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Diocesan Educators To Run VVorkshops Faculty members of two diocesan schools will conduct workshops Saturday at the annual Fall conclave of the New England unit of the National Catholic Education Association. They are Sister Theresa Fortin, C.S~C. and her' staff, from St. Anne's Alternate School, New Bedford; and Sister Marie Therese Antone, R.S.M. and her staff from Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Sister Theresa's topic will be· "The Alternate School: A Working Plan (K-8)" and Sister Marie Theres'e will discuss "The Catholic High School: Christian Community of Learning."

Assisting in planning for the program, to be held at St. Mary's Central Catholic High School, Milford, Mass., have been Sister Ma,rion C. Geddes, Assistant Superintendent of the Fall River Diocesan School System, and Rev. Brian Harrington, both members of the executive commi~ee of the New England unit.

Other workshops to be offered all feature innovations which have met with success in New England Ca,tholic schools.

Keynote speaker ,'for the oneday program will be'Rev. Andrew Greeley, Director o'f, the Center of Ethnic Groups aCthe National Opinion Research Center at Chicago University, a~~ Professor

Priests' Se'nates Meet in Maine Spiritual renewal' of priests and emphasis on continuing education were stressed at the Sixth Annual New England Conference of Priests' Senates held in Augusta, Me., from Sunday to Tuesday.

Eleven bishops joined the 55 delegate-priests and 20 guests and observers at the Maine meeting. The Fall R,iver Diocese was represented by Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River; Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, Diocesan Chancellor, and members of the Fall River Priests' Senate.

The voting delegate-members of the Fall River Priests' Senate were Rev. George W. Coieman, Rev. Thop1as C. Lopes, Rev. Edward C. Duffy, Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Rev. Robert Brennan, C.S.C. In bringing the conference up Turn to Page Six

of Higher Education oaf the Uni: versity of Illinois. Father Greeley will explore the - needs for a Catholic philosophy of education for the 70's. The theme of the convention, "Catholic Education -So What?", will study innova-. tions.as means to foster a futureoriented Catholic education phil.osophy in New England Schools for the current critical decade.

The workshop sessions will be followed by a liturgical service.

The Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, D.D.,. Bishop . of Worcester, and the Most Reverend Ernest J. Primeau, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, will concelebrate Mass.

Name Mass. Nun As F.M.M. Head The General Chapter. of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, presently meeting in Grottaferrata near Rome, has elected Sister Alma Dufault of Wakefield, Mass. as seventh Superior General of the Institute.

Born on Aug. 25, 1924 in Franklin, N. H., Sister Alma graduated from Emmanuel College in 1946,and entered the North Amercian novitiate of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary the same year. She later received a Master's degree in Social Work from Fordham University in 1952.

During the General Chapters of 1960 and 1966, Sister Alma was elected to serve on the General Council in ,the capacity of Assistant General. Prior to her departure for the Generalate, she had been actively engaged in social work in the Archdiocese of New York and later as Novice Directress for the North American Novitiate.

As she takes up her duties as Superior General, the Institute counts among its 10,139 members women from 67 countries.

The work of the General Chapter during the coming months will be to revise the rule of life and to redefine the objectives of the community according to the needs which present themselves in the Church and in the world today.

The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary arl;! located at 621 Second Street in Fall River. They teach in Espiri-to Santo School and conduct religion classes in seven parishes in Fall River.

Document on Doctrine PHILADELPHIA (NC}-A document detailing basic doctrines that must be included in religious education programs has been revised under Vatican supervision and will be presented to the U. S. bishops in November.

That announcement was made here by Auxiliary Bishop John J. Graham, a member of the committee whkh drafted the document.

Bishop Graham told a religious education congress that the document has been revised under the direction of the Vatican's Clergy Congregation and will be submitted to the bishops' Fall meeting in Washington under the title, Basic Teachings for Catholic Religious Education.

Earlier drafts of the document had beE!ll called Fundamentals of Religious Education and Basic Doctrines of Religious Education.

While much consultation with religious educators and parents' groups had ,been involved in the preparation of the document, Bishop Graham stated, "the ultimate responsibility" for the doc-

trinal content of religious education "rests with the bishops in communion with the Pope." "n is my fervent prayer," Bishop Graham told the congress participants, "that each one of us who shares the responsibility of religious education teach Christ's revelation and His message and not _the theology of any man, no matter how brilliant he may be."

"Christ will one day ask," he said, "how we taught those He redeemed with His blood."

"What really matters," he concluded, "is to accept the Church as Christ founded it and to recognize that there is a difference between the changeless deposit of faith and changing methods in its presentation."

In his keynote address to the assembly, Father William Tobin, formnr~v assistant director of the National Office of Religious Education in Washington, stated that the Vatican',s General Catechetical Directory is not a universal catechism but· an adaptable plan to be implemented in religious education on

the national and local levels under the direction of the bishops. The document is designed as an orientation and as a guide, not a set of binding rules.

Father Tobin noted, however, that the section of the General Catechetical Directory which includes doctrinal principles is to be held by all, while those sections dealing with sociology and methodology are intended as ,suggestive of possible approaches, not as normative.

Referring to what he called the "perhaps overpublicized addendum" ,to the General Catechetical Directory which' calls for adherence to the traditional practice of providing children with the opportunity of making their confession before receiving their first Holy Communion, Father,Tobin said that ,the section favors experimentation in this area under the direction of the bishops' conference.

This, he said, is in accord with an exhortation by the Second Vatican Council to find new and more per,tinent forms of penitential expression.

Mt. Carmel Parish in Seekonk To Celebrate Golden Jubilee A Mass concelebrated by the Most Reverend Bishop and present .and past pastors and curates of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk. will highlight the 50th anniversary of' the parish.

The Mass, at 2 Sunday afternoon, wiU be f.ollowed by a reception at which parishioners will meet Bishop Cronin.

The observance caps a remarkable half' century of growth, which has seen Our Lady of Mt. Carmel increase in numbers from 'a scattered congregation of farmers to its present census of 5000 souls. In only the past 10 . years, the number of parish families has jumped from 650 to 1400., Our Lady of Mt. The beginnings of the parish are somewhat hazy, but for years before its forma.] estab- a short -time, in. 'addition to carlishment it was a mission ing for his own parish of St. served by churches in Taunton Mary's HebronviHe. He was foland Attleboro. In 1922 it was lowed by Rev. Daniel E. Carey canonically erected as a parish, for a six month period.

Father Carey's pastorate was with Rev. William McNamara as short but very active. He reorpastor.

Father McNamara was not able to find a lodging within the parish for use as a rectory, and it was not until his successor, Rev. Charles R. Smith, was apMIAMI BEACH (NC}-While pointed pastor that a house was purchased, some two miles from government programs are well the church. This served as the intentioned and well adminisrectory until 1968, when a house tered, they are not the final annear the church became avail- . swer in the war on poverty, the able, and at last parish faei-Iities national president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul said here. were centralized.

"The component needed is the In 1932 Father Smith left Seekonk for another assignment. human lubricant of personal ser· He was succeeded by Rev. James vice," T. Raber Taylor said in E. O'Reilly, who served the par- an interview foLlowing his adish until 1959, aided by priests dress at the 58th annual meeting from the nearby Shrine· of Our of the Society here.

"Much good came from the Lady of La Salette. Following Father O'Reilly'~ pastorate, Rev. war on poverty, but no victory," Cornelius J. Keliher took over he added. "We will always have administration of the parish for the poor with us and we will al-

Carmel, Seekonk ganized the parish CCD program, increased the Sunday Mass schedule and originated Carmel Night, which has become an oustanding annual parish social activity. .

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St. Vincent de Paul Society Stresses Personal Contact ways need groups like the Vincentians to serve them."

"People will always need people more than they need dollars," Tay/lor said.

"We're just the foot soldiers," he said. "We don't tell the poor tp come to us. We go to them.

When many people think of the Society they think of the stores we maintain in many areas of the country. But this is just one aspect of our work. Our main job is to go out to people in need."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall-River.....Thurs. Oct.26, 1972

Boys' ;"J;own Choir Cone'ert Set For November 2 in Attleboro The famed Boys' Town Choir from Omaha, Neb., wiLl present a eoncert at 8 on Thursday night, Nov; 2 at Attleboro High School.

St. Joseph's Parish of Attleboro is sponsoring the concert andpl'.oceeds will go towards completion of the renovation of the interior of the church.

Approximately 35 from the ages of i9 to 18 will present a variety of hymns and foIk tunes under .the i direction of Msgr.· Francis P., Schmitt of, Boys' Town. This is one of three choirs who make ·an annual faU tour. . The .program to be presented by the boys includes: "Audite Nova!" by di Lasso, "In Silent Night" by. ,Brahms, "Exadtabo Te" by Palestrina, "Navidad Nuestra" by Ramirez, "ChiP Yo' Hands" and "Liza" by George Gershwin, "Night Song" by Britten, "I Bought Me A Cat" by

Obtain $14,000 In Donations WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic Office of Drug Education (CODE) has received $14,000 in donations that will enable it to retain two grants totalling $33,000.

Father Roland Melody, CODE coordinator, declined to reveal the sources of the $14,000, but said the money would be used. to help rurl his office, pay sal" aries, and train priests to work in drug education at the parish level.

"This has got us. on the board," said the Trinitarian, called the "Narco Priest." "We're in great shape now."

He said obtaining the $14,000 has freed him to do his work.

$uggest Master Plan for Missions ROME ({'fe)-The cardinal in charge of the Vatican's world missionary agency called for a master plan for the missions lest the Church's efforts in evangelization be thrown .into chaos.

Cardinal Agnelo Rossi, the 59year-old Brazilian prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, told a meeting of the congregation that it must rescue the missions from possible ruin.

"Either the Propagation of the Faith (the former name of the congregation) . . . assumes the dynamic direction of the missionary world, or it abandons the missions to chaos and aUows a slow death to settle in, a death brought on by today's secularism or materiaIlsm," the cardinal sa.id.

The cardinal cadled for formulation of an "adequate plan, of action" for the missions.

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~ecrology NOV. 6 Rev. Patrick S. McGee, 1933, Founder, St. Mary, Hebronville.

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Aaron Copland, and other American folk tunes." . Brooks Grantier is the accompanist, and Frank Szynskie the manager for the boys' tour. ' Richard Steele is general chairman for the event.' He is, being assisted by Donald' Joubert, .publicity; George Stafford, patrons; Beatrice Melanson, audience comfort; Conrad Maigret, production; Rene Dubuc, reception; Evelyn Boueher, programs; and Rev. Normand Boulet; finance. Pastor Rev. Roger ,.p.

Poirier is honorary chairman.

Ticke~s, which are three dollars, may be obtained at S1.

Joseph's -Rectory; Fernandes Super Markets in Attleboro, North Attleboro, Mansfield and Plainville, White's Music Store in Attleboro,and Ray Mullen's Music Store in Pawtucket. They will also be available at the door on Nov. 2.

More than 100 students in elementary, junior high and high school are expected a,t the Bristol County Scholastic and Novice Chess Championships, Sunday, Nov. 5 at Coyle-eassidy High School, Adams and Hamilton Streets.

The scholastic event is open to students attending any school through Grade 12. Registration will begion at 8:30 A.M. and end at,,9.: The first of four rounds' will begin at 9:15.

Participants will play in what , is called a Swiss System. Players are matched with opponents with, equal scores and no one is knocked o'u~. . .

The e~try 'fee is $5 in advance APPOINTMENTS: Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D.;· or $6 ·the day of the event. This has appointl~d Rev. Robert C. Donovan, left, assistant pastor fee includes a year membership of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro, as Moderator in the national and 'state chess associations. Players compete for of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses for the Attleboro 'trophy prizes and all receive a Area and Rev. Thomas 1... Rita, right,' assistant pastor of national chess ra·ting based on St. Mary Pa.risQ, M~nsfield, as Assistant Cya' Director for their results. the Attleboro Area.

The novice event is open to .students -in elementary school i and junior high only. Registra'tion is from 9 to 10 A.M. Entry fee 'is. $1. in advance or $2 the day of the event. Trophies will Hudson Seminary here, named sick -on the Barque of Peter,", be awarded 10 winners.

Dutch theologian Edward Schil- Father Gannon was the first of Advance entries _may be sent lebeeckx and German theologi:an a series of lecturers scheduled to Raymond Del Colle, 157 East· Hans Kung as members of a \ to appear at ·the seminary in a ' ern Avenue, Fall River 02723. "small coteri~" of tlieologians speakers' program sponsored by Participants are advised to bring attempting to usurp control of the traditionalist Una Voce soci- chess sets. ety of Albany. the Church.

Speaking 011 the theme; "SeaFather Gannon asserted that Editor Resigns some theologians "are calling on BATON ROUGE (NC) ...:- Jim the people of God to take over" Falkner, editor of The Catholic ,the Church and to encourage Commentator since 1971, has repeople to "turn off the Pope'~ signed to become general manMe~ia when they disagree with him. ager of three weekly newspapers. ·based in New York, :where he The move to wrest authority Faulkner was associated, with has a residen:e. from the hierarchy and give it Asked to comment on the to the individual Catholic was -The Commentator, the diocesan newspaper here in Louisiana, statement of the U. S. bishops really an effort by certain theosince its beginning in 1963. He last November that' "whatever logians to assume control of the was photographer and sports edgood -we hoped to, achieve Church themselves, he said. itor before being promoted to edthrough invoh'ement in this war. itor. is now outweighed by the whole"They (the theologians) do - sale destruction of human life not 'want to do away with the and moral values which it con- Pope as long as he keeps his Knack tinues to wreak." .. m~uth shut," said Father GanWhat one does ~asily, one Father de Jaegher said that non. He eharged they have' a does well.

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Deplores Attftlcks, on Papal ,Authority I

RENSSALAER (NC) - A former president of Fordham University has charged that the Catholic Church is being subverted ·by attacks upon papal authority by' some theologians.

Father Robert I. Gannon, in a lecture at St. _ Anthony-on-

Asserts .Destructiol1 ·in "ietnam Exaggerated by U.S,. Mas!.

WASHINGTON (NC) - "The mass of the Vietnamese people are opposed to communism" said a priest who has had extensive contact with Vietnam since 1954.

The priest, Belgian-born Father Raymond de Jaegher, 67, director of public relations for the archdiocese of Taipei,. also said that the extent' of destruction in Vietnam has been greatly exaggerated by the mass media in the UnitecI States.

"The country was never as well off as it is now," he said, adding that it "has heen rebuilt all the time" that the war has been going on. "There are now highways all over the cOilntry that were not there before, and many more schools andhospitals," he said.

Denying the claim of opponents of the war that most of the civilian casualties during the period of U. S. ground involvement resulted from U. S. firepower, Father de Jaegher said that "the United States has fought a .very humanitarian war and sought to avoid civilian casualties." He said there were "mistaken bombings as there were during World War n but no _big cities were damaged.

"There are many casualties on account of the war," the priest said, "but many more have been killed by the Vietcong than by the United States," .

BIshops' Statement Father de Jaegher worked in South Vietnam from 1954-1964· as an educator and editor of magazines and a newspaper. He has visited the country every year since 1964,. he said, most recently late thIS summer. He is a lecturer for the anti-communist Asian Speakers Bureau,

would not agree withl it. They are opposed to the war but they are for freedom." He said ,he had spoken to ninB Vietnamese bish0Jls during his recent ~isit.

Peace With Freedom -Father de Jaegher quoted Bishop Joseph Tran Van Thi,en of My Tho as !:aying "We cannot have peace Ht any cost, We must have peace with freedom."

As evidence for his cbntention that most Vietnamese are opposed to communism, Father de Jaegher cited the failure of the population of South Vietnam to go over to thE: communists du,ring the Tet offensive i of 191)8 and the resistance that ~he South Vietnamese anny has given du.ring the North Vietnamerse offen· sive this year. ' J:Ie ~isagreed with the charactenzatlOn by Sen. Ge?rge McGovern of the South 'VI,etname:;e ?overm~ent a!:. a ,:'corrupt ~:ilItBtry d1ctatorsh1p. SOl,lth VIetnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu "has to have a strong govenlment," the priest said. "'I would not caU it a dictatorship.

You cannot he pro-communi!:t, but there is great freedom.

"There is some degree of corruption. Civil servants I and the army are not well paid. Thieu is not as well paid as a U. S. prf.vate,"

olic press and described ·them as "a small coterie of intellec-' tuals who admire each other's writings."

Speaking on the decline in religious vocations, Father Gannon said the "reasons are to be found in the corruption of- the society around us," He said society's atmosphere of "dope, sex and violence" encourage young men and women to "take a dim view of chastity and obedience." .However, he sa'id problems besetting the Church - attacks from within, a decline in vocations and problems in education -will not overwhelm it.

"We know the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church," he said.

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Ask Suplreme Court Outlaw School Financing by Property Taxes WASHINGTON (NC) -!'lint; religious, civic and educational organizations, including the Na'- . tional Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice (NCCIJ), have told the U. S. Supreme Court that financing pu,blic schools by property tax is unconstitutional.

In a friend-of-the court brief the nine groups charged that wealth determines the quality of . education in Texas, and that this discriminates against school districts with large percentages of Mexican-American children, in violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.

Signers of the brief, besides the NCOIJ, were the American Civil Liberties Union; American Jewish Congress; Anti-Defama-· tion League of JB'nai B'rith; National Coalition of American Nuns; National Council of Churches; Scholarship, Education and 'Defense! Fund for Racial Equality; Southwest Council of La Raza and United Ministries in Public Education.

The case for which- the brief has been filed, San Antonio Independent School District v.

Rodriquez, will be heard by the Supreme Court in the term beginning in October. The nine organizations are asking the high court to uphold a U. S. District Court ruling which directed Texas authorities to end inequal- ities in the present system of public school financing.

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Under present Texas law,' the brief pointed out, state funds supplement the funds raised by property taxe!l, within each school ',~istrict,but thesE'!- state funds are allocated on the basis' of the education and eXJ}erienc~' of the teachers hired by the school district. Since wealthier school districts· can offer higheI' salaries, they can generally hire the better qualified teachers and thereby receive more state funds than poorer districts.

"This occurs even though poorer districts tend to tax themselves, in general, at a higher rate than wealthier districts," said the brief.

The brief contended that this method of financing "provides more education for some children than for others," a situation which it said "has not been justified on any reasonable grounds."

Discrimination against the Mexican-American population in this context is not accidental, the court brief charged. "At the time the present school district lines were ,being drawn, Texas courts were enforcing deed restrictions that barred MexicanAmericans (rom all but the poorest neighborhoods," it said.

Lack of Devotion The brief noted that the students represented in the suit are in the Edgewood schOOl district

Circumscriptions Today, 350 years after its foundation, the, Sacred Congregation for Evangelization has 840 ecclesiastical circumscriptions (i.e. dioceses, vicariates, etc.) under its jurisdiction. Of these, 365 are in Asia (including 143 in Mainland China, with which contact has been lost for the past 20 years), 315 in Africa 80 in America, HI in Oceania, and 19 in Europe.

in Bexar County, 'where 75 per cent of the students 'are Mexican-Americans. It compared the assessed property evaluation of $5,960 per pupil in Edgewood with the tax base of $49,478 per pupil in Alamo Heights, the county's richest district,' where fewer than 15 per cent of the students are from minority_ groups.

While per-pupil expenditure for education was $248 in Edgewood, it was $558 in Alam'o Heights, the brief said. It pointed out that this was the case in spite of a 70 cents per $100 tax rate in the poorer district, compared with 31 cents per $100 in the richer district. .

This situation is "mirrored throughout Texas" according to the nine organizations who filed the brief. "These grotesque spending differences. cannot be attributed to a lack of devotion to education among minority parents," the organizations declared, "for the most objective evidence of a community's attachment to its schools - the rate at which its citizens tax themselves for learning-reveals precisely the ~pposite."

Se t F-irSt Fr.-d ay F'a irhaven Vig .-1

On Friday, Nov. 3, the First Friday of the month, a five-hour vigH of prayer will be held at Sacred Hearts Church, Main Street, North Fairhaven. This will be the fourth in a continuing s~ries of vigils to be held at several parishes throughout the . area., -" " .. . . "(,,The p.ur'p'ose, of t~.e.·vigi\s is to pray for peace in the world and to honor 'the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The vigil will begin with confessions preced·ing a· Mass of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus at 8 P.M. :Included in -the evening are exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, rosary, holy hour and Benediction. The vigil will end with a Mass in honor of the Immacuulate Heart of Ma-ry at midnight.

Coffee and refreshments will be available during the evening. All are invited to come. You may stay for ·the whole evening or just a part of it. For further information, please contact Sacred Hearts Church, Main Street, Fairhaven.

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Ball Will Benefit Four Nazareths

PLANNING BALL: Committee member~ planning the Bishop's Charity-Ball to be held at Lincoln Park Ballroom on Friday, Jan; 12 are left to right: seated: Mrs. Vincent A. Coady, St. Thomas More, Somerset, Presentee Committee, Mr. Edouard W. Lacroix, St. Dominic, Swansea, Decorating Co~mittee; standing: Miss Clorinda Ventura, St. John of God, Somerset, Decorating Committee, Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong, St. Louis de France, Swansea, Decorating Committee.

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'After 17 years of Parish Work, P:riest Becomes 'Seminar·ian .

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MILWAUKEE (NC)-After 17 years in parish work Father Mar,tin Simon is a seminarian again.

The 44-year-old priest enrolled at St. Francis Seminary school of pastoral ministry on a full time basis to learn "to really serve 'people most effectively" when he becomes a pastor, probably next year.

Although a number of local priests hpve returned to the seminary part time it appears Father Simon has set a precedent here by ,giving up a year of parish work to be a studellt again.

"I felt ... 1 had to update myself," he explained. "It's similar to the role of a doctor. Can he be doing a good job in medicine today if he doesn't keep abreast Protests Banning of modern developments?"

Father Simon intends to upNon-Native Bishops PANAMA CITY (NC) - Arch- date himself on the latest develbishop Edoardo Rovida, papal opments in the liturgy. He also nuncio here, has protested to the is concerned with Church ingovernment of Gen. Omar Torri- sights on such crucial issues as jos against a decision to allow abor,tion and poverty.

His cla!!s schedule includes only Panamanian-born citizens to serve as bishops in this country. courses in worship, penance, The decision came in the form moral principles; and a theologof a resolution by the People's icalstudy of Jesus. He also atConstitutional Convention, called tends classes on a literary study

by Gen. Torrijos to make consti- of the Old Testament and the tutional changes. Panama has Pentecostal movement.

Father Simon said he selected had no congress since 1968.

The Convention approved a those courses, bridging all four motion in September that all top years of pastoral ministry religious leaders must be native- studies, because "I felt they born Panamanians. This affects would be most helpful and useful top Protestant leaders as well as in parish work."

Father Simon pointed out that Catholic bishops and vicars genselecting courses from the foureral. .

Three heads of Panama's 'six year curriculum would give him dioceses are natives of Spain, an opportunity ,to meet semi- .' and two U.S.-born priests hold narians at all age levels. He also 'posts of vicars in the Panama insisted on living at the seminary to make his efforts more archdiocese..

effective.

"With the young' priests coming up, I felt I had to meet them on their own terms," he observed. "This is the best way to learn to understand them. In other words, by doing this I'm trying to bridge the generation gap."

"I try hard to discover insights of seminarians," he said. I want them to feel I'm more like them. I don',t want them to look at me as part of the faculty."

Father Simon said he read last winter about a bishop who demanded all priests aproaching pastorships for the first time to return to seminary studies. "As I thought about it, I finally decided this is what I wanted to do," he noted.

Msgr. William Schuit, the seminary rector, was most receptive.

"I liked the idea," he explained.

"And I would like to see more priests do this."

Proceeds from the 18th annual Bishop's Charity Ball to be held Friday, Jan. 12, at Lincoln Park Ballroom, North Dartmouth, will benefit diocesan institutions for exceptional children, regardless of color, race or creed. The schools are Nazareth Hall in Attleboro, a new school adjacent to Bishop Feehan High School; Naz· areth Hall on the Cape in Hyan· nis and Nazareth Hall and Naz· areth Pre-Vocational Training School in Fall River.

Students from the ages of 14 to 19 are receiving job training at the Pre-Vocational School. At the other three Nazareths, classes for children from six to 14 include academic subjects, sewing, cooking, woodworking, home arts, home nursing, baby care and maintenance of buildings and grounds. Sisters at these schools are from the community of the Sisters of Mercy.

Six CategorIes The Charity Ball is under direction of the diocesan Ball committee with affiliates of the Council of Catholic Women and conferences of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul as co-sponsors.

Persons or groups wishing to help in this work for the exceptional children may do so by having their names printed in the Charity Ball Souvenir Booklet in one of six categories. .

Advance tickets for the Ball are given in accordance to the category selected. Tickets may also be purchased at Lincoln Park on the night of the Ball.

Further information may be obtained from committee members and from Ball co-sponsors or by writing or calling the Bishop's Charity Ball Headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., Fall River, 02722.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 26, 1972

History of Church Shows Adaptability to C~ange

ORANGE (NC) - A group of Catholic parents has demanded that the entire public school board dn this New Jersey community resign for refusing to cooperate with a state law providing auxiliary services to nonpublic school students.

On September 14-a little less, than a month before the tenth anniversary of the Second Vatican Councilthe bishops pf Ireland addressed a Pastoral Letter to their priests and people entitled "Change in the Church." Printed copies, in pamphlet' form, can be ordered from the , ever, that change - more rapid and more far-reaching than the Catholic Communications Church has ever experienced in Institute, 7 Lower Abbey the past-is most certainly to be Street, Dublin 1. " I was impressed by the positive and rather optimistic tone of the Pastoral. It star,ts from the

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premise that "change is a part of human life" and that the extraordinarily rapid speed of change in our own generation is the price we must expect to pay for the skills we have learned in developing the world around us.

The Pastoral also notes that it was only to be expeoted that the Church, like ev'ery other institution in modern society, would be affected by the phenomenon of of rapid change and that Catholics from a.\l walks of life would be drawn into the debate about its meaning for the future of religion, Cross, Privilege The Irish Bishops. recognize, of course, that this can be an unsettling experi~nce, but "if we think about it," they observed. "maybe it is no harm that people should have, their attitudes questioned and challenged. Some measure of routine is a condition of the Christian life, as it is of all life: but mechanical routine can be a deadly enemy. We do not get life in terms of that kiM of security. Nowadays, we must be prepared to suffer from the pace of change, from the extent of the questionings, from the fact that weare all drawn into a discussion we are often badly prepared for. It is rthe special cross of .the Christian today, but also his special privilege. True, a Christian can expect to find peace and rest in his Lord, but on this side of heaven he should not expect it as a p.ermanent sta,te."

This strikes me as being a sound pastoral reaction to the phenomenon of change in the me of the Church. Since rapid change, even in the area of religion, is-whether we like it or not-a fact of' life, it makes good sense for Church leaders to try ,to prepare their people to cope w1th it as mature Christians instead of wasting their time and energy lamenting the inevitable as men who have, lost their nerve, so to speak, and have given up on Providence.

Impetus From Council This is not to say that change for the sake of change is either necessary or desirable, much less that confusion for its own sake is something to be welcomed or even tolerated. It is to say, how-

At the same time, representatives of the city's four parochial elementary schools, along with the group of parents, asked the . state commissioner of education and the attorney general to compel the local board to cooperate w,ith the law.

expected and very probably would have come to pass if Vatican II had never been convened.

The council did not generate The dispute arose when the the phenomenon of rapid change Orange board rejected a request in the Church but merely cointhat a variety of remedial sercided with it, validated it, gave vices be' provided for the stuit a centain impetus and, even dents at the parochial schools. more importantly, a'certain the'Board member Arthur D'Italia ological and pastoral respectasaid "We take the position that bility. Rapid change would have the school system and the discome into the Church with or tricts throughout the state will without a council, but with this suffer irreparable harm in spendall-impolltant difference: In the ing public funds on non-public absence of a council, it probably education," would have come iargely in proDr. Walter McCarthy, state ditest' against the reao} or alleged rector of programs for noninadequacies of Catholic thought public education, has already inand pastoral practice and not in formed the Orange board that response to an orderly study of ' theological and biblical sources.

IN CASE OF FIRE, BRING A CHAPLAIN: Actually, I its action is without legal basis. and a systematic reappraisal of this fire truck in Ashlal)d, Ohio, was returning from a run McCarthy said that "local boards do not have the option of refus,the Church's needs and opporwhen a vohmteE!r chapl~in Walter Douglass hitched a ride ing a request (for services) extunities. The council, in other words, was rthe providential back to where he parked his car. The chaplain is a major cept, of course, in the case of a court ruling." safety valve that made it possi- in the local Salvation Army. :~C Photo. ble-or so it seems to many obThe 1971 law Is being conservers - to forestall a disas- .. tested in court but no injunction trous explosion in the. life of the against its implementation has Church. been issued. It provides $19 milPeriod of Confusion lion in assistance.

Redemptorist Says Prayer, Efforts As it is, many Catholics-and many sympathetic non-Catholics 4)f Parisl~ Priests Vital to Vocations I $40,000 Grant· as well--':seem to think the counMADISON (NC) ,- Prayer and "We are priests today because cil; f.ar from serving as a safety GARY (NC) - The diocesan valve, did release and may even the efforts of pari:;h priests are someone influenced us. Were it Catholic Charities agency here that parish-priest, have fused or ignited a disits- essential in the development of not for in Indiana has received a $40,000 friend-we would probparent, vocations to the priesthood', actr9us explosion. Be that as it federal grant for a program that may, ,the council Fathers them- cording to the former chairman ably not be priests today." , selves, unlike Alvin 'Tomer, au- of the U. S. bishops Com~ittee The priesthood needs to be would help place elderly persons thor of 'Future Shock, 'did not on Priestly Formation. seen as an attractive way of life in volunteer jobs with social ser"The success of :lny v,ocations for young men. "Young men look upon the contemporary phenomenon of "profound and rapid program depends ,~ntirely upon make a· commitment to the vice agencies. cha,.nge" either in the Church or ·priests in parishes," Father priesthood because ,they see it in society generally as a sickness Thomas W. Coyle told pries'ts of as something worthwhile to do or disease. On the contrary, they the Madison diocese. "They ~ust in life," he explained. welcomed it, although with cau- get behind and sup:port the dioclIn any vocation, Father Coyle' esan vocations program." . tious reservations. said, a series of decisions must . 'Indeed it might even be said In addition, Fathl~r Goylesaid, that the council Fathers would . pr,iests" parishioners and sem- be made. That is why counse!jng have been contradicting their inarians must pray for vocations. vocations is necessary.

"The seminarian m~st keep up own theology - which, by that A R,edemptorlst, Father Goyle time, had already been stated in . said that .records of his ortler's prayer in order to persevere, just the Constitution on the Church":"" St. Louis pmvince !:how that out as a parish priest must do;" he if, when they got around to dis- of about 250 priests only 15 to added. "Parishioners must also cussing the, Church in the mod- 25 actively promote vocations. pray. that certain members will ern world, they had suddenly "Why is it that 'Ne are sb re- receive special graces to the FALL RIVER reversed themselves and started luctant to encourage vocations?" priesthood." wringing ·their hands at the he asked. troublesome thought that the ~ith I the Disenchantment Church might be facing a pro- priesthood may be a reason for longed period of constant some priests not pr<lmoting \Tocachange, confusion and uncertain,- ,tions, he said, and "often a ty. priest feels that it is just 'isn't Need of Renewal important that he encourages In the Constitutian on the vocations."

Church, as 'the American J~suit But the overriding reaS0!l is theologian, Father Avery Dulles, reluctance on the part of priests *6% 2-3 yr. Term De"osit Certificate' has pointed out, the Fathers of to counsel young men in the 'area Now Yields 6.27% the Council, avoiding definitions of "deep religious experie~ce," and scholastic or juridicao} subtle- Father C<oyie said. , 5%0/0 1-2 yr. Term Deposit Certificate ties, showed a marked preference "Part of this is due to s~eing Now Yields 6.00% for vivid and biblical ,language. successful priest-friends leave They envisaged the Church, the priesthood," he":' said. "We *5~% 90-day Notice . Father Dulles noted, "as contin- should have no prohlem in cpunNow' Yields 5.73% uipg the work of the Good Shep- seling about vocations .tho'ugh, *5~% Regular Savings herd, who came to serve and not since we have been through this Now Yields 5.47% to be served, and who did not process, ourselves. hesitate to lay down his life for *Compounded Continuously and payab!e monthly his sheep. But the Church is repBank by mail - it costs you nothing resented very realisticaHy as a purification and renewal. At the 'little flock' made up of frail and same time, however, it feels consinful men. Weak and humble, fident of God's loving help which 307 MAIN sr., SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS. 02664 .' it stands in constant need of guides its steps."

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ST. PATRICK, FALMOUTH The Women's Guild has donated three books to the F!!-Imouth Public Library. To continue a yearly custom, the organization's selection this year was "Ginny" by Mary Carson.

Two additional books were donated as memorials. "The Touch of the Spirit" by Andrew Greeley in memory of Pauline Swett, a deceased member and "Who Am I, God" by Marjorie Holmes in memory of Helen Walsh, also a deceased member.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO All pre-school and elementary school CCD teachers will meet from ·7 to 9:30 on Sunday night, Oct. 29 in St. Mary's, No. Attleboro to hear a representative of t,he Sadlier Co. discuss methods and techniques in teaching.

All members' 'are adv·ise:.l to bring their teacher's manual and . ~he pupil's textbook.

The Girl Scout Investiture Ceremony will take place at the 10:30 Mass on Sunday, Oct. 29.

AU Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes and Seniors will gather in the parish hall at 10 o'clock.

The Cheerleaders will conduct a cake sale after all the Masses on Sunday morning as a means of Taising funds for the purchase of uniforms.

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,By vote of the Executive Committee of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Bishop Connolly High School has been granted full continuing membership in the Association.

This means that as Connolly High begins its seventh year of existence, it has successfully met aLI the requirements to be a fully accredited high school.

The announcement crowns 15 months of effort. A new school can begin the process of applying for accreditation once it graduates its second class of seniors. Bishop Connolly did on June 13, 1971. On June 25, 1971, application was made.

The first step in the process is a thorough evall~ation by the faculty and staff of the school.

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Pri'ests Help Divorced, Separated LOS ANGELES (NC) - .Los Angeles Archbishop Timothy Manning asked his priests to show "the tender solicitude of the Church" to divorced and separated people.

In a letter addressed to the priests of his archdiocese, Archbishop Manning cited statistics . showing that "nearly 44 per cent of all marriages in the United States are falling part."

"There is a vast multitude of separated married people," the archbishop said. "In nearly all instances there is one innocent party. We find here a heroic ad-

Among Nation's Top Scholars Michael Raposa of Bishop Connolly High School has been cited as one of the outstanding high school students of English in the country. The national Council of Teachers of English has named him a 1972 winner in its annual Achievement Awards competition.

NEASC Officially Accredits Bishop COlnnolly High School

The school's philosophy and objectives were set down and each department evaluated its performance in the light of this philosophy.

An official report was then Last spring, the Connolly Endrawn up and. sent to the New department nominated Ragish England Association of' Schools' posa to represent the school in and Colleges. the national competition. After There then followed a threeday evaluation of the school by nomination each student submitted samples of his best writing, :l team of educators appointed including an autobiographical by the Association. sketch, and a one hour impromThe members of the commitptu essay. These materials were tee were: Rev. Raymond Lanoue, evaluated by state judging teams Headmaster of St. Joseph Cenof college and high school Entral High School; Norman Pierce, glish teachers.

Headmaster of the Huntington School, .Boston; Richard Gagne, The nation's schools nominated Lawrence Academy, Groton; approximately 7200 juniors for William Haney, Portsmouth Ab- the citations. Of that number, only 870 finalists were chosen. bey School; Howard Hall, St. They represent schools from all George School, Newport; Clyde over the United States and AlPerMeyerho~fer, Cathedral- High School, Springfield; Richard ican preparatory schools abroad.

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Michael will receive in addition to a certificate of merit recommendations for scholarships to all coileges that he applies to.

MILWAUKEE (NC) - If the All aspects of school life were sentiments of readers of the examinned: finances, records, Catholic Herald Citizen mean administration, guidance, counany.thing, the Our Father will not selling, athletics, library, student be changed. life, extra-curriculars and general While at Connolly, Michael has been under the direction of In response to a baUot pub- maintenance.

Iished in the diocesan newspaper, The committee then issued its the following members of the English department; Fr. John 934 persons said that they prefer report to the Commission on the traditional version of the Independent Schools who then Mullen, S.J., Mr. Richard Roos, prayer. recommended Connolly'sadmis- S.J., Sister Francis Michael, and Only 63 persons said they sion.to the Executive Committee Fr. Richard Wolf, S.J. Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis favor a proposed new version of of the NEASC. Raposa of Westport, Mass. the Our Father, 38 said that they • On Sept. 29 of this. year, Mr. would accept the new version Ralph O. West, director of evalfor I.iturgica:l use but would con- uation, notified Rev. Thomas tinue to say the old version Gibbons, S.J., principal' of Bishop privately.

Connolly High School, that the Continued from Page One Among the comments made by school was now officially a mem- 800,000 personal visits' to the readers were: ber in good standing in this poor, the sick and the lonely.

"Keep the traditional. We Association.

There are about 34,000 active should have something originally The major accomplishment of members of the society in the achieving membership in this as- United States and 600,000 from the 'old time religion.'''

"Leave a f ew th'mgs a 10 ne, es- sociation so quickly and meeting throughout the world, Taylor peciaUy the 'Our Father.' " all the -high standards and re- said. About one fourth of the quirements to be recognized as "Please, no more changes!" a fuLly accredited high school is world membership is made up of Efforts to develop an "up-to- witness to the quality of educa- women and a growing number date" version of the Lord's tion now being offered at Bishop of women are becoming members in the United States.

Prayer are being made by an Connolly High School. ecumenical advisory group, the Five of the 18 conferences Interna·tional Consultation on established during the past fiscal English texts.

Mission Work-Force year were made up of men and Ultimately, it hopes to win The ecclesiastical work-force women. Several of the society's approval for a version which in the Propaganda territories at council~ report that women' are could be used universally by present is about 38,611 priests, being accepted into formerly all Protestants and Catholics.

15,000 Brothers, 85,000 Sisters male units but no exact figures and 250,000 catechists. In· both are available as to the total numAsia and Africa the total number ber of women members in the Administrator U.S. Management is the art of of priests working is just over The Vincentians met here in 15,000. But in Asia about 10,000 getting three men to do three of these are local priests, where- conjunction with the annual men's work. as the total number of local Af- meeting of the National Confer-Feather rican priests is' now about 4,000. ence of Catholic Charities.

herence of loyalty to the Church and her laws, a grave burden of sacrifice in rajsing childrel1 deprived of one parent."

"What is sorrowful," he said, is, "the coldness and rejection of pastors of souls who turn to other more rewarding tasks of their ministry."

Bravery I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

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Continued from Page One Father Carey' was followed at SAIHorS DAY the Seekonk parish by Rev. Lester L. Hull, now Msgr. Hull.

The Church is 'wise in focusing attention-as it will.'

His pastorate too was marked NOIV.1 next week-on the fact that there is more to the, Church by expansion of the parish both than is seen. Next Wednesday and Thursday will be the numericaUyand in its facilities.

In 1963, Father Hull was sucFeasts of All Saints and All Souls. They will remind Cathceeded by Rev. John J. Murphy, olics and Christians in general that there is a fellowship during whose pastorate. the of those on earth with those who have d.ied. country parish continued to expand, far ol.\tgrowing the original The Feast' of All Sainls is the reminder of what all church building. For two years persons are called upon to be. No matter how long or short, an area restaurant was used for a life, how filled with joy ,or 'sorrow, how impressive with Sunday Masses, in addition to honors and accomplishments, the only ultimate goal is santhe church itself,then in 1965 a ctity. If one desires and works for this, then he has his new parish center was opened, the fruit of the labor of the men . priorities in the right order. If this aspect of life is neglectof -the parjsh and the contribued or relegated to a place of minor importance, then he is tions of aU parishioners. missing the whole point an~ purpose of living-a~d dying.

The center, seating 550 people on its upper floor, which is used The Feast of All Souls is the reminder that those who for Masses, also has a lower have preceded us in death are still' owed the duty of our floor divisible into 10 classthoughts and of our prayers. The living can help· the dead. rooms for CCD purposes. The The feeling of helplessness in the face of death is not a orig~nal church is still used for Christian response-there can always be intercession with. daily Mass, weddings and funerals. It· was redecorated and renGod for the deceased and the appeal to them for their inovated in 1967 by the same men tercession for the living as well. who had worked on the center.

Unthinking critics sometimes accuse the Church of The next major parish change came in 1969 when the present not being "human" enough. These two upcoming feasts rectory was purchased and reno give the lie to such an accusation. The Church is concerned ovated. Also in 1969, the parish enough about humanity to des~re that all men, be saints, was assigned its first curate, to rejoice, that this is the goal of every life, to follow 'into Rev. Henry Arruda. death those who have'died with petitions,-on their behalf Succeeding curates have in. .Sena,tE~s I cluded Rev. John J. Oliveira and and with prayers for their intercession for those still makContinued from Page One work......

Rev. Paul E. Canuel, the present ing the journey through life and toward eternity. ' , , to date on the Ad Hoc Commit"It now centers on the signs assistant. tee for Priestly Life and Ministry of the 'times and means by which Father Murphy served Our of the U.S.C.C., Rev. Msgr. Coli:l the Gospel message can be Lady of M1. Carmel until 1969.

A McDollald, the pril~st-chaiI'- brought to a world saturated being replaced by Rev. William It seems like something out of history to read in the man, called for ,continuing educa- . wIth suffering and frustrations. J.. Shovelton, the present pastor.

A major department of parish obituaries of Jackie Robinson that here was the man who tional program!: for priests and ", "We now find that OVE;lrconbroke the color barrier in big league baseball. The 'fact bishops as a most important prj- centration on material security, life is the CCD program, which ority in the US Catholic' Church. , salaries, life styles, retirement reaches some 1000 elementary , that twenty-five years ago the Brooklyn Dodgers took this The Monsignor stressed the benefits and insurance has di- school youngsters and 100 high step that was considered daring· at the time shows how important new 'concept in min- minished radically." school 'students. They attend far the nation has come in, its sense of justice and the.·' istry in ,the life of a par~sh: that In referring to prjestly cel,i- classes on Saturday mornings awareness of the brotherhood' of men. of goal setting, evaluation and bacy, the Monsignor stated: and Mondays and Tuesdays after accountability. " "There are many priests who school. The parish busses the As time goes by, it becomes all the more incompreHe pointed out that the gen- feel the need for a system of op- children for the weekend classes, hensible to imagine the depth and degree of bigotry, of eral objective of the bishops' tional' celibacy within the and dri~ing the big bus is one intolerence, of out and out hatred, that existed in the committee is to aim at practical Church. An,d yet, celibacy is not of Father Canuel's assignments.

Six Sisters of Mercy work in matter of race. Unhappily, it has taken far too long to suggestions for new structure:, a dominant reason for discon. the parish. Their activities inand attitudes ::or bishops and tent or. dissatisfaction." bring about some correction in a matter that never should priests that w(,uld enrich their clude coordination and planning The Archbishop have been in the first place. And there is still much more lives, enable 'their ,ministries to of -the junior high school CCD to be done. become more effective. ! ' In' his homily on Monday program and leading of adult dis'evening, Archbishop Humberto, It would riever do for people to recall the intensity "We find," hl~ said, ".that the S. Medeiros of Boston dwelt on cussion groups. They also visit the sick and elderly of the par. 1 b·IgO t ry 0 f a cent ury ago and th priests of raCla , en t 0 congratu1ate concern h of h i 'has changed ,the spl'rl'tuall'ty of prl'ests, from t e ouse ,eepmg in vogue "Spiritual growth is never ish 'and assist with direction of themselves that all this has now changed. There has been some years ag,) and now ha:; the choir, . but there are SImI t'll'les t 0 go. 'turJled toward thel'r 'a:postoll'(~. automatic, The parish will publish an an· progress, yes, never arisesnever from short-termed, meetings or niversary booklet in December, And it. would be well to emphasize that the basic ~I discussions alone. It is unique incorporating a .record of Sunargument against intolerance is not only the argument of I~ew and different in every case and day's festivities and including economics or the practicality of all men living together L«~ctu it is the work of GO;CI.--a work pictures of many of the parish in peace for mutual convenience, but-as a former Presinecessary before there can be families and a complete history , Rosemary' H!wghton, authol· an unselfish apostolate. of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel by dent of the United .States said-"God made us all, not and lecturer, of Yorksh~re, En. "This kind of growth," the Father Murphy, now at S1. Josome of us, to His image. All of us, not just some' of us, gland, will be the next .speaker Archbishop went on, "involves seph's Church, Taunton~ who has are His children." in the Christian Culture Lecture 'some suffering but not the kind maintained a keen interest in The Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of all men, Series at John Hancock Hall, of suffering which will remove .the Seekonk parish.

180 Berkeley Street, Boston, on ' us from the people. these spiritual fundamentals are the principles upon which, Tuesday evening, Oct.. 31, at "Rather, we wHI partake more all men must build their lives, and live togetHer. 8:W, speaking on the topic, "Dis.. fully with them in the meaning The progress to which Jackie Robinson contributed covering New Forms of Christian of life. We wHl be among them, some ·measure of impetus twenty-five years ago'0 must not Community." as ,the Council says-we should, ,Mrs. Haughto:l, mother of 12,. as· a brother among brothers, NEWARK (NC) - The Mount . be allowed to falter. began her public career writing weak, joyful, trusting not in our- Carmel Guild of the 'Newark books for children and families, selves but in God with whom we archdiocese plans to build 9,000 She later directed her talents to, are daily united in prayer and housing units in poor neighbor· religion and theology. She is the service." hoods of the archdiocese. author of 25 hooks, including Rev. Frank Bonnike, president . Two recent grantswiU enable "On Trying T,) Be Human," of the National Federation of the guild to form a corporation, "Transformation of Man," and . Priests' Councils spoke of the one step in its efforts to raise "Why Be A Ct.ristian." She is many projects animating the 132 $242 million in' private and public' a,lso a book reviewer for Com- affil.iated priests' councils. funds for the housing projects.

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE ,OF FALL RIVER He outlined the development mortweal and The National CahtThe guild received $122,550 Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River olic Reporter. lV:rs. Haughton is of guidelines for parishes to from the New Jersey Department 4 J0 Highland Avenue presently in thi, country on· a build its own profiles, guidelines of Community Affairs and $40,lecture tour. for the review of church invest- 850 from the Newark archdioFall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 Tickets and .information are ments, national pension plans for cese.

PUBLISHER availahle by <:ontaoting Rev. all Church employees, new minMost of the hOUSing units will Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. Robert F. Quinn, C.S.P., P. O. istries, ministr,ies to persons en- be new construction, according \ . GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER Box 8579, J.F.K. Station, Boston gaged in serving leisure and ree- to Joseph Brown, director of the 02114, telephone 5?3-608~. Tick- reational areas, and the spiritual guild's housing department, but Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll ets may also be obtained at the renewal of the American· priest- some will involve the rehabilita' hood. hall 0::1 lecture night. tion of existing' older hou~ing. ,

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Pope Paul Lauds Defenses of Farm Workers' Rights FRESNO (NC)-Pope Paul VI has praised Bishop Hugh A. .Donohoe of Fresno for his defense of the rights of farm workers.

The words of praise, contained in a letter marlting Bishop Donohoe's 25th anniversary as a bishop, referred to his efforts on behalf of farm workers during the long grape dispute in the San Joaquin V~llley.

"Besides your other accomplishments of evangelical justice, whose reputation is so well known, you have striven to protect the rights of farm workers, indeed most vigorously and without compromise," the Pope wrote.

"Because of· this, you have shown yourself to be admirably imbued with ~he social teachings."

Love ·for Truth "Moreover, we zealously encourage you in these current activities, so that in these struggles and through your example you might lend even greater leadership; and also through your love for truth and excellence, you will continue to overcome' obstacles which lie in your path."

-Bishop Donohoe was consecrated auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in October 1947. In 1962 he became the ,first Bishop of Stockton, and in 1969 he was transferred to Fresno.

Bishop Donohoe founded the Asociation of Catholic Trade Unionists in his native city of San Francisco. He is a member of the U. S. 'Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee -on Farm Labor and was prominent in t.he mediation efforts of that committee in solving the Delano grape dispute.

Open New Home For Alcoholics DETROIT (NC) - In a nineroom ghetto schoolhouse, a 19th century fire-trap, alcoholics without jobs, families and friends have eaten and. slept, connived and learned, I#Oghed and cried.

Now, five y.ears and 5,500 drunks after. It started, 'the Sacred Heart Center is moving from its ramshackle quarters to a new home th\1t is paJatial in comparison.

I The new center, a former home for girls, is not just "brick and mortar improvement" said Father Vaughn Quinn, center director, "but it's another way of reinforcing their self-respect.

The facilities, the gym ... it has theatrical lights ... all the equipment. .a picnic area out back ... At the school the only thing they had for recreation was a pool table."

The new center has carpeted lounges, therapy rooms, offices and bedrooms, but the bedrooms will go. "No bedrooms, all dorms," Father Quinn said, ",Booze, pills, -suicide, homosexuality ... nobody is left alone."

The smallest sleeping quarters will be a suite for eight and the largest for 40.

The more an outsider thinks about the old center the worse it . seems. But the insiders, who are not necessarily alcoholics, know Sacred Heart Center can be the last stop before death or insan.. ity. . .' ."

Mother Teresa Urges Catholic Daugh!er$ To Put Love of Christ Into Action WASHINGTON (NC)-Mother Teresa Boajaxhiu, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, exhorted the Catholic Daughters of America (CDA) to put "the intimate love of Christ into action" by performing acts of charity for the needy. . The 62-year-old Yugoslavianborn nun, whose order is famed for aiding the impoverished of India and other nations, said there was a particular group in America the CDA members could aid-the unborn.

"This is the poverty of the United States: that Jt cannot take care of the unborn child," she said.

Mother Teresa made her comments in a speech to the Catholic Daughters -of America at a Washington luncheon and in an interview following her appearance.

Her address was acknowledged by a standing ovation by 250 CDA members, who were celebrating "National Catholic Daughter Day" at the luncheon and in a Mass at the National Shr.ine of the Immaculate Conception here.

In 1950, Mother Teresa began the Missionaries of Charity to help the dying and needy of Calcutta. Today, the order has about 700 nuns and trainees conducting 44 schools, 33 homes for the destitute elderly and dying, 51 leper clinics and 134 dispensaries in such diverse locales as India, Australia, TanzanJa, London, Rome, Belfast and New York.

Lonely, Unwanted People Last year she received one of nine Kennedy International awards given by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. This year she won the Nehru Award for international understanding.

Mother Te.resa, a short figure in white, blue-trimmed sari and black sandals, was introduced to the luncheon as' a "modernday Apostle" by Mary Kanane, naitonal regent of the 200,000member CDA and judge of the surrogate court of Union County, N.J. The dusky-faced nun thanked the CDA members "for all the 'love and good you have done through your works of charity."

However, she asserted, "much is left to be done."

"Throughout the world there is much poverty and much suf-

N. J. Candidates Favor Tax Credits TRENTON (NC)-A: survey by the New J~rsey Catholic Conference shows wide support for tax credits among Congressmen and congressional candidates from this state.

Of 15 incumbents-all but two of whom are running for reelection-13 indicated they are in favor of the tax credits for parents of nonpublic school students,and seven of those 13 said they are "committed" to passage of tax credit legislation. There was no response from the two other incumbents.

Eleven of the 17 other, Republican and Democratic candidates for seats in the House of Representatives reported they fav.ored the bill, eight of them indicating "commitment" to passage.

THE ANCHORThurs., Oct. 26, 1972

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Urges hnproving Catholic Schools

MILWAUKEE (NC)-Catholic schools have become content to be simply "as good as" public schools, according to an educator from the University of Notre Dame.

In doing so, Catholic schools, like their pubtic counterparts, have been too technical and impersonal, Anthony J. Ipsaro, director of a special education project, told high school teachers at a conference here.

"Catholic schools are content to be 'as .good as' instead of 'better than'" other schools, Ipsaro said. "·From all my travels to meetings like yours I still get the , feeling we're trying to be as good as - which is not good enough. If we're as good as, we're no different than public schools. In other words, we have to be better than."

To make an impact in education he urged his audience to identify with their contribution -"the better you know yourself, the better you can give of what you are."

From his 20 years experience in public and Church schools, Ipsaro believes Catholic schools have become "academic factories."

He said an example of that description was reflected in the agenda of the two-day convention which listed 123 separate workshops. Of that number, he noted, only eight focus on the MOTHER TERESA person of the teacher whHe "everything else is addressed to "The children are putting love technique." fering," she said, noting that there are "many lonely people, of Christ in action," she told the unwanted people, who have no CDA members. "You are called Wealth to give . . . to put the intimate one to call their own."

Riches are gotten with pain, In India, she related, children love of Christ into action. Don't kepi with care and lost with just give money.

This I don't have donated to her order to overcome the pervasive suffer- need. I want you to give at to grief. ~Ful1er ing. There is a joke, she said, others so it hurts. I want you to that one child was caught steal- give it up to someone.who needs ing jewels and told the authori- it." ties, "I'm doing it for Mother New York's Poverty Teresa." :After her talk, Mother Teresa told newsmen 11 nuns and trainEst. 1897 ees of her order-including one Youngstown Bishop German, four Indians and six Builders Supplies Americans - help the poor of Is Seriously III 2343 Purchase Street YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-Bishop two parishes in the South Bronx.

New Bedford James W. Malone has told his The sisters, she said, help' the 996-5661 priests that he is receiving treat- young with the catechism and ment for a malignant growth secular studies and others w&th found during abdominal surgery sewing, cooking and bathing. She also disclosed her order hopes to Sept. 30. open another facility in' New In a letter to his priests, the York in the 'future.

See Us Ohio bishop said that he had Asked to compare the poverty About appointed' Msgr. William A. of India with that of New York, Hughes, vicar general, to admin- she said: ister the diocese during. the "The poverty of India is more . period of his treatment. Msgr. material poverty. The poverty of Hughes, formerly superintendent New York is being unwanted, of schools, is alsu vicar of edu- lonely. But whether you are dycation. . ing in the streets or living in a Wareham Falmouth Bishop Malone also asked for place where nobody knows you, 2'95-3800 548·3000 the prayer of his brother priests it is the same thing." that "God will give me strength to bear this cross for His glory and the benefit of the priests, religious and laity of our diocese."

He entered St. Elizabeth Hospital for tests on Sept. 23 after suffering severe stomach pains.

The 52-year-old bishop, a . Youngstown native, was named Contractor. Since 1913 aux,iliary to Bishop Emmet Walsh in 1960 and became apostolic administrator of the 699 Bellville Avenue diocese in 1966, and was inNew Bedford stalled ordinary of the diocese in 1968.

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whole and if we wanted to reach our destinations we "hoofed it"), the vogue was to dress as lightIy as possible. We wore bobby socks, wouldn't tolerate hats and insisted on leaving our coats

in the car door, practically, decapitating themselves" and even to manage to get them caught under their own heels.

As I'm 'writing this column, snow is gently falling outside the den window, even though it's only October, so there will be need of warm; attractive bad weather gear for the long winter ahead. With this in mind as a mother, and ,also a working woman who has to ven,ture out and face the elements daily, let me offer a little prayer of thanks ,to the designers who convinced both, youngsters and oldsters, that one need not freeze to be . f.ashionable.

GOLDEN JUBILARIANS: Mr. and Mrs. James H. Sullivan, Sr. of 683; Walnut St., Fall River and members of Sacred Heart Parish are congratulated by Bishop Gerrard on the 50th anniversary of their mamage. They are parents of seven cbildren including Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor of· Sacred Heart I Parish, Taunton. ,

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NEWARK (NC)-A series of developments in the Newark archdiocese have served to focus attention on the critical financial . plight of Catholic schools and the frustrations involved in attempting to secure assistance that will meet constitutional tests.

The most serious development was the announcement that the 13 regional high schools of th~ archdiocese operated at a deficit of $2.9 million during'the 197172 school year.

A report on the financial condition of the schools was given to the archdiocesan board of education at a meeting at East Orange Catholic High School by John Gelchion, financial coordi, nator for the archdiocese.

The deficit is at about the same' level as two years ago even though the board then hiked tuition charges to $600 per year and revamped billing and admissions policies. The board has' now directed a committee to examine alternatives to the present tuition\policy, specifically suggesting that it look at course offerings and, pupil·teacher ratios.

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I "c, \, .•, .... nuns and Brothers will get social blow to efforts to provide aid security benefits for', the first directly to parents of: nonpublic time in Chile under a bill passed school children, advocates of school aid pointed out that it by the cong~ess.

President Salvador Allende, a did not deal with the tax credit Marxist, is expected to sign the form of aid that has been probill after minor changes, one of posed in Congress and passed in them at the suggestion of Card- several states, including Ohio.

In a ,brief order, the Supreme inal Raul Silva of Santiago.

The change makes limited par-,. Court affirmed "a ruling last ticipation ,optional for foreign April in which a lower federal Religious and priests. Full social court struck down the Ohio PLUS security taxes for them would parent reimbursement law.

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Last week I told you how my kids avoid saying what they really mean. But I'm guilty of this too. Recently, I became aware how serious the problem is. It happened when I was interviewed on TV in connection .with the publication of my book "Gin(I'd forgotten about the day ny." The program was taped before when one was complainlate .in the evening, two ing, "How come I always have weeks before it was broad- to do the yard ... what's he ever

cast.· My husband and [ marked the occasion by going out to dinner (a rare occurrence, which does

do around here?")

"Tell me Mrs. Carson, do they fight with each other?"

"Oh, occasionally there are some scraps ... but they do play well with each other, often help each other with homework. They are so close in age, that there is a great deal of common interest."

(I'd forgotten that two days earlier the "common interest" almost came to blows over the use of one bike.)

By MARY CARSON

tend to put me in an amicable state of mind). After a delicious, relaxing meal, we went to the TV studio.

By the time the taI>ing of the interview started, I was only dimly aware of the existence of my eight children who were either asleep in beel or haunting the baby-sitter.

When they're not bugging me, I think nice things about my chilldren. I candidly answered questions implying that these were the greatest kids in the world.

Two weeks later ... back in our living room, with kids crawling all over the place, elbowing for a viewing path between heads, we gathered to watch the broadcast of the show.

How Does She Manage~ "Mrs. Carson, how do you manage with eight children?"

"Well, they really are very good. They do help a lot ... in fact, I'd never be able to get the work done without them ...

Public Scho~1 Official Backs Tax Credit Law CLEVELAND (NC) ..:- The superintendent of' public schools here has asked' a federal court to rule favorably, :on an Ohio law that would aid .parents of nonpublic school students.

In a friend-of-the-eourt brief, Paul W. Briggs said he supports the tax credit raw because it "relieves a present inequity in our tax structure ... will improve the minimum standard education of all children in the Cleveland Public School District ... will help maintain the present diversity of education in the ... district and because it will result in long-range economic benefit for all pupils' in the distriet. " The law, now being challenged in a federal court in Columbus, allows parents to deduct froin their state tax bills up to $80 in tuition' costs for each .child.

Briggs said diversity of education benefits all children and he cited evidence of "consistent excellence in the' sec:ular academic achievements in nonpublic schools."

My children listened to my comments ... and looked up at me, "Gee, Mom, is that what you really think of us? How come you never say things like that to us?"

But there's the other side of the picture ... what they think of me!

I regularly go out and do speaking dates. My kids should have a sense of pride about that, right?

FATHER MICHAEL RUA

Beatifi,cati·on Rites Father Michael Rua Officially "Blessed" With Ceremonies on October 29

On one occasion, they got a letter-addressed to them collectively-telling them what a marvelous speaker their mother was, what an inspiring message she brought to her audience, how important an apostolate it is to lift the spirits of so many ... and they should be extra cooperative at home, and share me with the' world.

Father Michael Rua, a saintly ally blossomed into massive, priest who lived in the shadow world-wide programs by Don of St. John Bosco during the sec- Bosco's associates and followers. ond half of the last century, wiU None did more in less time be honored with a title just short than Father Michael Rua. of sainthood at sCl'l,emn cereAfter his ordinatlon in 1860, monies at St. Peter',s, Rome, on Father Rua rose rapidly to secSunday, Oct. 29, when Pope ond in command of Don Bosco's Paul VI will officially proclaim organization of priests and That should have given them him as "Blessed Michael Rua." Brothers. He was eventually sea sense of pride, right?

The beatification ceremonies lected by Don Bosc-o to serve as One son's comment, "Ha ... are expected to attract thou- his successor as Superior GenI'll bet you paid her to write sands of Salesian alumni, pupils, eral of the Salesian Society. and friends from most European that!"

Somewhat shy and retiring countries, South America, and Heard It All the United States. The American during Don Bosco's lifetime (d.

1888), Father Rua tapped a resOne night when I was going delegation wiU be headed by the ervoir of latent talent for organVery Reverend John J. Malloy, out on a speaking date the ization and efficiency and guided weather was miserable, the car SDB, Provincia'l Superior of the the newly formed team of priests, Eastern ,Province, with headhad been fussing, and my hus-' 'Brothers and Cooperators band decided I'd be safer if I quarters in New Rochelle, N. Y., through a period of phenomenal took our oldest 'son who' could who will be accompanied by rep- growth and development. The resentatives from various Saledrive ... and push a car ... number of Salesians grew from sian schools and parishes.

800 to 4,000, while Salesian He came and tried to be in'Don Bosco's Double' schoqJs, churches, and youth conspicuous. However, you can centers spiralled upward from a not hide a 6'4" college student A slightly built, ascetic priest with long hair, a moustache and whose strong suit was poverty, mere 57 in the year 1888 to an a full beard in an audience full Father Rua has been described astounding 345 by ,the time of Rua's death in 1910. of women. _as "Don Bosco's Double," !Afterwards, many of the so closely did he imitate the To the surprise of many, Vatwomen were anxious to meet founder of the Salesian Society, ican officials among them, who him. He behaved admirably. He which now has a membership of doubted the priest's ability to was even rather nice in the' car 22,000 priests and Brothers at measure up to Don Bosco's temon the way home. "You shouldn't work in more than 70 countries po of lifestyle, Don Rua proved have asked for questions at the across the world. he could travel endlessly across end," he said. "Those women Europe to solicit funds, recruit Born on June 9, 1837, in Turin, religious followers and initiate couldn't have asked a question Italy, young Michael's first con- new projects with the same exif they wanted to. You left them tact with Father John Bosco pertise and success 'of Don Bosfloored!" took place in 1845, when Michael Thinking I had finally scored. and his brother attended the co himself. two points for mother, I had a young priest's Youth Center in .

In the meantime, his fame as a rude awakening when I over- the northern section of Turin. preacher, director of souls, and heard a' conversation the next Don Bosco was 30 years old at worker of mirades spread rapmorning. . the time and was in the process idly and convincingly. The title He was at the breakfast table of establishing a network of of "Don Bosco's Double" was with his brother.

• "work, play, and pray centers" appropriate in the best sense of "Hey ... what's it like ... lis- for thousands of youngsters who ,that term. tening to Mom talk?" ·had left their farms to find betNow, umier his new title, "If she ever invites you, don't ter jobs in the fast industrializ- Blessed Michael Rua will officially be a "niche" closer to the bother to go. You've heard it ing city of Turoin. all before. U's just Lecture "A," Most of them found only trou- saint with whom he shared "B," and "E," with a little fam- ble, and what began as stop-gap many years of work, prayer, and ily history on the side!" measures by Don Bosco eventu- priestly activity.

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In a statement, the Sisters' organization noted that the NCCL's executive director, Margaret Mealey, had opposed the amendment because it "would outlaw protective legislation" needed especially by low income women.

However, said the NCAN, the amendment - which has been passed by Congress and is now being considered by the states for addition to the Constitution -has the support of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the National Tenants' Union and the National Committee on Household Employment.

"No low-income groups exist representing more grass-roots people than these," said the nuns' group. "Women on welfare, women in public housing and women domestics are in the mainstream of life where the women of NCCL are not ordinarily found."

Bishops Ask Stronger Pornography Laws ABERDEEN (NC)-The hish-· ops of Scotlimd have urged that Scottish law on pornography be strengthened along the lines recommended in the controversial report of the Lord Longford commission in England.

That report, released in September, contained a draft bill on obscenity drawn up by a Scottish criminologist. .

At their semiannual meeting here, the bishops expressed support on the publication of obscene matter and pornography, and recommends sterner penalties for the exploitation of actors and model's for purposes of indecent or obscene shows and pictures.

The bishops also discussed the plight of the Asians expelled from Uganda and now coming to Britain. They expressed con· fidence that the exiles would be welcomed and that Catholics will do all they can to help them adjust to life in this country.

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THE ANCHORThurs., Oct. 26, 1972

Says True Love Conscious Act Toward God CASTELGANDOLFO .(NC) Love is af!1ong ,the most popular words today,' but for that reason it is all the more difficult to define, Pope Paul VI told this year's last general audience at his summer home here.

The Pope, who returned to the Vatrlcan the following day after a two-month vacation, said the ChI'listian can, find "his principal duty" in tihe' Gospel that says: Love the Lord thy God and your neighbor as yourself.

But the meaning of love today is frequently debased to "sensual and even unnatural animality," he warned. Pope Paul said that "true love is a conscious and voluntary act ,toward good." For the Chrlistian, he added, this means "bringing together all our spiritual and sentimental powers toward the supreme good which is God." Love for Neighbor , This concentration of love for God, the Pope said, "is connected to a second love, the love for one's neighbor, both as a means· of atttaining God's love and as a reason for devoting one's own actiVlity to the service and benefit of others."

'If this. gospel of love were truly grasped, the Pope said, Ghristians would not doubt tlhat. their faith could deal with social ' questions in justice and peace.

Instead, he said, faith is put in "economic ,materialism, class hatred and civil strife, with the danger of smothering our Christian profession with hostile ideologies and providing human questions with solutions that are bitter, illusory and perhaps, ,in the end, even anti-social and anti-human.

Priest Candidate For State Senate ROCHESTER (NC)-A 57-yearold priest ,running for a New York State Senatorial seat, said he decided to' enter politics to help counteract the "lawyer domination" iI'! the state legislature.

He is Father Joseph B. Dorsey, a member of the order of Basilian Fathers of Toronto, on leave of absence from John Fisher College her,e where he was executive vice-president.

"I decided to enter politics after I realized that p'eople were not being adequately represented because of the dominance of the legal profession. I feel that a more comprehensive set of viewpoints is. necessary today," he said.

"I discussed the idea with all my appropriate superiors and I was given an open response that the decision was mine to make," the priest said.

Fa'ther Dorsey is running in the 53rd District here against Gordon J. DeHond, 34, the Republican-Conservative candidate and president of the Rochester city school board.

The contest between the two was' described in one newspaper as "friendly and low-key." DeHond is a Catholic and, like.

Father Dorsey; would be expected to vote in the Legislature next year for the repeal of t~e state's liberalized abortion law.

MANILA (NC) - The government .of the Philippines has released a nun and eight priests, including two American citizens, . detained under martial law, after they promised cooperation with the government, it was announced .here.

The four foreign-born priests in the group were Dutch-born Sacred Heart Father Cornelius Lagerway, executive vice president of the Social Communications Center in Manila; Jesuit Father James S. Collins, a New Yorker who is a parish administrator in Mindanao in the southern Philippines; and Irish-born Columbian Fathers Patrick Healy and James Donahue, stationed on Cagayan de Oro, an island north of Mindanao. Father Donahue is an American citizen.

A Jesuit spokesman in New York said that reports had come' from the Philippines that another New York Jesuit, Father Vincent VISITING THE OVENS: Fralllciszek Gajownicz6k, the man for whom the Blessed' Cullen, had been detained. The. Maximilian Kolbe gave his life, visits the ovens at Oswi,ecim, Poland. The ovens were spokesman said that Father Culused burn the bodies of vi.ctims of NaZI slaughter,' including. Father Kolbe. Cardinal len and the two Columban. priests had been active as chapJoh~ Krol of Philadelphia, Pa., visited Oswiecim during his journey to Poland.NC. Photo. lains for the Federation' of Free Farmers, which has been organizing farmers to seek ref<>rm of tenancy laws and more equitable distribution of land.

SAN DIEGO (NC)-A report T.he report trE!ats the poS'ition formation of a Standipg Com. The announcement of the by a U. S. bishops' committee of the laity and clergy ini the se- mittee on Priestly Life anq Minrecommends that the hierarchy lection of bishops and urges that istries by the National Confer- priests' release was the first consider limited tenure for bish- more Spanish-speaking and black ence of Catholic Bishops. This confirmation of their arrest, but ops, the ordination of married priests be included in t~e hier- . commi~:ee would include bishops it gave no reason for their detention. and priests. men, and an increase in the, num- arct:y.

Bishops should work with pas,It recommend,; attendance of number of black and Spanishspeaking bishops. ~ prie,;ts at regior.al and ~ational tors in "super-diocesan bodies The 31-page report on a study meetings of bishops. and the and enterprises," said Msgr. Bishop$ Establish MacDonald, with stronger colof priestly life 'and mil1'istrywas' laboration between priests' sen- Boord' of Appeals sent to the U. S. bishops' conferGALLUP (NC)-,The five bishates and the NCCB. ence in Washington only the day ops of the Santa Fe province esbefore some of its contents were Continuing Education Tr~al tablished a province-wide board made known at the National. ,I • MOSCOW (NC) - Reports In Conference of Diocesan Vocation The report asks due process of appeals for due process cases the Soviet press of the s~ntenc-­ procedures for priests and bish- during their biannual meeting Directors here. ing .of seven Lithuanian youths ops involved in disputes or mis- here in New Mexico.

The study was made by the bishops' Ad H,oc Committee on for rioting last May ignoted the understandings.

In other action the bishops esThe various roles of the priest tablished a study committee to Priestly Life and Ministry and its , religious aspects of the irtcident. rev-iew given by Msgr. Colin Tass, the official Sovi~t news in serving the Church, the adapt national personnel board MacDonald, executive director agen.cy, reported that the: lithu- smooth functioning of alternate standards to the local situation shared 'authority and initiated a study on the feaanian Supreme ;Court in Vilna, ministries, of the committee's secretariat. within the Church structure, sibility of "mini-sabbaticals" for capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Areas of priestly concern covand team approaches to minis- priests. ered included authority, ac- republic, had sentenced I seven tries are also examined. to jail terras ranging from youth countability, celibacy and reThe meeting was attended by A strong emphasis, said Msgr.

18 months 'to three years for search.

Archbishop James P. Davis of .being "organizer!! and acti,ve par- MacDonald, is on the need for The report makes recommen- ticipants in a strE:et incident May required programs for the con- Santa Fe, N. M.; Bishop Sidney dations on the selection, term of 18 as a result' of which public tinuing education of priests and Metzger of El Paso, Tex.; Bishop office and evaluation o(bishops, order was distuIbed and traffic the evaluation and accountability Edward J. McCarthy of Phoenix, the need for' closer collegiality disrupted." of priests necessary to help them Ariz.; Bishop FranciS J. Green of Tucson, Ariz.; and Bishop between bishops and priests and An eighth defendant, j1n 18- grow in their ministry.

Jerome Hastrich of Gallup, N. M. the .evaluation of pastors and "The adequate evaluation of year··old woman, was, gIven a 'Also attending were 23 priests team ministries. year of corrective'labor at par- priests will help in the assessThe report was related to the tial pay without Joss of freedom. ment of new forms of minis~ from priests' senates of the five dioceses. recent massive studies of priestly try," he sa!.:!. life covering theological, scriptu, , Th.e report did not Il)ention The provision board of appeals A priest cannot be appraised ral, . psychological, sociological that the riot h,ld brok$n out properly, he explained, until his was established in order to hanand historical aspects of priestly after the funeral in Kaunas, lith- goals, and that of the parish and dle 'cases which can not be setuania's second largest city, of a Hfe. diocese are defined. "Such infor- tled by the already established 20-year-old Catholic factory mation from an evaluation Pro- diocesan-level boards of conciliaRegional Meetings worker who died after ~etting gram can lend assistance to a tion and arbi.tration. It will conhimself afire in f. park near the Msgr. MacDonald said the re- center of the cit". It is beli'eved more effective nomination of 'sist of one member from each I bishops." diocese of the province. port suggested steps that should that he was pro• testing governbe taken' in conformity with the ment restrictions on religion in Vatican decree of May, '1972, on Lithuania, which Stalin an,nexed, the selection of bishops, to give along with Latvia and E~tonia, "a greater acceptability." in 1940.

It recommends a limited term Young Lithuanians chanting of office for bishops and forma- "'Freedom! Ereedom! and ;"Free• Savings, Bank .life Insurance tion of an inter-disciplinary com- dom for Lithuania!" roamed the • Real Est~te Loans mittee to study the whole ques- streets of Kauna;, threw rocks • Christmas and Vacation Clubs tion. and sticks at polieeand s~tI fires "Many bishops have told me," in a demonstration pro~esting • Savings Accounts -"that they would like to serve a the Soviet Union'!; domination of • 5 Convenient Locations period of time in· administration. their country. Tt.ey also .called My own bishop has said he'd for more freedom for the: CathNEW BEDFORD like to serve only 10 years and olic Church, which has about 3 then' take the rest of his life million members in Lith4ania's to save his soul."

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Spirit and Faith Of Polish P.eople Impress Plrelate WARSAW (NC) -- "You have created here an atmosphere of .love." Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of Warsaw told Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia as the American prelate prepared to board a Polish airlines.jet Oct. 17 at the end of' a wee~:long visit to the land from which his parents came.

Cardinal Krol expressed his thanks to the Polish primate for a week that he called "one of the most beautiful in my life."

"I'm glad to be able to capture all of my' sentiments in one phrase which is very Polish," Cardinal Krol said, "May God reward you a hundredfold."

Cardinal Krol had come, to Poland to participate in cere-. monies marking the first anniversary of the beatification of Father Maximilian Kolbe, who gave up his life for another at" the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Cardinal Krol told the Polish primate that the most treasured memory of hi,S trip would be his recollection of the people of Poland.

"What a wonderful people," the American cardinal said, "how great its spirit, how it loves its faith."

Philadelphia's cardinal also thanked the Polish bishops and people for a· hospitality that brings to life their motto: "A guest in the home is God in the home."

Kindness to People "I would also wiBh to express my gratitude," he said, "to the officials of the state, not. neg,lecting to note the efficient way in which they kept order at the reliligious celebration at Oswiedm (Polish for Auschwitz), as well as in the tiny village of Siekierczyna (his father's birthplace), with the town mayor of Limanowa at the head."

Praising Cardinal Krol for his accessibility and kindness to the Polish people, Cardinal Wyszynski said: "I'm glad your eminence had an opportunIty to see contemporary Polan'd, the Church .in .

Poland, the tec'onstruction and the effects of Jhe tragedy of World War II.";

Honors M'lemory Of War Viictims WARSAW (NC) - Cardinal John Krol of Phil~delphia, in his last official act on his recent Polish .trip, laid a spray of flowers at the monum.ent to Jews who died in the ghetto here during World War II. The inscriptio'n on the spray of flowers read: "To our brothers of ·the Jewish faith: victims of World War II." Before stopping at the monument to the Jews, the cardinal went to Warsaw's Jesuit church to visit the tomb of the martyr St. Andrew Bobola and to the grotto where 45 Catholics, including 15 Jesuits, had been slaughtered by the Nazis during the Warsaw uprising of World War U. ·Later, in a farewell dinner given by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of Warsaw, Cardinal Krol presented the Polish primate with an autogr~lphed photograph of President Nixon..

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MASS AT AUSCHWITZ: Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia, Pa., celebrates Mass Sunday at the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland. Cardinal Krol was one of five cardinals who led an e~timated 250,000 persons in rites honoring Blessed Maximilian Kolbe who gave his life for a fellow inmate there in World War II. NC Photo.

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Spiritual Heritage was not only a major event for Father Kolbe, who lost his life the prelate. It was also the event of a lifetime for Edward J. when he volunteered to replace Piszek, a Polish-Am.erican busi- a fellow prisoner at the Auness man who accompanied the schwitz concentration- camp who had been singled out by the nazis cardinal.

Piszek, the son of immigrants for death in a reprisal action, who rose in Horatio Alger fash- personifies a heroism which reion to become head of a firm minds Piszek of ,such figures in with $50 million a year in sales, the American Revolution as has set for himself the task of 'Pulaski and Kosciuszko; Father Kolbe's combination of reminding his fellow Americans that the Polish contribution to wide learning and profound love the world is not a cheap joke but of God serves also to symbolize for Piszek Poland's cultural and a cherished tradition.

In Cardinal ~rol's journey to spiritual heritage about which Poland to participate in rites he think~ most Americans know marking the end of a year-iong very little.

For Piszek, his trip to Poland celebration of the beatification of Father Maximilian Kolbe, with Cardinal Krol will represent Piszek sees a pilgrimage which not the beginning but the end

Asserts ·Structural Changes, In' Church Have Limited Value AUSTIN (NC)-"I would warn against the danger of putting' too much faith in structures as such," said Msgr. George G. Higgins at a meeting here.

Msgr. Higgins, secretary for research of the U. S. Catholic Conference, told the third General Assembly of the Texas Catholic Conference (TCe) that "structural changes in the institutional Church" do not make the individual person any more or less a Christian.

"Spiritual renewal lies beyond the scope of administrative acts," he said. "The most these can do is point the way, help to provide the atmosphere in which each individual may undergo,. by an actual experience as well as symbolically, a rebirth, lose his egocentricity and become an enlightened, free, and loving human being."

Msgr. Higgins, an expert for the American bishops at the Second Vatican Council and a priest-observer at the 1971 Synod of Bishops, argued that it

was not the, Council which caused the rapid changes in the Church.

"Rapid change would have come into the Church with or without a Council," he said, "but with this important difference; In the absence .of a Council, it probably would have come largely in protest against the real or alleged imidequacies of Catholic thought and pastoral practice and not in response to an orderly study of theological and biblical sources and a systematic reappraisal of the Church's needs and opportunities.

"The council, in other words, was the providential. safety valve that made it possible ... to forestall a disastrous explosion in the life of the Church."

The priest asked the delegates to keep a religious perspective in their -social action, but also to be aware of their· own limitations.

"The religious vision guarantees no mental subtlety in grasping the complexities of this world," he said.

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of a pilgrimage - a pilgrimage which started with his establishment of Project: POLE. Piszek, the 55-year-old founder and )r~3ident of Mrs. Paul's Kitchens, Inc., launched a media campaign last year'designed not to sell frozen, foods but to present forgotten facts; including the facts that Copernicus, 16th century founder of modern astronomy; Madame Curie, codiscoverer of radium; and the composer Chopin we!e all Polish.

Project: AMERICA Earlier, he had made unpublicized gifts of ambulances, mobile clinics and other hospital supplies to help stamp out tuberculosis in the Polish district of his parents' birth.

The 1971 recipient of the Man of the Year award from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia in recognition of his special dedication to the ideal of "freedom from hunger," Piszek stimulates self-help projects throughout the world to encourage developing nations to produce more food.

Success in business and, in making Americans aware of the Polish contribution to the nation is not Piszek's only goal, 'however.

From his home in nearby Fort Washington's histori~ Emlen House, he is now launching Project: AMERICA to dramatize United States contribution to world history in business and in sport.

ESSEN (NC) - Polish authorities refused a visa to Bishop Franz Hengsbach of Essen, who was invited by the Polish bishops to attend a special service at the former Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) Nazi concentration camp Oct. 14.

The ceremony commemorated the first anniversary of the beatification of Father Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in the concentration camp for a fellow prisoner. Cardinal John Krol of PhiJ,adelphia attended the ceremony while on a week long trip to Poland.

Bishop Hengsbach had attended the beatification ceremony for . Father Kolbe last year in Rome.

The bishop was to attend this year's ceremony in Poland as. the representative of Cardinal Julius Doepfner of Munich, the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference.

The Polish military mission in West Berlin, which handles visas for West Germans, told Bishop Herigsbach that there had been no reply from Warsaw to his visa request.

Ask Vatican Study World Population LONDON (NC) - An Eng'lish and Welsh bishops' commission has asked the Vatican to set up a group of experts to study the world population situation.

The requset was made to the P,ontifJical Commission for Justice and Peace by the English and Welsh bishops' National 'Commission for International Justice and Peace at its recent meeting here.

The English and Welsh com7 mission said it made the request ·so that a fully informed CathoUc contribution 'could ,be made to the United Nations World Population Year and Conference in 1974.

The meeting 8'lso decided to emphasize the situation in Northern Ireland in preparing their theme for World Peace Day next year. Background material on the problem will the circ;ulated -throughout the parishes, and delegates from every diocese and from CatholLc organizations concerned were scheduled to meet in London and Manchester in September to disc'uss the program.

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Election Should Be Decided On More Than Schools . I don't like to write about politics. I figure there's enough despair in the world already. But when I op~ned the' Oct. 8th issue of the National Catholit Register and read the full back-page ad, the whole history of "the Catholic vote" and the surer, 1701 Pennsylvania Ave., "Church sanctioned candi- N.W., Washington, D. C." date" came flooding back to Why do' I find the ad so reme. I'm not writing to let ,pulsive?

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"You're bothered by the fact that every day one more private or parochial school closes.

So is President Nixon." . , The text below it reads, "If an idea is good for education, the President is for it. If it isn't, he's against it. Massive 'b.using, for example,: he's against. Aid to parochial schools, 'he's for .. ; "For the problem ,isn't simply the granting of aid to parochial schools. (If it were, President Nixon would have done it already.)

"The problem is finding a method of aid that will pass the Congress and not be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court ... It requires a man who told the Knights of Columbus .in no uncertain terms: 'In your fight to save your schools, you can count on my support.' " , Political. Parochialism . Under this bit of political parochialism, in small letters, it reads: "Paid advertisementpublished and paid for by the Finance Committee to Re.elect the' President, M.H. Stans, C~air­ man, C.L. Washburn, Deputy Chairman. P.E. Barrick, Trea-

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name, Nixon. I would find it equally offensive if. it were propromoting McGovern, Spock, or Schmitz. In a world requiring -leadership capable of· dealing with war, nuClear disarmament, racial unrest, environmentalsuicide, ,'and expleiitation of people.s, we are encouraged to vote for ,the man who will keep our schools open. Absurd. . Talk about parochial! We'd laugh if· the Mormons. placed such' an ad advocating that fellow Mormons vote for a candidate because he would grant Salt Lake City home rule or if the Jews encouraged "the Jewish vote" go to to a candidate pushing for a Satu~ay sabbath.

I hope the whole .thing is so absurd that the Catholic reader shakes his head and deposits the suggestion on ilie refuse pile it deserves. In a national (international?) election calling for a leader sensitive to the problems and needs of the whole world, I hope the average Catholic is unselfish and mature enough to vote for a -leader on that basis, not on the basis that he might keep SS. Cosmos and Damian's open another year.

Wider Horizons Or because he spoke with the Knights of Columbus. Or because he didn't. I hope. rather, that the mature Catholic Christian has wider horizons, horizons that ·include more than just his own children and his own Church.

I grew up in Wisconsin during ·the Joe McCarthy era 'and I remember .the frequent' Catholic comment when his re-election came up: "Well, maybe he isn't doing right, but he's Irish and he's Catholic." The shrug that went along with it clearly said, "... therefore, we have to vote for him."

I thought we outgrew such childish ,attitudes but this ad tells me there's still a good deal of immaturity and selfishness in Mass ,Attendance our Catholic camp. Let's de~l Drops in New York this kind of thinking the death NEW YORK (NC)-Mass at- ,blow in this election, voting for tendance in the New York arch- the _best man. regardless of his diocese has declined 23 per cent comments on parochial schools in the five-year period from 1965 which \ affect fewer than one to 1970; a~cording to Clergy Re- per cent of the people in this port, a newsletter published world. monthly for priests hen: by the .And I commerid other Catholic Office of Pastoral Research. editors who didn't run the ad.

"Based on these fJgures, we Thank you for your recognition estimate very tentatively that of our maturity. on any given Sunday, about 40 Capsule Review: Jesus, Superper cent of the Catholics in the . star or Savior? edited by Jeremy archdiocese attend Mass in the Harrington, O.F,M., discusses the parishes," the report said. question, "Should the modern No reasons were given for the' Christian be enthusiastic that fall-off in the 10-county metro- the masses have finally 'gotten politan ~ee. .religion' or cyncial about the Father Philip J. Munion, exec- transformation of Jesus into a utive secretary of the office, sug- superstar?" Clear, simple, yet gested that increased mobility. a thought-provoking paperback for declining birth rate and the ar- the individull1 or discussion rival of immigrants with less group. ($1.00; St. Anthony fixed church-going habits than Messenger Press; 1615 Republic their p~edecessors, were causes. Street, Cincinnati.) \.

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Fifteen possible housing units had been found for welfare families, but for a variety of reasons a task force established to carry on the bishops' program has not been able to put families in those quarters.

John Gregory, task force executive director, said the failure to place welfare families in suitable housing "proves the terrible shortage of housing on Long Island."

He indicated the shortage was particularly acute at welfare rental levels. The task force has discovered vacancies at those levels are filled quickly - too quickly for diocesan officials who must channel referrals through the welfare departments of Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which in turn must check the referrals.

Gregory also acknowledged task force operatives have encountered resistance among some welfare families to the idea of being placed in areas where they will not be wanted. For instance, in the St. Edward the Confessor parish in Syosset,'several hundred parishioners were joined by non-Catholic neighbors in denouncing the pishop's proposal at a parish council meetipg.

Reacted the pastor, Father Henry Palmer: "It seems there's a ·bit 'Of Archie Bunker in all of us."

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rieff her baby· in a sling as she walks in a picket line in_ Miami, Florida. The United Farm Workers Union was protesltiI1lg the import of Jamakan laborers to cut sugar cane.

They said that this a<;:tion by federal authorities and sugar growers wou.1d limit jobs available to domestic' cutters.

The union took the battIe to court and also made its dema:nds known through picketing. NC Photo.

Cc)uncil of Chul'ches Report CI,arges Torture by' Uruguay NEW YORK (NC) - An ecu· mer.tical report c:ommissiqned by .the World ,Council of Cpurches said political repression in Uru: guay includes tor(ure an4 denial of human rights.

At the time t"tle United Methodist Church made uils an~ou:ncement he:re, the ;Baptist Church in Chile was pres$ing the government of Uruguay' to. release !Rev. Jorge Valenzuela, arrest,ed in July on charges of aiding urban guerr.illas. Va(enzuela is a Chilean but has been working in Uruguay.:;ince 1965.

Among their r,~ported findings: Si:nce April W" when !a state of "'internal waJ'" was declared in Uruguay, "thousands ~of citizem: have been B rrested a'nd held incommuni~ado." . i , Many persons are "hel~ indefinitely" on suspicion of c'omplicity with the lupamarol urban guerrillas, and :mbject to military justice, "which is slpw and from which there is no llPpeaI."

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"There is impressive evidence that both physical and psychological torture is practiced on political prisoners."

The report added that violation of human rights by police and the military in the government of President Juan Maria Bordaberry is "purportedly aimed, at the Tupamaros, but in fact extends to broad segments of the population," including leaders of the Frente Amplio.

The Frente is a coalition of opposition parties which claim the elections that brought Borda.' berry to power were "fraudulent."

KANSAS CITY (NC)-Leaders of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), reacting to a papal letter excluding women from the positions of lector and acolyte, have' declared women are "capable of assuming equal responsibilities with men" in the ministerial functions of the Church.

In a statement issued on the last day of its three-day general assembly here, the NCCW leaders noted "recent press releases" had "created widespread confusion" over Pope Paul VI's letter restating the tradition that "installation in the ministries of lector and acolyte is reserved to men." '

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Pope Paul established the secretariat in 1964 to dialogue with non-Christian religions.

Speaking to members of the secretariat who met in the Vatican for their annual plenary session, the Pope said: "Many misunderstandings, rancors, and conflicts in the course of human history derive from an uncompromising attitude which prevents us from understanding our brother.

"The happy results of your. en" counters depends very much on your goodwill, your love and respect."

Listen, Learn The Pope said he hopes "the day is very near when all the great religions would band together in unison to place their cfforts at. the service of mankind, its liberty and its dignity."

The agenda of ,this y~ar'sple­ nary session called for Roman Catholic members to "listen and learn" from experts of the Moslem, Buddhist and Hindu religions, in addition to several other non-Christian re:ligions of Africa. Pope Paul told the members that religious men can help mankind because "the great religions contribute to peace, fraternity, justice, lift morale and sustain hope."

Bishop Helps Solve Labor Conflict CUERNAVACA (NC)-Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo of Cuernavaca told a .group of workers, jUlbilant over their return to wOl1k after a 'long strike, that. "you must not lose your head and become unfair in turn." ",Practice justice and share its sense with those who do not know justice yet," added the MeXlican bishop, who is credited with solving the labor conflict.

Most of the 320 workers involved in the strike here against the textile concern, Inter-American Industries, listened to the Sunday sermon of Bishop Mendez, who had given moral and financial ·support to their famiHes.

. "Within and outside this church there is jubilation, because discord among men has ended," Bishop Mendez said.

Vocation Direc:tors Voice Optimism SAN DIEGO (NC)·- Despite disappointing statistics, an aura of optimism surrounded the Diocesan Vocations Directors convention here.

The reason for the paradixical state of affairs is related to the rapid changes in seminaries and seminarians, according to Father Edward J .. IBaldwin of Detroit, executive director of the National Center for Church Vocations.

Father IBaldwin said a report to be made to the U. S. bishops at their November meeting is based on vocation statistics which do not truly J'eflect the picture.

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Pope Says Faith Major Need VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Church is suffering from the "infidelity of so many of her children, of those specially chosen, Pope Paul VI told a general audience here.

His remark, made on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, was interpreted as a reference to priests and nuns who have left their ministries. the Pope briefly alluded to the council anniversary, paying tribute ,to two whom he said were guiding force of the council: the Virgin Mary and Pope John XXIII, but said he would not speak of ,the council at length.

Instead, the 75-year-old pontiff continued to expound on his theme of the past several weeks: the meaning of being a Christian today. \ The major need of the Church today, the Pope said, is faith, MISSION WEEKEND: Principals in Mission Weekend to be held Oct. 28 and 29 at that is, "an adherence to the La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, are, from left, Rev. Roland Beauchemin, M.S., Rev..William Word of God, to His divine revSlight, M.S., Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S., Program will stress mission needs in Philippines. elation."

The Pope continued: "This is Church, custodian of why . eternal and ever effective values, feels more than ever the need of ,Plans are complete for La people of New England of their The Mission Weekend will be- faithfulness to these values and Salette Shrine's "Mission Day'~ obligations in the Third World," gin at 7:30 P.M. Saturday, when suffers so much by the casualWeekend to be held Oct. 28 and Father Slight said.

Rev. R:onald Beauchemin, M.S., ness ~nd infidelity of so many of 29 at the Shrine grounds, Park "I might have labored for five a native of Central Falls, R. I., her children, of those specially Street, Route 118, Attleboro. Co- years; but only because the peo- 'will kad shrine visitors in a chosen." ordinators for the event are Rev. ple in America invested their Liturgy of Mission, stressing The Pope has in the past said WiHiam Slight, M.S. and Rev. own time and energy and en- problems found in the Philip- that the numbers of priests askRonald Beauchemin, M.S., La couraged me to work in that pines. The Liturgy will be fol- ing for dispensations were the Salette Missionaries on leave field. They are entitled to know lowed hy a slide program on the "crowns of thorns" of his ponfrom ,the Philippines, with Rev. what is being done as a result of Philippines conducted by Father tificate.

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Sa.Jette Shrine. their mission."

At 11 Sunday morning Fr. Time Tohe service will be the closing Slight will again 'lead the PhilipRev. William Slight, a native The remedy of time is patience. of New Bedford, will be guest ceremony for the month of Octo- pine discussion and slide prospeaker at a 3 P.M. service on ber at LaSalette Shrine which gram. A film on the Philippines -Arabian Proverb Sunday, Oct. 29. He will reflect has dedicated the month to the will be shown at 1:30 and at 2, upon his five years in the Phil- study of "Mission and Man in weather permitting, a Mission ippines. "I wish to remind the the World Today."

Rosary will be meditated on the $5,000 Or More shrine grounds for the needs of On EquIty In Your Home the Third World.

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Special Prayer Service will be conducted at 3 o'olock by both AVCO FINANCIAL Voters in three states-Mary- public school students to ride missionaries. At 4 o'cla:ck the SERVICES land, Idaho and Oregon - will public school buses to and from Philippine slide program is again 71 William St., New Bedford scheduled. Throughout the ~eek­ decide whether to give state aid school.

994·9636 end the shrine grounds will be to nonpublic schools on election Small Minority decorated with thousands of day, Nov. 7.

An 'Idaho statute allowing bus- Philippine aTtifacts and curios.

At issue in Maryland is a ing to nonpublic schools was $12.I-million "voucher plim" struck down as unconstitutional CHAS. F. which would provide yearly by the state supreme court last Opens Immigration ,scholarships of $75 to $200' to year. The referendum, if passed, nonpublic school students whose would amend the constitution to Office for Italians BROOKLYN (NC)-A diocesan parents earn under $12,000 in allow such busing and to allow adjusted gross income. public funds to be used for it. neighborhood office for newly arrived Italian immigrants has OIL CO., INC. Signed into law last year, the "We really don't expect the been opened in the Bensonhurst was petitioned to Maryland bill amendment to pass," a spokes- section of Brooklyn.

254 ROCKDALE AVENUE referendum by Americans United man for Idaho's Catholic schools NEW BEDFORD, MASS. It will assist hundreds of new for Separation of Church and told NC News. The spokesman State (AUSCS) and PEARL, the said that Catholics are a small arrivals with services ranging Maryland Committee for Public _minority in the state,and the from employment opportunities, Education and Religious Liberty. Idaho Educati.onal Association is visa infor.mation, and housing to "fighting viciously" against the translation services.

HEATING OILS Maryland's volunteer group About 19,000 Italians came to amendment.

SAGE (State Aid Group for EduCOMPLETE The Nov. 7 battle in Oregon Brooklyn and Queens, the two cation) is waging a publicity batwill be over ballot measure No. counties of the Brooklyn diocese, HEATING SYSTEMS tle to pass the referendum, with 4,. to change ,the language of the between 1960 and 1968. Some INSTAllED plans to contact every registered state constitution to that of the 20,000 Italians arrive in the voter· in the state by phone or First Amendment of the U. S. United States each year.

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The Bensonhurst office will received significant support in SERVICE . The present Oregon constitu- assist immigrants, without September when COPE,. the po- tion states, "No money shall be charge, with forms required by BUDGET PLANS litical education committee of .drawn from the treasury for the the U. S. Immigration and Natuthe AFL-CIO, voted to support benefit of any religious or theoralization Service. It will suggest The Vargas Oil Co. protects the referendum. The Maryland- logical institution." Several years names of attorneys, physicians your family's heating comfort District of Columbia AFL-CIO ago the state's supreme court and other professionals who all year round. has about 250,000 members. struck down a textbook loan speak Italian; assist in house and Idaho's voters are facing an program for nonpublic schools apartment-hunting, and provide TRY US FIRST amendment ·to their state consti- as unconstitutional under this information on city health ser3-6592 tion which would allow non- language. vices and schools.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct.~26, 1972

Early Snow Reminds Joe It's Time to Winterize

HOUSTON (NC)-Participants in an "encounter" for Spanishspeaking Catholics praised retired Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio for his pioneering work on behalf of the Spanish-speaking.

By Joe and Marilyn Roderick As I write this article, the first snow of the season is falling, 'somewhat prematurely and in large wet flakes.

Although this is exceptionally early and 'Will not last a day in mid-October, it serves to remind us that the remaining chores in the garc;len must be attended to before the middle of November, the small fruit trees do generally winter sets in. It is still not yield a good harvest, the vegetoo late to plant bulbs and I, table patch produces regally and

At the same time, participants heard Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Flores (Jf San Antonio tell them that despite the efforts of the Church, the Spanish-speaking are still '~voiceless and powerless."

have a number of tulips and daf· , very little of this bounty is van· fodils which must' be planted dalized, but I just can't keep our before too long, as well as some pumpkins. new Hlies which I have to plant This Is New England and some which I intend to transplant before more snow Perhaps I'm so stubborn about' arrives. this custom beca!1se it reminds In addition, we are approaching .,mea great deal of the early .. .. .. the final' lawn' cutting for the days of New England and the autumns long ago when October year and 'this will be a blessing. \. ~'. ,.'

At this point I am eager to store and' November really were 'har4~.t ' . , , the lawn mower! What starts out vest months. There is nothing I ' ~. as a routine task in the spring enjoy more than a ride through the countryside and a chance to has become a tedious, tiresome /Ii gaze at each charming cottage bore by fall.

INTERFAITH CENTER: Father George ,Zorn, S.J. coflanked by piJmpkins and stuffed But the biggest job is to pro- scarecrows and decorated with a ordinator of arcpdiocesan and ecumenical planning at tect the baby shrubs which can cluster of Indian corn on the Columbia, Md., talks with 'parishioners outside the Interbe badly damaged by cold and front door. This to me is New faith Center ther~. NC Photo. " fro'st heaving. These I usuallx England. Let me stop at a roadtry to give a good heavy mulch- side stand and buy a' basket of ' ing with pine needles or wood apples to be made into pies and 1 chips, whichever isava.lable. I applesauce and my day'is com· norma.Jly would do the same for plete..

Shopping Mall, Interfaith Center Symbols azaleas but there has been eviYet when I return home and dence of late that mulching Of .I~lanned City azaleas is not necessarily good trip to duplicate the scene on COLUMBIA (NC): - A low- city and older suburbs. for the plants, so I may mulch o~r city hillside my pumpkins Columbians a're "preoccupied some and leave, some unpro- are gobbled up by an invisible slung, sleekly modern Interfaith reaper. \I'll have to check with Center and a sprawling indoor, '. with their own problems" accordtected to compare the results.

Charlie Brown and his friend shopping m:dl.are important not ing to Father Zorn and most are Certainly greens located in "The Great Pumpkin" to see if (Jnly as buildings but also as veteran suburban dwellers. It is wind~swept areas should be af-, they have any secret way to as- symbols' of this planned city of a family place.

AlQng with the families come forded protection against expo- sure that the Rodericks can hang the future.

The Interfaith Center, the only family problems and divorces. sure: This can be done by driving on to their pumpkins for more church building in I this "new Many people moved here thinka few stakes into the ground in than a day or two. town" of 20,000, is' an un'Jsual ing their lives would be planned, the direction of the wind and olf you're luckier than I with cooperative effort of Protestant, said James Montague, president then stringing some canvas or heavy plastic from one stake to your yellow-orange vegetable, Catholic an.d Jewish congrega- of the Columbia Religious Facil· the other to act as a wind·'shield. then you could cut up this giant tions, all of which hold their ities Corporation and an executive of the company which is deThis is slow business but is well gourd' after HaHoween and give services in 'I:he building. your family a taste treat.

But, awording to Father veloping th'e city. worth the effort.

George Zorn, the Catholic co"They confuse the physical Gourmet Pumpkin Pie This is also cleaning time in ordinator of archdif>cesan and planning with personal planthe garden. Leaves -have to be medium pumpkin ecumenical planning at Co-lum- nlng," Montague said. "We do raked up and annuals removed, I baked 9 inch pie shell bia, the religious c~nter is not the physical planning so they roses cut ba<:k, tQ reasonable the center of community Hfe. can do what they want with cup sugar lengths 'and greens pruned to I teaspoon ginger "The real cathedral in C<J!um- their lives." protect against unnecessary 1 teaspoon cinnamon bia' is the shopping mall," the He said that 40 to 45 per cent whipping in the"wind and breakJ,4 teaspoon salt Jesuit says. "In' a consumer- of the residents attend church, age from snow.',' J,4 teaspoon cloves oriented society that is material- but added that many of the regJ,4 ,teaspoon nutmeg istic, not Christian,the ma,ll is ular churchgoers are Catholics.

All in all, there is sufficient 2 Tablespoons moiasses the center (If worship."

Father Zorn said about 55 per work at this s'easonto keep the 3 eggs In that way, at lea~t Columbia cent (Jf the 800 registered famgardener active ,before the quiet 1 Y2 cups light cream may be like much of contempo- Hies attend Mass each Sunday. of winter days, sets' in.

2 Tablespoons brandy rary society, but in 'other ways The only thing he ventures to ,In kitchen it is really 1 city of' the future: conclude from this is that "a 1) 'Make a pumpkin puree by Located on 14,000 acre:; of fair number of people still concutting a medium pumpkin -in The phantom", strikes again. rolling land between Baltimore sider themselves Catholic, but halves crosswise, removing the Ea<:h year we doggedly buy and Washington, Columbia; like don't go to Mass every Sunday." pumpkins to put on the front seeds and stringy membranes Some Columbia Catholics who and placing on;a lightly buttered other new t(IWnS, ha~ done a.way stoop and each' year as sure as baking pan in a 325' oven, for with the neon 'signs, overhead object to the bare' Interfaith taxes .they mysteriously disapwires and haphazatd develop- Center prefer to attend Mass at pear. Quite often they vanish 1 J,4 hours.

2) When tender remove pulp ment that marks most older one of the more traditional when one of us is sitting in the cities. When it is c~mpleted in' churches in nearby towns. chair near' the window over,look- ' from shel'ls and put through the 1981, this carefully planned city Except for the Interfaith Cenfine disk of a food mil!.

You ing these steps and never is even need 2 cups of this puree for one will be home to 110,000 people, tel", there are no 'church builda stirring heard. pie. and to enough business and in- ings in Columbia. The developThis year we chose three tiny dlJlstry to make 1t a self- ers' plans did not aHow for un3) In a bowl mix the sugar, ones to sit 'around a group of necessary duplication.' If the cornstalks that my father-in-law ginger, cinnamon, salt, cloves contained cii:y. the But desp:.te the linnovations number of service stations was and nutmeg.

Add 2 ,cups of h~d tied together. I was amazed to see this display last over the pumpkin puree and the molasses. and beautiful rur~l setting, to be limited, so was the number Father Zorn, who came here in of church buildings. Gasoline weekend but by the middle of Mix wei!.

4) In another bowl beat the 1969 from Woodstock College in stations were not going to be on the week the pumpkin thief had finds Columbia every four corners, and churches struck. Now, we have a yard eggs lightly and gradually add Manhattan, were not going to be all over the full of flowers from April until ,the light cream and brandy. bland.

Combine the mixture with the The first settlers in the :five- block. pumpkin mixture and pour into , year-old city were liberal advenSo there is a single building Downfall the prepared shel.J. turers who ,came to ¢olumbia to where Catholic, United Method5) Bake in a 375' oven 35 to live in a "new America" and ist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, BapWhy does civilization keep on receding? Each war, even if won, 40 minutes (lr until filling is set. make it work, Fathet Zorn i;aid, tist; and Jewish. congregations is a fresh defeat to our intelli- $er,:~ .'Ytth, ~w~~tened whipped but later people came to get hold meetings and religi,ous genc'e. ",' -' "':"':Bernhardt '. cream. away from the problems of the services.

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In making ,the presentation to Archbishop Lucey, Paul Sedillo, director of the Division for the Spanish·speaking of the U. S. Catholic Conference, cited a 1945 statement in which the archbishop told a newspaper:' "If a Mexican American is, improvident, illiterate, diseased and delinquent, whose fauU is it but those who from birth condemned him fo the unwholesome atmosphere of poverty and squalor? ... The truth is l1lhat the Mexican American laborers are honest and hard working in a civilized manner."

Sedillo quoted the archbishop as saying in 1966, "The tired old myth that ,the priest belongs in the sanctuary or in the rectory, not in the slum, nor in the houses of the poor, not in the halls of the labor union, not in the fields ... that ,tottering myth has been exploded and condemned by bis~6ps and priests many times in recent year,s."

Bishop Flores; who' Is a Mexican American, told the "Encounter for a Spanish Pastoral for the South west" that th!!

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 26, 1972

Sacredness, of Human Life Mus;t Include Every Aspect

The Parish' Parade Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news Items for this column to The Anchor, P, O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town should be Included, as well are full dates of all activities. Please send news of future. rather than past ever-t>o

The Bishops' concern in the Synodal Document for "voiceless injustice is, naturally, engaged by the most voiceless of all-the injustices which literally deprive human beings of a voice by depriving them of their life.

One aspect of this injustiCe is the killing of llife that 'has favouring the availability of appropriate information and by hardly started-<:hildren pre- adopting suitable measures, provented from ever beginning vided that these be in conformity

by enforced contraception and children killed before birth by legalized abortion.

Another aspect is the "legal-

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with the moral law and that they absolutely respect the rightful' freedom of married couples."

The problem of legalized abortion is far more acute than the still very restricted "imposition of contraception." Governments are legalizing abortion in many lands and the issue is already raised. Although abortion in the early stages of pregnancy-when the fetus is still going through the amoeba and fish-like stages of premammalian life-are physically nearer to the innumerable early miscarriages which occur in nature and do not involve killing an already clearly human infant, a human life has started to stir and the issue of' the sacredness of life Is involved.

Criminally murderous as man has been in war, casually outrageous as he is in his motor car, one does fiot make respect for life any deeper by ignoring its destruction at its earliest stage.

ized" killing in war of people who are already born, people at every age of life. And another aspect, not mentioned by the Bishops but, in the United States at least, more lethal than war itself is the carnal, hourly, accepted and shameful killing of human beings by the automobile.

Let us look at each of these.

First of all, children not yet con; ceived-there is very little evidence of any government anyChoice of Evils where enforcing contraception, The dilemma is that we are although it remains a risk in any faced with a choice of evils. country in which a government Abortions occur in a torrent, in of a minority race (usually, alas, a cataract of misery round the white and "Christial}") fears the world. In Santiago de Chile, for fertility of' the majority race it " instance, it has been estimated controls and exploits. But, in that there are two abortions for general, governments tend rather every live birth. Illegal abortion to encourage the birth of chil- means that poor women go to dren by means of family allow- criminal abortionists. The hospiances, welfare, tax rebates and tals then -take the battered, poi· so forth. In France and Russia, in soned consequences of these vile particular, the large family is operations. For the rich, the safe, heavily subsidized by the State. quiet clinic ·is usually available.

Will Reverse Policies However, over the next 50 years, as world population rises ineluctably toward!, 20 billion (it is only just over three and a half billion today) governments are bound to reverse such policies,' advise parents to have smaller famiilies and give them incentives to do so. This is already the trend in the two poorest, lar·gest and most heavily populated countries in the world, India and China.

From the moral standpoint the issue is that such information and incentives should leave parents with the full right to decide their own size of family and to make a responsible judgment on the number of children to whom they can give love, care, health and education. The Church's attitude· to the reciprocal duties of government and family in this context has been mede clear in Populorum Progressio, "There is no doubt that public authorities can intervene, within the limit of their competence, by

Reject Afifiliation OAKLAND (NC)-The priests' senate of' the Diocese of Oakland will not join the National Federation of Priests.' Councils, Bishop Floyd L. Begin has announced.

The priests' vote was 78 aga.inst affiliation, 49 in favor, and nine abstaining.

It is, as with everything else, .the miserable, the poor, the ignorant and the frightened who carry, in scepticemia, in maimed bodies, in agony and death, the consequences of illegal operations in ·filthy conditions down back streets. Or they bear the infants' whose dead bodies are found in garbage cans.

There is no good answer between the principle involved in legalizing v.:hat is' a form of murder and the practice involved in leaving wretched women' with no recourse save to criminal and hence, hidden, incompetent and medically disastrous illegal practitioners.

Almost certainly, permission for qualified practitioners and competent hospitals to perform abortions will increase. Another aspect of the taking of life will become "legal"-as it is in war. yet the world will not necessarily be a more evil place as a result.

Too many comfortable Christians have turned a blind eye to the realities of abortion among the majority of the world's peoples who are desperately poor.

This does not 'mean that the defense of the sacredness of life is to be· abandoned. But it must be carr.ied on at a deeper level and on a wider front. To protest legislation is one thing. To eradicate the conditions that encourage this legislation is the real test of ,commitment. . . '.' ')

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ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN A gourmet potluck supper will be held at 7:30 Saturday night in -the church hall on Main Street, North Fairhaven. Tickets must be obtained in advance and are available at Weber's Sandwich Shopp'e, Main Street, or by calling 994-8542. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cataldo Jr. chairmen, are assisted by a large committee.

DEAN: Dr. Charles O. Ryan is the first layman to be named academic dean of St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. He has been head of the Department of Educational Administration at Utah State University since 1969. NC Photo

.City Cuts School Nursing Service NEWARK (NC)-Nursing services to at least 16 of this city's.

24 parochial schools have been cut back by the Newark Board of Health.

At some schools, nurses are now available only one day a week and there is a possibility that the service may be cut further.' A few years ago the nurses came five days a week.

There pas been a gradual cutback over the last few years, but nothing as severe as has been experienced since schools reopened in September. City health officials say a lack of money makes restoration of the service impossible.

The services of. physicians have also been curtaileq. At St. Rose of Lima School, a physician who formerly made periodic visits to examine all of the 470 children at the school now only checks the first graders.

Sister Mary Agnes, the principal there, said she has protested the cutbacks to the Human Rights Commission, which suggested parental. pressure as the best possible course of action.

"Our people are taxpayers and have a right to these services which are for the children, not the school," another principal said.

Rosary Pilgrimage At National Shrine WtASHINGTON . (NC) - The second annual rosary pilgrimage will be conducted at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here on Saturday, Oct.. 28.

A seminar for priests and laymen and a prayer vigil in the crypt of the shrine is scheduled for the preceding day.

According to the sponsors of the pilgrimage, the original Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima will be present at the vigil for veneration by pilgrimage participants.

The pilgrimage attracted more than 7,000 persons from the United States and Canada last year.

OUR LADY OF VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Mrs. Barbara Dean and Mrs. Katherine Souza are co-chairmen for a Christmas bazaar to be held by the Women's Guild Saturday, Nov. 18 in the church hall.

Mrs. Dorothy Silvestri, legislation chairman, has forwarded statements expressing the unit's stand on a' propos'ed abortion referendum and on changes in school Christmas observances to state legislators.

Members will make favors and place mats for patients' trays at the Rose Hawthorne Home, Fall River. .

ST. MICHAEL, SWANSEA Bingo is played at 7 every Monday night in the church basement. A large arrangements committee is headed by Rev. Joseph Martineau.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD . The CCD will present a Harvest Time 'Dance, featuriJ::tg the Novas, from 8 ,to midnight Saturday, Nov. 11. Refreshments will be served.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Holy Name Society, members will attend 8 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, Nov. 5, followed by breakfast ·in the church hall. The unit will sponsor a turkey whist in the hall at 7 Saturday night, Nov. 11.

A pre-Adven-t social will take place in the hall Saturday night, Nov. 18, with a malasada supper served from 6 to 8 and dancing from 8 to 11.

Children of Mary will attend 9 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, Nov~26. Breakfast.and a meeting will follow. Members will hold a' cake side following all Masses Nov. 11 and 12.

ST. MARY, MANSFIELD Profits of $7,501 from an "Olde Tyme Fair" conducted by the Catholic Women's Club were an· announced to members at the October meeting. Each fair worker received a rose and a poem as a token of appreciation, and it was noted that the event was the largest and mO$t successful ever sponsored by the club.

Members have as a project the taking of senior citizens on monthly shopping trips. Mrs. Marie Connors is chairman of this aotivity.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Rev. Robert J. Carter, school director, is coordinator for a parish bazaar -to be held in the school, Pine and Linden Streets, from 2 to 10 Saturday, Oct. 28.

Proceeds will benefit the school improvement fund.

Attractions Will include a gift boutique, homemade foods booth, children's activities, parcel post, games, refreshments and a white elephant table.

A grand prize of $2000 cash will be awarded.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH The par-ish will conduct a rummage sale from 10 to 4 on Saturday, Nov. 4 in the Father Clinton Hall on Jarves Street, Sandwich.

ST. MICHAEL, FALL RIVER The Home and School Association will sponsor an Adult Halloween Dance on Saturday night, Oct. 28 from 800 midnight in the school hall on Essex Street. Music widl be provided by ·the Night Club Enter· tainment.

Costumes are optional. However, prizes will be awarded for the most original, the funniest and the ugliest. Refreshments will be served.

Admission will be $1.50 per person and tiokets may be ob-tained by calling Alvin Rego at 4-5200.

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Death, Awaits All Men We all have to die, but we don't have to think about dying. It comes just as soon or just as late, whether we think about it or not. For spme people it can be a haunting spectre, a worry always in the back of the' mind. !

By FR. QUENTIN QUESNELL, .-;S.J.

The worry creeps out and takes over when they wake up sweating, when they feel a pain in the chest, when they notice a small lump under the skin that wasn't there before. It shoots across their 'mind as the plane takes off or the car skids suddenly on the ice. They know their own death is somewhere up ahead waiting for them and it worries them.

As Matthew tells of Jesus in the Gospel he wrote, Jesus did not talk about death as a single, event in the life of one individual. His sayings were not about the end of your iife or mine, but 'about "the end' of the world" and about his coming; about the

kingdom of heaven and the King's separating the sheep from the. goats.

At first that seems strange.

It is our own individual deaths that seem important to us.

Shouldn't the Gospel be giving us advice on how to face them?

Common Realities But perhaps Jesus' adding that I bigger perspective and cosmic dimension is his way of giving us advice on how to face death. , P!'lrhaps our own individual death only makes .sense when we see it inside the larger picture he draws.

In one sense, it .js true, we come to the moment of death absolutely alone. But in' another sense, we are at that instant more closely united, than ever with every other member of the human race. At the moment of death, just as at the moment of ' birth, we are doing something every human being who ever lived has-eone. Birth and death are the great realities we really have'in common.

More than tha,t, these" two moments unite us not only with all mankind, but with the whole universe of which mankind is just a part. For they are the two moments most 'completely out of our own ,control. No one asked us about coming into this world.

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Around 1920, G. Geckner, pUblished his "Constancy Principle."

This principle asserts that all living processes tend to return to the stability' ,in the inorganic world.

Sigmund Freud's notion of a dea,th wish is balled on this principle. According.:to Freud, "the goal of all life i's death." Every . human being, said,' Freud, has an (usually) uncon~Rious wish to die. This death w.ish in the, human person is the, psychological representation of'Jthe constancy principle.

J ,', Even if Freud "1s correct and everyone does have an unconscious death wish, most people are afraid to die. They are even afraid to talk about death. Why? Many people, even good Christians, look upon death more as "the end," rather than as the "begiiming." They "believe" that the essential thing about human life cannot come to an end with death, and "l1ope" that God will grant them eternal life, but there' is always that uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty.

Actually such ambivalent feelings are quite normal until one begins to think about the mys, tery of death in relation to Je'sus Christ and his redemptive sufferings and death on the cross. In fact, the mytery of man's diminishment and eventual death only becomes really inteiligible, acceptable, and' meaningful in the the light of Christ's death. Fur-

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"I've alway:; been ~fraid of death," Mary ':old me. '''1 guei>s it'i> because r'te seen so mar.,y people who were close to me die.

1 feel a sadnes~ because they are IfIO longer around."

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Death--Christ Gave' It Meaning

By FR. EUGENE J. WEITZEL

Death's Mystery

thermore, his salvific death makes sense out of all forms of dying-bodily mortification, personal sacrifice, martyrdom, physical death, and the spiritual ev·il, mortal sin.

Death: Transition Christ understood death quite differently from the rest of men.

For him, life did not end at the approach of. death to be resumed again tentatively. His life passed right through death so that, death was not' the end, but rather a point of transition. His comprehension of death, as ours must be, was based on the reality and goodness of God, the beginning and end of existence.

The Christian who has rejected ,sin. and is str.jving to imitate Christ and walk in the way of righteousness and truth will come, to possess the same v,iew of death. He will see it as a necessary event in his own life, the only route to ,the beatific vision and eternal bliss.

Better Life True, all men must die, because physical death is a consequence of original sin.....:... there, fore as through one man sin entered ,into this world and through sin death, and thus death has passed into all men" (Rom. 5:12), but the just man who has done ,good, all his life and avoided .evil, can, because of Christ's death on the cross, truly say as Simeon did: "Now thou dost dismiss thy servant, 0 Lord, acTurn to Page Eighteen

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. Mary Wells, a -22-year' old Secretary, stopped by to talk for a few moments. Death was on her mind. She said that recently she had somehow corne to a new insight into the meaning of deatll.

I asked her if she would share her thoughts with me. ' "I used to think of death 2$ really frighteni:1g. Once; you are gone, you are completely gone.

Th:lt's the end. A dead person seemed to be like an empty shell, very still, unable to talk, unable to communicate with anvone. I knew, too, that once YO;l are gone few peoplE! remember you."

Mary went on to say· that she had all along believed in Go:! and Jesus' resurrection, but that her belief had little impact 0:3 her feelings at out death. Then wit.hin the last several months-during which ti:ne she had agai:3 had closecontHct with tleath i:J , her family-through rea~ing she had changed ::ler ideas about de<:th.

Stage of Life "Now," she continued, "I really see death as a ~tage of life, much ,like birth.•Iq a way it i;, beautiful. Somehow it seems to :me that' there is ,deatl{ so that there can be more life. t look at death like a birthday."

Mary admitted that even with her new insights and feelings about dying, she still felt fear of death. But, the fear was Ptanageable because sr,e could see that death was not the end <if everything. For the first tim~ in her, life Jesus' resuxrection f~om the dead seemed tl) be more than something' that happened long ago just to' Jestls.

MalrY's experience se¢med to me to exemplif)' the teaching of the Second Vatican :Council: "Through Christ and in' Christ, the riddles of sorrow artd death grow meaningful. Apart from hi:; Go!;pel, they overwhelm us.

Christ has risen, d~troying death hy his dh:lth; he .has lav, ished life upon us so that,· ali sons in the Son, we can cry out in the SpiriJ: Abba, father!"

(Church in Wol'1d, 22). ; Mary:' Vatican Cou~cil The Council is merely, sum' 'marizingone of the deepest in· sights of Christian faith-faith that has aided :nen and women down through the centt;Iries to face death with courage and hope. Already in the first cen· tury of Christian experi~nce, al: a time when men were being pUI:

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WORN FLAGS FLY FROM A WEATHERED CROSS IN AN OLD CEMETERY: "I knew, too, that once you are ' gone few people remember you." NC Photo. to death rather than deny their One of the roles of religious belief in Ghrist, St. Paul wrote: , ,education at home, in Church. '''If the Spirit of him who raised and in the school is to share with Jesus from the dead dwells in others the Christian view of you, 'then he who raised Christ death as a stage of life rather from the dead will bring your than its termination. It is unformortal bodies to life, also, tunate that many parents and through his Spirit dwelling in teachers tend to shield children you" (Rom 8:11).

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Fear of .Death During the past summer vacation I read two bestselling, but quite different novels: "The AndersQn Tapes" and "The Exorcist." In each book, howev~r, I was struck by a similar and strong fear of death expressed by the central character.

By. FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN

John Anderson, in' one long, very earthy reflection, remarks to his companion: "Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Jew-I don't care what, they all know nobody's going to be born again.

When you're dead, man, you're dead. That's it. That's the end ... That's the one thing in all of us-you, me, and everyone else in the world-and we're scared of dying, or even thinking about it."

I~ the "Exorcist," movie star and mother Chris MacNeil sleeps one night and dreams "about death iIi the stagger,ing particular, death as if death were still never yet heard{ of while some-

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thing was ringing, she gasping, dissolving, slipping off into void, thinking over and over, oh, Papa, don't let them, oh don't -let them do it, don't let me he noth,ing forever' ..."

Friend's Attitude I can't but contrast this obsessive dread of death with the remarkable attitude which Msgr.

Russell Neighbor, former national Confraternity of Christian Doctrine director, displayed as he suddenly slipped from perfect health to crippling paralysis to premature demise at 51. I speak about him because we lived at the same United States Catholic' Conference Staff House in Washington and over a short interval became close friends.

Russ loved life. Weekends fre. quently found us taking in the latest movie or attending a concert at Constitution Hall. He enjoyed the opera, occasionally journeying 'to New York for an evening or two at the Met, and felt particularly proud of the interest in classical music he had developed among several young people. Mahler was a favorite with him and he liked to relax at night as his beautiful hi-fi boomed, forth w~th a symphony by that master artist. Even on the road, ,his stereo-equipped, well-kept Buick made my friend's , Turn .to Page Seventeen

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Finds Thlree Recent Novels Disappoilnting, Annoying

Death's Mystery Continued from Page Sixteen from the reality of death. As a result many persons carry for years,as Mary did, an unhealthy fear of death and fail to grasp one of the central realities of Christian faith.

Death: Birthday Recent research has indicated_ that one of the two most frequent questions that deeply concern the young has to do with the meaning of death. It is an encouraging sign that more recent religion texts honestly explore the experience of death with youngsters -in ways that are appropriate to their age. Not only is this psychologically sound, but it .is also good from the viewpoint of growth in faith.

By sharing their feelings about death and exploring the rich Christian heritage about death's meaning, the religious educator can gently guide the young-and not so young as well-toward a more mature faith which gives people "the power to be united in Christ with his loved ones who have already been snatched away by death; faith arouses the hope that they have found true life with God" (Church in World, 18). .

Or as Mary put it more simply;"Somehow it seems to me that there is death so that there can be more life. I look at death like a birthday."

Three obese novels recently published remind one of a vast, sumptuous-looking buffet which, upon examination, turns out to consist of plastic. The disappointing trio comprises To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield (Simon and Schuster, 630 A more annoying work .is Gen· Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. tle which goes on for 10020. $8.95), Gentle Greaves 543 Greaves, pages about an Englishman's

by Ernest Raymond (Satur- life·long infatuation with a beau-

day Review Press, ,230 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. $8.95), and A Portion for Foxes

by Jane McIlvaine McClary

tiful cousin who marries, unhappily for all concerned, someone else.

The man is Theodore Allan Mourne; the woman, Gentle Greaves. He is a pretentious fool; she is a reputedly beautiful bore.

By They deserve each other, but how often is there justice .in fact RT. REV. or fiction?

Much about this novel is starkMSGR. ly incredible. For example, it purports to be a manuscript which JOHN S. a dying man writes for the beneKENNEDY fit of his adopted daughter. Not only does he birth the behemoth _in his last days, but she manages to read it in a couple of hours.

(Simon and Schuster, 630 FJfth One envies them with their reo Ave., New York, N. Y. 10020. spective miraculous gins. $8.95).

Grand Totals In To Serve Them All My Days, the principal character is David Another feature which simply Powlett-Jones, whom we meet won't wash is the manner in as a young man seeking a teach- which the old gaffer who, we are ing position in an English public asked' to believe, dashed it off, school of inferior rank. He has learned many of the facts which just been invalided out of the .he sets down. This he has done army during World War 1. through an endless series of coHe gets the job, 'and, as the incidences, and also through title suggests, he is destined to eavesdropping, of which he has stay at the school until he' is proved .to be something of a middle-aged. Perhaps he will be master or a1' least an assiduous there until old age, but merci- and shameful practitioner. fully the novel comes to a stop We are expected, nonetheless, when he is in his 40s, having to accept him as a noble sort taken 638 pages to traverse 22 with grand humanitarian ideals. years.

He would have come off better James Hilton did this sort of had he stopped blov.iating about thing better in Goodby, Mr. his splendid aspirations and Chips, and he did .it v.:ith far treated his wife decently. greater dispatch. The Hilton Portion for Foxes book was hardly more than a Weighing in at 607 pages is A novella, and that is the right length for such a performance. Portion for Foxes. Its setting is a beautiful Virginia valley where Bloodless Narrative rich people pass their time huntFor one thing, the sentimen- ing foxes and commItting adultality soon becomes unbearable. tery.

The name Shelburn has immeFor another, repetition begins to occur as the story moves from morially been prideful in the val· one school term to another, one ley. The final one to bear it is Shelley' Shelburn Latimer, a school generation to another. young woman who owns the now Mr. Delderfield has eompound- derelict Shelburn Hall. With the ed the repetition by having family fortune gone, she has left Powlett-Jones muse, at regular for a time, but now returns, mar· interval,s on past happenings at ried to a Northerner who buys the school. We have been told and edits an ailing local newsof these events, sometimes non- paper. Trouble ensues. events, when they occll'rred. Now Also new to the valley is a we have to endure a rehashing mysterious millionaire (or perof them. haps billionaire) named Zagaran.

So, too, when a former pupil's This ruthless parvenu defies the name crops up in Powlett-Jones's traditions of the place, but his reveries, we are reminded that money enables him to ride roughthis was the boy who has done 'shod over caste and sentiment. or said something of which we Enormous Cast have already heard too much.

From the very way he looks at This bland, bloodless, overblown narrative may bring tears Shelley at a first el)counter, it is to the eyes of some readers, but apparent that his intentions in this will probably be because of her regard are not honorable.

And from the way that Shelley eyestrain and fatigue. shows annoyance with her husband's .ideas about integration, Diligence it is apparent that Zagaran's inAll that I have accomplished, tentions may be realized. or expe~t or hope to accomplish, This novels boasts an enorhas been and will be by that mous cast' of horses, foxes, dogs, plodding, patient persevering pro- and revolting people. Some of cess of accretion which builds the foxes have rabies and have the ant heap, particle by partiCle, to be killed; most of the people thought by thought, fact by fact. are rabid in one way or another, --Burritt but unfortunately surviVe.

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EXAMPLAR: "Monsignor Neighbor . . . welcomed it (death) with a faith which sees this as a beginning, not an end." NC Photo.

Fear of Death Continued from Page Sixteen trips home to New Hampshire more comfortable and lesstedious.

Does this seem to characterize him as a comfortable affluent, self-centered -priest? If so, it would be an injustice to a man who totally gave of hims~lf to all in many ways.

Stricken His work demanded an enormous amount of fatiguing national and international travel for meetings, lectures and workshops. Yet whenever in Wash· ington he daily took time to visit an elderly relative in a local nursing home, now and, then treating her to dinner or dessert at area restaurants. Like most priests he kept his financial generosity secret, but I know Russ offered his money freely in large and small amounts whenever those in need came .to him.

Above all, Msgr. Neighbor's warm heart reached out to families and, especially, to young children who sensed his love and ran quickly to him.

He fell one day at the staff house in a strange, inexplicable fashion. "Clumsy," he muttered to himself. But as the lack of muscular control caused repeated falls, he sought medical advice and ,after extensive diagnosis learned he had a v-itulent form of lateral sclerosis. The deterioration came quickly, within a year's time; first a cane, then the wheel chair, finally, departure from his national post and confinement at a nursing home in Manchester.

Throughout this Russ inspired

all of us. In the midst of most discouraging circumstances-the awkwardness, the dependency, the inevitable end-he remained unbelievably cheerful and positive. He never gave up, always ready to try the latest medical discovery in' an effort to arrest or cure the disease. Neither did he lose zest for life nor abandon the movies or Mahler's music.

Inspiration But underneath and beyond there was ·a quiet serenity, a peaceful acceptance, a joyful anticipation. Msgr. Neighbor became a priest to serve his Lord and care for people. Having done that well for two decades In the priesthood, he fea no fear of death. Instead, he welcomed it with a faith which sees this as a beginning not an end; as fuifillmem, not a dissolving slip into nothingness. .

I was not, unfortunately, at his funeral. However, like the liturgy for priests in our own diocese, I am sure it blended a touch of sadness with a heavy dose of Christian hope. Like ours, I know there probably were bishops present and a good gathering of brother priests and a crowd of friends or former parishioners.

They probably wept a bit, but deep down knew this is what a priest's life is all about and could sing sincerely, "The str-ife is over and the battle won."

Preparedness Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last -Aurelius

Full-Time Chaplains Urged for Jails NEW YORK (NC) - A major revision of the chaplaincy system in New York City prisons would replace part-time chaplains wJth one full-time ecumenical chaplain at each correctional institution.

The result of an inquiry by a task force of clergy, the report has been submitted to Mayor John V. Lindsay and Correction Commissioner Benjamin Malcolm.

New York has a prison population of approximately 11,000 inmates. The Official Directory of the city lists four institutions for those convicted of crimesincluding the House of Detention for Women-and 12 houses of detention for men, including two hospital prison wards, whose inmates include those awaiting trial.

The task force report is the result of public hearings held last April 24 and 25, fat which 25 witnesses testified. In addition, the task force, appointed by the Board of Correction, circulated questionnaires to all prison chaplains and a selected cross-section of inmates, and conducted interviews with representatives of the mayor's office, the Department of Correction and organized religious groups.

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Death Awaits

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'Continued from, Page Sixteen No one will consult ~s about our going out of it. Those. two moments must make us feel what tiny helpless pieces we are in God's immense creation.

Talents Something of that cosmic di~ension of our dying is what the Gospel tries to open our eyes to.

Death is just the next step in our being what God made us to be. He is shaping his new, creation and, kingdom through us, just as he built us into the world we have known and are leaving.

Were we afraid of being born that fiTst time? We don't know or remember. -But if we were, how foolish it was of us to have been afraid. Someday, looking back OIi otir own death, we wm say the same thing.

'Besides, we came into the world as inheritors of all the good and evil that men before us had done. Our Ijves were easier or harder, more full or more, empty, more' beautiful or TRIeu:: OR 11tEAT FOR YOU KNOW WHAT: Trick more sad, ,because of what peoor treaters in 'AsQury Park, N.J., prepare to trick or treat, ple had made of the human race for UNIC~~F, on Halloween. The childr.en to children cam- up to our time. the moment of death, ,we paign is a popular practice in many parts of the country. putAt the finishing touch to our.

SlPon~ors ,ot, the effort estimate that 3.5 million persons own contribution to the human will take part this year. UNICEF originally meant United race. We ,have made the world Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. The better or worse beca)Jse we have name has ,been ~hortened- to United Nations Children's lived. We return to God with double the number of talents Fund, but the acronym UNICEF remains. NC Photo. gained or with no more than those he originally handed us-:Deaj~h or with less.

In God's Hands Continued from Page Sixteen led a naturally good -life, for he As we close our eyes for the cording to thy word" i~ pea,ce." could never have achieved full- last time, we set the seal on our (Luke 2:29). actualization. He could never ,contribution to the history of the The 'truly Christian man, as have found full union with God world. When we have made that death approaches' can also echo. (supernatural happiness), but contribution, -the world does. , 'I the words of St. Paul when he only eternal natural happiness grow dark for us, and the moon said: '~I have fought the good where there would be no pain or and the stars are no longer in fight, Iqave finished the course, sorrow or death. our skies.' .

I have kept the faith, For the' . .' .. Victory' Over -Death ,;' '. .Since' :the of Cnrist, it rest, there is laid up for me a But, through Christ, God did ~houldn't ,be. He went. ~hrough crown of justice; which the Lord, destroy death (Heb. 2:14), and It too, ana cameoll"t smllmg. He the just Jud!:e, will gi~e to me in his victory over dea,th is the went to death freely - even that day" (I Tim. 4: 7t 8). great news of the gospels. Ac- though m~st of u.s don't. He the Scriptures chose to die and die for us: so For St. Augustine, Ii just man's cording to death was one of ~is grea:test (Acts 2:24) Jesus is the first that that we COUld. see and be~leve blessings: "0 how sweet it is death is unable to detain (but there was nothmg to be afraid of to die," he said, "if one's life has not the last), for from the mo- -t>nl~ God'~ way to lafe. been a good )ne!" As with Christ ment he descended into hell he ChrIst smIles at us from the himself, the death of ,the pE,rse- became' possessor of the keys of o.ther side of .his own resurre~. vering Chrislian is simply a pass- the kingdom of death (Rev. 1:18) tlon, so. we can know that If ing into a better lif.e wherE' he and it was unable to detain him. these thmgs are beyond our 0:-v n finds his etE,rnaI father and his . St. Paul tells us that ChrIst's control, they are never outSide everlasting home. Only the unre- death is the model for our dy- of God's lovi~g hands. God our pentant sinner need fear death, ing-"all that I want .is to know ~ather gave lIfe and ~od.tak~s since for him it marj{s the end Christ and the power of his res- ~t ~way, and God wIll gIVe It of his earth:,y pleasure and ,the urrection and to share his suffer- agam. .., . beginning of his eternal punish- ings by reproducing the pattern "These thl.ngs are WrItten ~hat ment. of his death" (Phil 3:10). ~ou may belIeve and 't~at ?e}le~.

If God had not willed to reClearly, physical death makes mg y~u may have hfe m hiS store mankind and o~en to him sense, even though it means sep- name. the gates of heaven, ithen death aration froin loved ones and the would simply be the ~nd. Thi:s is many things we hold dear, once ;'N""':"'H""T"~""; , ,even true for the mlln who has. we see that through baptism-a copy of Christ's death-the true : SHEET METAL : Christian unites with the dea,th Favor Cl)mmunion J. TESER, Prop. , and final judgement on the last , , RESIDENTlAL~ , Before C:onfession day.

I INDUSTRIAL .: In view of all this, we see why : CUFTON <NC)-Pr,jests in the COMMERCIAL: Paterson dic,cese voted 2-1 in it is so important for the just : :favor of continuing ~he curJ,ent man to mortify his flesh in his , 253 Cedar St., New Bedford' practice of having children re- works and how the man who , 993-3222 , ceive their first Communion be- lives in sin is as good as, dead. .""----"""""",,. :fore making their first confes- Concerning modificat,ion. Paul. :,ion. said: "That is why you must not CONRAD SEGUIN 'Bishop Lawrence Casey :,aid let sin reign in your mortal :that most priests "expre!ised bodies or, command your obediBODY COMPANY very positivH comments" while ence to bodily passions" (RomAluminum or Steel , some were dissatisfiel:l and "did 6: 1 Iff).

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Regarding sin and death, St. ,NEW BEDFORD, MASS. "I personally see the results Luke says: "The father said, "My 992-6618 of this survE'y as a step in the son, you are with me always and right directi·)n," Bishop C~:sey all I have is yours. But it was . :;aid, adding that the curl'ent only right we should celebrate practice is designed "to allow and rejoice, because your broththe child sl,liJicient time to de- er 'was dead and has come to velop a sense of sin and an in- life; he was lost and is found" formed consc:ience." : (15:31-32).

Utopian 'Visions---Poor'-Bcis'i's~'~ For Designing Social Or~elr I began this series of columns on the recent book of Christopher Jencks· with comments on, the social sci, ence accuracy of, his findings about the failure of education to achieve social equality., I am now IQcked in controversyover what I take to ' " be the fundamental equal. spontaneous, and creative. In anarchy freedom rules supreme. itarianism of the book's Political Question philosophical context. I ta}{e the stand that once misery on the one hand and favoritism on

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the other are reduced (the poverty of the very poor and the power of the very wealthy are, in other words, being effectively controlled), residual income inequality is not inherently immoral. It 'is difficult to defend my. position against the attacks of passionate egalitarians. They are against inequ'ality; do I mean to say that I am for i<t?

How much residual inequ.ality do I think is moral? Where will I draw the line? '00 I mean that even in an ideal world, I would still tolerate inequality? If" men were all saints would not .they all be conlent with the sam!! income?

Anarchist Utopia

There have been, attempts both in the so-called Socialist countries like: Russia" China, and Cuba and in some, of the youthful communes in the United States~to ~ergethese Utopias. Invariably the' egalitarian ideal triumphs over, the anarchist and soCial control replaces freedom. Then a "New ~lass" emerges 'and both equal~ ity and. freedom are iost to a new tyranny.

I take it that the goal'of' a democratic society is to preserve as much freedom and as' much equality as possibie, neither having so much -freedom that oppression and 'misery become rampant nor' so. much,' equality that freedom is lost to the control mechanisms which enforce equality.

The insight of the egalitarian vision must not be surrendered completely to the insight of the anarchist vision; nor must the wisdom of the former be yielded' to the wisdom of the latter. How freedom and equality can be combined at a 'given time and place is not a philosophical question but a prudential political and social· one.-.The answers must be achieved more by politicians than by idealogues.

I prefer not to dialogue in the Freedom for All context of such questions. But On the whole, I am happy to shif.t to my own context, let about this fact because politime I;It least essay some answers.

I cannot imagine a society _in cians are much less likely to impos~ one value at the expense of which all men are saints. ' the other than ideologues. I supI cannot imagine what, an pose that this is another way of ideal world would be like. I can' . saying that I 'think politicians only conceive of a society in are more human - and know which there are both sinners and more about other humans-than saints and most of us are' a bit do intellectual ideologues. of both. I' can only conceive of So, in practice~- I am in favor a less than ideal world. I think of reducing income differentfals however useful Utopian visions may be philosophically they are up to the point where such rea poor basis for designing a so- duction is necessary to make possible the maximum amount of cial order for mortal humans. feasible freedom for all citizens. ·In a real social order the prob- I am against' such reduction lem is to achieve not so much when the point is reached that the perfettion of one ethical the freedom 'of all citizens will ideal but a balance of several. be notably impaired by such The trouble with egalitarians is reduction. I am indifferent about that they, like all Utopians, have what goes on between these ,only one ideal. points - should there be any Consider the fundamentally area between. opposite Utopian vision-that of But I would argue that the the anarchists. In the egalitarian question of where these points society a maximum of social are cannot be reduced from a control (ei,ther through external priori principles but must rather force, or internal' socialization) be determined politically-that has been used to achieve equal- is by' dialogue among citizens ity. Everyone has the same in- and between citizens and leaders. come and by implication the Intellectuals may have a contrisame values, habits and attitude.s . bution to make, to such dilllogue, (or they would not accept egah- but that contribution does not tarian controls). It is all neat, ra- . include the right to pretend that tional, balanced and orderly. their Utopian principles make In the anarchist Utopia there them more moral than anyone are no controls at all. Everyone else. is free to do his own thing, ':'EDITOR'S NOTE: Jencks' hopefully motivated by idealism but still free. Far from setting' book is: Inequality: A Reassessincome levels, ,the government ment of the Effect of· the Fam· does not exist at all. Everything ily and Schooling in Amerh:a. tends to be disorderly, chaotic, Basic Books, Inc. $12.50.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

Ba rs Taxation Of Chancery

IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton Hllh Coach -

Saturday Interdivisional Day In Southeastern ConferenceInterdivisional competition will highlight this week's action in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference when all Division II teams pair off againstDivision III opponents.

While the outcome of the games will have no bearing in the divisional championship The Jim Lanagan coached races, it will be interesting to Vikings edged Norton last Friday see if the smaller schools can 6-0 to remain unbeaten in Divi"upset" their larger school sion III play. Wareham holds a adversaries.

Bishop Stang of Dartmouth, will host Wareham in what should be an intelresting meeting between divisional leaders. Both clubs enter the fray with 4-1 records. Stang's setback came at the hands of neighboring Dartmouth, -a Division I team, while Wareham's loss was to Seekonk, a .Division II club.

Coach George Milot's Spartans rolled to thek fourth straight' loop win by beating Dennis-' Yarmouth 36-14. The Parochials looked impressive in that victory and may have too much firepower for Wareham.

slim one half game lead over Case -High ot Swansea in the Division III standings. Stang holds the _same edge over Fairhaven in the Division II race.

Case, an easy 32-6 victor over Diman Regional Vocational Saturday last will entertain Fairhaven this week.

Fairhaven stayed w.ithin striking distance of leader Stang, -in the Division H pennant chase, by besting Dighton-Rehoboth 42-20 last Saturday. Coach Kevin Cadieux's club led by quarterback Dave Almeida is now 3-0-1 in the circuit.

Coyle-Attleboro -Battle for Fir~t Place This week's contest should Dennis-Yarmouth should reprove exciting as Almeida par- turn to its winning way when ,it lays his running and passing tangles with the young Fall along with the running of half- River Vocationals. back Wayne Stroud aga,inst Coach Jim Cassidy's AttieCoach Joe Santos' talented duo boro Blue Bombardiers will be of quarterback Joe Medeiros arid out to gain, -at least, a share of halfback Kevin Walmsley. With Divisional I honors Saturday these four on the same field, the when they play host to Msgr. contest could turn out to be a - Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of high scoring affair. _ Taunton.- Attleboro enters the In the other interdivisional contest with a perfect 5-0 mark. games Dighton'-Rehoboth will be All v,ictories have come against at Norton, New Bedford Voca- league opponents. A victory will tional is at Bourne, Old Roches- assure Attleboro of at least a ter -of MattapOIsett plays at See- tie for first place, a loss will konk, and' Dennis-Yarmouth drop them to second. The Jeweltravels to Fall lRilver to meet ry City power will conclude its Diman.'

Conference schedule next week Bourne won a- real seat squirm- against Dartmouth. er last Saturday when it edged Coyle mentor Paul Therrien Seekonk 9-8. The Canalmen have has been prepping his charges aU been coming bn strong in the week for the "big one." Annualpast few weeks and should prove ly, the Coyle-Attleboro ~eeting to be a formidable opponent for is a must game for both clubs. In Vocational. The New Bedford the 'now defunct Bristol County Artisans lost a hard-fought 14-6 League, this meeting always prodecision to Old Rochester on duced shocking results. The stage is set for the same this Fall.

Saturday last.

Area Representatives Meet in Hockomock Fray The Taunton contingent must be considered a slight underdog in light of its 3-2, overall record.

However, both of Coyle's dosses were against non-league clubs.

New Bedford bested the Warriors ea路rlier in the campaign and Durfee High of Fall River edged them last Saturday 6-2. But, Coyle shows well against league opposition and w,ith a potential championship on the line can not be underestimated.

'Dartmouth, on.e game behind the leaders, will ,attempt to keep pace <this Saturda.y when it plays Lawrence High of Falmouth. The Indians defeated Barnstable 6-0 in their last outing.

Coach Paul C)'Boy's Feehan Shamrocks from Attleboro, a surprise 7-6 winner over Falmouth last Saturday, will be at Barnstable this weekend. Taun-

ton will entertain Somerset to complete Saturday's Division I schedule. Both clubs are looking for their first Conference victory.

Two of the diocesan's three representatives to the Hockomock League will square off Saturday in Easton when host Oliver Ames tangles with Mansfield.

-Neither club has been able to garner a victory aga,inst league opposition this season and are currently tied for las~ place in the circuit with 0-5 records.

North Attleboro, the area other Hockomock entry, lost a heartbreaker to Franklin 18-15 last Saturday and' with it possibly the loop championship.

Coach Bob Guthrie's forces hope to rebound this week at Canton.

The Bulldogs edged Oliver Ames a week ago 20-12.

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POSTERS FOR YOUTH WEEK: This is the black and white version of a red, white and blue poster being distributed to promote Youth Week 1972, jointly sponsored by the National CYO Federation, The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), The Episcopal Church" Moravian Church in America, Lutheran Church in America, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, and the United Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Goal of the week is enabling youth to respond to the needs of their fellow men. ~C Photo.

SALEM (NC) - The Portland archdiocese has won a battle to keep its chancery building off county property tax rolls.

The Oregon Tax Court ruled in favor of the archdiocese citing a statute that exempts from taxation the property of an "incorporated literary, benevolent, charitable and scientific institution" that is being used in the "work carried on by such institutions."

The tax ruling could affect similar cases pending before the court and the state revenue department. Those cases involve the Jesuit provincial office and the Koinonia House, an interdenominational facility for Portland State University students.

In October, 1970, Multnomah County officials informed the Portland archdiocese that it was adding the building to the tax rolls: The archdiocesan appeal of the county action was rejected by the state revenue department in May 1971.

-The- court rejected the contention by the archdiocese that the chancery qualified for immunity from taxes as a "house of public worship" but supported the archdiocesan view that it qualified for exemption as a "charitable" institution.

Brazilian Court Releases P'riest

RIO DE JANEIRO (NC) - A Brazilian military court has dropped charges of subversion against a priest and four Catholic social workers for lack of evidence.

Panama Prelate Tells Regime Stop The five, who did extensive work for the Church-sponsored Meddling in Church Affairs Federation of Social and EduPANAMA CITY - Archbishop the bishops' realm," the arch- cational Assistance (FASE), had Marcos McGrath has called on bishop declared. been in jail for almost a year.

Panama's government and its The archbishop spoke at a They are Father Gerson da Conbackers to stop meddling in rally at the poor working-class cieao, Luis Carlos Dinis de Freita, of Don Bosco at the request of lolanda Sales Duque, Vera Joana Church affairs.

His call was the latest Church a lay committee which invited Bonstein and Lucio -de Brito Casprotest in a continuing contro- Catholics "to a much needed telo Branco. versy between this country's s~ow of support for the a~ch颅 The Justice Council of th,e Ail' bishops and its government con- bishop and of protest agamst Force said here it was releasing trolled for the past four 'years repeated attac~s." . the five after a unanimous de,by military 'strongman Gen. .The text of hiS speech was diS- cision by the court to drop Omar Torrijos. tnbuted at all Sunday Masses charges. . the following week in some 50 The _FASE workers were active The archb~shop also denounced parishes, thus reaching most of effort~ to I~volve .the Ch.u~ch the 660 000 Catholics in the arch- in Nova Ribeira in Espirito Santo state among farm workers at the ' and himself m partisan polItIcs, d' lOcese. . d t' th t h time of their arrest late last year. deme ac~usa IOn.s a e Archbishop McGrath appealed Local police charged them with favors the nch agamst the poor, to the Torrijos government to and demanded an end to abuse stop harrassment of the Church, joining a communist plot to overthrow the government of Presiof the Church by the govern- "including abuse by the press.". dent Emilio G. Medici. ment-controlled pre~s.

There have been repeated More than a year a~o-~n Au- "charges' involving calumny" gust 1971- Panama s bishops against the Church, he said.

Mission Population had protested that the govern"We ask that the Church be The total number of Catholics m~nt ~a.s w~ging a ca~pa~g~ of respected as an organization of in territories entrusted to the "dlscnmmatlOn and mtlmlda- believers in Christ, united by the Congregation is about 57 million.

-tion" against Church personnel. sacraments and the exercise of Of these, about 33 million are in "There are constant arrests charity."

Africa and 15 million in Asia. without charges or warrants, and those arrested have no recourse to legal defense," the bishops said. "There is a climate of repression."

In his recent speech,' Archbishop McGrath acknowledged that the Church has internal ROUTE 6-between Fall River and New Bedford problems 'and that there are sharp differences of opinion' One of Southe~n New England's Finest Facilities among clergy and laity.

But, he continued, "what is really serious is that non-Church Now Available for authorities attempt to interfere . in purely Church problems."

BANQUETS, FASHION SHOWS, ETC. "It is not up to a private club or .group, to a local official or FOR DETAILS CALL MANAGER-636-2744 or 999-6984 to the national government to make Church decisions. This is

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$10.00

i.Dinner Ticket

Semi-Formal TICKETS AVAILABLE

Boos,ter Donation (one ticket)

Frank S. Feitelberg - 676-8246

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Sister Eugenia Margaret' - 679-1044 (Taunton) Sister Eugenia Marie -:- 823-0072 (Taunton) Sister Mary Margaret - 822-42'28

$15.00

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Sponsor ~ ...................... ............. $50.00 (Listing in Program and Two Tickets at Reserved Table) . .

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