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Must Not Substitute Secular for Vocation LISBON (NC)-As the priest faces the question of his relationship to the modern age there is "a temptation" to "abandon" all 'clericalism' in order to evangelize the world," Manuel Cardinal Goncalves Cerejeira of Lisbon told a meeting of the priests' There is a radical differcouncil. The meeting dealt work. ence between the so-called - with the organization of worker-priest who is a heroic courses to bring priests of witness to Christ among those
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the archdiocese up to date on路 pastoral and liturgical matters, as well as on archdiocesan economic and administrative. problems. The cardinal cited the disturbing questions afflicting the consciences and souls of priests as they view their mission in the world today. He said young priests particularly suffer from a sense of insufficiency, internal tensions and impatience for reform. Recalling Pope Paul VI's warning against the danger of conforming to the world's standards, Cardinal Cerejeira said the most frequently recurring problems concerning the modern priest involve professional work in the secular area, political involvement and celibacy. The cardinal said that priests are not ordained for secular
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On Moon Journey WASHINGTON (NC)-A dedicatory inscription written personally by Pope Paul VI and a small papal flag were among items the astronauts of Apollo 11 took with them to be left on the surface of the moon. Pope Paul sent to the U.S. government a parchment containing the Latin cance of the history-making mission. text of Psalm 8 and a dedi- space Archbishop Raimondi was incatory inscription which he vited as a guest of the governpenned with his own hand at the end of the psalm. The Pope asked Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States, to present the document to Dr. Thomas O. Paine, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was subsequently photographed in miniature and placed, together with other messages similarly photographed, in a specially prepared capsule to be carried aloft by the astronauts and left on the lunar surface. A small papal flag was among many other flags also taken to the moon. The gesture of the Pope, a spokesman at the Apostolic Delegation here explained, is intend-" ed to stress the spiritual signifi-
ment to witness the launching of Apollo 11. He had previously attended the launching of Apollo 8 on Dec. 21, 1968. An English translation of Psalm 8 and Pope Paul's dedicatory inscription follow: o Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth! You have exalted your majesty above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have fashioned praise, because of your foes, to silence the hostile and the vengeful. When we behold the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place. What is man that you should Turn to Page Six I
Start Attleboro Nazareth, Bless Buzzards Bay Center The Most Reverend Bishop will break ground this Friday afternoon at 4 for the new Nazareth School for exceptional children that will be built on the grounds of Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. On Sunday evening, he will bless the new The new school for excepParish Center for St. Martional children will be staffed by garet's Parish in Buzzards the Sisters of Mercy who also Bay after the 7:30 evening staff similar schools in Fall River Mass.
NAACP Director Speaks Sunday Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, pastor of St. Jean Baptiste Church, Fall River, will give the invocation at a lecture to be delivered at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, July 20 at Ziskind Auditorium, Fall River, by Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mr. Wilkins' appearance will be sponsored by the Greater Fall River branch of the NAACP. Area residents are invited to atTurn to Page Six
and Hyannis. . 1路ne building of this new and needed facility is made possible by contributions to the Annual Catholic Charities Appeal. The Buzzards Bay Parish Center, to provide chiefly for the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine program, has eight classrooms and an' auditorium, as well as stage, kitchen, library and office areas. It will be used for recreational and cultural events and for various parish group_meetings. The Center will also house the Cape Cod office of the Diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine with personnel and materiel on hand to aid Cape parishes in forming and strengthening their CCD activities.
who do not know or love Him and the priest immersed in secular vocations that endanger his true mission, he said. He told priests that celibacy, loved and accepted, makes those who embrace it more like Christ. And the cardinal charged that the insistent discussion about celibacy shows a decline in faith. Cardinal Cerejeira said also that restrictions are placed on priests' involvement in political or social affairs because of their total consecration to Christ. This does not mean, however, that they should avoid offering assistance in improving the lot of human beings, he added. The Church's part in the betterment of human conditions is too often overlooked, he continued. The priest, by his very nature, is dedicated to the defense of human values, he said.
Delegate at St. Anne'5 On Saturday evening, July 26, for'the second time in its long history, St. Anne's Church, Fall River, will be honored by the presence of an Apostolic Delegate. This month's visitor will be Archbishop Luigi Raimondi. He will preside and preach at a 6 o'clock concelebrated Mass honoring the 100th anniversary of the French parish. The first visit of an Apostolic Delegate came in 1906, when Archbishop Diomede Falconio presided at dedication and blessing ceremonies for the newly completed Church of St. Anne. Concelebrating the July 26 Mass will be Bishop Connolly; Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, repre 4 senting Fall Riv~r's first Catholic parish; a priest of St. Anne's parish; and the pastors of three area parishes which had their beginnings as missions from St. Anne's. They are Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, St. Jean Baptiste Church, Fall River; Rev. Herve Jalbert, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River;
and Rev. L~o M. Curry, St. Dominic, Swansea. The July date was chosen for
New England Churchmen To Meet ARCHBISHOP RAIMONDI
Catholic Schools Trail In ,Receiving Help PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Catholic schools in the Philadelphia archdiocese will receive $1.56 million in quarterly state aid payments beginning September I-about $6.70 for each of the 257,872 children enrolled. This contrasts with the $1.16 million in aid being furnished the state's 73 pri- provision of the non public school aid law which requires Pennsylvate (non - denolllinationaD vania to pay a share of the academies whose 17,681 stu- "reasonable costs" of educating dents will benefit to the tune of $65 each. This disparity results from a
the major event in the year-long observance of St. Anne's centennial because it is the feast of the parish patron and traditionally a day when thousands of pilgrims from all parts of New England gather at St. Anne's Shrine, which has been a part of the church since 1901. St. Anne's parish had its beginnings in 1869, when l'Abbe Adrien de Montaubricq, descendant of a noble French family and an honorary canon of Bordeaux, arrived in Fall River to care for the increasingly large number of French-Canadians working in the city's mills. Turn to Page Twenty
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Bishop Connolly will be among participants in an unprecedented meeting of New England church leaders, to be held Tuesday, Sept. 30 through Thursday Oct. 2 at the White Cliffs of Plymouth, Mass. Leaders of Christian churches in New England will come together for several purposes: first, to become better acquainted with one another and to share information regarding their responsibilities; second, in view of the growing interest in united action, to consider in a frank and informal atmosphere those fields of work in which there are pos~ sibilities for cooperation; and third, to bring out into the open those factors-historical, cultural and structural-to which the Church must be sensitive as it Turn to Page Four
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Fr. Bussard Loses F8r5t Round To Prevent Ouster ,from DDigest ST. PAUL (NC)-Father Paul Bussard lost the first round in his court fight to prevent his ouster as publisher of the Catholic Digest magazine, which he helped to found in 1931i. A temporary restraining order against the College of St. Thomas here, owner of the magazine, was dissolved by Judge Leonard Keyes' of Ramsey County District C.Durt in a memorandum opinion. The temporary injunction against the college had been in effect for a week. It restricted, the college from removing Father Bussard, 65, as publisher and as editor of the Catholic Digest Book Club. . Judge Keyes said in the ruling the dissolution of the injunction does not rule out other "possible legal remedies, should such be sought in an amended action," by Father Bussard. The college took control of the magazine, which, has a drculation of 560,000, and its 'ancillary operation in '1964 in an agreement to which Father Bussard was a party. The properties are estimated to be worth $1 million. 'C '" f d' annot Be £on or«:e Father Bussard took the court action, obtaining the week-long injunction on June 30. He contended it was part of the agreement with the college, when the properties were turned over to it, that he would continue as publisher. Father Bussard said Bishop James P. Shannon; who has resigned as auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minne~polis, signed the contract. The bIshop then was a monsignor and president of the college. Msgr. Terrence Murphy, the college president, contested the court action by Father Bussard. Judge Keyes said in his opin-
ion such a contract for employment tenure as ,described by Father Bussard "cannot be judidally enforced, not even temporarily." "A preliminary examination of the merits of the conflict between the parties reveals' the probable' absence of a contract for continuous employment," the judge's memorandum stated. Merit Evaluation J d K "d h' r " u ges eyes .sal IS .ru ~ng does ~ot. constItute a bmdmg determmatlOn as to whether the def~ndant (the college) o~es .any resIdual co~tr~ctual oblIgatIOns to t~~plamtlff (father Bussard).... The Judge saId even. If the contract ~~re temporanl~, enf~rceable, It should not .be and cIted ground~ u~der Mmnesota statutes for ~IS vIew. .. In eva.luatmg t~e p~SltIons of the partle.s, the JUd~e ~ memoran~um ~ald th~. partIes past" r~ latlOnshlp was ,substa~tlallY In ~ather Bussard s fa.~o~, the..rel~ tlve harm was slIghtly In Fa~her Bussa~d's favor,. but the ultImate m~nt e~aluatlOn was "overwhelmmgly" In favor of the college. The judge said the public policy considerations were neutral and the enforcement burdens "conClusively" in the college's favor. ' In briefs on behalf of the college, Msgr. Murphy said the agreement signed with Msgr.' Shannon did not constitute "a promise of,lifetime employmene' for Father Bussard. \ I '''Brok~ Promise' . . Father Bussard claImed the college. president has "unilaterally broken th~ promise and trust under whl~h I agreed to ,tr~nsf~r ownershIp of the Cathohc DIgest to the College of St. Thomas." Father Bussard said a number of things had been done against his advice and a general manager was employed in 1965. " The college asserted the Digest t was in a precarious financial Particular Council of Fall River condition" when Father Bussard Society of St. Vincent de Paul, aproached the college about buywill hold its general meeting ing it. The college also charged beginning at 3 o'clock Sunday that the magazine, under Father afternoon at the society's camp Bussard's m~nagement sustained losses of $284,000 in the first 15 on Adamsville Road; Westport. The meeting is held in coI1- months of the 'college ownership. I junction, with the observance of The operations moved into the the feast of the patron' saint on black and "have continued so'" July 19. after Robert Fenton took over President Edouard W. Lacroix in 1965 as general manager, the has urged all members to attend college asserted. and has invited them to bring The coillege said Father Bus-, their families to enjoy the facil-' sard did not object to "numerous ities of the camp. other changes in the operation It is customary for members of the magazine. to attend Mass and receive Com· "The college after consideramunion in their parish churches tion of all factors involved, has. on. the Sunday before the feast, determined it is in the best interon the feast day itself or within est to relieve Father Bussard of eight days after the feast. A his duties as publisher,'~ the colplenary indulgence is granted to lege's affidavits stated. all who comply.
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Rev. Michael J. Cooke, 1913, Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall River. JULY 29
July 20-St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford.
Rev. Mathias McCabe, 1913, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River.
July 27 - St. George, Westport. Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven.
Rev. Daniel Hearne, 1865, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop'Luigi Raimondi, ,apostolic delegate in the United States, paid what he called "a courtesy visit" to the White House where he met for about half an hour with President Nixon. The prelate declined to comment. on his visit. He merely shrugged his shoulders when he was asked if he and Mr. Nixon discussed the President's recent decision not to send a diplomatic envoy to Vatican City. Pe~er Flanigan, a special presi· dential assistant, recently delivered a message from President Nixon to Pope Paul VI in Vatican City, but contents of that message have not been disclosed. The Vatican press officer, Msgr. Fausto Vaillainc, said "there is no indication that Mr. Flanigan * * ':' mentioned (the President's decision) to the Holy Father at the July 3 audience." When Nixon made his decision not to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Ron L. Ziegler, White House press secretary, said the President, however, does wish to maintain "close communication" with the Vatican and believes this can be done effectively "by 'sending high-level officials" to Vatican City from time to time.
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RECOGNITION: Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton, N. J., presents to Dr. Victor George Heiser of New York City, 96-year-old native of Johnstown, Pa, the 1969' Damien·Dutton Award "in recognition of a lifetime of dedicated service toward those who have leprosy and for his efforts toward the conquest of leprosy."
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WASHINGTON (NC)~Seriou's crime in the United States, like the cost of living, continues on the rise. FBI figures releas~d by Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell show that serious crime increased nationally by 10 per cent in the first three months of this year, as comp'ared with the first, three months of 1968: The figures for the entire year of 1~68 showed a sharp increase over 1967. Disclosure of these latest figures was overshadowed by the stepped up debate on taxes, par- ' ticullirly'the extension' of the 10 per cent surtax; the cost of borrowing money, and the rise in living costs generally. Crime has both a direct and indirect influence . on the cost of living and the transaction of business. However, Sen. Joseph b. Tydings (D.-Md.), chairman of the Senate District of Columbia committee, has been moved to say this city is "on the verge of ' losing a year in the war on crime," and to charge the Nixon administration with substituting "crime crisis rhetoric" for action. In Each Classification Sen. Tydings also charged that the report of the President's Commission on Crime, issued two years ago, "gathers dust on too many city government shelves" rOilnd the country. 'At the same time, a Nixon administration spokesman expressed confidence that a' package of anti-crime bills for Washington would be ready in July. The figures released by the attorney general showed increases in each crime classification used in the national Crime Index. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover drew attention to this fact, pointing out that crimes of violence as a group rose eight per cent, with murder up seven per cent, forcible rape
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aggravated 'assault eight per cent, and robbery 22 per cent. Cities with 100,000 and more of population referred to as the "large cities," had an average ,rise in serious crime of 10 per cent, while suburban areas had an 11 per cent increase and rUl;al areas seven per cent. Northeastern States reported a 12 per cent rise, North Central States' 10 per cent, arid the Southern and Western States nine per cent each.
Fordham Official Takes New Post NEW ,YORK (NC)-Robert A. Kidera, vice·president for university relations and development at Fordham University for the past four years, has resigned to become vice-president of Tamb- ' Iyn and Brown, a public relations and fund' raising counselling firm. Before coming to Fordham, Kidera served at Cornell D.niversity, Ithaca, N.Y., as assistant to the president for university relations .and development. Prior to that he was professor of journalism and director of university relations at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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By Patricia McGowan NEW YORK (NC)-Columbia University announcThe freedom enjoyed by today's nun is good because "it makes you more available ed a series of changes in 'to people." That's the opinion of a petite, browned-eyed Maryknoll Sister from Westcampus religion programs, port who leaves today for Japan and a five year tour of missionary duty. Sister Anne including abolition of the post of university chaplain and an end Marie Poisson can hardly wait to arrive in Yokohama and begin an arduous two to the appointment of religious years of language school, advisers by church agencies. munity induded choir directing preliminary to starting her The university also announced and playing the piano and organ. What will apostolic work. creation of an ecumenical-type "I like folk Masses but I haven't Center for Religion and Life, to she be doing? She's the had time to learn to play the be directed by Msgr. James E. Rea, a New York archdiocesan priest who has been the Catholic student counselor at Columbia for the past 13 years. The changes were in line with recommendations by a committee formed by university trustees in 1966 to undertake a comprehensive study of religious life at Columbia. That committee was headed by the Rev. John D. Cannon, who resigned as chaplain of Columbia last month. Changing Needs In its report, the committee urged Columbia to "be responsive to the changing needs of students and other members of the university community and to the changing climate of religious life in society at large." The committee said that while the system of externally appointed counselors may have worked well for "a small minority" of students, "we affirm the right of any group of university members to organize or assemble for religious purposes and we believe that the university has a continuing responsibility to facilitate the interests of such religious groups." Under the old system, religious advisers were appointed byt' four bodies recognized by the university for that purpose. They were the Jewish Advisory Board, the Catholic archdiocese of New York, the Protestant Foundation and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Choose Advisers In the reorganization, student groups will choose their own religious advisors and will also be responsible for paying their salaries. The university will provide the counselors with the use of Earl Hall, which has housed Columbia's religious activities for the past 60 years. Msgr. Rea's salary as director of tile center will be paid by Columbia, but he will be involved more in the operation of the center than in religious counseling. University officials said 17 campus groups have expressed interest in the program of the Center for Religion and Life. If all form religious groups, the number of religious advisers on campus would increase from four to 17. Msgr. Rea said the center would "provide the student body at Columbia with a place for open forum, an easy atmosphere for discussion and dialogue, unstructured opportunities for the development of workshops, seminars and ad hoc committees, religious services, counseling services and an open invitation for experiments in the development of spiritual, philanthropic and religious life. "The idea," Msgr. Rea said, "is to work out a more ecumenical operation, more in tune with the times."
Memorial Mass A Memorial Mass to note the anniversary of the death of Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, who died in Poland on July 18, 1968 willi be concelebrated at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River, on Saturday, . July 19 at 7 P.M.
first to admit that she doesn't know. "Mission methods are being re-evaluated in Japan, and we don't know what direction they'll take." She's realistic about the task, however. "I recently visited the UN in New York and talked to a Japanese official. He was polite but discouraging. 'We have been Buddhists for 2000 years,' he said, 'and Christianity will not have an easy time.' " Sister Ann Marie requested service in Japan because she feels "it is a searching nation of men needing inner peace, probably because of the country's tremendous industrialization; also because Japan is the hope of the Orient since other Eastern nations look to it for technical aid." For Life The missioner's assignment will probably be for life, "but we have home visits every five years," she hastens to add. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Poisson of Our Lady of Grace parish, Westport, Sister Anne Marie is a 1958 graduate of Fall River's Mt. St. Mary Academy. Her interest in the missionary community began when a Maryknoll priest spoke at the Mount, and was further whetted by mission literature she picked up at the Brockton Fair, "of all places! It shows that you never know where the seed may be planted." After working for a year following high school, Sister Anne Marie entered Maryknoll. Preceding her present assignment, she worked in the business office of the community's motherhouse, and attended Mary Rogers College. Spare-time was amply filled with tutoring in Harlem, adult education work in nearby White Plains, and aiding a girls' sewing class in Ossining, N.Y. For her fellow Maryknollers, Sister Anne Marie also ran a
Criticize Decision On Desegregation WASHINGTON (NC) - The Nixon administration finally issued its long awaited policy statement on school desegregation guidelines and promptly found itself accused of having tried to placate civil rights leaders and southern conservatives alike. If that was the administration's intention,. it failed. The statement was roundly denounced by liberals and civil rights spokesmen and received only lukewarm praise from Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, perhaps the Senate's most outspoken advocate of delay on desegregation. At issue was the real intent behind the 2,000-word statement approved by President Nixon. The statement said the administration intends to hold Southern school districts to the September, 1969, deadline for desegregation -but it added what may prove to be a crucial" qualification on that policy. When "bonafide educational and administrative problems" exist, the statement said, then exceptions may be. made.
guitar." At home this month, Sister Anne Marie enjoyed visits with friends and family, including a brother and sister in Westport and a brother in Fall River, all married. She will be in San Francisco until Monday, when she will embark on a two week voyage by freighter to Yokohama.
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Sisters Protest School D路ecision CORNWELLS HEIGHTS (NC) -The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, at a protest meeting here in Pennsylvania, aproved a letter to President Nixon heatedly critidzing the administration's school desegregation guidelines. The Sisters termed the action a "reversal of the Supreme Court ruling of 1954" and a "betrayal of the promise made to the black man in 1954." Sisters from various sectors of the nation attended the meeting at which Mother M. David Y0l;mg, mother general, presided. Mother David signed the letter forwarded to the President. The sisterhood was founded 78 years ago by the late Mother Katharine Drexel of Philadelphia, to work among the blacks and Indians. The community has 550 members and works in 21 states.
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Approve Changes For Brothers TORONTO (Nt) - "My idea of a Brother has changed since Vatican II," said Brother Gerard Sherrer, F.S.C. "Thank God for that." Brother Gerard was one of a group of Brothers interviewed by The Canadian Register newspaper on a wide variety of matters pertaining to their present status in the changing Church. Their answers were progressive and optimistic. "Change is a sign of growth," Brother Gerard observed. "The basic change (for Brothers) is more freedom, and the urge and push to get involved with other things than one's own little house or school. There's a real surge to get people involved in other forms of apostolic activity. This is a good thing." Brother James Dunsky, S.M., spoke of a "changeover from the monastery idea for religious houses. "We have moved from a strictly educational rol~ to many _ works, from running mission airlifts in Africa to handling minor urban renewal in Dayton, Ohio, helping out in cooking schools, working for welfare departments."
WORCESTER. (NC) - Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worceste~ ,~as con.firmed that a "summit. . meetmg of. leaders of ChTistla~ churches I.n New England Will be held. 111 the F~II. Pla.n~ for the meetmg were. first pubhclly made known by Bishop James K. Mathews of the Boston Area of the United Methodist Church at a Methodist Confer- Finns 'Contribute ence in Natick. Bishop Mathews had said that all major Protes- To Overseas Fund tant and Orthodox bodies and all HELSINKI (NC) - Beginning New England Catholic archdio- tl}is year, the Catholic Church in ceses and dioceses would b_e rep- . Finland will contribute one per resented. cent of its gross expenditure for Bishop Flanagan, who is a overseas development and aid member of the American Catho- projects. lic Bishops' Committee on EcuThe aid will be made available menical and Interreligious Af- through the Finnish branch of fairs said the New England Caritas Internationalis, internameeting was scheduled from tional Catholic Charities organSept. 30 to Oct. 2. It is designed ization. to provide a forum for the planThe Catholic Information Cenning of ecumenical action in the ter in Finland (KATT) also 1970s he said. Officially it will reported that during Lent Finbe called "New England Consul- nish Catholics gave more than t;ition of Church Leaders," Bish- $1,000 to aid the Nigerian secesop Flanagan said. sionist region of Biafra.
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GrOlIflli' To .IUtJlck Milii'Calnlf PITTSBURGH (NC) - A controversial $12,000 grant to a black militant leader will not be renewed by the diocese of Pittsburgh. The diocese's Fund for Aid to Neighbors in Need gave the money to William Haden's United Movement for Progress to be used for a youth program in the city's predominately black Homewood section. Of that amount, $10,000 was for Haden's salary. It was explained that the diocesan fund has a limited amount of money and therefore usually does not extend a grant beyond a year. After helping a needy group for one year, the fund then seeks other causes. The initial granting of the money to Haden caused critical reaction among some Catholics here.
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"Prelate Scores Newspa-pe'r Attac~ on Popel Hierarchy'
YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown has given his support to the boycott of California table grapes currently being organized in Canton and Youngstown. Calling attention to the plight of grape pickers, Bishop Malone asserted. "Our refusal to buy grapes at this time is a small deprivation for the sake of the human rights of a most neglected segment of our society." In the Canton area, a citizens committee for United Farm Workers has obtained pledges from nearly 50 supermarkets not to sell grapes, and has picketed several major stores still holding out. In the Youngstown area, a similar committee. is in the or·ganizational stage.
SEATTLE (NC)-Archbishop Thomas A.·Coimolly has publicly denounced the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for what he called a "vicious and insulting column" attacking Pope -Paul VI, the hierarc1}y, and those members of the state legislature \yho failed to supThe archbishop's letter called port last Spring a bill which the column "particularly vicious would have relaxed the and insulting," and said its principal purpose apparently was to state's abortion laws. In a-n open letter published in the Catholic Northwest Progress, . archdiocesan newspaper, and read in churches, the archbishop said he could not let the column in the Hearst-owned paper pass unnoticed. The archbishop's letter .said perhaps "some Catholics with little or no backbone or. courage * >I< * will go along with this type of attack and submit to such insulting, humiliating treatment," but that "the great majority of solid Catholic men and women of sound judgment and high moral principles will fight this type of attack and fight it to the bitter end," "I don't have to tell you what to do, what action to take," the archbishop's letter said. "The only weapons left to us are .economic reprisals against a newspaper that uses its columns to mount a conscienceless, lethal attack upon us. You will know what to do," ' The archbishop also filed a formal protest with William Randolph Hearst, Jr., of the newspaper chain which owns the Seattle secular paper. Abortion-on-Demand The Hearst paper column, titled "EI Papa and Abortion," accused the Pope of II callous lack of concern for the world's poor. It spoke of the Vatican's alleged wealth-"some· say it is $7 billion'" * '" or is it $70 bilIion?"-and of the Pope's own jewels, his own police, his white' dresses and his castle." The column then turned its attention from Rome to Olympia, Wash., and implied that a handful' of Catholic members of the state legislature followed the dictates of the herarchy in opposing the abortion bill rather than their own consciences.
launch "an attack on all who do not go along with the writer, as well as with the proponents and supporters of the abortion·ondemand program." He said he felt "some type of drastic action must be undertaken with regard to it." He charged the column was filled with "grossly exaggerated statements" and "publicly in- " suited every Catholic, Pope and layman."
Cardinal Cushing Visits Children HULL (NC)-Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston strummed on a guitar, rode on "swings with children, and thoroughly enjoyed himself during an" afternoon "at Boston's seashore mecca, Nantasket Beach. The occasion was the cardinal's annual visit to Sunset Point Vacation House which he established many years ago for underprivileged children. When he arrived, he appeared tired and pale, but his energies were quickly restored as he romped with the scores of children who escaped the heat of the city for a. week at the seashore. Members of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement; who operate the resort, looked on in amazement as the 74-year-old' cardinal went through his paces on the swings and slides. He stayed for three hours. Cardinal Cushing noted that since the resort was opened in 1919, more than 25,000 children have had free vacations here. The prelate got into the music act when he kidded Sister Joan Lauren about her guitar-playing and he took over the instrument himself.
New Liturgy Ca~ses Big Upset In British Catholic Publishing LONDON (NC)-The new simplified liturgy introduced by the Second Vatican Council, including the virtual elimination 'of the layman's missal and liturgical books in general, has caused another big upset in British Catholic publishing. Burns and Oates, the firm which once published and sold most Catholic books in this country, announced that they have sold their three big book shops in Glasgow, Liverpool and Birmingham to the Daughters of St. Paul, a modern Italian con. gregation which came here 14 years ago. The company has already sold its publishing business to Herder and Herder-international Catholic publishers who continue publishing in London under the name Burns and Oates-and now calls itself Burns Oates Retail Limited. It has become purely a bookselling and majl-order firm and will in future concentrate its ac· tivities from its "headquarters in Victoria Street, London, across the street from West minster Cathedral.
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The traditional Catholic trade in this country"has also been hit by the slump in standard works of theology and piety, now almost universally replaced by more transient and experimen.tal works in the same field. These are short-lived for the most part and hardly a reliable stock in 'trade. And the modest prosperity of Catholic book shops has finally been hit by the steady decline in the sale of devotional objects such as statues, medals and holy pictures., A spokesman for Burns and Oates Retail said: "It has become increasingly difficult to _ run Catholic book shops profitably since the virtual elimination for the bookseIJer of the missal and liturgical book trade which was one of its mainstals,'.' In addition he is inevitably af· fected by increasing competition within a" reduced market from various institutions of the Church which are subject neither 'to the same level of costs nor necessarily to the requirement of profitability for continuance of their activities. ; .• '. ",0"
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'Solemn Dutyl Orthodox Rabbinic Body Backs Mandatory Military Chaplaincy FALLSBURGH (NC)-The nation's largest Orthodox rabbinic body has iS$ued a "statement here affirming that newly or· dained rabbis must serve as military chaplains. The executive board of the Rabbinical Council of America, at its annual meeting here in New York, approved the action, which has the effect of barring council membership to, rabbis who do not agree to participate in the chaplaincy program. The statement, presented by Rabbi Zev Segal, president of the Rabbinical Council, rejected selective conscientious objection on the part. of rabbis who have recently completed theological training.
N. E. Churchmen Continued from Page One seeks to increase communication and cooperation. The invitation to meet was extended to all Catholic, Ortho· dox and Protestant bishops and executives in the New England area, together with a principal associate to be selected by each. To Accompany Bishop Bishop Connolly will be accompanied by Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, until recently chairman of the Fall River Ecumenical Commission. Also present from Fall River will be Very Rev. Reginald Theriault, O.P., Executive Secretary of the Massachusetts Commission on Christian Unity. Both Msgr. Hamel and Father Theriault are members of, the Continuation Committee of the New 'England Ecumenical Study Conference· which is sponsoring and programming the two-day consultation in ~Iymouth. ..:
The rabbinical council's statement, which, was drafted by Rabbi Segal, said in part: "As long as the Armed Forces of this country consists . primarily of draftees and not volunteers; it is our solemn duty to support" the imposition of a similar draft upon spiritual leaders whose committed goals are to serve their flock under all conditions." Council spokesmen explained that if the newly ordained Or· thodox rabbi did not serve in the military chaplaincy, barring physical or family' hardship, he would not be admitted to membership in the council. This would mean a "loss of status. within the fellowship of the' Orthodox rabbinate," and woutd ,"deprive him of a chance to seek national leadership in the Orthodox religious community," the spokesmen said. There are currently 51 Jewish chaplains in all branches of the' Armed Forces - 24 Reform, 4 Conservative and 23 Orthodox. The entire chaplain corps totals more than 2,500 of all faiths.
BUARCOS (NC) - Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), presided at ceremonies opening the new Ecumenical center here. The center consists of one main building with library, lecture halls, and seminar rooms. Future plans include 10 smaller buildings on the property. Dr. Blake outlined the goal of the center as follows: "We believe that the world of the 20th century, tragically split by wars, hunger, and lack of 'understanding among peoples, needs places where individuals can meet for dialogue to grow in understanding and destroy the barriers which separate them," Representatives of Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran Churches of Spain and Portugal attended the opening.
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FIRST COMMUNION: Students at Coyle and Cassidy High School,; in Taunton cooperate in preparing area exceptional children for reception of First Holy Communion. left, Eileen Quigley and Jorge Matesanz help little Danny Moniz of St. Anthony's parish with his robe. Center, Rosemary Cullen and Sis-
Urg'e Formatoon Of New Dioceses In New York ALBANY (NC)-The form~tion of six new. diocese in upstate New York has been called for by the Committee on Episcopal Succession, which also suggested that the relocation of diocesan boundaries be left to the people in the areas involved. The committee was originally formed by about 40 laymen and a couple of priests in an effort to determine the election of bishops. The committee now sees "a clear need for smaller diocese in upstate New York." "It is hard to believe that the Church's diocesan boundaries still reflect the growth and shifts in population of 1886 when the diocese of Syracuse, the newest of the upstate sees, was established,". a committee press release said. Two of the proposed dioceses, around Utica and Binghamton, would cut off portions of the Albany diocese. The other four proposed dioceses center around the Jamestown-Olean area, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, and Watertown. The proposals take into account estimated population growth and shifts to the year 2020, according to Father Francis G. McCloskey, a committee coordinator. No Comment The committee, he said, is raising an issue that has lain below the surface in many areas. "We are trying to bring it to the surfa:':l and hope people in each area will talk about it and organize to do something," Father McCloskey said. "We would like to see the movement come from the ground up and we would help them 01'-¡ ganize and try to coordinate their efforts on a statewide basis," he explained. "We look on ourselves as overseeing the whole operation." There were no immediate comments from clergy dissenting from the idea, nor from bishops in the New York dioceses.
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Increase in Prayer "We have to get across to them this is something great and that it is important they continue," Noelke explained. "In thes~ days there must be an increase in prayer and Serrans must grow in knowledge of what's going on in the Church. They must really try to work at vocations and for priests to persevere. " Once priests leave the ministry, there isn't much that Serra can do, Noelke said. But if members know of anyone dissatisfied with his priestly life they have a duty to urge him to get advice and counsel. He said, "Any individual Serran
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Serra Has New Slant.....Keeping Priests In MILWAUKEE (NC)-A worldwide organization of laymen that for years has promoted vocations to the priesthood now finds it must also place emphasis on encouraging perseverance in the ministry. That observation was made in an interview with the newlyelected president of Serra International, Paul Noelke, a Milwaukee attorney. He heads a group of more than 12,000 professional and business men who belong to some 325 Serra clubs in 23 countries. Their primary goals are to become better informed and motivated Catholic men, and to promote and encourage vocations to the priesthood. Noting that there are no pat answers for improving the vocations picture, Noelke said help can be provided in all aspects of Church life-from priests, seminarians, schools, teachers, parents and Serrans. He also is convinced that prayer is a powerful means of aiding vocations. Although Serrans have conducted various programs to encourage young men to enter priestly life, he said there must be new emphasis on the perseverance of priests.
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would be uncharitable if he would riot try to offer some help if he knew of someone planning to leave the priesth9od. Change of Attitude "However, as an organization, it would be difficult to find a position on how to rehabilitate priests who leave. Besides, this may be getting out of our competence since we are not theologians or psychologists who know how to deal with those problems. "It seems to me that Serrans should spark those fellows who
Chico.go Priests Leave Ministry CHICAGO (NC)-The Chicago archdiocesan chancery has confirmed that 11 of its priests left the active ministry within the last few months, but added that not all of them have left permanently. The chancery pointed out that some of the 11 priests are on leaves of absence for various reasons. It did not, however, reveal how many of the 11 have left the active ministry for good. A Chicago newspaper quoted an archdiocesan source as saying that these recent departures are significant because the men leaving "are not young Turks, the stereotype of the man leaving. Four of them, in fact,. held extremely significant roles in the archdiocese." . Another source, the newspaper said, stated that while "some places are untouched, as Iowa and New England, for instance, the number of departures is growing, in my impression. "The latest spate leaving from Chicago shook up a lot of people, he added. The Chicago Daily News said that among the 11 priests are a chancery official, a seminary dean, and two seminary teachers. The chancery did not reveal any names.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican Secretariat for Promotare closer to kids and have their respect to get back to the impor- ing Christian Unity has deletance and wonderfulness of gated four official Catholic observers to the second assembly vocations to, the priesthood." of the All-Africa Conference of Noelke said there must be a Churches. . change of attitude toward vocaThe assembly is to be held in tions. Too often only the negative aspects of the priesthood Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from Sept. 1 to 12. The All-Africa Conferare publicized, he noted. ence of Churches was formeu in He added that Serra can be Hl63 and is an autonomous ecumore effective in future programs menical forum for most of the by. getting younger members who large Orthodox, Anglican and can better bridge the generation Protestant churches in Africa gap with young priests, seminar- and is closely offiliated with the ians and youthful prospects. World Council of Churches. Noelke also called for parents The four official Catholic obto help by praying for vocations servers attending the September with their children and by being meeting are: Archbishop John more positive in their viewpoints Amissah of Cape Coast, Ghana; on religious life. . Father J. Matoone, O.M.I., secreHe said parents should more tary for Catholic education in seriously consider the importance Lesotho and a member of the of the priesthood, show it is the Lesotho Ecumenical Commission; center of Catholicism, think more Joseph Amichia of Abidjan, a positively about it, and keep an member. of the Holy See's Laity open mind on current changes Council; and American Father and innovations to come. Thomas Stransky, C.S.P., a staff member of the Unity ,Secretariat. The Abidjan meeting expects Meeting to Coincide about 500 participan~s and will have the general theme "With With 25th Jubilee EVANSVILLE (NC)-There will Christ at Work in Africa Tobe a major shift in diocesan de- day." cision-making processes when the Evansville diocese observes lay Group Dis.bands its 25th anniversary next OctoMINNEAPOLIS (NC) - Conber. cerned Christians, a Catholic lay A new Diocesan Council, group which has been critical of which is to become the major St. Paul and Minneapolis archadvisory body for Bishop Paul diocesan officials, has announced Leibold, is scheduled to hold its it is disbanding. first meeting Oct. 12, the date also set aside to observe the OOOOOOO~OOOOOOOO silver jubilee of the Indiana See. The democratically elected council-type' of government for the diocese was proposed last year but was not officially ratified by parish delegates until last May at a synod convention. Decision-making parish councils have been established in all the diocese's 74 parishes since Jan. 365 NORTH FRONT STREET 1968. These parish~s have since NEW BEDFORD elected representatives to seven diocesan commissions which en992-5534 compass all parish and diocesan spiritual and temporal activity.
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Why has there been-as there has been-a rather dramatic rise, in recent years, in interest in the occult, the preternatural, in astrology ,and horoscopes and witchcraft? This interest has risen not merely among those whom we like to think of as the uplettered, the poorly educated, but in college circles, among business and professional men, among those active in occupations calling for intelligence and knowledge. Why has there been such a turning to things like narcotics arid drugs that turn people on? Those who have studied the rise of these phenomena say that people are looking for something. , Never has technology been more competent -and brilliant. Never have Americans enjoyed such a high standard of living. Never' has science produced such wonders to guarantee the luxury and health and well-being of men. And yet-people are looking, for something else.. They are looking for a new reality-not one that can be seen and heard and smelled and tasted. But another reality that will· lift them above the materialism and scientific progress that they already experience. Just a few months ago, at a Mass celebrated in the National Shrine in Washington - two persons were seen leaving the church with consecrated Hosts, intending to use These in a secret Mass ritual. Religious goods stores report an upswing in the sale of iricense and even vestments to individuals using these in their own o~cult liturgies. It would seem that men are still hungering for the unknown-for union with something or someone above and beyond themselves, yet able to be present to themselves. Is it that they are looking for religion, for God?
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true in this. The prospect of a manned moon landing that The need today is for an even ,greater scope of political was a stock-in-trade of phantasy science-(iction magazines integrity from the nation's elected political officials because of the unrest on so many fronts of our national life. The is a proces's underway at this very moment. When man first puts foot on a planet outside his own false promises of the prattling politicians has, in the past, and it seems, in the present a whole new world opens up to the whole human ra~e. interest lobby of the American For this is just a beginning in man's efforts to stretch as well, scarred the Ameri- Medical Association. far beyond his own sight and capabilities and to reach out can image not only abroad The details of this involvement beyond the known stars to the fantastically vast universe but, more importantly, here have been digested well by the daily news media. What is most at home. that lies waiting. . upsetting is to see the deep It would seem not only within the realm of possibility The days of the ward' boss penetration of the, power poli,' . . ' '. and ' the wheeler-dealer should but probable that man sexploratlOns of space Will one day "have long passed into oblivion. tics in the Federal government with the resulting lack of conbring him into contact with other life. This seems far from the contro- cern for the people of the coun'11 b' . k B' Id .versy as ,illustrated by the hor- try, but rather for their own iso· I'f What t hIS I e WI. e, no one nows. ut It wou rendous sJ1ame concerning the interest. seem that men on thiS small planet that we call earth choice of Dr. John Knowles as lated We have been manipulated to would do well to get their -own house iIi oi'der, to settie. the nation's No. 1 physician as believe, - in the evolution of our down to peaceful cooperation and. mutual assistance; so Secretary of H.e~lth: political parties, "to the victor that when and if this new life is encountered this planet's The personalIties Involved are belongs the spoils." This long.. . ' not our concern. standing practice is not valid citizens Will p~esent themsel,:,es as .a, r~ce ready and pr~What should be of importance for our country in this day and ,pared to meet 10 peace and fnendshlp With others of God s to us is the principal of political age. No wonder young students creation. integrity. . f The tragedy of this case is lose confidence in our political " h . f h It would never do or eart s 10 abltants to re le~t t.he that we have publicly witnessed system; no wonder ,the poor deremark once made by G. K. Chesterton-that there IS hfe the sacrifice of political principal mand, the black not and the all over the' universe and the planet earth is used as the for a political payoff and special anarchist plots revolution. universe's insane asylum.
Honesty and Sinceri.ty of Purpose
@rhe ANCHOR OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF fAll RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. Rt. Rev. Daniel F. Shalloo,M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll GENERAL MANAGER . ASST. GENERAL MANAGER • MANAGING EDITORHugh J. Golden, LL.B.
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We must not have another Knowles affair jf we really want to be democratic and sincerely put our house in order. We ·should end swiftly the concept of political patronage that seems to bind and hinder the effectiveness of elected officials. The responsibility of political integrity that binds the men and women who have been chosed by the people as their representatives must become the keynote of a new political idealism, We need a new concept of government based on honesty and sincerity of purpose with real concern for the basic needs
of all the nation's citizens. This cannot be achieved any longer by' the old forms and policies' of the proverbial smokefilled 'rooms. It can be achieved by the fresh and vibrant support of men and women who seek principle above politics and integrity over payoffs. To reach this goal, each of us should no longer sit back watching the same old government re-run, but, rather we should become involved and concerned wit,h the total processes of our government, its procedures and· practices. We should begin to seek those means and methods which will help our govern.ment and its
Costs The actual costs reported by private academies for instruction in mathematics, science, physical education and modem languages -the four subject areas covered by the legislation - averaged $204.83 per pupil. Actual costs reported by Catholic schools throughout the state in the same subject areas averaged $22.87 per pupil. . Total aid to the 1,108 Catholic schools applying for it in Pennsylvania this year will amount to an estimated $3.79 million. Some 97 per cent of all students enrolled in nonpublic schools in Pennsylvania attend Catholic schools, according to Vincent J. McCoola, state aid administrator, but these schools will receive only 77 per cent of the aid grants. Private academies-with 3 per cent of the students-will get 23 per cent of the funds. Rep. Martin P. Mullen of Philadelphia, who led the battle for state aid to non public schools in the Pennsylvania legislature, attributed the disparity in actual costs reported by Catholic and other nonpublic schools to two factors: the "outstanding honesty" of the parochial schools in completing their applications for state aid and the low pay for priests, Sisters and Brothers on Catholic school faculties.
/Papal Message Continued from Page One be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? ' You have made him little less that the angels, and c~owned him with glory and honor. You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet: all sheep and the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas. o Lord, our Lord, how glorious is your name over all the earth! Translation of the dedicatory inscription of Pope Paul: For the glory of the name of God, who gives men such power, We pray . and wish well for this wondrous endeavor. Pope Paul VI-A.D. 1969 Original Latin text of the inscription: Ad Dei nominis gloriam, qui tantam praestat hominibus virtutem, miro huic incepto bene, precamur. Paulus PP YI-1969
NAACP Director Continued from Page One tend the program, for which there will be no admission charge. Active in NAACP affairs since 1931, Mr. Wilkins has been executive director of the civil rights organization since 1955. He has served on the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, and is a director of many human rights organizations. He will discuss current problems in the field of race relations in his Fall River address.
elected officials to realize fully their destiny as public servants of all 'the people of this democracy. America deserves nothing less than this ideal put into official governmental practice.
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House Votes Aid . . For Nonpublic School Pupils
Expelled Priests Center of Furor
COLUMBUS (UC)-Action by the Ohio House of Representatives in voting $45.7 million for aid to nonpublic school pupils was praised by Ohio Catholic Conference officials as a step forward and a continuing force in maintaining a choice of school systems in the state. The House action is an addition of $21 million to funds already provided to non public school pupils in the previous biennium for auxiliary services. In granting legislative recognition to non-public schools, Ohio's House gave bi-partisan support to the measure which provides $35.7 million extending the existing auxiliary services. and materials to include assistance in the payment of lay teachers' salaries. The measure also provides an extension in excess of $10 million for transportation of Ohio's non public school students. Theodore N. Staudt, decutive director of the Catholic Conference of Ohio said "We appreciate the fact that so many of Ohio's lawmakers recognize the educational needs of all children." He acknowledged that while the bill was 'an administration proposal it received bi-partisan support, and said "the financial crisis involves everyone interested in the educational future of Ohio's citizens of tomorrow." Setting Pace" "Ohio is setting the pace for the nation in education," he said. He commended the tremendous constituent response and cited it as one of the contributing factors to the success of the legislation. The bill now goes to the Ohio Senate. In commenting on the prospects in the Senate, David J. Young,. legislative representative for the Catholic Conference of Ohio, said: "We now have the assurance of continued existence of church-related schools in Ohio. We have noted substantial sentiment in the Senate for assistance to our schools. This is the first bill which authorizes direct payment of state money to lay teachers." "The form of this legislative assistance will assure our continued ability to teach subjects in a Christian atmosphere because it does not channel money directly to a religious organization," he added. Conference officials were optimistic about the outcome of the bill in Ohio's Senate.
Grant to Benefit Inner-City Youth ST. LOUIS (NC) - St. Louis University will receive a $64,400 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York to provide inner-city youth of the East St. Louis area with educational opportunities for engineering ca.reers in the aeronautical fields. The two-year grant will make possible an expansion of the university's year-Old Collegiate Assistance Program to students at Parks College of Aeronautical Theology. . The project will identify and select students, assist them with financial aid, provide counseling, academic advisement, tutorial assistance, and tailor each program to the individual's ability and need. The Sloan Foundation, established in 1934, is a generalpurpose philanthropic foundation with interests in the broad areas of science, education and so.cial problems.
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NATIVE ARTISTRY: Pilgrims from The Camerouns in west equitorial Africa recently brought Pope Paul examples of their artistry in basket-weaving and wood carving. NC Photo.
Cuba~ Refugees Miami Prelate Obtains Waiver of Visa
Archbishop Carroll Aids MIAMI-What price freedom? For a 14-year-old Cuban youih who recently arrived in Miami it cost almost $1,000 in cash, 17 months of anxious waiting in his native Havana, another four months in Spain, and separation from his father and sisters left behind on the island. America's Fourth of July was the first time that Jose X and other teenagers like him really knew and felt the spirit of independence, thanks to the interest and efforts of Miami's Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll which effected a waiver of visa for Cuban refugees arriving in the U. S. through Spain and sponsored by relatives already here. It was almost two years l/.go that Jose's aunt and uncle, who came here on a Freedom Flight three years ago, inaugurated the procedure for "rescuing" the boy from communist indoctrination and compulsory military service at age 15. At a cost of $563, which they borrowed from a bank, tney provided for his air travel from Cuba to Spain - which Cuban Premier Fidel Castro insists must be a round-trip ticket - from Spain to New York and thence to Miami.
each academic year in Cuba's fields in order to take year-end exams. His assignment was to the garlic fields where his hours were from 6 A.M. to noon and from 2 P.M. to 7 P.M. He was working in the fields when tile government telegram came advising him he could assemble 32 pounds of clothing, two pairs of shoes, but no soap or jewelry for his trip to Spain. His plane flight was delayed 24 hours at Havana airport due to the plane's mechanical trouble
and the next day he and other teenagers took off for the eighthour non-stop flight to Madrid. There Jose and the group were met by Franciscan Brother Antonio Caminas, representing the Catholic immigration office, who drove them by bus to a small inn on the outskirts of the city which provides living quarters for the youths enroute to the U. S. Four months later, after room and board was provided by his relatives at $50 per month, Jose left for New Yprk and thence to Miami.
SANTO DOMINGO (NC)-Two priests, one a Cuban and the other a Spaniard, expelled from the Dominican Republic in June, are waiting in Puerto Rico while pressure is being exerted on the government to reverse its order and permit their return. The priests, Cuban Father Sergio Figueredo, S.J., and Spanish Father Gratinisno Varona, O.P., were expelled on charges that they had intervened in the internal politics of the country. Charges were mqde in some quarters that the priests had stirred up conflict in order to create disorders during the visit of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, head of President Richard M. Nixon's special fact-finding mission to Latin America. 'Government Error' Father Figueredo was moderator of the University Youth Center, a professor at the state university and producer of a youth-oriented television program. He was among the Santo Domingo priests and Religious who signed a recent statement defending the right of priests to preach moral and social principles of reform, to seek means of 'more efficient pastoral work among the poor and to be spared the accusation of communism. Controversy over 'the expulsion of the two priests continued as presidential candidate Dr. Hector Gracia Godoy urged the readmission of the priests, charging that the expulsion "has been all' error of the government, especially in the manner it was done."
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Here's How to Preserve Bulbs for FaU PI,anti·ng By Joseph and Marilyn
The first officiaf venture of the recently established parish ~f St. John the Evangelist, Pocasset will be conducted on Saturday, Aug. 2 under the sponsorship of the Ladies Guild and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The affair will be conducted on the church grounds and all parishioners are encouraged to invite their relatives and friends. In preparation for the event, a reception was held recently in the Knights of Columbus Hall, Buzzards Bay in order that pastor and parishioners exchange ideas for the newly established Cape parish.
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We are in' the middle of moving part of our garden in order. to make room for an extension to be added to our house. This is not really the time for it and many of our plants will be lost. This part of the garden consists of roses, a number of varieties of lunch oil the rocks along lilies, and quite a few per- athepicnic Twelve Mile Drive. The ride ennials. Rather than waste from Fall River is just long the rather fertile' soil in .this enough (we only had 25 argu-
area we have been moving it to ments in the back seat instead of other sections of. the garden. It the usual 50) and though the would .be a shame to see this admission price is a bit steep, well-prepared soil go .under a the tour through this home of .,Messenger of Peace' foundation. In digging it up, we homes is well worth the expense. Meryl and Melissa oh'd and ran across many Spring tulips Presides Over Meeting and these we will store until ah'd in all the right places and DETROIT (NC) - Archbishop Fall. Oddly enough, I had forgot- paid rapt attention to our charmJoseph Tawil of Damascus, Syten they were there until I began ing guide. My three and a half ria, patriarchal-vicar for Melkite· ~'r year older thought the whole moving the soil. These tulips come in many thing a great big bore and he BLlN.D MUSICIAN: Jose Feliciano, who is adept with several rite Patriarch Maximos V. sizes, some just having divided wasn't happy until we visited the instruments but made his reputation with the guitar, began to Hakim, presiding over the annual and others two or three years children's "cottage" on th~ play at age' 9. Jose, blind since birth, is now 24 and has won. Melkite Association of North America convention here, was inold, rather large, and needing grounds, where he felt more at· many awards, including two 1969 Grammies. NC Photo. troduced as a "messenger of home. dividing. peace." Periwinkles, th;e Highlight How to Preserve He is on a two-to-three-month The first step in preserving After leaving the tour we tour of Melkite-rite communities tulips or daffodils is to let them stopped at our favorite cheese in the United States. Many Meldry out for a few days. Shake shop on Bellevue' Avenue and kites have expressed the hope the soil off the bulbs and let bought cheese, fruit and Syrian Archbishop Manning Warns of Effort that Archbishop Tawil might them sit iii the sun wher'e they bread to go along with our picnic bring harmony to a dispute over To Confuse People can lose the excess moisture they lunch. For Jason the p.ighlight of the selection of a _ bishop for might contain as a result of being the trip was hunting for peri"There is no Mystical Body MelkJte-rite Catholics in North LOS ANGELES (NC) - The in the soil. This drying helps winkles on the rocks and right prevent the fungus diseases . now I have a very, very tiny pan newly appointed coadjutor arch-' and a human society," he said. America. "There is only one Christ, huMelkite-Vatican relations have which can thrive in dampness. In of them bubbling on my stove. bishop of Los Angeles cautioned fact, it might also be a good idea So maybe he did get something here that the Church is facing an man and divine, walking across been strained because of the effort to unseat ancient truths the centuries. 'I am with you all issue. The Second Vatican Counto sprinkle a fungicide on the out of the trip, after all. days, even to the' consummation cil reaffirmed the right of the bulbs before storing them. If you're not tied up with a by seeming tQ give the people of . At this point they may be small one, there are many other God a freedom of choice about . of the world . . . Thou art Peter Melkite-rite synod to name their and upon this rock I shall build own bishops to Sees, but the stored in several ways. [ have lovely homes in this historical them. Preaching at the dedication of my Church and the gates of hell Vatican's Congregation for the stored bulbs for Fall planting in city that you can tour leisurely. nothing but onion sacks and they The Preservation Society of New- a new church in the 50-year-old shall not prevail against it,''' Oriental Churches has continued to appoint Melkite bishops. have managed to survive, but I port County has done a beautiful parish of St. Basil, Archbishop. Archbishop Manning continued. 'One Chrlsr think the accepted practice is to job of preserving m~ny of the· Timothy Manning dec I are d : place them in excelsior, peat homes that played a large part "Faith is a catalogue of things "God's, hand has revealed itmoss, or sand to prevent them in the early days of our country believed, housed in human words self in Christ, who redeemed us. Sc~ttered 'Pamphlets like jewels. The Church has con- That redemptive act is perpetufrom drying out. and the Revolutionary War. Attack Pope Paul / Whichever method you use, Joe and I were discussing the secrated these beliefs in words ated and carried from one generlike person, baptism, consubstanCASTELGANDOLFO (NC) check them from time to time fact that the rates are a bit ation to another through a against Defamatory pamphlets to make sure they are not drying steep to visit some of these tiation." structured hierarchy." "The Church stands irrevocable out or are too moist. homes and we came to the conThese things are being chal- Pope Paul VI have been found and unmoving, and will not yield lenged the archbishop said, by scattered throughout this village I usually plant these bulbs a clusion that the Society was little earlier in the Fall than one using these funds to keep up the smallest meaning of these men who have pushed God back only a few days before his arnormally would, ~ecause I think their marvelous restorations. words. For them men have and have made him unreleated to rival at his Summer retreat here. they are safer in the soil than With such a thought in mind, died," he asserted. Two days earlier in Rome, pothe circumstances of daily .life "Here there are no two and have raised a banner that lice arrested four women for disin my basement. The smaller you feel that your money is going churches. There is no underbulbs I naturalize close to the for a good cause. tributing similar pamphlets. The says God is dead. surface and the larger bulbs I When looking for a recipe to ground church and an overAgainst this, the archbishop women claimed to be followers place in a more formal setting. use with either blueberries or ground church. There is no said, stand the opening words of of "Antipope Clement XV," a And I usually like the smaller raspberries, I went to. my usual charismatic church and a hier- Genesis in which God commands Frenchman and an ex-pries,t who bulbs more than the larger. It favorite source, my mother-in- archial church," he continued. man to have dominion over the several months ago created disseems to me that tulips are pret- law. I remember these fruit earth. Man, in doing so, evi- turbances in St. Peter's Square. tier in little out of the way squares most fondly from last dences God better than any He was later asked to leave Workshop Benefi~ial places where you come across Summer. . Italy by the government. . secondary arguments. them unexpectedly, than in large To School' Leaders Fruit Squares formal groupings. pon't Be Nosey WASHINGTON (NC) An Permits German Nuns % cup shortening Often the grass looks greener Be not curious to know the eight-day workshop for non1 cup sugar in the other fellow's yard (as the affairs of others, neither appublic ,school administrators Distribute Communion 2 eggs old adage goes) and we travel proach to those that speak in responsible for \ the coordination Y2 teaspoon salt MUENSTER (NC)-In the diomiles and miles looking for hisand implementation of govern- cese of Muenster, nuns may private.-Washington. 2 cups flour torical spots, only to find the •mentally assisted programs has distribute Communion if there is 1 teaspoon baking powder best ones within a 20 minute been held at the Catholic Univer- a shortage of priests and deaor 1 can prepared pie filling drive. sity of America here. ' cons. The Vatican has granted This year we are trying to if using fresh raspberries, 1 small The workshop, first of its kind, this permission for a period of take the children on one histor- box raspberries, 1 Tablespoon focused on the participation of three years. ical trek a week to some spot in cornstarch and % cup sugar. 1) Cream together the one cup nonpublic school children in fedSoutheastern New England. Again due to a shortage of Meryl and Melissa are getting to sugar, and the shortening. Add eral and state assisted programs, priests, the archdiocese of Cothe age when they can appreciate the eggs, one at a time and blend and was cosponsored by the logne announced that it will Division of Elementary and arrange for Catholic laymen in our great New England heritage in well. 2) Add the vanilla and dry Secondary Education, United . several parishes to perform tasks and Jason--oh well, he just ingredients, mixing well again. States Catholic Conference (US- 'usually done by the parish comes along for the ride. 3) Spread half of batter in a CC), and the school of education priests. This week we chose Newport, at the university. Dr. Edward R. a visit to the magnificent Vander- 1 by 13 greased pan. 4) If using the fresh berries D'Alessio, Coordinator of Govbilt mansion, The Breakers; and stew together the berries, corn- ernmental .Programs .. for the §IIIII11111111I11I1111I111I11I11I11I11I11111111I11I11I11I11I11 11111111111I1111111111I1111I11I11I11111111I111111I11I1111I1111I1111 1I11111111~ starch, and % cup of sugar until USCC division, directed the Sisters' Council· slightly thickened. workshop. ~,LOBSTER ~ ALTOONA (NC) ....;... Religious 5) Spread filling, either the The purpose of the workshop, communities of women in the canned or the cooled berry and according to D'Alessio, "was to Altoona-Johnstown diocese here cornstarch mixture over the fill- guide these coordinators and in Pennsylvania have formed a ing in the pan, then spread the other non public school adminis§ § Sisters' Diocesan Council with remainder of the dough.. trators to more effectively assist the approval of Bishop James J. 6) It will be a bit difficult to the public sector in the imple~ Hogan, who outlined its advisory spread the dough over the filling mentation of governmentally ~ = . role in allowing the' official ad- as the dough becomes sticky, but assisted programs in the nonministration a greater liaison don't get discouraged. public schools by focusing on the with Religious women working 7) Bake in a 350 oven for 35 legislative, educational, procedurin various apostolates within the or 40 minutes or until browned. al and implemental aspects of UNION WHARF, FAIRHAVEN Tel. 997.9358 eight-county See. 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THE ANCHORThurs., July 17, 1969
I-Iyannis Bazoor On Saturday
By Marilyn Roderick The new soft look in fashions calls for a sleeked-down, no-teased look in a hairdo. Gone are the vats of hairspray and with it the heavy teasing that caused everyone's hair, mine included, to look and feel like the nearest haystack. Sleek is the word for SumI must admit to ha:ving a few mer '69 and from all indications Winter '69 also. Any- reservations when Fred put only four rollers in my hair and proone of us, in the past 30 ceeded to wrap up the rest of
group, who has gazed with envy at the beautiful, shining, healthy locks of our teenagers knows what a tease-free hairdo looks like. It falls softly, has shining highlights and a I 0 0 s e freedom that goes with the times "Upto - the â&#x20AC;˘ minute" . hairdressers are up on this no-tease look and they are trying to win their customers over to their way of thinking. Oddly enough, this more casual hairdo requires a better hairdresser than did the teased and bouffant styles; and one who is willing to try somethi!:'g new. Trend-Setting Cities My hairdresser, Fred Rebello, is always alert to how women are wearing their hair in the trend-setting cities such as Paris, New York, and Boston. Recently, when a customer returned fr.om an out-of-town trip with sketches and news of a supercasual haircut and hairdo that she had received in the big city, Fred immediately adapted it for his own salon and now his customers can have the look that the beautiful people call their own. A few days later, when I went in for my appointment he was eager to tell me about this new way of setting hair and to ask if I would like to try it for this week. Always ready for a new look, I quickly consented to try anything that would get my hair off my neck and out of my face, especially on beach days.
Dominican Sisters Hold General Chapter CALDWELL (NC) - Measures providing for flexibility in the length of the training period and the duration of temporary vows were enacted by the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell during a general chapter at the motherhouse here in New Jersey. The chapter has concluded most of its work but has adjourned temporarily to await word from the Holy See on the election of Sister M. Vivien Jennings as superior. The Congregation of Religious must approve her election because at 35 she â&#x20AC;˘ is five years under the required age for superiors. Once approval is given, the chapter will reconvene to promulgate the acts of the chapter and elect other officials. The chapter has given Sisters the option of returning to their baptismal names, continued experimentation with the religious habit whle voting not to permit secular dress, and expanded an experiment which finds those houses desiring to do so electing their own superiors.
Quality Counts Quality of management is allAfter all, what is a company but people? If the people have character, imagination, drive, that's good enough for me. -Herman importan~.
my locks around my head turban style, but having faith in his ability I kept quiet. There were a few strange looks from the other customers in the shop but they too refrained from making any comment. Lo and behold, though, when my hair was finally dried (this way of setting hair takes a little longer to dry than it does if the hair is on rollers) it fell back ,smoothly into a sleek off, the face look. He pinned my small wiglet on the back in the form of a chignon and a total sleek look was arrived at. Charlotte Ford move over. Highest Compliment
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SCENE OF PA~AL MASS: When Pope Paul celebrates Mass at Namugongo, Uganda, on Saturday, Aug, 2, the altar will have been erected on this small island in a lake. As several hundred thousand pilgrims are expected to attend the Mass, crowd control is provided by using the natural amphitheater around the site, with terraces rising from the lake. The island will be reached by bridge, and will be surmounted by a grass-roofed pavilion.
The hair-do received the highest compliment possible when my husband spent the next two days telling me how much he liked my hair this way.' GenerPro-Abortion Efforts Had Mixed Success ally Joe complains that just set In State legislatures hair looks just that-"just set." He also complains that most of WASHINGTON (NC) - With by a crippled lawmaker apparmy recent hair-dos have been too high and artificial looking; but the 1969 legislative session ently swung a dozen or more this one passed inspection on all ended or ending in most states, votes into the opposition column the box score on the controver- at the last moment and led to its counts. With a scarf or bright ribbon sial issue of relaxing abortion defeat. The 1Ith-hour intervention tied around the chignon it lalited laws reads success for pro-aborthrough quite a few beach trips tion forces in' four states but against the bill was made by Assemblyman Martin Ginsberg, a before it even needed a fresh defeat in 20 more. This year legislation making 38-year-old Nassau attorney who brushing. Toward the end of the week it was still quite manage- it easier to get, an abortion was was crippled by polio at the age able and all I had to do was take adopted in Arkansas, Kansas, of 13 months and' now walks with great difficulty with the aid the wiglet off, give it 'a few licks New Mexico and Deleware. That brings to 10 the number of crutches and leg braces. and pin it back in place. While Ginsberg had been counted I must admit that by Wednesday of states which have enacted it didn't look as pristine as it easier abortion laws in the last among the bill's supporters. had on the previous Thursday, two years. States which did so During debate" however, he .prior to 1969 are California, spoke against it, centering his it was still neat. In discussing this novel way Colorado, North Carolina, Mary- attack on a provision to permit abortion in cases where it was of 'setting hair, Fred said that land, Georgia and Mississippi. The defeats far outnumbered likely the child wouid be born it's perfect for the girls who have very curly locks and find it the victories, however, in the deformed. "What this bill says," Ginsberg quite dificult to wear their hair 1969 campaign for liberalized abortion. At one point this year, told his fellow legislators, "is in a "smooth-do." Next to owning a wig or a personal hair- nearly 50 bills had been intro- that those who are malformed dresser, it is the biggest coiffure duced in the legislatures of 25 or abnormal have no reason to states. But only four passed, be part of our society. If we are saver that I have discovered. while in 20 states they went prepared to say that a life should not come into this world maldown to defeat. In more than half of these formed or abnormal, then tomorWorcester Has Draft states the easier abortion bills row we should be prepared to never came to a vote, having say that a life already in this Information Center WORCESTER (NC)-The Cath- been buried earlier in the legisla- world which becomes malformed olic diocese of Worcester, the tive process. In eight states or abnormal should not be perGreater Worcester Area Council where such bills were voted on, mitted to live." of Churches and the Jewish Com- they were defeated-Florida, Illimunity of Worcester have joined nois, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota President to Consider forces in establishing and staffing Nevada, New York and Utah. the most dramatic Possibly an interfaith Draft Information Family Planning Issue defeat of an easier abortion bill Center for the area. WASHINGTON (NC) - PresiLocated, in the Council of was that of the New York bill, dent Nixon's science advisor said 17 by a vote rejected on April Churches building, the center here that the White House is will provide information and of 78-69 in the State Assembly. going to take a "hard look" at counseling for young men of Ginsberg's Attack' the issue of family planning. draft age. It is intended, a The -legislation, actively proIn testimony before the House spokesman said "to provide a moted and publicized in New task force on earth Republican setting in which information York for the past several years, about Selective Service is given had been given an excellent resources and population, Dr. Lee in a' way which permits and en- chance of passage. But a speech DuBridge said population growth is outstripping economics gains courages young men to make in "several" countries. their own decisions." "We will have to develop new Country Fair The center plans to help young techniques for coping with this men with individual problems Friends of the Novitiate of St. situation in a more rational manabout deferments, changes in Anne's Hospital, Fall River, are ner than we have in the past if classification, appeal procedures, making final plans for a Country our already crowded metropolioptions available for military ser- Fair to be held on the hospital tan areas are not' to become vice and conscientious objection. grounds 'from 9 to 9 Saturday, hopeless tangles of humanity," Panels of clergy were being July 19. Proceeds will benefit the DuBridge said. esablished throughout Worcester novitiate of the Dominican SisRep. George Bush of Texas, County, it was announced, so ters staffing the institution. A chairman of the resources and that contacts could be made be- special attraction will be a ma- population task force, said Dutween young men and religious gician who will perform at 2 Bridge's appearance before the counselors (or the discussion of and 7. Booths will include gifts, group reflected "a definite interquestions of conscience raised by dolls, white elephant items, est in our efforts from the White military service. House." foods, flowers and refreshments.
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The! ladies of St. Francis Xavier Parish Guild will hold their fourth annual Summer Bazaar Saturday, July 19, on the church lawn, South Street, Hyannis. Mrs. Thomas Hannon ts General Chairman. Mrs. Rose Kennedy who will be present, will have autographed copies of Kennedy books for sale as well as autographed Flame of Hope Candles and Perfumes. In addition, autographed copies of Larry G. Newman's book "Old Hyannisport" will be on sale. Other highlights include tables of: Home made foods; Used books; Handmade items; giftwares; souvenirs; and, white elephant. There will be a children's fun center with "Scoot" the clown, puppets, pony rides, games. The snack bar will be open the entire, time. In the event of rain the affair will be moved into the new Parish Center located directly behind the church. '
Pilgrimage to Retrace Martyrs' Journey KAMPALA (NC)-In commemoration of the Martyrs of Uganda a party of 22 persons will make a pilgrimage on foot from Gulu to this city and climax the walk by meeting Pope Paul VI during his historic visit to this country July 31 to Aug. 2. The pilgrimage of Catholics who call themselves "TwentyTwo Uganda Martyrs," will reflect events leading to the execution of the Uganda martyrsaints. The party will leave St. Joseph's cathedral in Gulu and plans to arrive in Kampala in seven days in memory of the seven days within which the Uganda martyrs made their last tragic historic journey-from the date of their judgment on May 26, 1886 to that of their execution on June 3. The martyrs traveled seven miles from. Munyonyo, where they were arrested and condemne~ to death, to Mengo and then seven miles from Mengo to Namugongo, the site of their martyrdom.
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THE ANCHORThurs., July' 17, ,1969
British Catholics Pledge Loya Ity To Pope Paul
SOUTH BEND (NC) - John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a group of American educators he is "inclined to suspend judgment" in the case of Bishop James P. Shannon until he knows more of the circumstances involved. Some 500 educators, Catholic and non-Catholic, subscribed to a letter sent to the cardinal, urging support for Bishop Shannon after he submitted his resignation as auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis because he could not subscribe to views expressed by Pope Paul VI in the encyclical on birth control, Humanae Vitae. The letter was drafted by seven persons at the University of Notre Dame and forwarded to the cardinal. The cardinal's reply ,was not made public until the cardinal's permission was obtained. The cardinal's letter was written before Bishop Shannon accepted the post of vice president at St. John's College, an interdenominational institution at Santa Fe, N. M. The cardinal's letter stated, in part, "I must confess that I have no more information about the matter than has been contained railway station accomodates both rail- in the press reports. And, as you will admit, these,have often been less than clear. As a consequence, I have been inclined to suspend judgment in the matter until I know all the circumstances."
GLASGOW (NC) A group of prominent English and Scottish lay Catholics has issued a declaration 'of
loyalty to Pope Paul VI and promised that a future loyalty statement will be signed by many thousands of other Catholics. The declaration, initiated by a Scottish retired Army Col. Alistair J. Cranstoun, particularly praised the Pope for his encyclical on birth control. Humanae Vitae. The loyalty statement said that in the encyclical Pope Paul had, '!courageously reaffirmed the infallible teaching of the Church on marriage and the family." The signers of the declaration, described as "representative," included Catholics from a wide -, range of fields and professions in England and Scotland-members of Parliament, educators, writers and professional men and women. Col. Cranstoun said the declaration is a way of giving the "ordinary" Catholic a means of expressing his feelings on the MASS FO~ TRAVELERS: Chapel in Rome's ce ntral issues raised by the publication of Humanae Vitae and other' roaders and travelers. NC Photo. subjects affecting the Church today. . . ' Among the signers were, novelist John Braine, economics professor Colin Clark, convertauthor Sir Arnold Lunn, broadcaster Wilfrid Picklers, Scottish Judge Lord Wheatley and ROME (NC)-The least likely canteen and dormitories where Charles Smith, chairman of the Edinburgh Lay Apo'stolate Coun- place one might expect to hear Italian workers stay before leavMass is in a railway station. ' ing the country to work in the cil. It is no wonder that travelers industrial centers of 'Germany,' Claiming that the signers are usually startled when the speak- on behalf of the "over- loudspeaker in the Rome railway Belgium or the Scandinavian whelming majority of the people . terminal blares out: "Holy Mass countries. Women with children'· also stay there before leaving to of God," the document said the is about to be celebrated below join their husbands who are Pope's Credo of the People of platform 22." working abroad. God which closed the Year of The puzzled travelers will Italy has about 156,000 railFaith "effectively answered false often ask porters: "Is there a way workers. Many of them live prophets who had been so assidchurch in the station?" uously undermining the basic There is a church. It is the tenets of our faith." pride of railwaymen and the.joy Two, Priests Take Appreciation, Thanksgiving of travelers. They crowd into It also thanked the Pope for Mass by going down a stairway -Leave of Absence NEWARK (NC)-A chancery his weekly talks and criticized that leads from platform 22 to "irresponsible theologial~and the small chapel below that seats source confirmed that two Newark archdiocesan' priests who lay intellectuals." about 50 people. The statement said, in part: When no Mass is being said, were among a group of' Catholic "In acknowledgement of Hu- travelers come into the chapel University of America teachers manae Vitae, which so coura- with baggage in hand. They dissenting from the Pope's engeously reaffirmed the infallible often stay for only a moment, cyclical on artificial contracepteaching of the Church on mar- just long enough to kneel and tion are now on leaves of abriage and the family: . say a prayer. Then they leave to , sence froni the ministry. Father Russell Ruffino of Cath"In appreciation of the Profes- catch their trains. sion of Faith by which, in closing But they are not the only vis- 'olic University's school of philthe Year of Faith, Your Holiness itors. The chapel is the center of osophy and Father Robert Hunt, effectively answered the false many activities run by Father a theologian, were among 21 un· prophets who had been so assid- Giovanni Brazzani, who bears iversity faculty members' who uously undermining the basic the title of Rome Railway Region signed a statement of dissent from, the encyclical, Humanae tenets of our faith: Chaplain. Vitae. "In thanksgiving for the inDon Brazzani has worked The pontifical university's board numerable allocutions in which week after week, Your Holines~ with railwaymen for over 20 of trustees last month approved continues to expose and refute . years. He feels that he has a re- the report of a faculty board of the errors at present prolifer- sponsibility to take care of both inquiry whi~h said that the ating through the activities of the spiritual and the earthly teachers did not violate the canirresponsible theologians and lay needs of those who come to him. ons of academic propriety in isAt night, 'particularly in the suing their statement of dissent. intellectuals who do not hesitate There was no confirmation to scandalize the faithful by Winter, Don Brazzani makes the 'new catechisms' which by si- rounds of the station. He usually from the Newark chancery of lence or ambiguity leave open to brings back "guests" to' sleep in news reports that Father Hunt question even the most certain of a little passage next to his office. had left the priesthood permanSo long as they are in his com- ently and was working in Miami. truths: "We the undersigned beg to pany, the "guests" need not fear Nor ,could Fr. Hunt be reached assure Your Holiness of our filial being disturbed by railway police for comment. A chancery spokes· - _ man' indicated that an' official love and unswerving obedience. and guards. statement on the matter might Canteen, Dormitories "In so doing, we are confident that we speak on behalf of the· "They are independent vaga- be issued sh?rtly. overwhelming majority of the bonds," said Don Brazzani about Gets Loan people of God who continue to the people to whom he gives look with confidence fol' guid- shelter. "They won't go to hosWASHINGTON (NC) - The ance to the Vicar of Jesus tels 'or ask for help. They come, Department of Housing and UrChrist. '" '" "''' they go. Tile best anyone can do ban Development has approved for them is give them a shirt or a $2,235,000 loan to Seton Hall From the Heart a pair of shoes, and perhaps a University in South Orange, N.J., ' ' for construction of a dormitory All grand thoughts come from few lire." the heart. -de Vauvenurgues. Beyond the chapel is a large for 300 women students.
Rome Chaplai,n Serves Workers, Travelers Father Brazzani Also Tro,vels .to Serv'e Workers
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in remote areas, where they build and repair track lines or tend stations. They and members of -their families ,often live in housing owned by the railway. To care for their spiritual needs, the Opera Nazionale Assistenza Religiosa (The National Organization for Religious Assistance to Workers) has 16 branches for the railway workers. Each branch is staffed by at least one chaplain and several social workers. Labor Trouble Don Brazzini said that "Assistenza" was found on the belief that the workman should be considered a human being, and not merely a cog in a great industrial complex. When there is labor. trouble in the yards, disputes in the offices, or domestic problems at home, the chaplain can sometimes step in and act as a gobetween to help solve the problems, 'Don Brazzini explained. That takes care of the social aspects. - And when the workers cannot go to the sacraments, the sacra- • ments go to the workers. Thus the chaplain serves the workers' religious needs through a church-on-wheels. By means of an auto caravan, the chaplain can take care. of the religious needs of those workers who may have to spend weeks high in the Abruzzi mountains, repairing a line of tracks.
Dominican to Head usee Research WASHINGTON' (NG}:""':' Father Thomas C. Donlan,' O.P., has, been named director of the Division of Research and Development in Religious Education in the Department of Christian Formation, United States Catholic Conference.(USCC). The appointment was announced by Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, General Secretary of USCC. The Department of Christian Formation, of which Father Raymond A. Lucker is the director, coordinates the activities of the USCC divisions which provide leadership and program assistance to dioceses, institutions, and individuals concerned with the Christian education and training of young people and adults. These are the Division of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Division of Youth .Activities, the Division of Campus Ministry, the Diyision of Adult Education.
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Bishop John L. Paschang issued a policy statement here in Nebraska pledging that the Grand Island diocese will "insure a Christian education for all children regardless of race, color, creed or financial condition." "The Catholic schools of this diocese will accept any student desiring such Christian education and these same schools will be available for any program that will alleviate the suffering of peoples within the confines of this diocese," the statement said. The "statement on discrimination" was issued by Bishop Paschang through the diocesan department of education. Father Paul Button, diocesan superin路. tendent called it a "statement of, policy necessary for our times." "For too long there has been a leadership lag in alleviating the educational causes of poverty, and the causes of all discrimination, both racial and religious," Father Button stated. "We hope that the implementation of this statement will be one way the Catholic schools will aid in forming the leaders of tomorrow who will act and react to all forms of discrimination in a manner befitting an educated Christian." Combat Racism Bishop Paschang's statement also: Pledged commitment to "experimentation," including cooperative efforts with the public school system to combat racism and poverty. E;ndorsed tbe. concept of decen,. tralization (wide decision-making power on the part of the local community) in school systems as "the most effective means of improving both public and nonpublic, education." Called for an all out effort to involve parents in the educational process. Decreed that enrollment in Catholic schools in the diocese "should reflect the ethnic and racial and economic composition of their locality, and where space is available, provision should be ' made for accepting students from other areas that lack adequate facilities." ChristIan EducatIon "It shall be the policy of the
Catholic diocese of Grand Island to insure a Christian education for all children regardless of race, color, creed or financial condition," the statement said. "The Catholic schools of this diocese will accept any student desiring such a Christian education, and these same schools will be available for any program that will alleviate the sufferings of people within the confines of this diocese." Commenting on the policy statement, Father Button noted that "many accuse the Catholic school system of being in exis,tence only for the' rich and the talented." "We don't want this to be true of our schools," he stated.
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CLONMACNOIS (NC)-A new open-air altar for pilgrimages to this ancient monastery site near Athlone was dedicated by William Cardinal Conway, the Irish Primate. About 5,000 persons gathered on slopes overlooking the settlement to attend a Mass concelebrated by the cardinal and six bishops.
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ORIGINAL PRINTING: Highest price ever pa id for a document of its kind, this original printing of the Declaration of Independence was displayed in New York recently by its co-owners, Dallas businessmen Joseph P. Driscoll, left, and Ira G. Corn, Jr. They bought it at a Philadelphia auction, paying $404,000. It is one of 16 copies printed on a hand press the night of July 4, 1776. It was found last December in an old book store in a crate that hadn't been opened since 1911. NC Photo.
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have fewer special services than WASHINGTON (NC) - The Justice Department warned it those to which white students may file suite against the Water. are assigned; and that an arbury, Conn., public school sysrangement has been made. with tem, charging it with making an the Catholic school system of "arrangement with the Catholic Waterbury that allows White system that allows white stu- students to escape predominantly dents to "escape" non-white non-white school districts in public school districts. The Hartwhich they reside and to attend ford archdiocesan superintendent the practically all-white paro~' of schools emphatically denied chial school system at the exthe charge. pense of non-white students and The Justice Department notiparents." fied the Waterbury public school 'Statement Is Untrue' system of its intended action as Msgr. James A. Connelly, part of the latest round of Hartford archdiocesan superinschool desegregation steps by the tendent of schools, called the Nixon Administration. Justice Department's allegations Atty.-Gen. John N. Mitchell "untrue." He indicated that also announced that suits seeking any public transportation of pupil desegregation have been students to non public schools outside their home districts was filed against schools in Hardeman County, Tenn., Abbeville made in accord with Connecticut County District No, 60 in South statutes. "There is no collusion, no arrangement, no discriminaCarolina, and against the Louisianna parishes (counties) of tion," Msgr. Connelly said in a Red River and Tensas. statement. The Justice Department made its accusations against the Waterbury school systems in a Women to Conduct letter to Salvatore Terenzo, Ecumenical Census president of the public schools COLUMBUS (NC) ~ Catholic board of education. The letter women will conduct a religious said in part: census in September for both 'AII路White Parochial' Catholic and Protestant churches "The information presently in the 23-county Columbus dioavailable to us indicates that cese. ther'e are serious deficiencies in The denominational affiliations the Waterbury sehool system: of all families replying to the that the student bodies of several house-to:house canvass will be of the elementary schools are made available to the Ohio Counpredominantly non-white; that cil of Churches. OCC will send district lines, bus routes and the information to county church transfer policies have been drawn organizations, and it will then so as to insure that predomi- be transmitted to area congreganantly 'white' schools remain tions. white and predominantly 'nonMQre than 13,000 women volwhite' remain non-white; that unteers from the Diocesan CounNegro teachers were assigned on cil of Catholic Women plan to the basis of race to the predomi- call on more than half a million nantly Negro Bishop elementary homes and gather data on 1.7 school, and that schools to which million people. They will ask only non-white students are assigned names, ages and religious affiliaare in the worst condition and tion.
"According to the news releases, the Department of Justice has made the statement that the Waterbury public school board arranged with the Roman Catholic school system to have white children who live in or around ghetto neighborhoods attend the practically all white parochial school system at the expense of non-white students and parents," Msgr. Connelly said. "This statement is untrue." "Under section 10-281 of the general statutes (of the State of Connecticut) "transportation for pupils in nonprofit private schools must be provided by the town or city if a public referendum so directs," Msgr. Connelly noted. "A referendum in the city of Waterbury, like those in many other municipalities in Connecticut, determined that such transportation must be provided. Waterbury has complied with the legislative mandate of transportation for children to Catholic schools in that city. "There is no collusion, no arrangement or discrimination," Msgr. Connelly said.
COLUMBUS (NC) - The Columbus diocese is considering es路 tablishing a capital loan fund, Bishop Clarence E. Elwell announced. The proposal from the diocesan finance committee is supportl~d by the bishop "in principle" and has the "firm support" of the diocesan consultors. Pastors are now studying the plan. , "The steady rise in interest rates, capped by the recent increase to 8.5 per cent places an intolerable burden upon our parishes and institutions." the bishop said. "Our diocesan community must band together and solve the problem. No single parish or institution can do it alone." The finance committee's' proposal would place all the diocesan and parish debts in the fund and charge 5 per cent interest. At the same time, most of the diocese's money would be placed in the fund with an annual return of three per cent. Parishes and institutions would be encouraged to do the same. "A small sacrifice in interest income by those who have invested funds will go a long way toward easing the crisis for debtburdened parishes," the finance committee's report said. Money on deposit in the fund would be payable on demand. It would first be used to retire present bank debts.
Names Coordinator For Education SIOUX FALLS (NC) - Father Leonard F. Stanton has been appointed by Bishop Lambert A. Hoch of Sioux Falls to the newly created post of Diocesan Coordinator of Religious Education. Father Stanton will have responsibility for the over-all direction of religious education efforts at all levels in the South Dakota diocese, including those for children in both Catholic and public schools, pre-school and adult education. Francis .Scholtz, formerly coordinator of schools, was named to the post of Coordinator of Education for the diocese. The changes in structure resulted from a study of the diocese's total education program.
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:Church ~n Spain ·Supports.. Trade Union Autonomy By Msgr. George G. Higgins Director, Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C.
A recent issue of Boletin HOAC, official publication of the the workers' section of Catholic Action in Spain (Herm~mdad Obrera de Accion Catolica, or HOAC for short) features a cartoon showing Generalissimo Franco, Chief of State in Spain, kneeling in prayer at a prie dieu, pre- rest in Spain and of at least some of the friction between sumably in his private chap- Church and State'. el in the Prado. The caption The nub of the problem is that,
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over the cartoon has him saying, aparently with great anguish: "And deliver us, . 0 Lord, from another Council. Amen." Obviously this car· toon was meant to suggest that the second Vatican Council, with its emphasis, on the overriding value of political liberty,' freedom of association, trade union autonomy, and freedom o'f 'information, has unleashed a number of forces which !ire stirring things up in Spain and are causing serious embarrassment to Franco and his government. . .. . While I have been to Spain several times during the past four or five years-most recently' in June of this year-'-X don't pretend to have more than a superficial knowledge of what's going on over there in 'the field of Church-State relations. In other words, I am not in a position to say, on ,the basis of personal experience, whether or not HOAC's cartoon was entirely fair to Franco. . On the other hand, it's a matter of public record that church groups in Spain, sin<~e the end of the council-and presumably, to some extent at least-because of the council-have become increasingly outspoken in their criticism of a number of the government's policies and increasingly militant in their de· fense of freedom, speclffcally, for example, in the field of trade unionism and collective bargaining. The government is obviously upset about this d1welopment and gives the impression at times of not knowing how to cope with it except by resorting to use of the big stick. Source of Unrest Again I am making this assertion not on my own authority, but on the basis of information which is a maher' of public record and has been widely reported in this country in ,the secular as 'well as the Catholic press. The record will show, for example, that several priests~ne of whom I had the :pleasure of meeting in Spain, last month,have ,recently. been sentenced to jail in secret. military.trials and on very flimsy charges.· While there is no verifiable evidence that these particular priests were sent to prison prec~sely ~ecause of their progressive views on the subject of trade union fr'eedom and autonomy, it is again a matter of pub~ lic record that the labor problem is the source of the current un-
Consecration' Set DUBUQUE (NC) -- Bishopelect Francis J. Dunne will be consecrated auxiliary bishop of Du~uque Aug. 27 in' St. Raphael s cathedral here in Iowa.
for all practical purposes, the Spanish syndicates or unions are controlled by the government. Over the course of the years this situation has become so intolerable and has resulted in so much political and economic unrest that the government has finally decided that the time has come to revise the existing trade union statutes and to come up with a new law. Strong Statement The bishops of Spain, taking note of this development, recently issued a Pastoral Letter ; entitled ,"Christian Principles Relative' to Trade Unionism.". The thrust of this pastoral was that' the new trade· union law must guar~ntee freedom of association for Spanish. workers and must accord the fullest possible measure of autonomy to the unions which they freely choose to represent them. ' The workers' section of Catholic Action (HOAC) and a num\ber of other Catholic organizations, including groups of employers, are vigorously campaigning for this objective, and, to some extent at least, have' managed to get their story across to the public in spite of governmental restrictions on the freedom of the press. While I was in Spain last month, to cite but o.ne example, the regional council of associations of Catholic employers in Cataluna issued a strong public statement calling for radical changes in the present trade union law and declar-, ing unequivocally that ';trade union freedom is absolutely necessary." . Advocates Changes A few weeks before that statement was made public in Spain the International Labor Organi· zation, which Pope Paul honored with a personal visit last month on tbe occasion of its 50th anniversary, released the interim report of ,all' ILO study group which will be supplemented around the end of July by a much more detailed document. It : does so. indirectly, however, by advocatmg, along the lines. of the. Spanish bishops' pastoral, a series of far-reaching changes in the present trade union law. ' All of these changes are aimed , at guaranteeing freedom of associationfor Spanish workers and the political independence. and autonomy of the trade union movement in Spain. The fact that members of the ILO study group found it neces· sary to call for these changes would seem to. indicate that in their judgment, the present l~bor set-up in Spain, doesn't meet the ILO's minimum standards on the subject of trade union freedom and autonomy, standards which are written into the ILO constitution and are binding on all members of the organization. ILO Resolution A few weeks ago, the worker, management, and government delegates attending the ILO Conference in. Geneva and represent·
Ste Louis Archdiocese Refutes Militants' TaxmDodgeCharges ST. LOUIS (NC) - Charges urban properties which it said made by militant ACTION dem- were owned by religious orders instrators that the St. Louis and which either discriminate archdiocese engages in tax- against blacks or refuse to sell dodging lease-backs of slum to poverty assistant groups. It property were branded "blatant- 'also said,the Knights of ColumIy false" in an official statement but owned property at ,Jennings by the archdiocese. and Hall-Ferry Road, but did not The "is so' inaccurate and make any protest about such baseless that it can hardly be ownership or the K. of C. styled anything except a lie," deIt claimed, too, that the archc1ared Auxiliary, Bishop Joseph diocese of Louisville. Ky., owns A. McNicholas of St. Louis. property at an inner-city address "We are dedicated to compas- and has refused to sell to a group sion," Bishop McNicholas added training black draftsmen. in an interview with newsmen In its statement, the St. Louis "and we pray for those who lie: archdiocese repeats the denial who tell falsehoods and wno first made June 27 by the archcalumniate us, but justice also' diocesan Human Rights Commisdemands that we say that the sion, that the Church has never charges .are totally false." owned any slum property and Bishop McNicholas served as that any such implication is perunwarrranted and erroHEADS RESEARCH: Fr. Thomas spokesman for the archdiocese nicious, neous." on behalf of John Joseph CardiC. Donlan, a.p., has been namnal Carberry of St. Louis, who is As to ownership of the six ed director of research and de- . out of the city. He gave news- listed properties, a lease-back of velopment in religious educa- men the 600-word statement donated properties or tax delintion in the USCC Department of which was drawn· up at a meet. quencies: "This information is so Christian' Formation, Washing- ing of top officials of the arch. inaccurate and baseless that it ton, D. C. He is a former ed- diocese, including Msgr. James can hardly be styled anything itor of the Priory Press of the R. Hartnett, head of the archdi- except a lie." Dominican Fathers' Midwest ocesan building commission, and. Concern for Justice (St. Albert the Great) pr~vince, Bernard J. Huger, attorney for "A check of records going the archdiocese. ' . , back to 1909 with the St. Louis Chicago. NC Photo. . The charge of involvement in . real estate. exchange and the St. slum property was made 'in a' Paul Title Guarantee Co., shows ing more than 100 nations' "black paper" distributed outside ,that for the first five properties passed a resolution (with Spain the St. Louis cathedral by some . the archdiocese has never owned alone dissenting) caIling upon two dozen black and white or possessed, in any manner any the Spanish government to give members of ACTION, a local or- of the properties," the statement . adeq'!.ate publicity within Spain ganization which has 'staged declared. "We can only conclude to the interim report and to the several church disruptions here that these mendacious state)llore detailed document which, in what it calls a series of "black ments made about archdiocesan as indicated above, will be ·ready. Sundays." . ownership were the result of irfor distribution in book form The "black paper" declared responsib~lity or the deliberate within the very near future. that si:c pieces of slum, property attempt to deceive." If the Spanish government were h~ted on the books of the The sixth property, Bishop abides by the letter and the spirit St. LoUIS recorder of the deeds McNicholas said, was willed to of this resolution, it is at least office in city hall under the name the archdiocese in December possible that the two ILO reports of the archdiocese of St. Louis 1966 and sold...iu February, 1967 will generate enough public sup- and as having been sold or for $1,000. The p.roceeds of the \ port in Spain to break the cam-.,. leased. to the Clemence Invest- sale, $845, were given to St. Ann el's back and to compel the gov- ment Company, which operates parish for parish programs. ernment to come up with a satis- ~ut of the .Global Investment The statement further declaredJ factory, trade union law -..,.. Le., ompany here. that "tactics and the dangerous one which will guarantee freeErroneous Implication libels to which the Church is dom of association and trade ACTION also named two subbeing exposed are setting back union autonomy. the attempts we have continually Ie' made to convince our people of I say it's just possible that this will happen,but, in the opinion .&xperiment Shows the duty of every Christian to of many of the people with St d t p' stamp out the last vestiges of whom I had the pleasure of conU en s rog,ress racial prejudice that is the legacy ferring in, Spain last month, it OMAHA (NC)-A progress re- of past time and to extend a port on Project Excellence all' helping hand to those in need." isn't at all certain. On the contrary, these people experiment with 129 students The. statement concluded. by seem to fear that, when the chips here, indicates it will continue. declarmg that the Church will are down, the Spanish. govern- The children showed satisfactory continue its concern for commu'ment will try to get off the educational achievement;. social ~ity needs and racial justice, hook' by making a few minor and racial improvements were not because of demands, not co~cessions to the workers, also noted. out of a spirit of largess and whIle refusing to accept the The 129 students had been atand not dependent upon debasic recommendations of the tending St. Benedict's' grade meaning gratiture from those it Spanish bishops and the ILO school until it was closed last serves. The Church will continue Study Group. year because it had become al- its concern because it is right." One Bright Spot . mo~t totally segregated. Through I hope that, in the en-d, their Project Excellence a tutoring fears will prove to have been program was set up and a con· tract signed to provide daily bus groundless and that the govern- transportation of the students to ment will decide, however reluc- 10 other sch60ls. tantly, to meet its obligations '. Father John .Farrald, project' under the ILO Constitution for director, reported the children if it fails to:.do so, it's alm~st ~ showed an eight 'months' ,gain·· CITIES SERVICE foregone conclusion that there ~>ver, the year's time. While this is going to be seri(;ms political IS two months less than the natDISTRIBUTORS trouble in Spain in the months ional average, Father Farrald inGasoline that lie ahead. d' From 'my own point of view, Icated it was good , progress compared to that ,of· children in Fuel and Range the one real bright spot in the . ghetto schools. . picture is that the Church in A survey of parental attitudes Spain, however seriously it may resulted in comments that were be divided on a number of other "far more favorable than un. OIl: BURNERS issues, gives every. indication of favorable." For Prompt Delivery having made up its mind, once and for all, to see this particular & Day & Night Service fight through to the finish. This being the ~ase, it's entireG. E. BOILER BURNER' UNITS ly p.ossible that HOAC's cartoon was reasonably accurate after Rural Bottled Gas Service Prescriptiorts called for all. That is to say, I would be 61 COHANNEl ST prepared to believe that General and delivered Franco, when he kneels down in TAUNTON LOFT the Prado to say his evening CHOCOLATES Attleboro - No. Attleboro prayers, might be tempted to ask 600 Cottage St. 994-7439 Taunton the good Lord to deliver him New Bedford from another council.
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02722. OUR LADY OF THE CAPE, BREWSTER The annual bazaar of the Women's Guild will be held from 10 to 4 Wednesday, Ju[y 23 in the church hall. Luncheon, featuring lobster roll, will be served from 11 to 2. New guild officers are Mrs. John Seddon, president; Mrs. James Besso, vice-president; Mrs. Dona[d Benson, secretary; Mrs. William Jones, treasurer. They will be installed at the Sep( meeting by Rev. Henry L. Durand, M.S., pastor. ST. JOHN BAPTIST, CENTRAL VILLAGE A lobster supper will be sponsored from 5:30 to 7 Saturday night, Ju[y 19 by the Ladies' Guild. Tickets are available from members. OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, NEW BEDFORD Sisters of St. 'Dorothy will benefit from a cake sale to be held tomorrow at Stop & Shop Market, Rockda[e Avenue and Dartmouth Street. Parents of children in the parochial school are requested to bring cakes to the store tomorrow morning. Cub Scouts of Pack 11 will hold a family outing from 9:30 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Sunday, Ju[y 20 at Shining Tides, Mattapoisett, opposite the Knights of Columbus Shrine on Route 6. Families and friends are invited and attractions will include swimming, games and sports. Grills and shade makers may be brought. ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH The Women's Guild will hold its annual Summer fair from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Saturday, Ju[y 26 on the church grounds. Booths will feature handmade articles, white elephant items, aprons, homebaked foods and refreshments. In case of rain the fair will be held in the lower church hall. '
Ecumenical Meeting Held in Ireland GLENSTAL (NC) - The sixth Glensta[ ecumenical council, with representatives of eight Christian churches, opened with prayers asking pardon for the sins invo[ved in the separation of the churches.
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'JERSEY CITY (NC)-Another teacher involved in recent student and faculty controversies at St. Peter's College here has decided to leave the campus. Ruth Whitney, a former Peace Corps volunteer now teaching in the theology department, asked officials of the Jesuit college to waive six-month notification requirements so she could resign before the start of the school year. Miss Whitney, who was among those arrested for occupying administration offices during the Spring student strike at St. Peter's, said she is resigning so her presence on the campus doesn't become a matter of controversy. She had been notified that her contract would not, be renewed after the 1969-70 school year. It was just such a notification given to another member of the faculty, Thomas Haessler, that helped set off a six-month dispute that plagued the college from January through June. Miss Whitney was a strong supporter of Haessler, whose reinstatement was' among the demands made on the college by the Student Senate. In a compromise agreement, Haessler has been given a terminal one-year contract for 1969-70.
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ST. MARY, SOUTH DARTMOUTH The Women's Guild will present a fashion show at 8 Wednesday night, Aug. 27 in the parish center for the benefit of the Carmelite Sisters of, South Dartmouth. Co-chairmen Mrs. Michael Bobrowiecki and Mrs. John Bernier head a large arrangements committee. Miss Rosemary Quinn will comment on the styles shown and Mrs. James Kavanaugh will provide music. ST. ANTHONY OF !PADUA, FALL RIVER The parish CYO has scheduled a mystery ride that will [eave the church yard at 8:30 Saturday morning, July 19. Refreshments, games and swimming will constitute the major projects of the day.
Delays Report on School Aid BALTIMORE (NC)-Nonpublic schools in Maryland will have to wait at least until 1971 before their pleas for state financial aid receive any action from Gov. Marvin Mandel. Dr. Otto F. Kraushaar, chairman of the governor's commission which is studying the matter, said that, at best, his group could give the 1970 legislature no more than "a tentative statement or report, nothing definitive." Gov. Mande[ named the special 17-member commission last March asking it to determine how much aid, if any, could be given to non-public schools with-
Teacher Resigns From FaclUlty
The parish Lucky Seventh annua[ Summer festival will take place Saturday and Sunday at Urban's Grove, Tiverton. Saturday's program will begin at 10 A.M. with an auction. There will be dancing from 8 to midnight with the Billy Bellina band. Sunday's schedule will begin at noon, continuing until 10 o'clock, with dancing from 3 to 8 with Johnny Sowa's Polka Dots. Cars will be blessed at 2 Sunday afternoon. Free busses will run from noon to 10 Sunday from the Fall River Shopping Center to the festival site. In addition to the special events, attractions will include entertainment, games, booths and prize awards, with the ,grand prize a 21 inch color television set. Polish and American food will be served. Festival chairman is Stephen Kulpa, aided by co-chairmen George Wrobel and Mrs. Alice Gromada. Admission to the picnic grove will be free and proceeds from the festival will benefit the school building fund. The Saturday evening Mass fulfilling the Sunday obligation is celebrated weekly at 7:15. A chicken pie supper will be servea at 6 Saturday night.
The annual procession honoring Our Lady of Fatima, sponsored by the Holy Rosary Sodality, will be held at 7 Saturday night, Sept. 13. The sodality's feastday Mass will be celebrated at 8 Sunday morning, Sept. 14.
out violating constitutional restrictions. He set no deadline ,for the commission to complete its findings, but there was some expectation a report could be comp[eted in time for consideration by the assembly convening next January. Dr. Kraushaar said he is still attempting to hire a staff and does not plan to schedule the commission's first meeting until August or September. Public hearings will be held next Fall or Winter. "The governor wanted a thorough study, not a hasty one," Dr. Kraushaar stated. One reason for the delay was said to be the resignation of Dr. Milton Eisenhower, initially UsuaUly Best named by Mandell to head the Happiness and \:,irtue rest commission. His successor, Dr. upon each other; the best are Kraushaar, has been working not only the happiest, but the full time on a similar study being conducted by the Danforth Founhappiest are usually the best. -Bulwer-Lytton dation.
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Warns Government Time Running Out SANTA FE (NC)-Because of the mounting unrest, violence and protests among students and workers in Argentina the government's options for meeting the country's problems are running out, Coadjutor Archbishop Vicente Faustino Zazpe of Santa Fe warned here. BAPTISTRY GATE: New bronze gates in the baptistry of the His statement followed the chapel at St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt., represents two ar:'d a half years of patient labor by architect Richard B. Frazier announcement of martial law by of Burlington, Vt., who designed it. Frazier first tried wood, then - Interior Minister Gen. Francisco plaster and finally clay and sheet-lead to make a full-size model Imaz after several weeks of protest and violence that hit several which was converted into a sand mold and then cast into bronze. parts of the country. The pressure of the disturbances earlier caused President Juan Carlos Ongania to dismiss his cabinet and promise better wages for workers. Ongani,a said Illinois Catholic Conference Includes in June that his goverment will . effect "the necessary changes in State's Six Dioceses a new step for the revolution," CHICAGO (NC) - The six with secular and governmental Imaz 'said that those seeking Catholic diocese of Illinois have organizations in promoting the a solution of problems by abanestablished the Illinois Catholic social and moral welfare of the doning the course of moderation and restraint should fully underConference, a permanent agency people of the state." to provide regular communicastand the danger of extremist An example of how the bishops positions. He asked the cooperation as well as a sharing of recan take action through -their sponsibility among bishops, tion of the Church in the present new cooperative agency is found crisis. clergy and laity. in a letter dated July 9 from An 18-member committee of ICC, over the bishops' signatures, Sure Reliance priests, laymen and bishops last to all Illinois priests regarding The people are the only sure week completed the job of draw- the recent legislative defeat of reliance for the preservation of ing up a new constitution for the state aid to non-public schools. our Iiberty.-Jefferson. advisory body after five months' work.
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The conference officially came into being July 2, when its new constitution was accepted by John Cardinal Cody of Chicago and promulgated by the bishops of Chicago, Belleville, Springfield,Peoria, Joliet and Rockford. Second Aim ICC replaces the Illinois Catholic Welfare Committee, a more informal means of cooperation among Church administrators and institutions for the past 35 years. Besides enabling the six dioceses to "act mutually and cooperatively in matters of 路interdiocesan or state-wide interest," according to its constitution, ICC has a second aim: "To cooperate with other religious groups and
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·Says. Protests. of StUJdents Not Suffic~ent~y St~tft~ rnng By Barbara Ward One of the most encouraging features in the developed world over the last two years has been the emergence' of student protest. Today's students are the most numerous, the most fortunate, the most the whole student protest as affluent and probably the simply a symptom of alarming best educated group ever to mental derangement. Or one can.. more seriously, dearrive at the University level.
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A great majority are fairly cer- nounce the anarchy of some of tain to go on to seCUl'e jobs and the groups. It is difficult to listen to critics who wish to see the' to the possibilwhole social order destroyed beity of influence , fore they are ready to suggest and power in alternatives. their expanding Yet all these reactions, howsocieties. ever understandable, miss the It might' have point: The students are trying to been easy and say something valid to the adult it would cersupporters. and defenders of the tainly have existing social order. When they seemed normal speak of their hatred of war, of if they had racial injustice and exploitation, taken so much they are speaking about factual good fortune evils which Western society, at for granted and this moment, is hardly bestirring settled down to prepare t emselves for a life, in planetary itself to cure. Dissatisfactions Accelerate terms, of remarKable privilege. Besides, they are raising their They'have not done so. They are a deeply troubled generation voices as a sort of warning sigand a remarkably large number nal of the pressures and crises of them are asking urgent ques- that lie ahead. We are witnessing, tions about society and their role these days a sort of acceleration in it. They ask about poverty of the whole world's dissatisfacand injustice which still shadow tions and unrest. Two decades the lives of fellow citizens. They have passed since the forma~ beask about war and racism and ginning of the international efthe maldistribution of resources fort of assistance with President Truman's Point Four Program. at the world level. They question the basic' as- Nearly a decade has passed since sumption of the marI<et society the virtual completion of the oriented toward ever larger process of political decolonizaconsumption. They want less tion. During these years, the devel.huckstering and more truth, less "keeping up with the Joneses" oping peoples have made conand more honest personal rela- siderable economic and social tions, less strident competition, progress. They have been growing twice as fast as they did more human respect. under colonial rule. But it has Prophetic Word·· In short, they are by instinct also become more and more clear moralists and reformers when that the contradictions in their they might so easily have been society-between rising populaaccepters and exploiters. Thus tion, stagnant agriculture, urban they suggest that the tremendous migration and growing unemhunger for justice which Western ploy~ent-are not solved by the society, acquired from its Biblical magic wand of political indepenorigins is still not satisfied. We dence and demand an even should be grateful that in the .greater and more sustained efmidst of our successful consumer fort of economic and social desocieties we can still hear, if you velopmegt in the coming decade. Yet it is also just at this mowill, "out of the mouths of babes and sucklings," the pro- ment that the international' assista~ce effort shows signs of phetc word. Of course, it is easy to dismiss running out of steam. This is not this interpretation as simple ro- because. resources 'are unavailmanticism. The students, one can able. At the 'end of the years of argue, are beset by quite 'person- continuous boom, the Atlantic al problems-the draft or racial nations have '~ever been so prosperous. self-as~ertion in America, overIt is simply that they have crowding and under-teaching in Europe - and are reacting ac- "grown weary of well doing," spent their money on· other cordingly. Or one can take up the vio- things from wars to 'super highinflation lence and obscenity of the para- ways,experienced which they mean to check by no~d mi~ori.ty - who apparently enJoy pinning elderly and de- curbing public,. not private, fenseless professors against their spending and are now more conown blackboards - and dismiss cerned with their own problems of excess than other peoples' problems of penury. Inside their societies, it is the same story. Christian Brothers It is not automobile sales but the Elect Provincial Job Corps that is cut to squeeze LAFAYETTE (NC) - Brother excess spending out of the AmerFrancis Beck, F.S.C., is new pro- ican market. vincial of the New Orleans-Santa It thus looks as though, as the Fe province of the Brothers of 1970s begin, we shall be doing the Christian Schools, the first less about. problems that conprovincial to be elected by the tinue to grow. Injustice will inmembership. , crease, counter-effort shrink. Brother Francis, a native of Thus the students' voice can be Denver, succeeds Brother Ra- interI?reted as a sort of "early phael Bodin, F.S.C., who has warning system," presaging vasts~rved in the post for the past ly more uneasy and crisis-ridden five years. The province includes times ahead.' In fact, the chief schools conducted by the criticism that one can make of Brothers in Louisiana, Texas, their protest is that it is not New Mexico and Colorado. explicit or startling enough - a Province headquarters is located point to which we will return in Lafayette. next week.
NEW AFRICAN BISHOP: Father Raphael Simon Ndingi, right, who has spent the past year in Rochester, N.Y., in pastoral work and study at St. John Fisher College, has been named by Pope Paul VI to be first bishop of the newly created diocese of Machakos in his native Kenya. He is congratulated by Father Charles J. Lavery, C.S.B., ,president of the college. NC Photo.
New D'ioceses Pope Paul Names' Africa-Born Bishops
To Three Sees VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Catholics. There are 35 priests, Paul VI has established three five of whom are Africans. African dioceses, one each in Father Raphael Ndingi was Gabon, Kenya and Upper Volta, named bishop of Machakos. He and has appointed Africa-born was born in Mwala, Kenya, in bishops to each new See. 1931. H~ was ordained in 1961. In Gabon, he set up the dio- He has been secretary general of cese of Oyem with territory Catholic schools in Kenya, and taken from the Libreville archdi- has studied sociology in the ocese, to which the new .diocese United States. will be suffragan. Oyem has a In Upper Volta, Pope Paul espopulation of 150,000 of whom tablished the diocese of Kaya more than 67,000 are Catholics. with territory taken from .the There are nine African priests Ouagadougou archdiocese and serving in the diocese and 19 the Koupela diocese, making the .foreign priests. new diocese suffragan to OuagaThe Pope named Libreville's dougou. Kaya has a population Auxiliary Bishop Francis Ndong of 353,000, of whom 3,425 are to be bishop of Oyem. Bishop Catholics. There are one African Ndong was born in Nzamalige, priest and 12 White Fathers Gabon, in 1906. He was ordained' serving the diocese. April 17, 1938, and was nained Father Constantin Guirma, auxiliary bishop Nov. 15, 1960. 'vicar general of Ouagadougou, In Kenya, Pope Paul estab- vyas named bishop of Kaya, lished the diocese of Machakos where he was born in 1920. He with' territory taken from the was ordained in 1946. Nairobi archdiocese, to which the new diocese will/be suffragan. Machakos has a population Growers File Suit of 600,000, of whom· 53,300 are Against Union "FRESNO (NC):-A group, of 81 grape growers filed an anti-trust suit against the United Farm Workers Organization Committee COLUMBUS' (NC) - The dio- AFL-CIO in U.S. 'District Court cesan policy of not charging tui- here, seeking $75 million damtion in elementary schools, ex- ages and an injunction against cept for non-parishioners, has the ,union's nationwide boycott of been announced by Father Pat- table grapes. rick Sorohan, chancellor of the The suit makes a charge' Columbus Diocese. He said the against the UFWQC of conspireason is "to establish the prin- racy to organize unwilling farm ciple that the support of Cath- workers, coercion to boycott .olic elementary education is the sales of grapes and conspiracy obligation of all parishioners." with retail outlets to prevent The chancery also announced handling of grapes in markets. the salaries of teaching Sisters in Jerome Cohen, attornei for the state will be raised to $2500 union head Cesar Chavez, leader per year by 1971. In the Colum- of the three-year-old strike and bus diocese, Sisters 'will receive union organizing campaign $1800 in 1969, an increase of among the grape pickers, called $400. They will get $2100 in 1970, the suit the growers' "annual atand $2500 in 1971.. \ tempt to scare the chain stores."
Diocese Has New School Policy
VATICAN CITY (NC)-French theologian Jean Cardinal Danielou warns that persons trying to diminish the authority of the pope in favor of the collegial authority of the bishops run the risk of seriously damaging both. In L'Osservatore Romano Vatican City daily-of' July 11, ,Cardinal Danielou observed: "Some persons imprudently and in absolute contradiction to the acts of' th'e (Second Vatican) Council are placing in opposition episcopal collegiality and the personal infallibility of the bishop of Rome." The cardinal cited reactions to Pope Paul VI's. encyclical on birth control, Humanae' Vitae, and his Credo of the People of God of last year. One now runs the risk of seeing Christians divide themselves into two groups: those who would derive the authority of the bishops from the pontiff and those who would derive the authority of the pontiff from the bishops. "But what is being risked even more gravely by these oppositions is not so much the authority of the pope but that of the bishops. In any case it is the authority of the Church, th;;lt authority to which the Cnristian people spontaneously and rightly give total trust, whose weakening is being risked." Cardinal Danielou affirmed: "Nothing is now more important than to bar the road to those who attempt to' stir up this opposition between the papacy and the episcopate."
Mission Doctors Elect President LOS ANGELES (NC) - Dr. James Carey, who served three years at the Catholic mission hospital in Driefontein, Rhodesia, has been elected president of the Los Angeles Mission Doctors Association. Dr. Carey, while in Rhodesia, conceived and carried out groundwork for establishing a flying doctor service conducted from Driefontein. He established a net of 10 landing strips in an area equivalent to the area between Los Angeles and S'an Francisco. Dr. Carey said this year the a~s.ociation would send four physIcIans overseas to the missions.
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Bishop to Revive Priests' Senate
Thurs., July 17; 1969
Refugee Relief Agencies See Funds Crisis \
WASHINGTON (NC) Representatives of .14 agencies concerned with refugee relief in the Middle East predict grave consequences in human suffering and political disturbances if the impending deficit in United Nations Relief and Work Agencies for Palestine (UNRWA) funds is not overcome by increased governmental and private contributions. At a meeting with U. S. Undersecretary of State Elliot Richardson· following a two·,day emergency session here, they urged the United States government to exert world leadership by increasing its own allocation to. UNRWA. The spokesman for the group was Dr. John H. Davis, a former commissioner general of UNRWA, who is now president of American Near East Refugee Aid, .Inc., a coordinating and fund-raising organization active in relief work for Arab refugees. The group presented to Richardson a four-page statement by the com1J1issioner general· of UNRWA, Dr. Laurence Michelmore reporting that without increased contributions, UNRWA's budget this year would fall $3.5 million short of its $43 million requirements.
HOME FROM MISSIONS: Arthur Hiraga and family are home in Southern California after three vears a-;Lav Mission Helpers in Bolivia. They aidedOkinawans resettled there and also worked with a Maryknoll parish in Bolivia doing, teaching, youth work and technical maintenance. From left, they are Madeleine, Arthur, Ann, Mrs. Mary and Martin. NC Photo.
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BUFFALO (NC) - . Bishop James A. McNulty, who suspended the Buffalo diocesan Priests' Senate last May, announced that the organization will be revived -with new membership. The bishop said the decision to continue the senate was the "majority opinion" expressed at a meeting of the diocesan board of consultors. He also said he received 217 letters in favor of continuation of the senate and added: "I am grateful to my brother priests . . . who have shared their thoughts with me." Bishop McNulty said a new senate will be elected in accordance with the constitution and that Father Francis S. McCormiCk, who was senate president, would arrange for the elections. In suspending the original senate last Spring, Bishop McNulty charged, among other things, that it was dominated by one clique of priests in the diocese. He also said he wanted "more time to acquire new perspectives regarding the work of the senate" and time "to consider a backlog of resolutions and recommendations" submitted to it. "The mind of the Church is crystal clear with reference to a· senate of priests as a consultative group, who by their advice, would assist the bishop in the government of the diocese," Bishop McNulty said in a letter to priests announcing the senate's revival.
NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Amer- emphasized that broadcasters formation, gave some "rules of ica and the world will begin to have needs, and thus' demands, the road" for public relations understand the words and deeds far different from those of the and media information officers. Sullivan, director of press re- Gifts of the Catholic Church only press. to Fordham Communications directors, b~ lations, pointed out the imporDr. Michelmore said the needs when its spokesmen and commuof the refugees for international nicators become skilled in dis- learning how radio and TV news tance of planning, not only for . At All-Time High assistance are· now greater than .seminating complete, accurate and special events departments major events such as meetings NEW YORK (NC) - Fordham at any other time since the es- and significant information, a, can function, can do a better job of the National Conference of l!niv.ersity rec'eived anaIl:~\m.e tablishment of Israei21'· years panel of public rela'tions experts of servicing Church leader~ Catholic Bishops, !:>utalso to be one-year fecoia fiigh of :$5,306,: agreed here. whose words and a~tions must prepared to deliver the best ex- 950.82 in cash gifts during the ago. The key to obtaining that be presented clearly and with perts in a given field when· the fiscal year which ended June 30. UNRWA has the responsibility competence and capability is meaning, if the Church is to needs arise. The total compares to the of administering relief to the development of a' network of di- carry out its teaching apostolate, Bayless; in charge of special 1967-68 record of $2,424,273.87 Palestinian refugees who were ocesan directors who understand he said. projects, gave guidelines for a obtained from the same sources, homeless after 1948, and is at- mass communications, especially He described some of the fun- good informations office, and which include alumni, friends of tempting to meet the additional television, the panel told the stu- damentals of electronic report- some "dos and don't" that pro,needs of the 1967 rdugees as dents of the Institute for Reli- ing and progralpming, and de- fessionals in other areas have the university, corporations and foundations. The totals do not well. Shortage of funds will nec- gious Communications. clared: "The whole philosophy developed to keep their pro- include research grants, governessitate cutbacks ·in agency ser'The Institute is being con- and approach of religious pro- grams on the track. ment grants for buildings and vices including food, health, ducted by Loyola University's gramming is undergoing revoluprograms, gifts in kind, or shelter and education. At pres- Department 'of Communications tion, and' we 'had better be prepledge~. ,ent, assistance for theBe services and the COmmunications Depart- pared to not only cope with it averages 10 cents per capita per ment of the United States Cath- but be ahead of it." day. olic Conference. John Sullivan and Glen Bayless of the USCC Division of In-Information Network Many of the representatives CLEVELAND (NC) - National from the voluntary agencies parThe students - priests, ReliApostolate of Maronites is the ticipating in the confeJ'ence were gious and laity-are engaged in 1B0st~)n Archdiocese new name for the National Assoengaged in early relief efforts in six weeks of classroom work, ciation of Maronites. The change the Middle East, prior to the es- laboratory training, and on-the- Deficit $3.6 Million ,was made at the lay group's On your savings allowed tablishment of UNRWA, and job performing using the faciliBOSTON (NC) - The Cath- sixth annual convention here. by Federal regulation continue to support and supple- ties of New Orleans' radio and olic archdiocese of Boston is "in John Cardinal Dearden of Dement the vital work of UNRWA. TV stations. the red" to the extent of $3.6 troit spoke informally at the con'-'Because the airwaves - and million, according to Richard vention banquet, which was the Among the agencies making highlight of primarily social the statement is the Catholic now communications satellites Cardinal Cushing. He said he mailed a letter to meetings attended by 700 people. Near East Welfare' Association. -have eliminated all communiINVESTMENT The organization's executive sec- cations boundaries, there 'are no all· pastors of the 300-plus There are about 160,000 MaronSAVINGS retary, .Msgr. John Nolan, is 'local stories' concerning the acts churches in the nation's second ite Catholics in the United States CERTIFICATES also president of the Pontifical and deeds of the Church and its - largest archdiocese showing anBesides changing their name spokesmen," said Warren W. ticipated expenditures of $12,- to one which they felt wou,ld Per annum, when on deposit six months or Mission for Palestine. longer. Minimum balance $3,000, additions Schwed, director of the USC.C 060,933 and anticipated revenue make. it immediately apparent In multiples of $1,000. No Notice Required. Other agencies represented are Communications Department.. Your funds available when needed. of $8,377,438. that they are the lay arm of the the Church World Service of the "What is said and done in The Cardinal noted that the Maronite-rite Catholic Church, Systematic Savings I. oL National Council of Churches, Cleveland or Dubuque is instant- budget does not include any type Lutheran Worid Relief, Inc., ly seen and heard in New York of major coristructiOJl or repair, the group elected officers and se- Accountspayingupto Earn· bonus dividends by saving 8 fixed Syrian Orth'odox Churr,h, Armen- and Oskosh, and, indeed, in all nor Catholic charities, expenses lected St. Louis for next year's , amount monthly. meeting.. ian Apostolic Church of Ame'rica, continents of the world." at the parish level and other James J. Elasmar of Agawan Mennonite Central Committee, Regular Savings Thatds why, he said, directors costs. was re-elected president and Accounts now earn American Friends Service Com747G Cardinal Cushing, explained Kenneth .P. Massif, West RoxBoard of serving the Church's institutions, mittee, . National Old fashioned passbook flexibility. Save any particularly the diocesan chanthat the highest cash requireamount, any time. bury, was re-elected first vice YMCA, World YMCA and Amerceries, "must be frank, fast and ment was $6.1 million for "debt president. AI/ dividends credited and compounded ican Middle East Rehabilitation. quarterly. Deposit by the 10th of any month, fair and fully aware of broad- service" and next highest was earn from the lit. Write or phone for detaill. casting as well as print media." $1.6 million for subsidy of cenDividends exempt from Itate tax.' SAFETY-savings insured safe by an agency If that is achieved, he pre- tral and other schools. Names Observers of the U. S. Government. dicted, then, diocesan communiSAVE by MAIL-We process promptly and WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope cators can become the Church's pay postage both ways. SHEET METAL Paul VI appointed Msgr. Edward information network to inform Ask Work Stoppage G. Murray, pastor of Sacred all people, Catholic and nonCARACAS (NC) - The Latin J. TESER, Prop. Heart church, Roslindale, and Dr. Catholic. American, Christian Workers RESIDENTIAL Savings and Loan Association William A. Lynch ·of Brookline 'Federation (CLASC) has asked INDUSTRIAL New Approach' of FALL· RIVER to be observers at the World for a 'work stoppage throughout COMMERCIAL Assembly of the World Health Assets over $45,000,000 Charles E. Reilly, executive Latin America as. a protest 253 Cedar St., New Bedford Organization being held in Bos- director of the National Catholic against the regime of Juan Carlos 1 No. Main St., Fall River, Mass. 993-3222 ton this week. Phone 674-4661 - Zip: 02722 Office for Radio and Television, Ongania of Argentina. .#,##",.".~~#""#",.,,,,~
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Missouri Prelate Explains 'Reasons For Resignation
Protest Handling of Cleric Cases PITTSBURGH (NC)-A group of 185 Catholics here, including seven priests and 69 nuns, has protested against the manner in which Archbishop Luigi Rimondi Apostolic Delegate in the United States, has acted in certain cases involving American clergymen. . The group sought an audience with Archbishop Raimondi when he came here for the installation of Bishop Vincent M. Leonard of Pittsburgh, but were unable to meet with the archbishop. The group later held a press conference at which it was ex-
JEFFERSoN CITY (NC)Bishop Joseph M. Marling, C.PP.S., resigned as bishop of Jefferson City convinced he was not "equal in physical, mental and nervous energy" to the demands of the diocese, and convinced it would be for the "real gain" of all concerned. In a candid letter to priests of the diocese, the 65-year-old bishop said' he wished to elaborate on the reasons for his resignation, which was attributed simply to reasons of health in the official announcement earlier from the Apostolic Delegation. He also revealed that he first asked to "surrender the reins" more than two years ago but had been persuaded to stay on. "I pleaded again, and more earnestly, on Feb. 21, 1969-the day of my 40th anniversary of ordination," Bishop Marling wrote the priests. "I stated simply that I did not feel equal * 0) " to the demands of this truly missionary diocese. As only one significant fact, I noted that I had driven my car nearly 50 thousand miles in the past year. "I pointed out that I had been in a position of authority and weighty responsibility not just these 12 years in Jefferson City, but for 31 years-as provincial superior (of the Precious Blood Fathers), auxiliary bishop, and then Ordinary (bishop). I argued that under these circumstances fresh ideas, the hallmark of true leadership in these critical days, can become progressively fewer." Notes Problems "My position," wrote Bishop Marling, "was summed up in a single query, which I here repeat: What does one do if he is convinced, at 65, that it would be to the real gain of those who compose the diocese if he were to abdicate in favor of one younger and more vigorous? Does he just go on? Or does he ask to be replaced, painful though the move may be?" Bishop Marling told the priests he had been haunted by the fear that he might be "merely quitting, running from mounting difficulties." He noted that problems are on the rise here as elsewhere in the Church including the departure of priests from the ministry and the closing of Catholic schools. "If obstacles frighten me, however, they would probably have exacted their toll when we were struggling together to lay the foundation for our new diocese," the bishop wrote. "To say that we began in 1956 with nothing is no exaggeration. The diocese still has many needs, but >I< 0) " is free of debt. And we have eI:ected 25 new churches, 29 new school buildings, 30 new rectories and 16 new convents."
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COMMUNICATIONS INSTITUTE: Father William Muller of Evansville, Ind. tapes a television show at the Religious Communications Institute at Loyola University, New Orleans. NC Photo.
Take. Court Action St. Louis Catholics Get Injunction Against Church Disturbances
ST. LOUIS (NC}-U.S. District as damaging, defacing or marring Court Judge James Meredith has the sanctuary be prohibited. issued a temporary injunction, None of these acts, however, prohibiting disruption of worship have been done in demonstrations at the cathedral. in St. Louis Cathedral here. The suit also asks that the The judge scheduled July 21 for a hearing on a permanent in- plaintiffs be protected in their junction to prevent demonstra- "freedoms, rights, privileges, imtors from entering the church munities and equal protection of the laws and their right to hold and causing disturbances. John Cardinal Carberry of St. and use their church properly." The路 action by the cardinal, the Louis, Father Rowland E. Gannon, cathedral pastor, and a cathedral rector and parishioners number of parishioners instituted came in the wake of a similar court action by a Protestant the suit. The suit requested a temporary group. Earlier the Central Presbyterrestraining order against the militant civil rights group, ACTION, ian church in suburban Clayton and its members, and a second obtained a Federal Court injuncorganization called the Black tion against BLF from disrupting church services. Liberation Front (BLF). BLF members have not disrupted services at the cathedral Legislature Studies as have ACTION- members, but mention of BLF was put in the Sex Education suit as a preventive measure. TRENTON (NC)-Called back During Mass in July three for an emergency session to conyoung blacks were arrested at sider legislation it failed to enact the cathedral when a scuffle earlier to provide help for urban occurred in the aisle as they areas, the New Jersey legislature demonstrated. It was the seventh ignored the demand and took up straight Sunday that militants such matters as sex education. have demonstrated at area Gov. Richard J. Hughes had churches. It was the fifth straight called the emergency meeting Sunday of demonstrations at the with a blast at the RepublicanCzech Court Clears cathedral. controlled legislature's disregard Sisters of Charges ACTION has presented a list for urban needs. He sought acBONN (NC)-Four Czechoclo- of economic and political de- tion on a $47 million package. vakian Sisters, one of them a mands to the churches in St. Both the Senate and the Asformer superior of her commun- Louis. BLF has demanded repara- sembly voted several times to ity in the country, have now tions from churches to the Negro suspend the rules to consider varbeen cleared of all charges community. ious pieces of legislation on an against them, according to word The suit asks that such acts emergency basis. But they failed received here by the German to act on the urban package. news agency KNA. The Senate, however, by voice Human Equation The action took place in Brno, vote, took up the controversy where a court "rehabilitated" the People work for people, not over sex education and authornuns, who' had been sentenced in for companies. A worker's regard ized a Joint Legislative Educa1959' to prison terms ranging for his supervisor will affect his tion Committee to study the confrom one to four years for al- opinion of his employer. Produc- troversy and report in the Fall. leged conspiracy against the tion is related to attitude, so Proponents of the study said Czechoslovak communist regime much so that an organization emergency action was necessary and for neglecting their super- which disregards this human so the committee could hold pubvisory obligations. Their chaplain. equation will not achieve as lic hearings and complete its Father Dominik Pecek, was also much as it could achieve. work before school resumed in .c1eared of the same accusations. -Griffin September.
plained their complaints had been mailed to Archbishop Raimondi-. The protest centers around what the group's views as the archbishop's role in the reputed attempt to "exile" Bishop James P. Shannon after he disclosed he had submitted his resignation as auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis because of differences with Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control; the handling of the Msgr. Ivan IIIich case, and the handling of the case of the dissenting priests of the Washington archdiocese.
What Would Christ Do? Many times in life we must ask ourselves: What would Christ do? How would He react in this or that situation? The missionary also asks this question many times over! Faced with discouragement or difficulties, he, too, attempts to learn what Christ would do. He, too, wants to imitate Christ as well as he can. One foreign missionary asks this question in a letter to our office: "It is now four and a half months since I arrived in Japan, in a new city of 150,000 citizens. What does one do to spread the Faith among so many people, for whom Christ is just a vague name in their history books? WHAT WOULD CHRIST DO? "No doubt He could gather great crowds aroun(l Him as He gave thrilling sermons. His very presence on the streets, in the busses, in the trains, His sanctity and charity, would inspire many to follow Him, which I cannot. His night long vigUs with His Father would reap thousands of converts. "I cannot really do what Christ would do. All I can do is TRY to imitate Him, and in His chapel, morning and night, plead with Him to rain down His special love on Japan, to bring more and more to know Him." But as the letter continues, it is clear that this missionary is certainly following the example of Christ. Armed solely with his gospel and the love of Christ in his heart, he is proceeding on a missionary task for mankind. "The Wind of the Holy Spirit is gently breathing over us,". he writes. "Our little flock of 15 Christians has increased to 30. On Holy Saturday I had the privilege of baptising our first Christians, a mother and her two little girls. It was one of the most joyful baptisms I have ever performed. One new Christian, Mary Magdalene, was so happy that tears of joy were streaming down her face." This missionary has certainly taken up the challenge of a life in imitation of Christ. Can we do any less? Can we read of poverty and suffering, of illiteracy and disease, and remain unconcerned? Can we, as followers of Christ, know that there are two billion people who have not even heard His name, and remain indifferent to the missionary call of the Church? Of course not! Let us, then, look to the example of Christ in His compassion and concern for mankind. Let us pray and sacrifice for the missions. Let us do what Christ路 would do! Don't forget: THE MISSIONS NEED YOUR HELP IN THE SUMMER TOO! _"" __ ,_""
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 17, 1969
PHILADELPHIA PORT CHAPLAIN SERVES THOUSANDS: St. Peter's Chapel on Pier 98, Philadelphia, is the site of a 10 'Mass every Sunday mornil"!g and holy day for longshoremen and mariners. Father Thomas W. Wassel, port chaplain as well as mid-city pastor, prepares'for Mass. Right, a shipboard sick call brings
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PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Father Thomas· W. Wassel, now pastor of St. Philip Neri parish, has for 20 years doubled as chaplain of the largest fresh water port in the world. His waterfront "par"ears reported people of his ish" extends roughly from Wilmission area like "renewed nuns mington, Del., to Fairless Hills, in traditional habits." Pa. Bishop Francis McSorley, O.M.I. In his 20 years as port chapof the Jolo vicariate apostolic, a lain, he has befriended countless predominantly Moslem area in seamen and administered the the southern Philippines, related Last Sacraments to dying -men on a visit here that five Medical aboard ships. He has also shown Mission Sisters in his area re- the knack of touching the souls ported their congregation had of thousands of men who handle approved making the religious the Port of Philadelphia's $2 bil. habit ·optional. lion annual cargo and the, hun"They asked my permission to dreds of thousands of merchant wear forms of dress other than seamen who pass through the the traditional habit," Bishop port each year aboard its 12,000 McSorley said, "and I told them, ' vessels. 'You don't need my permission, Father Wassel's permanent but why don't you 'ask the peo- "parishioners" ar.e the checkers, ple what they want. After all, pier guards, longshoremen and your renewal is designed to per- stevedores who load and unload mit you to relate better to them." the 50 million tons of cargo handled by the port. His transient Relate Better. flock includes, for example, an Within a few days, the bishop Irish lad, or a Liberian sailor, or, said, the Sisters reported the a native of Goa. people had voted unanimously for retaining the traditional habit. ~o@~~s® U'@ li)osdose "Now," Bishop McSorley said, "the Medical Mission Sisters lFoll'ileJllroda~ Stl'aiildlQUilg wear their habit in their normal. , PITTSBURGH JNC) - Bishop work and change to a uniform Vincent M. Leonard of Pittsburgh skirt-and-blouse combination for has announced he plans to make special visits to neighboring is- a public accounting of the diolands where they must wade cese's financial standing. ashore over coral reefs. Addressing the Diocesan Coun"In that way, the traditional cil of Catholic Women, Bishop habit does not get in their way Leonard said: on difficult assignments and it "You probably have read in the actually' helps them to relate public press that some archdiobetter to the people they serve ceses, notably New York and in their normal work.. "Sometimes," Bishop McSorley . Boston, have published financial said, "we say we're doing what reports." "It is my, intention," he conthe people want when we haven't tinued, "that the financial report even asked them." now being prepared by the Finance Office will be given to Induce Effort the synod commission on finance, Too much attention has been property and planning and evenpaid to making education attrac- tually to the diocesan Pastoral tive by smoothing the path as Council, and published for' the compared with inducing strenu- information of the faithful of the . ous. yol,untary ~f.fort. =-Lowell ·diocese.~'':. ~ ~ <:
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Father Wassel lumps them all under the all-inclusive term "my waterfront guys." He has organized -the Rudder Club for waterfront Catholics, which he calls his "right arm." He has also won the respect of many men of other faiths who are proud to share in his work.
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For Rell1ewal LOUDONVILLE (NC)-Seventy-six representatives of the Franciscan Holy Name province concluded a 16-day chapter meeting at Siena College here in New' York State after putting finishing touches to a master plan for renewal and progress in the second largest jurisdiction of the order in the world. The plan is designed, it was explained, to create a, 20th century vision of Franciscanism, combining the best elements of the Franciscan past with the most promising features of the Franciscan present, in order to fashion a Franciscan future in which the' fraternity of the order will be a more effective witness and servant to the constantly emerging needs of the people of God. Proposals approved by the chapter call for: spiritual renewal stemming from personal and communal prayer centered on the liturgy and Scripture; strengthening cOPlmunity life with a heightened sense of fraternity and mutual understanding; continuing education and formation, from the start and throughout a friar's life, for the purpose of eliminating polarization and increasing effectiveness in apostolic work; clear witness to poverty in every possible way, including added service to the poor; efforts to 'improve performance in customary ministries while reaching out to new forms of community service in ecumenism, race relations, the inner . city, and other areas.
Father Wassel began working as port -chaplain before he was officially given the duty. As assistant pastor at a nearby parish, he offered Mass each Sunday in St. Peter's Chapel, overlooking the Delaware River on bustling Pier 98, and cared for the spiritual needs of iile men who worked the sprawling South Wharves area. He still offers Mass on Sundays and holydays at Pier 98. In addition, he hears confessions "anywh~re there's room," conducts Stations of the Cross during Lent, answers emergency calls, and roams the waterfront, holding innumerable little private chats with men whose problems range over the whole spectrum of human frailty-domestic troubles, labor inequities, financial difficulties, moral woes, aching loneliness, spiritual crises, long neglect of church and sacraments. In his office at St. Philip Neri ,rectory, Father Wassel has numerous plaques and assorted souvenirs of his. years as port chaplain, including' a plaque which describes him as "Philadelphia Waterfront's Man of the Year."
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Illinois Parochial Schools Continue CHICAGO (NC)-IIIinois parochial schools cannot relax their efforts "to maintain and to raise the high standards traditional in Catholic education,". despite the state's failure to pass legislation aiding nonpublic schools. That was the conclusion of the bishops' committee of the Illinois Catholic Conference in a letter to the state's clergy. "With about 440,000 pupils pre-registered for Catholic schools next September and with thousands of teachers under contract, we have a serious problem," the six bishops wrote. "With state aid cut out of 1969-70 school budgets," they continued, "we will have to call upon our people for larger contributions but we fear they will have little more to contribute after they have paid their taxes and higher prices resulting from ,new taxes on corporati.ons." "In each of our dioceses we will have to take stock of our resources and do our best," they asserted.
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Francis Thompson Letters Reveal Genius, Wit, Humor
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By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy
ALTOONA (NC) - Improved Dwellings for Altoona, Inc., has received permission from the Federal Housing Authority to construct 85 units of garden type apartments here in Pennsylvania. Construction on the housing complex, known as Ever Green Manor, will begin July 23, and is scheduled for completion in 1970. According to Father John J. Lafferty, president of IDA, the $1,314,000 project involves four . acres for low and middle income housing. Of the 85 units, 20 per cent will be for low income families ($3000 to $5,200) who will receive rent supplement based on family income. This section will insure an economic integration, regardless of race, color or creed. The balance of the apartments are being constructed for use by middle income families. The rent structure, whic.h was set up by the federal government, will eventually dissipate the FHA loan over a period of 40 years, thus rendering IDA owner of the project at that time. IDA includes the diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, the Lutheran Community, the Methodist Community, the United Church of Christ, the Jewish Community and the Negro Community. The group was organized in 1968 to provide housing for ,low income families who were being displaced by urban renewal.
Francis Thompson was 26 years old, a penniless vagrant on the streets of London and already taking drugs, when, in 1887, he submitted an essay and some poems to Merry England, a magazine edited by Wilfred and Alice Meynell. He did not meet the Meynells until the following says precisely what he intended. He is not, he proudly affirms, year, and, in the interval, he a syllable-counter. His poetry, he had attempted suicide. For says, displays "me, in every re-
the next two decades, until his death in 1907, the Meynells helped him get his poetry and prose published and looked after him as well as they could, or as well as he would let them. His letters to them from 1887 to 1907, make up the bulk, of The Letters of Francis Thompson, edited with notes by John Evangelist Walsh (Hawthorn, 70 5th Ave., New York, N. Y. 10011 $10). Other letters included are to' Coventry Patmore, the Meynell's daughter Monica, puolishers and editors, and some literary people. Genius Through Gloom This correspondence shows that Thompson was almost always ill, that he seldom had any funds at all, that he relapsed into drug-taking from time to time, that he was constantly harassed by insecurity and worry. Yet genius glints through the gloom, as well as wit and humor. He is seen to be preoccupied with' his writing:Cenerally, 'even while bedridden, he has some work in hand, even though it be no more than book reviews, and his unhappiness is most punishing when, periodically, he finds himself unable to write. He is delighted by praise, especially that from authorities like Mrs. Meynell, Patmore or Robert Browning. He is aware of his own capacity, and in 1893, says, "I absolutely think my poetry is 'greater' than any work by a new poet which has appeared since Rosetti." Riot of Imagery Critics draw scorn from him, as when he says, "Your modern art-critic, like your modern literary critic, thinks that art and his moustache budded together." Yet when people whom he considers competent make adverse comment on his work, he is ready to agree with what he perceives to be points well taken. In fact, he writes to Patmore, "I think you know that I esteem it more honour to be condemned by an austere than approved by a lax judgment." He acknowledges but defends what may seem faults in his poetry: 'for example, the riot of imagery. He will fiercely resist attempts to improve a line by' a word-change, when he is convinced that a particular word
Aid Program Helps Innell'-City Parishes PHILADELPHIA (NC) A total of $590,826.70 has been contributed by 145 parishes in the archdiocese of Philadelphia in the past two years to aid needy inner-city parishes. Msgr. Henry A. McCracken, chairman of the Commission for Interparochial' Cooperation, said grants to date have totaled $540,186.00 to 23 needy parishes..
spect, at my morally weakest ,~ -' ,~ Verse written as I write it is often nothing less than a confessional, a confessional far more intimate than the sacerdotal one." Shakespeare at Seven It is curious and amusing to observe that there were Catholics, at the time when Thompson's poetry was being first published, who considered it pagan, erotic, and scandalous. A certain Canon Toole said vehemently that the Ode to the Setting SUI} "was not a thing which ought to have appeared in a Catholic magazine!" Thompson could grow indignant about what he called "Catholic Philistinism" and "the blubber-brained Catholic public." Has time taken care of these? The letters go beyond the time-span represented by their dates. Thus, in one of them Thompson recalls a scene from his childhood. At the age of seven, "standing in my nightgown before the fire and chattering to my mother," he used a word which she said was obsolete and found in Shakespeare. His mother told him, "You have read Shakespeare so much that you are beginning to talk Shakespeare without knowing it." At seven! Sweetness of Spirit Certainly he was steeped in English literature, as countless allusions and insights in the letters indicate. Almost entirely concentrating- on literature, he still could make penetrating comments on other subjects, such as politics and theology. His was an exceptional intelligence, intuitive and analytical both. His suffering runs all through this correspondence, and his life can be read as tragic. Yet there was a wonderful, unspoilable sweetness of spirit in his despite his depression and his addiction to drugs. . Mr. Walsh has edited the letters adroitly. His explanatory notes succinctly supply' necessary identifications, and explanations without any pedantry. Deer Cry Pavilion The modernization of Japan, in the wake of Commodore Perry's historic visit in 1853-54, is the subject of The Deer Cry Pavilion by Pat Barr (Harcourt, Brace and World, 757 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10017 $5.95). The title refers to a social center opened in Tokyo in 1883 to signalize the intermingling of eastern and western ways in the new Japan. Mrs. Barr's book is at its best in its abundance and arrangement of detail illustrative of what Japan had been socially, how its transformation was wrought, and what its social condition was by the beginning of this century. She has come lip with a cornucopia of colorful information in this. regard. But she does not really succeed in picturing to us the steps by which Japan became industrialized and capable of producing the tremendous equipment required for war with Russia.
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VISITS ORPHANS: Father (Captain) Joseph W. Kennedy of the Scranton, Pa., diocese, Catholic chaplain at Phu Cat Air Base, holds one of the orphans he visited recently in the Qui Nhon area. Father Kennedy distributes "Dooley Kits," consisting of paper, pencils, crayons, kleenex, soap and wash cloths, and named for Dr. To'm Dooley. The kits are purchased by contributions from airmen at the base. NC Photo.
For Industrial Peace Labor Relations Board Chairman Asks Diocesan-Wide Pacts for Schools NEW YORK (NC)-The chairman of the New York State Labor Relations Board asked here that Catholic school officials and employees negotiate their contracts on a diocesewide, as opposed to a school by school, basis. "Neither side has weighed the issue seriously enough," said Jay Kramer at a public' hearing held in the State Office Building. The hearing, on the subject of collective bargaining, was attended by Catholic school officials and teachers and by employees of
Baptism Rate High, Attendance Low MONTEVIDEO (NC) - About 60 per cent of all Uruguayan children are baptized, and 65 per cent of all marriages are performed in Church ceremonies;. yet only 10 per cent of those baptized regularly attend Mass a~cording to a study made by the archdiocese of Montevideo. The archdiocese the largest of the ten dioceses of Uruguay, includes more than 1.5 million people, of whom more than a million are Catr?lics.
other educational, charitable or religious institutions. Kramer said that deciding on bargaining units, which was the announced purpose of the hearing, would "primarily influence industrial peace." He said he considered it inadvisable for bargaining units to be set up on a school by school basis. Kramer said he was afraid that this might produce "atomization and fragmentation" among Catholic schools and result in strikes. Last April 1, through an amendment to the New York State Labor Relations act,·. employees of charitable, religious and educational institutions, including Catholic schools, came under the protection of the law on collective bargaining.
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DAYTON (NC) - The Canon Law Society of America has scheduled a symposium at Bergamo Center here Sept. 12 to 14, in advance of the Bishops' Synod in Rome. The general topic will be, "Unity and Subsidiarity in the Church: Rome and the Conference of Bishops," The society's program chairman, Father John Coriden, professor of Canon law at the Catholic University of America, said co-sponsors of the meeting with the society are the University of Dayton and Bergamo Center. Purpose of the symposium will be to study the relations and communications between the Holy See and the national bishops conferences in preparation for the Bishops' Synod in Rome in October.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 17,1,9..69
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: St. Anne's parish, Fall River, is marking its hundredth year of service to the French community. Left, Rev. Raymond Drouin, O.P.,' pastor, with Dr. Adelard O. Demers, 94, a parishioner since 1899 and for ,over a 'quarter century a parish trustee. Center, parishioners leave church after Sunday Mass. In addition to its more than 5,000 members, the church
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PATERSON (NC) When Charles F, Grieco waH a detective'in nearby Paramw; 10 years ago, and before that as a criminal investigation agent for the Army, his work frequently involved hm with alcoholics and narcotics addicts. Now he's Father Charles F. Grieco, ordained a year ago. And he has a new assigriment in which he again will be dealing with the same kind of people -but this time as a specialist in rehabilitation work instead of criminal investigations. Father Grieco, 40, gave up his law enforcement career in 1960 and began studies for the priesthood. He was ordained here in May, 1968. An assistant pastor in Morristown since then, he lost little time in Jeturning to his interest in working in criminology and related fields. Warning He became chaplain at the Morris County Jail ane! was appointed to the Morris County Drug Abuse Committee, devoting most of his spare time to counseling and lecturing on addiction. As a man who has seen the tragedy of addiction first-hand, both as policeman and priest, he deplores the rapid growth of drug usage in the suburbs("There~s an awful lot of marijuana smoking and pill-popping' going on")-but warned against overaction in another direction. "Some parents are so afraid of marijuana that they no longer frown on drinking among teenagers," he said. "They forget that can cause just as much havoc."
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and St. Anne's Shrine attract other thousands of pilgrims from all parts of Ne"'l. England throughout the year. Right, Rev. Raymond L. Corriveau, O.P. shrine administrator, presents relic of St. Anne for veneration by faithful. In center 2f picture can be seen crutches and canes, among hundreds left at shrine by those grateful for intercession of saint.
Delegate ,at St. Anne's Centenary' Continue4 from Page One Until Father Montaubricq's arrival these im'migrants had Worshipped at what is now St. Mary's Cathedral. Their new pastor, too, enjoyed the hospitality of St. Mary's rectory while he supervised construction of Fall River's first French Catholic church at the corner of Hope and Hunter Streets., Famous in parish history is the story that the new church was to be named' for St. Clothilde, but during cornerstonelaying ceremonies a platform .col-· lapsed, plunging many' into the basement excavation. Father Montaubricq was among the injured and he placed, himself under the protection of St. Anne during his convalescence. In gratitude for her intercesssion he named the new little church for, her. The French priest 'was with St. Anne's until 1876, followed by Rev. Thomas Briscoe, who served until 1877. In 1887 Dominican prie'sts took over the parish and by 1891, Rev. Bernard Sauval, O.P., then pastor, realizedthat St. Anne's had become too small for its growing congregation. He had plans drafted for the present Roman-Byzantine edifice by a famed Canadian a'rchitect, Napoleon Bourassa. The basement church is constructed of local granite and the upper church of Vermont marble., The late Bishop Stang presided with Archbishop Falconio at the dedication ceremonies July 4, 1906. Rev. Raymond Grolleau, O.P. was pastor at the time the over haif million dollar church was completed. St. Anne's rises 155 feet and is 273 feet kmg by 120 feet wide at its transepts. Its seating capacity is in excess of 2,000 people. The parish complex originally included Dominican. Academy, a girls' school for kindergarteners through 12tl,1 graders, and St. Anne's Hospital. Both institu-
tions are now independently operated but retain affectionate links with the parish. Still parish ,property are the church and shrine, St. Anne's Priory aJW 8t. Anne's parochal school. The parish numbers oVer 5,000 members and nearly 600 children atteind St. Anne's school. Eighteen.;priests and five lay brothers are in residence at the priory. Since 1901 St. Anne's Shrine came into being'in 190I, when relics of the saint were given to the parish by the church of St. Anne of Apt' in France. The shrine has become a place of pilgrimage throughout the year, but especially on the feast of St. Anne. Many cures have been ascribed to the saint's intervention and a solemn novena in her honor has been held yearly since 1872. Following Father Grolleau's 'pastorate, St. Anne's was headed by Rev. Ange-Emile Dion, O.P., who assumed his position in 1909. In 1912 Rt. Rev. 'James E. Cassidy, then 'vicar General of the Diocese, blessed. the first bells of the church. St. Anne's golden 'jubilee was marked in 1919, with the late Bishop Feehan, presiding over special ceremonies. ' Rev. Pierre A. Granger, O.P. became pastor in 1919, followed 'by Rev. Mannes Marion, O.P. in 192.4. In 1925 Bishop Feehan blessed St. Anne's School on Forest Street. Rev. Dominique Beaulne, O.P. was pastor from 1938, succeeded in 1942 by Rev. Thomas M. Landry, O.P., who served until 1957. At the time of his assignment Father Landry, 32, was the youngest pastor in the Diocese. Father Land,ry was followed as pastor by Rev. Henri O. Laporte, O.P., who was in office until 1963, succeeded by the present pastor, Rev. Raymond Drouin, O.P. The present director of St. Anne's Shrine is Rev. Pierre Lachance, O.P.
Predicts Revival Of Abortion Bill
St. Anne's centennial observance will not close with the July YOUNGSTOWN (NC) - The 26 Mass. Still on the parish bill to relax the abortion law in agenda are a picnic and c1amboil Ohio is buried in a state House to, be held Sunday, Aug. 24 at of Representatives legislative Camp Jennings, Westport. committee, but it is certain to be An organ recital will be pre- revived at the next session of the sented Sunday, Oct. 19 by Nor- Ohio General Assembly in Janumimd A. Gingras, parish director ary. of music, and a concelebrated This prediction came from Mass Sunday, Oct. 26 will be fol- T~eodore A. Staudt,. executive lowed by a centennial banquet director of. th~ CatholIc Conferin the school hall, with many ence of Oh~o, lIl.a speech. here to former pastors and assistants as _ the Mahonmg Right to ~Ife C~nspecial, guests of honor. ' ference. The new mterfalth " . group of 150 community leaders On All Souls Day a .Mass Will has been organized to oppose be offered for ~II faithful d~- permissive abortion legislation. parted of the parIsh and also III Staudt declared: November the Franco-American "For those who think the batHistoric~1 ,Societr of New F;ntie is won, I say that we've only gland. Will hold Its annual ba~- engaged in a skirmish; the real quet III the scho~1 hall. A se~l- battle against an abortion bill in formal ball, also III the hall, Will Ohio has not yet begun." climax November's activities. To end the gala year, a New Layman Dean Year's Eve dinner-dance will COLLEGEVILLE (NC) - John take place in the hall. E. Lange, associate professor of mathematics at St.- John's UniAppoint Nun, 'Negro versity here in Minnesota, has been' named academic dean of To Villanova' Board· the college of arts and sciences. VILLANOVA (NC)-Five new He is the first layman in the 112members, including the first year history of the Benedictine school, to hold the post. woman and the first Negro members in history, have been elected to the board of trustees of Villanova University. BEFORE YOU BUY -TRY Sister Mary George O'Reilly, president of Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pa., becomes the first , woman to serve on the Villanova board, and Jesse B. Clark III, executive director of the econOLDSMOBILE omic opportunity program PhilaOldsmobile-Peugot-Renault delpqia archdiocese, the first 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven Negro.
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