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HARRISBURG (NC)-':"The re- vania parents in the exercise of cenI U. S. Sup'reme Court deci- their rights."

The Pennsylvania hierarchy sion voiding two state aid programs .benefiting non public was critical of the high court's schools '.'ominously points to a warning in the recent r.uling that state monopoly," according to questions of state aid to church· the. 20 Catholic bishops of Penn- related education present "hazAn Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul .. sylvania. . ards of religion intruding into In that threatened' monopoly, the political arena."

"This warning must be ret~~ bishops s~id,"parental rights Fall River, Mass. Thursday, August 19, 1971 -if acknowledged at . aU-will jected," the bishops said. "There be exercisable only 'by the can be no political liberty in a Vol. 15, No. 33 © 1971 The Anchor PRICE lO¢ · wealthy; by those who can bear society which religious groups $4.00 per yea, both the burden 'of school taxes and individual believers, as such, and of, the separate added cost may not speak out on public issues. There can be no religious .of nonpublic schooling."· . The right of parents to edu- liberty in a sociey in which pubcate their children in schools of their religious choice is' guaranl teed by the U. S. Constitution, said Cardinal John Krol of PhilaBOSTON (NC}-Loyal Cathodelphia and other bishops of the lics should close ranks against state's Roman and Eastern rite rebellious theologians who have · dioceses. declared war against the Church, In their statement, released by Rev. George Nolan has been a prominent Boston attorney the Pennsylvania Cathoiic Contold the Catholic Central Union ference· here, the bishops re- appointed assistant to the rector of America convention here. ferred to a 1925 Supreme Court of St. Columban's Seminary, Calling for a "rebirth of loyal. decision .invalidating an Oregon Bristol, R. I., it was announced ties" in both the Church and the Law which required all children by Very' Rev. Hugh O'Rourke, director of the Columban Fathers nation, Edward B. Hanify said: ... to attend public schools.

"We need Americans who can "The child is not the mere cre- in North America. say with conviction I pledge ature of the state," the court had For the past two years, Father allegiance to my flag, and Cathruled then in the "Pierce' case.

Nolan, 39, has been in the Virgin olics who can say with faith I But the bishops said the high Islands, where he set up and . believe in one holy Catholic and court's June 28 decision-out- directed a new on-the-job trainapostolic Church)' lawing a Pennsylvania purchase- ing program for Columban deaof-secular-services law and a cons, which enables them to * Rhode Island nonpublic teac.hers' gain practiCed pastoral experiAtty. Edward B. Hanify, salary supplement act-"makes ence in an actual misllion situa- . former Fall River resident . . :no men~ion" of a parent's' r;·ght. tion. and son of the late Judge and to choose a different form of Mrs. Edward B. Hanlfy graduA native of North Attleboro, .education. for his child. ated from B.M.C. Durfee High the missionary attended St. . Edward B.· Hanify " The bishops said they were Mary's School there and studied School in 1929 and from Holy and confident that the at various Columban seminaries "hopeful Cross College in 1933. commonwealth (of Pennsylvania) before his ordination in 1956. calling for abortion and feticide, pre-marital and extra-marital will promptly enac~ new legislaThe Central Union, founded in sex, divorce, artificial birth con- tion which, whatever its form, After postgraduate studies in 1855, is one of the oldest Cathwill come to the aid of Pennsyl- Canada and Rome, Father Nolan Turn to Page Seven olic lay organizations in the United States.

Hanify criticized "anti-estab~ lishment" theologians whom he said have attacked traditional Church doctrine.

They are engaged in a "rodent Commemorating his 93rd birth-. revolution," he said, "gnawing day and 63rd anniversary as a . away by a series of .illegal acts" at the fabric of the Church and priest on two successive days constitutes an experience unique American society. in the life of any' man. But for' i One of the main targets of the 4 "anti-establishment establish- Rev.. Msgr. E;.S. de Mello, pastor 1 ment," Hanify said, is the. pro- emeritus of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Taunton the two days cess by which bishops'. are were commemorated in a manelected. .

The theologians, he said, cry ner typical of Monsignor de f for more democracy in the pro-· Mello's entire life-in a prayercess of selecting bishops, but ful and tranquil atmosphere.

His daily Mass in his study they seem to ignore the possibilbecame a Mass of Thanksgiving ity that the Holy Spirit might and then the happion Monday have democratic leanings. ness that always permeates the Hanify denounced "so-called tranquil individual was evidenced modern liberal theologians," say-' at seeing the joy that his priest'ing they favor a new morality visitors experienced at' being I together.

One of the moments of elation on Monday was when a congrat.Bishop Cronin will lead" a ul~tory message from President large delegation of diocesan and Mrs. Nixon arrived at the CCD leaders, catechists, coorrectory. dinators and interested laity, Although retired and 93,no priests and religious to the one should presume that the 25th New England Congress beloved Taunton monsignor is of Religious Education openinactive. Daily Mass in his study ing tomorrow at Boston Colfollowed by the recitation of DUAL CONGRATULATIONS: Rev. Msgr. E. S. de lege.

Divine Office and the Rosary Mello, seated, pastor emeritus' of Our Lady of Lourdes, Bishop Gerrard and Bishop are the life-long habits that have Connolly will join Bishop Cromade Monsignor de Mello the Taunton is congratulated by Rev. Antonio C. Tavares, assistant pastor ~n the occasion of the prelate's twofold tranquil man he is. nin in the opening conceleTurn to Page Six brated Mass. anniversary.

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lie issues may not be discussed in their religious dimension."

Citing another part of·the recent ruling, the bishops noted the high court had also stated that "religion must be a private matter for the individual, the family and the. institutions of private choice. / "Religion is ind~ed a private matter," the bishops said, "but i.t is far more than that. Since the founding of the republic and the founding of .the commonwealth, it has been deemed, in an important sense, a very public matter."

F:r. George Nolan was assigned, in 1960, to St. Columban's Major Seminary in Milton, as a professor and also dean. In 1967 he became vice rector of a seminary, a post he held until his transfer to the Virgin Islands.

Devoted exclusively to the foreign missions of the Church, the Colurnban Fathers now number more than 1,000. They staff mission parishes and schools, operate clinics and hospitals, and direct self-help projects of various kinds in seven nations of the Far East and Latin America.

Cardinal Pleads FOIr Modesty In Dress VATICAN CITY (NC) - The cardinal vicar of Rome who governs the Eternal' City in the Pope's name has. added his voice to the uproar Qver what Italian churchmen deem .immodest women's clothing.

Cardinal Angelo dell'Acqua, vicar general of Rome, has issued a letter addressed to the' hordes of tourists expected to visit Rome, pleading for modesty in dress and respect for the Church and the "sacred character" of ·the city of Rome.

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,Philad'elphia 'For. Convention', ':Of CLC 'Envoys More than 25 - young people ,and their adult ,advisQrs ffom the Fall River area will attend the Biennial Convention of Christian Life Communities , which, will take place in Phila'delphia. The Convention begins on 'Thursday, Aug. 19 and fin-' ishes on Sunday, Aug. 22.

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The young people come from. area schools. Bishop Connolly High School has the largest representation and Bishop Gerrard High, School', is a close second.

Sr. M. Albertus, RSM and Sr., Arlene Wood, RSM will represent the latter. Brother Theodore Li'ltendre, '. Brother' Louis St. Pierre; F.r.C. and Rev. 'Mr. Richard Roos, SJ are going as 'ad: visors. to tre Bishop Connolly '. '. " group.," F,our former presidents (pre'lects) 'of CLC's will he iri attenda'nce from t.his area. They have ,all, been in charge of Monsignor Prevost· High School Sodalities.

Rev. Mr. Paul Carrier" SJ (68), James Ford (69) Donald Boucher (70) and Pierre Patry (71) . will.attend. as delegates from the Queen of Peace Union of CLC's.

Over 700 CLC members of the United States are expected to attend the national convention.

In .addition to major addresses, there will be a series of 26 work-~ shop presentations covering important aspects, of the ,CLC movement.

The convention will' open with an address by NFCLC president Fred C. Leone, Ph.D. Dr. Leone's presentation will explore'· the theme of' the convention: "Towards Life, Challenge and 'Action." A professor of statistics lJ,nd indu'strial engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Dr. Leone is also vice-president of the World Federation of Christian Life Communities.

CLC is the 20th century version of the 400-year-old Sodality 'movement. The National Federation in the United States is the parent group for 185 individual CLC units, composed of men, women and. youths., John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of' Philadelphia, will be the principal celebrant' at a liturgy for convention participants at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

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AUG. 23 Rev. Thomas Clinton, .1895, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich.

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CCD CONGRESS CHAIR~EN: Sessio~s lat t?~ 25th ':Lync,h, R~M and Sr. Ba~bara Ri!ey, RSM, both coordinators New England Congress of RelIgIOUS EducatlOl1 opemng at. at Immaculate ConceptIon ParIsh, No. 'Easton; Sr. Susan Boston College tomorrow will be·chaired by the following' Connell, RSM, coordinator at St. Mark's, Attleboro, Falls; Diocesan leaders; Sr. Evelyn Rogers: ~USC, RfHgiQUS Co°, ' and Mr. Fra~ds Waring, 'a member of the ,Diocesan Execu-

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On Friday, Sept. 10 the' La " . The Blessed Mother-'s visit to ince .which and the Eastern Unitetl States; are Salette vocation team, a group La Salette was one of three to ex,p~cted .to attend! the ~ePt. 19 of Priests and brothers charged earth from' 1846 to 1917; the services. . with securing candidates for reli- others are Lourdes and Fatima. " •"The entire mon ,his (ntended gious life, will sponsor' an all- Probably the least known, the not only, to pay h~magei to' Our night vigil for, vocations in the Apparition at La Salette is the Lady, but to recall for ~ll of us , Shrine chapel. L'Union St. Jean only one to cause formation of the powerful mes age she de- Baptiste will hold, a pilgrimage a religious order-the Missionlivered at La Salette in 1846," in honor of Our Lady of La aries of Our I;ady of La Salette. according to Rev. Jl Normand L. Salette the following Sunday, Mary's Message V~illancourt; M.S.,! La: Salette Sept. 12.

Presently numbering approxOn the three evenings before' imately 1,000 men, the spreading 'Superior. Mary ap~earedi to two peasant children on a mountain the feast day-Sept. 16, 17, and of ,the message gven by Mary side and told 18-La Salette is sponsoring a to two peasants; Maximin and , in' Southern 'Fr1nce I ' them of her conc~rn O1J'er' sin Solemn Triduum. Each evening Melanie. She told the cowherds an~ issued a call f~r a rJturn to at 7:30 there will be a Mass and tha,t she had appeared to give the Gospel and the Christ,ian life. a homily on a La Salette theme. them 'the "great news."

Archbishop Medeiros "This message is las pertinent This included her great conArchbishop Medeiros will pretoday as it ever .was," I Father I cern for sins committed by "Her side at the principal celebration Vaillancourt states'I' !

People." She called on them to on Sunday, Sept. 19. Designed celebrate the Eucharist more, Bishop Cronin I Bishop Cronin ~i11 open the as an ecumenical prayer service meaningfully and to pray more observance on SunCiay, Sept. 5 to include ministers of other de- often. She challenged Christians at 7:30 P.M. when 're will cele- nominations from the Attleboro to renew their baptismal combrate Mass. Immediately Ifollow- area, this will be held following mitments and to pass over from ing this, a special !lightipg dis- a 3:30 P.M. sacred concert by their alienation from God and play will be turned on for the the Peloquin Chorale under the another through the Sacrament month. This will highlight the direction of C. Alexander Pelo- of Penance and to celebrate their replica of the lodtion lof the quin. covenant of reconciliation in the IIi case of rain, this event will liturgy Apparition which iJ behind the of the Eucharist. be held at St. John's Church, outdoor chapel on Route 1I8.

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Bishop Flanagan will close the month's observance on Sunday, Funeral Home Sept. 26, when he will, preside 571 Second Street Washingt,on' lBishop 'Stresses' at a 3 P.M. prayer service.

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Multi-Media PreSentation , In Farm Labor Dispute ,j', 679-6072 In addition, a diorama deMICHAEL J. McMAHON YAKIMA (NC)-Bishop Cor- , Christ. Christ was not indiffer- scribing the Apparition and the l Registered Embalmer nelius M. Power of Yakima is- ent to the needs df the poor; ,worlds of 1846 and 1971 has Licensed Funeral Director sued a pastoral plea to both Christ was not pa~sive in the , been painted in the shrine chapel farm workers a~d gro.wers h:re , face' of injustice., I I

by Jack Costa of East Provito temper their actIOns ,With "c' h . t h . d th .' .' ns campIOne e cause dence. A continuous, multi-media chanty durmg the current farmf th H .1 t' 0 e poor; e spOKe ou., cour- presentation of the Apparition · t e. ' Ia bor d ISpU ,.1 Wilfred C. 'h es 0 f ageously for the ruzhts of the itself and relics gathered from In ' a Ie tt er t'0 a II ch urc ' .

'1"'. the site of the visit are included Chnst was outspo~en m · d' h b' h poor. th e Yalma Sulluvan Driscoll k IOcese, t e IS op , d' ".1.., . h t he d'IS- con'emnmg to- in the display.' . ' man , . s injustice I ' , no t ed th a t a Iong Wit 'The month-long observance . t a k a be lsigns ' ward pu t e come " unmls ' h hiS fellow h ' man,I no matter I of t f d' t t f . w 0 was t e oppressor, who was has been, in the planning stages unres, 0 IS rus, 0 SUSpl- th P d" I : .:' 206 WINTER STREET for about one year., Thousands cion, of fear." He asked the e op resse . ,of visitors from New England FALL RIVER, MAS'S; Christian community to respect A Christian" the ~ishop said, and Canada are expected, ac672-3381 the rights of others and "let the "must believe that love of God cording to Father Vaillancourt. and the love of neighbor are incharity.of Christ prevail." ' / concern• has mounted as separable; that the bne cannot . His ' I 'I the, United Farm Workers Or- exist without the other. A Chrisganizing Committee (UFWOC), tian must do more than recog'AFL-CIO, has tried to stage a nize human problem~; he I must Inc. Funeral Home confrontation against hop grow- do more than say that certain 550 Locust Street ers in the rich Yakima valley. things should be ch~nged,' He Funeral Service Fall River, Mass.

The bishop said there are too must act.". \' I Edward F. Calrney rights on both sides of the farm Meanwhile, some Spanish672-2391 549 County Street labor dispute, but added that speaking farm workers I 'are New Bedford 999-6222 Rose E. Sullivan "a Christian must be deserving showing signs of 'dibagreement Jeffrey E. Sullivan Serving the area since 1921 of the name as a follower of with efforts of the UFWOC. .

I The Archbishop o'f and, Bishops of Fall River a'nd Worcester will be the principal participants in ceremonies markc ing 'the 125th Anniversary of the Apparition of Our Lady of, La Salette during the month of September at La Salette, AttIe-· boro.

On Sept. 5, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, will open the (irst of eight planned services. Most Rev." , Humberto S. ,Medeiros, D,D., Archbishop of ~oston, will 'pre-, side at the principal' feasti" day of OUf Lady of La. Salette ',on Sept. 19, and Most Rev. Bernard · h op 0 f J . FI anagan, D.., D BIS Worcester, will close the observance on Sept. 26. A solemn triduum, .a pilgrimage, and an all-night v.igil for vocations are also planned.

The month's observance in Attleboro is the main celebration of the anniversary for the ,Irrimaculate Heart of Mary Prov'ince of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salettes. Approximately 150 members of the prove, ~he,

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Michigan - Court Ruling Triggers Speculation on Abortion Bill DETROIT (NC)-A far reaching Michigan Supreme Court decision, outlining legal rights of a fetus, triggered speedy speculation of its effects on liberal abortion legislation now pending in the state legislature in Lansing.

The court's 5-2 decision held the estate of an 8-month male fetus, killed as a result of an automobile accident, legally could sue for damages.

Proponents of abortion-ondemand legislation quickly pointed out that the age of the fetus involved in the case, eight months, is in compliance with proposed abortion legislation.

But opponents contend the age is insignificant and drew on the wording of the decision for substantiation.

Sponsor of the state Senateapproved abortion bill, Sen. Gilbert E. Bursley of Ann Arbor, said he agrees with the court decision, but added: "Had the fetus involved been one or two months old, the court's decision would have a vital impact on the. bill. But it was eight months old. I don't think it should affect the bill which sets' the cut off time for abortions at 20 weeks."

'Fetus Is Alive' "I think it is extremely significant," stated Frederick Stone, director of the' Detroit archdiocesan family life bureau. "The court decision did not pinpoint the age of the fetus, but in the choice of words made it quite clear that the fetus is alive."

Staff Consultant Nun-Physician YORK (NC)-Maryknoll Sister Gilmary Simmons left Pennsylvania for Geneva, Switzerland, to serve as medical staff consultant on the World Council of Churches' Christian medical commission.

Sister Gilmary, a physician, gained a widespread medical reputation for her work in pediatrics in Korea for more than 15 years.

She joined the Maryknoll nuns in 1951 and went to Korea three years later as a member of a Maryknoll medical team to work among war refugees. Sister Gilmary established tuberculosis control home' care programs, child health clinics, preventive medicine and health education programs in Pusan and outlying areas. She became first medical director.in 1962 of the 150-bed Maryknoll Hospital, Pusan, which became a medical training center and was turned over to the Koreans in 1968.

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Stone quoted the majority opinion written by Justice Thomas E. Brennan: "A fetus living within the mother's womb is a living creature; it will not die when separated from her unless the manner, the time or the circumstances of separation constitutes a fatal trauma." '''Does it not follow," suggested Stone, "that the guardian of an aborted child' could bring' suit against the doctor, the hospital or even the mother?"

Justice Brennan's statement asserted: "The phenomenon. of birth is not the beginning of life; it is merely a change in the form of life.

"The fact of life is not to be denied. Neither is the wisdom of the public poiicy which re,gards unborn persons as being entitled to the protection of the law," it continued.

Alhambra Plans $1 Million Aid TORONTO (NC)-The 11,000member International Order of Alhambra has approved plans to raise $1 million in the coming year to teach, and train retarded and physically handicapped children.

The plan was unfolded by Stanley A. Matulewicz, 48, Union City, N. J., designer and decorator of church interiors, following his election to a second term as . supreme commander at the order's 34th biennial convention here.

"There is no problem in raising the money," Matulewicz said. "The big problem is granting scholarships for young people going to college who will channel their careers - ' toward helping and teaching retarded children."

In the past the Alhambra limited the scholarships to Catholics, but Matulewicz said the scholarship now will be provided to all teachers, .regardless of race, color or creed. 'He noted: "We have struck out the word ·Catholic.' " Changed Objective

When founqed in 1904 with headquarters in Baltimore, the chief objective of the Catholic men's fraternal order was to mark places of historical importance of Catholics in North America. In 1959 the Alhambrans changed their prime objective to helping retarded children.

"Over $5 million have been raised to aid .retarded children since 1959," said Michael J. Kenra, public relations director.

About 1,000 scholarships of $200 each since then have been granted to lay and religious teachers to attend special classes and qualify -to teach and train Plan to Boycott the retarded.

Houston School In addition, the Alhambrans HOUSTON (NC) - A dispute help to build, finance, staff and over pairing-mixing two schools, equip mental retardation and rein a way to achieve racial bal- search centers. ance-is headed toward a boyOther officers elected were cott before Fall against the Michael Kranson, Detroit, viceHouston Independent School supreme commander; -James District.

Hamilton, Kenmore, N. Y., suStephen The Mexican-American Educa- preme chamberlain; tional Council is lining up school Tichy, Westport, Conn., supreme strike sites and rallying teachers captain of the bodyguard; Carin anticipation of the boycott mine Ciafano, New York City, prompted by the council's dis- supreme organizer, and Joseph Smith, New York City, supreme satisfaction with current inteadvocate. gration plans.

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PRAYING FOR SHOOTING VICTIM IN BELFAST: Mourners kneel in prayer at the spot where truck driver Harry Thornton was shot dead by a British soldier. A trooper opened fire on the' truck driven by Thornton after shots were allegedly fired from it. Later reports said the truck merely backfired. The Springfield Road police station, located near the shooting has been the target of two days of demonstrations. NC Photo.

Tuition Charge . Bishop Urges Parents Keep Children 'In Catholic Schools YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-Bishop said, extensive efforts are being James W. Malone of Youngs- made in the Ohio legislature to town urged parents to keep their seek additional grants or tax children in Catholic schools de- credits for parents so that the spite a newly-instituted $100 state can return their $100. minimum tuition charge for each A program similar to the GI pupil.

Bill will be proposed to the Ohio The Ohio bishops assessed the Senate whereby parents would charge for all Catholic school pay-catholic school tuition and pupils in the state after state then file applications in their officials eliminated lay teacher home public school district for salary supplements to nonpublic guaranteed reimbursement. schools~ .

The Catholic Ohio Catholic Bishop Malone said in a let- Conference also asked parents to ter to the parents that the elim- write or visit state senators and ination of salary supplements request legislation authorizing "brings a serious financial crisis yearly grants of $150 for each to' most of the schools in the Catholic school pupil.

Youngstown diocese."

Diocesan teachers have signed Boy Receives ,Prize contracts for next year based on salary levels from the past two For Helping Cripple years-which had been supplevALETTA (NC) - Nirie-yearmented by the state, Bishop Maold Charles Zahra of StelIa Ione said. The $100 tuition rate Maris School in nearby Balzan is needed to meet increased exhas been awarded the 1971 Pope penses due to the cutoff of state John Prize for Kindness in recaid. ognition of his help to a cripThe Ohio Catholic Conference ph:id schoolmate. has es~imated that the salary The boy helps the schoolmate cuts will result in a $60 million on the school bus and keeps him deficit for Catholic schools. company during recreation periConference officials said the ods. denial of the state aid resulted Malta's Governor General Sir from a recent Supreme Court Anthony Mamo awarded the ruling against similar public asprize, which ,was set up in memsistance for Rhode Island Cathory of Pope John XXIII in 1966 olic schools. . by Franciscan Father Dionysius Meanwhile, Bishop Malone Mintoff to reward good deeds done by children between seven Extend Membership and 15 years of age. ,

NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Daughters of America will extend its membership into South America, 'with the first "court" or chapter there to be instituted in Lima, Peru.

The boy was received by Michele Gonzi' of Malta at the archbishop's palace and will go to Rome with Father Mintoff for an audience with Pope Paul VI.

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - An Episcopal priest has been named to head a Catholic family life program here because a Catholic with the proper tiieological and philosophical training' concerning marriage would probably be an unmarried priest.

Dr. Brian P. Hall is married and the father of two young children. He was selected to fill the newly created post of director of family and human resources for the Cathoic Charities and Catholic Social Services because "it was considered important to have a married man in this position," a spokesman for Catholic Charities said.

• Cathoiic Charities is currently sponsoring Dr. Hall's family life education program in the Indianapolis archdiocese. The British-. born priest formerly served on the staff of Catholic Family Service in Gary, Ind., as director of a group-oriented community and family life education program.

Dr. Hall will also teach value education - an effort to. help people clarify their life directions and remedy family conflicts-and conduct counseling seminars for the clergy.

Creighton Interns Study Aviation OMAHA (NC)-Eleven Creighton University medical interns are studying graphs and charts that have nothing to do with heart trouble, tuberculosis or bone fractures.

Two nights a week they use their free time to take a noncredit course at St. Joseph's hospital on how 'to fly an airplane.

And they hope their future patients will enjoy better health because of this training.

"As far as I know, we are the only medical schooI'to have such a course," said Dr. Michael of Jesuit-run Haller, head Creighton University's family practice program.

Dr. Haller organized the course for interns and resident physicians because, he said, the flying experience will help get doctors to visit out-of-the-way rural areas.

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LOS ANGELES (NC)-During amount of its contribution, The 1970 The Tidings, newspaper of Tidings showed a net loss last the Los Angeles archdiocese, year of $49,177.

The Tidings' financial statecontributed $172,700 to meet the needs of educational and pas- ment also showed retained earn, toral work in parishes and ings, unappropriated, at the end power th.at"this schools of the inner city. tive plenitude of the year of $474,942. This truth implies. i : This amount included the category consists of The Tidings "Authentic Protestants and paper's earnings tor the year, investment, or equity, in its faithful Orthotlox :understand $123,523, plus an additional equipment, its two-story building this perfectly ~s the .Catholic $49,177 from its reserve fund. and its working capital. position, nor ~oes it diminish The Tidings published its fiThe Tidings' IH70 contribution their ecumenical spirit; only de- brings to $557,700 the amount it nancial statement in the July 16 fective Catholic~ find fault with has given over the past three issue. Previously the archdiocese it." 'years to support the Church's has published financial state, 'Following those remarks the work in inner city parishes. ments on the' archdiocesan cardinal turned to ~he Marian' Because of the needs of the schools and on its welfare cortheme of his talk. He stressed parishes last year and the. poration. the ancient and commondevo, tion and venera~ion'of Our Lady shared by Orth~dox ~nd Catholics alike and noted, that "one cannot speak o~ the l privileges of Mary as Motlrer of ' God without still bewild~ring in varying degrees even our most loving Protestant Chri~tian:brethren."

Nevertheless, he , said the doctrine of Mary i as 'rTheotokos J~hn Cardinal Wright (Mother of God)land ~evotion to The cardinal declared: ,the virgin under sublime title THE HOLY FATIHERISMISSION,AIO TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH "Our Orthodox Christian breth- have always been bonds between ren are perfectly aware that au- East and west,; as ~he Greek thentic Catholics see the bishop word reminds us." i In Lebanon a deaf-mute boy becomes a tailor and learns to talk! , of Rome as the bond of their 'The Internatiohal Marian ConIn Gaza a girl who is blind learns to 'see .the unity, the 'heart of heart' in the' gress opened o~ the Isame day world and people through ,her fingers and Braille. visible Catholic Church. Catho- the 6th Interna~ional:MariologIn Jordan a Sister from India cleans out a lady'S mouth which is full of cancer. , lics, as our (French monastic) ical Congress closed. I Speaking PEACE Youngsters and old peopl.e have ~Iank~ts and Protestant brother, Roger Schutz, at both ceremorlies was CardiWILL books; medicines and sewing-machines In Jeruunderiined at Friburg last month, nal Leo Suenerys ofl Belgium, COME salem and Bethlehem, because you care. see in the Roman Pontiff the uni- . president of the two internationTO THE ,-And this month we're adding something n.ew.

HOLY In Bethlehem, after seven years of preparation, versal shepherd and in the al meetings.

I i LAND our Sisters of St. Dorothy will open a new school Roman 'Church the presidency of THROUGH for the deaf and hard路of-hearing, called "EphI I charity.

LOVE phatha" (the word Our Lord used).

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GOD'S We are the.Pontifical Mission for Palestine, the Christians may interpret these HOLY Holy Father's aides for the 1.5 million ref.ugees dogmas in different ways" but WORKS from Palestine, - in Jordan, Lebanon, SYria and they are properly scandalized . EASTON (NC+The l pastqr of Gaza. We do our work in Jesus' name, on the though not deceived when 'pro-, St. Joseph's {, C~urch,, here; in basis of need. .'. . ' . ," We like what we're doing, and it works. It works fessional theologians' try to ex- Pennsylvania says th'e Easton because you pray with us, write to us, and share plain away or diminish this cen- a,rea school boatd, is I mi!;taken with the refugees what you can do without. ral truth of the Roman Catholic if it thinks he Iwas not dead The check-list makes it easy for you to help.

Please help 'all you can. We're profoundly creed: that as Christ is the in.. serious when he sent back-ungrateful. ~~ visible head of the Church, the, paid-a tax bill bn his rectory.

I ; successor of Peter is the visible $. . . . For refugees, where it's needed most Father Peter ..,. V~ndergeest $3525 Equips a tUnic in a refugee camp head of the Church; that as the has told the board that it should $2475 Buys equipment to train deaf-mutes at Church embr.aces by intent all have replied to his Jhly letter Ephphath'a in Bethlehem '. . the world, its center, for Catho- in which he returned ~ tax bill $1880 Expands facilities at the Pontifical MISlics, is Rome; that no ecumen- of $591.30 and Ipres~nted his sion Center for the Blind in Gaza ' $1125 Endows a hospital bed with f~1I medi.cal ical spirit, however profO\~nd, own "bill" for $136,316.24. and nursing care at St. Joseph s,l-:lospltal I prayerful and insurgent, can obIn the letter ~ather Vanderin Jerusalem scure the fact that the successor geest said his "biH" represented $ 950 Builds four classrooms for refugees in of Peter is the Vicar of Christ the amount the p~rish iparochial Jordan and Syria ' LOVE ... $ 625 Establishes a child-care center in Jeruwith all the-' teaching and direc- s,chool saved tax~'ayersi for eduTHE salem MORE cating 232 children ,las~ year. $300 ERables a refugee teen-agel' to learn a YOU trade in the Salesian school in BethThe. bill sent tb Father VanGIVE Appointed Campus lehem (two years) dergeest was' b~sed i on the THE $ 240 Feeds two refugee families for a full year MORE Ministry Director $14,600 assessed I valuf,! of the $ 120 Provides one year's full-care for an orphan YOU , WASHINGTON (NC)-Father parish rectory. Bifore I,ast year, $ 75 Gives a sewing machine and accessories HAVE to a sewing center for village girls John Whitney Evans took the Northhampto~ County Com$ 45 Furnishes a bicycle for a visiting nurse office Aug. 1 as director of the missioners taxed parsonages $ 25 Supplies one year's medical needs for a National Center of Campus Min- only a nominal figure lof $100. refugee family $ 10 Buys Braille books for a blind child istry, Cambridge, Mass.

Father Vandergebst de'nied that $ 5 Gives an orphan girl two dresses Since 1969, the priest from his letter was seht "tbngue-in$ 4 Provides a cripple with a pair of crutches the Duluth, Minn., 'diocese has cheek," as suggested at!the time $ 2 Buys a b,lanket for a baby been serving here' as coordina- , it was received b~ schqol board tor of research for the 'campus president James ~. Mflsterson, --------~---------~ co_ ministries department of the a member of Father I Vander. ' Deal' ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND $ Center 'for Applied Research in geest's p~rish. , Monsignor Nolan: FOR' _ the Apostolate.

Learning of Father IVanderThe national center in Cam- geest's ,displea'sUife over not I . . Please NAME: -;_ bridge was authorized in April" gettin~ an answlfr, ~asterson return coupon 1970, by the education depart- , apologized but added that the with your, STREET _ ment, . United States Cathoiic school board "has ho jU~isdiction offering CITy STATE _ _ ZIP CODE_'_ _ Conference, and approved by the over the tax situation." i U. S. Catholic bishops.

He. was referring to a Idecision THE CATHOLIC ,NEAR EAST' WELFARE ASSOCIATION to apThe center offers a year-long by county .commissioners ' I program of supervised study, Jily regular assessments to - a'' switch research, experimentation and church parsonage~ , I field work, designed according from the long-standing practice = = to proven methods of adult self- of applying only a Inomihal $100 = = = on them. i ' educ~tion.

It is dedicated to TERENCE CARDINAL COOKE, Presid.ent = = helping campus ministers of all M!:)GR. JOHN G. NOLAN, National Secretary Father Vandergeest h~d aslled religious faiths to develop cap- in his letter: I I Write: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE Assoc.

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Cardinal Suspicious of Some Theologians , 'Prefect' States 'Views at Marian COr1l~re~s ZAGREB (NC) - American Cardinal John Wright, head of the Vatican'socentral office for diocesan priests, has cast a quizical eye at some Catholic "professional theologians who are playing fast and loose with the faith."

The cardinal was a principal speaker Aug. 14 at the 13th International Marian, Congress, which opened here, two days earlier with 800 official partici,pants and hundreds of pilgrims. . Cardinal Wright, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, delivered a, speech of almost 3,000 words on the theme, "Cardinal Newman's emphasis, on Mary as the Second Eve." Noting the common devotion of Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Christians to Mary, the cardinaldevoted his opening reo' marks to observations recently . made by Orthodox theologians against "erroneous humanism" found among some Catholic professional theologians today.

Cardinal Wright said ,the Orthodox theologians "expressed ,the fear that this disorientation in theology and the fast spread of secular theology by these and like theologians would reduce steadily the chances for Christian reunion."

The American cardinal said "one 'cannot deny the fraternal correction by these Orthodox b~thren," but'he added: "One must make a single correction."

He explained': "The Orthodox critics of ,,'professional theoiogians' who play ,.fast and loose with the faith referred to them ,as 'Roman theologians.' They are, of course, nothing of the sort, as they would be the fjrst to insist."

Cardinal Wright declared that ~~our particular free-lancers in the field of Catholic faith would resent nothing more violently than the accusation that they hold the 'Roman/position" in their theological speculations, or that they are 'Roman theologians.' We owe it to our Orthodox brethren to assure them that such is not the case-and, in so doing, we in no way offend the sensibilities of those who still claim the name of 'Catholic' although they studiously reject the name of 'Roman..'."

Passing from the general to the more specific, Cardinal Wright singled out theologians who "try to ex'plain' away or diminish" the centdl role of the Pope< in the Roman Catholic Church.

Seeks CQoperation' With' Churches NEW YORK (NC) - An unprecedented atmosphere of coexistence and cooperation between the forces of religion and a socialist state was a prime factor in the recent call, paid by the head of the World Council of Churches on President Salvador Allende of Chile.

Dr. Eugene Carson Blake visited the Chilean president, a Marxist, at the latter's private residence in Santiago. The WCC head was in Latin America to take part in the World Conference 'of Christian Education in Lima, Peru.

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Lithuanian Defector Asked for Last. . Rites of Church PARIS (NC) Before being sentenced to 10 years' forced labor by a Soviet Court. the Lithuanian seaman who sought unsuccessfully to gain political asylum in the United States said he expected to be executed and asked that a priest give him the last rites of the Catholic Church.

A summary of the treason trial of the seaman, 32-year-old Simas Kudirka, prepared by friends in the Soviet Union and released here, quoted him as saying Soviet secret police officials had threatened him with' the death sentence if he would not condemn "bourgeois nationalism" in Lithuania and abroad.

"I believe that this promise will be fulfilled," Kudirka was quoted as saying. "I am a devout Catholic. Therefore. if the supreme court sentences me to death. I would request it to invite a priest 'to give the last rites of the Catholic Church."

Kudirka's trial was held in May in Vilnius, before the lithuanian Supreme Court. Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. .

Denied Asylum Last Nov. 23, off Martha's Vineyard. Kudirka jumped from the Soviet ship Sovietskaya Litva to the U. S. Coast Guard

cutter Vigilant. moored alongside. After pleading for eight hours for his freedom, Kudirka was forcibly returned to the Soviet authorities.

President Nixon called the incident "outrageo~s" and ordered an investigation. Two high Coast Guard' officers were re-, tired and another reprimanded.

Orders from the President to all federal agencies later stated that no would-be defector is to be returned "arbitrarily or summarily" to foreign control until it could be determined whether or not his plea for asylum is legitimate.

The U. S. Catholic Conference's Migration and Refugee Service had joined with other religious groups in a protest to the President against the denial of asylum. .

Their telegram called the incident "a contradiction of the longstanding American tradition of granting of political asylum, as well as a violation of the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 protocol to that document both, of which have been acceded to by the United States." The message called on the President to reaffirm the traditional American position.

Cardinal" Asserts Mary Realized Demands of Faith at Calvary ZAGREB (NC) - The Blessed he said, are "the consequences' Mother .ca~~ to a full realization ' of incorrect moral attitudes. of the stark demands of her "To correct such problems, faith at Calvary. Cardinal John men need the light of divine wisCarberry of St. Louis told an international meeting held here in dom and the help of divine grace. Only in religion can we Yugoslavia. find a true and solid foundation At Calvary, the cardinal told for the value' and worth of the the 13th International Marian individual 'human being. Only Congress, "Mary offered to God with the help of divine grace her greatest sacrifice, the life of can men find strength to overher Son. This was the final cli- come their selfishness and to fulmax of the consent she had long fill the obligation of justice, before given as her share in the, brotherhood and love which work of rede'mption: 'Be it done should guide their conduct toto me according to Your word.' " ward their fellowmen."

The meeting addressed by Cardinal Carberry followed the sixth International Mariological Congress, at which 120 theologians studied the veneration of Mary from the 6t~ to the 12th centuries.

Mission of Church "We must love God's Church." the cardinal declared. "we must listen to -her teachings; we must be faithful to the laws which, as the mother, of men's souls, she finds necessary for our guidance along the way of salvation.

Calling Mary ','the perfect model of a living faith for' us . who live in the world today," "Only through the Church can Cardinal Carberry said that her we find security and certainty faith signifes "not merely an about the meaning and destiny act of the intellect, but a full of our human lives. Only through surrender of the person to God." the Church can we know for Mary, he said,' "not only accept- sure what God wills us to believe ed what God said as true, but and to do in order to attain salthat she gave herself to Him en- vation.Without the Church. retirely." ligion becomes merely a matter of opinion and conjecture. with Incorrect Attitudes . no man having any assurance as The cardinal told the meeting to what is true and false." that the modern world is beset The Church, he said, wishes with problems "because it has to enter into dialogue with the turned away from God." The social ills that afflict so- modern world. The Church's ciety, such as poverty, exploita- purpose, he said. "is the same as tion of workers, racism and war. that of Jesus Christ, who declared that He had come 'not to judge but to save the world.'

Authority The mission of the Church and of each individual Christian is Although the argument from authority based on human rea- one of loving service to manson is the weakest, yet the ar- kind, so that all men may live in peace and harmony on earth gument from authority based on and reach God's eternal kingdivine revelation is the, strongest.

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Ask C'ourt Rule For Abortion WASHINGTON (NC) - The YWCA, six other women's organizations and several prominent women have asked the U. S. Supreme Court to rule that laws limiting abortions are unconstitutional.

In a friend-of-court brief in cases from Georgia and Texas, the seven organizations and 47 individual women said they did not advocate abortion as the best solution to social or personal problems.

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But they said that each woman has "the right of reproductive autonomy"-the right to decide when and where to bear children -and they asked the court to protect that right.

Two Christian Brothers to Take Vows in Connolly High Chapel On Sunday afternoon. Aug. 22 at 4 o'clock, two Brothers of Christian Instruction will pronounce their final vows of religion in ceremonies in the St. Pius the Tenth Chapel of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

Brother Roger Paul Lacroix, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lacroix of 31 Choate Street, Fall River and Brother Daniel Joseph Caron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Boulette of 6 Summer Street, Waterville, ,Me., Will' make the perpetual vows' of chastity. poverty. and obedience to Brother Henry Vanasse, assistant to the Superior General, a Fall River native and to Brother Francis Blouin, provincial superior of the American Province of the Brothers of Christian Instruction.

Rev. Charles Dunn. SJ rector. of the Jesuit Community of Bishop Connolly-:High School will be the principal celebrant in the Rite of Final Profession and in the concelebrated Eucharist.

Brother Lacroix attended the Notre Dame Parish School and was a 1961 graduate of Msgr.

Prevost High School, Fall River.

His postulate and notiviate year took place prior to his graduation from Walsh College in Canton, Ohio. Since that time he has taught at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Ohio and 'is presently assistant principal ,at .Denis Hall Junior High School in Alfred. Me. Brother Caron was born in St. Benjamin. Dorchester; P.Q. Canada and moved to Wa.terville, Me. where he, attended St. Franc"is de Sales grammar school. He graduated from La Mennais Preparatory school in Alfred. Me. in June 1961.

Reparation Service In Dublin Churches DUBLIN (NC)-Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament was held in churches of the Dublin archdiocese on Aug. 15, feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, "as reparation for the sins of injustice, hatred and revenge committed against God" in Northern Ireland.

The exposition, suggested by Archbishop John C. McQuaid was held for several hours after the last 'morning Mass. It was also intended to seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin for a peace in Northern Ireland "that will be the fruit of jl,lstice."

The national board of the YWCA. two Unitarian women's federations and the American Following a year of postulancy . Association of University Womand novitiate he attended Walsh en, were among the organizations College in Canton where he grad- filin~ the brief. uated in 1965 with a compreAmong the individual women hensive degree in science. Last were Mary Lindsay, wife of the August, Brother Daniel received New York City mayor; former an M.S.T. degree in chemist.ry Senator Maureen D. Neuberger from the -University of New of Oregon; anthropologist MarHampsh~e ~ Du~am. , garet Mead; and former Barnard Brother Caron has been teach- College president Millicent C. ing in Fall River for the past McIntosh. six years. He taught biology at The brief said fundamental Msgr. Prevost High School and rights of women are in conflict is presently head' of the science with the laws of nearly all states. department at Bishop Connolly Women's "right of reproductive High School. autonomy." the women said final profes- through a Los Angeles lawyer, The ceremony sion will be followed by a social "is at least equal to and in most hour and a buffet supper. for instances even more deserving relatives and friends. of recognition" than various The ceremony will be the first other civil rights already proof its kind in Fall River since tected by the high 路court. the Brothers first, came to that The Georgia and Texas aborcity in 1927. tion cases, to be heard by the court later this year, challenge London Center Aids the right of a state government to pass laws restricting aborIrish Emigrants tions. First, however, the court LONDON (NC)-A 39-year-old' must decide if it has jurisdiction priest from Belfast working in to rule.

London plans to present a report to the Irish bishops on the situation of young Irish emigrants in England. ' Since he arrived 14 months ago. Father Colum McDonald DRY CLEANING has worked with some 500 Irish AND FUR STORAGE youths in need of help-ranging 34-44 Cohannet St.. Taunton from finding them a job or a bed Whittenton Branch Store to getting them specialized psy334 Bay Street, across from chiatric care. .

Fire Station Tel. 822-6161 Many of the young emigrants, Father McDonald said. come here to flee an unhappy 'situation in Ireland. .Those who get BEFORE YOU help at the center he runs, BUY --TRY called Benburb Base, come mainly from large cities in Ireland.

The help consists of jobfinding and the, development of OLDSMOBILE personal skills. For those with Oldsmobile-Peugot-Renault more serious" problems, Father 67 Middle Street, Fairhaven McDonald and his staff of three Sisters. one Brother, and a laywoman can find more specialized help. d

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On the occasions of his priestly golden jubilee in 1958 and his elevation to the rank as a domestic prelate in 1961 the parish honored him with testimonials. But· as each testimonial came to a concluslo'n with the prelate's expression of gratitude, all left wondering whether they had gathered to honor their pastor or whether the pastor used the opportunties to have his parishioners and friends together in order that he might bestow honor on them. . Tuesday becomes' a special day of the week for on that day - the nonagenarian goes shopping.

The distinguished Dr. James R. I<illianj Jr., retired '" .;,.!!,;::;",:::~.:~:;':.ir;~:~:::~::::;~::::':':"~i';~t:*:!;).i;:;::''l,i;';':.~!;;~~J;; :,> ):·;;;·;;.\~;;~j)#.tt!g,!+'L,!;r, chairman of the M.LT.. Corporation, foresees a reversal of the· current trend to deprecate reason. "We have too long a record of finding answers and solutions."

The p~st few years have seen a disillusionment with science and technology. People, and especially the young, have seen that the marvels of science' and technology, which brought the good life to their parents, hav;e not brought _the good life to them. ' .

Parents, who endured the sacrifice and priva~ion and stricture's. of the depression and war years, .received with gratitude the good things that science and technology have brought them. 'For the most part,' they' could go right ~ .} back into a depression and would know how to adjust to the difficulties; it would be "old stuff" to them.

But with their children it has been a different story.

Barn in Mattapoisett on Aug. 16, 1878, the son of the late These have grown up in affluence. They have grown up Domingo S. and the late Mrs. . taking for granted all the good things that the past two Mary T. de Mello, Monsignor decades have brought. They have grown up also missing de Mello attended St. Laurent the values and virtues that sacrifice and deprivation often Seminary in Canada for philobring with them. They have looked for love and cqncern·.r*~ sophical studies and the Seminary at Angra, Azores for his and togetherness, and their parents,taking these for grant. ," 'f{ theological course. ed, have offered them automobiles and college educations '~rd'\ '.

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And. so; all too many of the young have reacted against Ordained on Aug. 15, 1908 by the "late Bishop Feehan, he reason, against science and technology, against structures ,' V served as assistant at Mt. Carand modern living. They have talked nostalgically of, the ""'??:::::::::m::':??":::'::m::i::::?EI:::r:::?'::::::}}":"';?:~i:::::::':H:::'I;;r1f;:f},,}It@:::::':':~::::m:':::??n:::f:mmi:::'m:}m?:::::::::';::::::::::::~f:m1mK';':~:::):}:K1IW1Imel' Church, New Bedford and human values-that they feel they have never known-of' . "" the Holy Family Church, Taunstarving and worrying together as a family, of facing ton. On Oct. 31, 1913 he was hardships "with ,only character as· a weapon. And they appointed the first pastor of St. Joseph's in No. Dighton. He have turned against the things they feel have deprived was named pastor of St. Elizathem of these longed-for values, against science and reabeth's, Fall River three years son. They have turned to beat-up dress and commune livlater and remained there until ing and what they believe is a lyrical style of living. his.· C!ssignment in Nov~ber Parents and others must come to realize\ as Dr. Kil1933' to Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton. . lian feels they will, that the answer is a right ordering of priorities. People need to be wanted, to feel that they Pope John XXIII named him a belong. People need the values of love and concern and Domestic Prelate with the. title .Rey. John F. Moore, B.A., M.A., M.Ed, of Right Reverend Monsignor on character and integrity in order to reach happiness. Tear55. Peter & Paul, Fall River Oct. 31, 1961. ing down reason does not bring this about. The right use I On March, 1967 Monsignor de of reasqn helps one to 'see and to reach what is really needMello retired and became pastor ed. ,

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Two weeks ago I I viewed "an army camp that had beIt is not a happy thing when even a single priest-- de- come the emergenc~ home of hundreds of Catholics who cides that he no longer is to carry his priestly commitment were forced to flee their:. homes in Ulster. Within the last and. asks to be laicized. An impression has been given two weeks over 5,doo more Catholics have been forced in recent years that many, many priests have been taking to find refuge from the vioArchitecture this step. Now there comes a Vatican report that gives the. lence of political parities set, sive policy of Ulster has only It has been said that Gothic facts. It ,states that ina ten year period 2.9 per cent of on their destruction. The ris- f;;rced anew the hatreds and architecture represents the· soul fears into open warfare. the world's priests have asked for laicization. aspiring to God, and that Renaising tIde of Catholic r~fugees Most international commen- sance or Romanesque architecNo one, of course rejoices that the figure is that low. . from tile six counties of Ulster The subject matter does not admit of such a sentiment. is, the direct result of th,e despo- tators and/observers have' been ture represents God tabernacling R. H. Benson with men.

But there is a certain reassurance that comes from the tism of the Unionist Party of very critical of the attitude of Conservativegavernment of the . true picture that emerges amid the confusion created by Northern Ireland and the 13,000 . Mr. Heath.- It is a well known English troops employed as its irresponsible figures'that have' been tossed about. henchmen. There can be little fact that this particular party nothing more than continued . True,- the 2.9 per -cent is shocking and disturbing be- dbubt that the interim riolicy of has long upheld the Unionist .evidence' of England's partiality cause it is such a sharp rise when compared with other Mr. Faulkner is but another op- party of Northern Ireland, be and· restrictiveness. presssive symbol' of sectarianism it by direct vote in parliament . . England 'must sit~down with periods of time.: or indirect favoritism. the warring factions and come But the perspective of the matter cannot be lost sight arid bias in Stormont, the seat of gov~rnment.

With the election of a conthe artificial Ulster to .solutions that would be acof. And that proclaims loudly and pointedly the fidelity The fact that only Ciltholics, servative government any hope ceptable to the dictates of interto their priestly commitnient of better' than 97 per cent only suspected members of the of a sincere impartiality on.the national' justice and national of the world's' priests. .

I.R.A. and not the "Paislby bully part of England ceased to exist. harmony. These' discussions must Here is another example' of how people can be dis- boys" who are in the majority, Most people in Ireland feel that involve. not only the various diturbed by the quotation of figures ·that are not founded in became prisoners in thJse con- the Labor party of Mr. Wilson visions of the people of the six the facts .. It takes a while for fact to catch up with 'surmise centration camps, certainly gives wouid certainly have made pro- 'counties but, of necessity, the little credence to the c1!lims of gressive steps to face a solution of the Republic of and with exaggeration. Fortunately, it usually does, ·soon- English impartiality and, peace- to this problem. Instead, the ·sit- government Ireland. er or later. ' ' keeping efforts. The fact of the uation has worsened and re-

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This certainly indic~tes to' everyone that the. solution to Northern Ireland rests with the government of Englan~, who created this artificial divi,sion of the Irish people in the first place.

If there is to be a rea! peace restored in this tortured land, England must see to it that its troops do not become the riew bully boys of the Unionist Party of th.e six counties. It can 'do this if it wants to.

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of Northern Ireland is merely a divisive instrument employed by England to keep Ireland divided.

Neither Scotland nor Wales have such a unique position in the so-called United Kingdom.

In fairness to its own integrity, England should abolish the home government of Northern Ireland.

England does not need a provincial intermediary to govern Northern Ireland. The survival of Mr, Faulkrier and the Unionist Par.ty as a legal entity is

The United Nations and the International Red Cross should send observers ,to aid a peacekeeping effo~t and ,a solution 'to the refugee problem. If, in these next few. weeks and months, sincere efforts are not. made to come to grips with this problem of Northern Ireland, England wilt" certainly face a guerilla warfare to such an extent that what has happened in the past will seem like child's· play.

England cannot afford a national Vietnam and the people of Ireland, be they Protestant or C~tholic, do not deserve one.

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contaminating their programs for international economic development with short-run interests or with selfish maneuvers in the dangerous game of power politics, there is no lack of alternatives. They could do more through mul- direct interest in peaceful, rapid tilateral policies or they development, and that in helping half the peoples of the developcould make more use of full- ing world to modernize their scale international agencies.

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action is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It has set up its own Development Aid Committee (DAC) and each year it issues a very thorough report of what its member-governments have been doing in the field of economic assistance.

It underlines the problems that are already looming up--for instance, the steady growth in the debt owed by poor lands to their wealthier neighbors (which could, in the '70s, absorb virtually all the foreign exchange earned by the poor nations-a risk which Pope Paul has particularly underlined in Populorum Progressio).

It suggests possible-strategies for dealing with obstacles and bottlenecks. It tries to produce comparable figures to relate one nation's aid contribution to another's.

Above all, it tries, in private, to encourage the laggards and shame the less generous nations into greater activity.

IBRD or Warld Bank Another of its functions is to assist the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the IBRD or World Bank) in setting up what are known as Consortia or Consultative Groups to put together and oversee, under the Bank's chairmanship, multilateral programs of aid to particular countries.

Over half the development assistance given by the Atlantic Powers had gone to India and Pakistan and in each case, an Aid-giving Consortium guides the program. The hope is that overlapping offers can be eliminated and the aid, most of which can only be spent in the donor country (in other words, it is "tied"), cim be used to the maximum advantage.

A further gain is that the Consortium meetings can be used to review the actual progress of the economy that is being assisted and further aid can be linked to successful performance.

World Bank's Role The role of the World Bank is crucial since it is by this objective, international chairmanship, that the Consortium becomes more than a group of donors sitting in judgment on a client.

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They do so politically because a developing land can be a hopeful land where despair and stagnation do not lead to violence and dvil war. They do so economically because millions of people growing and prospering can be a tremendous new market in world commerce. They do so ideologically, because, at a time of Communism's deep disarray in Russia and China, generous and successful Western assistance offer a more helpful international alternative.

In short, they are in a very real sense helping themselves, and the World Bank's chairmanship symbolizes the effort to turn the aid operation from a potential exercise in power politics into ~ genuine effort of- international cooperation.

World Fund But if the Bank can influence this change of atmosphere simply by presiding, it is not' surprising that many Western leaders, including influential leaders in Congress, have argued that the whole operation of assistance would be even more effective if it were virtually transferred to the international agencies and all "taint" of national selfinterest removed at the source.

The Pope's plea for' a "World Fund" for development is perhaps relevant at this point since such a fund, internationally ado. ministered, would unmistakably belong to the world as a whole and not to particular groups of powers.

In theory, there is no reason why not. The World Bank with its associated agencies, the International Development Association (IDA) for its lending on concessionary terms and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for private lending has an enviable reputation for expertise and efficiency.

Among the U.N. agencies, the United Nations Development Program has the advantage of providing grants only against matching funds, tpus doubling the scale of its initiatives. And it has recently, together with the World Bank, started coordinating some of the work of the many different U.N., agenCies. Machinery for action is there. Should it be more widely used?

Subscription Plan DES MOINES (NC) - Bishop Maurice J. Dingman of Des Moines has promulgated the parish coverage plan for The Catholic Mirror, diocesan newspaper, effective Sept. 1, to insure the publication will be available to every Catholic family in the diocp.se. Under the plan, parishes will assume the financial responsibility for annual subscriptions.

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Continued from Page One also verbally slapped the wrists of newsmen who have treated incidents of people being refused entrance into St. Peter's Basilica in a light vein and at the expense of those assigned to keep offenders out.

Immodest Fashions Cardinal Dell'Acqua wrote: "Enjoy the splendid wonders of Rome, it city which is and must remain sacred. Take care not to profane it with deplorable customs and habits, and particularly with immodest fashions which are unworthy of educated persons and which also result in the loss of that charm which is characteristic of the young."

The' cardinal's . letter urged Timothy J. Place caretakers of the churches of Rome to enforce dress standards.

The letter came after international attention had been focused on the doorstep of St. Peter's basilica at which women in mini North American College and atskirts, hot pants, sleeveless tend theology Classes at one of dress~s and other forms of brief Rome's universities.

Summer attire have been refused entrance by guards and nuns stationed there.

One of the nuns who attracted Continued from Page One the attention of the world press trol, and arrogant and self- for vigorously pursuing her duty righteous anti-war attitudes. has since retired from "exhaus"We are sick and tired of cyn-. tion," and apparently smarting ical and supercilious disparage- from the humorous write-ups in ment... of the Baltimore cate- the press. chism," he said.

Places of Prayer Hanify said the nation's bishIn 'an editorial, L'Osservatore ops have been placed in an awk- Romano said: "One can easily ward position by liberal theolo- be ironic about the vigilance gians of the "anti-establishment maintained at the door of establishment" whom he declared churches against certain profane are constantly challenging au- Summer styles. The theme is thority. enjoyable."

While admitting that at times "The anti-establishment establishment will lose no chance ... there have been some incidents to test and try them, to create and misunderstandings, the edian incident, to secure a headline, torial noted sharply that "reportto humiliate, to embarrass, to ers, in reporting these episodes, put them in a false position, to rather patronized those on duty try to sap their strength, disturb at the church with a tone of their repose, disparage their in- ironic indulgence.

In defense of the nuns and tegrity and undo their efforts," guards on duty, the paper" pointed he said.

"There is an incessant attempt out that churches are not places to create situations where our of "artistic curiosity" but places bishops, if they are firm, are of prayer. "As such they must made to' appear harsh" and if be recognized by all, believer or they are patient, are made to not . . . There are those who come to pray, to be silent,. and appear weak." ' In the face of these attacks above all to 'listen,' to listen to the bishops "need our~ active, that mysterious 'Voice' who speaks above all in silence." articulate. support," he added.

"Too long has the average His Working Catholic layman and laywoman It is marvelous how our Lord in this country watched in silent bewilderment as a small group sets His seal upon all that we of malcontent clergy and laity do, if we will but attend to His has smeared their own Church, working, and not think too highits institutions, its doctrines, and ly upon what we do. ourselves. its leaders."

R. H. Benson

Assign Two Diocesan Seminarians To Rome for Theological Studies Bishop Cronin has assigned two . diocesan seminarians to study theology in Rome. They are: Jay T. Maddock. of Mansfield and Timothy J. Place of¡ New Bedford. Both ha've just completed . their philosophical studies at St. John's Seminary, Brighton 'imd have received Bachelor of Arts degrees.

Mr. Maddock, the son of Mrs. Madeline Maddock and the late James Maddock, resides at 46 Eddy Street, Mansfield and is a member of St. Mary's Parish.

Following his graduation from Monsignor Coyle High School, Taunton he was assigned to .St. Thomas Mirior Seminary in Blbomfield, Conn. for his training in the classics.

Mr. Place, the son of Mr. and Mrs.' Herbert T: Place of 80 Clifford Street, New Bedford is a member of St. Joseph's Parish.

Following graduation from Holy Family High School, New Bedford he, too, attended St. Thomas Minor Seminary in Bloomfield for his classical courses.

"Both young men will sail for Rome on Monday. While in Rome, they will reside at the

Bosfon Has Draft Counseling Office BOSTON (NC) - The Boston archdiocese has opened a draft counseling and information office to aid young men facing induction into the military service. Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros acted on a recommendation from the archdiocesan priests' senate in approving establishment of the office.

Father Francis M. Conroy, who was .ordained in 1964 and has worked in the campus ministry at Salem State College, has been appointed coordinator of the service. ."In offering 'this service to the young people of the archdiocese," the office stated, "we wish to emphasize a sharp distinction between 'war resistance counseling' and draft counseling.

"The counseling we offer does not attempt to discourage military service-it can in no way be characterized as 'anti-draft.'

Our counseling goal is to assist the young man to make his own decision, a decision that is both true to his conscience and faithful to the claims which the mltion has on his service," the statement continued. ,_

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C'ampO'i'grrt""or Human Development Funds S3 Self-Help Projects . WASHINGTON (NC) - Fifty- in Browning,. Mont.; and anumthree. s~lf-help projects, ranging ber of programs to educate and from a' ~hi~ago plan to train inform welfare recipients about men ·to become long-distance their rights. tru'ck drivers to a proposal seekThe recent disbursement ing industrial programs for Alas- marks the second time the bishkan Indians, were funded 'by the ops have distributed funds froin U. S, bishops' anti-poverty Cam-' their $8.5 million anti-p'overty campaign. Those monies were paign' for Human Development.

Announcements of the grants, raised during the campaign's totaling $1,072,012, were made first collection last Nov.' 22. here by Auxiliary Bishop Michael Last May, 23 proposals totalR. Dempsey of Chicago, tne ing $586,000 were funded. . campaign's national director.

Bishop Demps~y said that 180 , The average grant was slightly other proposals have received over $20;000, with disbursements initial approval, and that the made to all types of poor people, majority of these should be, anincluding blacks, Indians, Mexi- nounced by mid-November. can-Americans, and Appalachian According to campaign ground whites. rules, 75 per cent of the $8,5 milThe Phoenix, Ariz., diocese re- lion is to' be distributed on the ceived the largest grant-$,l10,- national level, with the other 25 OOO-to build and operate a mul- per cent r_emaining in the dioti-purpose community center in a ,ceses for local funding.

Mexicari-American neighborhood.

Campaign officials said thus Campaign officials said the far $3.7 million has been comgrants were distributed to self- mitted, including local funding.

The' grants had been recom-' help groups in 28 states and the District of Columbia. mended by the campaign's NaA Portland, Me., group re- tional <:;ommittee on Human Deceived a $25,000 grant for eco- " velopment. They were approved nomic development imd a Kane- after a subsequent review by a che,~ Hawaii, group was given bishop's committee, which' has $20,000 for a muli-faceted youth final authority over the funding, program. and the campaign staff.

Other' proposals funded inThe Human Development cam'c1uded a, mobile nursing care paign's next collection will be program in Louisville, Ky.; a day held Nov. 21 in Catholic churches care center-for Blackfeet Indians in the U. S.

Pre.late SeeS FutU're. of, Shared Responsibility, Spiritual

Senate Approves Study C1enters WASHINGTON (NC)-A plan to provide $20 million in federal. funds for ethnic study centers at universities and colleges was approved by the Senate after Catholic endorsement.

Shortly before the Senate moved to attach the plan, called the Ethnic Heritage Studies Center Act, in Amendment form to the higher education act, an official of the division of migration and refugee services at the United States Catholic Conference (UseC) urged its passage.

Luis Velarde Jr., Southwest regional director for the USCC division, told a Senate subcomI mittee hearing that passage of GRADUATE: After four years of night classes, Thomas I the measure was imperative beRearde~ ,has receiv~d his high school diploma--at the age of some school districts, of 79. With urging: from his 70-year-old wife,. right, and cause particularly in the Southwest, his nine children, Thomas went back to school after he - have caused, many Mexicanhad attended through the 10th grade in the early 1900's, American students to hate eduthe Pleasant Lane HighSchool. He received his diploma cation.

"It is not that the student does recently in his bedtoom after illness prevented him from not have the ability," he said. attending the ceremonies.

"This is something I'm real The educational system, the rna, I proud of," he said. :NC Photo. jority system, as some people I call it, seems to kill his aspira. i tions to move forward."

Velarde asserted that "the student is made to feel that he is not only different, but also inPriest, Law Students Open . Legal Aid -Office I , ferior because of hjs surname. . ,For ~an Francisco Needy .

He looks at our American cul. SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A The Hunter's Point community ture as the objective that has law professor and sortie, of his should develop its own expertise, ' cau~ed him pain and also nestudents at the University of said Liz Cremens, an articulate glect. Then he looks at his Mex'San Francisco were the prime young woman from Cambridge, ican heritage and says, 'Because movers of a new effort Ito bring 'Mass., claiming that "the public I am Mexican, this is the reason h:igal aid to one of this city's defender's office downtown I am being held back."

According to Velarde, the doesri't really understand the hard core poverty area~.

Before Jesuit Father! Austin problems of the black commu- curriculum and textbooks used Morris and his student~ opened' nity." She ~egan doing volun- in schools fails to inform all stuAid in, Criminal Defensb (ACD) teer secretarial work ~or ACD dents of th~ contribution which , W'iththe help of a colnmunlty t~rough the ~an .Fra~cslco .arc.h- the Mexican-American has ,made improvement "foundation, the 'd.lOcesan socIal JustIce commls- in the Southwest and to the nation's history.

Hunter's Point district j had no slOn. legal assistance office.

"The public defender's office in Christian' 'The' predominantly bl1ack dis- is overburdened, so they have Women . . trict has one of the:' highest little time for adequate investiga- Ministry to Confer tion," Father Morris said.

ST. LOUIS (NC) - Catholic cdme rates in the city·l "Through ACD, we hope to give Pausing from the hectic work immediate attention to the ac- nuns and Protestant women in pace at their greep-"shingled cused. He can then be free from various forms of Christian minheadquarters in the tieart of an indeterminate stay in jail and istry will gather at Marillac Col~lmter's Point, Father I Morris free to support his family who lege here Nov. 3-6 to discuss and two ACD staff members would otherwise have to depend their professional standing and future aims. talked about the goal of their on county aid."

Among the conference speakI The Jesuit added that judges ers will be a' Lutheran church fledgling office.

That goal, they said, ~is serv- "are too worried about their historian, a Methodist bishop, a ing the community withja staff calendars and not enough about ,rabbi, and the National Council of qualified investigators' and individuals." . of-Churches president, Dr. Cynlawyers to build up it~ confi~ "Many cases are handled in thia Wedel. dence in the legal system. terms qf categories rather than Marillac College is an interin terms of the person involved,". community college for Catholic Protestant Mondstery he said. "Judges should know nuns. , • more about the .correctional sysR~presented at Vatican tern and use more discretion in VATICAN CITY (Nd-Prior ~ sentencing. ~any times the punishment is too vindictive."

Roger Schutz. of the Protestant , • i monastery at Talze, France, was Father Morrl's w"h h't ted h . ht t " . ,ose w I e Over 35 Years I t e rIg o.mam,tam an hair just touches his collar, is of Satisfied Service o 1?la representatl~e ~t. the an active member of the CaliReg. Master Plumber 7023 d h _ VatIcan to deal WIth :varIOus fornia Bar As'soc' t'c' . II " la 1 III an an bl d JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. pro ems an ecumemca actlvldIed about 50 .

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Hunter's Point residents before Fall River 675-7497 The appointment of the repre- ACD was organized. seritative was worked oat during a visit of Cardinal Jan' Willebrands, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting; Christian Unity,' at Taize in' July. The Taize representative will' work through the unity secretariat in dealing with other officersl; of the Roman Curia, the church!s central administrative office~.

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DES MOINES (NC) - Shared programs and the Cursillo Moyeresponsibility and spiritual re- ment also would be part Of the newal are the future focus of, the program.

Des Moines diocese, according to He said that prayer is essenBishop Maurice Dingman, who tial in an individual's quest for was installed three' years ago renewal and growth in Christ as this July as the diocese's sixth well as a greater appreciation of prelate. ' the Mass and the sacraments.

In an interview, Bishop Ding"I see a remarkable growth of man told The Catbolic Mirror, group prayer in the diocese and the diocesan- newspaper, that it this is a step in the right direcis'his conviction "that the great- tion," the bishop said. "There is est contribution the American. a new prayer community formChurch,wili make to the univer- ing with many people beginning sal Church is to show how we to say the Breviary, or the Dican work together in a shared ;vine Office, together. The Holy responsibility concept as the Spirit is at work." people of God." Bishop Dingm;!n said he be. He said that the diocese was lieved it is the bishop's duty "to developing structures aimed \ at discern these prayer charisms. fulfilling such, goal. ;'This is among his people and to prothe reason for regional commu- mote them so that the whole dionities and the rationale for 'our cese will become a Christian parish council development," he community of prayer." said of his aim to include repre'Christian Community' sentatives of. priests, Sisters, When asked why he· made Brothers and the laity in the de- such frequent references to cision-making process of the dio- "community," the bishop said: cese.

"During the first 25 years of "I think the time has now my priesthood I had the conviccome for us to concentrate on tion, taught to me in my semthe spiritual renewal," the bish- inary courses, that my chief obop said. ' ligation was to save souls. This "All of these 'structures," he continues to be an important explained, "are useless unless part of my mission. But now I they will bring a deeper spiritu- see it in a broader sense. This ality to each' person and' also is a result of the teaching of the build'the Christian community," 'Second Vatican Council.

It The bishop added that he "and speaks very specifically of 'buildothers are now planning a pro- ing the Christian community."~ 'gram for 1972 that will concen-' The bishop, former chancellor trate on spiritual renewal in the of the Davenport diocese. and a diocese. native of St. Paul, Iowa, said "The heart of the' renewal 'is, ' the idea' of the Christian comof course, Christ," he said, add- munity leads to an expanded 'This is the first time a Prot' ing that the program's purpose role of priests. estant monastic organization has "is to form Christ in the ,indivi"We must minister, n'ot qnly been granted such an 6fficial dual person and to' make our to the individual, but we' must status in relation with the Vat c communities Christ-centered." also be intent on. building the iCan. The World Anglican! ComHe said that while u.§ing the, ChrisVan c9mmunity. We must munion has maintained ~ simliturgy as the tool for 'renewed look not only to education but ilar representative in Rortte for spirituality, expanded retreat also to social action," he said. several years.

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() About five years ago, I stood over my daughter's limp body, lying by the side of the road. She had been hit by a truck. There was nothing I could do ... but pray. Then I heard ,the ambulance siren. It brought a flood of relief.

That raucous scream sounded beautiful because it was same, private devotion, a prayer bringing ,help. In my heart I whenever we hear il siren. We how many other peothanked God. As the siren wondered ple had the same habit.

wailed, 'roads cleared ·and she was rushed to the hospital.

Before that day, the sound of a siren had always seemed

By MARY CARSON

Dan said, "It's almost like an Angelus."

And that brought back another memory.

Many years ago, an elderly pastor sady told his congregation that he had instructed the sexton to discontinue ringing the Angelus.

In his travels about the town, the pastor had observed people w~enever the bells rang.

"Everybody checks his watch ,then hurries on with whatever occupies him," he told the congregation. "But nobody stops to pray."

With noticeable disgust he told the people if tl)ey wanted a time check they, crould call the phone company,' but the church bells would no longer ring out the morning and evening call to prayer.

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harsh and frightening. But I learned that a siren could, in its own way, bring joy. It meant that help was coming to someone who needed it desperately.

I listened for sir.ens. The fire engines screamed down the road and it triggered a reaction in me. I wondered who needed them if they would have help in time and said a prayer.

A police car whined, and possibly the patrolman driving would need more. help than those' he was visiting in such a hurry.

Instinctively, I found myself saying, "God, please give him the strength and courage he needs."

The emergency truck wailed, as it he~ded for the hospital.

Was there enough time for the one it carried? Was it a child?

"Dear God, please help them."

For Those in Need It took only a second, but every time I heard a siren, I said a silent prayer; my own private devotion for those needing it.

Reading the paper recently, 'I came across a proposal to eliminate sirens on emergency vehicles because they add to noise pollution. I told my husband that I didn't like the idea, because I was using those sirens as a reminder to pray for anyone who needed help.

He started to smile. At first I thought he considered my little devotion foolish, but his smile was prompted by a sympathetic vibration.

"Mary, do you remember the day I got the call from my Mother that Dad was so sick?

I rushed right over to be with them. He was in bad shape; I realized he was having a h,eart attack. It seemed like hours waiting for the ambulance ... I didn't know how much time he had.

"When we heard the siren, it brought relief for him and me.

"Ever since that day, every time I hear a siren, I say a little prayer for the people involved, for whatever they need. You are not alone in your devotion."

Like Angelus We found that for years we both had been observing this

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SWEET CHARITY: A visitor to the celebrated Sacre Coeur Cathedral in Montmartre, Paris, gives a contribution to a nun stationed at an entrance. The Montmartre area of Paris is one, of the city's busiest tourist centers during the Summer. NC Photo.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - The former dean of the canon law faculty at Gregorian University in Rome will join Catholic University's canon law school here in September, when a new program in church administration also will be introduced.

Jesuit Father Petrus M. Huizing, a native of Haarlem, the Netherlands, will become a visiting professor in the canon law school here, conducting courses in matrimonial law and renewal of the Religious. He holds a doctorate in canon law from Gregorian University.

Father Frederick R. McManus, canon law school dean, said the new program, designed for clergy and laity who serve on commissions, pastoral councils and programs of renewal, will lead to a master's degree in c~urch administration.

It will highlight current developments in ecumenical relations, religious life; matrimonial jurisdiction and lay participation in church administration, Father McManus said.

Committee Continues Experimental Period

I can't remember when I have heard an Angelus rung last. As GENEVA '(NC) - The joint we talked about it .we realized committee on Society, DevelopSpecial Masses Alert Against Lead Poisoning that many beautiful customs in ment and Peace of the World the church seem to disappear Council of Churches and the From Paint Chips because they are "outdated" but Catholic Church is to continue ROCHESTER (NC)-The flex- by lead poisoning contracted by nothing replaces them. For infor a further three-year experiof the Catholic ible Mass liturgy eating chips from window sills stance, what have we really remental' period. placed the Friday abstinence Church was employed as a chief and walls of flaking lead-based The officers of SODEPAX. paints. w~apon in a c,!mpllign here to with? ' which was first set up in 1968, The Catholic parish had a speHow can we replace some of a,lert ghetto residents to the conhave ' reviewed a prospectus our cherished but discarded stant danger to children who eat cial Mass for Life Through called "A New Vision" which Health to call attention to the practices with some modern ones chips of lead-based paints. will continue to develop the posidanger.

More than 1,100 ghetto The Summer issue of the that fit in with the times and . tive aspects of the first three residents and parishioners atRochester Review, University of also serve the purpose of the years' work but will concentrate Rochester publication, reported tended two special Masses at on encouraging the people of older cu'stoms?

Let's start with a modern day parishioners of Immaculate Con- the church.

Europe to seek a better deal for For two weeks prior to the Angelus; a prayer said silently ception Catholic parish in" a people in the developing counfor every person in trouble, every ghetto area, plus the work of a Masses, eighth grade students tries, particUlarly in Africa. time we hear an emergency - team of the university's preven- of the parish schools discussed The program aims at enabling siren. If everyone in earshot of- tive medicine and community the lead poisoning problem un- churches and other groups to der the supervision of the unifered a moment of silent prayer, health department, had considbuild up the self-awareness of there could be thousands of erable success in warning par- versity team. individuals and groups and to During the Masses, Naomi ents of the danger. prayers said instantly. stimulate them to organize acthe medical Chamberlain of The magazine reported some What other ideas do you have tion for development and for modern replacement of tra- 400,000 children throughout the school gave a sermon dealing change. with the danger.

A meditation ditional customs' that· have country are affected each year hymn written by Charles Blackfallen into disuse? Send them to well, Broadway production man, me in care of this paper and ager, was sung. Envelopes conCardinal Urges Youth The ANCHOR we'll discuss them in a future taining paint chips and posters issue.

To Serve Oppressed prepared by children were car• TYPE SET SANTIAGO (NC)-"To serve ried to the altar at the offertory • PRr~lTED BY OFFSET Cardinal Urges Women the oppressed is to serve God," of the Masses.

Cardinal Raul Silvia Henriquez The project won widespread • MAILED Act fo~ Social Change of Santiago has reminped Chile's attention. The CBS-TV network LIMA (NC) - Cardinal Juan . young people.

- BY THE "World of Religion" program Landazuri Ricketts of Lima has Responding to a question in telecast one of the Masses. called on the women of his na- Youth Magazine about the Among the posters was one tion to assume a greater role in Church's responsibility for the which read: "Suzie won't eat FALL RIVER effecting social change. poor, the cardinal referred to paint chips anymore.

Suzie The cardinal issued his call Matthew 25, where Christ says: won't eat anything anymore." 'here in a speech at a seminar "As long as you did it for the on education, sponsored by the least of my brothers you did it World Union of Catholic, Wom- for Me." en's Organizations, the Peruvian "No other leader, no other Women's Catholic' Action Move- philosopher, no doctrine of huRt. 6 at The Narrows in North Westport ment and other women's organ- manism has ever dared to de, izations. mand so much," Cardinal Silvia Where The Also speaking at the seminar said, "that to serve the' oppressed Entire Family was Dr. Gabriela Aranibar Fer- is to serve God and by this you nandez Davila, president of the shall be judged."

Can Dine 'Inter-American Commission on Cardinal Silvia exhorted the , Economically nation's youth to become involved Women.

Dr. Aranibar urged women to in volunteer work to aid the FOR raise the consciousness of their poor, to seize the earliest oppor. 'sisters, awakening them to the tunity "to translate your faith RESERVATIONS great potential they have' for into something concrete and to PHONE bringing about changes in the become walking testimonies of 675-7185 nation's social and economic Christ the Servant and Savior of Man." structures.

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'President Nixon, .POpe Paul Praise KofC Service to Nation, Church NEW HAVEN (NC) --' President Richard Nixon has paid tribute to the Knights of Colum•bus,. saying that governments throughout the world are becoming more dependent on organizations that work for. social progress; in message to the K of C international headquarters here preparing for the annual convention. of the Supreme Council in New York City.

Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt said Nixon's message was one .of many received by the Knights from civic and religious leaders. Other messages came ,from Pope Paul VI, Archbishop' .Luigi .Raimondi, apostolic dele·gate. in the 'United States; .and Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford, Conn., in whose archdiocese the society was founded in 1882.

'Personal Admiration' "Your good works have earned you the deep gratitude of countless men: and "women," President Nixon told the Knights. "And at a' time when, governments throughout the world are increasingly depending on the participation of civic organizations in the work of social progress, you have won the respect, confidence and appreciation of tile leaders. of the nations you have s~rv~d.. . '. . . '''As I. have 'become more and . more aware of the signficant value of your programs to our communities, . my personal admiration for them has· grown throughout my years in public life. I applaud you for the selfless dedication you bring to your worthwhile projects; for the unwavering patriotism that abounds within your ranks and for the timely, constructive action on whic~ your reputation is soundly based." '

Pope Paul vi expressed "appreciation for valuabl.e service rendered in past years" .and assured his prayers that God would assist the society to "make an even greater contribution to His Church."

Valuable Service Othe'r messages contained both plaudits and pleas, McQevitt said. Some praised the Knights for past accomplishments. Others called upon the K of C to 'renew its dedication to activities aimed at the betterment of the peoples of the world.

President Nixon was scheduled to address a dinner meeting at the convention, marking the first .time a President of the United States has spoken at· a convention of the 89-year-old fraternity organization of Catholic men.

The iate President John. F. Kennedy is the only chief executive of the nation who was a member of the K. of C.

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Catholic U~it Backs Family Aid P~an DENVER (NC)-The Colorado Catholic Conference has urged support of President Nixon's family assistance plan now pending in the U. S. Senate.

The conference urged Colorado residents to contact Senators Peter H. Dominick and Gordon L. Allott of Colorado and request support of the 'Iegislation. The legislation passed the House in mid-July and now is being considered by a Senate committee. . .

The conferenc.e pointed out the legislation is being favored by the National Conference of Catholic Charities, the U. S. Catholic Conference, plus a number of other national organizations and individuals promi~ nent in the field of social welfare.

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WASHINGTON' (NC - The United States' sugar quota sub.sidy to the Rep\lblic of South Africa has been criticized sharply by the division of world. justiceand peace of the United States Catholic Conference and others.

• In a.letter to members of the Senate Finance Committee, James R. Jennings. division associate director, wrote that· "it is one thing for the United ·S.tates to join in the United Nations' condemnation 'I;)f the' apartheid (strict racial segregation) policies. of South Africa, but it is ludicrous 'for us then to provide forms of. assistance to South Africa as in the sugar ,quota."

The division joined in a state. ment against the sugar quota subsidy with the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the National Council of Churches of Christ, department of' international affairs; the United Meth.odistChurch board of Christian social concerns, board of mission~, women's and world division~ the United Church of Christ, council for Christian social action; Council of Churches of Greater Washington, and others. .

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Catholic Relief Work in Pakistan Struggles on Despite Hardships

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DACCA (NC) - "This CORR has been just about the most effective group at work in East Pakistan. They've been able to keep going in spite of the terrible pressures of the past few months."

Thus spoke a Pakistani in a position of major responsibility here. He was referring to the Christian Organization for Relief and Rehabilitation (CORR), born out of the catastrophic November 1970 cyclone that devastated the southern part of East Pakistim.

CORR is an agency of the area's interdiocesan committee, and Catholic Relief Services here works with and through it.

The first need was emergency relief after the 1970 cyclone and tidal wave struck here.

But after that tragedy eased, various governmental agencies took up the longer-range task of rehabilitating, hundreds of thousands of survivors, whose world was in a shambles.

With $1.5 million available through CRS, various European Caritas groups and other sources, CORR concentrated on areas of great need which affected vast numbers of people in the devastated area. One of the ,projects was undertaken jointly with the Protestant East Pakistan Christian Council.

Mass Starvation But just as the church projects were seriously taking hold, the man-made disaster of the March 1971 civil war struck. Many international personnel have been withdrawn and go~ernmcnt relief work i~ at a standstill, while disruption and death have come anew to all parts.

There is no doubt that the greatest dangers of mass starvation and death by disease still lie in the cyclone areas. Tragically, there may be more food available than there are ways to distribute it.

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In a pastoral letter, Cardinal Parecattil said the thousands of refugees pouring into India are "our own brethren" and Catholics have a duty to help them in every way possible.

He urged Catholics to sacrifice a meal occasionally and to forego luxuries in order to raise. money to contribute to a refugee relief fund set up by the government.

_Jt!~k~~~;~~~"~ a SUMMER FUN '71: Kennedy Youth Center, New Bedford was the scene 'of six weeks of Summer Fun sponsored by Our Lady of the Assumption Parish and under the administration of Rev. Ambrose Forget, SS.CC. The program was directed by Sr. Grace O'Neill, SND with assistance of five other Sisters of Notre Dame from Stang High, one Sister of Mercy and a staff of lay aids. The children and staff were overjoyed last week when Bishop Cronin came and shared in the-r projects. Top: Art class intrigues the Bishop. Center: The Ordinary of the Diocese eX'lmines a bongo drum used daily in the music drills. Bottom: Ability of the children in crafts amazes their episcopal visitor.

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In other areas, rehabilitation programs with an emphasis on planting and harvesting are desperately needed if even minimum amounts of food are to be available. Reinforced, cyclone-proof housing comes second now.

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In the midst of such difficulties, it is considered remarkable that CORR has been able to move rapidly on its projects.

Msgr. Andrew P. Landi of New York, assistant executive director of CRS, said: "The fantastic thing is' that the people here that we have been working with-Fathers, Sisters, laymenjust roll up their sleeves and- go to work once the projects are funded. They _are drawing on their years of experience in this country and in this difficult kind of work."

Msgr. Landi, a veteran of 33 years in welfare work, arrived here to stay for a week of what he termed "a routine and yet not so routine" visit.

"I wanted to assess the situation here, in the light of the recent disturbances, to see if further aid is necessary," ,he said.

"We have been concentrating on the cyclone areas, but we need also to evaluate whether we should be involved in what is being called the 'task relief fund' aid for victims of the violence since March."

Protestant -Group Recruits Catholics LOUISVILLE (NC)-A major campaign to recruit Catholic women as members of the world-wide, predominl!!!t1y Protestant Church Women United has been launched here.

Mrs. William R. Dearing, CWU head in this area, said the decision to recruit Catholic women, both Religious and lay, was reached at the organization's national convention last April in Wichita, Kan. . Mrs. Dearing said Ursuline Sister Janet Marie of Louisville, a representative of the National Assembly of Women Religious, accepted an invitation to serve as a CWU board member.

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·Oppose 'N,egative Labeling Of Searching Catholics

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, If there's -anything we don't need in this Church of ours it's one more label. We're already burdened with liberal, conservative, traditional, orthodox, reform,' renewal, "Tridentine" and Vatican II labels. The major difference in meaning lies in the mind of the user. Such differences course.to read the classics on his : defy anyone else .who. is own.

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good number of Catholics who should know better. It is the new Cahtolic' Elite. Several times in the past few months at workshops and meetings, I've heard the term used. Curious as' to ,who mll,kes up the Catholic Elite, I quiz the user whenever pos~ sible.. . It seems .to boil down to this: the new Catholic ~lite consists of those laymen who are staying within the Church but are doing things their own way. This gives a wide interpretation to the user, of. course. If a Catholic parent, fed up. with what passes as religious education 'in his' parish, takes on, the job himself, is he labelled an Elitist? Maybe. Maybe not.

If a Catholic family spurns parish organizations in favor of community ones, it it Elitist?

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The whole thing is baffling and .unnecessa'ry. People who are finding viable religious experiences outside the direction of the parish are searching. Many are finding/ faith experiences within smaJler groups which they c;;annot find' in the large impersonal parish. Many of them 'are feeling their way painfully through this catechetical limbo, unsure that what they are doing is the right thing for the right time.

What these' mature and searching laity need is help; not another label. Those who label them tend to be parish·'and diocesan leaders who see these Catholics as irresponsive to parish needs. "Why don't they stay within the structure and make it better?" ask' the labelers.

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I repeat, these leaders should know better. Instead of feeling miffed because some of their Cathollc's are searching for a more personal faith, they should be delighted that the seeds of faith they planted are beginning to bud. Imagine a' t'eacher discouraging 'a student who goes beyond her basic literature

teach them, too? How can he do that if he is' just beginning to ·study the classics himself? He is still unsure of himself. Perhaps when he has studied the classics and has a certain amount of confidence, he will· come back and help her with the others but first he has to find the classics him- ' self. ' So it is in the Church today.

We have many groups of Catholics operating ,outside of parish leadership. Oft.en these are groups of already-friends who decide to get together once in Archbishop Nich1>las Elko awhile to discuss their religion or 'to celebrate liturgy. Each group differs. Some are based primarily on religious education I for children, others on reme, I dial religious education for WASHINGTON (N,C) - Pope parents, still others on ecumel!Paul VI has appointed Byzantineical prayer. rite Archbishop Nicholas Elko Asks Encouragement an auxiliary bishop iri Archbish.Mixed in with these free lance op Paul Liebold's Lati,n-rite archgroups are the various' cursillo . diocese of Cincinnati~ and pentecostal 'groups operating The announcement by the within the Church and also those Apostolic Delegate in jthe United \ groups of Catholics devoted to States gave rio further details. the old Mass, the Baltimore cat- Usually, an Eastern-rite Catholic echism, and separatism. To label bishop is assigned to ~n Easternall of these efforts as Catholic ',rite jurisdictiQn rather than one Elite is just plain silly. ' of the Latin or Western rite.

Instead of a negative label on While Archbishop Elko was searching Catholics who are put- bishop of the Byzantine-rite dioting time and .effort into new cese of Pittsburgh, he :was called groups to make faith viable to to Rome in December:. 196~ dur· their children, let's put a positive ing the height of a controversy label on them. Let's encourage in his diocese. : their efforts, always inviting It was reported at the time them to share their findings that· the Congregatiqn o( the with the parish. Let's help them Oriental Church in Rome was when they need it and reap ben- studying Bishop Elko'~ adminisefits of their experience. Some tration because of charges by a are failing miserably. - Others group of priests in his diocese. . have found something good: The pnests had 'contended For several years, he govern- that Bishop Elko had' failed to ment poured millions into pilot carry out directives Of Vatican programs in education. Here we Council II. Neither V~tican nor have spontaneous pilot groups. diocesan officials would comspringing up all over the place. ment at the time.

I They aren't asking for money or In October, 1967, wqile Bishop · status within the Church (which Elko remained in Rome, the is one reason they are' suspect.) Vatican announced th~t, on apAll they're asking for is a chance peal from Bishop Elko, Pope to practice a strong faith to- Paul took the investigation out gether. of the hands of the Ori~ntal ConWho are we to disco~rage gregation and named :.a special them? commission of two bishops and a cardinal to study th~ case; Two months later Bi~hop Elko Welch Diocese Has was named Titular Archbishop Ed ucationlProb~ems of Dara and simultan~ously reo WREXHAM. (NC) - Father signed from the Byz~ntine-rite James Ham1igan has 11n almost diocese of Pittsburgh. impossible task. As secretary of It was reported then' that the the education committee he ,is Pope's special commission acthe man chiefly responsible for . knowledged the p'riestI~ integrity providing schools for the Cath- of Archbishop' Elko. Sl1ch integolic children of the Menevia dio- rity, the commission said, was cese. never a matter of dou~t or disThis covers the,' whole of cussion.

I' The commission concluded, Wales except for the. counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan. Al- however, that it would i be inopthough it is a vast, mountainous portune for Archbishop Elko to area it has less than 40,000 return to the 'pastoral,l adminisCatholics, .estimated to m"mber tration of the Pittsburgh diocese. about one in 30 of the total popThe Byzantine dio:cese of ulation. They are scattered Pittsburgh includes all Byzanprincipally along the north and tine-rite Catholics of Rtithenian, south coasts. -In between there Hungarian and Croation nationare miles and miles' with very ality or descent in most of the few people. ynited States west of Pittsburgh.

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OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD A children's fashion show will be sponsored by Our Lady' of Perpetual Help Society at 7 on Saturday evening, Aug. 21 in the church hall at 235 No. Front Street, New Bedford.

Mrs. Helen Zieba. and Mrs. Helena Bobrowiecki, co-chairmen, have announced that school children will serve as models.

Refreshments will be served and door prizes awarded. Donation is one dollar.Proceeds' will benefit the church.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS, FALL RIVER The annual procession in honor of Our Lady of Fatima under the sponsorship of the Holy Rosary Sodality will be held at 7 on Saturday evening, Sept. 11. The Sodality's Feast Mass will be offered at 8 on Sunday morning, Sept. 12.

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12. The masses are: 4 and 5:15 on Saturday evening; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 noon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon will be the schedule for Sundays.

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ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold its .annual Flea Market from 10 to 5 on Saturday, Aug. 21 at the parish center, Stafford Rd. and it is open to the public.

The guild is also sponsoring a trip to Boston on Saturday, Sept. 4 and will attend a Red Sox game and then visit the Prudential Center.

Reservations may be made by contacting Mrs. Paul Batchelder at 674-9538.

S'll'. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO The parish is sponsoring an adults' night at Fenway Park on Friday night, Sept. 24 when the Red' Sox meet the Washington Senators. Fifty tickets are' available .and the price including transportation is $5 per person.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, FALL RIVER The annual Family' Parish Picnic will be held from noon to 6 on Sunday, Aug. 22 at Camp Welch in Assonet.

Parishioners are asked to bring their own lunches or facilities for a cook-out. The pool will be open and a schedule of garpes is planned. There will also be door prizes awarded.

Jewish Organi~ations Say Quaker Report on Middle East Is Biased NEW YORK (NC)-A Quaker pre-publication. draft of their rereport on the Middle East is ,port was ignored because they under sharp attack by two major said it undercut the Quakers' inJewish groups for what they call tended' argument. . "blatant bias" jeopardizing the They suggested that the Quakcause of peace. ers' search was not for peace In a joint study by the Amer- but for American friends for the ican Jewish Committee and the Arab world. The Jewish' ~tudy Anti-Defamation League of B'nai authors asked in their report B'rith, the American Friends Ser- whether the Quaker. document vice Committee (Quakers) was sprang from the view of "chronaccused of distorting historiCal ically pro-Arab, old Middle East fact to bolster a pre-conceived hands of the State Department" pro-Arab bias and masking the that a pro-Arab slant was reeffort with claims of objectivity. quired to offset support for The authors of the 71-page Israel' by the American public. study, "Truth and Peace in the Writing the study were three Middle East-A Critical Analysis professors: Dr. Arnold Soloway, of ,the Quaker Report," said the an economics professor who has humanitarian traditions of. the taught at Harvard, Boston ColQuakers "have made many. perlege and Brown University; Dr. sons understandably reluctant to Edwin Weiss, mathematics proquestion the validity and intent" fessor ,at Boston University and of the Quaker document, but Dr. Gerald Caplan, senior psythat it has nevertheless "prechiatric consultant for the U. S. sented a slanted and one-sided Peace Corps and professor of set of conclusions." psychiatry at Harvard Medical The Quaker report, "Search School. for Peace in the Middle East," _ was published last year and has been criticized openly by Jews, . according to an .AJC spokesman.

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Northern Ireland Bishop Urges Self-Control LONDONDERRY (NC)-In the face of the escalating violence in this British province, Bishop John Farren of Derry appealed to Catholics "not to allow your~ selves either to give or take offense, to exercise the utmost self-control and bear yourselves as Christians should, even . . . in the face of provocation."

In a letter read at all Masses Atig. 8 in Londonderry-Cath'olics use the name Derry for the city - Bishop Farren warned Catholics not to be provoked by the traditional Apprentice Boys' march, scheduled The shooting to death Aug. 7 of a Catholic construction worker by British soldiers led to renewed rioting in Belfast and other cities.

In his plea for peace, Bishop Farren said: "Our sympathy goes out to all who have suffered. Especially do we think of those who have been bereaved and also of the elderly and the helpless in our midst. . , .

'Follow This Way' "As you are aware, two pilgrimages from city parishes are now at the shrine of Lourdes to intercede with God through our Blessed Lady not only for their own intentions but for the needs of this town we love and, more especially, for the blessing of peace.

"Let us, one and all, join our earnest supplication with theirs and let our people set their faces against anything contrary to the great Christian commandment of charity and forebearance.

"I would beg you, my people, to follow this way rather than one that can bring no manner of good with it, but only more turmoil and suffering and the loss and misery of further unemployment."

Greets Africa's Catholic Laity VATICAN CITY (NC)-Africa's Catholic laity have a double commitment to the growth of the Church and to the development of Africa, Pope Paul VI told some 300 delegates attending a Pan-African-Malagasy laity seminar in Accra, Ghana.

The .Eope hailed the meeting as "an event which demonstrates so strikingly the vitality of the Church in your continent."

The seminar, two years in preparation, drew delegates from 30 African countries to study the theme "The Commitment of the Laity in the Growth of the Church and the Integral Development of Africa."

The meeting in Accra Aug. 11-18 discussed Catholic participation in the economic, social, political and cultural development of Africa, and specific lay participation in the building up of the Church.

Pope Paul told the African lay leaders: "You are committed to the Church because you are members of the people of God,· you are committed to the development of Africa because you are members of the earthly city."

But, he stressed, "This double commitment must be one single thing for Christians, who reject any dichtomy .between their life and their faith.:'

Foresees Religi'ousl'y-Oriented Schools Schools. WII Be Loosely Affiliated with Diocese

BY SUE CRIBARI The traditional Catholic school -educating mainly Catholic children living within a particular set of parish boundaries-began to increase' and multiply when America's bishops decreed that each parish should have a school of its own.

That was at the Third Council of Baltimore in 1884, and Catholic schools in many areas have evolved considerably since then.

But what form might they take by 1984-their hundredth anniversary?

"We will celebrate our centennial when the first graders of next year are in the twelfth year of school," an Adrian Dominican Sister said in April at the National Catholic Educational Association's annual convention.

"Will they be graduates of Catholic schools or public schools," she asked, "or will they continue a lifetime of Cath'olic education centered around a value system what makes life meaningful in a pluralistic society that has truly learned to accept diversity?"

Sister JeanneO'Laughlin, director of apostolates for one of her order's western provinces, then described that form she thought 1984's Catholic education might take in the mythical U. S. diocese of "Mutatis"Latin for "changed."

The NCEA. audience was receptive; some of the people who have heard about her plan have not been, she told NC News recently.

"Many people have called 'it extreme; or said 'You're building Utopia,''' she said. "But I think the important thing is that one generates ideas." .

Two Types in 1984 Sister O'Laughlin predicts two types of religiously-oriented schools in 1984-religious public schools and apostolic schools.

But the major thrust of the Church's educational effort will be developing "value-oriented" educational programs which can be used by religious schools, pastoral teams, or anyone from the community at large-including public schools.

The Mutatis office of education will be divided into three departments - business, liaison and value education. In the latter department-heartbeat of the system -liturgical, educational and theological experts will develop possible programs for school and general use in four age groupings: early 'childhood, youth, young adults and adults.

A diocesan board of education coordinates the work of the three departments, and the bishop of Mutatis delegates his decision-making authority to the board, of which he is an exofficio member.

Catholic schools today which are open to the public and teach other Catholic and non-Catholic students from all socio-economic groups are like the religious public school Sister O'Laughlin envisions for the Mutatis diocese in 1984. But in' I 984, she said, the school will be more autonomous with freedom to decide curriculum and teaching methodology on the local level. The school will be only loosely affiliated with the diocese-that affiliation merely to insure that the school

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Catholic Schools in 1984 - the future challenge. is educationally sound, aware of for nonpublic teachers and a its students needs and not used state "purchase-of-secular-serfor anti-Christian purposes. vices" law), it makes me more Liaison Department aware that perhaps this is the Through the Mutatis liaison w:ay we're going to have to department, the religious public think," Sister O'Laughlin said. 'school can examine programs "I think we're not going to available in the value education get state aid," she continued. "I department, she explained, and think the only way is through use them if it chooses. Through federal aid to parents used at the 'liaison department, it can community schools where the also ask help from the value ed- Church assumes the responsibil. ucation experts in developing its ity of helping to be a forerunnc:r own specialized programs. or researcher in value-oriented The liaison department is also educational programs."

The second kind of religious concerned with upgrading education in general, and keeps up school - the apostolic school - . with educational programs in will not receive federal funds public schools and in the civic and will be more closely affilicommunity. ated with the Mutatis diocese Any group of individuals who because of its financial dependshare a basic educational phil- ence.

The name "apostolic" means osophy and goals they want to accomplish fOf their students "special need of the people of can establish a religious public God," Sister O'Laughlin said, school in the Mutatis diocese, and apostolic schools are established to fill educational needs Sister O'Laughlin said.

These individuals-who might which are not being met by the be members of one or more par- public sector for lack of funds ishes, teachers, parents or com- or interest-in some inner areas, . munity officials - lease school for instance.

Some of the schools are tembuildings and facilities from a parish, the public school system porary and mobile-for shortor elsewh~re and develop a term' educational needs - but their curriculum is always tailschool curriculum.

This means religious public ored to the learning problem at schools run the educational hand. gamut from traditional Catholic Fund Raising • schools to experimental ecumenThe Mutatis educational ofical institutions-depending on fice's business department tries the group which establishes them to find financial backers for such and those who support them schools among local religious or financially. community. groups. But if these Financial Support sponsors cannot be found, the Financial support comes partly diocese finances the schools on from parents who feel a partic-· its own-considering itself "the ular school "reinforces their Church responding to a special basic beliefs or seems to them apostolic need," Sister O'Laughto be answering the needs of lin said.

The Dominican Sister's plan the future for their children," she noted. for "life-long educational expe, But since the schools are truly riences where the community is public-open to any parent who the classroom and the world the chooses their brand of education scchool district," mayseem [arther for his children-she thinks the away than 1984 to some Cathobulk of. financial support will lic educators. But Sister O'Laughcome from some kind of federal lin herself doesn't think so.

"I actually feel," she said, voucher to parents.

"Even now, after the recent "that there are:many dioceses in Supreme Court decisions (out- the country that are only an lawing a state salary supplement inch away from these things."

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Advocates Use Of Aud io-Visuals HALES CORNERS (NC) - A 42-year-old Capuchin priest who heads a national preaching organization, said that· audiovisualS should be used to improve the quality of ·preaching.

"Christ was a very audiovisual person. He made constant references to objects. I would imagine he often held seeds, fish-real things to portray the spiritual message," said Father Anthony Scannell, president of the nationwide Christian Preaching Conference, during an interview here in Wisconsin.

Father Scannell, here for a two-day conference board meeting, is production coordinator of. the Franciscan Communications Center, Los Angeles, which produces telechetic films and telespots seen frequen~ly on television.

He said recently he and three others finished five days of viewing 45,000 feet of film, shot for the Human Development Campaign sponsored by the U. S. Catholic bishops to combat poverty. He said the footage must be edited down to about 300' feet for one IO-minute film and six short telespots.

"Christ spoke in parables.

Films simply are modern parables, putting a spiritual idea into a visual dramatic form," said Father Scannell, discussing the need for good preachingwhat makes it good and what the laity can do to improve it.

"If people would stop to think they'd realize they are exposed to audio-visuals in church right now - the sound of bells, the color and texture of the priests' garments, the music, incense, stained glass windows," he said.

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By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick' This has been a particularly hot, muggy Summer an~ the' oppressiveness of the weather has left many· of us devoid of energy. As a resulJ I have done less 'and less work in the garden and things have caught up on me. If repeat anything about gar' dening it is that the garden be that you invented a means. requires day-to-day work for pre-teen an<;i--teenage, young people to occupy their waking and not crisis management. hours?

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In addition my lawn is in poorer 'shape this year than I have ever seen it in all the years we have' had it. The same is true of most of the' garde~ and it is inexcusable. '

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No sooner does Imy pre-teener . lE~ave her friend (it's about a five~minute ride and a 15-minute . walk between our houses) than she's on the phone with her and Bro. Paul Bourque for the life of me I can't fathom . . .

I what important events could have occurred in' that short span of time.

With this epidemic of 'telephonitis . that our youngsters Brother Paul Bourque, OFM, have it would seem 'plausible that they would be able to take son of Mr. and Mt,s.. Maurice messages over it. That is not the Bourque of 83 Kenney Street, Heart:Breaking Sight case; somehow in the long list . New Bedford and n'tembers of The cool weather which is ap- of phone calls during. the day Holy Name Parish wip make his proaching should give me the there should be a few for me; Solemn Vows in the ,Franciscan added vigor necessary to get the but to hear my offspring tell it Order at 11 o'clock on Sunday ' I,ceremomes • garden in reasonable shape for that bell tolls only for them. morning, Aug. 22 m the upcoming Fall weather.

Chapel) New Bedin Our Lady's Of course I find out otherwise Among other' things I have a when my friends call agai~ and ford. .: number of small shrubs that ask me why I didn't call them Rev. Delean' O'Rouke, OFM, .need moving, including about back-didn't I get the message . guardian of St. Francis Friary five or six that I started myself they had left the other day? Said will be the principa~ celebrant and which are three to four friends are becoming. very wise and homilist at the ~ass, Bro. years old. The lawn will have to and when I don't return the call Maurice Swartout, OFM, vicar be raked and seeded lightly, (I they just call back again realiz- of the Franciscan ! Novitiate, usually do t~is every Fall rather ing their message fell on dead Brookline will recei~e Brother than in the Spring) and this is a ears.

Paul's final commitment to, the major task in itself. ,; I do realize, Mr. Bell, that you Franciscan On1er.

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A 1965 graduate 'of Bishop did the world a great service by will never let myself get behind your amazing ,invention but Stang High School; :No. Dartagain. The point is that there is , when it rouses me from a nap, mouth, 'Brother Paul: attended nothing more discouraging to a makes me leap out of the bath- St. Stephen's Monastery, Crogardener than to see his garden tub, or brings me in from the ghan, N. Y. and made his first in disrepair. Luxuriant growth yard in a .state of panting haste profession of vows at ~t. Raphais one thing, but to see things I must admit just for those mo- el's Novitiate, Lafayette, N. J. in growing uncontrolled, is heart.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (NC)-The Sisters of the Good Shepherd will close their 70-year-old home for girls here Sept. 1 because Connecticut's governor has vetoed a bill which would have changed state procedures for funding the institution.

More than 100 teenage .girls currently reside at the House of the Good Shepherd-all but one of' them referred there by either the juvenile courts or the state welfare department.

The only private residential treatment center for. girls in the state, the house provides services including education, psychiatric' and psychological treatment medical and dental care and ~xtra-curricular activities.

Sister Mary Michael,' Good, Shepherd administrator, said the house has required a .subsidy by the Good Shepherd order' of more than ~500 000 in the past four years.'

"Much as we are committed to helping troubled teenagers," Sister Mary Patrick, New York -Provincial superior said, "the province can no'longer continue to sustain this overwhelming financial burden."

Good Shepherd is the only child care institution which receives its authorization for .state .' funds from' the state legislature every other year-a procedure which meant inflationary and other cost-of-Iiving factors were never up to date when, the budget was finally approved.

Founded in 19tH, Good Shepherd was one of the fir~t child care institutions ever established in the state. THe funding procedure was set up when the home was set up-and it has stuck.

'Reasons Unsound' As other homes were founded, new funding procedure~ were de-

IPray for P'eace NAGASAKI (NC)-Five' thousand persons gathered here to pray for peace Aug. 9, ·'the 26th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The quiet ceremony was held in Peace Memorial Park, ground zero of the 1945 atomic blast. Some 43,737 persons are known to have died in the bombing. Hiroshima City, site of the first United States atomic bomb l!ttack on Aug. 6, 1945, held similar ceremonies on its own anniversary.

vised, and today· these homes apply periodically for budget adjustment through the state welfare commissioner, who can reimburse the~ as he ~~ems ~ec­ essary without legislative action.

The bill to"'make Good Shepherd's funding procedure .t~e same as the rest of the child care institutions. in the state passed bo~h legislative houses. overwhelmmgly. . But Gov. Thomas J. Meskill vetoed the bill, claiming that "the number of occupants of th.e House of the Good Shepherd I~ small .compared to its 'potential capacity.

"This legislation would prob· ably result' in inordinately high costs for each :girl committed there," the governor said. '!It is especially unfortunate that 70 years of ~ servic~ to th.e 'youth of Connecticut will term 1nate, because' the reasons given by the governor for the veto are in error and unsound," Sfster Michael said shortly after the veto announcement. . .

The Good Shepherd admmlstrator claimed the facility has been operating at almost full capacity during the past ye!l;r, ac!.ding that the 'authorized capacity had been established by the state welfare department..

Disputes Figure The projected funding request was reasonable, Sister IyIichael said, especially in light of the $500,000 subsidy by the Good . Shepherd order which has been necessary.

A last-minute effort was made to override the veto in the state senate, but the attempt fit'iled by four votes.

Shortly before the vote, Senate minority leader, Alden Ives; said state officials had told him Good Shepherd girls could be cared for at a, similar state-run home for $95 a week per girl.

William J. Wh.olean, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Conference, disputed the figure. He said his office had been told it costs more than twice that amount to care for each girl at the state home in question.

The state was already paying Good Shepherd the $95 figure, Wholean said, and the house had not been able to make ends meet even with the contributed serv~ ices of 27' Sister staff members.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs'. Aug. 19, 1971

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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, his youthful appearance and undiminished physical stamina to the contrary notwithstanding, can qualify-now that he has taken his retirement-as an "elder statesman" in the American Catholic community. At 76 years "These young crusaders (the of age, however, he is refreshingly young at heart Jesus people)," he says, "stand as an indictment of the church and, in certain respects at which joined Coxey's Army,' least, would appear to be more open to new ideas than many priests and bishops who are hardly more than half his age.

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substituting the social gospel of the secular city for the Christ Gospel of salvation."

Criticize Church I wonder if that's an accurate statement. Is it really true, in the first place, that the church is all. that gung-ho about the social gospel? If so, why is it that the church is being so severely criticized - by young people especially-for its lack of meaningful involvement in the field of social reform?

By the same token, why did Pope Paul himself feel it necessary, as recently as May 15, to challenge the church once again, in a major Apostolic Letter, to make up for lost time in implementing the social demands of the gospel?

Secondly, if it is true, as the Archbishop seems. to think, that the Jesus people are reacting negatively to the churches' alleged over-emphasis on "the social gospel of the secular city," doesn't this raise some serious questions about the Jesus' people themselves, and shouldn't these questions have been posed to them by the Archbishop, at least in passing, in the course of his piece in The New York Times?

MOURNED: Cardinal Federico Callori di Vignale, 80 years of age, who was appointed Papal. Major Domo by the late Pope John XXIII, served in the papal household under five popes before his death last week. NC Photo.

MINNEAPOLIS (NC)-Lutheran men are more critical of their church than women are, and youth is th'e most critical of all, according to a survey nearing completion here.

The survey of six million Lutherans' life-styles and attitudes involved confirmed members of the American church's three main branches. Each participant gives his reaction to 736 state路 ments.

Some of the preliminary results: While the overwhelming majority of Lutheran youth accept traditional teaching, they prefer a less structured liturgy than

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adults do. One-fourth of all Lutherans between '15-23 years of age said they were 'seldom, if ever, inspired by worship services.

Lutheran laymen, especially college-educated ones, are more critical of their church's teachings than are women and pastors.

Lutherans show more prejudice toward different life-styles and political ideologies than toward _different races or religions.

The study was financed by a Lutheran fraternal insurance society and will be published next Spring.

same day within recent weeks Archbishop Sheen publicly and eliminating evil....He became part rather enthusiastically extolled of this broken, torn body; on the the idealism of the younger gencross he was the crucified word, eration of Americans and, in so and healed it from within ... He doing, suggested that we oldsters sent his apostles into the world have much to learn from them. even as he himself had .been While I sincerely admire his sent: to take upon themselves, as open-mindedness in this regard, Divine Love drew God's Son to our earth and united Him in some he had, the sins of the world."

I have the rather uneasy feeling lowe it to Archbishop Sheen way to each man, woman, child. He identified Himself with us. that his two public statements to emphasize that he himself He worked with His hands, thought with a human mind, acted in defense of the younger genermade this point very forcefully with a human will, loved with a human heart. His love for us ation were, at least in one particin the second of his two state- was so intense that He entered into our human condition so that ular, somewhat at variance with He could live, work, pray and suffer with us and participate fully ments referred to above. one another. I could be entirely Appearing as one of several in human fellowship. mistaken about that, of course, panelists on William F. Buckley's but, now that I have raised the But-and this is the saddest line in the Gospels-"He came increasingly popular television question, lowe it to the Archinto the world, the world He had created, and the world failprogram, the Bishop was asked bishop to pursue it a little fured to recognize Him" (In. 1:10). whether, ,in his opinion, there is ther. more cruelty and injustice in .

Many today rub elbows with Him, push Him aside. It is only Social Demands The first of the two statements tolday's world than there was in through the light of your Faith, the fervor of your love that you referred to above was a kind of Never having had any direct the past. He replied in the neg路 can "discover" Him-in His Church, in the Eucharist, in Sacred guest editorial, "Jesus People contact with the Jesus people, I ative and, by way of illustrating Scripture, in our neighbor, but especially in the world in His and the Churches," published on am perfectly' willing to take the his contention that things are poor, or as He called them "His least brethren." Only a love op-ed page of the Aug. 8 issue of Archbishop's' word for it that better today than they used to which is sacrifical has the power to detect the hidden Christ The New York Times. The burmany of them "have become pure be, he cited the fact that perhaps in our midst. Such love can move us to serve Him in the homeless, den of this piece was路 that the' and wholesome." I would hate to never before in history have the leprosy afflicted, the orphan, the aged, the refugee, the unso-called "Jesus people" are dethink, however, that "in picking there been so many young peo-. loved of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin Amrica. serving of our respect and adup the Christ whom the church pie who are sincerely dedicated miration.

"Taste and see that the Lord is sweet," the Psalmist 'sings. rarely preaches," they are re- to the cause of social justice treating into a latter-day form and social reform. ,Rediscovering Jesus Would you, if you had the chance, experience 'more and of personal "pietism" and are more of the loving presence of Christ, now and thrC?ughout the Not a Substitute As the Archbishop sees it, unconcerned about the demari'tt'='rest of your earthly life? Then, I beg you, see Him and serve these young people "are picking ing requirements of the social His enthusiastic commendaHim in your neighbor whom He loves and saves. up the Christ about Whom the gospel. If so, their last state may . tion of those young people of all church rarely preaches. Spiritual well be worse than their first.

Your Society for the Propagation of the Faith brings Christ's faiths or none who are-trying to retreats dissolve into endless make this world a better place love and yours to those in need-extreme need-:-around the world.

As noted above, the Archdiscussions in order to escape in which to live was most re- It serves the needs of the Church to train local clergy, expand the decision: 'He that is not with bishop rightly points out that freshing. It also served to put mission stations, build medical facilities and, most important of all, the "new faith of the Jesus peoMe, is against Me.' Liturgy, in into better focus his earlier criti- bring the Good News of the Gospel to those who have not heard some instances, has smothered ple is to be judged by its fruits, cism in The New York Times of it. By your sacrifices and prayers each day, you can "taste" the the Person; abstract virtues have and many young have become the church's alleged over-empha- sweetness of Christ toward you and your family in return. killed a loving personal relation- pure and wholesome." So far so . sis on the "sQcial gospel of the Please clip the coupon below, attach your sacrifice, and ship. The young may be redis-' good. Purity and wholesomeness secular world." mail today that others may come to taste and see that the Lord covering Jesus outside the are admirable virtues. On the In view of his comments on is sweet. Your gift for the missions is their invitation to share Church as did their elders, Henri other hand, they are not the only the Buckley program, I take it Christian virtues and, unless in the "banquet of love" the Lord has prepared for us. I will Bergson, Simone Weil, and Malthey are combined whh a deep that what the Archbshop really remember all of our donors in my daily celebration of the Eucolm Muggeridge." personal commitment to the so- meant to say in his Times article chilrist.

In view of all this, the Archwas not tha'; the church is doing cial demands of the gospel, they bishop asks: "Why cannot the Please send. a generous sacrifice today! obviously leave much to be de- too much in the field of social churches rejoice and not look reform but simply that the social sired. down their noses at young peogospel must not be thought of " " " " , - - - - - - - " " " " " " " " . " " " " " " " , SALVATION AND SERVICE ate the work of The Society , ple who are becaming pure and Second Statement as a substitute for the "Christ , : for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut out this column : disaddicted because a new love Gospel of salvation."

Faith, as William Yeomans , and send your offering to Reverend Monsignor Edward T. , has come into their lives?". He This is obviously good advite, O'Meara, National Director, Dept. C., 366 Fifth Ave, New : points out, in conclusion, that points out in tile July issue of but it cuts both ways.. That is to : York, N.Y. 10001 or directly to your local Diocesan Director. : the new faith of the Jesus peo- The Way - a first-rate British say, if it is necessary for. Chris- : on contemporary ple "is to be judged by its fruits, quarterly The Rev. Msgr.

Raymond T. Considine : : tian social reformers to preach and many young have become Christian spirituality - "is not a Christ and Him crucified, it is : 368 North Main Street : refuge from the evils of the pure and wholesome." also necessary for the Jesus : Fall River, Massachusetts 02720 : world, quite simply because it The Archbishop's point is well people to bear in mind that thdr is faith in a God who chose to taken-very well taken indeed. new faith in the Christ gospel of NAME : get himself involved in the evils salvation-unless it is combined : On the other hand, I am not sure of this world to the extent of with a deep concern for sO,cial I understand why he felt it nec: ADDRESS : dying because of that evil. justice-runs the risk of degenessary to praise the Christ路 CiTy STATE ZIP............ : "A doctor does not heal a erating into a form of escapism : centered idealism of the Jesus people at the expense of the so- broken leg by amputating it, nor which has little or nothing to do : 8-21-71 : did Christ heal mankind by with genuine Christian piety. called social go_sp~L """"""""""""""""""""""""

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Perhaps many Catholics have From time to time I'm sure many of us ask the same ques- felt that being a 'member of the tion someone put to Jesus in Catholic Church' more or less the Gospel for this coming Sun- insured salvation., We have often day. "Lord, are they few in num- proudly ass~rted that outside the ber who are, to be saved?" We Catholic Church there is no salmight phrase our question dif- vation. We have tended to look ferently: "Who will be saved?" at the Church almost exclusive"How can I be sure of being ly as a safe 'shelter for those God chose. We have looked with saved?"

- .. - _.. -- .Jesu~ gives no, mathematical ~:~!:iJ~:;.:!t't!~,~,f:!f!:!.f;t.fi.;~~t·}!~?~:mm answer. He seems rather to pose a riddle, to challenge us to reflect ,more deeply on our own By question. He speaks, in such a way as to shake any selfFR. CARL J. complacency, any u'nwarranted self-satisfaction. Those who heard PFEIIFER, S.J. him may ,well have thought that because they were Jews, members' of dod's chosen people, salvation was by that very fact sympathy at "heretics" or insured: Jesus forcefUlly points "atheists." out that th,is in itself 'is no guarFaith is a Challenge antee.'

I Jesus' words are meant to They will watch ma;ny of their shake our self-complacencypeople, followers of Abraham, not' to shake our faith or trust ""II be iii_church n~xt Sunday! I'll be in chu~ch Isaac, and Jacob enter God's or hope. The teaching' of the kingdom. They will 'also stand Church is as clear as that of the next Su,:,day! I'll be in, church next Sunday J1/ : 'by, as, people come from' "the Scriptures: God has chosen us in 'east and the west,' from the 'Christ before the foundation of north and the south," arid "take the world. Why? Simply because their plac~ at the feast in the He loves us. For this we have kingdom of God." They will hear every reason to be thankful. " "They're bored, Father. Bored.

In 1967, the Bishops' Commi!- the master say to them," "I. do But with the choice, with the And we have everything in our tee, on the Liturgy issued "lpe not know where you, gome ,gift, G.od issues a call, a c;halleng~. parish you recommend. Good Place of Music in Euchar'istic from;'" as he )o'cks 'the door.

The community of' believers is celebrants, 'high quality music, a Celebrations," a s tat erne n t diversified Sunday schedule, which could well be memorized , carefully prepared homilies, full by ,every person directly COninvolvement of the congregation. nected with the preparation ,of And the people are still bored." liturgies. The following sentences These pe~haps exaggerated, from an introductory section 6n Remember when we' talked walled out the troublesome but still disconcerting observa- "The Theology of Celebration" apout low Mass and high Mas:;? world. The Greek and Roman tions came from the lips of one relate precisely to this point Do you recall the soft murmur style buildings, as solid as banks, priest (or seminarian, I am not about faith and feelings. of, the I,.atinliturgy? Better yet, stood as trustworthy and changesure w'nich) during a workshop Faith and Feelings do' your eyes blink at ,the mem- less images in an all too fickle for the 'clergy this '.spring' in "We are Christians because ory of ,fiddle back vestments, and changeable wonld. Small Wayne, N. J. That priests' forum through the Christian' commu- birettas on the 'heads of priesti;; wonder that few people' ex- ' formed part of "Music and Litur- nity we have met Jesus Christ, maniples on their wrists and the pected or desired a change in a , \ heard his word of invitation, arid organ strains of "0 Lord I Am liturgy conducted on so unmoveresponded 0 him in 'faith., ~e Not Worthy", at Communion? able a ground. assemble together at Mass in Times have changed, and so has Worship and Social Concern order to speak our faith ov~r the liturgy. , The major problem was that By', again in community', and, by This did not come about eas- liturgy, in thus ,walling out the speaking it; to renew and deepen ily. The images of sa~red time world, gradually lost some conFR. JOSEPH it." . tanct with that world. Thus ma'ny "We may not feel like cel~­ CHAMPLIN people saw little relation, bebrating on this' or that Sunday, tween worship and SOCial coneven though we are called' by cern. 'Christ n,oted the problem By the Church's law to ,do so. Our in his time. That is why he gy in Actio~," an all day con- faith does not always permeate' , cleansed the Temple of people ",FR. f'Lferenc'e sponsored by the Asso- ' our feelings: But this is the funt- ' who cheated the poor 'and could ciation of Church Musicians in tion of signs in the Church... /' McBRIDE' see no hypocrisy in their wor"From this it 'is clear that. the the Paterson Diocese. ship.

• What correctives to sacred Several hunded organists, choir manner in which the Church ('~'K:K:t:?~t:H:If?K:{t:@"'~':~I space and time w'ould-' permit' directors, guitarists, plus other celebrates the liturgy has an ef' musicians concerned about fect on the faith of men. Good ,and sacred space whi~h domi- change?

As to sacred time. Jesus, said, music and the liturgy gathered celebrations, foster and nourish nated liturgy stood ag~inst the this Saturday for a discussion faith. Poor celebrations weaken possibility of change. ' "Do this and you shall render' of '~Musit To ~elp Men Pray By." and destroy faith. ,Sacred time ,alwayJ spoke me present." He was, saying that The a~guished cieric's remarks Encounter in Faith about the past. Every gospel the Eucharist is not just a: matbring into focus, I think, some The key word 'here is faith: reading began with the ,words, ter of going back to the past, or very serious questions we must The Mass, our liturgy, public "At that time." The really holy of using the past as im escape face today about the liturgy. Is worship essentially is an,encoun- time was '''that time/' and thus from the present. He wanted the worship meant to be entertain- ter'with God in faith, not neces-;, ' by'implication our time today is Eucharist to be a'live to our presment? Should we seek to give ,sadly in feeling. To ,quote' the: not as important. But we knew ent experience. God is, every bit the congregation an "experience": revised Roman~Missal:"By these today was critical also. Debts as much of' a "now" person as each Sunday? Can we expe~t, signs faith is nourished, strength: 1 needed payment. Vacations were ourselves. He wants to C,ommi.me parishioners' to be moved emo- 'ened, 'and expres~ed,." Sometimes, to be planned and dinner pre- with us in our Spac!l age iife tionally week after week? Have we feel God's presence, we "ex- i pared. Still, many people enjoyed style. Thus we need a' timely we failed when no one feels any- perience" Him in liturgical ser-, going back to the past to forget liturgy to meet him. thing? If an individual is not ,vices, but not all the time.

Holy Spaces i the troubles of the present, Now "up" for the occasion, would it To think or hope otherwise. in the past nothing changes.

As to sacred space. Holy be b,etter for him or her to skip spells despair and disaster" ' Thus why should liturgy change? space locates the presence of Mass, 'stay at home, go for ,a Newlyweds who anticipate, a I 'Sacred space worked ,against God for us. It does not confine walk in the woods?

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not meant to sit back self-satis'fied. The Church has the challenge 'to share God's gifts with others, and to recognize gratefully that many outside the Church are equally blessed with God's grace. The Church's task is suggested in the first reading, from the Prophet Isaiah.

Isaiah piCtures the Church as missionary, as going out among the nations and attracting them to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Church, like "Jerusalem" is meant to be a sign, apoint of attraction to men and women all over the world.

The Church, like" Jerusalem, is meant to be so attractive in its life Of love that men and women will be atracted to our God, the Father of Jesus Christ, and our Father.

God's kingdom exists beyond the confines of the Catholic Church, even beyond the realm of ,Christianity. Catholics and other Christians need to recognize in other cultures and religions the presence of 'Christ's saving grace and to deeply reo spect the work of the Holy Spirit wherever men are committed to the service of others. , .. , Make' Visible God's' Love " We Christians have the responsibility to so live in accord with the gifts given us through union with Christ that we draw others to a more concerned life, to deeper worship of God, our common Father, and perhaps to 'union with the Church. God says through Isaiah: "I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory,. I will set a sign among them."

The Church is that sign' in today's' world, a sign of what human life can be when people know and love God while living' together in love and mutual concern. As long as our person~1 lives, 'our community lives, Qur life as a world-wide Church, does not make visible and tangible the effects of God's love, we have' reason to examin'e ourselves honestly, and to hope for salvation with fe~r and trembling.

As Christians we have every ,reason to thank God for his love towards us in Christ, trusting that he will be with us through life and death. We need also recognize with joy that his love is not limited to those who are Christians, 'and that anyone who seeks his God and tries to love his neighbor according' to his conscience can be saved. We have reason as Christians to be confident, but no reason to be complacent. '

Native ,Priests PORT MORESBY (NC)-The bishops of ,Papua-New Guinea and the Solomon Islands at their arinual meeting stressed the need for native priests of their territory to be given 'positions of authority. They asked Pope Paul VI "to hasten this process."

Don Schollander's Book Indictment of Olympics

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A worldwide celebrity at 18, and for some time thereafter regarded as probably the premier athlete of the world, Don Schollander might seem to be altogether enviable. Not so, he tells us in a book on which Duke Savage has collaborated, Deep Water (Crown, ' 419 Park Ave., South, New Perhaps the most trying of York, N.Y. 10016. $5.95). It his foreign adventures was one is filled with accounts of behind the Ir.on Curtain in 1966. competitions, victories, new records set, and this can make for monotony, unless one is a fanatic about swimming. But what keeps ~'WWD(;%'f;$IDl_:l\&lll

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From the time he was seven years old, Schollander's home was Lake Oswego, Oregon, and every Summer he spent all day, every day at the lake. It became evident that he had the makings of an extraordinary swimmer, and he began intensive training at the age of nine. Yes, nine.

At the age of 15, he left home to go into a kind of perpetual training at Santa Clara, California. He was to be away from home from that time on. He says, wistfully, that he hardly knew his parents, and they hardly knew him. A swimming career was not of his choosing. , His coach was George Haines, and a good coach he proved to be. Schollander progressed steadily, and was a national champion at 16. He competed in the Olympics at Tokyo in 1964, and performed the unprecedented feat of winning four gold medals.

He thus skyrocketed to fame, and began to pay the penalty for it. He was incessantly phototographed, interviewed, deluged with fan mail, pestered by crank calls, invited here, there, and everywhere.

AAU Property He had been accepted as a freshman at Yale, but began the school year late. He knew no one. in New Haven, and his reception by his contemporaries and teachers at college was chilly.

He was, of course not the typical student, and he was away from Yale as much as he was pres~nt.

He had become, as it were, the property of the Amateur Athletic Union. It told him, for example, that his Christmas vacation was to be spent in France, giving ,exhibitions. He flew to France, only to find stiff competitions, not easy exhibitions, had been scheduled. He had not expected to be racing, and was not in condition' for it. But race he did, once in the icy' waters of Marseille harbor. " Russian Professionals The attention he was getting, the demands made upon him, and the struggle to keep up with his studies exhausted him. While' in Switzerland, on one of those crazy jaunts, he became ill. Mononucleosis was diagnosed, and his recovery took some time.

Continued from Page Sixteen marital life full of constant elation, who expect in marriage a continuous series of ever higher, more intense mountains of joy will discover, as Charlie Brown of Peanuts fame did, that life is full of rude awakenings. So, too, will the well-intentioned, but On this trip, he went first to poorly informed liturgist or Poland, where he was warmly musician. received and well treated. But Danger of Frustration then came Russia. The U. S. State To thrill over a marvelous Department had something to do Mass implies that we have worwith promoting the visit, and deshiped at other moments when manded that Schollander always the liturgy, feeling wise, seemed be cooperative with his Soviet dull, ordinary, uninspiring. To ECUMENICAL EFFORT: In order to recognize the think that each Eucharist will hosts..

From the moment he left patient's personal belief, a Star of David replaces the Cru- or must touch our emotions can the plane at the Moscow ariport, cifix in the hospital room when a· Christian leaves and only lead to frustration, for that Schollander encountered an un- one of Jewish faith is admitted. 'Viewing the plaques in attitude makes the liturgy, howfriendly, suspicious attitude. He ever divinely inspired and perand· the other young Americans St. Mary's Extended Care Center, Minneapolis are: Mrs. fectly executed, more than. it with him were poorly housed, Irving Bernstein; designer of the plaques; Rev. David Par- really is. poorly fed, tricked. and spied rish, Protestant chaplain at the hospital; Rabbi Max ShaAll of this should not be interupon. They found that a $et-up piro of Temple IIsrael; Rev. Ralph Goman, Catholic Chap: preted as a stoical put down of . had been prepared. our feelings or, a casual disrelain at' St. Mary's NC Photo.

Everything was done to insure gard for the importance of good that the Ameri<;ans would be at music. (and other art forms) in a disadvantage in competition worship. To quote our American against the Russian professionals Bishops again: "Music, more who ,are passed off as amateurs. than any other resource, makes Former Sisters of St. Ann Form But the Americans won most of a celebration of the liturgy an the events. The Moscow papers attractive humiln experience."

'Distinctive American Community' reported only the news of a few But do we need to keep matvictories by Russians.

EBENSBURG (NC) - Eleven poverty, chastity and obedience, ters in perspective. A particular former Sisters of St. Ann· of under the leadership of Sister Mass may prove devoid of feelPower Structure ing but deep in faith, emotionalIn 1967, there was a junket Providence have formed a new Mary Teresa.

That means they will become , ly dry yet still spiritually rich. to South Africa, plagued by the community with the official apDiscussion Questions usual faulty arrangements, mis- proval of Bishop James Hogan of members of' the Third Order of Discalced Carmelites, putting 1. 'Is it possible' for "worship" understanding, and unpleasant- Altoona-Johnstown.

The new congregation, the emphasis on prayer and good to become "entertainment?" ness, which marked everything 2. How do good liturgical celwhich the AAU got Schollander Carmelite Community of the works as it applies to the aposebrations aid in fostering the Word, released a statement say- tolate. into.

"The separation of the new faith?

He calls it "a classic example ing it was "deemed opportune" of the exploitation, by men in to sever ~ffiliation with the Sis- community from the religious the power structure, of athletes ters of St. Ann and "form a dis- congregation (of the Sisters of St. Ann of Providence) has been they were supposed to be serv- tinctive American community."

The congregation of the Sis- effected in an exemplary and Continued frob Page Sixteen ing and protecting. These men didn't care a rap for their ath- ters of St. Ann was founded in edifying spirit of charity on the him there, but reminds us' of his letes. They cared about their Italy in,'1834, and the first foun- part of all concerned," the state- presence. The Bible had many own power. They care about dation in the United States was ment said. kinds of holy spaces: (1) the making money for their organi- in 1952. American headquarters mobility of the desert (2) the Service of Diocese zations in order to perpetuate are here in Ebensburg, Pa., solidity of the holy land (3) the Members of the new commu- urbanity of tl}j! holy city (4) the that power-and that is all they ,where the new congregation will nity will wear blue habits "and awe of the temple. No one place cared about." operate. will continue to fulfill customary confined God's presence. Each Schollander wanted to comThe new congregation said its pete, and to win, in the Olympic members would be Carmelite apostolic roles in the diocese," space witnessed to his abiding Games of 1968 in Mexico City. tertiaries with private vows of which is teaching in elementary presence and concern. and high schools, the statement And why not? an ignoramus like Israel's "desert stage" had a said. this reviewer asks. worship that was free form. God Sister Mary Jean Marie; a was seen as wide ranging and Prisoner Escapes Well, a swimmer stays at the spokesman for the new congre- almost as nomadic as the people top for only two years, SchollanAfter Performance gation, said the basic problem themselves. In their "temple der tells us. And at 22, he was an WASHINGTON (NC) - This with the old congregation was stage" old man as swimmers go. He· the worship was found that he was competing time "Jesus" escaped after "The the "cultural differences" be- formal and set. Perhaps we are Last Supper." . tween the American Sisters and today more in tune' with the with a new breed. .

A group of 32 inmates from the Italian motherhouse. The "desert phase" than the "temple Swimming was becoming "so rigorous, so completely demand- Lorton Reformatory staged a Italian Sisters of St. Ann are one." We don't cease to ,be peoing" that it precluded any out- performance of "The Last Sup- also involved in teaching. ple of faith, nor need we stop The spokesman said the worshiping. Our God marches side interest whatever. "Riding Per" at an Episcopal church back and forth to workout, S0>tle here. In the audience were Supe- American Sisters felt a need "to with us. If we forbade change of the young kids would ask rior\Court Judge Alfred Burka put themselves totally at the we might have a petrified forest about my times 'way back then,' and John Boone, superintendent service of the diocese/' in what- and not the tree of life. It is a of thE; prison. ever capacity they may be healthy growth we are supportas though I were a relic." needed.

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For Amateurs Only "We will be playing things Burrell, 35, serving a 10-year lie made the team, and won term for sale and possession of pretty much by ear for awhile," Precepts one· gold medal. But all the politdrugs, who played the role of she said, with each Sister trying God's precepts are light to ical tugging and hauling during Christ, didn't wait for any cur- to work in an area she feels is the loving, heavy to the fearful. the Olympics disgusted him and tain calls. He simply slipped out best suited for·her. It might inSt. Thomas Aquinas made him wonder whether the of the church and got away. clude working in mental institugames had any future. Certainly, tions, in catechetics, parish work their original and still avowed and guidance counseling. .~ ELECTRICAL purposes and principles had been Sister Mary Jean Marie said ~~ Contractors entirely' lost sight of. committees as he here draws up, the new congregation also hopes For example, professedly they '. is overdue. It may have some to attract more young American are for amateurs only, but the weight because of Schollander's women to join, now that the emrepresentatives of Russia and its status and his first hand experi- phasis has been put on more satel1ites are unquestionably pro- ence. One doubts, however, that varied local needs of a diocese. . fessionals. And hardly any other things will change much, if at country, except the United all.

Bala:nce States, is strict in enforcing the Don Schollander successfully A balanced soul, alight with amateur code. About this, Schol- completed his course at Yale, by ~b~ lander complains long and loud. the way, but, curiously, he never tranquil grace within, is not 944 COlllnty St. Such an indictment of the does get around to tell us what afraid to look at the darkness New Bedford • R. H. Benson without.

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Favors Change in Method Of 'Nominating Bi~hops I I must say that I am surprised at 'one ,very frequent reaction to my suggestion that the only way out of the present structural crisis in the Church is thenominatiQn of bishops by theprie,sts and eventually.the people of the diocese for which they are ..... to 'be the witnesses to the stories, not -for fear of weakenrest of the Church. I am,told ing anyone;s faith, but because I have no way of knowing that such a return to ancient whether they are true _ though. practfces would introduce "politics" into the Church and corrupt the selection of bi~hops, -

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First of all, I don't happen to . think politics is corrupt behavior.

It is the ancient and honorable art of human government.

Furthermore our separated brothers manage to select their 1eadership . without any more controversy or "polarization" than that which presently affects us and probably a good deal less, . " , Intense' Competition As one. Anglican priest remarked to me-not without appreciation of the irony of dramatic historical change implicit in his statement-"when our two communions are united again I think' we' may be able to teach you some respect for the nece!'sity of Church structure," However, I wonder how my critics think bishops are currently selected if it is not by a political process? Do they think the Holy Spirit writes the name of the next bishop of -Cahokia on a parchment paper with gold ink in a sealed room in the Vatican?

The .competition ,for dioceses is just as intense, the campaigns just as well thought out,. the party lines just as clearly drawn as in any political pro<::.ess. The difference behind popular ,nomiri'ation 'and the present process 'is merely that in the former more people would be involved and the issue would be worked out in the light of day rather than ,in 'secrecy, Slate Making The second difference is extremely impqrtant. Secret politics is' utterly demoralizing to those who are the victims of itas the recent' events in the American Republic have shown, Clergy. and well informed laity have a vast folk lore _which. in many cases is shockingly scandalous.

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-VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican has announced that Msgr, Silvio Luoni, was named Vatican observer at the European office of the United Nations and specialized institutes in Geneva. The Italian priest has been for the past year the Vatican observer to. the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.

like most of my colleagues' I in-, cline to believe the worst.' The point is that when a political process goes on in secret every~ one is inclined to believe the worst-even' if it turns out not to be true. : But surely no one thinks 'that it is an accident -that so 'many American bishops in the: last quarter century happened to be from Cleveland or New Yprk.

1=his is not to criticize the men who have come from either of these cities-and they include in their number some of the best bishops in the country-bu~ to suggest that a process might have been路 at work nof unlike that which we in Chicago call' "slate making," a process ~ in which one man has an 'extraordinary amount of influence, ' Priests Want Change I am not against slate making -at ieast not in principle, But NANAQUAKET CAMP: The Tiverton camp under the co-directorship of Sr. Cecilia slate making, either civil or ec- Mulcahy, SUSc., a,nd Sr. Germaine Alida, SUSC completed a most successful season clesiastical, is a political mechwith exhibitions' and productions of their Summer projects as is exemplified in the arts anism and politics is likely 'to and crafts progran1. be both more effective and less corrupt when it goes on in public and not in private. The da'ngel' of secret politics is' not ~o much that they are always cdrrupt or even that they are mote Conf~rence easily corruptible; it is that everyone suspects they are corWASHINGTON (NC)-A new- ' bilization policies "or face the tinued growth "would not be rupt and loses confidence in the Iy formed national .coalition possibility of a: drastic deteriora- harmfUl," Current census propolitical process.

I pushing "zero population tion in the q~ality of national jections, he said, place future growth" as a nation.al policy life and the collapse of many of American population between This is what has happened tn our cherished institutions under 267 and 275 million by the year the American Church. A large goal was heavily critiCized here the sheer weight of human num- 2037, "so that statement by proportion of the clergy and the by 'Father James McHugh, head bel's,'" At present growth rates, Tydings is inaccurate at best," well educated laity have 105,t of the United States i Catholic confidence . in the politics by . Conference family life division. ' he said, America will have a Changing the tax structure I population of 300 million by the to reduce deductions for more which bishops are selected. More Characterizing a ;coalition year 2000. than seven out of 10 priests in than two children would be "co.leader's statement as . . . i, a scare . the country want a change.'

He contended that curren,t tax ercive" and would "limit human .. , policies penalize childless freedom," he said. Father McEventually the pressures for tactic" Father McHugh ex.. such a change will be irresistible; plained that the coalition was: co'uples and the unmarried, "Also,- Hugh . said that current tax "out to dramatize evett at the the real question is how much he added, "many women still ,are structures, under which single i expense of truth the problems socialized to seek self-definition persons pay more than married conflict the Church will have t6 experience before it does come; .' and complexities of population and satisfaction exclusively in couples filing a joint return, are growth.in this country,': their roles as mothers and are not coercive. "I don't believe actively discouraged from dethat's the purpose," he said.

The nonprofit orgapization, Austria Churches Coalition for A National Popu- veloping careers and interests Without Priests lation Policy, is headed: by for- other than marriage," VIENNA (NC)-Lack of voca- mer Senator Joseph D. ,Tydings Questions Honesty tions in Austria has led toi (D-Md.) and Dr. Miltori Eisenchurches without priests.

Father McHugh said Tydings' hower, brother of the late PresiCouples have to schedule wed-' dent and former head: of the statement reflected "a very nardings inany months ahead of Johns Hopkins University, Bal- row ideological viewpoint" and time in order to get a priest to. timore. called the former Senator's posiperform it. Children reach the, tion "both dishonest and unCITIES SERVICE just," age of one without being bap-' 'Drastic Deterioration' DISTRIBUTORS tized, and there ar"e only rare ,.

"It's time' somebody chalGasoline opportunities for confession.

It was formed to l~bby;m sup. port of a populatIOn control lenged Tydings as to the honesty . of his position," the priest asFuel and Range "Far too few young people' resolution now' pending: before . th~se ,?ays seek to be~ome" Congress which _would 4 make serted. pne~ts, the hea~ of a VIenna , population stabilization anaHe quoted a National Acad~,e~mary 路compla.med recently. tional goat to be achieved emy of Sdence report which OIL BURNERS ~ e are路 .beco~mg a Church , through voluntary means and. concluded that a modest con-For Prompt Delivery wlthol;lt pnests. ' " without contravening personal & Day & Night Service Every year for the - past 10 moral beliefs. The coalition years, the number of priests would also seek to fund more carrying out their duties in Aus- 'federal research on contracep.G. E. BOILER BURNER UNITS tria has been reduced, by about ; tives and to fUlly implement curRural Bottled Gas Service five per cen,t. This means that : rent federal population educa10 years ag? there were twice as ',tion programs, I i't anndunced 61 COHANNET ST many active. priests in Austria ,Aug. 10, TAUNTON as there are today. It also means Attleboro - No. Attleboro that the day when there will not I Tydings told the press that be enough to go around is not . the United States must immeTaunton far away. ;diately develop populatio~ sta-

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Ceylon Restores Sunday Holiday COLOMBO (NC)-The Ceylonese government has decided that in August the country will again schedule Sunday as a nonworking day, after five and a half years of experimenting with the Buddhist Poya calendar based on the lunar cycle.

Starting in' January, 1966, Sunday became just another working day, when the government of this predominantly Buddhist country decided to schedule holidays for the four days of the month when the new phases of the moon appears.

The preceding half days were also holidays. Under the plan, Christians were to be given a two-hour break on Sundays to attend religious services.

Because the country is heavily dependent on trade for income, it suffered economically as a result of having its weekly holidays at the peak of a trading period.

The government made its decision after consulting both Buddhist and Christian religious auth6rities. Buddhists who had earlier pressed for the abolition of the Sunday holiday now admit that the experiment has been damaging both economically and religiously.

In a statement to the Catholic press, Cardinal Thomas Cooray of Colombo welcomed the return to the Sunday holiday as a step taken in the interest of the nation.

Staging is set as paneling starts in priests' sacristy. Right: Jim Adams gives final touches to the trim in the sacristy.

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POMFRET (NC) - It is not feasible to create a national pastoral council at this time, a special steering committee of the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) advisory council announced at the conclusion of its three day meeting here in Conn.

Father' stressed, "that this project was proposed and carried out by the fathers themselves.

These are men who were not previously very involved in 'parish activities. Some are not even Catholic. But the fathers like working with their sons on The committee recommended, something worthwhile like this. however, that "some structure Even the younger Knights of the , ... through which representative Altar have gotten in on the proj- priests, Religious 'and laity can ect doing minor jobs." share with the bishops in the ,"When you have fathers and decision making process'~ be high school boys cooperating the established until the time is ripe rest of the parish can't help but for the national council to ease catch some of their enthusiasm," "widespread disillusionment" , he concluded. among Catholics;

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MARION UNSWORTH CURRAN St. Jeseph's Church in Attleboro is sporting a new look these days, both in the church proper and in the sacristies, and it is all due to the efforts of the parishioners, from altar boys to parents, working unc;ler the direction of their energetic assistant pastor, Rev. Normand Boulet.

"That's the important partthat the parents and young people have done and are doing it themselves;" said Father Boulet, "and what's more, ttiey're having a ball in the process!"

"You should have seen the eyes of the Junior Corps (Freshmen in high school) light up when I told them they could use a sledge hammer on the big old cabinets in the sacristy!", he added.

Earlier this ye'ar, new altar tables were installed and the altar area was pannelled and painted. The work involved: except for the art work, was done by the parishioners and completed in time for Easter.

Renovate Sacristies Then, about a month ago the Parish Council discussed having the antiquated priests' sacristy and altar boys' sacristy redone, and using the proceeds from the forthcoming Aug. 28th whist

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