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His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, announced today the arppointment of the Reverend Peter N. Graziano as Diocesan Director 'of Social Services and Coordinator of Special Apostolates. In this capacity, new in the ordering and administration of Diocesan social endeavors, Father Graziano will coordinate a wide variety of programs and activities, acting as a specialized extension of the Chancery Office, the Episcopal and Diocesan executive headquarters.
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Msgr. Sullivan To Retire From Fall River Parish Following a recommendation of the Second Vatican Council, Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan is tending his resignation from the pastorate of St. Joseph's Parish in Fall River to be effective on Sept. II, 1974, just five months short of his 75th birthday: The genial priest is well 'known throughout the Fall River area and the Diocese of Fall River for the efforts of his 49 years in the priesthood. An eloquent and witty speaker and an enthusiast in organizing and implementing all forms of parish activities, Msgr.
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Sullivan was born Feb. 8, 1900, in Fall River, son of the late John P. and Mary Kenney Sullivan. Educated at Fall River's Durfee High School and Holy Cross College in Worcester, Msgr. Sullivan then pursued studies in theology at St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, N. "(. He was ordained in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on June 6, 1925, by the late Bishop Daniel Feehan. Msgr. Sullivan on ordination served as assistant on Nantucket and in St. Joseph's, Fall River, and in Falmouth. Then from 1933 to 1946 he was assistant in Holy Name Church and. St.' Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. At that time he became pastor of Corpus Christi Church, Sandwich, for 10 years, and then, in 1956, pastor of St. Dominic's Church in Swansea. In September of 1961, Msgr. Sullivan became pastor of St. Joseph's in Fall River. From 1932 to 1943, Msgr. Sullivan served as moderator and moving spirit of the locally famed Berchman's and Epsilon Clubs whose members included many now prominent in business and professional circles in the Greater Fall River area. He was Regional and Diocesan Director of the Guild for the Blind. Turn to Page Four
Our Lady of Health Parish
Cardinal Medeiros to Offer Jubilee Mass in Fall River Our Lady of Health Church on Cambridge Street, Fall River, is festively decked this week as members prepare for the parish's 50th anniversary. The celebration will climax at 10:30 A.M. Sunday when Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, ·for a brief period a curate at Our Lady of Health, will celebrate an openair Mass on the church grounds, with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin presiding. A banquet at White's restau-
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rant will follow the ceremony. Our Lady of Health parishioners have received a souvenir booklet commemorating the anniversary and detailing parish history. In a foreword the present pastor, Rev. Manuel Andrade, notes: "Each of us can take a few moments to look back and see what has been accomplished to the present day, because what we see may serve as an incentive for us to keep doing our best, since only our best can do justice to the memory of so many wonderful and dedicated people, to whom we express our gratitude." Our Lady of Health was originally a mission of Espirito Santo Turn to Page Three
FATHER GRAZIANO
Father Graziano, most recently Assistant at Sai:lt Thomas More Parish in Somerset, will be relieved of parish duties and will devote his full time and attention to his new responsibilities. Associated with Father Graziano in the reorganized program will be the Reverend John R. Foister. ·Fathers Graziano and Foister will assume thE~ir new responsibilities on Wednesday, September II, 1974. Father Graziano, ordained in 1963, received the Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Catholic University in Washington. He completed studies in Community Organization and Social Planning at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and received the Master's Degree in 1973. He also has the Master's Degree in Arts, majoring in History, from the Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has had experience working with the Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washngton during graduate studies. Father GmzianQ will reside at Saint Mary's Home in New Bedforo, where he will serve as Director and Chaplain, thus participating intim'lttely in the Diocesan Apostolate of Residential Child Care Facilities. He will coordinate, in the unified Social
Service Apostolate which is envisioned, the work of the Catholic Welfare Bureaus in Fall River and New Bedford, succeeding in this area Reverend Monsignor John E.' Boyd, of the Fall' River Ofice, and Reverend' John F. Hogan, of the New Bedford Office, both of whom after long and devoted service to their respective offices, will be able to devote themselves more comfortably to large parishes which they administer. In this aspect of Father Graziano's new assignTurn to Page Four
FATHER FOLSTER
.Franciscan (are for Two (ily Parishes His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, and the Very Rev>erend John-Marie Cassese, O.F.M., Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Conception Province, announced today that Franciscan priests will assume custody of two Diocesan parishes next month, to enhance the pastorai care of souls in both locations and throughout the entire Diocese. . Two Friars will be assigned, beginning September II, 1974, to each parish involved in the experimental arrangement, Saint Kilian Parish in. New Bedford
and Saint Louis Parish in Fall River. The announcement was made at the conclusion of a series of meetings ar..d discussions between Bishop Cronin and Father Cassese and between Diocesan and Provincial officials. With the introduction of four additional priests into pastoral care of souls in the Diocese, it was recognized that a significant improvement in ministry to the Faithful, not only of the two parishes intimately affected, but of the Diocese at large, would be effected. Bishop Cronin has approved the appointments presented by Father Cassese of two Pastors
and two Assistants. The Reverend Albin Fusco, O.F.M., will become Pastor of Saint Kilian's Parish in New Bedford. Father Fusco, ordained in 1961, has served for many years in parochial ministry in Toronto, Canada, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in New York State. Most recen.tly, he has been Associate in Mount Carmel Parish in Mount Vernon, New York. Reverend Paul Rotondi, O.·F.M., will assume the Pastorate of Saint Louis Parish in Fall River. Father Rotondi, ordained in 1956, has been active in Franciscan seminary apostolates, superTurn to Page Three
New Assignments of Diocesan (Iergy Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of-Fall River, announced today the retirement of Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan from the pastorate of St. Jo-. seph's Church in Fall River, effective Sept. II, 1974. Four other clergy appoJntments are announced all effective on Sept. II, 1974. Rev. William E. Farland is transferred from the pastorate of St. Ann's Church, Raynham, to the pastorate of St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole. Rev. Justin J. Quinn is transferred from the pastorate of St. Kman's Church, New Bedford, to the pastorate of St. Rita's Church, Marion. St. Kilian's Church is to be administered by the Franciscan Fathers. Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton is being transferred from the pastorate of St. Rita's Church in Marion to St. Ann's Church in Raynham as pastor.
Eventu'al construction of a new Rev. Paul F. McCarrick, assistant pastor at St. Patrick's S1. Joseph's Church at a site Church, Fall River, is being . more convenient for the pastoral transferred to St. Joseph's care of souls in the area is enChurch, Fall River,. as adminis- visaged. No date or time schedule for parochial changes In the Faltrator. In 'his pa.storal and administra- mouth 'area is established, since tive responsibility at St. Joseph's the plan must be carefully stud·in Woods Hole, Father Farland 'ied and experience in pastoral will p'articipate in regional activities must be evaluated bestudies with a view to eventual for a final determination would relocation of St. Joseph's parish be possible. Father Farland, the son of ina new section of the Town of Falmouth. Proposals for the re- Mrs. Mabel Phelan Farland and casting ·01' parochial boundaries the late Donat Farland, was born Turn to Page Two for all three parishes in the Town of Falmouth will be drawn up by a speoial committee consisting of Rev. Msgr. James E. HOLYDAY Gleason, pastor of St. Patrick's of Church in Falmouth, Rev. George E. Amaral, pastor of S1. AnOBLIGATION thony's Church in East Falmouth, Thursday, August 15 as well as Father Farland, and Rev. John V. Magnini of St. PatFeast of Assumption rick's Parish and Rev. Thomas L. Rita of St. Anthony's.
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DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER
OFFICIAL RETIREMENT Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan from St. Joseph's Church, Fall River.
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APPOINTMENTS Rev. William E. Farland from St. Ann's Church, Raynham, as pastor, to St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, as pastor.
Rev. Justin J. Quinn from St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford, as pastor, to St. Rita's Church,Marion, as pastor. Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton from St. Rita's Church, Marion, as pastor, to St. Ann's Church, Raynham, as pastor. Rev. Paul F. McCarrick from assistant ,P&stor at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River, to St. Joseph's' Church, Fall River, as administrator. Rev. Peter N. Graziano from a'ssistant pastor at St. Thomas More Church, Somerset, to Dioc;esan Director of Social Services and Coordinator of Special Apostolates. Father Graziano"will reside in St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, where he will serve as Director and Chaplain. Rev. John R. FoIster from assistant pastor and priest in charge of St. Louis Church in Fall River to Associate Director in the Diocesan Office of Social SerVices. Father FoIster will reside in St. Joseph's rectory in' Fall River. All effective Wednesday,
FR. McCARRICK
FR. SHOVELTON
FR. QUINN
New Assignmen'ts of Diocesan CI~rgy Continued from Page One in Fall River and received his education, at Msgr. Coyle High School, Taunton; St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Ordained on June 11, 1949, by Bishop Connolly in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, he served as an assistant pastor in St. Mary!s, ,Norton; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; St. Lawrence's, New Bedford; St. Patrick's, Falmouth and St. Kilian's, New Bedford. On Oct. 2, !969, Father Farland was named administrator of St. Ann's Parish, Raynham, and on May 13, 1971 was appointed spiritual director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Taunton Area. '
Md.; and St. John's Seminary, Boston College and pursued his theological courses at St. Mary's Brighton. Following ordination by Bish- Seminary, Baltimore. Following ordination by Bishop op Connolly on Feb. 2, 1956 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, Connolly on March 17, 1956, he Father Shovelton has served as served as an assistant at the an assistant pastor at St. Pat- Cathedral until June,.1971, when rick's, Fall River;' Sacred Heart, he was reassigned as an assistant Oak Bluffs; St. Mary's, Taunton , to Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton. and St. Thomas More, Somerset. On.June 1, 1972, Father McCarOn June I, 1972, the newly rick was transferred to St. Patnamed pastor of St. Ann's Parish, rick's Parish, Fall River, as an Raynham was appointed admin- assistant pastor. The newly named administraistrator of St. Rita's Parish, Marion. " tor of St. Joseph's Parish,' Fall While stationed ,in Taunton, River, has served as area and Father Shovelton was director diocesan director of the CYO, of the Apostolate' for Spanish a 'member of the Pre-Cana panel Speaking of that area. . of priests, chaplain to Mt. St. , Fathe'r McCarrick Mary's Academy and the Fall The Diocesan Director of the River Police Department. He was also a member of the CYO, Father McCarrick was born in Malden, tr.e son of Pat- Advisory Committee on Drug rick H. and Mary A. Kilroy Mc- Problems. Carrick. He received his classical and philosophical training at
Father Quinn The new pastor of St. Rita's September 11, 1974. Parish, Marion, was born in New York City, the son of the late Michael and the late Josephine Ryan Quinn. Following dassi'cal, philosophical and theological Mass.. ~,egislciture.:., , Bishop 'Qf Fall River courses at' :Venard Seminary, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Clark's Summit, Pa.; Maryknoll Overrides Veto:. BOSTON (NC)-The state lag- S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has Seminary in New York and St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Fa- islature here voted overwhelming- approved the nomination, prether Quinn was ordained on ·Jan. ,Iy to override Gov. Francis W. sented by Very Reverend Ar23, 1953 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Sargent's veto of a bill to limit mand M. Proulx, M.S., Provincial abortions and safeguard the life Superior of the La Salette Fall River by Bishop Connolly. of fetuses in such procedures Fathers, of Rev. Roland R. BedThe national representatives Following assignments as an performed in Massachusetts. , ard, M.S., as pastor of Our Lady were given a complete picture of assistant' pastor at' St. Mary's Gov. Sargent vetoed the meaarrangements made in Rome Cathedral,' Fall River; St. Kil- sure because of what he terms of the Cape Parish, Brewster. Father Bedard, who has most both by Church and lay organi- ian's, New Bedford; St. Thomas ,its "dubious constitutionality," recently been pastor of Saint zations to ensure maximum par- More,-Somerset and St. Lawbut a vote in the House (197 to ,Mary's Parish, Cambridge, Verticipation of pilgrims, during rence's, New Bedford, he was 13) a~d' Senate 30 to 3) crushed mont, w,j)( assume the pastorate 1975. named administrator of St. Eliz· the veto. of the Cape P,arish on August 15, abeth's Parish, Edgartown on Drafted by the Massachusetts 1974. He will succeed Reverend The meeting heard a number March 18, 1971. . Citizens for Life and filed by of speakers dealing with the ef, On Feb. 1, 1973, Father Quinn Rep. William Delahunt (D-Quin- George Morin, M.S., in that caforts of their individual bodies. was reassigned to St. Kilian's cY), the hill was subjected to nu- pacity. Father Morin is undertakTbe meaning of the pilgrimage, ing new duties with the La Parish, New Bedford as pastor. merous revisions during the leg- Salette Fathers outside the Dia religious act and not a tourist In addition to parochial work, islative session. one, was spelled out by Father ocese of Fall River. Father Quinn served as the Spe- , Under the prov.isions of the Raimondo Spiazzi, counselor of cial Gifts Chairman of the Cath- newly enacted law, all abortions the executive committee. olic Charities for the New Bed- must ,be certif.ied as necessary National representatives were ford Area during the 1974 cam- and performed by a physician; told that they could call for help paign. minors must have the consent INC. on the Roman Pilgrimage to the Father Shovelton of their parents; an abortion Funeral Service See of 'Peter organization, which The son of Albert E. and Mar- after the 24th week may be perwould, if asked, handle every- garet Meagher Shovelton, Father formed only to save the life or Edward F. Carney thing from accommodations to Gerald Shovelton was born in mental health of the mother; and 549 County Street rearranging travel plans. Fall River and' educated at Msgr. all' such proeedures after the New Bedford 999·6222 A pilgrim's kit would be pre- Coyle High School, Taunton; 13th week must be carried out Serving the area since 1921 pared shortly, the national rep- St. Charles College, Catonsville, in a hospital. rese~tatives were told. This would consist of a plastic folder containing a pilgrim's handbook in a number of languages and a collection of liturgical texts for use at masses, hymns, prayers and other services at Rome's four patriarchal basilicas and in the Catacombs.
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Committees Assess Arrangements For Holy Year Pilgrims in Rome ROME (NC)-Representatives of nearly 60 national Holy Year committees have ended a threec 'day meeting here aimed at coordinating and assessing arrangements at local, national and Roman levels for promoting pilgrimagesand caring for the pilgrims on their journey and in Rome. y
Bishop Ernest J. Primeau, di• rector of Villa Stritch, residence of U.S. bishops and priests working in Rome, represented Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Angeles, chairman of the U.S. bish· ops' Holy Year committee, at these talks, presided over' by Cardinal Maximilian De Furstenberg, president of the central committee for the 1975 Holy Year.
Necrology AUG. 17 Rev. Cornelius O'Connor, 1882, 'Pastor, Holy Trinity, ,West Harwich. ' AUG. 22 Rt. Rev. Manuel J. Teixeira, 1962, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton. Rev. William R. Jordan, 1972, Pastor, St. Lou,is, Fall River.
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Franciscans Continued from Page One vising the formation of candi· dates for the Order, and had more recently been in parochial ministry at Saint Anthony's Parish in Troy, New York. Father Rotondi has been a Provincial Consultor as well. Father Soto A native of Puerto Rico, Reverend Charles Soto, O.F.M., will assist Father Fusco at Sa.int Kilian's Parish in New Bedford. Ordained in 1970, Father Soto, who undertook theological studies at Saint John's Seminary in Brighton, has served in parochi~l ministry in Our Lady of Pity Parish, Bronx, New York, and has been active in a variety of youth apostolates, including TEC retrea.ts and counseling. Father Lombardii Recently ordained to the priesthood, Reverend Masseo Lombardi, O.IF.M., will assist Father Rotonli at Saint Louis Parish in Fall River. Father Lombardi, who completed his theological studies at Saint John's Seminary in Brighton, has completed course work for the Mas· , OUR LADY ter's program in Deaf Education at Western Maryland College. Bishop Cronin expressed his optimism regarding the entry of the Franciscan Friars into direct pastoral ministry to the Faithful Continued from Page One of the Diocese. Since 1967, the Church but was raised to parish Friars of the Immaculate Constatus June 20, 1924 as the numception Province have maintained a Friary in Buz2:ards Bay, ber of Portuguese Catholics in from which religiolls house the area increased. Francisco C. prieiits have gone regularly on Silvia and Alfred Mello, among weekends to neighboring par- altar boys at that time, are still ishes to assist in pastoral work. parishioners, noted Father AnHowever, in assuming custody drade, who added that the parof two large urban parishes, the _ ish takes its -name from the vilBishop noted, the FrancIscan lage church of Arrifes on the priests, wiil directly" and' staoly island of St: Micha,el in the Azores. minister to parish communities. The church was dedicated Nov. The introduction of four new priests, blending long experience, 9, 1924 with a solemn high Mass special competencies and youth- celebrated by Rev. Emmanuel S. ful vigor, as they do, was de- Mello and a sermon preached by scribed by Bishop Cronin as a Rev. Manuel S. Travassos, pastor particular source of encourage- of Espirito Santo. The edifice ment and a great asset to the was blessed by the late Bishop Daniel Feehan. Diocese. Our Lady of Health's first pasFather Fusco's long experience in parish ministry, Father RQ- tor was Rev. Francisco Correia tondi's expertise in vocation and BettencQurt, formerly pastor. of formation endeavors, Father So- Santo Christo Church, whose to's fluency in the Spanish lan- rectory later became the parish guage, Father Lombardi's devo- CCD Center. Father Bettencourt served the tion to the deaf and otherhandi· community until 1928, when he capped persons, were all noted -among many other factors-as was succeeded for two years by PQsitive aspects of the novel Rev. Jose Martins. The depression brought difficult times to arrangement. On his part, Father Cassese the young parish,· but members expressed delight at cooperating rallied to its aid. "The father of Miss .Mary in direct pastoral care of souls Cabral, director of the junior in the Diocese. When Provincial officials recently eonducted a choir, was the unpaid custodian tour of the parishes where their for many years," recalls the jubiconfreres will assume adminis- lee booklet, "and her brother-intrative and pastoral responsibil- law, Mr. Manuel Almeida,would ity, Father Cassese noted a borrow money to pay the interest statue of Saint Francis of Assisi on the debt of the Church, when in the sanctuary of Saint Kilian there was none available to the . Church and, ohuckling, said, Parish." "We've already come here!" Others Help The Franciscan Friars of the Miss Cabral was church organ· Immaculate Conception Province, ist for many years and still, said who maintain their headquarters Father Andrade, together with in New York City, number near- Miss Irene Almeida, cares for ly 200 priests in their ranks. cleaning and decorating the They presently are represented sanctuary and maintaining altar in the Archdioceses of Boston linens. She and her choir memand New York, and in the Di- bers also bought a secondhand oceses of Albany, Brooklyn, organ for the parish in its early Pittsburgh and Wheeling, West days, contributing nickels and Virginia, as well as in the Arch- dimes weekly for its purchase. d,iocese of Toronto, Canada. Other parishes, too, came to They staff extensive missions in the aid of the new church. Sacred the Central American countries Heart Church 'contributed Our of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Lady of Health's main altar and Salvador. . statues were a gift from St. Stan-
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iCatholic Knights Aid Apostolate PORT CLINTON (NC) - Virgil Fritz, postmaster in Port Clinton and president of the Catholic Knights of Ohio, fraternal or· ganization, recently presented a check for $3,000 to help support the Catholic Communications Foundation (CCF) to Bishop John A. Donovan of Toledo. The check was forwarded to the New York offices of the CCF, and will be used to support the radio and television apostola'tes of the Catholic Church in the United States. The CCF has sponsored the productio!l of a number of Church-related films and programs, makes grants available for innovative program development by local Catholic groups throughout the United States, and sponsors media training pro· grams for persons concerned with religious communications at the grassroots levels of the Church. Bishop Donovan is chairman of the board of the CCF.
OF HEALTH CHURCH, FALL RIVER
Cardinal Medeiros Will Celebrate Mass islaus. And Holy Cross and SS. Peter and Paul parishes were generous in allowing parishioners to use their facilities for suppers and dramatic presentations. Following Father Martins' pastorate, the parish was led by Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis, then Rev. Antonio da Silva, who served until 194;3, aided, due to iIInes's, by the 'Rev. Jose' Maria Bettencourt e, Avila. Other pastors were Rev. Joseph Cabral and Rev. Jose Vieira Resendes. Dilring the latter's pastorate the church debt was liquidated and stained glass windows were installed. It was also possible to erect the parish hall. Rev. A. Castelo Branco followed Father Resendes and he in turn was replaced by Rev. Maurice Souza, who built a new' rectory. The next pastor, Rev. Luis Gonzaga Mendonca, began renovations of the church interior and !Jis successor, Rev. Manuel M. Resendes, completed the project. Father Andrade Father Andrade, the present pastor, came to Our Lady of Health in 1970. He has organized the Confraternity of the Holy
Agencies S~nd Aid To Flood Victims ROME (NC)-Pope Paul VI and Catholic aid agencies throughout Europe are sending help to victims of Brazil's recent floods, Which leH thousands homeless, other thousands dead and farm lands completely washed away. Pope Paul sent a personal financial contribution th'rough the aPQstolic nuncio to Brazil as soon as he heard of the disaster. Catholic charity agencies in Denmark, West Germany, England, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland have made money avaflable to Brazil charities for on-the-spot purchase of emergency materials. In addition, the West Germany agency sent a planeload of medicines, food and clothing to the stricken country.
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Memories A recent newspaper story told of the discovery of a World War II unexploded bomb in a thickiy-s'eWed area of London. Demolition experts evacuated the area and detonated the bomb which went off with surprising force, shattering windows and rocking houses. Neighbors served hundreds of cups of tea and chatted cozily about how much it was like the old days, when London -was under German bombing and such occurrences were nightly. The surprise, of course, is the fondness and affection with which the people of the neighborhood spoke of those days. They recalled the spirit of friendship, of togetherness, that existed then. There was almost a regret that such a period when people suffered and prayed and worked and survived together was over. Time has added a patina of glamor to that age. The bitterness 'of the fear has long since been dissipated. But it is true that what-at the time-appeared to be a great tragedy, and indeed it was, is now seen as being filled with all sorts of redeeming values. It all adds up to the truth of the ancient aphorism that distance lends enchantment. It also points up the unity that shared suffering brings about. It emphasizes what was ,discovered in this coriutry during the great blackoutthat in a time of crisis the neighborliness that sophistication seems to stifle comes out and makes itself felt. '
Looking at Catholic Schools Again The advent of August always brings with it not only the expect~d dog days but also the expected newspaper ads about going-back-to-school clothes; Parents may see a light of hope and relief in this while students do not always take the same point of view. But the fact is there: the return to school' must be considered. It is a time, then, for parents' to once again consider Catholic education - on the elementary and secondary levels. There is a temptation on the part of some to write off Catholic school education. The closing and consolidation of schools over the last several years has given rise to discouragement in many areas. The price that must be paid for Catholic schools-rising costs, fewer Sisters and more Jay teachers, facilities that in many instances must compete and not always favorably with a public school system-~an these could tend to discou'rage some parents from considering Catholic school education for sons and ,daughters. But the essentials must be kept uppermost in any discussion about school and in consideration of Catholic schools. The Catholic school exists to give, what the public and private schools give but to give more: to give knowl~dge and to uphold a Judeo-Christian tradition and, more, to instruct in the Catholic faith, to form a Catholic community aimed at living in the image of Christ, and. to reach out as a very model of Christianity in service to others. Teachers in Catholic schools-religious and lay-have this as their goal. Students are shown this as their goal. And no other school system can do the same because these go.als are quite outside their scope and purpose. So parents must ask themselves what they want their children, to be. They must ask themselves how much economic sacrifice is their son, their daughter, worth in order to be placed into a context where these are the' goals. They must face the fact that the Catholic school, more than any other agency,' provides this setting, these goals.
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JERSEY CITY (NC)-A sixstory medical center building here will be leased to a Catholic agency for a nominal $1 a year fee for use as a residenNal alcoholism clinic. Center Hall, a building that has been used for 20 years although it is par,t of the Jersey City Medical Center complex, will be leased to Pat'rick House, a drug rehabilitation program sponsored by St. Patrick's Parish. Father Francis Schiller, director of Patrick House, said that grants of $400,000 from the New Jel1sey Depal1tment of Health and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will be used to renovate the building. Completion of the renovations is expected by October. Seventyfive live-in patients will be accepted and another 100 will b~ 'treated as out-patients of the clinic. Patrick House was founded in 1971 as a methodone maintenance center. It has since opened centers in o'ther areas of Hudson County and expanded its services to 路include a dental clinic, legal assistance for its clients and counseling programs.
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Continued from Page One be an indicated facet of the new Continued from Page One ment, staff workers in both ex- Diocesan agency. Msgr. Sullivan interrupted his isting bureaus will cont'inue to Pastoral planning, develop- diocesan service to serve from engage in adoptive and counsel- ment of the parish council pro- 1943 to 1946, as an Army Chaping activities. It is anticipated gram, co-ordination of national lain in the European and Pacific that Father Graziano will serve and 'regional programs dealing theaters of action. as Diocesan liaison with "Birth- with a variety of concerns such He has served as chaplain of . right" and other pro-life groups' as The Campaign for Human De路 the American Legion and the in his new capacity. Father Gra- ,velopment, the Thanksgiving Veterans of Foreign Wars in Fall ziano will coordinate ahd over- Clothing Appeal, representation River, and of the Knights of Cosee special diocesan apostolates, on civic and regional boards, and lumbus on Cape Cod. He was including the Urban and Spanish- the like, are expecteQ to f!ill also Faithful Friar of the Fourth language apostolates, which within the parimeters of the new Degree Knights of Columbus. have, for some time, labored Diocesan program. In 1967 Msgr. Sullivan was under the handicap of indepen,Father Graziano and his asso- honored by the Holy Father and dent fUllct!on, lacking overall ciate, Father FoIster, will be- made a Domestic Prelate with Diocesan coordination with re- come involved in pastoral minis- his present titl~ of Monsignor. , sources and personnel to accom- try at the Bristol County House While Msgr. Sullivan may be plish the most benefit. Thus, of Correction in New Bedford retiring from the pastorate, it is Father Graziano will undertake and in the Juvenile Courts of the certain that he will never retire the integration of such endeav- region. from the priestly life and activity ors as the Regina Pacis Center 'Father Foister, most recently that have .made so many people in New Bedford, which Father Assistant and Priest in Charge at see in him the geniality of the Thomas E. O'Dea will continue Saint Louis Parish in Fall River, priestly vocation. to administer directly, the "ur- will be relieved of full-time parban apostolate" which religious ish duties to enable him to deHospital Employees and lay personnel undertake at vote his energies to the new the South End Center in New program of activities. Father Oppose Unionization Bedford, the Spanish apostolate Foister will talce up residence on SJ1REATOR (NC)-Employees in which Father James Murphy September 11, 1974, at St. Jois engaged' in the Taunton-Attle- seph's Rectory in Fall River. at St. Mary's Hospita,1 here in boro area, and similar activities: Ordained in 1958, Father FoIster lIlinois have settled a IO-monthThe arrival in New Bedford of received the Licentiate in Sacred old dispute by voting against orReverend Charles Soto, O.F.M., Theology from the Gregorian ganizing a union. "Now the hospital's adminisa Franciscan Friar who was born University in Rome. and raised in Puerto Rico, and In announcing the reorganiza- tration and the union represenwho will become an Assistant at tion, Bishop Cronin expressed his tatives are working to dispel any Saint Kilian's Church in New confidence that the integrated ill feeling that may have been Bedford, on September II, 1974, office would help insure the pro路 built up during ttte last 10 is recognized as a significant ad- vision of improved service to the months," Sister Mary Ellen Ram路 dition to the pastoral activities thousands of benefioiaries of Di- bach, the hospital's executive which Father Graziano w'ill gen- ocesan social services and special vice president, said in an intererally administer in this ar~a. ministries in every area of the view. Of the 458 employees eligible The new Director and his Asso- Diocese. Crucial in the release of to vote in the election, 442 cast ciate are expected to collaborate two competent priests from pawith pastoral endeavors for ser- rochial duties to assume fUll-time bal,lots, and rejected union repvice to Portuguese immigrants in responsibility for the broad pro- resentation by a margin of 323 the Diocese, such as the program gram was the introduction into to 119. The Federal Mediation for youth with which Father Lu- pastoral work in the Diocese of and Conciliation Service of Chiciano Pereira is associated, in the Franciscan Friars, who will cago supervised the election. greater Fall River. assume custody of Saint Kilian ' It is expected that the new Parish 'in New Bedford and Saint Office which Father Graziano Louis Parish in Fall River on the The new program is enviwill head will serve as a point date the newly revamped apos- sioned as a measure for integrat, of reference and coordination for tolic office begins to function. ing the extensive social service a ,wide variety of existing DiocFunding of the riew Office of apostolate within the Diocese in esan programs, including the Social Service and Special Apos- the same fashion that the coorGuild for the Blind, the Apostol- tolic Ministry will continue to be dination of educational apostolate to the Deaf, and the like. provided by the Annual Catholic ates was undertaken within the Liaison with the Diocesan Saint Charities Appeal conducted in establishment, a year ago, of the Vincent de Paul Soeieties would the Diocese each spring. 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Political Leader Opposes Chilean Military Regil"e SANTIAGO (NC)-The leader of Chile's largest political party has posed the most serious challenge to the military junta ruling the country since it overthrew the Marxist regime of the late President Salvador Allende last September. In an acrimonious exchange of letters between former Sen. Patricio Aylwin, the Christian Oemocratic party's president, and the former Interior Minister Gen. Omar Bonilla, now defense minister, Aylwin accused the government of systematically rejecting any criticism of lts rule. "History shows that 110 stable and just order can be built on the basis of the unilateral imposition of the will of those who govern,. Aylwin said. The roots of the exchange of letters, which were recently released here, lay in the government's decision in June to ban permanently two programs of news commentaries of the Christian Democrats' Balmac:eda radio station. The programs banned included one by journalist Marta Caro and a current affairs program by Jaime CastiHo Velasco, a Christian Democratic leader and the party's most prominent theorist. The government also banned any publicity about its action. Arbitrary Measure Aylwin said in a letter written in June that the decision "is unjust: discriminatory, a'rbitrary and an attack on a fundamental human right at odds with the goals of justice and national unity expressed by the government." "The measure is arbitrary because it is not founded in any constitutional, legal or regulatory principle. It is, purely and simply, an action imposed by force, without judicial procedures or formalities," Aylwin addded. In his response, Gen. BonHla answered' the Christian Democrats' charges saying that "I categorically reject. (Aylwin's letter) as unacceptable in its terms and in its contents." Accusations of arbitrary actions and discrimination by a high government official "is expresssly prohibited to you in the present circumstances and in your condition as president of a political party in recess," Bonilla said.
Pope Paul I)raises Beauties of Nature CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) It's holiday time," Pope Paul VI told hundreds of tourists packing 路the courtyard of his summer residence here July 28. . Speaking from a balcony window before leading them in the recitation of the Angelus, the Pope greeted them almost gaily and spoke of the beauties of nature which they shQuld enjoy. "Now:s the time to wish all 'Happy Holidays' and to suggest to those who have the good luck to be on them that they include a reading of the great tome of nature instead of some book of dubious good taste. "Take the advantage of the summer holidays to return to the vision-the knowledge, the contemplation of that immense, stuauthoritative book pendous, which is nature."
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WEDDING MUSIC: Plans for weddings at Holy Name Church, Fall River, include careful choice of music for ceremony. Miss Mary Friedlander and Michael Orlowski, soon to be wed, discuss selections with Rev. William G. Campbell, co-author of pamphlet, "Guidelines for Wedding Music."
Aids in Selecting Wedding Music Outlined By Members of Holy Name Parish Seeking to "maintain a musical standard which will contribute to the dignity and solemnity of the occasion and enhance the beauty 'of the sa'-ered celebration of mimiage vow's," Rev. Willi~m G. Campbell, assistant pastor, Larry Poulin, organist, and Edward A. Peters, choir director, all of Holy Name parish, Fall River, have prepared a pamphlet, "Guidelines for Wedding Music," which is given to prospective brides and grooms of the parish and which is also available to other parishes or e.ngaged couplues seeking information on this important subject. Several points are stressed for consideration when choosing wedding music: Do lyrics express a Christian or pagan idea of love? Are all selections liturgically justified? Does the music chosen promote the progress of the ceremony or does it cause delay? Does the soloist, if there is one, lead the congregation in singing during the ceremony, making his or her individual contribution only during the time immediately preceding the wedding? Records Incongruous Pointing out that even though music itself is neither sacred nor secular, the pamphlet' authors note that people come to "associate certain selections and styles of music with non-musical places and situations. "When you choose your wed-
Clinic Closed NEW YORK (NC)-An abortion clinic was shut down here because of dirty siJrgical conditions, state Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz announced. Besides flies in the operating suite, surgical procedures were not performed under asept:c conditions, and there was stained equipment in the operating room.
ding music, therefore, you should ask yourselves: will this particular composition express to every'qnepres~n(the meaning of this religious event? Or will it cause a icominunication gap' because people associate it with some other place or meaning?" It is also pointed out that recorded music has no place at liturgical celebrations, especially at weddings, which "should speak of life". To introduce recorded music is as incongruous as insisting on artifical flowers." Discussing the use of folk music at wedding Masses, it is noted that "lyrics should celebrate
Popular. Liturgy Magazine Started SARATOGA (NC) Parish liturgy leaders around the country have a new magazine to introduce new music, creative liturgical ideas and discussions of what makes liturgical celebrations better of worse. The "Folk Mass an~ Modern Liturgy Magazine," which comes our eight ,times a year, was start路 ed last November by William Burns, a Catholic layman here who wanted to provide a regular forum for sharing liturgical ideas and music on the parish level. "Bill Burns feels the crucial battle for good liturgy is being fought in the parish," said Jesuit Father John Mossi, a contributing editor of the magazine. Father Mossi, who is completing a master's degree in liturgical studies, told NC News he felt the magazine is aimed especially at those involved in liturgical music, parish priests, and members of parish or diocesan liturgical committees. Like most of the staff; the Jesuit priest works for the magazine without salary because he is committed to the idea of such a mag~zine and wants to see it work.
not only human love between two persons, but should also have some reference to God, who indeed is love. Texts should be drawn chiefly from holy Scripture and from liturgical sources." And the authors stress that although much folk music is sad, "wedding music should emphasize the theme of joy and happiness. in the sacred celebration."
SOUTH BEND (NC)-Chilean Father Martin Garate and, Dea路 con Diego Irarrazabal, both members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, arrived here at the Congregation's Indiana provincial headquarters after Chile's military authorities allowed them to leave the country. The military authorities had previously issued 路arrest warrants on charges of subversion against Father Garate and Deacon Irarrazabal, as well as against Holy Cross seminarian Mauricio Laborde and a former priest, Juan Cortes. They had also arresteJ Holy Cross Deacon Mario Irarrazabal, a brother of Diego, but later released him when charges of subversion against him could not be substantiated. The departure of Father Garate and of Diego Irarrazabal was successfully negotiated by Auxiliary Bishop Sergio Valech, of Santiago. Both had been under the protection of the Church for three weeks prior to their departure. The father of Diego and Mario Irarrazaibal is the Chilean military junta's ambassador to West Germany. Both have completed their seminary work and are now awaiting ordination Wihile acting as deacons. All those involved had belonged to Christians for Socialism, a group that had openly supported the overthrown Marxist regime of President Salvador Allende. The group had been criticized for this by the Chilean bishops. Father Garate was the secretary general of Christians for Socialism.
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The pamphlet ends with lists of traditional, contemporary and folK selections appropriate for wedding liturgies, adding the note that many selections from the works of Bach and Handel are very suitable for such use. ~
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of· Fall River-Thurs., Aug. 8, 197.4
Azores Trip D!elights Meryl With New Exp,eriences
VATICAN CITY ·eNC) - Pope Paul VI greeted two groups of singers from the United States at his general audience July 17. Speaking to them in English, Pope Paul said: "We are happy to extend a word of greetings to two groups of singers from the United States: the Cathedral Collegiate Choir from Philadelphia and the members of the America's Youth in Concert 1974. "We know that both of tnese choirs are making tours of Europe, and we thank all of you for wishing to visit us today. During your stay in Rome you will be giving pleasure to many people. raising their minds to the things of culture and the spirit. "And we hope that in your turn you will derive much plea· sure and spiritual profit from your stay. We assure you of our prayers and we ask you to convey our best wishes to your families and friends at home."
By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick The late summer garden is ~ifficuIt to keep in bloom. Annuals begin showing some wear and the perennials which maintained the garden during the year begin to fade. Lilies, however, are very ,effective for the August garden if they are selected according to date of bloom. We are of them have become dear friends. c I e vat i n g considerable "It was so hard to leave my amount of our garden budget friends there." said my 15-year· to lilies because we feel that they are the answer to the late summer doldrums. Last year, we purchased sev· eral large flowering specimen plants. The first to bloom was Imperial Gold, a bulb, which the catalog describes as growing to seven feet and producing flowers' up to seven inches across. Our first year planting produced a pl~ntabout five feet tall bearing seven 'huge blossoms, outward· facing and primarily white with wide gold bands running down the inside of the flower. A truly lovely sp~cimen. Sunday Best A second lily~ which resembles Imperial Gold in form and growth is Sunday Best. This is also outward facing with equally ,large flowers except that the color is white with broad red to purple bands running on the face of the flower. The colors are rather strong and I find them not to my taste, but that's a mat· tel' of individual preference. A third lily, Empress of India, is a huge variety with blooms much larger than the two previously described, darker in color and a tremendous specimen plant. Several other lilies have not come into bloom yet, so we have no ,idea as to their size or color, but just the two new lilies have served to pick up the garden with their bloom and,' with the remainig day-lilies and phlox are sufficient to give the garden some life during the early part . of August. Using lilies primarily as specimen plants is sufficient to give a garden color and lift without making it appear too busy and overgrown. Lilies may be planted in the Fall. They should be placed in sun and in soil which provides good drainage. Planting should be done immediately upon arrival since the bulbs are never truly dormant. I dig a hole with a' ,spade if room allows and then fill the bottom of the hole with coarse sand and a pinch of bone meal. Cover and fill the hole completely so 'that you do not leave a depression in wh'ich rain water can pool. In the Kitchen Meryl has just returned from five weeks in the Azores, spend· ing most of her time in the small town of Santa Barbara on the dsland of San Miguel with aunts and cousins who made her stay "fantastic." The beauty of the island, especially the resort areas of Purnas and ViUa Franco, has been in her' conversation since she returned but what has come across even more is the wonderful experience of meeting people with a way of life quite different from ours and finding that many ,
old, but she added that she also wanted to come home to her own family. She mused sadly that the perfect world, would be where her fr,iends and relatives from the Azores and her family here could all live together. Because I am writing a column that should touch. on food I asked her what were some of the foods that she reaUy enjoyed during her stay. "Coffee, strong black coffee served at the cafes where the young people go," was her reply•. Dahy Sliopping Electricity and consequently refrigeration have not yet come to her aunt's village so daily shopping is a must:. Meat is bought and cooked daily as are fish, vegetables and any other perishable goods. Meryl found some of the food quite heavy, with a great emphasis on meat and potatoes, but she did fall in love with some of the desserts. One that is made with the coffee that she was so fond of is in the processs of t;anslation in our kitchen and when we get it perfected from grams to our measurements I'll publish it in the 'column. ,While we missed our daughter, the experiences that she encountered, the friendships that sur· rounded her, and her opportunity to understand another ~ulture were well worth our own loneliness. Now that blueberries are ap-' p,earing on roadside stands, or in the pails of those fortunate enough to know of hidden patches, a new blueberry recipe is 'always welcome. The foHowing recipe comes 'from Mrs. Joseph Quinn of St. Joseph's parish in Fall River. She declares that this fiHing recipe is so good that' she often doesn't bother ,putting it into a shell. Open Blueberry Pie ,one 9 inch prepared pie shell 1 quart of berries 1 cup sugar ' 3 Tablespoons cornstarch Ys teaspoon salt 1 cup water 1) Cook and stir 1 cup of berries, sugar, cornstarch" salt, and water over low heat until thickened. 2) Add the uncooked berries 1 Tablespoon butter. Mix well and cool. ' 3) Just before serving pour into shell and top with one cup of heavy cream that has been whipped and sweetened. " 4) This used with tart shell was given
fining could also be Melissa's strawberry for which the recipe July 11.
END OF SEASON: This youngster finds refreshment at Over A Million Copies a fire hydrant. The basketball tucked under his arm portends Of "The Sunday" Sold HUNTINGTON (NC) - More the imminent return to the fall and winter sports and colder :than a million copies of "The days. NC Photo.
CO'rd i no I Rossi· Seeks to Build
.Bridge 8etwe,en ·Africo, Brazil , BRASILIA (NC)-Cardinal Ag· Brazil," Cardinal Rossi said. "We nelo Rossi, prefect of the Vat- have common problems, (with kan's Congregation for the Africa) rooted in a simHar stage Evangeldzation of Peoples, said of eVOlution, and we expect to ,here that one of his goals for carry out an exchange, of knowl· world evangelization'is to "estab- edge:' teoh~iq'lie5'" and solutlo'ns" Iish a bridge for integration be- , to' a 'wide r'ange of problE!m.s:', ne tween Africa and BraziL" continued. ' "This should be conc,eived, of Speaking a.t a press conference in which he also referred to pros- as a' task of evangelization" pects for improved Church-state without the participation of relations in Brazil, the former governments, Cardinal Rossi arch'bishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, said. "There is too much distrust sa1id that this nation and some of (of Western governments) by the African nations share a num- Africans. This is a task for the bel' of common characteristics. Church," ~e added. These range from similar climate But, besides .common characto com'mon problems in agricul- teristics 'llnd problems, he said, tural production, racial composi· Brazil has a great debt to blacks, tion and economic development, who were brought here as slaves. Cardinal Rossi said. Raoial intermarriage became ,"I don't know of any nation common after the emancipation 'in which fraternity among the 'of some foUl~ million African races, has been so great as in slaves~ in 18H8.
Sunday," an eight-page leaflet which explains the Sunday obligation of Catholics in laymen's terms, have been sold, according to Father Albert J. Nevins, M.M., vice-president and general manager of the publishing division of Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., here in Indiana. Father Nevins said that "The Sunday's': popular,ity is due to ,Hs ,practical approach in dealing with the problems of non·attendance at Sunday Mass. Parishioners can simply pass 'the leaflet along to Catholics not regularly attending Mass. The pamphlet was originally written by Bishop Emmett Carter of London, Canada in 1973. Introdu'ced to the United States this year, it has already been used in 39 dioceses and numerous parishes.
Life ,Life is to live in such a way as not to be afraid to die, ~St. Teresa
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Facing Reality Minimizes R·egrets over O'ecisions
Court Overturns Textbook Law
Every so often I hear someone say they did something "for someone else's good." Like the man who lays down his life for his friend, this can be a very noble thing. But there are other times I think the person who does something for someone else is really conning himself into with his mother and the surviving children in mind. believing something that Fewer Second Thoughts isn't true. Take funeral arOne advantage of "facing re-
rangements for example. How many times have you heard someone say, '"I did just what Dad would have wanted
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MARY CARSON me to do!" '"... what he would have done if he were alive." But he's not aliVE: and the funeral arrangements make very little difference to the deceased. The arrangements are, however, very important to the living. This was brought home to me some years ago when my fatherin-law knew he was near death. He expressed the wish that as little as possible be spent on his funeral and that, if possible, he be buried in a plain pine box. It fell to my husband to make the arrangements. They weren't lavish but they were much more in keeping with today's ·customs than a plain pine box. 'Brother Reality' When my husband brought his mother into the funeral home for her first viewing of the body she said, '"He wouldn't have liked it ... but I'm pleased with what you have done." I talked to my husband about it later and he said his decision to go against his father's wish was based on some advice he had gotten from a Christian Brother when he' was a high school student. This Brother had been nicknamed '"Brother Reality" by the students because a student would come to Brother Conrad and make some flimsy excuse for not having completed an assignment. Brother would say, "I'm sorry you exped me to believe that but I'm more concerned you 'have convinced yourself it's true. \''I'd much rather you come to me and say, 'Brother, it was either do the assignment or go to the ball game and I decided I'd rather go to the game." "At least that way I'd have respect for your honesty and you wouldn't be in danger of making a habit of conning yourself!" Brother Conrad would finish by prodding the offender's chest with his finger and roaring, "ALWAYS FACE REALITY." My husband says it is the lesson that has stayed with him best from his four years in high school. When a difficult decision has to be made, he starts by asking himself why he is really doing this. In the case of his father's funeral, it was clear to him the arrangements should be made
ality" when making deCisions is that there is far less risk of gnawing "second thoughts." If you think through the real reasons at the time you are making a decision, there is less chance of doubts coming back to haunt you years in the future. Let me give you an ·example. Recently something called a '"living will" has received a great deal of publicity. The maker of the will asks that should he become iII to the point that extraordinary means must be used to . keep him alive, he be aIlowed to die. I would never make such a will. If the time comes that I am that ill, I undoubtedly will be sedated and have little concern about my condition. I would prefer that my survivors make the decision themselves, a decision based on what they see as reality for themselves at that time. A '"living will" could deprive them of that opportunity. If I let them '"slough off" facing reality by taking out of their hands the decision with which they will have to live, they could go through their lives haunted by doubts. Not that they couldn't \lave second thoughts about their own decision, but at least they will know why they made it. I have recently learned that Brother Conrad is now dead, but he left a great lega::y. Undoubtedly there are many of his students who, like my husband, still hear his voice when faced with making a decision. '"Always face reality!"
Canonized Martyrs Tribute Scheduled AURIESVILLE (NC) - Amer· ica's only canonized martyrs will be commemorated at the "Pageant of Martyrs" scheduled for Aug. 10-31. The pageant will be presented in outdoor performances at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs located at Martyrs' Hill overlooking the Mohawk River near this New York community. The pageant plans to pay special tribute to the North American martyrs killed here in the 1600s. They were canonized in 1930. ·Jesuit Father Thomas F. Egan, shrine director and promoter of the pageant, said: "We hope this heroic story of the martyrs will become known .to every Catholic household and inspire many to heroic action in this modern world." Jesuit Fathers John Barrett and John Reinke wrote the script and music for the pageant. Father Reinke is president of Loyola academy, Chicago, and Father Barrett is a member of the shrine staff wbo recently returned to this country after 37 years in India, where he was director of the Catholic' News Service of India and a correspondent for NC News Service.
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JEFFERSON CITY (NC)-Missour'i's two-year-old Free Text· book Act, which loaned several million dollars worth of school books to nonpublic pupils, was declared unconstitutional here by the Missouri Supreme Court. In a 6·1 vote, the state high court ruled that, because the textbooks went to pupils in relithat gious-affiliated schools, amounted to aid to religion. And aid to religion, the court noted, is explicitly forbidden by the Missouri Constitution. In the majority opinion by Judge J.P. Morgan, there was no reference to earlier U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have upheld similar textbook loan laws in other states. The opinion rejected the contention that the beneficiary of the law was the parent or the child, instead of the school attended.
Dome Railing Changed After Child's Death VATICAN CITY (NC) - The topmost part of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica suddenly turned for a day to a bridge-painter's orange - a mute acknowledgement of the tragic fall to death of a four-year-old girl from the dome on June 19. Maria Pasqua Agostino, a four-year-old child, fell to her death from the cupola of St. Peter's when she broke loose from her parents and tumbled through the iron railing that has protected literally millions of visitors on the narrow side of the cupola for centuries. Pope Paul was so distressed at the news of the tragedy that. he wanted to cancel his usual noon Sunday blessing, close aides said. However, he did· appear at his window on schedule but only visiting the parents of the dead child and placing a rosary in her tiny hands. The new iron railing, a glaring . rust-proof orange for one day, until it was painted over in a more subtle gray, carefully closes the large gaps between the individual bars which made it possible for the child to slip through the grating and fall approximately 150 feet to her death.
JUBILARIAN: Sister Victori.ne, SS.CC., who taught at the former Sacred Hearts School, Fairhaven from 1924 to 1970, was honored Sunday afternoon by priests, religious, former students and friends on the occasion of the 50th anni~ersary of her profession. Born Marie Visbecq in Paris, she now resides at the Sacred Hearts Academy in Fairhaven.
'(lome Get a Hot O:og' Bishop Sullivan's Installation Reception Is a Picnic in the Park RICHMOND (NC) - "In, our faith community there must be no elitist group, no distinction of persons," Bishop Walter F. Sullivan told the congregation at his instaHation as lIth bishop of Richmond. He then took the congregation of 1,500 on a picnic in the park across from Sacred Heart cathedral. The 46-year-old bishop chose the park picnic instead of a traditional banquet for his reception in order that more people might attend and "as a sign of our desire for identity with all men." , During the installation liturgy in the cathedral, Bishop Sullivan was escorted to the bishop's chair by Archbishop William D. Borders of Baltimore and Bishop John J. Russell, who retired 14 months ago as Bishop of Richmond. Bishop Sullivan, a priest of the Richmond diocese for 21 years and one of its auxiliary bishops since 1970, had served as apostolic administrator since Bishop Russell's retirement. At the two-hour evening reception, Bishop Sullivan stood in front of the park fountain to greet all guests leaving the receiving line occasionally to encourage nelighborhood kids to "come get a hot dog." Some Catholics had expressed concern over the bishop's decision to hold the reception in Monroe Park, the "home"- of street people and winos, but the even'ing passed without a hitch and a number of the park's inhabitants needed no coaxing to get hot dogs, sandwiches and soft drinks from the four tables
manned by local Knights of Columbus. Archbisbop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, who represented Pope Paul VI. at the installation, chatted with .families under a huge oa,k tree during the evening. In his lapel he wore a white daisy, part of the floral arrangement in the cathedr&l that was distributed after the ceremony to the piekni'ckers. Archbishop Jadot said the park reception was "a nice way to meet so many nice people." Folk groups from two of the diocese's parishes and a jazz trio provided mus'ic for the reception. In his homily, Bishop Sullivan said that, in leading men to Christ, "we must have the same concern for people as Christ did." . "Ours is a ministry of healing, of making whole," he said. "We must break down the walls of diviSIon, mistrust and alienation. We must be concerned about the poor, the lonely and those who suffer from prejud'ice and discrimination ... At all times, at every opportunity, we must proclaim the sacredness of life and the dignity of. the human person."
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Bishop Stresses Adult Vocations
ROME (NC)-ItaIy, in which ena WllO is apostol,ic adminis- the Second Vatican council. boys traditionally enter sem- trator of the diocese, and in that .Bishop Vallainc pointed to inaries at 11 or 12 years of capacity he has begun a push for the seminary of Colle di Val age, is now turning its attention adult vocations at the djocese's d'Elsa as an example of what can . NEW YO~K (NC) - On Sun- . 1973 and is former rector of to the possibility of promoting Sacred Heart Seminary. be done in Italy toward meeting Pastoral approaches in vocaday, July 21, parishioners of St. Keenan Hall dormitory there, has vocations among the more' mathe overall problem of the dearth ' tions should be geared to the Joseph's Church in New York's traded the wide skies of Indiana , ture adult. of vocations. 'man of today, said Bishop ValAuxiliary Bishop Fausto ValGreenwich Village reached for for summers as a staff priest in "Since it opened in 1968, this their bulletins at tr"e columned blistering Ne~ York. Both places lainc of Siena is' playing a lead- lainc who, prior to his elev,ation ing role in this move. He is ad- to the episcopate four years ago, Sacred Heart Seminary, seeks to portals of their old church. Read路 benefit. ing the mimeographed pages, His summer experiences coun- ministe~ing the diocese of Colle was chief press officer of the welcome ~he young and the less they received a treat instead of terbalance the internal tensions di Val d'Elsa for ,Archbishop Vatican's press center and had young who seek it out from of university life, tensions that Ismaele Mario Castellano of Si- served as press spokesman of every part of Italy," he said. a treatment. "No dog is an islana," began occasiorially develop into catas路 the bulletin's homily, written by trophies - as when six Notre Father Robert Griffin, a newly Dame football players' recently appointed :!'Notre Dame Univer- were dismissed after allegedly sity chaplain who s~mmers at St. being involved in the rape of an Joseph's. With a whimsical 18-year-old girl-as well as the sweep and command of the Eng- bigh moments of shared pride in lish language rarely expressed in achievements of a quality instituBREWSTER EDGARTOWN church bulletin prose, Father tion. ST. ELIZABETH OUR LADY OF THE CAPE Griffin, 46, a mountain of a man, To Notre Dame men imd womMasses: Sunday-9:00, '10:30 AM. (5:00 P.M. with. the soul of a priest and the en-and there are scores of them Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM., beginning June 30) eyes of the poet, began to talk in metropolitan New York-he and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 - 7:00 P.M. brings assurances -~that despite abou~ Alcuin, the rectory pooch. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-5:15 P.M. (Mon.-Fri.) things like students being aI-, Now there are some who , Daily-8:00 AM. 'except Wed. 7:30 P.M. Confessions-Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 P.M'. would say this was frivolous. lowed to have visits from the opposite sex in dormitory rooms, And there were, indeed. some EAST BREWSTER FALMOUTH parishioners that day who may and the fall-off of daily Com"ST. PATRICK munions, the university is not IMMACULATE CONCEPTION not qliite have heard some of Masses: Sunday-7:00. 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 and the readings of .'the Mass. They becoming "just another secular Masses: Sunday-8:30; 10:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M:' 5:30 P.M. were busy on a sweltering Sun- campus." Today's youngsters Saturday Eve-5:30 and 7:00 P.M. day enjoying the leaflet lesson may reject the institution of the BUZZARDSBAY Daily-7:00 A.M.路 Saturdays 8:00 A.M. drawn by Father Griffin from Church, but they are open to, the doings of the black and tan Christ and to values like love ST. MARGARETS Yorkshire terrier named for the and'decency. FALMOUTH HEIGHTS Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, I1:00, 12 noon eighth-century English scholar and 7:30 P.M. ST~ THOMAS CHAPEL and abbot of Tours, France, who, Fordham Program, Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11: 15 A.M. it is said, was an "educator Daily-8:00 AM. Saturday-4:30 P.M. For Handicapped among the Franks." Daily-8:00 A.'M. "Dogs were created to -be amNEW YORK (NC)-Living Li- . ONSET Effective June 22~Subject to change bassadors building bridges be- brary, a student-managed proST. MARY-STAR OF THE SEA tween people, and not as dragons gram at Fordham University HYANNIS guarding the gates of the heart," here which helps blind students I.1asses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Father Griffin wrote. He chron- study as rapidly and thoroughly Saturday-6:30 P.M. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER icled the goings and comings of as their sighted classmates, will Daily 9:00 AM. Masses: Sun~ay-7:00. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11 :00, Alcuin along Sixth Avenue in expand next -semester to include ,', 12:00 A.M. the tbrobbing Village, and his a job placement center for the , ,CENTERVILLE Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30"P.M. own good-natured cocker span- handicapped. 'Daily-7:00 and 8:00 AM. OUR L o\DY OF ,VICTORY Living Library. was organized. iel, Darby p'GiII, hack at Notre Dame. Should not people build last yearby the Fordham under- Masses: Sunday.,...7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 12 noon YARMOUTH PORT bridges of love among people, graduate Raymond J. Maguire, Saturday Eve.-:"5:00 and 7:30 P.M. 'too? Is. not that what Christ a disabled Vietnam veteran. SACIg!> HEART Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM. wanted? What would result if The program guaranteed blind First Fridays-Ultreya-8:00. P.M. Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:00 A.M. this happened? Students at the university the Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M. "Then the Darby O'Gills of the opportunity to secure standard WEST BARNSTABLE world could retire from their textbook tapes that might not be ambassadorsh'ips. Then the AI- ,: available from Recording for the MARIO.N OUR LADY OF HOPE cuins of Sixth Avenue could stop BHnd" Inc., the largest nation'ST. RITA being surrogates in the serv'ice of ,wide source, of taped textbooks. - Masses: Sunday-l0 AM. and 4:30 P.M. Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00, 11:15 AM. the bridge builder for whom the' More than 200 Fordham volunSaturday'Eve.-4:30 P.M: Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. poets bave used the metaphor of teers filled in the textbook gaps, Daily-8:30 A:M. _the Hound of Heaven but whose by making tapes of the unavailCENTRAL VILLAGE Friday-Benediction & Rosary 7:00 P.M. gentlest image is under the title able te~tbook material for those ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST of Lamb." needing them.
Notre Dame Chaplain Brings Breath Of Fresh Air to New York Parish
Mass Schedule for Summer Season
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Youth Open to Christ For eight years now, Father Griffin, 路a Maine man who was selected as the Notre Dame Senior Class Fellow of the class of
Recently, Living Library received admin'istration approval to expand its services by forming a job placement service for all handicapped students at the university.,
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NANTUCKET OUR LADY OF THE ISLE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:30, I1:00 AM. and 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 arid 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:30 AM.
SOUTH CHATHAM OUR LADY OF GRACE Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M: Full schedule begins June 22-23
EAST FALMOUTH ST. ANTHONY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M, Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7,:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M.
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ORLEANS ST. JOAN OF ARC Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, I1:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-:..s:OO A.M. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena-Wednesday ,Morning Mass at 8:00 AM. ' , Ma,~3es:
.. Picket Louisiana Abortion Clinic NEW ORLEANS (NC)--NearIy 200 housewives, grandmothern, husbands, children and clergymen gathered on the doorstep of Louisiana's first abortion clinic here on July 22 to march in the midday heat and protest the recent opening of the fadlity. The Dellta Women's Clinl;c, which has been plagued with legal headaches since it opened July 3, was closed except for counseling and laboratory work
because of a court order -that shut down the clinic pending interpretation of Louisiana's anti· abortion statutes. Balancing their babies on their bips and holding their placards high, the anti-abortion demon· strators represented various religious and civic groups throughout the city. In addition to the public demo onstration, the pro-life a::tivitists
said they have extensive plans that they hope wlll eventually put the clinic out of bus'iness for good. According to Bob Starnes, chairman of the Adoptive Coupic:> Together, and Mrs. Mary Jane Becker, chairman of the New Orleans Right to Life Association, plans are being made to consolidate all pro-life groups into a single large and effective organization.
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CHURCH OF THE VISITATION Masses: Sunday-8:30, H:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.--5:00 and 7:00 P.M. OSTERVILLE
OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.--5:00 and 7:30 P.M.' Daily-7:00 AM. Confessi.ons: Saturday-4:00 - 5:00 P.M. SANTUIT
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QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M. " Confessions: Saturday--4,:15 - 5:00 P.M. POCASSET
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30,10:30,11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.--5:00 and 7:00 P.M.. Daily':"-'7:30 AM. . . Confessions: Saturday - 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. and . following 7:00 P.M. Mass
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ST. PATRICK Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00,10:00,11:30 AM. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.--4:00 and 6:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 AM. and 9:00 A.M. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament follows the 7:00 AM. Mass and continues until 7:00 P.M. Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Tuesday: Mass of Peace and Justice 7:00 P.M. Schedule for July and August WEST WAREHAM ST. ANTHONY
Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday-7:00 P.M. Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses Schedule for July and August WELLFLEET
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CORPUS CHRISTI Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. and 12 Noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. SAGAMORE
ST. mERESA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. SOUTH DARTMOUTH
ST. MARY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM; & 7:~10 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. Saturdays only-8:00 A.M. SOUTH
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ST. PIUS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 A.M. 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-;-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM. BASS RIVER
OUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM. Daily-8:00 A.M. VrNEYARD HAVEN
ST. AUGUSTINE Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:30 AM. Saturday Eve.--4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions: Saturday-·2:30 - 3:30 P.M.
SACRED HEART Masses: Saturday-7:00 P.M. Sunday-9:00 AM. NORTH TRUgO
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11 :00 AM. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. WEST HARWICH
HOLY TRINITY Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. & 7:00 P.M. First Friday-Mass and Exposition 11 :00 AM. DENNISPORT
UPPER COUNTY ROAD OUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. WESTPORT
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Aug. 8, 1974
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Rosary Format Unchanged, Bishops' Committee Says WASHLNGTON (NC) - The traditional format for the rosary -'-three p:lrt.s of five decades each, with meditation on the traditional 15 mysteries-is not to be changed when the rosary is recited publicly, according to a letter sent to the U.S. bishops bythe National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) here. . In a brief lett.er Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, NCCB president, explained to the bishops that a clarification was needed because "in recent months there have been a number or requests for permission to experiment with the format of. the rosary." He' sent along with the letter a statement. by Cardinal John Carberry of' St. Louis, former chairman of the ad hoc committee that prepared the U.S. bish· ops'pastoral on Our Lady, "Behold Your Mother," explained that the pastoral letter was not intended to initiate changes in the format of the rosary when it is prayed publicly. Paragraph 97 of the pastoral letter "did contemplate further development in private recitation of the ros~ry of various mysteries," Cardinal Carberry wrote. "This was intended and suggested to give greater flexibility and freedom for personal meditation but always within the framework of the traditional 15 mysteries." According to Cardinal Carberry's explanation, the requets for
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experimentation seemed to be based primarily on an action by the Councilium of the Legion of l\1ary in Dublin, Ireland. In February 1974 the Con::ilium authorized the Legion of Mary in the United States to experiment with a four-decade rosary in place of the usual five and with two additional groups of mysteries entitled the Hopeful Mysteries and the Mysteries of Oblation (or Offering). 20 Mysteries
With a four-decade rosary and five sets of mysteries, the total number of mysteries under the proposed experiment would have been 20. Cardinal Carberry said, it was the consensus of the ad hoc committee that had drafted the pastoral letter, that "the pastoral letter on Our Lady did not intend experimentation with new mysteries in the public recitation of the rosary. "Actually," he continued, "in accordance with the recent directives contained in the (Vatican's) Directory on the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops any change in the mysteries of the rosary is not to take place without consultation with the episcopal conference and the Holy See." He quoted a portion of the Vatican directives which said that appropriate consultation was required for any such change "in view of the universal use made of this prayer."
BOSTON (NC)-Father Richard McBrien, nationally known author, lecturer. and immediate past president of the Catholic Theology Society of America, has been named director of the Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Service, it was announced here during a meeting of' the institute's members. A priest of the Hartford, Conn., archdiocese, Father McBrien is regarded as a liberal ,in his views .on the Church. He has been professor of theology at Boston College since 1966 and since 1972 has been chairman of the joint graduate program of Boston College and Andover Newton Theological Seminary. The institute prepares teachers of religious education and coordinators of parish education programs.
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11 :00 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:30 l!-nd 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 AM. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses Schedule June 22 'to Labor Day
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Cambodia Relief Director Honored
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Aug. 8, 1974
Jeb Magruder Relates One Man's Road to Watergate
PHNOM PENH (NC)-Father Philip McNamara, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program director in Cambodia, has been awarded the medal of the Commander of Sowathara, one of Cambodia's oldest and most prized decorations. Personally presenting the award, Cambodian President Lon N<;>1 praised Father McNamara for his work since March 1973 in direcflng the Cambodian relief and rehabilitatfon efforts of CRS, overseas aid agency of the U. S. Catholics. The president noted that CRS contributions to the welfare of the poor refugees in his country surpass that of all other agencies and his governmcnt combined. CRS in Cambodia reaches an 965,000 refugees estimated through mass food and clothing distr,ibutions. CRS medical teams treat approximately 1,500 Cambodian refugees daily.
Jeb Stuart Magruder is om! of the bright young men for whom Watergate has meant ruin. He tells of his experience before and after that turning point in An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate (Atheneum. 162 E. 38th St., N. Y. 10003. 338 pages. moved to California where lllustrated. $10). His book he Hewas employed by another :an be read for the inside in- giant corporation. He soon got . formation which it provides. married. The young couple was It can also be read as a cautiO/lary tale. It is as the latter, rather
than the former, that it has some Importance.
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JOHN S. KENNEDY Mr. Magruder was born in 1934, of old American stock which had known seasons of prosperity and seasons of adversity. Curiously, his grandfather Magruder once was supervisor of Baltimore County in Maryland, a position more recently held by Spiro Agnew. Thi.s same grandfather was later convicted of misapplication of $300,000 in bond funds and served a sixmonths' jail sentence. During the author's youth the family's circumstances were reduced, and Mr. Magruder's father made a modest living in a printing business. It was from his other parent that Mr. Magruder got his drive. "My mother's high hopes for me triggered my youthful ambitions," he says. "She 'wanted her sons to achieve the success that her husband had not." College
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He made it t() Williams College" where he was chagrined to find that his high school background was disadvantageous; the big men were prep school products. But he did manage to get into a fraternity, although not one of the ,best. One summer he worked on the assembly line of a New Jersey auto plant. The job was a killer until he learned how to cheat on it witho~t being detected by the inspector. Before completing col· lege he went into the Army. He was accepted for Officer Candidate School, but was booted out for missing study hall. He was sent to' Korea. ,After 21 months of service, he returned to Williams, and got another summer job as a salesman. He mastered the technique of loading up a storekeeper with products which he probably could not dispose of. "I was bothered by the ethics of what I was doing, but the fact remained that I did it well." Wanted Influence After graduation, he took a position with IBM. "I suppose it was because of IBM's aura of • power and prestige." His stay with that corporation was short even though his performance was acceptable.
posted from place to place. While ·in Kansas City, Magruder became interested, then active, in politics. ",Part of the appeal of politics," he writes, "certainly, had to do with my ambition. I had decided' early in life that simply to make money was not enough. I saw that the really important people, in America aren't those who are merely rich, but those who have political influence as well." Father McNamara, whose tour Business took him to Chicago of duty here is over, will be sucwhere again he was politically ceeded by William M. Howe of active. He proved to be an effecWest Hempstead, N. Y. tive political organizer. "I had WOUNDED CHAPLAIN: Father Joseph O'Brien, chaplearned ... from our stacking of our opponent's audiences, that lain at Huntsville State Prison in' Texas, was wounded practices that might not· seem .during a gunfight while being held hostage by convicts. SHAWOMET ethical were nonetheless com- NC Photo. GARDENS mon in the heat of a 'political campaign." , 102 Shawomet Avenue Once more in' California, he Somerset, MaH. launched two business ventures Tel. 674-4881 of his own, and prospered there. in. He worked for Richard.Nixon Taiwan Nurses Training Sc 00 I e 3Vz room Apartment before and during the presidenBy Scranton Catholics 4Vz room Apartmont tial· campaign of 1968, and in 1969 he was offfered a position SCRANTON (NC) - From the tached to St. Martin de Porres Includes heat, hot water, stove, reon the White House staff. It "mustard ·seed'; of $16,000 given . Hospital in Chiayi City in the Jri~e~ator and maintenance service. meant a reduction in income, but in 1971 by the Scranton Dioce- southern rural area, of, Taiwan. access to power. san Council of Catholic WomOccasional Qualms en to a community of Chinese He found that hardliners were nuns. on the island of Taiwan in command over ·him, and that has grown a nursing school the only way to get on was to . training 300 Taiwanese girls. be a hardliner ·himself. He con"They have already done much formed. He admits to occasional to alleviate the sufferings of the qualms. They were pragmatic, sick poor in our (Taiwan) rural caused not so much by the ques- areas," said Sister· Mary Pau~ Bonable means he was expected/- Watts, . the only Western~r in to use, as by the suspicion that" the Chmese order of the SIsters the tactics might be self-defeat- ' of Our Lady of China, who oper••• ing. ate the nursing school. Working in the Office of Com'"Our students work twice as munications, .he was part of an hard as the girls here," Sister operation aimed at manipulating Mary Paul said. "They have 12 public opinion. hours of school a day, six days for those who don't want to tie up their a week, eleven months of the No Sense of Shame Relatively tolerable, that. But year.. ~t's a ~our-y:ar course, Savings for long periods of time we also when it came to schemes plain- com~mmg sen.lOr. hlg~, school, have available the "convenient" REGIy illegal, Magruder, wanting to nursmg and mIdWIfery: . hang on to his position, did not The school of nursmg IS at· u~ passbook account earning 5.25% bridle. Wiretap the office of the chairman of the Democratic Na..
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ST. MARY, SOUTH DARTMOUTH The parish will sponsor an Old.Fashioned Country Fair from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. Saturday. Aug. 17, beginning with a miniparade on the church grounds, including contests for decorated doll carriages and bicycles. Officials note that contestants will be judged only on the articles decorated, not on their own costumes. Other program highlights will include accordion and organ recitations, dancing and acrobatics and a karate demonstration. A "bake-off" contest 'open to all will be directed by Mrs. Henry Ferry and Mrs. Frederick T. Preece. Other attractions will include children's and adults' games, it "treasures and trash" booth, a penny candy shop, handcraft and food tables and a country store. Ray Woodhouse will be auctioneer for an evening auction. A large variety of refreshments will be available and a grand prize drawing will take pl,ace Saturdli'y night. Tickets are available from all committee members or at the rect.ory. Workers for the event are still needed and volunteers may contact committee membE!rS or the rectory. SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Through the courtesy of Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, pastor of"St. William's Church, SS. Peter and Paul Parish will again hold its annual picnic at St. William's Center,Stafford Rd. at Maplewood Park, tomorrQw, Saturday and Sunday. Norm and Dot Hathaway's famous chowder-c1amcake supper at 5 P.M. Friday will kick off the three-day event. A mammoth auction will follow. ," A meat pie supper will be served at 5 P.M. Saturday with Las Vegas and penny sale to 'follow. Today's activities will begin with a flea market at 9 A.M. Las Vegas and penny sale are also scheduled Sunday starting at 6 P.M. Rev. Ronald A. Tosti is general chairman. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Mary Janick and the Hathaways. They are assisted by a large and enthusiastic committee. ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Final plans are being made for the annual parish outing, scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 11 at the St. Vincent de Paul Camp, Westport. Swimming, sports and games are on the agenda and those attending arc asked to bring their own lunches. ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO An Attleboro Area CYO Duckpin Bowling Tournament will be held on Tuesday night at the Attleboro Bowladrome on East St. H is open to all boys between the ages of 11 and 18. The entrance fee is $2.00 and it will include three strings of bowling and the rental of shoes. Applications .are available at the rectory.
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Sends Medical Aid to Africa NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Medical Mission Board (CCMG) has sent over $2.3 million in medicine to 949 African missions in 25 African countries since January, 1973. Includl1d was 32 shipments to hundreds of missions in African countries affected in varying degrees by drought. The devastating drought in the sub-Sahara region, which has resulted in famine, death and economic ruin for thousands, has been going on for six weeks. Such diseases as cholera, malaria, flu and pneumonia and others have taken the lives of thousands in th~ camps and those trying to reach havens of safety.
Diocesan Council Personnel to Meet PREPARE FOR FAIR: The Coutus of St. Mary's Parish, So. Dartmouth will make a family affair of manning a chowder and clamcake booth at the parish. country fair to be held Saturday, Aug. 10 on the church grounds. Making advance preparations are: front, David, William, Anne, Kathleen and James. Rear: Alfred holding Margaret, Elizabeth, Mrs. Alfred Coutu and Mary Ellen. Missing from the photo is Susan.
Number of Catholic Clergy Estimated LONDON (NC)-The latest reliable figure for the number of Catholic priests in the world is 418,400, a priest writing in The Times of London estimated. The estimate was given in a special article written in connection with the ,recent annual convention here of Serra International, an organization seeking to promote vocations to the priesthood, by Father James ForrestaH, pastor of St. Hugh of Lincoln parish in Manchester, recognized as an authority on clergy statistics. . , While the estimated Catholic population of the world has increased by a fifth since. 1960 from 550 million to 659 million, the number of priests has remained virtually static, Father Forrestall s~id. The number of diocesan and
religious priests arose from 418,000 in 1960 to 425,000 in 1969 but has since fallen to 418,400, he said. ,Europe, with 40 per cent of the world's Catholics, has more than 60 per ~ent of the priests, the article continued. Latin America, with 38 per cent of the world's Catholics, has only 10 per cent of the priests. One of the best staffed areas in the world is Tokyo; where in 1969 there was one priest for every 109 Catholics; Father Forrestall said. In contrast, Mexico City had one priest for every 6,016 Catholics. F;tther Forrestan contended that the minimum desirable ratio of Catholics to priests is 800 to 1. In England the ratio is about 600 to I, he said, and there are
still complaints of shortages in cities like Liverpool with large Catholic populations and in remote rural areas. A total of 3,440 diocesan and Religious priests resigned from the ministry between 1964 and 1970, Father Forrestall said. but there are no more recent figures to indicate whether the trend is going up or down. There arc no separate figures for England and Wales. The priest complained of a lack of statistical information in the Catholic Church. He sa,id a central statistical office set up in the Vatican two years ago has not produced very much yet. In England, many figures are available for individual dioceses but not ~or the country as a whole.
WASHINGTON (NC) - The first ::"Jational Conference for Diocesan Parish Council Personnel will be held Oct. 21-23 in Boston, it was announced here by the National Council of Catholic Laity (NCCL). Jointly sponsored by the New England Conference on Parish Councils and the NCCL, the program will bring together diocesan personnel involved in the development, promotion and formation of parish councils. The program will be directed to an examination of topics such as pastoral planning, goal setting, spiritual life, programming, skill development, and global considerations as they relate to - parish councils.
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'.Scores Colur,1nist's Report Of Farm Workers Meeting Two weeks ago in this column, quoting Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, I said that "American journalism is almost certainly the besUn the world." That's admittedly a big statement, but I am prepared to stick with it as a working rule of thumb. Obviously, however, Moyni- represent the majority of the workers involved in this controhan's dictum is subject to a versy. The growers will argue, in (lumber of glaring excep- turn, that that's the reason they tions. Take for example, a recent syndicated column on the California farm labor dispute by Vic Gold entitled "Entering Ce-
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sar's Season" (Washington StarNews, July 11). Gold 'starts off by explaining why his column is so entitled. "Cesar's Season...," he says, "is that part of the year when all of Cesar Chavez's slavering friends in the news media gather round to give ·h·is perennially sagging fortunes a shot in the arm." The rest of Gold's column, which is loaded with heavyhanded anti-Chavez sarcasm, is an example of American journalism at its worst - and, at its worst, American journalism can be very· bad indeed.
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Superficial Approach Gold's whole approach to the farm labor problem is terribly superficial and, from the point of view of journalistic standards, highly .unprofessional. He starts from .the unexamined premise that Chavez really doesn't speak for the farm workers of California. To the contrary, he says, "after 12 Cesar Seasons, the UFW is still at ground zero in its organizing campaign, according to Chavez himself. For while he's been busy promoting grape and lettuce boycottes the farm workers themselves, it seems. have been boycotting the UFW in droves." That's the lazy man's way of reporting on a very complicated problem. Instead of saying that this "seems to be what's happening in California, Gold should have gone to the Coast to find out for himself what is actually happening in the fields. In any event, having just returned from another series of farm labor meetings in Califor~ nia, I would deny that the "farm workers themselves ... have been boycotting the UFW in droves." To .be sure, the UFW has lost many of its contracts to the Teamsters, but that doesn't mean that- the workers themselves have deserted the UFW and opted for the Teamsters. It simply means, in my opinion, that the growers, for reasons best known to themselves, have decided that they prefer the Teamsters to the UFW. Only Fair Way 1 realize, of course, that there is a difference of opinion on this matter. The Teamsters stoutly maintain that they do, in fact,
have switched to the Teamsters. The only fair and sensible way to resolve this difference of opinion is to let the workers themselves decide, by free secret ballot elections, which union they want to represent them. The UFW has repeatedly called for such elections. As of this writing, however, the Teamsters and the growers have given no indication that they are willing to go this route. 'Consequently the UFW is left with no recourse but to continue its boycott of lettuce and grapes with th~ hope that this will eventually force the growers and the Teamsters 'to accede to free elections. It is pertinent to note that the Teamsters, by their own admission, have never held a meeting of the farm workers whom they claim to represent and have no intention of doing so in the immediate future, The UFW, on the other hand, is constantly holding rank-and-file meetings up and down the state of California. Chavez Meeting One recent such meeting in the Salinas valleY, where the Teamsters claim to represent the majority of the workers, was the biggest meeting of its kind I have ever attended. I would estimate that at least 75 per cent of the 3,000 workers who took part in the meeting are, technically speaking, Teamster members.Nevertheless, as Gerard 'sherry, editor of the San Francisco Monitor, reported to the NC News Service, it was Cesar Chavez' meeting all the way. Sherry, who is by all odds one of the best informed reporters in the United' States on the farm'. labor controversy and has forgotten more about this matter than Gold will ever know, reported: . "The size of the crowd at the Chavez meeting raised many eyebrows locally. It brought up again the question· of' how much support the United Farm Worker leader has among those under Teamster contracts. Some claimed that many of the farm' workers were from outside the' Salinas Valley and that they.had peen bussed in. However it ,would take many buses to transport 3,000 persons, and, only several were noted as parked in the area of the high school. "Chavez, whp spoke in English and Spanish, was obviously the hero of th'e evening. It was a hot and muggy night and the gymnasium was unbearably hot. Still, there was an overf.low crowd which cheered every word from the podium in the area bedecked with UFWA symbols. After the meeting, bodyguards had to break up the many farm wor~ers seeking to shake Chavez' hand. It took Ipore than 30 minutes to get him out of the building."
Youth Ministry Stud ies Replace Religion Classes YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-A broad .youth ministry program embracing doctrinal instruction, community development and service programs inside and outside the parishes will replace the present religion classes for public high school students in the six-county Youngstown diocese. Father Philip Conley, diocesan religious education director, said that the plan was adopted by. the diocesan religious board of education-composed of r,eligious educators, lay persons and prie'sts. It has been approved by Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown. The plan will not be mandatory until September, 1975, b\;it some 17 parishes have already agreed to pilot the program, Father Conley said, and he is. encouraging others to begin work on it immediately.
Each pastor has been asked to name a youth ministry director to replace the religious education director to name adult coordinators for each of the three areas - instruction, community
development and service projects. Under new guidelines, youth . programming will be on a yearround basis rather than the present school-year program, with a minimum of 75 hours, 25 hours for each of the interest areas.
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In laying down the new guidelines the board noted that the new program should be open to all parish youths but should be designed especially for those young people not receiving any other religious instruction.
Brother Celestin Morin, F..S.C. requests Anchor re_aders to send cancelled stamps to him at 139 Liberty St., Fall River 02724, his brother's address. He will be in the city until Saturday. Aug. 10 and would be especially grateful to have stamps before that time in order to save mailing costs to his headquarters in Quebec. Stamps sent after that date will, however, will be forwarded to him. Proceeds from their sale to dealers support the mission endeavors of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
Young people themselves, the board said, should be involved in planning and evaluating the three interlocking program areas and their parents should be kept informed on the progr.am's content, as well as progress with the option to evaluate the program in terms of their own child's growth and development.
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For three weeks ·in June I lived a kind of. schizophrenic existence. Most of the time I was living with persons grappling with problems of poverty and deprivation among Spanishspeaking Americans. But several days were spent with friends who might be considered moderately affluent. The contrast was thought provoking.
By FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J.
The Spanish-speaking men and women with whom I was working recalled from their own experiences tragic instances of hardship. One of the Sisters shared with us her personal experiences of growing LIp in a migrant-worker family. Others recounted tragic experiences of prejudice and injustice. The deep hurt that came through their personal revelations at times caused tears to well up in the eyes of most participants. Several visits to the "barrios" of San Antonio confirmed the extent to which poverty remains a painful reality for many Mexican-American citizens. What I saw in the "barrios" and heard
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from my co-workers at the Mexican-American Cultural Center was a first-hand revelation. It made me realize that millions Df our Spanish-speaking fellow Americans are in desperate need. My friends in San Antonio, too, just a few minutes drive from the "barrios." I visited them several times during my three week stay. They live in a large, comfortable home and enjoy the good things of American affluent society. Ed has a good job, works very hard, and earns a fine salary. He and Jane have six children, all of whom are attending good private schools. The oldest girl attends an Ivy League college. These moderately affluent friends are one of the finest Catholic families I know. They are intelligent, sensitive, generous. Their life-style is moderate compared to others of equal means. They have always been involved in civic, political and church projects, particularly in the area of social justice. As long as I have known them they have used their considerable gifts to help others, especially anyone' in need. Responsibilities of the Affluent The alternating rhythm of being with them in their comfortable home and being in contact with the poverty of San Antonio as "barrios" gave vise to painful questions. What is the responsibility of the "affluent" to their Turn to Page Fourteen
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Until very recently most of us who live in America were not aware how much richer we were than the rest of the world. Until very recently we may have thought that the difference was one of degrees of convenience, comfort and luxury. Now we know that the difference is between great luxury and lacking
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the means to survive at subsistence level. And we were really quite unaware of the dynamics of poverty and of the accumulation of wealth in the world. We were unaware of the extent. to which we control the occurrence' of poverty and starvation. We assumed that some people would always be poor, but it would not be those who worked hard, saved prudently, and spent carefully. Out of our ignorance we drew some theological conclusions. We shnply assumed that if we were rich it was the sign of God's blessing on our lives, hard work and careful planning. We
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assumed that if others were poor it was because God ordained it so..Therefore we were also able to conclude that God, who knows best, has so disposed things that some are rich and some are poor, and all should accept this. as God's will without complaining or rebelling against it. The rich should practice generosity by giving a little of their super-abundant wealth to the needy, but according to this understanding no one seriously though the rich might have to become very much poorer so that others might live. Now that we know more, we have lost our innocence. We can no longer draw these simplistic theological conclusions without some very careful rethinking. Sin Creates Poverty Today we know that Americans are rich, not simply because God ordained it this way while men had no hand in it other than by working hard and making the best of their resources. Today we know that Americans are rich because they took his rich land and its natural resources from the Indians by force of firearms, slaughte~ ing and dehumanizing vast numbers of innocent people. They are rich because they exploited the natural resources of the land by the slave labor of inTurn to Page Fourteen
By WILLIAM E. MAY According to the dictionary an affluent person is one who has plenty because goods "flow to" him. In a sense the person who has much, has plenty, is one who has received what the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle termed a "good of fortune." It is not that an affluent person may not have worked, and worked hard, for the plenty that he enjoys; nonetheless he probably would not be. affluent were it not for a "little bit of luck." Although many individuals have, to a large extent, made it on their own, as it were, by "pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps," it still remains true that there has to be a boot to which one can fasten his bootstrap. And that boot is other men, other human beings who have given him some kind of support when the need arose. Many of us Christians are fortunate to be affluent, to be persons to whom goods flow. As Christians, however, we know that Jesus blessed those who were poor in spirit, that He said that it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, and that a young man on whom He looked with love and invited to come and follow Him turned down the invitation because "he had many possessions." Thus a dilemma arises for the affluent Christian, a tension springs up within him. On the one hand he feels gratitude to God who has blessed him so munificently; on the other hand he realizes' that the goods he possesses may be keeping him from that God, may be blinding him to a good that cannot be priced but can' only be prized. Human Existence It is here, I believe, that some reflections on the meaning of human existence as shown to us in the Person of Jesus can be' of immense significance. Jesus, we know, was the Word of God addressed to men. He was, like us, fully human, _and He came to show us both who God is and who we are. He showed us that the God who made us is a God who is in love with us, a God who is our Emmanuel, that is, a God who is with us and for us. He showed us that we men are the kind of beings whom God Himself) could become if He willed to "other" Himself. He showed us that we truly are "images" or "ikons" of the living God. We are the created words that the uncreated Word could and in fact did become. Like the God we image, we are to exist with and for our fellow men. We are to be, in a sense, his vicars or representatives. The men around us, yes, those nameless' persons we bump into in the elevator or bus or subway or street are, like us, "words" of the God who is love. In ·responding to them we respond to God's call to choose life and come, follow him.
AFFLUENT NEIGHBORHOOD: Catholicism is more identified with suburban plenty than inner-city poverty. Children play kickball in -a Maryland suburban neighborhood. NC Photo. . The deeds we do are, as it were, the "lines" we speak. No one has written these lines for us; we have to do this for ourselves. But in speaking them we are, in truth, responding to the invitation God is giving us, and giving us in the person of those whom we encounter day by day. The affluent Christian, by reason of his position in society, is in a position to listen more closely, perhaps, to what his fellows are saying.' The riches that he possesses may, if they possess him and not he them, drown out the words spoken to him. But his task is to listen, and' to listen carefully, to what is being said. He is the one who can offer support in their struggle to find themselves, to discover their own identity. When the need arises, he may be the one who can come to their rescue by giving them the strength
they need both to know what they are to do and to do what they come to know they must do if they are to be fully men. Good is OutMowing The good, philosophers tell us, is "diffusive of itself." That is, it is an urge to expand, to go outside of itself and to spi1l over into what is not itself. It is outflowing, not centered on itself and solely inflowing. That, I believe, is the task of the affluent Turn to Page Fourteen
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Praises Religious Particip~tion In Bicentennial Obs'ervance WASHINGTON (NC)-The administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration has praised religious involvement in celebrating the na~ tion's 200th birthday. 'Administrator John W. Warner said here ~hat "just as religion !tas made a major, contribution to the founding and 'growth of this nation, the religious community is making important contributions to the observance of the nation's bicentenniaL" The observances, he 'noted, range from special prayer days in local churches to two-yearlong national programs focusing on the role of religion in the future. In New York, Project FORWARD' '76 is working to "facHitate planning for, strong spiritual and religious emphasis in observances of the American bicentennial. Formed by ,the Interchurch
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Continued from Page Thirteen less fortunate' neighbors? This is not just a theoretical question. To what extent does a family have the right to send six children to good schools at c;onsidcrable expense when others a few blocks away are unable even to read or writ.e? Some cif the more militant minority leaders I was with would probably condemn my friends. They would point out that, they have no right to superior educational opportunities whil~ others remain illiterate, They might question my friends' right to live in a comfortable home while their fellow citizens' live in poverty on welfare. Examine Basic Values Others would argue that it is just such intelligent. sensitive, and generous families that are most needed to gradually bring about change in society, change that will improve the IQ.of all Americans. Good education, broad experience, and effective social-political skills are desperately needed in the fight against poverty and injustice. The achievement of slJch educational, social and political skills normally demands a certain degree of financial security or "affluence:" For Catholics who are financially secure, tne practical questions of how to use their finances can be painfully ambiguous. Each Christian must answer these real questions within the concrete circumstances of his or her life. However, as religious educators we need to help people become more able to make concrete decisions in a truly Christian way. Affluence can be the soil of selfishness. It can also provide the necessary means of effectively helping others. Money can be ,a force of selfish oppression or of unselfish liberation. Religious education needs 'to encourage people to look honestly into their hearts and examine their basic values. Personal contact with the poor and disadvantaged is almost a necessary part of that kind of honest value clarification. So, too, is Christ's insistent call to share with others what has been given us by our generous Father.
eenter, wMch houses offices of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizatinos, Project FORWARD '76 offers research and' technical help, to other groups around the country interested in religious observances of the bicentennial. ' Services available include a national information bank with plans, programs and materials; a newsletter; planning assistance by national and regional staff personnel; and scholarly research. "Liberty and Justice for All" is the bicentennial theme of the Catholic ,Church in the United , , States. National Conference Announced by the National Conference of Catholic Bfshops' Committee for ,the Bicentennial, the program began this September and wiII culminate in a national conference in the fall of 1976. The central purpose of the program is· to "elicit from the Catholic community an expression of the mea'ning of 'liberty and justke for aiL' " The National Conference of Christians and Jews is putting special emphasis on "Human Relations in Century III." Along UNIVERSAL FAMILY MEANS AID: We assume that with forums conducted throughif others were poor it was because God had ,ordained it so. out the country on that subject, the conference plans to issue a A refugee child arrives at a Palestinian school with a meager Declaration of Interdependence lunch. NC Photo. in 1976. The Greek Orthodox archdiocese of North and South America has received a commendation faith is not one who created Continued from Page Thirteen by its bicentennal committee long ago· a world that now has nocent Africans' ~hom they cap. recommending a meeting of the Clergy-Laity Congress. in Phil- 'tured by force of firearmS, its definitions and its bolindaries, adelphia during the week of July dragged away from home and but a God, of the living who cre4, 1976; completion of the Shrine family and tribe, deprived of ates today and tomorrow and of St. Augustine, Fla., which their own' cultural heritage and who invites men to participate commemorates the arrival of the brutalized beyond recognition. in His wisdom and co-create first Gree)<s ,i'n America; and They are rich because as the with Him, accepting full responconsecration in 1976 of the Ca- population reached optimum sibiHty for' realizing the dignity thedral of St. Sophia in Washing- level for economic prosperity, and the destiny of all mankind they set immigration quotas, and of every man. ton, ,0, C. particularly for the non-caucaWe who are Christians see the sian races, to exclude the needy Start Anti-Abortion . . I peoples of the earth from these fulfiIlment of man anticipated in' natural resources. "They are rich the person of Jesus, who always Drive in Norway, OSLO (NC) - A campaign to' because they continue to' use ·points to the oppression of the oppose the governing Labor par- their superior bargaining power poor and the weak as the unfin· ty's proposal for removing many of deadly weapons to. drive hard ished work of history. More than restrictions against abortion has bargains with the poor of the that we assert that in Christ as, been launched by the People's world in international trade, the last Adam, mankind must be Action Against Volunt.ary Abor- constant'ly widening the .gap reunited from the broken fragbetween rich and poor, . ments of the first Adam, that is tion. to say, that in Christ men must Initially funded with $30,000, Now that we are able to see the organization will focus on that that is why we are rich, and come to realize themselves as molding public opinion to op- that our policies progressively one universal family, sharing the pose abortion, thus pressuring make other countries more poor r common inheritance of the earth the labor party to abandon its and more dependent, we can that is given by God to all mankind. One of the characteristic proposal. ' scarcely close our eyes and as'- signs of the early communities. The governing Labor party has sert that God is the One who of the followers of Jesus is that presented to parliament a procreates the difference between there were no poor among them posal that would remove all rerich and poor. It is truer to 'say because the strong and the powstrictions against abortion until with the prophets of Israel that erful and the lucky were no the 12th week of pregnancy, Beit is sin that creates the poverty longer unscrupulously taking adtween the 12th and 18th week, of .'th.e poor and that it is very vantage of the weak and the una medical commission would deseldom their own sin but rather fortunate. cide whether to permit an aborthat of the rich and powerful. t,ion, and from the 18th to the Our Christian understanding 25th week, an abortion could be Universal Family of salvation is intimately con'obtained only when the mother Positively, our theology has nected with the recognition of is seriously ill or is suffering from a grave hereditary d~fect. something very important to say all that we ha.ve as gift, as someAccording to Sverre Jansen; a to this question, which begins, thing held in trust for those in leader of People's Action, some with the doctrine of creation. need, and with theac}mowledgesupport for the organization has The, God of Genesis and of the ment and repair of injustices come from within the Labor New Testament does not create among individuals and peoples. party and the Socia,I,ist Electoral out of nothing but out of chaos, It is also intimately connected League, an association. of three and again and again He finds a with an attitude of seeking sesocialist political parties and ,the new chaos made by men's sins curity in the love of people and socialist wing of the Labor party. and a new work of creation-of not in the accumulation and proPeople's Action is· also backed by bringing order out of it-that tection of materiall goods to the has to be done. The God of our exclusion of others. Bishop John W. Gran of Osio.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - The United States Catholic Conference (USCC). Committee on So~ cial· Development and World Peace considered issues of international justice and human rights during a recent two-day meeting here. Among the issues discussed were amnesty for Vietnam era conscientious objectors and draft evaders, capital punishment and conditions in several areas of the' world, including Cuba, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and South Vietnam. In the only action disclosed by committee' spokesmen in a brief statement wa"!> the appointment of ad hoc committees to study some of these issues in depth. One such ad hoc committee will deal with the "general areas of United States-Cuba relations and the role of the Church therein." Reports from this and other ad hoc committees will be received at the next meeting of the full USCC committee in December, accordJing to the statement. Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, president of the USCC, had ordered the inclusion of alleged violation of the human right~ of Cuban political prisoners on the committee's agenda after receiving extensive documentation detaildng torture and 'maltreatment of prisoners from Dr. Humberto Medrano, a Miami Cuban exile who is the national coordinator of the committee to Denounce Cruelties to Cuban prisoners. The committee on Social Development and World Peace is an advisory body to the USCC's Administrative Board, the organ· lization''S policy-making body,
The Christian Continued from Page Thirteen Christian, He has much, and the plenty that he enjoys is his in large measure because of "luck" or "fortune" or God's grace. His task ,is to listen, and to listen carefully, to reality, to truth, to the men about him. He is to listen so that he can utter his own word, can make his own response, to the God who is summoning him, and his response is to be one of outgoing love, of a goodness that reaches out to others and that realizes that its wealth consists not in possessing much but in being possessed by a God who has Himself. become an incarnate Word spoken to men.
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Lutheran Monk Looks Forward To Christian Unity Under Pope DAYTON (NC)-A Lutheran monk from Sweden who feels both sides in the 16th Century Reformation have benefited from the experience thinks it might now be time for all Christian churches to unite under a Catholic Pope. The Rev. Ingmer Svanteson, a member of the ecumenically oriented Holy Cross Brotherhood of Sweden, said he considers the more than four centuries. since' the start of the Reformation "a period during which we have been separated from the mother Church." Asked if he thought Protestant Christian leaders should move toward full reunion with the Catholic Church by accepting the rule of the Pope, Father Svanteson told NC News Service: "I feel we all could go back to the Catholic Church with the Pope as titular head of the united church." However, Father Svanteson said he had no idea how many Protestant leaders today would find such an alliance to their liking. Asked if he felt the' reunion
Political Prisol1ler Honored by Nuns DENVER (NC) - A woman political prisoner on hunger strike in South Vietnam has been given honorary membership in the community of the Sisters of Loretto, it was announced here. The· order's general assembly conferred the honorary membership on Mrs. Cao ThiQue Huang; a 33·year-old philosophy teacher, "in a spirit of gratitude for the recognition of your great courage and steadfast dedication to truth," Sister Helen Sanders, president of the Sisters of Loret· to, said in a letter' to Mrs. Huang. Mrs. Huang, who began a hunger strike on June 17, is held in a center for "returnees from communism" in Tam Hiep village 18 miles from Saigon, not far from Hiep prison where 18 women prisoners were killed by a community rocket attack in early June. She told a British reporter reo cently that she was arrested in January 1973-after her husband had died in prison on hunger strike-"for troubling the public order because so many monks and prisoners' relations came to the funeral."
tation problem of an Upper Volta refugee camp with the help of 50 donkeys. Although Gorom Gorom, a town in northern Upper Volta, has been hard-hit by the drought which has piagued West Africa for the past seven years, the neighboring countries of Mali Niger have suffered even more. As a result, refugees from these countries have crossed into the small town where at least there is some water and vegetation for livestock. Several thousand refugees have set up tents about a mile from town. Unti,l Msgr. Landi visited the area, the refugees' only means of obtaining water was to haul it by hand from the town to the camp. Gorom Goram means "sit down! sit down!" in· the local tongue, and after the daily water runs, sitting down was about all the refugees were capable of doing. Msgr. Landi solved the problem by purchasing 50 donkeys at $4 each with CRS funds. Now each day, a procession of donkeys-bags of precious water strapped to their backs-may be seen making the tedious and steep journey back and forth from the refugee camp to Gorom . Gorom. Prior to leaving the town, Msgr. Landi asked Redemptorist Father Bidau, who runs the local mission, to be sure that even the donkeys are extended the cour. ,tesy of Gororn Gorom and permitted to rest several times a day.
. IRONING BOARD ALTAR: Redeinptorist Father John Kelly celebrates Mass on an ironing board, which serves as a portable altar, in the middle of a potato farm near Dover, Del. The 12,000 migrants will be working in the Delmarva Peninsula of the diocese of Wilmington until November. NC Photo.
Catholic Agency Disburses American Aid SAIGON (NC) - This is a happy story about American aid to South Vietnam, a story of American money and materials and advisors being sent to the aid of a beleaguered' people by the express order of the United States Congress. 'With the recent war. in mind, that story may sound only too familiar, but this story has nothing to do with a military buildup involving machines of war. Rather it is a story of an American attempt to help children who are hungry and mothers who are desperate. Simply told: the story is this: Congress has given $7.2 mil·
lion to several American voluntary agencies in order to enrich the lives of thousands of Vietnamese hovering on the edge of life. The largest share of this American gift, $2.3 million was given to the U.S. Catholic overseas aid agency, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which has been working in this battered country since 1954 and today aids 600 groups or institutions throughout Vietnam. The director of CRS in Vietnam is Philadelphia-born Father John McVeigh of the diocese of Reno, Nev. Sitting in his office of Pasteur
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under a Pope with proclaimed infallibility would present an insurmountable obstacle, the Swedish churchman replied: "I personally do not think it would be impossible to accept a Pope under the theory of his infallibility." The Lutheran monk explained in an interview that his brotherhood has as its "special task" the assignment of "praying and working for the visible unity of all Christians." • "To pray for Christian unity is, without any doubt, our most important task - knowing that unity is a giH from God, which can't be achieved by human efforts and without divine grace," he said earlier in a lecture at the University of Dayton. In his lecture, he stressed that the Lutheran Church-the amcial church of Sweden - has a stron~ Catholic heritage. "The Church of Sweden was not founded by the reformers of the 16th Century, as the church was already there for more than 500 years as a part of the European Catholic unity during the Middle Ages," he explained.
Priest·· Solves Water Transport Problems in African Community NEW YORK (NC)--Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the over· seas aid agency of the United States Catholic Conference, has reported that its assistant director, Msgr. Andrew P. Landi, recently solved a water transpor-
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