its recent meeting here pledged to fight "racial discrimination and domination" of the various minority groups in t'be area, and to give priority to programs aimed at Iiberatiing the poor from poverty.

The CCA, formerly named the East Asia Christian Conference, also elected a new set of officers and staff at its fifth assembly meeting. ' The assembly concluded that CCA priority for the next four 'years would be initiating programs to liberate the poor from poverty by providing opportunities for self-development.

It also pledged to support minorities "in their struggle to achieve and make full use of their legitimate social, legal, eco· nomic and cultural rights." Com· munity organizations training will be available to the abori· gines of Australia (the darkskinned descendants of that continent's original inhabitants) and other minority ethnic groups if required, in consultation with the national councils of churches in the countries concerned.

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Grants and gifts will be used to finance obstetrical services to women who are unable to pay.

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THE ANCHORThurs., July 12, 1973

Church Leaders Score Military Coup in Chile SANTIAGO (NC) - Church leaders redoubled effort,> at conciliation ,in the wake of a military coup against the Marxist government of' President Salvador Allende.

Auxiliary Bishop lsmilel Errazuriz of Santiago relayeel through tr..-e local dailies a call to Chileans "to peace and concord, ending hatred and violence which are destroy.ing our nation," Hours earlier downtown Santiago had been shattered by machine gun and cannon fire, as the Second Armored Regiment of the city garrison launched an attack on the presidential offices at La Moneda. Allende was at his private residence eb;ewhere, The rebellion was crusb~d the same day, Leaders of the, Christians fur Socialism movement, mostly' priests, "condemned the small

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Christians for Sooialism, who have been seeking to win over the anti-Allende opposition the left wing of the Christian Democratic 'party, ,told them thoat "you must think about the responsibility falling on those who defend the interests of the rich.'; Tbe socialist group claimed that "opposition by rightists is ruining the country economically and can be blamed for the- guilt in- this coup that has just been crushed."

'Sin The life of' sin is a fall from coherence to chaos; the life of virtue a climb from the many to the One. -St. Thomas Aquinas

ALBANY (NC)-The' Evangelist, newspaper of the Albany diocese, has a new editor-in-chief and two new assistant editors.

Father Kennetb J. Doyle, associate editor since 1967, was named editor-in-chief. Helen M. Fagan and James Breig were made assistant editors. ;.

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William F. Jillisky, who was appointed to pastor of St. Made/-, leine Sophi~ Parish. i, Father Doyle was a member of the first Priests' Senate of the Albany diocese and served three terms as that group's secretary.

Miss Fagan, a native of New York City, is "ay-out editor and feature-page editor of The Evangelist. Shoe also coordinates the book page and the entertainment section of the paper.

Bteig, a native of Cleveland Heights, Ohlio, became a staff , .' writer for The Evangelist in 1971.

He was nominated for the 1973 St. Francis de Sales Award, the nation's top Catholic journalist's award. He won national honors at this year's Catholic Press Association convention for several articles dealing with abortion.

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BLES~ING OF NEW BEDFORD i FISHINQ Fl.EET: As each ship passed the platform in New, B~dford Harbor, Rev. Constantine Bebis of the Greek Orthodox Church, New Bedford, left apd Rev. John F. Hogan ,of,si. Julie's Parish, No. Dartmouth.' third left, blessed the individual vessel. Rev. John J. Steaken of the No. Dartmouth parIsh, seGond left, assisted in the ceremonies. Far left 'is Larry Chongarlide, New Bedford harbor master.

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(NC)-"Huelga," Spanish: word for "strike," assumes somE'thin-g of a sacred significance I as it is used by Mexican Americans in this little desert comlnunity completely rimmed by bkrren mountains.

The strike iby the United Farm Workers Union (UFWU) against table grape g~owers in the valley entered another phase as about 25 priests frllm as far away as New York 'and Massachusetts lines in rejoined the picket I sponse to at call from UFWU reader Cesar Chavez. ' Chavez, faced with a series of violent incide:nts that caused him to fear that, his strikers would threaten his tonsistent policy of non-violence, had asked Father Eugene J. Boyle to recruit clergy and religious to Coachella to witness for non-~iolence._ .

Father Boyle, a San Francisco priest who is Idirector for justice and peace for the National Federation of I Priests' Council (NFPc:), dispatched an 50S to the national NFPC office in Chicago for help. Wi'thin 48 hours .the plea produced these results: Evenihg Liturgy' I Father Reiq C. Mayo, NFPC president, held a conference call with his eightrman steering committee. The committee agreed to encourage lockl councils to offer support withl telegranms and -where possible to finance trips here by their r垄presentatives. , Father Mayo contacted by phone the 27 rbembers of NFPC's executive boar~, 'representing the nation's eccleSiastical provinces, asking their hbl p. , Fathers Ma~6, and Boyle were themselves present in an all-day demonstration: June 29, ending in an evenin~ liturgy concelebrated by 16 priests. Ma'ryknoU Father Lawrence McCullough, the chief contelebrant, used a th~

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VATICf1..N CITY (NC)-:-Pope Paul VI began the last week of Junei wLth the opening of a remarkable inew museum .elf modern ~rt ahd a concert conducted by l;eona~d Bernstein and ended it by, receiving a group of American 'deacbns and ordai:ning 10 bishops from various parts of the world.

On June 29, .the Feast of S5.

Peter and !Paul, a major feast in Rom~ bec4use it is so intimately connected with the papacy, the giant' Basilica路 of St. Peter was awash,. with people. ' The tradiI tiona,1 fish: trap, woven of 'fresh green lauren leaves, hung over the main door. It is the only day of thoe y~ar that the Apostle Peter's traCIe'is, visihly recorded.

LitfrallYi thousands flowed through the entrance., So great was the crowd this year that the "Doors ofl Deilth," sculpted by the Ita Ii a!) Giacomo Mangu, were opened. Normally those doors, to the far i lef~ of the basilica's main doors, remain closed.

1ft noon on the feast day, PopePaul appe~red, small and white, at th~' wiridow oyerlooking the great square in, which there must have qeen a,t least 20,000 persons.

The Pope spoke of the signifiI cance' of both 'the Apostles ~Id their mart~rdom. He asked the crowd to remember ,tb:~ two saints) both or' whom had been martyred fpr their faith in the ancient city of Rome.

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Bolsters Hope They came from Father Roberto Pima, president of the priests' senate in the Brownsville, Tex., diocese, with the largest per capita concentration of Mexican Americans; from religious eommunities of Claretians and Salvatorians and Holy Cross Fathers; fro", the New England Conference of Priests' Senates as well as -from several individual councils of priests in New England.

The messages were all of the same tone: "No violence, please;" "Our prayers are that you will, be able to maJntain _your nonviolent posture."

The day for the visiting priests began on t\:le picket Hnes at 4:30 a.m., when !;trikers and their families took their positions awaiting arr-ival of grape pickers now wO,rking under an alleged "sweetheart" contract with the Te,amsters Union. Chavez claims that the contract w'as a ploy of the growers 1'0 break his United Farm Workers Union, under which local pickers had been working.

The presence of priests and Religious on the scene had the two-fold effect of bolstering the hopes of the str,ikers and ruffling the feathers of the Teamsters' security guards, transported here from Long Beach, Calif.

Catholic Daughters Mark Anniversary UTICA (NC) - The Catholic Daughters of America celebrated the 70th anniversary of the 200,000 member national organization here June 17.

"We cannot be half路christian," Father Leonard Bachman of Stirling, N. J. told a CDA delegation of 425 members. "With Jesus it is all or nothing."

In a homily d~livered at the anniversary Mass in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Father Bachmann spoke of a need for patriotism, criticized flag burning by "some misdirected mobs," and commended the CDA for its ded-ication in you," he said, adding that "Our country needs a sense of morality, it needs a return to basic values." The cn" he silirt, can be the organization which' will 'help bring 'about this spiritual and moral reform."

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Lack of Social Security for Retired Sisters Problem in Fall River, Across Nation

ALBANY (NC) - A natural

BY PAT McGOWAN family planning clinic, one of only two in the nation with govAt age 75, Sister Jeanne- ernment funding, has opened _Therese Desbiens of t~e Sisters here in cooperation with St. of St. Joseph. at 105 Howland St., Peter's Hospital, operated by the Fall River, should be enjoying Sisters of Mercy. her well-earned retirement. But Federally funded through the she's worried, and her worry is Office of Economic Opportunity, shared by elderly Sisters across the clinic will offer drugless fam- the nation; simply, it's that after ily planning to couples at no lifetimes spent in service to others, they find themselves incost. eligible for social security beneThe clinic, which joins one in fits.

Pittsburgh. as the only two reYears ago, said Sister Jeanneceiving government money, is Therese, she discussed the situoperated by the Family Life In- ation of Sisters with. the late formation Center (FLIC). It grew Congressman Joe Mar,tin. "He out of a 10-year-old organization was amazed to discover that Sisof couples from the Christian ters got no social security and Family Movement. said something should be done FLIC has joined with other about it, but nothing ever hapagencies, including county and pened."

In those' days, said the nun, city health departments, the Urban League and another hopsital, the problem wasn't urgent; to form Capital Area Family Re- younger members of a commusources, Inc. (CAFRI). CAFRI nity supported the elderly. Towill receive the $150,000 in fed- day, however, there are few voeral funds l(lnd pass them on to cat,ions to religious life and the the members. FLIC expects to proportion of elderly Sisters is rising. "It's been eigh-t years receive at least $13,000. since we've had a postulant who The method being offered at has persevered to make her prothe clinic is the sympto-thermic fession," said Sister Jeannesystem, which combines basal Therese. The situation is not body temperatures with recogni- unique to the Sisters of St. JoHon 'of symptoms to pinpoint seph, and it adds up to a large ovulation. problem for religious life as it The new system is called "a now exists.

Make Ceramics vast improvement on the old Sister Jeanne-Therese is quick rhythm method" by Dr. James Furlong, medical director of tbe to admit that she has no crystal clinic. He believes that ,any ball with which to predict the woman can be taught to know future, she merely emphasizes when she ovulates and that some that retired Sisters are forced to have as few as five days a month seek whatever means possible of when they can become pregnant. earning money. She is superior of 14 such religious at her community's Howland Street provincial Managing Editor house, and says they make and sell ceramic objects and do a To P'ublish Book good deal of sewing. Their ORLANDO (NC)-The managhandiwork is on view at the coning editor of the Florida Catholic vent and is also sold at a large has written his first book, tentaCI-.,ristmas fair sponsored yearly tively titled "The Ragin' Cajun." by the Sisters.

Henry P. Libersat, 38, who "We start our Christmas sale edits the weekly newspaper that in October," she said. serves th.e dioceses of St. PetersThe religious, a n~tive of burg and Orlando, signed a con- Canada, but brought up in Lawtract with Ligouri Publications, rence, who will celebrate her Ligouri, Mo. The book is sched- golden jubilee in August, is the uled for printing next year. only member of her community who has spent her entire reliThe book is autobiographical g,ious life at the Howland Street and philosophical. According to convent. "Counterfeit money a professional who read the manisn't put into circulation," sbe uscript, "... By turns, the book jokes, but the truth is that folis a picture of the family-ebullowing 23 years during which lient, wounded; poetic, practical; she taught at Blessed Sacrament charged with laughter, evoking School, across the street from the compassion." convent, she held the positions Libersat, who in 1968 received of mistress of novices, provincial the University of Southwestern superior and her present post, Louisiana Cardinal Newman all of which necessitated that Award for "outstanding commu- she "stay put at headquarters."

During her teaching career, ity service and exemplary family life," told NC news: "Actually, extending from 1921 to 1945, I started thiS book about eight with the exception of one year years ago, but I didn't have during which she completed her enough to put down. . . This is novitiate, she made such an immy story-the story of a man pression on her students, with Wiho is married, a man who is a scores of whom she has kept in fatber. I'm telling it so that touch, that a group is plannil1g a other men can say, 'Well, if testimonial in her honor on SunHenry Libersat can make it, I day, Sept. 23.

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-Cardinal Newman

Wonder Wonder is especially proper to childhood, and it is the sense of wonder above all that keeps us young.

-Gerald Vann

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Bishops Ask End To Fratricide In Burundi

DAR ES SALAAM (NC)-The bishops of Tanzania, deploring the "inhuman and un-Christian fratricide" going on between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in Burundi, asked for special prayers on the Feast of the Assumption, Aug. 15, and appealed to all people of good will to help end the conflict.

The bishops said that information they had received indicates that the two ethnic groups in Burundi are still "waging a war of e·xtermination."

A mid-June report reaching . here from eight Catholic priests working near the TanzaniaBurundi border said that Tutsis are still continuing the killing of Hu~s. .

Before that there had been reports that, although thousands of Hutus had died in the warfare w.ith the ruling Tutsi tribe, the situation appeared to be under control' and that some missionaries who had left Burundi were returning.

The June letter from the priests, signed by Father Ramon Vincens, secretary of the Mulema <.Ieanery, said that they could no longer remain silent while the world ignores the slaughter in Burundi.

Father Vincens said that a group of Hutu tribesmen who SISTER JEANNE-THERESE DESBIENS, S.S.J. had reached safety in Tanzania told him they were running away said. "It will be thrilling to .see shoes-that's for the birds!" she from a program of genocide exclaimed. tbem with their families." against the Hutus worse than the She also has reservations about It's '''always a party" when one last year. the nun sees any of her old stu- the lack of authority in many dents, she admitted. "We had a forms of religious life since the Racism in Rhodesia real family spirit in Blessed Council, and queries the values of such changes in life-style as Sacrament SchooI:" 'Pernicious Heresy' Much appreciated by her for- nuns living in apartments and UMTALI (NC)-Calling racism mer students who served in the working as teams instead of in Rhodesia "a pernicious hearmed forces during World War under superiors. ''I' think the resy" and "disa,strous in the conII was the fact tbat their old pendulum will swing back," she clusions it can lead to," Bishop teacher kept in touch with them declared.

Donal R. Lamont of Umtali said She is interested ,in the PeTtte- ' that the Christian Church "would. by mail, writing from 30 to 40 letters a week during the war costal movement in the Church, cause grave scandal" if by its years. "We have no alumni asso- but feels it has inherent dangers. silence it seemed to give consent ciation, being just a grade "How can you be sure what to a government inspired by schOOl," said Sister Jeanne- spjiritis working?" she asked. "ra'cist prejudice."

Even before September 23, Therese of the now-closed The Rhodesian Cathorlic BishBlessed Sacrament School, "but she is looking forward to a cel- ops recently issued a statement tbe students have remembered ebration planned for Aug. ·12 at strongly criticizing legislation the Howland Street convent. over the years." passed last December that they With fellow gold'en jubilarians charge prevents blacks and In charge of arrangements for Sister Marie Angele and Sister . wh)tes from worshiping together. the September testimonial, she Alphone Marie, and diamond They said that the legislation, said, are Mrs. Irma Teves and jubilarian Sister Francis of As- amendments to the Land Tenure Bertrand St. Laurent. sisi she will attend a' concele- and African Affairs Acts, conFor the Birds brated Mass and entertain tains "provisions contrary to Sister Jeanne-Therese approves friends and relatives at a buffet basic human freedom" and rein general of the post-conciliar luncheon. stricts freedom of entry into Church but says firmly, "I don't churches. think Vatican II meant that nuns The bishops asked the white Difference shouldn't wear habits." She has There is a great difference be- minority government of Premier retained the distinctive garb of tween the wisdom of an illum- Ian Smith to remove the "offena nun and says that all her inated and devout man, and the sive provisions" and threatening grqup of retirees have done the knowledge of a learned and civil dtsobedience by saying they same. would not comply with those studious scholar.

"We gave up the vanities of Thomas a Kempis provisions. the world-why should we want to go back to them? You'd have to think of hairdos, matching 0

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Says Television Makes; Us Watchers, "Not Dders One of the most difficult attitudes that today's parents must cope with is that of passivity on1the part of their children. To the parent reared fn a difficl.Ht culture, nothing was too much work. He walked off to s,chool" a couple of miles away. He worked hard , . and played hard. If some- in the same, category of parents thing needed doing, he was taught to do it, the sooner the better. .

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who insist children go to church while they sleep in.

Habits ru'n in families. Some families live life; others watch life. Some families would never consider sp~nding. the weekend in front of the TV set while others automatically turn it on when they get up Saturday morning and off Iwhen they retire on Sunday night.

Doers, Waltchers .

I Just glanqe around the neighborhod some weekend and see if CURRAN you can pick out your doer families and yo~r watcher families.

While the ~atcher families are apt to have the drapes closed (better TV that way) and occa· trouble" syndrome which he sionally colne to the door, hates in his own children. So stretch, looK' around and return widespread is this phenomenon to the set, the active families are that an educator, Dorothy H. doing all sqrts of things. PerCohen, has devoted a study to haps the parents are gardening, it and come up with some de- washing the car ,'or putting on '>... . ..• ,.•..-..... pressing results. the front lawn while the kids.

"Evidence of non-invoLvement are fixing b,kes, playing games : 'FATHER, SON ASSIST ARCHBISHOP: Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwauand the disinclination to exert with friends,l and building caves epi~copal adviser to Serra Internation§ll, celebrates the liturgy of the word at a Mass kee, effort are appearing in homes in the bushes. The point is not I during the Serra convention in Washington,.D.C. He is assisted by Father John J. Enzler, and classrooms where good busy-ness for the sake of busyleft; of tittle Flower parish, Bethesda, Md., and the priest's father, Clarence J. Enzler, a choices and interesting activities ness but for Ithe sake of life. are consistently offered to chilBefore lonig, it's easy to pick permane,nt deacon at St. Mary's parish, Washington, D.C. Serra, which encourages vocadren,'~ she says. She labelled it out the TV'd person. Everything tions to the piresthood, attracted more than 1,800 Catholic laymen and their families, plus the infantilization of children becomes tod much for him or and laid a good part of the ,her. Readinlg, baking, sewing, 20 bishqps 'and 100 priests to the meeting. NC Photo.' blame for it on television, that crafts, golfing, writing letters ... problem we all recognize. all formerly I enjoyable occupa· Aged Children tions become, tedious to the pasHer words fell on fertile sive watcher,' His body has beNEW DELHI (NC)-It is more of resources," he said. "As a to 'administer foreign relief ground. A year after Sesame come sedentary and each physi. Street appeared, I was aBked to cal dem'and lupon it. tires him. blessed to give than to receive, member of this global village,. funds.

In the future, he explained, do an article on 'its effect upon" And, as anyo,ne who has recuper· but hot ,always easy. Aid~giving the earth, I see no reason why children. The one consistent ated from an illness knows, the countries are beginning to ask if my treatment of a person a few Australian Catholic Relief will comment from kindergarten more he lies around, the more their. contributions to developing thousand miles away should be not accept appeals for aid from ' countries Ireally benefit the re- any different from my treatment India ancl this will be sent diteachers was that the children easily he tire1s. of my neighbor a few houses rectly to Indian Caritas. After were becoming watchers, not 'Before lon~, life is simply too cipients.

Voluntary relief agencies al;,o down the street." the funds have ,been used, an .doers-that they waited to be tiring for hirt:l and he turns into entertained rather than involved. a watcher. iHis friends shake' are searc~ing for a new formula He said he believes that men accounting will be asked for, Parents who have heard their their heads and say, "Wonder that will produce better relations suffering from poverty need to chiefly for publicity in Australia. children turn down a trip to the what happen~d to him. He used between giver and receiver. be given confidence in their abil"We hope that this change will zoo because it's too much work to be such an active and interAri Australian relief. director ity to take control of their own truly make development a part· understand the teachers' plaint. esting persori." now I visi~ing India. said: "Aid lives. nership in progress 'and increase Added to this study is the preMaybe we+e lucky to he liv~ agencies thought that sudden inthe capacity of Indians to achieve Change in Relations valence of a disease so m,ystifYi ing in the TV age, maybe not. flux 'of money into underdevelgoals which they determine for ing to pediatricians that they Only' time wih tell. But it would oped countries would cure all the Australian Catholic Relief, he themselves. I believe this change have named it, "the disease of be an irony ifi the most educated, problems. :Wh~n the first Austra- said, feels it is "arrogant and in attitudes and relations will be physical inactivity." It is the nourished and wealthy nation in lian Freedom from Hunger col- presumptuous" to make deci- accepted by all aid agencies, othcommon diagnosis for many chil- the history of the world allowed lection was being conducted, sions in Sydney on priorities of erwise they run the risk of bedren thought to be suffering their comfort~ to turn them into AustralianS felt that if they and r..eeds in Ind{a. Especially, he coming agents of oppression :1 ' from fatigue, aches: nausea and a nation of Iinfantilized adults all the "rich" nations gave gen- added, since the Catholic bishops rather than agents of develop· other middle-age complaints. Be- and middle-aged children. erously, 110 one in the world here have set up Indian Caritas ment." cause today's kids are so unused would go ~ungry again."

I to using their bodies, some physi- .

Sharing in Decisions I~ulhearn Appointed cians fear they will be even Spiritual! Directors The relief official, Michael Sulmore prone to the. illnesses Elect Officers livan, Alistralian administrator 1ro Ecuador Post linked with sedentary living than NEW YORK (NC)-Thomas B. 'EAST AURORA (NC)-Beneof the Asi~ Fund for Human Deare their parents. One group of Mulhearn has been appointed dic;tine FathJr Vincent Tobin, velopment; said that "most orpediatricians prescribed a blanComplete Line ket remedy: limit TV and keep spiritual director of St. Meinrad ganizations realize that technical program assistant of the CathCoUege, St. Meinrad,' Ind., was .assistance ,is ~ecessary; but un- olic Relief Services (CRS) in the car in the garage.

Building Materials I think that's simplifying it a elected presid~nt of the National less men feel they can grow as Ecu,ador, Bishop Edward E. 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN bit too much. Making the kids .Federation of Spiritual Directors human beings, masters of their Swanstrom, (CRS) executive director, announced. at rhe federation's meeting at St. 993-2611 own development and sharing in walk and controlling TV time are Born in Brooklyn, N. Y.-Mulgoing to be effective only jf they John VianneYI Seminary here in decisions, then no amount of material' effoh' will achieVl! real hl~arn received a B.A. degree see their parents doing the same New York.

Elected to t,he executive board liberation." from Boston College in 1966; he thing.' Otherwise, the remedy lies of the organi~ation of the spirTh~ dilemma facing donor also holds 'a MBA degree from itual directors of scliools and agenc,ies, ;~aid Sullivan, is that Columbia University Graduate PLUMBING & HEATING, INC. University colleges wete Father John . while campaigning for donations S,:hool of Business awarded in Sales and Service A university is, according to O'Donoghue, Spiritual director of they have to, at the same time, 1H68. Prior to joining CRS, Mulfor Domestic ~. the most usual designation, an A-ssumption seminary, San An- convince their citizens ancl them- hearn was employed as afinan· and Industrial ~ alma mater, knowing her chil- tonio, Tex.; ahd Father Terence selves that Ipeople in a particular cial analyst for both General Oil Burners dren one by one, not a foundry, Attridge, spiJitual director of country are capable of adminis- Motors and Sperry Rand Corp.

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CRS is the overseas aid agency -Cardinal Newman Cit)'.

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Stresses Strong Anti-Smut Laws On State Level

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Europe Is Key To World Peace

ALBANY (NC)-Enactment of VATICAN CITY (NC) - The laws at the state level to implc-, peace of the world hinges on l11ent the Supreme Court's recent peace in Europe, the Vatican's decision on obscenity is necesrepresentative at the Helsinki sary 'if any decrease in smut is Conference on European Security (0 be seen, according to the N. Y. and Cooperation said on leaving State Catholic Committee's secfor the Finnish capital. retary.

Charles J. Tobin Jr., the secreThe Helsinki conference, which tary, said: "We need a strong began July 3, includes almost all anti-obscenity law on the state European countries, in addition level now that the Supreme Court to the United States and Canada. has established the guidelines."

It aims at ending the Cold War . The new tighter definition of and creating a peaceful new obscenity approved by the court basis for East-West relations. , "will have to he 'implemented in Another meeting is scheduled :III the states to take effect," he for Geneva in the fall. t'xplained.

"Europe means more than just "The law doesn't set a standitself."

Archbishop Agostino ;11"(1," Tobin explained, "but esCasaroli said in an interview lablishes a guideline which local over Vatican Radjo July 2. :lIld state legislatures arc to "Peace or war in the rest of "omply with in 'writing their the world, almost necessarily" flhs('enity laws." depends on events in Europe, he "Regulation is up to the state," said. he said. "The court indicated it was not its function to propose Archbishop Casaroli, who is HONOR RETIRED PASTOR: Members of Our Lady of Grace Parish, No. Westport secretary of the Council for the laws ... but merely outline the limit to which the laws may go." honor their retired pastor, Rev. Maurice H. Lamontagne after completing 19 years as pas- Church's Public Affairs, said he Rejected Test tor in the No, Westport Parish and 41 years in the priesthood. Left to right: Rev. Rene would certainly speak at the "Therefore, the decision's ef- R. Levesque, Mrs. Walter Belanger, a sister to the honored guest; Father Lamontagne and Helsinki conference. fect will be felt only if state ·and "My talk will emphasize those local legislatures prepare and his brother Gerrard; Dominick Faggioli, a parishioner. parts of the conference's agenda pass local laws defining obscenwhich the Holy See views as of ity according to the guidelines basic value. Obviously I will set up by 111(' court." he exavoid whatever is technical or plainc(l. strictly political, and will underIn its decision, the Supreme Father Rahner has said that intend to be so intractable as not line what is itself moral or has.

FRANKFURT (NC) - Two Court said that it "has recog- world-famous theologians have Father Kueng's views cannot be to listen to valid objections." a moral bearing. nized that the states have a le- .agreed to bury the hatchet in reconciled with the Catholic faith He said he is fully aware of "I am thinking of security in gitimate interest in prohibiting their three-year-old bitter debate following the Second Vatican the importance of dogmatic defiitself, that is, the way of pre· dissemination carries with it no over papa! infallibility.

Council and that he is "funda- nitians and that the substance 'venting outbreaks of conflicts, significant dangpr of exposure The debate began when Ger- mentally inconsistent" in his aI'- of the faith must not be placed or wars among nations."

10 unwilling adults or to juvein question. man Jesuit theologian Father' guments. . niles."

Dogmatic Definitions History Will Judge Karl Rahner sharply criticized The court rejected once and Priest Resigns , Father ,Kueng, who is on the He suggested that the conSwiss-borll. theologian Father for all .the "utterly without refaculty of Tuebeingen -University troversy on infallibility be alHans Kueng for views he exPublic Office deeming social value test" which in Germany, accused Father Rah· lowed to rest for the time being GREEN BAY (NC) - Father has bren used to permit almost pressed in his book "Infallible? ner of being "intentionally a ser- and said that history will be the Edward Witczak, censured by any material under tl)e guise of An Inquiry," which challenged vant of the Roman (Vatic'ln) judge. his bishop for not as~ing per· freedom of expression, Tobin the traditional concept of papal system." The result is, Father _ infallibility. said.

Kueng said, that for Father Rah. He also insisted that he is not mission to serve on the Green Father Kueng said he prefers ner "in Rome. as in Moscow, the interested "in simply being Bay public school board, has rethe word "indp.fectability," mean- party cannot really err." right," and said he hopes that signed from the board' "in a Asks Secret Ballot ing that the Church wiil not deFather Rahner will grant that his spirbt of obedience to the wishes Now, in an exchange of letters is acceptable as one Catholic of. the bishop." fect from th~ Gospel, although Farm Election in the Frankfurt weekly Public view. Father Rahner agreed and FRESNO (NC)-Bishop Hugh individual Catholics or groups Bishop Aloysius Wycislo of A. Donohoe of Fresno has an- including the Pope and bishops- 'form, the two have agreed that urged Father Kueng not to allow • Green Bay, in a letter to Gree!1 nounced his support of a "secret may make mistakes. "The Church any future debate wHl be based his irritations with the Vatican Bay's Mayor Thomas Atkinson, on mutual tolerance. to carrry him to ex·tremes. ballot election" to settle the will be kept in truth, nof without had expressed "keen disappointerrors but despite all errors," he Father Kueng said that since The Doctrina'1 Congregation ment" over the city council's farm labor dispute that has hit the controversy began "I have has been investigating Father naming the priest to the school many parts of California includ- has said.

According to Father Kueng the gained in knowledge and don't Kueng's writings, including his board. ing his diocese.

The bishop said that farm First Vatican Council accepted book on infallibility. The priest ','You sh9Uld know," the bishop the doctrine of infallibility in workers have been unable 0 Distinction has called that investigation wrote the mayor, "that Father choose between the United Farm 1870 on the strength of arguNone understand better the "inquisitorial."

Witczak did not, as he should Workers' Union (UFWU) and the ments by Franciscan Father nature of real distinction than The German bishops also criti- have done, seek my advice about Teamsters Union in a secret bal- Peter Olivi, who was later those who have entered into cized the book, but did not get accepting your invitation to a charged with heresy. lot election. unity. into a specific discussion of infal- political appointment and to Even when such elections were -John Taulet libility. serve on 1'00 school board." held, the bishop said, "These ef- Refuses to Ordain forts were nev~r fully accepted by many growers who believed Two Candidates Protect your home while away ! that undue pressure was being ALBA (NC) - Bishop Luigi placed on the farm workers."

Bongianino of Alba, acting on "As bishop of an area that. is the advice of his seminary staff, seriously affected by this con- has refused to ordain this year's tinuous struggle," he urged two candidates for ·the priestgrowers to insist on a secret hood. ballot election instead of relying A diocesan official told NC on "a paper curtain of a law News that the bishop had decidthat, is recognized even though ed to "make a stand." it has no substance." He was He added: "And it's about referring to the December, 1972 time somebody did. What use is decision by the California Su- a priest to the Church' if he goes' preme Court that upheld the into crisis a few years after orSentry -- Timer legality of an agreement between dination?" the Teamsters Union and the Articles appeared in news• Turns lights on and off automatically growers. papers of Milan and Rome stating that no' one would be or• Discourages burglary and vandalism Glasses dained a priest throughout the The greatest magnifying glasses entire region of Piedmont this in ,the world are a man's own year, but in fact Bishop Boneyes when they look upon gianino's decision affects only his own person. the two candidates for 'h,is dio-Pope cese.

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The Parish Parade

Rainy ~ummer F~rwarns

Publicity chairmen of parish organizations .are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall . River 02722. Name of city or town should be Included, as well as full dates of all activities. Please send news of future rather than past events.

Of Fungus Development ' B y Joe and Marilyn Rodbrick

' With all the rain we have had of late, the garden is , I particularly susceptible to fungus infections. Mushrooms, " which are a form of fungus, are usually a good indicator that the ground is very wet and that conditions are excellent for fungus growth. Lately I have been finding more as you d~d, land when they insist mushrooms growing in the that you k~ep up such customs.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Parishioners will celebrate the Holy Ghost feast Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at club grounds located at Flynn Street, off Bay Street. A crowning ceremony will ta~e place at 11 AM. Mass Sunday and a procession will follow at 1 P.M. Other weekend activities will inClude band music, refreshments and auctions.

There are so many customs and habits that we lose over the years and it does seem that our 'children are missing something if we do a\\jay with too many of these annual affairs. That's why ST. MARY, I am so delighted to see WestSOUTH DARTMOUTH port 'keep tip its parade, replete Richard Cummings and Caliswith volunteer fire departments, tus'D. Sylvia Jr. are co-chairmen home-grown Indians and the, of the Second Old-Fashioned Fourth of Jhly "Horribles."

Country Fair scheduled to be One paraae v,iewer, expressed held at the ,church grounds Sathis pleasure I that the parade was urday, Aug. 18, beginning at still an integral part of the' 10 AM. with a parade. , Four,th of, july celebration, but Featured will be the "Southhe sadly re~orted Jhat this year eastern New England Regional his town ~ouldn't have fireFrog Leaping Championship works because of the increased Contest" and presentation of a cost, a loss, Ihe felt, for the chilbrand-new $1000 bill to a lucky dren of the: area who look forticket holder. Refreshments will ward to this annual excitement. be available and a flea market :1 We bemdan the attitudes of and auction will also be on the IfRA~CISCANS E:LECT: Named to direct. St. Anthony our young !people, yet by the program. Volunteer aid is resame token I we do away' with Province of CorlVenllual Franciscans ,for next three years quested and' those wishing to many of the stabilizing customs are, Ve~ Rev. Edmund Szymkiewicz, seated right with help may contact either chairthat make them feel part of their Most R~v. Vitale Bommarco, minister general of orner; and man. Proceeds will benefit reortown or citi.

Very R~v. Marion Tolczyk, standing right with Most Rev. ganization of the parish center While we I certainly hope that youth activity program.

America is more than horribles Do*ald' ;Kos, assistant general. Father Bommarco and Fathparades and: fireworks, we also er Kos :c~me from Rome for provinCial elections, held in ST. PATRICK, owe. it to o,ur children to give Granby',j Mass. Ele~ted to provi.ncial council was Rev. Cyril . SOMERSET them a background in customs Augustyn, former cu:rate at St. Hedwig's Church, New BedA retreat for high school girls that they too can pass on to the will be held the weekend of - for? O~rer parishes iin diocese staffed by Conventual Frannext generation.

July 27 and for 'boys the weekThe long I rainy days have ciscans :'are Holy Cross and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, end of Aug. 24, at Case House, forced my two teenagers into the Fal~ Ri"er;and Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, Taunton. Stevens Road, Swansea. InforI ,i,; ·'kitchen to ~ppease their sweet "'!ation is available from Cindy teeth and because I've been Frado, telephone 672-0686. watching thE[ shopping I,ist with, The Men's Club will meet at 8 an eye to leconomy the only' . tomorrow night in the Fisher goodies they have been able to House. come by are the ones they've ST. P~UL (NC)-Delipite all Calling the issue of birth conmade for ithemselves. Meryl the obsta~les erected by secular trol "one of the greatest' difficul- ST. STANISLAUS, made these bars· the other day society, -','the silent majority" of ties that faces the consciences of FALL RIVER , I Preparations are being comand they really were dellcous. couples 'is seriously trying to Christians," Bishop Okoye said pleted for the 12th annual parish l make its :marriages successful in that ",the Church opposes imCocoa Dream Bars festival, to be held Saturday and 1 cup siftJd all purpose flour accord with ,God's law, said a moral means of birth control ,be- Sunday, July 21 and 22 at Mabishop from Enugu, Nigeria. cause they are immoral and beY2 cup cotoa cause she is aware of the danger Iowa's Grove, formerly Urban's 1,4 cup brown sugar In his keynote address on "The 1.0 which universal admission of Grove. Donations of canned % teaspooh salt Splendort>f Christian Marriage," <:ontraception would lead us." goods, prizes and trading stamps Y2 cupbut'ter or margarine Bishop G()dfrey Okoye of Enugu are requested and maybe left at He said that widespread aptold delegates to the ninth nathe rectory or with ushers at any Topping proval and practice of contrational Wanderer Forum that· I wekend Mass.

1 cup chopped nuts "vicious ,propaganda is relent- eeption "leads to a general lowReservations for a parish trip 1Y2cup fl~ked coconut lessly pushing forward the cult ering ,of the moral tone of so- to Africa during next February I ciety.

Discipline and self-control 2 eggs of pleasu~e without any regard will ,be accepted by the pastor 1 cup sugar to tl1e trl;l~ nature and splendor will give way to license and self- following all Masses this week3 Tablespobns flour indulgence." and holy ideal" of marriage. end. ' 1 teaspoon! vanilla extract Even in 'underdeveloped areas "Even :mOI:ally mature men Y2 teaspoon salt like Africa, birth control is a ST. WILLIAM, and. wathen I let themselves problem ,"that debars a good FALL RIVER 1 teaspoon I baking powder 1) In a large bowl mix the be tainted, without \noticing it, number from living their ChrisMembers of the' Women's flour, cocoa, I browll_ sugar and by a secul:arist view of marriage tianity to the ~ull," the bis~op Guild will attend a cook-out at that is full, of strange and ex- sajd. . salt. : the home of Mrs..Raymond Doo2) Blend in butter with a pas- travagantly false ideas that are ley, 1100 Hancock St., at 6 P.M. try -blender. Turn into 11 by 7 served up: in newspapers; maga- ST. PIUS X, on Tuesday, July 17. Those atpan and pres~ evenly and firmly zines, films aqd television as obtending are asked .to -bring artijective truths about married SO. YARMOUTH to cover bottom. cles for the auction that will 'I ' life.'"

The Women's Guild will pre- follow. Chairmen are Mrs. Wil3) Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.

Cool slightly. i The result in many cases has sent a "Summer Bazaar" from liam O'Neil and Mrs. Raymond 4) Beat eggs and beat into the been: "m~~ital discord and in- '10 to 4 on Wednesday, July 18 in Dooley. eggs 1 cup sugar and the vanilla 'fidelity, broken families and the t:1·e church hall on Station Ave. Mrs. John F. Santry, chairman extract. '\ poverty ofi the, joy and piety that 5) mix together the chopped shoul'd characterize our Chtis- and Mrs. John A Kevern, cocl1airman have announced that nuts, coconut I and 3 Tablespoons tian families," he said. there will be booths offering flour, the Y2 I teaspoon salt and I hand knitted and hand sewn the baking pqwder. _ ST. HEDWIG, Over 35 Years Woman articles, candy and food items, 6) Combin~ the egg and flour of Satisfied Service jewelry and dolls. Books and There is nothing a woman so mixtures and Iblend well. Sprea.d NEW BE~FORD Reg. Master Plumber 7023 dislikes as to have her old opin- oyer the partially cooled crust.

A Yard Sale will be held on . s'Jrprise package pieces will also JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. ions quoted to her, especially 7) Bake at, 350' for 25 to 30 Simday, July 15 from 2 to 6 P.M. be availahle.

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fact, I wish I could differentiate between those that· are edible and those -that are not, so, that I could take advantage of them!

Fungus growth, of cmurse, is a very serious problem in the garden and one which must be attended to before it dE'bilitates plants to -the point where there is very little hope of salvaging , them. The only cure I Imow is to purchase a fungicide and to spray the plants with it rc:gularly.

How to Spray Almost any commerci811 fungicide is appropriate for the garden. Fortunately they are nontoxic so that they have little adverse effect on wanted plants. I use a powdered form which can be mixed with water and sprayed 'and I have found it 'u:;eful to , add a couple of drops of liquid dishwasher detergent as lil sticker in a gallon of water (a sticker is an ag~t which helps the spray stick to the plants).' A. spraying every JO days or soshauld be sufficient to inhibit fungus.

H is important ·to spray both top and bottom of leaves, especially the bottoms, because fungus grows where there is a minimum of sunlight. I am particularly concerned with mums and roses ,in my garden. Both plants are particularly susceptible to fungus infection and aTl) badly blighted if they become prey to black spot and other. forms of growth. Fruit trees have to be protected because fruit can easily be destroyed.

This whole matter is one of serious concern in a wet summer such as' we seem to be having, and it's one which requires a I,iftie forethought and preventive action. Once flowers and plants are infected, the task of saving them is almost hopeless.

In the Kitchen Our fireworks were rained out for the second straight day and Jason has disappointment written in his every movemen t. Yesterday we did manage to see the annual Fourth 'of July pal'ade in the town of Westpol't, an event that I guess I've been watching and enjoying for 'the past 30 years.

One of the joys of parenthood (and there are days when we're all hard-pressed to find any) is having your children enjoy the things that you enjoyed as a child. > The pleasure when Melissa tells you that "The Secret Garden" is, one of her favorite books and you can truly answer her that it was without a doubt the one you loved best. The warm feeling when the 'children enjoy a family custom as mu'ch

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Christian Educatio'n Should Awake Thirst for Justice When the Bishops in their Synodal Document turn to the issue of educating Christians in the f,ield of justice, they begin with some very tough and radical statements about the nature of much of contemporary education. They say: The method of education people live below the poverty very frequently still in use level while top executives, pop today encourages narrow in- artists, bestseller writers and top dividualism. Part of the hu- sportsmen may make individu-

ally over $1 million a year? What are they to say when one of the most regressive forms of taxation-social security payments -goes steadily up while a combination of tax havens and loopholes permit several hundreds of millionaires to pay no taxes at all'!

By More Than Income BARBARA Nor is this above all a monetary issue. Justice is more than income. It concerns participation, WARD dignity and self-respect.

The idea of th~ business enterprise itself as a' possible sodal community, which Western capoften obstructed by the estab- italization overrides by excluding lished order, allow the formation the workers and Soviet State only of the man desired by that capitalism overrides by turning order, that is to say, man in its it over to the bureaucrats, is just image, not a new man but a one example of a Christian concopy of man as he is. cept of full communal responWe all know what this means. sibility whose time may have We see it every day in our come but which represents an own lives. The children who live 0rder of justice almost overlookglued to a television set from el in 200 years of Christian eduwhich honeyed voices tell them .cation. at regular intervals to persuade Class division, gross inequaltheir parents to buy them the ities of income, total lack of latest things in sports equipment respect for the poor--all these and not being brought up to use things have been tolerated under material things in the "sparing" a Christian veneer. And it's this way the Bishops believe to be veneer the Bishops now wish a necessary sign of a follower to strip away and reveal, in its place, an education which proof Christ.

Teenagers educated to a total- motes social awareness, social ly uncritical acceptance of the criticism, and a readiness to live social order arouncl them may new ways of life and to promote sometimes react against it in new laws and institutions.

How is this to be done? Thc equally uncritical ways. They go unkempt becau$e mother spends Bishops have a number of sugtoo much time in the beauty par- gestions which we must examine. lor or drop out of school because But perhaps the first is "pract"the system" is evil. But the vast ical education" - not simply majority drift back again and learning the theory of justice take up the rejected life. And the but from the beginning bringing reason is that neither in home- it into one's personal life and nor school did they receive the experience. the suburban child, critical yet constructive vision of for instance, who reaches adoan alternative social order for lescence without any direct exwhich they can courageously, pa- perience of poverty is not receivtiently and lovingly go to work. ing a Christian education. Knowledge must. start from fact.

To Do Something In short, what Christian education is designed to awaken in Nuns Advise Change the hearts of young people is the In School Priorities 'ability to discover injustice and CHICAGO (NC)-The National the determination to do something "in justice, love and sim- Coalition of American Nuns plicity" about it. There is, after (NCAN) asked Catholic educa-, all, no shortage of matter for tion leaders for "a courageous re-ordering of priorities" in the criticism. . What are generous and honest wake of the U. S. Supreme Court Christians to say about the cur- decision outlawing several forms rent American situation in which of nonpublic school.aid.

"We ask our bishops and other the biggest single cause of hopeleaders to set highest priority on less poverty is simply to be old and alone? What are they to say educating the poor," said the about a profile of rewards in 1,800-member independent orwhich some 25 to 30 million ganization, which was formed to study and speak out on issues of human rights and justice.

Editor-in-Chief NCAN said that the "crisis" ERIE (NC)-Ron J. Wasielew- faced by Catholic schools "can ski has been named editor-in- be turned into a redeeming fuchief of t'he Lake Shore Visitor, ture if we use our present renewspaper of the diocese Erie. sources for the service where it He graduated from Gannon Col- is most needed: the urban and lege here with a B.A. in English, rural poor."

This change 'in priorities worked as a reporter for the Erie Daily Times and in 1965 "would bring re-affirmation of covered Dr. Martin Luther King's our Catholic education system march from Selma to Montgom- and turn the present crisis into ery, Alabama, for the Erie news- a new chapter of promise and papers. fulfillment," the nlins' group said.

man family lives immersed in a .mentality which exalts possessions. The school and the communications media, which are

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Canadians Unhappy With F'amily Conditions RIO DE JANEIRO (NC)-Family troubles in Canada are many -some caused by materialism, some by ignorance-but the solutions offered by Church groups have often been inadequate, according to a study prepared for the inter-American bishops' meeting here in Brazil by a team of experts under the Canadian Catholic Conference (CCC).

"It was noted that many (bishops) would agree that the Canadian social reality is marked by the high value given to physical and material strength, competition, growth, accumulation, consumption, and the corresponding low value given to gentleness, sparing, restraint, selflessness, caring, concern, commit-· ment, fidelity, sharing."

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meetings the Canadian bishops United Nations World Population held this spring on the family, Conference in 1974." which also recognized the need' The report on family life in "to raise the awareness of the Canada brought out the fol1owmembers of the family" to Chris- ing points: tian values in the face of conOne in every four Canadians flicting influences outside the lives in poverty, with 20 per cent home. of all families receiving only There are pastoral programs seven per cent of the national going on to develop a deeper income.

The divorce rate is growing. understanding of Christian values in the family, the study addThere are more working mothed, but other pastoral orienta- ers. Married women make up 57 tions are not yet under way. per cent of the I. 7 millton womFamily life, the study said, de- en in the labor force._ The birthrate has reached an pends very much on conditions of social justice, another concern all-time low of 17 per thousand of the Church in Canada. The population; a few years ago it bishops also seek "Christian in- was 25. Abortions rose from volvement in the elaboration of three per thousand live births a population policy for this na- three years ago to more than tion, in view of the coming eight last year.

Millions of poor children in mission countries are abandoned each year because their parents die or simply cannot afford to feed them.

Some turn to roaming the filthy alleys of the slums or begging in the market place. Some receive help in mission relief centers, orphanages, and daily "milk lines."

These are the fortunate onesfortunate because , missionaries are there in the name of Chr'ist to help them and love them. And missionaries are fortunate too ... fortunate to be there because others, like YOU care.

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American Baptists I and Religious Fr~edom· Somehow it was leaked to the news media that Harry Truman, while President of the United States, from time to time en. joyed a good shot of whiskey.

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FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J. ......!!Mt_l1H...!iil"l Some influential'Baptists launched an effort to have the President, himself, a Baptist, expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention because of his occasional nip.

Truman responded in typicalIy blunt fashion. He pointed out in no uncertain language that no one in the Convention had any power to expel him or anyone else. Although no theologian, Truman was right.

This was not a matter of executive privilege, but of sound Baptist principles.

Baptist Churches have no right or procedures for excommunicating members or. enforcing ethical or doctrinal standards.. As a Baptist Harry Truman stood up for his freedom of conscience which is a central part of Baptist tradition. .,

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Perhaps nothing is more characteristic· . of Baptists in America than their jealolls concern about freedom 01' conscience and religious liberty. For Baptists it i~ a deeply held conviction that no one has spiritual authority over the individual believer.

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I conducted a priest's retreat at this beautiful spot in May, smelled for the first time that "lovely fragrance of orange blossoms at night and 'heard young Father Ed Wood tell me about a special Children's Easter Sunday Mass. ._!1.e._. _~,~~ __h\:' .. pas,tor at 51.

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recognition of personal responsi· bility car stimulate us' to look more d~eply at our own awareness of i~dividual religious rights and res~onsibilities. . .

A,~ thei Second Vatican Council remmded us, freedom of canscience js the other side of person~1 re~ponsibility, and faith is necessit:(, free. "For its part, authentic fr,eedom is an exceptional sign of the divine image within man. Fot God has willed that man be left 'in the hand of his own counsel' so that he can seek his, Creator spontaneously, and ,com~ freely to utter and blissful perfection through loyal· ty to h i ! l ? . .

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In the Lands of, the Bible Did you know that the Bible was named !after a city? It is, and that city, Byblos, on the coast of LeJjanon, is one of the more fascinating spots in the lands of the I Bible.

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As we have seen in our exploration of the Bible lands, the Greeks werf responsible for many of the names by wbich we know .the Middle East.· Like 'Palestine and Phoenicia, Byblos was named by the Greeks, and like the narrte Phoenicia, the name Byblos was derived· from the seaport'sl most famous export . . . papyrus.

According to Bruce Conde, au-

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I . are no creeds, no sacraments, no ecclesiastical systems .of government, nb prescribed ritual.

Baptists are religiously democratic becaJse faith is necessarily a free c?mmitment. For that same reason they refuse to baptize infants.: The BaptIst insistence ,on re-.

Iigious 'liberty and individual freedom is ~omething to be admired, something for which we Americans can be grateful. The fact that the Baptist interpretation of .thi's radically Christian principle differs from that of other Christian Churches induding our owrl, need not diminish either our iadmiration our' gratitude. In: fact the Baptist respect for pEjrsonal freedom and

Therese's patish in San Diego, Msgr Sean Murray, knew that the relativel~ small church would be filled for the main services on Easter. Since Father Wood had pre~ided over liturgies for children Ibefore, it seemed like a good idea to propose this unique Paschal Mass for young. sters in grad~s 1-6. By having 'ohildren in the nearby parish I hall, the church proper would be available for more adults.

Sixty boys Iand girls .arrived on a, Saturday two weeks be~ fore Easter to' plan and prepare this Easter EJcharist. They had respon-ded to i pulpit announcements, bulletins appeals, and letters from religious instruction teachers, all of which publicized the Mass and iinvited volunteers for the Saturday preparation event. t Full Participation 'Some came ito read, others to Turn to Page Seventeen

thor, .0f'(The Way to Byblos," when the Greeks began to trade with the i ancient city they discovered Egyptian papyrus in use there, and immediately began to look' to the city as their primary source of ,the writing material.

Die Phoenicians called .the city Geba), but to the Greeks it was easier to call it after its most important export. The name· papyrus first became distorted to pulpos and in the vernacular of the Greek sailors it becalne bYblos. So to the rest of the Ylorld: Gebal was Byblos.

Even today, 'the port·is known to the Western World as Byblos, but the Lebanese still use the city's ancient name, Gebal, which is rlow spelled jebail. The name Jebail incidentally means little' mountain.

Byblos: Book 'I The Greek's distortion of the word l pap):rus had ramifications : II far beyond the name of the city.

The Ylord~ icame to apply to any scroll written on papyrus, and ultimatel~ ,came to be :;ynonymous wiUi1scroll and subsequently with the idea of a collection of papyri! Iin any form, thus it also Was Used to describe papyrii bound lin to books.

The Greek word byblos for book fauna its way into Latin and all Uje romance languages, even into English, in such words as bibliogt~phy. It is 'easy to underst~~d now, in a world per. meated by ,Greek culture, the Holy , Scriptures, "the -book" 'I came to be called by the Greek wQrd. for, ,book. So the Holy Scriptures I became Byblaos, and in English; Bible. All because Greek saHbrs never learned to pronounce papyrus.

Archeologists The Lebanese city of Byblos or Jebail, lis itself one of the most .intriguing historical sites in a country filled with them. It is possibly,the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.

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ADULT BAPTISMS ONLY: "How and when a person i.s baptized has been a central concern for several centuries of the Christians known as Baptists. They believe that only adults should receive baptism and that the only proper form is immersion." A chaplain baptizes a serviceman in a Vietnam river.·<NC Photo.

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the only proper form is immers;on. They reject such practices as the baptism of infants or the pouring or. sprinkling of water in administering the ordin~nce.

Besides the Baptists many o:her churches prefer immersion including the Disciple of Christ, Churches of Christ, Brethren, Mennonites; Seventh-day Adventists, and Mormons. Sometimes .the baptism will be held in a river or pond and at other times in a baptismal pool in the church building. Until the 13th century immersion was the normal form of Baptism in Roman Catholicism and it remains an acceptable form in the Western church as well as'in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Bible Conscience Beyond their special views on Baptism the Baptists reject any spiritual authority above that of the individual congregation. The congregation has the authority to .call and discharge the preacher, determine the form of worship, elect elders and deacons,

. and admit new members. Baptists proclaim "No human founder, no human authority,,no human creed." Only the Bible can 'bind the conscience of the Baptist believer.

Baptist' beliefs can be traced to the persecuted Anabaptists i of the 16th century.

Forming what has been called the left wing of the Reformation, these Anabaptists preached that only adult believers could declare their personal faith in Christ. and therefore receive the Baptism which symbolized this decision. A small group of English dissenters formed a Baptist church in Amsterdam in 1609.

Roger Williams Roger Williams founded the first Baptist church in America in Providence, Rhode Island in 1639. Will iams remained a Baptist for only a few months; he spent the rest of his 'life as a Seeker. But the seed was planted and the Baptist movement registered great gains in later . years, especially during the 19th century.

Disputes over slavery divided the Baptists in 1845 and gave rise to the Southern Baptist Convention which has since become the largest single Protestant church in the nation. Southern Baptist congregations have been ,organized in all 50 states and baptize about 1,000 new members every day of the year.

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Pe'rsonal Life Irrelevant To Political Judgments

u.s. Baptists Continued from Page Sixteen that he act according to a know· ing and free choice. Such a choice is personally motivated and prompted from within. It does not result from blind in· ternal impulse nor frm mere external impulse nor from mere exday, #17).

No matter how often I encounter it, I never get over the moralistic romanticism of a certain sort of Catholic liberal. In the peculiar world' in which they live matters of style take on an objective importance that completely eliminates substantive issues. That you take a certain thing as he is about everything. stand is much less important But. his person~1 s~x life is his .) . h busmess and IS, m my judgth an th a t you ta <e It t ~ ment, quite ·irrelevant to any proper way. .

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subject of the "marriage" of Philip Berrigan. Tb:! marriage, I hry sadly tell us, is bound to detract from the effeetiveness of the Berrigan witness against the Vietnam War. To which, my tlerhaps simpleminded response is to ask, "Why?" The war is over, the witnrss is over, how in tr..2 world can it be weakened ex post facto? Besides, I had always thought that what counts' in politics is the intelligence of one's analysis, the wisdom of one's strategy, and tb2 effectiveness of one's tactics. Only in the most. romantic sort of politics docs the personal life of the politician in matters completely unrrlat.ed to his politics have anyIhing to do with judgments about the value of his politics. (The sex life of politicians in Britain has recently become very important once again, but probably because' the British have a national feeling of inferiority over their inability to produce a Watergate.)

Fashion for Substance I will do Philip Berrigan the courtesy of taking his politics seriously. I disagree-as is probably no secret by now-with his analysis. his strategy, his tactics.

I do not disagree with his opposition to U'"e war, though I wish I could be as certain about any-

New Archbishop Named for Athens VATICAN CITY (NC)-Archbishop Benedict Printesis of the Latin·rite Archdiocese of Athens has resigned and been succeeded

by Father Nicholas Foscolos. The new Latin-rite archbishop of Athens is 36 years of age. Archbishop Printesis was 32 at the time of his nomination in 1959.

No reason was g,iven for Archbishop Printesis' resignation. It was known, however, that he had been seeking to be relieved from his office for the past several years, and the Vatican had been reluctant to let him resign.

Archbishop-elect Foscolos was born in the Aegean Islands, at Comi in the Archdiocese of 'f.inos, Nov. lI, 1936. He is a priest of that archdiocese. He was ordained Oct. I, 1961, and has been in pastoral work since.

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judgments that must be made about his politics. I don't see how anyone could think differently if one 'is interested in the substance of politics and not merely the preciousness of political style.

It may well be that U-.'z New Yorker sob sister who was assigned to the Berrigan case will KING LANDREGANS SARCOPHGUS: "One of the no longer feel like falling on her most interesting antiquities is the sarcophagus of King knees and seeking absolution. It may well be Playboy will no Ahiram, from the 11 th century before Christ '.' . Inside longer celebrate Berrigan celibacy (are) the words: ' ... if any King or any governor or any as the only sort that does not army commander attacks Byblos and exposes this coffin, reduce a man to a bureaucratic let his judicial scepter be broken, let his royal throne be eunuch. But Ms. Gray and Mr. overthrown, and, let peace flee from Byblos'. " Wills scarcely can be considered to present a serious approach to politics. It also may be that some Cathol,ic liberals will to potential grave robbers the Continued from Page Sixteen say (as many have said to me), ago. Evidence of a flourishing vault contains in early Phoeni"Well, the Berrigans were over cian script the words: "Warning, t.he hill anyhow." But that is an city during the later Chalcolithic Age, and Bronze Age has also here thy death is below." approach to politics which subbeen discovered.

Inside the sarcophagus is a .stitutes not so much style for As a Phoenician port it was further inscription that contains substance as fashion for subthe point of export for the fa- the words:·". . . if any King or stance. Again it is not serious mous Cedars of Lebanon. It be- any governor or any army comand Philip Berrigan. ,if he is intercame a Roman city and a Cru- mander attacks Byblos and exested in serious politics, ought to sader citadel in the 12th and poses this coffin, let his judicial be just as bappy to get rid of 13th centuries A.D. and Byblos scepter be broken, let his royal such camp followers. probably has the oldest surviving throne be overthrown, and let The fact of the marriage and Crusader Castle in the Middle peace flee from Byhlos, and as style and content of its anEast. for him, Ilet a vagabond efface nouncement are matters on his inscription!"

Sacrophagus which I do not care to comment.

(I note that in ~n extraordinary One of the most interesting Much more can be said about· signed comment Overview, antiquities is the sarcophagus of Byblos. It is indeed one of the Dan Herr falls back on his clas· King Ahiram, from the 11th cen- most intriguing spots in the sic quote from his fathozr, "It is tury before Christ. As a warning "Lands of the Bible." enough to physic a rat.") I rarely disagree w.ith the Sage of North Wabash, but I disagreed with him when he was supportContinued from Page Sixteen Nine youngsters who voluning the Berrigans and I disagree paint, sml others to sing or teered to act as lectors proclaimwitb his judgment about the an· play in the folk group. ed the Easter story that day with nouncement. It is not my intent "Do you know any of these each one taking severa'! sento defend either the' marriage or songs we will be using?", Fathtences. A few even memorized the mode in which it was pro- er Wood asked a trumpet-cartheir lines. cla,imed. I simply think both are rying grammar school musician irrelevant.

The participating children on who arrived late on the scene.

Right to Privacy "No. I only know one tune, Easter Sunday had to pay an Nor is it out of place to ex- 'When the Saints Come March- "admission price" if they wish-. press the hope that the two peo- ing In' "Fine. That can be our ed to attend this Mass. Every youngster was required to bring ple will be able to find some processional hymn."

The artists used their talents into the sanctuary a real flower bappiness for themselves. Life is not easy, particularly not for to fashion on this and the fol- and an Easter egg prepared at those who are committed to poli- lowing Saturday various symbols home. These were deposited in tics of whatever variety. Inti- of Easter and the. Resurrection. vases (coffee cans converted A Paschal lamb attached to a the day before) and formed an mate human relationship are difficult, particularly when they 5" cardboard cross served as attractive setting for the Pas. formed when the pliable years of the base for countless balls of chal candle. youth have been left behind (and cotton which were glued to the Balloons: Commotion even more difficult if recent re- animal and gave it a fuzzy apsearch is to be believed for pearance.

The 200 yel10w and orange This with other cardboard chairs set up for this Mass had priests and nuns). The stra1n and the glare of publicity under .items-an Easter lily, a beau- helium~filled ba'1loons fixed to which Catholic radicals must live tiful butterfly, a large sun and them. Originally Father Wood make the problems of any hu- an Easter candle with Alpha intended that the children would man relationship even morE!' in- and Omega on it-were hung take them home as souvenirs. from the ceiling or placed Since 400 came, he altered his tense.

There is little enough happi- around the altar together with plan. , ness in the world. Any attempt many banners made throughAfter the Mass, the youngto find it sbould have the out the year by students in CCD sters left the hall, balloons in prayers of all who lmow the peo- classes.

Baptism at Mass hand, and with great shouts of ple involved. Predictions - one might even 'say hopes-of marTwo chHdren, ages 6 and 9, joy and excitement released .ital disaster from both the right were baptized at the Mass. Fath- them. Their parents and other and the left are shameful. Philip er Wood gave them large candles adults were at the moment leavBerrigan ·and Elizabeth McAlister several weeks prior to the ser- ing the Church down the hill may not want to be left alone-I vice with directions to decorate from the hall. They heard the don't know - but they b:lVe a the tapers at home. They did commotion, looked up and saw a right to their privacy and I think so and brought the finished pro· cloud of colorful balloons risthat they ought to be left alone. duct to this Paschal, baptismal ing, like the Lord, to a distant, heavenly destination. celebration. © 1993, Inter/Syndicate

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It would be well worth the time to read the Council's fuller treatment of religious liberty, namely the Declaration on Religious Freedom. It is a uniquely American contribution to the Council, created chiefly by the late John Courtney Murray, S.J., out of his years of theological .reflection on religious freedom within the American democratic experience. The Council states: "God calls men to serve him in spirit and in truth. Hence they are bound in conscience but they stand under no compulsion . . . man is to be guided by his own . judgment and he is to enjoy freedom" (#11). .

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Undoubtedly Roman Catholic and Baptist interpretations of the shared Christian principle of individual freedom differ.

However, before emphasizing the'differences, it can be helpful to reflect more deeply on one's own religious tradition of religious liberty.

Yugoslav Catholic Paper Confiscated VIENNA (NC) - A Zagreb court -ordered the confiscation of a recent issue of the Yugoslav Catholic weekly mas Koncila (Voke of the Council) because of two articles in the paper dealing with the situation. of the Catholic Church in Rumania.

An issue of the paper, the weekly C1f the Zagreb archdiocese, was confiscated earlier this year because of articles dealing with the situation of the.Catholic Church in other Communist countries.

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Gambling: was known to be the life-bloo<;l of organized crime.

But jf gambling could not be suppressed, or ¢ven effectively contained, how could the grip of organized crirrle be, broken? / These 'were but some of the problems wh'ich faced Murphy. In addition, there was the threat of investigating bodies: first the . Rankin Committee, - then the Knapp Co~mission. This, according to Daley, seemed to terrify and immobilize Murphy. ,

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From• City I Hall came political pressure, wi~h the mayor conm"rily that of a communications cerned chiefly, it seemed, about expert and adviser, who would the conseque'nces for his political "try to win hack the people for ambitions t~at any' police step , the police." might have. i The times had chang<:d. tlw Inside the~ department itself, city had changed, and the status one encounte1red politics, the maancl image of the. polit:e had neuvering fo~ advantage and prochanged. Admiration and respect motion espc?ially i~ the upper had largely vanished. The police reaches, with self-serving countWl're regardl'd with suspicion ing at least as much as public and hostility: Could Daley do service, andlheavily influencing .Illy thing ,to change that? what he would say and do in any critical situation. ' Enormous ProblemB Daley's year was an eventful It turned out that he could do one. It saw the horrible assassi\'ery little, and his tenure was nation of sereral policem~n by' brief. His original esteem for an organizatien calling (tself the Commisioner Murphy SOUNd, His Black Liberation- Army; the exeiepiction of Murphy is unsymplosive hearings of the Knapp pathetic: a, cold, detached man.

Commission; i the termination of interested in concepts and not in the policec~reer of Detective people, launching projects and Eddie Egan, 'he of "The French programs and then not following Connection" i (from book and them through. with an_ eye almovie Eddie 1got $3,000 out of ways to his own further progress. the millions made); the shooting Murphy, of course" had enorof Joe Colom~o at a public rally, mous problems to deal with, and and 'the murder of Joey Gallo in many of them, He headed a dea small restaurant; the multi32,000 partment numbering million dollar jewel robbery at ("three times as many agents as' . the Hotel Pie~re. And much else. 'the FBI"). He was served by no Braver~, Generosity fewer than 20 secretaries. His budget exceeded 626 million'dolThe policeman, moreover, has lars. 'The department ammunito deal daily with' sordidness tion bill-alone was more than and suffering, with crimes that $500,000 per year, are brutal ahd senseless, with In the city there were some breakdown and disorder. And, 1,400' murders annually, In rhe according to Daley, he generally same period, the numbers game does this far better than he is grossed 200 million dollars. It given credit for. The policeman was estimated that 5OJO,OOO is much less hkrd-boiled than one people in America were addicted might suppose!. Though a veteran, to heroin, and that 300,000 of he can be shocked and angered t'hese addicts were in New York. by the crimesl he has to investiOut of 89,000 armed robberies gate. and 17,500 arrests for robbery in The author i saw a great deal one year, 18.1 per cent of the of bravery and generosity on the people arrested admitted that part of the police, He found they were' addicts, brotherhood among the men, a genuine love I of' one another.

Gambling Problem He observed much hard, dogged, It was known that ther<2 was devoted work! and work whic,h corruption in the department. succeeded despite great odds.

I Policemen were, for example,' Use of Informants being regularly paid off by gamblers. A plilinclothesman could This success depends in large thus get $1,000 a month in addi- measure on the use of informtion to his police pay. Som(:thing ants. "A detechve explained that would have to be done about cases were no~ solved with brain, stopping this. But what? work but by tips from the pubDespite the legal prohibition, lic." Also, pelople haye an expeople were insistent on gam- aggerated ideC\ of what can be bling. District attorneys did not done with fingerprints.

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'sPlbLLMAN STREET IN ROME: An Italian official unveils the sign marking Cardinal Francis Spellman Street, a path in ~ park near his former titular church, Sts. John a~d ~aul in Rome. Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York" far right, attended the street dedicatIOn. Beside tUm is John Volpe, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Cardinal Spellman, the late archbishop of New York, was honored for helping Italian rehabi~itation after World War II. 1

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Continued fro,m Page Sixteen servative 'theology. Billy GraI •• ham,' a Southern Baptist mmister, is probably the best known Protestant! clergyman in the country a,nd one of the most succ~ssfull revivalists. Not" enthusiastic: about the ecumenical fot:1 more visible church search I· unity, the Southern' Baptists have :stay~d out of the National and Worlti Council of Churches.

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posur,e to air, prints would . . . evaporate I~nd disappear ... and it took' a great deal of skfll. patience, an4 time to bring them up." Further, "there were almost I nevet any fingerprints on any gun..•.. For the most part, there were' no surfac'es on any gun which would hold a human fingerprint)' The author faults Murphy and most of th~ high'brass in the department for what he considers to have bebn their lack of real contact WIth, and human concern for, tl;1e men in the ranks.

He says of' a meeting of higherups, ",A nuinber of coinmanders now began 'bad-mouthing cops in general. It 'came as a surprise to me to see that no one in that room was f~nd of cops."

wider range of theological opinion. These Baptists have made substantia-J contributions to' local, national, and world church councils.

Baptist worship tends to be simple and informal and features

the sermon. gospel hymns, and Scripture reading. The average Baptist congregation will observe the Lord's Supper four times a year as a memorial service.

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Reaffirms Doctrines Continued from Page One Church and for this reason show that it is the one Church of Christ. And such a completeness is independent of the fact that many genuinely Christian elements ar~ found among our separated brethren of the various Christian commuions.

Infallib iii ty The Church is infallible in matters of fa,ith and morals when: "The whole People of God unhesitatingly ooids a point of doctrine pertaining to these. rna tters;" -The bishops "scattered throughout the world but teaching in communion with the successor of Peter present a doctrine to be held irrevocably;" -"The bishops by a coIlegial act (as .in ecumenical councils), together with their visible head, define a doctrine to be held;" or -"The Pope speaks ex-cathedra, that is, when ... through bis supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the universal Church."

Dogmatic Formulas Dogmatic formulas may be in· complete and depend on the circumstances and conditions under which the expressions were formulated; and they may not have the same suitability for communicating the truth at all times and places; but "to those who interpret them correctly" they are always suitable, and "the meaning of dogmatic formulas ... remains ever true and constant in the Church."

The orda,ined priesthood is permanent, and for a Mass to be

valid it must be celebrated by an ordained priest.

Condemnation The congregation condemned the folIowing ideas, saying' that they cannot be held by Catholics: -"The image that Christ's Church is nothing more than a collection (divided, but still possessing a certain unity) of churches and ecclesial communities."

• -"To hold - tbat Christ's Church nowhere really exists today and that it is to be considered only as an end which all Churches and ecdesial communities must strive to reach."

-"To see in the Church merely a fundamental presence in truth which; as some assert, could be reconciled with errors contained here and there in that the the propositions Churcb's magisterium teaches to be held irrevocably, as also in the unhesitating assent of the People of God concerning matters of faith and morals."

-The opinion "that dogmatic formulas (or some category of them) cannot signify truth in a determinate way, but can only offer changeable approximations to it, which to a certain extent distort or alter it."

-The opinion "that these formulas signify the truth only in an indeterminate way, this truth being like a goal that is con. stantly being sought by means of such approximations."

The Vatican congregation also condemned the practice of Catholics attempting to perform the eucharistic sacrifice without pr,iestly ordination.

Theologians' Activity Continued from Page One that Pope Paul missed a wonderful opportunity to correct the teaching error of Pope Pius XI on the natural law theory in connection witb the problem of contraception.

"It was' assumed (by Church authorities) that admitting certain errors, aberrations, deviations and'mistakes by the Church would be attributing them to the Holy Spirit," Father Kueng says in his ,book on infaliibility.

He continues: "True, God acts on the Church through the Holy Spirit and is testified to by the Cburch; He founds, maintains and rules it; it is He who can neither deceive nor be deceived.

"But the human beings who constitute the Church can err, miscalculate, blunder, mishear, misunderstand and go astray."

In his press conference, Archbisbop Schroeffer, who was a residential bishop in Germany

Vacationing Priest Joins Circus Crew MILAN (NC)-A circus fan for many years, Father John Callahan, the 69-year-old jastor of St. Ambrose parish here in Illinois, now takes 'a two-,week "vacation" every summer to join a circus work crew.

"I drive a D-6 Caterpillar tractor," he said, "and help move old-time circus wagons from the Circus Museum in Baraboo, Wis., to Milwaukee, where every summer we display them for four days and join a parade for the fifth."

before assuming the second highest position in the Congregation for Catholic Education a few years ago, clarified the Church's position in regard to error.

Stating that God alone is infalIible in "an absolute and universal way," the archbishop said tl-.,at when the Church proposes truth through its teaching authority, this truth "is and remains immune from error."

Such propositions (infallible pronouncements).. even .if they are perfectible with regard to historic conditioning and language ... proclaim the truth in an irreversible way," th;e archbishop asserted.

"For this reason they do not admit of an interpretation different from that understood at the moment in which they were formulated."

This is not to say that theologians cannot aid the Pope and his interpreters of revelation in gaining new insights to our relationsbip with God. The declaration states: "The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith'rejoices that the'ologians are by intense study exploring more and more the mystery of the Church. It recognizes also that in their work they touch on many questions which can only be clarified by complementary studies and by various efforts and conjectures."

The declaration insists, however, that the "due freedom" of theologians is limited by the word of God as it is "faithfully taught and explained by the living teaching authority of the Church" and especially the Pope.

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Archdiocese Has New Arbitration Grievance Policy

"IT WOULD BE OUR FAULT": Says the sign above the photo of the baby in a gas mask.The anti-pollution poster is part of a campaign in Poland. NC Photo.

Study of Clergymen in Dachau Concentration .Camp Published

DENVER (NC) - The Denver archdiocesan due process-grievance policy has been change-d to include conciliation and arbitration phoases to resolve differences among persons at alI levels of the Church here.

The archdiocese has had a set of less extensive guidelines for the past three years which were designed to protect the rights of individuals and groups in the archdiocese.

The new guidelines will insure "the right to speak and be heard and to receive objective information regarding the pastoral needs and affairs,of the Church and the right to free assembly and association in the Church."

The new grievance proceduredue policy provides that if the conciliation phase fails to resolve the question, or this phase is refused by one or both parties,' the arbitration phase may be followed. The latter is of a more binding nature so far as the final decision ,is concerned, in that the parties are ,asked at the outset to commit themselves to the decision of the arbitrator or arbitrators.

Built into the procedures are ground rules for gathering evidence, expert advice and counsel, protection of confidential,ity, and witnesses.

MUNICH (NC) - A study of study, checking data with forthe imprisonment of Catholic mer Dachau inmates living in and Protestant clergymen in the France, the Netherlands, and Nazi concentration camp in Da- mOany other countries.

ST. PAUL (NC)-Without dischau, near Munich, has been Father Weiler's study reports . sent, a national gathering of conpublished by Father Eugen Weiler, a former inmate of the a Nazi offer to the Dachau servative Catholics has thrown priest-inmates that they would its support behind a proposed camp. be freed if they gave up' the "right-ta-Iife" amendmen1t to the The study-made over a pe- priesthood. Only one of them U. S. Constitution which would riod of 30 years-includes the agreed to do so. protect the life of the unborn names and biographical data of One of the current auxiliary from the. "moment of concep2,798 c1ergymen-94.7 per cent bishops of Munich, Bishop Johantion." of them Catholic priests. TwoIn specifically endorsing the thirds of the priests were Poles. nes Neuhaeusler, had been interned at Dachau. pro-life measure introduced by The' clergy-inmates were of 20 ' In an article in the Deutsche Rep. Lawrence Hogan (R-Md.), different nationalities.

Father Emil Thoma, a former T-agespost, a Catholic daily of some 550 delegates attending the pastor of Eppingen, near Heidel- Wuerzburg, Bishop Neuhaeusler ninth national Wanderer Forum herg, and a Dachfl.u inmate for said that over 1,200 priests in rejected a proposed amendment several years, began to assemble the Munich archdiocese had been by Sen. James Buckley (R-N.Y.).

Buckley amendment, the data in 1941 by smuggling involved in violations of Gestapo - The which generally has been connotes out of the camp to the regulations. sidered more vague and consearchbishop of Munich, the late Faced Arrest quently politicalIy more acceptCardinal Michael Faulhaber.

When that secret police or- able would guarantee the right Checked Data ganization tried to suppress a to life to "unborn offspring at Father Thoina survived the or- pastoral letter of the Bavarian every stage of their biological deal at Dachau ,and was released bishops protesting the expulsion development."

Similar support for the Hogan in 1945, shortly before the Amer- of religion teachers from the pubican .forces arrived. He again lic schools not a single priest amendment was voiced during became pastor of Eppingen, re: collaborated with the Nazis, the the forum by Charles E. Rice, a maining there until his death in bishop said. All faced arrest law professor at Notre Dame 1957. Father Weiler, who had ,rather than disobey their arch- University who has been active spent three years in the Dachau bishop, who ordered the letter in the national pro-life movement. camp, carried on Father Thoma's be read from all pulpits.

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