09.14.72

Establishes Three Episcopal Vicars

l To CreatelWhole New Thrust To give a "whole new thrust" to his administration as Ordinary of the Diocese of Fall River, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., has appointed three diocesan priests as Episcopal Vicars; each responsible to him for a third of the diocese. l'he vi~rs-designate are: Re\.

Msgr. Alfred J. Gendreau, pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Fall River, Episcopal Vicar for Fall River-New Bedford; Very Rev.Henry T. Munroe, pastor of St. John Evangelist Parish, Attleboro, Episcopal Vicar,for Attleboro-Taunton; Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, pastor of St. Patrick An Anchor 01 the Soul, Sure and Flrm-St,. Paul _ Parish, Wareham, Episcopal Vicar for the Cape and the Islands.

"These appointments," the Most Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 14, 1972 Reverend Bishop stated, "will be made provisionally for a two PRICE 10~ year period. The main thing is: Vol. 16, No. 37 Š 1972 The Anchor $4.00 p.r year this is the beginning now of a whole new thrust. I want to give new direction to my administration and I want to. do it in such a way that we will have a positive outgoing, progressive -if you want to use the wordThe closing session of the an- of their responsibility to arrange increase in the spiritual life of nual priests' retreat at Cathedral confession schedules, baptismal the souls committed to our care.

Camp was the occasion for a ceremonies, and similar parish "This is being done, therefore, special address to all the clergy services at times and occasions to help, to favor and to increase of the Diocese by His Excellency, convenient for the people. He' the spiritual care given to the the Most Reverend Daniel A. urged the priests t~ be available souls of our diocese; also, to Cronin. Bishop Cronin's remarks in rectories for counseling and assist the priests in that work. It were of a pastoral nature, meant guiding persons in their care. has been done in other dioceses to encourage priests engaged in He ca'lled upon the clergy to enparochial work in their service courage vocations. Many aspects of parish accounting procedures and dedication to the faithful.

Particular emphasis wa's given 'and fiscal administratIon were to making the opportunities touched upon in the course of for sacramental administrations Bishop Cronin's remarks.

The Bishop discussed efforts readily available to parishioners.

Most Reverend James J. GerBishop Cronin reminded priests to be undertaken to better coor- rard, Auxiliary Bishop -of Fall dinate the teaching office, both' River and Titular Bishop of Forin Catholic 'schools and in cate- ma, has resigned from the paschetical classes. Calling for torate of St. Lawrence Parish, sound and solid doctrinal instruc- New Bedford. tion, His Excellency announced Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, that initial steps are in process S.T.D., ~ishop of Fall River, at fora program of continuing eduthe end of the Priests' Retreat Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, cation for clergy and adult laity announced his acceptance of S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, in the Diocese.

Bishop Gerrard's resignation: In order to proVTide improved announced the appointment of "Oil June 9 of this year," Turn 'to Page Five Rev. James F. Kenney, secretary Bishop Cronin explained, "Bishof the Dio'cesan Office for Adop Gerrard reached the age of ministration and Finance, as pas75 years. And on that very day, tor of St. Louis Parish, Fall River he wrote me a letter' submitting to succeed Rev. William R. Jorhis resignation as pastor of St. dan, who died August 22.

Lawrence Parish. All this .is a Father K~mney will retain his ,further manifestation of the present assignment as secretary character of an extraordinary A special 3 P.M. Celebration Turn to Page Two of the Eucharist with Most Rev- churchman, that even though erend Daniel A. Cronin, D.D., dignified with the character of Bishop of Fall River, serving as a bishop, he did not attempt to principal concelebrant, will be assume any particular privilege held this Sunday (September 17) in regard to diocesan practice, at La Salette, Attleboro; to ob- and he submitted his resignation. serve the Feast of Our Lady of "I have prayed over the matLa Salette. ter and have informed Bishop In preparation for Sunday, a Gerrard that I want him to consolemn triduum will be held tinue as Auxiliary Bishop and as starting today. The triduum con- my Vicar' General and I will sists of a Concelebrated Mass value greatly his help 'and contoday, Friday and Saturday eye- stant' advice. nings at 7:30. A triduum is three "However, I am accepting his days of prayer in preparation for resignation as pastor of St. a special Catholic feast using the Lawrence Church." feast's theme.

The Diocesan Ordinary praised On September 19, 1846, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the Auxiliary Bishop, saying: two peasant children in La Sal- "No one in this diocese has done ette, France, told them of her more for the clergy of the dioconcern over sin, and issued a cese, for the welfare of the diocall for the return to the Chris- cese, ,than the Bishop ... who deserved a tremendous vote of tian way of life. thanks: Turn to Page Two FATHER KENNEY

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Bishop Addresses, Priests At Retreat Conclus,ion

with great success; we'll try it same authority which the Comhere. I am sure that also here mon Law accords to Vicars- Genwe will be able to reap the eral," the document pointed out, fruit that has been known to "but only for a certain part of the diocese, or for a determined exist in other dioceses.

"In any event, it is a concept type of transaction, or for the generated by the Second Vatican faithful in a determined rite."

Council and we are happy to In 1966, Pope Paul VI issued implement it in this diocese. norms implementing' several "The canonical implications of Council documents in which the these vicariates," the Bishop new office of Episcopal Vicar went on, "and the duties of the was defined in terms of funcEpiscopal Vicars who will pre- tion: side over them will be promul"The new office of Episcopal gated in due course.

Vicar has been established in the "I intend to meet regularly law by the Council so that the with the Vicars,-General and the Bishop, strengthened by collabEpiscopal Vicars .and thus ad- orators, can exercise the pastoral minister the diocese as Bishop government of the diocese more with even greater solicitude for effectively. It is left to the dethe local needs of the parishes. cision of the Bishop of the dioIt will also envision vicariate cese to appoint freely one or conferences for the clergy; it more Episcopal Vicars according will envision hopefully CCD or- to special local needs.:' ganization on a vicariate level; Msgr. Gendreau it will also be the charge of the Bor:l Jan. 9. 1911, Rev. Msgr. vicar to have particular soliciAlfred J. Gendreau is the son tude for the religious men in of the late Napoleon A. and the his vicariate."

In the decree on the Pastoral late Marguerite (Cote) Gendreau.

Office of Bishops in the Church- He was ordained to the priest"Christus Dominus"-the Second hood by Most Rev. James E. Vatican Council suggested that, Cassidy, on June 15, 1~35.

From 1935 to 1954 he taught with the Vicar General, one or more Episcopal Vicars could be in seminaries with the Sulpician named by the local Ordinary to Fathers in Baltimore, Seattle and assist him in governing his dio- Detroit, and spent three years with the U.S. Army Chaplain cese.

"These automatically enjoy the Turn to Page Two o

Bishop Gerrard Resigns Pastorate

Ordinary Names Father Kenney To St. Louis'

"He will reside at the Memorial Home in very comfortable quarters befitting his state and he will be a source of encourage1llent 'and continued consolation to me. He will certainly be available for the ,greater duties that we hope to ask him to undertake by way of particU'lar forms of advice and he will be available to priests."

Almost all of the priests of the diocese had met at Cathedral

Camp for the closing ceremonies of the retreat and they gave Bishop Gerrard a prolonged standing ovation.

-Bishop Gerrard was born in New Bedford on June 9, 1897, the son of the late William and Elizabeth (Livesey) Gerrard. After elementary education in St. James' Parish School (St. Mary's), he studied and graduated from Holy Family High Turn to Page Six

LaSalette Feast This Sunday In Attleboro

BISHOP CRONIN AND BISHOP GERRARD

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Father Kenney, Continued froin Page One of the Diocesan Office for Ad· ministration and Finance.

The son of the late James Kenney and the late Harriet Korzeneski Kenney was born Jan. 19, 1918 in Fal1 River. Fol: lowing, graduatiory from B.M.C. Durfee High Sch06i in Fal1 River, he pursued his Classioal education at Providence' Col1ege.

On completing philosophical and theological studies at St., Bernard's Seminary, Roohester, N. Y. and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, he was ordained on June 5, 1943 ,in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fal1 River by the late Bishop Cassidy. ful1ow.ing ordination Father Kenney was assigned to St. Mary's Cathedral and in 1944 started a three year assign· ment -at St. Louis Parish, Fal1 River. 'In ·1947 he returned to St. Mary's Cathedral where he served as an assistant for ten years and in 1957' was trans-, ferred to Holy Family Parish, East Taunto.n.

First Pastorate On May 31, 1966, he was named pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Osterville.

On July 2, 1969, the new pastor of St. l.ouis Pal'ish became pastor of St. Mary's, No. Attleboro.

On March 3, 1971 Father Ken· ney resigned his pastoral posi· tion in -order to serve as secretary of the Diocesan Office for Administration and Finance.

Father Kenney was CYO Di· rector and Scout Chaplain for the Fal1 River Area from' 1945 to 1951 'and for the next six years served ,as Diocesan CYO Director and Scout Chaplain.

On ,Bee. 4, 1968, he was named a Judge in the Matri· monia'! Tribunal. <

Honor Maryknollers For Radio P,oject COCHABAMBA (NC)-Radio San Rafael, operated by Mary· knol1 Fathers from the United States, has received a medal of merit from the Voke of America for its education and information work among Andean Indians.

'0' The Voice of America is cele· brating its 30th ahniversary as an information 'agency of the United States government.

Most· Indians living in remote areas now own transistor radios which allow' them to listen to Radio San Rafael and two other broadcasting stations run by the l\1aryknollers. The radio stations broadcast Voice of America programs in 'addition to educational programs in agriculture, nutrition, health, literacy and reli· gion.

Necrology SEPT. 24 Rev. Joseph E. C. Bourque, 1955, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fal1 River.

SEPT. 26 Rev. John J. Donahue, 1944, Assistant, St. William, Fal1 River. .'

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Continued from Page One The Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette were founded five years after the apparation in or· der to communicate Mary's message of, reconciliation to the people of the world.

The triduum and Sunday Masses will be held 'at La Salette's grotto altar. The grotto is a replica of the mountainside location where Mary appeared.

A homily based on a La Salette theme will be presented at each of the Triduum Masses.

Tonight Rev. Alphonse Dutil, M.S., former superior general of the La Salette Missionary Order, will present a homily on "Born of Her Tears."

On Friday, Rev. George Morin, MSGR. STANTON M.S., will talk on "We are children of. reconciliation." Father Morin is pastor of Our Lady of the Cape Parish, East Brewster, and once served as superior and Msgr. Stanton-' shrine director in Attleboro.

The son of the late Daniel A. R~v~ Rene Sauve, M.S., will and the late DorOthy (Lynch) . speak on "Gathered as a family Stanton, Rev. Msgr. Robert L. to celebrate the Lord" on SaturStanton was born ,in Taunton on day evening. Father Sauve, trea,s, Sept. 10, 1917. He was ordained urer of La Salette's Immaculate to the priesthood by Most Rev. Heart of Mary Province, is the James E. Cassidy on Nov. 27, founder and first superior-direc· 1943. tor of La Salette, AttleborO: He has served ~t St. Mary . A candlelight procession from Parish, No. Attleboro; Immacu- the altar to the top of the grotto late Conception Parish in Fall will be held following each of the River before being named as triduum Masses.

Rector of the Cathedral. In· SepBishop Cronin will deliver the tember 1971, he was named pas· homily on Sunday. Apprpximate-' tor of St. Patrick Parish, Warely 50 members of the Province, ham. including the shrine staff, are The Monsignor also served as expected to concelebfllte with Chaplain in the U.S. Navy and Bishop Cronin. was named a Domestic ]Prelate The Cathedral Choristers of on July 20, 1967.

St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, will present a c.oncert of liturgical music at the grOtto, starting at .2:30 and will· provide music during the solemn celebration. white parents toenrol1 their The group will be directed by children in private schools. The Rev. William Campbell. ultimate result will be the de· Groups from various areas of velopment of two school sys- New England are expected to tems: a .public system predom- attend Sunday's observance. . inantly nonwhite, poor"and inad· A special multi-media display equate and a private system pre- depicting the apparation is on dominantly white, affluent, and exhibit in the. Shrine's Chapel superior." building throughout the month of September. ' Boston Situation Confessions are heard at La On questioning, Ennis agreed Salette on weekdays from 12·1 that making the tl4C credit re- P.M., 2-3, 4·5, and 6:30-7:25 on fundable, or payable to parents Saturdays from 12-5 P.M. and who owe no income tax would from 6·7:25 P.M.; and on Sun, make it more a<:ceptable to the days from 12 Noon to 5 P.M. ACLU insofar as that would alMasses are held on weekdays low poor parents to,take advan- and Saturdays at 9 A.M., 12:10 tage of the opportunity to send P.M. and 7:30 P.M. their children to nonpublic schools. But he said thaI: that Cardinal to p'reside provision would not' remove the ACLU's objection to the bill as At Fatima Rites.

FATIMA (NC) - Hungarian unconstitutional.

Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, now Rep. James A. Burke, D-Mass., -living in exile in Vienna, has acheatedly took Ennis I to task for cepted an invitation to preside offering .\~'no other solution than at the Oct. 13 pilgrimage comto dump' the problem Oil the memora~ing the 55th anniversary . taxpayer." Burke said that of Our 'Lady's final apparition 42,000 <:hildren attend nbnpublic here at the famed Marian shrine. s<:hools in Boston and the pub· The 80-year-old cardinal, who lic ,schools there- are so finan- ended 15 years of asylum in the cially hardpressed that thev face . U. S. embassy in Budapest last closing in November: Afte;~ fail- september, expressed the wish ing to obtain from Ennis any last December to visit Fatima to suggestion as to the way the pray for Hungarians dispersed Boston public schools could ac- throughout the world. commodate an additional 4:2,000 students in the next' two years, Burke thanked him for "te:. and sympathy."

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Bishop Establishes Three' Vicariate~5 Continued from Page One Corps in the European Theatre of Operations.

In 1954, Monsignor Gendreau returned to the Diocese of Fal1 River -where he has served as Assistant Pastor at· St. Mary's Cathedral; administrator of St. Peter Parish, Dighton; pastor of Blessed Sacrament and Notre Dame Parishes in Fall River and St. Jacques Parish in'Taunton.

He has also served as Vicar for Religious; Pro·Syndol Judge; Secretary of the Board for E:lS.~ aminers of the Clergy; Member of the Diocesan Commission for Divine Worship.

In 1964, the Fall River pastor, who is also a Doctor of Theol-

cgy, was named a Domestic Prelate with the title of "Monsignor."

Fr. Munroe Very Rev Henry T. Munroe was born in Fal1 River on Nov. 21, 1928, the son of Kathryn (Burns) and the late Henry T. Munroe. He was ordained a priest by Most Rev. James L. Connolly on Nov. 30, 1953.

After 19 years as assistant pas· tor at Holy Name I>arish in New Bedford, he assumed the pastorate of St. John the Evangelist.

Parish, Attleboro, on June 1, 1972. .

Officialis for the Diocesan Tribunal', he has also served as Notary and Secretary of the Tribunal.

Hearings on Tax Credits, Resum'ed WASHINGTON (NC) - Oppo- rates and changing parental nents of legislation to allow tax tastes. These studies conclude credits for tuition paid to non- that public aid would not retard public schools led the parade of the enrollment decline." ' witnesses at resumed hearings He went on to say that if the by the House Ways and Means" legislation did have the effect of Committee on the Public and' increasing nonpublic school enPrivate Assistance Act of 1972, rollment that enrollment "will H. R. 16141. be almost exclusively or dispro"It is clear that a direct ap· portionately white, which in propriation of federal funds to turn will increase the percentage religious schools or teachers of nonwhite enrollment in pubtherein would be unconstitution- lic schools, in turn causing more al," said Etlward J. Ennis, chair· man of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Diocese. Remembers Union (ACLU). "It is just as un· Israeli Athletes' constitutional to attempt to do BROOKiLYN (NC)-About 1.5 the same thing indirectly by re·, miUion Catholics of the Brookimbursing parents from federal: funds for payments of tuition of ,lyn diocese prayed at Mass.es religious schools." h.ere Sept. 9 and 10 for the v~c. . . - ·tlms "of the senseless and 'VIO' Enms, a. New Yorker who sal.d lent slaughter" of 11 Israeli he ha~ had 16. years of Catholic athletes by Arab,guerrillas at the educ.atlOn, . said that t?e tax 1972 Olympic Games. credit sectIOn of the bill was actually intended to aid Cath. '. The' ,prayer~ had been. reolic elementary and secondary quested by Bls?op Fra~c1S. J. schools Mugavero, who IS the epIscopal . moderator of the National Con· 'False Premise' ference of Bishops' Secretariat That section allows those who for Catholic-Jewish Relations. have dependents attending non- , public elementary and secondary . 'f.he prayer' was distributed to schools to subtract up to $200 pastors and parish administraper dependent from their income tors as a Prayer of the Faithful. tax for tuition paid to .such One petition said: "For the· schools. victims of the senseless and vioEnnis maintained that the tax lent slaughter which this week credit proposal "is based on the marred the Olympic Games or· false premise that declining non· ganized to promote brotherhood public school enrollment is due and harmony in the world, let to financial factors and that us pray to the Lord." public' aid is necessary to save Another said: "For the sons of the parichial 'school system. The Israel today and for all Chrisavailable authoritative studies' 1ians, that we may help one indicate convincingly that shrink-· another to know better the God ing enrollment in parochial of Abraham and the Father of schools is in fact due to such Our Lord Jesus Christ, let us pervasive causes as falling birth pray to the Lord."

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Leaders of All Faiths Condemn' Killing of Israeli Athletes NC News Service America's Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders were united in their shock, sorrow and anger over the Sept. 5 Arab guerriHa massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic team members in Munich.

Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, called' the killings "vicious and wanton destruction of life" that cannot be justified.

"Violence solves nothing," Bishop Bernardin said in a statement. "The history of our times is a disastrous testimony to the fact that violence only begets more violence."

"If any good is to come from the tragedy in Munich, it wiU be the realization by all men in all nations that such acts of violence are a betrayal of our common humanity and an affront to our one Creator."

Bishop Bernardin' offered his sympathies to the survivors of the murdered Israelis and to their compatriots, "and I pray that the very horror of this epi-' sode may serve to deter any future acts of senseless terrorism."

Six other officials of the NCOB-and the United States Catholic Conference, and a seminary dean, .issued a joint statement which they sent to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. 'Profoundly Shocked' "The barbaric abduction and massacre of members of· the Israeli Olympic team in Munith has profoundlysnockEid' and sa'ddened aH men with the least vestige of humane feeling," the priests said.

"We wish the Israeli peop:~ and the government to know that our hearts go out to the unfortunate victims of this mad terrorism, to their families and to the people of Israel, so grievously bereaved and distraught on this tragic occasion," they said.

'The 'statement 'was signed by:

Abuse of Freedom The guerrilla action, said Mrs. Wedel, "can only be denounced in the strongest terms and can not be tolerated as an appropriate strategy ,in the struggle to find a solution to the problems of the Middle East.

"Until this abuse of human freedom disappears from the world scene, it is imperative that effective security measures be maintained so that international meetings may be encouraged and continue without the threats of such atrocities," she said.

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg of Englewood, N. J.; president of the American Jewish Congress, called the Munioh killings another in a series of Arab (extremist) "abOmination~. which. mankind can no longer tolerate."

"How many more massacres, how many more outrageous acts does it take for the civilized nations to declare that those who succor murderers have no place among them," he said.

"Unless the nations implicated in the horror at Olympic Village feel the full pressure and weight of world opinion, there will be no end to the violence," Rabbi Hertzberg said,

Mass for Mother Of Fresno Bishop SAN FRANCISCO (NC) - A funeral Mass was offered at St. Ann's Church here for Mrs. Frances Catherine Donohoe, mother of 'nine children including a bishop, two priests' and three nuns.

She died Saturday, Sept. 9 at age 91.

One son is Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe of F'resno. Another is Father Patrick H. Donohoe, S.J" Chancellor of the University of Santa Clara, Calif" and the third is Father Joseph B. Donohoe, S.J., currently serving in KaohSlung, Taiwan.

The three nuns are Sisters Joan Marie, Marie Patrice and Helen Donohoe, all serving in California.

nald Foster. "Rather, I think new prayers should be writtten in English which are more reflective of present day activity."

The priest, author of a Latin essay on a moonshot, told a Catholic Herald Citizen reporter that he believes men can learn much fro,m studying. Latin and the classics.

"A study of Cicero would be extremely valuable to modern parents," he said. "People today need to come to the realization that their problems are not new."

Father Foster also talked about his duties at the Vatican.

"Many people ask me what I do 'all day at the Vatican," he said.. "Most of them presume all a Latinist does is translate, but that isn't true. For the most part I compose and write letters in Latin-the kind of things the Pope has written when a bishop has an anniversary."

Another of his duties, said the priest, was responding to letters sent to the V'atican in Latin. It is the policy of the Holy See to answer, if possible, all letters in the language in which they are written, he said.

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Bishops Protest Priest's Arrest

Msgr. George Higgins of the Secretariat, for Research; Father Edward Flannery of CatholicJewish Relations; Msgr. Marvin Bordelon of the Division of World Justice and Peace; Fathers John Hotchkin and Daniel MatKenz.je of the Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs; Msgr. Colin MacDonald of the Committee for Priestly Life and Ministry; Msgr. James McHugh of the Division for Family Ufe; Msgr. Robert Bacher of the Committee for Priestly Formation, and Father Eugene Maly, dean of theology at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati.

The National Council of Churches, which has a membership of 35 U. S. Protestant churches, issued a statement through its president, Mrs. Cynthia Wedel.

Opposes Literal Tran.slations MILWAUKEE (NC) - A Carmelite priest who is a linguist for the Vati<~an says the Church should not translate its prayers into English and other languages.

"It doesn't make sense to try to transform Latin into literal translations," said Father Regi-

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~O AID SPANISH SPEAKING APOSTOLATE: Bishop Cronm announced on Friday during his conference with the priests of the Diocese at the Diocesan Retreat House East Freetown,. that St. Hyacinth's Church on' Bonney St.:· New Bedford, will now be used for the work of the Regina Pads Center and its religious functions for the Spanish-.

Speaking Apostolate of the New Bedford Area.

Advises Volunteers Priest Says Efforts Among Migrant Workers Largely Ineffective INDIANAPOLIS (NC) A priest who spends Summers helping.migrant farm workers in Indil.lna· says that volunteer organizations that try to aid the workers frequently, fail and become nuisances.

"Most volunteers have no program, order or schedule," Father Mauro Rodas said in an interview in The Criterion, the archdiocesan newspaper here. "They drop in at the camps at any time."

He added: "What good does it do to stand around sympathizing, deploring the conditions? These are friendly people, I know, and they want to show their good will. But sometimes they are just in the way."

Father Rodas, who was ordained at St. Meinrad Abbey in 1965 and completed doctoral studies in clinical psychology last month at the University of Madrid, suggested the volunteers should try to show the migrants that they can escape their form of work through education. "'The only really important thing that volunteer groups can do. for the migrants is to somehow impress them with the need for more education," the priest said. "If they could only succeed in getting the children to stay ,in

school, in making them understand they have to get a good education to get a good job.

Without that education, things aren't going to change much."

Father Rodas hinted the volunteers can be of additional help to the workers if they educated them in politics. However, he said, the migrants may be too preoccupied with work to care about the subject.

BOGOTA (NC) - The Colombian Bishops' Conference has protested the arrest of a priest who sought to help landless .farmersocc.upy plots assigned to them by the government.

Jesuit Father Jaime Santander, 48, of Manati was arrested and jailed for two days after he had a fight with Lucas Najera, a landowner who claimed the plots were his property. The plots had been assigned' to the farm workers by the Colombian Insti'tute of Land Reform, a govern· ment agency.

The bishops asked authorities to investigate the Manati inci· dent and similar conflicts over land in the country's Atlantic prov,inces.

Najera said that the Manati plots were part of his family farm holdings and that the priest had n? business there.

'Dangerous Precedent' ."I was so mad I took him by the neck and threatened him with a beating," Najera added, according to witnesses.

Fatiler Santander answered from his jail cell that "farm· workers should not be punishe'd because they seek possession of their land."

Jesuit authorities in Colombia wrote to President Jaime Pastrana that "the Manati affair could set the dangerous precedent that any priest engaged in spreading the social doctrine of the Church or in denouncing in· justices can be jailed and blocked in his work."

The priest was released after a Bogota judge said there was no evidence for the charges of assault filed by Najera.

Vatican Announces New Stamp Series VATICAN CITY (NC)-As its contribution to the International Book Year observance, Vatican City will issue a special issue pf five stamps reproducing fragments of ancient manuscripts from the Vatican collections.

Two of .the stamps reproduce the opening of the illuminated manuscript of the "Bible or Ara Coeli," a 13th, century French manuscrLpt. Two others reproduce the ornate and decorative opening letters of parts of the Apocalypse by St. John from a 14th-century manuscript from Bologna, Italy.

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Schnapper'sNew History

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Of Labor Fabulous BQok "Labor Day Is A Day For Anything But." \ This is the heading the New York Times put on its annual Labor Day piece-written this year by staff reporter Israel Shenker who covered Vatican II for Time' magazine and kept us all . .

At best, they are only vagueon our toes at the U.S. BISh- ly aware of the fact that the ops' daily press panel by the labor movement, as we have incisiveness of his questions come to know it, had to struggle and by his tenacity in pressing for honest answers and his adamant refusal to settle for anything else.

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. MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS ~'WiWd81mWiE:'S

Mr. Snenker reports' in his Labor Day round-up that what hegan in 1932 as "a celebration of the workingman has become an occasion for rest and little else." As one very progressive union president put it to him very badly, "New York's not a bad place over the Labor Day weekend. When everybody is away, iit's a nice pla'ce to be."

And where was "everybody" this year on labor's national holiday? Probably swimming at Jones Beach or visiting relatives in Hoboken or golfing in Westchester Coun(y or boating on the Sound. In other words, "everybody" was almost anywhere but New York City where, in the good (or bad) old days, thousands of workers would join ranks on Labor Day at Union ~quare ·and then "larch up Fifth Avenue "for a day of picnics, speeches, dancing. and fireworks." . There were many picnics this year, I assume, and probably a certain amount of danCing, but no' speecnes (well, hardly any) and no fireworks. As Mr. Shenker put it, "Labor Day is a day for anything but ..."

Even though nostalgia is supposed to be the "in" thing these days I haven't heard anyone compla,ining about the fact that Labor Day, with 'all its rich traditions, has become, for all practical purposes, a relic of another age. To the contrary, I have the impression that most people-including most workers -really couldn't care less. And maybe that's' just as well. After all, there is no point in Hving forever in the past.

Struggled for Existence And yet wouldn't it be unfortunate if the American people - and especially the younger generation-were to become so future oriented as to break their links with the past and lose . sight of where they came from?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I have the feeling that this is already happening in the case of the labor" movement. By and large, the young adults of my acquaintance - including union members under 30 - seem to know very lit~le, and care even less, about the history of organized labor.

for its very existence agains't· almost insurmountable odds, and this over a period of many decades. Even if their life depended on it,they probably couldn't tell one name from 'anotherin the long list of labor's founding fathers - a list which includes some of the more important men that this country has ever produced.

Started in 1945 Perhaps I am pushing my point ,too far. In any event, if . there are such/people as I have described, .however few or many, the remedy for their unfortunate condlition-their lack of knowledge about the history of the labor movement-is now readily available in the form of a new book by M. B. Schnapper entitled "American Labor: A Pictorial SoCial History" (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C. 20003, $15.00 clothbound). Published, very appropriately, on, L'abor Day, Schnapper's book, which has been in the works for more than 25 years, is nothing short of fabulous. There is simply no other word' for it.

Schnapper, now president of Public Affairs Press, started colo, lecting labor pictures (photo,graphs,cartoons, drawings, etc.) away back ,in 1945. He is said to have collected some 25,000 pieces of labor history art and examined hundreds of thousands more.

Easy to Read As labor editor Harry Conn has put it very neatly, "If a picture is worth a' thousand words then this vivid book is worth close to 'a million. It carries 1,250 pieces of art. The 575 pages of labor graphics, many· preCiously rare, provlide the same breath-taking dimensions. as a million words but none of the discouragement to· a reader.

Each p~ge of art and copy is exCiting: Nowhere else ... has labor history been presented with such exCitement but also with understanding and .balance."

Those are my sentiments too.

I would only add, for good measure, .that Schnapper's book is without doubt the best thing of its kind ever published in this country. If I were a dictator, and thought I could get by with it, I would make it required reading for every college student ,in the United State. It's really that good and then some.

Moreover it's easy, almost delightful, to read and, by today's standards, almost ridiculously inexpensive. .. Even if I were to employ all of the superlatives in my limited voc'abulary, 'I wouldn't be doing justice to the book. Let's just say, in conclusion, that it's the one book ;in my personal library that I will never lend to anyone (and least of all a' fellow-priest) for fear that I would never get

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MOURNING AT OLYMPICS: Flags of nations compe~ing in the Olympics at Munich, West Germany, fly at half staff dUringamemo~ial service at the s.ta.dium. for 11 Israeli athletes killed by Arab terrorists. Later ~athohcs and Lutherans Jomed m ecumenical services in the . Munich Cathedral. NC' Photo.

. Lack of Interest In Drug Fight WASHINGTON (NC)-A U. S. Catholic Conference survey indi. cates a lack of interest in the drug problem in many dioceses and ineffiCient drug education in Catholic schools.

Father Roland Melody, coordinator of the USCC Catholic Office/of Drug Education, said responses to the survey conducted . by his office suggested there is a major need in dioceses for guidance on how to establish and ruri programs to fight'drug addiction.

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The priest .said 119 dioceses across the country had been canvassed and that survey responses were now being tabulated and complete results would be anI nounced soon.

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Court to Rule on Abortion DETROIT (NC) - The Michi- victions -of two men in the cases gan Supreme Court is expected which prompted its "obiter dicto rule shortly whether a con- ta" statements. One man, a phystitutional amendment liberaliz- sician, was ruled to have pering the state's 126-year-old abor- formed an abortion under untion law can be placed on the satisfactory medical conditions Nov. 7 ballot in the state. and the other, a non-physician, The court specifically must was judged to have conspired rule if petitions seeking to have to obtain an abortion for a the amendment decided upon by woman whose life he falsely the voters are properly worded attested was endangered. and contain enough valid signaThe court's comments on tures.

Michigan· abortion statutes have The amendment provides that caused confusion. Arthur F. Barabortions can be performed for key, of Detroit, an attorney who any reason during the first 20 'has been court-appointed as the weeks of a woman's pregnancy guardian of all unborn children if the operation is done by a in Michigan abortion cases, de- . licensed physician in a medical plored the court's statements facility approved by the state in an interview with the Cathohealth department. Under the lic Weekly, Saginaw diocesan current law a woman can obtain newspaper. an abortion only if a committee 'Ruled Gratuitously' of doctors decides her life would "Their views (the views of the be endangered by giving birth. majority in the 2-1 ruling) on If the amendment is placed on the aBortion law had no bearing the ballot and approved, it would . on the result of' the cases that estahlish a new law that would were before them," the lawyer superede any court interpreta- told the newspaper. "They simtion of present statutes. ply wandered off' on their own Upheld Convictions and- ruled gratuitously that porA court decision bearing upon tions of the abortion law were Michigan's abortion laws recent- unconstitutional." ly was given by the state court Barkey added: "It is clear that of appeals. The court, in re- under the rules of legal practice marks apparently not legally in Michigan, the comments on binding. because there were the abortion law by the court "obiter, dicta" .(not directly of appeals are not binding on connected with the case at other coutts because they were hand), said the state no longer unnecessary to the decision." could. permit abortions perRetired Kalamazoo Court formed by doctors in hospitals Judge Wade Van Valkenburg, if the patient is less than three who wrote the court of appeals months pregnant. Also, the decision as part of his help with woman's life does not have to such court cases, said of the be endangered for the operation court',s ruling: "It can or cannot be followed. to be performed, the court said.

The same three-judge court This might have been different simultaneously upheld the con- if we had reversed the decisions."

Bishop Address·es Priests ish, New Bedf'ord, and chairman of the Sooial Concerns Commission of the Diocese, will administer the program at the Center.

Father Wmiam Petrie, SS.CC., long active in inner-city apostolic work in New Bedford, will continue to be active in cooperation with Father O'Dea. The Bishop expressed the desire to have the Diocesan Senate of Priests, jn consultation Rest,Quiet Prescribed with the entire presbyterium, dev,ise programs for a variety of For 'Sick Cathedral' pastoral concerns. Bishop Cronin MILAN (NC) - Architectural strongly urged the Senate .to doctors have prescribed absolute submit, fur hIs approbation, rest and quiet for this city's modIfication, or rejection, pro"sick cathedral. posals for family counseling, for All traffic has been banned a diocesan-wide census, and for from the great square surround- . providing good spiritual aid and ing Milan's shining white cathe> direction to religious women dral, one of the great architec- labol'ing in the Dioc~se. In the tural triumphs of the Middle latter context, the Bishop asked Ages. The underground subway the Senate to seek the cooperatrains were ordered to reduce tion of religious superiors, both . speed as .they pass near the local and provincial.

His Excellency suggested that enormous foundations of the the Senate of Priests, again with 14th-century church. wide consu'ltation of all priests, Aside from the problems of develop a system of accountaold age, the more than 600-year- bility and evaluation for clergy old structure is suffering from labol1ing in the Diocese. Such a traffic vibrations, smog and program would be carefully resonic booms. For the past 10 viewed by the Bishop, with the years the enormous mass of ultimate goal being provision of brick and mortar has been stead- the best possible pastoral care ily sinking due to the shift in the for all the faithful. subsoil.

Bishop Cronin underscored the The Milan cathedral has been obligation of the faithful to asdescribed as "the greatest Italian sist at Mass on Sundays and of obligation, and architectural project of the late days 14th century," and is the largest urged pl1iests engaged in the pamedieval cathedral in Europe, rochial ministry to encourage w.ith the exception of the one in regula,r attendance, particularly by the youth of the Diocese.

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Continued from Page One pastoral care for Spanishspeaking residents of New Bedford, and to. enhance urban ministry presentlY exercised in that community, the Regina Pacis Center will be relocated in new quarters ,at St. Hyacinth's Parish.

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Udine Congress Set to Develop Strong Renewa I ROME (NC)-World attention will probably focus on the national Eucharistic congress at Udine, in northern Italy, not for what it is trying to accomplish but because Pope Paul VI will be there Sept. 16.

SPANISH-SPEAKING APOSTOLATE: Bishop Cronin has announced (hat Rev. Thomas E. O'Dea, left, will assume in addition to his other duties as assistant at St. Lawrence's, New Bedford the administrative duties connected with the Regina Pads Spanish-Speaking Center and Rev. -William F. Petrie, SS.CC., right, will continue his work in the apostolate to which he was named in 1971.

Supplement Guards Vatican Uses Closed-Circuit TV, Radar to Guard Art Treasures VATICAN CITY (NC)-Radar, ultrasonic waves, magnetic fields and closed-circuit television is now being used to guard the art .treasures housed in the sprawling Vatican mus~ums.

The new protection system, already installed in many parts of the museums, has been ordered by the administrative office of the Vatican Museum to supplement the corps of guards already on duty in the miles of haHs and galleries..

Walter Persegati, secretary and business manager of the museum's, said that "the corps of museum guards has been increased by 30 per cent in the past six months an'd will total about 100 men."

Vatican Museum officials have been studying the problem of providing better and greater protection for the vast collection of art contained in the museums for some time, even before the famous Pieta statue of Michaelangelo was damaged in St. Peter's Basilica early this summer.

Persegati declined to specify where the new instruments and a-Iarm systems are ·located; "You don't show a thief where the safe is concealed," he said. The alarm system will 'automatically· notify a central communications center Whenever a foreign object, such as a hand or an instrument, comes too close to a work of art.

In addition to the alarm system, museum officials are installing 14 telev.ision cameras at strategic ·points. "Some of these cameras will be used to control movement of the crowds through the museums and others will be used for protective reasons," Persegati said.

"The Vatican museums face a real traffic problem," he explained, "since many of the major exhibits are reached through lengthy halls' that at times become choked with the 7,000 to 10,000 visitors who visit daily during the summer."

One major bottleneck in the museums is the Sistine Chapel.

The chapel at present can be reached by the public only through two small passages leading from the larger galleries.

The world will no doubt see a picture of the Pope blessing thousands of persons with the Blessed Sacrament. And to many the congress may seem to be a glorified Benediction service.

But a Eucharistic congress is much more than that.

About 100 years ago a simple Frenchwoman, Marie Tamisier of Lille, deeided the world would be a better place if men would . honor the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

In 1873 at Paray-Ie-Monial, Marie Tamisier saw some 60 members of the French parliament kneel in chapel and pledge to work against the secularist trends of the French government.

At that moment the idea of And all visitors must enter the a Eucharistic congress was born. front doors of the museum, half a mile away, and tramp through Marie Tamisier saw the connecthe seemingly endless corridors tion between worship of Christ before . arriving at the S.istine in the Blessed Sacrament and Chapel, which houses the famed ;its relevance to contemporary frescoes of Michaelangelo and problems. other Italian Renaissance masThe Italian Eucharistic conters. gress was designated for Udine Vatican sources said that the in 1961 by Pope John XXIII with Vatican is studying a proposal the express goal of "revitalizing" that would permit the public to the Church in Italy. reach the chapel directly from According to the secretary of St. Peter's Basilica next door. the congress, Father Aldo BresHowever, the project, which sani, a Eucharistic congress is a would involve many other offices failure ·if it is "merely a few besides the museum's adminis- . days of study and manifestatration, is still only in a study tions." stage.

Pastoral Renewal The television cameras are linked to the control center by Rather, Father Bressani insisclosed-circuit and the center in ted, the congress "must be, turn has radio-telephone commu- under the sign of the Eucharist, nication with guards at key a dramatic moment of renewal points of traffic flow. If the for the local Church and the ennumber of visitors back up too tire Church of Italy." heavily in one part of the muFather Bressani said his com· seum, the control room can radio guards to open al,ternative routes mittees have continUiilly into other parts of the complex formed all Italian bishops of proof buildings to relieve the traffic. posals to be made during the congress and which he hopes will launch a "strong pastoral renewLower Phone Rates al" for the good of the Italian nation.

Sought by Diocese SANTIAGO (NC) ...:- Among Already, the secretary reo protests against the ,sharp rise ported, many dioceses have in living costs here since a started programs of renewal, Marxist government came to pastoral reforms, activities in ·power two years ago is one by the social welfare field and ecuthe Santiago archdioceses plead- menical programs. ing for lower phone rates.

Udine is following the orders The plea is not for the sake of Pope John, but the inspiration of the archdiocese's 190 parishes. of Marie Tamisier.

"We are speaking for the Consistently through the years, thousands of people 'who use parish phones free in their· daily Eucharistic congresses have folbusiness because they do not lowed her theme: "Know Christ have one," said Father Bernardo in Order to Serve Mankind."

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A government decree confirmed hy Congress nationalized Chile's telephone company. It was a Slubsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph CorporatiOli (ITT), of the United States.

Higher rates imposed shortly afterwards cut sharply into par303 IYANOUGH ROAD ish budgets, according to Father Herrera. He asked the governHYANNIS, MASS. ment to lower rates on phones TEL. 775-0081 used collectively by parishioners.

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One dare not draw too much from the statistics that for the third year in a row serious crime throughout the nation is seen to be tapering off, registering the smallest rate of increase in six years.

It seems strange that there should be thankfulness that violence is not growing as fast as it has been. The phrase of the Psalm, "Let there be no outcry in t,he street" seems like a most relevant one in this age.

It is a blessing that the world can still be shocked by violence. The senseless savag~ violence at the Olympic Games is a case in point. The stories, of brutality that feature every first page of every daily newspaper still upset.

The outrage to civilization that every act of violence per" petuates is still felt in the souls of men.

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Can it be that humanity as a whole is just fed up with savage activity? Is it that the veneer of civilization, so easily peeled away, is being built up layer by layer into, something more than a mere, sp'~ll;. is penetrating at last into the fibre of the person?:/~'~~,~'~\:"'" - ' '.

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The individual,' of course, is the one who must build up the virtues of peace and goodness within himself. In this he must be aided by other individuals. His family, his society, his school, his church-all must, cooperate to establish an environment that is conducive to goodness. The old cynicism, the anything-goes attitude, the moral indifference of yesteryear have-had their fling and have been proved wanting. Perhaps' now people are beginning to un' ' derstand this.

The Whole Man More than 3,000 scholars in various fields associated with religion have met in California to discuss "Religion and the Humanizing of Man." That is only a title, of course, and is open t9 many interpretations.

There was a certain emphasis, for example, on religion and man as factors of Western 'civilization. That view would look upon religious man as the museum of the past 2,000 years of Western history and seek its continuity in the same or a similar role.

Another expert said, truthfully enough, that religion " must come to tenns with the concepts of sin and, salvation but when it became rooted in talking primarily about the next life then faith deteriorate,d and civilization is impeded.

It seems that what the meeting really wanted to get down to saying was that man must be humanized by religion but this in its truest sense: man is a creature of body and soul made by God, is endowed with intelligence and free will, is called to reach out to God and to enter into the saving action of Christ in order to be God's child on earth and God's companion forever in heaven.

There has been great emphasis lately on the human aspect of man. If this means just his body or his emotions or his mind, and will and human journey through life, then only one aspect of man is being discussed. If it is man and his' relation to God that is disc~ssed, a relation from which he can never be divorced without doing violence to his creation, then this is the whole man, the full man, the complete man, and any meeting that shed further light on him is welcome indeed.

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He prepared for the Priest- John F. McKeon, Bishop ~rrard hood at St. Laurent College, ,was named pastor of St. Law; Montreal, and at St. Bernard rence Parish, New Bedford, on Seminary, Rochester. He was June 6, 1956. i ordained a priest at St. Mary's On F.eb. 12, 1959, it was anCathedral, Fall River, by Most nounced 'that Pope john XXIII Rev. Daliiel F. Feehan, D.O.,' had named Bishop Gerrard as second Bishop of Fall River, qn Auxiliary Bishop to Bishop ConMay 26, ~923. nolly and Titular Bishop , 路of After his ordination, Bishop Forma. ' Gerrard was assigned to Sacred On that occasion, Bishop Heart Parish, Oak Bluffs, for the James L. Connolly paid tribute , summer. In October of that year, to his new auxilia,ry:' , he went to St. Patrick Parish, "As devoted, loyal children of , Fall River, where he served until the Holy Father, it is but natural June 1, 1932. He is well rememthat we should want to be recbered in the South end of that ognized. Such attentiop has come city for his zeal and priestliness to us in a most eloquent manner. 'especially toward the sick and We have been signally favored the poor. by the Holy See in the naming of a native son to 'serve our Chancellor spiritual needs as, Auxiliary On June I, 1932, the retiring Bishop. pastor became Chancellor and Secretary to Most Rev. James E. "Good .Pope John has indeed Cassidy, then Apostolic Admin- been kind to us al~. His solid-_ istrator of the. Diocese. When. tous heart has provId~d well for Bishop Cassidy~ucceeded ,to the ~,t all' of tis. We we1come}he news diocese L!pon the death of Bishop ; ~gl,a~IY,~nd gratefully, Feehan, Bishop Gerrard co~tin-,~ -',": Bishop' Gerrard was the first ued as Chancellor and EpiSCO- ''''native New Bedforditeto serve pal Secretary., .">'; as Bishop .in the FaU River Dio路 He was also' a member'of the cese and the first in New En路 Diocesan Tribuna'l from July gland to have been chosen by , 1930 to 1941. In those positions Pope John XXIII. he showed his ability as an effi0 M h 19 1959 th W cient administrati>r and did ~ . arc ~.' e. ne much to keep the' diocesan ad- 'AuxIlIary was ordamed a BIShop min'strafon' r d '. thO

by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, .1 I m me urmg IS Richa,rd Cardinal Cushing perux! .of changes and growth. . preach ed 'th e h omi'1y w h'l 1 e h'IS Bishop Gerrard bec!lm~ ~ector successor, Most Rev. Humberto of the Cathedr~l on Apnl 2~, S;..l'4edem-os, now Archbishop of 1939 and remamed there untIl Boston served as Master of 1956. He seIYed as Episcopal Cefem~nies.

Vicar for Religious from 1941 to 1945. He was also' a member' Upon assuming ,the governi>f the Diocesan Board for the ment of the, Diocese of Fall Legion of Decency in Motion Rive~, Most Rev. J;>aniel A. Pictures and the Nation'al Organ- C~mn, on Dec. 19, .1970 named ization for Decency in Lit~rature. Bishop Gerrard 'as VIcar General The Bishop is still the Moderator also. for Theological Conferences.

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'In recent' elections conducted under the chairmanship of Rev. John F. Hogan, twelve priests of the Diocese became members of the Senate of Priests. The newly elected include: Rev. Don路 aid J. Bowen, Rev. Msgr.John A. Boyd" Rev. John P. Driscoll, Rev. Peter N. Graziano, Rev. Maurice R. Jeffrey, Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, Very Rev. Henry T. Monroe, Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, and Rev. Ronald A. Tosti.

Fourteen members of the Seilate begin this month the second year of a two-year term of office.

They include: Rev. Walter J. Buckley, Rev. Msgr. Bernard J. Fenton, Rev. Edwin J. Lowe, Rev. John J. Murphy, Rev. John F. Hogan, Rev. Wa!lter A Sullivan, ,Rev. FTancis A. Mahoney, Rev. John J. Steakem, Rev. George W. Coleman, Rev. Edward C. Duffy, Rev. Robert A. McGowan, Rev. Robert J. Carter, Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC., and Rev. Robert Brennan, C.S.C. Elections to the Personnel Board of the Diocese brought to a full complement of five the membership of that Board. Elected in .the recently concluded balloting were: Rev. John P. Driscoll, Very Rev.-Henry T. Monroe, and Rev. Leo T. Sullivan. These priests join Rev. Francis L. Mahoney and Rev. John J. Steakem, who are beginning the second year of a two-year term of office.

The first meeting of the Senate of Priests will take place on Friday, September 15th at 1:30 P.M. in the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. All priests in the Diocese are invited to attend S~nate meetings.

Prais'e Missioners' Work in Bolivia LA PAZ (NC) - Maryknoll priests and other U. S. missionaries in Bolivia have been praised for their "vigorous effort to spread the Catholic faith among Ithe Aymaras."

The Aymara Indian tribes populate the Andean valleys around this city and Oruro, Potosi and Cochabamba. They number close to 900,000.

The praise came during a meeting of bishops and priests 'in charge of mission work among Indian tribes throughout Latin America. The meeting was sponsored by the mission depal11:ment of the Latin American Bishops Council (CELAM).

The head of the department, Bishop Samuel Ruiz of San Cristobal, Mexico, and his assistant, Father Alfonso Gortaire, said the training of catechism teachers and deacons by U. S. missionaries and others is an excellent example of adaptation and haord work.

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Pope Deplores Tragic Deaths At Olympics CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) Within hours of the deaths of Israeli Olympic hostages and their Arab guerrilla cllptors near Munich, Pope Paul yI raised l1is voice against "this deed which truly dishonors our times."

With almost the same breath he uttered a soarcely veiled plea against reprisals from the Israeli side. ' "God grant that nothing like it may come about, as the very nature of our human weakness makes likely," he told crowds at a general audience at his summer home here Sept. 6.

"Hate engenders hate, blood lusts for ,blood, revenge seeks revenge. Where will it end?"

At the same time he sent' a telegram of condolences to Israeli President Salman Shazar deploring "this and every similar act of violence." , The ,Pope told the Israeli head of the state that he had prayed that God "enlighten minds so that the defense of rights and the cause of peace may be kept on a plane of humanity."

'Sad' Slaughter' (A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Rome said Sept. 6 that the only official decision . that had emanated from the Israeli government was a request that the Olympics be halted. He said that demands in Israel for reprisals were so far altogether unofficial.)

The Pope, speaking to crowds at a general audience in Oastelgandolfo; said that that day's news· from Munich "could not be sadder or worse."

In a voice throbbing with emotion the Pope continued: "You all know that a tragedy, a miserable and terribly sad slaughter, has concluded the drama of the Israeli athletes on the one hand an4 on the other of Arab guerrillas who came to meet them in violence and in blood.

"We deplore this deed, which truly dishonors our times, times that were tending toward peace, toward brotherhood. It occurred in a place and at a time marking human brotherhood."

Seeks Reason After expressing the hope that the Olympic games might continue the Pope returned to "these dead, some fallen for duty's sake, without having the least guilt, and some fallen by their own violence."

He said he deplored "the predatory way, which now is becoming common and almost fashionable," in which the kidnapping was carried out.

"Our thoughts range beyond that to the reason why. What are the cl\uses? These too can only sadden us. .

"If there is this mania to lash out in such acts, it is a sign that there is a great evil, a great suffering in the minds of men who become blind and allow themselves to explode in vengeance and resentment."

The Pope did not expand upon this reference to the causes of , such violence except to say that he personally had "prayed and striven to discover and eliminate the causes which now have found such an evil and sad expression."

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Priest Grateful for Restored Sight MILWAUKEE (NC)-As Father Thomas Bielawa offers his first Mass at Holy Redeemer Church here, he is likely to include a special prayer of thanksgivlngfor restoration of his eyesight.

A member of the' Society of the Divine Savior, he was ordained in Silver Spring, Md., last week about two years behind schedule.

His eye problem was discovered in high school days and in 1959 he was treated by a Milwaukee eye specialist and the problem was diagnosed as kerataconis, a disorder of unknown cause in which the cornea tissue is weakened..

Since then he has had many anxious moments and periods of acute discomfort. Rather than discuss the long ordeal, which in-

cluded three transplants, Father Bielawa ,prefers to talk about the u~gent need for eye donors. He hopes sight· problems of others ' may be improved.

"Many people have had an eye transplant," be explained.

"Fewer have had three of them as I have. But what I learned about my doctor and the International Eye Foundation, and how important it is to donate eyes or eye tissue, is something else again."

Satisfactory Result Father Bielawa said that kerataconis affects the shape of the 'eye. It becomes more like a cone than round and causes distorted vision. The cornea tissue gradually weakens and normal pressure causes the eye to bulge.

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transferred to Washington, D. C. for college and theology studies at the Catholic University of America and St. Paul's seminary college, it was suggested he contact Dr. John Harry King Jr., a promient eye specialist.

In 1968 Dr. King decided' a transplant would be wise since the cornea of the right eye was thinning out and might tear.

The first operation on the right eye was performed in July but it was not successful. An allergic reaction from medication caused cloudiness and vision was extremely poor.

Dr. King operated again on the right eye in November, 1968, and the result was satisfactory.

By March, 1971, the condition of the 1eft'eye worsened and a similar operation was necessary.

Eyesight Restored

"This time there was a serious shortage of eye tissue available and I had to wait almost three PITTSBURGH (NC) - "The 30 hostages were taken and re- months," Father Bielawa retruth of Attica is yet to be told," leased nine hours later, he called called. "I was in Dr. King's a chaplain at the New York state it a "dres.s rehearsal" for Attica. office one day for a checkup and prison told members' of the Several of the prisoners, follow- the same story - no available Catholic Chaplains' Association. ing this incident, he said, were ' donor tissue, no transplant possible," Father James P. COllins spoke transferred to Attica. critically of "the new breed" of "I want to make crystal clear," Just as he was about to leave, "political prisoner" at the asso- he said, "that the revolutionaries word came that the necessary ciation's meeting here. in prison are both black and tissue had been obtained. Within Father Collins was joined by white. Black revolutionaries are a short time he was at a hosFather Eugene Marcinkiewica, a only a· very small part of the pital and the operation prochaplain at Attica for 16 years in population." gressed as planned. With the use a discussion of "Attica: AanatReassured Families of contact lenses his eyesight omy of the New Revolution."

Father Marcinkiewica told of has been restored.

Both priests were at the prison entering the prisoner-held comThe 30-year-old priest hopes ,last September when 43 persons pound on several occasions dur- the success of his eye surgery were killed in a prisoner's rebel- ing the Attica revolt. He found wiU be encouraging to others lion. himself "swamped" by requests having sight problems and urges While the Attica investigation, from prisoners to reach their those with good eyesight to con1 is not complete, Father Collins ·families and inform them they sider donating their eyes at said, "When the indictment is wanted no part of the uprising. death. handed· down, the public will He visited writh prisoners who Noting that prospective donors know what Attica was all were locked in their cells and can make such arrangements attempted to care for their needs. about."

He cited the roise of the, "mili- Much of his time' was spent re- through a doctor and an eye tant revolutionary" on the prison assuring families of both guards bank, Father Bielawa added, "giving God's gift of sight to scene who "although sentenced and prisoners. another after death is simple."

In the question period, Father for possibly an unsuccessful armed robbery, snowed himself Donald McIlvane, a Pittsburgh Decisions to believe he was a political pastor, charged that members of prisoner," The revolutionary rep- the Catholic ·Interracial Council In investing money, the resents a "new breed of inmate" had been kept out of the session. amount of interest you want he said.

Father McIlvane, a former chap- should depend on whether you Blacks and Whites lain, said that Father Augustus want to eat well or sleep well.

Indicating several militant Taylor, administrator \ of St. -Morley groups would fall into this cate- Brigid-St. Benedict the Moor gory, he cited writings of the, here had been barred from visitBlack Panther party and spoke ing inmates at Western Penitenof the prisoner who feels it his tiary. Another priest, Father John job to convert non-political pris- O'Malley was also barred, he exoners, who "preaches hate as a plained.

DRY CLEANING "I have heard no Catholic chapway of life, who eats and sleeps AND FUR STORAGE it" and and who feels compelled lain here stand up to support 34-44 Cohannet St., Taunton to achieve his goals "by any Gus Taylor," he said and reiterWhittenton Branch Store ated he did not necessarily supmethods."

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LA RIOJA (NC) - Provincial authorities ~nvoked "security" laws to ban concelebrated Mass at the main square here.

Bishop Enrique Angelelli of La Rioja said "this is one more act of repression against our people," .

The Mass was to be offered for the freedom of two priests arrested a week earlier on charges of subversion, Fathers Enry Hardy and Antonio Gil. The prelate and the concelebrants moved the ceremony into the Cathedral, but a procession with. the centuries-old statue of St. Nicholas, -the patron saint, was' placed in front of the church.

Bishop Angelelli said the orders came from the Interior Ministry in Buenos Aires, now a branch of the armed forces under the military government of Gen. Alejandro Lanusse, "This is a sin that cries to heaven for justice," the prelate added. "My priests are charged with "iolence, yet our people are suffering violence such as this.

We simply wanted to pray and make penance, and thus to become aware of what is expected of. us as Christians."

The two priests were arrested after police claimed discovery of a cache of arms and ammunition at a farm in La Ramadita, same 16 miles ·from here. They linked the Coache to one of the priests' automobiles.

In a letter to the priests, Bishop Angelelli voiced "indignation in the face of calumny." He told them also he had asked "authorities to make sure you are spared any kind of coercion, or physical mistreatment."

Study Relief Needs Of Philippines , NEW YORK (NC)-Sixty researchers of the Asian Research Organization have been contracted by Catholic relief Servkes to survey relief needs for seven Philippine provinces damaged by typhoons and floods in recent weeks.

CRS officials said the research group will determine the extent of damage, the food and medical needs, local resources, crop and soil damage, and feasibility of reconstruction projects in the affected areas.

The organization said the 17day study by the research team will be made available to governments and voluntary aid agencies which want to help the surv~vors of the storm-ravaged provinces.

The study was undertaken

by Catholics Relief Services in cooperation with the Philippine Catholic hierarchy and agencies of the Philippine and American governments. CRS is the overseas aid agency of the U. S. Catholic Conference said.

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Sex Education , Series Approved

THE ANCHOR-;-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Sept. 14, 1972

Stylish S,h,o,e's May Attra,ct, But May Als,o b,e Hazardous

GREEN BAY (NC) - Parents and children surveyed by the Green Bay diocese have given an overwhelming vote of approval to a controversial sex and family education program.

The survey also showed, however, that some parents objected to the program so much that they removed their children from the class. A few families removed their children from the schools.

About 91.per cent of the 3,748 parents responding to the survey said they wanted the Becoming a Person program continued in the 1972·73 school year, according to The Spirit! the diocesan newspaper here.

About 95 per cent of the students responding had favorable views of the program. The program was of "great" value to 2 274 students and of "some" v~lue to 3,166. It was of no value to 344 students.

Of the teachers surveyed, 302 of the 306 who taught the program wanted it continued.

The survey showed that a total of 228 children were reo moved from Becoming a Person classes and that 13 families reo 'moved their children from their parish school entirely.

Responses came from 97 of the 106 schools using ,the pro· gram in the 1971-72 sc~ool year.

It began in the diocese ~s a pilot program in 15 schools in the 1970-71 school year.

Controversies have developed in several dioceses over the use of the program. In Green Bay it was. highlighted in a televdsion ta.ll~ show ~~,ba!e.

I'm still recovering from my shoe shopping expedition with the' kids but surprise of surprises this one really wasn't all that bad. Jason bought the second pair of shoes he tried on, Melissa bought the first and even Meryl who is generally . the most difficult to please took little toll on my nerves clog. Orthopedic men and chiro· practors warn of th~ harmful but a small toll on my credi- effects and danger found in bility when she asked me if these wooden platformed, back· chunky shoes that are the rage among the younger set looked attractive (and I with crossed fingers answered "Yes.") I did

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less slings that while making a leg very attractive appear to contribute to a variety of leg' and foot ills which even inclujes broken legs.

Nevertheless, despite the warn· the fashionable female refuses to give them up and I can't say I don't understand her, not after the years I spent with my sloppy loafers.

RODERICK

Ecumenism Depends On Local Initiatives

try to ,talk the girls into loafers, MONTREAL (NC) - Unless hut, this year that old favorite there are strong grass-roots ini· . is taking a backseat to another tiatives to promote ecumenism; old favorite saddle shoes (these the movement will be doomed are also slightly altered so that to failure, according to a report they too have a much higher of the director of the French· sole. language sector of the Canadian Back in the good old days bishops' National Ecumenical (this is said with tongue in Office. cheek) we all had to have loafThe director, Jesuit Father ers. I had very, very narrow Irenee Beaubien, said in his refeet, in fact they really would PRO-LIFE RALLY: A young participant in the National port on the status of ecumenism have been, called by unkind shoe in Canada that "the" future of : Rally held at the Washington· Memorial of the great Emanclerks skinny (many did just the ecumenical movement de· about throw up. their hands in pends to a great extent on local cipator carries a. small casket in which people dropped their does not begi~ a~ birth. despair when they measured my initiatives taken by indiv,iduals birth certificates as a sign that feet and then recommend that 'on th.e ground floor: " ,I 1 go find another shoe store). t;~G jua ... VJ9·IIJ .... -;J '"; -"t.:- VI. j ,'1. r-, However after much "wail'ing To 'date, "he 'observe'd;n the o Pope Sends Blessings and gnashing of teeth" on my movement has adhered too close· part, my mother consented to Iy to. structure sand commission To Polish Dominicans huy me the pair that most near· and committee levels. In general, Ohio Minister Quits Counseling ServiCe, VATICAN CITY (NC~Pope Iy fit and I would feel that fi· he said, Christians do not feel Paul VI sent his blessing to the nally I too was "one of the any commitment to ecume!,ism.

Fights Abortion , Dominican order's Polish provcrowd". This was great, except , I ince on the 750th anniversary of "Ecumenical education (at the COLUMBUS (NC)-A minister abortions presented by Dr. J. C. that my folly would catch' up its foundation by St. Dominic. local church level) is of vital imwho worked in an abortion coun- Wilke of Cincinnati, and showed with me eventually, the loafers himself. portance to the world of today, seling service here now has "30 him Dr. Wilke's "Handbook on that were too wide to begin with .

A message dispatched on the would stretch I would spend and unless the necessary efforts regrets"-one for each abor- Abortion." are ,made to fo!!ter such educaP>ope's . behalf to the master By then, the papet said, Mr. tion that followed his counsel· more time picking up my shoes tion, ecumenism will. never be general . of the Dominicans, ing. .

Baldwin was "thoroughly disilthan wearing them, my legs Now the Rev. Mike Baldwin, lusioned with situation ethics" Father Aniceto Fernandez, exwould' develop cramps in the other than superficial and will a United Methodist pastor, has and resigned from the .couns,eling pressed the hope that the illus· calves from straining to keep the be doomed to failure." trious history of Poland's Dochanged his mind about 'abortion service. shoes on and it was anything minicans "may spur Religious and hopes to change the minds goes for beauty.

"I was getting so broadmilrlded British Chur~hes Agree of that province to achieve holiof others. my brains were falling out," he Today's styles would never ness first of all, without swervMr. Baldwin was invited by' fall off the girls, for they are On Baptism Certificates another Columbus minister to said. ing from the institutions of their He says he still feels! "angUlish" sturdy enough for even the hardLONDON (NC)-Britain's ma- help launch a Clergy Counseling forebears." iest mountain climber. Orthope· jor Christian churches, including Service on Abortion three years for having gotten Into the ser7 Two young Poles, SS. Hyavice in the first place, and agreed dic shoes we used to call them the Roman Catholic Church, ago, according to the Columbus to be interviewed by: the paper cinth and Ceslaus, were among (or in our more unkind moments have agreed on a common bap: Citizen-Journal. "in hopes it gets some minds the first to receive Dominican "teacher's shoes") w.hile having tismal certificate. ' Just out of the seminary, he turned .around." garb at -the founder's hands. nightmares about our mothers This means that those agreed because he "considered it Those two earlY.. Dominicans making us wear them. The poor churches now recognize the a way to help people in trouble." preached not only in Poland but children who had a foot prob· validity of each other's Baptism.

Opportunist . in Prussia, Pomeria, Lithuania, But he discovered that he was lem practically went into seclu· A man in earnest finds me,ans, Scandinavia, the Ukraine, RusThe British Council of hearing " the same story over· sion with their "ugly footwear" or, it' he cannot find, creates .. sia, Bohemia, Moravia and Saxand over.

'If I have the child, Churches, the regional branch -tOday they would be in style.

-'-channing ony. of the World Council of I'll want to keep it.' Translated, them.

While .this type of current Churches, after two years of ·this consistently meant, 'out of fashion is, in all probability, good negotiation persauded 19 sight, out of mind' " he said. for our feet, another recent churches here to accept a comAccording to the paper, his ,foot fashion is receiving world mon .baptismal certificate. They concern was increased by his wide publicity for its harmful- include the Anglican Church of wife's pregnancy, a trip to the ness-that ·is the very popular England, the Presbyterian Columbus Center of Science and Church of Scotland, the Method- Industry to view an exhibit ist Church, the Congregational- .showing stages of fetal life, and Protests Siayings ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford ist Church and the Catholic a book showing pictures of ac, CHICAGO (NC)-The National Church in England and Wales. tual abortions.

Coalition of Nuns has conOne of Southern Ne!w England's Finest Facilities Last Spring, a member of his demned the killings of Israeli The approved certificate sim~ Olympic athletes in Munich and ply states that the person named congregation told him about a .ltvai/ab/e for asked its 1,800 members to send has been baptized with water slide presentation 'of actual letters of protest to Arab na- "in the name of the Father, Son tions. A coalition statement de- and Holy Spirit." It can be used Gentleness scribed the incident as "another for both adults and children and What is more gentle than a FOR DETAILS CALL MJ~NAGER-636·2744 or 999-6984 demonstration of a barbaric carries a list of all the churches wind in summer? strategy of Arab guerilla forces." that accept its validity.

-John Keats

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Says piers,onaHties of Some Peopl,e Are Lik,e M,a,chines

Private School Rolls Increase

Some say machines are taking over our lives. The real problem, it seems to me, is that some people turn into machines. Not that they look like robots, but their personalities are like machines. ' Do you know any of these you'll burn your fingers. people?

The radio: She tries to offer The tank: She walks, something for everybody ... but talks, drives her car, even often while people are hear,ing

pushes a shopping cart in the supermarket as if she is crashing over a barbed-wire barricade.

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body ... who gets in her way.

She plows through, treating everyone as an enemy to be mowed down. ' The pr,inting press: She makes a tremendous amount of noise.

In fact, if you are within 50 feet of her, you can't hear yourself think. She has an endless stream pourin~ out of her ... but each time if says the same as it did the time before.

The electric eye: This machine is seldom seen, but it quietly, unobtrusively goes about its work helping others. She's the one who does the' work, without worrying about who will get the credit. She simply serves others, efficiently and effectively ... but seldom gets any thanks.

The vacuum cleaner: Picks up all "dirt" faster than you can bat an eye.

Keeps Her Bahmce . , The watch: Not the dimestore variety, but the family heirloom passed down from one generation to another; she quietly ticks away at her own business and requires little care .... but when somone needs her advice, she has the right answer.

No matter what you want, she always has time .

The steam iron: She spits and fumes', but if you play by her rules, and coax her a bit, she, will cooperate and get the job done. 'But treat her carefully, or

her, they really aren't listening.

The coffee pot: She perks away at every task, takes a while, but when she's finished, it was worth waiting for.

The blender: She cuts everything to ribbons ... and in highgear, can leave things in a mushy pulp.

The air conditioner: She leaves ,everyone who's been with her a bit refreshed.

The . washing machine: She just chugs along, doing the same ,things over and over, occasionally rebels, but generally does what has to be done.

The lawn mower: She does a good job ... but the whole town knows she's working.

The gyroscope: No matter what happens, she keeps her balance.

Someplace in Between My children regularly toss off remarks like ... "If God w'anted me to wash dishes, he would have made' me with dishrags instead of hands."

Maybe the truth is someplace in between.-.Maybe God would like us to take some of the better qualities of machines, and elevate them. · .. to be able to do routine jobs over and over again, but to see when a change would improve things. · .. to pursue a right course. with determination, with feeling that prevents infringing on others. · .. to mix ideas, -experiences and knowledge, with a taste for an end result that raises us above our past ability. · .. to generally mind our own business, but to hear when we are needed and wanted, to know when we can help. · .. to fill our roles in life in such a way that everything we touch will be a little better for our 'having been there.

Difficulties Continue For Soviet Christians

GENEVA (NC) - Lutheran World Federation (LWF) presidE;!nt Mikko Juva said that he ELIZABETH (NC)-Prospects.. found both "encouraging signs" for aid to nonpublic schools'" " and continuing difficulties and here brightened as the New Jer- tensions for Christians in the sey attorney general's office Soviet Union" on a recent visit to clarified an August legal opinion I that country. opposing a $500,000 aid program.

Dr. Juva, president of the UniState officials now say that versity of Helsinki, made an 11the ruling was only concerned day visit to LWF member w,ith the method of appropriat- churches in Latvia and Estonia, ing the, aid, not with the concept two of the Baltic countries annexed by the Soviet Union in of aid to nonpublic schools.

This assurance was given to 1940. In Lithuania, the third BalMsgr. William Daly, school su- tic country, Catholics have' reperintendent for the Newark cently criticized Soviet religious . Archdiocese, and other represen- policies.

In a report to the LWF headtatives of nonpublic education quarters here, Dr. Juva, stressed at a meeting in Trenton.

As a result of the c1anification, the "earnestness and reverence efforts are being made to have with which people take part in the $500,000 restored to the the worship service." local board of education budget, He also said that theological with the appropriation being training programs in Latvia and handled in such a manner that Estonia had impro"ed and that it will meet the state's objec- new congregations have ~en tions. formed outside the Baltic area.

Nonpublic School Aid Prospects Brighten .

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Enrollment in Catholic schools dropped 17 per cent in a decade while enrollment in other private schools-some of them racially segregated - increased 66 per cent, .according to the U. S. Office of Education.

The USOE's center for educatoional statistics based part of its report on information provided under contract from the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). The enrollment statistics were for 1961-71 period.

,RABBI LEADS FIGHT FOR LIFE: Rabbi David Hollander, president of the New York City Metropolitan Board of Orthodox Rabbis, speaks to a rally from a platform in front of the Lincoln Memorial in the Nation's capitol. Rabbl Hollander expressed concern about government intervention in the abortion issue. NC Photo.

The 66 per cent increase in non-Catholic private sohools was more than offset by the 17 per cent decline in Catholic school enrollment. More than eight out of every 10 nonpublic school students attend Catholic schools.

As a' result, the over-all nonpublic school enrollment decreased 8.1 per cent in 10 years while public sohool enrollment -increased 22.5 per cent, according to Office of Education statistics. .

Women Complain About. 'S~cond Class' Status In Judaism NEW YORK (NC) - Three members of the Jewish Women's Liberation movement (Ezrat Nashim) complained to a rabbinical assembly that women have second class status in the synagogues of the Judaism's Conservative movement.

The women appeared for the first time at a study session of' the Conservative movement's rabbinical Assembly at the Jew. ish Theological Seminary of America here. They tried and failed to get on the agenda last March.

During a lively discussion reminicent of debates among Cat-holic women over the possibility of woman priests, the trio was disputed by Mrs. Melvin Glatt, wife of a New Jersey rabbi.

Mrs. Glatt said she spoke for "the silent majority of Jewish women who 'think we have a very fine place."

"One of the strengths of Judaism is that it has given specific roles to men and women" Mrs. Glatt said. "Judaism has a value structure and one is no longer completely free to set up one's own set of values."

Ms. Ann Lapidus Lerner said that rather than attempting tei continue with the rigidities of the situation, or attempting to obliterate Jewish distinctions between the roles of men and women, the present challenge is to find a compromise which would make ,possible "a viable Jewish future for men and women aUke." Ms. Lerner, an instructor in Hebrew literature at the seminary, was joined by Ms. Judith Hauptman, instructor in Talmud at the'seminary, and Ms. Martha Ackelsberg, lecturer on government, Smith College. .

Women who enroll in the seminary college may start out with great dedication, but as they see they have "no real professional purpose"---,since they cannot become rabbis - they lapse into "lassitude," and and "indirection" and finally enter secular fields, Ms. Lerner said.

Ms. Ackelsburg said that the traditional role of woman as a home body with no place in Jewish prayer and study "has

lost a g;eat deal of its meaning today." There is no reason why women should not be rabbis and cantors, she said.

Recently, a woman, Sally Preisand, became the first woman rabbi in the Reform movement, which is more liberal than the Conservative.

The NCEA had reported earlier that some of the growth in non-Catholic private schools can be attributed to the establishment of new, racially. separate private schools in the South. A spokesman at the USOE backed up this conclusion.

Asserts Church Me.ets Crisis

He added that a check in Mississippi showed that the drop in public school enrollment one year almost balanced out against growth' in ra.(:ially segregated private schools.

SYRACUSE (NC)-The retired bishop of Syracuse celebrated the 35th anniversary of his episcopal consecration by saying that "the Church doesn't run away from croises; she meets them."

Bishop Walter A. Foery, who retired in 1970, also said he felt confident that the young would "build on the efforts of the past" in propagating faith.

The prelate made his comments in an interview with "The Catholic Sun," the publication of the Syracuse diocese, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his consecration.

Looking back over his 33 years as head of the diocese, he said, "I hope and pray that my administration has been acceptable to the Lord, to our priests, religious and peo!,i~.

"Too ,frequently we measure the administration of a bishop in terms of buildings. The important question is-has he been a good bishop?" .

Quoting more NCEA statistics, U. S. Education Office pointed out that Catholic schools for the past few years have continued to close or merge at the rate of one a day. ~he

Women Arrange F1ashion Show The Fall River Catholic Wom· an's Club will sponsor a fashion show and dinner at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening, Sept. 20 in the Venus de Milo Restaurant.

Mrs. Bunny North will be the commentator.

Monday, Sept. 18 is the deadline for reservations which may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Anthony J. Geary or Mrs. Michael J. McMahon as tickets will not be available at the door.

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Newspaper Hits Change of Policy Toward Cuba FORT WORTH (NC)-A division of the U. S. Catholic Conference is battling with the National Catholic Itegister over the division's positic;m on Cuba: The Fort Worth-based newspaper and the Division for Latin America exchanged charges following the division's June statement on ending the embargo of Cuba.

The division had asserted that f the embargo of Cuba was "cruel and ineffective." The division statement had been a response to the defeat of a motion before the Organization of American States (OAS) that would have allowed member countries to formulate their own trade regulations on Cuba.

Later, the Register said that in appearances before the Democratic and Republican platform committees officials of the USCC had advocated. a "pro,r; ..... found revision" of American policy on Cuba. The conference's ,LABOR DAY CEREMONY: Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle of Washington, D.C., blesses a Latin America unit earlier had wreath to be placed in front of a statue of Cardinal James Gibbons after a Labor Day made a similar proposal, the.

Mass. For the first time in two decades the outdoor wreath laying was rained lOUt. editorial said.

In a Labor Day mess~ge, the cardinal urged Catholics and others to join the boycott 'Not Accurate' against non-union lettuce. NC Photo.

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The paper deplored the idea of a change of pol.icy toward Cuba, saying the government of Fidel Oastro is "a tyranny." It also said the Latin American Division reported oppression in all Latin American nations except c"uba.

Father Frederick McGuire, in a letter to the Register, said the proposal for a "profound revision" of U. S. policy on Cuba had been made by Bishop John J. Dougherty, chairman of the USCC"s International Affairs Committee.

The paper's charge that the Latin Affairs Division had earlier supported such a suggestion was "not accurate," Father McGu,ire said.

Bishops' Request "We did not urge that diplomatic relations be resumed with Cuba or make any statement endorsing the government of Premier Fidel Castro," the priest wrote.

"We asked only that U. S. Catholics support the request (for an ,end to the embargo) of Cuban bishops who were speaking in behalf of suffeliing peo. pIe on that island."

Father McGuire also wrote that his office had not ignored oppression in Cuba, as the Register had charged.

"The division for Latin America has been actively investigating the torture of Cuban political prisoners since the beginning of this year," he said. "You could have discovered that fact had you exfended us the courtesy of a phone call."

Youth One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let l:'he facts get in the way of your imagination.

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Cardinal ' O'Boy~e Endorses Union Sta.,td WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardi- m~tch for the entrenched power' have never been perrrjittedinto nal Pa,trick O'Boyle of Washing- of corporate wealth." the mainstream of our: relatively ton has endorsed the lettuce boyThe lot of these workers, and prosperous society and as a recott proclaimed by th~ United most. across the country, has suR, are perhaps even worse off Farm 'Workers (UFW) , in its improved significantly since his in' ,1972 _·than were the immidrive to win recognition as a 'boyhood, the cardinal said. How- grants who made up i' the bulk union. ever, he said, "There is one group of the American labor force at The cardinal' said the UFW of workers in particular who the turn of the century.

"I refer to the 2,500,000 work"needs and fully deserves the ers who harvest the crops that support of the general public" have made this the best fed naand praised UFW leader Cesar tion in the history of the world. .Chavez as "a man who is fully These workers-mainly Mexkancommi,tted, as a matter of reliAmericans, Filipinos" and migious conviction, to a philosophy LA RIOJA (NC)-Bfshop Enof non-violence and the principle rique Angelelli of La Rioja ur- grant bla~ks, are truly the forof labor-management coopera- 'gently requested military author- gotten ,People of the United States." tion." . ities in Argentina to insure that Urges Support, The prelate made his remar,ks two arrested priests are spared Cardinal O'BoYle said that from the puLpit of the Shrine of moral or physical coercion.. the Sacred" Heart here at the Fathers Enry' Hardy and An- these workers had 6een preconclusion of the 20th annual tonio Gil, who work in his dio- vented until recently from organLabor Day Mass. Cardinai cerse wer'e charged in connection izing themselves into I a union.

O'Boyle had presided ,at the .ser- with an anti-government con- Now "they have established their vices, which were sponsored by spiracy after police raided a farm own union - the .United Farm the Holy Name Societies of the 16 miles from here. Authorities Workers Union-led by one of 'Washington' archdiocese. claimed they' found subervsive the most dedicated labor leaders in the history of the United In his talk, the cardinal re- materials and explosives. ,States, Cesar Chavez-,-a mlln During a religious function at called the appalling wages and' living conditions of the coal the cathedral, Bishop Angelelli who ,is fully committed, as a miners of the region around read a letter he addressed to his matter of relgious conviction, Scranton, Pa., where he was priests, saying "you have been to the philosophy of I non-vioraised. arrested hecause of your loyalty . lence and the'pr,inciple, of labormanagement cooperation."

"The sturdy, God-fearing im-' to the message of Christ."

The cardinal noted that Cha. migrants who labored in the "Therefore our indigation in vez' union has been struggling mines and mills in that bygone the face of calumny and our sorfor recognition as a union with era-my own relatives, neigh- row for those who do not know collectiye bargaining powers. . bors, and fellow-townsmen- what they are doing," the prelate "It needs and fully' deserves were compelled, by sheer eco- added. "I have asked authorities the support of the gen'eral pubnomic necessity, to work inhu- \"to make sure you are. spared lic," he.said. "At the pre~ent time, manly long hours in dangerous, any kind o~ coercion, or' any as you undoubtedly know, tt: is. unsanitary conditions," Cardinal physical mlstreatement." The carrying on a nation-wide boyO'Boyle said. He added: bishop also asked that other incott in a desperate effort to 'Forgotten People' dividuals arrested after the raid achieve its goal of collective bar" . be given the same guaranties ~helr wages were at a ba!e Catholic lay readers in this dio- gaining. The issues ,in~olved in su~~stence lev~l. T~ere was ht- cese of 150,000 in the Argentine this controversy were outlined tle If any legIslatIOn, whether Andes area offered Bishop recently in a statemen,t by the fed~ral or state, to protect them Angelelli money and legal advice committee on social' devel-opment of the United States Calh- . agamst the ravages .of ~nem- for the priests. ployment, catastrophIC Illness olk Conference ... I fully suband occupational disability. Their scribe to this statement and urge Dreaming unions, thOugh led by dedicated all of yoo to do whatever you men of great integrity, still were Imagination is more important can to implement its recommenrelatively weak, and seldom a than knowledge.

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HONOLULU (NC) The "Hickam Two"-a .pair ofCath· olic war protesters accused of pouring blood on military files here - were each fined $500 and placed on one year probation..

Federal Judge Samuel P. King , told' James Douglass and James Albertini, that they "are really hurting their cause by their ar,rogance, their egotism and extreme language."

"Their attitude is that they and their followers are the only ones who know the truth and the way ... We know this is . ,the path to hell and the pathway to tyranny," King said a'S he fined the meil.

Douglass and Albertini had 'been ,charged with conspiracy, and destruction of government . records. Originally, they were part of a group called the "Hickam Three." Charges against James Giuli, the third protester, were dropped because of lack of evidence.

The charges stemmed from a March 2 incident ,in which Douglass and Albertini poured blood on classified documents at Hickam Air Force Base's electronic welfare office. ' They sl!-id they pOl"red "our blood" on the' documents because theY believe tpat electronic warfare directed from Hickam violates dnternational treaties signed by the United States.

Archbishop Furey Su pports Boycott 'sAN ANTONIO '(NC~Arch­ bishop' Francis J. Furey of San Antonio has asked' for support of the lettuce boycott sponsored by the United Farm Workers Union (UFWU).

"Let all of us get in back of the boycott," Archbishop Furey told the congregation at an outdoor Labor Day Mass here. "Let us all help the farm workers and we shall overcome."

The Mass was offered. he said, in the "spirit of solidarity and sacrifice with the farm workers."

After reaching an impasse in negotiations with lettuce growers in the Southwest, the union called for a boycott of all iceberg lettuce that does not bear its black Aztec eagle label.

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Warns Chileans On Holocaust Of Civil War SANTIAGO (NC) - Cardinal Raul Silva of Santiago warned fellow Chileans to curb political passions or face "the apocalyptic specter of fratricidal war."

The cardinal compared present tensions w.ith the warlike climate following the assassination in October 1970.of the army commander Gen. Rene Schneider. ,"We must bury hate before hate destroys our nation," Gardinal Silva said at that time.

The assassination was later traced by a court to rightists seeking to throw the country ,into chaos, and prevent the confirmation by congress of Marxist Salvador Allende as president of Chile. Allende followers are now celebrating the second anniversary of his election.

"I am talking in the midst of a critical situation, in an effort to soothe passions and bring people back to their senses," Cardinal Silva said.

More Difficulties "We want to avoid the horrible disgrace of a fratricidal war,. with its sequence of bloodshed, divided famiJ,ies and destruction and ·hunger the length and breadth of our land."

Opposition lea<!ers announced a geneJ:1al shutdown Sept. 4-the anniversary date-of all offices, shops and business establishments. They advised. followers to stay home and avoid any clash with pro-government groups.

Allende is having increasing difficulties both with the 'opposition and with the extreme left.

There have been several armed clashes, particularly in connection with land reform and housing There have been a few deaths, and many wounded.

General Discontent The talk of armed revolt, more and more frequent these days, is fed in par:t by the general discontent with the consequences of some economic moves. Massive land reform resulted in sharp scarcity of basic foo.ds. The state has taken over most' foreign and Chilean-owned industry and banking,. causing :'some unem~ ployment. Inflatiori. is hitting hard.

Cardinal Silva, Y,{ho has welcomed much of the social reforms of ,the Allende government as means to ease the plight of the 'poor, said that while the Church fosters change for the sake of social justice, it strongly warns against the "immense damage of violence and armed revolution."

Pontiff Backs fight Against Illiteracy CASTELGANDOLFO (NC Pope Paul VI gave the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) his ,personal support in its campa,ign against iIIiteraacy.

Writing to Rene Maheu, UNESCO director general, Pope Paul said UNESCO~s pilot projects for the teaching of reading and wrIting "answer one of the major needs of our times."

UNESCO, which has its headquarter's in Paris, aims at fostering iin~rnational collaboration for human rights through education, science and culture.

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Dock Workers Win Battle

POPE GREETS SERENADER: An unindentified Mexican boy from Cuidad de los Ninos, kisses the hand of Pope Paul VI after serenading the pontiff during his weekly general audience in Castelgandolfo, Italy. NC Photo.

Demands of Christianity Difficult Today OASTELGANDOLFO (NC) The demands of the Christian life have become more difficult to meet in today's morally ~ndifferent world, Pope Paul VI told thousands of visitors at a weekIy general audience.

The Pope began his audience address by denouncing the murder of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games by Arab terrorists. After delivering his impassioned and sorrowful comments on the Munich massacre, Pope Paul returned to the theme of man and morality that he has been discussing at his weekly audiences for most of the Summer.

"We are in a period of laxity, protest and indifference to the moral code," the Pope said.

"Liberty," he added, "is invoked not to be free to do good, as it should be in the normal way, but to be free not to do good."

He said that "the Church meets in today's world much aversion, diffidence and hostility to the exercise of 1ts ministry as a moral guide and pastoral teacher ... "Yes, Christian life, and that of the Catholic especially, is not easy."

Increasing secularization and the exclusion of religion from' the life of modern man are the principal causes of this moral crisis, <the Pope saId. "Atheism . claims for .itself dominion over morality," he continued, and thus deprives man of the assistance \"of faith and of the mysterious but real influence of loving divine aid."

But 'it can be objected, he pointed out that Christ was full of "pity and, indulg'ence for our weaknesses" and came to save sinnel1s. "All this is very true," Pope Paul said, "and we are assured that our salvation is easy, not difficult, if we enter into the divine design, adapt to its conditions, accept' its assist~nce, share its spir.it and listen to its teachings."

But Christ also called men to follow His example and to take up the Cross, he stressed. Au-

thentic Christian life cannot be understood if one is "wholly intent on abolishing strength,

penance, and 'sacrifice and being satisfied with comfort and pleasure."

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DUBLIN (NC) -'Mter a 20year battle-first to find a site and then with city planning officials - Dublin's dock workers achieved their aim of constructing an impressive tribute to the Virgin Mary in the scenic Dublin Bay area.

A 15-foot-high bronze statue of the Virgin was placed on a 60-foot high st'One plinth at the tip of the Bull Wall pier which extends out into the bay. The statue looks in toward the city over the waters.

Dock workers first raised the idea of a memorial to the Virgin during their annual retreat in the city nearly 20 years ago.

They proposed it as a Marian Year tribute, ·a.nd set up a fund to finance it.

No suitable site for the statue was found for years, and when the present location was finally suggested, plans for the construction jobs were held up by city authorities, who said the statue' as proposed would seriou~,ly j'ljure the visual amenities of the area. The Bull Wall pier is not used for shipping, but gives access to an island beach much used by Dublin citizens.

The statue committee appealed this decision to the government department responsible for planning policy; and they got their permission. The statute project is costing them about $45,000,

MIAMI BEACH (NC)-Repub- will only exploit anxieties and \.ican platform writers ignored arouse hostility on the part of Military Confirms the abortion issue, strongly op- parents,''' he declared. posed school busing, and spoke Opposition to anti-busing Friars' Sentence approvingly of tax credits to aid measures now before Congress SAO PAULO (NC) - Brazil's the parents of nonpublic school has also come in the form of a top military tribunal unanimouschildren. letter to all U. S. Representatives ly confirmed jail sentences for "We believe that means which from Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, four clerics tried last December are consistent with the Consti- USCC General Secretary. on subverSion charges. tut!on can. be. devi~ed ~or chanThe Democratic. platform Lawyers had appealed the senneling public f,1~anclaI aid t~ sup- adopted in July supports busing tences to four years in prison ~ort the educatIOn of .all childre~ as one possible tool for racial against three Dominican monks, 1O. school.s of. their parents desegregation, but is vague on Carlos Alberto Cristo, Fernando c.h~~ce, nonpublic as well as pu~- the tax credit issue, pledging Brito and Ivo do Amaral Leslic,. s~ted the p~atform cor~mlt- only to "channel financial aid by beaupin. They also appealed a tee 10 Its edllcatlOn plank. One a Constitutional formula to chilsix-month 'sentence against a way to provide such aid appears dren in nonpublic schools." ' secular priest, Father Joao Anto be through the granting of i n - . . come tax credits."

While the Democrats were Sl- tonio Caldas Valenza.

Tax credits have received the lent on school prayer, the RepubThe four were charged with strong support of the United lican platform writers said, "We a·iding the National Liberation States Catholic Conference aff.irm our view that voluntary Alliance (ALN), a guerrilla (USCC) and the National Cath- ~rayer ~hould be freel~ permitted group led by communist strateolic Educational Association 10 public places-particularly by gist Carlos Marighela.

(NOEA) as a constitutional schoolchildren while attending They and some 140 persons means of saving parochial public schools." were arrested following the killThe Republicans, like the Dem- ing in Marighela in November, schools from financial disaster.

On -the issue of school busing, ocrats, avoided a platform state- 1969 during a police ambush in . however, the Republican plat- ment on abortion. While the Sao Paulo. The government form committee found itself at Democrats had raised a storm cla'imed that the Dominicans loggerheads with Catholic offi- with an open floor. fight over the were part of a major conspiracy cials. Stating that "we are irrev- issue, the Republican platform fora communist take over. ocably opposed to busing for committee was freed from the racial balance," the proposed problem when the National Opportunity education plank supports Presi. Women's Political Caucus failed dent Nixon's Student Transporta- to ,include a pro-abortion proThe sure way to mfss success tion Moratorium Act, and an posal in its equal-rights-for- is to miss the opportunity. anti-busing amendment to the women plank.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Sept. 14, 197.2

The,路 Pcarish Parade

OUR LADY OF FATIMA, SWANSEA The Annual Penny Sale will ,take 'place tomorrow, Friday 02722. at 7:30 in the evening, Church Hall'. A lighted parking ST. JOSEPH, Last Fall when our ten-year-old was planning a famarea adjoins the Hall. Featured NEW BEDFORD Under the guidance of Rev. w,jJ} be many ,prizes as well as ily All Saints Day liturgy, she was going to put a charades Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, pastor, special prizes and refreshments game right in the middle but she decided against it. S.he the p~rish Legion 6f Mary will will be served.' explained to us, "I was going to have ~s act out a samt sponsor Ii "Recollection" pro- ST. MICHAEL, and have the others guess gram in the church on Sunday, FALL RIVER . ily birthdays .but not for anyThe Home and ,Syhool Asociawho it was, but then I re- thing Sept. 17 starting at 1:30 P.M. "religious?"

Refreshment will be served im- tion will sponsor a Fal'l Festimembered liturgies are supTake time the first year to mediately after the prayer ser- val Adult Dance ,from 8 to midposed to be boring and I did~ develop' some family parties. night on Saturday, Sept. 23 in vice. , n't do it. Do you suppose we Leave religion and Church and the school hall. John Sowa's OrActive and auxiliary members could do it after our liturgy?" saints and holiness out of them, from all sections of the diocese chestra will furnish the music.

"Liturgies are supposed to be Get comfortable enjoying each Admission is $1.50 per person. are invited. boring ..." She didn't say it other in celebration. Then slip Refreshments will ,be served.

SACRED HEART, DANIEL LE BLANC into some semi-religious family Mr. Frank Foster, chairman, FALL RIV~R ~r:!liIll[[jI!I' celebrations: Thankgiving is a Mrs. James Roberts, chairman states that tickets may be obgood one. From there, go on to ,and Mrs. GharlesMitchell, co- tained by calling 4-5200 or Advent, namedays, baptismal anchairman have announced that 8-2090.

By niversaries, All Souls Day, St. "ft Ithe Women's Guild will sponsor ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, Patrick's Day, etc.

VI a meatpie supper and dance on ACUSHNET DOLORES "Shades of Autumn", a fashChildren's Suggestions Daniel Le Blanc, of 24 Ethel, ' Saturday night, Se~t. 1~ in, the \ ion show, will be 'presented by , St., New Bedford, and a member parish school hall. ' CURRAN Then go wild. 'Celebrate' an of St. Theresa's Parish, first alMiss Margaret Tolan and Mrs. the Women's Guild at 7:30 on End-of-the-Illness liturgy, Grand- ternate in the Catholic Order of Joseph Caouette will serve as Monday night, Sept. 25 at ,ma's Coming liturgy, and so on, Forester's 1971-72 Scholarship chairman and' co-chairman, re- White's Restaurant. ' When it becomes natural, you Program, has been awarded a ~pectively, ,for the 'guild's first Music will be provided and a will find your children saying, COF Scholarship. The announce- meeting of the year. It, will be luncheon will be served. sarcastically or disrespectfully. "Can we have a liturgy tonight ment was made by Paul H. La a coffee hour scheduled for MonTic!~ets may be obtained from She stated it as a general fact. just for nothing?" You have Montagne, High Secretary of the day night, Oct. 2 i~ the school Mrs. Vivian Langlois at 995-4395 What a pathetic but real assess- succeeded. ' or Mrs. Vorma Sylv-ia at 995~ COF. Daniel, who is a graduate hall. merit of t,he liturgy as seen by Have the .children develop of Bishop Stang High School, No. ST. JOSEPH, 0131. the child. liturgies. Do not always impose Dartmouth, received the grant ATTLE'BORO Proceeds will be used for the "Do you suppose we could do them from an adult 'level. For when Roland Erwert of Mt. The Junior Drop-In Center is benefit of the parish school. it after our liturgy?" Isn't that your next birthday party, suggest Angel, Oregon, one of the ten- open every Friday, night from ST. PATRICK, what we always do? The wed~ to' the kids that they plan a fam- original winners, declined his 7 to 9. All seventh, eighth and FALL RIVER ding reception and joy路 comes ily party. Let them know you are award in order to enter the ninth graders are: eligible to The, Annual Parish Festival after the solemnity of the Mass. there to help them but have them " U. S. Marines. The scholarship come to the school for this ser- will ,be held on Saturday and We oqserve the ~ass and then plan 'the menu, games, songs, 'provides $500 for each of the vice to the youth of the area.

Sunday, Sept. 23-24 on the celebrl!.te. Likewise, during .the decorations, etc. student's four college years.

Registration fee i~ one dollar school grounds. The festival will usual Sund'ay liturgy, fellowship ' a'year, or ten cents ill, week. feature all types of booths, food Try to overcome your adult bursts forth outside the church sense of sacreligious. It can be A Forester since October, 1968, ' ,Supervision is con~tantly main- and refreshments. after an hour of non-enthusiastic , difficult for the parent who still Daniel is now a Sentinel with tainedat the center.

Mr. Leonard Bolger, chairman St. Theresa Ct. 2149, New Bedmonosyllabic responses to the is appe,alil),g for :workers and dohis head at the word, Jesus" f 1 d ST. ANNE, : bows priest's attempt to' involve the ford. He is the son 0 Raou an -F4I,.L ~JY.~~",,, h-),' ;,~d , , ,., , 'h' " ,iJatlons"Qf .~al1nedJ goods;~bottled to hear his child say, ','Hey)es,us,' , Yvonne Le Blanc, b oth 0 'f wh om .laity. in the..liturgy."'''' can come 'out of the to,mb Bingo every Wednesday mg t items and cash donations. you Whenever I hear 'parents say .

7 00 Saturday evening will feature now." But if we are going to are also members of the Court. in the school auditonull1 ~lt : wistfully, "I wish we could learn develop spontaneous liturgies 01)' ' Mr. Le Blanc has been treasurer o ' c l o c k . ! the serving of a ham and ' bean ' T to celebrate Advent with the their level, we have to curb the of the Court since its inception The Collies Little League eam supper between 5 and 7:30. wreath and say family prayers," temptation to say, "That's not in 1956. Daniel plans to attend coached by Herman Md' e elros Tickets may be obtained from the University of Massachusetts b h my heart go~s out to them. They very respectful." and, Roger Lagasse won ot Mr. Eugene Connors, ticket can do it but they have no backat Amherst. halves of the Little League Tour- chairman. ground of celebrating as a famWith Other Families ney and will receive their troph- ST. MARY'S, ily, no orientation to it, and little Watch for spontaneous liturgy New Opinion Widens ies at 6:30 on Sunday evening" SO. DARTMOUTH help from the Church in doing it.

Sept. 17. at the annual banquet The first social event of the occasions. These are my favor.in ,the recreation hall. season will be the presentation Celebrate Together ites. When someone comes home Sc:hool Aid Scope The Father Pat Tourney troph- of a "Harvest of Fashions" schedjoyously (or sadly) and everyone We successfully stopper our DES MOINES (NC) - The ey was won by the' Terriers uled for 8 o'clock on WedneSday feels like celebrating, then celeemotions at the church door and brate. Don't wait for the occa- scope of a program designed to managed by Roger Richards and night, Sept. 27 in the Parish then wonder why Mass is such a Center. Proceeds will be donated sion.

We have calendarized our aid non-public schools in Iowa John Cox. listless celebration. We keep A Bus Tour to Cape Cod for to the Carmelite Monastery, celebrations in the Church and it ' has been widened by a new opinsaying a sense of celebration has hasn't worked. There is a great ion .by the Iowa attorney general. the benefit of St. Anne's School Sol-E-Mar Rd., So. Dartmouth. to begin in the home but nobody will depart from th;e sch()ol at Mrs. Robert Davidson and difference psychologically in the The opinion clarifies a July 9 o'clock on Sunday morning, . knows how.

Mrs. George O'Brien, co-chairmen For families that really want thought that "today we must do ruling which' said that the pro- Sept. 24. Price $5.00. Deadline have announced that refreshthis" and "today we feel like gram could provide aid to non-, for reservations is Sept. Hi. You . to start, who want to capture handicappea children as well 'as may call Mr. Maurice Francoeur ments will ,be served during the something of the family spiritu- doing this." showing of fashions and the Hitch-Hike onto another fam- ,to handicapped children; The 674-2411 for reservations. ality evident in that beautifU'1 Sabevening will close with the servily that is comfortable with celeJuly ruing, however, indicated bath scene in Fiddler on the Roof On Saturday evening, Sept. 23 ing of coffee and dessert. and who are willing to expose brating. 'Frequently, friends will that the aid could go only to a Benefit Dinner and Dance will ST. JOHN TIlE BAPTIST, their feelings and risk a failure ask if they can sit in on our Ad- nonpu1;>lic school students in be held at St. Anne's Frat Hall CENTRAL VILLAGE or two, here are some starters. vent or Ash Wednesday or Jus! shared time programs with pub- for the benefit of St. Anne's The Ladies Guild will hold a Learn to celebrate' togethei" Anything liturgies so that they lic schools.

School. Tickets are available Lobster Supper on Saturday, can become comfortable together through a secular event first. If In a later opinion Attorney from Frat members or at rectory. Sept. 16 ,in the church hall on you're embarrassed by the idea through other families. It is an General Richard Turner ruled St. Anne's Committee will Main Rd., Westport. of praying and singing together excellent way of doing it- that auxiliary services were in- have its first meeting Monday, Servings will take place bearound the Advent or Lenten something that parishes can do. tended for all non-public school Sept. 18 at 7:45 P.M. tween 5:30 and 7:30 and reservaidea, then try it with a family also, either furnishing demon- students, and not only those enPlease save used postage tions may be made by contactstration liturgies for parents or New Year's party, a family Valrolled in shared-time programs. stamps to save the school aQd ing either Mrs. Lynwood Potter win valuable prizes. entines party, a Mother's and furnishing names of parents or Mrs. Arthur Denault.

According to the language of MT. CARMEL, Father's Day party, a' we~ding willing to invite others to watch.

Celebrate with a group of the July 'opinion, the attorney NEW BEDFORD anniversary, ,even a ,birthday CONRAD SEGUIN The Parish PTA will sponsor party. Ever notice that we com- families occasionally. This return. general's clarification stated, the fortably build traditions for fam- to the early Christian community 1970 auxiliary services law "ap- an adult dance at the Kennedy , BODY COMPANY is finding acceptance aIllong rplied only to those school dis- Center, County Street, New BedAluminum or Steel Catholics whose parishes life too ' tricts which incurred expenses ford from 8 to midnight on Sat,944 County Street Submerged Statue large to be personal. Get together for providing materials and pupil urday, Sept. 16. Music will be NEW BEDFORD, MASS. MALAGA (NC)-A local divers with a few families like yourself ,personnel serv.ices to students provided by the Gene' Oliver 992路"~'8 club "enthroned" a 6-foot bronze and hold a communal Mother's , from private schools enrolled in Quartet. Ticket's are' $2.50 per statue of Our Lady of Fuensalud Day liturgy. Have the men cook shared-time programs. However, person. some 30 feet under sea water as the meal and the children plan the clarification continued, "a reProceeds will be used to pura tribute to fishermen working ,the liturgy. Graduate to an examination of the (original law) chase a science table fOlr the Spain's sunny southern coast. . eventual group penance service, has led us to conclude that that schoQI. Thousands of tourists joined the It's a long road for some, maybe, was not the intention of the Mr. and Mrs. Louis Costa, Jr. ceremony near here. but the trip is fun. legislature ..." are co-chairmen for the aff;air.

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Cardinal Krol Stresses Need For . School Aid

THE ANCHORThurs., Sept•. 14, 1972

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-"Even if we stand on our heads," the Philadelphia archdiocese cannot seem to "convince some of our fl1iends" that adequate funds are not available to keep diocesan schools afloat, Cardinal' John Krol told an assembly of 250 pastors.

"There's a constant kind of impression that, somehow or __ other, there are spigots or valves where the archdiocese, can find money," the cardinal said.

The remarks were made at a session held to inform pastors of implications of the recently conducted Gurash Report, which projected a total Catholic school deficit of $55 million .over the next three years.

The National Association of LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR AT DEDICATION: Little Sisters of the Poor sing the Laity in mid-July termed the Gurash Report '~deceptive" and at dedication ceremonies .for their new home for the aged in Leeds, England. In the backsaid the schools could be saved ground is the Leeds House and Juniorate, the College of the Blessed Virgin, a Victorian by increased contributions by struc'ture that was formerly a Wesleyan seminary. NC Photo. pal1ishioners.

Immediate Help Cardinal Krol said that he'd be very happy to get back to voluntary contributions" as the source of school revenue. But, he added, "when you come to the point where you can't pay salaries, you don't make a decision.

It's already made for you."

"The report shows," he said, "it's no longer business as' usual." While "long-range" assistance must come from the government, the cardinal said that immediate help must be sought in the business community.

Speaking about tax credit bills now before ,Congress, the cardinal said "There's little hope of activity in this year." He added, however, that a tax credit bill may pass the U. S. House of Representatives before the November election.

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LEEDS (NC) - "Now ,thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done ..." chorused a stoud band of black-and-white garbed Little Sisters of the Poor here. Their words were echoed by a group of humlreds, headed

by Bishop William Gordon Wheeler of Leeds, at the dedication of the Sisters' new home for old people, Mt. St.' Joseph.

The Lord may move ,In mys-· terious ways, but none of the Yorkshiremen and wom~n at the dedication had any-'doubt' about how He pulled this one off: the building of a $2 million old folks' home by a ReLigious community with hardly a penny in the cookie jar when it all started.

He simply called on a diminutive Sister with 'rimless glasses Anglican Archbishop and the toughness of Yorkshire granite masked by a cheerful To Host Cardinal smile-who was to fly off to the ~ONDON (NC) - Cardinal Jan , motherhouse in St. Pern, France, Willebr'ands, president of the halfway through the blessing Vatican Secretariat for Promot- ceremony "to start building ing Ch11istian Unity, will be the another home somewhere it's guest of Anglican Archbishop needed. This is only the begin- ' Michael Ramsey of Canterbury ning ,of many." in October.

Mother Philomena was not The cardinal will stay from half as impressed with the Little Oct. 3 to Oct. 5 at Lambeth Pal- Sisters' achievement - which ace, Archbishop Ramsey's Lon.' several of the lawyers, account-, don headquarters on the south ants and realtors gathered for side of ,the River Thames across the blessing ceremony called infrom the houses of parliament. credible and miraculous-as the This was always, even in Leeds community.

Catholic times, the London home "I simply had suoh faith in of the Archbishop of Canterbury divine providence," she said. and the last Catholic holder of "After all, when the Little Sisthe office, Cardinal Reginald ters came to England from BritPole, died there 414 years ago. tany a hundred years ago, they A spokesman at the palace had exactly three and nine said the visit would be "an op- (three shillings and ndnepence, portunity for them to discuss the about 45 cents),on them. If they present stage reached in Angli- succeeded, why shouldn't we?" can-Roman Catholic relations, 'Looked Good' the work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic commission which last "The really fantastic part of year issued the agreed statement the whole project is the totally on Eucharistic doctrine and matters of pastoral concern in the unprofessional way the Sisters relations between the two went about it." said Arthur Somerville, a retired school princiChurches." pal who heaped the lay fund-. raising drive. "Frankly, mOst of Competence us spent our time shaking our Nothing is impossible; there heads about the new home while are ways that lead' to everything, the Sisters went out and built it and if we had sufficient will, we ... It's a living proof of the should always have sufficient strength of faith."

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The Sisters looked at dozens .91 _si~es. , .... " ", ' .

"Then Bishop Wheeler rang us one day and told us this place was up for sale," Mother Philomena said. "We came up to see it. It was big' for what we wanted, but it looked good."

Former Seminary The site included a' vast old Wesleyan, seminary building, three other houses 'and a football ground ideally suited for a new home for the aged. There were 11 acres in all and the asking

Catholic Ne~spaper Publisher Retires MILWAUKEE (NC) - Humphrey E. Desmond, 72, publisher of the Catholic Herald Citizen, the archdiocesan paper here, is retiring -after 50 years in the general management of the newspaper and its predecessor, the Catholic Citizen. ' Desmond was named business manager of the Catholic Citizen, a family owned newspaper in 1922. ,His father, Humphrey J. Desmond, edited the paper for 50 years later. The son became general manager three years later and publisher in 1932.

In 1935 when, Archbishop' Samuel Stritch proposed forming an archdiocesan-owned, nonprofit corporation to take over .the Catholic Citizen and the Catholic Herald, Desmol}d sold his paper to the new corporation and was named general manager of the merged papers.

Desmond was president of the Catholic P·ress association of the United States and Canada, 1946 to 1948, and was 'a member of its board of directors for 10 years.

price was a cool half-million dollars.

But Mother Philomena saw that the old seminary building could be used as a juniorate'for the newer Sisters, where their doctrinal and their nursing training could be continued. She sat down with the Wesleyans, bargained with them and got the whole works for less than $350,000. "Of course they were happy that the semipary would remain a religious place," Mother Philomena said with a wry smile.

The $350,000 was raised with the help of the Little Sisters' 14 other houses in England and the Channel Islands - and some eloquent arm-twisting, in and around the western third of Yor,kshire, of which Leeds is the center. In 1968, title. passed to the Sisters and the Old Methodist seminary became the College of the Blessed Virgin inhabited by 35 junior Little Sisters of. the Poor.

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Priests' Senates Support Boycott MILWAUKEE (NC) - Priests' Senates here and in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., diocese, have voted overwhelmingly to support the lettuce boycott sponsored by the United Farm Workers Union (UFWU).

The vote here was 22 in favor, 1 against and 1 abstention. In Springfield-Cape Girardeau, it was 10 in favor, one abstention.

Father Richard Rodriguez told the Milwaukee senate that his fellow Mexican-Americans are U. S. citizens but that they are handicapped by the fact that some speak only Spanish. Migrant workers, many of whom are Mexican-American, live in substandard conditions, he said.

"Through the boycott," Father Rodriguez said," we're asking for a decent wage .for their work."

The lone opposing vote came from Father Edward Sippel of Fond du lac. The priest questioned whether Cesar Chavez, (lie l.€1d of the UFWU, had allowed workers full freedom of chaice.

Farm workers, Father Suppel said, had been allowed to choose between joining the UFWU or remaining nonunion workers. They had not been allowed to choose another union, the priest said.

In Springfield-Cape Girardeau, the resolution favoring the UFWU boycott passed without opposition. "This is not a lettuce thing. It is a people thing," said Father Wally ""'Rflin'g~t, ," soCial concerns secretary for the diocese. He said the boycott involved "the whole issue of human rights and' dignity."

The boycott began last May after negotiations between the union and lettuce growers in California reached an impasse.

The union has asked for a boycott of all iceberg lettuce that does not bear its black Aztec label.

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By Joe and Marilyn Roderick

During the past year when my wife was working longer hours than her usual 8:00-3:00 day, I was pressed into service as 'chef for about two of the evening meals per week. Needless to say, the quality of the meals was unbe..; lievably high on those nights when I assumed the culinary tivities that kept my sanity 'intact-tennis and the garden. task, but the children and, In the latter I have two pros as my wife were not sufficient- teachers":"-Joe and my father-in-

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ly prepared for the subtleties of law. , of fine cooking, and now that While I'm not a persistent DEBORAH ANNE FISCHBACH she is back to her regular hours weeder, I must admit that this it grieves me to hear the chil- year my window boxes managed .... m t dren. looking ,forward to meals. to look decent even aHer a vary I~ame Any husband ,who is pressed poor garden summer. I certainly into service' finds himself in the won't claim that they got the predicament of searching for the attention, that a seasoned garThe Attleboro Area, Catholic quick and easy meal. Broiled dener would give them but they Nurses Chapter announce that steak was one of my favorites, certainly got more tender, loving they have awarded their annual and shake and bake pork chops care than they had in any p're- Nursing Scholarship to Miss Debwere constantly on the table, vious year.' orah Anne Fischbach, daughteer but as every housewife knows, My bachelor buttons that" of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. to feed a f,amily on the choicest Chris Norfolk, (a young neigh- Fischbach, 52 Park Circle, South cuts of meat every night costs bor whose enthusiasm for any Attleboro. a fortune, so there is th~ neces- project he' tackles 'is catching) Miss Fischbach, a member of sity to experJment and move in- and I planted along the front, St. Theresa's Parish, So. Attleto hitherto unexplored areas. My wall were iny first successful' boro and' a 1972 graduate of the problem was that the areas I venture w,ith seeds, but since Attleboro High School will enter ventured into would have been 'they did' turn out to be a suc' the New England Deaconess 'better left unexplored. cess I'm looking forward to Hospital School of Nursing this I Appreciate Cooks starting some seeds indoors duro, month.

1~he greatest discovery I made ing the winter. was' that hamburger can be My favorite seed' company, While in High Sohool MIss manipulated -into all sorts of and I'm sure many other seed' Fischbach was active in the curious and palatable mixtures companies ' offers a "sure-fire" Future Nurses Club, the Yearalthough the children were get- seed starting kit that is com- 'book Staff, Drama Workshop ting sensitized, to the smell' of prisedof fIats, moss and plant and won a first place award at hamburgers frying and Jason, food, a heafing cable, labels and the Regional Science Fair in, in particular, would say in not 50 jiffy pofs. 'Being_a novice at Fall River and a second award for the same exhibit at the Mastoo subtle a way, "Oh, God. Not this garden business I like to sac.husetts Institute' of Technolhan;lburger aga,in." Jason would start ' out" with professional . ' ", ' not tUrn' a"chef's' creative spark equipment,· although I'll. no ogy. into ,flame ,under the best of con- doubt be scoffed at by ,the green ctiti9ns, but his effect on me was ,thumb gardeners in my family downright depressing. No matter (Joe ,and hisftather) who have what I finally managed to put the amazing ability to make before him, his comments were anything grow. derogatory and at times downMy mini success over the CLEVELAND (NC) - Bishop right disgusting. ,summer, though, has gone to my Clarence G. Issenmann has anAt any rate, my wife is now head and I now intend to start nounced that, effective next Jan. back in the sw~ing of her regu- infringing on their terr,itory,- I, mandatory retirement age for lar schedule and my appetite is besides the peace of mind that diocesan priests wHI be 70. returning. The one thing that I comes .about dur,ing gardening found most disturbing about my season is. a lot cheaper than a In a letter to all priests Bishop cooking was that I had, to eat it psychiatrist.

Issenmann said that priests will and' frankly after cooking a meal This is one of the recipes Joe be "relieved of' administrative I was in no mood to eat it, al- did manage to cook and cook duties and responsibilities autothough I had to go through.the well, especially when the' zuc- matically upon the attainment of motions for appearance sake,,if chini 'and tomatoes were fresh 70 years of age." for no other reason than to quell from THE garden. ' .

Since 1967 the retirement age the mutiny, which was growing Zucchini Provericale had been 75. The new, lower age, more and moresenious each 2 pounds zucchini will affect about 20 priests who night., .

1 medium onion already aTe 70 or who will be So for myself and the children 4 Tablespoons cooking oil 70 during 1973.

I can say witn the greatest sin4 tomatoes cerity, "Welcome back mother."

Bishop Issenmann said his I green pepper, .finely cut Gardening is Relaxing decision to lower the age was clove garlic In the midst of busy summer based on a recommendation made salt that left little time for: my first ,by the Senate of I'riests. Th.e respepper love, the beach,-I found two acolution 'recommending earlier reparsley tirement was passed unanimously, Grated Parmesan cheese 1) Wash, peel and cut into by the Senate in May., Newspaper Leaves cubes the zucchini, set aside. ' 'In his letter Bishop Issenmann Register System 2) In a large skillet or a cas- told priests: GRAND ISLAND (NC)-After serole that will f,it on a jet burn- ,42 years, the Nebraska Register, er, saute the onion that has been "Relief from pastoral adminhas dropped out of the Register finely sliced, in the oil until istration does not mean that a system of Catholic newspapers. golden brown. Add the tomatoes priest of 70 and more years has The Grand Island diocesan that have been peeled, seeded, an empty and useless priestly newspaper 'Iefrt the Register and quartered, the green pepper, life. On the contrary, those now . on retirement assure me of the, chain, which has headquarters and the garlic dove. in Fort Worth, Texas, because 3) Season the mi~ture with peace of mind which they enjoy, of "distanc, and most especially, salt and pepper to taste and after a few months of adjusttransportation schedules." cook' for 15 minutes over low ment, when they no longer need to be anxious about routine paIt will now be pri'nted by the heat.

4) Remove garlic clove and rochial matters and are free to Sidney, Neb., Telegraph. The Telegraph also prints for the add the di~ed zucchini, cover spend their time in truly priestly Southern Nebraska Register, the and simmer until t.ender (about work. This spiritual leisure we Lincoln diocesan paper, which 20 minutes)~ hope to provide our priests after also lef.t the Register system re5) Sprinkle with chopped pars- their many years of responsible cently. duty." 'ley and grated cheese.

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LONDON (NC) - Not many They will also have more than Anglican clerics are known to one, million library bpoks to use -also for no extra cost and with be among 900,000 people who no added administrative red ,are unemployed in Britain, but a very large number seem to be tape. ' tied'to parishes from which they These are some of the oppor- are longing to escape. tunities that have :been made An advertisement that has available to students, This coop- been appearing in the Church eration means the student can 'f,imes of the Anglicans in the "buy a lot more with the same past few weeks reveals a typical dollar," according to Dr. John example: Ford, coordinator of Kentuc:kiana "RECTOR, important northern Metrovers~ty. ' parish (mid-50's; moderate CathThe name of the program olic; married) seeks work in noncombines several ~ords: Ken-' urban southern England. Family tucky and Indiana for "Kentuck- health reasons. Medical advice; iana," and metropolitan and uni- Bish0!,>'S permission. Have tried, versity for "metrovetsity." unsuccessfully, for five years to move, now circumstances, near1,700 Courses Availablle Metroversity is described in ing desperate. Please can someformal education language as a' one help?" consortium of six Kentucky and Indiana colleges and hnive~sities: Bellarmine, Spalding, the University ,of Louisville, Indiana University Southeast in Jefferson, LouisviHe Presbyterian Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

While these schools have different' tUition' rates,l 'an agree" ment has been worked out in which Metroversity ~tudents can take courses at any schOOl for the cost they pay at their home school.' , Ford says that 1,700 to 1,800 courses are made available to students under this arrangement.

There are "some' , dupLicate" courses, he said, but "yoll can give a lot 9f students more opportunities than with what you've got" at any QIle school.

Library Program , Under the cooperative library program, any studerit can borrow books from a Metroversity school library or the LouisviHe Free Pub~ic Library.

Bellarmine ,has about 70,000 books in, its library and Spalding has about 100,000. The library program, Ford said, has increased the"library potential" of these schools to over, one million ,book,S. A recent study showed that "less than two per CE!nt of the books", in all the libraries in the program were' dupli,cates, Ford commented. ' Metroversity also tries to Initiate "educational experiments."

A new program is CHOPS (Community Health ,Orientation Program for Students), a pilot projectdesigned to involve stu~ents ,

But who can help ttJ,is man?

While he hardly seems to be an irresponsible rolling-stone, what bishop would dare appoint him to a parish?

In fact, Anglican bishops are keeping their eyes well .away from the "situations wanted" columns {)f the church press thes'e' 'days.' ~ Already .they have long waiting lists of priestsfrom within their own dioceses and elsewhere-who wish to be considered whenever a parish becomes vacant.

A short-lived, but significant upturn :in recruiting about 10 years ago has resulted in a large number of potential rectors and vicars (heads of parishes or missions) arriving on the market at a time when rural parishes are being merged and an increasing number of clergy are returning from work overseas. So, while the Anglicans - the Church of England - are desperately short of curates (assistants to rectors and vicars), ,it is embarrassingly overstocked with vicars.

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Jesuit Barred From Greece

If one condition of modern "nationhood" or community is to look to the smaller units, the groups and minorities, and give them a sense of justice, sharing and opportunity, another is to look to larger units of associ~tion to make sure that the opportunities really exist. And here, once on capital movements, exchange rates, C<lmmon standards of opagain, we encounter very eration and the building of real difficulties in the pro- shared institutions. Their trade

LONDON (NC)-Jesuit Father Leter Levi, British poet, critic and classics scholar, was recent· .ly barred from entering Greece.

Security officials dn Athens said that he had been too friendly with some of the Greek regime's :- political opponents. .

Father Levn, who is attached ta Campion Hall, the Jesuit cess of forming stable govern- with each <lther has quadrupled, house of studies at Oxford Uniments and societies in our un- their economic growth accelerversity; tried to land at Patras, stable world. When the BishOps ated. Their association does repGreece, by car ferry from Brinin their synodal document talk resent a possible way out of the disi, Italy. He was ordered to extreme restrictions imposed by leave the shi.p at Corfu, howpoverty and a tiny economic ever, and- later returned to base.

CARDINAL TESTIFIES AT HEARING: Cardinal Ter- Brindisi. ence Cooke of New York, center, testifies in favor of aid Essence of Productivity By He was planning to drive to to nonpublic schools during a House Ways and Means his small vacation apartment dn Yet it is far from plain sailing.

BARBARA After all, each little state has Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. It was one of the Athens where he has spent part existed, for a century or more as rare appearances of a cardinal before a congressional com- of .the past nine summers studyWARD . a "nation." Internal interests, mittee. With' him, Attorney Alfred Scanlon of Washington, ing classica.l literature.

The Greek government was however small, come first and left and Auxiliary BIshop William McManus of Chicago, Ill. reported to have been investienflame passions. Indeed, two of gating his Greek friendships ,them recently fought a war over since last year and the ban was a football game. In. economic of the peoples' "right to develop- terms, each unit is always actually imposed in May. when ment" they are fully aware of watching' carefully to see that, the authorJties began clamping how much contemporary eco- within an enlarged market. other Cardinal Cooke, Congressmen Support down on Greek student dissentnomic conditions make this right national units do not pull ahead. ers. A number of prominent perTax Credit Bill inordinately difficult to achieve sonalities who were thought to is exactly what is And this at the "mini-level."

WASHINGTON (NC)-Support cratic tradition the education of be encouraging the students likely to happen. Once you begin .

Take the continent of Africa; to modernize an economy, you for legislation to give tax credits every child is necessarily the were then exiled. ' nearly half the new states have begin rewarding either directly to parents of nonpublic school concern of every citizen."

Father Levi has denied any 'populations of less than three or indirectly the areas and peo- students came from Cardinal Discussing the dimensions of connection with the persons millions. Some of them, Maure- ple who begin to create wealth, Terence Cooke of New York, tes- the Catholic educational effort, exiled. tania for instance, have less than Wealth is, after all, based upon tifying on behalf of the U. S. Cardinal Cooke pointed out that a million. This is a size of com- organizing raw materials and Catholic Conference, and from "there are Catholic schools in munity which has neither the skills and capital in such a way five members of Congress. every state of the Union serving Gifts Campaign capacity for saving nor the scale that the process produces more In testimony before the House the children of almost two mil- Gains $62.4 Million of market to permit anything (saleable or usable) goods than' Ways and Means Committee, lion Amer-ican parents." , SOUTH BEND (NC) - The much beyond subsistence farm- went into it in the first place.

Cardinal Cooke said, "Catholic, In New York City, he said, University of Notre Dame raised ing. Yet if you combine tradi. Protestant and Jewish parents "our Catholic schools educate Land plus a plow and see:! who seek this aid will continue some 300,000 students - more $62.4 million in its capital gifts tional agriculture with even the campaign that ended June 30. beginnings <If modern medicine, produces grain, Land plus a trac- to carry a heavy burden to sup- than are educ~ted by any urban The university said that the the result is an explosive rise in tor, seed fertilizer. water and port the education they, choose. public school system in America, five-year development program modern management can propopulations-many small African "They are seeking a reasonable excepting the· public school sysstates have growth rates of three duce twice as much. This is the tax credit for' the tuition that tems of New York City itself, netted more than $10 million per cent-and the risk not of essense of "productivity" which they pay to give their children Los Angeles and Chicago. Non- than its goal. Almost $550,000 greater opportunity but a drift means, quite simply, "more for the type of education they want. public schools in New York given the campaign came in 81,4 We believe this position is just, State educate more young peo- gifts from the Washington, D.C., to worklessiness, food shortages less." that it is in accordance with the ple than do the public schools in area. and social explosions.

Only One Answer Donations to the campaign, Constitution, and that, in the anyone of 28 states of the In any society, however develcalle,d "Summa," came from But to get this productivity final effect, it will be of great Union. oped, a deteriorating ec'onomy 32,129 individuals, corporations benefit to our communities and increases tension. The unrest in speedily, an economy has to give and foundations 'and will aid to our nation." the advantages to areas with Quebec and Northern Ireland is Congress faculty development, graduate Also testifying in support of Fatima the best resources, the most able n<lt wholly unconnected with an education, special research prothe bill were Reps. Margaret M. Planned for Laity managers and the most skillful eight per cent rate of unemployHeckler, R-Mass., Larry Winn FATI'MA (NC)-A congress for grams and general university ment. In developing societies, the wOI:kers. Moreover, once such a Jr., R-Kansas, Louise Day Hicks, the laity on nationalism and in- development, Notre Dame recombination gets going, it feels pressures can be even more deon itself, past growth encourag- D-Mass., William J. Keating, R- ternationaHsm will be held here ported. structive because there are virtuing further growth. Before you Ohio, and Peter A. Peyser, R- Oct. 5-8 at the international The university has raised $100 ally no resources available to know where you are, one par- N.Y. million in the past 10 years. headquarters of the Blue Army, lessen the s,train. ticular place or one special set The witnesses testif.ied on the which promotes devotion to Our of people are pulling ahead. last day of hearings on H.R. Lady of Fatima.

Seek Compromise Success Then, jf within a wider economic 16141,' the Public and Pr.ivate Notices have' been placed at For this reason, many efforts community they are not in our Success does not consist in Assistance Act of 1972. Title II the shrine church here stating have been made over the last national unit but in another of the Bill would allow parents that women wearing miniskirts never making blunders, but in tW6 decades to work out a sen- member state, the trouble begins. of students in nonpublit elemen- or hot pants and men wearing never making the same one the sible compromise-between the -Shaw If Nicaragua or Guatemala be- tary and secondary schooIs to shorts are not admitted. The re- second time. urgent, post-colon.ial search for gins to pull ahead, the others subtract up to $200 per child striction also applies to the ,refull national identity on the one hesitate about the kind of free from their federal income tax treat houses, hospitals and other hand and on the other for the movement of money and trade chapels in Fatima. tu~tion paid to such schools. larger supplies of capital and Pilgrims to the Marian shrine that will make certain that their Referring to earlier testimony materials and the larger markets associate's predominance will ingiven by Rabbi Morr,is Scherer have also been asked not to that give that identity economic crease. Going back to Africa for ,on behalf of a coa1ition of non- break or uproot young trees and and social reality. a moment, one can notice that publi~ school officials called plants in and around the church.

A good example is the Central the East African Community of CREpIT, C;ardinal Cooke point- Over 200,000 bushes were reo There's 11 convenient American Common Market. The Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is ed out that non-Catholic denom- cently planted at the shrine in locations in Attleboro states are all mini-states-among continuously endangered by the' inational and non-<ienominational a bP.lll1tification program.

Falls, Mansfield, North them Nicaragua, Guatemala, fact that' Kenya, the most mod- groups "sponsor schools which Attleboro, North Dighton, Honduras and El Salvador. They ernized of the three constituent educate more than one million of North Easton, Norton, are all trying to emerge from the states, always seems to the other the more than f.ive million chilRaynham, and Taunton. neo-colonial status of "banana 'two to be getting too much of dren attending nonpublic elerepublics." They have among the the gains from their joint market. mentary and secondary schools." highest population growth rates National Problem There is only one answerin the world-3.5 per cent-and policies of redistributing and Although Catholic schools counting all the people together, sharing the newly-created wealth constitute the largest nonpublic they are not much more than' 12_ between the different component educational system in the United million. states. Thus whether we look to States, the cardinal said. "In the For the last <Iozen years, they the smaller groups in the new real sense this is not a Catholic have successfully, removed their nations or to their needed larger problem or even a nonpublic edbarriers to each others' trade, units - we come back to the ucation problem---rather it is a trying to create a full common same requirem~nt: justice and challenging community and naFALL RIVER tionalproblern. In our demomarket. They have agreements fair shares.

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In his book, "The Effective est hopes and most unabashed Executive," Peter Drucker writes ideals about what we can beabout the need for self develop- come. And he knows, just as ment: "We know very little secular wisdom does, that heroic about self development. But we demand Is the normal technique do know one thing: People in' . for releasing the greatest potengeneral grow according to the tial in people. Meek demands demands they make on them- yield stunted people. Galvanic selves. They grow according to demands produce a race of what they consider to be giants.

The covenant sta.tements of ,the hible are the summary of the kinds of demands that God makes on us. These are found in By Deuteronomy 5 and 6; Matthew 5, 6, and 7; John 15.

FR. AL Startling Demands-McBRIDE The Deuteronomy text contains ,the classic demands of the ten commandments and the summons to love which Jesus would c'ite later on as the greatachievement 'and attainment. If they demand very little of them- est .commandment. These radical selves, they will remain stunted. and universal norms about worIf they demand' a good deal' of ship, fidelity to parents, respect themselves, they will grow to for Hfe, sex, 'proper,ty and our neighbor's reputation are the giant stature."

What is true for the secular persistent guidelines of decent businessman, is even more true and civilized behavior and the of the religious person. Litur- start of any kind of serious de· gical and biblical life never mand upon oneself.

The Matthew' text is the Serceases to urge the 'highest possible personal achievement. It mon on the Mount, a series of could hardly be otherwise, since startling, heart moving demands God is absolutely..., shameless requiring every. ounce of cour-', about making the profoundest age and personal energy. When obeyed, these demands yield the demands on people. /. God makes such radical de- highest form of living to which Turn to Page Eighteen mands because he has the high-

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After all, many of us were trained in a school of silence, reminded by signs that itchy, talkative altar boys must be silent not only in' church around the altar, but also before Mass began 'in the sacristy. Moreover, the Sunday service itself was almost totally a quiet ceremony, at least from ,the layman's point of view. We came to worship Christ in the tabernacle and to listen or gaze' reverently, but silently during the sacred action of our Eucharist. .

Do you think most Catholics from the United States today would still feel uncomfortable or irritated when exposed to the Roman way of greeting Pope Paul VI? I doubt it. We now seemed to have opened upa bit in our liturgies around the country. There are spoken responses

and congregational singing and laymen or laywoman reading from the lectern. We experience, too, on occasion, the congregac tion breaking into applause as an expression of joy, support, appreciation or assent.

At the conclusion of a confirmation ceremony a few years back, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, then' shepherd of the flock in Rochester, compilmented the excellent parish choir on their efforts. He then encouraged the community present to show its approval with this performance in a manner common among Americans. They quickly accepted his invitation and .loudly applauded the very pleased singers and organist-choir director.

The revised ordination rite for deacons, priests and bishops in. cludes a part in which the people "give their consent according to local custom." An explanatory note in the introduction states: "The latter manifestation, which has not yet' been developed in most places, may take various forms; standing, singing of an acclamation, applause, etc." I have described at other times how ,this has been done effectively in the case of a priest about to be ordained auxiliary bishop 'and a deacon about to receive the priesthood.

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BY DR. LAWRENCE LOSONCY The Archdiocese of Boston recently began stressing the "teachable moments" in connection with its sacramental and I'-~ religious education programs. ~ _- -'C..~ Research had disclosed that baptismal par-ties, wakes, weddings, First Communion days, confirmation, engagements and the birth of children seem to be times at which ma'ny pf us become more reflective about the meaning of life, mope theologically .sensitive, more disposed to ask what life is about. What startled the religious education office most of all, however, was the response to an anointing in one parish. , . It seems the pastor was over eighty years old and not feeling well. He decided one Sunday to' be anointed with ·a few of the others in his parish who were s!ck or old. ~u~in~ the sermon . time the anomtmg was done in front of the whole congregation,' with a brief commentary.

Everyone joined in the responses and prayers.

Sunday liturgy that morning became catechesis towards the other end of life, towards the final journey. It also became a community reflection on the importance of comforting the sick, consoling the lonely, and reconciling the alienated. By the .following Sunday' the pastor had "T~E UFE CYCLIE": The Parish community can give received eighty more requests . for anointing: That second Sun- great support to each of its members as they face new day the parish witnessed the challenges during their journey through the valleys and largest mass anointing the area peaks of life. NC Photo. had , ever experienced. People' had begun to appreciate the ticular objective of this program Where Know Your Faith is meaning of 'a sacrament. is to .bridge the generation gap. being used extensively,' as in Teachable Moments Parents know what their chil- Denver, people have noticed that The life cycle is what we all dren are being taught,I oldelr peo- .readership increases among all experience, from birth to death, ple know what, is ; happtming; age groups but especia.JJy among or as some now say, "from various writers also reflect older teenagers. This is yet another womb to tomb." For each of 'us . times in the Church or help keep sign of increasing sensitivity to there are key experiences, trea- young people acquainted with the life cycle, an acknowledgesured moments, inescapable sor- the heritage and traditions which ment that people in our parishes rows along the way. Even older people take for granted.

Turn to Page Seventeen though these are intensely personal, they are experienced by all or most ·humans. That is why the sacraments speak to all 0 people, because they relate to peak life 'experiences, because "Where have all ~e me~ns to bring an example of they take account of the life cycle, because ,they occur during ................................. gone?'" We could Christian living to those around our most "teachable moments," supply many words f9r the miss- us. ing one. Some would say authorR th ' whether we are participant or ities. a er than concentrating on Others would ~tipply rules what has gone, we have ,to face observer, recipient or minister.

When a: pastor in Florida re- or laws; Others, Sisters, teaching the question ,of, "what can we do?" A little time for reflection cently offered a marriage re- brothers and priests. will tell us that there is a direct newal .Mass for people married relationship ~etween the faith 50 yea11S or more in his parish, of- the child, the young adult, he found 650 couples in. the and the faith of the adult people By church! His parish offers parties of God. In the close daily living for the elderly at Thanksgiving asociation that is provided in and Christmas, wedding HturJOAN family life the faith of the gies to celebrate anniversaries HEIDER younger members of the family and special services such as help will be strengthened through the with social security and retiregood example of the life exment problems. Counseling is a periences of the adults. Or it big need, too. This is being sen- f%8'liSltm'ttlmmlii sitive to the 'life cycle.'

Whatever we would choose will be weakened through the Eliminated Age Barrier to supply, we would have to bad experience in Christian !ivA cluster of parishes in the look to find it. The persons and ' i~g given by the adults.

It is through this interaction Denver, Colorado, area work to- many of ,the methods we were gether with Know Your Faith used to are gone. This calls for of faith between the children the diocesan newspaper progra~ new motivation in our lives. We and adults within a. family that which presents the material you have to do something about the the adult members of the family are reading right now. One par- situation. We ·have to find a .Turn to Page Eighteen

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Theologian ExplainsChurch Role in Developing Nations

The Life ·Cycle Continued from Page Sixteen are different ages, and therefore, do have different needs and experiences. Reflection upon the life cycle and upon the theory of teachable moments has led many to realize the importance of communication between generaions.

There are millions of people in the world who are trapped in dehumanizing poverty. This is true of whole countries: for example, in Latin America. The victims' condition can be improved only if social structures are changed. Movements to In establishing a theological effect change are underway. foundation for it, Father LaurenThey have not got very far. tin searches the Scriptures, the Privileged people within the Fathers of the Church and the

countries concerned resist them.

Resistance leads to greater militancy on the part of those determined that there shall be

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change. This militancy is branded as revolution, sometimes deservcdly, sometimes undeservedly.

On the one hand, it is argued that Christians cannot be involved in such movements, because of their potential, if not actual, violence. On the other hand, it is argued that Christians have a moral obligation to be involved in seeing that - justice is brought about.

And what of the Church? Can it sanction and participate in these movements? Is not its misson the salvation of souls? Must it not confine itself to the strictly spiritual?

It is such matters that Father Rene Laurentin, a French theologian, addresses himself in Liberation, Development and Salvation (Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N. Y. 10545. $5.95). The book resulted from a request by the Mexican Theological Society that he consider the question, "Does. development . have any significance in relation to' salvation as procla'imed by Christ?"

The answer is, "Yes." Father Laurentin worked it out slowly, and spells it out fully in this volume.

Complete Change He defines development as "the joint organic change of mankind which must bring about its growth for the benefit of 'all men and the whole man.''' It is, therefore, neither short-term nor small-scale. It a'ims at a complete change of conditions in which men live. It requires the participation of all. It makes' use of every kind of resource, technical and political as well as economic.

The Church cannot stand aloof from it, since "harmonious development is a requisite of justice, of brotherhood, and of the salvation of men. It cannot be looked upon merely as a means to an end, even by religion. It is an end which coincides with the vocation and salvation of men."

This fact has been recognized

by Pope Paul VI, not only in his landmark encyclical Populorum Progressio (1967), but also in a number of his allocutions. Advocacy of development so understood can be found in the documents of Vatican II. it was alluded to in the encyclicals of John XXIII. And the bishops of Latin America have endorsed it in various pronouncements.

teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

His findings he applies to contemporary conditions in most cogent fashion. His argument is intricately wrought and completely convincing.

Question of Violence He is not an extremist. For' example, he rejects the sheer secularism to which some would whittle down the mission of _the Church.

"In certain respects," he says, "such secularism is new Arianism. That heresy of the first century reduced Christ to the human. Secularism reduces the Church to the human ... In such a movement the dev.alued Church breaks up, for she loses her di'vine root/ her verNl;al connec: tion with the salvific power of Jesus Christ.

He examines the qllestion .of violence. Established disorder which deprives men of their rights as human beings, can justly be called institutional violence.

St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, "The tyrannical regime is not just, because it is not ordered to the commonweal but to the private good of the government ...

For this reason, insurrection against the government does not have the character of sed'ition, unless ... so disordered that the consequences of the insurrection do more serious harm for the public than does the government of the tyrant."

Solid Scholarship Father Laurentin is very far from approving indiscriminate violence or all the violence which . has already occurred in Latin America. He painstakingly clarifies the' conditions under which violence is sometimes justif,jable.

The book is ·the fruit of solid scholarship, a study of present actuality, and the responsible application of unchallengeable principle to inescapable fact.

One ,problem which development'in any country must aim at solving is that of the proportion of production to consumption. A country which consumes more than it produces is obviously in trouble. Production must be increased.

Latin Consumerism In Picture Tube Imperialism (Orbis Books. $4.95), Alan Wells discusses consumerism in Latin America as influenced by United States television. He sees U. S. television as strongly promoting consumerism there at the expense of production, hence as a major obstacle to development.

But surely Latin America is well beyond tpe reach of our television stations? Yes, but it is not beyond·the reach of either our networks, our programs, or our advertising: Latin America is surprisingly well endowed with television stations and with television sets.

The figures which Mr. Wells gives are well beyond what one would have expected. H.ence tel-

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lJALLOONS AT A BIRTHDAY MASS: Although Vatican II's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy seeks to encourage active participation, perhaps the release of brightly colored balloons goes a bit too far in celebrating the pastor's Birthday Mass. NC Photo.

Applause in Church Continued from Page Sixteen renewal of worship. "To promote active participation, the \ people should be encouraged to take part by means of acclamations, responses, psalmody, antiphons, and songs, as well as by actions, gestures, and bodily attitudes.

And at the .proper times all should observe a reverent silence." We have here explicit mention of applause, but that certainly fits within the framework of an action, gesture or bodily attitude.

The congregation at our 9:45 and 11 :15 Masses-the liveliest and most contemporary services each Sunday-have surprised me during the past few weeks.

Without prompting and at different points in the liturgy, they have responded with applause.

It has been neither thunderous nor universal,' but still significant and enthusiastic.

One outburst came at the presentation of gifts after· the choir had finished a particularly bouncy, cheerful tune by Jack evision is a notable power in that part of the world.

Abundant Advertising The American networks have reached out into those countries, and are a dominant element there. There is relatively little public television in Latin America; as in the United States, commercial television is the general thing. ABC Internation,al. has heavy 'investments in television networks in Central America 'and South America. NBC and CBS also have substantial interests.

Latin American television is .heavily dependent technically on the United States networks.

It is estimated that 80 per cent of the programming there is of United States origin. The programs which we see here are dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese for use south of the border.

Advertising 'is abundant, at least as much so as it is on our domestic television. And most of it is for goods produced by United States corporations.

Miffleton, the priest composer from Virginia. They applauded at two' other Masses following solos sung during the Thanksgiving after Communion. On another Sunday, the congregation clapped after a young barbershop quartet, completed several numbers before Mass.

Forced and Routine I mut say this reaction was a pleasant surprise, a response really hoped for during the past year. As one man mentioned, "Lots of time in church I really feel like clapping after a great sermon or some fine music, but it has -always seemed wrong to do so." It seems to me that applause of this nature really is active participation, really contributes to the individual's and to the congregation's involvement in the liturgy. In addition, if we wish to stress the celebration notion- of worship, then we shouad expect joyfulj spontaneous clapping on particular occasions as part of that development. i Spontaneous may be the key word here. A forced, routine, overworked "now we do it folks" kind of thing is not what I have 'in mind. That parallels the well-intentioned, but mis-led 'Celebrant who pushes hard and grows angry or impatient because everyone will not smile, laugh and be joyful.

Man is not a computer. A happy joy and approving enthusiasm cannot be programmed; it flows from .the heart. So, too, the applause which externalizes these inner feelings must begin precisely where they are, from within one's being.

Monsignor Geno Baroni, in reference ,to current ethnic needs, makes the point in other ways.

He notes that for many years we thought uniformity. to be the ideal; we worked for the melting pot, we played down diversity. Now we realize that diversity and difference mean richness. From mixed traditions come enriched understanding and a deeper sensitivity to the worth of each person. Again, this means a growing acknowledgement that people are different.

Whether it be the life cycle, the generations, or the ethnic heritages, our dioceses and parish~s are beginning to minister to l;ieir people in light of today's needs and coday's situations.

This will mean new 'life for people, the beginning of redemption.

So it has ever been in parishes for centuries and centuries. So it will ever be.

Candidates Favor Aid to Schools GRAND RAPIDS (NC)-Political candidates and public office holders gave a series of optimistic speeches about school aid to 5,000 representatives of Lutheran, Catholic and Christian Re· formed schools.

The support for nonpublic schools came at the first convention of the Michigan Association of Nonpublic Schools.

Seven politicians told the delegates of their support for school aid. They included opposing candidates for U. S.. Senator from Michigan - RepubHcan Senator Robert Griffin and Frank J. Kel.Iey, the state's Democratic attorney general-as well as U.S. Rep. Gerald Ford, Republican leader in the House.

Griffin applauded the leaders of the unsuccessful 1970 fight ,for aid to nonpublic schools in Michigan and reminded delegates that he had supported the aid proposition. He also reminded delegates that he is a cosponsor of a tax credit bill before the U. S. Senate.

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Says Religion Has Minor Impact on People's Lives

A very wise psychiatrist one remarked to me (not in a therapy session, by' the way) that he could tell when a priest was beginning to make progress in therapy. "On the day he s~opsblaming the semi.nary. for his problems and realizes that they are rooted in his pre-seminary In the modern world the church-and the church schoolpast, he begins to grow up." comes into contact with people He went on to comment only after th.eir family, their that many 'Of his clerical patients are never able to make the leap beyond blaming the seminary for their problems.

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ethnic group, their social class, their region of the country, their neighborhood, their age peers, and the mass media nave had tremendous influence on them.

Only on a relatively ~mall number of devout people (usually from deV'Out families does the church eyer at any time in life have the opportunity to exercise decisive influence in excess of the influence exercised both individually and especially collectively by these other factors and forces.

Continued from Page Sixteen . gain their responsi~i1ity to become actively involved in the religious formation of their children.

Interest and Concern The basic requirement for this active involvement is two-fold: There must be a sincere interest in ,and concern, for the development <if Christian attitudes 'and values in the young members of the family. This interest and concern must be supplemented with the parents being constantly 'better formed, through personal contact with God, and better informed (through continuing study) religious educators.

Both elements are necessary; both need to be worked at. It is· not always easy to stress right attitudes in the home when much of society us saying ,the opposite. It is not easy to give up some social event to attend a religIOUS formation session.

However, neither was it easy for Jesus, our model educator, to teach us love by dying.

If the family will continue to shirk its religious education duty in the present as it has in the past, America's Catholic youth EDITOR ENDS CAREER: A familiar figure in the of today will be the nonbelievers of tomorrow. There no Catholic Press, Msgr. Joseph C. Walen of Grand RalPids, longer is the packaged deal, the Mich., checks his last galley of the Western Michigan Cath- tuition bill, to make up for the olic. Monsignor Walen, founder of the Western M~chiigan, 'family's deficit. .

Splendid Scapegoat Anyone who stops and thinks The data in the NORC study about it seriously realizes how on the priesthood certainly con- difficult it is to change attitudes firmed the doctor's comment. and modify behavior that these There was no important corre- other forces have created and lation between the number of which they constantly reinforce. years spent in the seminary or And yet the, church is blamed Catholic and its editor for 25 years has been reassigned as " the age at entry of the seminary not merely for counteracting the pastor of 81. Joseph's Parish in Wright, Mich. NCI Photo. and any kind of behavior or effects of every other social inDaily Renewal , fluence but also quite frequently attitude in the later priesthood.

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) On the scale that measures for creating the effects that Pope Paul VI, in a radio message "emotional maturity" there was clearly must be attributed to to the people of Brazil on the Continued from Page Sixteen know the fulness of human po- 150th anniversary of that nano difference between those who other forces.

How come? human beings can aspire. No de- tential, they would 'also eome tion's independence, warned that had spent 12 years in the semOrganized religion makes a mands reach deeper into the re- as close as one can t9 the ideal independence it not "achieving inary and those who spent four splendid ·scapegoat. If you are ,luctant timidity of the human of earthly, happiness. This is the years in it. once, and for· ,'all ti!J1es, but is None of which is to suggest . afraid to blame your mother and spirit and stir it from fearful message of the beatitudes. instead a duty· and a conquest HA!PPY ARE THEY; who live to renew daily." \ that the seminarJes didn't need father for your problems-and compromise to holy bravery. and deThink of a world that would by, Christ's covenant radical change. But the point is most of our problems start in' the , I I that there is no evidence that family-:.then God becomes a fine obey such callings: Never seek- mand.

The third ,locus of Ood's rad'the seminaries created emotional ,surrogate father and the church ing revenge-what would hapCHAS. F. problems that weren't already a fine surrogate mother. Further- pen to war? Love your enemies ical demand is found in the last more, you can blame these sur- -what would happen to the supper discourse of Jesus, esthere. ", rogates with impunity and with- crime rate? Don't be ostenta- pecially in chapter '15 \ where Why then are so many priests out guilt feelings. tious in your piety-what would Jesus tells of his new:commandeager to bla'me 'the seminary? happen ,to dull worship? Don't ment that we have love one for Ana,logously, why then are so Blame the Church ' amass earthly fortunes - what " the other. A survey I was once many religious eager to blame If you turn religion into a the novitiate for their problems, scapegoat, you don"t have to face would happen to Swiss banks? taken in which the people were and so many lay people eager to the challenge that religion offers. Don't be anxious about your asked what they would say to 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE blame Catholic schools for their If the church is responsible for food and fashion-what would : the wodd if 'they had a thirtyNEW BEDFORD, MASS. second spot to speak to the enproblems - or their children's your frustrating sex life, then ,happen to tranquilizers?'

Those who would live by de- tire universe. Practically everyproblems? you hardly ~ave to worry about mands as tough as these would one said they would ask for a responding to the message of not only know what it is like to universal attempt to make love Other Influences God's implacable love for us a reality in every human heart.

HEATING OILS Indeed, why are people quick". which the church is trying to Files Bill to Ease Christ's final demand of love to blame the church for every- witness. . . COMPLETE is the ultimate solution to the thing in the world - from war If you have experienced fail-, Postal 'Rate Burden ,problems that batter the human HEATING SYSTEMS and pollution on the one hand ureand disillusionment, it is WASHINGTON (NC) - Rep. INSTALLED to racism and sexual problems much easier to blame the readily Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) has spirit and make tragedy the on the other hand (if you are a available church, than to assume' introduced a revised postal rate substance of daily liv~s.· When God sets out to make left winger you see the church responsibility for your own mis- increase bill which would limit 24 HOUR OIL BURNER demands on us, he is no sm,all as responsible for frigidity, and takes and self-deception. If you the financial burden on publishSERVICE if you are a right winger you feel angry at yourself, it is sim- ers of magazines and newspapers spirited challenger. He wants world records of wholesome blame it for promiscuity)? plicity itself to turn your anger wJth small circulations.

BUDGET PLANS The Dri~an bill would allow and hearty human beings, sold Actually, religion and the on the church. For there is' The Vargas Oil Co. protects , church only have a minor impact nothing the church· can do to the postal rate in effect June I, on the need to have spirit expansion in its fullest sense.

The your family's heating comfort on the lives, personalities and fight back. If you feel cheated 1972 be continued for the first all year round. behavior of most people. Any in your professional life, attack 250,000 copies of any publica- world's deinands are mean spirserious and responsible person the clergy; they have profes- tion. Any revenue lost by this ited, ,tightening hearts. Turn TRY US' FIRST knows that at no time in the sional status without having to rate would be assumed by con- rather to God and his soul satisfying call to the vety besil in last two millenia has Christian- work for 'it. If your boss pushes gress,jonal appropriations.

The bill' would be particularly human potential. ity had greater impact on peo- you around, you obvi<lusly can't pIe's behavior than their fam- push back. Therefore, criticize helpful to religious and other ilies, their cultural heritage, and your pastor or your bishop, be- nonprofit pubLications, most of their occupation and social class. cause they can no longer arrest which have circulations under . you and send you off to the 250,000. inquisition. .

The bill, which counters a Considine Speaker If the truth be, told, the poor planned second-class postal rate SEATTLE (NC) Author" old church is in such sad con- increase of 12 per cent over a at . journalist Bob Considine will be fusion and disarray at the pres- five year period, would prohibit the principal speaker at the ban- ent time that it can't do anything the postal service from attaching quet planned to mark the 75th .to anybody. Being angry at it a per-piece surcharge on publianniversary of the Catholic is great fun. Little children- cations that receive same-day Northwest Progress. The Seattle about two years old-have great delivery. Any future increase in archdiocesan newspaper will hold fun kicking· walls when the walls second-class rates must be , the banquet at the Olympic Hotel, have the audacity to bump into phased over a one-year period· in 115 WILLIAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. Oct. 19. them. equal stages.

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More Philosoph.y Study Suggested F'or' Seminarians WASHINGTON (NC) - Seminaries should spend more time sudying philosophy and the courses should be closely related to other studies, according to the U. S. bishops' Committee on Priestly Formation.

The recomm.endations, made in a statement drawn up by a group of philosophers, have been endorsed. by the committee and sent to the Vatican's Education Congregation.

The statement suggests that philosophy should be taught over six years of seminary education rather than concentrated courses in the first two years of college.

Education of Teachers The amount of time spent studying philosophy should be increased from the' present reqliirement of 18 semester hours, according to the statement. That requirement was part of a Program of Priestly Formation published by the U. S. b~shops just last year..

The statement also suggested that the philosophy program be integrated with other studies and that the philosophy program should' be "coordinated in its parts rather than dependent upon random courses."

The continuing education of philOSOphy teachers was emphasized, and the statement suggested "the promo'tion of centers of research in philosophy," added emphasis on advanced training, and the possibility of sabbaticals for philosophy teachers.

'Philosophy, .the statement said, s'hould be "closely related to the personal growth of the individual students."

"For the future priest it is an indispensable aid to 'the imple· mentation of his own decision to open his life to God, to discover the religious meaning of the world and to develop a capacity to media,te this to others as a religious leader."

Ask Comment Philosophy must also be adequate to promote seminarians' serious <and effective study of theology, according to the state· mp.nt.

"Nothing less," it says, "will enable the priest, as authentic religious mediator and guide, to intellectually ground his aware· ness of the reality of the spirit in his own life and to aid others in finding their appropriate response to God." The statement was a respon~e to a letter sent by the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education to the bishops of .the world last January. The circular letter, "On the Study of Philoso· phy in Seminaries," stressed the importance of philosophy studies, discussed ways such studies could be encouraged and strengthened, and asked the bishops to comment.

Tohe Committee on Priestly· Form"'l.,tion, headed by Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J~ Grady of Chicago, sponsored a meeting of the philosophers who wrote the statement.

Annoyance All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which 'are ·attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

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Cardinal Krol To Visit Poland

PLAN ALL-DIOCESAN ATHLETIC AWARDS BANQUET: The committee arranging the special awards banquet scheduled for White's at 6 o'clock on Sunday night, Sept. 24 are, seated: Gene Chretien, adult advisor for th~ Fall Rive~ Ar~a CYO and Mary Beth Mello. Standing: Anne Faria and Jay McGraw. BIShop Cron.In Will be the honored guest.

Catholic High Schools IAlive and Weill WASHINGTON (NC)7Catholic high schools "are alive and well," according to a National Catholic Educational Association report.

"What's New and Interesting?

A Report on Catholic High Schools," reports that many Catholic high schools "are. succeeding" in improving education through' innovations in administration, curriculum and other areas.

The 28-page report was based on a NCEA survey. of most of_ the 1,879 Catholic high schools in the country last November.

It covers administration, curriculum, religious education, parent involvement, student involvement and in-service programs.

Speaking of religious education, the study notes "the major area of innovation supplied in this 'survey is the extension of religion programs into the area of social action." For example, some schools prepare students for parish tutoring and give seniors the chance to wor\t during school hours in hospitals, orphanages and nursing he. mes for school credit.

The section on parentill involvement says the traditional ways in which parents become involved with the activities of their children's schools are beginning to change, "even if the happenings reported here are only few in number."

Work Experiences Parents serve on some ad.visory boards and teacher-parent senates, while at least one school, the Sacred Heart Academy of Salem, Ore., has such an advisory group fU\lctioning as the policy, decision-making body of the school.'

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bers of boards developing new courses and adopting textbooks; and are starting student interest groups hecause student councils are not meeting the needs of the school (as at Mater Christi High School, Astoria, N. Y.).

The survey "revealed only a few new programs for inservice training of faculty in Catholic high schools." One school (Fairfield Prep of Fairfield, Conn.) video·tapes all teachers in an effort to study the performance of instructors, while at St. Piux X High School of Albuquerque, N. M., a professional psychologist conducts meetings for faculty members.

One administration, the report says "Catholic high schools tend to develop their own educational programs" despite ·their religious affiliations.

Student Polls The report sees this indepen· -Regina High School of Iowa dence fostered by the increasing City, Iowa, has student represen- use of faculty boards and admin·tatives as \toting members of the istrative boards ot" students and school board, which formulates parents with teachers; the estabpolicy for the school, the report lishment of "school-within-adiscloses. St'udents are conduct- school" organizational strucing polls to evaluate their school - ·tures; and the alteration of grad(as at As&umption High School ing practices and graduation rein Davenport, Iowa); are mem- quirements.

a basic re-evaluation of curriculum," a'ccordng to this report.

It says, however, that the survey reveals that many schools are trying to incorporate "community level projects and work experiences into the currriculum of the school."

"Work-study programs, especially for students interested in business subjects, are of gr()wing importance," the report says, and there is some development of interdisciplinary humanities courses," "mini-courses," "ethnic studies," and' cooperative arrangements with public schools and colleges.

The study ind~ates student involvement in the affairs of their schools are increasing, particularly through membership on school boards and student-faculty senates.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia will visit Poland Oct. 15-16 at the invitation of that nation's two cardinals.

Cardinal Krol will participate in ceremonies marking the end of a year-long celebration of the beatification of Father Maximilian Kolhe, a PoLis!) priest executed at the Auschwitz con· centration camp in World War H. The priest volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner.

Cardinal Krol was invited by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of Wal'saw and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, of Cracow, the archdiocese in which Auschwdtz was located. Also attending the ceremonies will be Cardinal John Wright, the American who heads the Vatican's Clergy Congrega· tion, and Cardinal Julius Doepfner of Munich, Germany.

Cardinal Krol's parents were born in Tarnow, Poland, but it was not knewn if he would visit that town, a spokesman said.

T,lle spokesman also said that the P.olish embassy in Washington had been cordial in handling the cardinal's application for a visa.

Following his visit to Poland, Cardinal Krol, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will spend two weeks in Rome. He will attend meetings of the Congrega~ion for the Evangelization of People and the International Commission of the Synod.

Relief of Coordinator Aids Flood Victims UNITED NATIONS (NC) Farouk N. Berkol, appointed a few months ago was the first disaster-relief coordinator for the United Nations, is currently getting a baptism of sorts in his new role in the receding flood waters of July's catastrophe in the Philippines.

He flew from Geneva, the site of his office, to Manila, for a short-time assessment of emergency relief needs.

Berkol's assignment, as stipulated by last year's General Assembly, is to maintain a clearinghouse for all assistance, funneled to a country in the grip of a nat.ural disaster, such as the typhoon and floods -in the Philippines.

Preliminary estimates of the damage exceed $225 million, Berkol reported. As an interim measure, he recommended to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim that $20,OOo-the maximum allowable amount from UN sources _- be released for use there.

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