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Mexican Farm Hands Would Destroy UFW WASHINGTON (NC)-A proposal to revive the Bracero program, which would legalize the mass importation of braceros (farm hands) under a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico, was called "completely unaoceptable" by a U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) . official.

In a Labor Day statement, Msgr. George G. Higgins, USCC secretary for research, warned that revival of the program "would inevitably have a disastrous effect on the wages and working conditions of the American labor force and might well destroy the only viable union ever to be established in the history of American agriculture," the United Farm Workers of America.

Msgr. Higgins said that· a top U.S. government official had reo cently suggested revival of the Bracero program as a solution to the problem of illegal aliens be· cause the illegal aliens "are doing work which the American labor market somehow does not seem to be otherwise supplying."

The USCC official recalled that there had been Br.acero programs in the 1940sand from 1954 to to 1964. "Under the latter program at its peak," he said, "more than 500,000 contract workers were brought into this country in one year alone. They were recruited by the Secretary of Labor at the expense of the U.S. government." . Msgr. Higgins pointed out that a government commission estab· lished in 1959 to investigate the Bracero program "found that the program-which guaranteed the growers, at no administrative expense to themselves, an unlimited supply of cheap and docile

SCHOOLS OPEN WEDNESDAY Figures released today by the Diocesan Education Office reveal that some 8200 elementary and 3100 high school students are expected when Catholic schools throughout the diocese open their doors Wed· nesday morning, Sept. 3.

labor - was having a disastrous effect on the American labor force." The commission recommended that the program be phased out as rapidly as possible.

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Position The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has been sued in civil court by the Saint John's Child Care and Development Cepter, Inc., of Fall River. The corporation, through its President, Sister Arlene Violet, R.S.M., brought suit against the Bishop. The action was precipitated when the independent corporation was denied access to a Diocesan property in Saint Patrick's Parish in Fall River in which it had been operating.

The case has generated some publicity in the Fall River area and has been reported in the media. The Bishop is advised that it is inappropriate for any party to civil litigation to engage in comments about the merits of a legal proceeding before the

Court has an opportunity to hear the parties.

This kind of extrajudicial statement can be prejudicial.

The Bishop has, through counsel, re- . moved the case from the District Court to the Superior Court, the proper forum for a decision of the legal issues involved. The Bishop awaits a speedy hearing on the merits of the case in which his position will be made entirely clear.

Some speculation has arisen on the subject of ecclesiastical penalties. Bishop Cronin wishes to make it clear that he has not authorized any such speculation, and is entirely content to have this legal question decided by the civil courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Polish Catholics Impress Cardinal ROME (NC)-The Church in Poland is the great hope for the Church and for the world, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston said after 'an eight-day visit in that East European nation.

After celebrating Mass at

Rome's Polish Church of St. Stanislaus, Cardinal Medeiros told NC News: "The Church in Poland in the face of persecution ds the Church Militant, Triumphant and heroic. It is the greatest hope

for the Church and for the world.

Cardinal Medeiros, in Rome with about 75 Holy Year pilgrims from his archdiocese, visited many Polish cities and 'shrines along with some of the Boston pilgrims from Aug. 11-19.

The Boston cardinal said that the persecution against the Church .takes the form of "a thousand types of harassment."

He called the Poles a "grave, brave people," and said he was "overwhelmed" by their faith.

"I never thanked God so much for having seen what I saw-the . faith lived in persecution," Cardinal Medeiros said. "I hope that I can live up to what I saw there."

The Cardinal's trip took him to major PoUsh cities where he was the guest of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of Warsaw, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (If Cracow, and other bishops.

The Boston cardinal spoke publicly about four or five times a day.

"My message is basically that Poland is a holy land since Catholics there are fighting for the rights of God. I mid them that unlesS' men defend the rights of God, there is no point in defending the rights of man since man's rights come from God."

BISHOP CONFIRMS AT DEVER STATE SCHOOL: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 134 residents of the Paul A. Dever School for the Retarded, Taunton. Assisting the Bishop in the ceremony were Rev. William Beston, CSC, chaplain at the school and Rev. James F. Lyons, back to camera, pastor of St. Mary's, Taunton. Mr. Charles Colton, extreme left~ recently-retired steward at the school, served as sponsor for the residents. Also in attendance were Dr. Anne H. Lewis, Dever School Superintendent; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tapella of Quincy, representing the Parent's Association; and family members and rela.tives.

Cardinal Medeiros recalled that at the famous shr.ine of Our L'ady of Czestochowa (In the Feast of the Assumption Aug. 15, he "could see the people's faith jumping out at me, shouting out to me."

Of his visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Ausch· witz, the cardinal recounted: "It was the most impressive and depressing thing I've ever seen.

Your instinct upon visiting the camp is just to fall down on the floor."

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Fr. Joseph Champlin describes a real living parish

A French Sister brings education to the American frontier

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Bishop's Charity Ball Planning Me'eting Sept. 28 The annual meeting to plan the Bishop's Charity Ball of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River will be held on Sunday afternoon, September 28 at 2 o'clock at White's in Westport.

The Ball is set for Friday, January 9, 1976 at Lincoln Park Ball路 room in North Dartmouth.

This is the twenty-first annual Ball. Records show that no diocese in the United States has such an event for such a continuous period of time. The Ball is in honor of the Most Rev. Daniel A. Gronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. It will be the sixth time that Bishop Cronin will serve as the honored guest. The former Bishop, of Fall River, the Most Rev. James L. Connolly, initiated the first Ball twenty-one years ago.

The ,Ball will also commemoLA SALETTE SALUTES BICENTENNIAL: Appropriately attired is this group at La rate the celebration of the foundSalette Shrine, Attleboro, where preparations are being made for a "Freedom Festival" caring of our nation. The motif, 'nival marking the Bicentennial, Standing is Bill Barnes, in front, from left, Sr. Mary color and scenario will highlight iilfillan, Don Hussey and Crystal Hussey, se~ond row, Rev. Richard Delisle, Rita Hussey, this historical event.

The diocesan co-ordinating ball Paul Jones, Jeannette Patenaude and Rev. Andre Patenaude. committee will meet with the members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Council of Catholic Women of the diocese, co-sponsors of this annual "Freedom West '75," a five- participate in special events ebration and will travel around social and' charitable event. day festival, will be held at La h'ighligh:ting each day of rtbe the commonwealth this year, Salette Shrine, Attleboro, from program. eventually meeting wagon trains Assignments Thursday, Aug. 28 through Labor For opening night, Thursday, from the other 49 states in PhilRev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Day. It will commemorate the Aug. 28, the Taunton Minuteman adelphia on July 4, 1976. People diocesan director of the Ball, anBicentennial with 50 booths and Fife and Drum Marching Corps visiting the festival will have an nounced that committee assigna midway of eight rides dec- will perform. On Friday evening opportunity to view the wagon ments will be named at the meetorated in a colonial theme. Over th3 Colonial Dancers from the train and sign a scroll re-dedicating to implement all aspects of 200 festival workers garbed in Janet Frazer School of Dance ing themselves to the precepts of this outstanding social event of handmade colonial costumes will will present a series of authentic the constitution. This scroll will New England. The proceeds from colonial dances. On Saturday be permanently enshrined in the event help to provide the afternoon at 2 p.m. Ronald Mc- Philadelphia. maintenance and expansion of Missioners Name On Labor Day, La Salette's Donald will distribute gift certiffour schools for the exceptional own Father Andre Patenaude Chinese Supe,rior icates and spend 2 hours meeting children and four summer camps VATICAN CITY (NC) - For young and old, and will conduct 'and his singing group, The Recfor the underprivileged children. oncilers, will perform at 7:30 the first time in their history, a puppet theatre.

The facilities are for children of p.m. Father Pat will present sethe Divine Word Fathers have every race, color and creed in Wagon Train lections from several of his althe southeastern area of the named a Chinese priest as reSunday's highlight will be the bums with the finale being a gional superior. ' state.

The Vatican daily newspaper, arrival of the National Bicenten- combined thanksgiving for supL'Osservatore Romano, reported nial Wagon Train, which is part port shown the La Salette Mission Appeal that 55-year old Father Josef of the national bicentennial cel- Fathers and Brothers.

In reflecting on the annual Religious articles, books, mag- Chu Bin-Wen was named regionfestival, Rev. Richard Delisle, azines, holy cards and other al superior in Taipei, Taiwan, of Library to Expand chairman, commented, "The fessmall items are requested by the the Divine Word Society. He The Kresge Foundation of tival is much more than an cpCapuchin Franciscan Fathers at was born in the diocese of Troy, Michigan, has awarded portuity to gather funds . . .

Fatima Mission, Box 15, Zam- Tsingtab, China, joined the.

Divine Word Society in 1943 and Stonehill College, Easton, a though funds we need, but much besi, Z.ambia, Central Africa. was ordained in 1950. Until his $50,000 grant for expansiQn and more than that it is a time for new 'appointment he was direc- renovation of the college'5 people to come .together, to Cushing-Martin Library, it was work, to laugh, to share and to Necrology , tor ofa' high school. announced today by William H. rejoice in the Lord for the gift of SEPT. 5 Baldwin, foundation president. life."

Rev. Napoleon A. Messier, Desire The library project is the latest 1948, Pastor, St. Matthew, FaH To pray is to desire; but it is step in the college's $15 million River to desire what God would have "Development for the Seventies" SEPT. 7 program. Ground breaking took us desire.

Very Rev. James E. McMahon, -Fenelon place Monday.

FUNERAL HOME, INC. 1966, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Oak R. Marcel Roy - G. Lorraine Roy Bluffs Roger LaFrance SEPT. 8 FUNERAL DIRECTORS Rev. Thomas Sheehan, 1868, 15 Irvington Ct. Founder, Holy Trinity, West New Bedford Harwich 995-5166 , SEPT. 10 Rev. Msgr. Felix S. Childs, 1969, Pastor Emeritus, Sacred Heart, Fall River DOLAN-SAXON Rev. Hugo Dylla, 1966, Pastor, St. Stanislaus, Fall River

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MIAMI BEACH (NC) - The top official of the Knights of Columbus called abortion the "most shameful blight on American life," and urged Catholics to reject the standards which permeate -the secularized society surrounding us."

Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, head of the 1.2 million member Catholic fraternal order, made the remarks at the 93rd annual meeting of the supreme council-the top legislative body in the organization.

About 2,000 delegates and their families were on hand for McDevitt's address, which contained strong 'attacks on several feature$ of life in America. The Supreme Knight strongly endorsed efforts to overturn the ~'disastrous Supreme Court decision of January 1973 striking down laws designed to protect the unborn." Such efforts will not easily find success, he noted.

"The anti-life coalition," he said, "seems to have the suppor,t of the major communications media as weH as that of some highly vocal public figures."

"We know that the crematories burning human flesh were' eventually shut down in Nazi Germany," he said. "We only hope that God need not send this nation 路a searing scourge like atomic devastation to make us all realize the heinousness of massacring the innocent and helpless through abortion."

Vincentians to Meet Members of the Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet for Ma.S5 and a business session at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 at St. John the Baptist Church, Main Road, Central Village. Conferences 'are reminded that 'assessments are due by ,the end of September and tha-t annual reports should be submitted to ,the Catholic Welfare Bureau, 368 N. Main St., Fall River 02720.

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Mexican Fa.rm Hands Continued from Page One continued, "despite the efforts of the Department of Labor to require employers to hire quali· fied U.S. workers, the commis· sion found indicating that do· mestic farm workers were losing out to foreign labor. So strong were the preferences of some growers for a captive labor force that in some areas almost all of the seasonal work in certain activities was performed by foreign workers.

"Even those domestic workers who were employed found the duration of their jobs shortened because the availability of contract workers from Mexico, particularly at peak, had compressed the work season."

Msgr. Higgins also noted the commission's findings that wage rates in activities and areas em· ploying Mexicans had lagged behind the rising wage level for farm workers generally and that users of Mexican labor often paid their domestic workers less than employers who did not use foreign workers.

Threat to American Labor When the Bracero program was terminated in 1964, Msgr.

Higgins said, growers· and other employers predicted that it would be impossible to recruit an adequate supply of American workers. "What they really meant," he said, "was that it was easier and cheaper for them to have the government recruit their workers ,than to do their own recruiting from the Amer. ican labor force."

He added: "Most of all they dreaded the prospect of having to offer higher wages and better conditions as the only possible way of recruiting an adequate number of American workers."

Some of them, he said, are try· ing to revive the Bracero program.

Pointing out that the Mexican government is also advocating revival of the' Bracero program to relieve its serious unemployment program, Msgr., Higgins said: "If the U. S. has an obligation to assist Mexico in solving its domestic problems, there must be a way of doing this without cutting the ground out from under the United Farm Workers Union and without undermining the wages and working conditions of American agricultural workers who, for 100 years or more, have been among the most disadvantaged and most exploited workers in the American economy."

Amnesty for Illegal Aliens As a step toward bringing the problem of illegal aliens under control, Msgr. Higgins restated the recommendation he made to Congress earlier this year for "an across-the·board grant of amnesty, as of a specified cut. off date, for those illegals presently in the United States."

This recommendation was made, he said, because the U. S. government bears "a heavy share of responsibility for the chaotic situation which exists today." Lack of an amnesty program, .he said, might drive illegal aliens further underground and creata a permanent sub-culture in the 'United States. Finally, he said, an amnesty program would make neCCSS:ll'Y further consid('ration of the :~~mmc(' of a com·

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mon identification card or "internal passport" to every U. S. citizen.

In the Labor Day statement, Msgr. Higgins also praised the farm labor bill- passed in California earlier this year and said it might serve as a working model for parallel legislation in other agricultural states and at the federal level.

He cautioned, however, that, to make the new law work, "growers will have to make up for lost time by quickly adopt· ing a more professional approach to management·labor relations in their troubled industry" and the union and its supporters will have to "settle down to the tedious and unromantic business of making collective bargaining work fairly and efficiently on a day-to-day basis in good times and bad."

Nuns Learn Auto Mechanics Art RACINE (NC)-After reading about people getting ripped off and. having unpleasant experi· ences with auto repairs, 14 Dominican Sisters decided it was time to know more about the cars they drive.

Sister Therese Rotarius, a science teacher at Sts. Peter and Paul's school in Green Bay, might be considered the pioneer among the mechnical-minded.

Dominicans. She took a course in auto mechanics five years ago at a v.ocational school and has been practicing the trade ever since.

She conducted sessions on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in July at Siena Center, the Dominican's motherhouse here in Wisconsin. The sessions were included in the center'~ summer educational ahd training program, that ranges from arts and crafts projec,ts to theological discussions.

In two initial lectures, Sister Therese instructed her students on the basic components. general maintenance and the service requirements of a car.' She included a quiz that they kept for reference and homework which meant they had to clean the engines of the cars they drove.

"After all, working on an engine is more enjoyable when it's clean," Sister Therese observed.

Using borrowed tools, the aspiring mechanics learned how to check and change tires, clean the air filter and carburetor, change oil and the filter, remove rust and make some body repairs.

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If you think about it the publication of 960 editions is a tremendous feat. Week in and week out for the past 18 years,; Msgr. Shalloo and Father Driscoll have been faced with a weekly deadline. Helped in the last few years by Father FoIster this team devoted themselves to spreading God's word through this newspaper. We can hardly imagine the countless personal sacrifices they undoubtedly have made in the last two decades but we do know what they accomplished. Through their efforts all of us have been kept aware of the work of the Church both on the national scene and in our own diocese. For all their efforts and sacrifices we express our sincerest thanks. .

A newspaper is naturally a reflection of its editorial staff. So as the old team departs it is only natural that this newspaper 'Will change somewhat. We hope you will like the changes. We hope even more that the changes will allow the work of the Church,' the message of Christ to become even clearer to you. For indeed that's what it's all about; proclaiming Christ's message was the mission of Msgr.

Shalloo, Fr. Driscoll and Fr. FoIster and although there will be changes in this newspaper, the mission will remain ever the same.

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Labor Day Plumbers are playing polo.

Such an observation was made recently by one social critic. The implication is that now the American worker is fully sharing in the American dream. Well perhaps the average worker does not own a string of polo ponies but most workers do enjoy possessions their grandfathers would have thought unattainable.

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We say most but not all. For there are many members of the labor force who still do not receive a fair pay for a day's work. These workers are found in various industries , but mainly in agriculture and particularly among migrant workers. .

REV. JOHN F. MOORE

The Church in the United States has always been closely associated with the labor movement and the gains achieved by the American worker can be traced in no small part to the support of American Catholics. We have always taken to heart Jesus' words "the laborer is worthy of his hire" and we will continue our efforts until that day when all Americans are ju'stly compensated for the fruits of their labor.

Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters should be brief and the editor reserves the right. to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

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Anchor Aweigh There are very few people in this larid who would underestimate the influence and importance of the press. In the light of our own social and political events of the past couple of years, it has been the press that has commanded the center stage of the public media. For its efforts in re- and it is in order to use the instruments of social communicaform and seeking facts the tion in the many fields of the press in general milst be apostolate. commended. Yet so many of us have also become victims of a press whose philosophy is purely materialistic and whose editorial position is totally pragmatic For the sincere and honest Catholic there is much that the secular press either ignores on purpose or inflames with intent.

However this is the risk that freedom of the press implies of its nature. It is in this area of freedom and the sea·rch for truth that the Catholic press 'has its fundamental reason for existence

The Fathers of' Vatican II clearly have indicated the absolute necessity of a Catholic press as an effective alternative to the crass secularism of our own time.

They have forthrightly stated that a Catholic Press should have this goal. "That it may form, strengthen and spread public views which are in harmony with the natural law and with Catholic teachings and precepts; let it pubHcize and correctly interpret facts which pertain to the life of the Church."

Our Goal For tbe past 18 years this has been the goal of our own diocesan newspaper, The Anchor.

With the encouragement of Bishop Connolly and the continued support of Bishop Cronin, OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER this paper was founded to advise the faithful in making Christian Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River . evaluations of all that happens.

410 Highland Avenue The success of this 'Paper and its Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 effectiveness in its unique apostolate could not have been acPUBLISHER complished without the efforts and labors of both Monsignor Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.O. Daniel Shalloo and Father John EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Driscoll. For 960 issues of this paper, these men self sacrificingRev. Edward J. Byington Rev. Msgr. John 1. Regan ly and tirelessly attempted to .~ Leary Press-Fall River bring the message of the "Good

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They have heen more than successful in reaching their goals and ideals in this particular field of communications because both of these priests bave been loyal churchmen and faithful witnesses. They' have served the Church well with common mind and heart. In this day and age where so many seemingly strive to divide and destroy it will be to the lasting credit of these men that they have always strove in tbeir work to unite and heal.

Never seeking their own personal fame and glory, they have been the Lord's good men.

Taunton Native, Husband 'Adopt' Indian Waifs Mrs. Joseph A. Wessing, a native of Taunton, now a resident of Pilot Grove, Missouri, has with her husband "spiritually adopted" three children through the Foster Parents Mission Club efforts of a Detroit organization dedicated to aiding destitute Asian children. They are 8-yearold Gadda Maramma, cared for at Pope John Craft Orphanage in Fatimapuram, India, and John and Prasad Uppalapaty, ages 12 and 8, two brothers cared for at a nearby St. John's Orphanage . in Amalapuram.

Gadda Maramma lost both her parents and was found by a priest during one of his pastoral tours. She was roaming the streets begging for money.

John and .'Prasad's parents are also both dead. They were brought to Amalapuram by relatives. Both hays are ·a·ctive and bright. John has just started school; Prasad studies in the 6th Grade and is a class leader.

Through the help of the Wessings these three youngsters will be fed ·and clothed and receive at least 'a basic education.

Worked in Peru Joe and Virginia Wessing's interest in missionary projects is a keen one. Both served for some years as lay mission workers in Peru. Joe worked with the Jefferson City priests in the antiplano region. Virginia served 'as a member of PAVLA and worked with the Marianist Fathers under the Santa Maria University Nursing Program' in Arequipa.

The former Virginia Mehegan was a n~rse in Newport for 10 years and was sponsored by the diocese of Providence for her more than five years in Peru.

Foster Parents donate $6 a month towards their child's care plus $5 per year to help defra; office expenses in Detroit, making 'an annual total of $77, or 'less than 22c per day. The adoption support is kept at the barest minimum so that a greater number of needy children may receive some aid. • Although Mr. 'and Mrs. Wessing may never meet their adopted children, they can write to them and the children ·are told there is someone far away who loves them. They repay their foster 'parents in the only way possible to them-by remembering them in their daily prayers.

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Yet with their depa,rture from The Anchor they would he the first to say that the presses must continue to roll and deadlines met. Renewed by their work well done, may the future of our diocesan press be bright and promising in the new vision of youth.

As a new director of communications assumes his most difficult task, it would be well for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the ideals of the Catholic press.

For the press in today's world can contribute generously to the refreshment and refinement of the spirit and to the spread and strengthening of God's own kingdom.

For our own press in our own diocese its 'Once more time to say "Anchors Aweigh."

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To Combine Styl,e, Eco:nomy Lea'v,e Jt to Frenc,hwomen Shades of my French ancestors! Meryl and I went to a fashion show the other day that featured the clothes of Cacheral, the ready-to-wear designer in France. The styles were magnificent, each skirt, blouse and pair of slacks a masterpiece of craftsmanship and tailoring. Prices. were to last through many wardrobes for her to get her money's worth magnificent too, with skirts -and this is how the American starting at $100, the blouse woman is going to have to re-

at $48 and slacks at $75.

While these clothes were well beyond my price range, I must admit that they reminded me

gard her clothes as prices soar and soar.

I can envision a time in the not too distant future when a dress 'Of skirt will have to last at least five years, and be bought with that in mind. Joe's grandmother passed away a few weeks 8y ago and I wore:a l:ilack dress and jacket that I have used season after season for over 10 years.

MARILYN The hemline goes up and comes . down but it's still a simple c1as7 RODERICK sic that can go anywhere. Think back to the clothes that you have kept over the years and again of the philosophy of the I'm sure you'll find that they are Frenchwoman who loves clothes very simple, without a lot of and treasures them asa major frills and gimmicks. investment: ,she buys a few very You can begin this season good pieces and wears them buying with an eye to a piece of carefully 'and well with many dothing becoming a very poschanges of accessories. itive part of your wardrobe for During my very brief visit to "all seasons." I for one hope that France I saw the results of this some day Cacheral has a sale philosophy-a great deal of chic and that one of his elegant crecreated with just a twist of a ations could become a longlovely scarf or the right pin on range fashion investment for me. a simple but lovely sweater. Inflation is forcing all of us to French clothes are not gimmicky think twice before we buy even a or faddish, but basic, well-made pice of meat, so isn't it logical classics intended to span many, that we take a lesson in economy from the country of my anmany, many, seasons.

While I loved viewing the 'cestors where fashion is as imclothes of Cacheral, I felt I got portant as baseball it to us. as much out of their message as out of their quality 'and design. Mother Seton's' Birth Each item would be a major in- Observance Aug. 28 vestment for even the upper inEMMITSBURG (NC) - More come woman 'and it would have than' 3',000 persons are expected to attend the celebration marking the 201st anniversary of Mother Elizabeth Seton's birth on Aug. 28 at her shrine here.

Mother Seton will- be declared a saint by Pepe Paul VI at ceremonies at the VatIcan Sept. 14.

She will be the first native-born U.S. citizen to be canonized.

The birthday celebration is sponsored. by the Seton Club of Harrisburg; 'Pa. Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Genevieve Blatt is president.

"We hope to make it the occa路 sion of special thanksgiving for her canonization," said Judge Blatt.

WINS AWARD: Joyce McKearney, St. Mary's parish, Seekonk, is the winner of the 16th annual nursing scholarship awarded by the Attleboro Area Catholic Nurses Chapter' of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses. An honor graduate of Attleboro High School, she will enter New England Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in September. She is an active participant in St. Mary's CCD program and parish' choir.

Baltimore Teachers Reject Raise Offer BALTIMORE (NC)-The Baltimore Archdiocesan Lay Teachers Organization (BALTO) has' rejected a raise offered by the archdiocese and begun polling its members as to further action.

Thirty路three BALTO members meeting here and in Cumberland rejected the archdiocese's offer of a ,$200-a-year, across-theboard raise, according to William J. Jauquet, BALTO president.

Fpurmembers abstained.

The organization, which counts some 100 teachers in five archdiocesesan-owned high schools as members, had advised members to, reject the archdiocese's offer.

Local Ecumenist Most Import/ant NEW YORK (NC)-In many geographical regions of the Catholic Church, ecumenism has advanced at a faster rate than is indicated in official documents issued from Vatican City.

Graymoor Father James Puglisi, 29, director of the Centro pro Unione (Center for Union) in Rome cited northern France, -Germany, and 'areas of the United States where there are covenant agreements between Episcopal and Catholic parishes as places where many barriers between Christians have fallen.

Papally approved guidelines for ecumenical action published July 7 by the Vatican's, Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, he noted, gave support to local ecumenism.

That, he said, is a keystone for the building of Christian unity.

"Young people don't re~pond to superstructures or the question of whether the Catholic Church will join the World Council of Churches. They are asking Christians, really, 'Are you doing what you're saying in the Gospel?' " "We have to ground the whole process of dialogue, at the local level. This is our most urgent need. Otherwise, there can be a widening gap between what theologians are saying and what is actually happening."

Father Puglisi will be among more than half a dozen Catholic ecumenists from Rome who will be attending the fifth assembly of the World Council of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 23 to Dec. 10. The theme of the assembly is "Jesus Christ Frees and Unites."

The Graymoor Centro Pro Unione, on Via Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome, has emphasized "the formation of attitudes," Puglisi said.

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN: This study of a Among itsFather chief ecumenical acBrooklyn, N.Y., courtyard won for Raymond Sean Keogh, tivities he cited study, confer15, a' certificate of merit in Eastman Kodak Company's ences on the international level second annual Scout Photo Scholarship Awards. Keogh, a and programs in Italian parishes sophomore at Holy Family high school in Huntington, N.Y., that emphasize re<;onciliation said he snapped the picture because he liked "the way the renewal.

Italian Catholics, he comlight fell on the tree, highlighting the branches." mented, have become "very excited about ecumenical projects" because such programs "have opened up new perspectives" of Bishop Flores said: "I have ac- their Christian faith.

SAN ANTONIO (NC)-Bishop Patrick Flores, auxiliary of San cepted this responsibility (as Antonio, has been designated sponsor) conscious of the fact "USA Padrino," or sponsor, to that we are under c:e!iou~ finansolicit donations from Catholics cial strains of unemployment in the United States for the and world hunger. construction of a i ,w Basilica "I have accepted with confiof Our Lady of Guadalupe, near dence Our Lady will intercede Mexico City. in our hehalf. And, as sponsor, Cardinal Miguel Dario Miranda I turn to the American people y Gomez of Mexico City and Msgr. Guillermo Schulenburg of and invite them to make a donathe basilica, asked Bishop Flores tion to help us aid in building to seek contributions from U. S. the new Shrine to the Empress 679-5262 Catholics. of the Americas."

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Superiors to Meet WASHINGTON (NC) - The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) will hold a national assembly Aug. 24-28 in St. Paul, Minn. The LCWR said that about 500 major superiors of U. S. Sisters are expected at the' assembly, which will probe the question, "What does it mean to be women, leaders, members of the Roman Catholic Churoh, and sea'rchers for global justice in 1975-76?"

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I'm frequ,mtly astonished by the crazy things my kids do. The younger ones wait until the hottest part of a summer day to begin an energetic game tif tag. I just wilt watching them. The older ones seem to get worse. One of my college age sons works Pizzas Cum Frosteds .several nights a week in a On way borne we rememrestaurant kitchen. One bered the it was the night to set night last week he and- a back the dock, so we had an-

. co-worker finished at about 3:30 a.m; and then went fishing. He got home about noon, slept for an hour, and went back to work.

other hour we could eat. We went to this ice cream parlor and put .frosteds on top of the pizza. We didn't think it was so "crazy" at the time.

Another night, a year or so later, we stopped forfrosteds I was wearing an engagement ring, and he wore a uniform. It was the night before my future Iy husband was to leave for Korea.

We were both tense and disMARY tressed, and we passed the time waiting for Nick to make the CARSON frosteds by Sliding our car keys back and forth across the table to see who could slide them I say these are "crazy" things closest to the table's edge. kids do, but I didn't think they . I missed and the keys went were so crazy years ago. Last on the floor ... under the soda week my husband reminded me fountain. We couldn't .reach of things I did. them, so Nick-who was never There's an ice cream parlor known for remaining calm-took which has been in institution in a swipe at the keys with a our town since I was a child. I broom. have an early memory which He knocked them under some will give you an idea why it is floorboards and we neatly had an institution. The specialty of to dismantle the ice cream parthe house is a "frosted"; iCe lor before we could drive home. cream whipped with milk to a I'm sure Nick thought we were consistency too thick to sip the craziest kids he ever had in through a straw but not quite the place. solid enough to eat with a. spoon.

It's nice to have a place like You just sort of "slurp" it.

Nick's that doesn't change. It's These frosteds were so big like stepping into the past. There that most peop1e had difficulty a're no anxieties in the past. finishing them. They were deli-, Only the future threateps us. cious, but expensive. They cost Maybe that's why so many of 35c. us resist change, especially When I was 'about 12 years changes in our Church. We find old, I was there with my mother. them frightening. They make us She let me order. When the anxious. The past is a much owner, Nick, came over to our 'more comfortable place. table I asked for two frosteds.

But change must come-to the He nodded solemnly, made a Church-and even to Nick's. The note on his pad, then turn to 35c frosted is now $1.50. my mother and asked, "And what will you have?"

That's why it's an institution. Urges World Authority So' my husband and I were In Distributing Food sitting there last week, enjoyDAYTON (NC) -The United ing coffee frosteds and reminisStates should have the authority cing. We 'had gone there on our and finances to go into the first date, 24 years ago. world market, buy food at fair We had been to a Saturday prices and distribute it to malnight movie, then 'hurried to nourished people in aress of finish eating a pizza before mid- need, according to Divine Word night. (Those were the days you Father Anth-ony Zimmerman of had to fast from midnight before Nanzan University, Nagoya, Jagoing to Communion.) pan, a noted demographel' and theologian, and author of books Association Wants on population and family Ifie.

The power to purchase food Newman Canonized could circumvent present diffiLONDON (NC)-TheNewman culties in assuring from donor Association, a Catholic intellec· nations an international food tual movemen( has passed a bank of sufficient size. Children resolution calling for the speedy could be the first group to bencanonization of Cardinal John efit through pre-school and Newman, the 19th-century En- school programs, but eventually the role of .the UN as Ii food gUsh scholar and apostle.

The resolution, enacted at the buyer could be ·enlarged. association's annual meeting, is In an interview, the Iowa.born being forwarded to tho:! Fnglish priest; who recently completed a and Welsh bishops ?nd al30 to month-long speaking tour in the the Pope.

United States, praised the "good The Newman Association, intentions" of those who "eat a which has about 1,900 members little less food" in the hope that in 50 organizations throughout hungry nations will eat more, the country, llas also decided to but took the view that such fastconduct an E'xtc'1s;'/e study of ing will have little effect in deCardinal N('wman a!ld hi.; W::.'::' veloping countries. ,

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SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-Four nuns from minority groups told the National Assembly of Women Religious meeeting here that "Religious Orders of Women are the poorer today for not fostering the rich cultural heritage brought -by minority Sisters."

The four, a black, an Hispanic, an American Indian and a Filipino, said that to stand for justice "is to pay more than lip service to intellectual values -about repression and liberation." ·~It means to· share the suffering, the lack of status, the poverty of the oppresSed. And it may mean the alienation of many who financially or charitably supported the Sisters in VIETNAMESE CHILDREN AWAIT SPONSORSHIP: the past. We should look carefully at the values of minority Three Vietnamese children at the resettlement base at Fort cultures in order to both enrich Chaffee, Ark., surround Andy Smith, a representative of our lives and change the unjust the U. S. Catholic Conference placement program. Through structures which we believe opthe program 20,000 refugees have been resettled but another press us all."

St. Joseph Sfster Mario Bar40,000 still await sponsorship. ron of San Antonio, representing Las Hermanas, an organizatiol! of nuns from Hispanic cultures, said that minority Religious "should align themselves with Professor Says Society Fails to Support their minority groups if their values are to emerge in the Motherhood and Family Church."

COLLEGEV'ILLE (NC) - l The ism of the Victorian period-men Dominican Sister Shawn Copechanged role of women and so- are too--in which someHOW they land,' executive director of the ciety's failure to support the don't fully realize the function National Black Sisters' COllferfamily as its basic unit are why of sex and they end up making ence, said that "'the air we one out of 10 children in the the same mistake as the pur- breathe needs to be analyzed United States ends U'p in a men- itans; they disassociate sex from for racism." tal institution, according to a the interpersonal. relationships"We need a more intensf" Vione of the reasons why there is sion," she said, ~to see racism professor of family medicine.

"It isn't nature's fault," he so much transient sex experi- in its unconsdous forms. Sisters said. "Most of ·them, at birth, are ence," E>r. Ratner said. must look into their own neighnormal, both physically and psySecondly, the Chicago physi- borhoods for practical action to cho~Qgically. i{t is society's miscian said, "I think women haven't eliminate even the subtlest understanding of the child and really been given the dignity forms of discrimination. The the family that is turning out they deserve as ca<etakers of very fact that three black conthe great numbers of people who the human race ... 'That's the gregation of Sisters can exist in need psychiatric help of one kind fault of the rest of the world- the American Church is an inor another," said Dr. Herbert particularly the men who take. dictment of the Church's relaRatner, associate clinical profes- the women for granted." tionship to black America." sor of family community medicine at ,Layola University in ~1I1111111111111111l1ll1l11l1lIlJIIIJIIIIIIJIIIIJIIIIIIJJllIIIIIJII"'J11I1I11I11I11I1I1I11IJ1I11I1"1l1l1ll1Jl1II1II1II1II1II1II1II1II1II1~ Chicago.

Dr. Ratner was 'a participant in a marriage and family life workshop sponsored 'by the ~ Franciscan Friars, 60') Pleasant St., New Bedford, Mass. § Human Life Center at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn.

Today we are seeing -the failure of society to give support to the family, Dr. Ratner maintained, and the family can't funcSolemn Noyena of Nine Thursdays tion, he said, unless all of the institutions of society recognize Begins Thursday, Sept. 4 the "great work of the mother in preparation for the FEAST OF ST. JUDE in particUlar, and give hilr support in doing this absolutely ':Invaluable job."

10:00 A.M.• 12:10 Noon. 5:10, 7:00 P.M. Dr. Ratner scored the women's liberation movement for RADIO NOVENA: (Every Thursday) some of its positions. "The womWJDA- 11 :05 AM.-1300 on dial an who remains a homemaker WARE- 9:45 A.M.-1250 on dial is made to' feel unworthy and insecure," he said. "She is told WPLM- 9:l5 P.M.-1390 on dial 'you're wasting your education WKRI- 12:45 P.M.-U50 on dial at home' and 'you should come West Warwick out into the world.'

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Catholie Charities Expenditures services provided by large percentages of Catholic Charities agencies included: adoptions, 91 per cent of the agencies, 5810 completed adoptions; unmarried parents, 90 per cent of the agencies, 26,584 persons; foster care, 84 per cent of the agencies, 17,868 children.

WASHilNGTON (NC)-Expen· ditures for programs of Catholic Charities agencies throughout th,e United States in 1974 "exceeded $361 million," according to the NationaI Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC).

In its second annual statistical report, published here, the NCCC . said that "over 4 million people were served in ,1974." .

The report includes information ,from 116 out of 142 affili-, ated dioceses and from 157 out of 238 institutional members.

The personnel behind Catholic Charities programs, the report said, include 23,375 paid staff and 65,345 volunteers. Of the paid Sotaff 19 per cent were members of minorLty groups.

The programs reaching the most people, the report said, are coun'seling, emergency assistance, information and referral, _ alcoholism, recreation programs for youth and nutritional programs for the elderly.

The number of persons served by such programs were: counselfng, 373,422; emergency assistance, 327,265 information and referral, 250,910; alcoholism, 141,798; recreation programs for youth, 127,684; and nutritional programs for the elderly, 105,220.

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The report noted a decline in the number of adoptions reported from 9,197 -in 1973 to5,810 in 1974, but pointed out that the 1974 total represented completed adoptions whereas the 1973 total was not as specifically defined.

Among the community services provided and the number of persons served by such services were: health clinics, 59,940; drug abuse, 24,165; mental health clinics, 33,082; housing for the elderly, 4,139; housing for families, 4,785; services for the men· tally retarded, 11,626; in-pr,ison counseling, 16,176; halfway houses, 397; hospital consultation and/or social services, 16,295; school consultation and/or social services, 26,013.

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CHATHAM HOLY REDEEMER Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Evening-5:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. SOUTH CHATHAM OUR LADY OF GRACE Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

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FALMOUTH ST. PATRICK Schedule effective weekend of June 28-29 Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 and 5:30 P.M. Saturday Eve-5:30 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. - Saturdays 8:00 A.M. . FALMOUTH HEIGHTS ST. THOMAS CHAPEL Schedule effective weekend of June 28·29 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 A.M. Saturday-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. HYANNIS ST. FRANCIS XAVIER Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:~0 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 12:10 P.M. YARMOUTHPORT SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-9:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M.

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MARION ST. RITA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00, 11:15 A.M. Saturday Eve-5:oo and 6:30 P.M. Daily-8:30 A.M.

PROVINCETOWN ST. PETER THE APOSTLE Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00; 11:00 A.M., 7:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. (except Saturday) Confessions: Saturday-4:00 -5:00 P.M. and 6:45 P.M.

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SANDWICH CORPUS CHRISTI Masses: Sunday-8:00,9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. and 12 Noon SaturdaY Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

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UNION CHAPEL Masses: Sunday-8:45 A.M. July and August OAK BLUFFS SACRED HEART Masses: Sunday-8:oo, 9:15, 10:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:15 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. ORLEANS ST. JOAN OF ARC Muses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:0,0 AM. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena-Wednesday Morning Mass at 8:00 A.M.

SAGAMORE ST. mERESA Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. SOUTH DARTMOUTH ST. MARY 'Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. & 7:30 P.M. Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M. Daily-7:oo A.M. Saturday only-8:00 A.M.

BASS RIVER OUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 11l:30 -A.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (July and Aug.) CHILMARK COMIWl)NnY CENTER Schedule begins June 29' Masses: Sunday-7:00 P.M. WAREHAM ST. PATRICK Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30. 10:00, 11:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 6:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. Exposition of _the Blessed Sacrament follows the 7:00 A.M. Mass and continues until 7:00 P.M. on 1st Friday.s Confessions: Yz hour before Masses Schedule for July and August WEST WAREHAM ST. ANTHONY Confessions: Yz hour before Mass Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Masses: Sunday-9:oo, 10:30 A.M. WELLFLEET OUR LADY OF LOURDES Masses: Sunday-8:oo, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve,.;-6:00 and 7:30 P.M. Daily-7:30, 9:00 A.M. TRURO SACRED HEART Masses: Saturday-7:00 P.M. NORTH TRURO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 A.M. Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M. WEST HARWICH HOLY TRlNnY Masses:, Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 noon Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. First Friday-Mass and Exposition 11:00 A.M. and Benediction 2:80 P.M. Confessions: Saturday 4:00 al1~ 7:45 P.M. DENNISPORT UPPER COUNTY ROAD OUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM. Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. Confessions: Saturday-3:45 P.M. WESTPORT ST. GEORGE Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30 A.M. Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M.

SOUTH YARMOUTH ST. PWS TENTH Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 AM. 5:00 P.M. Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-7:00 and 9:00 A.M. (9:00 A.M. Mass Mon.-Fri. only)

WOODS HOLE ST. JOSEPH Schedule from June 21-Sept. 1 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:00 AM. Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (~OO A.M. Sat. only) Confessions: Yz hour before Sunday Masses

VINEYARD HAVEN ST. AUGUSTINE Schedule begins June 14 Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:30 A.M. S.' ",rday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M. Daily-8:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.) Confessions: Saturday-2~30 - 3:30 P.M.

NORTH FALMOUTH (Megansett) IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Schedule from June 21-Sept. 1 Masses: Sundav-8:00, 9:30. 11 :00 ,A.M. Saturday Eve.-4: 15 and 5:30 P.M. Daily-9:00 A.M. Confessions: Yz -hour before Sunday Masses

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall

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Church Still Active in Vietnam PARIS (NC) - A French missionary bishop who was expelled

by South Vietn-am's communist conquerors reports that the Church is continuing its work under the new government.

BIshop .Paul Seitz of Kontum said in fl radio interview Aug. 18: "The Christian life continues in Vietnam. As I was expelled, a native Vietnamese bishop took charge of 'administering the diocese."

Bishop Seitz, 69, is a member of the ~aris Foreign Missions Society. He was bishop of Kontum 15 years.

The bishop recalled that the cqmmunist soldiers took Kontum without bloodshed. Many people fled, but they returned quickly after they were reassured that no harm would be done to them.

There was a"purse" of sorts, the bishop reported.

"Some peop'le went home, but others were sent to re-education 'camps. The idea was to create a new being, a new person, 'a new mentality.

"No one escaped, including four-year-old children. Everyone

from four to 100 years is organized into programs."

The bishop said that he and other French missioners enjoyed limited freedom under the new government.

"The &Chools have not yet been reopened, and they should be," he said.

He recalled that they had been "kept at home and not allowed to move around the diocese, but we were neither maltreated nor underfed.

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Father Drinan Responds To- Columnist's Charges

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ANTIIONY, MATTAPOISETT A five·hour First Friday vigil will be held in the church beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5.

On JJ.lne 30 I took serious issue in this column with a speech by Father Robert Drinan, S.J., a member of Congress, on the political role of the church(es) in the United States. I said that he had left the completely false impression that the U. S. Catholic Conference is concerned ex- present at my' talk, all of whom concurred in the repudiation by clusively with so-called in- Mr. Castelli and myself of any house or institutional mat- of the inferences drawn by your-

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will sponsor a fashion show Tuesday, Oct. 14, for which tickets are now available.

Speakers' Night expaining the Marriage Encounter program will take place at 8 p.m. Sunday night in the school hall. Refreshments will be served and admis· sion is free.

Teachers and clerical· workers are needed for the parish CeD program 'and may obtain further information from Sister Ramana, RSM, or Rev. Bruce Neylon.

School uniforms may be picked up at the school from 9:30 a.m. until noon tomorrow.

ters (e.g., school aid and tax exemption) and is totally unconcerned about socioeconomic problems. I further stated that,

self . " I did not in any way indulge, as your column reported, in a 'mean spirited criticism' of the US,CC. I think it is totally erroneous to say that I was guilty of 'crudely distorting' the work of the USCC. ' Iy "On the second point, you contend that I have received some MSGR. 15 letters from the USCC over the past several years. Gently GEORGE G. but clearly you accuse me of HIGGINS negligence for not answering 14 of the 15. I am sure that you un· derstand that any member of in my OpInIOn, he had crudely Congress receives literally hun· distorted USCC's legislative rec- dreds of letters a week from the ord in a very patronizing man- National Association of Manuner. facturers, Common Cause, AmerI have since received a frank icans for Democratic Action, but friendly letter from Father etc., etc. No reply is expected or Drinan saying, in summary, that even appropriate. Most commuI completely misinterpreted his nications, including those from speech. I think lowe it to Drinan the USCC, are not addressed to reprint here the substance of personally to me but are simply his letter. The substance of my mimeographed memos that go to reply, also in the form of a letter each member of Congress. which Father Drinan has already Grateful for Documents received, will be reprinted in the "I did not say in my address, next release of this column. as you contend, that I have been The pertinent paragraphs of ,contacted by the USCC only Father Drinan's letter read as upon matters of institutional in· follows: terest. Indeed the one very brief' 'Totally Contrary' . account of my talk and discus"I would think that Jim Cas- sion of well over one hour on telli, of the Natonal Catholic which you relied, expressly News Service, has vindicated me noted that I praised the testiin that he has set the record mony of Father Bryan Hehir on mentioned the U. S. Catholic ilmnesty. I undoubtedly identiConference in my talk to Net- fied him with the USCC and work.When I spoke of those\vho stated that his testimony was lobby for self·interest, I did it probably more influential than only in the context of criticizing any other witness in several those who proclaim that reli- days of hearings on amnesty. gious people should not inter"I was taken aback to think vene in politics while they them- that anything that I said would selves use the political process have the implications of 'im· for their own selfish interest. 'pugning the reputation' of the Jim Castelli concurs with me and staff of the U. S. Catholic Conhas so stated in a subsequent ar- ference. That would have been ticle that the constructIon placed psychologically and intellectually on the one sentence in his story impossible for me to have done. about this matter was totally !'Finally, I am not looking for contrary to the impression that I a 'scapegoat' nor am I so frus- , gave. trated with Congress that I have "Rick Casey, of the staff of a chip on my shoulder ... the National Catholic Reporter "I am grateful for ·the doc(NCR), has also written a story indicating his survey of the press uments you sent to me some months ago. I was familiar with virtually all of them since I have Consecrute Church a major addition to the CatholIc SPENCER (NC)-The church press ... Indeed I am regularly of St. Joseph's Trappist abbey in the practice of asking one of here was recently consecrated my colleagues to inset into the

by Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan Congressional Record the noteof Worcester to commemorate worthy statements of the U. S. the founding of the first Trap· Catholic Conference ... pist monastery in North Amer"Our paths have crossed all ica a century and a '!"~lf ago. The too infrequently since I have Spencer monastery, built ,in this been here in Washington. I would central Massachusetts farmland welcome the opportunity of in 1950 by the Order of the Cis- breaking bread with you and tercians of the Strict Observance, your colleagues at the usce...

With warm personal regards, known as the Trappists, is a continuation of that original I am Cordially yours, community called Petit Clairvaux founded in 1825 at TraRobert F. Drinan, cadie, Canada.

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MODERN MICHELANGELO? It may not be Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel, but the process is essentially the same. Like his Renaissance forerunner, this worker. must lie on scaffolding as he paints design outlines above him at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. The work is part of the renovation in the cathedral, the oldest one in the country.

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The Women's Guild will hold its first meeting of the Fall season at St. Margaret's Center on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.

Father Timothy Goldrick will be the guest speaker. His subject will be "The Blessing of the Elderly." vhe officers for 1975-76 are: Mrs. Rita Lopes, President; Mrs. Anna McCarthy" Vice President; Miss Ursula Wing, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Mary Hannon, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Mary Nicholson, Treasurer.

Catholic Charities Meeting in October CINCINNATI (NC) - Leaders ,in the Church's social service programs throughout the United States will meet in Cincinnati in October to assess their progress in "humanizing and transforming the social order."

Close to 2,000 delegates are expected at the 61st annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, Oct. 19-22, and the annual meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Oct. 16-20.

Arohbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will address a general session of ,~ Vincentians and the Catholic Charities delegates on Oct. 19. His subject will be: "Humanizing and Transforming the Social Order: A Search for 'Li~erty and Justice."

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO

Knights of the Altar will collect tor muscular dystrophy on Monday, Sept. 1, arid the cooperation of parishioners is requested.

Adults are needed in the Brownie, Girl Scout and Cub Scout programs of the parish.

Volunteers may contact the present leaders of these groups.

HOLY REDEEMER, CHATHAM Leonard L. Fougere, chairman of the Holy Redeemer Anniversary Committee, announced that ushers and hostesses had been named for the September 2 observance. The 20tb Anniversary of Holy Redeemer Parish and the Silver Jubilee· of Rev. John J. Brennan, SSCC, first pa,stor and clurrently returned to the Chatham chutch, are being cel· ebrated jointly.

Ushers, directed by'Mr. Fougere at the Concelebrated Mass in the Holy Redeemer Church on High1'and Avenue at 6 p.m., will include Charles R. Bladen, Wil· liarn F. Kelly, Charles J. McAllisterand Thomas M. Sparkes.

Immediately after the Mass, Father Brennan will greet parishioners in the church auditorium.

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I have a suggestion for the next pope. On the day he's elected he should announce that before the week is out he will ordain a group of women. That will settle one of the great non-issues of our time. Obviously women can be priests. Historically they have possessed the power of male-chauvinist ideology in the Catholic theological tradition. orders in the Diaconate and Nevertheless, there has also the power of Jurisdiction in been the opposite strain or womthe monastic communities. Until the last century, there were still a couple of places where an abbess was assigning pastors to

By REV. ANDREW M. GREELEY

parishes and giVing faculties to confessors within her territory.

If you can do what only a bishop can do, you certainly can rio what a priest can do.

Further, the ordination of women would enable us to steal a march on our Greek and Anglican brothers who are all tied up in knots on the issue. But we llught to be able to steal a march on them. Women have had more power within Catholicism than within any of the major world religions. They have more power than in any other denomination in America. They have more power thim in any other multinational corporation in th~ world.

Having given women' such power, it is utterly pointless to withhold from them the office of the priesthood.

Real Power By power.I mean power that counts - the power to sign checks. I defy you to find any organization in the world which has turned so much check-signing power over to women as the Catholic church has. How many high-school principals, hospital administrators, college presidents in the country are women? What proportion of them are Catholics?

Supposedly these women are subject to bishops and to the congregation of religious in Rome. Hence, it will be argued by feminist critics in the church, their power isn't real.

Have you ever tried to deal with a mother superior or a college president? Or a mother superior who was also a college president? Unreal power? Who are you trying to kid?

Undoubtedly, religious women have been ill-treated by bishops; so too have religious men. Undoubtedly, they have been oppressed by the all-male congregation of religious in Rome; so too have men. The whole system should be reformed. Men and women religious should have full power in the congregation of religions. Women should be bishops as well as priests. Unquestionably, there are some women路 hating men in positions of power in the church. So, too, as any young curate could tell you, are there some men-hating women.

There is a strong strain of

THE ANCHOR-Dioces路e of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 28,1975

Catholic League Chides Senators MILWAUKEE (NC) The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has chided two prominent U. S. senators who are Catholics for what it describes as their "morals-free philosophy" in opposing legislation prohibiting the use of federal welfare and Medicaid funds for abortion.

and Medicaid funds for abor- selves reject in the political tions. Both said, in effect, that arena? they oppose abortion personally "Or are their shock-reactions but did not wish to impose their to the revelations of CIA killviews on others, the league said. ings merely for the benefit of The league said, "Assuming their 'simple-minded' constit路 all Congressmen (Protestants, uents, earning them a high score Catholics and Jews) do likewise on the Washington Hypocrisy -put their personal moral val- Index?" ues in the deep freeze when they If Congress acts on a "moralsgo to Washington-then our law- free philosophy," the league armakers are without moral man- gued, it could "legalize the killdates or instruction in solving' ing of all people who do not the nation's problems." have a- 'meaningful life,''' such "If this is so," the league as unwanted children, the deasked, "Why then are congress- formed, crippled, mentally remen now lashing out at the CIA tarded, slow learners, or the (or committing acts that conflict elderly "who can no longer 'rewith moral values they them- llite rationally to other people.' "

In its July newsletter the en simply would not have acquired th~ power they have in league said the', positions on abortion of Sen. Edward F. Kenthe church. nedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. EdFeminists Tell Only One Side My point is that the 'Mary mund Muskie (D-Me.) seemed Daley's and the Rosie Reuther's equivocal. The league noted that only tell one side of the story; both senators have voted against and they'll get away with it until . the Bartlett Amendment to prothe sticky point of the ordination hibit the use of federal welfare of women is taken care of. After that, there will be no doubt at all that women have more power and authority in the Catholic Church than they do in any organization in the world.

But for most women striving to balance t~e con~licting demands and responsibilities of their lives, the ordination of women will be only an interesting symbol that doesn't much change the complexities of their own situation. Maybe after women are ordained, then theologians can turn their attention to the pastoral problems, of all those women (maybe 95 per \:ent) who are somewhere between "Total Woman" and "Beyond God the Father," between Maribelle Morgan and. Rosie (La Furiosa) Reuther.

One newcomer to the theological scene is beating them to the draw with a pastoral theology book called "Suburban Woman."

The author, Dr. Mary Durkin, combines a doctorate from the University of Chicago with a husband and seven very pushy children. The book doesn't leave much doubt that she knows what male chauvinism is, but that she doesn't hate men. More to the point, she argues that in the suburbs the enemies of richer and fuller lives for' women are not men but other women.

And you don't solve problems like that by using Ms. or by ordaining women. (Ms. Durkin labors under the very serious handicap of being relatej to certain notorious priest-sociologist; but then as Bill Buckley says, if he can't write good things about his brother the senator, who can? So, too, for my sister, the pastoral theologian-a The United States is phrase I say with as much pride as a Jewish mother would say, for people from every "my son the surgeon.")

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'Island of My Life' Story Of Unconventional Priest The reader of Father Roger Riou's autobiography, The Island of My Life, translated from the French by Martin Sokolinsky, (Delacorte Press, ,750 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. 300 pages. Illustrated. $8.95), finds himself wondering from time to time, "Can all of this be true?" No family brought him more sympathetic, and indeed truly loving, priest that I have ever treatment. known of, has had a career

Ordained at 30 At the age of 20, Roger was accepted as a seminarian by the Montfort Fathers. He was older than his classmates, the seminary regime was severe, and he had rebellious moments, even getting into a fist fight with a priest on Iy the faculty. .

He was in -his 30th year when RT. REV. he was ordained, in 1938, and his assignment was to Haiti. He had MSGR. no way of knowing at the time, JOHN S. but this assignment was to 'Iast for more than 30 years. He was KENNEDY arrested (again!) and expelled from Haiti in 1969. Why? Because he did too much good for father was a ship's cook, and his the Haitians. mother did many kinds of menial' Most of his time in Haiti was work. She was the elder Riou's spent on the island of Tortuga, second wife and there were two off the northwest coast. Ex·children by the first, both of tremely beautiful when seen whom came to bad ends. from the sea, l:ortuga proved to The family was extremely be the refuse heap of Haiti. poor and lived in wretched slums, "That's where they sent all the in an atmosphere of crime and hopeless cases to get rid of them. corruption. Young Roger never The lunatics, the 'Syphilitics, lep· went to church, never saw a ers, the tuberculosis cases. The priest, had no idea of God. Be- Tortugans' faces were eaten cause of his father's' drunken- ,away with the horrible so~es ness and violence, Roger's moth- of yaws." er took the boy away from LeFather Riouwas the only Havre, -in search of a better ex- priest 'on Tortuga. At the begin· istence. It never eventuated. ning, he was unbearably lonely.

After a per·iod ·of destitution The priest's house was a hovel, and anguish in Marseilles, they practically without furnishings. returned to Le Havre. Roger had He found there were· no dishes, a series of jobs, and for awhile no provisions, no sheets. "A attended night school, where for chipped cup and a teaspoon the first time he became ac- were all that remained." quainted with books.

Civil Servant Arrested for Crime The people in their misery beHis mother was stricken with • sought him for help-for food, tuberculosis and died. Roger fell for relief from pain. All he had in with a burglary gang and be- was 18 dollars a month. And came a pimp-this at the age of that was provided by the gov16. He was arrested for stealing, ernment. The priest was, in efwas held for trial in a hellish fect, a civil servant, and any jail, and finally, because of his contributions which he might age, was remanded to custody receive had to be handed over instead of being sent to prison. to the government.

This meant that he was put in Father Riou decided that he the care of the Children's Protec- could not be content with trying tion Society in Lille and had to to preach the word of God to live in a reform school which people in such an abysmal state. was supposed to be homelike Something had to be done to imbut actually wasn't. prove conditions. His f.irst effort There he met a lawyer, who was in tending their illness. later became a priest, Robert His work along these lines imStahl, a kind of supervisor of 'the proved dramatically when an institution. Stahl trusted Roger American doctor supplied him and the other inmates. with some penicillin and quinine.

The inmates were expected to The penicillin brought about reattend Mass on Sunday, an ex- markable changes. Father Riou perience entirely new to Roger. determined to introduce more of There was religious ·instruction the wonders of modern medicine by an especially skillful teacher. to Tortuga,and set about begRoger learned, like what he gin'g, especially during a home learned, began to pray, and was leave in France. taken in charge by a young With the yield of this and priest - who facilitated his spir- later appeals, he bum, and kept itual development.

• . enlarging, a hospital of sorts.

He was put out to live and Two Swiss young women, memwork for a family which consid- bers of a lay institute, came to ered itself remarkably pious and Tortuga to do nursing. At differvirtuous, but which treated him ent times, a doctor or an engiharshly and ridiculed him when neer would volunteer for a term he expressed the desire to become of service. a priest. A transfer to another Father Riou tackled the probeven remotely as strange as the author's.

He was born in LeHavre, in northern France, in 1909. His

FRENCH AND GERMAN CARDINALS AT TAlZE: Prior Roger Schutz of the ecumenical community of Taize, France, walks with Cardinals Julius Doepfner of Munich and Francois Marty of Paris at a Day of the People of God in Taize. The gathering attracted some 5,000 young people and adults. NC Photo lem of education, establishing a school. He saw to the construction of a dock, of a water supply system, of other novelties to the island. \ He even' had some success in combatting voodoo, which had held the islanders in its evil grip. ~he witch doctors were his enemies, a'lthough a couple of them, when mortally ill, came to his hospital. The real secrets of voodoo, he says, have never been penetrated by an outsider, but he gives a chilling account of -its baleful influence on the people.

Papa Doc When Papa Doc Duvalier came to power in TaW,' Father Riou had some hope that the new president would work for the betterment of the Haitian people. But the very reverse was soon evident. Things were far worse under Duvalier than ever before . The people were ground down further, terrorism reigned, voodoo was exploited still more ruthlessly, and the Duvalier gang enriched themselves.

What Father Riou continued to achieve on Tortuga, was a patent reproach to Haiti's selfaggrandizing rulers. Besides, the priest never gave them any of the money which he collected from abroad for his works of !TIercy. This was the crowning and unpardonable offense.

Hence his arrest and deportaNon. He was allowed to go back briefly in order to turn over his projects to a Haitian priest. But the Roger Riou Foundation now funds similar endeavors in Madagascar and New Guinea.

Father Riou is an unconventional priest, and his fascinating story bluntly, and sometimes a bit swaggeringly told, is unique both in its contents and in the spell (not voodoo) which it casts on the reader.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 28, 1975

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KNOW YOUR FAITH A Living Parish 'Involvement of every parishioner in the life of St. John's parish, Clay, New York is the goal which the pastor, Father James O'Connell, and the community leaders uphold for its 900 families. They call this atti-

By FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN

tude or approval "volunteerism" and on Volunteer Sunday each September distribute forms which afford people an occasion to review their past participation in the Church's activities and offer their services for the coming year.

Novel Parish The impact of that philosophy can be seen in the following

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projects or procedures at St. John's: The parish council consi9ts of the clergy, trustees, chairpersons of 10 standing committees, and 10 elected at-large members.

Most of the practical discussions are made by the various committees with the council, which meets every other month, nor· mally limiting itself to longrange plans and policies for the parish.

Upkeep of the facilities is accomplised not by the customary custodian, but through the men's maintenance committee. These men ,work Saturday mornings according to a rotating schedule approximCitely every eight weeks from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. The money saved as a result of this volunteerism has enabled the parish to hire a full-time music director and liturgist, Miss Phyl~ lis Brandoin.

Miss Brandoin, who has been trained in organ, piano and guitar, guides the liturgical and Turn to Page Fourteen

Love

By MARIE McINTYRE One of the saddest themes of literature - and unfortunately very common - is that of disappointment in love. A person gives and does. not receive in return. This is painful and probably most of us have had such experiences in one form or another. Disappointment in love is part of the human scene.

When a person loves, he or she is in the act of giving. Love means self-giving. When a person offers love and it is refused or spurned, the giver cannot share his or her gifts.

Jesus must have been terribly bothered by being unrequited in His love tha't He offered people.

Listen to His cry of frustration and pain recorded by Matt. in 24:37: "Jeru9alem, Jerusalem, how often would ,I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you would not!"

Peter's denial and the agony in the garden are just two among many other examples of how Jesus felt the pain of unreturned love.

Barriers to Love Today, those of us living on the North American continent are made more and more aware of the "no-return" responses people receive from other people. Elderly parents are forgotten and left to die in institutions serviced by strangers, poverty-plagued poor lack political and economic power to obtain justice and equal rights, men and women work like machines on assembly lines where profit is more important than people. These are just a few of the struotures that exist and keep us from experiencing the give and take of genuine love.

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Perhaps a key problem is that we've not reflected on the r,eal objects of our love in proper or· der: 1) self; 2) others; 3) God. Many of us grew up thinking or being falsely taught that we have to love God and hate self. It doesn'.t work that way.

If love is total acceptance, the first to be loved properly must be ourselves. If we are here because God put us here and called us to be His, we are loved. If we are loved by God, we are certainly reasonable to love what God loves. Loving ourselves means a gratitud~ for who we are and how we are but also a desire to complete ourselves by striving to fulfill our potential and grow to the matudiy that gives glory to God. Jesus specifically came to help us do this: "I come that they may have life and live it to the full." (John 10:10).

Love of Self Once we can truly accept and love ourselves, we can turn to others. (Neurotic. and selfish people who are full of self-hates and self-doubts are so turned in on themselves in a non-love way, that they cannot turn toward a neighbor with openness and warm acceptance.) When we have the fundamental security of loving ourselves as weare while striving ,to become better - we can then take the risk of loving others. The very mystery of love is that it has to share, so relationships involving acceptance and being accepted are necessary for balance and integrity and completion.

Once we under9tand and experience what it is to love and be loved by another human being, we begin to fathom the mysTum to Page Fourteen

By SISTER PATRICIA MURPHY O.L.V.M. All of us carry inside us dark chasms, black holes which no one and no thing can fill. It isn't that people don't hear us calling out to be filled, or that they don"t try to pour their love and understanding Uke ointment into the gaps. It is simply that wounds heal from the inside out.

The sense of incompleteness that Saint Augustine felt when he cried: "Our hearts are rest· less until they rest in Thee" is our incompleteness too. We are only too aware of the chasm between what we are and what we would like to be. We find it hard to forgive ourselves for being less than we have expected. We have learned far too well how to say: "0 Lord I am not worthy." Just a little too quickly we hear from the world a resounding "Amen!"

In our reaching for people and things to fi1l our inner chasms we discover only new inadequacies. In our moments of inner awareness we come to know that only little by little, and aoJways quite from within ourselves, .the gap becomes less threatening, and we begin to feel healed - reconciled with our being.

Man Handicapped Leo Beureman is 'a man whose limitations are far more obvious than most of ours. At 60 years of age he stands about four feet tall. His small mis-shapen body has been trained over the years to accomplish a few survival functions. His wizened face carries ,the traces of years of effort but hides his sharp mind and glowing soul. The film, named ·after him, lets us in on Leo's 'growing years. The excitements and mishaps normal to a growing boy frightened Leo's mother 'into providing for this special and handicapped boy a secure, protective, but confining environment.

How many times in his growing years must Leo have measured the gap between the strength of his spirit, and the severe limitations of his deformed body? How often did he feel like turning away from what he saw: a caricature of a man?

How many times must he have asked himself to be more than he could be 'and been hurt and angry because so Httle could be changed? And how many inner confrontations and moments of redemption must have occured before he could forgive his mother, teachers, others - but even more himself? That he did accomplish this we discover in the film. In Leo we meet a person - 'a real man - one who needs and wants others, not to fill the gaps in his psyche, but to share the fire in his soul, the warmth of his love, and the endurance he has won so dearly.

His hand is held out not in an imprisoning grasp, but in the ·gesture of friendliness, and good

DARK CHASM: "All of us carry inside us dark chasms, black holes which no one and no thing can fill." Descending as if into himself deeper and deeper, a young man walks the stair~ at the Pilgrim Mom:tment, Provincetown, Mass. NC Photo business. Yes, business - for Leo has found a way to provide "for himself, and he useful to others. He has made himself adept at repairing. watches, and he knows that sooner or later everyone needs a pen or a pencil.

Man at Peace People passing Leo's "store" find it hard to return that handshake - to look into the disfigured face. They take great pains to avoid the encounter. Leo's limitations are so embarrassingly obvious,and there' is so little one can do to heaI him. . . But Leo does not need their kind of healing. He knows his own worth!

He has reconciled his limitations 'and forgiven himself for what he cannot be. He is at peace with what he can be.

One of Leo's great ambitions is to help other people "less fortunate" ,than himself. He is not aware that his very living his faith, his inner awareness shining in his being, his ability to live fully the gifts he has, is his contribution to those "less fortunate"than he! We aH of us are in that category from time to time. He is' reconciled, healed, and in so being is a healer and a Teconciler for anyone who allows themselves to be touched by his story.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thur. Aug. 28, 1975

Deacon Helps Mexican Teens Re-Discover Religious Custom PONTIAC (NC)-Helping teenagers find themselves is a difficult task, but trying to help them find their ethnic heritage too can . be twice the trouble.

Deacon Pablo Dominguez is trying to deepen and renew .the spirituality of an ancient Mexican custom that can help the teen-agers of St. Vincent de Paul's parish here do both things.

"Quinceanera" is a Mexican tradition that initiates a 15-year· old girl into the rights and responsibilities of womanhood.

"Quinceanera" .comes from the Spanish word "quince," which means 15.. The custom may have begun as an effort on the part of the Spanish conquistadors to adapt an Indian religious custom to Christian rites.

But through the years the religious aspects of the feast have been weakened by families who shift the importance from its spiritual meaning to the material things a girl receives.

"In many cases the parties, new dresses and gifts become the most important things to a girl and her family," Deacon Domin-

guez said. "They would be in church thinking about what was going to happen later on at home."

Last year Deacon Dominguez organized activities to prepare teen-agers who wanted to celebrate a Quinceanera. He saw the deepened conviction and responsibility a boy could gain from' such a program, and included them as well. Previously, it was an honor for a boy to be asked to escort a girl during her Quinceanera.

For eight weeks, a group of about 25 teen-agers gathered to· gether to discuss such topics as work, religion and the discovery of people. They also went on a weekend retreat to study the topics they had discussed during the' weekly meetings.

"We found out so much about people we thought we ·knew be· fore," said Mario Mendoza, a partij::ipant in the retreat.

"I get involved in different things and activities now," he said, testifying that the program made him aware of his responsi· bilities.

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A Living Parish Continued from Page Thirteen paraliturgical programs at St. John's. The p"I)lished Mass schedule indicates the variety of styles which the staff, under her direction, provides for worshipers.

5:00 p.m. Saturday - Folk Mass.

8:00 a.m. Sunday - Quiet and Tranquil.

10:00 a.m. Sunday - The principal'Mass - Organ Prelude and Postlude - Congregational singing - Senior choir.

12:00 Noon Sunday - Organ Prelude and Postlude - Congregational singing.

51. John's has been experimenting recently with a series of monthly communal Penance services at different hours. The attendance has been good, ranging from 70·300, but they have not determined the optimum hour for that Rite or even if there is one.

This summer the parish conducted a five-day house-tohouse, doorbell ringing, censustaking apostolate to the 2,400 residences of the area.

Father O'Connell involved 300 persons - two co-chairpersons, .} 0 diyision or district leaders, 50 ,team captains and 200 committee menWers. All of these received censu:> ,kits and appropriate instructions at a session directed by the pastor ,and held for their

convenience in the morning, afternoon or evening.

Parishioners had been prepared for the visitation by two explana· 10ry homilies. Others in the community were, I presume, aware of the project through word of mouth and publicity via the 10cal mass media. .

The visitors distributed several items at homes with Catholic residents.

A census form 10 be filled out, sealed in an envelope and returned to F!ather O'Connelll for opening.

A flier on the why of Sunday Mass prepared originally in London, Ontario, Canada .and adapted by our own dioces'an liturgical commission.

A booklet outlining the vari· ous committees and activilties of St. John's..

A letter from the pastor men· tioning the Holy Year of Reconciliation and urging persons who feel alienated from the Church Ihrough bad past experiences or by particularly difficult present situations to contact the .staff at St. John's for assistance.

The tone of Ithis letter 'and the approach of the visitors was intended to be warm and positive, encouraging people to become part of the believing, loving Christian community which St. John's is or at least hopes 10 become.

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Continued from Page Thirteen terious and magnanimous gifting of God's love for us. As we experience and reflect on God's gifts to us, His love acts coming to us in so many ways, we find ourselves relating in a personal

our lives (Spirit): As our relationship to our Triune God deepens in love and trust and faith, our transformation occurs for we begin to become more and more like those we love. This is salvation.

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French Sister Plays Leading Role

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of tim~ for prayer, writing to relatives and nuns in France, anq mending clothes for the girls in the school. A dear friend, Jesuit Father Peter Verhaegen, pastor of the parish, gave her Viaticum on Nov. 18, 1852. In the funeral sermon two days later he spoke of her sanctity.

Mother Philippine Duchesne had seen Missouri grow from a frontier territory into the largest state of the West. The editors of the "Dictionary of American Biography" recognized her contribution to the building of the state and nation, one of the few women of her time in the transMississippi region so honored.

The Church beatified her in 1940.

Philippine Duchesene had an unusual kind of man trouble on her arrival in the American Midwest. She had to deal with two zealous but unpredictable clergymen: Bishop Louis W. V. Du- ' bourg of New Orleans who had invited her to America; and Jesuit Superior Charles Felix Van Quickenborne, her reluctant spiritual director. Those total1y different personalities played a significant role in the life Mother Duchesne faced setting up the first convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart outside of France and the first f.ree school west of the Mississippi.

A colonial aristocrat educated in France, Bishop Dubourg felt Suggested reading: "Philippine more at home dining with PresDuchesne-Frontier Missionary ident Washington than running a of the Sacred Heart," by Mother frontier diocese. Rugged Father Louise Callan (Westminster, Van Quickenborne found his Md., Newman Press, 1957). place riding the mission trails or moving up the wild Missouri. A (Father Faherty, professor of flamboyant promoter Bishop Du-ARRIVAL ON mE MISSISSIPPI: An artist depicts Bishop Louis Dubourg of New history at St. Louis University, bourg could enlist many mission- Orleans greeting Mother Philippine Duchesne and her companions from France. Escorted has written 10 books, including aries for the new world but never to think how they would by Captain Reed of the Steamboat Franklin they are seen arriving at their new mission "Dream >By the River," a history of the St. Louis archdiocese.) feed, house or clothe themselves. along the Mississjppi.

The more practical Father Van Quickenborne ,took up his axe France. Against her father's went hack to Florissant and enShe lived in an Indian hut all New Superior and led his Jesuit novices into wishes, she decided to become a gaged in a variety of charitable summer. A log house was ready ROME (NC)-The Oblates of nun-missionary and joined the activities. the forests to build their own log by winter, but it was crude, with St. Joseph, meeting here recently Visitandines in Grenoble at the cabin novitiate. no fireplace and only a ladder Work with Indians for their order's 10th general I to sleeping quarters in the loft.

Bhhop Dubourg had promised age of 19. chapter, elected Father Severino A decade after her return to . She visited the sick and elderly In the French Revolution the Mother 'Duchesne that the nuns Dalmaso as their new superior Florissant, Father Pierre Jean De could begin a school in St. Louis, government closed the convents. Smet, whom she had befriended and responded with a smile general. Father Dalmaso, 50, is the future metropolis of ,the Mid- Eventually the Reign of Terror as a Jesuit novice in Florissant when tbe children greeted her, a native of Trent, Italy. He has west, but sent her to the then ended, and Philip'Jine went back years earlier, needed nuns to since she had lintle facility with served .as vicar general of the thriving hut evenual1y quiet to Grenoble with several other teach Indians fur.ther west. the Indian language. After one order for the past several years. town of St. Charles on the Mis- nuns to work among the poor Mother Duchesne, then 70, was year in Kansas, superiors re- The Oblates of St. Joseph were souri, 20 miles west-northwest of and tbe orphaned. When her weak. But she had dreamed of called her to St. Charles. founded in 1878 by Bishop Joseph St. Louis. He had promised that group could not reopen the old working among the Indians. Now Even during her busiest years Morello of Acqui, Italy. They the Jesuit superior would serve Visitation convent, they joined a the chance came, and she left for prayer had consumed much of number 400 priests and Brothers, as the nuns' spiritual director, new congregation, the Religious Kansas. her time. Now she had plenty 75 of them in the United States. hut he neglected to notify Father of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, Van QUickenborne, who gave after 11 years in Grenoble and Mother Duchesne little support three in Paris, Philippine heard Marriages Declined, Bishop Dubourg speak of the in her difficult work.

American West, and soon she Divorces Increases Philippine had been born in had her superior's permission to We're not exactly WAS1UNGTON (NC) - MarAugust 1769, the daughter of a 'sail for America with several riages in the United States are prosperous, progressive' and nuns in her charge. pin ball wizardf, but we're dec'iining 'and divorces are in· prominent lawyer in Grenoble, creasing, according to a report Although several prominent fure racking up a lot 01 pointf French families wanted her to on changes in ,family life issued 'by the Commerce Department's open a school for girls in St. with many, many grateful Louis, Bishop Dubourg sent her hureau of the census'. to the village of St. Charles on The report estimated there In-CLOVER Account uferf/ the Missouri. The school barely were 2,233,000 marriages lin the lasted through the first hard United States for the year end· ::/ // winter. The following year, the ing August 1974, a dec\iine of ~\r. / nuns moved across the Missouri 68,000 from the previous ·year.

1\ ~~ ~~ c.... y . . to a farming community cal1ed Y.. _ In the same period, divorces ...~~\~ ~\I~~ Florissant. Four years later two tJl.. ~~~'j., . ............ ,,/ Q.~~ Jesuit priests and seven semina- increased by an estimated 56,000 rians opened a combined Indian to 948,000, according to the reo ///\",,,, school and Jesuit seminary three por,t. miles from the village. Sisters of The depa,rtment report also the Indian boys at the Jesuit said 40 per cent of all women school attended the nuns' school. ,between 20 and 24 years of age . As several American-born girls are single compared to only 23 joined Mother Philippine's grow- per cent of this age group who m-m96 ing hand of nuns, she opened were s.ingle in 1960. four convents and two schools in west central Louisiana. Supported hy the prosperous Frenchspeaking plantation owners, Th.e Television King ,these schools succeeded in the bayou area, while the Florissant foundation barely staggered & along.

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