Respect All Life In cooperati<ln with the nation- Bedford, Rev. Barry W. Wall, wide week dedicated to Right to ' Chaplain of the Catholic Nurses' Life, Bishop Cronin announced Guild .in the Fall River Area, today the following series of will offer the Holy Sacrifice of programs pertinent to the recog- the Mass. nition of the sacredness of life. The congregation for this tele· On Sunday morning, Oct. 1, vision Mass will consist of a at 8:45 over Channel 6, New group of Catholic Nurses, headed
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Chairmen were appointed for the 18th annual Bishop's Charity Ball at a planning meeting Sunday. Members of the Ball committee and members of the co-sponsors of the Ball, the Diocesan Council of Catholic Wom· en and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, attended the session. The winter social event, to be held Friday, Jan. 12 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, will honor the
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Fall River Diocese. The ball is a commendable charitable event because proceeds benefit exceptional and underprivileged children in the southeastern area of Massachusetts. Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball, named the following committee chairmen: decorations, Mrs. StanTurn to Page Two
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FIRST GIFT TO BISHOP'S CHARITY BALL: Raymond Gravel, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Theresa's Parish, So. Attleboro makes the first donation to Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball, as preparations are being completed for the 18th annual affair scheduled for Jan. 12, 1973. , , , .' ,
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To be recited at all Masses of Obligation on the w.eekend of September 30··0ctober 1, 1972, in conjunction with "Respect for Life Week." Celebrant: ' God, Our Father, it is You to whom we address our urgent prayer today as we celebrate the mystery of life. You alone give us our life. You alone preserve this life in us, and You alone can decide when this life will end. Fill us this day wit~ a desire to' bepold the mystery 'of life with deep reverence and respect, and even to celebrate it with joy and comfort that only You, can give.
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OFFICIAL Retirement The Most Reverend Bishop has accepted the resignation of Most Rev. James J. Gerrard as pastor of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford. Bishop Gerrard will continue in his posts as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River and as Vicar General. Rev. Swansea, Rev. River, to trator.
Assignments John P. Driscoll, from Our ,Lady of Fatima Parish, to St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, as pastor. Edward .T. Burns, from St. William Parish, Fall Our Lady of Fati'!1a. Parish, Swansea, as adminis-
Lector: APPOINTED: Bishop Cron-' in has appointed Rev. Marc . Lector: H. Bergeron, assistant at St. Joseph's Parish, N~w Bed~ ford a~ a member of the Family Life Bureau and PreCana Conference Staff for the New Bedford Area.
The response to the petitions in our Prayer of the Faithful today is', "Lord, hear our prayer." (Reading each of the following petitions:) That all men of good will recognize their respo~sibili1ty to respect and safeguard the sacred life of every person from the very moment of conception, let us pray to the Lord. That acceptance and support may be accorded to the elderly, the sick and the lonely, that their lives may be worthy, ~ignified, and filled with consolation, let us pray to the Lord. I
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Annual Charity Ball Continued from Page One ley Janick of Fall River to be assisted by Robert Coggeshall of Fall River; 'hospitality, Mrs. Michael J. McMahon of Fall River; presentees, Mrs. James A.. 0'· Brien, of Fall River; and hall, Norman Hathaway of Fall River. The theme and color scheme committee will be headed by Miss Margaret M. Lahey of Somerset. Each committee chairman selected members for his or her committee from those attending the planning meeting. Over 100 persons were in attendance. Tickets at Rectories Subscriber cards for the Charity' Ball Booklet were given to members of the Booklet Committee. Rev. Roger L. Gagne of South Attleboro is Attleboro area director of the Ball. Rev. John F. Andrews of Buzzards Bay is Cape director. Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira of New Bedford is 'in charge of the New Bedford area.
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R~v. Walter A. Sullivan of Taunton assumed directorship of the Taunton area.' Msgr: Gomes is in charge of the Fall River area. Tickets for the Ball were distributed to all members. Tickets are also available at all parish rectpries in the diocese.
Announcement was made that persons wishing to have their names in the Ball Booklet may contact any committee member or call or write to Bishop's Charity Ball Headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., P. O. Box 1470, Fall River, Mass. 02722, Tel. 676-8943. There are· six categories in the Booklet, entitling the donor to tickets for the Ball, The 'categories are: Memorials, Very Special Friends, Guarantors, Benefactors, Sponsors and Patrons. Proceeds, from the Bishop's Charity Ball benefit the four schools in· the diocese for exceptional children and four summer camps for the underprivilieged and exceptional children of southeastern Massachusetts, regardless of color, race or creed.
OCT. 6 , Rev. Stephen B. Magill, 1916, Assistant, 'Immaculate Concep· tion, North Easton.
Urges Enlistees To Aid Chaplains'
OCt 7 Rev. Caesar Phares, 1951, Pas· tor, St. Anthony of Desert, FaIl River.
NEW YORK (NC)-The Catholic Military Ordinariate has urged young army enlistees to consider serving as assistants to chaplains.
OCT. 10 Rev. James C. J. Ryan, 1918, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton. .
Under a new program, enlistees can be guaranteed training as chaplain assistants, according to Bishop William J. Moran of the military ordinariate.
OCT. II Rev. James A. Downey, 1952, Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attleboro. THE ANCHOR Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue.' Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fali River...Subscrlption price' by mail, postpaid .4.00 per year.
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"Many young people from parishes and dioceses of our co~ntry who will enter the army in the years ahead are well qualified to serve as chaplain 'assistants," Bishop Moran said. The ordinariate, he said, endorses the program "most enthusiastically."
Human Life Continued from Page One of human life. At the sprJng gathering of the American Bishops last April, a plan was devised for reiterating forcefully th~ oonclusions which our F,aith prompts us to f-orm with regard. to respect and devotion for life. The Bishops called for a special observance: We propose a VVeek of Prayer and Study focusing on the santtlity 'Of human life, and the many threats t.o human life in the modern world, including war, vio-" leoce, hunger and poverty ... Throughout that week, we will urge that educational programs be conducted on the dignity of human life and the resppnsibility of society tlo protect all its members-the unborn child, and also the aged, sick and disadvantaged. In this first week of the month of October, ~he cycle of liturgical feasts celebrated at Mass' includes the observances honoring the Holy Guardian Angels, the beloved Saint Francis of Assisi, and our Blessed Mother of the Most Holy Rosary. During these days, an intense period of publdc prayer that life in every form . and condition be respected is appmpriately proposed to' all our faithful. We shall implore Our Heavenly Father for peace and justice among all men, the basic condition upon which rests every speoific manifestation of respect for 'life. We recommend' prayerfuI remembrance of the poor, the ,aged, those yet unborn, our young people, families and family life. We urge the study and consideration of problems and solutions affecting life and its sanctity in schools, catechetical classes and adult educational forums. As our public act of worship proceeds today, we shall recite a special Prayer of the Faithful. , Today, and at Mass and in devo:' tions during this week, I urge all to share in the formula of prayer, itself, and particularly in its consequences. Christ came in order that we might enjoy life-and in abundance. Cherish, preserve, protect and respect life as faithful imitators of bur Lord, and maYI God prosper and bless the Christ-like life we share, Devotedly yours in Christ, Bishop of Fall River._
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That we might commit ourselves to relieve the distress of those who suffer the humiliation of pove'rtY through generosity and throu~h dedication to social justice, let us pray to the Lord. That'the vision of our youth be quick to identify those' things which threaten the dignity of life and to combat injustice wherever it is found, let us pray to the Lord. Since peace can be ~uilt on no other foundation ,than justice, liberty and love, that all men may look, upon one another as your children, let us pray to the Lord. That. our many families may reflect the charity of the Holy Family'and may be signs of God's saving presence in the world, let us pray to the Lord. That Almiighty God may grant eternal happy repose to all the faithful departed, especially to (here parish deceased are mentioned), let us pray. to the Lord. Celebrant:
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'Je-suit Conferenc" Names President WASHINGTON (NC)-Father Robert A. Mitchell, former major superior of the Jesuits' New York province, has been named the first president of the Jesuit Conference of the United States. Father Pedro Arrupe, superior genera'l of the Society of Jesus, announced in Rome 46-year-old Father Mitchell's appontment. As president of ,the Jesuit Conference, Father MitcheU will serv.e as chairman of the conference's national board, which is c()mposed of 10 Jesuit American provincials,
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Final Plans for the Columbus Day Charity Ball sponsored by . the Knights of Columbus of the Fall Riv€r Diocese, have been announced by Chairman Edward Cabral, district deputy of Taunton Council No. 82. AI Rainone and his orchestra will provide music for the event, which will be held Saturday night,' Oct. 14 in New Bedford Af:mory from 9 until 1. Committee -leaders include F:D.D. Raymond F. Powers, honorary chairman from Fall River; F.D.D. John T. Trainor, program chairman; Grand Knight Charles J. Cullen, publicity chairman; Flinancial Secretary Leo R. Hamel, treasurer, all from Council No. 86,' and Msgr. John E. Boyd, Spiritual Advisor. Grand Knights of each Council and Faithful Navigators of each Assembly will serve on the hospitality commitee. ' Dignitaries to Attend The State Board of Officers of the Knights of Columbus, headed by State Deputy Michael E. Faherty and State Master of the Fourth Degree Dominic Restaino, will lead a delegation of state, church and area dignitaries. The 22 councils and six assemblies sponsoring the event dnc1ude Falmouth Council 813, Falmouth; Walter Welsh Council 2476, Provinctown; Father McSwiney Council 2525, Hyannis; T. J. McGee Council 2612, Nantucket; Bishop D. F. Feehan Council 2911, Bourne; Joan of Arc Council 3384, Orleans; Father F. D. Callahan Council 4190, Wareham; Father Damien Council 4139, Mattapoisett; St. Isadore the Farmer, Council 4532, Westport; Bishop Stang Council 4373, New Bedford; Our Lady of Lourdes Council 4631, Oak Bluffs; Msgr. Coyle Council 82, Taunton; 'Fall River Council 86, Fall River. Easton Council 238, Easton; South End Council 295, Fall River; T. P. McDonough Council, 330, North Attleboro; St. John's Council 404, Attleboro; George C. Shields Council 420, Mansfield; Bishop Cassidy Council 3669 Swansea; Seekonk Council 5108, Seekonk; South Attleboro Council 5876, South Attleboro.
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Sisters' Stand On Vietnam Major superiors of women reo Iigious of New England, organized as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, have signed a statement relative to United States involvement in Vietnam. They include Sister AImerinda Costa, Sisters of St. Dorothy, Taunton; Sist;er Grace Donovan, Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, Fall River; Sister Mary Kieran Flynn, Religious Sisters of Mercy, Province of Providence; Sister Joan Guertin, Religious of the Holy Union, Groton. Also Sister Anna Rose Harrington, Sisters of Providence, Fall River; Sister Elizabeth Michaels, Sisters 'of Notre Dame de Namur, Needham; and Sister Estelle ~an tarpia, Sisters of St. Joseph, Fall River. State Opposition
RECEPTION TO CARDINAL FEUCI: Gathered with faculty of St. John's Seminary, Brighton at a reception held for PericleCardinal Felid of Rome, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision' of the Code of Canon Law, were members of the hierarchy of the Boston Province. Present at the head table were: Bishop Cronin of Fall River; Bishop Weldon of Springfield; Bishop Primeau of Manchester; the Cardinal, the honored guest; Archbishop Medeiros of Boston; Bishop Co~nolly, formerly Bishop of Fall River; Bishop Flanagan of Worcester; Bishop Gerety 9fPortland. (Photo by Stack of The Pilot).
Bishop Makes Priestly Assignments - Continued from Page One of Mrs. Julia (Curley) Driscoll and the late John W. Driscoll. Born on July 4, 1924 in Fall River, he graduated from .SS. Peter and Paul paroc'hial school and Msgr. Coyle High School. For two years he was a student at Holy Cross College in, Worcester, continuing his education for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, where he was awarded bachelor of arts and bachelor of sacred theology degrees. Father Driscoll was ordained a priest by Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, Third Bishop of Fall River, on May 31, 1947. He- served as assistant pastor at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Osterville, until Dec. 13, 1950 and at St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, until April 6, 1954 when he was named secretary to Bishop James L. Connolly and Assistant Chancellor. In July 1955, Father Driscoll, besides his chancery duties, also served as assistant pastor at SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Fall River. He was named Administrator of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Swansea, on Oct. 1,1969. When Bishop Connolly founded The Anchor in April, 1957, he named Father Driscoll assistant general manager, in which position he still serves today. He has also served as president of the Priests' Senate, chairman of the Personnel Board, trustee of th,e Fall River Public Library, and member of the Family Life Bureau. At present, he is . . 1.J.;~r.'\I1;;,.rl.' .1.'1.'
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Their statement follows: We publicly state our opposition to the military involvement of the United States in Vietnam and call upon our government to cease all acts of aggression and to set a date for the total withdrawal of United States forces from Indochina, provided only that the prisoners of war are returned. We urge all our Sisters to become aware of the issues involved so that corporately we will witness our concern for the Christian principles ,of justice and peace. At the same time we join publicly, with leaders of Church lind state who speak out against our national policy in Southeast Asia.
Seek New Name FORT WAYNE (NC)-A new name for the Fort Wayne-South Bend edition of Our Sunday Visitor will be selected in a contest open to the residents of the diocese. A panel of five judges, selected from editors of dailies published in the diocese and representatives of the Department of English from the University of Notre Dame, will recommend the new name to the editors of the paper, who will make the final choice.
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Con,gress' Warns Homilists Preaching Social Gosper During the week of September 3 the first National Congress on Preaching the Word of God was held at the Catholic University of America in Washington. The program consisted of a series of sermons delivered in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the'Uni- is convinced that what they are doing "can only lead to social versity campus and a series disorder and religious disaster." of smaller workshops held in That strikes me as being a
University classrooms. I took very intemperate statement, but part in the workshop dealing, the Abbot is obviously entitled with the art of preaching the to his own opinion on the matter. social message of the Gospel. On the other hand, I think he did a grave injustice to the Ber· rigans - and blatantly misused the pulpit, I might add-by sitBy ting in harsh judgment on their personal character and motives. MSGR. He said, among other things, that they and their supporters GEORGE G. are "selfish" and their "activities are rooted in pride a.nd selfHIGGINS righteousness. " I have a decent amount of reBWi'trimMMMfWi,¥.... spect for abbots, but it is news The other speaker at this partic· to me that their office carries ular session was Father Joseph with it the authority to sit 'in Komonchak, professor of theol- judgment on other people's mo· ogy at the Major Seminary in the tives. To the contrary, I had al· Archdiocese of New York. ways been led to believe that The lively discussion from the' this is forbidden to Christians, floor following the presentation whatever their status or rank in of our two papers centered, for the ecclesiastical institution. the most part, on the style (if That seems to b~ the obvious that's. the right word) of social meaning of Matthew 7, 1. In any preaching. A number of ".how" event-to be very blunt about questions were thoroughly aired, the matter-I think the Abbot The twO that took up !Dost of spoke out of turn about the Berthe time and seemed, to generate rigans. I also think he owes them the most interest were the fol· a public apology. lowing: (1) How specific should Example a sermon.,be in, dei\!ing with the ' Even worse thah the Abbot's application' of 'the ,Gospel ~'perso~a(att~ck oil the Berrigans sage to particular social, econ· was his critical reference in tlJe omic, and. poiiticil1'pr6blem~?·.(2):, ',s~me 'sermori' to Se'nator George How to preach effectively about ,vlclio'vern. He 'denounced a such problems without slipping phrase of Senator McGovern, ,into personalities or without in· "Come Home America," as "a dulging in political partisanship cry that is narrowly isolationist, or turning the liturgical homily chauvinistic, offends internation· into a political harangue? al justice and is harmful to the Avoid Personalities, international common ,good. We There were almost as many cannot call for a retreat from our answers to these questions as ,international obligations deman· there were participants' in the ded by the law of charity and workshop. No consensus was ar· still call ourselves Christian." rived at. I think it would be fair This, too, strikes me as being to say, however, that if a show a very extreme and most inof hands had been called for, the temperate caricature of Senator majority of the. delegates would McGovern's foreign policy, but, have supported the opinion that again,' I suppose the Abbot is political partisanship andcriti· entitled to hi's own opinion and cal remarks about, individuals is perfectly' free to shout it from should be avoided in the pulpit.' the' housetops if ',he' feels that Withih a matter of days, ,how·' 'strongly about the matter. On ever, events' were to prove that' the 'other hand, I don't,think he, at least one ecclesiastic in the ' had any business' sho'uting-or United States seems to hold the even whispering'- it from' the opposite opinion. On September pulpit of the National Shrine of 17, Abbott Edward F. McCaffery, the Immaculate Conception,least Abbot of Belmont Abbey, North of all in the midst of a presidenCarolina,· speaking in the very tial campaign. In other words, Shrine where the general ses- the pulpit, in my judgment, sions of the Congress on Preach· should not be used as a political ing had been held, had a poliit- sounding board for or against the cal field day for himself. He de· candidate of either party. ,To my utter amazement, the nounced "Berriganism" with a mighty vengeance and practically Abbot himself does not think excommunicated the Berrigan' there was anything ,political brothers by name. To put it as about his criticism of Senator mildly'aspossibly, he thinks that McGovern's foreign policy. Folthe Berrigans are all wrong and lowing his sermon in the Shrine, he told a reporter for the Wash· Rebuild Shrine ington Post that he did not inANDORRA (NC)-The parlia- terpret his remarks as an attack ment of this small principality on the presidential' nominee. . in the Pyrenees Mountains beWhen I first read that state. tween France and Spain has ment in the Post, I thought per. voted'funds to rebuild the shrine haps the Abbot was simply tryof Qur Lady of Meritxell, de-' (ng to be funny, but apparently , stroyed by fire in early Septemhe was' being deadly serious. ber. Among' the lost treasures Whatever of that, his statement were a ninth-century statue of, to the Post was a very feeble of the Madonna and 11 th-century disclaimer. In fact, it was an in· paintin~~. , " ' ' ~1.!!!..~o a. ~aJ.:l's. ~n,telli~ence.· ,
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mittee that the AFT opposes the Mills-C!!-rey tax credit bill. The legislation would allow parents of nonpublic school students to deduct up to $200 in tuition per 'child froIT, their final income tax hi'll. '
John Reilly, president of the Association of Catholic Teachers Reilly said that he is so stI:ong· ' in the Philadelphia archdiocese, -Iy opposed to 'Murray's testisaid that his I,OOO-member local mony, he may join the president "does not agree" with the testi· of Catholic teachers' ·unions in mony of John Murray, head' of , the New York and Brooklyn dio· the nonpublic school section of ceses in aneffor to present their the American Federation of side of the dispute to ~he comTeachers (AFT). mittee.' Mqrray, a former head of the Philadelphia union, told the House Ways and Means Com-
Secular Institutes Plan Conference NEMI (NC) - Representatives of the Church's - secular institutes met here at this lake.side town near Rome to establish a world conference of their own. Secular institutes, of which there are about 100 with some 40,000 members, are associations of lay people or priests, or both, that pledge themselves to a special form of evangelical life, including consecration to God and celibacy, but without giving up their normal social place or profession in the world. The Nemi meetiflgaimed at setting up the wor:ld conference of secular institutes as\a permanent body for intercommunicatiOl} and exchange of ideas among its members. .~):; ... lV '}/~J
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WASHINGTON (NC) - A national organization of black Catholics is sponsoring a drive to raise funds' for six programs designed to promote Catholicism in black communities. The National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), a 3,OOO-member independent group, said its drive aJims to collect $350,000 through collections in all dioceses with 2,500 or more black Catholics. The NOBC said envelopes and brochures expiaining the drive, called "Black Concerned," will be distributed in parishes cooperating lin the program on Oct. 1 and that collections will be taken up Oct. 8. The group saicl... its wants the funds to 'recruit blacks to Religious life, develop black CathoHc lay leadership, finance continuing education programs for black Re)igious, foster forms of worship having elements of the black heritage, offer training programs for non-blacks working in bLa'ck areas and establish a training center for black priests. The NOBC was affiliated wdth the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Funds for its operations must now be obta'ined outside the bishops' groups, such as through the "Black Catholics Concerned" campaign.
Workers Say Land Reforms Harmful QUITO (NC) - Fifty years of attempts at land reform throughout Latin America have ,actually, harmed, poor farmworkers, according to the Latin American Workers Cqnfederation. A report by its farmworkers union, issued at the end of a month-long inter-American meeting here, said at the root of the problem is "the unfair 'limd tenure system" in which large landholdings continue under control of a few rich persons. :"About '{)ne per cent of all farms are 2,400 acres or bigger and they swallow two thirds of all cultiv.ation a",eas, while almost 80 per ce'nt of farms are under 50 acres and take up 'only 5 per cent of all lands," the report' said.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall·River-Thurs. Sept. 28, 1972
Stresses Presence of Ordained Priest -
CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) Pope Paul ViI-in what appeared to be a warning against a current theological notion which holds that the Eucharist can be brought into being by the Christian community without the presence of an ordained priest-said that the Eucharist can be achieved only through the ministerial priesthood. '
reality of the Eucharist." He continued: "This reality is not achieved except through a minister, that is through the ministerial priesthood, which is wonderfully and exclusievly qualified to bring about the Eucharist, to celebrate Mass'."
Pope Paul also noted that although Eucharistic worship is the core of each church communSpeaking to crowds at his ity, the "very many" local summer home here Sept. 17 after churches thus formed "are in returning from Italy's 18th na- reality a single spiritual and sotional Eucharistic congress in , cial entity." Local churches "are Udine, the Pope first recalled portions of the single Church," "the marvelous and mysterious he said.
ALHAMBRA INSTALLATION: Among the guests present at the Plymouth installation of the class named in honor of Bishop Cronin were; left photo, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Levesque and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gaboriau, all of Somerset. Right: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Levesque of Fall River and Mrs. Roger Levesque of Somerset. .
WHY PEOPLE BUILD CHURCHES ·THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSION AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH
Flood Relief Programs Still Urgent By NC News Service Dioceses in Pennsylvania and New York have continued with programs to aid flood victims of devastating Hurricane Agnes with funds and volunteer programs. ,Parishioners in the Philadelphia archdiocese have contributed nearly $200,000 to aid victims of the June hurricane. Of this money, $150,000 has been sent to the bishops of Scranton and Harrisburg. The balance has been distributed to 193 families in eight parishes within the Philadelphia archdiocese whose needs were deemed the greatest. Those in charge of the fund drives report that the money comes from all sources. Children in Manoa, Pa., mostly from Sa-
Msgr.: Hamel Continued from Page One Also Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, Principal of St. Joseph School, New Bedford; Mr. Edward Parr, a teacher at Taunton Catholic Middle School; Brother Thomas Mulryan, Assistant Principal of Coyle-Cassidy High School, Taunton.
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cred Heart School, held a back- new law allocating federal funds yard carnival which raised 80 to nonpublic schools destroyed dollars. Cardinal John Krol of or damaged by Hurricane Agnes. Philadelphia sent letters of ap- Most of the schools are Catholic preciation to three gr,oups of and are located in Pennsylvania, children involved in similar pro- New York, Virginia and West - West Virginia. grams. Supplies Donated Parishes in AllEmtown, Pa., contributed $50,000 to flood reContinued from Page One i lief efforts to be used wherever the money is most needed in the has been the responsibility of a state. bishops' committee headed by The money, collected in par- Cardinal Terence Cooke of New ishes and organizations in the York. The USCC Family Life BuPhiladelphia and Allentown reau has coordillated local efdioceses, is in addition to hun- forts distributing a handbook of dreds <Jf tons of food, clothing, the week's themes to the counbedding, and household supplies try's parishes. that were donated. . Specid'ic activities on a local , The Greensburg diocese was in level have been the responsibilan area ,that received minimal ity of diocesan and parish audamage from the hurricane. But thorities. The Family Life Bumoney was collected and pro- reau reported that in the Cincingrams were started to aid other nati archdiocese various di<Jcesan areas. The diocese collected offices each have prepared seg$25,000 some of which will be ments of the week's local proused in areas where the flood ' gr.am. damage was heaviest. , In the diocese of Paterson, Relief workers in Pennsylvania N. J., acoonding to the bureau, and New York say that the scheduled observances include a most urgent problem is having Festival of Life and Seminar on heating units repaired in' the Geriatrics at Paterson Catholic flood devasted homes before Regi<Jnal High School, an ecuwinter sets in. Another priority menical service, a Family March is collecting winter clothing for for Life, and dedication of the fam'ilies who lost those items in second Birthright office in the the floods. diocese. The bureau said other local Heating, Clothing Pennsylvania and New York efforts have included: ,Preparation of a 26-minute states usually have long and cold winters. The relief workers color ofiilm on Respect Life say that the heating and cloth- themes by the San Francisco ing needs must be given top Archdiocesan communications priority. In this respect, the center. emergency aspect of flood reProduction of Respect for Life lief is still evident, according to radio spots by the communicarel'ief workers. tions office of the archdiocese Msgr. John Casey, director of of Hartford, Conn. Development of a Right to Catholic Charities in the Greensburg diocese, reported that on a Life speakers bureau in the New,diocesan level "we have tried ark archdiocese. to act as liaison" in applying Said Msgr. McHugh about the for federal funds on behalf of purpose of these' efforts. ' others outside the diocese. This "The key concept behind Reincludes, sa'id Msgr. Casey, ap- spect Life Week is that not only plying on behalf of proprietors by personal action but by collecof small businesses, homeowners tive action, Catholics must beand apartment dwellers who are come involved in the establisheligible for federal relief funds. ment of a social order st'ructured At least 47 schools in four on justice ;md determined to states may be eligible under a maintl1in peace in the world."
Respect Life
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The answer is easy: they welcome the opportunity to do something needed where it's needed. Sometimes, besides, they build the church in memory of their loved ones, name it for their favorite saint.... Where is a new church needed? In hundreds of towns and Villages in our 18 country mission world. In Arampilly, India for instance. . . . The parishioners have tried for several years to build a church on their own. They have pooled their meager financial resources as well as their physical energies. The poverty of the parishioners prevents continua· tion of the work. You can complete this church all by yourself for as little as $2,500; You'll be doing something needed, where it's needed, for Christ-and for people who cannot do for themselves•... Do something at least, as much as you can ($100, $75, $50, $25, $20, $15, $10, $5, $3, $1) to help build this church! Your gift of any size will be a Godsend! ... ,Have you been looking for something meaningfUl to do? Help these people build a simple but lasting church. Father Kundukulam, the pastor of Arampilly, will write to thank you on behalf of his people. We will send you a sketch of the proposed church, when we thank you.
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Archbishop Mar Gregori~us will write personally to say where he'll locate it if you enable him to buy ($975) ,two acres of land as a model farm for a parish priest. Raising his own food the priest can teach his parishioners howto increase their crop production. (A hoe costs only $1.25, a shovel $2.35.) For only $200 in India you can build a decent house for a family that now sleeps on the sidewalks. Simply send your check to us. Cardinal Parecattil will write to thank you also.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs, Sept. 28, 1972
,.New Hamps,hire Parochial Plan .Voided by Court
Respect· Life
The Bishops of the United States. have designated next week as Respect Life Week~a week of prayer and· study focusing on the basic sanctity of human life in all . MANCHESTER (NC)-A federal district court here has struck its aspects. down as unconstitutional a dual The starting point is clear: human life is sacred from enrollment arrangement between its very beginning and no matter what the circumstances the Nashua, N. H., school district of its heginning and throughout every stage of its developand a Catholic elementary ment and growth and existence, its sacred character derives school. from its Creator, God, and its destiny, God. The challenged arrangement, The respect for human life touches a person at every similar in almost all respects to moment of his life. dual enrollments throughout the state, involves an agreement beThere ~ust be, respect for :the unborn, so completely tween the school distriet and . defenceless and at the mercy of others. Holy Infant Jesus School in There must be respect for the aged who have borne Nashua. the burden of the day and the heat and have seen their Under the arrangement, the vigor fade into dependence upon others, with the attendant school district leases classrooms fears and anxieties this brings. in the Catholic school building There must be respect for the' poor who find themand then sends in public school selves caught up in a vicious circle of want and insecurity teachers to teach secular subjects. The teachers, whose saland who feel the degradation that such hardships impose. aries are paid f.rom public funds, There must be respect for the young whose developing are under the supervision of the awareness and sensitivity must be nurtured so that with school district. strong values a)ld tutored skills they may face a world The suit was filed against the that is often harsh and always demanding. school distr.ict ·by Americans There must be respect for the family, the basic unit United for Separation of Church of society, which'now is under attack w.ithunprecedented and State. fierceness. Pope Sees. 'Human Animality' The court held that although There must be respect for the right of each person to the arrangement had a secular .Degen·erating . Into Corruption ,live, a right that is attacked by violence whether it be of purpose, its primary effect would CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) repudiate and to renounce the be to advance religion. The court the one-against-one kind that keeps a person indoors. after dark or whether it be a matter of nation against nation in Man today is living in a period many exhibitions and manifesta- stated that in effect the arin which "human animality is tions of modern immorality. We rangement amounted to a subsidy a war setting. degenerating into an unbridled must not yield through acqui- to the religious schools in the Life is precious. Once created, it niust be safeguarded. corruption" and "true love is escence or out of human respect, Once there is an attack upon life in any form and for any decaying," Pope Paul VI told a to the pollution of sQcial immo- form of teachers. reason, then the very sacredness of life. is .attacked, the general audience at his Summer rality." : Ponders Appeal home here. The Christian cannot remain uniqueness of life begins to be diluted. The' Pope has been using his silent before "the lower levels There is much talk today about "quality of life." If The court also found that the weeldy general audiences this toward which our society is this means that every life must be surrounded with as summer ·to discuss the moral moving;" Pope Paul ~aid. Mod- 'arrangement might lead to politmuch dignity and care and concern as possible, m,ust be . problems facIng ,modern Jll~n, ern society, he said,. is ."tripping ical division in the community upgraded in the circumstances of its development, then . Man's sexuality has become over the so-called freedom of ~long religious lines and therefore violates the First Amendthis is good. If it means-as many apparently intend. it to ·an "intrusive and haunting senses ·and morals.'! This free- ment's principle of separation theme," Pope Paul said, and is dom raises serious questions mean-that only that life is worth preserving that can be between Church and state. no longer treated wi~h great such as "birth control, abortion, guaranteed a certain high· standard of existence, then this care. New Hainpshire Atty. Gen. Instead, he said, it has marital infidelity and divorce," is the argument of selectivity, of man attempting to play been debased, and erQticism, he said, as well as "th~ initiation W'arren B. Rudman announced God with the lives of his fellow men, and as such must· be pornography and in4ecency to sensual pleasure which comes shortiy after the ruling that he would probably' appeal the deci-. flourish. "In the place of love, from drugs." rejected. <
. Olderl Workers It should be a source of satisfaction to older workers and of example to younger ones and of encouragement in hiring practices to employers to read the results of· a survey taken by the New York State Commission of Human Rights. Its survey sh~ws that workers over the age of 65 performed their jobs "about. equal to and sometimes notice. ably better than younger workers." The aim of the survey is not to pit one group against another but to substitute what has long been felt by manythat the American "adulation of youth" is not all that valid, that peopl,e are not washed up at 30 or 40, that the backbone of American life is one that embraces the younger and the older and is not concentrated, nor should it be, on 'a narrow segment of our population. . For too long a time there has been a concentration on the young, and on all those things associated with the young-vitality and beauty and energy and,.in some measure, irresponsibility. Advertising has kept alive the mYth that only if one possesses these qualities is there reason . for living. This latest survey and similar ones are helping correct the focus.
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAP.ER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll If
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Pope Paul said that "it is'the which is the highest value,.1:here ·is confusion between· sensual Hie of man that is at stake; true and passionate egotism and the love' is decaying, These are grave lyric and generous dream of giv- 'and immediate problems of ing oneself." which more should b~ said." Prayer, Sacraments The Pope said that "we must be 'aware that we live in a period On a positive note,' the Pope in, which human animality: is de- said that Christians have before generating into an unbridled . them the beatitude of -the Goscorruption. We walk in mud. pel: Blessed 'are the pure of heart Social Immorality for they shall see God. From "If we have a sense of per- this beatitude, he said,' the Chrissonal dignity and of respect tian can discover "the relationfor others, for society and, ship between the religious life above all, for our elevation to and moral discipline; the prithe level of the Christian, as the mary place of purity, .. austersons of God, as' persons baptized ity, ,which is strength of spirit and sanctified by grace ... we and the true integrity of our conmust put ourselves on guard, to duct." The Gospel, the Pope sa'id, the Christian "the excelCondemn· McGovern shows lence of pure and honest love School Aid Stand blessed by the sacred bond, and WASHINGTON (NC) -:-' Sen. the higher excellence of virginity George S. McGovern's suport for vowe<1, to the one, absolute and nonpublic school aid was sharply divine Love ... Purity is the atin whieh love criticized by a ·leader of AIller- mosphere icans United for Separation of breathes." Church and State, Pope Paul recalled that in his "Of course, Sen. McGovern is recent talks he has noted thalt it only following President Nixon's is not easy to live a moral, lead," Glenn L. Archer,.· execu- Christian life. The life' of .purity tive director of Americans United and chasNty is difficult also, he said in response to the pemo- admitted, .but then quaIified that cratic presidential candidate's statement by adding: statement backing tax credits for "No, it is easy, by means of the parents of nonpublic school self-control, of choice and, when children. possible, a healthy way of life. Archer said the tax credit plan The desire for purity is possible is "radical and dangerous." It with the help of prayer and would, he said "destroy, the line the sacraments. It is easy and it is happy." . . .J l separating chufc.~ i1\i9 ~~~t,e/: <.
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"In our estimation," said Rudman, "the decision will have no immediate effect upon existing dual enrollment programs. The court has indieated that it would not 'enjoin the operation of the progra'rn pending appeal." Other Arrangements Rudman said it .is important to note that the court did not strike down the state statute on dual enrollment. "It only invalidated ,the current method of implementing the statute. Thus, we will continue to study other pos-. sible arrangements, including the sending of parochial school students to public schools for secular courses, the original concept of dual enrollment." Rudman said that if the court's decision is upheld, his off,ice would be prepared to institute an alternate arrangemerit. Msgr. Wilfrid H. Paradis, vicar for Christian Formatfon of the Manchester diocese, said that the ~iocese is studying ,the court's decision. "However," Msgr. Paradis added, "the diocese of Manchester is encouraged that the court did not strike down the dual enrollment law but rather only declared 'null and void' the current method of implementing the state st~tl,l~~. u ' j ( L_:.,.,.,
Cardinal Heenan Foresees Return Of Modernism
THE ANCHORThurs., Sept. 28, 1972
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McGovern Favors Tax Credits
BIRMINGHAM (NC)-ModernCHICAGO (NC) - Democratic ism, which has been called the presidential contender George "synthesis of all heresies," is reS. McGovern has endorsed the turning and will reappear "as the principle of tax credit aid for chief treat to the Church of toparents of nonpublic school morrow," warned Cardinal John children. Heena\1 of Westminster in an address to the Church Leaders' The South Dakota senator Conference here. made his view known in a speech before 4,000 persons, Modernism, which appeared at mostly students, in the gymna,the beginning of the 20th cen-, sium of Goroon' Technical High tury, contends that many beSchool, the largest Catholic high liefs held, as religious truthsschool here. including the existence of God"I am today announcing my cannot be demonstrated, that the support of the tax credit apmble is not inspired, and that proach to aid the parents and Christ is not divine nor did He children attending parochial and establish the Church or institute other bona fide nonpublic the sacraments. schools," he said. The statement Among the doctrines "taken G evoked an enthusiastic response for granted by Catholics until "FAMILY TRADITION: John Peragallo III of Paterson.. N.J., plays the organ in his from his youthful audience. now" and "likely to be attacked McGovern also .told the stufrom within the Church of to- family's workshop. His father has continued his grandfather's craft of making pipe ordents and their teachers that he morrow," Cardinal Heenan listed gans. NC Photo. w6uld support the tax credit the Resurrection, the Trinity, the pI1inciple by writing to the immortality of the soul, the sacchainnen of two congressional raments, the sacrifices of the committees considering legislaMass, the indissolubility of mar. tion to give tax credits. riage and the right to life of the ,PATERSON (NC)-John PeraAbout six organs are built neighbor suggested he apply for, unborn, the senile and the inIn his speech here and in a gallo Jr. is a businessman who each year in the Peragallo shop. an after-school job in the organ curably sick. statemeint released here and in feels ,he has been helped by his It's a slow painstaking job, ,in factory. Washington, McGovern praised competition. Ecumenism Blessing which father and son take an After serving his apprenticeship the contributions of nonpubJ<ic And he is a musician who active part, along with their staff in New York, he came to work schools to American culture. "Modernism is already show- sees the public becoming increas- of skilled craftsmen. here. However, the company ing its face in the current writing ingly knowledgeable about his The Nixon Administration earThe founder of the business, went bankrupt in 1917 and the lier had supported the tax credit of ,popular theologians some of instrument. PeragaUo Pipe Organ Co. opened whose appearance belies his whom have clearly ceased to bePeragallo-the second gener- 70-plus years, was a young man the following year. In spite of principle. Cardinal John Krol of lieve that Christ is truly God," ation in a close father-son relaPhiladelphia sa'id President Nbcliving in New York City when a his keen ear and sensitive touch, on told hiim at a June 22 White Cardinal Heenan said, tionship - makes ,pipe organs, the elder Peragallo does not House meeting that he supported The cardinal was speaking on and his shop has enough busiplay the organ. tax credits. "The Roman Catholic - Church ness-99 per cent with churches Optimistic About Future . Today and Tomorrow" to the ,-to last to 1974. Such is not the case, however, conference which brought toThe younger Peragallo admits with his son, who is a member Announce Project gether 400 churcht:nen of all the to some competition from the of the American Guild of OrganEAST BRUNSWICK (NC) leading denominations in Britain less-costly transistorized electric Equality Expansion ists. Now in his 40s, he joined and Ireland, including 45 Angli- organ. "It has served its pur- Gov. William T. Cahill told his father's business in 1949. ALBANY (NC) The fair Catholic Charities officials that can and 14 Catholic bishops. pose," he says in the tone of a he favors state cooperation with He has been a church organist employment program, Project Cardinal Heenan said that he Cadillac salesman watchi,ng a private. social service agencies, for years alld has conducted Equality, has expanded opera~ regards ecumenism as "the youngster buy his first second- as well as state aid to nonpublic several workshops for church tions in New York State with the addition of area offices in Alorganists. greatest blessing" to have come hand car. schools. from the Second Vatican Coun"I like to think it has helped to The organ business "is a trade bany, Syracuse and Buffalo. Cahill told 200 representatives you have to grow up in," says cil. Ecumenical Catholics no develop our business." Before the expansion, the Popularity of the electronic of Catholic Charities offices the younger Peragallo. "Either state's Project Equarlity activities longer think, much less talk of other Christians making their organ, Peragallo believes, has from throughout New Jersey you like it or you don't." In his had been centered in the New increased the public's interest in that his administration is路 study- case, obviously, he does.. submission to Rome, he said. York City area. Nationally, the ing ways to increase cooperation the instrument, especially among And he's optimistic about the program maintains 18 regional "It is of the essence of true between state and private social ecumenism to recognize that young people who have grown service agencies. He also reiter- future of pipe organs in an age offices. of electronics. Project Equality was estabmuch of what divided Christen- in enthusiasm for playing it. ",But the pipe organ is the ated his commitment to provide "The organ field is diversified lishednationally in 1965 as a dom was a difference of emphaassistance for students at non- enough," he explains. "And we program to increase fair employsis or even of semantics," he. dream of any organist-just to public schools. keep improving pipe organs with ment路 by encouraging instituget his hands on it," he adds. said. "Who for example, would The governor, a Catholic, electronic components, such as tions affiliated with it to buy have thought 10 years ago that with the affection of an artist from firms that practice fair spoke at the first annual m~eting diodes and transistors." Anglicans and Roman Catholics for his works. As far as competition from the emploYiment. While Vatican IJ may have of ,the New Jersey Conference of could reach any sort of agreehelped bring guitars' into compe- Catholic Charities here. all-electronic instrument is conIn announcing the New York ment on the Eucharist?" tition with the organ, Peragallo cerned, he isn't worried. State expansion, a Project EqualReferring to the services proseems happy with the recent Partial Agreement "The tone generated from the ity official said that more than vided by Catholic social service pipe organ won't ever be re- 50 religious organizations wiU changes in the liturgy. agencies, he said it would cost Referring to the Windsor placed," he is certain. ,be affiliated with the program. the state about $20 million to' , Designed for Church agreement drawn up last year replace those services. '~Two by the joint Anglican Roman "The organist and the choir thousand of you not paid by the Catholic international commisare now part of the wholE; 'litur- state a,re involved in Catholic sion that reached "substantial gical system," he says, noting Charities," he said. "This is a agreement" on the doctrine of ,that many churches are install- tremendous contribution to the the Eucharist, the cardinal went ing their pipe organs across the citizens of New Jersey." on: front of the building instead of "I think there is a trend in the "The agreement reached, how- hiding them away in the choir ever substantial, was, of course, loft. "The pipe organ is designed co'untry for purchasing of services from private charitable oronly, a partial agreement ..,. It for the church," he adds. ganizations who have the faciliwas, so far, as it went, a com路 An organ may have as few as *6% 2-3 yr. Term Deposit Certificate pletely honest agreement. Now Yields 6.27% ,200 and as many as 4,000 pipes, ties and the personnel the state "Anglicans did not pretend ranging in size from a few inches can't provide because .of costly, * 5%0/0 1-2 yr. Term Deposit Certificate that they had found the word to several feet. The small metal construction and costly adminisNow Yields 6.00% transubstantiation in scripture. ones are basically an alloy of trative structures needed to do the job," he said. Catholics did not say that there lead and tin; the largest are 5~% 90-day Notice is no difference between an wooden and square. Taking up the problems of priNow Yields 5.73% evangelical Communion service The pipe organs built -in the vate education, the governor as*5Y.t% Regular Savings and the holy sacrifice Of the Peragallo shop are guaranteed serted that he supports assisNow Yields 5.47% Mass." ,tance to their students "not out for 10 years - an oddity today (In Catholic teaching, transub- for almost any product. "They of charity but out of necessity. *Compounded Continuously and payab~e monthly stantiation means the changing last indefinitely," Peragallo adds To permit private schools to Bank b, mail - it costs you nothing of the bread into Christ's body with assurance, "and parts can stop educating the citizens in and the wine into Christ's blood always be replaced, or an in- the state would place a burden that takes place at the Conse- strument can be completely re- on taxpayers that they are not 307 MAIN sr., SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS.' 02664 built." prepared to meet." .. cration of the Mass.)
Orga'n Maker Optimistic Despite Guitars
Governor Favors Aid to' Schools
NEW EFFECTIVE ANNUAL SAVINGS RATES
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St. Mary's Nuns To Attend Parley
Sep,t. 28, 1972
Wihat G,ob,li:n Atta,c,ks Winter Clothes D,uring SUlmmle,r? "Ma, where's my warm' jacket?" was the cry heard round my house the other morning as the temperature plunged down to the mid-forties, and my family began its search for any available jackets. Every year I vow that during the summer months I will gradually, send the' look pretty much like their friends but didn't we too, with winter clothes to the clean- our bobby socks, sloppy Joe ers, mend those that are sweaters and saddle shoes or
mendable and buy early the nee- loafers. esary cold weather gear. NeedWith the first cool breezes less to say, that'dream of utopia even Mom has to take a second remains just that, early Septem- , look at her closet and round up those winter clothes that only managed to get put away a few months ago. The first glance is withering, the second discouragBy ing and the third alm.ost sets off a race to the nearest women's MARILYN store to restock the closet (com· mon sense, a look at the clothing RODERICK budget, and a husband on a saving spree soon stop this rash venture). ber days are balmy and I get -lulled into a false sense of security. Suddenly, with the unpredictableness so characteristic' of our charming New England, we are hit by a blast from the "Montreal Express" and the search is on. The other morning's treasure hunt did turn up an assortment of jackets in'various states of disrepair (at least they wouldn't freeze and maybe no one would ask them who their mother is) that were worn out of necessity, but this weekend I' know that ,a . . . th ff' buymg spree IS m eo mg. One 'of' my" female offspring" made it very easy for me when she informed me with a haughty glare that I won't have to take her to Boston or some other fashionable area, because af.ter all there's -only one place where any fashionable girl can' buy a parka and that's one of our local "in" men's stores (you know, after all these years ,of writing and talking fashion, I really would never have thought about this' being the only place to buy a parka, which just shows we're never too old to learn). This "in" store' is also the ONLY place for jeans, 'I'm told by authorities. All of this great fashion localized' in one area certainly does make it easy for the teen crowd to' shop; of course, they have a tendency to
Sets Up Organization To Aid Pregnant Women HONG KONG (NC)-Bishop Francis Hsu of Hong Kong is setting up a Society for the Protection of Birthright to provide help for all women here, regardless of faith or marital status, who believe they cannot go through a pregnancy without aid. Bishop Hsu is putting $100,000 at the disposal of the society. "We couldn't go broke for a better cause," ne told the working group of founding members; Catholic leaders, in medical, socio-economic, social welfare,' counselling and psychiatric services. rIt is hoped, that the society win eventually develqp intoa' non-denom,inational organization, but Bishop Hsu,' as principal' founder, will be initially respon~ sible for its 'aCtivities. ' '
Did I Do That "Were skirts really that' long last whiter? (i was one of the minority that believed in the midi.) "Why did I ever save that skirt?" (St. Vincent de Paul, here we come.) "Ye gads :I must have been in shock when I bought that blouse." "All of these comments and more (many unprintable) ,fall from my lips as I try to- resur· rect tJ:1e remains of last year's wardrpbe for my, ,family and myself. This is the only time I envy'ja:Cki~"(>:',I'lfetllkne '~~ve'tr has to worry about" finding sam,eone to hem last year's or even last season's outfits_but think of all the challenges to our ingenuity as we attempt to put these sad lookingwa'rdrobes back into working order.
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A BURP FOR THE BISHOP? Auxiliary Bishop William E. McManus of Chicago, Ill., is an important Church spokesman as head of the U,S. Bishops' education committee, hut to the baby of a family he met last summer in Alaska, he was welcome food supplier. Father Robert J. Mihelyi· recorded the event for the Inside' Passage, news letter of the Diocese of Juneau, but nobody said whether the bishop followed up the feeding by burping the baby. ,Bishop McManus was visiting the See of an old friend, Bishop Francis T. Hurley. NC Photo.
Women's Council President Says Organization Strong and Via~le :' KANSAS CITY (NC) - Even with the advent 'of' new faity organizations, the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) is thriving, according to its president.' . "We said that we would keep our organizations strong and viable on every level and, ex-' cept for a few widely scattered instanees, we 'seem to have succeeded," Mrs. Rita Burke told the organization's 1972 General Assembly here.
The NCCW and its local councils': have cooperated' iN'ith' lay' organizations which have developed since Vatican II. "I have seen firsthand the i,ncreasing depth of your .involvement in ,the emerging councils, whether pastoral or laity," :,he told the assembly. "I have seen you taking the skills and the experience gained in our institutes, and you have not only used them in behalf of community and parish endeavors, but you shared them with all ~anner of organizations and projects. "Whither goest NCCW? You are the women who must ,pose the questions that have to be answered. You are' the leaders out of whose experience the 'future must evolve."
Sisters' of St. Francis of Philadelphia staffing St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, will attend a Franciscan Renewal Workshop this Fall at their motherhouse in Glen Riddle, Pa. The workshop, to be repeated over six weekends, will be followed by regional meetings of community members. It will be conducted by Friars Minor of Holy N~me ,Province of the Franciscans. ' Participants will "study the basic ,reason for the existence of religious life, their interior development and their relationship to Christ," according to workshop organizers. Community Self-Study In the past few years the community has completed a longrange self-study, covering personnel, resources, finances and retirement plans. The present program will emphasize the place of prayer in the religious life. The community number~ over 1600 members, staffing hospitals, homes an~ schools in 23 dioceses and in 'Puerto Rico.
Seek Help for Cubans Stranded in Spain MIAMI (NC) - Two Madrid seminarians are visiting the eastern United, States to seek help for thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Spain. Jose L. Menendez, a Cuba~, and Carlos Barahona, a SpaRiard, said here after a tour of New York and New Jersey that "the anguish of waiting for an uncertain entry often leads to breakdowns~; arriong refugees in Spain. The two seminarians worked in Madrid for the refugee center ,of the St. Vincent de Paul Sodety. They said they interviewed so many people whose only aim was to join relatives in the United States, that they decided to visit this country and find help. A 'group of Cuban residents in Miami is aiready coordinating efforts to speed the entry of Cubans from Spain by obtainirw jobs and housing for them. Sources in Madrid estimate that some 30,000 Cuban refugees now , live in Spain. Of these, 20,000 have sought entry into the United States.
MADISON (NC)-The Dominican Education Association (DEA) has begun a program to provide Judg'es Begin Hearings ,information on Ohurch positions On rax' Credit Law on a variety of issues. COLUMBUS (NC)-A panel of In short, the DEA has had an three judges has begun hearings IDEA (Information from DEA). on the first federal court chalFather Charles Fiore is presi- lenge to a tax credit law dedent of DEA, an organization of signed to aid parents of nonMore than 200 local and naDominican priests, brothers and public school students. tional leaders from throughout sisters involved in educational At issue here is the constituthe country attended the threework. IDEA began as an experimental program last December, tionality ofa Ohio tax credit bill day meeting. The Assembly has Est. 1897 but this month achieved official enacted three months ago ill re- jurisdiction between national status as an effort of the edu- action to a federal court ruling conventions. Builders, Supplies striking down an earlier aid law. ' The agenda dncluded a "Look cational group. 2343 Purchase Street U. S. Circuit Judge John Peck at NCCW-Who we are, where In an interview in the Catholic New Bedford Herald, Citizen here, Father of Cincinnati and District Judges we are, where. we want to ~:o, 996·5661 an,d Carl Rubin Joseph Kinneary Fiore said of the information how to get there." of Columbus told lawyers for program: "We 'want to take the best contending parties in the case to , idea on subjects and give them submit new documents relating a wider audience. IDEA has as -to the law within 10 days. its goal the edUcation of the pubThe, lawyers represented Ohio lic to Catholic values. We are Tax Commissioner Robert Kosyprimarily interested in reaching dar, who wants the law's constiCatholics, but the effort i~ also tutionality upheld, and Benson ecumenical in nature." ROUTE 6-bet~en Fall River arid New Bedford Wolman, head of the Ohio IDEA's first program has pro- Branch - of the American Civil One of Southern New England!s Finest Facilities moted pro-Ii,fe principles through Liberties Union, who says the 'books, pamphlets, movies and law is an unconstitutional vioslide shows. Other potential lation of the separation of Nor', Available for projects for IDEA, according to church and state principle. The .Father Fior:e" dnclude support for law went into effect in June after '8ANQ-U~TS, Ca.tholic education,' promotion being approved hy both houses bf adult 'religious education, and . of the Ohio General Assembly FOR DETAILS CALL: MAft.AGER-636·2744 or 999-6984 ex~mination qf ethics in governand· 'signed by Gov. John, J. Gilligan. ' . ment operations.
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St. Christopher 'has always been billed as the patron saint of safe driving. So I used to invite him to ~it by my side whenever I got into the car.. Now, I don't mean to imply that I'm a bad driver, but on one trip, I had the distinct feeling that St. Christopher left the front wheel" jokes, women drivers fall two classes. seat, crawled into the trunk, into ~here are some women who and was cowering under the love to drive. They think nothing
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image of a saint for drivers, I fired him. (After riding with me, I think he's now checking those "good driver" risks that the insurance companies talk about, for only taking on clients who pass with super A-I *** bonus status.) Anyway, St. Christopher was a man, and he probably expected me to drive like a man. I don't. So I started harassing my good old friend, the Blessed Mother. Somehow, I think she understands women's pro:>lems better ... wnether they're in the kitchen or on the road. ,T~o Classes ,". .. ' ,., It seems to me that after you eliminate all the "lady at the
SeesR'endezV1ous With History CASTELGANDOLFO (NC)The unevangelized world offers the Church "a rendezvous with history, a date set by God," and to miss it would mean "incalculable damage" to the Church's future, Pope Paul VI told about 2,000 'participants in an Italian national congress on pontiifical missionary undertakings, which had been meeting at Rome. He urged those connected with missionary work to hold high their hopes, keeping faith in their work 'and faith in Christ. At the congress itself in Rome, Cardinal John J. Wright, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, told participants: "The day when the Roman Catholic Church stops carrying the faith to new lands and new horizons, the faith will die." 'It wiH die, the American cardinal said, "precisely in those lands where it established itself through the merits of the first AposUes and whence it has come to us as an inheritance." "The reason is simple. Faith without works is dead, as Holy Writ says. For that reason we must spread the faith in order to keep it."
Flea Market St. Catherine's Fund Raising Committee of the Dominican Sisters of 37 Park Street, Fall River, will sponsor a flea market from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday, Sept. 30 on the convent grounds.
of getting in their car and whisking half-way across the country to pop in on Cousin Nell. They greet the road as an old friend to be visited with, enjoyed comfortably. They and the road are happy in each other's company ... they thoroughly understand each other. And I envy them! 'Because, there's the other category that' I fall into. I hate driving. I fear parkways. I loathe traffic. I detest expressways. I despise trucks, particularly big, rumbilng, overbearing trucks. And, I am out-and-out scared to death of driving 'in truck traf,f,ic on expressways! We live in the suburbs, about 10 miles outside the city limits. I do moderately well on the local roads. I can get from here to church; to the supermarket; I can even get -to the railroad station without it being a problem. But there are no expressways between here and church, the supermal'ket and the 'railroad station. My problem is ... I hate to merge. I know what I'm supposed to do. I should get up steam on the approach, and just slip 'in behind a moving car. But what about the ten thousand other cars that are pouring' down right behind that car? No one mentions those in the drivers' handbooks! Merge with Mary Besides, I was frightened by an expressway approach as a child. Well, not really a child ... but a few years ago, I was zipping along, all set to merge into that one little open space, and some "thoughtful" (that's not exactly what, I called him) dl'iver, changed lanes, took my spot and left me trapped on the end of the approach. So I evolved a better system. I avoided expressways. But the only places' that left me to go were the supermarket, church and the railroad station. The read and I came to a showdown. I,had to make a trip ... .the expressway was the only route. Then 1 made a marvelous 'discovery. You know aH those signs they put up ... "entrance to route 495-1 mile ahead" ... "495-y:! mile ahead" ... "merge here for 495" ... I just learned what they are for. From the first instant, when I see the first warning, that's when I start praying. "Ma,ry, please make room." "Mary please get all those other cars out of the way." "Mary make a big space for me." "Please . Mary ... we're almost there' . get rid of those other cars." Do you know, it works? I just made an expressway trip that required six merges. The traffic was heavy, but every time, there was room f,or me. The only thing that troubles me, when I got home, I was almost sure I heard a voice from the trunk, "Hey, Chris ... move over!"
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,Confined to a wheelchair as a result of polio, Miss Rita M. LeBell, 440 Main Street, Van Buren, Me. spends her time aiding other shut-ins. She maintains a list of invalids anxious for pen pals, and is also seeking a supply of prayer leaflets honoring St. Joseph for distribution to the sick. She also requests used postage stamps. Needed by Mrs. Genevieve Hansen, Box 1423, Williston, N. D. are Betty Crocker coupons and all types of trading stamps. They will be used by missionaries of Our Lady of the Prairies at Powers Lake, N. D. for building an addition to a plant consisting of a school, retirement , home, dormitory and convent.
SANDSTONE SCULPTURE: A statue of a stone mason, made by Konrad Kuyn around 1445, is one of the notable examples of medieval art featured in a display at the Archdiocese of Cologne Museum. NC Photo.
Articles of Christian Medieval Art Uncovered for Public Viewing COLOGNE (NC)-Some of the world's most beautiful examples of Christian medieval art, removed from public view for many years, are on display again at the museum of the Cologne archdiocese. Reopened late in August near the south portal of the twin-spired ,Cologne cathedral, the city's world-famous landmark - the museum houses a small but choice collection rated as superb by art experts. A high point in the collection is "Madonna With the Violets," a fascinating picture of the Blessed Virgin by Stefan Lochner. The paihting shows the Madonna standing, the child under her right arm, two violets in her right hand.
Diocese to Continue Communal Absolution JUNEAU (NC) - The Juneau diocese will continue to use communal absolution as one form of administering the, sacrament of penance, a diocesan spokesman told NC News here in Alaska. Bishop Francis T. Hurley instituted communal absolution here last spring as a "pastoral solution for Catholics who were avoiding Mass and the sacraments because of serious problems with private confession. "At our last priests' meeting we decided to use communal absolution four times a' year," said Father Robert Mihelyi, director of communications and editor of the diocesan newsletter, Inside Passage."The practice will be linked to the three major feasts of the Church year-'-Christmas, Easter and Pentecost - and in the fall to the feast of our diocesan patroness, St. Theresa." Communal absolution will also be used on other occasions, Where a priest comes around only once a month, and at canning factories when they are open' during their five-month season. '.
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Another notable exhibit is a 16th-century Cologne carpet with scenes of the Old and New Testament. The priceless piece was recently restored by Carmelite nuns, a task that took more than 18 months. A sandstone figure about 17 inches tal! made by Cologne sculptor Konrad Kuyn around 1445 is considered one of the most realistic sculptures of that era. Jewelry items from the Frankish royal burial vaults under the cathedral are also rare examples of medieval art. The original diocesan museum, the second oldest in this city on the Rhine, was destroyed in a World War II air raid, but most of the collection -survived. p.art of it went on view again from 1953 to 1964 in a former school house. Although the new 'museum was completed in 1964, long restoration work on some exhibits and the serious illness of the former museum director delayed the opening until now.
Translates Social Teaching Into Action VATICAN CITY (NC) - Ho~ to translate into action the Church's concern for social, economic and political justice in today's world is the ambitious program of the plenary meeting of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace. Twenty-five members and consultors chosen by P.ope Paul VI from all parts of the world met in Rome for 'a week to map out the general outlines of the new three-year experimental period of the commission. The commission was established by Pope Paul in 1967 for a five-year period to research and deal with a broad spectrum of problems that face man in today's world. Louisiana-born Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, secretary of the commission fTom its beginning, said that at the end of the first experimental period "we asked the Holy Father not to establish us in an inflexible structure," but to leave "us free in the future to deal with the multiple problems facing Christians in the world" in whatever way seemed most adaptable. "Don't freeze us, we asked," said Msgr. Gremillion at a meeting during the recent plenary session. "Give us more time to experiment. And the experiment continues."
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Thurs., Sept. 28, 1972
Bishops Seeking Loca I.Reaction To Council
NEW YORK (NC)-Jewish organizations which oppose government aid to nonpublic schools were. called on to "repent of their diehard and unrelenting efforts to deprive Jewish education of any and every form of indirect government assistance."
WASHINGTON (NC) - An agency of the U. S. bishops conference is seeking parish and diocesan reaction to the possi~ hility of Catholic membership in the National Council of Churches.
The plea came from Rabbi Morris Sherer, executive president of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewi~h group. and the president of Citizens Relief for Education by Income Tax (CREDIT).
The effort comes in the form of a study and discussion guide distributed by the secretariat of the bishops' Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Committee. Diocesan ecumenical affairs offices were asked to hold discussion sessions within the next two months and to forward responses to the secretariat here. That office expects to have the results ready for the full committee in January.
Rabbi Sherer was angered by the fact that at recent House Ways and Means Committee pearings, eight Jewish organizations had testified against the Mills-Carey bill that would aid the parents of nonpublic schools through the use of income rtax credits.
The local discussions will center on a report ,issued last year by a joint Catholic-NCC study committee. The report recommended Catholic membership in the NOC, whose membership now consists of 33 Protestant and Orthodox churches.
Rabbi Sherer who testified for the bill, said that "non~ Orthodox" Jewish groups have consistently claimed that the Jewish community can support its schools without government aid, but have done nothing to help the schools.
The report was submitted to the NCC and the Catholic bishops early this year. A Catholic spokesman said then tl!at the report and reactions to it would be carefully studied before the bishops made a decision. Problems The report cOllcluded that while Catholic membership "might enkiridle the ecumenical enthusiasm of many Roman Catholics, which has somewhat subsided since the days of Vatican N, 'and at the same time strengthen the commitment of the present member churches of the NCC to the aims and purposes of the ecumenical movement." The discussion guide suggests that the report should be considered by groups "small enough to involve everyone in discussion." The groups should be' representative of the parish or diocese and they should contain members of churches now members of the NCC. The discussion guide contains 11 sections on historical, practical and theological aspects of the issue.
Catholic Who's Who Volume Published WASHINGTON (NC) - NC Publications, Inc. has released its firsf volume of The American Catholic Who's Who, a listing of prominent Catholic clergy, laity and ol1ganizations in the United States. The 445-page, hard-cover book is the 20th such reference vol" ume produced since 1934. Nineteen previous editions of the biennial publication had been released 1;>y a layman, Walter Romig of Detroit. The book, which contains about 4,500 entries, has an alphabetical listing of prominent American Catholics, a roster of members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, a geographical listing of individuals and a necrology.
ALHAMBRA CLASS NAMED IN HONOR OF BISHOP: Among the principals at the installation of the Class named in honor of Bishop Cronin during ceremonies held Sunday in Plymouth were: Rev. John J. Oliveira, secretary to the Bishop; Bishop Cronin, for whom the class was named; Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, Diocesan Chancellor; Roger Levesque, grand commander of the Alhambra. '
'Ghetto' Bishop Sees Hope for. the CHICAGO (NC) - The inner city of Chicago has varied meanings for various pe9ple. Some may look at aged buildings in the the final stages of decay and consider the inner city a disaster area, perhaps to be the site for new apartment buildings for the more affluent. Others look at the people living ,in the inner city area and see their struggle for identity, for a better life, a better education for their children, and are reasonably optimistic about thefuture. ' Auxiliary Bishop Michael R. Dempsey, pastor of Our Lady of. Lourdes in the inner oity, is among the latter. He is coordinator of the "Inner City Apostolate of the Chicago archdiocese and for years has been intimately concerned with inner .city problems. Since his ordinatjon in 1943, he has served the poor of his native city. In 1968 he wasnamed auxiliary bishop to Cardinal John Cody of Chicago. 'Always Optimistic' Known as Chicago's "ghetto" bishop, he was appointed in October 1967 by Cardinal Cody to coordinate the work of inner city 'parishes. "1 am not in charge of inner city parishes," he emphasizes, "but I draw them together to realize the vision of the Church today." As national director of the U. S. bishops' anti-poverty Campaign for Human Development, Bishop Dempsey also oversees a multi-miIlion dollar fund-rais'ing effort which provides self help projects on local and national levels. Recently he was named to receive the 1972 Good Samaritan Award of the National Catholic Development - Conference. The award goes annually to the person "whose life-work embodies the true spirit of the original
Good Samaritan" of the Gospel. "'I am always optimistic about the situation in the inner city," Bishop Dempsey said, as we talked in his small office on Chicago's southwest side. "I feel the large subsidies that
Catholic PreSS Still Essential WASHINGTON (NCr -"" The Catholic press, in the United States is aHing but in no danger of dying,aocording to a survey of diocesan newspapers' by a U. S. Catbolic Conference subcommittee. The survey report notes declines in circulation and income, and it recommends that the iIls of the Catholic press be overcome by increased cooperation among diocesan newspaper executives, the National Catholic News Service and Catholic Press Association. In its observations on tl"\e sur-. vey of III diocesan neWISpapers, the subcommittee declared: "Things are bad in some areas of the Catholic press, but not _disastrously so. The losses in circulat,ion and revenue are real problems, but the time to solve them has not passed." The panel added: "The report gives no evidence that the Catholic press is in danrger of expiring. It seems, rather, to have taken to bed with a bad virus. In some individual in.stances the virus has been com· plicated by a feeling of. depression or mala·ise. Such feelings are not altogether unkOown in other areas of Catholic life today." "Yet, as that feeling' illustrates," the ree-0rt says, "thete has never been a time when an alert diocesan press was more lessential to the vigor of the Church."
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"Moreover, this time these non-Orthodox groups are picking the pockets of needy parents who would be receiving the tax credits ..." Rabbi Sherer said. The Jewish groups which telltified against tax credits ar,e . the American Jewish Congres!!. American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans of the "U.S.A., National Council of Jewish Women•. Union of American Hebrew Congregations and United Synagogues of America.
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Expect Missouri Ruling on Free Textbook Law ST. LOUIS (NC)-A ruling on the validity of Missouri's new state textbook law, which provides some free textbooks for students attending nonpublic schools, will come before the end of September, St. Louis County Judge Orville Richardson said here. The case grew more complex as hearings scheduled for one day stretched out into almost a week as opponents and proponents of the free textbook law fought the legal battle. The initial fight came on the constitutionality of t,he new law which requires public school districts to provide free textbooks for all children in their district, regardless of whether they attend public, private or churchrelated schools. The issue was whether this violated the separation of church 'and state guaranteed by the Missouri Constitution. But the Ladue School District asked Judge Richardson also to entertain testimony on another issue - that the statute as drafted is vague and indefinite and cannot be equitably administered. Promises Prompt Ruling A day later a third issue was_ interjected when an attorney representing parents of students who support -the statute presented evidence that alleged that if nonpublic school children are not given free textbooks they would be denied equal protection of the law. After a conference in chambers with attorneys for both sides, Judge Richardson allowed that issue to be put into the case. After -testimony from both sides was concluded, Judge Richardson announced that attorneys have until Sept. -28 to file written briefs in support of their contentions. "The case will be submitted on Sept. 28, whether or not the briefs are all in," he cautioned the attorneys. The judge, who made it clear earlier- that he considers the matter one of "great public importance," promised he would be "very, ,very prompt" in ruling. "Probably within 48 hours of receiving all the briefs," he said. 'Benefits the Child' Public school districts will receive money from the free textbook fund about mid-October. The new law went into effect Aug. 13, but money to implement it is not in hand. The judge announced that he wanted "to make it very clear that I have not reached any conclusion" ,in the. case as yet. But he advised attorneys to consider the Missouri Constitution oarefully in their briefs. -Proponents of the new textbook law say it is not a violation of the church-state separation provision because it "benefits the child" 'and not the religious-connected school the child attends. Judge Richardson pointed out that "some things may be constitutional but not under the Missouri constitution." He noted that the Missouri Constitution prohibits the enacting of a law benefiting the individual.
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SILVER JUBILEE: Present at the jubilee banquet of the 25th anniversary of Junior Foresters of Fall River were: Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney, who gave the invocation; Miss Catherine P. Harrington, chairman and co-founder; Bishop Gerrard, long-time friend of tlje organization; Joseph Raposa, honor guest and his wife, Susan Raposa.
Junior Foresters' Silver Jubilee Composer-Director of Sesame St. Gu-est Speaker At the 25th Anniversary Ban- nor presented a gift to Most Rev. quet held in observance of the Bishop James J. Gerrard, longfounding of Our Lady of Fatima time friend and member of the Junior Court, Fall River, mem- Association who also spoke bers of the Catholic Association briefly. of Foresters, guest of honor and Most Reverend Daniel A. Cromain speaker Joseph G. Raposa nin congratulated the group and was paid tribute by a lallge - was presented a joint gift from group of his fellow members and Our Lady of Fatim'a Court and distinguished guests including Our Lady of Victory Court. The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, gift was made in memory of the S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. An first Moderator of the Junior inscribed plaque thanking the Court, the late Reverend John composer-director of Sesame F. O'Keefe, whose inspirational Street was presented to him work on behalf of the junior by Junior Forester Cathleen SuI- group was extolled by Judge livan. Mullaney. ,Present Chief Ranger of the Mr. Raposa Speaks local Junior group Patti Marum "A la~ge ,grou~ ~,f the former opened the festivities and introCollegiate Section .attended and duced -Judge Beatrice H. Mul- members John F.Klley and Fred laney who served as toastmaster McDO?~l? served as escorts for for the occasion. the vlsltmg clergy. A tribute was paid to the A charter member of the members who have produced the Court, Rev. Leonard M. Mul,laney, assistant pastor at, Our Lady of Fatima Church in New Report Drug Abuse ,Bedford, gave the invocation. Rising in Ireland Congratulatory telegrams were DUBLIN (NC)- A study group read from John Cardinal Wright commissioned collectively' by the from Vatican City, Rome, Italy, major churches in the Irish Re.from Most Rev. James L. Conpublic reported that drug abuse nolly, retired Bishop of the Fall threatens to reach epidemic proRiver Diocese, The Honorable portions among the country's Margaret M. Heckler, member of young people. of Congress, and from First The report urges all the ChrisChief Ranger of the Junior Court, tian churches to act against the Arlene Mullaney Angell of Eas- growing drug problem. It also ton, Gonn., and from Postmaster recommends that education on of Cleveland, Ohio, William J. drugs be provided in the schools Sullivan. for children before they reach Several members of the High 14. Standing Committee of the AsThis is the first time the sociation including John F. Mc- churches in Ireland have been Carthy, High Chief Ranger, and urged to help solve the drug Frank Hannigan, First Super- problem. The report comes from visor of the Junior Courts of the a special working party set up Association, attended and paid last year by a committee repretribute to Miss Catherine P. Har- senting Protestant chu-rches and rington and Judge Beatrice H. the Catholic Church in Ireland. Mullaney, co-founders of the Drug abuse is just one of Junior Group. Both of the latter many topics under examination were presented gifts from the by this group, which has the Junior Court by Billy Marum. task of studying the role of the Junior Forester Karen O'Con- churches in Irish society.
well-known St. Patrick Day Shows over the years and raised the money for the various activities of the Court. Introduced for a bow were past directors of the shows, Mrs. Mary Webb, Mrs. Salil,y Wilcox, Mrs. Eleanor Webb Linquist, and Mrs. Margaret Mullaney Panos. In the course of his remarks, the guest of honor, Mr. Raposa stated that he started directing and organizing musicals for the Forester group, especially when they were invited to entertain at State-wide affairs for the Association. He claimed that he has a reputation in New York of being the foremost Portuguese authority on Irish music and if requested could do "McNamara's Band" from beginning to end. Bishop Gerrard gave the Benediction at the close of the meeting. Miss Harrington, Chairman of the Banquet Committee was assisted' by Mrs. Mary Webb, Secretary, and Miss Helen Goff, Treasurer.
WASHINGTON (NC)-A Jesuit educator from Zaire said that the Africanization program instituted by that country's president, which provoked a disagreement with the archbishop of Kinshasa, "can only have a good effect" on the country's Catholic schools. The priest, Father Ekwa bis Isal, president of the Bureau of Catholic Education in Zaire, is on a three-week educational study tour of the United States funded by a State Department grant. "Every .human -being must know himself and be himself," Father Ekwa said, speaking of the Africanization program. "Someone who defines his value in relation to others is, in a sense, a slave. If Zairians attempt to copy the West, they create nothing originaL" A part of an effort to reduce European influence and make every aspect of life thoroughly African, Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko last October changed his own name, the name of the country (formerly the Democratic Republic of the Congo), its flag, anthem and geographical names. Cardinal Joseph Malula of Kinshasa was later expeHed from from his state-owned residence and excluded from a national honorary order after Afrique Chretienne (Christian Africa), a Catholic weekly, published t~e cardinal's article criticizing Mobutu's program, especially changing Christian names to African ones. The magazine was suspended. "Mobutu doesn't say that the culture of Zaire is the only one, or that it is superior to others," Father Ekwa said. The program "can only have a good effect in Catholic schools," he said. The priest also said that the disagreement between Mobutu and Cardinal Malula has been resolved. Catholic schools play a major role in Zairian' education, Father Ekwa said. Of the country's 3.3 million primary school students, 2 million are in Catholic schools. ElECTRICAL
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Sept. 28, 1972
The ':e4alrish Parade
Mother's Inconsistency Results in Happy Family
OUR LADY OF FATIMA, NEW BEDFORD A candlemaking demonstration will follow a short business session at a meeting (If the Women's Guild slated for 8 Tuesday night, Oct.: 3.
Last Summer my seven-year-old ran up and asked, "Mom, can I have a Kool-Aid stand today?" "No," I replied~ "Not today." He ran off with a rather long face. He didn't argue because he did that a couple of times 'in his younger probably have a field day over
ST:'mERESA, SO. ATTLEBORO Activities of the Confraternity of Christian Mothers for the coming year are as follows: A hobby and craft show in October; a hayride In November and a Fall Ham and Bean Supper. The annual Christmas Bazaar on Nov. 8 and 9 which will include the added attraction of a. new "Boutique Table." A dinner dance will be held in February and a Night at the YMCA. The year will conclude with a Fashion Sho:-v in the Spring.
ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER / Special programs being offered to parochial school children will be explained at a meeting of the days. A few minutes later, it it.)If my daughter asks spontaHome and School Associa1;ion to take place at 7:30 tonight. struck me' that it was indeed neously, "Can' I have a friend A previously announced Las an excellent day for a Kool-Aid stay overnight?" I reply as sponVegas Night has been reschedstand. "Pat," I called, "I changed taneously, "No." uled for Friday, Oct. 6. my mind. If you promise to clean If she dosen't whine or pout Boy Scouts and Explore:rs will it up, you can have a Kool-Aid or beg ~urther, I "begin sorting participate in a retreat at Camp ST. JOSEPH, stand today." through the reasons for and Noquochoke the weekend of ATTLEBORO aga;inst such 'a proposal. If the Oct. 6. Registrations are being REV. THOMAS J. GIBBONS, S.J. "fors" outnumber the "againsts," , Cub Scouts of Pack 37 will accepted by Scoutmasters. ,I change my mind and say, The Parish Committee has an- . conduct a trash bag sale Satur"Okay, I changed my mind ... By nounced its calendar of dinner day to benefit pack projects. 'but you have to clean your room dances for the coming year: SatParishioners will honor Our first." If the "againsts" win, my DOLORES urday, Oct. 28, Halloween dance; Lady by recitation' of the rosary original veto holds. Saturday, Nov. 25, a dancl~ with every weekday morning followI A federal court judge, are- the Jack d'John musicians; Sun- ing 9 o'clock Mass. Those unable CURRAN 'Kinda Funny' tired bank executive, a theoloday, Dec. 31, a New Year's Eve to attend Mass are urged to reMy kids, of course, know this gian, a high school principal and dance; Saturday, Jan. 20, Snow- cite the rosary daily at home habit of mine and they've a medical school student have ball dance; .saturday, . Feb. during the month of October. learned to wait patiently for my . been named to the board of trus- 17, 'Valentine danc~; Saturday, CCD classes will begin the answer, after I've given it. They tees at Holy Cross College, Rev. March 24, Las Vegas, Night. A friend, who had been OOatweek of Oct. 1, with classes know they'll sandbag my re- John E. Brooks, S.J., College Also Thursday, April 5, spring available for special education ting with me during all this, answer df they protest, so they prl~sident, announced today. dance; Saturday, rvlay 5, May students, a Sunday morning presaid, "I'm really surprised at ,The board now has 25 mem- dance; and Saturday, June 23, you. I would have thought you generally smile docilely and wait. school program .and home prowhat I want, to bers, 13 of whom are Jesuit Beachcombers' danc~. This is probably would be more consistent." grams for grade school children. See how they accept "not before priests. . ,I had to laugh then, because A special monthly program will I grant, "yes." Among the five new appoin- ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, I wo~ld have thought I would be FALL RIVER be conducted for senior high It's confusing, as I've said, tees was Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons, more consistent at one point in A bingo game is scheduled by school students, and there will 'my life-before I had children. but it's consistent in its incon- S.J., principal of Bishop Connolly the Council of Catholic Women be meetings, discussions anli sistency. One of my daughter's" ,High School, Fall River. Setting rules and sticking to, for 7:30 Monday night, Oct. 2 in liturgical services for adults. Born ,and reared in Boston, the parish hall. M~mbers; may them', I ,thought, were the corner- ·friends comes from a consistent. stone of happy family life.' To- home and she's always bewil- Father Gibbons, entered the So- bring 'guests. The meeting has IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, day I feel differently. My philos- dered when I change my mind. ciety of Jesus at Shadowbrook been rescheduled from a previ- FALL 'RIVER ophy is sort of like this: Con- "How come your mother always in Lenox,' Mass., (in 1947. He. ously announced dat~ due to the The Women's Guild will hold sistency with children is good says 'no" first and then maybe studied philosophy at Weston Columbus Day holiday. its first meeting of the year. at only as' long as parents are free says 'yes' later on?" I over>heard College and received the bachA 'living rosary will take place " ~ .. , ," elor of arts degree: in 1953 'and' iIi'the church at 5:30:-Wednlesday 8 Monday night, Oct.. ~ in the her ·ask· Sara. to be inconsistent. ' I was appalled to hear Sara the master of arts degree in 1954 night, oct. 11 unde~ the chair- parish hall. A Continental Night Changed Mind will be offered as entertainment reply, "I don't know. She's from Boston College. manship of Mrs. Eugene Gagnon. and all parishioners are invited kinda funny that way." Father Gibbons returned in Lf that's confusing, you have All parishioners are invited to to attend. I was beginning to entertain 1965 to Baghdad College as' participate. the idea of our family life. I chairman of the physics departhave a tendency to say "no" au- images of' a "kinda funny" A Christmas bazaar is sched- ST. PATRICK, tomatically 1\:0 whatever my chil- mother when her friend respond- ment after having received the uled for the weekend of Nov. 10 dren request. If they accept my ed, "You're lucky. I wish my master ·of science degree in and a holiday party will b~ held SOMERSET The Adult Education Board is physics from Fordham Univer- Monday, Dec. 4 at White's res"no" without argument, I then mother would do that." sponsoring a, Lecture Series. "Yeah, I know it." sity. While 'in Iraq he was grant- taurant. tend to reflect upon and come ed a year's sabbatical leave arid up with my decision: after I've The first lecture will be on, days I let my children studied Arabic at Al Hikma Uni- ST. PIUS X, given my answer. It's a dumb goSome Monday evening, Oct. 2 at 8 barefoot. Other days I don't. SOUTH YARMOUTH way 'of reacting anereven dumb- Some days they can have choco- versity in Baghdad. New off.icers of the Ladies' o'clock. Rev. Ronald R. Tosti, er to continue doing when I real- ,late milk. Other days they can't. The new Holy Cross trustee Guild are Mrs. John Kevern, Diocesan Director of the CCD ize I'm guilty of it. But I do it I don't know why they can' or wa.s the recipient in 1969 of a president; Mrs. Shirlby Johnson, will speak on "Christian Educaanyway. (A psychologist would can't on any certain day other National Science Foundation vice-president; Mrs. Daniel Healy tion in Today's Church" at the than I think it's preferable to grant to, attend an eight-week and Mrs. Agnes Eckhart, secre- Fisher House, located at 134 confuse them on little matters seminar in Harvard Project Phy- taries; Miss Helen O'Connell, South Street. Invite Protestant than to set rigid rules like. No sics at San Diego State College. treasurer. , Rev. Robert A. McGowan will Bare ,Feet and No Chocolate That same year the government Leaders to Talks Fifteen new members joined conduct a course, "The Church . of Iraq seized Baghdad College the guild at installation cere- of the 70's." It will be an over· 'BELFAST (NC) - 'J1he Irish Milk. and expelled the American Jes- monies conducted by Msgr. view of the Catholic faith in the Catholic bishops have invited On Second Thought uits. Father Gibbons returned to Christopher Brodedck. A ban- light of the Church's developleaders of the Irish Council of It adds a little spice to their the United States and taught quet followed at which past ment since Vatican II. The 'Churches, which represent all major Protestant groups in both lives, a little clout to my lead- physics at Fairfield (Conn.) Col- presidents were honored. course .will run for four sessions, parts of Ireland, to a series of ership and a little inconsistency lege Preparatory School~ He has the, first will be Wednesday, ST. ANTHONY, talks on mixed marriages and to a world in ne~d of more nego- been principal of Bishop ConOct. 4 at the Fisher. House. NEW BEDFORD other areas of religious tension. tiation than more rules. It says, nolly High School in Fall River The subject will be "The ProbSt. Anthony High Boosters lems of Faith in Today's World." Representatives of the Catho- "I'm willing to renegotiate on since July of 1970. Club will meet at 7:30 on ThursIt will begin at 8 P.M. lic and Protestant leaders are certain matters, if you present day evening, Oct. 5 in tne school now meeting informally to de- a good case." It says "Some- ST. GEORGE, The Lecture and Course will cafeteria. cide on an agenda. No date has times I'm wrong, so I change my WESTPORT Anyone desiring to join the be open to the general public and yet been fixed but both sides mind, risking loss of dignity and The Women's Guild will hold organization is asked to ct:mtact a question and answer period are said to ,be anxious for an disrespect." its monthly whist party at the the secretary, Mrs. Cote at will follow both. early conference. . I know this is hard for some school hall on Route 177 at 8 4-9132. The Very Rev. J. L. M. Haire, parents to understand. To them, Saturday night, Oct. 7. Tickets principal of ~he Presbyterian it's a sign of weakness not to w.ill be available at the door and IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Col'lege, Belfast", said that the be flexible now. Inconsistency refreshments will be served. An NORTH EASTON, ' A Chicken Barbecue is being talks will be ,'~an historic break- resulted in a happier family for afternoon whist will take place See -Us' through" and~ould do only good. us than consistency. With others, in the church hall at 12:30 planned for Oct. 21 1>Y the Par. ish Life Committe,e. I .About The Irish CQuncil of Churches, the reverse may be true. Thursday, . Oct. 12. Mrs. Linda Jake Tremblay is in charge formed in 192t~links Anglicans, When, the other day, I. said, Bono is chairman. (051 of the barbecue pit and tickets PresbyteriansJ ;Methodists, and "On second thought ..." my son 'Ibe guild will also sponsor a 'are $2.50 for adults. and $1.25 other Protestal)t groups. It is un- chuckled and said, "You mean dance at 8 Saturday' night, Oct. for children under 12. derstood that the proposed talks ,twenty-second thought." They 14 in the school 'hall. The Young Reservations must be made are not, being :arranged without all laughed. I don't know if that ,~hode Islanders, a 281>iece or- in advance and wili be taken some OPpositi9n from the more meant disrespect or not but· I'm 'chetra will' play. Mrs. Helen until Oct. 15.' See any member conservative, members of ,both not going to lose any sleep over Duquette .and Mrs. Aime Caron of the committee or phone Wareham Falmouth communities> ;, it. 295·3800 548-3000 arc in charge of arrangements. 238-4532.
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Stress Religious Education Uni-ty On Doctrine MINNEAPOLIS (NC)-Speakers at the Upper Midwest Congress on Religious Education have stressed the need for religious educators to overcome differences among themselves' and -,the laity on Catholic doctrine. Msgr. Daniel J. Tarrant, associate pastor at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish and Student Center of Iowa University, told 'about 4,000 educators and parents at the congress: "We aren't going to bring in the harvest if we spend most of the time throw,ing grapes at each other." He also asserted neither ultraliberals nor ultra-conservatives live by the spirit because they try to take the Ohurch out of modern life. "One tries to bury the church, the other tries to put it in a museum," he said' at the congress' opening address. In his speech, Father Carl T. Peter said the task of the religious educator is to communicate witlh different groJlps in the Chl.nch to teach unity. "Usually, we seem to unite 'a few groups at the cost of alienating the same number," claimed the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and Catholic University professor. "This does not have to be. Our job as religious educators is to help all of these groups move ahead together for- God's greater glory and man's good." Father Alfred McBride, a Nationa,l Catholic Education Association o(ficial, joined Msgr. Tarrant in cbilding what he termed liberal and conservative "polarity groups." He sadd members of these factions are so serious, "I'm sure Christ on the -Cross must have looked more pleasant." "There is no need to be sad in teadh'ing religion," said the priest, director of the NCEA's National .Forum for Religious Educators._ Father McBride said an "Age of the Spirit" was immiment. He told educators to take the age, which he said the young called "The Age of Aquarius," beyond "the human level to the divine. Show them the world beyond human reason." He also told the audience to "encourage the dreams" of the young and to express by their own dedication the same "motiveless love" Ch~ist did in becomring man to save the world. The priest addressed the final session of the three-day congress, sponsored by the Minnesota Catholic Conference education department and by Catholic education officials from Minnesota and North and South Dakota. Participants in the congress, held at the Minneapobis Convention Center, came from 11 states and Canada.
p'riest 'Arrested BliLBAO (NC)-Spanish police here arrested Father Julian Renteria Urald, 46, on charges of aiding a band of terrorists working for a separate Basque state.. The priest, born here but naturalized a Chilean .during his years in that .South American country, is assistant pastor at the suburban .parish of Baracaldo.
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FROM NUNS TO NONE TO ONE: A parking lot sign has changed to fit the times at St. Michael School in Shrewbury, Mo., a S to- Louis suburb. Sister Bernita Wasinger makes the latest correction. When the spot was reserved for sisters, the sign said "nuns;" when the :;isters left, it said "none;" and when Sister Bernita was named prinCipal of the lay faculty school, it went to "one." oNe Photo. -
Human Development Grants Announced . WASHING;rON. (NC) ..~ "1'P~
u. S. Catholic; Conference's Campaign tor Human Development has given ,grants totalling $23,750 to 18 organizations which are largely involved in helping poor people. . The grants were announced by the USCC's Committee on Human Development, which already has dishursed $1,920,700 of the funds_ collected for the campaign in 1971. The largest award was $75,000 to a community _service center in Phoenix, Ariz., which the usec said was needed to "continue development of a multipurpose center:" The smallest grant, $4,300, went to La Verdad, newspaper of Crystal, Texas, to "!buy equipment to start a weekly Spanish-language newspaper." Other grants went for such diverse purposes as to "start a co-op fish smokery" in Hoonah, Alaska, and to "provide legal aid for those who need and can't afford it" in Washington, N.C. The grant to the Hoonah Wild Products, Inc. was $21,800; the award to University Legal Services' in Washin'gton, was $48,200, the second largest of the awards.
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Collection Nov. 19 A national committee of the Campaign for Human Development, composed of 40 antipoverty .leaders across the country, selects organizations as potential recipients of awards. Their recommendations are then forwarded to the USCC Human Development Committee, 'which makes the final choice of beneciaries. The national committee met
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select"possible recipients for the next series of grants, which are scheduled to ,be announced- later this year. Since the campaign ,began in 1970, 302 grants have been made. 'Funds for the awards have ·been obtained in collections in the nation's 18,000 Catholic parishes, with this year's collection scheduled for Nov. 19. .Supplement Income Since 1970, 'almost $15 million has been donated ·to the campaign.
Sense of Solidarity On Yom Kippur JACKSON (NC)-Bishop Joseph Brunini of Natchez-Jackson has sent a letter to Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum in which he expressed ,the Catholiic community's "sense of solidarity with our Jewish hrothers" on the occasion of Yom Kippur, Jewish day of atonement. "The cruel suffering visited upon the Jewish people during the past year in Israel, Munich, in Russia, and so many other places, adds' a poignant note to this expression of brotherliness," the bishop told the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel here. The Mississippi bishop added: "What better occasion for Christians to speak in terms of atonement. for all that has afflicted the Jewish people, not alone in this sad moment of history but throughout the centuries. On this day we together ask our Common Father to forgive us our trespasses and to grant us a true sense of sorrow.
A partial list of the .latest award ,recipients, their addresses, how much money they received, and for what purposes, follows: Simpson Street Development Association, New York, $40,000 to "organize tenants to deal with housing needs and problems." Poor People's Action Coalition, Manchester, Ky., $33,000 for ".well drHling to bring safe water to rural counties." South Macon County Co-op, Tuskegee, Ala., $26,000 to "stimulate employment and supplement income of poor· families." TRIP Consumer Education Program, Troy, N. Y. $25,000 to "involve the poor in revitalizing their neighbo~hood." Los Trabajadores de la Raza, Taos, N. M., $22,700 for a "transportation project for rural Mexican Americans." E.D.I.C.T. for Small Business, New Orleans, $20,000 for- "seed money to get larger loans to start retail store." West Point Woodcraft and Community Cannery, West Point, Miss., $15,000 for "matching funds to generate monies to start co-op."
PARIS (NC) - An open letter from 317 French Protestant ministers to Protestants in South Africa criticized that country's apartheid policy of strict racial segregation as "a political error and a moral fault." ~ Writing to the French Reformed Churches of South Africa, the ministers, members of the Protestant Federation of France, said they "are troubled to think that the Reformed Churches to which you belong are now divided on a racia'l basis." The French ministers accused South African Protestants of giving theological support to the thesis that the white minority in South Africa has "a mission of supervision and domination'·~ over black South Africans. "This concept of the 'national mission' of a racial minority/' the j),etter continued, "seems to us not only a political error and a moral falult; it is very grave because it covers itself with, a religious intel'Pretation that is, in our ey,es, a perversion of the authentic Christian faith." The ministers said that the situation in South Africa is a "gross" form of the problems of "our white Western 'Christian' world, which accommodates itself too easily still to the perpetuation of relations of domination in direct or indirect form, military, cultural, economic, over hundreds of millions of men ¢ 'color' and poor men. Weare well aware that our 'judgment' of 'apartheid' is a judgment of ourselves." -.
Religion Taught In Public Schools PORTO ALEGRE (NC) - A catechetical committee headed by Auxiliary Bishop Antonio Cheufche of Porto Alegre has completed the religious education program for pUblic schools for 1973. By a constitutional provision the Brazilian government entrusts such programs to religious authorities. The ministry of Education budget includes salaries ' for religion teachers.' The Brazilian Bishops Conference eanliel' 'issued a series of guidelines for the classes. More than 13 million children are expected .to attend these classes.
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Aroma of Home Canning Is Stuff of Nostalgia
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The old art of canning is closely associated with the .garden. This year we have already made about eight full jars of piccalilli and now we are planning to make a few more of sweet relish, using our leftover green tomatoes. The children love the process of canning and I have to ad- convince myself that a few scratches on the dark wood will mit that I get a big kick out give the door character - yo!.! of it myself.' This coming know, that lived-in look. weekend we are going to make plum jam. We have a plum tree that is loaded with good-sized plums and a few of those will make their way into our plum jam. This will be our first attempt· of this kind of jam, but since the plums are available we might as weli put them to use. In addition to the plums we have a good supply of peaches just coming into maturity and these we will use for jam and a few bottles of brandied peaches. 1J1e latter are particularly tasty and relatively easy to make. No Fun for Aunts The canning that we do is not too difficult because we use very small amounts of everything, but I can remember when my aunts' on the farm did canning and it was a huge task that consumed many days of hard work. It really wasn't much fun for . them. Of ·course, canning is foolish if the ingredients or most of them have to be purchased. It becomes worthwhile only if the major portion of the ingredients are niadily availa.ble. There really isn't too much sense in preserving food if it ends up costing more than it would in the local supermarket. One thing ~at can' never come from the supermarket, however, is that very special odor that permeates a house while the ingredients for canning are being chooped or set to boiling on the kitchen stove. It is like the smell of homemade bread. Nothing is like it and nothing can replace it; It ·is the stuff from which nostalgia is bred. In the Kitchen'
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A friend of ours, Tom Medeiros, is helping me with plans for , a revamping of our living room. Tom has sketched a great plan that shows exactly what I should buy· on a gradual basis. I really enjoy trying to make the house look like House Beautiful, even if it is done on a shoestring budget that extends over a long period. Unfortunately, when Tom made up his plans. we hadn't as yet plunged into the ownership of Miss, our Labrador retriever puppy (all 50 or so pounds of her). rm typing this column in the early morning hours and because she hears this typewriter click, ing she's scratching the inside door of the vestibule that we worked so hard to stain. (She sleeps in this vestibule for reasons of love-she loves everyone so very much that if allowed in the house during the night one or more of us would be either kissed to death or smothered with the weight of her body). Aesthetically I keep try~ng· to
Could Be Worse As Joe mentioned in last week's column, she's a beautiful dog but Labradors have an instinct to bring back to their owner anything that they find RICHARD B. SCHEIBER around, and because of this our family room (which even the Salvation Army Decorating Manual wouldn't commend) is constantly decorated with twigs, branches and other items that HUNTINGTON (NC)-Richard can be drried. While this is a bit dishearten- B. Scheiber has been named ediling, I must remember it coulci be tor of Our Sunday Visitor, and worse. People have told me that Robert A. Willems is the new they graduate from sticks to the managing editor, moving into neighbors' possessions. That Scheiber's vacated position. should make for nice neighborly OSV's e~ecutive-vice-president, relations. John F. Fink, said the promo.Another problem that perhaps tions were made to relieve my friendly decorator should be Father Albert J. Nevins of daymade aware of is that she to-day editor.ia'l duties. Father teethes, .and anything· that isn't Nevins will continue as editornailed down will eventually find . in..chief, Fink said. its way to· that family room Sche~ber joined OSV in 1950, floor, in pieces. Toothpaste caps, and in 1967 he became managing , ballpoint pens, Jason's G.I. Joe editor. Willems came to OSV in doll, and even socks have all 1970. As managing editor he will met their fate there. It's like be in charge of the OSV diocesan having a baby around the house. , editions. He was formerly editor Now when I look at the pic- of OSV's Young Catholic edition. ture of beautiful homes inhabited by beautiful people with beautiful dogs I lay odds that Senate Candidates said animal is either stuffed or Back School Aid goes to dog boarding school. LOUISVILLE (NC) KenQuite often· you meet people tucky's Democratic and Republiwho are willing to share with can candidates for the U. S. Sen" you recipes that they have create expressed support for nonated or altered for special reapublic school aid in a joint apsons. Mrs. Rita L. Baker· of St. pearance before a Catholic audiThomas More's parish in Somence. erset is just such a person. Mrs. State Senator Walter HuddleBaker's husband ·has been on a low sodium diet for years but it stem, the Democratic candidate, hasn't hampered her ability to said that he supports fedE:!'al income tax credit legislation for bring tasty dishes to the table. parents who send their children "'By using low sodium products to parochial and other private and a little imagination, OI~e can schools. come up with some variety in The Republican candidate, forwhat could be a very flat and tasteless diet," said Mrs. Baker, mer Governor Louis .B. Nunn, who went on to mention that told the same meeting he supmost supermarkets and health ports some form of aid, but he shops carry a very good, line of did not explicitly endorse the dietetic (no salt or sugar added) ta'C credit plan. foods.
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Basque Bish,op Bans Political Sermons BILBAO (NC)--'Bishop Antonio Anoveros of Bilbao, an advocate of social ·reform, warned priests to avoid "political and s'ocialistic trends" in their sermons.. Bilbao, in the Basque country, has been rocked inth~ recent past by' labor strikes and separatist drives against the Spanish government of Gen. Francisco Franco. "By doing away with the substance of doctrine and dealing with worldly events, preachers run the risk of watering down the Christian message," Bishop Anoveros said ion a ,pastoral letter on the teaching of Christian doctrine.
ST. ANN, RAYNHAM The Ladies' GuHd will sponsor its anuual penny sale in the church hall Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 19 through 21. The next regular guild meeting. will take place Friday night, Oct. 6 in the hall. Gertrude Norton will be hostess for a bow party.
ST. STANISLAUS,' 'FALL RIVER Holy Rosary Sodality m~m bers will attend their annual October Eucharist at 9:30 Sunday morning. St. 'Vincent de Paill Society HOLY NAME, will Il}eet in the church hall at FALL RIVER 7:30 tonight. Choir rehearsals are held each Slides on Russia; Poland and Monday at 7 P.M. ,in thE!' choir France will be ·shown in- the loft. New members are urged to church hall at 3:30 Sunday after- join and may contact the direcnoon. Commentary in Polish will tor, Edward A. Peters, at be given by Rev. Robert Kaszyn- 673-9089, or may call the rectory. ski, pastor. Adult volunteers are needed Bingo is played in the parish to aid with the parish Girl Scout center at 7 every Tuesday eve- troop, which meets at 3 Wednesni,ng. Doors are open at 5 P.M. day afternoons in the school. ':. and refreshments are available Women of the parish are inand other games are played until vited to join in making pads for 7 o'clock. ' the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop The parish will mark its 75th Home at 1 Tuesday afternoons anniversary at a jubilE:e ball' in the school. from 9 to 1 Saturday night, Oct. Jean Beaupre is the new presi7 at LincOln Park Ballroom. The dent of the Men's Club. public is invited and tickets are The Women's Guild will hold available from Michael Zwolin- a membe~ship tea in the school ski, his committee members, and at 7:30 Sunday evening. Prospecat the rectory. tive members may contact Mrs. William Sullivan at 674-4586. SANTO CHRISTO, The unit will present a fashion FALL RIVER Members .of the Council of show and supper at Venus de Catholic Women will attend Milo restaurant at 7:30 WednesMass and, a oreakfast Sunday, day night, Oct. 4. morning, Oct. 1. They are asked OUR LADY OF ANGELS, to meet in the church hall at FALL RIVER 8:30 A.M., a change in time from A planning meeting for a mala· that previously announced. In sada supper to be held Saturday, charge of arrangements for ·the Nov. 18 at the school hall. event are Mrs. Mary Gagne and A potluck supper sponsored -Mrs. HerculaneRaposa. by the Council of Catholic WomThe linit ,will hold a member. ship. tea Sunday, Oct. Hi, with en will .be served in the hall Mrs. Raposa in charge of ar- from 6:30 P.M. Wednesday, Oct. rangements, aided by Mr:s. Beatrice O'Connor. A Christmas party is planned for Thursday, Dec. 7 at Cliff's Steak House with Mrs. Helen Oliveira and Mrs. Mary Farias as chairmen. Next meeting is slatl~d for Tuesday, Oct. 10. '
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CYO membership rolls are open this week and will close Wednesday, Oct. 4. Meetings take place at 6:30 Monday eve· nings. Holy R,osary Sodalists will attend 5 P.M. Mass Sunday, Oct. 8. Installation ceremonies and a ,banquet will follow. The parish council will meet at 7 Sunday night, Oct. 15.
ST. JOSEPH, FALL RIVER Marking its 20th year, the Women's Guild will meet at 7 Thursday night, Oct. 12 for a ST. JOHN OF GOD, rosary and Benediction s:ervice, .SOMERSET . . . The Women's Guild will open followed by refreshments in the school hall. New· members will their season with a Mass at '7, on Wednesday evening, Oct. Abe received at this time. A Christmas Stocking Club is and follow ,it up with a coffee under way, and will continue for hour and meeting. Members 15 weeks. Mrs. John Fitzgerald are ul'lged to encourage a friend and Mrs. Henry Bernardo are to become a member and accompany that individual on the chairmen. night of the meeting. ST. MARY, The executive board headed NEW BEDFORD by Mrs. Manuel Nogueira will Mrs. Virginia Sheehan, Wom- act las hostesses at the serving en's Guild 'president, announces . of a catered petit buffet. that a day of recollection will be For reservations please call 'held for members at Round Hill Mrs. John Furtado at 2-6020; retreat house, South Dartmouth, Mrs. Arthur Leite at 4-0246; or following 11 :30 A.M: Mass SunMrs. Stephen Silvia at 7-9865. day, Oct. 15. Reservations telephone number is 995.-7401. The anuual .guilq Halloween dance will ~take pla,ce Saturday night, Oct. 28 and a. flea market and spaghetti supper are schedOIL COMPANY uled for Saturday, Nov. 18 will take place at 7 Sunday niight in the church hall.
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Achieving Nation'al 'Identity Involves Difficult Problems It is not simply problems of scale that make the achievement of nationhood difficult. Even when all minority groups are treated with justice, even when the new state is fitted into an economic market th~t is large enough for prosperity, there are still further problems- , so much of man's existence today have been concerned for problems that are deeper, more than four centuries with the more lasting and more uniformities of nature-the measubtle and which, incidentally, confront fully developed nations as well. The Bishops in their Synodal
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Document are aware of these more profound difficulties. They see that a nation's "authentic, creative personality" has come into being. But what exactly, in ,this sense of life and creativity, does nationhood mean? We all know human beings who, somehow, do not seem fully alive. They have become typesT.V. personality, Big Tycoon, Exurbanite. We miss the authentic beat of life, the -quirks, the dreams, the language, the honesty that makes them real. But the same risk of simply, being a copy of a nation can exist for new states. Many of them are not yet 25 years 'old. Many of them have never been anything like a "nation-state" before. Should they just copy other traditions? In a Unique Way For instance, should every new nation in French-speaking Africa feel itself a mini-version of France? Should the administration of ,a vast state like India still, as it were, feel British. As states are created in the wake of the Western World's colonial retreat, they are shaking off alien control in the external sense. How much of it lives on 'in the soul? And ho,w much should do so since, not all in the .inheritance is false and one would hardy like to revert to human sacrifice ~ as Aztec Mexico-simply to prove one was not Spanish or' Christian. As the Bishops put it, there is no way forward to effective. statehood if the search for identity is only based an "sacred historical customs and venerable ways of life." Africa cannot return to voodoo or India to suttee (widow-burning) or China t() ancestor-worship any more than the people of Massachusetts can go in for another rousing cycle of witch-hunting. But the problem of finding a national identity goes deeper than simply finding the right expression for the post-colonial experience. Our late 20th century is a time when nearly every nation faces the problem of expressing its particular genius in a unique and valid way. The reason is quite simply that science and technology which dominate ' 2 '. t
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thurs. Sept. 28, 1972
University Plans New Religious WASHINGTON (NC) - The now be approved by the univerCatholic University of America ,sity's board of trustees and reo here has planned the creation viewed by the Vatican. of a School of Religious Studies The senate had voted on areby September, 1973. port by its committee on reliThe proposed school is to be gious studies. The panel's reo divided into the departments of port said the new school would theology, canon law, Church his- continue the "already excellent tory, rcllgion and religious edu- tradLtions of scholarshiips" in cation under a dean now being existing schools and departments sought by the university. and introduce additional work in church history, patrology and The restructuring of the pres- exegesis. ent schools of canon law and The university's president, Dr. theology and departme!1t of reo Clar.ence Walton, said of the ligion and religious education proposed school: into a' rel'igious studies school Seek Dean was recommended by .the uni"While holding firm to my versity's academic senate at its last meeting of the 1971-72 aca- outspoken conVliction that a demic year. thorough reorganization of reliThat recommendation must gious studies is a prerequisite for
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Studies School progress to pre-eminence, 1 know the sen~te's vote alone works no miracles. We must first implement this fundamental decision. ,"The ,first step will be the search for an outstanding man to serve as dean; a second step will be short and long-range solicitation of extra funds necessary to support this great undertaking." The university already has begun a search for a dean for the proposed school. Bishop WilHam W. 8aum of Springfield· Cape Girardeau, Mo., has beeD named chairman of a seven· member committee to find such an offiicial. The prelate is II trustee of the university.
A petrochemical plant varies in only minor' ways with changing climates. High tension wires are as ugly in the Rift Valley as in the Grand Canyon. Arrive at almost' any airport and you could be almost anywhere else. A technological order is, inevitably, an order of sameness. As the cars move in, the skyscrapers move up and the smog moves in; often -all that is left for beauty and variety in the worid's cities is the inheritance of a dead King's park or a Prince-Bishop's Castle. The twentieth ·century offers the suburbs and the super-highway. We do not cross oceans to look at them. Increasing Uniformity So states which inherit almost no culture from the past enter nationhood against a background of increasing uniformity. Even nations with roots deep down in two thousand and more years of culture-Greece, China, Northern India-see the ancient order being st~adily overlaid by unifying science and standardizing technology. Are we then really condemned to a single world order of steel and concrete and mass - consumption within which any, "authentic creative personality" among the nations will simply /wither away? To this question, which confronts all the world's peoples, the Synodal document makes three separate answers which take up much of the sections concerned with programs for action. The first condition for an effectlve response is that modernization should aim to "serve the good of ,the nation." The second is that it must be rooted in "a true so· dal memory." The third is part of a wider context-the emer· gence of the environmental issue as a central world fact. Modernization pursued solely for state power or for private greed will inev.itably destroy genuine culture. Mo'dernization without a creative memory of the past leads to a shallow technological order. Modernization without ecological balance can destroy not only nations but the , 1 ' planet itself.
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"The son answers his father: 'Nt> I not go' but afterward he regretted it and went" Matthew 21, 3). Jesus loved the paradox. He liked putting things in such a way that, for a moment,' the vvhole world got fiipped' over on its ear. So here pe tells of the smiling" obedient' son who says "yes sir to everything his father wants-but never does one of
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them. And he contrasts hi~ with the outspoken, criticizing, disobedient son vvho says no--and then changes his heart and goes off to do the things after all. It's a favorite gospel theme: things are not nearly what they seem. You can say the r,ight words without doing the right actions. To talk piously and to be a good person are not the same thing. They can go together: Jesus was pious. But they are, often miles apart. As he said; "Not everyone of those who cry out 'Lord,' Lord'
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will enter the kingdom of God, Centuries age, Heraclitus, an but only the one who does the anc,ient Greek philosopher, obwill of my Father in heaven." served that it is imposssibl\l for Second Son man to step into the same river The second son in our story twice. Impossihle' the second was not interested' in doing the time, no matter how brief the will of his ,father. In 'fact, he said linlerval of time between the flatly that he would not do it. first and second stepping, beLater he changed his mind. The cause it iS,neither the same man important thing in the story is nor the same river, for both have changed., the change. It is the kind of change to According to Heraclitean philwhich the gospels are always 'osophy concerning the reality of calling us. Sometimes they name (and, in'cidentally, solidChrisUan it repentance, sometimes con· theology and phidosophy), noth-' version. Sometimes they' simply ing (created) remains the same. caU .it opening your eyes or your All (created) being is impermaears, being willing to see what's nent and nothing ~s constant but there and listen to what God is change itself. 11'1 "Childe Harold," ' trying to, tell you. Byron put it more concisely Moreover, it is always some- when he wrote, "I am not now' thing we 1¥lve to do for ourselves that Wihich I have been." Only or at least 'be willing to let God God and the eternal verities are do within us. No other 'human unchanging. Though change at all levels being can 'ci)ange or repent or be converted for us, any 'more than and in aU areas of lifE!-'Cultural, he can see for us or hear for us. sodia), economical, political, bioWe have to do it for ourselves, 10gioaJ, theological, eCclesiastiGod's oall for us to change is' ,cal, liturgical----is an ever-present, the most important thing that unavoidable fact of life, many can happen to us. And it happens choose to ignore it :while others CHANGING RIVElR: "It is impossible for man to step very often. We have to be ready are afraid of ,it and resist it, into the same river twice: Impossible the second time, no for it at all times. withdraw from ,it or block it out. matter how brief the interval of time between the first and Willln~ness to Look ,People Who act as though it will 'If we respond to God's call to- go away if they just ignore it live second stepping, because it is neither the same man nor day, it will only. lead us to a out their .Jives in a nearly static the same river, for both have changed." NC Photo. 'mountain top from 'which we vacuum believing that nothing will be able to see still wider haiol changed in a generation. a God;s primary, universal call to the dedicated religious, the inTum to Page Seventeen /entury, a mHlenium, and that salvation, and his se~ondary call volved single person. nothing ever will. For those who to 'a particu'lar state in life-.:.-marBut he also responds to Gog's fear change, all, or, nearly all, riage, the single state, or reli- (:all by trying to shape and direct change is bad, or at least out of giouslife. change. ~he history b06ks are control. In the words Of Alvin . Beauty of ,c;hange filled with the names of God· Toffler, author of "Future The response to .God's per- fearing men and women who alme'to Turk. It was this imagina- Shock," "they seek a 'separate sonal call is given in many ways. ' tered human events and changed tive priest vvho conceived the peace'" a dipiomatic immunity Man responds to his pr,imary the course of history. idea, persuaded Murphy to co- from change.': vocation by prayer, alms giving, Indeed, the very changes that operate and coordinated the Change is Essential self-denial, loving God, our neigh- clarify the call from God are unique Eucharist of Peace and ,bor, leading virtuous lives. He frequently directed, i'estrained, oHowever, once a person realReconciliatJion. responds to his .seco~dary voca- terminated, accelerated, expandThe event ,began around 4:30 izesthat ohange is essential if tion by fulfilling ·asbest. he can ed or completed by those who on that Sunday afternoon vvhen man is to respond to God's call the duties of his state of life- rec,()gnize God's call in them. Turk and his men got out their to ,"be fruitful, multiiply, fill the the loving spouse, the conscien- 'This in part is the beauty of instr.uments, warmed up and earth and conquer it" (Gen. 1:28), tious parent, the zealous priest, change. practiced, a few numbers. Ten and then -be one with him for minutes prior to the 5 :P.M. all eternity, he quickly s~es how starting time, the band played tragic it'is that so many millions several pieces, before, a ,congre- ,of people,induding those vvho gation triple its usual size. The Should know better; are so' I Church, second oldest building threatened by the idea of change' "Turn, turn, turn," sings Pete speed of ohange in our recerit in iSan Francisco, has marvelous , that they are unable to respond Seeger in a song he made popular experience that makes the realacoustics and required a micro- to the enervating and exhilerat"to everything there is a s,eason ity of change so striking a part phone only for the two singers. 'ing challenge of change. Sad to say, they- fail to realize that only ... turn, turn, turn." Few listen- of our awareness. "Turn, turn Presentation of Gifts in changing experiences will vast ers are aware that the lyrics are turn .. ." The Mass however, was not a ,numbers of people recognize taken almost word for word Ear.lier today I was talking mere concert. The community God's personal call to salvation, from the Old Testament (Qo 3: . about partkular organizational fully participated, singing, for or 51,rive to influence changing 1-8). changes with my former reentrance, e~eriences 'as a' way of respondexample, at the search assistant. Being young, ~~ "Blowing in the Wind", and at 'ing to God's salvific call. change excited her. She found it the end, "Down by the Riverhard to grasp why many people Granted, not all change is for side." The band accompanied the better. Some social, po};itical, By find life's ehanges so disconcertboth of these numbers. After a economic or rel,igious changes ing and confusing. woman had proclaimed the first produce negative effects; they FR. CARL J. She used an example. "It is scriptural text, Murphy and his can be disruptive, degenerative, like when a boy has a coat. PFEIFER, S.J. musicians did a meditative in- disorganizing and demoralizing He 'would not want to wear strumental piece, "Gettysburg." and lead to the breakdown· of that same coat day after da~, During the presentation of gifts, control. Other changes produce year after year, as he gets congregation and combo linked positive improvements dn the older." She had a point. Acceptforces on "Kumbaya." social, political, economic or reSeeger's song is popular not ance of change would seem just The people present (about Hgious areas; they may establish only beca4se of its musical qual- as norrilal as wanting to change 1,200) sang "Holy, holy, holy," new forms of control that are ity or' his vocal talent, but also to newer clothes as one grows the memorial acclamation, and highly beneficial. because it touches a nerve in our up. joined in a particularly powerfUl Nevertheless, change whether experience. Dife today often ap"That seems to be true," ,I Great Amen. The piano 'player positive or negative, can cat-, pears to be marked chiefly by countered, "except for people helped here with some careful 'atyze individuals as well as like me .who are most content improvisation which seem'ed to groups into hearing (often for change. Almost everything is changing, and at an increasiJlg1y when dressed in familiar"cl9thes Turn' to Page Seventeen the first time) and responding to rapid pace. Perhaps it is the very Turn to Page Eighteen
Jazz Music in ,th'e Sacred liturgy Readers of AI' Capp's comic strip know all about Earthquake McGoon. But few of his followers, I am sure, ever heard of a combination family restaurantnight-club~bar by the same name in San Francisco. Located dn the WIlmii~liiilili!!:JIJi_ara
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heart of that city's financial district it lies at the foot of a very taU and unusually structured skyscraper, the Transamerica Pyramid. "Turk" Murphy performs nightly at Earthquake McGoon's place, playing great jazz on his trombone with the help of five other men (piano, tuba, cornet, banjo and clarinet). Pa'rt-owner of 'the spot. Turk has been a professional musician since he was 15--four decades ago-but Father's Day this year was probably the first time he. used his talents and instrument for a Sunday Mass. I visited with Murphy in between sets one night a few weeks after he had led this jazz ~iturgy in church. Father Wallace Anthony, a Paulist father .from nearby Old St. Mary's in the heart of Ohinatown, introduced
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Anyone returning from Ireland is asked about the trouble in the North. But if he did not get into Ulster,· he knows little more of the situation there than a person who has not set foot in Ireland recently. The turmoil in the North has had a damaging effect on tourism in the electricity.. The cut pieces are neatly stacked in small pyramids South. Very few English resembling pineapples, and are people are coming over, and left to dry.
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taken fear of vioience. There is none of that in the South, which is as tranquil and pleasant a place as earth can boast. Until now I had never been in the uniquely beautiful West of Ireland. Its special quality one begins to see during the drive, of some 60 miles, between Shannon and Galway City. One experiences it more fully when, recovered from the transAtlantic flight, one goes out from the city to explore the region which bears the romantically res.onant name of Connemara. In the Mountains This is a region dominated by mountains, a hosting of heights blue in the distance but a marbled grey-,green when seen close to. The sky above them seems infinitely spacious, and the clouds drifting across it are continental ·1n size and various in color-now pristine white; now washed in gold, now stormbruised. The foreground is richly green, with here and there a patch which resembles a large straw mat, this being a field where hay has lately been cut. Such a field gives off a sweet, cinnamony scent, contrasting with the more acrid smell of peatbein'g burned in the widely spaced cottages which are whitewashed and neatly thatched. The abundance of rock is astonishing, and nowhere else are there such stone fences. These run along the serpentine road and off across the landscape as far as the eye can reach. They meander and converge drunkenly, .sometimes enclosing a tiny, irregular bit of earth and confining a single cow.
Th~ moment we settle down and decide that now .we ~ve this reLigion business all figulled out, there is no place else to go, we know God's will and we are doing it and he really finally ought to be satisfied - at that moment we find ourselves standing among the Pharisees to whom Jesus originally told this story. -But then he must finish by telling us, as he told them: "The prostitutes are entening the kingdom of God before you are."
The ooze of the peat bogs is an oily black, contrasting with the brilliant blue. of the ,innumerable lakes, like sapphires strewn on velvet, and the gleaming green of the sea which is constantly glimpsed as the road nudges the coast. Wild flowers are everywhere -daisies, thistles, clover, Queen Anne's lace, honeysuckle (or something much like it), water lilies, as well as more exotic species, including tiny wild orchids. Bog cotton is the name given a green blade topped by a' wisp of white fluff. 'Black beef cattle are sighted now and then, and hardy sheep which appear to be entirelyon their own, shepherdless.
Of course, .people can change for the ibetter and people can change for the worse. It is not just change that is so wonderful. It is willingness to look and listen to what is going on in the world, and entertain the possibility that we are 'and have been wrong. As people change, for better or worse, the world around them changes too. This process goes on without end, through all of human history. Every ohange in other people, every change in the world about us, puts a new demands on us. How shall we respond to what is going on?
Splendid Panorama Few people are to be seen in the lonely e~panse: a middle-aged man riding a bicycle or pushing it up an incline, another in a small cart drawn by a shaggy ass, an aproned woman persuading a couple of cows into a field, two children in the sunlight at a cottage door. But everyone gives you a .friendly wave. .
Gift of Change The first recorded preaching of Jesus was the simple message: "Reform your lives! The kingdom of God is at hand." l1he first preaching of the first disciples at Pentecost is given in Acts as "Have a change of heart and mind!"
The Aran Islands lie 30 miles off the Galway coast, and can be reached by boat or plane. We visited the largest of the three, Inishmore, eight miles long and with a population of some 1,600. The wild loveliness of Inishmore endures. As one' proceeds, in a jouncing side car, along the rising road, which rings to the horse's hoofs" a splendid panorama unfolds. There is the sweep and scintillance of the sea, and then the tapestry of v.erdure and rock, the sturdy cottages which must stand fast against the mighty wind, and finally the uplands, crowned at one end by Dun Aengus, a bristling for.t of prehistoric origin, with walls 18 to 20 reet thick.
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Continued from Page Sixteen give worshipers the impetus 'Looking down.from this height,· needed to raise the roof of this one spots near almost every cotwell-known church structure. tage, a currach, that frail-looking Recessional boat, of wooden frame and tarred Two professional singers, Lynn canvas covering, in which the Shanks and Jimmy Stanislaus, men of Aran have been braving accompanied by the band, used the deep for generations. This some old gospel tunes for music craft, seeming so vulnerable, has during Communion. "A Closer proved itself well-suited to the Walk with Thee" was one; "Just challenge of the cruel waters. a Little While to Stay Here," the We returned to Galway City other. Murphy played these for as evening, long-lasting but au- us in the course of our evening Sometimes the fencing climbs tumnal, was coming on. On the at Earthquake McGoon's. the lower reaches of a mountain. rim of the bay, dozens and doz-'" "Down by the Riverside" Why? So that' a farmer- seeking ens of stately, snowy swans served as .the recessional hymn, a strayed sheep in mist or dark- were swimming at a meditative although apparently few memness may not himself become pace. Church bells were sound- bers of the congregation recessed ing. Several informal but stren- during it. Most instead stood, lost. uous football games were in clapped, joined in on the refrain, Natural Beauty hilarious progress in historic stomped, their feet, waved back and forth to the music. AfterThere are areas free of this Eyre Square. At this hour, some businesses wards the congregation applaudveining of fences. In some , the cream colored Connemara ponies inject a hideous neon note on a ed for a full five minutes, elorun free, blond manes streaming scene which is blessedly remote quent testimony that something in the wind. In others, there are from the worst that the contem- good, reverent and holy had inpeat cuttings. A special two- porary world has done to the deed happened on this Sunday edged implement is used to cut centers of cities and towns. afternoon. The community moved downthe turf, which is widely used as. Business has no business doing stairs to an auditorium afterfuel, even in the generating of this. ... J'
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The power to change ourselves is perhaps the greatest gift God gave us. Possessing this gift we do not have to be afraid of the changes that we see in others or in the world around us. Each such change outside becomes only one more inv,itation from God to examine our own situation and respond; to be ready 'if necessary, to change. "Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your heart."
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Death Plausible Alternative To Extreme O.ppression One of the ways to perceive how bad the Ulster sit,uation is would be to imagine what the casualty level would be in a nation the size of the United States that waS torn ,by the same sort of violence. If Ulster were the United ;States, the proportionate :Ironically, the IRA, which number of people killed in .,started modern guerrilla warfare the past several years would in 1916, has proven that one of 'be well over a million, or if the cardinal principles of guerI Ulster
were merely the size of the city of Chicago, over three ,thousand people would have 'died in the violence.,
rilla ,c~nflict is no longer true. Chairman Mao always ,tnsisted that revolutionaries must swim in the sea of people, meaning that if guerrillas did not have some sort of support from the larger population, the revolution was doomed to failure. Thesuccess of Che Guevera in Cuba and his failure "in Bolivia showed the difference that "swimming in the sea .of people" makes.
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Although the IRA is overwhelmingly disliked in the Re· public of Ireland and has lost D~OCESAN CHAMPS: Gilbert Rocha, left, all-star eyO catcher with Bob Frederick the support of most of, the' ri~ht, coach of the winning nine and Mrs. Robert Frederick, center, 'the coach's wife', ad~ Catholics in Ulster, it survives ,because of financial support mIre the trophy won by S5. Peter and Paul Baseball Team, Fall River as they emerged from abroad (especially, one , from league playas the Diocesan Champions. suspects, from the United States) and because the IRA gunmenwhatever their faults may beare bra,ve men; despite Chairweather, wl'liIe at th~ same time call to new faith in his ancient Continued from Page Sixteen man Mao's dictum it turns out faHing to recognize God's voice covenant promises. Hosea disthat several hundred ,urban guer- · that have heen comfortable for in the changing "signs of the cerned in the tragic changes in rmas can indeed tear ap~rt a years." While change to her may . his marriage God's call to be times". (Mt; ~6:1-3). social structure, so long as they seem exciting, to many change The Second Vatican Council, ' faithful and forgiving. are not afraiJd to die-no matter mea.ns ,being challenged to put Changes, great and small, in off things with which one is following the example of Pope how little popular support they life and in the sodal, poone's might enjoy. (The Tupparmara comfortable and secure in order John XXIH,urged Catholics and litical, cultural and ecclesial exmovement in Uruguay is another to put on new, seemingly ill- other Christians to look to the periences of one's time, a're sig, "signs',ot the times" tn their atexample "of ',phenomenon that · filtting habi~. tempts to discern God's call in nificant means through which ,brave gunmen do not need popChallenge to Grow contemporary changes. Speaking God calls, guides, and directs ular support to bring a society of the Church, and therefore in individuals and· his Church. InWhether one considers change virtually to its knees). terpreted in the Hght of living exci.bing or unsettling" desirable some sense of each individual _tradition, experiences of change Object Lesson · or something to be resisted, may within the Chur.ch, the Council may well allow one to recogni~e The urban guerrillas in the make a great deal of difference affirms that the Chutch "labors ~ore clearly what. the Holy United States, about which we in the way individuals respond to decipher authenti~ signs of Spirit is' calling one to be or do. heard so much several years' ago, to ohanges' in their lives. But God's presence 'and purpose in Change may be exhilara,ting. have not been as successful in for the adventuresome as for the the happenings, needs, and de- oIt . may also he frightening. In shredding our society' as the IRA timid, change contains within sires lin which this peOplE! has any case experien.ces of change has been in Ulster. The reason is lit a. call or challenge to grow. a part along with other m<~n of provide an important source for ,that the American urban guer- . For Christians, change is recog-, our age" (Church in Modern recognizing God and his perWorld, 11) , rmas found living attractive. nized as one of the very imporsonal caB and ,responding to it. tant experiences in which ,God's Their complaints against society, Actually the Council and Jesus Not every change may, be good, however violently expressed, personal caB may be discovered. are reiterating an awareneHS al- but change may open one to Often adult Catholics tend to ready traditional in Old Testawere not such that death was·an look to laws; the example of the ment times.' God's call may be more clearly recognize just what acceptable alternative. The sesaints, the teachings of the recognized in life's «hanges, be is good, what is from God. cret of ,the IRA is that for many "Turn, turn, turn," may be one of its gunmen, death is an ac- Church, the rich heritage of past cause he attempts to communi- of God's ways of inviting us to ceptable alternative to life in eXiperience, the sacramental llife cate with us through daily life grow. of the Church, sermons, retreats, as well .as through Church, sacUlster. and personal guidance for, disUl1ban guerrillas then can cerning what God may be calling rament, scripture or' doctrine. make life virtually impossible in them to become or do. To turn The prophets ofold....i.great spirthe modern society. They may to these sources is sound. In fact itual leaders like Moses, Jerenot win, and indeed they tend to it is sad that more and more peo- miah, or Isaiah-were skilled in reading the "signs' of: the times" be unrealistic or obscure or ple seem to have lost appreciaand interpreting them ~n· the fanatic about what the goals of tion for such importailt means light of tradition. l ' their murdering really, are; kill- of recognizing God's call. "Serving the Community ing becomes almost an end in In addition to these recogInvitation to Growth itself; the collapse of a society nized and respected avenues of Since 1873" Moses recognized in the drais a goal beyond which no other discernment, the very experience Cities Service Petroleum need be conceived. 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But whether it be six hundred, or four thousand, or a minion and a half, one would argue the numbers look insignificant compared to the carnage in places like the Sudan, or Burundi or Bangladesch, or most notably !Viet Nam.
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'Thrill' Killers But the point is not to compare the size of various tragedies. One person killed in a senseless conflict is an intolerable evil. The point is, rather, that within its' own ratherdi'minutive context, the conflict in Ulster is a disaster .which, has torn apart the social fabric of the society ,that had' very little to bind it together in the first place. The fact ,that a good deal of ·the killing now is being done, not by the IRA, ,but by "thrill" killers, indicates how badly the social structure of UI,ster has deteriorated.' ' , What is worse, a solution seems as far away as ever. One has 'a terrible feeling when one .hears the daily TV reports of the violence in the North' of Ireland that long after the Indians and the Pakistani, the Jews and the Arabs, the Ibos and the Hausas, and even the blacks and the whites in the United States have , 'settled their conflicts, Catholic.> and Protestants in the North of Ireland will continue to battle wtth one another.
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Number of U.S. Priest Graduate Students in Rome Increases ROME (NC) - Nearly 100 American priests will be enrolled in Rome's North American College graduate house this year, the largest number' since the close of the Second Vatican Council. Msgr. Richard Mahowald, director of two educational programs at the graduate house, said that enrollment for studies leading to a degree is up 20 per cent over last year. In addition, the fourth session of a three-month institute of in-
tensive updating for American priests, started by Msgr. Mahowald two years ago WJith a class of 22 priests, opened Sept. 20 with an all-time high of 41, including one American bishop. Already 37 priests have registeredfor the spring session of the institute 'beginning in March and some have rerJistered for the fall session of 1974. Bishop Joseph Breitenbeck of Grand Rapids, Mich., will be the first bishop to attend the institute. Msgr. Mahowald said that two other bishops are trying to adjust their schedules to attend the institute in forthcoming sessions. The institute condenses a full year's theological study into the three months by running a minimum of 20 class hours a
week. The Dominican Angelicum University in Rome grants seven graduate credits for those attending the institute who wish to continue toward a licentiate in theology. Interest in Canon Law Msgr.Mahowald said that the current dass for the institute is composed of pastors, university professors, chancery officials and members of f,ive Religious order,s. Twenty-five dioceses are represented. Full-time graduate students are beginning a course of several years leading to a doctorate are showing more interest this year in canon law, Msgr. Mahowald , said. The Vatican has been rewriting the Code of Canon Law for several years now, and students have been hesitant to enter studies under the present code. Nevertheless, dioceses are now flinding a need for more lawyers and are sending men into canon law despite the ongoing revision. Msgr. Mahowald said that at the close of Vatican II there were about 100 full-time graduate priests at the college. That number decreased steadily over the years until last year there were only 40. This year, however, the enrollment has bounced up to 53.
French-Canadians in Toronto Proud of Language, Culture TORONTO (NC) - Ten years ago the average French-Canadian in Toronto was afraid to be himself. 'He was reluctant, even fearful, about speaking French outside his home or immediate environment. His Catholicism, as well as his accent, could be a detr,iment. He tended to hide his background and his joie de vivre. The attitude of Englishspeaking Canadians had made him into something he wasn't. Many thought he was inferJor' and this led him to believe he was. But over the past 10 years -more qliickly over the past ,three-his culture, his fact has gained general acceptance. There are still ethnic jokes, but to be French-speaking is no longer an embarrassment in Toronto. In fact, the' French-Canadian is surfacing universally. They no longer mask their pride in their some 350 years of Canadian history. There are now about 85,000 French-speaking people in MetI'Opolitan Toronto. It's a good bet there will be 100,000 by 1975. These people come from many areas of Ol1,tario, from Quebec, New Brunswick, and Europe. ' Yet it is easy to recall when
ANNUAL eyo AWARDS DINNER: Top: John Meunier of Taunton, chairman of the awards banquet; Bishop Cronin, who presented the trophies; Cathy Lucey of Taun': ton, a committee member; Jeff McClellan of Taunton, banquet toastmaster. Center: Basketball victors are congratulated by the Bishop. Chuck Mendes, left and Skip Daluz, extreme right, members of the St. FraQ.cis Xavier, Hyannis Diocesan Intermediate Basket Ball Champs join Theresa Vasconcellos, on Bishop's right and Connie Macedo on the Bish. op's left, members of Mt. Carmel Championship Girls' Basketball team of New Bedford. Bottom: Bishop Cronin, center, reviews the CYO sports' year with Conrad Thibault 'and Richard Sevigney, members of St. Michael's Call B Basketball Junior Champs from St. Michael's, Swansea and Janice Silvia and Renee Magan, member of Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River New England and Diocesan Cheerleading Champions.
French-Canadians, although capable, found it hard to get a job in Toronto and were dependent on friends ,and relatives to answer questions and ease frustrations. Now there is an information center set up at Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart) parish by La Chasse-Galerie, a French-Candian cultural center. And, usually, if one is qualified one feels no discrimination in finding a job. Toronto's Sacre Coeur and St. Louis de France parishes are both "national" parishes and you speak F.rench. The parishioners of St. Louis de J;:'rance are often professionals whose companies have transferred them here for a short period, unlike the majority of parishioners at Sacred Heart who come to Toronto looking for work. . Father Justin Desroches, of ,sacre Coeur, says the Church fulfills a need 'for a group dispersed throughout the city wanting a community atmosphere. In a predominantly English-oriented city it is possible some French will encounter problems that they may need help with. But more than anything else Sacred Heart acts as a gathering place and social organization.
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