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NEW. YORK (NC)-Bible reading in space is not forbidden by the U.S. Constitu~ tion, according to astronaut Michael Collins, pilot of the Apollo 11 command capsule.

Speaking on the Columbia Broadcasting System's television program, "Face the Nation," Col. Collins defended the reading of the Bible by Col. Edwin E. Aldrin during the moon flight. Aldrin disclosed recently in Life magazine that he read the Bible and celebrated communion

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Bishops Issue Interim Liturgical Calendar WASHINGTON (NC)-An interim 1970 liturgical calendar for the United States, including the special feasts observed in all dioceses of the country, has been issued by the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Committee also ship for the interim adaptation published the Mass for of particular or local calendars.

The interim calendar provides Thanksgiving Day which information needed for its use was approved by the NCCB on Nov. 12, 1968, and which was approved and .confirmed for experimental use by the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship on June 1, 1969.

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Urg·es President LUNAR GLOBE: U. S. astronaut James A. Lovell gives Pope Paul VI the first lunar globe made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during an audience at· the papal Summer residence in Castelgandolfo. NC Photo.

Reformers, Church Leaders Agree on Tax Exemptions

even though the liturgical books chiefly affected (missal and breviary) are not yet completely revised. Thus any adjustments necessary in the choice of WASHINGTON (NC)-Tax exemptions for churches Offices and Masses in the period One feature of the Thanks- after the Epiphany and. after on unrelateo business income Will be wiped-out if Congiving Day Mass is that it per- Pentecost ~re determined explic- gr~ss enacts the proposed· major tax reform bill which has mits people to carry gifts. of itly. _been drafted by the House W-ays and Means Committee. clothes and food for the ·poor to - -The Roman calendard~s not .The powerful House Comfix times for the celebration of the altar In the offertory procession "as a reminder to the the rogation or ember days, mittee proposal, in general, active conduct of a business as faithful of our obligation to leaving the choice of such days is in general agreement with well as on debt-financed busishare the goods of our steward- or periods to the episcopal con- the thinking of the United ness lease income (that is, renferences, so that the texts .of ship." tals from real estate). these Masses which are appro- States Catholic Conference and A joint USCC-NCC statement The complete revision of the . priate may be used for petition, the National Council of general Roman ·calEindar, pub- penance, prayer for the fruits of Churches of Christ. There are, has, called the- use of the looplished by decree of March 21, the earth, prayer for human however, some differences on hole "ingenious tax planning on 1969, wlll not go into effect un- labor, thanksgiving and so forth. specifics in the sweeping reform the patt of some exempt organizations which are subject t.o the til the entire reform of the Ro.' It is not possible to indicate proposaJ,. man missal and breviary is com- a1 this time, it was stated, what The -'two church groups as unrelated business tax." The espleted. For 1970, however, an determination the NCCB may well as the House Ways and cape legislation would enable interim revision of the liturgical make concerning such celebra- Means Committee, favor elimi- the advocates to purchase a caiendar was published by the tions. The interim calendar does nation. of the' so-called Clay- business on credit, lease the Holy See, incorporating the fea- indicate the observance of -Labor Brown loop-hole,. which imposes, property to an operator for five tures of the general revision Day with the celebration of the according to' the committee years or less, receiving the buswhich do not involve the publi- Mass in honor of St. Joseph report, '''an unrelated business iness profits as rent and then Turn to Page Three cation of new liturgical texts. the Worker as well as the cele- . income tax on income from the • Norms were also issued by the bration of the Thanksgiving Day Congregation for Divine Wor- Mass.

NEW YORK (NC) -President Richard M. Nixon was urged again by world church relief leaders "to take immediate action to prevent the needless death of tens of thousands of innocen~ children in Biafra before it is too late."

The appeal. wag made in a telegram to the president by Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Cathollc Relief Services and president of Joint Church Aid-USA. Bishop Swanstrom's appeal to the President was .based on a report from Edward. Kinney, secretary-treasurer of JCA, who was attending the executive meeting of the Joint Church Aid international consortium at Geneva.

In his report Kinney said the consensus of the church relief leaders attending the session is that "the present flight level to Biafra is woefully inadequate and incapable of stemming retrogression to mass starvation of Turn to Page Six

NEW YORK (NC)-Father Morton A. HUl, S.J., believes that if the Presidential Commission on Obscentiy and Pornography continues in the direction in which it is being guided by chairman William B. Lockhart, "it will wind up merely applying a bandaid to the festering, studies of effects, which will be cancerous sore of obs.cenity undoubtedly incomplete and inBecause of this, in this country." Father Hill conclusive. studies in other areas-particu-

DAYTON (NC)-In the perspective of history, changes and turmoil in the Church are normal, George Cardinal Flahiff of Winni'peg has· told the Sisters of the Precious Blood at their general chapter here in Ohio. Change is especially difficult to live with at present because "we rules almost stultified effort" in have come from a static so- much of our culture. ciety" in which politics, edThe Church necessarily has been slowe.d to change because of the cautIOn th~t must be us~d to see. tha.t nothmg of essential value IS discarded, he noted.

The Cardinal said sharp divisions in the Church existed even at the time of the Apostles. As we look back at Pentecost "we tend to see it as the effective beginning of the Church; therefore we view it as a great triumph," he added.

But there also was "doubt, uneasiness, confusion, contention, division, disarray and not Turn to Page Three

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Jesuit Criticizes Direction Of Obscenity Commission

Changeg Turmoil Normal, Says Canadian Cardinal

ucation, art and religion for generations remain unchanged, the Canadian Prince of the Church asserted.

During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, said Cardinal Flahiff, "we knew exactly what to do" and social courtesies were spelled out for us.

In art, "you weren't allowed to use certain colors or you would fail at art school," he recalled. "Now you can have two noses or three eyes in your art if you wish."

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before stepping out onto the moon.

Aldrin, who followed Neil A. Armstrong onto the lunar surface July 20, said that after the lunar module landed, ''when we knew we were going' to be on the moon for a while, I unstowed thestl (bread and wine) elements and put them on a little table I had in front of the abort guidance-system computer." He then requested air-toTum to Page Six

. APPOiNTEE: President Nixon has named Margaret Mealey, executive director of, the National Council of Catholic Women, to be a member of the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women. NC Photo.

said the chairman, "together with a staff which reflects his ideas, is leading this commission down a path which will bring it around in a complete circle and leave us where we were when we began-in the midst of an avalanche of obscenity and pornography, brought about by United States Supreme Court decisions."

Father Hill has expressed his concern to the commission on at least two occasions. "The chairman is making of this an 'effects' commission, concentrat: ing the largest proportion of commission effort and funds on

larly in the all-important legal area-are suffering," he emphasized.

"We are spending great sums on effects studies when this is primarily a legal problem. In addition, spending such sums is unnecessary since proof of a 'clear and present danger' qf anti-social behavior is unnecessai'y under the Supreme Court Roth decision because 'obscenity is not protected speech,' " Father Hill add{~d.

The Jesuit also noted that Congress had given the commission foul' mandates: Turn to Page Six

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'THE ANCHOR-Diocese of'Fall'River-Thurs:'Aug. 21; 1969

Necessity for Black ~fJ1dependence \ Stressed ta Nuns Conference DAYTON (NC)-The issue for the black man in America can be summed up in the word "independence," the Rev. C.T. Vivian of Chicago, said in the keynote talk at the second convention of the National Black Sisiters' Conference at the University. of Dayton.

Director, of the Urban FeIlowship and Internship. program in Chicago and a form(lr executive committee member of the National Christian Lead.ership Conference, Mr. Vivian said blacks must have "an independence that aIlows for maximum fulfillment of black humanity." . That cannot be achieved "when . others are in charge" of the destiny of blacks, he added.

He rejected integration as· a tool to achieve blaclt rights. In-' tegration is a "dead concept," :-he said, adding that it was killed by whites, not bnacks.

In 10 years, the civil rgihts movement has changed and "we are now in another kind of revolution," he asserted.

Two Alternatives "We believed that men of good will would band together and that real change would come," he said. Men of good will "make no dncisions" in America and are a part of the "niggerdom" of this country, he charged.

He claimed that American society has only 'two alternatives, "to destroy us or let us deliver ourselves."

The speaker attacked the Na-tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, declaring it· "has lost its purpose and. hasn't yet come into the 20th Century: The' NAACP; which he termed the "National Association of Certain People," opposes racial separatism.

Black unity is essential, if the black is to achieve independence, he told the nuns. Blacks have been so separated, he said, that "We have despised each other and tr-ied to imitate everything that was not us * :) * The new c&!hmunity ·will not evolve out of the middle class white community."

Praises Black Nuns The effort for black unity can't be effective "with white people around," he claimed. Mr. Vivian praised the black nuns for forming a separate black organization to strive for unity. 'j

Afraid of Heights GLASGOW (NC) - The co.urage of a priest who climbed 200 feet up a crane to persuade a man not to jump to his death was praised in Dunde's police court. The priest, Father John M. Minihane, 30, an Irish Augustinian, said later that he was afraid of heights. , • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • w\ • • • • •

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Religious education'should be flexible enough to meet the challenge of modern times while at the same time communicating the authentic teachings of the Church, according to a statement issued by directors of religious education for Catholic schools.

"Religious education represents the highest challenge and the greatest opportunity facing the Catholic educator today," the statement says.

"In the current complex and changing situation," it continues, "prudence and caution are called for-but so, too, are courage, . and willingness to adapt to the new needs of modern times."

The statement was drafted at a recent meeting at the Cenacle Retreat House, Metairie, La., by some 40 diocesan and religious community directors of religious education for Catholic schools.

It was released here by the National Catholic Educational Association, which sponsored the meeting. .

The statement deplores the attacks made by some groups and individuals "against all the catechetical developments within the Church and almost all modern curricular materials.".

But it also cautions school administrators about instructional "materials which may appear to embrace modern catechetical insights but which in reality do not." , . Bishop First .

Other key points made in the statement include: "The bishop is the first catechist in a diocese."

Th~ essence of catecI1etical in. struction lies neither in its total identification. with "memorized doctrinal formulation'" nor· in an approach "which denies any doctrinal content as belonging to catechesis;'" .

There should be a unified organizational structure of religious education in a diocese,. one which includes .the schools, the

Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, campus ministries, and' the continuing education of adults.

"The religion teacher is the single most important factor in the religious program of the school." High priority should be ,given, therefore, to the recruitment, selection, and training of religion teachers, and the in-service development of such teachers should be encouraged.

In addition to unity, the immediate need of blacks js "control * '" * control of our institutions on· our. terms." This suggests not _only control of programs, but black ownership, he / , added.

The blacks must lift themselves out of their present condition, he said, declaring that "nobody programs somebody else out of subservience." Control means that blacks must be able to set their own priorities 'A Taunton Benedictine priest and spend available financial redied unexpectedly Aug. 14 in sources in ways blacks themSolola, Guatemal~. selves decided, he stressed. .

Rev. Conrad (Charles) Lamb, "If he (the white man) doesn't O.S.B., was the son of Mrs. want to give us his money on Cathryn Lamb of Woodland our terms, let him keep his FR. L,T. MURPHY, M.M. ·Hills, Calif., formerly ,of Taunmoney and we will keep our ton, and the late William Lamb. soul," he said.

Besides his mother he is surAccording to Mr. Vivian, a vived by a sister, Sister Rose poll has indicated that racism is Angela, S.U.S.C., a Bishop Casstronger "in the church than sidy High School, Taunton, outside." He added that the WASHINGTON (NC) - Father faculty member. She formerly black revolution itself "may be taught at Sacred Hearts Acadthe means for the survival of Laurence T. Murphy, M.M. direc. tor of Newman International, emy, Fall River.

Christianity."

Father Lamb was graduated Mr. Vivian said there is a will become director of the Divifrom Msgr. James Coyle High "clash between independence sion of Campus Ministry of the School and Northeastern Uniand charity." Charity as prac- U, S. Catholic Conference Sept. versity College of Engineering. ticed by many, "is a sickness in 1.

A Solemn High Mass of American culture and particuHe will succeed Father John Requiem was offered on SaturT. McDonough. who has headed larly in the Church," he said. day morning in St. Paul's "If what you' do for another the division (formerly the Newdoes more for you than for him, man Apostolate) since 1965.

Church, Taunton. Officers were: you are not involved in love, Father McDonough will return to Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, celebrant; Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill, but in sickness," he declared. ,his home diocese of Cleveland. deacon; Rev. Francis B. ConMr. Vivian, who once was one The changes,' effective Sept. 1, nors, subdeacon. of the associates of the late Dr. were announced by Bishop JoFather Lamb was buried in Martin Luther King, was asked seph L. Bernardin, general secreGuat~mala. if he thought. Dr. King would tary of the U. S. Catholic Conferhave changed from non-violence ence. and working with whites had he lNe4:!'@iogy lived.

As director of the Division of He told the nuns Dr. King C~mpus Mi~istry, Fat~er Murphy . AUG.. 29 , would not have changed, but Will coordmat~. ~atIonal pro"Rev. Joseph DeVillandre, .D.D., added that he "couldn't change, I grams. and actI~ltIes for 1,750 1921,.F6iinder, Sacred Heart, No. . Catholic chaplams 1 on secular the tide of what is here" Attleboro. _ . . , college and university campuses .The !>Iack ~Is,ters did ~ot ad- and chaplains at 297 Cathoiic !lEPT. 3 n:nt white partlclp~nts durmg the campuses in the United States.

Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.D., . . first week of their ll-day con1912, Pastor, Sacred Heart, vention, but they did permit Father Murphy has directed Taunton. white reporters to sit in for Newman International for four some of the major talks. A black years. Prior to that, he taught at SEPT. 4 cameraman from a telvision sta- Notre Dame University. He is a Rev. Jose')h P. Tallon, 1864, Named to Board tion was allowed to take pic- graduate of 'the united States Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford.

ALBANY (NC) - Father J. tures of the nuns in session. The Naval Academy and holds a Rev. JohnJ. Maguire, 1894, Thomas Going, assistant pastor final days of the convention were Ph.D. from Notre Dame. He was Founder, .St. Peter, Provinceat the Church of St. Pius X, town. planned for both blacks and ordained in 1964. whites.

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McDevitt UII'ges Council Consider K e»f C Membership for Women NEW HAVEN (NC) -..:.. The chief officer of the Knights of Columbus 1.2 million-member fraternal society of Catholic men, has proposed that consideration be given to granting women "qualified" membership in the organization.

Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt proposed the establishment of a special committee to examine the idea as he made his official report to the delegates to the 87th annual meeting of the K. of C. supremf,l council or top legislative and il policy body.

If the idea is implemente;:r after committee study it will mark'the first time that women have been granted membership in the society of Catholic men founded here' 87 years ago and restricted to men who are practicing Catholics and at least 18 years of age.

As of June 30 there were 1,177,586 men in 5,612 Knights of Columbus councils in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, Guam and Guatemala. Of the total, 431,001 participated in the society's voluntary insurance' program.

Wilet Need .' . . McDeVitt. p~efaced hiS suggestlOn by pomtm~ ~o the .growth of fratern,al soclet~es durIng the past century. NotIng that there are 200 such fraternal' groups tn the U. S. and Canada today with a combined membership of 10 million, he stated that they prospered in the past century because "they met a crying need of the time."

Tax Exemptions Continued from Page One use the rent to pay the purchase price."

"The ~perator pays little or no tax, the exempt organization pays no tax and the seller reports his profits at the capital gain rate," the joint church statement pointed out.

"Being exempt from the unrelated business tax, a church desiring to engage in commercial business activity has not needed to resort to this technique," the joint church statement observea.

Ways and Means, in order to close this loophole, would have all exempt organizations, including some churches, subject to taxation on rents, dividends, interest, royalties and capital gains to the extent that such income is derived from debtfinanced property.

USCC-NCC believe this proposal "goes far beyond a cure Of the abuse involved."They ask that only debt-financed rents be taxed. This marks the only major difference of opinion on specifics between Ways and Means and the two church. groups. ..

Both agree that .present exemptions give churches advantages over tax-paying organizations in commercial enterprises.

The proposed law owuld eliminate these advantages.

Sex Education BOMBAY (NC)--A Jesuit social expert called here for a parent-teacher "cooperative effort" in "the matter of sex education of. the young. At a national seminar on "Population Education," Father Anthony A. D'Souza, director of the Jesuits' Indian Social Institute of New Delhi, also declared that parents should be the "general practitioners" of sex education of their children.

McDevitt noted that practically no fraternal groups have been formed since the end of World War I and the growth in fraternal membership has tapered off in the past decade.

He said there is little need today, "for the average American man to have an evening away from his crowded household for a little relaxation and peace of mind."

Today's .Problem .' " "In fact the very opposite is true," he added. "With the many distractions and preoccupations today the problem is to find the means ~nd opportunity to get the fa~lly together and to cement family ties by common activities ,and interests."

McDevitt said he was "not trying to predict the end of fraternal societies or even their decline."

"But I am stating that to continue their growth, their vitality and their releva.nce to .society they must realIgn their programs and even their structures to make sure that they answer the ~eeds of today and tomorrow, he .stated.

McDeVitt asserted two phases of society need special attention today: the community and the family. He noted that both had been given added emphasis in the activities of the Knights of Columbus in recent years. .

But gOIng beyond programs he stated it is time to exa~ine t~e ~.tructure of the orgamz~­ tl0!1 to see whether some baSIC adjustments sh?uld be made to attune our society more keenly to the needs of the day."

He declared that the social unit which needs special . "strengthening, I emphasis and' help today, is the family."

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Continued from Page One nal Flahiff said: "Of course it's the same all sweetness and light," tne Church. So often you hear that Winnipeg prelate pointed out.

"Divisions are to be expected we are moving away from tra<i~­ in institutions that are human tion. But those who say this as well as divine"" * * especially often are talking about two or in the era of new beginnings," three hundred years" and they . forget that there were many he told the Sisters.

Much of the cardinal's talk centuries of tradition before stressed faith and trust in the that.

"From the first century on, Holy Spirit, "who will triumph not only through you, but even there has been a constant in spite of you." It wa~ not until change in the manifestation of the coming of the Holy Spirit the Church's life," the Cardinal that the Apostles "could an- continued. nounce the Good News and pro"Certain aspects, as Pope Paul claim Christ * " *. It was not keeps saying, are certainly . until then that they began to meant in God's providence to realize what Christ meant and change, and these are the exter,. what they could do about it," he nals, if you like, these are the < said. , non·essentials."

L __ 'It's the Same' He urged the Sisters- to"open PROPOSAL: Supreme Knight "This is a moment of great up to one another, to be absoJohn W. McDevitt, chief officer of the 1.2 million-m~mber challenge, an exhilarating time, lutely honest and straightforKnights of Columbus, has pro- especially to be a Religious," he ward" in communications, to continued. It is not a moment "fight against polarization." posed that consideration be for discouragement or depres"Some are conservative, some given to granting women sion but a time of optimism are liberal," he commented. "qualified" membership in the when "joy, not despair should "This is natural " . . *It will take fraternal society of Catholic charge the atmosphere." a great deal of patience to put men. NC Photo.

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Two out of three pastors here "felt such permission would be useful," Cardinal Carberry reported. A similar percentage felt the permission, if granted, should be extended to all parishes in the archdiocese.

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ZAROGOZA (NC)-The archbishop of Zaragoza has attacked "anti-social and anti-Christian '\ speculation in urban lands" as the cause for the lack of lowcost housing.

In a pastoral letter, Archbishop Pedro Cahtero Cuadrado of Zaragoza said the problem of the scarcity of low-cost housing continues amid an abundance of housing for the rich.

The archbishop also denounced high rents that left many apartments vacant, out of the financial reach of the middle class and workers.

Archbishop Cantero Cuadrado is. a member of the Council of the Realm, the highest consultative organism of the Spanish state.

In the last nine years, the city of Zaragoza has built' a total of ,49,222 low-cost housing units.

The city has a population of about 400,000.

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Land Reforrm NEW YORK (NC) - The National Committee for a Political Settlement in Viet-

nam called on President Nixon to issue a special message to Congress before its Summer recess, asking for a clear commitment of American financial support for President Thieu's recently announced land reform program.

They also urged an initial appropriation to take effect as , soon as the bill clears the South Vietnamese National Assembly.

Among the committee cochairman signing the statement was Bishop John J, Dougherty, auxiliary of the Newark archdiocese and a long-time critic of the Vietnam war.

The land reform bill will come before a special session of the South Vietnamese National Assembly. It will give all of South Vietnam's one million' sharecropper families immediate ownership of the land they farm.

The landlords will receive full compensation through a' $400 million pay-out in cash and "bonds, spread over' eight years.

This is less than the cost of one week of the war, the committee pointed out.

Shorten War Roy .Prosterman, comm'ittee sponsor and consultant, issued the statement on behalf of the committee. A land reform expert and professor of law at the University of Washington (Seattle), Prof. Prosterman developed the land reform proposals adopted by the committee and advanced over the past two years through Congressional and administration channels to the South Viet, namese government.

Prof. Prosterman noted President Nixon's路 recent and repeated praise for' the program . and .urged, the special message as a' follow-up that may save thousands of American lives and help to shorten the war by many months. .

He said the new land reform program is a more generous and' genuine' reform than anything the Viet Cong has offere.d. He added: "It is vital that the South Vietnamese have the resources to carryon this program and that the communists have as unmistakable signal that such resources will be available."

Lack of Intercest Affects Bequest LONDON (NC) - An Engilish pastor has decided to bequeath his priceless collection of G.K. Chesterton books and manuscripts to Canada because of a lack of interest in the great Catholic writer in this country.

The priest, Father Kevin Scannell, pastor of Shipley, Yorkshire, said this week: "No one in Britain seems to apreciate that Chesterton was a great theological and philosophical writer and a brilliant thinker. It is different on the other side of the Atlantic.

"I shall bequeath my collection to the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto where the material will be freely available to anyone writing philosophical or theological themes."

Apart fro~ the collection of Chestertonia' belonging to G.K.C.'s former secretary, Miss Dorothy Collins. Father Scannell's is the largest and best in the world, he says.

Asserts Cardinal Modern 'Prophet' NEW PROVINCIAL OF FRANCISCANS: Very Rev. Edmund Szykiewicz, newly elected provincial of the Eastern Province of the Franciscans, meets with Me:;t Rev, Basil Heiser, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, center, ~nd outgoing provincial Rev. George Roskwitalski, right, follOWing the election at the general chapter. The order staffs Holy Cross Church, Fall River; Holy Rosary, Taunton; Our lady of Perpetual Help and St. Hedwig's, New Bedford.

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NEW YORK (NC)-"The sit- cember, 1967, Father Doran h'as uation in Biafra is steadily wors- . flown in and out of Biafra at ening. I can unequivocally state least once a ,month on fact-findthat we are on the brink of a ing' missions for the' participatcrisis as tragic as last Summer ing church relief agencies. At when thousands of - innocent路 the press conference he reported people died from starvation." on his last mission iIi late July.

"Last . year," he said, "the In these words Father Dermot Doran summarized his recent world first became aware of this fact-finding mission to Biafra. horrendous situation mainly . The Irish missionary, who through the widespread conserved' in the/former eastern re- . certed coverage of路 press, radio gion of Nigeria; now called Biaf- and televiSion. A .mercy airlift ra, for six years prior to. the . unprecedented in history was outbreak of the civil war there mounted, first by Joint Church in July, 1967, spoke at a press .Aid and later by the Internacoriference. in the Overseas Press. tional . ,Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ' Club in New York.

After six months of the fed"Together, under hazardous eral military blockade around conditions which have already Biafra, which cut the region's taken. the lives of 20 airmen, 14 million population from its these mercy flights have helped .normal food imports, Father to save hundreds of thousands Doran was the first person to of innocent children and women. initiate a mercy airlift to break Massive Deaths the blockade.

"Now after a full year of all This action was the forerun- these attempts to save lives, the 'ner of the masslve relief efforts situation is reverting to the now organized. under the com- . tragic proportions of' massive bined church relief agencies of deaths which I witnessed last Europe and North America, Summer." known as the Joint Church Aid, to fly in food and medicines to March 8111 "Michigcan t.he starving people of Biafra.

Mercy Airlift SBJlpports Boycotl/' , Since .his first mercy airlift BAY CITY (NC)-Supporters into .the bl('lr.kade area in De- of striking California grape pickers marched from St. Hedwig . /Pope Paul's Efforts church here to Saginaw Sacred Heart church in a silent plea to Impress Writers the public to quit buying CalROME (NC) "An Indian ifornia table grapes. friend of mine, a Moslem, drivTwo priests, Father James ing me in his car toward Nainu- Miller and Father Alan Vojtech, gongo, said to me with evident O. Praem., and a number of emotion: 'Today is the feast of .nuns were among tho'se marchall who believe in God.' " ing in support of the nationwide This was the repor:t of. a staff boycott aimed at forcing Calwriter for L'Osservatore Ro- ifornia grape workers ,to recogmano following the return' of nize the AFL-CIO's United路 Farm Pope Paul VI from Africa. . Workers.

Piero Gheddo wrote of his conThe group was led in the 13versations with correspondents mile trek by Hijinio Rangle, a from all over Africa, Europe and UFW representative from Calithe United States and it was his fornia. conclusion that to a man they Scheduled picketing of a Sagwere all impressed with the ef- inaw chain store next morning 'forts for the entire human race was called off. "We were too which the Pope seemed to ad- tire.d," one marcher said, "my feet hurt." ' vance in Africa.

Outside Aid In the past fewmontlls there' has been an almost complete lack of information concerning all aspects of the NigerianBiafran civil war. Journalists have, been restricted. On the night of June 5 a relief plane operated by ICRC was shot down while on flight. Since then the ICRC has not flown relief supplies into Biafra.

- Father Doran called this a "double tragedy" because the supplies are there and available just within an hour's flight.

'This means," he said, "that the women, children' and the aged in the blockaded area are solely dependent upon' Joint Church Aid relief flights for their protein foods and medical supplies."

But he pointed out that whereas. 500 tons of food daily is quoted as the minimum need for well over two million Biafrans depending on outside assistance, the Church airlift currently is able to provide only about an average of 100 tons each night.

AUCKLAND (NC)-The president of Notre Dame University in the United States called Leo Cardinal Suenens of. MalinesBrussels "a kind of prophet in the. modern Church."

Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., chairman of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, said on a stopover here in New Zealand that in the controversy over Cardinal Suenens' widely pul:!licizect interview criticizing aspects of Church government, the Belgian prelate showed himself to be "n person with great courage saying what I think are very rational things."

However, Father Hesburgh added, "you can't say things like t!lis without ruffling a little fur."

Father Hesburgh said that Cardinal Suenens "is a very honest critic, and all human institutions and all churches need good critics," adding that it is difficult to be a good honest critic and also be perfectly diplomatic about it.

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Congo University Students on Trial KINSHASA (NC)-Thirty-two students from the Pontifical Lovanium University went on trial here on charges of attacking the internal security of the state.

The charges stemmed from a June 4 incident in which troops firing on a demonstration by students of the Catholic university killed six students and injured 12.

The 32 students have been in jail since that time.

At the time of the shootings, the students were going to the residence of Congolese President Joseph B. Mobutu to give him a list of their grievances, mostly concerned with the rising cost of living. The government said the troops opened fire when students refused to disperse.

Some 60 years ago, the first Sacred Hearts Fathers came into the Fan River Diocese at the invitation of~~le then Bishop Stang "to assist with pastoral work in the diocese." Those first priests-who.came here from Belgium-founded what eventually was to become the American Province of the order, with headquarters in Fairhaven.

Today, the A mer i can Province not only still exists but is 'flourishing. It also is misnamed.

Because, while "it all grew from here," explains the Rev. Fintan Sheeran of Galway, Ireland, who assumed the post of provincial about two months ago, it now takes in not only the United States, including the vice-province of California, but Japan, Ireland, England and the Bahamas."

It also comprises within its folds approximately 190 priests, 20 brothers and some 50 seminarians.

Father Sheeran, 39, laughs when asked if he isn't young to head such a widespread territory.

"I guess so," he says. "But that's kind of a trend in the church right now."

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Have Bag, Will Travel Twenty years in the order, the dynamic provincial whose job includes "a considerable amount" of traveling - is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sheeran, who now live in Dublin.

Also in Ireland are three brothers, Lawrence who "lives in the country," and William and Noel, and a sister, Marie, Mrs. Jack Burke, who all live in Dublin.

"Practicaly everybody lives in Dublin these days," Father says wryly.

Father entered the Sacred Hearts order at the House of' Study in Cootehill; Ireland.

Later he studied at the order's seminary at Jaffrey, N.'H., and still later did a year of graduate work in theology, English and psychology at Catholic University.

• Philosophy Prof His first assignment after his ordination at Jaffrey in 1955 was in Cootehill, where he spent a year. Then he returned to Jaffrey for a nine-year stay as a member of the faculty, ','teaching philosophy mostly."

Now, as provincial, he has seen Jaffrey close its doors to seminarians-and will supervise the move of the House of Theology to Washington.

There it will become a part of the Washington Theological Coalition, a .study· center sponsored "by seven different religious communities, all Catholic," he says.

Sharing the responsibilityand the expenses-of the new center with the Sacred Hearts Fathers will be the Carmelites, Augustinians, Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, the Franciscans, the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and the Viatorians.

"You can't educate in the country, the educators say, you have to be in a university type center," Father Sheeran says.

"Besides, sharing means you can provide faculty members and facilities no one community could provide alone. It should improve academic excellence."

Why is California a "vice province" instead of an integral part of the American Province?

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WASHINGTON (NC) "Black voters of the South must be given time as well as legal support to free themselves from the repressive structures which have held them down for over a century," says Father John McCarthy of the U. S. Catholic Conference.

On behalf of the USCC Department of Social Development, Father McCarthy has urged the Senate constitutional rights subcommittee to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Need for Time Despite "remarkable signs of progress," statistics indicate that in some areas, Negroes "are still being selectively excluded from full participation in the democratic process," as documented in the 1968 report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to Father McCarthy.

"Obviously, 100 years of exploitation and intimidation cannot be overcome in five short years and it might even -be presumptuous to assume that they could be completely overcome in another five years. Inbred fears and prejudices die slowly," and black voters need time to free themselves, Father McCarthy asserted.

Literacy Tests "The American people do not want to go backwards," he emphasized.

"The forces which once oversaw the disenfranchisement of Negroes are still ready to enact retrogressive legislation," Father McCarthy declared.

"These elements must not be given the. opportunity to undermine any of the tenuous accomplishments of the last four years.

The simple extension of the Voting Rights Act as it stands will be the most sure and expeditious way of preventing this from happening," he said.

Father McCarthy fur the r stated that through experience with minority groups, particularly the Spanish-speaking, his office is sympathetic to the views that literacy tests throughout the country should be legislated against. .

Nationwide Application "We feel, however, that to debate that issue at this time would only delay beyond its expiration date the passage of legislation extending the Voting' Rights Act," and therefore support immediate extension of the present act and "recommend that subsequent consideration be given to the nationwide application of Voting Rights legislation," Father McCarthy concluded.

THE ANCHORThurs., Aug. 21, 1969

SAO PAULO (NC) - A bomb exploded early in the morning in front of the palace of Agnelo Cardinal Rossi of Sao Paulo, president of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference, who was at home.

The bomb was thrown from a passing car in which two un· identified men were riding. Part of the front of the residence was destroyed.

The principal suspects in the bombing are said to be terrorist groups which, since the beginning of this year, have been robbing banks to obtain the funds to finance guerrilla activities.

In July, these groups burned the three principal television stations in Sao Paulo. The police had just imprisoned 32 members of a terrorist group and members admitted cooperation in terrorist plans even after their arrest.

The continuation of terrorist attacks even after the arrests indicates that other groups, not yet identified by the government's secret service, exist.

Some observers believe that , the terrorists desire to influence public opinion by proving that they are still active despite the recent arrests.

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Notre Dame Sisters Hold Conference REV. FIINTAN SHEERAN, SS.CC. long way away. They need some autonomy - I think .you'll see more and more of it."

The birthplace of the American Province, however, still has a large number of Sacred Hearts Fathers.

"Roughly, about 40," Father Sheerar. says. They staff St. Joseph's Church, Sacred Heart and St. Mary's in Fairhaven, St. Francis Xavier in Acushnet, St. Anthony's in Mattapoisett, Our Lady of the Assumption in New Bedford, Holy Trinity in West Harwich, Holy Redeemer in Chatham and Our Lady of Lourdes in Wellfleet.

Asked if he doesn't think it's like carrying coals t() Newcastle opening a House of Study in Ireland, the center of religious vocations for the world, Father grins.

"That's why," he explains.

"American foundations open houses there to get vocations, because they are there."

Today, some 70 members of the order are from Ireland, he says. "And our first two Japanese priests are in Japan."

The Sacred Hearts Fathers primarily are concentrated on the East Coast, with a sizable contingent in Calfiornia. But the order also has a House of Phil-. osophy at St. Mary's College in 'Winona, Wis. Stretched' out so far, aren't they spread thin, he is asked.

"We're like .the high priced spread. You don't need as much," he retorts.

Still getting used to his new responsibilities, Father Sheeran is putting one foot first, then the other.

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he is not afraid to make a decision-popular or otherwise.

In the meantime, he has devised a formula that helps with the problem solving: "Travel a lot and keep your cool."

He does both.

MANKATO (NC)-Some 1,100 School Sisters of Notre Dame from the United States, Canada and Europe are attending the 15th annual SSND Educational Conference, at Our Lady of Good Counsel provincial house here in Minnesota.

Theme of the conference, which emphasizes racial prejudice and social justice, is "Education Tomorrow-Today A Look at Priorities."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rl\fer-Thurs. Aug. 21, 1969

J(Q8JJl1TJ/J lPe()pUe 93 §[jjJmmeuo As Summer draws to a close - did it ever open?thoughts are turning back to school. And the question could profitably be asked - What did young people do this Summer?

The newspapers have had their fun with hippies - those poor creatures so afarid to face life that they have created a life of their own, uninvolved, unconcerned, fleeing from reality.

But what of the many young adults who never made the papers? Those who have given services and skills as volunteer work' rs in many governmental and ed~cational programs. Those who have given the Summer to working in slums and among migrant workers and in Summer school and vacation programs.

What of· the vast majority o'f young people who have worked in jobs this Summer to help themselves and to gain tuition money for the Fall? Consider and praise these.

Chinese Proverb There is a Chinese proverb that says: If there is right in the soul, there is beauty in the person; if there is beauty in the person, there is' harmony in the family; if there is harmony in the family, there is order in the nation; .jf there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

That wraps the whole situation up into a neat solution, but the fact is that families and nations and the world - all are made up of individuals. And the strength of the whole is the strength of all its components. ' In the midst of all the activity taking place today, movements on an area and national scale to bring about changes in the civic and ecclesiastical climate of the country, it is still good to remember that the individual does count and can hav(~ an 'effect on the whole. Many people have little confidence in the individual, in his effect on the whole, and thIs causes them to think of change only in terms of massive movements, of great sweeping reforms, and not in the quiet day-by-day progress that individuals and families can and do make. The Chinese proverb has validity.

Variety "In my father's house there are many mansions."

These words of the Lord have been interpreted in many ways. But they can certainly apply to the many and varied organizations and groups that are to be found in the ordinary parish. . At times a "Suggestion comes along that just one master-plan organization be established to include all the varying apostolic and social groups in a parish. It is good that this is not done.

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SANTIAGO (NC) - Catholic as far as their buildings, facilischools' in this country, ,both ties and personnel are concerned.

These schools, howevear, have those that charge tuition and those that do not, are facing been attacked by some priests and workers who maintain that serious problems.

Some seven million of Chile'f: the superior education given in nine million inhabitants are them is only preparing an arisCatholics, but only about' one- tocratic clique, contrary to the third of the country's school·age directives of the Second Vatican youngsters can attend the Council' and of the meeting of three Catholic universities and the Latin American Bishops' 1,023' Catholic elementary, sec- Council in Medellin; Columbia.

Defenders of the tuition-supondary and professional schools.

In the last decade, the Chilean ported schools are making great government has built many efforts to liberalize them and to schools and improved programs neutralize such 'arguments. They 'and methods of teaching and grant scholarships to youngsters Catholic schools have not kept from poor families, set up night schools for young workers and this pace.

There are two kinds of Cath- seek to create a spirit of commuolic schools: those that do not nity.

The future of private schools charge tuition and are subsidized by the state, and tuition- does not appear bright, because charging schools. of the crisis created by' the lack , Because the schools that are of vocations to the priesthood subsidized by the ,goyernment and, religious life. Parish work receive their payments at con- ' has greater attraction for many sicterable delay, salaries are priests than the teaching of poorer and quality of education physics or chemistry , and Sisters are being used more fresuffers.

The tuition-charging schools quently in pastoral activities in , in the cities are in better shape parishes and catechetical centers.

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Continued from Page One , "I) With the aid of leading constitutional law authorities, to analyze the laws pertaining to the control of obscenity and pornography; and to evaluate and recommend definitions of obscenity and pornography; "2) To ascertain the methods employed in the distribution of obscene and pornographic materials and to explore the nature and volume of traffic in such materials; "3) To study the effect of obscenity and pornography upon the public, and particularly minors, and its relationship to crime and other anti-social behavior and "4) To recommend such legislative, administrative, or other advisable and apropriate action as the Commission deems necessary to regulate effectively the flow of such traffic, without in any way interfering with 'constitutional rights.

Outlines Ideas The commission, Father Hill charged, has been concentrating on the third mandate, neglecting other areas. He said no constitutional lawyzrs have yet been hired, although Congress specifically stated that such authorities should assist in analyzing the laws pertaining to the control of obscenity and pornography., Father Hill has reported his views about the commission's progress to both Congress and the President. They accompanied the commission's interim progress report and the response of other commission members to his criticisms.

Changing Opinion In its interim report, the commission noted one of its biggest problems in making a study of smut is the changing climate of public opinion.

Besides problems of limited funds and "the primitive state of knowledge" of pornograhy, the commission said it 'has run into what has been described as the sexual revolution of recent years.

"One of the most troublesome aspects is the changing climate of' opinion," the interim report said. "Currently the rates and degree of change make the problems in assessment of community standards increasingly difficult."

Biafra Aid Continued from Page One. last Fall." ' He quoted' Dr. Hermann Middledoop's (Chief Medical Officer, W.C.C.) report of "tens of thousands of Biafran children being already past the kwashiorkor stage and entering the final stage of starvation known as marasmus."

Dying Children \ Noting that "the cost of our spacemens' back pack alone would finance hundreds of mercy flights," he asked: "Are 'we about to, allow once again the dull staring, eyes of dying Biafran children to silently but ac· cusingly reproach us as they slip needlessly into the sleep of death long before their time?" , Kiney, repeating the need for two more C-97G planes, requested Bishop Swanstrom to press the matter with the U. S. government on behalf of Joint Church Aid-USA.

constitutional separation of church and state. It was Mrs. O'Hair's complaint against prayers in public schools in 1962 ,that resulted in the U. S. Supreme Court's ban on compulsory prayers in public schools.

Folowing the Apollo 11 mis" sion, Mrs. O'Hair filed suit (Aug: 6) in federal court in Austin, Tex., askipg for an injunction that would prevent U. S. astronauts from reading the Bible in space. The Life article' disclosing Aldrin's celebration of communion had not been published when Mrs. O'Hair asked for the injunction. ' Aldrin said the' miniature chalice' he'used for the lunar communion was given to' him by his pastor, 'Rev. Dean Woodruff Unexpected So~rces of the 'Webster Presbyterian Vacation lRemimAer - . Church in' Houston. He stowed Objects we ardently pursue Vacation 'is time off, to remind the chalice in the lunar module' bring little happiness when gainemployees that, the business can "with a small amount' Of bread 'ed; most of our plea~ures come get along without them. ,and win~ to 'prepare for the from unexpected sources.

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Controversy over religious expressions in space began after Air Force Col. Frank Borman read the opening verses of Genesis while he and fellow Apollo 8 astronauts cirCled the moon (Dec. 24).

Fellow-moon·circlers with Col. Borman, 'were Air Force Major William A. Anders and Navy Capt. James A. Lovell Jr. Capt.

Lovell had a private audience with the Holy Father last week at which time he presented the OFFICIAL NEWSPAI?ER OF iHIl: DIOCESE OF ~AlL RIVER Pontiff with a lunar globe.

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River Mrs. Madalyn Murray O'Hair 410 Highland Avenue ' objected to the Borman reading, Fall River; Mass. 02722 ,675-715" . stating that it was an attempt to link Christianity with a space PUBLISHER flight sponsored by the ,U. s.

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By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick

'Only a few minutes walk from where we are now living and where I grew up as a boy, there is a small wooded area which borders a cemetery and which makes a great place to take the ehildren on excursions in the early evening hours. Jason is particularly fond of the area be- mound of dirt, akin to Mount Olympus, that even Jason cause he plays all sorts of hasn't been able to scale. imaginary games as we walk This little bit of discomfort

through, the woods on "Indian paths." For the past few weeks, we have been making nightly excursions through the woods picking blueberries and black raspberries an!! just having a grand time.

With all of the rain we have had, we have been finding all sorts of mushrooms growing in the shaded areas of the woods under trees, popping up through the leaves, squeezing out of the . crevices in the rocks, and in just every imaginable place.

Jason has been delighted with our finds and although we just look at the mushrooms, I have been just as surprised as he with our discoveries. .

Mushroom Hunts When I was a very young boy I remember going into the woods with a neighbor, Mrs. Lowe, .who has since moved to 'California, and picking mushrooms. Mrs. Lowe was one of those rare individuals who knew the difference between poisonous and eatable mushrooms and who had faith in her knowledge.

I know the difference according to the book but I wouldn't dare test my knowledge. I much prefer the extra. expense of buying mushooms at a vegetable stand.

One has to be impressed by the beauty and variety of the mushrooms' which are growing in abundance as a result of all the rain we have had this Sum, mer. :They ,range in color from the pale!!t white to the mQst vivid reds. Their colors are remarkable and yet there is something eerie about their _consistency which路 gives me the feeling that they are better left alone than disturbed. Even Jason, who has very little fear at his age, is careful to look for elves only under acceptable looking mushrooms. The elf story, incidentally, got me into all sorts of trouble. I couldn't resnst telling Jason that we had to be careful of the mushrooms because I had heard that the "little people" use' them for umbrellas when it rains. Now we have to stop at every mushroom to look for the little people, therefore, making what could be a five minute jaunt into a laborious ho.ur's walk. , ,In the Kitchen At the moment~a very warm and humid period- my backyard resembles a scene from Camelot without .either King Arthur or Richard Burton. The foundation man has completed a trench for forms that portrays nothing less than an uncrossabie moat, without even a drawbridge to cross. Right outside my kitchen door there resides a

Adds' Black Studies WASHINGTON (NC)--Georgetown University here 'has ,added seven new courses in black studies and urban issues to its curriculum for 1969-70. Courses will be offered in such areas as "The Negro in American History," "Race Relations and Politics" arid "Black Theology."

would be quite bearable if one could count on it as just one step in路 the construction of a home addition that would be completed' in record time but as an old-pro in the field of remodeling I'm positive that it will be many a day until said foundation man will return to complete his part of the work.

I think a lack of communication has a great deai to do with the delays that home-owner's suffer while in the midst of home-improvement, or even initial construction. If we couid only realize that tomorrow, in the language of any type of building worker means at least a week or or two, next week means at the earliest next month and "I'll squeeze you in before Christmas." has overtones of don't take your curtains down before July. ' I've gone through this twice before and I still can't figure out why these men can't come out with some sort of a schedule so that tomorrow means just that. As a schoolteacher I know that when our superintendent states that school wilf open. on the first Wednesday after Labor Day that it will do just that barring' fire or flood, or Act of God; but the people in 'the building trade seem to run into an Act of God every day in theweek. At least that is what they want yo\.!. to believe.

However seeing that I cal};t dig foundations, or lay bricks, or put up two-by-fotirs I, along with a million other suffering souls are at the mercy of this "tomorrow" promise and are just going to have to learn to live with it or have a nervousbreakdown by trying to fight it.

Here's a delightful, light and fluffy souflee-like way to serve frozen broccoli. It was given to me by Mrs. Connie France who is a Summer parishioner of St. John's Church in .Westport. Perfect for those people who tum up their nose at broccoli. . Broccoli Souflee 2 packages of frozen, chopped broccoli, cooked and drained. , 8 ounces of Cheese Whiz 3 eggs beaten J;4 cup chopped onions 6 Tablespoons butter 2 Tablespoons flour Yz cup water Yz cup cracker crumbs 1) Cook broccoli, drain and set aside.

2) Saute onion in 4 Tablespoons of the butter. Slowly add the flour and cook a moment.

Remove from heat and stir in the water.' Return to heat and cook until thickened, stirring co!,!stantly.

3) Add the cheese whiz to the creamed mixture and stir well.

4) Combine the sauce, broccoli and the eggs and pour into a 13x9 inch greased pan. Cover with crumbs and dot with remaining butter. Bake in a 325 oven for 45 minutes.

Connie said that she cooked this also in a ring in a hot water bath. I tried it this way 'and I like it very much. .

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YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-An interim policy of confirming eighth graders has been announced by Bishop James W. Malone. Traditionally, third and fourth graders have been confirmed in the Youngstown diocese.

The question of the proper age for Confirmation has been under study for the past year by a committee named by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The new Youngstown policy will continue until the conference receives the committee's recommendation.

For the past several years, theologians have raised the question as to the proper age of Confirmation; which the Second Vatican Council referred to as "the sacrament of Christian maturity."

Bishop Malone confirms in large parishes each year, and smaller parishes every other year, or every third year. In parishes where he confirms every two years, seventh graders will be included in the Confirmation class. In parishes where he confirms every three years, sixth and seventh graders will join the eighth graders.

The policy applies, to both Catholic school pupils and those enrolled in the parish Confrater,nity of Christian Doctrine program. Confirmation will be administered to adults here next GIfTS TO POPE: Twenty:two elephant tusks, in honor of Spring. the.22 African Martyrs, were among the gifts President Milton Obote of Uganda p~esented to Pope Papl VI on his visit to that Documentary Available African country. The stuffed antelope was another gift of the President to the Pontiff. NC Photo.

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DAYTON (NC)-How to de- community may resent the transThe 51-minute color film was centralize without damaging fer of one or other of its mem- produced by Capital Cities unity is a vexing problem at" bel'S, he continued. There are Broadcasting Corp., which . has the root of some of the tensions times when a local community given permission to the U. S. in religious communities today, makes a certain commitment on Catholic Conference to distribute according to Father Paul M. a local level and its members the film nationally for non-teleBoyle, ,C.P., president of the become so involved in a particu- vision showings.

Conference Qf Major Superiors lar local work that they find it "The Secret of Michaelangelo" of Men Religious. difficult to adjust to the needs was made with the cooperation of the larger religious commuIn Dayton as a consultant and nity, according to the priest. of the Vatican. It permitted conspeaker at a general chapter of The result may be one of ten- struction of special scaffolding so that the ceiling could be photothe-Sisters of the Precious Blood, sion. graphed at arm's length, from Father Boyle said other tensions have arisen from efforts to This is not to say that diver- Michaelangelo's own perspective. translate many post-conciliar sity in a religious community is not a healthy thing. ,But although ideals into practical realities.

Father Boyle, provincial su- diversity is highly desirable, the periqr of the Passionists of the forms and styles of life, the Chicago province, said the Pre- attitudes toward structures, comcious Blood chapter is the 56th munal prayer and the garb may differ so sharply that difficulties he has attended. approach "the breaking point," He observed that first chap- he continued. Such problems of ters of religious communities community are of current conAll WYman in the current era of renewal cern. e1:Jt.t3-6592 were "more idealistic" than subsequent ones. Initial chapCHARLES F. VARGAS ters placed stress on general AnLEBORO'S concepts related to updating~ 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE .Leading Garden Center communities. ' NEW BEDFORD, MASS. "The second chapters usually deal with relating the theoretical prinicples to the realities of South Main & Wall Sts. life, to the so-called 'nitty-gritty,''' the priest said.

Discussing' decentralization, 222-0234 Father Boyle said that care must be exercised in seeking a "higher degree of local autonomy," lest the "pendulum swing too far ~ and endanger the unity of ,the organizat,ion."

Budgetary matters and personnel changes, for example, COMPANY cannot be the exclusive province Complete Line of a local community, but m~st be considered in relation to t11e B~ildill1g Materia~s total religious community, he 8 SPRING ST., FAIRHAVEN said.

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By Marilyn Roderick

HUNTINGTON (NC) - Our Sunday Visitor and Twin Circle, two national Catholic weeklies, have reached an agreement in principle to ent.er into negotiations designed to bring about the merger of the two newspapers into a single national weekly.

The announcement was made jointly by Francis A. Fink, executive vice-president of Our Sunday Visitor and Dale Francis, publisher of Twin Circle.

The merger, proposed by Twin Circle would, if completed, place' the combined Catholic weekly under the editorial direction and financial responsibility of Twin Circle.

The proposal in no' way involves Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., owner of several other Catholic publications and of one of the nation's finest printing plants.

Only the national edition of the newspaper, Our Sunday Visitor, is involved in the negotiations and if the merger is effected the merged weekly will continue to be printed by Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.

Along with the shock of the skirt length, Paris came out with another innovation for its Fall collection, the small head look. Because of the trend toward the look of the thirties, it was inevitable. that hats and hair would turn this way also. As designer after design~r showed ing scarf. I've been intrigued by their line for Fall, the buy- so many of the women that I have seen recently at the beach ers took note of this capped who are killing two birds with

look for both coiffures and headgear, and bought accordingly for Fall and Winter '69. A hint of what was to come has slowly been creeping i n t 0 the fashion picture and those fashion people. who anticipated' this trend, have already stocked the stores with berets and turbans for the returning collegian.

Knit hats are everywhere, typifying the c!ose-to-the-head silhouette. Young people, of course, will look fresh and upto-the-minute in the perky slant of a beret or a hair-covering cloche; but even the older crowd will find they make the perfect head-covering for chilly Autumn days. Some have bonnet shapes, others are knitted helmet, but whatever their form, the look that they convey is one of casualness and comfort.

Turbans Are Handy I love the turbaned look, it seems to cover a multitude of sins, especially when your hair appointment is a few days away.

A few years back, while in New York I bought a white turban type' of head-cover that tied in the back. I wore it all during my stay in the big city because of the frosty, rainy April that we encountered and when I returned home to find out that my grandfather had passed away the turban did double duty as I went through the next few hectic days of mourning, without a chance to have my hair-done.

Maternally speaking, I'm more than pleased that our younger generation feels that it's the thing to have one's hair covered.

No more do mothers have to demand that their female offspring put something on their head only t~ have it removed when said offspring cruised around the corner and out of sight.

Matching Beret and Scarf Those who can tell a purl from a knit could well find themselves knitting up a storm of smashing berets and a yard or so of match\

Dominican Nuns Open First Foreign Mission CALDWELL (NC) - The Dominican Sisters of Caldwell have opened their first foreign mission.

Four nuns from the New Jersey community have left here to staff an elementary school and conduct catechetical programs for sugar field workers on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas.

The four were chosen from among 20 volunteers for the assignment. They will work at St. Francis de Sales mission, conducted by two' Sacred Heart priests.

The school there has an interracial student body of 100 in five grades. The decision to undertake mission work had been made at a general chapter of the order.

one stone - getting a tan and spending profitable hours knitting. Yesterday as I watched one of the women, who obviously was an experienced knitter, teach one of the other girls how to make a porn for a beret, I must admit I was awfully tempted to join that knitting circle. Many of the young mothers were knitting the berets, some in lovely Autumn colors.

Even the younger generation couldn't resist getting into the act and' before I knew it Meryl and her girlfriend Jeannie were planning what they were going to make. Jeannie had already started on a knitted headband so she was thinking forward to her next project; bu~ Meryl thought she would like to start on one of the long mufflers that the stores were showing for Fall. Before I could manage to throw. the swimming clothes and towels into the washer my daughter had dashed over to her grandmother's to get her started on her project and at this moment she already has at least a foot of. it done.

Knowing ten year olas I'm not taking any bets as to whether she'll finish it but r do know she has certainly enjoyed what she has done thus far.

Mufflers Are' Stylish Most of the berets and bonnets, whether hand-knitted or machine-done are being shown with yards and yards and yards of matching mufft'er.· Some of, these mufflers are knitted but many others are glamorous enough to be made up in satin or velvet-and for those who can afford it, even in mink.

OldMan Winter will hold no terror for the girls in fashion for between the maxi-coats, high boots, knitted head-covering and long mufflers that they'll be wearing they'll even feel at home in a good old New England blizzard.

Permits Nun Distribute Holy Communion CALICl)T (NC) - Pope Paul VI has permitted a German-born Sister of this India diocese to distribute Holy Communion.

The special dispensation from Rome allowing Sister Petra Monihman of the Caritas Sscular Institute to give Communion to the faithful was received here

by Bishop Aldo M. Patroni, S.J., of Calicut.

Two months ago, the bishop blessed the Sister's arrival in his diocese when he inaugurated "Sneha Niketan" (Abode of Love), a home she founded to serve the poor at Paduvam village. .

Sister Petra, who has assumed the Indian name of "Deenadasi" (Servant of the suffering), becomes the second nun in India with the faculty of giving Communion. The other is Mother Teresa, famed Yugoslav-born foundress of the Missionaries of Charity congregation headquartered in Calcutta.

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Catholicism Major Topic At Protestant Sessions

AN ENTERPRiSING YOUTH: When crowds lining the route blocked his view of Pope Paul VI during the Pontiff'.s recent visit to Kampala, Uganda, this youngster nimbly climbed a tree and looked, over the head;; of those in fron! of him. NC Photo.

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NEW YORK (NC)-How does' does the Catholic. Church and its institutions serve the needs of American society?

To help answer this common question, the U. S. Catholic ~on­ ference has produced as a public service with the' Catholic Communications Foundation, "You Are My People," a color documentary film that is being released in September for showings on television and before school and other organizations.

"You Are My People" provides a close-up of -the New Orleans archdiocese. The film focuses on the activities of 5,300 priests, nuns and laymen who operate the archdiocese's schools hospitals, community centers and other institutions in Southern Louisiana.

"But while it was made in New Orleans, this film has validity everywhere, because of its illumination of Church activity in community service," said Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, general secretary of. the U. S. Catholic Conference.

The title, "You Are My People" comes from the film's musical theme, a folk-style liturgical song performed by the Damiens, five New - Orleans seminarians whose singing underscores the . film's story.

The 26 2/3 minute documentary portrays a wide range of Catholic community activities: a hospital, a parish school, a center for the deaf, a school for exceptional children, a churchsponsored housing project, Summer recreational programs, a neighborhood center and three colleges.

"You Are My People" is being released to television stations, schools and organizations by the National Catholic Office for Radio and Television, The Chrysler Building, New York 10017.

Commentators for the film are Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans and Mel Leavitt, veteran public affairs broadcaster. Narrative is by John Robert Sullivan. Executive producer is Warren W. Schwed. .

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Former Dutch Priest Becomes Minister AMSTERDAM (NC) - Former Roman Catholic priest Martin J. De Jong, who was for many years vicar at a parish in Goes in the Dutch province of Zeeland, recently left the priesthood and Roman Catholic Church in order to become a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.

He studied Protestant theology and he will now become a Dutch Reformed Minister. The press agency of the Dutch Reformed Church asserted that the transition of Mr. De Jong happened with "full cooperation of Bishop Henry C. Ernest of Breda."

The press agency added, using a metaphor, "This transition happened without the breaking of too much ecumenical china."

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BUENOS AIRES (NC)-Latin American Protestants were urged to demonstrate ,"understanding and Chri~tian brotherhood toward the Roman Catholic community" as one of the most broadly representative gatherings in the annals of Protestantism on the continent was held here.

The 3rd Latin American Evangeli<:al Conferenc;e, originally scheduled to be held in Brazil in February, 1968, drew repre::~ntatives from 43 denominations in 23 countries.

The theme of the conference vIas "Debtors to the World" and dealt with the -responsibility of "Evangelical and Protestant churches amid social, economic and political changes, in the transition from a rural to an urban society, toward women and youth and the Roman Catholic community."

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NEW YORK (NC)-Four Canadian fliers became the latest victims of the hazardous mercy flights to Biafra, when their Super Constellation crashed as it came in for a landing at the jungle airstrip at Uli, Biafra.

This crash brings to 20 the known total of fliers killed bringing food and medical supplies to Biafra. Full details of the cause of the acddent are not available.

The flight operated under the auspices of Canairelief of Canada. This organization, together with Joint Church Aid-U.S.A. is a 'member of the International consortium of relief agencies from Europe and North America which operate aircraft from the island of Sao Tome to fly in relief supplies to Biafra. , ..

Officials of Joint Church Aid -U.S.A. stated that the deaths of four crew members "can only further emphasize the drastic need to bring an end to this , conflict in West Africa and halt the senseless death of not only the war victims but of the :men facing grave risks nightly to bring in food and medicines to the blockaded area."

To Set Example ";In Job Hiring " WASHiNGTON (NC) The prindples of non-discrimination in employment taught by the Church should be put into practice by Catholic institutions in order to serve as models for employers, according to Msgr. Aloysius J. Welsh, executive secretary of the Task Force on Urban Problems, . U.S. Catholic Conference, De. partment of Social DEwelopment: Msgr. Welsh makes the statement in an article, "Employment -- Economic nnd Moral Problem," which appears in the current issue of the Task Force newsletter. ' , Equal Opportunity Explaining that 'employment is "of primary importance" from , the viewpoint of the average individual or family, he said "it becomes even more a key issue when one considers it in the light of the. major urban problem areas of race and poverty."

Msgr. Welsh notes the moral perspective of racial discrimination, as outiinedby the American Bishops in 1958, is in the 'tradition of the' social encyclicals of the last 90 years.

"A just and living wage, humane conditions of work, right to organize and bargain collectively are siblings of the rights to equal opportunity and meaningful employment, without regard to race, color or national origin," he asserted.

POPE AND PILGRIMS: Pope Paul meets a group of pilgrims from Vietnam at a general audience: NC Photo. "

f~r Candy Judge Tells of Chocago Ghetto Cond itions

Babies Mistake Wall Plaster

CHICAGO (NC)-Judge James lead, "'I he asked. "Or, if it is B. Parsons of the U. S. District' only a temporary tactic, how Practice to Principle ,Court has expressed concern ,far can it be played with before "These principles and rights," here over the growing tendency * * * our nation finds itself inextricably involved in a boldhe continued, "are so clearly a towards 'black separatism.

"It's black this and black that. race to race confrontation, the part of Catholic social teaching that one rightfully expects that Black community, black busi- only ultimate ' conclusion of their counterparts in practice nesses, black churches, black. which would be the ultimate should be the usual pattern in children, black schools, black suppression of one race by the the everyday fabric of the total structure and, of course black other?" power and black movement.

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"The day, should come when it In an effort to maintan conThis would mean, he explains, "The Church, as employer, would' would be unnecessary to use tact wilth the problems of his adhere to the high ideals of either white or black in referring inner-city brothers, Judge Parbrotherhood, and offer a contin- to people," Judge Parsons stated. 'sons has conducted discussion Race Confrontation sessions in the ghetto, he reuing example of social and racial justice at work.

Keynoting the 60th anniver- vealed. , "Thus, apart from the few sary convention of the Knights "One session turned into a cases where a. religious knowl路 of St. Peter Claver, the Federal safari through .the alleys of a edge might be needed as a pre- jurist declared: West Side Chicago neighborrequiste, 18,146 parishes, 777, "What disturbs me most is hood, flashlights in hand, to 10general hospitals, 297 colleges not the word but the fact that cate one of the famous Chicago and universities and the count- the use of it grows out of a blue rats. We found one in the less other Catholic institutions' trend toward separatism, and process of killing a large cat." would offer models of non-dis- the development of a sufficient Judge Parsons said that a criminatory employment policies, self.identity to create two West Side health department together with exemplariness in worlds-the black world and the station treats approximately 250 paying a living wage and other- rest of the world." babies per week for lead poisonwise matching practice to prinJudge Parsons noted that "the ing. The babies mistake pieces, ciple." polarization' of the races has al- of painted wall plaster for hard ready begun to set in." candy and eat them off 路the 'Echo Conviction' "Where will black .separatism floor, he asserted.

It also means, Msgr. Welsh 'Johnny Come Latelies' said, that Catholic congregations Another problem plaguing and communities would regular- Name Coordinator black people is not limited to lY be reminded of the moral obthe ghetto. "I have yet to find 'ligations involved by "the large For Biafra Relief percentage of the 59,620 AmerNEW YORK (NCr- John J.' one Negro boy, between the ican priests entrusted with the Stollenwerk of Milwaukee has ages of 16 and 24, who has not, care of souls. The 167,167 Sis~ been assigned to overseas duties on a,t least one,occasion, been ters, 11,755 Brothers and the witli Catholic Relief' Services/as ' stopped by policemen, and, thousands of lay leaders and a special representative for that without cause, frisked and questeachers presumably would echo agency's emergency program for tioned. This, without regard for the same convictions in their the starving children of Biafra. the economic level or himself or classrooms and attitudes." , Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, his family," the judge pointed ' executive director of the Ameri- out. can Catholic overseas aid agenStudy State Aicll cy, said, Stollenwerk will be BOSTON (NC) - A bill to es- based on the Portuguese West tablish a special commission for Africa island of Sao Tome.

D. D. Wilfred C. the study of state aid to nonHe will coordinate the United Sullivan Driscoll' public' schools was signed into States for shipment by night' I law here by Massachusetts Gov. airflights into the blockaded forFUNERAL HOME Francis W. Sargent. The 31-mem- mer eastern region of Nigeria. ber commission will include 10 '\, 469 LOCUST STREn legislators, the attorney general, , Solitude & Silence FALL. RiVER, MASS. the commissioner of education and 19 persons to be named by Luxury today, is solitude and 672-3381 Gov. Sargent. . silence.-Spaak I ','

Judge Parsons, citing the work of the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race, noted that "there are within the city, come-lately religionists, obsessed by the drama attached to the activities of revolutiona~y activists who seek to assassinate it, calling its programs ,not relevant, and its leadership 'part of the power structure.'''

Philadelphia Schools To Inc'rease Fees PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Registration fees for students attending Philadelphia archdiocesan high schools may rise some $30 to $40 this year. A survey of pastors in the five-county arch", diocese has been made to determine whether tuition will be authorized, for the first time, in parochial elementary schools as well. ,A report that the high school registration fee would rise in September first appeared in the local press here, although the amount of the increase "was not' indicated at that time. ' Informed sources have since revealed that the amount of the increase will be determined, in part at least, by the income of the high schools can anticipate in state. aid payments. Any increase is subject to the approval of John Cardinal Krol.

Religious Leaders Appeal for Peace BONN (NC)-Some 20 Slovak Catholic and Protestant churchmen appealed for an "atmosphere of peace" as tensions mounted in anticipation of the first anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

In their message to Christians in Slovakia, the country's eastern region, the churchmen said: "Don't allow yourselves to be misused for' actions that are not in keeping with the ethics, teachings and contents of the Christian faith. \' The communist-controlled news media gave the churchmen's plea nationwide publicity.

Th,e religious leaders also asked Christians to take part in celebrations later in August that will commemorate the uprising 25 years age;> of communist-led guerillas against the occupying German troops and the pro-nazi Slovak government of World War II, which had the support of some Catholic prelates.

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EAST CHICAGO (NC) The Association of Romanian Catholics of America: Inc. (ARCA),' RomanianCatholic organization with headquarters here, has revealed that its president visited the State Department in Washington, D. C., on the eve of President Nixon's visit to Romania.

Father George C. Muresan, who was accompanied by other ARCA officials, submitted a memorandum that the President might be informed as to the situation of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite in Romania when he visited that country, the organization disclosed.

The memorandum described the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite in Romania as "the most silent member of 'the 'Church of Silence'" - an expression which originated at the outset of religious persecution in Eastern Europe.

The memorandum stated 'that the clergy and faithful of the Romanian Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite are represented in the United States by ARCA, which was established in 1948, during the outbreak of religious persecution in Romania.

It characterized ARCA as "the only voice of the 'Church of Silence' in Romania."

Most Silent Member "Despite vaunted legislation which promised a' more liberal attitude," the memorandum asserted, "the de facto suppression of freedom' of conscience and almost total curtailment of religious activity have not been rescinded. except 'in taken measure and in isolated circumstances.

"Most satellite countries durIng the past 21 years have passed 'new'. laws and adopted constitutions which purportedly guarantee freedom of religion to all their citizens. The Socialist Republic of Romania is such a country; yet, the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite in Romania remains today the most silent member of the 'Church of Silence' 0 0 0," the memorandum said.

The Romanian government, the memorandum said, "obligated itself to abide by the provisions of the 1947 Treaty of Paris, and the Romanian Constitution guarantees religious freedom to its constituents."

Stili Outlawed It added that the' Bill of Rights of the United Nations Organization, "of which the Socialist Republic of Romania is a member, similarly 'subscribes to such freedom."

The memorandum asserted that the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite in Romania "does not in fact enjoy such freedom, but is in actuality still outlawed by the Romanian government which does not recognize it as a de facto or de jure institution...

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S~VEN CARDINALS: The seven Cardinal~ who took part in the All-Africa Bishops' Symposium at Gaba, near Kampala, are left to right, Cardinal Zoungrana (Upper Volta), Cardinal Duval (Algeria), Cardinal McCann (South-Africa), Cardinal Rugambwa (Tanzania), Cardinal Rakotomalala (Madagascar), Cardinal Sidarouss (Egypt), and Cardinal Malulu (Congo-Kanshasa.

Await Reaction -to Nixonls Rumania Visit Manifestation of Ruffled Feelings Possible WASHINGTON (NC)-Qbservers here will watch carefully to see the long-range effects of President Nixon's round-theworld tour, and particularly his visit to Rumania.

Strangely enough, if there is any adverse reaction to President Nixon's tour, some observers believe it may result from his visit to Rumania, where ,he received probably the most impressive welcome accorded him anywhere.

New Embassies There are those who believe this visit to Rumania, and the reception the President received, had to ruffle feelings in Moscow. KremHnologists already see an indication of this in the fact that a scheduled Russian visit to Bucharest was canceled by Moscow, on ·the excuse of "pressing problems at home," after it had been disclosed that President Nixon would be received there on' his way home from the Far East.

There is a' possibility that these "ruffled feelings" will manifest themselves when the U. S. and the USSR sit down for final negotiations, Sept. 13, on the construction of new embassies in Washington and Moscow.

It has already been announced that the USSR has. been promised a 12.6 acre site here to build a new embassy, an,d that

Foundation Started With $250,000 Gift

SIOUX CITY (NC) - Bishop Joseph M. Mueller of Sioux City has announced establishment of a foundation designed to give supplement financial aid to Catholic education throughout the diocese, with an initial gift of farm land valued at $250,000 by Mrs. H.A. Matt of Carroll, Iowa.

Legion of Mary Incorporated under Iowa law The annual Summer outing of . the Legion of Mary will be held as the "Catholic School FoundaSunday, Aug. 24 at the Sacred tion of he Diocese of Sioux City," Heart Novitiate in Wareham. All the stated purpose of the foundaLegionnaires, families and their tion is to "further Catholic education in the diocese at the prifriends are invited. mary and secoI,ldary levels."

Beach facilities are available The plan of the foundation is and all are asked to bring their to invite interested parties to folown refreshments. low the example of Mrs. Matt by Activities start at I :00 and contributing funds or propertiEls Rosary at I:30. Will be held either through direct gifts or rain or shine. legacies.

the U. S. is to get a 10.15 acre site a block behind the present embassy in Moscow.

While this' agreement was arrived at on May'16, after years of negotia.tion, still more work -agreement on the conditions of construction-has to be faced up to Sept. 13. The probability of disagreement is seen as very real.

Phasing Program The Russians could probably build their new embassy here very quickly. But the U. S. could run into endless delays, due to red tape, in b4i1ding its new embassy in Moscow. As a result, an agreement has been proposed, whereby the two embassies would be built in phases.

That is, foundations or framework would have to be completed at both embassies before either could go ahead with the next step, so on.

Catholic Alhambra Plans Convention ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-The International Order of the Alhambra, an independent, fraternal organization of Catholic men dedicated to assisting retarded children, will hold their 33rd biennial convention here, Aug. 24-29.

The order, which has nearly 11,000 members in the U. S. and Canada, has donated two million dollars over the past ~our 'years to aid retarded children through a system of scholarship grants to provide t<!achers to train and educate retarded children and to aid in the financing of mental retardation centers.

Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford .is supreme chaplain of the Alhambra. Supreme commander of tl'ie society is Vincent ·F. Caputo, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense.

Moscow is expected to raise objection to this phasing program, and to balk at the admittance of as many American workmen and as much American materials as the U. S. is likely to want for some parts of the construction work.

Expected to be touchy in their own right, these negotiations could be made ever harder if Kremlin feelings over President Nixon's visit to Rumania are still ruffled by that time.

Newspaper Rebukes' Reckless Drivers VATICAN CITY (NC)-All of Italy is on vacation during the month of August, and the current carnage on the roads has led the Va,tican City daily, L'Osservatore Romano, to remind its readers that safe driving is a moral duty.

The paper commented editorially: "The road accidents which follow one another uninterruptedly and in which entire families are destroyed lead us once more to meditate on a fundamental duty: respect for life '-, '-'"

LAFAYETTE (NC) - Father Benedict Griesemer, a.s.c.o., was installed as the second abbot of Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist community here in Oregon.

He succeeds Abbot Columban Hawkins, O.S.C.O., who resigned in July.

Abbot Thomas Keating of St. Joseph Abbey. Spencer, Mass., acting as delegate of the abbot general of the Trappists in Rome, presided at Father Griesemer's election and confirmed the choice of the new abbot.

A native of Pueblo, Colo., Father Griesemer studied at St. Thomas Seminary, Denver, and was ordained for the diocese of Pueblo on May 31, 1947.

In April, 1948, the Trappist community at Valley ;Falls, R. I., established a foundation at Pecos, N. M., and Father Griesemer entered the community in October, 1949, taking the name Benedict. He made his solemn profession as a monk, Dec. 8, 1954.

Father Griesemer served as procurator of the monastery at Pecos until the community moved to Oregon in March, 1955, and remained in New Mexico to administer the property there. He rejoined the community at Lafayette,. Ore., and was named prior in July, 1956.

RElform of Liturgy Atr Half-way Point MILWAUKEE (NC)-"The reform and renewal of the liturgy is at about the half-way· point."

Father Joseph M. Champlin, associate' director of the secretariat of the U. S. Bishops' Committee on Liturgy, sees the halfway route still to be traveled as one of implementation and adaptation of the changes already introduced.

But the total overall result will contain, he feels, that which will touch the hearts of all in the Catholic community.

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Former Construction. Superintendent Now '20, Years,"in Priesthood

Former Student Wins Damages

By Patricia Francis

The Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.Cc., pastor of St. Joseph'S Church, Fairhaven, is willing to do practically anything for his parishioners than stand in the limelight. Now he has bowed even to that. He really had little choice. This Summer, Father Brennan, a native of Castleblayney, Ireland, returned "home" for ,his first visit in ,18 years. While' he was ..".'----"".., away, tne parish board got everything ready for a gala celebration banquet Sep~. 14 to mark the 25th anniverstry

town University during the past three years had no adverse effects on study patterns.

Nor did it increase , drinking of his profession in the Sacred in the dormitories or hamper Hearts order.

"People have enough to do academic performance, an innow," says the more-thandependent research study shows. :I'he study was done "by Don- slightly embarrassed priest. "I ald R. Buckner, student housing don't like to impose on them."

But he allows that "this late," director at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. It is sum- there is little he can do about marized in' the current issue of it. The parishioners agree.

Father Brennan "took ove':''' the National Catholic Educational Association Bulletin. Dr. St. Joseph's in 1964. His first Buckner wrote his Ph.D. disser- self-appointed chore was "doing tation on the subject at Ameri- over" the rectory, which had been vacant for some time. can University. ',. "This is where I made my'noMore Freedom vitiate," he recalled the other Georgetown announced in Au- day, sitting at a desk in one of gust, 1966, that it would lift the the two rectory offices. . ban on drinking in men's dormiThe "doing' it over" drew' , tories, the first Roman Catholic steam "from Father Brennan's institution to do so. The decision background experience. "I did it was part of an effort "to in- myself, with the help of men in' crease student freedom and de- the parish,"he explains. ' velop responsibility among stuLater, he supervised reriova-' dents," according to university tion of the church and finalized officials. construction of the parish Prior' to that time, detection school. The supervisio~ was proof drinking in residence halls was fessional. " . an offense which usually reBefore entering, the seminary, sulted . in referral to the uni- Father Brennan' ~a!!_ a construcversity's discipline board. tion superintend~nt in Ncy; York Beginning' the same, Fall se- .-t,he youngest one ever licensed mester, . Georgetown also ended in. th~ city.. lie Ylas24 at the mandatory study hours requir- time. . ing freshmen to 'be in their "I was working' for McNulty rooms 'for studY,'from 8:45 P.M. Construction," "he says. "The onward, ,l'itonday throl\gh Thurs- New York building code re-' day. quired that every <:onstruction' "Georgetown's student per- project had to have a responsi: sonnel staff was extremely ble person in charge." ' happy with the liberalized reguHowever, when he and his lations," Dr. Buckner said. "Not employer arrived at the city a single significant disciplinary building office that issued incident resulted from drinking licenses, the young John Brenin the residence, halls and stu- nan was turned down. "Too dent morale was improved." young, he can't 'have. had the experience necessary'," the city No Longer Angry "Veteran staff members re- official in charge of the office ported the new rules made their said.

Starts Preparation jobs much easier-they no longer "I'm on my way to Florida. were, dealing with angry young I'm putting the boy in charge men," he continued.

Dr, Buckner used H>6 second- , of a $1 million building project.' semester freshmen and 161 sec- I think he's qualified and it's my ond semester sophomores as money," Mr. McNulty replied.

The next day, the young susubjects. The students were selected at random and invited to perintendant ,Brennan was on participate in "a research study" the job, complete with, official by filling out confidential ques- approval.

"I came here first when I was tionnaries.

The second-semester freshmen 15, with an aunt and uncle," were in the first class to live Father says. He studied at Meunder the liberalized regula- chanics Institute and the Delations, and the second-semester hanty Institute before his first sophomores were in the last job with the McNulty firm. "It freshman class to live under the was one of the biggest in New York -'he was Dennis Day's restrictive rules. , Dr. Buckner found "n'o signi-, uncle."

On the job, John ,Brennan beficant differences" in frequency or amount of college drinking came well acquainted with the during the first semester in col- hordes of "sidewalk superinlege between freshmen living tendents" who' abound wherever under restrictive or liberalized a building is going up.

"It was amazing, the suggesrules. But the group under restrictive rules drank more alco- tions we used to get from looking hol with greater frequency on them," .he recalls, weekdays, he found, despite less amused. "Most of them were opportunity to do weekday impractical." ,drinking. ' Then, in 1941, when he was 28, ,John Brennan began a new kind of "construction job," Returns to Italy starting the long preparations AGRA (NC)-An Italian Cap- for the priesth.ood. Appropriateuchin priest, Father Luke, has ly enough, the final push came returned to his native Tuscany from the St. Patrick's Club for after 50 years of service here Delayed Vocations. in India. During the 20 years he As word spread, the prospecspent in Delhi, he was instru- tive seminarian was asked to mental in the construction of enter the seminary of the the Cathedral of the Sacred Archdiocese of New York-with Heart there. A friend to the a position assured him in the poor, he was known as "Papa chancery offices after his ordination.

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MILWAUKEE (NC)-A former Marquette University student was awarded $47,001 in a circuit court decision, stemming from an incident in which school officials had her committed to a hospital mental ward on Nov. 6, 1966, where she' remained eight hours.

Saralee Maniaci, 19 of Windsor, Ontario, was found by the jury not to be mentally ill at that "time. Miss Maniaci, daughter of former Chicago Bears' football star Joe Maniaci, had asked $335,000 in damages from Marquette for false imprisonment and libel.

Attorneys for the school said they would appeal the verdict.

The court ordered Marquette to pay the girl $35,000 in punitive damages and another $5,000 in compensatory damages. Three school officials, who signed a special form authorizing her commitment, were ordered to pay a total of $7001 in punitive damages.

The defendants said Miss Maniaci, then a 16-year-old freshman, threatened to drop out of school, without parental consent and run away. Numerous unsuccessful attempts to reach the girls' parents w'ere made before police were called to take her away to the mental hospital, where the defendants said they arranged to have her committed temporarily because they felt she was mentally ill.

Concerts Benefit Guatemala Mission WATERTOWN (NC) --- The Harmonettes, a group of eight Benedictine Sisters from Mother'of God, Priory here in South Dakota, are spending the Sum-' mer giving foll~ concerts in' South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Montana and North Dakota".

Proceeds from the concert tour will go to the 'Sisters' new mission in Guatemala. The Sisters will work in a community center, there teaching Christian family life. rhey will concentrate on teaching health and sanitation methods to the women and literacy and building techniques to the men.

Two 'of the Harmonettes will go to Guatemala to work in the new mission at the end of the concert tour.

REV~ JOHN J; BRENNAN, 55.CC:

"But I would have been just a business priest," he says, and .after' discussing it with his parish priest in New York, he decided instead to join the Sacred, Hearts order. , He went first to St. Mary's in Kentucky. "That was about the only one where you could make up' Latin," he recalls now. "In two years, we had enough Latin to enter philosouphy. Four years of Latin in one-they used repetition, feeling if they tossed eno~gh at us, something would stick." " During those Latin-studying days, he admits, "I sometimes wondered if I had made a mistake.

"The first time I wondered was the night before I left for the seminary. I had sold my car to Dennis Day's sister and left it with her.' On the bus, on the way home, I began thinking it was the biggest mistake of my life." ,Founds Parish Time changed that attitude, obviously, and following his ordination 20 years 'ago, Father Brennan plunged into the work of helping souls that is his life.

His first assignment was a year in Ireland. Then he was sent to Chatham, where he founded Holy Redeemer parish.

Later he built Our Lady of Grace there. Then he was transferred to Fairhaven.

Since his arrival at St. JosepJ.1's, many things have been done, But Father Brennan has insisted on staying in the , background.

His family? He'll talk about them-his brothers, Kevin and Anthony, and his si~ters, Winnie and Sadie, all in Ireland, and his brothers, James and Frank and his sister Josephine in New York.

But about himself? ':Oh no," says Father Brennan, attempting to switch the topic.

Part conservative, part progressive - Father·, Brennan is willing to. go along wiht such "innovations" as a, guitar. Mass celebrated each Sunday in the school hall. He knows that worshipping God is" in essence, more important than the way ,it is done.

"Besides," he said to the parish board one nJght'; after agreeing to a trial run of the guitar Mass, "Some day 10 years from now, someone probably will be back here to ask if 'we can't have an organ in the church."

Self-Effacing When he first ,was assigned to Ireland - one of the pioneers" starting the Sacred Hearts Seminary there - Father Brennan started using his construction superintendent skills for the church.

Until, that is, "a ladder broke" -and so did one of his legs.

Since then he has been cautious. He also has been selfeffacing.

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Sal'S Government Workers Expense Allowance Unjust lEy Msgr. George G. Higgins DirectoB'p Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C.

The Federal government, on any given day, is guilty of doing an injustice to thousands of its own employees.

I am using the word "injustice" here in the literal sense of the word. In my judgment, it's the only word in the dictionary that adequately describes the government's the Senate Government Operapolicy of requiring Federal tions Committee where most members favor it. What's holdofficials and professional ing it up then?

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government employees to travel According to Mr. Young, it is on official business - some of being blbcked by one man and. the m for exone man alone - Senator John tended periods McClellan (D. Ark.), chairman of of time - and the committee, who has thus far then restricting refused to schedule committee them, at the action on the bill and who, incimaximum, to· a dentally, is said to have blocked $16 a day exaction on a similar Housepense allowance. approved bill last year.

One doesn't have Could Get Action to be a trained Frankly, I find it hard to beeconomist, nor lieve that Senator McClellan is does he have to solely responsible for delaying have much Senate action on the current experience House bill. It seems to me, in or imagination, to realize tat, other words, that if the Adminin many cases, government em- istration and the leadership of ployees simply cannot make both parties really wanted acends meet on such a paltry tion on the bill, they would find travel allowance and conse- some way of bringing Senator quently are required to make up McClellan into line. . the difference out of their own They have forced other bills pocket. out of committee when they In other words, they are re- were determined to do so, and quired, if you will, to pay a par- there is every reason to think tial subsidy for the honor of that they could force this one representing their' respective out too if they thought of it as agencies on official government being a "must" item on their business. legislative agenda. .

EDDIE LAMBERT This' kind of injustice is unSenator McClellan is admitworthy of a country as wealthy tedly a powerful figure in the as the United States, all the Senate, but I simply don't bemore so, in view of the fact lieve that he would be powerful that most government salaries enough to defy the majority of have ~ot.yet b~en ~~olight into his colleagues on this or 'any line with comparable· salaries in other bill which they strongly Eddy Lambert son of Mr. and private employment. favored and were determined to Mrs. Edward Lambert of 96 Arizona Street, Fall River and a Joseph Young, who covers the act into law.

Penalize lEmployees sixth grade pupil at Notre Dame Civil Service beat for the WashI am not saying that Mr. School will appear in Ted Mack's ington Evening Star, reports that the Nixon Administration Young's reading of the situation Amateur Show at 5:30 Sunday and most members of Congress in the Congress is totally incor- evening, Aug. 24 on channel 12.

The young dancer, who has recognize that the government's rect. For all I know, he may be travel allowance policy has not telling it exactly as it is when been an altar boy at the Fall kept up with the 'cost of living he reports that the Administra- River parish for three years has in USO shows and want to do something about tion and "most members of performed Congress" want to do "some- throughout New England and it.

Maybe so, but one gets the thing" to correct the present sit- various . minstrel and variety impression that this matter is uation which, as he himself has productions throughout the area. far from being at the top of dramatically illustrated with pertheir legislative agenda. That tinent facts and figures, penal- ~rearadmlnavia BiShO~$ goes for the leadership of both izes thousands of Federal employees for the privilege of reppolitical parties. resenting the United States gov- . PW'~pare for Synod OSLO ,(NC) - The main purBlames McClellan ernment on official business.

They may well be prepared to pose of the Scandinavian BishTo be sure, the House has already approved a bill raising the do "something," but it would ops' Conference which met in maximum travel allowance to appear, to this writer at least, Oslo, was to prepare for the $22 a day. Even that figure, of that they are not yet prepared Synod of Bishops meeting in course, wouldn't completely cor- to do enough and, more specifi- Rome in October.

According· to the official rerect the situation, but it would cally, have yet to decide that obviously be a great improve- this matter is important enough port made public by Bishop to warrant a knock-down drag- John W. Gran, the secretary ment.

Mr. Young reports that the .out fight with the senior Senator general of the conference, "Bishops' conferences all over the measure has been referred to from Arkansas. world had been asked to send False Economy Senator McClellan is said to in their wishes and proposals to Asks GreaterVoice be a strong advocate of economy this synod, the aim of which in government. "We're all for will be to examine the relation In Choosing Bishop that," Mr. Young points out, but between the bishops' conferMINNEAPOLIS (NC) - The then hastens to add, in conclu- ences and the Holy See, and to participation of "all interested sion, "it is false economy and study the structure, function, parties in the diocese" in the unfair to federal employees to and significance of the bishops' selection of bishops must be ini- treat them like peons when conferences and Rome." f.iated, according to Father Ger- sending them out on official While the report of Bishop ard McCloskey, head of a group travel for the wealthiest gov- Gran said "the meetings on the In Albany, N.Y., called "The ernment in the world." whole showed a deep agreement Committe on Episcopal SuccesI would change only one word on all essential matters," it sion." in that statement.-As 'indicated added that the bishops regretted Father McCloskey spoke to a above, I think it's worse than th~ fact that they could not dissmall group at St. Francis Ca- unfair to require government cuss the synod more openly, due brini Parish here in a lecture employees to cover even part of to restrictions placed on the sponsored by the Association of their expenses when they are circulation of the· material sent Christians for Church Renewal. traveling on official business; from Rome.

He said preparations for the se- it's downright unjust-period.

Moreover, for Senator McClellection of bishops should be Ease and Quiet worked on continuously and lan or anyone else to try to rathat those who want to partici- tionalize this injustice in the What the banker sighs for, the pate in the selection should not name of government economy is meanest clown may have-leisure to add insult to injury. wait for a vacancy to occur. and a quiet mind.-Thoreau

Fa.1I River Pupil On TV Program

WASHINGTON (NC) - OverThe Civil Service Commission shadowed by President Nixon's survey found that "one-half milannouncement of a far-reaching lion jobs, almost 20 per cent program for the reform of public of the Federal work force in the welfare practices was an execu- executive branch, are held by tive order issued the same day minority group Americans," and calling. for equal employment that the proportion of non-White opportunity in the Federal gOY- persons employed in the Federal ernment.

Government "is almost 50 per Based on a study made by the cent higher than the percentage U. S. Civil Service Commission, of non-whites in the overall the President's order said it has · workforce- in the United States been the long-standing policy of -16 per cent as contrasted with the government "to provide 10.8 per cent." equal opportunity in Federal It is also showed that, despite employment on the basis of recl'Uiting efforts, few minority merit and fitness and without persons are entering the Govdiscrimination because of race, ernment at the middle level and color, religion, sex, or national in the professional occupations.

Among "challenges" listed are origin."

He pointed out that "all re- these: , cent Presidents have fully supTo encourage the "upward ported this policy," and that mobility" of Federal employes "much has been accomplished in the lower grades; to improve through positive agency pro- on-the-job . training; to provide grams." more imaginative training for He added, however, that addi- lower grade employes, "includtional steps are called for. ing enrolment in non-GovernThe President's order puts the ment training faciilties;" tuitionresponsibility on the head of subsidy programs to encourage each government department or · employes to improve their capaagency to assure equal employ- bilities; "additional cooperative ment opportunity. ·work-study programs" for specialized training in jobs where Minority Group skilled manpower is needed.

It says it must become "an inAlso work with high schools tegral part of the day-to-day and colleges to establish offmanagement" of Federal agen- campus facilities in Federal cies; that qualified. personnel buildings; work with schools and must be· sought out from all colleges to make sure courses of segments of the population; that study adequately prepare for opportunities in Government "at jobs, particularly in fields where all professional levels must be there' are manpower shortages; made known to men and women to identify under-utilized emof all races, religions and ethnic ployes especially at the lower backgrounds"; that it must be levels, and provide them with made sure that "each .manager work opportunities commenand supervisor in the Govern- surate with their abilities, trainment understands and imple- ing and education. ments the objectives of equal employment opportunity for all Americans," and that the Gov- BlCln Missgornar;es ernment "must do its part along with other employers to provide fr@ln Bord~r .A~e@ NEW DELHI (NC) - India's special employment and training programs to those who are eco- minister of state for home affairs nomically or educationally dis- has declared that it is "a matter advantaged.,. of policy" with his government not to permit foreign missionaries to work in the North-East Publish New latolfil Frontier Agency, a strategic bor- . der area bounded by communist T\ext @f PSG~m§ Chinese-governed Tibet.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-The The official, V.C. Shukla, told Vatican Polyglot Press has pub- the upper house of the national lished a new Latin text of the parliament here that there were Book of Psalms, the first in a no foreign missionaries in NEFA series of new texts to be pre- and that they would not be al- . pared by the Pontifical Commis- lowed to work there "as a matsion for the Neo Vulgate Trans- ter of policy." lation of the Bible.

The volume, which is on sale at the Vatican book store at the price of 2,500 lire (approximate. ly four dollars) is the first of new revised texts of the books of the Old and New Testaments and comes. as a response to the I demands of the Second Vatican.

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By Barb8ra Ward

What the Christian Churches in South Africa have expressed in their "message", published last year is . th~ir certainty that Apartheid or separate develo~ment Will ~n­ crease the hostility and injustice between different raCial groups. The message of the Now the question of, cultural Gospel is, on the contrary, diversity and the preservation of that fears, hostilities,.explor- the specific quality 'and characation and division can be' ter of different groups is obvi-

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overcome by man's membership in the one human community of which Christ is the head. "Nei- , ther male nor female, neither Jew nor Gentile, n e i the r bond nor free-'; these ~ords of St. Paul cover all the different s e r v i t u des' of our unhappy and d i v ide d world the submission and exp oltation of women, the imperialism and domination Qi races and nations, the gulfs and injustices between rich and poor.

All are to be overcome in the grace of God's fathel'hood. In the new light of our oneness in Christ, men are literally brothers. If we deny them, we deny Him. As we do to the least of do unto these little ones, so Him. But the governing groups in South Africa, the Afrikaners who dominate the government and the white citizens of British' stock who do not basically disagree with them on the need for "separate development," would argue that all this talk by the Christian Churches of Ap.artheid as unChristian and of separation as ,injustice and ex~ ploitation is simply biased and misleading.

On the ~ontrary. they declare, only by receiving full local control in separate communities will the Bantu learn to 'stand on his own feet, develop his' own culture and meet white society on the basis of true equality and self respect.

Complete SeparaUon Many white citizens in South Africa repeat with satisfaction the claims of Black Nationalists in the United States that only complete separation will set the black man free. "This is exactly what we say," they claim. "Only by freeing the blacks from subservience in white society can they be fully themselves. Ap~r­ theid does this. It is thus more truly moral 'than assimiliation."

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<e@If\)Vefi'S6@nS UDAIPUR (NC)-The Rajasthan state government here in India has decided to ban conversions to Christianity of memo bers of tribal communities.

A bill incorporating the ban is almost,ready, minister for social welfare B.N. Joshi told a meeting here of the state's Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Advisory Board.

Joshi said the bill seeks to make ,conversion of tribals through allurement or enticement an offense punishable under law.

The government decision came in the wake of a demand last March by a group of 32 legislators of the ruling Congress party who called on chief minister Mohanlal Sukhadia to outlaw alleged .forced conversions.

Ask Me'etings With Bishops CHICAGO (NC) - A national organization of Catholic seminarians has sent letters to the head of each diocese in the United States requesting a series of meetings in the coming year -to discuss ways of better implementing renewal of the Church in America.

The national group, Seminarians for Ministerial Renewal (SMR), also issued a statement of purpose outlining its goals apd intentions.

SMR, a national organization of seminarians on the college and graduate level, was formed at a meeting last year in St. Louis .of seminarians from the archdIOceses of Chicago, St. Louis, Boston and San Diego. A national headquarters was established here last December.

In the interim, the organization has acquired 500 members in 54 seminaries and houses of study representing 44 dioceses and 14 religious congregations across the country.

In the letter sent to each U. S. bishop, SMR said "the welfare of the people of God demands that we' begin to engage in dialogue on « « « issues that will determine our future ministry and the future of the Church. In the coming year some seminarians from your diocese and from our national board would like to meet with you and begin discussion of these issues. In the meantime we hope that you will communicate your thoughts and suggestions to us, and we look forward to discussing our ideas with you in person."

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People today are becoming more and more aware of the danger in a modern technological society of everybody being not so much equal as horrifyingly the same. ", The statement, "JUack is beautiful" can mean) a deep sense of a society being enriched by its V·J DAY ON BIG MAMIE: Members of Troop 17, SS. Peter different sources of vitality and and Paul' Parish, commemorated V-J Day by attending cereinsight. To be uniform, indis- monies on the USS Massachusetts, official memorial of the tinguishable, on the same com- state for World War II. They are: Saun Fitzpatrick, Michael muting treadmill, moulded by Frederick, Bruce Ribeiro and Ronald Gagnon. the same forces of advertising, listening to t~e same themes and , slogans, the faceless masses of a homogenized p,seudo-culture~" these risks are more deeply felt by modern man'than by his optimistic predecessors. ' Protestant Leader Says Holy Father' 'The young hav~ see Ii the subIn GenevCII Helped Ecumenism urban utopia. They reject it. So when the apologists of "separate The day after Dr. Blake spoke, CANTERBURY (NC) - Pope development" .speak of the need Paul VI's visit to the World the committeee began discussfor diversity and self expression, Council of Churches' headquar- ing a five-year plan to commit they strike some sort of chord. ters in Geneva in' June helped their churches morally and fithe ecumenical movement, rath- nancially against white racism.

No Development But the difficulty is, as the er than hindered it as some U. S. Negro delegates claimed South African churches under- 'churchmen have said, WCC gen- the plan was a series of watered line, that the separate develop- 'eral secre~ary Eugene Carson down proposals and appeared ready to fight it. ment at issue in South Africa Blake said here in Eqgland. may be separate but it is hard , Speaking at the opening"busiDr. Blake was sch'eduled to Dublin Symposium to say that it is' development. ness session of a 10-day meeting present to the 120 committee DUBLIN (NC)-A symposium The land available for, sep~rate, of the WCC's central 'committee, members a plan for a three-man "homelands" or Bantustans Dr. Blake, a U. S. Presbyterian,- unit with a $150,000 a year designed to focus greater attenmakes up only 13 per cent of the' said Pope Paul had put the mat- budget that would prepare and tion on the need for systematic country; yet it must 1;>e the base ter of Catholic membership in ,carry out· educational projects training of missionaries in the for two-thirds of the people. If the wce "officially on the against racisn:t. principles and practices of comit is to do so with any hope of ' agenda for the first time." munity development was announced here: Called the Overproviding a living, it 'Will, ha:ve Iii his report to the central Inner City Problem seas Institute for Community to be heavily indus·trialized. committee as general secretary, The South African govern- Dr. Blake singled out a remark ST. PAUL (NC)-Free, public Development, it is open to ment does speak of putting more of the Pope that has been criti- talks by visiting resource person- Christfans of all denominations. industry into "border areas" to cized by some Protestants and nel are part of the schedule being which African workers','can com- Catholics. Pope Paul, by saying conducted this month at the Colmute fr'om their reserves: There "We are Peter," had referred to lege of St. Thomas here. is even Ii" chance of some the view that he is the lineal "white" investment in order to successor to the Apostle Peter Funeraft Dome create jobs in the homelands. as the vi~ar of Christ. ' \ 550 Locust Street The problem is scale. On a Dr. Blake said: "I am very Fall RAver. Mass. sober estimate, the new jobs glad Pope Paul made, his posineeded to absorb a rising Afri- tion clear and did not feel the 672·2391 can labor force could be of the necessity to disguise it with Over 35 Years Rose E. Sullivan order of 82,000 a year. To begin diplomatic glosses. In this he 'of Satisfied Service to 'reduce the number of Afri- showed that he understood betJeffrey E. SulUvan Reg.Master Plumber 7023 cans still working in white cities ter than some others that the JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. might require another 80,000. ecumenical movement requires 806 NO. MAIN STRIEET Some authorities argue that honesty and truth from all if it Fall River 675.7497 many African peasants now on is not to degenerate into a the land would have to leave it movement of mere 'politeness in order to check ,over-use and, an'd tolerance." erosion.

After referring 'in Ithe same O'ROURKE A minimum of' 160,000 to annual report to rapidly develFuneral Home 200,000 new' jobs a year could oping cooper,ation between the be necessary to put real devel- churches, Dr. Blake said: 571 Second Street opment into the separate areas.

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Last year, the new jobs All this, however, must be amounted to 6,000. The average seen in relationship to many 679·6072 in recent years has been 8,000. areas of the world, notably in MICHAEL J. McMAHON In short, separation is a fact. Northern Ireland, where memRegistered Embalmer Development is not., On this bers 'of ,our churches reveal Licensed Funeral Dirl;!ctor , trend, it is likely that by 1980 themselves as not having pro- ' very nearly 80 per cent of the gresssed in their ecumenical laborers in the white cities will thinking' from the dark' centube black. ries. The danger of polarization , What is t.he result? The Afri- of attitudes is obvious." can continues to be totally, ab'Dr. Blake spoke as fighting sorbed in white society but prompted by religious animoswithout equality, opportunity or ' ity raged uncontrollably in Lon-' any social and political rights. donderry and was beginning to Not "separate and equal" but flare up in other sectio,ns of F~SH integrated and unequal, he calls Northern Ireland. down upon his society the an-, cient biblic::l1 cUrse of all who E § Ever Expecting ,"grind down the faces of the poor" and "deprive the laborer Man's real life is, happy; of his hire." This, fundamen-' chiefly because he is, ever extally, is what the South African pecting tha't it soon will be so.

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ST. LOUIS (NC) - More than 800 persons, including six priests, conducted an open-air service on St. Louis University campus to protest the discontinuing of "modern" liturgical services: at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church here.

Father Louis J. Hanlon, S.J., pastor, had terminated the special rites in the lower part of the church because they were tending "to create a parish within a parish."

The open-air protest service was led by Father Patrick McAnany, S.J., one of the group of priests and students who had worked regularly with the lower church services. He had said earlier that the discontinuance of the services came as a complete surprise.

The Sunday service on the campus went through most of the routine of the Mass, but there was no celebration of the Eucharist. This is because the St. Louis chancery would not allow a full-fledged Mass. St. Louis University did give permission for use of the campus.

Father Hanlon said he found that the extra services in the lower church "have created managerial, theological, liturgical, and financial tensions and conflicts which are not for the well-being of the parish as a total parish."

He also noted that the parish is one which "has many responsibilities to its numerous poor and destitutt"! families, which has a sizeable debt, a falling income, and a growing parochial school which is a big drain on parish funds."

Father McAnany said "everyone was shocked and stunned" over Father Hanlon's action. He also said that the people had been given no reason for the elimination of the services.

Reasonable Measure He said that despite weekly meetings, which included Father Hanlon, to discuss problems with the lower church services, he was not aware that Father Hanlon had expresssed dissatisfaction.

Father McAnany noted that the lower church services had grown from one liturgy for about 500 persons two years ago to four liturgies for about 2,000 to 3,000 persons "and the demand continued to increase."

"I fear if we don't have lower church liturgies, many simply will not go to any church," Father McAnany declared, adding that he believes parishioners should have their choice between, a conservative (as those held in the upper church) or modern service. .

"It is not a matter of reprisals or ill will toward anyone," Father Hanlon said of termination of the servfces, "but what we consider a reasonable measure for needed unity of management, financial security, and independent survival as a parish of the archdiocese."

Workers Benefi1l' ST. LOUIS (NC) - Wage increases averaging 20 per cent together with longer vacations and a cost of living clause are incorporated in a new threeyear contract which has been signed by the St. Louis Newspaper Guild and the St. Louis Review. The paper does not employ production or technical help since the weekly is printed by a private outside corporation.

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CARDINAL suns UP: Terence Cardinal Cooke, New York archbishop and Military Vicar for two million Catholics in the Armed Forces, gets a hand from Lt. Col. Glenn Fletcher, left, commander of Alaskan Air Command's 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, and Major Bob Scarbrough as he readies for takeoff in on orientation ride in a jet at Elmendorf Air Force Bose.

The Cardinal was in Alaska for a six-day tour of that state's military installations. NC Photo.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Catholie Relief Services and Msgr.

Marvin Bordelon, director of the Division of World Justice and Peace, United States Catholic Conference, have played major roles in helping to assure the safety of Salvadorans in Honduras.

EI Salvador and Honduras, who had been at war, raised concern for some quarter million Salvadorans who have moved to Honduras.

It was reported the Honduran government was detaining 5,000 Salvadorans because of governmental fear the aliens had formed a fifth column.

Noel in Honduras CRS, concerned about .total relief needs in the war-torn Latin American region, prepared to send a representative to Honduras to investigate the matter.

Cancellation of airplane flights because of the hostilities, however, prevented the CRS repre-

Scholarship Honors Mary Jo Kopechne CALDWELL (NC) - A group of Boston area businessmen have established a scholarship at Caldwell College for Women here in New Jersey in honor of Mary Jo Kopeckne, former secretary for the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who died in an automobile accident at Martha's Vineyard.

Miss Kopeckne, a resident of Berkeley Heights, N. J., graduated from Caldwell College in 1962. The college is conducted by the Dominican Sisters.

According to Sister Margaret Anne, college development officer, tee,!agers in the Boston area helped to raise funds for the scholarship with car washes and other benefit programs. Contributions to the fund are still being accepted, she said.

sentative from entering Honduras.

CRS then 'asked Msgr. Bordelon to appeal to officials of the Organization of American States for clearance of James Noel to e,nter Honduras. This was accomplished. Noel, based in Mexico, is CRS regional director for Central America.

Msgr. Bordelon believes Noel is still in Honduras conducting his investigation.

Rehabilitation Concern The situation of the 5,000 Salvadorans seems to be tern·. porarily taken care of, Msgr.

Bordelon opined, adding that the real problem, involving the quarter million Salvadoran mi~ grants, is still present.

El Salvador officials are concerned about the condition of

Conference Cancels Annual Meeting.

CHICAGO (NC) - Officers of the National Catholic Social Action Conference have announced their 1969 conference,' "Bread With Justice," scheduled' for Aug. 21-24 at Marygrove College, Detroit, has been canceled.

In making the announcement, William A. Toomey, Jr., of Albany, president of NCSAC, said the group does "not consider the present time right for fruitful discussion on our. conference topic. We hope in the near future to hold beneficial talks."

Lawrence J. Suffredin, Jr., of the Chicago office, explained that preregistration for the conference "is very limited" and NCSAC has been aware of the lack of interest for 'some time.

Steps are being taken to "broaden the base" of this agency to attract others to participate in its programs, he said.

President Nixon's announcement of' proposals for welfare reform also affected the decision to cancel, he added.

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the migrants who entered Honduras both legally and illegally.

Msgr. Bordelon stressed that Church officials are concerned that the Salvadorans retain their human rights and to reintegrate into society.

The U. S. prelate hopes"OAS may have an international team to study the situation, inspect. the area and make recommendations of what might be done 'for the rehabilitation of the Salvadorans. There is the possibility, too, that Church agencies may again be called upon to offer their services, the Church World Justice and Peace director indicated.

Hands'Off Politics CRS pointed out that the help prOVided by the Church agencies centers only on relief and related needs. There is no intervention into the political sphere.

Noel was sent to Honduras to investigate the total relief need piCture. The plight of the 5,000 captives is just one aspect of the entire situation. .

CRS has provided food and medicine for the detained 5,000 Salvadorans. Noel's investigation pertains only to relief needs.

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BOULDER (NC) - Father Charles Forsyth, O.S.B., National New~an Apostolate chairman, said the Lutheran-Catholic study conference here in Colorado is an "experimental first" for the Newman members and Lutherans from three groups-the Lutheran Church-Missouri group, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America.

Father Forsyth said the goal or material studied at the conference, on the University of Colo. rado Boulder campus, would not be "directly theological." "The subject-matter will not deal with our differences," he said.

Two years ago, the Ashram, a national conference of Lutherans, met in Boulder and voted approval of an integrated meeting with the Newman group, Father Forsyth said. In years past, each group has had a national meeting. After inviting the Newman group, plans for this year's meeting evolved.

Main thrust of the week-long program was a series of discussions on church power, black power, university power and politieal power. The group also discussed "Worship, common and non·sacramental, and common, sacramental and separate," with . their chaplains.

Msgr. Alexander Sigur, former National Newman Apostolate chaplain, and now a pastor in Lafayette, La., and Frank Morriss, a contributing editor of Twin Circle, Catholic weekly publication, presented Catholic views concerning worship.

During the course of the week, workshops were conducted on religious drama, dance and worship, and the underground church movement.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Aug. 21, 1969

Police Halt Mass Near Pentagon WASHINGTON (NC)-Thirtysix persons who were attempt- . ing to assist at a Mass for peace at the Pentagon concourse were interrupted by police who arrested them on charges of loitering.

Those :urested, including members of the Quaker Action Group, the War Resisters League and other anti-war organizations, were released on personal recognizance .at U. S. District Court in nearby Alexandria.

The celebrant of the Mass was Father Harold Bury, director of' the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota. Father Bury was praying "for the victims and their executioners" in Vietnam when police intervened.

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Archbi$hop Requests Immed~@te Solution to Welfare P'foblem WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans led a delegation of Louisianans to Washington in. an effort to seek immediate and long . range solutions to welfare problems in their state.

Louisiana welfare funds have suddenly become inadequate because of a large increase of persons on the 'state welfare roll.

As a result, the state welfare director ordered cuts in monetary assistance sent to each recipient.

Affected are families in the aid to dependent children category. Archbishop Hannan said his group was appealing for emergency funds for these people.

"I think it will bring some results," he said about the day of talks with government officials. ' . The Louisiana state legislature, he explained, had made the same appropriation this year as last, but before the influx of families eligible for the aid.

Explains Influx This influx was caused by several factors, Archbishop Hannan said. These included the fact that Louisiana's neighboring states of Mississippi and Arkansas do not pay as large welfare grants as does Louisiana, he said. This has encouraged many families from the two states, especially Mississippi, to move into Louisiana, he pointed out.

Although the delegation led

by Archbishop Hannan was concerned about state-wide poverty in Louisiana, it put "special emphasis on poverty in New Orleans because a great deal of the state's poverty is located there," the prelate said.

Difficult Time "We were. promised a very sympathetic hearing for application to the emergency fund and medical program of the Office of Economic Opportunity," Archbishop Hannan said.

"We had made an appeal t9 the Department of Agriculture for a change in the food stamp program with larger. bonuses for

Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall' River 02722.

SACRED HEAR'!', FALL RIVER Plans have been completed for _the annual Parish picnic to be held Sunday, Aug.' 24 at the Boys' Club (Camp; Welch) in Assonet.

Gates open at noon and all festivities continue until dusk.

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7, following the 8 o'clock Mass, and all members are encouraged to purchase their tickets for the trip to New York as soon as .possible. Buses will leave at 6 on. Saturday moring, Oct. 4 and return that evening. Call 4-8932 for reservations.

The annual procession in honor of Our Lady of Fatima will be held at 7 on Saturday evening, Sept. 13 under the sponsorship of the Rosary Sodality: The Mass of the Feast will be offered at 8 on Sunday morn-' ing, Sept. 14.

the poor, but they (agriculture officials) said they had abso: lutely no funds to make any changes in the food stamp program," ,he said.

Although the New Orleans prelate is optimistic about obtaining some emergency aid, he noted that "we came at a very difficult time-just after President Nixon had announced his new program."

Nixon appeared before a nationwide television audience to spell out his sweeping welfare reform program. Archbishop Hannan said, "Naturally, there's always .an attitude of let's see what his program will do. But we have an immediate. emergency 1 was trying to help."

The archbishop said he believes Nixon's welfare plan, "when it is effected, will be very helpful."

Asked if the dropping of the food stamp program in Nixon's plan would cause great concern, Archbishop Hannan said he could foresee no difficulty provided the level of money made available to welfare recipients is sufficient, to compensate for the loss of the food stamps.

Jesuit Stresses Human. Dignity' ~ n Ed ucatiofil NEW ORLEANS (NC)

The educational system must be designed in such a way that individual talents are used to the maximum, and human satisfaction and dignity preserved, according to Father Francis M. Landwermeyer, S.J., a· doctoral candidate in education at the University of Chicago.

Father Landwermeyer spoke to a group -of 53 Jesuit educators at a workshop on~secondary education at Loyola University here. His topic was the total atmosphere of a Jesuit high school.

"The present organizational structure of Jesuit high schools inhibits the 'personality growth of students and discourages,' rather than facilitates, the inquiry process," Father L~ndwermeyer said. _ "However" 1 believe alternatives are available. Progress can and will be made."

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The young educator said it is difficult to convince a student that he· is a unique individual with a unique assortment of tal. ents when his entire school life is organized so that his learning progress is measured by a uniform measuring device and when all significant decisions concerning his education -are made by others.

A serious question which we must face 'is whether or not a sense of community of teachers and students is possible within our present structure. The faculty must be not only transmitters of knowledge discovered by others, but creative scholars participating in the development of human understanding.

"Students must be allowed to know this community 'in action' and to share in its activities."

He said a developing person needs a "sense' of continuity with the past, an understanding of his 'giving identity,' and also the means to relate to the changing world, an understanding of his 'to-be-constantlYrrecreated' identity."

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Xaverians Cite Need For Experimentation MALDEN (NC)-The principal problems of the religious community today include the "need for diversity, flexibility and experimentation in our apostolic service," according to the-voting. delegates at the 19th general chapter of the Xaverian Brothers here in Massachusetts.

The delegates also cited problefs connected with "manpower depletion" together with institutional ownership by the Xaverians, .finances and the "meaningful" involvement of the aged and retired members in community service.

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WHY PEOPLE BUILD CHtJRCHES

Coyle Graduate PaulistNovRce Mr. Vincent J. Andrews of Taunton will be among the 19 seminarians who will make their first religious profession as members of the Paulist Fathers Community on Aug. 31.

Rev. Gerard Rogers, C.S.P., will formally receive the candiates in ceremonies at Mt. Paul, the community's noviate at Oak Ridge, N. J. Mr. Andrews, having successfully completed a year's preliminary training at Oak ..Ridge, will be temporarily assigned in· September to the University of W. Virginia in Morgantown before entering the Paulist Fathers' major seminary, St. Paul's College in. Washing. ton, D. C., to continue his sixyear course of study leading to ordination.

Mr. Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orton V. Andrews of Taunton,' attended the elementary school of the Immaculate Conception and graduated from Msgr. James Coyle High School in 1967. 'He studied also at the Paulist Seminary, St. Peter's College, Baltimore, Md., before entering the Paulist Novitiate.

Mr.. Andrews, who has worked extensively with the children at the Paul A. Dever State School of Taunton, devoted this Summer to apostolic work on the lower East Side of New York City.

dock of the General Services Administration said the group was violating government regulations concerning unlawful assembly. He asked them to leave.

When neither Father Bury nor the participants left voluntarily, they were escorted to police vans.

Two other members of the group who went to the office of Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and deposited their draft cards on a desk in his outer office were also arrested for loitering.

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Asserts Future of Jesuit Higher Educ~t;on Depends on Change DENVER (NC)-A hard look at adaptability, finance and priorities is in order for all Jesuit Colleges and universities if they wish to survive, according to Father Paul C. Reinert, S.J., speaking on "The Future of Jesuit Higher Education" during a nine-day conference at Regis College here for representatives of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.

The veteran leader of the Jesuit Education Association, who has been president of St. Louis, University for 20. years, was one of several speakers who addressed the conference, "Commitment in a World of Change," designed to include discussion of various facets of higher education. About 100 Jesuit educators were in attendance.

Necessary for Survival Father Reinert said Jesuit higher education "has a rather dim, unpromising future in light of the thriving, all inclusive highly competitive growth of public institutions everywhere."

He listed seven imperatives necessary for survival of Jesuit higher education.

"We have a future if we are determined to open to a d min i s t rat i v e change and adaptations, est a'b lis h and carry out an academic priority system, exploit every source of financial support, develop and strengthen the unique characteristic of the Jesuit education, establish a vital opostolic relationship with the Society and the individual Jesuit, maintain a viable relationship with the organized church, and cultivate a relationship of service and involvement with the immediate community and the general public."

Finances, the limiting factor to the most optimistic plans of the faculty and the most creative demands of students, have to be looked at realistically, he said.

Tuition cannot be raised to the point where the institution attracts only the wealthy, he warned. .

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As it is now, Father Reinert feels the private religious sc~ool draws from students of one'socio-economic group, which he calls the "middle class smug' satisfied establishment kids."

These students are not inclined to promote conflict or unrest, which, on other campuses, comes primarily from members of the lower socioeconomic group who have faced greater frustrations, he said.

Since tuition is only a limited

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he Scho@l. Bus Case ST. PAUL (NC)-The. executive director of the' Minnesota Catholic Conference has told the St. Paul·Minneapolis archdiocesan board of education that the organization will probably file a writ of intervention concerning the court test of the constitutionality of the bus bill passed by the 1969 Minnesota legis-. lature.

The bus law is being challenged by the Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

POAU filed suit against the new law on July 21 in Ramsey County District Court, using a test case from Independent School District 622 in North St. Paul.

John Markert, MCC director, explained that Minnesota law permits a party whose rights are directly affected by the outcoine of a case to enter into the lawsuit as an active participant.

source of income, he predicted there will be more need to get both state and federal support for private as 'well as public institutions. He said that such a bill before Congress would have become law except for the Vietnam war which caused cut backs in national spending for education.

Scholarship Plans Another source of income, in addition to student loans, federally·funded work study plans and research grants, could be an extension of the type of scholarship plans available now in 23 states. These plans offer state scholarship money for tuition to any college the student wants ·to attend in the state.

Such a plan in Illinois adds about $2 million of state money to Loyola University, Chicago, he explained.

Even with limited funds, the role of helping the disadvantaged minority and white students get an education is pecu· liarly appropriate for the Jesuit institution, he continued.

"It is imperative for us to look at the church-related institutions which want to educate the whole man, and 'want to treat all men as equals," he urged.

These institutions, if possible, should be out in the forefront of assisting the disadvantaged student, he added.

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Ombudsman to Ease Comlnunicaticn . M~ch;g@D't1 CoUege Name~ Tro\L8ble Sh@@1teU' GRAND RAPIDS (NC)-Aquinas College has taken a giant step toward breaking down barriers to communication and understanding between students, faculty members and administrators in the appointment of Dr. Rodger A. Remington to the post of Campus Ombudsmen.

Dr. Norbert J. Hruby, president of Aquinas, an independent coeducational college of 1,250 students, stated that fewer than 25 universities in the U. S. have ombudsmen, and Aquinas is probably the only college of its size to inaugurate such a post.

Dr. Hruby said the purpose of an ombudsman is to assist memo bers of the college communitystudents, faculty and administrators - in obtaining informal settlement of the problems.

The key word, according to Dr, Hruby, who has been president of Aquinas since February, 1969, is informal. The ombuds-

man could be described as a red way, Denmark, Finland and New tape cutter or a trouble shooter. Zealand.

The new ombudsman, Dr. The Aquinas qmbudsman will be concerned with both academ- Remington, who had been chairic and non-academic problems man of the history department and with complaints about ca- at Aquinas, has found in his pricious and arbitrary enforce- study of ombudsman at other ment of regulations. campuses that the most impor. tant part of the job is to be a Ready Listener The post of ombudsman stems ready listener.

Many complaints are based on historically from Sweden where the first Chancellor of Justice a misunderstanding which can was appointed in 1714 by King be easily cleared up, but there Charles XII to act as a watch- always remains a hard core of-' man to the government: When legitimate grievances which can Sweden became a constitutional best be settled by an ombudsmonarchy in 1809 the post of man.

The Aquinas ombudsman will "watchman" was officially instituted as ombudsman. Today have broad investigatory powers such offices exist also in Nor- and access t.o all college records, except those inyolving profes· sional confidence as in the With Us health center, and he is responWe would rather have one sible only to the president.

Dr. Remington will begin his man or woman working with us than three merely working work with the opening of the Fall semester in late August. for us-Woolworth.

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. New Sanatorium In Minn. See ROCHESTER (NC) - Bishop Loras J. Watters of Winona will officiate next Sunday at the dedication and formal opening of a new Guest House, located on a 90-acre site in nearby Haver· ill Township.

The sanatorium will treat and rehabiliate alcoholic Catholic priests and Brothers. Under development and construction for two years, the rehabiliation cen~ ter is the second Guest House now being operated by a· national group of volunteer laymen, with financial contributions and 'support from religious orders, dio~eses and other organizations and individuals.

Arthur J. Baker, executive director, sa.id the new center will serve about 50 patients each year from all sections of the United States and Canada.

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Urges Continuation Of Aid to Addicts MIAMI (NC)-"AII you can get is an aspirin-that's all I can give you!"

This is the answer which Dr. Ben Sheppard, director of Miami's Catholic Welfare Bureau, is giving to the hundreds of drug addicts he was formerly helping to "kick" the habit in 'his clinic, a volunteer operation which Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll has been forced to close.

In announcing closure of the clinic, the archbishop said it was clear that recently released federal guidelines had made the cost of its operation prohibitive.

The guidelines call for well-staffed and in-patient facilities, ,a two·to-three week hospitalization of addicts, and a complete screening of patients including· physical and psychiatric examinations.

Archbishop Carroll said that although the clinic has closed "the obligation in conscience to continue to be concerned and to care for the addicts still prevails.

The need continues and will until relief is forthcoming.

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Rather, we point up the tremendous responsibilities of a bishop 'as taught and handed down by generations of believers from the beginning of Christianity," Archqishop Daniel E. Sheehan asserted as he became spiritual 'head of the Omaha archdiocese.

'Archbishop Sheehan, 52, was installued by Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, Apostolic Delegate in the United States, as the third archbishop of Omaha at ceremonies in St. Cecilia's cathedral here. He succeeded retiring . Archbishop Gerald T. Bergan, 77, who has held the post for the past 21 years.

Archbishop Sheehan is the eighth spiritual head of the Omaha See, which was established as a diocese in 1885 and raised to the status of an archdiocese in 1945.

First Responsibilities In his talk, Archbishop Sheehan said "soundness of doctrine and integrity of the faith are the prime responsibilities of the bishop. To announce the Gospel of Christ to men is the way pointed out for the bishop to bring to all men the 'divinely revealed plan to give glory to God and thereby attain eternal happiness, "We are counseled to present the teachings of Christ in a maoner adapted to the minds of the day," the arcl\bishop <:ontinued, "and in a manner that will respond to the difficulties and questions of all, especially those who are burdened and troubled, the' deprived, the neglected ll;nd the poor."

The archbishop noted that the Second Vatican CouncU "insists that the bishop be keenly conscious of the needs of the underprivileged, and that these become the special beneficiaries of the Church's munifkence * *" Religious GoaR "We acknowledge our obligation to the social needs of men, and we pledge our assistance to all men in their aspirations and struggles for a life <:onsonant with their dignity as sons of God," Archbishop Sheehan asserted. "For this we shall strive unstintingly," he said, "for men without dignity and hope can never be led to God. "We know full well that the goal which Christ has assigned

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to His Church is a religious one -the Church must lead men to God in order that they may be given over to Him without reserve," he continued, "and while the Gospel reminds us that it profits a man nothing if he gain the whole world and lose himself, with Vatican Council II, we shall not let the expectation of a new earth weaken, but rather stimulate our concern for cultivating this one.

"A ,better ordering of human society will lay the groundwork for _man's communion with his God which is, at the same time, the very basis of his dignity, and the goal of his creation, and the purpose of the Church," Arch-' bishop Sheehan asserted.

UN Church Cel'llter Plans Workshops NEW YORK (NC)-A series of workshops exploring the processses of international affairs in the light of theological and ethical commitments will be offered· during 1969-70' at the, Church Center for the Ullited Nations here.

The workshops, coordinated by the National Council of ~hurches' department of inter-, national affairs and department of. educational development, are planned by the CCUN ecumenical joint staff committee, representing 15 denominational and interdenominational agencies co- I operating with the United States Catholic Conference division for United Nations Affairs.

Staffed with professionals from the applied behavioral sciences, the UN secretariat, agencies and diplomatic missions and specialists in international ,afe fairs, tneology and education, the workshops are open to na-' tional, state and local church leaders, students and persons with special responsibilities and interest iry international affairs.

Schedule ,Catholic, Methodist Dialogue YOUNGSTOWN (NC) - The third in a -series of ecumenical dialogues between Catholics and Methodists will be held on the Mediterranean island of Malta Sept. 15-18. \ Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, one of the Catholic representativ:es, said conversations will center on the Eucharist and authority in the Church.

Catholic position papers will be presented by Jesuit Father Michael Hurley, professor of theology at Milltown' Park, Dublin, and Jesuit Father Robert Murray, professor at Heythrop (England) College., -

ST. LOUIS (NC) - Programs of Christian social action, aimed at aiding the underprivileged, are being evaluated at the seventh biennial convention of the National Federation of Christian Bishop Odd Hargen, StockLife Communities here.

The convention the me, holm, president of the W-orld "Christian Life Communities, Methodist Council, is chief Builders of the Human Commu- Methodist spokesman. ,Other nity," will be developed through Methqdist participants include four general sessions and 16 Bishop Gerald Ensley, Columworkshops, presenting concrete bus, Ohio; Bishop Fred Corson, service programs which have Philadelphia, Pa.; Dean William already been tried and tested by Cannon, Emory University, AtCLC groups in the United States lanta, Ga.; and Dr. Albert Outler, Southern Methodist 'Univerand Latin America.

Christian Life Communities sity, DaHas, Tex, are the end result of a modernization program with the 400Reaches Spaon year,-old Catholic Sodality movement. The convention will be ZARAGOZA (NC) - A group the first national assembly since of 120 U. S. students has arrived the completion in 1967 of the here under the auspices of the modernization program which, Foreign Study League to study based on the documents of Vat- Spanish. The group was accomican Council II, places a greater panied by Father Manuel J. emphasis on the role of the laity . Rodriguez, director of, the Spanand social development. ish branch of the 'league.

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Atl' <e~eve~@ITil<dl O*~O~te CLEVELAND (NC)- The sit· flRIE BOMBING IN IRIELAND: An early morniryg fire-bomb- . ing forced these two Belfast, Northern Ireland, families from in of grape boycotters at a sutheir home. The two families,. both Roman Cdlholic, are those per market's local headquarters has ended. ' of John Kildea, his wife and ,sons John, 3, and David, 1, and Father Stan.islaus Pack, boyMr. and Mrs. Henry Logan and their 8-month-old daughter Loraine. They were among the latest victims of the, viole'nce cott leader and one of the original 13 persons who "sat-in" at whic.h has occurr,ed in Northern Ireland in recent months. the office, said the "troops are out" primarily to help escalate activities on the outside and to aid in 'planning "new strategy" for demonstrators supporting the table grape boycott.

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NCCM Executive Director Discusses New· Horizons

WASHINGTON (NC)-The lay apostolate i~ discussed iIi. "New Horizons for the Laity: A Com!11el1tary on Vatican (Council) II's Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity," a new book by Marti'n H. Work,', executive director director of the National Council of Catholic Men, with headquarters here.

Published by Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., the book is ,/arranged for adult. discussionaction groups by Msgr. Leon A. McNeill; chairman of Special Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Service of the Wichita, Kan., diocese~ The volume covers such topics as the foundation of the lay apostolate; lay spirituality; re_ newing the secular order; the social environment; the nation and the world;, cooperation: Catholic and ecumenical; the in. dividual and organized apostolates; relations with bishops ,'and priests, and contains the text of the council's decree on the apostolate of the laity: _ Work celebrating his 20th 'year as NCCM executive director, is a member of the Vatican Commission on the Laity. He at-

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LONDON (NC) - The English Jesuits are planning to build a $1.5 million complex in Bristol, ,a western seaport, including a new church over a shopping center and an adjoining office block.

Their present Bristol church, St. Mary on the Quay, is a city landmark but needs rebuilding and they are proposing to turn the property into an attractive civic center.

The plan includes a 12-story office block, a parking lot, a hall, a presbytery and a row of shops with the new church on top. The church will have a distinctive sail-like .spire rising above the masts of the ships in the nearby port.

The heavy expenses. will 'be met by renting out ,the' shops and offices.

Many Catholics and local preservationists, however, are protesting against the removal of the present 130-year-old church with its hand~ome portico and fronting Corinthian pillars, so the Jesuits are' sounding out local public opinion before they go ahead.

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NCCM is currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of its organization:

Essential Character A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his, dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

-Beecher

The sit-in began in July in the reception room of headquarters in suburban Maple Heights when .the group's requests for a meeting with H.A. Ledford, local vicepresident for the supermarket chain, were ignored.

It ended because the diocesan Commission on Catholic Community Action, the Cleveland Grape Boycott Committee and the local region of AFL-CIO had been attempting to set up negotiations with officials and one of the conditions for such negotiations was the removal of the sit-ins from the lobby.

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Raymond Hull Gives Gist Of Dr. Peter's Findings

Diocesan Paper Clhanges Format

By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy

WHEELING (NC)-Bishop Joseph H. Hodges of Wheeling has . adopted four major proposals affecting the West Virginia Register, diocesan newspaper, upon the recommendation of the editor, J.T. Ryan, Jr., and with approval of the paper's board of advisors.

These changes, effective Jan. I, 1970 are: ' That the didcesan newspaper shall be published under a new title: The Catholic Week.

That the newspaper shall be published in a tabloid format, as opposed to the standard or journal format now in use.

That the newspaper' shall be distributed on the basis of an "80 per cent parish plan."

That the newspaper's advertising rate shall be increased in accordance with the subsequent increase in circulation, and that the rates shall be determined on a "bulk" basis, rather than a frequency basis, as is currently in effect.

"Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant . . . . I have accepted the univ~rsality of incompetence." So writes Raymond Hull in the introduction to The Peter Principle (Morrow, 425 Park Ave., S., New York, N.Y. 10016. $4.95). In proof of this dis- management suiVeys? They rein a recommendation either maying assertion, he cites sult to appoint a coordinator beseveral examples, each of tween incompetent officials and. which we all could parallel from our own experience. Incompetence is, if not universal, a II to 0 common.

H ow explain that? Mr. Hull says that the answer can be found in the research of a certain Dr. Laurence J. Peter, who is too busy, or perhaps too competent, to put his findings in a form and in terms comprehensible to the generality.

And so Mr. HUll has generously undertaken to give us the gist of them in a brief treatise, illustrated by drawings from, apparently, nineteenth century issues of Punch.

The Peter Principle, simply put, is this: that in every organization every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

"Everyone in business, industry, trade-unionism, politics, government, the armed forces, religion, and education" is controlled by the Peter Principle, accordin'g to the discomfortable doctor. ~sel!clIo-!P'romotion

This does not mean that every promotion raises' 'one' to one's level of incompetence. No, the unusual thing is for a person to go from one level of incompetence to another. But his final promotion is invariably from a level of competence to one of incompetence.

"The cream rises until it sours." Meanwhile, the organization's work is done by people who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

There are those who will indignantly reply that incompetence does not prevent promotion. They will point to so-andso, who, for all his woeful performance was kicked upstairs.

As a scientist, Dr. Peter rightly prefers to speak of this as "percussive sublimation," and he declares that it is always only a pseudo-promotion, a trick to preserve the organization's reputation for efficiency.

Ordinary incompetence, Dr. Peter has discovered, will never lead to dismissal. That fate is reserved for both super-incompetence and super-competence.

Super路Confidence An example of super-incompetence would not be atrocious performance but dreadful inadequacy in keeping or filing neat records of atrocious performance. Far worse, however, is super-incompetence, for it disturbs the pace and the pattern of the organization, which is a deadly thing and not to be tolerated.

But surely, one has heard of all manner of marvelous techniques which, in practice, do guarantee competence throughout an organization. Is there not the blessing of placement tests?

Their only effect, according to Dr. Peter, is "that tested people reach their levels of incompetence in fewer steps and in a shorter time."

What, then, of efficiency and

unproductive departments or to hire more people to do the work not being done by the incompetent.

Feels Insecure How can one tell whether he has reached the level of one's incompetence? Several infallible indices are given. One is phonophilia: that is, having several telephones on one's desk, as well as a dizzying elaborate signalling system and a profusion of recording devices, these never to be in use singly.

Another is papyrophobia: vulgarly known as "keeping a clean desk" because the sight of papers would remind one of work which one is incapable of doing.

There is also papyromania: cluttering one's desk, tables, shelves with papers, pamphlets, and other printed materials at which one never glances.

The person who has achieved his final plateau of placement feels insecure. He masks this by throwing a written' report back to the subordinate submitting it and saying, "I've nQ time to wade through all that garbage.

Tell it to me in your own words -and briefly."

If, however, he is confronted with a verbal report, h~ yells, "I can't even begin to think about it until you put it in writing."

Uses Bnltials To choke off a discussion which bewilders him, he will begin telling jokes. Or he will brightly suggest that what the organization really needs is a new building. He will probably be given to staring off in space, which the uninitiate will innocently interpret as a sign of deep thinking.

Also, he will tend to use initials, as in "C.F.M. is in L.A. giving the 0.0. to I.B.M.'s C.A. system." He will probably be very good at General Purpose Conversation and the General Purpose Speech, the former to be used in any company, the latter on any occasion.

In order to exist reasonably happily and reasonably well on one's level of incompetence, Dr. Peter, filtered through Mr. Hull, recommends, for example, perpetual preparation for work which will never be done.

Thus, one will always express dissatisfaction with the evidence for taking or avoiding some course, and demand more and yet more. This insures that the need will disappear and nothing has to be done.

Deep Thinker Forming committees is another perpetual preparation device, and so is the ignoring of mountains in favor of exhaustively studying molehills. Extremely important is carefully cultivating image while skillfUlly avoiding performance.

Dr. Peter is a deep and farseeing thinker, and so he is concerned not merely with what goes on (or off) in individual organizations, but also with what is happening to the whole human race.

He believes tha,t, because of the universality and inexoraqility of the Peter Principle, man

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JEFFERSON' CIlY. (NC) Bishop-designate Michael Francis McAuliffe of Jefferson City was consecrated and installed Monday in ceremonies in St. Joseph's cathedral here.

This was the first ceremony of consecration of a bishop in the Jefferson City diocese. A feature of the ceremony was that both the consecration and installation took place in the new bishop's diocese to emphasize the link between the diocese, its new chief pastor and the cathedral which is the principl church of the diocese.

Formerly, it was not unusual for a bishop to be consecrated in a cathedral other than that of the diocese he would serve.

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SACRAMENTO (NC)-California is the first state in the nato eliminate state tax exemptions for unrelated business activities of churches.

A bill to collect corporation taxes from churches and relimust sooner or later reach his level of life-incompetence. And he refers to the indubitable fact that "various animal species, after eons of steady promotion, have reached the levels of incompetence and have become static, or have achieved superincompetence and have become extinct."

Negative Thinking He therefore proposes that we lose no time in getting' down to intensive negative thinking. This can prevent man's escalating himself to a level of life-incompetence, and so fend. off the destruction of the world.

Moreover, a路 general attainment of incompetence could be avoided if all incompetent educators went around affirming the value of an education, if all incompetent painters promoted the appreciation of art, etc.

Dr. Peter, thanks to his popularizer, has certainly given us plenty to think about. Some of it is pretty grim, but facts must be sensibly faced. And there is as much consolation to be drawn from his recommendations as there is disillusionment.

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Gov. Ronald Reagan has not yet disclosed if he will sign the bill. .

The California proposal is similar to one included in the national tax reform measure drawn up by the House Ways and Means Corrtmittee in Washington.

The California measure does not affect the' exemption of income derived from churchrelated activities, including the operation of cemeteries.

The bill, which would apply to income received starting next Jan. I, would require the filing of annual informational return by churches and teligious organizations on their business activities.

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Of Ed uc:ation BUFFALO (NC)--A Buffalo legislator has proposed a method by which state aid could be given to children

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The proposal by Assemblyman Albert J. Hausback involves a "voucher system," Under the plan, a child would be able to have an "education of his choice" and receive state aid for it, Hausbeck said. He added that the plan/is meant to bfmefit both public and nonpublic school youngsters.

The proposal calls for parents to register their school age children with the state and receive a "voucher" to' be presented to the principal of, the . public or nonpublic school which they wish to attend.

Payment Once the child is enrolled in school, Hausbeck explained, the voucher would be returned to the state for payment ..

Hausbeck said the vOJ,lcher plan had been 'developing in his mind for the past several years after a similar proposal "got nowhere" in the California legislature-:He said he deCided to propose the idea to the administration of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller since "it is evident. that something must be done to ease the overcrow<;ling in the public: schools" as well as the financial problems of many nonpublic schools.

Constitution Under the New York State constitution, the state is prohibited from giving financial aid to church-related nonpublic schoolS. The 1967 Constitutional Convention attempted to repeal the so-called Blaine Amendment, which specifically bans the aid, but the whole new constitution was rejected at the polls.

Hausbeck maintained that the voucher plan would not require a constitutional amendment.

'He 路said he will introduce legislation at the next se!lsion asking the full legislature to consider the matter unless a governor's committee appointed some .time ago 路to study the .needs of nOl)public schools has already acted on the proposal.

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GARY (NC) - Bishop Andflew G. Grutka of Gary will meet with American Slovak CathoEc clergy and lay leaders at the Slovak Institute of SS. Cyril and; Methodius in Rome, Sept: 12-15.

Purpose of the meet~ng is to establish a program aimed at preserving the heritage of faith among the people of Slovakia.

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It is expected that all American Sloyak organizations-religious, fraternal and cultural-with over half million membership will be represented at the meeting in Rome. A preliminary meeting

of 21 American Slovak leaders was held in Whiting, Ind. on Aug. 12.

The Institute of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Rome is a religious. and cultural institute built mainly with funds donated by American Slovaks. Its mission is to provide for the faith and future of Catholic Slovakia.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with the all-Slovak celebration on Sept. 15 honoring the llOOth anniversary of the deaths of SS. Cyril and Methodius, who brought Christianity to the Slovak people.

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Vincent.A. Yzermans, who submitted his resignation, effective Sept. I, after a dispute with newspaper officials. Msgr. Yzermans was given a leilVe of absence on Aug. 5 for the remainder of the month.

Mrs. Mary Lou McGue was appointed executive editor of Today's Family Digest, a publication, affiliated with the Visitor.

She succeeds Father Robert H. Fix,O.S.C. The appointments were announced by F.A. Fink; OSV executive vice president. Fink also issued a statement denying news reports suggesting that three other staff members .- Robert Wonderly, associate editor, Martin Greven, advertising director, and路 Philip Hudson, associate artist-had submitted their resignations as a result of Msgr.

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